so. let's see. guinea pig nation human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giants of using the people of india as fodder for drug tests often without consent.

struggling for a place to call home critics say president obama's new public housing law could leave millions of low income americans with nowhere to live and in rich private companies. the true high in the years since fifteen years since two 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 the diamond hotspot artie's closer to visit the northern city of our rights. coming up in the business updates a new report says russia won't return to pre-crisis rights rights to news feature find out why in about twenty minutes time.

or welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is archie with me and use the now way it's six pm here in the russian capital ten am in washington but first this hour 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 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 scott unsing 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 front of

our hospital in indoor the north has been taking pills for the last six months on the advice of his doctor he suspects these 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 of the noon at night but i haven't got any. rational account they can test any medication they like on the. allegations have surfaced in the media that the hospital conducts illegal drug trials on patients police are investigating the complaint though 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 with or without their consent cothurnus kayakers 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 to introduce the developed countries it would take six months to register the five patients whereas in india in the same time they could conduct shows in 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 are treating indians is guinea pigs the patients being use for trials already through school they don't even knew details of the drug that it is a drug trial this is an ethical. to rape patients even without proper consent without informing them and taking part in a drugs trial is both an ethical and a legal and illegal patient 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 out of achievement to screen sound happy with. their obligations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up takes committees and hospitals to ensure patient safety but these are often used by doctors to simply rubber stamp trials so many patients the ethics committee has the important responsibility of monitoring drug trials that it's a very ad hoc system that is misused for instance a medical institute requiring women by gives permission for a drug trial in cities like indoor popal and a general poor how can you use permission from an ethical community of another institute in another city just to find drug trials in an institute near. here with over one thousand three hundred drug trials coming 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 got unseeing r.t. india. those responsible for tuesday's car bombing in southern russia will be found and killed today attempt to resist arrest that's the message of russian president who's in the blast hit city of have to go to meet the local factions. so the words 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 looters have been given the investigation will go ahead tonight i'm sure those responsible for the talking will be able to use to leave. well after discussing security measures needed to visited victims of the blast fifteen of the thirty people injured in the terror attack remain in the local hospital the russian leader has pledged to provide additional medical equipment wherever it's. like from

the russian capital here with r t still to come for you this hour. take a based on alfie if inspectors leave moscow after spending four days in russia just terminations by village to host the world cup details ahead. well a russian professor has received the highest international award in mathematics for proving a one hundred ten year old theory center was rewarded for his work in statistical physics which deals with the behavior of atoms and molecules he was born in st petersburg and is currently working at the university of geneva his achievement was acknowledged by the international mathematics congress as worthy of the fields medal often called the noble prize of mathematics the previous russian to receive it was the recruiting revolution organ shutters mom also from trained peter's arkwright he were free. now they say every dog has its day and for two dogs in the soviet union their day saw them launched

literally to international fame half a century ago belka anthro 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. just. became the first ever. i don't know. before man 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. criteria was the dog there

was only not much space aboard the spacecraft dogs are much better tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable their character their physical condition all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers as they really were under different names and. the dogs got named assistance and the girls name these two dogs and they liked the sound of those names but then our boss found out and he was not impressed the criticize us for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so we changed them and that's how they became famous. still continued on the ground she had six pups one of which was presented by the then soviet leader nikita khrushchev to j.f.k.'s daughter caroline and international room and believe in between 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 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 could survive in space body would react to those conditions which is why build were the first giant leap for mankind you could see the. more educated and 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 scamps 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. r.t.

. coming your way here on r.t. a day for diamond. this start right here is one hundred meters deep and it produces about how million cars worth of dive each year now this is just the beginning because they want to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and with a lot more of that precious stone many women call their. precious chances of holding the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two football world cup are now in the hands of fifa inspectors who wrapped up their visit to the country are to stacie bivins has been following their progress and reports from moscow's domodedovo airport. it was strong enough to woo. for four days the committee toured russia and four of the thirteen cities slated to host the world cup games in those cities include petersburg moscow comes on and

sochi which is going 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 airport. along with the minister met with the press before the. town and prime minister putin promised that all of all funds would be available and that all projects would be done on time to lead and specter said that he was very impressed by what he called an excellent trip and that he said that the committee was very forthcoming and gave them all the nation that they would need to make a fair now football is russia's number one. fans feel pretty good about its chances of being able to host a world cup including a legendary soviet goalie. 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 olympics also proves that we were able to host. a heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to zurich to make its final decision. us 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 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 congress get the federal government out and just take this private housing three. housing and cravat pass 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 they were converted to private ownership is a way. public housing linda leaks of unpowered d.c.

insists it will lead to desperation like this scene played out in atlanta georgia a big t.v. 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. washington d.c. . he has always been known and perhaps will forever be known as chocolate city the demographics here are predominately african-american and the city was once ridden with drug and gang violence but now the tables have turned and where section eight and public housing once aided desperately in need communities corporate buildings and condos now stand by they see an extreme shortage of housing affordable to people who don't have a lot of money 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 a birthday party fundraiser for him and then coincidentally or not donna tell a receiver to properties on georgia avenue by the metro valued at over one million dollars for for only one dollar this is one of the buildings of christopher donna tullia donna telly development a close friend and financial donor of mayor fenty he told media outlets this building is poor 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 to tale two very different narratives reflecting the future of struggling americans in peril office r t

washington d.c. . look now at some other stories making headlines around the world police have used rubber bullets against protesters on the second day of the nationwide strike of civil servants. demonstrators demanded higher wages with some throwing bricks at least one officer the government has proposed a wage increase. seven percent but workers want and don't mind. the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia has ordered an investigation over the practices of former prosecutors former chief prosecutor carla del ponte and two others are accused of allowing bullying and the bribing of witnesses they deny all charges it comes after complaints from witnesses that their evidence was tampered with during the trial of alleged serbian warlord shed an independent investigator is to report on the allegations within six months. to

a rare white lie and cars have been unveiled to the public at belgrade zoo three were born a week ago although one died five days later those who already has seven white wines and wants to continue breeding them in the future the animals are traditionally believed to be sacred in their native south africa and are often removed from the wild. now we continue our close up series where we bring into focus russia's diverse regions including some fairly hard to reach places or to his 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 art congo's region the country's first seaport back in the seventeenth century recognised as a regional capital it now has everything from ship building to documents we sent

test our cilla to explore. we're now in the north of russia in. 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 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 seen off the other once it was found at sea trade was moved from here to st petersburg at a loss its importance now today may no longer hold the titles it once did but it is still loyal to the glorious history as well as thriving streets in shipbuilding 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 shock 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 into 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 and whenever the suv hit government radically because the number of defense contracts and the plant's output foam they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. that's where you're. heading was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct city of the diamond

fields looked attractive. named 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. in a water. in the middle of the marshland rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long 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 in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds. it's produced transparent.

gems. even. 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 so many women call their best friend. but her anyone can even see a single spark a long process has to be gone through. and what you get. jewelers as well as women from all over the world. today is still important. and if you do see foreigners. here on business. there are a number of foreign companies based in all hung else. has come a long way from being just

a seaport and it will continue to reshape itself as more industries develop in this region. that's are still reporting there from the region business is next with charlotte stay with us. and i welcome to the business program hey on oxy russia's economy has rebounded a considerably since the beginning of the year there's a reason for industrial output has raised doubts about the strength of recovery the jobs in haiti have been partly to blame on 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 sigman of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that bad economy russian economy is legit to the

slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess this slowdown of the manufacture of production is partly in life without. a doubt but that the pace of natural recovering the slower because of the feeling the base effect the some technical factors but also just like nation of investment demand or how 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 economist warn that any sickness in manufacturing could start to infect other parts of the economy banks see that the growth rates are on the 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

. in from zero. and this is i think the bigger concern because then 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 in dust. output temporarily stalls michael could change the business r.t. . and a new report from ages the three bank says rush out won't return to pre-crisis growth rates in the near future the author of that report alexander morales of chief economist for the 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 six investment data also going to invent 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 prominent rise 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 also for foreign investors invest in russian assets equities bones etc now looking forward to it will prosper so for slow will global economic growth we should not rely much on our capital inflows it will be happening of course bazza not the extent because in the past as far as what the process is consumed also while it looks is not as benign as before probably if you see some are priced rise of for all prices will not be as high as before where for so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hike in i'm a growth and the possible model walk in

many more. in time check out the market for now in the u.s. jobs disappointment is weighing heavily on the stocks the labor department has announced that kind of unemployment benefits roman's unfactual three are nearing concerns about the pace of the coverage the dow jones is shedding more than. therapy and she has a feeling a factor also. games twists in memphis the hall of fame has suffered sharp losses offer porting continued weakness in european markets and here in russia the stocks are also dropping as being for any concession but energy stocks gas probably or the helping to steady the loss is often a part of life. with a barrel. full percent as the coal john rebuild from largest mine explosion. now low trading volumes of the volatility on the markets david pyrrhic at b.d.c. partners explains. this is all good studies very very worst in 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 really we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. this is really boy the bulk. now in other news russia's worst drought in fifty years could force the country to become a grain importer last year russia was a fertile exporter in the world but now may have to buy up to five million tons by the end of next year but it seems the current obviously even worse than expected government figures the analysis groups of acorn's says the grain crop at least last year and will not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below the rushes and it was a mistake consumption of seventy five million tons

a moscow city is feeling the pinch as the cost of grain went up forty five percent and all this has now stopped buying any supplies to marx's stabilize. that's the latest update for you can always find all stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.