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more than any other group. this is r t it's monday the tenth of january. 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 sarah firth is following the operation. two icebreakers still working hard to free these remaining two ships but it has been incredibly tough. i think the president of the macro not to play the fool out at

the remaining t.v.'s lose the refrigerator said and they bought a ticket that trying now to get it through the thin ice area but it's been tough going they've had to bust through this incredibly thick ice and the plan is to die and i would say go to the eight woods agave back and get the lodge at the ships which is the supply vessel that is so that one's going to be much trickier to get out of the ice they going to really need to combine the efforts of bases than that at 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 pad to try and help with the navigation of it in the tough conditions that we see and the poor visibility that has to be full of the maybe we can hear more from that press conference no. the ships will show you clips together to watch the area of thing are used 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 make out in and out no micros dispatched to help the 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 he said the timing the full and the planning to go back to the fifth officials are saying that hatefully the one that's being told at the name of the refrigerator vessel should get to the riser to. possibly more ice at some point some more. be able to gave out the largest supply ship i that we've also heard that that's going to be made. some problems with refueling the fights break a stay is not certain exactly what's going to happen with that yet of course the clear told this to fly said david three hundred three men this we should

desperately get out for the freedom that i thought that they did that is he said the weather conditions at the navy make it very hard to give an accurate and has when the. who are very much across substory with first help for reporting on the spot with the latest developments from this maritime rescue operation. the u.s. plans to spend record 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 investigate. 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 warry 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 so it 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 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 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 heart on three search making it the single largest recipient of taxpayer dollars meanwhile companies like lockheed dole out millions in political contributions and for lobbying each year and promise to deliver politicians not just weapons but jobs sometimes they will even say you know. if you vote with us we'll put a factory in your district those who agree with hard time 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 play that 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 and the iraq war by keeping the military bases there keeping fifty thousand troops there keeping enough control of the economy so that if the iraqis do anything at all that the united states and its investors don't like we can immediately kill another hundred thousand iraqis and while in afghanistan the u.s. is still spending billions trying to win the hearts and minds of the people looks to some like resources are going in a different direction 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 not through 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 the team of russian scientists in the power. a long line microscope and let's research on new strands of viruses and microbes from anywhere in the world within a few minutes time the first go to the next 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 and is on his laments been falling 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 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 going if you know that. to try and make out the money that come in that because nothing is done back in again it's getting lower

and lower 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 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. be. 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 your and it. well this coming the same time as trends full cost a general celeb so he says he 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 coming your way and i was talking about. 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 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 the tax rates 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 use of the world have particularly the united states now in terms of debt to clawing. to the top and they're seeing the too big to fail has bailed out there seen the gap between the rich and the poor the widest in the united states that in the dust relies 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 in 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 r.l. and you already sort in france figure it out.

to tick through some world news stories in brief the basque separatist group has declared a permanent cease fire and follows heavy pressure from the spanish government and for. it's jailed activists to pursue independence far more peaceful means madrid for its part says the announcement is nothing new at a brokered cease fire agreement in two thousand and six when it planted a bomb of an airport it's often violent campaign for independence has claimed more than eight hundred lives over for decades. iran launch an investigation into the boeing plane crash that killed seventy seven in the northwest of the country the aircraft with hundred four passengers on board failed to land in the city of already year due to poor visibility it was circling for another attempt when it disappeared from radar if it at least five major crashes in around since two thousand and five u.s. sanctions have been blamed for making it hard to maintain the country's aviation industry. trading been suspended at 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 engineer by the government. for people being killed as flash floods rips through northwest to strain a sudden torrent deluge the town in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on roofs there are more weather warnings too for the stricken state which has taken a real pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. 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 of what can was going to do to change global public opinion about their religion and in fifteen minutes time tonight people of cross talk gas get fired up about perceptions of islam in the modern world. that underlying

foundation of islam is the take all that is 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 made it down 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 are not ready for 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 way 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 your place is

in the muslim world that in which muslims are way way way in which muslims are or either a majority or a minority so i think you're simply taking in that phrase take your perceptions out and try again you're right in your trying to universalize it in a way that's not true. you. have to pick up the cross swords get in fifteen minutes time next period videos and pictures online is all the rage these days but it's never been quite like this 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 he's told bob took a very close look. 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 case you were given all the knowledge about the vital particle if it were possible. to develop in your way. we sure will defeat the viral the device is called a scanning probe microscope and they've existed for some time in many countries but this team has zoomed in on a novel potential this professor from a university in faraway italy isn't just able to talk about the microscope online using special software he can actually control it program with him of our program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away that the benefits of being able to scan images via the internet are becoming

ever clearer doctors can share information about newly discovered viruses or bacteria as they're scanned and it's also helping to instruct students the world over. it takes any 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 at over thirty thousand dollars apiece and the team's efforts to keep the cost of the microscope down and get it sold a regular frustration of russia's bloated bureaucracy. and if so difficult for law firm with part. time now to buy that our products to another country or a theory that if they are part of that i still hope so. in other words labs construct cooperating in how they see the world the very small it could bring big

changes to the worlds of medicine and science in this and other machines the team hopes to build over three hundred microscopes every year by two thousand and fifteen they want them accurate they want them affordable and they want them interconnected by the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. i will try to let you know how they go on watching our team this monday duma tenth of january with me kevin owen as promised that he did a bit with people or else cross talk team and panel coming up in a few minutes after the business next from moscow. where we are 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 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 units for 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 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 reason garments are on the circle of the economy in previous rounds for us to go for balance 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 a beautiful we can go further and sell the controlling stake 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 out so russia and also within russia this year which will make for other tough competition preservation programs which are going to be implemented in poland. in turkey china is one of the biggest insurers in emerging markets. 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 privatization one thing is for certain the desire to make it happen. business our

city. traders in russia are on holiday and will come back on two floors choose day the past year was a game of two hearts for the russian markets they had a strategy at u.b.s. in moscow explains how investor attitudes changed two thousand and 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 be forming quite significantly the rest of the 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 now in various places along the feasibility study off shore is very far ahead is in many respects already completed then there disappears into 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 no 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 to sort of frontage as a potential other projects.

goal was a clear metal with 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 now that gives russia minus some of the best growth profiles in the industry as said gate soviet a from deutsche bank russia told r.t. . but it is all underperformed put in metal i think move price and it is a piece of the sure on that bull price will increase because the board might be was to not only as safe michael but also you know the industrial production for a large extent this if they used for more in the industrial production it will generate the investor of the month or this model and also put this is a little for interest in the long term pros of the problem because even though it's a culinary school of the company will make exemption higher and then they will

sparking investor interest in the stock. and that's it from the business team this hour hope you stay with. children now see about eight thousand murders by the end of elementary school five two hundred thousand violent acts by the age of eighteen from movies to television shows to video games to children. twenty four hour news channels mission is now

the team every day formulate a stable industrial in. floods of shakespeare's those while those who fairy tales to first think about it while it was a good job the artistic and journalistic future but most of the while it's good to see what i call a happy life in god came down from heaven and stopped oh. amen a mormon and a free one. makes the pill easier to swallow. everybody let's come. closer is that so much given to give each musician the person on the mark with the uses in misuses of religion islam schooled on this understood is the koran anyone.