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 reboot 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 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 activities 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 but resentment 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 laced yelena nicholai . 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 he ordered the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones were put up in their place so that ministration. 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 lost cause handling of the summer's wildfire crisis which proved the final straw while the capital was choking from toxic smoke for more than a month the city's mayor refused to kushal his holiday preferring the clean. now on

the outs. with lawmakers 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 you should have been here half a no after it started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams or his law for ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroying one the tremendous people and a perception that in office too long. just like many of the moments 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. refreshing our team. well michael binyon who's a former moscow correspondent for britain's times newspaper says that despite the mounting criticism of deserves credit for improving the capital's infrastructure.

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 last year was really a chaotic mess had very little renewal of its infrastructure he cleaned up the buildings admittedly he knocked down a lot of the historic ones which should have been preserved but those that were preserved were wonderfully cleaned up and he presided over a real boom in the city's infrastructure but of course the taint of corruption lingered so long now the question is whether in fact the corruption charges will stick whether he actually will be accused of corruption i think it would be a messy trial if it came to that. now the news there is 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 tonight brazil's getting ready to choose a new president but because the popular lula da silva serve the maximum term with his leading lady become the first ever woman in charge for a. while germany parties to mark twenty years of being reunify economies

struggle to stick together talk to experts about fractured future facing. a passenger jet on route from moscow to the chechen republic capital grozny was forced to make an emergency landing because of a bomb threat the russian made your call a forty two jet landed safely in the end of the city of volgograd and all seventy three on board were evacuated to safety including six children they're all now being cared for at the airport the alarms range shortly after takeoff when an anonymous call was made to moscow's from a caller airport saying there was a bomb on board the plane is now been moved to a remote site when emergency services and law enforcement experts are investigating the aircraft chechen authorities have also stepped up security measures at draws in the airport. 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 about boosting regional security but his aunty's exam a boy who reports now russia is also keen 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 to major projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been in china's very chair 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. these are serious important talks as there are a large number of issues to discuss here. oh you know while both the natural partners and 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. china doesn't want to overpay it claims that it can offer a rapidly growing market in the future does problem in turn is waiting for the price of natural gas and its share in the chinese market to increase at the moment gas accounts for just ten percent of the overall consumption of energy resources in china 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 fans who were there when there was there's a here it used to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they've built everything that our expense if i may say so. but it's shamelessly low prices and high turnover areas like this one managed to transform themselves from shanty towns into glitzy shopping quarters russian 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 of 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 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 in china's turn to spread the 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 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 the visit russian officials took a breath equal liking to side in confucius and china scholar her among our ad by his followers developing friendship with somebody who can a teacher any good well china is definitely not the place the country has made such a dramatic leap forward that you want to comment of big brother russia is more than willing to learn. from the work of art basing china. absent of the safe return home for a russian boy abandoned abroad we brought the story in the week as if the parents left him behind in the dominican republic now police want to know if you were sold

for drugs or trap story coming up tonight. first u.n. panel says opium production in afghanistan dropped by half this year but it has led to an almost three fold surge in prices thursday's report says that that could encourage farmers to cultivate more of their heroin producing crop the survey also suggests that the hope was prompted by a plant infection that devastated yields you know is that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same the south and west are the major growing regions which are also taliban strongholds extremists to rake in the cash but is not is poor a slayer explains now for many farmers it's still their only source of income which is tightly controlled by militants and drug 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 right 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 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 drug smuggling. i. 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. when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for two years all the other policemen hugh 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 a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on them. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but then all of 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. that they will give us it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of guards were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good that you don't have enough. joining the produce truth out of the people joining the police to the south going south but the

ministry of cantona 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 of members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded forests here are teen preaching he was in kabul. now the big story brought you this week pakistan blocked nato supplies to afghanistan after cross border fire by lions helicopters killed three pakistani soldiers and convoys of the take an alternative route through the north but with deadly consequences on friday suspected militants torched several dozen nato trucks as a result twenty seven fuel tankers on route to troops in afghanistan were destroyed

u.s. led strikes against alleged militants in pakistan have been taking place. for years but it's a partnership was becoming increasingly dangerous now because i'm about it says it will consider getting tougher on nato forces continue incursions into its territory . explains why you pakistan's patience is now running out. there is a strong feeling it backs down 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 pakistani interests are not being looked after or respected throughout the past eight years of course pakistan has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside afghanistan bucks down the ideas box any 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. germany's marking twenty years since it was

officially reunified politicians and celebrities in bremen leading to nationwide celebrations it was the culmination of a process of the fall of the berlin wall in one thousand nine hundred nine rain together east and west germany but it led to a turbulent decade with the huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure in east causing recession even today there's a large gap in the living standards between the two halves of the country after surviving that recession europe's largest economy is now covering much of the costs of the e.u.'s banking crisis to political and business consultant christophe hostiles spoke to us he warns that germany can't afford to keep paying the e.u. . they feel they do have enough to deal with and they're not really happy to pump out more money to europe that's quite understandable and the last bailout we had to organize for greece which amounted to guarantees to five hundred billion euros half a trillion that was so to say enough because very clearly germany doesn't have that

kind of money and is obviously not ready to extend more and you have all these kinds of economic guided movements of populations inside europe and of course how to say the present crisis is not really getting up to the solution of that it gets to an amount now of an interest which may endanger the eurozone as a whole it is very clear that problems arising right now might lead to another financial crisis and the next financial big crisis like the one we had in two thousand and eight and in may. disturb very heavily the growing together of the european union. this is r.t. from moscow on the way very soon tonight the depth you can go to paralyse the big stress. well they've started that well in like great. this feels very. very strange the soil is very cold and also doing all right at the

moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary find out how our correspondent got on we explore what it feels like to be buried a my all of the interesting save taking away the strain. south america's biggest country in one of the world's largest developing economies is choosing a new president but brazil's hugely popular leader known as lula can't take part because he served the maximum allowed that's not stopped him lining up a successor though who could become the country's first female president lauren lister's in sao paolo for. 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's 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 at 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 streets and they have been out in the streets in 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 been 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 is 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 of the elite 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 lines in this country have to wait and see what how that turns out. laura list of the following brazil's presidential election from sao paolo. a russian boy whose adoptive parents

abandoned him in the count of being returned to his home country friday twelve year old denise is now getting help for him to try to adapt to a normal life here in moscow our correspondent told bob was that 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 yet known just 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 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 and the 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 moshe not every adult can survive what he went through the russian adoption agency committed a crime letting drug dealers adopt the boy that's the subject of our future investigation but hopefully all the bad things are in the past now dennis will now be able to resume his life in russia after his five year absence will have to really learn his native language and rediscover life here but it's hope the peril

received a lot more care in his next five years than he did in his last five. r.t. moscow. the north korean leader's youngest son was. to keep emotions this last week he was widely seen as learning about to take over from his ailing father kim a young wouldn't 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 ruling workers' party after which images of was shown to the media it's the first time anyone seen it was an adult only child and pictures have been allowed to be shown until now what was the first such meeting in decades can only awarded top posts to other family members to what is national security expert jim walsh believes far too early going to take over here. 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 will point to sort of again for medieval times a region came as a point of 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 the 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 younger son turns out to be offbeat story now from the week from us most of such attacks agree have to a stress at some point in their lives don't be when things get too much rush it seems there is now an extreme therapy on offer it went on like it it's been buried alive but despite a few grave concerns artie's bennett speak to try out here with me puffed self and light one. 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 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 know all the 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. there's the most effective and powerful method of 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 that volunteers breathe through this chewed 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 first of all to contact them earth just 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 and given this debris 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. 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 fell completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again either bennett r.t. moscow. where you know i think that's a mistake stressed coming up this hour from moscow r.t. investigates what caused world war two it's interesting program if not call it already here at r.t. probably the headlines just a few moments before but this sunday night. it's the third of october.

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officials. up programs continue tonight next hour to look at the deal between the czech government and hitler's germany which many believe triggered world war two. off. the chick fil a. is situated two hundred kilometers from prague fifty years ago it was called persia kill a german name. the germans were forced out from here after world war two and the chicks moved into their home shortly afterwards. that his farm.