all. medical victims human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giant of using the people of india as fodder for drug tests often without consent. overseas intervention nearly leaked documents uncovered israel's tense of shaping the us

media agenda and policies in the middle east. the truth is 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 sea port in the diamond hot spot on the t.v. close up to visit the northern city of. live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is. the world's pharmaceutical giant stand accused of using people in india as guinea pigs for their new medical products sometimes even without their consent and 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 of risen over the last few years so in 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. 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. 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 hotspot 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 illiterate and pool they don't even know the 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 care 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. that she meant history 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 to just to find drug trials in 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 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 but unseeing r.t. india. live from the russian capital this is r.t. still to come for you this hour. they came out the inspectors leave after spending four days in russia to determine. to host the world cup details

ahead. but first those responsible for tuesday's car bombing in southern russia will be found and should they attempt to resist arrest killed well that's the message of the russian president to travel to the blast hit city of course after discussing security measures with the local authorities 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. files declassified in america have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of israel in the us and 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 when you can download the files from the website of the institute for research on middle eastern policy and grant f. smith who's a director at that institute in washington explains what's be uncovered. these

files are from a sealed senate investigation which was the result of the senate foreign relations committee and 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 a 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 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 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 a 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 at fact of 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. the investigation into the plane crash which killed president lech kaczynski and ninety other top polish officials could lead to criminal prosecution 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 video footage taken near the crash site immediately after receive information taken from post mortem examinations in the next stage of the probe their plane came down in russia smolensk region in april as it carried a delegation to a memorial service to mark the massacre of polish officers during world war two. coming your way is a dig for. this site right here is one hundred meters deep and it reduces 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 called their best friend. they say every dog has its day and for two dogs in the soviet union their days saw them launched literally to international fame half a century ago and stroker 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 it sixty while the entire world watches just one man this is their. 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 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. and still little arrow fifty years ago after months of strenuous training. they and a bunch of mice rats flies plants and a rabbit sputnik five all. the most important criteria was the dog there was only that much space aboard the spacecraft dogs are much better at tolerating cold temperatures but it wasn't every dog that was acceptable their character their physical condition all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers bill can still get as they really were under different names. the dogs got named systems and the girls name these two dogs and 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 and international room and. fluffy and another 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 whether a living organism could survive in space how a body would react to those conditions which is why belkin were the first giant leap for mankind you could see that belka was more agitated 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 stamps calendars became the

subject of tales and news reports fifty years after their flight their trip thousand eight c.n.n. old alike and the museum where they are 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 twenty twenty two foot ball well in the hands of feet inspectors who wrapped up their visit to the country and. following their progress reports now from moscow. russia waits to see if its bid was strong enough to woo feed 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 lead 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 to 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. we have successfully approves 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. that's the fee for heads to the u.k. and the usa before going to zurich to make its decision december second. we're told now for a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world at the start of the. last u.s. combat brigade is leaving iraq two weeks ahead of the official exit date even another six thousand troops to withdraw by the end of the month over fifty thousand strong american military contingent will remain in the country support and training until the end of twenty eleven to have the power to use their weapons in self defense or at the request of the iraqi government through a seventy of presence in iraq more than four thousand u.s. soldiers die that's according to figures from the pentagon which. countries around the world of finance war humanitarian and financial help for flood devastated pakistan u.n. officials operating in the region say much of the aid delivered so far hasn't reach some parts of the country the u.s.

has pledged an extra one hundred fifty million dollars in asian development bank is to redirect two billion dollars of loans for reconstruction about twenty million people have been affected by the heavy floods. forty people have been injured at a bull ring in spain after a bull leapt over the fence of the packed stern at least five victims including a ten year old boy were taken to hospital with all the suffering minor injuries it reportedly took fifteen minutes to bring the animal under control before it was killed officials say incidents of this type are extremely rare. police abuse rubber bullets against protesters on the second day of a nationwide strike of civil servants in south africa demonstrators demanded higher wages with some bricks of police at least one officer the government has proposed a wage increase of up to seven percent but workers want an extra nine percent. on a world update this hour the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia has ordered investigation over the practices of former prosecutors former chief prosecutor col adel ponty and two

others are accused of allowing bullying and the witnesses they deny all charges and it comes after complaints from witnesses that evidence was tampered with during the trial of alleged serbian warlord shell an independent investigator is to report on the allegations within six months. well we continue our close up series here not here where we bring into focus russia's diverse regions including some fairly hard to reach places well it is team gets an in-depth and personal insight on the everyday life of local people and the history of the country. and today were in the northwest of russia in the region the country's first seaport back in the seventeenth century recognized as a regional capital it now has everything from ship building to diamonds and we sent

to syria to explore. we are now with the north of russia in the out how girls 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 and seen off however when st petersburg was found at sea trade was moved from here to st petersburg at a loss its importance now today on hundreds 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 handles 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 shops 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 it did north during stalin's time but on handles did make a more positive and lasting mark in history when peter the. great found 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 soviet government radically cut the number of defense contracts and the plant's output so they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. where you know dining cutting was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct to the city of the diamond field look to trek

to. that diamond field is the law manasseh of mine named after the local scientists and poets mihailo manasseh of 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 marsh land and it rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long canal to divert the water flow just as these documents were 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. most well deposits produce transparent or barely colored gemstones here we find intensely colored dorman's green yellow even pink

and blue. this side right here is one hundred metres deep and it produces about half a million carrots worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they plan to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where there's a lot more of that precious so many women call. their best friend. but before anyone could even see a single spark a long process has to be gone. and when you get real gems jewelers and women from all over the world. 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. come a long way from being just a seaport and it will continue to reshape itself as more industries develop in this

region. well that brings you up to date for the moment here and just twenty one minutes past the hour in the russian capital business is next with a shot of. hello welcome to the business program hey artie russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year but the reason for an industrial output is raised doubts about the strength of recovery the drought in haiti have been partly to blame the experts warn the problems run deeper chunka 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 worried that a further decline in august which would be a third successive drop would suggest this ignorant of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that the russian economy is likely to

a slow considerably in the second half of these year so i guess they saw a dot over manufacturer production as part of the gain why the. little bit that they pay so that's how the coverage was not because of the failing lower base effect or something hard pressed bottles or this nation of investment demand or the reversal of the discussed in the us 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 the banks see the growth rates are strong they might be more reluctant to give out so there's growth in lending that we started to see a couple of months ago it could be under. this. stagnation

. in forms of growth. and this is i think the bigger concern because then potentially you can have a virtuous circle whereby. slower growth leads to slower lending this in 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 there is little prospect of the wider russian economy suffering a double dip recession even if industrial output temporarily store michael her change of business r.t. and the new report from a just b c bank says russia won't return to pre-crisis growth rates in the near future the author of that report alexander morales of the color with the c.i.s. region explains why. first of all there are already a science fair to scrap an industrial production. was clearly yesterday's

publication of the investment banks investment that are also going to invite direction but for other 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 flow of capital into the russian economy through russian companies borrowing also for foreign investors investment russian assets is. now looking forward to for profit so for slower global economic growth we should not rely on capital inflows it will be happening of course bots are not over the top of the past as far as what due process is concerned also volatile is not as benign as before probably if you see some more price rises for prices will not be as high as before where for so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hike in the

growth and the possible number of walking anymore. now russia's markets closed in the red after a volatile and day oil raised earlier policies of the u.s. jobless claims rose more than expected. sparing concern about the pace of the global recovery in fact lies a company with among the biggest movies on the my sex case in the news also told paul for my view that. now a lot of trading volumes are contributing to the volatility on the markets david theory could be potus explains basically this is all good studies very very western europe the volumes in all markets around europe are absolutely derisory and frankly 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 been a activity and this

is really boy the markets. 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 we have to buy up to five million tons by the end of next year and it seems the current home base will be even worse than expected sizing government figures the analysis group's overcalling says the grain corp we down at least a third on last year or not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below russia the new domestic consumption of seventy five million tonnes city is feeling the pinch as the cost of grain went up forty five percent in august there's now stop buying any further supplies into prices stabilize as latest update for you now but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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