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elderly many contra forced to retire as pensions and interest rates fail to keep up with the rising cost of living. a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow. two russian ice breaking ships have started a scorching refrigerator a vessel which has been stranded in frozen waters off russia's far east for almost two weeks now it was among several vessels that became trapped in the ice but now leaves a supply ship with more than three hundred crew stuck on board as the next to be freed. across the latest developments. we needed that to ice break has been working since the early hours of the morning to free up these remaining t.v.'s those shots in the eye in the call and say no they currently telling the small if they see us as the refrigerator vessel trying to drag it then i realize that we have the having

some difficulties of these extreme weather conditions it's incredibly they call a safe i go and very very poor visibility rushes federal fishing agency has held a press conference and we've heard that the two ice breakers and now trying to change up the positions to find another way of trying to break through this they call it and then when they can finally take the smaller vessel to safety they'll come back and get the launch of the ship's supply ship is going to have a three hundred crew on board we can him or know from that press conference. the ships will sail clips together towards the area rufino he's one of the thirty five miles. take ten to twelve hours later it's very difficult to make any. then both lunch break as we return to the supply ship or we're going to go to florida so of course as you heard he has to go that supply ship waiting for the ice break is

to get the smaller vessel to safety and then to come back and to free them up as well this eva three hundred crew home both but now we know the crew is safe they've got plenty of no more to supply so they have an incredibly long time twelve days now just to recap what happened there with the three vessels originally the code in the help on december thirtieth then later last week we had a couple motions get stuck in the ice so the ice breakers to be working to free them up they managed to free three of them and that towing the full one now and then the hostage gave back for the fifth one but as he said progress really being slayed down by the extreme weather conditions that we've seen this economy day where these vessels have been shut that's a big a very day. marina area anyway very clear the area 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 we know that at the may move with

their. kids and they go. back to the area west and has resulted in these vessels being shot as some officials have said that possibly it will be tomorrow that these ships can get freed up we know that there's going to be further updates. and to them really they're going to be looking to these weather conditions hoping that the. break is going to find the way through this incredibly thick ice and hate to bring up these you know the twelve days. off you sara for three point now still to come here on the program molecular world has just got my team. developed microscopes allowing specialists worldwide to probe into the tiniest bacteria. some one 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 defense

budget and comes amid a flagging economy budgeting national debt the pentagon says it's cutting its cloth over the next five years but i was lauren lyster report starts going to be difficult when there's an entire industry relying on the 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 u.s. 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 the 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 that us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were 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 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 you know 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 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 kill the 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 a 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 in the sr r t new york. top ranking u.s. officer is openly voicing concerns over the professional conduct of the country's armed forces in. afghanistan admiral mullen says it's being severely challenged during nine years of war and needs reviewing artie's a military contributor believes i'm a tourist personnel are undermining american defense policy as a board. and the national defense university which is the top military madrasi in the united states and rural 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 their 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 doubt the first of them is the behavior

of some lose cannons and the striker's brigade in kandahar be ghost couple of those road warriors so gold sculpture hunters not only have discredited a large part of the u.s. military in iraq 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 countries abroad the us on demining their whole least stick and integrated us foreign policy it's now ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you all without seen now britain's pension is are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country the u.k. insolvency service findings highlight how seriously those of us sixty five

a struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise. lower and reports most older people's budgets have already being 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 in 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. is going. to try and make out the money that come in that because 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 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. and it's very unlikely that the payments. will go up as quickly as the cost of the things they're going to have to borrow so that's going to be 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 a 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 oh it see. here on a look at what lies ahead for the world in two thousand and eleven trends forecaster gerald celente one thing we can all be sure of the beginning of the end for government by. the federal reserve of the united states the saw age the thirteen trillion dollars that they in washington lend spent in garenne 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

a check to the banks in ireland. they gave money even to the banks in canada and the federal reserve gave these no interest or extremely low interest rate loans to corporations such as general electric obligated six donal's for. 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 dog 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's going on right now. it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you all with all it's here

let's do some world news in brief for you and a twenty two year old man charged with the attempted killing of a u.s. congresswoman. and the other counts of murder democratic. still critically ill after being shot in the head during the massacre outside a supermarket in the state of arizona memorial ceremonies have been taking place where a gunman opened fire as the politician met photos killing six and injuring a dozen others one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl and a district judge. and one of the flight data recorders from the iran air plane which crashed in the country's northwest has been recovered a boeing seven twenty seven was on route from tehran to the city of on sunday night when it came down in heavy snow and fog killing at least seventy seven injuring around thirty the bad weather is also hampering the 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 country's air industry. there are more weather warnings for queensland in australia off at the stricken state get more rainfall causing flash flooding in new areas a town west of the state capital was deluged killing one woman who was swept away others had to cling to trees and power lines for safety and estimated two hundred thousand people have been affected by the disaster and at least ten people have died. well next hour here on r.t. people cross talk guests get fired up over religious writings is of taste of what's to come. at any step get up to me and tell me what do you see they are nothing but a d. bag what now has dictated that shit one minute at bule was what do you see tell me why is that stomach what is. because a lot of alive and well first of all i don't think the islamic world is in on that

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 muhammad or reject the 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 know most of you this then you would probably vehemently disagree in most cases. the minute world of microbiology just got a whole lot bigger thanks to the work of russian scientists they have developed a system which uses a powerful microscope to give the crystal clear views of the tiniest bacteria allowing scientists anywhere in the world to take

a look there was talk about discovered this microbe machine still faces some big hurdles. but 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 the scientists and engineers in moscow we should know all about the why of all particles if you were good all the knowledge about the particle if it were possible. to develop in your way. we sure will defeat. 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 of 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 observe all the processes going on in real time a lot of course it's not all seen through rose tinted lens so making something is precise requires top quality components and laser accurate engineering coming out today for thirty thousand dollars apiece and the team's efforts to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration bloated bureaucracy. he thought difficult. last thing with. either. another

contract or a theory that is part of that i still hope. construct cooperating 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 interconnected by the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. now our stories are updated twenty four hours a day dot com there's plenty more video news and analysis there as well take a quick look and see what's waiting for you in the nuclear superpower threat may be gone but there are still here today we tour of moscow bunker which is now showing tourists how close the world came to annihilation. and you can watch the american

divorcée choosing parties over pain as they make the most of their ditching and ditching their miserable back these stories and more of course our you tube channel or for you twenty four seven dot com. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of. giant corporations are on the day. after the business news with. 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 minister 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 garments our ownership of the economy increases transparency of 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 d.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 instead as the need to be flexible and wish them a computer which we can go further and sell the controlling stake 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 preservation programs which are going to be implemented in poland. in turkey china is one of the biggest issue as an 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 billion dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding this some vicious privatization one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. the past here was a game of two harv's for the russian markets the head of strategy as you b.s. in moscow explains how investor attitudes changed. two thousand 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 defaults concerns about so we capitalization of european banks in the second half the situation started getting bad with. certain areas like investment growth and that translated in russia performing quite significantly the rest of the

remaining emerging market universe. but 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 in giving business archie an update on progress. we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places along approach the feasibility study sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed. the two studies on shore 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 you should make sure that this project has the same opportunity and is not in any rate there so far as 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 ranked fifth in terms of production that gives russian miners some of the best growth profiles in the industry sort of severe off from dortch of bank russia told r.t. . to perform for him at all i think some of the people bush are non-credible price war increased because a board might be used to not only. save michael but also you know you lost it.