secretary of state hillary clinton visited o'grady president pressing president boris tadic to open up talks with the south declared independent breakaway republic of course about. the later hours he was pulled from afghanistan where years a war have forced young boys to become the breadwinners for their families. news from russia and around the world this is our see with me thanks for joining us and we'll begin with our special coverage of the russian expedition to the arctic polar explorers have landed and are working to establish a research station or a drifting ice floe the scientists are spending again vesta gating the natural resources of the arctic russia is among five nations staking territorial claims in the area thought to contain a quarter of the walls or the natural gas reserves also use it as you know greg has joined the expedition as it searched for a suitable home among the mammoth floating ice chunks. have to run aggressive march through the arctic the rest your eyes break slows down to a crawl explorers are on a delicate mission to find a suitable eyes filled twenty tu

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