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the soviet space program saw a pair of dogs become the first living things to survive orbital flight. also its russian first seaport and one of the country's diamond centers are chinese close up team visits the multi-faceted northern city of our congress. it's three pm in moscow and this is archie coming to you live with me nice to now a thanks for being with us first this hour human rights groups are raising the alarm over india turning into a global hotspot for drugs trials they claim international pharmaceutical companies are experimenting on patients in some cases without consent they also say many of those who sign up don't understand the risks well statistics from india's health
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ministry show the number of deaths related to clinical trials has risen over the last two years during the first six months of this year nearly five hundred died more than the combined total for two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight archie's current thing 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 and maybe 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 after noon at night but i haven't got any. rash or a cap that they can test any medication they like on. allegations have surfaced in
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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
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of what's being administered to them and they are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials already through pool they don't even know details of the drug or that it is a drug trial this is unethical to replace. without proper consent without. taking part in a drugs trial it is both an ethical and a legal. patients 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. the cheek ministry happy with it. there are regulations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up. hospitals to ensure safety but these are often used by doctor to simply rubber stamp trials so. the ethics committee has the important
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responsibility of monitoring drug trials but it's a very out of 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 institution here with over one thousand three hundred drug trials currently being conducted in india this industry is 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. here with our live from moscow still ahead for you they think. they came. to leave after spending four days in russia to the nation by ability
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to host the world cup details ahead. this hour right here is one hundred meters deep and it produces about how a million pairs 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 of that. many women called their best find out how the city of our congress home to russia's first shipyard turned into a diamond hotspot and artie's close some serious. stopping terrorist and stemming the flow of drugs that was what was agreed upon it was a summit of central asian countries president dmitry medvedev hosted the meeting in the russian city of sochi with the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan from a white house drugs policy spokesman robert wiener thinks if you watch has failed in afghanistan mainly because wiping out drugs is not part of their mission could the u.s. military regrettably has determined that
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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
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millions throughout asia and europe. america's only option in afghanistan is to withdraw all its troops so a soviet afghan war veteran of the full interview was coming up next hour but here is a preview. you should so motivational but. 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 u.s. is facing a philosophical problem spent nine years there by december two thousand and ten 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
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worse i'm deeply convinced that barack obama should do the same thing as we do with afghanistan there is no other way. now they say every dog has its day but for two dogs in the soviet union it was a day that watched them literally to international fame its fifty years and to go were sent into orbit and returned safely a day later becoming the first living thing to survive such a flight well that paved the way for the first man in space eight months later r.t. is cutting us our of our looks back. just. became the first ever human in our space. return i don't know if the first space. before manned space
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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 also 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 a lab assistant and the girls name these two dogs and mark they liked the sound of those names but then our boss found out and he was not impressed he criticised us
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for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so we changed them and that's how they became famous and. 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 believe in between 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 ferns a means 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 joint leap for mankind you could see that belka was more educated and that the dogs
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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 nasa needs young and old alike and then museum where they're just played is proud to tell their story again and again catherine as our of our r.t.e. . we've got plenty more space at our website dot com long god for an out of this world walk by a russian cosmonaut was the first step to the stars find out what it took to prepare their rather first race flight and helped take man. down and around a statue of the balsamic leader has been erected in the country's south part of a series of tribute to twentieth century theaters.
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if. tighter security measures remain in force in moscow after tuesday's terror attack in russia's north caucasus police have evacuated moscow city court after an anonymous apparent tip off that a bomb had been planted in the building which is now being searched this follows two bomb threats on wednesday explosives were said to have been planted in a business center and near an apartment block but none were found the fear of possible attacks was raised after tuesday's car bombing in the city of kufa gorst in the caucasus from thirty people were injured police are now hunting for the man who left the car outside a busy cafe investigators believe notorious chechen militants who are said to have links to al qaeda may have most to mind the bombing. russia's been going all out to
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win the football world cup bid for twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two inspectors from the games governing body fifa have wrapped up their tour across the country assessing whether it should be chosen to host the tournament. reports from moscow out of the airport for where the officials have just left now russia waits to see if its bid was strong enough to woo the inspectors now for four days the committee toured russia and four of the thirteen cities slated to host the world cup games in those cities include state petersburg moscow clothes on and sochi which is poised to be the host of the winter twenty fourteen olympic games and they did all this to make sure the russian is in fact ready to host a world cup game now on thursday here airport the lead investigator along with the ministers met with the press before the inspectors left town and prime minister putin promised that all available all funds would be available and
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that all projects would be done on time believed and specter said that he was very impressed by what he called an excellent trip and that he said that russia's bid committee. he was very forthcoming and gave them all the nation that they would need to make a fair to say shit now football is russia's number one sport and fun fans feel pretty good about its chances of being able to host a world cup including a legendary soviet goalie. we have successfully staged events that proves we can host this world cup we've already held in one thousand nine hundred limpy games and the champions league final which everyone was happy with and the fact that we won the bid for the sochi olympics also proves that we are able to host any big sports event. that's the visa heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to zurich to make its bio decision december second. look at some world news in brief for you this hour while the last u.s.
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combat troops have left iraq nearly two weeks ahead of schedule the planned withdrawal deadline have been set of august thirty first fifty thousand troops are to remain in the country through twenty eleven to advise iraqi forces and protect u.s. interest. in pakistan many of those in need of vital supplies following the devastating floods isn't reaching bam international donors have pledged millions of dollars more to help the country following criticism from relief groups that the 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. now we continue exploring russia's varied regions and our close up series it's an in-depth and personal view on the everyday life of local people and the history of the country.
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today we're in the northwest of russia in the our region one of the country's only seaport was once rather one of the country's only seaports it's recognized as the capital of northern russia and has everything from ship building to diamonds we sent tess our cilla to explore. well now with the north of russia and the 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 sea 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 it was found at sea trade was made from here to st petersburg at a loss its importance now today may no longer hold the titles it once did but it is
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still going to make a 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 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
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whenever the suv hit government radically cup the number of defense contracts and the plant's output foam 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 city of the diamond field looked attractive. that diamond field is the element to solve mine named after the local scientists and pull with me to solve 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 the 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
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conditions are so complicated. their work is like looking for needles in a haystack in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds. deposits produce transparent or barely colored gemstones here we find them intensely colored dorman's green yellow even pink and blue. 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 get even see a single sparkle a long process has to be gone through and what you get are rare gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it. they're reporting from the our
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region we're going to take a short break here on our team star that will be here with the latest from the world of business there with us. great for the. we've got. the biggest issues get voiced face to face with the news maker. hello welcome to the business program hey on a russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year but a recent foreign industrial output has raised doubts the strength of the recovery
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the johnson hated being partly to blame but experts warn the problems run deeper. 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 drop would suggest the sigman of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that the 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 production is back in line with that that. would have meant that the pace of that for the government was not because of the feeling low base effect the some technical factors but also persistent nation of investment demand there are 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
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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 some of the forms 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 continued to grow more quickly than expected as the recent data indicates then
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there is little prospect of the wider russian economy suffering a double dip recession even if industrial output temporarily stalls michael christian business r.t. . and a new report from a just b.c. bank says russia won't return to pre-crisis growth rates in the near future the author of that report alexander morals of chief economist of c.i.s. region explains why first of all there are already a science but that's happened in industrial production data shows it was clearly yes that is publication of the investment fix investment data also going to embed direction but for a more fundamental factors that would not allow the russian economy to grow as fast as before i want to elicit showed that in the past of a key drivers russian economic growth was a very but one in tried is and strong rise in the commodity prices prices is number one and secondly it was a strong inflow of pepitone into the russian economy through russian companies
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borrowing also for foreign investors invest in russian assets with these phones etc now looking forward to full prospects of a slow well global economic growth we should not rely much on capital inflows it will be happening of course but so not the extent because in the past as far as commodity prices is concerned also volatile is not as benign as before probably if you see some up rise rise of for all prices will not be as high as before very for so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hiking on the growth and the possible model to work in many more. tom look at the markets now on europe's continuing yesterday's try the world's number two you make a whole can fell more than three percent in the swiss exchange after invading a big drop in second quarter net but as that you are so merging markets business is growing we can european uptake remains said other construction stocks down shedding in frankfurt near the russian markets a point six percent higher in the afternoon trade and if you start problem the new
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poor are driving those gains off the points of light sweet age two hundred seventy six dollars a barrel for us put on almost four percent is the whole john it rebuilds its largest mine often exploration. foreign direct investment into russia's fall and eleven percent of the first home for this year according to statistics agency. fell from six point two to five point four four billion dollars overall foreign investment into the country will face that. and retail sales in russia acceleration july despite the heat wave they rose a bigger than expected six point six percent year on year figures showing since november two thousand and eight the sold and should go post double digit growth in the month before cereals and also varies. now russia's worst drought in fifty years could force the country to become a grain importer last year russia was the third largest exporter in the world but now may have to buy up to five million tons by the end of next year and it seems
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the current harvest will even be worse than expected citing government figures you know groups of acorn says the grain quote will be down at least a third on last year and will not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below russia's annual domestic consumption of seventy five million tons a moscow city is feeling the pinch of the cost of gray went up forty five percent in august and that has now stopped buying any further supplies until prices stabilize. not so late you always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com business.
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