again. not all unexploded ordinance is accidental eighty two nations are contaminated with landmines landmines that kill or maim fifteen to twenty thousand civilians per year in afghanistan there are ten to twelve landmine keratin in each the issue of landmines is a critical one in afghanistan and there are two ways that you can tell if they are they are present the first is of course if the grass hasn't been grazed the grass is tall and standing and there's no evidence that it's been eaten there are probably landmines in the shepherds are keeping their animals away but the second when the local people find land mines they tend to paint rocks and they paint them red on one side and white on the other and on the red side is where the land mines are located. ok they're like ok.

the problem is when you have a landslide or a flood which washes through a landmine area first of all the land mines are actually picked up and distributed across other areas and second the rocks become obviously mixed in jumbled up so we've been in a situation before we were driving down a road we came across a creek bed where flashflood actually washed landmines across the road so it was a major security risk and we couldn't actually move be on the road until we got some mine clearance people to come in. don't touch the boy seeing these children and listens to them so it's part of that awareness program run by the british team didn't have a favorite for their low cost and long charity land mines were laid heavily by both sides during the cambodian vietnamese war today the un estimates that ten million mines remain in cambodian soil. i had occasion to visit unarmed pan

a few years ago and it was probably the most depressing scene. that i've ever encountered someone there were countless cambodian men with their legs blown off above the knee who were scooting through the dirt begging in the marketplace. and they were for the most part mine victims. war is not healthy for anybody the combatants or the people who are caught up in it recent studies in iraq and mortality come up with the range of excess mortality in the tens of thousands. children are particularly fond of the effects of war in

a number of first states. one of the most disturbing studies that indicates the impact of war on children was a chain of expats from have it which went to iraq in the wake of the nine hundred ninety one call for the study chain estimated that the war and the sanctions that followed resulted in existence of fifty to seventy thousand iraqi children these children were dying at last numbers from simple infectious disease such as china for its cholera have the charges that said and the reason for that was a deliberate decision that was taken in the ninety ninety one war two to stroy iraq's electricity generating capacity and without the electricity sanitation water purification it say it can't happen says children are dying of economics of infectious to say so. it would not take very long just

a matter of weeks for washington d.c. or new york city to become pretty unlivable and if we didn't have electricity for water purification if we didn't have gasoline for our sanitation trucks to remove the garbage we would be overrun by rats and other vermin our water would become contaminated we would develop cholera and dysentery and typhus we would have plague and we have forgotten all of this especially when we go out and destroy the infrastructure of other countries. download the official auntie hamps acacia chobani phone oh i pod touch from the i.q. sampson. john t. life on the go. video on demand oxys money fuel costs and omissions feeds now with the palm of your.

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relations for mutual benefit russia and the u.k. agreeing not to allow their divided opinions on issues including the lift an ngo scandal and a resolution to the syrian crisis stand in the way of their political and economic partnership. answered by now whether or not prime minister david cameron would have been a good k.g.b. agent joined me and you can now wait for details from the kremlin. generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid for the soviets to share was built with russian belled. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering

a new wave of protests tough spending cuts. six pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story on the solve the issues in the russian u.k. relationship should not stand in the way of a healthy and profitable cooperation that's what the leaders of both countries concluded after their meeting at the kremlin or he's an isa now it has more on the outcome of the first visit by a british prime minister to russia for six years. president it's made of call the talks direct and constructive david cameron told them axel would be true leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points saying that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business a lot of talk at least in the news conference a lot of questions about the lives of indian koch and how that will if it will

really continue to in fact tries to remind you alexander litvinenko was a former russian security officer who was poisoned with polonium in tied in london i diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k. and russia after that british authorities want to tax to write the russian citizen on facebook oh boy but according to the russian constitution in fact article sixty one which president did reminded david cameron once again today doesn't allow for the russian federation to actually date its citizens to another country to be tried both sides saying that they don't want let's make it to affect any further growth by david cameron went as far to say that the issue is not part of what we will continue to grow in other spheres of the signal so it remains an issue between britain and russia and we haven't changed our position about that and the russians haven't changed their position but i don't think that means that we freeze the

entire relationship it's not parking an issue is just recognising there is a disagreement that hasn't changed the two countries are changing their arrangements because of it but we should work on our relationship beyond it to get through the years of course work together in many different formats including the g twenty the g eight the un security council in both sides spoke about that in terms of the most pressing international issues they spoke about libya and it turns out they spent most of their time speaking about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president medvedev. pointed out that he is for you it doesn't think what's happening in syria is right and something needs to be done but by no means can this turn in to another libya let's just get russia believes the resolution on syria should be tough but at the same time to dress to both teams in the syrian conflict president assad and the opposition only then can such a resolution succeed it should be tough but not automatically sanctions syria is

already under e.u. and u.s. sanctions it doesn't need additional pressure so certainly no major breakthrough in british russian relations but a very positive atmosphere considering that a british official at that level hasn't been in moscow on a visit like this in so long positive atmosphere lots of laughs in fact one of the last questions asked that news conference by the b.b.c. to david cameron asking him about rumors that he was possibly recruited or attempted to be recruited into the k.g.b. back in the ninety's cameron said he doesn't think he would be a very good k.g.b. agent president maybe to beg to differ. i'm pretty sure that david would be a good k.g.b. agent but in this case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister the official visit at this level ended on quite a light no lots of laughs there after that joke about the k.g.b. and david cameron also back with prime minister vladimir putin and members of the

civil society were the focus there was on human rights. professor of politics of the university of kent dr adrian pabst says the u.k. and russia are currently facing many similar economic difficulties that together they could overcome. but britain and russia suffer from a lack of diversification just as britain depends too much on financial services so russia tends too much from certain natural resources like oil and gas that both economy can diversify but it's not just a national issue and this is also a global issue we know that a huge imbalance and there's a lot of hot money circulating that money needs to be channeled into productive activities in britain in russia and elsewhere and i think there is mutual benefit from cooperate in areas like technology where britain and certainly helped russia explore some of its natural resources we know this from energy and in other areas but also you know russian investment in britain is also important to all sorts of areas like civil aviation even the car industry where the two countries couldn't

visit some form of technological exchange you need to build a high tech manufacturing in india industrial base across europe and it seems to me that britain and russia have a lot to cooperate on precisely in this field. russia and the u.k. mall their differences over approaches to the crisis in syria moscow was steaming ahead with efforts to mediate peace russian lawmakers are hosting a delegation from damascus after holding talks with the opposition last week president bashar al assad's advisor says her country would appreciate a fact finding mission by russian officials which moscow has promised to say anti-government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with a regime responding by brutally cracking down on them at least twenty six hundred people said to have been killed russia wants the u.n. to take action that will push the warring sides toward dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement out it democratic reforms but the u.s. and its allies want a more aggressive approach that will target the regime and i've already called for assad to step down. iran's boosh air nuclear plant has officially begun operating

and now providing electricity into the country's grid it's the first such facility in the entire middle east region iranian and russian officials attended the launch ceremony the facility came online september third after a number of different tests were successfully completed russia which helped build the plant were also provided with necessary to fuel neuron will return the spent fuel to russia to ease western concerns over the country's uranium enrichment program tehran has once again stressed that its atomic ambitions were peaceful and not aimed at building nuclear weapons russia's energy minister praised the efforts and the cooperation and promised similar projects in the future. if you want to use them. to give who would know you really incompetence when through difficulties and problems building the plans and today we can be proud to the results that are drawing the attention of the whole world i'm sure to the cooperation in creating the station and developing the nuclear energy projects will be distinguished the

atmosphere we created while working together is. stay with us here on r t coming your way shortly we pay a visit to the beach county the that has its own a ruler and even prince its own cash is a benzo break away from rome. global markets slumped monday over fears that italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament for the final debate the government plans to make changes in the way its rural communities are run but some people are starting to lose faith in the government's ability to make the right decisions for bennett one one to one a rebellious town hoping to break free of the rule of rome. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money

a man on the new note says town mayor lucas solari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when you're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants all towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila teano and it's may have put the chop there. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing they should get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their

poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up the term and to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time at the moment these notes aren't legal tender they're just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here businesses . it's always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new

currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course attracting people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion but he'll have a fight on his hands phillip tino is the source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett. filipino italy. well as financial was echoed deeper inside the euro zone and fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro able to contain its debt crisis you know how about over about editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine thinks christian jump ship but the greek economy is in an outright depression now keep the king at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more

close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the but it's a true asian is out of control so there's no way the greek and greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can see from these within the euro zone greece will have to exit it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example cortical maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. greece is planning to impose a new property tax to address its budget deficit thousands of people joining together at the weekend to protest against the cuts and increase taxes imposed to secure international rescue loans a little later we speak with

a greek member of parliament who believes eurozone membership has harmed not helped his country's financial well being. with the help of the european union greek foreign most have stopped producing can you imagine the country like greece right now con feed its people we don't produce enough meat we don't produce enough we even the oil we are importing and we had the scheme from the good opinion that farmers were paid so that they wouldn't reduce anything. we destroyed. maimed the main assets of our economy the investments that were made to europe. only to germany you know what's the biggest investment it's made in greece for the past ten years super markets. and we ended up buying german productions buying german because maybe greece borrowed

a lot of money the past ten years they do you know from germany especially. how much money germany has made out of greece the past ten years you'll discover that it's more than what we borrowed. there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in mark hill in southern france one person confirmed killed several others injured. a fire in a processing area of the site officials earlier warned of a possible radiation leak but say no emissions have so far been detected visibility handles nuclear waste with low levels of radioactivity let's get reaction now from french anti-nuclear activists any laurie melody. thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so french authorities have been quick to downplay the acts of the saying there was no risk to the area around the facility but are the french people around still worried. well the french people around there and all the tracks are

not informed at all. several hours before the authorities would even declare the accident and handling no specific confined measures are being taken put children or people to be safe and our friends as the world's largest consumer of nuclear power with some eighty percent of its power coming from atomic energy and of course the neighbors are germany and switzerland they've abandoned their nuclear plans is it possible that france could go that same way. but of course it's an organisation like mine works for that purpose. and we just hope that. cuckoo she. has opened the eyes of most of the population but the government kept on blindly self with nuclear power and fortunately today again we have a new explosion and again measures of good information are at least retention

and essentially out so it's very hard to tell if the government is ready now to take the necessary measures to phase out the air france is also the world's largest exporter of energy wouldn't cutting down on atomic energy hit the whole of europe which is already reeling from the blow of the economic crisis going on right now. but of course the numbers can be discussed if you listen to the french grown that or the french nuclear industry of course where an expert dr of energy but when you look at actual numbers we do important e.g. especially brown since in winter when the weather is too cold and our nuclear power plants can provide sufficient electricity provisioning among other things so. it is possible to raise a nuclear now and prevent further risks and further danger and which the probably has to live for the first power play in france was open your early fifteen years ago and this is the first accident that's resulted in the loss of life doesn't that

make nuclear energy a relatively safe bet for the french. shooting into account small to average accidents occurring in france you have an average of more than two incidents during every day in france for a year and that's according to the official numbers from the french authorities for two thousand and nine two thousand and ten and the other thing is how many does the us fear it's internet extend you can serious or it disaster because light is happening right now in markel will probably have effects on the environment. that is what are and also very potentially in place we don't take quickly measures necessary to protect the people. of france and french and i look right at us to any laurie m l a dictator. ancora has warned israel it faces growing regional isolation as the perfect prime minister heads for

a recent visit to egypt. as expected to cement closer ties with cairo with both countries having recently strained relations with television on friday night a raging mob in egypt's capital stormed and sacked the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee her ex felt israeli diplomats over last week over televisa refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine turks during our last year's raid on a gaza about aid flotilla turkey's prime minister says the attack was a cause for war but his country chose torah frayne from aggression middle east analyst jonathan says the implications of the arab spring made israel's isolation unavoidable. it's important to remember that there are there approaches underway in the region right now which are in no way in which israel can in no way really exert any influence we are in the midst it might be said of a tectonic shift actually instituted picture of the middle east the government in egypt wants to continue to have a general atmosphere of known simply to israel and so western and so is really

rhetoric and at the same time in reality they are dependent on american support and one of the aspects of turkey's move towards making a bid for regional leadership is once again the very distinct cooling of the put it mildly its relations with israel so these approaches is of historical magnitude which israel can't really influence israel in a certain sense is only going to be able to pursue a policy of damage limitation hoping very much to keep these relationships with egypt with as much track as they possibly can it doesn't really matter right now exactly what israel does israel is going to be increasingly isolated it's going to be put in a very defensive situation and that i think is the reality in the region we're looking forward to at the moment. the only surviving hockey player of wednesday's locomotive jaroslava plane crash has died in a hospital twenty six year old alexander gallon of suffering from severe burns to his body and respiratory tract the plane carrying russia's k h l hockey team crashed in central russia last week the squad had been heading to belarus for their

first game of the season when one hundred thousand mourners gathered to honor the players in their hometown with ceremonies also held in their native countries of the foreign players who were killed a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor of the forty five people who are aboard doctors say his condition is serious but state. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thirty two people close to libya's foreign leader moammar gadhafi have fled anywhere in the last ten days the news comes amid ongoing fighting between rebels and loyalist troops in bani walid one of the for those final strongholds located one hundred forty kilometers southeast of tripoli but off these fighters ignored the surrender deadline given by rebels that expired last week the colonel son saadi had also fled uni's air while the whereabouts of the man himself colonel gadhafi who vowed to stay in the country till the very end remain unknown. but one hundred people have reportedly been killed by a fire in a pipeline in kenya's capital nairobi more than eighty were injured and rushed to

nearby hospitals witnesses said the pipeline that passes through a little slow burst monday morning officials suspect some of the victims may have been draining fuel from the pipe when the fire started. yemeni president ali abdullah saleh has authorized a deputy to discuss transfer of power with the opposition it follows months of political turmoil triggered by massive protests against the country's long time ruler more than one thousand people are believed to have killed during clashes between anti-government activists and security forces. and you can all find all the latest news any time on our website r.t. dot com there's a click away right now. ninety percent of afghans are unaware of the september eleventh attacks or the reasons behind their country's near decade long occupation by foreign forces but about it online. to russia dominates the london irrational film festival getting multiple entries including alexander.