the top was hard to come by a challenge it's obvious the professional relations between the president and moscow had worsened meanwhile the man is 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 patriot and a good manager and all that's inside one man. surely luzhkov the patriot was always in love with moscow his passion to build and rebuild change the face of the city in two decades the russian capital was transformed from di's trades to more than a colossal ace 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 as it turned out that funds allocated for the reconstruction and expansion of my school street and rules were invested in some enterprises from which someone

receives a huge profit. luzhkov 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 warden of contracts to learn about to his company how ten become russia's only female billionaire and want her place on the forbes rich least your lane in the order is something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business why they 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 you know it and to public opinion this is one more example of a. primal approach. to the cultural heritage and architecture of

the of moscow but it was because 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. 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 half an hour 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 destroy one the tremendous people and a perception that in office too long. just like many of the mourners here proved was a political figure who was hard to ignore loved by some he was hated by others and after eighteen years and no place it was his growing band of critics who are worn

out and. not in our team. well michael binyon a former moscow correspondent for the u.k.'s times newspaper told r.t. that despite the criticism let's call 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 chaotic mess had very little renewal of its infrastructure 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 on

a three day visit their president dmitri medvedev opened an oil pipeline and signed a number of key agreements as artie's acts 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 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. signals that these are serious important talks i was there are a large number of issues to discuss here. oh you know what while both seem 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 its neighbors because of the money. talks on the price of gas are still ongoing. but the 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 on the chinese market to increase 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 the three 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

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 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 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 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 the word that was them but its economy and infrastructure revamp in just three decades china seemed

like a perfect case study but in my den is ation oriented russian president when you go 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 carls of wisdom for the course of this visit russian officials took a breath equal a liking to side in confucius and china scolar her among other things at by peaceful the worst again developing friendship to 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 from it from a boycott or basing china. live from moscow you're with r t coming up later

this hour the end of an ordeal a russian boy abandoned by his adoptive parents in the dominican republic turned home to moscow loss. which started to fill in my grave. if this feels very very strange the story is very cold and also doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get more scary we explore what it feels like to be buried alive all in the interest of stress relief. the u.n. panel says opium prices in afghanistan have shot up almost three fold this year a report released on thursday sas the hike was prompted by a plant infection that devastated the crop the survey also suggests that despite medo operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same while cultivation in kandahar province the stronghold of the taliban has risen by thirty

percent bobbies that are used to produce heroin are the main source of income for the militants as artie's paul of clear reports drugs are seriously hampering the fight against crime. i'll do right here used to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself because the form on me can. denies the charges he insists he never swayed from the white 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 narcotics heroin 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 a recent u.s.

congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs well. when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen he knew about it quite a few police my drug addicts are not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. paula talking 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 all your contacts. but i don't know if 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 a hand. yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not ready. enough and they are. joining the produce truth out of the world joined to produce. out of concert but the ministry of content of cotton 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 footsoldiers 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 as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell it members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded for this year are teen pretty

cheeky frozen kabul. well former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener is 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 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. well the vote counting in lafayette nearly completed the current prime minister center right government has won a majority despite gains for the pro russian party the result has come as a surprise to many after nearly all pre-election polls suggested a victory for the opposition thirty percent of the population in life you are ethnic russians while almost eighty percent speak the language their interests were represented by the harmony center party which advocates equality for lafayette's

and russians white major gains which will see their share of seats in parliament rate rise to a third if still be disappointment at failing to defeat the current coalition government. and this week saw mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested against government austerity measures the largest marches took place in belgium and spain and greece in brussels protesters gathered around the e.u. headquarters and forced the closure of the city's international airport on the imagery two thirds of flights were left grounded due to action by transport workers protest commonly rising unemployment and on precedented bubbles of government that david campbell bannerman a member of the european 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 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 called the euro the euro's a problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that food 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 currency is for certain strong currencies leave all that we currently want all the other. well more on the euro crisis and other stories we're covering you can find them on our web site r t v dot com here's a taste of what else is online for you moscow that people one thing on for firms all hoping that victory in the pay great champion sample leave them trotting all the way to the piggy bank. and the ultimate taurus getaway a russian company plans to build the world's first space hotel find out how soon

science fiction will be space a fact log on to our t.v. dot com. well a russian boy who'd been adopted by drug dealers and later a bandage in the caribbean has safely returned to his home country twelve year old denise will now undergo 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 is just to give yourself that you 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 the 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 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 with a motion not every adult can survive where 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 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 il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the 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 after historic meeting john l. award to his son kim john on another fan and other family members rather top post

international security expert dr jim walsh believes it's far too early for kim jong un to take over power. the youngest kim was only twenty something years old he has no experience when kim jong il was young his father kim il some took twenty years to groom him for this position this is a rush job they are rushing this through for a person who is really has no experience and that's why they've appointed sort of again for medieval times a region kim 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 react to 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. well cording to a new us paul the majority of americans don't trust the contras news media to find out the reasons for this lack of faith lory car finance heads 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 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 bit 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 rein in this thing like here in new york it was like who is going to be massive floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and the like were is that somebody sources will only focus on the on one issue or one side and continue to barrage the their opponents they will take sides in the in these complex and issues yet it 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 seen it's may be the difference between friends and. i mean we can the media 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. now dealing with stress is an inescapable part of everyday life and in russia and i'm worth about a group of therapists have come up with an extreme method to help people cope not going to believe this by burying them alive they claim that twenty minutes under the surface can change your whole outlook on life now despite grave concerns over bennett went to give it a try thanks 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. as the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting us and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or you don't want to come down to simply no other

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. because 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. a burial costs 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 the volunteers breathe through 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 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 things that 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 is to breakthrough which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so i want 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 yeah 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.

one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again either bennett r.t. moscow. well respects to you ivor you could never get me to do the have all been back with a recap of our weekly headlines after a few moments there at the. show

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human voice face to face with the news makers. who watch it are today we're taking a look at the stories that shape the week kemal scowls longtime mayor during bill's call loses his job after the russell president loses his patience with the city's boss. expands relations with its biggest trading partner china by opening an oil pipeline and sealing major energy deals. as a huge drop in afghan opium output sends its value soaring we report on the devastating impact of drugs across all sections of society in the country. next it's been two years now since the credit crunch struck but many americans are still

picking up the pieces or take a closer look now at the economic situation in the u.s. with a well worn out. our team is sitting down with the author of the kid capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us i think 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.