what tomorrow will bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us for technology update on our g. in our week of review here on r.g.p. and 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. starts loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant with the un's atomic watchdog monitoring the operations of the russian built reactor. died 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 the five takes a closer look at the country's bid to net the football world cup in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two. off one r.t.l. land of seafarers we take you to russians white sea coast to explore how the local traditions of selling and shipbuilding are being kept afloat. welcome to the weekly here in our team this sunday on the nice and now way 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 and the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and to them discussed how to stabilize the troubled region are to get through the crush now reports for the list which just told the

french where the focus and the war in just talking whether terrorism pull the t. and one other the burning topi took a front seat as russia hosted his 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 nor russia can solve the problem only in the room 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 which 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. record as ninety four ninety two 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 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 apologise fuels and other world wide evil terrorists 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 meeting is very important you know as americans and european allies have failed in solving the problem i think russia now can contribute very much and the russian president has taken

a very prudent approach if he tries to solve the problem in complex he tried to talk directly to the leaders of all those contras involved so russia seeks political solutions. very reassured his neighbors alongside the police call will will come. international 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 pool neighbors of this troubled region together russia is keen to show it is in a mood to give up the fight he did in the crash of our team from sochi. well 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 watch stock amid international concerns over

tyrants nuclear aspirations artie's 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 one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just that energy generating facility for iran it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for intentions of iraq critics the embodiment of the farming republics an 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 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 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 planet as a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more of chasity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear fishel sergei kerry younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's 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 bush era power plants is an international project over ten countries supply 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 says initially she was a pretty hands of about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns with your no and we just saw reports online 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 won't repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is against international. attention to need new installations and these are on the surface. off the

media. it's psychological. we do not take it seriously 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 the phrase enrichment for peace purposes. our theme will share iran. the 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. 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 victor boot was arrested in the thai capital more than two years

ago in the u.s. sting operation has been in custody ever since three nazar looks back at the case. 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 are in 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. to a very sort of formulas 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 he was sorry that a thai appeals 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 i'm sitting with him 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 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 tried to recruit him to be cia made several approaches to record every few years all villages ticks all of the 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. 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. major would call them. 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 or all sorts of things so we're 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. has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no well they're all good evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses for this works that meet the lower court to low to the source extradition to the u.s. it has been strong 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 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 art

moscow. coming up shortly here in rejecting their country. i started to look at american history and politics and realize that my whole life i had to be reported on u.s. nationals who choose to denounce their citizens. disillusioned with the american dream. and inspectors from fifo wrap up their visit checking whether russia is up to the task of hosting the football 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 petit gorski investigators are searching for the owner of a car which was packed with explosives. met one of the victims. mika makes his leaving mix in cocktails he's the barman at one of the patagonia's 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 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. get in i was on the phone that's when my left ear is ok i started shouting because my is but 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 and there under a bottle so yeah 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 and couldn't and panicked with these stories are stored in their memories for good lucky to be alive. to friends and retelling after a detail of the day. i saw me kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was alive on time saw him from behind and i didn't know how badly he was injured i

went to see the hostess who understood that the bruises are worse than. no mika's trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion much like many others and he can't find any excuse for the illness and 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 give thanks to 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 in russia's southern republic of the he was on the federal and international wanted list for over two years ago above is thought to have had close links to the suicide bomber mary i'm sorry. who blew herself up at moscow's new bianca metro station a second female bomber detonated her suicide belt at the tory station between blast killed forty people and injured more than one hundred. but the 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 marches lore and asked one former patriarch why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american hit 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 the 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 that 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 if he did o'keefe apply to the state department to stop being american claim 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 that's the bad news. deep down they're also the most idealistic so i say 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 would be 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 commandos in may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel can 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 you are at it. 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 fans factors spent four days in the country assessing its capability to host the tournament in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two among other bidders are the united states and england the decision will be announced on december the second in zurich but as either 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 it was so well received or struck me as i really want russia to host the twenty eighty mile cap is my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training 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 to not be loggerheads with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags approach it was you know 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 a disaster playing in front of your own fans hearing the for. country support behind you is something you can't beat which is a football you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do it'll 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 but some of the football units and some of the most important thing is affordable is a national sport which is loved in every city in the village in this country with their say. the sound support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this seat will help me over a sea of them 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 it there are several talented young players to defend on are fresh off a little bit with the emblems of fresh air on their chest still not just on who is the only thing these boys a dream. i've been it's. moscow. but on the coast of the white sea lies the land of the pub more people for centuries communities of sailors 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 as tests are sillier discovered they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters. fisherman. not send any fresh season now feel good soundman is not in fish it comes to reverse 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 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 poem or way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques a lot of third novel there's 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 can eat them 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 adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every were injured and rebuilt every spring. this was is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the centuries. and sickly sharing a heritage they are proud to call their own. flavors in singing my who

my mother sings we collect old rituals and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when it time this dress i feel very good and have the desire to sing old songs a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson. r.t. region. let's take a look now at some stories that are dominating world news this sunday australia is facing its first hung parliament seventy years following saturday's election most of the votes have now been counted neither labor nor the liberals will win the seventy six seats needed for a majority and now need to negotiate with independents to form a coalition prime minister julia guillard will remain as caretaker leader until the new government formed a process that could take over a week she was up against tony abbott of the center right coalition. and rio de janeiro ten armed men being chased by police stormed

a luxury hotel taking thirty gassed hostage after three hours the gunmen 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 slum gang member was killed and seven others injured. in china almost one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee the northeastern city of dome after a rain swollen river overflowed four people were killed by the floodwaters. parts of the city are now cut off the region is the latest to be hit in the country's worst flood season in over a decade. that's why the news books this hour here on r t coming up shortly we have a special report we investigate the sexual assault of women in the u.s. army for that though i'll be back with the headlines after a short break. the

united states of america is waging war within its own army. jono advantage is on no one side. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. or.