points of concern over civil violence scream out in bahrain as loud as the formula one cars do to raise around the traffic but they're still left on her and by those quick to buy into the fears of a levy and syria. the i.m.f. moves to fourteen assignable euro zone from the global economy has a view politicians jump on the anti-union sentiment sweeping. across. these train tracks and one of the few successful parts of the project to try to bring transport to the russian north the further down the line the project failed having cost sounds of lives stay tuned for more discoveries in russia close up coming out.

of the russian capital you are with r t i'm marina joshing the roar of formula one engines will be heard in bahrain this weekend despite the gulf states still shaking under civil unrest and their regime activists have pledged to boycott the event and step up their protest while two members of the force india team have already fled the state after thirty were caught up in clashes on their way back from the track but as a teaser in english from now reports unlikely yet and syria this uprising is surprisingly off the radar. it took a car fire ahead of a major sporting event for the world to notice the flames of discord engulfing a small island nation in the persian gulf but green is suffocating in the smoke of an ongoing struggle between protesters and police there are three says have been happening in bahrain for more than a year now protesters say this is the longest lasting revolt in the arab spring but

so far the only result from them has been an increase in violence on all sides since from the capital be a more than passing similarity to the pictures out of the embattled syrian city of homs but the citizen jewett a very different level of attention. and the media stayed surprisingly silent considering their stance on other middle eastern revolutions they were all but silent when the bahraini revolution was crushed last year there are all but silent about the human rights abuses in bahrain itself and the formula one race is just focused attention that society in the media does turn to the hurricane they seem to do more harm than good for you as a coverage that they also did you always use the framework. for justice. and they don't understand that this actually helps the governments to see you as it was free syria such as the opposition says hundreds have been wounded in standoff

with police and many sacked from their jobs or arrested for taking part in mass protests but unlike in syria and libya no one has called for foreign intervention. problems put before the international human rights council european insert american countries were enthusiastic about exploring this issue but the us prefer to be the mission created here by the government it did bring back several medieval barry any human rights defenders who were in exile when the real one speeds out of town much of the media and the world's attention is likely to follow in bahrain it even goes . nato intervention may be on cards in syria as turkey is planning to appeal for nato support following recent clashes near its borders and that's according to u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton speaking at a ministerial gathering of the friends of syria group and paris she also called on

global arms embargo and tougher financial sanctions against a masochist if it fails to abide by cease fire the pentagon has also said it's ready to carry out an email and reaction in serious need it meanwhile the u.n. has signed a motion where the governments on the terms of the international bodies monitoring group under the agreement the observers have the freedom to go anywhere in the country they were based researcher sarah marsac has underlined the importance of their mission. this is incredibly significant especially when we consider a lot of the other regional neighbors of syria behaving very poorly and provoking violent conflict in syria and suggesting that they want to arm the rebels and continue and actually increase the level of violence that's happening in syria so we have this region that's actually instigating violence and we have the so-called prendes of syria of western powers really who will no influence over syria and have very little to say or do because they they don't have any relationships they don't

have any information that will provide any help to the people of syria to solve this crisis so with those two efforts happening you know between the arab league and the friends of syria it's actually very refreshing to have a u.n. observer mission and because it's talking to everybody people are taking it seriously and so this is very promising indeed to see these developments and it's not a solution that's going to solve everything in one day for example and it will take many different compromises and steps but with patience i think that this is certainly the best and most promising development that we've seen in a long time so to come to you in the program old hatred dies hard at the end of freshly itself stanstead back to the brink of war as the searched for oil and violent border disputes iraq interest fully fledged spying. moscow slams leaders

against able to draw flares artificial worried over the alliance leaving behind a source of instability and drug trafficking at russia's border. protecting the world from europe that's the latest task set for itself by the i.m.f. which plans direct a four hundred billion dollars financial war around of walk and it's intended to prevent the euro crisis from spreading further which banks fear will be a serious threat to global economic recovery and as pressure mounts on the outside inside the e.u. tensions are at a peak he says or so he reports. it hasn't been the perfect marriage but they agreed where it mattered most of the time. a tandem seen as key in e.u. decision making. but france's relationships with berlin and brussels have hit a rough patch the french election if you look at the campaign in france i think because on the right side there is mrs le pen this is a brand wants to reintroduce her for the french friend the french currency force mr

awad wants to renegotiate the the the treaty on the fiscal compact incumbent nicolas sarkozy is no exception pledging to freeze france's e.u. funding and bringing back border controls over in the left corner. around the rejects europe's budget belt tightening pact people are on easy with the fact that they or contributing to the failed policies in other parts of the u. then people don't really understand why is it that there's more and more legislation coming in from the european level in member states have to adjust it for the mostly pro euro french public it's about jobs and social security just as brussels and berlin don't want tough cutbacks. and that doesn't rest easy with voters who gave a resounding no to giving the e.u. machine even more power seven years ago even though it's been a perfect tool to offload questionable policies. criticising

europe can be a convenient scapegoat because it appeals to people who do not like the functioning of europe and it can divert responsibility if something goes wrong it's not the fault of the government or nicolas sarkozy it's the fault of europe it's easy to lay into this place where e.u. plans are half a billion spent a farthing before that's really gotten under the skin of french voters as part of another what's more these promises of all that heard before regardless of who gets . what everything really changed between paris and brussels. the big question is no europe for europe for whom you think europe for the banker of. europe for trade europe for. business of his it's a europe of cities a europe of social rights and the rest of the continents watching to knowing that whoever its next partner is a honeymoon phase is out of the question tess are still here r t brussels

and asked plan to recommend as a financial buffer around the euro zone has been welcomed by everybody was matinée sions reluctant to commit their cash and commenting on the idea investment advisor patrick young doesn't have much faith a move will help save for yourselves. this is absolutely a how to close them for the euro zone there is no way no marker hard large the sea of guards are no matter how high big bouzouki it is that the i.m.f. is currently assembling and nobody can afford to pay for italian government debt it is simply a also thought we are pushing nations on the mediterranean fringe all of europe into if we expect that they're going to stay in the euro zone it's a tragic parliament for government the option is quite clear and they need to say we cannot pay our debts we cannot survive in the euro zone and they need to leave on in the case of greece they need to establish a new drive because otherwise the euro is not going to continue and frankly western

europe is going to just become completely on actually in the new dynamics of the global economy. sara he cuts across the euro zone is fanning the flames of protests quite literally and some cases that are seen tom we've reported on one a time it seems that has started burning it's a pleasure of masterpieces driven to the edge by critical platter funds. plus while the australian village is seeking a change of name saying it wants something a little less seductive they also won back all their road signs stolen by city are on their.

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lead. watching are to un secretary-general ban ki moon has blasted south sudan for its military incursion and seizure of an oil field from sudan he called it a clearly illegal act and urged both sides to cease hostilities as the two nations

add closer to outright war and blame for which some say could be put squarely at the feet of those behind a separation off the two states. he issued a one c. is oil and the border give more patient my understanding there were many years or following this is that the separation of the two countries was absolutely unnecessary and wrong and the obsessive nature of the united states led by the u.s. ambassador susan rice and the british and the europeans to have this separation without settling any of the issues has actually made the situation worse now you have south sudan which it believes has the full backing of the united states and they took a overtly aggressive action as i was leaving the country last thursday and they invaded a town inside sudan because that the oil production center and therefore at that precipitated the whole escalation that they violate the sovereignty use again and

they would not have done that if they didn't think they had support from the united states and britain and others. now taking a look at some other stories from around the world this hour thousands of fishermen in chile have gathered to protest against new fishing law reforms the government passed a bill in march to help sustain the country's salmon stocks and prevent overfishing the laws been criticized amid claims that will have a negative effect on efforts to bring jobs back to the sector. more than a year after its last mission the space shuttle discovery has arrived at its final resting place the smithsonian air and space museum just outside washington in nearly thirty years of service us most traveled shuttle spent a total of three hundred sixty five days in orbit circling the earth nearly six thousand times the decision to retire the discovery was made in two thousand and four so nasa could concentrate on building new space ships which are still said to

be several years away. or we can mass murder anders breivik has said he plans to be had the country's former prime minister and post of food online during his trial he was given a fascist a lewd in court and shed tears on its own propaganda video he admits to carrying out the bomb and shooting massacre that killed seventy seven people in norway last year on cross-talk at seven thirty am g.m.t. aren't these people of al looks at the underlying message behind the attacks. we take all those extremists so yes we accept that it was the minority of all i'm saying is that there is a minority if you want to show you the minority there's a minority of people who exist within the muslim community who are extremists who don't believe in the democratic values and you'll believe in pleas for coexistence and colons and what we do is tanisha whole faith system whole communities based on

. a small number of minority extremes that exist in order and i'm really what is it rachel here is what i go through and i'm clear time for everybody rachel go ahead. isn't that exactly what we're trying to do with breivik right now is to paint all the right wing people who have moderate points of view about immigration and and cultural integration with the same brush saying that this kind of rhetoric is responsible for his actions. russia's foreign minister has laminate us plan to withdraw from afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen at a ministerial meeting in brussels sergey lavrov said the schedule was artificial as cobbles old forces won't be ready to provide security by the time russia's worried over instability and massive drug trafficking emanating from ghana stand seeing nato mission as its own security moscow has agreed to expand its logistics support for the l.a. forces russian lawmakers are now considering providing an air base as

a transit point for the lines of supplies and troops to afghanistan however for a day of big wigs the state of ghana stands more about prolonging the conflict than ensuring stability says anti-war activists. and there is no popular support for this war in the us nor in the u.k. you know in any allied country to be honest i think the statistics now show that i was seventy percent of the u.k. population want our troops out the figure is rising in the us sixty two percent last week want to see an end to the war. but the people who benefit from the war. to let this run the longest as long as possible and those who benefit obviously the global elites the bankers those in the military industrial complex to them having a prolonged conflict is just it's money in the bank really the us actually what they're planning is to have a substantial military presence until twenty twenty four and i think that the russians and the chinese. don't favor that at all the thirty thousand troops there are judges to remain there after two thousand and fourteen are completely

completely located right along the proposed oil pipeline. i think that the russians will obviously benefit from that or part one in their own exports but it's likely that the strings that are attached to the a disc of this forthcoming will ensure that the majority of the u.s. troops the combat troops will be out by twenty forty. all right now it's back and check out what the r.t. closer team has in store for us this time around. today tom gardner reports from the area where the crushing cold has for decades taught authorities that building a permanent transport infrastructure there is mission impossible but the temptation of enormous oil and gas reserves this arctic land has to offer means no one's allowed to give up. making tracks through the tundra

part of this region's name. means in the local language the end of the earth and for centuries it's to fight all attempts at permanent access. in central parts of russia and she want to go somewhere you just get in a car and go but here it's impossible you have to wait for the river to thaw or take a plane it's very difficult when you're separated from the rest of the country the surface is blasted by blizzards in winter and melts into swamps in summer supports for bridges have to be driven dozens of meters deep and the roots foundations packed down repeatedly to stop it collapsing back into the tundra this giant project is an attempt to bring transforms of the land but the end of the earth but it's not the first time and previous attempts of left a shadow over the whole region started in one nine hundred forty nine tens of

thousands of prisoners toiled in summer heat and arctic cold on stalin's dream of a trans polar railway line conditions were brutal and thousands were worked and starved to death or shot by their captors that. they keep people away for refusing to work with unseeing even a couple of words about stalin. was our prisoners and sent us here to watch over them building this railway had we refused he would have shot us as well in one nine hundred fifty three the project was abandoned built without any proper heavy equipment the unfinished track and embankments quickly subsided back into the trondra all that's left are a few bridges rotting barrack buildings and the long shadow of this corner of the gulag empire this bridge is part of stalin's infamous road of death but since this project and so many others have failed to put permanent roads here in the russian arctic some of the. own people to see the side historical monuments or teams of off

road drivers if gary and his companions try to penetrate some of the furthest reaches of this vast tundra landscape they've seen abandoned villages paula mountain peaks and even a settlement that had never been reached by wheeled vehicles before and there are good at once you arrive in this area you begin to see the world in a very different way these places are damned with enormous gas and oil reserves discovered in the far north the commitment has been made to put chutes money and resources towards road and rail building this time but there's a lot of work ahead before russia's arctic wields any of its vast isolation tom watson. well to find out what's going on here in the world of business who are crossing no to her business there so katie any changes in asian trading the asian shares marina all still drop playing at this hour now they're

pretty suffering and that's also a group of twenty nations warns that europe's debt crisis still threatens the global growth of what make a point four percent down the high flying around a quarter of a percent still a drop now that's taking relief from the u.s. and it was technology firms that were really pulling the stocks down so let's see how the u.s. got on that yesterday this second straight day of losses because jobless claims hovered around a full month high. that the recovery in the world's largest economy is also added to that we had cells of previously hiram's that also while looking at the dow jones hall percent down the nasdaq eight tenths of a percent down and taking a look at the ore prices we also have the news coming from the u.s. yesterday at barack obama is set to really really concentrate only investors at themselves he's saying that there's a lot of manipulation that goes on and as of the twentieth of april there's going

to be some new rules that come into place to reduce speculative activity by the traders that solved that he made those comments saying that investors are just off the. exchange rates we've got the ruble performing in less than an hour's time now so these are the figures from yesterday because see that it lost traction against the u.s. dollar and the year on the earth is just too light so they. just have a society just a fraction that flouts a positive looking at the russian market is they too less than an hour's time yesterday we saw significant gains on the market as you can see that we are just in the mindset well into the seconds percent. teacher points we also had some good news in the first few months here in russia we saw a trade surplus of twenty eight percent to twenty percent year on year. and moved on to other stories of russia second biggest mobile operator megaphone could list

a quarter of it is in london as early as july according to media reports the company plans to raise up to four billion dollars it would be the biggest listing on the london stock exchange and here. and staying with the russian markets apparently the russian market is still lacking behind other great conaway's and that's in terms of investment attractiveness. from asset management as she says that confidence will be restored into the russian market is a serious new government in that if we look at the current allocation or how the bric allocation works for many investors it's predominantly china now with thirty percent and then the rest is divided into brazil which has almost thirty percent of allocation whilst india and russia make up fourteen each however of this fourteen percent of the russian allocation is by no means allocated to the portfolio of an

emerging market before yet as investors have been holding off in view of the elections in view of hoping to learn more following reform program so there is much catching up to do whereas we flooring from from the investors and we believe that after we will see the reform program of which we are very confident of. gratian we will see the return of many of the long term investors also to the russian market. and there we have the markets for the next hour with the biggest russian markets. thanks like eighty for this and still coming up his hour special report on u.s. energy companies ignoring health concerns and civil rights to drill for gas right under people's homes all that after a brief recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us.

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the truce of team has been to the sverdlovsk region. where blacksmithing has developed from a craft into an industry. now largely goes far north. where returns to good roads and rail are a battle against the elements where helicopter is the only transport for medics to reach those in need. and where reindeer and fish are treasures for the people will come to the. autonomy area russia close up on r.t. . something. lies beneath. thousands of natures of ice and rock.

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