indian 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. in the water with twenty eight men between the ages of eighteen and twenty five or thirty eight 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 most men had died in battle arrow heads have been found and some of the skeletons in the skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romas 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 the

swamps depth everybody realizes that attempting to cross this wall is out of the question. we can't go any further here and we'll have to look for another route the ice of a year off to reverse the thing. and there is one and a half needs of water underneath it. however another road makes up for that misfortune it leads to what for centuries has been known locally as the fortress mountain. the murray people who lived here a long time ago used it as a hideout against intruders legend has it at the maori people were terrified of being caught by the oved 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 grafts were endurance when they were on the move they slung them over their shoulders. they had little contact

with people. everybody was afraid of them. who. through. and this happened a long time ago. there were lots forests with tall trees were really. legends about the going about east region that they handed down over the centuries by and large mouth to mouth of atrocious clothes a great many ancient stories relating to the lottery 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 while the old. healers living in this village say the oak tree used to help make women fertile and. there's a giant of a tree is seven meters thick and more than thirty meters tall some scientists believe. is russia's oldest. city is found several kilometers away from the ancient oak in the middle ages resort protection from invaders by building their settlements and out of the way places one of them is high on the bank of the river in the district. natural obstacles provided protection for the inhabitants of these fortifications. team people came to this group from all over the region to pray for victory over

the. people in the surrounding villages still tell the story of the maori who sacrificed twenty six to the gods. to join other worshipers at the prayer in appealing to the gods. to the singing of a 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 have come here even those living in moscow and st petersburg. everywhere in russia try to be here for these prayers that was. before

nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for the start of the expedition more cars to depression. upon seeing a normal spit 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 they were surprised to see a large crater in the middle of the field of some water at the bottom right. of the . scientists of elder 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 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 some of 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. yevgeny committee cough 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 priest's white cap was ceremonial placed upon his head as

a token of great respect. 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 ordinary 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. we see good sales and happiness. the commission of couple has taken a plunge into the ancient faith to people. by coming here they have truly experienced the joy of command. but 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 is in shambles the un is split over who want to do and now the arab league wants the un to send peacekeepers into the country to try to stop the violence lots of talk about and we'll get to all of that coming up ahead. if. you're ok that's their thought here not the u.s. is quick to play the blame game when it comes to the situation in syria but when you point the finger at someone else sometimes you got four more pointing right back at. you will show you how the u.s. is profiting from chaos in the middle east.

and the first cut is the deepest greeks take to the streets after their government passes a hearse new austerity plan so what will it mean for the global market and for the people of greece find out in just a few minutes. it is monday february thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our t.v. well let's start today with a look at the situation in syria that's really having an impact not just on the people inside that on that country but geopolitically in the way different countries view what is going on and also what needs to happen in response now you may remember just over a week ago a u.n. security council resolution was drafted calling on syrian president bashar al assad to step down proposal was vetoed by russia and china and since then the question

has loomed about how to respond and what kind of outside response is necessary now today a meeting of the one hundred ninety three nation u.n. general assembly was convened to discuss the situation and to try to get that resolution pushed through many leaders also use the opportunity to publicly criticize the syrian government but other than talk it's uncertain if any action will come out of today's meeting our g. correspondent going to has been monitoring the meeting and joins me now from our studio in new york. i was out there let me just start by having you give me a kind of an overview of what's happening today. well christine what's happening is as you rightfully said only a week after a double veto from russia and china on a western and arab backed resolution at the security council saudi arabia and qatar decided to give another push another signal to the syrian government and as you said in attempts to give a lot of criticism to what's going on on the ground they've decided to take pretty

much the same text of the resolution to another body of the united nations that's the general assembly what's important here is the general assembly is not nearly as powerful even though it does consist of over one hundred ninety members not nearly as powerful as the security council so any decisions coming out of the general assembly would only be a recommendation. in no case binding so what's been going on today is hours and hours of speeches at the general assembly mostly criticisms and russia of course continue to slide of policy seeing talks are key and what's important is for a cease fire to take place on the ground and the key issue of course continues to be the fact that countries mainly go shaders such as russia continue saying that the text being still continued to push through is a biased law and that it could does not still acknowledge the presence of armed groups on the ground and from all the speeches we've been hearing out of the general assembly today it seems to be largely the case that the majority of the

countries continue to put the blame on the syrian government and russia keeps insisting that it's key to remember that there are two sides to this conflict certainly nobody seems to be saying that there isn't a problem going on in syria but some people are saying you know just consider the fact that it's not just the syrian government. pushing through with tanks and being violent but there's a whole other side here that also using arms and other kind of attacks to get their message heard i want to thank you also about this too that the u.n. peacekeepers into syria this is a plan that was met with some competing arguments talk a little bit about what those were. well christine yesterday the arab league suggested that the u.n. peacekeeping troops were sent into syria as we remember the observer mission of the arab league has been suspended there something that russia has said was not a good idea that the observer mission should have remained on the ground now in the reason there's a bit of complication there is because syria first of all according to

a country such as russia for example has to approve and say it would welcome a peacekeeping mission on the ground russia today said. this mission is something that it is definitely ready to consider and negotiate about and maybe even participate were it to know exactly what kind of details would be involved in what this peacekeeping mission should mean and most importantly there can't be a peacekeeping mission according to russia without peace so what should start first is the place first as a cease fire and instead of the international community calling for certain measures that would maybe escalate the conflict what should happen according to russia for one is the international community should be calling for both sides the syrian government and the armed forces and the opposition to our halt the violence on the ground as though they have heard that several times just sort of kind of monitoring especially the opinions coming from russia saying you know peacekeepers need to actually have peace to come in and support a break this down for people who are wondering i mean a it's one thing to call for

a cease fire and to say that the two sides need to sort of decide on themselves but historically when you look at that actually happening in places usually there's some sort of intermediary that helps this to happen you know facilitate the handshake that says you know we're both going to stop the violence. down for me i mean what does russia think needs to happen without outside involvement that is actually going to make a ceasefire possible. well love christine the only way really to make a ceasefire possible is like you say both sides have to agree to it because certainly if one sides putdowns because for example the international community is saying the syrian government has to stop the violence but if that were to happen the opposition groups would still continue doing what they're doing so a cease fire or a peace or a solution cannot be found without both sides that are creating this conflict

really agreeing to of what happens next this is precisely why russia this entire time has been saying before we do anything we have to make sure we get the governments and the opposition to sit down and talk to each other and this is really the most complicated part because some of the armed groups on the ground of course are not listening to anybody they're not going to listen to any calls from the international community and are going to keep acting unless very intricate negotiations take place and this is exactly what russia has been offering for months now and has been offering moscow as a center stage for for such negotiations but it's certainly a work in process is going to teach a serious convincing from the international community and what's key is that while many countries such as the you last and western countries continue pushing and accusing the syrian government of not doing are holding the violence it's not really helping in the sense that while it will continue the tensions will continue to remain high if the gleaning game continues what has to happen is that both sides

have to be treated with respect and be pushed into talks and be helped with those talks if needed all right and it looks like things are still going on there at the u.n. general assembly and keep us posted if there are any new developments correspond on a theater in new york. and with those clashes in syria continuing and violence on the streets of egypt and libya still present as well there's been a lot of talk about the weapons being used in these conflicts questions like how did those weapons get there in the first place and exactly who are the people they're being sold to and who is benefiting from those sales financially and politically well this time around fingers are being pointed at russia and its previous arms sales to syria but while western countries including the u.s. are using one hand to point those fingers and use the other to continue to sell weapons themselves to plenty of other countries in the middle east and they've been doing so for years aren't you correspondent marine important takes a closer look at the rhetoric first is the reality.

grabbing some problems with our audio there i think they're going to kind of try to get out worked out this report that shows here we go we've got it back now. at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporters is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that's a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is

a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold historically more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the nixon sixty's have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously their region anymore stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s. weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are you're ok for their thought you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in a park or sea of american foreign policy is painfully. evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of

weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with bunker buster bombs experts say this strategic arming. middle eastern countries is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region this. is going on. against your own it's not all over you know human rights. it's all about some geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty role leading a campaign for regime change in syria this is not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people aren't bally and then suddenly they are

mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing the arms nobody is asking in the us media all these are u.s. arms ship to turkey this is the us military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interest on capitol hill arms manufacturers are some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only did they make and so i'm sure the defense department around the world their federal contractor larry other levels are little actually this statue outside the u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating he's arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. r.t. new york. so it's not just random countries it's countries like turkey like you just sung that funnel weapons into syria as well that the u.s.

is selling weapons to in the first place so instead of finger pointing perhaps there's a need to rethink policy or at least take a closer look at the consequences of these actions i've got ivan eland a senior fellow at the independent institute here to help me break some of this down and i will let's talk about this stance by the u.s. selling arms to no eastern countries on one hand while simultaneously criticizing countries that are selling arms to other ones well unfortunately the u.s. has a double standard in this regard and you see if they in syria as your tape mentioned story mentioned this is. in bahrain this is exactly what happened we not only give it to the bahrain government but of course saudi arabia invaded bahrain and helped the government put down the protesters there and of course saudi arabia is one of our biggest arms arms recipients and also mubarak's egypt we are. united states was slow to embrace the protesters but then when they did of course

it was still the arms that were. in contention which were hovering over the entire situation and which still cover the entire over the entire situation in egypt where u.s. most them are u.s. built because we give a lot of military aid to egypt and it seems like from what i'm reading that you know right now yesterday just in the last twenty four hours we have heard a group a bipartisan group of senators it's funny what actually brings that you parties together it's been when i john mccain and joseph lieberman and they're asking and they're calling on. they put forth a proposal to start arming the anti regime people in syria and so it's just really interesting i mean how do you think this looks from the outside looking in when the u.s. criticizes countries for selling arms to cover. they don't like but they're willing to arm the people they're fighting us government well you know a lot of times you know the position people take the arms but there's still leery

of us intentions and in fact in syria you could end up with something worse than the current regime as far as human rights go and i and there's also the issue of state sovereignty i mean if you break down the system world sovereignty over countries over their own borders you start running into a problem because this is not a perfect system sometimes regimes do abuse their own people but the state sovereignty system where you stay out of other people's business that's sort of the bedrock of. the international system otherwise we might have her pecial war and so that's why that's been set up it's a hard nosed reality that sometimes there are these issues where a regime is not nice to its people but on the other hand you know the united states has been on the other side of supporting repressive governments more than on the side of the the protesters usually over over the history of the u.s.

since world war two i think united states has preferred friendly regimes rather than democratic ones pretty pretty interesting point there and we saw that with libya as well you know see sending that support in to people who may have been and . we don't know really who they were and that's that's the question and not only when it comes to our government but when it comes to some of the weapons manufacturers here in the u.s. to what extent do they have an obligation people like wakefield on and following. to you know it can they just do business as usual or do they actually have an obligation to figure out who they're selling their weapons to well though also to have or they think they can sell them to if the u.s. government permits it and so a lot of times the government permits it simply because. these companies have tremendous lobbying power on capitol hill and whether that's a good idea or not. you know

a lot of us our moments went to the afghan rebels in afghanistan to fight the soviet union those were made by american manufacturers but that turned out to be not such a great idea. spawning al qaeda and many times you get unintended consequences for doing this we armed iran for years under the shah and then all of a sudden it flipped when we have the same situation in egypt we don't know yet what's going to happen there if the muslim brotherhood takes over the country you may have an unfriendly regime with u.s. weapons there so it's very it's very dicey to do this but you see it's really a domestic issue not a foreign issue because these lobbying these companies have tremendous lobbying power and of course with the recession and everything there's a there's a pressure even more pressure to export and one of the things that u.s. . exports as arms absolute.