because melting how reach its 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 but ends up deep 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 much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. will start with equipping our i was in all the necessary amenities with electricity it go for and then world build a traditional boardroom but this in the end once we do the rest of comparing 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 of all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost mage tools canned food what else can these two keys pastors groceries everything absolutely everything. tricity man sergei is the oldest one here he says this expedition is he stream 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 am here. as dusk is falling bs fireworks mark 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 oxic with traditional maritime music and less traditional fireworks the polar sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic to reveal the treasures underneath exhibit the gradual r.t. from the arctic. the number of people living in poverty in the united states 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 on record as honest as the chalk 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 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 or two hundred twenty thousand for new york city men women and children and to lose 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 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 for less. 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 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 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 this is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars. 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 and new york city a. 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. 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 as the. new york. still to come for you here when i see a safe passage for top taliban leaders even as the u.s. report suggests afghan prisoners were abused at

a secret military detention center. also. visits to historical russian city of the. center of oxen. suffering the economic downturn. moscow will have a new mayor within a week the city parliament confirmed it will support the candidate favored by a president if you have to take over as the leader of the russian capital. media the brother picked up by deputy prime minister. from a shortlist of four candidates will replace a veteran leader. who was sacked after he lost the president's confidence born in siberia fifty eight. and then some of the regional governor in the your rules and as chief of staff during one of your putin's time as president dmitri pollack our north from the ruling united russia party which put forward all the candidates for the post of moscow mayor told us why he thinks something was chosen i think it's

not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of city or federal importance moscow is a special seat here and it is supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernization and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create a financial center in moscow i think said banneker enormous experience of work in the government 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 sort of 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 that it's aimed at backing the afghan

government's efforts to get the taliban negotiating afghanistan is in the midst of its bloodiest year since the u.s. led war started nine years ago it's a critical time for american efforts with the planned withdrawal next year public support for the campaign slipping rapidly and r.t. military contributor colonel you're going to push jobs says that any new u.s. military strategy in afghanistan could be counterproductive. due to the new to east so called double prime judge tactics of the u.s. military in afghanistan now it's u.s. policy in afghanistan incorporates a new feature in addition to the military pressure applied by the special forces against the militants and insurgents in afghanistan now the state department's officially approves the 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 afghanistan 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 he's severely underappreciated and what general petraeus managed to pull off in iraq he's unlikely to be replicated in afghanistan. well u.s. reporter based on interviews with former detainees afghan prisoners were abused at a secret military detention center in afghanistan the facility dubbed the black jail is thought to be located a base former inmates claimed they were subjected to strip searches sleep

deprivation and lack of food some testimony today from this year despite president obama's pledge to clean up prison practices the u.s. military denies that its tension sent even exists for the ground cia officer says obama's administration is worse than its predecessor when it comes to detainees in afghanistan and. 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 really hate the united states and for good reason 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 can get more on these and other stories on our website that's artie dot com waiting for you there online right now you can find out why one in ten people across germany would like

to see fewer new leader. and russian ballerina returns to work after being sacked for taking her clothes off mag more on our website r t v dot com . at least seven people have died in floods in russia as a southern region of krasnodar two days of heavy rain squalls two major rivers to burst their banks flooding several villages at least a thousand people have been caught in a deluge many have been evacuated from the area but hundreds are refusing to leave their homes rain expected to last another twenty four hours at least also calls to mudslides in the mountains blocking several structures of. now let's get to some other world news hitting headlines this hour and most rescued chilean miners have been allowed home after spending more than two months trapped underground two

thirty three workers now remain in hospital they are reportedly in good shape despite living for weeks in a way dark and hot chamber but now they face a challenge in recovery from emotional trauma the doctors say could take weeks or months. it's reported that britain will only cut its 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 role navy will lose large numbers of ships although will reportedly keep two aircraft carriers that are currently under construction u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has admitted she was worried at the defense cuts of a key nato ally. at least twenty workers have been killed after an explosion at a coal mine in china's henan 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 searching for survivors. when you imply that flooded hungary and villages with toxic red sludge has reopened that's despite warnings the area may not yet to 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. while you're going to get to know rushers undiscovered corners with our close up team now. five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow lies the ancient city not go toward the site boasts a rich historical past with 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 r.t.e. reports 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 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 one hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town of part of jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and then you're sick whitman is from the late one nine hundred seventy. thanks 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 buy enough 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 their 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 mill a powerful one 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 upwards emblematic of the region as a whole not a good region has

a population of less than seven hundred thousand with 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 nation slavic republic then thought city of novgorod as a you know scale world heritage site that there were the bodies of 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 industries that are competitive not just in russia but the brule that's versus medium size truck promises to be a breakthrough. on this several times cheaper than foreign equivalents

our production mines 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 the chief of them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the prizes like golf and leap into the twenty first century. a student and have fun oh yeah there are girls. you know you'll soon going to graduate what you're planning to do once you're. on the last year of my studies and i am already ready to face and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translate to make it like my major was in english working now with my english language and am looking for a company we actually have several books to think i wouldn't want in moscow and a couple of books to me that's in place so this is a good example of a company that's trying to tell me what stage and to introduce you to the putative

two 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 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 reach 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 know you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying abroad. tom now for the weekend business news with kareena that's coming your way after a short break. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome

to how 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 is 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 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 the products developed from those technologies addressed a world market of 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 it needs to focus on for 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 it 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 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 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 the danger that us natural. it is true. that the government. too much and not doing enough to do too much will discourage the private that if

they do too little then 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 not make it was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing off one a half percent full shares overall sniffed the most 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 again is a function of more expectations that the fed is 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 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 their venues where law 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 the piece of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as a first significant of string project fourteen k.b. 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 truly turnovers 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 our instruments are expected from other russian companies this day 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. presence.

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now three thirty pm here in moscow you are with auntie headlines now fifteen a polar explorers are such an ice floe in the arctic to prove those claims on the region's hidden treasures they'll spend the next year carrying out dozens of experiments and collecting evidence in the subzero temperatures. more than forty eight million americans are living in poverty that's the highest number in decades the consequences are being seen in cities like new york where there are numbers of home. nato was granting safe passage for taliban leaders to hold talks with the afghan government that comes as a recent u.s.

report suggests former prisoners were abused at a secret detention center inside the country. next to the real world james bone reveal some of the mysteries off britain's intelligence agency. that's coming up in spotlight stay with us. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the report.