spills had been spotted by satellite before the mission started now it's time to do probe for the best sport behind the by the bow looking at least twice flying kilometers but most importantly the ice should be big robust enough to sustain a group of the team people two dogs and several tons of equipment for as long as a year for. the first. test and. no the flow is rejected the ice is too theme we go further north the drew plunges down we need to which is good but the. we return to the ship just as. the voyage will be long and fascinating the explorer up but disappointed because treme hot summer is being felt in the arctic this year

they say is similar to two thousand and seven which marked the peak of. the mission is getting harder there are fewer and fewer suitable ice fields every year before we could find up to forty of them but now are combing the arctic in search of one. decide to play the wild card they tried the last potential eyes glow in this area otherwise they will have. to grab that glove just so they have oh you did. not tell you thought bringing it back. he had it cut and run so that it would be able to get below the crab. but no need for a rescue operation besides. we have just found a suitable mind by thirteen kilometers. and the arch is about three meters thick

a good feeling. now that the platform has found a had a five days of unloading a dozen houses a sauna several tractors about a thousand barrels with fuel and of course professional equipment will be floating on the ice for a year the crew will work day and night the dogs are also keeping themselves busy at dawn and after that he was still asleep they chased away a polar bear and many other challenges faced them in the next twelve months for these very tough expeditions. our teeth from the arctic. are still to come the program he said he'll be back and he kept his promise to report on arnold schwarzenegger's visit to moscow of his tweet exchange president. recreate his plans to help russia's high tech term visions.

past the enormous price of economic progress and to visit one of the world's most polluted towns and. see if there's hope for you know future for itself. since the afghan war began and many a decade ago an entire generation of children had to grow up on the streets. leave little time for a normal childhood let alone school. has been meeting some of the young afghan teenagers struggling to feed themselves and their families. for a few hours each friday the street kids get to remember they still just children. to them can't find is more than just a pastime that it's a sport of skill where all who lost or thought i'd call and for a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. my name is what's he doing in the foreigner of the house i'll never forget one day there was no job i

came home and there was no food and my brothers and sisters and my mother they went to sleep hungry that god is only thirteen years old but as the man of the house has responsibility start early at six in the morning. my sister could. get on my brother. on the first. this is a typical poor kabul neighborhood children with runny noses dirty feet and growling stomachs. every day was a dean takes his bucket and joins the tens of thousands of children heading to the country's streets to make the meagen living washing cars but despite their stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones it was right here again my dad was me he was working with the policeman during the repeat was version is very very hard work make it through a day sometimes the other boys of three with me they say they want to watch this.

is obviously is twelve he manages to bring a few dollars more into the home but it's barely enough to feed his mother and seven sisters so it's harder every two i wake up so early my house is a long way from here on a good team i can on the equivalent of about eight dollars to go but some days there's no work yesterday once there was no work. but for some children it's easiest to come to the streets and they decide they cost a playground the university of life. most parents don't want their children to come here to school that's because these young boys and girls are the only breadwinners in their families and spending just one hour in class could mean no food on the table that night fifty seven percent of the population of afghanistan is below twenty five years. majority of family are born during the war and grand in the war without scale without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign

money spent on a military only civil no longer goes to social projects even more so to the trade international community and to get this to stop has to pay and has to focus more on the children six million children are at risk in afghanistan of sexual abuse violence and harsh child labor and with precious little being done to help afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives ever getting off the ground course we are all too. cobbles. video reports features and blogs are online around the r.t. dot com here's a taste of what we've got on line few today one losing a husband means losing everything tens of millions of indians a day will cost out their families and society. the brute far less greed exclusive documents provided by the wife will be next to russian arms dealer

that was once a body united states. now it's been terminated time in moscow with short snigger in town to wreak havoc but on a mission of innovation it was a case of the famous phrase i'll be back as california's governor was returning the visit of president with a get if he wants silicon valley know how to transform russia into a high tech powerhouse of the day how to know textiles the russian leader taking the governator on a ride in a vintage russian car with destination though was the site of the center of the country's technology drive let's call that off during that time that have suggested that the schwarzenegger was a russian citizen who might be interested in taking going to deflate those business comes near his or her joke but the star of the terminator movies is no stranger to

the city of those cars again around. reports. it was morning rush hour in the subway with passengers album being their way through the crowd there's little that can make them pause at this time but here he was the terminator. i saw lots of people on camera flashes and the security service came out followed by arnold schwarzenegger i thought to myself wow you don't see people like that often last. you know and the ticket barrier closed on him he got stuck. got it open a few minutes of course and that and. right now he knows. arnold schwarzenegger rolled just one stop but it wasn't enough for him to post a tweet that muscovites allegedly like that public transport had his journey lasted for more than ten minutes he might well have changed his impression but the russia

. was for the cola for new gov providing cuban police ask for it and a permanent right of way. it was in june that schwartz made their hosting the russian president giving him a tour of silicon valley and showcasing his very masculine boots. it is not clear whether medvedev wondered what it's like to be in shorts make issues but one month later the governor's nadir even moscow promoting russia's own version of a high tech hub. when i first visited. here is a. very very. very. very big deal here. in this area. because it is still very. big but. yet as the presentation showed even arnie makes mistakes.

that our business leaders going to find great partnerships with the so we had russian. just shows no one i'm perfect i thought. a pap project but attack sabby a russian president this koku a park has been designed to spearhead innovation and scientific research in russia i mean to me that it had no difficulties asking for help my claim is indeed we are extremely interested in your considerable experience and we're not ashamed of learning it so we must. sadly enough behind in many respects we do expect that our corporations bring about positive results. frowns on twitter made better french words to give praise to each other for their vision and to the delight of all he found the governator promised that he'll be back in the first terminator movie innovation had gone so far that machines including schwarzenegger's own character tried to exterminate the human race ironically with his involvement in this project

the governor may actually make these plot a bit more plausible but at the end of the day he can always turn against the machines and save the world like in the second movie so i guess there is nothing to fear. r.t. it's called. the united states has been marking columbus day commemorating explorers arrival into north america for protesters say there are still a grim legacy to his discovery. the stage for centuries of prosperity for the new settlers there are those who say they're still paying the price of his experience. for most americans on this day there is no work or school the second monday of every october is christopher columbus day i wish you a very happy and national holiday marked with celebrations parades and shopping bargain research all of it to honor the conquest of the americas by christopher columbus and his western development of the new world in the us columbus means

america for weight. this committed heinous crimes against the indigenous peoples of the caribbean the millions of natives throughout the americas and columbus set the stage for the slave trade in the new world from sun one comes to the new call for nia. people like a boycott of. boise state university in idaho you really should extra batteries should that really say to arizona. oh. and rhode island that brown university earlier this year braun voted to boycott the columbus day holiday after seven hundred students signed a petition blasting christopher columbus a straight man of data for americans it's a day of mourning for these needed tribes in washington states colorado and throughout the countless indian reservations in this country. is

really just a day off from work or an a in our federal holiday coming to washington and seeing that makes a big difference in kind of brings it home the district of columbia is actually named after christopher columbus here in the nation's capital he's honored every year in the celebration behind me and for anyone traveling to d.c. by train they'll make their way here to union station where one of the first things they'll probably see is a lovely fountain behind me as dedicated to christopher columbus and the three flagpoles behind it symbolize the three ships that brought explorer and his group to the new world indigenous people in latin america have been resisting gentle people here the save if you discovered. what they did was conquered america but there is another opinion on display outside the white house it's an illustration drawing present day similarities to the suffering of natives under columbus we are here to call attention to the continued military zation of latin america said what started over five hundred years ago with columbus the exploitation of latin america through military means continues today it just showed slight americans that are

other people that we don't all celebrate columbus. we don't think that he he he he did people good things he brought a lot of suffering to the indigenous here despite the historic mistreatment of native americans the u.s. government has never issued a formal apology to their indigenous population as other nations have although there are petitions circulating throughout the u.s. for the government to renounce columbus day the idea is not welcomed by most americans in my opinion we have to sort of brady's mad at us if we do nothing like i don't know america or if things that we know that would have happened for it right now so it's to me it's correct to celebrate him that he wasn't looking also to conquer the world as anything else. i think that should continue on or the station be protesting it part of our history a day commemorating two narratives of history with two different ideas of how columbus achieved the western development of the america is

a history that has marked every year by honor and betrayal john hoffa's r.t. washington d.c. . now to some of today's other international headlines israel is making a qualified offer to hold a settlement construction occupy the west bank the prime minister netanyahu says he lost his government to temporarily. if palestinians recognize israel as a jewish state has to officials quickly rejected the offer i think that the settlements are in violation of international law is the issue which is the main been of contention the current round of u.s. sponsored peace talks. train drivers in paris have avoided a series of continuous twenty four hour strikes to try and stop the government from raising the country's been on a date president sarkozy says the reforms are vital to fill gaping holes in the nation's finances and after the prime crease france would still have one of those retirement ages in the developed world sixty two the proposal was approved last

mass people poured into the streets to protest. and the saga of the trapped should be in line it says hopefully about to come to a close engineers have completed the escape shot and tested the rescue capsule setting the stage for thirty three workers to me that way to early on wednesday morning but a backup shaft is being drilled just in case some problems from the miners are physical and mental health is being closely monitored to ensure they emerge at the surface and hoped. one choosing your holiday destination there's one part of russia's picturesque uro's which you might leave off you missed the area does have a landmark but it's a rather grim one the town of car bus which is one of the most polluted places on earth sara the reports it's now a thing to clear up its reputation. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you're right in the small russian town of kara bash a legacy of environmental destruction once and the title of one of the most polluted

towns in the wells it's saying to a large couple and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape it devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases in digestive system diseases are coming in the level of oncological diseases here is rather high. under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act but progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that our company of inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop her but of course lots more still remains to be done the smelter was founded take split the region's rich copper deposits and has contributed to the economic progress in russia if the last twenty years the price of pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental

scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence a caravan when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is blowing a different way usually you can see strange harm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster in the town fell into poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their family. if this industry is really dangerous it's a rude everything the units often feel and all impurities come to tyrone on the other hand things did used to be much worse so there have been some improvements

despite millions in investment to modernize the plant when we visited the working conditions still seemed way fully inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with neighboring equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste they used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the companies say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about. the clean a future where we aren't done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of kaddish the mistakes of the past the time being the main ever present. kara bash. little later on r.t. max keiser and stacy herbert look at why the financial big guns are hedging their bets with heavy metal. super rich investors buy gold by

ton this is according to u.b.s. executive joseph staveley are the world's wealthiest people are responding to economic worries by buying thousands of ounces of gold we had a clear example of a couple buying over a ton of gold and carrying it to another place at today's prices that shipment would be worth over forty two million dollars well there i don't want to say anything but. when it comes back i have a ton of gold waiting for you it's only about this big actually a ton of gold it's about seventeen square cubic inches remarkably you know if it's right actually the next to the refrigerator nicely. kai's reporter's head and just on the three out story that stay with financial news

now we get a business update from stephanie. hello and welcome to the business program ministers and executives from the gas industry have been outlining vet plans to develop the sector over the next two decades seen item in fact a report. the easy access to sources is over the closest gas at a depth of two kilometers is almost exhausted with production falling the richest reserves now lie more than four kilometers below the surface such as a cheap fields in the amal region this is the hard land of russia's gas industry already today provides over eighty percent of all gas produced in russia and at least every fifth stove in your burns the gas produced here but europe is no longer the focus of russia's gas producers. are speaking in. stress the domestic market

is the key. if the level of yields from export in domestic prices are equal power industry will be one of the most attractive consumers for gas problem as it is the second is well the domestic market accounts for four hundred billion cubic meters that's three times of gas burns yearly exports the volumes there the problem is the price domestic prices are well below european levels and gas producers want to catch up that's good news point dependent producers excluded from gas probes export monopoly. by twenty independent gas were responsible for. those independent operators a champions of new technology and of a tech working in your heart of scale built the second after you behind the polar circle introduced several innovations including methanol production and new. techniques providing thirty three billion cubic meters of gas or almost ten percent of domestic consumption giving priority to the domestic market means not just more

exploration but more infrastructure to supply the gas but it's guarantees a bigger role independent producers zinaida individual business r.t. . and now let's take a quick look at how the markets are performing in tokyo the nikkei is following a climb in the yes. the dollar to the new fifteen year highs is causing concern and a weaker than expected profit for calls for a popular stock fos retelling is also driving on the in facts but hopes of currency intervention by the japanese government and more asset buying by the federal reserve lending some support in hong kong hindsight is having a choppy session pulls in by a few shows are limiting games. and in moscow both the russian markets finished high on monday oh major russell after was the top two and a half percent on the back of rising oil prices on speculation that gas producer terrorists. as

a possible strategic partner bikes were also on the upper spread by finishing one point four percent higher. russia's biggest rail freight provide a trans container plans to raise around four hundred million dollars in the listing in london by the end of this year the flotation of the state owned subsidiary of russian roadways comes as the government seeks to sell off the nation's thirty billion dollars in state assets to plug the budget deficit and increase foreign investment j.p. morgan on choice to run the listing and according to the financial times trying to contain it is expected to float a thirty five percent stake giving it a target valuation of about one point one billion dollars while russian rowley will maintain the majority stake. russia's largest provider is planning to issue shares in the london i.p.o. . to a subsidiary of the same name up to five billion dollars it includes a major russian assets of the company under two point four percent stake in

facebook the company towns to complete the i.p.o. by the end of the year. venture capitalists taking part in russia's global innovation partnership are expected to size up the country's development opportunities on the forms a second day it's expected to include a look at which is russia is not a technology hub entrepreneurs say there's a wealth of ideas that are ripe for development. many of the bigger companies like google oracle organizations like that have a very definite need to establish long term relationships with the students that come out of these actual schools to stablish their own r. and d. centers places of actually all over the world including you know here in russia like spoke about and represent but the most important things say analyst is to ensure the projects make money as quickly and efficiently as possible there's a good backlog of ideas in russia that you can immediately take into the

marketplace so i think you should start to see new companies before that within a few years and have some impact on. that so the business needs for this up but we've got more coverage online at slash.

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a report on our. cuckoo. let's take a look at the headlines. it's a harsh life ahead for russian song sex in the arctic that's where search continues to find a way to secure the cubs riches russia is among five nations staking a claim of a home to the region to school to contain the water wells while international dancers. afghan teenagers are being forced by war and poverty to choose all the work to taste and thousands of young boys are struggling often to support themselves to provide for their families without breaking news. and protests have marked america's columbus day holiday supposed to celebrate most americans discovery but the descendants of days where they're all the same this

centuries of conquest led to crimes against its deaconess people. nice new small talk to be in charge of the well to fight against illegal drugs next our team meets the man who has that daunting job. well so is your if adults off is the new head of the u.n. office fighting drugs and crime just for those of us thanks for speaking to r.t. what targets have you set for the agency i took over addressed three weeks ago and i believe that it is possible to give a first protest of this rooke in the united nations you know the issue. under my predecessor has accumulated a great deal of international support and expanded the range of for. including drugs and crime.