blooms made by the company will be launched unless he gives the go ahead. we're going to include us to our best gets match european standards they were not as good in the old days but now they're russia's best. is true i can't afford to pay the price but. i would buy one if they were not so expensive that. michelle knight golf is a veteran russian era know what 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 see today flying is always

a blissful whatever the conditions. are for moving out i'm involved as a normal position. in the balloon is in working order as it should be is that hopefully we'll get no complaints from the guys in about of. the details this is not what i call flying. in general i don't see being tethered is the definition of florida only without the rue 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 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 path to go with festival of balloonists came up with the idea for this spectacle to attract tourists. bear current simpatico 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 good 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. our 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. so 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 he'll show is 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 pickup is calling do you read pickup i can hear you. wonderful. 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 are free and the floods. all right you don't want invariably ends up happening. is you get stuck in traffic. which is just great. like you know and i mean. you know this is a very convenient place but where is that from here we can see where balloons are going from where they are likely to touch down. of the prophet. can 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 radio 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. but. 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 the more we make sure that no stones get in the way back up which might damage it has three

or four years 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 to. atlanta and 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 a balloon these people do find rain snow bitter cold and scorching heat truly they're afraid of only one thing missing the ability to take to the skies.

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the greek parliament gave the green light said new set of harsh austerity cuts to get a vital. protests and rioting and the scent of athens with housing in clashes with police from. the arab league calls on the go on to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria. aims to mount a no pressure on president assad damascus has rejected the proposal as a hostile act. and iran promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which it insists is for peaceful and if you participate despite the long list the western sanctions imposed against it.

hello and welcome to our she's a weekly review it's great to have you with us france the greek parliament has approved tough austerity measures ordered by the you and i.m.f. in return four hundred and thirty billion euro bailout the three hundred deputies voted of a two to one for the controversial deal with the governing coalition part is expanding over forty parliamentarians for failing to buy it without the bailout lifeline greece wouldn't be able to service its dads and could have gone bankrupt in about a month long way that have also approved writing up one hundred billion euros the country owes to its private creditors class of protests and rising to place across the country as parliament made the key decision and great journalist iranians that could do live reports now from athens on how the day and hold it. the greek hello

make yours finally passed this thirty package it was a crucial vote and during the whole day i always have seen violence toward violence in the streets of athens it was the worst days since the violence very hard in two thousand and eight we have seen the idea young people who did who did the youth breaking marbles growing more lot of cocktails and then a policeman answering throwing tear gases we we have seen fires all in the streets are around the scene that must wear our own greek parliament they have also looted the many many stores around around the streets. and. least fifty people are injured these harsh measures include even lowering the minimum wage by twenty percent this is very hard because the net wage

that. that somebody will receive it's four hundred euros. very small a small amount of money my family is very difficult to leave but with with a four hundred euros and they're with unemployment being being a much higher than twenty percent so people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react we will continue to demonstrate today we have even people from. from around from regions are around that it's not only out and before this demonstration become become violent of course it was a peaceful demonstration with thousands of people more than ten thousand people had been here reacting but to be honest maybe we have to put the blame on our politicians because they should have reacted much earlier they should have

implemented some of the measures that. europeans and officials had demanded. for was. a load of a noose told me that the u.s. trying to save the euro and not solve greece's. what they're trying to do in brussels to me is not saving greece but they're trying to do is saving the euro zone which is not exactly the same now i think they're all some of them must have already made up their mind and greece is going to have to leave the eurozone but remember the e.u. so far the european commission this is not a social democratic. organization this is a neo liberal economic organization they have order of priorities and the people of the e.u. than the ordinary people in ordinary working mand or people who live from a salary the only real solution is not what to you is now imposing on your own solution is social democracy the arab league is calling on the u.n.

security council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for syria damascus has already rejected the proposal which also includes calls for more international support for the opposition intended to pile further pressure on the regime on his arena. syria will probably see un peacekeepers arrive in the country in order to try and. arab league meeting in cairo on sunday took them about eleven hours to come up with a decisive response to the situation in the country which has seen a lot of bloodshed over the past eleven months the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which i have already been imposed on syria they aborted the observers program which was halted in january of this year bridling said the country has been escalating the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed on a weekly basis of the same time the authorities saying that around two thousand syrian

military officers have been killed since the unrest have begun also you have the mounting pressure from washington from the white house who have put together a sort of a coalition of the so-called friends of syria who are going to meet in february you know what it's to further details about what exactly they're going to do about the bloodshed that's going on in syria russia has been adamant about the fact that it's up to syrians in order to. put it all together in order to reconcile their differences they were trying to do their best to get the opposition and the syrian authorities to. lay down their arms and come together and sit down for peace talks but unfortunately even though the. syrian president bashar assad actually did say that he was ready for talks especially following his meeting on tuesday with russian delegation unfortunately the opposition isn't so keen on

those that negotiations have listen to russians and bassett or to the united nations or tell each region on the matter as the mission of that i believe. as the situation was unfolding everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. it is that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and those armed rebel groups which you can has just mentioned have actually provided to be a lot of concern for the syrian authorities they claim that those groups are supported by unknown until now and from abroad you end up with a very volatile situation which really is incredibly hard to solve so again right now all we can do is observe. and also then journalist afshin rattansi told us the

u.s. and fighting side by side is the right to protect common interests the arab league is being used presumably as some kind of proxy because we know the united states and the european union have all but. eventually. could happen should happen from sources even saying british just natural forces already in the ground maybe there is already foreign intervention we have heard about al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing the un could do all the borders are notorious once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al-qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven u.s. troops side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and or european union leaders i would hear

a statement to back any attacks with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. still ahead here you get some of the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrating also each of the generals try gets people who feel betrayed by the military rulers and won't try and if that still hasn't come. under group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing a vote of the. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the surge a sudden of us year old islamic revolution president ahmadinejad's that iran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs but the united states and its allies the u.n. a zero suspect iran could be pursue nuclear weapons they have been piling up

sanctions against the country but the mother shot warns that europe's planned all in bangor will backfire spain one of the biggest you consumers of iranian oil sands the sanctions would hurt it more than any other european state madrid based journalist whole mcgregor believes the embargo has been forced upon europe. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to go to to poot to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union so it calls into question spain's tanami in making foreign policy decisions and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from 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 and union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieving 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 that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. on the first anniversary of the ousting of president hosni mubarak ages activists have called for general strive to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council so they want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking both forms the military side it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power when the presidential elections are scheduled but many people fear they will remain in power beyond these days and kyra those journalist about three says objections have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they were actually transfer power in june so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its

promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was simply fired by the local disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would posit would say or they do say the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance or the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. in

a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defenders they clamp down on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered an investigation into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country. egypt's new government crackdown on nigeria's has raised many questions and they may want 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 against mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february 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 lehmann's calf or the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that according

people of the world. and they're the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the rhetoric this is especially led to prosecutors really seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign finds 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 against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all

so this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing. or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to stop annoys the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the motives the usa has had a hand in chips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries of your story to cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no

longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last tolerate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there is a very callous all the armed forces or scaf now 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 win back a shred of credibility. cairo. still to come for you this hour despite mounting civilian. for withdrawal the number of nato as tribes in afghanistan could actually be increasing explain why in just a few my. hero for sound the l'enfant that is the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason receiving nomination for the now about peace. that's later before that far and transparent

that's how people in russia want to say the upcoming presidential election march polling stations across the country are they equipped with a web cam style void any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough is going off explains now how they're planning to secure honest. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough of these files are for a lot of the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court terms of thousands of people have been taking to the street demanding fair elections with more just presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly with the internet where their village go where they want political competition.