these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. charlie corporations rule the day. but your decades of drilling russian scientists in the arctic have uncovered a rare piece of nature and agent lake barry thousands of feet under the ice are tucson thomas toward the frozen continent exactly a year ago and now explains what this discovery could mean. vostok research base in antarctica it is the coldest place on earth and the deepest a drilling location on the continent the main research was to drill the great your eyes as big as possible to get these tiny bubbles off they are before brazil for about. four hundred thousand years at a certain point researchers made a new discovery lake vostok team of russian scientists have drilled more than two miles into the ice and have reached the surface of the sub lake itself excited

about the possibility of discovering life while the drilling project. for scientists and promising in terms of finding new life forms here on earth there are some who are skeptical and say the project shouldn't continue in fact they say it could even be dangerous to humans there were some worries that we will bring up some microbes that are really harmful. to human beings which is from the biological point of view it is some kind of the harsh conditions that make working in vostok difficult now scientists have a limited window of opportunity to conduct their research for the season. we had one essential self this is the coldest one we're stretched at as minus eighty nine celsius at the end of february beginning of march temperatures begin to drop drop drop from these temperatures the planes can't fly anymore and that is it. now that

the drilling task is complete the race is on to find the new discovery of ancient life on our planet in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . well explore all the stories we cover in depth on our website where we've got much more in store for you including occupy the classroom a new course set to examine the worldwide protest movement kicks off in a us university. and twenty taboo iran's government banned simpson dolls from the country's shops following an all out war with barbie to discover their crimes click on to r.t. dot com. we were on dismissed as fresh u.s. sanctions calling them part of a psychological war on monday bronc obama ordered new penalties that involve

freezing assets linked to be a rainy and government and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank to iran claims its economy won't be harmed by the sanctions but some experts say the measures are really in place to meet more domestic objectives in terms of threats coming from the u.s. specially this distance is science as it is around central bank i think that they're mostly. directed for domestic consumption in the united states as we get closer to the presidential elections in the u.s. we see that each side trying to see as being more as being tough to iran and this is another move by president obama to satisfy either is rivals or just supporters of his campaign is sad to see that the u.s. is undermining the work that the fantastic work that is doing with iran and iran itself is trying very hard to keep the environment we fish in all in the face of

the recent assassination of the rain in scientism it's really it was a big blow to the relationship between iran and the. well a brief look now at some other headlines from around the world this hour president . mohammad less she has resigned amid a political mutiny following weeks of popular protests the crisis drew to a head when the authorities ordered security officers to remove barriers between government and opposition supporters protesting close to each other while the leader had earlier come under fire for arresting the chief judge of criminal court accusing him of being loyal to the country's former president nasheed swept to power in two thousand and eight pledging to bring more democracy to the island state. factory in eastern pakistan has collapsed after gas cylinders exploded in the building rescue workers are struggling to reach dozens of people trapped under the debris a day after the incident the number of dead currently stands at eighteen though

there are reports that rescuers have already pulled several survivors from the rubble authorities say the factory was built a legally it was closed down three times but unlawfully reopened. but as authorities are working to deport the radical islamist preacher who could top one label of some of bin laden's ambassador to europe it comes a day after u.k. tribunals ruled that the cleric should be released on bail after more than six years in custody last month the european court of human rights blocked his deportation to jordan where he faces terror charges. well back with a recap of our top stories at half past the hour up next though let's get the latest from danielle at the business desk. the business in a surprising move for the russian stock market may compensate these minority shareholders for losses on their investment from mr putin says the boat will use

its own profits to buy back shares from people who took part in the pure five years ago called price of each of the shares is roughly whole for the initial listing the plans estimated to cost up the whole of billion dollars while investors await the details to be revealed richard haynesworth from rating agency reuss rating says they could be a more efficient way to solve these problems. if a shareholder. he's unhappy with the performance of the manager of his company you fire the manager of the company and bring in new ones the share price has gone down the shareholders are not like what's happening and therefore that they have been selling out the government doesn't like the effect that's had on minority shareholders so as a majority shareholder the government should really sack the management of the t.v. and put in new managers who will increase the share price. at the stock

markets no exchange rates for strong oil is pushing the ruble higher to the dollar and the euro the euro's also losing value against the greenback with uncertainty about the crisis continuing to her that currency brant is holding above one hundred sixteen dollars a barrel this u.s. crude futures reached a six month high oil monday as the cold weather boosted heating demand onto europe which is edging lower this hour as greek officials meet to discuss a tough new bailout plan miners are also weighing on the markets of the glencore xstrata announced their merger to drop over two percent on that news. of the earth years has followed europe into the red in the last hour as investors cash gains from the morning the my six meanwhile remains lower for a second day movers on the my six on this tuesday korea aeroflot is low is passenger traffic rose by a quarter last year. is also down as investors await the details of its recently

announced boy back precious metals producer police gold has plunged into the red is posted strong results but the shares or correcting of the making a forty percent gain in the last few days. russian government introduced new measures to support local coworkers bypassing w t o rules the industry ministry has suggested introducing a special fee for imported calls and those assembled in russia the process will be spent on recycling core components surcharge would provide some compensation for the lowering of import duties when used for a cause. mobile phone retail is among the sectors that continue to show double digit growth in most of the markets welsh the second largest seller says noise as last year's revenues rose by a quarter company c.e.o. dennis look kospi outlines what gadgets will be driving growth this year and mobile markets usually grow between ten and twelve percent i think next year will probably be towards the lower end of that spectrum my understanding is that about thirty

eight million phones maybe thirty nine max were sold in russia this year but sixty four percent of the overall revenue coming from the mobile phone segment is actually coming from smartphone sales and that will increase dramatically was a hundred percent increase in mobile phones there were smartphones in two thousand and seven you would believe there's still significant growth. that's the businesses that will have more in fifteen minutes.

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just silly. at four thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from r t a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister is in damascus holding talks with president bashar i'll also target lavrov visit comes amid raging violence within syria and international diplomatic standoff over how the un grassed should be resolved. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job const demonstrators have clashed with police tear gas to disperse

crowds that's the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease e.u. creditors and secure a vital second bailout. money wrong slams new u.s. sanctions triggering tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological war broke obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian also stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. well the world community is now at loggerheads over how to stem the bloodshed in syria today we talked to bahrain's foreign minister to learn what his country believes should be done to stop the violence. our guest today is his excellency shaikh. mohammed al khalifa is the minister for foreign affairs in the kingdom of bahrain is there anything they would like to say to the russian authorities about their position on the syria issue well the

situation in syria is both difficult and dangerous not just for syrians and for all arab people everyone who wants to see peace and stability in the region of the initiative put forward by arab nations was clear it was approved by syria the only question remaining is whether it will be implemented properly and we've sent our our servers there and they were in danger unable to fulfill their mission but their reports and do indicate that the situation is extremely dire. the material served to us when i head of the observers mission and what he reported to the arab league differs from what we heard from other observers we agree with the syrian authorities that foreign military intervention would not be tolerable that we don't want to see that happen and we do not support calls for it not a single country in our region is calling for a military invasion in syria the question of an authority change in syria by whatever means is not part of a common arab initiative if. anything that the situation in syria is declining in

part due to the fact that western states have not adopted the unified solid position on syria needed if the u.n. security council is to adopt a resolution in russia's case the motivation behind stopping the resolution was clear but the west is not a single minded on syria as it was on libya do you think that's true. the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in our region is extremely volatile the region under the jurisdiction of the cooperation council remains fairly calm and safe thank god our countries are doing all they can to keep it that really the policies of. other states who are not helping to bring peace and stability to their regions the countries are divided into tears for major according to their geopolitical standing closely until one state or the other and their world and we develop. a regime change in a minor curry would not lead to big changes and we gentle scale syria on the other

hand is very important to the reality that we have to think very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we might have to deal with before we interfere in syria's affairs. taking into account the battle cries we hear especially from american and european media do you feel that a full scale war might break out in the region that would harm all gulf states. and that well obviously having worked in the media for a long time you understand the level of politics and we've engaged in global politics for a long time to have the cries for battle ever stopped we hear them constantly throughout our lives they come from the west to the east and the north we can't simply ignore those calls will work on our own military policy as we've been hearing war drums throughout our entire lives and we've become used to that but we must take the situation seriously the region is unstable due to interference by various forces our own geopolitical situation is affected by what happens in iraq

iran afghanistan the peace process is constantly threatened and israel is still threatening as it always has to strike out against iran it is a nuclear program therefore we work all day every day to relieve tensions in the region and to reach a mutual understanding we have to work on that we have to take this situation seriously the war drums you mentioned and not getting hotter and they won't stop in the near future event. could you give us more detail on the discussion about security in the region where. there might there are direct external threats coming from countries who don't want stability and security in our region as well as internal threats coming from within the region are relations with their own are currently threatened and we find them on satisfactory there are stable and contradictory which we're not happy about the specially as representatives of the cooperation council we are beginning to fear a deterioration in our relations with iran as well they're threatened by the unstable situation in iraq which developed after the u.s.

forces pulled out of the change in iraqi government policy has relations between booker in iraq have always been good historically speaking but the statements we'll hear coming from an iraqi politicians and regional governors aren't in line with their tradition i was referring to specific threats to the cooperation council nations and there are also certain hidden threats to civility. security in the region and that these have to do with veterans relations with the allies such as that let us say the e.u. and russia we'd like to have a clear strategy and clear mutual understanding of problems of regional stability and security with all of our partners we're trying to make our region safe for foreign trade vessels and contribute to global economic growth if we and our allies had a clear cooperative strategy and we would have no problems with security has to belittle in a region where we can achieve that by establishing open and transparent relations with all of our partners and that's what we're in a full and he hadn't noticed one horn is the gulf countries peaceful nuclear

program intended to counter iran's nuclear program or would you have developed it anywhere where yes we do have such a program but we're not going to use it to stand against anything else the issue of iran's nuclear program is an international one but we live in this region and when it's discussed with iran the conversation turns political that touches upon many other issues when something concerns a particular region the opinions of those living in that meeting must be considered there are big and influential states in this region the cooperation council must take their opinions into account but i'd like to say that we are no less concerned about instability in the region and then with the iranian nuclear program sometimes we can't help but feel that many other issues it's not our biggest concern getting back to the gulf country's nuclear program and i'd say yes but firstly it won't be built to oppose any other regional nuclear program whether it's iran or any other

country secondly this issue is still being discussed and a specific legislative framework is being worked on with the i.a.e.a. of this program will be peaceful and transparent at every stage just that it's required to be and we're working on that with total understanding of our full responsibility here. before i'm tackling the challenges to regional security addressed the issue of strengthening. what aeration with russia an important international stabilizing force but we know the position of bahrain on this issue do you think your partners in the cooperation council will listen to these calls and take any specific steps to make cooperation with russia even closer than it is now. i can answer positively not only on behalf of bahrain which cooperates with russia in many areas including those in regional security. also corporates with the us e.u. countries with china japan india and many many other states we also see a positive response from russia regarding all areas of cooperation and the benefit

from russia has always played a major role in international affairs and russia is a great power and russia should be present in our region a troll is indispensable russia has put forward an initiative on security illegal we supported it and confirmed it in a joint of. a doctor during a visit by our king to moscow and signed by him and president medvedev. should have cause for all political forces in the region to develop a single approach to gulf security and in. the last summit of the cooperation council for arab states of the gulf put forward a proposal to create a common wealth to help have they taken any steps towards achieving this goal. the summit itself saw a number of steps on transformation of the cooperation council into a commonwealth as proposed by the king of saudi arabia a working group has been formed and the group is to hold a number of meetings to come up with his proposals in may and the annual summit of the corporation council and real steps are being taken not only as proposals but

also in terms of concrete solutions that. are on field if you remember our previous interview we discussed the initiative by the king of bahrain to set up an interim commission on human rights and a special commission to gather evidence of human rights violations that has this initiative been approved if so what's been done so far that. cannot we've achieved to go in the first is that a commission on gathering evidence or as has been established the commission is studying the events of the past year and about. it submitted a report to the king which as far as i'm concerned has been broadcast live around the world now another commission is to implement the twenty four proposals listed in the report and that's been set up another thing is that a high ranking government a commission has been created to implement the tasks imposed on the go all proposals concerning legislation and additional system will be submitted to parliament or anything but the second proposal america has to create

a human rights court in the arab world and that's hugely important of europe has an international court on human rights of women for america has a court on human rights with its headquarters in costa rica for the arab countries don't have such an agency only the arab charter on human rights is in place and i don't have a competent body for anyone to address his or her issues over human rights violations as this proposal has been submitted to the arab league secretary general and will be considered at the assembly in march this year we're watching this process and continue to work out of and i don't think the arab world is part of the whole wider world and in no way differs from it and we're not trying to condemn anyone but the point is that our society must move forward and for us that's crucial. but as. thank you very much for your time.

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses and those that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to tear your house and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've had a rescue couple weeks i waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room.

we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

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party's top stories a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister is in damascus holding talks with president bashar al assad surrogate love broke through as it comes amid raging violence within syria and international diplomatic standoff over how the address should be resolved. the greeks are back on the streets of athens protesting against massive new job costs demonstrators have clashed with police to use tear gas to disperse crowds says the country's coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease creditors and secure a vital second bailout. many wrong slams new u.s.

sanctions triggering tehran's nuclear program calling them part of a psychological more rock obama earlier ordered fresh penalties that involve freezing iranian assets and stopping all transactions with the country's central bank. sports is next here in our t.v. with kate. thank you for joining me for the sports update and here are the headlines hitting back liverpool manager kenny dalglish insists luis suarez should not have been banned after the striker returned off the bench in monday's goalless draw with tottenham. while simply the best tennis star nobody joke of it is named the laureus sportsman of the year club ocelot and i get the team award. testing times williams become the last formula one team to wheel then you can out of the garage

as pre-season preparations get underway in spain. as football liverpool manager kenny dalglish has again vented his anger over the eight game ban given to luis suarez the striker returned to the side for monday night's goalless draw with tottenham after being found guilty of making racist remarks to manchester united's patrice evra they are going to start receive rapturous applause from the on the field faithful when he came on as a substitute for dirk out after sixty six minutes but he couldn't break the deadlock as both sides missed chances with spurs manager harry redknapp missing the game due to a delayed flight. said he was pleased with suarez return but again denounced the ban given to strike out. between these years when the boy thing is going to do something. with a way to get him but. we don't think it should have been aware but we're going to get bikes will look forward to working with a. well.