in our business what you think of intentionally messed it up so you'll fall out of the sky. never absolutely not a great job and i 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. mikheil 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 cattle 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 by 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 shoot a flying years old weazened blissful whatever the conditions. were up a move a lot of noise all vision normal position. and the balloon is in working order as it should be is the sort of 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 would that out there who while we 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 patagonia 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 an experienced 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 oh 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 a calling do you read pickup i can hear you. wonderful. nial 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. you need to have a good knowledge of the city's top dog or free and the flood so. i don't want to 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. from here we can see where balloons are going where they are likely to touch down but of the prophet. when 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. not pick up head down right away ok we're coming. to. pick up can you see us we can see you very well.

but one 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 the more we make sure that no stones get in the way of the cup which might damage it twenty three or four days during. 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.

m. 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 an escort truck and those who help build. these people define rain snow bitter cold on school ching heat truly they're afraid of only one thing to sing the ability to take to the skies. the sky does not misunderstand the sky does not judge the sky very simply is.

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play play. play . the violence in syria escalates but the world is left guessing about what is actually happening as opposition forces often contradicting claims over just how many people are actually dying. the e.u. gets the shakes over its own embargo on iranian oil as officials express concern you could end up being the loser. pakistan's foreign minister tells us here at r t that america's of drone strikes are pushing new recruits towards the regions and militant groups there's a new report claims of scores of civilian deaths in the u.s. led attacks.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict torn syria other follows russia's ongoing calls for the international community to support moscow in efforts to mediate a peace deal in syria government forces are shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs damascus said the. terror operation there but activists are accusing the government of a massacre and say hundreds of feet of civilians have been killed over the past week syria's under foreign media blackout making the reality on the ground hard to confirm the opposition isn't making that any easier as it argues over just how many people are being killed going to delve deep into the story about. the syrian

observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and the syrian observatory for human rights has left several media outlets quoting full. sin from ation as two rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists who are posting military deaths alongside civilian once both sides claim their the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures show just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and

a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how have got syrian observatory original observatory strictly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming they're the impostors as are

we and his figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they try to pass some political the is censored like calling for no fly zone for international. to ration and we made it clear i sit on server three for human rights. origin organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report the casualties of. government

troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stop counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but it's human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter either bennett party london. meantime u.s. based professor. believes that outside forces are fueling the fire of caught in syria by waging an information war. media's says. it is. that is killing innocent civilians and then there is a commission of fact finders sent by the arab league who says otherwise said that this is in fact facing acts of sabotage of the economy.

tax on public and private property killing civilians and military and security forces and any government in the world has to put down any kind of arms but existence and restore law and order so i think absent. a foreign outside interference smuggling of arms and things like this the syrians would be able to find a way out of the quagmire they are in but it seems that the outside forces or some outside forces. were some in the west for venting the strife and. not helping up or. and a moscow is condemning all sides of the syrian conflict instigating the violence while saying that president assad is ready for talks with the opposition and

a political analyst if you put him a louche believes that russia's approach will actually help to solve the crisis by leaving the rebels in syria no choice but to negotiate after so many a months of military operations by the rebels in syria at this pretty clear that what we are dealing with here is definitely not a peaceful protest but an armed rebellion supported from abroad the view thought as helping peace more than anything because it is stelling the forum by the opposition that cannot count on the foreign intervention as happened in libya and iraq the top part of the regime and therefore the influx of the veto is creating better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense as fostering peace. you without a lot from moscow it's good to have you with us today and still to come just

a bit later in the program the legal fiction of the caffeine craving for workaholic america opens the market to new energy fixes but there is a danger also we're just a bit of a here the latest edition of. a close up series that's coming your way short. of has been to the bar of screech where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. to lend a good looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. for the for by made and should be tested to the limit. welcome to the. russian close up. here in moscow and as the u.s.

and its allies paul sanctions on iran over its nuclear program the country's president is set to face pressure on the home front as well iranian lawmakers have summoned the head of the government to parliament for the first time since the islamic revolution of one nine hundred seventy nine. questions on his management of government and economic policies this comes amid the latest oil between iran and the west the european union is preparing to stop importing iranian fuel from. a new consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output this warns that europe's shooting itself in the foot by cutting out trade that view is shared by the spanish ambassador to tehran. based journalist. also saying that the e.u. embargo was actually masterminded in washington and is actually created to serve u.s. interests. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to go

to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connections that have been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to these new tension and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effect if the iranians decide to say strait of almost or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by

by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. this is r t a u.s. drone attack in pakistan has reportedly killed al qaeda is pakistani leader. along with three suspected militants the latest attack comes after a report by london's bureau of investigative journalism which uncovered dozens of deadly drone strikes carried out by the u.s. and pakistan president barack obama has claimed the attacks only target terrorists but the findings suggest scores of civilians on the rescuers trying to help them have also been killed it's also reported the funeral processions of taliban members killed in strikes have also been targeted coming your way a little bit later in the program here on our pakistan's foreign minister he talks to us here and it's here and says that the u.s. drone strikes are actually damaging to the war on terror is a preview for you. region has some serious problems but into terrorism and

pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approaches . in how we want to rid the streets and in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one straight leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gets to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks.

it's good to have you with us here in our three britain could soon be turning to chemical weapons to inforce the lore according to the national academy of sciences it's made legal police could use substances currently banned from military use market books will from the education activist network says the u.k. shouldn't be using the same type of gas that was internationally criticized when used by police last year. the income past the nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of that tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gases be being used against protesters against larger crowds and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets

and thus it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k. is starting to use the same measures as countries as mubarak has done in egypt or even the greek government has done to its very own citizens over the general strike so it wouldn't surprise me if these chemicals are being used on british street that similar a cure and so is what happened but we need to say is that the police have over extended the use of force on previous demonstrations so far they have curtailed the right to protest by threatening students to use rubber bullets and water cannons and the latest announcement actually makes very clear the intentions of the police to further curtail our right to protest. orto let's get to the r.t. world update for you some other international news in brief for you turning to greece now it's a crucial meeting between the prime minister there and debt inspectors and it's all about a virgin the country's bankruptcy there's no doubt ended with no results being found

lucas papademos failed to secure the sport of sports supporters accuse me of this coalition for a raft of new austerity measures they reportedly could not agree on cuts in pensions eurozone finance ministers are to discuss the bell thursday and greek political leaders were expected to agree on a deal about. the criminal court of the multi-verse arrest warrant for ousted president mohamed nasheed and his former defense minister this comes after supporters took to the streets to demand he be reinstated they seized control of several police stations throughout the country in protest his ouster came thanks to a police mutiny and popular protest over a controversial decision to arrest a top judge nasheed claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return to office. so troops of killed thirteen kurdish rebels in two separate clashes in turkey nine people died near the town of being goal and for

a business the town of could this after rebels attacked a military stationed there it's less than a week since turkish warplanes bombed three suspected rebel targets in northern iraq tens of thousands have died since nine hundred eighty four in the kurds fight for autonomy in turkey's southeast. at least eight are being killed in a car bomb attack in the somali capital mogadishu the islamist militant group al-shabaab claimed responsibility saying it targeted a restaurant frequented by members of parliament at least two lawmakers were injured in the blast african union troops have largely pushed the group out of the capital but suicide bombings continue. americans trying to keep up on the right road constantly while looking for a boost the united states is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and it's a passion pushing people to devour caffeine and potentially dangerous volumes. of reports on the country's craving. in the city that never sleeps or perpetual

craving for energy never eases i nearly every manhattan street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it wrong. so i go to the three of us. and i don't know if i could give a i love. it five or six cups a day yes but i'm not good to much of anything like this are going to drink three cups definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams.