not to damage it the 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 plywood bow looking at least 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 theme we go further north the drill plunges down we need to switch is good but the field is too rocky for the cam we returned to the shape just in the chute with the voyage would be long in

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 have for the north pole the great god has said that that was just so they know you don't know how big i think that until you start reading it that was he had a gut reaction on thought that would be good to. get below the crap. but no need for a rescue operation. these is the ice. we have just

found a suitable field nine 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 eyes 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 and you can follow you catherine the great job this trip to the arctic online just go to the blog section of our website at r.t.e. dot com.

all the terrorists thought to have mastermind it's a temper of market blast that killed one thousand people in russia's republic of north a set have been tracked down three militants have been arrested and two more were stopped at in a gun battle that of the country's security services says the case has now been closed archies 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 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 a hundred very serious attack and possibly with links to a wider terrorist organization so says alexander board macaw 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 sure 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 rights to work hilde the name docker 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 t's 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 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. well still had for you here in our team forced to fend for their family. i will never forget one day there was no job i came home and there was no food my brothers and sisters and my mother went to sleep hungry. now conflict and a lack of education means it's up to the children tar and their families keep a look at their struggle for survival in afghanistan. and as the credits roll on schwarzenegger's visit we bring you the best scenes from the governor's russian capital adventure. but first

a former georgian defense minister forced into exile after falling out with president is trying to return to politics in south sound a new party called don't give up in the lines of georgia's main opposition leaders . was sacked in two thousand and seven for accusing georgia's leader of physically removing his opponents that sparked protest in the capital tbilisi hundreds of thousands of people demanded saakashvili resignation but cast were broken up and he was reelected and in later one political analyst told r.t. that the new opposition party will face difficulties on many levels. he legally could if you create just two. percent. he will do just what everybody shows. you are sure. to do. for his pushing of course. you can. go

outside the country. but you know if you shoot investigation against. now there are only young boys who are forced to become a man of the house years of war in afghanistan have robbed an entire generation of their fathers and left deep scars on the country argues policy here 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 all who master to equal and for a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. my name is once again i'm the father of the house i will never forget one day there was no job i came home and there was no food and my brothers and sisters and my mother went to sleep hungry it was these only thirteen years old but as the man of the house his

responsibility started 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 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 streets to make the meager living washing cars but despite this stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones. why did was martyred he was working with the police and die during a rocket explosion. this 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 car. is 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 day i wake up so early my house is very far from here and a good day i can go about eight dollars but in some days. there's no work yesterday it was you know we're. going to go there but for some children it's easier just to come to the streets and they decide they cost the 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 bread winners 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 going to sunny's you look twenty five years. 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 in the military only seven million dollars goes toward social projects you can use to detour into an international community and to get this to understand how to pay and

has to focus more on the children or six million children are at risk in afghanistan of sexual abuse violence and harsh child labor and with precious little being done to help their afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives ever getting off the ground. to kabul. it's twelve minutes past the hour of the take a look at some world news in brief for you at least forty people have been killed after a train smashed into a bus on a highway crossing in eastern ukraine police say the bus driver ignored a warning siren and tried to cross the tracks rescuers and medics are still working at the site eleven other people are pretty clear injured. but another fatal accident this time in central poland where a grand carrying farmworkers has crashed head on with a truck killing all eighteen passengers police said 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. european travel connections have been severely disrupted after union. person found twenty four hour one 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 demonstrations are being planned for tuesday as well as saturday. the oldest son of north korea's kim jong il has told japanese t.v. that he's supposed to read the terry succession it comes as the leaders youngest son is being lined up as an heir during a recent ruling party gatherings can draw naam was previously thought to be the man to take over but reportedly fell out with his father for trying to sneak his family into to pay out to visit disneyland he's since been living in luxury in china and the town. looking ahead here on our team max keiser and stacy herbert ponder

why the financial big guns are hedging their bells with some heavy metal you can find out more that r t seven thirty moscow time. super rich investors buy gold buy 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 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 and next to the refrigerator nicely.

now he's already saved the earth in a movie now he's trying to do it for real wrapping up his moscow trip arnold schwarzenegger said fighting climate change will be his focus when he steps down. 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 are in it for its maker 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 the ride with the russian president in that the in with a bit of a disadvantage at nineteen fifty three i believe soviet chae 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 bought 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 and one makes three of california specifically and turning himself has a lot of experience to share has a lot of knowledge that

a know how that he would be more than willing to share with the russian side with me to do this 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 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 job 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 an impressive and amazing place to be one of the most impressive cities actually 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 sleep i. go to sleep through that whole crowd. what i call it takes to bed early certainly knows how to make his album 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. whilst filming a movie called red horse this. twenty odd years that r.t. hasn't been to russia lot has changed

a lot not only local demands but local demands have also not as one of the issues that was addressed as specifically the. necessity for battling the effects warming for climate control california of course having sell the whole experience in the matter. words stay there say more than your share tips on how to the curb greenhouse gas emissions and various other eco friendly matters so that was the focus of our no shorts niggers out of time today but even that a very serious topic was not free of jokes his audience lapping up every word and sharing the banter. for more on the california governor's visit to brush up log onto our website our videos reports features and blogs are online around the clock as well at our two dot com here's a taste of what we've got for you today russia's president pitches up for a pint with the country's rock music only to discuss everything from riffs to

reform. often we look at why i come up and stay in the queue once is leaving native americans claiming the holiday only marks centuries of oppression. and our extreme weather forecast just playing into the hands of home appliance do you where is the rush of summer heat wave sparked a scramble for air conditioners predictions of a nightmare winter lead to a boom in theater sales and much more at our team dot com. well it's time now to get down to business your in our communities and joins us and we're hearing that according to the o.e.c.d. the world economy is poised for a slowdown how does one monitor that well well according to the city's survey or

sort of indicator economic activity across thirty three countries fell one point and details coming up in the program. but for us to russian ministers and foreign businessmen have discussed how to make the country more and surprise friendly government use the event to give more details of the upcoming privatization of state assets this r t correspondent jim acosta was there. first deputy prime minister has just mounted different has different international companies and these are companies represents a range of intervene starting from a food to high technologies 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 being a businessman and after the meeting at the hands of terrorists in young and adore each of bank 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. serious investors who work with the government in resolving to make you know opportunities for however the real nice a came a bit later when a good to 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 as of 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 in and even to reduce it to be low the controlling stake in the future. we've drafted 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 statue 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 privatisation will be so high that. to be able to compete for international capital . meanwhile a lot was said about the transforming moscow into a global financial center but as the good should all of mentions of 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 stocks are down around the world and europe to folks in the facts are in the in the red as we can metals prices put pressure on miners investors are also cautious ahead of quarterly results from the west for eurasia natural resources cover with an extraordinarily

moving between want to help to two percent here in russia markets are also showing also as an evening trading following dole sharp falls in april starts banking banks and energy majors are among the worst performers promised setting over a percent loophole and rules tighter also losing telecoms up over what. what is rating agency has lifted itself russia's banking sector from negative to stable it cited a better operating environment higher liquidity banks buffer against bad loans and russian steelmaker a giver as plans to sell bonds for six hundred fifty million dollars the company is looking to finance more than three billion dollars spent on acquisitions in north america also provides three point two billion dollars of new loans to start in two thousand and eighteen. the world economy is poised for a slowdown with many developed and leading developing nations already slowing according to the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development

or o.e.c.d. its leading indicator of economic activity across thirty three countries fell one point in august the last time of april the decline increases the possibility of a relapse into recession it comes as the i.m.f. warns that the global economy will slow next year because of european public debt problems the only significant growth expected from asia always he says economic activity g seven and russia top. last may. 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 by civil servants however the new index will not replace official data as it will consider only goods that are sold online. russian will always expected to sell

a thirty five percent stake in cargo unit trans container it would raise up to four hundred million dollars in a long moscow listing by the end of this year the move would ballyhoo the freight operator at more than a billion dollars russian will keep a majority stake and may use the income to modernize the rail system. wants to sell another subsidiary for one to succeed you can invest there or consortium of investors the government aims to sell off almost thirty billion dollars in state assets morgan and dialogue that listing. that's all the update for now i'll be back with more in about forty five minutes so i hope you join me then. the.

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our interview show spotlight is coming up here in our to me but first our top story is an arctic treasure hunt we joined russ's expedition team on a quest for evidence to support the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources. there's a key breakthrough in the investigation into last month's blast in the southern city of la the consequence which killed nineteen people police say three of the masterminds are under arrest two others have been killed in this invalid. plus war torn childhood the grim quite of afghanistan's youngsters who are forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become their families only breadwinners. and also live east of moscow california

governor arnold schwarzenegger wraps up his visit to the russian capital with a pledge to try and terminate global climate change. up next in spotlight now the new innovation center dubbed as the russian silicon valley is seeking international partners to invest in the country's drive to become a high tech hub today's guest alexandra johnson a venture capital expert explains how to turn innovation and ideas into money. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the back.