the white side of the if you look at the weather we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found airline in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver 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 reports many hosni us companies are doing drugs well this is when i run the policeman as i was doing i kept quiet about it for about two years all the other policeman he knew about quite a few police for drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something about politics afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand

prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the locks i'm not sure a safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past few years. this is a mix of all your contacts you would buy them out of this is opium but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring the is with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with mending a hand. up the really good of you know it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good educated. enough so there are a lot joining defenders to the side of the people. joined up with these through the

south and south but the ministry of continent caught its insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those finds in afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have to be just forces to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four walls as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded porous here our team pretty cheeky person karpal the appointment by the united nations of russian anti drug czar yuri for daughter of his hoped to bring a more hardline approach in the war against drugs but former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener says that while the poppy blight is a lucky break it's not a substitute for effective policies in the battle against narcotics. the disease is

not a policy this is an accident of nature and it will come right back in a year or two to be the huge amount of drugs that is routinely making afghanistan the number one supplier in the world one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drugs are yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drugs are mr costin we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa didn't understand what mr fedotov in the united nations now doesn't understand is that the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al qaida because this is drugs are seventy percent of their funding is to eradicate the drugs out of the source of their money and they will go to that proportion disappear and so will the violence against all the countries on earth

that terrorists are. disappear and steve drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drugs are from russia but the eradication must be combined with what hillary clinton is proposing which is crop substitution you can't just throw the farmers out and say you're not allowed to live you have to give them a way to live those two policies combined eradication and crop substitution can be a solution. meanwhile pakistan has shut a vital supply route for coalition forces in afghanistan the closure has stranded one hundred fuel tankers and trucks stopping them from crossing the border into the war torn country it's seen as retaliation for a nato helicopter attack on suspected militants from pakistan from pakistani militants with karate claiming the raid killed three of its soldiers and wounded three others the alliance expressed condolences and said the incident is now being investigated despite the supply blockade being a reminder of the leverage pakistan has over the us the number of missile strikes

and helicopter raids against suspected militants in pakistan's border tribal zone has increased pakistani officials say the attacks violate international law and should be stopped pakistani political expert told r.t. that the problem could be solved by having the tribes represented in the decision making structures something that. you need to expect that box on could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down nato supplies because there's a strong feeling in that box down is getting to the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course boxed on the interests are not being looked after or respected by our friends and have guns down and if this continues you might as well see a complete you have to understand something tribes of course are divided by this manufactured border and in order to completely stop the push to ones from any of the tribes to really help each other during this war in afghanistan there's only one way to do

that and that is to bring political reconciliation in afghanistan so basically what i'm saying is and what box any officials have been. telling american officials but not in a forceful way that you need to resolve the problem off isolating the push to get them out of power in kabul they are of course angry about this and what you see the resistance that you see the afghan taliban whatever they're doing it have got to. part of that is an expression of. anger add to excluding them from power in kabul so unless you bring them into the power circle the push tools will keep fighting and it is unfair in this situation to expect pockets to completely clamp down on the push to an tribesmen whether they are or whether they are pakistani throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside of gun is done box down the ideas suggestions box on the input were completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation

go from bad to worse in afghanistan i don't think it is possible that you could do and you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong pakistani involvement and that was pakistani political expert. eland of the american think tank the independent institute believes recent strikes against militants on pakistani territory actually damage the u.s. war against al qaeda. i think they need to cut back the straits not increase them because they're there apparently this these latest round of strikes is to prevent terrorists from attacking europe and last i knew the united states was not in europe i mean we're supposed to be safeguarding our own security and i think welling away in pakistan just makes more enemies so i think for the pakistani people sake and for the united states' sake and also i think for the effectiveness against al qaeda these drone strikes should be restricted to not not even the pakistani taliban i think that would help

a lot and it would avoid killing innocent pack of pakistani civilians and later in the program we tell you about therapy one foot under. this feels very very strange the story is very close and also heavy now doing all right at the moment that is going to get all scary we explore how it feels to be buried alive and why anyone would ever volunteer to do the ordeal. a week long state of emergency has been declared in ecuador after chaos following a strike by police president rafael correa has been hospitalized after being pelted with tear gas at a demonstration in the capital city quito he was attacked while attempting to speak with officers protesting against new austerity measures which would cut their benefits and mean longer service before promotion striking officers have put up roadblocks all over the capital while soldiers have seized control of the airport widespread of assaults and robberies have been reported across the country

effectively left without any law enforcement though president korea's fate is not yet clear there are fears for his safety and that he may be held hostage in a police hospital in quito venezuela along with cuba and other south american countries have called on the country's military commanders to protect the president and restore peace but as an expert on latin america. eva golinger says the task will be harder as it seems the rebelling may not have been spontaneous but well planned. and at the meantime there are thousands tens of thousands are pouring into the streets in the capital keep protesting this yet another attempt at ecuador has been subject over the past record quarter for a i want office in two thousand and seven before that it would have been subject to numerous coups and changes and during the ten years prior so the the law apparently the police were protesting seems to be just an excuse for some plans that were already under way to execute

a coup against gray he did say directly there is their forces trying to assassinate him which is the fear now that he's been sequestered in the military hospital by police and military forces not allowing any access to him and he himself has already said he said live in iraq that's a television i think they can kill and he was reelected for a second term last year overwhelmingly by a majority of ecuadorians and many of his policies have affected you know big business interests it's the same as what happened in honduras the same as what happened in venezuela eight years ago and it could attack against president chavez and remember that just last year president carter they are refused to renew a contract for a u.s. military base in man to ecuador and so that his country and his policies is going to have also come into conflict with very powerful u.s. interests there is a massive u.s. presence not just military but even more than military presence particularly the u.s. agency for international development which is just every where they have

a massive compound in both keep the i'm going to kill major cities a backward or and some of the groups that have come out calling for the president's resignation are known as groups receiving funding from these u.s. agencies like us air d.m. the national doubt for democracy. security forces in russia's southern city of stab a pole have defused a two massive bombs equivalent to at least ninety kilos of t.n.t. which they say could have caused carnage the first bomb in a car was to have been triggered by the vehicles alarm system the second was found nearby and is believed to have been targeted at police officers who would respond to the first explosion a body of a man was also discovered in the car the prosecutor's office says say he's been identified as a local cab driver and was not linked to the attempted attack around three thousand people were evacuated from nearby buildings as well as a school. global media outlets covering this year's un assembly in new york have

been criticized for disregarding smaller countries as the world's biggest political players left the show so did the media with the speeches by delegates from over one hundred nations of falling on deaf ears that's despite the gatherings aim to reduce poverty and improve quality of life for the world's poor artie's marina reports. and 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 of that with people who have endured too much war but

once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. to press prematurely concluded their coverage people don't care so it's going to decide to go for the we'll see. you know the reason that the mainstream media pulled the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak abandoned by live trucks and most police presence nations like palestine congo and mongolia were left addressing half empty auditoriums by monday when spoke of suffering under us and forgoes a 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 debate and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in was packed and 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 so 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 the. much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. a lot of difficult to say addressing those charges 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 you know. convenience 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. to be the bad i mean. we should know we should we 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 very important party new york now for some other headlines from around the world two policemen and a bystander have been killed in a shootout following a failed bank robbery in baghdad the attackers detonated four bombs outside the bank before attempting to storm the premises two of them were captured and six others including three police officers were also injured in the gunfight that followed security officials said it was still unclear whether the gang was a political leader. over ten thousand have been arrested in india following a contentious court ruling dividing control of an early site between muslims and hindus one hundred thousand have also been made sign nonviolence pledges after the

ruling which is likely to be appealed hindus not muslims have been allocated the main disputed section where a four hundred year old mosque was located until nine hundred ninety two muslims revere the site but hindus say it's the birthplace of one of their deity. people are always in search of new and interesting ways to escape the hustle and bustle of their daily lives but in russia a group of therapists have taken treatment to a new level but meet the earth's surface they claim that being buried alive for twenty minutes can change the way you see things despite grave doubts bennett went to give it a try. above ground there are a few signs of life. below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fears pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. the first thing you experience and

panic once your face is covered with dirt if you start tasting as i'm thinking of the hell of my doing down here a foot up you don't want to come down you'll simply know all the places like these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on ancient form of self in lightened practice by shamans they wanted to make the rites more accessible believing everyone can benefit. the most effective and powerful method would be overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear any of it nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their own eyes like a burial cost you around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries to maximum burial is fourteen minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function but that thirty centimeters any deeper than the pressure would be too great for stand once under the volunteers briefly this

change 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 person like very fast and also contact them thank you god earth must be distributed in a certain way and off of the body which later that he joins the pressure rising in the news you can practice area was in charge knowing a budget was going. to until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now me given this to breakthrough which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so far to stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as it were and yet this feels very very strange the sorries 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. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and definitely never doing i guess a minute. moscow. for many russians in the summer of two thousand and ten will be remembered for the scorching heat massive wildfires and suffocating smog in a moment our t.v. interviews of the country's emergencies minister go on the lessons learned.

thank. you. hello mr shanku thank you for your time this summer russia faced great forest fires and some are still raging why do you think it all happened on such a scale. when washed out so. the key reason for all this of course is the record breaking heat we had in central russia there is along the volga river which cause forest fires and quite a significant scale those fires could have been prevented to a certain extent but only to an extent through time the fire alerts under such climatic conditions the key goal is to extinguish fires within one hour from them

starting or at least on the same day. because the fire is not contained in six hours winds occur that make the situation critical the fire becomes either a running crown fire or a high acreage ground fire with winds of up to twenty to twenty five meters per second even thirty meters per second in some regions forest fires turn into fire storms no fire service in the world. has been able to deal with things like that so far the situation now on the contrary to the second part of your question about fires is far better now than at the same time last year and the previous years perhaps this is juge of the fact all of our cities are mobilized and alert in the wake of the great events of late july and august speaking of lessons we can learn from all this we sure are reviewing many postulates and dogmas we used to have before we are considering changes upon the president's orders to russia's forest legislation how exactly did that forest legislation prevent the authorities from fighting fires stowers. well to begin with this function has been delegated to the

level of municipalities federal entities and forest department along with fire safety and fire control in forests federal entities were supposed to handle all that work tenders and choose businesses and organizations to protect forests from fires but unfortunately that work was not done well enough in some regions authorities gave contracts to businesses that had neither the equipment nor the staff nor the experience to prevent forest fires going in my circle around there so . can you say that your ministry to everything it could to fight forest fires or is there something you're displeased with international yeah. i think we on our cars use as much effort and equipment as possible i can say thank god that through all those years against all odds we kept developing new equipment new aircraft and firefighting systems that helped us a great deal in putting out the forest fires it is perhaps the first time that the entire system of the federal firefighting service has been fully engaged in

combating forest fires our zone of responsibility was in residential areas we usually work in towns and villages but this time we had to quickly learn previously unfamiliar ways to talk of high acreage fires especially crown fires i've previously been familiar. what i began with it's not our function it is the function of the federal forestry agency when the first fires. wasn't the president informed that wasn't he told that perhaps your ministry should be involved in fighting the fires. when the situation became critical the president signed a decree that declared a state of emergency that means all federal forces and the ministry of emergency first of all are engaged this is why it took us just two days to establish a task force of nearly one hundred sixty thousand people and almost twenty six thousand units of equipment we also created a large aerial task force with up to fifty aircraft operating simultaneously after all on the third or the fourth day we had begun putting out more fires than there

were new ones up to four hundred or five hundred new fires would break out every day and in addition to fighting new fires we had to keep fighting the existing ones that used to i think the fact that we managed to save some four thousand six hundred residential areas with a total population of more than half a million is a great achievement for our firefighters volunteers local residents and the military who are also someone to help all the people who stood up against the elements in this emergency of course we analyze all our work we exchange experience and advice with our western colleagues issues i would like everyone to realize that such disasters are not nation specific catastrophe is no no borders customs nationalities or religion this is perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from this situation or should we should learn to consolidate our efforts to join forces to give a helping hand to each other and to do our job efficiently but lobsang the power with so few right more and more disasters touch not only one country or region but sometimes whole continents is there any close warning system how often do you want

your foreign counterparts interact with each other more to. ask for fires here in russia we didn't ask for any help but we didn't reject it when it was offered we are grateful to our foreign colleagues who came from one thousand countries to provide help and support it is essential and i point out that once again that a disaster knows no borders are nationalities are taught by. the safety and human lives this is the key to us and we got from the situation just like not send them to sell usenet there and it's all the same whether it's less at the truth but let's look at it in more global terms there is an impression that natural disasters have become more frequent in russia and elsewhere around the world wildfires are followed by floods and floods are followed by tsunami so what should we prepare for this is just going to get worse and worse got bertha. as you may know the number of natural disasters has indeed increased over the past twenty years and this increase is significant it's not just my outside impression indeed this is

research carried out by analysts the number of natural disasters is not just up by the church here fifty percent it's several times more than that everybody knows that here i'd like to warn you against two things first there's always a great desire to use the situation for political purposes this should be avoided the environmental serious politicized so much in russia that it's impossible to see when it's true or when the truth is exploited for political purposes because in his case they were going to opinion polls you've been the most popular minister for the past few years why do you think that is. i don't think it's right when an emergency minister is the most popular minister in the country i'm used to but i believe that artists writers culture and foreign ministers should be the most popular figures whereas in emergencies minister should largely stay unemployed thank you for this interview.

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to boost. coming up next our special report looking at how recently declassified secret files have shed new light on the causes of world war two that's only here. off. the chick fil a. is situated two hundred kilometers from kronk fifty years ago it was called persia kill the german name. the germans were forced out from here after world war two.