has been at the head of the governing body's district for several years during this time he's been able to restore a dozen historical landmarks. we marry from the western bank of the volga are not great in number there are only fifty or sixty thousand of us in the world is this that is why we seek to stick together in order to safeguard our language culture and of course the land where we live in the same is the business but when. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the region cattle breeders of and in the rainy and tribe were buried here in the second millennium b.c. the time when the egyptian pyramids were built when excavation work was over scientists restored the burial place to its original appearance. there is a hole in the world with twenty eight men between the ages of eighteen and twenty

five are buried here there was also a woman and a man who was forty five to fifty years old when he was buried we think he was a blacksmith those men had died in battle arrow heads have been found and some of the skeletons the skulls of other men were fractured with an axe in. with. the romans convoy suddenly stops at the edge of a swamp it's too dangerous to drive any further the traveler spend a good deal of time walking around the frozen silt when they manage to measure the swamps depth everybody realizes that attempting to cross the swamp is out of the question. we can't go any further here we will have to look for another routes the ice of a year off to reverse to thin and there is one and

a half metres of water underneath it. however another road makes up for their misfortune it leads to what for centuries has been known locally as the fortress mountain. the maori people who lived here a long time ago used it as a hideout against intruders legend has it that the maori people were terrified of being caught by the of new forest creatures covered with hair who had chosen to settle in the mountains caves. were black haired women with enormous breasts. if they felt their breaths were a hinderance when they were on the move they slung them over their shoulders. like you were they had little contact with people. everybody was afraid of them.

this happened and long time ago. there were lunch forests with tall trees. legends about to go in a muddy screech and have been handed down over the centuries by one mouth to mount up a trove of knows a great many ancient stories relating to the maori people. one of them tells the story of an old oak tree several generations of mari people of post in its shade for the rest. of the good it will go with the local people regard this tree as sacred it is around one thousand years old the old healers living in this village say the oak tree used to help make women fertile and restore the mill a bit o. . this giant of

a tree is seven meters thick and more than thirty meters tall some scientists believe the marielle oak is russia's oldest. and medieval mary city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak in the middle ages the maori sought protection from invaders by building their settlements in out of the way places one of them is high on the bank of a river in the garden district. natural obstacles provided protection for the inhabitants of these fortifications. you know eight hundred thirteen people came to this grove from all over the region to pray for a russian victory over napoleon people in the surrounding villages still tell the story of the maori who sacrificed twenty six horses to the gods. but.

now it's time for you have ghanian vereker mentioned off to join other worshipers at the all maria prayer in appealing to the gods they do so to the singing of an exodus touched sacrificial animals. this is followed with a meal shared by all those taking part in the ritual giving out food from enormous pots to bring the merry people together according to their beliefs all these people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. mari people from all over have come here even those living in moscow and st petersburg. everywhere in russia try to be here for these prayer service. before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition the depression. seeing and norma's pit in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles at a safe distance from it is the people living in this village used to plough these

fields and grow crops on it. but. there were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crater in the middle of a field with some water at the bottom. scientists have found a subterranean stream beneath the depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks. this slope is very slippery and very steep and i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks a prospect i don't particularly relish ok i'm almost there now where there is no water here local people prefer not to descend into the depression because this kind of cataclysm might happen at any time. some good at that there is much to be

learned from such expeditions people think that such things are only found in faraway lands but they are much closer to home. thank. you have gainey come in she coughed was pleasantly surprised just as he and his wife vera were about to head home off to the service. you get a good to come here for a moment. the priests whitecap was ceremonially placed upon his head as a token of great respect. for. those that know i'm not able to keep a low profile far more stand on the sidelines i will have to be directly involved in the prayers of just ordinary people cherish hope that they will look to me with

hope and be my words is expressed their sentiments in front of the sacred tree of ovation for i wish you good sales and happiness. the come in cheek of couple has taken a plunge into the ancient faith of the people. by coming here they have truly experienced the joy of communion. they hope it will stay with them for the whole. until the next president that will once again bring the maori people together.

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syria brushes off fresh arab league initiatives targeting the assad regime while washington is thought to be limbering up for military action. happens approves direct tony a new austerity measures as the city explodes with rage over what protesters say is a sellout of national sovereignty to foreign interests. and tainted by association of the ethics of london's twenty twelve olympic games or undermined by a controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giant linked to the infamous bhopal disaster which claimed tens of thousands of lives in india.

from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said no way it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital straight to our top story damascus has swiftly rejected a brand new arab league package of initiatives on syria the proposal backs the opposition and calls for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping force in the country or to serena go luzhkov reports now from cairo where the league i'm very sorry actually we can go live to our correspondent sara firth who is following a meeting here in moscow where have the latest from the foreign minister how russia and the u.a.e. feel syria should be dealt with sorry tell us more about moscow's reaction to this latest news. well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov be meeting with his e.u. a counterpart is to that he was briefing about his recent trip to damascus and we

know some of the things that they've been discussing at the moment among which has been the decisions announced yesterday by the arab league in cairo to formally and the mission in school for un peacekeepers in the country now he said that the idea of peacekeepers needs more explanation and it needs to be agreed by syria because syria of course rejected the initial calls for those peacekeepers to go in and also that there needs to be a closer look at the legal ramifications of how that peacekeeping mission a new peacekeeping mission would be implemented in the country and that a cease fire would need to be called in the country before the peacekeepers were able to go in the press conference is still ongoing at the moment they're still holding discussions of course with the ongoing and violence in syria at the moment this issue of what's devour the crisis really right to the top of the international agendas. artists are reporting there from outside the foreign ministry here in

moscow thanks for that update. the author and journalist afshan returns the things to us an al qaeda could end up fighting side by side in syria to safeguard common interest. once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al-qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven will they never learn it is shocking to hear a american statesman like john mccain calling for intervention presumably u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows up what exactly the americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and nor european union leaders our very statement to back any armed attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand is getting

dangerous. well the u.s. has continued its calls for regime change saying it's only a matter of time before the outside government collapses and as history shows washington may find a way around the barriers including the u.n. if it decides to push through with agenda on syria. what's in that mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been a complete waste of time washington prepares to act around the un for the time being the administration firmly rules out any form of u.s. military intervention in syria but the pentagon is busy filling out an attack strategy on syria just in case should the president call for action experts say history shows the absence of international consensus not be an obstacle. if it decides to go ahead with intervention the united states sees the u.n. as a tool of convenience if the u.n.

is supple and going along with the united states then the united states is fine to have a u.n. sanction for its actions but when the u.n. and the people of the world or the countries of the world resist then the united states says the u.n. is unwilling to do its job and then uses other instruments like nato or other military arrangements they did that in the case of yugoslavia they did it in a case of the iraq war whenever the u.n. doesn't go along the u.s. then says well to heck with you one will use some other instrument for the exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council authorized nato to protect civilians in libya but the mission resulted in regime change the libyan authorization of force was very specific and it didn't authorize regime change in the countries that took an operation clune actually it's for exceeded the u.n. mandate and their operation i think that symbolic of the fact that these libyan these un mandates really are meaningful in terms of international law and this is the reality of it here countries have flooded levy and rebels with weapons despite

a u.n. arms embargo the u.s. government wants the u.n. but they want the u.n. to do the u.s. bidding way in the united states uses the united nations in regard to be israeli palestinian question is very emblematic when the united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeated very demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank an earlier gaza and earlier. sinai the united states didn't enforce those resolutions they didn't demand it be be enforced when it came to the united nations saying the palestinians have a right to be a recognized state the united states acted as if there was a crime against humanity that the united nations there take up the issue of palestinian rights we can see here a manipulation of the united nations when it does what the united states wants fine but when it stands with the palestinian people in which it has repeatedly over and over again then the united states government republican or democrat found a way to condemn the united nations. the u.s.

also did not support the resolution on syria put forward by russia which would call for all sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to start a dialogue instead he chose to take sides in a civil war. one might describe the u.s. thirty two towards the u.n. as using if needed go around it if you don't like it but why would all of a court approach to the world body might suit washington mates were better recipe for world stability i'm going to check our reporting from washington. well more in-depth discussion on the standoff in syria that's coming up in just over twenty minutes with investigative journalist art so winstanley says there's no unity in the opposition and calls for military intervention aren't supported by facts here's a taste of that interview. although both sides deny differences in military intervention essentially political differences there is different trends in the

syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protest. so you've got groups like the syrian national council which can be afraid of the no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because there isn't any even right now the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that it's people so no fly zone just seems that it's called pretext very. well and president did it humiliating sellout of greece's sovereignty and future and that's the view of the greek protesters out of the approval of a massive new austerity package the bill was passed as running battles tore through the capital with more than one hundred buildings looted or torched by enraged mobs and three hundred m.p.'s one hundred ninety nine voted in favor with many of those rebels thrown out of their parties thirty measures were demanded by greece's international creditors in return for

a second one hundred thirty. billion euro balance athens needs the cash to pay off interest on its massive dad to keep its rapidly shrinking economy from faltering. a freelance journalist reporting now from. the greek hello make errors finally passed this austerity package it was a crucial vote always have seen violence heard violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we heard the in two thousand and eight we have seen i guess young people who do you know who did the use of breaking marbles throwing molotov cocktails and then their policemen answering or throwing tear gas is we have seen fires oh in the streets are around the scene that must wear our own greek parliament they have also looted many many stores around around the streets and these are some measures include even lowering the minimum wage by twenty

percent this is very hard because the net wage that. somebody will receive it's four hundred euros and there we are in employment i mean being a much higher than the twenty percent so people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react and we will continue to demonstrate that's on the other hand people are really angry and we expect more violence. finance minister has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying about greece must now implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit but patrick young from investment consultants devi advisor says whatever happens in greece there's no saving it from a collapse that will be felt across europe. in every possible respect greek greece

is not a tragedy and it is the reason for that is simply because there is no way that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking a fight against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that not we have to basically be prepared to the fan go whole integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors you can see there's a spirit but you know what we may have to do three things we may even have to end up getting portugal from the euro zone but we're we have to defend my life is complete and that's really good of thought on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti this is going to be out how to close make a bent during the course of up the later see approach does the euro survive at the moment i think probably a shrunken euro it sixty forty it can do but ultimately we're going to see swindling recession even worse of the recession retard to we've already been receiving through why the european union and that's bad for everybody in the world

ultimately within the next maybe it weeks greece is going to be forced to default and that's going to be quite cataclysmic. well archie's cross-talk also focuses on greece's financial project event coming your way next hour the hidden costs of the bailout rescue. the change is clear germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this austerity and will they agree it is to admit the most important. aspect which is your first school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through. not monitoring the greek economy that there's nothing and that's your mights i might be provocative here but that's always the case if you really want to buy the funds.

but we assess the country's education system examined its health care and laid the foundations for a new housing policies and now in his latest pre-election manifesto and lays out his plans for social reform in russia the article titled building justice focuses on providing better the conditions for russia's most vulnerable people putting outlines plans to raise salaries for teachers and doctors increased pensions and welfare handouts for families with two or more children and he's also vowed to solve the country's housing problems by twenty thirty political analyst retired bob which was really an oversea and moscow says this is promises are aimed at russia's majority middle class. my whole is the future knowledge the stance that he said after it. reach you know reach see the people he's in there truth he's of the real russian you don't question the people who are you can know who live in small towns who are really hard. to with their market according to use so

i hope he's an economic. a little more through the draft. you know we've had on the former finance minister called and we've heard that different in cuba for the right now we believe for which of rights he wants to give you the states more to use real or true which means you know the mass of the russian people we can head over to our dot com for the latest updates comments and videos as well as the stories you might have missed here's a hint of what find out for you online today spoke of photos from japan of rising to its feet once again eleven months after the devastating blow by the elements far fears destruction was beyond repair. and sky high ambition for russia would be aviation capital as the city that built one of the world's largest planes throws down the gauntlet to its competitors.

but the spirit of the transit twelve olympic games may now be marred by a sponsorship deal with dow chemical the company many believe owes a moral debt to victims of one of the worst ever industrial disasters in bhopal india larches robert bennett looks into the toxic legacy that the games are adopting with the controversial new partnership. organizers claim it's the greenest most sustainable and limpid games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy over london twenty twelve because of links to this pope or gas leak nine hundred eighty four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsible zahn

now owned by dow chemical and major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but is just quit in protest our is supposed to be about value and instead all of us are going to have toxic chemicals. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india a subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area but ten times the norm in the rest of india for a was ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and as well. how it would all been high and the money's been quick and far got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollars parent in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one

denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people spilled in that water that. children are being born with. people have more ground there's group. boy there's there is girls have a problem with their beards all kinds of issues that have to have. it isn't a legit see that has been left behind by this poisonous faction dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising curing the games itself is allowed to splash its logo all over that person before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even.