drug addicts this is a drug called there's a morphine locally known as crocodile it's a killer dean 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. 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 of civilian 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 it be an issue to the

relationship the group is for sure the authorities and you catherine is a fragile one but 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 group claiming a seventy percent success rate it appears tough love works if 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 yes of was sentenced to three and a half years in prison despite having half the number of. yes 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 don't 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 a 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 it's left to ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight to free their city of drugs sarah fair. you're catching bag and as part of sarah's extensive research into the story she spent time seeing for herself the controversial methods and at one of the rehabilitation centers. not 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. and just fed bread and water and very basic feeds was there essentially going cold turkey. people have been going through the treatment at the

time and he'd come through a managed to get clean have now moved on with their lives they said it's incredibly hard i mean quiting a drug addictions never going to be easy actually this huge support network that they have here and the fact that they're all in it. really is very very helpful you got people in this 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 obviously not particularly capable of making logical decisions themselves so for the raid that we went on. they trained the persons 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. so coming out for you here on r t

on handouts we look at why it's more profitable to be out of work in britain and how the saudis are trying to weed out. those really. and the run up to the first civilian trial of a gun tunnel a detainee on american soil right wing american media was promising chaos in the streets of new york but with a kickoff of the case in lower manhattan the hysteria seems to have been groundless ati's in the citric story. but the main problem isn't security same problem on the head no no how many intelligence secrets will we surrender during this process or terrorist or whatever 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 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 of one ton 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 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 lonely journalists here with not much enthusiasm to find out what's really going on inside the courtroom. one of the biggest concerns of the mainstream media profits is that thousands of policemen would be needed to provide security in the area and that billions and billions of dollars would be wasted on policemen for

everything around them to be able to make sure that nothing goes wrong but clearly you know obviously that is far from reality another big arguments against terror suspects including guy lonnie being tried here was that there would be 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 border. 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 mysterious death of former k.g.b. officer i'm excited to meet an anchor almost four years ago is still causing a serious rift between britain and russia the case was again that john to have a visit by british foreign secretary william hague to him at both presidents to make sure that if an russian foreign minister sergei another old but as catarina assad overfull with display disagreements the two are seeking to repair damaged relations. it doesn't didn'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 back 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 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 a force. to work within the political brain but the laws of both countries will remain in place so nothing much has changed with that it's again the situation and it seems. 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 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. and professor on the whole even though the king's

college of war studies department in london says that security in afghanistan and pakistan could prove grounds for cooperation 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 off to the us and britain withdraw 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 and to taliban forces you know after we leave of course britain is playing with once again a very minor part compared to the united states 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 off the past two weeks is a very unreliable. where is roots for russia and russian influence there is in central asia an absolutely essential lifeline without them. position afghanistan

be much more endangered. nearly one in eight british households has no one in war 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 child. 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 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 doing anything well just to stand there in. the cars can't go anywhere that do anything with the kids growing up and well most painful well of out far past. when there are so andrea also you get 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 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 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 those 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 to. your advocates r.t. . as casualties in afghanistan rise and prospects for the war seem never less clear another nato member is pulling out of the campaign italy's foreign minister has announced 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 thirty four time troops member trip members have lost their lives since the start of the campaign in two thousand and four and malkovich xenos founder and director of the global strategy project says italy might have said the will is in motion but with such a long time scale that it's may not trying to plan. during the last nine years of the campaign hasn't been a real serious for true. and coherent strategic.

in the last few months we've seen much more of a serious attempt to me just the most recent troops arrived the full amount of troops on the quote unquote as we refer to as the surge is only one of the summer so it's going to take time before you start seeing any results it's 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 a difference 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 and there was an uproar from the political establishment to a complete thing 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 two thousand and 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. let's check some other world

news so they were being glued to the ongoing rescue operation of chilean mine it's been stuck underground for more than two months and we're bringing you live pictures now from chile and so far twenty six men have successfully made it to this sadness and been reunited with their families at the more than they're working on the rescue operation on the twenty seventh so no one is required in recorded history has survived as long tramp on the ground as the miners the releases the long awaited light had the end of the tunnel for the man but they still have to undergo rigorous physical and psychological tests. and. twenty seven miles on this surface now. so. pictures from chile at the moment. also the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has wrapped up at all of the balkans final stop

was called previously belittling bosnia and serbia in all three regions clinton tried to persuade the governments to make concessions and political will to better reflect multi ethnic diversity and return should promised support for both nato membership but while governments seem keen to negotiate with majority of the subpopulation against such words. u.s. forces based in south korea have conducted an aerial drill in the city of which they were to have been joined by south korean helicopters but they didn't take part the exercises come as seoul joins a u.s. led coalition and as intercepting ships to prevent the transfer of weapons of mass destruction north korea has warned it would consider the south's participation in the initiative as a declaration of war. 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 also used in his bubble skis keeping an eye on the preparations. 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 elliptical struction higher up in the mountains near across 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 and 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 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 nations 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 growing 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 tested 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. that money makes the world go round but when the global economy was spinning faster than ever before no one would listen to those claiming it was about to come to a grinding halt in just a moment as his lower emmett's his from a top german financial expert who insisted the downturn was around the corner.

professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. no you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your projections for the year zero 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 world 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 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 states we did eighty. facto 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 just to shocks like this so what should we do you know that should the year is there and 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 shot 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 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 for germany and also for europe i mean what what happens if you have a strong economy like germany's of course the doj mark would appreciate over time which again would help the neighboring economies to export more so it would give purchasing pile to the germans and so good by itself be a 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 and adjustments that would be good for everybody but hasn't the euro been more stable than the deutsche mark was in the ten and twenty years leading up to your race introduction and lower inflation might as well isn't that a measure of the european crisis 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 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 same 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. 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 what would your plan b. . plan b. is to think about return to national currencies or to return to korea southern bloc or whatever to have currency union some 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 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. . thank you very much thank you.

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