i have to run aggressive march through the arctic there s.c.r. ice breaker slows down to a crawl explorers are on a delicate mission to find a suitable eyes filled for the arctic twenty 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 club out looking for might be at least one to 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. 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 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. 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 floe in this area otherwise they will had for the north pole to grab that bug just so they know you don't know how big the. i can't tell you that. that

was the helicopter on sunday that would. be. the price. but no need for a rescue operation these is the ice. we have just found a suitable field nine by thirteen kilometers wide and the ice is about three meters thick a good feelings. now that the platform has found a 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 pressure of r r t from the arctic

and if you'd like to see more wars going on there you can follow it go to a good show his trip to the arctic online just go to the blog section of our website at r t dot com. all the terrorists sort of masterminded september's market blast that killed nineteen people in russia's republic of north a settee have been tracked down that's according to the head of the country's security services says the case has now been closed three militants have been arrested and two more were shot dead in a gun battle marti's tom barton has the details. authorities 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

a big 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 because 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 rights to work hilde 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 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. tom barton reporting on the investigation into september's market blast in the russian republic of north of here. still ahead here tonight forced to fend for their families. sal 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 we went to sleep hungry how conflict and a lack of education means it's up to children to earn their families we look at their struggle for survival a little later in the program. is the credit for all of sorts and i guess moscow visit we bring you the best scenes from the gov it is russian capital adventure. tough talks difficult decisions are awaiting serbia u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is there in a bid to persuade the country to make concessions in its refusal to recognize its breakaway territory of kosovo she dangling the carrot of much sought after e.u. membership the visits part of clinton's tour of the balkans and follies of previous stopping the bosnian there she also tried to put pressure on the country seven minority to embrace political reform which will eventually strip their autonomy most serbs scattered around the former yugoslavia still remember how nato sided with the muslims during the ninety's ethnic conflict and color to give the u.s. led bombings of serbian targets as opposed to me show a government of ha balkans political expert he thinks the serbian government and

people are at odds in their goals for the country. we have to make some distinction between the government in belgrade to which was brought to power after all were put . just over ten years ago in which nato powers definitely took sides so. it's a very nato friendly government if you want but when you come down to people i think they have completely different feelings especially on the try don't think anyone wants to go into nato i mean the question has to be so who are they going to be defended against the soviet union no longer exists there is no warsaw pact i don't think that russia has any interest of conducting military operations in the balkans so. i think nato is very unpopular there when it comes to either one tends to think of economic and political and cultural cultural considerations

and that in a way makes sense but the sort of conditions the e.u. and the us are making does indicate that this is not an economic and cultural situation but one of political pressure to gain concessions out of the region what the u.s. wants is to control the region and its resources the position in boston and herzegovina has not improved people want jobs people don't just want talks of democracy and human rights frequently undefined people want what they already had then they had it in bosnia was part of yugoslavia this is an easily comparison base they want jobs they want freedom to travel. all there they want a health service that functions this one doesn't function as well as the one he was loved most needed so there is a definite comparison factor if the u.s.

really wants. for the people and for the region and an interesting look at these very important factor that are very important in any state. thought third of michigan of relevant shape balkans political expert speaking to me here on r.t. . now there are young boys but they are forced to become the men of the house years of war in afghanistan of robbed an entire generation of their fathers left deep scars on the country artist paula sleaze been meeting afghan children who sacrifice everything to help their family survive. for a few hours each friday these street kids get to remember they still just children talk. to them kind flying is more than just a pastime it's a sport of skill all who master it all in call and for a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. my name is once a dream 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 there is 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. from 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 streets to make the meager living washing cars but despite the stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones miles a year ago 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. that 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 to 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 just to come to the streets of big butts and 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 you know sit 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 into war without skill or without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign money spent in the military only seven million dollars goes to social projects even

though it's to go to the international community and to get this 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 afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives isn't getting off the ground. karpal. a former georgia 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 on alliance of georgia's main opposition leaders ironically or crush really was sacked in two thousand and seven for accusing georgia's leader of physically removing his opponent sparking protests in the capital tbilisi because of thousands of people demanded soccer's release resignation then but the protests have broken up and he was reelected a year later one of the founders of the political alliance trust they want to

restore the toys they got. the rebels are the program that everybody calls from ga ga's own interests demands that we look straight into the face of reality georgia will never be a successful country without normal relations with russia i see so in the interests of our people and all our friendly countries and the whole civilized world see the same does the improvement of relations with russia become a basic principle for our political team the circus really regime leaves behind itself a tough heritage of broken territorial integrity and we should try to normalize the . issue six is we should start dialogue with the cousins in a city and to restore trust otherwise we will not be able to move ahead only interest is the basis for the future integration. more international news in brief tonight the number of dead from a train crash in eastern ukraine is risen to forty two called interstate traffic apartment the casualties were on a bus at the railroad crossing when the train smashed into the main drag vehicle

for these thirty meters police said the bus driver ignored a warning siren and passengers requests to stop and try to cross the tracks the bus was carrying fifty one people including the driver many of the injured in critical condition. and another fatal accident this time in central poland where a van carrying farm workers is crushed head on with a truck killing all eighteen passengers police said a volkswagen transporter was intended for carrying goods not people the bandages six seats other passengers sat on boxes in the back of a car. in europe a 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 one million people on the streets president sarkozy says the two raising the minimum retirement age from sixty to sixty two is vital to fill a hole in the nation's finances street demonstrations being planned for tuesday as

well a saturday. the cargo plane carrying supplies for nato forces in afghanistan has crashed in the mountains near kabul it's believed that all eight on board have been killed the plane was on route from baghran the main u.s. airfield in the country. is already save the earth at a movie and he's trying to do it for real wrapping up his moscow visit california governor arnold schwarzenegger said that fighting climate change will be his focus when he steps down next year he's capturing as that of his been listening to the governor's 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 lecture primarily climate changes and curbing greenhouse gas emissions and various ways in preventing global warming effects from spreading through various other things that the 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 two of them working out together pumping the fire in 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 and one makes three of them california specifically and bernie 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 to do this as russia tends to set up its own technology in

schools to enforce all of this very lighthearted banter russia you know the russian president even offering that 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. and impressive an amazing place to be one of the most impressive actually ben but many other gems. we made the russian who's in charge of the world's fight against illegal drugs our interview with. just ahead.

well. is the new head of the u.n. office fighting drugs and crime just for the author of the thanks for speaking to r.t. what targets have you set for the agency. addressed. three weeks ago and i believe that it is possible to give a. work in the united nations. under my predecessor has accumulated a good deal of international support and expanded the range of for. including

drugs and crime and prevention of terrorism but. for the improvement. after that. major stakeholders member states in a measurement of the u.n. . in other international going to i think at some point i will be in the position to come up with proposals to move ahead and first of all how to make. more productive and even more cost effective the world's main opium produce afghanistan hall of production this year why do you say there's no room for false optimism. well of course. there are some targets and targets. quite clear we need to excel we need to to enlarge up to vitreous as far as. illicit director africa is concerned we need to set comprehensive programs

for different regions take advantage of them just last week we issued again drudge report to twenty good news is that the production of four pm decreased to almost fifty percent but as it is due only to a natural factor disease this that affected the crops but the cultivation is unchanged and since prices are growing so it means that the promise have additional stimulus to cultivate the poppy so we need to have a comprehensive strategy which would. include their descent from the education to. give culturists. participation zero for regional states extrajudicial states so this should be comprehensive strategy you need to see is doing that but we believe that it could be done more and by the way that is also

a political will to the regions him as i began istana it's about ninety percent of all world production and cultivation and. three major routes so to say story around settle down central asia and russia and surprise us down to western europe and of course in terms of and it's central america and south america but you could really. in terms of. what is now unfortunately is becoming more and more spread out in different parts of the rural synthetic. drax unfortunately as there are no rules because it can be produced anywhere at any time by anybody so the threat is small to press or to multi component and that's why the reaction of the international community should be also comprehensive your office has helped to prosecute some somali pirates but

there's still no globally accepted response when will we get that the international community. is still unable to come to an agreement to bulge of forms of the prosecution of the pirates in the absence of such agreement where helping communities helping the regional countries like kenya seychelles and even somalia some parts of somalia are like some a little land and land to get nice persecutions and even in the door to organize jails for four for four convicted the pirates it's not easy because the regional countries as they face in can no most problems there. they show the system is over. charged overloaded and the jails are overcrowded in kenya for instance. five times more than it has been planned at the beginning so it's. there is

a great deal of. for a good response from the neighboring states but still there are a lot of practical problems you say almost every country in the world plays a part in human slavery and trafficking for sakes that's a key issue for you. somewhat unit issues taking very close to its heart and we're planning to set a new. global trust fund in new york next month. which sure would be aimed at assisting. so few months trafficking as it is a very important indeed. but here but he says it's a good illustration of how the international cooperation is informed because it's impossible to tackle the problem of human trafficking was a preparation of all contrarious upstream and downstream transit contras so we need to have for

a very clear understanding what the what we're doing and i believe that this area will continue to develop and will continue to pick up the most attention to it transparency international puts in one hundred forty six place for corruption next to sierra leone and zimbabwe and you don't think that's fair well different assessments different a different. they just. didn't make the news it was was established quite recently it was a framework of international convention against corruption the peer review mechanism will provide more objective picture of overall world situation because it's fair it's balanced and it could be liable.

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seventy years of the red machine which so weird people wanted to leave in the past . came to make changes to the society was immediate. and the but was it possible to change the whole country's regime so quickly and with oh ma. ma on a close only fundamental changes in the state run people's minds want to. observe nature and discover its muzi. lose a communication with the wild and low. test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you.

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hello this is our city it's kevin bringing up the top stories at night time. joins russia's expedition team on a quest for evidence to support the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources story. also a war torn childhood the grim plight of afghanistan's youngsters who are forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become the families of the breadwinners. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in the balkans on a mission to persuade serbs to trade their autonomy for e.u. and nato membership. to moscow california governor.

his visit to the russian capital with a pledge to try and terminate global climate change. it's midnight thirty one what do you think you know about your diet and the food that we all eat every day well it may be completely wrong for us it seems up next part two of our report revealing potentially hazardous foods which could actually be leading us into an early grave . you're not born with a bio chemistry or psychology degree so every second of your existence from birth to graduation people make decisions for you what you do what you wear what you learn and most important you eat. as you grow older your parents obsess over paying the bills keeping everyone fed is their main priority and here's the problem they come home from a long day of work and exhausted they fix you dinner what is it.