do you understand how we'll give him one more reason best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g. . and a g four ron fueling is now underway at the country's first atomic power plant where the russian built reactor is operations to be closely monitored by the un's nuclear watchdog. moscow says it will push for businessmen victor books returned home after a tie cord ruled the russian could be extradited to the u.s. on suspicion of illegal arms smuggling. this is similar to your just like the imperative of the step to liberate a taxi ride around new york's busy streets is never going to be the same again as

ford ditches that's today and style cab leaving residents and tourists one i can down. and our close up team takes you to russia's white sea coast to see how fishermen and ship builders have preserved their traditional lifestyle for generations. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program iran is starting up its first nuclear power plant built by russia in the southern city of pushchair and you know years from both countries have begun loading fuel into the reactor under the strict control of the un's atomic watchdog accent a boy that was in bush era for us no one should the bush plan is a major bad don't only put the uranium side. sure way to completion over the big

case but also for russia items for expert the company that's been in charge of this project for the years. massive experience of building nuclear power stations all across the world sounds that these project has been the most challenging for both the logically and politically in a logical way because when russians do call for a station in ninety eight the task was to feed a new reactor into no rabbit existing building and to integrate russian made equipment some of the old equipment left behind by the contractors reach were in charge of the project up until these comics revolution nine hundred seventy nine now this project was particularly challenging because of the numerous financing difficulties as well as international pressure political pressure on iran because of its domestic iranian enrichment program now the united nations security council

has war status of sanctions against iran none of them back to the station directly but because of all these international pressure some of the sub contractors have to pull out of the project reach out to numerous delays it is believed the station of real produce electricity to its full capacity by the end of the year russia is being criticized for going to have the delivery of nuclear fuel in some corners of the world but according to russian officials they believe that the current arrangement with iran is the impact of both from the point of view of nuclear nonproliferation russia's the plies fuel to run it takes practice and everything all the operations are happening on the close monitoring the i eight inspectors. russia has also said of it is ready to provide iran nuclear fuel oil not the time of year is but despite that iranian side. of the. they should by no means

will put in them to own the domestic iranian enrichment program ask what the air reports that we're hearing coming out of israel are perhaps to bomb this facility to be honest nobody here in texas seriously ambled be renewed by now they are russian concerts and very much looking forward to seeing these possibilities come on stream reporting from pushchair on the boycott. and moscow says it will seek to bring victor back to his country the thai court's decision to allow the extradition of the suspected arms dealer to the u.s. is seen by russia as political and a made under pressure type yoke or deliver the final verdict after a lower court had rejected washington's extradition bit now but it will be sent to the u.s. within three months he was arrested more than two years ago in bangkok in the leverage operation led by u.s. agents washington once good on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian

rebels which he denies can goodman publisher and author says boat is being extradited because he posed a direct threat to american business in africa back in the ninety's when everybody left africa because of all the civil war problems going on the american interest also left there but it was one of the only people that was brave enough to go into that country and after a number of years he had ninety percent of the traffic that he controlled and then when things got a little bit better americans want to back him but he controlled the libelled in that way all the diamonds and that sort of thing so the american business interests were very interested in getting him out of the picture his family america punishing him for taking over what the cia had been doing before and he was the only person left you know that was brave enough to go in there in the midst of all those conflicts. coming up later in the program here in r.t. new york's losing one of its most famous and reliable symbols find out why the

traditional yellow for today on taxi is driving out of the city for good and also on your way. now on a four hour journey by boat to or nah and that's only accessible during the summer months on this island or visiting a village populated by the more people the more meaning the post well as we explore the lives of the more people of the traditions of their culture past and present. extracting black gold into dangerous. worldwide demand pushes the limits to catastrophe. is the price. is it possible to prevent such disasters. and can be off to must be dealt with quickly from defectively. one boiled

spills and through its own. to join the military because i thought that it was my duty and it was something that i do to help my country. my government that is necessary for america you know. there was a lot of drug abuse there was a lot of murder of american officer soldiers there were a lot of. these all the while i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and they do have a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything

they're not that important. i don't i don't i never kept the medal. wealthy british. in the front. of the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. and new york's iconic sedan style yellow taxis on the road to extinction for the scrapping the production of the traditional cab model the crown victoria by next year deeming it unprofitable but as lauren lyster has been finding out many on the streets of the big apple feel they're losing the jewel in the city's crown. in a city that never sleeps the floor with taxis never stops for very long.

the line for cabs is tough taking this pounding in the city twenty two hours twenty four hours a day but for cabbies it's even tougher. i would. make you money so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker yeah. life on main street means working even harder and faster as a cabbie these days because of the recession. and pounding the pavement in new york city's sea of yellow there is one car that is keeping this cabbie and many others afloat. with new york to. get on with. it is kept them running for a while now. since ninety six ninety seven for practical reasons it runs and runs and runs but too much of the world this car is more than

just a dependable cab this is. the. symbol or not it will be scrapped altogether run into the bone yard of cabs two thousand and eleven is the last model year that the fords going to make it across victoria to actually make the cover story at all bill ford tough hasn't proven tough enough for these economic times sluggish sales and a push towards fuel efficiency in new york means they'll be out of production on the last of them will be off duty for good in a few years. come twenty fifth of classic new york taxi cab will officially be a thing of the past this street will be filled with more cabs that look like this this one the hybrid. and make it better gas mileage and made cabbies money but it's not. exactly that iconic new york taxi ride time square place. right here he got.

a see a lot of people to a few of those take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real bad things change that change however isn't always for the better. or would anybody want to sit. in for that cab woven into this city's asphalt fabric that's what you need you don't need a car that's built for a soccer mom to take or three kids to practice and built into the livelihoods of cabbies. these all these programs they are forcing us to buy that car who are struggling. will new york be losing more. than this american steel from the street this looks like the new york taxi cab fares are going to be a problem the long run i don't know you know maybe for the i love new york people they can have a minute of ourselves i think for me it. but is yellow cab start to look the same

from manhattan to russia to egypt does new york is a little piece of it so yes. yes. it's going to be. it's on the senate floor and lyster it's the end of an era you know our t. . new york. now for more stories you can always had to our website r t v dot com and we are online twenty four hours a day so here's a taste of what's there right now. in st petersburg left in the dark city why a blackout on friday causes rush hour traffic chaos while some commuters have to be evacuated from the metro. and good value for money a british billionaire has offered a million dollars to the first person to be naked in front of barack obama in public president himself can claim the cash for his party if he gets his kit off or any member of his family find out the details and. now you are

invited to share some unforgettable experiences our close up team sets off for another adventure across russia. and our destination today is the wide seacoast thousand kilometers north of moscow wise an ancient land of sea conquerors sailors fishermen ship builders the more people have been linked with the sea for generations and even today their way of wife hasn't changed much as our celia found out. we are now in. the first russian fleet now the creators of the russian fleet are the more people the people who have very close relations with the sea and they are the first russian settlers on the white sea coast now they were primarily fishermen hunters and sea traders in fact they created very strong trading links with northern norway

to the point that a pigeon language was created between the two of them now they have also played an important role in russian history because it's banks to them that russia was able to keep its northern borders unchanged well today the people who call themselves uphold very strong and unique traditions so we dug a little deeper and we had a first time taste of the traditions and the way of life of the take a look. they were one of the first congress of the northern waters. fisherman. not so many. feel good. fish rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the moors have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one. he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone with families connected to the sea. is

a native of but i meant one that he calls the homeland of captains so we traveled to. a four hour boat journey to an island only access. during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to moore's descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional poem or way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques a lot of novel gears a car bus a coastal kind of boat it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets. raiding the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but if i been fishing for a long time now this year i called the big fish this big and living in guinea can you can move houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back

a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions for the poor more's adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. yet this was is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries yet and susie asked the cliche airing a heritage they are proud to call their own. for even singing my who life my mother still sings old retells and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this

desire to sing old songs the a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson. as time went by the meaning of what it is to people more has changed and today there's a debate surrounding what it really means to be more of that today i'm joined by. and she will tell us a bit more about the debate that's going on so what are the different perspectives as to what really is some people think that they're real some people think that more is a kind of identification of the area the scientist party culture so we have different aspects of debates what defines each identity is a big. or bit more than culture traditionally. pollute leaving on the coast of the sea and of the more comes from a small district and then there are people even on the coast where associated with

them the more ok thank you very much. some groups say there are some people who are not even identify themselves with morris but what's important for those who do call themselves that is that they continue living the lifestyle and the traditions of the people that are from this town many many years ago. or so you're reporting there for us now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and israel and the palestinians have agreed to resume direct negotiations for the first time in almost two years readers of both sides have been invited to washington next month to restart peace talks the gyptian president and jordan's king will also attend the session dude they are critical role in the peace africa however the status of jerusalem and the construction of jewish settlements on occupied territory are just two stumbling blocks. the united nations says it is in desperate need of more aid helicopters in pakistan just fifteen helicopters are the un's disposal in their

attempts to distribute aid to over twenty million people affected by the disaster efforts on the ground are hampered by long roads washed away bridges and parts of the country are completely submerged. australians are voting in one of the country's closes general elections in almost fifty years the governing labor party's julie guillard is battling it out against tony abbott on the center right coalition had a vote opinion poll suggested the two were neck and neck in the long horns over the economy and the handling of the financial crisis during the election campaign the vote will decide the make up of the one hundred fifty seat lower house and half of the sixty senate. well later year nineteen you can join martin anders on a tour of ancient cities that make up russia's gold ring he continues his trip to a glitch delving deep into its history and visiting attractions that aren't for the faint hearted the museum of myths and superstitions already looks spooky to me

this museum opened ten years ago it has a law as display of items and models of cards and sets of lived in lakes forests and houses both good and evil this one here is a domovoi is like a house elf. and john martin is about ten minutes time here on r t but before that i will take a look at what's happening in the world of business with charlotte. hello welcome to the business program with me charlayne was folly russia will not

significantly increase the amount of grain imports this year the government says it has another reserve to cope with this year's poor harvest however economists believe the higher prices being pay for weight will never to bracy through the high street indeed of question of reports. we. all know bread and even five grain bread russian speed read that nearly anybody else in the world so any change in price of this staple good makes seriously impact the amount of money in people's pockets because of a court that's right even on the government for this for a fixed price tag somewhere price right this subject of control if they start going too fast the federal until monopoly service is currently investigating in number of bakeries for imposing price hike as much as twenty percent but given the fact global wheat prices have soared seventy percent in the last two months it's hard to see how consumers can be completely him an iced all inflationary fears that we have

seen are not being passed on completely to the consumer i think inflation may pick up in september it will all depend on the economics and the market dynamics the state's decision to ban grain experts which came into effect at the beginning of this week will only do so much to control prices domestic with consumption in russia is approximately seventy five million tonnes the latest forecast for the harvest fall well short of that. the forecast for this year's food harvest ranges from fifty nine point five to sixty three point five million tonnes but it's also possible that we could even go below that figure. russia does play an important role in providing the world with his carbohydrates it was the third largest exporter of we did two thousand and nine but this year the weather has been so appalling that the foreign land is unlikely to recover immediately when the

rains come having implications for the winter harvest and even next year's crop might you know question our business our chain. of local markets down here in russia the stocks that tracked global trends then closed down for the third day on friday both oil a metals were in retreat dumping reinvestment of pale of quality producers. iron and steel drop three point seven percent while gas from ended down one point one. zero looking back on the week sentiment has been broadly negative on the russian markets we've also shown some volatility so i'm in burke from consultancy invest because they wraps up the last five days trade. this week was kind of usual for august because. it's end of summer and august is a very scary months for russian traders and for russian stock markets and well it's quite volatile but for the recent three weeks we've been in

a very narrow range in terms of this is we don't break that. recent economic statistics from the u.s. is not encouraging because for example on thursday you are saying this is a. big deal because of the statistics about manufacturing activity and about jobless claims commodities prices right now are not supporting. the current commodity levels are. already in the prices of the russian stocks there was a lot sort of. terms of fertilizer industry. in syria might emerge soon and the information which came in on friday about chinese company which might participate in the offer for water. so that information. is quite important for us. crude oil is not a six week low it's been struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars

range for moments after briefly hitting eighty two dollars the beginning of august prices it slipped back on concerns about faltering economic growth and high in the trees in the u.s. as alexei corking from metropole explains the risks appear to be mainly on the downside for the rest of the year. i rather doubt there's going to be a major breakthrough through say. the next three to six months but we'll probably see you oil going through eighteen to the eighty's or five range and the other thousand and eleven if we were experiencing it in excess supply. probably see prices troyer and i think the big question is is the month sustain this level. and there's some down times to chinese chinese demand if you look at the three year neo growth apparently enchilada it went down quite

dramatic it's about three percent a year so the question is was the high demand in the first help you to someone else a friend for instance or a program to help the chinese companies to increase strategic stocks or could i'm products and perhaps just know us that's the case that i have in my potential k k so for sixty five. we will be able to ministers by the end of the year. and that's all for this hour but you can always find more on our website called slash business.

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