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 dyes trace to more than make a law place but corruption allegations and suspicion is of a cave's a business relationship with his property tycoon wife were to prove his downfall he would do it the authorities began to look more attentively at private activity as it turned out that funds allocated for the reconstruction and expansion of my school street and routes were invested in some enterprises from which someone receives a huge profit through the. court 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 in his company how to become russia's only female billionaire and want her place on the forbes reached laced.

is something else again hard charging in the plastics business in the construction business why they said to be in the corruption business they was also anger were 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. to public opinion this is one more example of. vandalism and crime an approach to cultural heritage and architecture of the chip 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 air of the alps. beautiful but this. it's early steve the mayor of moscow comes back from

holidays the day off so the smoke has dispersed and i think it's unacceptable and i think you should have been here half a know 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 not destroy one but true many people and a perception could be no face too long. just like many of the moments here prove bush court 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 want out and . griffin ocean are to. michael been you know former moscow correspondent for britain's times newspaper so despite mounting criticism lewis card deserves some credit for improving the capital's infrastructure. 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 it was really chaotic mess had very little of its infrastructure cleaned up the buildings admittedly not done 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. russian oil will be directly to 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 artie's oksana boyko reports russia is also keen to study the secrets of china's economic phenomena. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of liftoffs in touchdowns that old russia and china to leave to major

projects something ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been in china's view. they may have rolled out the red carpet for the russians but their meticulous bargaining proved justice tiring as climbing the great china. signals these are serious important talks there are a large number of issues to discuss here. 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. talks on the price of gas are still ongoing. but 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 on the chinese market to increase but 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 nickname to russia town that attracts thousands of vendors on a hunt for knockoffs short of the winter 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 china's 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

shrank 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 china's turn to spread their war there was them 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 when you go to mission this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies and institutes innovative development is certainly the choice of our country we are following this path and we will do everything for our. cami to modernize change and adapt to modern life. and while

a three day visit may not be enough to mend the secrets of china's economic miracle the russian delegation was to able to take home a few pounds of them for the course of this visit russian officials think a better take a liking to siding confucius and china scolar have among other things had to buy a piece of all the worst developing friendship that somebody can a teacher here any good well china is definitely not the case the country has made such a dramatic leap forward that even in common is big brother russia is more than willing to learn from it some of our feet facing china and there is more high level musical chairs on the other side of the atlantic in brazil where it's a girl power on the market we report shortly how brazil has cast its vote for a new president but because the popular outgoing leader with the silver had already served the maximum will his leading lady become the first ever woman in charge.

and while germany parties to mark twenty years of reunification e.u. economies struggle to stick together we talk to experts about the fractured facing the union. first though a u.n. panel says opium production in afghanistan has dropped by half this year but it's led to an almost three fold surge in prices thursday's report says that could encourage farmers to cultivate more of the heroin producing crop the survey also suggest the hike was prompted by a plant infection that devastated fields it adds that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains about the same the south and west are the major growing regions which are also taliban strongholds allowing extremists to rake in the cash but as artie's policy or explains for many farmers it's their only source of income one tightly controlled by militants and even 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 narcotics heroin in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to a recent u.s. congress report nearly half of the afghan police are doing drugs well. when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen here knew about it quite a few police who were drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. pullet afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand

prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping their drugs out. there. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we've found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not ready. enough and they are not joining the

produce truth out of the people who joined the police to solve themselves but the ministry of canton a cottage insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these full wars is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society telep members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded for this year our team for the chief is in kabul. and in brazil voting has wrapped up in the country's presidential race according to the t.v. exit polls this latin american giant could see its first female leader artie's laura lister has more from sao paolo. the largest thing that people know about this candidate dilma rousseff 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 she has been leading the polls in large part because she is a choice really little is known about her by the brazilian people she is his chief of staff she just. she did fight against a dictatorship years and years ago in her youth but since then has really been in the public eye so she is running on track record and when you talk to people both on the streets that are lula supporters and the. candidacy in her campaign they believe wholeheartedly that she will continue the programs little 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 nation or an outside influence so 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 in 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 is a little more conservative now when you go to the polls in the rich areas where the upper class 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 there are supporters that you speak to. the polls say that until my candidacy adèle my presidency rather would be the disaster. germany's been marking twenty

years of reunification chancellor angela merkel led the celebrations in the northern city of bremen where tens of thousands turned out 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 but that led to a turbulent decade with the huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure in the east causing a recession even today there is 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 e.u.'s banking crisis. market analyst and author michael moss says germany won't be able to prop up the euro indefinitely. germans become. appalled so many members aid to the euro and of course has told you it is a very special situation if you have three countries like it's two when you have for example gender like to join the european union if you have stronger countries

like the northern countries in the eurozone then of course a little bit skeptical because our questions. oh the euro can go on in the future because given the problems that lie ahead of us it will be quite good you are going to come to his will not participate on this rescue pick which means on the other hand of calls that didn't go all the countries in tsunamis you specially has to pay for it so those cried a lot of criticism that it didn't have the data to the also cause is just to solve and see this would be the last thing that could go through the eurozone and you could stay with us here on r.t. coming up this safe return home for a russian boy a bad and. adoptive parents left behind in the dominican republic now police want to know they have been sold for drugs plus. i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts the news media isn't just news anymore no news is news and to take it

it seems like they try and think they should rethink do americans trust the evening news any more resident laurie harkness gathers opinions on the streets of new york . but before all that it's been a week of mass demonstrations across europe as tens of thousands protest against their respective governments severe cutbacks the biggest marches happened in belgium spain and greece and brussels protesters protesters gathered around the headquarters and forced the closure of the city's two international airports in madrid two thirds of flights were grounded because of action by transport workers protest kind of a rising unemployment and unprecedented levels of government debt david campbell bannerman a europe. and he 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 us it is they're trying to do but it's beyond i mean the real on the line problem is you're trying to force

together all these different types of column is some of doing very well is a 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 that's it and the germans of 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 will certain strong currencies leave all that we currently know the. it's a different story though in another you country suffering with the worst recession or suffering the worst with recession rather latvians have voted to give their center right government another chance to save the 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 austerity plans there's also been a boost for a party representing the large russian speaking minority which wants to mend strained ties with moscow the harmony center has secured about

a quarter of the vote with the ruling party suggesting that could lead to a role in the government. a russian boy whose adoptive parents abetted him in the caribbean return to his home country on friday a twelve year old dennis is now getting help for him getting help from her dad back to a normal life in moscow artie's tom barton 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 yet known just give us a thought 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 ombudsman's 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. he'll have to really learn his native language and rediscover life here but it's hoped that he'll receive a lot more in his next five years than he did in his last five tomas in moscow stick with us here on our t.v. plenty plenty headed your way in the next hour including the depths you can go to stress. well they started to fill in my grave as it were and 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 we explore what it feels like to be buried alive all the interests of. the north korean leader's youngest son was given to key promotions this week in what's widely seen as lining him up to take over from his ailing father kim jong whom was appointed second in

command of the country's central military commission and made a four star general it happened at a rare convention of the ruling workers' party after which images of kim jong il's son were shown to the media it's the first time anyone has seen him as an adult only childhood pictures have been shown until now at what was the first such meeting in decades kim jong il awarded top post to other family members glen ford who headed the european parliament delegation to north korea says kim jong un's appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy. this party conference is going to see some i suspect unprecedented strangers in terms of generational changes in the in the leadership of the korean workers party we've already seen that some people like you. both who've been negotiating with the americans i've had recent promotions within the supreme people's assembly and within the ministries people within the united states administration who actually find it very convenient. to

deploy a missile defense in japan which. is to north korea the same time pressure on the chinese to move more money into their military and of course the analysis of the chinese as being exactly one of the reasons for the fall of the soviet union was the fact that the economy was forced to live a law i spent too much on the military sector and of enough on improving civilian standards of living. staying with the region this week pakistan blocked nato supplies to afghanistan after cross border fire by alliance helicopters killed three pakistani soldiers convoys had to take an alternative route through the north with deadly consequences on friday suspected militants torched several dozen nato trucks as a result twenty seven fuel tankers on the road to troops in afghanistan were destroyed u.s. led strikes against alleged militants in pakistan have been happening for years but it's a partnership that's becoming increasingly dangerous islamic says it will consider getting tougher on nato if its forces continue incursions into its territory

political expert ahmed correct she explains why pakistan's patients may be running out. there's a strong feeling that box that box done 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 fox money interests are not being looked after or respected throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside of gun is done box down the ideas box any suggestions box on the input were completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation go from what 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 finally in this news block research this week shows that us mistrust in the longstanding news media is at an all time high talk show host laurie harnessed also known as the resident people why things are why they've got so many misgivings about the mainstream media.

according to a new gallup poll fifty seven purse that 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 it should be out there that the media news media is bringing to the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore no news is news slash entertainment so anytime you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own bit on things i think people just try to find what most fit in what they're already thinking anyways and then they watch that so if you're not from that side if you're not from the whatever side it is and you're not going to trust that other side 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 the like were is that

somebody sources will only focus on the on one issue or one side and continue to barrage of the their opponents will take sides in these conflicts and issues yet seems like they'll do that at any cost no matter how ridiculous that sounds true enough so why do they do that for profit people people like stories that have questions that we all do treat you know and the america knew i see it's may be the difference between friends and. i mean we can maybe they do 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.

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