it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie the arab league says the syrian government has withdrawn happy weapons from cities across the country and released some thirty five hundred prisoners but the body confirmed snipers are still a threat and called for an end to the shooting activists claim hundreds have been killed since the monitoring team arrived last week during criticism both from within syria and the arab group advisory body to the league said observers should be withdrawn because of the ongoing violence their mission is to broker a peace plan for the country where the u.n. says over five thousand have been killed in ten months of widespread unrest analyst patrick can assume things events in syria are being manipulated with western powers an arab allies backing insurgent groups to promote regime change. a lot of these so-called human rights reports definitely skewed in favor of whatever the current

western policies coming out of the u.s. or london and paris of what they would like to see happen in syria which is many. people in the u.s. state department in the case foreign office and the u.n. want to frame this argument is that assad is having a crackdown on dissidents these are the dissidents these are in some cases armed insurgent and they're being backed in a material way by the u.s. and by some of these countries who actually are in the league the tar also has an interest in regime change in this country libya has said al-qaeda fighters under the command of their tripoli governor to go and fight in syria this contravenes all united name and laws ok if the u.s. is actively involved in supporting this then they are culpable in international court egyptians are once again heading to the polls. third round of parliamentary

elections it's widely expected that his lamas groups will win and be the ones to take over from the current military rulers but the run up to the final round of voting has seen clashes between the army and protesters as well as police raids on non-governmental organizations as reading reports discontent with the current regime is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager accused of corruption and suffocating freedom but now it's the ruling supreme council of armed forces which finds itself in hot water with the west following raids on human rights organizations last week i feel this is a very dangerous situation because you have to. produce. but the people on the streets pushing for change of secularists who have links with these groups so that the big tension really between washington and kyra left off cell phones and more than twenty boxes of documents were reportedly seized during raids by the police

authorities promised all will be returned yet several questions are me what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious about energy all of the races in post revolutionary egypt. and the members of the arabic center for an independent judiciary never did get an official explanation for the confiscation of their documents or the eviction from their office that followed. we don't know what they were searching for we told them we could give them anything they wanted but they came in search of everything and didn't give a simple answer whether they wanted bank statements or anything else other than one person from a camp sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vix it angio workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge he says i would surprise. the police like the. ticket system at least just. can't take a position. again is that he moderates the activity of the human race will be

facing a suits. this is a new use for us human rights activists in egypt believe the rays are attempts to punish them for accusing military rulers of failing to carry through democratic reforms but. western observers say the authorities are becoming increasingly wary of the ever watchful eye from washington and the true purpose of raids is to prove foreign funding over going is ations which authorities accuse of destabilizing egypt and seems to be a strand of opinion inside the military inside the state machine that. is very disillusioned with the old friendship with the west and may be trying to find evidence to prove that some of the trouble on the street some of the troubling times has been in some way fostered by these n.g.o.s washington tirelessly repeats the old adagio of the importance of its relations with egypt as

a key player in the middle east but blight talk may hide a very different agenda washington doesn't want stabilization they want permanent arnie's so that they can you know use that as a lever in the entire region egyptian activists aren't too happy with western help which they say can do more harm than good. i don't like the way foreign countries put pressure on egyptian authorities that the pressure has to come from the egyptians and we as a human rights organization should provide it. money from us whatever their real reasons for the raids of n.g.o.s says the increasing internal strife in the country could portend a shipwreck not just for egypt's relations with the west but for the country's revolution in cairo. r.t. . and coming up on our t.v. making the russian army fighting fit we want cancer how moscow is reversing it

downward spiral for its military with billions for the three forms and new weaponry and. then this new book has been that we won't let me or nazis rule here. residents of a quiet german town are trying to stop a neo nazi epidemic from spreading but are they are after it's enough for our team best to gates. wealthy british style. that's not on. their. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines join in to conjure reports .

which brightened if you move from phones to pressure in some. ways for a start on t.v. don't come. iran has successfully test fired a selection of different missiles on the last of ten days of naval war games in the gulf western powers have described the exercise as evidence of iran's volatile behavior france had missile test sent out bad signals to the international community. iran also held an exercise simulating the shutting down of the strait of hormuz that would said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier than ron threaten to block the world's most important oil route if the west stepped up sanctions against the country's nuclear program on saturday u.s.

president barack obama signed a bill targeting iran's oil and financial sector as a sign mohamed were on the from the university of tehran says america is provoking iran. it is really the americans that are being provocative they are trying to make ordinary iranians suffer at the same time you see senior american officials and politicians constantly calling for the assassination of iranian scientists of iranian military commanders of politicians and the constant threat of attacking and bombing the country so really the problem lies with the united states the maneuvers in the persian gulf are basically to show the united states that iran is strong and can protect themselves and it is basically the only way in which to force the united states to recognize that certain lines just simply shouldn't be crossed if the americans and its allies try to make the iranian economy

suffocate the iranians will have no option but to respond in a sea of severe manner this is a region where an extraordinarily large amount of oil and gas. goes through and if there is insecurity in the region it's not just the strait of hormuz if there is a conflict in the persian gulf tankers who will be at risk that boil installations will be at risk war is hell and this instability will go beyond the persian gulf it will i think of oil exports and gas exports will be at risk in central asia and throughout the middle east and there will be a lot of. backlash from the public throughout the region. the collapse of the military oriented soviet union has seen a gradual dk of russia's armed forces and major reforms have been put in place to put them back on track moscow will now pour over six hundred billion dollars into refitting the army over the next ten years and there is

a new man in charge as well russia's four man boy to nato will now put his long experience to good use helping revamp the country's military are to some bargain explains why changes are needed. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces certainly falling behind and have fallen behind some of the larger arrivals new equipment is a priority there's also a dire need for reforms in organization recruitment training pay and military doctrine the government has promised six hundred forty billion dollars over the next ten years to buy new weapons but russian arms manufacturers are no longer what they used to be me she just. me now is in need of contemporary modern equipment and if the russian defense industry can't yet provide us with what we need to broad new purchases include this land assault ship the mistral got from france lorries from

italy and flying drones from israel drones or through to the tickler problem the defense ministry dismayed by the russian company tasked with designing and building them. i asked them what was their problem and what prevented them from producing good vehicles the enterprise's bosses found plenty of excuses such as the absence of engines gliders except chatter and i now know how much money they received and i saw the rubbish they produced not all new russian made weapons are falling below standard the su thirty four fighter bomber is widely considered an exceptional aircraft but so few have been delivered that the older models they were to replace were starting to fail although russian designers come up with some excellent hardware for instance in terms of fighter and combat aircraft some time the industry has trouble in maintaining these at a high level and should reduce the number of the kind of numbers of the armed forces needed and the reform still have angry opponents to both in and outside the

armed forces many of them argue that the we are meant is going just fine and that buying foreign weapons undermines russia's military. depends on your mission. we are becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment on foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies with specific fuels and lubricants and other substances needed for the new equipment. sales. in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the children out of south in just five days but experts were dismayed at how outdated clumsy the russian army looked when faced with real position it reinforced the need for serious change the money being thrown at the problem is vast regiments of rubles on the road onto enough most to the defense ministry no no before the armed forces are ready for a modern conflict a very long and very demanding war for reform must be won here in the corridors of

government and in factories around russia and moscow so i had for you this hour here in our team the key to success. the same question everybody answer the farmer all over the world by the way revealed so we like it i do it because. when we started i didn't know anything about it but the more i worked on the line the became a farmer the more i really felt i was a person. we hear from a man i moved to russia years ago to explore the country's neglected lands and transform them into florida businesses he reveals his secrets now special series finders. watching r.t. live from moscow let's take a look at what's making news elsewhere in the world towns of thousands have rallied outside budapest opera house to protest against the new hungary and constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounce president viktor orban center right as the tater ship they say the new

laws will undermine democracy and threaten judicial independence legislation was pushed through parliament last april despite criticism from. the u.s. and. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are pushing to win over the people of iowa in the first election of the voting seizing the polls are the first in a state by state qantas to choose obama's republican rival in next year's presidential election candidates ron paul rick santorum and mitt romney are the current favorite around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote on tuesday . massive forest fires have swept through chile's southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand hectares of force landed stroy hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battled to control the blaze that spread across three provinces south is currently suffering

from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly vulnerable to fires and israeli tourists has been accused of negligently starting the blaze while camping in the region's torah still pain national park. up to fifty thousand people have fled their homes in south sudan and scores are feared dead in the latest rash of intertribal violence at the weekend thousands of armed drives men descended on the town of bor forcing their rivals take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese government have bolstered their forces in the area in an attempt to bring the situation under control un has warned that the escalating violence could lead to a major humanitarian tragedy. in the past few years many e.u. countries have seen a growth in neo nazis in germany more and more young people are joining the groups some points to poor economic conditions are others say immigration policies are to

blame the group is going off now reports on what's driving youngsters along a dangerous path. a quiet down disturbed. a small community divided. it began with the appearance of nazi symbols then the local social center was burned to the ground york van gogh whose own office was also vandalized says for him the final straw was when your nazis marched through the town's main square. had it on i used to be afraid but it helps not to act alone to have supporters i became a public person with our initiative and it sort of my protection the end the initiative is actively supported by around fifty locals many are retired and armed with posters they stand up to those who are often much younger and looking not too friendly like this young man who openly calls himself

a neo nazi and admits encouraging a teenager to set the social center on fire he now faces up to two years behind bars when this new book but we won't let me go now sees rule here yet to not all locals agree the initiative is often criticised the neo nazi party even being three percent of votes at the most recent open and election the third on ten thousand the beans that had split our town some say where exaggerating and are only making things worse by attracting too much attention but i think they're simply afraid. activists say it's easy for new nazis to recruit new members especially among disillusioned and dejected teenagers with poor infrastructure and high unemployment and few social skills which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to extremes when a population of just around six thousand people sausan is a typical small german town far away from large industries and financial centers

life here is called and peaceful or at least it used to be before two thousand and nine mr vantine and the other activists do say they are not going to back down until after it turns back to normal but unfortunately the problem with neo nazis in germany exists on a much wider scale thousands of new gather for a new all marches in dresden often clashing with police and fascist activists and in november german authorities caught two suspects believed to be members of a terror cell that is keep them for years and were involved in killing at least ten foreigners but it was no excuse it's money struggles which are igniting the trouble of course economic. causes families conflict and families and solved we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated

racist education germany's maybe on spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its pearl if you have to unchecked it may be too long before disenfranchised you drank the entire country towards some of the biggest mistakes of this past. forty germany. also rides groups have slammed a controversial new fans bill signed by president obama the law rises indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge. trial president obama said he had serious reservations over this bill and will not invoke all the clauses it entails but human rights groups called it a blight on obama's legacy as future presidents might use it to its fullest extent this comes as the tory is going tobe a prison remains open almost four years after president obama promised to shut it down sara flounders from the international action center says the new bill violates

basic democratic rights the u.s. claims to fight for around the world. there is the threat out mass detention without our trial without charges being held by the u.s. military who previously could not legally operate within the u.s. only around the world the u.s. says that they're speaking for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the u.s. wars are a form of absolute terror there's no other way of explaining secret rendition torture kidnapping targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the u.s. is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the u.s. at a time when there has been a mass movement the occupy wall street movement in more than a hundred cities across the country and every one of those occupy movements were

shut down illegally by the police both president obama has violated the very pledges he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet you have an even more reactionary hoofing pledging more wars expanded we were asked agenda of broad and against the rights of working people right here at home and all this is in a time of great economic crisis and hardship for millions of people right here a huge cowper list meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. any more stories news and analysis on our website r.t. dot com and here are some was lined up for you this hour tough times for the hero of the ten year old single currency holds grim prospects for twenty well as we said oh my god the details. let's zoom in on israel secrets

a turkish satellite is to blur the lines or it's pictures sons of a former ally leaving it in focus for the world's eyes all that much more at our t.v. dot com. it's . all we continue to introduce you to for a nurse have achieved success by doing business in russia and in our pathfinder series we talked to the ex-pats who have discovered the country's potential.

well john give his skin used to earn a living trading co in great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia married a russian woman and became a farmer he now owns one of the country's most profitable daily farms. when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the between the years we had folders growing today these lines are now working we have a well over four thousand acres this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a bubble for milk and even as a rule we started our project we thought we could make money out of that we talked to various parties a place it was a good idea the milk market will be there and we went ahead. the first problem we encountered i think the normal was that the workers expected that they'd lost by by mr started and now john had arrived in the first year that we were here we were changing ninety percent of the start of the month we couldn't find anybody that we thought could manage such a modern farm so in the end we decided that to cover our risk we would look

overseas and i interviewed many people and in the end we have a young american now running the farm he's been with us for six years with his family we should look at the manure more what do you think good. night mates color. the easiest thing to manage is people because the problem probably number one problem i saw with people was they never had to take on responsibility for themselves now we've kind of. made this a team effort here where people have personal responsibility and. we go as far as to tell them each day what they have to do and what has to be fifth and certain forms to fill out so that we can see they did their job or that you love money or you love russia without that you can't work it because the frustrations of the bureaucracy is the main thing there are just too many laws every day you just finding new ones in a farm in a way so husband and wife and an accountant an external accountant can run the farm

here i've got fourteen people in the office it really is the sense that in order if you to get a desired it's a very long road in the west it's faster you need to do some treatment which. typically here on a russian farm there's someone that's your boss. and someone's boss is someone else's boss here we don't have that it's me i'm the boss of the farm and then we have workers that's it there's no middle management. it was much harder ten years ago we had to go running around. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got done on the go we've got. going from germany we've got company now and we've got pepsi if you work it properly you've got big plans you can do big problems and just really efficiency of scale because lannes more efficiency that's the real big advantage in america we don't have that chance anymore because the land's all taken it's very expensive to begin farming here we have a chance to take as much land as needed because it's not used. and our ears are cold

and temperature was ok this morning there's always a challenge in america gets boring after a while everything's there everything is simple here. the same question everybody has a farmer all over the world that we radiate so we like it i do it because. when we started i didn't know anything about it but the more i worked on the line the became of the more i mean he felt i was a real person i come here and i see that affected the lives of over one hundred people the local community now in the shops become better and we're producing something that really is worth something i spent all my life selling and buying millions of tons of coal i never sold a colored paper here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. i'll bring you more from our special pathfinder series every day here on r.t.

as we meet some of the business trailblazers and russia's capital so stay tuned for that if we can now as the economic crisis is threatening the e.u. is existence we ask former german chancellor gerhard schroeder if there is a way to avoid total collapse before that though i'll bring you the headlines stay with us.

welcome back you're watching our team and these are the top stories arab league observers say syrian leaders how bold have the weapons out of key cities and released three and a half thousand prisoners of the body confirm snipers are still a threat and called for an am to the shooting. egyptians had to the polls in the third round of parliamentary elections where the vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups with recent graze on foreign n.g.o.s it's feared the military's grip on power could remain as strong as ever. ten.