a. little girl. like. me. that we can review on our team tonight if we stay on the president dmitry medvedev calls for timor to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with the central asian counterpart. iran feels off as local and russian engineers hold up its first nuclear power plant under strict supervision of the u. once a comic watched all. the tight government says it has the final say on whether to extradite a suspected russian arms dealer to the u.s. after a local appeals court ruled in favor of his sandals. and youngsters across russia

step up their game and help them becoming football stars of the future as chief inspectors assesses the country's ability to host the world cup eight or twelve years time. more welcome to the weekly here on our team this sunday on the news now with the latest and a look back at our 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 a stand to outline a set of actions to combat common threats arts music at the democrats has the details for the list which just hold which was the logos and they weren't just. terrorism pull the tea and one other the burning told took

a front seat as russia hosted its three central asian neighbors in sochi. on the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to together. going to. consoled the problem. option problem and it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries have ghana stand 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 harry market i think of going to. record as ninety four ninety 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 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 fuels and other worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's we're all know. 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 needle's afghan war rages on their current meeting is a very important you know as americans and europeans. 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 told there rect little the leaders of all those conscious involved so russia seeks

political solutions. very reassured his neighbors alongside the political will will come financial support russia's already written over the last portion of afghanistan's debt the final chunk of twelve billion dollars. and more how it will come in the form of helicopters and the 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 couldn't achieve our tea from sort cheap. on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on in the wrong sorry city of bush air the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog parties are on a boycott 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 has always been more than just that and if you're ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country social progress proof of what's good for interaction but for a lot of critics the embodiment of poppy pharmacare publics ideological backwardness and a vivid example of that building which are 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 from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making gas

witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would not have been witnessing such a great deal with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more with 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 carey 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 to remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their lead. i have been working at this station for three years

only 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 over here knowing that we just saw reports online claiming israel's planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here these shooting in 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 city causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history won't repeat itself and we are not too soon because we know this is a game soon to be. taking a new installation. these are only the third. off the. it's psychological. we do not take it serious although we are

in there we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are seeing it says seriously 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 on a boycott see we'll share iran. here with our t.v. live from moscow still to come on the program a day to remember find out how a bartender ship swap became a matter of wife and death all the details coming up later in the program. the government of thailand says it will make a final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer viktor boat will be extradited to the u.s. on friday a type appeals court ordered that he be handed over to washington to face charges

of terrorism. and links to arm conflicts 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 covering azara house war. 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 were 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 left off parallels well i don't know very sort of from nicolas cage when the to play this sort of law for this very soon and i feel. his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the

infamous bangkok helton but that did not stop the thai appeals court from ordering his extradition to the united states despite the fact that the country's criminal court earlier refused to do just that the ruling has outraged not only his family but his native country as well so that it was started at a time i appeal court has made this political decision but according to the information we have this ruling was made under very strong outside pressure and this is upsetting as for the interests of this russian citizen we've been assisting him for all these months we've been in touch with his lawyers in this family and will continue to do our best to get him returned to his homeland and now the question everyone is asking is what does victor boot know to make the americans want him this badly victor board is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several reasons why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him. the united states first they try

to recruit here they say i made several approaches to record every few years all the logistics of the legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because we're too much more dangerous then we kill x. for the u. s. smuggling role in weapons not only in africa and latin america but all over the world but not many people are willing to give bush 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. i mean around a lot of operation and you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his plots were ordinary commercial goods. from all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even.

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 to the fuel has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value at all the evidence gathering the questioning of eyewitnesses of all this work the need to lower courts related to 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 us that's 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 signal to hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in

the may. but that who may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see that really. matters are the last. suspected organizer of the deadly moscow metro bombings has been killed by russian security forces during a shootout in russia's south for other alleged militants who are also killed a large number of documents revealing the militants funding sources and their terror attack plans have been found at the site. of is believed to have been the leader of a militant group in douglas them for over two years he has been on both national and international wanted list security officials believe a god of had strong ties that the suicide bomber mary and sherry 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 another terror attack in russia as volatile north caucuses region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when

a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of 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 astute what the change actually meant this is just like of course away in a war that you know 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. know it all and 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 car in pieces then i turned back and saw no one where there should be people so as if on auto pilot i went to help them out that's it i had to return to the scene later to shut off the gas to prevent another explosion has just left hospital and returned to the scene he's reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while we talk this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors see i've got bruises here in there and you're back 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 cloth 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 and retaliate after a detail of the day. one oh i saw me three to four minutes after the explosion he was alive but 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 he said i don't know mika's trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others in pianta groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain. a chance to root these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r.t. course and as mike i mean support his friends 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 oksana what you're over are. now it's just four years till russia hosts the winter olympics and it could be just eight years to that stage as another major sporting event football's world cup fever inspectors are assessing the country's readiness to hold the tournament in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two and as i've or bennett now reports that prospect is already inspiring russians 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 used to gather me 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 they also receive more 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's no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must ensure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour when 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 love 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 with playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat richard as a footballer you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do very little change their lives 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 championship i. say this supports the swing fief is vote for some of. the most important thing is that it is a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with their. found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about and no winning this feat will help. a world cup at home would give us an impetus. each one is very several talented young players to defend on our little

fresher on their chest little not just on and it's the only thing these boys dream of are the bennett. moscow. international. pharmaceutical companies are under fire for allegedly testing new drugs on people in india without their consent around two million people are estimated to be taken part in clinical trials in the country but even those who do sign up aren't told the full story about potentially dangerous side effects. 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. to 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 better or turn around to recap but 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 or without their consent. 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 that it is a drug trial this is unethical to root. patients in without proper consent without . taking part in a drugs trial it is both an ethical and illegal. patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental health care is better than none at all but agreed to let her child be treated with a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. to cheat an interest

free 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 to just define drug trials in an institute here. with over one thousand three hundred drug trials currently being conducted in india this industry is already said to be worth 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 and seeing india. let's take

a look at some other stories dominating world news this sunday australian prime minister julia killer it has held initial talks with independent candidates trying to form a government after saturday's election with most of the votes counted the country is facing its first hung parliament in seventy years it will remain as leader in tell 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 them. media that the cause of death was a textbook case of suicide he said that no evidence was found to support murder theories the scientists calls a political scandal seven years ago when he cast 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.

time for our close up series now and this week our team has been to the our region in the northwest of russia the country's first seaport back in the sixteenth century recognized as a regional capital that now has everything from ship building to diamonds we sent tests are still yet to explore. thanks to its waterways on hungus is known as the gateway to the arctic but this wasn't always the case in the one nine hundred twenty s. it was called the national hard currency shops as its rich timber and paper pulp industries yielded the lion's share of the treasury's hard currency earnings it's a controversial part of its past these industries flourished thanks to tens of thousands of prison inmates forced to work in the north during stalin's time but on hunger else did make a more positive and lasting mark in history when peter the great founder of russia's first shipyard here and it became the motherland of the country's fleet

our crew visited a ship repair plant in the region which has also recently started making vessels the facility was set up in the one nine hundred fifty s. especially for repairing and retooling soviet ships and submarines in the ninety's or whenever the soviet government radically cut the number of defense contracts and the plant's output felt they had no choice but to diversify and went into diamond cutting. as well you know dining cutting was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct vicinity of the diamond field looked attractive. that diamond field is the law manasseh of mine named after the local scientists and poet mihailo manasseh of back in the seventeenth century he said that there were diamonds in the region but the gems weren't found until much later this period opened in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and the first diamond was extracted just five years ago not an easy task in

a water rich region the field is located smack in the middle of a marshland emit rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long canal to divert the water flow just like you i don't know of any other diamond fields where the extraction conditions are so complicated their work is like looking for needles in a haystack in every truckload of rocks. only two or three diamonds can be found but there are no ordinary diamonds. deposits produced transparent or barely colored gemstones here we find intensely colored diamonds green yellow even pink and blue. this side right here is one hundred metres deep and it produces about half a million carats worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they plan to go deeper into the earth where the soil is richer and where the a lot more of that precious stone many women called their best friend. but

before anyone get even see a single sparkle a long process has to be gone through. and what you get are real gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it. tests are silly on their reporting from the our region stay with r.t. for a recap of the week's top stories that we're going to take a look at what's causing drastic weather changes in some parts of the world stay with us.

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