in our review of the week on r.t. central asian leaders come together in russian city of sochi to brainstorm with president medvedev and how to battle the spread of drugs and terrorism. fuel starts flowing into iran's first nuclear energy fund for the russian built react to operating under the i'm going to end tonight watched all. the time i government says it will have the final say on the fate of a suspected russian arms trying to root off a bangkok heels court ordered his extradition to the u.s. . the home team is hoping to school big as fee for inspectors we knew that it to

bring the world cup to russia twenty eight thousand and twenty twenty two we meet the stands on the future. and join us on a journey to russia's whites coast to see how fishermen and shipbuilders preserve their lifestyle for generations. you're watching r.t. and this is our weekly news review program welcome fighting terrorism and drug trafficking in central asia was the focus of a summit this week in russia's resort city of sochi president medvedev on the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and to g q stone discussed how to stabilize a troubled region ought to continue to choke the reports. what a lovely bridge yes i would wish for 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's a common problem we should face up to it together not individually northern afghanistan or russia consoled the problem in the room option problem and 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 opium makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the hairy market i think of going to stand it records as ninety four ninety percent of the whole market so we whole economy is based on drugs there is even a term that afghanistan is

a drug based economy and again heroin kills more russians in six months than the whole ten year long soviet military complain killed 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 world wide 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 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 region is a 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 very prudent approach 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. very reassured he has me for us alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written over 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 a mood to give up the fight he didn't catch of our team from fortune. now it was a big day for iran when it switched on its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of bushehr the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog and international concerns over tehran's nuclear aspirations ati's oksana boyko 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 bush era nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just an education are ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country social progress and prove it gets more attention i'll provide critics the embodiment of the pharmacare public's ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are in 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 fishel 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 were. instrumental in making course 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 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 fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be

fearful valeri in their lima. i have been working at the 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 you know and we just saw reports online quinn israel is planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here there is shooting in airplanes are flying you never know if it's true 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 cd causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history won't repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is a against international. attempting to meet new installations and these are on the verge of their. off to me. it's

a psychological. we do not take it serious although we are aware 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 may unsettle some but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peace what purposes. are to the bush share iran. the time i government says it will have the final say on whether the suspected russian arms baron vick to boot is to be extradited to the us is comes after a bankrupt police preclude that was to be handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism or links to armed conflicts in africa the decision has been strongly condemned by russia as a political move to boot who was arrested in the thai capital more than two years

ago even of u.s. sting operation he's been in custody ever since katrina czar of takes a closer look at the case. i don't see how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in the world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we arm the other eleven and his allegedly a life prototype russian businessman victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels i don't know very sort of from nicolas cage when the to play this sort of law for this very silly and i feel. it's a bad move on his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton 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 that it was started at a time i appeal court has made this political decision but according to the information we have this ruling was made under very strong outside pressure and this is upsetting as for the interests of this russian citizen we've been assisting him for all these months we've been in touch with his lawyers in this 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 reasons why a 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 here we few years all villages sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and

because what knows too much he is more dangerous than we kill eggs 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 merchant. i mean around quite a large airline operation and you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television was he from washing powder all sorts of things so we're talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run 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 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 different view has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value the role of good evidence gathering the question of our witnesses for this works that meet the lower court to lower tickets or sex tradition to the u.s. president's role in the way the court to for people is controlled by the 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 sequel to hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making but if the book may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. catch readers are.

the. guinea pig nation human rights activists accused. of using the media. all different drug tests often without the tent. and inspectors from feet for wrap up their visit the weather service up to the task of. well. on cheese day a car bomb ripped through a cafe in russia's north caucuses thirty people were injured in the terror attack in the city of p.r.t. gorski investigators are searching for the owner of the car which was packed with explosives. met one of the victims. mika makes his leave and makes him cocktails he's the barman at one of the categories 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 his student what the change actually meant this is just like

a court of law and i were the new 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 café. 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 help us to know it all but 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 when you see i've got bruises here in there under a bottle and 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 the last one on the glasses and they gave him a cloth be covered his face and then he wanted to look at the cloth he 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 the day. i saw me kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was a laurie fine time i saw him from behind and i didn't know who badly he was injured i went to see the hospice who understood the bruises are worse than what you. know

me can use trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion much like many others in people to groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain day all changed rude these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r. to earth and as mike i mean support his friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he can labor for why thanks to what he claimed was divine intervention found that what you have are our team. one of the suspected organizers of the deadly moscow metro blasts in march has been killed by russian security forces who are other alleged militants were also shot dead in the special operations command is believed to have been a video of one of the militant groups in russia's southern republic of dagestan he was on the federal and international wanted list for over two years ago there's

a thought to have had close links to the suicide bomber reem sharif of blew herself up moscow's the bianca metro station a second female bomber detonated a suicide belt at option three station the twin blasts killed forty people injured one hundred. to india now a human rights groups have criticize international pharmaceutical companies for testing new drugs on some people without consent and many of those who do agree to take part in the clinical trials only sign up because they can't afford treatment the country's health ministry says the number of deaths linked to such experiments has risen dramatically over the past two years currency reports. 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 afternoon and night but i haven't got any. target or a rash or account 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 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 can 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 are really through pool they don't even know details of the drug or that it is a drug trial this is unethical to root. patients in without proper consent without informing them that taking part in a drugs trial is both an ethical and illegal. patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health is better than none 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. to cheat men to screen 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 maybe. 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's 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. now after winning the right to host the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia as bidding for another major sports event this time football world cup fever inspectors spent four days in the country assessing its capability to host the tournament two thousand and eighteen two thousand and twenty two among other bidders united states and england the decision will be announced on december the second series. i have a better ports just the possibility he's given potential stars of tomorrow the motivation to try harder today. 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 eighteen 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 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 i'm sure will receive more struck me as i really want russia to host the twenty mile cap is my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the trainings no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must ensure 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 cannot be no go fit with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags 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 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 deserved playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country support behind you it's 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 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 the. hope this support will swing fief is is vote. some of. the most important thing is affordable is a national sport which is loved in every city in village in this country with. the found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this kid will help which got me over i see of that with the ball in the

world cup at home would give to you an added impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won there a server talented young players to defend on our first unforgettable emblems of pressure on their chest still not just on it's the only thing these boys 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 those fishermen 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 see itself as tess and also discovered. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman with. not so many fresh it's off season now salmond is a northern fish it comes to rivers for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries yes my grandfather used to build one mast

and two mast boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were either sailors or captains. bourque of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to put a key for a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to moore's 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 novel 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 braiding 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 move 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 few more hours 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 recipients is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries. and susie asked a cliche airing a heritage they're proud to call their own her me. for even singing my who

life my mother still sings we collect old rituals and songs and revive them is just belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs feel the desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson tesser cilia r.t. on hungus region. now. here l.t. australia is heading for its first hung parliament. saturday's election with over three quarters of the votes counted labor will say neither is likely to win the seventy six seats needed for a majority current prime minister remain can take on the until a new government is formed a process that. she was up against tony abbott said pollution. readers and there are ten chased by this story hotel taking thirty guests

hostage after three hours the gunman surrendered the girl the captives were freed on home for the shootout between the set. fifty suspected drug gang members were very soon and the fired one gang member was killed while seven others were injured . in china almost one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee the northeastern city gunboat off of rain swollen river overflowed four people were killed by the floodwaters all to the city called off region is the latest to be hit in the country's worst flood season and decade. i'll be back soon with our main with the headlines do stay with us. from.

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