you're watching the weekly from r t it's round to the top stories the last seven days from us and first time square is the scene of the most violent clashes in egypt since february revolution that toppled hosni mubarak protests have continued for more than a week now with growing calls for the military rulers to step down ahead of monday's elections. russia gets turned over the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe present a very of says small scale deployed overstrike systems unless it's assured it will not be a target at the same time the russian leader stressed the importance of dialogue

which moscow. i'm not even approaching the current prime minister of russia is formally nominated to run for the presidency next year it's kind of this it was proposed at united russia party convention on sunday and was given unanimous support by the delegates. next a special report for you about how the world's producing more food than ever before but still struggles to feed the planet's poorest not least because of the role of big business part one of dying in abundance next. was . was. the were i had to describe chicago's food market for theater play was i thought it would be easy to get the necessary information by asking

a few specialized stock brokers. was was was. but it wasn't like that was one of the people i asked were able to explain the norms that rule the stock market. was was was. i began to believe it was something that couldn't be explained or conceived by the human mind therefore it was something absurd the way in which the global grain production was being allocated was simply in comprehensible situation unbearable to everyone save a bunch of profiteers. was the they were they were.

this is by their hands are this way this is cell cancer this way. this is a quarter of a cent of the five trying to your bidding a quarter of a cent this would be off half so. was. mr victor lespinasse as a player on the chicago grain market. the chicago grain market is different from other stock markets as we know them. here it is. food that is bought and sold wheat corn rice soya all of oil milk animal and trails and even pigs stomachs and hundred thousand us might be at the desk and you fiction order into the pit you tell your broker hubei. two hundred at the market. will buy the two hundred and then he'll flash you back. two hundred and

say. seven and a half. hour you could say you could tell him cancel the order for us was was i who the chicago grain market is the biggest in the world and it sessions largely to find the prices of the food he put on the table every day who was it was created in eight hundred forty eight as an open and loud auction where the area's farmers would sell their crops to merchants. this practice hasn't changed much since then but the economy's ethics definitely have. us

who were with i i was. i. was everything has a sky. this is the sound we've gained perspective like this present. as socialist or unprecedented scale. this is. what i call silence tsunami it's not one storm hitting in one place this is something that knows no borders.

the routine meeting of the heads of u.n. agencies turned into a crisis summit as the world cup's the cost of not. letting . many places have come to me my traditional candidate for hunger pains me. and the countries of central plateau and vegetables trying to become stars obsessed in.

july. i. i. was on the scene children arrested riots about spicy food prices. but it was on rest for they took one song and beats him severely breaking both his legs my son called morkel speak now my son is dying. global warming and biofuels have been accused of causing the food shortages that

led to a dramatic increase in prices. unpredictable droughts have destroyed rice and wheat crops while a big part of the u.s. corn harvest is turned into fuel for cars and not for people. the classic theory of supply and demand offers a limited explanation as to why over the course of two years the prices of rice have gone up by two hundred seventeen percent of wheat by one hundred thirty six percent of corn by one hundred twenty five percent and of soya by one hundred seven percent there's sort of theoretical ways ascribing to saying it's greed and there's practical ways ascribing to save it's capitalism. certainly a food system which is has always been somewhat corrupt and is now at this point perhaps more in crisis and more corrupt than has ever been before here in history.

in wealthy countries an increase in food prices means more expensive products in the supermarket however in poorer nations it means hunger and death as most people come out of for them. i don't know that's that doesn't enter into my thinking i don't know i don't think about that i just i'm trying to figure out what the market's going to do. whether it was logical or not to me is beside the point. because what counts to me is what is the market's reaction going to be because i'm a speculator i'm trying to make money off the the movement in the price of grain.

prices maybe kit may have become a little. may have become too extended but the market acts really quite rationally it just takes some time for that rationality to come to fruition and to correct. until the market was corrected another seventy five million people were added to the list of the planet starved you know raising the total number to nine hundred twenty three million. and this happens at a moment when there is more production than ever in the last decade and there are still enough food to properly feed all the inhabitants of this planet or people have argued that it's because of increased demand for for meat and dairy products and india and china that's simply not true or superficially a negligible consideration. it is because of speculation because it's a commodity that food is

a commodity like like silver or gold that can be negotiated and hoarded to some degree and we're seeing that taking place the high rise of food is because food has been put on the building the scene and this will lead to mass massive starvation massive famines we have to bring food out of the international trading system we have to bring food back into national and local food sovereignity. while yet. but. let's. say. that. centrifuge.

india is the world's second biggest rice producer following china it is also third in terms of wheat production. so it would be expected to find low hunger and malnutrition and indicators in india . yet there are more people starving in this country than anywhere else over two hundred million and to complete the paradox they are mostly farmers. falling as well growing on food away. because grain is being sold to the chemicals and seeds this negative as i call it is the reason behind the world today

. as few. says here's. the thing. even if he seems to be mad he pradesh state has the highest levels of child malnutrition and therefore the country's highest infant death rate. the situation is as as critical. in africa's ethiopia. but the six per cent of the children that money that is to india and this is the. good but the next in family has something in my keeping the sixty percent and you can convert them into no multiple

six minute to no. more thinking about that. so these children have more probably dying from normandy and fifty percent of the on the free market is give the money. and the crisis has done but one p.p.b. today but. it's also has the bills and which is a direct impact on the internal consumption by each family member. dr van den i go well it works for unicef. the organization has set up feeding centers in cities and villages in collaboration with the government. and you know you cannot manage that however there are volunteer workers monitoring the children's weight and health and you think you could.

have caught on girl minkoff i know. you tell me. if. they are in charge of feeding them since their families are too poor to do so you. know this is a difficult case a lot of these children. her mother says she looks in feel good the morning she left it up till now she'll be back i don't know. but everything will need to complete if she just had to but this is morning and it is a very inadequate one good deal for. nineteen month old baby. if it sees the quality of her tears given inspire fear and hope as mission the it is actually the high. school. she had made up about

i'm circumvents isn't there john that is hundred and. that indicates that this journalist didn't see via the at your mother this day and she needs to be shown here they were perfect that you are in medical treatment. you believe you are going to mean. leave you. alone. i don't know the ways to parties how can we get tries before five queues of weed cost three four rupees now they cost fifty six to rupees how can people buy at. a bank what if there is only one person working in the family how he can only get so much if so what can the people do ask for

a loan should buy vegetables should they buy wheat we also need money for doctors don't we need money to go to the mill you do nothing with five kilos of wit what can one buy with just one salary. just a few. poor people have a big problem well very worried you can see now people have one two children and they can't even take care of them the children are always hungry the situation is dramatic. what can the poor do spend money on doctors feed their children well very worried. that. i back monitor the model that i get sixty rubles about one euro

a day. daily given that i spend forty to forty five rupees a day was. in the market the prices are very high. a kilo of oil costs eighty rupees a month it is very hard for us to buy it the thought of a field of five kilos of wheat or sixty will be a limit because you have prices have gone up a lot since last year but. if there is one person working and we eat twice a day there is nothing left. but. we can eat less and have a bit again but the children can be left without food on a little while and lead the life out ahead. fugitive. mother on a coming to live about the coming. out

that was. now cut. out was. was. the residents depend on the state for food. in every town and village little state shops have been set up selling food at very low prices good then the little with ninety rupees we buy thirty five kilos of food and we get along with that we go to the shop with our family coupon and they give us the equivalent amount. and. this is the biggest eight provision program in the world. to the corporate government so we have all of the border go look for a few million times what we can vary. and more. classes sixteen million tons

of food goods which makes. for. the biggest food grains trading company in the. in one thousand nine hundred seven india was forced to adapt its national provision system to the commands of the world bank and the world trade organization. providing cheap food to the people was against competition and the free market. as a result bid was greatly reduced we had it in advance of food distribution system that b.d.s. the world bank forced us to dismantle it as long as the system was in place the farmers had a guarantee. everyone had a gravity to affordable food get a piece of paper ration card because india's identity got with that russian pod you could walk to your corner shop and get the one two kills of accord with. the world

bank dismantle that so that the corporations would get the market that's why most people are hundred today than fifteen years ago that is why seventy percent of india's children are malnourished well india has a growth rate of nine percent look. at the same time the world trade organization convinced india into cancelling the limitations imposed on imports so important products flooded the market causing considerable damage to india's farming economy. before. we were going to do a producing ninety seven percent of the believe in your viewers in boarding only thirty percent would know we are importing forty seven percent he said he didn't know the full well most say. when food prices rocketed india like other countries limited to its exports in order to feed its own people i

will first response abilities but i won't be so if the places within the country didn't blow up we were doing all the missions going for this community a place is big in the country so many think he put a ban on. the export of off the ice for some time so that the prices stabilize. this provoked the wrath of the world trade organization which accused the country of causing a lot of damage to the free market no i thought it was an utterly illogical decision was a very bad decision in a world where free trade is is is always trying to grow and the world is smaller and trade is becoming freer i think that the process that india adopted was really quite illogical.

mr lespinasse gambles with foods by styles and of tons of rice and wheat in the future in other words he buys crops that don't get exist and you're not trading the actual cash physical grain you're trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future saul you might be trading grain that actually exists but you might just as well more often be trading grain that doesn't even exist yet. so you're trading promises and you're trading back and forth and if you make a promise to buy a certain price at a certain time you can tassel that by selling that same contract back into the market and that's what happens with most contracts they're never actually delivered upon their traded back and forth and they cancel each other out.

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i had to go shoot a ten year old boy that. we trained him out of jail we his officers developed the orders for them to kill. we never explained to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became concious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger and i am i don't remember seeing him go down all i remember is that we shot him. on the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do it's all we do and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face a war. and

nothing honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. and the only way to do there did not pick up a rival and kill another person that's why i'm applying for concerts. oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh oh oh. oh the red slice in the finest playing all the slow but today anyway. they should alongside. natural science technology update. the diversity of this land it's exists. color. arctic circle on r.t. . british science. is not on the.

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