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rates to keep up with the rising cost of living. from moscow welcome to the program to russian ice breaking ships have started a scorching a refrigerator vessel. which has been stranded in frozen waters off russia's far east for almost two weeks because among several that became trapped in the ice leaves a supply ship with more than three hundred crew stuck on board as the next to be freed. is across the latest developments pay for the now the end in sight for days in the early hours of this morning we saw the ice breakers cross and. clearing the ice around the refrigerator vessel which is one of the remaining two and then out saying that currently to the right leg

a bag full of the supply vessel and it's true that this is going to be the most difficult to extract from the i say they think the microbes are going to be combining their efforts to try and break up this incredibly they call and to try and break a canal passage for this vessel to then pasta. but again we see coming up against these extreme conditions very very strong winds very late temperatures incredibly thick ice and so we had the captain of one of the chopper. really the end of this rescue mission would be very dependent on the weather conditions. everything depends on the weather when the wind comes down the rescue operation would come quicker we have enough water and food could last for months the crews have been earning incredibly long time you've really got to feel for the show they're going to be having quite relieved to see the earth and cross in towing the refrigerator vests and of course the. supply now waiting for that to come back as

you heard from the cuts and they've had plenty of food and water on board so it's never any danger to them running out of supplies and they've been able to being contact they've been saying that there are you know if they just get to get free of this ice. well still to come how the molecular world has just got my tip russian scientists develop powerful microscopes specialist worldwide to probe into the tiniest bacteria. seven hundred twenty five billion dollars that's how much the u.s. plans to spend on its military activity this year it's the world's largest ever defense budget when it comes only the fracking economy and burgeoning national debts the pentagon says it's cutting its cloth over the next five years but throwing this to reports that's going to be difficult when there's an entire industry dying on wars to continue. when it comes to the afghan war well

over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having ploughed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the us committed to staying the course there are all kinds of motives for that war exuding energy motives and profit motives and strategic motives and if you're wondering why some in the us just might not want to see the war and ever here are three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billion twenty three point five billion those are roughly the dollar amounts the top three american defense companies were handed in government contracts in two thousand and eight a president once warned about this industry we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether so it all runs on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago than us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has gone since then it skyrocketed from just around five hundred

billion during the vietnam war to more than seven hundred billion dollars now during the post nine eleven wars and some argue that escalation is tied to exactly what eisenhower was warning about but there's a whole range of business that just you know lives off fighting wars and i think in some you know particularly the arms companies because they have representation every state and district in the country in many cases they have a congress on their side here to build the weapons or if necessary to use them lawmakers cast the votes that ensure a military contractors such as lockheed martin gets two hundred sixty dollars from each household a year according to heart on three search making it the single largest recipient of taxpayer dollars meanwhile companies like lockheed dole out millions in political contributions and for lobbying each year and promise to deliver politicians not just weapons but jobs sometimes they will even say you know. if you vote with us

we'll put a factory in your district those who agree with hard time fave the defense dollars are sure to keep coming for contractors as long as the influence continues and as long as the empire continues to expand you're suggesting then a permanent u.s. presence in afghanistan something which you consider we have bases all over the world when you think strategically you may wonder if the us really wants to end the war or ever leave afghanistan in a stand it's next to the middle east and it's next to russia and it's next to china it's a wonderful place to have bases and weapons and nuclear weapons it's a place where they very much want to get a natural gas pipeline looking at recent history our combat mission is ending but our commitment to iraq's future is not what does it mean to say a war the united states would like to end the iraq war by keeping the military bases there keeping fifty thousand troops there keeping enough control of the economy so that if the iraqis do anything at all that the united states and its

investors don't like we can immediately kill another hundred thousand iraqis and while in afghanistan the u.s. is still spending billions trying to win the hearts and minds of the people looks to some like resources are going in a different direction and drive along and for at least a mile and a half there will be a wall and there is some kind of big american construction of ammunition depots and housing happening on the other side of that wall and on the other side of that road you see the people who are displaced are actually living in tents without heaters and without blankets not through cold winter afghans left out in the cold while the u.s. government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay more in the stir r t new york. a top ranking u.s. officer is openly voicing concerns over the professional conduct of the country's own forces in afghanistan. no london says it's been severely challenge him during

nine years of war and these are viewing parties that miniature contributive uneasy personnel undermining american defense policy board. and the national defense university which is the top military madrasi in the united states admiral michael mullen who is the joint chiefs of staff chairman conducts the soul searching jam session for the military profession the top objective is to spill the guts within the military community from the outset and the admiral has made it perfectly clear that couple of subjects we'll be off the table without any benefit of the doubt the first of them is the behavior of some lose cannons and the striker's brigade in kandahar because couple of those road warriors so gold sculpture hunters not only have discredited

a large part of the u.s. military abroad and specifically in afghanistan but by their anger from am against civilians they undermine the u.s. state department democratic finger pointing to the other contraries abroad the us on demining the whole least stick and integrated us foreign policy britain's pension is going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country the u.k. and solvency sevenths findings highlights how seriously the sixty five a struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise. or entry points most of the people's budgets have already been cut to the bank. retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hopis it's a new survey shows a different side of old age and britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pension or

lydia portsmouth will say how much money she gets from the state but she's forced to dip into her limited savings to pay her monthly bills like many others she wasn't able to push away a lot of money for her retirement and what she does have is now earning so little interest in the bank that she regularly has to spend the capital. if you know that within. the. coming nothing back in again. lydia is one of the lucky ones she owns her own home and has a small amount of savings but data from the office for national statistics shows more than half of single pensioners in the u.k. live on the equivalent of less than forty five dollars a day with nearly

a quarter of a million getting by on heart that the consumer credit counseling service helps people to repay debt when they get into trouble they're seeing an increasing number of older people with huge credit card debt and no way to repay them and they say life's only going to get more difficult they're going to get worse in all costs. the. quickly. so. it's a bleak picture for pensioners present and future rock bottom interest rates mean the elderly can no longer live off the interest from their nest eggs if they have any and interest rates may not go up for several years a new pension scheme which will oblige employers to pay into a fund for all their employees isn't due to come online till twenty twelve the result seven out of ten people in the u.k.

contant visit your traditional retirement in the future where people stop work and live off their pensions for thirty years and for every year the government raises the pension age currently sixty for women and sixty five for men it stands to save itself twenty billion dollars it's a freezing winter here in the u.k. so many pensioners will struggle to pay heating bills and it's unlikely to get any easier for older people the government plans to raise the age at which people could receive a state pension to come back to government debts and as a response to higher life expectancy but while that's all right for the rich critics say it's the poor who will suffer by being forced to work until they drop. you know we're at it. we. look at what lies ahead for the world in twenty seven trends for cost of. one thing we can be sure of the beginning of the end for government bank bailouts. the reserve of the united states be

saw age the thirteen trillion dollars that they in washington lend spent in garrison teed since two thousand and nine they shuffled under the table to banks around the world twenty trillion that's with a t dollars worth of deals they gave money to the banks that you pan the banks in south korea the banks in the netherlands to credit suisse to do it your bank to the banks in ireland and they gave money even to the banks in canada the federal reserve gave these no interest or extremely low interest rate loans to corporations such as general electric all the david c. mc donalds for raw is in and they have buddies in the hedge fund so we don't know these things are going on behind closed doors and the only way we found out about

it is because of that one time reporting requirement that came about from that dogged frank bill that was supposed to bring about a new type of financial regulation and it really didn't it brought back more of the same so we don't know what schemes they're doing to prop it up but what we're saying that in twenty eleven the game's going to run out. so well news in brief now twenty two year old man has been charged with the attempted killing of a u.s. congresswoman and of a council but democratic giffords and still critically ill to being shot in the hague. massacre side a supermarket in the state of arizona gunman opened fire as the politician that voters killing six and injuring a dozen others one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl and the district judge

a. passenger plane has crashed in northwestern iran leaving least seventy seven people dead and around thirty others injured iran seventy seven was on route from tehran to the city of rome when it came down in heavy snow and more officials say the bad weather is hampering the recovery operation at least five major crashes in iran since two thousand and five with u.s. sanctions being blamed for making it hard to maintain a country's industry. south korean activists have gathered in front of the japanese embassy to protest against the sprint thing of military ties between the two believe it could further strain tensions on the korean peninsula and that talks are better than developed. so it is refusing to enter into negotiations with the north dismissing the proposal insincere friction in the area has reached a peak especially since a deadly two exchange. later today on r.t.

people avails crosstalk guests take on religious writings and lively debate here's a taste of what's ahead. the underlying foundation of islam is to take over the world muslims you know have to believe in islam as an illusion and as state muslims not to live under the american constitution they are here to eventually go to plays the american constitution with islamic sharia because no one is allowed to live up and that. i was all done. people did they believe in islam. this is what mohammad said well thought well that is that is that all we know that is absolutely contrary to the reality of a person like me who is an eighth generation american whose parents are christian whose associates and friends and loved ones in many way in many cases are christian

no one has ever told me in any religious context that i've been in that the purpose of my life was to somehow overturn constitutional law and replace it with sharia that simply isn't true and nor is it true in agreement on radio you know your place is in the muslim world that in which muslims are way way way in which muslims are either i majority or a minority so i think you're simply taking in that precinct your perceptions and trying and you're right and you're trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. and you. want. now the right to weld of microbiology just got a whole lot bigger thanks to the work of russian scientists they've developed a system which uses a powerful microscope to give them crystal clear views of the tiniest bacteria

scientists anywhere in the world take a look at us talk about and discover this bike with machines to faces some because . imagine a terrible virus sweeping across the planet scientists racing to try and understand it then stop it. then imagine a new tool enabling all those scientists via the web to see the minute structure of that virus within minutes it's a question that concerns these scientists and engineers in moscow we should know all of. this keith all the knowledge about the viral particles it will be a portable. to develop of in your way. we sure will defeat the. the device is called a scanning probe microscope and they've existed for some time in many countries but this team has zoomed in on a novel potential this professor from a university in faraway italy isn't just able to talk about the microscope online

using special software he can actually control it program with our program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away that the benefits of being able to scan images via the internet are becoming ever clearer doctors can share information about newly discovered viruses or bacteria as they're scanned and it's also helping to instruct students the world over. it takes only one microscope and each student can work at computers and at the same time as they have all the processes going on in real time a lot of course it's not all seen through rose tinted lens so making something this precise requires top quality components and laser accurate engineering coming out today over thirty thousand dollars a piece and the teams efforts to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration of russia's bloated bureaucracy. and he thought difficult.

last thing with. time. off by that power to another country or a theory that if they are part of that i still hope some of that warm sly. construct cooperate and in how they see the world of the very small it could bring big changes to the worlds of medicine and science in this and other machines the team hopes to build over three hundred microscopes every year by two thousand and fifteen they want them accurate they want them affordable and they want them into connected by the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. where our stories are updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com plenty of video news and analysis there to take a quick look now at the nuclear superpower threat may be gone but in mind as remain the tour of moscow bunker which is the shared tourists how close the world came to

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. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the privatization program that starts this year promises to become the largest since the post soviet selloff in the ninety's and it's going hand in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub exon trigon cut takes up the story. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state uniter enterprises and a shareholder of twenty nine hundred fifty joint stock companies if the goal is to sell off state property within the next three years goes to plan the russian government will release one hundred fourteen state enterprises and another eight

hundred nine stock companies into private hands including stakes in ten largest firms the expected proceeds from the sell off may top thirty billion dollars and it's not just about the possibility to tackle budget deficit which is the government's first priority the second one is actually decrease the government's are on the ship of the economy increases transparency corporate governance and to make it much more competitive the first deal is the prospective sale of up to thirty five point five percent in state land v.t. b. which the government hopes to complete by early two thousand and eleven among the other companies being mooted for the city's asian aros nearest russian railways is burbank those hydro and so i've come for in most cases the gun plans to retain a controlling stake at least in the initial stage however it does stands the need to be flexible and wish them with a beautiful we can go further and sell the controlling stake so in the majority of companies we can lower the state's share to twenty five percent plus one this

flexibility will be key to winning investors given the amount of deals expected outside russia and also within russia this year which will make for other tough competition there are preservation programs which are going to be implemented in poland in turkey china is one of the biggest assuras in emerging markets as we all know and also let's not forget the russian private sector which pre-crisis has been issuing twenty to twenty billion dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding the some vicious bridges ation one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. the past year was a game of two hearts for the bush markets the head of strategy at u.b.s. in moscow explains how investor attitudes changed to thousands and turn it was very difficult here for the russian equity markets it was characterized by increased volatility that was a function of what has been happening globally like concerns about sovereign

default concerns about recapitalization of european banks in the second half the situation started getting bad. certain areas like investment growth and that translated in russia are performing quite significantly the rest of the remaining emerging market universe the sol stream gas pipeline project aimed at strengthening european energy security is on track and should be on line by twenty fifteen south stream will open a new route to solve an e.u. markets for russian gas across the black sea in addition to the current troop through ukraine the head of south remains been given business r t an update on progress. we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places along the approach the feasibility study all sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then our decision basically studies on

shore and the other important steps that we are on the taking right now is of course working on the shareholder remains we have to make sure that all the shareholders agree on how to structure the project commercially and financially we're having discussions now also with the european commission our main point in these discussions is of course the commission and you should make sure that this project has the same opportunity and is not in any way disadvantaged as potential other approaches. gold was a clear metal window in twenty ten beating all records sent to living a faster percent return for investors russia has the world's second largest gold reserves but it's only ranked fifth in terms of production that gives russia minus some of the best growth profiles in the industry as. a bank russia told r.t.

but it will perform a mouthful i think some of the bushehr on credible price will increase because gold might be used not only as safe michael but also you know industrial production projects them on this if you have been used for more industrial production it will generate the investor of the month or this model and also put it has a little before interest from the long term pros of the program is a risk for the company will make a good excuse will fly and then it will spark new investigators to the stock. that's all we have time for now but you can always find most tours in our website r.t. dot com slash business.