well it sure is that so much. richer. and it will be bigger is not a little better obesity in the western world is truly a gimmick or should have been repeated calls. with thirty thousand people dying every year in russia from heroin addiction president dmitri medvedev calls for team work to be drug trafficking in terrorism as he meets with his central asian counterparts. russian engineers feel up the first nuclear power plant in the middle east iran who share reactor is expected to start producing electricity within a month. the thai government says it will have the last word on the decision whether or not to extradite alleged russian arms trader victor boot a court has ruled that he was sent to the united states to face charges of

terrorism and illegal weapons deal and. also this week the world football governing body visited russia to assess its potential to host the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two world cup russia has pledged visa free travel and purpose built stadiums if it wins the big. four am in the russian capital i'm mad très are wrapping up the week's news for you here on r t 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 had g.p.s. data to outline a set of actions combat in common threats are catarina groucho has the details. what a lovely bridge yes. which was 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. focused on the drug threat because it's a common problem we should face up to it all together not individually know that afghanistan nor russia can solve the problem in their own option problem and it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries have 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 hairy market i think of going to stand at record as not a far larger 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 fuels and other worldwide evil terrorism and this is what also really touches russia's iran. russia may not be directly involved in the war in afghanistan but it is sensitive to the instability the conflict is causing in the region and many believe the two main security threats drug trafficking and islamic radicalism will not be defeated while needle's afghan war rages on their current meeting is 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 bit of prudent approach it seems he tries to solve the problem in complex he

tried to talk directly to the leaders of all those conscious and involved so russia seeks political solutions. very reassured he is needless alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written over the last portion of afghanistan's stance the final chunk of twelve billion dollars and more how to come in the form of helicopters and other military hardware securing poorest borders seems from the outside a 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 didn't catch of the r t from sochi. on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on in iran southern city boo share the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un a ton of watchdog artie's oxana boyko reports on the launch that happen despite international concerns over tehran's nuclear ambition. more than thirty years in

the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the bush era nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just an education are ready to sell it for all 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 the farming republican ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building 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 time for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making us

witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians that certainly would not have been witnessing such a great thing with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more which a 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 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 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 and they leave the. i have been working at the station for three

years leave the sas initially she was a pretty hands of about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns with your knowing that we just saw reports online claiming israel's planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here that is shooting in airplanes or 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 in bulk painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the city causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history won't repeat itself we are not too soon because we know this is a against international. attempting to need a new installation and these are on the surface. off to me. it's the psychological. we do not take it seriously although we are

aware we are vigilant but this does not mean 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 phrase enrichment for peace what purposes. our theme will share iran. stay with us here on our team's weekly wrap up lots more coming including eyewitness account our team goes to the chorus to meet a victim of the high street terror attack that wounded thirty. five first's the government of thailand says it will make the final decision on whether the suspected russian arms dealer viktor boot will be extradited to the u.s. on friday attire appeals court order that he be handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism and the links to our conflicts and

a lot of america moscow strongly condemned the ruling saying it's politically motivated who was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by u.s. law enforcement and is better kept behind bars ever since our teens 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 do we were in the other eleven and his allegedly real life prototype russian businessman viktor lute nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels well i don't 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 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 the war was started at a time i appeal court has made this political decision but according to the information we have this ruling was made in a very strong outside pressure and this is not sitting with us 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 was and will be. need 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 boyd 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 weeks 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 the type of credit given to him by the u.s. he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you would call them. i mean around quite a large a lot of operation and you know. and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods. from 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 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. with this decision of its high court if you'll has

demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has a new value at all the evidence gathering that the questioning of eyewitnesses always works to meet 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 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 signal to hollywood florida boy is already rumored to be in the making that it may have to wait a long longer than ordinary moviegoers to see they really. get readers are about to moscow. a suspected organizer of the deadly moscow metro bombings has been killed by russian security forces during a shoot out 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 this site might go mad i leave is believed to have been the leader of the militant group in dagestan for more than 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 the moscow metro in march forty people were killed more than one hundred wounded in those twin blasts. this week saw another terror attack in russia's volatile north caucasus region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded outside the cafe in the city of pets of course the search continues for those responsible artie's axon at least hunch over went to meet some of the victims. nico makes his leave and makes him cocktails he's the barman at one of the particles cafes on the street the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague he agreed to swap shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last

tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just a corollary 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 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. as if on autopilot i went to help them out that's

it i had to return to the scene later the shot of 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 glasses and they gave him a cloth because of 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 kind of three to four minutes after the explosion he was alone leave on time saw him from behind and he didn't know who badly he was injured so i went to see the hostess who understood

that the bruises are worse than what he said i don't know mika's trying to mend his mind and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others encounter groups he can't find any excuse to target and the innocent then rain and they all root these were the small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of counsellors and as my coming up with 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 found that you are seen. coming up drug companies are often criticized for either use of eye level testing but now with india being blamed for using people as the guinea pigs by trying out new medicines without their knowledge. but first is just four years till russia hosts the winter olympics and it could be just eight until

it stages another major sporting event football's world cup the first specters are assessing the country's readiness to hold the tournament in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two as are his i have a better reports out prospect is already inspiring russia's 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 their mission will receive more strapped me and i really want russia to host the twenty eighty 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 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 hercules you know 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 know 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 and playing in front of your own fans hearing the whole country's support behind you is something you can't beat richard as a footballer you want nothing else i never got the chance but if these boys do very

little change their lives 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 football you've made some of the most important thing is the football is a national sport which is loved in every city in village in this country with. the sound support here is unconditional they just want more to cheer about you know winning this feat will help which got me to what i see 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 three several talented young players to defend the honor of professional football with the emblems of pressure on their chest you will notice that on them it's the only thing these boys dream. on to then it's. moscow. just ahead our team is close up team travels to us

a clue did spot. where on a four hour journey by boat to one i landed that's only accessible during the summer months now on this island we're visiting a village populated by the more people the more meaning close to ellis the explorer the lives of the more people of their traditions and their past and present. but first international pharmaceutical companies are under fire for allegedly testing new drugs on people in india without their consent around two million people are estimated to be taking part in clinical trials in the country but even those who do sign up already told the full story about the potentially dangerous side effects. any india government run hospitals provide low cost treatment to the poor but there are increasing claims that being made guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharma companies without their knowledge here at the. hospital in

indoor the north has been taking pills for the last six months on the advice of his doctor he suspects he's being experimented upon. to get to me i had a pain in my abdomen they did all sorts of tests and gave me all sorts of pills to have in the morning afternoon and night but i haven't got any. rash or account that they can test any medication they like on me. allegations have surfaced in the media that the hospital conducts illegal drug trials on patients police are investigating the complaint the hospital officials say any trials are being conducted in accordance with government guidelines india is fast becoming a global hotspot for testing new drugs with two million people estimated to be taking part in clinical trials routes without their consent. drug trials are increasing here because they cost just one sixth of what they do in the west the regulatory system here is comparatively corrupt inform the companies can easily

register patients and begin trials giving informed consent to be part of an experiment is the golden rule of all clinical trials but many patients here sign on the dotted line without understanding the nature and the consequences of what's being administered to them. are americans or treaty indians as guinea pigs the patients being used for trials are illiterate and pool they don't even know the terms of the drug that it is a drug trial this is unethical. patients sometimes sign up out of desperation to them experimental healthcare is better than none at all. but has agreed to let her child be treated with a new drug which she's been told will bring his fever down. the cheek ministry happy with it. there are regulations in place to monitor drug trials including setting up takes committees and hospitals to ensure patient safety but these are

often used by doctors to simply rubber stamp trials so. it's a very ad hoc system that is misused for instance a medical institution for women by gives permission for drug endure and jubal how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city to just to put a drug trials in an institute here with one thousand three hundred drug trials govern conducted in india this industry is already said to be worth one billion dollars yet it's clear that the laws against unethical trials are not working and the government will have to come up with other ways to stop the country's poor from being enticed into medical experiments that could potentially have serious side effects got unseeing r.t. india. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe australian prime minister julia guillard has hold 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 a right majority guillard will remain as leader until a new government is formed the process that could take more than a week. thirty three miners have been found alive deep inside a chilean mine after seventeen days trapped underground rescuers set a probe almost seven hundred meters into the collapsed shaft which came back with a handwritten note saying that all thirty three of them are alive and well however emergency services say that it could take up to four months to free them the men managed to survive in an emergency shelter food and oxygen will now be lowered down to them. police in brazil are searching. for the gunmen 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 wounded during the siege police believe the gunman had drug dealing connections ten people have been arrested but dozens of the attackers united still skate.

and are wrapping up our wrap up of the week's news it's time for our close up series this time we take a team to the our kitchen of the region of our harmless skin northwest russia on the coast of the white sea lies the land of the pub or people for generations the fishermen sailors and carpenters of thrive from the area's natural resources artie's tests are so you want to explore. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman. not so many fish it's off season now the soundman 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 this my grandfather used to build one

mast into mast boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors or captains. work of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to put it 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 put more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques elegantly novel there is a car 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 caught a big fish this big and living in guinea can lead 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 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 poor more's 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 this was serious is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries share and suzi us to clean sharing a heritage they are proud to call their own you know me. for you i've been singing my who life my mother still sings we collect old retells and songs and revive them

this dress belongs to my grandmother when it could time this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs feel a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson tesser celia artie on hunger region. stay with us here on our today for a recap of the week's top stories and a look at our international weather outlook stay with us. to.

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