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many. pensions and interest rates failed to keep rising cost of living. accosting around the world and the around the clock this is a story top story no two russian ice breaking ships of stone to the scorching a refrigerator vessel which has been stranded in frozen waters off russia's foreign east for almost two weeks he was among several vessels that mccain trapped in the ice. supply ship with more than three hundred crew stuck on board as the next to be freed on surface across the latest developments. we needed the few icebreakers been working since the early hours of the morning to free up these remaining few best shots in the in the because they know they're currently telling the small it is the refrigerator vessel trying to get to then i realized that we had heard that they're

having some difficulties of these extreme weather conditions it's incredibly thick ice. and very very poor visibility and a russian federal fishing agency has had a press conference and we've heard the two ice breakers and now trying to change up their positions to find another way of trying to break through this and then when they can finally take the smaller vessel to safety they'll come back and get the law of supply three hundred crew on board we can hear more know from that press conference. the ships will soon close together towards the area of for another thirty five miles the operation may take ten to twelve hours very difficult to make any of them both going to break as we return to the supply ship or we're going to go to florida because as you heard he has to go that supply ship waiting for the icebreaker to get the smaller vessel to safety and then to come

back and bring them up as well the three hundred three ohm board but now we know the crew is safe they've got plenty of no more to supplies that they have an incredibly long time twelve days now just to recap what happened that would prevent . originally the coup didn't help on december thirtieth late last week we had a couple motions get stuck in the ice the ice breaker to be working to free them up they managed to free three and that playing the. game but for the fifth one. progress really being played down by the extreme weather conditions that we've seen this economy. at the big a very dangerous marina area anyway very clear the area as we know we've had some reports that there are going to be helicopters looking at the area to try and get the lay of that i just how bad the situation is. with the excuse me which is the go.

back to the area was unusual and has altered in these vessels being shut as some officials have said the possibly it will be tomorrow that these ships can get freed up we know that there's going to be further updates tomorrow morning. and so they're really they're going to be looking to these weather conditions hoping that they'll eat up a bit and they. can find a way of maneuvering through this incredibly thick ice and bringing up these you know the twelve days. so for three more still to come to the world. much bigger russian song to develop into the microscopes specialist to probe into the tiniest bacteria. seven hundred twenty five billion dollars that's how much the u.s. spends to spend its military activity this year it's the longest ever defense

budget comes and the. national debt the pentagon says it's causing it's closer to the next five years lower this to reports that's going to be difficult when there's an entire industry going 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 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 sought 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 contractor 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 part time save 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 look at 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 a muffed 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.d. new york. of meanwhile a top ranking u.s. officer is openly voicing concerns over the professional conduct of the country's armed forces in afghanistan. says it's been severely challenge during nine years of war and he's reviewing to submit to contribute to the i'm going to personnel undermining american defense policies abroad. at the national defense university which is the top military measure a say in the united states and michael mullen who is of 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 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 ab erratic behavior

of some lose cannons and the strikers brigade in kandahar because couple of those road warriors so cold scalpel hunters not only have discredited to a large part of the image of the u.s. military abroad and specifically in afghanistan but by their things are counting from afghan civilians they undermine the u.s. state department democratic finger pointing to the other countries abroad thus on demining the whole least dick and integrated us foreign policy. well to britain now where pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country the u.k. insolvency service findings highlights how seriously those over sixty five are struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise artie's reports most of the

people's budgets have already been cut to the bone. 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 and britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner lydia portsmouth won't 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 put 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 into. that pay the bill with. 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 if there were 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 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 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. clee 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. 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. no rabbits see. what next. look ahead for the world in twenty seven trends for costa charles solent says there's one thing we can be sure of the beginning of the end for government bank bailouts. the federal reserve of the united states be saw it's 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 to chip pan the banks in south korea the banks in the netherlands to credit suisse to do it shipped to the banks in ireland. 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 gave its mc donalds for. and their 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 dog 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 is going to run out. some world news in brief now twenty two year old has been charged with the attempted to going over u.s. congresswoman and other counts of democrats have got real differences still

critically ill to be. shot in the head during the massacre outside a supermarket in the state of the reason that the more ceremonies taking place where a gunman opened fire is a petition that is six and a dozen others one of her aides was among the dead as well as nine year old girl and the district judge. one of the flight data recorders from the wrong on the plane which crashed in the country's north west has been recovered seventy seven was omitted from tehran to the city of maine when it came down in heavy snow and fog and east seventy seven people dead and around thirty others injured officials say the bad weather is a recovery operation there have been 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 countries in the street.

there were more weather warnings for queensland australia off the stricken state and you were moving causing flash flooding in new areas of town west of the state capital was deluged killing one woman was swept away others had to cling to trees and power lines were safe to estimated two hundred thousand people have been affected by the disaster at least ten people died. actually today although it's a pita the bells cross-talk guests get fired up over religious writings here's a taste of what's ahead. the underlying foundation of this is the take over of the water. muslims you know has to believe in islam as an illusion and as a state what stands out i'm not i love to live and that's the american constitution they are here eventually to replace the american constitution with islamic sharia because no one is allowed to live but and that. i was all done to fly

people and did they believe in islam. this is what mohammad said well but while that is not all we know that for 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 ways 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 nor is it true in agreement i know you have your places in the muslim world that in which muslims are way way way in which muslims or either a majority or a minority so i think you're simply taking in that phrase think your perceptions out and try again you're right in your trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. and you.

want. the minute world of microbiology to scott a whole lot bigger thanks to the work of russian scientists they've developed a system which uses a powerful by chris kate to give them crystal clear views of the tiniest bacteria that are excited to say anywhere in the world to take a look i was talking about to discover this by christmas she needs to face some big hurdles. 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 the virus within minutes it's a question that concerns these scientists and engineers in moscow we should know all about the why of all particles if you were given all the knowledge about the

water particle it will be a portable. to develop of in your way. we sure will defeat of the viral 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 him to our program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away which 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 the most what it takes any 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 making something this precise requires top quality components and laser accurate engineering coming out today for thirty thousand dollars a piece and the teams efforts to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration russia's bloated bureaucracy. often he thought difficult for law firm with part time. either our product to another country or a theory that if they are part of that i still hope some of that one slam. construct cooperating in how they see the world 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. but our stories are updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com and there's plenty more video news analysis and i'm not move there let's take a quick look now at the nuclear superpower threat they have gone but when you combine this remain we taught at moscow bunker which is now showing tourists how close the world came to another nation. and you can what school american divorcing is choosing patterns over pain as they make the most of the two men miserable marriages can be headed bosco's are to dot com and follow us on facebook and twitter. is indeed.

all the business news with your book. my. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances and vicious 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 excel trigon cut takes up the story. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state or 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 able to 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 big grins the governments are on the ship of the economy increases transparency. for 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 position are as near to russian railways as 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 part of the asian programs which are going to be implemented in poland in turkey china is one of the biggest insurers in emerging market 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 this some vicious bridges ation one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. the past here was a game of two hobs for the martian markets the head of strategy you b.s. in moscow explains how investor attitudes changed two thousand and 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 the capitalization of european banks in the second half the situation started getting bad with. certain areas like investment growth and translated in russia performing quite significantly the rest of the emerging market universe. the south 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 route through ukraine the head of sales trends been giving business r.t. an update on progress. we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places and on the project the feasibility study of sure is

very far ahead is in many respects already completed then there are deficient 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 trying to we're having discussions now also with the european commission our main point in these discussions is of course the commission and the we should make sure that this project has the same opportunity and is not in any way a disadvantage as a potential other projects. gold was a clear medal winner in twenty ten beating all records and delivering a thirty percent return for investors russia has the world's second largest gold reserves but it's only.