tv [untitled] October 17, 2010 3:00pm-3:30pm EDT
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rush hour in the most the subway with passengers album ring their way through the crowd there is little that can make them pause at this time but here he was the terminator. i saw lots of people on camera flashes then the security service came out followed by arnold schwarzenegger i thought to myself wow you don't see people like that off in moscow and the ticket barrier closed on him he got stuck people got it open a few minutes of course and let him pass but now he knows. or in the world schwartz may get rolled just one stop but it was enough for him to post to weep that muscovites allegedly like that public transport had his journey lasted for more than ten minutes he might well have changed his impression but the russian authorities pulled out all stops for the coliform your governor providing him with police escort and a permanent right of way. it was in june that schwartz made your hostage the
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russian president giving him a tour of silicon valley and showcasing his very masculine boots. it is not clear why they made that i wondered what it's like to be in schwarzenegger's shoes but one month later big government aid or even most go promoting russia's own version of a high tech hub. and it's great when i met president medvedev in a pretty fornia that he has a vision and a very clear direction very wants to go and is very impatient and i think that we want to do everything that we can screen for nuance and as americans because it is to our interest to make russia successful yet as the presentation showed even arnie makes mistakes. that our business leaders are going to find great partnerships with the soviet russian. just shows no one i'm perfect.
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a pap project but a tax savvy russian president this cocoa or park has been designed to spearhead innovation and scientific research in russia i mean to admit it had no difficulties asking for help. we are extremely interested in your considerable experience we are not ashamed of learning we must admit that sadly enough we lag behind in many respects and we do expect that our cooperation will bring about positive results from twitter made better french words and they give praise to each other for their vision and to the delight of all he's found the governor promised that he'll be back and the first terminator movie innovation had gone so far that machines including schwarzenegger's own character tried to exterminate the human race ironically with his involvement in this cocker project the governor may actually make these plot a bit more plausible but at the end of the day he can always turn against the machines and save the world like in the second movie so i guess there's nothing to
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fear it's a boycott artsy skulk about. well coming up in the program a little later now to crack down on drug fight is a group of russian activists is being kidnapping addicts and forcing them to clean up their act but now they are on the wanted list. the first self-imposed exile in. all for the sake of science and the future of the nation a team of russian researches of in baltimore a lengthy mission and a brand new station their aim is to study the untapped riches in an attempt to boost russia's claim to a slice of the. well it is a country whose join them on their journey. than a little volcano about three hundred meters to the right keep right. at time these job requires a jeweler's precision the captain is running his jaw and new clear eyes breaker at the lowest speed possible together with a group of scientists he's on an important mission searching for an old farm and
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the piece of ice to host the north pole thirty eight station fifteen people and two dogs will be floating on eyes for a year conducting unique stories of the arctic environment. the mission is getting harder there are fewer and fewer suitable ice fields every year before we could find up to forty but now we're calling the whole arctic in search of one. the arctic ice cap is definitely getting fener at times the drill plunges down less than a meter explorers say just five years ago that drew had boards into thirty meter theek ice sheets finally after several days of searching and dozens of test trails the explorers announced this is it. to find a suitable ice build to unload at the arctic station is just top of the problem it
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is crucial not to damage the delicate that's why during the several days that unloading continues the eyes breaker remains stationary even to notch from this giant russell or a gust of wind could lead to a crack and that will mean the whole situation having to be wrapped up again and a new search for yet another suitable. and this is where the hardest part of the mission starts the hardest for the helicopter the pilots work nonstop the talk last performance without a single landing. despite a snowstorm everything goes without a hitch three hundred tons of equipment are safely unloaded on to the ice the most precious cargo is a deep water multi-beam eco sound for a year it will be gathering evidence to prove that the breach is part of russia's
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continental shelf russia's in a race to submit its claim to the un should yield for twenty thirty. or you dismissed some say the russians doing in the arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody what and when we should do the arctic belongs to russia they're working in accordance with all international treaties and who will work day and night if necessary. as not balls in the arctic these spy works mark the beginning of the real mission the ares breaker has back to the mainland while the fifteen man left face to face with a harsh paul a night a year of freezing conditions lies ahead for them with painstaking stargaze of the arctic world to reveal the treasures underneath it sit in the garage of our t. brumby arctic. we're on the way for a few minutes from now. her naughty it's been a long time coming but it's finally here.
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before one. set to roll into russia for the first time ever you can find out where and when you can book your hot seat. a group of self-styled russian drug fighters that targeting attics and breaking their habits they chase them down look them up and let them out only when they've given up the needle the team's tactics may have drawn public praise but they've also landed three of its members behind bars sarah firth has more on the story. a drugs raid gets underway and after hours of waiting for contact to give the signal suddenly everyone is up and running the police are involved they're not taking part a law enforcement officers the raid is being organized by a vigilante style group for me cash you name themselves the city without narcotics
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agreed controversial tactics to target drug dealers and rehabilitate drug addicts this is a drug called there's a morphine or locally known as crocodile it's a codeine containing a drug and really dangerous beginning with a raisin coming through the window it was pretty exciting but the minute you get inside the reality of the situation really hits very hard you've got a young family. lying around the house next door a young child and a mother who looks barely more than a child herself extremely scared and upset and it really makes it very apparent just how sensitive this issue of. participation in raids has raised concerns about whether members of the foundation should be allowed to take the law into their own hands. it's an action which is cruel is it wrong to rescue a drowning person by pulling their hair if people say it's cruel inhumane let them
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teach us how to do it otherwise we work twenty four seven to help these people when the state isn't doing anything where we have to take the initiative on the relationship between his force with the authorities and you catherine there is a fragile one that in eleven years they have managed to pool their energies to fight the drug issue effectively those caught in the raids face either arrest or we have this run by the glory is left to family members to give the final consent. conditions a hard they spend a month being weaned off drugs on a very basic diet and in crime conditions but with the group claiming a seventy percent success rate it appears tough love. my mother saw what six years of drug addiction had done to me and turned to the foundation for help it's hard but you can see how the people are here they talk to each other there's an atmosphere of friendship which helps you through. but in other cities such as initial need to go similar initiatives have been dealt with very differently you go
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by each cover was sentenced to three and a half years in prison despite having half the number of drug tests in the city in just two years which. only have a feeling of disgust for law enforcement agencies who instead of fighting drug dealers are fighting an organization which was running a successful anti drug dealing campaign it makes no sense at all it's a crime against our city's population in both cities the foundation's have vowed to continue the fight in the face of what they say is government in action. that people have to take the problem personally to understand that these people or their brothers and sisters and that unless they do it nobody will do it for the pressure is in the grip of a major drugs quite says with an unofficial estimate a two and a half million drug addicts in the country people like john you're in the foundation say a united effort is in everyone's interest and until proper measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitating uses as well as left ordinary
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people like themselves to stand and fight sarah fair. you catch him bag. moscow is just days away from getting a new mayor the united russia party which holds a majority in the city parliament says it will support setting is to be on and nominated by president medvedev fifty two year olds to be on him was born in the siberian village and spent most of his career working away from moscow he moved to the capital only five years ago replacing could be as the head of the russian presidential administration the previous mayor was sacked by the president after losing his trust to put a comma not from the united russia party explains why so be on it is believed to be the right man for the job. so i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of the city or federal importance moscow is the special city and the supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create
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a financial center in moscow i think said banneker enormous experience hall for work in the garment he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a fact of system within the government stuff he was quite successful as a governor of one of the richest regions in russia so he has enough experience to do so and besides i think it's also a matter of personal trust because he's well known by the president and by the prime minister and they trust him as a person and as a professional and that. from the united russia party. the international olympic committee has praised the preparations for the twenty fourteen winter games in the host city of sochi the russian result will be making a double sporting debut that year is the formula one bosses signed a contract to run one of the world's fastest races there to. brings us a sneak preview now of the new track site. monte carlo to malaysia formula one is one of the world's most popular recent competition
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know what's coming to russia. bernie ecclestone the president and c.e.o. of formula one. which meant the right didn't person to meet with prime minister putin and to secure a six year long deal it clearly wasn't a race against time to get more than three decades of talks first with soviet and now with the russian leaders to find a suitable venue mosca and seeing petersburg dropped out but the city of sochi in the cell which will also face the winter olympic games in two thousand and fourteen will be the first to the checkered flag we are on the beach in the mid to low end which could quite possibly see part of the future of formula one race track from here you can see where the olympic venues are going to be just a few hundred meters away right over there the big ice palace the purpose built super circuit will run through the so-called cousteau cluster of the olympic park it will be used parts of the existing infrastructure as well as
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a newly constructed tractor on some of the bench that's the first race is scheduled for the end of two thousand and fourteen when the olympics will be over giving organizers a chance to arrange you can the dacian and provide logistics former ferrari team members says that building a circuit in russia should be a real crowd pleaser specially with some homegrown talent like the dalai patrol taking part it's one of the leading countries in the world it's it's it's you know . an emerging economy. formula one should be there it would be great for from the want to be there would be great for russia to have a formula one race in a place like so she. and now with petrol for the russian driver i think that's that's it's a nice energy. local administration and sponsors are planning to spend somewhere between one and two hundred million dollars on the circuit and pay another forty million annually to use the f one brand but with hundreds of thousands of formula
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one fans here is russians say the game is surely worth the candle for a certain new wave it will only bring benefits and. not only in terms of image but people will be spending money here and. small and midsize business will be paying more taxes so it will bring economic life so i think it's really a very interesting and useful project. last year so chip already hosted one demo competition on the central streets drawing thousands of spectators from all over the region so with the new circuit engines roaring and cars going at top speeds it looks like the world's most exciting race week point in new year the sport ski are such. moscow london are trying to put their differences aside and break the ice over frosty relations british foreign minister william hague paid a visit to the russian capital this week he's counterpart sergei lavrov expressed
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hope relations will start improving across the board they hit a low after the murder of the former russian security officer alexander litvinenko in london four years ago he was poisoned by nuclear matter and russia refuses to extradite britain's main suspect asking for more evidence london in turn has granted asylum to several high profile russians wanted on terrorism charges at home professor anatol lieven of king's college in london says both sides have much to gain by putting their differences aside. one area where i think on both sides there's a new perception of common interests is afghanistan and central asia because of course everybody is now beginning to think about the time after the u.s. and britain withdraw ground troops from afghanistan the russians are of course deeply concerned about the security of central asia equally we are beginning to think about how russia can help prop up and taliban forces you know after we leave of course britain is playing a once again a very minor part compared to the united states would be very useful to us both to
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work closely together that also of course relates as long as our troops are there to communications with our troops because pakistan as we've seen after the past two weeks is a very unreliable partner whereas roots for russia and russian influence terrors and central asia are an absolutely essential lifeline without them. position afghanistan be much more endangered. and that was professor anatol lieven of king's college in london. war torn afghanistan is seeing a boom in charge labor has many men either fighting on the front line or have been killed in action for a large number of young afghans school is a luxury they can't afford as they have families to feed. reports now from kabul. for a few hours each friday these street kids get to remember they still just children . to them kite flying is more than just a pastime it's a sport of skill we all who master taught you call and for a few brief moments forget that they live in abject poverty. one name is what's he
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doing in the form of the house i'll never forget one day there was no job i came home and there was no food and my brothers and sisters and my mother they went to sleep hungry that god is only thirteen years old but as the man of the house has responsibility start early at six in the morning. good bye. good bye my brother. and the first born this is a typical poor kabul neighborhood children with runny noses dirty feet and crawling stomachs every day was a dream takes his bucket and joins the tens of thousands of children heading to the country streets to make their meager living washing cars but despite their stolen childhoods they are the lucky ones where year ago my dad was mean to he was working like a policeman during a real explosion which is very very hard work to make about a dollar
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a day sometimes the other boys are fighting with me they say they want to watch this. is obvious a caller is twelve he manages to bring a few dollars more into the home but it's barely enough to feed his mother and seven sisters every day i wake up so early my house is a long way from here on a good team i can on the equivalent of about eight to. but some days there's no work yesterday there was no work. but for some children it's easiest to come to the streets of big butts and make a playground the university of life. most parents don't want their children to come here to school that's because these young boys and girls are the only breadwinners in their families and spending just one hour in class could mean no food on the table that night fifty seven percent of the population of afghanistan is below
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twenty five years. majority of them they are born during the war and growing in the war without scale without education for every one hundred million dollars of foreign money spent in the military only seven million dollars goes toward social projects even less to the children international community and they get the state of afghanistan has to pay and has to focus more on the children six million children are at risk in afghanistan of sexual abuse violence and harsh child labor and with precious little being done to help them afghanistan's future generations see little chance of their lives ever getting off the ground. kabul. well still to come this hour an r.t. on the way. to. find out how thousands of widows in india are forced to live alone after being rejected by their families and communities.
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the first authorities in russia's southern krasnodar region have declared monday a day of mourning for victims of recent flash floods the deluge has taken the lives of thirteen people with nine more still missing more than twenty villages were completely swamped with some fifteen hundred people caught in the flooding the storm caused rivers to burst their banks and led to mudslides in the mountains several sections of the. region is now bracing itself for more bad weather as the emergencies ministry has issued a fresh storm warning. one hour to some other international news here in our world update and iran's president. says the islamic republic is ready to get back to international talks over its controversial nuclear program the negotiations stalled a year ago and later the u.n. security council impose strict sanctions against tehran as it refused to hold your brain enrichment russia the u.s. britain china france and germany are expected to take part in the talks which are likely to take place in mid november in vienna. pakistani militants of
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stage a shootout in the country's largest city of karachi leaving at least twenty five dead the motive is unknown but police suggest the killings are linked to gangs controlled by rival political groups the violence came as a byelection was being held following the murder of a deputy of the local assembly have been fears beforehand that the poll could trigger fresh ethnic and political bloodshed in karachi. chile now where some of the thirty three rescue workers have returned to the mind that almost became their tomb for ceremony to honor their survival the events being held in camp hope where families have prayed for their loved ones the government's promise to look after the rescued miners with each already received nearly twelve thousand dollars it was the such good news for their colleagues who've been out of work since the incident occurred in august they had an angry demonstration claiming they had been forgotten after being refused entry to the city. hindu women who lose their husbands are often ostracized by indian society many are even shunned by families who see them
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as a burden with nowhere else to go thousands flock to a holy city where they wait to dine charan singh sent us this report and you may find some of the images disturbing. a corpse lies on the streets over in the valley in northern india but no one stopping the dead woman was a brutal point to carry bad luck even in death in traditional hindu wisdom when a woman's husband dies she is considered to be a liability for the family the marriage is legally possible but from the pardon it's a patriarchal society and man wanted. to frame it in such a way that everything is to his advantage which has been coming to that he could remarry you could be what he wants and he did pray woman from those things bad work balance feels she has nothing left to live for as a widow she was deserted by her extended family so she traveled to the holy city of rome darvon and spends her time reading hindu scriptures. and. i have no
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family now i have to complete my life that is if i get fewer that's fine if not that's also fine shunned by society sixteen thousand widows in this city because it's associated with the hindu god krishna the lover go on whom they believe they are now married to they can be found on the streets with many forced to beg for scraps of food. my husband died of cancer and used to pull our savings in treatment and he died no one would look after me so i came to prince happen. the social service organization guild of service runs two homes for wiggles in the city here hundred eighty even in the house and fed it's been a long journey for one woman who came here two years ago. most people come to when done because they're helpless in the beginning i felt alone and would cry all the time but slowly every time i just said to my new life here life is not easy for
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widows on the fringes of hindu society yet they're all going to visions working to all become centuries of prejudice to give weirdoes a chance to live with dignity the bigger challenge would be convincing families across in years thousand villages not to abandon them in the first place got unseen hardy new delhi. where you can always get more news in videos by visiting our website that's our dot com let's have a quick look now and see what's online for you at the moment breaking language barriers you can find out why it's getting easier for foreigners to man russian. and well card play hard president catches up with top musicians from russia's rock n roll scene and indulges in a little stones year. want
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the week's top stories in. the moscow metro was the terminators first stop on the way to russia's high tech california government supported corporation in developing the innovation center designed to spearhead scientific research. settling down a huge block of ice that's how i russian mission began on the north pole for fifteen adventurers the study aims to reveal reasons behind the melting of the ice cap explore the natural treasures that lie within and prove russia's territorial claims over the. capital. within a week off to present
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a. part of a list of four candidates for majority party in the city parliament to since cracked his nomination. deputy prime minister has previously governor of one of russia's oil rich region it's. well up next now for you. can check which lies in russia's far east that's our special report next week state . springs in the baltimore. colts and steaming. goings of functions and. an eternal confrontation of fine. and creating a unique comedy.
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