in india in the movie going to join peter jones a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly towards west coast coromandel new kind of let's go toe to toe so don't go. brother said the colonel was toto as a treat. russia promises to grant visa free entrance to participants and gas of the world cup wins the bid to host the planet's most spectacular football event in twenty teams or twenty twenty two. like place but did breast enlargement look and hunt for

the quest to become embody the perfect surgery becoming more popular and more and more political can be easy to figure out what the real costs of paying of the night could be. as a demand for western surgery grows in russia so does the number of inexperienced and unlicensed doctors plus. that easier than it would be a much more. fun to. get out of this world experience along with selections of space exploration by new years in our records from the u.s. space and rocket sample in alabama. one of the am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshua welcome to the program international officials are in russia to assess the country's bid to host the planet's most spectacular football fan the world cup

and the government is pulling out all the stops and it's time to sway the inspection delegation all we can find out more about this from six have been slater in the program so stay with. for that if you can before it's abdo it's a year since a devastating accident at russia's biggest hydroelectric plant in siberia which killed seventy five people. the sea on a shoestring station was badly damaged when water crashed into the turbine hall last august the investigation into the cause of the accident is still ongoing commemorative ceremonies are being held in the republic of worth the disaster took place full restoration of a plan display and by two thousand and fourteen and again more bad ground of the tragedy on our web site r.t. dot com where you'll find witness accounts as well as expert opinion. 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 made by president obama not to go ahead with july twenty eighth team date he 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 and dall 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 petraeus indicated the nato troops and certainly the u.s. force command are not at all planning to pull out because the afghan occupation you have to understand it has nothing to do or very little to do with afghanistan perceval 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 a c. o. shanghai cooperation states so this is all politics on the part of obama about pulling up next july. and investigative journalist wayne madsen says jennifer trask comments are an indicator of obama's policy including those concerning the twenty one withdrawal. well you know one thing i find this really rich is. has interviews with all the corporate media. with meet the press n.b.c. david gregory the washington post c york 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 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. wrapper immortal technique believes america has compromised itself around the world by not practicing what it preaches and he's for what interviews coming your way next hour but here is a preview. america went around proselytizing. democracy to all parts of the world saying you know we should should have a democracy the 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. now is return to our top story international officials are in russia to assess the country's bid to host the planet's most spectacular football event the world cup

well we can now get the latest from our correspondent stacy went to follow the story for us there moscow so stacey what is russia doing to convince the international delegation that it's ready to host the tournament. good afternoon merino well we have some breaking news the meeting between the delegation and prime minister putin just wrapped up and during that meeting russia announced it's ready to. spin these requirements so there's free visas for athletes and people that are traveling to russia during the world cup so they're trying to woo the international delegation by showing that they are willing to open up the borders to show the spectacular this spectacular which is the world cup and they're also trying to woo the delegation and other ways of bringing them to luzhniki stadium to show that russia is capable of building a stadium that fits the the requirements which this does and there and also they're

going to host the delegation at a special dinner at the kremlin tonight also there really. is the sports minister says they're really going all out to make sure that russe are secure as a bit in order to get the world cup either at twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two and they laid out a specific guidelines and they say that they're pretty confident this is what people are looking for and to go more into the bid i'm going to turn you over now to my colleague it cuts really good. bye to. brazil. and so they're free from. should be next it's hoops of posting the twenty eighteen world cup facing a key test this week as fifty inspectors arrive to assess the beat also in the running are england australia the united states and to june visits from spain and portugal and golden and the netherlands what's 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 scoring a chance a pretty good that russia can succeed and a lot of people say maybe you know i got more political decision. to give to a big country like russia or the biggest country. very tense hold up. 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 this 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 sochi and kaliningrad and of course moscow you know there's a tremendous torrid 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've never had the opportunity to show how much they love the game at home. to see the game until the government is ready to play russia's bead includes designs for over a dozen new state of the art studio worth up to ten billion dollars worth of teen brand new stadiums are under construction currently it's only moscow's luzhniki which fully matches people's 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 moscow 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 you for cup champion. finals in two thousand lose and if you between you and chelsea fans were allowed in without visas for the first time and they all came in. different ports and went very very smoothly and i think about having. time so people you know knew pretty clearly that russia was really you know when it comes to organize and begin to muscle of. russia's progression through the twenty four. is likely to come under scrutiny by. and with the first results appearing to be impressive success could mean another weaning goldfield russia in its world cup it. r t. well we've got plenty more for you here in r.t. 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 chief correspondent of u.s. space and rocket center in alabama and find out why the veterans here think was really behind the space race. and one police officer has been killed and two injured in a suicide bomb blast in the republic of north a city in russia's caucasus the explosion went off near a police checkpoint at the border with a republican a bomber detonated his explosive device what a police officer asked for his documents as he attempted to cross the frontier a man thought to be his accomplice has been detained. plastic surgery is 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 analyst legal battles with inexperienced

and underqualified surgeons you may find some of the images and sarah firth report disturbing. 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 he idealists have been. to those jobs liposuction my lips repressed and hands months 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 the sky and procedures cost less than you might think like. breast enlargement. the quest to becoming body beautiful three perfect surgery becoming more and more popular and more affordable can be even bigger with the real cost of going and the knife could be. far from people being put off by the dangers the plastic surgery crowd is getting younger made 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 liposuction the risk cost her her life when she had a suspected allergic reaction. the legal repercussions in these situations often and. there are no clear controls or sanctions doctors avoid punishment in 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 forgetting under the knife. let's have a brief look at other international stories making headlines now and up to sixty people are reported killed and over one hundred injured in the suicide bombing in baghdad the attack targeting people queuing outside an army recruitment center police say several soldiers were among the dead and it comes as the u.s. is preparing to hit its combat operations in iraq later this month. and the world bank's pledged almost nine hundred million dollars to a pakistan recovery from devastating floods it follows complaints from the u.n. the countries around the world are not giving any were near enough to provide immediate relief the struck the floods have been ravaging the country for more than two weeks now twenty million people are estimated to have been affected by the disaster. and

a former israeli soldier has posted photos on the internet of herself posing beside bad. when am blind folded palestinian prisoners title the facebook page of the best days of my life israeli military can damn the behavior is shameful and pledged an investigation of palestinian authority so incident was proof the four decade long occupation of palestine has led to israelis being proud of humiliating palestinian your three. hours. and twenty minutes from now we'll look out the aftereffects of the vietnam war and the personal recollections of american veterans thirty five years old and that's coming up in our special report. only. because i thought that it was my duty that it was some right 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 officers so. there were a lot of. you. were out in. the field the well i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and that you have a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything. that important. i don't i don't i never get the medal. huntsville alabama played a unique role in the u.s. mission to the moon and offers a unique look at the space race today it boasts an extraordinary collection of flight hardware and offers a chance to put yourself in an astronaut shoes literally as r.t.d. to softly discover 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 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 and 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. 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 everything that you were that it was even here in my dreams are actually there on your phone. 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 got to come back down. graded state for a yes it's been a great ride. down to earth didn't go soft. alabama. while if you want to stay in space just visit our blog section of our t. dot com for more we've got some unique accounts of life in orbit from the first russian cosmonaut to blog from zero gravity to find out how to wash your hair in

space how to read a book and how to scratch your nose while wearing a spacesuit so for all the space to bits and more just whiz over to our team. now that we're in a weasel word to business daniel bushell joins us now with the waiters and we're hearing dad billionaire allegory pasta is very close to buying out a mining giant norilsk nickel absolutely and he's fighting a rival tycoon for control of that company it's all top story this hour as we're saying billionaire older prasco may be collecting a war chest in his fight to take over the last nickel russian daily bread of misty says the boss of roussel could as much as six billion dollars from state run linda v.t.

group the money would be used to buy the twenty five percent stake of nickel shareholder could turn in the two men have been looked in a heated battle for control of the mind with each accusing the other of mismanaging the company has reportedly agreed to pledge forty five percent of his employees group as collateral for the v. to be love. and president medvedev has called on russia's leading businessmen to help rebuild villages destroyed by the world fires there are past couple of them were put on and let me give to shank of someone to the president's residence to pledge their assistance their president promised to build fifty houses while you have to shank of said he was ready to contribute six hundred fifty thousand dollars the government has said it will rebuild houses worth up to sixty five thousand dollars each for all three thousand people left homeless. after a check of the markets tokyo's closed at a fresh low for twenty ten as the roys the yen hits exporters a limp electro loss on two percent but the thing flipped just into the black on

strong property data from hong kong. europe's stock market origin further up mind is a leading those games as commodity prices rise thirty six percent increase in second quarter profit why call has been well received by the markets they need to prove pretty strict in the russian market and the better group to exchange rate. it's a growing steadily through the of the new on the more six top linda v t b. almost one percent higher on the news it could finance billion billion they're all in their part because of north nickel. in worrying signs for russia's economy wage arrears last month shot up eleven percent compared to june the federal statistics service as the backlog now hits one hundred twelve million dollars it comes despite president medvedev ordering bigger fines for employers who hold back salaries a top official has a bit of foreigners face serious problems at the border to bring goods into russia

but the country's economy minister pledged changes to the law as it creates a new customs union belarus kazakhstan and russia last month for a single cost the area of promise let's check. the issue forty four percent of goods coming into russia are held up at the border and inspected in the u.k. that figure is just two percent we want a new bill and customs regulations to come into force in october the first now russia is moving closer to creating a new national fertiliser champion it's a sector the government is keen to support as it provides the country's third biggest source of export revenues said i delivered reports. the prime mover is in the consolidation of the sector billionaire suliman and his associates in june creme of what it controlling stake in anger chemical giant. now to offshore companies believed to be close to. forty four percent of cillin eat the country's largest but ashbridge used already answered eighty five percent of the company the

third piece of the puzzle will be when launches a takeover be unlisted so when it expected to happen in the coming days it would create the world's second biggest producer but analysts believe that russia anti-monopoly service will allow the deal with certain provisions for us. the federal antimonopoly service which is to 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 accounted 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 or what i'll call insulin needs would hold thirty percent of the global. forty percent of global experts to justify its size the new company would have to grow both domestically and internationally as of

today the shale there's a constant threat of this is not possible for this president. so i expect the share will increase. next question is. this they will control this process and that is it always could take years you just can't expect prices but i don't think it will go to fettle as a process and i am sure export markets portion of the company because if the merger of sylvan it or not i'll call it could be just the beginning of the consolidation in 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 neck to mold not just in its creation but also in its operation through in clean seeing domestic price is an expert g.d.'s you know you did your business all right. general motors is expected to follow paperwork for its initial public offering on tuesday he will to make a means to raise up to seventy billion dollars to pay back the u.s.

taxpayer after last year's bailout the most the silkies thanks to cash rich foreign funds but fear is a backlash from a nationalist american public. the headlines are there with.

the oh so keen as being to the kaluga me when the car industry is rapidly developing. argy goes to the area where the first russian fleet was born. where the indigenous people were the first target she's not a good and where russia's glorious history is still visible. well come on. russia close up. the united states of america is waging war within its own army. joe now. advantage is on no one side. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the us armed forces sex in the army on our.