these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for asians to rule today. live from moscow this is r t with of the latest news plus top stories from the week unrest in libya has claimed over a thousand lives as pro-government forces wage war on those protesting against the regime the u.n. has sanctioned of the country's leader and launched an investigation into his possible crimes against humanity. and as turmoil in the region drives thousands of north africans from their homes italy is calling on the e.u. to help it cope with waves of immigrants. the wiki leaks founder is to be

extradited to sweden on sex crimes allegations appealing the ruling julian assange says that the case is simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a quick trial. and america has its wings clipped goods are the last flight of discovery the shuttles are to be decommissioned soon and under obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to take them into or. up next the battle between scientists and corporations over genetically modified food and pesticides in the u.s. we explore why the future of scientific freedom is under threat. push here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly

because of information of transgenic we know that they are strengthening corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of trench any materials are here because the transgenic when you collision is invisible people around here don't even know that they are receiving the truth in it and they are growing them and they're passing them on to the children and the neighbors and so on.

once we were sure that we had found transgenic material seeing what we wanted to have a publication that would be very visible so we sent it for publication to nature nature sent this article off to experts to be reviewed five times around and then nature said yes we will publish it by that time however the news that these information was coming out made very many people within the industry very narrows and very unhappy. so they themselves started a discredit asian campaign for the paper they did not want the paper to be published and if it was going to be published they wanted people not to believe it was say. now we know the industry hired a professional public relations company the companies who have the time were

experimenting for the first time with something called marketing which he's a p.r. company a public relations company will go into the internet and start spreading around in . companies that hire them. telling people. they are being paid to companies these companies. group. created to fictitious characters. and. i for. they made up two names and these two. went. and started spreading rumors that what we had said was false and that the paper was flawed and so forth and the way the internet works is that people really respond to each other's opinions and the idea spreading around our paper was.

under. maybe illegal conditions. whatever the case is because we don't really know the. nature to print. criticizing a paper. very confusing editorial they say. we don't want to take positions. based on what we know now all we have we should have published a paper back then. completely against the way we do science. nature itself recognizes that they had never done anything like this in a hundred and thirty years the whole history of the magazine so there was something seriously important happening that they did not want to talk about but i believe i am convinced it was pressure from this industrial actress industrial activists who

wanted to change nature's position towards this problem. the industry said you don't need to worry about this because we have it under control and control is really the question and they have been telling the world that they've really had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corning one field the treasury corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic corn maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn fields was a huge problem for them because it really showed very simply and with real evidence

that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about co-exists. cards. will disappear. exam. research.

on the look that we're going to. close the idea. of. well after that i worked together from ninety nine to continuously understand politics and we've worked together on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he is there to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of. the parliament and the technology of the british parliament or the others in the group including me and you're talking about twenty people be very for people to talk about what has happened to gird what sort of experiments. what was going on at the time at the right beaver

keg and all gag is for lifetime even the secret service they get people for twenty five years if i happen to leave to my seventh it will be fellow over there and they still will be able to gamble.

but on the ground. it is all going in the wrong direction now and let's assume that and we have seen a few examples that anymore was a fad on g.m. material they had very considerable physiology changes now when you are eating that animal fat there on g.m. you would be eating and any more that had already been changed into different animal and the there is new safety risk assessment done on this and it is a policy decision by the governments and by the put out by a technology industry that that they would just simply go on the basis that if you don't do they cannot be held just once and she

remembered that the animal that has been fed on g.m. has changed. you always will find scientists who are diametrically opposed for one reason or another but frankly you have to look at the bulk of the evidence and the bulk of the evidence is very simply this these products have been out virtually every food that you. consume including you in germany has some genetically modified product whether it's soybeans or course. there has not been a single documented analyzed case of even a headache attributable to genetic modification.

yes. real scientists carried out a long term study of genetically modified maize to my significant be recused realty a number of offspring with less compared to my family also developed more slowly. i haven't read the study yet a killer today i can immediately called my office and asked them to get me a whole new study so she saw my assistant called into austria and spoke to someone and they're going to get me to study as soon as possible but the finding is consistent for till the problems with animals for genetically engineered crops we saw that with soybeans and we were in farmers reported that with corn as well. it's very difficult to do proper studies because monsanto doesn't allow people to use

their products for studies and they also don't allow access to the parent light so that you can compare the exact same soybean with the only difference being that one is genetically engineering one is not. one example is this russian scientist are during or of a colder chief engineer of soil flower two rats and more than half of the offspring died within three weeks now one of the criticisms was that she didn't use carefully controlled genetically engineered so i along with it's nearly identical not g.m. so i can replace what monsanto didn't allow that soil to be released into the into the public so she didn't have access to a dr i pod tuesday wants to repeat their study but he also can't get that soil for his research.

with global sales in the billions of dollars millions of farmers and backyard gardeners have come to rely on the week our college ground roundup extended control . challenged. but the fact of his life a state's synthesise town held discovered by john friends over thirty years ago. i'll send it again but when i'm bored i'm at the. and then i and that's their game

third meeting there's always a part of. the bar and i knew a lot when genetic engineering technology was first used in soil production the local farmers were invited to parties with three beer and meat and they were asked to bring along their farming hold up and after a good meal and some drinks then did a ritual putting all the holes into his circle and burning them i'll symbol but so does one need me as a symbol of that one what you have to hoe anymore and it's a gift and each farmer was then given a litter of life was saved and they were told this would be technical progress and again the original idea was to produce a genetically modified soil that was resistant to life as a life or so it is a herbicide whose famous ground roundup is produced by monsanto and now after a couple of years you can see that more and more weeds are resistant to glide for saves.

me a second or. third. this is canadian feeding into a new kind of wheat which is horrible now it grows to be higher than the saw itself else fixed. because that my father just said that the co-operative here tried hard to fight it with life and saved at a high dosage normally one little picture is a loud legally used eight meters greater and still that wasn't enough when they stopped the experiment everything here is completely resistant to glide for say it other then getting different. thank

you we're going to the saudis are on the start here have real grounded or salute a federal state here as used eighty five percent more life in state over the past four years since g.m. soy calculation was started and this is an ecological catastrophe so the argument that when g.m. saw it one uses fewer pesticides and simply not true and honest as i am and that's . the answer we haven't got it's ignites it's. new york official statistics reveal that in the past ten years food related illnesses have practically doubled in the us since the introduction of g.m. the american diet. we've got a sort of new feudalism in nature's resources are being privatized and the others

who also own these natural resources for pay their own need to be able to use parts of these resources and a part of that is knowledge of what's been produced before and getting newly patented pilots on these are sort of the nuts and untile that one is a guy vison of us for here but when you have to get up in the evil nature is getting rammed into it so in these nao feudalist times we live in life it is so obvious to me that we're going back to times when a king said this river is mine or this land is my life and farmers have to pay that in order to usage back then they had religion to authorize and justify that strangely enough you want to date it's the scientists so rich that again white america guys are mad it isn't like this.

below us we can see the whole of the public campus and perky the university of california berkeley and we're standing at a boundary where that campus meets the private and military part of the research machine this is a big research machine and one side of it has public the other side is private corporate and military so that in closing of the knowledge that used to be public and becomes private or becomes corporate or becomes militarized secret that enclosure of knowledge is something that i consider to be very damaging for the movement of science and the movement of knowledge so it is a very strong battle but is happening here i mean other places in the world to try and protect that they versity of knowledge that diversity of culture the latest

development in this battle has been the arrival here on this campus of b.p. british petroleum. i would like to be called beyond petroleum b.p. came here offering five hundred million dollars five hundred million dollars which is much more than anybody had ever offered the university supposedly for research. administrators for the university find it very difficult to say no to money and doesn't matter where the money comes from they want the money so they try to pass these contract with b.p. we had our ups people noticing but we have been able to find out a few things about we know that b.p. wants new buildings in the canyon they want buildings that are built behind the fences of the national lab so that nobody can access them they want access to our

students they want access to our seminar so that they can find out which i.d.'s are useful for them they want to have control over publication what gets published what it said publicly or not but more importantly they also want access to the curriculum to what will be taught in the university and because this is a this is a public university we also the term in the curriculum of children from kindergarten all the way to high school and b.p. now has access to deciding what is called science and what is not called science so now they can say whoever is on our site is a scientist and whoever is not on our side is not a scientist so the power that they gain from that is extraordinary and. they closed the door shut any public view of what's happening behind

good was behind the fences and this screens of academic research. unfortunately we are in a minority people who oppose it and i have been very involved in trying to post these as well as other advances of these corporate kind of science these privatized kind of signs because i believe that the main problem is that people don't realize what's happening and by the time they will wake up it will be too late the possibility of having a public university doing public research and development public understanding of the money is going to be gone. and we are very far from free speech is university you're not allowed to ask many

questions and you're not on to say many things and if you do you get into serious trouble. and i am just one of many examples where people are punished by what they say and what they research. in my case i was pushed out of the university at least three times every time i fought back and we managed to keep my job but it's been very difficult. we are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand we cannot control and then we're letting it

go into the environment. so it's a change the least radical that peace unprecedented that is. beyond anything we can understand on its own retrievable you we cannot get it back that's my concern. is very true that the power of the technocrats an expert's have developed into some years he saw large and so out of control but it has become much more of a religion. and it's a religion that has many dog mass and one of those dog masses that humans have the power to change nature the way they not it's complete hopeless because we cannot.

always said you only defend that which you love so people say which they do how shall i defend environment go out and farm love. fall of the river fall of the farm fall in love with a species just fall in love the same believe me when you do then you'll defend it.

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