but we can review on our team united we stand to make room it's very difficult for timor to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with central asian counterparts. iran feels off as local and russian engineers load up its first nuclear power plant under strict supervision of the un's atomic watched on. the di government says it has the final say on whether to extradite him back to washington arms dealer u.s. after a local field or ruled in favor of the sandals. and youngsters appalls russia

step up their game in hopes of becoming football stars of the future before inspectors assess the country's ability to hold the world cup in eight or twelve years time. it's seven pm in moscow this is our to you coming to you live now with the latest in 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 entergy cause them to outline a set of actions to combat common threats because the democrats has the details. for the list which you so full of which are the focus and the war in just talking whether terrorism pull the t.

and one other the burning told took a front seat as russia hosted his three central asian neighbors in sochi. with the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to it together. did you know that afghanistan russia can solve the problem in their own problem and it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries and ghana stan is the world's largest opium producer russia the world's largest consumer what costs one country thirty thousand human lives a year is a profitable business for the other organ makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the harry market i think of going to. record 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 politics feels another worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's raw nerve. 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 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 conscious involved so russia seeks

political solutions. very reassured his neighbors alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written the last portion of afghanistan's debt the fine. chunk of twelve billion dollars and more help 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 said in the crash of a r t from sochi. well on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plants watched on in iran southern city of bush air the reactor built by russia had 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 each iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just that an education or ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country social progress and proof of what's good for interactions but for a lot of critics the embodiment of poppy farming republicans have ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the real thing which is 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 were. instrumental in making course

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 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 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 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

alina says initially she was a pretty hands of a bar 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 local training here there is 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 hillary berridge the city causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history born to repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is the case international. attention they need a new installation. these are the. often the. it is psychological. we do not take it serious although we are

aware we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying 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 the phrase enrichment for peaceful purposes. r.t. will share iran. here with our t.v. live from moscow on the way for you when living the dream turned sour. i started to look at american history and politics and realized that my whole life i had been lied to hundreds of u.s. nationals are choosing to renounce their citizenship after finding the reality of american life doesn't match up with the nation's ideals. the government of thailand says it will make the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer viktor boat will be extradited to the us on friday

a thai appeals court order that he be handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism and links to armed conflicts environmental mosco 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 you whilst known for stars and has been kept behind bars ever since because he knows are over has more. people in the hollywood's 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 real life prototype russian businessman victor lute nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and left off parallels well i don't know very sort of from nicholas cage to play this sort of love for this very few of. 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 political. into 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 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 are willing to give that 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 a lot operate in. and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods. or all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even which is not itself illegal 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. with this decision of its high court if you will has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value at all when the evidence gathering the questioning of eyewitnesses of all this work that we have the 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 sauce you. the pressure from this 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 that who may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see the really. cashiers are about to last . a suspected organizer of the deadly moscow metro bombings has been killed by

russian security forces during a shootout in dagestan in russia south four 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. is believed to have been the leader of a militant group in dagestan for over two years he's been on both national and international wanted list security officials believe had strong ties with the suicide bomber. 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. well 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 pittsburgh or so the search continues for those responsible.

went to meet some of the victims. mika makes his leave and makes in cocktails he's the barman at one of the particles cafes on the street the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague he agreed to swap shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just of course away and i were the only 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 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. 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. as if on autopilot i went to help them out that's it i had to return to the scene later to shut off the gas to prevent another explosion has just left hospital and returned to the scene he's reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while we talk this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors see i've got bruises here in there and you're right i say ok i was sitting with my back to the chair i can get one dreadful moment of my mind there was a guy he lost one eye in the blast and they gave him a cloth he 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 affray detail of the day. i saw me kind of 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 nico is trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others and he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain or a chance to prove these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of p.r.c. of course and as my support his friends you 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 on the show of r r t. the united

states of missed more illegal immigrants for permanent residence that all countries in the world put together for many is seen as the land of opportunity but a growing number of becoming disillusioned with the american dream last year seven hundred chose to renounce their citizenship artie's laura asked one former patriarch why he did it. can o'keefe grew up an american and a 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 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 it he did keefe applied to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe 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's steadily it rooted 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 ok face committed to changing that senate 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 c'mon days 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 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 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 r.t. london. well it's just four years till russia hosts the winter olympics and it could be just eight years till it stages 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 abandoned reports that prospect is already inspiring russia's football stars of tomorrow to

train harder today. for these boys football is their life they train every single day they're 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 trainings no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must endure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour what 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 but cannot be longer fit with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships drugs 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 could 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 desert playing in front of your own family. 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 it will change their lives was 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. so

this support will swing the physics but some of the units and 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 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 go which was an added impetus so that each one is very several talented young players to defend on our first move with the emblems of fracture on their chest. is the only thing these boys a dream. offer bennett. moscow. let's take a look of some of today's news in brief for you this hour australian prime minister julia killer 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 is facing its first hung parliament in seven years no party is likely to win the

seventy six seats needed for an outright majority 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 british government scientist david kelly has told media that the cause of death was a textbook case of suicide he said that no evidence was found to support murder theories the scientist 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. as to his home his death has caused worldwide controversy. and almost a hundred thousand people have been forced to flee northeastern china after a rain swollen river that borders north korea burst its banks four people are said to be missing and many homes destroyed in the city of vang dong north korea has deployed military units including the air force and navy to aid rescue efforts more

torrential rain is forecast for the next twenty four hours in china's worst flood season in over a decade. time for our close up series now in this week our team has been to the region of art can go in the northwest of russia while on the coast of the white sea lies the land of the more people for generations communities of sailors fisherman and carpenters have thrived from the area's natural resources artie's test arsole has been to explore. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman. not so many fish it's off season now soundman is a northern fish it comes to reverse for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the boomers have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries this my grandfather used to build one.

boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were either sailors or captains. work of is a native of but you could have got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we traveled to put a key for a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morse 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. constructing wooden boats using old techniques a lot of novel uses a car kind of boat it's very stable on the sea it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets braving the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but

i've been fishing for a long time now this year i caught a big fish this big and living in uniquely 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 release all houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions. for the few more adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. this was cillian is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries. and through siesta cli sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own old me. for you i've been singing my who

life my mother still sings we collect old retorts and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when it put time this dress i feel very good and i 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's top stories and we also have coming up for you a look at the vietnam war for the eyes of those who fought in thirty five years ago stay with us. a little.

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