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tv   101 East Solomon Islands War Legacy  Al Jazeera  May 14, 2024 7:30pm-8:00pm AST

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of more than a $100000.00, it says it was an exchange of assignments on an alleged sexual encounter with the former president. trump is accused of falsifying business records to cover up the payments. he denies all charges members of the audi tribe and a popular philippine result town say they have been forced out of the land by developers on or below it brings us more on this story. now. 7 a warm welcome for the children. what are the crown jewel of philippine tourism? but it's a scene. most visitors don't get to see because the islands original settlers have lived in small pieces of land, away from the crowds. now tribe builders say they're going to bring up losing what little they have. one of 6, lots they occupy has been penstock after their homes were demolished by developer in march something i. e, i even just the faint noise scares me into thinking it might be their security
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guards again coming to a big test um, in the private company to took the property says it did. so after the government canceled the state granted land titles in 2018, then president would be good to turn to awarded brock ice indigenous at the people wizard, certificates of land ownership, or close placing their properties under the agrarian reform program. but now those titles have been rebuilt because the government has ruled the land isn't suitable for agriculture. the country's agrarian reform secretary says the decision was based on tests done by soil experts. the each one's or the flow was then it has no leg to stand on. it does not have any legal basis at all. only lands that are suitable for agriculture are those that can be covered by the grid and farm. but the of these have been able to grow foods, and now that they put into work,
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they say they're not going anywhere in the system. you know, any of us. i mean, they fooled us, they gave us land or need to take it back. so why should we move to whether telling us to relocate, we don't trust the government. it's been a years long struggle to find a permanent settlement at a time of a tourism boom. and one that they believe has cost to life. in 2013 text or contests, a young at the leader was shot to death. but instead of letting fear take over, they say they must honor his memory by continuing to fight for their right to their ancestral land. barney, below al jazeera, what guy, the philippines. and that's it for me for now. but i will have more news for you in about 25 minutes time showing me that one. 0, one east is coming up next. on counting, the cost is real installation defense. what was the name is an environmental time.
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the. the reality is there is a tremendous amount of pollution that some of these wrecks are. they are literally the sense of taking time off. the question is, how much was inpatient. briggs and kennedy's seem to be done about it before, like lips mold and id. use the go, a ferocious bass, or took place here between japan and the allies, and the legacy of it extends from the sea to the shore, with deadly weapons and ammunition still littering. bays on $1.00 oh, $1.00 east makes the solomon islanders to confiscate a bruce award the in the decades ago, the
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4 off the coast of guadalcanal on the solomon mazda dive place is going to put a plug in knoxville for you. i'm here with neil yates. i 1st met him when i used to leave here and he was running a dive company today to see, to share his deep knowledge of solomon's war time passed. with these dive, his walk along solomon islands and the 2 arm button sounds. you're unaware why this is cold on bottom sound. it is because there are on around the $200.00 ships out there. there is also $690.00 aircraft a sale there. so this was one of the most densely populated wrecks sites in the pacific data. guadalcanal was the longest campaign of any of the campaigns which afford throughout the orleans and the pacific. on august 7th, 1942 american marines in their 1st major ration landed on but on.
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this landing on guadalcanal, an island in the solomons, was the 1st time during world war 2. the us had invited japanese held territory, triggering a series of massive specials on land. and it seemed like a month, an extraordinary amount of ammunition was exchange by both sides. the end of the doctors, my doctor's office, on the cruise of, of cameras. the losses were numerous around 30000 main were killed. moving a 1000 planes destroyed in thousands of ships. sunk gall canal is extremely significant. that stops the japanese advance across the
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pacific. and the american forces and push them eventually back to back to my mind japan, the wrecks these divers have come to see, have been corroding some ice. and these mold and just rusting mitchell down there. there's also an unknown amount of toxic black oil trapped inside the corroding rigs . the salt whole lot of oil on things around here. total quantity oil. i can only has that a guess, but yeah, we're talking tens of thousands of tons the for the today, new is going to be my dog buddy. we're going to see if we can find any oil and see what impact the corrosion is having on these chips and the fuel tanks. the,
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we're heading down the more in line to see us. this kind of was an oil tank. it sunk during a japanese a ride in 1943, the sitting 60 maces below the surface with its guns still pointing sky wood. it's a haunting sun, a will grave. it's quite a large ship. total fuel capacity was a bit of a 9000 tons. this is the opening to one of the ships many fuel bunkers. just a few years ago they was oil in this hold. and daughters would leave covered in a sticky black sludge. now it's empty, but it's just one risk of why there are others divers kind of getting to the or
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the use the country and all the holes on the ship so so we can go to sort of the section. so don't know what is the big mix drive side is just off the coast, about 10 kilometers from the capital. honey, are the, it's japanese transport called the here a color membrane. it's a popular dive side would be useful. corals and fish the inside part of the sheet, neil finds a pocket of oil trapped in a space on the roof. there are more oil patches like these in here enough to
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pollute the beach if they were to leak out. as we had to the surface, think about how big these problem could be and how much we comp see a lot of the racks are really, really big and really hard to access. no noise, exactly how much cable in a while was on board when they went down. know how much kids still live. having died like this, solomon island. there's one rick neely's particularly worried about the american cruiser. you assess atlanta, big loss, which is something that's uh, there's a major up fuel. so would you like to make this the
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atlanta lies in a 113 maces of war, so it's to date for us to dive today. these peaches were filmed by an expedition crew in 2011 of oil bubbles coming to the surface. how likely do you think it is so have possible, do you think it is that a ship like that could rupture at some point in the future? likely. yeah, it's highly likely it's fairly hipley built but it's um, eventually oh, it will rust and collapse. you can see what to say. the structure here is collect. dr. montage and he's a marine archaeologist who is investigating the corrosion of world war 2 ricks in the pacific. so we work for the g or so it's a company called c j. and the item you said lots to actually map or slips on spice to you can save solomon islands. and as you can see here,
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the quart oil slicks from thousands of individuals move or taisha brooks. what's the swamp that's right off the coast funny. all right, so that's the easiest atlanta, the, the amount of oil. what's coming of that is as a low mountain, these changes been documenting pollution elsewhere in the pacific. in ma, kaneesha with the rex and notice data. it's a warning about what could be happening in solomon's versus their daughters, and this kind of one of the rigs and it's real quick. and as you can see here, it is a mess of part of the oil side. that's what we're leaked out of the bunker tanks themselves and come out of stock. and those roof cavities and pots of the how well it would take is a small hole in the how full the soil to spill out potentially 1000. ready the latest oil released at one guy which is not, that's kind of one of the worst case scenarios for, for this kind of problem across the pacific. japan and the us tennessee on
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a ship of the rigs as will grapes. but in solomons, they're not doing anything to stop them from causing environmental problems with the rex and solomon islands. do you think it's a case of when not, if there is a significant spill, the rates are crowding we know that it's, it's science and they will release the oil that they have the remains. but the question is, how much was in these they short breaks and can anything be done about it before like lips? is it clear? who has the legal and the moral responsibility to do something about these wrecks? it's not clear. it's a really complicated situation by the end of the day, the solomon islanders the more canadians, you know, they shouldn't be the ones picking out the, the, the cost and things like this and page of the game. the funny are, is it busy, rapidly expanding seasons that was built on the battlefield. p a. people
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still rely heavily on the land and the sea. the u. s. will memorial is a spectacular spot to take it only and get a sense of how different the land looks during the war. on these sites, they will not see. no houses whatsoever. only for us, you'll come here with saint michael. been a world war 2 to a god for this, the unexploded bones greenage and all of these was this thing on the surface. so many time when the people make thousands, they never realize that the unexploded booms just a few feet down on the ground. so when they was, the grass is all the trees, the southern need. the wolves exploded the sport. but that
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one is forever standing really and there's nothing upstairs. this is the solomon islands police farm squad. i was wondering, of says they're among some of the most experienced world war 2 disposal experts in the regional since 2011. they've recovered nearly 50000, unexploded ordnance code u x. so is, so the most common thing, somebody to clean or most over weekly have call out the boys, the window didn't respond and get the green a. and then we have the product, those especially the 75 millimeter color, but a clifford to no key is the department's acting director. he knows about the dangers of us. so is but many local storage, some of the ordinances. they have some very sensitive elements within the
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bottom, which is really sensitive the moment. so at the moment the project, it just just exploded for the past 10 years about that in that, in people that have been queued. so for a small population, it is a high number is quite consuming. the bill, this is job is to respond to reports of buicks always found, find the crew they headed to a house on the outskirts of the city. these hilltops nearby will part of the evacuation route taken by japanese soldiers as american troops post them off the island. so just
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arrived at the spot with a bomb has been reported and the police have just gone down to check it out. we have to stay here because they don't know if it's safe to me. but look and think from that point i talked to local alan b lossy. he says the hewick so was found by a child and it's not the 1st time you have the funding. what's more concrete and it's a little bit of a feeling when you 1st apply, hey, way it's of a finding the telephone somewhere. what do you see in the home phone number? how come a little uh, what wouldn't meaningful selling. boom boom campaigns are too much done. with give me what i see and it's a small projectile, but still contains high explosive materials. while we're here, now the cold comes in the
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sorry, much development going on in honey. all right, u x o is often found on construction site costs behind a shipping container out the front of this building. so there's a 60 millimeter motor around. i found this one today or before. yeah. and excavations, his honest to move us is sticking around if any other ones just laid out. um do you think that could be more on this side? could be more, but some might be other people. they should be cleared into the 4 course that excellent, but it's not the job of police to check below the surface. it's fascinating to me that i've just pulled some most is out of the ground. but these guys just keep on working. if you're looking at any other place in the world, if that happened,
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a building site like this would be immediately shut down. but here in solomon islands, paperless so used to having these bones and these folding and flying around. so they just have to get on with the police off and get calls from the halo trust benji or has been given a $1000000.00 by the us government to serve a the land for will to us. so is there any reporting what they see on the surface today, they found 38 projectiles and a pile near a tree. and another 79 in the bushes is old, empty sales, but we are ready to take them and throw it at the house. cut off by a tail spread, locals moved one you excited to a tree branch to keep it away from little hands. the
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sand retained goss uh, lives just up the hill side. he was right there on the banana, i dislike. i don't even picked it up. i just moved it and it exploded it now. and what did you think when you saw it? a guy was like, he's like a little kettle, like a team was do you know that? like a m s. c. it here? he was 11 when he found a world war 2 round containing want phosphorus, which causes excruciating bins. and he's been left with severe injuries, but he's one of the lucky ones, rosary astray, you have helped him get surgery and rehab. can you pick things out full? yeah, i can pick the for quite this a small thing that a big thing. the most of the offensive
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spent on clearing us always from the surface, leaving the most challenging job of looking for them on the ground to a handful of private clearance operations. me by me. safety also for you me to day . so if anything, i'm up in this uh, put them on, blew up on to say something so, so, so the model mac has spent 16 years in the police bomb squad before starting his own company. what's the deepest you've ever found? the u. x us the go about the 3 meet us and we found both hands is a $136155.00. perfect. that's using military grade miss will detect is he charges just $0.65 per square meter to check the land for us. so is that most solomon islanders can't afford even that very, very expensive for that. how do you feel that in the times that you've, you've,
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you've heard that someone's been injured all being killed by us? so what course are you mind when that happens? the, the very most of the story. i think the government is not, you know, so help full enough to help these people. they are not to fight as they are peaceful enough just for civil it. and if solomon i, when the war ended, us jump on is like process went home, went home in peace, we still do not have please. on doing we, we sort of say for me it's in
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the, i'm struck by how the actions of japan and the allies, 80 years ago continues to effect. so in many solomon islanders the in cook. i'm fishing village the day stopped early. one will fly would also move finally, since may evelyn piano, a has been up since for i am preparing to make coconuts guns for school lunches, so this is migrated coconut. this replaces the a milk plus the rough with the how the milk ben doesn't have that island taste. but now even cooking is a struggle. and these 2 fingers being removed. and
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this one being really less, are rated right to the wrist. it doesn't give me any strength at all. 3 years ago, milan and 2 of her friends were cooking on a traditional 5 page. when a world war 2 projectile buried underground exploded. the show was americans with their to hands legs and abdomen to shreds and killed her 2 friends. a troll when the cab beach and i was tearing it. and just when i was saving it into the bowl that they were holding on to then the thing exploded, i didn't hear the explosion. i had the ceasing sound. and then i realize this something is happening to us. i i so my left hand
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on hanging low, the skin and the flush were all hanging right to my ribs. and then i, i realize i'm in big trouble. she lives with pain, had to quit her job at the national university and doesn't get support from the government or any of the countries involved in the war. in other places, there is support. and in the slow months there is no support. it's really frustrating to me emotionally. i'm really, i don't, i don't know if it affects me to think that the u. s. and japan and the allies should html yes. sometimes i want to blame the of the allies for doing i mean the will and had it not for
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them. i wouldn't be having this issues, but it's because of what they came with and what they leave behind. that's cost somewhere for us to have. please enjoy reason last live similarly so they should be coming over in person with the resources to do the clean up the back at the police from school to headquarters. the offices, the heading down the range to dispose of 2 rounds of what phosphorus, but blowing them up the we have to stay at a safe distance in the radio rate to
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down. but there are many, many more to go. what is out there is unsafe in just my estimate maybe more than a 100000 items still out there. the cleaning up the solomon islands will probably take decades, and it's highly likely in that time, more people will be injured and even killed. maven doesn't want to let that happen. she's now training in hewick. so risk awareness in the hope she can one of the of the dangers and spare them the horror and hardship
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on i've been given a 2nd chance to leave. so the 2nd chance that i have now is to tell others about my experience and be more careful with life. because once we lose it, that's it finished. some of us will never have a 2nd chance. i have one. so i will use the 2nd chance that i've been given to house office read. so one of the words, wherever screeches numbers are plummeting due to the deforestation culture and climate change indian sites are fighting to protect. one of the most important things to control the species is to maintain their habitats. 101 east reveals the bottle to save into use with. oh no, just the latest news as it breaks. online banking apps rely on the internet for 2
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