well there was a. session on banks are too big and the consequences of banks that are too big and it was roubini was obviously you know very well known economist and you had a got a central banking background and some finance ministers and they're all debating this but from within the viewpoint of the current system so when they talk about how you know small banks are really the ones to historically fail not big banks so we shouldn't really be as worried about this well why don't big banks fail because they get bailed out by governments and they get supported by federal reserve banks now why isn't that question to time when people are out on the streets protesting bailouts and that's not just people that are the ninety nine percent those are people i talk to that are the one percent that just are wall street bankers or c.e.o.'s of these huge multinational companies so corporations i should say so really you know the debate is framed in a very stylish way which i think is concerning when you do have the one thing i will say is a congressman a u.s. congressman he said you know i come here for the networking but also it's kind of one stop shopping to see where the global economy is going you know i can find out

what's happening in greece what the prognosis is all of these things if that's the case no wonder we have the problems we have because everybody is just following the same herd mentality and kind of same set of different establishment arguments without really hearing very many contrarian viewpoints if any that i've heard personally well i certainly there is a group in this country that has some major contrarian viewpoints those are the occupy wall street protesters you've been talking this week about how some are actually gathered there and i think i read that even the founder of this forum the world economic forum klaus schwab has invited some of them to come and have a negotiating session with him what can you tell us about that will that happen and if it does a sort of just a p.r. stunt or will something actually come out of that. my read on this just from gathering kind of the telling of this forum and talking to a lot of people is this is good p.r. this looks good i'm not saying that maybe klaus schwab isn't very in concerned about inequality or doesn't care about what these protesters say i'm just saying

that the world economic forum's agenda and klaus logs agenda is not reflective of what the twenty six hundred participants here in davos at this forum are here to pursue that's you know that's the organization's agenda maybe that it that it's putting on or what they're concerned with but that's not everybody's concern so with the occupy protesters that are here they were invited to this open forum on remodelling capitalism but this is an event that is open to everybody this isn't at the congress center this isn't really just the davos crowd this is anybody from the community can go occupy protesters did go klaus schwab did invite them to discuss their issues to have a meeting and when i talked to the occupy protester they were negotiating how to do that where to do it when did you were looking to do that but as i said you know the clash of is one man he's the organizer he's not reflective of everybody i don't think it will we will look forward to having you back here in d.c. enjoy the rest your time there are two years lauren lyster host of the capital account. well let's take a look now at the complete other side of what you could say is happening in davos i mean here we have

a swiss ski resort inhabited this week by some of the wealthiest people in the world people that in many ways fight tooth and nail to keep the system of capitalism in place because well it benefits them but also right now in porto alegre brazil thousands of activists have come together from around the world they're looking to bring attention to the flaws of capitalism some believe it's a dying system that should be put to rest and they've come together to talk about new ways to do business a new system perhaps to replace what many see as the broken one they're having their own world forum they call capitalist crisis social and environmental justice these are themes we've heard discussed time and time again in our coverage of occupy wall street or earlier i spoke with mean hussein an occupy wall street organizer and i asked him what he hoped to accomplish there. we took up the invitation to come over here because we thought it would be useful to meet other people and social movements around the world to actually examine. the gratitude

for people in tunisia. as well as people from greece from the movement there the indignados and spain and exchange of information and notes about how to proceed i know capitalism is certainly been a point of discussion in the us over the last few weeks for those especially paying attention to the republican republican debates the campaign in general mostly what we're seeing is quite a few republicans coming out touting its benefits and really dismissing any other ideas if you're not for capitalism you must be a socialist or communist or what do you say to these people. i mean it's bankrupt language you know there are politicians whether it's republican or democrat and again i speak on behalf of myself there are a variety the variety of views in the occupy movement. but i think it's fair to say that there is an anti-capitalist current but that is meant to create space for alternative views to come up when we started talking about the

republican debate about capitalism those are just empty words i wonder whether they even know what it means a lot of isms being thrown around socialism capitalism these are labels that in the occupy movement we try to stay away from because it's a big part of how we think about the crisis that it's tangible that we have you know a housing crisis that we have bankers on wall street that we have politicians that are not accountable to the people and what's supposed to be a democracy so you know i don't focus too much on their conversations at all i don't think there's anything there that's why we've taken to the streets and we reclaiming our parks we're planning for spring i mean i think it's brave i mean and i think it's a big i know that one of the goals of a lot of occupy wall street protests that we saw too is to quote reinvent the world now i definitely get dreaming big and fighting the system but let's talk for a moment realistically people in this country are going to have two choices for president in november president obama and you have are the republican rival as and

you know of course also a slew of senatorial and congressional candidates out there a lot of people feel that inequality is a huge problem but talk to me i mean about realistic goals for now for this yr. well i mean they occupy movement was an aura not a realism it was born out of necessity you know what about people that want to see realistic change. what i mean realistic change is what obama gave you for three years. i think that the idea elections and it's a false choice between republican and democrat just like it's a false choice between what what the right and left have come to mean in our country and this is not you know this is not to say that there are not choices to be made but it's also shedding light on what this meant is this movement in a way in a broad sense it's about justice. that was occupy wall street organizer a need for saying. there's been

a lot of talk about inequality in america from those occupy wall street protesters to the general discussion in the mainstream media and even the state of the union address president obama gave this week there's also some talk on the presidential campaign trail on the g.o.p. side and one candidate in particular who loves to bring up the topic of americans and food stamps president obama is the most effective food stamp president in american history the fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by barack obama than any president in american history. also my dad having a government that refuses to allow people to starve is a good thing but i guess that's just me but godless the poverty level in the us is an important topic especially when it impacts the most innocent in our society that children are is a correspondent on a chair going to take a look at some staggering numbers. children we hope innocent

one in five in the u.s. struggling with hunger the federal government tells us that by the time a jar you know reaches the age of eighteen it will have been wiped out of every two chance of being. federal government to solve this problem most that half of all children will be by the time they reach the age of eighteen on any given day one in four children on food stamps and over twenty one percent are living in poverty for african-american kids that number jumps to thirty five percent in a country where the government and a model that's focused on the wellbeing of its people obviously its children would be a priority but unfortunately the united states is not a country with that kind of model of. food pantries like this one see parents barely keeping afloat financially for their paychecks not stretching to feed their children every day we're serving now almost twelve thousand individual month but georgi our children forty four percent of single mothers in america are on food

stamps yet struggle to put food on the table i have six kids on my own i have been seeing grandkids and it throws the quote them but not enough it's not enough money so you gotta go out in struggle getting food is a nonstop battle for these mothers a lot of people don't come out because right. but now even for. children for these people poverty is a growing pandemic i'm just afraid the next was going to happen to the next generation. i'm just afraid because everything is falling apart very angry because i feel like they make in a poor the voices of poverty is a website showing many faces of american hunger god only knows how with three girls two bedroom apartment. trying to keep food in their mouths and

sometimes i go just to feed them one of the things i found the trouble ground was just the sheer enormity of this that this is a problem that is probably the single greatest economic challenge facing america the boss numbers cascaded all that that's just something that shouldn't exist in the country with all of the food resources that america has this new york school is one of many where more than half of students are eligible for free lunches in order to ensure the kids get at least one proper meal a day early they say it is it is and i wonder when people are going to get at the gabba experts say the problem of hunger in the u.s. is more widespread than in other developed nations getting worse not getting better and this is a major crisis in this country because you look at countries like united kingdom or france they have job poverty rates that are under ten percent you know united states is now well over twenty percent. meanwhile america's estimated to waste from a quarter to an entire half of all the food it produces this occupy wall street

activist was homeless and underfed in his teens he says times are much tougher now this appears to go there in the bush. team eighteen but the crazy about doing on time even though i was homeless to able to find work a growing number of americans say the time has come to bail out the p. . you know we're very quick to a bit about wall street when wall street was in trouble what wall street wasn't doing you're going home with one in five children in america facing hunger brushing the elephant in the room aside cannot remain an option for the u.s. much longer as the suffering children are not just missing out on meals but their entire childhoods and stacy churkin our new york all right well for now that's going to do it but we have lots more on tap for the evening we'll be back with more news in thirty minutes and after that the big picture with tom hartman he'll be sitting down with jeffrey clements to talk about something really important the impact that the citizens united decision is having on our democracy in the meantime

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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 free agent 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 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 jargon electron accomplish this by shrinking the size divergence and energy spread of charged particles without losing any straight 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 he's most important from the tower looking part electrons are shot down through the excel reader tube powerful electromagnets guide 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 know how. produces these high tech pieces of machinery not just for themselves but for other research centers all over the globe. the first

instance of electronic killing took place at the institute of nuclear physics here in the superior several installations were votes for domestic use of the on the first installation for exports was 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 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 cosy synchrotron there are 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 notice of beer cooler. so what we get by

is this get new team 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 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 charmed factories can

produce billions of towel and charms 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 which 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 new. these high powered particles are

generated. already. are already. understanding. our very existence. building. a very complicated project. so a part of the. already completed. with 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. focused on the existing.

the particle accelerator here has the capacity to create up to one trillion electrons and twenty. second particles of vacuum tubes where there sped up and. timed so that a particle is pushed forward time it goes through a gap between the two and the higher the kinetic energy climbs the faster and faster they go. from the injector room the particles are. accumulated into the electron and positron being. adequately concentrated and they. are reduced to one of two.

look at them funny like across the linear electron and positron accelerator will be located in this tunnel and you might hit it but it will take of this entire mostly empty space so it won't look as if there was it does now. that it is 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 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 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 a. 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 clusters. technical. and biomedicine as well as nanotechnology 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 a 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 lengths and it can be very canonical effective furthermore our sensors 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 get 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 this screen there are three charts the first one shows data from the signals coming in. the second the calculated temperature. at the one the third in the computer the relationship between temperatures and time of that here on the screen we can already see some kind of peak right the peak is the water temperature inside the kettle we can even see it in more detail these peaks are processed by or a device which should 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 hunch 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 eleven just 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 relate 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 around us if you live in a metropolitan area chances are your lungs are under constant attack. secondhand smoke at your favorite bar or restaurant their potential to do long term harm is unabating fortunately there's another firm out in the techno park with innovations help keep us safe from all kinds of dangers. in the region park is. 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. some point 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 closed air filters have been made out of either paper or fiberglass but that's not the case here. instead they employ 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 like threatening michael organisms have to be destroyed and for that employees a multi stage system against those harmful particles if you know this is a crude filter which removes the big particles this is the ionization and ozone generation block this is the fine proof occasion fields are capable of capturing particles that are already ionized and finally this is the absorption and catalytic felt.