ship what is the bottom of lake baikal look like. nobody had actually seen it prior to your extradition did you make any breathtaking discoveries there. there were many discoveries and i believe more will be made later as we still haven't processed all the data we've collected. to you just one example during the first echo sounder device show the bottom of the depth of four hundred meters well we expected it is thousand six hundred thirty four meters i was puzzled but it turned out that there was a thick layer of planked on reflecting the signal at four hundred meters and then the same things happened again the depth of one thousand meters with a call has a. has layers like a party it has a natural filter to keep it clean. because of different temperatures possibly we don't know that yet all we know is that there are thick layers of playing time and then fish feed on the plant on and so on and the cycle goes on you know and he can africa has the same georgics truck sure but fish if only in the upper layer of two hundred meters becaus

mention this dive to the bottom of lake baikal . it was a unique project and was actually worth putting in the guinness book of records by the way how they actually put this in the book about. yes they have put it in the russian book of records. was worth a guinness book to order other than being a record just for the fact of it did the buy called have any practical scientific value. we have for institutes working on this project in each his own research program in the course of three years one hundred seventy five dives took place in most areas point to lake baikal up one hundred seventy five yes hundred and seventy five. of course in the one nine hundred ninety s. exploration was conducted with prices submersibles in the number of dives was much lower. today mir is the best research deep submergence vehicles they're equipped with state of the art equipment presented agree search in the can dive to any depth and there are environmentally friendly which is also important for three years two submarines have explored the lake baikal a

its journey you can log on to our dot com it included a relaxing day at the world's deepest lake baikal and did in its mixes for more on the visit you can check our web site it is dot com. iran has filed a lawsuit against russia in the international court over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles going to brings us more now on the story from outside the iranian embassy here in moscow according to the iranian ambassador to iran is suing moscow over a shipment of a badge of russia's past three hundred air defense systems to tehran under a deal which was signed back in two thousand and eight but the shipment never went through because in june two thousand and ten the u.n. the security council slammed a set off sanctions on iran which in force was a wide range of limitations including those on the sales of various types of all arms so russia froze the shipment last year officials said that they are ready to give iran back its down payment which is around two hundred million dollars or they could go all go through with a deal if and when the u.n. security council a lift this set o

stop in a far eastern town of his son from there he traveled on the transept here in railway to the baikal region with the republic of borneo to as his final destination and a meeting with president medvedev his ultimate goal but before meeting with this current russian counterpart the north korean leader stopped to pay his respects to the first soviet leader this. is one of the biggest in the world and by stopping here kim jong il has made sure that the entire world knows that what might have been russia's past is still north korea's think as kim jong il's press service scrambled for their multitude of motion picture cameras to document the great leaders every word the two men get down to business. as far as i understand the democratic people's republic of korea is interested in the implementation of this trilateral project in which the russian federation and south korea will also take part some technical matters are going to be settled now some time ago gazprom delegation at the level of the vice chairman of the board visited the d.p. ok yesterday i ordered the chairman of the border lik

spotlight later we dive into the problems facing the world's largest body of fresh water russia's lake baikal but first a business update with kareena. i don't welcome to our business update this hour russia is extending its most ambitious privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. the government aims to fully sell fourteen major state companies by two thousand and seventeen but it will keep a golden share and six on the list including russia's all major across the of the countries done in monopoly. this will give the stadia realty to build all the shares if needed according to preliminary estimates the new privatization plan could earn russia around thirty six billion dollars by two. gold continues its march into record territory as worries mount about the health of the global economy some analysts expect the prices to breach seventeen hundred dollars per ounce but angus campbell from london capital group says there are a number of other precious metals that investors should keep. gold is not any person of them glittering looking very nice. making jewelry and being a store of