in india auntie's available in the grand central shirts in mumbai the taj mahal the . polish president. bay which results on a beach resort public close to gone home hutto ridges cement hotel to hotel closer to the meridian to leave the g.o.p. hotels church in new delhi who took the maori babyhood clearing collection ramona plaza. maiden's hotel believe park was a movie reticent ship and it was punished but they protest promised. it steamed weather conditions like the progress of the rescue missions afraid the t.v. remaining set cuts in the ice of presses. also in the program cashing in on conflict so that more than half of americans are against their country's was but if it is planned cuts at the pentagon won't go ahead of big business gets its way

we report. and pension a public see the traditional image of a happy retirement in the united kingdom a shattered by a report which says of the l.d.s. suffering financially than any other group. this is up to him choose to know the. monday night the tenth of january forgive me money was kevin and our top story trapped by ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerator vessel stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east is being towed by two ice breakers several other ships have been rescued from the same situation over the last few days but now lives just one more with over three hundred crew aboard is the last to be freed. following the operation. but if he was break his 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 still had the refrigerator. and they bought a ticket that trying now to get it through the thin ice area but it's been tough getting they've had to bow to this incredibly thick ice and the plan is to that end i will say to the a pool it's a gate back and get the lodge at 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 base of 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 teammates effectively break through the size muesli heard that they were possibly thinking of dispatching a helicopter pad to try and help with the navigation of it in the tough conditions that we see on the full visibility that has to be full of the maybe we can hear more from that press conference now. the ships will soon close together towards the

area of to not use for another thirty five miles then both going to break as we return to the supply ship shows how these tough weather conditions we see really affecting this whole operation five remember it's been twelve days now that the original three ships couldn't for that rescue we then flew the two icebreakers and they got in and out no macros dispatched to help them. 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 telling the full and they're planning to go back for the fifth officials are saying that they feel a the one that's being told at the name of the refrigerator vessel should get to center ice and. possibly to maurice at some point some more and. be able to pay back the largest supply ship of that we've also heard that that's going to be made . some problems with refusing to break is so it's not certain exactly what's going

to happen with that yet of course the crew pulled the supply ship that over three hundred three men we should desperately get out to be worried about i thought that was a bit as he said the weather conditions at the level make it very hard to give an accurate as to when they'll be freed up. so the first report of there will of course keep you posted on those developments as they happen on the maritime rescue operation. the u.s. prime suspect the record seven hundred twenty billion dollars on its military this year ahead of plans to trim the budget over the next five years but there are concerns that those cuts will be jeopardized by the interests of big business in search of lucrative military contracts his loyalists are investigated. 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 they're all trying to shift motives for the war ii 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 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 you know to build the weapons or if necessary to use them ma makers cast the votes that ensure a military contractor such as lockheed martin gets two hundred sixty dollars from each household a year according to hearten 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 hartung 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 here 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. millions trying to win the hearts and minds of the people it looks to sun like resources are going in

a different direction than tribal law 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 out through a cold winter afghans left out in the cold war the u.s. government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay lauren lyster r.t. new york. coming up with a program going viral on the internet literally the tip of russian scientists invent a powerful online microscope to let's zoom in on new strands of viruses of microbes from anywhere in the world report for. the u.k. next there were pensions are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country and insolvencies service reported the codes that over the past decade the

number of elderly with growing debts comes risen six fold. finding out that leaves them struggling to afford even the basics. 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 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. if you know on the ng that pi is the bail was in and i live on the bench in the drop of a bit why just on my couch but the money that's coming out because nothing was done

back in the day and it's gettin a dollar another in the end i would have to sell the elf. 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 so far as all costs. are up and it's very unlikely that the. state. will go up as quickly as the cost of the things are 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 are at it out see. this is the same time as trends full cost a general celebrity believes that the social unrest we sort of many european countries over spending cuts and tax rises is the beginning of a global revolution the full interview is coming your way in an hour's time. 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 haven't worthlessness that you went to college for you can't get a job oh and by the way those services are 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 your taxes 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 no way to get to the top and they're seeing the too big to fail bailed out they're seeing the gap between the rich and the poor the widest in the united states of any of the just realized nations so now they have a call because it's a sad thing then so what we saw in the in the again with all their 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 sore in france figure it out.

you some rather old and brief this month they're not the separatist group is declared a person you cease fire it for. heavy pressure from the spanish government and from its jailed activists to pursue independence from the peaceful means we dread says the announcement is nothing new at a brokered cease fire agreement in two thousand and six when he planted a bomb with an airport it's often violent campaign for independence has claimed more than eight hundred lives over four decades. iran 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 aboard failed to land in the city of rome year due to poor visibility it was circling for another attempt when it disappeared from radar the police 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. trading has been suspended in the main stock exchange in bangladesh after thousands of investors rioted over

a market plunge police were deployed to contain the situation but were unable to disperse the crowds the country's stock market's been volatile over the past few weeks with many people losing their life savings many of the demonstrators voiced concerns that the market failures were engineered by the government. for people being killed as flash floods ripped through the northeast the strayer a sudden torrent deluge the town in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on the roofs there are more weather warnings too for the stricken state which has taken a pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. that night here in moscow ahead there's a growing tendency in western countries to consider islam and muslims in the context of terror but to what extent is that a misinterpretation indeed what could muslims do to change global public opinion about their religion later tonight people of all crosstalk gas get fired up about perceptions of islam in the modern world. that lying foundation of islam is to

take all that of the world. muslims you know how i still 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. this is what mohammad said well thought well for that is that all we have time for that is and hold 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 and nor is it true in agreement on radio you

know your place is 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 a let's pretend you're. trying and you're right in your trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. you. want to. cross all it's not a twenty three thirty moscow time many would agree that sharing videos and pictures online is old news but sharing your micro bacterial catch of the day on the web something altogether different isn't it while the russian scientists have developed a microscope system that lets their colleagues from around the world zoom in and view the tiniest bacteria over the internet in real time tom bodett brings us this close up view. 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 in this cave all the knowledge of all of the viral particles that have 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 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 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 a complete is 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. either. to another country or a theory that is part of that i still hope so. other ones labs can start 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 into connected by the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom barton r.t. moscow. from science to news bulletins to hollywood movies later are to investigate what messages media spreads throughout the world but before that the business user dmitri after a quick break. and

then welcome to business r.t. would need to be treated with 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 is going hand in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub. explains. 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 go to sell of 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 equity stakes in ten largest firms the expected proceeds from the sell off make 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 decrease the government's are on the ship of the economy in three this transparency. for governance and to make it much more competitive in the first deal is the perspective sale of up to thirty five point five percent estate 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 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 the 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 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 five billion dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding the submissions privatisation one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our city. so i go to markets now first to europe where stock markets closed in the red the banking sector was coming under pressure as sovereign debt concerns as yet another european economy and this time it's what you call that maybe a bailout in london the footsie closed down almost half a percent of british petroleum was slipping off through the leak at the trance alaska pipeline forced to eventually shut down production of its biggest fuel in north america in frankfurt the dax closed down one point three percent with shares in commerce bank and deutsche bank down. u.s.

embassies are slightly down as europe's debt troubles came back into play of course third straight negative session so for the markets the dow and nasdaq well a down point to three point one percent respectively. whereas in russia traders have been on a holiday they will start working again on tuesday the past year was a game of two hauls for the russian market the head of strategy at u.b.s. moscow explains how investor attitudes have changed to thousands and turn 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 are performing quite significantly the rest of the world

meaning emerging market universe. the south stream gas pipeline project aimed at strengthening european energy security is on track and it should be on line by twenty fifteen and 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 ukraine the head of south stream has been giving business to get updates on the progress. we are working on the. feasibility studies now in various places along the approach the feasibility study all sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then our decision built the studies on 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 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 you should make sure that this project has the same opportunity and is not in any way disadvantage as a potential other projects. right gold was a clear matter when in twenty eight said beating all records and delivering of thirty percent return to investors russia has the world's second largest gold reserves but it's only ranked fifth in terms of production and that gives us a minus some of the best growth profiles in the industry as it gets severe from deutsche bank russia told r.t. . but it is all underperformed put him up till i think. this a piece of bush the wrong kind of bull price will increase because the world might be used not only as safe michael but also in industrial production for

a large extent on the seafront been used for more in industrial production it will generate the investor of the month or this model and also for this has a lot before interest from the long term pros of the problem is in the execution of risk to the company will make a good fusion hine and then it will spark new must be with us for the stock. next up see the headlines kevin will be in the studio at this very short break.