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he's being poisoned from beneath for decades. spread to tourist hot spots. and working to keep the truth hidden. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area the mediterranean has been a military dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry and talks waste is present in these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and nato 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 phosphorous running for very little and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it secrets johnny landis has received death threats and been attacked. this footage by landis

revealed some can vessels in toxic waste on the seabed of pool 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 the waters we come across have affected our health too causing skin rashes blurred 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 attic 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 dilatation 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 we do everything we bought. when. and. following. the. 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 water of the adriatic coast line with stretches from the gulf of venice to the union sea are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for italian fishermen but lurking beneath the waves more than just

fish matthew stevens most fit in the southeast of italy for. now 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 ati's long list of reports. the only language that they understand is shutting down in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we know margaret you're supposing what's established 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 documented 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 male high

paid to the papers there are no statement making the right fit in love with the researchers call it economic descent and may not 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 as they can to give them a free ride here is a sin fare hikes 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 bailouts for banks and wall street. and not to 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 they really were about the fact that wages for some are 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 it is in the minds of some people at least that 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 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 there are going to bail us out this is what will do to ourselves lauren lyster r.t. new york and you all with r.t. still much more to come in the program including judicial vulnerability. children lawyers complaining fishel harassment and even imprisonment on trumped up fraud charges but we will the details just be we. wanted to look at accusations in india that some people are making a business out of accepting charity keeping the donations under the guise of nonprofit organizations. all former drug users in russia pushing for being creased use of methadone to help those on heroin to beat their addiction some of even taking the issue to the united nations. 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 legal drugs finding a way to combat this remains a critical challenge i 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 he now works to help others ava come that is his story is very similar to. his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she wait the u.n. calling for the implementation of an a.p. substitution program that 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 having gone through rehab in self stance of disagree substitution therapy is the way forward.

active drug addiction is uncontrollable substitution is still an addiction we would create a time bomb rushes 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 the effects last longer but they don't give the uses a high it's a pace to enable us to lead a normal life without suffering with. the health ministry has come under increasing pressure to sanction a substitution therapy 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. 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 it's sad that they're all too common internationally the war on drugs is being hard fought everyone is winning. a huge problem in russia the rising number of people that a contract. intravenous 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 not my choice i didn't want to contract ha b. tuberculosis hepatitis and slowly die. i mean is less it doesn't change russia's stance on substitution therapy but it does once again bring into shop fake the very real need to find a tentative. see. that it's not just ten minutes past the

hour here in moscow you with r.t. and for any of the stories we're covering here on the channel you can always log on to our website. let's take a look at what's waiting for you there right now a russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. is forced to wait months for a deportation hearing pastor's demanding charges are pressed or she was set free by british authorities it's. also a new way to get around in harsher russian winter. they can go up to a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour over almost any terrain check it out on our website. now russian scientists providing technical assistance at iran's reactor but raised concerns about damage caused by a computer virus according to newspaper reports in the west and computer is

believed to be the result of a sophisticated joint u.s. israeli cyber attack nuclear experts are reportedly the kremlin to perspire in the plans full activation warning of another cho noble style nuclear disaster now for more on this let's talk to nicole from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations good to see you so is this just western media hype over iran's nuclear plans or or is there really a threat here of some sort of nuclear disaster i think that this is just the media western media report hype actually because. of course all the nuclear installations for all the world have for the so called to double systems which actually prevent any. harsh serious nuclear disaster even if there is a computer warm being in the system so i don't think that there is a major threat to. build atomic power plant. having in mind these computer war let's talk about this computer worm what more are

we talking about here a computer virus of some sort of a high tech intrusion device what is it while. you're there not a technical technical specialists who give you a full account of his computer war but. to the best of my knowledge i think that this is just computer warm. could be falling to practically in everyday life. but as you said rightly that western media believe that this is a joint effort. taken by israeli america. probably going to say i don't know what televisions are going to be like that does something to be undermine iran's nuclear ambitions. this is a tale that. could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program let's talk about iran's nuclear program because russia has been involved in helping to assist with the completion of the bushehr reactor

run since the mid ninety's now with this alleged worm attack could we expect any possible delays in the full activation of the reactor well i don't think that there will be a nod or some other delay. had with the project project because we know that in the past there were some delays but they were due to some financial reasons but. i think. i think there will be no a delay or let's let's talk about the broader picture here and i look at a little perspective how do you think the western community feels about russia assisting iran with nuclear development this is a very good question because to my mind the western community is divided as regards to the russian assistance so the controversial iranian nuclear program some countries like in the european community believe the. right of russia

to assist in every way peaceful nuclear project in iran but some scientists some politicians in the us believe that russian help. the nuclear program actually. on the contrary actually contribution to the military option of. my mind my my feel. russia is in no way. any nuclear military that mention of iranian nuclear because tehran continually says that its nuclear program is only for peaceful energy purposes what he said is that if i may there's a story that just happened very recently what do you think about iran's recent invitation to certain members of the u.n. security council to come and inspect their nuclear reactor as we know they didn't invite america russia said no. so what do you think of this invitation to suss is a very good question because what can i say about this first of all the iranians who actually made up this invitation to any country including nuclear physicists

who would like to iranian nuclear. facilities iranians wouldn't risk anything because the open part of nuclear program what they mean by saying new nuclear program the open facilities. on the land but not on the ground they are open to any expectations as well as to inspection so iran doesn't risk anything but as we know that the officials there in moscow their reaction was that they said that such an invitation should not be used as a substitute for international inspection so i'm going to have to i'm going to that's correct that's correct and this is actually their preliminary thing which all the countries who are concerned about iranian nuclear program should be concerned with nickel from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations thank you thank you well some n.g.o.s in india now 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 to help the poorest of the poor and that should be turning out to be fake charan singh investigates the people in india earning a living by pretending to be a charity. well come to this school in both 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 to donate money to the school trustees. 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. it sounds like a pity i'm sure there's a good work being done here. and this is good work so if you start using it maybe you can give money to. find them. with india estimated to have one

third of the world's fourth 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 contacted you luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. made some donation and. this is money to make you have to pay some 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 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 they 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 to belittle 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 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 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 don't give it to us because they think we're doing good work we have it we need to not only men peonage we need to grow it and if we don't move fast enough then a few scandals in the sector could really bad waiting for us 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 jewels from receiving foreign funds in the past few years and recently revised a nine hundred seventy six law that oversees n.g.o.s but still we see a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt more student need god and seeing r t but there is now a twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow now lawyers in georgia say they're no longer able to work unhindered some insist they're at risk of her harassment from the government or even imprisonment simply for trying to protect their clients. and found accusations of a judicial system turning on its defenders. being a lawyer in georgia isn't easy these days as mahmoud 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 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 refused to make deals with prosecutors i should people those lawyers who do not do the will of the the notwork complete bargains and instead conduct real legal defense of their 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. 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 this 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 he means a simply told not to hire said new law under threat of habeas sentences i said. realized that my job became a lie. the result being that not only did lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance for the trial 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 yourself dumbarton aussie police. are now let's get to some other news stories from around the world this hour and police were forced to fire tear gas at protesters and undressed continues across the two new zealand capital thousands of tourists have been flown out of the country on emergency flights on sunday dozens of people were arrested during a top presidential security trip following major gun battles the country's prime minister said that he may soon announce a new unity government following weeks of chaos poor living conditions and repression sparked protests which forced the president of twenty three years to flee. and a blow on a minibus in northwestern pakistan has killed at least eighteen people fifteen injured initial reports suggested a gas cylinder blown up but officials now say around ten kilograms of explosives were planted inside the van and the blast was in a turbulent area where militants frequently carry out attacks against both

civilians and security forces. and china's president says the international currency system led by the u.s. dollar is quote a product of the past hu 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 his visit to washington this week the u.s. often accuses china of manipulating the you want to help boost exports. or more on the currency wars and people of elle's cross talk show that's in a few minutes time but right now it's time for the business update with kareena. and hello to you so tell me this i hear that russians have started saving again that's right. the main drivers for the growth are consumer confidence and she. shifting from investing into real estate now in a moment but first to our top story. b.p. proposed share swap with raul snapped worth around eight billion dollars has been met with approval by russia third largest oil company b.p.

the partnership will see both exploit potentially massive oil and gas deposits in russia's continental shelf holding to its b.p. proposed chest wall with is home now to be beneficial for the russian all tried giving it access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance it's not in a zero from metropole i've see says the us it's walk alone it's a very clever move by rosmer. rose that includes and does do you pull five percent of its treasure shares and these treasures shares war were counted at rules that bill sheaffer years never used to be sure as before so basically no realizing value also these shares instead of the shares count on the balance sheets. just five percent in one of the really global oil and gas majors. now let's have a look at the markets u.s. markets are closed for public holidays european markets are lower ahead of european finance ministers meeting late afternoon to discuss the region's debt crisis shares

of all john b.p. climbed after it struck an exploration agreement with russia last night after b.p. shares shot up two point four percent at the start but then retreated to stand one point four percent in the morning trading here in moscow both the r.t.s. in my eyes it's a trading in positive territory and in the afternoon the odds has is up one and a half percent and then why there is now gaining one point four percent the bourses a still dominated by the lost everything deal shares of rosner have jumped the most in almost six months after it agreed to swap shares with b.p. last night is now gaining a focus on the six with other major energy majors also trading higher out with a look over two percent. nord gold unit of russian mining giant severstal says it intends to float at least twenty five percent of its shares initial public offering of the london stock exchange and go producer hopes to raise

over one billion dollars through the i.p.o. to be completed in february that generated cash will be used to pay debts to its russian parent as well as the future growth investments nords i.p.o. follows the announcement last week that iran and coal group cox is the float in london is to float in london commodities giant glencore is also said to be preparing a forty seven billion dollar float. and it looks like russian started saving again according to the missing newspaper leading russian lenders bad bank and b. to b. twenty four increase their deposit portfolios over twenty five and forty five percent respectively in two thousand and ten consumer confidence and a ship from real estate investments was cited as the main drivers for the growth and the record john comes despite the decision of central bank deposit rates throughout two thousand and ten. that's all for me and the business to. be with you next hour but you can always find all stars if you log on to our website at www dot

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