material and so easy to handle. qualities of primary importance in our business it's just what you think of intentionally messed it up so you'll fall out of the sky that never absolutely not a great job was very well done religiously and. the company repairs the existing believes 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 not blooms made by the company will be launched unless he gives the go ahead. are going to include us federal our best gets match european standards they were not as good in the old days but now they're russia's best. guess 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 that. 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 took a blooming when he was fifty three years old he looks forward to celebrating his seventy fifth birthday in flight. any time under any conditions one hundred flights a year is a minimum. if you could shoot a flying is always blissful whatever the conditions. well for move a lot of nerve always in normal position. the balloon is in working order as it should be. helpful you will get no complaints from the guys in about

a. look at the ins this is not what i call flying of the world in general i don't see being . finished in a flight that only without the rope while we truly flying. a hot air balloon can during the daytime it's a common role for all balloonists in the world the basket has to touch down before sunset. unlike balloons in free flight tethered balloons are allowed to be launched even in the dark in that case the burner illuminates the balloon from the inside. pilot's refer to this phenomenon as the good organizers of the past to go ask festival of balloonists came up with the idea for this spectacle to attract

tourists. their current simpatico such that early morning is the best time for. 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 blueness 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 for 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 get. there for those unfortunate balloonists have to spend

a night out in the open no ill shock of is another ex air force pilot. during competitions he is often charged with the task of ensuring. his job is retrieving crews of balloonists from wherever they might land. rainbow rainbow pickup is called. pickup i can hear you. wonderful. nial has had special training to learn how to get his bearings in different conditions. but trucking a balloon through the streets of a town is a skill in its own right the mythical 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 bugger free and the floods so are you on what invariably ends up happening. is you get stuck in traffic.

like you know and i mean. this is a very convenient place. from here we can see where balloons are going and where they are likely to touch down for a gram of the. can you see our balloon rising over this town it's over by. how far a balloon can fly depends on the wind what's most important is to make sure it's ways to make it easy for the retrieval truck to get it. bring the radio pick up calling are you coming in time to. not pick up head down right away ok we're coming. to.

pick up can you see us. very well. but. it was good but most of it difficult to. nail loses three or four kilograms of weight in a week of intense retrievals the crew puts the building 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 mix. get in the way of the cup which might damage it with the authorities during . each gas tank. if you add that to the burner in the basket the retrieval people will be hard put to collect it all. the pylon.

pylon thirty. 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 of an escort truck and those who help build a balloon 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 is not misunderstand the sky does not judge the sky very simply gives.

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latest news on that we top stories here on our t.v. arab league is set to the side a future of its halfords on serious violence as well gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus. the spirits of all the revolution returns to egypt. barks al staying with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council. barged on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by securing another bailout. to take center stage in politics as a group

a public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential election. all of the candidates. this is r t coming to you live from moscow ten am in the russian capital. the arab league will hold a series of meetings later on sunday that are action to take on the crisis in syria the body will consider resuming its observer mission. backed official recognition from some of the arab states and. country with dozens reported killed over the past twenty four hours an army general was assassinated. deadly twin bombings of the security service headquarters in the city of aleppo government forces are we. have a larger areas although the regime denies this meanwhile the u.s.

is with forward setting up a coalition of countries willing to support the rebels and pressure damascus into submission some hours believe washington's desire to bring down president assad could spell disaster for syria. the united states and they are interested in regime change in syria. that does not deliver a different government that they hope will be more sympathetic to western interests which is quick. when you think about it because the people in syria are likely not going to be more sympathetic to that american and israeli aggression throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition in conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both this and syrians i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate you know an outside exile group arming and training these people and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next if an

externally forced power is is suddenly implanted in syria. represented of the people and syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing damascus says it's conducting an anti terror operation in the city of homs aimed at rooting out what it calls armed gangs opposition activists just means shelling residential areas in discriminately but syria's deputy foreign minister alleges that the massacre was actually orchestrated by armed opposition groups to influence international of pain in the city of homs. believe it or not i mean those people who are who have been killed are people who support the government. people who are could know. by the armed groups and they were massacred i believe that and then sure that the instructions were given to these armed groups

to commit this massacre. to mobilize. the international public opinion and to encourage those countries to use such a thing in their statements before the security council because everybody in the world or those who are at least interested in following the developments in the region could listen to them the mounting death toll in syria is hard to verify due out of even the u.n. has stopped trying to estimate the body count. syrian opposition groups themselves are accounts of what's actually happening i think are bad has the story the syrian observatory for human rights syrian observatory for human rights the syrian army came in right it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership the syrian observatory for

human rights has left several media outlets quoting false information as to wrong. the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military deaths alongside civilian one both sides claim they're the official observatory this. in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fate. 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 of a very different perspective of the crisis the original cites latest figures showed 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 if the united nations security council when that human rights strategy doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how got arab league monitors the original observatory strickly 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 fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign group claiming they're the impostors as are we and these figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. . your strayer the other groups say they try to pass some political the is

censored by calling for no fly zone. and we made the clear a sit on the server three for human rights. origin organization is that we are i guess an intervention we are against a no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in all that is going on in syria as always and is group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment where. they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group and they too refused to comment on the ownership. but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report. these are. 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 or to london. and he always find more news and the latest updates on the situation in syria on our website r.t. dot com here's what else is waiting for you there right now. the day of rage against new anti-piracy laws has rocked the world with protests taking place and dozens of cities across the planet. also online as south atlantic wired in tennessee is military threats from the u.k. around the disputed balkan islands.

in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the ongoing military rule exactly a year after president mubarak stepped down and council of the armed forces to cede power to civilian government they are unhappy and running the country with fewer forms made and escalated repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the past few months in clashes with police across the country and here parliament's been elected and is drawing up a constitution while the military says it will step down before the end of june but why arab experts told r.t. that gyptian people have already. what you see is more or less pressures on the street. very much reflects the frustration of these protesters with the mismanagement or the management of the transitional period by the i think the supreme council is willing to be followed in the and but with very

strict conditions conditions that ensure that it has reserved a means of power in terms of national security policy in terms of. in terms of legal and constitutional immunity for its leaders. konami interests and the economic. that establishment owns. during a meeting with a top u.s. military officer in cairo egypt's chief general the fan of the clampdown on u.s. and other non-governmental organizations the countries restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered a probe into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country or even off in their reports from cairo egypt's new government crackdown on and you know is has raised many questions and why now the groups menu which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while now and you're out of the uprising against mubarak that eventually so the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about this.

that is until they directed their criticism to the new military. draft for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. there to quote. the notion that they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the radicals this is species elected prosecutors really seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and arrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the

mind around and that is some of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of the minister of transport. i don't think that meeting at all in the thing at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn scum when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the eight continued on flowing that the provided support also continued on flowing we don't order washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to get on to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the engine whose motives the usa has had

a hand in chips policy making for years but they hold. the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but. to a lot of the right any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a big if you can see it over there this isn't how some of the armed forces are scofflaw running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to. a shred of credibility. so that comes over here in r t shooting itself in the food for state's expert cern's doubt that you could end up at the losing end up at the bar go on iranian oil. say or

a sinner or the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets is banned as branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the greek pm look as papa davis has warned of uncontrollable konami chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek calendar to secure one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new const package and some m.p.'s coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggests firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage biggest trade unions have held a forty hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret burbridge of the financial advisory from a stop partners in chicago believes that

a new bailout will only delay the greek economy collapse. either going to commit the measures which i. still is not it now to guarantee that resort de fault or it will be all just sooner rather than later a lot of people are talking about disorderly default i don't think the european union or more greece is going to allow that to occur which frankly i think the markets have been doing themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or option i think what your first point is the much like greek economists have been saying is a shrinking economy who are to five percent this year think about what that means for our country already on the brink of you know social not necessarily collapse the deficit definitely instability and economic not through it but certainly you know it's certainly not growing at things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of more to zero combined with the measures combined the political

pressures of the european union will definitely just europe disrupt significantly in two thousand and twelve are just financial analysts mexico eyes are believes greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries the credits are going to take a haircut on their debt already have in the credit default swap market and they're going to make money no matter what they don't get a rest that's why greece is in this problem to begin with all of the toxic debt that has been accumulated on banks' balance sheets around the world and germany and the u.k. and the u.s. have been put onto the balance sheet of greece another government bullet grazed to pay for this toxic debt the debt in greece did not. get originated in these other countries that have used greece has a toxic debt don't turn to don't their debt now we'd love to know your opinion on the situation in the gurry so log on to our website r t dot com to have your say in

our latest web poll well today we're asking what impact will the latest rescue measure. greek economy and here are the votes so far so as you can see almost half of the respondents believe that the new measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already do over a third thing it will only need further hardship for the greek people while nine percent of voters think the e.u. won't allow the economy to collapse and the minority who are now believes bailouts are the only way greece will survive all those figures are constantly changing so you can also always let us know. on this issue by a log on to our website r t v dot com. as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud othman.