manager and all that's inside one man. surely luzhkov the patriot was always in love with morse code his passion to build and reboot changed the face of the city in two decades the russian capital was transformed from dyes trace to more than make a law place but corruption allegations and suspicions of a cave's a business relationship with his property tycoon wife were to prove his downfall he would do it the authorities began to look more attentively at private activity soon it turned out that john's allocators what we construction and expansion of law school street and rules were invested in some enterprises from which someone receives a huge profit from. luzhkov has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing he says do so with his wife's company were transparent and above board but resentment crew as they would've contracts to learn about to his company how to become russia's only female billionaire and want her place on the forbes rich least yelena nickel

i've know but it's something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business why they said to be in the corruption business they was also anger over luzhkov i did t. to the city's cultural heritage he ordered the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones were put up in their place so that ministration pay no attention at all to public opinion and this is one more example of. vandalism and crime and approach to the cultural heritage of architecture her that of moscow but it was cause handling of the summer's wildfire crisis which proved the final straw while the capitol was choking from toxic smoke for more than a month the city's mayor refused to kushal his holiday preferring the clean air of the alps. was awful because this. if the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays

the day after the smoke has dispersed i think it's unacceptable and i think you should have been here after it started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams always laugh or ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroy one a tremendous people and a perception has been off too long just like many of the mourners here proved of course was a political figure who was hard to ignore loved by some he was hated by others and after eighteen years in office it was his growing band of critics who are worn out and. not in our team. michael binyon the former moscow correspondent for the u.k.'s times newspaper told r.t. that despite the criticism the scoffer deserves a fair judgment and i think one shouldn't underestimate his achievements particularly in the early years in office where he really got things going when he

came to power last year was really a chaotic mess had very little renewal of its infrastructure he cleaned up the buildings admittedly he knocked down a lot of the historic grounds which should have been preserved but those that were preserved were wonderfully cleaned up and he presided over a real boom in the city's infrastructure but of course the taint of corruption lingered so long now the question is whether in fact the corruption charges will stick whether he actually will be accused of corruption i think it would be a messy trial if it came to that. russia's natural resources are soon to flow to its biggest trading partner china when a three day visit their president to me to make then of opened an oil pipeline signed a number of key agreements. on a boycott reports russia is keen to study the secrets of the chinese economic modernization miracle. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of liftoffs and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave major

projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a chinese virtue they may have rolled out the red carpet for the russians but their meticulous bargaining proved just as tiring as climbing the great wall of china. it was these are serious important talks as there are a large number of issues to discuss here. oh you don't want while both the natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over the process russian hydrocarbons but almost fifteen years to build this oil pipeline in the first between its neighbors because of the money. talks on the price of gas are still ongoing. with china doesn't want to have a pay it claims that it can offer a rapidly growing market in the future does problem in turn is waiting for the

price of natural gas and its share in the chinese market to increase at the moment gas accounts for just ten percent of the overall consumption of energy resources in china it's too little to be interesting to gazprom tough bargaining is a useful skill in these beijing neighborhood nicknamed russia town that attracts thousands of vendors on a hunt for knockoffs this is the first year with the engine there was there's a here it used to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they've built everything that our expense if i may say so. but it's shamelessly low prices and high turnover areas like this one managed to transform themselves from shantytowns into glitzy shopping quarters russian chinese trade has undergone a similar make over in two thousand and nine china surpassed germany as russia's largest trading partner. we've overcome last year's negative tendencies the global financial crisis was the reason for the collapse and our trade turnover volumes

shrank but this year we have managed to make up for it and will most likely get back to the pre-crisis level in trade and economic cooperation it's a big achievement for former communist allies but they are only are while meeting second world war veterans in delhi and the russian president was once again reminded of the two countries sharing pasta. for us you're a symbol of a country that gave us marxism leninism and communism. but two days later in shanghai it became clear that it was now in china's turn to spread the word there was them but its economy and infrastructure revamp in just three decades china seemed like a perfect case study for the month in his asian oriented russian president when you mission this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies and institutes innovative development is certainly the choice of our country we are following this path and we will do everything for our economy to modernize change and adapt to modern life. and while

a three day visit may not be enough to learn the secrets of china's economic miracle the russian delegation was to able to take home a few pounds of them for the course of this visit russian officials took a breath equal liking to side in confucius and china scholar her among others at the by again developing friendship with somebody who can a teacher any good well china is definitely not the case this country has made such a dramatic leap forward that you want to comment is big brother russia is more than willing to learn from it some of our beijing china. here without coming up later this hour. brazil gets to elect a new president will be a woman the first time in the country's history. this feels very very strange the story is very cold and also doing all right. thing it's

going to get more scary explore what it feels like to be buried alive in the interests of stress relief. a u.n. panel says opium prices now afghanistan are threefold this year report released on thursday says the hike was prompted by a plant infection that devastated the crop survey also suggests that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same cultivation in kandahar province the stronghold of taliban has risen by thirty percent is used to produce heroin are the main source of income for the militants he supports he reports drugs pleading the fight against crime and corruption. to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself as a former army commander denies the charges he insists he never swayed from the

white. side of the wall 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 our kartik south carolina 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 us congress report hosni us companies are doing drugs well. when i write to you the policeman as i was doing i can't quite apart for about two years all the other policemen here knew about it 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 knocks on not sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of both 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 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 and they don't have enough so there are a lot. joining them to produce truth out of the. join the two

of them but the ministry of kontum the clock ticks insists it's no got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those funds in afghanistan's drug will 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 full boards as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug test because and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded. our teens will be chiquitos in kabul. former white house drug policy spokes of a we know he's hopeful a recent change of management at the un's drug control body could prompt a tougher war on production you know. 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 cost 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. this week pakistan block to supply routes for coalition forces in afghanistan it came in response to a nato helicopter strike sore three pakistani soldiers killed one hundred fifty trucks of pulled up along the border with afghanistan pakistan has become increasingly angered allied troops operations on its territory it's called experts are meant for a she says the u.s. has to treat the stones on them. there is a strong feeling it backs down that box down is getting though 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 the interests are not being looked after or respected throughout the past eight years of course pakistan has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside afghanistan study ideas box any suggestions box on the input we're 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. well i'm on that and the only other stories we're covering are on our website r.t. dot com it's a taste of what else is online right now one of the most snout around coverage of this year's racing championships has been taking place in moscow this week. and the ultimate tourist get to make a russian company plans to build the world's first space and tell me how soon science fiction will be space age tacked on to on t.v. . this week saw a mass demonstrations in europe has tens of thousands protested against government

austerity measures the largest marches took place in belgium spain greece brussels protesters gathered around the headquarters and the closure of the city's t.-t. national. one hundred two thirds of flights were left grounded into action by. the protests come amid rising unemployment precedented levels of government debt david campbell bannerman a member of parliament claims that you have is to blame for most of the continent's current economic woes. 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 some a doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency call the euro the euro's the problem it's just unsustainable this

as a say you know the 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 all the weak currency is one or the other. the biggest country in south america and one of the world's largest emerging economies is getting ready to elect a new president brazil's hugely popular outgoing the that commonly known as the content part having already served two terms in office thanks to his support his chosen successor appears poised to become the nation's first ever female president learn this to reports. welcome to brazil south to be exact. it's the largest city in a young democracy gearing up to elect a new president this sunday but it's so much more than that. the current president is known simply as lula for most brazilians he's their guy already born in

a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy she was one of the poor louise ignacio lula da silva is the one who changed everything and is seen approval ratings reach eighty percent of his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff will marry. well no not for her track record in public service but for being moolah choice to understand why that matters so much in this country you have to travel outside the city center to the slums where the poor the working class and. so this is where i came to live with my dad has lived here her whole life but it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice new people have more dialogue with the leaders so the community is strengthened because there is a democratic government so people feel confident to demand their rights and that government has created jobs a record number this year and one social program after another credited with

lifting more than twenty million people out of poverty while been in the woods the fool the people couldn't have imagined housing a lot of children abandoned after school beneath the bridges being hungry today has been a big change and women can go off to benefits for the children those benefits from the bowls of familiar program give families a cash stipend so children can go to school instead of having to work opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself as a testament day at ten years old i was already a nanny i didn't have the means to study now she can go to college because of programs to. help the poor pay for university something she could not have imagined . you know i never thought. that if i'm putting your. these are the people behind the red flags for dillman. it's a far cry from the opposition support for suits and ties and business interests the

opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i'm going to disagree with that we have some common. targets it is regarding the importance of international economy and of national politics the owner of the quarter on stay on many of the out here are supporters and all the average was not there as i would tell if they were by the way to be here after lula's progress and getting broad support not from only the poor and activists who identify with his fierce trade union leader roots during a time of military dictatorship but from those who don't and lose the most graphic periods the who those schools who do the best bros and the who have never heads he's brokered ties with developing and non-western countries in trade and diplomacy pay down the country's debt growing the economy at a quick clip eight years of lula brought to brazil the possibility of transforming us into an independent country as a large international force creating

a social revolution where now a woman like matisyahu never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next film. and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being football players but now have prior aspirations to his or her and you want to be president of the political will he didn't achieve it with a bloody fight but with a political agenda that has catapulted a nation forward how far it will take jill meagher with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she can take the nation and the look phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. now north korean leader kim jong il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as a first step towards handing in power the appointment was made just hours before a key convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades at the

historic meeting. with his son john and other family members to top post. the parliament delegation ford says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy it looks like this is a if you're a generational change and not merely the if you're signaling of who eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan with we did meet the former ruling party the neo cons there and people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient. to be a ploy for a missile defense in japan. obviously deters the north koreans will the same time puts pressure on the chinese to move more money into into their military well according to a new u.s. poll the majority of americans don't trust the country's news media find out why in

one hour's time an r.t.s. or half of this hits the streets of new york in this week's the resident. well i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts and there are some facts that should be out there that the media news media is buying into the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and our news is news slash entertainment so any time you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own bet on thing i think people just try to find what most fit in what they're already thinking anyways and then they watch that so if you're not from that side if you're not from the whatever side it is and you're not going to trust that other side. dealing with stress is an inescapable part of everyday life and in russia and an orthodox group of therapists have come up with extreme method to help people cope by burying them alive they claim that twenty minutes son of the surface can change your whole outlook on life despite grave concerns about it but to give it

a try. 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 extreme therapy. the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with it you start tasting it and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or do you want to come down to simply no more than a place like these these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on ancient form of self in light and practice by shamans they wanted to make the rites more accessible believing everyone can benefit. 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. 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 to date thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers briefly this chewed the organizes 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 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 and you can 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 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 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. was one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again advantage r.t. moscow. try that at home i'll be back shortly with a headline stay with us. all

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thirty eight which many believe triggered world war two a special report is coming right up. the chick fil a chip but it is situated two hundred kilometers from prague fifty years ago it was called persia kill a german name. the germans were forced out from here after world war two and the chicks moved into their home shortly afterwards. some of the to staff and his family have lived in this german mansion for several years now.