driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found narcotics heroin in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to a recent us congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs. when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years although the other policeman here knew about it quite a few police why drug addicts are not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. paula talkie afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the

locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. up yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of guards were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good educated and they don't have enough and there are a lot joining the police two thousand people join the police to the south and south. the ministry of content of cotton insists it's no go hold on the

problem but questions remain what if some of those finds enough gunston struggle actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these full boards as a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell it members drug test because and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded. our teens who teach and keep those in kabul. for more perspective on this now enjoy life from washington by former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener good to have you with this poppy virus seems from a certain perspective like it may be a good thing but in some ways it's also raise the stakes in the drug trade do you think this virus was a natural occurrence or is this the sort of thing that could have been done deliberately. i know it's a natural occurrence and we've known about it for some time in mad thank you very

much for having me but a disease is not a policy this is an accident of nature and it will come right back in a year or two to be the huge amount of drugs that is routinely making afghanistan the number one supplier in the world and that is a tragedy one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drugs are yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drug czar mr cost we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa didn't understand what mr fedotov in the united nations now doesn't understand is that the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al qaida because this is drugs are seventy percent of their funding is to a rat. the drugs out of the source of their money and they will go to that proportion

disappear and so will the violence against all the countries on earth that terrorists are. disappear and be drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drug czar from russia but the eradication must be combined with what hillary clinton is proposing which is crop substitution you can't just throw the farmers out and say you're not allowed to live you have to give them a way to live those two policies combined eradication and crop substitution can be a solution so with that substitution they've brought up the topic that we could be the sort of thing that could replace the opium crop in the region do you think that is a good idea and why i think that the sort of thing that pun intended taken root so far in the region already. because the u.s. military has had a policy of not intervening because it would disrupt the economy of afghanistan the economy is drugs drugs breeds violence and terrorism so now maybe we have

a shot with the you know united nations ambassador the united nations drug policy director who's going to be advocating eradication holbrooke gates betray us none of them unfortunately has been an advocate of eradication in afghanistan the only one who has has been four star general barry mccaffrey the former u.s. drug czar who says with no eradication and no policy for drugs in afghanistan you cannot defeat terror and so that's what we have to have as we need to have a plan afghanistan by the way which also carries into pakistan because pakistan transits thirty percent of afghanistan's world leading drugs so the only way to have a a real policy in afghanistan pakistan is if we have a plan afghanistan the same way that we've had a very successful plan colombia dropping cocaine in colombia so that's the supply side but what about the demand side what's being done there to. and reduce some of

the demand for this product. well when you when your report stated that it was the addiction of the police that it's a problem and you barely mention the corruption one breeds to the other you have got to stop the demand the myth the way that you have a huge flow of drugs in afghanistan and in unregulated growth because people have wanted to support the possibility of economic stability by letting the drugs grow it has bred a quintupling of drug addiction in afghanistan and as a result you have not only the addiction but the corruption so there's got to be education prevention rehabilitation treatment as well as law enforcement and foreign policy it has to be a comprehensive anti drug policy in afghanistan and as i said i believe there is now hope with the new united nations drug policy spokesman and so far the us led nato forces have failed to beat back the taliban or solve the drug problem which is funding this insurgency do you think that nato is overall strategy here needs to be

changed radically in order to bring about a victory of such a thing is possible. well my own view is targeted common sense approaches are what should be done my own view is that joe biden the vice president of states was right when he said that what should be the case in afghanistan is not a footprint of one hundred thousand troops but going after the terrorists one hundred to two hundred al qaida in particular and using counterinsurgency counterterrorism strategies to go after them not doing something that has failed for russia and britain in afghanistan so i think we need to target that and go after the drugs if we go after the drugs and eradicate them we will have a drastic reduction in both taliban and al-qaeda terrorism in afghanistan all right rob or when are former white house drug policy spokesman thanks for your perspective. nato is war effort in afghanistan is facing another obstacle pakistan has closed an important supply route for the coalition one

hundred fuel tankers and trucks having been allowed into afghanistan and it's seen as being in retaliation to a nato helicopter raid in the territory of pakistan in which three local soldiers were killed and three more wounded the alliance says the incident is now under investigation and promised back in the pakistan's sovereignty and would be respected recently of the number of missile strikes and helicopter raids against suspected militants hiding in pakistan's tribal zones and on the right to stanley officials say the attacks are violating international law and should be stopped pakistani political expert on the correction tells r t that the us led coalition has failed to purse persuade the tribes living on either side of the border to join the peace efforts. you need to expect that box and could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down needed supplies because there is a strong feeling that box down is getting to the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course fox on the interest of not being looked after or

respected by our friends and have guns done and if this continues you might as well see a complete should know you have to understand something pushed. tribes of course are divided by this manufactured border and and in order to completely stop the push to ones from any of the tribes to really help each other during this war in afghanistan there's only one way to do that and that is to bring political reconciliation in afghanistan so basically what i'm saying is and what box any officials have been. telling american officials but not in a forceful way that you need to resolve the problem isolating the push dooms to get them out of power in kabul they are of course angry about this and what you see the resistance that you see the afghan taliban whatever they're doing in afghanistan part of that is an expression of. anger add to excluding them from power in kabul so unless you bring them into the power circle the push tools will keep fighting and it is unfair in this situation to expect pockets to completely clamp down on

the push to in tribesmen whether they are or whether they are pakistani throughout the past eight years of course box that has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside of gun is done box down the ideas you suggestions box on the input we're completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation go from bad to worse in afghanistan i don't think it is possible that you could do you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong box the involvement of alice's from pakistani political expert. and a defense analyst from the independent institute an american think tank believes the strikes against militants on pakistani territory are damaging for u.s. forces there. i think they need to cut back the straits not increase them because they're there apparently this these latest round of strikes is to prevent terrorists from attacking europe and last i knew the united states was not in europe i mean we're supposed to be safeguarding our own security and i think

whaling away in pakistan just makes more enemies so i think for the pakistani people sake and for the united states sake and also i think for the effectiveness against al qaeda these drone strikes should be restricted to law al qaeda and not not even the pakistani taliban i think that would help a lot and it would avoid killing innocent pak the pakistani civilians stay with us here on r t still to come speakers at the u.n. general assembly talk to themselves find out why the media walked away and left hundreds of nations staring at empty seats it's coming your way in a few minutes plus. this feels very very strange this oil is very cold and also doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get scary. therapy one foot under the explore how being buried alive feels what's in it for those involved.

turning first so to some other stories making headlines across the globe a state of emergency has been declared in ecuador as the president rafael correa warns of a coup plot against him this comes as he was attacked at a rally by protesters rioting against benefit cuts hundreds of soldiers and police also seized the capital's main airport the president says it's all part of the opposition's attempt to overthrow his government neighboring peru has closed its border until constitutional order returns. controversy in india over a court decision to split control over a holy site in the ancient northern town of. the main disputed section where a mosque was torn down in one thousand nine hundred two has been allocated to hindus while muslims will be in charge of other parts. the town's been at the heart of bloody riots that have seen two thousand people killed over the last twenty years the muslim community already says it will appeal the verdict. plans to ban the muslim veil in the netherlands have been announced by politicians in the country's proposed new coalition government they've also pledged to tighten

immigration laws the alliance is made up of a minority of christian democrats and the liberal party policies are thought to be aimed at getting the support of her wilders a leader of the controversial party known for its anti islamic stance in. the high level united nations paddles started hearings on sexual violence cases in the democratic republic of congo victims believed victims began sharing their experiences as part of efforts to improve treatment and support this comes after the release of a political un report into the rape of hundreds of civilians including children in the north kivu province two months ago the panel will visit troubled regions throughout the country to conduct more than one hundred hearings over the next ten days. turning back to russia now two explosive devices the equivalent of at least ninety kilos of t.n.t. have been diffused in the stabber polar region and one authorities have called a terrorist attack around three thousand people were evacuated from nearby

buildings as well as schools for safety reasons the first bomb in a car was supposed to have been set off by the vehicles alarm system the second bomb was nearby and it's believed to have been targeted at police officers who would have responded to the first explosion authorities also discovered the body of a man in the car but identified as a local cab driver the prosecutor's office says he was shot dead but not linked to the attempted attack. global media outlets covering this year's un general assembly have been criticized for disregarding smaller countries most of the press left after the main speeches ended leaving the views of more than one hundred nations unheard artie's marine important i reports on why so many delegates speeches. we fell on deaf ears. and international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united

nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust dominating the stage in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the world to cover this seven day event people who have endured too much more but once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. the press prematurely concluded their coverage you're. going to i think your book. you want. to know the. mainstream media pull the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak abandoned by live trucks and most police presence nations like palestine congo and mongolia were left

a dressing half empty are torrijos by monday when cuba spoke of suffering under us and forgoes camera outside the un belong to a tourist between two thousand and twenty five hundred journalists were accredited at the un for the general assembly debate and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in was packed when he laughed he took all the media attention with him now only a handful of journalists are left to report about all the other countries that are addressing the international body the poorest leaders took to the podium campaigning for climate change and the scene inside the un media center spoke volumes. less than ten reporters and garbage cans overflowing with recycled rubbish . today also reflects the. much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. some

sense this is difficult to say addressing those challenges first maybe garnering respect from its host country nearly seventy percent of americans think the un does a lousy job in solving global problems maybe they should move it somewhere else maybe going to ireland where nobody will be affected by it you know it's definitely a convenience for everyone however most of the world criticizes americans for neglecting to understand local problems we only know what we hear we don't know exactly what's going. on that's good or bad i mean. we should know we should or should be the same for everyone if not the united nations may remain a place where everyone continues to talk and neglects to listen up or nine r.t. new york. finally in this news walk people are always searching for new ways to relieve the stress and strains of everyday life here in russia maverick group of therapists has come up with

a unique extreme way to overcome your problems by burying people alive and claim that twenty minutes of it can change your outlook on life despite grave doubts bennett gave it a try. i above ground there are a few signs of life below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fear is pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. is no good the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting it and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or you don't want to come down to simply nor the place like this these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lighting meant practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. there's the most effective and cold for method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear

anything nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their minds. a burial costs around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function that depth thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under that volunteers breathe through this chewed the organizers a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. but are we have to be able to get the person a very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about these things. until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now and

given this debris through which i'm told by monitoring at all times so i want to stop it all after do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as it were and yet this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again. thank. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and definitely never doing again i live in an artsy. next time you should try acupuncture stephanie money is up next with all the latest from the world of business stay with

us here on r.t. . hello and welcome to the business bulletin investors are once again focusing on the poor state of european banks the government of violent has announced it will be taking a majority stake in the country's second largest bank as part of a fresh bailout it's also revealed the price tag for bailing out all of its banks will be more than fifty billion dollars this will raise its deficit to thirty two percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and ten meanwhile moody's has lowered spain's top credit rating by one notch this puts additional pressure on the country's government as it prepares to pass the most austere budget in three decades it comes as the belt tightening measures imposed by the european governments provoked a massive protests across europe. concerns over public financing also feeding into the currency markets this week the brazilian finance minister said there was

a covert currency war taking place as countries sought to devalue their way out of debt earlier i spoke to chris we fire chief strategist an oral saib who explained what the governments might be trying to achieve to deliberate action by governments to weaken their currencies in order to increase to compare this of their own industry and direct sports in order to try and boost the revival of their economies some governments are doing down to it we saw for example the japanese government taking action to weaken the yen because they feared words hurt competitiveness and the chinese government of course is resolutely refusing to appreciate the one so effectively keeping at a low level in order to sustain growth in their economy and in other countries particularly of course the focus on the u.s. were u.s. dollars being quite we can do the acquisition is that it's been done very deliberately in order to hold boost the economic recovery in the us at the expense of other countries such as brazil and perhaps such as europe so do you think

governments will actually find a solution that. you know cross borders or is this going to escalate i think it's inevitably going to escalate we may actually see some of that as the next g. twenty summit which is due to take place in korea in november i think currency and currency wars if you like to use the brazilian term i think certainly will be on the agenda i think that governments really don't have any other option and they don't have any other strategies that they are increasingly resorting to try and use their currency to get out of this problem so we're going to hear more about currency battles in two thousand and eleven now if we turn to the rebuttal it's down against the euro it's down against the dollar it's not performing very well why is that well investors are effectively sidelined russia since the mid summer i think since the drought the smog and the concerns to that's raised about rising inflation and we've already had a number of growth forecasts reductions from government so investors really don't see russia as having a strong domestic story right now they're much prefer to focus on parts of the

economy merging market world that do have strong domestic stories such as brazil india china and turkey in particular in eastern europe russia has been ignored you can see it in the equity market it's no starting to weigh on the downside from global emerging markets and the same with the currency markets so i believe it's a temporary move. now is is very cheap even relative to the weak fundamentals we have. so i think once we get turned a corner a big upside we probably need to see more confidence in global markets before we see that upside and i believe it will come strong before the. russian equity markets finished higher on thursday void by gains in global markets later in the session at the my six high of the t.v. finished more than three percent in the black well spent i put on two and a half percent energy majors also outperformed. net finish one and a half percent. talks on russia as

a session to the world trade organization are expected to be. pleated in the next few weeks that's according to top officials in moscow but prime minister putin has acknowledged that membership may still be some way off he warns that in the meantime russia is not prepared to accept further economic restrictions. that required can only be applied after our accession to the organization not a single restriction related to the accession process must be applied before the exception is complete because this process may last for ever and we will be accepting restrictions without getting the benefits of full membership. fitch ratings agency has placed the bank of moscow russia's fifth largest bank on negative watch it follows this week's dismissal of moscow's mare yury luzhkov by president medvedev the agency says the appointment of a new mac could cause a deterioration in the relationship between the bank and the city of moscow had

close ties to the outgoing administration. i'm not so the business news for now but of course you can always find more stories if you log on twelve website that's r t dot com slash business. wealthy british style sun. spot on. the. markets why not.

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thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t easier headlines afghanistan's opium artist falls by about half but the value soars with drugs ending up in the hands of prisoners and even police officers a u.n. report says the decline in supply is due to a disease affecting the country's poppy crops. pakistan the lashes at nato and shuts down a major supplier what's been seen as retaliation for the killing of its soldiers by u.s. helicopters on cross border raids the alliance denies the claims and has started an investigation. lots of talk but no one listening smaller nations addressing the close of the un general assembly are met by indifference and an empty auditorium

the majority of journalists left along with those considered the most important speakers feeling criticism of the media's role in helping developing countries pose with the hour's top stories up next max keiser and stacy herbert discuss why china is blowing up on finnish buildings and how a nonexistent group can be meeting to save the euro these mysteries explain coming your way on kaiser report stay with us for. time now once again for the kaiser a bar with me max kaiser and stacy herbert markets finance scandals oh we've got all the scandals there are so many scandals stacy ever tell us more tell us more tell us more here is the first headline hans rudolph merits who never fly fish law can file blue.