and all the way up to a life sentence for people not involved in large drug related crimes will consider alternative action which may mean offering them the option of taking a therapy course instead of punishment. according to. that. is. what is the problem. to drug users. these figures are in fact common for the whole world i mean police all over the world europe or america only managed to confiscate around ten percent of illegally traded drugs within their countries another thing is the extremely low efficiency of our borders and their administrative and legal methods lead to the point two percent of all drugs are intercepted at the borders drugs that get into russia first have to go through the states of central asia where they're not intercepted those states themselves above all are victims of

afghanistan's enormous drug production. as a matter of fact afghanistan itself is the victim of global drug mafia work which creates the demand and the political will to continue production in the country. this is why countries next to have the greatest density of drug flow. simply because they are closer to the epicenter further away the drug since a lot of different channels and then drugs get to russia for example through the seven thousand kilometer border with. what percentage of drugs. over eighty percent of all synthetic substances that are illegally traded in russia originate in europe most of the netherlands where most of. them in base drugs and in fact should poland the baltic states germany bulgaria and many other countries with underground drug labs some cells are small but there are many of them and the substances they produce find their way to russia of through various channels

speaking of the amounts that we intercept and confiscate it's nearly half a ton of synthetic substances every year mostly these are methamphetamine. l.s.d. ecstasy and other similar drugs. also there are parents. testing people on mass would be far too radical no of course not we're talking about establishing an early warning system to detect drug addicts and abusers after all people are not born addicted to drugs it all starts with experimenting mostly in teenage years when kids start spending more time on the streets away from their parents that's when they get to know drugs this needs to be detected at an early stage and if parents are warned in advance sometimes it just takes parental action and advice to put an end to these dangerous practices if not stopped in time these experiments later lead to regular consumption which in turn requires longer and more costly treatment. you.

know we're not talking about force treatment here any forcing of treatment is a violation of the person so it's important that drug abusers make this decision for themselves in our country drug abuse is subject to administrative liability and punishment by paying a fine on average six hundred rubles punished and then they're released so our society seems to hope the drug users will somehow realize that they require treatment for this addiction. but they won't because their mind is blurred by chemical and psychoactive substances. therefore a legal system should be created to push them towards having treatment and as i've said this is what we call alternative responsibility by the way this is also recommended in the united nations anti drug conventions. according to.

what you. i have to say that we rejected this kind of conclusion so did my colleagues in the us russia presidential commission was. we discussed it immediately with washington over the hotline and criticized the global commission legalizing drugs is a road to nowhere more than that it will result in the growth of drug. let me remind you of a referendum on legalizing marijuana in california in september last year i was there when it was held where we decided with mr gil kerlikowske that a number of meetings with officials including the man the sheriff the chief of police the prosecutor respectable professions had a clear position against a legalizing marijuana and the referendum confirms that it should not be legalized . drugs.

but i have explicit information from the u.s. presidential administration that. had largely funded the campaign. this example of the global commission reminds me of a global. drawing so much attention. but even a respectable agency like the b.b.c. covered the fact that this belongs to the u.n. i mean even serious agencies were confused therefore there are many reasons to believe that this drug lobby had funded the campaign. i want to indicate that we've been discussing at various international platforms on may the tenth i spoke at the g eight ministerial conference in paris and so did many of my colleagues we said that unfortunately our fight against drugs stagnates at both local and regional levels because the global level stays even beyond our understanding this concept

hasn't been developed yet i did this context i want to know that the former under secretary general of the united nations antonio. who was responsible for the drug problem mention. that in two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine in the midst of the global financial crisis. three hundred fifty two billion u.s. dollars from selling drugs were pumped into the world's leading banks this means that a certain global level determines or sets the demand for drug turnover and ultimately a political order for this production. as far as the withdrawal from afghanistan is concerned the picture is unclear so far it was said that the withdrawal would start and certain parameters for it had been set mention thirty thousand troops by the end of the year but when i was in washington last september they were talking about the need to increase the military

contingent in afghanistan exactly by thirty thousand now we're planning to return these thirty cells and so in fact nothing has changed i think the world community and you can disagree is beginning to consider the situation in afghanistan because there were several reasons behind the decision to launch a military operation and the decision of the world community to interfere in the fair's of this for the country. to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and even seen your officials like general petraeus for example who's commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of armed clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times so have the assigned tasks been achieved. security in afghanistan

has only. said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of. in this respect to the be worthwhile to note a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies the operation was called iraq which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers and hectares of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium has never stopped that's why i have a peaceful settlement is necessary but we've started talking about this at long last it was highlighted at the london conference on afghanistan in two thousand and ten the autumn conference in kabul also stressed the need to find a peaceful settlement but the latest initiative was voiced by the us president barack obama on negotiations with the taliban and the latest resolutions of the united nations security council which divided responsibility between the taliban

and al qaeda are offering a unique opportunity in my view to drop a program of eliminating drug production i've just come from a meeting of the parliamentary faction of the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats the second largest faction in the european union here outside the european parliament building we discussed the e.u. strategy towards afghanistan large sections of that strategy are devoted to liquidation of drugs production. is very well with the russian drafted plan called rudiger to liquidate the production of drugs in afghanistan in fact the direction that russia and the european union are taking together very well so today we have a unique opportunity for resolution and decisive action. thank you very much. i said thank you very much.

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good to have you company and these are the headlines chile big hurry one of the copper american to qualify for the quarterfinals as when. all eyes will mark the roys the twenty two year old second gulf naija in a row. i'm from moscow to sochi with the latest on the longest in russia. but first at the corporate america chile make sure they qualify for the quarterfinals by finishing top of their group one now when both teams where it used to ten men. and chinese both getting a red card in the second half. of the scenes there but the game was decided eventually by nine goal in stoppage time that i could be turning it into his own net after a cool enough. finished chile. i'm not defeat means perri

finished third in the group but they also qualify for the quarter finals along with viewers watching to finish second with one of the fate of mexico. with the goal to set up a quarter final clash with argentina. meanwhile the pre-season is underway for years big clubs of barcelona reanimate grid and munched united in america for the world football challenge for united it is the start of a new era in the midfield off the paul scholes or tied manager sir alex ferguson has described him as one of the world's top four plays and then even though he has admitted he's missed out on signing arsenal simeon as a non-story says there's always a chance i younger players could help fill his boots for me nine hundred francs. as i was. i would all want common. helpers. someone as we often do. the youth team

or the use of marriages. well. as a married man has said they are closer to signing. permanently they need a name or says he was speaking ahead of his team's game against l.a. galaxy on saturday something christiane i was looking forward to along with galaxy's david beckham. is a good game for us because we re still. a new person and so it will be great really exciting because i always like to play and if you play against good teams better far as. so it will be a great side of me and i hope of course to win the game. to be face in real madrid to actually since i left you know it's emotional because you you get attached to a club you get attached to the people at the club. and to be facing. a team with the talent that they've got in the team not just with the talented guys that

they've got here but the young players and of course joe's a. now in other news police say they have found no evidence of doping in the hotel room of russian cyclists alexander who failed a drug test at the top of france and tested positive for the banned by your substance that can also be used as an agent to mask the use of other drugs he says he does not know how the system of the substance got into his system but has withdrawn from the tour de france now why it's the result of his big sample analysis that is all so positive his team get to say they will sack him and find me five years wages which would be around three million dollars so the talk continues without him and yesterday stage ten was won by german sprinter already giving paul his former teammate mark cavendish went to the line with around two hundred metres left the people followed and had moved to get his first win on the tour frenchman thomas popular keeps the yellow jersey piece in many forty nine seconds ahead of

spain's sun it's. after cruising to an emphatic victory at the u.s. open many expect. so when the open championship which gets underway on thursday the twenty two year old from northern ireland was at the center of the media's attention mark arroyo hasn't played a competitive round since his win at the congressional but says that's the way he likes it. yeah i mean i'm trying to prepare for this this major like i prepare for every other major. you have been i was here last week for a couple of days and i got a couple practice runs and you know one time to practice you know sort of get away from everything and then come back here on you know on tuesday which i usually do you know it seemed to work the last few days last few times of i've done it so i want to just keep the same thing go on and it seems to work confident fellow but he will have his work cut and if he wants to get his hands on

a second major new world number one luke donald among his main competitors conceding but top of the main contenders the hundred fortieth open championship at sandwich in the. their highest paid professional athlete in the world tiger woods is still the biggest name in golf however the fourteen time major winner will miss the open due to trouble some left leg injury the thirty five year old quest to equal and best the legend the reject any course total of eighteen on the back burner for now i have tire guessers health back. tiger went again and he went he went quite a bit again and you know where i broke my record probably injury also ruling for muslim bat out of gold's oldest major in the most bizarre circumstances the forty two year old became the second local quit to win the french open at the start of the month and broke his leg after jumping in a lake to celebrate his victory phil mickelson and lee westwood i remember top

contenders as usual but builth lefty and westy have been struggling for form of flate brewery michael ware you stop of the build up to his stunning first major victory at the u.s. open the twenty two year old northern irish man choosing to take three weeks off towards meaning he hasn't played a competitive throne since his greatest ever day probably a lot of pressure being put on him. but he's a force that is natural but this the pressure is going to be he's going to be looked upon especially with tiger up playing he's going to be looked upon as the new kid coming through so i think that guy the go one way or the other that could give him confidence or it could actually provide too much pressure at the end of the day he has the great chance he's thriving all confidence because of the usa and when he's used the links golf he grew up on it there's no reason why he. looked new and also among the frontrunners after securing his first victory since becoming

world number one at the scottish open great year and every bit every all the golf is played over here you know he's played very very well you know explain well he's playing great what a worker he is he looks a member of our court my course at home and he absolutely is on the putting chipping green and bunker play and he's there all the time and he works harder than anybody out there we've seen good results however the thirty three year old english man will have to rewrite history as no player has ever won the scottish open and gone on to win the british open. her achieve. getting underway tomorrow now let's turn our attention to volleyball where the russian national squad have returned to moscow after being crowned world league champions for the first time in nine years plenty of smiles away to be tame as they touchdown in sheremetyevo international their russia big brazil in sunday style and a thrilling five setter edging the decider fifteen eleven maxine mckew of top

scoring for the winners with twenty seven points he was also named torn and the paper russia had only one month before the two thousand and two. there's also the issue of i remember the entire final game against brazil including the fifth set and the winning point yes we won the world league but we need to keep working because we are not like the brazilians who used to win the tournament for an impressive eighty years in a row it was only a second title so we have to continue to work with. some ice hockey news in their little brother t.v. kontinental hockey league is growing farm tains for russia's second division hockey clubs will now be participating in the youth the newly introduced n.h.l. green bay the league on up an eventual system comparable to what is in place across the atlantic. because i love you it's we're building the foundation for hockey development for decades to come currently we're building a scattered network of youth teams which will eventually become separate youth

leagues a similar system is already in place in canada the country has numerous local youth squads which means more chances for telling the kids to showcase themselves. and finally the time dakar rally when i ask a bit of his rolling right along the silk way rally in his truck event which will take contestants from moscow to sochi over a week also seeing quite a battle in the car section of the contestants picking up the pace of the race went from south from volgograd to that i can edging closer to its finish in sochi a bit of was just over six minutes behind that might be on the day but that second place finish was enough to increase the overall gap over another russian on the very cold the north and in the cars stephanie had a hand still steam and krzysztof hello to it's got his first stage when of the event the pole leads in the overall standings but her hand still is creeping up

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it is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me or you know josh diverse have pulled the bodies of almost one hundred people from their watery grave following the sinking of a pleasure boat on the volga river and what is russia's worst boating disaster many of them are children who were packed into a games room on the bulgarian vessel when i went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday a total of around one hundred thirty people are thought to have been killed and the tragedy specialists are preparing to. if the rock from the bottom of the river which is hoped will shed more light on the causes of the accident already partly blamed on negligence you know while the first funerals have been held in the republic of tatarstan as russia continues to warn the victims tom barton reports. this is the happy scene that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children

on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. to it . as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. at the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom of one of the boat daria's of the decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside.