here on the island chapel. was there everybody came to our house after the funeral and we could all feel these questions floating in the air what's going to happen what are we going to do who is going to do it one of my children i don't know who exactly said mom you'd better stay here because you know everything you're always with dad will all help you. everybody gave a sigh of relief and after making that decision we parted when i came to think of it if i knew what would happen afterwards i don't know if i would have agreed to it all. who had never seen anything like this before. the never told me. because heading right towards me. you get. to the bottom is too busy to cover the house and the wind is very strong. i'm moving to fighting to stand here. because it's so quiet here and your place. you don't have to do feel it suddenly stopped you know it's moving in another direction with the fortress of ice is grown in just one hour and it's only the beginning what's going to happen what are we in for. tuesday. wh

here on the island chapel. was there everybody trying to our house after the funeral and we could all feel these questions floating in the air what was going to happen what are we going to do who is going to do it one of my children i don't know who exactly said mom you'd better stay here because you know everything you're always with dad will all help you. everybody gave a sigh of relief and after making that decision we parted when i came to think of it if i knew what would happen afterwards i don't know if i would have agreed to it all. there was no anything like this before. the never told me. because heading right towards me. you just. move on to cover the house the wind is very strong. moving it's too frightening to stand here. because it's so quiet here and your place under. you to them as you get suddenly stopped you know it's moving in another direction with the fortress of ice is grown in just one hour and it's only the beginning what's going to happen what are we in for. shoes. mum. the problem it wa

i democratic it welcome you to tangier island virginia it's a little island the middle of the chesapeake bay and of a genocide and i come back county for a population around four hundred seventy people give or take. ever most or pay for independent water money from our fisherman crabbers and other twenty percent are where our tug boat captains are our tanker money our our our second mates on the six. so far we're holding on to ourself that erosion has taken us to take in a so way slowly but other than dad everybody saves their vacant and right now worried by to future but being a waterman you are a day by day and not you can't worry about tomorrow you have to get by today and and hope good morning you wake up there's a new light. you get up but if it's busy i'll get up to thirty. most of john three o'clock in the morning. i'm surprised. it's so ready for market. for the older private. very. degraded when you sam alito. and. thomas john roberts. and. condi rice and i am called for. a conservative group. oh they can do mainly. for the been taken to. interphase ready trucks to dinner in new

tiny island in the mid atlantic major volcanic rock uncovered in pitch. but the eight hundred people. but now the story of. the big another diego garcia the british and indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations islanders accuse the british government of. rooting families who've been there for more than a century ten years ago with all the difference britain was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community but today the population's already decreased by. community is replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people eighteen had to leave and the similarities with. the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of the now infamous listening it's run by. the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many res

of the island. never seen anything like this before you begin to cover the house. in the fortress of isis grown in just one hour and it's only the beginning. there's the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motions to the other the party there's a goal. for sure is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our team. welcome back you're watching r.t. and let's go to greece where authorities have made a move against the far right golden dawn party its leader along with a number of senior officials and other members have been arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent anti-fascist rapper two weeks ago allegedly by golden dawn activists the killings saw thousands join protests across the country well since of failing to win any seats in the twenty nine two thousand and nine election golden dawn has made a breakthrough in the twenty twelve parliamentary vote it won eighteen seats out of three hundred and after gathering its boar

but more importantly, i'd like to see politicians in the island and people in the island and the mainlandus on the real issues facing the island, the issue of crime, and so much of the energy and resources of the island have gone into this question of the status as opposed to what the real issues affecting real puerto ricans every day are, so i'd like to see more focus on that. >> i just want to clarify because the audience isn't aware of this: the question last november was split. the current staws was put on a separate -- status was put on a question and the alternatives was a second question. you can't not tell by looking at the results whether commonwealth is still the most favorable alternative. now statehoods are going to say, no we got more than you did on the first question. but the people who vote yes on the first question were instructed to vote on the second question. if blazio would have submitted to that question he would have been incorrect. >> that is incorrect the first question was very clear. the first question was very clear. do you want to keep the current status quo t

living on ascension island and say that similar to this island here in the squeezing the life out of the home laura smith reports the tiny island in the mid atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pigeon but the eight hundred people. but now the story of attention island has all the hallmarks of being another diego garcia the british indian ocean island whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived through generation. good memories. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the. islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers retired or unemployed people over eighteen have to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you gu

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the island. so he asked if anybody would give him enough space to stand on, and it was a duggan that granted him that space. so that's how the duggans was nominated to pick up the clay. >> you'll have no trouble landing on tory these days. a ferry makes the crossing three or four times a day, weather permitting. most passengers are day-trippers who often arrive feeling a little queasy. and they get a personal welcome from the island's uncrowned king, patsy dan rogers. a man with no real power and no airs and graces. >> so many people. i'd like to keep my feet on the ground and to be with the people. >> reason enough for the islanders to choose them as their king 20 years ago. the tradition lives on here in tory. his realm is small, only four kilometers by one kilometer in area, 130 people live here and a few dozen sheep on sacred rat-free soil. >> it is a powerful saying that there will be no money accepted. so the heirs of the duggan family can't accept any money. he's very good at that. he can'

islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people over eighteen had to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infamous listening posts run by g.c. h.q. the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to haul in the special relationship. david lin

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island. not never seen anything like this before it's going to come in the house. in the fortress of ice is grown in just one hour and it's only the beginning. in a blow to the us the super cool through today that the prison is it going to move to legally challenge their detention you with schools. we want is an immediate cessation of conditions that are cruel inhuman or degrading or that constitute torture by growing chance school human rights law enforcement training the mind most ruling is now demanding the release of the names so that they can do you can cope the government has so far refused to release the name why do you know how many we have you sure. know. not today well it seems like a perfectly reasonable request to do you why don't you just give us all the names it may not agree. that is what i ask. barbara. i never heard of her knew of her until guantanamo you have the power to restore and a moral i took part or see. that's what i. was like a wake up call i mean as i could i would

south korea put the islands under its control in the 1950s. but japan maintains that the country is occupying the territory illegally. >>> the islands dispute strained ties between the neighbors who are sometimes described as geographically close, but psychologically distant. some south koreans in japan are working to turn things around. hiro has the story.

serious course for concern where young people link the island because we're aware of it. what's going to happen to the population so it's come on the side because we know that if we don't have people staying here in the way of light is good somehow there's something you can. say the belief we have a part of it that is more protected that is so what have you done to make sure that our her it is protected in the future or what have you done to ensure that we will get us to the wall right each of you have written letters that's right you've written to our president your fridge to our governor you've written to our state and local and national officials as well and that of course is one of the greatest forms of patriotism not only is patriotism love for your nation or love for your state but patriotism is also for your small island tango. the seawall that we're looking to get in the future in the next few years is going to be just across from this one this is the west entrance. and but it's such a great set such a wall at opening when we get storms and wind from the west for

and your island before the channel was cut for all right here is where jerry's boat yard. there's gold. oh here. we go way up there. and you go all. that crap driving season begins. around the middle of margin runs to the end of november and a cry absent a winner column there are your state very down and bottom in. the one column and then when the water temperature gets up to fifty degrees east are both going to run again. a ramp and you're all in the chesapeake bay probably is one of the best there isn't because the fall for it. or his dark red stink you call the hard fred infected meat out of it and the soft bread you need to hold on fred walls and all. that are made yes are made on the summer going to make much money off it through the winter. it's very difficult for women on the job because most jobs is on the water and the gal is you know young bowie's or me and you know they crap on they craves great. says restaurants you can find a job a waitress in babysit for moms who work. maybe storekeeper you know at the grocery store or at the ice cream places. some volunteer

i democratic it welcome you to tangier island virginia it's a little island the middle of the chesapeake bay and of a genius and i come back county for a population around four hundred seventy people give or take. ever most or pay for independent water among our fishermen crabbers and twenty percent are where our tug boat captains are our tanker money our our our second mates on the six. so far we're holding on to ourself that erosion has taken us to take in a so way slowly but other than dad everybody saves the vacant and right now worried by to future but being a waterman you are a day by day and night not you can't worry about tomorrow you have to get by today and he hopes the morning you wake up there's a new light. you get up but if it's busy i'll get up to thirty. posts on three o'clock in the morning. i'm surprised. it's all friends ready for market. for the order bride. and degrading when you sam alito. and. thomas john roberts. and. condi rice and i am called for. a conservative group. oh they can do the mainly. for the been taken to. interphase ready trucks to dinner new york.

islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers retired or unemployed people over eighteen have to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infamous listening posts run by g c h q the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to paul in the special relationship. family comes

the island gets 90,000 visitors daily. there are plenty of jobs, and the luxury boutiques have no problem finding affluent customers. greece has 170 other islands, all with equally gorgeous beaches and sunshine, but nowhere is taurus and growing as fast as here -- nowhere is taurus him -- nowhere is tourism growing as fast as here. what are they doing differently? the mayor of the island does not have an answer, but she insists that not everyone is benefiting. >> we are a wealthy island, but the local government hardly benefits from it, so we cannot employ more people. it's not like i am better off than other mayors in greece. i have the same problems as everyone else. >> the taxes collected here are directly funneled to athens, so administering the island or principality, as the greeks jokingly call it, is certainly not the reason for its success. so how have i thousand 500 mainland greeks found jobs here this year alone? this hairdresser from athens is one of them. >> we do not have any support from the government. we do

are just islanders just shrink in a no no or sink in but i also erode rapidly. picture of tangier island before the channel was cut for right here is where jerry's boat yard. hole dish. as gold. oh hair. go way up there. and go all. the credit grabbing season begins of. around the middle of march and runs to the end of november and a cry absent a winner there are your day three down in the bottom in. through one of them under water temperature gets up to fifty degrees east are both going to run again. the ramp and you're all in the chesapeake bay probably one of the best areas in the country fall for it. or is dark red you steam you cook the hard fred been pick your meat out of it and the soft bread you need to hold all fret falls and all. eyes are made that are made on the summer going to make much money off you get good winter. it's very difficult for women on the job because most jobs is on the water and the gal is you know young both ways there are many and you know they cry and they crave great. says oh restaurants you can find a job a waitress in babysit f

the facility will be built in the town of shiraoi in the southern part of hokkaido island.y havived together in shiraoi since the 1800s. suga says the facility will symbolize co-existence with the ainu and that the tokyo games will be a good opportunity to show how japan protects its ethnic minorities. >> translator: the museum will help foreign visitors understand how wonderful ainu culture is. >> the ainu once inhabited a wide area of northern japan, but over the past century or more many have left for other parts of the country. >>> pakistan will release a dominant figure of the taliban. the move has implications for neighboring afghanistan. dhra dhirakaosal has details. >> they are welcoming the decision to free the highest ranking imprisoned taliban member. they have hopes that the release will set in motion long-awaited peace talks with the taliban. nhk world reports from islamabad. >> he is the foremost second in command for the taliban. he is also one of the founders of the group. pakistan supported the taliban when it took control of afghanistan in 1996. it is wide

it would be a real shame for this island to disappear there's a way of life here that's unique to. this country the the crabbers the oystermen and so forth it's a very hard life and yet we get to enjoy the fruits of their labor but it's also special to me because there aren't very many places left where you can see the diversity of wildlife where the wildlife has a place to stop burbs come through here from south america heading up the bay heading towards their nesting grounds and a lot of them stop over here it's important for the survival of various species and we're losing more and more of this type of habitat part of it is sea level rise part of it is just the natural changes through it storms and so forth that just happens. but it would be a shame to see this totally wiped out. every time there's a hurricane of this place is always at risk it slides they try to evacuate people lots of times people won't go because they want to stay with their houses but the bottom line is that creates problems coastguard and whatever has to worry about the island of the people that are living

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of the island. never seen anything like this before is going to come in the house. in the fortress of ice is grown in just one hour and it's only the beginning. of the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the soon bush and secure. your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our team. now again a tiny remnant of the british empire in the middle of the atlantic the ascension island used to be home to barely a thousand people believe in their dwindling numbers are in jeopardy these days this remote dot is ascension island it's sixteen hundred kilometers from africa and twenty two hundred kilometers from brazil historically a safe haven for mariners as it was it's now being dominated by u.s. military base and some residents are crying out for help because of it what is there a smith report. it's a tiny island in the mid atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pitch and water no but to eight hundred peopl

serious course for concern where young people link the island because we're aware of it. what's going to happen to the population so it's come on the side because we know that if we don't have people staying here that the way of light is to somehow dissipate and. so you believe we have a part of it that is more protected so what have you done to make sure that our current is protected in the future or what have you done to ensure that we will get us to the wall right each of you have written letters that's right you've written to our president your fridge to our governor you've written to our state and local and national officials as well and that of course is one of the greatest forms of patriotism not only is patriotism love for your nation or love for your state but patriotism is also for your small on one tank. the seawall that we're looking to get in the future in the next few years is going to be just across from this one this is the west entrance. and but it's such a great set such a wide opening here when we get storms in wind from the west for northwest swells wa

i democratic it welcome you to tangier island virginia it's a little while and the middle of the chesapeake bay and of a genocide and i come back counting for a population around four hundred seven a papal give or take. ever motion a paper independent water money from our fisherman crabbers and other twenty percent are where our tug boat captains are our tanker mine are are our second mates on. so far we're holding on to ourselves but erosion has taken taking us away slowly but. everybody saves the vacant and right now worried by to future but in a waterman you are a day by day and not you can't worry about tomorrow you have to get by today and the morning you wake up there's a new light. now you get up but if you're busy i'll get up at two thirty. three o'clock in the morning. come over to private. get soft and ready for market. be on the private. yet you're degraded when you sam alito. has john roberts. and. condi rice and i am called for. a conservative group. to get these so prone to vote. taken to the mainland. for the good they can do. so we put in refrigerated trucks to dinner new yo

islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promised a democratic institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people over eighteen had to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infamous listening posts run by g c h q the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to paul in the special relationship. found dav