medical victims human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giants of using the people of india as for the drug tests often without consent. overseas intervention the leaked documents uncovered israel's covertly attempts at

shaping the us media agenda and policies in the middle east. the true problem is it's fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to serve my space travel paving the way you fall future exploration. and also a trip to russia's first seaport on the diamond called spot. visits the northern city of congo this. live from a studio 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 grown 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. 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 these be 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. turturro rash or a cap they can test any medication they like on. 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 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 informa 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 are treating indians as guinea pigs the

patients being use 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 repay. it's in without proper consent without informing them that taking part in a drugs trial is both an ethical and illegal indian patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to their 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. achievement 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 money touring drug trials that 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 define a drug trials in an institute here. with over one thousand three hundred drug trials coming conducted in india this industry is already said to be worth one billion dollars yet it's clear that the laws against unethical trials are not working and the government will have to come up with other ways to stop the country's poor from being enticed into medical experiments that could potentially have serious side effects got unseeing r.t. into. well we've got plenty coming your way this hour here on r.t. including a long awaited to. speak to american war and war activist about the american pullout from iraq and. they came to saddam alpheus inspectors leave after spending four days in russia. to host the world cup details

. but first files declassified in america have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of israel in the us the national archives made the documents public following a senate investigation they suggest is run it's 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 grounds have smith who is a director at that institute in washington explains what's being on company. 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

vast effort to divert u.s. 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 discovering security measures with the local authorities just visit visited victims of the blast fourteen of the thirty people injured in the terror attack remain in local hospitals russian leaders to provide additional medical equipment wherever it's needed. 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 farm protection system is needed to prevent future disasters official say fifty three people died in three and a whole thousand were affected by the wildfires and extreme heat one hundred

thousand rescue workers and volunteers were going to be talking as far as across the country they 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. 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 levon have the power to use their weapons in self defense or at the request of the iraqi government and over seven years of being in iraq more than four thousand u.s. soldiers died according to the pentagon and like ready from the antiwar group democracy village says they'll be no twelve for years to come. or simply is happening is they're going to stay there for at least twenty years that's the length of time the all contracts have been signed the fifty thousand troops there is also obviously the number because it's actually about one hundred thousand

private contractors their numbers 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 as it 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 have 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 the vatican city i mean that's a huge investment there's no way they're going to believe in what they're doing is they're rebranding the occupation and instead of calling it combat operations they'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 a dot to dot on the map and 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 undeclared 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. they say every dog has its day and foot two dogs in the soviet union their day saw them launch literally to international fame half a century ago bill can stroke or 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 he. returned i don't know the first space. 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 boarded 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 caracter 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 like. the dogs got named by a lot of assistance 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. but 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 believe him to be to push him a 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 rates. is now nobody knew you see whether a living organism could survive in space our body would react to those conditions which is why bill constrain were the first giant leap for mankind you could see that belka was more agitated and the two dogs were at times uncomfortable but they

made it safely home and scientists knew it was man's turn to reach for the stars. the. stamps calendars became the subject of tales and news reports fifty years after their flight their trip fascinates young and old alike and the way they're 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 inspectors who wrapped up their visit to the country. has been following their progress and reports from moscow's domodedovo airport. russia waits. 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.

twenty fourteen olympic games and they did all this to make sure they're. ready to host a world cup game. airport. met with the press. and prime minister putin promised that all of. would be available and that all projects would be done on time. that he was very impressed by what he called. committee was very forthcoming and gave them all the nation that they would need to make a fair. number one. 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 sochi olympics also proves that we are able to host. heads to the u.k. and the usa. to make its decision. making. countries. in the country. extra one hundred fifty million. during two billion dollars of loans for reconstruction about twenty million people been affected by the heavy floods. at least thirty eight people being killed and thirty seven injured when a crowded truck full of a mountain into a girl in northern india eight people remain in

a critical condition police in villages used ropes and pulleys to rescue the injured and retrieve the vehicle the truck was carrying people home from a party. to france now and some one hundred roma gypsies have left the country 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. when are we continue our close up series where we bring into focus russia's diverse regions including some fairly whole places to reach team gets an in-depth personal insights 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 sea

ports back in the seventeenth century it's recognized as a regional capital and it now has everything from ship building to documents we sent to explore more. 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 sea route to the west now this region became extremely wealthy because of 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 once 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 take a glorious history as well as thriving traits 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 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 it government radically called the number of defense contracts and the plant's output phone they had no choice but to diversify and went into

diamond cutting. well you know. one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct vicinity of the diamond field looked attractive. mine named after the local 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 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. gems. even. this site 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 or the soil is richer and where this a lot more of that precious many women call their best friend. but before anyone could even see a single a long process has to be gone through. and when you get. jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it. today is still a industrial and commercial rush and if you do see foreigners in the city more

often here on business. a number of foreign companies based in al hunt 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. so you reporting that business is next now with short stay with us for that . and i welcome to the business program here on oxy russia's economy has rebounded considerably since the beginning of the year there's a reason for women dust output has raised doubts about the strength of recovery the jobs and hate have been paltry to blame expose all 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 general would suggest this ignorant of the economy is slowly falling back into recession we do expect that bad economy russian economy is likely to slow considerably in the second half of these yeah so i guess the saadat of the manufacture of production as barclays in life without the us. would have meant that they would pay something that's how to cover the story because of the feeling the base effect was a technical factors but also just that the nation 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 economist warned that any sickness in manufacturing could start to infect other parts of the economy banks see 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 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 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. put temporarily store michael her change of business on t. bones 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 a call now with the c.i.s.

region explains why first of all there are already a science for the scrap on industrial production and it was clearly yes that is publication of the investment thinks of vestment data also going to invite direction but there are 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 for the moment growth was up over one inch rise and strong rise in the commodity prices. is number one and secondly it was our strong in floor capital into the russian economy through russian companies born also full of foreign investors invest in russian assets that is. knowledge going forward will prosper so for slow will global economic growth we should not rely on capital inflows it will be happening of course bazza not the full extent of the post as far as what due process is also volatile is not as benign as before probably you see saw my prized

rise of four prices would not be as high as before where four so the fundamental factors which were used to drive hiking on the growth and the possible moby walk in many more. now russia's markets closed in the red delta of all its holiday oil raised earlier policies of the u.s. jobless claims rose more than expected last week spurring concern about the pace of the global recovery fertilise the company over economy with among the biggest leaders in the life that is in the news all the talk about hawthorne 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 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 heard. this is really boy the bulk of 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 harvest will be even worse than expected sizing government figures the analysis group's overcalling says the grain crop we down at least a third on last year were not exceed sixty two million tons this is well below russia's annual domestic consumption of seventy five million tons a moscow city is feeling the pinch as the cost of grain went up forty five percent in august and has now stopped 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.

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