and this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boys and then they started calling me the bell person because i was a female so when i would go into ground 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 colder 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 out because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a woman working in the mines it's bowling for it's all true all. god moment. lot more and for more on marlo or. you or the old me wall will.

do. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains of 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 now know. the transit.

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was. all kentucky county it's hard learned produce the most cold and the time in which most of what powered the united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active minds in harlan employ less than a thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's manny leave off was for they don't see any other options in the she'll hang out some time on employed man are they usually customers swell her uncanny was founded on co and there's a reason harris county was billed as the reason. babies are encounters live

if they squeeze well aren't any of the building code and they get cold there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason now days because the shows are closed in the mountains we don't have the road boys in which largess a mantra is going to get me in a way and that. i go flip hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy and make pay to. work that's now don't pay my bills over horrors room voice. if you want street fanny's honeymooners if you did more to get run over people goes both ways your use of being. a woman story very strong and numerous give more for their bodies every way home. will. continue to exist if day. i'll be given believe me now to speak to me. personally sooner and

it will go to teacher enough. to know my uncles that were good examples of this work and to save these we've now stacked in years and years. and they tell me how to get to god will not be coming out of the one i'm going. because i don't because i'm in here and you know other than for your ego i'm going to go things. to go where nobody here but rich or poor people grow change or be all that exists so we're now in the home. as i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked in a coma and for five years underground to hear service from. the waiter here and . take. my two hours and thirty cents an hour rusty it was and since then how my town in the world

. is our very do. not as much money in the town. when my doing here i just got out of jail. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. as. a feature three times a day. for t.v. . i laced up. all those things you. need you. here with me.

when. you know i'm down. when i was teenager smith and jones and screamed this it through the roof these places really oh and the story carried a pistol when i was about twelve year old enough carried one it was serious the steel. wool i've learned way now oh i. must tell him that way. we. heard from the gun guy here the pawn shop here for the past five years we take everything from you know d.v.d.'s to. boat motors or whatever you want to mention

we have some motorcycles smothered in the mining equipment like us say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred hour mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shut down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were so these were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying it. like mine. three years. where all of them are very accounting. ever. in this case is tough today it's hard to see any traces help the turbulent past there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and was one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are in the rice

a trust 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 region are out. there he said then. in three minutes any of them there makes me feel better and with a thing makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. maybe not just from drug users will. that is a problem and i say again it's gasper agents try to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. arising feels. it's the builder of the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty's in the. forty's and fifty's.

so in the fifty's lower labor should solely your industry really pick up where is but there is still the the hope for actually carry a fridge in yourself or valerie get. the black berries we only got a quarter again we get a little few no. money from the to buy clothes and some food for them we are. mostly what with about four in the food it was cold and they will lower they. were going to be at the beach with old so yes. it was a wrist slap. in the beginning in our own hands a few years back and they wanted their life towards the end of my early days in our . time today in. the navy before they

switched. to going to jail to. i went from my feet you know and i am to sail nowhere and i mean the jobs are going to. shed and then all the coal mines are said ma'am it was a life that the miners were alive and they shared a van with people. in power. i walked the same roads understandable and the walk trinidad could help and work from the well being paired. after his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was on the winding road from harlan to our 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 that was a presence in this land that any more of their road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond and blood. returning to new york leaving 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 with wonder where all that energy came from. the energy the lights have the luxury suffocate said the farmer there was leaving his whole bar is worth. waiting heard is little girls green ball oh daddy dear daddy please don't go away we

never good little with the. ball diverted don't go to them today badri are so often come true. although daddy dear daddy plays dull dull way we know of a good little with. the . real let's not. claim to know. he was gone or. else. the third.

down. below those. used to be pullin. can. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly

love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better and i think it's fair and hurting whenever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by firearms in the us and we had a thought to me as i did this 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 by the gun i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not all. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to people this will simple song alone events like company get

elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over the utilities many by the telescope of. the mr guys to go along the program because. i've been this is. just because i'm out of political office and for you phillip bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of our worst words their debt down wars we want all.

in an unprecedented move the pentagon has banned a us watchdog which oversees the situation in afghanistan for publishing information on who controls what on the ground as amid a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. the u.s. releases just sweeping list of russian politicians and business figures on a so-called kremlin list it matches exactly the kremlin's list of officials on its website and mirrors forbes rich list of russian. a back burn a report funded by the world anti-doping agency exposes a much higher scale of doping among international athletes than ever thought we

discussed it with all those why its publication was delayed and why it went almost unnoticed by wada itself. tensions flare as peace talks over the syrian crisis get underway in the russian was thought of stalled she will guide you through the biggest developments in the negotiations so far. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour now in an unprecedented move the pentagon. has apparently instructed the inspector general for afghanistan a watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups as according to the watchdog the latest report this development is troubling for

a number of reasons not least of which is that this is the first time sigur has been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer. or unless i'm now joined by r.t. donovan a studio thanks for coming in can you tell us why are they classifying the areas controlled by the taliban well in the first and foremost this is not the only thing that i classifying that they are concealing also the have been casualties of the number of afghan soldiers killed and trained by the american forces is being concealed as well and i mean the territory under the control of both the pentagon of both the afghan forces and of the taliban respectively is the key indicator of how well were not so well this war has been fairing for washington and the american troops have been for like almost twenty years now and this is a war that has been going on to world for the united states and this is something

that the admitted themselves as early as last year for example here's how the u.s. secretary of defense characterized the situation. and the urgent understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now and we will correct. well america's favorite tool for correcting pretty much anything is bombs so in twenty seventeen alone forty three hundred airstrikes forty three hundred bombs dropped on afghanistan and what we have now world they did hasn't done too much damage to the taliban there's a map that was put together by activists and it shows that the taliban has indeed as in fact expanded in its territorial control it has gained more foothold in the country as well as has islamic so-called islamic state so all of this resurgence of these violent groups like the taliban and i so has led to

a massive spake spike i should rather say in violence have a look. at the. so if washington strategy of dropping more bombs clearly isn't making any progress to what and what is their game plan now they haven't indicated that they're going to change the game plan all together because washington has kind of been dancing

with the taliban for a while now or will there be a negotiation will there not be a negotiation but right now washington is trying to keep a straight face have a listen. there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it. while the taliban are saying that basically while you better talk to us rather sooner than later and you can reach us in our office in doha but so far it looks like there won't be any negotiation where the when there's no talks there's war and this war hasn't been going on for washington very well it goes down i thank you for those details thank you. there has be islamic parties chief negotiator mohammed armin karim believes that nothing but direct talks between the afghan government and the taliban could bring peace to the water on country. no i think the military strategy from the very beginning of the liver was

a feeling that has been declared it seems for the august break is that. student. recruited to even call it the new strategy is just a defensive position in order to avoid the fall of the city of thought about for the afghan people of the station has become the worst every day and no real situation of kills the solution would be peace negotiation and reasonable in order to clear our review to stop negotiations with the afghan government that you see is due to leave this country. the us treasury has released a declassified list of russian individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of some two hundred top officials on business leaders although they're not actually being targeted with new restrictions. joins me with the

details now ilia what's the reaction been from most go to this list. maybe he'll oh well vladimir putin says that for now the russian government won't do anything about what was called the u.s. kremlin list that's how the president made up his mind for now about the u.s. treasury document it had to be published before the monday midnight deadline the act that is called countering america's adverse stories through sanctions and indeed it was published but ten minutes before time was up america's saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian. officials like to be true medvedev and sergey lavrov as well as ten story almost one hundred

richest businessmen doesn't mean receiving some sort of punishment but then you may wonder what's the point something to do with sanctions but not actually sanctions the press secretary of law dmitri peskov who by the way also found his name on the list said that the treasury document doesn't mean anything while some other russian officials perhaps even had a little laugh about it like the deputy prime minister arkady dvorkovich who said that washington basically released a book that you may call the book who's who in watching politics one russian senator thought of it as sharing the kremlin phone book with everyone anyway back to putin's first public reaction to the list he said that the american officials wall. and the u.s.

russian relations any favors with it. with the muscle to get used to union. i don't understand the logic behind this move but it's definitely a hostile one and further complicates u.s. russian relations in the security services share intelligence that helped prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not will we start working together or not we can do without that but i think it's in everyone's interests it would be absurd to reduce our relations to zero. thank you for. trying to reporting from central moscow. where we discuss the lift and what it means with political analyst chris bambery. people look at it i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence true taken a who's who of who's the rich and powerful in russia and corporate donor names it doesn't seem to have much substance to it president trump signed it off literally

minutes the goal with no enthusiasm for these sanctions forward but he's under pressure he's under pressure i see from you know this is all intelligence from the military and from the democrats and we saw that on the phrase pressure president bottles of your true life two forces coming to go a bit of fortune here but the real question i repeat is why you know is russia the main threats at the moment to united states of america and the west i think the answer has to be no. there be no russian flags flying at either the twenty eighteen winter olympics or paralympics in south korea that's the heart of the international paralympic committee upheld its ban on team russia there it is allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the international olympic committee despite all eyes on russia when it comes to doping allegations are now surfacing elsewhere in the world in the run up to next month's winter games the issue of doping has taken

the main stage once again.