well the global recession is forcing charities in latvia to step in and provide basic provisions for the struggling population it's a far cry from the initial optimism that gripped the country when it joined the european union six years ago but as ati's tom reports modern day latvia is now a place of raging unemployment and international handouts. diana gives out food to people in need for months she's made sure families can get a square meal but this isn't a developing country it's the modern economy of latvia and recently joined the. when we brought the first food bags to those families many parents wept they could have never foreseen a crisis of this magnitude they had jobs they were well to do and respected and all of a sudden they find themselves in a situation where they have to plead for help to feed their children latvia speculated aggressively on international markets leaving this so-called baltic tiger vulnerable when the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money if we get there if brussels sneezed we in latvia already had a bad case o

loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money if the rest of brussels sneezed we in latvia already had a bad case of angina. a very small and very open economy felt the world's problems more painfully than the others and we were experiencing our own mistakes much more painfully two. years unemployment soared to over twenty percent middle class families with houses and cars couldn't afford to put food on the table and almost eight percent of the population registered below the poverty line disappear to go we could never imagine if giving food to people in this country would ever be needed the situation showed that it is needed so we decided to start it the food bank relies on donations of money and food to supplement the diets of hard up families the charity raise half a million dollars in two thousand and nine money vitally needed as the government is failing to support those in need is the most it all came too soon and created a sort of traffic jam the social services are not prepared for an influx of people who needed aid all at once. unable to rely on their leaders latvi

once latvia was the fastest growing european economy now many people their own charities for the bare necessities we report. for that fresh e.u. sanctions against a round of come under fire from moscow russia's foreign ministry said the move falls outside the scope of the latest u.n. restrictions and undermines collective efforts to resolve the iranian nuclear issue on monday the e.u. adopted tougher sanctions against around the energy sector in an attempt to prevent the islamic republic acquiring nuclear weapons the measures include a ban on the sale of equipment and technology iran denies western fears it's trying to build an atomic bomb where we discuss the latest developments now with michael thomas he is director general of the middle east association of the u.k. organization promoting trade with the region thanks for being with us this evening is appreciated brussels says that these latest restrictions are an attempt to bring around back to the negotiating table but let's face it sanctions haven't really worked in the past why is the hope they're going to work this time round. w

riga latvia. coming up later in the program gets irreverent take over america's growing unemployment problem. a shift all their jobs overseas they have no jobs left therefore they have no savings no capital to get up capitalism without capital that's why it's kind of debasing and degrading and. pop consumers. to all the crew from the international space station carrying out a six hour long space walk is to complete the installation of a new the burra tree into the russian module of the i assess flight engineers in. wiring up the remaining connections to the space station proceeded to their other job is to replace a broken camera one which films those amazing shots of the earth from orbit because of the whole set of testing new smart space suits which a computer systems and digital screens integrated into the meanwhile the rest of the keeping a close watch on their colleagues. safe everything stays according to plan. but on line twenty four hours a day here on earth dot com where we have plenty of

riga latvia.and still ahead for you this hour the power of magic rockers psychics could be put out of business as authorities vowed to crack down on con artists promising to cure everything from diseases to cheaters. a russian helicopter with nine people on board has been hijacked in sudan's troubled darfur province russia's foreign minister confirmed the news but said no one has been harmed at this point the crew of four are russian citizens while the five passengers are sudanese nationals the helicopter belongs to the russian you terror airline the incident happened on monday but hasn't been reported in till now russia's embassy in sudan's capital khartoum says it is doing everything possible to free the captives. the people tony hayward will step down after the company posted a seventeen billion dollars second quarter loss in its first in the past rather its first time in the past eighteen years he's shouldered much of the blame for the firm's poor handling of the oil spill in the gulf of mexic

cooking oil and much more but it's this food that shows how deep the financial crisis has cut in latviaand until the families affected get more work this food will only be a temporary comfort not a cure tom barton r.t. . and still ahead for you the power of magic rushers psychics could be put out of business hours or thora he's vowed to crack down on con artists promising to cure everything from diseases to cheaters. the two russian cosmonauts from the international space station have concluded their near seven hour space walk they successfully completed the installation of a new laboratory on the i s s for your daughter. and mchale also replaced a video camera used in monitoring the docking old supply for sun filming those amazing shots of the earth from orbit the cosmonauts also had the chance to test walk their new smart space suits they have integrated computer systems and digital screens on the inside the rest of the crew still safely inside making sure everything went according to plan. well b.p. boss tony hayward will step down after the company posted a seventeen billion dollars

sure families can get a square meal but this isn't a developing country it's the modern economy of latvia and recently joined the. when we brought the first food bags to those families many parents swept there could have never foreseen a crisis of this magnitude they had jobs they were well to do and respected and all of a sudden they find themselves in a situation where they have to plead for help to feed their children latvia speculated aggressively in international markets leaving the so-called baltic tiger vulnerable on the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages are suddenly seriously short of money. because if brussels sneezed we last year already had a bad case of angina. a very small and very open economy felt the world's problems more painfully than the others and we were experiencing our own mistakes much more painfully two. years unemployment soared to over twenty percent middle class families with houses and cars couldn't afford to put food on the table and almost eight percent of the population registered below the poverty line this few years ago we could never imagine if g

while we name warm up under strength russian basketball team beat latvia ahead of next month's world championships. and the new tiger woods teenage prodigy copy of why it wins his fourth straight junior championship following an amazing fourteen under car round a fifty seven. we start with football and there are two games taking place in the russian premier league on friday a satin currently hosting angie and later spar technology will take i'm caught and they just sat down to the store that is nil nil and later on fourth place that could rise to third a third from bottom and card spot tax new signing joe van gaal which could play the twenty three year old star has joined the nonsuch side on loan until the end of the season i'm caught meanwhile hoping to avoid the drop kick starting to put run results. elsewhere on thursday night fights time european champions liverpool have one foot in your a plague after and go scorching a trough to get a much changed reds team to know when macedonian side the boche make it in the first leg of their qualifiers and liverpool manager roy hodgson was

numbers another medal for russia in the long jump but of latvia saying hey was primed the european champion ahead of nagle most of portugal while russia's all got which i think claimed bronze with a leap of six meters and eighty four centimeters. meanwhile the men's blue ribbon event thank you to spinal was won by the frenchman christophe lemaitre the i became a straight finished better finish in a time of slow start to finish in a time of ten point one one seconds his first major triumph pipping britain's mark reuss francis in the second. got the bronze for france. so that was a good spectacle but there's a hundred meter showed and the whole world is waiting for true triple olympic champion same boat is set to run against rivals suffer powell and tyson gay for the first time this year and it will happen on august the sixth in stockholm the world's three fastest men set to go up against each other at the diamond league meeting in the swedish capital the race will be the first involving all three since both world record run in the world championship final in berlin last summer three also poi

of latvia saying he was primed the european champion ahead of nagle most of the russians although which i think claimed bronze with a leap of six meters and eighty four centimeters. meanwhile the men's blue ribbon event you just fine was won by the french christophe lemaitre he overcame a strain finished at the finish in the time of a slow start to finish in a time of ten point one one seconds his first major triumph taping britain's mark reuss francis in the second marshall got the bronze for france. so that was a good spectacle but there's a hundred meter showed and the whole world is waiting for a triple olympic champion same boat he said to run against rivals assaf a powell and tyson gay for the first time machinery and it will happen on august the sixth in stock the world's three fastest men said to go up against each other at the diamond league meeting in the swedish capital the race will be the first involving all three since both world record run in the world championship final in berlin last summer three also poised to go head to head with a chronology in brussels on the twenty

there is another medal for russia in the women's long jump yet a part of the code of latvia is seen as crowned here trying to have the united gomes of portugal russia all got to chatting cat and. bronze and six meters eighty four sentences. me home has been given to vent one hundred metres final respond by frenchman to stockholm that he overcame a sly stone asked to finish a time of ten point one one seconds for his first major triumph just because britain's more responses to second national banjo also got the bronze fronds. and finally moscow is hosting its first international sport for which starts on thursday where the expected thirty thousand visitors can also see the second international sport who festival among reports. sport movies and naturalists similar to feature films but when you look closely it's evident that this graph to rings closer to sports journalism contrary to popular belief though it's not only about the suspense of winning by one hundreds of a second but much much more they're not as glamorous as say can or the oscars nevertheless sport movie festivals follow a n

years of one nine hundred forty one and one thousand nine hundred five today members of a stone in latvia and lithuania and anti fascist organizations laid flowers lit candles and paid their respects to all of the victims of the nazi killing machine but they are a minority here in the baltic states specifically hear what you want in a stone you are just a few meters away up the road a sort of a huge rally is going on just one way by the stoney and government. turn out with a lot of import and media coverage about them but they are not anti fascist organizations grandly neo nazi organizations with members they actually know all of the twenty. thirty unit that was established by the german forces here and a story of those people fought against the coalition forces during the second world war killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people but here and i don't know their heralded as heroes they all wear the usual german every ghalia they sell things at their rallies which commemorate the german to. do you remember forces with the turnout with everyone. nearly wrapping up all of the informat

european club since its inception two years ago has so far failed to do that but to deny my size from latvia i wish as well as kazakh side all from the former soviet union and the main owning on russian teams in the twenty four strongly in the season gets underway by september. and finally the russian government has started an initiative to promote the development of sport and healthy living is a four day forum starts in moscow on thursday the man has more. one hundred the other was a problem. from a private. company that was focused. on the full support this year moscow celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the summer olympics which were held here back in one thousand a.d. the country has changed its political course drastically since then but a healthy nation remains a priority for today's government as well and just like thirty years ago russia's main sporting venue remains in the heart of moscow the luzhniki olympic complex now the home of the first annual international sports forum in of a book is that we want to show that luzhniki still very much alive today and meets the requirement

once grueling going bust latvia's living off charity slammed the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial meltdown leading many to fend for themselves in used to be the fastest growing group in an economy that suffered more than other member states from the recession. up next reported america's the largest maximum security.

anna fermanova was born in latvia but grew up in dallas.ree night vision rifle sights in her luggage as she boarded a plane in new york headed for moscow. her attorney says she was taking them to her husband who works in russia. fermanova is now charged with smuggling but not espionage. >>> president obama is promising quick action, responding to an 800,000 gallon oil spill in southern michigan. it has been leaking since monday from a broken pipeline. it carries about 8,000 gallons of oil a day from indiana to ontario. the oil flowed into a creek and then into the kalamazoo river, coating birds and fish. about 20 homes have been evacuated. >>> now to the gulf oil spill. it has now been 100 days since the deadly deepwater horizon explosion which led to the environmental disaster. >> the chairman of bp says his priority now is to stop the leak and clean up the shores but also keep bp shareholders in mind. diana alvear has the latest now from buras, louisiana. diana? >> reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. today marks the 100th day since th

until the second world war they didn't take over estonia, latvia, and lithuania. but they did take over the transcaucasus, georgia as a [inaudible] and they did take back central asia, and they took over the whole of siberia. so essentially the russian empire was reconstituted. >> and lenin was born where? >> he was born in the vulgar region in a place called [inaudible]. >> in russia. >> in russia. >> and stalin was born where? >> in georgia. and he was a georgian. >> what's the difference? >> the difference is the difference between let's say, an englishman and an albanian. the georgians were a small -- are a small nation to the south of the caucasus mountain range. they speak an entirely different language from the russians. and this was one of the reasons why the other communist leaders rather looked down on stalin because russian wasn't his first language, and he was always making slight mistakes, and he had a heavy accent. >> and trotsky was born where? >> trotsky was born in the south of what we would now call ukraine to a very wealthy farming family. he te

. >> some of the best skond sculptors in europe are showing off their skills in latvia this weekend.sculptors made incredibly artistic creations. the theme is travel in time, one sculpture shows michelangelo's adam holding a tv remote control in his hand. don't walk, run. stay with us, for some of you your local news is next. for others you're coming right back. >>> and welcome back, everyone. good morning, guys. good to see you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning lonnie and r.j. >> i think it might be difficult to get to the sand sculpture if the tide comes n the sculptures are gone. >> i like chris gave the sound effects for the storm troopers. >> perhaps. just excited to see all of us, chris. >> let's talk about a hot topic now, something sweeping the nation. you know the show "celebrity apprenti apprentice." >> you've heard about it? >> yes. my life. >> there are some mild success cases you covered. just kidding of course, everybody knows rebecca was on "the apprentice." rach rach rachel eucatel, donald has reached out and asked rachel to be a part of the "celebrit