subordinate to the president and not the other way around certain steps should have been taken to return the situation back to normal so where did it all go wrong. an oligarch has won over a poacher and a good manager and all that's inside one man but much alike luzhkov the patriot was always in love with moscow his passion to build and rebuild changed the face of the city in two decades the russian capital was transformed from dies trades to more than make a law place but corruption allegations and suspicion is 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 on expansion of my school street and rules were invested in some enterprises from which someone receives a huge profit very. court has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing he says

do so with his wife's company were transparent and above board the three sentiment crew as they would of contracts to learn about to his company how ten become russia's only female billionaire and want her place on the forbes rich laced yelena nickel live now but is something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption business there was also anger over luzhkov had to teach to the city's cultural heritage the audit the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones who 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 cultural heritage and architecture of the chip moscow but it was cause handling of the summer's wildfire crisis which. moved 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. this bitterly if the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays the day after the smoke has dispersed i think it's unacceptable and i think it should have been here after it started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams or his law for ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroying one a tremendous people and a perception that in office too long just like many of the mourners he approved 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 wore it out and. michael binyon the former moscow

correspondent for the times newspaper told r.t. the spot the criticism cough deserves a fair judgment. 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 it was really chaotic mess had very little renewal of its infrastructure he cleaned up the buildings admittedly he knocked down a lot of the historic ones 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. now russia is a natural resource is a sin to float its biggest trading partner china on a three day visit there present to me that if opened an oil pipeline and signed a number of key grievance and is r.t.c. want to 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 to major projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a china is very true 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. you know that these are serious important talks i was there are a large number of issues to discuss here. oh you know while both the natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over that process russian hydrocarbons but almost fifteen years to build this oil pipeline in the first between the two neighbors because of the money.

talks on the price of gas 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 but it's too little to be interesting to gazprom tough bargaining is a useful skill in these beijing neighborhood nickname to russia town that attracts thousands of vendors on a hunt for knockoffs says the fans who were there when when 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 shanty towns into glitzy shopping quarters russian china's 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 shrunk 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 at the earlier while meeting second world war veterans in delhi and the russian president was once again reminded the two countries shared past. 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 china's turn to spread their word their wisdom but its economy and infrastructure revamp in just three decades china seemed like a perfect case study for the mind in his asian oriented russian president when you go to show 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 still able to take home a few perils of wisdom for the course of this visit russian officials think about i think a liking to study in confucius and china scholar her mother had by his followers 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 of big brother russia is more than willing to learn. some of our basic china. you know without coming up later this hour the end of an ordeal the russian boy band and his adoptive. father returns home to moscow last.

yeah very very strange it's always very cold and also doing all right at the moment i think it's going to get a lot more scary. explore what it feels like to be buried alive all the interest stress relief. the u.n. panel says opium prices in afghanistan are shot up almost three fold this year report released on thursday says the hike was prompted by planting action that devastated the crop survey also suggests that despite a nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same cultivation in kandahar and the stronghold of the river but thank you said poppies that are used to produce heroin not the main source of income for militants as artie's policy reports drugs are seriously impending the fight against crime and

corruption. abdulrahim 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. area and 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 a recent u.s. congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs. when i graduated as a police man i was doing i kept quiet about it for about two years all the other

policemen knew about it. and if you believe why 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 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 and this is a mix of all your contacts. but then all of this is opium but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside of 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. mark that they will give us it's true when i joined

a few years ago lots of guards were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good bitch and they don't have enough and there are a lot joining the produce truth out of the people join the police to solve themselves but the ministry of cantona katic insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if 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 walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded forests via our team for the chief cause in kabul. meanwhile former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener is

hopeful a recent change of management at the un's drug control body could prompt a tougher war on opium production in afghanistan. 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-qaeda 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. with vote counting in latvia nearly completed the center right government has won a majority despite gains for the pro russian party result has come as a surprise to many after nearly all pre-election polls suggest a victory for the opposition thirty percent of the population in that ethnic russians almost eighty percent speak the language their interests were represented by the harmony center party which advocates equality for that in some versions despite major gains which will see their share of seats in parliament rise to a third still the disappointment failing to defeat the current coalition government . this week saw mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested

against government austerity measures the largest marches took place in belgium spain greece brussels protesters gathered around the new headquarters forced the closure of the security international airport while in the dream two thirds of flights were left grounded due to action by transport workers the protests come and need rising unemployment and unprecedented levels of government debt. than a member of parliament claims the euro 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 trying to do but it's beyond that 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 call the euro the

euro's the 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 playing 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 that we currently one or the other. well more on that and all the other stories we're covering here with our website called the here's a taste of what else is online right now when not telling you to keep it really has been a pig racing championship taking place in moscow this weekend check out. the ultimate tourist getaway a russian company plans to build the world's first space hotel to find out how soon science fiction will be space age fact. dot com.

a russian boy who'd been adopted by a drug dealers and later a band in the caribbean has safely returned to his home country twelve year old denise will now on the go medical tests and receive help to adapt to a normal life back in moscow auntie's tom barton was there for his return. home at last after allegedly being sold for drugs on the other side of the world physical abuse and five years in an orphanage twelve year old denise is finally back in his native russia the full extent of his suffering isn't you know just give us a few might have been taken to the dominican republic as a slave in exchange for drugs or it may have been an organ trade the judicial investigation couldn't clarify all the circumstances that we should make speculations just because the boy can't explain what happened born in the volgograd region nine hundred ninety eight his adoptive parents moved to the dominican

republic in two thousand and four a year later they returned to russia turning their backs on dennis and leaving him with a local family they too soon gave him up this time to an orphanage but not before a cruise day they hit and punished him the thing is that he behaved badly it was terrible but only because his parents and sisters left him he stayed all alone in their house they even left him without meals as a punishment so one day and they were saw it and decided to report at last year's adoptive russian parents were imprisoned for cocaine trafficking that led a court to cancel the adoption decision since his return more possible evidence of abuse has been found a note on the presidential ombudsman's twitter page said that scars on the boy's head indicate he was beaten now an investigation is looking into why denise was allowed to be adopted by such bad parents in the first place and what really happened in the dominican republic moshe not every adult can survive what he went through the russian adoption agency committed a crime letting drug dealers adopt the boy that's the subject of our future

investigation but hopefully all the bad things are in the past now dennis will now be able to resume his life in russia after his five year absence will have to really learn his native language and we discover life here but it's hoped that he'll receive a lot more care in his next five years than he did in his last five. r.t. moscow. north korean leader kim jong. has made his youngest son the four star general promotion seen as a first step towards the compound a point was made just hours before he convention of the country's ruling workers party the first in decades at the historic meeting came john you know of would his son kim jong un and other family members top posts to national security expert jim walsh believes it's far too ready for people to take. the youngest kid was only twenty something years old he has no experience when kim jong il was young his

father kim il sung took twenty years to groom him for this position this is a rush job they are rushing this through a person who is really has no experience and that's why they've appointed sort of again for medieval times a region has appointed his brother in law to sort of hold things together until the youngest son is old enough to take over but how long will that last will the military want to have a greater say in what's going on will others want to fight for power how will north korea reactor in a period of vulnerability these are all big questions with potentially big consequences and they'll have to be answered first before we see what kind of leader the youngest son turns out to be. according to a new u.s. poet the majority of americans don't trust the country's news media to find out the reasons for this lack of faith or how often this hits the streets of new york in this week's their residence. according to a new gallup poll fifty seven percent of americans do not trust the news media to

accurately and fairly report the news this week let's talk about that do you trust the news media not really find out 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 bringing to the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and news is news slash entertainment so anytime you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own bet on things i think people just try to find what most 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 it seems like they try and sensationalize everything and just a little you know rain and it seemed like here in new york it was like there's going to be massive floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and or like where is that supposed to sources what will we focus all know on one issue or one side and

continue to barrage the their opponents they will take sides in these conflicts in issues and seems like they'll do that at any cost no matter how ridiculous that sounds true enough so why do they do that for profit people people like stories that have question to them we all. three you know and the america knew i see it's may be the difference between friends and. i mean we can maybe thirty you think if we stick around for a couple more hundred years we'll learn some things and maybe our news media will be more trustworthy maybe i don't know i don't know the bottom line is that if you are one of the many who don't trust the news media it might be time to consider a new stores outside the mainstream. now then dealing with stress is an inescapable part of everyday life and in russia

an unorthodox group of therapists have come up with an extreme method to help people cope by burying them alive they claim that twenty minutes south of the surface can change your whole outlook on life well despite grave concerns about it when 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 it stream therapy. is no good the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting it 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. the most effective and bold

for 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 the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function that they're thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under that volunteers breathe through 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 very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints weren't pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about these things. 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 breakthrough which i'm told that we 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 it were. 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 you. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again advena r.t. moscow. and try that as they say i'll be back shortly with the headlines stay with

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our g. line genes are being england and france trying to reason with hitler's germany demands to go to land and gets its way they also have been treated to safety nets for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of europe is involved in war efforts to establish a system of collective security nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on

the agenda. the lessons to be learned from the munich agreement. recap now the stories that shaped the week last time a call for loses his job the russian president loses his patience with the city's. relations with its biggest trading partner china opening an oil point i don't see the major energy it's. a huge drop in afghan opium output sends its value soaring the report of a devastating impact drugs across all levels of society in the country. and home unsafe after years of neglect a russian boy who has been told it is sold to board for drugs by his adoptive

parents fund returns to his mother that. exits the altie interview it's been two years since the credit crunch struck many americans are still picking up the pieces we take a closer look now at the economic situation in the us with a world renowned analyst. our team is sitting down with the author of needed capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us and i was here thank you so much for having me here i'd like to start off by throwing some numbers out there recently we've marked two years since the peak of the financial meltdown and in these last couple of weeks we've been seeing some pretty shocking numbers we're hearing about one in seven americans are living below the poverty line one in five children are living in a state of poverty in the united states where are these numbers coming from and do you think people especially over in washington d.c. are we.