five thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t the easier headlines fresh battles are rocked in libya's colonel moammar gadhafi pushes ahead tour again power in parts of the country locals fear foreign forces may intervene but with a sinister hidden agenda meanwhile british troops are on standby and u.s. forces are gathering across the mediterranean. mixed emotions in egypt as some celebrate their newfound freedom while others remain on the streets demanding more of their ongoing fight is having an effect on the country's economy as tourists

turn their backs on the damage is already reportedly more than a billion dollars. and it's been fifty eight years since the death of joseph stalin but decades on his legacy still divides opinion in russia he created a cult of personality around himself but not everyone was convinced a little later we speak with a man who went from a war hero to a labor camp prisoner in order of the soviet leader. up next we find out why millions of people die each year from hunger when there is more than enough food to feed the entire planet stay with us our special report coming up next. was was . i have to describe chicago's food market for theater play up was i thought it would be easy to get the

endless serry information by asking a few specialized stock brokers it. was was was. 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 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 situations unbearable to everyone save a bunch of profiteers. was us.

this is by answer this way this is self answer this way. this is a sample of the pipe trying to your bidding a quarter of a cent this will be off hands. was. mr victor lespinasse as a player on the chicago grain barkat. the chicago grain market is different from other stock markets as we know them all i'm here it is. food that is bought and sold wheat corn rice soya all of oil milk animal and fails and even pigs stomachs fail with us might be at the desk and you fiction order into the tip hotel your broker hook up. two hundred at the market. we'll buy the two hundred and then we'll flash you

back you know two hundred and say. seven and a half. or you could say you could tell him cancel the order for us was was was were the chicago grain markets is the biggest in the world and it sessions largely define the prices of the food we put on the table every day i 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 . i. guess everything has a school. this is the summer we will gain perspective on why this crisis. as socialists and christians the state. says. that's what i call silence or not it's not heading in one place this is

something that knows no borders. down the road the real key to meeting of heads of un agencies turns into a crisis summit as the world hopes the cost of. how. many cases have come to be my traditional patient coming from hunger pains. me. because he's central plateau and vegetable struggling because he's going.

to light. dozens of missing should be arrested by spot spicy food prices. the song rest they took one song beats him severely breaking both his legs my son called war call speak now my son is dying thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.

for me and biofuels have been accused of causing the food shortages that lead traitor mattick increase in price it's. unpredictable droughts have destroyed rice and wheat crops while a big part of the u.s. corn harvest is turned into fuel for cars and not for people. a classic fieri 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 one hundred twenty five percent and of soya by one hundred seven percent there's sort of theoretical ways ascribing to say it's greed and there's perhaps ways ascribing to say this capitalism. is certainly a food system which. has always been somewhat corrupt. now at this point

perhaps more crisis and more corrupt than it was ever been before here but history . in wealthy countries an increase in food prices means more expensive products in the supermarket however in poorer nations it means hunger and death as most people cannot afford them. i don't know that's. 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. rather 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 off the the movement in the price of grain.

prices maybe may have become 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 moments 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 in china 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 like silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded to some degree and we're seeing that you can place the high rise up. is because food has been put on the global scene and this will eat that's knesset snobbish and that's fine and we have to bring food out of the international trading system we have to bring food back into national and look good for itself and if you. why yet. but. that's ok. it's.

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 malnourishment indicators in india. yet there are more people starving in this country than anywhere else over two hundred million and to complete the paradox they are mostly farmers. falling as well growing. because grain is being sold to the

chemicals and seeds this negative that the culture as i call it is the reason for hunger in the world. of the. citizens if. it. is a mad cow pradesh state has the highest levels of child malnutrition and therefore the country's highest infant death rate. the situation is as critical as an. africa's ethiopia. but the six percent of the children they had one that is to be yes this is the being deported by the distant family has been in multiple of these

sixty percent to convert them into you know what about six minutes or. more thinking about. these children and more probably going to normandy and fifty percent of the free market may be just give the money. when the crisis has done but he did but he's only and he's also has the goods and we said that it impacts on the . consumption by 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 can.

get there volunteer workers monitoring the children's weight and help you think you could. come on think off. and. they are in charge of feeding them since their families are too poor to do so you. know this is a people will see that a lot of it is still. a mother says she looks and feel good morning she left at home it took will not she'd be better suited to. then we will need to complete it she just had operative but this is morning and it is that the baby in there because what they feel or. maybe once or believe

it is if the quality of years has been inspired here and her destination the it is actually the crowd. who can. see her made up i am circumstances and their joy that his hundred and. best indicates that this child is didn't see the actual mother this day and she needs you they were perfect that you are in medical treatment. and. meet. all of you you will leave the. leak you. rattle of parties how can we get tries before five chemists if we cost three four rupees now they cost fifty six to rupees how can people buy out. if there is only one person working in the

family how he can only get so much so what kind of people do you ask for a loan should they buy better bills should they buy wheat we also need money for doctors don't we need money to go to the mill you do nothing with five kilos of wit what can one buy but just one salary. states. 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 situation is dramatic. what can the poor do spend money on the tourists out feed their children well very worried. that. i bet more

limited amount of good sixteen rubles about one euro a day. i spend forty to forty five rupees a day. about. buying in the market the price is a very high. a kilo of oil cost eighty rupees it is very hard for us to buy it that will appeal to five kilos of wheat or sixty rupees. prices have gone up a lot since last year. if there is one person working and we each was a day there is nothing left. for lame olive garden we can eat less and have a bit of it but the children can be left without food on a little while of the layout ahead. just finished things

are done on a coming a little bit of the. family . now can. see. 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. good and the little 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. of stuff. this is the biggest a provision programme in the world. give me the quarter prove my soul be have all

of the border go look for a few million guns or we can raise our and work toward all classes sixteen million tons of food grids which makes foreclosures are going to be the biggest for greens 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 there was greatly reduced we heading in the ghost of food distribution system of 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 for the gravity took full of the food piece of paper ration

card it was india's against god with the ration card you could walk to your corner shop and get the one to kills it with. the world bank dismantle that so that the corporations with the market that's right maybe good luck hundred to leave the fifteen years and all that is like seventy percent of india's children are malnourished but india has a growth rate that's. at the same time the world trade organization convinced india into cancelling the limitations imposed on imports. so imported products flooded the market causing considerable damage to india's farming economy. before. we were going we were producing ninety zone percent of the total and yet you were importing only people sent would know we had importing or to stay on course and we said we didn't know but almost say. when food prices rocketed india like other

countries limited to its exports in order to feed its own people i will first responsibly abuse problem. so that if the price is within the country during the war we will be all the riches going for this committee do the places begin to grow so we really believe with a ban on. that export off the rice for some time so that the prices good stable. this provoked the wrath of the world trade organization which accuse a 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 lester maddox gambles with food as he buys thousands of tons of rice and wheat in the future in other words he buys clothes that don't yet exist gernot trading the actual cash physical grain or trading promises for 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 trading back and forth and if you make a promise to buy at a certain price at a certain time you can tassel that by selling that same contract back into the market and that's what happens with most contracts they're never actually delivered

upon their traded back and forth and they cancel each other out. free if you. prefer. the entire. community. and the media the radio

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