arduous country. to see. each began a journey. where did it take. the news in the week's top stories this is our life in moscow russia sees the biggest protests in recent history as people unhappy with the parliamentary election result the reproach has. ordered an investigation into violations during last week's poll . a fresh rift with britain vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules. a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. of agree to have control of their budgets.

liberated desperate for money live in authorities. billions of the country's assets still frozen months off the end of the military conflict and says the country's government struggles with paying salaries and providing subsidies. to that with more news for in the meantime we have a story of profits for you profits that put before hundreds of lives part of a special report on the oil companies destroying the indigenous population and the nature of the. next. why do you believe the locals were affected by cancer when it's letters. hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador

is. we have analysis results that show the water contains excrement residues meaning that it comes from the native stepha cations that is what causes cancer and all other illnesses if you constantly drink water with feces that it since you were a child let's see if that doesn't cause you some serious illness. and all those stomach cancer is definitely. another cause of cancer is the lack of protection. against sexual relations around the edge of eleven or twelve but there's no control or hygiene. or. that is why there are so much cancer amongst women. you know. i would like to tell those shameless people from texaco that they are responsible for what my family and all of us who live in amazonia are going through.

all this is a tragedy. and this also. because of them i'm dying a slow death but i don't want to live like this. i never imagined i would get sick because of living in that town without knowing where to go i have a lot of room against those shameless people who really don't feel the pain of the people that's looking to get up but they have only beautiful view was and great cars while others have nothing to eat i don't want to live like this it's very painful many times i want to die.

that. everything. was ok. with it and you can see the oil more clearly here that i'm in my old this is oil and there's even more. the deeper i dig the more i will find you know what i am but when. if that be seen the thought of yet maybe they moved to this house thinking that the toxic pit had been cleaned out they had been told that a good job bindo what i want nothing more. when it is very hot oil produces gases in the soil yes with it and then the residents absorb it. look at what is clear

is the only thing texaco really did here he is stone smeared in the woods to cover up everything. absolutely nothing else. myself to look them in tonight on mars. but everything these people say is a lie but i'm trying to defend the company it's just old lice everything they do is based on lies slander and economic profit.

at the trial the natives showed that they would not be trampled on so easily they had been cheated their hold life they've been told of oil was good for their health that they should spread it on their skin to keep the most skeeters away now they don't believe what they are told so easily. this is the biggest environmental trial in world history he's been held until

twenty you know a well known provincial town off while the grio were told to get. i think. mr efraim novio is the. number of documents in this case. comes to some one hundred forty two thousand pages and then we will really have a whole library here that. you know i believe that for the participants it is a stoic moment that he's done for us however and just another trial so we're. going to bring this forward to force this american company to stand trial as a huge huge it hasn't been done before in a so-called third world country. that may. have been fifteen years i mean i've literally grown up and grown old workgroups queries

and there is a scenario where it could go on another five or ten years because of what i would call a complete abuse of the judicial process by sherrard i mean they basically pay lawyers to delay as much as they possibly care because they know when the final decision kerman's the chances are very very high that they're going to lose this case and lose it on a massive scale they wasted he said you know i know i must sometimes mr lawyer prove to me that this person has died of cancer caused by texaco oil the point is they will not give well you can't prove that one particular case of cancer was specifically caused by texaco he's looked but and who had been operating here for over twenty years in that they must look at the same ones who had caused the destruction texaco.

that would make. most of the highest level damages of the any environmental regulation the history of the world so that's real money even to an oil company i mean sixteen billion dollars is almost. when your when your profits of show. a company will not put up with blackmail because for the company and for me it is blackmail so they have an expert asking for unrealistic figures such as a belly and or sixteen billion or let them name whatever some they're asking for we're talking about an expert to prevent the damage just claims that the sole responsible party is texaco but he forgets the petroecuador has been operating here for twenty years. state owned petroecuador was the want to inherit all texaco facilities and infrastructure as

soon as the company left the country afterwards contra pet expired unfortunately as a reality shows petro ecuador also inherited the bad practices of the past. if we had any kind of alleged responsibility it stopped existing eighteen to twenty years ago when petro ecuador took charge of all tech school facilities. petro ecuador has cost eight hundred eighty two oil spills in six years why don't they do anything against petroecuador who look if they were interested in people's health and in nature then why are they doing nothing against petroecuador. why only against the multinational company that left twenty years ago and has been acquitted by the government i'll tell you why it's what americans call the deep pocket.

that's the only possible explanation that they use if. their strategy is simple they left ecuador in one thousand nine hundred two. we only began the trial in the us in one thousand nine hundred three when they couldn't accuse the state owned company of anything. in the past eighteen years of course the state company has done many things. that is cause damage and spills it all into some clear text of its guilt.

made minced to the plant nearby and then it happened they forgot to turn off a valve. that there always spills one every moment. better look. better ecuador says it's not responsible for the spill caused here but is what petroecuador says and just leave things as they are. feeling. the water is polluted our workers and why do you wash your clothes here on can not afford to do me

a favor we have nowhere else to wash them this is the only creek and this is where all of us who live here come feed of the family there are always cool spills from oil well nine from four from say new blanca there are three or wells that cause the spills into the stream we go to put to a quad core and they don't care they say there are no leaks they say there was no problem on. the. leak.

is good but they don't and this is a will. never run it from the plant spills they end up in a property. and not up up into. their hand by what do you think it in like one thousand of or they claim there was no pollution here. for of it that way it is pure oil. if in a bar they say they will clean up and there will be no pollution or live on how well they clean everything in order to clear out the pollution will they turn our

houses upside down and clean beneath them to eliminate the pollution. wanted infidels of iran and they don't care about other peoples lives. here in san carlos and many have died from cancer caused by pollution of. the and. eighteen twenty year old girls have died leaving orphans behind. and two of us have cancer my daughter and i.

are. one of them and there was pollution everywhere in order to have no pollution production would have to stop. the state of ecuador owes its citizens and it must rest of the environmental and social damage caused upon them from living in oil producing areas. but i mean you don't know what. however it will drilling cannot stop. but why because our country has needs social needs. despite its mineral wealth ecuador is one of the poorest countries over it and america would then unbearable external debt which was seventeen point five billion dollars

. in the past corrupt governments used oil income for the enrichment of the few. producing areas were left to die a slow death sinking into pollution and misery. yeah there is no state here and we don't even have the basics but the oil companies take our oil and pollute us every day. we have no phone lines or electricity. the state is always talking of development of a better life. but. that is why oil companies drill oil every day. but they don't care

about us. they only know how to pollute us in the name of development they only think of themselves. you know the better if you go into the places where petro ecuador operates it's like going to hell off hours and times what i think about these people are ruthless and they care about nobody. and in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when i got here i was one of the first

ones to arrive and there was absolutely nothing only a mountain we went there one day i went to work in a road construction and when i returned i found over five tractors destroying my farm and. when i went to petroecuador to protest they insulted my mother and told me to get out of here he treated me in an awful way that meant there was nothing i could do. but we peasants have no power. but about the military comes in and beats us up and nothing is done about it. in the end we're better off dying.

i. i i. they are terrorists armed with rifles and dynamite. but we want to make sure they have a stablished a reign of terror. thinking that the government will continue to put up with them so i do believe that. they won't have their way sars the anarchy is over the party is over we will apply the law order for the well being of ecuadorians i will not hesitate.

because he's a revolt by the area's residents who put on barricades and closed their roads clipping to the oil drilling plants one of the country's largest oil fields. i have been trying to place the group that they entered the houses of violently and dragged people out of their homes.

one of the. hands up everyone on the floor women and children. they grabbed us from behind and started pushing us and dragging us then i told them why are you doing this. i think. and person whom they punched me kicks me. when they were finished with me they threw me to the floor they grabbed me by the feet and threw me head first it was like i was a football. they threw us on top of another with the thing they used to throw gas but they beat us everywhere all the time they trampled me and when i looked like this i couldn't even see because of all the soldiers. but. you couldn't see the ground they were for over five hundred soldiers then i said what have i done but

all these people done for you to beat them like better. was pretty beat first of all i cannot allow a group of vandals and terrorists traitors of their own country to still look bred of ecuadorians and do such things. like that which most of them are paid murderers terrorists who welcome the security forces with bullets and dynamite to make up the new security forces had to react and there are photos in the media of the presumably show there was violent treatment that was not the case they had to defend themselves because they were being attacked. and of their own personal freedom they took them to jail and kept them in for three to four months saying they were terrorists but look here and this is the terrorist act committed by petroecuador against nature. not the idea but i'm

done with already nine pipes go through here from nine or a wells carrying large quantities of oil and only leave us is the crude oil spills in our communities but they're not money in the community was a gift. in and got. out of that will set it in our case whether our government is a left wing or right wing but we always receive the same violent repression it gets because we live in an oil producing area where natural resources are exploited in us but nothing is invested here.

and i can jail a man and. say my name is a crusade by asking me the greatest thing in the end i fail to appreciate it like a lot of the same. if. that.

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