and to the rocket these two russian crewmates everyone went to it's only twenty minutes to go until the launch one brother is on the ground the others preparing for glass to the for they both know firsthand what they're counting down to not watch his brother fly away into space the trip he'd made three times him self. it's 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 him 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 tuesday but just like his brother mark doesn't want to be too sentimental it's going to be a busy busy fly but you know to get a chance to do that with my brother is a great opportunity scott and marc on celebrity twenty knots or so yet but it'll be a uniquely human moment when the hatch door the siblings meet in space tom bottomed potty. when a recap of the week's top stories is coming up in just

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to the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a cause a report. from if you live from the russian capital this is r t twenty four hours a day top stories now this up the polls have closed in kurdistan connections which follow a year of instability and violence the result will see less of a president a more friend peace as a country strives to become the first parliamentary democracy in central asia. mourners are gathered to remember the victims of the plane crash which killed the polish president six months ago in the russian city. ninety six people died in the tragedy clearly many of potence top officials. roundup of the week the war

in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it one of the longest in u.s. military history as he is already the deadliest nato troops in a decade of conflict. war torn afghanistan remains the world's largest exporter of opium with over a third of it ending up in russia and russia's counter narcotics chief explain to r.t. just why the war on drugs is not being one that's our special interview coming your way shortly. today we're talking to the head of russia's dog 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 to talk about the roads or the countries to which the drug trade flows into russia. 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 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 you can stand and kazakstan and onward to russia another part goes through iran across the caspian sea and the caucasus ridge and ends up. 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 afghanis depend on their livelihood on these fields by producing the opiates what can be done about it this is their solution to the problem. 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 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 here double standards here where

they can solve the problem in one country and can not solve the problem in another country for some reason. 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 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 in 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. 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 if you can lose your profit any station or opium on the other hand does not require any effort 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 just hold rainbow to 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 u.n. mandate and therefore has assumed responsibility for the future of afghanistan should play very active role in our medicating the crocker 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 one hundred 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 edges 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 yield 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 was it because thought of this week in the pakistan as 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. showbiz that entertainment value of sinful trade presentation high production.

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the polls have closed. for the president. in. gathered to remember the victims of the plane crash which killed the polish president six months ago in the russian city of smolensk ninety six people died in the tragedy including many opponents talk show. roundup of the week the war in afghanistan and its tenth year make it one of the longest in u.s. troops to assume it's already the deadliest for nato troops in the decade cold.

well up more in these and plenty of other stories in just under fifteen minutes from now next though we have with all the latest from the world of sport. hello and welcome to the sports update on our t.v. good to have you with us and here is what's coming up in the program. to boston to tell reignites his world championship hopes with an emphatic victory japanese grand prix. going into the us a finally wins after coming back from injury but it's hard and secure is the ultimate prize in malaysia. and big in japan rafael nadal storms to his. face. now let's kick off with the latest in formula one west of boston to tell is back in the

championship shake up after winning the japanese grand prix from pole on sunday it was an action packed race to go with accidents aplenty including four russian hopeful vitaly petrov of renault crashed out on the very first lap and at the end of it all it was a tell all that red bull want to finish with mark webber and second fernando alonso who was seeking a third straight victory walked onto the final podium place in the overall driver's standings webber now holding fourteen point advantage over. points with. three races to remain at the. start which was obviously the key from the clean side and we could see robot that was we've got a bit of momentum but the way down to turn one was too short for him and then with the safety car which was quite quite long obviously with the incident with could be carpet then. i think both of us were able to pull away from the field and then just controlling the pace some through the end there was a little bit of

a rest behind jenson because we couldn't really go through him so we had to wait until he pits but after that just. incredible so really really happy and it's about time. meanwhile russia looks to be on the brink of landing its first f one race the sports supreme bernie ecclestone say as the deal is ready and just needs to be signed by britain adding he is in the country's chiefs are the track won't be in the moscow region on a ghost so she with a twenty fourteen start date. that's the same as the city plays host to the winter olympics however money could be the stumbling block the license to host an f one race is expected to cost russia no less than fourteen million u.s. dollars half the price tag with the country also in the running to host the twenty eight world football finals. all and to move to the now where defending champion valentino rossi and not just his first win since the opening day of the season but

that didn't stop or heal around so from securing his first overall title with one race still to go the spaniard only needed a top ten finish in malaysia to inherit the crown from his team mate rossi of course missed a good part of the season with a leg injury leaving. lorenzo's serious rival but he went down with a broken collarbone during last week's japanese grand prix leaving good part of the year for his fellow spaniard process started six slowed down to vote but worked his way back to the lead on that the answer seemed happy to settle for a top three finish making los a and andrea davis you also have to fight for it with a dog that snatching the big three. have to thank you my team for the great job you have to thank you for these seventy odd anyway that i come to defeated by land and they have to going to meet your good for the championship. so is a great champion and in the future we would be i was really blessed to be in the

film. not to lose any. of the race you know. when the stylist lady in the i thought it was a we we had to finish the race and hang it there maxime on how right it can get you know what it's like a war soul believes my happiest day in my life and we have to salute the. all to tell us now where it was a case of magnificent seven for world number one rafael nadal at the japan open on sunday the spaniard should to be on the lookout for a bigger trophy cabinet off to wrapping up his seventh title of the year in turkey a frenchman able to hold an adult superb run of form dropping just one set the goal advancing. with six one one face produced a little more in the second but the dallas was about forty three

a title slip away six one seven five the final score the twenty four year old completed a sweep of twenty fourth advance in madrid rome and moved to call of the season before securing three straight grassland titles after a long go elsewhere. so. much with my bag and world with mormons with very good. for the big day for me it was one of. my best matches. of the people of my mom's the five let's move on to. qualify as including the increasingly tough battle group af it will certainly close in tel aviv where israel and gratian were both seeking to strange their own beaten records it was the visitors who made the breakthrough crime charge on the spot and thirty six minutes after israeli defend to kill canaan found more niche and they

doubled that advantage five minutes later with told them scrunch our story the second day israel netted a stunning second haul film from the thai chef turned but that was to be this highlight for a chef too good to want to move to all but just a point separates the leading fly that. elsewhere throngs left it late but still woke up sunday morning looking down on the rest of group d. they're all blondes challenged. beating romania to deal with goals coming from substitutes me and. after the turmoil of france's build up the relief well being on top to seal the words. we are creating something we get on together pretty well so we don't start of. we have to keep the same state of mind these are delicate times we're well aware of that before the time be appreciating the moments of pleasure. time now in championship contender. for the

first regulation loss of the season at the hands of you on sunday for three was the final score in the fall with the visitors scoring four announcer goals in the second period after would be able to get three points. without exam that is his second late in the game for the way in dr as new coach of our lady bill also if not able to get the team back on winning track in his debut the man going down five two at home to on guard and when that morris could be barry so with the same scoreline and they are now eight points clear of life on top of the eastern conference. to the commonwealth games where there's been yet small complaints in india swimmers say the main pool has spread a bog among the athletes although organizers say tasks have shown there is nothing wrong with the water over a dozen athletes from england and overly does australia came down with

a virus which led to speculation the pool was to blame the woman who won the main one had been given the all clear even though it was not organizers to suggest the story was exaggerated by the press. she just doctor has also been in touch with the doctors of australia. and all agreed the problems being. and if he shows it it. is not from water but could be caused by a number of. things. we have heard reports that the. incidents not as widespread as reported. and finally one of the most bizarre spectacles on the sporting calland wife carrying the eleventh north american championship to be precise welcome to sunday revived made us say the less serious kills for base about speed voice strength and as lighter moment as you can find in

fact the competitors here don't actually have to be married to just male and female fifty teams in the whole taking part with this so named is stoney and kerry by far the most popular took me two hundred seventy eight yards over brewing for slate you wait we want to traps proving challenging to say the least and at the end of it all it was locals well quadrilogy on the wasco who raced to victory the winners receiving seven hundred fifty dollars seven cases of beer and a ticket to do well championships and the phone lines. for the moment stay tuned for the weather update coming up shortly. wealthy british style stock.

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