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deep freeze hundreds of russians in the country's far east remain stranded aboard a group of vessels logged in by an icy trap. the ice breaking rescue mission has breached so there's now it's way to rescuing of the three they remain trapped in the ice in the cycle in bay. in the united states republican staff and to take control of congress worried the number obama's democrats and experts warn the change could make wind more the more the president. and palestinians in the

west bank start naming streets after their father heroes but critics say the scheme is glorifying people with a lot of their hands. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow ten am in the russian capital a rescue mission is underway in icy waters off 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 or you know across life responded taraf earth was story for us so sara tell us what's happening at the moment. we've just heard that the ice breaker his about a mile away from reaching those three vessels that remain. we haven't heard any specifics as to how long it's going to take to free them and we do know that that big. by the extremely thick ice that surrounds the we've also heard that

a third icebreaker the admiral crested. now being just but the backup which is not still going to reach the shits. another three days so obviously with the other two ice breaker places hopes that they'll be able to free these vessels as soon as possible and certainly with further weather warnings they're going to really want to get underway and successfully completed a very quick what are we understand that the rescue team to the moment are working in very tough conditions but still it's almost a week why is it taking them so long. we have seen the progress of this ice breaking missions. sixteen conditions the temperatures be unusually low around minus seventeen degrees that's going to drop even further they've had winds extremely thick ice that has caused the progress of the ice breakers themselves some trouble now we know that the end of last week when these three vessels

initially got they called in to help this initial rescue mission with another the icebreaker mcgahan and a larger one the admiral michael rose and we heard that the mcgann itself actually got shot in the ice and had to be aided by the larger ice breaker when the original three called him for help the country's ministry issued a warning to others despite that we saw at the beginning of this week another couple of ships getting trapped in the ice or the ice breakers have been aiding those they've managed to free those to and of course now getting very close to free these further three but we've heard from the fishes just how bad these conditions are. there's a vast accumulation of ice in the region which in places. the ice is being formed as the emma river is strewing out large amounts of fresh water that's freezing the vessels are in constant motion so as not to let the ice form around that whole situation worsened by the. another

day where they sensitizes i see night is quite dangerous moving region that's very clear water got so there is a loss of vice anyway and the sailors know that they do that because the profits are quite high from the fishing in these areas but of the things we've heard that with these extreme conditions the even what i thought me to say over sea they've had the trouble that they've had and become stuck. also we know that there are more than four hundred people on board at the moment so how are they coping with the situation there and do they have enough food or water on board well we've heard that they're in a danger there and they've got plenty of supplies on board there's no concern that the run out of food and water inside the crew has been able to be in touch to let everyone know that they're doing ok. 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 but people are calm as soon as the ice breaker frees us we'll 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. so you get to know that the crew is wilting like a bit of course they have been for a week now so i'm sure they're all going to be extremely relieved to see those ice breakers nearing the no less than a mile off and hopefully that rescue will be completed reasonably say all right sara thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest on the situation there on the saing base or first there. it was an artsy life from moscow and on the way a city paved with bin bags find out why workers are feeling rubbish as the their homes become a dumping ground for the city's ways that's just a few moments here an art. and two years of democrat dominance on capitol hill have come to an end 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 was obama's democrats outnumbered by forty nine seats and they are barely clinging on to the senate where the majority of just three votes change in power follows the results of ambers midterm elections 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 adam warns the treaty could still come under fire on capitol hill. there is no doubt the. assumption of the republicans of power in the house of representatives is going to complicate life or that mr ation there's no doubt that 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 on the effort to basically

change health care while. some may 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 democrats from two new told 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 the next to impossible to bring to change. the law. professor adman greed from american university in washington d.c. usually famed for its shopping cutting edge fashion a lot of big business something's smelling a bit off in new york and residents are starting to complain about mountains of waste being laughed at every corner of the big apple or it is nice to see if you're going to dives have burst into the reality of

a city sky high in rubbish. you're standing next to a pile of garbage taller than yourself how does that make you feel. while the world marks the new year one thing marking new york are melton's of. striking a huge blow to the city's traditionally glamorous image you can't even cross the street with a baby carriage people don't want to discuss. anthony is a mailman his job takes twice the time these days sadly he notes his salary has not that makes my work. in one instance however the mounds of garbage. as one new york. unsuccessful this weekend want to jump out of the window did not turn. unexpected software into piles 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 that we're in a more recession but it will world recession is exactly what the trash invasion has turned the big apple and while some officials have graded themselves plus for handling the situation. out. it's. taxes. 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. are you watching r t stay with us as we've got plenty more stories ahead for you

twenty five years after the world's nuclear disaster brain says it's safe to develop the jury novel zone for growing crops but will anyone actually eat them also. balancing mysticism with a modern technology armstrong thomason coming up on our to really explore the world of the siberian sharman. and the west bank city of ramallah as naming its streets as part of a general 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 and 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. for the citizens to know where they are imaginary case on your way around here with no

street signs to help well until two years ago that was the case there were no numbers for houses and no lives for the students but now yasser arafat's gets a street as does a neighborhood that used to exist an 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 read on this issue here with reading. or there or. if anything the officers members of both groups are glorified which might surprise those who think palestine as most modern city would shy away from praising her master warts like this main form of fake named after chief bomb maker yahia yosh dubbed in. genea 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 killed by those that he was even by . the murder and this martyr was killed by these rady 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 the lot of i'm very pleased even in drugs in streets after my son is in my heart and i miss him his the funeral still is trying. 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 busy street in ramallah after her was unanimous rachel was part of the international solidarity movement a group israelis charged aids her masts and other palestinian extremist groups the people. 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 deadlock hamas 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 pointlessly r.t. ramallah. a look at some other stories from around the world here in our team a u.s. president now has found a series of cost cutting decisions helped cause the b.p. oil spill one of the worst environmental disasters in history the report concluded bad management and led to a failure in safety procedures and 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 involvement of several other companies. turkish police have arrested a would be hijacker after he was overpowered by passengers on a flight from oslo to istanbul it's believed the turkish national claimed to have a bomb when he tried to force his way into the cockpit and demand of the jet returned to norway police say the bomb was found to be a fake a turkish airlines plane was carrying fifty nine people. north korea's calling for unconditional talks with the south to fears of conflict on the peninsula so has dismissed the offer as insincere and tension is that high over pyongyang shelling of a south korean island in the vampyr which killed four people the north claims the attack was in response to south korean military exercises in the area. united nations peacekeeping chief says he wants up to two thousand additional troops to bolster

the u.n. force in ivory coast general allen le roy hopes the soldiers will be available in a few weeks the troops have been protecting hotel that is sheltering al assad atar the man has been widely recognized as the winner of the november election a blockade remains around the building despite west african voice reporting that ivory coast incumbent leader had agreed to lift it. now you might not think of it as fertile ground but ukraine's planning to start developing parts of the contaminated novel zone for every culture scientists believe that plants and crops there are immune to the radiation caused by the nuclear disaster twenty five years ago but as our reports huge doubts over safety remain. these berries may look ripe and delicious but they're definitely not part of a healthy diet the bush is inside a thirty kilometer chair normal exclusion zone in ukraine and radiation levels are off the scale people do not live here anymore but same cannot be said about

flora and fauna some say it is the absence of anthropogenic harm in the church nor will exclusion zone which made nature develop here rapidly after the one nine hundred eighty six fallout in chernobyl the environment suffered badly one strip of forest was burned by radiation and turned red people left the area but mother nature stepped in now chernobyl is home to many species of wild animals and rare plants scientists from slovakia studying most in the area made an incredible discovery a lot of the plant life is immune to radiation. we still don't understand how it's possible plans are able to grow. at the very beginning of the earth when life started the. activity on the surface planets. somehow stay inside the.

problem and the millions of hectares of land were left contaminated a quarter of a sentry on kiev has decided that this soil no longer poses any threat to humans in march twentieth. will launch a plan to get things growing again. we will establish what parts of the contaminated areas could be used for agricultural needs there is a possibility that cultural products will be grown there when we have so much unoccupied land why not use it. those well familiar with chernobyl like the idea. that half a million people work to clean this land of radioactivity now we're being told this is dead land this is not true just look at nature's riches and the exclusions if you were however there are those who worried about what could end up on the dinner

table critics fear ukrainian and russian markets could be flooded with radioactive agricultural products and there are legal hurdles. ukraine has a law regulating any activities in the exclusion zone it says no agricultural product can be drawn on this land and for now experts see no possibility of this law to be changed. the dominant view remains that the nearest save zones from the blonde are still hundreds of kilometers away in northern ukraine and some parts of belarus the dead zone in chernobyl is still deemed too dangerous despite some optimists but the fact is radiation can stick around for anything up to twenty four thousand years. see reporting from chernobyl ukraine and from healing and protection to marriages and good harvest in ancient times shamans were in charge of almost all aspects of life in russia's far east they are still very important to native people but there are only

a few left artie's sean 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 protected them 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 practice the faith were persecuted now there are only three recognized shaman living in all of the. wealth i help people find faith in the

fact that their wishes will be fulfilled their family relations in 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 shonen 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 mysticism 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. where an interesting people when

we're in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to show. 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 even if you made this some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is the symbol of may the warmth of the fire in your name to take to you and then your three spirits be united the spirit of the womb the spirits of the spirits of the earth in your quit you know sean thomas party team russia has done canada to become world champions in junior hockey canada began to turn a man as another dog having lost many of its players to the international stage and russia was also not among the favorites to win having lost its first two games but it was those two in the final and what a game i was canada scored three goals but in the last twenty minutes russia came out fighting five three was the final score for more sports news check out our

bolton later this hour. while the brings us up to date here in the business news for us coming to you in just a few moments. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on a qian could oil prices have hit two year highs in recent days as industrial production in the u.s. and europe picks up this comes after russia's two thousand and ten oil output beat post soviet records to reach ten point two million barrels a day jorge want to pick a global director of market reports at plants in london says russia will only

benefit from the increased oil production. this recent highs that he has had in production is because a nor fields came into play such as. so over time the geology of the ground of course leads to less production from existing and you need to renew those fields by either having a secondary of tariff. 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 oil from your 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 and 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 the 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 because. 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 costs

drain the desire to conserve fuel there is no other remedy tool and energy efficiency apart from letting consumers the big deal economic prize 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 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 there are energy inefficiencies are everywhere it's public buildings. consumers electricity gas for airing etc it's around us being eco friendly goes hand in hand

with energy. fish and sea recently russia's natural resources ministry drafted a bill to make factories recycled materials they currently throw away by selling them to biofuel plant 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 collar in bray. 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 central bank can't 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 do inflation which has risen above target and currently stands at more than eight per sound central bank house to react in order to keep a lid on inflationary pressures that's one of the major most important mandates of the central bank so i think it's also a 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 her 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 make money you have different estimates which makes it all bit harder to follow policymakers i think the central bank here. has.