this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshing the arab league says syria's government has was drawn heavy weapons from cities across the country and released some thirty five hundred prisoners but the body confirmed snipers are still posing a threat and cold foreign hands 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 should be drawn because of the continuing violence their mission is to ensure compliance with a peace plan in the country analyst patrick henningsen thinks 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 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 lead the charge 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 they are culpable in international court egyptians are once again having to the polls in a third round of parliamentary elections it's widely expected that islam is the groups will come out. on top and take over from the current military rulers but the

run up to the vote has seen clashes between the army and protesters as well as police raids on non-governmental organizations as a renewed reports this can towns where the current regime is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager accuse of corruption and suffocating freedom but no 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 a prose. but the people on the streets pushing for change and secularists who have links with these groups so that this big tension really between washington and kyra left up 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 mean what prompted the raids and what could possibly be so suspicious

about it and you all of the races and post revolutionary egypt. the members of the arabic center for an independent judiciary never did get an official explanation for the confiscation of their documents or the victualling 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 but the one person from the camp sitting on a sidewalk by their former office the victim to n.g.o.s workers point out a certain irony this never happened when mubarak was in charge says i would surprise. the police like. the current system at least i'll support this bill but he can't take a position he gives so he moderates the activity in the ways we believe they should . this is

a. 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 again 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 streets 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 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 with the mother my mother knew from us whatever the 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 out here in r t making the russian army fighting fit we worked into how moscow's reversing a downward spiral for its military with billions poured into reforms and new weaponry also. making the business we want to. hear.

presidents of a quiet german town are determined to stop it you're not seeing the damage from spreading but are they are out for it's enough r t s to get. 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 smallville behavior france said the missile test sent out bad signals to the international community iran also held an exercise that simulated shutting down the strait of hormuz though it said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier to iran threaten to block the world's most important oil routes 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's 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 boil insulations will be at risk war is hell and this instability will go beyond the person involved 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. since the collapse of the military oriented soviet union russia's armed forces have suffered a gradual decay and major reforms have now been put in place to put them back on track moscow will pump more than 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 is long experience to good use helping with down the country's military martin 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 their larger rivals 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 that he 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 london ship the mistrial got from france lorries from italy and flying drones from israel drones to through the 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 except chatter but 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 are starting to fail although russian design has 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 other servers in two thousand and eight russian forces pushed the georgian army out of south said here 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 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. and so i had for you this hour here on r t the key to success. the same question everybody owns it the former all over the world by the way. i do

it because. when we started i didn't know anything about it but the more i worked on the learn to be careful the more beautiful i was a person we hear from the man who moved to russia years ago to explore some of the country's neglected lands and transform down into florida saying this is a success he reveals his secret secrets in our special series pathfinders. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world tens of thousands have rallied in central budapest to protest against the new garin constitution a day after it came into force activists chanting anti-government slogans and denounce president viktor orban center right regime as dictatorship they say the new laws 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 competing to win over the people of iowa the first election of a voting season the polls are the first in a state by state qantas to choose the republican contender for barack obama's white house chair in the presidential election later this year 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 chile's southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand have to as a force the steroid hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battled to control the fears blaze that spread across three provinces chile's south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and the heat wave making it high. susceptible to fires and israeli tourists has been accused of the negligently starting the blaze while camping in the region's tourist still paid national park. and.

up to fifty thousand people have fled their homes in south sudan and scores are feared dead in the latest rash into tribal violence over the weekend thousands of armed tribesmen descended on the town of bor forcing their rivals take refuge in the bush the un and south sudanese governments have bolstered their forces in the area in 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 new nazi groups and in germany more and more young people are joining them some point to poor economic conditions others say immigration policies are to blame it was cut off now reports on what's driving youngsters along such a dangerous path. to quiet down.

a small community. 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 of 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 in this new book within that we won't let me 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 local parliament election. the incident split our town some say we're 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 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 cause and peaceful or at least it used to be before two thousand and nine mr vantine and the other activists do say they're 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. thousands of new gather for a needle marches in dresden often clashing with police and the fascist activists and in the german authorities caught two suspects believed to be members of a neo nazi terrorist so that it is keep them for use in killing at least foreigners but it was no excuse it's money struggles which are igniting the trouble of course economic. causes family conflict and families. 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 spirit if you have to check

it may not be too long before disenfranchised youth drags the country toward some of the biggest mistakes of this past. forty germany. civil rights groups have slammed a controversial new to fans bill signed by president obama the law theorizes indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge or trial president obama said he had serious reservations about the bill and will not make use of all of its provisions 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 notorious going tunnel bay 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 the basic democratic rights that the us claims to fight for around the world. massed attention without trial without charges. being held by the u.s.

military who previously could not legally operate within the u.s. only or. around the world the u.s. says that they're sweeping for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the us 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 us is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the us 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 pledge and 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 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. with plenty more stories news and analysis on y. and r. t. dot com here's some of what's lined up for you right now tough times for the euro the ten year old single currencies prospects for quite well are grand as recession looms larger on the horizon we've got the details online. and zooming in and out israel secrets a turkish set of eyes to blur the lines for its image sends a former ally leaving and sharp focus for the rest of the world to see all that much more at our team dot com.

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to ex-pats have discovered and realize the country's full potential. john get used to make his living trading coal in great britain but fifteen years ago he moved to russia and became a farmer now married to a russian he owns one of the country's most profitable dairy farms when we went on these lines people hadn't worked on the for twenty years we had forest growing today these lines are now working we have a will over four thousand hectares this year ten twelve years ago people are paying a bubble for milk and even at the ruble 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 but by mr starr didn't know 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. night how nice 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 fearful and certain forms to fill out so that we can see they did their job 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 just finding new ones in a farm in the west of husband and wife and an accountant an external accountant could 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. in these ten years the market has evolved we've got investments now we've got. we've got. money 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 should really efficiency of scale because lannes more efficiencies that's the 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 our ears are cold when 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. alibris more from our special pathfinder series every day here in r.t. as we meet more business trailblazers and russia's capital well and in just a few moments we ask former german chancellor gerhard schroeder if there is a way out of the economic crisis that's threatening the e.u. is very existence for that they'll be back with a look at the top stories. why

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world. and where the country's mental well starts its way across the ocean. welcome to the bottom screech of russia blows up. welcome back you're watching our day here's a look at the top stories arab league observers say syrian leaders have told having weapons out of key cities and for at least three and a half thousand prisoners but the body confirmed snipers are still a spread that called for an end to the shooting. egyptian head to the polls and there are ground parliamentary elections what a vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups that was recent raids on foreign n.g.o.s it's clear the military is a power could remain as strong as ever.