troll 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 between 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 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 it go for and then we'll build a 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 fellows the menu

of his arctic restaurant will be reach and diverse. this. is the warm storage the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost bridged balls canned food what else candies cookies pastures groceries everything absolutely everything. they live tricity man sergei is the oldest one here he says this expedition is he is 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 won't 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 you're too old for us and now i'm fifteen and i'm here. as dusk is falling these fireworks marked the beginning of the real mission. the russian flag is hoisted and that

means the rest 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 last traditional fireworks the pull of sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies of the arctic to rebuild the trash just underneath it in the gradual r.t. from the arctic well as a pretty warhead few of us out here not including our close up team visits. a russian city that is seen both staggering wealth and devastating wars over its thousand year history but is now recovering after the financial crisis. that's still to come free but first national poverty rates across the u.s. are higher than they've been in almost half a sentry one in seven americans currently live below the poverty line which for

many means living without a house and i started checking our reports now from new york where the problem of homelessness this 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 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 different new york city men women and children spent at least a night and i saw the 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 will 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 who are one paycheck away from being homeless you know 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. ten thousand children who are homeless and. 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 the. new york. hugo chavez the president of venezuela was busy

on friday signing multi-million dollar deals with russian leaders in moscow he also to give an exclusive interview to a spanish channel says the mainstream media trying to make a monster out of him. but there are still laws about venezuela if they claim it's evolved in relations with organizations like the revolutionary forces or colombia or fark and the enemy of national mancipation has been long when they clean we reach ukrainian qualified or not it's who they have to do now was accused of trying to build an atomic bomb. or tree of laws they've created you know to justify whatever they need to get just avoid the. use of here is a reason to drug free and if there's a country it's just a lawyer which is repeated a hundred times it sounds like the truth headlines would you see if i was a with room collapse takes

a chill of is. and you can watch the interview in full with the leader of venezuela and around ten minutes from now here on r.t. flash floods have raged through russia's southern cross nadar region killing at least ten people while three are still missing a state of emergency has been declared in the worst affected areas where more than twenty villages have been swarmed around fifteen hundred people have been caught in the daily and so far several hundred have had to be evacuated from their homes the flooding is the result of several days of heavy rain falls local has to burst their banks downpour also brought about mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north occasion railroad the rain has stopped for now but forecasters warn there could still be. followers of fashion are flocking to moscow as russian fashion week has kicked off the event open with designers from around the world showcasing their latest styles and trends on the capital's catwalks well earlier i spoke to artist. he's got

a front row seat there. russian fashion week in the british elite under way at the most mothers as models sasha is the latest collection designers for russia from the former soviet union and this is a twenty first time that moscow says that and it's still to kill her still excited there in the future crowds here for me and that's got to play this is the big deal . because they're going to have if the ok for all to get all the latest stats it's impressed so everybody time from the models to scientists and just visiting. came here to see new collection. trends of the year every year right to. play fantasy and that maybe you don't find any more to me because here everything is new

so right he's going to be. the future and days are going to be like. paris ellis but the fact is that they are well why we're here and there's a wide range of things from the show his apartment of the boat the very hot ball a little bit more whiskey and there are the guys. that sets it off their spring. is what i think. it was about it to be our next to the others in a well now and then to actually. be a part of the goal it is beneficial. it is published it gives the our kids it gives me new contacts new people coming in seeing their collections. expressing their interest if there is a need and. also a benefit. we don't pay. we don't pay for this event so being

a part of. it is a very big bonus for any young label which it which is just growing and doesn't have much money but that kind of so there were a lot of talented athletes here but my absolute favorite line to celebrate this night. like that is the one on this night when the came out the pilot does that this is wonderful and everybody else at that so i thought that was the greed of it like. my birthday to make up a lot of it because. that's. stevens reporting there from the heart of moscow now there are plenty more stories features opinion and analysis waiting for you on our web site online all the time it is all t dot com some a quick look and see what's there online for you right now you can find out how the web pirates are being allowed to continue sailing all with the

help of internet providers. plus find out the recipe for the terminator cocktail which will raise your strength as one of the spirits it's all the comics. when i was a mother world news this is a series of. these southern afghan city of kandahar getting at least two civilians and several of those because the seed of a massive ongoing nato offensive against the town about twenty times already the bloodiest year for both the afghan people and international. coalition is now taking a new approach to trying to end the violence they've gone to talk about a safe passage in the attempt to encourage negotiations. me.

a great show. 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 in the region are thought to be holding twenty other ships and four hundred crew members hostage. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across france and anger at president nicolas causey's pension reform which raises the retirement age from sixty to sixty two in paris protesters clashed with police after a peaceful mass rally a strike by transporting all refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports could run out of fuel and the city must say rubbish hasn't been collected for four days. most of the rescued chilean miners have returned home to a hero's welcome to 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 weeks in harsh conditions most of the medicine to

be healthy but to say the most lasting damage could be emotional and the recovery could be complicated by the intense public interest. now buckle up and join us as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia it's time now to get a close up. today's episode we continue our tour of the ancient city of leaking of god and the region like a five hundred kilometers from where we're sitting here northwest of moscow the area with its rich historical past attracts thousands of tourists each year these days however the region has been forced to adjust to the harsh economic climate with whole villages struggling to make ends meet. because more. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the globe are 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 a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick with money from the late nine hundred seventy. thank you i. wonder economic crisis struck two years ago the fact we couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the time apart from that if you need to get out 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. sitting at home without money my relationship with my husband deteriorated and my family fell apart i did. in the factory in this town. 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 mill up often 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 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 prong strategy firstly tourism and nature public then thought i said they have no good world heritage site that there was a year 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. medium sized promises to be a breakthrough. cheaper than for an equivalence or production were to seem as are competitors but the stuff costs are lower. while no pipe dreams these in business plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the

government coffers whether or not good managers to achieve them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the private like boffin are in the twenty first century. a student in her final year aaron. yet 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. on number of mass and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translated to make it like my major and it was in english working with my name is the words and sound looking for a company we actually have several of the specific one in moscow and coupled up next to all of these is a good example of a company that's trying to save the world stage and to to introduce what seems to the patriotism to differ in country to different countries into difference to russia which i think it's great because i know i don't know

a lot of people who do want to stay number of i can state too 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 region. tourists keep coming here a lot of people get to know i was the town so i'm really optimistic about this but you're very much i know you've been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying abroad. when we turn our attention to the classics of a bygone era the moscow out revs up for action here. wow because inside here are amazing in the course of this one i mean sixteen million rubles that's about haul for a million dollars. yes

that's a must go out and that is coming your way in the next hour here on the well now as i promised a little earlier hugo chavez speaks exclusively to our spanish channel hitting on the u.s. role in latin american affairs that interview is next i'll be back with a look at the main news stories in about eight minutes from now stay with us here an article.

today i'm talking to the president of when his whaler chavez thank you very much for this opportunity. he once called former us president george w. bush the devil what would you call the current president. delegate i didn't look cool in the devil i said there was a smell of sulfur i mean bush had been there maybe he was accompanied by the devil and it was him who left behind the smell of sulfur. better what bush in his era his village or an aggressive imperialist policy greatly harm the world look at the legacy he left wars and tension he said we will punish terrorists but he was not referring to real terrorists he was referring to those who disagree. are you with america's imperialistic policy. as for your question about the incumbent president

i can see two people in obama the first obama is the one i met in trinidad and tobago he is a smiling man who gave many promises he promised to respect other nations sovereignty i remember his speech in cairo but there's also another obama a bomber the president of an empire you'll remember a year on i think that unfortunately the distance between these two personas has grown it seems to me that the obama he promised change the a bomb he promised many other things the man who shook my hand in tuna died and tobago has totally disappeared and nothing has changed in the way the north american empire treats other countries aggression is escalating in latin america and the yankee empire is behind this aggression over recent takeovers like in ecuador against the president rafael correia quito for a question against venezuela the empire continues to move its way despite obama.

you once said in an interview that a permanent reason for the conflict between winners the whale and current was a lie created by the laboratory what laboratory did she mean and how does this mechanism of light production work. take a look at the war in iraq thousands of people have died women and children were killed along i became the reason for tragedy the whole war was based on the law i the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction this was the only reason the yankee empire invaded the country but then they admitted that there hadn't been any such weapons so they had designed that long i to bring war to iraq that's the politics of the yankee empire there are still lies about venezuela they claim it's him. in relations with organizations like the revolutionary forces of colombia or fark the enemy of national mancipation and has been long they claim we enrich

uranium so they have to do now is accused of trying to build an atomic bomb that's the liberal tree of laws they've created to justify whatever they need to be just avoid that they say about me that i support terrorism the drugs trade and i intrude into the affairs of other countries is just a lawyer which is repeated a hundred times until it sounds like the truth. headlines would deceive i was a were thrown collapse of the tate to chavez and the laws have been working dictator chavez dictatorship whatever happens is blamed on me being a dictator this mechanism works in many cases at the instigation of the empire that i do not think it will last forever they will fade away the events in ukraine the only injury evolution have proven that fortunately for the people laws do not work every time they used i'm sure this mechanism will soon start working against

venezuela for. you often talk about the lies happening at an international level in your long career you have seen a lot and taken part in many things in your opinion which lie was the biggest the most obvious and the most cruel great price. and regarding venezuela any lies you witnessed about me or venezuela not necessarily but personally oh those laws there were a lot of laws lies about me the ones all had to live through the ones that made me suffer before i became president there were people claiming that hugo chavez was raising the ball of our partisan movement in south america it was everywhere on the radio on t.v. and in the newspapers he was repeated so many times that gave rise to a legend saying that ships with weapons for parties and troops from colombia venezuela and other south american countries were sailing along the river orinoco

to venezuela here is another example of iran and venezuela have a number of projects important for both countries for example a bicycle factory but then in a news paper there was an article saying that in the celo the factory we enrich uranium and that's what serious respected journalists from respected newspapers said but the aim of these publications is distort the idea not the person i'm just a man but there is a project that they are afraid of the idea of the truth. of what we represent and they do their best to distort it in order to put an end to it. so i mean what readers used to say when their tank full of a hundred eighty years ago that those were not attacks on born of our because he was just a man they were afraid of the idea he represented and that it could have been disseminated. what impression did this visit to russia leave on you. and i made no impression the impression that we're going to get the right way and that we're

building the future we've dreamt of we've signed so many important treaties in power engineering or oil and gas agriculture and transportation we will be glad to import russian law to costa venezuela and deliver coffee cocoa and been on as to russia we've heard a very constructive to say. in with the president of russia and the foreign minister i leave with the impression that there were lay shoes between russia and venezuela already very good but becoming stronger we signed a strategic plan of action for twenty two to twenty forty i said we want you to win elections in twenty two. in twenty twelve there is going to be presidential elections both in russia and venezuela and so you also when you continue to lay down a new direction. i will hope it turns out as you say thank you very much once again for speaking to us.

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news to report on r.t. . good to have you with us this is coming to you live from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day top stories now the south fifteen adventurous marooned on a piece of ice that's the beginning of a year long russian mission in the north pole explorers of there to find out why the arctic is melting what natural treasures it pints and who live belong to. new york new records the number of homeless people in america's most populous city reaches its highest point in the fall for centuries despite u.s. government claims the economy is back on track and the figures are set to keep growing threatening to. join the great depression.

and the season brand new designers stand side by side with the world's best showcasing their latest creation moscow's catwalk says russian fashion week kicks off here in the capital. as it will be within less than half an hour as the news continues here on r.t. in the meantime we look behind the press stroy reforms which the west applauded for opening up the servant union but which turned people's lives upside down that's a special report coming next. it was a time when the eyes of the entire world were on the soviet union the old guard who's losing its grip on power and a new regime is taking shape what exactly that would look like nobody could say suddenly the whole world could speak a few words from the most. ever strong. it was torturous process that people are just learning about no.