reach it's gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future. the task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores but it ends up. this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the 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 under his belt has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. with equipping our i was necessary amenities with electricity. 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 products that shouldn't be exposed to frost mage tools canned food what else can these cookies pastures groceries everything absolutely everything. tricity man is the oldest one here he says this expedition a dream come true and he's younger than realized 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 i had written countless letters to various institutions but they would tell me you are thirty year old railroad worker stay where you are you are to.

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 man face to face with the c.v.r. arctic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the pole that sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies. to reveal the trash just underneath it in the catch of the r.t. from the arctic now the number of people living in poverty in the u.s. is a record levels with official figures showing one in seven americans are struggling to make ends meet in cities like new york the consequences the highest level of homelessness ever recorded in 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 floor 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 spun to lease tonight and our 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 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 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 a 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 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. you know. to be able to do. so. as the cry 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 a nation just as you are to new york. and still to come safe passage for a top taliban leader even as the u.s. reports suggest afghan prisoners were used at a secret military detention center. and also close of business the historic russian

city of leaving on board a center of arts and crafts know how suffering in the downturn. now moscow will have a new mayor within a week the city parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by president if you have to take over as the leader of the russian capital but they have picked deputy prime minister sergei sabean from a shortlist of four candidates will replace a better leader you were offered was sacked after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty two year olds served as a regional governor in the us and us chief of staff during body more food and time as president more on this topic from the rolling united russia party which put forward to his candidacy for the post of moscow marriage major thank you for being here with us in the program so let's talk about. the more detail now considering his background considering sabbat his closeness to the government do you think he's appointments will give a sense to russian leadership greater control over politics and money flows in the

russian capital well i think it's not a matter of control of politics. or for the importance of special. to supposed to be the vanguard of modernization and actually the federal government has the world's them. plans of how to create a financial center in moscow. i think savannah has enormous experience call for work in the government he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create systems within big government stuff. and he was successful as a governor of one of the. regions in russia so he has enough experience to do so and besides i think it's also a matter of personal trust because he's well known by the prime minister and they trust him as a person and as a professional as i just pointed out he's got a lot of good experience being as regional governor but some skeptics may say well

listen he doesn't know the city well now because he didn't spend enough time here properly i mean only five years well i have been live in moscow for thirty five years and i can't say that i know the city where well so this is why i think it's. well just a matter of again as i said professionalism you know and for him he's a manager you know he will step in and he will make it and then through what's going on and then he will probably said he has priorities and. implementing them so that being a mayor of moscow is a tough job and this is what president sized and what sort of challenges do you think will cease what i think the major challenge will be obviously the transport collapse in the city you know because we have heavy traffic and that's what people are concerned about a lot another thing that the efficiency of the governance because a large extent the system of civil service in moscow he's not very up to date and

that much has to be done to reform and to probably recruit real young and talented people who will be the u.c.s.c. to be for such a vicious glance as the financial center of the oscars this kind of things. as you mentioned earlier it's got a lot of good a spirit of being a manager and a governor. how much of this will help him to be to manage the russian capital well i think i think it will obviously he is the person who knows many people around russia meaning that he can create a really good team. in order to implement the tasks that are set before him by the press and media republican from the ruling united russia party thanks very much for being here with us in the program. nato has provided safe passage for top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government in kabul general david petraeus the commander of international forces in the country says it's backing the

afghan government's efforts to get the taliban negotiating stands in the midst of a trip to la he is three years 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 . meanwhile a us report based on interviews with former detainees says afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center in afghanistan the facility dubbed the black jail is thought to be located add air base former inmates claim they were subjected to strip searches sleeve to probation and a lack of food some testimonies date from this year despite president obama's pledge to clean up prison practices u.s. military denies the tensions center even exist the former cia officer says obama's administration is worse than his predecessor 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 that 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. it 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 these people may not have committed many crimes it was clear in the people that were held in guantanamo that many of them were completely innocent. and yet more on these 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 sacked for taking her clothes off lads' mags find out more on our website r.t. dot com. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and most of the rescued chilean miners have been allowed home after spending more than two months trapped in the ground just two of the thirty three workers remain in hospital they are reportedly

in good shape despite living for weeks and wear dark and hot chamber but now they face a challenging recovery from emotional trauma the doctors say could take weeks or months. it's reported the bridge will only cut its to fans budget by ten percent over the next four years after the prime minister intervened the exact details will be unveiled next week as a part of government cutbacks the world name you will lose large numbers of ships although they reportedly keep two aircraft carriers currently being built u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton had admitted she was worried at the defense cuts of a key nato ally. that implants the flooded area in villages with toxic rents large has reopened and that's despite warnings the area may not be safe many houses have been deemed too dangerous to return to at least nine people died and dozens were injured as ways gushed out of a burst storage reservoir earlier this month. after fourteen years of digging under the alps the longest railway tunnel in the world has been completed in

switzerland aims to revolutionize transport across europe providing a high speed link between north and south although the fifty seven kilometer long guitar rail tunnel isn't expected to be in operation until twenty sixteen. every month brings it closer to the lesser known parts of russia. and our close up team traveled five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow to believe the city is over a thousand years old and both a rich cultural heritage which attracts thousands of tourists every year however today the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities the whole village is struggling to make ends meet he has more. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the lower good husband being able to attract the same

investment from big businesses over the last few yaz this big business is essential it brings the jobs added brings in money for the local authorities as well but because it is just one such large factory which has been built by their old cadre 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 of product and jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and the newest equipment is from going like nine hundred seventy. i. when the economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straightaway and with it the time apart 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 surplus on the 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. the work without the one thousand six hundred employees. and the plant is still officially bankrupt. but it continues to be on life support turning in a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and. take over the region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand with few strategic industrial objects consumer market it has to find creative ways to generate wealth the

authorities have adopted a three prong strategy firstly tourism and the public. at 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 the local administration has prevented a good investment climate from forming now we have swung our doors open. and developing industry competitive not just in russia but the brewer. promises to be a breakthrough. on this several times. the same as our competitors. these invitations

to bring substantial cash into the government coffers. just. the region continues to fund the prizes. in the twenty first century. to graduate. my studies and i am working. on number of events and so my profession is going to be interpreted in translator like my major and it was in english working now with my neighbors and works and i am looking for a company we actually have several up to encourage and one in moscow and coupled up next to the old beast is a good example of a company that's trying not to leave the world stage and to introduce our future the british to different countries to different countries into difference to to russia which i think it's great because i know i do know

a lot of people do want to stay number of the all i can say to you to find a job here our town is developing and into developing quite fast and there are some international companies being opened here in number of 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 i've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying here and the growth. in their garage and if they are now in just a few minutes moscow while it looks out the capital's four wheeled love affair in this week's program i'll be delving into the subjects of cars from the whole strong carriages of pizza the great suv soviet largest on the western imports of today used as a status symbol on not just as a form of transport it's easy to see how passionate russia has always been either indeed if it comes to the subject of. oh.

and this week's moscow was here for you in about ten minutes time before that we'll take a look at what's happening in business with kareena. welcome to 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's 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 they 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 the 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 now i know 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 it get

it 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 an involved just got to get out of the business world and let the private sector take over even though 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. 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 unfold 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 markets he's also for 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 going to 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 and 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 ross nafta will buy the state energy companies have stake in germany's rule for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and energy ministers join to express support for peace per chase of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as a first significant stream project fourteen to be brought and probably it will be the first success of. 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 treater nor 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 ours most are expected from other russian companies this day exploring the region mind you the question of business r.t. . our weekend business program where you can always find more on our website just go to r.t. dot com. forty

two thousand americans die each year. 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 day here.

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t.v. dot com. welcome back you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories fifteen polar explorers are starting an epic expedition to prove dab part of the resources rich arctic actually belongs to russia their mission involves spending the next year adrift 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 heads above water it's left record numbers of homeless 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 events warrant just one more rather suggest former afghan prisoners were used at

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 form of trials for it's easy to see how passionate russia is when it comes to the good old automobile. there are several museums and more scared to showcase cars.