in one thousand nine hundred three it was constructed in conditions of total secrecy. the tracks were laid across all of the defensive lines. during the battle the railway carried heavy artillery and ammunition to forward positions. thirty four tanks with the most important part of the cargo. it isn't going to do this israel killed three it was ready to go to line to pull back here got it decreased by two military railway section is now open to michoud to proceed because if you'll go here god bless let's go. there was a tourist around the railway the builders lived under shelter of branches set up on the construction site they cooked food by camp fire and they followed a rigid schedule. the air raids during the first day i declare the shop that i filled in the day i. found two wheel barrow and. one to the railway that. quoting the plan the railway was to be completed in ninety days the builders worked tirelessly from dawn till sunset the first train was gone when the last spike was set just thirty one days after the start of construction the work went on even under con

this would have been about one nine hundred sixty seven. by the one nine hundred sixty s. vietnam had been divided into two parts with the border with the seventeenth parallel communists led by control of the north washington back politicians were of the helm in the south at its peak in the late sixty's the us supported them with more than half a million troops. thinks the most realistic portrait of the war is francis ford coppola's film apocalypse now. in vietnam u.s. troops stop short of nothing in a bid to achieve their objectives. they burned the jungle that served as a hideouts of vietnamese. but they also used a chemical weapon called agent orange to smoke them to the fullest. i just assumed that my government was right and that we needed to be here but after a few months in the country i started to change my mind and i started to doubt that we were doing a good job. but i couldn't do anything about it i still. couldn't just leave. the mccomb river delta new trees so-called defoliants destroyed the forest nearly forty years ago. but the chemical weapon has had a stin

an excerpt from hitler's order of july fourth one thousand nine hundred forty. today your embarking on a major offensive operation was calm they decide the course of the war their victory must reinforce the certainty everywhere in the world that any resistance to the german army will be pointless in the end you must know that everything may depend on the success of this combat. the cursed bulge took shape on the eastern front in the course of the fighting in spring nine hundred forty three to great threat to the german verma soviet troops might launch a major offensive from that springboard and after a long period of hesitation the german command decided to forestall the red army the plan was to cut russian troops off from the main forces to pave the way for wider operations. in turn thirteen on the eve of the battle of curse the germans had occupied the village of a chevy it's where he lived with his parents just before the battle broke out yvonne and other boys took up positions nearby tack to scouts watching the movements of german and russian troops. r d thi

by the one nine hundred sixty s. the had been divided into two parts with the border of the seventeenth. communists led by control of the north washington politicians were. at its peak in the late sixty's the us supported them with more than half a million troops. thinks the most realistic. is from. vietnam u.s. troops stop short of nothing in a bid to achieve their objectives if they burned the jungle that served as a hideouts of vietnamese. but they also used a chemical weapon called agent orange to smoke to the fullest. was right. here but. i still. couldn't just leave. the. new trees to. destroy the forest nearly forty years ago. but the chemical weapon has had a sting effect on the people. in many villages there are many with the facts these people. but the effects of them genetically many years happen to be in the age and. these children lived in a special village near there under the constant. and psychologists. jean has been here for more than ten years she only visits her parents during the holidays. so when

between the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred eighty s. the masks are made of pure mushy but a puff is generally inspired by books so most of his artistic objects depicts characters from russian literature and folklore. with five ministries not museums and a lake so large that piece of the great built. this is red square yes there is more than one in russia now you know it's surrounded by several churches and the main point of interest is this next monument created by one. school district. in twelve twenty alexander nevsky is the grand principal and vladimir joyce of troubled times in russia's history. it's become. symbols of. various. guidebooks and postcards this is this a surprise cathedral try saying that fast five times is the oldest in a town built in the middle of the twelfth century as you can see the architectural design is rather simple style comes the entire empire and depicts the spirit of those difficult times as one of the oldest standing buildings in the country inside is quite different from the richly decorated churches in

points eighty seven seconds the jamaican finish a nine point nine seven seconds with richard thompson of trinidad coming in third glaucon in ten points and seconds. and moscow two premier league football matches have been postponed because of the heavy small goals by pit fires around the russian capital spartak moscow and st petersburg were supposed to headline on sunday along with two other local favorites says scott and now the matches will most likely be played towards the end of the russian football season the national team is also facing the consequences of the forest fires as their friend against bulgaria has been moved from moscow to st petersburg wednesday's match will be dick advocaat deb you as the head coach of the russian national team. and the weather seems to be perfect for some football in places other than moscow with one premier league match having taken place on the. friday f.c. rostov having cemented their place in the top five after a one nothing home win against terry gross in the encounter and they are limp to stating what score this until alexander pub then call

consider that as of two thousand and nine the department had nearly a thousand contractors working in some capacity or losing reports from the congress . wow a lot of people out there are making big bucks making reports you just gotta love bureaucracy now gates went on to say that the defense department needs to find enough savings to make up for the expected slow growth and it's half a trillion dollar based budget in the coming years and he is sure that every one of the cuts would not affect the wars in iraq and afghanistan but just hours after gates made those suggested cuts lawmakers across virginia already began shouting and screaming about that so we can only assume that congress and who control the purse strings will tell pentagon and the pentagon to fall in line and we all know the lawmakers are not going to let any defense cuts happen in their districts because that means they might get bounced out of office that people start losing their jobs so the cycle but out of control spending will probably just continue but i do very much applaud robert gates on at least trying to get

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie and first breaking news at least nine people have been killed and one badly injured in a fire that broke out at a home for the elderly and the fair region in western russia cross live show correspondent sean thomas has got the details for us sean so can you tell us what happened. well it's a situation that is unimaginable to many in fact in the early hours of this morning that fire broke out flames are upping at an old folks home in the to very region which is about three hundred kilometers away from moscow in that fire nine people have been killed at least in one person severely injured who is right now in a hospital authorities saying that the emergency crews responded to that fire within three minutes but still not in time to save the lives of those nine people and at least four hundred eighty other people at this moment in time have been evacuated we do know at this point in time that the flames are out but right now it's time for the investigators to get in and do their work and see exactly what was the cause of this

sentence is a tough eighty nine inmates sit on death row and then go. since nine hundred seventy two old life sentences without the possibility of parole. louisianan still cost his life sentences for murder aggravated rape. kidnapping and the so-called third strike by the jewel offender is. done cravings democratic state senate of the louisiana has been fighting since one thousand nine hundred two to try to reform the legal system in his state. we fail i mean we fail miserably because we have not provided a better community we have not transform the lives of those young people especially who make mistakes we've not given them an opportunity to redirect their lives so what we do is we tend to believe that if we lock them away or lock them up and throw away the key that somehow we're going to be safer i don't think our system is failing it just means that our culture demands a different criminal justice system than they have in your bend it demands the bounty or. the. most will be out of control in this country if we don't take a very firm stance. as you

hundred four and nine hundred eighty five disbursement describe slurry injections in one thousand nine hundred four into an abandoned underground mind at the rate of six hundred gallons per minute the basis for. injecting. coal slurry and other things other wastes underground as an e.p.a. one thousand nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control all that's the oxymoron of the century underground injection control and what control do we have when we inject something underground i have no idea where it goes. if i if i ask the energy was to pull out tomorrow for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story pods you know who is responsible for that count we've got the paperwork we know the calories are responsible for the clean up of the story. nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made it was oh my down this road well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems that other people don't have. a greater number of people of all timers disease old timers disease memory loss i've seen a great number of people w

the drop by nine fifteen an eight fifteen in the morning time nine fifteen twenty and time eight fifteen hiroshima time so it was all over by then but the day before as you important day because. you have to go back and realize what happened during this period the bomb was developed by the manhattan project there were hundreds of thousands of people working on the manhattan project they built three cities. tennessee. new mexico and hanford was. produced to research how to make the bombs and make the materials and from which to make the bombs so this effort had been going on a long time ever since the beginning of the war and signed wrote a letter to franklin roosevelt saying that it might be possible to make an atomic weapon. so all this had been going on and we had started preparing to drop the atom bomb in the fall of one nine hundred forty four before we even had a bomb we were we were if you were a poker player you'd say you're betting on the calm so that's what happened and then they had a test of the one of the first atomic bombs in. alamogordo new mexico on july sixteenth of one t

hurried up or nine hard to believe the. u.k. government has urged libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber abdel baset all mcgraw he was freed by scot herself already is on compassionate grounds suffering from the cancer a hero's welcome he received in return was condemned by the u.s. and u.k. the foreign office says similar scenes would be insensitive to the relatives of the two hundred seventy people killed in the pan am flight exploded above won't be in one nine hundred eighty eight. b.p. has rejected claims it's withholding key daven needed for a probe into the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster trans ocean the swiss firm which owns the rig has asked for information on the explosion at the platform which killed eleven workers and led to the worst oil spill in u.s. history b.p. which is already facing more than three hundred lawsuits in the u.s. alone for damage caused by the disaster tonight responsibility for the explosion. and opinion polls in australia suggest saturday's federal e

it's the parents that the once dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it a peasant art potters used to make clay dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called goggle toy has become a grand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these had made pieces of ages local culture and to get very hands dirty as well. but cargo got more to show for itself than just play figurines. islam back as i could remember five generations of my family have been involved in some from want. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but only is on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of my you couldn't open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from. these massive wooden structures were brought to my piece by piece then reassembled and restored here an intensive labor of love for the museum stealing over stores. in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made

by the one nine hundred sixty s. the had been divided into two parts with the border with the seventeenth. communists led by control of the north washington politicians were. at its peak in the late sixty's the us supported them with more than half a million troops. thinks the most realistic of the war is francis ford coppola's film apocalypse now. vietnam us troops stop short of nothing in a bid to achieve their objectives. the jungle hideouts of vietnamese. but they also used a chemical weapon called agent orange to smoke to the fullest. i just assumed it. was right and that we needed to be here but after a few months i started to change my mind. that we were doing a good job. but. i still. couldn't just leave. the. new trees. destroyed the forest nearly forty years ago. but the chemical weapon has had effect on the people. in many villages there are many with. these people. but the effects were passed to them genetically many years happened to be in the agent zone. these children live in study in a special village

eight or nine years will. we really appreciate message that's where we get our money that you know our way of living but traditional deep mining requires more workers than mountaintop removal since nine hundred fifty the total number of mining jobs has steadily decreased from approximately one hundred twenty thousand to less than twenty thousand today over the same period coal production has steadily increased many cofield residents are also concerned about another byproduct of coal production slurry pons. the slurry impalements the way that we dispose of the refuse that comes from the cleaning of coal which is literally nothing but dirt and rock coming that's what you're separating from the coal so that's what you're disposing of it's not toxic it's not you know as people many people would like you to believe that there's something only it's the indigenous dirt and rock that is caught up in the coal seam and that natural material includes mercury lead arsenic and a whole suite of heavy metals which as long as

i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one thousand nine hundred two buffalo creek there is this disaster where one of these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge and water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people destroyed like four thousand houses a thousand cars you know hundreds of people were injured. besides the danger of flooding while you know the residents are concerned about the health effects posed to school children from the cold processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so i say it's three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away the neighbor sits directly caused the river and you've got serious problems over you got the magnetite you got the walk you got the ammonia they use this is bad. they use diesel fuel in there they mix all this stuff together we've got. all the time. you've got. problems occur more and more downer i mean here's. our free trade a lot of kids. are in a lot of people like look all the time just drain and a