all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future when we you know the task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores but it ends up you can the arctic this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the new station what to the president and the prime minister there 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 the much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. will start with equipping our i was with all the necessary amenities with electricity then we'll build a traditional wardroom but this in the end once we do the rest of the comparing the

youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellows the menu of his arctic restaurant will be reach and diverse. this. is the warm storage for all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost so here they judged balls canned food what else can these two keys pastors groceries everything absolutely everything. they live tricity man sergei is the oldest one here he says this expedition is he's dream come true and he's younger mates don't even realize how lucky they are to be part of this 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 were a thirty year old railroad worker stay where you are you're too old for us fifty and i'm here. as dusk is fully. the beginning of the real mission

the russian flag is hoisted and that means the resi icebreaker and its crew will be having for the mainland leaving the fifteen man face to face with the severe. the russian melt cold mission is now officially underway launched into the arctic with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the polar sets off a year of freezing conditions lie with painstaking studies. to reveal the trash just underneath it in the gradual r.t. from the arctic the number of people living in poverty in the us is at record levels with official figures showing a one in seven americans struggling to make and meet in cities like new york the consequences the highest amount of homelessness ever recorded and associate you're going to reports. so this is no

lottery for a chance to win some cash these people are petion free 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 or two hundred twenty thousand for 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 shelter and bed i put together this project the way i call this

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 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 and i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware of the packed city like new york is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars there are dozens of thousands of people 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 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 saved. 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 if looking the other way continues to be the norm this could soon become the real face of a nation and as you churkin our new york. and still to come here in our tea safe passage for top taliban leader even u.s. reports suggest afghan prisoners are more abused at a secret military detention center. also archie's closer this is the historic russian city of the center of arts and crafts no suffering in the economic downturn

. moscow will have a new mayor within a week and the city parliament confirmed it will support a candidate favored by president putin to take over as leader of the russian capital and if picked deputy prime minister to be sorted out from a shortlist of four candidates he'll replace veteran of you're you were so was sacked after he lost the president's confidence fifty two year old son served as a regional governor in the. chief of staff during. president made a report card of the ruling united russia party which put forward all the candidates for the post of moscow mayor told us why. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of. federal importance moscow is the special city and the supposed to be the the vanguard of more than the zation and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create

a financial center in moscow i think. enormous experience of work and they go home and he is known as an efficient professional but he has managed to create a system within the government stuff he was quite successful as a governor of 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. 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 of the afghan government's efforts to get the taliban negotiators in afghanistan in the midst of its bloodiest year since the us led war started nine years ago and 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 uganda which of says any new u.s.

military strategy in afghanistan will be counterproductive. due to the new twist all the so-called double pronged tactics of the u.s. military in afghanistan now it's u.s. policy in afghanistan incorporates a new future in addition to the military pressure of blood by the special forces against the militants and insurgents in afghanistan now the state department's officially approves reintegration and reconciliation 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 again a stance however the reason growing indication that these new tactics these counterproductive in the way both vectors political 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 he's unlikely to be replicated in afghanistan. a u.s. report based on interviews with former detainee says afghan prisoners were used at a secret military detention center in afghanistan the facility dubbed the black jail is thought to be located at bagram air base former inmates claim they were subjected to strip searches sleep deprivation and a lack of food some testimonies date from this year despite president obama's pledge to clean up prison practices the u.s. military the nice attention center even exists philip giraldi a former cia officer says obama's administration is worse than his predecessor when when it comes to detainees and ghana stam. 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 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 a is a counterproductive policy because all you're doing is creating more people who who really hate the united states and for good reasons and in cases where you 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 you have more on those and other stories our website archie dot com online right now find out why we won when people across germany would like to see the fur as their new leader. russian ballerina returns to work after a big sad to get her clothes off the lad's mad foreigner website r t v dot com. and now some other stories from around the world 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 and they are reportedly in

good shape despite living for weeks in a web dark and hard chamber but now they face a challenging recovery from an emotional trauma that doctors say could take weeks or even months. it's reported that britain will only cut his defense budget by temper sand over the next four years after the prime minister intervene the exact details will be unveiled next week as part of government cutbacks the world maybe will lose large numbers of ships although will 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. and the aluminum plant a flood of hungarian villages with toxic red sludge has opened as despite warnings the area may not yet be safe many of 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 aims to revolutionize transport across europe providing a high speed rail link between north and south although the fifty seven kilometer along the tar rail tunnel isn't expected to be in operation until twenty sixteen. well get to know russia's undiscovered corners with our close up team. five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow la is an ancient city of the side boast rich historical past which tracked thousands of tourists every year to date however the city is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make and meet your garage has more. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the globe good housing being able to attract the same

amount of 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 because meat is just one such large factory which has been built by good old cow debris and provides hundreds of jobs for people here and love good but for the rest of the area it's still suffering from the aftermath of the economic crisis . for one 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 workman is from delight nine hundred seventy. thanks when the economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the town apart from the thought of him you know . the whole families were ten and suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners have to

help their children and grandchildren by no food to eat the town was devastated. certainly has an unfinished degree in management it's of no use here instead to support her son she had to get a job with the mail only to lose 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 i'm certain 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 apotheker has been saved but it continues to be on life support it's still not turning in a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and end up why 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 nature and slavic republic been thought i said to have no good world heritage site that there were still 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. and finally developing industry that my competitive not just in russia but abroad. versus medium sized promises to be a breakthrough. on this several times cheaper than foreign equivalents of our production mines are the same as our competitors but the staff costs are lower

while no pipe dreams these in bush's plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers. well but no good money just to cheat them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the prizes like golf and into the twenty first century. the next we are. a student in hope on the idea there are girls. you know you'll soon going to graduate what you're going to do once you're. on the last year of my studies and i am working. on number of fans and so my profession is going to be interpreted in translator like my major and it was in english working now with my english language and how we can for a company we actually have several office thinkers and one in moscow and a couple of offices next to states so this is a good example of a company that strives for the rights of the world stage and to introduce our seats as a true it is fair to different countries to different countries into different stages

of russia which i think it's 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 easy 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 to each and. tourists keep coming here a lot of people get to know i was the town so i'm really optimistic about this thank you very much i have been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people both studying here and the growth. reporting there and in just a few minutes a moscow out looks at the capital's four wheeled love affair. on this week's moscow of program i'll be delving into the subjects of cars from the horse drawn carriages of peter the great to soviet laws is on 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 is becomes the subject of automobiles. little one as weeks moscow out as here view and about ten minutes time before that will take a look what's happening in business with korea. hungry for the full story we've got it. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. welcome

tell we can 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's 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 doing business in an honest way but also markets have to believe that russia is not a huge country it's a nice size 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 you're probably not large enough to attract by itself american investment in 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'm also encouraged 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 get it going get it moving and then ironical 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 pressures a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right now the danger that rest. it is true. that the government. too much and not doing enough to do too much discourage the company and if they do too little in the entrepreneurial 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 not make it was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing up one half percent. most of the forces one point three percent lower

and merging market stocks attractive cast 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 bill prices being pretty well supported and that's been a function of a weaker dollar not again is a function of more expectations that the fed is 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 house closely rely on energy relations reports. guessing that the leaders gave the deals their blessing in an industry where political will comes a lot gasp own 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 rule for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and 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. 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 must. go well but our trade turnover is not as big as we would like it to be interesting going to rest and 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 expected from other russian companies this day exploring the region my dinner question of business. that's our weekend business program but you can always find more on our website just go to our.

forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. 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 closeup she has been to the saucily in regions where the biggest russian salmon caviar processing factories located known argy goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. for new ways are being found to fight a common term over. and russia's first free elections rayos thousand years ago. welcome to the no good region in russia close up.

every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and i want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g. fifty. fifth fifty. five. the news today volunteers once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

welcome back you're with you live from moscow here's a look at the top stories fifteen polls were explorers are set to drift on an ice floe in the arctic to prove russia's claims and regions. they will spend the next year tearing out dozens of experiments and collecting evidence in the subzero temperatures. more than forty million americans are currently living in poverty on the highest number in decades there are fears figure will only go up with more people becoming homeless. 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 used at a secret detention center inside the country. next martin andrus is in the

driving seat to explore the russian passion for motors. illustrates moscow program will be delving into the subject of cars from the horse room carriage is a piece of the great to soviet largest in the western imports of today used as a status symbol not just as a trials court it's easy to see how passionate russia is when it comes to the good old automobile. there are several museums and more skaters showcase cars through the ages it's been a fascinating.