searching for a syrian solution special envoy kofi annan heads to moscow and beijing to help head off the crisis that has to be separate challenge by the e.u. sanctions on the regime. for just this way is one of a long court battle but the american soldier accused of executing seventeen afghans he said threatens to further undergraduate makers of mission in afghanistan. when the fruits of freedom the claim of the u.s. gun lobby reconcile the new across the states pro and anti foreign groups slugging it out. plus the e.u. steps up sanctions on iran freezing assets in the black listing officials assisting

preble to peaceful exports drive prices to dangerous levels. well he's a much more live from moscow this is art. the u.n. arab league peace envoy kofi annan is to visit moscow and beijing over the weekend to broker a solution to the crisis in syria but after home there till we turn from damascus we held talks with the government on implementing a six point peace plan proposed by the special envoy is an immediate cease fire both sides as well as access with humanitarian aid can start a political dialogue. back role security council has already been dismissed by serious exiled opposition. wasn't poster who said of sanctions this time of targeting present i said to family and in

a circle and move some experts believe could undermine the peace effort. that seems to be in a strategic interest of the europeans together with the western and nato forces to overthrow the government of or for president assad and in order to do that you know have to endure the true peace plan to fire up the conflicts within syria but what is equally important to understand for the syrians also is that this conflict in syria is not only a conflict within syrian parties and with president assad and use government it must be seen in an international context and certainly in a context of strategic dominance in the region of western powers they have interest in the region especially in the upcoming maybe war situation with iraq. well twenty five counts of attempted murder and assault as the charges filed

against the american soldier accused of turning a slow afghan village into a bloodbath if convicted staff sergeant robert bales could face the death penalty but his lawyers say their client remembers nothing of the killings experts to one of them on a complicated legal process that is bound to provoke for the anger among afghans who protests and violence. i mean veteran with the iraq war and these nato tossed in afghanistan or in the get difficult. if we were to switch out robert bales. from the predator drone well we've been talking about you know we were you know back to the matter is you know what robert bales did is just get another. jet just yet another incident of just this constant death and ruin that we are just subjecting the afghan people to there's going to be more dead civilians from there's more dead afghans you know i did child and there are innocent civilians i

can be more dead americans we seem to be pretending that the past three years there has been an improvement in this situation in the past and it has not been it is getting worse to balance it's getting worse and for the past three years you know american deaths are true but honestly here in the real criminals are just brilliant eaters they continue to continue to perpetuate this war and they're the ones being the obama's the cheney the bushes you know they're the ones who starved for instance and you know perpetuate it and they've either one be facing trial. before enlisting in the military robert bales was a financial trade or profession he was allegedly forced to abandon it but i think ations a fraud and deception coming up later today ortiz a kaiser report looks the part owes between his time as a broker and his army career. staff sergeant robert bales was previously a stockbroker for it from one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and he

enlisted in the army shortly after federal financial regulators found he engaged in fraud breach of duty churning unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments the perfect training to become a slaughtering out of control maniac with a gun in afghanistan. brokers all about slaughtering people now we'll call it forgetfulness a term in the industry is called selective amnesia so you want to be able to selectively i mean asia about certain things that would somehow impact or bottom line gives you more money of course you remember all the ones that were insider trading. i don't remember. as america struggles to halt the fallout from that afghan massacre back home guns are once again all the rage and spite of high unemployment and an uncertain economic forecast forum cycles of booming for many the higher the kind of the

better. off since this report from virginia. just across the river from the nation's capital virginia a slice of traditional american green spaces and trying to farmlands offer a refuge from urban life a place where red white and blue is displayed with pride but here is a symbol of liberty isn't just a flag it's this. is a sign of freedom you know to build on and until now wind was all you could buy in virginia every thirty days the law was supposed to. curb gun trafficking but many here felt it curbed freedom instead it's not anyone's business how many guns i own or how i borrow or i buy them from really we have the second amendment for a reason. or ginia repeal the one handgun permit law in february and come summertime the right to bear arms will mean the right to buy as many of these. as you want but there are so many different makes and models and brands you know got

to have a it's addicting but for much of the worlds this kind of freedom may seem bizarre to young man apparently dressed in a long black trench coats open fire across the globe guns are associated with tragedies. or bloodshed and battlefields of war. but for gun owners like jim hansen and guns belong in the hands of american citizens the safest person in the world is someone who is legally carrying a firearm america is a country that was founded with a basic understanding that guns are a bad thing you see in this world are two kinds of people my friend. and i mean. as the most heavily armed nation in the world there are few diggers to be found in america as of two thousand and seven there were an estimated two hundred ninety four million guns in this country that's nearly enough to arm every man woman and child. at your local. and in virginia gun shops like this one people

just can't seem to get enough whether it's handguns assault rifles or shotguns sales are better than ever they are booming they are definitely through the roof or a nerd. and in a place where guns mean freedom that trend isn't likely to change an armed society is a polite society you know we are here because of guns as bad as i may sound we've defended ourselves and we are the free nation that we are because of. the thirty years after a powerful gun control movement the nation an american are returning to their roots and raising the idea of owning and carrying firearms like these with unseen since the days of muskets and militias for many freedom is symbolized by the barrel of a gun and its democracy locked and loaded for r.t.l. lucy come to know in virginia. coming up on the program a eurozone unemployment comes into focus the future looks bleak for the state

students struggling to cope with life and show me. troy what's right is a pressure from the israeli government find out why officials are threatening to deprive them of their source of energy. the e.u. has stepped up its sanctions against iran for using assets and even more officials to visa blacklist sites serious human rights violations for the latest measures and sanctions already in place of an oil prices up as exports drop these commentators say and the penalties are really aimed at people against the government. even the initial sanctions a few years ago if you look at the weekly leaks documents that they were intended for ordinary people to make them change their minds about the iranian government the recent the more recent sanctions are intended to strangle the iranian economy this is the. this is official statements given by western

governments and western leaders so it's intended to hurt ordinary iranians americans by sanctioning the central bank or trying to even prevent iranians from importing. grain or rice and this is. in the eyes of iranians absolutely disgusting so it's a major violation of the human rights of the iranian people if the iranians back down from their nuclear program which is peaceful and there's no evidence that it is not peaceful then the americans and europeans will go after some other excuse to put pressure on the country. to the head fuel r.t. the perils of global warming and doing. big oil companies don't want to hear that so peter only give money to lobbyists there don't want to hear it. and we don't hear about it so much are we headed for a hill i hope. the residents of new york asks the public and the media to do enough for them so on which a person. with

a russian city that signed into the first class drew. masterpieces are struggling to compete that's for teams to the conference. it seems the eurozone crisis is set to affect the lives of young people in spain for years to come though struggling to find jobs and how the country's new government deal with current protests the center for students parents make their voices heard. using quite this has sparked fears of a lost generation with youth unemployment at an all time high with more than forty nine percent of sixteen to twenty four year olds now out of work it's spain it is particularly tough we come here today for the universities in spain to speak to some of the students here it's really high unemployment figures it was like to be a student at this time in the country. truly because you know the very future you can expect employment rates are already this high and the. obvious

schools are becoming a private business it's hard to tell if you're going to find a job when you when you finish studying if you can actually do some college studies because if you have to be really high price for them you're not even going to be able to go to college at all think of those. people who suffer. children and i think they're going to have to think that education is the most important thing because because our us will be it will create a future so they have to spend money they have to spend money indication what i would like to see would be people massively going out of the street and protesting the things change people have that power and it will lead them to realize. increasingly that's exactly what's been students have been doing taking to the streets to protest the measures being brought in by the new government this is not

just students that are suffering in the last four years three million jobs. disappear. and now we're expecting at least four hundred thousand more jobs to disappear in the coming months between some of the country's student unions as they plan for their next peaceful protests but they tell us that the government's approach to managing the demonstrations is anything but peaceful. government there will be elections on the transit of november one month after that they were stranding over a million euros on tear gas and other equipment to repress their own citizens on the street one million dollars of the budget of a counter that this was already a really bad economy on weapons to use against our own citizens when they came here to complain about what we are doing to them that's what the new government of spain is doing right now seemingly hardline approach of any spanish government in managing these protests could prove to be

a real problem when hundreds of thousands of disenchanted it's turned into not the case of the mistakes of the past and that each is arafat stay. but he is now assessing the feature stories check out more r.t. dot com here's what's life like now attached to technology brazilian schoolchildren are being shipped easing back to combat. also unlike. the shooting took place in the comedy film director. tommy clive's. cancer ranch and its intentions. will move quickly into the fall of. the two thousand to twelve nuclear security summit. on r.t. . north korea's space rocket launch announce for next month is expected to be

a major issue at the upcoming international nuclear security council and so the u.s. and its allies are worried that could be a cover for a nuclear weapons test could undermine diplomatic efforts to deal with its nuclear program and also last month's deal between washington under that the u.s. would supply north korea with food aid and data freezes ukraine in richmond japan has also deployed its missile defense system was. threatening its territory before with european parliament member board since tokyo is playing the danger. of a truly the the un could take action but what call it what it does i mean it's got fairly serious sanctions on north korea already north korea is actually alleviating the risk because it's shifting this launch from the east coast to the west coast so it will not fly over japan in the same way it's possible for the launch to go wrong because the previous two have gone wrong the first one fell the third stage failed

to ignite. and so it crashed into the sea way past japan and seems to me rather unlikely that there's going to be any danger that this is going to hit your part in the sense that if it's a three stage rocket it why their affair before it gets to japan or what's going to pass over as i said if they're launching two sounds a little like they're going to do that haven't shifted the launch site from the east coast to the west coast it's very very unlikely. to have any impose any danger to japan. israel has refused to cooperate with the un's a fact finding mission expected to investigate israeli settlements in the west bank and comes out the organization authorized the probe on thursday that he supports the reports israel shows little sign of stopping its policy of expansion in the area. in the remote hilltops of south have brought on this ancient edwin tribe exile to living from the land but they've unwittingly become the latest thought in

the side of the israeli government now. by any means make any real security. for the israeli government but the spot of earth was on the agenda when the german foreign minister met with his israeli counterparts at the center of the conflict these wind and solar generators which while bringing electricity to and lighting up the lives of some four hundred people as tel aviv complaining it was left in the dark but these new nansen are just excited to show us how life's been transformed they had no electricity they had no power to charge the throne they would need to go to the nearby city of. you know it's two hours was just to try to the telephone and that's the product of the anger of israeli authorities they say for the record without permission and threatened to send in all we are asked is that they apply for a licensed product you're talking about not only did they not apply but when a warning was given this is them in violation of the regulations they have the

right to appeal they refused to. let germany look at mcbain who is funding the project says they weren't too concerned with getting any israeli stamp of approval because most applications are rejected could be. the state of israel is not interested in caring for the wall being palestinians in areas. other than you would like to see. more settlements which is what some european diplomats are suggesting because it's here in these remote hills with some of the most fervent settlement activity is taking place in a statement to achieve a german foreign office said it was following the situation and described developments as mowing but it wouldn't comment on speculation. neteller it was reacting spitefully to elite confidential e.u. report calling for israeli settlement activity to be stopped and so while these

nomads marvel at the first taste of the twenty first century their joy could be short lived if israel decides to rip it all away policy r.t. in the south hebron hills. but most scientists agree that global warming can be felt every day in cities around the world the issue doesn't seem to be in the headlines the restaurant reporter asks people in new york if the public and the media doing enough to pressure the politicians to try and stop it. this year the u.s. start its fourth warmest winter on record and your record breaking cold why is no one talking about the perils of climate change any more this week let's talk about that do you think it's still a threat to the planet yes over here especially what what traffic great. you know you got of cars. here in the u.s. definitely you know what can you do i mean what can the individual. we can stop

using plastic bags and we will turn your lights off we already knew that we really don't feel like that makes a big difference well no we do yes we do as much as we can and you know. the government heads worldwide do you think the world still cares about it because it doesn't seem to be in the headlines as frequently absolutely not so why is that i don't know. for government to figure out but they don't want to give us an affirmation for us to make our own decisions and i think it's something that people know i mean everyone a lot of people watch you know watch al gore and listen to him and can't even remember the name of the movie i can't. recall we heard about it was going to be in interests me forgot they you know we forgot why do you think the media's got to talk about it clearly wasn't common sense but stops them. because they found something else to talk about i do believe people are working on it and when you

talk to my son who's in college and his friends i think there is a lot more concern than we have so yeah it's i guess it's he can't really gauge everything but what the media is talking about right right we're going to have snow in june at this point so you believe it's still yes absolutely so why isn't the media talking about it anymore business. big companies don't want to hear that so. don't want to hear it so if it's good but we don't hear about it so much are we headed for doom i hope. it's well the bottom line is although there are people who are still concerned about the effects of climate change the mainstream media is clearly not among. some of international news for you know. e.u. foreign ministers from the blocs piracy mission in somalia and its military forces are allowed to. coast so far the operation has concentrated on targeting pirate

the sea some experts fear the move could trigger more violence in the war ravaged country last long seen as preying on shipping off the horn of africa. the global health expert has been nominated for. the world bank green. considered a surprise take over some other well known candidates expected to try to rally support for. the banks thirty five member board is due to officially select the next month. a russian expert in careers in a critical but stable condition shot several times in east london. submachine gun outside an apartment block in canary wharf business area police are hunting a suspect seen running away press reports suggesting

a possible link to an attack on another bank with three years ago. russia. mass production by giant companies dominates in many industries and the jewelry sector in russia's central city of course tomorrow is no exception but it's not all of the found out despite the difficulties handmade the bling seems to outshine what's produced in factories. there's gold in them hills not just gold diamonds rubies and just about any other precious and semiprecious stone you can imagine that's because in the city of course that a mark to the north of moscow lies the beating heart of russia's jewelry industry. it's difficult to get exact figures but we can say with a degree of confidence that every fourth product in russia is one of ours despite this being a tough time economically for a lot of businesses the de'monte company a looking to branch out. we supplier products through the russian and c.i.s.

markets and i think our entrance to the world markets is also in the pipeline the vast majority of russia's jewelry comes from this region with over four million pieces a year coming off the production lines of this factory alone all those that have the challenge the dominance of mass production. just down the road from the major factories it kerzner sales guy a school for metal treatment and teaching students how to craft just spoke jewelry for one hundred fifty years however despite that history of rice of the factories does cause some concern the problem here is that some graduates find it hard to work on your equipment installed at these factories but they can do everything from a visit with their hands students come from far afield to attend the school samuel show me love is from israel he's following in his uncle's put stamps by studying here and has high hopes for the future. earrings they make are valued very highly i

can think of a factory that can do things right there maybe tiffany this is the level i am aspiring to. perhaps an inspiration for these students is the success of a local independent jeweler gauri blastoff working from home alongside his wife tatiana the couple have produced some stunningly beautiful pieces drawing inspiration from a multitude of sources. i turn to history to learn. and to my previous experience for example these dark earrings were inspired by archaeological findings from a known century north russian site with some of the blasts of pieces containing thousands of stones and taking more than six months to complete they don't come cheap but they are sought after in fact president beneath the made bit it is among those who has purchased their work gori says there will always be room for both the factories and the individual craftsman to produce and sell their wares. more than

i think traditional craft and mass production can co-exist because they are two different things it's like juxtaposing photography in painting is about equipment dating is more about brains and. this is the difference with jewelry as well. with so much jewelry being made here is certainly the king of bling of russia's regions peter oliver r.t. . well yesterday the moscow out team shown see the colorful world of a moscow circus is this and the actors taste of what's coming up at eight thirty g.m.t. . one of the stars of the show a very large animal i will admit quite worried about meeting drops african. tons this is no creature i would like to get in the way of is that it's fifteen years old and he just. i feel quite safe standing here he doesn't like meat.

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