has been sealed off for millions of years let's not get more on this breakthrough from archie's tom barton tom the coldest spot on the earth you know what makes his latest breakthrough so unique. well it really is a breakthrough is absolutely the correct word and i don't think i'm causing a great stir saying that antarctica's not short of ice but what this deep drilling breakthrough does show is that not all ice is the same we consistent pictures here from last year in february when the first breakthrough was made down below this huge thick ice sheet to what's called a sub lake there and some samples were taken here we go this is the the water taken out then. it was found then they hoped that they could sample that water and see the composition of what was inside that frozen lake deep underneath the glasses sadly that was contaminated they couldn't work out where precisely that water had come from now they've gone back down it again and they're looking three thousand four hundred six meters they drilled down as you can imagine a lot of work in very difficult conditions and now they have this a

tom barton tom what actually happened there we understand the victims were at a ski resort how did this tragedy and travel well to bring it went very wrong indeed as you can see just after the starting video all that happiness we can see here this giant zor ball rolling down this makeshift slope at the moment all all right and then unfortunately the goes off course it didn't go in the way that it was planned this shot by one of the friends of those inside a russian father of two and his friend this point the camera shaking a lot about a lot of exclamations one of the organizers swearing and saying oh no it's gone the wrong way again and then we can see the flying off the wrong track various attempts being made to try and get it back on track those don't work the rolls on goes going down not where it's supposed to go slamming into some rocks and bouncing over those with a lot of force shaking the people inside very much and then over a cliff and smashing into the ice on top of a frozen lake where it finally came to rest then surely when the when friends rescuers came and found it one of those inside was jodi who was not dead was there later died on the way to hospital with a broken neck the other escaped with just injuries i mean i'm looking at the images that you're just showing right now and i'm thinking that looks a little bit thrilling if you're out in the snow slopes you know you want to have a little bit of fun but exactly for those who don't know what zob is can you explain to our viewers in you know in the layman's term what is that being is it was invented in new zealand. is essentially a giant plastic ball in which someone sits you can hear see one here that's being inflated that's the final thing to layers of class. there in between and inside your little cocoon i've actually tried it myself some time ago some people are strapped to the side of the wall of the ball or there's the knot and they may bounce around or slide around inside it and usually they're rolled down the slope if there is snow slope in winter or a glass grass slope in summer and the roll down usually quite a short slope and then they come to a stop at the end that is if it's well controlled right i mean i'm an extreme junkie myself i like doing adrenaline stuff and usually you see something like this you think it's a little bit save anybody can do it for little kids do you know tune in to all the kids to all the people but is there firstly deadly evolving accident we've seen i mean how many of these have we actually had it's not the first few years ago in the czech republic a school child on a trip died after an accident with one of these orbs they can prove dangerous if not controlled properly you can see though it's become immensely popular here in the city street some people are rolling these orbs look up it goes over the car some people try to push the they've got this instrument they want to try and sort of pushes the limits how they can try and use it and clearly some people even on the more well controlled courses you saw those that just saw the lady will see it in slow motion again now the lady flies out the side of this ball that wasn't supposed to happen so even on the more controlled courses things can go wrong with these giant heavy plastic balls and these two men inside this ball rough with brains like that and they were being shot around like pinpoint pinballs inside this ball as it flew over that clip so you can see how things could go wrong i'm guessing now you know the people who do like these sort of adrenaline filled activities are going to be thinking twice about doing this but i mean this is an all rounder adrenaline activity or is it is a kind of something that why anybody would. you want to do this i'm just trying to think if you're flying out of a plane i get that but rolling down a hill it was invented in new zealand new zealand's famous around the world for action sports and i think. there's lots of videos of similar kind of feats of russian teenagers for example trying to climb old radio station master saw some winters ago they were jumping off blocks of flats into large piles of snow anything people can go off to try and have some extra adrenalin fun they will they have here unfortunately this time it's gone wrong those responsible may face up to ten years in jail and the body responsible for creating is calling for proper regulation or at least attempts across the world tom i know you said you did it before did you like it it is very much ok we're going to leave it right there that. well you know i just say if you're going to do something like this you've got to be extra careful you've got to know what you're getting yourself into that's all that you know that's where the real comes from i guess have a good time bottle thank you very much for that ride venezuela's president hugo chavez is to mrs inauguration deadline postponing the ceremony indefinitely due to poor health his request was the national assembly position claims that the moves to set a later date is unconstitutional peskov are from asia times online told us there will now be many players willing to stand in this place. chevy's war is not a monolithic saying like would dare to say the communist party in china dad least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a few we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an interna

how you managed to make it out of the woods alive is our teaser tom barton now tom tell us how hundred if that happened well sean yeah it's quite an astonishing sort of headline to read out so if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie mail call for a lorry driver in this train clickety clack ing its way through the forests in the a more region in russia's far east at night they decide to go for a cigarette nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then as he stays went to open the door to go back to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life it's minus forty celsius there he's wearing slippers jogging bottoms and a t. shirt and his there's no hope of catching the train it's long gone into the distance and he's just by pure luck manages to reach the next station which is luckily just seven kilometers away they find this man half naked running towards them they give him some tea a

tom barton is outside russia make of the christ the savior in moscow tom. here at the christ the savior cathedral the main cathedral in the russian capital in churches and cathedrals both here across russia and in all for the communities across the world this is not a time in the rest of the commune in the christian world where people are back at work it isn't fact christmas eve for the church and in this russian orthodox church it's the beginning of the very long service very beautiful service to celebrate the birth of jesus christ here at the main cathedral in moscow people are gathering and cramming the christ the savior cathedral to listen to the liturgy son to be involved in that very long service and to feel the presence of the spirit of christmas eve which is here celebrated on the sixth to the seventh of january not the twenty fifth of december because of the use of the julian calendar here or the or russian orthodox church rather than the gregorian calendar in other countries after the soviet union which is just over the end of the soviet union just over twenty years ago there was a a large gap in the number of believe after that long atheist period and even today most russians don't strictly observe the russian orthodox christmas for most russians new year is the real celebration but there is a significant number of strict religious observance of the russian orthodox faith and for them this is an immensely special night indeed for them just as for most russians on new year's eve at large banquet is held many big dinners held and it's also a time for them to go to their church to take part in what is one of the longest services in the russian orthodox calender. but also. in the view of many believers and observers of russian orthodox faith one of the most beautiful services. tom thanks very much indeed for that that's r.t. tom barton live outside to save a cathedral in moscow. well here in the studio with me is set again chapman he's editor in chief of the journal of the moscow patriarchate to tell us more about the orthodox christmas now is probably question you're asked over and over again at this time of year but still i'm going to ask you why does the orthodox church have a different date for christmas well in fact we have the very same date to celebrate of christ it's the twenty fifth of december the only problem so to say is that the russian orthodox church and some other churches use julian calendar which is thirteen days. difference gap with the good intel and so now we have twenty fifth of december so. it's the same in fact it's the same and so now believe is all over the world gathering for ceremonies and in fact you will be commentating live on our website on what's happening in russia so you can feel can you give us an idea of just what that servi

winter now to manage to tell us how on earth this happened and how he's doing is tom barton thanks for being with us tom what happened this occurrence of amazing to say well forty two year old valarie melk of who here is a long haul lorry driver was one of the passengers on this train pretty clocking its way through the forest in russia's far east during the noise because for a cigarette he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then he goes to come back to his cabin and while the train is core is nice yes speeding along through the through the forest and he opens the wrong door he ses and rather than going back to the part of the carriage he falls out of the back of the train onto the tracks and into the forest at night and the train speeding away into the distance he then begins to run but he rapidly realizes he's not just running to try and catch the train he's running for his very life because it's about minus forty out there he's wearing slippers some jogging bottoms and a t. shirt that he'd been wearing in the train and he's now running to try and catch the train

tom barton he joins us in the studio so tom how was the campaign unfolded over the past two and a half weeks or so are they facing serious resistance here well it seems no that the not they haven't really faced a very much resistance to toll so the campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they all they go on their . is an incident here in qana where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that though the french had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's also been talk and brussels of e.u. troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and a new house was already involved as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easy chair next to mali over the possibility of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out islam is militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. so to the south of mali the details of that not really clear at the moment it is worth noting though. is very rich in natural resources oil gold you rhenium a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go and it has been noted that in nigeria to the south of new. the french oil company total has evacuated some of its staff there one of its staff. was kidnapped by militants who have stated they are going to carry out a campaign of terror in nigeria as a response to this french intervention in mali and that french citizens there the french government has said should leave the country raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming this is been a successful mission and we of course will continue to track the campaign tom burton thanks for that update. let's now get some more analysis on the situation jeremy corbin a labor member of the u.k. parliament now joins us live thanks for being with us this afternoon david cameron has said there would be no u.k. army boots on african turf we just heard from our reporter there why the change of heart. well david cameron is getting sucked into something i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we're being dragged into this war and it reminds me very much the french reaction of afghanistan in two thousand and one it was all hunky dory for the first few days and then it was quiet for a few months and then they were dragged into a groove the war which is now going on

tom barton is joining us now to take us through this campaign so far tom how has the campaign unfolded take us through that it's been two and a half weeks are they facing serious resistance well no it doesn't seem that they are particularly the french advance has has rolled up from about the middle of mali and swept up towards timbuktu around here which is just fall and they face very little resistance really there has been some civilian casualties unfortunately some of the some of those strikes killing civilians on the advance on the way up but the advance has been very rapid and it seems that most of these islamic militants have simply been falling back rather than trying to stand and fight so we've got up to timbuktu here there's only a few towns left extatic so. scenes in the towns that have been liberated crowds running up to thank the french troops but now we also see the involvement of some of the from other powers there's a west african force some thousands of troops about to come in to take over some of the garrison work in preparation for taking over from those french troops and we also see from brussels overtures of an e.u. force coming to train and other troops and also the u.k. saying that they can send a considerable force also not to be directly involved in combat but for training more local forces come under stand the u.s. is also already involved told more about that they are indeed they've they've so far been supplying transport planes to the french efforts to help them and some are fueling planes as well it now seems that they've gone a bit further than that they're currently the u.s. is currently engaged with their next door with negotiations looking at trying to create a drone base there c.d.'s the drones close to the border with mali and they may possibly want to use all of those drones to try and to try to aid in what is expected to become a guerrilla war now in the deserts in northern mali as these islamic militants have retreated there rather than stand and fight is that as far as it's expected to spread. it's possibly not the moment it seems that this is this is the case the u.s. has also moved to a possible base in brooklyn or also in the south and also if we go on to nigeria itself to the south of. the french have just announced today that they have asked their citizens there to evacuate from due to threats from islamic militants to take revenge for them for for this intervention in mali one man has already been kidnapped there are some large companies they're removing their staff from from vulnerable areas it is worth noting that it's very rich in natural resources gold oil uranium and among its chief exports they go to the u.s. and to france so there is some people already saying possibly this is part of a bid to try and protect their natural resources but also i think we will see after this main military operation which is getting towards its end now we could see the spread of fighting into into other areas right artie's tom byron bring us up to date on the french campaign in mali thanks for that tom well as the british government continues with public sector spending cuts in a battle with financial woes it appears the reality of austerity is starting to bite the number of homeless people in the u.k. is dramatically increasing passing fifty thousand across the country are just probably boyko met some of those force just sleep rough. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to trial and no money in your pocket this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bamiyan the case capital for homelessness. remember right. there she said drop grandma don't have one. but you have one i mean you shouldn't be home routers a lot of people who called me a short time wondered me real rock carpark were people really. all over the place this is why i got cash there yeah yeah you read you are here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in bri

taking a drive across russia's highways artie's tom barton is here to tell us why this story of might military might i say and how you can see it live tom take us through this what's going on ok and he said so we'll start with with this video you can't see anything of the moment is this driver making his way along the road and suddenly screaming out of the distance comes this fighter jet just fifty meters above the road we later find out that that was an experienced pilot flying that this helicopter doing the same thing coming in very very low over a driver who was just changing lanes at the time he was apparently training for search and rescue missions himself and then later on in the city of new gil in the urals we'll see just minor business driving along and suddenly a tank comes across the road someone hasn't worked out how to use the brakes yet i think he was the tank was on his way from the tank factory nearby over to a test range of the side of the road the drivers of that car a little bit shocked to see it emerge at that sort of pace as he does people that come out to hold up signs like slow kind of warning it gives new meaning

base it's been reported that artie's tom barton breaking down this campaign so far the french claiming victory but it seems a lot more complicated than that doesn't it tom baron thanks for that update. now thousands of anti-government protesters in egypt are ignoring president morsi curfew by taking to the streets across the country some demonstrators imports attacked police stations while those in suez marched towards government buildings and the opposition has meanwhile refused to enter talks with the president who earlier implemented a thirty day state of emergency in areas most affected by an arrest the government also approved along giving the military power to arrest citizens young going violence has now claimed at least fifty two wives since it broke out on friday dr saeed said a political sociologist at the american university in cairo says there is little immediate prospect of the situation stabilizing. the experience of the logan was a president what was called the national dialogue has been a failure and so they don't want to give the president. any piece of photo opportunity that they are all sitting and nothing happens there were many exper