great came out a seventeen year high of twenty two point eighty five percent the finance minister from spain says that this is the biggest issue facing the spanish economy and we know spain is one of the largest economies in europe also a lot of disagreement over euro zone solutions we've seen george soros we've seen david cameron we've seen some finance ministers to timothy geithner say a larger fire wall is needed basically saying more bailout funds need to be committed from angela merkel's remarks we heard earlier this week she was trying to convince people that europe would be fine without pledging more money timothy geitner we did hear from today the u.s. treasury secretary i thought was pretty interesting he said that the two biggest issues facing the u.s. economy that will determine its outcome are what happens in the euro zone and whether or not the u.s. congress can agree on some short term solutions for the u.s. economy i thought this was quite interesting because although yes the eurozone economy very much weighs on the united states i've heard from italian economists for example that. the u.s. they're much more pessimistic about europe and maybe part of that is coming from

the fact that it is an easy scapegoat for u.s. politicians to say oh what's going on in the u.s. is dependent on europe when in reality the u.s. has a major problems of its own a major debt overhang both private and public the fed has been very active in trying to reflate the economy but unaffected unaffected does bar high unemployment more than sixteen percent for people that either don't have work or want more work you know these are some real issues that the eurozone has nothing to do it and a congress that is bitterly divided in an election year is not likely to pass much so some real concerns that are being addressed here. but five candidates are in the running for russia's top job in march the electorial commission's confirmed applicants for the presidency in our two spitter all over the shortlist for you. the central election commission of put the rubber stamp on the five names that will be running for the top job in russia on the fourth of march now those going for president will be glad to meet putin from the united russia party going to be sure gandolfo only communist so to get middle of all of their russia vladimir

zhirinovsky from the liberal democrats the independent candidate billionaire because they're all good all four of those five do actually have their current jobs in office to do they are well but to be approved is the prime minister the rest of the leaders of their respective political parties to help a lot of this the the the only candidate who doesn't currently hold office not to be a pittance 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 that doesn't currently hold office he's in siberia at the moment trying to show his face and press the flesh amongst those who perhaps maybe don't know who he is the the billionaire owner of the new york fed the new jersey nets is 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

he can talk support as for the other candidates we've seen them but unusual and also given the lib dems on sunday but also from a russian speaking in the duma just behind me to say they are the leaders of their respective parties they turning up support in their own way as is zyuganov from the communists so it is starting to slip into the next year as we approach that election on the fourth of march let's take a look now at some other news from around the world in brief this hour a blast let's take a few more procession outside baghdad killing at least thirty one people and wounding sixty they expose a stock as mourners gathered to bury a person killed a day earlier there have been more than two hundred deaths since the beginning of the year with increasing sectarian attacks. american troops in december. the firm that owns the capsized cruise ship are italy's coast is offering passengers fourteen thousand dollars each in compensation and also promises to refund medical and transport expenses and the cost of the holiday sixteen people

are confirmed dead while over a dozen remain missing the ship ran aground off tuscany two weeks ago with more than four thousand people on board. sixteen kilos of cocaine have been seized at the un headquarters in new york it turned out last week marked with a fake u.n. is cigna and came from mexico the global body and says neither it nor its staff or the intended recipients is thought to have been a bungled attempt by traffickers to get drugs into the u.s. . up next is the latest business with dimitri stay with r.t. . welcome to business on the devastation konami forum is displaying signs of a split personality this year the likes of the i.m.f. david cameron and george soros warning of a potential catastrophe as well on the other side there's a number of heavyweight industrialists who think much of the rescue work has

already been done among them is a cost in the head of russia's second largest bank. but there was a practical discussions on for example the introduction of new regulations for. banks and financial sector. on the of course it will take maybe two to three years to implement it but at least there's not just a general debate some very practical things which now being discussed though there's still debate on the future of europe. a lot has been at 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 largest lead does burbank achieve strong results and twenty eleven seventy chairman says the financial performance has probably made it one of the world's top

ten banks in cost to income ratio burbank is now strongly counting on overseas expansion and plans to make five percent profit abroad within three years since he got a call told r.t. about the bank's expansion stretch. yes 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 who are 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. the sale of a state's own stake in burbank may take place this year deputy chairman of russia's central bag. says the government is counting on the price of around one hundred rubles around three dollars per share the state is selling a seven point six percent stake in the. sake of the markets

a very sour crude is heading for a weekly gain in three on signs of economic recovery in the us national monetary fund warns about twenty to thirty percent world price spike directly in exports destructed brant blend is that over one hundred eleven dollars per barrel light sweet is above one hundred. european markets are still makes this with the u.k. stocks down heavyweight barclays is weighing on the index following in european sectors south on worries over the a sovereign debt crisis mining stocks also we've got two stocks also pressuring for the fourth see b.p. shares are down one and a half percent. here in russia the markets are sitting pretty much where they started struggling for direction the r.t.s. and the my socks are down by just more point two point one percent the second was moving the my sex financials are still strong as burbank beginning point six percent energy majors are at this point high oil prices down from losing half

a percent and steelmaker kerry continues to slump in the market for us with a seven percent production increase in twenty eleven. currencies now and that's pretty clearly. situation rule is pretty flat though you can say it's down versus the dollar versus the year on the global market the euro is strong you don't know there's. a double dip recession and all but in reality the continent's problems will also drag on to the rest of the world the international monetary fund now thinks global growth will slow to three point three percent from four percent that it was predicting a few months ago russia is not immune but the institution says the country can realize its growth potential it could be less exposed to external shocks if it focuses on four key economic policies one is to firmly anchor the government budget

on a target for the deficit target we have recommended should be four point seven percent of g.d.p. and it should be achieved by two thousand and fifteen second is monetary policy focused on inflation firmly anchored by the central banks who feel for liberation for the third is to develop the financial system and show its stability so it can mobilize saving directed to the productive investment and still here it's very important to strengthen supervision to give the central bank the adequate powers to pursue active and substantive supervision of banks to avoid that you have that deep stock based system and you look for slowly but surely you should force policy priority to improve the investment environment here there's a whole range of issues that have to do with the role of state in the quality it has to be rules and regulations red tape has to be corruption that has the court system. very well defined the progress has been slow the good

positive exception is that russia is now moving forward towards. which we think we have major benefits not just for russia but also for a country. right for more business stories in all the interviews the business tsotsi got at the albums for example you can always log on to a website called forward slash business i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with an object.

to the truth this month chunks 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 future begin all of that here in novosibirsk technology on day age here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered.

oh. live from moscow our top stories a mass of opposition rallies underway in a damascus suburb with reports of several people killed the area is now under control of the free syrian army un is set to debate a new resolution which backs are of the calls to get president also to go. libya's new leaders face accusations of torture as doctors without borders pulls out of accused city saying the same patients queue for turning but with new interrogation

injuries it's raising key questions among human rights groups about the people nato helped to bring to power. the public politicians and hackers lash out against an international online piracy perhaps the french m.e.p. has quit over which while rallies continue in poland to stop the secretive deal hitting regular internet users. up next year in our technology update checks out a high tech center in siberia to see what it has to offer don't miss it. 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 thought takes us to an

institute that's long been the heart of the region's 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 or as it's called in physics. electron accomplish this by shrinking the size divergence and energy spread of charged particles without losing any stray particles to admittance 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 process. most important from the tower looking electrons are shot down through the excel reader to powerful electromagnets the electrons to the cooling chamber where they interact with a hot. which is made more 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. in the first instance of electronic killing took place at the institute of nuclear physics here in the superior several installations were both for domestic use. and the first installation for exports was for g.s. which is in germany later two 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 ula tree search 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 a sprawling complex elementary particles will be accelerated whipped around the synchrotron and smashed together for scientists to study and those efforts will be helped by the addition of novosibirsk school or. so what we get by is this. new quality and it means we. have much. momentum range

very small. mentions and. so once the final touches have been applied this cooler 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 charged factories can produce billions of towel. 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 accelerator and from this room nuclear physicists 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 colliders where russian scientists are already conducting cutting edge experiments that are adding to the world's overall understanding of what underpins our very existence. using the.

money from the government building an injective complex it's a very complicated project it's a multi-stage accent so a part of the. already completed also using our own money we've carried out the necessary planning for the project. designed all the buildings and facilities. commission from the municipal. construction. factory will be connected to that 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 but for now 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 it comes 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 from the look across to the linear electron and positron accelerator will be located in this tunnel much of it will take up this entire mostly empty space so it won't look as if there is does now. excel razor 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 for additionally the injections of the electron and positron beams into the collider ring will be performed here as well with this straight up portion 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. 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 planned at the institute should ensure that russia's 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 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 environment to spur on technological innovation it's hoped that the strong scientific base in the academic cluster will prove. 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. technology and 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. detectors that monitor. deformation and right now they're busy installing those. focus tower and. 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 in large language it can be very canonical effective furthermore our senses are absolutely spark an explosion proof which therefore they can be used in coal mines but 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 are 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 a q 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 this action of the fiber we want to affect is located inside the kettle so we're just 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. this second the calculated temperature. of the third and the relationship between temperatures and time of that here 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. 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 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. but there's another. just about everywhere we go harmful particles fill the air around us if you live in a metropolitan area chances are your lungs are under constant attack whether it be car exhaust or secondhand smoke at your favorite bar or restaurant their potential to do long term harm is unabating fortunately though there's another firm out the technique part with innovation help keep us safe from all kinds of airborne dangers . also located in the region park is key on 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. we are tempted in

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. some point we realized which is something that most startups trying to survive do that we had to narrow our specialization and focus on one particular segment in a particular market. in the past most air filters have been made out of either paper or fiberglass but that's not the case here. instead they employ a layer upon layer of polypropylene fibers. look like much by themselves when they're stacked up there one of the best defenses against those pesky airborne intruders. to get the spindly threads needed a little granules are first heated up and then spun. 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 life threatening microorganisms 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 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 country's most pollutants orders in other words and last we have the ventilator the blues are at the clean air but to better understand this let's break it down a little more after the particle filled air passes the simple pre-filter there.