travel guide goes on an exploration across russia's republic of north. i know great things about north setting you're alone in the people are supposed to be amazingly friendly the scenery breathtaking and the food never ending and it's only a short hop away from moscow just two hours by plane or frame by its towering mountains the region is home to more than seven hundred thousand people just on the song based on bloody calf counts the area's administrative center of the city is capital city. and russian blood a kind of caste means ruler of the caucasus and the city is decorated with monuments to its proud military history and its culture past and present. this is going to be my favorite sculpture and. these two gentlemen to play a game of noddy which is the most popular board game in the caucuses so sort of like a cross between backgammon and draw. and it looks like. i knew i was going to have a busy trip and i wanted to make sure that i picked up a few souvenirs before i set off into the mountains all i needed was a couple of local girls to provide som

travel guide goes on an exploration trip across russia's republic of north carolina but it's fraught in a business before that with kareena in just about. in sum it is but she's available in hotels a story and a little ambassador. hotel patroclus hotel the true spirit hotel. still ski lift you can see it on this. visit. and welcome to our business program here in our team thanks for joining me russian businessman alexander lebedev has confirmed he's planning to sell around four percent of air flight shares the deal is estimated to be worth up to one hundred ten million dollars as negative sells the forty four million shares in russia's national air carrier shares that he sold through a private placement organized by u.b.s. believe the main reason for the sale is to generate finances for negatives troubled national reserve bank which has seen capital outflows after a number of state inspections. russian prime minister as you put it has met is finished college apart in st petersburg economic issues were on the agenda as russia is still the prime trade partner for fenlon bilateral trade

from moscow just a few minutes very own travel guide takes us on an expiration trip across russia's republic of north or setia alarm here but if we can business before that. and i welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me. demand for world oil be higher than expected next year it will stay haul into two thousand and fifteen as according to the international energy agency brant curry traded over ninety one dollars this week ahead of the apec meeting on saturday but analysts a split a longer term outlook for the oil price touch of pork over reports. in contrast with many traders russia's finance minister. has a green prediction for oil prices sixty dollars per barrel within three years among those who agree with him feature rating agency says it's a fair price justified by fundamentals and stripped off speculation it is our view that a lot of producing countries are quite comfortable with the level of between sixty to seventy because it helps them balance their budgets but also think the price of between sixty to seventy companies can actually conduct and carry out some of the highe

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travel. currently the nation's air traffic is guided by a 60-year-old technology with planes flying over predetermined radar roots. nexgen uses satellites and gps transmitters. the technology allows pilots to fly more direct roots. that means less fuel use and less pollution. >> it's going to revolutionize air traffic systems. it's going to give the pilot the ability to see traffic around him, improve his situational awareness. >> it's a little bit of slow going. most airlines complain they can't afford the millions it would cost to upgrade the cockpit. they're hoping for every airport and every aircraft to be on nexgen by 2020. >> you've probably noticed prices at the pump inches higher and higher. gas just hit a two-year high. the average for regular unleaded is up to $3.34 a gallon. here's a look at prices this morning. in san francisco, the average is 3.37 for a gallon of unleaded. in san jose, 3.31 and in oakland 3.30. >> i used to drive 150 miles, gas is $10 more. it really hurts. i hope it's going to go down soon. >> of course, it's so far from the peak price of gas in the bay area, do you reme

travel today. >> it s a private company launch aid space craft then guided it back to earth. >> the boat slasheddown the pacific this afternoon, developed by space exploration company founded by tesla's musk. >> and it's the initial step towards sanding over the supply runs to private business trips for astronauts may follow soon. >>

mike maloney of gold silver dot com mike is the author of rich dad's guide to investing in gold and silver and he has been traveling the world making some fantastic videos about gold and silver you can find him all at gold silver dot com michael owen welcome to the kaiser report glad to be here max how are you doing fantastic now mike maloney i've just been watching your video dead cat bounce bernanke he is dumber than gold which i guess is a play on the phrase richer than god and then there's bernanke he's dumber than gold if you believe we are just entering into a quote unquote true deflation talk to me about this well i wrote in my book you know my book i started writing that in two thousand and five and i finished in two thousand and seven when i said was where you were going to get the threat of deflation followed by a bunch of bailouts and currency creation by the fed which they did then we would have real deflation meaning a contraction of the currency supply and that is happening if you there's some private companies that reproduce m three which the fed hid from. us in march of two thousand and six but thes

. >> translator: we in the travel business need to turn the accident into a business opportunity. we've gotten a lot of free publicity. >> reporter: maria offers guided tour into the mine. so visitors get an impression of what mining is like. she takes them to a family-run copper mine 42 meters from the rescue site. 2,000 mines in the area have been supporting the local economy. the tour is led by a miner. he first went underground at the age of 10, 63 years ago. she guides the tourists 10 meter into the tunnel. >> translator: i had no idea what a mine was like. it was a completely new experience. >> translator: people didn't know about our work until now. but finally, we're getting recognition. >> reporter: since the accident, the locals have found a insurgent pride in their roots. maria hopes that the tourists can sense that pride. >> translator: until an accident like this happens, we couldn't place much value on the mine. we've had success showing it to visitors. >> maria and others like her hope to boost the local economy by combining the mine tours with visits to other nearby attractions like desserts. >>> here's the weather forecast. >>> welco

guided it back to earth. so what does that mean for nasa and the future of commercial space travel and discuss that with jeffrey manber commercial space pioneer that's going to be at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. earlier this week obama announced a deal on the tax cuts that has led democrats and progressives reeling with anger the compromise would extend all the tax cuts that are set to expire on december thirty first most importantly those for the wealthy which the president has for months not to do in return republicans will allow long term unemployment benefits through the end of next year and also includes a one year payroll tax holiday for working couples tax breaks for businesses and more than forty thousand estates of between one to ten million dollars are not going to have to paint herenton taxes next year now some democrats are fiercely rejecting this proposal and promise not to vote for it and murmurs are even beginning to spread of a democratic challenger for two thousand and twelve so could this be the final nail in the coffin to turn progressives against their presiden

traveling together in southern egypt around dawn when the middle bus crashed into a parked dump truck loaded with sand. six women and two men were killed. 19 other americans, egyptian driver and a tour guide were injured. >> there are two cases admitted in the icu, both cases have been managed and we are in stable. they are fully conscious and no problems for them. we are waiting to complete our investigation. >>> 87-year-old man from san francisco was taken to the hospital after suffering minor injuries. he is retired federal agent. his wife, a retired professor is okay. >>> it looks like the full body scanners and thorough pat-downs are here to stay for a while. that is according to homeland security secretary janet napolitano who made the remarks in a television interview today. she was asked if tsa will change its procedures because of the complaints. >> not in the foreseeable future. we are looking to improve systems, but the new technology, the pat-downs, just object i feel safer for our traveling public. >> she dismissed news reports about tests in which guns and knives made it past screeners. many of those airports were high failure rates are very old and the new procedures and ne

buses were traveling together in southern egypt around dawn when the middle bus crashed into a parked dump truck. six women and two men were killed. 19 other americans. they egyptian and tour guide were injured. he says his 76-year-old mother suffered a gash on her leg and his 87-year-old father had bum -- bumps and bruises. >> the chairs around him crumbled in, apparently forming a roll cage which probably saved his life because from what i understand , and i wasn't there, so it is not factual, but the people in front of him died and the people behind him died. >> he says he is leaving for cairo tomorrow to bring his parents back to san francisco where they lived. his father is a retired fbi agent. laura, his mother, is a retired french professor. >> shoppers returned to the malls today to take advantage of the after christmas sales. they jammed into san francisco's westfield center for what is traditionally the third busiest day of the year behind black friday and the saturday before christmas. economists say the crowds are a good sign that the economy is making a come back. here is abc7's thomas roman. >>> if you are looking for deals on clothing, jewelry and toys, retailers

travel. it is called next gen and already tested in four u.s. cities. currently the nation's air traffic is guided by 60-year-old technology with planes flying over predetermined radar routes. instead of using ground-based radar, next gen controllers use satellites and gps transmitters to track air traffic. the technology allows pilots to fly direct routes and that means less fuel used and less pollution. >> it's a system that's basically going to revolutionize air traffic systems. it's going to give the pilot the ability to see traffic around him. it's going to improve his situational awareness. >> but it is slow going. most airlines complain they cannot afford the millions it will cost to upgrade their cockpits. the faa argues the fuel savings over just a three-year period will pay for the technology. now they're hoping for every airport and every aircraft to be on next gen by 2020. >>> gas prices in the bay area are at a two year e high this morning. the average for a gallon of regular unleaded is about $3.34 a gallon, up about 70% from december of 2008 when gas fell to about $2 a gallon. partl

traveled to kenya. >> reporter: it's 6:00 a.m. and wasim is just waking up. nearby, 18 other sleepy orphans are in need of a stretch, a push, and even a morning cuddle. their keepers guidevery step of the way. for over 30 years, this wild live trust has been rescuing baby elephants like these. and they're teaching them what their moms would have taught them had they not been victims of poaching. before he was rescued, young alari wept by his dying mother's side for hours. those kinds of traumatic memories are one of the many reasons keepers stay with them 24 hours a day, even saleem with them at night and feed them every three hours. >> they all have different characters. some are very calm, very shy. >> reporter: she spent the last 50 years living with and learning from orphaned african elephants as the species is increasingly threatened by human conflict and ivory poaching. >> all that we know has come from her. they love the milk, how to give them the care that they need. >> reporter: daphne is the widow of david shelldrik. they raised all kinds of orphans, along with their own children. >> there wasn't this big research team, it was you. >> none of the zoos could he

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them traveling with optimism through a sam ash countryside, wondering about squall with overcrowded soviet towns, listening with unshakable faith to the patterns as carefully a indoctrinated guide is repeating like schoolchildren a multiplication table the bogus statistics and slogans and field to them. to continue there were honest advocates of the killing of cattle who looked at the headquarters of the ogpu with tears of gratitude in their august. the proportional representation is eagerly with the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletarian was explained to them. get this one, there were ernest clergymen who walked through soviet antigod museums and turned the pages of the neediest literature. ernest passus' watched them across the square and bombing planes darken the sky. earnest planning specialists who stood aside the overcrowded and muttered if only we had something like this in england. not only was mugredge mystified, by the naivete that he saw among these progressives, but so were the soviets. mugredge said the almost unbelievable we credulity of the mostly university educated tourists, astonished even the soviet officials there used to handling foreign visitors.

for two years i traveled the state of georgia campaigning for my reelection. and throughout that campaign, there were three guiding issues that i focused on. one was tax policy that, at a time of economic recession, difficulty and high unemployment, the worst thing for to us do is raise the taxes of the american people, and in particular small business, which hires the majority of the american people. that is one. number two, i campaigned on the fact that we didn't have a revenue problem near as much as we had a spending problem. we needed to ask of ourselves as united states senators what every american family has had to ask of themselves at home. they've sat around the kitchen table, they've looked at what their income was, they've looked at what it now; they've looked at their priorities and reprioritized their money because times have been tough and they have been difficult. they did that because they have to. they don't have the luxury of credit and borrowing and borrowing and borrowing like our government has, which takes me to the third point i ran on the campaign. that is unsustainable debt will make this

guide and customized rate quote. jon: fox news alert and a little bit of a change in plans for the president and his travel schedule.u might know that the entire first family was scheduled to head for hawaii tomorrow for a christmas vacation. because of the uncertainty of some of the legislation that is now percolating on capitol hill, the president himself has decided to postpone that trip for at least a few days. his wife and daughters will depart tomorrow as scheduled. the president, we're told, will join them later in the week, and they will all return to washington on january 1st. jenna? jenna: drink a lot of coffee, jon? jon: i love my coffee in the morning. jenna: as adults we know caffeine can, you know, keep us up, get us going, maybe give us the jitters from time to time. now imagine what it can do to your kids. a new study finds children are drinking the equivalent of three cokes a day. joining us, a physician and can professor of public health at johns hopkins. doc, we know the caffeine can get the kids going, but is it really bad for their health? >> well, remember, caffeine is a stimulant, and if i tol

tour buses were traveling tonight in southern egypt yesterday around dawn when the middle bus crashed into a parked dump truck loaded with sand. 6 were killed, 19 other americans and tour guide were injured. david light of walnut creek said his 76-year-old mother suffered a gash on her leg. his 87-year-old father has bumps and bruises. >> in my father's case the chairs around him crumped in forming a roll cage that apparently saved his life. from what i understand -- i wasn't there so it's not factual -- the people in front of him died and the people behind him died. >> light's leaving for cairo to bring his parents home. his father is a retired f.b.i. agent. his mom is a retired french professor at city college. an autopsy is scheduled for today to determine the cause of death for a santa rosa man who fell overboard from his sailboat. the body of 28-year-old casey speed was discovered friday evening by a bird watcher in a wetlands area in mill valley. speed was reported missing december 10th after his wife said he fell overboard while his sail board was anchored in richardson bay near tiburon. time for a check on the weather. this fog came up the last 45 minutes or so. >> e

guided it back to earth. the test flight could pave the way for space x to do supply runs and rides to the international space station. once nasa retires the shuttles next year. >>> if travelingh. the air transport association is out with its holiday travel predictions. it now expects just under 44 million people to fly this holiday season. that's up 3% from last year. >> here are the dates you need to know. mark your calendars. they're saying the busiest flying days are december 21st through the 23rd. december 26th through the 30th. and january 2nd and 3rd. i guess you don't have to mark your calendars, they're the same every year, it's always painful. >> i will be right here. >>> here's a look at your thursday forecast. rain from seattle to san francisco. up to 3 feet of snow in the cascades and a foot in the sierras and northern rockies. snow also in the upper midwest with up to 4 inches in the twin cities, green bay and chicago. and some plunging temperatures in the northeast. >> only in the 20s in new york and boston. indianapolis gets up to 31. omaha 45. fargo 33. 40s from seattle to salt lake city. 60 out in sacramento. >>> well, it was politics at its very worst in so

guide, we would not need science. despite our best efforts to instill and enable a cultural safety for parents traveling with young children, we're not where we need to be. if our vision is all children traveling in age-appropriate safety seats on all flights, what more can and should we be doing? i think the solutions reside broadening our view of the boards of intervention and going to school on previous behavior change initiatives. at the cdc, we use this four- stage model to guide our work. it is the dna, or operating system, everything that we do at cdc, regardless of illness, injury, or disease considered. we moved from traditional surveillance to risk and protective factor in a vacation to the development and implementation of programs and policies. finally, we aim to bring proven evidence-based interventions to scale. it is cyclical and iterative, where new research and forms new programs and policies. our goal is the widespread adoption of a science-based practice. more recently, we are viewing these solutions to the public health challenges we face as rooted in the social ecology. in other words, the factors depi

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