in the water. big chunk of. the growing gap between rich and poor in the us. civil disobedience.

well a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow the coastline of the adriatic sea attract tourists. fisherman but local say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has dumped toxic chemicals there including that of depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by the fish caught there and the diminishing marine life government and the alliance remain tight lipped as reports . on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a military dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks which is present on these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's on 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 running for very little

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 revealed 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 local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in the nets we try and avoid them following the war ninety ninety nine the fish are practically disappeared from out waltzes 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 anatomy i mean tito need to is lying twenty four areas are affected not six the location of these

areas have not even be made public and the population is being kept in the dark winter 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 siller waiting on says from nato you everything we have all. well. and. following. all of that will. build. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibility should be economic conversation for those affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the. coastline where stretches from the gulf.

are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for fishermen but looking beneath the waves more than just. matthew stevens in the southeast of italy for a. while this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow and still ahead for you this hour turning poverty into profit party how some make a business out of taking charity. and putting the reputation of n.g.o.s in danger plus. lawyers complain of social 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 this follows western newspaper reports that the plant was subject to a sophisticated joint u.s. israeli cyber attack. from moscow based in world economy and international

relations told us that such an attack is completely unrealistic. this is just the media western media report hyped 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 sions this is clearly dubious that this is a joint effort could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program civil disobedience has for decades been used in the united states as a means of resistance now instead of taking to the streets people caught in the

center of america's financial crisis she was never all the different tactic lauren lyster reports it's a 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 usually mark protests 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 you may not see it on my page in the papers there are no statement making a right this is laughable the research here call it 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 as they can to give them a free ride here or is this unfair rights were resisting the cost of living is going up in so many ways for all the one of the activists who organizes this form of disobedience most importantly it's in response to an economic system he sees as unfair and taxes are being cut for wealthy people and their bailouts for banks from wall street to are never going to reach his 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 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 i'm able 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 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. all live from moscow this is all it's here now is the global financial recovery in danger plus the question of the debate and people of elle's crosstalk full program is coming up in just over two hours time. part of the are your 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 having higher living standards and him i just want to feel like that so much so i would really and like them to i do think that they're living here i mean there's no way the

united states is going and europe is going i mean seriously i think moving maybe one of the options. all right is now a ten minutes past the hour here in moscow now with heroin use in russia spiraling out of control there are increasing calls to legalize methadone treatment to help out expect that habit but doctors believe this substitution therapy to simply replaces wanted to action with another. two weeks to both sides. in russia more than two million people are addicted 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 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 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 at the moment that's illegal in russia you know 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 effects last longer but they don't give the uses a high is supposed to enable us to lead a normal life without suffering withdrawals having gone through rehab and 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 russia's rehab center is focused on finding ways to control the addiction not simply replace it. the health ministry has come under increasing pressure to sanction a. pay they say that there's no scientific evidence to prove that it actually was. in reality messaging treatment is a dangerous 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 have him checked in as a methadone drug addict i mean is that it doesn't change russia's stance on substitution therapy but it does once again bring into. the very real need to find a tentative. thought well you can always check our website r.t.

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are run by these organizations pocket the cash from well meaning foreigners as soon as they leave charan singh went to investigate welcome to this school in both 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 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. so it's a pity i'm sure there's a good work being done. and this is a bit of good work so that people start shooting and maybe people. give money to. be 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 conducted. luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. made some donation and. the use of the money to make you have to 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 in here with again 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 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 schools but some groups are working towards

increasing 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 add or 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 endures but do we see a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt those most in need got and seeing r t but they are now lawyers in georgia say they are no longer able to work unhindered due to pressure from the government some insist they face a stark choice to quit their job or find themselves behind bars simply because they refuse to cooperate with the prosecution. takes a look at how the country's at legal system has turned against 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 years and seven months behind bars. 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 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. i sure got 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 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 and was to see the end of same sex 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 a certain lawyer 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 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 dumbarton aussie based. art is now twenty minutes past the hour here in

the russian capital let's take a brief look now at some other major headlines from around the world and preparing to mail a new unity government even as authorities struggle to impose order following a popular uprising the atmosphere remains tense with protesters a continuation of the revolution in a bid to force a radical changes in government on sunday dozens of people were arrested through the top presidential security chief following major gun battles poor living conditions and a rampant unemployment sparked protests which forced the president of twenty three years to flee. for my dictator of haiti for the duvalier also known as baby doc has returned to the country twenty six years after he was overthrown he greeted crowds of supporters but did not say why he chose to return or what he would do devalue a inherited power from his father at nineteen and presided over one of the darkest chapters in haitian history he is accused of torturing and killing

a political opponent swirling in an atmosphere of fear and repression ensured by his secret police. israel's defense minister and labor party had a hoot about says he is resigning to form his own political. faction his new party which he says will be called independents will be based on centralist zionist and democratic principles disorganisation increasingly leftist views and the lack of political cohesion and works cited as reasons for the split critics however accused by iraq 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 and it's nazis military contributor says creating a five star general won't help the u.s. the rampant drug production that is 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 started to general patrols would promote the image status and legitimacy of his foes in afghanistan and in pakistan. and their pakistani ambassador associates now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski want to hear things about this type of recommit to give him the 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 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 thief star commander on the theory or off operations it could be only patrols whether the four star or otherwise who can really pull of this trick and i wish him well to make this mission accomplished and to get the job done and plug in the drug flow in afghanistan would have probably been a mission accomplished by now it wasn't a massive corruption in the country and less than ten minutes watch a special report on whether billions intended for rebuilding afghanistan really go that'll be right here on out. repairing a broken. highway construction humanitarian aid. official displays if you exclude people the price. is no

longer just down to drug trafficking. now sharon is here with the business news to stay with us. hello welcome to our business program. the peace proposal which was enough 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 thought of going to alice b.p.'s proposed share swap it wasn't after is primarily beneficial for the russian oil giants giving access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance alexander downer off from metropol i have see says the assets walk alone is a very clever move by rosneft. includes in this do you percent of it's true as are

shares and these treasuries shares. were counted out for years that never used the shares before so basically it's the realizing value all through these shares instead of the shares on the balance sheets. one of the really global gives me shivers. and let's have a look at the markets now u.s. markets are closed for a public holiday the european markets are flat to negative out of the european finance ministers meeting late afternoon to discuss the russian the region's debt crisis shows an oil giant b.p. climbed after it struck an exploration agreement with russia's rosneft and b. to share shot up two point four percent at the start of the new treaty to stand at one and a quarter percent higher and early afternoon trading. here in moscow r.t.s. in my sets are trading up on the day the r.t.s. is up over one and a half percent and the my sense is gaining just under one and

a half percent the bourses are still dominated by the rust. and shares a broad enough jump in most in almost six months after the group to swap shares with b.p. rosneft is gaining four and a half percent on my sets with other energy majors also trading higher is loop oil close to 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 percent revising its forecast to five percent for this year analysts believe high or high oil prices will provide additional revenue for the russian budget which will increase by budgetary expenditures starting in the second half of two thousand and eleven morgan stanley also raises forecasts for russia's g.d.p. in two thousand and twelve from four percent to four point five percent. and interjects mexico's second largest airline has signed

a six hundred fifty million dollars deal to buy fifteen so horse superjet one hundred planes under the deal introject has the option to purchase five more planes first deliveries are to begin in late two thousand and twelve this is the first delivery contract for russia's new type of super jet airplane to a latin american country international a joint venture between russia company and italy's are not a car currently has one hundred seventy orders for its superjet. and that's all the business news for this hour you can always find watch stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.

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