thing that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and to service fee to christiania but they do not own the houses they live in you're not allowed to make any money off your house and here the house is owned by christina and you live there and rented from christine and you can't sell it on because we don't want to speculation and interest and money in this place but that's something copenhagen city council wants to change by forcing residents either to buy out or move out even if we live in this house which we use to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be a rights against the privatization idea as i don't want christie added to privatize for now the courts are deciding and peaceful coexistence and tolerance are two of these communities cornerstones its residents refused to bow to big brother without the proper fight he didn't. christine you copenhagen denmark. and ferrying astronauts to the international space station all year round russian rockets remain the number one choice for space travel but even before you were a current famous first flight animals f

unique lifestyle alive the self-proclaimed autonomy neighborhood of copenhagen known as free town christiania people live by their own rules in the pan and of the government but now authorities are pushing for them to pay their dues artie's or english who has more. i get tired of pushing papers around nine to five are you sick of posting to the government telling you what to do well then welcome to. a country where things get done by the people for the people it began in one nine hundred seventy one when he pees in freethinkers squadron forming military barracks their aim was to do this is site from scratch where the only government would be the residents themselves no home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like filmmaker no specific who has been christian yet says it was founded if you have this ability to administer yourselves then you also got bigger responsibility for your surroundings and that is something which is lost in large cities today for new this is the most peaceful and welcoming place you could find in de

is fighting the danish government to keep its own rules and unique identity people in freetown christiania do not own the land they live on but rather rented from the state authorities now one them to buy or move out. plus ferry cars menards are continuing their missions to help humans learn more about space travel researchers say experiments help them figure out the facts of exposure to cosmic radiation and could lead to a mission to mars. that's why they have allies here and we'll have more on those stories in about thirty minutes time next the r.t. travels to the city of camera though in western siberia as part of our discovery russia series find out how a city surrounded by forest has become one of the major industrial and education hubs in the country. the camera region is one of russia's great mineral deposits based in southwestern siberia it's stuffed with coal and iron ore which supplies heavy industry around the country but it's there's plenty of whites to go with the black the region also borders some stunning mountain ranges and is a mecca for the snow and scale of this but with

denmark facing the threat of being destroyed shortly what do we owe how do we think the state of christiania is coming under pressure from the danish government in just a few minutes here. when defending his record in the iraq war the us is quick to point out to the tens of billions of dollars of spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and gross inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little signs of improvement in their daily lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can describe is r.t. sebastian myatt found. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through gardening displaced from southern iraq that most families too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting plastic and metal that will be shipped abroad for recycling it's a reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me six acres of back that's trash to many this is just waste but for the families here this is not only their li

state of christiania coming across from a danish government that's coming your way a few minutes here on our process. the century winding cobbled streets old houses and wooden balconies have delighted businesses and inhabited but no signs of construction everywhere people are worried that it's destroying the town's historic georgian authorities are trying to. european city but many say the make over is wiping out the city's unique. when defending its record in the iraq war the u.s. is quick to point to the tens of billions of dollars it spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and gross inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little sign of improvement to their daily lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can to scrape together a living sebastian maya reports. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq threatens families too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting p

started off as a hippie squad but now the self-proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as a christiania is a community where people live by their own rules no government no politics it's been free and available to all for forty years but now local danish authorities want to cash in arteries every nicholas school has more i get tired of pushing papers around ninety five are you sick of posting to the government telling you what to do well then welcome to. a country where things get done by the people for the people it began in one nine hundred seventy one when he's in free thinkers squatting in forming military barracks their aim was to do this is cited from scratch where the only government would be the residents themselves no home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like filmmaker knows midst who has lived in christian year since it was founded if you have this ability to administer yourselves then you also got bigger responsibility for your surroundings and that is something which is lost in large cities today for

and a fairy tale at the risk of freethinking a state of christiania founded in the center of copenhagen is under threat so he's trying to sell the law. a series of mysterious mass animal deaths around the globe have been battling scientists and stirring speculation the first incident to be noticed was when black birds began falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas on new year's eve then flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy as well as millions of fish from brazil to new zealand triggered some far fetched online guesswork theories over the causes a range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end which filmmaker danny schechter says the media sensationalism is taking the focus away from finding the real scientific causes behind the mysteries. when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third set suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know they're calling it. you k

risk to a dream community in denmark facing the threat of being destroyed very briefly state of christiania it's coming under pressure from the danish government that's in just a few minutes here on our plus. blockaded by. the sea left with little choice find out what palestinians in gaza are forced to turn into as they try to eke out a living. when defending its record and their. war the u.s. is quick to point to the tens of billions of dollars it spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and the grossed inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little sign of improvement to their daily lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can to scrape by sebastian my reports. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that miss family is too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting plastic and metal that will be shipped abroad for recycling a reward for carting forty pounds of trash arou

is fighting the danish government to keep its own rules and unique identity people in freetown christiania didn't not own the land they live on but rather granted from the state authorities now wanting to buy it or move out. plus very cosmin odds are continuing their missions to help humans learn more about space travel researchers say the experiments help them figure around the effects of exposure to cosmic radiation and could lead to a mission to mars. yes vice president says washington will pull all of its troops out of afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen quote come hell or high water but the question is will afghans be ready to fan for themselves by then and that's just one question i asked the afghan foreign minister during the recent visit to moscow . afghan foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today our pleasure mr foreign minister when soviet forces withdrew from afghanistan you had been publishing air resistance journal for eighteen years what did you and your compatriots expect for your country's future back then was usually afghanistan wanted to be free in

fighting the danish government to keep its own rules and unique identity of people in the freetown christiania do not own the land they live on but rather rented from the state authorities now want them to. continue to help humans learn the more. research experiments help them figure out the effects of exposure to cosmic radiation and could lead to a mission to mars. crosstalk that's coming your way next. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle what is it the world's most important international body or a dysfunctional global organization the united nations is often criticized for its many shortcomings with the world be a better place without it. can you. discuss the role of the united nations today i'm joined by peter to cross hall in hong kong he's an analyst and the author of custom made knowledge in new york we have stephen sless injure he's an adjunct fellow at the century foundation and in greensboro we go to nathan tauber he is the founder and c.e.o. of the conse