it's 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 that it ends up in the arctic this is the primary task. of russia's presidential envoy to the north pole says the first telegram sent from the 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. with over two dozen polar expeditions on to his belt much has supervised the unloading and construction of the station. or start with equipping our i was searching for all the necessary amenities with electricity to go forward and world's oldest traditional wardroom but this in the

end once we do the rest of the complaining 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 all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost here bridged balls canned food what else can these cookies masteries groceries everything absolutely everything and village tricity man sergei he's 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 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 a spy. these fireworks marked the beginning of the real mission the russian flag is

posted and that means the resi icebreaker and its crew will be heading 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 exuding the catch of the r.t. from the arctic. turning to the us now national poverty rates across the country are higher than they've been in almost half a century one in seven americans currently lives below the poverty line which means for many living without a house artie's anastasio churkin to reports from new york on where the problem of homelessness is reaching a 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 floor 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 spent at least an eye 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 the way i call

home last week every year most of my nights i just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of a store posting his experience in a blog you sophist 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 united 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 drinker for almost eight dollars there are dozens of them. 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 homeless people we have thirty seven thousand people including nearly fifteen thousand children who are homeless and new york city near record number of

homeless families nearly ten thousand homeless families in an apocalyptic state of economy all of these people are hoping to be saved. 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 and as that future. new york who go charge as president of venezuela was busy on friday signing multi-million dollar deals with russian leaders in moscow he also find time to give an exclusive interview to r.t. spanish channel chavez says the mainstream media is trying hard to make

a monster out of him. but there are still laws about venezuela they claim it seemed cold in relations with organizations like the revolutionary forces or colombia or function the enemy of national mancipation. they clean we realize you mean you. have to do now is accused of trying to build an atomic boom. they've created to justify whatever they need to justify. they say about me that i support terrorism see the drugs trade and the intrude into the affairs of other countries is just too long which is repeated a hundred times. the truth headlines would deceive you as a with roone collapse takes a chill of as. you can watch the full interview with venezuela's always outspoken leader coming your way in about ten minutes here on our team. plenty more ahead for you though in this

hour including our team's close up team visiting the historic russian city of you know. it's a city that's seen both staggering wealth and devastating war over a thousand year history but it's now recovering after the financial crisis. but first fashionistas are flocking to moscow on mass as russian fashion week hits its stride it has kicked off with designers from around the world showcasing their latest styles and trends on the capital's catwalks r.t.u. stacey bivins got a front row seat. russian fashion week and the finnish elite underway at the top most others as models sachets the latest collection designers for russia from the former soviet union and this is a twenty first game that moscow has opened in the beds and it still a big deal for still excited there in the future crowds here even for me and it's got a mind to play and this is another and they deal in exciting time and they're going

to have busy shows to pay all the basic all the latest fashion suits in france so they get everybody starting from the models designers sending just visitors who came here to see you collection. trends of the year every year is right to the i'm sad to say. i like bantu them but maybe you don't find any more humid and because here everything is new so right change he's going to be very married for the future and there's going to be like 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 to the to showcase the more minimalist let the both be very hot falling a little bit more with speed and there denies all that that's so off their

spring spots but what i think. it was excited to be our next to that is no well no and the country has yet to race. 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 the collection and. expressing their interest if there is any and. also benefit those. we. don't pay we don't pay for this event meaning part of. it is a very big bonus for any label which it is which is just growing and doesn't have much money that kind of stuff and there were a lot of politics he says here but i still believe it's a very good line. it's not. like that was the. night. when the you. know this is wonderful and everybody else

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time now to buckle up and come with us as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia time now for russia close up. in today's journey we continue our tour of the ancient city of a leaking over the road in the novara grecian it's located five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow the site with its richest oracle past attracts thousands of tourists each year but these days the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet artes you grow get ordinary purports to like the larger metropolitan areas around the 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 that it 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 product and wood jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick with mint it's from the late nine hundred seventy thanks when the economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straightaway and with it the pound 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 circle and it 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 blame the factory in this town. regional authorities provided a bailout than tax relief i'm certain are there to work without the one thousand six hundred employees only a third. and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood 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 its 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 the public then said they have no good. heritage site that there were 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 developing industry competitive not just in russia but the brule. medium sized promises to be a breakthrough. several times cheaper than for an equivalence our production lines are the same as our competitors but the stuff costs are lower. while no pipe dreams these ambitious plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers what a good man does the chief that will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the private. or leap into the twenty first century.

student than have. yet. to graduate. and. this is going to be interesting to. and it was in english when you know my name is named woods and i'm looking for a company that we actually have never looked at it was a white house and couple up next to a piece that is a good example of a company that's right there at the world stage and so to introduce you to that machine and to deplane country and to different countries and you didn't bring you to russia which i think it's great because i know i do know a lot of people who do want to stay not going to do all i can say to you to find a job you know our town is developing and developed quite fast and the rest some international companies and you're not going to region and tourists keep coming

here a lot of people get to know what's not towns know i'm really optimistic thank you very much i know you've been speaking to a local student head about the prospects for old young people both studying in the . shifting gears now flash floods have raged through russia's southern krasnodar region killing at least ten people three are still missing a state of emergency has been declared in the worst affected areas where more than twenty villages have been swamped around fifteen hundred people have been caught in the daily lives 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 caused local rivers to burst their banks the downpour also brought about mudslides in the mountains blocking several sections of the north north caucasian railroad train the rain has now stopped for now but forecasters warn there could be more ahead. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe

a series of bomb blasts has rocked the southern afghan city of kandahar killing at least two civilians wounding several others the region is the scene of a massive ongoing nato offensive against the taliban twenty times already been the bloodiest year of the war for both the afghan people and international forces the coalition is now taking an approach a new approach to try and. and the violence they've granted taliban commanders safe passage to kabul in an attempt to encourage cease fire negotiations with. a greek ship has been released by somali pirates after five months in captivity the twenty two crew members were mainly filipinos are all alive according to some reports ransom was paid but the amount is unknown pirates in the region are thought to be holding about twenty other ships and four hundred crew members hostage. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators of marched across marched in cities across france and anger at president nicolas sarkozy's pension reform that raises the

retirement age from sixty to sixty two in paris protesters clashed with police after a peaceful mass rally a strike by transportation oil refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports could run out of fuel in the city of marjah say rubbish hasn't been collected for days. most of the rescued chilean miners have returned home to a hero's welcome after spending more than two months trapped underground only two of the thirty three workers remain in the hospital for what were described as minor ailments despite having endured 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 intense public in. just a few minutes moscow out looks at the capital's love affair with wheels. wow because inside here are amazing in the course of this one here i mean sixteen million rubles that's about haul a million dollars. i. wonder

why you need to get me a ferrari like that moscow is coming your way in less than ten minutes here on our team first though who go chavez speaks exclusively to r.t. spanish channel hitting out on the u.s. role in latin american affairs the interviews coming your way next.

today i'm talking to the president of one as whaler chavez thank you very much for this opportunity. he once called former u.s. president george w. bush the devil what would you call the current president going to delegate or less i didn't know cool him the devil i said there was a smell of sulfur i meant bush had been there maybe he was accompanied by the devil and it was him who left behind the smell of sulfur. better well bush in his ear or his believed you were an aggressive imperialist policy greatly home 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 with america's imperialistic policy. that's 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 bomb of the president of an empire 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 will recent takeovers like in ecuador against the president rafael correia quito for it question against venezuela the empire continues to move its way despite obama opposite of the obama. you once

said in an interview that a permanent reason for the conflict between what is a whale and columbia was a lie created by the laboratory what laboratory did you 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 because a lot 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 law i to bring war to iraq that's the politics of the yankee empire there are still laws about venezuela they claim it's involved in relations with organizations like the revolutionary forces of colombia or fark the enemy of national mancipation etc 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 justified that they say about me that i support terrorism the drugs trade and i intrude into the affairs of other countries but it's just a lawyer which is repeated one hundred times until it sounds like the truth or what headlines would you see. if i was overthrown collapse of the tater 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 it will fade away the events in ukraine the only injury evolution have proven that fortunately for the people lies do not work every time they used i'm sure this mechanism will soon start working against

venezuela. 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 possibly oh those laws there were a lot of laws lies about me the ones i 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 his 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 cellar of 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 they're trying to pull 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. impression the impression that we're going to get the right way and that we're

building the future we've trends of we've saw in so many important treaties in power engineering oil and gas agriculture and transportation we will be glad to import russian law the cost of venezuela and deliver coffee cocoa and been on is to russia we've had a very constructive to say. with the president of russia and the foreign minister i leave with the impression there were lay shoes between russia and venezuela already very good but becoming stronger we saw end of 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 so you also when you continue to lay down a new direction. 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 headlines tune into a report on r.t. . good to have you with us here on our team new zealand headline. research center deep in the arctic circle fifteen scientists start their yearlong mission to gather evidence to reinforce russia's claim to the region's natural resources. new york's new poor r t looks at the record breaking rise of homelessness in the big apple and what the government is doing to help the number of americans living in poverty in the city is the highest number since the great depression. young designers got a chance to showcase their skills alongside established favorites at russian

fashion week pushing for its place on the catwalk beside the likes of paris along and. in the driver's seat to explore the russian motors stay with us here on our. program we'll be delving into the subject. from the carriages a piece of the great to soviet and the west. today used as a status symbol just as a sport it's easy to see how passionate russia is when it comes to the good old automobile.