of russia but aloneness founded russia's first company money fracturing balloons aleksandr made his first balloon in the late one nine hundred eighty s. it's lining born inscription saying the first soviet made monk goldfish. bowl looming has gained enormous popularity in russia in the past two years this can be seen from the growing number of orders for balloons placed with our company . itself i don't think the shape of balloons or even the wicker baskets is going to change the balloons of the future or will offer a more comfort to in-flight pilots. things like better navigation smoother knobs and delicate didn't cords instead of course ropes tools when getting entangled. that sensors will give way to radio signals reporting temperatures inside the envelope. and all that will be mainly intended for the spectators the balloons are most likely to look like the ones built by the brothers. for a long time to come. all i had was a basket and. one tank costs full two minutes after that it should be changed should be two tanks at all times one of them an active duty and the other as a backup.

everywhere in russia trying to be here for this press of us. before nightfall the romans finally find what they set out for at the start of the expedition the depression. of norma's pit in the very center of a field they hold their vehicles at a safe distance from it the people living in this village used to plough these fields and grow crops on it. but. there were awakened by loud noises. when they came here they were surprised to see a large crazy in the middle of a field with some water in the boat some. scientists have found a sub to raney and stream beneath the depression when it erodes the top layer of the soil the ground sinks. with slope is very slippery and very steep i get scared at times i might be buried by sliding rocks a prospect i don't particularly relish. ok i'm almost there now. well there is no water here local people prefer not to descend into the depression because this kind of cataclysm might happen at any time. that there is much to be learned from such expeditions people think that such things are only found in faraway l

russia close up. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos to take care of all the people who know the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my ventures a firefighter i didn't want to do and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. the envelope is the most important part of a balloon t

the mysterious suns of russia. are. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. it. means of protection can be used. in global supremacy. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the price paid for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred and fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budget. things because the best for. your watching our tv's are the top stories russia refuses to back the latest u.n. draft resolution on syria unless it's a managed to clearly roll out military intervention and an arms embargo on damascus moscow's against regime change and wants the blame for the bloodshed in syria for you on the government and the armed opposition.

russia close up on our cheek. welcome back to spotlight on melbourne organ just a reminder that my guest on the show today is shall good minister coming occasions of the russian federation mr sharp if we're talking about the high tech high tech collections the you webcams that are going to me installed as a matter of fact this was the initiative of prime is to putin and we always one of the candidates on the actually the main candidate for presidency on the upcoming election so but it wasn't his idea actually from the very beginning yes well what it originally inside the ministry was that the internet community who came up with this idea first putting on cameras it was his own idea of trying to get all of the absolutely because you know half ago when there were in the summer of two thousand and ten there were huge forest fires and you know to rebuilt. burned down villages and oh i don't want to say yeah it was the idea to install the pyramid amerzone the construction site or something to control the other stuff ab

on the money with the business of russia. hey there it is friday february twenty fourth my name's christine for coming at you out of washington d.c. you are watching art.

demand to be russia's next president has been capturing the imagination of british forces and filmmakers in the fortnight before russians head to the polls a book on putin's personality is due to hit british bookshops hot on the heels of two documentaries pre-treat the russian prime minister. the next we explore the ambitious building projects that involve cutting edge technology and innovations. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're taking a look at a topic that hits well close to home in russia many innovations in terms of new building materials have come from the country's tiny. exhibition in moscow recently the company showed off its latest offerings from its named nano house. here you can find many of the newest developments all containing you guessed it the prefix nano the company has selected a number of projects that things have the best potential to revolutionize homebuilding in the future you know all of the ideas to make more livable but the overriding definitely seems to be energy efficiency. individual homeowners but the whole earth as well you know this is

live in russia and. there are two main groups. that was. odd. to the same ethnic group they speak different languages and live in different regions of the country. these people spend. too much take a trip to get away from. dozens of like minded folk find. themselves the rumors that. history. will take the traveling local to the most mysterious places in the republic. on the freeway as the city has promised to show them. we go here and. then we have to get. cold weather. now we're going to try to reach the most interesting places. is the. point is a. few people have succeeded in reaching its peak. the drivers went missing. they just lose. something. contact with one another. eventually reunite a coup. them. is considered a zone of abnormal activity local people often see unidentified flying objects. at . two hundred meters above sea level is the true. reform were voted on it was only. visit. the capital of. the musicians. folk songs to entertain residents with their traditional melodies centuries ago. was a fortress. but large scale development h

as russia steps up diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis in syria major european and gulf states were caught. all their ambassadors from damascus. greek standoff clashes on the streets of athens as protesters voiced their anger at massive new jobs cuts both coalition members struggled to agree on more austerity measures to secure a vital second bailout. and a discovery that could reveal previously unknown lifeforms russian scientists drill deep into a sub glacial lake in the coldest spot on earth explore the significance of those where fighting with our own correspondent in antartica. one am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story both the syrian government and opposition leaders say they would welcome russia mediating talks between them that was their reaction after russia's foreign minister held negotiations with president bashar al assad in damascus after the meeting sergei lavrov said moscow will continue its efforts to settle the crisis through diplomatic means or he was with the rush delegation in the syrian capital russia's foreign minister se

competition in russia found he. the country's first factoring company russia has a total of forty professional balloonists that make frequent flights. each exercise is performed within a radius of two hundred fifty meters other balloons start trailing behind the hair a minute later. before the referee tells contestants what they're supposed to do just like with passenger aircraft billings a check for any technical folks prussia taking off alexander's wife vera shares his passion for flying she was six years old when she first saw a balloon since then her cherished dream must been to pilot one. the theme everyone can participate. with no matter how old you are better and how welcome to come here with children very many men bring their wives along their money but they don't come here is simply to look around and go for a right they help a lot. now. says the ballooning competitions she recalls them a new visit wind speeds and alternative flight paths and schools them accordingly. the first balloon to go. it is the head

chess russia has many connections with. dozens of players to become world champions maybe some of the. future champions to. a profession. stress. related activity such as. the place. groups. tell you something about. curling is a fascinating game it's entertaining and also addictive it's great for t.v. too we have many office people here who come to play in big groups. moving on and it's widely understood in the medical community that stress can be destructive crofts and other. help you let go of stress as focus on something you enjoy and this. is an intriguing addition to the locals. in the beginning of two thousand and seven a group. created a club to cultivate traditional and strong. practitioners. someone who practices in the grading system of skill equivocation. is growing in popularity around the world capital is no exception to. spiritual and physical in high. with the means of a sword it's a powerful social and cultural phenomenon in japan and russia it's existed for twenty two years as always i think if i would lik

the mysterious sounds of russia. combined cutlets have another brief look at the headlines that tens of thousands of people braved moscow's bitter cold to show the views on russia's politics i heard one group demanding fair elections march through the center streets now that's right in support of the current leadership. russia's foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the resolution on syria and sing a security council seat belt today told saturday becomes i made reports a new crackdown city homes hundreds actually killed. and europeans demand free internet as people are set to flood the streets in protest against an anti undersea aren't being signed across the continent activists want to prevent the new building ratified in the european markets. down there are plenty of hobbies to occupy your free time in russia which one is right for you almost go out program as head to help you choose that's next. everybody. hello and welcome to the show on this week's program we're exploring th

this road formed a link between russia's capital and its siberian part. connected the country's western and eastern regions. russian poet alexander pushkin once travelled along it it was used by stage coaches or. has been at the head of the district for several years during this time he's been able to restore a dozen historical landmarks. we marry from the western bank of the volga are not great in number there are only fifty or sixty thousand of. these these that is why we seek to stick together in order to safeguard our language culture and of course the land where we live. and. the burial site is the only one of its kind in the region cattle breeders of an iranian tribe buried here in the second millennium b.c. the time when the egyptian pyramids were built when excavation work was over scientists restored the burial place to its original appearance. the. twenty eight men between the ages of eighteen and twenty five are buried here there was also a woman and a man who was forty five to fifty years old when he was buried we think he was a blacksmith tho

confines a compromise on how to deal with the mosque after russia and china vetoed the un resolution on syria russia's foreign minister went to damascus to talk to the syrian leader shortly after having arshad agreed to negotiate now they say the russian mediation may be the last chance to settle the diplomatic so is it really possible to bring back peace and stability to syria and void a large scale military conflict. middle east report contributing to. the un security council has debated two rival resolutions on syria the one by russia and china was proposed by the arab league the western powers. the syrian president to step down and proposes something canonic sanctions including an arms embargo the russian version of visions ending the violence through negotiations only over the west has. succeeded. both. opposition agreed to get around the table. mr rabbani walked into the show thank you very much for coming for being with us and my first question is about the mehdi. army many anywhere in the talks between the syrian opposition namely the syrian national council and the president

there are no legal standards also defied labeling schemes for organic produce in russia. so individual farmers define it in their own way but it's really on every farmer's own conscience. alexander is a computer programmer who turned to working the land what started as a hobby is now a mini industry with several farms in the moscow region covering livestock fish vegetables and habs he's even aiming for his first harvest of black caviar first urges he breeds not far away from moscow if you ever on the big business simply can't afford to produce ecologically clean product of their years past decides to boost growth and lower the cost of everything i do is pure without a drop of chemicals you need to this new market in moscow had said and ambitious task to offer its customers and unprecedented range of eco products what started as an attempt to bring organic food to the masses turned out to be almost impossible in reality no russian farmers can produce all this let alone in quantities needed for a large city so anything truly eco and bio friendly remains a luxury only a few

people should love you russia with all their hearts and i lost you again do we love russia yes. yes but you with your problem let me know i like to thank you for your support those who are here in the stadium and those who are outside and stadium and all those who support us. in every part of our great russia there's no way i can only brace each and every one of you and a few of you shake your hand but i see everything happening i think you feel your moral support i think you will for we saw. a lot still needs to be done him it will be a long road but we will go along with us roads. will be on the sweat and blood of your but i grandfathers we will mark the twenty years the two hundred years and of the. battle and we remember the. famous poet clements all of really here. who are loving. and legions happened to russia do you remember how they spoke each. of us will remember koichi sending a good poem if i was so do we remember those lines not. even your idea here near moscow gets just as our ancestors boy. people there if you look at russia it's all about you. we will prevail. tha

and that will eventually get built in russia for public some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow while it may not grab all the headlines construction materials made from basil will create the base for everything else in the house. it could find its way into more and more homes in the future but is nothing new to russian scientists the volcanic rock that comes from the hot magma at the center of the earth is one of the more common resources on the planet as a result. if it has been on the radar of people in moscow for more than fifty years . soviet specialists went to see the pioneers in creating basalt based continuous find. this way. again at the end of the nineteenth from his research is that the gloss fiber institute got the first positive results at the beginning of the one nine hundred fifty s. on the basis of which they wrote the first reports. in one thousand fifty four that was the first magazine article on the topic it's appears in the glossy magazine. specialist recognise the role of the soviet union in this research looking at every relevant characteristic based five o

at the moment russia agreeing to an arms embargo, russia continues to sell arms to the regime. russia has many close interests, allied to those of the assad regime. a naval base and they are an important customer. there has been an important customer for russian arms. this is no doubt one of the factors. the prospect of the comment is very small. >> sir roger gale? >> do you have any suggestion that russia's failure to support human rights in syria might be construed by some as incompatible with russia's own membership of the council of europe? >> well, i will give consideration to all the points that are being raised at russia. i think that is the best thing for me to say. i will make sure that the will be understood anyway. my first preference in how we're going o conduct our discussions with russia now is for me to do so directly with the russian foreign minister. as well as any contact with the ambassador that we may have. >> all the action of russia and china is completely inexcusable and no one in this house has tried to defend it or justify it in any way, can i take the

right we just want to check in on our top story this hour those talks between russia's foreign minister and the syrian president in that mosque damascus we're joined again on the line it by our correspondent who's been following the talks in the capital you gore tell us exactly what came out of this meeting what did the foreign minister have to say about the results. or the media. or you know if there. was there i mean. we seem to have lost. a very bad connection there with damascus once again very sorry about that. but what we're going to move on to some other news this hour even ron has dismissed fresh u.s. sanctions calling them part of a psychological war on monday bronc obama ordered new penalties that involves freezing assets linked to the iranian government and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank tehran claims its economy won't be harmed by the sanctions but some experts say the measures are really in place to meet more domestic objectives. in terms of threats coming from the u.s. specially this distance is sanctions against iran central bank i think that th

welcome back to headlines now peacemaking mission a delegation led by russia's foreign minister heads to damascus as bloodshed in syria gathers momentum against a backdrop of diplomatic clashes. sacrifices fifteen thousand more jobs for the big two appears its international creditors and source of the ravaged nation state is not a general strike. to libyan dissidents former head of britain's and six spy agency that's a corporation with hundred twenty network but in case of a ship with a dictator back in the spotlight. now as the russian presidential election gets closer we talk to opposition politicians cough about last saturday's mass rallies proselytes interview show spotlight next. hello again a welcome. i'm. a month before the presidential election faced the first major opposition rally in two thousand and twelve tens of thousands marched through the streets of moscow. calling for fair elections though some of them. back to the kremlin others say. they believe. while supporters are protesting against the protesters the result may be unpredictable if the opposition wins as it is sp

the decision of china and russia to veto a u.n. resolution condemning this crack running kind of many unarmed women and children is also shameful previous hearing or she must be called upon by the committee in an essay to withdraw forces in the cities of syria no access to the country and human rights agencies and to pave the way for eventual democratic elections. the turkish and saudi condemnation of the regime in turkey is in particular accepting refugees is commendable current arab league in seeking to end the violence and producing a new piece blanch should also be congratulated, which the regime must implement without delay. syria must be made to guarantee peaceful protesters and upholds

is russia really to challenge. europe it's a very interesting issue and so very interesting question the problem what is the problem why they don't want to give us a little about insurance why for example they would like to have a legally binding document on the reduction of nuclear weapons with the russian federation and the why they are not ready to go about it with such a limited by the insurance. for example i can predict there may be another candidate from republican party called wien for the future elections and for example he can see that i don't keer old political commitments which mr obama could give other national federation could continue all of the. fulfillment of missile defense plans sort we don't want to want to be a hostage of political situation and the white house we will blank to see all in agreement with the united states on a very serious issues like missile defense like nuclear disarmament to be legally binding it's what i mean it's clear and by the way there is one other question if for examp

backed resolution on syria is one example russia came under fire from washington for opposing forceful regime change in syria while the u.s. criticism for china was far more muted for taking the same position but the reality is that china the west have to treat with much more with kid gloves because of the integral relationship in terms of the way that the chinese economy now is so totally woven in with the western one neither country is capable of dominating the other and neither country is going to win a cold war type situation as china's influence grows president obama has pledged to strengthen u.s. positions in the pacific going as far as the ploy in extra troops to the region this is made some wonder whether the u.s. can reconcile with the situation when it's not dominating obama announced disappeared at the pentagon by the way the pivoting from that middle east to asia this means more u.s. interference is cellcept in the sauce china sea military station the starting in norse in australia but maybe in contacts with shelly beans singapore and thailand specially very close allies of

doesn't fact have certain deals with syria but russia has been saying this entire time you guys are just using this as an excuse to put some sort of blame on us because these deals have existed for a very long time they are not against international law by any means they're not using being used by anybody on the ground in this particular crisis and russia has the legal duty to carry out its obligations with its contracts with other countries and interestingly the russian ambassador to the u.n. has also said that it's quite interesting to see that hearing this from a country that pumps hundreds of thousands of dollars into the middle the middle east namely in terms of arms and different military devices as well so it's just really an example of double standards and russia also reiterated that there have been many times before where russia supported texts and resolutions at the united nations even though those stood against its economic interests when they were in fact rational ones and you know as you say honest us here russia has been very vocal about their position on this from the

now it's time for our russia close up series we're heading to central russia to discover and the other little the region of this vast country. well we're heading to today that's the birthplace of lenin but now the region is making its name making passenger planes and teaching of pilots of tomorrow are these current arace tells all about a place with sky high elevations. it was in the late seventy's that the. aviation complex was created obvious star is one of the largest manufacturers of passenger planes as well as re modernizing existing cargo planes that travel worldwide their islam plane is one of the largest operating cargo aircraft originally designed for the russian military but when the soviet union fell a demand did too obvious star has been renovating existing response and are now planning a major comeback. a new construction line will launch which will cover the production and the modernization of unique airplanes in the world that are popular such as the roost on. the good news but airlines have used their wrist line freighters to assist in un and red cross relief projects b

russia and europe had reached a new heights in scientific operation if everything goes as planned russia will soon become an associate member of the european organization for nuclear research that sir it means lots of new opportunities for both sides but some obligations to how helpful congression brainpower before the nuclear scientific community and what will the new level of cooperation mean for russian research and for asking the director general of cern mr rove for. the european nuclear research center or simply cern operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world its most celebrated project is the large hadron collider the giant facility built to tast fundamental physical theories it's a unique particle accelerator that unite scientists from nearly one hundred countries some seven hundred russians to take part in constructing the collider and many of them continue to work at cern. however mr herder thank you for joining us on the show. welcome mr heard rush has started the procedure of joining has an associate member well what are the benefits well first of all for ru

and russia's public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential vote by forming the poaches lee to monitor elections that challenge now is to stay impartial. to bring it up to date for the moment more news stories in half an hour from now in the meantime the second part of a special report on how the los angeles firefighters had to change roles to become paramedics. the orange dots show hospitals that are no longer here in the green dots represent those hospitals that are so big that what you don't see is a need to new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. that medical desert is the. day i came to try to get some medical records in and security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed down well when i went in the security guard told me that a so for sale and all they basically doing here is fill movies now and i was shocked can't believe that this is was going on now you know it was a great hospital this is the last house but i was in in two thousand and two when i got shot. it was a sunday afternoon a

business in russia to develop people who are doing a lot of money they want. or kind of things like contemporary art market because it's a quite good investment now because. that art market. as well it's a good thing for you can join the pieces here by the strategy of the gallery is to exhibit new names from western europe supporting young russian artists however controversial. the art scene is brewing here in the russian capital with dozens of galleries opening up every year and contemporary art especially being explored and developed more than ever before with new and easy laws on taking pieces out of the country this allows various collectors russian or international to take full advantage of the. such a creative process. my friend is going to love it. every year to the millionaire fair. market. on the outskirts of the capital over two hundred companies set up display stands. in everything from. phones to the latest overpriced imported sports cars and there's no shortage of buy here so cheap bargains are hardly on the cards. luckily there's no need to be a

on the money with the business of russia. as washington and its allies step up pressure on the syrian regime with calls for more sanctions the country said progress for random on a new constitution to end single party rule. america's intelligence community.

the foreign minister of russia that if we take the united states for example in russia that he sees them as branches of the european civilization the eastern branch being russian the western branch being the united states and the relationship between russia and nato kind of makes the rules for the relationship in the main matters and one of the biggest stumbling points remains the u.s. is planned for the anti missile defense system in europe and now this discussion is still underway it's actually a deadlock and there are different opinions coming from various sides. of parties in europe stand for unilateral. missile defense system which would include russia and the european union nato and the united states washington says that it's ready to cooperate but it has to have a tough stance always going to its defense while the foreign minister says that this is russia's foreign minister says this issue through etan's the positive relations between these two branches the eastern and the western branch of the european civilization like they said russia and the united states but of course there a

russia and china have come under heavy criticism after their veto of a u.n. security council resolution on syria it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own parties the resident people in the big apple why the two countries seem to be so feared and mistrusted. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the us in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb true so why china in particular. chinese people are very dangerous why what is made you think bad have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese parrot them no so why do you feel that way. i don't think were in good relationship with them. so should we fear them is that going to make relations better and we should fear of them i think they should fear us i think there's some legitimate concerns about human rights there and i think to need to pay attention to what are their legitimate human rights issues everywhere don't we have them here in the u.s. sure i think a differen

russia close up on our t.v. . well into the future of science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. of. the motion would be soon which brightened if you knew about soon from phones to christians. who threw stones on t.v. don't come. the u.n. negotiates the revised resolution text on syria with russia's insistence it's no longer aimed at regime change but calls for the removal of present and important or voluntary arms embargo have been dropped from the updated text still pending approval from the security council. all killings are reported in p.j. top to two days of clashes left more than seventy dead your forty's criticised for not doing enough thousands of protesters are also call

speaking of syria we are doing a lot as a russia to. promote the political process to which would result definitely obviously in bettering the situation in the field of human rights but political process not the external external interference in the syrian matters so we are contributing and we are of course frankly telling our friends and partners when we see certain things which are wrong i mean in the field of human rights we don't hit it could you give us an example of the human rights violation that there is cited in your report that wasn't common knowledge i mean for for for for the white audiences in some country before you published it before you made it made it public. it will hard for me probably to guess what was not known to the wide. public but i would like to i would lend one issue. which we unfortunately face and witness on their more and more regular basis which is not good you know and means i'm speaking about territorial. proliferation of you know all projection or all the u.s. law. i would say that the united states an

ambassador to russia and the architect of what became known as the reset. michael mcfaul a new point years and gossamer to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science who has said that he's for stay in russia start with the banks great to have you with us thanks for having me so i'm going to quote your recent tweet productive meetings with the russian government officials even as we disagree on syria and sharp contrast with public statements were you shocked by your welcome in russia. well i was shocked by some of the public things that have been said about my appearance here in russia when it comes to the meetings i've had with senior russian government officials and let me be clear on my very first day in the job i met with about a dozen of the most senior government officials that one could meet with. i had very positive meetings with everyone and the reason is simple we've had a very productive run over the last three years and i've been very much involved in that in working with my russian colleagues so all those meetings have be