any big nation human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giants of using the people of india as fodder for drug task often with out consent.

struggling for a place to call home critics say president obama's new public housing along could leave millions of low income americans with nowhere to live and in rich private companies. the true pioneers it's fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living things to survive space travel paving the way for future exploration and. also a trip to russia's first seaport and a diamond hotspot artie's closer team visits the northern city are conquered. and coming up in the business updates a new report says russia won't return to its pre-crisis growth rates in the near future find out why in about twenty minutes time.

a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our to you with me a nice and now way first stop the world's pharmaceutical giant stand accused of using people in india as guinea pigs for their new medical products sometimes even without consent human rights groups say those who do know what's happening often don't get a full explanation of the dangers they face while statistics from india's health ministry show the number of deaths linked to clinical trials have risen over the last few 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 artie's consing investigates. any 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. turn around to recount that they can test any medication they like on me. allegations have surfaced in the media that the hospital conducts illegal drug trials on patients police are investigating the complaint the hospital officials 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. 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 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 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 illegal. patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than none at all but has agreed to let her child be treated with

a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. to cheating and history sound happy with it. there are regulations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up takes communities 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 ad hoc system that is misused for instance a medical institute in foreign women by gives permission for a drug trial in cities like indoor pulp all enjoyable tour how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city just to find drug trials in an institute 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 got unseeing are to india. why from the russian capital you're with r.t. still to come for you this hour. they came they stollen out the if inspectors leave after spending four days in russia to determination to host the world cup details ahead. and fifteen of the thirty people injured in tuesday's car bombing in the southern russian city of. local hospitals that's according to the governor of the region who were speaking to president. russian leader travel to categories. to discuss security measures and aid for the blast victims meanwhile authorities have stepped up security across the capital fearing more attacks in the last two days police have responded to several alerts amid reports bombs had been planted in a business center and an apartment block and also at the moscow city court people were evacuated from buildings but no explosives were found. but they say every dog

has its day and for two years dogs in the soviet union their days saw them long literally to international fame half a century ago belka and became the first living creatures to circle the earth and come back alive they prove that humans were able to exist in outer space and pave the way for the first manned mission eight months later. what's just. became the first ever human in our space first thing to 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 travellers 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 at tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable caracter 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. the dogs got named systems on the girl's name these two dogs. 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 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. her fluffy and another kennedy dog 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 part prince. nobody knew you see whether a living organism could survive in space how a body would react to those conditions which is why bill constraint were the first joint leap for mankind you could see that belka was more agitated in that the dog's worry 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

fascinates young and old alike and the museum where they are displayed is proud to tell their story again and again gas units are about r t. coming our way here in our day for diamond. this start 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 of that precious stone many women call their best friend. or a chance of holding the twenty eighteen or the twenty and twenty two football world cop are now in the hands of inspectors wrapped up their visit to the contrary. evidence has been following their progress and reports from. or. russia waits to see if its bid was strong enough to fight 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 say petersburg moscow comes on and sochi which is void 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 at the airport the. investigator along with the minister of sport met with the press before the thief inspectors left town and prime minister putin promised that all available all funds would be available and that all projects would be done on time the lead and specter said that he was very impressed by what he called an excellent trip and that he said that russia's bid committee was very forthcoming and gave them all the information that they would need to make a fair decision 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. and we have successfully staged events that proves we can host this world cup we've already held the games in 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 big sports. next afifa heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to zurich to make its bio decision december second. well u.s. administration is seeking advice from the country's financial elite on the future of housing policy a conference in washington will consider all aspects of the issue with the problem of public housing a hugely important subject for many americans it's fear of the proposed plan to hand the system over to the private sector would deprive the contras poor of the right for affordable homes. in the united states of america land of opportunity but also

a land of two tales one of city's booming with business and politics. the other of a growing wealth divide. as the great recession continues to claim its victims more americans are in need of public housing but public housing or section eight as it's widely known in the us has been drying up over the years the housing and urban development agency estimates nearly sixty million people either live in public housing or on the waiting list for a unit however the obama administration is gearing up to transform the future of public housing this congress out of it let's get the federal government out of it and just take this private housing three million units of housing and cravat tad's it under the obama administration petra the preservation and hansen and transformation of rental assistance act would hand over the public housing system to the private sector to say that we're going to convert it to private

ownership is a way even to me getting rid of public housing linda leeks of unpowered d.c. insists it will lead to desperation like this scene played out in atlanta georgia i am. where thirty thousand people scrambles for public housing applications that would only be guaranteed two thousand one hundred people the best example of what petra would offer public housing is washington d.c. washington d. . he has always been known and perhaps will forever be known as chocolate city the demographics here are predominately african-american and this city was once written with drug and gang violence but now the tables have turned and we're section eight and public housing once aided desperately in need communities corporate buildings and condos now stands. an extreme shortage of housing affordable to people who don't have a lot of mine and it was adrian fenty washington d.c.'s mayor who decided private

owned public housing units would service the city's poor better than what the government could offer pete became the mayor of the. he did fundraisers at the mansion of developer friends for instance donna tele has has hosted a birthday party fundraiser for him and then coincidentally or not donna tell they received two properties on georgia avenue by the metro valued at over a million dollars for for only one dollar this is one of the buildings of christopher don the telly of donna telly development a close friend and financial donor of mayor fenty she told the media outlets this building is for affordable housing that's if you can afford a studio apartment for more than one thousand five hundred dollars a month these are low income and moderate income families that are being abused this way when you look at the wealth divide in d.c. a big part of that is the two cities that exist here to tales two very different

narratives reflecting the future of struggling americans in peril and hospice are to washington d.c. . meanwhile the white house says it's convicted the u.s. a cop convinced rather the u.s. economy is recovering that's right the fact that unemployment rate is still near ten percent and major problems are troubling the real estate sector well from the trends research center says the administration is spinning the story. 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 is businesses had more confidence they would hire more he is a cause that in. why 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 way the 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 are 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 your rotting away your body and that's all this stimulus has been it's been a money drug. now we continue our close up series where we bring into focus russia's diverse regions including some fairly hard to reach places artie's team gets an in-depth and personal insight on the everyday life of local people and the history of the country.

and today we're in the northwest of russia in the our congo the country's first seaport back in the seventeenth century recognized as a regional capital it now has everything from ship building to diamonds we sent tess are still up to explore. 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 it looks ok should it was extremely important in the seventeenth century as russia's first and only sea port 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 seen off however once it has where it was found at sea trade was made from here to st petersburg at a loss its importance now today of honda's may no longer hold the titles it once

did but it is still home to the 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 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 industry zeal to build a 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 it government radical become the number of defense contracts and the plants output phone they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. where you were done including was one of the alternatives to the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct vicinity of the diamond field looked attractive. that diamond field is the law manasseh of 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 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 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 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 barely colored gemstones 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 stone 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 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 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. tess are still reporting there from the our region and that wraps up our main news block now let's check out the latest business with charlotte. thank you. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. russia's economy is rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year but the recent full industrial output has raised doubts about the strength of recovery but jobs and hate have been 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 this segment of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that the russian economy is likely to slow that's over the in the second half of these year so i guess the saw down of the manufacture of production this part in line with the. idea that the pace of that or the cover of the snow because of the faith based effect the something that just rattled the system like nation of investment there 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 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 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 burst 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. . a new report from ages b.c. banks says russia won't return to pre-crisis growth rates in the near future your thought of that report alexander morales of chief economist for the c.i.s. region explains why. first of all there are already a science fair to scrap an industrial production data shows it was clearly yes that is publication of the investment fix investment data also going to invent direction but for a more fundamental factors that would not allow the 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 but one in tried is a strong rise in the commodity prices prices is number one and secondly was a strong inflow of pepitone into the russian economy through russian companies borrowing also for foreign investors investment russian assets with these loans etc now looking forward we have all prospects so far slower global economic growth we

should not rely much on capital inflows it will be happening of course but not the extent of the book lost as far as commodity prices is concerned also while the look 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 four so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hiking on the growth and the possible moby walk in many more. that's reflected markets now european shares turned high on thursday of germany's glinda bank lifted the nation is grateful cast of the strong u.k. retail sales data base with the men produced the whole thing they are there pointing reporting continued weakness in european markets. and here in russia the markets there around twenty six percent higher you know for me and if you start gas probably loop or driving those games off the price of like three eggs or three hundred things that have barrel rough parts guys put on almost four percent as the

coal giant rebuilds its largest my exposure to. a foreign direct investment into russia is four than eleven percent the first time this year according to statistics agency ross does s.d.i. fell from six point two to five point four billion dollars overall foreign investment in the country. they slipped. and retail sales in russia accelerated in july despite the heat wave they rose a bigger than expected six point six percent year on year the biggest showing since november two thousand and eight sales of sold in the sugar posted double digit growth for the month before while flour cereals and paster also rose. 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 the current harvest will be even worse than expected citing government figures the

analysis group's overcall says the grain quote will be down at least a third on last year will not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below the rushes i knew of domestic consumption of seventy five million tonnes cities feeling the pinch as the cost of grain went up forty five percent in august as now stop buying any further supplies until prices stabilize that's the latest there was far more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. all you.

need to know somethin has been to the kaluga recently when the car industry is rapidly developing. known argy goes to the area where the first russian fleet was more. where the indigenous people were the first hard exceeds number given and where russia's glorious history is still visible. welcome young mostly to. russia close up on r t.