i. i. you know review the week on r.t. central asian leaders come together in russia city of song to brainstorm with president medvedev on how to battle the spread of drugs and terrorism. fuel starts flowing into iran's first nuclear energy actually built to operate on a new entertainment watchdog. and police in russia's north caucuses up until those behind a car bomb blast which tore through a cafe injuring thirty people.

i. know you're watching weekly news review welcome to the program fighting terrorism and drug trafficking in central asia was the focus of a summit this weekend russia's resort city of sochi president medvedev and leaders of afghanistan pakistan and tajikistan discussed how to stabilize the troubled region. reports what you're looking for it's just i would wish for the locusts and they weren't just talking whether terrorism pull the t. and one other burning told took a front seat as russia hosted its three central asian neighbors in sochi. on the drug through it because it's a common problem we should face together not individually. the

problem. it was a new queen siddons president medvedev singled out these two countries and ghana stan is the world's largest opium producer russia the world's largest consumer what costs one country thirty thousand human lives a year is a profitable business for the other organ makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the harry market i think of going to. record as not a far larger two percent of the market so we whole economy is based on drugs there is even a term that afghanistan is a drug based economy afghan heroin kills more russians in six months than the whole ten year long soviet military complain kill soldiers that's why russia is keen to take the lead in fighting the threat every third person who dies of opium abuse is in russia and the politics feels another worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's raw nerve. russia may not be directly involved in

the war in afghanistan but it is sensitive to the instability of the conflict is causing in the region and many believe the two main security threats drug trafficking and islamic radicalism will not be defeated while needles afghan war rages on their current meeting is very important you know as americans and european allies have failed in solving the problem i think russia now can contribute very much and the russian president has taken a very prudent approach if he tries to solve the problem in complex he tried to talk directly to the leaders of all those conscious involved so russia seeks political solutions. very reassured his neighbors alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written the last portion of afghanistan's debt the final chunk of twelve billion dollars and more. now to come

in the form of highly cool pictures and the military hardware securing houris bewitches seems from the outside a mission impossible but by bringing to fool the troubled region together russia is keen to shoot it is a new route to give up the fight. r t from salute. well the former white house drugs policy spokesman the things the u.s. has failed in afghanistan he took time to cool policy areas. says the u.s. military should have made think drug production a priority. the u.s. military regrettably has determined that a policy should be had of not. interdicting and not eradicating the drugs in afghanistan because it would destabilize afghanistan what a mistake of a policy and it's a policy mistake both by the military by general petraeus by ambassador holbrooke

because it's the drugs that that fund al qaeda which is the reason that the united states went into afghanistan in the first place drugs are seventy percent as much as seventy percent of al qaeda is in the taliban's funding according to senior democratic senator charles schumer and if that's the case what are we doing making happy farmers in afghanistan or is our job to secure afghanistan stop the drug trafficking create alternative economies and then stop the killing that goes around the world both by the terrorists and by the drugs themselves that have killed millions throughout asia and europe. it was a big day for iran when it switched on its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of bullshit the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control the un atomic watchdog made international concern over tehran's nuclear aspirations auntie's books on a boycott was the long awaited grand opening. more than thirty years in the making

with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the pushchair nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just that an education or ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for interactions but for a lot of critics the embodiment of the slavic republics an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear officials says it's all ready for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our

great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making gus witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would not have been witnessing such a great thing with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the planet is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more with chasity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear fishel sergei kerry younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's corp if they ran it when you go it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the bushehr power plants is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be

fearful valeri in their lean. i have been working at this station for three years leave the sas initially she was a pretty hands of about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns with your no and we just saw reports online quin israel is planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here there is shooting and airplanes are flying you never know if it's real or not maybe they're preparing for something for many here is a real threat to bomb the station evolved painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the c.-t. causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history want to repeat itself we are not to see because we know this is against international. attention they need new installations and these are on the edge of their. off to me. it's the psychological.

we do not take it serious although we are in there we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying it's a serious russia's role in supplying fuel and technology to iran man settle fell but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peaceful purposes. r t will share iran. the tali government says it will have the final say on whether this suspected russian arms baron to boot is to be extradited to the u.s. this comes after bangkok feels that move that he wants to be hundred to washington to face charges of terrorism links to armed conflicts in africa the system has been strung them by russia where they can move back to bhutto was arrested in the title more than two years ago the u.s.

sting operation custody since katrina takes a closer look at the case. how the words lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms and worldwide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we are in the other eleven and his allegedly real life prototype russian businessman that would nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. very sort of from nicholas cage to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for. his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok helton but that did not stop the thai appeals court from ordering his extradition to the united states despite the fact that the country's criminal court earlier refused to do just that the

ruling has outraged not only his family but his native country as well so. we're sorry that a thai appeals court has made this political decision according to the information we have this ruling was made under very strong outside pressure and this is upsetting as to the interests of this russian citizen we've been assisting him for all these months we've been in touch with his lawyers and his family and will continue to do our best to get them returned to his homeland and now the question everyone is asking is what does victor boot know to make the. americans want him this badly victor boot is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several reasons that's why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him to the united states first they try to recruit him they say i made several approaches to recruit he refused all villages sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because

look now it's too much he is more dangerous than we kill except for the u s smuggling role in weapons in not only in africa and latin america but all over the world but not many people are willing to give booth the type of credit given to him by the u.s. he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you would call them the death i mean around quite a large an operation in maine you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you flew televisions he flew there all sorts of things so we'll be talking about five percent of the call goes possibly being. even flying is not itself illegal in a long and drawn out extradition hearing that took over two years the united states changed added and modify their charges against mr boot to include violating international trade laws as well as arms trafficking his family believes at some

point it became a process for the process instead of a process for justice against whom this decision to tell you has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value the role evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses old this works that meet the lower court too low to dictate or sex tradition to the u.s. has been thrown the way the court to do is controlled by the government directly and so huge pressure from the u.s. boots trial maybe. over but his tribulations are far from it he faces years in prison and have to finds in all possible scenarios the only one bankable is a hollywood one. the signature hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making but if they're both may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. matters are the arctic moscow. well coming up shortly

a guinea pig nation human rights activist who's promising talents of using the people of india as fodder for drug tests often without their consent. and inspectors from top to visit checking whether russia is up to the task of hosting or woke up. on tuesday a car bomb ripped through a cafe in russia's north caucasus thirty people were injured in the terror attack the city of piatigorsky vesta gaiters searching for the owner of the car which was packed with explosives. that one of the victims. nico makes you believe in mixing cocktails he's the barman at one of the particles cafes on the street the locals call broadway in as a favor to a colleague here greed just shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last

tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just like of course away in a war the nobility frankly i didn't want to go to work that day so i was glad when it rained heavy rain i thought it would be cooler outside unless people in the cafe could just say that if the weather didn't change in the next hour we could all go home ten minutes later i was picking him from under the rubble of the café. it all happened quickly as if something really big moving at high speed fowl from the sky a car. explosives parked near the cafe blew up leaving many people injured and a huge hole where mika's cafe wants to. put it i was on the phone that's when my left ear is ok i started shouting because my is part i didn't have any thoughts until i got up and saw the current pieces then i turned back and saw no one where there should be people so as if on auto pilot i went to help them out

that's it i had to return to the scene later to shut off the gas to prevent another explosion has just left hospital and returned to the scene he's reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while we talk this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors see i've got bruises here in there and you're right i say ok i was sitting with my back to the chair i can get one dreadful moment of my mind there was a guy he lost one eye in the blast and they gave him a cloth he covered his face and then he wanted to look at the cloth and couldn't and panicked with these stories are stored in their memories for good lucky to be alive to friends a retelling affray detail of the day. i saw me car three to four minutes after the explosion he was alive but i saw him from behind and i didn't know how badly he was injured i went to see mika at the hospital and understood that the bruises are

worse than what he said no mika is trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others in pianta groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent there rain a day or a chance to road these other small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of calculus and as like i mean what his friends thank god for keeping him alive his biggest wash now is to leave the city so he can only . why thanks to what he claimed was divine intervention. r t. one of the suspected organizers of the deadly moscow metro blasts in march has been killed by russian security forces who are other militants were also shot dead in the special operations command is believed to have been a leader of one of the militant groups in russia southern republic of dagestan he

was on the federal and international wanted list for two years. he was thought to have close links to the suicide bomber. who blew himself up at moscow's bianka metro station a second female bomber detonated her suicide belt in truly station between blasts killed thirty people killed more than one hundred. in india human rights groups have criticised international pharmaceutical companies for testing new drugs on people without consent the country's health ministry says the number of deaths are linked to clinical trials has risen dramatically over the past two years as karen singh reports many of those who do agree to take part in the side up because they can't afford treatment. 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 imo it. account 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 official 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 routes without their consent i don't know if you're doctors 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 for 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. bones are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials are illiterate and pool they don't even know 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 a legal. patient sometimes sign up out of desperation to them

experimental health 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. to cheat ministry 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. 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 enjoyable tour how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city to justify 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

yet it's clear that the laws against unethical trials are not working and the government will have to come up with other ways to stop the country's poor from being enticed into medical experiments that could potentially have serious side effects got unseeing r.t. india. a power blackout plunged almost half of russia's second largest city st petersburg into chaos friday's outage caused massive traffic jams disrupted metro cells is defective because supplies in some parts of the city three railway stations stopped operating hubs. and authorities say it took them forty minutes to fully reconnect trysting. trees. on the city's power plants cause the blackout. now some news in brief for you australia is heading for its first hung parliament in seventy years after some place election with three quarters of the votes counted to play for labor and the greens have won seventy one seats each

but need seventy six for a majority current prime minister julia gillard will remain as caretaker leave it until the new government is formed a process that could take. place tony abbott told the center one patient. readers are nearer ten gunmen are being chased by police stormed a luxury hotel taking thirteen guests hostage for three hours the gunman surrendered a group of captors were freed unharmed that followed a shootout between police and fifty suspected drug gang members from nearby school and would not fight one member was killed seven others were injured. and forest fires are raging in bolivia with strong winds and dry conditions hampering firefighting efforts the flames have also affected airports forcing several to close the country's president declared a state of emergency on friday and called for the help of neighboring brazil

argentina. now after winning the right to host the winter olympics in two thousand and fourteen in sochi russia is bidding for another major sporting event this time the football world cup before inspectors went for days in the country assessing its capability to host the tournament in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and twenty two among other bidders of the united states england and spain the decision will be announced on december second zero but as i have a brain it reports just the possibility of getting potential stars of tomorrow the motivation to train harder today. for these boys football is their life they train every single day at. just twelve years old and if the world cup does come to russia in twenty eighteen the hopes and expectations of a nation resting on their shoulders pressure that would make others of their age crumble but for the boys at spartak moscow is youth academy discipline and desire

and more important it's not the fear of failure that drives them is the fear of missing the chance to play in a world cup on home turf there are still receive more struck me as i really want russia to host the twenty eighty mile cap is my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training's no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must endure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour the coaches know the boys have talent but it's their hunger that's the key this man is no stranger to that he knows what it takes to play in a world cup. but the defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags referred to was what i was gripped by a burning desire to see the world but how could i do that in those days so i told myself that i would be a football player but i pledged that never in my life would i smoke a cigarette or drink a gram of wine or beer you know he never had the chance to play in

a world cup at home but he knows it's something not to be missed and visiting and playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat as a footballer you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do it'll change their lives god who pulls a matter of national pride in russia this is how the country reacted when the team reached the semifinals of the two thousand and eight european championship i. hope this support will swing fief is vote some of. the most important thing is affordable is a national sport which is loved in every city in the village and this country was built there safely. the found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this speed will help it's got me over a sea of them with the ball in the a world cup at home would give us an added impetus so that by two thousand and

eight she won there were several talented young players to defend on our first with the emblems of pressure on their chest. is the only thing these boys a dream. i've been it's. moscow. i'll be back with the headlines and stated.

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