contact to give the signal suddenly everyone is up and running the police are involved they're not taking part a law enforcement officers the raid is being organized by a vigilante style group for me cash you name themselves the city without narcotics agreed to using controversial tactics to target drug dealers and rehabilitate drug addicts this is a drug called there's a morphine locally known as crocodile it's a killer dean continued drug and really dangerous the beginning of the raids and coming through the window it was pretty exciting because the minute you get inside the reality of the situation really hits you 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 base extremely scared and upset and it really makes it very apparent just how sensitive this issue is. participation in raids has raised

concerns about whether members of the foundation should be allowed to take the law into their own hands. it's an action which is cruel is it wrong to rescue a drowning person by pulling their hair if people say it's cruel 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 where we have to do it be an issue to the relationship that we have is force with the authorities and you catherine there is a fragile one that in eleven years they have managed to pull their energies to fight the drug issue effectively those caught in the raids face either arrest or we have this run by the glory is left to family members to give the final consent. conditions a hard they spend a month being weaned off drugs on a very basic diet and in crime conditions but with the group claiming a seventy percent success rate it appears tough love works which my mother saw with six years of drug addict. 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 but in other cities such as nish need to go similar initiatives have been dealt with very different way. of was sentenced to three and a half years in prison despite having half the number of drug deaths in the city in just two years. 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 that makes completely no sense it's a crime against our city's population but this is sparked a public outcry and led many to conclude that corruption amongst authorities might be to blame. eagle carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate is half the gypsies are afraid to sell drugs and consequently don't bribe you for it is clearly the authorities there didn't like

that but in both cities the foundations have vowed to continue the fight in the face of what they say is government in action. that people have to take the problem personally i understand that these before they are brothers and sisters and that unless they do it nobody will do it for the pressure is in the grip of a major drugs crisis with an unofficial estimate two and a half million drug addicts in the country almost eighty percent of the population people like genuine the foundation say a united effort is in everyone's interest and until proper measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitation uses as well as left ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight to free their city of drugs sara fair. you're catching bag. well as part of sarah's extensive research into the story she spent time seeing for herself the controversial method in use at one of the

rehabilitation centers. 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 around a month initially. just fed bread and water and very basic feeds was there essentially going cold turkey going to the states he said to the people of faith going through the treatment at the time and he'd 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 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's gether really is very very helpful you've got people in the same as 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's 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 the moscow center for the study of drug addiction says from a medical point of view the members of city without narcotics used inefficient methods. yeah the most. 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 at school they just say 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 the 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 . that public anger with prompting the russian president to respond has urged prosecutors to pay more attention to communities fighting to rid their towns of drugs to meet their methods have met with musicians campaigning for human rights who told him the law needs to back those 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 with the trial in order to avoid

a conflict with the law. anyway if the situation is like you're saying it needs attention. armageddon on the streets of new york was the prospect promised by u.s. media in the run up to the first civilian trial of a kuantan m a detainee on american soil but now the hearing of terrorist suspect ahmed ghailani case has kicked off in manhattan and hysteria seems to have been groundless. the main problem isn't security same problem on the head no no how many intelligence secrets will we surrender during this process they were terrorists or whatever 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 please has seen some of the most publicized scandals of the last two years this is where bernie made off with sentence 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 was that balance of policemen would be needed to provide security in the area and that billions and billions of dollars would be wasted on policemen serving 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 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 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 when you know right now we do know that a terrorist suspect is being tried in the sport announcer 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 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 are to new york. of soon here in our to the britons better off one benefits we'll look into why the u.k. has more households sitting idle then any other major e.u. country. then the international olympic committee's concerns over a lack of snow in sochi have been addressed as the officials praised the pace of preparations for the twenty fourteen winter games. but first the nuclear poisoning of former k.g.b. officer alexander an internet go 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 and discuss arenas are 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 made suspect in the case a case of russian state duma did deputy the 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 word within our legal phrase but the laws of both countries being made in full play so nothing much has got to change with the missing in the situation and it seems that both sides have used for the moment at least accepted that fact to back of course many different aspects of the relations that aren't as complicated or discussed including call for

a sion and afghanistan combat in drug trafficking in cruising 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 flies the you can't afford to lucrative markets over political differences. william . has recognized that. its foreign policy needs to embrace a whole host of countries its foreign policy called to be very strong relations with one or two countries britain needs to look to. emerging world its all around the world 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 development which says let's agree to disagree

these issues are very important but let's cooperate in other areas that's just going fifteen minutes past the hour of us take a look at some world news in brief the world when clues to the ongoing rescue operation of thirty three chilean miners who've been stuck underground for more than two months so far thirteen of the men have made it safely to the surface their release is not quite the light at the end of the tunnel though as they still have to undergo rigorous physical and psychological testing officials say the rescue is going better than expected and the process is being sped up. afghan soldiers have found five bodies following a nato supply supply plane crash in afghanistan on tuesday at least seven people are far to have been on board when the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff in the east of the country the reason for the crash is still unknown. hillary clinton is wrapping up her balkan tor with a visit to kosovo the us secretary of state arrived there from serbia which refuses

to recognize the breakaway territory as independence washington is pressing belgrade to find a mutually acceptable solution and is linked the issue with e.u. membership for serbia but while the government seems ready to negotiate most serbs say they will not put their country for sale. nearly one in eight 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 a job. 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. is 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 warm 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 hay 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 doing a thing where the kids are grown up and well most painful well about far past. when their saundra 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. keep asking me what we're going to do you want to. rethink 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 to change it with a mixture and 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 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 checks on people who want incapacity allowance but many of the people the 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. nowhere and it. well the twenty fourteen winter olympics may be 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. 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 the southern russian city is preparing for the big sporting events besides the mountain course there were the olympic games

will be held part of the competitions will be also the coastal kloster in the. members of the you 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 whole of the region where the olympic projects are already beginning to take shape history 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. well that wraps up the news this hour here in our business is next with kareena after a short break. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers i'm. going to be soon which brightened if you knew me about songs from finance to question.

these stunts on t.v. dot com. hello and welcome to our business program and we go straight to our top story the head of gas from is in romania for talks on the roots of the south stream gas pipeline now the visit to bucharest is also a veiled message to bold garia which has been demanding stiff terms for a longer pipeline to cross its territory this is a critical reports from one another south stream participant turkey a latest twists and turns of pipeline politics. turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe but it's a business bridge like position but with asia and europe which makes it and they're really not for rival international interests. main

battle plans for the south are an energy corridor are to supply gas to europe bypassing the current transit country ukraine the main pipelines and the running out of gas from less south chim project and a blue car backed by the us and e.u. and there are other smaller projects his energy minister says the country is ready to talk common it 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 fast securing gas and customers analysts say weaning turkey's 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 pipeline strategically important for turkey the question is what will be the price because now we see that first of all turkey wants russia to invest myatt of some sort of fun project it's the first benefit and the first part of this payment the second thing is the thrust turkey wants to change if there's a forward guess quantas. there was talk of 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 from chief alexei miller is visiting both gary and dramatic to discuss delivery of russian gas and the future of the south stream pipeline project that's business are to istanbul. now for more details on this gas from remaining deal with cross

live to our correspondent jim acosta who is at the gas headquarters here in moscow so i did tell us what's the latest on this deal and why these talks. on according to the news that we've been receiving from a gas from had a quarter after the meeting between the company's chief executive. and romanian governmental officials a letter of intent it was signed between the russian company and to remain in transit to work out if is ability study over the construction all for south stream gas pipelines project through the territory of remand and author of the signing ceremony alex ten million are told that. it will be sent to the country to examine the markets and if everything goes well both the parties in my sign a deal over the project. we came to an agreement that a group of experts will come to romania and carry out preparatory work to

understand whether we have mutual interests in this sphere after that the express will make a report at a corporate level and if we can cooperate we'll discuss it management levels we see the potential for cooperation in this sphere and we do have interest in it. gastro really needs the participation of from many especially now when bulgaria sim's to be alas a key even off through the recent change of the government but it's still unclear what was going to happen what the bulgaria will be excluded from of the participation in the project or whether the pipeline will be extended. for remaining in participation and now style stream is supposed to be finalized by twenty fifteen and today alex to mellow out once again stressed that he sees no doubt in the financing of the project or finalizing it by these casual time which is a twenty fifteen south stream will a staunch from

a russian black sea coast and we'll go to bulgaria involved now where it will split into two it will transport over a sixty three billion cubic meter so gas all thirty five appears sun's over russia's total annual of gas x. forty two you rope but there are still some countries which represent all of stickles towards the implementation of this project and this is tacky gavriel where everything is done clear on friday alex to mellow world a visit bulgaria and we will be watching the developments on this issue. our correspondent jim acosta reporting live from gospel headquarters thanks very much. now let's have a look at the equity markets european shares are higher as well as commodity stocks are leading the blind as among the top gainers copper hits at twenty seven months high chairs of fresno rose three point six percent after the from reported an

increase of third quarter so overproduction bullish. here in moscow the russian forces are both up more than half a percent higher in the evening trading energy majors and banks are leading the gains in raising the previous sessions losses bucking the trends are ross now that is moving a quarter of a percent of its. hold the business for now join me at twenty past the hour thanks for watching.

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for watching r t r menes now away with bad binds present courts say no to one group's hardline tactics in its battle against drug addiction lawmakers may have ruled the methods a legal supporter say they worked. 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. of pipe burst around the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee as none of the us media is predictions of police cordons traffic and security threats come true. it was a money makes the world go round 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. now here is from a top german financial expert who insisted the downturn was around the corner. professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your projections for the year it's not so you see i think as long as germany underwrites the euro it 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 we should not do that but as long as we do it it will probably can go on for another four five six years and what about the german people is there political will in the german population to carry on supporting. not really the political.