tv Documentary RT June 30, 2013 3:29pm-4:01pm EDT
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tracheotomies throughout the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this well three employees ratted out the hospital and worked with the f.b.i. to make a lot of incriminating voice recordings these people risk their jobs and possibly much more to do what was right and i salute them ratting out evil is no wrong deed but that's just my opinion. to believe i believe clay is the perfect material it's a lie. working with the demands position. you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. was that 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 in. the moment i make that first incision. when i touch the tissue i can feel the patient's character through my hands i can sense the person very well. my life has changed a hundred percent. for four years. all i saw total flip blood. and mutilated bodies. i know the same system that i was before the second chechen war i have an absolutely different outlook now she knew nothing surprises me anymore. from you know my last name was by you have. my first name is for sun i come from i
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was from ca love a small village in the czech republic in a plastic surgeon didn't need medicine as a fight to those already during the war i had to perform surgery an appalling conditions if i had to fight for his life. 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 i did at least twice as many. of the worst thing though is that we badly need more specialist in chechnya because so many people left during the war. in europe now. many people wait and hope that i'll
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come and operate on them for free. how will she them i love an eleven. anomaly kreider yes as she was crossing the street on the road on the road. what year was that it was ninety ninety five we've waited and waited for you know but we couldn't find you close your eyes. just here and yes that can be removed. able to see it 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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open wide for me. i'm afraid to turn on my cell phone. there's no telling what's going to happen. i have to delete fifty six texts at once now i have another thirty six new ones the phones out of memory. the grapevines working word is spreading. my husband's sister studied with. she's known him for many years and she knows he's a good man and a good surgeon and so she suggested i turn to him. i'm going to just know to.
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well you got here ok. what a pretty top knot you have. of course this is a little complicated. they came from the south and. 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 we can operate. because of course when parents interest those tiny fragile bodies into your care which is a huge sense of responsibility. geometry numbers and we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide. and then we begin to come out to try and restore
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a normal form initially 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 of the year from the west when i was driving to a stuff or mystical about two hundred kilometers from the city there's a chain. yup and it mainly stopped me. from the police officer took one look at my passport and said so how's your home village doing. and said lot of. hundred. he said he'd been a mercenary in chechnya. as a grain silo there he said that big. 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 . the subrogated we'll talk about it go about doing it in that village from co i 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. cover when it was over the first ball there's a new bullet and we have 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 so. 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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and we have nothing at all. no hold water no heat no electricity. and shell fragments rained down on our heads. windows were blocked up with sandbags there were no windows. and this was the operating theatre and the walls were scarred by shrapnel and they were in what is a field operating table here. just a very small table. with more than i usually go and get a battery for my car radios that. 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 a simple metal hand saw. and used a hand drill for craniotomy. and of course every day was horrific in its own way.
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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. that 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 of his right leg he lost a lot of blood his pupils were dilated and his blood pressure was fifty over forty . yeah we went to the same school and i make no secret of it i've never hidden the
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fact we played football together we spent ten years at the same school board. i'm not the almighty i can't predict what the future might hold. no dust or anywhere else. 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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but in washington because. you know i think what happened here. no matter how much time passes. it will was. going to freshen my memory or. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.
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house and at that moment a tank shell exploded. like this father died just torn to shreds. and he was badly wounded a miracle he survived he had shrapnel injuries in his hands had to amputate two fingers. he also had shrapnel wounds all over his back. twelve years old back then. i hope the day never happens again. because of how. he saved my life. much. after people just went home. with relatives helping.
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if they'd just been to the dentist i realized that man has limited potential. human conditions i could have saved. and 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. surgery. really well. the defect was very challenging.
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but nevertheless an extremely good result. more than you might have noticed. that she looks completely different now. 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 nose.
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and then of course that'll 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 see how after the operation the child has changed for the worse so happy with the outcome we're very 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. but the rest in the next life. no rest in this one.
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soon she's too good as the mice to do it i started doing judo and sambo in nine hundred seventy six contributes a good way to restore energy it also helps with concentration because during surgery some of my younger colleagues often wonder how can i stand still for seven or eight 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. or they but suddenly the wooden gate opened and in drove a car. they opened up the back and started pulling out injured guerrillas in
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camouflage. ways the doctor the doctor well my execution was postponed i had to attend to them if they come in minutes even seconds later i would have already been dead. when i watch this occur it doesn't feel like me at all. it's someone totally different someone i don't know. now i often think how could i have survived a whole that. we give them over to. live
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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 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 may be human rights watch amnesty international physicians for human rights and. they found me and. there was one
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doctor with them who said. i can see all the horrors of war in your face. 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 and of course i knew perfectly well that someday i'd be back at
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my place on the operating table. and now i am. used to go to church three to four months time but now since becoming an american citizen opportunity to spend time there last year i spent eleven months in chechnya . this is how i have lived for these last years. i really mean. whenever i leave chechnya. 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 he. brought
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teams from boston before twice. operated on two hundred twenty children in just those two to chechnya. going. yes i'm a home. wow . since. 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
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get it right on the first attempt. actually i can really see myself in really got the shape of my heroes and i've always said you've got cauliflower ears sometimes. 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. to say they feel bad or that life is hot. we consider it shameful even a disgrace when people grumble. event show our emotions. we keep it all inside.
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real damage and. complexity of this oil spill. just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant on b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the. correct toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. it was it was not
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the. protests are raging in egypt one person dead and dozens injured as supporters and opponents of the president clash this calls for hollande morsi to step down from office. europe is outraged at the united states with a key trade pact potentially under threat fresh leaks from the n.s.a. whistleblower snowden show america has been bugging tapping and cyber e.u. walford's. meanwhile snowden is still stranded at a moscow airport without pointing to russia to decide his fate while the kremlin says the n.s.a. leaker case is not on its agenda.
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