be trying to shed light on why b oxic is melting how reach its gas and all deposits are and who will gain control of these treasures in the future which you know because the task is to prove it scientifically that russia's continental shelf goes far beyond its northern shores that 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 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 most you know better to. start with the quipping or houses with all the necessary amenities. or you will build

a traditional canteen but this in the end when we do get around for it the youngest member of the expedition is the cook he promises his fellows the menu of he's up to grass trent will be rich and diverse. this. is the warm storage of all the products that shouldn't be exposed to frost here bridged balls canned food what else candies cookies pastures groceries everything absolutely everything and village tricity man sergei he's the oldest one here he says this expedition is he's 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 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 heading for the mainland leaving the fifteen men face to face with the severe oxic night the russian multiple mission is now officially underway launched into the with traditional maritime music and less traditional the pull of sets off a year of freezing conditions lie ahead with painstaking studies. to reveal the trash just underneath it in the catch of the r.t. from the arctic national poverty rates across the u.s. are higher than they've been and almost half a century one in seven americans currently lives below the poverty line which for many means life without a house or he's honest r.c. church going to 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 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 are 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 a night 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 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 home shelter and bed i put together this project away 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 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 i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware in the packed city like new york homelessness is no novelty in the 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 each night 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 president. 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 has 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. venezuelan president hugo chavez was busy on friday signing multi-million dollar deals with russian leaders here in moscow but he did find time to sit down for an exclusive interview with r.t.

spanish anil chavez says the mainstream media is trying hard to demonize him. but there are still laws about if they claim relations with google is a sheens the revolutionary forces that colombia will function the enemy of national mancipation has been they clean we. have to do now was accused of trying to build an atomic bomb. they've created to justify whatever they need to be justified they say about me that i support terrorism the drugs trade and the intriguing to me about the country is just too long which is repeated a hundred times. headlines were deceiving as a with rain collapse takes a chavez. and you can catch an interview with venezuela's outspoken leader in about ten

minutes here on r t but stay with us here our team we've got plenty more heading your way including the close up team visiting the historic russian city of the week you know god the city that seen both staggering wealth and devastating war is over its thousand year history and it's now recovering after the financial crisis. first though 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 were caught in the day luge 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 have caused local rivers to overflow their banks a downpour also brought about mudslides and mountains blocking several sections of the north park asian railroad the rain stopped for now but forecasters warn there could be more in the future. that story and a whole lot more just a click away at our team dot com here's

a quick look at what's on our web site right now. find out how the web pile. being allowed to continue sailing all with the help of the internet providers. plus find a recipe for a so-called terminator cocktail that will raise word strength as well as your spirits it's all in the mix at r.t. dot com. the fashionistas are flocking to moscow says russian fashion week hits its stride events kicked off 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 in the british elite under way at the top of most others as models sasha is the latest collection designers for russia from the

former soviet union and this is a twenty first that moscow has opened in the beds and it still a big deal for still excited there in the future crowds here even before the events got underway this is their big deal and it's night time and they're going to have been the case almost to the evening all the live past six in france so they get everybody starting from the models designers sending just visiting. came here to see you collection. trends of the year every year is prior to the game i attempted to. highlight a fantasy and that maybe you don't find any more to me because here everything is new so right things he's going to be very very good to future and days going to be like me and don't embarrass me so eloquent about the desires of their well why

we're here and there's a wide range of things since he's from such as a showcase cup or a bit of let's let the both be very high balling a little bit more with speed and they're denies all. that so all their spring blood spots one other guy who was excited to be our next to that is now well known in the country race to be a part of this well it is beneficial. it is publicity it gives p.r. it gives it gives new contacts new people coming in seeing their collections. expressing their interest if there is a need and. also benefit because. we don't pay. we don't pay for this event. which is.

absolutely. this is what. you. are reporting from russian fashion week time to buckle up now and come with us as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia time to get russia close up. and today's installment continue our tour of the ancient city of illegal road located five hundred kilometers northwest of los scout the site with its richest

past attracts thousands of tourists every year these days though the region is being forced to adjust to the harsh economic realities with whole villages struggling to make ends meet. unlike the larger metropolitan areas around the good husband being able to attract the same amount of investment from big businesses over the last few years there's big business is essential it brings the jobs out of 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 their 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 of part of jobs unfortunately it's also been exactly a hundred years since its last major renovation and when you're sick woman from the right nine hundred seventy thanks when the

economic crisis struck two years ago the factory couldn't compete and went bankrupt straight away and with it the power of the product and the. whole families were tearing and suddenly they lost their jobs pensioners 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 at the mill only to lose if 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 supply the return to work with out of the one thousand six hundred employees only a third remained and the plant is still officially bankrupt the plywood mill of power from there 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 the way 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 pronged strategy firstly tourism and nation slavic republic then thought i said they have no good world heritage site that they were the duties of the year same as everywhere else in russia we have to bring the infrastructure up to the same level as detractions 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. cool. unfortunately developing industry goodbye competitive not just in russia but the

brule. both medium sized problems to be a breakthrough. several times cheaper than for an equivalence our production lines are just seen as our competitors but the stuff costs are lower. while no pipe dreams these are because plans have yet to bring substantial cash into the government coffers what the no good money just to achieve them will determine if the region continues to fund more abundant the projects like golf and fully in the twenty first century. a student can have fun oh yeah there are girls. going to graduate what they want. on the last year of my studies and i am working for any number of males and so my profession is going to be interpreted and translates to make it like my major and it was in english don't work it now with my english language and sound working for a company we actually have never been to encourage and want to moscow and

a couple of offers to me and i just stayed there all these days is a good example of a company that's trying something out there it's in the world stage and is it to introduce i want you to push it to two different countries to different countries into different stages of russia which i think it's great because i know i do know a lot of people are going to want to stay number and all i can say to easy to find a job here our town is developing and into developing quite fast and there are some international companies being opened here in not going to region. tourists keep coming here. a lot of people get to know our less than tone so i'm really optimistic thank you very much i know you've been speaking to a local student head about the prospects of old young people both studying abroad. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have marched across cities in france and anger at

president nicolas sarkozy's pension reform raises the retirement age from sixty to sixty two in paris protesters clashed with police after what was an otherwise peaceful mass rally a strike by transporting oil refinery workers is in its fifth day as fears mount that airports could run out of fuel in the city of marsay rubbish has been collected for four days. a series of bomb blasts has rocked the southern afghan city of kandahar killing at least two civilians and wounding several others the regions the scene of a massive ongoing nato offensive against the taliban twenty tends already did 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 they've granted taliban commanders safe passage to kabul in an attempt to encourage cease fire negotiations. 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 the hospital for what's being described as minor ailments despite having endured weeks of harsh conditions most of the men are said to be healthy doctors say the most lasting damage could be emotional and that work cover you could be complicated by the intense public interest. or greek ship has been released by somali pirates after five months in captivity the twenty two crewmembers were mainly filipino 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 who go chavez speaks of. closer we are to the spanish channel heading on the u.s. role in latin american affairs that and more coming your way next stay with us.

today i'm talking to the president of well 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 to 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 so give us a. better word bush and his era his believed to an aggressive imperialist policy greatly home 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. i feel question about the incumbent president but 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. grona it seems to me that the obama who promised change the a bomb he promised many other things the man who shook my hand in trinidad and tobago is 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 aggression against venezuela the empire continues to move its way despite a bomb. you once said in an interview that a permanent reason for the conflict between what is a whale and it 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 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 was the politics of the yankee m 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 either 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 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. which is repeated one hundred times until it sounds like the chief. headlines would you see if i was a were thrown collapse of the tape to chavez and the laws have been working dictator chavez dictatorship or 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 of illinois do not work every time they are 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 he witnessed about me or venezuela not necessarily but possibly oh those laws there were a lot of lawyers lawyers about me the ones all had to live through that i lost 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 it was repeated so many times that gave rise to a legend saying that ships with weapons for parties and troops in colombia venezuela and other south american countries were sailing along the river orinoco to venezuela here is another example of iran of 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 ideas not the person i'm just a man 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 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 both 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 dreamt of we've seen 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 known as to russia we've got a very constructive say to. gushing 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 industry teach it kind of shift it 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. we'll hope it turns out as you say thank you very much once again for speaking to us. forty two thousand americans die each year car accidents thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part is easy the more devastating they kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year.

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seven thirty am in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our t.v. he's here headline russia sets up a research center deep in the arctic circle fifteen scientists start their year logged mission gathering evidence to reinforce russia's claims the region's natural resource. a new york's new poor our team looks at the record breaking rise of the 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. fresh talent show young designers got a chance to showcase their skills alongside established favorites at russian

fashion week moscow was pushing for its place on the tap walk beside the likes of long and long. now discover why food can sometimes be a killer in the kitchen in our special report stay with us. everybody eats. and we all have our favorites here in america is abundant. program and. think about the food you eat. where does it come from how is it made.