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han fled the quest to becoming body think surgery becoming more a little popular and more of a political can be easy to figure out with the real costs of the night. as the demand for plastic surgery grows in russia and so does the number of inexperienced and unlicensed doctors plus. there is a very labor market which is near my dream car i'm still trying to find. get out of this world experience along with the collections of space exploration pioneers in our reports from the u.s. space and rocket sander in alabama. and as a d.m. of the russian capital he watching our team with me marina joshie welcome now international officials are in russia to assess the country's bid to host the planet's most spectacular football event the world cup the inspection team kicked

off in st petersburg and will now be looking after silesia moscow well you know across life to stay symbionts who is following this for us good morning stacey so tell us more about the delegations visit in st petersburg. good morning to you marina well monday for these inspectors touchdown on day one for their fact finding mission to determine if russia is in fact ready to host a world cup now they're visiting colluded a stop at a construction site where a stadium is being built in st petersburg and also a stop at an airport to show that russia is following in line with the guidelines when it comes to transportation the airport is called. their terminal is set to open in two thousand and thirteen so that's a point that russia is trying to push to show that they're ready as far as transportation goes but the visit also included cultural stops to theater for example it's a show that st petersburg in russia itself is a major tourist destination anyway and so fisa would benefit from having to arrest

and russians come to the events so that the state tell us what's on the agenda for the officials what sort of issues are they going to be tackling during this visit. this is day two of their of their four day visit and today is a visit in moscow includes a stop at the iconic blue ski stadium which. as the proposed site for the opening game and the final world cup game there's also a scheduled a major presentation of russia's a bit of a meeting with government officials including prime minister putin and dinner at the kremlin now russia's a bit these sports minister said is really going all out in order to attract a fee for inspectors and to show the russian is in fact ready to host the biggest game in russia which is football and that bit includes building all new facilities

to sneak easy only to syllabi that fits the fever guidelines to all other facilities will be built and also russia plans to stage the said and thirteen cities and they're broken up into four clusters and so that the inspectors are visiting each of those clusters. as a switch in that the six. person committee stopped in on petersburg on monday and after they leave moscow they'll be heading to cazan and to sochi which will be the host of the upcoming twenty fourteen olympic games before the committee returns back to moscow on thursday to give a press conference. current stacey thanks very much indeed for this update they should be ones reporting. what we actually have someone reported by our colleague as you know we're told before we say biden you will take all. but two

thirds received three. and so vesey come. could know should be next it's hoops of posting the twenty eighteen world cup facing a key test this week is fifty inspectors arrive to assess the beat also in the running are england australia the united states and two june fits for. spain and portugal and golden and the netherlands but so difficult hosting this year's tournament and brazil in four years time it still would be europe's turn will be next in twenty eighteen and many see russia's chances and. chances are pretty good that russia can succeed in a lot of people say maybe you know i got more political decision then then football decision to give to a big country like russia the biggest country in the world that tends to hold the world cup. group between right also believes russia's bid is strong and is helping

to make it even stronger he is the director of a commercial to be shown to the jury group it was the all told the suci winter olympics compay in eight shots he showed russia as he loves it and the beach one incredible new stadia incredible new locations in terms of from some petersburg to tsotsi and kaliningrad and of course moscow you know there's a tremendous in our tourism spec to it on top of the games but again it's the first time that it will have been held in eastern europe and there's also a huge base of football fans in eastern europe who has never had the opportunity to show how much they love the game at home. to see the game at home the government is ready to play russia's beat includes designs for over a dozen new state of the art stadiums worth up to ten billion dollars what have team brand new stadiums are under construction currently it's only moskos luzhniki

which for you matches people standards and has had experience of costing major international events but in fact the very need to build new infrastructure could be russia's major selling point the other contenders already have infrastructure in place but fever is interested in expanding it across the continent and beyond class mall. has successfully coped with a logistical challenges of several big tournaments in the past the people who are running this parade are the same people who organized. the you for cup champion. finals in two thousand and eight lose nicky between man u. and chelsea the fans were allowed in without visas for the first time and they all came in two different airports and it went very very smoothly and i think it will have a great time so people you know knew very clearly that russia was really tip top

when it comes to organizing big international events like russia's group grecian for the twenty fourteen sochi olympics is likely to come under scrutiny by three for two and with the france results appearing to be impressive then such a success could mean and now the winning goal for russia in its world cup it exuded a great you are tee. and we've got plenty more a few coming up later this hour including a place to get a taste of space. want to be an astronaut here's what it takes to get your suit your helmet a frictionless environment let's go to space. during our chief correspondent of u.s. space and rocket center in alabama and find out why they matter and here think was really behind the space race. and say you were since the devastating accident at russia's biggest hydroelectric plant in siberia which killed seventy five people. to

say the station was badly damaged when water crashed into the turbine hall last august an investigation to the cause of the accident is still ongoing commemorative ceremonies will be held in the republic of hope kostya worth the disaster to place full restoration of the plant as planned by twenty fourteen there's more on the tragedy on our web site r.t. dot com. confrontation is brewing in washington over the afghan withdrawal date the nato troop commander and the u.s. defense secretary appear to be at odds over the deadline on sunday general david petraeus said he may advise president obama not to go ahead with july two thousand and eleven date if it believes it's the wrong time defense secretary robert gates however insists the pullout deadline is set in stone july was the worst month for coalition troop deaths in afghanistan since the war began but frederick william author of the bestselling book century of war told r.t. that instability in central asia is actually in america's interest. comments about

pulling out by july of next year are simply ludicrous as patrice indicated the nato troops and certainly the u.s. force command are not at all planning to pull out because the afghan. patient you have to understand it has nothing to do or very little to do with afghanistan for say it has to do with russia it has to do with china it has to do with the central asian countries and spreading what some of called a thirty years war scenario to prevent the independent development economically of china russia and the c.o. shanghai cooperation states so this is all politics on the part of obama about pulling up next there's even a question of what is the taliban in afghanistan today because. the u.s. press releases call any quote unquote opposition groups that are trying to get. occupation armies out of their country after thirty years of war they call them the

taliban automatically answer very unclear whether this is an organized force as it was before. october two thousand and one but the german politicians in the conservative wing are really quite desperate at this point because they realize that this is a highly unpopular war german soldiers are coming back in body bags and. they can't fathom the sense of it so they're they're fishing for some kind of dialogue the human rights thing is is simply a face saving device which means that they. are pretending to do something where in reality they're not going to do anything. investigative journalist wayne madsen says jennifer trask comments are an indicator of a bomb as policy including those concerning twenty eleven drawl. well you know one thing i find this really rich is petraeus has interviews with all the corporate media. with meet the press n.b.c. david gregory the washington post the york times where as his predecessor general

mcchrystal gives an interview to rolling stone albeit it was under some weird circumstances with them being trapped in belgium but he's fired for his comments and petraeus his comments he wouldn't be making these without some sort of a wink and nod a nudge nudge from the white house you're not going to have this general making public comments to the media without some sort of clearance from the white house and the u.s. rapper immortal technique believes america has compromised itself around the world by not keeping its promises and his full interview is coming your way in just under twenty minutes time here's a preview. america went around proselytizing. democracy to all parts of the world saying you know we should should have a democracy that people can be in charge when the people saw that the same

prognosticator of the prophet of democracy was sitting there supporting these brutal dictatorships they said well who else has something on the table. plastic surgeries enjoying a boom in russia with beauty seekers of all ages flocking to hundreds of private clinics the end result however are sometimes far from desired and instead of enjoying their new faces they are facing endless legal battles with inexperienced and underqualified surgeons sarah firth reports. the ugly side of the city despite being one of the most unregulated areas in russian health care plastic surgery is seeing a boom in demand the idealists have been most i've had to nose jobs liposuction my lips repressed and huntsman's and older forth when i make money with this work when

people call me crazy i answer that in my house in florence i don't care what they think plastic surgery clinics easy to find in most cases and procedures cost less than you might think like. breast enlargement and the quest of a coming body beautiful three perfect surgery becoming more and more popular and more of affordable can be if they get what the real costs are going and the knife could be. far from people being pissed off by the dangers the plastic surgery crowd is getting younger by the. board i have a twenty one year old friend who is a fan of pamela anderson so she could get her huge breasts that's a personal business i can't judge but then she also had a facelift at twenty one of course that i don't support it's this that causes a negative attitude towards plastic surgery but i blame the surgeon who gave a feast lift to a twenty one year old russia stands fifth a month countries with the highest level of plastic surgery operations being

a relatively new market many private clinics of any popped up in the last decade and there are still very few experienced professionals. through the system of medical training different in russia and western countries it takes up to ten years to train as a plastic surgeon in russia if you're already a surgeon you just need to take a month long course in order to get a license to practice but if this doctor comes from a completely different kind of surgery they need much much longer training which we just don't see happening in. russia and that's what causes problems for one twenty seven year old girl who entered a clinic recently for a routine like pay section the risk cost her her life when she had a suspected allergic reaction was done to local and. the case is currently under investigation and have the legal repercussions in these situations often and.

there are no clear controls or sanctions doctors avoid punishment and a large number of cases one reason is that medical documentation submitted to the judge or the investigation officers are often falsified also patients who often sign consent forms with off thinking of the risks unfortunately such circumstances make it hard to ensure an objective trial today there is still no official statistics on the number of institutions providing plastic surgery or the exact data on how many and what kind of operations are being conducted. with recent tragic cases and little official a the side russians might soon start thinking twice about the risks involved the full getting under the knife. also have a look at some other stories from around the world and the united nations mourning three and a half million children the flood struck pakistan are high risk are at high risk rather of contracting deadly water borne diseases the world body says it doesn't

have enough funds to distribute clean water or provide medical care floods have been ravaging the country for more than two weeks now at least fifteen hundred people died in some twenty million have been displaced been calling for international aid only a quarter what's needed has been given so far. former israeli soldier has posted photos on the internet of herself posing beside bound and blindfolded palestinian prisoners she had a facebook page of the army the best days of my life and israeli military have gone down the woman's behavior. shameful and pledged an investigation the palestinian authority said the incident was proof the fourth decade long occupation of palestine has led to israelis being proud of you know waiting palestinians it would bring your. now later today we'll look at the after effects of vietnam war and the personal recollections of american veterans thirty five years old that's coming up in our special report. showing the military

because i thought that it was my duty that it was something that i had to help my country. my government that necessary. you know there was a lot of drug abuse there was a lot of murder of american officer soldiers there were a lot of. these little i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and they do have a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything they're not that important. i don't i don't i never kept the medal. huntsville alabama played a unique role in the u.s. mission to the moon and offers a unique will to add the space race today boast and extraordinary collection of

flight hardware and offers a chance to put yourself into an astronaut shoes literally as discovered though even american experts say it was the russians who drove the nation to the moon. this is huntsville alabama vast space and a city devoted to just that. in the deep south of the usa. his word all began and this was the beginning of our main space flight program it's where one man's spatial vision when i was seventeen years old i had no doubt what that man would land in my lifetime became reality he had always dreamed about space travel he was warner von brown a former member of the nazi party turned pioneer of u.s. space exploration given his past how did people here see him rocket scientists the gentleman who could take us into space but why huntsville we had more ph d.'s per

square acre than you could find anywhere in the country available and willing workforce a workforce that experienced history. and lived to tell about it back then i was in the manufacturing engineering department people like rocket scientist and engineer robert showing hammer what specific rock. all of them to do better see saturn or saturn. apollo story and dan brown's colleague and friend at buckbee we flew twelve or twelve astronauts to the moon and in spacecraft like this and at the height of the cold war the real reason behind the space race i really believe that. the soviet union drove the us to the moon because there was serious competition between the two countries how can it be that the russians we thought we were the technological wizards of the world but then it turned out

that here's somebody that already launched a satellite and here at the u.s. space and rocket center a competition lives. on and that's the only place in the in the country that you can see all these vehicles including the space shuttle where you can see and experience it is exactly what it was even here in my dreams are actually trying to get fun. and they separate and go down and land on the moon surface what does it feel like to go on the moon or the astronauts were actually very trained on a device just like this and here anyone could be a space traveler they want to be an astronaut here's what it takes to get your suit your helmet a frictionless environment let's go to space. but eventually you gotta come back down. where they say for a as it's been

a great grog. down to earth do you have a soft ski r.t. alabama and if you want to stay with space just log on to our website r.t. dot com for more with god some real time accounts of wife in orbit for you. including what it takes to wash your hair in space how to read a book and water to do if you need to scratch your nose while wearing a space suit so for all the space to bits and more just was over to our t. dot com. well from space to business now here's daniel. welcome to business russia is moving closer to creating a new national fertiliser champion it's a search for the government is keen to support as it provides the country's third biggest source of export revenues so ports. the prime mover in the consolidation of the sector billionaire suliman good enough and his associates in

june could remove what it controlling stake in number of chemical giant. now two offshore companies believed to be close to pretty much what forty four percent of salary need the country's largest but producers of already answered eighty five percent of that company the third piece of the puzzle will be when launches were be lifted so many it that expected to happen in the coming days it would create the world's second biggest producer but analysts believe that russian anti-monopoly service will allow the deal with certain provisions for us. the federal antimonopoly service will be two and instructions concerning it be able to merge in your colleague even if the structure with offshore companies is used there will be strict limits for domestic processing with exports account for eighty to ninety percent of the company's profits ever chemicals are the third biggest export item for russia after fuel and metals and the government is keen to encourage its growth

the merged company around collinson may need would hold thirty percent of the global but us reserves forty percent of global experts justified size the new company would have to grow both domestically and internationally as of today the shale then wish you could concentrate on this is mark ten percent of what this president. so i expect the share will increase in. next five ten years. this tape will count all this process and that is always good to hear in this context but precious but i don't think it will be so. and there too for settlers are pretty useless and i'm sure export markets push all the completely from the merger of souvenir to neutral cali could be just the beginning of the consolidation the. recent history in russia shows as was the case with energy that he takes time plus tempted to take on a steep form with the government clean and active role not just in its creation but

also in its operation to in clean seeing domestic prices and expert g.d.s. the native media business right russian farmers have lost around one billion dollars from the drought ravaging the country the government has promised six hundred fifty million dollars in state support by the end of the month in an interview with. first deputy premier viktor zubkov said the worst of the drought is over preparations for twenty eleven already on the way he had to monopoly watchdog meanwhile has started a probe into three moscow's bakeries after the price of bread sold twenty percent was. among the country's most affected by russia's grain export ban will be egypt turkey as a bridge on pakistan and syria rosser exported over ten million tons of grain to these countries last year that's a cultural most half of the overall imports but first the premiers of course is on the stand where russia imposed the ban. russia's grain ban came into effect on sunday but commodities analyst only slows hansen says the market is mostly reacting

to the weather forecast. to offset the band we are actually seeing weather forecast now which is projecting rain late in the week in the affected areas so that may have an impact already we come from a situation where wheat has been trading at relatively low prices for a while and the market has probably the hedge funds and so on has been selling into it because they didn't see any prospects for higher prices so there's been a lot of scramble to cover short positions over the last month and but the global stocks are still still pretty high the stock to use is only dropping from twenty eight percent to twenty five percent this year so there's still enough to go around the main issues obviously to get the surplus in the u.s. into the different areas where they where the need them the fact in areas think that something like eighty percent of the total annual production that comes from winter wheat so it's obviously incredibly important with the rain that's forecast that there is hope obviously of the worst is behind us and they have announced that

they will be. there will be a revision of the band early october so if we have if the weather behaves from now on we could potentially see the band get lifted before december. let's now see how the stock markets are getting on tokyo's continuing this week slide the yen is back on the rise of multinationals under pressure. this hour. here in russia stocks are closed in the black russia was a mixed bag yesterday no cynical put on two percent as investors look for a resolution to their shareholders. one percent on the my sixth is that the number of people who want to paint dry clothes is rising slightly. russian car production seventy one percent in the first seven months of the year with six hundred thousand vehicles rolling off the line demand for domestic made calls has risen strongly compared to last year when the financial crisis was at its peak manufacturers have highlighted the role of government in reviving the sector in particular the cash

for clunkers program and the availability of cheap loans. russia is not ready for the imminent customs union with its neighbors for the details.