people of the global south have to see about what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against other countries of the global south. has plenty more for you on our website r.t. dot com including the latest news and comment as well as any stories you've missed so here's some of what's there for you right now. and during the dragon extravagant parades and spectacular fireworks of the world joins china and celebrating the lunar new year. and risking death to provide a lifeline the story of a palestinian digger whose work helps support his family on the flow of vital supplies into gaza in defiance of the israeli blockade. one solution to joblessness in the u.s. is a scheme were giant corporations creative work places for local communities and they

are even had a government money to that end but somehow jobs still get outsourced to a cheaper foreign workforce and as marina fortnight our reports this allows big businesses to prosper while small towns suffer. in one of america's most economically depressed cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances whirlpool corp is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the night they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from the federal government in part to

create jobs and i think our u.s. workforce certainly. that three workforce if you will is that is the best among the world so we're very confident in the future of u.s. manufacturing for our kind of products one year later the corporation received nearly twenty million dollars from the state of michigan to expand its facility which now serves as a gateway into benton harbor it's good for the community good for the state and good for your business as well there's a real art to that but as the u.s. based corporation has grown globally you know your last three more jobs have been outsourced to countries demanding less wages today the former blue collar community of benton harbor remains a victim of america's deindustrialization and growing poor population pool has seventy one thousand employees around the globe but no longer manufactures home

products in its hometown it still remains a recipient of u.s. state and federal stimulus funding. whirlpool just closed the factory and that hurt my business my little bit. this i lost a lot of clients this is their home base and it always has been and in the beginning of the large development they promised us that they would always be due to the recession the corporate but he myth of home appliances hasn't paid us income tax since two thousand and eight by two thousand and ten nearly ninety nine percent of benton harbor residents were receiving food stamps while the approximately eighteen billion dollars in annual sales that think of purchased my last whirlpool appliance i don't even think i'll call for we care because too often in for too long those that have gotten rich has forgotten who's helped them to get

there and they're willing to step. in that just doesn't sit we'll with my soul a soul living in one of america's poorest cities clothed in poverty and accessorized in corporate success arena porton. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world the newly elected problem and in egypt has started its first session the majority of the seats are occupied by the muslim brotherhood and other islamic parties who won an overwhelming majority in the first post mubarak parliamentary poll the brotherhood says it's going to cooperate with the country's ruling military council the spied repeated calls from activists the power shoo be handed over to a civilian government. yemen's president ali abdullah saleh has left the country after giving a farewell speech where you apologized for mistakes during his thirty three year long route planning to have medical treatment in the u.s. this comes a day after it of parliament approved immunity from prosecution for solitary part

of the deal under which he would relinquish power sally has become the latest leader to be toppled by the wave of arab spring uprisings so that with that and in just a few minutes we explore the stunning scenery of southern russia in the caucasus nature reserve but before that we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business with karina. thank you marina hello and welcome to our business this hour as we've been reporting the european union is about to pull the plug on oil deliveries from iran according to sources in brussels an agreement on the oil embargo has been reached in principle the sanctions are part of the plan to stop iran developing its alleged nuclear weapons program iran has counteracted by threatening to block a major shipping quarter for oil now let's have a look at what effect these jitters are having on the market. anticipating the oil from iran crude prices are slowly heading higher but still makes in today's trade

light sweet is struggling to take off while brant is adding a dollar per barrel. higher led by banking stocks investors are waiting for the e.u. finance ministers decision on the terms of a greek debt restructuring deal they're ready to accept the footsie is adding a point three percent of the dax is losing over over a quarter of a percent here in russia the markets. the markets have lost their previous games and are trading in the red at the r.t.s. is losing point three percent the my xix is point seven percent down and here the top movers on the line six russia's largest oil company has slipped into the red despite strong the world prices bank is losing almost half a percent after rising one percent at the start of the session and the lender has completed acquisition of the dollars investment and mobile operator m.t.s. is around thirty percent of the way. european leaders are meeting on monday

to discuss a long term plan to tackle the region's debt crisis say it's the massive debt write down for greece that could put yourself back on its feet peter weston from out on believe that the markets have already priced in the jitters and are likely to. well everybody's going to await a sort of decision or some some kind of agreement between greece and its creditors that's going to be the key event as to some extent it was last week. again what we saw last week was that any delay of news didn't really impact the markets i think we are in a very positive backdrop for russia in general we do have low valuation we do have the under-performance of russia if people are adding to risk the emerging market should do well and in that context russia should be having possibly more support in other markets. and finally we're looking at gold the precious metal is trading at one thousand six hundred and seventy dollars per ounce up point twenty four percent

on monday it has already gained more than six percent since the beginning of the year and our business allies which made me think a looks at the prospects for the precious metal. is gold on track to become the investment choice of the year now with sovereign debt problems still looming in europe it could be just the right thing the precious metal as seen their remarkable performance over the past decades take a look at the graphic since two thousand and one the trend has been perfectly positive the peak price was reached last year when gold hit nineteen hundred and twenty dollars an ounce but then we saw a nosedive of twenty percent in just a few sessions as the u.s. credit rating was downgraded a lack of liquidity deflated the bullion bubble somewhat since banks desperately required cash they sold whatever they could and it's at that point that the tables turned for the metal and from a safe haven asset gold shifted into risk appetite choices going in correlation not with t. bills but shares nevertheless gold still gained eleven percent last year take

a look at that nosedive that we saw in september last year here it is but the trend is changing we are seeing gold already gaining more than six percent since the beginning of the year it's outstripping most assets and we did see a slight drop during the previous week when jobless claims and us came in with a decline now why are we seeing gold on the up over here is it going to continue glomming there's a number of factors to bear in mind which makes it quite likely we've got the debt crisis in the e.u. we've got instability in currencies we've got rising demand from china and the upcoming wedding season in india when families offer gold as a traditional gift to the newlyweds if there's no quick resolution to the euro problems and it doesn't seem like there's one on the horizon yet we may just see new heights with a precious metal even maybe close to two thousand dollars an ounce some day. and that's all the business is for this hour stay with us for headline news coming up

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the european union after a national referendum marked by clashes polarized opinion and a disappointing turnout. russia's policy on internal migration falls into the focus of pm and presidential run are why we are potent as he presents another set of plans as part of his election programme. now can only be reached by helicopter above the study sea area of the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia is definitely worth seeing with your own eyes when you take a tour of your own right now and it was special report here in our city. southern russia. this faraway place can be reached by helicopter. the first few special permission

to travel around here. mitri says and his son can have such damage. to film the landscapes. oh this close read it's all set up i can't tell you how beautiful. the weather was right back up. this mountain crossland. this place. has declared a world heritage site. of the total area of the caucuses nature of.

a long time ago the people of the caucuses used to shepherd droves of sheep across the a bug of lambs were often targeted by hawks even today they're. back to this past. july. but. this is a bearded vulture i mean there's no bugs and. loads of this kind bigger nests on low lying logs all of thirty or forty kilometers from here. but when they go hunting for. fifty kilometers in search of food. they're interesting creatures. the above go is

situated close to the greater northern slope of the caucuses mountain range from the grassland you can get a panoramic view of the mountain ridge of the caucuses nature reserve. there is also a clear view of mt fished one of the highest points in the western caucuses the local problem let's try to get the mountains in fraying filming is best done from the highest point on the a bar go it's about nine hundred meters above sea level here dimitri is teaching a son killed how to set up for the filming. look. normal you can see that the lighting is on one side or the mist covers most of the valley. we don't want to film only the mist we need to focus on the foreground look at the grass gleaming in the sunlight and it's light of the valley

is dark. so the light strip will show this shot to the best advantage. no. the greater northern slope is a continuous chain of mountain ridges tops by snowy peaks millions of years ago there was a vast sea in this place the smallest part of it the black sea is now hidden behind mountain ridges they form a shield in the way of warm breezes blowing from the sea the warm air creates a sub tropical climate in the foothills of the southern slope of the greater caucus's ridge there is a moderate zone further upslope the kingdom of eternal snow and ice on the mountain tops is more than three thousand metres above sea level. which is the. i'm going to film these magnificent landscapes we never know in order

to show the thought to the hundreds of people who never venture here. or with either because they have no time. when you go because they don't understand the meaning of nature. be able. to go live side by side with the pass translated from the caspian language means the mountain of caucasian goats the reserve is the only habitat of western caucasian goats in the wild here they don't move about very much a small herd might well stay for decades in the same area high in the mountains one thousand eight hundred metres. the only trail leading across the past begins in the above go grassland. caucuses reserve ranges often use it to make rounds of the area they always do it on horseback a round trip usually takes one week. to come across poachers

interests on this path is broken europe is the only way here the rocks on one side are in effect a tangle of red and green on the other it is very difficult terrain. to . pull. the ranges camp out in small pots it's always cold in the mountains at night.

or. shortly before dawn the metering kill head to a small flat mountain top according to an old caucasian legend do you often meet the sunrise in the mountains lives a long and happy life. real if you can never seem to go and you're right in the video the sun will rise from behind the aspen pass. we're going to choose the highest point for filming with only have ten to fifteen minutes for that. you.

are mystery to the one used to it no single one is ever the same the doesn't mean. it's truly wonderful guy. the nearest settlement is far away radio is the only means of communication with human civilization. hey folks if you're listening to our movement of radio show us your house once again and you get to the last term and talked about the history of the caucuses nature reserve good you can go to the small studio broadcasting the movement show is in the town of scores of kilometers away from the

a bar go for schoolchildren tell locals about the caucuses reserve journalist. oversees the programs the children talk about the reserves animals surviving trees mountaintops and rare plants. they draw on their experiences reporters and engineers working in various protected areas therefore they always fully prepared for the program when they go on their. the road of then i think when people look at it and they try to imagine one place a tree saw a long time ago. as for me i always have this on the county feeling that my age and stature martin significant in front of these or inspiring giant.

one of the most famous parts of the caucuses nature reserve is the growth situated close to the black sea coast the oldest tree here is over a thousand years old. the grove has survived several generations of tourists and many natural disasters. according to scientists the greatest of them took place some eighteen million years ago. a rupture in the earth's crust created a natural labyrinth and the gorge the gorges bed was filled with water from mountain streams. this landscape has undergone no changes since then. visitors are fascinated by the mysterious origin of the grove and the agent trees there in they think of it as a living relic of the distant past. i can tell you that i really do feel

mystical about it was that people rarely break the rules here they're not eager to destroy or cut things down the bush that some people might say i'm crazy but i honestly believe nature herself is at work here and i think this place is protected by higher forces it's. a small canyon and the outer edge of the grove marks its natural boundary in the north the west and east in the horns of an infamous mountain river called the hostile joint where the canyon is at its most narrow the never ending war of war is a sign of its dangerous allure. the new love of. this canyon is notorious because the water rises quickly when the snow melts or after terentia already has been with a view of the whirlpool formed a strong water splashing against one side of the ravine and then against the other up while the water anything that falls into the whirlpool gets sucked down to the

bottom you people trying to swim will walk across and end up drowning. there have been several deaths as a result. we live over to me that's why this place is infamously now and i just love the devil's grace in that. there are four major waterways in the caucuses reserve a river is one of the deepest which is down has been put up there a small hydro power station supplies electricity to the heart's in the upper reaches of the reserves northern sector ranges stay for the night. the. water is clean through there is a. wherever you go you can get from any spraying small river or do you hear more about what they saw fit for drinking and.

international rafting competitions take place on the bella river every year the route is extreme the rapids a near impossible to clear. legal . culture is that so much time you can record his wife on it again so here it is the biggest and most expensive elections money can buy this is how many american see what are called political action committees or super pacs.

a cargo helicopter flies through mountain coal which before it reaches the weather station and juga good is situated in the mountains of the caucuses nature is a as an altitude of more than two thousand mixes above sea level it is the optimised station in the west and caucuses its total square is two hundred eighty two thousand hectors our reserve is the only one in russia that occupies the territory of three russian regions it's really unique.

the directive the coaxes reserve personally oversees the rotation of stock and food supplies in this remote area. the helicopter rarely stops at juga for more than twenty minutes but even such a short period of time is enough for dimitri says an anchor and his son killed to get several shots on take. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities record changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and vehicle fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the

earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution what you're going to get now the temperature a jugar is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one made a deeper around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november and it may well turn out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day courses reserve staff record temperatures wind velocity humidity and emissary pressure. one team is on shift for two months.