a car pileup on a florida highway has left ten people dead and at least a dozen others were good authorities are trying to find out what triggered the horrific crash when its a drivers were blinded by fog and smoke from a fire that may have been started intentionally at least a dozen cars and six trucks were. all right now back to the growing international pressure on iran america's behavior towards the islamic republic is often seen as the most threatening but it may not just be about iran's nuclear ambitions this rhetoric has intensified noticeably over the course of the current u.s. presidential race and it's on his marina portnoy explains some politicians are putting political points and the support of the jewish community far ahead of the u.s. national interests. america almost never misses an opportunity to praise its ally ironclad commitment and i mean ironclad to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history or point

a proverbial punch at its greatest adversary but there be no doubt. america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table. however for many american jews and israeli supporters barack obama's war of words against tehran doesn't go far enough to simply state i'm committed to israel security you have to promote policies that commit you that show that you're serious about his security israel through these actions feels that obama is not committed to doing everything this power to stop iran from having nuclear weapons iran is a in this an existential threat to israel and obama should be saying. so publicly that he will support israel in whatever military action they stay necessary more inclined as president of the zionist organization of america he says an unprecedented amount of american jews and israelis share his animosity

a feeling arguably underscored by the israeli government according to published reports televisa would only give washington twelve hours notice if deciding to strike iran i believe his policies are among the most hostile israel's ever experienced of any president in my lifetime recently it was the life of president obama being threatened in a column written by the owner of the atlanta jewish times in an article titled what would you do andrew adler listed the assassination of obama as one way to ensure israel's security he wrote in part give the go ahead for u.s. based massada agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the united states' policy includes helping the jewish state obliterate its enemies i think that threat.

or we are going to politically or literally i think that it. serious threat. seriously the american president and the money. congress. is the largest. lobbying group in the united states that kingmaker in. the american israel public affairs committee known as a pac declined artie's requests for an interview meanwhile obama finds himself facing another election and a slew of republican opponents banging on much louder war drum against iran with regards to iran which perhaps represents the greatest exist central threat to israel we have to make it abundantly clear it is unacceptable that i take those that word carefully is unacceptable for iran to become a nuclear nation if rick santorum and when rick santorum is president iran will not get a nuclear weapon because the world as we know it will be no more clear i want to know

i'm very close to him that. i would have said publicly that i would rather plan a joint operation conventionally than push the israelis to a point where the nuclear. at a time when the u.s. bears the burden of a broken economy growing social unrest and ongoing military conflicts starting a war with iran would not be in america's best interest but in order to keep a best friend many believe president obama will be forced to put israel's national security first. r.t. new york. writes a reminder of the headlines with me roll research i just a few minutes away. and the press. hello to you welcome to the business program this hour as we just been hearing that from a putin has outlined the changes he thinks needs to be made to the russian economy

p.c. and recognizes the need to diversify away from raw materials reduce take control of a business and improve the investment climate check or off out rates of capital believes the country needs to act now to avoid future budget problems they'll be strong market economics and political economy incentives for put in should he return as a president to be much more reform oriented and much more proactive in introducing and implementing these kind of reforms this is an idea that we've been trying to advance your address and scrap it all russia is already running to significant fiscal deficits based on our estimates in two three years time russia will start driving current account deficits this deficit will need to be financed somehow therefore it is really it will be imperative for direction economy to change and i think of putting understands that i think that he would like to ensure that russia's image as an investment destination is changed

a little bit and i think there are enough incentives for us to assume that you might be a little bit more broadly form oriented in his term as a president of course if he if he wins their elections and his article putin writes the russian economy needs a new wave of industrialization and industrial holdings should be created to boost competitive nurse the chairman of russian's institute for contemporary development says for this to work russia first needs to reform trade unions. the unions at the moment is as bureaucratic and. as it was in the soviet union so. democratically elected trade unions civic society industrial employers and the state coming together. attacking the situation as a brainstorm save session liberalization and revolution in regulation

cutting down the red tape to a bare minimum. ok then let's have a look at the markets and we'll get started with oil traders all cautious ahead of the european union summit in brussels later on monday even tensions with iran are failing to boost prices a wrong step before ministers say crude could reach one hundred fifty dollars a barrel if an e.u. baldo comes into force in july this are the w.c. eyes over ninety nine dollars a barrel range that one hundred eleven dollars per barrel. the act is the european bourses all failing to withstand the pressure ahead of the e.u. meeting greece will be in the spotlight as all the members of the eurozone try to force it to accept outside controls on its budget this hour both the footsie and the giants are shedding around point eight percent chance here in moscow the markets are also down in sympathy with those global indices lower all is adding to

the pressure as well the artist is down more than seven percent in the my six is losing just over a third of a percent and now let's move on to the biggest movers on the my sex post financials are in the red despair bank losing i represent energy majors are bouncing back from earlier losses we got from gaining over forty two percent the stock a retailer magnates is down its net profit rose twenty four percent last year and did better than expected and now the currency rights are all prices are weighing on the ruble is losing against both the dollar on the year right on the euro is retreating against the u.s. currency ahead of that european summit set up there. and now a business all to exclusive better pascoe the owner of the world's biggest alum minion producer or sell one of russia's richest men but first off of the year could be tough for business he sees commodity prices remaining stable with growth only coming in the second half. we don't expect you know enough

significant improvement the next six months in the we are not in the very bullish but optimistic for the second part of those a year but it's unknown come out just market you know is quite stable in general course we can have it. in the positive trend to nation in the improvement in the slowdown in the euro but in general the state. speaking about all the rest of business before. expects concern about upcoming political changes in russia the time king is getting ready for a transition period so they're all institutions not government so agencies you know always signal in the deal these are problems and not just in case it's happened and we have a transition period before government will be in the fact of maybe a from the oldest and it's important because we have ongoing reform of our sector we still have ongoing process of adjusting our russian situation there's a new w.

your son regulation from foreign trade in the europe european demand in the car and see in the price in the in the parity in others busier and of course in the center back. and you can see that interview with all like that if i ask it in full all websites dot com forward slash business a little small on the web site as well so for me and i'll get to the website and in the meantime see about cafferty five minutes with all markets.

now five thirty pm here in. your headlines international observers in syria killing time in their hotels are awaiting further instruction from the arab league as fierce fighting continues around the capital meanwhile russia offers to host talks between the syrian government and the opposition but already taking up that offer. iran wants it could stop supplying oil to some. sanctions against its nuclear program currently undergoing. despite the iranian parliament suspending its

complete ban of crude imports to the whole european. and e.u. leaders meet in brussels for the first time this year but the agenda is far from greek debt still the center of discussion at the meeting is taking place against the symbolic backdrop of austerity protests and a general strike in belgium. to stay with us if you can take you beyond the arctic circle to a tiny village that now has to withstand a relentless sandstorms which mysteriously first appeared about half a century ago the special report tries to solve the riddle right here on art. on his way to work every day. by what were once the homes of his neighbors the houses of the remains are covered with layers of sand and the people moved out a long time ago. they used to be a house right here. and there were three other homes next to it another house was

here. i remember it was. almost. yes that's my house there. though it's still standing but it won't last long this isn't much of a sandra ft the wind usually brings much more and covers the house up to its roof sometimes the windows are blocked off and there's no use trying to clear the side of the house you would need a bulldozer but you can't get one close enough because that would make the house collapse. these are not the dunes of the zahara in fact they're found be on the arctic circle in the permafrost of russia's north how did this place come to be deserted. an airplane pierces the low lying clouds and begins to descend inside its baggage laden cabin passengers of patiently waiting to land exhausted from turbulence

everyone on board knows that flying to the village of showing a is always risky the white sea coast is infamous for its volatile weather which can change drastically within minutes if a strong crossed wind picks up will be impossible to set down the airplane will have to turn back home and attempt to return journey in a week's time weather permitting. when the pilot sees the green patchwork of the arctic plains give way to yellow swathes of sand he knows that he has arrived at the world's northernmost doesn't every incoming airplane is an event for the village on wednesdays local residents gather at the airfield some travel by foot others drive customized all terrain vehicles that are the only machines capable traversing both the sams am marshlands. the village of showing us sits on cape can in no us washed by the white see it lies beyond the arctic circle one

thousand four hundred kilometers north of moscow this tiny settlement in the middle of nowhere is unique fifty years ago the sound appeared. it has been waging a relentless offensive against the villages ever since local residents were totally unprepared and houses were evacuated china's population plummeted from two thousand people to a mere three hundred seventy rule number one here is not to shut your front door at night otherwise it might be completely blocked up in the morning. local resident pilcher my league in has many household chores to take care of the most important one is watering the vegetable patch gets his water from the well despite its color it is fresh and suitable for drinking there is no other source of water in the village the tiny vegetable plot that reclaimed from the desert is in stark contrast to the surrounding environment the sand can only accommodate weeds and

a few flowers which don't even get enough sunlight to bloom. galena kenya cove has been the village doctor for many years most of her patients call on her with heart problems and physiological disorders from walking on uneven sand day after day to day galina has to make a special house call the village has a new resident two week old step his mother brought in from the city of our candles to settle down in. life does he cry b.c. coping ok he says yes we born if you were born a big baby does he burst feet ok yes yes after if you didn't put him up right in lay him down on one side stick to the diagnosis all teary spicy food stay healthy out come to see you tomorrow bye bye. yes i have been here for six years when i arrived in two thousand and five there was only one lady and a village two thousand and seven source bike in the birth race it was the year when

the diesel power plant been done that we did not have light for a month back them teams and it ended up boosting the birth rate what else could the young people do ten babies were born at a time today the rate is now relatively normal but there are still more and more children every year. the lighthouse is the pride of the locals and the main symbol of the village it is the only construction in the desert was unable to destroy it was even renovated got a new coat of paint for its fiftieth anniversary unfortunately in two thousand and ten it was closed down remember the good of the used to be in charge of the lighthouse does not understand why it happened in his spare time he still counts the one hundred forty seven steps that bring him to the top.

where it was wrong to close this place down when the question of reviving the lighthouse was asked beyond so was may really perhaps perhaps in three five or even ten years right now if we had the means and the money to reopen it it would be up and running again immediately the structure holds a fun place in the hearts of or a man and his former colleagues they continue to say care of the building to the best of their abilities even though they know it is pointless modern navigation technologies have made such lighthouses redundant but it comes as no consolation to remember. nikolai much of scheme was born in showing up he returned to his native village from the big city which he found uncomfortable because it prefers to go to work by his own vehicle his daily route takes him along a sandy beach south of the showing a river today this place looks more like a huge scrap metal but one time it boasted a wooden pavement club welcome visitors and fish were collected around the clock on

the pier and the village was founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. the base for a fish trawling fleet it was showing as gold to the local fish processing factories canned millions of fish dozens of boats waited their turn to be unloaded with their cargo holds filled soul called and how about that the intense fishing had. a knock on effect the trolling nets were destroying the seabeds vegetation tide started to pull thousands of tons of loose sand to shore with barely any trees on the tundra the sun's advance could not be held back. and came to work in showing a in one nine hundred forty seven she only planned to stay for three years but ended up living here ever since she remembers the night when the sea seemed to term and to get revenge on them. fears storm struck in one thousand nine hundred sixty three taken away all the seafront constructions of the village all the warehouses

and there was a street there that was blown away all the houses were destroyed it all disappeared after that life in the village started to slow down we had cows and horses back then today there are none everything has been taken away the place used to be really exciting people worked into shifts i remember walking through the village she would see people dancing in the afternoon and at night it was so much found to handle back then. the damage from fishing is just one possible cause for the sounds coming here to the residents simply continue to live out their lives in this quietly dying place now classified as an environmental disaster yet even though showing us suffers nature's wrath it is home to a weather station studying its affects the station is used for the first choice weather forecasts come rain or shine at three thirty in the morning and evening

a weather balloon is released from nikolai much a whole city was the person in charge of the balloons maintenance to raise it he uses hydrogen which is obtained through an old recipe mixing sodium hydroxide with water sara silicon and a minion powder the gas created it is just as effective as any commercially produced. nicholai prepares it to radio location and generic in the control center inputs the data required for a successful launch finally balloon is ready to go and is released. it will float up forty kilometers into the air and it will start gathering data about the situation in the lower atmosphere. eager to make use of the warm weather there just laugh it is digging up some timber buried in the sand the wood will come

in handy the winter turns out to be cold yet just last house is quite old with large cracks in the walls it is vulnerable to the weather so having more firewood never hurts. to do in one thousand nine hundred four i went to live in ukraine. i spent twelve months there but it isn't like it. is no freedom there. i'm not suited for farmer's work so i came back here. they have american hunt and fish i'm free to do whatever i like it's a place for free people it was just. a feeling of complete freedom and unity with nature is the main reason people continue to stay here despite the fact that a lot of showing the residents are entitled to state and housing in central russia the majority custer's aside and return to their homes and showing. unlike many others not just a correction of a never considered leaving an option. she's

a member of the village administration and spends her free time in the up to two hundred only around. she recently purchased an old motorbike and learned to ride it . twice a day during low tide she rides to the white seashore to check on the fishing nets . today's catch is disappointing. is not much but enough for dinner i get flatfish call it smelt fish and herring i used to fish with a fish and rod. then i started using the net and then it just got a bit tiring and i bought a bike to go fish and pick berries or just go see places. i love these shores there's no and to them i love showing them and that's something that cannot be changed because it is in my heart and soul of all of. this is to showing i will see that it is a place of contrasts even though each house is equipped with

a satellite dish they're all heated with an old wood burning stove firewood is delivered from our candles by c. . quite often the cargo ships have to spend a while on the shore during low tide and end up looking like huge whales stranded on the. today showing a is receiving the delivery of fuel some machinery and merchandise for the villages and the shop the highlight is a brand new tractor for the weather station. the villagers were initially worried that it might have been damaged in transit but it started up on the first try proceeded to head to the station across the sometimes missionary of council we start sailing in late may and finish in october when we travel from or can go to showing up in europe which takes about two days transporting food and equipment we're carrying a hundred tons of cargo on this trip there's no roads and it's too expensive to

transport it by air so that leaves us with the ship's. tide begins to return and the captain climbs aboard the crew has to hurry to steer the boat into the sea with a farewell horn blast the ship heads out leaving behind it a village of people who have managed to stand up against nature not just literally but also psychological. sunday mornings are ideal for walking along the shore especially if it gives your dolls the chance to see one of the big ships that come into the harbor. these future mums hold their own as they run into a junior neighbor that won't play with metal and here is not upset she likes dogs better. and he loves her grandfather leaving more because he always takes her to the beach to look at the ships leaving for our congress city with trees which ano

has only seen on television. thank you. culture is that so much of a given to you each musician a bearing in mind that the mark was crude blockade and the turning off of the taps as the united states navy you again to sanction iran duran is also threatening to impose peace. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in kalmykia the majority of the population is buddhist here there is a saying that if a person is pure of heart one turn of the prayer wheel is as good as saying

a million mantras constantine then bales is not a religious man but every time he sets out on a journey he comes to the sacred place to forget about worldly things for a while today constantine is heading for the so-called charney zimmy all black clouds one of the most environmentally troubled regions of kalmykia it is found two hundred kilometers southwest of comic his capital s. star his mission is to monitor the work battling the desert of the cation in this area. is an arid region located in the southeastern part of european russia. to my organ that this is my homeland. when we were children playing in the steps the grass was so tall that you could barely see if this could be more premium they say that climate change takes millions of years but all steps of change right in front of our eyes. it was plowed in the one nine hundred sixty s.

. they planted corn. in your ear but it didn't work out and it ruined the steps of the corn is very hydrophilic it drew out all the water and left small sand genes in its wake. through out history the cow mix of lived as a nomadic tribe or third as they lived in harmony with nature breeding horses camels and even a special breed of cow make sheep these sheep were perfectly suited to life in the desert they grazing did no permanent damage to the grass as hitler's army approached the vulgar during world war two the cow mixed sheep herds were taken to kazakhstan as a result the county kurds had to be restored with a different breed after the war. battle bull lion is a long time sheep herder and is very familiar with another factor that is causing the desert of the cation of ca make it. nice.