turn station and importantly not to damage it a helicopter is deployed into action. five potential eyes filled had been spotted by satellite long before the mission started now it's time to do probe for the best sport. the fly the bow looking for but it leaves one to five kilometers but most importantly the eyes 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. the first storm is west of the island of brown the ice is tested and. you know the flow is rejected the ice is too thin we go further north the drill plunges down three metres which is good but the field is too rocky for the camp we return to the shape of. the voyage will be long and fascinating the

explorers cheer each other up but look disappointed makes 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 global warming. but 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 we're calling the whole arctic in search of one at dawn the explorers decide to play the wild card they try for the last potential ice flow in this area otherwise they will had for the north pole the great god that was just something no you don't see i think that until you start reading it that was he had a gut reaction on thought that would be good he gave it be all right that's right. but. no need for

a rescue operation this is the ice. we have just found a suitable field mined by thirteen kilometers wide and the arch is about three meters chik have good feelings. now that the platform is 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 ais for a year the crew will work day and night the dogs are also keeping themselves busy at dawn when everybody was still asleep they chased away a polar bear and many other challenges faced them in the next twelve months for these very tough expedition exiting a grouch of r r t from the arctic. still to come on the program he said he'll be back and he kept his promise europol told also false negatives visit to moscow of

his tweet exchange with president get ever writing veteran this plans to help russia's high tech missions. thus the enormous price of economic progress but he visits one of the world's most polluted towns in russian rules to see if there is hope in the future for its citizens. since the afghan war began many a decade ago an entire generation of children had to grow up on the streets their hard lives leave a little time for a normal childhood when school artie's has been meeting some of the young afghan teenagers struggling to feed themselves and their families. for a few hours each finding these street kids get to remember they still just children . to them can find is more than just a pastime it's a sport a skill we all who master it are equal and for a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. my name is what's he

doing on the phone. 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 his responsibility started early at six in the morning. most. people and my brother. on the first. this is a typical poor kabul neighborhood children with runny noses dirty feet and crawling 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 meager living washing cars. despite their stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones my. dad was he was working with the police when

doing the real explosion which is very very hard work i make about a dollar a day sometimes the other boys of two with me they say they want to watch this. is obvious a caller 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 day i wake up super early my house is a long way from here only i can on the equivalent of about eight dollars but some days there's no work yesterday there was no work. but for some children it's easiest to come to the streets that doesn't make 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 in grain going to war without scale without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign money spent in the military only seven million goes towards social projects even less to the children international community and they get the state of afghanistan 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 them afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives ever getting off the ground. kabul. well video reports features and blogs are online around the clock at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what we've got online for you today why losing a husband means losing everything tens of millions of indians in this book or start with their families and society. and also russia's record summer heat wave

and out now the weather across europe is heading for the exit extreme that's empty dot com. the un's human rights council says one of better russa's opposition politicians has been a victim of political repression because i mean it she was jailed in two thousand and four after he quit his diplomatic job and began a political career challenging president because shank up he spent two years in prison charged with stealing computers from the u.s. embassy despite the embassy saying that he gave them to him for free the u.n. says his trial was unfair and has condemned the torture and humiliation techniques it says we used on him whether president hu is regarded as europe's last dictator

is accused of breaching human rights laws with his policies. it's been terminated time in moscow with all shorts an acre in town to wreak havoc on a mission of innovation and it was a case of the famous phrase i'll be back as california's governor was returning the visit of president medvedev who wants silicon valley know how to transform russia into a high tech powerhouse they have no tech start the russian leader taking the governator right into russian car that destination though was the site of the center of the country's technology drive a school cover during a time limit of suggested that it was a russian citizen he might be interested in taking over the vacant post of moscow where he had been a joke but the star of the terminator movies is no stranger to the city and knows his way around parties or sort of boycott reports. it was morning rush hour in the moscow subway with passengers al boring their way through the crowd

there is 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 well you don't see people like that often in moscow and they take it very closed on him he got stuck people go to a few minutes of course and let him pass but now he knows. or in the will shortz from the road just one stop but it was enough for him to post to weep that muscovites allegedly like their public transport had his journey lasted for more than ten minutes he might well have changed his impression but the russian authorities have pulled out all stops for the california governor providing him with police to ask corey and a permanent right of way. it was in june that schwartz made their hostage the russian president giving him a tour of silicon valley and showcasing his very masculine boots.

it is not clear whether they're wondered what it's like to be in shorts maker shoes but one month later the governing nadir even moscow promoting russia's own version of a high tech hub. this. is a. very very. very. very. good. yet as the presentation showed even arnie makes mistakes so that our business leaders are going to find great partnerships with the so we the russian. shows no one i'm perfect. a pap project but a tax savvy russian president the scope of our park has been denying to spearhead

innovation and scientific research in russia and the me to admit it had no difficulties asking for help. we were extremely interested in your considerable experience we're not ashamed of learning we must admit that sadly enough we learnt behind in many respects and we do expect that our corporation will bring about positive results from some twitter made better french words may give praise to each other for their vision and to the delight of all he's 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 try to exterminate the human race ironically with his involvement in this project the governor may actually make these plug 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's nothing to fear it's a boycott artsy skolkovo. protests and anger columbus day in the

united states is supposed to celebrate discovery and centuries of prosperity for the seculars but native americans whose ancestors were there before say they're still paying the price for crimes against their people you had half a sixpence. 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 bargains 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 way too long this committed heinous crimes against the indigenous peoples of the caribbean the millions of natives throughout the americas that columbus set the stage for the slave in the new world from sun one compass the new call fornia.

for the courtesy of. boise state university in idaho you were very sure extra batteries should make the british to arizona. oh. yes. and rhode island that brown university earlier see here brown voted to boycott the columbus day holiday after seven hundred students signed a petition blasting christopher columbus a straight man of a different narratives it's a day of mourning for these native tribes in washington states colorado and throughout the countless indian reservations in this country. is really just a day off from work or an end in our federal holiday coming to washington and seeing that it 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 the explorer and his crew to the new world and that the people in latin america progress is being driven by people here this if you discovered. what they did was conquered america that 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 you know 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 marry us and we do nothing like you know i marry coward 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 that you know i think that should continue our specialty protesting is part of our industry 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 is marked every year by honor and betrayal jan hoffa's r t washington d.c. now some international headlines in brief for you israel is making an offer to hold settlement construction of the occupied west bank but there are strings attached by mr netanyahu says he lost his government to temporarily extend the ban to any of

palestinians recognize israel as a jewish state first palestinian officials rejected the offer of the settlements are in violation of international law is the issue which is the main point of contention in the current round of u.s. sponsored peace talks. train drivers in paris have launched a series of rolling twenty four hour strikes to try and stop the government from raising the country's retirement age president sarkozy says the reforms are vital to the gaping holes in the nation's finances and after greece france will still have. a just world sixty two and a proposal was approved last month rather. than protest. when choosing your holiday destination is one part of russia's picturesque rules which you might leave off your list the area does have a landmark but it's a rather grim one the town of care about us which is one of the most polluted

places on earth. now reports it's now hoping to clear up its reputation. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you're right in the small russian town of care about a legacy of environmental destruction once earned it the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world its thing to a large copper and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's the residents who really suffer from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases digestive system diseases are common in the world of oncological diseases here is rather high under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that our company had an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop care about but of course lots more still remains to

be done. the smarts was founded to exploit the region's rich copper that poses and has contributed to the economic progress in russia over the last twenty years the price to pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence to care about and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. to do the windows blowing and different usually you can see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's lifeblood when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster zone the town phelan's of poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents knew of the more of the same pollution an unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to

provide for their families. if well this industry is really doing druce it's a rule everything the units often feel and all impurities come to town 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 feel inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with no breathing equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste 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 now hope for a cleaner future. we are 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 care that the mystics the past the

time being remain ever present so if r.t. care about. this now or latest from the world of business and how the equity markets before and so forth are hikari well here most of the r.t.s. has just opened and it's on the slide not surprising as we've seen significant force in asian markets this session i'll have more in just a moment but first ministers and executives from the gas industry have been outlining of their plans to develop the sector over the next two decades. reports. the era of easy access to sources is over the closest gas at a depth of two kilometers is almost exhausted with the production falling the richest reserves now lie more than four kilometers below the surface such as a team of ski fields in the region this is the hard land of russia's gas industry already today provides over eighty percent of all gas produced in russia at least

every thief stove in europe burns the gas produced here but europe is no longer the focus of russia's gas producers gas from cheap aleksey miller speaking in. stress the domestic market is the key. if the level of yields from export in domestic prices are equal the power industry will be one of the most attractive consumers for gazprom as a second to pays well the domestic market accounts for four hundred billion cubic meters that's three times of gas prims yearly experts 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 for independent producers excluded from gas probes export monopoly. twenty thirty per independent gas producers will be responsible for thirty percent of. those independent operators a champions of a new technology of a tech working in your heart of scale filled 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 for russia's independent producers zinaida individual business r.t. . and let's have a place to look at how they see markets are performing in tokyo the nikkei has shed more than two percent on. tuesday a crime in the yen against the dollar to new fifteen year highs is causing concern and weighing on x. waters and a weaker than expected profit forecast from popular stock fast retelling has also dragged on the index in hong kong hang seng is having a chalky session falls in banking shares are limiting games. and the r.t.s. has just opened here in moscow and has already shed close to point to nine percent

that follows those sharp falls in asian stocks the my six will start trading in just a few minutes it finished high on monday toile major ross neff was the top gainer from ninety two and a half percent on the back of rising prices on speculation that gas producer tara left as a possible strategic partner of. russia's biggest provider trans container plans to raise around four hundred million dollars in a listing in london and moscow by the end of this year the flotation of the state owned subsidiary of russian railways comes as the government seeks to sell off almost thirty billion dollars in state assets to plug the budget deficit and increase of foreign investment j.p. morgan i'm sure you could dial over to run the listing according to the financial times trance contain it is expected to float a thirty five percent stake giving it a target funny of about one point one billion dollars while russian railways will maintain the majority stake. and russian still maker you have runs plans to sell

bonds to six hundred fifty million dollars the company is looking to refinance more than three billion dollars that they spent expanding into north america will also provide three point two billion dollars of new loans due to start in twenty eight. russia's largest email provider is planning a london i.p.o. to float a subsidiary of the same name worth up to five billion dollars it includes major russian assets of the company under two point four percent stake in facebook. venture capitalists taking part in russia's global innovation partnership are expected to size up the country's development opportunities on the form second day it's expected to include a look at russian nano which is russia's a nano technology help on to printers say there's a wealth of ideas that are right for development. many of the bigger companies like google oracle and organizations like that have a very definite need to establish long term relationships with. come out of these

actual schools and to establish their own r. and d. centers. places of actually all over the world including here in russia. can represent. but the most important thing is a analyst is to ensure the projects make money as quickly and efficiently as possible there's a good backlog of ideas and pressure that you can immediately take into the marketplace so i think you should start to see new companies before within a few years and have some impact on the kind of. not so the business news for this hour but we've got more coverage for you online at called flash it's us.

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you know without the main stories we're covering this hour. ahead for russian scientists in the arctic as research continues to find a way to secure their own attempts richards russia is among five nations staking a claim of a home to the region and just want to continue quattro oil and natural gas reserves . afghan teenagers are being forced by war and and it's occasions work of education thousands of young boys are struggling also in to support themselves and also provide for their families are there with no written rules. and protests have mounted americans can dump a state holiday it's supposed to celebrate most americans discovery but descendants

of those with the the sentence say it was a conquest that led to crimes against its people. it's no small job to be in charge of the world's fight against illegal drugs next meets the man who has the daunting task. well there's your if adult of is the new head of the u.n. office a fighting drugs and crime just for those of thanks for speaking to r.t. what targets have you set for the agency i took or were addressed to three weeks ago and i believe that it is possible to give a fish protest reduce in the united nations you know to see. under my predecessor has accumulated to a good deal of international support and expanded the range of for. including drugs and cry.