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long. in the water claims that a big chunk of. concern over a toxic legacy that is endangering people's health. the growing gap between rich and poor in the u.s. is driving some to a new form of civil disobedience breaking the law to help underprivileged. also controversial. drug users push for the legalization of heroin there. is just one addiction for another. five percent of the eight billion dollars in exchange for nine point five percent.
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you with r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program the coastline of the adriatic sea attracts tourists and provides income for fishermen but locals say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has dumped toxic chemicals there including depleted uranium now despite many people being made sick by the fish they caught there and the diminishing marine life the italian government and the alliance remain tight lipped. reports. on this quite stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this is 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 to weapons used in the one nine hundred eighty nine war
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against serbia including depleted uranium ammunition these weapons often contain toxic substances so just so for mr de. and phosphorus. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it their 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 here say the presence of the nato weapons is seriously affecting their lives and posing a threat to the local ecosystem. there are areas where these bombs keep ending up in our nets we try and avoid them following the war ninety ninety nine the fish are practically disappeared from our waltzes become a cause 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 this fishing co-operative in the seaside town of morphett emporia was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just five natives says there are six contaminated
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areas along the edge or attic coasts but land is claims this is just the tip of the iceberg and i mean tito nature was 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. 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 the local fishermen of still awaiting answers from nato we do everything we will. when. following. the. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities should be economic conversation for those
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affected europe need to and above all the united states must be held accountable the beautiful water of the adriatic coast line where stretches from the gulf of venice to the sea are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for italian fishermen but lurking beneath the waves more than just fish matthew stevens in the southeast of italy. and still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. turning up poverty into profit often takes a look at how some india make a business out of taking charity cheating the donors and putting their reputation in a real ngo's in danger plus. georgian lawyers complaining fishel harassment and even imprisonment trumped up fraud charges to bring you all the details in just a few minutes. the russian nuclear agency denies that iran's a pushchair 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 interested of world economy and international relations told us here at r.t. 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. build atomic power plant. having in mind these computer war western media believe that this is a joint effort taken by israeli america because ations this is fairly dubious that the joy in their foot could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program
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civil disobedience has for decades been used in the united states means of resistance now instead of taking to the streets people caught in the center of america's financial crisis and choosing a rather different tactic lauren lyster reports 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 wish you a moderate or you're supposing what's established standing somewhere with silence 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 you may not
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see it but pages of papers there are no statement making that this election is a research call it economic just so they don't see it going on underground. and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organize 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 few resistance their 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 in taxes are being cut for the wealthy people and their bail outs for a very small. number of 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
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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. 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 let us become a bigger wrong in their eyes it's a bigger wrong people are breaking the rules to make right whether it's in all 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
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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. now this is our to live from moscow where it's now just twenty ten minutes past the hour is the global financial recovery in danger that's the question of the debate and cross talk program before show is coming up next hour right here on r.t. . we've all heard of the are a triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats yes 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 guys they make this evolution a free market system that's been great hundreds of millions of people have
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a higher living standards and him i just want to comment on if he likes it so much so 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 up a little bit later here on out so you 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 simply replaces one addiction with another who's sort of further talks to both sides. in russia more than two million people to illegal drugs finding a way to combat this means
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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 to install nothing was beneath me. since it's been a battle against addiction and he now works to help other. as his story is very similar to arena to king's guy is his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she wrote to the u.n. calling for the implementation of an opiate substitution program at the moment that's illegal in russia you know about 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 methadone and the effects last longer but they don't give the uses the high is supposed to enable us to lead a normal life without suffering withdrawals having gone through rehab in self stands service agrees that 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 russia's 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 that 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 have been 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 sharp fakirs the very real
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in india some charities are accused of simply being a front for con artists open only during the tourist season many so-called schools 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. eastern india the building in 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. i'm sure this is good work. and this is a good way so that you can start so you can let me. give money to. the
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limit. with india estimated to have one third of the world's poor and many foreign tourists try 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. easy. money to make your son. who they want 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. and this huge number is compounded by the highly on organized nature of the nonprofit sector there is no uniform accounting policy order for ting framework. there are many n.g.o.s that run schools and government manufacturing but the 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
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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 that they don't give it to us because they think we are doing good work we have it we need to not only men pin 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
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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 all this. sees endures but do we see a single set of accountability procedures this will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt more student need got and seeing our d. . lawyers in georgia say they're no longer able to work unhindered due to pressure from the government they insist they face a stark choice to quit their job or find themselves behind bars simply because they refused to cooperate with the prosecution. takes a look at how the country's legal system as it turned against its sevens. 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 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 i said people and those lawyers who did not do the will the theory to is the network complete bargains and instead conduct real legal defense of the clients i considered animism estate. the state however does not agree in his end of
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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 nine this data points at a greater trust of the population in the judicial system at a very small number of cases where appeal to the highest judicial authority gets last year. it's not enough for eka a lawyer who quit her practice when she claims she grew fed up of the country's legal system attacking its own lawyers i was sick and it thing has prosecutors try to influence advocacy by arresting or discriminating against those who don't cooperate you see me as a simply told not to hire said lawyers under threat of habeas sentences i see. realized that my job became a lie. the result being that not only to lawyers lose their freedom georgians lose the chance of a trial lawyers in question say they just want to get on with doing their jobs but
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it's hard to defend your clients living in fear of being imprisoned just so. it's a nasty piece. of what is just twenty twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow let's take a brief look at some other major headlines from around the world this hour and former dictator of haiti or devalue 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 orbiter's plans were duvalier inherited power from his father at nineteen and presided over one of the darkest chapters in haitian history he's accused of torturing and killing political opponents ruling in an atmosphere of fear and repression ensured by his secret police force. israel's defense minister and a labor party head says he is resigning to form his own political faction his new party which he says will be called independence will be based on centralist zionist and democratic principles now disorganization increasingly leftist views and
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a lack of political work cited as the 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. well 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 artie's a military contributor says creating a five star general won't help the u.s. hold the rampant drug production but threatening to rip the region apart on the fourth of july last year. to commemorate the independence day general petraeus to the command of your 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 there are
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pakistani and afghan associates now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski what to hear things about this 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 zero in on their 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 of operations it could be only patrols 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.
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some say plugging 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 today you can watch our special report on where the billions and spending rebuilding afghanistan are really going and that'll be here on r.t. . repairing a broken. construction and humanitarian aid. official. it's the people the price. is no longer just down to drug trafficking. or a time out to get you updated on the latest from the world of business with. hello
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welcome to our business program i'm sure on. the peace propose share swap with 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 and gas deposits in russia's arctic causing untold shelf but according to analysts b.p.'s proposed share swap was nafta is primarily beneficial for the russian oil giant giving it access to some of the latest technologies and improving corporate governance alexander nazar all from metropole i've see says the assets walk alone is very clever move by rosneft. rosen is included in this do you pull five percent of its trades or shares and these treasuries shares. were counted that was their balance sheet for years that never used the shares before so basically now it's realizing value all these shares instead of the shares. rose and it gets five
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percent one of the really global oil and gas majors. and gas problem in japan have signed an agreement on possible construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in russia specific pacific region the agreement of cooperation provides for a joint fund and engineering design to be undertaken in two thousand and eleven on constructing in l. and g. plans. gas problem is looking into ways to diversify the market it supplies beyond your of its major consumer demand for the pipeline gas is in decline due to economic woes and increasing use of alternative fuels including l.n.g. and shell gas but. let's have a look at the markets now the u.s. markets are closed for a public holiday european markets are flat to negative ahead of the european finance ministers meeting late afternoon to discuss the region's debt crisis shares of oil giant b.p. climbed after it struck an exploration agreement with russia as was enough and b.p.
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shares shot up two point four percent at the start but then retreated to stand close to two percent in early afternoon trading. meanwhile here in moscow both the r.t.s. and my sex are trading up on the day the r.t.s. is up over one point six percent on the my sex is gaining just over one and a half percent the bourses are still dominated by the ross and f.t.p. deal. shares of ross never jumped the most in almost six months after the group to swap shares with b.p. wasn't after is getting close to five percent of my sex with other energy majors also trading higher is look for up close to two percent. and interject mexico second largest airline has signed a six hundred fifty million dollars deal to buy fifteen sukhoi superjet one hundred planes under the deal introject has the option to purchase five more planes with first deliveries to begin in late two thousand and twelve this is the first tract for russia's new type of super jet air airlines two latin american country
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international a joint venture between russia's support company and italy's alenia aeronautical currently has one hundred seventy orders for its super jet. and that's all the business news for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's artsy dot com slash business stay with us. to look at.
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