old people around the old. me. that syrian opposition to take back to the streets in defiance of the fallen prime down fall of washington reportedly prepares to denounce the country's government will fall. too soon the hard drive wins the beads owes the twenty six d. the world championship. because she scores again in the chain of successful bid for top well sporting events all the details are coming up shortly. divided they stand even you can't enter it over here should host refugees from arab uprisings i

want border control back immediately and. russia's eighteen year long bid to do in the world trade in those asian macon county gets another obstacle as the e.u. slams tax concessions the russian officer the foreign carmakers join me in twenty minutes time for. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the strings across syria after friday prayers several people are said to have been killed in security forces apron fire despite the government's vile not to shoot out the demonstrators the international pressure is mounting on the syrian our forces over the brutal crackdowns at least eight hundred are reported killed and thousands detained in the two month unrest he you are in the u.s.

of imposed sanctions against syria was washington seemingly debating whether the eleven year old rule of president bashar assad is will fall on his arteries ganja can reports many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who is a legitimate international leader and who is not it seems america will decide a white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to declaring assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first step and we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on additional steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the turf further violence put in place unprecedented sanctions to hold the gadhafi government accountable when the u.s.

says it's going to hold someone responsible expect action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it it would open the door. true various steps are taken to remove government but the south proclaimed position of the us as the world's policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't sit well with everyone. else arrogance. and president. in government is gentleman or not. even some of the us longtime allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by the zest of the white house to act as the arbiter of who world's power in the world. are you president of the united states and president of the world when can get

a government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground declaring human rights is the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you notice me and your d.n.a. . or two or more and or amount of brutality. going to believe me when they. you crossed. america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the libyan civil war the u.s. has pledged extensive support for the rebels there senior political figure representing the libyan transitional national council mahmoud giver aisle as lieve been studied in the u.s. three years is now back in washington asking for money from could of these frozen assets i am currently drafting legislation at the request of the state department

and the administration there will authorize the trails for available cash. to the council so they will have available money it will not come from an american taxpayer it will come from colonel gadhafi himself newly released week he leaks cables show the u.s. had been funneling money to syria's opposition for several years now but some say the help comes with strings attached nobody gives away money for nothing or arms and the u.s. sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american government responsive to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now in military stalemate in the meantime civilian casualties there continue to grow. analysts say foreign involvement in syria could trigger a much worse conflict syria's in the heart of the arab world and if it explodes or

implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebanon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing or awards or in serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason saison to go after us aren't relying on iran as your best friend and. your own risk ritchie chick ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the wall of world policeman not based on its inherent altruism but rather out of self interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have made the world safer or have destabilized it more i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . moscow has all the syrian opposition against calling for external military help russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov told r.t. that nato saves participation in the libyan conflict how is that

a dangerous precedent. libya cases create a determination for money opposition groups in the region to spark similar situations in the expectation that the west would keep world and lead in a complex taking one side it's a very alarming prospect of a hopeless one up on its crucial that government should solve their problems independently. when libya rebels are said to have regained control of the besieged city of ras with help from nato ships in their strikes a top libyan opposition official is in washington for talks with the u.s. all the more support of all recognition british antiwar activists kate hudson thinks the coalition's policy is making a mockery of international law. when the u.n. security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks they

are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a u.n. agency expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of food and so on as a result of the airstrikes this again raises the question of international law it's not legal to intervene within civil wars and i think inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international law is trampling upon the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades it is a regime change war that's absolutely apparent that of course again is illegal under international law but they will do that until their ends and frankly it does look as though now that they may intend to target an executed after. a celeb for you this hour the forgotten life of the russian provinces traditional hard

times have been failing to hold a gun people in the countryside but change could be as well because find out more in a few minutes here on r.c. . russia has a clear zone for hosting the ice hockey world championship in twenty sixteen its main rivals denmark and ukraine past the park without a fight well you've got percent of they are many into the back yet. after the very last moment all three bidding countries were stayed in this race but right just several minutes before the winning bid was announced then mark and the other contestants ukraine of course they said that they're just not ready for such a massive sporting event so russia won this big fair and square moscow and st petersburg are going to hold the world hockey championship in two thousand and sixteen to two capitals the russians are going to become the capitals of hockey if

you wish for that year the big ceremony and the presentation was held here in the just russia's prime minister vladimir putin personally came church watch it and here's what he had to say i'm. sure deserves a host of these championships not just the glorious humans and not just because we have not been that useful in a indicates. because of our great desire to feature great and from all the ideals of sportsmanship and salute these them where fully. in fact to be meet in youth when to revive this beautiful kids and. i do to learn to ski. and time us to meet it was not easy not even for a person who had been practicing sports with the kids and i had

even hard time learning to play ice with you but now i have first hand experience of playing these truly great. still some time to go and a lot of preparation is needed but for more on this i'm now joined by the president of the continental hockey league alexander we didn't call you on the thank you very much for joining us. when the second moment we were in the you said that we still have a lot to do russia still has a lot to do to prepare for this but there's already a beast in utah is more about yes his research is ready because boss was going to be here to work as a. first class i study this to buy players honestly because the. world championship is not just a city in itself must fear itself it's a fan zone and i believe we should take a lot of lessons from severe champions use the brain first class advanced i was

going to serbia was a bigger well he's thirty in some petersburg and moscow. respectively in two thousand and ten two thousand and seven but i believe all the lessons. you get are most fear that all the fans will enjoy this is a definitely a great event for russian hockey and for just all the sport lovers out there in the country but it's also part of a whole chain of very successful bid for cheap. thousand and fourteen and we've got the football world championship which doesn't eighteen what does all this mean for russia i believe it shows that all of russia in the world because you can get that for granted and with a very serious companies that asbos denmark and to create. all the radio and surround to be a first class supporting the nations they decided to withdraw because they are lies that our arguments are stronger and there's also another competition obviously still going on here in the current world hockey championship and russia is going to

play in the summer final today against finland what do you think are the chances yes but you're in your. pants way against russia but russia won and i do believe that russia will go on today against villa and our boys are ready to go thank you very much thank you and good luck. this was the president of the continental hockey league alexander he did it so everybody is now we do know of course for two thousand and sixteen of course there's quite a lot of excitement here at this current world hockey championship where russia is still small still playing a summer final final against finland later on friday. reporting that from the slack in capital. now the influx of refugees fleeing the uprisings in the arab driving a wedge between the state's salmo cooling she reinstates temporary or even potent

border controls within the uni and. an agreement came into force sixteen years ago . europe might have opened the floodgates for trouble. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a bit a feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out residence visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust which the e.u. visa free regime relies you guys show on a kind of mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy has not implemented in a good way to rules. for thousands fleeing the violence in north africa italy is the nearest e.u. border security experts who've studied the country's patrols on the strength but

fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes. of the fact that the italians are just on the sea with people coming from outside and they are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorists mad men we don't want them here. protested to the french embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles france counts as it already takes five times more immigrants than italy and peace here of the european parliament say they need to control immigration but with each member state putting its interests first and blaming each other for the problem migrants are just getting calls from one state to another e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks and admitted the system's roit for abuse one and the same applicant for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted as i live in one country of the european union and

less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states taking the law into their own hands on wednesday denmark reintroduced border controls for people coming. of the e.u. states bill juba home of the e.u.'s headquarters is now calling for the same any. legal immigrants to give back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but it's not possible to. ask for more internal border. growing numbers in the union's biggest country wants border checks to germany could pose possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned of richard nations in the e.u. also fear invasion from. restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from simple and east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four

were lifted on the first of may one. flood to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that just joined it attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into a european union like country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or take advantage of a generous benefits system in nice european or some european countries like britain for example and it actually attracts more migration which is what we're seeing now from north africa at the signing of the shingle agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders were all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's books that they no longer control the new bush you see russell's. that's local service mother international is making the headlines this hour an hour and eighteen people are being killed in avraham hundred injured after explosions of the power military academy in pakistan two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the main gate of the

facility close to the afghan border most of the dead were trainee recruits but there were also civilian casualties you can't this time taliban said they're behind the bombing to avenge the death of osama bin love. egyptian investigators have detained the wife of ousted president hosni mubarak for questioning eva corruption allegations suzanna barack will be held in cairo in a prison for fifteen days earlier of the origins extended the detention of the former leader for another two weeks well it comes after the couple were questioned on charges of profiteering the former president is also accused of ordering the death of and the regime protests. the earthquake hit the spanish town of lorca has held a funeral mass for victims of wednesday's disaster nine people were killed in march of the city devastated when the tremors stark thousands of people have been forced to camp out since the quake it was the deadliest tremor to hit the country for more

than a half a century. the japanese government has agreed a financial aid plan to help the casino plant operator compensate those affected by the crisis payments are expected to stay thought tens of billions of dollars after thousands of people were falls from homes and businesses in return tepco will have to drastically cut costs and fall on the government supervision the quick hit is that he has been leaking radiation into the sea for two months. but for more on how japan's nuclear crisis is affecting people around the world to log on to our website r.t. dot com also online though more story then eye catching video is the tape that we got you there the battle of internet titans it's from. real social networking giant facebook hired a p.r. firm in an attempt to discredit google by spearing its rivals privacy policy its. russian broad base its proposed birthday boys and girls going to day off from work

and spend time with their families rather than that bringing the pass into the office or find out whether that is likely to become law at r.t. dot com. ok time now to show you a little bit more of what life in russia is really like as our close up team explores the country's region's. day where in the volgograd region some one thousand kilometers southeast of moscow it got its name from the volga river but wrong through the area it is the longest in europe it's one of russia's most progressive regions economically it's a well developed agricultural industry parties tom cotton takes a look now at the hardships and benefits of life in the volgograd country signs.

i'm currently stood in a typical russian village street as you can see it's probably not the most glamorous of places not particularly important for the people who live here russian countryside it's always been seen as a very practical place whether it's building up extra work from your home and working to try and improve your lot in the countryside it's been a difficult place to live for most of russia's history but it's also been very central to russia's culture here today it has problems of its own and it's some of those themes which i've been examining in my report. it's time for these go to give something back to their own or their wool. that's where we do a little bit at a time it starts going over after a while look you can even use your hands. geyer is eighty seven years old she's worked in agriculture since she was thirteen she keeps goats beasts and chickens sells wool and clothes and eggs and does all the work herself. like i can stay

still i'm used to working am an old woman i don't have much left or anywhere to go . polygamy lives in farms in the town of all your pins and russians will grab region it's typical of russia's rural settlements going from a small collection of villages with many people there still herding cattle fishing and keeping small holdings throughout history russia's countryside has quietly got along with its natural cycles with major historical events often passing by as a result ruled russians are often the source of humor like english countryside spoof of popular television series sex and the city. but behind the jokes rule russia suffers from a much more serious problem we know works for in a movie farm outside a tiny village she says it's not easy work there they become very protective when they lay in bags and mail protects them and can attack you with its legs the needle

core is a very dangerous. this is one of many adult cultural drugs she's had but her children are unlikely to follow that. the reason university my son is in a tenth grade and we don't know what he will do i labelled as tea but there is no future here. russian agriculture was hit by huge depression the one nine hundred ninety s. livestock numbers fell by half the area of grain planting a quarter even now young people all over russia desert in the countryside. ride and move into the city. they need to encourage and stimulate young people to work in the countryside indeed to paris and to give up housing but far from jumping ship and mr c. is one of russian and recalled his bright new hopes she chose to work here rather than being in there by volgograd and she's not the only one. half of the ex-pats working here are younger than thirty it's promising but young people come here to whack the market is very interesting and you can browse

a professional in many different fields talking of fields this isn't a traditional picture of russian farming these three huge and high tech trucks has a plant in some of the farms vast thirty thousand hectares of week the workers on the mold a man they say they wouldn't trust younger staff with such expensive equipment but soon enough they're going to need them. farming out there has wide horizons it has a lot of land potentially producing a lot of food what it needs now is the incentives and enthusiasm to make young farmers want what's out here tom bought an artsy volgograd region. just a few minutes and look at so what of wiki leaks is now because of truth or tilling global politics. at business up there isn't it. i know you're watching business out these goods have your company the chief of b.p. robert dudley says he thinks there's still value in exploring russia's arctic with

ross now through the joint venture and russia's energy minister sergei schmeichel echoes the sentiments saying the deal is attractive enough for a compromise to be found and russian shareholders and have already made clear their wish to be involved and that leaves rosneft to make a decision for their lives for that to happen as monday next week when it's agreement to undertake a sixteen billion dollars share swap with b.p. expires russian oil majors given a few clues as to what it will decide except saying it will act in its shareholders best interest. another hurdle looms in russia's eighteen year long marathon to join the world trade organization the e.u.'s land tax concessions offered to foreign carmakers to set up assembly plants inside the country the governor wants to extend the program started in two thousand and three until twenty twenty which the e.u. says is against that we can see a rules the program has had some notable success with a number of the world's biggest car makers setting out operations here but the

entry is a matter of negotiation and the kremlin may be prepared to offer the e.u. concessions on the import of agricultural products. so you look at the stock markets in russia and in moscow the obvious my sex was just a notch up at the close of friday's session with mixed feelings about u.s. consumer prices and volatile oil so you look at some of the individual movers on the my six gazprom ended the one percent in the red on fears some of its customers might follow the example of lithuania which has announced plans to buy gas from the u.s. as prices they're frozen percent lower thank you shares are on the rise when city up one hundred percent and burbank is gaining on news made by b.m.p. paribas retail business in russia. in other news russia's natural gas producer over tech has boosted its net profits by almost seventy percent to six hundred eighty million dollars in the first quarter a stronger than expected result was mainly driven by high gas prices the company's

stock was up one percent at the close of friday's session. and russian bank pretax profit not including the largest lenders burbank jumped sixty three percent in the first four months of the year banks over five billion dollars during the period according to a report from the central bank. one of russia's top makers chel pipe has once again postponed its initial public offering in london the company says the price which investors are ready to pay is too low a first try to place shares in february looking to raise around seven hundred million dollars. the long planned merger of rushes to stock exchanges the nice extend the r.t.s. should be finished by the end of this year so some technical issues might be left aside this year the legal integration is likely to be completed by the deadline as the president of the nice exchange told business r.t. the deal terms of being legally binding to you is not going to get there are some details are true working on this difference of opinion we think the great mystery

time when this will happen the end of the year deadline that they're going live with tremendous impact as the deadline for business integration and business and the creation we leave the site for the seer of creation will integrate them they came to grace the end of the years here's the difference leave go to achieving the greater my big deal will close and be. legally will move to cover one company. and that's often business team for now coming up when i've seen the headlines things like this.

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