a.o.r. b.p. will sell its tough in to the russian company for twelve billion dollars in cash and twenty percent in rosneft stock rosneft will buy the other house from eight are for twenty eight billion dollars the deal will result in rosneft becoming the world's largest publicly traded oil company controlling more than fifty percent of russia's oil exports it's now time to check out the markets let's start with wall street and it's having a rough day mainly on earnings concerns here in russia the equities ended the day with pretty heavy losses to you and three quarters of a percent for the r.t.s. as you can see and over in europe equities diffs to chew to a one week low i should say on tuesday same old problems in the euro zone. and up next on our t.v. we talk with a u.s. space entrepreneurialism the prospects of space tourism.

space tourism one of the more fun civil ideas of our time or a solid business proposition in orbit around earth for the future well joining me is someone who should know a lot about that question it's eric anderson a space entrepreneur to say back here on earth so mr johnson thank you for joining us it's a pleasure ok we'll start off your company was founded taking people up to space since the two thousands i remember when i heard recently about the idea of a space hotel i made a bet with one of my colleagues that there would be no such thing in my lifetime now aside from the fact that i would never live to see the money if i did win that was the confidence i had that there would be no such thing was i foolish to make that too but unfortunately i think you probably war i have absolutely no doubt in

my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of its cost effectiveness so there is in theory an impetus there but at the moment the principle impetus is this just the fact of let's go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is that really enough of an incentive all the market studies that have ever been done will show you that forty percent of the general public wants to go to space in their lifetime it just has to reach a point where they can afford it and it's safe enough for them to feel like they're not risking their life excessively to do it but i do think the tourism market is a catalyst it's not by any stretch the only reason we would go to space we'll go to space for resources will mine the asteroids will get precious metals like platinum

group metals from the asteroids people will. live in space will do pharmaceutical research will develop new drugs space will become part of our economic sphere of influence but tourism is a fantastic catalyst for that the i s s at the moment being the only platform capable of holding people in orbit is a working scientific platform are you planning perhaps to try and make space tourists useful that first of all space tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had an in-depth scientific program they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact

showing that there's a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well ok we'll get to the to the other economic areas the best of mining in little while but the moment we have just seen the dragon spacecraft go up to take supplies to the isis that was a significant moment. however it was it was a small part of what is otherwise a vast state and surprise and without state capital it seems that at the moment no private and device could could exist you can point to companies like space x. space x. has a contract for services to deliver cargo to the space station but the capital that it was started with has come from its founder. and so this is an inflection point

this was not always the case you were out. correct the for the first thirty years of space it's all been controlled by the government but we're reaching a point now in fact i think the flipping point was in the mid ninety's when private commercial expenditures in space finally exceeded government and that was of course driven by the satellite telecommunications market and things like that no one would argue that those are successful businesses but we're reaching a point where commercial enterprise is creating its own space program and it will stand on its own it has been well noted that in the past year and a half have been a number of worrying mistakes with russian space programs a supply rocket up devices fell back to worth a mission to one of the moons never got out of orbit. and its course in high profile resignations and will likely lead to a lot of restructuring in the russian space agency serious concerns is this

technology that's going to take people up that good enough the fact of the matter is that despite recent hook ups that may have occurred on different types of launch vehicles the soyuz spacecraft and rocket have the best safety record the best history of being a proven technology for reliably taking people to and from space in human history so there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident of the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently in an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability.

like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem your what you're saying to me immediately i think of the shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was an amazing feat of human engineering but it really wasn't reusable i like to call it rebuild a bowl certainly parts of it were rebuilding all certainly some of it was reusable but there was an incredible number of man hours that had to go into certifying that vehicle for re flight every time it ended up being far more expensive and far less reliable in terms of its reusability that's why use the word rapidly reusable so the shuttle was not a great example of that however many of the vehicles that are being built now including for example the falcon and the dragon by space x.

are designed and the c s t one hundred by boeing to be reusable ten times one hundred times a thousand times and those kinds of advances will be the ones and it's going to take time that will yield those price decreases that will eventually enable millions of people to go to space every year or i'm sure that's an issue that will will take shape in time we'll see how that one puns out the tourism isn't the only idea that you've got on the on the books as it were you also mentioned earlier mining asteroids and this seems like a lot more sort of hard nosed commercial idea just trying to paint a little picture for us a lot of people can't really invision envisage this perhaps from pictures from animations that seem perhaps that there are you know asteroid belts but i don't think there are any asteroids that close to earth because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about of from destroying earth so what kind of distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look

a fully running asteroid mining operate. wonderful question so in the solar system we have literally hundreds of millions of asteroids the vast majority of those asteroids lie in the asteroid belt the asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter one hundred million miles away or more however there is a small but not insignificant population of what's called near earth asteroids anywhere between ten and twenty percent of the material on them are what we call volatiles what that means is most of it's water water ice and water is great because when you break down water into its constituent parts you get hydrogen and oxygen not coincidentally the same fuel the space shuttle used to go to and to and from orbit and so we first want to use the asteroids to build propellant depots in space that is gas stations we want to be able to reduce the cost of space exploration by allowing spacecraft and space ships to feel up no matter where they go and start to seem like

a skeptic but i think i'm not alone in the image of of us sending out teams to try to move asteroids to try and land on them really starting to see much the realms of science fiction i mean they managed to recently land lander on mars but that's really the very limits at the moment of our capabilities is this really a serious proposition how on earth would you go about doing something so let me be the first to admit there is a long list of technical challenges and it's going to be very hard this is something that we don't know all the answers yet but we do know is that there is no laws of physics that prevented that these are pieces of rock out there that for example something the size of the international space station could be worth two hundred billion dollars and so where there's a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow there will be a way people thirty years ago thought drilling a hole down into the bottom of the ocean and pulling fossil fuels under the north

sea was in. possible and now that's what we do as a matter of daily practice well we will have to see whether that does indeed transpire big promises but certainly big ambitions and perhaps big achievements as well whether there will be a future for space tourism and indeed space mining is down to people like mr anderson thank you very much for joining us thank you it's been a real pleasure. to see no one should be proud. keeps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to

tell the story that back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons were they also an express lanes when it was and how prosperous this settlement was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lags say it's still attracting new region tourists or barons work cons and much needed cash that's why when business bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance work central square that can do nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in an archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most. now it's one of the

last preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until all mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops. is a big hit the defunct aren't curtain still helps keep the money flowing. it's all rushing through your words you can't but if. you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i

mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

today. game fled. these are the images. from the streets of. operation. it's headlines breaking news from r t the us has blocked the statement on libya of the un security council it was proposed by a rush it was a peacefully resolving the situation colonel gadhafi his former stronghold bani walid which could under siege by a pro-government forces for over a fortnight russia's u.n. envoy says america's decision is quote strange considering the recent killing of the u.s. ambassador to libya we got more mindful of the fifteen minutes of other headlines from us tonight thousands come out in protest of madrid these latest live pictures as parliament played small cuts for next year's budget that says for spanish region to pound you can buy ratings john. while painting romney as an

obvious she was not ready to be america's crowd when she finds out right victory allusive though in the final presidential t.v. showdown while many analysts on the kind of the future looks like to go on what major points. coming up to twenty two forty six moscow time on the button the units there like to be precise you know it's taken a while the spots lost something to smile about how late tonight they certainly do game week three of the champions league kevin if they want to make their last sixteen and all that goes with they really hard to win tonight spartak moscow they are more than just to say. thanks for joining us this is indeed sports today plenty coming up over the next ten minutes including. off the mark. their first points of this season's champions league campaign beating benfica in week three. and then there were two sons

francisco romp into a world series shoot on with detroit after calling to tie the cards. battered bruised discover bikers get their kicks. painter russia. but we get going with football where spartak moscow have injected a life into their champions league season the red whites winning their first game in three attempts at the expense of benfica a chance tough for them. getting the best possible start after just three minutes we were off. that in for one nil benefit would now of an equaliser after the half hour mark the limit of the score though the decisive strike was to go the way george els own goal making it to one spark would end the moscow fights not climb above ten feet get to third spot in group g. . while the leaders in the group barcelona will be seeking to maintain their spot at the top as they welcome second place celtic to the new camp the hoops themselves

going for a big upsets with the catalan giants missing some keep personnel for the clash defenders carles puyol p.k. antonio did not play in last weekend's win over tea party who. are tonight's game as well scottish champions celtic notoriety aiming to exploit a hastily put together parsimony defense which has already conceded unleavened league goals so far this season celtic have already beaten in moscow on true with being home. to score invalid clashes yet and indeed in any of the other seven all. the constant in group b. events this hour in denmark for an f.c. norge alone test while shocked toward the nascar entertaining chelsea clash with an out of sorts byron munich side is on the way in group after his perfect meeting with valencia rumanians clues will be aiming to keep the l a times dr pointless in group h. while manchester united will seek to make it three wins from three at home to

prague. now it is no secret that sport for the most part boosts a country's economy especially football and english premier league bosses this week will certainly agree without sentiments according to research that came out on tuesday almost one. a million tourists attended a pale much last season spending more than a billion dollars but info comes from the british office for national statistics the most popular teams the visits were up in the northwest manchester united and liverpool london clubs arsenal chelsea and tot mom were next on the list in that order the bulk of the football watching visitors came from arlington north and south norway the united states. now with the sortie winter olympic games less than five hundred days away no training venues are being put to mark some use michael christian coach exide one such area which is going from strength to strength there's no doubt that one of the main reasons for russia winning the right to host

the twenty fourteen winter olympics is due to the success of the many winter sports athletes it's produced and with the games less than sixteen months away many are getting ready now but this by the increased urgency to better prepare it's often been a case of having the right set up in the sixteen thirty five tracks and of the infrastructure have been serving professionals and become fools since two thousand and three the center was initially designed to hold international events of any level there are no other centers in russia that have as many certified tracks as germany six times we've held a stage of the ski world cup here and have already secured it for the season after the olympics the rules ski tour is just one of the many events that the complex hosts with some are also including triathlon and marathon competitions but it's impressive pre winter season where the center excels as it can produce its own snow even in plus temperatures. i've been roller and cross-country skiing for a while and i can see this complex is one of the best in russia it has interesting

courses and is kept at a high international level what's best is that it's part of better developing roller ski and cross-country skiing in russia something that's been sorely needed. so the infrastructure may be slowly popping up on the russian landscape however there's still a lot that the cross-country and roller ski federation's wish could be sped up and improved upon. i of course want to see more ski complexes and courses for roller skiing built around russia because it's the main creative for further developing these sports we're trying to help cultivate these boards in various regions of the country but there's still plenty of work to be done. but for now it's places like germany that will have to lead the way for future generations the germans for complex may be a one stop shop for professional roller skiers marathon runners and winter sports enthusiasts in general but it's also a great place just to come and relax and with the cottages that have their own

personal foreigner you can be forgiven if you didn't make the finish line like of genco r.t. . let's talk motor sport where formula one is back on american tar after a five year absence the following brand new circuit in texas here will host the united states grand prix on november the eighth the race is expected to attract as many as one hundred twenty thousand fans lotus f one driver drome d.m. but zero zero was in hand over the weekend to take the first official lot of the five point five kilometer. to more events are already scheduled at the truck for next year which in april the following month the official v eight supercars. baseball timer san francisco will slug it out with the try for the twenty twelve world series title but as after the giants completed improbable comeback against last year's winner civis on monday the giants find themselves three one don in their national league finals bottle with a cardinals before winning two st the force

a decider at the best of seven series the local crowd in san francisco watching their team seize the opportunity as the giants put an exclamation mark on their back with a nine zero thumping of the defending champions mark came out in the second inning r.b.i. single to go with his impeccable pitching performance while marco scutaro was named syrians and. despair used to be and never had the opportunity to maybe to be in the playoffs or play all through. and now i'm going to be waltzers and there's a little give for. finally last weekend saw extreme mountain bikers braved the elements on the outskirts of moscow for the party twenty eight twelve event has hurt its share of ups and it had its share. reports for lovers of extreme mountain biking is the third place to be and for those of you that think that these guys are crazy you're probably right with the

many things to do in moscow on a saturday night over sixty adrenaline junkies chose to tackle the east challenging slope outskirts of the city with the aim of getting from the talk to the ball so as quickly as they could move that was the plan. it's not dangerous it's interesting this is a technical kind of sport which implies being able to control yourself and to handle your bike so this is not just about knowing how to ride a bike but about emotions you need to have yourself well in hand.

than. i. i mean there was a handful of riders we managed to keep them suits and live but under control getting to the top of the trick even if they picked up a few bumps and bruises on the way surprisingly there was no serious injuries to report with some valley. so it's him to come to the slope and you will off the meeting or it's. more story just. crazy stuff just before i go a come up to you to chelsea and manchester united fans you're currently losing the moment you want might want to check out your game's not looking too good at the

moment so you sit. sit good leverage taurine to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the. wealthy british style the sun. rises. the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert

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