you know it's a credible to watch any rocket launch and all my brothers are bored makes it even more exciting i've seen them launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see when they both meet again on the international space station in a few months time it will become a family space station too but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be busy busy fly but you know to get a chance to do that with my brother is a great opportunity scott and mark on celebrity twin oxen or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space tom botton ati. ozzy's interview with head over russia's counter narcotics agency is coming right up do stay with us for that.

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monopoles of the fundamental changes in the state them people's minds on r.g.p. . for in the afternoon here in moscow you watch it on t.v. we're running down the top stories all today on the screen now could get stands voting in landmark election following a year of instability and violence observers say the poll the poll at this point is going smoothly. the result will see less power for the president and more for m.p.'s as the country becomes the first parliamentary democracy in central asia. mourners have gathered to remember the victims of the plane crash which killed the polish president six months ago near the russian city of smolensk ninety six people

died in tragedy including many of poland's top officials. and in our round up all the week the war in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it the longest in u.s. military history this year is already the deadliest for nato troops in a decade of country. plus three crew members arrive at the international space station after friday's blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome they'll remain there for six months while they complete their mission in. afghanistan is the world's largest exporter of opium and over a third of it ends up right here in russia that's according to russia's counter narcotics chief who explained to aunty just why the war on drugs is not being won. today we're talking to the head of russia's 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 afghanistan 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. of us you 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 munitions are merged and while their borders exist on paper in reality they're not even properly 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 the stand 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.

of the americans that have guessed and 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. when the us 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 of 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 yet at 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 double standards here where they can solve the problem in one country and can not solve the problem in another country for some reason stop go to another 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 was a political declaration on drug control that the un general assembly dubbed it 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 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 on 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 near in areas of the most intense fighting or where foreign military personnel are stationed where where is this listen to that. david. the nine years of the military operation in afghanistan have demonstrated that the more fighting there is in the country the smaller the chances are of destroying drug

production they're growing alternative crops is a risky proposition of the risks are immense you can lose your crop at any stage opium on the other hand does not require any effort. 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 just 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 medicaid in the crock and then of course afghanistan needs economic aid 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 stand 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 u.s. 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 the several thank you very much for taking your time out of your day to join us thank you.

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afghanistan enters its tenth year making it the longest u.s. military history base year is already the deadliest for nato troops in a decade of conflict. plus the soyuz spacecraft arrives at the international space station after friday's blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome the crew of two russian cosmonauts. sports with. thanks for joining us this is sports today and i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering at this hour. international relations that weekend zero 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 all feel more freaks into. let's get going with football and after friday's action suffered a saw 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 will certainly close in tel aviv or israel and korea sure were both seeking to stretch their own records it was the visionaries whoever made the breakthrough albeit somewhat controversially is really defender dekel keane and a judge who failed to show signature in the area with nico crunch are them stepping up to comfort from the spot on thirty six minutes one will. double that advantage

five minutes later. showing. this work 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 this effort whoever that was to be their highlight creation took it to one. top with just a point separates the leading five. elsewhere on the night france left it late but still look up sunday morning looking down on the rest of the group de lauro. beating romania to. you know what goals coming from substitutes louis chia remy. after the chair model of francis builds 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 it does start to pay off those that we have to give 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 japanese ground free from pole that'll 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 on to the final podium place was an action packed race in suzuka with accidents of plenty including for russian hopeful batali petroff who crushed died on the very first love the end of it all it's webber who holds a fourteen point lead with a long two seconds tied on points with fettled missed thirty three races for me in this 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 supreme or bernie ecclestone says the deal is ready it just needs to be signed the britain adding he's in if the country's chief sorry the truck won't be in moscow with those out on

are too salty with a twenty fourteen start date that's the same year the city they spoke to the winter olympics money could be the stumbling block their license to host an f one race is expected to cost less than the forty million u.s. dollars 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 magnificent seven for world number one the rough. well the japan open on sunday the spaniard sure to 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 on able 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 carlo before securing three straight grand slam titles. wimbledon on the us open. ok that brings us from rockets to clubs on john park to stroke lead the summit ahead of the final round of the dunhill links championship the spotlight though it's also shining on this compact with lee westwood who has it all the player for dru's westwood needs a second place finisher better in scotland to surpass tiger woods last world number one thirty seven year old demonstrating plenty of mental toughness finding himself

just five strokes back this might. go 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 me up and comer edged closer to the five hundred and maybe thought in prize money. money that. the third kontinental hockey league season continues to have an unusual look about it with a plethora of heavyweights sure willing to face. in their first saying no such problems though for metallic magnitogorsk. they make up the top three of the table top capital dwellers making a statement by pouring in five goals in a win over another on to achieving that status and petersburg all but wanted 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 sport's

a clear spark with the device handily beating bottom two other officials for two. coaching milosz is rumored to be one of the c.s.k. meanwhile this seventeenth ranked army man certainly needing something extra as the last two ranked 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 from england to an overall leaders just really done with the virus which led to speculation that 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 in the press i she just doctor has also been in touch with the doctors of the australian team and all agreed that the

problems are having. shows. not from water but could be caused by a number of. things. we have heard reports that the. the incidents 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 chopper version to be precise welcome to sunday river in maine the face of the series skills for this event speed poise strength of the lights a woman as you can find and in fact the competitors here actually have to be more of just male and female fifteen teams in all taking part with the sony and the estonian pari by far the most. make two hundred seventy yards of.

water traps proving challenging to say the least the end of it all it was locals that rocco andre also kim was cold the race to victory to win is receiving seven hundred fifty dollars six cases of beer and a ticket to the world championships in. stuff that is all the sport but if you need more to log on to our team dot com forward slash sport i'll see you soon the weather itself next. imagine your life onto the big city. the friendly. crystal clear water. soft. organic food. living in harmony with nature. sounds

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