inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth no one country. says america is a caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. consume that caffeine meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective is to create repeat customers to get people to keep their product can be clearly an addictive substance and by creating all these products they're definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is you know happy over consumption of coke and it can be while going after new consumers one u.s. company created national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's

nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them caffeine and a butt load of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who say four loko killed their son police say dozens of students had been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains on compromise with more and more americans looking for their legal high. r.t. new york. in a moment with the business update for you but first join our to adventurous tour of russia with close up team.

well we travel as a fellow kilometers east of where i'm sitting here moscow to the. the main city is better known as the birthplace of what i mean learned during the soviet times the region flourished as the center of the country's military and aviation industries that is characterized she has been finding out it has all the potential to win back that reputation. it was in the late seventy's that the riyadh of skin dust real aviation complex was created obvious star is one of the largest manufacturers of passenger planes as well as re modernizing existing cargo planes that travel worldwide their islam plane is one of the largest operating cargo aircraft originally designed for the russian military but when the soviet union fell a demand did too obvious star has been renovating existing response and are now planning a major comeback. a new construction line will launch which will cover the production and the modernization of unique airplanes in the world that are popular such as the roost on. the good news but airlines have used their roussillon freighters to

assist in u.n. and red cross relief projects but they'll haul satellites yachts and even the sukhoi superjet too can imagine the two thousand killers of those this brother who brought it from africa to north from the europe for. special celebration also transported one hundred thousand kilos of beaujolais wine from france to japan he says without ever breaking a single bottle many little boys dream of becoming pilots but the path to get there isn't always an easy one here the only one of six civil aviation school it's the only place in russia where one can get a higher education with courses offered in academics media wrong. logy and over one hundred fifty hours of flight time. students start their training these models which gives them the complete feeling of what it's like to sit in a real aircraft during flight. and it's

true the images on the screen and vibrations of the simulator made even me feel like i could be a pilot i'm joined today by all the director of corporate communications of the united aircraft corporation thank you for being with us olga since obvious star has been in existence since one thousand nine hundred eighty how do you evaluate the development of the corporation today we are working together with. the new strategy adopted in two thousand and eleven the new strategy comprises the development of two majors segments in the russian outer space industry its military aviation its commercial aviation and its transport of a ship or one of the major perspectives the goals of other star and sky and russia throughout now we are working over the. program of building aircraft and we have to get first orders for the.

really twenty three minutes past the hour and russian capital but with an update of all my news stories for you in seven minutes from now in the meantime business update as promised with katie is next. hello there welcome to the business program this hour we start with a story that's got the whole of the russian market talking minority shareholders in the country's second largest bank as the t.v. they are to get all the money back then vested in the company's i.p.o. in two thousand and seven that's despite the share price currently being hauled off the list price for more i'm joined by at is business daniel. dunn you know tell us more than what's going on the to be will buy these shares the price investors paid in two thousand and seven so-called people's lives here with thirteen point

six copecks it's almost double what the current share price is which is seven copecks ridhima putin says the money will come from the lenders profits not from state funds where the government will remain the main shareholder but will buy up to sixty thousand dollars worth of shares from each shareholder in total the move will cost the bank up to six hundred million dollars that's one fifth of eighty's net profit each of the force today said such buybacks will happen again. we live in a special time characterized by deep and prolonged financial crisis the instruments that work for decades of failing today are the wise the germans but not in rescuing the greeks the e.c.b. would not be giving interest free loans and of course such moves cannot be the norm every investor must understand he's responsible for the shares but in russia this was one of the first share placements and back in two thousand and seven none of us

really understood what was heading towards a global recession when the world no credit agency standard and poor's told us that although this move is broadly negative for the bank it won't affect the lender's rating as long as it's a one off. it's not really interval to the strategy of the bank itself and you wouldn't expect this to happen again in this this really is not something that that makes much of a difference from the way we started pores look at the institution and look at its credit profile or potential performance in the future doesn't pause there are some ordinary people do feel tricked by. advertising for the public back in two thousand and seven which suggested big returns with a low risk of losses will happen within a month in other words before mr putin stands for presidential elections almost the full some see the move was following the vote. nor to shareholders paid for by the bags main institutional investors they being excluded from this buyback and

threatened to sue analysts and best calculate based on the balance sheet the current share price of seven copecks is actually the fair one. thanks very much indeed daniel thanks for updating us on the situation there. the prime minister has also discussed another plan likely to appeal to the electorate putin says a way must be found to close the subject of unfair privatized asians in the ninety nine days he suggested that the tycoons that took control of the country's resources should pay a one time favor big knowledge of the process of privatization after the collapse of the soviet union was dissolved este the exact details of the plan have not we walked out and said this should be done with the public and experts. we're going to see what's happening in the markets right now exchange rate of the year is gaining value against the dollar on the ruble all news the greeks have approved

a new round of spending cuts and therefore will receive the next to last month of belt funds for the european union and the international monetary fund the russian currency is higher against the dollar. oil is coming even higher after the greek leaders have reportedly reached that deal over the austerity cuts there's also another factor freezing temperatures in europe are also boosting demand for heating helping boost those prices for oil and stocks in europe are on the rise the after that deal is still so we're hearing we're expecting a statement to come from the greek government shortly as you can see investors are saying they're ready they're the folks in the dax both up this. and the u.s. markets now they opened up in the black but right now they're struggling for direction as you can see it's a mixed picture and thus despite reports the u.s. jobless claims fell last week and that indicates that the labor market is

recovering but right now the dow jones is flat to negative the nasdaq is flat positive. and it's quite a diff. story for more sky is a negative view as you can see the my sex finished finished for you a third of sent down of the my sex was point eight percent down but indices finished the day down then in moscow we're going to have a look at the individual share moves on the my sex local finished up overhaul five percent in the red cross left was nearly two and a half percent in the red a v.c. bay was point four percent down following the buy back announce what we've just been talking about with down you know. i'm going back in about fifty five minutes with more markets more business news here on business r.t. joining the.

live from moscow this is r.t. top stories now this hour the u.n. is considering a joint mission with the arab league to end the bloodshed in syria but there are conflicting reports of the number of casualties it's proving hard to get a true picture of events there. as europe plans its all embargo on iran there are concerns the move could hit countries most dependent on iranian crude like spain. and several high profile militants have been killed in pakistan in a recent series of u.s. drone attacks an independent report has found that hundreds of civilians died in

similar strikes a fact america seems to ignore. with another update of those stories in about fifty minutes from now in the meantime marty talks to the pakistani foreign minister who tells us why the united states secret war on terror is actually doing more harm than good. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to

have the street and and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems put into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than for law sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been replaced there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. but there garst involvement in afghanistan found the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing the. two solid robust partnership is that each able to live or

operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed . treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular case not been treated fairly by anybody. for that matter because pakistan continues to lose pakistan continues to lose in terms of economic costs in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in many many ways but some times the rule that is that is put on pakistan is a rule which is understandable which defies logic so to speak because if the first country to benefit from is stable one stands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable understand is also pakistan so pakistan stick

a very high and that is what is commonly believed that yes pakistan stakes are very high but pakistan sticks are very high in having stability in afghanistan not instability in the stand so we have maintained and we state very clearly that it is really for the one people to determine what course of action they want to take in any way possible whether they want to have strategic alliance with country a country b. it's a sovereign country we must respect them as that but pakistan's rule in any way can only be there to support of i think saying that pakistan is cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is an imaginary blame it is an imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions the real problems have to be faced you know on the ground now as we all know that the united states has been taking on a lead role in this military operation. why do you think with all its military power and the resources that are invested into this campaign why anything. the results are not that impressive as

a few there could be i think i'm not the right person to answer that question it should be somebody from the us administration i want to question to be right i don't think it is important with the us is succeeding or is winning in afghanistan or not what is important is that of one the stand is winning or not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries which operate in the understand is to make of understand when if i may come back to the issue of american criticism for just one question president obama said in a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the pakistani authorities are logically. are not in control of their own land and my question is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are killing targets on pakistani

land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the. loss of life among the pakistani citizens this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our successes in our view. not only completely illegal and under full and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three to do it you're creating five more targets or ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks we are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences. what you know many other powers of the world

decided to do in that region to rid itself of the challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of one star now in trying to deal with that we have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody so again do we want to repeat the same mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is illegal under full counterproductive other any than ears in your view reasonable values that pakistan could take in case of drone attacks beyond forcing it's concern or a distraction my question to you is it just an issue of some countries allowing. greater freedom and greater perth far off foreign policy tools than others that would be a very unfair world and i hope that's not a world that we are moving towards and therefore the questions of illegality and

under full. is an extremely important one and. we currently no compromise in pakistan about that if you look at as i said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for where we are today pakistan country which considers itself to be a sovereign country to consider to be an independent country has therefore decided to reassess the whole terms of engagement because for to us it is very clear that this is not part of the terms of engagement now if that clarity is required elsewhere i guess the parliament will be in its right to be able to define it but peace with the approach that we take in the approach that we take in is not that of a confrontation the prudes that we're taking is that for doing the partnership which is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest just last week. and her report was leaked to the media that pakistani security forces and

maintaining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was. an allegation that they're supporting them financially. is this true first of all this is not a new to report we were told by need to at least that this is a. single person not to report but it's in the country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not an accusation or allegation it'll be made on part of the specific context of the mention we're with the taliban of all to intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which of world. i mean. with one group or the other and all of them at some level and this does are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to these so i think just

creating you know this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly the united states is expected to withdraw its troops from afghanistan and a matter of a few years is pakistan looking forward to that event but you see again they came here with some goals and objectives we would hope that most of those goals and objectives are met at least partially met and we would hope that when the. in the understand of one son is a better place than when they first came but the long term presence of foreign troops in the region is always always counterproductive. yes but we would also be very very mindful of what is the situation on the ground when they leave because instability more instability is clearly something that this region cannot cannot afford i'd like to switch gears a little bit and ask you about iran you know the west is now piling its pressure on

that country which is your neighbor and longtime partner. how would pakistan respond in a case of military strike against iran we would strongly. countries to desist from any option which is military. because this region has already seen too much and we do not want any further destabilization. we feel very strongly that these things can be difficult you know in this battle on the middle tier if you think that there should be flexibility shown and that dialogue should be considered to be the only view of forward and it would have disastrous let me go to pakistan feels it would have disastrous results for the region what about syria do support the military intervention against assad's regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that the independent sovereign the old integrity of the country are important aspects and there in trying to many

many places now what we need to ensure the international community is that violence from any side is not given lunch is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for a time minister thank you. piers .

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loose. top stories this hour a nod to the u.n. is considering a joint mission with the arab league to end the bloodshed in syria but with over conflicting reports of the number of casualties it's proving hard to get a true picture of events. as europe plans its all in border on iran there are concerns the move could hit countries most dependent on iranian crude exploring. and several high profile al-qaeda militants have been killed in pakistan in a recent series of u.s. drone attacks but an independent report is probably hundreds of civilians died in similar strikes a fact america seems to ignore. warn those stories for less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime joins us with the sport.

hello welcome to thursday night sports round up and here are the headlines back home stuart pearce's appointed interim england manager is the football association preferred to choose a british or english coach following the exit of fabio capello harry redknapp is the favorite so far. while staying put on a split he agrees to stay at russian champions league for another three years. so the cold rush are breaking subzero temperatures as they play finland in their first ever open air match in helsinki. football first though and england under twenty one coach stuart pearce has been named as the interim manager of the national side following fabio capello's sensational resignation on wednesday night pearce will be in charge for england's friendly at home to holland on february the twenty ninth

sixty five year old capello quit his post after four years in charge the italian was due to leave the three lions at the european championships in june but stepped down after a meeting with the football association his decision came after the f.a. informed him of their decision to take the on by. and away from his captain john terry his trial for the alleged racist abuse of q.p.r. defend anton ferdinand has been postponed until july if a chairman david bernstein says about his exit will not affect england's euro two thousand and twelve preparations proper shish prime minister david cameron says the italians will be missed. will be organizational matters for the euros or in place while our base kind of training camp and all that also everything is in place and i think there's plenty of time. time you this means that the squad won't get together till next may's so there is there is time for a new man to get in place and do what he needs to do building up towards the competition so no i the big.