india is available to move joint people to. the gateway to the grand imperial truly told west coast coromandel you can go with a toe to toe see don't need to go. run to the kennel was such a treat. a controversial russian ad campaign gives teenagers an uncensored glimpse of drug abuse as the country struggles with a huge diction problem. company prime minister claims victory in cost of us first part of it but if you hold out hope of change nation riddled with ethnic strife and corruption. the. american activist about an end to u.s. hypocrisy which campaigns for human rights abroad keeps political prisoners looked up at home.

on air and online you're watching r t will straight to our top story now deformed unborn babies and children eating dirt these are just some of the shocking scenes being used in a controversial new drug push in russia he created say may seem extreme but that's what it takes these days to find a huge problem in the country you may find some of the images in the area notions report disturbing. needs a happy motto for the march she says masha i used to smoke marijuana when i was pregnant with her at the b.b.c. internet ad as part of a stomach churning antidrug compay in a sashing sashenka i was already on heroin then. surprisingly it's the least offensive episode of the series designed to shock some of them may leave

a bad taste in your mouth quite literally like this one for instance. that's why we stop it here. it's as if keeping quiet about drug abuse among school kids is like keeping dirt in your mouth the disturbance adverse has provoked a huge discussion on the web one just how far we can go in trying to keep youngsters away from drugs that was the word yes it causes a slight nausea impulse but that's what we need it will make those children who now think that it's bad to tell their parents and teachers about dealers in other words they do not report on dealers or let them consider which is better with in their mouths or without. every year more than one hundred thousand people officially dying from drug related deaths and that doesn't glitz you sides say countries as if it believes people had better opening the scale of the problem rather than

concern themselves of all the distant sea of the adverts if the who are. you know contradictory and should we just keep silent about everything why ok let's keep our mouths shut and just live on let twenty year olds die and millions and billions of dollars flowing into drug dealers pockets while we just pretend that everything is perfect in our society. behind the fact that the anti drug advert is getting more primitive is another shocking reality the targeting audience is getting younger and younger the average age when youngsters in russia first try drugs has jumped to thirteen years with the ethics of rage life expectancy just twenty one. this is aimed at them so it has to be primitive in order to work do you think they don't know what drugs are bad when they just need to have it literally imprinted in their minds the shocking can pain is actually a government initiative a response to the country's new priority in fighting the drug problem but as

a concept we've always been concentrated on finding drugs and withdrawing them this july we've adopted a new state drug strategy now we need to focus on decreasing demand rather than trying to cope with the consequences. with the government's recent refocus on preventive measures we can expect more and more projects like this one aimed at literally disgusting the idea of drugs out of youngsters minds and yes it may be unpleasant looking but so are the statistics of drug abuse in the country and if there is a chance no matter how small the base can stop some from stepping on to the slippery slope its creators say it's worth the outright causing. refinish not see more scope costs of a prime minister claiming he's won a nation's first parliamentary election since it declared unilateral independence from serbia three years ago but with unprecedented poverty corruption and ethnic divisions you government will need to answer the calls from the public for change.

and it's what reports and you believe the candidates to represent the same problems . the dawning of the new beautiful idea of the cost of. the message plastered across the media faces on tuesday is a look from the capitol people to take solace in terms of those buzz general election since declaring independence in two thousand votes is at this polling station in central pristina decided to brace the cold temperatures to call the vote they told us that they want to see a change for starts here in kosovo and that is the only going every day problems of unemployment and living standards that they tear about. the economic situation here is mild so we're waiting for better days but we don't expect miracles. i believe things will get better now but for me the biggest problem is corruption these elections which are

a good sign of that this problem and she voted no confidence bought some day so with the same feat play is prime minister hasn't she's done a. survey of the p.d. case and the democratic leak of classified takes center stage the poll is seen as she is demonstrating so those political cheer says. these historic elections are totally free and fair we know that they're the first real test over near democracy but the historic vote is tainted by accusations of corruption and abuse of all face several candidates from across the major posses currently under investigation for a range of offenses it is a big problem in kosovo corruption crime to have a lot of cases that ministers of this. investigation because of corruption in a. very. it is a thing of the three phase three years three years for two years and it was

a very big problem to start. to change but you have to change that. we cannot go or continue doing this mentality with this logic that our new initiatives who would eventually help improve the political system but as for the political parties who were part of sr and in place present those who were our eye. because for all these years it was a huge. hole whatever that. is practically around us that is substantial. this is a region still deeply devolving did along ethnic lines belgrade refuses to acknowledge christine is you know latch a declaration of independence and cool down its minority community in the day to

boycott the polls seem least skim we know that all the candidate lists and people who have at some point in the socket and been involved in growing these people need to stay as opposed to their it's in the interests of serbs both here and in kosovo and as for corruption yes of course a vote is still the last thing i despise overseas are featured requests that p.t.k. did not want to be but once again they look likely to be tasked with forming a coalition government and more challenging for storing the trust of positives in policy so i alice a bit after i was little ex-pat on the balkans mission governor that says the cost of us ethnic serbs are being treated as second class citizens. you have to bear in mind that about two thirds of. this we used to living costs of war prior to nature's bomb being themselves in some eleven years ago are no longer in kosovo

but they have been effectively ethnically cleansed and no provision whatsoever has been made for them to participate either in leeds or any previous elections this is of course a major problem for the remaining serbian population in kosovo because participation in the electoral process can be easily interpreted as an agreement to the conditions that are prevailing in in cost so we know the words legitimizing that process with which they are very unhappy with the serbs in a very difficult position and they're certainly not integrated in the overall cost of the process. more still to come for this hour including heading to the starts next national get ready to the blast off that i assess. the kids and they see a launch pad. relative has vowed to deal with

all those behind the violence that was the center of moscow two days ago it posted a strong warning in his twitter blog also saying that the situation in the capital as well as the whole country is under control on saturday thousands gathered in a central square to mark the death of a russian football fan eventually killed in last gruelling holding a group of men from russia's roof says a peaceful gathering turned into a bloody battle police blotters going to head interior ministry believes the riots were instigated by nationalist groups. with america pushing for human rights the world over many say should sort out its own backyard first the u.s. currently holds more than two million people in jail with hundreds of them political prisoners among them is building a who's been on death row for almost three decades convicted of a crime many say he didn't commit ortiz in a situation reports. a beacon of justice or system

flourishing with fraud and flaws in the united states essentially illegitimate this is prisoner mia jamal. seen as a political prisoner all over the world an honorary citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france on death row in the u.s. for almost thirty years the event that changed the life. forever took place at this intersection in philadelphia almost three decades ago back in one nine hundred eighty one when a police officer was shot and killed me and himself was wounded and had to spend the night at a hospital a prostitute and the cab driver testified against him hundreds of thousands of supporters including mumia himself maintain his innocence to this day can only happen. to me i was charged with first degree murder in a case many see was fabricated and fraught with racism the process. ever so far

there had been with the cab driver when you look at the police crime scene photos. where they removed tampering he should get a new trial dragging on for years with a struggle for freedom has been shedding light on flaws of the u.s. justice system fifteen of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in trial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction fifteen of the thirty three a former journalist and black panther organizer as work is translated into several languages and distributed all over the world his analysis is a revolutionary announces that this system is rotten to its core that it's race is class is six is evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. nation of the world do they want him people to hear that. meanwhile the us government denies holding political. prisoners. countless human rights activists

from all over the planet have dubbed the voice of the wastefulness i don't do that we believe symphony. he's an innocent man he's trying. with the job was like a third man he didn't try to use work monitored by the f.b.i. since he was fourteen years old to some he has become one of many fallen victim to a police state it's not a question of whether or not he's on the death penalty is not even a question of guilt or innocence it's a question of. the united states to its apparatuses of the f.b.i. and other state federal local agencies targeting surveilling attacking a political activist. movement people into targeting them for their political work in washington is a journalist closely watching the case since money is trials kicked off in the eighty's in his case in body so much of what's wrong with the course and that's why people have gravitated to this case and maybe that is

a symbol for their outrage. that the economy between what america says it is a country founded on justice and one that perpetuates injustice in this case extraordinarily over a thirty year period already having gone through countless appeals the case is still expected to drag on for years right is so tragic that here after almost thirty years we're not talking about a new trial we're not talking about all the evidence that has come forth the racism the racism of judge the original judge all of the many things that should have read a long long time ago the u.s. is a record holding country of jails overflowing with prisoners including thousands on death row who are overwhelmingly african-american today there are over two million prisoners in the united states that's the size of san francisco you know you

represent the. it was work and while those in power continue to keep their eyes shut to the flaws the system is bound to remain the scene with the rest of the world watching and. philadelphia. students in the u.k. are planning more protests against government plans to axe an education maintenance scheme this comes just days after thousands turned out in anger at the threefold hiking university fees demonstrations we have a consentual and the head of the u.k.'s e.u. referendum campaign says protests will continue because taxpayers are fed up with facing cuts when the country bails out others. are surely think the euro is crashing and burning our belief will go. there's a disconnect between the political elite not just in the united kingdom but right across europe and the ordinary man and woman in the street and i think ordinary men and women have had enough they're the ones losing their houses they're the ones

losing their jobs through no fault of their own fully support students from i i hope the protests escalate. and i think they ruined the protests this week for example have been if you go through shit infrastructure is really going to happen is come january thirty first into february because what's going to happen is christmas so traditionally british people are going to still celebrate christmas they're still going to buy their children christmas presents thirty first fabulous . on the door. for a credit card that people will be beginning to lose their jobs people have been living the proof of this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start defaulting that's when the real protests are going to stop and i think what's going to give is definitely the euro and probably the first and foremost let's have a democratic vote maybe much better for us to have a vote and decide you want to leave this before it collapses. and you can catch the full interview in fifteen minutes time here in r.t.

and of course you can also head straight to our web site instead that's r.t. dot com. now the u.s. senate will ratify the new nuclear arms control deal with russia before wrapping up for christmas according to a senior advisor to the american president david axelrod claims there's enough support on capitol hill for the crucial start agreement to be passed presidents barack obama and me can agree to sign the treaty reducing the two countries strategic atomic arsenals by enable us republican senators who made significant gains in the recent midterms have been far from favorable in giving their support to the pact president obama has called i think ation his top foreign policy priority but when the new congress convenes next year democrats will see the current majority in the senate shrink making it tougher for them to pass the deal. or so of international stories in brief for you this hour. police in the u.k. have searched the property in connection saturday's twin blasts in stockholm

suggest the bomber was an iraqi born swede who lived just outside london stockholm was called the attack which killed one person injured two others a terror crime a swedish news agency says it was to bring all the bodies confirmed as a suicide attacker first. at least five sailors have died after a south korean fishing boat sank in the antarctic seventeen others are still missing and twenty have been rescued the vessel was carrying international crew new zealand and south korean boats are searching for survivors in the freezing waters. the. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has appealed to hollande they're not going to argue the government over their own interests ahead of a vote of new confident. through a tough scandal field year including allegations of bribery wild parties with underage girls are accusations of nephew collision skinny says there are only the

actions if he loses critics say his. position as a tie in lead is untenable after dozens of members of his own party deserted him. and the u.s. state of minnesota. has left at least two people dead major roads in several states the midwest are closed and a thousand flights have been canceled heavy snow also forced the roof of a sports stadium in minneapolis to collapse this is warnings certainly seen for surrounding states. keep up to date on our website with all the axis news blogs are not isis is just some of what's online right now at r.t. dot com is wage a web war against companies that are working on this group accused of user and lost a cut of funds to race hate groups while cutting off the whistle.

and russian billionaire run up a move it splashes out in the new luxury yacht builders were a year late in setting sail in the four hundred million euro vessel they needed to cater for his exacting requirements about what they were l.t. don't. it's the last road on the southern edge of gaza before the egyptian border but street is also the starting point for a network of smuggling tunnels we take you on a journey into the kindest daily life there. live not only next to the border but egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they're ready to take any risk.

and of course you can see that reporter now it's time here on our team. the next rocket set to blast off to the international space station has been raised into launch position be so yes it will head off on its journey from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan wednesday its international crew of three will carry out experiments and take seasonale yes to those currently on board the u.s.s. parties riffles. the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rocket is being raced up onto the launch pad just behind me now the process of doing this can take up to hours depending on the weather the most high tech science in the world and it all comes down to what the weather's like it's too windy they constantly have to wait for it to be just right it's just right right now and they're loading not ok now the rocket itself arrives in baikonur in three

different parts and the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate it's every screw every bolt has to be checked and then rechecked to make sure that it's correct those putting putting in the work on the ground to make sure that that's all good and safe know that they have in their hands the safety of those going up into space was that it was preparations take a long time it can take from five days to two weeks to unload all the separate parts of the rocket and assemble them after the rocket is assembled it has to undergo a series of tests every team looks through some part of the rocket the engine the electronics now the so used him a rocket widely regarded as the best way the most safe way and the most reliable way of getting people into space and plenty of people coming gathering here most some of them former astronauts former cosmonauts coming to see the rocket being loaded into place and they still get that old tangle of knowing what it was like of launching from a republican or it's always fun to to see

a vehicle getting ready to launch whether it be a shuttle or a soyuz and if it does take you back to them the opportunity that i had which i this to be able to actually step on to it and it's amazing experience now the three man crew they'll be going up in soyuz t.m.a. twenty consists of cosmonaut to me to take on the raft if and astronauts paolo nespoli and caroline coleman now for me to be counteractive is the commander of the mission it's his first time in space and he'll be carrying out two spacewalks while he's out there to be removing one of the experiments that's on the whole of the i.s.a.'s and also be attaching another two to collect information from up in space to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the cosmos peter all of baikonur. indi all timed out for the today's business you so far with kareena.

hey welcome to our business program a high tech country needs to make high tech products the government is putting its political and financial capital behind modernizing the economy but it also needs to find innovative goods the rest of the world might want to buy as part of that search officials have held a competition for young scientists and entrepreneurs for details i'm joined now by the time who is at the size of this cocoa innovation complex hello to you that's a good see so the government is trying to find a rallying cause for its plans to modernize the economy what's going on up there just tell us a little bit about. well indeed this forum is a platform for implementing present native's idea of modernizing the russian economy which he described in a he's article called gold rush over a year ago hence the name all the forum and businessmen economists and politicians gathered here their main goal is to help young inventors get started with their

projects in order to do that during the forum is going to be a contest and the authors of the three best projects will receive one million rubles each that's about thirty five thousand u.s. dollars and will become the first residents of skolkovo which is to become the high tech valley over russia on which the russian government has high hopes for helping to modernize the country's economy so for other forms. this is a symbolic launch of this called the valley where we are what should be discussed with the quiet technologies and how to find demand for those products is being currently discussed. thank you thank you for this of data was gone i will be will be hearing from you later in the day on what's going on at that for now let's have a look at what's going on in the market asian stocks are higher on monday lifted by commodity shares japan's nikkei closed point eight percent higher hong kong is trading point six percent off resource. stocks are deforming b.h.p. rio tinto and for just you all between top and one point eight percent despite some

concerns about rising inflation rate pressures in china and the european bourses opened higher up following a strong performance on the asian markets both u.k. support c. and germany's dax are up point three percent shares a wall street holdings surged by percent topping the financial times reported that general electric is close to a deal to buy the company here in most of markets opened higher as well the r.t.s. is a trade again in less than half a percent of this our demise as trading up point nine percent all the blue chips are in the black with energy mages leading the gains on high oil prices are all snafu coral is up over the sun and blue sky blue is also top again on my next. how all prices rose to ninety one point two dollars at the opening on the leading european commodity markets that's a reaction to opec saturday decision to leave the town cold as of oil production changed brenda's gaining more than possible cent trading at eighty eight point

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