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freeze hundreds of russians in the country's far east remain stranded aboard a group of vessels walked by an icy trap. an ice breaking rescue mission has already frayed t. shirts and is now raising it to three three and the succulent bay. in the united states republican stepped in to take control of congress were they now outnumber obama's democrats experts warned the change could make life more difficult for the president. and palestinians in the west bank start naming streets

after their fallen heroes but critics say the scheme is glorifying people with blood on their hands. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program now a rescue mission is underway in icy waters of russia's far east coast where five vessels have been stuck for almost a week two ships were freed yesterday but more than four hundred people are still trapped well we're going to cross live to a correspondent sara first who is following the story for us on our t.v. sara we know that this isn't the first rescue attempt to tell us what went wrong before and what's being done to prevent it from happening again. well the ice breaking mission rescue mission has been slow progress as the ice break his so

these extremely tough conditions now we know that the rescue operation was launched last week off the three vessels for help when they got stuck in the ice and after that. the ice breaker was launched and the country's transport ministry issued a warning to other ships in the area about these tough conditions but we saw a number of others continue their progress and that resulted in a further two getting stuck in the ice now the original ice breaker than they've gotten was actually itself when it got to the ice came up against this incredibly thick ice and itself got stuck in a second large ice breaker that admiral marker of was then launched three times as powerful as the make out and we see now the combined efforts of these two has already freed to the shares and is now making its way to the other three three to free the it is though that will be happening today. as far as we know this has been

going on for a week now why is it taking so long to free the ships. he said it's incredibly tough conditions that they've come up against this being an usually code the temperature drops below minus seventeen and thought to plunge even lower than that that's resulted in incredibly thick ice we've been hearing up to eight meters thick in some areas and we've heard from the official just how tough these conditions really. there's a vast accumulation of ice in the region which in places is almost eight meters the ice is being formed as the emma river is throwing out large amounts of fresh water that's freezing the vessels are in constant motion so as not to let the ice form around the situation worsened by the gill force. now the second day where the study is that she known to be an incredibly tricky and

quite dangerous marine region and we've seen with the go forth winds and the incredibly thick ice that we've heard that these three vessels have become stuck now the fishermen know the dangers that are the sailors continue to sell through the region for high profits that they can get from the fishing in that area. all sounds like a very tough situation there indeed sara we also know that there are more than four hundred people on board those ships they are so how are they coping with the situation i mean are there enough supplies there is there enough food and water for them. yes there is of course they've been there about a week now so they're of the sea going to be quite anxious to get free from the ice that we've heard they've got plenty of supplies plenty of food and water so there's a danger of them running out and we've actually heard from the crew about the conditions on board that they're all doing well. the icebreaker is getting through to us the situation on the ship is normal people waiting for the icebreaker with bated breath it's captain doesn't advice is to try

and break free of the ice and snow people come as soon as the ice breaker frees us to get back to work we miss it already but don't worry about us we have food and water it's warm we have t.v. and radio. now the ice break is a thought to be reaching these three vessel sea and freeing those four hundred crew members from that time stuck in the ice. all right sara thanks for bringing us all the very latest from on this story and we'll of course be getting back to you for more updates on this thanks for much indeed. and on the way here in r t a city paved with bin bags find out why new yorkers are feeling rubbish as their homes become a dumping ground for the city's waste and that's in just a few moments. two years of democrat dominance on capitol hill have come to an ad and a new u.s. congress has been sworn in and the republicans now hold an overwhelming majority

the house of representatives sees the biggest split with obama's democrats outnumbered by forty nine seats and they are barely clinging on to the senate where the majority of just three votes for change in power fall as a result of november's midterm elections and the republicans have been trying to sink several of obama's policies since then including a nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia which was eventually ratified by the senate late last month but professor adnan ghalib warns the treaty could still come under fire on capitol hill. those. assumption of republicans of power in the house of representatives is going to complicate life for the administration there's no doubt the new congress is going to try to do a. number of. laws and the policies of the administration one of them of course was going to be able. to basically change health care for. some want to change the whole start agreement but i

think it's going to be very difficult for them to do so primarily because you still have the senate and the senate although there are fewer democrats the democrats continue to hold the majority there and even if. that's unlikely both the senate and the house agree to take such stands to do the president's plans i think we the president still has the veto authority so that's going to make it next to impossible to bring to change. lol. and i was professor adam green from american university in washington d.c. . now usually famed for its shopping cutting edge fashion and love of big business something smelling a bit off in new york residents are starting to complain about mountains of waste being left on every corner of the big apple are you going to see if you're going to dive head first into the reality of a city sky high in rubbish. if you're standing next to

a pile of garbage taller than yourself how does that make you feel it's a pretty impressive world the world marks the new year one thing marking new york are melton's of garbage. striking a huge blow to the city's traditionally glamorous image you can't even cause the street with a baby carriage older people cannot even walk in to the discoveries. anthony is a mailman his job takes twice the time these days sadly he notes his salary has not doubled that makes my work every very hard because the blog really box. to do the work in one instance however the mounds of garbage prevented a tragedy as one new yorker suicide attempt proved unsuccessful this weekend when it jumped out of the window did not turn fatal due to an unexpected software going into piles of refuse one of thousands filling many of the almost six thousand miles

of new york city streets the average american is said to produce fifty tons of garbage in a lifetime new york city has reportedly accumulated as much as fifty thousand tons of garbage in just one week just because we're in a financial recession issue mean that we're in a more recession but it will world recession is exactly what the trash invasion has turned the big apple into and while some officials have graded themselves and a plus for handling the situation new yorkers are outraged he was very upset about it it's gross it's ridiculous a good enough for taxes that we are praying for as an economic crisis leads to budget cuts that lead to boycotts in the sanitation department that lead to all this garbage out on the street it may be time to ask how soon before the big juicy apple turns rotten and. new york. you're watching live from moscow and stay with us as we've got plenty more stories ahead for you.

balancing agent mysticism with modern technology i'm sure i'm thomas and coming up on our we explore the world of the siberian shawmut. the west bank city of ramallah is naming its streets as part of a regeneration scheme started two years ago to mark its hundredth anniversary but some of the titles are causing controversy after being named after people involved in planning suicide bombings as policy reports it's being seen by some as a sign of growing extremism. in palestinian ramallah they're naming their streets to celebrate the city's one hundredth birthday this is your right for the citizens to know where they are imagine never gating your way around here with no street signs to help well until two years ago that was the case in that one there were northern numbers for houses and lives for this digs

but now yasser arafat gets a street as does a neighborhood that used to exist in arab jeff and the one nine hundred thirty s. the neighborhoods long since disappeared and the streets a call for palestinian refugees to return to israel the criteria are simple palestinian heroes places and ideas supported by the people on this issue here it really is up there or there or from as if anything the opposite members of both groups are glorified which might surprise those who think palestine is most modern city would shy away from praising her master what's like this main thoroughfare in named after chief a mass bomb maker yahia yash dubbed the engineer for three years he was the most wanted man by israel for his part in suicide bombings that killed ninety israelis until he himself was eliminated. and this

martyr was killed by the israeli internal security service after they tricked a friend of his into giving him a cell phone that was booby trapped fourteen years on his family is as proud as ever and. very pleased even in drugs in streets after my son is in my heart and i miss him is the hero of those time. but not all street names are palestinian rachel corrie was an american activist who was killed by an israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in gaza in two thousand and three the decision to name this business. ramallah after her was unanimous rachel was part of the international solidarity movement a group israelis charged aides her masts and other palestinian extremist groups. for the with the way that. polls show her mask growing in popularity in the west bank as talks between rival

palestinian faction fatter and israel did luck the promise is changing. and as the new street signs go up in ramallah it's becoming more and more clear a mass is also speaking in the language palestinians here understand paul is here r t. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and u.s. presidential panel has found a series of cost cutting decisions helped cause the v.p. or oil spill one of the world's environmental disasters in history the report concluded bad management led to a failure in safety procedures an explosion at an oil rig in the gulf of mexico killed eleven workers and caused millions of gallons of oil to leak into the ocean until it was kept in july b.p.'s own investigation concluded many factors were to blame including the valving that of several other companies. turkish

police have arrested a would be hijacker after he was overpowered by passengers on a flight from oslo to stamboul its believe a turk national claimed to have a bomb when he tried to force his way into the cockpit and demanded the jet return to norway police say the bomb was found to be a fake the turkish airlines plane was carrying fifty nine people. north korea's calling for unconditional talks to forge better ties with the south and east tensions on the peninsula so has dismissed the offer as insincere young gang is yet to apologize for its shelling of a south korean island in the van killing four people but it's vowing to increase its military capabilities and army training and we don't going global concern over its nuclear ambitions. the united nations peacekeeping chief says he wants up to two thousand additional troops to bolster the u.n. force an ivory coast general along the roy hopes the soldiers will be available in

a few weeks at the troops have been protecting hotel that is sheltering al assad atar the man has been widely recognized as the winner of the developer election a blockade remains around the building despite a west african and voice reporting that ivory coast incumbent leader had agreed to lift it. but over a hundred years since the death of russia's best loved novelist leo tolstoy an r.t. spoke to his of ward winning biographer and wilson about why the writer's legacy is so important. and stood up against this extremely powerful regime and told the truth in a world of love and this was a fantastic example for russia. terrible years which followed his death the tradition of tolstoy lived and it's enabled the dissidents when the courageously began to emerge and stand in this times to look at his example and see that there's only one voice telling the truth.

and you can watch that interview in full here in r.t.e. in fifteen minutes time. and from healing and protection to marriages and good harvest in ancient times shamans were in charge of almost all aspects of life and russia's far east they are still very important to native people but there are only a few left artesian thomas went to see how they adapt to modern times and keep old traditions alive. from the ceremonial rhythm of the drama. to ancient rituals and traditions. the belief in the power of the shaman is very much a part of the cuttin way of life to put it there so that our ancestors always had a very powerful shaman around the law to protect it gave them blessings and ensured security and safety in all circumstances and every day life at a hand on a journey and a tool. a shaman is someone who acts as an intermediary between the spiritual and

earthly worlds relying heavily on nature to get his message across when russian orthodox christianity moved eastward and then later with the soviet union shamanism was banned those that practiced the faith were persecuted now there are only three recognized shaman living in all of us. i help people find faith in the fact that their wishes will be fulfilled their family relations and conflicts at work will be fixed when a person has this faith he can do anything i live in a time of crisis and my mission is to help people in this troublesome time every sharman has his own mission. to help certain posts with the engine symbols of the sharman adorning them standing right next to power lines from the modern world there's a contrast between the modern technology and age and mrs ism is a problem for the sherman. real shamans live far away from big cities and small

villages because contemporary cities with computers cars cell phones and the constant russian distract from the true unity with nature and the spirits i myself am from a far northern region she again. trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people but with them they probably are an interesting people when we're in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to share. we pray you know church and we make use of modern medicine a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your couture for centuries but if even if you made us some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of fire may the warmth of the fire in your name protect you and then you will three spirits be united the spirits of the womb the spirits of man and the spirits of the earth in your good year sean thomas r t and check out our website for the stories we're covering on air and

a lot more here is some of what you'll find right now at our t. dot com. but the head of cancels his visit to israel but plans to hold talks with shimon peres in davos all due to israeli deployments being on strike with no one available to organize official visits. and celebrating celebrating break ups where they bash while half of american marriages and divorce it doesn't have to be better some agencies are trying to turn misery into fun at all the details that are to dot com. and more news from the eyes team russia canada to become world champions in junior hockey canada began the tournament as an underdog having lost many of its players to the international stage and russia was also not along the favorites to win

having lost its first two games but it was those two in a file and what a game i was to score three goals but in the last twenty minutes russia came out fighting five three was the final score but more sports news check out our later in the program. time now for business of date. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure ana. could all prices have hit two year highs in recent days as industrial production in the u.s. in europe picks up this comes after russia's two thousand and ten oil output beat post soviet record to reach ten point two million barrels a day jorge want to pick a global director of marco reports at platts in london says russia will only benefit from the increased oil production this recent highs that he has in production is because a newer fields came into play such as. so over time the

geology of the ground of course leads to less production from existing you need to renew those fields by either having secondary or tertiary production or or going into north areas to produce more oil so it's clear that russia needs to have the taxation as well as the incentives to transport that oriel from very harsh areas such as eastern siberia to maintain that record high in production but so far i think it is clear that russia is having a really good time in terms of producing more on selling that oil are record prices so again very good news for the russian economy. russia is the leading export or of energy resources but also one of the most energy inefficient economies in the world but both state and commercial businesses have modernization projects in the

pipeline in a bid to improve the country's competitiveness artie's colander a has the story. every year russia wastes enough energy to power the french economy but now the kremlin hopes it can turn industry from leaking losses into a green money making machine to get it started the government's approved a three hundred billion dollar energy efficiency program to trim the fat from factories and buildings inherited from soviet times is persuade some we need fifty one leaders in terms of efficiency our industrial giants transport and housing utilities many industrial sectors of the economy are two and a half times less efficient than their european peers the room for improvement is huge. it is the biggest oil and gas producer on the planet the people of russia enjoy cheap energy with prices set by the state but those low domestic cost drain the desire to conserve fuel there is no other remedy tool and energy efficiency apart from letting consumers be the real economic price for the energy consuming

president medvedev aims to slash wastefulness by forty percent over the next decade initiatives range from phasing out incandescent light bulbs to state backing for billionaire. project to build an inexpensive hybrid car in southern russia but there's still a long way to go for the last twenty years so we've been reducing energy consumption g.d.p. where are fully three to five percent but you know a lot of other countries move much much faster down this road. right now in our energy inefficiencies are everywhere it's public buildings. consumers electricity gas etc it's around us being eco friendly goes hand in hand with energy . efficiency recently russia's natural resources ministry drafted a bill to make factories recycled materials they currently throw away by selling them to biofuel clouds right now russia uses twice as much energy than china uses

to produce the same amount of goods and russian companies are struggling to learn how going clean could bring in the green calling break party. and russia's inflation in two thousand and ten eight point seven percent that's according to preliminary data of the federal statistics service the figure fail to meet the government's seven point five percent target and almost equal the previous year's inflation in a bid to curb price growth in two thousand and eleven experts believe a refinance rate hike is on the cards touch on employee reports. russia's central bank account interest rates on four consecutive occasions in two thousand and ten to seven point seven to five per sound to help spur a landing after the financial crisis however the easy money if you didn't play should which has risen above target currently stands at more than eight percent

central bank has to react to keep. the pressures that's one of the major or most important mandates of the central bank so i think it's also very important signal that inflation is very important for the central bank a signal that is very important to all of the economic agency thank you hurry refinance rate may boost carry trades with investors cashing in on high interest rates in russia compared to the rest of the world but analysts say central banks monetary policy is hard to predict which is helping to mentor to money you have different strengths which makes it a little bit harder to follow policy makes i think the central bank here. has created kind of a deliberate ambiguity you know it's kind of constructive ambiguity you might even say in their minds at least about policy here and i think they did that in particular and successfully in a way because they didn't want to see the large large capital short term hot money

inflows the russian economy growth has been slower than expected in two thousand and ten while inflation has been higher and the ruble hasn't appreciated as much as it could given the current prices but economists believe the country is well pleased do you bank for instance predict g.d.p. growth of five percent in two thousand and eleven significant ruble appreciation and higher capital inflows. of a business. and that's the update for this hour but there's always more on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business stay with us.

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