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that at all. >> you'll see a show that has an impact on the conventional wisdom, that goes where nobody else goes. my name is imran garda, i'm the host of "third rail" - and you can find it on al jazeera america. >> climate conflict. >> here he is going to alaska to talk about the climate change while just approving arctic drilling. >> environmentalists are callings him a hypocrite. >> afghanistan attacks. >> the violence we see from the taliban and the hakani network we really want to double down if you will on trying to stop these
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groups from carrying out other acts of terror. >> increased violence in pakistan, and stop providing a safe haven. >> international condemnation. >> it is a dangerous precedent, journalisjournalists going to p. >> amaalal clooney petitions to release the al jazeera journalists. treares coming home. >> good evening i'm antonio mora this is al jazeera america. we begin flit by a push by the white house to shine a light on
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climate change. president obama is expected to focus on the threats many communities face from warmer temperatures, melting ice and rising oceans. but the president is coming under heavy fire from environmentalists who feel he is sending mixed messages from not doing enough to prevent oil drilling in the arctic. allowing shell to conduct exploratory drilling off the coast of alaska. and the arctic is especially sense tump not only sensitive not only regionally but in other countries. let's go to the president's speech. >> alaska has some of the swiftest erosion rates in the world. i recall one white house spokesman said, many of our villages are ready to slide off the shores of alaska and in some
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cases there will be absolutely no hope. we will need to move many villages. alaska's fire season is now more than a month longer than it was in 1950. at one point this summer, one time 300 wildfires were burk atg this month. an area about the size of massachusetts. if i add the fires across canada and siberia we're talking 300 million acres. an area about the size of new york. this is a threat to many communities but it's also an immediate and ongoing threat to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect ours. less than two weeks ago, three highly trained firefighters lost
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their lives fighting a fire in washington state. another is in critical condition. we are thankful to each and every firefighter for their heroism including canadians who have helped fight the fires in this state. but the problem is, climate change is not a afar off proble. it is happening here, now. our ecosystems, water and food supplies are threatened, our energy our infrastructure, human health human safety now today. and climate change is a trend that affects all trends. economic trends. security trends. everything will be impacted. and it becomes more dramatic with each passing year.
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already it's changing the way alaskans live. and considering the arctic's unique role in influencing the global climate, it will accelerate changes to the way that we all live. since 1979, the summer sea ice in the arctic has decreased by more than 40%. a decrease that has dramatically accelerated over the past two decades. one new study estimates that alaska's glaciers alone lose about 5 gigatons, 75 billion tons of ice each -- about 75 gig a tons, 75 billion tons of ice each year. a block the size of a national mall the size of wash is a gigaton. from congress all the way to the lincoln memorial, four times as tall as the washington monument.
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imagine 75 of those ice blocks. that's what alaska's glaciers lose alone each year. the pace of melting is only fetting faster. getting faster. it's now twice it was between 1950 and 2000. twice as fast as it was just a little over a decade ago. and it's one of the reasons why sea levels rose by about eight inches over the last century and why they're projected to rise another one to four feet this century. consider, as well, that many of the fires burning today are actually burning through the perm a frost. this permafrost actually stores massive amounts of carbon.
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when it thaws or burns these gases are released into our atmosphere. over time. and that could mean that the arctic could become a new source of emissions that further accels global warming. triggering more melting more fires more thawing of the perma frost. negative feedback loop, a cycle warming leading to more warming that we do not want to be a part of. and the fact is that climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. >> president obama speaking at the glacier conference in anchorage, alaska, arguing that climate change will impact just
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about everything around the world. he talked about rising sea levels and also focused on the arctic, it will volume moving villages, and fire season is lasting more than a month longer than it used to and the consequences to alaska. and president obama's presence at the top of the world there in alaska is underscoring the georeply consequences of the region. patricia sabga explains. >> reporter: antonio, the climate change is heating up, according to the u.s. geological survey, 30% of undiscovered gas are in the arctic. most of it under the ocean. that's nearly a quarter of the world's hydrocarbon reserves and that's not all that's at stake. the fish stock and mineral deposits while melting ice is
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opening up new sea lanes that could open up times between asian and european markets. eight countries have territories inside the arctic circle but the five major players are russia, united states, canada, norway and denmark. a global treaty gives nations control of resources whind 200 nautical miles of their coast lines. and extend that footprint. the united states hasn't ratified that treaty leaving it at a disadvantage but other countries are pressing ahead, most notably russia, formally laid claim to 460 square miles of arctic territory. telegraveled in 2007 when russia planted a flag on the sea bed of the north pole. and russia is increasingly flexing its muscle, holding unannounced war games and
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reopening soviet era war bases. the united states sees these developments as provocative but not enough for raising its military presence, begs the question, is russia's investment worth it? given the roughly 50% fall in global oil prices in the past year expensive arctic air plays may not be worth it now but in the long term moscow is clearly betting the top of the world will pay off. antonio. >> thank you, patricia. viernltenvironmentalists say whe talks about climate change his actions belie that. daniel lak reports. >> this week president obama sees the glorious landscape of alaska and how it's being
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devastated. as the president himself said coastal erosion is washing away communities, forcing them to flee. >> if climate change poses the same threat right now. >> reporter: environmentalists agree but they don't like his administration's decision to approve offshore drilling in the chukchi sea. president they say says one thing on climate change and does another. >> here he is going to alaska to talk about the urgency of climate change while just approving arctic drilling, scientists is crystal clear when they say that 100 billion barrels of oil must stay in the ground if we're to control climate change.
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>> many jobs especially among the indigenous population. fears of cult backs at state service. at an international conference on climate change, president obama will tell them not to take that step. >> where we can bring sustainable development and responsibly draw on those resources to meet not just our needs and the needs of the community but the world's needs for fossil fuels going forward but also you know to bear in mind that there is an environmental cost to this. we need to balance all of that. >> here's proof. melting sea ice is behind this gathering of walruses, thousands of them forced to shore, facing starvation and unable to stay in normally icebound ocean hunting grounds. alaska and its people face climate change like few others on earth. as the first president to visit the arveght, mr. obama will call
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for more curbs against climate change but the u.s. economy too, the industry that many say is driving global warming. daniel lak, al jazeera, washington. >> robert carrell, in 2007 he and his colleagues were awarded the nobel peace prize. he joins us from weld, maine, vie skype. there's a lot to talk about. let's start with the spat between environmentalists and the president. are they right to accuse hum of saying one thing and doing another, talking climate change and then allowing drilling in the arctic waters? >> i think the president understands the issues, he also sees the dilemma that alaska faces and i'm not sure that all of us completely understand how these two things can work together. so i think the dialogue here is legitimate. it's important.
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and it's important for all of us to work together. but i do believe that his administration in particular understands that these sea level issues and the opening of the sea way, the one thing he doesn't mention is the fact that the changing character of feedbacks in the arctic are dramatically influencing the weather systems in the northern hemisphere. so you have a good question, i don't have a good answer. but i can tell you we're in the middle of the dialogue to try resolve that issue. >> i guess is there no good anxious? is he caught between a rock and a hard place? it seems alaskans themselves are conflicted. hard to find a middle ground between energy needs and caring for a threatened environment. >> there are other ways to do the energy needs. there are alternative energy systems that will be very opportunistic for those who wish to make investments in them. they can apply in alaska where working with small villages to use alternative energize rather thaenergies ratherthan the curr.
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the view is stuck in the past in my view rather than looking at ways and means for the future. >> let's talk about the geopolitical issues. climate change and technology now allow or may allow for the exploitation of the arctic's resources, and a europe-asia trade route through the arctic is more feasible. but that can really lead to the kind of international competition that could lead to a political nightmare. >> i think you're raising a really proper issue and it's not only the arctic nations that are interested. china, korea, japan, sing singae all see these as opportunity spaces for their transport industry and yet you're right. i think issue of balance here about the kinds of natural resource development that makes sense in a more sustainable future rather than those who will make difficult for us the
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sustainable future because we rely too much on fossil fuels. >> and i know you know a lot about the arctic council and what's going on in the arctic in general and as you know the russians are backing up these classic they've been making on the arctic through their rhetoric. they're backing that rhetoric up with military exercises, they're building a series of arctic stations, talking about more air defenses. they purportedly have 41ize breakers to the u.s.'s two. the u.s. i understand has dropped the ball when it comes to the arctic and its future to you agree? >> i think you're right. the difficulty here is there are several nations, russia and canada look at the pie theory, they own everything to the pole, and the reaches of the off the bridge but all of these things will get resolved under the law of the sea as soon as the united
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states should be a signatory will be a lot her for us to do that. you raise a legitimate question which is going to be resolved in the geopolitical arena, some of it politically and some in the fashion that you and i are discussing, where the insights will be more aware among the public who will demand different actions. >> robert carrell, thank you for joining us. afghan army supported by nato jets, tries to regain ground in the strategic helmanprovince. anger, as police clash with separatists who want more autonomy. autonomy. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
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>> afghan taliban leaders said they covered up the death of their leader, mullah omar, for two years. april 23rd, 2013, they said the war in afghanistan was entering a critical phase at that point as u.s. troops were winding down their combat mission. the document was intended to provide more information about the appointment of mullah monsour as the new leader. u.s. is calling on pakistan
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to help reduce voyages in afghanistan. calling for them to take advantage of the death of mullah omar. this summer marked the first fighting season in afghanistan since most foreign forces withdrew last year. al jazeera's john terret reports on the fighting in hellman province. >> afghanistan's hellman province has been the seen of heavy violence, as forces from nato try check progress. invasion of 2001, it's a long time taliban strong hoard, and an opium rich transport hub, where u.s. and foreign troops lost their lives before most foreign forces left. taliban efforts to take control of the region intensified after the withdrawal of u.s. led
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coalition forces last year, about 10,000 american troops now remain, mostly to train and advise. afghan forces have stood their ground at times but continue to struggle with disorganization, low morale and widespread drug dependence. despite a spring offensive this summer's fighting season saw the taliban make gains both in the north part of the country and in hellman. a key nato position that straddles lucrative smuggling routes. that victory was short-lived. the afghan government had hoped for a weakening of the taliban, after the announcement of mullah omar is dead his passing kept
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under wraps for over two years. any hopes that a leadership vacuum would lead to a debilitating fighting so far has been dashed. john terret, lblg al jazeera. >> joining us is doug olivant. good evening doug. >> good evening, antonio. >> they captured some towns that the taliban had taken control of in the past days. some analysts were writing off hellman, do you think they are just taking territory but they can't hold it? >> they can't hold it when the united states sends special air force, control teams the ones we keep talking about that we need in iraq, to put out very precision fires on these taliban fighters. no one's going to stand up
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against combined air power of the united states that way with no way to shoot back at it. >> they need these strikes to win these battles. is it clear that afghan forces alone cannot provide security in afghanistan? >> it certainly appears that way. in these battles in hellman, the forces have needed u.s. air power. it's u.s. air power not necessarily troops on the ground. we had these combat controllers, directing the aircraft but nonetheless they certainly need some help. >> what's morale like among those afghan forces? the taliban is constantly attacking them at any way possible from police stations to training sites. >> i think it depends on the forces themselves. some are them have been in the fight for a long long long long time and tired and combat weary, others are fresher and get
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rotated in. it depends on which force you're talking about but you certainly make a legitimate point. this fight has gone on for a long time and certainly somebody is getting tired of it. >> would you expect it to be stronger, in the south in pakistan they use as a safe haven but they are also having some success in the north which usually is more friendly for them. is the taliban winning in afghanistan? >> they are certainly having much more success in the north than we would expect. the taliban are drawn primarily from the pas pashhtoon group. the taliban usually doesn't do well in the north and yet we have seen them be able to push and that's odisturbing trend. >> the taliban admitting they withheld news of the debt of
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their leader mullah omar, because they were expecting coalition forces to leave in 2013, and is that an indication giving any kind of date certain for american withdrawal, because american troops did end up staying there, is it a mistake to give those dates certain because the taliban is paying attention. >> well, i think all kinds of people are paying attention. the taliban is paying attention but it also gives a drop-dead date for the afghan government to get its act together and understand that that is the date that it is taking control. so i think giving these hard dates is two faced. it certainly does give knowledge to your enemy that they can plan around. but on the other hand it tells your allies it lets them plan, these are the sedates you need to step up. i don't think there's an alternative to giving those dates but you're certainly right to point out the enemy is going to use any information you give
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them. >> seeing these developments are you at all optimistic about afghanistan's future? >> afghanistan has a hard row to hoe. they don't seem to be able to pull this all together. part of this is political, we don't even have a minister of defense appointed by the afghan government yet. defense of the afghan government has been outsourced, there's no afghan officials really running the war themselves. they really need to get their act together and pull the country together and try to push back against taliban incursions. if the government isn't strong by definition they are not going to be able to stand up to these taliban incursions. >> here we are 14 years after the u.s. involvement began. as europe grapples with its refugee crisis, austria creates a massive traffic jam.
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also, german chancellor angela merkel many called on the rest of the countries to take on the crisis in europe. merkel wants eu nations to speed up asylum applications and build new centers for new arrivals. she says the test of the eu core principles. >> if europe fails on the question of refugees its close connection with universal civil rights will be destroyed. it won't be the europe we imagined. >> grow tolerance for hate crimes, merkel said other eu nations must extend help to italy, because of the influx coming from the mediterranean sea. other routes as well, many land in greece then head. last week, 71 refugees were found dead in a truck in austria.
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thousands of people took to the streets to demand better rights for immigrants. rob reynolds reports from vienna. >> thousands of people gathered in the stepansdome, ancient cathedral to pray for those refugees who died in an airless truck, beside an austrian highway and thousands of others who died on land and sea trying to reach europe. the deaths of the 71 refugees have horrified the public. over the weekend, austrian police belatedly began checking trucks entering from hungary. they found 200 packed into vehicles and found five potential smugglers. >> we are seeing people traffickers who are becoming
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increasingly brutal and unscrupulous. we have to fight that with tougher measures. >> getting tough snarled the highway from budapest to vienna with a traffic jam nearly 30 kilometers long. >> say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here. >> thousands marched in protest throughout the streets of vienna demanding better treatment for refugees. people here are not only grieving for the refugees who have died. many of them are upset with the leaders of the european union for failing to deal effectively with the refugee crisis. leaders of austrian human rights groups organized the march seeking to apply pressure on politicians. >> i'm embarrassed to be an austrian, i'm embarrassed to be a european. we can't take up a few hundred thousand refugees?
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we need to be more sensitive to what we're doing. >> i want the government to be more sensitive to all the foreigners which have pain and suffer, just give them a chance to live. >> reporter: but prayers and protests are no substitute for a coherent refugee policy. european leaders will hold a summit on the issue in two weeks. between now and then the river of refugees will keep flowing. rob reynolds, al jazeera, vienna. >> hungary is trying okeep refugees out by building a fence along its southern border with serbia and that's causing friction with the european union. the fence goes against european value, frens president said fre. today hungary summoned france's ambassador for talks.
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and chaotic scenes did at vienna's western railway station. hundreds of refugees arriving from hungary struggled to board trains bound for germany. >> reporter: yet another queue. hundreds are being allowed to board trains to germany and austria, these families have been stuck living rough on the pavement for more than a month and this is happening only a few hours after the hungarian government told al jazeera there could be no travel across eu borders without visas. none of these have visas, but now they're bound for munich and cleared to leave. at the austrian border this is confusion and delays of several hours. it's because the austrian
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railway wasn't happy because of the overcrowded carriages and wandewandwanted to transfer pas. >> i have a friend in germany, maybe in germany, germany is big, big country. and -- maybe good. generally it is good. >> reporter: but some refugees were stressed about whether they were free to carry on across the border and didn't believe rail officials. after an hour and a half, came relief. it's stifling in here. this train is packed to overflowing. and these people are all celebrating because they're convinced they're about to cross the border. they don't have vee visas but it seems the exception is being made and the journey goes ahead. at last on their way to the destinations they had grown to do you believe they'd ever see.
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andrew simmons. al jazeera, on the hungary-austria border. >> on the other side, cambodia's representation as part of a $30 million deal, ca cambodia agreeo take in victims who sought asylum in australia. so far only four people have been transferred. at least one soldier is dead and dozens more are injured as protests outside ukraine's parliament turned violent. the violence followed a vote in parliament to grant autonomy to two areas in eastern ukraine. nadim baba reports.
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>> these pictures show the bloody scene after tear gas thrown by riot police. many were taken away by ambulance. the violence also injured journalists covering the protest. a crowd had gathered ahead of a parliamentary vote on giving special status to parts of donetsk and lufns region luhansn eastern ukraine. but the new bill introduced by petro poroshenko and his allies did pass on first reading. it was supposed to end the fighting between ukraine's army and russian backed separatists. since then there's inten been sc violence in the east. these scenes in the capital oar reminder of just how controversial it is. nadim baba, al jazeera. >> not even a week has passed
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since south sudan's president signed a peace deal and it might be falling poorl apart already. riek machar said the violence is starting in unity state. but the army says it's the reckless who are stoking the fires. either way the u.n. is warning both sides that they need to cooperate or face sanctions and embar goes. >> new slight images of syria shows i.s.i.l. has destroyed the bel temp in palm raz. satellitpalmyra. i.s.i.l. seized palmyra in may. officials say they blueprint another 2,000 year old temple nearby. coming up why nearly 200 people have been arrested by
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>> top architect david adjaye. >> for architecture to be emotionally relevant, there has to be a connection. >> talks about the pressures of his biggest projects... >> everything i was passionate about was about to be tested. >> and improving the world through buildings. >> architecture does inspire social change. >> every tuesday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. >> another explosion at a chemical factory has turned deadly in eastern china. chinese state media ya said it happened yesterday around noon
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eastern time. it's the third blast in three weeks. a different chemical factory exploded in the same province last week and before that a major blast in tienjin killed at least 145 people. meanwhile, china's struggling economy has had an effect on markets in u.s. and around the world. but china is proclaiming the uncertainty on journalists. nearly 200 people are under arrest accused of spreading rumors. >> he's under arrest, claiming his article, the shanghai share index suffered one of its biggest ever falls. on monday he apologized to all who lost money. >> in this kind of market, information can have a big impact, whether it's correct or
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incorrect. because we're going to be in one way or the other an extremely volatile market. >> also he reportedly made a half million dollar profit after borrowing more than twice that sum to buy shares. china's legal system reliance heavilreliesheavily on confessi. 197 people have been reportedly punished for reporting on stock market falls as well as the explosions in tienjin. but criticisms over the government's handling of all this have not featured in china's state media. instead it's been focusing on thursday's big military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of japan surrender. preparations for that event have coincided with a tightening of already strict internet
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restrictions. two social media sites from our sister network al jazeera arabic have now been blocked. the government won't say why. during troubled times like this, the government blocks news stories that they say expose state secrets or endanger the country. in short, they say the government fears a free media because it would underi min unds authority. the rising need for internet freedom is now testing the government's control. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. in turkey, vice news reporters were detained last week, they had been covering fighting between turkish authorities and kurds. vice news calls accusations of
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working on behalf of i.s.i.l. baseless and false. baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy are back in jail today. the egyptian court found them guilty of spreading false news. amal clooney is representing fa meez. fahmy about. >> maybe we won't know the content of a call or meeting but i think that level of communication should be taking place. >> the issue last gone on since december 13 when he was first detained. their colleague peter greste was also sentenced to three years. al jazeera rejects the charges against all the journalists and demands the release of fahmy and
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mohammed. in drug producing nations including peru the battle begins at the source. are mariana sanchez takes us into the jungles of that country. >> after a tip, special police marched across rivers and marshes. commander carlos sanchez led the team as they set out to find a coca lab. the shots are fired to warn the producers. most people are involved in the drug trade. just as we were arriving the traffickers fled. they left behind their bread, they left behind boots. these sacks of coca leaves the police say were about to be thrown into the pool to make the coca paste from which cocaine is made. authorities say this lab is big
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enough to produce $50,000 worth of coca paste each day. >> translator: the size and location of the lab tells us they were professionals. >> reporter: the stench of comic chemicals such as acid and gasoline is everywhere. the residue is thrown away contaminating land and rivers. this 100 man contingent at the palma pampa base is on the forefront of the war on drugs in peru. they have a big mandate but not enough resources. >> translator: the plevment of thicomplexityof this is to reac. we need air support to move faster.
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>> reporter: peru's antidrug policy is focused on destroying labs and clandestine landing strips. two to three labs are dismantled every week. still more than 300 tons of drugs are transported out of the country each year. the united nations latest drug report says peru has reduced the amount of coca fields in the last two years but critics say traffickers are making the land more productive with better fertilizers. peru is exporting more coca paste and cocaine than ever. unless something changes it seems like fighting the drug trade is a battle now that can't be won. mariana sanchez, al jazeera, peru. catching in on its supplies of opals.
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safe. food and sugar to bears, they need a cargo to evacuate the animals. in today's off the radar segment charles stratford goes to wolo to learn why gem stone experts are so interested in the region. >> the ethiopiaiathe ethiopian e often called the roof of africa. they have got gem stone officials of the world really expedited. opals. we meet a group of minor minersn their way back to the village. the work is very, very hard they tell me. look at the blue in that. seto has been mining for two
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years. he and 12 other men work in this 40 meter long tunnel. the group earn to $2500 a week for stones they find. seto has been digging here for about 20 minutes now and he's just hacked into a piece of rock and you can see here, this is the opal. and the guys who work this mine say that on a good week they can pull out around 50 kilos of these stones. there is nothing to support the roof of the tunnel. seto says the last time a miner was killed here was three years ago. >> translator: landslides happen when it rains. it's frightening when you're inside the tunnel. but i don't want to stop this work until i'm successful. >> the government has supplied the miners with basic tools and says it wants to improve health and safety standards. it's encouraged them to form cooperatives. they sell most of the raw opals
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for processing abroad. >> translator: since we formed cooperatives we have been able to save money. some of our friends have bought cars. others have bought houses. >> this is one of only two gem stonework shops in addis ababa. ethiopia's opal industry generates around $25 million a year a long way behind australia which produce he more than 90% of the world's opals. this stone on the left is worth around $five per car $5 per kar. all are found in ethiopia. the government plans to establish infrastructure here to sell cut and polish stones. >> we're now inviting investors, mining companies with experience to come to ethiopia.
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>> the opal is known as the queen of gems and so men like seto continue digging despite the risks involved. charles stratford al jazeera, yoaps. now to our global view segment with a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various events. >> writing that more than 2500 people have died while european nations have quibbled over what to do. it says a unified system is necessary to reflect a united modern europe. britain's the telegraph is criticizing the invitation of abdel fatah al-sisi to visit europe this fall. though the west needs egypt to help fight i.s.i.l, specifically calling out the prison sentence given to our al jazeera colleagues over the weekend. and reflecting japan answer
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currency devaluations over the years, the japan times offers this debt torl cartoon as china bends low under a pole labeled currency devaluation, saying, how dare you challenge our limbo record. f. teresa bol reports from buenos aires. >> these are thousands of archaeological artifacts sent back to their countries of origin. there are around 4500 of them. they come from peru and ecuador and were recently recovered in buenos aires after a ten year investigation. >> an investigation was started when a u.s. professor was caught at the airport with one of the pieces. i went to some of the raids and in some cases we found entire
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bookshelves filled with archaeological piece is. >> there are glass he and statues and other elements used for religious ceremonies in ecuador. >> this is from 1300 after the birth of christ. >> we were told the artifacts were brought here to buenos aires. this is the neighborhood that is filled with antique stores. interpol launched several at intinterpol's headquarters, what happened to the archaeological material was no surprise. >> europe and the united states are the countries that generally buy. pieces come to different parts
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of argentina and they are taken somewhere else. that's how trafficking happens and it's a multimillion dollar industry. >> argentina is trying to set a precedent about what to do with recovered antiques. that's why it's offered to send the pieces to the original owners. >> translator: when you go to museums around the world you see they're filled with stolen peaces from another country. it's a type of colonialism. that's why argentina is sending all these pieces back. >> reporter: antique trafficking has become a major business around the world and at least this time these artifacts are heading to where they belong. trea wo al jazeera, buenos aires. >> marking the end ever harvest integrations. tiger dancers spend hours to paint their bodies like tigers. more government funding is
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needed to keep the tradition going. that's it for this edition of al jazeera america news. i'm antonio mora, thanks for watching. fault lines is up next. i'll see you with more news in an hour. an hour. >> this is where i'll be buried. >> right next to her. >> mmmhmm. >> six years ago, roy bosley's wife, carol, died after overdosing on prescription painkillers. she was 60. >> it should have never happened.
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