eof 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 this thursday morning these laboratories were in the mountainous area near the pakistan border after we gave information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides planned 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 nine hundred kilos of heroin. in fact we got our hands on the some unique shots from that operation now they were going 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 heroin and morphine in fact in these pictures so again both the russian and made to authorities very extatic in fact regularly extatic about working together on craving this problem

russia is especially particularly enthusiastic about this a 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 critics that's 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 the 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 in afghanistan is the surest way to do way with drug trafficking which you go to the majority's drugs trafficked into russia are growing in afghanistan if we stop opium production in afghanistan we will stop the drug traffic we live right next to assume huge amounts of drugs the

traffic passes through a number of sent to asian states damaging weakening and destabilizing them thus they become less effective in to sent to the traffic but unfortunately nato officials believe that the poppy fields are the only source of income for afghanistan's president 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 number twenty as well as the head of nato and there's progress and we'll be in moscow on the denver fifth and of course this is down to be also one of the major

issues to be discussed during his visit. and to discuss russia and nato drone operations in afghanistan and beyond i'm now joined by adam and i going to the end the editing chief of the international affairs magazine and advisor to russia's foreign minister good to see you sir so given the recently joint successful operation with nato and russia in afghanistan what do you think that says about the relationship between those two parties well i think it's a good start in a very very long road because more than one hundred laboratories producing here in afghanistan and only four was ruined now but nevertheless it's a very good start in terms that some methods of of working together. working out and i think it's very important. it's also important to it's a good message to the not good but owns the nato and russia will cooperate and fight them with no anti narcotics policy has long been

a bone of contention between russia and nato in afghanistan do you see a change you know it seems that you're thinking of a more optimistic future with more cooperation between nato and russia or is it possible will america ever agree as russia wants it to to destroy all the all the opium and all the poppy fields it's a very complex question because we don't know even things will go on you're going to stand with the royal of the united states in meta contingents from there but as i said it's only a start if you can imagine that the stockpiles of not of for and of course it's there for here and. it will be enough for one hundred years to. just to send this amount of heroin to russia and that's only a start and i think that. in general the criticism was out. there. so to say zero action towards the fields but the argument from me

towards that. and is the reason there is no jobs other jobs but i think it's insufficient reasons because we are talking about the lives of people now the russian foreign ministry has mentioned the possibility of sending more forces to afghanistan to help train the local police there and the possibility of sending helicopters other any other areas do you think that russia and nato can work together that when it comes to just a future relationship not only in afghanistan you're taking a global well we're waiting for when you need to doctrine that you will be adopted in. hope and i think the. people in moscow and in russia will analyze what is proposed actually but of course the important preventions are still there for the expanding of the need to the trend to legalize the action of a broader much broader than the historical borders of nater nevertheless we know

that. currently there are relationships between russia and nato. dealing with many issues including anti missile defense and so on and so forth and nothing to say about the groom and on the limitation of nuclear armaments so they are there are some very important issues so there certainly are some issues of cooperation between russia and nato but moments ago you mentioned the upcoming nato summit in lisbon the russian president will attend what should we expect him to say . i think that. there should be a balance russia will be very attentive this is just what's the situation i may say . to a big part of the russian elite madame albright is not a very popular person because she was true to the rule of the battle against

yugoslavia and we know her stance we know her so to say her beloved ideas and. you can now watch even that the people of nato in you are of germany they are already reforming their army making it more but more more more bio just refusing from tanks but expanding the armaments which will give the opportunity to act abroad widely abroad so i think we can't predict the reaction before we don't know the hard core of four of what is it there is doctrine but i think that is very positive that the president of russia is going there because dialogue is the most important thing if that really does it it certainly is a strong sign as the russian president will go to this nato summit in lisbon but also we're also taking with him this recent success of the joint cooperation with russia and nato in afghanistan and this big drug bust over the last twenty four hours or so autumn and i'm going to be editing chief of international affairs

magazine thank you you thank. well still to come in the program here on sale season for american. we rockies are not people we say take your junk away with just some of the items on sale at bargain prices with the risk of pollution and disease thrown in for free. come true. to the streets of. the woods by the summer heat wave of such. tough financial discipline penalties for european nations trying to take a free ride under pressure from germany and france leaders agreed that the only way to keep the euro from collapse. explains how the eurozone hopes to shore up its troubled economy. is what's turned out to be the u.k.

into the realms of financial security because those who. are now in brussels heading into an. over the euro. france and germany but changes to the lisbon treaty adopted controversially less than a year ago they want to punish countries that are fiscally irresponsible and a prominent centralized funds to bail these countries out when they do get into trouble if they don't want to pay the price of the country's irresponsible money management ever again as they did earlier this year where europe. so there you are we have created this economic block a trading block. a very powerful block where when there's a crisis it is individual members 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 eurozone dispersed so much it's impossible to have a common monetary policy and it's the strong who've suffered 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 german chancellor angela merkel now says she couldn't do that again without risking action from the constitutional many new countries still want to join the euro zone and they would welcome her title. is an aspiring european country that wants to join the euro zone but want to join the euro zone with the greek crisis would be impossible we want rules that 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 you're a skepticism relating to the cost of being in the e.u. and the benefits involved if countries did hold a vote it's not a tall clear what would remain of the union. reporting well it's on the job and member of the european parliament warns that the e.u. . financial troubles could lead to a political crisis. 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 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 to 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 but try to preserve what they have just as threat itself is certainly not going to help we had that was in the civility and gross effect 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 stability and growth pact as long as member states are not willing to give into an automatic mechanism the civility and growth will remain as weak as it is russia's navy has test launched its latest intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine this is the second successful trial of the block in a row after almost a dozen failed attempts navy officials say the previous problems were caused by production faults they've now been ironed out with strict electronic controls and the test was reported to have been flawless. is

a state of the art missile system capable of hitting targets up to ten thousand kilometers away it's hoped it will enter service in september next year along with a special purpose built nuclear submarine. the withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq is due to end of next year but those who have already pulled out leaving behind a dangerous legacy junk to business money could be worth millions but as paula slayer found out it could also be polluted and poisonous. it's the city of mosques and it's fast becoming the city of leftovers junk left behind by the american army now dots the falutin landscape. 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 what. prices are attracted quite reasonable here so the sellers claim they came across the beach in different ways some they found some was

stolen the risk they bought a loss was just given to them. as for me i wouldn't buy a wheel rocky's or not o'keefe and rubbish we say take your junk away with you. across iraq can fly this have been evacuated by the american army and handed over to the iraqi security forces property and equipment that has nothing taking 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. what walked the americans didn't leave anything behind for four years i'm sure of it all the stuff it's all generic and sort of the reconsider the humvees the regular army get 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 and 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 a lot of the people here manning diseases including chest related and cancer and the concern is backed up by the iraqi government a doctor though acquitted if you're the course muster. been a great impact on the environment a great number of weapons were used in this war and on a wide scale tests show an increase in pollution with. a good chunk of the american army has nifty rock in what u.s. officials are calling they biggest movement of people and machines since world war two but the soldiers and the equipment that remains i was stalked reminder that the war is not quite over. iraq. was

in both iraq and afghanistan change the lives of hundreds of thousands of american soldiers but what's more dangerous the frontline or medication given to personnel by their own commanders you can find out in a special report thirty g.m.t. on. i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains of being getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with the elizabeth always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare

side effects serious life changing side effects. well let's go to some other news in brief now from around the world and indonesia as most of volatile volcano is erupt again after just hours of calm another disaster a tsunami had hit the island several days before but to natural disasters have claimed more than four hundred lives but scores are still missing rescue teams are continuing to search the worst hit areas in the hope of reaching survivors. striking a french workers have block the entrance to a supermarket near mar say they used burning tires to stop anyone entering and sang songs that demonstration protesters say they will continue strikes until the government scrapped plans to increase the age of retirement. well 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 that it could actually be some truth in it a shortage this year of natural food supply forced many wild animals to head into towns peter out of a house 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 a twenty six year old man had a very lucky escape and he was attacked by a band right in the center of the city the man was bitten in the neck and realizes how fortunate he was. i still can't understand how i escaped death he somehow managed to push the animal away so he crushing a fence. elsewhere in the city there was a mormon carb incident involving

a bear while visiting a cemetery two women saw what they believed to be a large man crouching going to grieve as they got closer they realized that it was in fact that there was a dungarpur body and was feeding on it the women scream scared the animal away spits at least hundreds took turns to guard the cemetery but it's still far there has been no sign of the banks that 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 get a bonus for me 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 it when started leaving for bear way from the house a lot of it all us bears have also taken to attacking livestock as a source of food in the year kamensky district of central russia hunters had to be employed to protect cattle in some cases humans made 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 rush hour 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. . and for those who aren't scared of bears we have some more scary sites on the way this time including the supernatural. if well the retail industry should be happy every year more money is spent on how we can goods here in russia and whether you're looking for a creepy costume a spooky with or a scary skeleton mask you can rent and hire and we think you need here at coney valley so what you think scary enough.

not to go out is next hour do join us for that but for now it's time for the business news. like arena allegory so tell me there's a new gas deal going on between russia and poland that's right well after two years of talks they finally sealed the deal everybody is waiting for and russia will offer even what will even offer discounts to poland an additional amount of gas i'll tell you more about that in just a moment. but first the russian government has unveiled its general plan to develop the oil industry until twenty twenty peaking at a conference in the same our region prime minister put in stress the need to increase investment in oil extraction in order to maintain current levels. if you believe with themselves that the main potential lies in 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 oil extraction is a priority for the governments of the countries are fine as are facing the prospect of having to pay increase taxes as they set up a cover of ports this may make some downstream operations of profitable. talk me of spent five and a half billion dollars to build the state of the art or refinery in central russia the refining the official sell this complex is unique for russia mine to seven percent of all the crude that 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 and you can

from your role save says the government is thinking about the contras 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 just generate income so what they see it with observing is that there's there's a lot of lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the shift of the of 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 encourage 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 would 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 the government wants to ensure there is no tailing off from the country's crude output even if that is done at the expense of refiners that's you're not going to have business our team. and staying with the energy sector russia will increase gas supplies to poland by as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement now after nearly two years of negotiations and legal delays the deal has finally been sealed now the outline of the contract was agreed in january this year and then faced a long process to make sure it complied with the european antitrust law under the new arrangement will be able to pour over ten billion cubic meters of gas

a year as opposed to seven and a half billion under the previous contract. most asian stocks are lower as investors look to a u.s. economic growth report and federal reserve stimulus measures events making finished off one point seven percent investor sentiment was undermined by a stronger yen and that took its toll on export as you can automaker mazda is quarterly profit surgery on sales to cover it despite the. european stocks are lower on friday london's footsies down point three percent and germany's dax is losing less than a quarter of a percent this hour traders are cautious ahead of a third quarter u.s. g.d.p. data miners are weaker on lower metals prices and american realty into an xstrata a down one point two percent. in the us markets are mixed in a day trading the audience is still trading in the red while the mind six is regaining banking stocks are weighing on the indices both spared we are setting point seven percent this hour while energy majors are trading higher on both the

bourses gas and lost over half of the stuff. down the road and so the bank has left its key refinancing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the third straight month following a meeting on friday bank i see said that weakening consumer demand and uncertain prospects in the global economy post added risks for economic growth. only metal is to float around fifteen 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 international registered in london in july. and that's all from me in the business team here but you can always log on to our website that's.

the for. sure is that so much money i mean in terms of the real money. for the troops and dancers is the world facing the food crisis if it is the victims of all abuse the

poor around. live from moscow this is our to your headlines now unprecedented cooperation in fighting drugs russia and nato joined forces to stop the flow of hair and coming out of afghanistan seizing a ton of it in a single operation. the e.u. leaders summit has agreed on measures for stricter financial discipline and new ways of handling economic downturn sink looting the need to change the lisbon treaty to. countries which break them. picking up toxic pieces american forces pull out of iraq leaving behind piles of. poisonous junk for locals to clean up and sell it. eat not sleep instead of plunging

into peaceful hibernation hungry or rushing beds head into town to hunt lifestyle and sometimes attack people. is the world running out of food some people would seem to think so join people about and as guests on cross talk that's next. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report. and.