he's dealing with dangerous syrian rebels fail to provide written guarantees the will hold violence something the government says is the main condition for army withdrawal. the world's most powerful gun lobby's under fire as a string of shootings leaves maggie americans appalled at the law's needs towards those willing to trigger. plus the scale of pilots in russia is under scrutiny including why news crews are often on a goal to perform emergency landings a week after a fatal plane crash killed more than thirty people. tamiami

in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program of a fast approaching deadline for an agreed ceasefire in the syrian conflict may not be met opposition forces are not offering written guarantees they will lay down their arms the main condition said by the government before it starts pulling back its forces from cities along with a withdrawal by tuesday is a make or break agreement brokered by special envoy kofi annan includes a complete cease fire of all his still days by thursday syria's foreign minister is heading to moscow to report on how the government is complying with an initiative of beirut based political analyst of marna xabi says there are indications the rebels and the powers behind them are just not interested in peace. the so-called free syrian army and its supporters in the west. groups that support

the do not want peace and stability in syria that a proportion of the syrian people support president assad in fact some reports claim that it is the majority now if you can if it's not the majority even if it is an equal number or a large proportion of the syrian population then one cannot have a stable syria without and one cannot have a dialogue without a ceasefire so the the opposition groups or the syrian free army that is supported by western powers and some arab countries needs to. resolve this matter of priority to set its priorities straight and to the international community and to everybody over the united nations is the priority to actually have a stable and peaceful syria and to actually build government institutions and also of course do democratic reforms or is the priority. now possible fall out of the syrian crisis may affect israel which is under threat of losing

strategical the final territories in acts two decades ago are just fall asleep or has war and how israeli interests are caught up in the rest of its neighbor the golan heights stretching like a finger between the borders of lebanon the children and syria whoever controls these mountains controls the area. which israel's johnson's kept from damascus in one thousand sixty seven but there's something more fundamental than security at stake and much of israel's water supply comes from here the goal line is absolutely essential for for israel's water there's no doubt about that which is why serious being closely watched by its neighbors on this side of the border you can't walk far without a minder of his land changing only. these are old syrian military houses for the jew settled here now what happens next could be a matter of life and beer if the water becomes polluted if they struck up the waterway they all know there's a number of issues that would face in this scenario but it was totally unacceptable

because it would also change the whole thing. the landscape of the state of israel these really communities that live in the golan get it thinking water from underground springs the rain water that falls here is channeled through water reserves like this one to the sea of galilee this is the largest of freshwater lake in israel it supplies about thirty percent of the country's water from here the water is pumped as far as the same ten and south of the country where it is used for both domestic and agricultural purposes their water is their main reason for making peace or for want to war israel annexed golan over thirty years ago it's never been internationally recognized and returning materially to syria was on the cards until relatively recently. but serious instability has israelis on tenterhooks many feel they're still technically at war and whoever replaces

president assad could prove infinitely worse for them it would be like exchanging the boston strangler for a jerk the reaper or vice versa and all motion in the world or. to be poured for rescue thirty five percent or for real water resources a strategic vantage point chiefly a vital lifeline to a part of the landscape for the syrians big boost to get back in a hands is unlikely to be quenched no matter how damascus is future pans out policy r.t. golan heights. how much like the west ron is also eagerly watching events unfold in syria but from a very different perspective coming up later this hour if josh up here from israel's institute for national security studies tells r.t. just what iran has to lose from the fall of us. syria has been and the us a group team has been you ranz closest ally you for over two decades if us

a true team falls apart iran is standing to lose a very strong only because any government would take place in syria or the. west of i and democracy which is most very likely or more through muslim brothers were sunnis and were very hostile to. any rigi would be either hostile to run or far from corporate can get around as much as the bashar assad regime has been. from boycotts to marches and protests there is public anger over the killing of teenager trayvon martin across america gunned down by armed only with iced tea and candy the opposite has brought attention to the country's last gun laws which critics say have gone far beyond just security arena for it now has more. if the

second amendment to the u.s. constitution had a soundtrack. the right to bear arms would best be recognized by gunfire. the land of the free is the most heavily armed nation in the world with two hundred ninety four million firearms floating around america hi i'm chuck norris like go. there some grapes and in my home i can use my roundhouse kick. for a look down the barrel like that since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to point and shoot in the name of self-defense has widened and for controversial legislation known as the stand your ground law experts say it allows going owners to use deadly force to protect themselves in public essentially delivering a license to kill it tells people you know what if you're in a confrontation on the street with someone or getting into an argument or there's

a physical altercation even if you could safely retreat from that just walk away and go home and you don't have to we're going to let you shoot and potentially kill another human being and then the law will not only provide you with immunity from criminal prosecution but also immunity from any future civil litigations stand your ground first became law in florida but recently received national attention following the deadly shooting of seventeen year old trayvon martin the unarmed student who was carrying candy and iced tea when he was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer police released the gunman george zimmerman without charges was our son of trayvon is your son. through a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like you breaks mine. continue to fight for justice for since stand your ground took effect the number of so-called justifiable homicides in florida have

tripled as mourns parents mourn the loss of their son u.s. gun laws remain historically loose in many states citizens with criminal records and prior restraining orders are still able to receive gun permits. critics say easy access comes courtesy of the national rifle association or n.r.a. a gun rights organization and the tories sleep powerful you was a lobbying group that reportedly spent more than seventy million dollars on political ads during the two thousand and ten u.s. midterm election before but everything that the n.r.a. pushes at the state and federal level is designed to sell more weapons that's what this is about there's a lot of money thrown around whether it's an array of campaign contributions to florida politicians or corporate money that can be spread around a number of different ways since two thousand and five the stand your ground law has been adopted in twenty five states throughout america so it's ninety six you

conduct in particular said it was about a million people in our culture here to do this and so you know it's the most powerful nation on the planet differentiation in some people's minds most indication. clearly something before you can see how people should each other all of south americans since nine eleven u.s. civil liberties and freedom up separately in the name of national security new gun laws have some alternate history needed easier for americans to arm themselves leaving the land of liberty locked and loaded up or die of heart see me up and coming out of the program here in our t.v. firing our new fear as north korea as a journalist sees a filed preparations for its much discussed. rocket launch media the south sounds the alarm over an alleged new nuclear tests. and spanish football clubs top the death contagiously take

a look at how teams are struggling under the weight of the earth liabilities in times of severe economic crisis. video weeks since a deadly plane crash in russia siberia claimed more than thirty lives and left twelve people in hospital artie's current harare takes a look at a modern problems in the country's aviation industry to see what's being done to avoid similar tragedies in the future captain sergei died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot. was only twenty four years old luminary investigations into the crash of flight one twenty say one possible reason may have been a failure to delist the plane prior to takeoff it's a decision typically made by the captain of the aircraft. the problems that we have today in aviation come down to the system that prepares and manufactures planes as well as those who train the pilots and flight personnel with only a handful of certified aviation schools across russia and the industry rapidly

growing there simply aren't enough pilots in the seventy's it took only two years to become an aviator now it's a college degree and a specialized program that could take up to eight years to complete opening just last year one school is attempting to turn back the clock and address the issue the primary goal of the arafat aviation school here in moscow is to fix the shortage of professionals in the russian aviation industry bad weather horrible equipment and even older models of planes have been to blame and recent crashes in russia well over here the primary focus is on the human factor the idea that pilots and copilots should be able to handle the levels of stress in order to land a plane safely on the ground or in the water. but even at this school it's painfully obvious that simply turning over pilots at a faster rate won't be enough russian airlines need at least eight hundred new pilots yearly while here it takes twenty four months to graduate just

a fifth of that number these state of the art computer based programs and simulators may fall short when competing with actual flight experience with nowadays a pilot's x. only as the operator of a plane he basically pushes buttons turning them on and off with the exception of takeoff and landing older more experienced pilots have this knowledge but also have skills that help them in other more unconventional circumstances and skills like those of pilots who perform miracles landings in two thousand and ten an electrical failure crippled plane travelling from siberia to moscow the two middle aged russian pilots on that flight safely landed the aircraft on an abandoned military airfield against the odds all eighty one people on board survived. the new method should be in place for the construction of our planes the preparation of pilots and flight crew on the ground and in the air in addition there should always be a system to control and check these people if we don't have this they will never be

ordered in our aviation thirteen planes crashed in russia last year eight of which resulted in fayed tallaght ease and those three were due to pilot error and most tragic and yet us level which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen taraji r.t. moscow. and on our website r.t. dot com you can follow the whole story you watch videos and photos from the crash site as well as listen to witnesses testimonies here's also a taste of what else is lined out for you there. will the next war be as zombie apocalypse wideout why that's a real possibility as the weapons of the future aim to make mind control a battlefield tactic. and at controversial u.s. agricultural giant declares war on the entire state of vermont threatening to sue if a bill regulating genetically modified food is passed. here

watching our teen our drake could be the next capital after athens to seek international financial help if some analysts are proved correct and spain's football clubs are being caught up in the death spiral they're desperate for cash as economic crisis puts the squeeze on some of the nation's biggest teams are to take a greaves reports. here in football is for many bean ball he meant to the beautiful game but off the field it's getting ugly top flight spanish clubs are struggling with masses of debt ninety percent of all european teams of the bankrupt a base in spain. presently the premier league clubs are either bankrupt or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result of clubs have to realize they can only spend as much as they have

invested so badly but. this is not just the sports it's that passion is the heart of the nation but as with many other aspects the spanish life only safe thing financial ruin me treasure of the year and euro zone the nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs may be offered help in the form of debt restructuring refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to keep that idea into touch with one n.d.p. calling the move a threat to competition and asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable we paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts you cannot go on like this. the repos who has since been dropped but the problem persists a spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes rayo vallecano is one such club in administration its struggle to pay all this

players wages. i think the spanish players were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious this is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year prompting players the strike wages are only part of the problem is spending to net the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euro and the top league and those who lead teams from the poor rooms think something drastic needs to change. now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from abroad as not only about affordable but also spain as a whole off the pitch a similar scenario is being played out for a long competitive economy is not yielding many positive results and lost some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes of football and many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to griefs literate spain. well to find out

what happened on the boat pitches over it we can stay with our team for hours for the bulletin coming up about half an hour. now south korean news agency reports the north is preparing a new on the ground nuclear test and will allegedly follow the long range missile tests planned for later this week and in a rare move foreign reporters were allowed to see first hand a fully prepared rocket at the launch site the north same is to put a communications satellite into orbit but the u.s. and south korea say it might be a covert ballistic missile test and japan is prepared to shoot the rocket down if it goes over its territory for analysis let's join now dr tim beale researcher and specialist from new zealand tim thanks very much for being here with us in the program now that the news report about a possible nuclear test comes from a south korean news agency siding and named intelligence official how credible do you think is that. well we know it's it's an election ploy it's what the south

koreans or north wind where they you say and instance involving the north to consolidate some incumbents in the south next in general election in south korea on wednesday so it's clearly aimed at that we know i mean we can guess i think that if there are further sanctions on north korea after the satellite test and this satellite as well from this on test if there are sanctions then one would guess that the next stage further down the track will be another nuclear test. beyond that we don't know and this is clearly just a an election plot. well. why do you think we're telling and planning and new tests now i mean basically just to. pick up on what you were saying earlier and run their own pocket i mean they're in the. if given the answer they say they wouldn't now they would do it further down the track with this and say i mean we

have to remember that the whole point about north korean strategy is to force an american to interface to coexist and so these nuclear tests are all part of that. so they're not something this instant likely they are in response to you know a search of chechen negotiation so i don't think there's any particular reason to think it's a test to come back at this time and that doesn't make sense and the simple answer is that this is a sovereign government trying to to sit down with a straight shot was about to talk a little more about this plan satellite launch which is interesting in many ways given the publicity has attracted which is a rare move for pyongyang to last so many foreign journalists and to see its rocket launch site so what idea that if it were and missile test. it was a missile. i rockets connived and never a missile or

a satellite so the technology's on on the sea overlapping there's no doubt i think that this is a satellite testers no doubt and the last one was a satellite test and. you can easily tell from the trajectory we look at the trajectory of a rocket you can tell whether it's its launch a satellite transmission or to pass right or testiness op has no doubt that it is in fact testing will launch a satellite ending that flight this clearly has no chance of patients and then it does to any other country so thousands and thousands of satellites in the sky. and the interesting i think the interesting one is to handle which people and to look at the japanese make knocks out about this launch strikes and shoot down day. a rocket exception tetra now japanese and recently as an ocean not since last night

japan is not just older threshold states. chance they advanced nuclear. industry and it has advanced rocketry and is. political decisions are taken and perhaps it is a mission from washington to convey rapidly become a major nuclear weapons state and then japanese like to use the korean says as a means of pushing us for. our right and now just very briefly if you counter our report has emerged siding on south korean government so worth that so late as join our new drill where the united states was to prepare an invasion of the north territory so why would they need to practice that just very grateful if you could. hell of it being the fact that for years they've had. invasions for so many years they have been hoping that there will be a some more which would allow them to to take over. the country

under the control so these exercises are not new. developments in recent recent times and more explicit. it will actually i don't think at this moment any offers you can. make a practicing some new trees grew. up a doctor team be your research i need a specialist ronnie is he on thanks very much indeed for sharing your of us here and probably. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the former vice president of egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak has joined the race for the country's presidency a marcil iran is among twenty hopefuls who've now handed over applications with a full approved list expected to be announced in the next few weeks egypt's most powerful political group the muslim brotherhood have put up two candidates triggering some to fear of the country will be put on a strict islamic path. again to stay on the u.s.

have reached a deal which allows kabul to veto american led night raids against militants under the agreement and new body will be created to coordinate special operations and only afghan forces will lead searches of private homes and compounds night raids have been a source of tension between kabul and the u.s. military following the burning of korans by american troops in february and the massacre of afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier in march. well it's now cross to the business to ask a word of caution and has got all the latest from the world of business what's going on there has been a busy day well it's actually kind of quiet the pm traders are still on holiday on monday and wall street traders will be back at their desks but here in russia about twenty minutes ago both m i six and the r.t.s. started their trading days let's see how they're performing right now and as you

can see. the my sex is actually balancing back it's trading in the block trying to get back above the psychologically important fifteen hundred point level but the r.t.s. is shedding value within the first hour of trading and on now on to asia where trading is active into the nikkei is shedding value concerns about the big picture of the global economic recovery and that's after police think. the biggest a losses in about eight months on friday that's weekly losses of course and definitely not much to celebrate there and in hong kong the hang seng remains closed this monday you see friday's closing figure chatter around one percent and we're expecting some key statistics coming out of china this week namely the first quarter g.d.p. results the inflation figures and the trade balance we'll keep you posted on all

about and in the united states where the markets were closed on friday we saw some very disappointing jobs of results and of course monday will be the first opportunity for the traders to react to that it's as friday's u.s. futures pointed to a potential sell off so we'll definitely keep you posted on that situation and it's also the start of the earning season this week in the united states so that's also something to keep your eye on and let's move on to the currency markets the dollar is strengthening to the euro and the russian ruble on monday is trading a little work to both the dollar and the euro and finally onto the oil markets are both grand and they. are shedding value basically a raise saying all of their gains from thursday that's the latest best money and i'll be back in about fifteen minutes we'll see them all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us this. there from the business desk. and to actually take

a short break and after that i'll bring you the top stories of the day stay with us .

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