without know katic agreed 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 beginning with the rays and 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 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 here if people say it's cruel and inhumane let them teach us how to do it otherwise we work twenty four seven to help these people

when the state isn't doing anything we're aware of to be an issue to the relationship the group is for sure the authorities and you katherine 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 and inquire 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 go similar initiatives have been dealt with very different lane. yeah

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 which. only have a feeling of discourse 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. 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 inaction. 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 says 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 to ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight to free their city of drugs sara fair. you're catching bag in spite of sarah's extensive research into the story she spent time saying for self the controversial methods and use of one of the rehabilitation centers. not a luxury place 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. he said we speak to people who face going through the treatment at the time and come three and 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 got people in this in a situation t. and that's really a very positive thing for them is a volunteer last time because people like the raid that we went on the people that we saw. when they're in the grips of drug addiction are obviously not particularly capable of making logical decisions themselves safe the rate that we went on. they trained persons parents and. parents they're given the option whether the person was arrested or whether they're taken into this rehabilitation center and helped.

so a correspondence or a. next 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 now the hearing of. these cases kicked off. styria seem to be groundless. but the main problem isn't security same problem on the head no know how many intelligence secrets will be surrendered during this process. or on u.s. soil that's not the point we get to spew all kinds of anti american propaganda because that's what's going to happen well i'm an oracle a shockingly relaxed atmosphere outside the federal courthouse in lower manhattan especially when a case of such significance is going on this place has seen some of the most publicized scandals of the last two years this is where bernie 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 in 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 blue only 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 floating 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 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 point. does it bother you does it concern you that this is going on right here. 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 but if that party in new york.

looking ahead tonight about twenty minutes time people. look at whether the mainstream media group an audience is as big university. people had 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 showing environment online and offline where alternatives are available to people and i think americans are wondering why they can't tune into these channels on their television screen not just to foreign governments intervening into american news affairs but also non-government organizations like we can expect the voice that they are projecting is one that is a threat to american national security or even combative to the american governments and they are a chip. complete

the team with the in twenty minutes time tonight. the nuclear poisoning of former k.g.b. officer alexander litvinenko is back in the picture as british foreign secretary william hague is in moscow seeking to restore tate strain. on his country in a zone of 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 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 word within our colleague old brain but the laws of both countries will remain in place so nothing much has changed with that within the situation and it seems that both sides have for the moment at least accepted that fact of course many different aspects of the relations that aren't as complicated were discussed including corporation in afghanistan combat in drug trafficking in cruising in 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. of course when a country has are over there as casualties in afghanistan rising prospects for war

seem ever less clear another nato members pulling out of the campaign it's in these foreign ministers announce that his country will begin withdrawing troops next summer 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 before italian troops members of lost their lives since the start of the campaign in two thousand and four but earlier i spoke to mark xeno 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 the plan. during the last nine years of the campaign hasn't been a real serious effort 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 to me just the most recent troops arrive the full amount of troops on the quote unquote as we refer to as the 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 some 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 this saying will begin a process in 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. anyone in a british households has no one in work as according to a new study could explain the country's welfare system which often means it's more lucrative stay at home and 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 the 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 sandra gets the equivalent of more than twenty thousand dollars a year in benefits but she says it's barely enough to stay afloat doing anything well just to stand there in evanston because can't go anywhere that do anything

with the kids growing up and learning most painful well about 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 walter 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 conditionality is that if you don't accept a reasonable job offer it's got to be the case that you can't go all claiming benefits and have the 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 that it's 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. bring up to date on some of the world's top news stories one big one of course going on at the moment. the middle going rescue operation of chilean miners

who've been stuck on the ground for more than two months so far twenty four minutes successfully made it to the surface and being reunited with their families has been a great day no one in recorded history survived as long trapped underground as the miners the release is the long awaited light at the end of the tunnel for these men but of course they're going to undergo rigorous physical and psychological testing the latest live picture feed that we've got now this is what's coming to us from chile there you can see the wheel turning at the moment winching up the twenty fifth man to safety there but it's going down it's called the phoenix rescue capsule which is. less than two feet in diameter some of the mine has been put on strict diets to make sure that they can fit in there but it's been a momentous scene been watching this all afternoon as well the joy on the families. bases the tears running down their faces as they see their loved ones

come back people but they one point of course in the early days of this thought they would never see again so these are the latest live pictures coming through each the tears and cheers as you can see as these miners are coming slowly back to the surface. more world news the u.s. state hillary clinton's wrapped up a tour of the balkan surf i will stop was possible after previously visiting bosnia and serbia in all three regions clinton tried to persuade the governments to make concessions and political reforms to better reflect multi ethnic diversity in return she promised support for both nato membership but while governments seem keen to negotiate the majority of the population are against. u.s. forces based in south korea have conducted an aerial drill in the city of their word to have been joined by south korean helicopters in the end they didn't take part in 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's warned it would consider the participation in the initiative as a declaration of war. the twenty fourteen winter olympics may be several years away still but russia's preparations nonetheless for the games have received praise from officials the i.o.c. says it is satisfied with the progress of construction of the black sea resort of sochi which is hosting the event. the preparations for. 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 with the construction a higher up in the mountains near cross napoli and in that it's a little the so-called coastal cluster there separated by forty six kilometers long stretch of highway and 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 and time to construct them 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 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 sochi will be hosting the winter olympic games and we are close to number one station to keep you posted on all those developments up to that big data has been asking reporting for us there the say donate money makes the world go

round but when it was spinning faster than ever before no one would listen to the people claiming it was about to come to a screaming hold on just a moment and that his from a top german financial expert who insisted the downturn was around the corner his thoughts just ahead tonight. 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

border spungen 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 together so we'll grow together but that is not promoting growing together the other way around would have been better to live. relies markets to keep national currencies to be able to adjust to shocks like this so what should we do you know that should the year is they be slowly but steadily dismantled should we wait for the year is 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 is a would essentially be committing political and economic suicide. 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 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 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. germany and also for europe i mean what what happens if you have a strong economy like germany's of course the darts market would appreciate over time which again would help the neighboring economies to export more so it would give purchasing prior 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 be more stable than the deutsche mark was in the ten and twenty years leading up to the year race

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 a revaluation of the market devaluation of the present 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 a say 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 is 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 it will underwrite it move 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. it could indeed be drastic. well of course the plan b. is to think about return to national currencies or to return to korea southern block or whatever to have currency union some on economic regions that are more similar that are 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 plan b.

also thank you very much thank you. the closeups has been to the song telling region where the biggest russian sam can be our processing factories located not only argy goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. laser beam found to fight a common. first free elections read. thousand years ago. to the region. russia close up. issues that so much really make a lot of people here you look at new and alternative media outlets are challenging

the dominance of traditional heavyweights in all languages why are viewers looking for alternatives. this is r t from moscow is coming over here with a headline update for you russian called say no to. group's hard line tactics in its battle against drug addiction will make you smile methods and legal vote but supporters say they work top stories. also antifreeze in russia and britain agreed to disagree on certain issues in a bid to improve the frosty relations as the u.k. foreign secretary to moscow for talks. in the public light bursts around the first civilian trial of a guantanamo detainee is none of the u.s. media's predictions of police called in this traffic gridlock and security threats from. one thirty am moscow time in less than

a minute people. look at another trend in american media in particular how global english language news channels are changing the international media landscape why that's worrying the u.s. government. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us technology update on our g. u. k.