culture is that so much simpler to use music is find it more when the united nations tribunals indicted some members of the lebanese shia movement has belonged to the assassination of the former lebanese prime minister. now if the thirty pm excuse me here in the russian capital you god to recover the headlines now i don't shining a light on the web of international terror of russia publishes a deep classified list of people and groups it says a financing it stream is in the north caucasus. and the euro's a word take a turn for the worse us portugal's that gets downgraded to junk status and it spreading ever way the old and. germany is reportedly planning to sell its two

hundred battle tanks to saudi arabia and the move sparking human rights concerns on the condemned by opposition politicians as guinea. as japan approves a second a disaster recovery budget devastated communities call out for more psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. and those are the main headlines here not here but do stay with us next week revisit kyrgyzstan to assess its post soviet existence after a year that seen violent ethnic conflicts and pollution you want you're not. kurdistan the central asian country and former soviet republic. in the space of just five years this state has gone through two revolutions the

country is divided into two parts both by the mountains and by the unresolved conflict between a developed north and agricultural south. and kurdistan to overcome its political and ethnic standoff could there be a repetition of spontaneous riots involving a mass loss of life. tucked away in the mountains one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital bishkek is a village of actors at best only six hundred villagers are left here now. but when kurdistan was part of the soviet union people from all over the republic were eager to come here. with these are mine to not use the or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty bella's trucks are brought in

from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet times they produce three hundred tons a day of their time all arcturus religious works here but even that was not enough so they bought workers from other places. the head of the ministration as showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium or. so you know or from the open to it was brought here it was processed and sent to the laboratory for further tests that view. fell into decay in the first months after kurdistan secession from the soviet union extracting the hazardous or was no longer worthwhile as there were no buyers most of the villages inhabitants left it within a few years those who stayed behind had to learn to survive amidst high radiation levels and rampant unemployment. this is the sort of british ease that we group's leader and basements are perseids. a tiny patch of land one back from the mountains

a few sheep and two cows that's all but the only russian family left in the village pastor survive on. sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until nine hundred ninety two. so i was sad and snow it's only by the situation and i'll be late should we see the same mess we're in because this is very very set. the factory was shut down in one thousand nine hundred two. many other factories and heritage by the young state from the soviet union suffered the same fate. former soviet republic kurdistan won independence on august thirty first one nine hundred ninety one become trees population is five million cars account for seventy percent of the total banks who mostly live in the country south make up eighteen percent well russians account for eight percent of the country's capital is bishkek

. was its president from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five. in march two thousand and five he was deposed during the so-called revolution from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten coming back but here was head of state he lost power following events on april seventh two thousand and ten. sharpshooters were firing from here they stood upright sticking out their heads they were there and their everywhere. by of a was among the thousands who took to the streets of bishkek on april seventh two thousand and ten. those events were later dubbed the second card is revolution on that day demonstrators only wanted the authorities to heed their grievances their response was gunfire. here's a shot at us and pushed us back i thought i could did falling to the ground right

here his leg was bleeding i card here with my body if you need to kill somebody kill me he is not guilty plea. the protesters demanded the resignation of the country. these leaders especially president kurmanbek bakiev. the irony of the situation was that five years before back here came to power in the wake of a similar uprising. the chill of revolution was the name given to the events when the first harvest president ask archive was stripped of power in two thousand and five this flower is one of the country's symbols. there were no fountains here back then but the square was absolutely flooded with people at the time. about twenty five thousand i think. we joined the crowd as it headed for the white house

name. alexander even though for members the great enthusiasm but i'm guilty people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. after a enforcements from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. in the one you just look at when we realized that the house of cards was falling apart. that inspired us with the hope that the president would step down but everybody was in a state of euphoria for. one president a kind of left the country coming back back here came to power. the euphoria that characterized the chill of revolutionaries began evaporating only a year later when the new president chose to pursue the same policies that eventually toppled his predecessor. bucky if top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even though it was

a bucket of supporters unable to thousand and ten he joined street protestors once again. i don't moments i already knew the situation and i said to myself this regime will be totals to either we get them all the room or they will simply be. torn to pieces. and i think it's a natural epilogue for machias presidency and then you have me it's a typical ending for a government which came to power violently after the cool of the world in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script or score from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and the tuber of illusion in the can do start of the last one was virtually transformed into a cool. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of the russian airbase of cancer twenty kilometers from bishkek they were carrying russian

reinforcements to the troubled republic the airborne battalion was sent to defend the base in case of danger. that hit. our job is to protect installations which are situated in judy's territory. notably the caldera base affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. or why did it appear. as a matter of fact russian military personnel had no problems in connection with the able life. b.f. field is within the town of cancer it was a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to close the base and

indeed there's no one to see against it. the last air base serves as an air mobility house aboard operations against them but perhaps just as important to those that are assigned here because of very good listeners with a look at this trailer is taken from the website of a u.s. air base which is situated close to count strengthen the bonds it shares a runway with minus international airports u.s. servicemen claim they get along well with locals. the fact is however that villages nearby are not as friendly as the americans claim they are plagued by the constant roar of cargo planes taking off several times a day. there is an airport near here most of the please find some distance away and quite a few of them here too and first lots of them flew around here i want people

started complaining they turned it down a bit even so airplanes come and go around the clock. well issues between locals and the u.s. military went downhill after a tragic incident between private zachary hatfield and a fuel serviceman truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private. on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexander was shot dead by an american soldier what shot that's how come we don't know. it is still unclear why the private behave the way he did according to how field he fired in self-defense because he claimed different attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not corroborate that theory. it's nonsense given that alexander was one hundred eighty centimeters tall and had filled one hundred sixty four and this metal chair had a bullet hole in the back we were told that the bullets went from top to bottom

which simply proves that alexander was something he'll. escape appeared to refuted public demands that the u.s. base be closed but mass is a crucial strategic hub for supplying coalition troops in afghanistan. the issue of the american presence became a bare faced bargaining chip in talks between the bucky of government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from caracas territory. those crew should have been brought to justice instead of the contest elections we the young people of the cookies republic have been under the yoke of correct regimes for years we have to look at the continuing cycle of deceit we have taken part in the latest revolution to total a criminal regime and paid for it in oslo. in two thousand and ten rallies in central bishkek became just as routine as the changing of the guards kurdistan's

political life gathered strength following the second revolution it took scores of political parties only a few months to emerge on the political scene in order to contest parliamentary seats. the prospect of new elections inspired both hope and anxiety it was obvious to many that those who lost might stir up the people to take to the streets again that would mean another revolution and a new wave of violence. for the full system we've got it firsthand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the potty.

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it is four thousand two hundred meters above sea level while it is still woman bishkek two hundred kilometers from here the weather is already cool to come toward the closest. this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial towns giant trucks bring tons of fuel from an open pit several hundred meters deep. they said giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy tons. we now have thirteen. medium sized dump trucks i'm thirteen made ones. yeah you can see some of the big one step behind me going on. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of it rich or. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace there cold will be

extracted from the or. missing since the cathode residue is dried and religions are added to it and then it goes into this album where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius to see if the gold is melted into a half to three hours with milk gold every two days. today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together through. the computer pitch the long straight canadian firm for that reason the production process follows western standards every single piece of equipment and even the workers' clothes have been imported from canada. the staff enjoys high safety standards and is well paid many others would like to be employed here the enterprise is one of the largest sources of taxes for the country's national budget the factories managers have no interest in revolutions and elections taking down a. they are confident that they will be able to come to terms with any regime. we

have good cooperation his government good cooperation. people. were able to work. and able to. contribute. budget. go production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely island grammarian country nearly half of its population is employed in i could culture industry at best accounts for sixteen percent of the country's g.d.p. in the first six years of independence the gross domestic products dropped by half the country's external debt is around four billion dollars money sent by migrants working abroad is one of the main sources of revenue. like the comptroller cory this tiny enterprise lives of foreign investment but of a different kind in the past tourists were only too willing to buy locally produced

carpets scarves and felt caps the items made by the small factory are quite costly because they are handmade so. we pressed felt three times by hand to make it hard enough. we use dyes felt to make headgear. is honey made because we want to make sure that it resists where in time. before the april revolution the craftsmen had pinned their hopes on an influx of foreigners in the hope of amassing a handsome profit but the uprising did a lot of harm to their business tourists stayed away from the troubled republic. just frankly this year selling gold goods made of felt was a very tough job. on april the seventh and eighth we have stood our customers from switzerland. it's nearly every hour they received calls from the embassy telling

them to stay at home. in october people expected a repetition of the disturbances that had taken place in april in the run up to elections the streets of major cities and small villages alike were plastered with political propaganda posters back in the summer about a hundred political parties fight for seats in parliament but in the end only thirty parties were allowed to take part in the elections before the polls got underway they had been seen as a crucial event with far reaching ramifications for the nation they were to pave the way for a constitutional reform marking the transition from a presidential republic to a parliamentary republic. we will work in a serious and responsible spirit. to make sure that the parliamentary elections do take place and are held in a peaceful atmosphere in conformity with the election code. republic.

contrary to expectations the election passed off in a camera atmosphere but when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of purpose politics had swayed again. the election to be won by the other party consisting of supporters of ex-president baqir who was deposed in april. the leaders should stick their political ambitions up you know what get down to economic matters why because we have a deficit of nearly fifty percent of the total budget people all across the soviet union used to say that she has done was an owl of democracy. they describe their people as democratically mindedly. ali mandela unbuyable was one of those who helped bring about the able revolution she attended rallies outside the government building for three days in a row the protesters say they will not allow a counter revolution to happen that's how the people who took posed by kiev have

dubbed the electoral victory of the as a short party our mouths were stolen by the others your party those were i'm fair elections. this is the kurdish version of a question polo the carcass of a gold is the ball in this traditional game game of both teams to kick the goat carcass into the goal him and back captain of a local team is a promising player but in april he took part in a far more fascinating competition involving a mass of people at the time he and friends went to bishkek to topple president by kiev even back maintains that curtis politics and his favorite game are all in common. this game is like politics you pick the two teams chase a goat it's almost like chasing power in bishkek it's the political technique of the game. local politics is based on a tense standoff between industrial regions in the country's north and impoverished

agrarian regions in the south they represent two teams trying to seize power from each other. first cargoes presidents ask archaia comes from the north he was toppled by the south's common back by kiev truculent assume those are a close knit community they help one another as best they can. fellow soldiers to keep posts in and sack locals living in this north. does any quality. help each other. before but kiev came to power girl and had served in the local police for a long time he was born in bishkek when becky of became president was replaced with someone from the south. now makes a living as a postman this time he is leaving bishkek for the place he dislikes most of all the country southern capital of all she.

burnt out neighborhoods and looted shops serve as a reminder of a vicious conflict the ethnic standoff between curtis and whose backs. the border between kurdistan and his back stan was drawn in soviet times it didn't matter that a dense population was part of the cargoes republic after all it was part of a single country the soviet union however interethnic violence erupted following the collapse of the us s. r. one of the bloodiest confrontations began in the early hours of june eleventh two thousand and ten and lasted for nearly five days.

the city of austin instantly fell into two camps people wrote their identities on the walls of their houses to indicate to the tenant was. there were signs on some of them but help never arrived the city's administration was powerless throughout the riots break neighborhoods where ruined. if it was in your house my daughter wasn't in there i didn't even have the opportunity to make ourselves a town there when it was burned down where we left out in the cold. nobody knows how many people died in the cheering confrontation official figures put the death toll at more than three hundred and speak of nearly a thousand injured however locals are sure that the figures are several times higher i mean you can't then you have we never separated here it isn't it was backs were all muslims. being freight only have parents mothers. or

do they want. this is how the second attempt to build a house back in may he took pride in showing off his true story homestead to neighbors it had taken him three years to build it in the wake of the june chaos only the foundations remained but how the will is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities filled by little construction work goes on. if we have been in our homes and go somewhere we're will our homes be and what's the point of going anywhere this is our land our ancestors lived here no we aren't going anywhere we are going to build homes and live here. the house is unlikely to be completed anytime soon for now refugees live in tents camps. there is no running water it has to be taken from a well cooking has to be done inside the tent the only way to warm a home is with a fire or electric stove there are several such places and

a small memorial wall stands in the center of each one where pictures of the dead are posted. on you this his name is john said he serves as and weighs in in a mosque when all this happened i heard rumors saying the mosque had been set and find when i came there i saw that he was that there. i have been trying to do the mosque. this is the sixteenth century mosque which is the most remarkable site in. so far it's the only symbol of possible reconciliation in this divided country home locals encourages coming from the north pray together here there are two enviros backs who share the same fate. at.

the head of administration of the dying village of actors could have moved to the capital a long time ago as relatives live there and disconnect both a higher standard of living yet he stays in his native village but also only because of patriotism believes that actors will once again become as prosperous as a was in soviet times and many in kurdistan look to the country's future with optimism. that somebody will get down to work here sooner or later and it will go on and on our life will take its course and the village will be restored.

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