all right. let. me. syrian troops in jeopardy opposition forces refused to guarantee or hold to the violence and it's a new demand the government says is crucial for a troop pullout ahead of a u.n. deadline. controversy surrounding us gun laws against momentum with the latest killing of an unarmed teenager triggering accusations that lax legislation has led to the homicide rates soaring in some states. and that's reports suggest the deadly plane crash in western siberia a week ago was caused by the cruise decision not to d.i.'s the plane the issue now of training professional pilots in russia is thrust into the spotlight. plus

russell markets make a comeback in the last hour all the trade incessant more in the business his final minutes. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. with me roll recent show the internationally brokered ceasefire in syria showed you all for thursday could be dead in the water the opposition forces are refusing to give written guarantees they'll stop fighting which is the regime's new precondition for withdrawing its own 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 and the number of people injured at a turkish refugee camp let's get the latest now from our teaser is sara first

joining us live on the program here sara to tell us how has the syrian gunfire now reached into turkish territory are we seeing an escalation there. this is the refugee camp because east refugee camp that's right so on the turkish syrian border of course you've got quite a number of counts in that area as you see the huge influx of syrian refugees to be fleeing the violence but this is an e container count that was set up to hold around twelve thousand refugees naturally we were there i just a week ago and they started leaving some of the refugees from the other cons to this country it really is almost a zero points over the border turkey in syria very very close to where we've seen violence breaking out previously now it's worth mentioning that these clashes that have broken out between the free syrian army and the syrian army aren't completely new these most recent ones of course extremely disturbing because some of that

gunfire reaching. the side and injuring reportedly some of the people in that count not accounts where we visited the free syrian army the main opposition rebel forces that have been operating inside the country are operating very heavily in this area of course you've got the military defectors count in turkey is extremely hard to get any contact from that whatsoever types of dorothy's and make it very difficult to even i speak will contact the people inside that area indeed they won't let you go to place to it and then some of the free syrian army people we were speaking to on the turkish side had telling us really that the the free syrian army are still crossing back across in some parts to help the refugees that are crossing but of course that is extremely concerning the turkish authorities allowing facilitating in some ways the syrian f.s.a. cheats to go of course back into syria of course these clashes then pretty

expecting extremely disturbing because you've got this refugee camp so close to where some of this violence is in harkness. walking. across the border i walk again. maybe. the army took a shine to me they came to the back maybe he's come along there's some people come back you know this people work with the f.s.a. . beside the border across the turkish border just syria understood this type of order i know that many of the free syrian army people here there are people here and they're operating there inside you not because the government has let him go back to fight now so this is all happening in the run up to the fast approaching deadline for an agreed truce in syria how are things are looking in that respect.

because the deadline for that and planning for the withdrawal of the syrian troops from the civilian areas the keys day and of course of these problems really couldn't come at a worse time and thursday forty eight hours after that she's a deadline with for the total cease fire and of course now looking extremely unlikely there was a little criticism right from the beginning though about some of the details of this plan that deadline in itself by some people to be pretty unrealistic in not least because you know there really hasn't been the support from all sides to you've got an extremely complex situation going on certainly from the turkish side you know understandable skepticism given what's come before and given the level of violence that we have seen in some of these civilian areas but really not many people getting behind us and as we said you have this concern about the fact that the free syrian army are still able to cross

a to take orders and so you are going to see these clashes and we've now seen the syrian government saying you know they did then you then you calls a for the guarantees to come from the opposition groups and from the countries that are backing the opposition from qatar from saudi arabia we need them to stop funding the opposition and we need their guarantees that if we do with that they're going to lay down their arms as well i mean extremely concerning conning so close to that deadline it seems extremely unlikely that they to cease fire is going to be region of course you've got this continued situation we've had all along the you know the end and pancakes and the u.n. envoy trying to be right at this middle ground between the two sides of the deadly massacre place descending every time to be with these obstacles and unfortunately again we're just seeing this stalemate the no one really seems to know how to break or authorities are surface live in cyprus thank you. meantime a beirut based political analyst says there are indications that some powers both

within and outside syria are simply not interested in peace the so-called free syrian army and its supporters in the west and some other. groups that support the do not. laugh proportion of the syrian people support president assad in fact. some records 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 dialogue and one cannot have a dialogue without a ceasefire so the the opposition groups or before called the syrian free army that is supported by western powers and some arab countries needs to. resolve this matter of priority needs to set its priorities. and to the international community and to everybody and the united nations is the priority. we have

a stable and peaceful syria and to actually build government institutions and all thought of course it would be more graphic we form the order is the priority. it is change you're watching r.t. controversial us gun laws are coming under increasing public scrutiny the latest outrage at lax a 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 said serving the interests of those producing and selling weapons. has details. 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 progress under my home i could use my roundhouse kick for a look down the barrel of my garage since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to point in the name of self-defense has widened under controversial legislation known as the stage your ground law experts say it allows gun owners to use deadly force to protect themselves in public essentially delivering a license to kill it's 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 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 son but 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 leave me. 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 a tory 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 paid for 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 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 and stand your ground law has been adopted in twenty five states throughout america since ninety six year old bobby kennedy herself there were some. people in our culture you know if you do become violent and so you know as the most powerful nation on the planet the british nation in some people's minds most democratic nation. clearly something that you can see people should each other and shows americans since nine eleven u.s.

civil liberties and freedom have suffered in the name of national security new gun laws have some old seen as we made it easier for americans to arm themselves reading the land of liberty locked and loaded or die of heart see me are. still to come for you a bit later in this program but have a football in free fall. so if it. those. shirts financial football teams for you saw a whole new ballgame as the sport feels the pinch alongside the country's e.u. death words. it's been a week since the deadly plane crash in russia's siberia left over thirty people dead technical failure has been listed as a probable cause of the incident with the crew reportedly true zing not to do ice the plane before takeoff to its current era train now looks into the problems facing russia's aviation future captain sergei onsen died they gave before his

twentieth birthday his copilot nikita chin who was only twenty four years old the woman arion best a geisha is 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 from the problems that we have today in aviation comes 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 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 over here are the primary focus is on the human factor the idea that pilots and copilots should be able to handle high 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 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 are 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 a 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 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 and yet us level which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen taraji r.t. moscow. and for the full picture on the disaster in siberia just log on to our t. taught com there you'll find a remarkable story of one passenger who was on board the ill fated flight i can retrieve spent days in a hospital identified before his relatives realized his name had been wrongly placed on the list of those killed in the crash but more on that dramatic ordeal on

our web site r.t. dot com. a prominent german writer and nobel prize winner good grass has been declared persona non grata by israel and this following a harsh criticism for his new poem published last week in his latest work germany's most famous a living author cues to israel live in danger in world peace in its standoff with iran his work was condemned at home and in israel and joining us now live from tel aviv to discuss the scandal is gideon levy a columnist for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz. thank you for coming on r.t. today good to see you do you think the condemnation grass is facing first poem is justified or perhaps has it been blown out of proportion. no both sides out of proportion i think the grouse a huge right exactly the in his critique of israel is or should not be compared to iran in full sure there are no intentions in israel to exterminate the iranian

people is he into but the reaction of rules out of potion aggressive and really stupid and ridiculous. to be clear. as a person on grata only because of he's views is as extreme as they may be reminds me of iran finally here comes the comparison because in any democracy people will be prevented to enter the country because of anything they say or expressed but now there's i was reading a new article that you recently penned that there is a prohibition in germany about talking badly about israel is that why israel so angry with a poet. there is it. official one obeys the many many years there was a in germany against any kind of criticism this way and even the first day

use of the day this was justified when the whole course was released in prison everywhere today i think it's about time to break this to. us not the first one but one of the first ones to break these three i find it very healthy boastful germans and for israelis there would not be any troubles and yes i guess that he'd get into the grass would have been russian he wouldn't have gotten such aggressive reaction like he good being german but do you think you think there's a bit of a danger here that anybody daring to question israel is instantly q-tip being anti semitic i mean do you think israel hides behind this defense to avoid alex or his critics perhaps. yeah unfortunately i agree israelis are. using too much the sequoias ation of being into semantics

there is anti semitism in the world no no doubt about it but there are so many critics of israel why even genuine friends of israel and there is so much legitimate critics on israel and so much just critical in israel and this way of always it taking anyone who dares to. criticize israel as an anti semitic he's really is not efficient and he's finally counterproductive because the world will be buying it it is for certain period of time maybe people are more aware more kill fool because they're afraid of these accusations was the history but you know not for long and i'd rather see free rooty says i'm a vote. and a constructive reaction to it rather threatening and preventing intellectuals into

his way if we can from other let's get to the core of the issue explored in going to grasp this poem that israel might strike iran and eradicate its people i mean strong themes aside and then yahoo has said many times that an attack on iran is on the cards it isn't cross right to worry about the consequences of such a possible strike. first of all i share the same worries i am very worried the. object thing any kind of attack on iran by the good progress missed one point and this is a crucial one he's hinting that is will we use nuclear weapons against iran and this was never discussed the never saw the never. the only israeli plane if it all. to destroy nuclear capability of iran not the people nobody thinks about it nobody plenty nobody has it in his mind and

here grass went one step too far and i think it was counterproductive even for his cause because people like me share the criticism share the fear of an israeli attack but right to exaggerate the israeli attack will never be a nuclear attack on the iranian people will shoot out as the first gideon levy a columnist for the haaretz newspaper live for us and salivate thank you for joining us here on out it's ok. 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 or the troubles seen on a larger scale and now we're flicked it on the country's most popular sport now with this report is artistic craves. european football is for many been born human

to the beautiful game but off the field it's getting ugly top flight spanish clubs are struggling with masses of debt descent of who european teams of the bankrupt are based in spain. presently the premier league clubs are either bankrupt or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they've invested to barely. it is not just the sport it's that it's the thought of a nation but as with many other aspects as mannish life is a thing financial ruin me true of the year and euro zone the nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs may be offered help in the form of debt restructuring or refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked that idea into touch with one n.d.p. calling the move a threat to competition you know asking german clubs to speak out i find it

unthinkable we paid hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts to canada when might this. the repos who has since been dropped but the problem persists with spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros and pay taxes cano is one such club in administration its struggle to pay all this players' wages. i think the spanish players who are outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious theirs 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 euros in the top league and those who lead teams from the boardrooms think 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 out a noncompetitive economy is not yielding many positive results and while some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes of the bull many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greece literate spain. and of spain struggles to contain its budget deficit the government's austerity measures continue to anger the public the financial and emotional stability of people europe wide is being tested on a daily basis and this hour here on our very own cross talk show examining the link between wealth and. good relationships are happier people who are in abject poverty less happy people who have lots of friends are happier people who do you do lots of outside political is happier such as volunteering or things if you're having

friends makes you happy which clearly does it having religion makes you happy which clearly there's what is the policy relevance of this come the coming government introduce some suit sort of theocracy can they somehow foresees our friends to spend time with you clearly not and this is a problem with out in the studies is that all the it's all the folks 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 at their married government can't think that all he would do anything about them because stillman has bigger priorities. right across the uk is coming your way in exactly seven minutes to stay with us for that hero it's. why straight to the r.v. business there's marina good to see you again you had mentioned last hour the russian markets making a come but does that mean we lose a positive close to the trading session. yes well we saw that last hour the mice

a skate in negative territory and then basically what happened was the artsy as story and it just kept going higher and higher and higher but let's take a look at the closing picture for the russian markets for monday as you can see there both the r.t.s. and the mice and of the trading session in the black the artsy has added over a half a percent and m i six just under one percent now in general trading has been pretty slow and some weeks but we are expecting to see it pick up by seventy and that's because the government now says that they will push ahead with their privatized program when i was for this many times the prime minister says that the program will get final approval and soon monson just remind you the companies that are included in this product as a from program includes burbank the t.v. as well as the airports among others let's move on and take a look at the individual share moves on of them i said to see slightly

a different picture here when it comes to all grow saw it end of a training session. negative didn't manage to escape the trading over there and what we know is that the company's first quarter net profit rose once you think of that didn't help that in the end and then moving on the v t v made a very strong comeback adding almost one percent there this comes this point the fact that last year's a net profit for the company almost and that's on the russian are now in standards that's what we probably saw losses earlier in the day now falling metal has been bucking the trend all day long only see that it and the trade in session on a positive note as well and that's because of a stronger gold prices well moving on and you see here we have car sales in russia jones and nineteen percent and the first quarter making its hole up about six hundred thousand vehicles some tests of the models were all produced a rough ride that's up on was law though about me some models came and. second

place. all right let's take a look at the u.s. markets we've been expected to be a sea of red and that's exactly what happened and it's still as you rightly see both of our and their eyes sidesaddle over warmed up her side and that's following disappointing jobs they that like the man on friday but investors are reacting so are today because the trading was closed for a third of friday and what we have there is that both of those out as i mentioned are there's an overall want to precise and it's a look at the exchange rate similar picture as we've seen throughout the whole day when it comes to the u.s. dollar it's again against the euro and when it comes to the ruble it's in the news and against both main currencies and that's how business looks so i have another update and one hour for you.

culture is that so much of it actually has me wondering is a chemise maybe my people are hearing it's a time finally when we should value obligated measurements of well being industries such as g.d.p. and other governments to.