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 it's we discovered and destroyed four drug producing labs and seized more than 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 billion dollars and about two hundred million single doses of heroin but many believe this is just a start this is a very. welcome. news. not enough but it's a good start i think to a fight that dragged. eradicate the drug problem in afghanistan we should not look at it as an afghan problem it's a global problem russia's too close to ghana stands 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 using statistics 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 releases seem to be only now heating up this is on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the true real one job relations action and hope that this is the beginning of the end for outgoing drug trafficking in the coast guard c. moscow. former u.s.

drug policy spokesman robert wiener can't believe it's taken the u.s. so long to come around to the view of eradication. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's going to reluctance in the united states to even go after the drug trade in afghanistan it's been a policy of the military to let it go and that's tragic and it's unbelievable to me that it took russia to tell the united states where the drug labs were when we have one hundred thousand troops we've spent eighty billion dollars on intelligence we have one hundred thousand additional contractors so we had to know were crawling all over every inch of that country but it took you to in fact to out the united states to force us and to embarrass us to cooperate with you to stop the drug trade which is in the interest of the entire world including the united states coming your way later this hour. i still can't understand how i.

somehow managed to push the animal away so he crushing it find it hard to look into what's caused an unusual and rather dangerous increase in peoples close encounters with a third gun in this case while the russian bear. reports say that twenty people have been arrested in georgia for allegedly spying for russia our correspondent sarah firth has all the details. police have reportedly detained twenty suspects that they've accused of spying for russia all of the detainees a georgian system is under suspicion of having created a spy network and sending back secret information to russia well the timing of these reporters detentions comes of a good thing concerns about the internal situation in georgia and the oppression of the opposition that now in march this year the u.s. state department released

a report that details human rights abuses including kidnapping and assault this looks like another of george's internal political battles in russia is used as the boogie man as usual russia doesn't need a spy network in georgia it will be waste of resources russian officials can get all the information in georgia without leaving their desks there's a massive georgian john spirit here in russia was drawn towards the homelands so there's absolutely no need for any old spying methods to gather intelligence it's obviously nothing more than part of george's internal policies but there are a few exact details on the story at the moment but of course already reminiscent of the spy soldier that we saw unfold in the summer it can be compared to the to the scandal that took place in summer between russia and the united states in fact there was practically nothing in substance in it but as a media tool is a lever that may be useful i really cannot imagine the work moscow can undertake

now because the official relations between russia and georgia are not zero they are below zero they are minus and there to only means that that will take another time more time for them to improve that's a recap on that story that was ten russian agents found in the us the details that emerged and the case i want you to much i'm reading about it a spinal and the way they described it. details such as invisible ink more reminiscent of the spice well of the not sure 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 in the way that the situation was handled in the summer since the jews in president mikheil saakashvili came to power in two thousand and four the relations between russia and georgia

really started quite dramatically at that point not coleman it's in the south the search in war in two thousand and eight which the russian response to protect this distance in southeast texas i know it's not actually the first time that there has been a spy scandal involving chile and russia in two thousand and six russian officials were arrested and accused of being spies and they were eventually released back to russia that's certainly didn't help relations the situation and again as this thing with this story is certainly not going to help the situation between the two sides the tensions that have remained at the many years especially since the two thousand and eight. and i was r t correspondent sara firth reporting from moscow. the european union has bowed to the demands of its heavyweight members who've grown weary of paying for the mistakes of the smaller nations at a summit in brussels they've agreed to change the current workings of the bailout

system the new measures include fines for those members of the overspend thus creating a bailout stash but it comes short of the tough punishments for overspenders proposed by germany which paid dearly to rescue greece from its crisis dr li rather him from the u.k. he's taxpayers alliance told r.t. the changes to the treaty are too small for the larger states to consider them a success. 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 days 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 the leaders in brussels and of course which has major implications for countries such as arland and the prospect

of them having referenda there's still a lot of play for because the the commission is going away and the various governments are chipping into a process there and we actually see a series of proposals coming out next summer and then after that there's another two year tension or the two years before the the the the change the treaty of the fight so there's still a lot to play for but i think if you look at how the economic community union was put together and you compare that with how other federal currencies such as in the states in the nineteenth century and equally in germany how they were put together you can see how there's 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 earlier my colleague bill darden spoke to john daunt head of the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. he believes that being part of the e.u. club has had a devastating impact on the british economy. it's costing us forty eight million pounds a day in the u.k.

and our prime minister today who had the backbone spine of a blond man and gave away another four hundred million pounds of our money how do you think he's doing a lot in a democratic mandate to do that we need a referendum on the football and david cameron some would say was strong and he saved the u.k. taxpayer and paid even. in some way his assertions that actually gave the u.k. a very strong voice and it prevented further budgets being asked from the u.k. by the command that there was more spin than a washing machine assembly line he basically told us that he was going to say it was the law he knew he couldn't do that he knew the minimum it have to pay is the true point nine billion pound commitment because there was no way out of it and that's what's happened today he's trying to spin it that he saved the other four percent edge garbage absolute garbage and i'm worried as well there's been some dodgy deal done with the germans and the french so that there isn't

a referendum on the changes that they want to the lisbon treaty as well this is an affront to democracy not just for u.k. citizens but for germans and french under the twenty seven countries in the european union polite society if you've been rubbing your hands with glee then when we see a lot of this intense internal debate over the bailing out of weak economies obviously a lot of dissent between some of the major players would you rather then see the whole or do you think this perhaps could be the beginning of the end of the european union. yeah it is the beginning of the end of the euro is crashing and burning thank goodness we never joined the single currency we now have a situation where there's riots on the street in athens parish we've also had riots of course in barcelona in parts of spain and of course now the germans and the french don't want to bail out these so-called big economies or let me just ask you one thing in the turbulent times we've seen that in the greek crisis in fact the eurozone survived they're now saying the euro will strengthen. this latest summit they've had is it introduced a new crisis mechanism there's

a lot of positive thought that's exactly what a unit should be doing getting together sorting out the problems and moving forward even the saying this is a tool a mechanism to fight the crisis that's what the unions all about isn't it and that's why the unit has survived. though has survived will it survive i'm saying it is a age of austerity that has nothing to do with the working man we didn't cause the problem it was the bankers and law tribulations by politicians right across the euro we don't fit not understand why we have to feel the pain for that and it's obvious the german people feel the same way which is why angela merkel is trying to change has not been treated now but i'm saying if you want to change it you've got to have a referendum and very confident now that referendum will come we had a poll out of your homework so why haven't you five percent of the u.k. population want a referendum seventy five percent why won't the political elite give a shit what are they scared of i'll tell you what they're scared of the ordinary man and woman on the street who pay for their extravagance they don't need

a two point nine billion pound rice they need to be cut back and cut back to saw it because it's rich nations like the u.k. and france and germany that are paying for the show expensive party. a brief look now at some of today's other stories the white house says u.s. authorities have a terrorist attack after packages containing explosives were discovered in overseas airports a major security sweep was triggered when a suspicious package was detected in dubai a second package was intercepted on board a plane en route from yemen in the u.k. a third flight also carrying cargo from yemen has been escorted to j.f.k. airport in new york by military fighter jets from the canadian border authorities say the packages were destined for synagogues in chicago. north and south korean soldiers have exchanged fire across their border that's according to south korean officials who claim some of its troops were injured the incident comes two

weeks ahead of a g. twenty summit in seoul there's been no response from north korea as of yet. it's one of the enduring myths about russia hungary bears roaming the streets but now there could actually be some truth in it with natural food supplies dwindling this year many wild animals have headed into towns in search of a meal pete all over has more on a bear's necessities. the big you know 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 cool the searing heat and fires which swept through russia this summit destroyed much of the bay'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 after 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 i somehow

managed to push the animal away so he found crushing a fence. elsewhere in the city there was a more mecarbil incident involving a bear while visiting a cemetery two women saw it they believed to be a large man crouching by a grave 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 women scream scared the animal way it's at least a hundred deterrents to guard the cemetery itself far there has been no sign of the bandit so we have 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 i don't know if we were told that the day came from the direction of the town or the dog attacked it he tried to smother the dog the dog got away in 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 peers 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 all of our party . next martin andrews takes you on a tour of a haunted moscow looking for creative ways to celebrate halloween in the russian capital.

this weekend thousands of people will dress up as witches or ghouls and celebrate halloween when it comes to actual ghosts in the russian capital whether you believe them or not well there are several famous spooky stories here now this is an old abandoned ferris wheel kind of eerie just like many of the cities around the world

this capital has its fair share of creepy locations cost lives and fascinating nations so join the boston entries as we discover a call to the subjects of this week's program. to kill a program of the legendary stunk the district but the famous t.v. tower is located some locals say the area is possibly linked to evil spirits and the rumor is that centuries ago symmetry for murderousness. situated in. the districts name sounds like the. remains of strange coincidence may be. hard times today to have someone. memories of days gone by. who knows what linux. is. there is

a lot of unexplained. everything else. what happens is a lot of. history was first broken. you know all of the. all it all was so i think. it would normally be the area of a. burial ground. according to legends. has been seen here since the sixteenth century now the locals who claim to have seen today complain of dreadful headaches. for several days afterwards.

to this week's news and. cross from the kremlin. to this notch in sixty's bright colored interior promises to be the latest hangout venue. to venue has already. began trimming top international tennis tournament. reproaching a new leader. as i put in just in time the. design assuming that sort of. the latest fashion is controversial or not they might end up being this season's must as expense. be the coldest she has seen in one thousand years. i absolutely love the russian market as women here don't want and know how to wear fur and they like our brand styles garments are not tacky we are

simple and warm and make you look younger as i'm trying to refresh people's concerns out of. trick or treat moving to another location let's meet this week's guest. her. here. i am an actress and i'm doing a play right now called the tale in which is based on the nikolai gogol novella and also about to travel and then for the moscow is a fantastic place to believe. i have traveled all over the world but i love ghosts and ghost stories selling the best travel stories one of the. stories. the castle in hell soon or at the dungeon there is one of the best i've

ever been to very scary and also in toronto we have a theater called the royal alex and it's been haunted by a famous goes for hundred years. and costume. and since i've been here in moscow i've had a chance to go to the kremlin where there are three. sort of famous ghosts. can be seen in the halls at night apparently and i also heard about the german summits. the flag of seventeen seventy one the one that heads the russian orthodox church refused any foreigners to be buried in the russian cemeteries so they had their separate seventy four foreigners and were there by chance and so a night sometimes you can go said. both of them. so there.

will be content to how we can party without looking what happens to people dress up for the occasion. recently a celtic and pagan holiday it was believed that until midnight on the eve of the same state on the first evil spirits would roam around frightening people and wreaking havoc. so lucas would dress the scary costumes to keep away if the spirits. there are many halloween outfits accessories aside here and this fancy dress shop just very well out of the celebration notice or should know to continue to get ready paneling many people come to our show in practice when we have the biggest number of customers. and experts living in moscow to get costumes here there is no don't do that it becomes more and more popular every year. because some of halloween was brought to america in the eighteenth realties by irish immigrants and recently the west the celebration its way to russia but the hollowing is

a rather new dates in the russian calendar the western imports has been welcomed with open arms especially by the younger generation i mean excuse the past to get dressed of one. of those traits out. oh it's my turn to see this all has to offer. the retail industry should be happy every year more money is spent on how we goods into russia and whether you're looking for a creepy costume. skeleton masks there are a range of outfits and accessories you can buy or hire. so what you think i was carrying us. on the territory of moscow is that it's in a park between the trees there are several mystical wooden statues you can see carvings of ancient gods made by slavic pagan infuse us what is believed to be

a twelfth century settlement freethinkers gather at the spot and i always remember to bring some gifts and offerings to the various logs not to test the spirits temples. and of course more schools restaurants and bars but getting ready for the spooky holiday celebration to not only costume parties are being organized but special menus from pumpkin soup to eyeball lychee cocktails being created by chefs and bartenders and so trick or treat trick or treat give me something good to eat. this weekend children in russia and around the world will enjoy halloween themed food sweet apple bubbling and trick or treating populace specially in the x. factor many young russians are fascinated about the country's new halloween celebrations. it's nice to have a little piece of home very much over so far away from home so it's really great.

so it's midnight i got my own finished pumpkin and i'm all alone here in the park just opposite the cabinet. and it's about this time of lights where all the ghosts of spirits are meant to come out. so you might not believe the evil spirits will come out of course you. long history it's hardly surprising that. you see. meanwhile. many traditional. place in the russian calendar some states the how to

leave is a demonic celebration others believe the event is a way to express oneself dress up and simply. to be free. streets haunted by the shadows of history the ghosts of so the possibly does exist. something. that's enjoyed by millions around the world. who said no secrets and spirits slightly. wounded must go well maybe not a mystical a magnificent itself is. excellent very

good. some people like it or not hollow definitely to say in russia. there is on this week special. see you again same time next week and sell them from a list that seems. for the. biggest issues. to face with the news making.

headlines twenty four hours a day. certainly glad to have you with russia nato joined forces. in afghanistan two hundred fifty million dollars worth of narcotics the operation came as a result of increased pressure from moscow. russia. people allegedly working for a russian spy network. or. the european union agree. with. member states to school

blunders the plan includes a permanent fund to aid. crisis. driven by hunger. ravaging their natural food supply we have all the grisly details. coming up next we follow a quest for the truth undertaken by the parents of a u.s. soldier whose death was blamed on drug abuse but turned out to be caused by and medicine prescribed by his superiors. a moment with you. live in a longtime.