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live from moscow. the coastline. provides income for fisherman but local say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because. toxic chemicals that including depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by the fish are diminishing marine life the government and the alliance remain tight lipped as matthew stevens reports. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this is the mediterranean has been a minute she dumping ground since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks with this present us from the forty's to weapons used in the one nine hundred eighty nine war against serbia including due to. did your rainy and i mean these
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weapons often contain toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorus when you were 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 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 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 but fishing co-operative in seaside town are more fit and paula was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five native says there are six contaminated areas along
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the edge or attic coasts but lana's claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and not only i mean tito nature was lying in twenty four areas are affected not six dilatation of these areas of not even be made public and the population is being kept in the dark 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. although we. hope it will. build. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities should be economic conversation for those affected europe need to and above all the united
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states must be held accountable the beautiful. coastline where stretches from the gulf of venice to the see are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for fishermen but lurking beneath the waves more than just. matthew stevens in the southeast of italy. where you are with r.t. and still ahead for you this hour turning poverty into profit. or how some make a business out of taking charity cheating the donors and putting the reputation of real n.g.o.s in danger. children lawyers complaining fishel harassment and even imprisonment fraud charges to bring you all the details in just a few minutes. the russian nuclear agency denies that iran's reactor could be damaged by a computer virus as follows western newspaper reports that the plant was subject to
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a sophisticated joint u.s. israeli cyber attack. from the moscow based interviewed of world economy and international relations told us here that such an attack is completely unrealistic . 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 or 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 newly built atomic power plant. having in mind these computer war western media believe that this is a joint effort taken by israeli america going to say this is clearly dubious that the joint efforts could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program.
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civil disobedience has for decades to being used in the united states as a means of resistance now instead of taking to the streets the people caught in the center of america's financial crisis choosing a rather different tactic and as artie's lorna's to reports a more quiet protest that has gone underground quite literally. 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 show a mob just 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 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 he may not see it on my page or the papers there are no statement making
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a right this is laughable to research her call it economic just that i may not see it because 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 a very resistant fare hikes were resisting the cost of living is going up and 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. i never got married to the 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
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helping out their employees 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. hers 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 problems 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 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 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
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seems in america to be the rising disobedience of modern day they're not going to bail us out this is what will do to ourselves lauren lyster r.t. new york. just now tony ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital is the global financial recovery in danger is the question for debate and people cross talk show the full program is coming up just a little bit later. we've all heard the are a triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats lobbyists politicians and special interest groups all getting rich at the expense of the american people that should outrage and upset everybody and it happens unfortunately not just in america it happens in europe with the special interest and i worry it is happening in china where you know as they make this evolution to a free market system that's been great hundreds of millions of people have
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a higher living standards and you know my address one of the on if he likes it so much so i would i would invite him to i do think that living here i mean given the way the united states is going and europe is going i mean seriously i think. maybe one of the options. crosstalk is coming away later today now with heroin use in russia spiralling out of control there are increasing calls to legalize methadone treatment to help addicts beat their habit but doctors believe this substitution therapy you simply replaces one it picture with another. takes a chart with both sides. in russian more than two million people to legal drugs finding a way to combat this means a critical challenge i started when i was very young i was interested in anything
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that altered my state of mind i didn't have any principles i cheated lied install nothing was beneath me stanislav life since it's been a battle against addiction that he now works to help others is that. as his story is very similar tearing it can sky is his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she wait the u.n. calling for the implementation of an opiate 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 if you substitution replaces heroin with drugs such as meth the day the effects last longer but they don't give the uses a high is supposed to enable you to lead a normal life without suffering withdrawals having gone through rehab in self stanislav disagrees substitution therapy is the way forward. active
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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. 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 messaging 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 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
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a suitable turnitin of their fair r.t. . now you can always check. all the news blogs and feature stories and many many more. right now if you're looking for a way to get around you might. offer you more. freedom. charges to be pressed against you. in the u.k. . forced to wait months with deportation hearing. in india some charities are accused of simply being
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a front for con artists only open during the tourist season many so-called schools run by these organizations the cash from well meaning foreigners as soon as they leave. went to investigate. 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 no good work being done here. and this is a bit of good work so if you start using it maybe you could. give money to. fund in the future. with india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many
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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 donations and. this is. using money to make. to pay someone to chair but you can never be sure that the money you don't need is put to good use there are four million names you with again 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 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
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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 say 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 on ing 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 pain it we need to grow it and if we don't move fast enough then a few scandals in the sector could really hold that very fast with n.g.o.s in india raising over eight billion dollars in funding every year the stakes are very high
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the government has banned forty one in juice from receiving foreign funds in the past few years and recently revised a nine hundred seventy six law that overseas and euros but till we see a single set of accountability procedures this sector will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt those most in need god and seeing r t but there. lawyers in georgia say they're no longer able to work unhindered due to pressure from the government someone says they face a stark choice to quit their jobs or find themselves behind bars simply because they refuse to cooperate with the prosecution tabatha takes a look at how their country's legal system has turned against its servants. 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
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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 theory to the 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
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becoming more trusted and deservedly so. 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 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 in the 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 certain lawyers under threat of habeas sentences i simply realized that my job became a lie. the result being that not only the lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance of a fair trial the 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
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imprisoned yourself dumbarton r.t. these. are now here in moscow was just turning twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some other headlines in brief now tunisia repairing to unveil a new unity government even as all thora the struggle to impose order following a popular uprising the atmosphere remains tense with protesters urging a continuation of the revolution in a bid to force radical changes in government on sunday dozens of people were arrested including the top presidential security chief following major gun battles poor living conditions and rampant unemployment sparked protests which force the president of twenty three years to flee. the former dictator of haiti the duvalier also known as baby doc has returned to the country twenty six years after he was overthrown he was greeted by crowds of supporters but did not say why or why he chose to return or what he would do there to value a inherited power from his father at age nineteen presided over one of the darkest
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chapters in haitian history is accused of torturing and killing political opponents ruling in an atmosphere of fear and repression ensured by his fear the secret police force. and what about our head of the labor party and minister of defense of israel says he is resigning to form his own. political faction is new party which she says will be called independents will be based on centralist zionist and democratic principles disorganisation increasingly leftist views and lack of political cohesion were cited as reasons for the split critics however accused of corruption and of being one of the main factors for the downfall of the once all powerful labor party. while there's a growing movement in washington for the top u.s. and nato commander in afghanistan to be given the highest military honor but as our military contributor says creating a five star general won't help the u.s.
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the rampant drug production that's threatening to rip the region apart on the fourth of july last year. to commemorate the independence day general petraeus to the command of you ass and made to our forces in afghanistan as the four star general of the thief start to general patrols would promote the image status and legitimacy of his foes in afghanistan and in pakistan. and there are pakistani and afghan associates now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski what he thinks about these type of recombination to give him a defeat star i bet my bottom dollar that this is not on his top priority 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 on declared war off rpm
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against the 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 year as general a thief star commander on the theory of operations it could be only petrou knows 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. applying the drug flow in afghanistan would have probably been a mission accomplished by now if it wasn't for the massive corruption in the country and now it's time you can watch our special report on where the billions intended for rebuilding afghanistan really go that will be here on r.t. . repairing a broken. highway construction humanitarian aid.
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official good to spoil is a dream it's the people the price. is no longer just down to drug trafficking. just twenty or twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and he comes with the business news. a welcome to our business program i'm sure on in. the piece for post share swap with rosneft worth around eight billion dollars has been met with approval by russia's third largest oil company b.p. the partnership will see both exploit potentially massive oil gas deposits in russia's arctic continental shelf but according to analysts b.p.'s proposed share swap with rosneft is primarily beneficial for the russian oil giant giving it access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance alexander nazarov metropole i've seen says the assets walk alone is
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a very clever move by ross enough. includes in this do you pull forty percent of its treasure shares and these treasures shares. were counted out rules in the balance sheet for years that never used the shares before so basically no realizing value all through these shares instead of the shares count on the balance sheets. yes five percent one of the really global oil and gas meters. and let's have a look at the markets now u.s. markets are closed for a public holiday here in markets are flat to positive ahead of the european finance ministers meeting late afternoon to discuss the region's debt crisis shares of all giant b.p. climbed after it struck an exploration agreement with russia's ross enough and b.p. shares shot up two point four percent at the start but then we traded to stan one point four percent higher in late morning trading. and here in moscow both the
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r.t.s. and my stats are trading up on the day the r.t.s. is up almost two percent and the my sex is gaining over one point six percent the bourses are still dominated by the ross an f.t.p. deal. and shares in ross never jumped the most in almost six months after and agreed to swap shares with b.p. rosin after is gaining over four percent on the my sex with other energy majors also trading higher oil is up over two percent. and morgan stanley has raised its forecast for russia's g.d.p. for two thousand and eleven the financial service company added another half a percent revising its forecast to five percent for this year analysts believe high oil prices will provide additional revenue for the russian budget which will increase budgetary expenditures starting in the second half of two thousand and eleven morgan stanley also raised its forecast for russia's g.d.p. in two thousand and twelve from four percent to four point five percent. and
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internet mexico second largest airline has signed a six hundred fifty million dollars deal to buy fifteen jet one hundred planes under the deal introject has the option to purchase five more planes for the liveries are to begin in late two thousand and twelve this is the first delivery contract for russia's new type of super jet airplanes to a latin american country so for international a joint venture between russia as to why a company and italy's aeronautical currently has one hundred seventy orders for its superjet. and that's all the business for this hour but you can always find more stories on the website that's our dot com slash business stay with us.
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