god has won over a patriot and a good manager and all that's inside one man. luzhkov the patriot was always in love with the mosque a 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 make a law place that's corruption allegations and suspicions of a cave's a business relationship with his property tycoon wife which to prove his downfall he would do it the authorities began to look more attentively at private activity soon it turned out that john's allocators women struction an expansion of law school street and rules were invested in some enterprises for which someone receives it he dropped it first. 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 least yelena

nick alive now but is something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business widely said to be in the corruption business there was also anger over luzhkov had to teach to the city's cultural heritage you know that the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones who put up in their place say that ministration pay no attention at all to public opinion and this is one more example of. crime on the approach to cultural heritage and architecture her that of moscow but it was lost cause handling of the summer's wildfire crisis which proved the final straw while the capitol was choking from toxic smoke for more than a month the city's mayor refused to kushal his holiday preferring the clean air of the yelps. this bitterly steve the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays the day

after this man has dispersed i think it's unacceptable and i think he should have been here. started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams on his lawful ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroy one or two many people and a perception in the northeast 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. most. well michael bay millions of former moscow correspondent for britain's times newspaper he told us that despite the mounting criticism 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. and there's more high level musical chairs on the other side of the atlantic in brazil where is girl power on the march as we reported earlier in the program brazil is choosing a new president but because the popular unit is still the serve the maximum term we ask one is leading lady become the first ever woman in charge. and while germany parties to mount twenty years of being unified

a new economy struggle to stay together we told the experts about a fractured future facing. 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 of adam's three day visit to the country the trip included talks with the chinese leader about boosting regional security as xander boyko reports next russia is also keen to study the secrets of china's economic phenomena. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of live dolphins and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave major projects on the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a chinese very. 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 what while both seem natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over the process russian hydrocarbons 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 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 nicknamed russia town that attracts thousands of vendors on a hunt. 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. 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 may call for 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 shrank this year we have managed to make up for it and will most likely get back to the pre-crisis level in trade election on the cooperations it's a big achievement for the former communist allies while meeting second world war veterans and the russian president was once again reminded the two countries share . for us you're a symbol of a country that gave us marxism leninism and communism. for two days later in

shanghai it became clear that it was now in china's turn to spread the word of wisdom but its economy and infrastructure revamp in just three decades china seems like a perfect case study for the my dentist and to the 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 parleys of them for the course of this visit russian officials think about i think a liking to side in confucius and china scholar her among our advice if. 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 recall many of the big brother russia is more than willing to learn. from a work of art basing china. opium production in afghanistan has dropped by half this year but it's led to an almost three fold surge in prices report says that that could encourage farmers to cultivate more of a heroin producing crop. the survey also suggests the height of prompted by a plant infection in the devastated yields it adds that despite native 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 allowing extremists to rake in the cash those poor sleeper explained so for many farmers it is still the only source of income and one that's tightly controlled by militants and drug addicted police. i'm doing right here i used to put people behind bars for doing

drugs now he's been put there himself but the former army commander denies the charges and insists he never swayed on the white side of the war. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found our contacts 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 saw him sell is guarded by another policeman. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to a recent us congress report hosni us companies are doing drugs. when i want to have a policeman as i was learning i can survive on it for about two years although they are the policemen here and you both have quite a few police for the drucker that's not telling anyone they're just saying i'm

smoking something about. politics hockey afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the locks on not sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the move these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years you know this is a mix of opium your context would. i don't know this is opium i want but this is the kind of tricks drugs and side of 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 if they are marked up they will give 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 get it they don't have enough so that they are not

joining the produce truth out of the people joining the police to the south and south but the ministry of content a cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those fines 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 wars as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded porous here our team pretty cheeky person karpal one former white house drug policy spokesman says it'll take a combination of wiping out poppy fields am giving farmers a new living to secure victory against the afghan drug trade. the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al-qaeda because this is drugs or

seventy percent of their funding is to eradicate the drugs that are 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 disappearing would 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. the program tonight the safe return home for a russian boy abandoned to brought his adoptive parents left him behind the dominican republic now police want to know if you use drugs also. well i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts news media that just. loses

news. it seems like a train station why everything why don't americans trust the. president continue. germany's with marking twenty years of reunification chancellor angela merkel led the celebrations in the northern city of bremen where tens of thousands of people turned out it marks the culmination of a process sparked by the fall of the berlin wall back in one thousand nine hundred nine bringing together east and west germany but that led to a turbulent decade with a huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure east and recession in today there's a large gap in living standards between the two halves of the country after surviving that recession europe's largest economy is now covering the cost of much of the banking crisis market analysts north of michael ross says that germany won't be able to prop up the euro indefinitely. germans become. about so many members into the euro and of course has told you is

a very special situation if you have three countries like is tonja for example like to join the european union if you have stronger countries like the northern countries here in the eurozone they are of course a little bit skeptical because there are questions. how the euro can go on in the future because given the problems that lie ahead of us it will be quite clear that to really get countries will not participate on this rescue package that means on the other hand of course that did all the countries in sermon needs especially has to pay for it so there is quite a lot of criticism of the date it will also cause german solvency this will be the last thing that could go bankrupt within the eurozone. it's been a week of mass demonstrations in europe as tens of thousands protested against their respective governments severe cut backs the biggest marches took place in belgium spain greece in brussels protesters gathered around the e.u.

headquarters and forced the closure of the city's two international airport while in madrid two flights were grounded because of action for transport workers the protests come amid rising unemployment and president levels of government debt david campbell bannerman the european and pay he claims the euro currency is to blame for most of the continent's current economic growth. 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 they're trying to do but it's beyond that 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 call 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 that is 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 but we recreate all the national currencies or certain strong currency is leave although we currently one or the other but it's another story in the e.u. countries suffering the worst with the 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 got the majority they needed in saturday's election in support of his harsh and sturdy plans is also a boost to for a party representing the large russian speaking minority which ones to many strange ties with moscow the harmony center is secured around a quarter of the vote for the ruling party suggesting that that could lead to a golden government and south america's biggest country and one of the world's largest developing economies is choosing a new president too but brazil's hugely popular leader known as lula can't take part this time around because he served the maximum term allowed that's not stopped in the learning of her successor who could become the country's first female president and his laura lister's in sao paolo for r.t.

. it is a really big day as you mentioned that later lou led to silva has enjoyed eighty percent approval rating 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 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's chief of staff and she's running on the fact that she's a 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 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 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 a continuing social program such as both the 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. more of 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. the reporting the following brazil's presidential election from sao paolo. research this week shows that americans mistrust of longstanding news medias of north time high talk show host laura hoffman has now asked people why they've got so many misgivings about the 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 the should be off the media news media is playing into the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and news is news slash entertainment so any time you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own ban on things i think people just try to find what most fits in what they're already thinking anyways and then they watch that so if you're not from that side if you're not from the whatever side it is and you're not going to trust that other side it seems like they try and sensationalize everything and just a little you know rein in the thing like here in new york it was like there's going to be massive floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and or like where is that some of the 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 up 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. prophets people people like stories that have

question to them we all. three you know and the america. 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. the north korean leader's youngest son was given to keep promotions this last week he was widely seen as lining up to take over from his ailing father was appointed second in command of the country's central military commission and made a four star general it took place in a rare convention of the ruling party which images of the show the media is the

first time anyone seen him as an adult child pictures on the show now what was the first such meeting in decades camilla wouldn't top post to other family members well the international security expert dr jim walsh believes it's far too early for keep on going to take over. the youngest kid was 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 it again for medieval times a region him 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 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 youngest son turns out to be russian boys adoptive parents abandoned him

in the caribbean returned to his home country friday twelve year old denise is now getting help for him to adapt to a normal life back in moscow oxys tom bob was there for his return. home at last after allegedly being sold for drugs on the other side of the world physical abuse and five years in an orphanage twelve year old denise is finally back in his native russia the full extent of his suffering isn't just 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 and we should make speculations just because the boy can't explain what happened born in the volgograd region in one 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 a movement but not before a cruise to be 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 neighbor saw it and decided to report at last year's adopt a russian parents were imprisoned for cocaine trafficking that led a court to cancel the adoption decision since his return more possible evidence of abuse has been found a note on the presidential 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 bank parents in the first place and what really happened in the dominican republic with a motion not every adult can survive what he went through the russian adoption agency committed a crime letting drug dealers adopt the boy that's the subject of our future investigation but hopefully all the bad things are in the past now dennis will now be able to resume his life in russia after his five year absence will have to rely

on his native language and rediscover life here but it's hope that he'll receive a lot more care in his next five years than he did in his last five. and. probably have the next five just looking ahead to live. the go to stress if you can hear it. all started to my grave. if this feels very very strange. and also to be doing all right that thing is going to get scary well seems so we explore what it feels like to be buried alive in the interests of taking away the strain you pays your money gets it thrills more on that next. time this is r t the international broadcast of. being with. the week's top story shortly after this quick break.

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well just ahead. our team is sitting down with the author of needed capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us and i was here thank you so much for having me here i'd like to start off by throwing some numbers out there recently we've marked two years since the peak of the financial meltdown and in these last couple of weeks we've been seeing some pretty shocking numbers we're hearing 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 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.