and they're out to save the financial system to stem the crisis and of course to sell a few lucrative deals as well the leader of europe's powerhouse germany kicked off the world economic forum angela merkel once again pledged support for a united europe and the eurozone but she did say it needed a major rethink lauren lister's across the latest in devil's. angela merkel talking about the eurozone crisis trying to convince this room of some of the most financial elite that she's got it under control that pretty much sums it up she took a real defensive you know let me tell you she said i realize that we're labeled as the headache for the global economy but you know i think there are more headaches to really this was to you could also see it is kind of merkel versus the bond market she was really trying to reassure markets saying if you want to attack us just know that we are promising to solve this crisis of course this is a time where we've seen a euro zone bond auctions be a daily news item sell enough has italy seen those unsustainable yields of seven

percent haven't they seen him spike is greece going to get a deal with its leaders in order to avert this disaster of a disorderly default so these are this is all the subtext of where this speech is coming from and then she gets up there to say you know fiscal solidarity integration is the solution we're promising that even if we don't promise more bailout money or more central bank action which so many of the investment community seem to be pushing for we're trying to substitute that with this fiscal pact and the fiscal union to solve this crisis she also urged patience saying this is going to take a while but i think you know as you can see with everybody so concerned over the eurozone debt crisis patients maybe for some as well occupy davos is here of course in a year where we've seen occupy protests all over the world it's fitting that there would be one at the world economic forum in davos style of course there and igloos but we've seen them have some actions protests they have them planned all week and that is their concern not being part of the conversation it's interesting because

at the end of merkel's remarks she said you know the importance of davos too is to hear the input from the financial leaders and from the people that are there for politicians who then go back and make policy so i think that kind of plays to the concerns that people have a bounce off post which is that these are the world's elite that are networking and talking about these. issues these problems trying to claim that they're going to be able to solve them without the voices in the employ of the rest of the world that there aren't the global elites so those are the concerns of occupy davos i went down and i spoke to the men and their many of the same concerns that we hear in the news about the debt crisis all the time they're very well informed they're concerned about debt they're concerned about the current currency system that we're living in and these are all of the issues that they have they don't think that it's fair that they should be decided or discussed solving them without the input of so many people that they impact. lauren list of talk of a bit earlier now the russians heading to the polls in march to elect

a president we talked to one of the candidates in the race he's an international code of the owner of the new jersey nets basketball team. reveals his plans for russia in an interview to us next. thank you or.

mr prothero hello and thank you for the time bludge do you really think you can be the next president. i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision i've ever taken and i'm ready for a fight if you aim high in other things you definitely should aim high in politics . at the buttes brushwood can you know people often ask you if you're a kremlin project but i'd like to ask you about something else you're very smart you have the reputation of a maverick and you have a strong team how did you end up in a situation where no one believes that you are not a project. i think almost anyone who joins the presidential race is automatically labeled as a kremlin project i will always want to know what it means i was a successful and wealthy person even before i don't really. and government contracts him with the whatever it's what if problem with people outside russia on

the other hand don't really care if you're a crumb and project that so you make it to the run off where you run against putin what would people outside russia know about you first they know your take then they know about the scandal in france where you were practically accused of being a pimp and also the fact that you own the new jersey nets why should the west take you seriously because of a price point isn't whether it should or shouldn't it's up to me in my team to explain to people that my goal is to change russia to have a specific program for integrating our country into the international community and making it war old leader the whole world is changing all nations are having a hard time unless we change our country and develop it our relations with other countries will only become worse in the future when you're left on this with let me let's talk about the u.s. over the free years of reset in relations russia and the u.s. have fallen out on quite a number of issues iran libya the spy scandal not to mention missile defense how

would you build a relationship with america. the first thing i do i would abandon the whole idea of the west versus russia i think it's about time we learned to differentiate our relations with europe are one thing and our relations with the u.s. are a different matter russia and america have many things in common the nuclear shield the fact that both our countries are large and multicultural we face similar challenges say immigration issues even if the reasons are different both countries have that territory the only problem with america is that despite all that we don't really have economic ties with the us russia's share in u.s. trade is less than that of thailand below one percent if we build a purely political relationship it proves to be unstable and often emotional the world is changing and the old. system of checks and balances he's not enough now i

would suggest replacing nato with a pan european security system less and less and russia joined the european union or yes i think we should actually make it our strategic goal of course we'll need to consider how to organize this common market but strategically i agree with general de goal who said decades ago that we need a united europe from lisbon to vladivostok i wish do regard russia as a superpower. obviously of our country has an important mission but by virtue of our history we should set high goals and achieve them of course we haven't been doing that lately so mean you our people have lost the vision in our past we colonized the vast territories like say bierria russia is a special nation that like sixteen challenges there is a downside of course what i mean is that individual people are considered in significant and aren't sacrificed for the sake of

a great goal but that was before me question to know us that more do you mean before you before you become president both of us from the president yes before i become president we need to change that completely people should be at the heart of every grand aren't the taking of people should be the top priority people often ask you whether you're going to get married or not i only ask about this because of protocol i really done now is in the president we take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single either you say you are waiting for the love of a lifetime but your love of a lifetime may come tomorrow or in ten years and you want to be president today are you ready to get married if this helps you become president of book or form with no of course not if you put it like that i genuinely believe in love and i really hope it comes to me sooner or later i work a lot and perhaps i don't give enough time to other things including dating my guests my work takes up too much of my time it see that the. or bad luck i'm lucky

in many other things but i'm not lucky in love but i should be lucky sooner or later. you have been extremely lucky your whole life and you always emphasize the importance of good luck have you ever considered why you're so lucky actually i think that to be lucky you have to work a lot so that was always by what i often observed various politicians and the way they talk to the media especially during the campaign or now often try to win you over with passion or emotion but you're a very reserved person at least that's how you appear to the media also when you talk you say all the right words but it all sounds like math is this if you're reciting the multiplication table do you ever get sentimental or what you're working everyone gets sentimental once in a while what can move you to tears put it be my own little secret well the book that's what you tell everybody when was the last time you cried that it was back in my school days when i was bullied by three boys who were older than me they con and me and there was nothing i could do the whole class saw it but later i caught them

all one by one and we deal with loss thank you very much for the interview possible thank you. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more new dmoz. our core system is to say there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on america. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like and the board to the experiment being used as guinea pig. oh now we have

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to get others to spill the beans on television is julian assange. right here on this channel see the wiki leaks founder exposed some of the world's darkest secrets and his new series will premiere here in march. next as our programs continue we bring the story of one farmer who stood up against a massive multinational corporation to defend his rights and his property. in japan i met with a lot of scientists consumers and processors and in part of us and this document here is a convenience version of the all the scientific studies the japanese have done using month sounders data is over fifty pages long it has been all translated

into english for me and that is on the food issue the food part of g.m.o. was months out always used to term substantially quadrant of the food is very similar but the japanese scientists say that it is not substantially equivalent that food is different and that you have changed it to genetic engineering or genetic modification you have changed the structure of the food and it's not the same and it can have very harmful allergens or bacteria that because their viruses and the bacteria that they use for the transferring of genes are also in that food so it is not the same and it could have varied a possible long range health effects of by eating it in other words what monsanto present it to our governments in north america is false and that it is not safe and it's not substantial equipment which means his not the same as other regular food and that has been a major major announcement by the japanese scientists. in

north america the chain of transport is completely unprotected and open no one has ever thought of the idea of transporting and storing genetically modified grain separately no it is too late. it's very difficult to segregate the grain chromed regular grain and today they call her brain because you have contamination from the pit from the elevation from the trucks that are hauling it so it would be impossible to keep it separate so there's always be a small percentage of each or percent each that would mix together and so it would not be g.m.o. free. thus the borders are open for the export of genetically contaminated grain and also seed into the whole world.

if you introduce g m o's there is no such thing as coexistence and then after several years it all becomes. i have also heard in europe the company saying that all the farmer has to do is leave a buffer strip fifty meters one hundred meters there is no safe distance it doesn't matter if it's fifty kilometers it will spread. so if you introduce j m o's it all becomes mo's after several years and to give you an example how bad it is in canada we no longer have any pure rub see we no longer have any pure soya it has now all g.m.o. is in canada i have often heard in europe and we were also told that in one thousand nine hundred six farmers can have a choice they can grow g m o's they can grow organic or they can grow

conventionally there is no more choice left it all becomes g.m.o. was and you no longer can have an organic farmers. they want control ok and they basically have control is what they have first they go in and they bought our seeds stay seeds stock producer holden's corporation i believe out of iowa and after that they have holdings has like a whole family or group of seed growers and the rule was that in ninety five they

said in five years and after they told them you will be selling ninety percent monsanto product or you will not be in business selling seed so if they did not push monsanto's product on the farmers they would be out of business and so that's what all the seed growers did they push the product on the farmers so they can stay in business. because if they were did not have holdings to grow their spread their seed stock they would not having to sell it it all changed it all changed overnight in one thousand nine hundred ninety six it all changed and it's interesting that the way monsanto seems to enforce this saying is they go into the countryside and they try to determine who is clean in their own seed saving and cleaning your own seed for replanting the next years is a perfectly legal activity. but over the course the last ten years it's went from a perfectly legal and respected activity to war and that is illegal. all because

corporations have the money to own seed they own life. and what's even worse about it is this is life that that the human kind of spent. eons developing. you know we took the soybean ten thousand years ago from nothing to what it is today and then monsanto comes along and search one little gene and then then they turn around and patent all the germplasm not just the g.m.o. but the the conventional portions of the seed and say yeah we own this too that's nonsense that belongs to humankind and in my mind. you know monsanto likes to call pirates or farmers of say their own seed pirates pirates they call us. but i think we ought to revisit who's the real pirate here these people stole our genetic heritage.

you. give farmers lose their rights to use your own cd become service of the land and we're back to the people system and that could quite easily quite quickly happen in a third world country but it will also happen in north america and i think to some degree farmers already are in a service of the land already because he have to buy the say they have to from a certain company they have to buy the fertilizers they have to buy the chemicals especially for all from the same company you have to pay a fee to grow a crop on their land on their own land so i think already to our large agree we are already served on our own land by a multinational corporation like months adul. mark

was is an organic farmer a neighbor of percy schmeiser together with a thousand organic farmers he sued monsanto for demigods arising from the contamination of their canola and mustard crop. the thing is what should always happen is the precautionary principle we should not allow anything out of the lab oratory into the environment especially to do with our food because it is so essential we all need food we need water we need air we should not allow this to happen. only six years later the supreme court of canada decided that they could not bring the case as a class action no every farmer has to claim his damages individually and assume the high risk and high legal costs.

when we were in switzerland last year one interesting thing is we had a journalist i will who was very surprised to find out that when we do surveys in canada about labeling g.m. foods that over ninety percent of canadians say we want mandatory labeling on foods and this journalist was so surprised he said we just assume we take for granted that in north america you're comfortable with g.m. foods look you've been eating it for ten years there seems to be no health effects . you see people when you survey them when you ask them they don't want this we are eating this unfortunately because we don't know it's in our food there's no labeling therefore we've been used like laboratory experiments where you've been used as guinea pigs and who knows we may be affected with our health as we speak

with products that you purchase in the store anything that has soya or canola in it or corn you have to be aware because they most likely contain transgenic or g.m. products. in canada it was approved by the canadian food inspection agency they're the ones that gave monsanto regulatory approval for the introduction but they only used the data supplied to them by month santo. they never did no testing whatsoever and so one month santos said to the canadian food inspection agency it tips actually government it's almost like the real food then the government said well then we don't have to test it if it's substantially quoted we don't have to have our own scientists check it did no testing whatsoever and that has really created

a lot of peer. in the canadian consumers because what are they really eating when monsanto said it was say ten months and who has a very bad track record when he was say p.c. bees were say a you know and he would say now are we to believe them when they say g m o's or g.e. or genetic engineering you say i would never trust them one bit because they don't have a good track record because everything they said before was false and a lie. also in the case of months santo's herbicide roundup there were studies demonstrating that roundup could be used without risk resulting in worldwide approval of the product many other studies so the negative health effects of the active ingredient to roundup life was eight months until itself warns the material safety data sheets of tissue damage bloody vomiting cardiac arrhythmia and a demon as

a result of direct contact or ingestion of the toxin. and they'll be a problem that round up studies done in oregon shows that it is the third biggest commerce related illnesses in the state of california and eventually it originally we were told by monsanto round up is so say you could drink it. with the advent of gene technology the chemical industry entered into the business of plant breeding dupont's among some to go but. produces for about twelve point five billion dollars in ten years today the two chemical giants are also the biggest plant breeders in the world producing about three quarters of the world's g.m.o. crops. the height of gene technology cynicism is the so-called terminator technology it

makes the farmers biologically dependent on the corporations the plants are genetically modified in such a way that they are able to germinate only once sowing the harvest seeds is pointless the harvest is dead. monsanto flower has said. that they own anything they put their seed in or the view that what about if you put a gene into a human being does that say they own me has that say they own you.

but i was from one end of south africa whether it was john as were girl durban oregon or cape town cape town where the parliament is act i was invited to speak there and then in incident happened in it or at the parliament that i'll never forget into a moment when a monsanto's representatives also had given a small presentation and i had given a presentation regards how their seeds implants is how it could be contaminated and coming out of the assembly the parliament assembly where i went face to face in two months had his representative from johannesburg and he he was very very. i would say rude and

a he said to me and shaking his fist to my face said nobody stands up to months sound oh we're going to get you and we're going to destroy you and no way and he also went on to say that when i get back to canada i was going to be in big trouble and sure enough three weeks later when i got back to canada monsanto launched another lawsuit against me tariff for a million dollars and for all their car cars because they said i was stubborn i was arrogant i didn't do what months and. won it and after another year of trial the judge the same judge as to first went out ahead in the federal court or what it must sound one hundred fifty three thousand dollars of court costs they didn't get the million and so i am now faced with an additional costs if i wouldn't lose my case in this when court. in may two thousand and four the supreme court of canada announced its decision one percy schmeiser did infringe upon the pavement owned by

months on to a corporation by illegally seeding his canola which was contaminated with months on toes d.m.o. seen and two because he did not actively use the page and he is not required to pay any damages two months ago. at the same time as the judgment is being announced an auto a british miser and his lawyer terri's a christie give a press conference in saskatoon there was. approximately two hundred thousand dollars judgment that was set aside by the supreme court of canada today and that to percy is a fairly major victory. i really feel that. i can save money farm same a home without pain it costs to monsanto you know i was looking at a two hundred thousand dollar bill so that is a major victory to me. the court rules further the page and on the gene allows the owner to control the entire.