a controversial russian ad campaign gives teenagers an uncensored glimpse of drug abuse as the country struggles with a huge addiction problem. gangs nuclear program and a return to the negotiating table are on the agenda as russia's foreign minister meets his south korean counterpart. the meeting comes amid a rise of tensions on the korean peninsula find out more for me to go to school for in just a few minutes. the. american activists accuse the u.s. of a popular city claiming it campaigns for human rights abroad but keeps political prisoners locked up. all is up again prices for crude reached ninety one point two dollars at the opening of the leading european a commodity markets more on that in our business bulletin.

a warm welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is archie with me and you so now way it's two pm here in the russian capital and first stop deformed unborn babies and children eating dirt these are just some of the shocking scenes being used in a controversial new anti drug push in russia the creators say it 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 reef and ocean as report disturbing. meet a happy mother full of them are she says masha i used to smoke marijuana when i was pregnant with her this internet ad is part of a stomach churning anti drug 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 stop it here. it says that keeping quiet about drug abuse among school kids is like keeping dirt in your mouth the disturb an advert 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 let them consider which is better with in their mouths or without food every year more than one hundred thousand people officially dying from overdose and drug related deaths and that doesn't include susana say countries as of a believes people would better opening the eyes to the scale of the problem rather than concern themselves about the distance see of the adverts. or there's nothing

a few millions you know contradictory in the sand should we just keep silent about everything when i k 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. says 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 dropped to thirteen years with the ethics of her life expectancy just twenty one the last the latter but with 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 need priority in fighting the drug problem but as

a report on the concepts 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 that this can stop some from stepping onto the slippery slope its creators say it's worth the arthritis causing. north korea's disputed nuclear program is on the agenda as russia's foreign minister meets his south korean counterpart part i should say here in moscow that you are talking behind closed doors amid heightened tensions on the korean peninsula after pyongyang recently shelled one of the south's islands for more we

can cross live our correspondent who is at the foreign ministry so i think this is a closed meeting are we actually going to know what they're talking about. well that's right anisa the meeting is being held behind closed doors however we do know that the north korean nuclear program is the most important issue being discussed is to remind us year north korea walked out of the six party talks which also south korea china japan and russia expelled international nuclear monitors from the country and continued nuclear tests causing a huge wave of condemnation around the world and this is not only worrying south korea but russia as well because its borders are right there in the region and the recent rise of tensions on the peninsula is only making the situation worse in the north korea attacked one of south korea's islands. and

four people were killed at least eighteen people were injured pyongyang said that this was a response to. attack according to north korea in the time from south korea so the tensions are still high on the peninsula the two ministers definitely have a lot to talk about and the meeting of course comes at a very crucial time here is you just told us a lot of people are hoping for a calming of tension a lot of interest involved here. absolutely this these tensions have been continuing for decades and now with this latest rise which is that biggest in over a decade everybody is hoping for. the tensions and the violence to stop but. there's a huge amount of factors decisive factors in this whole situation here and i'm not even talking about the ideological factors or barriers between north and south korea pyongyang is really intimidated by the south koreans alliance strong alliance

with the united states due to constantly hold military drills in the region in fact right after north korea's attack on that on the islands in the south of south korea in the united states another military exercise also in the region and the government in south korea has now totally changed most of the officials or wants younger then in the previous government they are calling for even closer ties with washington this is also quite intimidating. and that's why it does seem that south korea may be actually looking for trouble when it comes to the relationship with north korea it doesn't matter if everyone is which said the two ministers the two foreign ministers of russia and south korea definitely have a lot to talk about here at the foreign ministry today all right you go to school

of the following talks between russia and south korea at the foreign ministry thanks for that. well plenty more still to come for you this hour including claims of victory the incumbent prime minister says he has won in cosimo's first parliamentary vote but many question whether he can bring change to the nation riddled with ethnic strife and corruption. also coming up for you heading to the stars the next international crew gets ready to blast off to the eye as fast with a russian rocket raised into place on the launch pad. but first president dmitry medvedev has vowed to deal with all those behind the violence that rocked the center of moscow today. ago he posted a strong warning 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 he was allegedly killed in a massive brawl involving a group of men from russia's north caucasus the peaceful gathering turned into

a bloody battle with police with flares and bottles flying overhead the interior ministry believes that why it's where instigated by nationalists. now 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 mumia abu jamal who's been on death row for almost three decades convicted of a crime many say he didn't commit our. reports. so. that we can no 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 the 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 himself was wounded and had to spend the night at a hospital a prostitute and a cab driver testified against him hundreds of thousands of supporters including mumia himself maintain his innocence to this day have nothing. to me i was charged with first degree murder in a case many see was fabricated and fraught with racism the prostitute or the other witnesses that ever saw her there. with the cab driver when you look at the police . crime scene photos you know see his cabin where they remove the cap 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

munoz 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 ystem is rotten to its core that it's race is class is sexist evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. domination of the world they want him to people to hear that. meanwhile the us government denies holding political prisoners. the countless human rights activists from all over the planet have dubbed the voice of the whistlers i told to do that we release infinite up no he's an innocent man he's trying. to joke with like a certain man he didn't try to me doesn't 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 through its apparatus is that another 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 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 of the. that economy between what america says it is a country found along just as in 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 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 the original judge all of the many things that should have read me a long long time ago the us 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 colonial power. issues where 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. philadelphia. students in the u.k. are planning more protests this time against government plans to axe an education maintenance scheme it comes just days after thousands turned out an anger at

a three fold hike in university fees the demonstrations wreaked havoc in central london well ahead of the u.k.'s e.u. referendum campaign says protests will continue because taxpayers are fed up with facing cuts while their country belle's out. i think the euro is crashing and burning i believe. 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 their ones losing their jobs through no fault of their family support. the protests escalate. i think they grew a machine purchase this week for jumping ability of those three shifts and stuff that was really going to happen is called generated thirty first into february because what's going to happen is christmas so traditionally british people are going to celebrate christmas they're still going to buy their children christmas presents a thirty first fabulous hold on the door and for the credit card people will be

beginning to lose their job people have been living this proof for this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start to fulton that's when the real protests are going to stop and i. you can watch that full interview in fifteen minutes time here on r.t. but if you can't wait that long you can head straight to our web site r t v dot com . 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 adviser to the american president david axelrod claims there's enough support on capitol hill for the crucial start agreement to be passed president's barack obama and to me to me to find the treaty reducing the two countries strategic atomic arsenals by a third in april however 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

ratification his top foreign policy priority in the new congress convenes next year democrats will see their current majority in the senate shrink making it tough for them to pass the deal. kosovo's prime minister is claiming he's won the nation's first parliamentary election since it declared you know a lot of real independence from serbia three years ago official results haven't yet been announced in the poll triggered by last month's vote of no confidence in the government but the region's authorities see the vote as proof of kosovo's political maturity but critics point out that several key candidates are under investigation for a range of offenses among kosovo's most daunting challenges are poverty unemployment . corruption and organized crime the region is also deeply divided along ethnic lines belgrade has refused to acknowledge kosovo's independence and called on serbs there to boycott the vote political expert on volcanos mischa governor deal of it says kosovo serbian minority are treated as second class citizens. you have to bear

in mind that about two thirds of. who used to living costs of or prior to need to 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 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 kosovo in other 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. keep up to date on our website with all the latest news blogs and

analysis here's just some of what's online right now at our. wage a web war against the companies that cut off weekly leaks mommas group accused visa and master card of passing funds to break a group of cutting off the whistleblower. and russian billionaire roman album always splashes out on a new luxury yacht but ship builders were a year late in setting sail before hundred million euro vessel as they needed to cater for his exacting requirements for more head to our team dot com. a top afghan drug lord has been in and 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 haji juma holland was on the payroll to provide data on the taliban and other drug traffickers are these military contributors says the political elite in washington is working against its own military forces. couple of courageous operatives from a in

a 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 but 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 growing drug kingpins and there are conducting their role and 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 the top drug lords led by john who is both on the cia and dea a payroll seems two thousand and one even the u.s. commander in afghanistan general petraeus is sincere to get the job done and to create opportunity for the transition of the security responsibility from the united states and nato to afghan forces he would better conduct vic counterinsurgency against their alliance between the eight and cia effectively undermine his best efforts from vivian and from outside. some other international stories and briefing this hour a teenager armed with horns taking children and teachers hostage in a nursery in eastern france most of the pupils have now been released after police managed to enter the building in the town of phone five children and. teacher are

still inside and local media say the hostage taker is a mentally unstable seventeen year old. police in the u.k. have searched for property in connection with saturday's twin blast in stockholm reports suggest the bomber was an iraqi born swede who live just outside london stockholm has called the attack which killed one person and injured two others a terror crime a swedish news agency says it received a warning before the bombings if confirmed as a suicide attack would have been the first on swedish soil. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has appealed to parliament not to harm the government for their own interests ahead of a vote of no confidence he's been through a tough scandal filled year including allegations of bribery while parties with underage girls and accusations of mafia collusion berlusconi says there will be early elections if he loses critics say his position as italian leader is untenable after dozens of members of his own party deserted him. now the next rocket set to

blast off to the international space station has been raised into launch position so i use will head off on its journey from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday its international crew of three will carry out experiments and take seasonal gifts to those currently on board the i s s r t s peter oliver reports. the rocket itself arrives in bike you know in three different parts in the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate it's every screw every bolt for us to be checked and rechecked to make sure that it's correct 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 those so used to him

a real. 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 of knowing what it was like of launching from a republican or it's always fun 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 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 take on the wrath of an astronauts paul an isp ali and caroline coleman 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 only whole of the i.r.s. says it will also be attaching another two to collect information from open space

to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the coast most peter all of a bike you know. check in with green at the business desk hello it looks like oil is up again that's good news what's lifting the price well that's right and he said well price rose to ninety one point two dollars a barrel today and basically after opec decided to leave production quotas on change we'll have more on that in a moment but first to our top story. high tech a high tech country needs to make high tech products now 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 now as part of that search officials have held a competition for young scientists and entrepreneurs how correspond with another. school innovation complex with the details. there's definitely a lot of boiling have had inside of school

a valley at the moment and that is the young scientists presenting their innovative projects and top ranking businessmen economists and politicians trying to understand what they are all about and choose the best ones now the names of the winners will be announced who are the authors of the three best innovative projects will be encouraged financially by the government they will be awarded with one million roubles each about to its thirty five thousand us dollars and they will become the first residents office called the valley which is to become the high tech valley all russia that the government has high hopes for in modernizing the russian economy and diversifying it from natural resources now that the projects are ranging from you know pharmaceutical projects from nuclear technologies and software there's plenty of them plenty of competitors the names over there will be announced who are in this forum is a platform for implementing president video idea that he introduced in 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 in both domestic markets and for experts. european stocks trade higher on monday following a strong performance in asia case footsies up point six percent germany's dax is up a quarter of a percent chance of wells to hold a surge five percent up to the financial times reported that general electric is close to a deal to buy the company. here in russia markets are higher as well the art has his gaining over eight percent and the my xix is trading point nine percent higher most of the blue chips are in the black with energy majors doing exceptionally well on higher oil prices. look or as up half a percent ross nafta and rules hydro are up over a percent. meanwhile is very bad because the top gain a two percent that's after

a source at russia's biggest bank said profits this year could top two hundred billion rubles considerably more than spare banks official forecast. and finally oil prices have risen to ninety one point two dollars at the opening on the leading european commodity markets that's up to the production of producing nations of opec decided on saturday to leave current production quotas unchanged. at the update for now i'll be back in less than one.

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