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but they were charged. little. little. little. watching r t coming to you live from moscow these are the top stories levy is lost in fierce battles with thousands fleeing the unrest u.s. and u.k. forces remain on standby and many fear international involvement could become another form of oppression. hundreds are still out in the streets in egypt saying they'll stay until all the are demands are met by the lot of the first arab states to demand democracy it's the empty businesses which are now feeling the bitter aftertaste the revolution. and almost six decades after joseph stalin dass the
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dispute over his legacy is still loud and clear in russia the controversial saudi leader is idolized and demonized any cool measures. at times when there is no shortage of food on this planet millions of people are still starving every day and that's we investigate who's winning from the world famine. was was . i had to describe chicago's food market for theater play was i thought it would be easy to carry information by asking a few specialized stock brokers. was was
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was right. but it wasn't like that up none of the people i asked were able to explain the norms that rule the stock market. was was. i began to believe it was something that couldn't be explained or conceived by the human mind therefore it was something absurd the way in which the global grain production was being allocated was simply in comprehensible situation and bearable to everyone save a bunch of profiteers. was us. this is by answer this way this is cell cancer this way. this is
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a curve south of the by trying to you're bidding a quarter of a cent this would be off the halfs. was. mr victor lespinasse as a player on the chicago grain barkat. the chicago grey market is different from other stock markets as we know them up here it is. food that is bought and sold wheat corn rice soya all of oil milk animal and trails and even pigs stomachs the five zero s. might be at the desk and you function order into the pit you tell your broker hook by. two hundred at the market. will buy the two hundred and then he'll flash you back. two hundred at say. seven and a half. an hour you could say you could tell him cancel the order
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for us was was was the chicago grain market is the biggest in the world and it sessions largely to find the prices of the food he put on the table every day i'm a were was it was created in eight hundred forty eight as an open and loud auction where the area's farmers would sell their crops to merchants. this practice hasn't changed much since then but the economy's ethics definitely have. us with was
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. i. guess everything has. just something we've gained the specter of slightest little. socialist current president seascape. this is. what i call a silent tsunami it's not one storm hitting in one place this is something that knows no borders.
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are. the real teaching of the heads of u.n. agencies to the crises summit of the world cup's the cost of. how. many cases have come to be traditional in this environment for hunger for cookies made in the. countries of central plateau. trying.
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to light. up. the. missing children resting spots sleeplessly. it was on rest and they took my son beats him severely breaking both his legs my son cold war cool speaking my son his dog. global warming and biofuels have been accused of causing the food shortages that led to a dramatic increase in prices. unpredictable
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drought some astroid rice and wheat crops well a big part of the u.s. corn harvest is turned into fuel for cars and out for people. theory of supply and demand offers a limited explanation as to why over the course of two years the prices of rice have gone up by two hundred seventeen percent of weeks by one hundred thirty six percent of corn by a hundred twenty five percent and of soya by one hundred seven percent there are sort of theoretical ways ascribed to saying it's greed and there's practical ways ascribing to save it's capitalism. certainly a food system which. has always been somewhat corrupt. hour at this point perhaps more in crisis and more corrupt there's ever been before history. in wealthy countries and increase in food prices means more expensive products in the
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supermarket however in poorer nations it means hunger and death as most people cannot afford them. i don't know that's that doesn't enter into my thinking i don't know i don't think about that i just i'm trying to figure out what the market's going to do. whether it was logical or not to me is beside the point. because what counts to me is what is the market's reaction going to be because i'm a speculator i'm trying to make money. the movement in the price of grain. prices maybe may have become
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a little. may have become too extended but the market acts really quite rationally it just takes some time for that rationality to come to fruition and to correct. until the market was corrected another seventy five million people were added to the list of the planet starved raising the total number to nine hundred twenty three million. and this happens at a moment when there is more production than ever in the last decade and there is still enough food to properly feed all the inhabitants of this planet and people have argued that it's because of increased demand for for meat and dairy products and that's simply not true or superficially a negligible consideration. it is because of speculation because it's a commodity that food is a commodity like light silver or gold they can be negotiated and hoarded to some degree and we're seeing that taking place the high rise of food is because food has
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been put on the global scene of and this will lead to mass massive snobbish and massive famines we have to bring food out of the international trading system we have to bring food back into national and local itself and it. while yet. but. let's get some. sense.
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india is the world's second biggest rice producer following china it is also third in terms of wheat production. so it would be expected to find low hunger and malnutrition in the indicators in india. yet there are more people starving in this country than anywhere else over two hundred million pounds to complete the paradox they are mostly farmers. as well growing away. because grain is being sold by the chemicals and seeds this negative. it is the reason the hunger in the world today.
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in. a mad cow pradesh has the highest levels of child malnutrition and therefore the country's highest infant death rate. the situation is as critical as a. africa's ethiopia. but the six percent of the children they have none that is to india and this is the. good but the next the family has been in much deeper the sixty percent if anything but heard them in the number at about six minutes to. my thinking about that. these
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children are more probably going to normandy and fifty percent of the free market may be just give the money. and the price is done but the one p.p.b. to be put to use earlier is also has the goods and we decide that it back on being . uncertain but each family member. dr van den i go well works for unicef. the organization has set up feeding centers in cities and villages in collaboration with the government. and you cannot expect . there are voluntary workers monitoring the children's weight and help you think you could. go out. on.
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and. they are in charge of feeding them and their families are too poor to do so no . no this is a. mother these children. my mother said she looks and feel good the morning she left it all it took me all night should be better i don't have a. but. there it will need to complete it she just had to but this is morning. it is the baby in that it could quickly for. nineteen months or be. if the quality of years of it can inspire fear and hype in spanish and the it is actually the crowd. who can. see hundred of
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a firearm circumstances and legible that is hundred of that indicates that the soldiers didn't see via the at you but at least and she needs to show you. that you aren't ready completely. to leave you will leave the. eat you you. are all part is how can we get tries before five humans if we cost three four rupees now they cost fifty sixty rupees how can people buy it. if there is only one person working in the family how he can only get so much so what can the people do ask for a loan should buy vegetables should they buy wheat we also need money for doctors
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don't we need money to go to the mill you do nothing with five kilos of wheat what can a man buy that's just one salary. few. poor people have a big problem well very worried you can see now people have one two children and they can't even take care of them the children are always hungry this is ration is dramatic. what can the poor do spend money on doctors feed their children well very worried. that. if i but more limited them all that i get sixty rubles about one euro a day. i spend forty to forty five rupees
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a day. about. buying in the market the prices are very high. a kilo of oil costs eighty rupees it is very hard for us to buy it will be five kilos of wheat or sixty rubeus. prices have gone up a lot since last year. if there is one person working and we eat twice a day there is nothing left. for lame olive garden we can eat less and less of it again but the children can be left without food economy with all of the layout ahead. strange things. on it i mean a little bit of. wow
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. now can i. ask. the residents depend on the state for food. in every town and village little state shops have been set up selling food at very low prices. google know a little bit with ninety rupees we buy thirty five kilos of food and we get along with that we go to the shop with our family coupon and they give us the equivalent amount. that. this is the biggest a provision program in the world. we're meeting a corporate man so we have all of the border hold of her family incomes of even greater power and work on or classes sixteen million pounds of food cribs
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with meats before going to be the biggest food grains trading company in the. in one thousand nine hundred seven india was forced to adapt its national provision system to the commands of the world bank and the world trade organization. providing cheap food to the people was against competition and the free market. as a result of the aid was greatly reduced we had a university food distribution system that b.d.s. the world bank forced us to dismantle it as long as the system was in place the farmers had a guarantee. everyone would agree to affordable food piece of paper ration card because india's identity with that ration card you could walk to your corner shop and get the one to kills. the world and dismantle that so
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that the corporations. that's right mobi below one hundred to the fifteen years ago that is like seventy percent of india's children are malnourished but india has a group like this. at the same time the world trade organization convinced india into canceling the limitations imposed on imports. so imported products flooded the market causing considerable damage to india's farming economy. before we were growing we were producing ninety seven percent of. importing only people sent but now we are importing forty seven percent said the gentle buffalo almost say. when food prices rocketed india like other countries limited to its exports in order to feed its own people i will foster responsibly before i want to. give the places within the
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country during the war we will do all the missions going for this completely appraises begin to so we really believe he will come back on. the export of all rice for some time so that the prices go straight. this provoked the wrath of the world trade organization which accused the country of causing a lot of damage to the free market and i thought it was an utterly illogical decision was a very bad decision in a world where free trade is is always trying to grow and the world is smaller and trade is becoming freer i think that the process that india adopted was really. quite illogical. mr lisbon i'm scambos with foods by styles of tonnes of rice and wheat in the
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future in other words he buys crops that don't get exist gernot trading the actual cash physical grain you're trading promises for the grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future so you might be trading grain that actually exists but you might just as well more often be trading grain that doesn't even exist yet so your trading promises and your trade them back and forth and if you make a promise to buy it a certain price at a certain time you can tassel that by by selling that same contract back into the market and that's what happens with most contracts are never actually delivered upon or traded back and forth and they cancel each other out.
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they've been. to me the best and the d.v.d. radium ended in an intensive no number for the fire vehicles is sprayed into arsonists the. most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of our vehicle in the vicinity of known differentiated so
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produces so much heat and genetic changes including cancer leukemia. and wiping out of the immune system. you don't have to have a college degree going to have to pay for in education to understand big if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem. in the observed nature and discover its buzy. the communicate with the wild until the. test yourself and become free from. nature can give you a nazi.
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all. wealthy british style holds sometimes the title of.
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the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a report on r.t. . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are on the day. of a feast this is not a pro magician but warns. the forces that we should students everybody is sure to support the trees because they have no idea about the hardships the we face. plate one is this is it is all
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of them too nice and for any army the life of a using them is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two so. the truth nine hundred forty five don't talk come.

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