hello and welcome to all teas weekly review my name is you leadership of allah and we started in russia south of twelve midterms and five policemen have died after gunmen attacked a village in the russian republic of chechnya a special forces have intensified counter-terror recently that was over forced them into the skill during the past month has gone off reports. it all started overnight when a group of armed men entered the church and leaders home 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 denied this information saying that there were no deaths

among the local population in this village the operation is still continuing the authorities are reporting you're 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 comedy 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 the need to be if the stories are not planning to back down on these counter terror operations. the militants killed during these recent operations brought it upon themselves by their own criminal acts back when the moscow michal bombings took place i see all be

found and eliminated this is the only way to treat them the president mentioned the two deadly blasts the two attacks on moscow's metro at the end of march just last week the authorities killed the man suspected of organizing these attacks. and they've also located his archives which contain information on terrorist activities in iraq. and also proof according to the f.s.b. the prove his links with international terrorist organizations and the f.s.b. has also said that the information that the last phone call made on. mobile phone was international as well though they didn't see which country it was with the 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 means and information on everybody connected to these

attacks and obviously they are now working to search for these people and to find these people. reporting that moving on now america is remembering more than eighteen hundred people who died five years ago when hurricane katrina ripped through the gulf coast president barack obama addressed and event in new orleans celebrating the city's revival 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. now reports. new orleans louisiana the city of music. on every corner a different tune. oh not a peep from the wall if you want me it's better to know that born raised and i want

to leave you on but then a day. in the french quarter on bourbon street tourists mingle with the musicians this pause combat pretty much but i don't know bad night it was an annoying night. 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 they're going to miss one how they got another house you know for me it's one of the new and despite all the empty homes new orleans streets are filled with those who don't have one i started being homeless and it was three years ago. inside this mission to 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 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 to be 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 my son my mom the word thing you do not down and down the family not there

and it's what i know it's home you 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 this year 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 there forgive them on a little patience 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. gets harder and harder every day you can assume you dream slipping away. staying true to their city of music while continuing to brave the storm. preassure either.

party. in new orleans louisiana. coming up later in the program death from about. another consequence of the country some i hate way most cato's a southern russia us president a deadly disease. public around me looking at some of the best cars the world still looking at what you could join to give up the money so he's told boston has been checking out alton mo trains for lead in moscow that's in just a few minutes. this week a positive one. see years since full independence from georgia recognized by russia and a handful of other countries they turned the republic however is quickly becoming a hot tourist destination. underneath is just nineteen but his already an experienced chef when it comes to

preparing local meals. you know traditionally abkhazian food is pickles corn mills and smoked meat eater pork or beef and cheese is a must more king in a small beetroot sort and so home is a summer job for this future customs officer. officer but 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. course 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 august of two thousand and eight saakashvili ordered an attack on

. its capital involved 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 focus republics until the conflict was subdued. recognized the process and independence a move that was soon followed by have been his will nicaragua and the small republic of no we're now up to the turmoil of recent years because it is beginning to build new international relations. a young a pause in diplomat spend months and let in america meeting with local politicians and signing cooperation treaties it was the platform for his diplomatic career no maxime has been appointed a posse as 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 countries in the world in particular in latin america the region. which are very much like to be there because most people same language. i don't mean the spanish but i mean people much easier in countries that they conduct really independent policy just like the minister himself the core of the diplomatic think tank are people in their twenty's they are setting new goals for the republic foreign policy hoping that over time the least of international allies will grow despite the fact that only a few countries have recognized. the city as independence the local. are optimistic they say it may take more than just a few years to gain further recognition but with protection provided by most to and with new development opportunities for people in. this waiting period doesn't seem

to be a problem. r.t. across the. russia plans to launch all its spacecraft for a new cosmodrome in the country's far east it will replace the current arrangements of needing the base at baikonur in kazakhstan the first a month flights are expected to take off from the new eight hundred million dollars side by two thousand and eighteen and space analyst says it's a strategic move 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. if you like asia or the future launch but you will see that it is relatively close to equator well as close as it could be and the closer the launch but with a quit the easier it is to launch payloads in the space of

a less fuel space craft will consume to deliver the law to the orbit if we look at the role that quantum b. will see the increasing q. by the congress over satellite communication of different kinds of space services and even space tourism is going to the well being so i believe that in the future of course the demand in space services will only grow. thailand says it's up to moscow and washington to resolve their differences over the case of victor boot he's facing extradition from bangkok to the u.s. on arms dealing charges the time for a minister said his country where the russian was arrested over two years ago is merely a third party in the case but the imminently denies american accusations he sold weapons to plant in fact leftist rebels saying the charges have been fabricated by washington reading a statement from her husband that's why i said he has no chance of a fair trial in the u.s. not least because of hostile american media coverage for his nicknamed imaginative

dad and moscow says the case is political and has been seeking his return to russia since bangkok's court of appeal over a week ago ordered his extradition to the us the trial and investigative journalist daniel astin. has turned into a political. i spend quite a bit of time in thailand researching the entire troubled story and interviewing big trouble extensively over sixty times for hundreds of hours in prison in quality 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 in the sense that you know the thai court of for instance was going to rule and would favor who would look to actually the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boards against the board so that nobody could say that there was a skew decision that nobody could say that the americans paid the thais everybody would say it was one for blood one would for the americans except that the appeals

court decision was the final decision because unfortunately in thailand there was no appeals to the supreme court as far as the four has a concert in the war against borders basically a war against russia if you can destroy the board and you can prove that he's a virtual death 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 his chance of winning the case in those states is zero point zero zero experience states have spent fifteen years. try allegedly tried to catch a larger gun runner but it will be true this spread to our fears are drawing our to win the extradition case and it would actually serve to the united states to think that he can win in the united states against america on their home turf when everything goes against them so that in the end if you walk to the polls hold america will all become a laughingstock of the entire world not to mention whatever little credibility they have as a nation or defra of the allure of the investigative journalist daniel is still in that and our website has

a lot more stories for you to check out whenever you want to sound has a taste of what's online right now at r c dot com. a chemical illusion people in gaza small the harsh reality of israel's blockade of the so-called happy pill the drug authorities are trying to stamp out. there's a blaze with spectacular stunts this week as dad devils risk life and limb and live for the crowds entertainment at me international festival and some more. and then normally hot weather in the summer in russia brought the forest fires which destroyed so much of the countryside but it seems it's also brought a dangerous tropical disease the most kids who boarded west nile virus has already claimed six lives in russia south hundreds are hospitalized go on gordon is now. no one is safe just one by trim an ordinary mosquito is enough to put

a life in danger hundreds involved red region have been hospitalized with the west nile virus initial symptoms include high temperature headaches and nausea followed by seizures unconsciousness and death. the situation is grave it has been an unusually hot summer which allows mosquitoes to build up a high level of the virus there is nothing we can do to totally wipe out. your good dude can has survived infection but his central nervous system has been damaged he has problems remembering his age and address. i was so steered when i felt myself slipping away i don't remember how the ambulance brought me here. but at least he's alive several have died already if only we had realised what the same times were and that we needed to get her to hospital she might have survived my mother was a strong and healthy when. the west nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes in fact

both birds and humans although traditionally a mediterranean disease has been aggressively spreading through europe and america the first outbreak in volgograd was recorded only eleven years ago this year has already seen the highest number of cases. i've just heard about it on the news i'm terrified. i don't know anybody who's died from it i reckon i'm not in danger authorities are warning people against complacency and advised mosquito repellent and cover as much exposed skin as possible to avoid bites doctors say the worst of people see them as not big and bold claim many more victims before leveling off in october. r.t. volgograd. dozens of iraqis have been killed in a wave of attacks in baghdad this week this surge and violence comes just after the u.s. completed its withdrawal of combat troops from the country however around fifty thousand

american soldiers will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces critics say they recent violence raises questions over whether the government or baghdad can deal with the ongoing insurgency in the country despite president obama's pledge that iraq's ready to chart its own course about mactire of the law was associations testing at times could even be part of a plot to prevent the u.s. from leaving but there are a variety of reasons why it should have been various theories but one of the i think one of the more credible one is that the government is actually involve itself in it in order to prevent americans from pulling out or at least the troops they believe they must be engaged in military use of force not just training as it was claimed by the americans although people are talking about forming a government whether it's allow you whether it's my ticket what have you that is

really not the situation iraq has been dismantled there is no government there is no authority in iraq the prime minister cannot leave the green zone there is no military or police in iraq because there are all militias who have been recruited to wear the same uniform but that allegiance is not a national one but their allegiance to their faction or to their group or to their tribe and with us combat troops now out of iraq some are wondering in the real boss when the country's only just beginning resident reporter on the streets of new york nouri how often is thomson asking whether american forces were in iraq for the right reasons in the first place. the war in iraq is it over or has it only just begun this week let's talk about that the war's just begun it's iran than iraq or the sunni and the shiites the

whole region is going to be it's blown up it's going to get worse so do the troops need to stay there. that's a very thorny issue because the troops there has to be some presence their best case is if we could you know stabilize the country and then pull out but if we i don't know if that's possible so at this point we should probably just pull out you know i think we don't we can and it's it's up to them at this point i think there's going to be problems or to be more by means once we have it but at one point they've got to take over for themselves so why was it ever i best missed a thing or was we should never been there so they went in the hands of the oil and . now the civilians are suffering from and they have to make sure. that that's it's going to be ok again for the civilians that they can trust each other again and trust america now that they've done this so so we went in for the

wrong reasons but we should stay there for the right way is exactly what happened if all of a sudden we did pull everybody out do you think i think they're so we have problems but then best possible we're not responsible for that. you don't think we're responsible for causing any of the trouble number although no i don't we just went in there and well i don't know why we went there and you know but i don't think it's our problem telling them what to do if that's not the goal i don't believe but trying to get the people on their feet it will with a stable government and security for the people i think is an important role yeah yeah it doesn't seem like they can do it on their own i don't know you should have a lot of data to. yes. that's a good point because many people have strong opinions but they don't have all the information about it yeah ok i guess that is very common. and that's why you pay

your politicians the bottom line is that it's going to take a good amount of time to poll so many troops out of any place so we're expecting u.s. troops out of iraq any time soon we're bound to be disappointed whether it's right or wrong. let's not check some other news stories from around the world thousands of indonesia's ascending the night and refugee council after a volcano on the island of sumatra erupted for the first time in four centuries the red cross says over sixteen thousand people fled their homes as smoke and fifteen hundred meters into the air at least one person has died due to breathing difficulties as the average remains covered in a gray dust cloud a state of emergency has been declared in the region the volcanic activity has begun to subside. engineers in chile are working on an alternative plan to rescue city three miners stuck underground after the collapse of a shaft four weeks ago mine experts i trust well those drilling

a new tunnel which will take four months and may try to why an existing hole used to supply food and medicines this option if it were to work would the time to reach the men to two months bring them on the cap scale. he was able to find but it takes off like he told programs in rome that has been praying constantly for the miners safe rescue. in pakistan severe flooding has submerged the city hopes to drive while in the southern province of sindh almost a quarter of a million residents punish the police but there's been widespread destruction the latest from the one people try not to say. the nearby city of. least seventeen million people have been affected and eight million are in need of emergency really since flooding began a month ago more of this and about five minutes time in our interview with the u.n. step into envoy to pakistan. that. the motor industry has been

having a rough ride of late but it began at has been a revving up to display the best in offer at an exhibition in the russian capital not everyone may be able to afford their wills and he had them also international motor show but it's not stopping the crimes from taking a look and among them was also he's told barton has been checking out live in the fast lane.

the fast. thousands of turning up to run their hands down some very shiny paint of this is moscow car show in 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 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 king to make their mark on any prospective russian buyers. for them. to make more. and more in the people to militarily.

after the crisis it seems many russians are once again finding the credit to buy cars not many of the ones you'd find here on russian comic has are also here in force to show they can keep up with the competition. but i think one of the benefactor in the past. 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 or does produce. some foreign manufacturers are also seeking to boost production the new russian customers by teaming up with domestic producers and this town has joined forces with a russian carmaker after that we could imagine that we are told us. we could do more massive body shop. with some but there's more planned to develop the mother and father son the mother living high on contact but amidst all the concern about

economics isn't everyone forgetting about the environment well not everyone but those will be both in terms of our dogs but everything to make sure that there be no big daddy did you tell yourself it's your money. whether it's environmental. the latest an automotive fashion or just sheer power you want be likely 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 cups to offer but i want to clear the rise of the show was lifted most of the cars here 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 box and not see. the dreadful conditions in pakistan after the devastating floods are the subject of our exclusive interview and the way shortly but first have a back with a rico top story that just can't. from

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they cheer on a. leave go let's ensure. it again this is see protect of the headlines. security forces step up their efforts in russia's north caucasus killing a dozen alleged mentions that intensified on to terror crime down upon the nation also die in the majors gone. five years own america remembers more than eighteen hundred victims of hurricane katrina but there's still widespread christmas in the state of new orleans despite record struction at the. end of homs as how the great city says russia recognized it as an independent states with a new nation looking for ways to put its strengths and it's helping to make.