but we'll also hear on a number of other issues we will hear about politics there will be discussion of the arab spring implications we'll hear from the prime minister of tunisia we'll hear from the presidential candidate egypt about what the arab spring means for those economies and also for investment we'll also hear more on emerging economies and on the big guys we'll hear about china's economic outlook why is there pessimism with an economy that's expected to grow nine percent it's a great question we'll see what they come up with and also a number of russian participants will speak about the global energy outlook financial competitiveness and also the future of eurasia so those are some of the things that we're going to hear on the official agenda but do not forget it davos there is a whole other agenda which is what is happening on the sidelines and in private meetings and in private parties bilateral meetings for diplomats business meetings for any kind of executives or people trying to get investment whether it's

a charity or a state or country so this is a lot of what goes on here we'll keep you posted on how this all unfolds on day three but for now from the world economic forum in davos switzerland i'm lauren lyster. hope to get more on the business deals that have been conducted the world economic forum stay tuned for a business update in just a few minutes time. one of the leaders of the international terrorist organization in iraq have kurds has been killed in russia's north caucuses republic of english you know counterterrorist operation there's also the head of the largest underground network in the republic there for carrying out multiple attacks across the north caucasus than was responsible for an explosion at a market in a very kind of kurds in september twenty ten which killed nineteen people and injured hundreds a shootout between the security forces are militants last several hours which will say two other gunmen were also killed in the exchange. well some other world news

in brief for you now this hour the u.s. plans to cut one hundred thousand troops in its bid for a smaller leaner military restructuring the pentagon. it's all still the u.s. military the larger and stronger than it was before the wars in iraq and afghanistan the government will continue to spend around eighty eight billion dollars a year on combat operations in afghanistan tensions in the country are still high as the taliban counters western troops often lead to civilian casualties. syrian rebels have clashed with troops in a town just north of damascus two hundred people were detained by security forces as they raided homes looking for weapons and suspects in the town of provincial governor to negotiate a cease fire as a ten month revolt against president assad creeps closer to damascus the u.n. is later today expected to discuss the syrian crisis which is claimed more than five thousand dollars. on to new york where details of

a shipment containing sixty kilos of cocaine seized last week and headquarters have just been released the package marked with fake united nations insignia was shipped from mexico through cincinnati. spokesman says the u.n. were located at the headquarters where the intended recipients officials believe it was the bungled attempts of drug traffickers from the ship contacts into the u.s. . a total of five people will officially run in russia's march presidential election but the country's central election commission set to confirm that short list of candidates competing for the top post party's peter all of it has the latest now from moscow. we're expecting in the next few moments that the rubber stamp will be put on that list of names that will appear on the ballot papers on the fourth of march in the presidential elections we're not expecting to have a surprise as we pretty much know and the five names will be on there for a little while now we're going to see vladimir putin the current prime minister

along with you know he's a god of the cause of the communist party let him eat you know is he from the liberal democrats sort of gave me at all from their russia and the independent candidates because for all her know with these names all the ones that be pushing for their top spot in russia the role of president four of those five do actually have their current jobs in office to do they are well but i mean approaches the prime minister the rest of the leaders of their respective political parties to help a lot of is the the the only candidate who doesn't currently hold office sodomy prince but he must be going about his job as prime minister he was in siberia a few days ago in his hometown of st petersburg to day. not so much campaigning as they say is really going about that role of being the pm we have seen as amy how brutal the only candidate who doesn't currently hold office he's inside period the moment trying to show his face and press the flesh amongst those who perhaps maybe

don't know who he is the. billionaire owner of the new york fed the new jersey nets is a is someone a familiar face in moscow and st petersburg he's going out to the the far east of this all of the far east of the siberia to try and show his face there to make sure you can jog support as for the other candidates we've seen that image and also given the lib dems and setting it all off from a russian speaking in the duma just behind me to say they are the leaders of their respective parties they joining up support in their own way as is as you got off from the communists so it is starting to slip into next gear as we approach selection but on the fourth of march. peter out of their valley you're in florence moscow is never too far away now is tonic into. in march than jesus he takes the streets of italy in search of a slice of russia. there's

been a russian orthodox church on the site since my theory three built by the russian community i'm sure in time artists suffered considerable damage over the years but was restored several times elegant and exotic in much is the city's cultural heritage perfectly reflecting in the true architectural style of seventeenth century moscow today the church is popular with author talks worshippers from all over tuscany. but let's cross over to the business desk now and join me. hello and welcome to our business up at the south thanks for joining the devils economic forum is displaying signs of a split personality the likes of the i.m.f. david cameron and george soros warning of potential catastrophes while on the other

side and number of heavyweight industrialists who think much of the rescue work has been done among them is under a question the head of russia's second biggest back. but there was a practical discussions on for example the introduction of new regulations for. banks and financial sector. on capital adequacy on their lives of course it will take maybe two to three years to implement it but at least there's no just a general debate some very practical things which now being discussed though there's a stupid beat on the future of europe. a lot has been it's a lot of discussions already happened between the politicians and it looks now the common solution in a much closer that was one or two years ago. despite global economic uncertainty

russia's biggest lenders bear bank achieve strong results in two thousand and eleven its deputy chairman says the financial performance has probably made it one of the world's top ten banks and cost to income ratio as burbank is now strongly counting on overseas expansion plans to make five percent profit abroad with three years said gay got told r.t. about the bank's expansion strategy. we launched offices in germany china and india last year but the most important thing is that we agreed to buy the eastern european bank international we're going to close the deal on the fifteenth of february and start operating in eight european countries we're also interested in polish in turkish markets it's hard to talk about the new deal so far but we see great opportunities for acquisitions. so the sale of a state owned stake back may take place this year deputy chairman of russia central bank. says that the government is counting on the price of around one hundred rubles that's around three dollars a share the state is selling seven point six percent stake in the land. looking at

the markets now oil is heading higher and concerns about iranian exports being international monetary fund warns of a twenty to thirty percent price spike if they are disrupted. trading over one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel. is just under one hundred dollars. european markets are down and by banks and mining stocks because footsie is losing just. just under half a percent while germany's dax is slightly in the red we're going to down one point three percent and shares of american barclays are losing over one percent here in russia markets have picked up slightly but are continuing to trade in the red losing over a quarter of a facade while the six is flat. the biggest movers on the lies express is losing marginally the positive start of the day to the day helped by news about its

privatization energy majors are losing ground despite strong oil and gas is down around two thirds of a percent. continues to slump the metal giant has increased production by seven percent in two thousand and eleven. currencies lower to the dollar amid weakening global demand for risk. some profit taking ahead of the weekend however the rest because he is a balancing against the zeal of the dollar has dropped against the wall. well that's the update but for this hour we're back in about fifteen minutes or more time at that.

moment with. this month's challenge by particles that make up the fabric of the universe find what you're looking for in the deep siberian forest prevent a fire with the help of lasers in fibers pull out your tablet of a new gaming religion and let the adventure begin all of that here in nova severe specific knowledge on day age here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered. wealthy british style.

market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report on our. top stories shocking revelations in an already troubled post gadhafi libya as human rights groups accuse the military of torturing detainees to death and this to international is ringing the alarm doctors without borders has already pulled down to the city of misrata in protest at the city's. holy and witnesses further protest against the government signing an international piracy part designed to enforce intellectual property rights but activists on the streets saying the agreement.

would infringe on the internet freedom into online censorship. and iran considers banning oil sales to europe preempting that means decision to stop importing oil from the country and you know that is war rhetoric against tehran escalates in the west jordan americans voice their opposition to any possible military confrontation . but with more news in about thirty minutes time but first the latest edition of technology update. hello and welcome to technology update this month we've ditched the bright lights and credits streets of moscow for snow cover novosibirsk now this french and

siberian city is actually a hotbed of russian scientific activity and our first stop takes us to an institute that's long been the heart of the region's a famed academic cluster. the booter institute of nuclear physics is one of the world's leading research centers in its field but here it's not just experiments they're interested in they also designed and built some of the most complex instruments used in particle physics research now most of us are familiar with adam smashers but here they're working on an extremely important but complimentary piece of equipment and electron cooler the technology behind this beast was pioneered back in the one nine hundred sixty s. by the man whose name graces the facade of this institute given the growing power range that modern particle accelerators are capable of the beam needs to be cooled in order to increase its effectiveness. as it's called in physics. electron accomplish this by shrinking the size divergence and energy spread of charged

particles without losing any straight particles. and that means the resulting collision is more intense and more particles are likely to smash into one another and when one is looking for extremely rare processes most important from the tower looking electrons are shot down through the tube powerful electromagnets the electrons to the cooling chamber where they interact with a hot. focused as a result of the cooling. thanks to their unparalleled. produces these high tech pieces of machinery not just for themselves but for other research centers all over the globe. the first instance of killing took place at the institute of nuclear physics here in the. several installations were built for domestic use. on the first installation for

export course for g.s. which is in germany later to more remote for china one with a capacity of thirty five the other with three hundred but this. two million electron volts cooler is headed for the ulit research center in germany the facility is part of a european union sponsored effort to better understand the fundamental hadrons most specifically the electron coolant will be installed at the centers institute of nuclear physics cosey synchrotron there sprawling complex elementary particles will be accelerated looked around the synchrotron and smashed together for scientists to study and those efforts will be helped by the addition of novosibirsk cooler. so what we get by is this get new quality and it means we.

have much. momentum range very small. the mentions and this is the goal. so once the final touches have been applied this school will be on its way to hopefully groundbreaking experiments the collaboration here with the germans is just a part of a wider international effort all across the field of particle physics from asia to europe to the u.s. researchers basically have one goal in mind based on the proposition that all matter is made up of tiny unseeable particles scientists are keen to smash them to pieces to find the building blocks of our universe super charmed factories can produce billions of towel and charm quarks generating boatloads of new data and for one of these the institute is ready to throw more than a half a billion dollars at a new complex main objective as regards the super factory is to increase the

installations efficiency to the power of three that means by a thousand times to study the decay of particles you have to produce a certain number of them and then observe them so now we want to produce a thousand times more particles than it's now possible at any other installation for the time being though that super chantelle factory is still a ways away from becoming a reality but that doesn't mean the scientists here are waiting around for that to happen the institute has already built a new high the accelerator and from this room a nuclear physicist can control and monitor all the activities of the institute's existing injector complex which creates the subatomic particles needed for now. these high powered particles are generated. already existing. where russian scientists are already conducting cutting edge experiments. understanding of what

underpins our very existence. from the government building an injector complex very complicated project. so a part of the. already completed. we've carried out the necessary planning for the project. designed all the buildings and facilities. commission from the. construction. factory will be connected to the already operational injector complex according to plans a new two hundred meter linear accelerator will bring the particles even closer to the speed of light and that will yield even more fruitful collisions. most attention is focused on the existing. the particle accelerator here has the capacity to create up to one trillion electrons and twenty billion positrons every second particles. vacuum tubes where there sped up and.

timed so that a particle is pushed forward time it goes through a gap between the metal tubes and the higher the kinetic energy climbs the faster and faster they go. accumulated. look at them funny like across the linear electron and positron accelerator will be located in this tunnel just the much of it will take of this entire mostly empty space so it won't look as if there is it does now. that it is excel or age or will

raise the electrons and positrons energy to the level required for the super john tower factory and then at the end of the tunnel the particles will get injected into the main ring of the collider. so the particles zip down this currently dark passage will split into separate electron and positron rings. this total will contain the technical sections of the super factory. where the accelerating super high frequency resonators technical optics and beam diagnostics system will be located and for additionally the injections of the electron and positron beams into the collider ring will be performed here as well. this trait of fortune should be continued to form semicircles into the left and right of the semicircle should come together in a large hall equipped with the detector of. a special building will be built above

the detector it will include the control room and the detector support systems of course the whole hasn't been finished yet. further financing is required in order to complete this facility. appeared in my eyes by the research taking place at cern and with the large hadron collider on the franco swiss border it's going to take a united global effort to fully understand these fundamental particles and processes and the super charm tao factory plant at the institute should ensure that russia scientists contribute mightily to this ultimate goal but it's more than traditional science here and now with the b.s. just around the corner from the academic cluster of high tech. for many resident companies innovations are being incorporated in the latest edition. ever since the so called first opened its doors it's been expanding and expanding as you can see

with the new towers currently under construction this state of the art center is the latest chapter of a decades long effort to encourage science in the region recently the federal and regional governments decided to use that history to create an environment to spur technological innovation it's hoped that the strong scientific base in the academic cluster. for the newest high tech startups the parts main goal is to help small and medium sized innovative companies get the running start that they need. developing for. technical. and biomedicine well as nanotechnology materials for each of these clusters we're creating special industrial facilities. facilities that have been specifically adapted for the work of the corresponding innovative companies benefiting from that

is inversion since they're working on the next generation. as you see here the traditional fire alarms have to be installed every few feet depending on the building code. inversion. fiber base detectors that monitor building stress and deformation and right now they're. focused. the company is pushing that technology one step further to take optical fibers and use them in a new kind of fire alarm which they say can be more cost effective and in some cases safer. propose using optical fiber as a sense of development to measure temperature long it. can act as a signal. it can be very canonical effective furthermore our senses are absolutely spark an explosion proof which therefore they can be used

in coal mines like you chemical industries and so on where traditional exploring senses your butt off the bed and. the question. i want to commend in this room we're developing and researching our distributed fiber sensor systems and we're currently at the final testing stage it's important for us to understand what the maximum distance is that which we can monitor the temperature and what resolution we can get thank you during crease the distance here in the lab we use these spools of fiber of course this isn't the same fiber that you sold being installed earlier a bundle of this cable would wear around two hundred kilograms and we don't need it since the fiber on the inside is the same as it has here this fiber goes along the wall from one school to another and eventually reaches our device into it so we have about six kilometers of fiber here listicle in a section of the fiber we want to affect is located inside the cat so he would use there's ten metres of fiber here so when we turn the case alone we can observe the

water temperature increasing in real time we see process results on they screen there are three charts the first one shows data from the signals coming in. the second the calculated temperature. of the third computer the relationship between temperatures and time of the year on the screen we can already see some kind of peak right there because the water temperature inside the kettle we can even see it's in more detail these peaks are processed by or device which are then determines whether a fire to employees or not and to prep the optic fibers for detection a method called bragg grading is employed this involves a laser i-ching a pattern of the core of the fiber this changes the way impulses travel along the length of the fiber certain wavelengths are reflected back to the impulse source while others continue along this allows us to get specific data from every section

of the fiber and this does it much faster than traditional detectors fibers like this could be used to relay an ever growing amount of data helping us better monitor conditions. remotely and safely. there's another. just about everywhere we go harmful particles around us if you live in a metropolitan area chances are your lungs are under constant attack whether it be car exhaust secondhand smoke at your favorite bar or restaurant their potential to do long term harm is unabating fortunately there's another firm technique parkas innovation help keep us safe from all kinds of dangers. in the region park. they think they may have made a major step forward in terms of cleaning the air we breathe for example with one of their units plugged in cigarette smoke is no longer the nuisance and thready can be and as they see it the potential demand for their filters is huge. where can you

purify air well everywhere. to do a stolen them in different places such as restaurants and other areas where people eat. household filtration devices we purified air from tobacco smoke which tried medical institutions. we realized which is something that most startups trying to survive do that we had to narrow. and focus on one particular segment in a particular market. in the past air filters have been made out of either paper or fiberglass but that's not the case here. instead they employ upon layers of polypropylene fibers. look like much by themselves when they're stacked up there one of the best defenses against those pesky airborne intruders. needed

a little granules are first heated up and then spun onto. after they reach the right thickness of the cylinder is removed. and placed into a. to make installation easier. but often simply catching the particles isn't enough to significantly reduce the risk of infection in hospitals like threatening micro organisms have to be destroyed and for that employs a multi-stage system against those harmful particles this is a crude filter which removes the big particles this is the ionization and ozone generation block this is the fine proof occasion filter capable of capturing particles that are already ionized and finally this is the absorption and catalytic filter which catches molecules pollutants orders in other words. we have the ventilator the blues are at the clean air but to better understand this let's break it down a little more.