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interesting topic i wonder who you guys with three d. print think about it but that's going to do it for the news for announce them be sure to tune in next week we're working out a whole new lineup of stories for you first up this week and there will be protests in fifty cities around the world for the sake of one man bradley manning it marks the one thousand stay that bradley manning has been in pretrial confinement so will anyone listen to these protests chants r t will be there and will bring you a wrap up of the events plus food stamps are a way for the government to ensure that those in need at least have access to food there are plenty of needy people around but are some people actually abusing the system for cheap food we'll tell you what's the deal with the abt next week and one of the top reasons given for extending the keystone pipeline is to create american
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jobs but one cornell university study claims that the exact opposite would have happened so is this project more of a pipe dream than a tangible economic solution more on that next week and those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you along with more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned in right here to our t.v. and that's going to do it now for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america or check out our website r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me at twitter at meghan underscore lopez my question to my twitter followers tonight seaquest ration you heard us talk about it tonight but i want to know what government programs you want to cut if you had a choice to kind any of them or would you cut any at all how are we going to make up that money tweet me your responses at meghan underscore lopez for now have a great night and a great weekend. well
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into the future to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi brand new olympic venues are kept safe and by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep and builds hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building boom fueled by clean energy while research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams the race is on going to be our day here on. the central. a little worse if you're going to look a little white house to the. radio guy and placido minutes from
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a cricket club i want you to watch what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. oh and welcome to technology update while the sun and palm trees may not
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immediately scream winter olympics the clock behind me shows that time is ticking as russia sochi transforms itself from a sunny summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex all over russia in fact the final countdown is on not so little reminders were placed in a smattering of the country cities announcing that the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. and adding fuel to the nation's olympics mad fire it was the recent unveiling of official uniforms and torch for the run up to the games really the torch is meant to resemble a feather as well as conjure up the image of a firebird or phoenix from russian folklore the torture edition began at the one nine hundred thirty six olympics has been kept alive in every one since the initial iterations are relatively simple each host country has tried to imbue the torch was something special from the nation itself. the one nine hundred sixty games in the u.s. was designed by engineer. aerodynamic enough to allow it to be.
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transmitted by a satellite that was transported underwater at the great barrier reef before the two thousand sydney games. by plane and train maker. has been specially designed. to shape the body is made of aluminum and a total of one point eight kilograms the flame is powered by propane. it was designed by rocket. plant given the stakes. want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all. under any condition and it must immediately it has to function. in temperatures lower than forty five
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degrees below zero it has to work properly whether. it has to work in the rain or any other whether. the torch has to function in. where there's low pressure which is important. it will be produced especially for this purpose. can be used to light the cauldron in sochi next year it's got quite a busy travel schedule ahead of it it will make its way all over russia carried by many of the countries. the list of those carrying. their compatriots. into competition. and. hundred twenty.
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three thousand. years ago. visitors. but that's only half the story here.
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the country's largest train station. twenty. eight hundred. the risk of. the first stop on the way to the top is station for all intents and
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purposes just about ready for action. it will be the main stop looking to. help some twenty thousand fans of their high altitude destination each hour. only heavy machinery and supplies are being tugged up and down the line. by the time two thousand and fourteen rolls around new electric. longet speeds up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour thirty minutes from bottom to top it's your high speed to get all of the olympic projects under detailed expert review to make sure that they don't unnecessarily threaten the environment or spectators. in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose. the longest track in the world.
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it was built from the ground. to make sure everything is working smoothly. the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking. giving ice at just the right temperature. is a major part of the task. so far the results speak for themselves. i like to track the ice is getting better every day is becoming. i think the track was designed. in the case. priority number one. three inclined to help keep over the top speed. keep an eye on the potentially dangerous chemicals used to make the track traditionally ammonia and for. on have been the two main ways to keep big cool refrigerants have always been valued for the relatively low cost. that's been
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balanced against their overpowering smell and serious toxicity on the other hand. which actually may make for more difficult to spot. and recent decades destroying qualities have become better known a major reason. to the. freon doesn't have. any kind of smell. it's quite a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground. out. there so if they enter a room with a freon leak they can experience oxygen deficiency which may result in poisoning or even death. does it use the dangerous freon. pumping throughout. the company responsible for producing
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first. three levels depending on the concentration of whole sections of the piping can be closed off. the system it would take fifteen to sixteen minutes for information about emergencies to reach those who needed it at times it was even covered up now it's impossible to conceal this kind of data. the company actually developed some produces a wide array of different detecting sensors they run the gamut from electro chemical catalytic to acoustic the heart they all have fast acting technology. calibration incomes office there ready to be plugged in for round the clock contamination monetary. to magically it's constantly running constantly doing what it's supposed to. the case of an emergency
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within forty seconds. is transmitted to trigger the warning system and allows the necessary measures to be taken it all happens very quickly. all the data from such sensors are sent. to local and federal branches of the country's emergency services ministry potentially harmful chemicals are used information from the connected to monitoring stations like this. and another pair of. monitors failed to spot a problem those in the local and federal watchdog should be able to react in real time. to record breaking feats. or the ongoing construction and coming influx of sports mad. power grid was in need of much. louder. transmission.
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substation was built in two thousand using techniques. construction on the surrounding area. for all the other substations popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees below zero temps engineers how much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased the number of mountain substations many times the. transformers are already hooked in and deliver the right voltage to the mountain new sites while under construction is said to be ready for action this march at the same time six more have been built provide the juice to the coastal. and surrounding areas if that weren't enough existing substations have been updated to ensure the lights don't go out on the olympics. over the past few years. constant. projects have been completed and. the.
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safe. stations have to give an extra. capacity to. produce. the clean. fuel for generators. of one hundred seventy two kilometers about one hundred sixty. kilometers off shore. absolutely.
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but the cut. from the equation. it gives. to the.
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compensate for spikes in energy consumption. the. choice is head which is currently the new factory. the company is a joint venture between. the solar power technology. the past decade the new head. which are able to harness. between one hundred twenty five and one hundred fifty five such panels could eventually have some of the. panels. first. silicone inside. edition's. produce will be able to capture the
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whole spectrum of sunlight into energy to. allow them to harness both in. the form and some thirty percent. of course. very close cooperation with. we do have sophisticated. scientists working on the premises of. choice when you consider that the campus has long been. an innovation new facilities have sprung up including a special. energy technologies so by the time. the
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more. don't tell me how much time my. prime. clock. coming out. let me let me i want to know what all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is where we're having the debate we have our knives out. to the previous the scientists backstage never get hearing the phrase be an idea or even talk about the mailing me
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. it's only hard road to make time for any athlete the sun here in russia have added an experimental exercise in the morning rigorous training regimen. it seems cruel but despite all the hard work blood sweat and tears the majority of aspiring athletes will never reach these peaks of professional sports with that in mind researchers working with the university of physical culture and sport in moscow a looking to harness the latest technology to get aspiring athletes over that hump . this potentially dangerous and illegal doping isn't an option the new secret to
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success may lie in element ever present in the air we breathe but long over looked . over one hundred years ago. travers' a novel finding certainly practical applications for. the one nine hundred thirty s. . and a bit later as an operations. in medicine that could be changing. thanks to work being carried out here at the institute of medical and biological problems xenon could be on the verge of a major revival. amongst the hyperbaric chambers where many of the country's divers and astronauts have gone through pressure chamber tests and training docs are taking a look at just what has to offer. what used to be observable favorable side effects of base and become objects of inquiry in their
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own right. the how the gas interacts with receptors is still under study initial trials and experiments have shown that xenon and its neuroprotective properties can relieve stress anxiety and even help addicts get over withdrawal symptoms. and if we talk about the production of. there's no better place to look in the business for over twenty years. company officials placed their market share at around one quarter of. the history the company has primarily dealt with so-called technical that is not for human ingestion. gases medical benefits and the demand for. has followed accordingly. other gases are all around us all of the time they exist in such small. getting our hands on them
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require sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how as a result there's a very limited number of countries currently able to capture and put it to use for human kind. of course in producers worldwide if extracted from air but there are only five countries they produce it commercially the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered as a byproduct of production it's large mental or physical factories for its plants special air separating machines oxygen and also generate as an encrypted mixture as a byproduct or the next of those to gases is then shipped to us before the refining which we manufacture for medical purposes. requires extra cation. and they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent when i mean
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initially we also limit the share of harmful impurities in the gas our refining technology isn't paid indeed you need. to remove all these but. they can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments. at the end of the process they get nearly ready to be sent to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment is still rather expensive especially when compared with other and statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems and complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together but before the medical gets into the hands of a qualified doctor every batch is tested and checked for purity. requires them to control for six kinds of impurities they go the extra mile and control for a full tin as a result of leveled impurities in the medical scene and produced. here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover
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new particularly over using xenon as an end. as a result we're figuring out the absolutely new ways to play. this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time it is still a very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body depending on what the problem is with. medical xenon has many potential applications researchers here are specifically interested in how we can improve the performance of athletes they recently organize an experiment to lay the groundwork for future use in sports. to be a very strong stress protector. in other words in all cases involving stress whether it be acute a chronic stress the best way to deal with it is small therapeutic doses of this
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substance and when we talk about spilled before competition with an athlete needs to relax sleep well and improve he's a functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how xenon can help him. so over a ten day period a group of young athletes were given a controlled dose of scene and had a healthy a ray of their vitals monitor such research is allowing doctors and scientists to better understand how the gas actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to incorporate xenon into one's workout after taking in the gas the experiments the subjects would spend a night in a controlled environment where their sleep patterns could be followed more closely . to see what the results of the experiment looked like from the athlete side of the coin we checked in on one of the inhalers our. training at the lauder across the country in conflicts that will. in two thousand and fourteen in his mind as
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a short experiment and a noticeable effect. after the experiment in the hyperbaric chamber it was much easier for me to train and i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test trainings at my ski club i posted the best results. more experiments are planned for later this year but of course it will take some simple breathing sessions to get to these guys level both the first results and researchers hope that they've done their part to bring hardware back home this time next year. old to be used in professional sports. it's going to be. physicians and hopefully they will be able to use it to help athletes get.
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back at the olympic park. are already completed and starting to host their preliminary test events earlier this month the main hockey arena was packed to the gills not for any competition but to mark the start of the final countdown. performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not. much less a second to waist. deep in one county ceremony. to take. the next time.
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