he dropped out and does what he can to support his have. 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 anti drug measures of diminished output but a hit only costs two dollars providing an escape for addicts ranging from refugees returning from iran who 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 but people forget that supply demand and that's exactly happening in afghanistan i mean if you think about the health issues you think. heavy 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 and the handful of rehabilitation clinics that existed just a few hundred beds to offer. the u.n. funded a judge sensors 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 dula has shown it's a lack of post treatment prospects ensure that over half of the patients fall off the wagon. then i mean it's only. a relapse is

a huge problem there's not much we can offer these people once they leave here. sadullah 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 r.t. . russia's top anti-drug and force or says the u.s. led coalition is so far failing to even slightly reduce the heroin output in afghanistan. because i mean you know. the size of the poppy plantations hasn't changed this year they still cover one hundred twenty three thousand hectors the number of families involved in poppy cultivation has increased by about four thousand for these presents the trophy provides the most basic living simply struggling for survival and all the talk about the need to create economic

incentives for them is simply pointless because 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 the. international law and most national legal systems presume that prophecy used for criminal purposes should be confiscated. newspapers in georgia are staging an ad campaign backed by president saakashvili and with the destruction of soviet war memorials many in the country believe the real goal is to serve stir up anti russian sentiment r.t. surfer reports. the destruction is savior at monuments banning savior symbols and now an anticipated documentary and a series of ca teens. papers all part then and he said it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation has

led many to question its real natives and then you say it 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 julian independence and just two years since june three tech south provoking an arms 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 paper to pick a favorite general like chief to do it yet. with the from this one but part of the anti favor campaign has been accused of being anti russian and of encouraging the public to live by the bigger picture. but many georgians particularly the older generation hold positive memories a saving at times and willage of blood saying worked as a police officer in the save the union and was harsh comparisons between situation

then and today we are to be no more and order was much better and so 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 have achieved to rubble. why do you think they've dismantled these monuments we want us to forget our history but we should never forget. the georgian government is named for its provocative stance towards russia. the controversial campaign techniques are perhaps a step to. history must be honest and true to fact not one sided all nations united and soviet union are equally guilty for the problems it

doesn't make sense to try and blame it on russia but using comic books to facilitate this is appropriate i think the efforts of the government look silly. whilst a strong emphasis on the negative aspects of the savior period might well suit the present political agenda not everyone inside georgia is happy with their government's actions sarah firth r.t. georgia. and you are with are still to come a feeling of paranoia. armageddon a shelter for surviving a park. susan. has some more practical uses to. take several hours to get to. russia and as you can see the it still doesn't look. as we look at purpose built gambling zones are failing in the face of the illegal games of chance and what russia is betting on to reverse the trend.

u.s. christian conservatives are up in arms this festive season they say the christmas message is being hijacked by commercial interest and the real meaning of the holiday is being lost or teased him exhaust he has the story. so. tis the season to be decided i'm just so enraged by these how all these atheist displays in trying to push jesus to the back seat on christmas day but people like head humanist roy speck 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 two wars record high unemployment and a budget crisis approaching 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 i said they'd go after

the muslims want to stop. and the v.a. he's referring to is the quote unquote other america the folks who want religion out of public life if you do a real growth 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 what a ball choice quiz about which founding father or politician said it which really just 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. i asked them to seek knowledge 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 it does everybody calm groups. is the governor's rethinking and perhaps considering that the real battle is much more serious. and it's one that goes on

all year around. this for r t d n a soft. of course here in russia orthodox christmas is still a couple of weeks off but in our weekly show moscow out artie's martin andrews explores what ways to have a perfect festive season here in the russian capital that's coming your way in later this hour but here's a quick preview. on this we must 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 at moscow already popping in the champagne so join me martha dandridge let me take a look at a merry christmas here in the russian capital. the western authorities are looking for areas

a closer to tourist spots to build new zones for illegal gambling the gaming ban first enforced almost two years ago is widely seen as a failure and the original four official gambling spots just haven't taken off. stacks of cash and roofs of one armed 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 had to build gambling zones far away from 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 the yellow sended beaches that attract thousands of dorothy's admit however that the news own will be worthless just like they will 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's a lot ski r.t.d. crossing the region you can get more on all of our stories on our new look a web style. website excuse me here's just a quick look at what's online at our. casa riding to moscow to compare horsepower to find out. and if you want to get married with something a little more sophisticated than this christmas party has the perfect recipe. let's take a look at your world news in brief this sunday morning a suicide blast in. a distribution center in northwest pakistan has killed at least

forty three people and left over a hundred injured a female suicide bomber through two hand grenades and detonated her explosives as locals waited for food aid the explosion that took place in the city of kabul in the tribal region bordering afghanistan it comes a day after eleven soldiers were killed by militants in a cord needed assault in the neighboring region. an indian rocket carrying a communication satellite has exploded shortly after the launch officials say an error caused it to take off at a steeper angle than intended and break up it is india's second space launch failure this year the nation is the fifth country to enter the commercial satellite launching market and plans to make its first manned flight and two thousand and sixteen. the unusually wintry weather across europe is likely to mean that with some foreboding by those predicting the end of the world in two thousand and twelve

one russian man is so worried about being ancient predictions he's invented a shelter he believes can guarantee human survival as you go to go on have discovered if armageddon doesn't arrive it's a pretty nice sauna to. the ancient mayan calendar predicts that on twenty first of december twenty twelve the world will and. the earth will suffer cataclysmic events floods other options and earthquakes that will wipe out almost everyone but some are getting ready to survive the apocalypse i think kilometers outside of moscow on an abandoned battery farm and invention has been made which will save humanity when the end of the world does not i behold the doomsday capsule the military engineer by training you gave me a 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 yeah we can't see kids got four layers of insulation he can float roll down here and learn upside down without being damaged. of course it can't be destroyed by tremors or loss of all make mistakes dooms this is where the show will be and the air purification systems you can house up to fool people for forty days and costs eighty thousand dollars will be king has recruited a band of neighbors they've already booked their places in the capsule by which i am scared of twenty two out we have to be ready. yeah there's a going to die we will survive. and 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 orders several thousand immediately either there are no party moscow region. but coming back to two thousand and ten now in the run up

to new year's celebrations president dmitri medvedev held a q. and a session with russia's leading about the main events of two thousand and ten. version is available anytime on our website. but in a few minutes right here we bring you some of. those. mr president question on the new start.

henry short story that goes and one other accidents of that year was a democratic president you know being a democrat a bum is different he has done a good job he has this important document when you start through this in eight why did you have a conversation with him so late yesterday. in the rift cation. know he's away on holiday it was quite late when we talked after eleven pm our time like any other person he's entitled to rest is on his christmas holiday but i think he can rest with the realisation that his rest is well deserved he did a really good job i agree with you under rather difficult conditions he managed to get this important treaty approved in the senate. like i said our security for the next few years will be based on this treaty and in general i can say that it's easy for me to work with president obama because he can really listen to you and hear you he's not impeded by stereotypes. what's probably the most important thing for

a politician he keeps his promises he's kept his promises as regards to the new start as regards the w t o and as regards the ratification of a very important treaty on nuclear cooperation and as regards various international issues so i hope he gets a good rest he did a good job and i told him so yesterday i said barack have some rationality there with. people rarely remember what it past event smelled or sounded like the year two thousand and ten so one even did i will remember i think it was even more vivid for year how did you find out about the crash of the polish air force one near smolensk and how did you react you'll support worth arguing for sure your story with my father when it. happened. to all of you know it was a difficult day i was in some petersburg at the time it was a saturday and i was planning to have a break then my aide told me about what happened or i was shocked it always comes

as a shock taking in news of this kind you feel shocked and sorry for the people who were killed and this time to add that it was the entire polish political elite if it happened at that spot to think it seemed mystical and hard to believe it turned out to be true nonetheless our relations with poland have gone a long way since then i mean things were very complicated i think that our relationship is less complex now i paid an official visit to poland we talked with the investigation still has to be concluded of course it can't be politicized to serve as a reason to stop blaming each other we have to listen to all parties involved and accept the conclusions made by international agencies then there is the internal investigation of course them you can use the whole thing at a. how do you feel about polish prime minister donald tusk call in the interest aviation kmita report and acceptable. but i would rather think that his evaluation was emotional and the result of occurrences in poland's internal

politics of poland is shattered the communal mentality is shattered which is understandable because it was a real tragedy but it can't affect our relations and it can't lead to the results of the intergovernmental committee and the investigation into the incident being politicized. why did the government in spite of a tradition that has been going since soviet times admit that spies court were working for russia the incident made it clear to me that russia has annoyed by networking very few switches. anyone working for our special services is first and foremost a russian citizen they're not cannon fodder or heroes that the state is willing to sacrifice if the soviet union or perhaps even russia has not talked about them before then it was a mistake on the government's policy our main goal in that situation was to get our people here out and we did that because as i said they were russian citizens i

recently met with intelligence officers and i told them that we will continue doing the same thing in the future if anyone from the intelligence service be of the legal service or not or in a difficult position of these people defend our interests as for the service it can be different legal or illegal if a country claims that it doesn't have an illegal intelligence service it's usually a lie either that or the country in question is very small some on the much can push him on the most tragic events this year was the massacre of civilians in a village near the investigation into which highlighted the deep corruption between the police the authorities and criminals there were similar a cure and says elsewhere how can this be tackled mr medvedev on there. is a problem but it's an important subject and i'm glad you brought it up there is crime yes and there is corruption but i believe we've cut off the people who were obviously criminals the situation is different to the level of regional and municipal authorities there are people who still live by their own code that's why

we need purges not the same purges as those which took place in the one nine hundred thirty s. but we need to cut off those people from power some of the members of the ruling party but that does not mean the ruling party or any other party should turn a blind eye to it on the contrary we need to bring them out into the light expel them from the party to strengthen the parties of already she's. with you once mentioned it all political system is showing signs of stick nation how should we deal with this while. but it wasn't just with us parties must feel responsibility for the. with or it is they've received a major political party united russia should not just rain but also show intelligence tact and power it should appoint the right people pushing back the corrupt ones and those not willing to work at all or punish them the other party should also participate in the discussion of all the issue it's the fact that they represent opposition does not mean that they're isolated from society's life or

they should be speaking openly about all the issues we have. but all of the press each of us. i wanted to ask you how you felt about japan's reaction tv's it to the curial islands. well what about me nothing has changed for me the japanese seem to and. take hold back the investor. is going. well i'm sincerely sorry that i was the reason for a break in his political career that was not what we aim for i'm not sure now what he will do but let me remind you that all of the south could allow them the territory of the russian federation the president is allowed to visit them you would get why has no president gone there before you well it's a remote place that's true but it's our land nonetheless and we have to develop the carolinas to ensure that the people there live well i promise that to the locals i told them that and then sent deputy prime minister chevelle off to work that he's

still working and we will send other officials to the corals of this doesn't mean we're not ready to cooperate with japan we'd welcome any initiatives on joint economic projects taking into account the historical events that took place there you can manage we are ready to work with them but this doesn't mean that we will give up the corals as our terra trade our partners have to understand that are near our way to meet new press or the global media have made wiki leaks the main brand of the year there's no doubt about that how do you feel about it. but as a sort of what's been revealed is interesting some things were quite surprising you know you're afraid if we can leaks why would i be afraid. the department of state might be afraid not me but they might try to but you're well if i was scared of what people might write about me i would never go onto the internet or watch television the person who issues this kind of responsibility has to understand that people don't praise the authorities too often and probably for good reason the authorities have to work efficiently but no i'm not afraid of what people might write about me as for the consequences of the publication might have an effect on

other countries relations but not on our relations with the us we all understand the general attitude of the media and the public we get that information from television and newspaper open sources so we saw nothing new this reminds me of the story that happened to a soviet diplomat he served as ambassador in a european country and had been granted an audience with the queen but after the audience he sent a cable back home saying the queen asked me about dissidents i had to bring her down a peg that's what happened to a diplomat they show each other how tough they are putting labels on everybody every profession has its own rules our diplomats write to each other to everyone's entitle to their minutes of fame including ambassadors and diplomats who are very well. thank you for this in-depth conversation we share happy new year on behalf of our audience it would be naive to see we hope the next year will be better we just wish you a happy new year you think number of years roll. thank you very much i would

like to say that i wish you a happy new year too but i promise this i will do it again you know when that will hit you. you have to say that the steel he showed us some isn't a. great thank you you thank. the club seventeen has been to the region where industries are rapidly developing. now wattie goes to the homeland of those with strength of mind and body. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times and which became the premier destination for nineteenth century political exiles. this is the on screen russia plan sounds on r.t. . wealthy british. it's.

happening to the global economy. broadcasting live from our studios right here in central moscow this is our team glad to have you with us a cheap era when. people. have little or no hope of. the world may know police are now nato forces are being criticized for failing to reproduce the. soviet campaign underway in georgia which includes

demolishing monuments and cartoon. papers but many in the country say its real goal is to provoke anti russian sentiment. christmas as christian conservatives say the festive season is under attack and it's. lost to commercialism and political correctness. moscow out is next in this week's festive show martin takes a look at what christmas treats you can buy right here in the russian capital.