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 deal containing drugs and really dangerous the beginning of the raids and 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. flying 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 is 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 here 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 all we have to do be an issue to the relationship the group is for sure the authorities and you katherine 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 quarry it's 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 an incredible conditions but with the group claiming a seventy percent success rate it appears tough love works which 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 nish need to get similar initiatives have been dealt with very differently you go by each curve was centered. 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 this is sparked a public outcry and led many to conclude that corruption amongst authority might be to blame. but in 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 the authorities 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 to 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 drug squad says with an unofficial estimate two and a half million drug addicts in the country almost two 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 let 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 herself the controversial methods and use of one of the rehabilitation centers. it's not 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 and initially . just fed bread and water and very basic feed also essentially going cold turkey.

said we speak to people who face going through the treatment at the time and come three managed to get clean and we have now moved on with their lives they said it's incredibly hard i mean quiting 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 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 of the not particularly capable of making logical decisions themselves safe the raid that we went on. they trained the persons parents and asked parents they're given the option whether the person was arrested or whether they're taken into this rehabilitation center and helped. his correspondence or of.

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 now the hearing of terror suspects cases kicked off a mysterious seems to be groundless. but you know the main problem isn't security same problem on the head no no how many intelligence secrets will we surrender during this process. or on us soil that's not the point we'll get to spew all kinds of anti american propaganda because that's what's going to happen well i'm an oracle a shockingly relaxed atmosphere outside the federal courthouse in lower manhattan especially when a case of such significance is going on this place has seen some of the most publicized scandals of the last two years this is where bernie meet off was 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 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 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's the neighborhood the locals living here would be worried concerned and bothered are they let's find out you know that a terror suspect is being tried in the courthouse right near you know. for sure. does it bother you that this is happening on u.s. soil. you know does it bother you do you know that a terror suspect is being tried in this courthouse right here. right now do you know that a 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. on influenced 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 party in new york. looking ahead next. look at whether the mainstream media is on gryphon

audiences is being a reverse of the lucinda's people head elsewhere for the headlines. that's the fundamental question here of 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. the voice that they are projecting is one that is a threat to american national security or even combative to the american government .

the nuclear poisoning of former k.g.b. officer xander live in it because back in the picture as british foreign secretary william hague said moscow seeking to restore its strength of the incident and is not the reports now despite disagreements the two sides are determined to work together. it doesn't it 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 jip deputy on the table 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 of course 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. to work within our legal stories but the laws of both countries will remain in place so nothing much has changed but that is again the situation and it seems that both sides have for the moment at least accepted that fact that of course many different aspects of the relations that aren't as complicated were discussed including call peroration in afghanistan combat and 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 operational. security in afghanistan and pakistan is one area where russia and the u.k. could find a lot of home grown says i'm a told live and he's a professor at the department of war studies at king's college london. well one

area where i think on both sides there's a new perception of common interests is afghanistan and central asia because of course everybody is now beginning to think about the time after the the us and britain withdraw ground troops from afghanistan. the russians are of course deeply concerned about the security of central asia equally we are beginning to think about how russia can help prop up anti taliban forces you know after we leave so there is an area where we have very congruent common interests of course britain is playing a once again a very. minor part compared to the united states but nonetheless in it's an area where now people are beginning to think as they went in the past about really our interests are common and i would be very useful to us both to work closely together but also of course relates as long as our troops are there to communications with our troops because pakistan as we see of the past two weeks is

a very unreliable partner whereas roots for russia and russian influence there isn't central asia an absolutely essential lifeline without them. position afghanistan be much more endangered. and it'll live in this cultural tease in afghanistan rising prospects of the war seem ever less clear another nato members pulling out of the campaign italy's foreign ministers announces his country will begin withdrawing troops mixed according to the proposed over three thousand soldiers will gradually leave by twenty fourteen the 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 a campaign in two thousand and four spoke to mark colvin chin vino he's founder and director of the global strategy project he told me that italy may have set the wheels in motion but with such a long time scale it may not run to play. during the last nine years of the

campaign that hasn't been a real soon. for it to address the issues in a coherent strategic fashion i think in the last few months we've seen much more of a serious attempt i mean just the most recent troops arrive the full amount of troops on the quote unquote has been referred to as a surge is only arrived this summer so it's going to take time before you start seeing any results is going to take about twelve to eighteen months but obviously you have to understand that it's important to understand the domestic politics in each of the member states of a similar some are different and in the case of italy for example me last year a group of italian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in september of two thousand and nine there was an uproar from the political establishment to a conflict in 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 of twenty eleven that will conclude in twenty fourteen but between now and then anything can happen and in that sense i think it's more of the placate the domestic situation the domestic response in the country to the last killing of the

soldiers last week. nearly one in a british no one in work according to a new study critics play in the country's welfare system which often means it's more lucrative to stay home and found 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.'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 sixth 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 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 devastating. devastating because she just got a place in college in. which you're pregnant last year and keep asking me what we're going to do when 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 but change it with a mixture of carrot 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 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 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 see your and it's artsy. just to look through the main world news stories now of course all eyes looking at chile the world's been glued to the ongoing rescue operations of the chilean miners have been stuck underground for more than two months so far twenty one successfully made sure there's nothing found it's been real seems an amazing joy that no one in recorded history has survived long trapped underground these miners the release of course is the long awaited light at the end of the tunnel for them but they still got to go through rigorous physical and psychological testing but some good news there to report tonight. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has wrapped up a tour of the balkans 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 probably support for both the e.u. and nato membership while governments seem keen to negotiate majority of the population are against such moves. us forces based in south korea have conducted an aerial drill in the city. on they were to have been joined by south korean helicopters been the end they didn't take part the exercises come a soul joins a u.s. led coalition aimed at intercepting ships to prevent the transfer of weapons of mass destruction north korea for its part has warned it would consider the south's participation in the initiative as a declaration of war. midnight twenty moscow time 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 satisfied with the progress of construction in the black sea resort of sochi which is hosting the event r.t. denis blots he's keeping an eye on 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 the would because struction higher up in the mountains near crossed napoleon 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 site 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 nations commission visit will conclude the three 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 so she will be hosting the winter olympic games. and with a place to keep you posted on that of course as we head towards that big data that is polaski there next money makes the world go round but when it was spinning faster than ever before no would listen to those claiming it was about to come to a grinding halt just about modalities lauren that is from a top german financial expert who insisted that that was around the corner is just ahead. of the world.

professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your predictions for the year it's not so easy i think as long as germany underwrites 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 are you one who believes that as a concepts the euro is fundamentally flawed basically within a currency area have to have flexible factors of production capital labor goods industry and we don't have to europe labor is not moving freely capital is moving

freely goods are moving freely but as long as you don't have fully flexible markets you don't have an optimum currency area and also between germany austria the netherlands the benelux states we did have a defacto union currency union for decades they just did and they just followed the bundesbank and nobody talked about it worked perfectly but within that region you basically had an integrated market but to throw together greece and spain and italy and portugal and ireland and germany is sheer lunacy i mean sheer lunacy and they said we throw it together so it will grow together but that is not promoting growing together the other way around would have been better to liberalize markets to keep national currencies to be able to to just. shocks like this so what should we do you know that should be your is they be slowly but steadily dismantled should

we wait for the us to collapse and i say ideally i would go back to a core europe and i would let the dark return and the p.c. to return and the lira return and we still would have a european union it's not like it would be the collapse of the european union quite to the contrary if we allow those countries to set their own economic policy again and to be sovereign in their currencies we would do europe a service we're doing europe a disservice by having this artificial currency imposed on it it can only lead to political tensions like in greece where the greek population now has to suffer taxpayers germany has to suffer the only ones that didn't suffer in greece were the banks because they were fully rescued so that's to me is a deal that is not quiet equitable the european central bank or recently said that countries leaving the euro same would essentially be committing political and economic suicide what's your no not at all i mean it's of course very difficult to

leave because you would have to do a lot of administrative measures you would have to prepared very well and of course international capital may be shocked for a moment but in the end it was the right supporting measures it would need some preparation it would need careful planning it would need careful execution but of course you could return the greek to the drachma and you could support it you still could support it with credits i mean the european union could step in with credit for a traditionally period but we just would not underwrite the euro we would underwrite the greek economy as a sovereign but integrated nation are you a fan of the choice mark for the torch marks sake no i'm a fan of the deutsche mark because it was a good currency in the bundesbank was a good institution and i think the rules that we had then were good rules for germany and also for europe i mean what what happens if you have a strong economy lark. germany's of course the dots mark would appreciate over time which again would help the neighboring economies to export more so it would give

purchasing power to the germans and so good by itself mechanism of adjustment in the end a market mechanism that would help if you have a crawling peg or something it would help adjustments to come more easily into just words that would be good for everybody but hasn't the euro been more stable than the deutsche mark was in the ten twenty years leading up to your raise introduction and lower inflation might as well isn't that a measure of the euro being quite a successful currency well we have to talk about that inflation if it's really low if the official inflation rate measures all that is to measure but in the end you had wage inflation you had goods inflation in spain in italy in greece that leads us to the current problems if we had to trust the in-between meaning revaluation of the market devaluation of the procedure which we didn't have so what we did was postponed adjustments. and create unhealthy structures and i'm healthy development

so as long as we don't have total economic union which we won't have for a long time we should not have one currency what do you think the effect of a collapse in the year is a would be on the regional and global financial markets some are saying that it would be a disaster on the scale if the collapse of lehman brothers yes it could be drastic but again i'm not expecting it any time soon because i think germany for the wrong reasons will subscribe to the euro but it will underwrite it and continue to underwrite it so we won't have that but in case it happened it depends on whether it will hit us prepared or non prepared and right now we're doing everything to prevent it but we're not preparing for the case that it might happen that that's the fallacy of my we should have a plan b. and if we don't have a plan b. could indeed be drastic what would your plan b. be well of course a plan b. is to think about return. to national currencies or to return a block or a block or whatever to have currency union economic regions that are more similar

more homogenous and we don't have that we should at least start to think about it because it's not going to be the end of the world i think even it's it's preferable but you don't have to go as you just have to admit that it's not going to be the end of the world and that we have to think about those things and policymakers and officials should think about it so they have. also thank you very much thank you. discover it's. become.

this is our team from moscow these are the top stories russian cold say. in his pocket against drug addiction. some polled say they work. and to free britain agree to disagree on certain issues and pigeon improve their frosty relations foreign secretaries in moscow from told. to run the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee and none of you. media's predictions of police cordons traffic gridlock and security threats come true. and state benefits

pay more than some jobs in the u.k. causing generations of unemployment a sadistic show it's called the highest number of workers households of all the largest economy. now as we take time out to explore a place almost untouched by man the picturesque but hard to reach reserve in russia's far east enjoy the trip. bowling springs and halting waterfalls. and steaming pits. of fun tins and dead sulfurous lakes. an eternal confrontation of fire. earth and creating a unique comedy. the joint tenancy of this land lies in canyons unfold.