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bam 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. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina joshua welcome to the program an ice breaker has began its mission to free three ships and hundreds of people trapped in freezing waters off russia's far east coast two vessels were reached yesterday but three more are still stuck with rescuers being hampered by adverse conditions specialists say they don't know how long it will take to free them r.t. sarah firth brings us the latest on the rescue mission. the admiral marker of has actually reached day three vessels that remain locked in the ice that's now working to break up the ice around the shirts and it's going to be deciding which order to

be removing the vessels from that area and so that's what's happening right now we know that also a little earlier a third ice breaker was dispatched to join the two that are already there this is really a backup option there is on his way to that area but it would take about three days for it together so obviously with the ice breaker already working at the moment it's hoped that that will be able to free the ship reasonably quickly they are being played down by the extreme conditions and there's a further weather warning so they're going to really want to complete this rescue mission as soon as possible we've heard it really is down to these extreme conditions the temperature has been as low as minus seventeen is that it could plunge even lower they've had gale force winds and incredibly thick ice in that area so the ice breaking cells have really had quite a struggle to get three to these vessels now we know that the three ships that are still trying to take food in for help at the end of last week and the icebreaker is

the marker of that and the gadget with this patch to help now the smaller this icebreaker and they got a not yet so ended up getting trapped in the ice required assistance from the large ice breaker that girl. at the time that the initial. hope that the country's transport ministry actually issued a warning to other ships about these conditions but we saw that despite that a number of other ships did get shots at the beginning of this week as to the ice breakers being working on days first of all they managed to free to and of course now working with the three of the most that we've heard from the fishes just how harsh these conditions really are. in the region which in places. the emma river is true to freshwater. it's freezing the vessels are in constant motion so as not to let the. situation worsened by the we know the cycle in bay where these vessels the truck to be quite

a dangerous reno area there's very clear water around it but of course the extreme conditions have meant that it's even worse and of course the crew members aboard these three vessels are going to be extremely anxious to get this rescue operation completed and get the ships free the crews have actually been able to being called . very k. they certainly got enough food. so there's a danger of them running out the supplies they obviously spent a year aboard the ship in this size but they're in that they're in good spirits they will look completely aka they went in any danger but of course they've been there for a week now so. going to have been pretty pleased to see the arrival of the out in the macro and they're going to be one thing as we start this operation the rescue operations be completed as soon as possible. so our first reporting there for us and on the way here in r t a city paved with bin bags find out why new yorkers are

feeling rubbish as the your home's become a dumping ground for the city's waste and that's just a few moments here on our team. two years of democrat dominance on capitol hill have come to an end new u.s. congress has been sworn in and the republicans now hold an overwhelming majority the house of representatives sees the biggest split whether obama is democrats outnumbered by forty nine seats and they are barely clinging on to the senate where the majority are just three votes the change in power follows the result of ambers 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 was benedict from the libertarian party says the current by . partisan system is leading america into dad and. if you look at what the worst policies that congress has delivered most of them have been bipartisan for many

years the bailouts of the banks the invasions of afghanistan and iraq but the deficit spending even a lot of the health care programs have been supported by both republicans and democrats the united states is spending itself into oblivion we're going broke or doing way too much spending on millett on the military if congress stop doing anything that would be the second best thing that could happen the best thing would be that they start cutting government i think that republicans will pretend they're trying to cut taxes or cut government and claim that democrats are be in a roadblock to it and your only solution is to vote for more republicans democrats have used the same tactics when it comes to various programs if you don't elect more democrats the republicans will stop a so yes they will be playing politics republicans and democrats are both being hypocritical if you really want change in america you've got to look outside the two main parties and i was was benedict executive director of the libertarian

national committee. usually famed for its shopping cutting edge fashion and love of big business something smelly a bit off and new york residents are starting to complain about mountains of ways being laughed at every quarter of the big apple are going to see it you're going to dives have 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 roll that people cannot even walk in to the discrete. 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 blood really box. to do the

work in one instance however the mounds of garbage prevented a tragedy as one new yorker suicide attempt unsuccessful this weekend when it jumped out of the window did not turn fatal due to an unexpected software drift 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 it shouldn't mean that we're in a moral 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 you're very upset about it it's gross it's ridiculous 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. and you watching our to live from moscow stay with us as we've got plenty more stories ahead for you twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear disaster ukraine says it's safe to develop the true novel zone for growing crops but will anyone actually eat them also. throw in mysticism with modern technology armstrong thomas and coming up on our team we explore the world of the siberian sharman. the west bank city of ramallah as naming its streets as part of a joint regeneration scheme started two years ago to mark its hundredth anniversary but some of the tiles are causing controversy after being named after people

involved in planning suicide bombings and us policy reports it's being seen by some as a sign of growing extremism. in palestinian ramallah they are naming their streets to celebrate the city's one hundredth birthday this is your home and right for the citizens to know where they are imaginary case in 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 more lives for this to use but now yasser arafat's 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 read on this issue here

with real. or there or from as if anything the officers members of both groups are glorified which might surprise those who think palestine is most modern city would shy away from praising her master warts like this main form of faith named after chief a must bomb maker yes. here yosh 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. that he was even in the mirror 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 the lot of the larry 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 aides her masts and other palestinian extremist groups. with for the with the way that they have. fifteen years. the. polls show her mask growing in popularity in the west bank as talks between rival palestinian faction fatter and israel did luck 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 of palestinians here understand police here r t ramallah. and also take

a look at some other stories making headlines around the world and u.s. presidential palace found out 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 led to a failure in safety procedures an explosion at an oil rig in the gulf of mexico killed eleven workers and a cause. millions of gallons of oil to leak into the ocean until it was kept in july b.p.'s own investigation concluded manufacturers were to blame including the involvement of several other companies. police in turkey have arrested a would be hijacker after he was a repair hour by passengers on a flight from oslo to stamboul 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 the turkish airlines plane was carrying fifty nine people. north korea's calling for unconditional talks with the south to l.a.

fears of conflict on the peninsula so has dismissed the offer as insincere and tension is at a high over pyongyang shelling of a south korean island in the van which killed four people the north claims the attack was in response to south korean military exercises in the area. the united nations peacekeeping chief says he wants up to two thousand troops to bolster the u.n. force in ivory coast general on the royal hopes the soldiers will be available in a few weeks and other troops have been protecting a hotel that sheltering. the man has been widely recognized as the winner of the november election a blockade remains around the building despite a west african envoys reporting that ivory coast incumbent leader had agreed to lift it. and now you might not think of it as fertile ground but ukraine is planning to start developing parts of the contaminated novel zone for agriculture 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. but we still don't understand how it's possible plans to grow. at the very beginning of the earth when life started. activity on the surface so. how much trouble and millions of hectares of land were left contaminated a quarter of a century on kiev has decided that this soil no longer poses any threat to humans in march twentieth you grains government 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. half a million people work to clean this land of radioactivity now we're being told this is did land this is not true just look at nature's riches in the exclusions. 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. ski reporting from chernobyl ukraine. and check out our website for the stories we're covering on air and a lot more to hear some of what you'll find right now at our website r t v dot com president dmitry medvedev cancels his visit to israel find out the story behind a strike by israeli diplomats and why it's causing so much disruption. and celebrating break ups with a bash while half of american marriages and a divorce it seems it doesn't have to be better some agencies are trying to transform the story into marriage all the details are to dot com.

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 and artie's sean thomas went to see how they adapt to modern times and keep old traditions alive. from the ceremonial rhythm of the drum. to ancient rituals and traditions. the belief in the power of the shaman is very much a part of the cuttin way of life that you put it they see that all and sisters always had a very powerful shaman around the neck to protect to give them blessings and insured security and safety in all circumstances and every day life at a hand on a journey and a tool. as showman 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 recognised sharman. living in all of your code you want to live. 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 sharman has his own mission. to help certain posts with the entrance 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 aged 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 ganske. trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people start 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 a shaman we pray in a church and we make use of modern medicine a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your code for centuries but even if it made us some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of fire that made the warmth of the fire in your name protect you and may your three spirits be united the spirit of the womb the spirit of air and the spirits of the earth in your group here sean thomas r.t. . and team russia has stunned canada to become world champions junior hockey canada began the tournaments as an underdog 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 file and water gay was canada scored the first three goals but in the last twenty minutes russia came out fighting five three was a final score for more sports news check out our bolton later this hour in just a hatter tea travels to western siberia and the camera region where we meet the local version of santa claus and that's in under ten minutes time but first let's get the latest financial news with her own. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on in. russia is the leading export of energy resources but also one of the most energy efficient 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 archies collen bray 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 plates. 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 be the deal economic prize for the energy of their 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 may help 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 very g.d.p. by roughly three to five percent but you know a lot of other countries moved much much faster and down this road. right now in our energy inefficiencies are everywhere it's public buildings. consumers electricity gas flaring 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 plans right now russia uses twice as much energy than china uses to

produce the same amount of goods and russian company. struggling to. bring in the green cooling break. now let's take a look at the stock markets now in russia the bourses are closed till the eleventh of january for the russian new year holiday break the asian markets closed up on the day with japanese newquay jumped by almost one in a half percent as investors snapped up shares of big x. waters after the dollar hit two week highs against the markets elsewhere in asia with more subdued ahead of the influential u.s. non-farm payrolls report. and european shares in early trading thursday following gains on wall street and a strong trading session for japanese shares the london footsie is up over a third of a percent led by b.p. which rose to a seven month high after the u.s. panel investigating the gulf of mexico oil spill said halliburton and transocean were partly to blame and the german dax is up over a half percent led by

a bear up two and a half percent this hour on news of the submission of a new drug the e.u. approval for stroke production. and russia's inflation in two thousand and ten grew eight point seven percent that's according to politico mary data of the federal statistics service the figure failed 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 in the cards such an 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 lending after the financial crisis however the easy money if huge inflation which has risen above target currently stands at more than eight per cent central bank has 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 very important signal that inflation is very important for the central bank a signal that is very important to all of the economic agents i think a hernia refinance rate may boost carry trades with investors cashing in on high interest rates in russia compared to the rest of the world and i didn't say central banks monetary policy is hard to predict which is helping to limit hold to money you have different estimates 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 large cap large capital short term.