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to. the full point. of the photo. how would. its team weather conditions like the praise of the rescue missions afraid. also in the program tonight cashing in on conflicts all the more than hoffa the americans are against the country's war plan cuts of the pentagon won't go ahead big business gets its way.

shafted portage says the elderly are suffering financially. this is r t it's ten pm monday the tenth of january my name is kevin o. in our top story tonight 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 that now leaves just one more with over three hundred crew aboard is the last to be freed first following the operation for us. two icebreakers still working hard to free these remaining two ships that has been incredibly tough. because it is not the macro not to play the school up at

the remaining t.v.'s lose the refrigerator said and they've got to get that trying out to get it to the thin ice area but it's been tough going they've had to battle with this incredibly thick ice and the plan is to die and i will say to the a pool it's a gave 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 bases the minute a 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 different maneuvers to the ice break his teammates effectively break through the size muesli heard that they were possibly thinking of dispatching a helicopter to try and help with the navigation of it in the tough conditions that we see and the full visibility that has been pulled out of the maybe we can hear more from that press conference now. the ships will show you clips together to

ruggieri rufino you see for another thirty five miles. because we return to the supply ship. now these tough weather conditions we see really affecting this whole operation i remember it's been twelve days now but the original three ships couldn't for that rescue we then flew the two icebreakers and they got in it up to marcos dispatched to help them 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 towing the full and they're planning to go back for the fifth officials are saying that hatefully the one that's being told at the moment the refrigerator vessel should get to thinner ice it's. possibly more ice at some points more than they said it was it gave out the largest supply ship i that we've also heard that that's going to be made. some problems with refueling beat icebreakers say it's not certain exactly what's going to happen with that yet of course the crippled the supply ship that eva three hundred female we should

desperately get out to be treated i thought that's all they did is he said the weather conditions at the navy make it very hard given i hear it as soon as when the. aussie sort of firth reporting there on that ongoing maritime rescue operation . the u.s. plans to spend a wreck or seven hundred twenty five billion dollars on its military this year ahead of plans to trim the budget over the next five years but there's concern that those cuts will be jeopardized by the interests of big business in search of lucrative military contracts artie's lauren lyster advice to get. 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 including 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 hear three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billion twenty three point five billion those are roughly the dollar amounts the top three american defense companies were handed in government contracts in two thousand and eight a president once warned about this industry we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought all runs on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago than us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has gone since then it'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 congress on their side here to build the weapons or if necessary to use them 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 hard times research 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 times save the defense dollars are sure to keep coming for contractors as long as the influence continues and as long as the empire continues to expand you're suggesting then a permanent u.s. presence in afghanistan something which you consider we have bases all over the

world when you think strategically you may wonder if the us really wants to end the war or ever leave afghanistan in a stand it's next to the middle east and it's next to russia and it's next to china it's a wonderful place to have bases and weapons and nuclear weapons it's a place where they very much want to go to natural gas pipeline looking at recent history our combat mission is ending but our commitment to iraq scooter is not what does it mean to say a war the united states would like to end the iraq war by keeping the military bases there keeping fifty thousand troops there keeping a muffed control of the economy so that if the iraqis do anything at all that the united states and its investors don't like we can immediately kill another hundred thousand iraqis and while in afghanistan the us 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 you can 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. coming up with a program going viral on the internet literally a team of russian scientists invented fall full on. line microscope let's zoom in on new strains of viruses and microbes from anywhere. but back to the present to the u.k. 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 the desire to use lorimer

has been finding out that leaves them struggling to afford even the basics of retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies so it's a new survey shows a different side of old age and britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner lydia portsmouth won't say how much money she gets from the state but she is 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. if you know that. to try and make out the money that come in that because nothing done back in again. in the end i would

have to fell that. lydia is one of the lucky ones she owns her own home and has a small amount of savings but data from the office for national statistics shows more than half of single pensioners in the u.k. live on the equivalent of less than forty five dollars a day with nearly a quarter of a million getting by on heart that the consumer credit counseling service helps people to repay debt when they get into trouble they're seeing an increasing number of older people with huge credit card debts and no way to repay them and they say life's only going to get more difficult they're going to get worse in all costs against. 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. canton 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're and it's oh it's the. best at the same time as trans focus a gentle soul and so you believes that the social unrest we saw in many european countries over spending cuts and tax rises is the beginning of a global revolution we've got a full interview coming your way in about twenty minutes 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 them 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 klein and 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 cause because it's affecting them so what we saw in the in the late in the game with all your 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.

to you thirty moscow time to bring you up to date on some world news headlines this monday the pulse separte. the banter has declared a cease fire it follows heavy pressure from the spanish government and from its jailed activist to pursue independence far more peaceful means madrid says the announcement is nothing new it's a brokered cease fire agreement in two thousand and six when it planted a bomb with an airport its often violent campaign for independence has claimed more than eight hundred lives over four decades. iran has launched an investigation into the boeing plane crash that killed seventy seven in the northwest of the country the aircraft with a hundred four passengers aboard failed to land in the city of year due to poor visibility it was circling for another attempt when it disappeared from radar there's been at least five major crashes in iran since two thousand and five u.s. sanctions are being blamed for making it hard to maintain the country's aviation industry. trading has been suspended at the main stock exchange in bangladesh after

thousands of investors buy it 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 as 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 rip through northeast astray or a sudden torrent deluge to turn in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on grooves rather more weather warnings for the stricken state which is taking a real pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from. is a growing tendency western country to consider islam and muslims in the context of terror but to what extent is that a misinterpretation or indeed what can was limbs do to change global public opinion about the religion next people of cross-talk gas get fired up about perceptions of islam in the modern world. and that lying foundation of islam is the take

all side 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 if ventura lito to please that i make them constitution with islamic sharia because no one is allowed to live but and that. this is what mohammad said well while that is that is that all we are thankful that is absolutely contrary to the reality of a person like me who is an eighth generation american whose parents are christian whose associates and friends and loved ones in many ways in many cases are christian no one has ever told me in any religious context that i've been in that the purpose of my life was to somehow overturn constitutional law and replace it with sharia that simply isn't true nor is it true in agreement on radio you know

the ways 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 nap sprinkler out and trying and you're right in your trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. you. next sharing videos and pictures online is old news but sharing your micro bacterial catch of the day on the web is something altogether different russian scientists have developed a microscope system that lets their colleagues around the world zoom in and view the tiniest bacteria over the internet in real time. as a close up view. 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 these scientists and engineers in moscow we should know all about the why of all particles in both keith all the knowledge about the particle if it were possible. to develop in your way. we sure will defeat of the. 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 mostly 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 which the benefits of being able to scan images via the internet are

becoming ever clearer now 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 for the most it takes only one microscope and each student can work a complete is on at the same time it's there all the process is going on in real time a lot of course it's not all seen through rose tinted lens so making something this precise requires top quality components laser accurate engineering coming out at over thirty thousand dollars a piece and the teams efforts to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration go to the officer. and he thought difficult for last thing with. either our product to another country or a theory that is part of. still her. some of that warm slabs construct cooperate in how they see the world a 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. really clever devices in an airhead fun to use one fee for the world footballer of the year award for twenty ten that's in our sports update in about twenty minutes time but first it's got leaves business round up tonight for moscow . where we watching business r.t. 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 is 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 or enterprises and a shareholder of twenty nine hundred fifty joint stock companies if they go 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 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 be crazy garments are on the ship of the economy in theory this transparency go 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 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 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 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 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 dollars worth of paper a year although many questions still have no answers regarding this some vicious bridges ation one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business are.

traders in russia are on holiday and will come back on to the floors chewstick the past year was a game of two holes for the russian markets they had a strategy at u.b.s. and 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 default concerns about a recapitalization 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 world meeting in 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 second updates on the progress we are working on the. feasibility studies and in various places in the feasibility study all sure is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then there are just too busy two studies on 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 trying to 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 it's not in any rate there's a teacher as a potential other projects. goal

was a clear metal with twenty ten being 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 from deutsche bank russia told r.t. . but it is all underperformed put in metal i think move this up you know bush around credible prices will increase because the world might be used not only as safe michael but also in the industrial production for a large extent this if with are used for more in industrial production it will generate thing the author of the month or this model and also put it has a little for interest in the long term pros of the problem is in the execution risk to the company will make a few surprises and then it will spark investing interest in the stock.

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