facebook to make their voices heard about why they're what they're protesting against i'm joined by a nick barnaby now he's the social director of media for march against month santa mr bernie i understand that you're an organizer tell me about these global protests what has people so up in arms. well you know we've been we've been following the. way that they've been infiltrating the government and where they've been kind of more thing in the government and morphing into basically one entity and you know we . we do a lot of alternative media and we were following we've been following them for a long time now but what really has really started getting people to realize something was going on was the passage of them on signs of protection act like you were saying earlier and you know that's really gotten a lot of people to start questioning you know what's going on with these jim. and people are ready to start you know making a stand for their food supply well i'd let's talk about that next that monsanto protection act you know if it provides these bio it has a really interesting sense that provide

scheduled to take place and more than thirty six countries including the united states in california nick barnaby one of the organizers said that they're looking to inform as well as protest against the proliferation of genetically modified foods we want to spread awareness and we want to start from the ground up so you know the very very you know the easiest thing you can do to know it's in your food is to grow your own food you start there at the very top is you know where we want labeling on a ban but i think we should work from the ground up to have the best results while other organizers around the globe have similar intentions and greece organize a rebirth of spoke about how critical the protests will be and austerity plague southern europe she said it months and who is working very hard to overturn e.u. regulations on obligatory labeling and no doubt they will have their way in the end all of this following congress's passage of the so-called month santer protection act an amendment granting the biotech legal giant immunity in the united states earlier i spoke with r t correspondent on the

leave it there nic that was the march against month and us director and social professional media nick barnaby and you will now in the chevron that company finds itself in court this time trying to reverse an earlier ruling granting billions in damages to an ecuadorian villagers this when the circuit finds chevron liable to the tune of nine hundred billion dollars for the deliberate dumping of toxic waste and ecuador as far back as thirty years chevron has hired almost two thousand lawyers to fight this payment well arty's political commentator sam sacks tells us more. the more than a decade long legal battle between chevron corp and tens of thousands of ecuadorian villagers took another turn this week as a federal judge in new york ordered this guy's chevron c.e.o. john watson to testify in the case and defend his company against an eighteen billion dollar legal settlement now here's the story in two thousand and one chevron bought texaco a company that drilled for oil in ecuador in this area over here and it's alleged that texaco contributed to the environmental contamination of the ecuadori