week ago when they became trapped in the ice let's get more on the rescue mission from artie's tom barton tom what state is the operation right now. will carry the operation is now in its final stages or at least approaching them there are two icebreakers currently trying to get ready to tow out the last of the ships december thirtieth the first ships became stuck in the ice at the height of the drama there were five ships stuck in the ice. two of those managed to get free themselves two of them were towed away and now we're left with just one the largest of the ships with three hundred people on board and it's required these two ice breakers to come together to try and move it. yes as you say three hundred people on board any predictions on when your deal will be over four. fingers across that that will be quite soon or planning to start clearing the ice around it and towing it momentarily we think one of the other ships being towed away now the will be ready to to start that operation on board the ship they've been there obviously for over a week now. all these three hundred crewmembers

artie's tom barton thank you. and european stocks fell on wednesday as losses for a semi holding a weight on the technology sector in the wake of the firm's results in contrast shares of pearson saw a six per cent after the media group lifted its guidance energy stocks were on the rise in london with faster energy up one percent after losses seen in the prior session while b.p. rose point seven percent. and in russia russian stocks are higher this hour both the r.t.s. and my sex are trading up on the day energy majors are helping the indices. and rosneft is gaining on both the bourses after striking a deal with b.p. on the arctic drilling the biggest gainer is truck producer come on over sixteen percent after signing an agreement with dime learned to set up a production line. telecoms losing over eight percent. and that's offered news from this for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us. the big. player. mocks. the body on the one coming up. th

if you were lucky to have the most unique celebration on board the international space station tom barton shared it with. talk about a prime seat the crew they are in a sense a watching not just one square city or even the country celebrates its new year they get to watch the whole planet spin into its next to some but here in mission control in moscow on a live link up i asked them just how they feel about it hello my name's tom barton from russia today television merry christmas and happy new year there are sixty. six billion of us down here what is your message. happy new year we wish everyone good health love happiness success in all their new beginnings and plenty of rewarding achievement in the upcoming year it was also a chance for others to send a cosmic congratulations for the frost was here greeting the cosmonauts children and praising their orbiting relatives but as much as the kids wanted to see the joy read man their warmest words were saved the loved ones in space. hello daddy i love you so much you are the best dad in the world happy new year. the crew that i assess are the

but tonight at least the elders of the village were allowing themselves a few liberties tom barton party. next despite a heavily indebted economy and painful lessons from the crisis as he was many americans are still hooked on shopping left alone with credit card shopaholics fall into addiction and uncontrollable search for hot stars and bargains but there are people who don't shy away from putting up a very loud fight against consumerism either as our very own analysis here. at the misfortune to find out. truth. you should. stop. her. heart styles and new must have items of the fashion world changes fast as the seasons but one thing that never goes out of style in the us is shopping america is the birthplace of modern consumerism nowhere else in the world do people buy more than here with officially more shopping malls in the us than high schools if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. the. problems we had twenty five things we do we need for a new dose of jack

parties tom barton reporting for us there now russian orthodox christians are marking christmas day in accordance with the julian calendar which they follow celebrations were led by the midnight vigil which has been taking place had russia's main church the christ the savior cathedral in the very heart of moscow you covered in a crutch of it was there for tea. it feels like the holy days finally in the air for russians and all those who believe in god it's of course one of the most magical nights of the day the night which celebrates the birth of jesus thousands of people have been floating to the country's main cathedral christ the savior cathedral behind me since afternoon today to see the patrick of moscow and all of russia feel to listen to his inspiring speech after the end of the service and also to see the president of the russian federation who was attending the service together with his family both he and the prime minister of russia vladimir putin regularly attend history and at christmas the chills perhaps one of the most. vivid differences between how russians celebrate chr

arches tom barton thank you . and that's all business news for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.

mission control in moscow on a live link up i asked them just how they feel about it hello my name's tom barton from russia today television my christmas and happy new year there are six of you and then pick any and of us down here what's your message to the world at new year . happy new year we wish everyone good health love happiness success in all their new beginnings and plenty of rewarding achievements in the upcoming year it was also a chance for others to send a cosmic congratulations for the frost was here greeting the cosmonauts children and praising their orbiting relatives but as much as the kids wanted to see the joy right now on their warmest words were saved the loved ones in space. that's followed daddy i love you still months you are the best dad in the world happy new year. the crew the s.s. are the only ones to spend new year and spend in isolation in moscow those participating in the simulated trip to mars and back over five hundred days have already been in their modules for seven months. we would like to hug everybody to shake hands even to kiss some people if they ask but

week ago and they became trapped in the ice but let's get more on the rescue mission from artie's tom barton know at what stage is the operation right now tom. as we speak kerry to a russian icebreakers a hard at work in the frozen ice found waters off russia's far eastern coast that's the scene as you can picture it right now they've been working there for a long time now few days to try and free the last two or three ships that became stuck in the ice there on the thirtieth of december last year so they've been there for over a week now one ship has been freed the second is currently being towed out by the first icebreaker which arrived there and the third ship the largest of the three is still stuck in the ice they're going to need a second icebreaker to help pull that out and that this is just miles away now so it should be entering the final stages of this rescue operation very shortly tom why does it appear to be taking so long to free this ship. conditions have been very difficult this part of the sea the sea of our hearts. as far east coast is known to be difficult for ships especial

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton arty. the brave man indeed to tackle tom now the star of the new year's always a good time for wishful thinking of course and with unemployment still high in the united states hopes for a better life are as high as well many of blame the problems on globalization which is driving jobs overseas what next web talk show host laurie huff in a skate opinion on the streets of new york all of that. society is becoming more and more globalized is that a positive development or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's very important that we grow together and that we also care about each other because we're for review for europe where we want to be taken care of here as well and on the same we do for you as well what do you think the effects of globalization are on our children oh i think it's a good thing i'm actually in education so i see it every day but it exposes our kids to a different cultures and they're more understanding i think more tolerant just overall i

tom barton artie bomb scare. model behaved in twenty minutes with details of a sigs go through a lot played out between chelsea and aston villa that was the main stories which shape the week and i will back with the headlines in a few minutes thanks for staying with that. motion would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from phones to impressions so. please for instance on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style sun. spot on the tires on. the target. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. we'll . read you the latest. from. the future. welcome back to our c every cop on the stories that shaped this week now we took frustration comes to the cold weather blues its frozen rain paralyzes the capital how to leave holidays with thousands stranded on the roads and it's. spreading to fear a full terror attack in denmark makes europeans increasingly wary of the growth of islamic extremists and. al

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton artie. helping about with the head life in just a few minutes to stay with us. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched history trying. to frame son the colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. come the. sergeant of the u.s. army. trying to become an american my gigging part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. very warm welcome back it's all here in moscow that we made news from altie small scale freezes over thousands of falls asleep in airports and spent time in traffic jams as frozen rain paralyzes the capital for day. five alleged islamic extremists are arrested in devon all forcing the country's biggest ever terrorism laws and spanking concern the e.u. is not doing enough to beat the threats. all states see itself as massive offensive against the goals that

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton artie. impressive means that ok i'll be back with ad life in just a few moments time stating stay with r.t. . to. the long haul her hand oh yeah i am in the backyard i'm not landed we will not oh my i'm much closer to crop up and then spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provoking of statements and the muslim schools have the right to exist. indifferent or new york city on our. the weeks and menus for martine our moscow phrases own best pals in the fall of the feet of an airport and spends time in rapport traffic jams as frozen rain power lies the capital of the day. five villages drama the stream is to arrested in denmark for going the country's biggest of its terrorism laws on sparking concern the e.u.'s don't doing enough to beat the threat. also two years after its massive offensive began sculls israel says it's easing the blockade with locals lives the right need get some stuff. to spend the six more years behind bars t

stranded for a week now let's get all the latest details from our teaser tom barton who is working for us now. hello to you tom so after a week of being stranded in an icy barren landscape there must be sighs of relief echoing across the decks now bring us up to date with the rescue mission what's happening right now. absolutely rory as it stands at the moment this ice breaker has monies to reach the three trips ships currently trapped in the ice in the sub collins straits in the waters off the far east of russia's territory those those ships have been there for a week and now it's hoped that once but now that the ice in some places up to eight meters thick has been punctured by this ice breaker they can start to extract those ships from their current search trapped condition a representative from the far eastern shipping company told us a bit more about what that's actually going to involve. one brand new breakers me to know they have to decide which of the three ships will be told first this issue ation is complex the ships will have to be told one after another to very short distanc

security service officials in response to the attack while we can now cross live to our correspondent tom barton who is. following the story for us there. we will have a chance to talk to tom hopefully later in the program. now the blast at the moscow airport may also affect the upcoming world economic forum in the swiss town of delphos and russia's president dmitry medvedev was scheduled to open the summit but after the attack he said he would delay his arrival artie's lore and it is in switzerland. he's cancelling it all together so we still are expecting him to come to davos at some stage this week he was supposed to make this very important opening speech but now it looks like he may may not make that speech we don't know whether he's going to be here on wednesday in time to make it so someone else may have to make it to his place we have heard that he may come on thursday or he may come on wednesday to make that speech and then leave almost immediately afterwards in the aftermath of this tragedy president medvedev received telephone calls and letters and messages of condolence to leaders al

with their job in seas that are not covered in ice indeed tom keep us updated their parties are tom barton reporting thank you. from moscow this is our table later in the program we report from iraq's slums. to scavenge for a new leader life in junkyards untouched by the billions of dollars being pumped into the country's construction. and wearing just on the population but boy struggling to feed their families despite israel's claims it was easy in. a series of mysterious mass animal deaths around the baffling scientists and stone speculation the first incident to be there was when black birds began for them from the sky can stake a vulcan soul a new year's eve and look so sweetly it's only as weather as it is a fish from brazil to new zealand to get some far fetched online guesswork theories over the coals range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end but filmmaker and blogger. media sensation isn't taking the focus away from finding the real causes behind the mystery. when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third set suddenly it becomes a tre

planning to make a keynote speech let's get details on the government's reaction now from marty's tom barton who's waiting for us live and so tom what did the president have to say we know he addressed the media in the very recent past or maybe an hour less than an hour ago impressive for a world leader to to address the airwaves so quickly what if you have to say. yes on news of the blast as you said he canceled his trip to the double c. konami forum he was going to be the keynote speaker there is currently delayed he's his journey there instead he has been at this meeting with the prosecutor general the investigative committee on the russian transport ministry which he said for the first priorities are first of all to be hauled. on the heels and to find out who is responsible and to to catch up with them and find them quickly secondly also on the ground as you would imagine to provide medical and psychological assistance to those caught up either wounded or traumatized by the blast and obviously gave his condolences to the families of all those affected let's have a listen to just what he

under the agreement that you companies will carry out exploration in russia's arctic shelf artie's tom barton brings us the latest from rostov headquarters in moscow ross just bosses are very happy the deal that's being signed they say that essentially what's going to happen now is a whole new industry is going to be for the industry of offshore arctic drilling which didn't exist before in russia they also say that this is one of the first one billion dollars of this invested will be fielded by b.p. america happy about that b.p. peretz part is also happy because they feel that they've got the expertise on the technology to make that work and get it back later on it's called a global and arctics to teach it partnership what it really means is about exploration there's a lot of oil there it's estimated that is about a fifth of the world's oil reserves are under the arctic explorers here people from this deal from b.p. and most never reckon they might be able to start drilling in five to seven years other experts say that's a bit over confident it could be as many as twenty years before they can

remain stranded four hundred people are aboard the ships which have been frozen in for a week now tom barton is following the developments. it seems that things are beginning to move maybe just slowly the ice breaker that's managed to to smash a path towards the ship stranded in the ice is now towing one of those ships out of its having been freed out of this zone and they're going to try and hook up a second ship to that our team managed to contact or the captain of one of those toads ships he said that currently everything is going ok but off of the icebreaker is telling us towards clear waters right now the situation is normal we are getting out of the ice one of the other ships trying to free us but was unsuccessful we are very happy we will be home soon we hope everything will be all right we're hoping to reach clear waters by friday night the third ship which is slightly larger has about three hundred people on board and they think that at the moment they're not going to be able to pull it out with the existing icebreaker we're going to have to wait probably three more days referred by

help they've been listed animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears as artie's tom barton reports the rodents are set to break records. it's fifty years since the first human went to space it's counted as one of our greatest achievements but as some scientists point out we shouldn't forget the role of the first space pioneers for working with the animals live shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of man splayed into outer space. here the into two to biomedical problems in moscow these rodents are hoping solve space riddles being in orbit can have big effect on our bodies and although man has been space for decades there's still much that we need to know if we want to travel further away from planet earth. for the purpose of all the previous flights where the buy in program was just how the zero g. condition effects living organisms and to conduct experiments that can be carried out in humans but are possible on animals. the bio program starting in one nine hundred seventy over a dozen tri

views of the tiniest bacteria and i think scientists anywhere in the world to take a look at was tom barton discovered this by christmas she still faces some big hurdles. but imagine a terrible virus sweeping across the planet scientists racing to try and understand it then stop it then imagine a new tool enabling all those scientists via the web to see the minute structure of that virus within minutes it's a question that concerns these scientists and engineers in moscow we should know all about the viral particle. keith you were given all the knowledge about the viral particle if it were possible. to develop in your way. we sure will defeat of the virus. the device is called a scanning probe microscope and they've existed for some time in many countries but this team has zoomed in on a novel potential this professor from a university in faraway italy isn't just able to talk about the microscope online using special software he can actually control it program with our program can be connected to any microscope in any part of the world and it's just one click away that the benefits of being

but tonight at least the elders of the village were allowing themselves a few liberties tom barton party. next americans a hotel shopping and spending despite the country's heavily indebted economy and painful lessons of the crisis left alone it seems with credit cards into addiction and controllable search for hot stars and bargains but there are people who don't shy away from putting up a very loud fight against consumerism as we found out in the week. true. you should have. stopped. her. but styles and new must have items of the fashion world changes fast as the seasons but one thing that never goes out of style in the us is shopping america is that birthplace of modern consumerism nowhere else in the world do people buy more than here with officially more shopping malls in the us than high schools if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses like a dolly save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. that obviously the twenty five things we do we need for a new dose of jackets sweaters and skirts she considers herself a shopa

harassment from the government or even imprisonment simply for trying to protect their clients artie's tom barton found accusations of a judicial system turning on his defenders. being a lawyer in georgia isn't easy these days as mirka knows all too well he was a successful practicing lawyer but he ses fell foul of government pressure so he found himself locked up said they wanted to imprison me and they did so i spent two years and seven months behind bars to say he was asked to force his clients to plead guilty. when i didn't agree to cooperate they found a person detained for stealing a mobile phone and send him to my office to take me as a lawyer the prosecution then offered him a plea bargain either he is sentenced to prison or testifies against me in court saying that he paid me one hundred seventy dollars a legal consultation and i swindled him it's estimated that georgia currently has around two hundred lawyers either in prison or awaiting sentencing mostly on fraud charges government critics say the real reason i locked up is because they refused to make deals with prosecutors i should p

settled back in the sixteenth century if the region that own military skill through generations as tom barton discovered. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that from both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture that i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young calm the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much now similarly if they start teaching us riding on which in seventh to trickle at the age of thirteen the brilliant chance abilities are not for me i was a very good do i do worse it's eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got through all our tom and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part the youngsters in the village built this gym themselves another training in it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen in the training communally

tom barton just appeared out of moscow thank you both. well over one hundred people are now undergoing treatment in hospitals across the capital thirty nine of them are in serious condition and four are in a critical state of france's outside one of those hospitals and has details for us now. one hundred ten people are reported to have been taken into the hospitals at this point thirty nine are seriously injured four of those are critical there are eight internationals injured at the various hospitals reportedly from italy france england serbia and a prime minister putin had met with the ministry of health on this yesterday asking her to please bring. a different moscow hospitals that absorb these one hundred ten injured and inspected facilities make sure that there is more than enough staff . on call at this point to deal with. number of injured deal with medicine to make sure there's enough blood and in fact these hospitals are calling for blood if it's at all possible to get to these hospitals at this point and donate. the hospital spo

that one truth in that as well as tom barton explore the secrets of the siberian strong. and almost goes wild the local hockey team album guard puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know their special their side there is. just as the money's since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we use the hot conditions it's woman north america so we're the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned players enthusiasm for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pull of fights the strikes and the opportunity to become a store like. ice hockey isn't the only had kilian endevor attracting attention here how about the why don't know turning a minibus. of those boys even say bierria in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses are the only way this is why you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. he regional local gym the team lifts bends and pulls anything they can lay thei

via the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom barton r.t. moscow. right now it is just after twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. now time to dive head first into the world of business with it dimitri. the last of the holidays here the business year begins on tuesday i believe that's absolutely right first working day of twenty eleven choose the finally i could say but for the russian market is going to be a game of catch up with other global markets which were trading over the past week while twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the business privatization program that starts this year promises to become the largest since the post soviet selloff in the ninety's and is going hand in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub i saw there been good takes up the story. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state uniter enterprises and a shareholder of twenty nine hundred fifty joint stock companies if the

artie's tom barton reporting that it's been pounced on by conspiracy theorists puzzled scientists and start up a media frenzy of alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe everyone guessing it all started on new year's eve with reports of black birds falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas then there were flocks of birds dying in sweden and in italy and finally millions of dead fish from brazil to new zealand have triggered some fevered online speculation experts have suggested a range of explanations from a changing climate parasites and poisoning conspiracy theorists a secret government experiments could be behind the deaths with some even claiming it's a sign of looming armageddon miami based a veterinarian pedro lewis race told r.t. that authority investigation is needed. and it's impossible to see for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper investigations are held in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked he followed one answer another that attracted universal attention it's not the first time th

by the internet so the team and their customers will be watching this space very closely indeed tom barton r.t. moscow. from science to news bulletins to hollywood movies later are to investigate what messages media spreads throughout the world but before that the business user dmitri after a quick break. and then welcome to business r.t. would need to be treated with twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the ambitious privatization program that starts this year promises to become the largest since the post soviet selloff in the ninety's and is going hand in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub. explains. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state uniter enterprises and a shareholder of twenty nine hundred fifty joint stock companies if the go to sell of state property within the next three years goes to plan the russian government will release one hundred fourteen state enterprises and another eight hundred nine stock companies into private hands including equity stakes in ten largest

contributions and professional ice hockey teams certainly seem to be so happy but as our teams tom barton explains next it's not the only example of side spring. i found on skills wild the local hockey team album god puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know their special i their side they're. just missing monies and since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we use the conditions it's room i know america so we're the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned players enthusiasm for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pull of joints the strikes and the opportunity to become a still life. i saw he isn't the only had chile and dev attracting attention here how about a wider no turning a minibus. but those voices even say bierria in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses are the only way this way they have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. here is a local gym the team lif