that's. chip tests lead to deaths human rights groups claim that a national pharmaceutical giants are endangering the lives of patients in india by using them as guinea pigs. setting the pace for the first man in

space it's fifty years since the soviet space program saw a pair of dogs become the first living things to survive an orbital flight. also its russia's first seaboard and one of the country's diamond centers artie's close of team visits a multi-faceted northern city of our congress. eleven am in moscow you're watching. human rights groups are raising the alarm over india turning to a global hotspots for drugs trials they claim hospital patients are being used as guinea pigs for the world's pharmaceutical companies in some cases without consent but you also say many of those who sign up don't understand the risks and side

gloomy statistics showing drug trial deaths in the country have been increasing over the last few years over the first six months of this year nearly five hundred deaths were down to drug trials more than the combined total for two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight our current seeing reports. 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 let me 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 back on target or a rash or a cap they can test any medication they like on. 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 routes without their consent caught in this kind of 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 and they are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials are really through pool they don't even know details of the drug or that it is a drug trial this is unethical to root. 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. has 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 some of. 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 being conducted in india this industry's already said to be worth over 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 seeing r.t. india still have for you this hour here in our trip to diamond fields in the russian north. this 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 go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where there's a lot more pressure many women call their best to find out how the senior hunger is home to russia's first turned into a diamond hotspot closer series. stopping terrorists and standing 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 where the leaders of afghanistan to stand in pakistan former white house drugs policy spokesman robert winters thinks the u.s. has failed in afghanistan mainly because wiping out drugs is not part of their mission the us military regrettably has determined that a policy should be had of not. interdicting and not eradicating the drugs in afghanistan because it would destabilize afghanistan what a mistake of

a policy and it's a policy mistake both by the military by general petraeus by ambassador holbrooke because it's the drugs that that fund al qaeda which is the reason that the united states went into afghanistan in the first place drugs are seventy percent as much as seventy percent of al qaeda is in the taliban's funding according to senior democratic senator charles schumer and if that's the case what are we doing making happy farmers in afghanistan or is our job to secure afghanistan stop the drug trafficking create alternative economies and then stop the killing that goes around the world both by the terrorists and by the drugs themselves that have killed millions throughout asia and europe. america's only option of ghana stands to withdraw all its troops as. a soviet afghan war veteran the full interview is

coming up in just an hour's time but here's a preview. you should so motivational. you cannot depict the country as a den of terrorism or its people as terrorists by default this is not true there is a faction of people within the rebel movement that use terror methods some of these people do indeed have links to al qaeda in no way does this mean that any afghan or any armed afghan is a terrorist the us is facing a philosophical problem they spent nine years there by december two thousand and ten the length of their military presence will match that of the soviet contingent now over this period they have failed to understand the afghans outlook on life they do not understand afghanistan barack obama is now facing the gorbachev dilemma of whether to withdraw u.s. forces if he pulls them out it will be bad if he doesn't it will go from bad to worse i'm deeply convinced that barack obama should do the same thing as me do with afghanistan there is no other way.

and police are still searching for the main suspect in tuesday's terror attack in russia's north caucasus they are hunting for the person who left a car packed with explosives outside a busy cafe in the city of pets of course thirty people were injured in the blast and investigators also believe tory is chechen militant was away still qaida may have mastermind of the bombing meanwhile authorities have stepped up security across moscow more attacks police received two alerts on wednesday a bombs planted in a business center and a year and a part of walk in the capital people were evacuated from the buildings but no explosives were found. now they say every dog has its day but for two dogs of the soviet union it was a day the launch them literally to international fame it's fifty years since belkin and were sent into orbit and returned safely daily are becoming the first living

things to survive such a flight that pave the way for the first man in space eight months later artist looks back. just. became the first ever human in our space. return i don't know if 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 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 bill can still get as they really were under different names like. the dogs got named by our lab assistance and the girls name these two dogs and mark 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 he changed them and that's how they became famous. still his fame 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 believe him to be to push him a fluffy and another kennedy dog called charlie they in turn had puppies which the u.s. president jokingly referred to as pop nicks man's best friend became not only

a link between two friendlies 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 you could survive in space how a body would react to those conditions which is why bill constrained with 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. during 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 we've got plenty more on space at our website r.t. dot com log on for an out of this world blog by

a russian cause was. a first step to the stars find out what it took to prepare for space why take man to the moon. moving home a monument to what the millennium 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 well the unemployment rate still near ten percent a major problem is in the real estate sector some say the administration is spinning the story that's according to gerald slanty from 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 as 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. and guaranteed to stimulate the economy the job numbers are terrible weighed way below what they had forecast let's look at the two losing wars america is 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. and our chief financial analyst max kaiser is also far from positive about america's economy and in twenty minutes he questions whether the u.s. is still a superpower and tells us what he thinks lies ahead for the country here's a quick look. there is debt on america's balance sheet that they're counting as an asset as their net worth america if the economy the discrepancy comes when you say america is the world's superpower in the world's wealthiest countries because they include on the balance sheet the debt but the debt is no longer serviceable and once you write that debt off which is bernanke is only choice at this point then you go from being in the first world to being in the fifth sixth or seventh world forget being in the second or third world america is going down to the bottom of the heap but that happens to empires those.

also take a look at some other stories from around the world and the last u.s. combat troops have laughed iraq nearly two weeks out of scheduled a planned withdrawal deadline have been set at august thirty first over fifty thousand troops are to remain in the country through twenty women to advise iraqi forces and protect u.s. interests. in pakistan many of those in need of vital supplies following the devastating floods aid isn't reaching down international donors have pledged millions of dollars more to help the country following criticism from relieved groups that their response to the disaster has been too slow floodwaters are still at their peak levels in some places hampering aid work pakistani officials say sixty thousand troops have been tasked with helping the effort you're watching r.t.m. we continue exploring russia's varied regions in our close up series it's an in-depth and personal view on the everyday lives of local people and the history of the

country. and today we are in the northwest of russia in their hunger once the country's only seaport recognizes the capital of northern russia it has everything from ship building to diamonds we sent test our cilia to explore all the appealing sides of this region. where now with the north of russia and out how goes region 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 city trade 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 a hero's bird was found at sea trade was made from here to st petersburg about

honduras lost its importance now today of congo's may no longer hold the titles it once did but it is still able to make glorious history as well as thriving traits in shipbuilding and lumber as well as a budding diamond industry take a look thanks to its waterways one hundred 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 shops 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 in a way over the suv it government radically become the number of defense contracts and the plants output phone they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. as well you know dining putting was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct to the city of the diamond fueled looked attractive. that diamond field is the mine named after the local scientists and poets. back in the seventeenth century he said that there were diamonds in the region but the gems weren't found until much later this big open did 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 amid 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 a needle in a haystack in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds. it's produced transparent. gems here we are intensely colored diamonds green even pink. this side right here is one hundred metres deep and it produces about half a million carrots worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they want to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where the a lot more of that precious many women call their best friend. but before anyone could even see a single spark a long process has to be gone through and what you get are real gems jewelers as

well as women from all over the world. 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 thank you very much for joining us now could you briefly tell us how do you value the economy of. the pike. sector for the oil and gas market are companies excited about the future developments and they are congos creatures and we greatly look forward to working with our russian partners what do you see. as a competitive advantage. is strategically placed for the arctic circle the ports are open all year round so 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 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. reporting there and it's time now for business of data. to business russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year who have a recent decline in industrial output has raised doubts about the strength of the recovery the drought and heat have been partially to blame but economists warn some of the problems wrong deeper than that michael kraft and carports. 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 job would suggest this segment of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that that economy russian economy is likely to slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess the saw down of the manufacture of a batch of this but in line with that that. would have meant that the pace of natural the coverage was slow because of the feeling the base effect of something like this but also a system like nation of investment demand or other 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 this growth in

lending that we started to see a couple of months ago it could be undercut. by this. stagnation. and from simple reforms 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 best 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 go business r.t. . now a new report says russia shouldn't count on the returns of pre-crisis growth rates of seven percent the author of that report alexander morals of chief economist of

h.s.b.c. bank here in moscow joins me now alexander why such pessimism and how much will the economy grow. well i would not call this pessimism i would call this several ism and what i would the reasons to believe that after a storm rebound after a crisis because moment will slow down first of all there are already signs but that's happened in the us with production data shows it was clearly yes that this publication of investment fix investment data also going to invent direction but for a more fundamental factors that would not allow russian economy to go as fast as before i want to elicit showed that in the past of a key drivers russian economic growth was a very common interest and strong rise in the commodity prices prices is number one and secondly was a strong inflow of capital into the russian economy through russian companies borrowing and also full of foreign investors invest in russian assets equities bones etc now looking forward for prospects so for

a slow while global economic growth we should not rely on capital inflows it will be happening of course but not the full extent of the past as far as commodity prices is concerned also volatile is not as benign as before probably if you see some ma price rise of four prices will not be as high as before where for so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hiking i'm a girl from the possible not to walk in the mall so where could the growth come from well then to grow should come from the mastic sources the message arrives and the truck but here goes the problems because compared to exports drivers actually drove foster cover after the crisis domestic demand drivers are not as strong there for it will be released the expects growth will be accelerate that will still be growth because i'm still be growing doubts with both will be according to our wisdom is between two and four percent for the next few years it's only in the long looked on once russia hopefully successfully addresses structural

problems institutional problems and the improvements completed the business invent . we should see growth for exhilaration to a bar four percent of the children's lives potential for example the double dip recession well if over global economy or at least the key global economies do not have a double dip with dollars russia would have double dip provided the prices they way are there for russia as a part of a global economy in that respect but definitely as far as i'm docile productions. are built for we'll see slower growth going forward compared to overall economic growth g.d.p. but the bank deposits are at an all time high here in russia do you see inflation consequence this well not necessarily in the society from the poles it's about definitely i am very much concern to fetter high growth of money supply in russia stemming from some of the been found in the budget deficits and also simply going

to play shows on effects markets. have money supply growth as high as expect inflation acceleration because of a year round and that is comes on top of what is happening due respect to prices and we have good reasons to believe there's a model farm inflation in the money supply that inflation may reach a double digits again next year for at least president medvedev keeps the mail seeing these anti corruption move motivation drives do you see them over bearing fruit well my problem problem is not so much. i'm going to hop on. the wrong but hollow is going to be implemented and over all the should get. support from the overall society for peace initiatives i believe is going to take a much more time than. policymakers. so are only in vienna and i believe from

the three five year time horizon the expense is going to fall a see if what's good about consistently going to. those of the foods are interesting to talk to alexander rules of h.s.b.c. bank thank you. so we've got time for this so you can find most stories on our website ulti dot com slash business. wealthy british style. time to. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure the no holds barred.