a historic agreement. to explore the untapped natural. interest of. washington d.c. but not for everyone as government workers enjoy pay rises it's the private sector that's bearing the brunt of the recession. and schoolchildren in indian run kashmir are swapping the winter break for classes. of separate.

news from russia and from around the world this is. good to have you with us this hour to the world's oil giants russia. joining forces to explore the potential energy trenches of the arctic sea bed the companies have sealed a multi billion dollar stock swap and and are planning to the reserves thought to be buried off russia's arctic continental shelf more emmett's report from london where the historic deal was signed. this is a deal they've been discussing for months and b.p. are calling this a groundbreaking strategic global alliance and it's the first major equity linked partnership between a national oil company rosneft and an international oil company like b.p. and what's happened is that they've done a share swap ross nest has got five percent of the p. in exchange for nine and a half percent. it's very important that the governments are on the side as well

and in fact a meeting was held with prime minister putin before this deal was signed let's hear what he had to say about the supports that he's going to give this particular deal . 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. to reserves are estimated to be five billion tons of oil and ten trillion cubic meters of. 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 and they've agreed together to develop and explore three separate areas on the russian arctic self and that covers an area of one hundred twenty five thousand square kilometers b.p. has been working in russia for twenty years it was really the natural choice and there's a strong belief in russia in the competency of b.p. to carry out a project like this in spite of the disaster that we saw in the gulf of mexico last

year and i spoke to. him who's the chairman of ross nafta and one of russia's deputy prime ministers here's what he had to say about why they chose b.p. for this. is working on a new strategy transforming the company into an international energy holder deal with b.p. is of course part of the strategy they've gained a great deal. experience including the gulf of mexico oil spill cleanup operation b.p. has learned from this experience and 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 are competent and have strong experience of russian companies so there is a strong relationship already in place between b.p. and rosneft before this deals even been signed and of course this is a large area this hundred twenty five thousand square kilometers is going to benefit both sides and the extra expertise technology and cash of course will

be needed to be to be brought in so that's where b.p. comes in the piece incredibly contrite now about the gulf of mexico oil spill the new c.e.o. bob dudley was brought in the specifically to rehabilitate the reputation of the company if you like following that disaster and he's certainly going a long way towards doing that he talks a lot about it talks about how much they've learned and the chairman of ross sniffed actually said to me expression which basically translates as once bitten twice shy he thinks that specifically because b.p. suffered this disaster and was blamed for it particularly by the americans they will think twice about what they're doing next time so a company like that will have been versed in what to do when an environmental disaster like this happens so they know they're not green in any way. and it talks about how contrite they were and what they're going to do to make sure that another

disaster doesn't happen let's hear what he had to say has been working with us now for twelve years now and we've been working on the york to for us since two thousand and five was raw stuff working with charcoal and 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 we're going to renewed focus on safety risk management and the technology that's new for. environmental care what we do this is a project that they're looking at looking at over about fifty is so these reserves are still unproven in the oil and gas reserves in the arctic so one of the first things that they'll be doing doing is looking to see just how much oil and gas is down there and it's not clear when we're going to see them actually drilling a hole in the ground and bringing out so oil and gas so we'll just have to wait and see. the deal boosts the already long standing ties between b.p. russia's energy industry banaras from the business magazine says it's equally put

official to both partners. i think it's in everybody's interests and both sides are very happy to to do this deal on the one side russ left needs help they're not very good at deepwater exploration and b.p. has pretty and on the other side b.p. is already the most important source of a quarter of b.p.'s total reserves in russia and securing oil supplies going forward is key for the company the world is changing in the in the past the big oil companies to b.p. the others have been taking the lead but going forward increasingly it's national companies going to states that are increasingly claiming control over the resources of their countries and so the international companies are having to change their game i mean it's no longer that they were going to a poor country and take the oil and take the profits they have to share with governments and of course that's a very tricky relationship to manage but having said that b.p.'s been working in

russia pretty much since the beginning i mean this is their joint venture and they become experts at making these managing these relationships although there could be problems there probably will be arguments nevertheless both sides are committed to making it work. in crisis in america it seems not everyone is down on their knees particularly government workers in washington d.c. the dining at exclusive gourmet restaurants and living in million dollar mansions all while their private sector colleagues suffer from job cuts and unemployment. takes a look at the fat cats daily many. 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 dish and 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 you know fat cat bankers on wall street while politicians in the media

seemed obsessive we 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 spry. following suburbs just outside the city home to d.c.'s influential lobbyists and lawyers with 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 for 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 stuart isn't worried about sales we are 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. is fat cats can afford. this upscale restaurant in georgetown the reservation list for a weekday dinner is fall to lisa 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 shalvey shard citron now an average couple isn't shy to shell out what most couples make in a month on a meal or the types of intemperance of a six hundred dollars range or whatever it may be and some nights we do as many as forty fifty. people love 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.

well still ahead for you this teaching separatists. in indian administered kashmir defy warnings to close as they choose to make up for lost time and. feast your eyes on this. capable of speedy travel whatever the weather. and story still to come but first world news in brief for you the south has sworn in the parliament speaker. interim president. asked the prime minister to form a unity government that comes after weeks of widespread i must across the country hundreds of security forces are told in the streets in an attempt to restore order on friday president ben ali fled to saudi arabia officials say what the terms of office elections are expected within two months. rescue workers always in brazil are still struggling to find people trapped on the landslides because of renewed

rains in the country at least five hundred fifty people have been confirmed dead thousands more have been left after the worst flooding in the country in decades so forecasts predict more heavy rain will hit the region over the next few days with officials saying the death toll is expected to rise authorities have declared seven days of mourning. and voting is finished in a weeklong referendum to decide whether the south of the country will seek in the hundreds from you know about four million people were registered to vote which will say preliminary results show a turn up of sixty percent crossing the threshold needed for it to be valid it's hoped a very few will end the cycle of civil war with a chance of creating the world's newest state results could be announced in the beginning of next month. in indian administered kashmir schools are doing without the traditional four month winter break they decided to play catch up after separatist violence and curfews force them to close in the summer but there are reports their move is also the beginning of a backlash against separatist demands which they claim paralyzing daily life. in

srinagar this is all that it means for the school bus it was good walking forcing a general strike called by separatists in the capital of a needed mr bush meat luckily the only child on the bus six year old. was rescued by 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 all the frequent strikes fooled by separatists and won independence afternoon spread of the bus attack many shut down for the not to shoot school i wanted to show. those miscreants maybe ever feel if you. had to live difficult to survive separatist leaders have condemned the attack which is at

the center of a public backlash separatist him on independence for which has been administered by india since british rule india most feared and ignoring this prank calls any separatists are we considering that it should not be counterproductive i mean we are giving a strike call because we believe that we did present apartment president 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 doing that widespread violence with children what i leave. for four months and last week yeah i know you are just getting a lot of traffic was a wonder then that we can find an easing you know parents are adamant that you school with militants like it or not we should be proud of one thing that the

people in kashmir. many c.d.'s. about educating the get europe and especially the girl children the girl child. has four children. to. fifteen and spends most of her time of the class 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 in question is so poor and it's all so pathetic that schools that even don't have windows and doors how can you help you know how can you hit them how can you want them it's going to be freezing and it's not i mean it's. to have a window visa card i mean they wanted as id you know and they had but then the suffering if we had nothing to do with the as i leave you more and have been given

. the go next tuesday early affecting people. these children are now being caught up in the political tussle if called. whether or not their academic future is going to be impacted life entirely in the hands of the little button saying r.t. . well you can catch more on these and other stories on our website at www dot com has some of what's online that write. a russian journalist cause a bit of a stir at a white house press briefing after offering his condolences over the recent arizona shootings he also a question that raised quite a few eyebrows find out online exactly what he said and. what he didn't document. filings really played by falling russian spies here. superstar ice hockey player alexander ovechkin appears to be the latest russian to get involved in an espionage intrigue and to our website for more of course you can

visit you tube channel for more videos. well russia may not be the easiest country to get around in the depths of winter but a team of inventors believe they have the solution have come up with a new hovercraft capable of travelling both on and off land at speeds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour or if an ocean or went to check it out. russia's snow drifts in the winter oh impossible slashing the screen can make life hard for many but on this one can go just about everywhere this. was this. was. the russian point skate to can travel at speeds of up to one hundred fifty

kilometers per hour making it ideal as a snappy runaround or a had turning hobby emotion course three siberian 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's it's so easy for both of us to shoot one man called me and asked whether we can get a trailer with two beds and a hatch inside the cockpit for fishing on the ice. garry's was designed in the town of cough ski ham to russia's annual international asho and by former avocation engineers not surprising than it has a lot in common with its weened brothers some of them is patented features a great handling and improve safety it's got a very strong roll cage even if you capsized only going to get is lots of adrenalin we're thinking about installing an airbag another bit of know how is the propellant it's mounted up front it's covered so there's no chance of a scarf getting into it and dragging its owner into the blades besides it's warm

and dry in there. there are 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 as for those who want one they're doing already so there's no problems with demand just noticed. today it may only be two seats floating in a cushion of air but if he floated up great idea past the engineers there are more than happy to listen that is of course his stump up the twenty thousand bucks price tag if that gary's floats your boat. or if an ocean r t moscow region. let's have rings up there and i'll be back with a recap of our main stories about ten minutes from now on the meantime musicians are rising up against guantanamo and protesting against their music being used as

torture when next we talked to grammy award winning guitarist tom morello who has a goal to bring about social change through his town. he's the face behind the guitar. hard hitting grammy award winning guitarist tom

morello strength his beat to the sounds of social justice. from his early days as lead guitarist of rage against the machine. the street sweeper social club tom morello incorporate social issues of the past and present to mobilize his fans toward political change. parties sits down with tom morello tom morello thanks so much for joining us and happy to be the. last and now you are a member of the class of two hundred seventy what's you to give your voice to the immigration debate while i was happy to join the immigration debates and the boycott of arizona through the sound strike which is. the singer of rage against the machine and it was a simple matter of him texting me asking what i thought i said i'm all in what can we do to help so rage against the machine reached out to many of our friends other

artists to ask them to join in the boycott it's a law which basically. makes mandatory racial profiling and as someone who's been there. spent a lot of my life being the victim of racial profiling i was that i was i literally integrated the town of libertyville illinois i was the first person of color to reside within its borders and so growing up there i would regularly be pulled over by the cops even recently a couple years ago i was walking home from a bar at night and i got pulled over and put a hand up the side of the road so i looked like i might be someone who was stealing cars in the area so i thought first hand a visceral experience with racial profiling so i know what what that law would mean to the daily lives of brown skinned people in arizona worried and acted. and so. what sounds trite does is we were asked by organizers within arizona who are fighting against s.b. ten seventy to lend our names to the international boycott which goes beyond music it's unions or boycott the city of los angeles is boycott the state until the law

is that awful racist laws thrown out once and for all time what do you make of international organizations like the u.s. you can be absolutely live up to their objectives of helping developing nations and ending world conflicts or do you think that they actually cater to the benefits of the more wealthy or developed nations well i mean if the question is has the you know how successful is the u.n. been the u.n. security council is basically in the hands of the united states and its closest ally you know that. one hundred fifty countries you know around the planet can vote to that this has been a war crime the u.s. just says no it's not and that's the end of the discussion so it's not really so much a united nations as it is a. body of countries that is beholden to the interests of a few and so it behaves much like you expect you know the u.s. government to use your music as a form of you know worst techniques that some people consider torture blasting your music for seventy two hours nonstop to sensibly convince detainees to give

information how did you feel when you found out that the u.s. government had used your music to torture people when we learned that the united. states government was using rage against machines music to torture people in guantanamo bay we sued the state department to get him to stop and we were unsuccessful in that suit and pursued over the course of a couple of years and i think it's a thing of the crime my only hope is that on that day hopefully at some point not in the too distant future when the war criminals of the bush administration are brought to trial and i one day wearing their yellow jumpsuits and black hoods it will be the music of rage against the machine that is pumped into their cells twenty four hours a day how would you say capitalism has affected the world's. it's omnipresence you haven't had the opportunity to tour in many countries around the planet. even over the course of my tour in history which has been about eighteen years now. you know perth starts to look like lisbon starts to look like berlin start to look like

mexico city they all the same dunkin donuts the same benetton shops you know capitalism and job is to remake the world in its image and to create. and to create wants to create unnecessary wants so there's products to sell to newly dissatisfied consumers that's why you have to have the right pair of jeans to be attractive in the right gear to be have your thirst quencher the right you know buy agra pill to succeed in romance and you know these things are you know so in that regard capital is very successful what i would say is also see as successful you have to. see that there's a there's there's a balance to that and you look at the progressive change that happened a lot of south american countries of the course of the last last decade while u.s. while u.s. aggression was pointed at the middle east but there really has been. a resurgence in. people's democracies that are not that are not dictators but you know you're seeing sort of you know indigenous people in power you're seeing economic domestic policy of south american countries geared towards helping the poor like saying out

loud they're helping the poor some you can never say in the united states in an election and so there is some some reason for hope what role you can use if you should. social justice political. take on a more like role and work towards different. on the ground to work with movements to implement that's. what i would say first of all i would never what musicians need to do is is what is honest to themselves you know i would never suggest the musicians to do not have a social conscious but adopt one because i suggest that you know me but but on the other hand i think that not just musicians but people in any profession whether they're journalists or cameramen or you know groundskeepers but they don't divorce their lives from their politics and their beliefs and you know what i don't choose to be a guitar player that shows me i'm stuck being a top player and it's my job to weave my convictions into my work into my vocation and so i try to do that through you know the the music that i create my interaction

with the audience and the nonprofit you know groups and organizations i support you know through my music so that's what i recommend just don't to musicians at whatever level whether you're playing stadiums or whether playing in basements to not be afraid to weave your convictions into what you write about and what you do with your art tom morello member of the. activist it was great to have you thanks so much thanks very much for having. me least filled with joy. inspiring insouciance. was everything really good. to see.

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