an aggressive march through the arctic. breaker slows down to a crawl explorers are on a delicate mission to find a suitable eyes filled with arctic twenty turn station and importantly not to damage it a helicopter is deployed into action. for 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 ply the bow looking for it twenty 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 brandon the ice is tested and. you know the flow is rejected the ice is too thin we go further north drew

plunges down we need to switch is good but the field is too rocky for the cam we returned to the shape just finished with the voyage will be long and fascinating because blowers 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 have to pull the north pole to grab that blood just so they know you don't know how big i think that you know you thought through. that

was the helicopter gun so that would be good to. get below that crap. but no need for a rescue operation these is the arms. we have just found the. mind body thirteen kilometers wide and the arch is about three meters thick. now that the platform was found i had 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 when adorably 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 r t from the arctic.

well you can follow you considering the gravity of his trip to the arctic on line just go to our website are two dot com and it's easy to find in the block section. all the terrorists thought to have masterminded september as market blast that killed one thousand people in russia's republic of north of set you have been tracked down three militants have been arrested and two more were shot dead in a gun battle the head of the country's security services says the case has now been closed artist tom barton has more details. 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 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 one 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 call maarouf google's gang is believed to have carried out more than ten bombings in the neighboring republic of finger sheds here and numerous attacks on the police force two other suspects who put up unarmed resistance to their arrests to work year old 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 appears link that his organization was also thought to be linked to the international terrorist network al qaeda itself there has been a terrorist attempt a terrorist crackdown going on in the region since the beginning of this year for it to say three hundred suspected terrorists have been killed and another four hundred fifty arrested. there are. still ahead for you forced to found their phone. i'll never forget one day there was a new job i came here and there was new food and my brothers and sisters so mother they went to sleep hungry but now conflict and a lack of education means it's up to children to earn their families keep we look

at their struggle for survival. and as the credits roll on schwarzenegger's moscow visit we bring you the best scenes from the governor of russian capital adventure. but first a former georgian defense minister forced into exile after falling out with president saakashvili is trying to return to politics he helped found a new party called don't give up an alliance of georgia's main opposition leaders. was sacked in two thousand and seven for accusing georgia's leader of physically removing his opponents sparking protest in the capital tbilisi hundreds of thousands of people demanded. the router's resignation but the protests were broken up 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. lethally if you create. the opposition. he will know

just where everybody should we have going for truly who. object to judge him for his question is of course. what you can do. you go outside of concrete. you know that if you shoot investigation against he. well there are only young boys who are forced to become the man of the house years of war in afghanistan have robbed an entire generation of their fathers and left deep scars on the country party's policy or has been meeting afghan children who sacrificed everything to help their families survive. for a few hours each friday these street kids get to remember they still just children of. their kind flying is more than just a pastime it's a sport of skill for all who monsters are equal and for

a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. what name is west when the for their. own never think it one day there was no job i came home and there was no food and my brothers and sisters so mother they went to sleep hungry madam that god is only thirteen years old but as the man of the house has responsibilities start early at six in the morning. and my brother. and with first. this is a typical poor kabul neighborhood children with runny noses duty 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 my. dad was he was working with the policeman

doing the real closure is very very hard to make it out to be with. the other boys are through with they say they want to watch this. is obviously kuala 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 surely 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 and that's if they cost a playground big 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 grand going to war without scale without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign money spent in the military only seven million goes toward social projects even less to 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 do. and to help them afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives ever getting off the ground. kabul. let's take a look now at some world news in grief for you this hour at least forty people have been killed after a train smashed into a boss on a highway crossing in eastern ukraine police say the bus driver ignored a siren signaling an oncoming train and tried to cross the train tracks rescuers

and medics are still working at the crash site eleven other people are critically injured. and another fatal accident this time in central poland where a van carrying farm workers was crashed head on with a truck killing all eighteen passengers police said that the volkswagen transporter was intended for carrying goods not people the van had just six seats other passengers sat on boxes in the back of the car. and european travel connections have been severely disrupted after union workers in france wants to twenty four hour nationwide strike to oppose the government's pension reforms last month similar protests brought over one million people on to the streets president sarkozy says raising the minimum retirement age from sixty to sixty two is vital to fill a hole in the nation's finances street demonstrators are being demonstrations rather are being planned for tuesday as well as this weekend. the eldest son of north

korea's kim jong il has told japanese t.v. that he is opposed to the dreaded terry succession becomes as the leader's youngest son is being lined up as an heir during the recent ruling party gatherings kim jong knowledge was previously thought to be the man to take over but reportedly fell out with his father for trying to sneak his family into japan to visit disneyland he's since been living involves three in china and. looking ahead max kaiser and stacy herbert why the financial big guns are hedging their belts with some heavy metal find out here at seven thirty moscow. rich investors buy gold by ton this is according to u.b.s. executive joseph stay they 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 we come back i have a ton of gold waiting for you it's only about this big actually a ton of gold is about seventeen square cubic inches remarkably you know if it's right actually the next to the refrigerator nicely. now he's already saved the earth in a movie and now he's trying to do it through real wrapping up his moscow trip arnold schwarzenegger said fighting climate change will be his focus when he steps down or she's covering those are obama has been following the governor's visit. 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 pumping iron and all of those things just to lead 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 irony also took a ride with the russian president at the in with a bit of a gives a vintage nine hundred fifty three i believe soviet chai call luxury car posting all the while posting whilst 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 analogue of the silicon valley in the god 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 a woman makes three of california specifically and earning himself has a lot of experience to share has a lot of the knowledge that i know how that he would be more than willing to share with the russians side with me if as russia tends to set up its own technology in schools to of course all of this very lighthearted banter russia now the russian president even offering the arnie a chance to say i'll be back one more time jokingly offering him the post of moscow mayor the opposition. currently vacant and of course as the governor is stepping down in january it is a joke that he was very much able to appreciate all in all he was very light on the banter despite the some serious matters at hand and on the table up for discussions

but he joked his way through the entire visit saying that not only is moscow and impressive an amazing place to be one of the most impressive cities actually bed but in many other jobs. i'm a republican. around the democrats who have a demographic. i have the idea of a democratic think about this we have a democratic legislature in the assembly and in the senate we have a democratic control and a democratic treasurer we had up until recently a democratic governor a democratic. state and everyone around me is a democrat even that night going to go to bay they go to sleep i. i go to sleep to the devil god. what i call it takes to bed early certainly knows

how to make his crowd laugh and that is pretty much what he did during his time in the russian capital this is first visit over in more than twenty years he was last in moscow in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight whilst filming a movie called red horse this. twenty odd years that r.t. hasn't been to rochelle lot has changed a lot of not only local demands but local demands have also not as one of the issues that was addressing specifically the. necessity for battling the effects of global warming or climate control california of course having sell the whole experience in the matter. in the short stay there say more than enough to share the tips on how to the curb greenhouse gas emissions and there is other eco friendly matters so that was the focus of our joe schwartz niggers time today but even that

a very serious topic was not free of jokes his audience lapping up every word and sharing the banter. well for more on schwarzenegger's business to russia you can log on to our website r t v dot com there you're also find videos expert analysis and blogs here's a taste of what we've got on line for you today russia's president pitches up for a pint with brussels rock music to discuss everything from rifts to reform. also we'll look at why columbus day in the u.s. is leaving native americans claiming the holiday only marks centuries of oppression . and our extreme weather forecasts just flying into the hands of home appliance dealers have to rush the summer heat wave sparked a scramble for air conditioners predictions of a nightmare winter lead to a boom in meter sales this and much more at archie dot com.

now it's no small job to be in charge of the world's fight against the legal drugs are too speaks to the man who has that daunting task that's coming up in around ten minutes in our interview but first corrina joins us to bring us the latest business . hello and welcome to our business bolton thanks for joining me first deputy prime minister met with foreign businessmen in moscow on tuesday to discuss a range of issues concerning both sides and business r.t. correspond but you know of course one of us who was at the meeting gives us this account. first deputy prime minister. just imagine a different has different international companies and these are companies represented as a range of incident and just starting from

a food to high technology well of the aim of a today's a meeting was to prepare some sort of background in a platform for future consultation meeting between prime minister vladimir putin and for a businessman and after the meeting of the house of person young and a do each a banker told us that the russian market remains quite liberal low for foreign investment and that's the image of russia should be improved we worked through a number of issues in terms of investment climate opportunity of resolution of differences but it was a very very positive conversation that allows us as investors to work with the government in resolving to make you know opportunity for however the real nice a came a bit later when a good issue 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 the state is ready to

sell up to ten percent of d.t.b. 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 step and that the state is ready to review some of its stake and even to reduce its below the controlling stake in the future like we've draft of the plan for selling d.t.p. shares in two thousand and ten and submitted it to the prime minister who has agreed that the sale could go through by the end of the year if the stew ation is good the sale could fetch at least three billion dollars will approve in the next few weeks a list of ten to fifteen companies in which states will be privatized the volume of privatization will be so high that we. to be able to compete for international capital. meanwhile a lot was said about 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 this our european she has a down as we can metals prices pressure on miners investors are cautious ahead of quarterly results from the u.s. firms and the release of minutes from the u.s. federal reserve meeting duration natural resources with an extra zero losing between one point six and two percent now both the russian markets there are also falling amid its mid session here in moscow again following those sharp falls in asian stocks banks and energy majors among the worst performing. is sitting over a percent local and roof hydro also losing telecom its top over one percent. moody's rating agency has lifted its outlook for russia's banking sector from negative to stable its side with better operating environment harlequin a-t. on the banks buffer against bad loans. brussels to make oh yeah broz plans to sell

bonds for six hundred fifty million dollars the company is looking to refinance more than three billion dollars spent on acquisitions in north africa yes ross will also provide three point two billion dollars of new loans to just start in two thousand and eighteen. google is to introduce its own inflation index to track global prices the google price index will use live data from the web to show price changes for goods it will be more up to date than government's own consumer price indices which are compiled by civil servants however the new index will not replace official data as it will consider only goods that are sold online. now the world economy is poised for a slowdown with many to developed and leading developing nations already slowing according to the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development or cd now it's a leading indicator of economic activity across thirty three countries one point.

the last time it was an april and the decline increases the possibility of a relapse into recession it comes as the i.m.f. warned the global economy will slow next year because of european public debt problems with the only significant growth expect from asia always he says economic activity in the seven and. a a two last night. russian railways is expected to sell a thirty five percent stake in cargo unit trans container it would raise up to four hundred million dollars in a london moscow listing by the end of the year the move would value the freight operator more than a billion dollars question where waves will keep me a majority stake and we use the income to modernize the rail system russian railways wants to sell another subsidiary one to see if you can invest all consortium of investors the government aims to sell off almost thirty billion

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you're watching are to you live from moscow hard lines an arctic treasure hunt are two joints russia's extradition team on a quest for evidence to support the country's claim to the region's found snapple resources. there's a key breakthrough in the investigation into last month's blast in the southern city of the consequence which killed nineteen people police say three of the masterminds are andro gras two others have been killed in a shoot out. plus a war torn tile to the grim plight of afghanistan's youngsters who are forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become their families only breadwinners. and also living still moscow california governor arnold

schwarzenegger wraps up his visit to the russian capital with the plans to try and terminate global climate change now he's the man leading the world start in the fight against illegal drugs our team meets him next. well there's your if adults off is the new head of the u.n. office in fighting drugs and crime is for the author of the 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 fresh protest of this rooke in the united nations you know do she. under my predecessor has accumulated to a great deal of international support and expanded the range of for sex.