but you're the future guru how would international flowed to achieve every dream lawyer to know. what lies beneath bombs and out of the net some of time fishermen who say the waters that feed them are contaminated by old weapons while the public is being kept in the dark. economic guerrilla tactics people in the us find battle against the stereo and financial inequality employing warsong forms of civil disobedience. and russian heroin users one drug replacement treatment legalized but doctors are worried it will only create a time bomb of new addicts. ninety

am in the russian capital you're watching r t joshie welcome to the program italy's adriatic coast often described as a paradise for sea lovers is being poisoned from beneath for decades nato has used the area to dispose of nuclear material and it's now feared hazardous chemicals have spread to tourist hotspots and fishing areas matthew stevens looks into claims the alliance and the time government are working to keep the truth hidden from the public. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a military dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks which is present on these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and needle weapons used in the one nine hundred eighty nine war against serbia including depleted uranium munitions these weapons often contain toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorous. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it their secrets johnny

landis has received death threats and been attacked this footage by landis reveals some can vessels in toxic waste on the seabed of pull u.s. coast fishermen has said the presence of the major weapons is seriously affecting their lives and posing a threat to the local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in the nets we try and avoid them following the war ninety ninety nine the fisher practically disappeared from out waltzes we come across have affected our health too causing skin rashes blood vision and so forth fishermen have had to quit their jobs because of the scarcity of fish with fishing co-operative in seaside town or more fed time paula was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five nato says there are six contaminated areas along the coast but man is claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean tito nature was lying in twenty four areas are affected not six the location of these areas have not even be

made public and the population is being kept in the dark. has repeated attempts to raise the issue with his defense minister have led to nothing and the legacy of years of military dumping continues to be felt to this day with a local fisherman of cilla waiting on says from nato everything we. went. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities because that be the should be economic conversation for those affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the beautiful wall to the droughts the coastline where structures from the gulf of venice to the union sea are a magnet for tourists and provide

a livelihood for telling fishermen but looking beneath the waves more than just fish matthew stevens most fish in the southeast of italy for tea. and people caught in the eye of america's financial crisis are fighting back but instead of taking up to the streets to the streets rather carrying placards and shouting slogans some of those hit by falling wages and high unemployment are employing a new tactic economic disobedience argues lauren lyster takes a look. the only language that they understand and shutting down in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we usually moderate protests just supposing we want to say i was just an exam where woodside should be civil disobedience but these days with rising inequality and low wages in the us being a pressing issue many researchers and activists are documentation wages are falling cutting benefits for people taking away their pensions there is evidence of

a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country may not be quite paid to the papers there are no statement making a law this is left with a razor heard call it economic distress they not see it it is going on underground . and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organized to raise a little money to buy subway cards offering unlimited rides they swipe as many people in as they can to give them a free ride here or is this an ferrites were resisting the cost of living is going up in so many ways for all the one of the activists who organizes this form of disobedience most importantly it's in response to an economic system he sees as unfair and taxes are being cut for wealthy people and their bailouts for banks and wall street. never the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's

wrong an american sociologist found the subversion of the system going on all over the country but she found these acts among business managers in the middle class helping out their employees who really were about the fact that wages for some or all these were managers who felt as though the people working for them during a jobs being responsible were still unable to take care of their families she found grocery store managers sending bags of food home with were. fast food managers padding paychecks with overtime wages she also found most of these managers believe breaking the rules is wrong but these people were saying that there are much bigger braun's and ignoring the fact that people who are working very hard for you are unable to feed their children in the minds of some people at least let us become a bigger role in their eyes it's a bigger wrong people are breaking the rules to make right whether it's in all these low income new york neighborhood neighborhood people who don't really have

much of a poor or is or whether it's behind the closed office doors of the middle class breaking the rules because of the economic imbalance in the country and what seems in america to be the rising disobedience of modern day that are going to build so this is what will do to yourselves or more and lyster our t. new york you're watching r t live from moscow still a lot coming up in the program for you including judicial vulnerability. children lawyers complain of fishing harassment and even imprisonment for charges if we leave the details in just a few minutes. to look at accusations in india that some people are making a business out of accepting charity and keeping it in the nations under the guise of nonprofit organizations. a former drug users in russia are pushing for the increased use of methadone to help those on heroin beat their addiction

some have even taken the issue to the united nations or the sarah ferguson went to find out why some doctors are ganske the use of methadone as a substitute. in russia more than two million people are addicted to illegal drugs finding a way to combat this amazing critical challenge my started when i was very young i was interested in anything that altered my state of mind and i didn't have any principles i cheated lied and stalled nothing was beneath me stanislav life since has been a battle against addiction but he now works to help others ava come there as his story is very similar to arena it can sky is his drug addiction destroyed her life it's why she rate the u.n. calling for the implementation of an a.p. substitution program at the name and that's illegal in russia you know a lot of the harm reduction programs are now working and there is no replacement

therapy program this is the reason i wrote my letter but having gone through rehab in self stance served disagrees substitution therapy is the way forward. active drug addiction is uncontrollable substitution is still an addiction we would create a time bomb russia's rehab centers focus on finding ways to control the addiction not simply replace it. if your substitution replaces heroin with drugs such as meth the day effects last longer but they don't give the uses the high is supposed to enable you to lead a normal life without suffering withdrawals the health ministry has come under increasing pressure to sanction a substitution therapy that they say that there's no scientific evidence to prove that it actually works. in reality methadone treatment is a dangerous payoff simply switching one addiction for another two would be welcome

morning i had a new patient in a hospital he was addicted to heroin for a long time and then decided to quit drugs and switched to methadone maintenance to try and cure his drug addiction and so now we have him checked in as a methadone drug addict stanislav an arena stories a sad one that they're all too common in internationally the war on drugs is being hard fought not everyone is winning drug addiction means a huge problem in russia as is the rising number of people that are contracting h i v to intervene is drug. every person has the right to express his or her opinion and that's what i did my life has been broken i think any sane person can understand that addiction was now my choice i didn't want to contract hiv tuberculosis hepatitis i'm slowly dying. i mean his letter doesn't change russia's stance on substitution therapy but it does once again bring into. the very real need to find a suitable tentative their fares r.t.

. ever any of the stories we're covering here on our team can always log on to our website r t dot com here is a look at what's there right now. a russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. is forced to wait months for deportation hearing moscow is demanding charges are pressed or she's set free by british authorities. also a new way to get around a harsh russian winter a craft that will go up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour over almost any terrain. some n.g.o.s in india stand accused of putting up a front to help the needy but not giving money to those who actually need it

a number of schools set up to help the poorest of the poor are allegedly turning out to be fake currency investigates the people in india earning a living by pertaining to be a charity welcome to this school in eastern india the building and classrooms may look functional but classes are rarely held here. that's because it exists only to attract foreign tourists do donate money to the school trust deeds. if you think we're running a business here you're quite right this is how i feed myself by the way there are other n.g.o.s here who take money and don't even have any facilities. so it's nice to be i'm sure there's no good word. and this is bad. so the people start using let me. give money to. and in the future. with india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many foreign tourists try to

donate their time and money to a good cause when they visit. marie from france wanted to work with children and conducted. luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. made some donations and. easy. money to make. a. teacher but you can never be sure that the money you don't need is put to good use there are four million names. and this huge numbers compounded by the highly on organized nature of the nonprofit sector there is no uniform accounting policy order porting framework. there are many n.g.o.s that run schools and government manufacturing but the only run during the tourist season but when the season ends and their activities also wind down children start going to school and then in winter when the tourist season starts again these n.g.o.s drag the children from the surrounding villages back to the schools but some groups are working towards

increasing and you accountability through annual reviews and accreditation oxfam is a leading international donor and works with two hundred fifty local partners across india it conducts regular order to ensure its programs are implemented professionally we need to push our partners really and see that you know unless you meet some minimum standards we will not fund you anymore because we are the only thing and you also have if you don't look at global surveys we have the public's trust. without i think many times it they just give it to us because they think we're doing good work we have it we need to not only men pain it we need to grow it and if we don't move fast enough then a few scandals in the sector could really bad twenty four hours with n.g.o.s in india raising over eight billion dollars in funding every year the stakes are very high the government has banned forty one in jews from receiving foreign funds in the past few years and recently revised

a nine hundred seventy six law that overseas in joules but do we see a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt those more still need god and seeing r t. and there is a growing movement in washington for the top u.s. and nato commander in afghanistan to get a fifth star the highest rank given to past military giants like eisenhower that his military contributor is getting herself says eradicating drug trafficking and afghanistan rather than south from ocean should be the main priority for general petraeus. on the fourth of july general petraeus was assumed the demotion in duty and to the command of your ass and major forces in afghanistan as the four star general of the fifth star to general patrols would also promote the image status and legitimacy of his foes in afghanistan and in pakistan.

and their pakistani and afghan associates now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski i want to hear things about these type of recommit days since to give him a defeat star i bet my bottom dollar that this is not on his top priority at least because for general petraeus the number one priority should be and i hope it will be this year is to zero in on their real challenge in on declared war off against their afghan people and its neighbors that is the real challenge in undeclared war that the u.s. congress has yet to officially endorse before considering to make the first you as general a thief star commander on the theory or off operations it could be only petros

whether the four star or otherwise who can really pull all of this straight and i wish him well to make this mission accomplished and to get the job done and get her shove there now the u.s. would like to have president of ghana stand as a country getting off its knees but after a long spell of occupation and war corruption is taking a heavy toll watch a special report of where american my antenna for afghanistan really goes in about fifteen minutes time here in our. repairing a broken thing should be. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials look at the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan and the dollar. now lawyers in georgia say there are no longer able to work on the hinder and some say they are at risk of harassment

from the government or even imprisonment simply for trying to protect their clients are found accusations of a judicial system turning on its defenders. being a lawyer in georgia isn't easy these days as mahmud knows all too well he was a successful practicing lawyer but he ses fell foul of government pressure so he found himself locked up so they wanted to imprison me and they did so i spent two years and seven months behind bars in america ses he was asked to force his clients to plead guilty. when i didn't agree to cooperate they found a person detained for stealing a mobile phone and sent into my office to take me as a lawyer the prosecution then offered him a plea bargain either he is sentenced to prison or testifies against me in court saying that he paid me one hundred seventy dollars for legal consultation and i

swindled him it's estimated that georgia currently has around two hundred lawyers either in prison or awaiting sentencing mostly on fraud charges government critics say the real reason they're locked up is because they refused to make deals with prosecutors should people those lawyers who did not do the will of the the not work complete bargains and instead conduct real legal defense of the clients are considered enemies of the state. the state however does not agree in his end of year statement the supreme court chairman said that justice in georgia was becoming more trusted and deservedly so. got it forty two percent more civil cases were brought this last year compared to two thousand and this data points at a greater trust of the population in the judicial system and a very small number of cases were appealed to the highest judicial authority because last year. it's not enough for eka a lawyer who quit her practice when she claims she grew fed up of the country's legal system attacking its own lawyers i was actually

a has prosecutors try to influence advocacy by arresting or discriminating against those who don't cooperate usually means a simply told not to hire said lawyers under threat of habeas sentences and of ice in. blue eyes that my job became a lie. the result being that not only did lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance of the trial lawyers in question say they just want to get on with doing their jobs but it's hard to defend your clients would be living in fear of being imprisoned just so to box an aussie to be seen. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world a major battle in the center even capital in front of the main opposition party have waters security forces struggle to restore order as the police arrested dozens of people including the top presidential security chief tensions are mounting in the country after the prime minister announced that a unity government will be formed soon following weeks of chaos poor living

conditions and repression sparked protests which forced the president twenty three years to flee. in lebanon the leader of militant organization has far said the group will not back the government of caretaker prime minister saad hariri this is the first statement from the group since the lebanese government collapsed last week he accused the interim government of being u.s. nato iran and refused to state who the organization will be backing. china's president says the international currency system led by the us dollar is a product of the past jintao said steps were being taken to replace it with china's national currency but it will be some time before that is accepted he was speaking ahead of a visit to washington this week and the u.s. often accuses china of manipulating the line to help boost exports. and it's the prospect of currency wars which is the subject of this week's cross tell people about looks at whether it's an issue that could saying to the global

financial recovery watch the program later today but here's a quick preview. if you want to see where the u.s. is going look at the model it's taking in that europe is taking lithium and iceland the problem with the mortgage market and america versus china is here it wasn't fannie mae that did it it was the massive fraud by commercial banks shame on them. on the banking system it was fraud that brought it down and nobody has been sent to jail at all in fact the fraudsters have been rewarded in china the banks or state banks and others are you sure there is no you actually say. you were actually saying that are you actually saying that the united states over the last ten years has been moving in the direction of free markets we've had the most incredible explosion of government spending government intervention bell outs handouts subsidies i mean this isn't neo liberalism and

a classical liberal sounds this is below shows it is ok there you. go we need to be right. and we are up to date here in our team coming up next we've got the latest business news with kareena. and i welcome to business with. our top story this hour last week b.p.

has agreed to swap five percent of its stock worth around eight billion dollars in exchange for nine and a half percent of russian state oil producer all sniffed a multi-billion dollar partnership between two companies will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's arctic continental shelf competence even though the head of the national energy security fund says that the acid swap alone makes this hugely significant deal. but we see a very serious idea so the exchange of facets of it is why you there will be more a real project and i will serve what they call of course b.p. will be the best thing also closer because really serious investments are not only west what we need also serious you can always use and b.p. is one would believe that you were speaking about self production and of course off of your story in mexico in gold there are a lot of critics about b.p. but we must remember the people before the well was more than one thousand five hundred meters that is why we need this to creeks and that is why i think that

there will be some progress but you won't you there will be no real launching of projects and i will serve all knew you were speaking about exchange of questions already of the series you. tell it so that let's have a look at the markets the asian bourses a mix this out of the nikkei closed on monday trade hong kong shares a floor after positive opening on monday as mainland chinese banks and property developers dropped after the tiny central bank reserve requirements by eleven percent on friday here in russia markets will be open and a half an hour to boston have p.p.d. i expected to dominate moscow's bourses on friday close in the red however both boys came out strong in the first week of trade after the long holiday break my six gained three point four percent over the week and the r.t.s. around five percent making russia the best performing emerging market of the year to date. and russia stock markets were one of the best performers last week as well

however this week investors are going to be more cautious says sales trader from the city of baghdad. there appears to be a lot of pent up demand a lot of inflows and i don't think i don't think the market is going to fall this week it might not grow but it certainly won't fall because there certainly are there are people there with money waiting to catch the stock at good prices the oil and gas sector should continue to be interesting we raised our crude oil forecast for two thousand and seven to ninety dollars a barrel last week it's still slightly below the futures curve but as long as as long as the oil price remains a million dollars or above the in the key oil me as i cross have lukoil gazprom are able to hold their technically important level that they've surpassed last week i think we'll see continued demand in those names. that's all for this hour but it can always find more stories if you along to a website that don't forget r.t. dot com business and join me at twenty past alpha.

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