RussiaToday-Video-News-World:Merc-like tractor, robots playing football & lab-bred crystals

From ploughing machines to laser beams, this month's revamped show has it all. A Belarus tractor gets a little bit more Russified with an all-new electronic transmission system. Russian scientists cut through the competition with their breakthroughs in laser tech. Russian and foreign tech titans team up to bring new possibilities to the Russian mobile market. All topped off with a round-up of this month's tech news.



The Israeli cabinet has given the go-ahead to a bill which, if passed, will put any peace resolution with the Palestinians to a referendum. Prime Minister Netanyahu's government has appealed to lawmakers, asking them to greenlight the motion as soon as possible.


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As the world wrangles over how to characterise the Syrian conflict, whether to send weapons and to whom, it is easy to overlook the war's biggest victims - civilians. But in such a bloody and complex conflict, who is really a civilian? To examine these issues, Oksana is joined by Sir John Holmes, the former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator.

North Korea has staged a huge parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War. Soldiers and military hardware paraded through Pyongyang in a carefully choreographed display. The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, although the North and South remain technically at war

The number of people without jobs in France has reached a record-high 10-point-8 per cent. It casts a shadow over President Hollande's optimism that the country is being pulled from its economic mire - it's now on a 26-month streak of unemployment growth. As Maria Finoshina explains, the jobs crisis is seeing the French try their luck elsewhere.

A UN inquiry into the use of chemical weapons in Syria has got off the ground - as investigators and Damascus officials finally reach an agreement. The probe was stalled as the UN demanded full access to Syrian facilities - which the authorities denied. And, another breakthough has been reached in New York. A key rebel group has agreed to take part in a peace conference aimed at resolving the two-year war in Syria - after meeting with Security Council members. But, as Marina Portnaya explains, there are conditions attached.