i hope for a shelter room today. we can review on all to do not consider based on the president to be that of a dead of the team to be drug trafficking on terrorism in the central asian counties it's. iran feels the hope of local russian engineers load up its first nuclear power plant on the strict supervision of the well toilet. extradition to the stove a toy said who will be the case of the suspected russian arms to the altar and local appeals court but you've heard from him over to the us. on the long

term goal rush should be understood by the four years of playing that country and i speak for inspectors in the countries that bid to host the world cup and asia will twelve years time. a very warm welcome this is live from moscow with me alice had bad drug trafficking and terrorism and poverty in central asia where the focus of a summit this week in russia's result of president medvedev hosted the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and. to outline a set of actions to combat common threats. i think about the details of the list which do so. much for the logos and they weren't 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. 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 have ghana stand 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 not a far ninety two percent of the market so we whole economy is based on drugs there is even a term that afghanistan is a drug based economy afghan heroin kills more russians in six months than the whole

ten year long soviet military complain kill soldiers that's why russia is keen to take the lead in fighting the threat every third person who dies of opium abuse is in russia and 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 region 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 it seems 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 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 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 four neighbors of this troubled region together russia is keen to show it is in no mood to give up the fight exiting the crash of r r t from sochi. the middle east or its first nuclear power plants which stall in around southern city of bush where the reactor build by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog artes of the boy to report on the launch that took place despite international concerns over to iran's nuclear ambitions. more than thirty years in

the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all the calls the pushchair 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 to her it's a symbol of the country actually progress to prove but it's more in touch by critics the embodiment the poppy pharmacare publics of ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the 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 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 period with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce smaller chasity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear fishel sergei kerry unca 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 bush 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 alina. i have been working at this 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. and 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 of 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 evoke 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 repeat itself and we are not too soon because we know this is a good soon to. be doing new installation. these are on the third these. are the. it's the psychological.

we do not take it serious although we are and now we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are seeing it says suz 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 r t will share iran. on the way when living the dream turns sour. i started to look at american history and politics and realize that my boyhood would like to hundreds of u.s. nationals are choosing to renounce their citizenship after finding the reality of about my doesn't match up the nation's idea it's. the government of thailand says it will make the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer to 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 that in america moscow has strongly condemned the grooming saying it's politically motivated suit was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by us the office is and has been kept behind bars ever since katherine as other has more. 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 are in the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype russian businessman get that loot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for. his statement never changed even

when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton but that did not stop the thai appeals court from ordering his extradition to the united states despite the fact that the country's criminal court earlier refused to do just that the ruling has outraged not only his family but his native country as well so that it was started at a time i appeal court has made this political decision 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 and his 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 bored 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 wigs 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 booth the type of credit given to him by the u.s. he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you could call them merchant of death or in bericht. 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 you through television you see from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even fly 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 but with this decision for thai court of appeal has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value at all evidence gathering the questioning of eyewitnesses always works to meet the lure of course related to victor's extradition to the us has been thrown away the courts of appeal is controlled by the tiny government directly and saw 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 may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see that really. matters are the art loss . of suspects to the deadly bombings has been killed by russian

security forces during a shootout in douglas on the russia's south for all her alleged militants were also killed with a large number of documents revealing the militants funding sources and the terrorists have plans have been found at the signs. is believed to have been the leader of a militia group. for over two years he's been on both national and. international wanted lefts security officials believe that had strong ties to the suicide bomber mariam shot either one of the two female attackers he themselves are moscow's metro in march forty people were killed and more than one hundred wounded by the twin blasts. or this week's or another terror attack in russia's volatile north caucuses region on that she's day thirty people were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of people of course while the search continues for those

responsible. for went to meet some of the victims. makes you believe in mixing cocktails he's the barman at one of the particles cafes on the street the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague here greed just walk shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last tuesday he and a student what did change actually meant this is just of course. 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. that 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 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 your back it's 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 or retaliate after a detail of the day. i saw me car 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 no mika is trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others and can't ignore school he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent there rain a day or a chance to road these were the small things that after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of calculus and as my. i mean support his friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he can live a full life thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention. over our team.

the united states admits more legal immigrants from home and residence than all of the 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 chinese to announce their citizenship. i met one former patriot why he. can o'keefe grew up an american in 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. 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. i believed in those ideals you know

i believed in what i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world and it became clear to me at some point that i would really 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's steadily it rooted not goodwill because it's failing to give its ethical lead now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can o'keefe is committed to changing that sense since giving up his u.s. citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli commandos in may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel can o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't

an easy decision and he insists it wasn't one borne out of hatred you know i realized at a certain point it citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree with the church of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among your obligations 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. nor am it artie london. that was his for years to russia has the winter olympics could be just a t.v. is it his stage is another major sporting event football's world cup fever inspectors are assessing the country's readiness to hold the tournament and the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two i was either bennett reports that prospects

already inspiring russia's football stars of tomorrow to train harder say. 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 they understood will receive more struck me as i really want russia to host the twenty mile cap is my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training is no walk in the park before they can even touch the ball they must endure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour but 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 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 got a 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 deserted playing in front of your own fans hearing. the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat but if there's a football you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do good 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 european championship in the. landscape

this supports the swing fief is faked some of the movements and some of the most important thing is that it's a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with. the sound support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this will help the university of the world the ball in the world cup at home would give us an added impetus. each one is very similar talented young players to defend on our first move with the emblems of pressure on their chest still not just on and it's the only thing these boys a dream. i ve been it's. moscow. i've had some of stays at news in brief you know and straight there will be a prime minister. the national independent candidate is to try to form a government off the thoughts of a selection with most of the votes are counted the country is facing its first hung

parliament in seventeen years no policies are likely to win the seven sixteenth's it needed outline majority were killed will remain and leader until a new government is formed a process that could take over a week. the pathologist who performed an autopsy on british government scientists david kelly has told the media that the cause of death was a textbook case of suicide he said that no evidence was found to support metatheory the scientists of course epicycle scandal seven years ago what he calls down in the u.k. government's claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction so good. i can raise body was found near woods a place to his home his death was caused worldwide controversy. police in brazil are searching through the response group response of a the time that a hotel filmed men held a more than thirty people hostage at the intercontinental in rio one person was

killed on food police officers wounded during the siege police of believe the gunman had drug dealing connections with ten people happy to arrested but dozens of the attackers managed to escape. ok time now for all close up series in this week all teams been to the on hunger region in the northwest of russia the country's first seaport back in the sixteenth century well recognized as a regional capital it now has everything from ship building took diamonds and we sent off area to explore. thanks to its waterways on hunger 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 wherever the russian 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 done including was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct to the city 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 and every truckload of rocks only. two or three diamonds can be found but they're no ordinary diamonds mute is the most well deposits produce 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 carrots worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they want to go deeper into the earth or the soil is richer and where there's a lot more of that precious stone many women called their best friend. but before anyone can even see a single sparkle a long process has to be gone through. and what you get are riyadh gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it. thoughtfully that reporter from the region well coming up shortly a special report we investigate the sexual assault of women in the u.s. army but before the week's top headlines in just a minute. the

united states of america is waging war within its own army. kill no advantage it is our no one sign. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces sex in the army.