russia and the u.k. team up as well giants rosner have to be peace swap stocks in a multibillion dollar deal to explore the untapped natural reserves of the arctic. federal employees at the heart of the u.s. capital live the high life new figures show they're taking home double the money of their colleagues in the private sector struggling to make ends meet across the crisis gripped the country. and schools in india and run kashmir choose education over separatism in defiance of warnings to cancel classes. what you know if you live from moscow nine am in the russian capital i'm marina

joshie welcome two of the largest oil companies in the world russia's rawson aft and british petroleum are joining forces and they have sealed the stock swap and agreed to extract the untapped riches of the arctic sea bed together the deal said to be worth billions of dollars and is being endorsed by both governments are diesel or am it reports from london. rosneft and b.p. are calling this deal a groundbreaking strategic global alliance it's the first major equity linked partnership between a national and international oil company when the deal is completed will own five percent of b.p.'s shares valued at nearly eight billion dollars and b.p. will own almost eleven percent of rosneft prime minister putin says the russian government is behind the deal but. i would like to let you know that the government of the russian federation supports this joint operation this is a project that could become global and have a significant influence on the world's oil and gas industry russians arctic

reserves are estimated to be five billion tons of oil and ten trillion cubic meters of gas such a project may require tens of billions of dollars of investment and state of the art technology and we are fully aware of the risks involved. together the two companies are going to explore and develop three areas on the russian arctic self the arctics a massive resource although as yet unproven rosneft already owns the license for the field which cover around one hundred twenty five thousand square kilometers r.t. spoke exclusively to deputy prime minister following the signing of the deal. is working on a new strategy aimed at transforming the company into an international energy holder or deal with b.p. is of course part of the strategy they've gained a great deal of experience including the gulf of mexico oil spill cleanup operation b.p. has learned from this experience in our joint venture will be carried out with the

greatest level of measures aimed at protecting the environment we've been working with b.p. for many years they're competent and have strong experience of russian companies arguably a deal with the us nafta improves the case energy security and it also puts b.p. on a firmer financial footing following last year's massive oil. in the gulf of mexico but the question on everyone's lips is whether b.p. is a suitable partner for developing the textile following that huge environmental disaster but b.p.'s c.e.o. bob dudley says the company learns a lot from that and they're ready to move into the delicate environment we've been working with ross now for twelve years now and we've been working on the york to for us since two thousand and five working with cycling you know our capabilities our exploration capabilities and i think to be honest we learned a lot about what happened in the gulf of mexico shaken the company to the core renewed focus on safety and risk management and the technology that's new for the

environmental care of what we do the deal is a two way street the russian government's probably is to create a favorable economic environment meanwhile b.p. hopes it will improve russia's investment climate. reporting there now x. birds are calling the deal a huge boost for both companies and countries international trade consultant philip says b.p. has plenty riding on russian potential and b.p. has invested so much in russia they cannot step away the stage and russia still needs the expertise of western oil companies in its mutual interest and it's interesting because you know they had to sell a lot of has. spilled in the gulf of mexico to put money aside for the recovery from well they are saving their money for russia other than selling this thing and they're investing more so it means that b.p. is there for the long term the potential of russia is so huge if it's not them it's going to be somebody else so it's really a question of gets in first and they were world position be put aside their

difficulties from the first then decide to move forward. and again more on the story in our business bulletin leg later in the program here in our team. government workers in washington are taking home on average double the wages of their private sector colleagues according to the newly revised u.s. census meaning the very people in charge of getting the nation out of its financial hole are living the high life artie's pretty shooter looks at whether they're really working twice as hard. across the united states unemployment lines and lines at food pantries and homeless shelters has marked what's been called one of the worst recessions in u.s. history but there is one special place that remains untouched welcome to washington d.c. the city full of power players pundits and politicians outpace nearly every other city in the country when it came to job growth this past year one thing is sure about this recession is that the public sector employees have been relatively

sheltered compared to the private sector so just how well are federal employees doing according to the latest census numbers the average federal employee made a whopping one hundred twenty three thousand dollars last year in compensation and benefits a private sector employee cashed in at almost half that sixty one thousand dollars public employees i mean is are a powerful you know voter base for pro-government vission so of course they're they're very unlikely to go after them wait a second wasn't on wall street that you saw greedy fat cats sucking away america's cash at the expense of everyone else remember what president obama said about those guys i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of your fat cat bankers on wall street while politicians in the media seemed obsessive lee focused on the lavish payouts on wall street who knew that at

the peak of the recession last year federal workers in washington got an average raise of four percent more than double the national average they have more vacation they have job security lots of things that the private sector doesn't have in the first year and a half of the recession private sector jobs shrank by almost seven percent however here in washington federal civilian employment grew by almost ten percent the divide between washington and the rest of america is even more evident if you take a ride to the. following suburbs just outside the city home to d.c.'s influential lobbyists and lawyers with the potomac fairfax virginia if there is one man who knows the montra location location location it's eric stewart one of d.c.'s luxury realtors seven and a half million dollars over ten thousand square feet it's in one of the best locations in all of potomac feeds a great school district very desirable for the average american upscale consumer stewart isn't worried about sales we're sucking jobs into the washington d.c.

area which is causing prices to actually have stability and it's not just stylish digs that d.c.'s fat cats can afford. this upscale restaurant in georgetown the reservation list for a weekday dinner is fall release the right side of the same table mrs clinton you know who is now secretary of state came many times just a lot of people come from the hill and big big law firms while one in seven americans rely on food stamps at me shelvey shard citron now an average couple isn't shy to shell out what most couples make in a month on a meal or the tax interprets of a six hundred dollars range or whatever it may be and some nights we do as many as forty fifty. people over it at a time when most are struggling to survive it seems like the lucky in washington are living it up preassure either r t washington d.c. and a little layer of this hour we'll show you how one event of russian is rewriting the

rules of winter travel. response care can spice up the cold season for you with speeds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour throw away and i snow and even mud. a russian journalist at a white house briefing has caused something of a media stir with a question some have compared to the cold war rhetoric of old after offering his condolences over last week's arizona. rampage. asked if a spree was an inevitable byproduct of american style freedom press secretary robert gibbs responded firmly that the actions of the gun matter work totally on american saying the nation's values never allow for violence the gunman is in custody after opening fire at a political rally and it's a song grocery store last saturday six people were killed and thirteen more injured including representative gabrielle giffords andris it off told r.t.

he thinks the u.s. is oversensitive when foreigners dared to question its domestic policies. after the briefing i was approached by a number of people and they talked to me very professionally. i would say in some instances even sympathetically they definitely knew where i was coming from and i was coming from the simple desire for the americans to have a discussion of this that is pretty sensitive and help prevent some of the future what i was surprised later was to find the blogs could respond it's from the white house press corps that many of them. of the cold war i think this is that it was definitely misplaced it looks like there is a double standard here where an american journalist in mosco was asking about the internal politics of. a hero and the defender of human rights and democracy and if russian journalist in washington d.c. shows up with

a sensitive subject over internal politics here then. and then you have the american people. russian scientists will reportedly not be taking up the invitation to tour iran's nuclear facilities that follows the insistence of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov that such visits shouldn't be substituted for official u.n. inspections iran extended the invite to representatives from the e.u. china and other members of the un's nuclear watchdog but not the u.s. western powers saying the offer was an attempt to divide them and there is international concern over iran's nuclear ambitions but tehran insist its program is peaceful and the offer was merely a goodwill gesture but experts believe any such attempts are doomed to failure that is they do so from ever there has been a start in negotiations or talks or whatever and it never worked out certainly there may be some people who thought that they could create the fish. but. they

never managed to really break up. five plus one formula. the behavior of russia and china just shows once again that it doesn't work i think it's half expected such and such a reaction however the iranians wanted to show two things to their own domestic public that this we are ready to negotiate you have to see it with a second step the iranians did it again to which their own public namely to boost. the blast about their own new newly achieved technological progress which is not true but again it sends a message to do also of course inside iran who are highly critical of any engagement with the international community that both things iran can to solve comfort them it wants to negotiate important. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and tunisia's president ben ali has fled to saudi arabia after weeks of unrest and violence the country's prime

minister has taken over as interim leader the end of president banalities twenty three year rule marks the first time an arab leader has been deposed by popular protest demonstrators have been calling for more political freedom and better economic conditions clashes with police left at least twenty dead with human rights groups claiming that the number maybe as high as sixty. fresh rains are hampering ongoing rescue efforts in south southeastern brazil following the worst floods ever seen in the country at least five hundred people have died in the natural disaster and thousands have been left homeless mountain villages have been swallowed up by landslides and officials say the death toll was likely to rise. officials in india say over one hundred pilgrims have been crushed to death during a stampede a religious festival in the southern state of carroll scores more were injured the worshippers were on their way back from visiting a hindu shrine when the accident happened reports say the stampede was triggered by

a car driving into a crowd sparking panic. and schools in indian administered kashmir have decided to do without the traditional four month winter break that's in defiance of separate is the man's clothes in support of coals for independence pupils will instead make up the academic days lost over the last year due to massive protests against india rule or his current seeing met one of the young victims of the latest separatist attack in the area. in srinagar this is all that it means for the school bus it was good by a walk in forcing a general strike called by separatists in the capital of the needed minister meet luckily the only child on the bus six year old. was rescued. first they poured petrol under the bus then they smashed the windows the bus driver picked me up and took me out of the bus then those people so far that this attack

was meant as a warning to schools which would mean defeat would strike school just won independence afternoon spread of the bus attack many schools shut down for the day but not school i wanted to show. those miscreants may be a very few if you. had to live difficult to survive separatist leaders have condemned the attack which is at the center of a public backlash separatist independence focus we need which has been administered by india since british rule in india with most parents ignoring this rankles any separatists we considering that it should not be counterproductive i mean we are giving a strike call because we believe that we do present a party to present people in it and i think if people are giving you a response that you need to think something else you need to have an alternate

means other four hundred dollars than just strikes you need to come out with something else that's where we need to sit together and farm out a threat of during the widespread violence of children what i need will to a school for four months and last year. i just been locked up it was no wonder then that with the violence easing no better that you school with militants like it or not we should be proud of one thing that the people in kashmir. any serious about educating their children. and especially the girl children the girl child. has four children almost. fifteen and spends most of her day locked at last in extra tuition. polities meanwhile have decided to keep school during the. winter so that students can recover the last. one is happy with this decision but infrastructure and

government is so poor and it's all so pathetic that schools that they were don't have windows and doors how can you help you know how can you hit them how can you own them it's going to be freezing and it's not i mean it's a have. to have a window i mean they wanted as you know and they had but then the suffering really had nothing to do with the as i leave you going to. go next to this. these. political if these cool head whether or not the academic future is going to you back to life entirely in the hands of the little right and saying r.t. . at r.t. dot com for more stories and we are in line for you twenty four hours a day here is a taste of what you'll find there right now. moscow is demanding one any other

charges or free is russian national academy as a tool of it are accused of spying for the kremlin although released on bail she has to obey strict conditions while awaiting deportation hearing in october. and getting cash is difficult when a bank a.t.m. a spake that's what people in ukrainian capital kiev had to learn the hard way. plus fifteen million dollars worth of artists tell one from a russian businessman to country president paintings by prominent russian artists find out who is to blame on r.t. dot com. and it's the season for getting your skies and skates out but if you're looking for a faster way to get around you might want to check out the winter hava craft

invented by a russian aviation engineers and glides over the snow at speeds over over one hundred kilometers per hour. went to try it out. russia's snow drifts in the winter oh impossible slush in the screen can make life hard for many but on this one can go just about everywhere that's. right. this thing. was that. was. the russian punk skate to can travel at speeds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour make an italian deal as a snappy runaround or a had turning hobby emotion courts decide derian man bought one his house is on one

side of the linda river his body out on the other he said i'm so lazy to travel over with gary is it so easy for both of us to shoot when mom called me and asked whether we cannot a trailer with two beds and a hatch inside the cockpit for fishing on the ice. garry's was designed in the town of she coughs ke him to russia's annual international asho and buy for my avocation engineers not surprising than it has a lot in common with its weaned brothers some of them is patient and features a great handling an improved safety is good a very strong rollcage even if you capsize only going to get is lots of adrenaline with thinking about installing an airbag another bit of know how is the propellant that's mounted up front or if it's covered so there's no chance of a scarf getting into it and dragging its owner into the glades besides it's warm and dry in there. the rock currently only four gary says in the world but soon its creators say it could become mass common as scooters and bicycles. there are plans

to start mass production next year now we're looking for sponsors and facilities and for those who want one they're queuing already so there's no problems with demand justice for. today it may only be two seats floating in a cushion of air but if you floated upgrade idea past the engine years they're more than happy to listen that is of course it is stump up the twenty thousand bucks price tag if the carries floats your boat. or if an ocean r.t. the region. and layers our way report on the anti-war movement within the ranks of the us military joining the yet now war but before that we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business you know joins us now in the studio at of course we're talking about the deal between a b. and ross now to one of the business analysts saying there and what's the expected reaction from investors. well there in a b.p.'s investors are already optimistic the company's shares rose as much as two

point seven percent to an eight month intraday high in new york according to many analysts russia is a great place to look for oil and gas it's not nearly as mature as the rest of the world however some analysts fear the tie up might upset some investors who fear russia taking control in any area will hold more analysis during the day and first let me give you some background so b.p.m. process now jointly develop a number of projects on russia's arctic shelf the fields potential capacity as around three point five percent of the world's proven oil reserves and roughly five percent of the world's gas reserves while measures have also agreed to swap shares b.p. will provide five percent of its shares worth around eight billion dollars in exchange for nine and a half percent of rawson it our correspondent to go to school north takes up the story. this is truly a massive project according to the russian prime minister vladimir putin it may

affect the entire global energy industry russia's oil company and also britain's energy giant british petroleum have reached several agreements in joint projects in developing offshore oil and gas deposits in russia and in third countries at this point we don't exactly know which third countries that we're talking about how well we do know that the russians arctic shelf was also mentioned this is one of the last great unexplored hydrocarbon basins on the planet and so we know it's highly prospective it's large in size we need to do the seismic work and interpret it and then begin drilling wells and so what we're talking about is the beginning of a fifty year project that could be producing hydrocarbons in five to ten years they're talking about deposits up to five billion tons of oil and up to ten trillion cubic meters of gas these or quite impressive figures and according to the

russian prime minister they do still need to be checked but he did seem confident that they reflect the reality both. b.p. have agreed that such an ambitious project will need big investment and new technology and for that they've agreed to create a new scientific centers in st petersburg any movement which will monitor this project on all of its stages but peace in the community. the deal will help. expertise of working shells in locations in the arctic region british petroleum does have this expertise and we're sure this project is strategically important for . last year's environmental catastrophe involving b.p. in the gulf of mexico was also discussed and the company's chief executive robert dudley has said that b.p. has taken its lessons from that disaster and it will. much more attention when it comes to environmental safety management especially when it comes to the arctic

shelf its unique environment b.p. has been working with the russian companies for two decades now and both sides have agreed to that has been. said that this latest project will be no exception. needs for technical expertise to access all in gas deposits in hard to reach shore areas like sequel can from says b.p. will be able to provide that know how while sharing in their resource bonanza. the importance is in. rosneft gaining access to shelf fields have not been developed so far and probably can't but develop without major international partner with years of experience offshore rush's show waters probably have plenty of potential to talk about billions of tons of all

equivalent potentially but so far from the sea development limited to a few areas and. sold them led by a russian company. and a quick look at the stock markets here in russia the market saw a slight correction on friday but over a week my six gained three point four percent and the r.t.s. around five percent making the rush of the best performing emerging market of the year to date. russian stock markets came out strong in their first week of trade after their prolonged new year holidays especially with one of its traditional drivers oil to to hear hike sales trader john heinz or from citibank explains. two the stocks that were the main drivers i would say this week were luke oil and ross left these stocks and lot of the large energy names in two thousand and ten lagged the market in general this week both of those stocks traded above key

resistance levels and were able to hold those levels we saw quite a bit of demand of them and one of the reasons why the russian market did so well this first week commodities were generally very strong crude oil held above the ninety dollars level for d.t.i. we've seen brant closing in on one hundred dollars level once again so that's obviously very supportive for the russian market also metals were quite strong so we have time for no more business news than announced time.

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