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the returning to the largest shipping crate which is the supply vessel and now be trying to break the ice around for that one up as well but it's still there that will create a little bit more of the very very thick. and it's going to take a combined. break to try break up the ice and then. we heard from the captain of. that weight saying that. soon as the british did reach. the sailors generally trying. for people trying to plan things out depends on factors such as the weather. out of the. very very very the. day the crazy

day specials plenty of supply saves no dangers in running out to be the mood to put it cool say have it's cold days now it's been an incredibly long painstaking process of these ice breakers to try and free them up just to recap what happened to three original vessels. including for rescue in december thirtieth and then we then saw these two ice break his mark rosenberg added i originally dispatched to help the last week of the two kids got stuck in the i say the episode and directed to free they know we know that now for three to be rescued previously the fourth one being take them a bit and then the ice breaker returning for this one and the crew on board obviously quite relieved when they finally got themselves freed up i'm sure it will be a long process as you say sara do we know how long it will actually take the ice breakers to finally free the vessels. what we know is he said it has been

a painstaking process the weather has played its part in really kind of the essence of these ice breakers we know that they've been working incredibly low temperatures a gale force winds it's incredibly thick clouds that they've been trying to break up and pretty poor visibility now some official says that the probably the earliest would actually be some top time tomorrow when there will be three but as we've been saying it really is dependent on whether they get what. they're able to breach that haley's the break of the ice we know that the second ship when they gave out that is going to be the heart of the day. everyone now helping that this is the final stages of that incredibly long rescue operation. to do to sarah first reports do keep us updated. well still to come by how the molecular world. it has just got mightier russian scientists and a half or more microscopes around specialist white present for the.

seven hundred twenty five billion dollars that's how much the u.s. plans to spend that it's a trip to put it this year is the world's largest ever defense budget comes amid a flanking economy and burgeoning national debt pentagon says it's cutting its cloth of the next five years but as long this to reports it's going to be difficult when there's an entire industry of a 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 they're all trying for that warry 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 someone 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 the where u.s. defense spending has gone since then it's 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 it's you know particularly the arms companies because they. have representation every state and district in the country in many cases they have congress on their

side here to build the weapons or if necessary to use them lawmakers cast the votes that ensure a military contractor such as lockheed martin gets two hundred sixty dollars from each household a year according to hard time 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 u.s. really wants to end the war or ever leave afghanistan again to stand these 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 put 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 you can drive along and for at least a mile and a half there will be a wall. there is some kind of big american construction of ammunition depots and housing happening on the other side of that wall and then 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 was even with the government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay there and that's our t. new york. a top ranking u.s. officer is openly voicing concerns over the professional conduct of the country's armed forces in afghanistan. than this says it's been severely challenge to in nine years of war and these viewing parties that you contribute to these a matter of personnel undermining american defense policy board. at 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 gym session for the military profession the top objective is to spill the

guts within the military community from the outset the admiral has made it perfectly clear that couple of subjects will be off the table without any benefit of the doubt the first of them is the behavior of some lose cannons and the strikers 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 things from civilians they undermine the u.s. state department democratic finger pointing to the other contraries abroad thus on demining the whole least stick and integrated us foreign policy.

britain's pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country the u.k. insolvency service findings highlight how seriously those over sixty five struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise as artie's or any reports of most people's budgets have already been cut to the. retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies but a new survey shows a different side of old age in britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner 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 that money going

if you know that. a bit to try and make out the money that come in because nothing done back in again and it's getting lower and lower in the end i would have to fill that. 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 hoth 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 debts 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. state. quickly. so that's a problem 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. canton 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 see. where activists are on our take a look at what lies ahead for the world in twenty eleven trends a full cost. is one thing we can be sure of the beginning of the end of government bank bailouts. the federal reserve the united states be saw 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 the credit suisse to do it your bank to the banks in ireland in england 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 lecture carly davidson donal's very raw is in and they have buddies in the hedge fund it's 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 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 is going to run out.

some world news in brief now twenty two year old man has been charged with the attempted bombing over u.s. congresswoman and other counts of murder democratic for instance two critically ill to be. shot in the head during the massacre a supermarket. gunman opened fire as the politician killing six an internet does not is one of the aids was among the dead as well as a nine will go district judge. one of the flight data recorders from the iranian plane which crashed in the country's northwest has been found. seventy seven it was on route from tehran to the city of. but it came down in heavy snow in full view at least seventy seven people dead and around thirty others injured officials say the weather is hampering the recovery operation there for at least five major crashes in iran since two thousand and five with u.s.

sanctions being blamed for making it hard to maintain the country's history. there were more weather warnings for queensland in australia off the stricken states and moving for who's in flash flooding in new areas. west of the state capital was deluged killing one woman who swept away. as i can to try and power lines to safety and estimated two hundred thousand people have been affected by the disaster at least ten people died. the bells cross-talk guests get fired up over religious writings here's a taste of what's ahead. you look at them i. mean what do you see they must think back what this. one meant at beulah was what do you see tell me why is that aesthetic what is. because

a lot of allies and well first of all i don't think the islamic world is on the bottom i think frankly i think frankly you are you are articulating your own opinions which you are absolutely entitled to do but they don't necessarily become a generalization that everybody can follow if you say that you. can reject the prophet mohammad or reject a law that's your right to do that but don't try to impose your particular view of that on more than a million people who will most of you this then you would probably vehemently disagree in most cases. now the world of microbiology just got a whole lot bigger thanks to the work of russian scientists they have developed a system where he's powerful microscope to give them crystal clear views of the

tiniest bacteria scientists anywhere in the world take a look there was talk about him discovered this like with machines to faces some big hurdles. but imagine a terrible virus sweeping across the planet scientists racing to try to understand it then stop it. then imagine a new tool enabling all those scientists via the web to see the minute structure of the virus with admits it's a question that concerns these scientists and engineers moscow we know all about the viral particles. all the dollars to buy all of the vital part because it will give both of both. to develop new york. we sure will defeat the virus. the device is called discounting 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 far away it's

a leap. isn't just able to talk about the microscope online using special software he can actually control it program with him the program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away with. the benefits of being able to scan images via the internet or becoming ever clearer now doctors can share information about newly discovered viruses we want to hear it as the scanned and it's also hoping to instruct students the world over for the muslims to take only one microstate and each student can work and compete is there and at the same time it's there all the process is going on in real time of course it's not all seen through rose tinted lens making something this size requires top quality components laser accurate engineering coming out of table thirty thousand dollars a piece and the teams of it's to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration. can be thought of the. long

lost thing with. our product. or theory of i still hope some of that warm slabs construct cooperate in how they see the world 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 via the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. stories updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com and that's pretty good news and analysis there to. see that our threat may be god that night when they. must go bunker which is now showing the rest of the world trade. nomination. and watch the american divorcees

troops and parties over a. ditching and visible that are just these stories and more to come and though you choose. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. operations around. the moment she brings us all the business things.

hello and a very warm welcome to the business news twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the. program that starts this year promises to become the largest since the sell off in the ninety's and it's going hunt in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub. that takes up the story. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state units for 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 sale of meat 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 big grazer governments are on the ship of the economy increases transparency. for governance and to make it much more competitive in the first deal is the perspective 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 position are as near to 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 station so in the majority of companies we can lower the state 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 a lot of diversion programs which are going to be implemented in poland in turkey china is one of the biggest issuers 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 five billion dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding the submissions privatisation one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business r.c. . the past here was a game of two hobs for the russian markets ahead of strategy at u.b.s. and moscow explains how investor attitudes changed. two thousand sun turned 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 capitalization of european banks in the second half the

situation started getting bad. certain areas like investment growth and translated in russia be forming quite significantly the rest of the emerging market universe. let's all 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 stream has been given business r.t. an update on progress. we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places along the project the feasibility study all sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then your decision to study is on shore and the other important steps that we are on the taking right now is of

course working on the shareholder agreements we have to make sure that all the shareholders agree on how to structure the project commercially and financially we're having discussions no also with the european commission our main point in these discussions is of course the commission and the you should make sure that this project has the same opportunity and is not in any way disadvantaged as potential other projects. gold was a clear medal winner in twenty ten beating all records sent a living a thatcher 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 the russian miners some of the best growth profiles in the industry and. from bad.