hello and welcome to our weekly review i mean you dash above all and with started russia south twelve militants and five policemen have died after a gunman i talked at village in the russian republic of chechnya special forces have intensified counter terror operators recently that with over forty militants killed during the past month. has more. it all started overnight when a group of armed men entered the church leaders 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 of gordie's 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 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 a 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 beneath me the beauty of 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 mitchell bombings took place i said to 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 abilities killed the man suspected of organizing these attacks. and also located his archives which contain information on terrorist activities in rough. and also prove according to the f.s.b. the prove his links with international terrorist organizations and the f.s.b. is also said that the have information that the last phone call made on the 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 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. you know for importing that 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 the event in new orleans celebrating the city's revival after the tragedy and he said that although katrina was a natural disaster it was also a manmade catastrophe caused by a poor government response the storm left eighty percent of new orleans underwater and despite reconstruction efforts homelessness is still a major problem. new orleans louisiana the city of music. on every corner a different tune. with out of print the wall of the moment

it's better to know that born raised and i want to leave you on. anything. in the french quarter on bourbon street tourists mingle with the musicians this pause combat pretty much but i don't know bad night was in the one. 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 dear god you know you miss one i'll go to another housing up 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 to the moon.

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 thought when 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 aftermath the. half 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 mom that's the word thing you do not down and down the family not

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 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 their forget them on a little patience in the middle from homelessness to house you better find a job somewhere near you. 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 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. coming up later in the program thought from. a new country means a first off the sun but renewed for others we'll take a closer look at the challenges faced by some immigrants to the u.k. . and also find out how young couples in india ostracized for tearing down the barriers of tradition. this week a positive two years since full independence from georgia recognized by russia. and a handful of other countries the tiny republic however is quickly becoming a hot tourist destination that has been lost on. underneath as just nineteen but has already an experienced chef when it comes to preparing local meals across cocoa traditionally abkhazian food is pickles corn

mills and smoked meat eater pork or beef and cheese is a must more king in a small beach resort and so home is a summer job for this future customs officer. which i chose this occupation because i want to serve my motherland i want to work here so at 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 visitors. 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 venezuela nicaragua and the small republic with 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 spent 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. in spanish but people much easier in countries they conduct really independent policy just like the minister himself the core of the diplomatic thing tank are people in their twenty's they are setting new goals for the republic's 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 more and would new development opportunities for people in. this waiting period doesn't seem

to be a problem. r t. russia plans to launch all its spacecraft run you cosmodrome in the country's far east it will replace the current arrangements of using the base and by canoe in kazakhstan the first manned flights are expected to take off from the new eight hundred million dollars signed by twenty 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 before is. to contribute to the economic social development of the far eastern region of russia. the future launch but you will see that it is relatively close to equator well as close as it could be because of the launch but with a quick the easier it is to launch by a lot in the space of the less fuel will consume to deliver the law to the orbit

if you look at the world economy it will see the increasing queue by the congress oversight the word communication of different kinds of services and. stories and it's going to be the world bank so i believe that in the future of course the demand in space services will only grow. near washington r.t. and still ahead high speed and high cost motoring. public around me looking at some of the best cars the world has stopped looking at what you could drive if you pop the money sassy's told boston has been checking out all to no trains faslane in a mosque that's in just a few minutes. 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 thai prime minister said his country where the russian was arrested over two gives ago is merely

a third party in the case boot even three denies american accusations he sold weapons to colombian leftist rebels saying the charges have been fabricated by washington reading a statement from her husband but it's why i said he has no chance of a fat trial in the u.s. not least because of hostile american media coverage where his nicknames the match into the death moscow says the case is political and has been seeking his return. russia says bangkok's court of appeal that we could ordered his extradition to the us but try have an investigative journalist daniel as stephen says the case is tending to me to come. i spent quite a bit of time in thailand researching the entire terrible story and interviewing big trouble extensively over sixty times for hundreds of hours in prison and quality i also had access to. intelligence and time teligent 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 court of course instance was going to rule

in favor so it looked actually the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boots against the book so that nobody could say that it was a skewed decision or that nobody could say that the americans paid the thais 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 in thailand there was no appeals to the supreme court as far as the four has occurred sort of the war against borders basically a war against russia if you can destroy the board and you can prove that he is a merchant of 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 is chance of winning the case the united states is zero point zero united states states have spent fifteen years trying to allegedly try to catch an alleged garden runner but it was it true they spent two and half years trying to win the extradition case and it would actually set to the united states to think that he can win in the united states against america on their home turf when

everything is against them so that in the end if you walks and goes home america will all become a laughing stock of the entire world not to mention whatever little credibility they have as a nation will definitely be ruined. investigative journalist daniel is still in there and our website has a lot more stories for you to check card whenever you want to and here's a taste of what's on my right now at r.t. dot com. a chemical illusion people in gaza swap the harsh reality of weasels brocade for the so-called happy pill a drug authorities are trying to stamp out. blaze was spectacular stunts this week as dad devils risking life and limb but the crowds entertainment at an international festival of more head to our seat or. a government report has revealed that the number of immigrants in the country increased by twenty percent last year but not all are able to find jobs to support

themselves with some ending up on the streets struggling to survive the war and that reports. in london it said your never more than two meters away from a rat that dirty disease infested often poisoned but according to charities homeless migrants from eastern europe have become so desperate that some of have no choice but to eat the eastern european migrants. living on streets in squalor in extreme life situations is a consequence of the transition period in european union so basically for the first year of their stay in the war. and they have no rights whatsoever if for example someone becomes addicted to alcohol or something they lose their job and end up on the streets no rehabilitation is of their evil no detox no accommodation for homeless eastern europeans the problem so serious that polish

charities like barker work in conjunction with local authorities to get eastern european migrants off the streets and encourage them to go home if they fall on hard times recent figures show a quarter of london's four thousand homeless are from central and eastern europe because of their lifestyle many have serious alcohol problems with reports of some drinking alcoholic handwash stolen from hospitals for people are known to have died often it only takes a relatively minor life event to pull the rug from under their feet. and money and. decided to come here instead of going home david felt he was better off squatting in london and that's true of latvian martins too he ended up sleeping on a park bench and scavenging for food from bins off to several job losses now scorching and hoping to find work he's got a message for anyone considering coming to the u.k.

to seek their fortune. to. find who are going to work what you're going to do no one is waiting for you here and just doesn't ring them from the sky many homeless eastern europeans day because tomorrow might be the day they find work and a better life that the feeling that going home would be an unbearable admission of failure the major problem that faces migrants from eastern europe is the lack of a safety net what may seem like relatively minor misfortunes can easily leave them on the streets in mid two thousand and eleven. the e.u. will enforce regulations that mean migrants will be able to claim housing and unemployment benefits after just three months in the u.k. but if you are forced to survive by eating three months is still a very you know you are at it. despite being illegal discrimination on the basis of that centuries old cost system is still rife in

india those choosing to tie the knot with a number with a member of a different cost can find them selves rejected by both community and finally but as his current sink reports more young people are trying to break with tradition. prakash and so in that i'm have upset their families born into different castes they were expected to marry one of their own but they have broken what is considered taboo. an intercom marriage is considered a sin here our society wants to continue its traditions that people have been following for centuries her family has a much higher cost than mine this hurt their ego that the bridegroom is lower in status. the couple have enlisted the help of outsiders the ngo the unite humanity movement often deals within the caste managers there have been more than one thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the be hard state. we want

to discussed based society based mindset and caste based discrimination a custom a society can only be brought about by intercourse marriages and into religious marriage us the perk and she. looked ten years ago to tie the knot chicas father filed a case of kidnapping against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple. my family allowed me to visit them only after seven years but not with my husband and even now if i do visit my father doesn't speak to me he is still angry with me . the police in bihar are increasingly dealing with aidid families and young couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old rohit kumar formatting teenager a new comedy impulse and we are seeing many cases such as these with both a boy and girl wanting to get married if a girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the

person of her choice but if she is younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes. divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities gas divisions are now less important while in rural india many. refused to let go of their traditions. anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by us no one in the village gives the couple any water or food or even if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. caste is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation the relation who considers caste and even if we do the next generation will definitely not even think of it discrimination on the basis of past is illegal in india but in large parts of the country it remains the overriding factor when choosing a life partner the sooner this changes the sooner we'll division's all got past lose the relevance here got unseeing our d.

india. look at some other international news stories thousands of engineers are spending the night in refugee camps after all canaille on their own land of sumatra erupted for the first time in four centuries the red cross says over sixty thousand people fled their homes as smoke and shot fifteen hundred meters into the air and at least one person has died due to breathing difficulties as the area remains covered in a gray dust cloud a state of emergency has been declared in the region so that all kind of activity has begun to subside. and in chile are working on an alternative plan to rescue searches three miners and the ground after the collapse of the shaft four weeks ago mine experts say that as well as training a new tunnel which will take four months they may try to widen an existing bore hole used to supply food and medicine and this option if it were to work would halt the time to reach the man to man this bring them out via

a capsule meanwhile relatives sang to pope benedict after he told the programs in rome that he has been praying call simply for the miners safe rescue. and in pakistan severe flooding has submerged the city said in the southern province of sindh almost. quarter of a million residents managed to flee there's been widespread destruction the latest happened while people were trying to save the nearby city of at least seventeen million people have been affected and eight made and are in need of a majesty relief since flooding began a month ago. the motor industry has been having a rough ride of late but has been of revving up to display the best on offer at an exhibition in the russian capital not everyone may be able to afford the wheels and the moscow international mode to show but it's not stopping the grads from taking a look and among them was also his tom boston who's been checking out live in the fast lane.

the fast. thousands are turning up to run their hands down some very shiny paint this is 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 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 model's 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. for the. eyes in the. morning the people terribly wrong. after the crisis it seems many russians are once again finding the credit to buy cars there 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 belts benefactor implants about. and 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 we russian customers by teaming up was domestic producers in this town has joined forces with a russian comic and after that we could imagine that. we could do more. with some but there's more planned to develop the more than phone the sun the mother living high on content but amidst all the concern about economics isn't everyone forgetting about the environment well not everyone knows maybe both in terms of our dogs but everything to make sure that there be no big daddy didn't turn it off if you have money. whether it's environmental. the latest in automated 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 clear the rise of this show was lifted most of the cars here out of the reach of the majority of russians but it doesn't just truck in the spectacle of looking at what you could drive if you have the money from boston off see. on the way in just a few minutes you can follow james brown his adventures in the city off the top of paul but first have a back with every cap on our top story just. more

news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations or rule today.

you will shrink also the line from the russian capital is going to i'm going to have the. security forces step out of that fence and russia's north caucuses coming and doesn't match the militants and intensified and to tear a client down but one of these men also died in the latest gun because. some of his own america remembers more than eight hundred victims of hurricane katrina but there's still widespread homelessness in the city of new orleans despite her construction efforts. and deposit celebrates to get a sense of russia have recognized it as an independent state with a new nation looking for.