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energy. this is. the. local say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has toxic chemicals including depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by the fish caught there and the diminishing marine life the italian government. reports. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a minute she dumping ground ever since world war one enormous amount of weaponry in talks which is present in these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and needle weapons used in the one nine hundred eighty nine

war against serbia including depleted uranium i mean these weapons often contain toxic substances such as sulfur mustard gas and phosphorous. and italian investigative journalist spent years trying to uncover it has secrets johnny landis has received death threats and been attacked this footage by landis reveals some can vessels in toxic waste on the seabed of pull u.s. coast fishermen has said the presence of the 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 waters we come across have affected our health too causing skin rashes blood vision and so forth fishermen have had to quit their jobs because of the scarcity of fish but fishing co-operative in seaside town are more fit to emporia was once comprised of almost two hundred members now there are just

five native says there are six contaminated areas along their dramatic coast but man 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 bought. when. following. the. but landis believes nato hasn't yet turned up to its responsibilities that 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 sea are a magnet for tourists and provide a livelihood for italian fishermen but working beneath the waves more than just fish matthew stevens in the southeast of italy for. right now still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. turning the poverty into profit r.t. takes a look at how some in india make a business out of charity cheating the donors and putting the reputation of real n.g.o.s in danger. tensions are high over the e.u. bailout fund as european finance ministers gather in brussels the e.u. executive commission proposed the funding crease saying it present it won't be able to provide a loan if the struggling eurozone members like spain and portugal need help there

are concerns from germany which is pushing for a more comprehensive approach for more insight on this let's talk to danish morton . and his tales now waiting for us live here and so let's let's talk about this and the expansion of the e.u. bailout fund is the u.s. just digging yourself into a deeper hole what was your take on the proposal. well the big question here is how much money are we willing and prepared to waste of the taxpayers' money to cover up the wishes of the euro pratt's is evidence of that that the euro is not going to be saved just pulling good money after bad money or poorly spent money the very construction of the euro is a failure because we have tried all the federalists have tried to unify something which is quite clearly. so different that economies cannot be integrated fully and that's what we're paying the price for now that's what the taxpayers are paying. as for now so spending more money on a poor prachi going to bad project is not

a good thing for the european union on a let's just turn our attention to germany because that countries have to shoulder a lot of the burden when it comes to supporting struggling eurozone members now there are reports of rising anti euro sentiment in that country perhaps germany should just go ahead and drop the euro altogether. well maybe we should all just drop the euro altogether i mean we just see today which is quite ironic on the very day that the finance minister and leading prime ministers of our countries are to discuss through even the large this bailout which for the from the beginning has been a catastrophe fatal mistake we see that this some of the leading finance houses around europe barclays. goldman sachs and others are actresses suggesting that we should never bail out countries like greece ireland portugal and so on primarily because it won't help because these problems are due to the lack of economic reforms in these countries secondly because there is no reason why we should continually be

paying banks with taxpayers' money not to mention china and japan who are now on the belief that we will continue to. german taxpayers monies into these sound european countries that they can benefit economically on that project this is simply the time to say that this vision has failed and therefore we ought to get realistic and simply turn our back to the euro or let's let's bring attention to portugal now let's bring up portugal into the conversation here because there are there are some members officials in the e.u. the eurozone that have been saying portugal needs to take a big bailout portuguese officials in lisbon saying we're not going to take a bailout because they've just sold about a billion euros of government bonds tell me is it just a temporary queue or. are set upon certain members of the eurozone. well obviously portugal right now is only surviving as long as japan and china are willing to. risk their money on the faith that the eurozone. bailout is always only

a temporary solution since they cover up for the lack of. unity within the euro zone it's evident that we have at least two different economic concerns in the us shown after ten years different in development in interest rates in inflation labor market economy reforms and so on now the differences between these two sones are nose now so big that it is damaging the southern european countries heavily they cannot export their goods because they are connected to a currency which is. predominantly governed by german interests and we can as they can not to devalue their currency they cannot sell their products are going to fund the general theme of you're saying it's the crumbling of the euro the financial regulators are you. can you describe other than doom and gloom penny prescribe any permanent cure for the struggling eurozone here. get rid of those

countries who don't want to live under the german economical regime it's as basic as that you can only have a common your common currency if you have the same financial policy that's also why the commission has suggested or demanded that all of the euro countries now shall have their budgets accepted in brussels before the national parliaments can discuss the budgets you can only have a common currency if you have a common economic policy that was never promised it was never told before the introduction of the euro that was the first lie now is being demanded to greece portugal ireland italy and so on that they must strengthen their economy they must do whatever is done in germany and those countries who are paying them out well that's of course the southern european countries don't want to make that kind of reforms that's why you see the riots in these countries and the germans are fed up paying other. bale's that's why you see the riots they are so the solution obviously is simply to stabilize some realities to say we have two different

economical shown in e.u. so we cannot have one currency we should at least have two different currencies in the euro zone maybe actually sixteen which we had ten years ago. messerschmitt life mistrust but thank you. for 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 let me from the moscow based world economy and international relations told us here at r.t. that such an attack is completely unrealistic. this is just a media western media report hype actually because of course all the nuclear installations for all the world have for the so called 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 clearly dubious that this is a joy and therefore could be taken to undermine the iranian nuclear program. meantime. editor in chief of nuclear energy publications says although the potential threat should be studied and each noble style scenario nowadays is in the realm of fiction. since your novel these. reactors have been improved significantly in more stuff safety system. by another one so i am not so much concerned that such

a scenario could be repeated usually they are quite well protected and that just their cyber terrorists could not damage such a high tech facility but they are the same time for sure this is a new. which should be quiet. by the experts who are responsible for cyber security not on their nuclear power plants but they are there are those facilities. you with r.t. live from moscow now 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 choosing a rather different tactic as artie's at lauriston reports it's a more quiet protest that has gone underground quite literally. the only language that they understand it's funny don't do this in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we wish you

a moderate you're supposing what to say i was just reading somewhere with signs of the 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 maybe not quite pages of papers there are no statement making that this is let's look at the research call it economic just as they got to see it it was 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 if you were resistant 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 and taxes are being cut for wealthy people in their bailouts for banks and wall street. rather than the richest people in this neighborhood so we just think that's wrong 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 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 homework. workers bast 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 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 seems in america to be the rising disobedience of modern day that are going to bail us out this is what will do to their was also lauren lyster r.t. new york. all right it's now quarter past the hour here in moscow is the global financial recovery is it in danger that's the question up for debate and people cross talk show the full program is coming up in about twenty minutes from now but here's a quick preview. we've all heard of the are

a triangle this is an iron rectangle because it's bureaucrats vs 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 a free market system that's been great hundreds of millions of people have 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 of it living here i mean there's no way the united states is going and europe is going i mean seriously i think. maybe one of the options.

are crossed or could be here in about fifteen minutes time or so do stay with us here on r.t. with her when you said russia spiraling out of control there are increasing calls to legalise methadone treatment to help addicts to beat their habit doctors believe this substitution therapy simply replaces one addiction with another set of further talks to both sides. in russia more than two million people to illegal drugs finding a way to combat this means 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. others eva come there as his story is very similar to arena to prince guy is his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she went 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 method a 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 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 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 or another toward bluegum 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 sharp fakirs the very real need to find a suitable alternative so our fares r.t. . now you can always check our website for all the news blogs feature stories and many more here's a quick look at what's waiting for you online right now if you're looking for a faster way to get around you may want to check out the. offer you more than snow friendly sailing through. just about across every single terrain as well. demanding. to be. accused of spying in the

u.k. the russian woman is forced to wait months for a deportation hearing. right now let's take a look at some other major headlines from around the world this hour. has announced a new unity government headed by the incumbent prime minister to get ready for the elections many of the former president's top ministers have retained their jobs the atmosphere remains tense the. 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 the

president of twenty three years to flee. israel's defense minister and the labor party head says he is resigning form his own political faction his new party which he says will be called independence will be based on zionist and democratic principles now disorganization increasingly leftist views political was cited as recent as for the split critics however accused of corruption and it being one of the main factors for the downfall of the once all powerful labor party. in india some charities are accused of being simply a front for con artists only open 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 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. to others. and this is a bit. so that you start shooting at me. 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 conducted. luckily for her it was genuine and her money helped make a difference we. made some donations. and.

easy. money to make. to pay someone to chair but you can never be sure that the money you don't need to get 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 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 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 owning it they just give it to us because they think we're doing good work we have it we need to not really 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 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 oversees in joules but do we see a single set of accountability procedures this bill will continue to lack transparency and that could hurt more student needs god and seeing r t but.

all right time now for the business update with sharon. welcome to our business program. the peace proposal or 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 and gas deposits in russia's arctic continental shelf but according to alice please propose 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. analysts say the assets wappel loan is a very clever move by ross enough and to discuss this deal in more detail i'm now joined by jacob knell chief economist for russia and the c.i.s. at morgan stanley thank you for joining our program on. mr know what are the main

death benefits from the deal for both companies and russia well for was their fleet gives them access to technology. deep water technology for the arctic and it also gives them the ability to go internationally in partnership with with b.p. for b.p. gives them access to a huge hydrocarbon province with potential resources equivalent to the north sea at a very competitive price and for russia i think it helps with furthering the objective of integration that the leadership has of russian oil companies into the international system. and it also perhaps signals the start of renewed. a period when foreign companies can again invest in the russian oil and gas sector now r t m k b p russia's shareholders said earlier today that they welcome the deal however there's reports that they would also may want to

participate in a joint venture could it claim that all b.p. ventures in russia should be done. it could under the terms of the tiering k p p joint venture each partner has to offer the other the opportunity to participate in every in every piece of business that they are involved in in russia. but i think that they are that's the russian partners of b.p. in team k b p will be happy to c.p.p. shoulder the expense and cost and risk of exploration and i think this issue will arise only if they make a significant discovery so do you see anything threatening the deal. no i don't not with the support of mr putin and mr searchin i think that the deal will continue but down the road there may be an attempt by. our to participate in the event of success now analysts say it's a bold move by b.p. as it will have to wait years to see any sort of payoff assuming that there is

significant oil reserves as well is b.p. trying to reduce its exposure to america with this deal i think b.p. like all the international oil majors is trying to find access to oil and gas wherever it can and this is one of the biggest opportunities that's left on the planet at the same time after macondo and given b.p.'s. the negative press the peace got in america i think it's also trying to rebalance its portfolio so it's not so dependent on the u.s. . and not many all companies still shy away from russian ventures due to the government's high oil taxes or will this deal in your opinion push for more lax taxation i think the russian government is giving tax breaks in the siberia in the caspian and in the arctic which are quite substantial and for this deal to work b.p. will have had some of those tax breaks. i think the bigger question for the russian

government is will it rebalance its petroleum tax system from the upstream to the downstream and will it move from taxing revenues to taxing profit both those changes would make a great deal of difference to the attractiveness of all the gas as a sector to invest in well that's all the time we have unfortunately thank you so much for being on our program thank you for taking the time with us. that was jacob now director at morgan stanley that's all the business news we have for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us. thank. you.