he named themselves the city without narcotics agreed to be using controversial tactics to target drug dealers and rehabilitate drug addicts this is a drug called as a morphine or locally known as crocodile it's a killer dean containing drugs and really dangerous beginning with a raisin coming through the window it was pretty exciting but the minute you get inside the reality of the 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. really in 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 we're aware of to be an issue to the relationship the group is for sure the authorities and you catherine there is a fragile one that in eleven years they have managed to pool their energies to fight the drug issue effectively those caught in the raids face either arrest or we have this run by the glory it's left to family members to give the final consent. conditions are hard they spend a month being weaned off drugs on a very basic diet and inquire conditions but with the great claiming a seventy percent success rate it appears tough love. school my mother saw what 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. but in other cities such as niche need to go similar initiatives have been dealt with very differently you go by each

curve 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. i only have a feeling of disgust for law enforcement agencies who instead of fighting drug dealers are fighting an organization which was running a successful anti drug dealing campaign it makes no sense at all it's a crime against our city's population that this is sparked a public outcry and led many to conclude that corruption amongst authority might be to blame. for this chap 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 people or their 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 thirty 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 rehabilitating users as well as left ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight to free their city of drugs sara fair. you're catching bag was part of sarah's extensive research into the story she spent time saying for a self a controversial method to do so one of the rehabilitation center. no a luxury place we the main area where they treated you had essentially 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 going to go straight to. the people who face going to be 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 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've got people in the same as situation t. and that's really a very positive thing for them is a volunteer last time because 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 and selves safe the rate that we went on they trained the person parents and. parents they're given the option whether the person was arrested or whether they're taken into this rehabilitation center and helped

kick. out his correspondence or a first guinea bottom is head of the mosque for the study of drug addiction he told us and from a medical point of view the members of city that narcotics are using inefficient methods. yeah but most of the. 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 in society it's not clear i don't think the foundation used any medical methods at all they just 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 all 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 fission 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 . now tonight 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 guantanamo detainee on american soil but other hearing of terrorists. case has kicked off and the hysteria seems to be 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

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 of 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 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 louis 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 and 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. no does it bother you do you know that a terror suspect is being tried in this courthouse right here. right now we do know that a terrorist suspect is being tried in this court announcer 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 the mob 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. the new clear poisoning of former k.g.b. officer alexander litvinenko is back in the picture is the british foreign secretary william hague's in moscow seeking to restore ties strained after the incident and result his country in a zone of a report despite disagreements the two sides are determined to work together. it doesn'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 was poisoned by a radioactive substance polonium two ten in london just a few years that britain believes that the main suspect in the case case a russian state duma deputy. 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 the hour the old phrase but the laws of both countries will meet in fourth place so nothing much has changed but this is the situation and it seems that both sides for the moment at least accepted that fact that of course many different aspects. the relations that aren't as complicated were discussed including cooperation in afghanistan combat ing 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 that operation. christopher granville's a co-founder of the trusted sources research group and a former british diplomat to russia he told me it's imperative that the two countries work harder at the economic side of their relations it change of

government in the u.k. provides a perfect diplomatic backdrop to try to read normalize relations and get them out of this rather apps. which they've been stuck in because of this the one. shocking. very isolated case of the death of mr litvinenko u.k. financial services sector and professional services sector is still very present in russia and that goes on but a lot more could be done and that will make a big difference to a lot of the employment and that's where government by and after relations i think are most relevant and where today's visit to moscow by william hague could provide some positive impetus nearly one in eight british households has no one in work

that's according to a new study pretty explain the country's well first system which often means is 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. bigger problem is perhaps hidden from the official unemployment statistics and that is the proportion of workers households in britain so one sixth 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 sandra 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 well just to stay. the course can't go anywhere that do anything with the kids growing up and well most painful well about far past. when they're 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 dentists. because you just got a place in college and. that you're pregnant last year keep asking me what we're

going to do you want to. 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 but change it 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 on claiming benefits and have the every other taxpayer picking up the bill the government 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 the reforms are aimed at have never worked and the big question is in a crisis hits economic climate are there any jobs for them to go to. your abbott's

artsy. as casualties in afghanistan rising prospects for the war seem less clear but another nato members pulling out of the campaign italy's foreign ministers announce that his country will begin withdrawing troops next summer according to the proposed showed you over three thousand soldiers will gradually by twenty fourteen so decision comes just days after four italian soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan thirty four italian troops members of lost their lives since the start of the campaign in two thousand and four i spoke to mark over his founder and director of the global strategy project he says that it clear most of the wheels in motion but with such a long time scale it may not run to plan. during the last nine years of the campaign that hasn't been a real serious effort to address the issues in a coherent strategic crash and i think in the last few months we've seen much more of a serious a term so it's going to take time before you start seeing. any results is going to take about twelve to eighteen months last year

a group of italian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in september of two thousand and nine and there was an uproar from the political establishment to accomplishing messages coming from different ministries from the opposition and then within a week after there was more of a coherent response it's really obviously they're saying they'll begin a process in two thousand and eleven that will conclude in twenty fourteen but between now and then anything can happen and we have over forty countries not just money nato member states there's many other countries that are not members of nato who are involved in the operation are present and you going to see i think from the secretary general of nato mr rasmussen i think you see clear vision you see clear lead a record full understanding of what's needed but once again you have the domestic politics in many of the member states that may not allow the ministries the defense ministers of the government in this case a prime ministers to do the job that they think ought to be done it's not just a question of nato member states or other states participating it's about the efficiency of the afghan national army and that it's going to take at least another

four to five years for that afghan national army to be at least at the basic stage where it wants to be so i think in a process if you speak about pull out as you speak about countries withdrawing it's really starting in two thousand and eleven ending twenty fourteen that's a five year period from now and the hope is that during that period the afghan national army will become somewhat self-sufficient at least at a basic level. but you know one of the main world news stories that most the world's news covering at the moment the world glued to that ongoing rescue operation of those chilean miners and stuff on the ground for more than two months so far tonight twenty men have successfully made it to the surface to be reunited with their families no one in recorded history survived as long trapped underground as these miners the release is the long awaited light at the end of the tunnel of course for the men are still going to want to go rigorous physical and psychological testing but the good news is so far all is going well so some good news tonight other top stories the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has wrapped up a tour of the balkans her final stop was kosovo after previously visiting bosnia

and serbia in all three regions clinton tried to persuade the governments to make concessions in political reforms to better reflect multi-ethnic diversity in return she promised support for both you and nato membership while governments seem keen to negotiate the majority of the serb population against. u.s. forces based in south korea have conducted an aerial drill in the city of sochi on their words have just been joined by south korean helicopters but they didn't take part in the end of the exercises seoul joins a u.s. led coalition into intercepting ships to prevent the transfer of weapons of mass destruction north korea's warned it would consider the south but is a patient in the initiative as a declaration of war. the twenty forty 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. the preparations for us. members of the

i.o.c. called nation commission led by the russian prime minister vladimir putin had a chance to see for themselves how the olympic construction is going they visited both so-called clusters of there were because struction higher up in the mountains across napoli and in that it's a little the so-called coup still cluster there separated by forty six kilometers long stretch of highway a railroad that are being built right now at the moment this construction side was on the agenda for this visit it's an enormously hard task for a construction workers to make of these venues on time to construct especially because this is a subtropical area and there will be winter olympic games but everything is going well and according to the plan the third and the final day of the you'll see ordination commission visit will conclude that there are three day to day stay here in sochi they are frequent visitors to sochi because they always would like to see

for themselves how things are going in just a few months from now in february of two thousand and eleven there will be a testing competitions here in sochi more than fifty competitions twenty six of them are international ones so all venues will have to be. it will be an excellent chance for the organizers to see how things will look in the year of two thousand and fourteen when sochi will be hosting the winter olympic games now we have the station of course to keep you up to date on those developments as we approach that date that is polaski to have coming up tonight just a few minutes time people of his latest crosstalk to make show that shortly after the business next with many can. hello and welcome to business with me kareena melaka the case of the road for gas to europe took another step forward on wednesday. aleksei miller traveled to romania where he said the government level agreement could be signed early next

year already on board south stream are serbia hungary greece slovenia croatia and austria also and else the two parties have agreed to proceed to the next stage of a possible cooperation with 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 area after that the experts will make a report at a corporate level and if we can cooperate we'll discuss it at the top management level we see the potential for cooperation in this fear and we do have interest in it. now the root of the uk arrest is also veiled message to both carrier which has been demanding step terms following the pipelines across its territory they don't recall reports from another south stream participant turkey our latest twists and turns of pipeline politics. turkey is one of the youngest the fastest growing and the largest countries in europe wants to get the business bridge like position but

with asia and europe which makes it and are really not for rival international interests. the main battle here is for the south or an energy corridor to supply gas to europe bypassing the current transit country ukraine the main pipelines and the running out of gas from land sounds jim project and my blue car backed by the you ask and ye you and there are other smaller projects. 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 to 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 as agreement to lay the south stream through a 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 is what will be the price because now we see that first of all turkey wants russia to invest myatt of some subject and project its first benefit and the first part of this payment the second. turkey wants to change if there is of our guess 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 other countries a long the pipeline fruits this week gas plant chief alexei miller is visiting

belgariad and romance to discuss delivery of russian gas and the future of the south stream pipeline project that channel because of business r.t. istanbul. and russia's central bank will tolerate a more volatile ruble after widening the trading about against the us dollar and the euro it broadened the ban by fifty kopeks in each direction it allows the ruble to be more volatile before the central bank intervenes the central bank's deputy head alex who kind of said the trading bad was needed in the absence of inflation targeting he added that the move will reduce the risk of speculative inflows of hot money supply when you peter who if the currency rate moves gradually from targeted to free floating listeners will have a harder time predicting its movements the volume of short term investment into the currency market decreases. looking at the markets here in moscow we are just finished wednesday's evening session point eight percent higher and the rise of edged over

a percent energy majors and banks were leading on both the horses bucking the trend was well snapped it was losing a quarter of a percent of course it's. the burbank says the government should sell stake in russia's biggest lender on the stock market and not directly to a strategic investor bank's deputy c.e.o. says tapping equity investors would stimulate the banking sector. and bank of moscow boosted its profit thirty seven times in the first nine months of this year it cited a recovery from the crisis and profits from trading the banks made it to shore client is the city of last. airline transparent has postponed its i.p.o. until two thousand and eleven according to the reuters russia second largest airline had planned to raise two hundred million dollars this year. several plans to spend almost six and a half billion dollars in investment over the next four years the stupid use it will ingest seventy percent into russian males twelve percent in two us by

baseballs it will also expand its mining interests in russia africa and the united states. and that's all from me in the business thing here on our take i last always on our website dot com. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents for me a thousand. seven hundred thousand people murdered and thirty two thousand will

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a report on our. thanks for being with us for our how far news update here at r.t. these are our top stories russian called say no to one group's hard line tactics in this battle against drug addiction lawmakers may have all the methods illegal but supporters say they work. also antifreeze britain's foreign secretary is here in moscow for a friendly visit after years of frosty anglo russian relations with both sides to build bridges. the bubble of hype bursts around the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee is none of us media's predictions of police cordons traffic gridlock and security threats come true. and state benefits paid more than some jobs in the u.k.

causing generations of unemployment as to to stick show it's called the highest number of workers households of the large and you would call it. twenty three thirty one now up next people. look at how global english language news channels are changing the international media landscape while it's worrying the u.s. government is just there. if you. want to. follow him and welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle the battle of the airwaves new and alternative media outlets for.