we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we'll go to the future of coverage. and bringing you the top news in the headlines from around the globe as well as a recap of the top stories of the week this is our team colonel gadhafi reportedly offers talks with the libyan rebels to arrange a transfer of power that says the opposition hunt the fugitive leader after taking over the capital tripoli and. north korea is ready to limit nuclear arms testing and production if international talks on security in the region resume. the pledge was made by the country's reclusive leader kim jong un a rare trip to russia. and and unmanned russian space ship is missing after crashing over siberia the progress vessel was carrying supplies to the

international space station when it plummeted it back to earth shortly after launch from a colleague and he said now i will be here in just a bit with a full picture news of thirty minutes from now but next to central asia where we explore how the former soviet republic of tajikistan is faring twenty years after the fall of the u.s.s.r. . tenchi just on 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 million migrant workers flock to russia from tragic a 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 his cause beside 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. emoji dove and his family live two hundred kilometers south of tragedy stands capital to shun very close to the border with afghanistan he has ten children. this cow provides for and. each member of his family has a particular job to be a mentor in the vines and women do the washing and bake bread while the kids work in the vegetable garden. the majid of gather cotton stalks left in a field after harvesting they used them to heat the oven in order to make flats round cakes the stalks do produce some heat but certainly much less than firewood does. i carried out get on with

it. like. many tangent peasants live below the poverty line and some don't have jobs at all others barely scrape by. when i do creams elder sons are old enough to earn a living they'll be sense of brought to look for a job. my brother has left for russia to work there he will be a helping hand for my family we've got there a little money. social problems create fertile breeding ground for crime an increasing number of people have 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 find its way to educate stan and then on to russia and europe.

in two thousand and ten to stan's law enforcement bodies confiscated more than two tons of drugs coming from afghanistan. roots of criminals who are different from members of a particular role to play they include masterminds traffickers betweens resequence and consumers. the whole network is a will machine. police in the whole amount of confiscated heroin through 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 in one of the consignments laborde free staff discovered heroin tucked away inside dried grapes. and these reasons were soaked in water before hand so the seeds could be removed and then tiny packets of parian were inserted in the place. the republic of tragic

istana situated in the foothills of the permian range in central asia and is a landlocked country bordering afghanistan in the south as biggest on in 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. stone 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. and . one of the biggest problems intelligence is stan is a shortage of drinking water. according to international humanitarian agencies only half of the country's population has no access to fresh water. each day members of up to cut him as family have to bring it from a nearby village and even then it's only fit for drinking after it has been boiled

. at the water is turned kilometers away. bring fifty cans of water by will barrel. sometimes they get the donkey to do the hauling it makes the job easier. locals in the village of can do chey entergy is down 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 will judy supply their households with water. over time do you come here for whatever. yes. each morning. people fill up their pails and cans while animals use the reservoir as a watering hole. there is still warriors and poor condition because too many villagers come here from all over it to take water it will have to be fixed again

when spring comes around. since independence came twenty years ago the g.q. stones water supply systems have fallen into disrepair today the government earmarks funds for the construction of water pipelines local businessmen to have been attempting to build some but the problem still persists for dauntless. as you can see animals roam around the place leaving their waste behind people use filthy vessels for water the reservoirs not covered by a living and the water is not disinfected with the risk is enormous here people might be taken ill with diarrhea typhoid ever taters and other water borne diseases . several million times he came in a 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 are likely to get employment in russian cities as street cleaners looters or construction workers. i need to feed my family seven people all in all of course there's a household to maintain back home the calendar vegetable garden i'm going to be marrying off my daughter soon i also need to finish my house in short i need money . they get out we're almost in moscow. 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 tragic is dawn's g.d.p. . the sunday express has arrived in moscow. migrants will begin looking for a new job the very next day. the.

last time the close up team was in our movie where the gold rush still gets people hike up. this time margie goes to cure a region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where every orphan will be adopted. the locals turn their land into

a person paradise wellcome. should close on an arcane. russia would be soon which britain if. someone from feinstein operation was. whose friends down tontine dot com.

yes. but the other of as a small village ten kilometers from moscow workers from countries of the c.i.s. a building country houses here. among them. i have changed. this is radio to stand where they are for you every day and every hour. after breakfast the work is it's about plastering the walls while on the job the conversation turns to the judge of his

son and the hardships they went through back home. given that if i had enough money i wouldn't have come here i would not have left my kids behind their growing up without a father it was better during the soviet union. my dream is to earn enough money to build a house and buy a car. as otherwise it could of another worker from tajikistan has already earned enough for a wedding ceremony he wants to marry his daughter of basil to buy 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. rather than i have decided against buying any particular gift for my daughter molly's the most precious gift also new to her so that she can buy what she chooses with it. after 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 south of the opening ceremony in two thousand and nine was attended by the presidents of russia and educates done. russian companies owned the bulk of the power plants shares. after the plant went

online electricity shortages dropped by fifteen percent. the plant has paved the way for economic progress in tajikistan which had been held back by energy shortages as for russia it will be able to enter new markets considering that to take a stand shares a border with afghanistan a country suffering from massive energy shortages. thanks. the same to the power plant also significantly boosted the job market for local specialists. hello. generators student three are on generator florrie's and standby mode all article parameters on the normal.

the hydro power plant has also given small enterprises a chance to develop. this factory in duchenne bay make souvenirs from semiprecious stones move for a while how about of design it to revive this engine tangy can be graphed several years ago onyx amethyst lapis lazuli and cords become something more than just rocks in his hands each month the factory process is two tonnes of raw materials. needed to. we make such bowls vases and candlesticks each item has a name. this bowl for example is called a high yama. so we feel this is a good way of promoting our products. all sorts of crystal balls currently in

vogue we focus on lepas last july it's regarded as a national stone. souvenir is made at this factory and kitchen many museums around the world many heads of state have items made of touch examine precious stones in their collections. but i think that. that. was. the bride and groom in the village of sort of fall into educate stands north have just been showered with gifts. and i think the biggest surprise is the appearance of basil brush a quarter of the father of the bride. he's just arrived from moscow.

as a bias back welcome home as a. male argue the happiness. oh just look at my daughter and. tajik wedding ceremonies are very old traditions for instance the male and female guests each pilau in separate rooms this is always followed by a prayer and this may only bring happiness to the bright may should be a wonderful housekeeper be happy together that i died and when everybody starts to dance the bride is supposed to put a head down and sulk. and the wedding wouldn't have taken place as president by she could of the master of the house and prolong to stay in moscow. we are going to take the bride to the. i granted the everything is as a child being 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 shop. thank. the town of junked into g.q. stands north it's home to sell tongue normark nod of the country's most celebrated handy craftsman his family makes knives using a technique that goes back at least five hundred years at the moment so tan son is

in a workshop. all three of us make knives. as well as our father. my elder brother has a workshop in the city. he works there with our younger brother. was. the old master stays at home most of the time he looks after his grandson he recalls that he has made several thousand nine lives time his creations are used by people all over the world in the north and the. sunnis on no sooner was the country can exist without cheney craftsmen. the thought that any craft is a nation's culture and its face. if we work hard

who always live in plenty. but if we are lazy chances are we will live in poverty even in paradise he's there read it three 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 soviet citizenship if they're occurred to us that want the we might wake up faced with power cuts or no milk in the shop. an electro optical telescope or a facility was built in a tragic 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 centric 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 whether weapons and personnel are in complete order sanity's the weapons and 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 much better than anywhere else most of the nights

are clear with no precipitation all dust. the electro optical reconnaissance center is said to be russia's most valuable military installation in the republic of georgia is done there is similar centers monitoring the universe in other countries to a this one is much better suited to observations because of its location the second unit has reached the outpost we are ready for hand over. and over committed. under a government look 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. when we go hiking picnic by the river and visit historical and cultural places in december the.

locals living near the garrison want to work here is well. another secret building is situated a few kilometers from a telescope array here to educate stan's president. has built a villa for himself but only a handful of people are aware of the existence of his mansion a boat. now for his daughter's wedding is behind him as a bicycle of his 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 he kinda stres but even if he does he has no time to waste anything feed his family here and now.

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