tv [untitled] January 17, 2011 3:00am-3:30am EST
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rule the future a good good how would international. every greenlaw eager to know. what bly is beneath bombs and out in the net some would tell you the fisherman who say the water is the feed them are contaminated by name it was old weapons while the public was being kept in the dark. guerilla tactics people in the us fight back against austerity and financial inequality inequality employing more subtle forms of civil disobedience. and russian heroin users one drug replacement treatment legalized with doctors are worried it will only create a new breed of addict.
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this is r t live from moscow a marina joshua welcome to the program and it always adriatic coast often described as a paradise for see a lot worse is being poisoned from beneath for decades natives 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 thai and 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 money enormous amount of weaponry and toxic waste is present all 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. very tall and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it his secrets johnny landis
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has received death threats and been attacked this footage by landis reveals something 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 local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in the nets we try and avoid them following the war in one nine hundred ninety nine the fish of practically disappeared from it was the chemicals could affect your health too causing skin rashes vision and so fishermen have had to quit their jobs because of the scarcity of fish this fishing co-operative in the seaside town of more fenton paula was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five nato says there are six contaminated areas along their dramatic coast but lana's claims this is just the tip of the iceberg connla i mean tito nature was lying in twenty four areas or affected not six dilatation of these areas not even
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be made public in the population is being kept in the dark national into quatro 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 sounds from nato we do everything we have all . well. and. all we. hope it will. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities because 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 adriatic coast line with stretches from the gulf of venice to the union sea are a magnet for tourists and provide
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a livelihood for telling fishermen but looking beneath the waves more than just fish matthew stevens most fish in the southeast of it's in the front. and people caught in the eye of america's financial crisis are fighting back but instead of taking to the streets carrying placards and shouting slogans some of those hit by falling wages and high unemployment are employing a new tactic economic disobedience artie's lauren lyster takes a look. the only language that they understand is shouting don't give us that unit in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we. are protests you're supposing want to sabotage your standing somewhere with signs would 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
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a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country made by paid to the papers there are no statement making the right fit and left little research college economic descent and they don't see it because it's 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 his they can to give them a free ride here or is this unfair rights were resisting their 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 appeals for banks from wall street. and not to the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think
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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 they really were about the fact that wages for some of 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 are saying that there are much bigger wrongs 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 wrong in their eyes it's a bigger wrong people are breaking the rules to make right whether it's in all
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these low income new york neighborhood to neighborhood people who don't really have much of a political voice 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 bail us out this is what will do to ourselves lauren lyster r.t. new york what are the live from moscow and still a lot coming up in the program for you including judicial vulnerability. children lawyers complaining fishel harassment and even in prison. for charges read the details i just feel we. had a look at accusations in india that some people are making a business out of accepting charity and keeping their donations under the guise of a nonprofit organization. former drug users in russia are pushing for the increased use of methadone to help those in heroin beat their
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addiction some have even taken the issue to the united nations r.t. sara first went to find out why some doctors are against 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 remains a critical challenge i started when i was very young i was interested in anything to alter or steal to mind have any principles i cheated lied and nothing was beneath me that his love life since has been a battle against addiction but he now works to help others ava come that is his story is very similar to rein it in sky is his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she way to the u.n. calling for the implementation of an opiate 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
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and self stance of disagree that 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 you substitute heroin with drugs such as meth the day effects last longer but they don't give the uses a high it's a place to enable us to lead a normal life without suffering with. health ministry has come under increasing pressure to sanction a substitution they say that there's no scientific evidence to prove that it actually works. in reality methadone treatment is a dangerous simply switching one addiction. to. morning i had a new patient in a hospital he was addicted to heroin for
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a long time and then decided to quit drugs and switched to methadone maintenance drawn cure his drug addiction and so now we have injected in as a methadone drug addict stanislav an arena stories. internationally the war on drugs is being hard for everyone is winning. a huge problem in russia the rising number of people that it can check. 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 not my choice i didn't want a contract to break. and slowly die. 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. their fair. and for any of the stories we're
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covering for you here on our team that always log on to our website which is r t dot com but here is a look at what they are writing. a russian woman accused of spying on you case forced to wait months for a deportation hearing moscow is demanding charges are pressed or she set free by british authorities. also a new way to get around in the harsh russian winter crap that can go up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour over almost any terrain. now some n.g.o.s in india stand accused of putting up a fronds to help the needy but not giving money to those who actually need it and amber of school set up to help the poorest of the poor are allegedly turning out to
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be fake artists karn singh investigates the people in india earning a living by pretending to be a charity welcome to this school in eastern india the building and classrooms may look functional but classes of rarely held here. that's because it exists only to attract foreign tourists to donate money to the school deeds. so 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. sounds like to be i'm sure there's no good work being done. and this is a good word you hear so that you can start cheating and maybe you can you give money to. fund in the future. with india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many foreign tourists dry to donate their time and money to a good cause when they visit. marie from france wanted to work with children and
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conducted. luckily for her it was genuine and her money had make a difference we. made some. and. this is money to make you have to pay. to check but you can never be sure that the money you don't need is put to good use there are four million viewers again and this huge number is compounded by the highly 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 they only run during the tourist season but. in 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 school but some groups are working towards increasing debility through annual resumes and
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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 for fresh and only we need to push up. and see that you know unless you meet some minimum standards we will not fund you anymore because we are the only thing and us have if you do look at global surveys we have the public's trust. without i think many times they just give it to us because they think we're doing good work we have it we need to not only men pee in it we need to grow it and if we don't move fast enough then a few scandals in the sector could really toward that waiting for us with n.g.o.s in india raising over eight billion dollars in funding every year the stakes of 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 oversees in joules but do you see
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a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt those most in need got unseeing r d. now 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 but artie's military contributor in ghana says eradicating drug trafficking helps in afghanistan rather than self promotion 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 you ass and made to our forces in afghanistan as the four star general of the fifth star to general petraeus would also promote the image status and legitimacy of his foes in afghanistan and in pakistan. and their pakistani and afghan associates
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now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski i want to hear things about these type of recumbent days since to give him a defeat star i bet my bottom dollar that this is not on his top priority 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 him on declaring war off on pm 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 that of operations it could be only petros whether the four star or otherwise who can really pull all of this straight and i
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wish him well to make this mission accomplished and to get the job done and the u.s. would like to present afghanistan as a country getting off its knees but after a long spell of occupation and war corruption is taking heavy toll later in the day watch a special report on where american my intended for afghanistan really go. repairing a broken thing sure. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials get the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. the dollar. and lawyers and georgia say there are no longer able to work on handor and some say they are at risk of harassment from the government or even imprisonment simply for trying to protect their clients are unfounded accusations of
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a judicial system turning on its defenders. being a lawyer in georgia isn't easy these days as mirka 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 sentenced to prison or testifies against me in court saying that he paid me one hundred seventy dollars a 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
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refused to make deals with prosecutors i said people those lawyers who did not do the will of the very thing as the notwork complete bargains and instead conduct real legal defense of the clients i 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. i sure 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 where appeal to the highest judicial authority gets last year. it's not enough for eka a lawyer who quit so practice when she claims she grew fed up of the country's legal system attacking its own militias i wish to see the end of same technician who has prosecutors try to influence advocacy by arresting or discriminating against those who don't cooperate you see me as a simply told not to hire said moon under threat of habeas sentences i simply
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realized that my job became a lie. the result being that not only did lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance of a fair trial lawyers in question say they just want to get on with doing their jobs but it's hard to defend your clients when you're living in fear of being imprisoned yourself tom bought an aussie base. and now it's a globe at some other stories from around the world and major gun battles are up the center of the tunisian capital and 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 and now instead a unity government will be formed soon following weeks of chaos poor living conditions and repression sparked protests which forced the president of twenty three years to flee. last i and many of us in northwestern pakistan has killed at
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least eighteen people fifteen others were injured initial reports suggest that a gas cylinder may have blown up officials now say around ten kilograms of explosives were planted and side the van blast was in a terminal an area where militants frequently carry out attacks against both civilians and security forces. china's president says the international currency system led by the us dollar is a product of the past who 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 the u.s. often accuses china of manipulating the one to help boost exports. and it's the prospect of currency wars which is the subject of today's cross stock peter lavelle looks at whether it's an issue that could sink the global financial recovery watch the program in about ten minutes time but first here's a quick preview. if you want to see where the u.s.
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is going look at the model it's taking in that europe is taking latvia 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 of the fraudsters have been rewarded in china the banks or state banks and others are you sure there is no you actually say. you 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 video shows it is if you let your going to be.
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in. europe today here in our team and kareena will bring us the latest from the world of business in just a few moments stay with us. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us last week b.p. has agreed to swap five percent of its stock worth around eight billion dollars in exchange for nine a half percent of russian state oil producer all snapped
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a multi-billion dollar partnership between two companies will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's arctic and a continental shelf doesn't seem enough the head of the national energy security fund says the asset swap all makes this a hugely significant deal. in the spirit what we see is a very serious idea so the exchange of facets of it is why you very will be more a real project and i will show but i hope of course you will be the best thing always so rosy because really a serious investment in not only the best one to remove all so serious you can always use and be as one would believe that you were speaking involves actual. story mexican gold a little extra bold with you but you must remember that the deep will be well was removed from one thousand five hundred needless so that is why we need this. is why i think that there will be some progress but there will be no real launch and no
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projects i will share if only he will speak about exchange of questions already of a serious view. now let's have a look at the markets most asian markets are down on monday with the nikkei closing higher hong kong's hang seng is trading half a percent lower chazan china down as well as investors more cautious to beijing ways bags to the promised way too from friday but overall trade was subdued because u.s. markets open shots for the dr martin luther king holiday here in moscow both the odd tasm issac's have started trading in positive territory there wasnt b.p. deal is dominating moscow's bourses chance of rawson have jumped the most in almost six months at the start of the trading after to agree to swap shares with b.p. well staffed has gained as much as four point eight percent and is now trading up three point three percent of the energy majors are also taking. the capitalization of russian internet holding male dog or you may double by the end of
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the year that's according to a report published by j.p. morgan it says the target price for the company's global depository receipts for the end of two thousand and eleven equals fifty two dollars almost doubling in value from the company's initial listing in the van but this would put the why. company at more than ten billion dollars almost half the value of u.s. based internet. analysts say however that i.p.o. participants usually tend to give a more upbeat assessment. and looks like russia has started saving again according to a very misty newspaper a leading russian lenders a spare bank and twenty four increase deposit portfolios over twenty five and forty five percent respectively in two thousand and ten now consumer confidence and a shift from real estate investments were cited as the main drivers for the growth and the record comes despite the decision of the central bank to drop deposit rates throughout two thousand and ten. and so we have an hour back with more at twenty
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