a major joint operation against drug producers in afghanistan that destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin russia is a top anti drug in force as moscow and washington can only tackle the afghan narcotics trade if they work together. has more. in a puff of smoke. for drug producing labs in the mountains on the border between afghanistan and pakistan more than a ton of heroin and morphine destroyed in the process this is rushing nato working together closer than ever before in a first ever joint operation on a grand scale these courtney's 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 easy we discovered and

destroyed four drug producing labs and seized more the nine hundred kilos of heroin it took russia nato and afghan anti-drug forces three months to organize the joint operation and only three hours to carried out the estimated value of drugs destroyed a quarter of a billion dollars and about two hundred million single doses of heroin rushes to close to ghana stand for comfort and has been asking for help from international organizations in fighting drug trafficking across the border an influx of opium leads to an exponential increase in the number of drug users and the profit from the drug trade is said to go to sponsor international terrorists who threaten russia's southern regions here's a statistic say thirty thousand people die from drug use every year predominantly young people i think it's important to realize the growth of the drug trade has grown to forty four times since the beginning of the u.s. led operation in afghanistan and we must remember that a u.n. mandate exists which orders coalition forces to counteract drug trafficking should

be winter may be fast approaching but russian leader relations seem to be only now giving up i think shows on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the true relaunch of relations in action and hope that this. it's the beginning of the end for outgoing drug trafficking in the coast guard sea mosco and earlier i spoke with afghan parliament member. who says although this operation can be hailed as a success broader efforts in needed to win the fight against drugs we should not look at it as an afghan problem it's a global problem requires a multi-pronged multi-track approach that would require the russian and the european and american cooperation not only in afghanistan but also outside afghanistan to interdict trafficking to dry up the chemical precursors that come from chemical companies in the world and to also track down the banking

systems that launder money and also taking money to the rest of the world the trafficking is a more route lucrative business than than cultivation for afghanistan to be able to join this war and succeed in this war the things we have to find alternative crops and alternative livelihood for these farmers who are cultivating these things because of poverty not because they're making a lot of money that money's made elsewhere and europe and beyond but so it seems like you're shifting the blame away from afghanistan and saying it's the rest of the world that has a drug problem tell me this how is it then that ninety percent of the world's opium comes from afghanistan who's to blame. i think care that ninety percent of the opium that comes from afghanistan finds its markets or elsewhere so there's a demand that's why their supply we are just pretty cultivating poppies in this country but. the heroin goes to europe and america because there is demand we have

to. stop pointing fingers at each other we have to look at the problem as a global problem not just an african problem that's what i'm saying i'm not trying to dodge the blame from afghanistan but i'm saying that we have to look at it as a bigger problem. it's good to have your company today coming your way later this hour. i still can't understand how. we somehow managed to push the enemy so he can find. a dangerous entry. in this case while. the european union has a bow to the demands of its heavyweight members who have grown weary of paying for the mistakes of the smaller nations summit in brussels they've agreed to change the current workings of the bailout system but it comes a short of the tough punishments for overspenders proposed by germany which pay

dearly to rescue greece from its crisis. this. is what turned out to be the u.k.'s pass into the realms of financial security because those who are used. to changes to the lisbon treaty adopted controversially less than a year ago they want countries that are fiscally irresponsible and a permanent. fund to bail these countries out when they do get into trouble. for this in germany don't want to pay the price for all the countries irresponsible money management ever again as they did earlier this year where europe. so there you are we are supposed to do this economic block a trading block. a very powerful block when there is a crisis it is the individual members who have picked up the pieces and.

the elite who run this is euro skeptics say the reason it's not working is because it's fundamentally flawed the economy's in the euro 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 the german chancellor angela merkel now says she couldn't do that again without risking action from the constitutional court in germany 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's increasing your a skepticism relating to the cost of being in the e.u. and the benefits involved if countries did hold if it's not a tall clear what would remain of the union. now for more on the story i'm joined

by dr lee roth rym from the taxpayers alliance live now to get more details on this so the u.k. is one of the stronger eurozone members do you agree that your country will continue to prop up the struggling members well of course the u.k. is not even a euro zone member we very sensibly decided to have an opt out from. economic and monetary union and therefore we are we're benefiting from that. right now. now the lisbon treaty came into force just eleven months ago after ten years of discussions now again it needs changing so do you think countries with such differently sized economies will ever come to some sort of agreement. what's a very good question actually if you look at the small print as to what was agreed the commission and the the council seem to be suggesting that although there's a treaty change it's considered to be a minor treaty change in the in their words so bearing in mind that the last change

with respect to the m.e.p. numbers adding a few more peace to the numbers that was achieved by a short meeting held in brussels without recourse to any referendum not sure to what extent there is going to be a sort of a massive treaty change from the view of the of the leaders in brussels and of course which has major implications for countries such an answer ireland and the prospect of them having a referendum now so we're talking here about the possible changes to be made to the lisbon treaty but the changes agreed upon as we were saying at the summit are weaker than france and germany initially proposed do you think they could still help to avoid another debt crisis well in the first instance there's still a lot of play for because the the commission is going away and the various governments are chipping into a process that when we actually see a series of proposals coming out next summer and then after that there's another two year century or the two years before the the change the treaty or a fight so there's still a lot to play for but i think if you look at how the economic and monetary union

was put together and you compare that with how other federal currencies which is in the states in the nineteenth century and equally in germany how they were put together you can see how it is a long process where power is constantly going towards the center i think this is just one small step in that i think there's a lot more to come yet are so and finally i'm running out of time here but just briefly there are some that say that politically speaking the e.u. the eurozone is doing fine financially speaking where does it stand. well i think if you look at the state of the the national debts of the countries involved and the ongoing crisis in some of the countries particularly around the mediterranean there are things that don't look too healthy so i don't think we're entirely out of the woods yet. dr lee roth rym from the taxpayers alliance thank you well it's one of the enduring myths about russia hungry bears are roaming the streets but now there could actually be some truth to it with natural food supplies

dwindling this year many wild animals have headed into towns in search of a meal peter all of has more on a bed as necessities. the bear 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 safety of cars a twenty six year old man had a very lucky escape or 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 offense. 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 a bear which had dug up a body and was feeding on it the woman screamed scared the animal away it's at least hundreds took turns to guard the cemetery itself far there has been no sign of the bandit 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 day came from the direction of the tongue the dog attacked it it tried to smother the dog the dog got away and started leading from bear way from the house that all us 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 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 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. . we've got much more for you on. video. right now giving away the bride with. a four legged. five. story.

you always are too you know back to our breaking news story that reports of twenty people have been arrested in georgia for allegedly spying for russia straight talk to you sir for more details let's get the latest on this both jewish and. so tell me what more do we know this is a situation that's unfolding in georgia at the moment it's reported the twenty joules insisted had been arrested spying for russia and having a spy network working the spy network there now this is of course put people in mind of the recent spice kind of that we saw in the summer involving the u.s. and russia and in that case we heard a lot of intriguing details about the techniques that this group of ten agents russian agents in the u.s. were reported to have not the interesting thing about that situation was that

a lot of these techniques were very i'm a chill in the way they describe said details such as invisible ink more reminiscent of the spice well of the not chill high tech spy network so in this story we're waiting for some of these other details will close indeed is that a lot of those things will come out. and it'll be interesting to see how it's the situation is handled and whether it will in fact take its lead from the way that the situation was handled in the summer when we saw the russian agents. in the spy swap between the u.s. and russia. relations between georgia and russia are somewhat strained and this report of scandal is hardly going to help just take us back remind us how did they turn so sour absolutely well the situation sad to magically after the election of the georgian president mikhail saakashvili that was in two thousand and four when as i said relations then deteriorated rapidly between russia and like he related in the south. in two thousand and eight and the invading of these details now with

these reported that are in georgia that have been arrested are they are choosing systems will certainly not help much and it'll be interesting to see how the situation unfolds as more details come in all right after you sir for giving us the latest details on this breaking news story sara thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories of today thousands of people have converged on what. is being held for former president and. died on wednesday at the age of six. people have been pledging their support to his widow current president cristina fernandez south american leaders have also arrived in the country to pay their respects to a man many expected to regain the presidency next year. may be losing momentum across the country but in the city of demonstrations our.

local supermarket has been blockaded by protesters who used burning tires to stop anyone entering elsewhere in the country thousands of people have been returning to work following a week of strikes the president's plan to raise the retirement age with chicken night of the protests has now made it through parliament. signed into law by the constitutional court. and war on drugs is continuing to claim its victims six people have been gunned down in the capital of mexico city is notorious for crime drug gang murder has been rare meanwhile another shooting took place near the u.s. border where factory buses came under fire for workers were killed and fourteen wounded. wars in both iraq and afghanistan have taken heavy toll on american soldiers and sometimes things meant to ease the life on the hostile soil such as certain prescribed drugs turned out to be more dangerous than the frontline

later today we bring you a report that lifts the veil on the mystery surrounding the death of one soldier in particular. dear mom 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 have been 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 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.

now after a short break stuff with the business news. the international association of russian language and literature teachers will host a world festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and will an exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. hello and welcome to the business by the tent at the russian government has unveiled its general plan to develop the oil industry until two thousand and twenty

speaking at a conference in the same our reach and prime minister vladimir putin stressed the need to increase investment in oil extraction in order to maintain current levels. lucky to live with themselves that the main potential lies in increasing the efficiency of all extraction as well as the development of small and 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 all extraction of five hundred million tonnes per year will continue for the next ten years while maintaining oil extraction is a priority for the government the country's refiners are facing the prospect of having to pay increased taxes. over a ports this may make some downstream operations on profitable. that 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 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 ex-pro juice me on refined products up to ninety percent of the tax on crude. can from you will see it 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 that this generation costs so what they see there with them servings that there's there's a. lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the shift to offer 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 bought 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 seconder to pastor would probably be to increase its life 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 extraction 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 you're not going to have business are to. saying with the energy

sector russia will increase supplies to poland by as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement after the two years of negotiations and legal delays the deal has been sealed the outline of the contract was agreed in january this year but then faced a long process to comply with the european antitrust law under the new agreement will be able to import over ten billion cubic meters of gas a year as opposed to the seven in the hof billion in the previous contract. and now let's have a quick look at how the extra markets are performing european stocks so high on friday the thirteenth has had losses gains in the utility sector offsetting crews in basic resources and british airways nearly two hundred percent the south. and u.s. stocks are very concerned the high on friday the technology sector is lending support u.s. economic growth rose slightly in the third quarter in line with expectations but not enough to end investor expectation of that much easing from the federal. and

russian stocks are higher this hour here in moscow the r.t.s. is a race only losses and is now making gains and she mages are lending support with gas pump leading on the my sets up more than one of the hot sun the south. russia central bank has left its key refinancing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the fifth consecutive month he said weakening consumer demand and on certain prospects in the global economy post i've addressed for growth. president. says there was no room to cut rates. i would support it because the bigger for. two years on glacial. the budgetary problems. for the budget speech and the sort i would say. also the reports we're going to stick so i guess we could be here at the. poly metal is to float around fifteen percent. it says on the fund in stock exchange russia's top precious metal producer could raise up to one

billion dollars from the office the company bounced undertake the listing through a new parent company political international registered in london engine life. and that's all the business is for now but of course you can always find more business stories if you log on to our web site that's all t dot com slash this is. home

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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 change and side effects. more news today says once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for

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