there are a sea ice breaker slows down to a crawl explorers are in 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 i love the pilot's out looking book might be at least twenty five 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. the first storm is west of the island of brandon the ice is tested and. 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 ship just as the issue of the voyage will be long and fascinating the explorers cheer each other up but look disappointed big stream a 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 ice flow in this area otherwise they will have for the north pole every great part of that budget so they know you don't know how big that you know you start bringing it back i pods. helicopter oh thought that would. be all right

that's right. but no need for a rescue operation these is the eyes. we have just found a suitable field mined by thirteen kilometers wide and the arch is about three meters thick a good feelings. 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 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. or tea from the arctic.

well you can follow you catherine mcgrath two of us trip to the arctic on line just go to the blog section of our website at r.t. dot com. all the terrorists thought to have masterminded september's market blast that killed one thousand people and russia's republic of north as such 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 or just on barton has the 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 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 as well here know. 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 if you saw how 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 work hilde the name doco model of appears all over the place when talking about these attacks dozens of attacks within the north caucuses region. a lot of bombing. and gun battles with all four of these talks on

this marketplace and also the moscow metro bombings earlier this year which killed thirty eight people and it's his link has spoken a zation it's also thought to be linked to the international terrorist network al qaeda itself has been a terrorist and terrorist crackdown going on in the region since the beginning of this year forward to say three hundred suspected terrorists have been killed and another four hundred fifty arrested. tom barton reporting there well still ahead for you here in our team forced a friend for their families. and 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 and she went to sleep hungry flicked and a lack of education means it's up to children to earn their families keep a look at their struggle for survival in afghanistan. and as the credits roll

on schwartz and uyghurs mosque visit we bring you the best scenes from the governator russian capital adventure. but first all sides an ethnically diverse bosnia must work together and embrace political reform if they want nato an e.u. membership that's the warning from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton during her visit to the balkans well many bosnian muslims and croats want a strong central government but serbs living in the country fear this them of their autonomy serbs also believe the u.s. keeps putting pressure on them and resentment lingers over nato forces joining the ninety's ethnic conflict on the side of the muslim population and bombing the capital stereo serbian historian new bush amal it's thinks the u.s. has been keeping tensions simmering since clinton's first visit to bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety six when she said she arrived on fire. by the time she

landed in one thousand nine hundred six there were no hundred been no hostilities for months so everybody is well aware that her story was just entirely fake the united states government has been keeping the tension simmering because of this constant repetitive insistence on creating a strong central government which is. not only a problem because a war to begin with but a problem because the date and constitution the piece treated at the united states wrote is explicitly against a strong central government so we have a situation which the united states is running a policy it's contrary to the treaty that it had designed i think the united states tried to create a client state in bosnia that would compensate for the conflicts with the muslim world elsewhere and they could point to it and say look here's a country in which we help the muslims you should be grateful to us it hasn't really worked well so far but they refused to acknowledge

a mistake i think this sunday riots and saturday's peaceful demonstration involved ten thousand people are proof enough that current serbian government has very little support and even less legitimacy among the people of serbia i think it's the people of serbia want to better life they want to freely trade and communicate with everybody else but out that the price of their dignity or their culture or their country. their 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 artist paul this leader has been meeting afghan children who sacrificed everything to help their families survive. for few hours each final the street kids get to remember they still just children. to them conflict has more than just across time 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 once dean

and the father of the house 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 it was she's only thirteen years old but as the man of the house has 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 median living washing cars but despite their stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones a year ago my dude was martyred he was working with the police and died 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 wash 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 to each other 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 no work so i'm going to go there but for some children it's easiest to come to this means a big 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 them they are born during the war in going in the 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 to doing 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 generate. i see little chance of their lives if you're getting off the ground. in other news a former georgian defense minister forced to 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 his resignation but the protests broken up and he was

reelected in your later one of the founders of the political alliance stress they want to restore the ties they once had. that of course are the program readers everybody calls from ga ga zillion interests demands that we look straight into the face of reality george will never be a successful country without normal relations with russia i see so in the interests of our people and all the friendly countries in the whole civilized world so the sooner does the improvement of relations with russia shall become a basic principle for our political team this is really regime leaves behind itself a tough heritage of broken territorial integrity and we should try to normalize the issue to reach success we should start dialogue with your cousins in a city and to restore trust otherwise we will not be able to move ahead only interest is the basis for a future integration. ok let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour the number of dead train

crash in eastern ukraine has risen to forty two according to local officials the casualties were on a bus at a railroad crossing when the train smashed into them and tracked the vehicle for at least thirty meters let's hear the number of victims could increase as many of the injured are in critical condition police say the bus driver ignored a warning siren and passengers requests to stop and try to cross the tracks. at another fatal accident this time in central poland where a van carrying farm workers has crashed head on with a truck killing all eighteen passengers police said that the volkswagen transporter was intended for carrying goods not people that had just six seats other passengers sat on boxes in the back of a car. european travel connections have been severely disrupted after union workers in france launched a twenty four hour nationwide strike to oppose the government's pension reforms last month similar protests brought over a million people onto 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 the weekend. supporters of a minor nationalist party in kyrgyzstan have protested on the streets of the capital against the results of sunday's parliamentary election the result saw it narrowly missed winning any seats the party's co-leader says that officials had artificially increase the number of registered voters to ensure the group didn't enter parliament the protest was peaceful but a new wave of street protests could create further tensions in a country crippled by instability and he's already saved the earth in the movie and now he's trying to do it for real wrapping up his moscow visit arnold schwarzenegger said fighting climate change will be use focus when he steps down. has been listening to the governors as we call him speech. many of the students at the higher school of economics where he lectured today turned out to listen to what

the man had to say not only for business but for pleasure but of course focusing mainly on the priorities that outlined the nature of his a lecture primarily climate changes and curbing greenhouse gas emissions and various ways in preventing global warming effects from spreading through various other things that california governor shared many of his experiences saying that california has accomplished a lot in curbing greenhouse gas emissions for example and various other ways of aiding the climate 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 true of the working out together pumping iron the 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 california specifically and turning himself has a lot of experience to share has a lot of knowledge that i know how that he would be more than willing to share with the russian side with me as russia tends to set up its own technology in schools of course all of this very lighthearted banter russian you know 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 is currently vacant and of course as the governor's stepping down in january it is a joke that he was very much able to appreciate despite the some serious matters at hand and on the table up for discussions but he joked his way through the entire visit say 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. you can find more of shorts and visit on our website also our video reports features and blogs are online of course and that's at arts and dot com here's a taste of what we've got on line for you today president visit which is up for a pint with brussels rock music only to discuss everything from rents to reform. also our extreme weather forecast just playing into the hands of home appliance dealers after the russian summer heat wave sparked a scramble for air conditioners addictions of a nightmare winter and lead to a boom in heaters sales that and much more at our c.n.n. dot com. the business news is on the way with kareen amanda can she joins us after

a short break. for the we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to business news i'm communal account russell ministers and foreign businessmen have discussed how to make the country more enterprise friendly government use the bat to give more details of the upcoming privatization of state assets. on the back of the cost. first deputy prime minister has just

mounted different has different international companies and these are companies represented as a range of insider. saucing from a food to high technology well the aim of a today's meeting was to prepare some sort of background in a platform for future consultation meeting between prime minister vladimir putin and affording a businessman and after the meeting of the house of person young and a do each a 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. opportunity of resolution of differences but it was a very very conversation that allows us as investors to work with the government in resolving in making opportunities for us however the real nice a came a bit later when a good swallow 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 a v.t. 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 its stake and even to reduce its below 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 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 privatisation will be so high that we. able to compete for international capital.

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. the world economy is poised first 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 it rose was in april 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 but the only significant growth expected from asia or we see the says economic activity in g. seven added russia a true flast made. here in russia markets finished in negative territory on tuesday

the r.t.s. and the point nine percent law while the miners experienced a quarter of a percent in the red flags were the main decliners on the wise exports burbank and b.c. be finishing over half a percent lower energy majors were also among the losers gasp wrong setting over one point two percent of the bourses. mores rating agency has lifted its outlook for russia's banking sector from negative to stable it cited a better operating environment higher liquidity and the banks buffer against bad loans russian steelmaker yes ross 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 america. will also provide three point two billion dollars of new loans you to start in two thousand and eighteen. russian will weigh has confirmed it will conduct an i.p.o. to sow stake in cargo unit trans container the board will decide the terms of the

state this week but reports suggest it aims to raise four hundred million dollars in a london moscow listing if it confirms its selling a thirty five percent stake that would value the freight operator more than a billion dollars or should we always wants to sell another subsidiary freight one to succeed you can best or or consortium of investors government aims to sell for almost thirty billion dollars in state assets. google is to introduce its own inflation index to track global prices google price index will use live data from the web to show price changes for goods it will be more up to date then 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 as well for me in the business team here but you can always log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business from all stars that.

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forty two thousand americans die each year since one thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us a year part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the pants. looking to make changes in the society was a mean. much it was impossible to change the whole country's regime so quickly and with no harm.

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the kaiser report is coming up here on our team but first let's check in on headlines and arctic treasure hunt are two joints russia's expedition team on a quest for evidence to support the country's claim to the region's fance natural resources. is a keep breakthrough into the investigation of last month's blast in the southern city of slightly called cars which killed nineteen police say three of the masterminds around the world last two others have been killed innocent valley. 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 breadwinner. and i asked the levees to moscow california governor

arnold schwarzenegger wraps up his visit to the russian capital with a pledge to try and terminate moment climate change. as promised next the cars report looks at why the wealthy are putting a sign back on. nice guys or this is the kaiser report markets finance scandals. it was sentenced to some jail time recently my point is why bother with the low level street derivatives dealers why not put the crime lords like the management of society generale in jail those are the guys that are counterfeiting bonds those.