joint people chose. the gateway who took the brunt imperial truly told west coast coromandel you can go with her toe to toe she don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. in our review of the week on r.t. central asian leaders come together in russia city of sochi to brainstorm with president medvedev of how to battle the spread of drugs and terrorism. fuel starts flowing into balance first nuclear energy clouds with the russian go to react to operating under the eye of the un's atomic watched all. the time government says it will have the final say on the fate of the suspected bashing. to boot after a bank called appeals court ordered his extradition to the u.s.

. and the home team is hoping to score big speaker inspect his remove the bid to bring the football world cup to russia in two thousand and eighteen and two thousand and twenty two we meet the stars of the future. and join us on the journey to russia's white seat post to see how fisherman and shipbuilders have preserved then lifestyle change for generations. you're watching r t and this is our weekly news review program on carried out still fighting terrorism and drug trafficking in central asia was the focus of a summit this weekend russia's resort city of sochi president better than the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and such if you start this gust how to stabilize

the troubled region. reports. what a lovely bridge. which was the world yes and they weren't just talking weather terrorism poverty and one other burning topic took a front seat as russia hosted its three central asian neighbors in sochi. we focused on the drug threat because it is a common problem we should face up to it together not individually know that afghanistan no russia can solve the problem on their own. it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries afghanistan 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 hairy market i think of going to. record as not

a far larger to percent of the world market so we whole economy is based on a drug if 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 fuels and other worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's iran. russia may not be directly involved in the war in afghanistan but it is sensitive to the instability 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 needle's 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 rushed. the president has taken a bit of problem to approach it seems he tries to follow the problem in complex he tried to talk directly to the leaders of all those conscious and involved so russia seeks political solutions meachem it very reassured his neighbors alongside the police call will all come financial support russia's already written the last portion of afghanistan's debt the final chunk of twelve billion dollars and more help will come in the form of helicopters and other military hardware securing poorest borders seems from the outside and mission impossible but by bringing the poor neighbors of this troubled region together russia is keen to show it is in no mood to give up the fight he didn't catch of r r t from sochi. your former white house drug policy spokesman thinks the u.s. has failed in afghanistan tactical and policy errors or says the u.s.

military should have made tackling 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. was a big day for own what it switched all its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of bushehr the russian built reactor is no rating on the strict control of the u.n. watchdog amid international concerns over to iran's nuclear aspirations fourteen looks on a boycott was the long awaited grand opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over to 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 has always been more than just that and if you're ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country social progress and proof of what's good for interactions but for a lot of critics the embodiment of poppy farming republican ideological backwardness

and a vivid example of that 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 already time for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia were. instrumental in making gas witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would not have been witnessing such a great deal with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the cloud is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce smaller 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 carey younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with iran 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 few people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their lead. i have been working at this station for three years believe the sas initially she was apprehensive about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns. 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 true or not maybe they're preparing for something to 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 city causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history won't repeat itself we want to see because we know this is a against international. attempting to meet new installations and these are on the. off the media. it's psychological. we do not take it seriously although we are there we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are seeing it says suz russia's role in supplying fuel and technology to iran may unsettle some 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 time i government says it will have the final say on whether the suspect to the russian arms baron victor boot is to be extradited to the us this comes after a bangkok appeals court that was to be handed over to in washington to face charges of terrorism and links to conflict because the decision has been strongly condemned by russia as a political move to bhutto was arrested in the thai capital two years ago sting operation he's been in custody ever since. takes a closer look at the case. how the words lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we were in the other eleven and his allegedly real life prototype russian businessmen that loot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of

arms selling and laughed off parallels. to play this sort of. 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 it. was started at the time i appeal 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 him 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 board is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several results why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him to the united states first they tried to recruit him made several approaches to recruit him refuse him all villages sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because what knows too much here. it is more dangerous then we kill weeks for the u. s. smuggling role in weapons 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 merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation in many in africa and i would think that ninety five

percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even is not itself illegal in a long and drawn out extradition hearing it took over two years the united states changed added and modify their charges against mr boot to include violating international treaty 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 but with this decision to take or defer to you has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value the role of evidence gathering the question of eye witnesses this works that meet the law record too low to dr sacks tradition to the u.s. presidents are on the way the court of appeal is controlled by the thai government directly and so huge pressure from the u.s.

boots trial may be over but his tribulations are far from it he faces years in prison and have to find all possible scenarios the only one bankable is a hollywood one the signal to hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making but that a move may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. gasometers are the arctic moscow. coming up shortly on r.t.e. rejecting their country. i started to look at american history and politics and realized that my boy would like to report on u.s. nationals who choose to denounce their citizenship this illusion of the american dream. and inspectors from fee for their visit checking whether russia is up to the task of hosting the world cup. on tuesday a car bomb ripped through

a cafe in russia's north caucasus thirty people were injured in the terror attack in the city of panting gorski investigators are searching for the owner of a car which was packed with explosives. met one of the victims. nico makes his leave and makes him cocktails he's the barman at one of the patagonia cafes on the street the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague he agreed to swap shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just like a course away and i were the only 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 just said 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 cafe. it all happened quickly as if something really big moving at high speed foul from

the sky a car stuffed with 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 what 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 car in 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 be 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 and retell in africa detail of the day. i saw me kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was alive by time i saw him from behind and i didn't know how badly he was injured i went to the hospital and understood that the bruises are worse than what you. know me can use trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others encounter groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent and their reign of rude these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r.c. of course and as my support his friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive

his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he can leave or for why thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention. of r r t. the united states leads the world in a number of the eagle immigrants it accepts every year for most new citizens life in america means better opportunities but a growing number seven hundred last year have renounced their u.s. citizenship. and it cost one patriot why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american and the nation that he believed was the greatest in the world a bastion of freedom and democracy in order to protect those ideals he joined the marine corps and went to fight for his country in the gulf war and that's when the american dream became a nightmare i was punished for speaking out about something that my superiors were doing and my life became extremely difficult upon my return with a different perspective i started to look at american history and politics and

realized that my whole life i had been lied to and i believed in those ideals you know i believed in them and when i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world it became clear to me at some point that i would renounce citizenship and renounce it he did apply to the state department to stop being american plane political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe knows that not everyone will agree with what he's done some maintain he could have exerted more pressure from inside the system but however they choose to do it middle east commentator alan hart says americans must do something i have a love hate relationship with america. on one level americans are the most uninformed misinformed dumbest gullible people on the face of god's earth that's the bad news deep down they're also the most idealistic so i say and

americans didn't mind me saying it if they were properly informed about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy work it hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world both economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily it routed that goodwill because it's failing to give its ethical lead now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can o'keefe is committed to changing that and since giving up his u.s. citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli c'mon days in may and following that he was branded

a terrorist by israel but ken o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't one borne out of hatred you know i realized at a certain point it citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among your obligations is paying taxes those taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renounce your citizenship or hate america and that's absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people and i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality o'keefe and others like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave. r.t. london. now after winning the right to host the winter olympics two thousand and fourteen such as russia is bidding for another major sports event this time the football world cup before inspectors spend four days in the country assessing its

capability to host the tournament in two thousand and eighteen or two thousand and twenty two among other business of the night and states england and spain the decision will be announced on december the second zurich. bennett reports just the possibility is potential stars of tomorrow the motivation to train harder today. for these boys football is their life they train every single day just twelve years old and if the world cup does come to russia in twenty eight the hopes and expectations of the 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 a more important it's not the fear of failure that drives them it's the fear of missing the chance to play in a world cup on home turf you know you should never assume your strategy and if i

really want russia to host the twenty mile cap it's my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training is 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. with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships drugs approach it was real but 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 pledge 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 with playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat richard as

a footballer you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do very little change their lives was the bulls a matter of national pride in russia this is how the country reacted when the team reached the semifinals of the two thousand and european championship i. hope this support will swing fief is vote for you some of your mates and some of the most important thing is affordable is a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with the way. the found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about and no winning this feed will help me over a sea of them with the bargain of a world cup at home would give the youth gorgeous and impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won it there are several talented young players to defend on are fresh and forget all the emblems of pressure on their chest little nauseous that i know is the only thing these boys a dream. i've been it r.t.

moscow. now on the coast of the white sea lies the land of the pummel people for centuries communities of say this fisherman and ship builders have thrived on the natural resources of the landscape and to this day their way of life is as timeless as the sea itself. the sky. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman. films are not so many fish and so if season now soundman is a northern fish it comes to a rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the boomers have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one. votes. he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors all captains. work of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we

travel to better keep a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morse descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional poem or way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructed wooden boats using old techniques a lot of all this is a car bus a coastal kind of boat it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets. raiding the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but i've been fishing for a long time now this year i caught a big fish this big and living in uniquely to my houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the

unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions for the poor more adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. yet this was syrians is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the centuries. and susie asked equally sharing a heritage they are proud to call their own. for you i've been singing my who life my mother still sings we collect old returns and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson dresser celia r.t.

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