mr. after nearly twenty debates a couple of sex scandals and more than half of the candidates dropping out tomorrow is the primary election in florida and on the sidelines of mitt versus new boxing match over morals money and conservative values well there's another battle those who are concerned about ron paul you may be wondering why given that he hasn't yet won a primary and is polling in a distant fourth place in florida what ron paul supporters are not only loyal many of them are in a target demographic group they're young take a look at some of these numbers out of new hampshire you look at voters between one

thousand and twenty nine years old ron paul in new hampshire got nearly half the vote forty six percent apparently the situation was similar in iowa ron paul got forty eight percent of the young vote there this is just one of many factors involved in this pot of ingredients we call the fight to become the g.o.p. nominee so i want to talk about what we can call the ron paul effect with julie barofsky or ron paul supporter julie let's talk about these numbers of the young vote first of all what you know ron paul is the oldest candidate here why is it that his message resonates with so many young people yet is kind of strange to see a seventy six year old me and a very conservative very villages get so much support from young people and i think one of the reasons is because ron paul tells it like it is he doesn't sugarcoat things he has a consistent record he's going to do what he says in his plan to restore america he wants to cut one trillion dollars in the first year alone he's talking about big

ideas and the other candidates are not so you think that's something the resonates with young people. it's interesting because there seems to be a feeling of being threatened by ron paul and some of the supporters also so this is what happens in presidential primaries you know votes for one candidate means that those votes don't go to other candidates but some conservatives say they've had enough and i don't know if you've seen this truly but these. conservatives have launched a petition to try to steer support away from ron paul want to put it up on the screen and included in this petition quote the time has come for true conservatives to rise up and take a stand they also call those who support ron paul quote radical leftists and says the real conservatives of the republican party here by demand that ron paul and his presidential campaign at once and exit the g.o.p. along with his radical cult followers and supporters now i don't know about you julie about a lot of the ron paul supporters that i've come into contact with this sort of like

threatening language they've also threatened to get in the way of ron paul's son senator rand paul next time he is campaigning if he doesn't get out and if he launches you know a third party campaign you win your friend that support ron paul i mean does this kind of threatening language work. now what's going on right now is there's an ugly fight between establishment republicans in true conservatives ron paul is a threat to the stablish mitt he's dangerous to the status quo and they don't want to have a debate on foreign policy so what they're doing is them trying to marginalize ron paul and his supporters calling us racist anti-semitic calling us a leftist basically name calling with no facts to back it up yeah there's a lot of name calling and finger pointing and you know sort of warnings that if you vote for ron paul you're taking away votes from other people there is another side of this there is another side of those who you know wouldn't me sad to see ron paul go but they don't want to offend people like yourself another ron paul supporters i

want to play a little bit about what the former c.e.o. of g.e. jack welch said about ron paul supporters. ron paul is not only actually left on this stage sometime down the road warriors are in on this and the g.o.p. doesn't want to lose on one level voters that he's brought on board so how well they will involve would use a very real all right so you have this approach be nice to the supporters treat them well he goes on to say you know we should be in the same way that you treat somebody that you're firing make sure they leave with dignity what do you think about that approach well i'm a little more optimistic about ron paul is chances but i know a lot of people who say if the g.o.p. doesn't nominate ron paul don't count on our votes we might even go third party in the g.o.p. have for years has been trying to get the youth vote how can we get the young people how can the democrats get the young people finally young people flocking to

the republican party and well being marginalized who are being called a bunch of names in that strategy is probably the dumbest thing i can think of especially since certainly president obama in two thousand and eight got a lot of the young vote a lot of people came out in support for him and you and i know that something that ron paul is said in the past you know i'm the only candidate that's actually going to bring the young people out to vote but what about this notion julie that young people don't often show up i mean will this be the case if ron paul doesn't make it much further will they just not show up i think iran paul is still in there they will show up the thing about ron paul supporters is of the most passion it no matter what rainstorm snow blizzard we're going to show up at the polls how do you know that i mean it's very. optimistic to say that but what have you experienced in your time that really has shown you that ron paul supporters are here to stay. because if you look at new hampshire in iowa fifty percent a young people almost

showed up for ron paul and i know so many around poll supporters who are going to the polls in they never voted before and they're voting for ron paul this time. what happens after florida nobody really expects ron paul to do very well in florida have you heard anything in terms of what's next well i don't think their own hard campaign is focusing them western florida because it's delicate the winner takes all the delegates but you know he has a good chance in other states which is nevada which is very libertarian leaning right julie barofsky a ron paul supporter thanks so much for coming in today and sharing your views well it's going out of the latest in the crisis in the euro zone today european union leaders got together for their first summit of the year in brussels now the idea is to put some finishing touches on a plan they hope will help the seventeen nation euro zone get back on its financial feet at least eventually but here's what they're facing a still very unstable greece will consume were concerns about a default are alive and well and unstable portugal were borrowing costs have

skyrocketed but the biggest problem of all very different ideas about what the best solution is even more cutting back by countries like greece or perhaps a new policy of a stimulus which insiders say would have to come from germany from what we understand there has been quite a bit of back and forth about these ideas the ideals between all these countries now this meeting of course comes on the heels of the world economic forum in davos switzerland and our own more lister host of the capital account just returned from davos now earlier i asked her to talk about what happened at the forum what happened what's happening right now in brussels and why we should care about any of it here's what she had to say. this meeting i don't know why you should care christine it's a series of talks that we've seen continue for months now for over a year ok the eurozone agenda and crisis really dominated davos with so much focus on the official agenda and with that really kind of taking over really the

u.s. was just not a big part of the agenda in comparison and this is just a continuation of the same thing more talk more trying to deal with the debt crisis more trying to come to a solution different leaders have different ideas about what should be done but i'm doing is a continuation of the dogs at some point there needs to be a little less talk and a little more action though right absolutely absolutely i mean that kind of what the crux of it right now is that greece there were supposed to be a deal reached with bondholders for their next rescue aid package and ollie rehn the v.p. of economic and monetary affairs for the e.u. at davos was saying he thought one would be reached by the weekend now they're still working on it it hasn't been the last thing we saw was an official reported that germany wants to actually take over the fiscal matters in the budget of greece as a contingency for their next bailout so i think there's a lot of questions about freedom and democracy because while i heard a lot of euro zone leaders talk about the current form of capitalism there as the best way to achieve freedom and democracy what is it when you're getting over your

fiscal matters to another country to a larger organization to international organizations that's not sovereignty so what greece has to give up their country now too because you know banks wrote loans that kleptocrats then took on and now the people have to pay with austerity and giving up their sovereignty on the have to bow down to whatever germany tells them that does seem a little strange let's switch gears i want to hear more about davos i know we had you on a little a few times last week to talk about what you were experiencing all the time at the time now that you're back give us a summary of what it was all about summer it was all about i think that they would really depend on what. situation you're in davos is a large event there are tons of people there and your different bad really dictates this side of davos that you see i guess you know your your political capital dominates the this side of davos that you see for me watching the official agenda i didn't see a lot that was different i didn't see for all the talk of this being you know

a time to rethink capitalism it doesn't really seem like there's any big ideas that are going to be game changing seems to me that the people who were there are the people that benefit most from the capitalist system absolutely and the people that are there talking about it you know the kind of the ruby needs and the. economists in kind of the people that are newsmakers ok maybe they're they're talking about it but there's you know twenty six hundred other people that are a lot of them are business leaders that have shelled out a lot of money just to be there just to network i mean you have to get two billion dollars in profit just even qualify to get an invitation and just bare minimum according to the girl that i was talking to it's fifty thousand dollars to be to join and twenty thousand dollars more than that for things like getting to davos and that's not mean there are people that pay lawyers more than that i've seen figures three hundred thousand six hundred thousand dollars so these people have paid a lot of money and it's not to talk about rethinking capitalism and so you were talking about people's experience of davos of the world economic forum being largely based

on the political capital that they have you as a journalist as a financial journalist covering davos let me guess you didn't have that much political capital there i didn't have that much political capital there christine it was pretty frustrating experience you feel a little like a second class citizen you know by the end of the i am not by the end of the forum and i'm not saying at all that people were very nice and that the press came with an amazing they were the coolest people there by far and very helpful but by the end of it i just had badge p.t.s.d. i just didn't want to scan with that anymore i just didn't want to deal with it and it's kind of a frustrating experience. that was. capital account host lauren lister and that will do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to our team dot com slash usa also don't forget to check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america and to find out what i'm doing when i'm not reporting the news you can follow me on twitter at christine frizz out and i will be back here in

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something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are rooted a clue.

but. on his way to work every day that just loud litvinenko walks by what were once the homes of his neighbors the houses are gone now their own names are covered with layers of sand and the people moved out a long time ago shit i don't know but used to be

a house right here where it got buried by the sand when you there were three other homes next to it another house was here. i remember it was turned on its side almost all bright. yes that's my house there. though it's still standing but it won't last long this isn't much of a sand drift the wind usually brings much more and covers the house up to its roof sometimes the windows are blocked off and there's no use trying to clear the side of the house you would need a bulldozer but you can't get one close enough because that would make the house collapse. these are not the dunes of the zahara in fact they're found be on the arctic circle in the permafrost of russia's north how did this place come to be deserted. an airplane pierces the low lying clouds and begins to descend inside its baggage laden cabin passengers are patiently waiting to land exhausted from turbulence

everyone on board knows that flying to the village of showing a is always risky the white sea coast is infamous for its volatile weather which can change drastically within minutes if a strong crossed wind picks up will be impossible to set down the airplane will have to turn back home and attempt to return journey in a week's time weather permitting. when the pilot sees the green patchwork of the arctic plains give way to yellow swathes of sand he knows that he has arrived at the world's northernmost desert every incoming airplane is an event for the village on wednesdays local residents gather at the airfield some travel by foot others drive customized all terrain vehicles that are the only machines capable traversing both the sams am marshlands. the village of showing us sits on cape can in no us washed by the white see it lies beyond the arctic circle one thousand four

hundred kilometers north of moscow this tiny settlement in the middle of nowhere is unique fifty years ago the sound appeared. it has been waging a relentless offensive against the villages ever since local residents were totally unprepared and houses were evacuated china's population plummeted from two thousand people to a mere three hundred seventy rule number one here is not to shut your front door at night otherwise it might be completely blocked up in the morning. local resident pilcher my leg and has many household chores to take care of the most important one is watering the vegetable patch gets his water from the well despite its color it is fresh and suitable for drinking there is no other source of water in the village the tiny vegetable plot that reclaimed from the desert is in stark contrast to the surrounding environment the sand can only accommodate weeds in

a few flowers which don't even get enough sunlight to bloom. gallina kenya cova has been the village doctor for many years most of her patients call on her with heart problems and physiological disorders from walking on uneven sand day after day today galina has to make a special house call the village has a new resident two week old step his mother brought him from the city of our candles to settle down and. why does he cry b.c. coping ok he says yes we born if you were born a big baby does he burst feet ok yes yes after if you didn't put him up right in lay him down on one side stick to the diagnosis alter spicy food stay healthy out come to see you tomorrow bye bye. yes i have been here for six years when i arrived in two thousand and five there was only one baby and

a village two thousand and seven story spike in the birth rate it was the year when the diesel power plant been done we did not have lights for a month back them teams and it ended up boosting the birth rate what else could the young people do ten babies were born at a time today the rate is now relatively normal but there are still more and more children every year. the lighthouse is the pride of the locals and the main symbol of the village it is the only construction in the desert was unable to destroy it was even renovated got a new coat of paint for its fiftieth anniversary unfortunately in two thousand and ten it was closed down remember logan of we used to be in charge of the lighthouse does not understand what happened in his spare time he still counts the one hundred forty seven steps that bring him to the top.

where it was wrong to close this place down when the question of reviving the lighthouse was asked the answer was mary perhaps and perhaps in three five or even ten years right now if we had the means and the money to reopen it it would be up and running again immediately the structure holds a fun place in the hearts of or a man and his former colleagues they continue to say care of the building to the best of their abilities even though they know it is pointless modern navigation technologies have made such lighthouses redundant but it comes as no consolation to remember. nikolai much of skiing was born in choice he returned to his native village from the big city which he found uncomfortable because prefers to go to work by his own vehicle his daily route takes him along a sandy beach south of the showing a river today this place looks more like a huge scrap metal at one time it boasted a wooden pavement club welcome visitors and fish were collected around the clock on

the pier and the village was founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. the base for a fish trolling fleet it was showing as gold to the local fish processing factories canned millions of fish dozens of boats waited their turn to be unloaded with their cargo holds filled soul called and how about the intense fishing her. the knock on effect the trolling nets were destroying the seabeds vegetation tide started to pull thousands of tons of loose sand to shore with barely any trees on the tundra the sun's advance could not be held back. and came to work in showing a nine hundred forty seven she only planned to stay for three years but ended up living here ever since she remembers the night when the sea seemed to term and to get revenge on them. a few years storm struck in one thousand nine hundred sixty three taken away all the seafront constructions of the village all the warehouses

and there was a street there that was blown away all the houses were destroyed it all disappeared after that life in the village started to slow down we had cows and horses back then today there are none everything has been taken away the place used to be really exciting people worked into shifts i remember walking through the village she would see people dancing in the afternoon and at night it was so much fun to hang out back then. the damage from fishing is just one possible cause for the sounds coming here the residents simply continue to live out their lives in this quietly dying place now classified as an environmental disaster yet even though showing us suffers nature's wrath it is home to a weather station studying its affects the station is used for the first choice weather forecasts come rain or shine at three thirty in the morning and evening

a weather balloon is released from nikolai much of city as the person in charge of the balloons maintenance to raise it he uses hydrogen which is obtained through an old recipe mixing sodium hydroxide with water sara silicon and a minion powder the gas created it is just as effective as any commercially produced. nicholai prepares it to radio location and generic in the control center inputs the data required for a successful launch finally balloon is ready to go and is released. it will float up forty kilometers into the air and it will start gathering data about the situation in the lower atmosphere. eager to make use of the warm weather the actor's laughter is digging up some timber buried in the sand the wood will

come in handy the winter turns out to be cold yet just last house is quite old with large cracks in the walls it is vulnerable to the weather so having more firewood never hurts. to do in one thousand nine hundred four i went to live in ukraine. i spent twelve months there but i didn't like it than you there's no freedom there. i'm not suited for farmer's work so i came back here. they have american hunt and fish i'm free to do whatever i like it's a place for free people who just. a feeling of complete freedom and unity with nature is the main reason people continue to stay here despite the fact that a lot of showing the residents are entitled to state and housing in central russia the majority custard aside and return to their homes and showing. unlike many others not just a correction of a never considered leaving an option. she's

a member of the village administration and spends her free time in the uk to two hundred only around. she recently purchased an old motorbike and learned to ride it . twice a day geremi low tide she rides to the white seashore to check on the fishing nets . today's catch is disappointing. is not much but enough for dinner i get flatfish call it smelt fish and herring i used to fish with a fish and rod. then i started using the net and then it's just going to be tiring and i bought a bike to go fish and pick berries or just go see places. i love these shores there's no and to them i love showing them and that's something that cannot be changed because it is in my heart and soul of all of. this is to showing i

will see that it is a place of contrasts even though each house is equipped with a satellite dish they're all heated with an old wood burning stove firewood is delivered from our congo by sea. quite often the cargo ships have to spend a while on the shore during low tide and end up looking like huge whales stranded on sand. today showing a is receiving the delivery of fuel some machinery and merchandise for the villages and the shop the highlight is a brand new tractor for the weather station. the villagers were initially worried that it might have been damaged in transit but it started up on the first try proceeded to head to the station across the sand dunes missionary of khan so he starts sailing in late may and finish in october we travel from our candles to showing them europe which takes about two days transporting food and equipment carrying a hundred tons of cargo on this trip there's no roads and it's too expensive to

transport a by air so that leaves us with the ships or. the tide begins to return and the captain climbs aboard the crew has to hurry to steer the boat into the sea with a farewell horn blast the ship heads out leaving behind it a village of people who have managed to stand up against nature not just literally but also psychological. sunday mornings are ideal for walking along the shore especially if it gives your dolls the chance to see one of the big ships that come into the harbor. these future mums hold their own as they run into a junior neighbor that won't play with metal and there is not upset she likes dogs better. and he loves her grandfather leaving more because he always takes her to the beach to look at the ships leaving for our candlestick city with trees which

ano has only seen on television. thank you. wealthy british scientists. that's not on the. market finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy with max conjure there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. culture is that so much different and there's a huge music share the power to find that remark was crude blockade and the turning off of the taps as the united states navy you again a sanction around duran is also threatening to impose. in kalmykia the majority of the population is buddhist here there is

a saying that if a person is pure of heart one turn of the prayer wheel is as good as saying a million mantras constantine then bails is not a religious man but every time he sets out on a journey he comes to the sacred place to forget about worldly things for a while today constantine is heading for the so-called chore zimmy all black lands one of the most environmentally troubled regions of kalmykia it is found two hundred kilometers southwest of comic his capital s. star his mission is to monitor the work battling the desert of the cation in this area. is an arid region located in the southeastern part of european russia. my organ this is my homeland. when we were children playing in the steps of the grass was so totally real that you could barely see if this could be more precarious they say.