welcome back here with our view here's a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news stories international pressure on colonel gadhafi to stop the crackdown on his people mounds of the u.n. imposing sanctions on him confrontation between anti and pro regime forces plunge of the country deeper into bloodshed and chaos. also in this week's top stories you are fears turmoil in the arab world will lead to a surge in uncontrolled immigration from the region with italy the first to feel the effects of an influx of refugees. plus as a u.k.

courts rules julian assange must be extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations but we can expect our says it's a step towards his prosecution in the u.s. . and three of a kind of trio of characters are chosen as mascots for the sorts of twenty fourteen winter olympics after the results of a live t.v. vote across russia. the next we reported on the battle between scientific and corporate factions over genetically modified food and pesticides in the united states.

come on a guy lived there for. the don't be shy. to have. his little feathers have been fed. diets had taken a genetically. there's at that they all these experiments. with. genetically but the fried potatoes that you get to pick up at a difference the already investigated the. growth. at the immunity they were supposed to have.

it's that acts of chimes of swearing at the scientists as well they say g.m. food is being rushed on to the dock and on times without adequate safety tests that we have a lot of want you to experience. sixty thousand pages internal documents and in these internal documents it was very clear that the scientists inside the agency said we need to test these foods for toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination page after page of study they said we need none of this was done. today around a third of the soil from the u.s. is genetically altered by money gets to the factory it's mixed together with ordinary soil and you never know which is which.

in precautionary science of genetic engineering it means one question means one career you ask one question it could be answer and you might or may not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. what's i think very unique in my case is that i survived. the attack on scientists is very well structured by the vatican history it's systematic it's worldwide it's very coordinated it's part of the way that they do business so anywhere in the world at any time if someone finds a problem they're jumped on if the problem is really severe they get jumped on even

more whenever there's something that comes up they can fret this biotechnology of our. companies exist to make money they don't exist to. entirely for the public good they are exist. to give profit back to their shareholders. missouri. dreams with them on the farm code chemical company would point five billion dollars profit in crude grounders. in its record to shareholders not from

to profit would go up in the next five years or more than one point five billion is just. this is jefferson if. you know you're one of the more than two dozen farmers that gave him a call describing problems with pigs they could get pregnant because of the g.m. corn is that right. so. what i may do another time when i'm on my cell phone you know but i might actually have to talk a bit i might actually e-mail you and tell you exactly what i've written down about what we've talked about to make sure it's accurate. all right. thank you very much. so that is good news he said that he was willing to talk his cell phone was going on the battery and he said first that he said it was is my name going to be in your article you're

writing so i had to put him at ease and tell him no it's not if you don't want to be in the article you want to be in there. that's that's got to that's why we don't have a lot of whistleblowers if farmers farmers are not interested a lot of scientists are scared about it and that's the whole state of the art right now where almost all scientists are focused on phonetically engineering research are funded directly or indirectly by industry so we're going to very dangerous situation because there's no real there's no real independent science. about to industry says all we're doing is adding a gene into the d.n.a. it's like a lego where they snap into place but that's very untrue when the single process of insertion can change the natural d.n.a. in many ways they're unpredictable and they can lead to toxins and allergens and

new diseases and antibiotic resistant diseases a nutritional problems most of the soil grow in the united states. santo's round are pretty soybeans where they take the soybeans and they put into the d.n.a. a gene that allows the clan to be sprayed with monsanto's roundup herbicide. and it will kill all of the weeds around the plant but the soybean plant will survive so eighty six percent of the soybeans in united states are genetically engineered to withstand those herbicides. miracle of science or frankenstein food how safe is the new ingrate into your diet or better push ties matters that softens rabbit institute one of the leading food research centers in europe scientists here are trying to find out whether the long

term consumption of g.m. foods may affect health the professor is so concerned about the implications of his discovery he's decided to publicize his findings as a scientist looking at it actively working in the field. i find that. it's very very fair to use. it it gets. there first exploit their bag because read we started it i did i defy there was not a single publication in. the potential or the real effects of

genetically what if i. betty a was with any species rats mice. or humans. even though that the humans for all of the eating it. this is the same idea of potato. that we used for genetic engineering get back to thank you fried. and this is the particular potato bradly which is one of the easiest to genetically engineer and. the point of the whole genetic what if acacia experiment was to protect the potato against atheists one of the major pests it scotland of they

attack their the potato they could eat parts of the potato and we observed that that particular lect that which we used which we take to crop. the snowdrop bulbs did that protect the snowdrop bulbs against all sorts of pests attacks and we had hoped that if we had take the that particular gene and transferred it educate it into the potatoes then. also be protecting the potato against insect attacks which in fact it did.

after the end and it was were killed at dissected we found out that the comp had is with a dog genetically modified potatoes there eterno organs developed differently some of the hole gets such as for example good got increased in size. even doing that itself was not growing as fast or some of the other issues for example the kid is were not developing as well as the controls and the conclusions were this is the world they found those data thirty six thirty six very high the significant that differed it says the the g.m. . at the g.m. fed at the.

philadelphia u.s. physicians criticized the data more than ten years there is still no long term studies concerning the consumption of generic modified food due to the fact that there is no initial experimental data recorded and labeling has not been permitted so. even though i'm not a scientist i worked with more than thirty scientists over two years to document the known health risks of genetically engineered foods and the first part of the book is the documented health risks and there are sixty five different health risks divided into sections now the first one that i chose to highlight with an evidence of reactions is dr pou sties work and the reason why is that our part pointed out that it was basically the process itself of genetic engineering because the

significant damage so only the genetically engineer potatoes caused the problem. the rats they were fed the natural potatoes along with the same insecticide did not have the same problems so his brilliant design showed that it wasn't the insecticide that caused the problems it was somehow the process of creating the genetically engineered potato and he used the same process that's used to create all the other genetically engineered crops on the market if i had the choice i would certainly not eat it till i see at least how to a bull experimental evidence which we producing for genetically modified potatoes those one hundred fifty seconds where. they got everybody got the message everybody got the message a they asked me would you eat it i said no certainly not that there's we worked on it if i could avoid it

i would certainly avoid it. the the other piece of the message was that so what to do we want and i said that what we want is to be more testing more biological testing and we should not use that they got that this is this message originated from us that they should not use our fellow citizens as human it depicts when he was asked to speak on television he had enormous pressure he was one of the few people on earth that realized that the g.m. crops on the market might be causing all that damage in the garden in the brain in the organs of the entire population. and so with permission from his director he was interviewed and then he was a hero for about two days at the route institute but director praised his work took over all the press work put out his own press release praising it as world class

research and then the two phone calls allegedly place from the u.k. prime minister's office for to the thriller sepsis to the director. the next morning our part was to i was fired after thirty five years and silenced with threats of a lawsuit. if this only when that with think there was political pressure coming from the top that the whole situation changed and then the director to save his own skin decided that the best way to deal with the situation is to destroy b b to make can be shut up so day they invoked a contract to do it that whatever they did see on t.v. or radio and they just wrote in the newspapers i could not deny it i could not connect it i couldn't see what was the video situation.

and then we looked at the submissions of applications by the by tech companies produce products which were already eating and we found that that they were flimsy if they were a notch or scientifically well founded as certainly not the the work which was deported that did not come at. well. with our very extensive studies. he said it was a turning point. in my life he said jeffrey but i realized what i was doing and what they were doing was diametrically opposed i was doing safety studies they were doing as little as possible to get their foods on the market as quickly as possible so the turning point in his life was realizing that there were other scientists in

the world who were not taking care of the health of the world we're not treating science properly you see he's on the top level of the world he expects other scientists to do so so more than being fired from his job more than the shocking moments in his life his greatest shock was to discover that there was this whole world of scientists that would basically allow foods on the market for economic purposes. so we have here is sixty thousand pages of documents of internal guts of the f.d.a.

. in these boxes here. on a what happened when they suppress their science about g.m.o. those you know there's one document here that i think is especially important that really shows this history probably better than any other and this had to do with their compliance in looking at the studies and here's what the f.d.a. scientists their own scientists said you know it's on page eighteen thousand seven hundred seventy seven you know right here and they say you know what we need to look at how these crops change how much can agricultural is how much pesticides you put in here we need to see how they change want to use how much water they need how long term studies that were needed yeah here we need to see what about the loss of nutrients in the food what about loss of nutrition none of that was done without loss of diversity in sea it's long term studies recommended by the scientists never done here look at this changes in toxin or chemicals in the foods study recommended

long term study never done so the scientists asked for the study said let us do them we think there's a problem here we've taken a preliminary look we there's a problem but the politicians at the f.d.a. and in the administration that time said no they suppress the science and these questions the studies have never been done ever been done. the flavor saver tomato was the first genetically engineered food to reach the public cal gene the corporation that produced the tomato had done three voluntary feeding studies on rats and found lesions in some other rat stomachs. the question that you're asking is. about the flavor saver tomato and what went into that curiously enough i was actually one of the outside consultants that was in the last meeting on the flavor saver to me which wasn't terribly successful commercial it but the f.d.a.

scientist went through a long present haitian about all the analyses they had done and her concluding slide was the flavor saver tomato is a to me so they had not found any substantial differences except for the addition of the one extra gene that actually decreased the rate at which they went soft so they extended the shelf life and indeed that was the conclusion so they had no reason to regulate it on the basis of safety. no one gets up in the morning saying i want to go buy a genetically engineered food they offer no benefits no more nutrition no more flavor no nothing they only offer risks that's all they offer to the consumer and so the average person of course rational person would say why would i buy a food that offers me no new benefits but only risks so it was critical critical

for the industry to get these foods out without anyone knowing as if they knew they were obviously choose not to buy them. i don't know how many years of testing you would feel comfortable with but if i told you it was twenty five years would you feel comfortable if i told you it was twelve years would you feel comfortable six years at what point how many years of testing and how many different kinds of tests would make you feel comfortable i will tell you as as i've said before that because these foods are tested more than any others any other new kinds of foods that have come on the market i am more confident about these than i am about picking out a new package of something that the ingredients of which i don't know.

how hard or long term relationship with. indigenous communities. we develop the. transgenic. materials would come to mexico. the problem was that. they cause nobody was there to tell them so that's when we started thinking we should really prepare

a laboratory with capacity to detect the presence of transgenic organisms and that's what i was helping them. to set up a tree and the person who came to train them was my student david quist. we were just training to train you would have to have a positive control and negative control for the positive control he brought corn from the us and from the negative control we thought we should just use the local corn which of course is going to be clean and. wonderful. and the surprise came when the negative control started coming out. that means we started finding transgenic materials were they were not supposed to be.

the reason why our findings were saw astounding was because it was thought that there was no trace any corn being planted in mexico at all. and people wanted it that way the government the local communities that people who lived in the city they all wanted to have it that way that they would need to make the white because mexico is the center of origin of corn and mexican government was worried about montagne the integrity of the land raises the national parks and so it was illegal to plant corn it is still illegal today.

this is mr bones. it's essentially a very very large seed library. see the collection range library. shelf. just twenty four thousand samples. itself is a maze seed. most of this is land raised the right is that were developed by farms thousands of years in this election. and they're quite diverse. these collections are also a source of useful traits for breeders who are looking for things like insect resistance drought tolerance grain quality all kinds of other characteristics and sometimes these can these almost landry's as can be sourced genes from those kinds

of those kinds of characteristics these things are slowly disappearing from the countryside it's from recent taps who are proved right these and also as farmers leave the country said because now it is you know there is a big problem of rural migration people from africa going to be trying to get into europe people from latin america going to cities or going to states looking for work so as these farmers leave the countryside the bright is that they grow as . well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future of coverage.

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