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in florida. these are the images being from the streets of canada after. giant corporations rule the day. though you're with let's have a look around at our main headlines the russian foreign minister is set to hold talks with libyan rebels and palestinian officials and also comes as for a moment of push for israel to reach a territorial settlement for the palestinians. biologists i'm sick of the protesters years gathered strength and thrown into the opposition promising to see the president on wednesday thousands have been rallying in the capital tbilisi and one more suffering to step down. plus the e.u.
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turns up the heat on greece for not doing enough to stop the tracking down in europe but athens lashes back claiming it's already pushing itself to the limit is there greece weighing them down to them together. but next a special report on the pope's life. a country where some take pride in their wine. french wines are the world's best but most of those warnings are not much different from down. others have to select kidneys to support the families needed more like now because of the money my health is gone in the first year of independence the country went through a civil war. nobody believed a war was possible at the end of the twentieth century moldova could have yet to
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come another former soviet republic to experience the color revolution. what will be the outcome of the protracted crisis in the country what future course will it choose for itself many inside and outside moldova are eager to know the answer to those questions. i. think for the seventh two thousand and nine central question now the capital of moldova several young people made their way to the rooftop of the presidential residence took down the national flag and in its place raise the european union's flag protests was announced as a revolution had taken place in moldova and the president and fled the country. president vladimir voronin was addressing the nation from his second floor office of the presidential residence. the model was
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a visual hallucinations and the ones behind these by barrick we so-called demonstrations whose interests they serve. and who benefit from them are only too obvious luanne. will certainly find out who is planned and masterminded these disturbances story i don't believe in g. . the file much for the moldovan black place. for andre a student of the kitchen now polytechnic was among those who stormed government buildings he had joined a rally without any idea of how it might work out in the end of the time the young man was sure the police deliberately allowed protesters to seize the parliament building and set it on fine. as you can see now police are well equipped. but at that time they were ill prepared to deal with such things.
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they were only twenty or thirty policemen on hounds they certainly couldn't have coped but i'm sure there was a special purpose unit nearby. if they had used force everybody would have gone home right away. meanwhile preparations for widespread unrest were underway throughout kitchener a slavonic university only russian language institution of higher learning was the source of greatest concern it was feared the crowds might go on the rampage that by midday a large mob of nationalists had gathered in front of the university students were determined to defend the university and by any means possible thanks for the. bit of what we did start worrying after learning that a crowd was heading here about getting the hoses up as we intended to use them as a last resort they came again the fact is that high school children as well as
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university students come here to study. on not say a pull the seventh many believe there's another so-called color revolution was unfolding in downtown. several former soviet republics had already shared the same fate everybody expected pro western politicians to come to power on the back of protests against. communist president vladimir voronin the following morning everything fell into place a ruin and emerged victorious this if both of you in the bush if that evening is of a vision with of somebody had result to us against his in the crowd why and for goodness sake they had come there so below and what they knew about the outcome of the election. your story i'm certain that ninety nine percent could not have answered those questions if it didn't reach you would you. like to vote for most of the office our discussion today will talk us on what caused the events of eight for
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a list seventh two thousand and nine and their aftermath to our guest as we tell the public chamfer leader of the national liberal party over the leader of the ultra right program anian party italian president chen co is rarely invited to speak over the radio national liberal party's manifesto echoes the motto of the people who rampaged and condiment moldova and remaining are a single country that she could but it's an open ended we want to join nato and the european union and that's the position of the national liberal party but that can only be achieved through a union with remain handy and this should be done without delay i feel that we do not hesitate to have always what's on the minds of the very many people in our society. the town of several k. two hundred kilometers from tissue no it is the informal capital of the romany people in moldova stands on the high bank of the nice to river it's romany
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population is nearly twenty thousand. ah to maturity is a room in a barrel a nice to be in the know about the problems facing all run many families help them deal with them and add their grievances to the authorities in the most good of a. although most people inside all keep change their old casa plush german and japanese makes prefers to drive his old soviet made car. the rocky is the maca of all romany of the former soviet union halls and schools and this fact affects their culture civilization and traditions. the cradle
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of the room many people use here in the. room and traditions on it and so rocking the barren enjoys public respect romany seek advice from him on any matter of importance whether they intend to build a house or give a name to a baby hello. hello. he's a big mover not by that appearance like the american. actor. yes that is as they look nice to or he's in the shape of a horseshoe us or awkward. we settled on this all acid in a sacred land more than five hundred years ago. the large ben dairy forest is two hundred kilometers downstream the denise to river . yury opposed to lucky a businesswoman is the most important person here breeds hogs the ex president of
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moldova and big time business women have been known to join him on hunting expeditions in the forest but nobody has offered help in resolving his main problem his hogs are in one country but his office in the forest area minister is in another. that this road here was a dividing line between the two warring policies. the moldovan volunteers were here of the trans mr was thrilled that saw. the part of the moldavian republic on the left bank of it's nice to declared its independence even before the breakup of the soviet union was officially recognized the fact of the matter is that what is now called trans to nice to became part of moldavia when it was a serbian republic because you now did not recognize
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a self-proclaimed trans the nice to republic after moldavia achieved independence the tens political standoff degenerated into an armed conflict the first shots were fired in the spring of one nine hundred ninety two. by the summer of ninety ninety two must. if hostility so i'd already broken out the vision wrist fighting took place in the trans needs to town have been derek an enclave on the right bank of the nice to river. in that small forest over there they set fire to the military hardware. and by that monument in the distance i remember about there were two bus loads of dead bodies from books from police a gift which is love most of cough and his mother often come to the bridge if there's an easter it was on this patch that the bloodiest clashes between moldova
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troops and trends in east of volunteers took place which is slash served in the russian fourteenth army deployed in trams to nice to his father served in the cossacks and then derek the russian soldiers had to maintain neutrality even though moldova and troops constantly find on their positions it was then the to slap decided to join his father's unit i told him i was going to take part in your i said if you don't allow me to join your unit i will sign up for another so he took me on because he knew that i would at least be close at hand. moldova's leaders insisted they were not a war with the self-proclaimed republic rather they were trying to establish law and order in reality what happened in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two was a full blown military standoff on the verge of becoming the bloodiest conflict in the territory of the former serbian union everybody waited to see which side the russian troops would take.
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culture is that so much a given to a huge musician on the market the arab awakening is often referred to as revolutions in the arab middle east there can be no doubt something in court is a. lot. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctic deaths and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many a wildlife in antarctica. and such an. expedition to the bottom of the earth arctic. mission
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free accreditation free in-store judges free. range month free risk free. two types free. downloads free broadcast live videos for your media projects and free media don carty dot com . cool. the age of six of us is official now so the. whole day was principal treasure is tucked away on the ground. with some forty million liters of wine was kept to mature here demand generates supply now you can find french and gary in and moldovan barrels here each contains up to one tonne a wine. one likes barrels made of book white wines are. normally aged for eighteen
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months or two years some are kept from was six months red wines are kept here for two three or four years a labyrinth is one hundred twenty kilometers long this winery looks like a town complete with streets and avenues it's the only place of its kind in the world people here were not prone to modesty when talking about the miles upon miles of tunnels hiding fountains of barrels of red and white wine but this is more i would say that it's the eighth wonder of the world. but there was a time when wine making was an important part of the moldavian economy it first came under attack when soviet leader mikhail gorbachev declared war on hard drinking then yards over the total area of thousands of practices were cut down after all they were achieved independence the industry could not be restored to previous levels either in terms of quantity or more importantly quality.
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moldova's biggest customer russia stopped importing is produced by the turn of the century. moldovan y. no longer conforms to strict russian senator standards or as a the russian market was drowned in produce from european one because. family range warrants are the world's best moldovan warrants are not much different from down old always situated at the same latitude as france in this he's only a short distance away so russia certainly lost out in this case. placing it does your waist take some types this is the post surgery won't the stitch and the scar be it we're going to the doctor at this hospital in the village
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of mn jair has catered to several patients likely gauri people in the surrounding villages might report about a hundred cases of this kind of they share a common fate some have sold one of their kidneys for money others would you turn to selling them criminal gangs would spot potential donors in moldova and take them to turkey for back alley surgery we have thirteen people in our village who went through this. and one of them has already died of kidney failure patients. selling their kidneys for money in order to be able to support their families was the only option open to most of the employment in moldova's regions is hard to come by the villagers were paid from one thousand five hundred to three thousand dollars for the operation but. i heard that one kidney is worth ninety five thousand dollars around one hundred thousand they just cheated it. i shouldn't
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have gone to turkey but i needed more now because of the money my health is gone there's nothing i can do i can't go back and change it all i can do is go on. grigori spend the five hundred dollars he was paid for his kidney in turkey a long time ago the money was just about enough a minor house repairs and clothes for his family and despite protests by his doctor to go is again toying with the idea of going abroad to look for temporary employment he sees no other way to get money for his family according to various estimates the money moldovans have earned in foreign countries accounts for approximately one fourth of the republic's g.d.p. up to one million citizens of moldova permanently reside outside the country. my older daughter wanted to go to college and i had no money i had to get some money
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for her education. eventually she did not go. down to the romany baron has his hands full now moldova's romany have been increasingly involved in the country's political life once our two children are even run for president but he says it was more a showy political gesture than anything else nowadays the romany people take politics seriously they have found a political party and they expect to get several seats in parliament after elections. we're only always understood the meaning of politics. when you much about it immediately but we never tried to get involved in it when you could be needed. this is what the political campaigning of the newly founded romany party looks like folk songs and dances in front of government headquarters of the best publicity stunt for the new political association however the deputies
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a session of the moldovan parliament nearby paid no attention to the running of the flash mob. the country has been in a state of political crisis for a long time common is president vladimir voronin did retain power after the events of april seventh two thousand and nine but his party lost subsequent elections deputies in the republic's parliament of so far failed to agree on a future course for the country because none of the parliamentary parties has the necessary majority of votes. the people of moldova want to hear nothing of any merger with anybody or severance he is increasingly becoming an integral part of the normal life as moldova in society and the maldives and state for the chick a businessman yuri acosta lucky has been a member of parliament for some time in modern day moldova it is impossible to do
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business of any significance without political assistance here of course the lucky ones are small and surprise. he is a rare example of a successful businessman in moldova during breeds hogs creates jobs and protects the natural environment things would be even better for him were it not for a border causing his forest into. i find it hard to draw a dividing line between when terry and all those. between the left bank and the right bank i still believe this is a long country and i regret what has been going on in those banks. the narrow denice to revert divides moldova from the unrecognized republic but the political and economic gap between the two countries is much wider kitchen now until last fall has no diplomatic relations there are no direct telephone communications between them. to has its own currency economy and political system.
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no there he just look at him coming here. for. a treats me as one of his own. biggest near north has been the hull move the unrecognized public for more than twenty years he is unwilling to talk about the ninety ninety two war and prefers to demonstrate the republic's economic progress. there will always be an adequate supply of food to salute you because people know how to work this land is they can support themselves without outside help the problem is where can we sell what we produce. despite all efforts the population of the unrecognized republic has dropped from seven hundred thousand to four hundred thousand since the armed conflict and trans needs to twenty years ago some have
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moved to moldova others to ukraine still more to russia this is the result of widespread unemployment most of the leading industrial plants built in the service union have been shut down or been there is over there. beyond been the area that is where the fighting took place. reminders of those dreadful days are still evident in the enclave town on the right bank of the denise to the pockmarked walls of the administration building better a sense of bullets locals take people on guided tours to show the positions of moldova sharpshooters. the snipers killed off civilians because they couldn't hit the troops. but it didn't matter if it was friend or foe the only thing they cared about was the body count. the more people they killed the higher their pay was. editing and nobody of the russian
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fourteenth army stations in transnistria could stop the bloodshed the army's commander general yet. it declared been very a demilitarized zone today the russian peacekeeping force is about the only count toward peace that all in two thousand people on both sides lost their lives during not all conflict. but when just about nobody expected any hostilities to kick off air nobody believed a war was possible at the end of the twentieth century but if you're. on the other side of the border a former trans to nice to volunteer which is laughable to call the flex on what caused that brief will on his way to his mother's house with. mission armed people entering your home triggers your self-defense reflex people were defending their homes. but there is no hostility now that we made many moldovans over a glass of wine they are normal people like anyone else. and they also in the one
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nine hundred ninety two virtuous last march across father went missing that was when heavy fighting had already come to an end. and we were clearly my husband was abducted when he and another man went to inspect the territory. there was a lawn and fighting at the time. for us not to return it was clear that it will soon stop altogether. i'm very relieved ducted both of them i tried to find my husband for a year and three months. each summer war veterans and bullets of the fallen countries some a trace on both sides of that an easter to light candles. scores of people have gathered in central kitchen now for the anniversary of the
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raid on the parliament building they tell it countless. it is noteworthy evoke the time only a few of those who would be involved in those events turned up. in april two thousand and seven dmitri was poised to defend his university from a crowd of thugs today he takes his first steps into show business and writes songs welcome coming moldavian singers after quitting university essentially every year and then he realized that his country is his heart yet but do agree with him history of our patrons of my country my friends and relatives who live here this is my land there is no point to linger in europe what can we give europe or from weinberger with those terrible incidents died down a long time ago but the feeling of resentment still with me today i still can't.
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figure out what's going on the society has become insensitive to politics it accurate option of just get. undressed he was among those who retire in the parliament building two years ago today he has a much more peaceful disposition since then his graduation from university and given up politics now he has other priorities. my friends and i have founded a small organization in our town it is called eco shame. we are in the business of making minor ecological projects. but they are only small projects because we are still in the initial stages. of young people gathering in the center of the moldovan capital call their act the hyde park project a reference to the british tradition of open air public debates anyone can add
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their views on the political situation in the country speaking through a microphone project was launched hot on the heels of the events of april two thousand and nine initially people queued for a chance to speak up for their enthusiasm rapidly petered out nowadays passes by a more likely to ignore the speaker's.
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