a fragile nation hundreds of thousands living in poverty and insecurity opium it can be their only solace police fighting afghanistan's drug war at home have their own demons to contend with as pulis lire reports. abdulrahim i used to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself but the former army commander denies the charges he insists he never swayed from the white side of the law. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found our contacts caroline in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to recent u.s.

congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs well. when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen here knew about it quite a few police my drug addicts are not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. pullet afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but then all of this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes

over the years prison guards have been charged with mending a hand. that they will give us it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were. in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good that you don't have enough so there are a lot joining the produce truth out of the people joining the police to the south going south but the ministry of cantona cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem before the police can become a police he gets tested he will have certain tests before coming to before going through the exercise part of our becoming a police sergeant. this is something that has been developed an army level but questions remain what some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces

doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four wars as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded forests here are teen for the chief person karpal. security is being tightened across the north of india as well for his fear of a legal judgment on a religious site will spark massive underestimate the high court has to rule whether the land in the engine town of belongs to muslims or hindus that's not cross live to our indian correspondent karen singh for more details on this situation hello to you karen so it's a historic dispute that's already taken thousands of lives and the court has to deliver its verdict any time soon so i mean what's the situation in the region like now has there been any further tension. well there hasn't been any tension of any

sort yet i think the nation is on tenterhooks waiting for this judgment now this is one of the longest running property disputes in india it's it's been sixty years now. and in the past weeks or so when the verdict was due to be announced there has been an increase in hyde please calls for calm from all quarters all political parties and the government for instance is not taking any chances it's got about two hundred thousand police all across the state over to predation which are utilise and all the major cities in india seeing a very high security presence. now carol we are getting live reports right now that the property may have actually been given to the hindus tell me this why is this site such a hot property for both religious groups. well it's a very complex. and i'm sure the judgment will will not be

a very simple one. because it's a plot of land which measures about two point seven acres it was the facts as we know them was that there was a mosque built in the sixteenth century on this spot which was demolished in one thousand nine hundred two by hindu more. what the hindu community says is that. that there used to be a hindu temple on this very spot which was demolished in the sixteenth century to make way for the mosque and that in fact the land belongs to them the muslims of course say that the land belongs to them because the mosque has been existing for five hundred years so it's a very complex issue a very emotive issue and i'm sure the judgment is going to be examined in detail for the simple reason also that it's expected that they're going to be three judgments by the three judges. it's a three judge bench will be allowed but i court and because it's so complex i think all three judges want to give their version of the legal legalities points on this in this particular case. you're saying we're getting

a lot of reports now that the indian court has decided that. it's hindu property charan singh reporting for us live there thanks very much well still ahead for you in our program a grave decision how being buried alive can make you mentally stronger than usual to say the least but one group of therapists will explain why. major media outlets at the un general assembly gathered to cover speeches from world leaders this week but when the biggest countries left the show so did the media leaving other nations to talk to an empty room. found out just who was left to listen. an international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united

nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust dominating the states in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the world to cover this seven day event with people who have endured too much more but once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. the press prematurely concluded their coverage people don't hear. them and so i think you know what you see what. you know the. mainstream media pulled the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak by live trucks and most police presence nations like palestine congo in mongolia were left addressing half

empty are torrijos by monday when cuba spoke of suffering under us and forgoes camera outside the un along to a tourist between two thousand and twenty five hundred journalists were accredited at the un for the general assembly debates and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in with when he laughed he took all the media attention with him now only a handful of journalists are left to report about all the other countries that are addressing the international body the poorest leaders took to the podium campaigning for climate change and the scene inside the u.n. media center spoke volumes less than ten reporters. and garbage cans overflowing with recycled rubbish. today also reflects that the u.n. suddenly doesn't draw much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. to some extent this

a lot of difficulties addressed in those challenges the first maybe garnering respect from its host country nearly seventy percent of americans think the u.n. does a lousy job in solving global problems maybe they should move it somewhere else maybe governors island where nobody would be affected by it you know it's definitely inconvenient for everyone however most of the world criticizes americans for neglecting to understand local problems we only know what we hear we don't know exactly what's going on. i know that's good or bad i mean. we should know we surely should be you know the same for everyone if not the united nations may remain a place where everyone continues to talk and neglects to listen arena porton i am party new york. we can always head over to r.t. dot com for much more on our stories where online for you twenty four hours a day and here's a taste of what you'll find there right now america's infrastructure is succumbing

to the laws of gravity find out why thirty five bridges have collapsed in the state of minnesota alone. and there's moscow's mayor gets the sack russia's gay community is allowed to stage a protest on the capital streets for the first time more on that and much more head to r.t. dot com. well tens of thousands of people have marched across europe outraged at their government's decision to impose austerity measures to pay off massive debts brussels saw the largest rally around the e.u. had accordance with demonstrators carrying balloons banners and blowing whistles people around europe called on the government to ensure stable jobs wages and pensions trade unions expressed fury that workers had to pay back the bank's mistake that austerity measures could lead to even more unemployment david campbell brown i'm a member of the european parliament blames i think for most of the continent's

current economic trouble. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions that it is they're trying to do but it's beyond that now i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency called the euro the euro's a problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that it and the germans are paying through the nose and you know the majority of germans now want to leave the euro and that's conceivable that we recreate all the national currencies or certain strong currencies leave although we currently one or the other. well the swiss finance minister was caught in a fit of giggles when he was addressing the parliament on the import of dried meat

later on seeds the economy expert max keiser gives his take on what's just so funny . i think this is indicative of the global state of finances around the world that i think all these guys who are in charge of government finances in one way or another are having a collective nervous breakdown finance ministers on the verge of a nervous breakdown but the other point i think needs to be made is that the bank of international settlements also located in switzerland they have taken a look at their vaults and they're taking a look at what they own for collateral that is the basis for the global currency markets and global central banking system and what they see is a mountain of beef jerky. it's all collateralized by beef jerky beef jerky is the defacto global currency today that's what this guy knows that's why he's laughing. and you can watch the country report in just about fifteen minutes time right here on what's. well let's get to some other international stories this hour and north

korea has published a photograph of the country's heir apparent kim jong un for the first time it shows him at a convention of the ruling a workers' party sitting with other leaders near his father kim jong il this week kim jong un was awarded top political and military positions and was given the rank of a four star general and seen as a part of the plan to extend the kim dynasty in the reclusive communist state to a third generation. a landslide in southern mexico has left at least twelve people dead more than a dozen others are missing and some houses are completely destroyed blocked roads in the area making it difficult for rescue teams to search for survivors it follows tropical storms which battered the country's eastern and southern regions last month. the u.s. government has blacklisted iranian officials for alleged human rights violation

that the sanctions freeze the american assets of eight men including the revolutionary guard head and bars them from getting u.s. visas the movies are due to their alleged roles in a crackdown on opposition supporters are to last year's presidential election a step increases pressure on the islamic republic as tensions rise over its nuclear ambitions. well this year has seen its fair share of natural disasters from a destructive earthquake in haiti wildfires in russia to massive floods in pakistan but countries are should not be alone in fighting these catastrophes as russia's emergencies minister tells us a little bit late. of course we analyze all our work we exchange experience and advice with our western colleagues i would like everyone to realize that such disasters are not nation specific catastrophes know no borders customs nationalities or religion this is perhaps the

most important lesson we should learn from this situation we should learn to consolidate our efforts to join forces to give a helping hand to each other and to do our job efficiently. and you can watch our full interview with rushers emergencies minister in about an hour's time right here on r.t. . well one group in russia has come up with and i new usual method to fight stress and beat depression they're burying people alive the organizers of this extreme treatment claim twenty minutes in a fresh grave might change your mind on many things in life artie's ifa bennett went to try the remedy. i above ground there are a few signs of life below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fear is pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but it stream therapy. oh fantastic it

feels much better on the song than on the ground. the first time travels anxiety got the better of him now he says he can handle the pressure. as the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting us and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or you want to come down to simply no more than a place like this these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in light and meant practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. because the most effective and powerful method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear anything nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their minds. a burial costs you around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries

a full day's psychological training claims to prepare them for the fears they'll face. comic conditions can be subconscious uncontrollable there are different ways to overcome them working with mental images rhythm breathing there is an area of means for a person to subdue their fear we teach them to come to all of. the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function that thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers briefly this cheat the organizers a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. but are we have to be able to get the personal very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about things things that until now i didn't think

i suffered from any cost a phobia and that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now me given this debris through which i'm told by me monitoring at all times so when i stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as they were here this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again. thank. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again i live in an arty. now

in just about ten minutes time our financial analysts discuss a radical wave to revive the economy but first stephanie is here with the latest business news she's coming your way after just a short break. so the. we've got to. the biggest issues get voice ceased to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to the business bulletin investors are once again focusing on the

poor state of european banks the government of volunteers announced it will be taking a majority stake in the country's second largest bank as part of a fresh bailout it's also revealed the price tag for bailing all out of its banks will be more than fifty billion dollars this will raise its deficit to thirty two percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and twenty meanwhile moody's investors service has a low explains top credit rating by one not this puts additional pressure on the governments countries government as it has to pass the most stiff budget in decades it comes as the belt tightening measures imposed by the european governments provoked a massive protests across europe. and joining me now to discuss the debt situation in europe is karen ward in london who's the senior global economist at h.s.b.c. bank hi karen thanks very much for joining me now firstly all the fears about european debt that we saw before the summit basically back again. yes unfortunately

they are it was a bit odd that they went away actually at a given that the sovereign crisis is really about the fiscal measures that we need to see in europe which are very large. governments would be able to implement these so the law we had over the summer actually was what surprised us rather than the fact that it is returned. but as you say it certainly has returned in the last few weeks and will be austerity austerity measures that are being announced in europe do you think would be enough to restore confidence. but i think i'd actually turn that question on on its head and say if it fits if they aren't then we'll see further was there as he measures and certainly what has been announced already is quite serious belt tightening i think once financial markets see those plans being implemented see the fiscal tightening underway then you'll start to see some of that confidence return for the moment of course this is all on paper rather than

really being implemented so it's there any time will tell but if it's not enough then certainly i'm sure we'll see governments committing to the plans in order to get tensions we turn now to emerging markets they're being hailed as the next growth story but are they actually strong enough to grow even if europe and the u.s. start going into reverse again. but i think the emerging markets certainly aren't completely immune to what's going on in the developed world of course they exported a lot of their goods to the developed world and the financial system of of course very global so exports and the financial channel are the ones in which emerging markets will be affected but certainly if we step back from the very near. volatility that we'll see we completely agree that emerging markets all the growth story that we should be focused on we have many economies where income per capita is still very low relative to the western world and now we're seeing the

infrastructure and the global capital flows into these economies that will allow them to develop to the income levels that we see in the western world so we think certainly. on a medium term basis we're absolutely right to believe that we're going to see those economies growing up much stronger rates than we'll see in the west and finally current there's been a lot of talk about currency wars and governments devaluing their way out of debt do you think there's any truth to this. i think it's certainly true that every government at the moment what's the domestic consumer to be nice and prudent to be saving and building a good balance sheets but of course to keep their economies going they want strong exports that of course having a weaker currency helps that process so i think it is true that governments generally a welcoming we currencies even if they won't admit it of course there's two sides to every story and so you know everyone can have their weakest currency we

certainly see volatility in currency markets but we shouldn't see anything too disruptive from here thank you very much karen that was karen ward's senior global economist joining us live from london let's take a quick look at how the i.c. markets are performing european shares are down for a fourth straight day amid concerns that the cost of bailing out the region's banks is rising unsurprisingly financial stocks are among the top losers i kept is the worst perform on the footsie this hour showing three and a half percent the russian markets are mixed in afternoon trading with the r.t.s. just differing into the red most energy majors are making gains on the my six that led by ross messed up point nine percent this hour but what's telecom is on the slide down more than one and a half percent. fitch ratings agency has placed the bank of moscow russians fifth largest bank on negative watch it follows this week's dismissal of moscow's met yuri luzhkov by president medvedev the agency says the appointment of

a new mac could cause a deterioration in the relationship between the bank the city of moscow has close ties to the outgoing administration. i'm not sure update for. now but of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash it's a. wealthy

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taken thousands of lives. and the media has left the un general assembly delegates from over one hundred nations. only interested in the keynote speaker. while those were our top stories for the next. discuss why china is blowing up unfinished buildings and a. group could be meeting to save the euro enjoy. time now once again for the cause a reporter with me by surprise or stacy herbert markets finance scandals oh we've got all the scandals there are so many scandals stacey her tell us more tell us more tell us more here is the first headline hans rudolph merits boon or for.