billion pounds and of course it's not just pick an island there's millions of euros going to old french polynesia as well father european union forty percent of british overseas say goes via the european union and a lot of it goes to those old french colonies and of course it's all about politics geopolitics influence money and who's actually getting back handers who's dealing here who's dating that so the whole thing is actually fundamentally corrupt as well well you know pecans budget has been growing over the years worth of money actually going can you tell me about. well i looked it up and checked it out at least seems most of it's gone on a road now quite how they need such an expensive road for fifty people i don't know but if you look across into the other places french polynesia for example they've built they've built a new airport control tower and they've built one and two other bits and pieces all of which cost millions of euros but of course what this is all about really is getting access to their fishing waters there's over six thousand tonnes of tuna pulled out of some of the areas

national disgrace but of course what they're doing is buying influence if you go down to those french polynesia and islands and you could buy the entire town council for a few hundred euros and then you could rate their fishing waters and i think you'll find this is what it's all about. they took the program here on r.t. opium. has been a dramatic surge in production of opium in afghanistan this year with almost a decade of fruitless international efforts to stop the drugs lethal spread. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct your own. don't want to meet gangsters you don't want to be. they don't want to blow the time but he came to be we can see. you just me so i was and i was in the hood. and said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young. three attacks targeting shiite worshipers in eastern iraq have left at least forty one people dead the blast took place during events to mark assure of the most important day in the shiite muslim calendar more than seven thousand people have been killed by insurgents in the country this year a political refugee from saddam hussein

national disgrace but of course what they're doing is buying influence if you go down to those french polynesia and islands and you could buy the entire town council for a few hundred euros and then you could rate their fishing waters and i think you'll find this is what it's all about. later in the program opium on the up there's been a dramatic surge in factional opium in afghanistan this year almost a decade of fruitless international efforts to stop the drugs lethal spread. margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. dramas that your. stories others use them though. places change the world right. to take your days. from around the. globe to. welcome back you're watching r t live from our studios in moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. three attacks targeting shiite worshipers in eastern iraq have left at least forty one people dead the blast took place during events to mark the most important day in the muslim calendar more than seven thousand people have been killed by insurgency in a country this year alone

national disgrace but of course what they're doing is buying influence if you go down to those french polynesia and islands and you could buy the entire town council for a few hundred euros and then you could rate their fishing waters and i think you'll find this is what it's all about. it's coming up to half past twelve here in moscow up next good cop bad cop police interrogation tactics come under the microscope. you know i love these rare moments where action of something fairly sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i have like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones and beef and gitmo is being produced why does the span have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get th