tv Documentary RT June 24, 2013 6:30pm-7:01pm EDT
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more news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are only day. i believe clay is the perfect material it's a live. working with the demands precision. you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. was the before getting to work you have to study the material watch it over try to figure out what it looks like then the image comes to you.
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when i'm operating. the moment i make that first incision. when i touch the tissue i can feel the patient's carry through my hands i can sense the person very well. my life has changed a hundred percent. for four years. all i saw an awful lot. and mutilated bodies. i know the same for some that i was before the second chechen war i have an absolutely different outlook now nothing surprises me anymore.
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communion my last name is by a of my first names for some i come from i was from cola a small village in the czech republic on a plastic surgeon didn't mention is a fight to as a woman enjoying the war i had to perform surgery in a bowling conditions and i had to fight for it slide. over those two years i operated on four thousand six hundred people but during the second war i literally had no time to keep a record. but i know of at least twice as many. from my first of the worst thing though is that we badly need more specialist in chechnya because so
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many people left during the war. in europe now. many people wait and hope that i'll come and operate on them for free. how old was she then i love an eleven. but i nominate carter yes says she was crossing the street but on the road on the road what year was that it was ninety ninety five we've waited and waited for you but we couldn't find you close your eyes. just yesterday. can be removed. now you won't see it at all you can remote it yeah. you would interest in chechnya today there is so many children and adults of colds who need to be given corrective surgery after the war.
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a good man and a good surgeon and so she suggested i turn to him. well you got here ok. what a pretty tough. of course this is a little complicated. really came from the south. i first saw them about six months ago. i told them they were going to have to wait because there wasn't enough to show yet you for your kind now because. of course when parents interest those tiny fragile bodies into care which is a huge sense of responsibility. to geometry numbers and we start by marking out the incision lines as
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a guide. and then we begin to count to try and restore a normal form tradition which it's very intricate work. you need very sensitive hands like a surgeon you could say. when you get to work you study the material figure out what it looks like. clay it's like skin. smooth when it's too late for when it gets older and starts to sweat out salt which then dries it up and then eventually it cracks and it's.
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the this goes back in two thousand and nine movie very different in the west when i was driving to the stuff or mystical about two hundred kilometers from the city there's a check. and yet there is it in the english style to me. the police officer took one look at my passport and said so how's your home village doing. several. hundred. he said he'd been a mercenary in chechnya. as a grain silo there he said that big tell. him still there i told him i'm a good. while he said we will post it on top of it i'm shooting down in the village here when the subrogate said we'll talk about it let's go about doing it and that village. was a crazy doctor it was or how was it possible he sent for him to set that night and
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day you mean operating under fire. over when it was over the first ball there's a new both and we had no doubt there be a second. when . i had a mini van i used it as an ambulance. i took out all the seats opened up the back and put in mattresses that's how i transported the injured to here. i was the only doctor of five villages but. i thought to myself. who i work with this morning. i soon learned that out of ten doctors. i was the only one left along with eight nurses.
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we have nothing at all. water no heat no electricity. and shell fragments rained down on our heads. windows were blocked up with sandbags the were no windows. and this was the operating theatre and the walls were scarred by shrapnel. and wonder filled operating table here. just a very small table. more than i usually can get a battery from a car many years that of what i thought was as long as i had a flashlight and a working battery and i had a good enough environment to work and. we had none of the proper surgical instruments we needed. we performed amputations with
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a simple metal hand saw. and used a hand drill for craniotomy. and of course every day was horrific in its own way. that arm with the most horrific day of all of course was when i was in a state of shock. that was in two thousand. four thousand people walked across the minefield. but one hundred ninety of them were left on the minefield they all died and three hundred people were brought to my hospital. room which was among them along with other terrorist leaders and i am peter age and his right leg he lost a lot of blood his pupils were dilated and his blood pressure was fifty over forty .
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and yeah we went to the same school i make no secret of it i've never hidden the fact we played football together we spent ten years at the same school. i'm not the almighty i can't predict what the future might hold. no dust or anywhere else north or. it's not my role to judge whether one person is go to the other battle what they might do i just don't have that right. they have to deal with their own conscience. i have no regrets i would regret it if i hadn't stayed and done what i did during the war when i saved lives.
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or pollution because. you know i think what happened here. no matter how much time passes. it will was. going to freshen my memory or. mission free accreditation free lance for judges is free. range and free. free. to try free. download free blow against cloning video for your media projects a free media dog r.t. dot com you. get are sometimes you see
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a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. let me let me i want to know not let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having the debate we have our knives out. to try to give the scientists a bad steak never get here in a situation where being i don't want to talk about the name and me.
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amputate two fingers. he also had shrapnel wounds all over his back. he was only twelve years old back then he has trouble speaking he's had a stammer ever since. god willing. i hope that this day never happens again. it's because of how. he saved my life. which was. much. surprised me was after an amputation people just went home with a leg popping on one foot with relatives helping. they went home as if they'd just been to the dentist and i realized that man has unlimited survival potential. if i had been able to work in human conditions i could have saved many more of course.
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they were so confident that i could help but of course. i was never able to say. i can't help you in these conditions i have no right to say that. for surgery. really well. the defects was very challenging. but nevertheless an extremely good result. more than you might have noticed. that she looks completely different now.
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every successful operation leaves here with a great sense of satisfaction. at the same time he can believe me operating on children is a very very tough job. the body is so fragile. the anatomy is totally different. thank god in this case there was enough to shoot to rebuild the lip and those. of course that will go down it will get better. you see the left side of the nose was badly deformed now it's totally different the lips different too you can
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see how after the operation the child has changed for the worse so happy with the outcome were there a grateful to him we did right to come here even though we had been afraid we'd heard of her son's golden hands and now we know that it's true. yeah you just finished with. i'm tired. of the rest of the next life. in this one it. seems she's too good to. you good started doing judo and sambo in one nine hundred seventy six additional consider you can see a good way to restore energy it also helps with concentration curing surgery some of my younger colleagues often wonder how can i stand still for seven or eight
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hours staring at one point while i operate. strategy on the mat. if your nervous system is weak you burn out and lose but if you're strong you'll win. sometimes you get to the final and you're sure you're going to win. only a few seconds left but your opponent has nothing to lose and really goes for it lost out a few times to a painful throw or a choke hold. on one fine day about five hundred men arrived at four in the morning and surrounded the village and hear that it was there it was one hundred percent certain that the slaughter.
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he was well aware that a p.c. is brought into russian soldiers here every day. grabs me drags me down the corridor also the no one could see but everyone did. they find a gun i mean above my head and then my feet to scare me. and then they held a shari'a hearing. they said i'd sold out to the russians. if. they were about to shoot me i thought this is it. but suddenly the wooden gate opened and. they opened up the back and started pulling out injured guerrillas in camouflage gear shouting ways the doctor the doctor well my execution was postponed i had to attend to them if they'd come in minutes even seconds later i would have already been dead.
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live with the eyes reveal a person's character. his eyebrows dipped down and he looks really tired shit because if he's reminiscing about the past to explain and he's looking at you but at the same time he's somewhere else. you thought it was a matter within a few international organizations heard about my human rights watch amnesty international physicians for human rights and you know if. they found me and. there was one doctor with them who said. i can see all the horrors of war in your face.
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yeah and they took me to america where i was in rehabilitation for six months. i was in a terrible psychological state. i felt as i was about to explode i started getting gastrointestinal bleeding. it was a big fire i had problems. then i had total amnesia the whole bunch of health problems came out. it took four years in the u.s. just to repair my health. and i really missed my work i missed it so much there were times when every night i dreamed of performing surgery of course i knew perfectly well that someday i'd be back at my place on the operating table. and now i am. used to go to church three or four months time but now since becoming an american citizen i have more opportunity to spend time there last year i spent eleven months
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in chechnya. this is how i have lived for these last years. empty words i really mean that. whenever i leave. my conscience torments me. i had this idea i want to organize a mission. i want to bring a medical team to chechnya to work here. i have brought teams from boston before twice. when. we operated on two hundred twenty children in just those two to chechnya.
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going. home. to our. sons. i don't know how it is for surgeons but for me the important thing is to get the shape right. i know i have plenty of material to help me start over but you have to get it right on the first attempt. actually i can really see myself you've really got the shape of my years and i've always said you've got cauliflower ears.
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the sun has seen what we've all seen here but like an artist he has taken it all to heart. from the chechens don't like to complain and. to say they feel bad or that life was hot. we consider it shameful even the disgrace when people grumble. we don't show our emotions. we keep it all inside. the continental the theme story doesn't make it news you know some part of you know
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