just. wrapping up the week's news here on our t.v. with thirty thousand people dying every year in russia from heroin addiction president dmitri medvedev calls for timor to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with his central asian counterparts. russian engineers fuel up the first nuclear power plant in the middle east iran's boosh ariadne is expected to start producing electricity within a month. the thai government says it has the last call on whether or not to extradite alleged russian arms trader who bangkok court has ruled that he will be sent to the u.s. to face charges of terrorism then illegal weapons trade. plus this week the world

football governing body visited russia to assess the country's potential to host the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two world cup russia has pledged visa free travel and purpose built arenas if it wins the big. three am in the russian capital we're wrapping up the week's news for you here on r t i match reza thanks for joining us our top story 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. aligning a set of actions to combat common threats or he's a catarina groucho but has the details. just just. and they weren't just talking weather

terrorism poverty and one other burning told took a front seat as russia hosted its three central asian neighbors in sochi. we focused on the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to it together not only did you know that afghanistan. can shoulder the problem and there are no option problem it was no queen siddons president who did it 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 harry market i think of going to. record as not a far larger two percent of the whole market so we whole economy is based on drugs 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 storied 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 feels and are the 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 made those 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 russian president has taken over the president approach he tries to follow the problems in comp. he tried to pull directly to the leaders of

ones los conscious that involved so russia seeks political solution. should be very reassured he is meaningless alongside the police who will then come financial support to go under pressure is already written ok last question of against incident with going on a chunk of twelve billion dollars and more how it will come in the form of money put troops and the military hardware securing tourist borders seems from the outside and mission impossible but by bringing the cool needless of this troubled region together russia's team to shoot it is a new route to the right if you didn't much of our team from. saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on in iran southern city bush share their reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog artie's our side of boyko reports on the launch that took place despite international concerns over to iraq's 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 chaparral has 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 the critics the embodiment of the slamming republics of ideological backwardness and a vivid example of that until things which are in a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear officials says it's already for celebration we are grateful to the people for russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia 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 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's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment to get into the equipment that was there from the start the bush plan is an international project every ten countries supply the equipments of european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri and that

alema. have been working at the station for three years only the sas initially she was apprehensive about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns because there were no one that we just saw records online claiming israel's planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here is shooting in airplanes a 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 painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the 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 need new communities deletion and these are only for the purpose. off the media. it's

a psychological war we do not take it serious although we are aware we are vigilant but this does not mean there so what they are saying that it's a serious russia's role in supplying fuel in 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 that's on the boycott our team will share iran. so to come here on our team eyewitness account our team needs a victim of terror in the caucasus plus. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that boyhood but why do. some u.s. nationals are choosing to renounce their citizenships after fighting the privilege isn't worth the price. but first the government of thailand says it will have the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms

dealer viktor boot 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 links to armed conflicts in latin america moscow strongly condemned the rule saying it's politically motivated who was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by u.s. law enforcement has been kept behind bars there ever since parties catarina has more. how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in the world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how we were in the other eleven and his allegedly a life prototype russian businessman viktor lute nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. you know very sort of from nicolas cage who rang the to play this sort of. and i feel. it's

a bad move on his statement never change even when it came from the 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 it really was sorry that a thai appeals court has made this political decision but according to the information we. this ruling was made under very strong outside pressure and this is obsessing with 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 borge is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and because what now is too much he is

more dangerous than we kill weeks 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 merchant of death i mean around quite a large a lot of operation in maine you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his plots were all generic commercial goods i know you through television washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even plying 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 treaty 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. evidence gathering the questioning of my witnesses of all this work through me at the lower courts related to victor's 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 us. boots trial may be over but his tribulations are far from it he faces years in prison and have to find in all possible scenario is the only one bankable is a hollywood one. the signature hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making but that a brute may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see that really. matters are the art moscow. 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 not to meddle leave is a believed to be the elite believed to have been the leader of a militant group in dagestan more than two years he's been both national and international wireless security officials believe a god had strong ties with suicide bomber mariam sharia who is one of the two female attackers blew themselves up on moscow's metro in march forty people were killed more than one hundred wounded by the twin blasts. this week a saw another terror attack in russia's volatile north caucasus region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded outside a cafe in the city of had to go the search continues for those responsible. went to meet some of the victims. mika makes his leave and makes him cocktails he's the

barman at one of the categories cafes on the street the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague he agreed to smoke shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just like a corollary and i were the normally 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 taking him from under the rubble of the cafe. it all happened quickly as if something really big moving at high speed from the sky a car stopped with explosives parked near the cafe blew up leaving medical injured and a huge hole where mika's cafe one student there was the forest is no i don't pretend i was on the phone that's one my left ear is ok and i started shouting because my

is but i didn't have any thoughts until i got up and saw the current pieces then i turned back and saw no water where there should be people so as a funnel to pilots i went to help them out do not sit down 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 is reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while top of this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors when you see i got breezes here and then enter a bottle oh yeah i say ok i was sitting with my back to the chair kong at one dreadful moment of my mind there was a guy the last one on the glasses and they gave him a quote 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

. to friends in retelling after in detail the day. i saw me come three to four minutes after the explosion he was alive. and behind and. i went to see the hospice who understood the bruises are worse than. no me case trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others in the county because you can't find any excuse. and then rain all. these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of earth and as my. friends give thanks to god for keeping him alive his biggest wish now is to leave so he can live a full life thanks to what he thinks was divine intervention. are. hundreds of americans are surrendering their citizenship every year while for many

it's a financial consideration for some it's in protest at the nation's foreign policy arches or am asked one former patriot why he said goodbye. ken o'keefe grew up an american 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 it he did apply to the state department

to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe knows that no so 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. 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 and americans didn't mind me saying if they were properly in fooled about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy would 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's steadily improved it's not good will because it's failing to give its ethically right now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will ken o'keefe. 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 may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel can now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't born out of hatred you know i realize that a certain point that citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree with the church of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations and. 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 and i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality o'keefe and all those like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave you are at this. just four years until russia hosts the winter olympics and it could be just eight until a stage is another major sporting event football's world cup inspectors are assessing the country's readiness to hold the tournament neither twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two and as for better reports out of prospect is already inspiring russians football stars of tomorrow to train harder today. 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 there's only so much for cmos battery and if they really want russia to host the twenty 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. that was a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags referred to with real movement 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 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's 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 i. hope this support will swing fief is vote this. the whole movie really isn't my son and the most important thing is affordable is a national sport which is loved in every city and village in this country with. the

found support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning the speed will help which got me over a sea of them with the ball in the world cup at home would give the youth coaches an added impetus so that by two thousand and eight she won there were a several talented young players to defend on are fresh and forget all 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. turning now to some other news making headlines across the globe australia's prime minister julia guillard has held initial talks with independent candidates to try 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 no party is likely to win the seventy six seats needed for our right majority will remain as leader until a new government is formed a process that could take more than. thirty three miners have been found alive deep inside a chilean mine after seventy days trapped underground rescuers sent

a probe almost seven hundred meters into the collapsed shaft and that came back with a handwritten note saying quote all thirty three of us are alive and well however emergency services say it could take up to four months to free them and then managed to survive in an emergency shelter food and oxygen will now be lowered down to them. police in brazil are searching for a gunman responsible for saturday's attack at a hotel the armed men held more than thirty people hostage at the intercontinental in rio one person was killed four police officers were wounded during the siege police believe the gunman had drug dealing connections ten people have been arrested but dozens of the attackers managed to escape. finally in this news block it's time for our close up series this week our team has

been to the. northwest russia the country's first black seaport or the first check that the country's first seaport back in the sixteenth century recognized as a regional capital have now has everything from a ship building to diamonds artie's tests are still want to explore. we're now in the north of russia in. a region which has a coastline on three arctic seas now because of its location it was extremely important in the seventeenth century as russia's first and only seaport as well as its first sea route to the west now this region became extremely wealthy because of trade and monasteries were very much involved in the business in trading salt and wood and it was also here that the first arctic expeditions were outfitted as seem awful ever once say he was found at sea trade was made from here to st petersburg at a loss its importance now today may no longer hold the titles it once did but it is still full to the glorious history as well as thriving streets in shipbuilding as well as a budding street take

a look thanks to its waterways one hundred years 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 shock 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 into 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 and whenever the suv hit government radically because the number of defense contracts and the plant's output foam they had no choice but to diversify and went

into diamond cutting. that's where you. are dining heading was one of the alternatives the idea of cutting rough diamonds in the direct to the city of the diamond fields looked attractive. that diamond field is the mine named after the local scientists and pull with me. 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 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 the marshland rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long canal to divert the water flow. i don't know of any other diamond fields where the extraction conditions are so complicated. and their work is like looking for needles in a haystack in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but

they're no ordinary diamonds. it's produced transparent barely colored gemstones here we are intensely colored dorman's green 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 where the soil is richer and where the a lot more of that precious many women call their best friends. but before anyone get even see a single sparkle a long process has to be gone through and what you get are rare gems jewelers as well as women from all over the world called it. artie's tests are still in there reporting from the. stay with our team for a week out of the week stories on our special investigation into the sexual assault

of female soldiers in the u.s. military stay with us r.t. . the united states of america is waging war within its own army. jono advantage is on no one.