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 says this that is why we seek to stick together in order to safeguard our language culture and of course the land where we live the english is the business of. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the gore nobody's. cattle breeder's of an endo iranian tribe were buried here in the second millennium b.c. at the time when the egyptian pyramids were built when excavation work was over scientists were stored at the burial place to its original appearance. in the twenty eight men between the ages of eighteen and twenty five were 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 and some of

the skeletons in the skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romans convoys suddenly stops at the edge of a swamp it's too dangerous to drive any further to travel 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 swell is al's other question. we can't go any further here we will have to look for another route. to 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

smells of. the maori people who lived there 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 whole of the forest creatures covered with hair who had chosen to settle in the mountains caves. were black haired women with enormous breasts but if they felt their breaths were a endurance when they were on the move they slung them over their shoulders. they had little contact with people. everybody was afraid of them. and this happens a long time ago. there were lots of forests with tall trees. and

legends about to go on a muddy screeching at the handed down over the centuries by the mouth to mouth of the truck knows a great many ancient stories relating to the little people. 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. old healers living in this village say the oak tree used to help make women fertile and restore the mill of vito. 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. a medieval

city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak in the middle ages resort protection from invaders by building their settlements in the way places one of them is high on the banks of the river in the district. obstacles provided protection for the inhabitants of these fortifications. 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. and now it's time for yet again a very tough to join other worshipers at the all memory of prayer in appealing to the gods they do so into 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 served 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 come here even though living in moscow paid is. everywhere in russia try to be here for these services. before nightfall finally they set out for the start of the expedition. depression. norma's pitch in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles as a safe distance from it. people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. it's one noids they were awakened by loud

noises. when they came here it was surprised to see a large trace in the middle of the field some water in the boat some. scientists have found a subterranean stream and a need for depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks this was slope is very slippery and very steep i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks a prospect i don't particularly relish over here 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. listen to that there is much to be learned from such expeditions people think that such things are only found in faraway lands and they are much closer to home.

yevgeny committee was pleasantly surprised just as he and his wife vera were about to head off to the service. you can a good to come here for a moment. the priests would like cap was ceremonial placed upon his head as a token of great respect. those are 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 women re people cherish hope they will look to me with hope and in my words as i express their sentiments in front of the sacred tree a little bit. always she gets health and happiness. the

commission of couple has taken a plunge into the ancient faces it people. by coming here they have truly experienced the joy of coming. they hope it will stay with them for the whole. until the next president will once again bring the maori people together. download the official sea up location until i phone the i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. on the go.

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week old wants to see the sun for ever. israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and the media in which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says or address the arab league winding down the observers work in syria stressing a proposed peacekeeping mission could only be deployed once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease. fire the protests and activists followed by chaos and looting is public outrage escalates after the parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another bailout of the.

ten pm in moscow i mad très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed iran for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian and georgian capitals four people reportedly injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi in tbilisi the device was discovered before it went off or he's test has more. the details still trickling in as the investigation continues but what we do know so far is that there have been two car bomb attacks one in new delhi india and wanted to see george are both targeting the israeli embassy now whether one hundred was stopped before anything could happen the local embassy staff and found it was defused before it could go off however in india it's a different case now the number of injured there has risen at present it's now at four and among the injured is a diplomat's wife. the wife of the military attache is among the injured it she's

now in hospital with her condition is not critical it was to exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on a motorcycle fall with a diplomatic heart that's where we can object which the car exploded or this explosion did happen less than a mile from a promise or number one sings residents who say they are currently looking for have believed to be on that motorcycle oh in terms of a diplomatic a statement a prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did we in the meeting of lawmakers say that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy this is while the indian and georgian authorities are holding back until b. investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror ross saying that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and the region to basser to india had also said that iran had nothing to do with it to put it in context iran had also been blaming israel for

a series of killings and killings of scientists and officials related to the controversial nuclear program and the accusations from does add fuel to the flames would already rising international tension iran is currently facing harsh sanctions over its nuclear program be sanctions coming from the u.s. and its allies as well as the e.u. and these are all time and time again it is said that if the sun yes of course we are willing to be answered we're going up to a military level and of course. it is on the backdrop of this international conflict international tension about such incidents such as today's car bomb attacks will be scrutinized and the implications analyzed will stay with us here on r.t. still to come with less than a month to go till russia's presidential vote prime minister putin his latest he'd ordered all highlights one of the toughest task facing the country's future try go one short. plus olympic summer games in london the risk being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with the chemical giant way to one of the world's

worst industrial disaster. but first syria says it's categorically against the arab league resolution that calls for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping mission to end the crisis there arab states have also about to fully support the syrian opposition and plan to hold all diplomatic ties with the country's government archies marie if an ocean has more from damascus not surprisingly the official damascus for the future is over the initiative push forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force to syria now calling this initiative. and flagrant interference. the country's internal affairs president bush on the sidelines of the eleven month long and bloody bullet points then we can see real and. what's going on here we see the terrible roots of grace in the country it's the reason i wrote this is the twenty two men who are

here because you need to. know that you are the very strong three things this initiative by the arab league. herrick's all the countries all these allies. to secure the u.n. security council. interference in the countries in syria's internal affairs to china and russia vetoed recently should many of those we've managed to speak to here in damascus also feel that this. initiative make people going to foreign military intervention something they're really afraid of and they're very much opposed to course who has been very quick to react following the meeting with the foreign minister all these guys arab emirates russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has that russia needs more information in all the details on this to consider how successful how effective it could be. the first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly there should

first be peace in which the peacekeeping mission will be in help sustain things are not that optimistic here in syria right now with violence escalating recently the terrorist number one had a very high there as the fact that the back and the facts of the uprising in syria urging all the movements all turkey lebanon and other countries in the region to get united to help the syrian opposition fight against assad. the syrian crisis also being discussed at the u.n. general assembly or he's out of the i see a chair going to joins us live from new york now with the latest so what can we expect from the discussion today at the u.n. . right now an hour a week rather after a double veto blocked a u.n. resolution at the security council the double veto that came from russia and china

saudi arabia and qatar decided to give another push another attempt another step at pressuring the syrian government and has called for a session of the general assembly trying to pass a vote of a draft resolution the general assembly of course of body that we have to keep in mind its decisions are only recommendations so what is going on right now are countries are speaking at the general assembly they're making their addresses russia has made it quite clear at this point that it continues to push for talks rather than any sorts of documents that would put additional pressure just on the syrian government and not on the on the armed groups we are expecting that some kind of vote will take place at the general assembly in the time to come but again it's important even though it even if draft resolution of the general assembly is adopted later on today this would only be a recommendation and really just a little bit of pressure on the syrian government on the ground so we will be

bringing you all the latest as that will takes place all right he's an associate you're going to live for us in new york thanks for that update. james corbet independent journalist and specialist on the middle east says the peacekeeping initiative for syria put forward by the arab league could be hijacked by powers interested in regime change in the country. even the we disagree for 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 poised to to involve the united nations in in what is essentially at this point a civil war and and once the situation spun out of control as it probably inevitably would give immediately peacekeeping mandate of a force that would have the north nor delivery to defend itself in the face of their violence the only sensible option of that point would be to send in foreign troops which i think is that really the end game end game both going on in a strategy in the first place this is once again very much

a copycat of the the libyan situation that we saw last year with and for the ex al-qaeda fighters being part of the libyan opposition that the u.s. was openly supporting or the one would certainly hope that some some enterprising u.s. citizen would take me a department of homeland security up on their some something say something campaign and actually report to the u.s. administration for their material support for terrorist organizations perhaps some of the u.s. officials who have a material is according to terrorist organizations in the syrian opposition could be thrown behind bars and that's. in neighboring lebanon officials say at least three people have died more than twenty wounded in fierce clashes between sunni muslims hostile to the syrian regime an alawite who supported. her so long and bassett or for the universal peace federation says this shows the violence that's playing in the country are already spilling over the border this all issues is strong signal actually towards not only syria but also the middle east by itself

because the unknown is not only an evening as the tool to syria and the public see the underbrush today the regime actually but the sunni and the shia the problem is that the other way they are interconnected to the shiite and they're you know the problem is this is not seen by the west or the international community as a sectarian not only the security and. a conspiracy against the region between different factions will do or different sects inside the muslim religion in the area between even lebanese themselves and syrian this is the whole plot that has been demonstrated all architected actually all engineered let's see by the worst sort of one in the united states in particular and even israel in order to divide the nations of the leading nations such as lebanon and syria which is a great enemy towards israel because they have supported the islamic and certain resistances with inside lebanon all inside palestine i meant gaza and hamas in particular and their state of journalist in middle east specialist winstanley told

r.t. the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there is no unity between groups over the means of fighting the regime is a quick case of the interview coming your way in about twenty minutes. although both sides deny differences in. military intervention actually in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between the poor. and the protesters with save the syrian national. council which are now openly you favor over the no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claim that. the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claim that it's a problem to people so the no fly zone just seems the political pretext to invade any. buildings on fire shops looted dozens injured and there's other grief a public made

a new route of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands protested a deeply unpopular package needed together to get a second bailout for international creditors or he's 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 euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying the cuts haven't gone far enough and they have been implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we have 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 crowd also police or tally a scene by firing tear gas into the crowd there resulting in total in dozens of

injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all 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 has served his they rebelled against this latest measure of force there 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 are those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions but a pair of mind this is something that greece is really where the for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with and have us there he 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 that. what price will be expected to pay for these bailouts. germany's finance ministers declare that promises aren't enough anymore saying that greece must now implement reforms or prove it's not just a bottomless pit john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says there are more radical plans currently being drawn up by the germans. there is one theory and i then some credence to it that the germans who are calling the shots on this do indeed want to force three thousand euro there is a lot of feeling towards police by germans by germany and vice versa and there is a theory that the leading german polish politicians want to loves the boiled and get rid of greece if that is the calculation in order to force greece to leave the

euro if that is the calculation i fear that it's a mistake because the problem in the eurozone is not a greek problem it is a structural problem in the eurozone 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 will turn their attention to other countries as well whose position is very similar in particular political. parties cross star also focuses on greece's financial situation coming up in the next hour the hidden costs of the belo rescue. changes clear in germany

you give me the cash to survive given my debt however and i'll give you my star n.c. but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this us dearly and will their greatest of men the most important sovereign aspects which is your first call your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through and they're not managing the greek economy there's nothing that's right here meit's might be provocative here but that's always the best if you're dreaming of a monetary fund. population decline one of the toughest problems facing russia in the long term but the disturbing trend can be reversed according to the prime minister the latest campaign article in his bid to return is president vladimir putin is putting forward plans for social reforms he hopes will significantly improve the country's demographic situation for pros measures include better welfare for families with

many children and smarter immigration policies including repatriation of russians living abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing affordable to all by twenty thirty and has wrapped up his election campaign in the light of mass opposition protests as political analyst dmitri babich explains now mainly addressing russia's middle thoughts. my whole place that we can now understands that he said after it right now it's not reach you know reach seeking people he said trip these are the real russian requests you know people who believe in small towns who have a really hard time and to the market according to the c.t.'s so i hope he has economic policies he will lead to want with and you know we had a former finance minister who did we had that definite with the right.