all right. syrian troops in jeopardy opposition forces refused to guarantee a halt to the violence and the new demand the government says is crucial for a troop pullout ahead of a u.n. deadline. controversy surrounding u.s. gun laws gains of momentum but the latest killing of an unarmed teenager triggering accusations that lax legislation has lots of a homicide rate soaring in certain states. and as reports suggest the deadly plane crash in western siberia a week ago was caused by the cruise decision not to d. ice the plane the issue of training professional pilots in russia now is thrust

into the spotlight. it's good to have you with us today this is r.t. live from moscow with me rory six shame. the internationally brokered cease fire in syria shows you all for thursday could be dead in the water opposition forces are refusing to give written guarantees they will stop fighting which is the regime's new precondition for withdrawing its troops from cities and towns there are also reports of continuing violence ahead of the truce and the latest incident a clash between rebels and troops spilled over the border with turkey with a number of people injured and a turkish refugee camp a little bit later in the program we will be speaking to our correspondent. later in the program half an hour beirut based a political analyst omar in

a shabby says there are indications some powers both within and outside syria are just not interested in peace. this so-called free syrian army and its supporters in the west and some other. groups that support that do not want peace and stability in syria 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 a majority even if it is an equal number or a large proportion of the syrian population then one cannot have a stable syria without dialogue and one cannot have a dialogue without a ceasefire so the the opposition groups or do so called the syrian free army that is supported by western powers and some arab countries needs to. dissolve 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 and to actually build government institutions and also of course to democratic reforms or it is the priority. changed. every inch of the syrian crisis is being monitored intensely by the country's neighbors whose future might be directly affected by the fallout in israel there are fears an ousting of the leadership in damascus could lead to a bloody conflict over strategically vital territories with the explanation is artist. the golan heights stretching back a finger between the borders of lebanon and jordan and syria whoever controls these mountains controls this area. which is wells johnson's caption from damascus in one nine hundred 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 reminder of this land changing ownership these are old syrian military houses for the jews it will hear now what happens next could be a matter of life and if the water becomes polluted if they start pumping the water away they all know there's a number of issues that that that would face in this scenario that it was totally unacceptable because it would also change the whole face of the landscape of the state of israel this is the largest 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 where it is used for both domestic and agricultural purposes water is the main reason for making peace or for going to war israel and next 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 at home and whoever replaces president assad could prove infinitely worse for them no notion in the world or it would be important for roughly thirty five percent or for real water resources a strategic vantage point a chiefly a vital lifeline to a parched landscape for the syrians if the first to get back in a hands is unlikely to be quenched no matter how damascus has future plans out policy r.t. golan heights. catering reaction to the syrian crisis in the region paul asli also spoke to appear from israel's interest for national security studies about what regime change could mean for serious key ally that of iran and the full interview coming up later this hour for now a quick preview. syria has been through and us the group dream has been

iran's closest value for over two decades if us or through june falls apart you run to lose a very strong only because any government would pick police in syria will be. worse than others and democracy which is more true likely all muslim muslim brothers were sunni's of world very hostile to. you on any ridge you would be either hostile to run or far from corporately with the ground of as much as the bashar assad regime has been. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow a controversial u.s. gun laws are coming under increasing public scrutiny the latest outrage at lax legislation sparked by the killing of an unarmed teenager in florida critics say the right to bear arms and shoot in the name of self defense go well beyond

personal safety and instead serving of the interests of those producing and selling weapons artie's miniport noir has this story. if the second amendment to the u.s. constitution had a soundtrack. their 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 truck nora black belt. some great sin to my home i could 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 to 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 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 a 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 for the bomb was our sign on is your son. a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like you break them i mean it's

going to continue to fight for justice for since 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 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 frights organization and tori sleep powerful u.s. lobbying group that reportedly spent more than seventy million dollars on political ads during the two thousand and ten u.s. midterm election a four by 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 or a campaign contributions to florida politicians or corporate money that 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 just like you sixty conduct big budget committee were set it was about a million people in our culture here if you didn't take the gun violence and so you know as the most of the population of positive approaches nation that in some people's minds most integration of. living simply if you can see people shooting each other all of south americans since nine eleven u.s. civil liberties and freedom up suffered in the name of national security while new gun laws up some ulterior nicely made it easier for americans to arm themselves reading the land of liberty locked and loaded up or die of heart see me or. he is coming to live from moscow and a bit later this hour here on the program of football in freefall. to be here. it is not just those. spanish football teams face

a whole new ball game as the sport feels the pinch alongside the country's easy you dead braves. the standoff over a north korean satellite launch continues john yang showed off its fully prepared rockets of foreign journalists but the u.s. sounds south korea still not convinced it's for peaceful purposes. it's been a week since the deadly plane crash in russia siberia left over thirty people dead technical failure has been listed as a probable cause of the incident with the crew reportedly choosing not to d.i.'s the plane before takeoff artie's karen a terror watch it looks into the problems facing russia's ovulation future. captain sergei onsen died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot nikita chin who was only twenty four years old the luminary investigations 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 prepares and manufactures planes as well as those who trained 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 one school is attempting to turn back the clock and address the issue the primary goal of the aeroflot 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 the 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 but 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 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 at 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 of those three were due to pilot error the most tragic in yugoslavia which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen taraji r.t. moscow. and a full picture of the disaster in siberia just log on to our t. taught com there you'll find the remarkable story of one passenger who survived the ill fated flight but dimitri spent two days in a hospital identified before his relatives realized his name had been wrongly placed on a list of those killed in the crash and get more on his or dramatic ordeal on our web site. plus nov first but the feathers were certainly flying here in celebration of international pillow fight day and enjoy

a replay of all the further action from all around the world are to come. in a ten minutes time is the business but for now spanish football teams have found themselves sucked into the nation's debt spiral in a country widely seen as the next recipient of an e.u. cash rescue hundreds of millions of euros in debt and under constant criticism from abroad all the trouble seen on a larger scale than are reflected in the country's most popular sport. reports. here in football is for many the embodiment of the beautiful game but off the field it's getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with masses of debt ninety percent of who european teams are bankrupt

a based in spain and i think after having been in presently the premier league clubs read a bankruptcy or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested to believe. it is not just the sport it's that much a part of the nation but as with many other aspects of the spanish life they seeing financial ruin me treasure of a year and euro zone a nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs may be offered help in the form of debt restructuring refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked that idea into touch with one every 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 can order one might this. the

reposing has since been dropped but the problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes rayo vallecano is one such club in ministration its struggle to pay all this players' wages. but i think the spanish queers were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious the spanish football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year prompting place the strike wages are only part of the problem with spending to net the world's greatest talent amounting to four hundred million euros in the top league and those who leave teams from the boardrooms think something drastic needs to change. now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from abroad is not only about football but also spain as a whole off the pitch a similar scenario is being played out the noncompetitive economy is not yielding

many positive results a more some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes off the ball many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greaves madrid spain. and of spain struggling to contain its budget deficit now the government's austerity measures continue to anger the public but fearne szell and emotional stability of people europe wide is being tested on a daily basis next hour our cross talk show examines the link between wealth and misery. people in good relationships are happier people who are in abject poverty less happy people who have lots of friends are happier people who do you and he looks like critically to rotate through to life happier such as volunteering or things if you're having friends makes you happy which clearly does it having a religion makes you happy which clearly there's what is the policy relevance of this term the coming government introduce some suit sort of theocracy and they somehow forces our friends to spend time with you clearly not and this is

a problem with that in the studies is the whole the all the focus is the improved happiness i've heard the government can't do anything about them in the case of for example people tend to be out here in sunny weather all the tens of be happy if they're married government can't affect that all we're doing a thing about them because the government has bigger priorities. in just a moment it's the r.t. world updater but for now north korea is digging a new underground tunnel in preparation for a third nuclear test that's according to a south korean intelligence it's believed the test or follow the long range missile launch planned for later this week john yang allowed foreign reporters to see the fully prepared rocket which it says will be used to put a communications satellite into orbit u.s. and south korean officials however believe it might be a covert ballistic missile test japan has also threatened to shoot down the rocket

should it crossed into its territory dr tim build a research and asia specialist says there's no reason to believe north korea is testing its nuclear capabilities. a rockets can either to live or a missile or a satellite for the technologies on on the sea overlapping there's no doubt i think this is a satellite tesla's 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 we can tell whether it's it's unfortunate satellite tension to launch a satellite or testing missile there's no doubt the decisions in fact testing going on to a satellite entering snorted satellite this clearly has nourishing implications to then it does for any other country the interesting one is japan which people tend to look into japanese and they can last us about missile launch into shutdown day.

the rocket exception said japan is what just called a threshold state it chanced they advanced nuclear. industry and it has advanced rocketry and. political decisions are taken about physics estimation from washington and a rapidly become a major nuclear weapons state and the japanese like to use the koreans as a means of pushing out for. tried before at some arena with the business news for this hour let's do the r.t. world update and we will start with southern yemen as many as thirty people have died in that part of the country during a firefight between the military and suspected al-qaeda militants before our exchange broke out when armed men attacked an army barracks al qaeda fighters have taken advantage of yemen's political turmoil which began last year to seize control

of parts of the country's south and east. arsonists have destroyed parts of a government administrative building in greece police found small cooking gas canisters inside the complex which were used i was used rather by the athens a reform ministry the fire follows the assault of a police officer during a memorial march honoring a man who killed himself last week run out of parliament as he blamed his debts on politicians. police and to news you have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators rallying against the country's poor economic condition and in defiance of a government ban on protests a similar event held saturday was also met with force from police hardline muslims recently held demonstrations of their own attacking the national theatre in tunis k'naan in the country abide by islamic law the coalition government has come under fire for a fairly into a change following the tunisian revolution that's now been well as more and more

than a year ago. and sort of merino there you are the r t business wall street now open everyone expected markets there to be in the red how are they looking yes story well it is in fact as sea of red i don't know if you can see behind me but basically both of them are and they're as they're as you can see it red and this is there and that's because everyone pretty much expected this to happen because on friday we saw ever are part of the u.s. economy without the most amount of thought since the end of the recession but in the end it was the smallest. increase in the past five months and of course investors could react to that on friday because the markets were closed and this is what we're seeing right now as you can see both the dow and the nasdaq are fighting over one percent in the south and we will see will see further declines next hour or maybe it will make a lot of movement of the exchange rates it's still a similar picture as we've been seeing the past couple of hours the dollar is still

again in against the euro and when it comes to the ruble it's the loser and against both major currencies now moving on to russia for investors here are still struggling to find direction if we can look at those figures now the russian markets there we go about to show up and we see that there my sights how it's now eight minutes of terror in this point in the words point person this hour trading has been pretty much a slow in the past couple of weeks but we may see a pick up in the city and that's because the government is pushing ahead with its privatization program that we've heard this many times before but the deputy prime minister of now says that the program should get final approval in about three months time and the list includes companies such as burbank we have read c b as well as most airports among others now let's take a look at the main movers on the my six most of the blue chips are still lower because we've seen that both markets were and are right for the past couple of hours we have a garment producer all roselle lose

a point of war percent this hour minimizing earlier losses and that's despite a company post about its first quarter that profit rose by twenty three percent banks are still under pressure where we see losing over a half a percent and what we know about the company is not opposed to the financial results it's not a profit last year almost but that's according to russian accounts and sanders and the bucking that trend still this hour as a polymath so i'll ever so slightly and that's because of stronger gold and other news we are focusing on cars sales of russia jumped nineteen percent in the first quarter making a total of about six hundred thousand vehicles the best seller models for all produced in russia that's up almost log nissan models came in second place. that will go right some more news for you this hour and hopefully it will pick up or have the closing take so for the russian markets that's out for you sorry very

good marina thanks very much for that will see that. you are still to come here are three of the headlines out an exclusive interview regarding iran do stay with us here on out. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact.

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