hello and welcome to a weekly review my name is. and we start in russia south twelve militants and five policemen have died after gunmen attacked a village in the russian republic of chechnya special forces have intensified count a towel recently that was over forty militants killed during the past month this could know. it all started over night when a group of armed men entered the church and leaders whole village and set several houses on the fire and i was on accompanied by a team of commandos personally went to this village and the special operation began says that twelve militants were killed as a result of this operation but he also said that five people from the side of the authorities were killed as well seventeen others were injured according to some initial reports five zero locals have been killed during the fighting as well but

the chechen leader has given this information saying that there were no deaths among the local population in this village the operation is still continuing the of those are reportedly looking for the militants who may have fled during the course of the operation and this whole village is still blocked when it comes to counter terror operations in the past month was quite productive just yesterday ten militants were killed as a result of two special operations in the southern republic of bodies in the ball carrier and in the republic of dagestan the head of the federal security service has said that the authorities were able to find and kill thirty militants throughout the entire month and according to president hamid to the beauty of the stories are not going to back down all these counter terror operations. the militants killed during these recent operations brought it upon themselves by their own criminal law back when the mosque. mitchell bombings took place. all be found

and eliminated is the only way to treat the president mentioned the two deadly blasts the two attacks on moscow's metro at the end of march just last week we have to go to these killed the man suspected of organizing these attacks. and we've also located his or so which contain information on terrorist activities in russia and also prove according to the f.s.b. the prove his links with international terrorist organizations and the f.s.b. has also said that the have information that the last phone call made on. mobile phone was international as well though they didn't see which country it was with just to remind you on march twenty ninth two female suicide bombers attacked two stations of the moscow metro at the very peak of the morning rush hour killing forty people and injuring over one hundred others now in the f.s.b. claims to have all the names and information on everybody connected to these

attacks and obviously they are now working to search for these people and to find these people he is going off reporting that moving on now america is remembering an agent hundred people who died five years ago when hurricane katrina ripped through the gulf coast president barack obama addressed an event in new orleans celebrating the city as it revive a lot of the tragedy and he said that although katrina was a natural disaster it was also a manmade catastrophe caused by poor government response this storm left eighty percent of new orleans underwater and despite reconstruction efforts homelessness is still a major problem was he's pretty shrewd and now reports. new orleans louisiana the city of music. on every corner a different tune. not all of them only

as best you know though born and raised and i want to leave you on. that day. in the french quarter on bourbon street tourists mingle with the musicians this was combat but i don't know bad night was an annoyance. and if you travel down to the lower ninth ward you'll hear another kind of sound. the sound of rebuilding. five years after hurricane katrina full streets in the lower ninth ward most devastated by katrina stand silent home still abandoned but others like this one are coming back. you know you miss one i'll go to another house you know to me as well you know and despite all the empty homes new orleans streets are filled with those who don't have one i started being homeless and was three years. inside this mission would be. yet another

kind of new orleans song is being sung. by some of the nine hundred thousand people in the city who are homeless and we heard about the good train and all the other stuff that was long and my would guarantee jobs for it easy you know there'd be work the way available but there wasn't loretta smith is one of the many who came to new orleans after katrina looking for work but instead ended up on the streets is once you get to that point you have no idea how you come out of. people like her added to the city's overwhelming number of residents who ended up homeless in the aftermath of the storm carol self lost everything in katrina she left the city temporarily came back a few months later and has been homeless ever since mom wanted to do was come home you know or my son like mom that's the word thing you do. down and down the family

there it's what i know it's home i know it sounds stupid but it is you know. carol story is not unique new orleans now has one of the highest percentages of homeless people in america after katrina the city of new orleans got federal money to get people off the streets and put them into housing for three months the problem was that without a job the people couldn't afford to keep the places and many ended up back on the streets again. here and many believe that the city that they love and refused to leave is not doing much to help them get back on their feet forget them on a little piece in the middle from homelessness to house you better find a job somewhere. but even in the middle of despair they find some time to join together in worship and in song. it's harder and harder every day you can assume dreams to live in a way. staying true to their city of music while continuing to brave the storm.

preassure either. party. in new orleans louisiana. this is also coming up later in the program children phrasings forced exile hundreds of children born in israel phrase the threat of deportation because that parent's visas have expired but with some parliamentarians claiming they are the mine they cherish courage so the state and also. as drug addicts turn to religious centers for hope is that some may be duped into joining sects. this week. for independence from georgia recognized by russia and a handful of other countries the tiny republic however is quickly becoming a holt tourist destination that as well as kaye reports.

underneath is just nineteen but has already an experienced chef when it comes to preparing local meals pasko cooking traditional abkhazian food is pickles mills and smoked meat to pull cold beef and cheese is a must. nor a king in a small beach resort and so home is a summer job for this future customs officer people or the oval office or both of which i chose this occupation because i want to serve my motherland i want to work here so that this border everything will have to go through me and i want our customs officers to work well and ensure that everything is fine and we have guests coming to visit us. growth the resort just started accepting tourists most of them are from russia this week together with locals they celebrated as independence day with a festive dinner and stunning fireworks. but just two years ago a pause it was under an international bloke eight and on the list of targets for

georgian army and focused of two thousand and eight saakashvili ordered an attack on. its capital to involve was nearly destroyed by shelling according to military intelligence georgian special forces were also preparing to launch an offensive against. russia whose peacekeepers were ensuring security in the region sent its troops to protect both because it's republics until the conflict was subdued mosco recognized the process and independence a move that was soon followed by venezuela nicaragua and the small republic of no world now up to the turmoil of recent years because it is beginning to build new international relations. a younger pause in diplomat spent months and latin america meeting with local politicians and signing cooperation treaties it was the platform for his diplomatic career no maxine has been appointed a process foreign minister. and on the home front these years were also marked by

good news he's now raising three sons two of them twins again. new friends you know countries in the world in particular in latin america the region. which are very much like to be there because wilma speak same language. spanish but people much easier in countries they conduct really independent polls just like the minister himself the core of the opposition diplomatic think tank are people in their twenty's they are setting new goals for the republic foreign policy hoping that over time the list of international allies will grow despite the fact that only a few countries have recognized. the city as independence the locals are optimistic they say it may take more than just a few years to gain further recognition but with protection provided by most and

with new development opportunities for people in. this waiting period doesn't seem to be a problem does the world r.t. . russia plans to launch all its spacecraft for a new cosmodrome in the country's far east it will replace the current arrangements of using the bay said by canoe in kazakhstan the fast mond flights are expected to take up from the new eight hundred million dollars side by trying to eighteen and space analysts. to teach it in more ways than one. i believe one of the reasons why russia decided to build its launch in the far east is. to contribute to the economic social and technological development of the far eastern region of russia. future launch but you will see that it is relatively close the equator well as close as it could be and the closer the low. they quit the easier it is to launch payloads into space the less fuel

spacecraft will consume to deliver the way a law to the orbit if we look at the role that quantum b. will see the increasing q. by the congress of a satellite communication of different kind of space services and even space tourism is currently the wellbeing so i believe that in the future of course the demand in space services will only grow. thailand says it some to moscow and washington to resolve their differences over the case of victor boot he's facing extradition from bangkok to the u.s. in arms dealing charges the thai prime minister said his country whether russian was arrested over two years ago is merely a third party in the case they even play denies american accusations he sold weapons to colombian far leftist rebels saying the charges have been fabricated by washington reading a statement from her husband but it's wife said he has no chance of

a fair trial in the u.s. not pleased because of hostile american media coverage where his nickname to the imaginative dads moscow says the case is political and has been seeking his return to russia since bangkok's court of appeal over and we could go ordered his extradition to the u.s. for trial investigative journalist daniel is still inside the case has turned into a political. i spend quite a bit of time in thailand researching story and interviewing which would extensively over sixty times for hundreds of hours in the president while i also had access to intelligence and trying to organise officers a very high level told me that in fact the whole thing was already done before it started a sense that you know the corridor for instance was going to rule in favor who would look back to the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boards against the world so that nobody could say that there was a skew decision that nobody could say that the americans paid the guys everybody

could say it was one for blood one would for the americans except that the appeals court decision was the final decision because unfortunately there was more people for the supreme court as far as the for as a sort of the war against borders basically a war against russia if you can destroy the board and you can prove that he's a virtual earth and obviously he has to get his arms from somewhere and that someone has to be rational so you destroy russia's credibility in the international community i think is chance of winning the case in those states as zero point zero united states states have spent fifteen years trying alone. they tried to catch on a larger gun runner but it will get through this photo of yours are drawing are to win the extradition case and it would actually serve the united states to think that he can win in the united states against america on their home turf with everything as against them saw that in the end if you watch the girls home america will overcome all laughing stock of entire world not to mention whatever little credibility they have as a nation. now investigative journalist daniel is still in

that israel has come under heavy criticism at home and abroad over plans to deport four hundred children of migrant workers whose visas have run out senior politicians led by the country's president are opposed to the move stemming from new regulations with the government promising to discuss the issue further met one family in fear of access from their jewish homeland. he's five and a half thousand miles away for most of his family living in a country where his mother is unemployed and frightened and now they're about to be deported but this is the only world a four year old john michael knows born in israel he speaks he blew his brains are israeli and he understands precious little about the place he's about to be sent to the very place his mother came from the philippines she asks us not to name her hillary his beak with the language he knows their food their friends i ask

him one j.m. you like to go to philbin's. philippines. while. we're still is of course you don't know that the place in my pantry where my barber yes and he said ok i'll go to field beans with my friends. as her ho ho can explain to me. it was a journey that started with so much hope john michael's mom like forty thousand other filipinos was lured with a dream of work and a new life in the promised land but soon after she became pregnant she was fired and her visa canceled for months now israelis have been torn over what to do about the future of hundreds of children who like john michael are born and bred in israel but who are not considered israeli citizens most of the children's parents arrived in israel in the early ninety's they were placed cheap palestinian labor that was becoming harder for israelis to access curfews and road blocks have made

it difficult for palestinians to get permits to work in israel which is why today as many as half a million foreign workers live in israel earning much more than they would back home but the payoff is the uncertainty that now clouds they children's future the holiday is over they make ten times more money here than they do in other countries enough with this very park or see any of these children rise up and cry stop talking rubbish they will return to their families that's where they need to be the interior ministry says it has to the forty's children because they are already so many illegals in this country it says is a sprint to the jewish character of the state but it's a controversial decision that has many asking why tools and should have to pay the price for the government's lack of a clear policy. and the anger of many has spilled over onto the streets protesters say it's by expelling children that the very character of the jewish state is threatened for me personally it's ninety's children working with them already for

three years seen them and understanding that they're not only israeli they are the best israeli because they love this country just want to contribute and be a part of us so i really can't understand how anyone that really knows them can stand aside and let them be deported from their homeland is very very important that the democratic party of reason only probably will be made its voice very. very clear and gross. this reason is really law says that every jew around the world has the white israeli citizenship but for john michael who's israeli in every sense of the wood just not his faith that citizenship is a distant reality he's one of the four hundred children threatened with deportation policy r.t. tel aviv. and now a brief look at some other international news stories sounds of indonesians are spending the night in refugee camps after a volcano on the island of sumatra the ruptured for the first time in four

centuries the red cross says over sixteen thousand people fled their homes as smoke and ash fifteen hundred meters into the air at least one person has died due to breathing difficulties as the air remains covered in a gray dust cloud a state of emergency has been declared in the region further volcanic activity has been to subside. engineers in chile are working on an alternative plan to rescue such as three miners stuck underground after the collapse of a shaft four weeks ago mine experts say about as well as training a new tunnel which will take four months they try to widen an existing bore hole views to supply food and medicines and they saw it a water would hardly time to reach the men took two months bring them out of caps you'll then while relatives. benedict after he told us in rome has been praying constantly the miners safe. in pakistan severe flooding has

submerged this city of wow in the southern province of sindh almost all quarter of a million residents managed to flee but there's been widespread destruction the latest deluge happened when people were trying to stay in the nearby city of tartar at least seventeen million people have been affected and eight million are in need of emergency relief since flooding began a month ago. drug abuse in russia is on the rise but so to all the number of religious centers sprouting out across the country to help addicts bayed substance abuse. reports there are fears that some of them may be just fronts for dangerous colt's. how do you through the my spread of drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly a decade these twenty nine year olds on a collision forced with crime and with diagnosed with hepatitis b. and c. making out since god saved and changed his life. when i came near

a large share for the first time i'm eighty years i realize the grass was green birds were singing and everything was beautiful i used to take drugs and alcohol at the same time i was literally a vegetable understanding what was going on around. here is a rehab center run by cornerstone church days include group chores me to teach responsibility and bible and prayer sessions. prayer is a fellowship and we are more likely to become like communicate with if someone talks to the fishermen he is likely to become one to someone talks to god that's what a prayer is he becomes a believer and his life changes and man the schedule here is time with a trained professional the belief is that the spirit is what needs mending and that this only comes through god drug use is on the rise in russia the official numbers indicate that there are six hundred thousand addicts but the federal agency charged with combat in this problem puts it at millions more but there is also an increase

in the number of religious rehab centers like this one that are offering nontraditional treatments but some are referring to them as little more than recruiting centers for religious sex the pentecostal community in russia is small but run several of the nation's growing number of religious rehabs critics insist those who seek treatment through these are simply try. one crutch or another. we're losing people now not because of drugs but because of destructive cults chemical addiction to drugs or alcohol is substituted by group psychological addiction instead this kind of addiction is stronger and much more serious some experts claim recovering addicts become able to function outside of the church and sequester themselves later elected to spread their message to others in new centers and he doesn't believe he's part of a cult of. the contrary i realized i had been brainwashed all my previous life and

people around me had a consumer added to it but here you were feeling i mean new version and the desire to run a clinic of his own someday. r.t. . now it's hard to imagine a bad as something that's preyed upon but that's exactly what happens in russia's far east what six hundred of them killed income child coverage and every year during a trip to the region prime minister the dem appeared to highlight him as the problem of poaching while observing the animals in that natural habitat and when asked by a journalist it was safe to get close to there to these huge animals. it's the battle as it should be afraid of people not the other way around. and the only ones endangered in the far east that knowledge is to incompetence of the regions of waters gray whales are facing extinction and fish and also joined a group of biologists in that pursuit of the mammals wouldn't as they perceived of

taking. using it. as scientists kept close tabs on the way a population of the poles weather conditions learned it took four times to have their way. while the motor industry has been having a rough ride of late but it's been the revving up to display the best at exhibition in the russian capital not everyone may be able to. for the way they to the way they will have the mosque international made to share but it's not stopping the crowds from taking the lead and among them was tom boston has been checking out live in the fast lane. of.

the fast and the luxurious thousands are turning up to run their hands down some very shiny paint of this year's moscow car show on an area the size of eight football pitches exhibitors from all over the world are showcasing more than six hundred cars foreign carmakers hope it will be the start of big things in russia the majority of our sales currently come from moscow and st petersburg but words mean a retail network to the far corners of russia and you know how large this country is it's estimated that this year's show will attract more than one point six million visitors keen to see the latest luxury models luxury seems to be the hallmarks of this year's event with middle range vehicles on display but some brands here are keen to make their mark on any prospective russian buyers who are

focusing on the. world and also want to make more advertising and that make more of them one reason people are now telling bras and not product alike helpful after the crisis it seems many russians are once again finding the credit to buy cars though not many of the ones you'd find here on russian. makers are also here in force hoping to show they can keep up with the competition first we are a commercial manufacturer and that's where our strength is secondly we have what i think one of the bears benefactor implants a person because in russia we're working to find a solution where we can use the people we can use for investment and we can help russia to build locally work does produce. some foreign manufacturers are also seeking to boost production and russian customers by teaming up was domestic producers nissen has joined forces with a russian comic after the us we could imagine that we'd be up told us. we could do

more massive body shop and with some of it there's a book planned to develop the modern form the sun the mother living high one company but amidst all the concern about economics isn't everyone forgetting about the environment well not everyone is pretty well both in terms of our dogs about everything to make sure that their we know they are likely to turn it off if you're not sure whether it's environmental. the latest in automotive fashion or just sheer power you want me to find it here the one thing most of these cars aren't friendly to wallets the public around me are looking at some of the best cars the world has to offer but i want to create the rise of the show was lifted mostly because they're out of the reach of the majority of russians but it doesn't just tracking the spectacle of looking at what you could drive if you have the money from boston off the cost. and in

a few minutes we uncover what's going on at the notorious gun tunnel bay prison camp but before that top of back with a recap of our top stories. time

out again this is all see at which the winds. security forces stop all the efforts in russia's north caucuses coming up a dozen alleged minutes and then intensify down to tower climb down but five policemen also die in the latest gun battle. five years own america remembers more than two hundred victims of hurricane katrina but there's still widespread homelessness in the city of new orleans despite record structure of its. causes celebrates two years since russia recognized it as an independent state with a new nation looking for ways to flow to strengthen its.