these are the images. from the streets of kandahar. today. on friday. and opposition stronghold in the syrian city of. government control as a resident retreating rebels are killing people the syrian government and the red cross into the embattled city a following a un security council called for humanitarian aid. e.u. leaders have sealed a key. aimed at keeping member states deficits within limits which critics say will

however close nations that when it comes to budget policies. that refuse to sign the treaty. is a way to. russia's prime minister presidential candidate vladimir putin says the rising opposition. changing public mood for a new media the election refused to back new parliamentary elections however if he wins sunday's. there the headlines to stay with us next week to explore the best vegetarian right here in the russian capital moscow.

russian cuisine is. famous for its pies stroganoff and hearty bras but have you ever wondered about how many. about five to ten percent of muscovites are in fact terry in. preference religious or as. in the person council. has. become a modern requirements in a competitive. restaurants are promoting free on the menu. is one such. is one of his rising vegetarian and beacon markets. so i. basically just marinated hopes. some

solid leaves very different. in different ways and obviously. i mean. no animal products of any sort. salads to dishes. and that you name is 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'm here who i hope all my questions. limits only nice to meet you so you're the president of the international women's club here in moscow that's right and you're a vegetarian yes they are vegetarian that's right how long we've been very well are going to. stride as i come from

a family who are all vegetarian glider normally got a taste for non-vegetarian feel. part of it was tradition in the. article it was a religion initially and then wanted becomes a habit once a vegetarian always a vegetarian and regarding food and that stern is an us to see the huge change regarding restaurants people's opinions and yes needs oh yes absolutely i think ten years back i mean the restaurants were always there you know and but i've got the change of what i feel in last ten years is that this time i lost many more restaurants lots and lots more choice for vegetarian and. more fun. names to the lot of them or the hindu gods to is this interest been among the most popular muster venues vegetarians juveniles menu is a mix of international vegetarian cuisine featuring indian tie mexican chinese and

europeans ish is. the east inside the restaurant which is from a range of rich tell him products from the shop to cook something. sinister most of us so we started in a small club of years ago and now jacking off is a large chain restaurants and food shop and the health products online store we also publish a vegetarian magazine and produce our own brand of products with many spices and it's difficult in finding regular soup. mix up soil products soy milk and cheese are produced with a special machine called to soy. slicing and sunday to house your kitchen claimed by some as the miracle health food of the church for a century so is the basis for many british cerium products and in fact it's so popular in moscow there's an organization called the family club of soy consume is

its members often visit a special shop where they can get very soon products based rights on the skills level it's probably the model to put the meat on consumed by region. andriy resides in. israel is that i had made inroads with cardiovascular. in total around eleven thousand families and in moscow region in our. how easy is it to gain access to all ingredients in moscow in moscow it's god's ways i mean i see the change in ten years ten years back we had to you know a simple thing in indian cocaine like a korea and a green coriander is so vital you know and i personally am a big one for coriander and everything it wasn't it was very difficult to get it done years back when i was here image 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 vegetarian. for all

kinds of diseases whether it's indian or italian a chinese i don't find it difficult i find the markets are very very stopped so the markets are not show much more international than they used to and the number of supermarkets definitely has an interest in a lot. have you ever wondered where your fruits and she comes from especially in the middle of the cold snowy winter how fresh and clean is the salad in the plastic packets. well this next company featuring its busy factory floor might also some of those questions. bill a. meaning whites country house is a group of companies for the production of fresh cut salads they in one of its businesses 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 heaven can see whizzing in where eight in order to get you the most

garden fresh crisp produce available. on the road occurred all that this i never knew green to start liking and that five you're going to tell a. lot of your idea of a present but it does break up today. we produce a wide range of both mono and make salads made of different kinds including record sounds pretentious and many others. but regarding vegetarian food let's cut to the chase is it boring is it less exciting. it depends how you look at it i mean a person like me who's never been who's never had meat over was a vegetarian all through life so for me what i eat is very exciting and i have

a good idea of food beverage of. whether it is italian and. chinese continental. mexican it whatever so it depends. how you look at it but i think he alleged it and it's exciting. in spots there's no time to be bored if you're a vegetarian in the russian capital various comes and says gatherings and expressions often organized plot teaches at a recent event in a small about pool food was highlighted and hundreds gathered to attend most of classes and presentations of new products also taking the chance to meet new friends. same lifestyle. very tasty maybe this healthy food i'm vegetarian lifestyle is something worth thinking about. is invited to speak at the first roll food called press row for vegetarian congress in moscow but 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 take a new type of paradigm and actually get a different type of generation in regards to how we have parity. our final location is the restaurant called loving heart situated in the capital shopping mall outside the city center there are dozens of delicious meals and drinks on offer here the menu features only the conditions and the alcoholic drinks juices and kinds of cocktails as well as a fine selection of green like and fruit cities. seems that you are happy vegetarian here vegetarian in moscow i enjoy being here and it is not difficult at all. i'm going to. pleasure. fitness and health has always played

a large part in young people's lives in russia but now it seems the green mean dietary machine of other countries has caught on here. ten years ago where more difficult to sustain in moscow puts today there are several shops clubs societies festivals and offense that take place throughout the year all with the aim of proving that anyone can have a meat free diet in the plus cool wireless. it seems for many it's out of the stroganoff and still with the salads. so impressive very scary lifestyle. and best of all it's. pops i could be a vegetarian myself quite simple. but what. kind of earth plays will still be made but sliced lobos really baffled how on this week's program until next week for

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the headlines on r.t. opposition stronghold in the rest of syrian city of palms now are back on the government control as one resident claims retreating rebels have been killing people the syrian government allows the red cross into the embattled city following a un security council call for humanitarian aid backed up by russia and china. e.u. leaders have sealed a key fiscal pact aimed at keeping member states of deficits within limits which critics say will however cost nations their sovereignty when it comes to budgetary policies great britain and the czech republic could have blocks only members that refused to sign the treaty but

a referendum is awaited in. russia's prime minister and presidential candidate putin says the rise in opposition activities has energized his government to respond to changing public moods a meeting of foreign and media for the election front runner refused to back in new parliamentary elections however if he wins sunday's all. right now to the sports. hello there good to have the company and these are the headlines well it's a double celebration at least in schools twice a day now moscow is they've beaten now means chris second time in two days make a show playoffs. plus the let the chips are shoving to show in prison it is the russian premier league regimes after the winter break. and on the road to victory we take a look at an ambitious new russian cycling team he's

a brilliant pick glory. but first take a child and it was the perfect birthday fit anonymous go forward mikaela nice in he got both goals in his sides to know when i wouldn't last night and that gives the muscovites a commanding two new series leave in the western conference quarter final a nice thing is celebrating his twenty fourth birthday and anonymous gifted him a bit of rain for his first early in the second period lashing the puck into the top corner and a couple of minutes later he made it so you know with another shot the nice in was a constant menace and couldn't grab the hat trick although he's right after it was ruled offside the best of seven series nine leads to better race and anonymous goes defended dominic granik expects the games there to be tough. going to be. similar to these two you see here and most go. but i don't know if it's

going to be better for us or they don't because everybody knows. they're very far. we have to be focused on the. in other games in the western conference at around came from behind to beat service three one to go up in their series well it's intended to dominate against rushing the muscovite seven one for their second win the torpedo have tied their contest with an armory did their part of choose one over time victory in the court at the eastern conference quarter finals going on the way on thursday with defending champion celebrate their lives making light work about bars with a three no victory the only road when all day elsewhere is perfect albeit you got three one god got the better of them or forty a metal edge but he's great. now the russian premier league resumes this weekend after the winter break and. lessee believes he can get the best out of it on the

day our share of in the strike here is on loan from arsenal until the end of the season and is expected to feature in a crucial game against his scar on saturday arshavin joined the squad after helping russia beat denmark two knew me and could be thrown into the thick of the action against the army men tomorrow the result could go some way to deciding the russian premier league title to any currently top the table but are only six points clear of who are in second so crucial time them for russia should join and coach gillispie believes his new signing could shine in his new environment. and i've said to all from my point of view dream is returning to europe and. more complicated than he had at arsenal because we want to win and as for arsenal we don't want the wanted. colleagues has been split into two with the top eight competing for the title and european places among them are locomotive they are six in the table but only six points off a champions league spot and they will host

a band near the game on saturday while the other eight sides are grouped together and are fighting to avoid relegation the last two go down second bottom take on polgar with a chance of getting out of the relegation zone of place inside travel to terra on saturday. usually has failed to break is roger federer jinx after russia's top man lost for the twelfth time against the swiss master in the dubai quarter finals federer did not face a single breakpoint and needed to break usually just once and either set to ease to a six three six ball victory in just over an hour the russian playing fetch most of the time. for improving his stance through a dozen wins and no losses against youzhny and next up for the world number three is when martin go to be free to tsonga. britain's andy murray booked date semifinal place after beating thomas verdict 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 a check before finally winning the point but he battled through for a six three seven five three trick. and he will play defending champion jockey beach for a place in the final. the enough for. the sort of. got a little bit nervous especially. from. a lot of. good to come through the last couple times of an important possible noun to scar have ensured they will have home court advantage for the year really playoffs are to finishing their last sixteen campaign in style they beat and eighty two sixty five in the stamboul to win groupie with a five one record breaker olenka top scoring for them with fifteen points yesterday evening elsewhere limpy are costly to the quarter finals with an eighty eight

eighty going when every galut has a right and spanish side just can't build by went through third only just they have to beat hard which they did and then hope does not win by more than twenty three points against multiparty c.n.n. reality couldn't do what they needed to do the match was evenly poised by the end of the third period and even though reale moved up if you get is in the final quarter they could only manage one hundred points to ninety victory against the italians and guess grab a place in the court it's. u.s. ryder cup captain davis love the. story davis love the third tops the leaderboard at the honda classic in florida at the moment where tiger woods is in danger of missing the cut after a poor opening round would started well enough but with a birdie at the first but fellow way to record i won over par seventy one that is seven shots behind leader davis love the third he hit a hole in one during his round of sixty four the final two holes while rory mcilroy

is in a group of eight two shots off the pace pictured for the new ordinary from would make him the new world number one. and finally the world of cycling has welcomed a new russian tain into its ranks the country's ambitious new project called group . fellow is headed by german specialist high cosell spittal and he's already promising his athletes will produce medals at the upcoming impacts in london ports now from the teens unveiling on the island of new york inspect. 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 the cult you shot four years ago proved successful and showed that cooperation between the private sector and the sport's governing body in russia is critical for the rebirth of this particular sport below 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 could be the first indication of really sense oh girls are ambitious indeed being. 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 below his successful international career began when he moved to australia back in the one nine hundred ninety s. celts medal later developed a program that bred champions like robbie mcewen getzel 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 with such a copy to five job writers before great talents and republicans.

if you i'm really optimistic that you can do something really really surprising it's a lot of picks 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 that twenty four year old beauty minute up twenty eleven season saw the russian cyclists 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 speeches 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 at the world championships but it will be a hard job but as for the omnium event i will do my best because i want that national. sports director and women steam manager york and doron bush is also investing a lot of holding give get you know minute out 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 a low women but also advise the less experienced cyclists on how to achieve greatness as three german stars strengthening the otherwise old russian squad for an artist one of the best time for writers in the world she was with me in two thousand and seven when i was national coach in germany she was world champion in the time trial. she's young but she's very experienced and i want her to to help the russian sprinters for example like if they know a minute or two. get a good position in the races there's a lot for kay she's a very young girl she's thirty years team manager high cause soft pedal has a long term plan and that's to make russia the great is cycling nation by the year it's one hundred sixteen however with all of the lympics right around the corner the german plans to impress by bringing home at least a couple of pieces of silverware we have very ambitious goals that. if. after

delivery if you come up from the longer lympics with two medals people be very very happy at maybe we can talk change the colors so yeah i'm not talking about gold or silver ball brawls we talk about two battles rushes in us cycling projects risto is yet another testament that this 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 interests of bellotti on cost artie york of spain. so that is the sport for the moment seven thought of what kind of next path to.

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