it is eleven am in the russian capital watching our t.v. let me bring in josh welcome to the program there of league says syria's government has withdrawn happy weapons from cities across the country and released some thirty five hundred prisoners but the body confirmed snipers are still a threat and called for a man to the shooting activists claim hundreds have been killed since the monitoring team arrived last week drawing criticism both from within syria and the arab group advisors to the league said observers to be withdrawn because of the continuing violence their mission is to ensure compliance with a peace plan in the country alice patrick henningsen thanks events in syria are being manipulated with western powers and arab allies backing insurgent groups to promote regime change. a lot of these so-called human rights reports are definitely skewed in favor of whatever the current western policies coming out of

the u.s. or london and paris and what they would like to see happen in syria which is many. people in the u.s. state department and the u.k. 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 guitar also has an interest in regime change in this country libya has sent 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 they are culpable in international court. and kitchens are once again heading to the polls in a third round pick. mandery elections it's widely expected that islamist groups

will win and 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 a renegotiation of 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 elections on the one hand producing . but the people on the streets pushing for change secularists who have links with these groups so that the big tension really between washington and kyra left dob 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 remain 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 the money doesn't make him sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the vixen to n.g.o.s workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge he says i would surprise. the police but the. tickets are. just bought of his he can't take a position. against the human rights activity in the way they simply say she.

says. 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. 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 maybe 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 polite talk may hide a very different agenda washington doesn't want stabilization they want a permanent ani'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. and 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 offices the increasing internal strife in the country people tend to shipwreck not just for egypt's relations with the west but for the country's revolution in cairo. r.t. . and coming up here in our team making the russian army fighting fit we look into how moscow is reversing a downward spiral for its military with billions poured into reforms and new

weaponry also. given that we won't. leave here. residents of a quiet german town are trying to stop a neo nazi epidemic from spreading but are there asked for it so now our team investigates. 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 the missile test sent out bad signals to the international community iran also held an exercise simulating the shutting down of the strait of hormuz it said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier to iran 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 sectors side mohammad marandi 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 insulations will be at risk war as hell and this instability will go beyond. 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 savita union has seen a gradual decay of russia's armed forces and major reforms have been put in place to put them back on track moscow will pour over six hundred billion dollars into refitting the army over the next ten years and there's a new man in charge as well russia's former envoy to nato will now put his long

experience to good use helping revamp the country's military are just on barton explains why changes are needed. the russian armed forces the pride of the nation or are they the russian forces are 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 i mean 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. broad new purchases include this lander so ship the mistral brought from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones has proved

a particular 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 exaction 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 producing about the kind of numbers of the armed forces needed and the reforms still have angry opponents to both in and outside the armed forces many

of them argue that the we are mint is going just fine and that buying foreign weapons undermines russia's military. independence commission because we were becoming dependent on foreign suppliers of spare parts for military equipment and foreign military personnel training on foreign supplies were specifically fuels and lubricants and other substances needed for the new equipment. say over the years in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the georgian army out of south setia in just five days but experts were dismayed at how outdated and clumsy the russian army looked when faced with real opposition it reinforced the need for serious change the money being thrown at the problem is vast the regiments of rubles on their own aren't enough most here at the defense ministry now know that before the armed forces are ready for modern conflict a very long and very demanding war for reform must be one here in the corridors of government and in factories around russia. r.t.

moscow. also i have for you this hour here in r.t. the key to success. the same question everybody the former all over the world are there we review. where we start you don't know anything about the boy world because of the border but there's a person we hear from the man who moved to russia years ago to explore the country's neglected lands and transform them into florida businesses he reveals his secrets in our special series of pathfinders. now let's take a look at what else is making news around the world tens of thousands have rallied in central budapest to protest against the new home of their own constitution a day after it came into force activists chanted anti-government slogans and denounced president viktor orban sent the riot regime as a dictatorship they say the new laws will undermine democracy and threaten judicial independence the legislation was pushed through parliament last april despite

criticism from the u.s. and. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are competing to win over the people of iowa why in the first election of the voting season the polls are the first in a state by state contests to choose the republican contender for barack obama's white house chair in next year's presidential election candidates ron paul rick santorum and mitt romney are the current favorites around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote in tuesday's party election. massive forest fires have swept through other and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand tapped there is a forest land destroyed hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battle 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 at israeli

tourist has been accused of nine. gently starting the blaze while camping in the region's poorest 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 tribesmen the sand on the town of people war forcing their rivals to take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese government have bolstered their forces in the area an attempt to bring the situation under control the 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 the in germany more and more young people are joining the groups some point to poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame you are just 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 your own office was also vandalized says for him the final straw was when neil nazis marched through the town's main square. 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 local media i retired and armed with posters they stand up to those who are often much younger and looking not just friends 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 in this new book within that we won't let me go now sees rule here yet to not

all locals agree the initiative is often criticized the neo nazi party even being three percent of votes at the most recent mobile phone and election day but the incident 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 analogies to recruit new members especially among disillusioned and dejected teenagers with poor infrastructure and high unemployment and few socialist schemes which the town can offer it's often simply boredom driving them to streets. with 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 peaceful or at least it used to be before two thousand and nine mr vantine and the other activists are not going to back down until life returns

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 marches in dresden often clashing with police and activists and in the german authorities called two suspects believed to be members of a chair so that it is keep them for you. in killing at least ten foreigners but it was no excuse it's money struggles for. the trouble of course economic and wrist causes family conflict and families and solved we have a kind of rage but now the rage was you know escalated racist education germany's spending billions to pull the eurozone crisis but ignoring economic trouble at home could be at its spirit if you were on

you know between people this is a branch you drank the entire country towards some of the biggest mistakes of this past. forty germany. civil rights groups have slammed a controversial new towns bill signed by president obama as a lot arises indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge or trial president obama said he had serious reservations about the bill and will not put all of it into action but human rights groups call it a blight on obama's legacy as future presidents could use it to its fullest extent this comes as the tory's guantanamo bay prison remains open almost four years after president obama. rama's to shut it down sara flounders from the international action center says the new bill violates the basic democratic rights that the us claims to fight for around the world. where there is the threat mass detention without 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 is 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 place he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet you have

an even more reactionary hoofing plunging more wars expanded us 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. more stories news and analysis on why it at r.t. dot com but here's some what's lined up for you this hour tough times for the euro the ten year old single currency wholegrain prospects for twenty twelve as recession looms we've got the details. and zooming in on israel secrets a turkish satellite is to blur the lines for its picture a sensitive former ally leaving it in focus for the world's eyes all that and much more attitude dot com.

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doing business in russia pathfinder series we talked to the x. bats who have discovered the country's full potential. john could be askew used to earn a living trading co and great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia married a russian woman and became a farmer in our own 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 forest growing today these lines are now working we have a well over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a bubble for milk and even though the rouble we started our project we thought we could make money out of that we talked to various parties they said it's a good idea the middle 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 starlin 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 it's a good it's a nice cow nice color. how 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. i made this a team effort here where people have personal responsibility. 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 either 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 just finding new ones in a farm in the west a husband and wife and an accountant an external accountant to run the farm here i've got fourteen people in the office it really is the sense that you know if you to get a desired it's a very long road in the west it's fast 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 asking do you want. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got done on the go to uni mill we've got em in from germany we've got company now and we've got pepsi if you work it properly you've got big lines you can do big farms and just really efficiency of

scale because learns more efficiency starts to be a 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 their 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's simple here. the same question everybody onto the farmer all over the world are there 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 to become a farmer the more i really felt i was a real person i come here and i see the effect of the lies over on the people the local community know in the shops become better and we're producing something that really is worth something i spent all my life selling i'm buying millions of tons

of coal and oversold the cola dissipate but here i'm seeing the product i get a great sense of satisfaction by doing. just. that i'll bring you more from our special pathfinder series every day here in r.t. as we meet more business trailblazers in russia's capital one just a few moments another run through today's headlines.

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welcome back you're watching r t a reminder of the top stories arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled have the weapons out of key cities and released three and a half thousand prisoners but the body confirms snipers are still a threat and called for an end to the shooting. egyptians had to the polls in the third round of parliamentary elections with a vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups but with recent raids on foreign n.g.o.s it's feared the military's grip on power could remain as strong as ever. and iran's missile test in.