being on the kaiser report is the great pleasure to be here. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert my guest dr michael lodge and if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v dot ru until next time this is max keiser saying. twenty years ago or just country. where did it take.

this is all the headlines at home on the. diplomacy granted the u.n. security council between russia and someone so believe me it was north korea saying french all being the rebels breach was the un's resolution on the country. and eurozone crisis as portugal's credit stage is downgraded to junk by moody's rating agency which says there's been may need a new bailout just two months up to getting n.a.c. billion euro one shock waves have been felt across europe with the winning out of the cost of government boring drink in dead heat countries and from going into it's really. disappointing a disaster recovery budget of twenty five billion dollars japanese people remain in

desperate need not only oprah and then show us distance but also emotional support and there is devastated by the catastrophic ask tsunami. as the headlines up next we revisit kyrgyzstan to assess its existence just over a year after violent ethnic conflicts and. 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 standoff there 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 a 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 turning as the or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty bell as 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 at that time all our tours a village is 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 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 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 situation in

which. this is very very set. the factory was shut down in one thousand nine hundred two. many other factories inherited by the young state from the soviet union suffer the same fate. of. former soviet republic independence on august thirty first one thousand nine hundred one the country's population is five million. account for seventy percent of the total. who mostly live in the countries make up eighteen percent while russians account for eighty percent 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. vents 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 i lied. that here's a shot at us and bush does back i saw i can did falling to the ground right here his leg was bleeding so i thought if you with my body if you need to kill somebody kill me he is not guilty plea. at all the protesters demanded 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. think that. revolution was the name given to the events when the first card as 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. alexander even though for members the great enthusiasm but engulfed people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. after enforcements from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. in

a corner stop but when we realized that the house of cards was falling apart with the dozen spartacist with the hope that the president would step down. everybody was in a state of euphoria for. when president left the country. 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 and five alexander even of 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 cools the in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script will support from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine. that in the last one was virtually transformed into a coup. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of the russian air base of kansas 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 territory. notably the. affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. as a matter of fact russian military personnel have no problems in connection with the april lights. within the town of cairns it was a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to oppose the base and indeed there's no activity against it. the us serves as the air mobility of support in operations in afghanistan but

perhaps just as important to those that are assigned here is cultivating good maliciousness 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 massive international airport u.s. servicemen 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. yeah there is an airport near here most of the planes fly and 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 that even so airplanes come and go around the clock . relations between locals and the u.s. military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector rehab fields and

a fuel servicing 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 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 you know attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not corroborate the theory. that it's nonsense given that alexander was one hundred eighty centimeters tall and had filled one hundred sixty four and this metal chair had 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. bishkek appeared to if he did public demands that the u.s. base be closed but menace 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 butt 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. has been in the year in iraq is not a true journalist i saw some ways to go in the u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying to kill. i thought. it would take twenty seven days going to. be invited. i think the police started. this just. seems that.

it is four thousand two hundred meters above sea level. two hundred kilometers from here. to come toward the close of. this is the site of kurdistan most successful industrial. giant trucks bring tons of fuel from an open pit several hundred meters deep. this giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy jones. we now have. medium sized trucks i'm. sure you can see some of the

big ones. going on. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of enriched or. go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace. will be extracted from the or. draw. out it to it. and then it goes into this where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius. the gold is melted into a half to three hours. every two days. today will produce food. bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together. 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 and 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 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 willing to 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 causing us. we use dyed felt to make headgear. is handmade because we want to make. before the april revolution the crossmen 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 and tourists stayed away from the troubled republic

. just frankly selling goods made of felt was a very tough job. on april the seventh and eighth we have stood all custom missed in 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. 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. of the republic. contrary to expectations the election passed off in a camp atmosphere but when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of 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. because we have a deficit of nearly fifty percent of the total budget people all across the soviet union used to say that q. they describe people as democratically

mindedly. buyable 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 our knowledge through a stolen by the other party those were unfair elections. this is the kurdish version of a question polo but carcass of a gold is the ball in this traditional game them 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 him back maintains that curtis politics and his favorite game have a lot in common. but. this game is like politics 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 president comes from the north he was toppled by the south's common back because of. a 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 but kiev came to power and had served in the local police for a long time he was born in bishkek became president and 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 or reminder of a vicious conflict the ethnic standoff between curtis and 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 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 it was back neighborhoods where grew and out. vetoes in your house my daughter his husband and i have not even had the opportunity to make ourselves at home there 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 i mean you can't then you have never separated backs were 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 you know i knew this man his name is john said she served as i'm aware isn't in a mosque when all that happened to her room that same the mosque had been set and find when i came there i saw that he was dead he had been trying to defend the mosque and heard. her. all. this is the sixteenth century mosque which is the most remarkable site in. so far it is the only symbol of possible reconciliation in this divided country

home locals encourages coming from the north pray together here they are joined by those banks who share the same faith. that. 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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