he's telling. dynamic. with r.t. in live from moscow on straight to the headlines now russians go to the polls for parliamentary elections with voting already over in many eastern regions the focus falls on whether the ruling united russia party receives at the same overwhelming support it did four years ago. iran's a military forces say they have shot down an unmanned u.s. drone in the east of the country this is according to the state news agency the incident follows this week's tensions over students storming the british embassy in

tehran in response to fresh sanctions on the u.k. expelling iranian diplomats in retaliation. for un human rights commissioner calls for international intervention in syria to protect civilians from the government's forces but russia and china vote against the resolution condemning the violations saying foreign meddling will only cause more bloodshed. and egypt's main islamist party emerges as the biggest winner in the opening round of the country's first parliamentary elections since the february revolution the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party has reportedly gained forty percent of the vote. well they do stay with us here in our continuing coverage of the parliamentary elections here in moscow but for now build on its here in half an hour's time but now it sees a special report on the standoff between a mining corporations and eco activists in peru where locals opposed to the big guys found themselves facing unparalleled military scale violence and intimidation

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this is sacred land killing. the waters from kalish naresh god how much i want to know. this if they destroy kill us that one people. will die without water our ancestors want us about this.

i'm father marco antonio i don't know's i gotta. sing i was born in ca marco a little and you thought tobe a one thousand nine hundred two know your birth date me i lived most of my life in the universities and i was taught to learn from cement schoolrooms about i'd rather the nature not endure the ladies who meant us you know i couldn't do that and at least for. you a little but really sure seeing. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and had the privilege of living in park on. one of peru's poorest communities over the top of your city. if you've never. been. in university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your

earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. really believe you know discovered circulation some number of years ago. it's true it's a good deposit we've always been a low class before and want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the in the price of gold.

increases to go on. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million dollars. the miners have already destroyed several mountains their next project is mt keeley's but the farmers to stop them.

if. that's what money. the farmers block the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keenly. yannick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed. you know the farmers trade unions and university students asked me to mediate interviews where you'll be able to have the government finally have to accept me as a mediator but the company always refused to let me mediate with them again. if you provoke them. if you act like a hot shot yelling silly things. then instead of reaching the solution there will

be a bloodbath. and you've got some of them will die but more poor people will die and they'll remember their dead forever but who will remember the poor so i'm asking you it's better to fight than to be contaminated. no no no no no please forget that slogan friend if i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if anyone here wants to die there's a cemetery oh burke i'll help you dig the hole and give them us we want to live right this is a struggle for life. yes to live no to gold. for the first time people living in the nearby city of america join the farmers to

defend mount killings was freedom for those under arrest was. here they are these are the ones who will always fight. the. now we have no more fear was was was was was. was.

in general i just came out of the meeting with the city's councillors. you i saw the protest in the main square and the police harassment going up and i didn't participate in the protest of the people in meeting is that. i came to get a fax from the minister and saw all the police beating people and throwing tear gas and. noise give us the i'm going to address the crowd and tell them to remain calm. because you're going to thanks general please restrain your offices now you know i'm going inside to see what i can do to get with him most of them yeah thanks general good bye they're going to step outside now i'm going outside. of the city there are. they threw me in i already spoke to the minister. the

weights listen to me listen to me i know i saw the police on from here like you know the general is giving the order to stop but you need to stop too don't slow any more stones listen to me they provoked us if you're not going to listen to me then negotiate yourselves with. the way listen to me you know kind of they started this with you i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police because there is some of the people and of the knowledge that he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones at him you know who threw those stones at the police station. i mean. i don't look at it as a. father

what's happening in my it's an evil with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these violence is not force with more violence but with peace. easier for lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble gandalf i lead us bjoerling. units my beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. defend our rights seen this will not organized and united yanacocha is going to eat us one by one be patient you're not going to win this struggle in a day in and you're fighting against the world's largest mining company. this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous battles the

conquest of south america began here five hundred years ago. a small band of spanish invaders request a meeting with the income ruler to while. the spaniards promised they'd come in peace but it's a trap. they kidnap the nka and hold him for ransom. followers to one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish through. today the market is once again the stage for a battle over gold. thing

in. common ordinary people. are just defending our water that it was or that i did it when i. ask of the government another is that they leave us in peace. but they don't touch the water we need for our crops and animals. but at the government because this is our livelihood. i

was five i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us john. callahan market declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder of vienna coach of mine. with a new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's government is under pressure to end the conflict. people make them a war going on that the government makes mistakes and the company has to admit its pot but we have to fight until they respect our rights. the social license is extremely important to us really and in some ways over the over the legal license to operate do you ask them to stop and remove their machines this is our conflict

with the. you know in hindsight should we do a lot of things different you know where we live in a i'm not sure how much differently you know it is this and these crazies are good you know because we have to admit when not doing things as well as we thought we. were telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mount. on the finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke piano coaches permission to explore mt kill each in exchange for an end to the blockade. of the gentleman and all thorazine s. . behalf of the population i move that we end the blockade will be able to come over to the u. . oh ivy let's do the ceremony to end the blockade not as an

end to the struggle for now but as a ceremony to thank god you are going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away everything that we don't. have a day. for the amount kili she is safe at least for the moment. father mad cow is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is enamored with the farmers. their local media tax market and his activist organization graffiti day and the struggle of the bow to began.

their marco has troubles at home his reputation outside peru is growing. he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and thousand basters

and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament and what just like in canada hundreds of farmers in peru and latin america are sent to jail for defending their right to a healthy life. then d.m. people's struggle to defend their land and water continues. in two thousand and six yannick coaches shut down by another blockade america was called in to mediate but this time a farmer is killed by police. you're

not on your mind you they called my sister and my niece answered we got home and we saw that in that. they knew she was an adolescent and they said we'll tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues you know because we're going to put two bullets in his head because as for that they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone call that i'm going to you know for someone to look at your studio and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live from on this. level people i don't understand their perverse logic says to threaten my sister or my niece. d.r. than us up with you. on your mind or me so do you know. i come up with the one that got. my father marco isn't the only one

receiving threats. here to vasco is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmers. get on line but now that. we know. that i i was alone in the hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night to be a model and case and we believe it when the i saw it was a number from a public telephone income aka. is this music the last kiss and i said yes. a man spoke harshly and insulted me for it so it's

a. she said if i kept making trouble they would rape me even. kill me and cut my body into pieces. and threw them in the garbage for the dogs to eat. i hung up but he kept to call in. the union on the bridge. abutment keep probably wanted to keep tellin me how i was going to die.

moments also with that we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning so i was in a stimulus of us alone and. so most of the one that they followed us to our homes just a lot of. families told us they were taking photos of the homes you wanted them for the if you're going to be in and work places and get off. this highway goes to the village of pub young. people are saying to present a porno they fire you with a building a school he and other road goes to the non seedy.

people or we saw it there on the devil went to the mine because we couldn't find him on the road to a pub you know. only nothing until it went in the direction of the mine or in our courts and i left him. goodbye. the woman told the feces but give it all it was a difficult time. give a yes and you just suddenly felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but

he and even with this tree twenty years i think if someone approached you with a cellphone or with a photo or a feed your camera look at video and that and you felt hostile towards them. or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the style of a huge. yes again i love that i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that the heater. is if you have a tissue i. guess it isn't and then it doesn't suddenly your heart begins to pound when it's all so you say be calm one though. don't give up i better get out of here it will be fine.

if you. had to d.c. and the other activists ecru feed it develop a counter espionage plan and begin to spy on the spy. who feed as members took these photos and videos of their pursuers. if you started singing i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me you get the bus i said what are

you doing where are filming me. me and doesn't say that's when i called lucho to help me if you will you know. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it was because the female let him into going to score something. even though the man said nervously no i'm not filming anyone i don't even have a camera would we want a body soon but police car period anyways to say you know officer this man is following my wife and filming or i said. the first three months.