welcome back you're watching r t here is a reminder of the top stories and opposition strongholds in the rest of syrian city of homs is that under government control as a resident claims retreating rebels have been killing people that's how the syrian government allows the red cross into the embattled city following a u.n. security council call for humanitarian aid backed by russia and china. the e.u. leaders are signing a key fiscal path to aimed at keeping member states deficits within limits which critics say will cost nations their sovereignty want to congress to budgetary

policies and these are the live pictures from brussels the second day of the e.u. summit there. and russia's prime minister and presidential candidate ladder avoidant says the rise in opposition activities has energized his government to respond to changing public moods meeting foreign media election front runner refused to back new parliamentary elections however few when some sunday's polls. close of the top stories next we are off to explore the best vegetarian eateries in the russian capital moscow goes so stay with us for that.

russian cuisine is. famous for its pies. and hot bras but have you ever wondered about meekness moscow. about five to ten percent are in fact vegetarians. preference religious or ethical reasons. when the person capital. has. become a modern requirements in a competitive. free. on the menu. is one such i'm a chef. is one of his rising vegetarian and vegan markets so i. basically just marinated folks. some solid leaves very different. different ways. so i meet. no animal

products of any sort. salads to dishes. and you name it kitchens around the council having to reinvent themselves on a regular basis. so how is the old difficult is it to have a meat free diet. i hear. all my questions. lovely to meet you nice to meet ya so you're the president of the international women's club here in moscow that's right and you're a vegetarian yes i am a vegetarian. hardly been very well are going to go to jail never tried as i come from a family who are all ready to live there normally got a taste for non-vegetarian pull. out of it was

a tradition in the. object it was a religion initially and then once it becomes a habit and once a vegetarian always a vegetarian and regarding through the investor it isn't us to see the huge change we got in restaurants people's opinions and yes needs oh yes absolutely i think ten years back and in the restaurant we're always there you know and about i've got to change what i feel in last ten years is that this time lost many more rights restaurants lots and lots more choice for vegetarians and. more fun. names children or to our team or the hindu gods to is this interest being among the most popular muster venues is the just area of the. juveniles menu is a mix of international vegetarian cuisine featuring indian tie mexican chinese sounds good this is. the eastern side the restaurant will choose from

a range approached him products from the shop to cook something. senator nelson we started in a small plant more than twelve years ago now gigantic is a large chain needs to restaurants a food shop and a health products online store we also accomplish a vegetarian magazine and produce our own brand of products with many spices and goods if you can find in regular. mix of soil products soy milk and cheese are produced with a special machine called the soil. sizing and how to house your kitchen claims by some as the miracle health food of the twenty first century soil is the basis for many british hereon products and in fact it's so popular in moscow and there's an organization called the family club of soy consumers its members often visit the special shop where they can get a very super tax made rights on the spot in. its product the middle of the super

ducks for meat are consumed by region. andriy resides in. my style as well as diabetics and those with cardiovascular diseases in total interact around eleven thousand. and moscow region in our. how easy is it to gain access to all ingredients in moscow in moscow it's god's varies i mean i see the change in ten years ten years back we had to you know a simple thing in indian cooking like a korea and a green coriander is so vital you know and i personally am a big one for korea and in everything it wasn't it was very difficult to get it ten years back when i was here and i'm just giving you a simple simple example now you have it twelve months a year and you have not only about indian in all kinds of foods out of it but all kinds of better lives indian and italian

a chinese i don't find it difficult i find the markets are very well stocked so bull markets are not show much more international than not they used to be and the number of supermarkets definitely has increased in a lot. have you ever wondered where your fruit and vege actually comes from especially in the middle of the cold snowy winter how fresh and clean is the salad in the plastic packet. well this next company featuring its busy factory floor my it's a concept some of those questions. meaning white's country house is a group of companies for the production of fresh cut salads then one of its business is just look at the amount of machines in this room it has the capacity of fifty tons of ready products i'd say a vegetarian seven kids eat whizzing in where eight in order to get you the most garden fresh crisp produce available.

for the road occurred all that i never knew green to start fighting and then find you are going to probably value not a clear idea of the princess but it does break off and i think. we produce a wide range of both mono and make salads made of different kinds including reconcile and spinach and by any others. regarding vegetarian food let's cut to the chase is it boring is it less exciting. education is how you look at a time when a person like me who's never been who's never had meat wanted an old to life so funny what i ate is very exciting and i have a huge great idea. whether it is italian international jazz or you know chinese

continental. mexican message it whatever so it depends. how you look at it but i think they have educated and exciting. in fact there's no tons of people if you're a vegetarian in the russian capital various conferences gatherings and expressions often organized fellow plot speeches at a recent event. will food was highlighted and hundreds gathered to attend most the classes and presentations of new products also taking the chance to meet your friends who. same lifestyle. very tasty healthy food and vegetarian lifestyle is something worth thinking about. as invited to speak at the first roth congress rule free vegetarian congress in moscow i think it really comes from the idea that very few people actually want to look like their parents i think really from the

foundation of our idea is that we have to maybe look at changing i don't think. the paradigm and to actually get a different type of generation in regards to how we have parity. our final location is to restaurants and loving hearts situated in a controlled shopping mall often outside the city center there are dozens of delicious healthy meals and drinks on offer here the menu features only if the condition is alcoholic drinks juices and all kinds of cocktails as well as a fine selection of green light and food cities. that you're happy vegetarian here happy vegetarian in moscow i enjoy. it is not difficult at all thank you. i'm going to. thank you pleasure. fitness and health has always played a large part in young people's lives in russia but now it seems the green main

dietary machine of other countries has called from here to. ten years ago such. difficult to stay in moscow puts de there are several shops clubs societies festivals and events that take place throughout the year all with the aim of proving that anyone can have a meat free diet plus minus thirty it seems for many it's out of the stroganoff. with the salads. and. pops i should be a vegetarian myself quite possible because. i thought well that's a separate like controversy guys will still make the slice lobos really baffled how we have all the things programmed until next week look for a hot dog fight. as

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three books you have to be. revealed. in opposition stronghold in the rest of syrian city of homs is kind of government controlled as a resident claims retreating rebels have been killing people that's of the syrian government allows the red cross into the city following un security council call for humanitarian aid backed by russia and china. leaders have sealed a key fiscal pact aimed at keeping member states deficits within limits which critics say will however cost nations the earth sovereignty want to construct budgetary policies of great britain and the czech republic are the blocks only members have refused to sign the treaty. and russia's prime minister in a presidential candidate says the rise in opposition activities as energize his government

to respond to changing public moods media foreign media the election front runner refused to back new parliamentary elections sunday school. stories and sports sex with. hello there good to have you company thanks for watching and here's a taste of what is coming up. a boy brazenly since course twice for the normal moscow is the economic means chris second time in two days in the k.h. el playoffs last mikhail youzhny is losing round roger federer wrecking team uses the big guns make this amazing dubai. peddling success we take a closer look at the new russian cycling team i need to reach the top of the story . but first to be casual play offs and it was the perfect birthday for the

anonymous go forward mikaela nice and he got both goals in the sides to know when i have it in our minsk last night and i gives the muscovites a commanding two nil series lead in the western conference quarter final and spurs strike a midway through the second period. managing to lash the puck into the top corner. and a couple of minutes after this one made it same deal with another powerful shot the forward also found the net for a third time right at the death but that was ruled offside the best of seven series namely the batteries in the now moscow's defended dominic getting expects the games to be tough they're. going to think it's going to. break similar to these two you will see here in moscow. but i don't know if it's going to be. that they don't play because everybody knows. they're very far. we have to be focused on our game and build. in other games in

the western conference that man came from behind to beat service del three one and may go to up in the series there while scar intimidated dominate against the a scar brushing the muscovite seven one for their second win. tied contest with an amerigo after a two one overtime victory in each of the north quarter. conference call of violence got underway on thursday with defending champion salad a live making light work about bars with three new victory that the only road when all of the day elsewhere will be good three one guard got the better of them or four to a metal piece great. now in tennis nico usually has failed to break his roger federer jinx after russia's top man lost to the twelve time against the swiss master in the dubai quarter finals federer did not face a single breakpoint and needed a break usually just once in the first set to ease to

a six three six four victory in just days we're now at the russian playing fetch for most of the time federer improving his stance two dozen winds no losses against youzhny next up for the world number three is why not indulge quote. three tsonga. britain's andy murray booked a semifinal place after beating thomas burdick for the first time in six years murray didn't have it easy though running off the edge of the t.v. screen during this rally against the czech before finally winning the points but he battled through for a six three seven five picturing a move by defending champion novak djokovic for a place in the final. or . to sort of float through wasn't. a little bit nervous and. from. what it was going to come through a lot of those the last couple times of an important basketball now until scar have

ensured they will have home court advantage for the yearly playoffs after finishing their last sixteen campaign in style they beat eighty two sixty five any stamboul to win group a with a five on one record undertaker lanka top scoring with fifteen points for the arming them elsewhere in the our cost routes the quarterfinals with a eighty eight eighty one win over gala tasa wright and spanish sides just glad i went through but only just they had to be which they please and then hope we did not win by more than twenty three points again cnn's bill reale couldn't do what they needed to do the match was evenly poised by the end of the third period and even though rearm moved up a few gears in the final quarter they could only manage one hundred two points to ninety victory against the italians handing out a place in the courts to put more names any coach in chinese plessy believes he can get the best out of andrea sharkey the striker is on loan from nassau to the end of

this season and is expected to feature in a crucial game against on saturday arshavin joining the squad after helping russia beat denmark to neil midweek and could be thrown into the thick of the action against the army men tomorrow it is the first game after the winter break and could go some way to deciding the russian premier league title currently top the table but are only six points clear of ts guy who are in second coach gillispie believes arshavin could thrive back in his homeland. the. wall from my point of view dream is returning here and shira to me situation and tasks that are more complicated than he had are simply because we want to remain and that's from ourselves we don't want do you want to go found us ryder cup captain davis love the third tops the leaderboard at the hundred classic in florida although tiger woods is in danger of missing the cut after a poor opening round woods started well enough for the first but fell away to

record a one over seventy one that is seven shots behind leader davis love he hit a hole in one sure in his round of sixty four and birdie define or two holes while the royal is in a group of eight two shots off the pace victory for the northern irishman and break in the new world number one. in the world of cycling has welcomed a new russian team into its ranks the country's ambitious new project called bellot is headed by german specialist heiko swat spell and he's already promising his athletes will produce medals at the upcoming elim peaks in london now reports from the teen's unveiling on the island of new york are inspected. following a period of stagnation after the breakup of the soviet union russian cycling is slowly but surely returning to the sport's elite the launch of team cut you shot four years ago proved successful and showed

a cooperation between the private sector and the sport's governing body in russia is critical for the rebirth of this particular sport ruth bello is the next natural step for russia's global cycling project which was started in two thousand and eight by the president of the cycling federation eager to my car off. russia's cycling is going through a hard time at the moment but the emergence of new competitive teams a good first indication of really a sense oh bills are bishops indeed being competitive at international events winning in professional sports and exceeding the highest results at world championships and olympic games. germany's leading cycling expert high cost self that all was given the reins and over at ruth's velo his successful international career began when he moved to australia back in the one nine hundred ninety s. sulzberger later developed a program that bred champions like robbie mcewen can sell evans and more cavendish

to name just a few as he spread his expertise down under as well as in his native germany great britain denmark and canada but i never worked for such a company to five job writers before great talents. because it moves. on the part if you i'm really optimistic that you can do something really really surprising it's a lot of little bits it's not going to be a surprise for me but for a lot of other countries one of the team's biggest hopes is the twenty four year old beauty minute up twenty eleven season saw the russian cyclist win the european championship as well as a couple of world cup stages at the moment she's one of the country's main contenders for gold at the olympics in london. i have won two stages of the world cup in on me i'm so it should be sufficient to qualify for the olympics we didn't score any points in the team pursuit we still have the last chance of the world championship but it will be

a hard job but as for the army i'm event i will do my best because i want that mandel. sports director and women's team manager york in durham bush is also investing a lot of hope in give give your own minute art however the former national coach of germany and hong kong has plenty of other winning material that will be able to not only bring podiums to receive the women but also advise the less experienced cyclists on how to achieve greatness as three german stores to strengthen the otherwise old russian squad for the hardest one of the best time for writers in the world. with mean two thousand and seven when i was national coach and germination was world champion in the time trial because. she's young but she's very experienced and i want her through to help the russian sprinters for example like a good you know minute to. get a good position in the races there's a lot of very young girl she's thirty years team manager high cause south middle has a long term plan and that's to make russia the greatest cycling nation by the year

it's when to sixteen however with lympics right around the corner the german plans to impress by bringing home at least a couple of pieces of silverware be a very ambitious goal said. if. after if you come out from the big swiss two medals you would be very very happy at maybe. change the color. code was to go abroad to talk about two battles rushes in u.s. cycling projects risto is yet another testament that the sport is on the rise in the country and the birth of this team is a very timely since the london olympics are a very short while away and the pundits are already eyeing the next champion from the russian rooster bellotti gramont coster authority majorca spain come on is how the sport looks for the moment so i can.

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