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look to play a key role on the global market if you had one top wish that you could make to prime minister putin would like to do something the key thing is to continue to encourage long term investment is not going this is not something that's going to be done on a one to three year basis it's looking well beyond today and looking into the future so the focus on encouraging long term investment through tax regimes through administrative burdens that's that's a huge can be huge benefit to the time but very much to build up opinion from pricewaterhouse coopers but you will have more later it's me unit nicholas ok nicholas full bring us the latest from the international investment forum and sort to thank you very much for this indeed. time to have a look at the markets in europe stock markets are mixed this solyndra time for gold prices as well as gains to come and other metals to such as the mining stocks in london where this sector is heavily represented. in company crucell such some fifty
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percent off just saying it may be the last blue chip johnson and johnson. and a loco in russia with my successor mixed this solidly r.v.s. is trading point six percent in the black for my eyes it's just down traction gold prices rose to a record for the second time this week thousand dollars tops hard to moms feel the pressure special whether she has a point is gold russia's biggest producer down one point four per cent doesn't best to spread the head of the company's results which are expected to below. well that's all for now mick bull will bring us more updates from the international investment forum in sochi and you can get more news small website archie dot com slash business.
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well see british scientists. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headlines to name two is a report. in
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the russian capital. in the country. who has political asylum in the u.k. . a key test as a senate panel approves it. but there are fears however that stiff opposition on the part of some republicans. attempt on his life right in the center of moscow investigators blood. as possible motives behind the. board well now it's time for all to use a special report on one caribbean island which is struggling with the presence of a u.s. naval base. navy
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called it green. this is the furthest western. in relation to. the ak is continuous very. southern coast based.
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this is the eastern end of the island which is where all the bombs. drop. the navy used to. these eight thousand acres. and the. fish and wildlife. from here on. this is the home of the. sector. and this is. the area. and from there. when the winds blow in this direction. any contamination that is produced bombs. depleted uranium so on and so forth that are used in the target area they carry a. population area. for the
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last sixty years we have been breathing. and the reason why we have. over a twenty seven percent high cancer rate than the rest of the island of puerto rico but look at this beautiful. miles and of clear waters white thing. not a beer cans. and example for the rest of the country. to relieve you. is worth every little bit of struggle. to get him back. there. this. is
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not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name the legend he now is said impressively. and then all the communities like ok now australia and then people that go on the internet is dizzy how we do know how the how we fight would you do the same. thing. oh this. oh. this guy oh this is your son. and the navy gets over ninety a million dollars a year for renting their fire range in the eastern end of the island yet. they
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still ring that area to all nato nations all allies come environment and the people of yes the government of that does not get a sense out of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go they do can still bring no money down on diabetes our civil disobedience represented that diabetes because everything that we need to run their maneuvers i mean they do see money. the act is a small island off the eastern coast of puerto rico in the caribbean sea the spanish crown claimed the island in fourteen ninety three following columbus a second voyage to the america in one thousand nine hundred eight the u.s. evicted spain from the caribbean following the spanish-american war and to recall
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and with it be a case became a military possession of the united states. for years the us was pressured to grant to take away their statehood or independence but refused to offer either instead commonwealth emerged as a compromise allowing some local autonomy but the us retain control over defense transportation immigration communication and foreign trade. american citizens they can be drafted they cannot vote for president today because the only former spanish colony in the americas that never gained independence and be a case has remained a pawn in the complicated relationship between the united states and puerto rico. i was born in puerto rico the thirtieth of december night in forty six. i moved to be at the age of three months old i went to school here i grew up in
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this house i graduated high school late in sixty four. years of night in sixty five i married my first wife and when she became pregnant i had to stop my studies and go to new york so that she could be here especially. i arrived in new york on february ninth being nine hundred sixty six i found myself with four different jobs factories which i didn't care for i would quit so i tour and i joined the army. when i got to i worked in the communications center for six days and i was going crazy over one hundred teletypes going to the same time and the only way to get out of there was volunteered to go infantry so i did i was a completely dedicated soldier i got even bronze stars for service
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a war i carried seventy two missions as a point man. i was an expert reading maps in kompas i lead the group into the jungle. i could find my way around the tropical jungle zig zag grown up here. i am learning english i'm also learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. then i realized that we had no business being there. that i had lost. my whole tour when for six years then i came out of the. bill to be called a commercial artist. i consider it one of my my ways of contributing to the struggle is
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a means of communications has been a means of communications throughout the history of the world from the case. to present time once it is finished people will see it and the words that are printed remain printed we cannot be carried away by the wind like spoken words and if it helps my island. and. is in my contribution to the struggle because i hardly paint anything else. than the struggle of you since i can remember these nine hundred eighty one basically all i paint body is any struggle. let's look. at.
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in one thousand forty one as german forces found across here the united states declared a national emergency and expropriated twenty one thousand acres and. the intention was to create a naval base big enough to accommodate the entire british navy should germany defeat england. even those who were opposed to the us presence and. were reluctant to criticize expropriations that were done in the name of defeating fascism. after the war the us navy decided that it would be used instead as a target area and train site and seize another four thousand acres on the island. on the western and the navy built hundreds of bunkers to store the weapons on the eastern and they created a target zone to detonate. for almost sixty years the citizens are being left wedged and only twenty three percent of the island sandwiched between a weapon steeple and a bombing so. i
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walk all of this whenever i have the chance but when someone brings me here so that i may reminisce about how things were it's not easy. in this area here more or less is where our house used to be. the navy had a can see who was there charge of delivering the terrible messages. and he said to my mom looks trina that was my mother's nickname i come to give you the message that you have to move from this area because the navy has bought it and my mother who never went to school not a professor the one who understood that she was born in this area and was raised there because she said to him look this is mine this is my house i have lived here all my life she didn't leave because she thought it was unheard
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of. and we stayed the next day the bulldozers arrived to knock down the house. on the muscle and my mother only had time to run into the house and grab a bed sheet book and i don't know because we were not rich we were poor and humble people but it was our. pick up some john is it some pots tied to bed sheets by the four corners and run to the street to watch the machine knocking down the house. and police and first i thought it was a big toy four years old totally innocent but only one but my mother when i looked at her face she was crying. i invaded three acres here i am in the marine nineteen fifty fifty one
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we stalled the beach. we play. we did the full maureen corps storming of the beaches and be acres in training for what we would have to build in korea. i put in. a worrier and foxholes. this charge that came back to take a look here also there was some messages to some family. because there were we had puerto rico people in who didn't come back. i was one of the intentions but i didn't really want to see what reactors look like without the navy we. throw or as soon as i was able to come back. i
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had to be a christian for since the early sixties way first. the reality of the situation it was a political one over the seventy eight municipalities of puerto rico but in real life it's a world apart. and historically has been used as the bargaining chip between the. washings and want not with. washington gets the bases sour wine gets the bark and. the navy has not contributed in any way to. really know. ground troop inspections or. navy never had
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more than a person now on the whole i am. became kind of like. for weaponry you know try a french exercise and as a british. they were advertising they used by any allies already qualified certified inventor try anything you're. doing is advertised. as to their shooting gallery for any size you and i. may wonder if a fleet of. world as wide as inventory of. non conventional weapons.
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figures has no traffic jam there are no chimneys there are no plastic factories on the hills dumping stuff and so the old mill stream. there's nothing between us on the coast of africa. three thousand miles of open ocean bombing right. meanwhile where are. all these heavy metal oracles which you're identified as the explosive residue. i played soldiers or. i had no idea of heavy metals on p.c. be. the continue to fight sort of made and so forth. we're talking about a silent invisible killers in the air that i get angry i get angry. poisoned me. always on my wife or even my children poison my grandchildren my
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neighbors and so forth. rita. my name is made in a leader not a guy. i've been living in vehicles for thirty seven years. i moved here with my husband charlie to drop out and because it was the perfect place for what we wanted which was to live off the land while the sea trolley was fishing. and raise a family by the sea it was an idol come true. i found out i had. at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful i felt great now.
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very active and. commentary from many friends wow great you gloat really glowing was wonderful. but i had been having some symptoms so i went to the doctor. it was on a. monday the next week i was in hospital. but it was an unforgettable day for me because we had a town this family. and we were paying homage to. former community members who died from cancer. and i almost laughed as i was sitting here waiting to get up because i'm thinking you know. we're fighting you here is big statistics and now i have become one of the statistics. and. i'm good to make the navy base and
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there's. we did heavy metals testing on everybody in our family doug read the little babies all three generations every single person that was tested in this family for heavy metals is contaminated at toxic levels. i've been through neutering cancer extraction of my reproductive organs radiation treatments etc. i mean you never know is it going to come back is it going to spread is it going to do this out of the other you have to take it day by day we're trying doing and i feel great. and if it comes back i feel that. i've got a hell of a lot more knowledge right now as to how to keep myself feeling good. what
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i must deal with right now is a health situation in this community where the rate of cancer is twenty seven percent higher than the rest of puerto rico and growing. if you do get cancer you have fifty percent more probability of dying here than in for it but equal. kids between the ages of eleven and nineteen have more than a fifty percent chance contracting cancer and their peers in puerto rico that time except. we have undergone a process where we are now away we are now alert and we are ready you know to get out there and be advocates for ourselves.
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the first time i came to v.a. because it was in then one nine hundred ninety. i wanted to go back to puerto rico i used to live in new york for thirty years with my children some my wife and i decided to go. with my friend. telling me well and to come to vegas you know this is like a pot i see you come by a piece of land build the house i say i would i would go over there and. have a look and see if i like it so i came and i like it. when i was in the yard i didn't know a thing about the problem of because all that my friend used me knowing big is we got the navy but don't worry if you come to vegas you don't we don't have nothing to do with the navy that's something that is. business we didn't pay attention to that. what really makes me change my mind was the case of my friend
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the one who mean to come into a vehicle. he used to eat. shellfish. and this shellfish was picked up by his father in though it was a fisherman. used to collect these fish from the naria and the. so on. he got sick. two years later he'd die in the central many cohens on one. couple of months before he died they did the hay stool and blood test for heavy metals and he came out point six single point twelve of you running. you can mount point six zero lead. and arsenic and lead america. and the doctor said that this is impossible the human being cannot hold all these
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gun timing nation in his body so they did it twice. and he came out again to saying . that he had value in the house beat that on scenes he's very ill the day of his burial i was in the cemetery when these golfing when down the hall i commit myself i will join the struggle into the navy will leave. i contaminated to. when my friend i one month we bury him coming to the meeting showing people how. how we do see the disobedience what will happen when they come to our. front all the things that i. i work in this because for almost eight years when i
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was like seventeen years old. and i was a commercial artist and i did so many things in my life so i said the most interesting part of my life is getting involved with this people in this struggle because this is a really hostile deal with life with people so i fall in love with this. and here i know. it was there. in the roof the whole thing about this struggle is that different people do different things and different people contribute to the struggle in different ways my my part is i go through many a struggle on the comedy. i don't do it for profit i work for nothing and this is something that i love to do i give all of my time in this and many other people do the same thing you know the artist who the year old the painting the friend people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be accomplished
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to stop the bombing and because the radio. the navvy i came to me again as in one thousand nine hundred one to work i came here to work and stayed for eleven years already i got married to have a stone house so it looks like i'll be here for a while and be accounts. i have a lot of pressure on me from my parents mine alone sometimes they've said you're irresponsible if you don't take care of your child you spend all your time on the streets if the land is going to leave. but we believe that when we strengthen women we strengthen the family. the women's alliance of u.k.'s really strong the concerns of legislative a colleague and a friend who works with schools at a time when you didn't hear him archibald the presence of the military. so we're up
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yes we knew about the moment yes they were going to work and on the issue of the military presence and much to our surprise there were very few women participating . in the bible i invited gladys to my house and i said look. i'm so upset so we decided let's announce in return of the women a few cans and see what happens. we were surprised because we were all professional women housewives different political ideologies and religions. because in reality we had our differences other than our views regarding the military presence that nevertheless it was the issue that was able to bring us together.

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