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 trades to more than make a law place bets 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 activities it turned out that funds allocated for the reconstruction and expansion of my school street and routes 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 in 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 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 were put up in their place so that ministration pay no attention at all to public opinion this is one more example of. vandalism and crime and approach to the cultural heritage and architecture of this of moscow but it was cause handling of this 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. and

all the alps. beautiful because these if the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays the day off so this man has dispersed i think it's unacceptable and i think you should have been here for now after it started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams all these law for ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroy one a true many people and a perception that if you know face to lone just like many of the moments here prove was a political figure who was hard to ignore loved by saw he was hated by others and often eighteen years in office it was his growing band of critics who are worn out and. refrozen are to most. well as more high level musical chairs on the other side of the atlantic in brazil where it's girl power on the march as we report shortly brazil getting ready to use a new president but because the popular alluded to silver has served the maximum

will his leading lady become the first ever woman in charge. and about germany parties to mark twenty years of being reunified e.u. economy struggle to stick together we talk to experts about the fractured future facing the union. the russian oil will be pumped directly into china by next year which will triple supplies the pipeline to make it happen was open during president medvedev three day visit to the country the trip included talks with the chinese leader on boosting regional security but as a clown a boy who reports russia's also came to study the secrets of china's economic phenomenon. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of liftoffs and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave major projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership.

attention to detail has always been a 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 as 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 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 gazprom in turn is waiting for the price of natural gas and its share on 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 nicknamed russia town that attracts thousands of vendors 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 shanty towns into blue 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 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 took a very fickle a liking to side 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 these country have made such a dramatic leap forward that you want to comment of big brother russia is more than willing to learn. from the boycott are facing china. the un panel says opium production in afghanistan has dropped by half this year but it's led to an almost three fold surge in prices there's this report says that could encourage farmers to cultivate more of the her when producing crop the server. also suggests the hike was prompted by a plant in faction that devastated yields it has that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same south and west are the major growing regions which are also taliban strongholds allowing extremist to rake in

the cash but as policy or explains for many farmers it's still their only source of income one which is tightly controlled by militants and twelve addicted police. 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 because. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found our car tax heroin in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drugs smoking. 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. afghan police are doing drugs well. when i

graduated as a policeman i was doing i can't quite afford for about two years all the other policemen he knew about it quite a few police drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. polished 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 sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contexts. thank you but then all of this is opium but this is the kind of tricks drugs and side of com 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. up they will give to us it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not for the good that you created they don't have enough so that they are not joining the produce to thought of the people join the police to solve them sir but the ministry of cantona cottage insists it's no got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those fights in 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 are overcrowded for this year our team for the

chief is in kabul. another news germany is marking twenty years since it was officially reunified politicians and celebrities are in bremen for the official launch of the nationwide celebrations and marks the culmination of a process sparked by the fall of the berlin wall in one thousand nine hundred nine bringing together east and west germany might have led to a turbulent decade with the huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure in the east causing recession even today there is a large gap between the living standards between the two houses of the country after surviving that recession europe's largest economy is now covering the costs of much of that you use the banking crisis but with a political force the sociology professor says many. germans feel that reunification. german politicians are very proud and sad for thais the great success of german unification that is not

seen that way because every great historical change. involves printers and lewis and many people in the new. and the new. lender are in fact loses an employment is about twice as high productivity is still way behind and many people have left the new will and the eastern part of germany in order to migrate for the. best more important measure of dignity is that in most institutions the military. universities the media business is the asian and so on they are all dominated by. staff so many people in the east even though they have improved they cannot make situation feel that they are not.

respected and included. it's been a week of mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested against their respective governments sets of your contacts the biggest marches took place in belgium spain and greece in brussels protesters gathered around headquarters and forced the closure of the city's two international airports only two thirds of flights were grounded because of action by transport workers the court has come amid rising unemployment and unprecedented levels of government debt david campbell bannerman european m.p. claims the euro currency 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 is they're 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 doing very well others are very

weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency called 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 out to 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 currencies leave all that we currency is the one or the other . but it's another story in the e.u. countries suffering the worst with recession latvians have voted to give their center right government another chance to save their embattled economy the prime minister's coalition partners seem to have gotten the majority they needed in saturday's election in support of his harsh austerity plans there also been a boost for a party representing a large russian speaking minority which wants to mend strained ties with moscow the harmony center secured about a quarter of the vote with the ruling party suggesting that could lead to

a role in government. well in the way of soon here in our t. the daffs you can go to beach stress. well they started to fill in like grave visit where. this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy now i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary we explore what it feels like to be buried alive although in the interest of taking away the strain. research this week shows that americans mistrust of their longstanding news media is at an all time high online talk show host laura harford is now ask people why they've got so many misgivings about mainstream. 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 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 no news is news slash entertainment so anytime you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own ban on thing 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 there's going to be massive floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and the like were is that somebody's sources will only focus on the on one issue or one side and continue to barrage the their opponents they will take sides in these conflicts and 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 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 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. south america's biggest contrie and one of the world's largest developing a commie says choosing a new president but results hugely popular leader known as lula can't take part because he's served the maximum allowed that's not stopping him lining up

a successor who could become the country's first ever female president r.t. as more lister is in south. it is a really big day as you mentioned that later lou led to silva has enjoyed eighty percent approval ratings in this country over the last two terms it's because he is credited by his supporters with creating pretty much a silent revolution where the poor have had a voice and hope for the first time through a number of social programs while the same time lula catapulted brazil much further ahead in international diplomacy and trade brokering relations with latin american countries also with russia india china and the bric nations of course so today really determines which direction the country is going to continue to head lula has anointed a successor dilma rousseff who is not very well known to the brazilian people for her track record she's lula chief of staff and she's running on the fact that she's choice and that really matters in this country because though they don't know

anything about her all of the supporters of low lula who you speak to in the street and they have been out in the streets and full force over the last week they also border and believe that she can carry on exactly what lula started according to the polls it looks like that's where it's tracking as well she's in a slightly with about fifty one percent to forty nine percent for the two opposition opponents so today will really determine whether she continues what lula has started or the country goes another direction or if it goes to a runoff but in any case she is running exactly on the platform that lula started and continuing social programs such as bowls of familia which has helped people that were never able to access education children because they had to work be able to go to school because there's money given to their parents but they're held accountable programs like that in addition he's continued to grow the economy creating jobs seven point five percent economic growth is what they expected so

dilma is who is believed by by lula as well as supporters to continue brazil on this exact path now the opposition candidate in. well the bit more conservative a d. a leader in this country support him the upper class so really what you see in this election is an election quite divided by rich and poor by bin lines in this country so we're just have to wait and see what how that turns out. the north korean leader's youngest son was given to keep promotions this week in what's widely seen as lining him up to take over from his alan father kim john on was appointed second in command of the country's central military commission and made a four star general it took place at a rare convention of the moving workers' party after which images of him john eales son were shown in the media it's the first time anyone seen him as an adult only childhood papers have been showing until now it was the first such meeting in decades can john over the top post other family members but international security

expert dr jim walsh believes 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 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 from medieval times a regent kim is 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 younger son turns out to be. this coming up to twenty four minutes past the hour let's take a brief look at some other news from around the world the united states has issued

a lurch for its citizens and europe because of a new terror threat information intelligence services say there's an increased risk of al qaeda style attacks in cities in the u.k. france and germany americans are advised to be vigilant in forest areas and public places but are being warned against traveling to europe meanwhile the u.k. is warning its citizens that the risk of terrorism in france and germany is now time. as well play. it has crashed in peru killing the four british tourist and two groovy and crew members on board police say that the cessna plane suffered engine trouble before it came down in a field on saturday flight was to see the nascar lines which are centuries old drawings that are only fully seen from the air. the most of us have to tackle a degree of stress at some point in our lives but when things get too much in russia there's now an extreme therapy on offer that's being buried alive despite a few grave concerns we've sent ivor bennett to try out the earthly path to self

unlike. 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. the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting as i'm thinking of the hell am i doing down here or do you want to come down to simply normal the pace like 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 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 a lack of physical function that 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 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 to 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. 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 look back at the week's top stories i'll be back in a few minutes with a recap stay with us. imagine

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here with our top stories of the week moscow's mayor is fired after almost two decades in charge the president says he lost trust in the capital's leader. russia eyes a rising sun in the east with a major oil pipeline to china helping to clear the way for future big deals with its biggest trading partner. and the double edged sword of afghanistan's deadly drug squad virus destroy swaths of opium poppies but surging heroin crisis is key officials addicted. next it's been two years since the credit crunch struck but

many americans are still picking up the pieces we now take a closer look at the economic situation in the u.s. with a well known analyst. 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 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 that 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 in.