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welcome back here with here's a look at other top stories kyrgyzstan is heading to the polls to elect the parliament that's hope will bring stability to the state ravaged by a repeat of bull the vote will take power away from the president for the first time in a central asian country. mourners are gathering in russia's city of smolensk to remember the victims of a plane crash which killed poland's president manny of its top brass it's been six months since the tragedy claimed the lives of ninety six people. and now we're review of the week ninety years after the u.s.

led forces and rid of ghana stand civilian and coalition losses are on the rise foreign troops are struggling to turn around the fight against the taliban ahead of next two years expect the withdrawal of. the russian authorities say more than a third of exported afghan drugs and up in russia every year and that's the equivalent of five billion hair windows is next we talk to russia's and in our car about why the war on drugs can be won yet. today we're talking to the head of russia's drug control service and mr pena thank you very much for joining us today first off let's talk about afghanistan afghanistan is the number one producer all opiates in the world when we talk about the transfer of the drugs to russia what kind of amounts of drugs are we talking about. afghanistan produced about seven thousand tons of opium last year which is

equivalent to seven hundred tons of heroin we believe that about thirty six of these tons end up in russia that's a lot about five billion doses and it's about thirty five percent of all drugs exported from of ghana stan because in fact afghanistan exports less than half of the drugs it produces as drug addicts throughout the world are unable to consume everything that comes out of afghanistan so afghanistan stores a huge amount of drugs russia and other countries estimate it's about thirteen to fifteen thousand tons of opium so even if drug production stops in afghanistan the country will still be able to supply the international market with heroin for another twenty or even thirty years. what about the main mode of transportation of the drugs could you talk about the roads or the countries to which the drug trade flows into russia. going to rescue there is the northern route which is sometimes called the northern silk route after the seventeenth century trade route the reason

the silk route is popular is because after the collapse of the soviet union new nations are merged and while their borders exist on paper in reality they're not even probably guarded so essentially there are no effective borders between afghanistan and russia with such poor as borders it's very easy for traffickers to transport drugs the biggest part of drugs flows through stan and kazakstan and onward to russia another part goes through iran across the caspian sea and the caucasus ridge and ends up. in the north caucasus or deeper in russia's territory by the way this provides a source of financing for terrorists and extremists in russia's caucasus because the. americans that have got this don't say that they cannot eradicate most of the puppy fields because a lot of danny's depend on their livelihood on these fields by producing the opiates what can be done about this is their solution to the problem and look at the media goes when the u.s. says you cannot deprive farmers of their livelihood it actually sends

a message to the afghan leadership as well saying they shouldn't do it because first this will destroy people's livelihood and second you push farmers into the hands of the taliban i think this is merely an excuse furthermore since u.s. special representative for central asia richard holbrooke first suggested this idea that instead of eradicating drug crops the u.s. should target drug labs and traffickers which was almost a year ago the number of laps producing drugs for russia has tripled a year ago we knew about one hundred seventy labs in afghanistan today we know of more than four hundred laps of producing drugs for russia for some reason it doesn't seem possible for nato to get rid of the poppy fields in afghanistan and get to the same time it seems that they're quite successful or not necessarily nato but it has been proven that getting rid of for example plants in colombia can be quite successful so are we not talking about it this year for double standards here

where they can solve the problem in one country and cannot solve the problem in another country for some reason of course you know because when i visited the nato headquarters in brussels to address the russian nato council i pointed out that more than two thousand three hundred square kilometers of coca crop are destroyed in colombia annually get only twenty square kilometers of drug crops were destroyed in afghanistan last year of course there should be no double standard in the matter of eradication furthermore the un general assembly has a. dr a number of resolutions on the issue for example there is a political declaration on drug control that the un general assembly dop did in one thousand nine hundred eight in september two thousand and nine the un general assembly reaffirmed that declaration and said proper education was of strategic importance but by the way all countries including nato countries signed that resolution so i can't understand why nato isn't applying the same standard that is applied in latin america does this not seem to be a paradox that when afghanistan was under the control of the taliban the opium

production was significantly lower than it is now and it has risen dramatically after the us invasion nine years ago what what is the problem how is this fitting into the picture and the statements that nato is trying to fight the drug trade in afghanistan in your opinion. you're right i had a meeting with my pakistani colleagues here in islamabad and they too were amazed at this phenomenon there's only one way to explain it when the taliban sought official recognition for its kabul regime they took on president of measures to eradicate oppy and poppy crops they consistently took serious steps in one nine hundred ninety eight nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand when they introduced capital punishment for poppy cultivation as a result they succeeded in a radical drug crop when ninety percent of afghanistan's territory all the provinces they controlled the only place they couldn't do it was a northern afghanistan which was controlled by the so-called northern alliance but

then operation enduring freedom began and the situation changed drastically only a competent government that has the support of the people can really control the country and take serious steps to destroy drug production how can we talk about the military solution to the problem when most of the poppy fields in afghanistan are located there in areas of the most intense fighting or where foreign military personnel are stationed where where is this listen to that. the nine years of the military operation in afghanistan have demonstrated that the more fighting there is in the country the small of the chances are of destroying drug production they're growing alternative crops is a risky proposition the risks are immense you can lose your crop at any stage opium on the other hand does not require any effort poppy grows all by itself and buyers come straight to the field and purchase the crop so it's obvious that you can destroy drug production this way the russian federation has developed

a plan which is called rainbow two because it consists of seven points we presented this plan to the european commission the european parliament nato our partners in the us in afghanistan and here in pakistan the plan calls for a comprehensive approach first of all this huge problem should be officially recognized as a threat to international peace and security in other words this is a separate problem that kills more than one hundred thousand people each year hundreds of millions of people suffer from this problem which everyone has been talking about for almost a decade second as i just said we need to eradicate opium poppy and the international security assistance force which is in afghanistan today under the un mandate and therefore has assumed responsibility for the future of afghanistan should play very active role in our medicating the crop then of course afghanistan needs economic eight we need to rebuild its infrastructure by the way the legal afghan economy today operates mostly thanks to the hundred and forty two industrial

facilities that the soviet union built there as far as i'm aware no new facilities have been built there since that time also we need to make international cooperation more effective i'd like to emphasize particularly the role of regional cooperation for example there's a four party format that the presidents of four nations russia afghanistan pakistan and had tickets then have established also i think that the shanghai cooperation organization. should step up its efforts because most of the drugs produced in afghanistan and up in this countries and their people suffer the most. and finally considering that pakistan is still under a rather heavy influence from the united states can we talk about washington possibly playing a negative role in the fight against drug trade or a positive role in your opinion. but you started this week in the pakistan is a sovereign state and a rather strong one at that there are one hundred seventy million people living

there pakistan is a nuclear power so i think there's nothing wrong with the fact that pakistan cooperates with the us we to view the united states as a partner and we work with america as partners is just a question of finding the most effective approach we don't have time for mistakes and we have no right to make a mistake. thank you very much for taking your time out of your day to join us thank you i. show biz entertainment as an insult to present high production. so. this is the way these people's attention by using take.

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room the photo a good go how would international. every her told. her to stand it's heading to the polls to elect a parliament that's hoped will bring stability to the state ravaged by repeat a brutal clash of the vote will take power away from the president for the first time in a central asian country. mourners are gathering in russia's city of smolensk to remember the victims of a plane crash which killed poland's president and many of its top brass it's been six months since the tragedy claimed the lives of ninety six people. and in our view of the week nine years after the u.s. led forces and piano stand civilian and coalition losses are on the rise foreign troops are struggling to turn around the fight against the taliban ahead of next

year's expected withdrawal. and we bring you now to the sports news where the you know neil. thanks for joining us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. international relations that weekend euro twenty twelve qualifiers wrap up with wins for france and croatia. formula one supreme oh bernie ecclestone says the deal is all new table to bring the sport here to russia. big in japan or rafael nadal storms to his seven career win of the a.t.p. season seeing off feats in two q. let's get going with football and after friday's action suffered just the two european qualification clash is up for consideration

one of which was in group f. which is a group seen as one of the toughest to call in the entire competition and it was certainly close in tel aviv or israel and korea sure were both seeking to stretch their own records it was the visionaries who ever made the breakthrough albeit somewhat controversially is really defender dekel keenan a judge who failed to show the signature in the area with equal crunch are the stepping up to comfort from the spot on thirty six minutes one nil. julie double that advantage five minutes later. showing. this all thought were to finish beautifully israel perked up a little in the second tough and scored a stunning goal in the process. leaving the goalkeeper rooted to the spot with. whoever that was to be their highlight creation take it to one. top with just a point separates the leading five. elsewhere on the night france left it late but

still walk up sunday morning looking down on the rest of group d. long. beating romania to know what goals coming from substitutes louis cio. after the turmoil of france's build up the relief of being on top and i was clear to see afterwards. we are creating something we get on together pretty well so we don't start to be awful used we have to keep the same state of mind these are delicate times we're well aware of that before the time be we're appreciating the moments of pleasure tonight. ok that brings us all into formula one where special vettel has catapulted himself right back into the championship shake up the german winning the japanese grand free from pole vettel leaving home a red bull one two with overall leader mark webber in second place fernando alonso who is seeking a third straight wrist when walked onto the final podium place that was an action

packed race in suzuka with accidents of plenty including for russian hopeful batali petroff who crushed died on the very first lock up the end of it all it's webber who is a fourteen point lead with a long two second tied on points with fettled thirty three races for me in the season very close to called up. it won't be this year but russia looks to be on the brink of landing its first f one race the sport's a primo bernie ecclestone says the deal is ready just needs to be signed the britain are saying he's in if the country's chiefs are the truck won't be in moscow with zero doubt on our goals to soft she with a twenty fourteen start to the game that's the scene here the city face close to the winter olympics money could be the stumbling block the license to host an f one race is expected to cost us no less than forty million u.s. dollars the price tag for the country also in the running to host the twenty

fifteen world cup finals. let's move on to tennis where is a case of magna. yes and seven for world number one rafael nadal at the japan open on sunday the spaniard should be soon on the lookout for a bigger trophy cabinet after wrapping up his seventh a.t.p. tournament win of the year in tokyo frenchmen gilmore feasts unable to hold an adult superb run of form dropping just one set throughout the whole event took the finals opener with the six one. produced a little more in the second but was not about to let his forty third career title slip away six one seven five the final score this season the twenty four year old completed a sweep of clay court offense in madrid monte carlo before securing three straight grand slam titles grosch wimbledon on the u.s. open.

for. as much. as the five ok that brings us from rockets to clubs on john pari hawes two stroke lead the summit ahead of the final round of the dunhill links championship the spotlight though it's also shining on his composure at lee westwood who has it all the player for dru's westwood needs a second place finisher better in scotland to surpass tiger woods as world number one their thirty seven year old demonstrating plenty of mental toughness finding himself just five strokes back this side. and goal injury it was twenty three year old par evo who moved on thirteen under for the tournament the so-called all this birdie on the sixteenth helping the up and comer edged closer to five hundred an eighty thousand euro in prize money. money that ice hockey on the third kontinental

hockey league season continues to have an unusual look about its. with a plethora of heavyweights struggling to find their first saying no such problems though for metallic magnitogorsk. they make up the top three of the table top list capital dwellers making a statement by pouring in five goals in a win over another on to achieving some petersburg all but wanted on a squad winning on saturday only the russians only able to see off their visiting lockable to the minsk. recent coaching cim seems to have given the players a spark with the vice handily beating bottom two other officials for two former coach milosz is rumored to be one of c.s.k. meanwhile this seventeenth ranked on the mend certainly needing something extra as they lost to rank on the night. ok let's move to the commonwealth games where

there's been yet more concern in india swimmers have complained that the main pool has spread a bug among the athletes although organizers say tests have shown nothing is wrong with the water now over a dozen. overall leaders just really came down with the virus which led to speculation that who was to blame but a series of exams have given it the warm up with us well the all clear leaving organizers believing the story was exaggerated by the press i. i. she just doctor has also been in touch with the doctors of the australian teams and they all agreed that the problems have been. there and officials in the village not from the water but could be caused by a number of. things. we have heard reports that the.

incidence not as widespread as reported in the media. ok let's move on finally to one of the most bizarre spectacles of the sport's silly season wife carrying the eleventh north american shop which aversion to be precise welcome to sunday river in maine the state's necessary skills for this event speed poise strength. a woman as you can find and in fact the competitors here actually have to be just meal i'm female fifty teens in all taking part with the sony and estonian pari by far the most. need two hundred seventy eight yards of course me and one of the more fair trials proving challenging to say the least but at the end of it all it was locals a raku andre also kim was cold raced to victory the winners receiving seven hundred fifty dollars six cases of beer and the ticket to the world championships in.

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