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we. know that you're working hard to live from moscow these are the top stories germany wants an hour of credit ratings agencies to occur after moody's put forth to have risk of a second bailout but as a new i am after she tries to prove she's prioritizing europe's dad drain the media service remains transfixed by the sex scandal that toppled her predecessor. the un's findings into last year's fatal gaza aid flotilla radar due to be released but israel refuses to apologize to turkey for killing nine of its citizens on board
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. and laser rule again and are putting air passengers in russia at risk by blinding pilots with the powerful beams of light as the land more than fifty paces of lasers shown into the cockpit have been reported this year. so the top stories next we'll revisit kyrgyzstan to assess its post soviet existence after a year in violent ethnic conflicts and revolution. kurdistan a 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 i cultural south. and kurdistan to overcome its
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political and ethnic standoff could 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 the village of act chose as 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 a look at leisure minded honestly or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty delos 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 at that time all our tours are villagers work here but even that was not
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enough so they bought workers from other places what they were about for the head of administration is showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium ore. value of the war from the open pit was brought here it was processed concern to the laboratory for further tests. 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 east as we crusader and the. tiny patch of land one back in the mountains a few sheep and two cows that's all that the only russian family left in the village has to survive on you know power sankoh and her husband worked at the
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factory until nine hundred ninety two. sargent's not only by the situation in which we see the same mess we're in this is very very sad . 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 kurdistan won independence on august thirty first one thousand nine hundred one the country's population is five million kurds account for seventy percent of the total those banks mostly live in the country south make up its percent while 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 tulip
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revolution from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten coming back but he was head of state he lost power following events on april seventh two thousand and ten. sharpshooters were firing from here they stood upright staking out their heads they were there and they're everywhere. by of a was among the thousands who took to the streets of biscay on april seventh two thousand and ten. those events were later the second card is revolution on that day demonstrators only wanted the authorities to heed their grievances their response was gunfire. ah. 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 cornered him with my body if you need to kill somebody kill me he's not guilty. the protesters
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demanded the resignation of the. it's leaders especially presidents come and take back you. know. the irony of the situation with the five years before bucky of came to power in the wake of a similar uprising i. should look revolution was the name given to the events when the first kurdish 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. alexander even though remembers the great enthusiasm that engulfed people gathered
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in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. after a enforcements from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace and bishkek. understood but 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. when president i kind of left the country coming back by kiev 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. if 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
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this regime will be toppled 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 a violently after the cools. and the world in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script will score from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and the two of revolution in can you start out of the so last one was virtually transformed into a cool. bit of idle 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.
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that hit that. our job is to protect installations which are situated in curious territory. notably the county airbase affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. as a matter of fact russian military personnel had no problems in connection with the people whites. the efi of these 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 visit against it.
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but us airways serves as the air mobility house board operations against but perhaps just as important to those that are assigned here because very good maliciousness with the local people this trailer is taken from the website of a us air base which is situated close to can't stress it shares a runway with menace international airports u.s. service men claim they get along well with the 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. three of them there is an airport near here to the please find 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
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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 north 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 how come we don't know. it is still unclear why the private behave the way he did according to how it feels he fired in self-defense because he claims 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 half built 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 setting deal. bishkek appeared to have
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heated public demands that the u.s. space 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 government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from curtis territory. those troops 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 and we have taken part in the latest revolution to total a 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 gathered strength following the second level lucian it took scores of political parties only
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a few months to emerge on the political scene in order to contest parliamentary seats. the prospect of new elections that 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. mission
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free credit cation free comes for charges free coming from the free risk free stooge types free. download free broadcast plug in video for your media projects and free media don carty dot com. 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 of to come toward the close and. this is the site of
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kurdistan's most successful industrial plants giant truck spring tons of fall from an open pit several hundred meters deep. this giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy tons. we now have thirty two medium sized dump trucks i'm still was. there you can see some of the big ones behind me. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of a rich or. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting for us their gold will be extracted from the or. the focus because the residue is dr henry agents are added to it. and then it goes into this open where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius the city of
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the coldest melted into a half to three hours we still cold every two days so today we'll produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces altogether. the computer pitch 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 basic they are confident that they will be able to come to terms with any regime. we have good cooperation his government. ration. people. were able to work. to meet our.
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contributor. budget in kurdistan. told production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely allen korean country nearly half its population is employed and i for culture and history 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 press fell three times by found
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to make it causing us to. be used dyed felts make phadke it. is hundred days because we want to make sure that it is this wearing tan. 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 it was a very tough job. and they pulled a seventh and eighth we have to tell 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
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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 constitutional reform marking the transition from a presidential republic to a parliamentary republic. and. we will work in the serious and responsible spirit. to make sure that the parliamentary elections to take place and they're held in a peaceful atmosphere in conformity with the election. contrary to expectations the election passed off in a cam atmosphere but when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of curtis politics had swayed again. the election had be won by the other
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party consisting of supporters of ex president back here it was deposed in april. the 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 cuba stunt was an owl of democracy. they describe their people as democratically mindedly. buyable 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 are supposed by kiev have dug electoral victory of the as a short party are both were stolen by the other party those were i'm fair elections . this is the kurdish
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version of a question polo. the carcass of a gold is the ball in this traditional game them of both teams to kick the goat carcass into the goal him and 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 stoppel president ikea mbak maintains the card is politics and his favorite game a lot in common. but. this game is like politics 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 card as president as comes from the north he was toppled by the south kurmanbek bakiyev truculent those are
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a close knit community they helped one another as best they can. to keep. and sack locals living in this north. does. help each other. before but he came to power had served in the local police for a long time he was born in bishkek when bakiev 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 or she. burnt out neighborhoods and looted shops serve as a reminder of
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a vicious conflict. ethnic standoff between curtis and backs. the border between kurdistan and his back stan was drawn in soviet times it didn't matter the population was part of the carcass for public after all it was part of a single country the soviet union. interethnic violence erupted following the collapse of the u.s.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 who the tenant was. there were signs on some of them but help never arrived the city's administration was powerless throughout the
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riots neighborhoods. vito's in your house my daughter her husband and i have not even had the opportunity to make ourselves at home fair when it was burned down we were 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 the figures are several times higher i mean you've got them you have been there we never separated carriages and backs were all muslims. break down they have parents mothers. onto the ones. this is how big of 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
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only the foundations remains but have a bull out is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities little by little construction work goes on. if we have been in 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 any time 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 of course a small memorial wall stands in the center of each one where pictures of the dead are posted. i knew this man his name is john said he served as an weighs in in
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a mosque when all that happened to heard rumors saying the mosque had been set on fire when i came there i saw that he was that he had been trying to defend the mosque. this is the sixteenth century mosque which is the most remarkable site in our show so far 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 blacks who share the same faith. at. 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 boasts a higher standard of living yet he stays in his native village but felt solely
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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 the 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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