we'll do you understand how we get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on r g. we can review on our t.v. united we stand president jimmy there is great difficulties for team work to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with his central asian counterparts. iran fills up as local and russian engineers load up its first nuclear power plant under strict supervision of the un atomic watchdog. to try government says it has the final say on whether to extradite him back to russian arms dealer to the u.s. after a local appeals court ruled in favor of his sendoff. and youngsters across russia step up their game in hopes of becoming football stars in the future as chief

inspectors assassins the country's ability to host the world cup games in eight or twelve years time. it's five pm in moscow and this is the weekly here are two with me nice and now way 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 them to outline a set of actions to combat common threats are to get there in the house the details what a little bit this is. for sure the u.s. and the war in just talking whether terrorism pull the t. and one other the burning told 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 afghanistan nor russia consoled the problem 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 what costs one country thirty thousand human lives a year is a profitable business for the other opium makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the hairy market i think of going to stand at records as ninety four ninety two percent of the whole 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 paul just 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 a very important you know as americans and european allies have failed in solving the problem i think russia now can contribute very much and 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 conscious and involved so russia seeks political solutions. very reassured his neighbors and. i'm side the police call

will will come financial support russia's already written the last portion of of ghana students 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 four neighbors of this troubled region together russia's team to show it is a new mood to give up the fight we didn't catch of our team from sochi. on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on in iran southern city of bush air the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog artie's oxana porker 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 the one for which iran has spared no expense

the chaplet has always been more than just that an education or writing facility for all it's a symbol of the country social progress and growth but it's more a time for both parties on the critics the embodiment of the slavic 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 already selling 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 course witnessing today. had not been big. 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 more. 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 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 and there have been working in the station for three years only the sas initially she was apprehensive 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 claiming israel's planning to bomb it's scary when they do training here there is shooting in airplanes of flying you never know if it's real or not maybe they're preparing for something. for 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 won't repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is against international rules attempting to meet new installations and these are on the order of these. off to me. it's a psychological war we do not take it serious although we are aware we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying that it's

a serious russia's role in supplying fuel and technology to iran may unsettle some but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peace purposes. r.t. will share iran. here with our to you live from moscow on the way for you when living the dream turned sour. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that my boyhood but like two hundred serve u.s. nationals are choosing to renounce their citizenship after finding the reality of american life doesn't match up to the nation's ideals. the government of thailand says it will make a final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer viktor boot will be extradited to the us on friday a thai appeals court ordered that he be handed over to washington to face charges

of terrorism and links to armed conflict in latin america moscow has 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 katrina zoravar house mark. 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 because that would nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels i don't know very sort of formulas cage who run the to play this sort of law for this very soon and i feel. it's a bad move on 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 the war 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 to 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 borge 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 blood knows too much he is more dangerous than we kill it's 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 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 many in africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods are no use for television was he from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even fly 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 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 it's high court if you will has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value at all in the evidence gathering the questioning of eyewitnesses all this work they need to lower courts related to victor's extradition to the u.s. has been thrown away the courts of appeal is controlled by the tiny government directly and so on 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 finds in 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 it's there who may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. catch readers are the art moscow. suspected organizer of the deadly moscow metro bombings has been killed by russian security forces during a shootout in dagestan in russia south for all the militants were also killed a large number of documents revealing the militants funding sources and there to. terror attack plans have been found at the site. is believed to have been the leader of a militant group in that this town for over two years he's been on both national and international warrantless security officials believe the gospel of had strong ties with the suicide bomber bomber mary i'm sorry prova one of the two female attackers who blew themselves up on moscow's metro in march forty people were killed and more than one hundred wounded by the twin blasts. this week saw another terror attack in russia's volatile north caucuses region on tuesday thirty people

were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of partygoers 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 his 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 manager 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 what 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 when you see i've got breezes here in there under rubble and 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 cloth be covered his face and then he wanted to look at the cloth he couldn't and panicked with these stories are stored in their memories for good lucky to be alive . two friends are retelling after a detail of the day. 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 me at the hospital and understood that the bruises are worse than what you. know me trying to mend his life and i understand who was behind the explosion but like many others encounter groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain or rude these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r.t. course and as my commutes of with his friends 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 our. united states and most more of legal immigrants for permanent residents than all other countries in the world put together for many it's seen as the land of opportunity but a growing number are becoming disillusioned with the american dream last year seven hundred chose to renounce their citizenship are more emmett 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 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 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 gullible 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 both economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily if not good will 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 ken 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 to 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 renouncing citizenship or hating 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. oh. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this sunday australian prime minister julia guillard has held initial talks with independent candidates to try

and form a government after saturday's election with most of the votes counted the country's facing its first hung parliament in seventeen years hillary will remain a leader in till a new government is formed a process that could take over a week. the pathologist who performed an autopsy on british government scientist david kelly has told media that cause of death was a textbook case of suicide he said that no evidence was found to support murder theories the scientists caused a political scandal seven years ago when he counts doubt on the u.k. 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. thinking big not only is russia hosting the winter olympics in sochi in twenty fourteen it's now meeting to stage another major sporting event football's world cup after a visit to the country inspectors from football's governing body fifa are assessing

russia's readiness to hold the tournament in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two fifa will announce its decision in december after considering rival bids from the u.s. and the u.k. but as ivor bennett reports just being in with 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 in twenty eighteen the hopes and expectations of a 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 eight year old 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 the logo fit with the 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 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. but home but he knows it's something not to be missed a bizarre turn playing in front of your own fans of hearing the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat which was 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 nine european championships i. hope this support will swing the physic but some of. the most important thing is that is a national sport which is loved in every city in the village in this country with. the found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this feat will help. me over a sea of them with the ball in the world cup at home would give the youth coach was an added impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won there are several talented young players to defend on our fresh with the emblems of pressure on their chest. it's the only thing these boys a dream on offer bennett. moscow.

time for our close up series now in this week we're heading one thousand kilometers north west of moscow to the small town of cargo poll in the art congress krege and it became an important trade center back in the sixteenth century as it was situated between russia's only seaport and moscow but as artie's tests are silly i found out its history dates all the way back to the eleventh century. to. a town frozen in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants sturdy magination. once upon a time cargo ball was one of the wealthiest towns in russia thanks to bustling trade by the anya go river but it began to fade into obscurity when c.

trade was moved to st petersburg and later on when the railroads were built bypassing the town life here is simple quiet and for the most part that actually means nothing has changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash the things in the river after they wash them in the machine the room next to linen feel fresher. today there's no real industry and gargle so people have to make do with what they do best making clothes toys to cover this is our main work in means of support which figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them. it's the parents that the once dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it a peasant art potters used to make way dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called gargle toy has become a brand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these have made

pieces of ancient local culture and to get their hands dirty as well but cargo pulls got more to show for itself than just play figurines. as far back as i could remember of five generations of my family have been involved in some form or want. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but always on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of my open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from kabul these massive wooden structures were brought to molokai rarely piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museum's team of restores. to most houses in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from fur fur dries out and disintegrates over

time we want to preserve it and restore what we can. for vladimir it's enough that their family restored a piece of congress history and are keeping it alive after all a new fields way of life is all they've known they quickly realize that invest wise it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i'm here at a call in a laundry room where locals bring their clothes more often views during the winter so if you'll excuse me i've got work to do. does our cilia arty cargo pull in the high heels region. in a few minutes we examine the impact of the disastrous all you'll fail my golf of mexico but before that we'll take a short break and i'll be back with the headlines.

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