taking part in law enforcement officers the raid has been organized by a vigilante style greek name ansel's city without narcotics this is a drug called as a morphine or locally known as crocodile it's a codeine containing drug and 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 this situation really hits 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. it's an action which is cruel as 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. the authorities didn't quite see it that way the twenty three year old man yegor bites curve and several other members of the group using the same methods in the city of new to gil were arrested a move which was met with strong public criticism. igor carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate is half the good 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 of people claiming it's simply a victory for the drug dealers i sincerely believe that the trial and the verdict against syria gorbachev are the most dangerous and frightening events in russia. it's not only our mom who's been convicted it's

a mom who is really trying to change something in this life to make life better despite the public reaction the relationship between the authorities and the grape is a fragile one. the first deputy minister of internal affairs once told me your biggest problem is that you are the function of the state and i said i don't need to take it back and do what's necessary for the foundation has continued its fight in the face of what it says is a lack of government action. it is that people have to take the problem personally i understand that these people or their brothers and sisters and that unless they do it nobody will do it for them because. when we visited the rehabilitation center that is run by the group 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 and the conditions are crammed but

the group claims a seventy percent success rate it's 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 say that it's left to them to stand and fight to free their city of drugs so airfare r.t. catarrh emberg. or sara spoke to my colleague carrie johnston about the center see visited when reporting on extreme rehab techniques. not a luxury place we the main area where they treated you had essentially over fifty

people in one room was quite conditions and they kept there for rounds and initially. just fed bread and water and very basic feeds also essentially going cold turkey and. we spoke to people who both going through the treatment at the time and come three and managed to get and have now moved on with their lives they said it's incredibly hard i mean quiting a drug addictions never going to be easy but 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 a lot of addicts actually forced to go then to these three places they are yes it is a volunteer last time because the people like the raid that we went on the people that we saw. when they're in the grips of drug addiction are obviously 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. here with our t.v. live from moscow still to come for you the benefit of being out of work in britain . and i'm not doing anything. i'm just i just am given everything. by welfare is the easy option for the one in eight households would prefer state handouts to earning their own way. the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee has begun in the u.s. the decision to try the terrorist suspect in manhattan drew a fierce media black backlash with new yorkers concerned about security and heightened emotions it could cause but as large as an associate churkin explained think of now are 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 were terrorists were on us soil that's not the point we 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 meet 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 when for the first time a one ton of the 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 the us 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 fluttering 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 a lot 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 though do you know that a terror suspect is being tried in this courthouse right here. right now do you know that a terrorist suspect being tried in this courthouse or here you know does it bother you does it concern you that this is going on right here no uninfluenced by the attempts to hike them up with fear mongering the locals are not facing any of the issues predicted by the media going about business as usual and if that future cannot party new york. well later in the program peter the valves cross-talk gas look at whether the mainstream media's iron grip on audiences is being irreversibly loosened as people head elsewhere for headlines. that's the fundamental question here whether we think journalism that is underwritten by corporations is a threat versus whether we think journalism underwritten by foreign governments is a threat i think both raise some legitimate concerns but right now we're seeing

this flora sharing environment online and offline where alternatives are available to people and i think americans are wondering why they can't tune into these channels on their television screen not just to foreign governments intervening into american news affairs but also non-government organizations like we clearly expect the voice that they're projecting is one that is a threat to american national security or even combative to the american government's near a chip. if you like. well russia says it's setting no conditions in getting relations with britain back on track but both sides admit there are still issues in the way of bringing the two closer together the british foreign secretary has been holding top level talks here

in moscow because he knows a lot of is following william hague's visit for our team. it doesn't didn't seem that the two sides have basically agreed to disagree one of the major issues that throws a shadow over relations between moscow and london is of course the case of. a former k.g.b. officer who was poisoned by a radioactive substance and then just a few years that believes that meat suspect in the case plays russian state the ship deputy of the rebels he has been used to extradition to britain in order to stand trial despite the numerous evidence that they have presented to russia to the russian side or to the russian side maintaining the fact that the evidence that the british side has presented is not conclusive and basically the situation remains at us. standstill both sides reiterating the fact that they will continue to work together maintaining of course. the word within the how to build varies a lot more doors of those kind of trees believe me in first place so nothing much

has got such easy for the city and the situation as it seems that both sides may tell us the order was made as a result accepted but of course many different aspects of the relations that aren't as complicated were discussed including corporation in afghanistan combat in drug trafficking increasing bilateral trade and establishing closer cultural ties all those areas are where relations between moscow and london flourish and both sides seem to intent on increasing not operation. to get more reaction from brian patel who secretary of the bow group a center right thing tank in london and thanks for joining us mr patel firstly britain and russia continue to agree to disagree on belligerent yankel case we seem to have lost brian there very sorry for that hopefully we will join him later and will of course have you more more about rather on our website for you we're going to move on for now nearly one in eight british households has no one in work

according to a study that ranks 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 can be better off on benefits but as our laurie amid reports even though the government wants to force people off welfare and onto work the jobs aren't just 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 by some measure 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 sandra 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 with the kids growing up and well most painful well of art far past. when elsewhere so andrea 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. to have a say because she just got a course in college and soon and which are pregnant last year and keep asking me what we're going to do on a wilder already. 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. and stick the conditionalities that if you don't accept a reasonable job it's got to be the case that you can't go quite in benefits now that every other tax payer 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 have never worked and the big question is in a crisis hits economic climate it's all there any jobs for them to go. nowhere and that's. let's turn now to some other international news this hour we start with chile where the other half of them to the rescue operation continues to free the miners who've been stuck six hundred meters underground for over two months sixty three year old mario gomez the oldest of the trapped workers has just become the ninth which the surface well after tearful reunions with their families the miners are being taken to hospital where their undergo thorough physical and psychological test the operation has been going better than anticipated with the rescue men not requiring extra medical attention officials also say they're managing to speed up the process of raising the minimum of the. aerial photos of the reservoir that's left swabs of hungry covered in toxic sludge so it was leaking before last week's

fatal burst is not thought inspectors missed vital warning signs and gave the facility the all clear the disaster has now claimed nine lives and injured over one hundred when a torrent of poisonous red waste swept through a town with a retaining wall gave way. on back officials say russia can be proud of the progress that's being made for the twenty four thousand winter games in sochi the event is still a few years off but the groundwork is well underway as the i.o.c. has been discovering our team's gems below its. 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 event besides the mountain cluster with the olympic games will be held part of the competition this 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. you 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 for those who participate in this massive construction effort in just a few months and the winter of two thousand and eleven there 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 just for

natural snow. check in now at the business desk or in the mccann joins us now i understand there is some news about upcoming talks between gas from an romanian official the boss of gas from has just arrived in romania to negotiate the country's participation in the south stream gas project now the visit is also a veiled message to go garrett which has been demanding step terms for allowing the pipeline to cos its territory they don't really call reports from another south stream participant turkey on the latest twist and turns pipeline politics. turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe latte it's a business bridge like position but with asia and europe which makes it and they're really not for rival international interests. the man battle his for the southern energy corridor to supply gas to europe bypassing the

current transit country ukraine the main pipelines in the running other gas from south stream project and the book are backed by the u.s. and e.u. and there are other smaller project turkey's and the region minister says the country is ready to accommodate all of them. implementing one project doesn't mean that we can so another one has the capacity to develop each and every project because consumers need it there is demand we should think not only about today when there is a global crisis we should think about two thousand and fifteen two thousand and twenty when demand will increase even then it may be too much gas for europe analysts say some projects will likely be abandoned in the race to build new pipelines russia is trying hard to come first securing gas and customers analysts say we meaning turkey is agreement to lay the south stream through turkish waters came at a cost russia will have to invest have to three billion dollars into some soon or

you pipeline strategically important. for turkey a big question is what will be the price because now we see that first of all turkey wants russia to invest my it to some subject and project it's the first benefit and the first part of this payment the second phase is the thrust turkey wants to change the details of our guest. was to have more cheap gas from russia in the byzantine world of pipeline politics russia will have to offer something in exchange for the support of all the countries in long the pipeline route this week gas from chief alexei miller is visiting both guerin and romance to discuss delivery of russian gas and the future of the south stream pipeline project. business r.t. istanbul. let's have a look at how the equity markets are performing european shares are high on wednesday commodities stocks are leading the party higher that follows positive

economic data from asia and the prospect of further stimulus for the u.s. economy from the federal reserve is posting investor sentiment lilias are among the top gainers as copperheads twenty seven long time. here in moscow the russian abortions are both around one percent higher echoing upward trends and global markets energy majors and banks are leading the gains in raising the previous sessions losses for a bank is outperforming on the mind six and the r.t.s. one point four percent like the small. russian bear bank will hold the road show for swiss franc eurobonds next week it aims to raise several hundred million dollars in new finance in sydney and gazprom bank havisham euro bonds denominated and swiss francs. as bank says the government should sell a stake in russia's biggest lender on the stock market and not directly to a strategic investor bank's deputy says tapping equity investors would stimulate the banking sector. the airline transair or has postponed its i.p.o.

until two thousand. according to reuters russia's second largest airline had planned to raise two hundred million dollars this year. the bank of moscow has increased its net profit thirty seven times during the first nine months of two thousand and ten year on year the improvement was primarily thanks to the post crisis recovery and successful operations in the financial markets recently did future of the bank came under scrutiny due to its due to its affiliation with the moscow government headed by dismissed where you really felt. playmakers says it's on course to deliver its first super jet line at this year the company says it's in talks with lufthansa and al italia about orders but the first plane will go to armenians are my idea talking to aircraft brokers in munich so far is representative said russia's first major passenger jet since the collapse of the soviet union has so far one hundred fifty two orders. so of the leading

lights of california's silicon valley say the russian government should stay out of high tech business if either state will choke robin help innovators but the country's high tech czar tells business r.t. they should be careful what they wish for than a bushel has more. the investors who built california's silicon valley have come to help russia create its own but they're worried it's state driven little more trees didn't need to medvedev the whole idea by 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 conglomerates ross nano. is different because we're a special situation where you cannot introduce innovation by decree but at the same time in russia you can love and use them without the degree of this agreement of the russian mission for both ways can work states funds helps to

a truck and took a fleet management software known as telematics in russia's first venture i.p.o. took it 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. and then it was that it's thinking worldwide wednesday there are a lot of emerging markets where our products were competitive and were made just for gold road the states will fund the least home of the six billion dollar coast of russia's silicon valley currently under construction in school new mosco but there are signs the california delegation is starting to influence on monday school

committee fictive a good meeting this project will only be successful if hundreds of independent companies join the new business altie. as all the business is for now join me at twenty past the hour for more that's what. culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make it a lot of people

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crosstalk is coming up here in our chain but first let's check in on headlines the head of a russian anti-narcotics foundation has been jailed for using tough treatment techniques there's many supporters say he's achieved where the authorities have failed and that has not got results. after years of frosty anglo russian relations britain's foreign secretary comes to moscow as both sides bid to build bridges relations between the two countries have been especially strained since the murder of a former k.g.b. officer in london three years ago. and after the media panic over guantanamo trials being held in manhattan the first detainee is appearing in court but the hype over

security and policing troubles has failed to materialize as mainstream news outlets put the story on the back burner. also one in eight british households has no one in work making the u.k. the worst among the major e.u. nations a generous welfare system is being blamed for keeping the unemployment and employed rather better off on benefits. up next peter lavelle's crosstalk guest look at how global english language news channels are changing the international media landscape and why that's worrying the u.s. government. and.