some beautiful places relaxing stroll. just over half a century ago this area was nothing but grass and maybe the old potato allotment until this man came along in one percent turned it into almost forty hectares of beautiful botanical gardens right and center of president and i'm off to meet a low friend of his. son and has been a professor at the local university for more than forty years and has literally seen the gardens grow from nothing to what they are today. he says though it's done in a regularly on its pattern like the english style. that they're all different heights as you can see and you can find every conceivable form of plants like. in fact there are more than seventy different rare breeds in the gardens and susana was

happy to show me some of her favorites. with you can you feel it. that's right still smells. there are around twenty full time staff here but they can always do with one hand and that many cycles put my own tiny sapling in the ground. this this little maple tree is one of more than forty thousand trees a little influence and by hands and hopefully a few decades to come it will still be here giving say to the president of the locals. are slightly. annoyed. unfortunately my time in the city was coming to an end but there was one group of local heroes

a really wants to meet. people here love the combine river which runs right through crescent but it can also be a dangerous place there are up to five accidents a day on the water during the summer season but that's what president as river rescue service is here for. well i was here to see what sort of challenges i face. yes also i changed since my official rescue ranger gear we were ready to head on to the river. and now this is a typical day we're on patrol but you only want to do is go down the kugan river all the way to places where bathing is allowed and most importantly where it's not allowed to. shoot the problem is that there is a very strong current in the river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people try to do it when they're under the influence of alcohol. like loose teenagers over

there for instance but as the pope drove past they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. two guys are there disheartening for their plays for. the tour and his colleagues normally patrol a forty kilometer stretch but state the public role playing in the river. of course it never hurts to issue a gentle reminder to everyone having a nice time don't go swimming don't go. see and nobody is going swimming pool see how impressed they are with all authority . mind you there were one or two people who did look like they were getting ready to hold themselves. future victims. so from the little being very quiet us things were about to get interesting. well everyone's been doing very well behaved out on the day but for those who still

need to train which means they need a victim. last moment. it's a little difficult to do a good impression of a drowning man in a highly buoyant suits but i did try my best and that river was no. no no. plate. but it's. not so. but fortunately i was only splashing around for a minute or two before i was free to safety. another soul saved by the crows nadeau to the. rescue service.

especially recommend the dry season. for most people. i was happy to be out of the ocean and i was genuinely sad to be leaving fasten a dog outside of moscow in st petersburg it's the most modern and well maintained city i've seen in russia and when i think i could genuinely live it with you looking at the beautiful books sometimes called schools in action just genuine cause such culture and hospitality has little sybil.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations throughout the day.

not tom and matt so i know the controversial extradition laws are going to trump its own citizens advance in the justice system spending years behind bars without charge. if you are bad for life or sarah says the government sits down to read a range of major types hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fashion with rage over its own laughing stock to some. with the way for a revolution still in the air of the arab world is america's support of the regime change could spell trouble for israel it's those his allies that we.

never i won't walk and see this is all to live from moscow and he's in britain all pushing a development to take away from police the power to stop and such terror suspects the rule was first introduced a marshal and next month both houses of parliament don't agree to prolong its presence preventing reports there were still some devious legal loopholes in britain which leaving people not talk without solves. becomingly is incomplete with. hence. the anguish of a family torn apart. by. their parents who are. tyler. who our son son is one of britain's forgotten terrorist suspects held in custody for

five years without charge trapped in the twisted pits of its justice system we know him very weak and connect one probably. does it still some pretty sick. son was arrested in two thousand and six on alleged terrorism offenses he hasn't been tried here because it's not the u.k. that wants him but the us it accuses of supporting the taliban and being involved with websites it calls extremist one of the websites servers happened to be in america and that's why it's after him people like. if they committed anything he committed in this country and this you brought to justice here and charged if you and let them get on with your life five years he's been in prison i mean this is starvation britain won't release him because of

a treaty signed in two thousand and three in the post nine eleven crackdown it means the u.s. can extradite terrorist suspects without a hearing or even showing any evidence to has families relentless fight for justice is the only thing stopping them quote america says. nor would be. syria. america's. only the people who provoke us also something. more none of the government protested. this is where tell how was arrested at his father's shop just over five years ago since then the family have seen their son once a week but fear they won't see him at all it is extradited to the states in prison here to our writes poetry and teaches english if extradited and convicted it will be a supermax jail solitary confinement and life without parole extreme measures to those

who know the man born and educated in london i'm very surprised that the british courts have not treat him on bail at least in all these years because it's completely clear that he is not any kind of threat to anybody there of paul more like including our maid britain's longest detained without charge prisoner gary mckinnon to another fighting extradition since hacking into the pentagon seven years ago both suffer from asperger's syndrome which helped keep gary out of prison unlike the muslim suspects karen mackinnon is say we're right middle class english boy and and. very highly educated. british river class boys and they're both asians and they're muslims and what that tells you is sort of something rather awful about our

society despite opposing the treaty in opposition the government's done little to overturn it only an independent review jew out in september down has families gone to the european court of human rights in a last ditch bid to get him tried here it's taken five years to get this far to town has father's not giving up hope yet either bennett r.t. london. still to come in the program targets a lot of americans wait for many years later parts of a missile defense system on its territory as washington pushes ahead with its military plans to eastern europe. and a nineteen hour long gun fight with the taliban it's cobol away we talked to afghanistan's former president who says the bloodshed is the result of foreign intervention. if he is deciding on the future of a highly unpopular austerity package intended to put

a leash on the country's runaway debts the country's lower house of parliament stagey today on whether there's a passing strange and set of tax hikes and spending cuts the measures already been passed by the senate just five weeks of wrangling and mass public protests but even if passed only one day not because as our first reports years of economic sanction a sham a culture of government excess may have left it's too little too late. as it really prepares to once again tighten its belt and the light in your stereo politicians it seens have found a way to save themselves some pennies. of the real inside the rest of the problem and it's you see. a free. throw around with really cheap prizes this cheap yet exclusive money was leaked to italian let's press a magazine but this is no mitchell instead of be straight before we've gotten the.

prize for the people of the parliament cause five million some for around a. year but the controversial spending doesn't end there politicians have four hundred thousand euros allocated filone which of course is a million euros spent just for their stationery and it's the taxpayer left. fitting that walking bell it's been hard for many to stomach that we are in economic recession arlene are my people like us baby creases. decreases because they don't bear the interest profits only to care only the interest so we are angry seek an outside the parliament building a protest movement has been growing and play guitar in a ferrari has been a hunger strike for months. all the people here are hungry for a future for their children and we don't see that at the moment but to make the

politicians listen we know we need to get three million people here we hope they will come there protesting against what they say is a politicians a piece of taxpayers' money and an inability to deal adequately with the economic crisis in the country still across italy cosseted he cuts in social spending in people's wages and incomes to the politicians it seems no expenses spared people's appetite for change is growing. thing. the fish unspoken so that they've got the hunger strike will continue and there remain here until they get some answers. artsy. the prime minister of china the world's second largest economy has won the eurozone it must get its house in order before the financial crisis turns global it comes just days after a time when officials failed to convince the chinese delegation to haul money into

their economy france's learn from the investment company lycia holdings ltd believes it's the responsibility of europe to solve its own problems. sprees policing is a europe step problem must be sought by europeans are long think of china last lend. last resort. china right there europe's. hundred teachers have been paying their budget deficits by charging their future. to catch up with them in two thousand and eleven is a year that five will be catch up with several european countries like greece and italy so they cut to put their houses in order they have to spend. what they have but not spend more than they have it has to do all the stops to gain

five nation to pin their back into rolling over its national. situation right now i don't think that he has that much choice. i was asking people about his guest as the growing crisis in italy is not unique in the united states especially there's great concern over the engine of the world's economy the wants might see him now shrinking at american middle class but it's a much more a cost for coming your way out eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview. i was amazed to discover when i got to the united states that everybody was in a trade union is considered middle class you just mean guys with jobs that's what you mean the various. family capital or capital gains or whatever you just read people who make money from money and people only money from work most of these middle class people make money from work and they should cast their lot in with the poor of people maybe the point where being employed it means little coins well i

once. went to iran are involved one said very peacefully that same working class and people who didn't want to work. lives and simply you know what it collapsed and i would put it the other way around when you get a crisis the middle class becomes the people who have to work and they start having this illusion that they can become rich like everybody else and suddenly realize hey we're just like the poor guy down the street that i used to pass by. washington has strongly about the libyan opposition since the revolutionary wave and gulf states it's now equally enthusiastic in its support against syria's president bashar assad but the concern is whether america's decision to take sides

could backfire on middle east ally israel. the possible repercussions of u.s. policy. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know. iran is not an arab country the arab spring. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred. under the umbrella of the arab revolutions washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming us not alone the transition to democracy in syria has begun and it's time for assad to get out of the way i

think of just like a dog for your number and let's hope the pressure assad is next and they were overthrown qaddafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syria next to take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be iran itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations some went as far as to predict the arab spring would spread all across the world what this is all about is that your friend and bashar assad is next and even places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's what the libyan people have just achieved. that's wishful thinking on the part of john

mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela in cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just plain a sizing about. it actually fosters the process funny pledging support for anti-government there but some say this might eventually turn against america's closest ally in the region it's really what you have with. with hamas could essentially spread have many more places and then you'd have a much much larger population base in an extremely hostile position towards the very existence of israel by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far it

thousands protest against the u.s. backed military there that's still in power last week injection store and peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead near washington supported leadership is taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult it washington seems to be using the herb spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for and undermining the whole region i'm going to check our reporting from washington. israel strange relations with turkey and egypt threaten to leave it dangerously isolated from the reach of a situation that made even more delicate the upcoming decision of the u.n. on whether to grant the palestinian statehood. comments easy given by. the israel's

current policy is leading it. israel now is getting word from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation taking place because israeli call the israeli decision makers on the political. choosing we want to do if you will also lies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been. against them certainly puts for forward new israeli image in people's eyes the country will continue all to fashion all the sins while the world around them in their nearest and it is really changing powerful young radical we. now have ground in libya the national

transitional council has given everyone in the besieged stronghold of bani walid two days to leave or face a full scale attack last week opposition fighters a lot of assault on the city but the offensive stalled in the face of fierce resistance rebels however claim they've made gains in the city of red family sixty kilometers east of cape athens home tell us that even though the whereabouts of the interest still are no stephen ramban he's the head of an assassin of besting as of agency says it's just a matter of time before he's found. kadar figures or not but he's a very clever and up and he's a not that's managed to survive for forty five years and i'm sure he took note of how osama bin laden was captured and i'm sure he took note of how saddam hussein was captured i don't sure he was avoiding those mistakes but hugh will make a new mistook.

wonderful interview with stephen rambam's coming up in around fifteen minutes time for the things to chill out. the leaders of the u.s. remain here have sealed the deal of the which america would station its months to base it interceptor missiles and eastern europe well under the agreement the us will build a network of villages of the missing in the country over the next four years but this is only the first stage of a war based. stated intent to defend those attacks from rogue states such as a and north korea past according to a get out. there's no real threat or allied question mark over just who the shield is a. i don't think it's really a military necessity but no one really believes that it was a possibility would be round it taking europe it's nice size did not reach could

not reach western europe so it was the deployment was crowd in the czech republic now it is a new deployment in reno but i think the stakes are truly political washington probably wants to reassure our former satellite countries this is a huge union so it's a political move but hardly a military necessity and also considering the state to the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms one of. these research dollars he would russia at least he was a. something corp russia and key issued what this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some kind of new arms race which is totally pointless not only because the effectiveness of the shield is problematic a duffle but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in

a position to attack anyone in the west. some other international headlines this hour on c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment a bus and see a passenger trains collided during morning rush hour. eleven. two hundred twelve were injured some of them children the bus drivers thought to have been trying to beat the train across the trunks several of the carriage is a fool's day off the rails that train the face of the opposite direction. seven it would seventeen with in a way the taliban as hard down as this capital kabul gunman struck at the u.s. embassy and those who have courses occupying a partially filled nearby high rise at the same time several suicide bombings hit the targets throughout the city this hot spots a nine to know a gunfight in which all the a surgeon's work wasn't killed by nato and afghan forces it was the u.s. invasion in afghanistan that triggered the escalation of the paper the taliban

possibly of the country's former presidents have been under cover up in. going. without foreign military intervention in afghanistan they wouldn't to be in a civil war there wouldn't be any problems with the taliban people have existed without such turmoil for many centuries and i think the decision to intervene in iraq and afghanistan was a spontaneous one and there were other ways to solve our problems but this isn't to intervene was illegal and the problems still haven't been solved there's still bloodshed going on probably just providing aid to afghanistan could better deal with such outbreaks would have been a more acceptable solution for everybody but instead it was the intervention which never achieved the goals it set out to in fact quite the opposite. that is the way the news is hour here on aussie out next the business and you.