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powerful explosion in the sol the russian resort c.d.o. has left up just thirty people injured joining us in just a few moments with the latest. facing up to the drug threat russian president meets the leaders of ghana standard kickstand in pakistan but many believe the problems and possible tackle while the afghan war rages on. i started to look at the american history of politics and realize that boyhood deployed to. giving up on the american dream a growing number of u.s. nationals choose to renounce their citizenship r.t. asks why. are you watching r t coming to live from moscow eleven am here in marina joshie welcome to the program a rainy weather in russia's caucuses appears to have prevented mass deaths in

a car bomb attack the blast went off outside a cafe you know normally busy street in the town of partygoers up to thirty people were injured investigators believe in a tourist chechen militant with links to al qaida as behind the attack at the scene of brings us the latest. we are right now at big zack street where their car bomb explosion took place and the police officers just five minutes walk from here their post office is in nearby and the local white house is just across the blog so this thread is and did a very busy and crowded street their white car has been parked in front off a cafe just over there are there was no driver at the moment all the explosion and the car contained up to forty kilos of t.n.t. just to paint a picture it's ten times more than was used during the twin blasts in moscow metro this march bad last left almost forty people died and many more injured

actually we didn't have so many people injured because of the started just a hop an hour before the explosion and they saved many lives mass media has been reporting that security cameras have recorded a car from chechen republic and with two passengers inside that left this scene the cafe it just minutes before the blast but we haven't received any official confirmation so far and here we've got at night witness account for you. we were some distance away from the blast about seventy five meters but still we only felt the blast wave it felt like something pushed me and then we saw a lot of cars police cars among them drive past in the direction of where the sound came from we were at the office and decided to go there and see what happened the scene of the explosion was near the post office and across the street from the cafe we saw that the police had sealed off the area and the windows of the post office

were shattered a lot of people were hurt since it was a lively part of the city there usual a lot of people there the cafe there might not have been packed but still. up to said if people had been taken to hospital six are in real a bad condition five of these injured are being transported to moscow for treatment it's a one woman four man and actually one is a sixteen year old kid with a severe i injury. is the center of the newly formed district in the north caucuses it includes such travel some regions as church nine percent. for militants a very active investigators fear that more terror attacks could fall over and police in moscow is on high alert investigators also believe the dog could be behind this blast and yet it was marcus in the taurus chechen militants here is the one who claimed to be behind the twin blasts in moscow metro march and he is on

international terrorist watch list. porting there from the city of her to gore's watching r.t. live from moscow terrorism and drug trafficking are what's on the table today in russia's city of sochi president dmitry revered it was hosting a summit there where the leaders of ghana stand stand and pakistan are reports from the city. president dmitry medvedev is bringing together the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and their neighbor down and saw this is a second formation meeting of a kind the first one was in last year and back then the leaders focused on cross border projects economical projects as well as on security issues russia is reluctant to get involved in military action in afghanistan but it still seeks a role in settling the conflict with russia central asia is a traditional sphere of interests and it has always been sensitive to instability

the afghan conflict is causing in the region drug trafficking and islamic radicalism stemming from a ghana stand or the main security threats recently there's been an increase in the record straight the trade which is also the main source of financing of militants in the region and russia which is now the world's largest hair when consumers seeking to break up channeling of the drugs from a canister and as to major thirty thousand people are dying of abuse annually in russia lou this is a third of the world's death toll of drug abuse opium is flooding into russia and further into europe through the so-called northern route to the advantage of border no visa settle want to travel from did you could stand to russia which means that the drugs can float easily through the open door tightening security on the border will be one of the main topics of today's talks president it is also pushing for an agenda transportation projects to boost economic recovery in the region last year

russia built a major hydroelectric plant into the plant is said to provide twelve percent of the central asian countries total and a chip production is by far the largest russian project in the region well several similar projects ambitious projects what hundreds of millions of dollars will be discussed today as you heard her reporting there afghanistan is the world's largest opium producer and aspirants agree a regional approach is key to winning the global war on drugs are going off as more on how security is maintained at the afghan border. turning a boy into a soldier is a tough task but getting him ready to go to one of the most tricky borders in central asia is even more difficult. work i don't know a lot of people don't don't go out and that's why at this training center in tajikistan there is no time for games when it comes to dealing with ghana stared the center of the global heroin trade. classes are held every day despite the time

of year and weather conditions right now it's extremely hot here but as you can see the troops are fully dressed in their uniform have to get used to it since this is what they'll have to wear on the job after six months trained soldiers are sent to guard the border while new conscripts arrive continuing the cycle the stones border with afghanistan stretches twelve hundred kilometers around seven hundred fifty miles dodgy border guards are being trained by the russian federal security service under a deal signed back in two thousand and four the use of different weapons physical education combat deck tics and survival techniques are all poured over the course. terrorism drug and arms smuggling and human traffic have good this region in the global spotlight that's why there are currently over twenty international organizations including the un in the working entergy can stand alone. afghanistan produces over ninety percent of all opium in the world according to the

united nations the death toll from opiates in the two countries is five times more than all the needle soldiers who died in afghanistan since two thousand and one and in russia alone the government says afghan heroin kills more people in just one month then during the whole ten year long soviet military campaign in afghanistan during which the u.s.s.r. lost around fifteen thousand people but according to the sheet of the war an independent analyst and the author of dozens of articles about the flow of drugs is unlikely to stop no matter how strong an advanced the water. this problem may have various technical solutions but it will never be fully solved while there's fighting in afghanistan and global demand for opiates. afghan opium production has grown by a third since the us led invasion it's thought the billion dollar business brings more money than all foreign investments put together that's why it's unlikely even

the most advanced water control system possible would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you got this going off r t. and the war on drugs has raged for more than four decades but as peter lavelle and his guest debate has or actually been any notable success across talks coming your way in about twenty minutes. the coke a cocaine the opium heroin the marijuana in fact we haven't had a control system we've had a global prohibition regime reminds me of a senator more a shepherd in one nine hundred thirty one was asked if alcohol prohibition would ever come to an end and he said i think the chances of alcohol prohibition ending in america are about the same as a hummingbird carrying the empire state building on its back to the moon and two years later a national man was repealing alcohol prohibition and i think the same is very much true certainly we respect to the probationer marijuana let's try to imagine even if we had some sort of magic power that you could trick your fingers to. cease to exist would the world be

a better place. if israel plans to attack iran's nuclear power plant and bush era has only three days left to do so that's the view of a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton made the statement in an interview with fox news he said the danger of releasing radiation would be too great once i will share plant is launched on august twenty first russia's state nuclear energy company has announced it will transfer fuel rods to the facility on that date and moscow says the plant poses no threat as it will be operating for peaceful purposes under the control of the u.n. nuclear watchdog but investigative journalist and r.t. contributor when mattson says this might not prevent israel from launching a strike. if the israelis decide to attack iran it doesn't matter whether. there's civilian volunteers over there the new york yankees happen to be into ron none of that's going to matter they're going to hit iran and people like john bolton from

want to he's one of these old neo con types the ones who lied about intelligence to get us into the iraq war and they continue to hype up intelligence. they provide false information and bolton is keeping everything to this august twenty first date the bushehr reactor is a peaceful power reactor it has nothing to do weapons production we hear that israel may be targeting other iranian nuclear facilities in tang's and in coleman and in toronto itself so the fact is that radiation would be a big problem with monsoon rains coming from the central asian steppes winging south picking up radiation and possibly dumping this radioactive rain on on three hundred nuclear powers pakistan india and china this could get out of hand very very rapidly we know that israel is in range for some iranian missiles they.

depending on how good their air defenses are they could be hit but i think has would also react from lebanon and we would see a wave of rocket attacks american maybe known as the land of opportunity but for increasing numbers it's an offer they are not willing to take last year alone over seven hundred people renounced their us citizenship three times as many as the year before i guess or at asked a wide expatriate why his american dream turned sour. ken o'keefe grew up in american hit the nation that he believed was the greatest in the world a bastion of freedom and democracy in order to protect those ideals he joined the marine corps and went to fight for his country in the gulf war and that's when the american dream became a nightmare i was punished for speaking out about something that my superiors were doing and my life became extremely difficult upon my return with

a different perspective i started to look at american history and politics and realized that my whole life i had been lied to and i believed in those ideals you know i believed in them and when i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world it became clear to me at some point that i would renounce citizenship and renounce if he did apply to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keeffe knows that not everyone will agree with what he's done some maintain he could have exerted more pressure from inside the system but however they choose to do it middle east commentator alan hart says americans must do something i have a love hate relationship with america on one level americans are the most uninformed misinformed dumbest people on the face of god that's the bad news. deep down they're also the most idealistic so i say and americans

didn't mind me saying if they were properly informed about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy would it hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily eroded that goodwill because it's failing to give its ethical lead now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will ken o'keefe is committed to changing that and since giving up his u.s. citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli commandos in may and following that he was branded

a terrorist by israel to ken o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't one borne out of hatred you know i realized at a certain point that citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the church of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among your obligations is paying taxes those taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renouncing citizenship or hating america and that's absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people and i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality o'keefe and others like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave you are at it. and just to remind you we've got much more on our website r.t. dot com it's a lot going to check out stories quizzes and top rate of videos and you can also follow. it's on twitter which is updated twenty four seventh's now let's take

a look at what's waiting for you online. god given skills i'm gary and greece has been showing off his skateboarding prowess to parishioners . and be aware of the bench as part visitors in china are being forced to pay all the seats are fitted with steel spikes that we track for feet and shoot out when your time is up. to what you are to live from moscow returning now to one of our top stories russia hosting a summit on combating the afghan drug threat for more on this i'm now joined by alexander of a geopolitical aspart from moscow state university for the humanities thanks for being with us here alexander so let's talk about the situation in afghanistan

combating opium production has been a problem for many years do you think it's possible to to deal with this problem to solve it without improving the security situation in the country well it's not possible to do without this all the security situation because there is currently no stability and if there is no stability those no control which makes it easier for what's the way out what else could be in the ring of security and stability with the help of the full stakeholders in the region in central asia namely it's russia it's going to stand. of course it should be in a way iran as well well as. well we know that the nato force has been have been there for for many years now and it's no secret where the poppy fields are it's just possible to destroy them i don't think so because you know that opium makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now in the heroin market i think it's going to. its records as ninety four ninety two percent of the world market so the whole economies are based on

a drug that there is even a term that afghanistan is a drug based economy we can talk about innovation based economy you know knowledge based economy but drug based economy it's it's horrible well let's now take a look at the situation from the economic perspective there is so russia has recently just written off the final portion of ghana stands dad which amounted to twelve billion dollars so in your opinion how might this contribution help fight drug trafficking i think it might help for some time but the situation is much more complicated what again is there really needs is it needs to revamp its whole economy and we can just you know it's kind of an injection so for a time it can be helpful but actually we need to get it going to start a new economy to help them build their own infrastructure and russia has been doing a great job there. well you just a short while ago said that in order to improve the situation kate you know this

problem security needs to be improved there but you know it all sounds like a vicious circle there is it possible to break through what needs to be done what sort of concrete action needs to be taken there well first of all you know that preside now instead by two thousand and twenty fourteen again authorities will take control of their own country they will be responsible for regulation for stability and this is crucial to resolution of this situation so that have done a thorough jews have to take control of their own over their own country without the help of the coalition that's for sure and the second you know there is very little control of the periphery of the country so in the center yes there is control but at the periphery very little control the majority of drugs in the poppy fields are there not in the center so as soon as government central government takes control over the periphery as well i think we will see better results. alexander's how about geopolitical asper from moscow state university for the humanities thanks very much indeed for your views here in the program. you're

watching our team and let's now take a look at what else is dominating headlines around the world former illinois governor rod blagojevich is corruption trial has come to a close resulting in a conviction for a long time the jury was unable to you now mostly decide on the most scandalous charge trying to sell of rock obama's old seat in the senate the power was said to be deadlocked eleven to one will go in which was found guilty of lying to federal prosecutors prosecutors promised to try him on a twenty three unresolved accusations. in the philippines at least forty people have been killed after a bus packed with people plunged down a ravine the conductor who survived said the buses brakes had failed as it was negotiating a downhill ban he also said the driver battled to prevent the fatal plunge by trying to hit a lamppost but missed this is the third major accident involving a bus in the philippines in the past two months oh well that brings us up to date

and it's time now for the business news with daniel. well the business b.h.p. billiton has launched an unsolicited thirty nine billion dollar bid for color this puts us call the world's largest fertiliser mine up the offer was probably rejected by the protests called board as grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a horror of the bid reflects the anglos trailer mining joy its desire to capitalize on recovery in the fertiliser sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place or kelley is widely expected to make a bid for suv in it this would create a new national champion and the world's second biggest producer of potash. chief had suv in it's on its way to a merger. some of russia's biggest companies produce first half results this week among the gazprom service burbank if you've been watching all to business you might be wondering why this is the first you've heard of it that's because the results

were on the russian accounting standards and for investors this can often be more confusing than enlightening but then a caution over reports. corporate results are supposed to provide to guarantee how well it companies performing for investors and russian companies under russian accounting standards but also use an international standard usually i have asked the reporting season can be nothing short of bewildering numbers can look very different sometimes which makes you wonder why. that makes sense if if the transactions are identical why would you get different reporting on this transaction most significant russian companies pull in the category of dual reporting including major banks energy companies and minus this can sometimes lead to a profit under one system suddenly turns into a loss in the other and vice versa so why the big difference one reason is who they are counting is intangible the russian standard is full of the local tax office to

determine how much money should be had. and it over to the government well the emphasis of i have for us is more to what's protecting investors accountancy the difference amounts to one of satisfying legal obligations versus revealing economic health plans to move the russian standard closer to the eye of pharaohs have been in the pipeline for some time the finance ministry spitting its weight behind the move saying it will make the country more attractive to international investors russia is part of the global financial community the global financial community uses international standards that exist for a reason. my life a lot easier if we get rid of russian accounting standards accountants and market players believe russia is designed to become a global financial center will inevitably mean why did option of iron for russ but until they do the reporting says and hang out will continue to be a swirl of confusing because unlike most people when confronted with too much

information investors will await data they understand before making potentially coastie decisions my gosh no business. let's check out the stock markets now in europe the footsie index already dealt hole four percent in the first few minutes of trade that breaks yesterday's games all to russia where investors are cashing in this week's gains on the office yes pushing it into the red in the opening minutes the boy six meanwhile is also down and that's led by magnus to goals who call the only game on the new chip their. markets are getting on top of the last couple of hours traders in asia were encouraged by the better than expected results in the u.s. retail sector. but shares of b.h.p. billiton over in australia fell more than three and a half percent after the takeover bid failed. china is taking another big step to replace the dollar with its currency in trade foreign lenders can now access the

massive two trillion dollars chinese into bank bond markets it comes off the russian move to ruble dealing with neighboring states. car sales in russia have risen to put the country in third place in europe for the first time since two thousand and eight in july dealers sold almost fifty percent more cause than in the previous month that's over one hundred sixty thousand vehicles germany remains in pole position despite sales falling worth their while france is in second spot and finally luke was considering an unlikely proposal to diversify its business the old john's been offered the opportunity to try to hand it chicken farming bellerose was the company to vest in the construction of poultry plants which he hopes will produce one hundred thousand tonnes of meat a year that's roughly forty million birds the agriculture ministry in minsk reports that luke has responded favorably to the proposal and is considering the idea. that's the late this week of five all stories on our website. as.

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signed up to join the military because i thought that it was my duty not that it was something that i could do to help my country i believe my government that it is necessary for americans to vietnam there was a lot of drug abuse there was a lot of murder of american officers by american soldiers there were a lot of good stories. to go out and buy. these all the war i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and wanted to have a lot of decorations but afterwards i realize that they they don't mean anything they're not that important. i don't i don't i never kept the medal. extracting black gold.