long. in our week of review here on our t.v. stemming the drug flow when the spread of terrorism president medvedev meets three central asian leaders in russia city of sochi to work towards peace and stability. the wrong start floating fuel into its first nuclear power plant with the un's atomic watchdog monitoring the operations of the russian built react turn. the tide government says it will judge whether the suspected russian arms trafficker viktor boot should be handed over to the u.s. after a bangkok appeals court ruled to extradite him. russia stakes its hopes on the young

stars of the future as fifo takes a closer look at the country's bid to net the football world cup in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two. and a land of seafarers we take you to russia's white sea coast to explore how local positions of sailing and ship building are being kept afloat. for and welcome to the weekly here in our to this sunday i'm going use in no way with the latest in a look back at the week's top stories first this hour 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 in the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and to take a stand discuss how to stabilize the troubled region or to consider the graph reports it's

a little bit rates. which are the focus and the war in just. 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 know that afghanistan new russia consoled the problem in their own 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 organ makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the hairy market i think i'm going to. record as not a far live 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 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 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 middles 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 leader. conscious an involved so russia seeks political solution. 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 and mission impossible but by bringing the pool 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 over r t from sochi. now it was a big day for iran when it switched on its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of pushchair the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog amid international concerns over tehran's

nuclear aspirations are to boycott 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 that energy generating facility for iran if the 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 plumbing republic'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 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 the us 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 plant is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce smaller tricity 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 cooperation with the rand 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 this station for three years believe 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 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 cd causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is against international. attention we need new installations and these are on the defensive these. are the media.

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 peaceful purposes. r t will share iran. it was a thai government says it will have the final say on whether the suspected russian arms baron victor boot is to be extradited to the u.s. says this comes after a bangkok appeals court ruled that he was to be handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism and links to armed conflicts in africa the decision has been strongly condemned by russia as a political move to root was arrested in the time capital more than two years ago

in your us sting operation he's been in custody ever since company nazar looks back at the case. how the woods 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 arm the other eleven and his allegedly alife prototype russian businessman victor loot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. resulting from miccolis cage when the to play this out of love for this very silly and i feel. it's been his statement never change 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 in a very strong outside pressure and this is not sitting with us 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 bode is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several reasons 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 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 now many people are. willing to give 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 the merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation and many in africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods. from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even. legal 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 to take or different view has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value the role good evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses from this works that meet the lower court to lower tickets or sex tradition to the u.s. it has been strong the way the court to for do 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 if there are who may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see they really. get rid of art.

here with our live from moscow coming up shortly for you guinea pig nation human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical giants of the people of india as fodder for drug task often out there. and inspectors from field for a wrap up their visit checking whether russia is up to the task of hosting the football world cup. well on tuesday a car bomb ripped through a cafe in russia's northern caucuses thirty people were injured in the terror attack in the city of pittsburgh or six investigators are searching for the owner of the car which was packed with explosives. one of the victims. mika makes his leaving mix in cocktails he's the barman at one of the particles 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 a student what the change actually meant this is just like a court of law and i were the new one 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. go and all that 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 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 club because of 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 in retelling after in detail today. 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 see the hospice who understood that the

bruises are worse than. no mika's trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others in pune two groups he can't find any excuse and the innocent then rain all through these rather small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of course and as mike i mean with his friends you think for god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he can live a full life thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention. over r t. one of the suspected organizers of the deadly moscow metro blast in march has been killed by russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot dead in the special operation. is believed to have been a leader of one of the militant groups and russia's southern republic of the he was

on the federal and international wanted list for over two years is thought to have had close links to the suicide bomber mary i'm sorry but. rather who blew herself up at moscow's metro station a second female bomber detonated her suicide belt at park station the twin blasts killed forty eight people and injured more than one hundred. in india human rights groups have criticised 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 gordon singh reports. 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 let me 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 back on them or a target or a rash or a cap 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 officials 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 inform the companies can easily register patients and begin trials in developed countries it would take six months to register five patients whereas in india in the same time they could conduct trials on two thousand people. giving informed consent to be part of an experiment is the golden rule of all clinical trials but many patients here sign on the dotted line without understanding the nature and the consequences of what's being administered to them and they are americans 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 a legal. patient sometimes sign up out of desperation to them

experimental health is better than not that horrible. has agreed to let her child be treated with a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. achievement history sound happy with it. there are regulations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up takes 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 money touring 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 popal and jubal poor how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city just to find drug trials in institute here. with over one thousand three hundred drug trials going to have been conducted in india this industry's already said to be worth over 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. well after winning the right to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia is bidding for another major sporting event this time the football world cup the fans factor spent four days in the country assessing its capability to host the tournament and twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two among other bidders are the u.s. and england the decision will be announced on december the second in zorak as ivor bennett reports just the possibility is giving potential stars of tomorrow a 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 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 there are still 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 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 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 got i 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 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 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 feel. does but you some of. the most important thing is that there's a national sport which is loved in every city in the village in this country was. found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know

winning this kid will help. oversee of the a world cup at home would give the youth coaches an impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won it's very several talented young players to defend on our first of the emblems of pressure on their chest. is the only thing these boys a dream. i've been it's. mascot. on the coast of the white sea lies the land of the poem or people for centuries communities of sailors fishermen and ship builders have thrived on the natural resources of the landscape and to this day their way of wife is as timeless as the sea itself as tests are still yet discovered. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters . fisherman with. not so many fresh it's off season now the soundman is a northern fish and comes to a rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse 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 captains. bourque of is a native of but to keep the island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled 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 two more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques elegantly novel this is a car sequester kind of but it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets braving 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 can you can 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 adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. this recently and is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the centuries.

and susie asked equally sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. place as in singing my whole life my mother still sings we collect old retells 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 tesser cilia r.t. hungus region. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this sunday australia is facing its first hung parliament in seventy years following saturday's election most of the votes have now been counted. norval liberals will win the seventy six seats needed for majority and now need to negotiate with independents to form a coalition prime minister julia guillard will remain as caretaker leader until a new government is formed a process that could take over a week she was up against tony abbott the center right coalition. in rio de

janeiro town armed men being chased by police stormed a luxury hotel taking thirty gas hostage after three hours the gunman surrendered and all the captives were freed on harmed the incident began with a shootout between police and fifty suspected drug gang members from a nearby swamp one gang member was killed and seven others injured. in china almost one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee the north eastern city of daraa after a rain swollen river overflowed four people were killed by the floodwaters and parts of the city are called off the region is the latest to be hit in the country's worst flood season in over a decade. you can always find all our stories and much more on our website r t dot com i'll be back soon with our main weekly headlines after a short break stay with us.

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