in fact russian officials are very ecstatic about the events which have been taking place recently the head of russia's federal narcotics control about not i was giving a press conference earlier today he spoke about this amazing display off cooperation between russia and nato which has been exemplified by a special operation which took place on the border between afghanistan and pakistan just on thursday morning the sneeze laboratories were in the mountainous area near the pakistan border after we gave information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides plan the operation for three months we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones the whole operation lasted less than four hours we discovered and destroyed four drug producing labs and seized more than one hundred kilos of heroin. in fact we got our hands on the some unique shots from that operation now they were going to go over to us by russia's federal their products services and you can see the

labs in all the details the opium that was news for the production of the heroin and morphine intact in these pictures so again both the russian and nato authorities very extatic in fact regularly ecstatic about working together on craving this problem russia is especially particularly enthusiastic about this show of joint effort that has not been seen before course again is that is that in a very close proximity to russia so most of the drug traffic actually goes into russia russia is sort of a gateway to the rest of the world the rich heroin and other an aquatic status from the canister and of course that leads to russia suffering the most because that the number of drug addicts in the country grows exponentially here by here and russia has been in talks with nato and particularly with the united states for the last several years in order to curb this the soul of the drug traffic unfortunately there have been differences in how to do that because russian authorities believe that wiping out the poppy fields entirely they've got to stand is the surest way to

do way with drug trafficking which you go through the majority of drugs trafficked into russia are growing in afghanistan if we stop production in afghanistan we will stop the drug traffic we live right next to assume huge amounts of drugs the traffic passes through the number of sent to asian states damaging weakening and the stabilising them thus they become less effective at into sent to the traffic but unfortunately nato officials believe that the poppy fields are the only source of income for afghanistan present so it is not the way to go also you have to remember that the money from from drug trafficking goes to sponsor international terrorism militants who also foreign into russia southern other regions and that of course is also a major concern so russia and nato have to really work. gether on the eradicating the problem drug trafficking in order to solve this well the problem of international terrorism and this it will be the issue which will be discussed at

the lisbon nato summit with russian president putin that it will attend on the for twenty years as well as the head of nato and there's progress and will be in moscow on the birth this and of course this is down to be also one of the major issues to be discussed during his visit. joining me now in the studio is altie is a military contributor. now you certainly have some perspective to bring to the story here you were so good officer in the one hundred eighty s. in afghanistan in two thousand and five and two thousand and six you were the first secretary to the russian embassy in kabul talk to us about your experience here on the current operation going on in afghanistan how is it going that first of all i would like to highlight the importance of this particular operation eats only it's one of the latest best example if the reason we'll the reason weight the russian stance was very logical and consistent that you instead of talking instead of providing the service about that concern you'd better do something and this something extra leads to classical sort of

a type of operation which spits not conducting was conducted in the in the early eighty's when there narco threat was became. became more and more at parent and it was used by the cia as a as an effective addition to the enticing good propaganda to negatively influence the morale of the soviet people of the soviet forces on the ground but it was not but fighting the counterterrorism operation was not the primarily objective because usually during dispense not sorties they would just search and destroy there and we just had to. load it up ammo radio equipment and the drug speech were used as a kind of cash to expand their operation and undermine and undermine their spirit of the soviet troops and corrupt and to corrupt them using drugs effectively trying

to undermine the whole soviet principle of forces over there you're going to find me let's turn our attention to the collective effort to tell me why is nato so interested in helping afghanistan do you think well because of it nato has already failed. completely so for them the russian insistence this is this is a political. it's a diplomatic efforts to shift the responsibility of the nato failure to the to russia to share the burden of failure and to make it more collective you know not to nato because it has no strategic objective except of self expansion to want to do so nato is desperate now desperate for help at sea and for them this is like provide the front of the graceful exit eventually or when they say nato it's the nato we're talking about the harbinger of that corporation is between the russia and the united states afghanistan defect it's it american protectorate

and americans have already understood that they have a lot of to learn from the soviet lessons positive speaking of those lessons let's talk about this once again you were a soviet officer in afghanistan in the eighty's you've seen the rugged mountainous terrain and you've seen the low lying areas during those years that you about back in afghanistan was the drug trade as massive as it is now well it is not massive but it was already the first indication well this would be didn't think about the out of the same usual suspects at that time he was given monopoly by the by pakistani intelligence i s i am not going to use to expand that. the laboratories the drug labs all and all along the border of afghanistan and pakistan to finance and expand and the training camps for for mujahideen so this is it the drug war it's not the part of the enticing proxy war unleashed by the united

states so that now this is ironic they demanded states stepped into the blade and finally at least started to do so jointly with the russia however bear in mind that the main difference between american and the russian approach americans that trying to come. interdiction the russian approach has generally run off. several times. aerial eradication. so it boils down between the approach of cause and effect as former by the way as former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. used to say if there are no drug fields there is no problem with drug trafficking and that's exactly what our counter drug chief of port well now you know now with russian forces helping nato troops destroy these drugs and this seizure in the past twenty four hours over two hundred million doses of heroin certainly a good point right now in the drug in the drug war and not going to stand. military

contributor thank you. well still to come for you in the program here on r t sale season for american left. with you know. some of the items on sale. with the risk of pollution and disease. and myth come true as one of the streets. from the woods. well tough financial discipline and penalties for european nations trying to take a free ride under pressure from germany and france e.u. leaders agreed that the only way to keep the euro from. explains how the eurozone hopes to shore up its troubled economy. this is what's turned out to be the u.k.'s

pass into the realms of financial security because those who are using this are now in brussels heading into another raul over the euro zone france and germany are arguing for changes to the lisbon treaty adopted controversially less than a year ago they want punishments for countries that are fiscally irresponsible and a permanent centralised funds to bail those countries out when they do get into trouble essentially they don't want to pay the price for other countries irresponsible money management ever again as they did earlier this year where europe in all dues so there you are critical of this economic block a trading block. very powerful bloc of crises if the individual member states who have picked up the pieces and. they meet.

but this is the euro skeptics say the reason it's not working is because it's fundamentally flawed the economies in the euro differ so much it's impossible to have a common monetary policy and it's the strong germany particularly paid the lion's share into a seven hundred fifty billion euro fund to bail out greece earlier this year it was a move that was opposed by more than half of. chancellor merkel now says she couldn't do that again without risking from the constitutional court in germany new countries still want to join the euro zone and they would welcome her tight. poland as an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone we want to join the euro zone with the greek crisis would be impossible we won't rule will not let it happen in theory changes to the lisbon treaty would mean individual countries would be able to hold a referendum on whether to stay in the e.u.

but there is increasing your a skepticism relating to the cost of being in the e.u. and the benefits involved if countries did hold it's not a tall clear what would remain of the union. let's stay with the story now and talk to alexander a german member of the european parliament joining us live from frankfurt so we saw you saying a lot of financial concerns inside the eurozone tell me this so germany and france got their way and convince the e.u. to consider changes to the lisbon treaty is this a case of the strongest countries bullying others to get their way. well it certainly is not the best example of cooperation if you have two member states running ahead and then expecting that twenty five others are going to follow instead of trying to find a common approach together with twenty seven member states and one has seen the reactions at the council so far that it is not very welcomed what germany and france are trying to do at the moment are now. money you cause break ups in every

part of life do you think the united europe is heading for a political divorce perhaps well it is not a political divorce but it certainly is a political question how serious we are about tighter sanctions when certain countries might endanger the eurozone as a whole and when we're trying to find a coordinated economy approach so it is definitely a political question now and it might develop into a crisis if member states are not trying to be realistic to try to preserve what they have let's stay on that subject there with the politics aspect here i mean it is the plan to politically penalize financially irresponsible member states enough of a threat to pull them into line do you think well just this threat itself is certainly not going to help we had that was in the civility and growth spurt for the last couple of years and want to seen that it obviously did not help to prevent a problem like for example the greek crisis what we would need is an automatic sanction in case the deficit is so high that it starts to endanger other countries

and it violates a symbol to engross as long as member states are not willing to give in to an automatic mechanism this ability and growth will remain as weak as it is all right alexandra of a whole member of the european parliament live for us from brussels thank you thank you for the withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq is due to end next year but those who have already pulled out are leaving behind a dangerous legacy junk to business men it could be worth millions but as paula found out that it could also be polluted and dangerous. it's the city of mosques and it's fast becoming the city of leftovers junk left behind by the american army now dot's the falutin landscape. lot of things generators car bodies engines all for sale for just a few dollars the highest bidder gets to walk away with second hand goods american soldiers no longer want. the prices are tracked quite reasonable here so the

sellers claim they came across the beach in different ways some they found some was stolen the wrist they bought a loss was just given to them. as for me i would buy a wheel rocky's or not o'keefe and rob which we say take your junk away with you. across iraq camps like this have been evacuated by the american army and handed over to the iraqi security forces property and equipment that has nothing taking to afghanistan has either been returned home to the united states of mind but american officials worry that the tens of millions of dollars of equipment left behind could end up in the wrong hands. talk to the americans didn't leave anything behind for four years i'm sure of it all the stuff it's all due regard. to humvees the regular army get out from the american army we had to buy them. anybody can come here to shop but very few do there's no love lost for things american in iraq today.

people here in america if they are also scared that these things may be polluted in cause disease or up to save says he wouldn't take a chance buying anything here he's been warned by local media they could be poisonous substances in the abandoned us military camps were the main diseases including chose to eat and counsel and the concern is backed up by the iraqi government but look at who acquitted the cause. there must have been a great impact on the environment a great number of weapons were used in this world and on a wide scale our tests show an increase in pollution with. a good chunk of the american army has left iraq in what u.s. officials are calling their biggest movement of people and machines since world war two but the soldiers and the equipment that remains i was stark reminder that the war is not quite over. there r.t.

iraq. it's one of the biggest myths about russia hungry bears roaming the streets in search of a human feast for dinner but now it seems they could actually be some truth to it a shortage this year of natural food supply forced many wild animals to head into towns peter all of it has more on a bare necessities. the been one of the iconic images of russia recently though the relationship between these animals and the people who live alongside them has been less than cordial the searing heat and fires which swept through russia this summer destroyed much of the bear's winter food supply forcing them to search for alternatives in these russian city of sifted carter a twenty six year old man had a very lucky escape he was attacked by a bear right in the center of the city the man was bitten in the neck and realizes how fortunate he was that i still can't understand how i escaped death i somehow managed to push the animal away so he felt crushing

a fence. elsewhere in the city there was a more macabre incident involving a bear while visiting a cemetery two women saw what they believed to be a large man crouching going to grief as they got closer they realized that it was in fact that there was a dungarpur body and was feeding on it the woman screamed scared beyond way it's at least hundreds took turns to guard the cemetery couldn't sell far there has been no sign of the band so we had the situation under control who. it's not just the human residents that have had some close encounters with bears airport c.c.t.v. caught this guard dog having to run for its life after drawing the attention of an inquisitive bear it another form if we were told that the bear came from the direction of the tongue the dog attacked it trying to smother the dog the dog got away in started leading from bear way from the house a lot of the lowest bears have also taken to attacking livestock as a source of food in the u.

kamensky district of central russia hunters had to be employed to protect cattle in some cases humans make problems for themselves with bears it's strongly recommended not to try and feed the animals in order to get a photo opportunity so as incidence of contact between humans and increase around russia at this time of year it's important that we respect these iconic creatures so as not to become the next victim of bear attack peter oliver r.t. . you can always find all of our reports as well as expert analysis blogs and photo galleries of how web site r.t. dot com and here's a glimpse of what else you'll come across right now and on winning a russian movie director calls for a revival of the sorest ideal even submit his political manifesto to the kremlin consider life. hungry for change several russian young men are facing prosecution for a protest against mcdonald's find out about them before dot com. time

now for the business news with covering. welcome to the program good to have you with us the russian government has unveiled its general plan to develop the oil industry until twenty twenty speaking at a conference into some our region prime minister is going to put in stress the need to increase investment in oil extraction in order to maintain current levels. remain potential law is an increasing the efficiency of all extraction as well as the development of small or medium sized fields especially as many of them are located in already developed areas as a result of increasing reserves and the development of new fields and improving efficiency we can anticipate that the current level of oil extraction of five

hundred million tonnes per year will continue for the next ten years. now while maintaining one extract it is a priority for the governments the countries refiners are facing the prospect of having to pay increase taxes and as a set of nickel reports this may make some downstream operations profitable. talk me of spent five and a half billion dollars to build the state of the art oil refinery in central russia the refining official sell this complex is unique for russia line to seven per cent of all the crude that the arrives here is turned into a usable product with only three per cent waste analysts warn however such expensive projects may stop making economic sense if the government increases x. producing on refined products up to ninety percent of the tax on crude. can from you'll see it says the government is thinking about the conscious deficit and which

areas of the oil industry it's most wants to develop they just might be looking for this sector that it's not yet tax and taxed enough and not this generation cars and so what they see there with them serving is that there's there's a. lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the shift to offer up some segment at the moment the average x. producer on refined products such as patch oil and kerosene is about fifty five percent of that on crude the prime minister says the rival two hundred fifty or refineries in russia producing a very low quality product bots making a lot of money on pressure and tional taxation putin wants the government to introduce a new tax regime for the oil sector by the end of this year but analysts warn against an indiscriminate price for refiners the best way to turn courage complex refining to boost second or capacity would probably be to increase it slightly so

that companies that are producing too much heavy fuel oil will penalised the biggest problem for the oil sector is the lack of new oil field projects and the massive on their investment in the construction of the government wants to ensure there is no tailing off in the contras crude output even if. that is done at the expense of refiners. business. and looking at the markets most asian stocks are lower as investors look to u.s. economic growth report and federal reserve stimulus measures to present you finished off one point seven percent investor sentiment was undermined by a stronger yen and that took its toll and exporters spent a lot of make a modest quarterly profit surged on sales recovery despite high yeah. european stocks are lower on friday london's footsies down point six percent and germany's dax is losing point three percent the south traders are cautious ahead of the third

quarter u.s. g.d.p. data miners are weaker on lower metals prices as a result as of august the anglo-american rio t two and xstrata all losing between one point three and two percent and here in russia markets fell following declines in asia and down this our banking stocks are weighing on the this is both burbank and d.t.b. are selling point seven percent energy majors a bucking the trend on the r.t.s. gas from newport. over half a percent. russian central bank has left its financing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the third straight month following the meeting on friday bank but i see said that weakening consumer demand and uncertain prospects in the global economy posed added risk for economic growth. and holly metal is floating around fifty percent of its shares on the london stock exchange russia's top precious metal producer could raise up to one billion dollars from the company plans to undertake the listing through

a new parent company wholly metal international registered in london in july. the world's top software producer microsoft increased net income by more than a half in the first three months of its trading year growth was driven by strong corporate demand for the new windows seven operating system figures but it beat expectations on wall street. now the european commission plans to launch legal proceedings against its own member states that pay over flight fees to russia the move is a roundabout measure to eliminate billions of dollars in fees that russia charges european airlines to fly over siberia germany france finland and austria will be the first to face proceedings but the other twenty three member states are also under investigation the commission says making unilateral deals with russia is competitive as the aviation rules require all you citizens and companies be treated equally. possible to mine what if the solution is really simple and has already

been outlined by russia the mechanism of these commercial agreements will be dismantled but it will happen in such a manner not to shock the companies which get the payments at the same time russia will consistently raise its fees for navigation services to european levels taking into consideration the distances in russia it will be enough to compensate the economy. that's the update i have for you but you can always find more business stories if you log on to our web site that's r t dot com slash business.

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nineteen forty five dot com. the hour here in moscow you are with the headlines now and the president had cooperation in fighting drugs russia and nato joined forces to stop the flow of heroin coming out of afghanistan seizing a ton of it and one operation. the e.u. leaders summit has agreed on measures for stricter financial discipline and new ways of handling economic downturn. including the need to change the lisbon treaty to punish countries. picking up the pieces american forces pulling out of iraq leave behind piles of unwanted and poisonous and junk

for locals to clean up and sell it to their home. eat not sleep instead of plunging into a peaceful hibernation hungry russian bears head into a. gun sometimes people. now takes you want to tour all haunted moscow looking for creative ways to celebrate halloween in the russian capital. this weekend thousands of people will dress up as.