oops on its way from to go to the grand northern slope the helicopter passes by now fished the highest point of the western ridge. it's still ends. after an hour's trip by air dimitri and his son kirill walk about the northern sector of the caucuses reserve in the company of ranges the jugo weather station is now schools of coleman says away. people and animals share the only path there is in this area let's go to the bison let humans approach them but most of the people travelling around the reserve granges in horseback almost a short while ago patrol duty in

a different area of focus for the short distance from here they can seem on his show over there came across the line bison. the lettuce come quite close to them. were only fifteen metres away. bison leaving the coaxes reserve have no enemies sometimes humans can come very close to them provided they are on horseback buses a range of dismount the bison instantly make it clear they're poised for attack. the. horses are the most reliable and indispensable companions when people go on long trips in the mountains only horses with good training eligible for the job. this one is called churton ish. he's my favorite. though we became first friends.

reading him is no problem he does what he's told to do. but this one is still young stallion. so that it will let anybody touch him. the bloke. is scared of everybody. chill never a chair on his one of the remotest areas of eastern sector of the caucuses reserve

several reserve stock and their families live here on a permanent basis. even if the weather is warm it's only possible to reach this place with an off road vehicle. schoolchildren from a nearby village of sit by often visit reserve ranges they have organized an eco movement called the little bison. hello hello glad to see you. dear our guests. that no. that doesn't work the top machine we are. going to cheer is the starting point of a circular route for high just only visitors with a permit and a map are allowed to enter the reserve they gear is inspected and ranges teach them the elementary rules for surviving in the mountains. children from the little bison

always welcome here they already have experience walking cross-country with the children from the little bison often across the river in that way but it's risky in winter time so today we're going to take a detour we'll cross the bridge and forest work and we'll take care of our stuff. pikas can choose between several popular routes in different areas of the caucuses reserve. close to the trail stands an oval table used by ranges it's meant for hikers passing by wanting to rest for a moment children from the little bison club gather here on the bank of the stream to discuss major ecological actions suggestion as we all know that on the eve of the new year celebrations many local people pick up axis and go to the forest to

cut down our green beauties it's a bird save the green beauty is the name of the movement organized by the children so they make leaf let's bear in the image of a food tree and you'll note that they write text on the leaflets and display them prominently in the village of. the children hope their peaceful actions will help prevent fur trees from being cut down illegally. preserve ranges however take more radical measures against lawbreakers their main task is finding and detaining poachers. one of the most challenging jobs takes rangers to mount. and each time they go under a veil of secrecy regardless of day or night the conditions that painstaking job require special knowledge and staying power they need to be skilled horseman as

well as able to discern telltale signs showing the presence of trespassers and have no difficulty finding their bearings. and you will always be tempted to answer the reserve because beasts are easy prey here the reporters up there are not as much afraid of humans as they are elsewhere because they're under constant protection. such you see them as enticing tidbits because hunting for them is so easy. as the path reaches higher altitudes one climatic zone in the mountains gives way to another here the fog that envelop the forests in the foothills is now a distant memory there is snow on the slopes and it is much colder the caucasian mountains gradually come into view.

after several attempts to find the best point for filming the landscape dimitri suddenly comes face to face with a brown bear one of the rarest and largest animals of the caucuses reserve. ranges did find fresh tracks they were close to the huts where the rangers present

for the night they reported the find over walkie talkie that he would use there are all threats here but the store always got from a wolf yes. keep still the workers let me see them what initially go in the tracks no just those holding. bases here they are. two three three four eight calling one zero four eight calling one of four everything's ok tracks only some left by animals the latest tracks are those of wolves three of them over and out. different people visiting the coaxes nature reserve a raft of different things some seek shelter from the hustle and bustle of big

cities all this or all to thrills only a few are able to blend in with this wonderful place and become possibly. just invested by old and yet i feel i'm an integral part of this world yet i do you well know crazy romantic. i'm nearly drowned almost frozen to death and full of cliffs already in. nature is wiser than we are given if our ingenuity is all pervasive. she is the creator that gave birth to us about enough but i do not and may bring us to ruin unless we come to our senses. and atlanta i think does what people should devote their lives to. let's go get the book i don't know if i can cope with the task but i'm going to try.

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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report on our. leaders have agreed to impose on the precedents of sanctions on iran imposing total oil embargo but there are fears that such sanctions may backfire for all the details later in the probe. a new list of for the syrian leadership the arab league demands the creation of a national unity government and steps up calls for president assad to step down it's something the regime has rejected. croatia to join the european union after a national referendum by clashes polarized opinion and

a disappointing turnout. russia's policy on internal migration folds into the focus of prime minister and presidential run of lot of me as a present another set of plans as part of a selection program. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm a receipt shy the sanctions keep piling up on iran e.u. ministers have reportedly come to an agreement to apply an unprecedented block wide on iranian oil europe says it'll be for the common good and will make tehran everything. it's nuclear program which israel and its allies a threat let's not get more of the sanctions from of course want to. live in brussels good to see you so tell us where does the e.u.

. of these sanctions fall what would understand that a block wide from the e.u. is a huge. yes indeed roll the e.u. leaders twenty seven foreign ministers are meeting today here in brussels to finally formalize and finalize the tails of these sanctions on iran it is going to be unprecedented in terms of scale they would like to see a total oil embargo on iran and also possibly targeting the central bank the aim of course here is to financially economically cripple the iranian economy over its controversial nuclear program which western leaders of long insisted in arguing that is on a dangerous path towards acquiring nuclear weapons which terror ron has of course consistently denied now the e.u. embargo follows the stringent new u.s. sanctions on iran is signed into law by president barack obama in january and as far as the european union is concerned they're expected to formally implement these sanctions in about six months time and that is in july. you mentioned moments ago

that these sanctions are in one way or another intended to cripple the iranian economy any other areas these sanctions are deemed they might have an effect. yes of course i mean this is unprecedented not just in terms of its impact on iran or the via suppose a desired results on iran but also on president it in terms of the potential economic impact on the e.u. itself especially since it is still trying to deal with the sovereign debt crisis and all in all totally the e.u. imports about twenty percent of iranian oil it is the second largest buyers and the biggest buyers within the e.u. are italy spain and greece which of course the three countries which are very much in debt and trying to get out of this debt crisis let's greece for instance is it's one third of its oil imports it makes one third of its total oil imports and it's also relying on terror watch for easier credit so definitely it will have to find alternatives and this is something they are going to be talking to they are already talking about the compromises that they will have to find in order for these

countries to deal with the potential economic impact also there are doubts on whether these will actually have the desired effect because china is the biggest buyer injuring an oil at it so far it has not agreed to the e.u. or u.s. sanctions and if the e.u. and u.s. don't want to or china may well just step in and buy the oil of iran and so there's a question of whether this will actually be effective and also oil markets have already reacted that we're going to see if the sanctions are implemented will see more than two million barrels of oil off of international markets it means prices will go up and it means prices of goods will go up and the straits of hormuz again there is a potential for conflict there iran has threatened to block that and that's where twenty percent of the world's oil tankers pass through and the u.s. already has an aircraft carriers there monitoring the situation so it does increase the possibility of conflict all right answers a lot in brussels thank you. they are just a little bit later in the program here on our t.v. look at how many libyans are beginning to feel like they were of old was simply

a mere raj the country is seeing its most turbulent antigovernment protests since the fall of moammar gadhafi but the unrest of beginning in benghazi just as it did last year. croatia is set to become the twenty eighth country to join the european union after the proposal was approved in a national referendum the country's accession now has to be ratified by all current member nations with almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed a desire to join the bloc despite the e.u. is ongoing debt crisis the turnout however just forty four percent pointed to apathy among many towards the issue of the build up to a friend and was marred by clashes as anti e.u. protesters staged staged demonstrations right up to the vote as artist on boxing reports opposition to joining the european union is not likely to end here.

violent scenes in the croatia but it's the country's referendum that said to. me. to be. the protesters away they take protest is the way the situation in. the croatian capital and fighting has been going on. police are going to take people away in vans in protest is trying to stop. these protesters say the government is trying to suppress the dissenting voices they are joining with surrender croatia's independence to brussels. but in another street nearby the foreign. minister is trying to convince people that accession is vital to the craft economy actually with the stability that scale can

wait it into the credit rating of gracious. that is translated into membership of the european union gracious budget would be in serious trouble everywhere you turn in croatia the e.u. is being discussed but whereas most of the political class no longer question the europhiles stance public views differ widely you should know that italians will come into our sea and catch all our fish and that's our biggest problem you know if you think of their affiliates though they told us we have to obey the e.u. has regulations those that don't want to they must stop trading political look at those persons who are small family business in the european union commissions everything toward big shopping central to some of my that if they are not socialist here in memphis you know we have two sons turn employed and maybe because of that i would be prying a secret to most of the symbols worked over and all the worries about solvency

local industry and education or maybe well being a former student and there are still some voices in parliament think the benefits of what joining it were the costs if we were not going with our heads high up we're going on our knees because our economy. non-existing our exporting is pretty bad our b.b.b. is very low so we don't really have anything to offer. even at the local theatre the subject is croatia's relationship all right but those on the stage on to the future scottish or they draw the poke fun at it while it's irritating console and leave them for example on facebook it's just pro or go forward and it's getting a bit absurd because. there's no real quality to bear. if you go back out on the streets the arguments quality or not continue with ferocity with such strong

emotions it seems unlikely this referendum will resolve the nation's division over european union. talk about art. he is coming to you live from moscow and still to come your way in the program i thought of abandoning a home base for citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the next and there's been very little effort on the part of the world runs everything to try to . involve the community how a giant corporations thrive on government funds and outsourced labor as one community fall apart around. russia's policy on migration has come under scrutiny from its prime minister and a presidential hopeful vladimir putin in a second major newspaper article as part of his election campaign put an aside how

his position on a range of key challenges as it is put all of our reports. talking on multiculturalism a migration vladimir putin praised what he sees as russia's long history as a multicultural nation a history he says goes back to the days of the russian empire it said it have been some very serious problems though when it comes to migration and integration of migrants in russia that these problems over the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union were very serious indeed in our problems that russia is still struggling to to deal with today speaking about what the results can be of migration going wrong he warned of the rise of nationalism the rise of xenophobia these type of issues that we saw acted out in real life eight in moscow in two thousand and ten with ethnic clashes taking place i'm right next to the kremlin in the heart of the russian capital a hit. so to those that see nationalism right here how did those two of you slogan

such as stop feeding and stop funding the caucuses saying well the caucuses are a part of russia talking of multiculturalism he said that russia had a very unique system of multiculturalism something very different to say what happens in europe where he said basically multiculturalism had failed and that russia's system was something that had reviewed every different manner over to me and said that there's no way that you can completely get rid of all illegal immigration into russia but if he's elected president in the elections in march city hopes to be able to to make significant cuts to the amount of people that are arriving in russia illegally now he wants to do this by toughening the laws to try and deter people from entering the country illegally he also wants to see a system put in place not just to monitor foreign immigrants coming into russia but also to monitor internal migrants also by twenty thirty he wants to see an exam put in place to those wanting to come and settled and live and work in russia but they

have to be able to pass the russian language exam also an exam on russian culture russian history so those are the things that he wants to put in place to tackle the issue of migration and multiculturalism in russia. reporting right there from central moscow right now the syrian leadership has rejected the arab league's transition plan aimed at curbing the violence in the country they saw according to syrian state t.v. before and you say it doesn't reflect the will of the people and violates the country's sovereignty let's cross live now is what he said a further you standing by in the capital damascus sara so what is it exactly in this arab league plan that the regime object so strongly. well the arab league called president bashar al assad to step down and hand his powers over to a deputy and then for a national unity government to be formed that would be a pretty leads to early parliamentary and presidential elections now this is being vividly rejected by the syrian government they've called it a flagrant it's

a fair and in internal affairs now really the sense here friends in moscow says that the government here are working on their own reforms they want the arab league mission to focus on their job of course the problem is you've got countries in the arab league like saudi arabia like qatar now seeing the sense here that they're preaching democracy to syria when of course they themselves don't have to look to see. that was always a problem with the arab league you know the regional body is not viewed as being particularly strong and of course what they've now called all those mark beyond their party trick now i've actually spoken to the national coordinator council which is the opposition within the country they welcomed the move and again reiterated bess felt that as long as there is no move towards foreign military intervention they're very pleased with the response from the arab league mission but what you need to be very careful of now is that the russian official statement said from an official but we could now see is

a stalemate situation happening and that would be very very detrimental to the situation in the country right now because of course he's still got observers on the ground it's expected that that observer mission is actually now going to continue possibly for another month and possibly with the extension of their powers and their numbers as well now what you don't want to see happen here at the moment is the only that is open. for civilization it's for. going. to homes the conflict has moved ever closer to the country's capital many damascus suburbs rule so in brussels in the conflicts between government forces and the armed opposition. well this is all that's left of many of the houses now inside just absolutely gutted it for anything glossy you've got bullet holes lining the walls

you've got clothes staying around the house where people have left them behind fleeing very quickly you can really see the devastating consequences that this conflict has heard the picking up the pieces pretty easy amongst the opposition themselves they're a worrying division is the conflicts become increasingly violent there are now areas of the country where it's unclear exactly he's in control what do the people here in sanford on the image i think the syrian army having control or. not have. a lot of numbers a number of sophistry you have who's in charge. of the division the diversion of the stock arab league observers except to remain in the country for another month trying to build the basis for multi-party elections even seen by the international community or that you are interested or you are into your position you have to put

in your mind that you have to work with the other side working with the other side is there a look. starting with thousands kills bringing the different factions to the negotiating table is going to be a major task sara for r.t. damascus syria. time to head over to our web site r t dot com to find the latest developments on the political crisis all in the arab world including a look at how the israel palestine standoff impacts the lives of ordinary people risking death to provide a lifeline the story of a palestinian tunnel digger whose work help support his family and the flow of vital supplies into gaza of course all of this in defiance of the israeli blockade . the leader of the libya's national transitional council of mustafa little says the country could be on the brink of civil war details to come about in

just a few moments here in our city. and if i had those pictures those pictures we're seeing right there on our to you can find those on our website that says china celebrates the lunar new year and the year of the dragon excellent pictures there to be found on our web site on c dot com now we're turning our attention here to that of libya in just a moment you stay with us. here with r.t. live from moscow in about eight minutes as the business but for now the leader of libya's national transitional council mustafa abdul jalil as i said a moment ago he says the country could be on the brink of civil war and follows a weekend of political turmoil with his deputy resigning over the suspension of six high ranking council delegates from benghazi insulator.