big nation human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giant using the people of india as fodder for drug task often without consent. struggling

for a place critics say president obama's new public accounting long could leave millions of low income americans with nowhere to live and enrich private companies. the true pioneers it took years to dogs from the soviet union became the first living things to survive space travel paving the way for future exploration. also a trip to russia's first seaport and diamond tons of archers close a team visit the northern city of art from. its five pm in moscow and this is r t coming to you live and he said no way and this is our top story 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 not know who do know what's happening often don't get a full explanation of the dangers they face statistics from india's health ministry show the number of deaths linked to critic clinical trials rather 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 archie'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 imo it. count 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 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 and former 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 can 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. patients in without proper consent without informing them that taking part in a drugs trial is both an ethical and illegal. patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than none at all but agreed to let her child be treated with a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. to cheat an interest free 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 poor how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city to 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 god and seeing are to india. life in the russian capital

year with r.t. and still to come for you this hour. they came this hour now feed the inspectors leave after spending four days in russia to disarm a nation by belittling to host the world cup details ahead. responsible for tuesday's car bombing in southern russia will be found and killed so they attempt to resist arrest that is the message of the russian president who is in the blast hit city of course to meet the local authorities. you know so i am sure you will do the utmost to help those injured in the blast that you will provide them with all necessary treatment what about the manhunt for the perpetrators the orders have been given the investigation will go ahead and i am sure those responsible for the attack will be punished. but after discussing security measures meant we had to visited victims of the blast fifteen of the thirty people injured in the terror attack remain in local hospitals the russian leader has pledged to provide additional medical equipment wherever it's needed. now they say every dog has its

day and for two dogs in the soviet union barrack day saw them was literally into international fame half a century ago belka and straka 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. but it makes little sense to. watch just one bad. then became the first ever human in our space one of the first things he said upon his return was i don't know if the first space or the last before manned space yielded to man's best friend at least fifty seven dogs were sent into orbit by the. 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 stay as they really were under different names. the dogs got named by our lab assistance on the girl's 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. an

international room and believed to be too fluffy and another kid called charlie they in turn had puppies which the u.s. president jokingly referred to as public's 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 following 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 constraint were the first giant leap for mankind you could see that belka was more agitated and that the dogs worry times uncomfortable but they made it safely home and scientists knew that it was man's turn to reach for the stars. be doing 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 there displayed is proud to

tell their story again and again catherine as our of our t.v. moscow. that's coming up to ten minutes past the hour you're with our two year of course that coming your way a day for diamonds 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 plan 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. chances of holding the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two football world are now in the hands of fifa inspectors wrapped up their visit to the contrary are to thank you bevins has been following their progress and now reports from domodedovo airport. 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 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 at the airport the. investigator along with the minister 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 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 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 in one thousand 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 the exports of. the fisa heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to zurich to make its final decision december second. the u.s. administration is seeking advice from the country's financial elite on the future of housing policy the gov 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 feared the proposed plan to hand the system over to the private sector would deprive the country's poor of the right for affordable homes. in the united states of america land of opportunities 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 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 tazz 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 leaving where thirty thousand people scrambled 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. the. washington d.c. 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 stand they see an extreme shortage of housing affordable to people who don't have a lot of wine 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 dawna tally of donna tele development a close friend and financial donor of mayor fenty he told me the 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 tale of two very different

narratives reflecting the future of struggling americans in peril office are to washington d.c. . let's take a look now at some other stories dominating world news this thursday the last u.s. combat brigade is leaving iraq two weeks ahead of the official exit date leaving another six thousand troops to withdrawal by the end of the month however a fifty thousand strong american military contingent will remain in the country for support in training until the end of twenty eleven they'll have the power to use their weapons in self defense were at the request of the iraqi government during the seven your presence in iraq more than four thousand u.s. soldiers died according to figures from the pentagon. at least thirty eight people have been killed and thirty seven injured when a crowded truck fell off a mountain into a gorge in northern india eight people remain in critical condition at least in villagers use ropes and pulleys to rescue the injured and retrieve the vehicle the

truck was carrying people home from the party. seven people have been killed and fourteen injured in a deadly blast in china seen saying region a government official says a man drove a vehicle carrying explosives into a crowd before the bomb detonated police confirm a wig or man has been arrested following the incident last year ethnic violence flared up in the eastern province between we've got a muslim separatist and the chinese han majority. forty people have been injured have a phone ring in spain after a bone left over the front of the pack stand that is five victims including a ten year old boy were taken to hospital with other suffering minor injuries that reportedly took fifteen minutes to bring the furious animal under control before it was killed officials say incidents of this type are extremely rare. now we continue our close up series where we bring into focus russia's diverse

regions including some fairly hard to reach places argues team gets an in-depth and personal insight on the everyday lives of local people and the history of the. three. and today we're in the northwest of russia in the our convos krege and 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've sent test to our seller to explore. well now with the north of russia and the 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 syria 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 water 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 hyundai also lost its importance now today of hundreds may no longer hold the title as it once did but it is still home to a 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 radically cut the number of defense contracts and the plant's output phil 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 to the city of the diamond field looked attractive. that diamond field is the law manasseh of mine named after the local scientists and poet. 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 thousand 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 or barely colored gemstones here we find intensely colored diamonds 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 there's a lot more of that precious stone many women call their best friends. but

before anyone could even see a single sparkle 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 oh hang girls 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 do. well up in this region. business news is next with the start of it stay with us. and i welcome to the business program here on r.t. russia's economy is rebounding considerably since the beginning of the year but the recent fall industrial output does raise doubts about the strength of recovery the

drought and hate of the pauli 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 jop would suggest this segment of the economy is slowly falling back into session we do expect that the russian economy is likely to slow considerably in the second half of these year so i guess so down on the manufacture of production this but in line with the. idea that the pace of that or the cover of the snow because of the faith based effect for something like this battle for a system like nation of investment in 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 growth performance and that's as 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 in dust. output temporarily stalls michael business . times look at the markets now on european shares the flip is negative territory off to u.s. stock futures the fall and that comes as claims for unemployment benefits and risen has risen unexpectedly swifts in memphis. reporting continued weakness in european markets. and here in russia the markets are dropping you know. bring in the black. problem you for driving gains off the price of life we haven't just picked out of the barrel prescott's guys put on my school percent as the culture reveals the largest mine expenditure. now for a closer look at what's happening on the markets i'm joined live from london by david buick g c partners hello dave thank you very much for joining us today now

there seems to be some instability in the markets today with russia trying to hire on ages range now the global markets seem to be so how would you describe the sentiment today. i think basically this is all good studies very very western europe the volumes in all markets around europe are absolutely derisory and frankly the deal is such as are in london frankfurt and paris are running around like headless chickens responding to good and bad news as it so falls out. we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. this is really boy the markets because the level of economic data that we've had this friendship is very disappointing we headed into negative territory after a bright headline this morning then had to spike upgrade of g.d.p. from germany up to one from one point nine percent to three percent and all three major european bourses responded positively on that but the level of activity was

terribly terribly quat and as you so rightly eluded to the fact that he was futures dropped off about officer. just after. initial claims so this is what's happening in just responding according to the news as it comes out the last three or four days we've had plenty. of calls to sonoma speed of nearly forty billion dollars. you know. and it's going to be really a serious battle way down to the will do all the chief executive officer of potash has said it's absolutely value i've seen the whale for what it is not really when you think about it because just five weeks ago potash was at eighty five dollars a share of one hundred eleven on monday and we're now approaching towards one hundred fifty today i think there is probably ruge room for marius kloppers to improve the bids but there will be probably plenty of other predators and i suspect

they won't be mining companies a lot of people to put rio into the frame but i think it's much more likely to be. maybe a chinese operation that would come in to the bids but there again this is a very very clever bid there's no question any doubt about it because there's no question of any doubt about it that we are in a situation where first of all going to grow in value we're going to have a serious shortage over the next twenty five to fifty years and everybody knows that both on the bid and the office side of the bit where we have to work out is where is shareholder value will be and have to borrow too much money to reach that goal of around one hundred fifty to one hundred sixty dollars a share interesting thank you thank you very much analysis that david thank you. in london i'm afraid so we have time for and that's the latest update for you now we can always find all stories on our website.

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