reach its gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future which you know because your task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores that it ends up getting 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 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 you know better to. start with equipping our houses with all the masses here manatees will go to a city where they will build a traditional canteen but this in the end when we do get around for 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 for all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost here bridged balls canned food what else can these cookies pastures groceries everything absolutely everything. village 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 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 your to old for us and now i'm fifty and i'm here. as does. these spawn works mark

the beginning of the real mission the russian flag is hoisted and that means the red sea ice breaker and its crew will be having for the mainland leaving the fifteen men face to face with the severe oxic night the russian multipole mission is now officially underway launched into the out with traditional maritime music and less traditional fly was the paul 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 gradual r.t. from the arctic. turning to the u.s. national poverty rates across the nation are higher than they've been in almost half a century one in seven americans currently lives below the poverty line which for many means living without a house parties anastasio churkin reports from new york 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 patiently waiting to find out if they can win a roof over their heads for the night but 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 almost a hundred twenty thousand different new york city men women and children 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 only shelter and bed i put together this project away 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 us posting his experience in a blog yousif is been able to collect thousands of dollars in donations for the homeless the reality is a lot of people most people a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless you know and i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware of the pact 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 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 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. you know with us. 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 new york. venezuelan president hugo chavez was busy on friday signing multi-million dollar deals with russian leaders in moscow but he found time to give an exclusive interview to r.t. spanish channel chavez believes the mainstream media is trying hard to demonize him

. but there are still laws about venezuela if they claim it's in relation with. the revolutionary forces that it will function the enemy national mancipation. they clean we. have to do now was accused of trying to build an atomic bomb. tree of loonies they've created just whatever they need to get just to. say about me that i support terrorism see the drugs trade and the treating to the country is just too long which is that each one hundred times. headlines with d.c. views a with rain collapse takes a chill of days. and you can catch an interview with a venezuela's leader coming your way in about ten minutes here on our t.v. stay with us we've got plenty more ahead including our team's close up team in

visiting the historic russian city of the road it's a city that has seen both staggering wealth and devastating wars over its thousand year history but is now recovering after the financial crisis. first though flash flooding has raged through set russia's southern cross and our 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 swapped around fifteen hundred people have been caught in the delusion 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 park asian railroad the rain stopped for now but forecasters warn there could be more to come. that story and much more available for you twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's online right now. to find out how the web pirates are being allowed to continue selling all with the help of internet providers. little plus

check out the recipe for a terminator cocktail which is supposed to raise your strength as well as your spirits it's all in the mix a click away r.t. dot com. fashionistas are flocking to moscow on moss's russian fashion week hits its stride the event's kicked off with design with designers from around the world showcasing their latest styles and trends on the capital's catwalks stacey bivins has a front row seat. russian fashion week and the british elite under way at the top of most mothers as models sasha is the latest collection designers for russia from the former soviet union and this is a twenty first that must help us in the band to get still to kill her still excited

there in the future crowds here for me and it's got to play this is what they're dealing with it's like they're going to have if you say ok he almost took it all the live past six in france so it did everybody's time from the models designers to just visiting. came here to see you collection. trends of the year every year right to. play the game to them that maybe you don't find any more to me because here everything is new so right same he's going to be very nice the future days going to be like. don't embarrass. l.a. but the fact is that they are well why we're here and there's a wide range of things rather. than as a showcase for the benefit of the both be very high quality little bit more with

speed and they're the guys. that sets it off their spring spots what others. do with it but if you are that's to others no no and the. race might be a part of the goal it is beneficial as it is published the t.v. 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 a benefit because. we don't pay. we don't pay for this event. which is just rolling doesn't have much budget the kind of stuff there were a lot of talented athletes here but still it's

a very. well does not. win that you might think this is wonderful and everybody else it was just agreed. to. play very well because all of that. reporting from our team stacey bivins our russian fashion week time to buckle up now and come with us as we explore the vast and varied regions of the world's largest country time now for russia close up. in today's installment we continue our tour of the ancient city of elite located five hundred kilometers northwest of the russian capital the site with its richest oracle past attracts thousands of tourists every year but these days the region is

being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet. export. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the globe good housing being able to attract the same amount of investment from big businesses over the last few yaz 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 good old cadbury 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 a hundred years the plywood mill has supplied most people in the town the kind of wood jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since it's. major renovation and when you're sick whitman is from the late nineteenth seventy's. thanks when the economic crisis struck two years ago the fact we couldn't compete and one bankrupt straight away and with it the power of apart from that is the immunity.

whole families worked here and suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners had to help their children and grandchildren buy enough food to eat the town was devastated certainly has an unfinished degree in management it's of no use here instead to support her son she had to get a job with the mail only to lose it. sitting at home without money my relationship with my husband deteriorated and my family fell apart i blame the factory in this town. regional authorities provided the bailout and tax relief and certain other return to work without the one thousand six hundred employees only a third remain and the plan 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 a profit in order to survive it needs to modernize and upwards emblematic of the

region as a whole no good region has a population of less than seven hundred thousand with a few strategic industrial objects and a small consumer market that has to find creative ways to generate wealth the authorities have adopted a three pronged strategy firstly tourism and nation slavic republic then thought i said they have no good is the unethical world heritage site. of the duties of the u.s. 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. i'm finally developing industries that are competitive not just in russia but the brule that's first of all medium size truck problems to be a breakthrough. several times cheaper than for. our

production lines are the same as your competitors but to stuff go sort of lower. while no pipe dreams these are vicious plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers for the no good man just to achieve that will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the prizes like golf and a full leap into the twenty first century. who's a student in her final year there are no girls yet you know you'll soon going to graduate what you're planning to do once you've done. on the last year of my studies and i am working. on that premise and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translate to make it like i made it was in english working now with my english language and sound looking for a company we actually have several boxes because they want the last couple of minutes of paid salaries this is a good example of

a company that's right there at the world stage and is it to introduce our future the patriots in two different countries to different countries entered it brings you 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 there are some and international companies being opened here in number one to each and. tourists keep coming here a lot of people get to know i was the town so i'm really optimistic about this thank you very much i have been speaking to a local student here about the prospects for young people studying abroad. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe hundreds of thousands of demonstrators 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 rally a strike by transport an oil refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears grow that airports but actually run out of fuel in the city of marsay rubbish hasn't been collected for four days. a series of bombings 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 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 ending the violence granting taliban commanders safe passage to kabul in an attempt to encourage cease fire negotiations. most of chile's rescued miners have returned home to hero's welcomes after spending more than two months trapped underground only two of the thirty three workers remain in the hospital for what's being 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 would be complicated by intense public interest. in a greek ship has been released by somali pirates after five months in captivity twenty two crew members 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 holding around twenty other ships and four hundred crew members hostage. up next to go chavez speaks exclusively to our spanish channel hitting on the u.s. role in latin american affairs that interview coming your way next.

at the boat 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 who doesn't delegate or less if i did not 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 he left behind the smell of self. better when bush in his ear or 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 he was not

referring to real terrorists he was referring to those who disagree 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 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 obama the president of an empire a year on i think that unfortunately the distance between these two personas has grown and 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 down into bega. it's totally disappeared 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's will. you once said in an interview that a permanent reason for the conflict between when is away like in colombia was a lie created by the laboratory what laboratory did she mean and how does this mechanism of lie 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 know that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction that 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 designs that law i had to bring the war to iraq that the politics of the yankee am on there are still lies about venezuela

they claim it's involved in relations with organizations like the revolutionary forces of colombia or font of the enemy of national mancipation and has blown it but they claim we enrich uranium so they have to do now is accused of trying to build an atomic bomb but i'm not celebratory 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 is just a law which is repeated a hundred times until it sounds like the truth. headlines would you see if i was a were thrown collapse of the tape to chavez. and the laws have been working their dictator chavez dictatorship whatever happens is blamed on me being a dictator where this mechanism works in many cases the geisha vampire that i do not think it will last forever they will fade away the events in ukraine revolution

have proven that fortunately for the people of illinois do not work every time they are used i'm sure that 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 he witnessed about me or venezuela not necessarily but possibly oh those lines there were a lot of lawyers lawyers about me the ones all had to live through that a lot of the ones that made me suffer before i became president there were people claiming that hugo chavez really 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 partisan treats 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 to distort the ideas not the person i'm just a man there is a project 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 but also. so i mean what readers used to say when they attacked bullivant one hundred eighty years ago that those were not attacks on born of 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 dreamt of we've seen so many important treaties in power engineering or oil and gas agriculture and transportation we will be glad to import russian lauda cars to venezuela and deliver coffee cocoa and been known 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 saw into 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 president sure lections both in russia and venezuela and so you also when you continue to lay down a new direction. we'll hope it turns out as you say thank you very much once again

for speaking to us. seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. to make changes the society was immediate. ban but was it possible to change the country's regime so quickly than with. monopoles only fundamental changes in the state m.p. people's minds on r.g.p. . every month we give you the future we help you understand

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the. little. good to have you with us here on our t.v. these are your headlines russia. research center deep in the arctic circle fifteen scientists start their yearlong mission gathering evidence to reinforce russia's play into the region's natural resources. the new york's new for our team looks at the record breaking rise of homeless people in the big apple and what their government is doing to help them the number of americans living in poverty in the city is the highest since the great depression. on the runway young designers got a chance to showcase their skills alongside established favorites at russian

fashion week moscow was pushing for its place on the catwalk beside the likes of paris no longer and the one. behind the perestroika reforms which the west applauded for opening up the soviet union but turned some people's lives upside down thank you. it was a time when the eyes of the entire world were on the soviet union the old guard was losing its grip and power under 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. ever strong. because it was a torturous process that people are just learning about now the world's biggest country whose entire. self destructing and. so we sat there i got there were attempts at the work class notes for.