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 changed the face of the city in two decades the russian capital was transformed from di's traits 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 as it turned out that funds allocated for the reconstruction and expansion of our schools streets and roads 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 laced yelena nickel live now but 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 you know that the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones were put up in their place so that ministration be no advancing at all to public opinion this is one more example of. vandalism and crime and approach to the cultural heritage and architecture of the shoe of moscow but it was list 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 prefer. in the clean air of

the alps. this bitterly steve 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 half an hour 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 the tremendous people and a perception that we know face to 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 in office it was his growing band of critics who are worn out and. refreshing are to moscow. well michael binyon former moscow correspondent for the u.k.'s times newspaper told r.t. that despite the criticism liskov 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 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. question is natural resources are soon to go to its biggest trading partner china on a three day visit there president dmitry medvedev opened an oil pipeline and 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 best 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. so 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 in the first between the two 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 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 third 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 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 asian oriented russian president when you go to 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 perils of them for the course of this visit russian officials took a particle a liking to side in confucius and china scholar her among other things at by peaceful the earth 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 from it from a boycott or basing china. my from moscow you are thirty coming up later this hour girl power will get elected president but will it be a woman for the first time in the country so history was. all that started to fill in my grave or is it worth it 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 although 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 says the hike was prompted by a plantain faction that devastated the crop the survey also suggests that despite nato operations the signs of the area used to grow poppies remains the same cultivation in kandahar province the stronghold of the taliban has risen by thirty percent poppies that are used to produce heroin are the main source of income for the militants these artes polis the reports drugs are seriously hampering the fight against crime. to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been

put there himself as 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 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 us 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 here knew about it quite a few police my 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 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 then all of this is opium. 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 there were 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 and they don't have enough and there are

a lot joining the police. truthout of the world joined the producers to solve themselves but the ministry of canton 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 wars 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 our team for the chief is in 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 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. this week pakistan block to supply route for coalition forces in afghanistan it came in response to a nato helicopter strike pakistani soldiers killed one hundred fifty trucks have piled up along the border with afghanistan pakistan has become increasingly angered out operations on its territory while political expert documented cries she says the u.s. must treat pakistan as a partner. there is a strong feeling that box that box down is getting though the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course focused on the interests are not being looked after or respected throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside afghanistan box down

the ideas suggestions pakistani input were 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. we can find all the stories we're covering on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what on line for you right now moscow gets people putting on pork or bring that victory in the people racing championship believe them trotting all the way to the piggy bank. and the ultimate taurus getaway a russian company wants to build the world's first space hotel find out how soon science fiction will be space age fast log on to our t.v. .

well this week saw mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested against government austerity measures the largest marches took place in belgium spain and greece in brussels protesters gathered around e.u. had corners and forced the closure of the city's two international airport well in madrid two thirds of flights were left grounded due to action by transport workers the march as common with rising unemployment and unprecedented levels of government debt david campbell bannerman a member of the european parliament claims the euro is to blame for most of the confidence current economic woes. i think your eye was 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 called the euro the euro's a problem it's just unsustainable base as i say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that's 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 currency is for certain strong currency is leave or that we currency is one or the other. well 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 leader commonly known just as lula can take part having already served two terms in office but thanks to lose support his chosen successor appears poised to become the nation's first ever female president lauren lister reports from sao paolo. 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 a loon for most brazilians he's their guy already born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy he was one of the poor louise ignacio alleges silva is the one who changed everything and has seen approval ratings reach eighty percent of his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff the american people who live well no not for her track record in public service but for being moola 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 live. 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 or been in the woods the fool the people couldn't have imagined housing a lot of children abandoned back to 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 bulls a familiar program did families a cash stipend so children can go to school and stead of having to work opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself as a testament 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 her.

these are the people behind the red flags for dillman. it's a far cry from the opposition support the suits and ties and business interests position wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i'm convinced of that we have some common. targets there regarding the importance of international economy and of national politics the owner of the quarter of on stay on many of the bullet wound care our supporters at all the average person on the air thought to tell us 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 lose the macwrite to periods in the. schools who do the best bros and those 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 many young who never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next dilma. 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 dominican will he didn't achieve it with a bloody fight but with a political agenda that is catapulted in nation forward how far it will take jill meagher with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she could take the nation and the lula phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. north korean leader kim jong il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the first step towards home to empower the appointment was made

just hours before a key convention of the country's ruling workers' party the first in decades at the start meeting kim john il awarded his son kim jong un and other family members top post the former leader of the european parliament delegation to north korea glim forte says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy it looks you know if you're a generational change and not merely the if you're the signaling of who eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan within within 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 that it needs to be deployed after michelle defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans with the same time pressure on the chinese to move more money into their military. well according to a new us poll the majority of americans don't trust the country's news media find

out why one hour's time when our teams laurie harshness hits the streets of new york in this week's the resident. but 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 no 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. well dealing with stress is an inescapable part of life of course while in russia and an orthodox group of therapists have come up with an extreme method to help people cope by burying them alive they claim that twenty minutes under the surface

can change your whole outlook on life and despite grave concerns are to his very own ivor bennett went to give it. above ground there are a few signs of life below the surface and 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 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 lightened 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 weren't 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 this debris through which i'm told by me 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 like grave as they 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 that wraps up our weekly news here in archaeology back with headlines after sort of.

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a shelter on the day. here at our to you live from moscow how many so now over the top of the stories that shake from week one on mayor gurgles call loses his job after the russian president loses his patience with the city's boss. russia expands relations with its biggest trading partner trying out by opening an oil pipeline and sealing major energy deal. as a huge drop in afghan opium outs but rather signs its value i'm sorry the report on the devastating impact of drugs across all sections of society in the country.

up next we look back at the deal between the czech government and hitler's germany in one nine hundred thirty eight which many believe triggered world war two our special report is coming right up. the chick fil a. is situated two hundred kilometers from prague fifty years ago it was called political agenda name. the germans were forced out from here after world war two and the czechs moved in.