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 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 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 under his belt has supervised the unloading and construction of the station the most. ripping our i was all unnecessary amenities with electricity. 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 a rich and diverse. storage products that shouldn't be exposed to. canned food what else candies pastors groceries everything absolutely everything and tricity man. the oldest one here he says this expedition a dream come true and he's younger than realize how lucky they are to be part of. adventure. for twenty 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. him here. as dusk. this fully works mark the beginning of the real mission the

russian plug is posted and that means the rest sea ice breaker and its crew will be heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen man face to face with the c.v.a. optic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched into view with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the polar sets a year of freezing conditions life with painstaking studies. to reveal the trash just underneath it in the catch of the art from the arctic and the number of people living in poverty in the u.s. 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 an associate you're 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 man 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 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 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 one paycheck away from being homeless you know i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware 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

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 . to be able to do. so. 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 so look on in the program here in our safe passage for top taliban leaders even as a u.s. before to just afghan prisoners of war used a secret military detention center. and also our close up team visits the historic russian city of the league sunder of arts and crafts know how suffering in the

economic downturn. moscow will have a new mayor within a week see parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by president medvedev to take over as leader of the russian capital if you have picked deputy prime minister sergei severe on him from a short list of four candidates who will replace veteran leader you were off he was sacked after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty two year old to be on and served as a regional governor in the world and his chief of staff during body report and style as president we should boycott of from the ruling united russia party which put forward all the candidates for the post of moscow mayor told us why he sings. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of. federal importance moskos the special sifi and the supposed to be the the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has evolved from vicious plans to create

a financial center in moscow i think so bennett has enormous experience all for work and he is known as an efficient professional but he has managed to create a system with. one of the richest 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 president and by the prime minister and they trust him as a person and as a professional metropolitan of them now 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 aimed at backing the afghan government's efforts to get the taliban negotiating on a stand in the midst of its years since the us led war started nine years ago as a critical time for american efforts with a planned withdrawal next year and public support for the campaign slipping rapidly and our team military commander colonel again says any new us military strategy in

afghanistan will be counterproductive. due to the new twist off so-called double primed tactics of the us military in afghanistan no it's us 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 approves reintegration and reconciliation real opposition leaders and reintegration of their foot soldiers in so-called have given society at the same time while the american military is trying to regain the momentum on the battlefield all across afghanistan however the reserve growing indication that these new tactics he's counterproductive and in a way both vectors political and military are operating at cross purposes the

reason that afghanistan and iraq is severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to cool off in iraq is unlikely to be replicated in afghanistan. a u.s. report based on interviews with foreign 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 at bob graham air base former inmates claim they were subjected to strip searches sleep deprivation and a lack of food and 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 exists philip giraldi a former cia officer says about a subscription worse than these three assessors 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. the administration basically just wants this 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 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 more on these and other stories on our website r t v dot com online right now it's more of the first ever post war exhibition in berlin showing out of hitler's life and the impact on germany. and a russian ballerina returns to work after being sacked for taking her clothes off lands mad find out more on our website r t v dot com. aside take a look at some other news stories from around the world a 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 remain

in hospital they are reportedly good shape despite moving west dark and hot chamber but now they face a challenging recovery from emotional trauma that doctors say could take weeks or months. its report of the britain will only cut its to fans budget by ten percent over the next four years after the prime minister intervenes the exact details will be unveiled next week as part of government cutbacks the well maybe it will lose large numbers of ships a little over poorly keep two aircraft carriers currently being built in the us secretary of state hillary clinton admitted she was worried abt defense cuts of a key nato ally. see a woman who planned the flood of hungary and villages with toxic red sludge has reopened 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 waste 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 it aims to revolutionize transport across europe providing a high speed link between north and south although the fifty seventh long or longer the tard real tunnel isn't expected to be in operation until two thousand and sixteen. now every months r.t. brings it closer to the lesser known parts of russia. our closer team traveled five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow to believe the city is over a sow's in years old and both rich cultural heritage which attracts thousands of tourists every year however today the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet. has more.

alike the larger metropolitan areas around the lower good husband being able to attract the same. big businesses over the last few yeah there's big business is essential it brings the jobs out of brings in money for the local authorities as well but because it 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 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 wood jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick looking at it from the right nine hundred seventy. thank you i. one the economic crisis struck two years ago the fact we couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and look at 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 circle on a has an unfinished degree in management as you well know use here instead since. 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 front tree in this town. regional authorities provided actually. to work without the one thousand six hundred employees. and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood mill. saved but it continues to be on life support it's turning a profit and all that 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 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 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 developing industry did not competitive not just in russia but the brule. promises to be a breakthrough. on this several times cheaper than foreign equivalent. mines are the same as our competitors and. these

ambitious plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government. just to keep them in the region continues to fund the project. into the twenty first century. who's. going to graduate. i'm on the last year of my studies and i am working. and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translate into it like my major and was of english work you know you may need to understand what's what and am looking for a company we actually has several offices including one in moscow and a couple of office in new mexico the old beast is a good example of a company that's right there in the world stage and to introduce i want to see to that but it is there to differ in country to different countries interdependency to

russia which i think is great because i know i don't know a lot of people who do want to stay not going to do all i can say to you to find a job here our town is developing and it is developing quite fast and there are some international companies being opened here in number and region. tourists keep coming here a lot of people get to know i was the town so i'm really optimistic but thank you very much i love being speaking to a local student heard about the prospects for young people both studying abroad. chats that we can business news with current email account. welcome to weekend business program california 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'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 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 is get entrepreneurship 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. 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 though the reticular believe in very little government activity russia is a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right the

danger that us national. but the government. too much and not doing enough to do too much will discourage the. many 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 quarter of a percent no neko was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing up one half percent. fell for most of the board says one point three percent lower and emerging 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 bill 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

actually policy 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 their venues wella and raw snapped will by the state energy companies have stake in germany's wood 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 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. our trade journal or is not as big as we would like it to be interesting going to austin plans and today we're already developed a number of joined 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. that's our weekend business program but you can always find more on our website just go to our.

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back here with r t here's a look at the top stories fifteen polar explorers are starting an expedition to prove that part of the resources rich arctic actually belongs to russia their mission involves 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 hands 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 comes as recent u.s. reports suggest former afghan prisoners were abused at

a secret detention center inside the country. well that's the real world james bond reveals some of the mysteries of britain's intelligence agency m i six that's a spotlight.