americans all across the board so maybe the richest one percent of america has lost a great deal of your life right j s kim thanks again for being on the kaiser report ok. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guests j.s. kim of smart knowledge you dot com if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v are you until next time this is nice guys are saying.

a russian one of the three ships. to safety. is the start of a difficult rescue operation. in just a moment. just because we're in a. recession new york comes to rubbish. in the city of skyscrapers. and the streets in the west bank

city of ramallah named after people. some choices are causing in israel. with news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us and the far eastern coast of russia is one of three ships stuck in freezing water to safety three extreme weather a second vessel is trying to follow while the third remain stranded four hundred people aboard the ships which have been frozen for a week in the conditions. that that means. it seems that things are beginning to move maybe just slowly the ice breaker that's managed to to smash a path towards the ship stranded in the ice is now towing one of those ships out of its having been freed out of this search zone and they're going to try and calm

a second ship to that our team managed to contact the captain of one of those toads ships he said that currently everything is going ok but off of the icebreaker is towing us towards clear waters right now the situation is normal we are getting out of the ice one of the other ships trying to free us but was unsuccessful we are very happy we will be home soon we have everything will be all right we're hoping to reach clear waters by tomorrow night the third ship which is slightly larger has about three hundred people on board they think that the moment they're not going to be able to pull it out with the existing icebreaker we're going to have to wait probably three more days preferred ice breaker to arrive all of this has been monitored from moscow and from offshore it is locally and we spoke earlier to one of the people at the federal fisheries off forty who has been monitoring the situation and you have to negotiate with enormous effort and icebreaker reach the three vessels break in

a canal through the ice it's towing one of the ships and they have started to leave the icy blockade they have been followed by another three stranded vessel was the two ships arrive in a safe zone the icebreaker will return to the biggest of the three vessels the sadrist for this ship is actually bigger in size than any ice breaker so additional help will be needed to pull it out next to icebreaker is expected to reach the ship by generally the ninth so as we can hear it's been a long process getting to these ships is going to be a difficult process getting them out but it is now underway this region the sea of our hearts just off the far east of russia is known to be a difficult place for ships in the winter but that has been much aggravated by the weather conditions this year. ferocious gales and also very low temperatures about minus seventeen at the moment in this region have led to a lot of ice forming up to eight meters thick in some places and that has simply trunk ships and encased them other ships have also run into trouble on the first

icebreaker that was sent there wasn't strong enough requiring this extra help that was sent on the ships themselves the crew that we've spoken to reports that we've heard say that things occur you know right there's no immediate danger to the crew as enough food and supplies for the moment but they just want to get out of this situation now and get on with their jobs so everyone has their fingers crossed is really looking to try and get these ships towed out. in a city of skyscrapers it's now piles of garbage that tower over the streets of new york residents are outraged that glamorous city is beginning to look more like a junkyard aunties and dive headfirst into the big apple's rotten reality. 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 mark in new york are many. striking

a huge blow to the city's traditionally glamorous image. of the street. anthony is a mailman his job takes twice the time these days sadly he notes his salary has not . in one instance however mounds of garbage. when it jumped out of the window did not turn. unexpected. 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. city has reportedly accumulated as much as fifty thousand tons of garbage in just one week.

but it will of recession is exactly what the trash invasion has turned the big apple. themselves plus for handling the situation. as an economic crisis leads to budget cuts that lead to boycotts in the sanitation department lead to all this garbage out on the street it may be time to ask how soon before the big apple turns rotten and. new york. still ahead for you in the program how goods from a nuclear contaminated area may soon end up in european. trading plans to turn the chernobyl atomic disaster zone into an agricultural center and the safety is also. balancing agent mysticism with modern technology i'm sure on thomasson coming up on

our t.v. we explore the world of the siberian sharman. those stories still to come but first christmas is over for most christians across the world but for some orthodox believers the holy day is yet to come thursday's christmassy for the russian orthodox church that celebrates the birth of christ on january the seventh the difference is because russians more religious feasts using the julian calendar whereas most western countries use the canada on thursday night rituals will be held in thousands of russian churches across the world killed in moscow in russia who had a service in the nation's main place of worship that's christ the savior cathedral here in the capital a number of other orthodox churches also celebrating christmas on general the seventh including those of macedonia and. we'll have live coverage of the lavish and spectacular mass in russia's main cathedral when it starts in about three hours . a decision by authorities in the west bank city of ramallah through name

their street self to prominent palestinians is proving controversial as poorness live reports some streets have been named after people who is really cute as a planning suicide bombings but who palestinians regard as martyrs and. in palestinian ramallah they're naming their streets to celebrate the city's one hundredth birthday this is a hero and right for the schisms to know where they are imagine never casing your way around here with no street signs to help well until two years ago that was the case in the one law there were no numbers for houses and no lives for the sticks 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 it really is a run or fight there or. 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 warts like this main form of faith named after chief amassed bomb maker yahia yosh dubbed the engineer for three years he was the most wanted man by israel for his part in suicide bombings that killed nineteen israelis until he himself was eliminated. and the smarter 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 i'm very pleased even in drugs in streets after my son is in my

heart and i miss him his 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 whose radius charge aids has mass and other palestinian extremist groups the people are. fed up with the way that they have been doing the past fifteen years. eager to throw something polls show her mask growing in popularity in the west bank as talks between rival palestinian faction fattah and israel deadlock. trying to speak with. the with. 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. r t. just remind you you can head to r.t. dot com that's our web site for more news blogs and analysis is a taste of what's there for you right now a stone your attempts to seize russian territory on a coin and find out more about the controversy surrounding estonia's new euro currency on the web site and. russian scientists and just the truth of tiny astronauts to a humanities quest for more distant front is its face might paving the way for a mission to mars. it was the start of the world's worst nuclear disaster but now ukraine has plans to develop parts of the contaminated chernobyl zone for agriculture scientists believe that some plants have actually become immune to the radiation caused by the explosion at an atomic plant twenty five years ago but authorities and the reports not everyone is convinced products from

the area should end up being sold in europe. these berries may look ripe and delicious but they're definitely not part of a healthy diet the bush is inside a thirty kilometer chernobyl 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 karma in the church noble exclusion zone which made nature develop here rapidly after the one nine hundred eighty six fallout ensure nobody environment suffered badly one strip of forest was burned by radiation and turned red people left the area but mother nature stepped in novel 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 to grow and. at the very beginning of the earth when life started the. activity on the surface. level up. somehow stay inside the plant how much problem and the 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. 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. when we have so much unoccupied land why not use it. those well familiar with chernobyl like the idea.

after 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 exclusions if you were however there are those who are worried about what could end up on a 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 in your temperatures in the exclusion zone it says no agricultural product can be drawn on this land and for now experts. of this law to be changed. the dominant view remains that the nearest safe zones from the plant are still hundreds of kilometers away all the ukraine and some parts of belarus the dead zone is still deemed too dangerous despite some optimists but the fact is radiation can stick around for anything up to twenty. four thousand years. of ski artsy reporting

from chernobyl ukraine. now time to check out some other international stories for you this hour to a very nearly fifty minutes past the hour here in moscow a white house report says bad management leading to failed safety procedures course last year's all spill in the gulf of mexico it won the industry to change the way it operates to prevent it happening again blasted the b.p. oil rig in april millions of gallons of oil into the sea before finally being kept in july investigation found several other firms other than b.p. were also filled. to china now and twenty four children are being taken to hospital with lead poisoning caused by battery factories chinese media suggest at least two hundred children lead levels in their blood it's thought back to factories in the eastern province of of the course of the poisoning two of the main factories in the area have been shut. amid predictions of more heavy rain in australia flood water has begun to recede in the northeast of the country looking for the city of

rockhampton reached a peak that was lower than first feared hundreds of homes are under water with more than two hundred thousand people affected the floods have left at least ten people dead in queensland since november. the un says two hundred ten people have died in ivory coast since november's disputed presidential elections the latest figures come after fourteen more were killed during ethnic clashes un wants up to two thousand additional troops to protect the headquarters of a summit with the man internationally recognized as the new president of blockade remains around the building despite west african envoys reporting that ivory coast incumbent leader had agreed to the fdic. chairman of the mystical messengers between humans and spirits they have been called upon for healing and spiritual guidance for centuries and it's an ancient tradition still alive in some parts of russia despite modernization causing a fall in the number of practicing schilens without issue and thomas travelled to

meet them. 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. so there are and always had very powerful shamans around the neck to protected them gave them blessings and ensured security and safety in all circumstances and every day life on a journey and that's. 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 you. i help people find faith in the fact that their wishes will be fulfilled their family relation is

in conflicts that 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 these troubles in time every sharman way has his own money. to head 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 mysticism is a problem for the sharman. live far away from big cities and small villages because contemporary cities with computers console phones and the constant rushing distract from truly unity with nature and the spirit i myself am from a religious northern region that. trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people. we are an interesting people and when we are in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to sherman we pray in a church and then make use mordant. that's an

a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of you for centuries i think even if you don't feel i made this some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of fun made a war to look upon anyone and to take you and me your three spirits be united the spirits of the gloom the spirits of us and the spirits of the. sean thomas party. a modern industrial hub with an ancient history come on a guided tour of the came out of a region in south western siberia but later on r.t. james brown takes you to meet the russian version of santa claus and also say a game of hockey with some unique rules. i.

was right three weeks running. just. while you pack your bags for a trip to siberia that's in just over an hour from now here on t.v. just turning twenty minutes past the hour here time now for the business news with sharona. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. the food and agricultural organization has warned that the world is facing

a food price shock this comes after f.a.r.'s benchmark index of agricultural commodity prices shot up to a nominal record last month surpassing the levels of the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight food prices the surge in the food index is based on rising costs for corn sugar vegetable oil and meat the situation has been made worse by inflation and increasing economic challenge in developing countries including those of china and india however the f.a.a. and food aid agencies are drawing comfort from relatively stable prices for rice one of the most important agricultural commodities for global food security. and russia is the leading export 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 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 governments approved a three hundred billion dollar energy efficiency program to trim the fat from factories and buildings inherited from soviet times it was. 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 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 that is no other remedy tool and energy efficiency apart from letting consumers be the real economic price 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 deeply by our fleet three to five percent but you know a lot of other countries move much much faster and down this road. right now in our energy inefficiencies are everywhere it's public buildings. consumers electricity gas wearing 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 plants 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 r.t.

. russia's inflation in two thousand and ten grew eight point seven percent that's according to politico 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 in the cards thoughts an employee called all 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 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 but analysts say central banks monetary policy is hard to predict which is helping to limit hot money you have different estimates which makes it all 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 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 that you have an equal business. and that's up there for this hour but you can always find watch stories on our web site that's dot com slash business stay with us.

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