a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it be all cleaned. so that it but the guys would 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. for its own troops. for manalo no. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains of anything he was brock's 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 coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. we. did what. and it's time to check. it out. thing.

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want to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy a great so well all chimes with. and six points. 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 member is he would have better luck with that iron i think they are and hurting when i buy my babies since my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by phones in the us side how to saute 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 just saw it's

a return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. i want to go to look for the past from. the class struggle still going on maybe in those. terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire. that you came out of only. nobody's ever found you go get me and one. day you're wasting your time around they are. very evil people are you know they do things to the families. they

do things to the young and the. officers if he. sees. me as. my. all kentucky county is hard line 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 minds have even been converted into museums. laid off and left with nothing since the ninety's many leave off west for they don't see any other options in the fuel handouts in time unemployed man are the usual customers

it's. just swell caring caring is founded on coal and there's a reason marin county was billed as the reason the. baby is born care is live if they squeeze warren county as if they won't go in they get coal there's nothing else here we don't. go live to the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason we're not as good as the sales associate in the mountains we don't have the road boys in which we are the same mantra is going to get me in a day and that. i go for the papers of the local mcdaniels or i go down there pete joint and make a pizza on that one that's not something that deals over oranges room voice. you can walk straight phaneuf removed if you did more to give you know you people goes both ways you will be. influenced or very strong in movies good more for

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to. take. my two hours and thirty cents an hour for us to you and says that how much around anymore . are very good. years not as much money in the town. why my doing here i just got out of jail. possession of stolen property. i'm not a good. jail jail. now good. pages three times a day. for. all those things you.

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on 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 imagine we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like us say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shutting 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. where all of them are and very accounting. everywhere. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of 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 on the rice is a person painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger. and six miners. now escaped from the emptiness. and there's a lot of people here that's a big tradition around. her he said and. pretty much anything that makes him feel better they fight to make him 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 the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. a rising pills. it's the pills or the new

alcohol. you're talking about the forty's in the. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made moves so. here in december we picked cocoa berries but the race we'll be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself for valor again . the black berries will we've got a quarter again we get a list you know all. muddy from the. close and some food for them where they're. mostly what with choice the food was cordoned. lowered. so we would go a bit they'll be withheld so yeah. it was a real flat. in the beginning and

i would only have to take a few wanted him to spend it towards the end of my credit to a. family and. maybe for basically. to once in jail that. i went to you know and they hand it to fail so now. the job. should the goal was just that there was. people. in power. it's not what. i want the same road so this under a bush tally 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 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 adventures 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 most their road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond and black lung. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in an endless rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse of. i almost wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up. there was leaving

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the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media college a distraction finally the public will decide. the blow to the best out of. the concepts to pain to perform how to pass myself to. heed what. sorry trust me i asked. as most of. you to snow. you know more stuff how are you nervous that her was. discontinued was.

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representatives from most syrian groups including the government opposition tribes agree to form a committee on a new constitution despite heated discussions during peace talks in the russian resort of sochi. and i'm unprecedented move the pentagon bans a u.s. watchdog overseeing the situation in afghanistan from publishing information on who controls water on the ground that's made a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. that's the message u.s. officials were given. by angry palestinian protesters installing their meeting as tensions over donald trump's recognition of jerusalem showed no signs of abating.

thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. groups from all sides of the conflict in the syrian war have been involved in a heated day of talks cheering the peace summit in the russian resort of sochi and it seems they have produced a tangible result ati's what i guess the of reports first of all they've agreed on twelve points twelve points along which a future syrian state will be built it's it's a guideline the document itself made the rounds of geneva multiple times but ultimately it got nowhere it was finally side here in sochi and it's a road map that governs everything from syrian from syrian government itself to

syrian sovereignty to how the military will be overhauled the other big thing that was agreed on is a constitutional reform committee to amend or rewrite the syrian constitution the interesting thing here is that seats on it that will be saved for those that were unwilling or on the able to attend these talks this will be passed on to the u.n. so the u.n. will oversee this new committee and the u.n. special envoy to syria will personally guide this initiative but there was also of course drama nobody saw it coming this morning there was no weekend divot but from late arrivals to cancel participation even arguments and shouting matches that is even happening i want to express my sincere gratitude to our colleagues. mush i'm going to go before. him oh yes i've cut the way

there was a shoot us and friends again i would like your attention. if it's long lives in russia then let me speak please. there was sides as i mentioned the. unwilling to come to these talks we're talking here about the hardcore position of the highly goshi committee that is based in saudi arabia and compromises many rebel groups they sent a delegation on the turkish pressure reportedly that came to sochi but they refused to leave the airport they stayed for about ten hours at the airport of sochi and they took offense at the various banners that were hung up in the city for these talks the turks tried to get them to come but to no avail nevertheless there were many other parties many denominations ethnicities christianity's indians muslim susan shias certainly a lot of debates internationally turkey russia iran three big players the

guarantees of the astronaut peace process they were all here in the western part of this for example united states they really sense junior representatives and from what we've been told by a level of they haven't displayed much optimism much enthusiasm for this sochi peace peace conference as the true new year to go it would yes it's way more difficult to negotiate when it's not like minded people who sit around the table like in paris and washington but opposing sides but agreements by opposing sides are way more stable money lasting and sustainable the news achieved in an industry of like minded states taking decisions for the syrian people and the syrians can decide the fate of their country the other thing that organizes and the russian foreign minister wanted to make very clear is that sochi is no will turn it in and it is not a competitor to the geneva process the geneva process will continue under the

auspices of the un controlled by the un and overseen by the un and the u.n. security council the u.n. special envoy to syria he was here as an observer seeing what was happening seeing the discussions i'm aware. that there were intense discussions indeed the room today and you are proving it. this is normal in a democratic environment so it's not really normal we now have the text we have the theory we have the documents that have been signed by everyone what winnings to be seen is whether they'll be put into practice you know whether they'll be enforced and what will come of this the u.n. special envoy for syria stuff and a mysterious there's the such meeting offers a unique possibility for political rivals to join in crafting a new constitution but we never had the going and do it but seizure actually getting involved in to the discussion of how you got to two ship

because it would not give it me agreeing on the possibility of creating a gulf to shadow commission which to end it would be left to the u.n. to do it but i think we have reached that point. staying with syria where one person has died and two have been injured following a bomb attack on a turkish military convoy. that's according to the turkish army two of the victims were civilians including the person who died the attack was carried out by kurdish militants the convoy was on its way to adlib to assist in the creation of the deescalation zone. meanwhile an iraqi kurdish television channel has film some of the damage in the kurdish enclave of afrin in syria after an has been under attack by turkish forces for over a week the video shows the aftermath of shelling as well as civilian casualties.

the u.s. inspector general for afghanistan says the pentagon told the office to keep quiet about how much of the country is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups however the spokesman for the resolute support mission in afghanistan says the data isn't classified and there was no intention to conceal it he says human error is to blame for the misunderstanding here's what the inspector general's office said in its report. this development is troubling for a number of reasons least of which is that this is the first time since has been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground

he's essentially not being permitted to reveal what territory is controlled by the taliban and what territory is controlled by the afghan government what territory is controlled by the i still forces and that's key information if you want to understand what progress is being made and how the war is really going now at this point the usa has been in afghanistan for almost two decades it's had its forces on the ground there have been air strikes and such and we actually have a kind of an admission from secretary of defense james mattis that not a lot has been achieved during that time this is what he said during understand the urgency to understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now and we will correct this now at this point there has been a little bit of a change in strategy in afghanistan the usa is escalating its airstrikes and bombing of afghanistan at this point four thousand three hundred bombs were

actually dropped in the year of twenty seventeen that's more bombs that were dropped in two thousand and fifteen and twenty sixteen combined however it hasn't really had the effect of changing things on the ground in fact the i still forces and the taliban forces have actually increased the number of attacks that they've carried out let's take a look. now

at this point the usa is sending mixed messages about the possibility of negotiations with the taliban we heard in october rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state say that the usa was not willing to negotiate with the taliban entirely but that it was willing to negotiate with what he called moderate voices among the taliban now we've heard from donald trump that there will be no negotiations with the taliban no talking to the taliban whatsoever 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 now we've heard a response from the taliban essentially mocking the united states and saying that if the usa wants to find them it knows where their office is located in the city of doha at this point we are not hearing moves from either side the taliban or the united states about resuming negotiations so at the moment it appears that the violin.