you see that is the most precious thing in the world. use of self-sacrifice of a coalition with those who understands it fully that you have to live a. real life stories from. nineteen forty five don't. cheat tests lead to deaths human rights groups claim international pharmaceutical giants are endangering the lives of patients in india by using them as good heads.

setting the pace for the first manned space it's fifty years since the soviet space program sought dogs become the first living thanks to spam more than twenty four hours in orbit. also its russia's thirst seaport and one of the country's diamond centers are she's close and she visits the multi-faceted northern city of our hong goals. this is are you going to live from moscow a.t.m. in the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program now human rights groups are raising the alarm over india turning into a global hotspot for drugs trials they claim hospital patients are being used as guinea pigs for the world's pharmaceutical companies. in some cases without consent

you also say many of those who sign up don't understand the risk and geo side gloomy statistics showing drug trial deaths in the country have been increasing over the last few years the first six months of this year in the early five hundred deaths are down to drug trials more than the combined total for two thousand and seven and to south as an innate the cost of testing drugs is significantly lower in india but many say the system needs an overhaul as a human cost is far too high. india government run hospitals provide low cost treatment to the poor but there are increasing claims that being made guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharma companies without their knowledge here at the. hospital in indoor the north has been taking pills for the last six months on the advice of his doctor he suspects he's being experimented

upon. to get to me i had a pain in my abdomen they did all sorts of tests and gave me all sorts of pills to have in the morning afternoon and night but i haven't got any better imo it. account that they can test any medication they like. allegations have surfaced in the media that the hospital conducts illegal drug trials on patients police are investigating the complaint the hospital official say any trials are being conducted in accordance with government guidelines india is fast becoming a global hot spot for testing new drugs with two million people estimated to be taking part in clinical trials or without their consent gotten this year drug trials are increasing here because they cost just one sixth of what they do in the west the regulatory system here is comparatively corrupt inform the companies can easily register patients and begin trials in developed countries it would take six months to register five patients whereas in india in the same time they could

conduct trials on two thousand people. giving informed consent to be part of an experiment is the golden rule of all clinical trials but many patients here sign on the dotted line without understanding the nature and the consequences of what's being administered to them. are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials are really through school they don't even know the details of the drug that it is a drug trial this is unethical to. patients without proper consent without. taking part in a drugs trial it is both an ethical and a legal. patient sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than none at all. agreed to let her child be treated with a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. to cheat ministry happy

with it. there are regulations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up takes committees and hospitals to ensure patient safety but these are often used by doctors to simply rubber stamp trials so. the ethics committee has the important responsibility of monitoring drug trials but it's a very out hook system that is misused for instance a medical institute in faraway mumbai gives permission for a drug trial in cities like indoor. poor how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city to justify drug trials in an institute here with over one thousand three hundred drug trials currently been conducted in india this industry's already said to be worth one billion dollars yet it's clear that the laws against unethical trials are not working and the government will have to come up with other ways to stop the country's poor from being enticed into medical experiments that could potentially have serious side

effects. r.t. . and still have for you this hour here at trip to diamond fields in the russian north. this site right here is one hundred meters deep and it produces about half a million carats worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they want to build deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and with a lot more of that precious stone many women called their best friend. and find out how the city of her hunger to russia's forest shipyard turned into a diamond hotspot parities close series. stopping terrorist and stemming the flow of drugs that's what was agreed upon at a summit of central asian countries president dmitry medvedev host of the meeting in the russian city of sochi with the leaders of afghanistan out of g q stan of pakistan even a professor at the department of war studies at king's college london thinks it's significant these countries are discussing stability with the region's main player the us. perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is the development of

a regional diplomacy which does not depend on the united states i think it's time that we began to look forward to a day when the united states will not in fact be present on the ground in afghanistan and countries in the region will have to make their own arrangements to deal with whatever comes after the american president three other countries are absolutely essential namely china india of course and iran and the problem is that the deep distrust between pakistan and india and to a lesser extent between india and china makes regional a great arrangements over afghanistan extremely difficult in the past and to a degree even today these countries have often played proxy wars against each other including in afghanistan over the past thirty years or so there has been only one

force only one force in afghanistan which has ever been able to control the heroin trade and that is the taliban for their own reasons in the long run if we are going to control heroin production at least in the pashtun areas we will need to do a deal with the taliban because they are the only people as for a generation who've been able to control the countryside and the production of heroin. now the u.s. has failed to define what precisely it's been fighting in afghanistan and that's a view of a silly stop a savvy war veteran who fired in the country the full interview is coming up in just over twenty minutes time but here's a preview. the point is the status of internal forces the u.n. mandate stipulates their participation in anti drug measures from time to time they take part in such operations but it's sporadic and aimed at small producers and small smugglers carrying out terrorist operations that come across some drug caravans destroy them of course but nothing more. at

a recent international conference in moscow on this issue nature representatives refused to include it on the list that nato troops must obligatorily participate in fighting narcotics they fear that this will only pose a greater threat to them in afghanistan and i give it their position so that's why they refuse to limit themselves to fight against so called terrorism. moscow is on high alert after a car bomb in russia's north caucasus sparked fears that more attacks could follow police received two threat alerts on wednesday of bombs planted in a business center and near an apartment block in the capital people were evacuated from the buildings but no explosives were found the terror attack in the city of peshawar us in the caucasus has left some thirty people injured investigators are now looking for the owner of the car which exploded outside a busy cafe they also believe in a tory is chechen militant with links to al qaida could be behind the attack.

they say every dog has his day before two dogs in the soviet union it was a day that launched them literally to international fame it's fifty years since belka and sat into orbit and returned safely a day later becoming the first living things to survive such a flight that pave the way for the first man in space eight months later parties looks back. just. became the first ever human in our space. return was. the first space. before manned space yielded to man's best friend at least fifty seven dogs were sent into orbit by the soviet union arguably one of the most famous travelers were too much or whitey and the little arrow fifty years ago after months of strenuous training they and

a bunch of mice rats flies plants and a rabbit boarded sputnik five all. the most important criteria was the dog's size there was only that much space aboard the spacecraft dogs are much better tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable their character their physical condition all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers as they really were under different names like. the dogs got named systems on the girl's name these two dogs and they like the sound of those names but then our boss found out and he was not impressed he criticised us for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so we changed them and that's how they became famous. still continued on the ground she had six pups one of which was presented by the

then soviet leader nikita khrushchev to j.f.k.'s daughter caroline and international room and believed to be true or fluffy and another kennedy called charlie they in turn had puppies which the u.s. president jokingly referred to as pup nicks man's best friend became not only a link between two ferns of the cold war dogs were also the guarantee scientists needed to safely send a man follow. in their pop prints. nobody knew you see whether a living organism could survive in space how a body would react to those conditions which is why bill constrain were the first giant leap for mankind you could see that belka was more agitated and that the dogs were at times uncomfortable but they made it safely home and scientists knew that it was man's turn to reach for the stars. the door and stamps calendars became the subject of tales and news reports fifty years after their flight their

trip last unaids young and old alike and the museum where there displayed is proud to tell their story again and again gas units are about r t moscow and don't forget that we've got a lot more on our website logon for stories stop videos and quizzes or simply follow us on twitter here's what's on line today. the first steps to the stars find out what it took to prepare for spaceflight and help take man to the moon. and moving home a body meant to what you were leaning appears in france as part of a series of tributes to twentieth century figures. the white house is adamant the u.s. economy is recovering but while the unemployment rate still near

a tamper santa major problems in the real estate sector some say the administration is spinning the story that's according to the trans research center. what they're trying to do is to convince the public that if they'd only build their confidence and they would go out and spend more and that businesses had more confidence they would hire more he is a confidence and what did they create they dumped in nearly eleven trillion dollars that was led spent and guaranteed to stimulate the economy the job numbers are terrible wait wait below what they had forecast let's look at the two losing wars the americans fighting what's the word they use where making progress progress is the white house favorite word every time they're losing it's the same old story it when it's the war more men more money more time and whether it's the

economy more time more money it all recovering from an illness if you're not getting a healthy you you're only on drugs that are that are hiding the symptoms as the disease keeps rotting away your body and that's all this stimulus has been it's been a money drug. coming up later our financial analyst explains why he thinks america's economy's going to collapse and china's role in its downfall. of course is america's biggest creditor now unlike world war two when america was the world's biggest creditor and now during world war three effectively america is the world's biggest debtor the who thing is going to win this war between the world's biggest creditor and the world's biggest debtor i wonder.

let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world and the last u.s. combat troops have left iraq nearly two weeks ahead of schedule the planned withdrawal deadline had been set at august thirty first over fifty thousand troops are to remain in the country through twenty buys iraqi forces and protect u.s. interests. in pakistan many of those in need of while supplies following the devastating floods aid isn't reaching them international donors have pledged millions of dollars more to help the country following criticism from believe groups that the response to the disaster has been too slow floodwaters are still at their peak levels in some places hampering relief work pakistani officials say sixty thousand troops have been tasked with helping the effort. with you watching r.t. live from moscow we continue exploring russia's varied regions in our closer it's an in-depth and personal view on the everyday life of local people and the history

of the country. and today we're in the northwest of russia in there hung this region once the country's only seaport recognized as the capital of northern russia it has everything from ship building to diamonds we sent tess are still yet to explore all the peeling sights of this region. we're now in the north of russia and out how girls ration a region which has a coastline on three arctic seas now because of its location it was extremely important in the seventeenth century as russia's first and only seaport as well as its first sea route to the west now this region became extremely wealthy because of that symmetry and monasteries were very much involved in the business in trading salt and wood and it was also here that the first arctic expeditions were outfitted as seem awful ever once it was found at sea trade was made from here to st

petersburg at a hyundai also lost its importance now today of hundreds may no longer hold the titles it once did but it is still home to the glorious history as well as thriving streets in shipbuilding and lumber as well as a budding diamond industry take a look thanks to its waterways on hunger is known as the gateway to the arctic but this wasn't always the case in the one nine hundred twenty s. it was called the national hard currency shop as its rich timber and paper pulp industries yielded the lion's share of the treasury's hard currency earnings it's a controversial part of its past these industries flourished thanks to tens of thousands of prison inmates forced to work in the north during stalin's time but on hunger else did make a more positive and lasting mark in history when peter the great founder of russia's first shipyard here and it became the motherland of the country's fleet our crew visited a ship repair plant in the region which has also recently started making vessels the facility was set up in the one nine hundred fifty s.

especially for repairing and retooling soviet ships and submarines in the ninety's or whenever the suv hit government radical because the number of defense contracts and the plant's output foam they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. where you know dining putting was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct vicinity of the diamond field looked attractive. that diamond field is the lemont to solve mine named after the local scientists and pull with me. back in the seventeenth century he said that there were diamonds in the region but the gems weren't found until much later this period opened in one nine hundred eighty two and the first diamond was extracted just five years ago not an easy task in a water rich region the field is located smack in the middle of a marshland emit rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long

canal to divert the water flow. i don't know of any other diamond fields where the extraction conditions are so complicated. their work is like looking for needles in a haystack and every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds. deposits produce transparent colored gems here we find intensely colored garments green yellow even pink and blue. this side right here is one hundred metres deep and it produces about half a million carats worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they plan to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where the a lot more of that precious many women called their best friend. but before anyone could even see a single spark a long process has to be gone through. and

when you get real gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it . today is still an important industrial and commercial region here in russia and if you do see foreigners in the city more often than not they're here on business there are a number of foreign companies based in and to tell us more about doing business with the region we're joined by gary d'arcy thank you very much for joining us now could you briefly. tell us what how do you value weight the economy of. our companies and my coding sector for the oil and gas market our company is excited about the future developments in new york and those creatures and we greatly look forward to working with our russian partners what do you see how else has as a competitive advantage. is strategically placed for the arctic circle the ports of the know you're around those supplies are easily accessible and it's quick to get

the oil and gas fields the infrastructure and the manpower we found to be very good for our specific market currently we are starting to employ and we've found the skill sets to be very good ok thank you very much now i'll come a long way from being just a seaport and it will continue to reshape itself as more industries develop in this region. i'll respond to s.r.c. we're reporting there and that brings us out of today's and we'll have the latest business news was daniel bushell shortly. welcome to business russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year however a recent decline put has raised doubts about the strength of the recovery the drought and heat have been partially to blame but the economists warn some of the problems wrong deeper than that the reports. the volume of russian industrial output declined

a sizeable ten percent in july compared with june which in turn saw a contraction from the previous month although much smaller just half a percent economist worry that a further decline in august which would be a third successive jop would suggest this segment of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that the russian economy is likely to slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess the saw down of the manufacture of production this part in why is. it up at that pace if that's how the cover of the snow because of the feeling the base effect the some technical factors but also a system like nation of investment demand there are now the reversal of the fiscal stimulus the weak demand for russian made goods can partly be attributed to the increase in the value of the ruble since the beginning of the year this is made products for export more expensive while handing foreign goods sold here a price advantage moreover economists warn that any sickness in manufacturing could

start to infect other parts of the economy of banks see that the growth rates are not that strong they might be more reluctant to give out loans so there's growth in lending that we started to see a couple of months ago it could be undercut by this. stagnation . and from zero performance and this is i think the bigger concern because there are potentially you can have a vicious circle whereby slower growth leads to slower landing bursts and turn leads to slower growth as well clearly russia is not an island unto itself its prospects are heavily tied to the wider global economy and its biggest customers in europe continue to grow more quickly than expected as the recent data indicates then there is little prospect of the wider russian economy suffering a double dip recession even if. industrial output temporarily stalls michael christian business. check out the stock markets japan is rising

for the second day in a row on speculation new stimulus measures will be introduced from performance of computer chip producer applied materials to russia where most go see all tears and my six finished with a session in the red on lower oil and metals prices magnet schools and still felt two and a half percent was like it was made news only out here shooting more than one percent. that we could call the means of the us germany france and u.k. a greater risk of a credit rating downgrade than they were previously but they're still comfortably in the aaa bracket that's according to a new report by the world's biggest ratings agency moody's we do stress is that all the countries are carrying on sustainable deficits and that time is running short to impose a solution the agency also points out that the world has changed since the sovereign debt crisis in europe earlier this year those countries can no longer assume they

will be credit worthy without having to provide proof in control spain's rating is on the review for a possible downgrade after being warned back and. now take a b.p. appears to be the most generous russian company to shareholders according to their financial results they spent nearly five billion dollars on dividends almost eighty percent more than the year before gazprom won second place having paid one point eight billion to its shareholders other than the oil and gas sector the most generous russian companies are no rules nickel m.t.s. and baltic paid nothing in accordance with its debt restructuring agreement. and inflation in russia has been just five point one percent since the beginning of the year consumer prices in august rose point two percent compared to eight point three percent a year before last week grain and dairy products again the most well prices for eggs and fish went down. seventy five. sense of russia's mortgage market is covered by just two banks as burbank and v.t. b.

twenty four both have doubled the value of mortgages in the first half of the year to a total of three point three billion dollars experts say the increase is due to the economic recovery and state support for the construction business. russia's largest still make a severed. any bids for three u.s. plants put up for sale the company wanted to sell them. but may now offer them separately that's according to american metals it's. one of the. four hundred forty million dollars two years ago. aeroflot to become the first russian airline to be included in the top twenty five leading carriers in the world industry magazine. placed the russian flagship place one higher than lufthansa due to the airline's successful financial dealings in two thousand and nine the magazine also put eighteen. last year which was one hundred twenty two million dollars first place in both categories went and what's. more stories on the website

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