every month we give you the future we do understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us. with phone calls and we're talking every year in russia from heroin addiction president to give them a bit of calls to be drug trafficking out terrorism as he meets with the central asian council. russian engineers do a lot of the nuclear power in the middle east around share reactor is expected to start producing their truth within the mall. on the time i says it will make the final decision on whether to extradite alleged russian arms trade a victim of cool times that he was to be said to the u.s.

to face charges of terrorism and the illegal weapons. also this week the governing body with good russia to assess its potential to use the twenty twenty twenty world cup russia to be the free travel and puppets builds arenas if he wins the bid it's. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow. drug trafficking and terrorism poverty in central asia where the focus of a summit this week in russia's result. president medvedev hosted the leaders of afghanistan. to outline a set of. common threats. what

a lovely bridge yes i would wish for the world yes and they weren't just talking weather terrorism poverty and one other burning topic took a front seat as russia hosted its three central asian neighbors in sochi. we focused on the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to it together. with afghanistan russia can shoulder the problem and there are no options problem and it was no queen siddons president medvedev singled out these two countries again a 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 makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the hairy 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 that there is even a term that afghanistan is a drug based economy and again 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 paul just feels and other worldwide evil terrorists and this is what also really touches russia's role. russia may not be directly involved in the war in afghanistan but it is sensitive to the instability the conflict is causing in the region and many believe the two main security threats drug trafficking and islamic radicalism will not be defeated while middles afghan war rages on their current meeting is very important you know as americans and european allies have failed in solving the problem i think russia now can

contribute very much and rushed. the president has taken a very important approach if he tries to follow the problem in complex he tried to talk directly to the leaders of all those contras involved so russia seeks political solutions we should be very reassured his neighbors alongside the police who will then come financial support to god grant shows all ready written all clear last portion of against and dance the final chunk of twelve billion dollars and more how it 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 cool neighbors of this troubled region together russia's scheme to show it is a new mood to be about the plight he didn't catch of our team from sort. of a the middle east or its first nuclear power plants switched on in iran southern city of bhutia the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict

control of the un atomic dog artie's a van a boy to report on the launch that took place despite international concerns over trans nuclear ambitions. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just an education or ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for in times of iraq critics the embodiment of the climate republic's an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are at 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 fishel says it's already 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 us 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 which 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 plant is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment european countries as well as asia pacific

countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear few people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their lima. i have been working at this station for three years illegal says initially she was apprehensive 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 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 israel's fret to bomb the station involved painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge this 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 a game so international rules are tending to mean you use english and

these are only the purpose. of the media. it's the psychological. we do not take it serious although we are aware we are vigilant but this does not mean there are 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 the phrase enrichment for peace purposes. r.t. will share iran. on the way here on t.v. when living the dream time. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that by that i played it. hundreds of u.s. nationals and choosing to renounce the citizenship of finding the reality of american life doesn't solve the nation's ideals. the government of

thailand says it will make the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer back to boot will be extradited to the us on friday a thai appeals court ruled it that he'd been handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism the leagues to armed conflict that america has strongly condemned the routing saying it's been a second motivated food was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by u.s. law and courses and it's been kept behind bars ever since katrina is out of a has no. hollywood florida who are there 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 arm the other eleven and his allegedly real life prototype russian businessman victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels

i don't know very sort of. play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for it's been his statement never change even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton but that did not stop the thai appeals court from ordering his extradition to the united states despite the fact that the country's criminal court earlier refused to do just that the ruling has outraged not only his family but his native country as well so. we're sorry that a thai appeals 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 obsessing with the good 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 brute know to make the

americans want him this badly victor boat is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and because what now is too much heat is more dangerous than we kill leaks for the u s smuggling role in weapons in not only in africa and latin america but all over the world but how many people are willing to give the type of credit given to him by the u.s. he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you would call them merchants. i mean back to around quite a large a lot of operation and many and i and i would think that ninety five percent of his plots were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television history from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even flying 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 it's like for you if you will has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court. in the evidence gathering the questioning of my witness season of all this work that we had to lure through boards related to big extradition to the united states has been thrown away the courts of appeal is controlled by the tiny government directly and so on huge pressure from the you just try. may be over but his tribulations are far from it he faces years in prison and hefty fines in all possible scenarios the only one bankable is a hollywood one. the signature hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making but that group may have to wait longer than ordinary moviegoers to see

their really. shattered our art. a suspected organizer of the deadly bombings has been killed by russian security forces during a shootout and. for all the alleged militants who also killed a large number of documents revealing the militants of funding sources on the terror attack plans have been found at the site. believed to have been the leader of a militant group in drug. over two years he's been on both national and international lefts security officials believe had strong ties with the suicide bomber. one of the two female attackers who blew the. metro in march for people were killed and more than one hundred wounded by the twin blasts. well this week's or another terror attack in russia is a volatile north caucasus region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when

a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of people the search continues for those responsible. 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 did change actually meant this is just like a corollary and i wore the new one 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. put it 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 current pieces then i turned back and saw no one where there should be people so as if on auto pilot i went to help them out that's it i had to return to the scene later to shut off the gas to prevent another explosion has just left hospital and returned to the scene he's reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while we talk this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors see i've got bruises here in there and you're vital 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 the last one on the grass 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 a retelling after a detail of the day. i saw me kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was a laurie one time i saw him from behind and i didn't know how badly he was injured i went to the hospital and understood that the bruises are worse than what he said i don't know mika's trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others and can't agree he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent then rain it's all a chance to prove these rather small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of course and it's like i mean with his friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave the city so he

can leave her for life thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention family which over are. the united states admits a more legal immigrants for permanent residence that all 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 turns to an el citizenship or emmet asks one former patriots why he did it . ken o'keefe grew up an american hand 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 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 that 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 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 people on the face of god that's the bad news deep down they're also the most idealistic. so i say.

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 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 ethically right now it it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can. change 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 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 realize that a certain point of citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations. 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. 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 you are at it. now since four years into russia has the winter olympics and it could be just eight stages and not the

major sporting event football's world cup fever inspectors are assessing the country's readiness to hold the tournament in the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty team and a lot of bennett's report prospects where the inspiring russians football stars of tomorrow to train holiday. 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 the 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 the usual resume or strategy and if i really want russia to host the twenty eighty mile cap it's my life's purpose if we keep working hard we have a good chance of making the team but the training is no walk in the park before

they can even touch the ball they must ensure a punishing nonstop fitness routine for the first hour the coaches know the boys have talent but it's their hunger that's the key this man is no stranger to that he knows what it takes to play in a world cup. with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags of pressure 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 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 at home but he knows it's something not to be missed and visiting playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country support behind you is something you can't beat as a footballer you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do it'll change their lives god who pulls

a matter of national pride in russia this is how the country reacted when the team reached the semifinals of the two thousand and eight european championship the. hope this support will swing fief is vote this. 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 found support here is unconditional they just want to cheer about you know winning this will help. me over a sea of that with a world cup at home would give the youth an ever so that by two thousand and eight she won there are several talented young players to defend on or a first but with the emblems of pressure on their chest. is the only thing these boys dream. on to bennett. moscow. time now for today's some other. brief australian prime minister julia gillard has held initial

talks with independent candidates to try to form a government on today's election with most of the votes counted the country is facing its first time column and in fact is no cause he was lucky to win the seventy six things needed for outright majority will go along who may want to a new government formed a process that could take a full week. the pathologist who performed an autopsy on british government scientists 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 well the scientists caused a political scandal seventy years ago when he comes down to the u.k. government claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction shortly after kennedy's body was found near woods close to his home his death has caused worldwide controversy. police in brazil are searching for the gunman

responsible for saturday's attack at a hotel he owned men held a more than thirty people hostage at the intercontinental in rio one person was killed and four police officers wounded during the siege police believe the gunmen have a drug related to drug dealing connections ten people have been arrested dozens of the attack is managed to escape. while time now for a close up series in this we call team has been to the region about hung girls in northwest russia on the case of the white sea life the land of the pub more people for generations community the sailors fishermen and koppen does have thrown life in the areas natural resources. has been to explore. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters. fishermen who would.

not sign any fresh season now salomon is a northern fish and comes to a rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one. he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors captains. bourque of is a native of but to keep the island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to put it on a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to moore's descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructed wooden boats using old techniques a lot of novel this is a car bus

a coaster kind of boat it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets raiding the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but i've been fishing for a long time now this year i call to big fish this big and living in beneath me houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions. for the 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. yes so

soon yes is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the century share and yes tickly sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. me. play visiting in my who life my mother's side of things as we connect old realto them and songs and revive them is dress belongs to my grandmother when he puts on this dress i feel very good and have the desire to sing old songs a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson. tesser celia artie on hungus region. stay with us for a recap of the week story then a look at the vietnam war through the eyes of those who force it as the findings of the.

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