what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline used to cause a report. in our review of the week on r.t. central asian leaders come together in russia city of sochi to brainstorm with president let's get it on how to battle the spread of drugs and terrorism. fuel starts flowing into iran's first nuclear energy russian built react to operating under the eye of the atomic watchdog. the government says a tour of the final say on the fate of the suspected russian arms trafficking to boot off of bangkok appeals court ordered his extradition to the u.s. . the home team is hoping to score big week for inspectors refusing

to bring the football world cup to russia unfastening in two thousand and twenty two we need the star also the future. joins us on a journey to russia's white seacoast see how will this help preserve their lifestyle for generations. for costing life in the heart of the russian capital your watching our weekly news review fighting terrorism and drug trafficking in central asia was the focus of a summit this week in russia's resort city of sochi present on the videos of afghanistan pakistan and tajik to stop discussed how to stabilize the troubled region. 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 together not individually afghanistan nor russia consoled the problem in their own option problem and it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries again as 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 opium makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the harry market i think of going to stand at 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 poll just 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 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 made those 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 very prudent approach if he tries to solve 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 his neighbors 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 a 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 the r t from sochi. it was a big day for iran when it switched on its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of bashir the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control un atomic watchdog and international concerns over terrence nuclear

aspirations. oksana boyko was that 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 the one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just an energy generating facility for iran it's a symbol of the country's social progress and growth but it's more in touch with government critics the embodiment of the slavic republics an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of a 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 officials says it's already 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 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 more tricity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear officials sergei kerry 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 bush plans 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 and that alina. have been working in 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 knowing that would you so reports online quinn 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 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 c.-t. causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials and they are confident history won't repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is the game's international. attempting to mean you use the mission and these are on the surface. off the media. it's

a psychological. we do not take it serious although we are aware we are vigilant but this does not mean there are 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 peaceful purposes as in a boycott r t will share iran. the tiny government says it will have the final say on whether this suspected russian arms baron victor boot is to be extradited to the u.s. well this comes after bangkok appeals court ruled that he was to be handed over to washington to face charges or terrorism or links to armed conflicts in africa that essentially has been strongly condemned by russia as a political move it to boot was arrest in the thai capital more than two years ago

this sting operation is going to trust that ever since katrina is our of takes a closer look now at the case. people 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 did that loot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels i don't know very sort of for miccolis cage who rang the to play this sort of law for this very silly and i feel pity for it's been his statement never change even when it 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 diligence sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and

because what knows too much he is more dangerous than we kill weeks 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 boot 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 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 only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being arms 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 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 but with this decision do you has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no well they're all good evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses this works that meet the lower court threw out tickets for six tradition to the u.s. it has been thrown the way the court to for people 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 boat may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. gasometers are the arctic

moscow. rejecting their country. i started to look at american history. politics and realize that my boyhood. faults 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 top of close to the world cup. on tuesday 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 books on the net 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 course away and i was unable 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 help us to. get it i was on the phone that's one 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 breezes here in there and you're back 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 glass 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 us toward in their memories for good lucky to be alive . to friends in retelling after in 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 he 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 encounter groups he can't find any excuse to target in the innocent then rain and they all hinged rude these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r.t. course and as mike i mean support his friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive his biggest wice now is to leave the city so he can labor for why thanks to what he claimed was divine intervention family which over our team one of the suspected organizers of the deadly moscow metro blasts in march has been killed by russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot dead in the special operations command about garble face believed to have been in the

view of one of the militant groups and russia's southern republic of dagestan he was on the federal and international wanted list for over two years off the front of her close links to the suicide bomber. who blew herself up at moscow's the bianca metro station a second team obama detonated her suicide belt at true station the twin blasts killed forty people injured more than a hundred. united states leads the world in the number of legal 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 ortiz or emmitt asked one of the former patriots why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american had a 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 o'keefe apply to the state department to stop being american plane political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keeffe 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 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 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 economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily eroded 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 commandos 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 that 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 you are at it london. after winning the right to

host the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia is bidding for another major sporting event this time the football world cup before inspects a spent force. raising the country assessing its capability to host the twenty two thousand and eighteen two thousand and twenty two among other bidders of the united states and england the decision will be announced on december the second but as i have a bet it reports there's the possibility he's given potential stars of tomorrow for the intervention 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 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 their mission will 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 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 you're not a 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 you know 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's 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 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 the. hope this support will swing fief is vote this. the most important thing is that is a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with. the found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning defeat will help which got me over i see of that with the ball in the world cup at home would give the youth coaches an added impetus so that by two thousand

and eight she won the race several talented young players to defend on are fresh and forget all the emblems of pressure on their chest. is the only thing these boys dream. i've been it r.t. moscow. now on the coast of the white sea in lies the land of a poem or people for centuries communities of sailors official 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 as tessa discovered they were one of the first school growers of the northern waters. fisherman with. not so many fresh season now soundman is a northern fish it comes to a rebus with spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one. spates he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is

connected to the sea they were the sailors captain. burke of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we traveled to put it on 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 more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructed wooden boats using old techniques a lot of novel there 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 guinea creek i'm 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 boomers 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 culture alive throughout the centuries share and susie asked equally sharing a heritage they are proud to call their own her me. for a virgin singing my her life my mother still sing we collect old reel tales and

songs and revive them is just belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have been designed to sing old songs feel a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson dancer celia artie on hungus region. and some other news in brief housetrain here is faced with its first hung parliament in seventeen years off the base election most of the votes have been counted they've all the liberals will win the seventy six seats needed for majority and i'll need to negotiate independents to form a coalition current prime minister julia gillard remain as caretaker leave it until you come in this form process the title for the week up against tony abbott center right coalition. in rio de janeiro ten gunmen are being chased by police stormed the truth and tell taking thirteen guests hostage after three hours the gunman surrendered in the attempt is for free and it's one of the

shootout between police and fifty suspected drug gang members going to smell and that fight among gang members killed seven others were injured. and in china almost one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee the northeastern city hall after a rain swollen river and the flow four people were killed by the floodwaters in parts of the. cut off region is that they tend to be hit country's worst flood season over a decade. but in a few minutes we examine the impact of the disastrous oil spill in the gulf of mexico now the back cover the headline stems. from.

extracting black gold and dangerous. but worldwide demand pushes the limits to catastrophe. is the price cheap. is it possible to prevent such disasters. and can the aftermath be dealt with quickly am defectively. oil spill.