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the traditional. shattered by report which says the elderly just suffering financially. a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow trapped by the ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerated vessel stuck in the frozen waters of russia's far east is now being towed by a pair of ice breakers several other ships have been rescued from the same situation over the last few days but now leaves just one more with over three hundred crew as the last to be freed. is following the operation. but the ice breaker still working hard to free these remaining two ships that has been incredibly tough. i think the president of the macro. at the remaining t.v.'s the refrigerator

said and they've got to get that trying out to get it through the thin ice area but it's been tough going they've had to bow to this incredibly thick ice and the plan is to that was a full thought to the it was a gate back and get the launch of the ship which is the supply vessel that is so that was going to be much trickier to get out of the ice they going to really need to combine the efforts of basis the middle the press conference today we had the federal fishing agency saying that there really is a lot of complications with this they're trying to come up with if the ice break his team mates effectively break through the size muesli heard that they were possibly thinking of dispatching a helicopter had to try and help with the navigation of it in the tough conditions that we see on the full visibility that has been full of that maybe we can hear more from that press conference now. the ships will show clips together towards the

area of tsunamis for another thirty five miles then both songs break as we return to the supply ship shows how these tough weather conditions we've seen really affecting this whole operation i remember it's been twelve days now that the original three shit screwed in for that rescue we then saw the two ice breakers make out in and out home across dispatched to help them and earlier last week another couple of ships getting stuck in the ice and then had to be helped so they've managed to free up three of them as we said the timing the full and the planning to go back for the fifth official the saying that hatefully the one this thing tell you the name of the refrigerator vessel should get to thinner ice and. possibly some more ice at some point some more of that may with gave out the largest supply ship ever we've also heard that that's going to be made. some problems with refusing these icebreakers so is no certain exactly what's going to happen with out yet of course the crippled the supply ship that eva three hundred.

we should just relieved it out for the read about i thought that's all they did but as he said the weather conditions at the moment they can't very hard to give an accurate estimate as when they'll be freed up. with the developments of this maritime rescue operation. while the u.s. plans to spend seven hundred twenty five billion dollars on its military this year it's the world's largest ever defense budget while the pentagon plans to trim its spending over the next five years many say that will be jeopardized by the interests of big business in search of lucrative military contracts long list or investigates. when it comes to the afghan war well over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having plowed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the us committed to staying the course there all kinds of motives for that war including 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 hear of 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 or by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago that u.s. 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 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. 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 hart 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 to 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 again to stand is 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 it 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 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 . well you see the people who are displaced are actually living in tents without heaters and without blankets out 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 more in mr r. t. new york. still to come here on the program on arts he's going viral on the internet quite literally in the russian sub to invent a powerful online microscope that lets researchers a zoom in on strands of viruses and microbes from anywhere in the world. to the u.k. now where pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country and insolvency service report indicates that over the past decade the number of

elderly with growing debts and reduced income has risen six fold as are to use lower and it has been finding out that leaves them struggling to afford the basics . of retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies 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 going if you know that. a bit of why to try and make out the

money that come in that because nothing is done back in again and it's getting. 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 and all costs. are very unlikely that the. state. will go up as quickly as things are going to have to borrow 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 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 are at it see. well trends will cost are gerald cemented believes the social unrest where you store in many european countries are spending cuts on tax rises and is the rather beginning of a global revolution the full interview is coming your way in just over an hour's time but it's a quick sneak peek. look what's going on in europe the people of woken up what they call a stereotype measures this is what austerity measure is you know that degree you have in worthlessness that you went to college for you can't get a job oh and by the way those services you're getting we're cutting that oh and those pensions and benefits that your parents are getting or other people are working we're going to cut those to zero and one more thing we're going to raise you tax cuts you know that education that's not worth anything it's going to cost

you three times as much to get one particularly in england and that's why they're taking to the streets so that's why we have on one end it's the wake up call and the other one it's screw the people but the people realize what's going on you're going to see a revolution worldwide the youth of the world have particularly the united states now in terms of debt to clawing at the way to the top and they're seeing the too big to fail has bailed out they're seeing the gap between the rich and the poor the widest in the united states of any of the dust realize nations so now they have a cause because it's affecting them so what we saw in the in the good with oil food here heads what we saw in italy with the students taking to the streets you're going to see in spain you're going to see in ireland you already sort in france figured out.

this is the law from moscow now that's it. look at some other major headlines from around the world this hour the basque separatist group after a permanent cease fire but spain's a deputy prime minister has rejected the announcement describing it as nothing new saying it didn't go quite far enough broke a cease fire agreement in two thousand and six when it planted a bomb that killed two people its often violent campaign for independence from madrid has claimed more than eight hundred lives over four decades of fighting. four people have been killed as flash floods ripped through northeast australia a torrent deluge to a town in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on roofs there are more weather warnings for the stricken state which is taking a pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. and iran has

a launched an investigation into the boeing plane crash that killed seventy seven in the northwest of the country the aircraft with one hundred four passengers on board failed to land at the city of. poor visibility it was going for another attempt when it disappeared from radar there have been at least five major crashes in iran since two thousand and five u.s. sanctions have been blamed for making it hard to maintain the country's aviation industry. well there's a growing tendency in the western countries to consider islam and muslims in the context of terror but to what extent is that a misinterpretation and what can muslims do to change global public opinion about their religion later crosstalk guests get fired up over the perceptions of islam in the modern world here's a quick look at what's ahead in the next two hours. foundation is the take all side of the war on. muslims you know has to believe in islam as it

in this sense and as a state what stands out i'm not i love to live and that is the american constitution they are he had eventually thought it plays that i made it down on stick your shin with islamic sharia because no one is allowed to live and that. this is what mohammad said well what well that is that is that all that is absolutely him 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 i majority or a minority so i think you're simply taking in that phrase think your perceptions out and trying and you're right and you're trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. how many would agree that sharing videos and pictures online is old news but sharing your micro bacterial catch of the day on the web is something different altogether russian scientists have developed a microscope system that lets their colleagues from around the world to zoom in and a view of the tiniest bacteria over the internet in real time oxys time bottom brings us this close up. imagine a terrible virus sweeping across the planet scientists racing to try and understand it then stop. that then imagine

a new tool unable in 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 keith gave all the knowledge about the viral particles it will be a portable. 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 indian 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 with 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 that competed 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 frustrated by russia's bloated bureaucracy. he thought difficult. last thing with part time. off by that power to another country or a theory of i still hope some of that warm slabs can start cooperating and 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. our two other business news is next with dimitri. eight thousand by the end of elementary school five hundred thousand violent by the age of eighteen. shows video games. twenty four hour news channels is not. every day formulate a staple just

a. lot of shakespeare those. difference think about it while it was a good trip to artistic and journalistic future but most of the violence you see is what i call happy. god came down from heaven and stopped. makes the pill easier to swallow. everybody was. he.

and larry watching business also it's good to have your company twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the ambitious 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 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 a go to 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 raise the governments are on the ship of the economy in previous transparency. for governments and to make it much more competitive in the first deal is the perspective sale of up to thirty five point five percent is 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 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 stems 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's share to twenty five percent plus one this flexibility will be key to winning investors given the amount of deals expected

also russia and also within russia this year which will make for other tough competition the privatization 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 vicious privatization one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. so you look at the markets now european stock markets are down less than a percent the banking sector is coming under pressure as sovereign debt concerns as yet another european economy this time it's portugal that may need a bailout in london the footsie is down almost half a percent well drive british petroleum is slipping after a leak at the trans alaska pipeline that virtually shut down production at its biggest in north america frankfurt dax is off one percent which shares in commerce

bank down two percent deutsche bank point six percent. traders in russia were on holiday and will come back on to the floors choose day in the past year was a game of two halves for the russian markets head of strategy at u.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 defaults concerns about 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. 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 southern e.u. markets for russian gas across the black sea in addition to the current route for you craig the head of south stream has been giving business out to get updates on the progress we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places along the path the feasibility study sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then our decision basically studies on shore the other important steps that we are on the taking right now is of course working. shareholder agreements we have to make sure that all the shareholders agree on how to structure the project commercially and for today we're having discussions now also with the european commission our main point in these discussions is of course to commission and you should make sure that this project has the same opportunity

and is not in any way disadvantaged as a potential other projects. goal was a clear metal with twenty ten 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 now that gives russian miners some of the best growth profiles in the industry as a surrogate soviet a from deutsche bank russia told r.t. . but is also under performed put a metal i think both price and this a piece of bushy long the bull price will increase because the world might be used not only as safe michael but also in the industrial production to a large extent and this if we've been used for more in the industrial production it will generate the investor of the month or this model and also put this has a lot of four interest in the long term pros and.