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failed to keep up with the rising cost of. the hong kong global news source. two russian ice breaking ships have started a scorching a 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 that now leaves a supply ship with more than three hundred crew stuck on board as the next to be freed. has the latest developments. we needed the few icebreakers been working since the early hours of the morning to free up these remaining t.v.'s those shots in the eye in the colony they know they currently telling the small if they see us

as a refrigerator vessel trying to get in a rice but we have heard that having some difficulties of these extreme weather conditions it's incredibly because they've had. a very very poor visibility and a russian federal fishing agency has held a press conference and we've heard that the two ice breakers and now trying to change up their positions to find another way of trying to break through this they call ice and then when they can finally take the smaller vessel to safety they'll come back and get the lower the ships the supply ship this good day with three hundred crew on board we can him or know from that press conference. the ships will show you clues together towards the area of to no use for another thirty five miles. may take ten to twelve hours or it's very difficult to make any . then both going to break his will return to the supply ships are going. to

close 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 the free them up as well the eva three hundred crew home board but now we know the crew is safe they've got plenty to feed no more to supplies that they have an incredibly long time twelve days now just to recap what happened there with the three vessels originally the food and the hell on december thirtieth and then later last week we had a couple moshe's get stuck in the ice and so the ice breakers to be working to free them up they managed to free three of them and that towing the full thought now and then the hostage gave back for the fifth one but as we said progress really being slayed down by the extreme weather conditions that we've seen out this economy these vessels have been shot at the big the very day. just marina area anyway it's very clear the area as we know we've had some reports that there are going to be helicopters looking over the area to try and get the lay of that i can see just how

bad the situation is that we know the at the may move with the excuse me type which is the go both when this is it back to the area west of me and has altered in these vessels being shut 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 to morrow 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 these ice breakers can find some way of minivan through this incredibly thick ice and hate bringing up these poor creature that we know that twelve days. off the surface reporting still to come here and see how the molecular world has just gotten russian scientists develop powerful internet microscopes allowing specialists worldwide to probe into the tiniest of bacteria. so 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 and burgeoning national debt the pentagon says it's cutting its cloth over the next five years but it's also use it more and less to reports that's 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 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 that 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 new 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 our tongues research making at 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 say 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 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 must 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's 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 and 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 lauren lyster r.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 admiral mullen says it's been severely challenged during nine years of war needs reviewing military contributor believes i'm a tourist personnel are undermining american defense policy support. at the national defense university which is the top military madrasi in the united states and 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 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 ebb erratic behavior of some lose cannons of the strikers brigade in kandahar because couple of those road warriors so cold sculpture hunters not only have discredited a large part of the image of the u.s. military their broad 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 their holistic and integrated us foreign policy. it's not ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. now 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 are lower and reports most older 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 hopis there's 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 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 is going.

to try and make out the money that come in that because nothing done back in again it's getting. 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 and all costs. clean the. state. as 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. you know we're at it oh it's the. next hour here on r.t. a look at what lies ahead for the world in two thousand and eleven trends forecaster gerald so lantos says the one thing we can all be sure of the beginning of the end of government bank bailouts. the federal reserve of the united states besides the thirteen trillion dollars that they in washington lend spent in gary and t. 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 paid 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 the federal reserve gave these no in true story extremely low interest rate loans to corporations such as general electric gave its. donal's 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 their 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.

or it will is now a quarter past the hour here in moscow you with all it's you time now for some other world news and brief twenty two year old man charged with the attempted killing of a u.s. congresswoman and other counts of murder democrats giffords is still critically ill after being shot in the head during a massacre outside a supermarket in the state of arizona memorial ceremonies have been taking place where a gunman opened fire at the politician and voters killing six and injuring a dozen oh one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl and a district judge. one of the flight data recorders from the iran plane which crashed in the country's northwest has been recovered the boeing seven twenty seven was on route from tehran to the city. on. sunday night when it came down in heavy snow one phone killed at least seventy seven people and injured about thirty the bad weather is also hampering the recovery operation and 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 industry. there were more weather warnings for queensland and australia after the stricken state and you would get more rainfall. flash floods in new areas a town west of the state capital was dead just killing one woman who was swept away others had to cling to trees and power lines for safety an estimated two hundred thousand people have been affected by the disaster and at least ten have died. but i just about ten minutes time here on ars he crossed whole guests get fired up over religion here's a taste. and a static get up to me and tell me what do you see the nothing but a d. bag what now has dictated that shit one minute at buell was what do you see then me why is that stomach what is and the bum. because a lot of allies 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 you would probably vehemently disagree in most cases. crosstalk is coming your way in about twelve or thirteen minutes time now 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 them crystal clear views of the tiniest bacteria

allowing a scientists anywhere in the world to take a look that was tom barton 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 unable in although 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 of the vital particle. all the knowledge of all of the viral particles 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 russian program with him for our program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away. 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 is 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 rushes bloated bureaucracy. he thought difficult. last thing with. either. to another country or

a theory that is part of that i still hope. some other one slams construct cooperate 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 via the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. while our stories are updated twenty four hours a day you don't and there's plenty more video news and analysis there as well as take a look and see what's waiting for you right now a nuclear superpower threat may be gone but the reminders still remain to our own moscow bunker which is now showing how close the world came to annihilation.

and watch the american divorce means choosing parties or over pain as they make their most of ditching their miserable marriages keep ahead of our story so our people can make sure to follow us on facebook and twitter. is indeed. all right now it's time for the business news with your ear. 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 excellent reagan 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 stakes in ten largest firms the expected proceeds from the sale of meet 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 green the governments

are on the ship of the economy in theory this transparency. for governments and to make it much more competitive in 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 the roads 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 does 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 the preservation programs which are going to be implemented in poland in turkey china is one of the biggest insurers 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 five billion dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding this some bishops privatization one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. the past year was a game of two harv's for the russian markets the head of strategy edge u.b.s. in moscow explains how investor attitudes changed. two thousand and it was a 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 translated in russia performing quite significantly the rest of the

remaining 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 and a huge market 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 when we approach the feasibility study sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then they are defeated by the two studies on shore and the other important steps that we are on the taking right now is of course working on 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 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 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 as sort of severe off from daughter bank russia told r.t. . to perform for a programmable i think some of the support of bush around credible price war increased because a board member used to not only.