best done from the highest point on the bargo it's about nine hundred meters above sea level here dimitri is teaching a son killed how to set up for the filming. look. you can see that the lighting is on one side of the mist covers most of the valley . we don't want to film only the mist we need to focus on the foreground look at the grass gleaming in the sunlight its light of the valley is dark. so the light strip will show this shot to the best advantage. now if. the great in northern slope is a continuous chain of mountain ridges tops by snowy peaks millions of years ago there was a vast sea in this place the smallest part of it the black sea is now hidden behind mountain ridges they form a shield in the way of warm breezes blowing from the sea the warm air creates a sub tropical climate in the foothills of the southern slope of the greater caucus's ridge there is a moderate zone further upslope the kingdom of eternal snow and ice on the mountain tops is more than three thousand meters above sea level. which is. i'm going to film these magnificent landscapes we never know in order to s

time is enough for dimitri says i think it is some kill to get several shots on take. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities record changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and fecal fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution which are now the temperature a jugar is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one metre deep around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november and it may well turn out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day courses reserve staff record temperatures wind velocity humidity and amice ferric pressure. one team is on shift for two months. on its way from to go to the grand northern slope the helicopter passes by now fished the highest point and the western ridge. after an hour's trip by end dimitri an

shortly before dawn dimitri and killed head to a small flat mountain top according to an old caucasian legend do you often meet the sunrise in the mountains lives a long and happy life get real good you can no see mode you go on you're right in the video the sun will rise from behind the aspen pass. we're going to choose the highest point for filming we only have ten to fifteen minutes for that. each song rise is a mystery of the world used to it no single one is ever the same the balloon is truly wonderful. the nearest settlement is far away radio is the only means of communication with human civilization. hey folks if you're listening to our movement of radio show us your hosts once again you get to ring and look at it last term or talked about in the history of the congress is nature reserve you get to go to the small studio broadcasting meet our movement show is in a town and scores of kilometers away from the a bar go for schoolchildren tell locals about the caucuses reserve journalists. oversees the programs the children talk about the reserves animals surviving trees mountaintop

after an hour's trip by end dimitri and his son kirill walk about the northern sector of the caucuses reserve in the company of ranges the jugo weather station is now schools of coleman says away. people and animals share the only path there is in this area. do the bison let humans approach them most of the people traveling around the reserve granges on horseback most short while ago patrol duty in a different area of the short distance from here they can see month to show their came across nine bison. the lettuce come quite close to them. we're only fifteen meters away. bison moving in the caucuses reserve have no enemies sometimes humans can come very close to them provided they are on horseback buses or ranger dismount the bison instantly make it clear they're poised for attack. horses are the most reliable and indispensable companions when people go on long trips in the mountains only horses with good training eligible for the job with. this one is called chetan ish. he's my favorite. we became fast friends. reading him is no problem he does what he's told to do. this one is still

right now i'll tell you all about it coming up but first here's dimitri in washington. thanks lauren and staying with europe for a moment the negotiation between greece and its creditors seems to finally be on the verge of a resolution at least that's what you finance commissioner olli rehn thinks beyond just about to pull should you deal or not for a week six or involvement between the greek government and the private critter community. a deal the kind of deal greece is a deep depression consumers aren't spending and businesses aren't investing and that's not going to change the most this bad debt underwritten by greedy banks and taken on by generations of top the crowds and politicians and taken off the backs of the greek people why should they continue to suffer while bankers like jamie dimon claim as you did in a recent interview from davos that a greek default would have zero impact on the banking system and getting back to the u.s. g.d.p. numbers for the fourth quarter out of the mainstream financial press is reporting that two point eight percent growth rate show

to cross-talk yeltsin's russia i'm joined by dimitri baba chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex proud he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen cross talk rules and if i mean you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing a series here i go on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand nine hundred ninety also became the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic will basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri. let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to a child what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two par

will basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri. let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to a child what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin storrow for the first time in russian history and man came to power on us to election against the will of the government that was an achievement as for that collapse of the soviet union it had begun long

off worst of all i should i should tell dimitri that i did not write those comments. in the embassy at the time. i think i very much agree with what alex and frankly i know the person what the perception in russia is i was being treated like a defeated power certainly i think in policymaking circles in washington that was not the case even if it maybe appear about way to people in russia they basically thought that russia would end up relatively quickly i think being like us and that way and us a lot of the trouble that happened in the following decade at least for some people in washington what was the summit. a surprise the second point i would make is that russia itself then was ambivalent about the soviet past about its own past and that made it much more difficult to craft a policy. in one way or the other political or economic to move russia and the way we try we want it to go and the fact that because the russians themselves were uncertain about which way they want to go dimitri i mean in and we look at it in retrospect now. after his presidency was that a miss

all basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow later in the year dimitri. let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to charge what about yeltsin at this time well i think there are two parallel processes going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin storrow for the first time in russian history and man came to power on us to election against the will of the government that was an achievement as for that collapse of the soviet union it had begun long before that it speeded up back in one thousand. eighty nine already there was a lot of talk about it and by one thousand nine hundred the the process was almost complete i would remind you of that in march two months before the election. seven republics although fifteen did not take part in the referendum on the reform of the soviet union so the process has already gone very very much for it and yeltsin of course when t

in to a special episode of the capital account coming up in just a few minutes lauren lyster and dimitri will dive even further into the issues that leaders are facing at this year old world economic form and then later in the show us we'll sit down with peter schiff the c.e.o. of euro pacific capital to discuss the federal open market committee's latest decision to keep interest rates low at least until twenty fourteen. now still ahead an r t one year after millions of egyptians took to the streets of cairo there might be a new group of people in power but how much has actually changed or is it just a new face to the old policies we'll question this and explain more in just a bit. of people calling what you said for free and fair election. again we're still reporting from the development you can hear behind me loud explosions. i don't even. know you got it. well protesters have returned to talk we're square in thousands to mark the very first anniversary of the very uprisings that led to the ousting of president hosni mubarak so what's changed in egypt since the revolution artie's own w

dimitry is next. welcome to the program the chief said opec have knocked back warnings from around the e.u.'s decision to impose an embargo will lead to skyrocketing oil prices the organisation's general secretary says a fair price of a barrel of bread should be about one hundred dollars instead of the current one hundred and twelve dollars that we're seeing right now he adds that the market is very well supplied and to discuss where crude prices are going now joined live by david the global director well it industry research is plats david good to see you so opec says one hundred dollars iran says under fifty who is right. dimitri i think what that tells you is that the oil market as many of your viewers will know is is trapped in a little bit of a channel right now one hundred to one hundred fifty is kind of the conventional wisdom you know a couple of years ago when oil was on its giant rally it touched one hundred fifty ever so briefly before the recession that followed and what's on people's mind

just circle back around to the fed to ask one question about these access reserves i want to bring dimitri is going to jump in here to make sure to finish our producer a minute or so i want to i want to say one more thing about we're talking about before regarding base money printing the fed printed a lot of money and they use that money to buy up a lot of assets which is why its portfolio expanded by over three times and we saw base money expand by march but that money didn't actually get into the economy i want to see if we can bring up actually a graph we have of loan growth relative to the money it's up there so our viewers can see the. collapse relative to the basement of the federal reserve is creating because banks aren't loaning the money you know as we saw in europe the old hero the s. and p. program banks be getting money but that money is going right back to the deposit facility in the u.c.b. in the fed is going right back to the fed and they're getting interest on excess reserves a small amount of interest is still better than what they're they're willing to go up by taking ris

kovtun us on the show and you heard him ranting a very dimitri kovtun absolutely about this run up to the presidential election of course with the iowa caucuses tonight given that the economy is so important to these elections long term systemic joblessness and the fifteen trillion dollar u.s. debt being just to reasons why we are going to focus a little more in politics than we typically do because this really warrants it we're going to talk to former assistant treasury secretary under ronald reagan paul craig roberts to talk about if there is an option for the american people thank you lauren for giving us that update that is coming up next and that is going to do it for the news for more of the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america i'll see you right back here and a half hour. for . download the official anti happily cation your i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. exams to. one job teach life on the go. video on demand atienza live broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t