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 behind the by the bow looking for yet least 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 rondell the ice is tested and. 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. 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 eyes flow in this area otherwise they will hot for the north pole every big record that just so they know your feet i think that until you start reading it that. he had a gut reaction on saw that with the good a good bit below the crap. but. no need for

a rescue operation this is the ice. we have just found a suitable field nine 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 exceeding the pressure of r r t from the arctic that's coming up five minutes past the hour we've got a lot more in store for you still to come last tile heard in afghanistan. i'll

never forget one day there was no job i came home and there was no food and my brothers and sisters so my mother they went to sleep hungry we will get how the u.s. led war in afghanistan is forcing thousands of children onto the streets for survival . but first the terrorists thought to be behind september as market blast that killed one thousand people in russia's republic of north a settler has been arrested the head of the country's security services says the case has now been solved argues tom barton has more. in the north caucasus region managed to find and track down some of the suspected masterminds of this attack three of them arrested two of them more than the start of the gun battle and they were shot dead this case in question concerns september invite a car costs in the north caucuses where a suicide bomber drove a car packed full of explosives into the marketplace detonating it killing nineteen

people and wounding around hundred very serious attack and possibly with links to a wider terrorist organization so says alexander board macof the head of russia's security services are still here now. the chair attack has been solved three suspects have been arrested and they are now in jail the organizer of the blast is a close ally of the chechen militant or call maher of google's gang is believed to have carried out more than ten bombings in the neighboring republic of finger shechita and numerous attacks on the police force two other suspects who put up unarmed resistance to their arrest to work the name dr model of appears all over the place when talking about these attacks dozens of attacks within the north caucuses region. a lot of bombings and gun battles were fought for a tease attacks on this marketplace and also the moscow metro bombings earlier

this year which killed thirty eight people and it's his link that his organization was also thought to be linked to the international terrorist network al qaeda itself there has been a terrorist attempt to terrorist crackdowns going on in the region and since the beginning of this year for it to say three hundred suspected terrorists have been killed and another four hundred fifty arrested. this is the afghan war began nearly a decade ago an entire generation of children had to grow up. on the streets there hard lives leave little time for a normal childhood lot of lone school artie's policy has been meeting some of the young afghan teenagers struggling to feed themselves and their families. for a few hours each fine day these street kids get to remember they still just children. to them kite flying is more than just a pastime it's a sport of skill we all who master it are equal and for

a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. my name is wesley doing i'm the father 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 his responsibilities start early at six in the morning. my sister goodbye. goodbye my brother. on the first born 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 but despite their stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones where year ago my dad was he was working with

the police and during the rock explosion it is very very hard work i make about a dollar a day sometimes the other boys are fighting with me they say they want to watch this. as a piece of color 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 every to i wake up super early my house is a long way from here on a good team i can earn the equivalent of about eight dollars but some days there's no work. yesterday there was no work. but for some children it's jesus to come to the streets and that's what 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 costs could mean no food on the table that night fifty seven percent of the population going to sun is below twenty

five years and majority of family are born during the war and growing in the war without scale without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign money spent on the military only seven million goes towards social projects even lists to the children of the international community and they get this to understand how 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. now are video reports features and blogs are online around the clock are to dot com here's a taste of what we've got online for you today russia's president which is up for a pint with brussels rock music only to discuss everything from france to reform.

and after russia's record summer heat wave find out why the weather across europe is heading for the opposite extreme r.t.e. dot com. former georgian defense minister forced into exile after falling out with president saakashvili is trying to. back into politics he's involved in a new party called don't give up which is part of an alliance of georgia's main opposition leaders when. he was sacked in two thousand and seven for accusing georgia's leader of physically removing his opponents there were protests in the capital tbilisi hundreds of thousands of people demanded his resignation but the protests were dispersed and he was reelected a year later but one political analyst has told r.t.

that the new opposition party will face difficulties on many levels. we fully to create just to be. very very sure we have. to judge. french pushing of course. what you can do. you go outside your country. you know that if you shoot investigation against me let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour a train has clashed in the passenger boss in eastern ukraine killing forty and injuring ten others the bus was driving across the tracks even though the crossing was closed and an alarm signaling an oncoming train was being sound that all of the injured are in a serious condition ukraine's president viktor young the coverts has declared wednesday a national day of mourning. the

elder son of north korea's kim jong il has told japanese t.v. that he's supposed to hereditary succession becomes as the leaders youngest son is being lined up as air during the recent ruling party gatherings kim jong naam was previously thought to be the man to take over but reportedly fell out with his father for trying to sneak his family to for pam to visit disneyland he's since been living in luxury in china and macao. to france now where 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 fill gaping holes in the nation's finances even after the plan increases france would still have one of the lowest retirement ages in the developed world at sixty

two in the polls it was approved last month around a million people took to the streets in protest. now it's been terminator time here in moscow with arnold schwarzenegger in town i'm fighting climate change is what's being focused on today california governor has again been putting some shorts of mager simplicity to even the most complex of issues are. following his visit hi there. from his from his tweets from the jokes we've been hearing it really seems like the governor has not a good time doesn't. it doesn't say everything that has been made public about the governor of california visit to moscow has been full of not only business but pleasure from the tweets that arnold schwarzenegger has been posting online complimenting the russian president on his driving skills sharing pictures of the two of them working out together. and all of those things just evidence to

the fact that arnold schwarzenegger had a very good time in the russian capital he did manage to do a lot of things not just the tweeting and the pumping iron he also took a ride with the russian president. but invaded it with a disadvantage nine hundred fifty three i believe soviet chae call luxury car posting all the while posting in the car in the gym so sharing his experiences with the world he also took a ride in the moscow underground saying that he liked what he saw above ground believing that maybe it would be different underground but the ride he took with the ambassadors of the united states and austria did seem to please him just as much as everything that he's done on the ground on location both here in moscow and just outside the city in the russian analog of the silicon valley or spoke of it which is why arnold schwarzenegger was actually here in the first place arriving with a team of investors and. a large group of people to talk business he said that

it is great when one of one makes three of the california. and he himself has a lot of experience to share. knowledge that he would be more than willing to share with the russians with me. to set out. all of this very lighthearted banter russian the russian president offering. back one more time offering him the moscow mayor the opposition is currently vacant and of course as the governor is stepping down in january it is. very much. all in all he was very light on the banter despite some serious matters at hand and on the table for discussions. his way through the entire visit saying that.

moscow an impressive and amazing place to be one of the most impressive cities actually but. i'm a republican. the democrats have a democrat i know i know the idea of a democratic think about this we have a democratic legislature in the assembly and in the senate we have a democratic can draw a democratic. recently a democratic governor a democratic. state and everyone around me is a democrat even going to go to sleep. i go to sleep through the. politics today. and that is pretty much what he did during his time. now we know who mark

terminator is on a mission today to save the planet what's that all about what has he been saying. well that was actually the topic for a lecture today at the high school of economics here in moscow many of course turning out not only to listen to what the man had to say but also because arnold schwarzenegger is a very much respected and loved figure here in russia his movies. have made him very popular and of course this is his first visit in over in more than twenty years he was last in moscow in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight whilst filming a movie called the red sea and of course this in the twenty odd years that r.t. hasn't been to rochelle lot has changed and a lot of not only local demands but local demands have also changed and that is perhaps one of the issues that was addressing specifically the. necessity

for battling the effects of global warming for climate control california of course having some experience in the matter on the floor today you're saying that he's more than happy to share tips on how to the curb greenhouse gas emissions and various other eco friendly matters so that was the focus of arnold schwarzenegger's other time today but even that a very serious topic was not free of joshi's audience swapping out every word and sharing the banter and we know the governor is wrapping up his visit to moscow saying off to the us for now come to the most honorable reporting live on our all sorts of niggers business for a few we're going to take a short break here in our to you and then we'll have the business for you stay with us. for the for we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. how

welcome to business news and we start with our top story this hour first deputy prime minister igor saval of met with foreign businessmen in moscow on tuesday to discuss a range of issues concerning both sides business actually correspond like in a question about who was at the meeting gives us this the cops. first deputy prime minister has just imagine a different has different international companies and these companies represent is a range of entertain starting from zero food to height to acknowledge well the aim

of a two days in meeting was to prepare some sort of background in a platform for future consultation meeting between prime minister. and for a businessman they spoke about it's a range of topics starting from fighting corruption to improving the investment climate in russia and after the meeting of the house of arson young and adore each of bank and told us that the russian market remains quite liberal low for foreign investment and that's the image of russia should be improved however the real came a bit later when a good shoe wallow for a press conference with the media representatives and where he revealed to some of these states of plans about the future privatization process well the state is ready to sell up to ten percent of the t.v. bank by the end of this year or at the beginning of the next year also he specified

that as burbank is also going to be a privatized and that the state is ready to review some of his stake and even to reduce its a below the controlling stake in the future meanwhile a lot was said about the transforming moscow into a global financial center but as mentioned the global financial market is quite competitive at the moment so everything should be done very acrid and cautious. and let's have a quick look at how the equity markets are performing european shares a following tracking sharp declines in asia both of footsie of the dax getting more than half a percent so far as a dragging as a positive copper and other metals are slipping back we see again. thank you stocks are also mostly lower now in russia both the markets are also falling in mid-size session here in moscow again following those sharples in asian stocks blue chips

are down across the board as commodity prices slipped banks and energy majors are among the worst performers on them isaac's pair bank gasp from all spending less than a percent this hour baki the trend though are local and telecom they're all over half a percent. and rosenstiel maker you have ra's plans to sell bonds for six hundred fifty million dollars the company is looking for to finance more than three billion dollars spent on acquisitions in north america heroes will also provide three point two billion dollars of new loans in two thousand and eighteen. now google is to introduce its old inflation index to track global prices google price index we use live data from the web to show price changes for goods will be more up to up to date than government sold consumer price indices which are compiled by civil servants over the new index will not replace official data as it will consider only goods that are sold online. ministers and executives from the gas

industry have been outlining their plans to develop the sexual the next two decades so it would be. the era of 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 team of ski fields in the amal region this is the heartland of russia's gas industry humala already today provides over eighty percent of all gas produced in russia and at least every thief stove in your 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 gas problem as it is the second a pays well the domestic markets accounts for four hundred billion cubic meters

that's three times of gas burns yearly exports the volumes are 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 expert monopoly. by twenty thirty independent gas producers will be responsible for up to 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 are behind the polar circle introduced several innovations including methanol production and new horizontal drilling 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.

. that's all the business news for now i'm back with more in about fifteen minutes . wealthy british style the sun. is not on the tires.

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a thousand. seven hundred thousand people heard and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every day here. fifty. five. almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave the city. to make changes to society was it. wasn't possible to change

the country's regime so politically. without. monopoles only fundamental changes in the state people's minds on aren't true.

the kaiser report is coming up here in our two but first let's get you up to date on today's top stories it's a harsh life ahead for a russian scientist in the arctic as research continues to find a way to secure the polar caps riches russia's among five nations staking a claim over part of the region which is thought to contain a quarter of the world's oil and natural gas reserves. and police have made a key breakthrough in solving last month's deadly car blast in the southern city of likely cost cars kill one thousand people head of the security forces says three of those involved in masterminding the bombing have been arrested two albums in some value. and the governator is going green arnold schwarzenegger is focusing on

climate change during the second day of his visit to moscow yesterday he met president medvedev to discuss national's high tech ambitions. plus afghan teenagers are being forced by war and poverty to transform work over education thousands of young boys are struggling not only to support themselves and also to provide for their families one last without bread with others. as promised next is the kaiser report and they look at why the wealthy are putting a sign back on gold. geyser this is the kaiser report markets finance scandals. it was sentenced to some jail time recently my point is why bother with the long.