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 these days that is why we seek to stick together in order to safeguard our language culture and of course the land where we live in this is the big business and. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the golan about a screeching cattle break as of an endeavor 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. on the water 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 arrowheads have been found in some of the skeletons in the skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romans convoy suddenly stops at the edge of a swamp it's too dangerous to drive any further the traveler spent a good deal of time walking around the frozen silt when they managed to measure of us wants depth everybody realizes that attempting to cross the swamp is out of the question. we can go into further here we will have to look for another routes the ice of a year off the rivers too thin and there is one and a half meters 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 melted. the murray 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 all of the forest creatures covered with hair who had chosen to settle in the mountains caves. or black haired women with enormous breasts but if they felt their breasts were a hindrance when they were on the move they slung them over their shoulders. they had little contact with the people. everybody was afraid of them.

through. and this happened a long time ago. there were large forests with tall trees were written. legends about forgotten about history jock that been handed down over the centuries by was mouth to mouth of the trouble was a great many ancient stories relating to the little people who one of them tells a story of an old oak tree several generations of maori people have closed and it changed 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 what the old healers living in this village say the oak tree used to help make women fertile and restore the mill of veto. 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 city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak in the middle ages a maori sought protection from invaders by building their settlements and out of the way places one of them is high on the bank of a river in a district. natural obstacles provided protection for the inhabitants of these fortifications. in eighteen thirteen mari people came to this group 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. now it's time for you again ian 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 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 people together according to their beliefs people get closer to the gods by eating in this way. mari people from all over. even those living in moscow. everywhere in russia try to be here for these. before nightfall finally finally they set out for the start of the expedition. depression. norma's put on the very center of a field they hold their vehicles as a safe distance from it. the people living in this village used to plough these

fields and grow crops on it. but one noids they were awakened by loud noises. that when they came here it was surprised to see a large crazy in the middle of the field and some water in the boat some. scientists have found a subterranean stream beneath a depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks this slope is very slippery and very steep i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks across because i don't particularly relish. ok i'm almost there now but there is no water here local people prefer not to descend into the depression because this kind of cataclysm might happen at any time. but 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. yevgeny kaminski cough was pleasantly surprised just as he and his wife vera were about to head off to the service. given a good search come here for moods. the priest's white cap was ceremonial placed upon his head as a token i have great respect. and no i'm not able to keep a low profile or stand on the sidelines i will have to be directly involved in the prayers of wooden re people cherish hope they will look to me with hope and he my

words is express their sentiments in front of the sacred tree. i wish you good self unhappiness. the commission of couple has taken a plunge into the ancient faith to people. coming here they have truly experienced the joy of community. but hope it will stay with them for the whole. until the next president that will once again bring the maori people together. i'm. going to be soo much frightened if. it's from funniest immigration moves. his friend starts on t.v.

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israel blames the wrong for attacks on israeli diplomats in georgia and india in which two people are have been injured. marshall says it regrets the arab league winding down its observers mission in syria just as a proposed peacekeeping mission that can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. and fiery protests and now this is followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates as the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another e.u. brough out.

from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now we have a developing story this hour for you the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed the wrong for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian and georgian capital well the wife of his inner israeli diplomat and her driver were reportedly injured in a car bomb blasts in new delhi and into b.b.c. the device was discovered before it went off. now joins us live with details hollowing this developing story tasso what exactly happened in these incident today and what prompted the claims that iran is responsible. well what's happening with the two reports that we have gotten today the details do remain very sketchy even the identities of the people that may have been injured in those attacks have not

been confirmed yet but yes there have been targeted attacks at the israeli embassy in new delhi as well as in tbilisi in new delhi as i mentioned earlier the israeli diplomats wife was injured as well as her driver it was said that she had managed to drive to the embassy to ask for help after the attack it happened and it's a police it was stopped before the bomb had actually gone off a staff member actually found a bomb under the car and had reported that to the police before anything can happen now the israeli foreign ministry had not had announced at all its diplomats or avoid getting into vehicles up this moment before it's been checked by security forces now yes the prime minister binyamin netanyahu. iran for these attacks and no one who claimed responsibility but the suspicion. is put on iran as well as his protege this is rather like a tit for tat situation because we did know we do know that iran had also been putting the blame on for attacks on its officials as well as scientists involved in its controversial nuclear program we do have to remember that this is happening on

the virus of escalating tensions between iran israel as well as the u.s. of europe there are a lot of sanctions that have been leveled on iran at the moment and time and time again israel has said that if sanctions are not enough to put a stop to the nuclear program of iran it's very controversial it is prepared to bring it up to a military scale now that is this is the backdrop of all of this happening so the implications of a car bomb incident such as this in two different places will unfold the implications will be based on about international setting that we've just mentioned . we're following again this developing story as these diplomatic attacks took place in georgia and in india thanks for that test. well say i had for you a set still ahead for you i should say here are three with the last one a month to go until russia's presidential election prime minister putin latest campaign article highlights one of the toughest task facing the country's future

find out exactly what that is sort of. plus the summer games in london risk being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giant linked to one of the world's worst industrial disasters. but first russia says it will study an arab league proposal for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping mission in syria but foreign minister sergei lavrov says that a cease fire should be achieved before any mission of that kind could be deployed or to use our first house the latest. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was meeting today with his you're a counterpart they were discussing the ongoing situation in syria over the weekend of course the arab league called for and he joins us. to enter the country now the furnace responded today's calls by say that russia would consider that proposal but the implementation that would come with a number of conditions because it's

a first. peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will didn't help sustain you know the words there should be a kind of cease fire agreement the trouble is that armed groups for you with the regime's forces do not listen to anyone or not control anyone but one of the crucial points tonight and what the foreign minister had said there was that damascus would have to agree to that plan and the arab league proposal was rejected by damascus he called it one sided simply backing the opposition not taking into account all the sides because he seemed to mask is very very wary about the u.n. being used in this way and indeed russia as well that the u.s. being used as a tool for regime change rather than pushing for an end to the violence is what russia from the very beginning very clear about any proposal should be taking into

account all the sides are not simply part of the opposition now we actually had today from the visiting you're a foreign minister was the arab league think very clear that they're going to back the opposition financially and politically he said that the maybe there are plans to back the opposition militarily but of course there are already reports that countries like qatar i have been to you already started. the opposition within the country that's causing a lot of concerns of course he's seen a situation growing increasingly violent as members of the opposition and different factions of the opposition. have become increasingly arms over the weekend we had al qaeda publicly backing the opposition and that's really feeling fear is that the situation in the country tonight is really a very fertile ground for the experience of terrorist groups that is the growing violence pressures again really pushing for dialogue today the foreign minister calling on the opposition he made it very clear they want to have guy look with the

president to at least continue dialogue with the government with the vice president later on today the arab league mission are going to be presenting their proposal to the u.n. and that moving forward of course everyone very focused now on finding a way to deescalate the continuing tensions inside the country. with james corbett in a predator analyst and specialist on the middle east says the peacekeeping initiative for syria put forward by the arab league could easily be hijacked by powers interested in regime change in the country. given the the discreet civil conduct of un peacekeepers everywhere from haiti to the ivory coast to the congo and many other countries besides i think the syrian people should certainly hope that peacekeeping mission doesn't come about and i think one would have to see it really is as nothing more than a ploy to to involve the united nations in what is essentially at this point a civil war and then once the situation spun out of control it's probably

inevitably would given the peacekeeping mandate of a force that would have no ability to defend itself in the face of that violence the only sensible option for it would be to send in foreign troops which i think is that really game in game it's going on in the strategy in the first place. but the u.s. says it's just a matter of time before the syrian government collapses well the pentagon says it's weighing up theoretical dilatory action now although russia and china are adamant they won't allow foreign intervention in syria of the of the you went history shows washington may find a way to bypass diplomatic barriers to push its agenda where it is going to to can explains. what seemed a mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been a complete waste of time and washington prepares to act around the u. way 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 would not be an obstacle to washington 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 in 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 the heck with you one will use some other instrument for the exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council authorizes need 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 they're protecting their operation clune actually it's for exceeded the u.n. mandate and there are provisions i think that symbolic of the fact that these will be these un mandates really won't mean for in terms of international law and that's just the reality of it needed countries have flooded levy and rebels with weapons despite a u.n. arms embargo u.s. government wants the u. one but they want the u.n. to do the u.s. bidding waive united states uses the united nations in regard to the israeli post in question is very emblematic when the united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeatedly demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank an earlier gaza. and earlier in the sinai the united states didn't enforce those resolutions they didn't demand that they be enforced when it came to the united nations saying that 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 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 that. one might describe to us as we do towards the u.n. as use it if needed go around it if you don't like it but why let all the court approach to the world body might suit washington it makes for a bad recipe for wealth the ability i'm going to check our reporting from washington our chief. investigative journalist and middle east specialist also when stanley told r.t. that the syrian opposition is very fragmented and says there's no unity between

groups over the means of fighting the regime here's a quick taste of that interview coming your way later this hour. although both sides deny differences. in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protest and so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are openly you favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claim that i know of. the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claim that it's a problem to people so just see the political pretext very to me. and buildings on fire shops looted and dozens injured this is how the greek public met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands of

people protested the deeply unpopular package needed to get the second bell out from international creditors where it is jacob greaves has the latest from athens. based on those pictures as events that took place last night really getting a sense here that the government the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the the euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying because haven't gone far enough and they have been implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we had the demonstrators now really seeing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in attendance and they're growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in certain amounts of bias petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowds also police retaliating by firing tear gas into the crowd there resulting in

total in dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all of this of course taking place in central athens now there is a lot of discontent as well within harlem and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist because they were upheld against this latest measure of was there if he cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public sector also that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts the pensions three those who are being affected by those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions to bear my own this is something that greece is really where the for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with and have austerity measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there hasn't been that

many positive financial indicators since you seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they said and the protests this is the. what price will be expected to pay for these bailouts. germany's finance minister has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying greece must now implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit john laughlin of the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says there are more radical plans currently being drawn up by the germans. there is one theory and i learned some credence to it that the germans who are calling the shots on this do indeed want to four screens out of europe there is a lot of bad feeling towards greeks by germans by germany and vice versa and there is a theory that certain leading german culture politicians want to love's the boil and get rid of greece if that is the calculation was to force greece to leave the euro

if that is the calculation i fear that if the mistake because the problem in the eurozone is not a greek problem it is a structural problem in the euro zone and these debt problems which various countries are suffering from including of course italy but also portugal spain and ireland these problems are the inevitable consequence of the way the euro is structured they are the inevitable consequence of it and the measures which are being required of these countries to as it were remedy the situation are only making things worse so even if greece were to be forced out of the euro my prediction is that the markets would then realize that the eurozone is not impregnable and would turn their attention to other countries as well whose position is very similar in particular political. parties cross-talk also focuses on increases financial predicament coming your way next hour the hidden cost of the bailout rescue. these changes clear germany you give me the cash to survive given

my depth of knowledge give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this and will their greatest men the most important sovereign aspect which is your first school your progeny to catechize in brussels that are not answerable to your population through a landslide they're not managing the greek economy there's nothing and that's why they are mites i might be provocative here but that's always the case if you do you know last year a monitor. population decline is one of the toughest problems russia faces in the long term but the disturbing trend can be reversed according to the country's prime minister in the latest campaign article his bid to return as president vladimir putin has put forward plans for social reform that he hopes will significantly improve the demographic.