zits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future which you know because the task is to prove scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores that 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 new station what to the president and the prime minister that 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. ski 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 in all the necessary amenities with electricity to go forward and we'll build a traditional boardroom but this in the end once we do the rest is the comparing

and 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 bridged balls canned food what else candies cookies masteries groceries everything absolutely everything. they live 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 him you and believe it i've written countless letters to various institutions but they tell me you're a thirty year old railroad worker stay where you're on your to old for us and now i'm 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 the resi icebreaker and its crew will be having for the mainland leaving the fifteen men face to face with a 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 crow sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic to reveal the treasures underneath exhibit a gradual r.t. from the arctic. still to come. for some new yorkers the big apple has gone. most people a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless. as the city hits its highest homelessness rate since the great depression we find out what it takes to get a roof over your head if only for a night. that story still to come but first moscow is expected to get its new mayor

next week the majority party in the city parliament united russia says it will support the candidate proposed by president dmitri medvedev fifty two year old who currently serves of russia's deputy prime minister was born in a siberian village outside its moscow he was previously governor of one of russia's oil rich regions and the head of the country's presidential administration he will replace the veteran you have served as moscow mayor for nearly two decades but was fired by prison last month and to put it can often the united russia party explains why it's considered the right man for the job. 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 the special city and the supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create a financial center in moscow i think savannah enormous experience call for work in

the garment he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a fact 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. what was said to be part of connell from the united russia party flash floods raged through russia's southern region killing eleven people while three is still missing a state of emergency has been declared in the worst affected areas where more than twenty villages have been swamped and around fifteen hundred people have been caught in the danger and so far several hundred have had to be evacuated from their homes the flooding is the result of several days of heavy rain that calls local rivers to burst their banks the downpour also brought about mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north road the rain has stopped for now but forecasters want there could still be more. 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 started 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 petion flee waiting to find out if they can win a roof over their heads for the night they're not criminals they're not drunks they're flaw is that they just don't have a home. these days the chances of getting a bed in new york or slimmer than ever homelessness in the city has skyrocketed by an entire fifty percent last year almost one hundred twenty thousand different new york city men women and children spun to lose tonight and a city shelter that's a shocking number of the highest number that's ever been recorded keith who became

homeless in this last year says he's fifth on standby to get a bed he considers himself lucky for the man this means at least some hope my number doesn't come up i'm going to be outside in the rain yousif knows exactly what it's like calling a place like this home shelter and bed i put together this project where i go home last week every year but most of my nights i just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of us so 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 homelessness is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars there are dozens of thousands of people who

just don't have that kind of money and to many it's clear that their numbers are bound to keep growing even though the already existing statistics are higher than they have been since the great depression there are more than thirty seven thousand homeless people we have thirty seven thousand people. including nearly fifteen thousand children who are homeless and new york city a near record number of homeless families nearly ten thousand homeless families in an apocalyptic state of economy all of these people are hoping to be saved. you know. 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 just as you are t. new york. well plenty more ahead for you including. team visits the historic russian city of. the city the steamboat start growing wealth and devastating wars over its history but is now recovering after the financial crisis. what are some other world news this hour the world updated series of bomb blasts rocked the southern afghan city of kandahar killing at least two civilians and wounding several others regions a scene of a massive ongoing nato offensive against the taliban two thousand and ten is already the bloodiest year of the war for both the afghan people and international forces the coalition is now taking a new approach to try to end the violence that got a taliban commander safe passage to kabul and then attempt to encourage negotiations. a great ship has been released by somali pirates after five months in captivity the twenty two members of crew who are mainly filipinos are all alive

according to some reports a ransom was paid but the amount is unknown pirates in the region are thought to be around twenty other ships and four hundred crew members hostage. hundreds of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators a march across france and anger at president nicolas sarkozy's pension reform the protests to set off flares filling streets with thick smoke a strike by transport an oil refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports could run out of fuel in the city of must 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. 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 they described as minor and despite having two weeks in harsh conditions most of the men said to be healthy to say the most lasting damage could be emotional and the recovery could be complicated by the intense public interest.

here to moscow on masses russian fashion week hits its stride the events kicked off with designers from around the world showcasing their latest styles and trends on the capital's catwalks what a little earlier i spoke to a reporter who's got a front row seat. russian fashion week and the finnish elite under way at the top of most mothers as models sasha is the latest elections designers for russia from the former soviet union and this is a twenty first that moscow has hosted in the beds and tickets still a big deal or so excited there in the future crowds here hitting new for me and that's got underway this is their big deal. because they're going to have been the case all the evening all of the live past six in france so it did everybody starting from the models designers sending just the basics who came here to see if

you could exchange. trends of the year every year is right to enrich themselves to . a fantasy and that maybe you don't find any more to me because here everything is new so right jamie is going to be very very hard to future and days going to be like milan london and paris so elegant about the designers that they are well why we're here and there's a wide range of things that he's brought under such as a showcase for a minute let's let the both be very hot falling a little bit more with speed and they're denies all that that's so off their spring black spots but one other guy who was excited to be our next to that is now well known in the country has yet to. be a part of this well it is beneficial. it is publicity it gives p.r.

it gives it gives me new contacts new people coming in seeing their collections. expressing their interest if there is any and. also benefit those. we don't pay. we don't pay for this event being a part of. it is a very big bonus. label which it is which is just growing and doesn't have much budget all that kind of stuff and there were a lot of. these it's here but still it's a very long. it's not. like that was the scene this night. when the cave supplied by the sounds like oh this is wonderful and everybody else for the last through on that was just agreed on the way. my birthday is a lot of fun because. you've been reporting from the heart of

well there's plenty more stories opinion and analysis waiting for you on our web site. here's a quick taste of what's there right now all for you you can find out how the web parts are being allowed to continue all with the help of internet provider. the recipe for. spirits it's all the mix. you. know come with us as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia it's time to get.

in today's episode we continue our tour of the ancient city of god in the north god region and created five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow the site with its rich historical past attracts thousands of tourists every year these days however the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet you're going to rip small unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the lower 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 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 when you're sick workman is from the late nine hundred seventy thank you i think 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. 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 mill only to lose it. 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. regional authorities provided a bailout and tax relief and strictly on their return to work but out of the one

thousand six hundred employees only a third remained and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood miller power for has been saved but it continues to be on life support it's still not turning a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and up the way it's emblematic of the region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand refused industrial object 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 no good world heritage site that they were the bodies of the utility 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 get back competitive not just in russia but the broad. versatile medium sized truck promises to be a breakthrough. on this several times cheaper than foreign equivalent of our production lines are the same as our competitors but the staff costs are lower while no pipe dreams these are business plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers whether or not good managers to cheat them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the private dry cough and or leap into the twenty first century europe there are now have a good region. he has a president of venezuela was busy on friday signing multi-million deals with russian leaders here in moscow it was a fun time to get an exclusive interview to r.t. spanish channel seven says the mainstream media are trying hard to make

a monster out of him but they will fail. there are still laws about venezuela. volved in relation with organizations like the revolutionary forces of colombia or far the enemy of national mancipation and has been put on a clean we can reach you rainy and so they have to do now was accused of trying to build an atomic bomb. they've created to justify whatever they need to be just to florida that they say about me that i support terrorism the drug straight. into the affairs of other countries is just too long which is repeated a hundred times until it sounds like the truth. what headlines would you see if i was overthrown collapse is the key to cheer of is and the lies of the working dictator chavez dictatorship or whatever happens is blamed on me being a dictator this mechanism works in many cases it used to geisha the employment that

i do not think it will last forever it will fade away. and either way you can watch that interview with the leader of venezuela in the next hour here on t.v. well ahead for you this hour it's our interview with britain's real life james bond but first we have the weekend business update with queen and that's after a short break stay with us here on r.t. . 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 is a rich must take a few risks with their money before foreigners will 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 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 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 needs to focus on international markets i think instrumentation very fine instrumentation software and then of breakthroughs in the biological sciences can be done here so i'm very encouraged about us nano i'm also encourage them what they're trying to do and i

think the main thing they should try to do over the next ten or years it get going get it moving and then i run it could use a phrase from marx they should wither away. so what do you think russia needs to do to develop this entrepreneurial culture here this entrepreneurial mentality i think the way they can catch up is is to encourage entrepreneurs train them to give them a chance to start companies like let's call 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 now that the danger that us national. if the government is willing to do much and not doing enough to do too much they will discourage the.

many if they do too little in the community for they're doing it about right now. and the russian markets ended the week mixed with the r.t.s. like into the red in the quarter of a percent no neko was the biggest gain on the r.t.s. finishing up one a half percent. the most one point three percent lower and merging market stocks attractive cash for the six straight week as investors look for faster growth and they think they'll get from more mature economies pretty strong weak for emerging markets he's also for russia this week the old price has been pretty well supported and that's been a function of a weaker dollar not again is a function of more expectations of the fed but going to be very common to see it in the monetary 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 hoss closely rely on energy relations reports. leaders gave the dalles their blessing in an industry where political will comes a lot gasp own will build a liquefied natural gas facility together with patrollers they have been use wella and raw snapped will by the state energy companies have stake in germany's wood or oil for one point six billion dollars perhaps the most anticipated deal and energy ministers join to express support for peace purchase of b.p. assets in venezuela i'll call this project as a first significant of stream project for abroad and probably it will be the first success of the stream 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 number of journey and there are two projects but energy is what binds the countries and more in our instruments are expected from other russian companies busy exploring the region my dinner question of business r.t. . that's our weekend business program but you can always find more on our website just go to our team dot com.

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within twenty four hours a day this is t. in the russian capital top stories now the team adventurers marooned on a piece of ice that's the beginning of a year long russian mission in the north pole explorers and then to find out why the arctic is melting what natural treasures it hides and who they belong to. your new records a number of homeless people in america's most populous city reaches its highest point in home a century this point u.s. government claims the economy is back on track and the figures are set to keep growing into supports those seen during the great depression. and what's halts this season new design as stand side by side with the world's best

showcasing their latest creations almost catwalks russian fashion week kicks off in the. more news for me more developments in this and thirty minutes none of the real world james bone reveal some of the mysteries of britain's intelligence agency the emily six that's next in spotlight.