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way the grand imperial. rather. treat. controversial russian ad campaign gives teenagers in. the country struggles with a huge addiction problem. incumbent prime minister claims victory in the course of his first. book you hold out hope of change nation ethnic strife and corruption. coming. out of. its campaigns for human rights groups keeps political prisoners.
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costing live from moscow says r t world news and much more twenty four hours a day well straight to our top story now deformed unborn babies and children eating it these are just some of the shocking scenes being used in the controversial new drug push in russia the creator say may seem extreme but that's what it takes these days to fight the huge problem in the country you may find some of the images in the report disturbing. means a happy motto for the my she says masha i used to smoke marijuana when i was pregnant with her that he thinks internet ad is part of a stomach churning antidrug compay in a fashion 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
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stop it here it's as if keeping quiet about drug abuse amongst kook aids is like keeping dirt in your mouth the disturb an adverse has provoked a huge discussion on the web when just how far we can go in trying to keep youngsters away from drugs that was a word removed 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 let them consider which is better with in their mouths or without. every year more than one hundred thousand people officially dying from overdose and drug related deaths and that doesn't include. a country. believes people had better opening the scale of the problem rather than concern themselves about the distance see of the difference if the poor there's nothing
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a few millions you know contradictory in the sand should we just keep silent about everything why ok let's keep our mouths shut and just live on twenty year olds die and millions and billions of dollars plug into drug dealers pockets while we just pretend that everything is perfect in our society but. as behind the fact that the anti drug advert is getting more primitive is another shocking reality the targeting audience is getting younger and younger and the average age when youngsters in russia first try drugs has jumped to thirteen years with the x. average life expectancy just twenty one the last the latter but all of this is aimed at them so it has to be primitive in order to work do you think they don't know that drugs are banned 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
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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 sound from stepping out of this clip or a slope its creators say it's worth the arthritis causing. refinish not see more . kosovars prime minister is claiming he's won the nation's first parliamentary election since it declared you natural independence from serbia three years ago but with unprecedented poverty corruption and ethnic divisions the new government will need to answer the calls from the public for change however as others have good
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reports many believe the candidates still represent the same problems. the dawning of the new uniform idea of the cost of. the message plastered across the media faces on tuesday is all across the capital purging people to take tossing pictures of those cursed general election since declaring independence in two thousand evades voters at this polling station in central pristina decided to brace the cold temperatures to cause 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 care about. the economic situation here is bad 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 were triggered by an event this problem and she voted no confidence bought some day so with the same key play is prime minister how sometimes she's
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democratic policy of kosovo where the p.t.k. and the democratic leaders also vote takes center stage the poll is seen as key in demonstrating suppose political maturity. these historic elections are totally free and fair we know that there are the first real test of our new democracy but the historic vote is tainted by accusations of corruption and abuse of office several candidates from across the major parties currently under investigation for a range of offenses it is a big problem in cause corruption crime to really have a lot of cases that ministers of this government. investigation because of corruption when i strive. and it is a thing that we face during recess three years for two years and it was
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a big big problem during this time so we want to change but we have to change that . we cannot go or continue there with this mentality with this logic there are new initiatives who would eventually help improve the political system but as for the political parties who were part of sr and in perspective those who were in power. play truth because for all these years it was a huge. hole fix whatever they. call this practical rounders that misses a substantial part of. this is a region still deeply divided along ethnic lines belgrade refuses to acknowledge pristine is unilateral declaration of independence and cool down its minority community in kosovo to boycott the but it's got those seem least luskin we know
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that all the candidate lists and people who have some points of it and been involved in crime these people need to stay out of politics in the interests of serbs both here and in kosovo and as for corruption yes kosovo is still a lot i despise elysees repeated requests that p.t.k. did not grant the need to be but once again they look likely to be tasked with forming a coalition government and more challenging for storing the trust of civilians in policy it's. alison bits asci us. political experts all about governor bitch says kosovo's ethnic serbs are being treated as second class citizens. you have to bear in mind that about two thirds of the we used to living costs of war prior to need to bomb big themselves in some eleven years ago are no longer in kosovo but they have been effectively ethnically
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cleansed and no provision whatsoever has been made for them to participate either in these or any previous elections this is of course a major problem for the remaining. population in kosovo because participation in the electoral process can be easily interpreted as an agreement to the conditions that are prevailing in course that we know the words legitimizing that process with which they're very unhappy with in a very difficult position under certainly not integrated in the overall cost of the process but i expect more still to come few this hour including heading to the stars. national group gets ready to blast off the i assess what the russians saw you saw rockets raced into place on the launch of. president dmitri medvedev has vowed to deal with all those behind the violence that was at the center of moscow two days ago he posted a strong warning in his twitter blog also saying that the situation in the capital
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as well as the whole country is under control on saturday thousands gathered there a central square to mark the death of a russian football player was eventually killed in the last rule involving a group of them from russia's no thank you sir it's a peaceful gathering turned into a bloody battle police principles for our. industry and the riots were instigated by a nationalist groups. with america pushing for human rights the world over many say it 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. and has been on death row for almost three decades convicted of a crime and many say he didn't commit an assessor churkin reports. a beacon of justice or system flourishing with fraud and flaws in the united states
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. 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 coming. out of it to me i was charged with first degree murder in a case many see was fabricated and fraught with racism the prostitute. are there. with the cab driver when you look at the police crime scene. where they removed
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tampering. 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 analysis that this system is rotten to its core that its race is class is six is evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. nation of the world they want him to people to hear that. even while the us government denies holding political. prisoners. countless human rights activists from all over the planet have dubbed the voice of the wastefulness i told to do
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that we release him from death no he's an innocent man. with a job with like a third man he didn't try to me is 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 made it a symbol for their outrage. that the economy between what
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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 now 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 sable 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. power. with the word 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
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world watching. r t philadelphia. students in the u.k. are planning more protests this time against government plans to axe an education maintenance scheme comes just days after thousands turned out in anger at a three fold hike in university fees demonstrations wreaked havoc in central london the head of the u.k.'s easy referendum campaign says protests will continue because taxpayers are fed up with facing cuts when their country bails out others. ah so they think the euro is crashing and burning our belief portugal 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 from i i hope the
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protests escalate. and i think they will when she protests this week for example of burma you go through shit infrastructure 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 mats for the credit card bills 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. anybody can catch that a full interview in just over an hour's time here in l.t. . the u.s. senate will ratify the new nuclear arms control deal with russia before wrapping up for christmas that's 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
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barack obama as we can get it signed the treaty reducing the two countries to keep atomic consuls but in april. u.s. 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 the cation his top foreign policy priority 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. a top afghan drug lord who's been in the u.s. . prison since two thousand and eight was an informant for the cia and the drug enforcement administration for years current and former u.s. officials told the new york times that khan was on the payroll to provide data on the taliban and other drug traffickers ortiz which a contributor says the political elite in washington is working against its own military forces. couple of courageous operatives from c a d a
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decided to step forward and to tell their story about why the u.s. policy and strategy in afghanistan is going nowhere and defect has already failed after the nine years of u.s. military occupation in afghanistan according to their insider's story the main challenge for the u.s. policy in afghanistan has nothing to do we have terrorism taliban for the generic insurgency because of the cia in d a has formed unsavory alliance with the ever given drug kingpins and very conducting their own operation against the us military in afghanistan that is probably the most significant revelations that has ever been disclosed by the current and former operatives from drug enforcement administration and central intelligence agency that is about their nefarious cooperation with
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the top drug lords led by john who is both on the cia and dea a payroll seems two thousand and one it would be u.s. commander in afghanistan general petraeus is sincere to get the job done and to crave to be an opportunity for the transition of the security responsibility from the united states and nato to afghan forces he would better conduct the counting sujan see against their alliance between big eight and cia effectively on demining he's best efforts from within and from outside. they keep up to date on our web sites with the latest news blogs and isis has test online right now let's revamped. wage a web war against the companies that cut off when he takes on this team's boss to call them awsome. race hate groups for cutting off the.
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russian billionaire about another bird that splashes out a new luxury yacht that ship builders were a year late in setting sail the four hundred million that's what they needed to cater for his exacting requirements for more that head to the party dot com. whether some more international stories in brief for your. place in the u.k. or search the property in connection with saturday's twin blasts in store reports suggest the bomber was an iraqi born sweden live just outside london has called the attack which killed one person injured two others a terror crime swedish news agency says it received a warning before the bombings confirmed as a suicide attack it being the first on swedish so. at least five say this have died off a south korean fishing boat sank in the in time take seventeen others are still
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missing and twenty have been rescued the vessel was carrying an international crew new zealand and south korean boat source searching for survivors in the freezing waters. an italian prime minister. built upon. government with. scandal films here including allegations of bribery parties with underage girls and accusations of mafia. actions if he loses critics say his position as italian tenable dozens of members of his own party. the next rocket set to blast off the international space station has been raised into launch position so use will head off on its journey from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday its international crew of three will carry out experiments take sees no gifts to those currently on board i assess. the reports. the rocket itself arrives in
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baikonur in three different parts and the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate every screw every boat to be checked and then recheck to make sure that it's correct now those putting putting in the work on the ground to make sure that's all good and safe know that they have in their hands the safety of those going up into space 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 so used to 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 going to see the rocket being loaded into place and they still get that old take of knowing what it was like of
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launching from here. to see a vehicle getting ready to launch whether be it. and if it does take you back. them the opportunity that i had which was to be able to actually step onto it and it's amazing experience now the three month crew they'll be going up in soyuz t.m.a. twenty consist of cosmonaut to me to become the raffia of an astronauts paul and polly and caroline coleman for me to become their activities 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 he'll be removing one of the experiments that's on the whole of the i.s.a.'s also 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 a bike you know. for now it's the last road on the southern edge of gaza right before the egyptian border but channel street is almost the starting point for the
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network of smuggling tunnels into we take you into the contest on a daily life there. if you live next to the border with gaza and egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. in the streets on a large. as you can see that report in ten minutes herald. korea is here to tell us what's going on in the markets and the rest of the business news korea yes thanks carrie but before we go to that let's see what's happening at the skulk of innovation for the government is putting its political and financial capital behind
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modernizing the economy but also needs to find innovative goods the rest of the world might want to buy now as part of that search officials have held a competition for young scientists and i'm talking mess for more details i'm joined now by i want to know the close up of science. innovation complex hello again in tulsa so other lots of mad scientist types that are trying to sort of get their ideas heard. quote it is a rather formal gathering of course but what i can tell you is that there's definitely a lot of boiling have pads inside of school of ballet at the moment and that is young scientists presenting their innovative projects and top ranking businessmen economists and politicians trying to understand what they all about and choose the best ones now the names of the winners will be announced in here are the three the authors of the three best innovative projects will be encouraged financially by the government they will be awarded with one million roubles each that's about what is
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thirty five thousand u.s. dollars and they will become the first residents of this called the valley which is them to become the high tech valley over russia. the government has high hopes for in modernizing the russian economy and diversifying it from natural resources now that the projects are ranging from pharmacies eco projects from nuclear technologies and software there's plenty of them plenty of competitors the names of that will be announced more and this forum is a platform for implementing president viv's idea that seemed to decent his article go russia over a year ago. and they're being discussed here also as a platform for picking the high tech products over the future and deciding how to find demand for them on both domestic markets and for export. ok thanks very much for that let's i mean the record reporting from this innovation center where the
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forum is being held. now let's go to the markets asian stocks are higher monday lifted by commodity shares to pads nikky close point eight percent higher than hong kong is up point six percent resources stocks are outperforming b.h.p. rio tinto and for dispute between half and one point eight percent despite some concern about rising inflationary pressures in china european stocks are higher as well following a strong performance on the asian markets case footsie is up point six percent and germany's dax is this it is trading up a quarter of a percent at the moment shares of well stream holdings surged five percent after the financial times reported that general electric is close to a deal to buy the company and here in russia markets are high on monday the r.t.s. is gaining over a percent in the mines it's this trading point nine percent all the blue chips are in the black with energy majors leading the gains on high oil prices. oil is up over a percent at hydro is the top gainer although my sixty. four prices have risen to
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