he dropped out and does what he can to support his have. but he is one of the million addicts in this country the world's largest producer of opium. as i said my life rizzo's their own this drug i know it's killing me but i can't stop drug measures of diminished output but it only costs two dollars providing escape for addicts reaching for refugees returning from iran and fled the country's civil war to military veterans to teenagers with little to look forward to. the united nations says it's another threat to afghanistan's long term economic growth and security. it's what we call the coca-cola effect i mean people always talk about the demand creating supply people forget that supply demand and that's exactly happening in afghanistan i mean if you think about the health issues you think i mean activity is often starting among injecting drug use it has as well to do what you security means security forces and the high levels of addiction in the security

forces means that yes you will corrupt your security system so all those elements together means that there's a heavy burden for this country local city and threaten them and the police do nothing more than chase them away or throw them in jail for a day or two then they come right back. today there are an estimated sixty thousand heroin addicts in the afghan capital and that number is rising fast many of them say they want help but the government can do little for them in the handful of rehabilitation clinics that exist just a few hundred beds to offer. the u.n. funding the judge center is the largest and best equipped facility in the capital but that's not saying much it can only handle about sixty patients at a time. to enter addicts must submit to a two months detoxification. but the center's director dr why do. it is a lack of post treatment prospects ensure that over half of the patients fall off the wagon. we get so many get i'm going to more tell them other relapse is

a huge problem there's not much we can offer these people once they leave here i. got ten days' treatment before running away to get high again. the international community is focusing on combating the flow of drugs leaving afghanistan but within its borders a battle just as important is being fought with addiction a major hurdle in the country's hope for future stability. in kabul for our team. russia's top anti-drug and four star says the coalition has literally had no effect on the heroin trade in afghanistan. because i mean you know the shady place you know the size of the poppy plantations hasn't changed this year they still cover one hundred twenty three thousand hectares the number of families involved in poppy cultivation has increased by about four thousand for these peasants the puppy provides the most basic living this simply struggling for survival and all the talk about the need to create economic incentives for them is simply pointless they work

as slaves for the landlords and these are the people we need to find and target and what we're proposing nato is to take the land from them. international law a most national legal systems presume that prophecy used for criminal purposes should be confiscated. thanks for spending part of your christmas with us here on r t still coming your way a feeling of paranoia. are right that invents an armageddon shelter to survive the apocalyptic prophecies of thousand and twelve but it does have some more practical uses too plus. takes several hours to get from the nearest airport to the casino in southern russia and as you can see the zoom still doesn't blue clay gamblers paradise we look at why purpose built gambling zones are failing in the face of illegal games of chance and what russia is betting on to reverse the trend. but first the birth of jesus or an excuse to give presents and eat christian

conservatives in the usa the real message of this time of year is being lost and they say america is locked in yet another war this time a war on christmas or he takes a look. tis the season to be divided i am just so enraged by these all these atheist displays in trying to push jesus to the back seat on christmas day but people like head humanist roy spec hard say they aren't trying to push jesus anywhere when they see these ads it does give them pause that it gives them a chance to think about the issues and the issues are plenty to wars record high unemployment and a budget crisis approaching but apparently the real good or well that one atheist group is putting a new spin on the war on christmas if you listen to the media this is a cheap way of trying to to take a shot at christmas they don't have any guts if they did so they said they go after the muslims. and they he's referring to is the quote unquote other america

the folks who want religion out of public life. and on the opposite side of humanity now with all the political correctness here in the united states like the fact that you can't call it a christmas tree anymore you have to call a holiday tree you can't say merry christmas you have to say happy holidays some groups are taking action like this religious group here god and america's leaders dot com this is the website they created you can log on and take a ten question well to pull choice quiz about which founding father or politician said it which religious quote but with all that outrage and all the back and forth much of the quote unquote rest of america thinks things probable are politics right now we're focusing all these moral and religious issues instead of focusing on the actual things like the economy and the wars and these like badasses distractions but for those americans who want religion any time any place anywhere it isn't just a distraction there definitely has been a war on christmas for a long time and brian fisher is part of the countless conservative christian

organizations that are formed to send this kind of message the single most inclusive thing that you can do this time of year is wish people a merry christmas we think it's appropriate. ask them to acknowledge that jesus christ is the reason for the season and the division is particularly evident in the most powerful of places case in point democrats were pushing to work overtime even after christmas and republicans like senator john kyl and jim de mint were pretty much calling the proposal blasphemous causing this kind of reaction we need to rethink. everybody calm groups. rethinking and perhaps considering that the real battle is much more serious. it's one that goes on all year round. for our tea.

here in a rush of the orthodox christmas is still a couple of weeks off but in our weekly show moscow out artie's martin enters explore a way explores ways to have a perfect christmas in the russian capital for those who celebrate on december twenty fifth is coming your way later this hour here's a preview. we expect to go out program we'll be taking a look at christmas food and while russians have their main celebrations on the year's eve and january the seventh millions of other people around the world and from here i must go already popping in the champagne so join me martha dandridge let me take a look at the merry christmas here in the russian capital. which origin newspapers have launched an anti soviet cartoon campaign backed by president saakashvili a number of soviet age monuments have already been dismantled across the country

and schoolchildren are shown a documentary likening the u.s.s.r. to nazi germany but as r.t.s. our fourth reports may georgians feel nostalgic about their soviet past. the destruction is savior monuments a law banning savior symbols and now an anticipated documentary and a series of cartoons in local papers all part of an anti save it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation have led many to question its real natives and then you say it's not just anti soviet propaganda but anti russian those conducting this campaign are trying to put russia on a par with the soviet union. it's been two decades since georgian independence and just two years since children attacked south thirty year provoking an armed conflict with russia a history of tense relations and these recent events i thought likely to have

a bearing on what's now happening. in a local newspaper if they view general bearing is fixed. with the from this white. part of the anti favor campaign is being accused of being and few russian and of encouraging the public to live by the bigger picture. but many georgians particularly the older generation hold positive memories of save time. and religious blood saying worked as a police officer in the save the union and was harsh comparisons between situation then and today we are we know. it was much better in the soul retirement today in the soviet union we had professional unions protecting our rights today we have nobody to take care much we're being poisoned with the ideology of the current authorities. for people like angrily the destruction of monuments dedicated to saviors soldiers many of whom were themselves georgian is particularly inflammatory

they've had to sit by and watch as their memories of the past of richie's to rubble . why do you think people. mantled these monuments they want us to forget our history but we should never forget that. government his name for his provoked his stance towards russia and the the controversial campaign techniques up perhaps. that history must be honest and true to fact not one scientists. are equally guilty for the problems it doesn't make sense to china blame it on. but using comic books to facilitate this is appropriate i think the efforts of the come inclusively. well the strong emphasis on the negative aspects of the same period might well suit the present political agenda and everyone inside georgia is happy with their government's actions south. georgia and you can find more on this and all the

stories we cover on our website here's a quick look at what's online right now. russia's president sums up the year's events in a t.v. interview find out what he had to say about his personal priorities corruption spies freedom of speech and more. and if you want to get merry with something a little more sophisticated than eggnog this christmas party has the perfect holiday recipe. russian authorities are looking for areas close sort of tourist spots to build new zones for illegal gambling the gaming bad introduced two years ago was widely seen as a failure in the original for official gambling spots have failed to take off our debt as polaski reports. stacks of cash and roofs of one are bandits

federal security service agents breed an illegal casino in moscow eighteen months ago a strict gambling law meant casinos in russia could only exist in four special zones but it failed then the show idea to build gambling. residential areas just didn't work it takes several hours to get from the nearest airport to this casino in southern russia and as you can see the zone still doesn't look like gamblers paradise the distance according to regional authorities almost killed the whole idea some of the transportation is the key factor today we have a steady flow of gamblers coming to this casino enough to make the project worthwhile but that's not the zones full capacity last month russian president medvedev approved a war relocating the only functioning gambling zone closer to tourist destinations we travel to the city of an up on the black sea coast which according to locals may very well become the new and hopefully more successful version of the russian vegas

. the village of blagoveshchensk is a perfect transport hub hosting the gambling project will make our resort accessible all year round. these fields have been prepared for a large scale construction by a peninsula with below send it beaches that attract thousands of dorothy's admit however that the news that will be worthless just like the old one unless the illegal casinos disappear which time it was the almost all the after hours game organizers have been able to avoid serious punishment but that has changed now the region so certain that it may take less than three years to build this new gamblers paradise on the black sea coast but with a huge and powerful underground gambling industry it's still unclear whether the news will be the right bet for russia there is a lot r t cross in the region. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe

a suicide in the crowded when a distribution center in northwest pakistan forty three people dead more than ninety injured a female suicide bomber through two hand grenades and detonated her explosives laden invest in the city of the tribal region bordering afghanistan as locals waited in line for food stamps this comes a day after the seven hundred fifty militants killed eleven soldiers in a coordinated assault in a neighboring region where the army was carrying out operations. in the ivory coast opposition leader has called on the army and un to protect civilians from foreign militia and mercenaries. has been recognized as the winner of last month's disputed election but the incumbent president is refusing to quit west african leaders warn they'll use legitimate force against iran to make him stand down with the region central bank having cut off his access to funds. more snow in western europe has wreaked havoc for those trying to get away for christmas

a severe weather causes numerous flight disruptions with many passengers having no choice but to spend christmas eve at airports at brussels airport twenty five centimeters of snow forced the cancellation of most flights hundreds of planes could not get off the ground in paris at europe's second busiest international hub earlier two thousand people had to be evacuated after snow piled on the terminal roof sparking fears of collapse. unusually wintry weather across europe is likely to be met with some foreboding by those predicting the end of the world in two thousand and twelve one russian man is so worried about the ancient predictions he has invented a shelter that he believes can guarantee human survival. never discovered if armageddon doesn't arrive it would also make a pretty nice song or two. ancient mayan calendar predicts that on twenty first of december twenty twelve the world will and. the earth will suffer cataclysmic

events floods the options and earthquakes that will wipe out almost everyone but some are getting ready to survive the apocalypse i fear kilometers outside of moscow on an abandoned battery farm and invention has been made which will save humanity when the end of the world doesn't i behold the doomsday capsule the military engineer by training beaker says he's a genius and that the large trajan collider controls the world whether he admits that many loft when he showed us his proposal for the live capsule one year ago now he's built it he says people are taking him seriously yes we can see kids got four layers of insulation he can flutes roll down here and learn down without being damaged. of course we can't be destroyed by trimmers or love or all make mistakes storms this is where the show will be and the air purification systems you

can house up to four people for forty days and costs eighty thousand dollars will be king has recruited a band of neighbors who've already booked their places in the capsule but i would say i'm scared of twenty two out of we have to be ready. yeah there's a going to die we will survive the end of the end of the world doesn't come into years you get in he says his capsules can be used as saunders or industrial fridges and recommends that the government order several thousand immediately either a nerve party mosque or region or you could pop corn in once russian territory now the largest part of the us in the next hour r.t. travels to alaska the land where the memories of its previous settlers are still preserved here's a quick look. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is really. just the best compete beat.

and culture. are still unaware of what's going on in the land. alaska. but that are killing. us and that's never a. cosco with me i think of it every day. from the memory. of so much so a long time. ago. i was. i was ashamed that i

had been. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i go. what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but not most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good .

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a fifteen percent for estonia and lots of you should gas deliveries resume pre-crisis levels the gas giant stated that lafayette has already committed itself to increasing consumption to the levels of two thousand and seven prices for baltic neighbors lithuania and belarus however would not change gas from said any discounts for these countries would only be discussed once existing contracts ended and new price formalized were calculated. and staying with gas problem the company has announced it will spend six point five billion dollars or one quarter of its investment program for two thousand and eleven on the development of am often it's a lower fineries deposits situated in the north west of siberia are considered to be the most lucrative in the country. and officials at russia's first liquefied natural gas projects say foreign investors can take part in its expansion the governor of south wholly in the country is far east said shell could participate in the construction of three plants as well as expand into shell sold

a majority share in the project to gazprom several years ago but retains a blocking stake. let's take a look at the markets that my sex ended flat after closing marginally in the red on friday down just under half a percent and a fourteen straight week of gains the r.t.s. fared better finishing in the black point twenty three percent wrapping up a successful trading week trading volumes were light as investors prepare for the holidays. and russian markets hardly moved this week as investors were buying just for christmas and new year rather than stocks maxime orlowski from wraps up the week film review to bordeaux for. this week was relatively calm and that's mostly because the majority of the market players example large ones from europe and the us on christmas holiday season are really changed and we've treated volumes very little but only. one of the interesting events of this week was the disclosure

of charges from the alleged merger between the units which longer don't distorted this company. and positive price outlook for russian commodities including oil spills a continued appreciation of the russian ruble the head of the london school of economics believes that the russian ruble has strong prospects for becoming a hedge currency. i think the ruble can be an interesting hedge against other currencies but also for there to be a lot of russian bonds traded internationally and russian equities traded internationally because where are the assets for people to buy to hold these massive reserves and i don't think at the moment there are enough ruble assets for the ruble to become a very significant reserve currency. and that's all the business news for now but you can always join us for more news at r.t. dot com slash business stay with us.

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poor thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. zero headline the world's biggest exporter exporter of heroin also one of the war sufferers of drug addiction cheap opiate makes it nearly impossible for the addicts of afghanistan to quit. from demolishing monuments to propaganda cartoons or george an anti soviet campaign has a growing number of people accusing the government of messing with history. and

a new conflict diverts media attention from pressing matters in the u.s. conservative christians say the country is locked in a war hong christmas. explores the ways to have a perfect christmas in the russian capital moscow out coming your way next. welcome to the show on this week's festive must go out program will be taking a look at christmas food and while russians have their main celebrations on the is eve and january the.