large quantities of drugs will be in for more severe punishment 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 going to stand have the greatest density of drug flow. simply because they are closer to the epicenter further away the drug flows splits into lots of different channels and then drugs get to russia for example through the seven thousand kilometer border with kazakstan. what percentage of drugs. over eighty percent of all synthetic substances that are illegally traded in russia originate in europe mostly the netherlands where most. drugs are an infection poland the baltic states germany bulgaria and many other countries with underground drug labs. are small but there are many of them and the subs. they produce find

their way to russia of through various channels speaking of the amounts that we intercept and confiscate its nearly half a ton of synthetic substances every year mostly these are methamphetamine. ecstasy and other similar drugs. 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. or 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 u.s. russia presidential commission mr gil kerlikowske made a statement 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 at 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.

third. california. but i have explicit information from the u.s. presidential administration that this financier had largely funded the campaign. point. certainly this example of the global commission reminds me of a global p.r. campaign by 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.

because the global level stays even beyond our understanding this concept hasn't been developed yet but in this context i want to know that the former under secretary general of the united nations antonio costa who was responsible for the drug problem mentioned 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 they're planning to return 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. 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. general petraeus for example is 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 gotten worse because it said that drug production cannot be fought because damage is the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle 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. which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers and the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium has never stopped that's why peaceful settlement is necessary 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 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 drug 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. thank you very much.

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thanks for watching the sports good to have you company and this is what is coming up a bit in the. euro why beat mexico one the oldest set up a quarter final with argentina the cup america. but the law is all marking royston twenty two year old goes for his second gold in a ride. from moscow to sochi with the latest on the longest rally in russia. but first at the copper america where year ago i set up a quarter final with argentina for a one nil win over mexico the only goal school. early in the first half picking up the rebound from diego fall and there couldn't be more for europe for one clip the post minutes later. and in the second half they struck the woodwork again nicholas lawyer joe hitting me up brought this time. thought by how the polite. later on but

lugo that it was ruled offside ending his side's two month you're acquiring go on to play argentina in the last day. until you make sure they qualify for the quarter finals by finishing top of their group of girls one zero win over peru both teams were reduced to ten men for each pramono and chillies a bone by getting a red card in the second half and then the game was decided by now you go in stoppage time on the recovery low turning it into exactly i think it's great for the stage in the group but you should qualify for the final so. meanwhile the pre-season is underway for europe's big clubs with barcelona reale madrid and munched united in america for the world football challenge for united is the start of a new era in their midfield after paul scholes retired manager alex ferguson has described him as one of the world's top four place his side were given a tour of harvard university before the tone starts at the weekend and even though fergie admits he's missed out on signing arsenal some imaginary he says there's

always a chance a younger scholar from united ranks could help finance big sis. i was. all one comma. helpers but. someone was often do my actions married to someone. or more of your own proves america is. becoming. a marine who has said they are closer to signing a manual alibi all permanently they need a nine or so where though he was speaking ahead of his team's game against l.a. galaxy on saturday something christiana ranallo is looking forward to along with galaxy's david beckett. is a good game for us because we re still going to pursue them so will be great it's really exciting because i always like to play and if you play against good teams it's better for a moment to vote so it will be very and i hope of course to win the game to be

facing real madrid. 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. seen 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 josie. another nice police say they have found no evidence of doping in the hotel room of russian cyclists alexander who failed a drug test at the tour de france last nov tested positive for a banned direct substance that can also be used as an agent to mask being use of other drugs he says he does not know how the substance got into his system but has withdrawn from the tour de france and now awaits the result of his the sample analysis of that is also positive his team could too she say they will sack him and fined him 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 poor his. former teammate mark cavendish went for the line with around two hundred metres left the good people followed and had more power to get his first win on the tour frenchman thomas voeckler keeps the yellow jersey he's a minute forty nine seconds ahead of spain's there was a young son chance. and after cruising to an emphatic victory at the u.s. open many expect roy mcelroy to win the open championship which gets under way on the twenty two year old golfer from northern ireland was at the center of the media's attention mcelroy hasn't played a competitive round since his win in 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 got a couple of 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 donna so you know i want to just keep the same the same thing go on and. seems to work confident fellow but he will have his work cut out if he wants to get his hands on a second major new world number one luke donald among his main competitors although some big names are also missing this constantine but top of looks at the contender is the one hundred forty eighth open championship. the highest paid professional athlete in the world to go woods is still the biggest name in golf however the fourteen time major winner will miss the all been due to trouble some left leg injury the thirty five year old's quest to equal and their storage in the reject nicolas total of eighteen on the big for now but if tiger guesses health back. tiger went again and he went he went quite a bit again and break my record probably injury also ruling for mostly bad out of

the bulls 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 the lake to celebrate his victory phil mickelson and lee westwood i remember the top contenders as usual but wilf 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. which is unfortunate is natural but it's the pressure is going to be he's going to be looked upon especially to tighten 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 is used to links golf he grew up on it is 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 in the 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 and get results however the thirty three year old english man will have to rewrite history as no plinth has ever won the scottish open and gone on to win the british open. oh achieved. should be a great couple of days now we'll 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 awaiting the team as they stand it sharing method international airport russia beat brazil in sunday's final in a thrilling five set at aging the decider fifteen eleven maxime a car of top scoring for the winners from twenty seven points he was also named tournament and the pain of russia had only one of the four in two thousand and ten . shows there's your support 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're not like the brazilians who used to win the tournament for an impressive eighteen years in a row it was a are only second title so we have to continue to work. out a little brother to ice hockey kontinental hockey league is growing farm things for russia's second division hockey clubs will now be participating in the youth leagues newly introduced m.h.l. green bay the league eyeing up an eventual system comparable to what is in place

across the atlantic because i love you it's the only way we're building the foundation for heikki development for decades to call 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 tell the kids to showcase themselves. motor sports a time dakar rally when a third ask a bit of is leading the silk way rally in his command structure the race from moscow to sochi is taking place this week and is also seeing quite a battle in the car section the contestants picking up the pace is the race went south involve a gradual but i can edging closer to its finish in sochi a bit of was just over six minutes behind compact group that i'm a d.m. on the day but that second place finish was enough to increase the overall gap over another russian on the break you know and in the cars stefan put a hanson's team

a list of allowed suits got his first stage will of the event the pole loops in the overall standings about a hand since it's creeping up into four it's tricky. and we will end with major league baseball's all star game is for the national league at a five one win over the american league to secure home field advantage for the world series several big names were absent at chase field in arizona in all sixteen of eighty four all stars were dropped but prince fielder shone with a three run homer in the fifth innings at the national league rome to a five one win really blew his star the most valuable player award and the national league i would vantage in the cities will see us. so that brings the end of the sport have got more of it like from state chain though it is the weather coming up next. download the official antti up location on the phone oh i pod touch from the i

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watching r.t. coming to live from moscow eleven am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead 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 bulgaria vessel when it went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday a total of around one hundred thirty people are sought to have been killed in the tragedy we now cross live to of course my. russia's republic of tatarstan where the accident occurred. tom many bodies remain trapped in the water as we now tell us how the recovery operation is going on and any word yet about when and will be completed. well the arena we've been talking to some of the recovery authorities the emergencies ministry divers that have been going out hour

after hour to a platform above the the sunken bowl daria three kilometers out from the bank in the volga river and they say and the emergencies ministry say that they're going to try and finish the recovery of bodies by the end of today that's obviously a very tricky process it's taken them a long time so far divers have had to be going inside the rooms inside the boat they've had to be working steadily through those in teams some divers going ahead to try and clear any wreckage tables and things that have fallen over as the boats as the boats sunk in any damage that may have happened and other divers then going in and extracting the bodies and bringing them to the surface so a very difficult process and also a very harrowing one for the relatives and survivors that have remained on the banks i'm sure you can see but behind me all the flower.