new crew members are join the international space station to talk about their their story from. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr van amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away

from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in england they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent that irish used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance and being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations vladimir firmly dismisses your brow that is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals

waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years so that america's confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north. on the edge of human capabilities. struggling with pain and remapped. layout to become the first. forest and fall in the.

three new crew members successfully blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan wednesday and after a two day trip they dealt with the international space station to begin this six month stint in orbit more than one hundred scientific experiments along with space walks and taking cargo shipments on the cruise tight show jewel artist tom barnes got the story. a farewell guitar music

was in the air as the next crews the international space station said the last goodbyes to earth. it will be in the cockpit too says the i assesses next commander chris hadfield and actually when we're sitting on the launch pad inside our soyuz there will be music playing both to to warm up our bodies and to warm our hearts well the music will be a comfort there is months of work ahead on the station i asked missions like technical and scientific symphonies on to see them go off for the mission and for their spirits these crew might be better things nicely. for the families this time is as nerve wracking as it is exciting chris hadfield's wife say she'll still feel connected to him while he's up there again through music but i think really if you're here you'd like to be playing so much music because we have to get it you good part of it life and then you work hard at it life so that they were sure that we'll play lots of the third week of the survey is that yes there's

a spec corner only i assess for a trustee guitar. but being away from home at the most special time christmas surely that is hard to cope when i'm out in space i start to feel homesick i'll probably do what i do on earth matters too. to open up my guitar and. play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson r t baikonur has extended. and a very merry christmas to you too the international news a brief first read in the. rallies have seen hundreds clashed with police in the capital protesters defied the government. which followed violence in the wake of

the gang rape of a twenty three year old student on a bus police used tear gas and water cannons when crowds tried to bridge barricades in the central. time in the north of the country security forces shot dead a journalist covering a protest over a sex attack on. french arrange ruin christmas for many people not a kingdom was supposed to be the getaway weekends left many stranded as floods ravaged parts of southwest england cutting of communities and canceling trains home for the holidays it's not over yet either forecasters predict get more heavy rain while more than five hundred flood alerts and warnings have been issued nationwide . it's course just two days to go now to christmas and festive shoppers are racing through decorated streets to snap up last minute gifts for their loved ones but the season of goodwill isn't stretching to those beneath the bright lights and only christmas wish is for a hot meal and a place to sleep is out he's made a point in new york. imagine

a country with homeless people i know it's not the most fast or jolly like question to ask during the holiday season but see here in the u.s. nearly six hundred thirty four thousand people went homeless last year and as it turns out just a sliver of the money american spend on blinking lights bright stars and shiny presidents could actually and the nation's. it is shame. it is a waste. there is only word is there waste their decoration you kidding me. imagine how much stanley could do for a lawyer with no income housing with that kind of money that's what people need housing is all for show us and a lot a lot of you know very desperate people on the streets in new york texas wherever i mean it's it really is a sad situation and i think we can all do better you know maybe sometimes people go

a little overboard you know we want to we all be in the christmas spirit but i guess there's other things that you could be doing with your money six billion dollars just on flights and all and all that because people want to get into the spirit right and they want to forget about all the ugliness in the world and that's not right they need to remember the homeless as well we came here for this and we're all wrapped up in it but when you point that out it's a shame you know top white house officials say that the government would need an annual budget of twenty billion dollars to effectively eliminate homelessness by twenty twenty atop all of the obama administration however even though that money sounds like a lot we should put it into perspective according to the national retail federation americans spent more than six billion dollars on christmas decorations last year and holiday sales reached a reported four hundred and seventy billion dollars so in this season of giving as americans are spending in the cloud of holiday spirit they could essentially be

curing of huge social problem that continues to plague the nation reporting from new york marina for not. coming up in a few minutes we bring you the highlights of live in a potent first q. and a session since his return to the present its president serzh on the. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guinea's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world we're going off the list

below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed a bottle before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver. where the bears are so full that they have a very well for the food i will have to keep an aisle when the rest. of them are. so we won't go yes we shall but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time

when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peanuts another local resident who hates his piece being disturbed here is the palace sea eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in washington far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be no resort to go you'll have tons of people coming here

now just to get some for only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can quiet oprah did you have to rely on yourself and go watch your back so you know who's a bear so we're going to have to be the fed well prepared. maybe for the wildlife here the lack of physical this for the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this you just can't help wanting to share the beauty. about it not bring it emitted gunson is a cool mother needs go. in retaliation for the magnitsky act the state duma passed

on the old and us citizens from adopting russian orphans do you think this is an appropriate response just children even the most deprived and helpless children are used as a tool in a political. stunt system in the skit but. it was first of all you say this was in retaliation for the magnitsky so let me say a couple of warts first about this law school and what i think about it and i have spoken on this subject before but i would like to read to rate my views on this matter the bills will not and this is certainly an on a friendly russian attack and this is not about banning some officials from having a bank account it's all the property abroad and the point is they replaced one anti-social russian on bill with another is the man you just can't let go of the past and this is a very good at least poison our relationship now to be sure you were raised and

option of russian children by foreigners some of which far as i know opinion polls indicate because the overwhelming majority of russian people are very negative about foreigners adopting our children we should do it ourselves should encourage adoption of russian orphans or abandoned children by russian families that has for the us no movement and the problem is not with the people who adopt russian children which of course there were some tragic incidents that we are aware of but that the vast majority of people who adopt russian children are kind and decent people the state duma does not have a problem with those people the problem is with the position of the us authorities and what is their position when adopted russian the children are mistreated but i would use courts often ignore these crimes and let the offenders go unpunished if they even don't allow russian officials be present at the trials as observed. what

is that concerns us. so much on the by your rights of even mates in russian jails. that's a good cause they have many problems in their own country like i said infamous prison and i'm afraid i mean one ton of people are kept here without any charges this is all creatures not only to the people there without a charge they keep them in chains like in the middle ages but i believe that legalized torture in their own country. magine what it would be like if anything like that happen in our country they want to get off our vast reasonable enough there would be a media circus all over the world but when they did nobody says only working to go to the kremlin how many times did they promise to close to one ton of them yet it is still there the prison is still functioning. and we don't know they might still be torturing people they're. also. run by the cia.

have they managed the people responsible for that. they want to tell us about our problems thank you we're well aware of that but using that as if it were to pass an anti russian bill. outrageous and uncalled for. mr president i'm alexander reporter for argument. i'm adoptive parent myself and regardless of the foreign policy context i consider yesterday's amendments by the state jima excessive unreasonable cannibalistic if you will excuse me the people who adopted this know of telling us that we already have enough money to look after all friends in our country and we have plenty of aspiring adoptive parents for the tens of thousand other children not exactly true. it's absolutely not true prime minister medvedev has said policies and programs.

rested my personal experience for three years only that our entire system is going to talk to the parents as i knew since. my personal great. where we were confronted with the grading unlawful treatment for no particular reason i'm sorry for asking three questions instead of one i do hope some of my colleagues will ask a specific questions regarding our judicial system i see blank you. are as yesterday's act is concerned i have already laid out my own i. agree with you first of all i would like to read. this is not about specific people it was about the general attitude of american authorities over the regard to emergency situations where children get victimized and you have their rights infringed upon such. cases are well known and so is the typical reaction by american authorities simply deny

access to russian representatives when they want even allow them into court as observers which they did not i consider it unacceptable what do you think what they do is your property without them with us how can it be proper when. you enjoy the us see them as accused or something. they shouldn't our country anyway it's true that you need to improve our own system besides we're not banning you doctrine by foreign nationals as such other countries apart from the united states. you know in some states they won't admit international election observers to polling stations do you like that. then why do you choose this kind of language with a law such as cannibalistic you have adopted a child and i truly respect that and i hope that many more people will follow your example if you really are a decent person to get it done that it's true and i know what i'm saying for us or

our judiciary which may be excessively scrupulous when examining adoption applications it largely depends upon the personal qualities of a judge presiding over a specific case. but i remember how my good friend and former counterpart used their gerhard schroder doctor to wrestle children when it came to courting st petersburg but the judge asked them specifically how does he were elder the daughter if you live. and when the girl replied why would anybody ask my opinion the judge insisted i'm asking your opinion if you don't want it i will not permit it i'm sure that makes a lot of sense because each family member must make their personal decision and the judicial system essentially relies upon this principle to a strict but fair because there is a separate. problem and that is when adoptive parents terminate the dog once they

have adopted a child there has been a significant number of such cases a simplified approach is not appropriate here and. society must be clear as to whether an aspiring adoptive parent is capable of raising and sustaining a child what their government provided benefits will be sufficient to provide for a child those are criterial bitstream. mr president what if you journalists have gathered here which will have a lot of questions to ask the government to most people and it is first and foremost you who embody the calendar over the twelve years you have built a tough believe an authoritarian regime of personal pollinators and how vital the think the system of you know the twentieth century or perhaps it hinders russia's development. i believe we have been able to ensure stability this is a necessary prerequisite for development but i can't call it

a system authoritarian i can't agree with a statement of the most conclusive proof that it was my decision to take to the sidelines after my two consecutive turns as president if i thought that an authoritarian or tele tarion system was the best choice for us i would have simply amended the constitution but it was easy to do that one doesn't even need a nationwide referendum to do that it would have been sufficient to get adopted in parliament where we enjoyed a majority over three hundred votes stepping in the battle was a totally conscious decision to both ensure a continuity of. the country's constitution and its main laws. naturally back then i couldn't say for sure i would come back in four years especially since a crisis and all no one knew where it would go so that would have been a plain absurd but we all had to make it through tough times. so there is no way i would be calling the system author or terry and if somebody may believes that

democracy and observing laws are two different things they're highly delusional. first and foremost about observing the last release but the anarchy of the ninety's largely discredited both market economy and democracy is such a fearful of them both these are different things so i believe that in no way does order discipline or observation of the law run counter to a democratic government. because i'd like to ask you about the situation in syria as you know western countries there about turkey of the whole they all think that bashar laughs at moscow as well otherwise they say it is impossible to have an ice in syria but trust that does not agree with this but i do think this may leave russia isolated and eventually russia may lose its position on syria and even then time middle east. still it will well has russia lost its position and well after

all the mass that the intervention forces created there was that there was i don't know what their motives were but the country's falling apart ethnic strife conference between tribes what continues but actually even the us ambassador there was killed and you call this kind of work at that. somebody asked me about my mistakes earlier don't you think this was a mistake if you want us to repeat such mistakes in other countries he began again . what we care for is not the future of the acid rain we are fully aware of what is going on there and realize that his family has been in power for forty years or so change is long overdue you believe we are more concerned about what will happen next but we don't want the opposition of once it comes to power to fight the current authorities will become the opposition because this will go on forever. and of course we care about our positions in this region and this region is close to us

. but what we care about is not just our interests there actually we don't have an issue especially interest there we have almost no interest or do we have any particular economic relations with those countries no we don't. do you think president has been visiting moscow frequently no but he spent much more time in paris and other european capitals when we think it is necessary to find a solution that will save the country from disintegration. of civil war. russia's position is that. it is not our goal to help asad strange power at any cost we think first the people of syria should decide on how they see their future how they are going to ensure their security and their involvement in the government and only after that they should start this thing system not vice versa it will but

only if they can overthrow the government and then try to come to an agreement that you know i don't think that agreements based on military victories are inappropriate. and i don't think they will be effective they go out and as regards what may happen there is up to the people of syria themselves. the. deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifty people killing each other in any other country there would be there would be. self imposed out costs from society i will tell myself and i want to tell my

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