it was a morning rush hour in the moscow subway with passengers al boring their way through the crowd there is little that can make them pause at this time but here he was the terminator. i saw lots of people and camera flashes then the security service came out followed by arnold schwarzenegger i thought to myself well you don't see people like that often in moscow and the ticket barrier closed on him he got stuck people got it open a few minutes of course and let him pass but now he knows. or in the will schwartz nader role just one stop but it was enough for him to post to weep that muscovites allegedly like their public transport had his journey lasted for more than ten minutes he might well have changed his impression but the russian authorities pulled out all stops for the coliform in governor providing him with police asked courts and a permanent right of way. it was in june that schwartz made their hostage the

russian president giving him a tour of silicon valley and showcasing his very masculine boots. it is not clear whether medvedev wondered what it's like to be in shorts nager shoes but one month later the governator even most go promoting russia's own version of a high tech hub. and it's great when i met president medvedev in a pretty fornia thirty years of vision and a very clear direction where he wants to go and is very impatient and i think that we want to do everything that we can screen for nuance and as americans because it is to our interest to make russia successful yet as the presentation showed even arnie makes mistakes. that our business leaders are going to find great partnerships with the so we are russian. just shows no one i'm perfect. a pap project but a taxi be

a russian president this cocoa or park has been denying to spearhead innovation and scientific research in russia and the me to admit it had no difficulties asking for help. we are extremely interested in your considerable experience we are not ashamed of learning we must admit that sadly enough we learnt behind in many respects and we do expect that our corporation will bring about positive results frowns on twitter made better french words and they give praise to each other for their vision and to the delight of all he's found the governor promised that he'll be back and the first terminator movie innovation had gone so far that machines including schwarzenegger's own character tried to exterminate the human race ironically with his involvement in this cocker project the governator may actually make these plots a bit more plausible but at the end of the day he can always turn against the machines and save the world like in the second movie so i guess there's nothing to

fear it's a boycott artsy skolkovo. well coming up in the program the self styled drug fight has thrown behind bars. kidnapping addicts and forcing them off the needle only to come on the persecution themselves. the first months on a chunk. vyse cut off from civilization that's what awaits a team of russian scientists who have just involved on a new mission their aim is to study the untapped arctic riches in an attempt to boost russia's claim to a slice of the pie well it is a country which overs joined their journey. that like a little volcano about three hundred meters to the right keep right. at the time these job requires a jewess precision the captain is running his jaw and new clear eyes breaker at the lowest speed possible together with a group of scientists he's on an important mission searching for an old form and

the piece of ice to host the north pole thirty eight station deep teen people and two dogs will be floating on eyes for a year conducting unique stone g.'s environment to put the mission is getting harder there are fewer and fewer suitable ice fields every year before we could find up to forty of them but now are combing the whole arctic in search of one of. the arctic ice cap is definitely getting fener at times the drill plunges down less than a meter explorers say just five years ago that drew had moved into thirty meter three guys sheets. finally up to several days of searching and dozens of test trails explorers announced peace is it. to find a suitable i spilled it on low to the arctic station is just top of the problem it

is crucial not to damage the delicate that's why during the several days that i'm loading continues the ais breaker remains stationary even then not from this giant russell or a gust of wind could lead to a crack and that will mean the whole sation having to be wrapped up again and a new search for yet another suitable ice floe. pieces were the hardest part of the mission starts the hardest for the helicopter the pilots work nonstop the talk last performance without a single landing. despite a snowstorm everything goes without a hitch. three hundred tons of equipment are safely unloaded on to the ice the most precious cargo is a deep water multi-beam equal sound for a year it will be gathering evidence to prove that the bridge is part of russia's

continental shelf russia's in a race to submit its claim to the un should yield for twenty five thirteen. or you dismissed some say what are the russians doing in the arctic on a poor night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia they're working in accordance with all international treaties and we will work day and night as necessary. as night falls in the arctic these fireworks mark the beginning of the real mission the eyes breaker hands back to the mainland while the fifteen man left face to face with a harsh paul the night a year of freezing conditions lies ahead for them with painstaking start is of the arctic world to reveal the treasures underneath it sit in the garage of our t. brumby arctic. while on the way in a few minutes from gearing up for the race of its life.

to roll into russia for the first time you can find out where and when you can book your hearts. kidnapping people and locking them up for weeks this is what a group of russian activists is doing but they're victims of drug addicts unable to kick the habit on their own the group's tactics have drawn public praise but also learned three members behind bars. first reports. a drugs raid gets underway and after hours of waiting for a contact to give a signal suddenly everyone is up and running the police are involved they're not taking part a law enforcement officers the raid is being organized by a vigilante style group for me catherine he named themselves the city without narcotics a group using controversial tactics to target drug dealers and rehabilitate drug

addicts this is a drug called there's a morphine locally known as crocodile it's a continual drug 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 you very hard you've got a young family. lying around the house next door a young child and a mother who looks barely more than a child herself extremely scared and upset and it really makes it very apparent just how sensitive this issue. is a patient 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 calling 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 well we have to take the initiative on the relationship between the authorities and you catherine there is a fragile one that in eleven years they have managed to pull their energies to fight the drug issue expectedly those caught in the raids face either arrest or we have this run by the great 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. story 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 initial need to go similar initiatives have been dealt with very differently. 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 in both cities the foundation's have vowed to continue the fight in the face of what they say is government inaction. that people have to take the problem personally i do 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 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 sara fair. catch in bag. moscow is just days away from getting a new mayor the united russia party which holds a majority in the city parliament says it will support surrogate sabean nominated by president medvedev fifty two year old sabean was born in the siberian village and spent most of his career working away from moscow he moved to the capital only five years ago replacing as the head of the russian presidential administration the previous mayor was sacked by the president after losing his trust people can offer from the united russia party explains why so b.n. is believed to be the right man for the job. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of city or federal importance moscow is the special city and the supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create

a financial center in moscow i think said banneker enormous experience hall for work in the go mint he is known as an efficient professional he has managed to create a fact of system within the government stuff he was quite successful as a governor of one of the richest regions in russia so he has enough experience to do so and besides i think it's also a matter of personal trust because he's well known by the president and by the prime minister and they trust him as a person and as a professional and that was that to me to put a connal from the united russia party african american babies in care in the u.s. may have a longer wait for the nuns when it comes to finding a home many couples opt out of adopting black babies despite official figures showing more than half of all children up for adoption in the country are black what is going to come has this report. people like to emulate their showbiz idols but they don't seem to be following the stars when it comes to adopting children

many still see things in black and white color was not an issue with this family when they adopted illinois we were much more interested in having you know getting a child's words free that was our primary focus we really weren't interested too much in what the child looked like of little you know why is one of very few black children in america adopted by a white family a study carried out by a group of economists suggest that african-american babies are five times less likely to be adopted then children have any other race some say one reason for this is misrepresentation of the black community in the media when you see things on television and you often see our children portrayed in a very negative way well that has a connotation for individuals that may be interested in adopting and while we have come a long ways in this country racism is still prevalent sanders says families need to be prepared before they decide to adopt a child of color and once a child goes into african-american child goes into

a family that is caucasian that family is no longer caucasian that family becomes a family of color at that point ok so the whole family dynamic changes it seems not a whole lot of adoptive parents in the u.s. are willing to change their family dynamics most want their adopted children to look more like them and the majority of parents willing to adopt in the united states are caucasian but almost half of the children available for adoption are black a report here says parents were willing to pay thirty thousand dollars more for a non african-american baby colored wasn't even if you look around your table and your guests are all of the same color then you shouldn't be adopting a child of a different color but race doesn't seem to be an issue for thousands of americans who go to china or india to adopt. but when it comes to domestic adoption color makes a difference while there are still signs of prejudice in the american adoption field

there is no prejudice in this home a seventeen month old queen was adopted by two moms we've had to face challenges that straight people don't want this world or. up for the job they chose to raise their two adopted children in a very ask equally diverse neighborhood of racists and they are here too but i think in other parts of the country it's worse so here people don't even bat an eye . or a black boy you know whatever obviously. parents they came to the adoption agency put their second child also african american by and large our family is largely irish english german descent french canadian you know so smart usually a lot of white people and we need i would prefer a little more color and in our family. going to shut down our washington d.c. . well still to come for you this hour here on r t on the way for your show on the

by society. find out how thousands of widows in india are forced to live their last days alone after being rejected by their families and communities. because the international olympic committee has praised the preparations for the twenty fourteen winter games in the host city of sochi the russian resort will be making a double sporting debut that year as the formula one boss has signed a contract to run one of the world's fastest races there to ortiz dennis but also he brings us a sneak preview of the new track site. promoted to carlo to malaysia formula one is one of the world's most popular racing competitions and know it's coming to russia. bernie ecclestone the president and c.e.o. of formula one management the right in person to meet with prime minister putin and to secure a six year long deal it clearly wasn't

a race against time to come more than three decades of talks first with soviet and now with the russian leaders to find a suitable venue the most q. and st petersburg dropped out but the city of sochi in the cell which will also host the winter olympic games in two thousand and fourteen will be the first of the checkered flag we are on the beach in the middle it's a loan with which could quite possibly see part of a future formula one race track from here you can see where the olympic venues are going to be just a few hundred meters away and right over there the big ice palace the purpose built super circuit will run through the so-called coastal cluster of the olympic park it will use parts of the existing infrastructure as well as a newly constructed track or on some of the band use the first race is a scheduled for the end of two thousand and fourteen when the olympics will be over giving organizers a chance to arrange a can the dacian and provide logistics former ferrari team members says that building a circuit in russia should be

a real crowd pleaser especially with some homegrown talent like the dalai people taking part it's one of the leading countries in the world it's it's it's you know . an emerging economy. formula one should be there it would be great for from the want to be there it would be great for russia to have a formula one race and in a place like so she. now with petrol for the russian driver i think that's that's it's a nice and energy. local administration and sponsors are planning to spend somewhere between one and two hundred million. dollars on the circuit and be another forty million annually to use the f one brand but with hundreds of thousands of formula one fans here is russian say the game is surely worth the candle for a certain new it will only bring benefits and not only in terms of image but people will be spending money here and the world small and midsize business will be paying more taxes so it will bring economic life so i think it's really very interesting

and useful project. last year's sochi already hosted and the one demo competition on the central streets joint thousands of spectators from all over the region so with the new circuit engines will ring and cars going at top speeds it looks like the world's most exciting race we find in new port here the sports keep switching. authorities in russia's southern cross nadar region have declared monday a day of mourning for victims of recent flash floods the daily which has taken the lives of thirteen people with nine more still missing more than twenty villages were completely swamped with some fifteen hundred people caught in the flooding the storm caused rivers to burst their banks and led to mudslides in the mountains several sections of the north cocain railroad region is now bracing itself for more bad weather as the emergencies ministry has issued a fresh storm. well time now for some other international news this hour here

in our world update iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad says the islamic republic is ready to get back to international talks over its controversial nuclear program the negotiations stalled a year ago and later the u.n. security council impose strict sanctions against terror as it refused to halt the reigning enrichment russia of the u.s. britain china france and germany are expected to take part in the talks which are likely to take place in mid november in vienna. pakistani militants of stage a shootout in the country's largest city of karachi leaving at least twenty five dead the motive is on. but police suggest the killings are linked to gangs controlled by rival political groups violence came as a byelection was being held following the murder of a deputy of the local assembly had been fears beforehand that the poll could trigger a fresh ethnic and political bloodshed in karachi. pope benedict has officially recognized australia's first saint mary mackillop was

a nun from melbourne who worked with needy children she was come anigh is the long with five others including a canadian monk credited with reckless healings because of who died back in one thousand nine clash with senior clergy and was briefly excommunicated for allegedly exposing a priest who had committed sex abuse. the german chancellor angela merkel says efforts to build a diverse society have failed so far immigrants need to work harder to integrate comments come amid a new wave of foreign feeling in the country in a recent survey by the foundation a third of germans said they think foreigners should be sent home if there isn't enough work the poll also revealed a quarter of those who participated sympathize with nationalist or racist sentiments mollies a researcher who conducted the study says that people are more willing to admit their extremist views in two thousand and ten. in our studies since two thousand and two we can see that there are many people who are undecided regarding these

questions that we are posing in our interviews and we think that many of these people in fact they agree with the statements but they don't really want to tell it to say it because they know that it's not socially accepted and i think that this in this year in two thousand and ten people were mo. more openly every thirteenth person once a few are back it is a high proportion and it is for sure it is a frightening result you can observe that people in general like democracy they approved democracy in theory but in practice they are not really satisfied how democracy works in practice and that was malise weissman a researcher from the university in germany into women who lose their husbands are often ostracized by indian society many even shunned by their families who see them as a burden with nowhere else to go thousands flock to

a holy city where they wait to die consume the sense of this report and you may find some of the images disturbing. corpse lies on the streets over in darwin in northern india but no one stopping the dead woman was a brutal point to carry bad luck even in death in traditional hindu wisdom when a woman's husband dies she is considered to be a liability for the family the marriage is legally possible but from the pardon it's a patriarchal society and man wanted some of the other to frame it in such a way that everything is to his advantage which has been coming too but he could remarry you could be what he wants and he did pray woman from those things bad work balance feels she has nothing left to live for as a widow she was deserted by her extended family so she traveled to the holy city of rome and auburn and spends her time reading hindu scriptures. i have no

family now i have to complete my life that is if i get food to eat that's fine if not that's also fine shunned by society sixteen thousand widows day in this city because it's associated with the hindu god krishna the lover go on whom they believe they are now married to they can be found on the streets with many forced to beg for scraps of food. my husband died of cancer and used to pull our savings trees treatments and he died no one would look after me so i came to france happen . the social service organization guild of service runs two homes for windows in the city here hundred eight even in the house and fed it's been a long journey for one woman who came here two years ago. most people can't even down because they're helpless in the beginning i felt alone and would cry all the time but slowly every time i just did to my new life here life is not easy for

widows on the fringes of hindu society yet there are organizations working to overcome centuries of prejudice to give readers a chance to live with dignity the bigger challenge will be convincing families across the years downs and religious not to abandon them in the first place god and saying party new delhi. obesity in the us is becoming one of the biggest problems in the nation while later online journalist laurie hoffman is asks new yorkers how to stop the families from swallowing america and with obesity is only a matter of what you put in your mouth. it's cheaper to eat unhealthy then it is c. healthy i mean you can go to mcdonald's and get a dollar menu and feed an bunch of your family for like five bucks or you can go to the organic grocery store and buy an apple i'm going to say it's laziness i think too many people are more concerned about finding what brings them pleasure.

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capital to get its new mayor within a week off to present. four candidates. a deputy prime minister was previously governor of one of russia's oil rich regions. well i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories just fifteen minutes from now but first the venezuelan president hugo chavez speaks exclusively to the spanish channel all the u.s. role enough in american affairs and help the western media a trying in his view to demonize him that's next. with or without knowing today i'm talking to the president of what his way of chavez thank you very much for this opportunity. you once called former u.s. president george w. bush the devil.