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undiscovered. communicate with the wind. test yourself and become. the world's nature can give you. a terror suspect wanted by russia has been detained by polish police on his way to warsaw as prosecutors office moscow wants. to stand trial in russia but for the

last two years he's had political asylum in the u.k. . russia u.s. strategic arms reduction treaty gets the green light from u.s. foreign policy legislators paving the way for the event with a crucial final vote on the full senate. a new plan announced to revive the troubled u.s. economy amid claims the country is recovering from the global crisis but despite new measures millions of unemployed americans are struggling to survive. i love and i am in moscow why matras a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects has been reportedly

detained by polish police on his way to the warsaw prosecutor's office where he was expected to appear with his lawyer. is in poland to attend an international chechen congress near the country's capital artie's catarina as are of a joins us live with the latest developments catarina why have the polish that already has made the move to detain psychiatry and what action do you think they'll take. home that the police authorities did say yesterday that they would detain the man should he come to poland because of an outstanding enter paul warrant issued after a class but it by the russian side who have called the supply of a wanted man for nearly a decade since two thousand and one he was pronounced wanted first in the brush and then globally of course an interpol arrest warrant was issued and polish authorities did say that they would detain the man for further questioning of course it's not as simple as simply detaining him and shipping him back to russia

where he will stand trial it is a matter of a court procedure in poland itself first where the polish court will decide whether there is grounds for a further detention or arrest of a and so then have to return to england where he has a political asylum the will and the british side will then have to decide whether to extradite him to russia in order to stand trial so a very complicated situation and the very fact that the five has reportedly already been detained by the polish police doesn't exactly mean that he's trial is going to begin anytime soon. of course moscow would want to see him extradited but what are the chances of actually face trial here in russia. well judging by previous experience that those chances aren't very good of course he has been wanted for nearly ten. years two thousand and one russia now instead of wanted in two thousand and three britain refused to extradite him to russia because he was

given political asylum in the united kingdom a never ending stream and that exists between moscow and london for these change of suspected criminals does not apply specifically because upset by its political refugee status so despite the fact that in russia he's facing very serious charges those that pollute manslaughter and kidnapping not participating in terrorist extremist activity as prosecutors and also believe he has participated in the moscow theater siege that took place at a job or two thousand and two despite all of those very serious charges it is somewhat likely that an insect i have struggled will begin in this country any time soon all right thanks very much archy's catarina as our other top of the story for us. stay with us here on our t. still ahead for a u.n. assassination attempt in the heart of moscow. and alleged criminal war days in intensive care after had been shot in the center of moscow on thursday

evening find out all the details in just a few minutes. and artie's close up team looks at the vast oil and gas reserves of the sa an island in russia's far east as we embark on another journey to be to uncover the hidden and unique gems of russia. but first the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has voted in favor of the nuclear arms reduction treaty or start which was signed with russia in april the deal that now needs approval from the full senate could eventually see that you countries reduce their warhead stockpiles by a third but a start he's got a chicky on reports america's in-house issues could still hinder plans for the ratification of the start treaty got the green light from the senate foreign affairs committee and is heading for the senate floor this treaty 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 watches 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

politics the republicans don't they 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 radical 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 or not and judging by what senators were saying this thursday they surely will the question is when i'm going to check out our reporting from washington d.c. the ratification of the start treaty is a way to modernize and improve nuclear defense that's the opinion of gary hart

a 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 vote on the treaty people will have to vote for it or against it and those who vote 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 increasingly unstable with a newer generation more secure technology you are actually improving security rather than in danger yet so a delimiter argument can be made for modernization of nuclear arsenals certainly not expansion of the if we are serious about dramatic reductions in these 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 former u.s. senator and co-chair of the commission on u.s. policy towards russia this sunday here on r.t. . suspected a russian criminal mastermind has survived an assassination attempt in central moscow it was sajjan better known as grandpa haasan is being treated for gunshot wounds in the hospital r.t.c. or piskun office at the scene of the crime he joins us live. hello you're going to so give us the details of this latest assassination attempt. well it happened that around eight pm on thursday evening in the very center of moscow when the site also

known as ground zero was thought to be a major criminal or a. in russia he arrives to clear skies and reportedly to visit his son who lives at an apartment in one of the local buildings as the criminal lord and his bodyguard were the approaching the entrance to the building several floors shots were fired first hitting the bodyguard and then injuring. himself the driver called an ambulance and as afterwards came to the scene of the incident the investigators found a suspicious looking window in open window in one of the buildings nearby when they checked the court and be found a weapon which is thought to have been used in this assassination attempt and according to some reports this was a sniper so right the rifle a specific type of us number is why for both men or want to hospitalize the enough gaudi's announced brand part for our son's death but later they deny this information seen that by giving these false reports they wanted to prevent

a second possible assassination attempt so clearly had the moment both men are recovering from undergoing operations at one of moscow's hospitals which is currently heavily guarded by authorities and investigators have any leads into the shooting yet. while aslan will say on the war grandpa son is thought to be someone who's called feet by the call with a personal philosophies to such a height in the criminal world that he is able to supervise control and benefit from numerous criminal activities without actually leaving any traces and his story that grandpa son is in charge of group of organized criminal groups in the russia and in the c.i.s. major and i know waged a major figure in the criminal world so if that is true then this man definitely has

a lot of enemies in the criminal world especially with the fact that. she used to be really close to another a criminal lord known by the name of the point she was assassinated back in two thousand and nine as a result of these criminal wars and. pledged to revenge to revenge she's deaf and some and only see if this information that she was assassinated using this specific type of a sniper's rifle is correct then this is the same type of weapon that the point she was murdered with and so according to some analysts the organizers of these attacks may want to see hint that these two attacks are connected another version is that. somebody wanted to us on this i guess that's because of another criminal war for some sports facilities in seldom russia in any way a criminal investigation is currently underway after all these are looking both for

the organizers and the actual people who committed this session of the assassination attempt and also for the person who is connected to this apartment where this weapon was found all right artie's ego has gone off on top of the story for us thanks for that report. u.s. president barack obama is pushing forward on plans to double u.s. exports in the next five years 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 struggling to survive. 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 a time to go to work. so. it's time to head to the food pantry for charity. they are low income folks are 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 the one we're going to morrow 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 the 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 one 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 that

is too hard too far north and it only appears to be getting worse it is unfortunately not only here but in the entire us 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 fifty years that's when they first began tracking these numbers here you can see one reason why the opportunities are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities are rather slim 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. and. and you fracturing jobs that have disappeared or gone overseas factory work all of the low level jobs that these folks with will still be sort of out in the cold. and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now see prepare about twelve hundred meals

a day now it will be serving about four hundred people. a free hotline some of the workers who are some are the homeless not surprisingly. there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen than a year ago why. now and some can't work like for one who has an incurable disease moves not for work or health 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. they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with the caller i don't know was the president or.

for me is not the snow blower out of. his life in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. now you still. have lauren mr artie patterson new jersey. time now to take a journey as the r t team continues its close up series exploring the varied and inspiring regions of russia. travel with us now to russia's sakhalin a region in the country's far east it's famous for its serenity beauty and unique wildlife and also noted for boasting large energy resources rich in oil and natural gas the area is of particular interest to the country's energy giants the r. t. crew had a chance to experience the riches of this island firsthand up along with our teas

alexei our chefs he is your guy. just like most women scientists not likes to receive flyweights but this time the red coat of nations serves as the victim of an experiment. she puts the flour into a liquefied gas where it immediately freezes. and with a loud crack natalia breaks it on to our cameras lens thus she demonstrates what liquid gas the phonology is all about. 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 cubic tonnes of gas are being processed here every year to be there and exported to 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 base 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 no infrastructure here in place now we have not only. a plant by appliance there are also the new job created when you come to arcturus a 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 north the ne few minority iran four thousand effects live at the seaside relying on the riches of the underwater world for their survival. and the 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 cycling energy company launched several social programs for the indigenous minorities which include employment of the needs at their facilities . the company sponsors health care 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 an example of how old and the new 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. and we'll bring you the latest business news after a short break stay with us here on r.t. . every month we give you the future the best

in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us technology update on our jeep. with. data generated from an electrical grid. you can do to do it in california. hundreds of energy sources are simpler. let's go to smarter. it's twenty seven am here in moscow welcome to business and we stop without top story business leaders from around the world are arriving in such a capital of the twenty fourteen olympics for today international investment forum that opens on friday because pool is at the venue and brings us this report. the newly refurbished sochi airport is open it's the first to be

a limb pick 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 just pays an error there are passages basic element group which is involved in a number of other projects here as well including waste disposal a new seaport and the olympic village the airport is coming on time and on budget that is called off 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 robots 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 will experience

a. new printing of the airport coincides with the month she 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 of that speech plus its spens of coverage of the wider forum on friday and saturday. staying with a forum some russia's leading banks attending that forum have already voiced their commitment to help develop the region further spevak plans to invest one point two billion dollars into the olympic infrastructure that's according to his bank's president have a graph speaking about ruble fluctuations despite the recent weakening russia's currency is still quite stable. it was a number of more than the current situation on the foreign exchange markets i.e. the ruble dollar and the ruble your relations is stable enough and i'd say 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 and holders of rouble currency should change macroeconomic conditions a quite stable the oil price is also quite stable the gold and foreign currency reserves are increasing and a quite sufficient to provide a stable exchange value of the ruble at a deputy chairman of the national bank says the bank has plans to invest heavily into the cross region as well. as the russian government. the white house sells the way this big injection there's a capital. two billion us dollars and. secret to where we can find them. projects where an

investor partners thirty percent. while we can find there's a seventy percent. project. and as a moment we already know a kid at fifteen billion rubles it's better off eleven years. meanwhile several companies of alegría pascoe's basic element holding may follow roussel on their way to i.p.l. that moves deputy director general spoke exclusively to r.t. the such investment. we're planing to least two more companies in the near future you know in general you know going public this is just one of the potential stupid just for you know for capitalization the power is you know the companies from where you live music there's a means to you bill to them or you know no more ready to become our target is that all of our company is being developed to the standard that we're able to list and

you time want you know when the market so we think it's that i mean so that it's so there so it's more important for us to focus on internal efficiency you know the internal keep you know capacity and push it to be its own show for still so that if you decide to go public you can do it and you times gold to be in the markets you know if markets open up and become positive we can be very quick. and that brings us to the markets here's asia where shares are mostly higher following mixed results on wall street japan's nikkei is up one point two percent this hour stocks move higher have to tokyo intervened from currency markets to kept rising earlier this week shares of exporters gained with honda motor adding one point seven percent in hong kong hang seng is trading over and said hi as well now let's have a look at how the russian markets are doing as adam isaacs are high at the bar in the first hour of trading and again banking stocks are up over half of the sound bucking for.