why is melting reach its gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future when with you know the task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores that ends up in the arctic this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the news station what to the president and the prime minister personally tracking all the latest on the north pole thirty eight expedition the one who'll be in charge of sending further updates to the mainland is the head of the station. with over two dozen polar expeditions on to his belt much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. or whether equipping our lives are necessary amenities with electricity then we'll build

a traditional wardroom but this in the end once we do the rest of. the youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellows the menu of his arctic restaurant will be rich and diverse. this is the warm storage all the products that shouldn't be exposed. to. candies cookies peace trees groceries everything absolutely everything and. tricity man sergei is the oldest one here he says this expedition is his dream come true and his younger mates don't even realize how lucky they are to be part of. adventure. for twenty two years i've been trying to get here you wouldn't believe it i had written countless letters to various institutions but they would tell me you are thirty year old railroad worker stay where you want to. i'm

here. as dusk is fully works mark the beginning of the real mission the russian flag is posted and that means the resi icebreaker and its crew will be heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen man face to face with the c.v.a. arctic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the polar sets a year of freezing conditions lie with painstaking studies. to reveal the trash just underneath it in the catch of the art from the arctic the number of people living in poverty in the u.s. is at record levels with official figures showing one in seven americans are struggling to make ends meet in cities like new york the consequence is the highest level of homelessness ever recorded and associates were going to reports. well.

this is no lottery for a chance to win some cash these people are petion flee waiting to find out if they can win a roof over their heads for the night they're not criminals they're not drunks they're flaw is that they just don't have a home. these days the chances of getting a bed in new york are slimmer than ever homelessness in the city has skyrocketed by an entire fifty percent last year almost one hundred twenty thousand different new york city men women and children spent at least a night and a city shelter that's a shocking number of the highest number that's ever been recorded keith who became homeless in this last year says he's fifth on standby to get a bed he considers himself lucky for the men this means at least some hope my number doesn't come up i'm going to be outside in the rain yousif knows exactly what it's like calling a place like this home shelter and bed i put together this project where i go home

last week every year most of my nights i just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of us posting his experience in a blog yousif is been able to collect thousands of dollars in donations for the homeless the reality is a lot of people most people a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless you know i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware that in the packed city like new york homelessness is no novelty in the city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars there are dozens of thousands of people who just don't have that kind of money and to many it's clear that their numbers are bound to keep growing even though the already existing statistics are higher than they have been since the great depression there are more than thirty seven thousand homeless people we have thirty seven thousand people including nearly fifteen

thousand children who are homeless each night and new york city a near record number of homeless families nearly ten thousand homeless families in an apocalyptic state of economy all of these people are hoping to be sieved president. as the cries for help stretch across the country the us government sticks to the official party line that the economy is back on its feet but in reality the state of the economy is staring everyone in the face and if looking the other way continues to be the norm this could soon become the real face of a nation just as you are to new york. still live on the program here in our safe passage for top taliban leader. negotiations with the taliban even as. afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center. and also our teams close of team visits the

historic russian city of the economic growth a center of arts and crafts know how. before that moscow will have a new mayor within a week the city parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by president vienna to take over as the leader of the russian capital but it is picked deputy prime minister. from a shortlist of four candidates. who are you really scoffed who was sad after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty two year old and served as a regional governor in the world chief of staff during body part time as president some experts believes about his background was essential to him winning the race. he was the former chair of the legislative call show all region which provided we still provides the lion's share. so we hear some experience so you can only do

well. for the situation that we've had with you it's. very public politician who can run things who people work for shit. and russian what israel are looking to strengthen langston everything from nuclear power and arms deals to oil production that it was well in the euro which obvious met was the russian leadership on his ninth visit to the country to hammer out the agreements are. reports. it was very sweet deal. i brought these chocolates from venezuela they're the best thing in the world and i'm going to give them to all of us they're cheap too so you should think of buying some and here we have some banana jam and cocoa that's the best product from our country for you my friend that is when president chavez sealed his country's deals with some national goodies the business that brought mr chavez to the russian capital certainly hasn't stood in the way of his pleasure. arriving to lay the

foundation for someone to leave our statue in a russian made lot and. the outspoken leader later shared the fact that this wasn't his first time in a russian vehicle. i had a new car i had it running for about twenty years and it never let me down as one and very. more than content to buy russian including the first ever nuclear power plant for his country. venture in very few very strong words so. we would like our porker the republic of. the entire power production possibilities. to have internal mechanisms for some development venezuelan counterpart agreed with the sentiment but as has become his forte even for it they're going to come up with the campaign to demonize venezuela

comes from the west from america and western europe i remember it began when we started our military cooperation with russia. this isn't the first or even the second time chavis is make similar statements but his ability to brush off any unpleasant allegations is perhaps helped by blossoming ties with strong international players such as russia. you should use google it most are a few years now we've been working on various issues such as military cooperation and i'd like to point out that our progress in the technical military area is considerably. grew relationship is reflected in the paperwork eight of them energy related more than enough to fuel a dynamic partnership chocolates and poetry hugo chavez certainly didn't waste any time in proclaiming his love for russia and the growing cooperation between moscow and us but with the solid economic foundation to the pleasantries it certainly seems that this relationship is destined to prosper gasman as our moscow

and i have more on these no stories at our website or t. dot com online right now we discover why the u.s. is last on the list of developed nations when it comes to providing free access to justice. and the russian ballerina returns to work after being sacked for taking her clothes off in a lads' mags find out more on our website r.t. dot com. nato has provided safe passage for top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government and kabul general david petraeus the commander of international forces in the country says it's aimed at backing the afghan government and the taliban negotiating from yesterday and is in the midst of its bloodiest year since the u.s. led war started nine years ago it's a critical time for american efforts with a planned withdrawal next year and public support for the campaign slipping rapidly and our team military contributor colonel says and a new u.s. military strategy in afghanistan could be counterproductive. as every soldier

and a marine knows are in ours or rest and recreation however due to the new twist to the u.s. strategy in afghanistan nowadays it has another second meaning and now it stands for. and re integration of the military opposition to the karzai government you know downers due to the new twist of so-called double pronged tactics of the u.s. military in afghanistan now it's u.s. policy in afghanistan to incorporate a new feature in addition to the military pressure applied by the special forces against the militants and insurgents in afghanistan now the state department's officially approved the reintegration and reconciliation real opposition leaders and reintegration of their food soldiers in so-called afghan society at the same

time while the american military is trying to regain the momentum on the battlefield all across afghanistan however the reason growing indication that these new tactics it's counterproductive in a way both bextra legal and military are operating at cross purposes the reason these that afghanistan and iraq is severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to pull off in iraq is on likely to be replicated in afghanistan. a us report based on interviews with former detainee says afghan prisoners were abused in secret military detention center in afghanistan a facility dubbed the black jail is thought to be located and bob graham air base former inmates claim they were subjected to strip searches sleeve to pervasion now lack of food some testimonies date from this here despite president obama's pledge

to clean up prison facilities practices rather and u.s. military denies the detention center even exists feel drowsy former cia officer says obama's administration is worse than his predecessor when it comes to detainees in afghanistan. and when obama was running for president he talked a very good story about what. he was going to do but he's actually done very little of that we see an escalation of the war in afghanistan we see the secret prisons are continuing we see the the government using what they call the security privilege to keep it from being challenged in court on many of these prison related issues so so the obama administration in many respects is worse than the bush administration clearly there is a facility within the facility where probably special prisoners for one reason or another are subjected to stress situations to try to get them to cooperate now to some other stories from around the world and of most of the rescued chilean

miners have been a while at home after spending more than two months trapped underground just two of them thirty three workers remain in hospital and they are reportedly in good shape despite living for weeks in a web of dark and chamber but now they face a challenge of recovering from their emotional trauma the doctor saying it could take weeks or even months. they all met him plans a flooded home gary in villages with toxic red sludge has reopened that's despite of warnings the area may not be safe dozens of houses have been deemed too dangerous to return to at least nine people died and dozens were injured as a waste gushed out of a burst storage reservoir earlier this month. and after fourteen years of digging under the alps the longest railway tunnel in the world has been weeded in switzerland aims to revolutionize transport across europe providing a high speed link between borth and south although the fifty seven kilometer long guard rail tunnel is expected to be in operation until twenty six.

every month r t brings you closer to the lesser known parts of russia. our close of team traveled five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow to believe the city is over a thousand years old and boasts a rich cultural heritage which attracts thousands of tourists every year however today their region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities that whole villages struggling to make ends meet either in rotten it has more. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the lower good housing being able to track the same investment from big businesses over the last few years this big business is essential it brings the jobs added brings in money for the local authorities as well but behind me is just one such large factory which has been built by good old

cow debris and provides hundreds of jobs for people here but for the rest of the area it's still suffering from the aftermath of the economic crisis. for a hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town the product and jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick woman from the right nine hundred seventy thank you i. crossed instructor years ago the fact we couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the approximate. whole families were tear and suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners to help their children and grandchildren by no food to eat the town was devastated circle on a has an unfinished degree in management it's all no use here instead to support her son she had to get

a job with the mail only to leave it. sitting at home without money my relationship with my husband deteriorated and my family fell apart i blame the factory in this town. regional authorities provided a bailout and tax relief and took on their return to work without the one thousand six hundred employees only a third remain and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood mill up often has been saved but it continues to be on life support it's still not turning a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and then it's emblematic of the region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand. industrial objects and a small consumer market that has to find creative ways to generate wealth the authorities have adopted a three prong strategy firstly tourism and the public then thought i said they have no good. character to cite that they were the duties of the us the same as

everywhere else in russia we have to bring the infrastructure up to the same level as the attractions themselves. secondly foreign investment. in previous times a difficult relationship with a local administration has prevented a good investment climate from forming now we have swung our doors open. cool. and finally developing industry goodbye competitive not just in russia but the brule this bus and all medium size truck has to be a breakthrough. of the several times cheaper than foreign equivalents of our production lines are the same as our competitors but the stuff costs are lower while no point brings these in because plans have yet to bring substantial cash and the big over the. what the no good month just to achieve that will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the prizes like golf and a full leap into the twenty first century. who's

a student and have fun oh yeah there are girls. you know you'll soon going to graduate what you're planning to do once you're. on the last year of my studies and i am working and you will never exist and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translates to make it like my major and it was in english so i'm working now with making a sandwich and alison for a company we actually it has never been to encourage anyone in moscow and a couple of talking to me next to state that all of these is a good example of a company that's trying to bring out of the woods and leave the world stage and to introduce i want to take the patriotism to different countries to different countries into different sea to russia which i think it's great because i know i don't know a lot of people are going to want to stay now but i know i can say to you to find a job here in our town is developing and into developing quite fast and there are

some and international companies being opened here in number one to region and tourists keep coming here. a lot of people get to know i was not towns so i'm really optimistic about thank you very much and i know you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people both studying abroad. and in just a few minutes moscow looks at the capital's four wheeled love affair. in this week's moscow of program i'll be delving into the subjects of cars from the whole strong carriages of pizza the great through soviet largest in the western imports of today used as a status symbol and not just as a form of transport it's easy to see how passionate russia has always been and indeed if it comes to the subject of automobiles.

as weeks moscow out is here for you in about ten minutes before that there will bring you the weekend edition of business he's going. to. welcome to our weekend business program california governor arnold schwarzenegger led a group of billionaires to russia this week in search of innovative business ideas but one of them said russia is a rich must take a few risks with their money before foreigners will follow. there's a lot of rich people here who are not that i know of investing in venture capital they built their own companies they got a lot of money foreigners would love to see at least some of that money going into russian venture for private money i think that's a that's an obstacle there's a perception about corruption and difficulty of doing business in an honest way but also markets have to believe that russia is not a huge country it's

a nice sized country not growing particularly but you have to be able to believe that russia can export that means that the technologies and products developed from those technologies addressed a world market for the for the markets here are probably not large enough to attract by itself american investment in young companies here in what sectors of the economy do you see russia's greatest potential industries that needs to focus on international markets i think instrumentation very fine instrumentation software and then of breakthroughs in the biological sciences can be done here so i'm very encouraged about us nano i'm also encourage them what they're trying to do and i think the main thing they should try to do over the next ten or years of entrepreneurship going get it moving and then ironical use a phrase from marks they should wither away. so what do you think russia needs to do to develop this entrepreneurial culture here this entrepreneurial mentality i

think they can catch up is is to encourage entrepreneurs train them to give them a chance to start companies like let's call koval might help like ross nano is helping doing. and get the government can do things to get things going but the government has got to get an involved they just got to get out of the business world and let the private sector take over even the old theoretically believe in very little government activity russia is a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right now the danger that us national. it is true. that the government. too much and not doing enough to do too much will discourage the private if they do too little in the community for they're doing it about right now. and the russian markets and of the week mixed with the r.t.s. like into the red in the mines extending a quarter of

a percent no neko was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing up one a half percent. most of the forces one point three percent lower and merging market stocks attracted cash for the six straight week as investors look for faster growth and they think they'll get from more mature economies pretty strong weak for emerging equities also for russia this week the oil price has been pretty well supported and that's been a function of a weaker dollar not again is a function of more expectations that the fed going to be very common it's not a trickle to see when they next meet in november so it's really been a good week for risk assets. russia has performed well. ten deal that's the result of russia's venezuela negotiations this week and more than a huff closely rely on energy relations reports. yes even if the leaders gave the deals their blessing in an industry where political will comes

a lot gasp on will build a liquefied natural gas facility together with patrollers the venues wella and raw snapped will by the state energy companies have stake in germany's or oil for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and ministers join to express support for peace per chase of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as a first significant of string project fourteen brought and probably it will be the first success of the stream abroad russia will also build south american countries first nuclear plant russia has just completed iran's first civilian nuclear facility and has already agreed to help build reactors in china and turkey both russia and venezuela suffer from too much reliance on energy and sheer the desire to diversify most. our trade journal or is not as big as we would like it

to be interesting unrest and plans and today we will rigid develop a member of journey energy projects but energy is what binds the countries and more in ours most expected from other russian companies busy exploring the region mind you the question of business r.t. . that's our weekend business program but you can always find more on our website just go to r.t. dot com plus posts.

forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents in the thousands of posts seven hundred thousand people. 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 year. the closeups she has been to the saucily in regions where the biggest russian salmon caviar processing factories located now no argy goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. new ways are being found to fight a common term. and russia's first free elections red nosed thousand years

ago. welcome to the road region russia close up. well the bad here was are you going to live from moscow a reminder of the top stories fifteen polar explorers are starting an epic expedition to prove that part of the resources rich arctic actually belongs to russia their mission involves spending the next year and drift on an ice floe. poverty in the u.s. has reached the highest level in decades with more than forty million apparently struggling to keep their hands above water it's left record numbers of homeless people living on the street. and nato is granting safe passage for top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government that comes as recent u.s. courts suggest former afghan prisoners were used at

a secret detention center inside the country. next martin andrus is in the driving seat to explore the russian passion for motors. illustration program will be delving into the subject of cars from the holster in carriages a piece of the great to soviet largest in the western imports of today used as a status symbol not just as a forward trials for it's easy to see how passionate russia is that it comes to the good old automobile. the real civil museum to showcase.