right. from the. start. medical victims human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical johnson of using the people of india as for the drug. without consent. overseas intervention documents uncover israel's covertly attempts at shaping the

u.s. 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 in the way for future exploration. also a trip to russia's first seaport in the hot spots all teams close up team visits the northern city of. live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is. pharmaceutical companies are accused of using people in india as guinea pigs to test new drugs without their consent human rights groups say those who do know they are taking part in trials 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 this year the figures have risen to more than the combined total for two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight. investigates. 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 these 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 of the noon at night but i haven't got any. rational 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 cothurnus 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 in 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 already through pool they don't even know details of the drug or that it is a drug trial this is unethical to root. nations in without proper consent without informing them that taking part in a drugs trial is both an ethical and illegal indian patient sometimes signed up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than not 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 the g twenty street sound happy with it. there are regulations 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 i hear 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 popal and jubal poor how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city just to find drug trials in institute here. with over one thousand three hundred drug trials currently 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. and. well we've got plenty coming your way including a long awaited depart show we speak to an antiwar activist about the american pullout from iraq also. they came based on albion inspectors leave after spending four days in russia. to host the world cup details

ahead. foyle's declassified america have revealed covertly public relations and lobbying activities of israel in the us the national archives made the documents public following a senate investigation this is just israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important you can download the files from the website of the institute for research on middle eastern policy granted smith who's a director at that institute in washington explains what's been 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 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. those responsible for tuesday's car bombing in southern russia will be found and should they attempt to resist arrest killed that's the message of the russian president to travel to the blast hit city. after discussing security measures with the local authorities medvedev visited victims of the blast fourteen thirty people injured in the terror attack remain in local hospitals the russian leader has pledged to provide additional medical equipment wherever it's need. this summer's record heat wave in russia has caused an estimated four hundred million dollars of damage to the country's economy that's according to the emergencies minister who said a rethinking of the fire protection system is needed to prevent future disasters official say fifty three people died and three and a half thousand were affected by the wildfires and extreme heat more than one hundred thousand rescue workers and volunteers were tackling forest pass across the

country and managed to save around four thousand towns from burning emergencies minister added that the disaster could have been prevented if advanced information about the threat was given the way it was now receded in most parts of central russia. the last u.s. combat brigade has left iraq two weeks ahead of their planned withdrawal at the end of the month but a fifty thousand strong american military contingent will remain in the country for support and training until the end of twenty and never have the power to use their weapons in self defense or at the request of the iraqi government over seven years of being in iraq more than four thousand u.s. soldiers died according to the pentagon's own like ready from the antiwar group democracy village in london says they'll be no actual pull out in years to come. by simply is happening is they're going to stay there for at least twenty years and that's the length of time the oil contracts have been signed the fifty thousand troops that are there is also been sleeping number because there's actually about one hundred thousand private contractors there that number's likely to increase so

i don't see any change really for the iraqi people normal life will be resumed for another ten thousand years until the depleted uranium is has disappeared from the environment. between now and then life is just going to be one big struggle for the iraqi population and it's really sad tale five hundred thirty innocent civilians killed last month alone that's more than that in afghanistan and at the moment all we're hearing about is afghanistan but look at the permanent military bases there in iraq i mean they've spent so much money that it's really unlikely they're going to move this i think ninety four permanent bases there look at the american embassy the u.s. embassy in iraq in baghdad is now the size of vatican city i mean that's a huge investment there's no way they're going to believe in that what they're doing is they're rebranding the occupation a new set of combat operations we're going to call it stability operations it's not it's not a mass exodus at all you just need to look at where the permanent military bases have been built and where the money's been spent you can actually do adopt

a dot on the map and be there with the result in line is exactly what the pipeline route is going to be. some of these iraqi troops some of these u.s. troops in iraq will probably be redeployed into yemen as well which is a another underclothes war that the u.s. is beginning so between yemen. afghanistan pakistan and iraq this is this is just permanent war this is what they've been talking about for the last ten years. my granny talking bitterly there in london well they say every dog has its day and for two dogs in the soviet union their days saw them launched literally to international fame office intrigue go. 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 human. first

return i don't know the first base. before manned space yielded to man's best friend at least fifty seven dogs were sent into orbit by the soviet union arguably one of the most famous travellers were too much or whitey and little arrow fifty years ago after months of strenuous training they and a bunch of mice rats flies plants and a rabbit sputnik five all. 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 character their physical condition of all that was taken into account. he worked with the soviet space program for decades he remembers as the reviewer under different names. the dogs got names by assistance on the girl's name these two dogs and they liked

the sound of those names but then our boss found out and he was not impressed he criticised us for giving these dogs foreign and politically incorrect names so we changed them and that's how they became famous and. you still continued on the ground she had six pups one of which was presented by the then soviet leader nikita to j.f.k.'s daughter caroline and international room and believed to be true or 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 follow. in their part prince. is now nobody knew you see whether a living organism could survive in space the whole body would react to those conditions which is why build. where the fur is generally before 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 you must. be doing stamps calendars became the subject of tales in 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 are about r.t. . russia's chances of holding the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two football world cup are now in the hands of fee for inspectors who've wrapped up their visit to the country. has been following their progress and reports from moscow's domodedovo airport. for four days. tour to russia and for the third. to host

world cup games. and sochi which is the host. olympic games and they did all this to make sure they're. ready to host a world cup game. and prime minister putin. would be available and that all projects would be done on time. he was very impressed by what he called. and that. was very forthcoming and gave them all the nation that they would need to make a. football is number one. pretty good. chances of being able to host a world cup including

a legendary soviet goalie. we've already held the games and 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. to make a decision. leaving twenty people injured. tension in the disputed. countries around the world of announced more humanitarian and financial help for flood devastated pakistan even officials operating in the

region say much of the delivered so far hasn't reached some parts of the country is present an extra one hundred fifty million dollars at the bank is to reiterate two billion dollars of money for reconstruction about twenty million people have been affected by the heavy floods. also along update this hour some one hundred roma gypsies left from some arrived in their native romania as part of a crackdown on illegal camps the french government plans to shut down three hundred roma camps in the next three months in a policy it says will remove thousands of people from deplorable conditions the controversial measures have been criticized by human rights groups for demonizing minorities. we continue our close up series where we bring into focus russia's diverse regions including some fairly hard to reach places team gets an in-depth 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 region the country's first seaports back in the seventeenth century recognized as a regional capital it now has everything from ship building to diamonds recent syria to explore. we're now in the north of russia in 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 the other one six meters bird was found at sea trade was made from here to st petersburg at the honduras waltz its importance now today out honda's 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 water use and 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 shock as its rich timber and paper pulp industries yielded bill 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 handles did make a more positive than 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 the. indeed tuning soviet ships and submarines in the ninety's whenever the suv hit 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. dining putting was one of the alternatives to cutting rough diamonds in the direct city of. mine named after the song to sing 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 nine hundred eighty two and the first diamond was extracted just five years ago. in a water rich region the field is located smack in the middle of the marshland 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 in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds. produced transparent or barely colored gemstone here we find our intensely colored diamonds. 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 want to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where the a lot more of that precious stone many women call their best friends. but before anyone could even see a single spark a long process has to be gone through. and you get real gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world coming. 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 here on business there are a number of foreign companies based in now i'll come a long way from being just a seaport and it will continue to reshape itself as more industries develop in this region. than now in a few minutes from now we'll have a business updates will show up for you that will be able to stay with us alone. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

she's available in hotels coursed i'm going to. keep a promise it is. east west. the city. small. as it gets up until the stroke arrested. and i welcome to the program hey all russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year there's a reason for when industrial output is raised doubts about the strength of recovering the brain pauli supply exposed role in the problems run deep.

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 general would suggest this sigman of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that bad economy russian economy is likely to a slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess the saw down of the manufacturer but that sure that's partly why the that was. would have meant that they would pay something back on the cover of the store because of the feeling the base effect was i think i trust but also says that the nation of investment demand or 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 the banks see 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 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 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 if 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. would temporarily store michael her

change of business. 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 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 yes that is publication of the investment picks investment that are also going to invest 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 up over that one in tries and strong rise in the commodity prices prices is number one and secondly was a stall in floor pepitone into the russian economy through russian companies born and also for foreign investors invest in russian assets is that such knowledge going forward people process of soulful slow will global economic growth we should

not rely much on capital inflows it will be happening of course bots are not the full extent of the post as far as what due process is concerned also while it's not as benign as before probably you see saw my prized rise of four prices will not be as high as before therefore so the fundamental factors which are used to drive hiking on the growth and the possible moby work in many more. now russia's markets closed in the red alta of all the talent day oil raised earlier policies of the u.s. jobless claims rose more than expected last week it's very concerned about the pace of the global recovery but lies the company overall causing with among the biggest leave the life that is in the news all the talk about hawthorne a merger with the unit now low trading volumes are contributing to the volatility on the markets dave barry could be part of this explains. this is all good studies very very worst of. the volume of markets around you're absolutely right

and frankly dealers such as are in london frankfurt and paris are running around like headless chickens responding to good and bad news so. really we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. this is really boy the bulk 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 tonnes by the end of next year and it seems the current harvest will be even worse than expected sizing government figures the analysis group saavik on says the grain crop we down at least a third on last year were not exceed sixty two million times this is well below russia's annual domestic consumption of seventy five million tonnes city is feeling the pinch of the cost of grain went up forty five percent in august and is now stop

buying any further supplies and prices stabilize that's latest update for you now but you can always find more stories on our website dot com slash business. same.