all. guinea pig nation human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giants of using the people of india house founder for drug task often without consent.

personal concern president medvedev visits victims of tuesday's car bombing in southern russia and promises quick punishment for those behind the lines. 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. also a trip to russia's first seaport and a diamond hotspot artie's close up team visits the northern city of congo. it's seven pm in moscow when this is coming to you live with me a new some now way first stop the world's pharmaceutical giant stands accused of using people in india as guinea pigs for their new medical products sometimes even without their 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 condom 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 back on. the rash or

account they can test any medication they like only. allegations have surfaced in the media that the hospital conducts illegal drug trials on patients police are investigating the complaint the hospital official say any trials are being conducted in accordance with government guidelines india is fast becoming a global hot spot for testing new drugs with two million people estimated to be taking part in clinical trials routes without their consent caught in this kind of year drug trials are increasing here because they cost just one sixth of what they do in the west the regulatory system here is comparatively corrupt inform the companies can easily register patients and begin trials he developed countries it would take six months to register five patients whereas in india in the same time they could conduct trials on two thousand people. giving informed consent to be part of an experiment is the golden rule of all clinical trials but many patients

here sign on the dotted line without understanding the nature and the consequences of what's being administered to them and they are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials are really through pool they don't even know details of the drug that it is a drug trial this is unethical to repay she. without proper consent without. taking part in a drugs trial it is both an ethical and a legal. patient sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than 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. the treatment 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 when. the ethics committee has the important responsibility of monitoring drug trials it's a very ad hoc system that is misused for instance a medical institution far women by gives permission for a drug trial in cities like indoor popal and jubal poor how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city just to put a drug trials in institute here. with over one thousand three hundred drug trials going to have been conducted in india this industry's 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 r.t. . live from moscow here with r.t. coming your way. are foreign powers shaping the agenda of the us media or even

us policy in the middle east the answers come in just a few minutes. they came to stalin out the if the inspectors leave moscow after spending four days in russia to determine an age by ability to host the world cup details ahead. those responsible for tuesday's car bombing in southern russia will be found and killed should they attempt to resist arrest that's the message of the russian president who's in the blast hit city of people to go to meet the local authorities. it was good 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 talking will be punished. after discussing security measures in advance of visited victims of the blast fifteen of the thirty people injured in the terror attack remain in local hospitals it was

a leader has pledged to provide additional medical equipment wherever it's needed for the investigation into the plane crash which killed president lech kaczynski and ninety other top polish officials could lead to a criminal prosecution that's according to poland's chief military prosecutor he did not say who exactly is likely to face legal action moscow has handed over new documents to the polish team looking into the disaster as well as video footage taken near the crash site immediately after. information taken from post-mortem examination to the next a check of the airplane came down in russia to my down screeching and it carried a delegation to the memorial service to mark the massacre of polish officers during world war two. now files declassified in america have revealed covert republican relations and lobbying activities of israel in the us the national archives made the documents public following a senate investigation they suggest israel has been trying to shape media coverage

of issues it regards as important you can download these files from the website of the institute for research on middle eastern policy and we can now cross to washington and talk to grant of smith who is the director of this institute thank you for joining us mr smith i'd like to begin by asking you what exactly do these files reveal. these files are from a sealed senate investigation which was the result of the senate foreign relations committee as the u.s. department of justice looking into groups that brought thirty six million dollars into the u.s. to plant stories in the us media and promote israeli foreign policy objectives in the united states they're extremely relevant because they revealed for example of vast effort to divert us attention from the israeli dimona nuclear weapons facility by saying it was merely

a research center they carefully tracked how that story was playing in the us media and they also were using outlets such as the atlantic magazine funneling fifty thousand dollars into that magazine in a major effort to disrupt the u.s. peace proposal which would have involved bringing some palestinian refugees and allowing them to return to their homes and properties in israel the interesting thing about these go ahead i'm just going to say what about that the media on their side how susceptible are they to israeli lobbying. well this reveals sensually that major us publications that were on the receiving end of the thirty six million dollars. really fell into line for a whole host of initiatives now the senate investigation was a failure and they essentially heavily censored the senate transcript

and then put all of these extremely damning files into sealed records for years and years so that nobody could really see what was going on and unfortunately the groups that were involved in this they were ultimately forced to register as foreign agents and disclose their activities they simply transferred all of these activities into a group called the american israel public affairs committee so it's extremely in lightning for americans to see how media influence functions by looking at internal documents from this investigation well it also makes you ask how much will americans really see if the u.s. media is tell effected by these lobbyists now well yeah that's exactly the case because once again you know we're we're replaying history now instead of trying to divert attention away from nuclear weapons in the middle east a magazine again the atlantic is on the forefront of an apac drive to get the

united states to attack iran nuclear facilities again now under the pretext of their nuclear weapons sites for the united states it's extremely important for people to see this media influence and the mechanics of it because over the passage of time this is only gotten worse what does this suggest about u.s. policy in the middle east is it being shaped around the interest of israel as you see it. well we've done a lot of work over the years obtaining documents about israeli policy initiatives in the united states and the documentary record suggests the heavy influence on the parts of israeli politicians and various parastatal groups that work tightly with israel without disclosing those relationships and

they have successfully built a campaign financing system in the united states that's extremely effective at pushing israeli objectives by withholding or dispersing campaign funding to u.s. politicians so there is a high degree of control that's in place but firm for your average american it's almost completely hidden interesting stuff grant of smith director of the institute for research on middle eastern policy thank you very much for your time thank you. you know with are coming your way a day for diamonds. this side right here is one hundred meters deep and it produces about how well 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 there's a lot more of that person so many women call their best friends. and they

say every dog has its day and for two dogs in the soviet union very day saw them launched literally 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. making sixty one of the entire world watch just one man. then became the first ever human in outer space one of the first things he said upon his return was i don't know if i'm the first man in space or the last dog 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 sputnik five. the most important criteria was the dog's size there was only that much space aboard the spacecraft dogs are much better tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable their caracter their physical condition all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers bill can still be really were under different names like. the dogs got named by our lab assistance on the girl's 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 criticized us for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so he 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. fluffy and another kennedy dog called charlie they in turn had puppies which the u.s. president jokingly referred to as pop nicks man's best friend became not only a link between two friendlies of the cold war dogs were also the guarantee scientists needed to safely send a man following in their pop prince. nobody knew you see whether a living organism could survive in space our body would react to those conditions which is why build were the first giant leap for mankind you could see that belka was more educated and that the dogs were at times uncomfortable but they made it safely home and scientists knew that it was man's turn to reach for the stars. during 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 catherine as our of our r.t.e. . russia's chances of holding the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two football world cup are now in the hands of fifa inspectors who have wrapped up their visit to the country are. reports. for four days the committee toured russia and four of the third slated to host the world cup games in those cities include. 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 . back ready to host a world cup. airport. along with the. met with the press. and prime minister putin promised that

all available would be available and that all projects would be done on the lead and specter said that he was very impressed by what he called and. was very forthcoming and gave them all the nation that they would need to make. now football is russia's number one sport. pretty good about its chances of being able to host a world cup including a legendary soviet goalie. 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 are able to host. heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to make its final decision. let's take

a look at some world news in brief for you this hour fresh clashes between muslims and police have a right to an indian controlled kashmir or even twenty people injured the violence follows the death of a nine year old boy who was hit by a stray bullet last weekend fifty nine protesters on bystanders have been killed by security forces. we're in two months of tension in the disputed province of. carriage of a passenger train that's fallen into a river in china the accident how to national floods have destroyed a bridge no casualties have been reported recent storms and heavy rain in china have left hundreds dead and. 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 history of the country.

and today we're in the northwest of russia in the are hungry the country's first seaport back in the seventeenth century recognized as a regional capital it now has everything from ship buildings to diamonds we sent to us are still to explore. we're now in the north of russia and the 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 seen off whoever wants to heaters where 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 still going to be

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 or whenever the suv hit government radical because the number of defense contracts

and the plant's output foam they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. where you are designing cutting was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct vicinity of the diamond fueled looked attractive. back in the seventeenth century he said that there were diamonds in the region but the gems weren't found until much later this open did nine hundred eighty two and the first diamond was extracted just five years ago. and springs. kilometer long. 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. produced transparent. even. this side right here is one hundred meters deep and it produces about half a million cars 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 many women call their best friends. but before anyone could even see a single. long to be gone through. and you get. jewelers and women from all over the world.

and if you do see it. here on business there are a number of. come a long way from. port and it will continue to shape itself as more industries develop in this region. next in our business today with charlotte. thank you. and i welcome to the business program hey on oxy russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year but a recent fall in industrial output has raised doubts about the strength of recovery the jobs in haiti have been partly to blame. 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 the west which would be a third successive general would suggest this sigman of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that bad economy russian economy is legit to slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess this slowdown of the manufacture of a batch of this but leave him alive without that was. made up at that pace and that's how the coverage was not because of the feeling the base effect was a technical factors but also a systemic mission of investment demand or other reversal of the fiscal stimulus the weak demand for russian made goods can partly be attributed to the increase in the value of the ruble since the beginning of the year this is made products for export more expensive while handing foreign goods sold here a price advantage moreover the economist warned that any sickness in manufacturing could start to infect other parts of the economy the 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. in front of goal. 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 industrial and. it would temporarily store michael her chink of business r.t. and a new report from agents b.c.

banks says russia won't return pre-crisis growth rates in the near future the author 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 is clearly yes that is publication of the investment picks 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 prominent rise and strong rise in the commodity prices prices is number one and secondly was a stall in floor pepitone into the russian economy for russian companies borrowing also for foreign investors invest in russian assets that is. now looking forward to it will prosper so for slow will global economic growth we should not rely on our capital inflows it will be happening of course bazza not the full extent of the

past as far as what due process is concerned also while it's not as benign as before probably you could see some more price rises for all prices will not be as high as before where for so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hiking on the growth and the possible model walk in many more. now russia's markets closed in the red all to a volatile and day or a little raised earlier phone says of the u.s. jobless claims rose more than expected last week during concern about the pace of the global recovery fertilizer company or accounting for the money the biggest losers in the my sex is in the news all the talk of a possible merger will still be in it now low trading volumes are contributing to the volatility on the markets david buick a b g c partners explains. all the studies very very worst in europe the volume markets around europe are absolutely derisory and frankly dealers such as are in london frankfurt and paris are running

around like headless chickens responding to good and bad news so falls out really we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. and this is really boy the market now in other news russia's worst drought in fifty years could force the country to become a grain importer russia was the third largest exporter in the world but now may have to buy up to five million tons by the end of the year and it seems the current harvest will be even worse than expected sizing government figures the analysis group so we call says the grain crop we down at least a third on last year will not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below russia's annual domestic consumption of seventy five million tons moscow city stating that pension is the cost of grain went up forty five percent in august has now stopped buying any further supplies until prices stabilize. that's the latest

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