when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see this woman coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face of the all black with the cold than i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it was the all clear. so that the guys will always be looking for me to come because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a woman working in the mines bowling or it's all through all job loss. moment. job loss lot more informal malo or. you or the old way wall oh well. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains i

love anything to do with rocks and my earth science teacher back then said there's going to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that that's when things were good you know where everybody was working like the guys that worked in the mines they always had the nice cars like the camero i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the small minds here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. before we head now you know. the transit. and it. was only a. yeah

well when i first came to. join me every posting on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics sports business and show business i'll see you then. runs of the with the flow for the best out of the dogs with. the concepts i was preparing to perform i had to actually prepare myself to die i. don't know said he'd what. i was sorry. as most of. you. in the home will stop her because.

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very evil people you know they do things to fame these. they do things to the young and it's. as if it being in season in never never seen it. being. all kentucky county it's hard learned produce the most coal at a time in which most of what powered the united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active mines in harlan employ less than two thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off and left with nothing since the ninety's many leave off wealth for they don't see any

other options in the fuel her nelson town unemployed man are the usual customers. will her and carrie was founded on cold and there's a reason here again it was billed as the reason. babies are in care is why if they are the best ways warrant any of their won't go in they go cold there's nothing else here. we don't have the luxury of the sixty's we don't have factories we don't in the reason why they. don't have the road boys and it's largest a mattress and in a way and. i go flip hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy pizza. that's not ok my deals were horrible. you can find. if you did more to get run over people goes both ways you're so be.

very strong and more sure everybody's ever leave home. i'll be given. the majesty. has a. good. future and. that we're going to gamble soon with this work and to save the fact that it has. and i don't know if you're going to be coming out of what i'm going to look if i don't because i'm in here and you know they're. going to go. they were going to live here rich or. so. when i went in the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around and asked how it worked in the coal mine and so for five years underground to hear sarah smith i am

a waiter here and. take. my two hours and thirteen cents an hour for us to it and since there are no mind around in the world tips are very good. there's not as much money in the town. why am i doing here i just got out of jail like. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. has. now ruled. it's. a feature three times a day. they will pay straight for t.v. . alister. me all those things you.

need to leave here with me. it's no. good. way. to work now. this is how well i was teenager smith and jones's creek is two of the roughest places for it and the story carried a pistol in us twelve year old enough carried one ever see a snare steal they have all learned. the scale that we meet. so. we.

have the gun guy here the pawn shop here for the past five years we take everything from you know d.v.d.'s to. moat motors or whatever you want to madge and we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like you say say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe one. it's a week of lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shut down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were these were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying that. line. where all of them are very accounting. ever.

in this case is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past there once made hard in the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one forty years people used to make moonshine now drugs are in the rice. painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners. now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big tradition or a. nurse said. pretty much any of them makes me feel better and they think makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. and maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem and i say again it's desperation to try to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know all the mining and depression

of the mining everything it's caused. a rise in pills. it's the pills or the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made moves so. you're in a still really big. field whereas we carry. resume yourself for a dollar. the blackberries will go to order again we get a lift. the money from there to close it with some truth for we're. mostly what would love for in the food is called the lord. who was built the way it was also. am. glad.

i am in the beginning and i want only him to take the field to the last beyond the end always the end of my early days i always say the a f found its way in the air. and maybe before they switch to the ones in jail the. king and i want to remain here with you know where they hand it to sales an hour away with the jobs around. it could show in america all the coal mines if. there was a. journeyman people. in power for. its own work. i walk the same road cyclists hundred tiley walked three decades ago and words from the opening paragraph to his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county

i was in the winding brode from harlan to have birds driving a borrowed pickup truck when i began to notice the road kill it was a dangerous road with more than its share of adventurous drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which there was a presence in this land the day and the most road accidents enough. of course the core mind. returning to new york living behind harlan in amanda this rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse off. my own waist wonder where own that energy came probably. the energy the lights have the luxury sucked the date said the farmer there was

leaving his whole bar is worth. waiting heard is little girls green ball oh daddy dear daddy plays down the hallway where he never could live with us. all diverted don't go to the my mind today bob graham carr saw funk come true. although daddy dear daddy plays dull dull way we never could live without. being. the. real let's not.

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did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. and i just saw it it's a return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years who god i don't know this but we are not. private. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet the sales with simple song on events like on the elsewhere they invite private companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us the.

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breaking news this hour on r.t. international tensions flare as peace talks over the syrian crisis get underway in the russian city of sochi just a moment to bring you the live updates from the venue shortly into the program. the u.s. treasury names over two hundred russian politicians and business figures in a so-called kremlin list that washington stresses that no sanctions are being imposed on those on the list was drawn up as part of a sanctions law signed last summer. the doping in sport is much more widespread than previously thought into a recently released report that was withheld by the world anti-doping agency for six years.

it used a worldwide live from the russian capital international and thank you for joining us we do start this hour with breaking news here on this channel tensions are high in the russian city where peace talks over the syrian crisis have just gotten underway and during the opening speech of russia's foreign minister in the audience became quite emotional let's cross live now to. standing by for. the latest you have down there what is going on. well it's been something of a hectic start here in sochi anything but smooth sailing first those hours long delayed because last minute arrivals couldn't decide whether they would attend the peace conference or not they had their own preconditions nevertheless when the

actual opening ceremony began the russian foreign minister giving the opening speech even then tempers and emotions fled. to france as it's not high on the head. i. don't need to see. dear friends thank you very much. we need to continue our proceedings. to be able to participate in a debate but first of all let me say on my behalf. it is less on my behalf my gratitude to our colleagues.

russia live in your mind once again i think your attention if you're saying long live russia let me first speak. there were organizers told us one thousand five hundred delegates jus to attend the sochi peace conference the last minute arrivals we mentioned earlier of the hard core the real opposition in syria on the ground negotiations committee they came at the behest of the turks but due to their own preconditions and. other nuances the. unable or unwilling to come to the press conference to the peace conference which was just a few kilometers away from the airport there was an intense diplomatic effort which by the turks by the russians to convince them to get them to come here but they

declined and from what we gathered wouldn't various reports there on their way back now back to turkey previously the turkish foreign minister had promised to convince them to get them to come here nevertheless it is a loss their presence here would have been a great use to have representatives of the syrian government representatives of the real the potent opposition and they would have been able to sit down and talk perhaps through middlemen perhaps negotiators but nevertheless talk and knows talks those negotiations the something that has been sorely lacking in the syrian civil war it is one of the reasons why geneva and many other peace process is of stalled in many years with little or by way of little by way of results nevertheless there are still some denominations some in this city's here the syrian government as well as a more moderate opposition european based opposition russian based opposition and you

know all is not lost there is there is some hope that they'll be were able to work out something going into the future who at least sit down and talk face to face. as their thank you. but u.s. treasury has released a declassified list of russia individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top business figures the treasury denies those on the list are actually being sanctioned. but in a culture never has to tell us. it is quite a backlist with a lot of names that includes almost all top russian politicians and businessmen including prime minister dmitry me to be deforming minister sergey lavrov and russian ministers now in total there are one hundred fourteen politicians and ninety six a businessman those businessman whose fortune is over one billion dollars and

they've got business in europe or the united states are also according to the u.s. treasury department and the inner circle of the russian president now the publication as. saying sions bill which was signed by u.s. president donald trump back in august last year but the u.s. treasury department denies that it is a sanctions list. it is not a sanctions list and the inclusion of individuals or entities in this report does not and in no we should be interpreted to impose sanctions on those individuals or entities the us ambassador to russia has already called for the russian side not to react emotionally to this publication kremlin spokesperson said that this list does not represent anything in particular but they will still look into it a possible impact on the russian companies some of their russian politicians have reacted quite certain cast sickly to this list they say that the u.s. intelligence is simply decided to include everyone from the kremlin's phone book

and want and one high ranking official even said that this list is essentially a book of who is who and the russian politics so the u.s. says it is not saying since list but what could be the aim of such a move otherwise the kremlin list was drawn up as part of a new sanctions law signed by trump in the summer of last year however the us president now says he does not intend to apply any new sanctions against russia this has not gone down well with the democrats of course it was the congress that voted almost unanimously for the package over struction last year. but this legislation and its implementation deterring russian defense. really did come into power with a burning desire for some reason to help russia out by easing up on the sanctions against them sanctions on specific entities were individuals will not need to be imposed. presidents talk about russia is so consistently.

are joining me live now with the stuff i'm guy into europe expert to give us some analysis here on the program thanks for joining us here on our t.v. today the kremlin list why do you think washington decided to create such a list if indeed as they say no one on the list is actually being sanctioned. hello. here in an r.t. international in moscow the kremlin list i was asking you just a moment ago why do you think washington has made such a list published it and yet come out to say nobody on the list is actually being behind creating such a list is not you this reminded me of a similar list that was created for the top officials of the of the regime of one of the last of which in serbia where i come from the idea is basically to create some kind of a strength and the competition between people who are on the list in order to

create chaos in the in the country but i think that today it is even a completely different international environment and the second part is that the united states itself are in the state of political warfare where our congress especially the democrats is on one side and trump on the other who is reluctance to actually impose sanctions against russia so i don't think that the facts will be any similar to those of the late one nine hundred ninety s. in the balkans now donald trump is said that he will not impose further sanctions on russia but no one ruled out possible sanctions in the future your thought on that. sorry i can't hear you step on i was just saying that a trump is that he will not impose further sanctions on russia it's not going down too well with the democrats under pressure to follow through with some sort of

sanctions regime. exactly trump has had problems with with the congress from day one and if we compare what he used to say during his election campaign to what actually the u.s. i mean. he's doing these are two different things but every time when trying to get the chance to. do a pose to pose congress especially democrats he does that even with other cases we can remember what happened with within or north korea where he during the campaign was saying that he was ready to meet president came and than made some very harsh statements over twitter. when he was in office but then again now we see a new readiness so when he is not pressured he behaves quite differently.