on its way from to go to the grand northern slope the helicopter passes by mt fished the highest point of the western ridge it's so. after an hour's trip by n. dimitri and his son curial 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 listen to the bison let humans approach them but most of the people travelling around the reserve granges in horseback almost short while ago patrol duty in a different area of focus for the short distance from here they can see man show

there came across the line bison. the lettuce come quite close to them. we're only fifteen metres away. bison moving the coaxes reserve have no enemies sometimes humans can come very close to them provided they are on horseback buses or ranger 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. we became first for. and.

reading him is no problem he does what he's told to do. but this one is still a 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 staff 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 upset by often visit reserve ranges they have organized an eco movement called the little bison. hello hello glad to see you. near our guests. that. doesn't touch the machine we are. churning malaysia is the starting point to a circular route for hikers 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 oh is welcome here they already have. i was walking cross-country with the children

from the little bison off 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 warden will 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

a 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 ranges to mount yet. each time they go under a veil of secrecy regardless of day or night the conditions painstaking job requires 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 cultures 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.

the feet. 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 that the store all got from a wolf yes. keep still the workers let me see them what initially go into trucks no just those holding. the base here they are. two three three four eight calling one zero four eight calling one of four everything's ok tracks if 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 are often different things some seek shelter from the hustle and bustle of big cities others around the 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 the very. nature is wiser than we are given if her ingenuity is all pervasive. she is the creator that gave birth to us about enough but i do that and they bring us to ruin unless we come to our senses. and i have led them i think that's 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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ending the session on a twenty twelve. business start see this is not a lot more of this is with me. here from moscow it's ten pm here now you're watching r.t. with me kevin zero in on the top story in libya loyalists to the late one the gadhafi of retaken their former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces fighting between supporters of the new and the old regime has been seen in cities indeed across the country as artie's north africa correspondent refreshing or explain. and the last few days the situation has been very tense and dangerous and with. the number of anti government protests and clashes between the pro-government forces and the forces loyal to the ousted leader more money could be taken place in different towns all across the risks are indeed very high that the

country may fall into civil war the most of all and the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as the duffys main stronghold the forces loyal to the former colonel khadafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolize in khadafi the facility as far as the local officials have been reports at least five national transitional council people have been killed we can say for sure what was the reason behind this follows in front of all the what we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court to have allegedly agreed to let say for the song for the son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in war although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c.

itself judge ellis say that the violence and this announcement may be cannot just hours later violence erupted in other parts of the country in the eastern part in the town of and goes he wants known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the volunteers around tripoli and the around the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters that but also we can see that then to see a warning that the country may fall into civil war it's the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to hold them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrating against. the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success just last week human rights groups in the middle east presented

extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in libya by allied forces during last year's war i spoke to investigative journalist says many libyans feel the revolution was hijacked and they disappointed with its outcome the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also in libya and people saying well this is not what we have not rising for and the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old supporters of the old regime saying well you talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new electoral law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there is a reintroduction of tribalism and touching as networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of disquiet in every corner of libya at the moment it's a truism that there's no such thing as a clean war and civil wars are the most brutal affairs and so you you can imagine.

nato but i don't need to imagine nato really pushed the envelope when they broke the resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they were essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in the or you know almost total annihilation of a very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. russia has long been against foreign intervention in other states like in libya later tonight the presidential envoy to africa has just been to the troubled country tells r t the dialogue between opposing factions is the only way forward. is to take good will from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal the people in the real city and in some areas of libya the civil war is not the work in the south there is the whole desert area as an area to the certain extent no man's land it's out of

control of new governmental forces it's zone of tribes it's zone of control arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if. the political elite is not ready to sit at the round table african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation. that interview with russia's presidential envoy to africa on air in full in just about twenty minutes from now on r.t. . gulf nations pulling their arab league observers from syria even though the mission's been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group to now put pressure on damascus to to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some arab states of joining

an international conspiracy against the country and of a blatant interference in series internal affairs damascus insists it will continue to take all the necessary steps to protect the country against what it calls chaos syria's already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down while the use impose more sanctions to further squeeze the regime result the syria furth report says to syrian people were. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions in sweden are you serious we don't have any tourist we don't have any foreigners the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round of sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime is we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions has swamp syria's struggling economy actually

they are punishing the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed that they're business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely outside this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions this this simply affecting the research every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now i depended upon these types of diesel generators that they need. because our guard has become an almost daily part of people's lives where they're not everyone can afford the back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make do generator is very expensive it costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds as i know it's not cheap

and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an export involved and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising prices have pushed many businesses to take their trade and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the business keep somebody maybe outside. the. group. but this is the. market because norm or cash money for money. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i hardly. but you will be stops in one or two

hours of spike cools the dialogue is being political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the crisis the arab league observers in mission has all say made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls for even more observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging and much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people then one of the go to the the sanctions impact is heavily contested this new doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government that the many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. damascus syria britain is also encouraging the

arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria western states continue to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators which he denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from abroad political analysts sick says the opposition is becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share in the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have used violence we see this as collation more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian infrastructure syrian government institutions the police so really right now we're

seeing i think many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create these very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and peace and syria still ahead for you on the one sided limits. very disappointed. disgusted i go back to from the job you can a student faces extradition to the u.s. charges of breaching copyright to a british american treaty that's being slammed as on balance. the rams apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new go and acid free india is reportedly agreeing to pay a run in gold for a dog instead of u.s. dollars reports suggested biggest customer china could follow suit for two years in

new delhi with the latest. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with the new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by chalabi first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union and washington is trying to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with the run using

domestic car and seize instead of u.s. dollars obviously the point of the e.u. oil embargo would be to bring iran back to the negotiations table over its nuclear program obviously iran has said consistently maintained that this is a peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place the oil embargo on iran and iran has that that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually where twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through in the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that think sions are an obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that it's actually going to be counterproductive and another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold. decrease the

value of the u.s. dollar at the global reach their current. new delhi. from independent indian think believes it's america's domestic policies the driving force behind the pressure being applied to iran iran has been one of the key foreign policy issues in the republican debates and in the united states and as a result there's been a lot of pressure from these interests within the u.s. to sort of ramp up pressure. against iran and i think that's that's why we're seeing a lot of this action and talking over the last couple weeks for years now the u.s. has been trying to include other countries in its attempts to isolate iran and then for a while it was actually working because of it strangely countries like the like india for example were unable to invest in iran because the companies that did would have been penalized by being shut out of american markets certain countries like india turkey china and even russia are now looking for other creative ways to engage with

iran while insulating themselves from punitive action by the united states and some of these actions including as actually just before paying in gold and dollars and also building new independent for entities that don't even participate in western markets so that they would be insulated from from any any penalties. talk to me just a short while ago that was neil patrick early from an independent indian think tank he was joining us on the line in fact from new york. vigils been held at moscow's double dead ever international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall there people laid flowers in that candles for the victims of the tragedy but a suicide bomber blew himself up killing at the time thirty seven people investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of english trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four others have been detained there about to be

charged but one of the world's most wanted terrorist docket morrow who claims he masterminded the bombing is still at large. we've got more details for you about how the attack was planned and carried out available on our website r.t. dot com also plenty other news there and more inside of course right now in fact we'll tell you about you guidelines in the u.k. that could see drug smugglers and street dealers avoiding prison even if they're caught with heroin or cocaine interesting story revealed online and the largest solar radiation burst in six years hits the earth threatening communication and power blackouts after the weekend and it gets worse this wednesday how badly be we tell you online. a u.k. student faces extradition to the u.s. for setting up a web site giving people free access to movies online it's not a crime in britain but america he could get up to ten years in prison is because of a controversial treaty between the two countries.