contact to give the signal suddenly everybody is up and running the police are involved but not all taking part in law enforcement officers the raid has been organized by a vigilante style greek name and 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 raisin coming through the window so 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. lying around the house next door a young child and a mother who looks barely more than a child herself extremely scared and upset and it really makes it very apparent just how sensitive this issue. 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 is it 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 all we have to do to be an issue to the authorities didn't quite see it that way when twenty three were caught then is similar methods in the city ignition need to go they were arrested was. the only feeling i have is a disgust for our law enforcement agencies who instead of fighting the drug dealers are fighting an organization which was running a successful anti drug dealing campaign it makes completely no sense it's a crime against our city's population. that techniques such as involuntary we have military enforced by handcuffing attics to their beds have resulted in a three and a half year prison sentence for kidnapping. but in this chap 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 with people claiming it's simply a victory for the drug dealers i sincerely believe that the trial and the verdict against year gorbachev 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 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 is 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 because. when we visited the rehabilitation center that's run by the greeks 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 of crimes that 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 drugs crisis 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 deal is that 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 sara fair r.t. you catch emberg. well as part of her reporting are to sour a further watch the recent drug raids and visited one of the controversial rehabilitation centers she was more about her pressure. no a luxury place we the main area where they treated you had essentially over fifty people in one room was quite crime conditions and they kept there for around a month initially. just fed bread and water and very basic feeds was there essentially going cold turkey. we spoke to people who both going through the treatment at the time and come three managed to get clean and have now moved on with their lives they said it's incredibly hard i mean fighting a drug addiction is never going to be easy but the 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 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 or of the not particularly capable of making logical decisions themselves safe the rate that we went on. they trained the person 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. you get a broom the head of moscow center for the study of drug addiction from a medical point of view the members of city without narcotics used in. yeah. i think the tragedy for this foundation and its rehabilitation centers is

the absence of effective laws which determine the roles of everyone involved what should be the relation between an addict and society it's not clear i don't think the foundation used any medical methods a tool they just said held all those antics and didn't let them go their idea was that an addict should go through suffering and that this pain would prevent them from using drugs in the future but it doesn't work and expect guess about the pain will they remember is the minutes of bliss and all they want is to come back to this condition from a medical point of view it's not a fish and to hold them the method should be complex to practice they use doesn't correspond to any known methods so i'm against the way they did it but at the same time i cannot say anything against their leader igor i think his motives were clear . of public anger is prompting the russian president to respond to his earth prosecutors to pay more attention to communities fighting to rid their town from drugs i mean very different with musicians campaigning for human rights we call

them the war needs to back those trying to do the right thing. it is impossible that the guy will be in prison he has 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. the first a million trial of a terror suspect held at guantanamo bay prison has begun in new york met by lonnie is accused of playing a key role in al qaeda bombings of two mg u.s. embassies in one nine hundred ninety eight and this isn't a hold the trial in manhattan have raised strong concerns about security as r.t. is that a study of turk and i found out the fear seems to have been unfounded. the main problem isn't security same problem on the head no no how many intelligence secrets will we surrender during this process. 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 please 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 a one ton of detainees being tried in a criminal court of justice in the u.s. one of the media hype is here as the decision whether or not to try terror suspects on u.s. soil was being made 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 for everything around them 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 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 here you know. for sure. does it bother you that this is happening on u.s. soil. you know does it bother you you know 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 you know on influenced by the attempts to hype 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 the future cannot party in new york. and here in our team hope on the handouts we report on the benefit of being out of work in britain and how the authorities are trying to weed out the work shy from those we need. and the lack of snow in the sub tropics is a concern for the international and a limp it committee as it praises the pace of preparations for the twenty fourteen sochi winter games. but first the nuclear poisoning of former k.g.b. officer alexander litvinenko is back in the picture his murder in london four years

ago caused a deep strain in relations between russia and the u.k. but british foreign secretary william hague is now in moscow seeking to restore ties between us out of a now reports despite disagreements the two sides are determined to work together. it doesn't did 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 was poisoned by a radioactive substance polonium two ten in london just a few years that britain believes that the main suspect in the cave case a russian state duma jim deputy unbelievable bellboy has been refused extradition to britain in order to stand trial despite the numerous evidence that they have presented to russia to the russian side towards the russian side maintaining the fact that the evidence that the british side has presented is not conclusive and basically the situation remains at a standstill both sides reiterating the fact that they will continue to work

together maintaining of course. the work within our legal stories a lot more laws are going to change going to be made in fourth place so nothing much has got to change that is in those situations and it seems that both sides have used for the moment at least all accepted that fact but of course many different aspects of the relations that aren't as complicated were discussed including call for ation in afghanistan combat in drug trafficking in cruising the 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. brian cattell who is the secretary of the bow group think tank in london says the u.k. needs international partners and russia is an important world player. william hague has recognized that. its foreign policy needs to embrace

a whole host of countries its foreign policy cold just be very strong relations with one or two countries. britain needs to look to emerging world it's all around the world and russia is certainly one very important market of cologne and there are opportunities for british business. and therefore i think there's an element of the new approach which is progress. and another move which says let's agree to disagree these issues are very important but let's cooperate in other areas let's take a look now at some other world news in brief for you this hour the world of course has been glued to the ongoing rescue operation of thirty three chilean miners we've been stuck underground for more than two months sixty three year old mariel gomez the oldest of those trapped has become the ninth to reach the surface their release is not quite the light at the end of the tunnel for the miners they still have to undergo rigorous physical and psychological testing officials say the rescue is

going better than expected in this and the process is going to spread out. italy's foreign minister has announced his country will begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan next summer according to the proposed schedule well over three thousand soldiers will gradually leave ahead of the total withdrawal in twenty four chain the decision comes just days after four italian soldiers were killed in a bomb attack since the start of the afghan campaign in two thousand and four thirty four italian troops have died in action. if you want to a british households has no one in work that's according to a new study critics blame the country's welfare system which often means it's more lucrative to stay at home than find it jump or just more reports. 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.'s 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 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 and 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 out far past. when i was there so andrea also gets incapacity benefits 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 devastating. devastating 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 when wilder we're. 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 stick the conditionalities that if you don't accept a reasonable job offer it's got to be the case that you can't go claim benefits now that 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 who. have never worked and the big question is in a crisis hits economic climate it's all there any jobs for them to go. you are at it. the doors are fourteen winter olympics maybe several years away but russia's preparations for the games have received praise from officials the i.o.c. says it's satisfied with the progress of construction in the black sea resort of sochi which is hosting the event parties and he's below is keeping an eye on the preparations. 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 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 a 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 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 the organizers have a 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. we're going to take a short break here on our team and then we'll get down to business with kareena. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

first. welcome to business news with a queen americana and we go straight to our top story this hour they have gas promise and romania for talks on the route of the south stream gas pipeline that quest is also of a message to bog area which has been demanding stiff terms for along the pipeline to cross its territory simply call reports from another cell string participant turkey the latest twists and turns politics. turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe latte at the business bridge like position but with ajax and europe which makes it and there are enough for rival international interests. the main

battle hands for the south are an energy corridor to supply gas to europe bypassing the current transit country ukraine the main pipelines and the running other gasp from loud sounds jim project and my book are backed by the u.s. and e.u. and there are other smaller projects. minister says the country is ready to talk common it all of them busy implementing one project doesn't mean that we can so another one turkey 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 to 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 weaning turkey is agreement to lay the south stream through turkish waters came at

a cost russia will have to invest after three billion dollars into some soon pipeline strategic. important for turkey 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 day. turkey wants to change our guest contacts. 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 contras along the pipeline fruits this week gas pump chief aleksei miller is visiting belgariad and demand to discuss delivery of russian gas and the future of the south stream pipeline project that's you know because of business r.t. istanbul. now for more details on what's been agreed by gas from

a romania let's cross to our correspondent in the coach and who is out kast from voters here in moscow so what do you know what are the latest developments. well here add gas from todd quarters in moscow many were waiting for some sort of outcome from the wrists and visas are the gazprom sticks exec e.g. if i look say m.l.s. . to you ramani and what with been hearing now is that after the amazing where there are many and governmental officials. russian gas from an to remand entrance gus have signed a letter off in thailand to work out a physicality study over the construction of the south stream gas pipeline project through the territory all for a remand and everything goes so well by the first quarter off a twenty eleven a both a sign might sign a deal over the you put dissipation of roumania of the project meanwhile at this

visit was a some sort of a must that was sound achievable garrett which has been demanding stiff terms of for allowing the pipeline to cross territory and now gosh pramod really needs is the participation of a remand in the project specially when now bulgaria seems to be a last key and after the a recent change the government however it is still a not clear whether the what the bulgaria will be excluded way from the protests a patient in the south stream a gas pipeline project meanwhile of the project is supposed to be finalised by twenty fifteen and today alex to mellow out once again expressed no doubt. that everything will go as a schedule meanwhile there are two countries that represent some a sort of an op. so for this construction pipeline project these

garrett and time and. we will try to bring you more information up from around many as soon as we receive it. thank you medina thank you for the sub it will be definitely closely watching the outcome of these talks and now let's cross over to the equity markets and look at how they are performing european shares are high on wednesday we see commodity stocks leading the footsie all following positive economic data from asia miners are among the top copper hits a twenty seven month shares of fresno rose three point six percent out of the firm reported an increase in the third quarter so over production and gave up on the shelf. and here in moscow the russian forces of both around half a percent high and even trading and as you majors and banks are leading the gains the raising of the previous session is losses bank is outperforming of the line six and a and the r.t.s. one point four percent in the black bucking the trend though is roll sneer that is

losing a quarter of a percent of course. those very says the government should sell a stake in russia's biggest lender on the stock market and not directly to a strategic investor the bank's deputy c.e.o. says tapping equity investors would stimulate the banking sector. the airline trans iroh has postponed its i.p.o. until two thousand and eleven according to reuters russia's second largest airline had planned to raise two hundred million dollars this year. bank of moscow boosted its profit thirty seven times in the first nine months of this year it's cited a recovery from the crisis and profits from trading the bank's main institutional client is the city of moscow. severstal plans to spend almost six and a half billion dollars on investment over the next four years now the stupid uso will inject seventy percent into russian mills and twelve. space males and also

expand its mining interests and africa i mean it states. and that's all we have for you this hour back with more in about fifteen.

this is our team live from moscow let's check in on today's headlines the head of an anti drug campaign and russians in russia is jailed for taking the drugs too far but his supporters say he got results. antifreeze britain's foreign secretary is in moscow for a friendly visit after years of frosty anglo russian relations as both sides bid to build bridges. and the bubble of hype burst around the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee none of the u.s. media's predictions of police cordons traffic gridlock and security threats come true. also on r t state benefits pay more than some jobs in the u.k.

causing generations of unemployment this is that statistics show with the highest number of workers households of all the large khana means. the money makes the world go round as they say but when it was spinning faster than ever before no one would listen to those claiming it was about to come to a grinding halt more emmet now hears from a top german financial expert who insisted the downturn was around the corner. professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. know you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your projections for the year it's not so easy i think as long as germany underwrites euro will stay at least for a couple of years the german economy is still very strong so i think as long as germany has the political will to stand behind it which i which i question.