all three broadcasters quality video for your media projects and free media and john darche johnstown. for the full slate we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers r t. dominating the news tonight divers continuing to search overnight now for over one hundred people missing after the pleasure cruise and sank of a folder in central russia it went down in just three minutes but it's not yet known why some survivors of arrived in the city because. it's of the top stories of the week georgia's spy hunt has its charges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's not the russian image boosted by president saakashvili. and its killer deja vu friend rejections as they return to

terry's square to vent against the interim leaders they say stole the revolution while authorities ordered the suspension of police officers accused of killing protesters during that riggs uprising. that's the latest in our series exploring former soviet states now that manage to. manage since independence we take you now to. 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 cultural 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 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 these are mind turning is the or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty bella's trucks run it from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet times they produce three hundred tons a day and their time all arcturus villagers work here but even that was not enough so they brought workers from other places you what they were able to the head of

administration is showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium or. the war from the open pit was brought here it was processed and sent to the laboratory for further tests. fell into decay in the first months after kurdistan succession 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 threat issues 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 about all that the only russian family left in the village has to survive on. sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until nine hundred ninety two. i'm sorry we're sad and it'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 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 thousand nine hundred one the country's population is five million cards account 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. 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 julep 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 firing from here they stood upright sticking out their heads they were there and they're 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 littered 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 dead 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 is not guilty plea. the protesters demanded the resignation of the country. these leaders especially president

kurmanbek bakiyev. the irony of the situation with the five years before my kids 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 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 gulf 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. but we realized that the house of cards was falling apart. that inspired us with the hope that the president would step down. everybody was in a state of euphoria. when presidents are kind of left the country coming back but here came to power. the euphoria of account tries to chill up revolutionaries began evaporating only a year later when the new president chose to pursue the same policies that eventually toppled his previous answer. back if top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even though it was a bucket of support in april two thousand and ten he joined street protesters once again. i don't know much i already knew the situation and i said to myself this regime will be told 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 my pos presidency and then you have me it's a typical ending for a government which came to thorough violently after the cools. and the world in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script will support from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and the tube revolution in came to start at the last one was virtually transformed into a cool. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of a 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.

that hit. our job is to protect installations which are situated in shared his territory. notably the caldera base affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. as a matter of fact russian military personnel have no problems in connection with the able whites. within the town of cancer there is a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to close the base and indeed there's no activity against it with. the us there bracers as to where air mobility how supported operations are against

but perhaps just the support of those that are aside here is also very good deliciousness 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 airports u.s. service men claim they get along well with the locals. the fact is however the 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. you know them but there is an airport near here most of the planes flying some distance away and 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

e health field and a fuel service and truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private. on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexandre 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 you know 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 hole in the back we were told that the bullets went from top to bottom which simply proves that alexander was such a deal. this cake appeared to have heated public demands that the us base be closed but man us 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 buckey of government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from curtis 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 corrupt regimes for years we have fed up with the continuing cycle of deceit we have taken part in the latest revolution to topple 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 revolution it took scores of political parties only a few months to emerge on the political scene in order to contest parliamentary seats. the prospects of new elections inspired both hoping 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. wealthy

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because of. this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial towns giant trucks bring tons of pro-forma open pit several hundred meters deep. this giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy tons. we now have thirteen. medium sized dump trucks i'm thirteen mate was. do you can see some of the big ones there behind me going on. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of the rich or. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace their gold will be extracted from the or. the focus because the residue is draw it and

regions are added to it and then it goes into this autumn where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius since the gold is melted into a half to three hours we smelt gold every two days so today we'll produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together through. the computer pitch a long straight canadian firm for that reason the production process follows western standards every single piece of equipment and even the workers close 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 cooperation as government corporation. people. work. to.

contribute. to the. gold production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely allen prairie and country nearly half of its population is employed and i culture and history of 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 found to make it hard enough. we use dyes felt to make headgear. is hundred made because we want to make sure that it exists 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 had 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 are taking 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 of. 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 curtis politics had swayed again. the election of the one by the other party consisting of supporters of ex-president baqir it was deposed in april. the leaders should stick their political ambitions you know what 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 was an isle of democracy. they described our people as democratically mindedly. elie mandela unbuyable was one of those who helped bring about the ethical 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 posed by kiev have dubbed the electoral victory of the as a short party i know they were stolen by the other showed party those were unfair

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 the local team is a promising player but in april he took part in a far more fascinating competition involving a mass people at the time he and friends went to bishkek stubble president barchi of him and becoming teens the current is politics and his favorite game are all in common. this game is like politics you pick two teams chase a goat it's almost like chasing power in bishkek it's the political technique of the game making it. 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 cardus president ask archive comes from the north he was toppled

by the south come and get back here if you like as soon as are a close knit community they help one another as best they can. promote 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 have 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.

burns out neighborhoods and looted shops serve as a 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 kurds republic after all it was part of a single country the soviet union however 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 through 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 ruins. you have it was in your house my daughter doesn't 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 cheering confrontation official figures but 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 maybe a new car going you have been there we never separated backs were all muslims. don't be afraid don't they have parents. want to be ones. this is how we 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 having a ball 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 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 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. on usenet his name is john said he served as i'm aware isn't in a mosque when all that happened there 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. so far it is the only symbol of possible reconciliation in this divided country home locals encourages coming from the north pray together here their joint closed backs 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 . they have somebody who will get down to work here sooner or later and it will go on a non life will take its course and the village will be restored. well for. the latest in science and technology from around. we've done the future coverage.

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