after earth fire, she could not get passed the fire. water follow it had ship and wind was able to go across and follow and find him. it was after many years that wind was able to find him. i'll read that last part. [inaudible] all living in the americas, i saw the taken shackled to the land from sun up to sun down working tobacco, sugar cane and rice. i listen to them tell stories different but strangely familiar. now prayer rabbit. i stopped by kitchens and watched our women with cook yams, rice, oh kra and beans. our children had not forgotten. and i rejoice, led by the sound of a black smith's hammer, i travel to charleston, south carolina, john shannon, black smith. a large european with red hair, comfortable. they were apprentices to all africans new and old, familiar yet fresh. i have sold another of your beautiful gape with the rice design, how did you learn to craft so well? a young man stepped into the light. i learned by reaching back with one hand and stretching forward with the other he said. people said you are a genius. m

more stories ahead for you in the program this hour including earth's darkest hour is just an hour away join our team to watch the moon turn a spooky red color for the longest time in a decade. ahead in just a few minutes from now. iran says it has no plans to possess nuclear weapons during talks with russia and a key summit of asian countries they've just wrapped up their meeting with leaders there which focused on tackling the raft of economic and security issues which face them as i see it reports now from the summit. on the sidelines of the a shanghai cooperation organization summit russian president dmitri medvedev had sat down with. a closed door meeting and according to a foreign minister sergei lavrov an important statement had been made at that meeting. confirming. its total renouncement of plans to possess a nuclear weapons and important statement to be made at a time when there's a lot of international pressure on iran in this regard now russia had also raised the possibility of a more constructive cooperation between iran and the five plus one nations referring to the five p

>> i am interested in the physical properties of the earth and how the earth will behave: subject to different load changes. when you are building a building, you are applying a load and you are wondering if the earth will be able to supply that load. we work closely together and we come up with practical engineering solutions. >> this is when someone wants to build something. also, we have a rock piece of land. we have to have a resolution. >> in the u.s., about 2/3 of the population lives in areas that are prone to landslides. about $2 billion of damage occurs annually from landslides. unfortunately, 20-25 million people die as a result of landslides o. >> much of the coastline is either a bright red or a beige print th. >> here we are at the base of telegraph hill on lombard street. this is owned by the city. behind you is a large piece of something exposed. you are looking at a large class that was xextricated in a quarry about hundred years ago. this is a secretive sandstones, shales, accumulated debris. essentially it ended up piled up here. the quarry activity was so intense a

everything that comes from the earth.ese blessings, we love these blessings so we represent them with seven "s's." this is a sign of health, the apple. please, can you put it there on this table? next, we have --, this is sour but it is good for your health. this comes from any other fruit. this is the vinegar. it was very hard to carry out. oh, -- is good for many things. persians knows for what. this represents wealth. i don't know why. let me see what i have. egs-- eggs, i don't know why we put these. it does not start with s. we put this on kabob. we love this. do you love this? yes, you do. c'mon, this is very good for your health. this is garlic, for your health. everything is for your health. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. one more. oh, money. this is for wealth. those people who are wealthy, they have a lot of this. yes. there are many more but i forgot to bring them. i came in a hurry. this is kind of crushed now. this is the greenery. we love this. i don't know for what. there is a big one, you can go and eat it. [laughter]

as the sun's as the earth's curved shadow lose the moon he saw all that time ago and and gave some of the first proof that perhaps earth is in fact a sphere not flat unfortunately for you bill stuck in the studio you're going to have to wait quite a while the next solar eclipse is going to be in two thousand and eighteen so unfortunately you'll have to wait for that yes but a lot of us stay in the studio until that time we're going to get a chance to have a quick look out the window i hope in about twenty minutes from now and see if we can have a look at the at the development of the eclipse then but in the meantime thanks very much for that update live in moscow tom barton there. were more days main news now u.s. missile defense plans for europe suffered a setback progress now refusing to take part in the system check official say they're not happy with washington's offer as alexian a chef ski reports. prague wants a bigger role in this project the project of the european missile defense shield we understand that the initial plan mensah that only a preventive missile detection system

have you seen earth? ♪ ♪ but have you seen earth >> from space? you seen earth ♪ >> from space? ♪ oh planetarium [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> but just how far is space anyway, fellas? it's not so far, my brothers. it is not so far at all. >> not when you have a space shuttle. >> that's right. you see, when you have a space shuttle, earth and space are separated by just a thin little line. >> right on. ♪ it's a thin line between earth and space ♪ ♪ it's called the exosphere ♪ ♪ it's a thin line between earth and space ♪ ♪ but the shuttle can cross it ♪ ♪ it's a thin line between earth and space ♪ ♪ it ain't that far ♪ planetarium [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> thank you, fellas, thank you so much. give yourselves a round of applause, ladies and gentlemen. [ cheers and applause ] you know, we're always saying that if you want to see space and the planets up close -- ain't nobody got a view, ain't that right, fellas? >> that's right. >> that's right. >> yeah. ain't nobody got a -- ♪ view >> like the international space station. check me out. ♪ ♪ if the

return one of them, any one of them, to the earth and look. such foolish skipping, such telling of bad jokes, such feasting. even a cucumber, even a single anise seed, feasting. and, last poem, foolish of me and yet optimism. the title is only optimism. the other part was a preface. more and more, i have come to admire resilience, not the simple resistance of a pillow whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. a blind intelligence, true, but out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs, all this resinous, unretractable, earth. the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anan

it's titled hot, living through the next 50 years on earth.elcome. >> thank you for having me. >> i say that with trepidation because as i was reading the parts of this book i did read, it's more than a little scary. one of the things you say is you talked to an expert, and i think it was mr. king, david king in england and he is a science and adviser to the scientific adviser to the british government. >> and the queen. >> and he said that this is it's 100 sooner than we thought it was going to be. is that in other words now it's 100 years or came 100 years ago? >> it arrived -- they knew global warming was happening in the late 80s. we were first warned about this. but the scientists thought it would be the year 20100 before global warming triggered climate change and the climate changes we are seeing now, the storms, droughts, all this weird weather, that's what's happening 100 years sooner than even the worried scientists expected. >> we were talking before the show both hailing from the east coast at various times and for awhile my husban

expedition to the bottom of the earth an artsy. white stream cascading from mom and slopes the view is mesmerizing. but this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers per hour on. the step to belong. to a failed state this is not a prohibition but a warning that. a fortunate that we should see several you should disappear quickly trieste because they have no idea about the hardships to face to. face one it's the says it is all of them to needs to. bring in the army the life of abuse the other is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two books. of victory nine hundred forty five dollars on t.v. dot com. some stories from. r t the e.u. agonizes over curbing its catastrophic debt and ballooning bailout budget as other countries ones eager to join the blog have second thoughts as we report. meanwhile the same petersburg international economic forum for discussing how to avoid another glo

sun and the size of the earth.phic. let's show you where we were and where we are headed. back in the late '90s, around 2000, we were in a solar peak. that solar peak means we had three of these per day! we were getting static electricity and static charges all over the place. but now we have more satellites up there. we have more power grid issues. we are running things almost full throttle. so naer tear the peak you get o these things a week. during the peak you might get two or three a day. these things are headed to the earth and could cause these solar storms. we know them as visually, you'll see the aurora borealis. you'll see colors in the northern and southern hemisphere because they are interacting with the ionisphere. but when these can crash to earth and knock out satellites. or they may wobble a little bit. we can knock out power grids, too. this one is probably not going to do that. this was a big cme but it was not pointed directly at the earth. understand the earth and sun are three-dimensional. half

it will take them about eight minutes to hit orbit around the earth two days to dock now the three men when they get there will be undertaking over for. forty scientific experiments among them cancer research and to be ability to actually grow food in space while what it's like the earth just show up tremendously you can really sense the power in that as as it took off i'm sure the family and friends are very shaken out what an experience that was with us to come to this news now with career. to business thanks for joining me british or major b.p. says it has no plans to sell down at stake in its russian venture tain k.b.p.s. company denied earlier media reports that it threatened to do so he's russian partners in taking b.p. recently blocked the share swap deal between the provisional nature and state run across nafta but despite the route b.p. says its focus is on developing tank a b.p. which is also the country's third largest oil producer. and staying with oil members of the oil exporting cartel opec meeting in vienna to look at possibly increasing costs it could be one of the most

we'll start to seat changing of colors as it comes to earth.d we're talking about the aurora lights. we'll tell you how you can enjoy that as it gets closer to the earth. you see the collisions of ions and the atom. anywhere in the northern latitudes you can see for parts of canada and northern parts of russia, some of the higher attitudes. on a scale of one to nine, we give it in a five. you can see it in new zealand as well as australia. that's something more if you want to take a look at how the solar storm affects things farther down towards earth. the other story we've been following, tropical weather, this time out of asia. you're looking at a tropical depression located about 95 miles, 125 kilometers to the west of manila. this is a depression. this depression will be moving towards the northwest. as we go through the next several days, as we go into saturday, we're going to see it getting close to the coastline and the province. the arabian sea, another system we're watching, we have a tropical cyclone formation alert. this will be movi

expedition to the bottom of the earth. just a few minutes we examine iran's nuclear program in our exclusive interview with the country's envoy to the un's atomic watch dark for that it will take a look it's happening in business with katrina. thanks very much and welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. we start with one of the most important russian economic events of the year. international economic forum. all eyes are on russia's northern capital as the annual international international economic forum kicks off and this year presidential aide arkady dvorkovich system petersburg form is more important than ever for russia as it begins to look east as well as west for investment tatiana pollack over brings the details. this is printed post thousands of gas pedal states and the economic growth from all over the world will reveal a long discussion of the new iraq in the global economy it will be all the fault the merger leadership expanding to lower their horizons and really lead to capital the key speakers at the fo

the bobsy earth was in fact a severe and not flat however if you want to see the lunar eclipse tonight was the night to do it the next ruler lunar eclipse is not scheduled until two thousand and eighteen. reporting there from central moscow will be about the recap of our top stories for you in just under ten minutes from now but first within hours of the iranian president's pledge not to pursue a nuclear deterrent r.t. spoke exclusively with iran's envoy to the un's nuclear watchdog and he told my colleague researcher that there's no question of the peaceful nature of his country's nuclear program because the. as already established that interview coming up next on r.t. . now iran is promising transparency and constructive interaction with the un's nuclear watchdog a few days ago the e.u.'s foreign policy chief baroness ashton called on tehran to prove its peaceful atomic intentions this during an exclusive interview with us here at r.t. and we can now talk to iran's envoy to the national atomic energy agency ali asghar soltanieh thank you for joining us today the russian foreign minis

. >>> it's hitting earth right now.'s headed our way from outer space. >>> we're on fog watch once again. coming up the one change in temperatures over the next couple of days and the timing of our next warm up. we could be talking about some more 80s in our long range. >>> new at 6:00, security changes for a south bay university. what it plans to do differently after a suicidal gunman killed two students on campus. >>> then, see how a local city is using this creek to help the environment and people who have the hardest time finding work. >>> plus -- >> i have a good feeling that justice would be served. >> reporter: we're gathering more details on the case of the murder of a local journalist killed for doing his job tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. >>> it was six months ago today that police shot and killed guy miller. to honor his legacy today friends and family members marched from the site where jerell was gunned down. they say the officer feared for his life because jerelle was holding a gun when the office

expedition to the bottom of the earth arctic. welcome back to the spotlight and al green of in just a reminder there my guest on the show today is john rich secretary general of the world nuclear association we're talking about nuclear safety you mentioned that for twenty five years nuclear power plants have been absolutely safe you know major problems well i actually thought she might happen but on the eve of the twenty fifth anniversary of chernobyl these two disasters can they be i know they were different but can they be that i mean in the in the trial in terms of the consequences for your industry. the damage they made to business to continue to. i think. that will be less severe in its health consequences and i think it will be less severe and its consequences for the nuclear industry like. chernobyl reasonably raise the question about whether or not nuclear power plants were doomsday machines. this reactor seemed to go completely out of control under the supervision and management of its operators and know what we know abo

what on earth would they be doing? >> what you are looking at here, two things occur along the south waterfront. one, sand that is dredged from the sacramento river is actually put on barges and brought down into the bag at pier 80 and 92, and then they stockpiled the sand and wash it and tip it over to the concrete producers, bodhi, central, and others, rose and jensen, hanson, and the sand is coming down the sacramento river to mix with the aggregate to make concrete. the other thing that happens down in this area of san francisco, we are becoming more and more green at society. we are taking the asphalt and recycling it, and then we take concrete and put it through -- they will put it through a grinder and grind it to different rock sizes and use that as the aggregate for asphalt or concrete. i am not sure if this is a sand pile for the concrete or if this is a recycle plant. but it is one of them. the city has opened up the large piers that unfortunately are not being used. we don't have the commerce we had in the

like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francis

yeah well cause i think the crucial thing is that we've got gravity here on the surface of the earth so that's part of it but the psychological aspects of it i think are. they've really had to imagine themselves into the situation they've really had to convince themselves that they're doing this for real i've never done anything like this but i can't imagine that you could lock yourself away under these circumstances without in some way convincing yourself that it was real tough to feel it i could talk to you forever about this very interesting thank you very much but i have to leave it there as dr patrick fuller from me could be found a big part of the capital side's connections innovation agency so one year in they still have five months left to go i'm not sure i could do that. they've been. a year in isolation travelling a million miles a day. the men from mars are heading to. mars five hundred closer to the edge of possibility on our team. international bankers have reportedly wasted billions of dollars invested by libyan leader colonel gadhafi the financial times has giants like

the earth is harming innocent civilians the. israels flow of cheap gas is drying up with egypt pushing for a. shake up was. only benefits the jewish. family. excessive amounts of highly toxic. have been detected in waters around japan's fukushima nuclear plant scientists also warn that levels of contamination are even higher than those recorded following the train novel catastrophe. those are the top stories here in our seat as we talk to those who will risk the might of an avalanche in search of the ultimate adrenaline high. the cole open in chile are in russia's north home to the q.b. in the massive mountain range this is the cold and windy bolshoi pass the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep avalanche safety specialists are probing the snow structure on one of the slopes. the top layer of snow drifts on a slope is unstable and skiers could trigger an avalanche shift attention those of you who are keen to scull mountain creeks please be careful. some avalanches a wet others a dry it all depends on the snow

expedition to the bottom of the earth. so far a much more have the chance to meet a few of the black seas marine animals but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more drawing lines the least most of the time. this isn't just an ordinary it's a rescue and a retirement center for injured addicts performing on the walls. enjoying her early morning ball. full report looks after more than sixty different species and i met up with head keeper. until he started working here three years ago because i was a hunter but it seems like the animals don't generally crunches. let's go buddy this is the himalayan band both don't you want to say how long you want to have fun and once he's only ten months old growing like a weed he's a fairly sap now but when he gets big. he's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's. great i'm having fun and biting everything in his meat. every careful. but. then if you think bellew's a handful weightily meet his friends next door. is a baby. with a spate of recent births the zoo now

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it occurs when the earth passes a shadow over the moon. indirect light can still turn the surface a dramatic shade of red. >> high above the earth, a rare and be the full site, a lunar eclipse, the moon turned orange by the earth's shadow. this was the view in moscow. around the world, moon gazers were out in force, here watching in lebanon as the eclipsed began. >> this is something that does not happen every day. i am glad we had the chance to watch it tonight. >> cairo's career square -- tahrir square was hundred demonstrators and is now home to amateur astronomers. >> being here is great because of the resolution and the clips. -- the revolution and the eclipsed. it is beautiful. >> others were excited by what they saw. >> it is beautiful. you can see the moon is turned red. every day when you go out of the house, you look at the sky. today, the moon is red. >> perhaps the most spectacular view came much further to the east, in australia. >> we think of the moon as white and being very holy and white. but now it was red with black on i

let them live this way -- or risk their deaths trying to give them a more normal life. >> the earth call issues are complex. first of all, they are children. they cannot make the decision for themselves. >> you know that your chances of saving two kids is not that good. >> chances are not good, but we have to go for that. to me that's the only way. >> one, two, three up. >> a remarkable story. two extraordinary boys in this hour of "double lives." >> the question you have to ask is what is the value of a single life, or in this case, of two lives. >> they are two of the most extraordinary children on earth. pure, simple, normal in so many ways. mohammad, the smaller, vivacious, outgoing and downright mischievous. his bigger brother, ahmed, quieter, reflective. already seems to possess a worldly wisdom. these two boys have spent every moment of their young lives together and yet they have never once seen each other. and they cannot sit, stand up or even crawl because they are conjoined twins joined at the head. the boys condition can perhaps be remedied with surgery, but surgery so comple

i'm saying it's 7500 miles from the earth's atmosphere.out 22,000 miles in the earth's atmosphere. kind of neat. probably not going to see it. if you have the correct scientific acumen, you might be able to see it. in terms of the bigger picture, other than asteroids, we have strong storms especially this afternoon and tonight, chicago, minneapolis, kc, you could be under the gun, nashville as well. birmingham, atlanta, certainly more out of the question than not. hail and strong winds part of the package tonight and the heat continues to blaze. we'll talk more, suzanne, about those fires in los alamos and the weather impacting them. >>> your responses popping up to our talk back question. is it time for marriage equality in america after new york's approval of same-sex marriage. your responses are moments away. >>> how many hours a day would you say you spend sitting in front of a computer at your job or at home? a new study says long hours sitting actually shortens your life. researchers followed more than 100,000 people over 14 years an

of the huge earth covered. live. a charter here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. live. today violence is once again fled up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for asians are today. these slides are very interesting. and this is this is an interesting slide with what you have here and one nine hundred eighty two dr ralph minster at university of pennsylvania said what if i can take me gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. and he did just that he actually was successful as you can see though the very large mouse here is the one that's successfully been engineer with human growth genes to make a huge and you see the sibling next to it and this made a huge fear it was on the front page of these magazines new york times and then a few months later people said well this is interesting what you can really do with a really huge amounts i mean you can scare people you know there's a few things you can do with it but it's not a very practical thing to have a really hu

earth. is the pullmans in the final. it was just a touch better than his rendition of the famous victory song and now the long tenured thirty two yr old gets his legacy by helping bring a first ever title to the mavericks upwards of two hundred thousand fans singing along and enjoying every single wayward note in celebration of the team's greatest day. and one man aiming to share those n.b.a. winning seasons in the coming years is very key rubio the spanish stolid ending syria's of speculation after announcing he is to join the minnesota timberwolves next season from barcelona basket twenty year old ruby i had been drafted in two thousand and nine by the same team the wolves but a massive buyout clause postponed the deal until now. i would play with the best i believe the n.b.a. is the best league in the world when you are there you face is you can see whether you are capable of playing. you can do that until you go. meanwhile and these stars dwight howard and andrei kirilenko have been busy slapping high fives with bask

that's right good for the earth and just for these are. some of the five and thirty six of american history are often the still a long way around. yet you really don't kick a place for an hour when i am right those are dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes a majority of them american constantly turn up on base she'll although these of cause deaths and injuries to the local population over the years there is no exact figure provided by the kid about government. mike corder a local australian naval commander on the island still has the difficult task of dealing with world war two war yes. the issue here is that no one escapes turning out how they got rid of already on its it could be like kind of it is alright to stuff it just keeps turning up or whatever and it's amazing what some people you know the senate foreign affairs bomber discovered was one sort of a chicken curry you know that so i had standing upright. on the end of a bomb and having to detonate a bomb and are using it as just one corner of the year to invent. the w