reviewing the week's top stories here on our moscow's long serving mayor and his have been shown the door after the russian president loses trust. russia are rising sun in the east with a major oil pipeline to china opening the floodgates with russia's largest trading partner. and un figures show despite a fifty percent drop in afghan opium production traffickers are still raking in cash is heroin prices sold.

six am in the russian capital we're giving you the top stories of the day plus a review of the week that was here on r t. our top story this hour moscow's long serving mayor was shown the door by the president this week dmitri medvedev said he lost confidence in your early luzhkov who worked eighteen years as the capital's chief lose call these behind a controversial legacy led by some hated by others as artie's maria an ocean explains. so i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i signed states that i as president have lost trust in your. once deprived of power the phone support to the top was hard to come by a challenge it's always the professional relations between the president and moscow had worsened meanwhile the man is subordinate to the president the not the other way around to certain steps should have been taken to return the situation back to

normal so where did it all go wrong. and oligarch has won over a patriot and a good manager and all that's inside one man. luzhkov the patriot was always in love with moscow 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 a colossal ace 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 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 for. luzhkov has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing he says do so with his wife's company were transparent and aboveboard the true sentiment

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 least yelena nicholai. 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 he ordered the demolition of seven hundred historical buildings and new ones were put up in their place so the administration of a know it and senate of to public opinion this is one more example of the. on the list primal approach to the cultural heritage of architecture or the ship must go 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 prefer in the clean air of the alps. beautiful because these it's early if the mayor of moscow comes back from holidays the day off so the smoke has dispersed i think it's unacceptable and i think you should have been here half an hour after it started in the end started taking the blame for everything the night traffic jams always law for ugly monuments around the city it seemed there was a loss of trust now destroying one but true many people and a perception would be no face to loan. just like many of the moderates here prove core 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. ready for an hour to. michael being you know former moscow correspondent for britain's tybee newspaper says that despite mounting criticism

does deserve 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 renewal of its infrastructure he cleaned up the buildings admittedly he knocked down a lot of the historic grounds 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 drive if it came to that. russian oil will be pumped directly into china by next year which will triple supplies the pipeline to make it happen was open during president medvedev three day visit to the country the trip included talks with the chinese leader on boosting regional security but as 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 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 to 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. signals that these are serious important talks i was 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. but 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 nickname to russia town that attracts thousands of vendors to on a hunt for knockoffs this is the social work 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 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 of the two countries sharing passed. through 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 the word there was them 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 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 think about i think a liking to side in confucius the china scholar her among our advice if the worst developing friendship is 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 boycott are facing china. and there's more high level musical chairs on the other side of the atlantic in brazil where it's a girl power on the march quarter of zero has cast its vote for a new president because the popular will serve out the maximum what is the. eating

lady become the first ever woman in charge of the country. and while germany parties to mark twenty years of being united the e.u. economies struggle to stick together we talk to experts about the fractured future facing the. u.n. panel says opium production in afghanistan has dropped by half this year but it's led to an almost three fold surgeon prices thursday's report says that it could encourage farmers to cultivate more of the heroin producing crop the survey also suggests that the hike was prompted by a plant infection that devastated the yield it adds that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow the 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 as artie's policy or explains for many farmers though it's still 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 white 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 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 about two years all the other

policemen he knew about it quite a few police my drug addicts are 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 the drugs out. there and. 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. 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 lending a hand. up there were yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of guards were involved in small. drugs into the jew. not

for the good that you created and do do in the house and the. joining to produce truth out of the people they are joined to produce through two of them south 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 finds enough money stones drug will 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 wards is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell it members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded. our team for the chief is in kabul with most of the votes counted it seems likely that brazil will have a second round of presidential elections dilma rousseff from the ruling workers'

party failed to gain more than fifty percent of the vote needed to avoid a runoff she know house are close forty six percent while her nearest opponent jose serra scored about thirty three percent artie's lauren lyster 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 lula's track record and when you talk to people both on the streets that are lula's supporters and. candidacy in her campaign they

believe wholeheartedly that she will continue the programs little has started primarily mirroring 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. and if the president would be the disaster. germany's marking twenty years since it was officially reunified politicians and celebrities have been celebrating in bremen and parties are being have been going on all over the country there marking the culmination of a process 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 a huge cost of rebuilding infrastructure in the east causing 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 banking crisis clowes off a who's a political sociology professor says many east germans feel they lost out after

reunification. german politicians. and sat for ties to. german unification. it's seen that. because every great historical change. involves lewis and many people in the new. and the new. lender in fact loses. employment is about. productivity is still. and many people have left. the eastern part of germany in order to migrate for the best more. dignity is in most institutions the military. universities the media.

business is asian and so they are all dominated by. stuff so many people in the east even though they have improved they cannot make situation feel that. picked the respect to be included. stay with us here on r t coming up soon the safe return home for a russian boy abandoned abroad. his adoptive parents left him behind in the dominican republic now police want to know what they have been sold for drugs plus . i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts news media isn't just newsy anymore no news is new slant it would take me it seems like they try and think they show like everything to americans trust the evening news anymore or tease the resident laurie harkness gathers opinions in the big gamble. but before all that though it's been a week of mass demonstrations across europe as tens of thousands protest against

their respective governments and fear cutbacks the biggest marches happened in belgium spain and greece in brussels protesters gathered around the e.u. headquarters and forced the closure of the city's two international airports in the dritte two thirds of flights were grounded because of action by transport workers protests come amid rising unemployment and unprecedented levels of government debt david campbell bannerman a european and b. claims the euro currency is to blame for most of the continent's current economic woes. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions that 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 a doing very well others a very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency called the euro the euro's a 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 for certain strong currencies leave all that we currently want all the other. it's a different story in the e.u. countries suffering with the worst recession latvians have voted to give their center right government another chance to save their own battled 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 security 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 abandoned him in the caribbean returned to his home country on friday twelve year old dennis is now getting help for him to adapt back to a normal life in the russian capital 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 is this years 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 now we should make speculations just because the boy can't explain what happened born in the volgograd region in one thousand nine hundred 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 a 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 in prison 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 on board summons 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 or not every adult can survive what he went through the russian adoption agency committed a crime letting drug dealers adopt the boy that's a 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 that he'll receive a lot more care in his next five years than he did in his last five tom watson r.t.

moscow. stay with us here on our team plenty more come. on your way in the next hour including the depths you can go eat stress. and well they started to fill in like grave as it were and the it feels very very strange the soul is very cold and also happy doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a little scary to explore what it feels to be buried alive on the interests of taking away the stress 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 un was appointed second in command of the country's central military commission and made a four star general it happened at a rare meeting of the ruling workers' party after which images of him john eales son were shown in the media it's the first time anyone's seen him as an adult only childhood pictures have been shown tell now how it was the first such meeting in

decades kim jong il awarded top post to other family members glyn 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. we're having some issues with the video there so we're going to go to the world news that are making headlines across the globe a spectacular fireworks display got in the night got the nineteenth commonwealth games underway in delhi india around nine thousand performers took part in the opening ceremony along with athletes from seventy one countries there to compete and right up to the games has been a royal scandal though criticism and accusations of this management and estimated cost of six billion dollars it's the largest sporting event the country has ever hosted. the united states has issued a travel alert for its citizens in europe because of intelligence suggesting an

increased risk of terror attacks in the main cities britons echoing the warnings specifying a high threat level in france and germany visitors are also told to be vigilant but aren't being advised against traveling to the continent france refers to the threat as real but isn't an increase in security levels germany says there are no concrete indications of an imminent attack. egypt and jordan support the palestinians refusal to negotiate with israel if it continues to build settlements in the west bank this comes after they held separate meetings with the u.s. middle east envoy george mitchell the arab states said israel's decision to restart construction is undermining the keep peace talks underway right now israel refused to extend this is pension despite a palestinian threat to walk away if that resume. research this week shows americans mistrust of their longstanding news media is at an all time high online talk show host laurie harshest also known as the resident who has people on the streets of manhattan if they have any misgivings about the media.

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 out there that the media news media is bringing to the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and news is news slush entertainment so anytime you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own bet 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 this 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 supposed resources what will we focus all know on one issue or one side and continue to barrage of the their opponents will take sides in the 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 passions that we ha ho old country you know and the america new i sing it's may be the difference between france and. america. 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 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. good

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