no running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncements we just be a nationalist show who told to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. refuel in our teen cairo. regime change in egypt has severed previously well established ties between cairo and tel aviv this as israel continues to take steps of further isolated from its middle east neighbors policies that some former government members strongly oppose coming up next hour a former senior diplomat shares his views on the matter here's a preview. the right wing always. profited from. public mood on new defense issues and i think a lot about what you see a lot of what you say above you're wrong it to me serves because the quote is and i'm. very angry about this i think it should be stopped. at once it is very

obvious that iran is pursuing. its position as a regional power but it is primarily the fancy primarily. the response to. iran to picked itself. on the brink of bankruptcy greece has already missed three deadlines this week to present a draft dead deal to parliament was hopes that it may finally do so 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 many 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 default but according to investment adviser

patrick young the 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 bank the i.m.f. the european union people they're all in the point where they you know they're just totally exasperated in the rest of the world as to why they should be paying for a greek economy of a greek state that is totally completely and utterly by and 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 in. group of rather well rather than the scholarly kind of dream. that there could be one single europe they rush to compress everybody into a single currency ultimately none of the countries were actually remove the compatible economically in order to make that giant leap back to where it's going

wrong and this is a tragedy for europe and the european union now is to look at some other stories from around the world fifteen people have been pulled out alive from the collapsed medicine factory in lahore as rescue workers continue fifty six are still believed to be trapped under the rubble with the death toll now at twenty one the three story building collapsed monday after several gas cylinder explosions the factory which local authorities have been trying to shut down was set up in legally in a residential area of lahore. large parts of eastern australia remain in the grip of floods as waters have started reaching peak levels thousands of people have been forced from their homes and it's feared up to ten percent of the country's cotton crops have been damaged australia being the world's third biggest supplier queensland state premiers says people won't be able to move back to the area until water levels drop and sewage systems are restored. now across the globe europe is also suffering severe weather conditions for most of the continent this

means some transport disruptions worse but in ukraine the consequences are far more serious the country's enduring its harshest winter in recent history with over one hundred lines lost to the cold in the last week alone are just like here cesky has more. when the thermometer hit minus twenty seven degrees celsius last week luda got very frightened homeless and with a child to care for she feared they would both freeze to death until she found a public eating center in a key of park look at the. schools were closed because of the trees and i had no way to take my eyes out if i was scared at first went to a train station to get but we were kicked out things got we found this heated tent but there were many ukrainians who were not so lucky at least one hundred thirty five people are reported to have died because of freeze related injuries within only a week several thousand were hospitalized and have been on high alert upgrading the

weather conditions to natural disaster status. the situation is serious but it is controllable the emergency ministry has set up thirty two hundred heating centers nationwide homeless and pensioners come here to turn this more than ninety five thousand people turned. the strong siberian cycle on hit many countries on the continent reaching as far as a telly of course with such extreme conditions ukraine is not the only country to experience casualties but why so many dead experts say the reason for that lies not in the climate but rather in key of social and economic policies with more and more homeless people on the streets the majority of the deaths were in eastern ukraine the region with the highest unemployment rate. the government hasn't created any jobs has no social programs and doesn't replenished

the state but more and more people are finding themselves in the streets that's where there are so many did because of the freeze heating centers help will save some people's lives but they won't solve the issue of deepening poverty such as there are moments that would not scare anybody. in this part of the world however meteorologists say they expect at least minus thirty degrees centigrade over the coming weekend the older it is serious situation may become even more difficult with at least eighty five thousand homeless people roaming the streets of ukrainian cities. reporting from kiev in ukraine. now take a look at the earth from a new angle so he joins scores of air ballooning enthusiastic or a special report coming up in just a few moments after the headlines after the business update with carrie that's next . time for business here not here thanks for joining me russia's outstanding domestic

debt grew in two thousand and eleven at the fastest rate in fifteen years the money the state owes to the population has tripled over the last three years in two thousand and eleven domestic debt rose forty two percent or one hundred forty billion dollars that's on top of a forty percent in the year before despite the increases the government plans to continue raising the debt burden and it has plenty of room to do so russia's debt to g.d.p. ratio is around ten percent it's one of the lowest among industrialized countries. let's take a look at the markets now exchange rates first the euro is flat against the dollar investors are keeping an eye on the greek debt talks that would enable the country to receive its next a look of rescue funds here in russia the ruble has a balanced against the dollar to its highest level in five months on the back of strong oil. stocks in europe are high and with banks lifting sentiment that says greek officials prepared to finalize a deal on history measures to gain access to a second bailout in germany commerzbank jumped eight point three percent while

georgia bank rose two percent lifting the dax index. here in moscow markets are trading higher with energy majors boosting the indices on the high oil prices the r.t.s. is up one point four percent is up just under a percent let's look at some individual share moves on my this hour gold is more than six and a half percent down on profit taking up to surging more than fifty percent investors bet its london listed parent will make a buyout for food retailer several continent is in the red as well saying up to saying it will buy back shares with a discount to the market price and russia's largest oil company will snap has slipped into the bread. well russian firms us blushing record amounts on advertising despite the crisis prices for billboards commercials and t.v. campaigns are expected to grow as the economy continues to strengthen.

they say a picture is worth a thousand words that you're likely to see a lot more like this one last across russia in twenty twelve and that's because advertisement is selling big as a russian not a make rise causes an appetite but advertise that according to some very bad market intelligence companies pull out a lot of punches that was passed by the rough surf advertisement that is likely to enjoy the biggest expansion and that followed by fallow merging market pays china india and brazil and also those big voting activities going on at least if they told us the bleeding of the printing power and chappies ink patches to train the s.k. a mustang and brown madrid these are likely to attract big the mudsill spending was also the one off margin presidential election i would like to see that avatar in

the life of. a man had a vision the united states doubles a benefit from a presidential election which is about to reach a peak and these people these politicians love to the right that each other across the page are wise not a different story for europe of course when times examples of the advertisement that these cops serve and it's too late to start say are likely to be paying it down this season and that as a whole the sorry i leave that but it comes out of my advertisement this is set to start out with friends he smiled but the internet to look up twenty percent of will be just that day. that's all the business is for this hour we're back in about fifty five minutes with more business stories here which.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories polar approach to syrian dilemma washington stepping up its rhetoric for regime change in syria ignoring moscow's attempts to bring both that and the opposition together to peace talks. the rift between the e.u. and the u.k. grows into a cow's master of the european court of human rights or the release of osama bin laden's right hand man any viewer. and washington stop military official

will have to cairo to try and suspend criminal charges against american n.-g. o. members as egypt's military leaders crackdown on the western activist who helped them to power last year. those are the top stories here in our tino prepared to take the clout to the clouds as our team explores the wonderful world of air ballooning. people couldn't fly for a long time i don't think because they didn't think it was possible we can learn how to do that without machines anywhere if we want to. destroy your arm while people here are a man ticks but they have generous souls like sunni's is something out of this world and in chanting experience disease in the skies would brings these people together so they come here from all over russia and the world are. always people stick together because of both the love of ballooning and that none of them will be

able to do it singlehanded each person is a zone of responsibility those on the ground are responsible for the ones in the sky together they are a close knit team. it all started in the late eighteenth century a balloon with two passengers in the basket was launched from a car is suburb one pm and fifty four minutes on november the twenty first seventeen eighty three was piloted by collateral devil and marquis de long after flying across the french capital they landed safely in another suburb twenty minutes later the king of france for stowed them the title of count being the first humans to fly in the air and granted them the right to hand it down to successive generations of balloonists. since then anyone going up in

a balloon for the first time has to pass an initiation ritual to be awarded the title of count by the pilots. that she was killed which elements do you know. he was in really earth water fire. what else. the air. was gone through all of them to. earth and flew in the air. and in the air and of course taken off without flying. fire is the main driving force of any hot air balloons the first timers have their hair ends burnt as a sign of respect for fire champagne then comes into play as a symbol of water that is used to extinguish the flaming has finally the initiated have their heads sprinkled with earth as

a good luck charm for future flights. the first balloon launch in russia came exactly twenty years after the french debut in eighteen zero three a balloonist from paris flew a russian balloon passenger over moscow according to one theory emperor alexander the first but ordered the launch he wanted to know what such aircraft cruising those designed for warfare were capable of doing in the mid twentieth century ballooning was no longer popular in russia almost no military balloons have been in use after world war two get ballooning today remains a recreational activity for hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

p.s.e. gorse russia's oldest spa resort today it is popular among both russian and foreign balloonists you find both mountains and lowlands the city is just over one thousand five hundred kilometers south of moscow mt elbrus europe's highest point is only seventy kilometers away the mountain stands nearly five thousand five hundred meters above sea level. the first ballooning competitions in the caucasus were held here russia's southernmost region that was in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. a pilot had to be a professional to stay. balloon and keep it at the right altitude you can never tell how the air currents are going to behave with. only nine pilots turned up for the inaugural event thirteen years ago nowadays it is an international festival that attracts both russian and foreign balloonists the aim is to restore the to ghost's former glory. vitale. is

a former air force pilot on the first balloonist in the caucasus the crew holds him in high respect he was the first russian take the risk of launching a balloon in the antarctic. were made a sectional bosco's and a balloon that featured the colors of the russian flag for most k. we went to paris. from there on to santiago. finally we reached oldest nation terrace in chile with the world's southernmost city there's a. new pollution is on the cellphones host a number of stations belonging to the united states but very many people in high places outside our country from the presence of russian blueness they're extremely objectionable we paid up before we arrived in chile most of us were able to fly to king george oil and but only after two failed attempts. to get in the end with

winds of eighty meters a second we did manage to launch a balloon but not before everything that could be broken was broken. and will continue about. as far as i know only four men in the world including myself have ever launched balloons in the antarctic. vitaly was trained by alex some of one of the first balloonists in the former soviet union he has been chief referee at every balloon competition in russia found he. and to the country's first balloon on a factoring company russia has a total of forty professional balloonists that make frequent flights. that are ga each exercise is performed within a radius of two hundred fifty meters other balloons start trailing behind the hair

a minute later. before each launch the referee tells contestants what they're supposed to do just like with passenger aircraft billings a check for any technical folks prussia taking off alexander's wife vera shares his passion for flying she was six years old when she first saw a balloon since then her cherished dream was being to pilot one. address the scene come on everyone can bridge is the basic idea of a gifted with no idea how old you are there and how welcome to come here with children very many men bring their wives along their money but they don't come here is simply to look around and go for right now they help a lot. now we're at a lot of a monitor's the building in competitions she recalls them a new verse wind speeds and alternative flight paths and schools them accordingly. the admission the first balloon to go up for stubber pole it is

a heads as soon as it touches down the pilot will allow to cross and the ground the job of other pilots is to keep in mark as precisely as possible. the first building to go up is called the heading blueness lingo it is piloted by the judge then the other contestants need to mimic kids maneuvers by approaching it all moving away. only few pilots can cope with such difficult competition the professionalism of the talan also has earned the couple the title of aero good. of russia but alone us founded russia's first company manufactures balloons aleksandr to launch off made his first balloon in the late one nine hundred eighty s. it's lining born inscription saying the first soviet made mungo feel.

ballooning has gained enormous popularity in russia in the past two years this can be seen from the growing number of orders for balloons placed with our company. and so i don't think the shape of balloons or even the wicker baskets is going to change the balloons of the future will offer a more comfort to in-flight pilots. things like better navigation smoother knobs and delicate thin cords instead of course ropes tools void getting entangled . knots that sensors will give way to radio signals reporting temperatures inside the envelope with dust and all that will be mainly intended for the spectators the balloons are most likely to look like the ones built by the brothers montgolfier for a long time to come. all it had was a basket and a burner. one

tank costs full two minutes after that it should be changed to me about visually two tanks at all times one of them an active duty and the other as a backup. to just wind up with this right here is where the baskets are born these tubs are filled with water in them i believe the liquid is used to soak willow. canes are here. but we are using rattan pam to make of this particular basket today on the goal and dream used to give school children physical education classes he

was a teacher by calling andrei even held a scientific degree for fun one day he decided to weave a small wicker basket today he's head of a company which makes much larger baskets. in the old days we used to make balloon baskets in russia today the firm storks of the tropical rattan palmer used it's more popular because it's more practical it's imported from europe and southeast asia. because soaking process takes three or four hours the material is not put to any particular test to see whether it is ready for processing but then i don't need any i just bend it to see whether breaks or not if. it's as simple as that if you've just so ok you're down to work with your work is a handy craft with a long history it was all the rage in nineteenth century russia where was used to make all sorts of things from furniture prams and suitcases to hunt bags and toys

the traditional craft somewhat faded in the twentieth century but it is being revived today although this is a slow process only a few workshops can handle major deals involving wickerwork. family but a human nowadays basket wickerwork barely differs from its french origins yet the same technique has been used for hundreds of years i have seen how they do it in the czech republic and in germany what their methods are very much alike. andrei shares his team's motto there is no place for an important things in aviation bus gets a made in strict conformity with blueprints the job takes three days on average every small detail is important from the ropes to the framework few women and found in this trade men's hands a stronger. our products retain the warmth

of our hands the. i'm sure that if you are in a good mood while waving a basket the result is a good product. the

close up team has been to the whole bar of screen. where the country's little wealth starts its way across the ocean. now archie goes to the area. once named dr len a good looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. that's where the four by fours are made and should be tested to the limit. welcome to the union of creature. russia close up on r.t. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand saddam is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is

a firefighter i didn't want to do and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks i waited for hours for i waited sometimes three hours i was it's a it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. the envelope is the most important part of a balloon the safety of all those on board depends on its quality design is make a computer model of the believe numbers once the blueprint is finished they use it

to cut a. it's a pocket of material these are used to make pots believe. elaina cooper is a seamstress by trade twenty years ago she worked as a tailors making dresses and overcoats when ballooning got a new lease of life she switched to the ambitious task of making balloon envelopes elaine has ballooned several times including flights aboard balloons of her own making. zenith last balloons during a festival in a mosque oh it was a very long time ago i even flew over the kremlin and it was so much fun will do now such fine some bands but back in one thousand nine hundred one or one thousand nine hundred two. it was amazing. hello.