in some he does but he's available in hotels a story. in a sense because he could tell the truth from the soto the true school toto. and see how this. visit to. the russia us to teachers arms reduction treaty gets the green light from american foreign policy legislators paving the way for the crucial final vote from the full

senate. and assassination attempt in the heart of moscow a major criminal overlord manages to escape with his life after getting shot and wounded in the center of the capital. a new plan announced to revive the troubled u.s. economy and made claims the country is recovering from the global crisis but despite new measures millions of unemployed americans still struggle to survive. team looks at the vast oil and gas reserves of the island in russia's far east as we embark on another journey one covering the unique end because. neither am in the russian capital i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has voted in favor of the nuclear arms reduction

treaty or start signed in russia signed with russia in april the deal that now needs approval from the full senate it could eventually see the two countries reduce their warhead stockpiles by a third but as our he's got ancient she reports america's in-house issues could still hinder plans for the ratification. the start treaty got the green light from the senate foreign affairs committee and is heading for the senate floor this train it will make america more secure it will assist us in moving towards the goal of less nuclear threat and for that reason we're probably actually took today it's been a bumpy ride this five months of hearings and the resolution that the senators passed reflects that they put all their concerns in one package among them. the time between offensive and defensive weapons senators clarify the treaty in no way is an obstacle for the u.s. plans to deploy defense systems american officials see it the same way it commits

us to continue to develop the ability to be able to protect our people and to have a robust missile defense system but russians do take the time mentioned in the treaty quite seriously they see the new start as an agreement based on equality and balance and if that balance is shifted or disturbed they say they can pull out but some in washington say there are hurdles related to the ratification are not so much about the details of the treaty but about republicans trying to make a point to the democrats one of the problems is good old fashioned red meat paul politics the republicans don't you just can't resist this opportunity to say well you know the democrats are weak on national security and that's one of the real barriers that the obama administration faces here i have no doubt whatsoever if we had a republican administration this this treaty would be already ratified the paradox is that the number of republicans who had testified for the treaty outnumbers

democrats on top of that the u.s. military officials are unanimous in their support of the deal something that many experts are pointing out here senators can express their concerns but they can't really change the trading they can either ratify it were not an. judging by what senators were saying that there is they surely will the question is when i'm going to check out r t reporting from washington d.c. . director of the center for peace and liberty at the independent institute in washington says the arguments brought up against the start treaty kerry very little weight it's not the warhead so much because it is only a thirty percent reduction but i think it's the fact that the process is moving forward in there will be another round which is deeper and also i think it helps the overall relationship between the two countries but there have been other arguments made that the nuclear weapons. labs will go into

remission that the treaty somehow precludes missile defense which it really doesn't and it won't end impede u.s. missile defense efforts anyway i think those are the two main domestic arguments here and i don't think they really have much water i think it's mainly a political thing usually they don't bring them up for a vote unless they have the votes to pass and. ratification of the start treaty is a way to modernize and improve nuclear defenses according to gary hart former senator and member of the commission on u.s. policy towards russia. it's a large step it will get rid of dangerous unnecessary nuclear weapons on both sides at the end of the day there will be a bit of the treaty people will have to vote for or against it and those who would against it are going to have to justify why they voted against it and why it makes us more secure not to have a treaty then if we had the treaty if you replace. warheads or delivery

systems that are old and the increasingly unstable with a newer generation more secure technology you are actually improving security rather than in danger yet so a limited argument can be made for modernization of nuclear arsenals certainly not expansion of if we are serious about dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals then we widen the club and bring in all the nuclear powers and say enough we're all we're going to get rid of all these it does seem like a kind of ideal dream but it is a goal to reach for. you can catch the full interview with gary hart a former american senator and co-chair of the commission on u.s. policy towards russia sunday here on our team. switching gears now a suspected russian criminal mastermind has survived an assassination attempt in

central moscow new sajjan better known as papa hassan is being treated for gunshot wounds reports say he's under police guard in the hospital to prevent the assassins from finishing the job or he's our son a boy who has more from the scene of the crime. this crime took place here in central moscow just steps away from the problem up a facade of was shot several times he received three gunshots today and he's now believed to be fighting forces live in the one of the moscow hospitals that is still unclear how the assassin was able to get so close to him because public hasn't had all due reasons to fear for his life he was accompanied by boy guards at the whole time and one of the border guards who is also believed to be in hospital of the moment seventy three years old and he started out as a peak pocket but later on in his library has some serious stuff he's found about two thirds of his life behind bars and back in the knowledge and eighty's he was

promoted to the rank all thieves by the code this is an exclusive group of russian criminals a sort of we will end all the ranks of the godfather and the taliban mafia but her son was believed to be responsible for criminal gangs that aim the russia south but over the past two years his influence has significantly grown especially after the killing all features like you've been called better known as the punchy glass tear after the funeral if you launch a president with very cold the law enforcement as you step up that fight against organized crime and to upper hand as many things by the code as possible but unfortunately he's that calls are yet to be given these two dollars attracting the attention of not only police obviously but also people who look like they may have been working with papa haasan they have seen numerous cars driving cars the crime scene of some very suspicious people mostly man in sporting suits with camo came to

the crime scene talk to somebody over the phone and leave it's no surprise because probably her son was very very handsome. in her russia screaming on the world u.s. president barack obama's pushing forward plans to. ws exports in the next five years it's a move that could generate up to two million jobs the proposal to help america's troubled economy comes amid claims that the country is recovering from the global financial crisis but with poverty among the working population at a fifty year high millions of americans are still fighting for survival. welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is it time to go to work. just don't think it's time to head to the food pantry for

charity. they are low income folks some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny like i'm the only one working in the and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the food we need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand and jenny can't afford to buy food for her mother and three year old son not with only use them public assistance there's just not enough money and a part time job they don't need any more hours and i've been looking for jobs then it's just hard to find work and it only appears to be getting worse it is unfortunately not only here but in the entire u.s.

new statistics for two thousand and nine show forty three million people one in seven are living in poverty this is the most people who are in more than fifteen years when they first began tracking these numbers here you can see one reason that . her twenty's are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities like patterson as in so many cities in the united states manufacturing used to power this one these were still factories that now are decrepit boarded up sitting in disrepair there are signs everywhere here of the u.s. manufacturing jobs that have disappeared or gone overseas to actually work all of the low level jobs that these folks with low skilled sort of oh you know you go there and leaving them lining up in dros for a little heat we now see repair about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred people. a free hotline some of the workers who are there some are at the homeless not surprisingly always

on call been made there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here at avis kitchen than a year ago why. now and some can't push like for one who has an incurable disease moves not for because work or not for so many of us used to be a truck driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needier than ever are they more poor yes that i can say and here on the ground for from washington and wall street there is no sign of an economic recovery for these people in sight i don't see recovery you know they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with a dollar i don't know was the president or. you saw them is not the way it's in the womb better. than the urban decay it's still city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. that they feel they.

know you share your very carefree lauren mr r. t. patterson new jersey. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe for pope. pope benedict the sixteenth has arrived in london on the second day of his visit to the u.k. they'll make a speech at westminster hall and hold joint evening prayers with the archbishop of canterbury earlier he was welcomed by queen elizabeth the session in edinburgh is the first visit to the mostly protestant country in almost thirty years meanwhile protests are planned over the vatican's policies on issues including gay rights abortion and child abuse scandals of the catholic church. at least twelve people were killed forty injured in the somali capital mogadishu after government troops fired mortars into the city's main market it was in response to an earlier attack on the somalian parliament by suspected islamic militants at least three government

soldiers were killed and one member of parliament was wounded when insurgents fired shells into the parliament building during a session a local al-qaeda linked militant group is believed to be responsible for. tropical storm coral that caused heavy rains and floods across southeastern mexico was threatening to intensify into a hurricane the country's government issued a hurricane warning for its coastal region as could reach speeds up to one hundred seventy five kilometers per hour before striking the land nine people have been killed and more than eighty thousand people have their homes damaged and survie are flooding in southern mexico since august one thousand. take a journey now as our team continues its close up series exploring the varied and inspiring regions of russia. this time we take you to russia in

a region of the country's far east it's famous for its serenity beauty unique wildlife and the island also boasts large energy resources rich in oil and natural gas the areas of particular interest to the country's energy giants who had a chance to experience the riches of the island firsthand artie's alexei or a chef he has more. this time we're looking into the and the resources of the island now before the collapse of the soviet union this land has not been explored for gas and oil despite huge potential now after the of the soviet union collapsed after russia became a different state exploration of gas and oil fields in this region has been very strong and we now know of several large and very extensive oil fields in around this region one of the most crucial parts of the. energy business is the an energy company located on the coast of the sea which is of course the part of the pacific

ocean this company is. liquefying the natural gas which is being discovered here in the southern region to be then exported to other countries of the region and to talk about what they saw the region asshole for in terms of energy resources we joined by the open ration manager of the socket an energy company. many thanks for joining us and my first question to you obviously what is the mission of this huge project called the softly energy project well i think in the few words to say we want to be a reputable energy supplier here to the asian region and we're very proud of course to have to use great energy complex here because we've seen here the introduction of a lot of new energy technologies coming to russia this is and then g. and g. of course as you know to find natural gas produced here with new technologies but a very successful start up and already gone so indeed a full year of operation. and i think i've already build a reputation as being

a very reliable energy supplier here to the countries like japan like korea and china thank you very much this was. gracious manager at the site energy project now for more insight i did a story i did a report on what are the energy sources the situation is like in the cycling and we can watch this report right now just like most women scientists not to receive flowers but this time the red carnations serves as a victim of an experiment. she puts the flour into a liquefied gas where it immediately freezes. and with a loud crack not dahlia breaks it onto our cameras lens thus she demonstrates what liquid gas the phonology is all about that. when an object like this balloon is put into liquid gas of cryogenic temperatures it massively decreases in volume in fact

it becomes six hundred times smaller but after a short while when put back into normal temperatures it's volume increases again this property of natural gas allows much better transportation six hundred times more gas than a normal storage. the cycling energy project is the first liquid natural gas project in russia and there are only twenty like these in the entire world millions convict ounce of gas are being processed here every year to be an exporter to the asian pacific countries it represents a successful combination of the russian natural resources and western technologies . launched eighteen months ago the alan g. plant in pretty good nick quickly gathered operational plays russian gas giant gazprom is its main shareholder with the rest of its ownership spread between shell and two japanese companies it is located in the region which holds top positions in russia in the oil and gas resources and according to the company's c.e.o. their presence here dramatically improved sucklings life when the project there was

not infrastructure here place we have not only. the plant by appliance there are also the new job created when you come to our new company is established here. however not everyone shares such a positive view. through almost impenetrable far east and we went to see the indigenous people of site. north the ne few minority iran four thousand effects live at the seaside rely on the riches of the underwater world for their survival. fisherman told us when gas companies put their first offshore platforms in their waters it seriously threatened their life. when the platforms appeared the fish we used to catch in

these areas practically disappeared we expressed our protesting got good results there was no offshore platform just over there but after our voices of discontent it was moved further away. such concerns would have been difficult to neglect by the gas giants now the sakhalin energy company launched several social programs for the indigenous minorities which include employment of the needs at their facilities . the company sponsors health cultural programs and education for the natives the company invests three hundred thousand dollars in it every year most of the program sectors are run by the indigenous peoples themselves. according to both the company's management and the knicks the gas giants programs for the natives are a healthy compromise and example of how old and then you can co-exist in practical terms this means multibillion profits for the former and much better quality of

life for the latter. reporting from the region. well if you're feeling hungry you may be in the walk whether you're looking for a tie japanese vietnamese restaurant in moscow will look no further in a new edition of moscow out our teams martin edwards and his crew delve into the diversity of the capital's far eastern cuisine is coming your way in the next hour here on our. past fifteen years to see the explosion of japanese tie vietnamese restaurants in moscow to provide for example all crazy so you must understand as we delve into the subject of cuisine the theme for this week's must go out. there with us here on r t curry kareena melican has got your business update up

next. every month we give you the future the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our jeep. with. this data data generated from an electrical grid. you can do to do it in california. the energy sources are simpler. let's go to smarter. hello and welcome to business i can always start with our top story today business leaders from around the world are arriving in sochi capital of the twenty fourteen olympics for a two day international investment forum that opens today. at the venue and brings us this report. the newly refurbished sochi airport is open it's the first

of the olympic projects to become operational at a cost of just two hundred million dollars it represents just a fraction of the board of work going on for the olympics the company behind the development is basal air a. pass because basic element which is involved in a number of other projects there as well including waste disposal a new seaport in the olympic village the airport is coming on time and on budget that is the base of the arrow explains the project had a number of advantages over all the sites in and around sochi first of all we didn't construct the building itself which we didn't need to move the concrete and the salmon and. the sand and all the heavy material so we were not effectively using our roads too much. with the equipment we fortunately delivered the most of it before this. construction phase started around us so we didn't expect this many

difficulties but other sites i believe would be experiencing some new printing of the airport coincides with the economic forum prime minister putin be giving the keynote speech on friday morning addressing the issues of modernizing the russian economy and improving its investment climate we'll be bringing you full analysis about speech plus expensive coverage of the wider forum on friday and saturday. and russia's largest banks badlands invest one point two billion dollars into the infrastructure that's according to his bank's president hammon graph speaking about two asians graphs said despite the recent weakening russia is still quite stable. it was an order of more than. the current situation on the foreign exchange market dollar and ruble your relations is stable enough and i'd see the fluctuation that we're seeing now is quite logical and is mainly tied to the actions of the market

players and traders but i can see that today the ruble is the most stable it can be and there are no reasons why the behavior of investors in holders of brutal currency should change micro-economic conditions are quite stable the all price is quite stable the gold in foreign currency reserves are increasing and there are quite sufficient to provide a stable exchange value of the ruble. now so companies are like their past as basic element holding their follow sell on their way to i.p.l. step into at a general spoke exclusively to r.t. other such investment. we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know or going public this is just one of these potential sort of the just for you know old old capitalization the power is so specific to leave companies follow your lead music resembles to you bill to them more real more ready to move to become our target is that all of our company is part of being developed to the standard that we're able to spend your time we want you know when

the monkey say we'll believe we think it's that i thought i mean so that it's so there so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency of you know the internal keep you know capacity to you implicitly believe it's own so forced to so that if you decide to go public you can leave and you punch goldman's in the markets you know if markets open up and become positive and we can be very quick. and let's look at how the markets open up we'll look at asia first here shares are mostly higher powered by mixed results on wall street friends nicky's up point eight percent on friday morning trading session stocks moved higher after told here intervenes and comes to market to help us rise earlier this week but gains are kept in check as investors watched if there would be further currency intervention. now let's have a look at how the russian markets ended all thursday as you see both the market's going to lower most of the blue chips were in the red poppy with friends more than shares of russia's biggest or producer well staffed shares went to more than two percent of all reports that the company made when an extension of tax breaks for

its bank oilfield. severs dollar has acquired twenty two percent of shares in the region in texas resources to deal worth twelve million dollars gives russia still access to the main door and make the deposit in the philippines estimate the total cost of an indoor neko project at about two nothing dollars. as part of its diversification strategy it's a new commodity. that's it for now we're bringing you our extensive coverage of international investment forum in sochi brought the day seen in less than a while.