from fun stupid. stunts on t.v. don't comb. what lies beneath bombs and up in the nets of italian fishermen who say the waters that feed them are contaminated by native weapons while the public is being kept in the dark. economic guerrilla tactics people in the us fight back against austerity and financial inequality going more subtle forms of civil disobedience. the russian heroin users want drug replacement treatment legalized but doctors are worried it will only create a new breed of addict. the russian lenders twenty four increase their deposit portfolios over twenty five to forty five percent respectively two thousand and ten details and twenty minutes in our business program.

live from moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program it all is adriatic coast often described as a paradise for sea lovers is being poisoned from beneath for decades nato is use 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 italian 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 minute she dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks which is present in 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 i mean these weapons often contain

toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorus. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it has 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 in that there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in our nets we try and avoid them following the war in one nine hundred ninety nine the fish of practically disappeared from our waters 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 natives says there are six contaminated

areas along the edge or attic coasts but lana's claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean tito need to is lying twenty four areas are affected not six dilatation of these areas have not even be made public the population is being kept in the dark into quatro his 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 we do everything we all. went. and. following. them. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities as 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 which stretches from the gulf of venice to the union sea are magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for telling fishermen but ducking beneath the waves more than just fish matthew stevens most fit in the southeast of italy for us. 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 are. going to be in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we usually mark your supposing what to say i was just an exam where would science 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 a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country may not be at all the high paid to the papers there are no statement making a right this is left to the researcher call it economic justice you may not see it but 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 in their bailouts for banks and wall street. rather than the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's wrong un-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 and they 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 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

what has 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 these low income new york neighborhood neighborhood people who don't really have much of a poor voice or whether it's behind the closed office doors of the middle class breaking the rules because both 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 ourselves our lauren lyster our to new york fortunate to live from moscow still a lot coming up in the program including judicial vulnerability. children lawyers complain of official harassment and even imprisonment for charges if you will the details in just a few minutes. we'll look at accusations in india that some people are making a business out of accepting charity and keeping the donations under the guise of

come profit organizations. before that forward 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 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 depicted to illegal drugs finding a way to combat this remains a 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 installed 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 to prince guy is his drug addiction destroyed her life is why she wrote to the u.n. calling for the implementation of an a.p.

substitution program at the moment 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 can self stands serve 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 method a the effects last longer but they don't give the uses a high it's a place to enable you to lead a normal life without suffering withdrawals the health ministry has come under increasing pressure to sanction a substitution therapy but 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 this 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 haven't checked in as a methadone drug addict stanislav in arenas stories of sad ones 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 a contract. 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 and slowly die. i mean his

letter doesn't change russia's stance on substitution therapy but it does once again bring into sharp fakirs the very real need to find a suitable alternative so our fares r.t. . now for any of the stories we are covering here on our team you can always log on to our web site that's our here's a look at what's there right now. the russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. is forced to wait months for and importation here in moscow is demanding charges are pressed or she set free by british authorities. also any way to get around a harsh russian winter is crap they can't go up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour over almost any terrain.

that 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 and number of schools set up to help the poorest of the poor are allegedly turning out to be fake artist karen 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 are rarely held here. that's because it exists only to attract foreign tourists who do need money to do school trust deeds. so if you think we're running a business here you're quite right this is how i see 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 sure there's no good work being done. and this is very good work so the people start using them maybe you give money to. live. with

india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many foreign tourists drive to donate their time and money to a good cause when they visit. marie from france wanted to work with children and contacted you luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. made some donation. and. you see this is money to make. you pay. to chair but you can never be sure that the money you don't need is put to good use there are four million a year and this huge number is 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 here that run schools and government manufacturing but the only run during the tourist season when the season ends 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 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 awning it 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 bad very fast 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 most in need god and seeing r t. and there's 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 thought arties military contributor and. eradicating drug trafficking harms 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 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 petrov's want to hear things about these type of recombination to give him a defeat star i bet my bottom dollar this is not on his top priority list because for general petraeus the number one priority should be and i hope it will be this year is still zero in on the real challenge in and declared war off of him 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 fifth star commander on the theory or off operations it could be only petros whether the four star or otherwise who can really pull of this trip and i wish him well to make this mission accomplished and to get the job done the u.s. would like to president of ghana stand as a country getting off its nice but after a long spell of occupation of war corruption is taking a heavy toll next hour a watch a special report on where american money intended for afghanistan really goes. repairing a broken thing should. i wait 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. afghanistan the

dollar. and lawyers in georgia say there are no longer able to work on hand there and some say they are at risk of harassment from the government or even imprisonment simply for trying to protect their clients are barred thout accusations i would you dish will system turning on its defenders. being a lawyer in georgia isn't easy these days as merkel knows all too well he was a successful practicing lawyer but he ses fell foul of government pressure so he found himself locked up 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 send him to 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 are said people and those lawyers who did not do the will the courage that is there not work 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 should note it forty two percent more civil cases were brought this last year compared to two thousand and nine 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 this last year. it's not enough for

a lawyer who puts her practice when she claims she grew fed up of the country's legal system attacking its own militias and it seemed chuck schumer has prosecutors try to influence advocacy by arresting or discriminating against those who don't cooperate eugenides are simply told not too hard. on the threat of habeas sentences i simply realized that my job became a lie. the result being that not only did lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance of a trial the lawyers in question say they just want to get on with doing their jobs but it's hard to defend your clients living in fear of being imprisoned just so. it's an aussie base. with some other stories from around the world and the major gun battles are roughly in the center of the region capital in front of the main opposition party headquarters 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 would be formed soon following weeks of chaos poor living conditions and repression sparked protests which forced the president of twenty three years to flee. arab blasts on a minibus in northwestern pakistan is killed at least eighteen people were fifteen others were injured and initial reports suggest that a gas cylinder may have blown up but officials now say around tan kilograms of explosives were planted inside the van the blast was in a turbulent 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 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 i had a visit to washington this week the u.s. often accuse us china of manipulating the yuan to help boost exports. and

it's the prospect of currency wars of which is the subject of today's cross stock peter lavelle looks at whether it's an issue that could sing the global financial recovery watch the program later today but first 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 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 are state banks and others are you are there is are you actually saying. 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 in the classical liberal sounds this is video shows it is ok gerri willis if you're going to do you. have in just a few moments a look at the ultra right parties building on for a republican ground and you were before the adèle we'll take a look at what's happening in business with kareena. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us this hour last week b.p. has agreed to swap five percent of its stock worth around eight billion dollars in exchange for a nine and a half percent of russian state oil producer ross snapped

a multi-billion dollar partnership between two companies will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's arctic continental shelf because i didn't seem enough the head of the national energy security fund says that the acid swap alone 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 there will be more a real project and i will serve what they call the of course you will be wrestling also throws it because really a serious investment in not only west must remove also so serious you can always use and be as one would believe that you were speaking of production and of course off the story in mexico and gold there were a lot of critics about you but we must remember the good people because well was more than one thousand five hundred meters that is why we need this. is why i think that there will be some progress but you won't you there will be no real

launch and no projects will serve all knew he was speaking about the exchange of questions was already of a serious view. now let's have a look at the markets most asian markets down on monday with the nikkei closing slightly higher hong kong's hang seng finished top of the sub lower shares in china were also down investors were cautious after beijing raised banks' reserves with a show friday overall trade was subdued because u.s. markets will be shot with the dr martin luther king jr holiday and stocks in europe are holding to a tight range ahead of a meeting of european finance ministers to discuss the region's debt crisis p p rose two point three percent after it announced an alliance with ross with russia's gains for the oil giant helped lift ukraine's footsie to moscow policy got us in my eyes and started trading in positive territory of b.p. deals dominating moscow's bourses as well shares of ross have jumped the most in almost six months at the start of the trading after it greed to swap shares with

b.p. have gained as much as four point eight percent is now trading over three percent of the energy majors are also trading higher. the capitalization of russian internet holding mail dot ru group may double by the end of 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 november this would put the russian company at more than ten billion dollars almost half the value of u.s. based internet giant yahoo i will say however that i.p.o. participants usually tend to give a more upbeat assessment. and it looks like russian started saving again according to the misty newspaper leading russian leaders lenders. twenty four increase their deposit portfolios over twenty five and forty five percent respectively and

two thousand and ten consumer confidence and a shift from real estate investments were cited as the main drivers for the growth of the record comes despite the decision of central bank to drop rates. so for now join me at twenty past the hour formal business news here on our city.

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