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shouted a report which says the elderly are suffering financially more than any other group . this is r t it's no one i am here in moscow kevin zero in on our top story for you trapped by ice for almost two weeks now and a refrigerator vessel struck in frozen waters off russia's far east is starting to be 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 that has been incredibly tough during the day i think the president of the macro is not

in play the fool out at the remaining t.v.'s those are the refrigerator. and they've managed to get that trying out to get it to cool 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 then i will say full to the a pool to gave back and get the logic of the ship which is the supply vessel that is so that was going to be much trickier to get out of the ice again and really need to combine the efforts of bases them without a press conference 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 for the ice break his team mates effectively break through the size loosely 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 poor visibility that has been full on the even these tough weather conditions we see really affecting this whole operation i remember it's been twelve days now but the ships couldn't for that rescue we then saw the two icebreakers and

they got in and out who mark was dispatched to help them officials are saying that faithfully the one that's being told at the name of the refrigerator vessel should get to thinner ice and to. possibly to more ice at some points more than they said it was gave out the largest supply ship by that we've also heard that those are going to be maybe some problems with refusing these ice breakers so is no certain exactly what's going to happen with out yet of course the crippled the supply ship that eva three hundred going on this we should desperately get out to be freed of the ice off of that slope they did that as he said the weather conditions at the even make it very hard to give an accurate estimate as when they'll be freed up. sort of further the latest tonight the u.s. plans to spend a 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 interest of big business in search of lucrative

military contracts laura lister investigates. 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 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 on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago that us president eisenhower said those now famous

words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has gone since then it skyrocketed from just around five hundred billion during the vietnam war to more than seven hundred billion dollars now during the post nine eleven wars and some argue that escalation is tied to exactly what eisenhower was warning about but there's a whole range of business that just you know lives off fighting wars and i think in some you know particularly 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 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 hard tongues 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 us 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 build 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 a must control of the economy so that if the iraqis do anything at all that the united states and its investors don't like we can immediately kill another hundred thousand iraqis and while in afghanistan the u.s. is still spending billions trying to win the hearts and minds of the people it looks to some 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 and through a cold winter afghans left out in the cold while the u.s. government and corporations appear to capitalize on a war that looks here to stay lauren lyster r.t. new york. a twenty two year old man charged with the attempted murder of a u.s.

congresswoman has appeared in a u.s. court garrod lockin is accused of going on a shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona where democrat gabrielle giffords was shot in the head she remains in critical condition this morning six other people were killed including a nine year old girl and a district judge professor joseph move from california state university told me this tragedy might be followed with more violent outbreaks. the rest of the american news media tends to ignore sweep under the rug is that the the tenor and the vitriol. and the hatred really that has been going on in this country i think for the last couple of years the far right has become unhinged we have the first african-american president in our history the white supremacists the racists there's been a tick across the board in extremism from the right he was holding out and with our economic problems as well we are in

a period in america right now in the guns as well we're in a period right now where it is very volatile and very dangerous it's not surprising at all that there would be violent action directed against political figures at this in this climate and i'm afraid the climate right wing talk radio fox news. says of people like ann coulter sarah palin herself they have been extremely divisive in the a lot of time the rhetoric they uses is violent rhetoric and it's not they're not forcing the hand of unbalanced people to come out of the woodwork and do these kinds of acts of violence but certainly the loudness the noise machine of the far right in this country in the last two years has been extraordinary and despite the efforts of more sane people try to call for a more civil discourse a more civil dialogue to try to tamp down the tone it's really not not happening i

think unfortunately the american news media is not doing a good job of helping to tamp down the tone as well. go after the program with going viral on the internet live from the team of scientists and by the powerful online microscope the search is zooming in on you. like anywhere in the war. to the u.s. to the u.k. next pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any of the group in the country insolvency service is reporting that over the past decade the number of elderly with growing debts and reduced income has risen six fold result is neuroma has 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 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. why to try and make out the money that come in that because nothing was 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 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. likely that the. state. will go up as quickly as they. 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. contant visit your traditional retirement in the future where people stop work and live off their pensions for thirty years and for every year the government raises the pension age currently sixty for women and sixty five for men it stands to save itself twenty billion dollars it's a freezing winter here in the u.k. so many pensioners will struggle to pay heating bills and it's unlikely to get any easier for older people the government plans to raise the age at which people could receive a state pension to come back to government debts and as a response to higher life expectancy but while that's all right for the rich critics say it's the poor who will suffer by being forced to work until they drop. you're addicts see doesn't it. you take vision top world news stories from martina the basque separatist group has declared a permanent ceasefire it follows heavy pressure from the spanish government and

from its jailed activists to pursue independence far more peaceful means madrid says the announcement is quote nothing new it's a broken cease fire agreement in two thousand and six when it planted a bomb with an airport it's so often violent campaign for independence has claimed more than eighty lives over four decades. trading has 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 engineered by the government. for people being killed as flash floods ripped through northeast astray or a sudden torrent deluge the town in queensland washing away cars and trapping people on roofs there are more weather warnings for the stricken state which has taken a pounding from heavy rain and overflowing rivers and an estimated four thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. gerri videos and pictures online is

all the rage these days but it's never been quite like this next story 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. take 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 of the particle if it were all the knowledge about the particle if it were possible. to develop in your way. we sure will defeat. the device is called

a scanning probe microscope and they've existed for some time in many countries but this team has zoomed in on a novel potential this professor from a university in faraway italy isn't just able to talk about the microscope online using special software he can actually control it program with 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 only one microscope and each student can work a complete is and at the same time it's there 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 over 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. can be thought of difficult. thing with. by that power to another country or a theory that is part of that i still hope. some 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 via the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom watson r.t. moscow. next is what we look at where the financial troubles of twenty turn are likely to spill over into twenty eleven and what the new year is in store trends

forecaster joe talks to us. my first question for you of course is about that economic crisis for the past two years economists analysts journalists every day people have referred to this as a great recession you for many years have been calling this the greatest depression

and you say that in two thousand and eleven in this year every citizen is going to realize it and it's going to agree with you why is that because they're running out of school. let's go back to two thousand and the third or reserve of the united states besides the thirteen trillion dollars that they had why should. len spend garenne teed since two thousand and nine they shuffled under the table to banks around the world twenty trillion that's with a t. dollars worth of deals the federal reserve gave these no interest or extremely low interest rate loans to corporations such as general electric carly davidson so we don't know what schemes they're doing to prop it up but what we're saying that in twenty eleven the game's going to run out how can we can not imagine them coming up

with another scheme with it going to begin able to continue whether it's in the us or the new to print this digital money not worth the paper it's not printed on and you believe that this year according to your trends forecast that as times get tougher the authorities will intensify their efforts to extract funds needed to meet fiscal obligations what does that mean well that means they're going to try to extract it from the little people and when i say that wake up call look what's going on in europe the people of won't give up what they call or sterile measures this is what it was stair he measured. 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 them oh and those pensions and benefits that your parents are getting or other people are

working we're going to cut those two oh 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 that's the wake up call this is where the revolutions going to happen the youth of the world have particularly the united states mountains of debt to klein and no way to get to the top and they're seeing the too big to fail is bailed out there seen the gap between the rich and the poor the widest in the united states of any of the industrialized nations so now they have a cause because it's affecting them so what we saw in the angel in they again with off with 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 it you already sore in france figure it out what's going on in this cause. is another major trend journalism two point zero the internet has become the great connector they all know what's going on they're all facebook they're all together they have a system where they're interacting and relating cyber war or cyber wars you say is going to be amped up this year why so every major country know. that cyber war and cyber crime are going to be ongoing trends for which every time they come up with a new way to stop a new way to get around it's going to be born the worst conditions get the more you're going to see cyber crime and the worse economic conditions go

globally the more you're going to see cyber wars it's going to be a new element of warfare it's kind of it's a. a it's an internet nuclear bomb waiting to go off every major computer connected industry as service is a potential target for cyber war do you think there's any chance of there being more government control of the internet as the cyber wars increase government control over the net will increase as well along with journalism two point zero we saw with wiki leaks the citizen journalists now people have their own cameras to take films of things that we only used to have film crews for now videos instant they want to crack down on the freedom of information they will use cyber war as another element in the war on terror to take freedom away from us and freedom of

net neutrality and by the way the united states is passing a new net neutrality act orwell couldn't have made up a bed and they there's nothing neutral about the net neutrality that they're talking about it gives government virtually complete control to put anybody at a business as homeland security did during the christmas season when they said that companies violated copyright laws you have no recourse you're gone you're out you're over and we saw it with wiki leaks the greatest fear that governments have our freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness the ineptitude and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public to know about so the freedom of information that goes out they're going to start using cyber war the war on terror as an excuse to take that freedom of the internet away from the people there is

a mystery try and i don't know if you'll give it away just give me some hand but what can you tell me about the mystery with there are two great trends one is alternative energy something. greater than wind solar geothermal biofuel that's the big game changer because geopolitics changes as well would be americans be in iraq if their major export was broccoli and they weren't sitting on the world's second largest oil reserves the other mystery as we say no the hand that feeds we're going to see more and more of the organic food movement the buy local movement it's going to be one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities and also a whole different way of growing things whether it's for a roof gardens and as we said before people tearing up their lawns with grass that's useless that you can't grow to eat or smoke you're going to start seeing

more and more cons of vegetables and gardens being produced from a thank you very much for taking the time to speak with our team at the start of this new year well thank you. children dow c.e.o. eight thousand by the end of elementary school two hundred thousand violent by the age of eighteen. movies television shows to video games. twenty four hour news channels mission is now. every day formulate a steeple just. for shakespeare those while those in fairy tales if you think about it well it was a good year to artistic and journalistic future but most of the violence that we

see is what i call happy. god came down from heaven it stop. at the amen a sad moment in the film one. makes the pill easier to swallow. everybody loves come. closer is that so much different and there's a huge music history a current financial crisis in the markets the assistant misuses of religion islam split on this understood is the koran any more violent than the holy books of christians. he.