hundreds of thousands of clocks. live from moscow this is r t it's kevin zero in here this half hour with a headline update the russian prime minister defends the people's right to protest legally and pledges video surveillance to ensure fair presidential poll. grilled by the people in his annual public q. and a. syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have died at the hands of army defectors as human rights watch claims dozens of government officials from a violent crackdown on protesters but to foreign criticism of the country is drawing parallels with the pressure put on libya before the nato bombing campaign there

started in. moscow says over the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will try to help with the blocs debt crisis for russia and the e.u. also pledged closer energy and economic cooperation as president of meet top technocrats impossibles. midnight thirty one moscow time as ninety five percent of research into genetic engineering is paid for by industry interests we explore if science is in danger of losing its objectivity in the face of pressure from the commercial sector that's our special report on air right now. we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly

because of the information of transgenic we know that they are stretching the corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of transgenic materials are here because the transgenic manipulation is invisible people around here don't even know that they are receiving the transgenic and they are growing them and they're passing them on to their children and to the neighbors and so on.

once we were sure that we had found transgenic material seen what we wanted to have a publication that would be very visible so we sent it for publication to nature nature sent this article off to experts to be reviewed five times around and then nature said yes we will publish it by that time however the news that these information was coming out made very many people within the industry very narrows and very unhappy. so they themselves started a discredit taishan campaign for the paper they did not want the paper to be published and if it was going to be published they wanted people not to believe what this paper was saying. now we know the industry hired professional public relations companies propaganda companies who are the time we're

experimenting for the first time with something called viral marketing which his the idea that a p.r. company a public relations company will go into the internet and start spreading ideas around. on behalf of the companies that hire them but without telling people that they are being paid by these companies saw these company called the giving says group. created two fictitious characters two doctors dr smith the chick and doctor. i forget and they made up two names and these two doctors went on the internet and started spreading rumors that what we had said was false and that the paper was flawed and so on and so forth and the way the internet works is that people really respond to each other's opinions and the idea started really spreading around that our paper was false and had been

submitted under false and maybe illegal conditions. whatever the case is because we don't really know to this day. nature decided to print two letters criticizing our paper and also to explain to a very confusing editorial where they say. we don't want to take positions. based on what we know know we have doubts that we should have published the paper back then buddy. completely against the way we do science. nature itself recognizes that they had never done anything like this in one hundred thirty years the whole history of the magazine so there was something seriously important happening that they do not want to talk about but i believe i'm convinced it was pressure from this industrial arcturus industrial activists who wanted to change the nature of

the position towards this problem. one. the industry said you don't need to worry about these because we have it under control the control is really the question and they have been telling the world that they've really had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corn in one field that trench any corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic corn maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn fields was a huge problem for them because he really showed very simply and with real evidence that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over

these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about co-exists. cards binding current quarter to come going to st. bernard reminded by gould disappeared with your. exhibit a motor truck story probably still. is research.

on the look that we're going to be comparable from a cursory death in order. to lock that i work together from nine hundred ninety continuously on the same project and we've got to get on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he sells to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of common the parliament and the technology and say it's going to be of the british parliament or the others in the group including me and you are talking about twenty people we very forbidden to talk about what has happened to their what sort of experiments did we carry though what was going on at the time at the gag and all gag is for lifetime even the secret service they

get people for twenty five years if i happen to leave to my seventh it will be foul over that time and i still will be able to look at both.

but on the drama yannick it out it is all going in that on that action now and let's assume that and we have seen a few examples that anymore was sad on the g.m. material or they had very considered a war physiology changes now when you are eating that animal fad on g.m. you will be eating and many more that had already been changed into diffident and the more and there is new safety risk assessment done on this and it is a policy decision by the governments and by the biotechnology industry that that they would just simply go on the basis that if you don't do they cannot be held just sponsible remember that the animal that

has been fed on g.m. has been changed. but you always will find scientists who are diametrically opposed for one reason or another but frankly you have to look at the bulk of the evidence and the bulk of the evidence is very simply this these products have been out virtually every food that you. consume including you in germany has some genetically modified product in it whether it's soybeans or corn. there has not been a single documented analyzed case of even a headache attributable to genetic modification.

vienna austria and scientists carried out long term studies that showed genetically modified maize to mine significantly reduce their to lety the number of offspring was less than those compared to normal g.m. but my family also developed more slowly. i haven't read the study yet it came out today i can immediately called my office and asked them to get me a hold of the study so she saw my assistant called into austria and spoke to someone and they're going to get me the study as soon as possible but the finding is consistent fertility problems with animals for genetically engineered crops we saw that with soybeans and we were in farmers report of that with corn as well. it's very difficult to do proper studies because monsanto doesn't allow people to use their products for studies and they also don't allow access to the parent light

so that you can compare the exact same soybean with the only difference being that one is genetically engineering one is not. one example is this russian scientist dr reiner mccolgan she fed genetically engineered soy flour to rats and more than half of the offspring died within three weeks now one of the criticisms was that she didn't use carefully controlled genetically engineered so i along with it's nearly identical not g.m. so i counter part but monsanto didn't allow that soil to be released into the into the public so she didn't have access to a doctor or pod to stay wants to repeat their study but he also can't get that story for his research. the at. the

at. the end. of the earth. with global sales in the billions of dollars millions of farmers and backyard gardeners have come to rely on that we kill or called round our roundup extended control. kills tell us what this project affect of his life is say a synthesised compound discovered by john friends over thirty years ago. of sam that a young boy going on board a myth. them irons that's their game to make in there's always

a part of. the bar and i knew when genetic engineering technology was first used in soil production the local farmers were invited to parties with three beer and meat and they were asked to bring along their farming holub and after a good meal and some drinks they then did a ritual putting all the holes into a circle and burning them out symbol that so that's money made as a symbol that one when you have to hoe any more and as a gift each farmer was then given a liter of life for safe side and they were told this would be technical progress and again the original idea was to produce a genetically modified soy that was resistant to life are saying that it's life or sage is a herbicide whose famous brand roundup is produced by monsanto and now after a couple of years you can see that more and more weeds are resistant of life was saved.

this is the third. this is canadian flea brain a new kind of weed which is horrible now it grows to be higher than the soy and so it was fixed. thank. you i think exactly my father just said that the co-operative here tried hard to fight it with life or sage or at a high dosage normally one liter pay him to resign allowed legally he was date petersburg and still that wasn't enough then they stopped the experiment and everything here is completely resistant of life or state. then the fact that. thank

you we're going to the saudis of on the start yeah real grounded osun a federal state here has used eighty five percent malls life of state over the past four years since g.m. soy cultivation was started and this is an ecological catastrophe so the argument that with g.m. saw it one uses fewer pesticides is simply not true and they start them and that's what we're doing so we're going to get a city like. new york official statistics reveal that in the past ten years food related illnesses have practically doubled in the u.s. since the introduction of g.m. food to the american diet. we've got a sort of new feudalism in nature's resources are being privatized and the others

who also own these natural resources for they own need to be able to use parts of these resources and a part of that is knowledge of what's been produced before and getting new lead patented by laffan these are sort of the nuts and can untile that one is a governess and verse four here. when you have it up at india even nature is getting granted so in the nato feudalist times we live in it is so obvious to me that we're going back to times when a king said this river is mine or this land is my life and farmers have to pay that in order to use it to my back then they had religion to authorize and justify that strangely enough you want to date it's the scientists so rest fat again white america guys i'm ahead of this and shaft us.

below us we can see the whole of the public campus of berkeley the university of california berkeley and we're standing at a boundary where that campus meets the private and military part of the research machine this is a big research machine one side of it has public the other side is private corporate and military so that in closing of the knowledge that used to be public and becomes private or becomes corporate or becomes militarized secret that enclosure of knowledge is something that i consider to be very damaging for the movement of science and the movement of knowledge so it is a very strong battle that is happening here and in other places in the world to try and protect that they versity of knowledge that diversity of culture the latest

development in this battle has been the arrival here on this campus of b.p. british petroleum who would like to be called beyond petroleum and b.p. came here offering five hundred million dollars five hundred million dollars which is much more than anybody had ever offered the university supposedly for research. administrators for the university find it very difficult to say no to money and doesn't matter where the money comes from they want the money so they try to pass these contract with b.p. without people noticing. but we have been able to find out a few things about it we know that b.p. wants new buildings in the canyon they want buildings that are built behind the fences of the national lab so that nobody can access them they want access to our

students they want access to our seminar so that they can find out which i.d.'s are useful for them they want to have control over publication what gets published what gets said publicly or not but more importantly they also want access to the curriculum to what will be taught in the university and because this is a this is a public university we also the term in the curriculum of the children from kindergarten all the way to high school and b.p. now has access to deciding what is called science and what is not called science so now they can say whoever is on our site is a scientist and whoever is not on our side is not a scientist so the power that they gain from that is extraordinary and. they closed the door shut to any public view of what's happening behind the walls behind the fences and this streams of academic research.

unfortunately we are in a minority of people who oppose it and i have been very involved in trying to post this as well as other advances of these corporate kind of science this privatized kind of science because i believe that the main problem is that people don't realize what's happening and by the time they will wake up it will be too late. the possibility of having a public university doing public research and developing public understanding of humanity is going to be gone. we are very far from free speech at this university you're not allowed to ask many

questions and you're not to say many things and if you do you get into serious trouble. and i am just one of many examples where people are punished by what they say and what they research. that in my case. i was pushed out of the university at least three times every time i fought and we managed to keep my job but it's been very difficult. we are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand we cannot control and then we're letting it go into the environment. so it's

a change that is radical that is unprecedented that is. beyond anything we can understand on its own retrievable you we cannot get it back that's my concern. to be. is very true that the power that technocrats one experts have to developed in these years is saw large and so out of control that it has become much more of a religion. and it's a religion that has many dog mess and one of those dogmas is that humans have the power to change nature the way they want it's complete homers because we cut.

i've always said you only defend that which you love so people say what should i do how should i defend the environment go out and fall in love with. fall of the river fall of the farm fall in love with a species just follow the same believe me when you do then you'll defend it.

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