why if you care about humans in groups this is why you should care only dot com. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today just in time for the headlines a south american states condemned britain's threat to storm ecuador's london embassy to arrest julian assange this while the whistleblower himself makes his first public speech saying the u.s. must stop prosecuting those who reveal the truth. the un's new peace envoy for syria says stopping the civil war is now his main task as the bodies observer mission comes to a close amid escalating violence heavy clashes being reported now in damascus and in the southern city of daraa claiming yet more lives. in libya arrests of thirty two people for alleged links to a bomb blast that come

a year after rebels took control of the country all those detained allegedly belong to a network of death the loyalists and have been receiving financial backing from abroad . or those are the headlines on r t coming up next though inside on a tough and dangerous battle between eco activists and the big boys in the major corporations this is art.

this is sacred land killing. the waters from kalish naresh come out of the mountain hundreds of. this if they destroy kill us that one people. will die without most of our ancestors one is about this.

there where. i'm father marco antonio i don't know as i got on. the scene i was born in krakow marco dollar twenty thought tobe a one thousand nine hundred two know your birth date me there i lived most of my life in the universities and i was taught to learn from cement schoolrooms about our brother the nature and up individual of his her mental so you know market and other learned to go to. your own little bitty racial scene. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and i had the privilege of living in park on. one of peru's poorest communities pulled it out of your city. if you've never.

been. in university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gold and gold this money. we. we've you know discovered circulation some number of years ago.

it's true it's a good deposit we've always been a low cost before and you want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the. price of gold. increases you go on. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million dollars. the miners have already destroyed several mountains their next project is mt keeley's but the farmers to stop them.

if. that's what. the farmers block the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keenly. because yanick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed. new number of the farmers trade unions and university students asked me to mediate

interviews where you'll be able the government finally had to accept me as the mediator but the company always refused to let me mediate with them again. if you provoke them. if you act like a hot shot yelling silly things. then instead of reaching the solution there will be a bloodbath. and you've got some of them will die but more poor people will die and they'll remember their dead forever but who will remember the poor so i'm asking you it's better to fight than to be contaminated no no no no no no no please forget that slogan friend it's like i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if anyone here wants to die there's a cemetery out back when we all help you dig the hole and give the mass we want to

live right this is a struggle for life. yes to live no to gold. for the first time people living in the nearby city of america join the farmers to defend mount killings was freedom for those under arrest was. here they are these are the ones who will always fight. the. now we have no more fear was was was. the. was.

my. general i just came out of a meeting with the city's councillors. you i saw the protest in the main square and the police harassment i didn't participate in the protest of the people in meeting is that. i came to get a fax from the minister and saw the police beating people and throwing tear gas and . noise give us a i'm going to address the crowd and tell them to remain calm. because you're going

to thanks general please restrain your officers now you know i'm going outside to see what i can do to get with him most of them yeah thanks general good bye they're going to step outside now i'm going outside. of the city there of. you see if they threw me in i already spoke to the minister yeah. but wait listen to me listen to me i know i saw the police on from here like you know the general is giving the order to stop but you need to stop too don't slow any more stones listen to me they provoked us if you're not going to listen to me then negotiate yourselves with. the way listen to me you know kind of they started this with your i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police when you know because there is empathy for people and of the knowledge that he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones at him you know who threw those stones at the police station

you know i mean. if i look at the. father what's happening in might even with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these the violence is not force with more violence but with peace. easier to lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble scandal fairly that's bjoerling yunus i beg of you i ask you in god's name you strive for peace. defend our rights you seen this will not organized and united yanacocha is going to eat us one

by one be patient you're not going to win this struggle in a day in the end you're fighting against the world's largest mining company. this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous battles the conquest of south america i began here five hundred years ago. a small band of spanish invaders request a meeting with the income ruler to while. the spaniards promised they'd come in peace but it's a trial. and they kidnap the nka and hold him for ransom. followers still one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish through. today

the market is once again the stage for a battle over gold. being a. common ordinary people. just defending our water that it was or that he did it when

i. ask of the governor is that they leave us in peace. but they don't touch the water we need for our crops and animals. but at the government because this is our livelihood. i was five i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us dr. kathy america declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company or its new mine is the majority shareholder of vienna coach of mine. with a new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's government is under pressure to end the conflict. and. people need

them much more than when the government makes mistakes and the company has to admit its pot but we have to fight until they respect our rights. the social license is extremely important to us really and in some ways over the both of the legal license to operate do you ask them to stop and remove their machines this is our conflict with the. you know in hindsight sure we do a lot of things different you know where we live in a i'm not sure how much differently you know it is this these crazies are good you know because we have to admit we're not doing things as well as we thought we. were telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mt killer. on the finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke yannick coaches

permission to explore mt kill each in exchange for an end to the blockade. of the gentleman and all thorazine s. . behalf of the population i move that we end the blockade will be able to the militia the more you. indeed for most of all i would be let's view the ceremony to end the blockade not as an end to the struggle but as a ceremony to thank god you're going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away but overall. i thought ok. kili she is safe at least for the moment. father macko is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is in nam or with the farmers. and with

local media attacks marco and his activist organization graffiti days and who struggle of the bow to began.

their marco has troubles at home his reputation outside peru is growing. he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and thousand basters and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament. what just like in canada hundreds of farmers in peru and latin america are sent to jail for defending their right to a healthy life. then dealing peoples struggle to defend their land and water continues.

in two thousand and six yanacocha shut down by another blockade america was called in to mediate but this time a farmer is killed by police. you're not on your mind you they called my sister and my niece answered we got on we saw that in that. they knew she was an adolescent and they said we'll tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues that we know that because we're going to put two bullets in his head because as for that they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone. you know because i want to look at yesterday and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live for my. level people i don't understand their perverse logic to threaten my sister or my niece. what if you.

are me or my no or me so do you know. i come up with that one. father marco isn't the only one receiving threats. here to vasco is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmers. get on line but now that we know. that i was alone in the hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night to be a model and case and not really believe it when i saw it was a number from a public telephone income aka.

is this music the last kiss and i said yes. a man spoke harshly and insulted me for it so it's a bad. seat she said if i kept making trouble they would rape me even. kill me and cut my body into pieces. and threw them in the garbage for the dogs to eat. i hung up but he kept to call in. the union on the bridge. abutment he probably wanted to keep tellin me how i was going to die.

moments also of most with that we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning our business in the us of us in the. economy. so most of what that they followed us to our homes just a lot of. enough families told us they were taking photos of the homes you and others wanted them for them if you don't have to be and work places to get off.

this highway goes to the village of public. are simply put into porno there are you aware that building a school he is throwing at us other road goes to the. c.d.c. are chalerm you know you're in a courtroom. a. people always throw in the on the devil went to the mine we're going through because we couldn't find him on the road to public and there were no e. bay party only nothing until it went in the direction of the miner in our courts and i left in your corner for good but.

the moment only feces but give a little it was a difficult time you give a yes and you just suddenly felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but even with this tree twenty years i think is it as if someone approached you with a cellphone or with a photo or a feed your camera look at and you know not them and you felt hostile towards them . or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the. yes i'm gonna love you know i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that the heater. is a heat outrageous yeah i guess it. and then it does and suddenly your

heart begins to pound but when it's all so you say be calm it's one though. i don't give up i better get out of here it will be fine it will. lead to d.c.m. the other activists ecru feed it develop a counter espionage plan and begin to spy on the spy. who feed as members took these photos and videos of their pursuers. was.

give me started singing i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me you get the bus i said what are you doing what are filming me. me and doesn't say that's when i called lucho to help me you do it no. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it was because the female let him into going his course i mean. even the man said nervously no i'm not filming anyone i don't even have

a camera we were doing that but he said police car period anyways to say you know officer this man is following my wife and filming or i said. this.

that's. him.