one over a patriot and a good manager and all that's inside one man well but no surely luzhkov the patriot was always in love with most k. 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 mood to make a luckless 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 to the authorities began to lose more attentively of private activity soon it turned out that john's allocators what we construction and expansion of law school 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 aboveboard the true sentiment careers they would've contracts to learn about tunis company how to become russia's only female billionaire and would have placed on the forbes rich laced yelling in

the poor and 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 when i did t. to this city's cultural heritage he ordered the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones who put up in their place so that ministration pay no attention at all to public opinion this is one more example of a. crime imo approach to cultural heritage and architecture her the show must go but it was handling of the summer's wildfire crisis which proved the final straw while the capitol was choking from toxic smoke for moved in a month the city's mayor refused to kushal his holiday preferring to clean it all the outs for. 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 it should have been here after it started in the endless school started taking the blame for everything the nightmare traffic jams on his last ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroy him on the trail many people and a perception in the northeast too long. just like many of the mourners he approved of course was a political figure who was hard to ignore by some he was hated by others and after eighteen years in office it was his growing band of critics who want out the and. not seen most. of his war level musical chairs on the other side of the atlantic in brazil where is girl power on the march as with the fall surely still has cast its vote for a new president but because the popular lula da silva serves the maximum term we

ask who is leading the way in becoming. in charge live report coming up. while germany party is to mark twenty years of being a unified iraq coming struggle to stick together we told the experts about the fractured future facing 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 would but of three day visit to the country the trip included talks with the chinese leader about boosting regional security but it's not his exam the boy who reports no rush is also keen to study the secrets of china's economic phenomenon. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of live dolphins and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave to major projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a china is very true they may have rolled out the red carpet for the russians but

then 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 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. 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 it's too little to be interesting to guess pretty tough bargaining is a useful skill in these beijing neighborhood nickname to russia town it attracts

thousands of vendors to on a hunt for knockoffs this is the third year with a village there was there's a here it used to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they 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 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 more than his asian oriented russian president at the when you go 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 pearls of wisdom for the course of this visit russian officials took a breath equal a liking to side in confucius and china scholar her mother had by few followers

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 is big brother russia is more than willing to learn. from a work of art facing china. polls have closed in brazil in the country's presidential election according to a pre-election survey this latin american giant could see its first female politician take the top job let's cross to our. other we don't have the law. we were going to cross. we will. go to him oh there we go the woman. want to. know what do we know about. the woman that will be in charge of a. well

the largest thing that people know about this candidate. is that she is the candidate of the current president lula da silva who is one of the best presidents people say brazil has ever had and has had eighty percent support of the people during his two terms in office which are coming to an end as the polls closed about an hour ago everyone in this country voted because it's mandatory and pretty soon we'll see results start rolling in and. she has been leading the polls in large part because she is. really little is known about her by the brazilian people she says she. did fight against a dictatorship years and years ago and. since then has really been in the public eye so she is running on. and when you talk to people on the streets that. candidacy in her campaign they believe wholeheartedly that she will continue to

program the little one has started primarily narrowing the gap in this country between the rich and poor which is incredibly vast and they say no other government has really taken charge and doing and is social programs that have worked for this country and a way that is relevant to an emerging nation and not necessarily impressed upon them by another name. and they're working and that's one of the major concerns of the people here on the ground that they want to have continue. really seen the big picture and mine supporters say foreign policy has really resilin to the fore as a leading developing nation. having diplomatic and trade deals with other countries in latin america as well as russia india china with the bric countries he's also managed the economy brazil is growing at the estimated seven point five percent this year he's created new jobs while raising the minimum wage and helping people at home so these are all of the things that dilma is running on promising to continue and the man that we have. to do the ground.

she's really been leading in the polls at about fifty percent her leading opponent is at about thirty percent but if she doesn't get fifty percent and this first election it will go to a runoff because that remaining votes in the polls have been split between two candidates now the next candidate as a little more conservative now when you go to the polls in the areas where the vote this is who they're voting for this is still a country that is vastly divided along class lines and you really see that in this election now supporters of lula saying that this opposition candidate being nominated would be devastating for the progress that brazil has made especially diplomatically they say this would align brazil again with the u.s. and impress policies that rely on the market to solve social problems and they say in a country with eighty percent poverty that's just not realistic and it's just not possible

but jose serra supporters that you speak to at the polls say that until my candidacy a deal my presidency rather would be the disaster so you still still see that split but really we're seeing how much the poor little one has had over the last eight years and seeing that in the polls on the streets here in brazil it seems that the poor this of poor lula as well as the other support that he's gone person economic policies and his diplomacy that that's kind of the political capital in this election but we'll have to wait and see what happens in the in the results which will get pretty soon here. and it will report them to you later as soon as we do you're looking for a dream. reporting or less following the country's presidential election from some problems result thanks ever so much. even powell says 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 could encourage farmers to cultivate more of the heroin producing crop the survey also suggests the hike was prompted by

a plant infection that devastated feel it adds that the spike natan were ations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same south and west of the major growing regions which are also taliban strongholds allowing extremists to break in the cash result is paul is clear explains no for many farmers it's still their only source of income which is tightly controlled by militants and drug and police. do run you know used to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself as a former army commander denies the charges he insists he never swayed on 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 and 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. 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 us companies are doing drugs well. when i grant you the policeman i was there i kept quiet about it for about two years although the other policeman here knew about it quite a few police quite drunk or that it's 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 or drug use but the knocks on not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there on the movie these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of opium or context. i don't know this is opium but this is

the kind of tricks drugs inside 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 mending a hand. that 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 very good that you get it done half and half so that they are not joining the produce two thousand people join the police to the south and south but the ministry of continent context insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those funds 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 via our team for the chief person kabul one for white house drug policy spokesman says it will take a combination of wiping out poppy fields and giving from as 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 and be drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drugs are 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. staying in the region this week blocks made to the supplies to afghanistan after cross border lines helicopters killed three pakistani soldiers the convoys to 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 it's becoming increasingly dangerous now islamabad says it will consider getting tougher on nato if its forces continue incursions into its territory. with gray she spoke to see explains why he pakistan's patience is running out now. there is a strong feeling that pakistan 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 box that has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside afghanistan back study 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 you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong pakistani involvement. from moscow on the way tonight the depths go to stress. started like. this feels very very strange stories very sad also they are doing all right this thing is going to get. perilous all the rage to explore what it feels like to be buried alive all in the interest of taking away the stray.

war news before germany has been marking twenty years of unification chancellor angela merkel led the celebrations in the northern city of bremen where tens of thousands of people turned it 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 that led to a turbulent decade with a huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure at least call the 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 costs 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 skeptical about so many members to the euro and of course has told you is a very special situation if you have three countries like is tonja for example gender like to join the european union if you have stronger countries like the

northern countries here in the eurozone there are of course a little bit skeptical because there are questions. of how the euro can go on in the future because given the problems that lie ahead of us it will be quite clear that a week a country will not participate on this rescue package that means on the other hand of course that didn't all the countries and germany's especially has to pay for it so there is quite a lot of criticism of the. good news also cost german solvency this will be the last thing that could go bankrupt within the eurozone. news from north korea this week the latest younger son was given to keep promotions in what's widely seen as lining him up to take over from his ailing father kim a young 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 kim jong il son was shown to the media is the first time anyone's actually seen him as an adult

only child of pictures have been shown to. what was the first such meeting in decades can only awarded top post to other family members to the international security expert dr jim walsh believes it 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 sung 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 will point to sort of again from 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 you watching artie's review the wait let me

take you through some world news headlines making the rounds right now though the united states has issued a travel alert for its citizens in europe because of intelligence suggesting an increased risk of terror attacks in main cities britain is echoing the warning specifying a quote high threat level in france and germany because it is a being told to be vigilant but they are being advised against traveling to the continent france refers to the threat as real but is not increasing security levels but germany says there are. no concrete indications of an imminent attack. fist fighting in somalia as capital between government troops and rebels has left at least eight dead and eighteen others wounded there's been a surge in violence in the past month as an al qaeda backed group intensifies efforts to overthrow the un supported government and the militants become more powerful in recent years and now control much of the south somalia hasn't had a fully functioning government in almost twenty years. egypt and jordan are

supporting the palestinians refusal to negotiate with israel if it continues to build settlements in the west bank that comes after they held separate meetings with america's middle east envoy george mitchell the arab states said israel's decision to restart construction is undermining key peace talks underway right now israel refused to extend the suspension despite the palestinian threat to walk away if it's resume. or will be used now ballots are being counted in bosnia's presidential and parliamentary elections which saw parties encourage people to vote according to the nationality that is the sixth election in the former yugoslavia republic of war finished in one hundred ninety five which divided the country into almost autonomous parts a stronger central government as a condition for bosnia to join the e.u. or bosnian serbs are calling for independence. this is r t from moscow looking ahead a little later to next hour we report on a safe return home for a russian boy abandoned his adoptive parents left behind in the dominican republic

now police want to know if you were sold for drugs and also ahead. well i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts please media that just any more in our news is news sless. it seems like they're trying to they show my everything why don't americans trust the evening news in the resident gathers opinions for you. ok one of the strangest stories of the week next most of us have to deal with a degree or two a stress at some point in our lives but when things get too much here in russia there is now an extreme therapy on offer it is being buried alive despite a few grave concerns either belly of spring trying out the earthly path to power and self in light. 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. has nick of the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt if you start tasting it and thinking of what the hell am i doing down here or for the bee i don't want to come down to simply no other place like these these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lightening practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit it was the most effective and powerful method will overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear in it 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 fourteen 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 briefly 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 person it's very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints pressurized and you can practice burials without knowing about. them 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 yet 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 and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again. was one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again i live in an artsy moscow poor old. offer tiebreak is not left and there this is r t the international news channel live from moscow i'm kevin thank you for being with us this hour we're back with a recap of the week's top stories after this quick break.

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gorging on t.v. the week with me kevin out in moscow's man has been fired off for almost two decades in charge the president says he lost trust in the capital's elite. rochelle eyes a rising sun in the east with a major oil pipeline to china hoping to clear the way for future big deals with its biggest trading partner. the double edged sword of afghanistan's deadly drugs crop of virus destroys swathes of opium poppies but surging heroin prices keep officials. one thirty am moscow time coming up next our special report for you

james brown travels to the historic city of rostov for dawn and other things he discovers a school to trade but a movie star. is one of russia's most important southern cities an industrial and cultural center with more than one point three million people this is a twenty first century town that's proud of its history where you can find cutting edge technology and people that still follow traditions that date back centuries this area is an agricultural jewel covered with rich fertile soil and blessed with a mild climate it's the second most productive region in the country but if you want to appreciate it properly you really need somebody to give you a lift. never done this before maybe the best way to see the sights and. the way the. weather was perfect and soon i was getting a panoramic view of the nearby farm.