just oceanographer sent antony as well spent a year on floating ice in the arctic they'll be trying to shed light on why be 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 the task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores but it ends up the can be assoc this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the new station were 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 though 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 worldbuilding traditional wardroom but this in the end once we do the rest of the computing and the youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellowes the menu of his arctic restaurant will be a reach and diverse. this. is the warm storage of all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost so here bridged balls canned food to what else can these cookies pastures groceries everything absolutely everything in the electricity 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 so i've been trying to get him you won't believe it i've written countless letters to various institutions but the. you tell me you're

a thirty year old railroad worker stay where you are on you're too old for us and no one fifteen and i'm here. as dusk was falling these 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 heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen men 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 pull the sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic to reveal the trash just underneath it in the great chill the r.t. from the arctic and still to come here on r.t. it's the big apple that for many is rotten to the core. most people a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless as new york gets its

highest homelessness rate ever we find out what it takes to get a roof over one's head if only for a night. moscow will have its new mayor within a week united russia the majority party in the city parliament has confirmed that it will support the candidate proposed by president dmitri medvedev sort of case of the young that is currently the country's deputy prime minister he will replace it with who were sacked last month after losing the trust of the president fifty two year old or young and was born in siberia but he had previously served as a governor of one of russia's oil rich region and was also the head of russia's presidential administration dmitri pollack on off from the united russia party explain to our see what he things are sabean in has been chosen. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of. favor importance. moscow is the special seat here and it is supposed

to be the in 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 said banneker enormous experience hall for work in the gallant he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create fecht of system within the government staff 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 and that was dimitri pollack i know from the united russia party well nine people have been killed by flash floods in russia southern cross know the region state of emergency has been declared in the worst affected areas where more than twenty villages have been flooded around fifteen hundred people are considered at risk so far several hundred had to be evacuated from their homes the flooding

was the result of several days of heavy rain cooled local rivers to burst their banks a downpour also brought about mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north dakota railroad the rain has stopped for now but forecasters warn there could still be more to come. national poverty rates across the u.s. are higher than they've been in almost half a century one in seven americans currently live below the poverty line which for many means living without a house and a start you're going to reports from new york where the problem of homelessness is reaching crisis point. 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 their 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 hundred twenty thousand different new york city men women and children spent at least a night and i say 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 away i go home last week every year most of my nights i just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of us so posting his experience in a blog you said 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. nearly fifteen thousand children who are homeless. are 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.

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 that party new york and there is plenty more had a few this hour including a close up team that's the historical russians did not go to a city that has seen both staggering wealth and devastating war was over its thousand year history but is now we're covering after the financial crisis. the u.s. military is cracking down on its own troops in afghanistan and american officers to face court martial for allegedly killing three afghan civilians for sport for other soldiers faced similar accusations two thousand and ten is already the bloodiest

year of the entire war for the afghan people and international forces as the taliban remain strong the u.s. led coalition is changing its strategy now to the top man in the country general david petraeus says at least one taliban commander has been granted safe passage to the capital kabul says the move is aimed at trying to get the militants to start negotiating a cease fire. is a military contributor i think is the general strategy is unlikely to work. through to the new twist of so-called double prime. tactics of the u.s. 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 of the opposition leaders

and reintegration of their food soldiers in so-called afghan society at the same time while the american military 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. that's artie is a military contributor colonel you're going to there now let's get to some other world news making headlines this hour and demonstrators have started to gather throughout from protest to president nicolas sarkozy's pension reform more than one

million people are expected to take to the streets a strike by transport and oil refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports could run out of fuel in the city of march say rubbish hasn't been collected for four days the pension reform which raises the retirement age from sixty to sixty two is to be voted on in the senate on wednesday. suspected u.s. drone so killed at least nine people in pakistan the strikes were targeting a tribal area in north waziristan dominated by a militant group blamed for attacks on foreign troops in afghanistan the u.s. has recently increased the number of drone strikes in the region on friday a militant attack on an army checkpoint killed five pakistani soldiers elsewhere in the north west. british prime minister david cameron has intervened to prevent planned cuts in defense spending from going ahead it comes after senior military

figures claim the reductions would threaten the country's afghanistan mission its alleged block the ten percent cut proposed by the treasury insisting on a lower figure the budget for the ministry of defense in the u.k. has now been finalized ahead of its publication next week. most of the rescued chilean miners have returned home to a hero's welcome after spending more than two months trapped underground just two of the thirty three workers remain in hospital for what were described as minor ailments despite having endured a weeks in harsh conditions most of the men are said to be healthy doctors say the most lasting damage could be emotional and that recovery could be complicated by the intensive public interest. parts of eastern australia have been battered by strong winds heavy snow and flooding thousands of homes were left without power while the cold front brought springtime snow when flooding in victoria and new south wales heavy rain has also been affecting central and western queensland

rivers burst their banks forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes forecasters say such weather is likely to continue for the time being with winds reaching up to one hundred kilometers per hour well there's plenty more stories features opinion and analysis waiting for you at r.t. dot com you can just log on any time and explore at your leisure here's a quick taste of what's waiting there for you right now you can find out how where pirates are being allowed to continue sailing old with the help of internet providers. plus find out the recipe for a terminator cocktail which will raise your strength as well as your spirits it's all in the mix at r.t. dot com.

now buckle up and come with us as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia it's time again to get close up. in tonight's episode we take you five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow to the ancient city of not go to the science with its rich restorable past attracts thousands of tourists every year these days however the city is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet you go to possible. 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 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 a hundred years since its last major renovation and then you're sick whitman is from the late nineteenth seventy's thank you 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 a lot of. 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 a male only to lose it and i was. sitting at home without money my relationship

with my husband deteriorated and my family fell apart i blame the factory in this town or regional authorities provided a bailout and tax relief and strictly 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 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 out the way it's emblematic of the region as a whole not 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 prong strategy firstly tourism and nature and slavic republic then thought city of no good is 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 industry that a competitive not just in russia but the brule. first of all medium sized business to be a breakthrough. several times cheaper than for an equivalence our production lines are the same as our competitors but the stuff goes sort of lower. while no pipe dreams these in bush's plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers where the no good man just to cheat 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 and have fun oh yeah.

yeah you're going to graduate what you're planning to do once you're. on the last year of my studies and i am working. and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translates to make it like my major and it was in english working out with my name is that what's an sat looking for a company we actually have never come up to think it was and why did last couple of books to me that's a page that all of these is a good example of a company that's trying something out there at the wall and stage and is it to introduce you to the patriots to different countries to different countries into different states to 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 the rest 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 sat down so and i'm really optimistic about thank you very much and i know you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying abroad. we're coming to you live from moscow this is. the cause of the start. of wow because inside here are amazing in the course of this one here i mean sixteen million rubles that's about half a million dollars. the war from the flashiest of the flash to the classics of a bygone era the moscow team revs up for auction in just over an hour's time right

here on t.v. but first let's head over to korea now for the latest weekend business update. 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 foreign as well fall. 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 market size 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 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 companies here in what sectors of the economy do you see russia's greatest potential industries that it 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 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 is get entrepreneurship 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

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 they just got to get out of the business world and let the private sector take over even though the radical even very little government activity rush is a case where the government's got to do something and they are doing it right the danger that the rest. 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. sliding 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 full shares overall sniffed fell the most unfocused more since 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 are 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 huff closely rely on energy relations reports. yes even if your leaders gave the dalles 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 and germany's 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 k.b.p.s. abroad 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 most. our tree turnover is not as big as we would like it to be interesting investment

plans and today we were to develop a member 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 my dinner question of business. our weekend business program where you can always find more on our website just go to our class business.

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this is. a face to face with an. evidence for russia's claims over the. explorers of. the u.s. government claims the economy is back on track the number of people left in america's most populous city breaks. the figure to keep growing.

great depression. deputy prime minister. the. head of the. politicians say his experience of. oil rich regions will be put to good use in the. next we take a closer look at the soviet period. which ended with the collapse of the u.s.s.r. stay with us. it was a time when the eyes of the entire world were on the soviet union the old guard was losing its grip on power and a new regime was taking shape what exactly that would look like nobody could say suddenly the whole world could speak a few words of russian the most important perestroika. because it was there all the torturous process that people are just learning about now the world's me.