i'm doing right here 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 on the right side of the law because. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found on kartik south carolina and some drugs but what about 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 reports hosni afghan police are doing drugs well. when i grant you that as a policeman as i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen and you both have quite

a few police drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something about politics hockey afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on them. 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 but 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 ahead and. there will be yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved. smuggling drugs into the jail they

are not very good that get it done hard enough so that they are not joining the produce truth out of the people who join the police to have them suck but the ministry of cantona cottage 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 the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded porous here are teen pretty cheeky person karpal the appointment by the united nations of russian anti drug czar yuri for the top of it is hoped to bring a more hardline approach in the law of 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 the heroin trade. 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 drug czar yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drug czar 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 be drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drug czar 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 former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener speaking there 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 pakistani air space 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 to. spike the supply of 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 political expert. told the problem could be solved by including tribes in the power making structures something they are finding that. you need to expect that box on could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down needed supplies because there is a strong feeling in that box down is getting to the bad side of the stick we don't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course folks on the interest are not being looked after or

respected by our friends and have guns done 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 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 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 in afghanistan part of that is an expression of. anger at 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 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 on the ideas boxes. suggestions pakistani input were completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation go from what from bad to worse in afghanistan i don't think it is possible that you could do you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong pakistani involvement that was pakistani political expert. now ivan 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 straights 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 a rather earthy fair therapy one foot under. feels very very strange it's always very cold and also heavy doing all right the way that thing it's going to get that will. we explore how it feels to be buried alive and like anyone would ever volunteer to be or deal. 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

a tear gas barrage at a demonstration in the capital city quito he was attacked while attempting to address officers protesting against new government austerity measures which would cut their benefits the red cross says that at least one person has been killed and fifty injured in clashes between police and the president's supporters outside a hospital where the leader was not treated state officials claim that protesters have also injured the country's foreign minister striking officers have put up roadblocks of cross the capital tito while soldiers have seized control of the airport the military had declared their world. but asked for the controversial law that sparked the protests to be used mark saying is. in the capital. and updating us with the situation. if it's a true that it's very badly organized and the most societal i would say basically what happened is it's a rebellion by. people from the police force is what i don't see he's

a real big constellation. with. tragic tragic oh thank you great number of people from key to going to be ok it'll be they want to get in touch with the president and the police doesn't let them in people are shocked and there's a there's a very large support for the president i mean the nation was inside a nation and international there is a political price they should but it's like miles like there's no march with your solution so. if it's going to be strange so what the people fear they would they want the police force to stop and to free the president what is critical is more and more involved in in keeping. the port of the first duty as a problem is the absolutely no police patrol and there's. an explosion of pride moment banking back to the gangs are roaming in the streets. with guns and that's one of the main reasons this is a state of emergency because the army can take. the charge over the when order

because there's it's very difficult for the one or the situation the rebellion is not over and. the future mission is not here for the moment but i don't see what issue the policeman the riedel policeman can have i mean they are very minority and in a very small minority whatever little public support the protesting police may have within the country eva golinger who is an expert on latin america says the uprising may not have been spontaneous she says the revolt is strongly backed by business and political elements both inside ecuador and outside. and at the meantime there are thousands tens of thousands are pouring into the streets in the capital quito protesting this yet another attempt and ecuador has been subject over the past before court for a i want office in two thousand and seven before that it would have been subject to numerous who's in changes in governments during the ten years prior so. the law

apparently the police were protesting seems to be just an excuse for some plans that were already underway to execute a coup against he was reelected per second can last year overwhelmingly by a majority of ecuadorians and many of his policies are 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 in a coup d'etat against president chavez and remember that just last year president carter they are refused to renew a contract for u.s. military base in manta ecuador and so that his country and his policies and government have also come into conflict with very powerful u.s. interests there's 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 everywhere they have a massive compound in both quito 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 u.s. air idea international now for democracy. security forces in russia's southern city of poles have a diffused 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 in nearby it 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 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 school. and now for some other headlines from around the world two policemen and a bystander have been killed in a shoot out following a failed bank robbery in baghdad the attackers detonate 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 politically. over ten thousand have been arrested in india following a contentious court ruling dividing control of an ancient holy site between muslims and hindus one hundred thousand have also been forced to 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 one thousand nine hundred two muslims revere the site but hindus say it's the birthplace of one of their deities . people are always in search of a 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 beneath the earth's surface they claim that being buried alive for

twenty minutes can change the way you see things despite grave doubts over 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 fear is pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. the first thing you experience is a panic once your face is covered with dirt if you start tasting as i'm thinking of what the hell am i doing down here or want to come down to simply northern places like these these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lightened practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. the most effective and powerful method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear in it nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their

minds. 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 the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function. 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 person like very fast and also contact them we've got earth just to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or the pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about. them until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia well 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 monitor 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 it were and yet 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. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again a minute. moscow. for many russians the summer of two thousand and ten will be remembered for the scorching heat massive wildfires and suffocating smaug in a moment our interviews at the country's emergencies minister. on the lessons

learned. thanks. hello mr sze 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. so. the key reason for all this of course is the record breaking heat we had in central russia along the volga river which cause forest fires on 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 least on the same day. because the fire is not contained in six hours 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 you know 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 due to 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. 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 and 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 and some regions authorities gave contracts to businesses that had neither the equipment nor the staff nor the experience to prevent forest fires. i would put

a finger can you say that your ministry to everything it could to fight forest fires or easter something you were displeased with international yeah. i think we on our part used 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 to high acreage fires especially crown fires i previously i'm familiar. what i began with it's not our function it it's the phone. of the federal forestry agency when the first fires broke out wasn't the president informed of 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 have to keep fighting the existing ones so 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 and 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 problem 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 and your foreign counterparts interact with each other and more to. last for far as 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 or nationalities are top priority safety and human lives this is the key lesson we got from the situation. there and it's the same

whether it's less with the truth or 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 you would prepare for this is just going to get worse and worse. as you may know when you're just a number of natural disasters has indeed increased over the past twenty years and this increase is significant it's not just my outside impression and 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 is always a great desire to use the situation for political purposes this should be avoided the environmental series 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 i knew they were going to opinion polls you've been the most popular minister for the past

few years why do you think that is so 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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closer to home a current riviera hotel in the cold cintra hotel. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our land with us let's take a look at our headlines while a poppy crop disease cuts afghanistan's opium harvest by sending prices rocketing threefold reports from the country on the devastating impact of drugs across all levels of society there. pakistan has walked a vital supply route for u.s. led coalition forces into afghanistan after a across the border nato air strike is a blamed for the deaths of three pakistani soldiers. a state of emergency in ecuador as a violent protests by police and soldiers over budget cuts plunged the country into

chaos military units loyal to the president. who was heard earlier in a tear gas attack have stormed off hospital where he was taken for treatment before being trapped there by police. dictator or democrat peter lavelle and his cross talk to beit show guests discuss one of the world's most colorful and controversial political leaders after the qualified victory of his ruling party in the country's general election last sunday that's coming your way next here on r.t. .