really dangerous the beginning of the raids and coming through the window it was pretty exciting but the minute that you get inside the reality of the situation really hits you very hard you've got a young family. flying around the house next door a young child and a mother who looks barely more than a child herself both extremely scared and upset and it really makes it very apparent just how sensitive this issue is. should people be able to do this walking into homes and taking the law into their own hands. that it's an action which is cruel is it's wrong to rescue a drowning person by pulling their here if people say it's cruel and inhumane let them teach us how to do it otherwise we work twenty four seven to help these people when the state isn't doing anything we're aware of to be initiative that the authorities didn't quite see it that way the twenty three year old man yeager bites curve and several other members of the group using the same methods in the city of

national to gil were arrested a move which was met with strong public criticism. this chap igor carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate was half to the gypsies are afraid to sell drugs and consequently don't bribe your thora who's clearly the authorities there didn't like that the court handed down a three and a half year prison sentence for kidnapping the verdict has sparked a public outcry with people claiming it's simply a victory for the drug dealers i sincerely believe that the trial and the verdict against your garbage off are the most dangerous and frightening events in russia it's not only a man who's been convicted it's a man who is really trying to change something in this life to make life better or despite the public reaction the relationship between the authorities and the group is a fragile one. the first deputy minister of internal affairs once told me your

biggest problem is that you have a human the function of the state and i said i don't need to take it back and do what's necessary. the foundation has continued its fight in the face of what it says is a lack of government action it would probably normally that people have to take the problem personally to understand that these people or their brothers and sisters and that unless they do it nobody will do it for them. when we visited the rehabilitation center that's run by the great there is no evidence of the controversial techniques such as handcuffing addicts to beds which the group has been accused of by human rights groups and the authorities the doors are locked in the conditions are crammed but the group claims a seventy percent success rate its tough treatment appears to be working with my mother so it's six years of drug addiction had done to me and turned to the foundation for help it's hard but you can see how the people are here they talk to

each other there's an atmosphere of friendship which helps you through rushes in the grip of a major drug squad he says with an unofficial estimate of two and a half million drug addicts in the country almost two percent of the population and until probably measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitating users as well people like genya and the foundation's say that it's left to them to stand and fight to free their city of drugs sara fair r.t. catarrh emberg earlier i spoke to sarah first to find out more about the center that she visited. not a luxury place we the main area where they treat it you had essentially over fifty people in one room was quite conditions and they kept there for around initially. just fed bread and water and very basic feed also essentially going cold turkey. to the people of both going through the treatment at the time and come three

managed to get clean now meet them with their lives they said it's incredibly hard i mean quiting a drug addiction is never going to be easy actually this huge support network that they have here and the fact that they're all in it together really is very very helpful you got people in this in a situation t. and that's really a very positive thing for them you mention the drugs raise them in are actually forced to go then to these three places they are yes it is a volunteer last time because the people like the rate that we went on the people that we saw. when they're in the grips of drug addiction are of the not particularly capable of making logical decisions themselves say for the raid that we went on. they trained the persons parents and asked the parents they've given the option whether the person was arrested or whether they're taken into this rehabilitation center and helped. to correspondents.

or public anger has led the russian president urged prosecutors to pay more attention to communities who are getting tough on reading their towns of drugs dmitri medvedev was meeting rock musicians who told him the need to take a wider view of people trying to do the right thing. it is impossible that the guy will be in prison is done nothing wrong. you said this i heard you. i'm asking to pay more attention to what is going on there. unbiased without interfering into the trial in order to avoid a conflict with the law. anyway if the situation is like you're saying it needs attention. but a few minutes we take you to start she wear a limp construction is progressing in the same bounds as the international olympic committee we follow them on their latest progress toward check on the two thousand and fourteen winter games. plus worming its way to cram in the ice cream section

now one russian governor unexpected companion. the first civilian trial of a gone time a detainee has begun in the u.s. the decision to try to terror suspects in manhattan do a fierce media backlash with new yorkers concerned about security and the heightened emotions it could cause as a tease and to see explains things in a remarkably quiet. the main problem isn't security and problems on the head no no how many intelligence secrets will we surrender during this process we were terrorists are on us soil that's not the point we'll get to spew all kinds of anti american propaganda because that's what's going to happen well i'm an oracle a shockingly relaxed atmosphere outside the federal courthouse in lower manhattan especially when a case of such significance is going on this place has seen some of the most publicized scandals of the last two years this is where bernie made off with

centers for over a century this is where the curious case of the russian special agents unraveled this entire street was packed with t.v. satellite trucks and dozens and dozens of crews ready to bring their viewers all of the latest and now one for the first time at one time to move detainees being tried in a criminal court of justice in the u.s. none of the media hype is here. as the decision whether or not to try terror suspects on u.s. soil was being made in the u.s. mainstream media was out of control with outrage they were saying this is unacceptable and that terror suspects should be tried in military tribunals now on the first day of the trial there's only a couple of lonely journalists here with not much enthusiasm to find out what's really going on inside the courtroom. one of the biggest concerns of the mainstream media profits is that thousands of policemen would be needed to provide security in the area and that billions and billions of dollars would be wasted on policemen

floating around the globe to be able to make sure that nothing goes wrong but clearly you know obviously that is far from reality another big arguments against terror suspects including guy lonnie being tried here was that there would be lots of traffic which clearly is not the case and that's the neighborhood the locals living here would be worried concerned and bothered are they let's find out you know that a terror suspect is being tried in the courthouse right near you know. for sure. does it bother you that this is happening on u.s. soil. you know does it bother you do you know that a terror suspect is being tried in this courthouse right here. right now do you know that a terror suspect being tried in the court now three years you know does it bother you does it concern you that this is going on right here you know i'm influenced by the attempts to hide them up with fear mongering the locals are not facing any of the issues predicted by the media going about business as usual is that you're

going out partying new york. well there's always more online called the here's a taste of columbus the conqueror why native americans say there is nothing to celebrate explorers discovery. than putting your session to bed moscow hotel bookings for ten to pre-crisis levels suggesting the economic downturn could be taking them to last. nearly one in aid to british households has no one in work according to a study that ranks the u.k. as the worst among the biggest e.u. countries part of the blame is being put on a welfare system that means the unemployed coming better off on benefits but is there any reports even though the government wants to force people off welfare to

work the jobs just aren't there. once the seat of an empire now the holder of an unwanted unemployment accolade new figures reveal the u.k. has the highest number of households in any of the e.u. these largest economies in which no one works it amounts to over eleven percent of homes long term unemployment is growing as a proportion of total unemployment but a bigger problem is perhaps hidden from the official unemployment statistics and that is the proportion of workers households in britain so one of six of all children for example for example grew up in workless households which is the highest figure in europe are some measure of thirty nine year old sondra hey has never had a job she had her first child at sixteen and went on to have three more none of the fathers is around saundra gets the equivalent of more than twenty thousand dollars a year in benefits but she says it's barely enough to stay afloat doing anything.

just to stay. the course can't go anywhere that do anything where the kids are grown up and well most painful well about far past. when i was there so also gets incapacity benefit because of a problem with her legs she admits that many people less able than her do go out to work but the country's generous benefits system means it's often more lucrative to stay at home than to get a job critics of that system also say the dependency culture is passed from one generation to the next saundra is a grandmother at thirty nine with the state paying for her granddaughter's nursery care while her daughter goes to college she talks of the moment she found out her daughter was pregnant at seventeen. because you just got a question. last you'll keep asking me what we're going to do you want to.

oh i think it's a cycle that the cash strapped coalition government is trying hard to break as it tries to save money but that's a tricky balancing act between protecting the vulnerable and not allowing people to take advantage of the system with a mixture of carrot and stick the conditionality is that if you don't accept a reasonable job offer it's got to be the case that you can't go claiming benefits and have every other taxpayer picking up the bill the government is taking steps to address the problem of the long term unemployed by restricting the amount of benefits that any one family can claim and making more rigorous tests and checks on people who want incapacity allowance but many of the people those reforms are aimed at have never worked and the big question is in a crisis hits economic climate it's all there any jobs for them to go. your advocates. tough talks are ahead for serbia as u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton is that the country's leaders to open reconciliation with its breakaway territory of course of its just one of the faces on its way to european union membership here with clinton dining the carrot of membership as part of her tour for arriving in belgrade mrs clinton visited where she also charges the country's minority to embrace political reform use of society . to stop the story they tell was their enemy supporting their opponents three hundred ninety three on the right. the first two. european. european countries i'm talking of course about the nato bombing of ninety ninety nine. but there were also born the republicans so obscure in boston you know so they've clearly taken sides in what has been a civil war and an ethnic conflict so they're not seen as some so far as benevolent

power there but what the u.s. wants is to control the region money its resources they have build the largest military base in europe in the province of course it will also in boston and herzegovina they've taken over the former yugoslav military airport. and by the way have already used it in there was against iraq and afghanistan. there are echoes of the past seven historian a boy shema that he's the u.s. is now serbia exactly what it did a decade ago to bosnia i would quoted this occasion the words of former representative tom lantos who's passed away a few years ago but back in two thousand and seven during a hearing at the state hungers with a sigh see apartment officials he was saying that the hardest of all colors and hues in the world need to take note that we are once again creating as an islamic

state in the heart of europe he was referring to kosovo but the once again was an unmistakable reference to bosnia i think the united states tried to create a client state in bosnia that would compensate for the conflicts with the muslim world elsewhere and they could point to it and say look here's a country in which we help the muslims you should be grateful to us it hasn't really worked well so far but they refused to acknowledge a mistake. well turning to some other international news now let's start with the dramatic live pictures from chile and young preston to the rescue operation on the way to think of miners who can stop six hundred meters underground for two months and a smile of just one team has become the fifth to reach the surface they've been greeted with loud cheers and tearful reunions with their fathers this one is being given protective grasses and taken to hospital the miners are being brought to the surface for a twenty one inch wide capsule let's bring one miner every. aerial

photos of the reservoir that's left swathes of underage covered in toxic sludge sure it was leaking before last week's fatal burst is now thought inspectors missed a vital warning signs and gave the city the all clear disaster here with eight people injured and one hundred for a torrent of poisonous red wastes through a town with a retaining wall gateway. but then pick officials say russia can be proud of the progress that's being made the two thousand and fourteen winter games in sochi event is still a few years off but the groundwork is well underway as i.o.c. has been discovering. this with the. members of the i.o.c. coordination commission are frequent visitors here in sochi they prefer to see for themselves how things are going and how this southern russian city is preparing for the big sporting events besides the mountain cluster where the olympic games will be held part of the competitions will be also at the coastal cluster in the.

members of the sea had a chance to see for themselves whether things are going according to plan. suchi can be proud of great success in the following areas marketing operational planning education environmental protection and of course sporting facilities and infrastructure as we've been witnessing change in the city in the hold the region where the olympic projects are already beginning to take shape. it's a very important period for the organizers so those who participate in this massive construction effort in just a few months and the winter of two thousand and eleven they will be testing come petitions it's a massive plan seventy four sporting events to test the olympic venues there's also a big concern among the organizers among the sports fans whether sochi will have enough snow and whether there will be sufficient weather conditions to hold the winter olympic games in this particular subtropical area but that's the organizers have plan b. if there will be problems with natural snow part of the project is dedicated to

artificial snow production also they are planning to make special storage as for natural snow. dinner at the kremlin usually offers some of the finest cuisine for those lucky enough to attend its receptions but a recent banquet included an unexpected source of protein when a word appeared on one v.i.p. diners plate it was the governor of the central russian very german who found the added extra incentive to interception for the german president the government wasn't expecting to share his meal posted to twitter a picture of the worm enjoy a salad that was later deleted he said at least the salad was fresh. stephanie joins us now with the business news and promised a putin is hinting he will give incentives to regions in russia that help clear the way from investment yes he has but he's also stressed that administer to barriers to come down in business russian companies really have to cooperate with the government i'll have more in just

a moment but first america's silicon valley founders suggest taking government out and that russian startups grow through private money they fear the state will choke rather than help innovators but the country's high tech start tells business r.t. they should be careful what they wish for and a bushel reports. the investors who built california's silicon valley have come to help russia create its own but they're worried it's state driven need mcchrystal to be to medvedev the whole idea about venture capital is you take government out of the equation and you leave it up to the entrepreneur so i think that's definitely something that will be front and center of their minds when they're making investment decisions the man running high tech conglomerate ross non-elect russia is different should have a very special situation where you cannot introduce an operation by decree but at the same time in russia you cannot and don't use them without the degree so there's a grant of the russian mr both ways can work state funds into

a truck and make of fleet management software known as telematics to russia's first venture i.p.o. to get private making the young founders very rich indeed started as a group of students which was. impaired by the telematics war was about to be a russian measure company which believe that idea and gave us money to make his business from site of moscow the site of the whole country. into south and was that it's thinking worldwide wednesday there are a lot of emerging markets where our products were competitive and were made just for go we rode the states will fund the least home of the six billion dollar coast of russia silicon valley currently under construction in school new mosco but there are signs the california delegation is starting to influence on monday school could

achieve. good miltiades this project will only be successful if hundreds of independent companies join the new business ulti. question regions which improve the investment climate could be rewarded with incentives including lowering taxes and administrative barry is the promise of government putin says for red tape to be slashed businesses in the country need to pay fat. i want to reiterate that improving the business climate is a two way street the business community contribute as much as the state towards a favorable business climate this is about obeying the law and meeting one's commitments consciously rejecting grace schemes and not just because you could get caught but because cheating consumers and your employees are not paying taxes is wrong. question ministers and foreign businessmen have been discussing how to make the country more enterprise friendly and meeting in moscow let

a range of industries voice their concerns and ideas. we worked through a number of issues in terms of investment climate legal opportunity resolution of differences but it was a very very positive conversation that allows us this investors to work with the government timber solving in making opportunities for investment and first up the prime minister took the opportunity to reveal details about the upcoming privatization of state assets. we've drafted the plan. in two thousand and ten and submitted it to the prime minister who has agreed that the sale could go through by the end of the year if the situation is good the sale could fetch at least three billion dollars will approve in the next few weeks a list of tens of fifteen companies in which states will be privatized the volume of privatisation will be so high that we'll be able to compete for international capital. on that take

a quick look at how the equity markets are doing in tokyo the nikkei has replied it's like a void pyrites on wall street overnight and for intel the world's largest chip maker gains happen limited by a strong yen a fifteen year high to the dollar and the russian than half a cent higher this hour echoing that output trend in purple markets energy may just by the leading the gains and raising the previous sessions. forming on my six ninety point nine percent approve. the french government has vowed to press ahead with the landmark country reforms despite massive street protests the biggest in decades and open ended strikes faced with huge budget deficits and sluggish growth the french government says the over who is essential to solve the country's financial problems. a possible joint venture between russia's biggest commercial transport maker the gads group and volkswagen maybe agreed earlier than expected as

has been looking for a partner to develop its car making operation and volkswagen wants to increase production beyond its major plant in kaluga southwest of moscow and had expected to conclude a deal by the end of the year but the head of gas group believes it could happen earlier. it's still too early but i think that we we will be able to finalize those deal in the next month or so for that's all the business news for this hour we've got a lot more coverage for you online at. slash business. culture

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the hour here in the russian capital time after the headlines the head of a russian foundation has been jailed for using tough treatment techniques but has many supporters say he's a cheap currency so failed that his methods results. often media panic of antonino trials were held in right now to the first detainees appearing in court the hype over security of the same problems has failed to materialize things it's a story on the back burner. and one in eight british households has one they can make a the worst and the nation's a generous welfare system is being blamed for keeping an employee better off on

benefits. but next. guests look at how global english language news channels are changing the international media landscape and why that's worrying the us government. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and . hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the battle of the airwaves new and alternative media outlets are challenging the dominance of traditional heavyweights in all languages why are viewers looking for alternative news reporting and in how is this challenging the media empire. to keep.