with thirty thousand people dying every year in russia from a heroin addiction president made a bit of calls for timor to be drug trafficking and terrorism as he meets with his central asian counterparts. russian engineers feel up the first nuclear power plant in the middle east iran's boosh air reactor is expected to start producing electricity within a month. the thai government says it will make the final call on whether to extradite alleged russian arms trader victor boot a bangkok court had ruled that he be sent to the u.s. to face charges of terrorism and illegal weapons deal.

and this week the world football governing body visits russia to assess its potential to host the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two world cup russia has pledged visa free travel a purpose built arenas if it wins the bid. wrapping up the week's news here on our t.v. five am in moscow très a thanks for joining us our top story drug trafficking terrorism and poverty in central asia where the focus of the summit this week and russian's resort of sochi president medvedev hosted the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and stand to outline a set of actions combat in common threats catarina groucho has the details totally straight. which for the yes and the war in just a. whether 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 is a common problem we should face up to it together not individually know that afghanistan nor russia can solve the problem. problem and it was no coincidence president medvedev singled out these two countries again as 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 opium makes fifty two percent of the of going to g.d.p. now and in the hairy market i think i'm going to. record as ninety four ninety 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 afghan 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 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 very important you know as americans and europeans . have failed in solving the problem i think russia now can contribute very much and the russian president has taken a very prudent approach if he tries to solve the problem in complex he tried to told there. regular to the leaders of all those conscious involved so russia seeks

political solutions. very reassured his neighbors alongside the police who will welcome financial support russia's already written 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 and mission impossible but by bringing the pool neighbors of this troubled region together russia is keen to show it is a new mood to be about the plight he didn't catch of the r t from sochi. on saturday the middle east saw its first nuclear power plant switched on iran the southern city of goma share the reactor built by russia has started operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog or his arse on a boy her reports on the launch that happened despite international concerns over terrans nuclear ambitions. more than thirty years in the making with

a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the pushchair nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and the one for which iran has spared no expense the chaplet have always been more than just energy generating facility for iran it's a symbol of the country's social progress and prove that it's more in touch but for a lot of critics the embodiment of the pharmacare public's 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 all ready for celebration we are grateful to the people of russia to the government or for sure to our great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making gus witnessing

today. had not been the assistance of the russians 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 with 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 younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with iran it when you go it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the bushehr power plants is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their lima. i have been working at the station for three years

believe 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 there 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 evolved 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 and we are not too soon because we know this is a against international. attempting to need a new installation and these are on the third. off to me. it's the psychological. we do not take it serious although we are

aware we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying 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 next in a boycott r t will share iran. still to come in the program eyewitness account r.t. goes to pay as he goes to meet a victim of the high street terror attack that wounded thirty plus. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that lloyd put it but lloyd to some u.s. nationals are choosing to renounce their citizenship after finding that the privilege may not be worth the price. but first the government of thailand says it will make the last call on whether this is suspected russian arms dealer viktor

boot will be extradited to the united states on friday a thai appeals court order that he be handed over to washington to face charges of terrorism and links to armed conflicts on rotten 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 he's been kept behind bars ever since or he's catarina as are of a has more. how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms and 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 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 what nicolas cage when the to play this sort of law for this very silly and i feel pity for. his statement never changed

even when he came from behind 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 that it was started at a time i appeal 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 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 would call them merchant of death or. around quite a large a lot of 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 was he from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the call goes possibly being. even just not legal in a long and drawn out extradition hearing that 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 if you will has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no value at home with evidence gathering the questioning of my witness season with all this work that we have been lower courts related to extradition to the us has been through no we the courts of appeal is controlled by the tiny government directly and so on huge pressure from the us this trial may be over but his tribulations are far from it he faces years in prison and have to find 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 the boot may have to wait a lot longer than ordinary moviegoers to see they really. gasometers are about to moscow. a suspected organizer of the deadly moscow batra bombings has been killed

by russian security forces during a shootout in dagestan in russia south for 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 now go mad i'll leave baghdad bob is believed to have been the leader of the militant group in dagestan for more than two years he's been both national and international wanted list security officials believe about baghdad had strong ties with a suicide bomber. who was one of the two female attackers who blew themselves up on the moscow metro in march forty eight people were killed more than one hundred wounded in the twin blasts. this week saw another terrorist strike in russia's volatile north caucasus region on tuesday thirty people were wounded when a massive car bomb exploded out a exploded outside a cafe in the city of kut to go to the search continues for those responsible are. went 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 the change actually meant this is just like of course the way in a war that you know 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 café. it all happened quickly as if something really big moving at high speed 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 once to everest. 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 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 he lost one eye in the blast and they gave him a cloth he covered his face and then he wanted to look at the cloth and couldn't and panicked with these stories are stored in their memories for good lucky to be alive. to friends and retell in affray detail of the day. i saw me kind of three

to four minutes after the explosion he was alive by time i saw him from behind and i didn't know who badly he was injured i went to see the hospice who understood that the bruises are worse than what he said i don't know mika is trying to mend his life and understand who was behind the explosion but like many others in pianta groups he can't find any excuse for targeting the innocent and then rain all through these rather small things but after the explosion gave a new meaning to the people of councillors and as my 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 family which over our . hundreds of americans are surrendering their citizenships every year while for

many it's a financial consideration for others it is in protest of the nation's foreign policy our teens laura one former patriot why he said goodbye. ken 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 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 them and when i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world it became clear to me at some point that i would renounce citizenship and renounce 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 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 it 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 based 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 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 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 realized at a certain point it citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among the obligations is paying taxes those

taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renounce your citizenship or hate america and that's absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people 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 and it. is just four years till russia hosts the winter olympics and it could be just eight years old stagers another major sporting event football's world cup and specters are assessing the country's readiness to all the tournament neither twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two parties i've ever been around prospectors already inspiring russians football stars of tomorrow to train harder today. but 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 i'm sure will receive more struck me as 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 trainings 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. the feds with a defender for the u.s.s.r. in the one nine hundred seventy championships bags 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 i pledge that never in my life would i smoke a cigarette or drink a gram of wine or beer you know he never had the chance to play in a world cup at home but he knows it's something not to be missed and disaster 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 will 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 and eight european championship the. hope this support will swing fief is vote this. one of the most important thing is the food 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 the speed will help it's got the university of the the ball in the world cup of home would give to you to go which is an added impetus to those three several talented young players to defend on the version of full battle with the emblems of pressure on their chest you will notice that on it's the only thing these boys agree. on cuban it's. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe australian 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's facing its first hung parliament in seventy years no party is likely to win the seventy six seats needed for a right majority killer and will remain as leader until a new government is formed a 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 rescuer sent

a probe almost seven hundred meters into the collapsed shaft they came back with a hand written note saying that all thirty three of them all alive and well but 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 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 gunmen 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 and this week we're heading to one thousand kilometers northwest of moscow to the small town of congo

poll in the out of the excretion became an important trade center back in the sixteenth century as it was situated between russia's only seaport and moscow but as our tests are cilia found out history dates of back to the eleventh century there. a town frozen in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants sturdy magination. once upon a time cargo paul was one of the wealthiest towns in russia thanks to bustling trade by the onyango river but it began to fade into obscurity when c. trade was moved to st petersburg and later on when railroads were built bypassing the town. life here is simple quiet and for the most part actually nice and nothing has changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash

the things in the river after they wash them in the machine and the room next to linen feel fresher. today there's no real industry and gargle ball so people have to make do with what they do best making toys to cover this is our main work in means of support research figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them. it's the parents that the ones dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it a peasant art potters used to make way dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called goggle toy has become a brand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these have made pieces of ancient local culture and to get very hands dirty as well. but cargo pulls got more to show for itself than just call a figurines. a small black as i could remember of five generations of my family

have been involved in some form of art. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but always on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of mali open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from. these massive wooden structures were brought to mali could really piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museum's team of restores. houses in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from fur fur dries out and disintegrates over time we want to preserve it and restore what we can. for vladimir it's enough that their family restored a piece of card because history and are keeping it alive after all a new fields way of life is all they've known play quickly realize that in this

place it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i'm here at a calling along the route where locals bring their clothes more often views during the winter so if you'll excuse me i've got work to do. does our cilia r.t. cargo pull in the region. stay with us for a recap of the week stories and a look at the world wide whether you're on our team.

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