culture is the same again similarly each visit is a red herring on the mark when the united nations tribunals has indicted some members of the lebanese shia movement hezbollah for the assassination of the former

lebanese prime minister. up. it's now a five to thirty pm scuse me here in the russian capital your dog teodor recover the headlines now i don't shining a light on the web of international terror russia publishes a declassified list of people and groups it says a financing extremist in the north caucasus. and the euro's a world took a turn for the worse sus portugal's debt gets downgraded to junk status with panic spreading out a way. germany is reportedly planning to sell its two hundred battle tanks to saudi arabia in a move sparking human rights concerns under condemned by opposition politicians in the. japan approves

a second disaster recovery budget devastated communities call out for more psychological support and fears bro over radiation levels in the area around. and those are the main headlines here in r.t. but do stay with us next week revisit could get stunned to assess its post soviet existence after a year that seen violent ethnic conflicts and a revolution you're watching out. 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 the developed north and i call cultural south.

kurdistan overcome its political and ethnic stand off to be a repetition of spontaneous riots involving a mass loss of life. and . tucked away in the mountains one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital bishkek is the village of actos 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 the word that these are mine don't use the or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty bellows trucks are brought in from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet terms they produce three hundred tons a day their time all arcturus villagers work here but even that was not enough so

they brought workers from other places. the head of administration as showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium ore. from the open pit was brought here it was processed and sent to the laboratory for further tests that. in the first months after kurdistan secession from the soviet union extracting the hazardous. as there were no. 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 that we grew. a tiny patch of land one back from the mountains a few sheep and two cows that's all that the only russian family left in the village has to survive on. sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until one

thousand nine hundred two. only by the. very that. the factory was shut down in one thousand nine hundred two. many other factories inherited by the young state from the soviet union suffered the same fate. former soviet republic independence on august thirty first one thousand nine hundred. five million accounts for seventy percent of the total. mostly live in the country south make up eighteen percent while russians account for eighty percent of the country's capital is bishkek. president from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five. in march two thousand and five he was deposed during the so-called. from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten. was head of state. on april seventh two thousand

and ten. sharpshooters firing from here. right now their heads they were there and they're everywhere. among the thousands who took to the streets. on a full 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 ah live lives. that here's a shot at us and bush does back i saw i could did falling to the ground right here his leg was bleeding i thought i heard him with my body if you need to kill somebody kill me he's not guilty plea. at all the

protesters demanding the resignation of the country's leaders especially president kurmanbek bakiyev loot. the irony of the situation was that five years before but kiev came to power in the wake of a similar uprising i. was. revolution was the name given to the events when the first targets president asked 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 remembers the great enthusiasm but engulfed people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. to re-enforce much from the

south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. in the corner store but when we realized that the house of cards was falling apart with the dozen sparred us with the hope that the president would step down. everybody was in a state of euphoria different. when president 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. gave top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even though it was a by kiev supporter in april two thousand and ten he joined street protesters once again. at that moment i already knew the situation and i said to myself this regime will be toppled to get them out or they will simply be torn to pieces.

and i think it's a natural epilogue for presidency and then you have me it's a typical ending for a government which came to violently after the cool. in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script will support from the rose revolution in georgia they orange revolution in ukraine. in. the last one was virtually transformed into a coup. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of the russian air base 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.

our job is to protect installations which are situated in territories. notably the county airbase affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. as a matter of fact russian military personnel have no problems in connection with the if it's. within the town of cancer it was a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to oppose the base and indeed there's no want to with the against it.

the last serves as the air mobility of supporting operations against them but perhaps just as important to those that are assigned here as cultivating good relationships with the local people this trailer is taken from the website of a us air base which is situated close to count strength it shares a runway with minus international airport u.s. service men claim they get along well with the locals. the fact is however that villagers 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 planes fly in some distance away but quite a few come here too and first lots of them flew around here but when people started complaining they turned it down a bit even so airplanes come and go around the clock. relations between

locals and the us military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector rehab field and a few servicemen truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private so on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexander was shot dead by an american soldier what shot dead 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 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 real. bishkek appeared to have heated public demands that the u.s. base be closed but mannus 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 black kiev government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from curtis territory. those crooks should have been brought to justice instead they contest elections we the young people of the cookies republic have been under the yoke of corrupt regimes for years we have fed up with the continuing cycle of deceit we have taken part in the latest revolution to topple the criminal regime and pay for it in our blood. in two thousand and ten rallies in central bishkek became just as routine as the changing of the guards kurdistan's political life gather 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. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on.

four thousand two hundred meters above sea level.

this is the site of. gold will be extracted from the or. missing since the cathode residue is dried and reagents 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 in two and a half to three hours we smell gold every two days. today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together it seems. the computer picked belongs to a 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 in bishkek they are confident that they will be able to come to terms with any regime. we have good cooperation his government good cooperation people. working. and able to meet our annual contribute. budget in kurdistan. production

accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely allen gregory in country nearly half of its population is employed in agriculture 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 to willing. buy locally produced carpets scarves and felt caps the items made by the small factory are quite costly because they are handmade. we pressed felt three

times by hand to make it hard enough. we use dyed felt to make headgear. is hundred 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 our customers from switzerland. 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 one 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. which 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. off the republic. contrary to expectations the election passed off in a cam atmosphere but when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of cargoes politics had swayed again. the election to be won by the party

consisting of supporters of ex president who was deposed in april. leaders should stick their political ambitions up you know what and get down to economic matters and why because we have a deficit of nearly fifty percent of the total budget people all across the soviet union used to say that curious dan was an owl of democracy. they describe people as democratically mindedly of course. was one of those who helped bring about the april 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 deposed by kiev have dubbed the electoral victory of the at a short party i know they were stolen by the agitation with party those were unfair elections. this is the

kurdish version of a question polo the carcass of a goat is the ball in this traditional game of both teams to kick the goat carcass into the goal him back captain of the 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. maintains that curtis politics and his favorite game have a lot in common. but. this game is like politics the two teams chasing. 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. first agrarian regions in the south they represent two teams trying to seize power from each other. first cargoes president comes from the north he was toppled by the.

close knit community they helped one another as best they can. to keep. and sack locals living in the north. does. help each other. before came to power and had served in the local police for a long time he was born and 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.

burnt out neighborhoods and looted shops service reminder of a vicious conflict the ethnic standoff between curtis and becks. 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 kurds republic after all it was part of a single country the soviet union however interethnic violence erupted following the collapse of the us s. or one of the bloodiest confrontations began in the early hours of june eleventh two thousand and ten and lasted for nearly five days. two camps. some of them.

vito's in your house my daughter her husband and i have not even had the opportunity to make ourselves a tome fair when it was burned down where we left out in the cold. nobody knows how many people died in the june 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 meet god then you have been we never separated backs we're all muslims. don't be afraid don't they have parents mothers fathers. what do they want. this is. second attempt to build a house back in may he took pride in showing off his two storey 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 he is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities little by little construction work goes on. if we abandon our homes and go somewhere where 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 tent 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. plain knew this man his name is john said he served as an weighs in in

a mosque when old it happened had rumors saying the mosque had been set and fine when i came there i saw that he was dead. had been trying to defend the mosque where the. 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. locals encourages coming from the north pray together here they are joined by those banks who share the same faith. and. the head of administration of the dying village of actors could have moved to the capital a long time ago his relatives live there and bishkek both a higher standard of living yet he stays in his native village but also only

because of patriotism he believes that actors will once again become as prosperous as a was in soviet times and many in kurdistan look to their country's future with optimism . somebody will get down to work here sooner or later and it will go on anon life will take its course and the village will be restored.

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