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most of the time the hotels full points and i would print searches. tell me touch your group the pictures agree good how would international house. every. field back a report calls on washington to own up to the vietnam war legacy of the deadly chemical agent orange which it has denied for decades. that was how the maker of the first atomic bomb described its detonation sixty five years ago which kicked off the cold war changed global war forever. and some of the new hollywood film starring been spitting image takes a humorous look at the post nine eleven world.
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from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. the top story now the u.s. house of representatives has convened for a third time to discuss the impact of the deadly chemical agent orange during the vietnam war while the effects are still being felt to this day washington insists there is no evidence to link it to illnesses that continue to afflict generations you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. i was born without too late and missing a hand it is because of america's chemical war against her people in the jungles of vietnam that has left tran in these conditions she is a victim of agent orange second generation tran is one of many her story represents millions living in the shadows of a lasting legacy. these kids will never live
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a normal life their deformities physical signs of human decay and although their parents were not even born until after the vietnam war eighteen million gallons of toxic herbicide spray through jungles of south vietnam is still penetrating the d.n.a. of those being born today manmade marion said the baked into still alive and are suffering. illness a sniff of cancerous the u.s. government has acknowledged agent orange is directly connected to the health ailments and defects that continue to plague the lives of vietnam war veterans for generations to come but the u.s. has worst used to make the same length for the millions of the enemies of war victims whose lives have been devastated as a result of agent orange they say that has nothing to do with agent orange i think that the u.s. government has the reason to deny it. which is why delegations are here in
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washington following a report issued by lawmakers scientists and doctors calling on the u.s. government to own up to its agent orange legacy in vietnam today also people than me government records show nearly ninety five percent of all u.s. agent orange related aid is committed to efforts to contain and remove dioxin contamination we asked the justice for all the victims those fighting for justice in the case of vietnamese agent orange victims want the physical and psychological damages to be acknowledged if they say they have to pay to come to state for maimie and so people. not only in nam but also in take united states and also to the country. seeing. the dark legacy left behind by the u.s. in vietnam is one with millions of human faces their struggle three decades in the
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making will not end with money from the u.s. governments but it could ease the pain the u.s. has been ignoring since it dumped a month sent to manufactured agent orange in these jungles jan hopkins r.t. washington d.c. . well jonathan moore an attorney from new york says the u.s. chemical companies at the ton of they all knew the purpose of the agent orange they produced he says they should be held responsible for its impact. agent orange that was manufactured that was used in vietnam by dow monsanto and other chemical companies in the united states at the time contained in at a rate that was unnecessary and had no. effect on the mission that was the herbicides were used to it was and it wasn't a default and it was simply a chemical that was created because down monsanto used a process that was even at the time was contrary to the industry standard so any
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way you look at it from a in a moral ethical or legal standpoint we believe these corporations should be responsible for. the harm that they cause because they knew it was going to happen to i think that they made millions if not billions of dollars off these products and they have both a moral and ethical obligation to take care of people who are poisoned by the chemicals that they put in their product this is the last legacy of the vietnam war and it will there will never be truly normal relations between the united states and vietnam. countless bombs and thousands of deaths in different parts of the world he was behind acts of terror and what are the consequences for those who survive the special report brings you the bloody history of car bomb attacks that's in just over twenty minutes time here.
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now there's usually not much room for humor when dealing with the topic of terrorism however a new bollywood film is taking a rather different approach to the post nine eleven era central to its plot is the world's most wanted man under a pretty convincing costume change ati's charan singh has more. this could well be the biggest scoop of my career interviewing. however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he's not osama bin laden but an actor in a bollywood. or without you lot in but just in case you think this is
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a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a general sort of film. biography it's a film which is on the board. of which bin laden happens to be a very important character and this is a fair number of feet bin laden and that's how he using it it's not intended to vote offensive in any way and anybody from any part of the world is going to enjoy this from i can get into that it's a comedy set in pakistan where the young journalist is fixated with going to america and he decided to stick it to get there is an interview with osama bin laden so he goes about creating a fake or. using a lookalike. they had to keep the twenty five year old actor under wraps to prevent making the film. to shopping mall in noida to promote this film and there was a commotion there more than
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a hundred people gathering. in this town. nothing like. he wanted to shake my hand. so i signed up with. the journalist is a pakistani singer and this is a film how does it feel acting in an indian film set in pakistan. or would greatly appreciate your scene. people enjoy them. so i mean to see a pakistani. something very refreshing and new for them so they're very. i get to hear back home that people are very excited to see the movie that let's see. out going to be like you have you would movie. and all of the bugs bunny is about bugs thirds a lot of factors. but the selling point of this movie is osama bin laden and you can't have an osama look alike without line so i ask to act the part in.
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america and they will be retribution. just don't even let actions you have committed to the countries like iraq and afghanistan for these you will have to have. when i first heard about this film i thought it was going to be a glorification of terrorists but actually it's quite irrelevant in the way pakistanis are muslims are looked at with suspicion in the west today and khalid media could be fooled into believing something that doesn't exist i think this film could do well in south asia but western audiences would probably be a good sense of humor to appreciate the message about and seeing r.t. . on the surface it appears to be a world of. beautiful people within reality it carries a reputation of sexual abuse and violence rushes escort agencies increasing popularity so who do the things for women's rights activist details because just
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a few. on the water and in the air rushes emergencies ministry's deploying boats planes and rescues to tackle fires drownings record heat wave it's the country. it was an event that would mark the beginning of the atomic age sixty five years ago a test code named trinity would see the us win the race to produce nuclear weapons america spent the modern day equivalent of more than twenty billion dollars trying to beat the scientific efforts of its rival. explores the remaining relics of the u.s.s.r. push for atomic supremacy. it was the culmination of the manhattan project the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j.
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robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud. the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us and this research institute on the black sea coast the main roles were played by jurymen scientists. this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside a posse a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound in a pause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were
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famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war two moved german physics and chemistry professors at almost no other option but to work for either moscow or washington if fierce competition between the us the saw in america to get hold of nuclear weapons was on and even though the us were the first to successfully carry out a nuclear test their rivals caught up pretty quickly chess if you had to get the bullets and the germans here thoroughly analyzed the us media reports about the blast even from there they were able to say what had to be done next but. alexander church is a veteran of the sukhumi research institute he says many people here remember the time the germans successfully accomplished their mission and were let go by the soviet authorities in the nine hundred fifty s. he's showing us the four thousand book library with rare physics digests and german
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the office where head professor used to work and the equipment had left for russian scientists. this machine is called the spectral brush it's a high definition device a very precise one even when the germans left our scientists used to get great results with this equipment. but the rest of the building where german physicists used to work on the soviet a bomb is totally deserved it all winds are disconnected and now days people rarely visit these dark hallways sixty years after the beginning of the nuclear era this place hidden among the bamboo trees still holds many secrets and the story of german scientists behind the soviet union's very own project manhattan is just one of them. across the. now that's update you on some other news in brief from around the world at least twenty people have been killed and dozens injured in twin suicide attack outside one of the major mosques in southeastern
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iran among the dead are members of the revolutionary guard explosion happened when shiite worshippers came to mark the birthday of the prophet muhammad's grandson no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. after almost three months an oil leak in the gulf of mexico has temporarily been stopped however b.p. the oil company responsible for the accident says it's too early to claim victory it's not checking if a new cap installed earlier this week can hold oil without it being another leak environmental disaster happened in april after the deepwater horizon rig exploded on a sofa spilled nearly seven hundred million liters of oil into the sea. a somali extremist group responsible for seven days lost in the galley there which killed seventy six people have promised more follett's in the region shabab insurgents alleged to have links with al qaida accused uganda of funding the troops of sinhalese western government ugandan police have reportedly arrested suspects in
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connection with the bombings. targeting is of public. record. goldman sachs the world's most famous investment banks has been handed of records. five hundred fifty million dollars while the u.s. financial watchdog group is charged with defrauding a huge investments. rosenbach faulted many say the for coffee likely despite the record fine the company shares rose by point five percent making a profit of three and a half billion dollars in the first three months of this year of the. the french police have arrested three i think chechens have charged them with having links with a terrorist network russian official say they belong to the group of renowned terror neither. it's being reported that there is under arrest had far arms explosives and
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a map of moscow with more locations of possible attacks. on the most wanted north caucasus militant leaders he claimed responsibility for organizing the attacks metro system last march he's also suspected of many other attacks and bombings across the country in june the washington also puts him on of wanted list of international terrorists. escort agencies popular among wealthy russians have come under attack by activists claiming the business is dangerous for the women involved they believe the women who are paid to mix in high society often face sexual abuse and violence. single and in need of beautiful company events you need to attend as a couple but you don't have your plus one there are people willing to help with that the beauty of the escort business is they provide you with a choice of glamorous educated multilingual women will be more than happy to grace
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your side at any important event but many believe this business is not just skin deep. the girls who are engaged in this so-called escort services get sexually abused a lot more often probably and. because no one tells them they will have to perform sexual favors or who they will be passed on to sometimes the client who books in his court will simply bring the girl to use own clients who abuse her they will get however women who are employed by escort services seem keen to disprove this notion the limb is an escort and she does not worry about her safety. suit that's not a look this is the boast the world we make clients we show the mosque girls are educated attractive and teligent and people enjoy a company that hasn't been a time when i felt scared and concerned about my safety lines of fast and if the girl feels unsafe she can always leave some that. still she says she wouldn't tell
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her boyfriend about her chosen profession because too often it is confused with prostitution and many say with good reason. all kinds of support for business meetings claims the website of one escort agency but the pictures that accompany the statement certainly don't show any support and hand at a very illegal business some believe this business can even get you killed. a russian newspaper journalist went undercover for six months as an escort what she saw certainly wasn't the fairy tale promised in the ads. it is new when i was working as an escort i got invited to an interview with two very trained influential man this was pretty normal thing so i wasn't scared but when the man came out to do we need kid i got worried he said they're talking about lead to a chain music and dog a sudden he grabbed me and tried to force me to perform a sexual act a bit him and jumped off
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a balcony to ski and there scored agency owner called me and started screaming at me calling me a fat ruining our engine says relations with such an important client. you know islam was lucky others weren't either there is that they never talk about what they've gone through these girls only they get really drunk the lucky ones simply get raped and like you once end up in hospital and they never complain because if you do if they're unpleasant accident like a hit and run and your dad. according to complain is the one thing these girls cannot afford to do. i remember a girl who told the truth about her life in a t.v. interview about how they get raped beaten forced to hand over all their money and the people that edited the documentary didn't change her voice or cover her face or anything a few days after the documentary aired she was found killed. so the glamour and the
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money are very real but the danger is even more so i guess readers are of r t moscow. now record hot weather left people across russia sizzling could be the hottest to die in the country for over a century but as many flocked to water to cool off the street is also reporting a dramatic increase. last week forty eight people over central russia. rescue officials claim a dangerous combination of alcohol. dampens is the most common cause of death agencies in history has deployed rescuers and boats to deal with the increased danger weather has also sparked many follows up to five hundred being reported daily across the country. as the heatwave continues to grip many muscovites heading for the capital's parks there's no better view stunning way to reach your
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destination and legendary metro was. discovered. here metro it is one of the busiest in the world with about eight maybe he's using this underground city every. month just another record trouble since it's one of the most impressive on takes real monuments of the servian era it's ground i'm breath taking out of this builds as a visual proof of the socialist states our. you can watch moscow outside metro exploration next hour here in r.t. but right now though it's time for business news with you. hello and a very well welcome to the business program on our chief engineering giant siemens
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has put flash on the bones of russia's modernization trifle after a huge deal to provide the country with state of the art technology trains and wind turbines president michel editor and chancellor angela merkel noted in yet it didn't work that business was booming between the two countries stand up show reports. siemens fixes its position as one of the top foreign investors in russia it will do two hundred trainers in the country to replace creaking regional stalk europe's biggest engineering group will hope to produce wind turbines cutting the country's dependence on oil and gas siemens also agreed to join russia's joint new silicon valley being built at skolkovo near moscow the multi billion euro deal comes as president richard but it also calls for help to pull the economy out of its backwardness but i fear you may not touch the good might let me draw your attention to the point that germany is number one in
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a list of russia's parliament switching we have. released over one hundred years and we have perfect economic relations three years ago siemens was convicted of paying royalties to with lucrative contracts in russia today's make a deal was signed on the back of the close personal friendship between the leaders of the two states business leaders say a shift to more legitimate ways of averting influence it's very hard for anybody to engage in bribery nowadays this might take more time and more resources on the other side in order to have success but i would assume that talking about foreign investors bribery let's say by more and more out if it is being done at this time at all it's a radical difference from just a few years ago when russia's leadership admitted it was impossible to do business without backhanders summits like the one here in the urals
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a helping russia to shed its soviet image that applies not just to the products but to the way it goes about producing them to the new bushel business thought see you catherine. well the main group of petroleum exporters has improved its forecast for russia's oil supply for twenty ten opec says the exporter and internal supplies of russian courage is expected to everett's around ten million barrels a day but organization says there is an increasing demand for oil from opec countries like russia in particular this relates to the new recession blends from east siberia to asia the russian herd is becoming more attractive in the market putting pressure on oil the oil cartel expects global demand will grow around one percent next year. and let's check out the equity markets for us to asia where they're all trading in the red as a drop when you expect tricked out fueled concerns over the pace of recovery in the world's biggest economy the nikkei is down more than two percent and hang saying
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it's flat. and here in russia equity markets finished in the red as they tracked european and u.s. equities downwards that was after the latest two as data on jobless claims to manufacturing and inflation for abided to fixed picture the economic recovery added moscow some of the biggest losers were energy companies with two percent on the arch gas and through hydro down over three percent on the my six big stage owned companies in russia not coming up with enough in the face of products that's the verdict of the managing director of price waterhouse coopers center of innovation. correspondent a quarter up with him at the international forum of industry and innovation in the urals. we interviewed that some one hundred of the largest companies and russia so it wasn't a small or perhaps more innovative start ups but it's a large sum of the largest one billion dollars minimum size now of forty percent of
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our produce innovative new products over the last two years so the good news is that that's forty percent the bad news is over a two year period for large companies it really should be closer to ninety percent so when we looked at. who was actually doing that and what were the companies were in the nature of the companies that were doing more innovating in the major companies or foreign companies that were subsidiaries of international organizations were more likely to be innovative. russian companies that sell in the international markets are more likely to be innovating. like russian companies or sell just domestically or had state ownership. were less likely to innovate so there's some sense there about what is what is what drives innovation do you believe in russia potential to build it in the table top them all still seem a lot to cut it for and if they come back russia has to have patience because all of these very successful regions they didn't it wasn't like overnight they became
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huge success so it was sometimes decades at least a decade and almost there. and then russia because they need to be patient they should really look a little beyond you know what's the big hot new thing now or in the next year but sort of look at trends around science and innovation that are still sort of the free competitive love where you can bring multinational companies together with russian scientists and engineers and focus on solving major problems. figure is losing its popularity in russia while the dollar is becoming more attractive russia's central bank says the amount of euro's sold by the citizens has increased by nine percent in may the highest level since two thousand and four meanwhile the sales of dollars declined by eight percent and this blamed the debt crisis in europe and say most russians still prefer saving in rubles. that will keep you update updated solid but doable go into
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