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find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines if you need to cause a report on r g greet for the full summit we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. seven thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlights poles are part barack obama insists the u.s. will locate part of its missile shield in poland urging russia to get involved despite moscow strong objections to the plan the move is highly controversial with moscow saying the shield would compromise its own national security. lawyers for the former bosnian serb general ratko moderates say he accepts will be extradited to the hague for war crimes he's awaiting the outcome of an appeal against an
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earlier ruling that he was fit to stand trial. georgia's opposition says the government's now targeting the families of dissidents dozens of whom are still missing after a violent crackdown on protests two days ago earlier in the u.s. state department join russia in demanding a probe into the actions of police which left several people dead. and a light at the end of the tunnel for people in gaza as egypt opens up border crossing ending a four year blockade of the palestinian territory human rights groups say the decision will ease the humanitarian crisis for the million plus palestinians facing shortages of food and medical supplies and. we also have news just in here on our t.v. the president of the republic of abkhazia has died in moscow we will bring you more on this later in the program stay with us here on r.t. . a country
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where some take pride in their wine family french wines are the world's best but all those warnings are not much different from down. others have to select kidneys to support their families but i need good morning 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 become another former soviet republic to experience a color revolution. what will be the outcome of the patrik said 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.
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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 that the revolution had taken place in moldova and the president had fled the country. president vladimir voronin was addressing the nation from his second floor office other presidential residence i don't want to know the civilizational little persons are the ones behind these bad beric weak so-called demonstrations just those interests they serve spencer and who benefit from them are only too obvious disorient such as it will certainly find out who is planned and masterminded these disturbances store shelves that open lead into.
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they fly much for the mall don't like place. under a student of the kitchen now polytechnic was among those who stormed the government buildings here joined a rally without any idea of how it might work out in the end at the time the young man was sure the police and deliberately allowed protesters to seize the parliament building and set it on fine. as you can see now police are well equipped. but at the time they were ill prepared to deal with such things. 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 the slavonic university only russian
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language institution of higher learning was the source of greatest concern it was feared the crowds might go on the rampage by midday a large mobile nationalist had gathered in front of the university students were determined to defend the university and by any means possible thanks. for the worrying after learning that a crowd was heading here about getting the hoses we intended to use them as a last resort they came here and the fact is that high school children as well as university students come here to study. and not day april the seventh many believe it's another so-called color revolution was unfolding in downtown kitchener 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 but the following morning everything
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fell into place for owen and emerged victorious this is top of the bush if that evening disability which of somebody had result to us gangsters in the crowd why and for those sake they had come there still 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 for nothing in the future i would. like to vote for most of the office our discussion today will focus on what caused the events of a perilous seventh two thousand and nine and their aftermath our guest as we tell the public champ a leader of the national liberal party the leader of the ultra right program anian party retaliate government chunka is rarely invited to speak over the radio the national liberal party's manifesto echoes the motto of the people who rampage through parliament moldova and remain here are
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a single country. but if we want to join nato and the european union that's the position of the national liberal party but that's can only be achieved through a union with remain handy and this should be done without delaying a zealot we do not hesitate to voice what's on the minds of the very many people in our society with. the town of several k. two hundred kilometers from chris you know it is the informal capital of the romany people in moldova stones on the high bank of the nice to river it's romany population is nearly twenty thousand. ah to maturity is a room in
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a barrel any use 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 even the good of a better. although most people in so rocky change their old cars to flush german and japanese makes october first drive his old soviet made in italy. there. is a rocky is the maca of all romany of the former soviet union and the schools of this fact affects their culture civilization and traditions. the cradle of the room many people use here in the. room many traditions on it in several cape barren enjoys public respects many seek advice from him on any matter of importance or that they intend to build a house will give a name to a baby hello. hello.
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whether or not i let a few months like the baron. yes that says they did mr is in the shape of a horseshoe us or awkward who were there when we settled on this blasted and sacred land more than five hundred years ago it may. be many of. the large ben dairy forests is two hundred kilometers downstream there's a nice to river. post a lucky a businessman is the most important person here breeds hogs the ex president of moldova and big time businessmen with a name to join him on hunting expeditions in the forest but nobody has offered help in resolving his main problem is hogs are in one country but his office in the forest area he ministers is another. work in this road here was a dividing line between the two warring policies. the
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moldovan volunteers were here but the trans news to was true that saw. the part of the most saving republic on the left bank of its nice to declare 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 soviet republic because you now did not recognize a self proclaimed trans the nice to republic after moldavia achieved independence tends political standoff to generate his into an armed conflict the first shots were fired in the spring of one nine hundred ninety two. by the summer of one thousand nine hundred two must. if hostilities had already
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broken out the bitterest fighting took place in the translates to town of ben derry an enclave on the right bank of the denise to river. it all goes well with 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 that were from books from college from a gift from which is love melts a cough and his mother often come to the bridge of that an easter it was on this patch that the bloodiest clashes between moldova troops and trends in east of volunteers took place which islam served in the russian fourteenth army deployed in france to nice to his father served in a cossacks and then derek the russian soldiers had to maintain neutrality even though moldova and troops constantly front on their positions it was then which a slap decided to join his father's unit where i told him i was going to take part
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and if 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 a police be close at hand. moldova's leaders insisted they were not at 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 soviet union everybody waited to see which side the russian troops would take.
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soon which bryson. to bounce from phones to christians. who threw stones on t.v. don't come. down with the official anti application joe califano i pod touch from the choose option. which all cheated lied on the go. video on demand parties mindful of costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the quality dot com. when you just click over is occasional sober. moldova's principal treasure is tucked away on the ground.
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with some forty million liters of wine was kept immature here demand generates supply now you can find franchise gary in ermey and moldovan barrels here contains up to one ton a wine. one likes barrels made of oak white wines are normally aged for eighteen months or two years some are kept from was six months red wines are kept here for two three or four years the 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 are not prone to modesty when talking about the miles upon miles of tunnels hiding thousands of barrels of red and white wine they said well i would say that it's the eighth wonder of the world. there was a time when wine making was an important part of the moldavian economy it first
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came under attack when soviet leader mikhail gorbachev declared war on hard drinking then yards over the total area are thousands of factors were cut down after mulled over achieved independence the industry could not be restored to previous levels either in terms of quantity or more importantly quality. moldova's biggest customer russia stopped importing its produce at the turn of the century. in why no longer conforms to strict russian senator standards or over the russian market was drowned in produce new european one. some of the range ones are the world's best but moldovan warrants are not much different from down 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
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it does your waist take some types this is the post surgery won't the stitch and the scar get we're going to the doctor at this hospital in the village of mn j.-a has cater 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 but others would duped into selling them were 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. selling their kidneys for money in order to be able to support their families was the only option open to most of the employment and moldova's regions is hard to
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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 a hundred thousand they just cheated it. i shouldn't 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. rigorous trent 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 despite protests why 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 earned in foreign countries accounts for approximately one fourth
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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 for her education. eventually she did not go. out to the romany baron has his hands full now moldova's romany have been increasingly involved in the country's political life once our torture are even run for president but he says it was more a show a political gesture there anything else nowadays the romany people take politics seriously they have founded a political party and expect to get several seats in parliament after elections. we were many always understood the meaning of politics. we knew much about it immediately but we never tried to get involved in it when you could be needed.
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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 jacket sees a session of the moldovan parliament nearby paid no attention to the romany flushing of. the country has been in a state of political crisis for a long time communist 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 as the necessary majority votes. for the people of moldova want to hear nothing of
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any merger with anybody in severance he is increasingly becoming an integral part of the normal life of moldova in society and the maldives and state from jessica businessman yuri opposed to lockey has been a member of parliament for some time in modern day moldova it is impossible to do business of any significance without political assistance you're opposed to lucky runs a small enterprise. he is a rare example of a successful businessman in moldova during breeds hopes creates jobs and protects the natural environment things would be even better for him were it not for a boarder cutting his forest into. crewmembers newly i find it hard to draw a dividing line between in derry and moldova or between the left bank and the right bank i still believe this is one country and i regret what has been going on in those banks. the narrow
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denise to river divides moldova from the unrecognized republic but the political and economic gap between the two countries is much wider kitchen now until last fall i have no diplomatic relations there are no direct telephone communications between. mr has its own currency economy and political system. no there he just look at in the coming year. a treats me as one of his own. egos near north has been a howl move the unrecognized republic for more than twenty years he is unwilling to talk about the ninety nine teaching war and prefers to demonstrate the republic's economic progress. existing there will always be an adequate supply of food was the new deal because people know how to work this land is bacon support themselves
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without outside help but 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 in trans needs to twenty years ago some have 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. or is beyond been there 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 bed traces of bullets locals take people on going to tours to show the positions of moldova sharpshooters. the snipers killed off civilians because they couldn't help but troops. but it
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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. nobody at the russian fourteenth army stations and friends nice to stop the bloodshed the army's commander general yet. declared and bury a demilitarized zone today the russian peacekeeping force is about the only down toward peace that more than two thousand people on both sides lost their lives during not all conflicts. that with 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 needs to volunteer to just laugh a natural cause reflects on what caused that brief will on his way to his mother's
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house with. armed people entering your home triggers your self-defense reflex people were defending their homes. but there is no hostility now. when we need many moldovans over a glass of wine they are normal people like anyone else. in the autumn of one nine hundred ninety two the just last march across father went missing that was when heavy fighting had already come to an end. and we were really my husband was abducted when he and another man went to inspect the territory. there was no law in fighting at the time. for us not to return it was clear that it will soon stop altogether. they abducted both of them i tried to find my husband for a year and three months. each summer war veterans and bullets of the fallen come to some
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a treatise on both sides of the new stuff to light candles. scores of people have gathered in central question now for the anniversary of the raid on the parliament building they tell it councils. it is noteworthy though that only a few of those who might 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 he writes songs often coming moldavian singers after quitting university essentially year in year of their he realized that his country is his home yet for the accordance with this
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way of the other patrons of my country my friends and relatives live here this is my land there is no point to linger in europe what can we give europe apart from weinberger with those terrible incidents died down a long time ago but the feeling of resentment is still with me today i still can't . figure out what's going on that society has become insensitive to politics later the option of social business but is. under a was among those who retired in the parliament building two years ago today he is of a much more peaceful disposition since then he has graduated from university and given up politics now he has other priorities with. my friend 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 you. know but they are only small projects because
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we are still in the initial stages with. a group of young people gathering in the center of the most open capital to call their act the hyde park project a reference to the british tradition of open air public debates anyone can add their views on the political situation in the country speaking through microphone the 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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