it's time to. go. to the. market. you know. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on or. do we do a review on our team united we stand the president to me to be very difficult for timor to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with the central asian counterparts. here on fills up as local and russian engineers load up its first nuclear power plant under strict supervision of the un's atomic watchdog. the time government says it has the final say on whether to extradite a suspected russian arms dealer to the u.s. after a local of pills court ruled in favor of his sendoff. and youngsters

across russia must step up their game in the hope of becoming football stars of the future as fifa inspectors assess the country's ability to host the games in eight or twelve years time. or malcolm to the weekly here in our to this sunday on the need to now with the latest and a look back at the week's top stories first drug trafficking terrorism and poverty in central asia where the focus of a summit this week in russia's resort city of sochi president medvedev hosted the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and to take us down to outline a set of actions to combat common threats. has the details. 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. focused on the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to it together not individually know that afghanistan or russia can solve the problem in their own 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 harry market i think of going to stand at record as ninety four ninety percent of the whole market so we whole economy is based on a drug that there is even a term that afghanistan is a drug based economy afghan heroin kills more russians in six months than the whole

ten year long soviet military complain kill soldiers that's why russia is keen to take the lead in fighting the threat every third person who dies of opium abuse is in russia and the politics feels and other worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's role. 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 region 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 of a 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 solution. very reassured his neighbors alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written 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 a new mood to give up the fight he didn't catch over r t from sochi. on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on iran's southern city of bush air the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog artie's oksana boyko reports on the launch that took place despite international concerns over tehran's nuclear ambitions. 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 money it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for interactions among the critics the embodiment of the slavic republics an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the real thing 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 time for celebration we are grateful to the people of russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making the 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 which a city 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 iran it when you go it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the bushehr power plants is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear few people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri and that alina. 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 knowing that we just saw reports online quin israel is planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here there is shooting and airplanes are flying you never know if it's real or not maybe they're preparing for something to many here is a real threat to bomb the station involved 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 want to repeat itself we are not to see because we know this is against international. attention to need new installations and these are on the surface. off to me.

it's the 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 man settle some but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peace purposes. r t bush share iran. the government of thailand says it will make the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer victor boot will be extradited to the us on friday a thai court appeals court ordered that he be entered over to washington to face charges of terrorism and links to armed conflicts in latin america moscow have strongly condemned the ruling saying it's politically motivated who was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by u.s. law enforcers and has been kept behind bars ever since cutting us

a lot of our house more. 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 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. very sort of formulas caged in the to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for 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 under very strong outside pressure and this is not sitting with us 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 try to recruit him they say i 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 now is too much heat 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 them merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation in maine you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know he flew television as he flew washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. 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. with this decision to take or different view has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no well you know they're all good evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses this works that meet the lower court threw out tickets or sex tradition to the u.s. it has been thrown the way of the court to forgive was 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. cash returns are the art moscow. a suspected organizer of the deadly moscow metro bombings has been killed

by russian security forces during a shootout in dagestan for other alleged militants were also killed a large number of documents revealing the militants funding sources and their terror attack plans. have been found at the site but gomez. is believed to have been the leader of the militant group in the republic of dagestan for over two years he has been on both national and international wanted list security officials believe by god both have strong ties with the suicide bomber mary i'm sure one of the two female attackers who blew themselves up on moscow's metro in march forty people were killed and more than a hundred wounded by the twin blasts. this week saw a number of another terror attack in russia's volatile north caucasus region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of pity gorski the search continues for those responsible parties i. went to meet some of the victims. mika makes his leave and makes him

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 course away in a war 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. put it 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 see i've got bruises here in there and you're back oh yeah i say ok i was sitting with my back to the chair i can't get one dreadful moment of my mind there was a guy the last one on the glass 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 . two friends are retelling after

a detail of the day. one oh i saw me kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was a laurie one time i saw him from behind and i didn't know how badly he was injured i went to the hospital and understood that the bruises are worse than what you. know mika is trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others and can't agree he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain it's all a chance to prove these rather small things but after the explosion meaning to the people of course and as my comments of what his friends think for god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he can leave or for why thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention. over our team. here with our to live from moscow on the way for you drug companies are often

criticized for their use of animal testing but now in india they're being blamed for using people as the guinea pigs by trying out new medicines without their knowledge. thinking bag not only is russia hosting the winter olympics in sochi in twenty fourteen it's now bidding to state another major sporting event football's world cup after a visit to the country inspectors from football's governing body if a far assassin rushes readiness to hold the tournament in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two people will announce a decision in december after considering rival bits including from the u.s. and the u.k. but as ivor bennett reports just being in within within a chance is inspiring russia's football stars of tomorrow 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. twenty eighteen the hopes and

expectations of a nation resting on bare shoulders pressure that would make others of their age crumble but for the boys at spartak moscow is youth academy discipline and desire a more important it's not the fear of failure that drives them is the fear of missing the chance to play in a world cup on home turf there's only so much very simple strategy and if i really want russia to host the twenty eighty mile cap it's my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training is no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must endure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour the coaches know the boys have talent but it's their hunger that's the key this man is no stranger to that he knows what it takes to play in a world cup. with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags of hercules. 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 i pledged that never in my life would i smoke a cigarette or drink a gram of wine or beer you know the never had the chance to play in a world cup at home but he knows it's something not to be missed and deserted 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 it will 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 european championships i. hope this support will swing fief is vote. on one of the most important thing is that is a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with the safety of the found support here is unconditional. they just want more to cheer

about you know winning this seat will help. you know what i see of them with the ball in the world cup at home would give the youth coaches and that impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won is very similar talented young players to defend on our first of the emblems of pressure on their chest. is the only thing these boys dream. offered and it's. international pharmaceutical companies are under fire for a virtually testing new drugs on people in india without their consent around two million people are estimated to be taking part in clinical trials in the country but even those who do sign up are told the full story about potentially dangerous side effects. 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 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. rational account they can test any medication they like only. 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 caught in this kind of year 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. nations 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 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 communities 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 pulp all enjoyable tour 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 is 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. let's take a look at some of sunday's news in brief for you australian prime minister julia guillard has held a national talks with independent candidates to try and form a government after saturday's election with most of the votes counted the country is facing its first hung parliament in seventy years guillard will remain as leader until a new government is formed a process that could take over a week. the pathologist who performed an autopsy on the british government scientist david kelly has told the media about the cost of day. that was a textbook case of suicide he said that no evidence was found support murder of theories scientists caused a political scandal seven years ago when he cast doubt on the u.k. government u.k. as the government's claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction shortly after

kelly's body was found near woods close to his home his death has caused worldwide controversy. police in brazil are searching for gunmen responsible for saturday's attack at a hotel the are men held thirty five people hostage at the intercontinental in rio one person was killed and four police officers wounded during the siege police believe the gunman had drug dealing connections ten people have been arrested but another thirty attackers managed to escape. time for our close up series now in this week our team's been to the region of our congress skin the northwest of russia well the coast of the white seed lies the land of the more people for generations communities of sellers fisherman and carpenters have thrived from the area's natural resources our cities test our silly

has been to explore. 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 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 mast into mast boats 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 got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to better keep a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to 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 all this is a car bus a coaster 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 lead to more houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions. for the poor more adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is

down every winter and rebuilt every spring. yet this was is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the century yeah. yeah stickley sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. me. for you i've been singing my who life my mother still sings we collect old rituals and songs and revive them is just belongs to my grandmother when it puts 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 celia artie region. stay with r.t. for a recap of the week stories and a look at what winter has in store for us that's coming up in just a few moments. a

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