didn't the not the other way round certain steps should have been taken to return the situation back to normal so where did it all go wrong i got an oligarch has won over a patriot and a good manager and all that's inside one man well but no surely 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 di's trades to more than make a law place that's 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 we construction and expansion of my school street and rules were invested in some enterprises from which someone receives it he dropped it first. court has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing he says duz with his wife's company were transparent and above board but resentment crew as

they would've contracts to learn about tunas company how to become russia's only female billionaire and want her place on the forbes rich least 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 you know that the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones who put up in their place say that ministration pay no attention at all to public opinion and this is one more example of. vandalism and crime and no approach to the cultural heritage of architecture her the show must go but it was lost 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. middle flamencos 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 hard to know 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 destroy one the tremendous people and a perception that we know face to 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 are worn out and. michael binyon the former moscow

correspondent for the u.k.'s times newspaper told r.t. that the spot the criticism deserves a fair judgment. no i think one shouldn't underestimate his achievements particularly in the early years in office when 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 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 go to its biggest trading partner china with three day visit their president to me to maybe enter the clinton oil pipeline and signed a number of key agreements as r.t. talks on point reports russia is keen to study the secrets of the chinese economic

modernization miracle. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of live dolphins and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave major projects up the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a chinese virtue or 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 what while both the natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over the process of russian hydrocarbons but almost fifteen years to build this oil pipeline the first between the two neighbors because of the money. talks

on the price of gas are still ongoing. but china doesn't want to have a pay it claims that it can offer a rapidly growing market in the future just drawn 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 to on a hunt for knockoffs this is the first year with the winter when there was there's a here it used to be an open market with rows of the 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 police to 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 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 share a pos. 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 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 at the 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 still able to take home a few pearls 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 few 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 is big brother russia is more than willing to learn from it. are basing. your without coming up later this hour the end of an ordeal russian boy abandoned by dr paris the dominican republic turns home to moscow last.

well there start really like very basic. this feels very very strange the story is very cold and also doing all right. i think it's going to get more scary really explore what it feels like to be buried alive all in the interest of stress relief. a u.n. panel says opium prices in afghanistan have shot up almost three fold this year report released on thursday says the hike was prompted by plant infection that devastated the crop the survey also suggests that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same cultivation kandahar province the stronghold of the taliban has risen by thirty percent poppies that are used to produce heroin the main source of income for the militants is r.t.c. reports drugs are seriously hampering the fight against crime. abdul rahman 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 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 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. 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 us congress report nearly half the us companies are doing drugs. when i grant you the policeman that i was doing i kept quiet about for about two

years although the other policeman here knew about quite a few police quite. 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. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of opium your context. i don't know 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 lending a hand. up they will get a yes 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 educated they don't have enough salaries and there are a lot. joining the produce truth out of the people who join the police to starve themselves but the ministry of kontum a cottage 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 tell of members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons overcrowded porous here our team pretty cheeky person karpal. former white house drug policy spokesman robert we know he's hopeful that 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 does 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 with votes counting in that fear and then he completed the center right government has won a majority despite the gains for the pro russian party results has come as a surprise to many in the pre-election polls suggest a victory for the opposition with thirty percent of the population in the russians while almost eighty percent speak the language interests were represented by the harmony center party which advocates equality for that finns russians despite major gains which will see their share of seats in parliament rise to a third disappointment fitting to the feet of the current coalition go. now this

week saw mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested against government sterrett in measures the largest marches took place belgium spain greece in brussels protesters gathered around the headquarters of the patient cities to international courts. two thirds of flights were left grounded due to transport weapons the protests color amid rising unemployment president levels of government debt. campbell brown i'm a member of the european parliament claims the euro is to blame for most of the continent's current economic woes. 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 now i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency 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 although we currently one or the other. well you can see more on that and all the other stories we're covering on our website at r.t. dot com that's a look at what else is just click away the this. racing world hot to trot check out our coverage of the c.s. championship which has been taking place in moscow. and the ultimate tourist getaway a russian company plans to build the world's first space to. find out how serious science fiction of the space age fact you can log on to want dot com.

a russian boy who'd been adopted by a drug dealers and they to abandon the caribbean as 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 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 just to give us that he 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 in one thousand nine hundred 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 the local family they too soon gave him up this time to an orphanage but not before acoustic that 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 adopt a 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 motion 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 rediscover life here but it's hope 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 il. has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the first step towards handing him power point was made just hours before key convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades the story meeting came on the end of one of his son kim jong un the family . but its national security expert jim walsh moves it's far too early for kim jong un to take over. the youngest kim is 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 react during 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. auto merican now according to a new u.s. poll 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 they stay hits the streets of new york in this week's the resident.

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's some facts to should be out there that the media news media is playing into the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and now news is news slash entertainment so anytime you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own ban on things i think people just try to find what most fits 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 are like were is that somebody sources will only focus on the on one issue or one side and continue to

barrage their opponents they will take sides in these are complicated issues and it seems like they'll do that at any cost no matter how ridiculous it sounds true enough so why do they do that. prophets people people like stories that have question to them we all. three you know and the america knew i seen it's may be the difference between france and. america 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 source outside the mainstream. ok now 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 on the surface can change your whole outlook on life despite grave concerns bennett went to give it a try i 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. and it's no good 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 want to come down to simply northern places like these these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on ancient form of self in lighting meant 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 the day thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers briefly this cheat the organizers a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. but are we have to be able to get the personal very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about things being less. 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 breathe through 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 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.

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we. know there are a recap of the stories that shape the week moscow's longtime a huge coffee loses his job offer the russian president his patience for the city's boss. russia expands relations with its biggest trading partner china a korean oil pipeline and sealing major energy deals. and has a huge drop in afghan opium output sends its value soaring in the balkans devastating to drugs across all sections of society in the country. for next the interview it's been two years since the credit crunch struck many americans are

still picking up the pieces and take a closer look now that you cannot mix situation in the us with a woman and 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 realizing that there are real people behind these numbers there's seems to be a big disconnect between sentiment.