and so easy to handle. qualities of primary importance in our business what's you think of intentionally messed it up so you'll fall out of the sky. never absolutely not a great job was very well done and. the company repairs the existing beliefs as well as making new ones that receive several damaged envelopes a month this part of the balloon is subjected to wear and tear more often than others after the envelope is repaired and the new one is ready to test start. mikhail nigel is the main believe tester of the to law and ops factory none of the balloons made by the company will be launched unless he gives the go ahead. are going to include us federal our best kits match european standards. they were not as good in the old days but now they're russia's best because you know who

shows is true i can't afford to pay the price but it's. better than i would buy one if they were not so expensive it was. michele knight golf is a veteran russian air and all that he's been involved with aviation for fifty four years mikhail is a boon designer of the training he's built seven of them with his own hands. first to go ballooning when he was fifty three years old he looks forward to celebrating his seventy fifth birthday in flight the contest balloons at any time under any conditions one hundred flights a year is a minimum. if you could see today flying is always a blissful whatever the conditions. are for movement i'm involved as a normal position. in the balloon is in working order as it should be. hopefully we'll get no complaints from the guys in about us.

to look at the ils this is not what i call flying it would in general i don't see being tethered is the definition of florida only with the out there who truly flying. a hot air balloon can only be in free flight during the daytime it's a common role for all balloonists in the world the busk it has to touch down before sunset. unlike balloons in free flight tethered balloons are allowed to be launched even in the dock in that case the burner illuminates the balloon from the inside. pilot's refer to this phenomena. known as the good organizers of the past to go with festival of balloonists came up with the idea for this spectacle to attract

tourists. their current simpatico are such that early morning is the best time for taking to the skies the convoy of balloonists normally starts out at five o'clock in the morning to head towards the starting line. the success of the flight primarily depends on the wind no matter how skillful the pilot might be balloonists get weather forecasts and reports about the force and direction of the wind from ground control safety services but then there is a simpler way of determining the winds direction the whole crew takes part in preparations for a flight normally it includes four people a technician carries out checks to satisfy himself that the balloon is in working

order. have a good flight. balloons are raised into the sky by the pilot and the navigator but whether the crew will get home depends on those who stay on the ground. once a balloon lands the crew has to be retrieved from the spot. sometimes inexperienced teams responsible for retrieval can't find crews landing at dusk therefore those unfortunate balloonists have to spend a night out in the open not shock me as there's another x.

air force pilot. during competitions he is often charged with the task of ensuring the crew safe return to earth his job is retrieving crews of balloonists from wherever they might land. rainbow rainbow pick up as calling day rate pick up i can hear you. wonderful. nail has had special training to learn how to get his bearings in different conditions whether in the woods or mountains but tracking a balloon through the streets of a town is a skill in its own right the. problem with tracking a balloon flying over a city or another population center is that there is a mass of people or you need to have a good knowledge of the city's top bugger free and the flood so. what invariably ends up happening. is you get stuck in traffic. which is just great.

you know and i mean. this is a very convenient place where's that from here we can see where balloons are going where they are likely to touch down for a gram of the profit. and you see our balloon rising over this town it's over by the hill. how far a balloon can fly depends on the wind what's most important is to make sure that it lands in such ways to make it easy for the retrieval truck to get it. bring the rainbow pick up calling are you coming in times working for you for. that pickup head down right away ok we're coming. to.

pick up can you see us we can see you very well. a. couple of the. nile loses three or four kilograms of weight in a week of intense retrievals the crew puts the billing together and takes it apart several times the envelope weighs one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty kilograms . i think about what we entrust our very lives to this envelope where from what we make sure that no stones get in the way of the cup which might damage it with the authorities doing. each gas tank weighs fifty kilograms if you add that to the burner in the basket the retrieval people will be hard put to collect it all. pylon. pylon thirty six.

am now we're all. on face value ballooning is a simple affair behind the scenes it is a vigorous combination of efforts by a crew of an escort truck and those who help build salute these people define rain snow bitter cold and scorching heat truly they're afraid of only one thing missing the ability to take to the skies. the sky does not misunderstand the sky does not judge the sky very simply is.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture.

breathing life into hopes for a peaceful solution to the syrian crisis as russia's delegation to the country sees signs of both sides are ready and sure of the dialogue. the rift between the e.u. and the u.k. grows into account as a matter of the european court of human rights orders the release of osama bin laden's right hand man and you are. now washington's top military official has to cairo to try and suspend criminal charges against american and geo members of egypt's military leaders crack down on the western activists who helped them to power last year.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rima joshua into the program now both the syrian regime and the opposition have signaled that the solution to the bloody unrest may lie of the negotiating table rather than the battlefield that's after russia's foreign minister met with president assad in damascus the leader told the delegation that he is ready to implement reforms while the opposition says moscow should provide a road map for dialogue well it's now cross. who has more on this we know so what else has been achieved at the meeting in damascus. well actually you can see that a lot has been achieved at least right now on paper the russian. russian delegation which has just returned from syria has basically said that after talks with the syrian president bashar assad has expressed his desire to go through with the

negotiations he said that he's also willing to go through the necessary reforms in order to end the violence in the country and one of those reforms which he has promised is to to carry through the referendum on the constitution now that is slated to come to come around sometime in march and if. their friend who goes through is expected this may mean the end of the monopoly of the current ruling party. in syria and that may also of course provide the ease in tensions which are plaguing the country right now another noteworthy moment is the fact that the syrian opposition which here there which until now has been unwilling to do to go to any negotiations with the current government in syria has said that they are willing to talk but but they have said that russia must provide the roadmap for those negotiations and that they must go beyond just the talking that some actions should be taking place now syrian president assad has also said that he is hoping

that he that he is actually he was once the observers from the league of the arab states to stay in the country and of course russia has also mentioned that the peace process in the country must go through according to the plan laid out by the league of the arab states observers and basically the negotiations have come down to. both sides having to sit down and to lay down their arms now it tell us into what russian foreign minister had to say the results of his meeting. our approach is based on a clear and simple goal to stop civilian deaths the region needs peace syria needs peace it is clear that efforts to end the violence need to go along with the start of a meaningful dialogue between all political sides today we've received confirmation from the syrian president of his readiness to participate in their process we will continue to work with various opposition groups but anyone who has more influence

on them than russia should also work with them as. well of course there is also the west which has continued which continues to watch syria very closely and they are not showing any interest it does not look that is that they're selling any interest . in stopping the violence in the country right now various western states have pulled out or have closed down their embassies in syria of course the united states the united kingdom being just some there are also the gulf states which have not all just pulled out their basters from syria but they have also sent out this syrian ambassador serve their country thereby basically a stopping all diplomatic relations with the country also the white house has mentioned to us to negotiate with osce that is to is basically a way to fail or this state department has made it obvious that they're not going to. make any any a benevolent gestures to just use towards the current syrian regime and they have

also so they're not supplying any weapons or any help to the rebels which are also which are fighting this the government forces right now but they have said that their option is not off the table also the united states have also promised that the will supply humanitarian aid to the rebels there but what kind of aid exactly we're talking about is you have unclear and of course of course all of this is happening. right basically. as the as the united nations security council council are negotiations on the syrian problems have effectively split the security council into with russia china being on one side and the rest of the security council being on the other so these are tough tough times forestieri but hopefully of course the country seems like a so willing the country fishel make it make it seem like they are willing to go to any lengths in order to ease the tension in syria all right thanks very much indeed

for bringing us the update. and in the light of recent u.n. security council fallouts r.t. spoke to russia's ambassador to the body vitaly churkin he says that piling pressure only on the assad regime gives unilateral advantages to the rebels who are also to blame for inciting violence in syria. the latest round of military confrontation in syria started a couple of days before that resolution draft resolution was put to vote and the reason i'm here i'm not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and that as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain downs or certain quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed

confrontation will continue and escalate and that was the reason for which were brought our amendments to the text of the draft resolution which would not only require the government to pull out its forces from from this it is but would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military quote every conflict. needs to be resolved through negotiations there are two ways really in my view one is a frontal attack against the regime something which i'm afraid the has been happening lately including from some international important international players the advocates of regime change they have been trying to. resolve the crisis through from toppling the government in the mosque but this is this would mean bloodshed and civil conflict and. conflict which would be spreading beyond the borders of syria but the other the more rational way the only way which the international

community should be supporting. trying to put the parties to the table to bring them to the table and to arrange a dialogue among them in order to find a political solution with all for the bloodshed while russian made many asian african furious some nation thought to further isolate the arab countries by withdrawing their ambassadors math president of the arab lawyers. they're just careless about the blockhead. this is very clearly an attempt by the west to thwart any effort of settlement because i don't think the western powers whether it's the u.k. u.s. france or the europeans and certainly the other countries the gulf countries really playing according to the rules that are being laid down to them by the americans they are the people who are trying to explore any possibility we've seen this before. where the west was somewhat in the opposition and they were i mean.

anybody who wanted to have a dialogue with the government regardless of whether they were. not they were accused of being. stooges of the government or their agents of the government or they are not the path to get to know and this is that they are now at the present moment i think in terms of the opposition in syria and i fear that this is really why of the russians are trying to get the opposition to talk to the government because that's the only way you can resolve the problem i think they will stop those people from even the opposition from discussing with the government sitting with them and this is really where they've done the same thing in libya where civilian and peaceful protest where converted and joined conflict so that it gives the pretext for the west to intervene can still come in the program the greek economy goes on sale crash clashes erupt in athens as the rabbit public rails

against what they see as a fire sale of the nation's future. growth and they're buying coal has ukraine and i'm seeing grip as a country suffers the most severe winter in years with more than one hundred people die over the last week. outrage squeezed word now after the european court of human rights ordered the release of dr simon bin laden's right hand man and you are it's the latest in a string of judgments that have overruled domestic decisions reinforcing the opinion that the e.u. is interfering in matters it has nothing to do with as our genes or smith reports patience with the e.u. is running then. a silver in land with its own queen its own currency and its own parliament law was made by someone else this building houses what we in the u.k.

call list supremum courts but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going or you can take his approach to france and decisions made in strasburg could overrule any made taya the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's been derailed and it was never never anticipated off the second world war after the holocaust off the terrace perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim. delays in control of a sea have the european court in strasburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided judgment so often bizarre

in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the rights to vote petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill to even contemplate having to give the vote to anyone who is you. aside it could also cost a fortune but the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments under the european convention of human rights was about two point one billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight billion in a suit seated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate preacher abu qatada dubbed bin laden's right hand man in europe can't be deported

back to jordan he's now g to be released on to the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is stands for and yet we can't get rid of him because of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each signatory country so far so far except none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country it's worked for many many years for the seats or the mother of all parliaments why do we need strasburg brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights all together are demanding reforms to stop strides burke making decisions on what should be sovereign issues

the court house to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system and in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weak a human rights protections entirely vulnerable laura smith r.t. london meanwhile would be rioters in the u.k. could soon come face to face with military grade chemical agents the government is being asked to clarify to stand on the use of incapacitating nerve gas although banned from using of warfare there are fears it could be adopted by british riot police the full story on r.t. dot com. and also on our website a holy war for america in. rage catholic priests are preparing for a legal fight with president obama saying his new health insurance policies are an

assault on religion. on the brink of bankruptcy greases you're a crappy has reportedly said that a draft of a long delayed dad deal could be presented to parliament today however getting approval may be difficult more than ten thousand greeks surrounded the parliament on tuesday clashing with police while protesting the latest reforms may see their livelihoods and the country being sold out with a little benefit for them parliamentary opposition is also strong with deputies wary of more cuts and tax hikes expected to accompany the deal greece has until march to secure financing or face the default according to best minimize or paprika . hopes of a positive outcome are fading fast. this is truly finally the brink we are only

because of the great eurostar the troika of the group of people the world buying the i.m.f. the european union people they're all at the point where they know there is total exhaust for ishan in the rest of the world as to why they should be paying for a greek economy and the greek state that is totally completely and utterly by corrupt has been completely and utterly mismanaged for decades and ultimately tragically the greek people themselves are going to end up suffering as they already are the problem is it all went wrong because a group of rather well rather hands in the scarring kind of dreaming pyaar i didn't they just sold that there could be one single europe and they rushed to compress everybody into a single currency and ultimately none of the countries were actually remotely compatible economically in order to make that giant leap that's where it's going wrong and this is a tragedy for europe and the european union. washington is sending a top official to to tackle cairo's crackdown on u.s.

nonprofit groups the group played a pivotal role in the popular uprising that toppled president mubarak last year but are dow falling victim to egypt's new military leadership has been following events egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising east mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership layman skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this. that are quoting people who go to work. and they're the ones that evolution they have. won the.