if you're just joining us a very welcome aarti live here in moscow hot past the hour now time slot they join our main news stories back to work for the bond engine failure causes russia's unmanned cargo spacecraft progress to crash in the remote east in part was told one hundred kilometers away. leader of libya's rebel government meets european leaders to for his country's oil riches to be willing but is behind the trees down from. north korea is ready to help you create tests in six party talks to resume the search for the country's elusive leader on a rare trip to russia. and iran the files

a lawsuit against russia over its refusal to supply s. three hundred missiles saying they don't fall under the u.n. resolution preventing weapons in. and also energy and russia's north caucuses signed superstar striker samuel it do it from italian side in similar unpassable side is making him the world's highest paid. for more news developments corner stores nice and hot enough not to meet on a special report looks at life in the former soviet republic of to seek a stand in central asia twenty years after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. and that's our special report next. tragic you stand a former soviet republic became independent in nine hundred ninety one. that were an independent state is important but it's only good as long as it's backed by economic performance. unemployment is the greatest issue in this

independent central asian country meaning one and a half a million migrant workers flock to russia from tragic to stand alone they have left their country to feed their families. after the breakup of the soviet union we had a very hard trying but then we somehow learned to take things in stride. the situation got even worse following the devastating civil war that broke out during the first years of independence the nation still healing its wounds even a decade on the problems are numerous from drug trafficking from neighboring afghanistan to acute shortages of electricity and drinking water.

each morning a camel appears on this road running through the hills drive is paused to sign the animal to feed it. now it needs something to eat it. local say the camels owner deliberately turns the animal out there's no food for it in the man's household. and his family live two hundred kilometers south of tajikistan's capital to shun very close to the border with afghanistan he has ten children. this cow provides for. each member of his family has a particular job to do the men trim the vines and women do the washing and bake bread while the kids work in the vegetable garden.

the majority of gather cotton stalks left in a field after harvesting they use them to heat the oven in order to make flats round cakes the stalls do produce some heat but certainly not just less than firewood does. carried out get on with it. like to claim any tragic peasants live below the poverty line and some don't have jobs at all others barely scrape by. to karim's eldest sons are old enough to earn a living they'll be sense of broad to look for a job. my brother has left for russia to work there he will be a helping hand from our family we've got very little money. social problems create fertile breeding ground for crime an increasing number of people who've fallen prey to drug dealers they use them to traffic narcotics across the

border with afghanistan through the so-called northern route. from afghanistan heroin finds its way to the stand and then on to russia and europe . in two thousand and ten as law enforcement. ollie's confiscated more than two tons of drugs coming from afghanistan. door. roups of criminals were different members of a particular rule to plea they include masterminds traffickers go betweens pins and consumers. not a whole network is a will world machine. police in the whole amount of confiscated heroin to a special of oratory here it becomes clear that drug traffickers are willing to resort to any trick to make sure their supply gets through and one of the

consignments laborde free staff discovered heroin tucked away inside dried grapes. in the these reasons were soaked in water we thought and soon received could be removed then tiny packets of herion were inserted in the place. the republic of tragic is dan is situated in the foothills of the pami range in central asia and is a landlocked country bordering afghanistan in the south as biggest on kyrgyzstan in the north and west and china to the east the country significantly lacks major transport routes due to its vast distance from the sea. cover ninety three percent of the country's terrain. has done is regarded as one of the world's poorest countries according to the international monetary fund half of its population subsists on less than two dollars a day the country's difficult economic situation is largely the result of a civil war which lasted from one nine hundred ninety two to ninety ninety seven.

the standoff began here on the square. it was called freedom square at the time. we lost our political identity it was a time when we were seen as wild savages fighting one another would have been. for several years after the collapse of the soviet union various political clans interjected stan were locked in a bitter power struggle according to official figures the armed conflict cost one hundred thousand lives the country found itself on the verge of a humanitarian and economic disaster although the civil war ended in one thousand nine hundred seven the country has not yet been able to repair the damage done. one of the biggest problems intelligent has done is a shortage of drinking water. according to international humanitarian agencies

nearly half of the country's population has no access to fresh water. each day members of abu collins' family have to bring it from a nearby village and even then it's only fit for drinking after is been boiled. at the water is turned kilometers away. bring fifty cans of water by will barrel. sometimes or get the donkey to do the hauling it makes the job easier but the. locals in the village of can do chey entergy is done south of built a water reservoir children of the most frequent visitors here there's a vision in this country is that the children i want you to supply their households with water. and do you count here for whatever. yes. how often. each morning.

people fill up their pails and cans while animals use the reservoir as a watering hole. there is surreal warriors in poor condition because too many villagers come here from all over to take water it will have to be fixed again when spring comes around. since independence came twenty years ago the water supply systems have fallen into disrepair today the government earmarks funds for the construction of water pipelines local businessmen to i've been attempting to build some but the problem still persists regardless. as you can see animals roam around the place leaving their waste behind people use filthy vessels for water the reservoirs are not covered by end of thing and the water is not this infected with the risk is enormous here people may be taken ill with diarrhea typhoid hepatitis and other waterborne diseases.

several million tantric men and separated from their families. a lack of money compels them to look for jobs in other countries most of the migrant workers have to russia. addition by moscow line is almost always filled to capacity. most of the passengers a young men many of them a likely to get employment in russian cities or street cleaners loaders or construction workers. the need to feed my family seven people all in all of course there's a household to maintain back home a cow and a vegetable garden i'm going to be marrying off my daughter soon i also need to finish my house and short i need money. to.

pay. yeah we're almost in moscow. from. the muscovites go to europe to earn money because their salaries in moscow are too low for the we'll go to moscow for work. it's profitable for us to work there. if they're lucky enough to find a job these people will be able to send money home in a month's time according to the european bank of reconstruction and development each year migrant workers transfer about two billion u.s. dollars to their relatives the sum is equal to half of tajik is dan's g.d.p. . conditioned by express has arrived in moscow. township migrants will begin looking for new jobs the very next day.

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yes. but a few other of as a small village ten kilometers from moscow workers from countries of the c.i.s. of building country houses here tangy x. or monk them. once this is radio to g.q. stand where they are for you every day and every hour. after breakfast the workers sits about plastering the walls while on the job a conversation turns and says you can stand on the haunch ships they went through bank home. the of now that if i had enough money i wouldn't have come here

i would not have left my kids behind they are growing up without a father but it was better during the soviet union. my dream is to earn enough money to build a house and buy a car on. buzz otherwise she could of another worker from tajikistan has already earned enough for a wedding ceremony he wants to marry his daughter of the other boy has been building houses in russia for six years now people living in a far away tragic village looking forward to his homecoming in time for the ceremony. father decided against buying any particular gift from my daughter molly's the most precious gift also litter her so that she can buy what she chooses with. up to one hundred guests are invited to

a wedding ceremony intention to stand a special law forbids anymore from attending in rural areas wedding ceremonies are held in the daytime some locals say this is a long running tradition others maintain that this is because villages are often subjected to power cuts. only major cities receive uninterrupted electricity supplies the situation showed a marked improvement following the commissioning of the russian built sank to the hydroelectric power plant in the country's south the opening ceremony in two thousand and nine was attended by the presidents of russia and teche it is done. russian companies owned the bulk of the power plants shares. after the plant went online electricity shortages dropped by fifteen percent.

given the plant has paved the way for economic progress in tajikistan which had been held back by energy shortages in the past for russia it will be able to enter new markets are considering whether to take a stand shares a border with afghanistan a country suffering from massive energy shortages. the same to the power plants are also significantly boost to the job market for local specialists. colloq. generators today and three are on generator for ease and standby mode all actual parameters on the normal.

hydro power plant has also given small enterprises a chance to develop. this factory in dition bay make souvenirs from semiprecious stones and for a while how about of design it to revive this engine can be graphed several years ago on ics amethyst lapis lazuli and cords become something more than just rocks in his hands each month the factory process is two tons of raw materials. needed but. we make such bowls vases candlesticks each item has a name. this bowl for example is called a high yama. we feel this is a good way of promoting our products that all sorts of crystal bowls are currently in vogue we focus on lepas lousy light it's regarded as our national stir.

zeven is made at this factory a kitchen many museums around the world many heads of state have items made of tragic semiprecious stones in a collections. that. the bride and groom in the village of sort of fall into education stands north have just been showered with gifts. the biggest surprise is the appearance of basil by chicago of the father of the bright. he's just arrived from moscow. that. basil fires back welcome home as a. male largely

happiness. oh just look at my daughter the. township wedding ceremonies have very old traditions for instance the male and female guests each p.l.l. in separate rooms this is always followed by a prayer. may our bring happiness to the bright lay should be a wonderful housekeeper be happy together that i that and when everybody starts to dance the bride is supposed to put her head down and sulk. and the wedding wouldn't have taken place as president i should cut off the master of the house and prolong to stay in moscow. we are going to take the bride to divide. i grow up to be everything is as it should be they have been waiting for me because i am the boss here there will be no weddings without me around everybody thanked me for

coming on time. after lunch everybody goes to the bridegroom's house to continue the celebrations there is not enough room indoors so most of the guests gather in the courtyard the party continues well past dusk and ends at ten pm shot. dead at. the town of junked interjected stands north is home to so tongue no mark mother of the country's most celebrated handicrafts when his family makes knives using a technique that goes back at least five hundred years at the moment so tan son is in the workshop. all three of us make knives.

as well as our father. welder brother has a workshop in the city. he works there with our younger brother. as. the old master stays at home most of the time he looks after his grandson he recalls that he has made several thousand lifetimes his creations are used by people all over the world in the. at the. city's own and also country can exist without cheney craftsmen. i mean like any craft is a nation's culture in its face. if we work hard always plenty. at it but if we are lazy chances are we will

live in poverty even in paradise he the blacksmith sells his knives as an old market in the town of who jumped. much like his ancestors did hundreds of years ago. i was proud of my salvi of citizenship it never occurred to us that one day we might wake up faced with power cuts or no milk in a shot. an electro optical telescope or a facility was built in atlantic mountains way back in soviet times the russian space force refers to it simply as the window. after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. this military facility became part of independent ten chick is done today military men live in the garrison with their families and is effectively a part of the russian territory. the commanders are to report on where the weapons

and personnel are in complete order standard seize the whether those ammunition and personnel of the command center are present and correct. the a ray which tracks objects in outer space is situated in the foothills of the permian range at an altitude of two thousand two hundred meters above sea level. there are unique telescopes in these very cool domes they scan the universe in three dimensions military people call this reconnaissance sensor the eyes of russia's space force. the station is unique in the during the night it can spot space objects at a range of eighteen to thirty five thousand kilometers. it's been built here because visibility in the sky is not better than anywhere else most of the nights are clear with no precipitation all dust. electro optical reconnaissance sensor is

said to be russia's most valuable military installation in the republic of turkey stan there are similar centers monitoring the universe in other countries too but this one is not better suited to observations because of its location the second unit has reached the outpost we are ready for hand over. and over fermented. under a governor who came to the space tracking station after finishing vocational school he enjoys working at a place with such a unique geographical position many russian military men dream of being stationed here. i work twenty four hours and then have three days off i spend this time with my family. we go hiking picnic by the river and visit historical and cultural places in the sun by. locals living near the garrison want to work here as well.

another secret building is situated a few kilometers from a telescope array here the ticket stands president. has built a villa for himself but only a handful of people are aware of the existence of his mansion abode. now that his daughter's wedding is behind him as a bicycle rove is heading to russia again to build more houses. he's unlikely to know anything about reports by the international monetary fund predicting forthcoming growth and sometimes you can destroy these but even if he does he has no time to waste he needs to feed his family here and now. you will be clients a while before the tragic worker ceases family again. as

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