touring and unfavorable weather conditions about an ecological catastrophe these daily winds that blow over contributed to the disaster they carry solid particles of dust and salt from the drying sea the vast lush pastures have been robbed of them. alexander remembers all too well how it started thirty years ago. but on a sailboat and then you're on a master plan of countering desert invasion was put together in a series which when an emergency state was introduced in the republic almost all farmers schoolchildren and students were involved in seed collection and subsequent sowing works in the region brew should the results achieved prove that it was possible not only to stop does it invasion but also to bring life back but there were not that but it'll take fifteen to twenty years for this land to become step again but you know we should remember that it's impossible to revive step in its

original form on the open sands. but meanwhile the water our goal is not only to reinforce the sandy soil but also to create quality pastures that will foster the development of cattle breeding in kalmykia where. it's a tough task selecting which plants are fit for life in the desert and those that can help turn the desert back into step terms and bush's was selected by way of trial and error literally panesar was one of the first scientists who proved which plants are most likely to survive here with the cord injuries going out because this is a collision and route one of the bushes planted to study the sand is a complete. it would be the roots can grow fifteen to twenty metres deep. it's a very convenient plant to use because it grows in the sand and doesn't require watering by the. minute it came in there weren't enough

scientists recommend planting cuttings of killing you know much the same way grapes are planted that. we were hesitant at first but it turns out that it grows well after all even on sand and people can't help wondering they tell us what's the use of planting sticks but after three months the sticks start to blossom. today residents of the county village of pecans will start a new. other around combating the desert all they have is an old tractor with soviet era equipment attached to fight the invading sands the new agricultural technique of planting cuttings with just the working team is composed of three people two technicians who plant the cuttings and an assistant who stamps on the ground around the plants to make it flat one planting machine can cover up to twelve hectares of sand in a single shift it is hard work especially considering temperatures often reach forty five degrees celsius one hundred thirteen fahrenheit in the shade in the

first year the young plants will shoot out a strong and lengthy root system then every bush gradually gains a territory of about thirty square metres all to itself when the sand invasion is stopped the spaces between the bush rows will be filled with grass this is how a form of desert is going to become a pasture. there is a great variety of deserts and some of them instead of being a hindrance can be a natural wonder six thousand kilometers east of moscow in the foothills of the ridge behind lake baikal lies the chara desert it is a unique place siberia. tourists from all over russia visit there even though it's hard to reach the desert is surrounded by rivers and marshes every july it hosts a festival the real enthusiasts stay away from the proper roads the trip to the

festival location an adventure in itself some travel across tigar and rivers and trucked off road vehicles others head through the marshes on foot one group of thrill seekers full by force has chosen an especially difficult route. dimitri balaban of the shy program from kazakstan is the focus of attention his car is completely unfit for off road. exploits yet he has travelled four thousand kilometers to join the band of adventurous. i think they are sideways of course i've never dared to go to such a place on my own. but going with a group is a different thing. besides the experience guys took a look at the route beforehand and said we should be able to make a point but probably. dimitri ran into problems assumes the cars left the highway and the next five hours were very hard however his fellow travelers tell him it's

the only way a rally across tigar is a real test but for the driver and for the vehicle. adrenaline is pumping the car is stuck the wheels are spinning and the terrain is getting more and more difficult now the participants will all experience the fun ships of travelling off road through the siberian tiger the crews will help each other out if not many of these cars will end up abandoned in the swamps for ever by the time the convoy rives it is already late but the drivers for go exhaustion and start repairing their vehicles right away are the good with no i probably wouldn't want to come every year because you need some time off but almost as it's a very intense kind of experience. early in the morning while the campus is sleep.

and experienced hiker well acquainted with the area sets off into the sands his task is to check how safe the route is before the new arrivals hit the road to explore the charred desert the shortcut to the desert goes through a marshland and a pine forest we're going to explain landing in charge of flies over the desert. with the passengers are always but will do to actually see sanjay and hear. that legend has it that wants there were two brothers who are younger. and older can both were princes and they lived in peace and harmony really knew that was me until they came upon a treasure trove of gold they proceeded to divide it mostly but they could never come up with their hogs one always ended up shorter than the other and this led to fighting and civil war the gods were greatly displeased with it and turned one prince into the kadar ridge and the other into the can ridge while the gold they were fighting over became a stretch of sand between them and the first groups of tourists are approaching the

charas sands. each person has to improvise a way of walking over the difficult terrain where the tiger ends and the desert starts the walk ahead of them is fascinating yet tiring the key to success here is to ignore the burning sun and insect bites of the tiger. there is no complete explanation as to the deserts origin one theory is that it was produced by centuries of winds eroding the sediment of an ancient lake. the lake dried out about fifteen thousand years ago and its former bed was walked on by packs of mammoths and woolly rhinoceros tusks keep turning up in the area to this day. landscape is a breathtaking combination of north and south brought together as if by magic. there is no other doesn't like it anywhere else in the world. these fabulous sights

completed by the impressive skyline of the kadar mountain range the chara desert itself is quite small but just over fifty square kilometers. some members of the talk rupert stayed behind in the camp there completing preparations for the relay competition on the festival's program it's going to be tough with over fifty experienced hiker's after the trophy and we know that the who naturally our goal in coming here was not to take some wild rides in off road vehicles or like bonfires balls that are both of the quite the opposite. we were trying to appreciate the beauty of the desert as it is and we'd like to make sure it stays this way for times to come that on some countries a desert is considered disaster just the char is a place for us to get together and have a good time in a friendly atmosphere. just like today's festival he would use. the relay competition route is set

a few kilometers away from the desert the chara desert itself is a protective nature reserve and visitors only allowed on foot this is no place to host a competition but the protection of the law and the deterrent provided by the sounds themselves make sure that this one of a kind natural treasure remains in its original state. in the evening visitors are treated to one last wonder the sun setting over a quiet lake lights up low clouds and fog on the horizon creating an unforgettable beautiful picture. once the sun has set everyone gathers at a large meadow by the lake it is time for the awards ceremony and singing songs by the fire all just for listening to the music of the night forest by the slumbering siberian desert.

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stalemate the u.n. russia and china rebuffed the western backed draft resolution on syria saying it's great wording leaves the door open for foreign military intervention. blocked by returns on the rest a dozen dead and thousands wounded in egypt as protesters attempt to simulate trees . in russia hundreds of thousands gather pro rata rallies ahead of next month's presidential vote the massive anti-government marches . plus u.s. police crackdown on the occupy movement the tent city in central washington is the latest to be evicted camping was brought.

here watching artie's weekly news review on the very latest developments on character. russia and china have given a firm no the data u.n. security council resolution on syria has defended its move saying the draft fails to deliver a balanced approach to the unrest papers extremist groups which could not even move on its outsize those who are behind the document against the beatles states report not reports now from new york. in a matter of just five minutes after the meeting began russia and china both wielded their veto powers not supporting this draft resolution that was written up by the arab league and european countries while the draft resolution was supported by

thirteen members of the security council russia was asking for some amendments according to russian funimation foreign minister sergei lavrov those amendments were not excessive and mr are a lot of said that russia was urging the west to accommodate moscow's concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china said during the meeting that it supported russia's amendments and said for the council to approach a vote knowing that there was a divide it did not help maintain the unity or the authority of the security council if russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that moscow does not support using the security council as a tool to intervene on a sovereign country that is experiencing an internal conflict he believes that could create chaos in international affairs so as we see there was to veto on this resolution it did not go through and it's because russia believes that as

the draft resolution was presented it had a lot of imbalances in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances that you know the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately whistler's the real situation in syria and send. the co-sponsors of the resolution of no signal that would if there was that i'm not taking into account the syrian opposition they must distance itself from extremist groups committing violence and calls on states your ability to use their influence to prevent such. know will have been taken into account that because of a. with was drawing the syrian forces from the cities should be a means to attack the group's own state institutions. nor has the being schooled for affording moral flexibility to get into media outlets states to increase the chances of a successful political process precious foreign minister is scheduled to visit

damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad this is a move. to to hopefully reach some type of peaceful approach or solution to the conflict still waging in syria the arab league has also addressed the media at the security council at the stakeout saying that they are extremely disappointed. over today's outcome but they will continue trying to work with the security council with the united nations to try to reach some type of consensus now u.s. president barack obama did also issue a statement of his own before the meeting began dating that you know the united states is on the side of the syrian people that are opposing the syrian president and his government and he said quote the assad regime the time has come for the reason the assad regime and to change clearly the united states is pushing for

regime change this is a sticking point this is something that russia does not support so we'll see what takes place in the days and weeks to come but as of now the draft text proposed by the europeans by the arab league vetoed by russia and china. from the start. trying to resolve the crisis peacefully. wants. what i fear is we maybe see a repetition of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against not only here the slavia i'm hoping of course that the resolute stand taken the principled stand taking the taken by russia and china against a resolution that we have to remember was sponsored by morocco and co-sponsored by a very interesting group of people they include the nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with four if you're going to include

all six members of the draw cooperation council that is the monarchies and camera in the persian gulf this is not a representative group of nations of course in the united nations or the world it's a very select one largely saying for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year the no armed uprising of the sort of burn in syria could have occurred in libya and earlier kossovo to the slaughter the thirteen years ago without the understanding by those engaging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the. well more than two hundred people were reportedly killed by security forces in the syrian city of homs just ahead of the vote and security council and i think it has been contested by some opposition groups putting it around fifty syria tribune editor any one hundred says the information coming from the opposition should be taken at face value. there were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the un security council meeting it decided it

will start bombarding homes this too which in homs had been difficult for the syrian a regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why did they get the army which was such critical timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown has described it is they are only cleans and the just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigate it but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i have a specific claims from their side we cannot predict what's going on but i don't think that the army wants really it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in. just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to pull any of these claims over the best in months. a dozen dead and thousands injured the bloody off tonight

for three straight days of rioting in egypt and over again off an outbreak of violence of this week. seventy four people let's now go to square the heart of egypt's revolution with more from our correspondent term area. where a great deal of violence there over the past few days what's the situation like there now as far as you can tell. both do things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed here the shooting the last few days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in a stampede at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since world war accounts that last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and different street is that has actually become recently a common scene here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very weak to use following incident to use local forces

especially going to remain a street of doing nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these deaths or inefficiency and actually showed over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow somehow. through tearing through all the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the barak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never stopped shortly after this happened on wednesday the whole school football fans known as traitors and knowing full being all the time since the uprising started last year the full of front of the uprising against mubarak have come to leave nothing to the minister here in the central just more to wait from here seeking for justice and calling for. but amy did transition of power from the ministry to civil to situations unquote early presidential

elections and since then actually police time don't between the police never stalled as far as the egyptian forces are reporting twelve people have been killed in the last four days and twenty five hundred dollars have been injured who think that it's a terrible dissolve so i have to say i hope you can see the pictures right now as you can imagine. while masood street is a narrow street is one of the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen. many many people there chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas at the times doesn't even. if it never comes as a surprise full protest as the people who are wearing gas masks and ne they're carrying buffaloes with specially quite a suit liquid and the from time to time they're so pieces over coltan is. this

liquid and sniffing it to be able to grease no molly but the thing is that once they approved i would say just a little bit sure sure. they're coming back to the tools of the building and it's old style it's again we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who's going to go and when it's going to stop. people are just protesting in addition to teaching. the cons to the students are unbelievable in fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day children everything today are trying them. not to light the fire and they don't schieffer. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your news it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and they're doing to the world to the country. and it's over must be. because you can see

a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk about several months as well for one point see incident he figures people from the administration of this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also taking the protesters to mons just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country but to. get a very volatile situation there maria nationality correspondent thank you. from the institute and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces. mismanaged the transitional process to

a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street. that they will be. power from military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule the investments will come to life the economic life will be back to normal there will be a total restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive and brutal way corrupt way during the mubarak era and all these expectations to the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of the revolution were not really accomplished by a year after the revolution that's why there is a protest last friday and on the anniversary of that it was. wanted a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you fail to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you fail to reform the

security services here without your still to come on the program. people who would see as many horrible things about it will be designed to. shock spies are going to talk to the father of the poison that they are examined in to find out why he's withdrawn these accusations from russia to responsible for his son's death. that saturday was a day of demonstrations across russia hundreds of thousands gathered in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere to voice their political views the next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for their election was in opposition to the kind of the see the other pro-government gathering compared protests to orange revolution supporters of ukraine martin mccauley an expert on university of london says the only hope your position has of winning these. to unite behind a single candidate. result of the election of course we're very very important

because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election an absence of fraud and so on and it's up to the authorities to ensure that it will be cameras and so on and therefore it probably will be a fair and clearly election but what is important is that it seemed to be fair and that these people have no cause to claim that the election on the fourth of march whether president vladimir putin wins the first or are not that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise it will be tremendous protests on the level of about the opposition will not come together they don't want to compromise they don't want to arrive at a single candidate the only way they're going to defeat evil in on the fourth of march just have a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no likelihood is it looks ready as if it cannot easily garner the economy is going to will come up second as he always does then the divisions of third or fourth and so

on the legal process of would bring up the rest because he is there really only to appeal to the middle class urban voters. the measures already being taken to ensure transparency in next month's election one of them is an unprecedented plan to install webcams at every voting station co-direct internet broadcast as r.t.c. hoping school reports not everyone is convinced it will be effective. inch after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation but actually sometimes but i think if anything i ask for a central electoral commission which is to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there almost twenty four hours a day seven they go we want them there. the idea was put forward following the

biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand polling stations is the scale and around a half of a billion us dollars is the price tag. coming into the system is not be made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country. all cameras will be feeding the videos the therm to local digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution centers via cable radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals it's estimated that all together the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred and ninety years of video information in good quality.