trying to shed light on why b. oxic is melting how reach its gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future when with you know you because your task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores but it 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 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 but much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. will start with equipping our i was with all the necessary amenities with electricity to go forward and 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 fellowes the menu of he's up to grass trend will be reach and diverse. this. is the warm storage for the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost bridged balls canned food what else can these cookies pass trees groceries everything absolutely everything and tricity man sergei is the oldest one here he says this expedition is his dream come true and his younger mates don't even realize how lucky they are to be part of 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 steer where you on. you are too old for fifty and

i am here. as dusk is falling bs fireworks marked the beginning of the real mission the russian flag is hoisted and that means there are a sea ice breaker and its crew will be having for the mainland leaving the fifteen man face to face with the severe arctic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched into the arctic with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the fall of sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic 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 that one in seven americans are struggling to make ends meet in cities like new york the consequence is the highest amount of homelessness ever recorded two years anastasio chuck and i reports. well.

this is no lottery for a chance to win some cash these people are patiently 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 a 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 only 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 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 is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink four. 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. 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 if looking the other way continues to be the norm this could soon become the real face of a nation and r.t. new york. still to come for you safe passage for top taliban leaders even as the u.s. report suggests afghan prisoners were abused at

a secret military detention center. also rather to use a close up to visit the historic russian city of the. center of arts and crafts know how suffering the economic downturn. moscow will have a new mayor within a week city parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by president medvedev to take over as the leader of the russian capital met via the deputy prime minister sort of from a shortlist of four candidates will replace veteran leader yuri luzhkov who was sacked after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty two year old a sub young then served as a regional governor into your roles as chief of staff during vladimir putin's time as president dmitri pollack and off from the ruling united russia party which put forward all the candidates for the post of moscow mayor told us why he thinks of something done in those terms. i think it's not

a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of city or state of importance moscow is a special seat here and it is supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has a lot from the plans of how to create a financial center in moscow i think said banneker. enormous experience of her work in the gallery moments. he is known as an efficient professional but he has managed to create a system within the government stuff he was quite successful as 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 the top taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government in kabul and general david petraeus the commander of international forces in the country it's aimed at backing the afghan

government's efforts to get the taliban to go shooting table afghanistan is in the midst of its bloodiest year since the u.s. led war started nine years ago it's so critical time for american efforts with the planned withdrawal next year public support for the campaign slipping rapidly and r.t. military contributor and all you're going to push off says that any new u.s. military strategy in afghanistan could be counterproductive. due to the new to east so called double primed tactics of the year as 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 approves the reintegration and reconciliation we have 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 reserve growing indication that these new tactics these counterproductive and in a way both vectors political and military are operating at cross purposes the reason he's that afghanistan and iraq he's severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to pull off in iraq is unlikely to be replicated in afghanistan. us report based on interviews with former detainee says afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center in afghanistan the facility dubbed the black jail is thought to be located about graham and base film inmates claim they were subjected to a strip searches 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 exists philip giraldi a cia officer says the obama administration is worse than its 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 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 it is a counterproductive policy because all you're doing is creating more people who who really hate the united states and for good reason and in case. is 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 you can get more on these and other stories on our website dot com and waiting for you online right now you can find out why one in ten people across germany would like to see the fewer

as their next leader. and russian ballerina returns to work after being sacked. in a loud snag more on our website that's our talk. now let's get to some other world news that's making headlines this hour most of the rescued chilean miners have been allowed home after spending more than two months trapped underground just two of the thirty three workers remain in hospital now and they are reportedly in good shape despite living for weeks in a darkened chamber but now they face a challenging recovery from emotional trauma that doctors say could take weeks or months. it's reported that britain will only cut his defense budget by ten percent over the next four years after the prime minister intervened the exact details will be unveiled next week as part of government cutbacks the royal navy

will lose a large number of ships although it will reportedly keep two aircraft carriers currently being built u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has admitted she was worried at the defense cuts of a key nato out. at least twenty workers have been killed after an explosion at a coal mine in china's province about seventeen others are still trapped underground the blast was caused by a gas leak in a mine where over two hundred fifty miners were working rescue teams are at the scene now searching for survivors. alumium planted flooded in villages with toxic red sludge has now reopened 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 were injured as waste gushed out of a burst storage reservoir earlier this month. well you can get to know russia's undiscovered corners with artie's very own close up to.

five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow lies the ancient city of god the site boasts a rich historical past which attracts thousands of tourists every year today however the city is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet. as more. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the globe good hasn't been 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 that it brings in money for the local authorities as well but because meat 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 one

hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town of part of jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly one hundred years since its last major renovation and the new year so quickly is from the late one nine hundred seventy. i. wonder economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the town apart from the. whole families were tear and suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners had 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 and settle on a return to work but out of the one thousand six hundred employees only a third remain and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood miller powerful 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 up way it's emblematic of the region as a whole not a good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand with a few strategic industrial objects and a small consumer market it has to find creative ways to generate wealth the authorities have adopted a three prong strategy firstly tourism and nature and slavic republic then thought city of no good is a you know scale world heritage site that will. seem 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 a competitive not just in russia but the brule. versus medium size truck promises to be a breakthrough. sealant this several times cheaper than foreign equivalents our production lines are the same as our competitors but the stuff costs are lower while no pipe dreams these in bush's plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers what a good man just to achieve them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the prizes like golf and all leap into the twenty first century. a student in her final year girls yet you know you'll soon going to graduate what

you're planning to do once you've done. the last year of my studies and i am working. and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translate to make it like my major was in english work and now my name is dan butts and sam looking for a company we actually has several buffett think i wouldn't want to moscow and a couple of talking to me that says hey you know this is a good example of a company that's trying to clean up their butts and the world stage and to introduce our westie to that but you know it's just two different countries two 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 now but i can say too easy 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 one to each and. tourists keep coming here. a lot of people get to know i was the town so i am relieved to mystic

about thank you very much i know you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying abroad. and in just a few minutes from now moscow our looks at the capitals of 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 soviet largest and 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 it comes to the subject of automobiles. the one this week i must go out is here for you in about ten minutes time first let's catch up with kareena she's got all the latest business and.

welcome to our weekend business program california's 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've got a lot of money foreigners would love to see at least some of that money going into russian venture for private money i think that's a that's an obstacle there's a perception about corruption and difficulty of doing business in an honest way but also markets have to believe that russia is not a huge country it's a nice sized country not growing particularly but you have to be able to believe that russia can export that means that the technologies and products developed from

those technologies addressed a world market of 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 it needs to focus on the international markets i think instrumentation very finest imitation software and then of breakthroughs in the biological sciences can be done here so i'm very encouraged about us no i'm also encouraged that 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 ironically 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 you can catch up is is to encourage entrepreneurs train them to give them a chance to start companies like let's call cobol might help like ross nano is

helping doing and get the government can do things to get things going but the government has got to get an involved they just got to get out of the business world and let the private sector take over even the old theoretically believe in very little government activity pressures a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right the danger that the rest meddle. it is true. that the government. too much and not doing enough to do too much will discourage the private company and if they do too little in the community for they're doing it about right now. in the russian markets end 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 of all shares of all sniffed the most until the board says 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 she's 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 going to be very accommodative and i'm 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 the three 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 ross nafta will buy 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 of stream project fourteen k.b.p.s. abroad 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 german 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 how business. that's our weekend business program where you can always find more on our website just go to our to. thank. you.

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a recent us report suggests former prisoners were abused. inside the country. driving. program will be delving into the subject of cars from the horse room carriages of peter the great to soviet largest and the western imports of today used as a status symbol not just as a forward trials course it's easy to see how passionate russia is when it comes to the good old.