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happy with this is the weekly here in r.t. the stories that shape this week western nations are inching closer to military interference in the syrian conflict with plans to set up a no fly zone and threats to authorize a strike on the country. in the region mass killer anders brave because declared insane and gets twenty one years in jail while his anti islamic agenda serves as an inspiration for even more radical. a scandal that muslims and jews in anger after a german rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision despite a recent controversial court ban on the practice. and britain withdraws its threat
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to going to be ignored embassy and arrested in the sarge by force after a block of south and north american nation side with quito in the diplomatic round . will be back with the news team with more on those stories in half an hour from now in the meantime corporate espionage and an insider legacy of corruption and manipulation time now to have a look a worrying look at just how far corporations go to protect that bottom line next on r.t. . this
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is sacred land killing. the waters from kalish naresh come out of the mountain hundreds of. this if they destroy kill is that one people. will die without most of our ancestors one is about this.
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so. i'm father marco antonio i don't know as i got out. seeing i was born in the marco that when you thought tobe a one thousand nine hundred two number 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 you know up in there with a lot of his her mental so you know market and don't get on at least from. your own little bitty racial scene. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and the privilege of living in park on. one of peru's poorest
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communities hold of the top of your city. you. if you're living. 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.
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we. we've you know discovered circulation some number of years ago. it's true it's a good deposit we've for he's been a low cost before and even to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the in the price of gold. increases to 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.
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if anything i think that's what. the farmers block the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keenly. yannick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed.
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new number of the farmers trade unions and university students asked me to mediate interviews where you'll be able to get 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 the yelling silly things. and 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 you think i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if
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anyone here wants to die there's a cemetery out back 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 was the.
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was. in 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 going up and 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
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a i'm going to address the crowd of them and tell them to remain calm. because you're going to thanks general please restrain your offices now you know i'm going inside to see what i can do to get with him most of them yeah thanks general good bye we're going to step outside now i'm going outside north of the city there are. they threw me in i already spoke to the minister. the weights 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 you know because there is some of the people
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you know down the alley he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones maybe you know who threw those stones at the police station. i mean . i don't look at it as a. father what's happening in my it's a good evil with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these the violence is not force with more violence but with peace. e.c.s. the lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble scandal fairly that's bjoerling. units i beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. defend our
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rights. 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 again 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. they kidnap the nka and hold him for ransom. followers still one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but
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the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish throughout. today america is once again the stage for a battle over doul. being a.
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common ordinary people. just defending our water that it was or that i did it when i. ask of the government is that they leave us in peace. that 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 john. callahan america declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder and i began a couch a mile with a new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's
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government is under pressure to end the conflict. and. people with more going on that 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 over the legal license to operate you ask them to stop and remove their machines but this is our conflict with the. you know in hindsight so we do a lot of things different you know where we live in a i'm not sure how much different with your job it is that these crazies are good you know because we have to admit when not doing things as well as we thought we. were telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mt kill ish.
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on the finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke piano coaches permission to explore mt kulish 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 of your local militia the more you. oh ivy let's do the ceremony to end the blockade not as an end to the struggle for now but as a ceremony to thank god you are going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away but overall. i have a day. now kiely she is safe at least for the moment. father matco is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is enamored with the farmers. and with
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the local media attacks marco and his activist organization graffiti days and the struggle of the bout began.
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there 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 and 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 dmn people's struggle to defend their land and water continues.
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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. yet on your money. he they called my sister and my niece answered we got on we saw it in. they knew she was an adolescent and they said tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues that you know because we're going to put two bullets in his head covers but they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone call that i'm going to you know because i want to look at your studio and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live from on this. level little i don't
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understand their perverse logic to threaten my sister or my niece. i'm you're my no or me so do you. come up. with the one with the. father marco isn't the only one receiving brad's. narrative asco is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmers. get on the line but now that that would have. done i i was alone in the hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night and in my case of relief. when the ice so to was a number from a public telephone income aka. is
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this news the last kiss and i said yes. a man spoke harshly and insulted me for it and so it's a. she said if i kept making trouble they would drapey 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.
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abutment he probably wanted to keep tellin me how i was going to die. we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning so i was honest with us of us of them and. some of the conduct they followed us to our homes just a lot of. families told us they were taking photos of the homes most wanted
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them for didn't feel the need to be and work places and get off. this highway goes to the village of pub young. people are saying that. they've are you are they building a school he does other road goes to the non seedy. people or he saw it there in the devil went to the mine because we couldn't find him on the road to public you know. it went in the direction of the mine or in our courts and i left him. goodbye.
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the moment only a few see but give a little it was a difficult time. give a yes and you just suddenly felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but he and even with this tree twenty years i think is if someone approached you with a cellphone. or with a photo or a feeder camera and you know when that guy and you felt hostile towards them. or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the style of a huge and oh. yes again i love that i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that say he. was
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a kid out way to see i. guess it. and then it doesn't suddenly if your heart begins to pound to get us off so you say be calm one though. thank you i better get out of here it will be fine. you. had to d.c. and 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.
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if you 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. and doesn't say that's when i called lucho to help me if you will you know. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it was because the female let him into the his course i mean even the man said nervously this is no
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i'm not filming anyone i don't even have a camera we were doing that by the same police car period anyways to say you know officer this man is following my wife and filming or i said. the theme and. wealthy british style. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our.
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