there's a report on r g. peace deal in danger syrian rebels fail to provide written guarantees they'll hold the violence something the government says is the main condition for the withdrawal. of the world's most powerful gun lobby is under fire as a string of shootings leaves many americans fuld of the laws lenient towards those pulling the trigger. and spanish football club's top of the debt contagion league we take a look at how teams are struggling under the weight of their liabilities in times of severe economic crisis.

it is good to have you with us here today on arts the i'm a resubmission life in moscow the fast approaching deadline for an agreed ceasefire in the syrian conflict may not be met up assertion forces are not offering written guarantees they'll lay down their arms that's the main condition set by the government before it starts pulling back its forces off the city streets along with the withdrawal of by tuesday the make or break agreement brokered by special envoy kofi annan includes a complete cease of all hostilities by thursday turkish authorities meanwhile say syrian troops opened fire on a refugee camp near the border killing two and this just ahead of kofi annan visit there beirut based political analyst oh my goodness xabi says there are indications that some powers behind the crisis are just not interested in peace. the so-called

three from the free syrian army and its supporters in the west and some other. groups that support that do not want peace and stability in syria that a proportion of the syrian people support president assad in fact some some reports claim that it is the majority now even 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 so-called syrian free army that is supported by western powers and some arab countries needs to. resolve this matter of priorities it needs to set its priorities straight to the international community and to everybody and to the united nations is the priority to actually have a stable and peaceful syria actually build government institutions and also of course

do democratic reforms or it is the priority. changed now the fallout from the syrian crisis could affect israel under such egypt levite all territories it by next decades ago the golan heights provide the country with one third of its fresh water but now that's under threat. has more on how israeli interests are caught up in the unrest of a sniper. the golan heights stretching back a finger between the borders of live and on jordan and syria whoever controls these mountains controls this area. which is rolls down since katrina from damascus in one thousand sixty seven but there's something more fundamental than security at stake 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 you can't walk far without a reminder of this land changing ownership these are old syrian military houses for

the juices will hear now what happens next could be a matter of life and beer if the water becomes polluted they start pumping the water away oh no there's a number of issues that that that would face in this scenario but that was totally unacceptable because it would also change the whole face of the landscape of the state of israel 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 tech and south of the country which is used for both domestic and agricultural purposes water is the main reason for making peace or for one of the war israel annexed golan over thirty years ago it's never been internationally recognized. but syria's instability has israelis on tenterhooks many feel they still to continue to haul and whoever replaces president assad could prove infinitely worse for them it would be like exchanging the boston strangler for jerk

the reaper or vice versa. in the world or it would be important for roughly thirty five percent or for real water resources a strategic vantage point chiefly a vital lifeline to a parched landscape for the syrians a thirst to get back in a hands is unlikely to be quick. no matter how damascus future plans are policy r.t. golan heights i don't much like the west iran is also eagerly watching events unfold in syria but from a very different perspective i coming up next hour here on artsy gift starstruck pira from israel's interview for national security studies tells us here at r.t. just what iran has to lose from the possible for all of assad. syria has been through and the us the dream has been you rance could also spell you for over two

decades if passage through june falls apart iran is standing to lose a very strong only because any government would take place in syria would be a western ally and democracy which is more through likely or muslim muslim brothers were sunni's and were very hostile confused you on any ridge you would be either hostile to run or far from corporate in were on the move much of the bashar al assad regime has been. live from moscow this is r.t. from boycotts to marches and protests there is public anger over the killing of teenager trayvon martin across america gunned down while armed only with iced tea and candy the episode has brought attention to the country's lax gun laws which

critics say have gone far beyond just simple security but what this report is not is more important. 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 patriot it's a great thing and i hope i can use my roundhouse kick for a look down the barrel of my car since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to the point we shoot in the name of self-defense has widened and her controversial legislation known as the stand your ground law experts say it allows going owners to use deadly force to protect themselves and public eye sensually 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 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 proper immunity from any 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 was carrying candy and iced tea when he was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer police released the gunman george zimmerman without charges the bomb was our sign for trayvon is your son. a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like you breaks mine he said.

i'm going to continue to fight for justice for sins stand your ground took effect the number of so-called justifiable homicides in florida have tripled as martin's parents mourn the loss of their son he was 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 a tory sleep powerful u.s. lobbying group that reportedly spent more than seven million dollars on political ads during the two thousand and ten us and the term election paid for by the n.r.a. 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 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 since ninety six you conduct. or said it was about a million people in our culture here if you do the gun violence and so you know as the most powerful nation on the planet the british nation that is some people's minds most democratic nation is by this clearly something that if you can she had people should each other cells americans since nine eleven u.s. civil liberties and freedom have suffered in the name of national security new gun laws have some ulterior knisley made it easier for americans to arm themselves reading the land of liberty locked and loaded up or die of artsy me or. else he is coming to you live from moscow where it's not some of his past the hour still to come on the program a foreign up news. media hypes are rumors of a new nuclear test planned by the north and we hear expert opinion on the internal

reasons behind the reports. plus the skill of pilots in russia or is under scrutiny including why new crews are often unable to perform emergency landings of course this comes a week after a fatal plane crash that killed more than thirty. madrid it could be the next capital after athens to seek international financial help if some analysts are proven correct and spain's football clubs are being caught up in the death spiral they are desperate for cash as the economic crisis puts the squeeze on some of the nation's biggest teams with this report as our teams jacob graves. here in football is to many d.m. haldimand to the beautiful game but off the field he's getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with masses of debt ninety percent of pain teams of the bankrupt placed in spain. presently to premier league clubs read

a bankruptcy or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result of the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested so badly but there is not just the sports it's that passion is the ultimate nation but as with many other aspects as mannish life is a thing financial ruin the change of a year and euro zone a nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs may be offered help in the form of better restructuring refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kits that idea into touch if one m.e.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 he cannot go on like this. pows who has since been dropped

a problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes carlo is one such club in a ministration struggle to pay all of its players wages and. i think the spanish queers were outraged when we talk about a strike installed as this british football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year prompting plays the strike wages are only part of the problem with spending to net the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euros let's walk league and those who lead teams from the boardrooms something drastic needs to change. now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from abroad it's not only about football but also spain as a whole off the pitch a similar scenario is being played in among the best to be fully yielding many positive results and accuse football clubs of taking that always

a football many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greaves madrid spain and to find out what actually happened on europe's football pitches over the weekend stay with us for our sports bulletin that is coming your way next hour here on out. it's been a week since a deadly plane crash in russia siberia claimed more than thirty lives and left twelve in hospital now r.t. is occurring at. a look at the modern problems in the country's education industry to see what's being done to avoid similar tragedies in the future. captain sergei onsen died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot me keep the chin who was only twenty four years old woman arion best a geisha is into the crash of flight one twenty say one possible reason may have been a failure to d.i.'s the plane prior to takeoff it's a decision typically made by the captain of the aircraft which the problems that we

have today in aviation come down to the system that repairs 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 and now it's a college degree and a specialized program that could take up to eight hears to complete opening just last year once all is attempting to turn back the clock and address the issue the primary goal of the aeroflot a.b.h. and school here in moscow is to fix the shortage of professionals in the russian aviation industry and whether horrible equipment and even older models of planes have been to blame and recent crashes and russia over here are 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 moment 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 of these state of the art computer based programs and simulators may fall short when competing with actual flight experience like you nowadays a pilot acts 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 skills like those of pilots who perform miracle landings in two thousand and ten an electrical failure crippled a plane traveling 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 thirteen planes crashed in russia last

year eight of which resulted in fate tallaght ease and all of those three were due to pilot error the most tragic can hit us level which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen charles r.t. moscow. and on our website r.t. dot com you can follow the whole story watch the videos or see the photos from the crash site or as well as listen to the testimonies from the witnesses so here's a taste of what else those lined up for you there right now could the next war zone be up apocalypse find out why that is a real possibility the weapons of the future aim to make nine to control a battlefield tactic. and a controversial u.s. agricultural giant declares a war on the entire state of vermont threatening to sue for a bill regulating genetically modified food is part.

of that. before we get to the world out there let's turn our attention to north korea a south korean news agency reports the north is preparing a new underground nuclear test it will allegedly follow the long range missile tests planned for later this week in a rare move foreign reporters were allowed to see first hand the fully prepared rocket at the launch site the north aim 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 but the hyped up reports of alleged weapons tests are part of south korea's internal politics now that's the view of dr tim beals a researcher and asia specialist from new zealand. it's what the south koreans or

north wind where they use a an incident involving the north to consolidate plants around in kansas and the south that nexen general election and south korea on wednesday so it's clearly aimed at that i think that if there are a further sanctions on north korea after the satellite test and this is satellite that's not a missile test if sanctions then long would guess that lech stay further down the track will be another nuclear test we have to remember that the whole point about north korean strategy is to force americans into into peaceful coexistence so these nuclear tests are all part of that. not something that is done lightly they are in response to you know set of test negotiations so i don't think there's any particular reason to think that the test will come doubt at this time that the rat doesn't make sense and in simple answer is since they suffer in government trying

to garner votes for itself. all right starting with egypt let's get to the r.t. world update now under the former vice president of the country's out of leader hosni mubarak has now joined the race for the country's presidency omarosa lehmann is among twenty hopefuls who have now handed over applications with the 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 is triggering some to fear the country will be put on a strict islamic path. in southern yemen at least thirty have died in an exchange of heavy fire between the military and suspected al-qaeda militants the fighting broke out when armed men attacked an army barracks an ambush which lasted over four years al qaeda gained control of parts of yemen south and east having made use of the destabilizing effect of an ongoing uprising that began last year.

that's going to start and the u.s. have reached a deal which allows kabul to veto american led night raids against militants under the agreement a new body will be created to coordinate special operations and early afghan forces would lead searches of private homes and compounds night raids have been a source of serious tension between a couple of the us following the burning of korans by american troops in february and that the massacre of afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier in march. but before we get in a tussle with the business there now we continue on the other side of a coin or how we explore how u.s. troops are being treated while on duty in afghanistan and that's coming up at about one thirty pm g.m.t. . dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse no doctor has been able to help me. please know that i'll finally be at peace

with no more pain i wish i could have had a wife it was. always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet you says christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side of. heart and i thought she was now standing by the business that's right the are facing the tougher hello to you us how the markets in europe and parts of asia on a break still celebrating easter that's also the main news makers for today's news what do you have for us paul one of the main news makers for today is the united states the world's largest economy receives yet another blow when last week

a barely known agency egan jones cut its rating to double a that's two steps below the highest grade the movie's unlikely to have any serious impact but the agency's analysts are convinced the big agencies including moody's and fitch will follow suit within a year now to discuss the some joint law is by national senior partner at burnell capital here in moscow higher on things for joining. us let's get the situation straight here so moody's and fitch have the u.s. as aaa s. and p. as double a plus and now this new on their own agencies says is double a so which one is right. well you know in america is the largest economy and the most successful economy historically in the world it has the world's reserve currency. is facing enormous structural difficulties right now. cvs to find

very difficult to to solve. you know i think until they find some way to move forward on those problems it doesn't deserve to have the highest possible rights and so i think the double a right to use more go right now speaking of these structural difficulties is there any indication that washington is doing anything to resolve its debt situation. they're certainly trying there's a lot of conversation going on they are trying to find ways to cut expenditure they're trying to buy a grace to raise revenue but you know you see it's political deadlock there until they can find some way to agree on needs to be done to solve these enormous just situational issues that could place america until they can find some sort of consensus the actual practical steps that have been psycho so far relative to the

scale of the problem pretty small. ok you mentioned the political deadlock it's the election season in the u.s. after all how much of it is politics. i think it's a large portion of it is is politics you know i don't think there's anybody in the financial markets or in american politics who doesn't recognize the scale of the issues that the u.s. have thoughts. you know by sides or are willing to take a step back and you've got a system of politics in the u.s. right now which doesn't lend itself a tool to just solving difficult issues and i don't think it's just about the elections but clearly the elections don't help at all. now of course this new agency says that the real rating for the united states should be double a and you seem to agree if the big agencies follow suit how will that impact the market.

i think that the markets in general would probably agree more towards the lower right seeing any why i think the markets have been saying for a while now but some of the issues that america faces means that we should have a triple life right credit right however as we saw with the s. and p. downgrade last year the shock of an announcement can have an impact even if markets are already pricing it so. i think if i don't know it's been there's my you know it will have a negative impact. on markets and it'll be global markets and you know that's the point about america it still is the dominant economic and financial power globally despite his big problem. so roland if i'm an investor and i'm worried and i'm an dissipating all this what should i do sell the treasuries in the dollar. i think i think you would be if you're really anticipating that this will happen

then you want to decrease exposure to risk and again it's really interesting but what we saw last time when the u.s. was downgraded you know where the world went to they went to america they actually went to the u.s. dollar they went to u.s. treasuries so bizarrely is it seems that even though a lot of the world's problems are coming out of the u.s. in times of financial stress people run to the dollar so. i would actually if you anticipated that i beg you to actually be going towards the dollar i don't know that doesn't sound very logical i understand thanks so much for all your insight that was a role in nashville there are no help at all here in moscow and that's all we have time for in this edition of business back in about fifteen minutes to join us our.

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