i love. from moscow to do you see to new york this is our t.v. broadcasting live glad to have you with us let's get right your top headlines the leaning tower of berlusconi finally falls the italian prime minister stands down after parliament approves a new austerity package intended as a last line of defense against crumbling confidence in its economy mr berlusconi was met with jeers and cheers at the presidential palace where he handed in his resignation his likely successor his of euro crowd mario monti. the dark clouds of a european it overshadow the apec summit in hawaii as the top asia pacific

economies look to limit the fallout and prevent another global recession divisions persist however with china and the u.s. failing to see eye to eye on how to promote trade in the pacific when. the arab league votes to suspend syria and for days recommending sanctions against the country in an effort to force president assad to end the deadly unrest that's claimed more than three and a half thousand lives remove one of the support of washington and the e.u. while critics are concerned there could be a repeat of the libya military intervention of. the global occupy movement continues to gain strength in germany as thousands take to the streets of the country's political and financial capitals commending the government bringing in corporate greed but unlike other occupy movements the german group has won some support from mainstream political parties. more news coming up at the top of the hour next our special report reveals how toxic the american pharmaceutical industry

can get in pursuit of profit stay with us for the. do you thousand and two the top ten drug companies in america made more profits than four hundred ninety of america's wealthiest companies combined helping raise profits are cancer drugs which in two thousand and five alone rose nearly sixteen percent compared to three percent for other prescriptions. today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing in a ministration in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress food and drugs act and the united states and them food and drugs and canada are not being abided by this is

a very serious problem this is been the fight that i have fought for now for the last twenty years in canada and together with my colleagues and my union and a lot of other people and as a result agrees three of us ultimately were fired by health canada four years it took to build up this b.s. and ultimately fired us and saying we should pass everything that america passes and you see we cannot we are a country with a sovereign country we have to solve or not none of us refused to conduct our work if this insubordination to pass drugs of questionable safety or harmful products then of course we want to be in support if that's the way it is let the canadian government see that that this is what they're fighting us for big companies pressure to get is fired this where the longer the weird the more time

they get to continue doing what they're doing. they have got at least ten years it may take longer to keep selling the same stuff and damaging the health of people who make profits on the backs of people's health that was the insubordination. the is . the is the same chemical companies that brought us

pesticides chlorine and dioxins i've known worked on a new frontier biotechnology. this new technology has been used to transfer genes from one organism to another and has subsequently enabled companies to patent and own the organisms that page unethically modify that means that seeds plants and even trees which are modified using this technology can be privately owned by corporations for the first time in history. all right i'll sleep with a lot or much i want there is for some safe. they said well yeah we've got some but them and their expensive seat is how much all that a lot of that what the wards now but they was quite a bit over. and. i didn't silent graeme with them they didn't ask me styling because somebody asked them barring that somebody had done bottom and kill them out and bought a mat so are down and plant this and you can be white classified on

top of that's our deal as i want the end of the plant and then i this buy him out with the last flick i'll watch colorado as well silas. but anyway i saved. and that was when most i like on them that i'm you know they say they got a patent on it there's no you can't have a patent was the cause mother nature bottom line so the guys at the seed he said he forgot to have you sign a license and just said here is a new bag of seed and the state was brought back by somebody else somebody that signed off on he want to get women because they didn't want people knowing where most not a lawyer but he got a deposition what he really did back asleep as a star i said i don't ever rate

a back seat because i'm be too busy working and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running here is the most great that was followed by one of most are represented that's not my hand right that's a nice my hand right now after this in my hand right now right here all the way down that's my hand right as i look anything it cost me five thousand dollars to prove that that was not my man right and judge wright is simple would not allow this to be and the state's our justice system lately sucks a little he sucks it's just a corrupt company. mr alf was fined over two point nine million dollars for patent infringement in regards to state and see. the district judge mr else case was ready simple a former attorney who worked at

a law firm that represents monsanto and who is listed as one of monsanto's attorneys in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven class action lawsuit. from two thousand two thousand and eight bradley said was the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was the plaintiff or defendant eleven cases were ruled in monsanto's favor . i found that the original research grants came from the new york foundation and that was the rockefeller foundation and that they had spent over one hundred million dollars of their foundation money to finance scientists around the world to do research to try to clean modify some of the basic food seeds of the human food trade on the animal food chain and the more i researched into this the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swifts and cantor but the three

main companies and one among them was dominant and that's monsanto that these what i call in the book the four horsemen of the apocalypse these private seed companies they were originally chemical companies. steam poised within five or ten years at the rate they were going to dominate the basic seeds and patent those seeds that much power concentrated into four corporate entities three of whom have decades long track record of fraud deception lying to the public about the dangers of the dangers of agent orange and vietnam war and after and so forth. that really set off the alarm bells for me. when. i got involved in the g.m.

issue because it was a new technology bringing opportunities of i still see them as often politically. i was the only the to support her that she took part in four years of trawling. they were the monsanto of the grave i said gentlemen they were all in this grouping in the greens to the father the trial work which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not just canonically did spring and winter and i did both a on the farm collector a grow spring right occasionally when i have to when i have a failure in the winter so i did both of those trials almost on for three years did the first year as a winter protocol here when they decided exactly how they are with us at the trial . a to get inside me long to realize that these walls potentially simpler way to fall and therefore it was cheaper therefore we could double benefits

that could be seen to be bad to be passed on if you use j. for me to grow and if the price of the end product came down i could stupid use it is an offer the end of that i'll go up to make a margin whatever i'm doing as it happens because of the technology we were also finding the g.m. crops yielded a bit more than a conventional call in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing a little. after what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we'll have we have a herbicides tolerant tree that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have a beach a tree that will. protect farmers are pretty crops from some days some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage and there's a still a constant battle being in yang going on between researchers and the companies just to show whether or not this really does work or not. we're not seeing increased

food production we're not seeing increased benefits to farmers in terms of their production costs were nasim proved nutritional qualities in an earlier and are on our table so there really isn't a clear benefits. the .

everywhere you go this is seen through the room we see it is certain to apply for grants. to come from the phone companies on the the campuses. list students from the beginning who can do a ph d. and in what subject and whether they can publish those materials because they're not known by the us so it's wherever you go there is this kind of corruption going on this is not science. the people who want to administer the park are not competent or even qualified or educated in science these are accountants these are the lawyers these are the m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this room or

something to have become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified food it's interesting john yeah i think it's definitely safe but as long as there's a regulation there's been research and everything there's. no research showing that it's not safe or that there's any difference between it and regular not modified from scholarships they give us caution oh yeah there's lots yeah lots from santo. than yeah all the different chemical companies and everything like that for sure. so yeah they're getting involved in there's definitely have. a presence on campus for sure. it is the first time in the history of mankind that we have been able to engineer the genetic inheritance of living beings

a man it would be wise to ask if there are side effects and to check on them when you insert artificial genes anywhere by bombarding an organism the plants general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible here or. if somebody could prove that g m o's are dangerous and really good. for us. we've been very positive because he would have arguments that there would be. as long. as nobody has got them and. it's better to go from thinking that. there is no reason why did you monsanto made p c p is they were a huge chemical company and they own ninety percent of the biotechnology patents so we took some of those g.m. corn i was part of the commission which was assessing this corn. and we said where are the blood tests firstly tests on rats didn't go beyond three months which

was crazy they concealed the results not from the commission from the public there were effects many others on the commission said no it doesn't matter we said we must at least start over but we didn't so we asked her to be made public that we had to go to a court of appeal monsanto went before the courts to stop the world's scientists and the general public from seeing the blood tests on rats they're genetically modified corn for only three months. because you can you imagine. the world's largest company which sells the most herbicide and which sells virtually the most g.m. seeds in the world goes to court to prevent disclosing blood test results of rats who ate their g.m.o. foods for only three months that's crazy. so we published the effects that we had observed there was a forty eight percent increase in fat

a ten percent increase in sugar in the females an increase in liver with an increase in body which. resembled a pre-diabetic symptom the rats urine samples were abnormal particularly in the male rats the rats lost wit their livers were affected. in the past thirty years there have been no government tests. all the world's drugs only tested by pharmaceutical companies the same goes for pesticides. in the late one nine hundred ninety s. patrick to go but see that his local organic supplier the seeds turned out to be contaminated with dmoz so he filed a complaint when cover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr pickard who was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in

a class action lawsuit against monsanto dupont dow chemical astra zeneca and novartis international accusing them of engaging in any trust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidentally the judge was rightly simple the same judge as in mr ross case the case was ruled in favor of the chemical companies. the gene in my field was a pittance monsanto gene which was sold to me in seeds by as girl which is a monsanto subsidiary i agreed to take part in a class action lawsuit in the united states so in two thousand i went to washington d.c. to testify and to answer the questions asked by monsanto's lawyers all day they asked questions such as do you know your neighbors names by much tax do you pay and where nothing to do with g.m.

seeds. tended to meetings at the ministry of agriculture recently during which they tried to impose on a bill for a ministerial order for coexistence determining a twenty five yard distance between two fields of corn. that means that my neighbor g.m. crops twenty five yards away from my field and yet we officially proved in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven that plant three hundred yards away was contaminated. maybe there's not much organic corn today. maybe there is someone with five acres of organic corn surrounded by people with five hundred acres of g.m. corn. so he's not important you can just die out that's the situation if you're small you don't matter any make room for those who will feed the world.

big farmers in my group managers will feed the world having poisoned it for years it's unbelievable their objective is obvious they want to sell the seeds in the harbourside with the same company makes them both the objectivist deliberate the farmer or to make them independent it isn't to make a better product for the consumer. the problem is pesticides and g.m. owes. what does eating g.m. food do to our d.n.a. chain to our cells and to our children cells we don't know. for the past twelve years genetically modified crops have been growing on a large scale around the world they feed both us and our animals we haven't observed any problems due to g.m. consumption it's either direct or indirect this french farmer is completely self-sufficient along with four hundred fifty million other farmers worldwide the

practice is organic cultural farming compared to conventional chemical agriculture this type of farming produces soil with three times more earthworms produces eighty percent more yields in developing nations and fruits and vegetables that are up to forty percent more nutritious studies even show that this type of organic farming could feed today's population and more so why do governments still give the majority of subsidies to conventional chemical farming companies claim we need g.m. crops to feed the world. if this is the case then why in america where g.m. crops have been commercialized the longest are thirty five million americans still food insecure. seal makes period if you experiment with something without any follow up it's almost criminal off a plastic enough because what we're doing isn't very serious him understand you don't feel it yet that's what every government has done because biotechnology is

their religion they think it will develop so that it will be goods law but that's just a belief because of it will be yeah it's just like when we were told the earth was flat well you could rather than the reality of e.g. here in handy. there someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife at the pride they did nurit it sure was my right she does that carried my name say she's professor part of the it's not professor post they explained it to her that. if if they repeated the study a fan's civilization's that one week. they would be able to hush

it up again it's runs it was bad enough. twice it's sort post impossible what i got it also as the most important single father studies is that there is and even responds. and in each case since then whatever the d.m. was they looked at the indian status of the animal was they always found that it was the hardest when you looked at the rat who had been having way and g.m. in the clip that was illuminated and that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent or wants the same then the length should be the identical but it wasn't so local hall and the sternal tract really aligning was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence that there was

a group factor at work if you apply that to a transition lesion in the human for example with a lot of your software goes if you apply the growth factor of the vera then you might estimate the development of malignancy at the lure of your surface and similarly in the stomach there's once again transition lesions there which normally will take time to develop into cancer the gut and its immune system the guards this as for it material it's almost like an infection it's not an infection but the immune system just sees something coming in as strange for it and it has to react to it i just think that. it was highly irresponsible to foist on

us something that was not properly exile made. and we are made to. be exposed to it that's highly irresponsible or in fact i would say that it's probably criminal but they have this sense to be monsanto e.s.f. they are dupont dow chemical. and astra zeneca declined to be interviewed for this film. a. six.

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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough inpatient beds not enough heard mercy department beds and not enough nurses commandoes desk to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to be a mass and i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the guard approaching this medical but that a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours i wouldn't say it's a frances and we went for four hours and fifty minutes staring at the wall and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care.