in one thousand nine hundred i was the first woman to work in this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boy and then they started calling me the bell person because i was a female so when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see this woman coming out of the lines you know and then i remember my face will be all black with the coal dust and 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 would be all clean. 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 molding for it's all proved. more inform on malo now.

i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains of anything to do with rocks and my our 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 camaro i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here and 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. we. tried it it is what. i am and it's time.

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this. case fell through. i went to harlan county looking for the past front. of the class trouble still going on. maybe not the terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire. that you came vatican only. and nobody's ever phatic ok. and you're wasting your can they've. very evil people you know they do thanks to the fame ease and they do things to the

young and. as you say if. he sees. me never never see him. all kentucky county is hard land produce the most coal at a time in which most of what power do 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 laid 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 feeling that's the reason the. babies are in kerry's live if they squeeze warren county as if they won't go in they get coal there's nothing else here we don't want to go live to the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason that is because those are closed in the mountains and 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 already know down here peace joy may pay to. well that's not ok now deals over horrors groove boom voices . you can walk through a street phaneuf removed if you did more to give you know who people goes both ways you will be. influenced or very strong in newbridge good most of their buys

everywhere you home. will. continue to be. given to eating meat that is the only. person who are in good will go do feagin all. you know my uncles. damn it was it was worth it to save these. years. and i don't know if you're going to be out of. if i don't because i'm in here and you know you're. going to be a ghost and. it will be nobody here rich or they will be will be all that is so. when i when the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked in a coma and for five years under two years service from. the waiter here to. make it two

hours and thirteen cents an hour rusty it was and says that how much down in the world. are very few. years and not as much money in the town. why my doing here i just got out of jail. possession of stolen property. i'm not good. jails jail. as of. now good. feature three times a day. for t.v. . a list of. all those things you.

hear when. you know. how. i was a teenager smear through jewels and screens this is through the roof is places really. the story curated piece told us that twelve year old enough carried one ever seriously ok. i've learned. the scale that we.

heard from the gun guy here at 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 that. line. for you. where all of them are and very counting. every. in the states 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 for a year people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are in the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat dangerous. and six miners. now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of pavement here this is a big tree and there. are said as and. very much anything that makes me feel better 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 the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. a rising pills. it's the pills are the new

alcohol. you're talking about the forty's and. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made moves so. here in december we pick cocoa berries but the race we'll be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself or valerie. the black berries we always go to order again we get a list you know all. money from they. close and some food for them where they're. mostly what without choice in the food it was cold and. lower. so we were going to be at the o.b. with the old so it. was a real flat. and then begin and i would only have to take a few of the one employees and it horses and ride it out as

a. family and. they come for basically. to once in jail that. i want to feed you now and they hand it to sales now. the job. of showing all the poll was the first. that i was. in power. i was at 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 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 most their road accidents and of course the corn mines guns 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 off. i almost wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up the luxury so. there was really the his whole bar is worth what hurt is

a little girl's gray. all daddy dear daddy please don't go away. with. all the don't go to the. bar growing. up on come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays don't go away where you have a good. lip down south down there where they. claim to know all. he was gone.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be

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was. in stories that changed the week counted or acknowledges a disturbing chapter in its post-war history when the thousands of single mothers were forced to give up their babies and spoke to one of the victims i asked to hold my daughter i actually had to ask three times and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and then they were. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. is used by rebels and terrorists in syria have been traced back to nato countries including the us. hacking and spies there the threats american democracy faces from russia during the upcoming

midterm elections according to the u.s. intelligence community. that's joining as you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international first this hour three people have been arrested on sunday of a right wing rally and a counter protest in berkeley california. that i am. putting to berkeley police those arrested. protests in their possession. such as metal pipes baseball bats and knives earlier this week two groups of ultra right activists announced plans to protest at berkeley park response up to four hundred counter protesters gathered at eleven am and marched along streets downtown apparently heading towards the site of the proposed rally some of the marchers were

dressed in black the typical uniform of anti farm activists in two thousand and seventeen berkeley experienced similar protests which led to violent clashes. the canadian government has acknowledged a disturbing practice dating back to the postwar period when single mothers were forced to give up their babies the children were then given to married couples in a bid to promote traditional families some women were even tricked into giving up their children we spoke to one of the victims. as soon as they found out i was pregnant they mark my records b.f.a. baby for adoption. i was a fifteen year old girl pregnant i was pregnant from a sexual assault. and. there was no conversation with me about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and

that i had a baby that they could. take. a healthy born haired blue eyed beautiful baby. you will forget the child go home get married and have other children or if not get a puppy. that is what i was told get up puppy. it was a very abusive in their. head from our right i was isolated from my dad from our life i was isolated from my family as my community my sisters and my parents i was completely left alone.

my parents were not canadian citizens they're there from europe and my parents believed they would get deported if they did it followed by. what the government wanted at maternity homes mothers were routinely denied their right to see older feed their babies there are still some mothers who do not know when their day delivers a boy or girl being told well it's none of your business to hold my daughter i actually had to ask. times and i first i said it quietly and then they started a little louder and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and i had to yell bring me my baby now. and then the nurse doctor looked at the doctor for permission and i was quite surprised that the nurse would have to ask for permission for me to hold my own daughter since i'm her legal guardian my daughter in my arms and.

the room when it. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. i met my daughter here she felt she actually found me. so she phoned me. and she said. you don't know who i am and as soon as she said that i knew who she was. we talked on the phone for about six months getting to know each other getting familiar with each other building some trusts she needed to feel safe because our children were told that there was something wrong with us they were towards an alternate story that we were drug addicts prostitutes.

three nato soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan earlier on sunday local journalists the reports from kabul a suicide bomber on foot across a nato convoy in north of kabul in the middle of the city of charcoal or. cold colors i.e. detonated a explosive laden vest killing a least three major service members according to results appalled statement three have been killed three more have been wounded one of the wounded as american and to rest or. police forces local prevention spokesperson confirmed. saying that there are no civilian casualties but it has

been a. very vulnerable area nearby airbase so this is have been vulnerable because it has diminished your number of the u.s. forces based in there so taliban have been launching attacks sometimes mortar attacks and sometimes to plant i.e.d. or improvised explosive device and they usually commit suicide attacks against these forces. soldiers killed in the attack check nationals. from the center of conflict and peace that these believes that a lasting peace in afghanistan looks increasingly unlikely well i think it is realized by almost everyone all sides of the conflict. you know military solution in afghanistan is not a solution to this where there has to be a political solution taliban is still the largest in the strongest militant group in afghanistan fighting against the americans fighting and you have one government

and it's another internationally but if we see. if a lot of people argue that ok if there's a speech deal with the taliban for a while and it will completely come through and then i think it's still unrealistic because you know we are our government here is in our system and here in kabul is that even if the taliban stop fighting completely some of its hard core elements or those taliban that are fighting for profit money well switch to groups like. weapons discovered in the former terrorist stronghold of eastern aleppo in syria have been traced back to western manufacturers were found war correspondent robert fisk identified their origin through the serial numbers and tried to find out how they ended up in the hands of islam militants with more on the stories kelly. this is a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's

here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by those questionable rebels now most of those rebels are tied to the al qaeda linked al nusra a terrorist group but let's focus on those weapons that they used robert fisk an investigative reporter was able to trace those weapons back to that very factory in bosnia he was able to get a hold of the factories logbook and getting in touch with the former weapons control director the director recognized his signature in the logbook and from there was able to determine who the buyer was it's a warranty for the hundred twenty millimeter mortar launch oh this is standard it went to saudi arabia it was pulled to the supply of five hundred malts as i remember the the shipment whoa the saudis came to a factory to inspect the weapons at the beginning of twenty sixteen the response from saudi officials was pretty much

a denial they said that the investigation was vegan undefined however their response seemed pretty vague as well so do you rabia is a leading voice within the international community in support of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in syria while at the same time working with our neighbors and allies to counter the growth of forces of extremism but it's not just saudi arabia the former weapons director says that nato and the united states pretty much run the show at the weapons making facility or low production off to the bulls and wars under the control of the americans. who are always coming home and they know each and every piece of weaponry that leaves a factory. we also asked nato for a response but they didn't have any details to share even though the weapons were actually made to the nato standards nature does not own sell or transfer arms or ammunition for any further questions we would refer national you to.