how reach it's gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future when with you know because 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 start with equipping our i was necessary amenities with electricity then world's oldest additional wardroom but this in the end once

we do the rest is through. the youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellows the menu of his arctic restaurant will be a rich and diverse. storage products that shouldn't be exposed. to what else can these pastures groceries everything absolutely everything and. he's the oldest one here he says this expedition is his stream come true and his younger mates don't even realize how lucky they are to be part of this adventure. for twenty two years i've been trying to get here you wouldn't believe it. but they would tell me you are thirty year old railroad worker where you want your . i'm here. as dusk is fully

works mark the beginning of the real mission the russian plug is posted and that means the resi icebreaker and its crew will be heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen minute face to face with the c.v.r. arctic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched into the hour with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the pull of sets off a year of freezing conditions lie with painstaking studies. to reveal the trashiest in the exhibit the catch of the art from the arctic album number of people living in poverty in the united states is a record levels with official figures showing one in seven americans is struggling to make ends meet in cities like new york the consequences the highest level of homelessness ever recorded and as a spiritual 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 whole shelter and bed i put together this project away i go home

last week every year but 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 use of has 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 one paycheck away from being homeless you know i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware in a packed city like new york homelessness is no novelty in this 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 see president . you know. as the cries for help stretch across the country the u.s. 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 looking the other way continues to be the norm this could soon become the real face of the nation and our team here. and still to come here on the program an r.t.s. safe passage for a top taliban leader even to us before it's just afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center. also. artie's closer team visits the

historic russian city of the center of arts and crafts no house suffering in the economic downturn. moscow will have a new mayor within a week the city parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by president medvedev to take over as the leader of the russian capital but we have picked deputy prime minister from a shortlist of four candidates to replace coffee who was sat after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty two year old served as a regional governor in the new world chief of staff. time as president some experts believe bad ground was essential to winning the race. he was the former chair of the legislative two main region which provided we still provides alliance shell oil and gas so we hear some experience all round them that you can on the can do well. for the situation that we've had with you it's.

very public but additional. wrong things. people work with here. and they are has provided safe passage for top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government and kabul general david petraeus the commander of international force in the country says it's aimed at balancing out and government's efforts to get the taliban to do she encouraged again a stand in the midst of its widest years since the us led war started nine years ago it's a political time for american efforts with its land withdrawal next year and public support for the campaign slipping rapidly and i t's military contributor tunnel of getting flu shot says any new u.s. military strategy in afghanistan will be counterproductive. and every soldier in the marine knows are in our stands for rest and recreation however if you give the new tweets to the u.s. strategy in afghanistan nowadays it has got another second meaning and now it

stands for reconciliation and reintegration of the military opposition to the karzai government you know dentistry due to the new twist of so-called double pronged tactics of the u.s. military in afghanistan now its u.s. policy in afghanistan incorporates a new feature in addition to the military pressure applied by the special forces against militants and insurgents in afghanistan now the state department's officially approved the reintegration and reconciliation read of the 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 and in

a way both backed are political and military are operating at cross purposes the reason he's that afghanistan and iraq is severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to pull off in iraq is unlikely to be replicated in afghanistan. and u.s. report based on interviews with former detainees says afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center and afghanistan the facility the black jail is thought to be located add air base former inmates claim the worst subjected to strip search and sleep deprivation lack of food some testimonies date from this year despite president obama's pledge to clean up prison practices the u.s. military denies the detention center even existed. cia officers as well bomb us administration is worse then he's princess or when it comes to detainees in afghanistan. the administration doesn't need another scandal to cause it problems

so i think if they do have secret interrogation centers and i would be awfully surprised to be honest if they didn't i would imagine the cia runs interrogation centers i would imagine the military does the same and the administration basically just wants this to become a non-issue. but the fact is i mean they're fighting a war in afghanistan which in which there are some rules but at the same time the rules are very often stretched 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 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 but it really is it is a counterproductive policy because all you're doing is creating more people who really hate the united states and for good reason and in cases where you people may not have. many crimes it was clear in the people that were held in guantanamo that many of them were completely innocent and again have more on those and other stories at our website r.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 a russian ballerina returns to work after being sad for taking her clothes off you know lads ma'am find out more on our website r.t. dot com. so take a look at some of the stories from around the world and most of the rescued chilean miners have been allowed home after spending more than two months trapped on the

ground just two of the thirty three workers from maine and hospital they're reportedly in good shape despite living for weeks in a web dark and hot chamber but now they face a challenging recovery from emotional trauma the doctors say could take weeks or months. this report of the britain will only cut its defense budget by ten percent and over the next four years after prime minister intervene the exact details will be unveiled next week as part of government cutbacks the royal navy will lose large numbers of kidnaps although it will reportedly keep two aircraft carriers currently being built u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton out of minutes she was worried out of the fans cuts of a key nato ally. the aluminum planned a lot of the time garion of villages with toxic red sludge has reopened and that's despite warnings the area may not yet be safe many houses have been deemed too dangerous to return to at least nine people died and dozens injured as waste gushed

out burst storage reservoir earlier this month. and after fourteen years of digging under the alps the longest railway tunnel in the world has been completed and switzerland names to revolutionize transport across europe providing a high speed link between north and south although the fifty seven kilometer long guitar real tunnel isn't expected to be in operation until twenty sixteen. every month our team brings it closer to the lesser known parts of russia. team travels five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow to. the city is over a thousand years old both rich cultural heritage which attracts thousands of tourists every year however today the original for the harsh economic realities

whole villages struggling to make ends meet has more. the larger metropolitan areas around the. big businesses over the last few yeah there's big business is essential it brings the jobs brings in money for the local authorities as well. as hundreds of jobs for people here but for the rest of the. aftermath of the economic crisis. for a hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town of jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick with. nine hundred seventy thank you i think when the economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the from the. whole families were

suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners to help their children and grandchildren by no food to eat the town was devastated. certainly there has an unfinished degree in management it's of no use here instead to support her son she had to get a job with a male. 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 tax relief and strictly on the return to work without the one thousand six hundred employees only a third of 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 and all that to survive it needs to modernize and it's emblematic of the

region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand with few strategic industrial objects and a small consumer market that has to find creative ways to generate wealth the authorities have adopted a three pronged strategy firstly tourism and they are public. heritage site 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. and finally developing industry get back competitive not just in russia but the brule. medium size has to be a breakthrough. on this several times cheaper than foreign equivalents of

our production mines are the same as our competitors. well no pipe dream these ambitious plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers. what the no good month was to achieve the goal to thurmont if the region continues to fund laura but that was like golf and only into the twenty first century. the next we are. a student in a fall and oh yeah there are girls. you know you'll soon going to graduate what you are going to do once you build up on the last year of my studies and i am working ready you never events and you know my profession is going to be interpreted and translates to that you like my major and with a list work you know with my intuition and with and out looking for a company we actually has several doctors including one in moscow and a couple of the united states they're all of these this is a good example of a company that's trying to bring up the road to the world stage and to introduce i

will see to that but it is to different countries different countries into different stages of russia which i think it's great because i know and i don't know a lot of people before we do want to stay not going to go all i can say to easy to find a job here in our town is developing and it is developing quite fast and there are some international companies being opened here in not going to region. tourists keep coming here a lot of people get to know i was the town so i'm really optimistic about this but you're very much on the run i mean you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people both studying here and the growth. and the russian war perestroika became a lot of the west for heralding savita reform but was dried out at home for the pain a cost more than a decade after a meal gorbachev's unstoppable changes were set in motion we look at the reality of living through one of the country's most turbulent periods.

almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. to make changes the society was in need. but it wasn't possible to change the country's regime so quickly. and with. the closing of the fundamental changes in the state than people's minds. that's on the way about tammas time here on r t and before that we'll take a look what's happening in business with kareena hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for our technology update on our g. p. welcome to our weekend business program california's governor arnold schwarzenegger led a group of billion as 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 foreign as 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 exploit that means that the technologies and products developed from those technologies addressed a world market to 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. i'm also encouraged of what they're trying to do and i think the

main thing they should try to do over the next ten or years is get their shit going get it moving and then i run it could use a phrase from marx they should wither away. so what do you think russia needs to do to develop this entrepreneurial culture here this entrepreneurial mentality i think the way 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 involved they just gotta 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 that the danger that us national. it is true. that the government is willing to too much and not doing enough to do too much they will discourage the private if they do too little in the community for they're doing it about

right now. and the russian markets ended 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 half percent. of most of the voices 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 russia this week the old price has been pretty well supported and that's been a function of the weaker dollar not again is a function of more expectations that the fed are 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 hoss closely rely on energy relations reports. yes even if your 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 rosneft will buy the state energy companies have stake in germany's or oil for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and energy ministers join to express support for peace purchase of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as a first significant of string project fourteen k.v. be brought and. it will be the first success of the upstream 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. are true journal or is not as big as we would like it to be interesting investment plans and today we were to develop a member of journey energy projects but energy is what binds the countries and more in our instruments are expected from other russian companies this day exploring the region my dinner question how business. our weekend business program what you can always find more on our website just go to our team bad call.

almost seventy years of the red machine which so we had people wanted to leave in the past. seeking to make changes the society was you need. to leave. but it wasn't possible to change the country's regime so quickly and with a home. monopoles only fundamental changes in the state system people's minds one or. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents syria thousand. seven hundred

thousand people murdered 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 day here.

fifty. five. welcome back you're just joining us you're watching live from moscow and these are the top stories fifteen polar explorers are starting. to prove that part of the resources rich arctic actually belongs to russia. spending the next year adrift on an ice floe. already in the u.s. has reached the highest level in decades with more than forty million apparently struggling to keep their heads above water that's left record numbers of people living on the streets. and nato is granting safe passage for top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government that comes as recent u.s. reports suggest former afghan prisoners were abused at

a secret detention center inside the country. well let's start the looks behind the perestroika reforms which the west applauded for opening up the saw which turned people's lives upside down. it was a time when the dogs of the world view the. regime's take. what exactly that would look like somebody. few of the most. people are just learning about. the world's biggest country. self destructing and. two weeks after i got there. for the first time the colors.