syrian through some in jeopardy opposition forces refused to guarantee a halt to the violence 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 the homicide rate the homicide rate to soaring in some states. and as reports suggest the deadly plane crash in western siberia a week ago was caused by the crew's decision not to d.i.'s the plane the issue of training professional pilots in russia thrust into the spotlight.

nine pm in moscow i might try as i could to have you with us here on r t our top story the internationally brokered ceasefire in syria scheduled for thursday could be dead on arrival opposition forces are refusing to give written guarantees they'll stop fighting which is the regimes new precondition for withdrawing its troops from cities and towns it's also reports of continuing violence ahead of the truce in the latest incident a clash between the rebels and troops spilled over the border into turkey with a number of people injured a turkish refugee camp. for more on all of this i'm going to live by pepe escobar a correspondent for asia times who's written extensively on middle eastern developments so why do you think syria's government isn't satisfied with is a horrible place from the opposition to lay down arms after the regime forces

withdraw from flashpoint cities and towns. well first of all because it's a sovereign government seconds sherry very important this so-called coffee hanna plant got a lot of input from both russia and china and a play you are actively treats all sides the government here the free syrian army and a syrian source national council the so-called democratic position which is extremely fragmented area to these three or four different strands to it in equal terms so if there is going to be a says fire he has to be respected by both sides what knew nobody stark in a belt is. who is staking part in the northern cities fire element with the syrian opposition they are kept a very special forces on the ground they are training some of these poor ears she hired these guerrillas brain new warriors whatever you want to call them dared

british and french special forces on the ground for months as well and britain and france happened soon be permanent members. fortunately we've lost our connection there with what they ask about. we've reestablished a connection with you so why is the opposition finding it difficult to provide these are written to provide these desired written guarantees his second because it is because this is the key of the whole drama let's put it this way they are being assisted by foreign powers because our special forces we are scenary forces speedy by the house of south by shakespeare from the sunni sheiks from iraq or sunni sheiks from the gulf they are salafi jihadism of middle with an al qaida or strains

of okada connection and we also have british and french special forces on the ground be our plight of the un security council so it's crazy because you're trying to implement a you when glenn where you have two members of the u.n. security council who are aligned with the opposition they are fighting the government alongside the opposition so obviously how can you provide guarantees to the government that this is going to stop this is in fact only normal school over story because there's a shadow war going on for months any to stop so yes you are we need to said the plan he's dead on arrival it has been dead on arrival true the starts for the opposition says it doesn't recognize the government and won't give guarantees the regime says it won't withdraw troops without getting these guarantees do you think they're at a logger heads here at the planet a dead end. yes totally because the original idea of the.

different plants the russian plan was more or less a neat term plan leading to elections reconciliation and negotiation so as a side side by side in the chinese plan as much more long term plan. these two planes were diluted into this so-called proposal and in fact i'll have a chance in two weeks two calls the same question we were discussing a few minutes ago took on c.n.n. himself in a conference oh read the e-mail my question so i hope that in two weeks' time i can have an answer from coffee enema himself and i can relate this answer to our two viewers very briefly the syrian regime has asked for guarantees from qatar saudi arabia and turkey to stop financing what it calls these armed terrorist groups in syria do you think that plea is likely to be heeded. i'm sorry it's absolutely false can't even imagine the house of celtic up areas and elements in the sunni

hard core elements that authorities caught up with one to destabilize what would have been trying to the supplies that bashar also google for the past year or so you respect of the fact that it is a very harsh regime and it it's a police state any as it kills civilians and we all know about that but the opposition also killed civilians the also tortured civilians in effect if you do a balance of rights it's forty sixty or fifty five to sixty five you know everybody is being blamed in everybody has to take the blame the problem is nobody is going to respect the kofi annan plan most of all number one house of cell and qataris who keep the army the opposition has the said coldly keep retreated it publicly at the british and english special forces on the ground for months as well to keep doing their job all right but ask a very good times correspondent thanks for your insight thank you. every inch of the syrian crisis being monitored intensely by the country's neighbors whose future

might be directly affected by the fallout in israel there are fears and ousting of the leadership in damascus could lead to a bloody conflict over strategically vital territories or he's powerless leader explains. the golan heights stretching like 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 golan is absolutely essential for for israel's water there's no doubt about that and can't walk far without a reminder of those lands changing ownership these are old syrian military houses for the juices will hear now what happens next could be a matter of life and death at the water because polluted if they start pumping the water away who knows there's a number of issues that would be facing this scenario but 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 as water is the main reason for making peace or for going to war with israel and mexico learn over thirty years ago it's never been internationally recognized. that serious instability has israelis until the hawks many feel they start to continue oh and whoever replaces president assad could prove infinitely worse for them no notion in the world or. the board for roughly thirty five percent or for real water resources a strategic vantage point but chiefly a vital lifeline to

a parched landscape for the syrians a thirst to get back in their hands is unlikely to be quenched no matter how damascus his future plans are policy r.t. golan heights. reaction to the syrian crisis in the region policy or spoke with you have to ship here from israel's institute for national security studies about what regime change could mean for syria's key ally iran full interview coming up in the next hour here's a preview. syria has been and the assad regime has been yuans closest alley for over two decades if us and through june falls apart iran is standing to lose a very strong adly because any government would take place in syria was a. western of our own democracy which is a multitude likely all muslim the muslim brothers were sunnis and were very hostile

confused we were on any. other horse then to run. from corporate king with iran as much as the. assad regime has been. controversial us gun laws coming under rising public scrutiny the latest outrage at lax legislation 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 beyond personal safety instead serving the interest of those making and selling the weapons or he's very important has the 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 into my home i could use my roundhouse kick for a look down the barrel of my car since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to point shoot in the name of self-defense has widened under a 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 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 litigation 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 but trayvon is your son. a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like you said i mean this is going to continue to fight for justice for since that 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 pursue. gun permits. critics say easy access comes courtesy of the national rifle association or and or

a gun rights organization and torrie sleep powerful us 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 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 or a 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 just like you sixty conduct. or said even some of the people in our culture here are just beginning to gun violence and so you know as the most powerful nation on the planet the british nation is in some people's minds most in a great nation by this clearly something before you can see that people should each other oh themselves americans since nine eleven the u.s.

civil liberties and freedom have suffered in the name of national security while new gun laws up some alternate history made it easier for americans to arm themselves leaving the land of liberty locked and loaded up or die of heart see we're going to later this hour football for you thought. to me. it is not just as. bad as football teams face a whole new game as the sport feels the pinch alongside the country's debt worries . but first it's been a week since the deadly plane crash in russia siberia left more than thirty dead technical failure listed as a probable cause of the incident with a crew reportedly choosing not to d.i.'s the plane before takeoff artie's karen taraji looks into the problems facing russia's aviation future. captain sergei onsen died the day before his twenty eighth birthday his copilot. was only twenty

four years old the women are investigators 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 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 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 or computer based programs and simulators may fall short when competing with actual flight experience with 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. unconventional circumstance 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 but to 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 east and those three were due to pilot error and most tragic and u.s. level which killed all but one of the forty five people on board karen r.t. moscow for the full picture on this siberian disaster you can log on to r.t. dot com they are fighting the remarkable story of one passenger aboard the ill fated flight between trees spent days in a hospital and identified before his relatives realized his name had wrongly been placed on the list of those killed in the crash more of his dramatic ordeal on our website our team dot com. a prominent german

a writer and nobel prize recipient going through grosse has been declared persona non grata by israel after harsh criticism for his new poem published last week in his latest work in germany's most famous living author accusing israel of endangering world peace and its standoff with iran his work was condemned at home and in israel gideon levy a newspaper columnist for israeli paper ha'aretz so televisa response to the poem is over the top. the reaction of is out of proportion aggressive and really stupid and ridiculous. to declare. as a persona non grata only because of his views is as extreme as they may be israelis. using too much the second is ation of being and the symmetrix there is anti semitism in the world no no doubt about it

but there are so many critics of israel who are even genuine friends of israel and there is so much legitimate critics on israel and so much justified critical of israel and this way of always attacking anyone who dares to criticize israel as an anti semitic is really is not efficient and is finally counterproductive because the world will not abide i'd rather see free read this isn't about israel and a constructive reaction to it rather than threatening and preventing intellectuals into israel. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe former k.g.b. head of the indeed to be alive has won the right has won the presidential runoff in south ossetia he gave fifty four percent of the votes overcoming his rival a human rights commissioner who got forty three russia and several other countries recognize the state as independent four years ago this follows the two thousand and

eight five day war after georgia launched a military offensive against russian peacekeepers of the south a city in capitals involved. as many as thirty people have died in southern yemen during a firefight between military and suspected al-qaeda militants before our exchanges broke out when armed men attacked an army barracks al-qaeda fighters have taken advantage of yemen's political turmoil which started last year to seize control of parts of the country's south and east. police in tunisia 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 also met with force from police hardline muslims recently held demonstrations of their own attacking the national theatre in tunis demanding the country abide by islamic law the coalition governments come under fire for failing to enact change following the tunisian revolution more than

a year ago. spanish football teams are found themselves sucked into the nation's debt spiral in a country widely seen as the next recipient of any you cash rescue hundreds of millions of euros in debt and under a cause of criticism from abroad all trouble seen on a larger scale now reflected in the country's most popular sport or his jacob riis reports from madrid. in football list and many of the beach full game but off the field is getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with massive debt ninety percent of the teams of the bankrupt a based in spain italy have been having a presently to premier league clubs read it bankrupts all have bankruptcy and this is a terrible result and the clubs have to realise that they can only spend as much as they have invested so badly. it is not just the sports that actually. open nation but as with many other aspects the spanish life is the least thing

financial ruin the truth of the e.u. and euro zone a 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 kits that idea into touch if one n.d.p. calling the move a threat to competition and asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable we are 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. composing has since been dropped but the problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in pay taxes. is one such club ministration is struggling to pay all of its players wages and. i think the sponge players outraged when we talk about

a strike it is gone because the spanish football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year probing players the strike wages are only part of the problem is spending to net the world's greatest talent amounting to four hundred million euros in the top league and those who lead teams from the board rooms 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 the pitch a similar scenario could be played in the case to be told me you give me as achieve results a more some accuse football clubs of taking that. many are saying to say about the nation's leaders griefs madrid spain. are in is here with all the business news summary of what's happening with today's markets and i thought so there were actually wants in the us markets in the us because they were closed on

friday for the easter holidays and everyone was expecting them to open in the red which the question is are they still posting losses and i'll give you the answer to that after this break. the. line. which bryson if you remember from runs to

pressure. on t.v. don't come. around well astronauts will begin with a u.s. markets which are still in the red and that's of course a reaction to friday is this a point in jobs that investors are only now reacting to this because they were closed for the easter holidays as we can see both the dow and the nasdaq are setting over a half a percent now on a side note i want to mention that a.o.l. shares are soaring and that's after the company every to sell eight hundred patents to microsoft about one billion dollars and why is microsoft even into circle of grass because these absence will insulate its partner phrased both from for its central at times which these patterns would have helped create all right let's move on and take a look at the exchange rate similar picture hasn't been seen for the past couple of hours the u.s. dollar is gaining against the euro i don't consider google it's losing against both

major currencies i mention the ruble so we might go ahead and take a look at the russian markets they are close to what you see right now is the closing picture in they made a dramatic u. turn in the last hour of the trade and session ended on the positive note both the r.t.s. and the my six added over a half a percent now trading has been pretty much slow in recent weeks but we might see a pick up in that city and that's because the government is saying that it will push ahead with this probably ties a some program finally the deputy prime minister even to evolve said that who should see and finalization to the program in about two months and of course the sale includes companies such as b c b's grove and c moscow and poor. it's as well as many many others this little account of the main movers on of m i six. producer all roadsides even managed to escape negative territory and that's this by post about its net profit in the first quarter increased by its clients and it's been the percent now the c.b. that was posting losses throughout the entire day turned around and in the end

added almost a warning of per se and what we know there is that the company posts the losses last year as net profit almost all of us according to the russian accounts insiders and finally polling data was talking to the trends all day long and it's they there and that was due to strong gold gold prices all right paul and all other related news we have car sales in russia over ninety percent in the first quarter making that total of about six hundred thousand vehicles and that sampras models were all produced in russia that's almost locked out while the sun models payment second place. and there could be trouble ahead for energy firms hotel and any the wall street journal says the u.s. and libya prosecutors are now investigating the french and italian companies for possible corruption and he says this relates to payments to the regime led by moammar gadhafi and if these violations are proved the companies may face

difficulties expanding in africa's most oil rich country now any and so with all our partners of russia's gas from and number of projects and that's all business like ceasar mats back to you. all right thanks very much for next year on our cheek when suicide becomes our side effect our special report exploring a controversial drug is on its way after a recap of our top stories stay with us. well

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