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the knowledge that let them huntsman the quest to become embodied public surgery becoming more of. a more of a political can be easy to get with the real purpose of getting the night could be . as the demand for plastic surgery grows in russia so does the number of inexperienced and unlicensed doctors plus. family what was it like treatment for. get find. and get an out of this world experience along with recollections of space exploration pioneers in our reports from the u.s. space and rocket sander in alabama. this is already coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program 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 at facilities in moscow while can cross live now tell correspondents d.c. the vns who has more on the story hello to you stay so you're outside the luzhniki stadium to tell us about this delegations visit in same bed as brooke. well good morning to you marina yes monday the thief inspectors touch down and say petersburg to start there for a day fact finding mission to see if russia is in fact ready to host a world cup either in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two now their stay in st petersburg took part they took part in checking out just. one of them was a stadium that's being a wrecked it there into an anticipation for the world cup they also to take in some of of the renovation is being done at the airport this is russia showing that it is

in fact taking the us the first instructions when it comes to transportation into consideration the russian officials also showed on st petersburg its culture and its international feel and the hope is that people will get to see that state petersburg and russia itself is a main destination for for travelers so that there will be a great it's a welcoming for for the world cup if russia gets to host it. so why does on the year janda for the official sunday as the focus shifts to the russian capital moscow. right and there was a concern early on because of the wildfires and the heavy smalling that there might be problems for the inspectors when they're coming to check out of moscow and as you can see behind me the smog is still there it's still hanging over the stadium but it's lightened up quite a bit so the inspectors can get a feel for how russia is how moscow is when it is it blanketed in the smog

and their day to day in the capital as a full one it goes it's it's underway right now it includes a visit to this day which is. supposed to be the site for the opening games and the final game if russia gets to host and there their stay here also includes a visit with the prime minister putin and a presentation of the bit now russia's minister of sport says that the country is going all out to prove that it is ready to host the games and they're taking all of the first instructions of consideration when it comes to the way the stadiums are supposed to be to housing and transportation so he's very hot he's feels pretty confident the minister about russia's chances to host. now let's now there are nine other countries that are being considered and people will make

it's a term a nation for both the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cup in december and zurich but the bid is extensive and for more on that i'm going to send you to my colleague catarina the show. not to. proceed. and so the secret. should be next it's hoops of posting the twenty eighteen world cup facing a key test this week is fifteen spoke too soon. arrived to assess the bit also in the running are england australia the united states and to join us from 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. the 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 a big country like russia the biggest fans in the world their chance to host the world cup. group between right also believes russia's bid is strong and is helping to make it even stronger he's the director of a commercial to be shown to the jewelry group it was the author of the saw two 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 such a young kaliningrad and of course moscow you know there's a tremendous in our tourism spec to it on top of the games and again it's the first time that it will have been held in europe and there's also a huge base of football fans in eastern europe who've 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 paint brushes beat includes designs for over a dozen new state of the art stadiums worth up to ten billion dollars what have teen 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 a. for a structure in place but feel is interested in expanding it across the continent and beyond plus most skill has successfully coped with the logistical challenges of several big tournaments in the past the people who are running this place are the same people who organized. the youth for cup champions. finals in

two thousand between you and chelsea the fans were allowed in without visas for the first time and they all came in you know two different ports and it went very very smoothly and i think it will have a great time so people knew very clearly that russia was really you know talk when it comes to organizing big international events like russia's progression for the twenty fourteen sochi olympics is likely to come under scrutiny by three foot two and with the first results appearing to be impressive then such a success could mean another winning goal for russia in its world cup a bit. of a r t. now we've got plenty more for you 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 join our correspondent of the u.s. space a iraq etc now barack and find out why the veterans here think was really behind

the space race. and it's a year since the devastating accident in russia's biggest hydroelectric plant in siberia which killed seventy five people. this is a serious distinction was badly damaged when water crashed into the turbine hall last august the investigation to the cause of the accident is still ongoing commemorative ceremonies are being held in the republican for cost here where the disaster to place full restoration of the plant is planned by two thousand and fourteen there's more of the tragedy in our web site r.t. dot com. now 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 data line on sunday general david petraeus said he may advise president obama not to go ahead with july two thousand and eleven date if he believes it's the wrong time offense 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 and all author of the bestselling book century of war told r.t. that instability in central asia is actually in america's interests 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 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 war scenario to prevent the independent development economically of china russia and the a c. o. shanghai cooperation states so this is all politics on the part of obama about

pulling up next july. investigative journalist wayne madsen says general petraeus comments are an indicator of obama's policy including those concerning the twenty levin was drawl. well you know one thing i find this really rich is to tray as has interviews with all the corporate media. with meet the press n.b.c. david gregory the washington times whereas its 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 to trace his comments he wouldn't be making these without some sort of a wink and 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 while u.s. rapper immortal technique believes america has compromised itself around the world

by not practicing a lot of preachers and his full interview is coming your way next hour but here's a preview. america went around proselytizing. democracy to all parts of the world saying we should set up a democracy the people can be in charge when the people saw that the same prognosticator the prophet of democracy supporting these brutal dictatorships. 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're facing an endless legal battles with an experienced underqualified surgeons and i find some of the images in this report disturbing.

the ugly side of. despite being one of the most unregulated areas in russian health care plastic surgery is seeing a boom in demand. i've had two nose jobs liposuction my lips repressed and huntsman's and older forth when i make money with this 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 the sky and procedures cost less than you might think like. breast enlargement. the quest to becoming body beautiful through perfect surgery becoming more and more popular and more and more affordable can be easy to forget what the real costs of going into the night could be. far from people being put off by the dangers the plastic surgery crowds getting younger made by the. board i have a twenty one year old friend who is

a fan of pamela anderson says she copied her huge breasts that's a personal business i can't judge but then she also had a face. 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 facelift to a twenty one year old russia. countries with the highest level of. that 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 you can 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 mosque a clinic recently. the risk cost her her life when she had a suspected allergic reaction. the legal repercussions in these situations often and. more than news corp there are no clear controls or sanctions for 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 tragic cases and little official. questions might start thinking twice about the risks involved

the forgetting under the knife. thomas take a look at some other stories from around the world and the rocky officials say at least fifty one people have been killed and over one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in baghdad the attack targeting people queuing outside an army recruitment center police say several soldiers were among the dead it comes as the u.s. is set to and its combat operations in iraq this month. the united nations warning three and a half million children in flood struck pakistan are at higher risk 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 and some twenty million have been displaced the u.n. has been calling for international aid but only a quarter of what's needed has been given so far. the former israeli soldier has

posted photos on the internet of herself posing beside bound and blindfolded palestinian prisoners she told a facebook page the army the best days of my life the israeli military have condemned the woman's behavior as shameful and pledged an investigation the palestinian authority said the incident was proof before a decade long occupation of palestine has led to israelis being proud of humiliating palestinians. and coming up in our financial poor at our analyst mexico either a look sad and ironic sickness and health the question on the table today is whether america is heading towards a new depression that's coming up and about fifteen minutes time here in our team. line about the u.s. u.s. is bankrupt and we don't even know if this is laurence kotlikoff boston university he's an economist and he points to a fiscal gap of two hundred two trillion dollars if you put everything on the balance sheet that's a big number well it's fifteen times more than the official that but is that to say

that they were effectively lying to us. other affectively lying to us there's no question about it yes governments are lying to you know well what a revelation. to. have a for that huntsville alabama played a unique role in the u.s. mission to the moon and offers a unique look at the space race today a boasts an extraordinary collection of flight hardware and offers a chance to put yourself in an astronaut shoes quite literally started in a sauce he discovered though even american aspart 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.

is where it all began this was the beginning of our manned spaceflight program it's where one man spatial vision when i was seventeen years old i had no doubt that man would land on the moon 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 land willing workforce a workforce that experienced history. and lived to tell about it back then i was in the in the manufacturing engineering department people like rocket scientist and engineer robert showing hammer what specific rock you are all

of to put her to 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 do that we thought we were the technological wizards of the world but then it turned out that here's somebody that already launched the satellite and here at the u.s. space and rocket center at competitions 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 everything that you hear what it was like three four five am sure you have fun. and they separating 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. made it safely yes it's been a great ride. down to earth do you have a soft ski r.t.t. alabama. and if you want to stay with space just visit our blog section at r.t. dot com for more so we've got some real time accounts of life in orbit for you from the first russian cosmonauts start a blog from zero gravity. by now want to take to wash your hair in space how to

read a book and water do if you need to scratch your nose while wearing a space suit so for all the space did that and more just whistle we're home. brings us up today here in our time now for some business news with daniel when the business rules is moving closer to creating a new national fertilise a champion it's a segue to the government support as it provides the country's third biggest source of export revenues you know the reports. the prime movers in the consolidation of the sector billionaire suliman and his associates in june it controlling stake in anger chemical giant. now two offshore companies believed to be close to. forty

four percent of cillin eat the country's largest producers of already and soon to five percent of that company the third piece of the puzzle will be when launches and takeover 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 russia and to monopolize service will allow the deal with certain provisions for us. the federal antimonopoly service will issue detailed instructions concerning you'd be able to merge in your colleague even if the structure with offshore companies is used there will be strict limits for domestic processing exports account for eighty to ninety percent of the company's profits agro chemicals are the third biggest export item for russia after fuel and metals and the government is keen to encourage the growth the merged company would all collinson need would hold thirty percent of the global and forty percent of global experts justified size the new

company would have to grow both domestically and internationally but as of today is a share. of this is mark of what this president and russia. expect the share will increase the. next question is. this tape will control this process and is it always good to hear you discount export prices but i don't think it will be so negative for fed so as a process and i am sure export markets portion of the company because if the merger of so many do not all call it could be just the beginning of the consolidation the fertilizer sector recent history in russia shows as was the case with energy that it takes time for a sector to take on a stable form with the government clean. and that too low not just in its creation but also in its operation to influencing domestic prices and expertise the name of your business right. russia halted drain exports on sunday as it begins to stop

rising prices at home but commodities analyst only soft hands and sees the hit wave lower supply driving markets 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 months 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 surf loss in the u.s. into the different areas where they where the need them the effect areas think there's 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 and there is hope obviously the worst is behind us and they have announced that there 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. quick check on the stock markets now tokyo's continuing this week slide the year he's back on the rois putting multi-nationals on the pressure take joins me and can and down on top of percent this hour europe's stock markets are recovering yesterday's losses miners are leading gains on stronger commodity prices. surging ahead in the first hour of trade continuing this week first linda v t v is an early window on news that could finance billionaire ali there are passages boy out of mining giant north nickel. president medvedev says russia's badly prepared for its customs union with belarus and kazakstan become tree rings one hundred thirtieth of one hundred thirty three

nations for ease of customs procedures he adds almost half the goods coming into the country are held up by border guards compared with just two percent in the u.k. border controls will strip between the three countries last month. the russian government needs new sources of cash after using up reserves in the crisis and it's turned to the country's infrastructure the ministry of finance says it will raise four billion dollars a year from twenty twelve taxing railways pipelines and power grids which up till now are exempt russian roadways warns it will pass the bill on to passengers. use on the chinese economy is galloping ahead foreign direct investments jumped twenty nine percent this year beijing's reported property and infrastructure have been favorite destinations for foreign investors. russian co-productions sold seventy one percent in the first seven months of the year with six hundred thousand vehicles rolling off the line the more for the mistake you made cause there's a reason strongly compared to last year when the financial crisis was at its peak manufacturers of highlighted the role of government to reviving the sector in

particular the cash for clunkers program and the availability of cheap loans. general motors expected to fall paperwork for its initial public offering on tuesday to make a needs to raise up to seventy billion dollars in order to pay back the u.s. taxpayer after last year's bailout it was the cash rich foreign funds but here's a backlash from the nationalist american public despite the economic downturn russian tourist numbers have hit record highs of one point two million went abroad in june a massive jump from last year's lows so a person was a favorite destination visitors there jumping fifty percent of travel agents complained profit margins have slumped on the two percent of competition in the sector grows that's the latest you can find more stories on our website dot com business.