tv Bolivia The Amazon Al Jazeera October 13, 2017 8:33am-9:01am AST
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thank you in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle so a family collects the shells from a giant brazilian thanks thank you. along the way i'm going to my mother given. her death by a boy and. the place is infested within things and snakes genco the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience and no longer use the feeds and most of the their ethical code the whole point of a lot imo but i've learned there a lot going on there and i knew i was in which end of the one hundred for me what on. economic to go and it may have been what it had been the mental home be made the whole mess think i'm on a plane and then when we fly through the air and i think that i'm in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shells with the batman
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but her great fear is torrential that it down i. know this is more than. that on. for hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the show around the giant not. me that we're going to what end up being one of them had to. play a guy don't quote what i mean obviously one of the guys know the boy but that guy is up when we are on your bottom in whatever form mindful of everybody laughing and . the shells that too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the not that are exploited worldwide chopping the shelves requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous.
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if made with you. if if. present caught then this about on the left that. i don't know i would be among the low water around them as i've gotten one of them i wanted one for the record keeping on both arsala. i moved there for a long while i was little. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this hour and they're going to holler and as a little going to. give them a few but nature often provide solutions here for. five hundred. oh yeah.
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on the way home the young couple who've known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of nuts will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any more because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents twenty six year old genco is the head of the family and has fifteen mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream. genco younger brother roma who's eighteen will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs there on the earth yeah the polytheists are. yeah ok i think it's a hassle that. you.
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feel give us a loan they also want them to come to. fly . looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price for you that's a good. candidate for him to. put in. fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo one be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rots due to the moisture. to avoid losses
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i get must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague. planted in the month of may. but . despite his troubles a girl is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off a son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. from the moment this human point of view that i was. coming. up with.
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this income is me out again as he says there will be another. class. here when they get up to the market i mean i made it because we've hit the area. with a few things here to help with. the. precious cargo of nuts begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. just to make him.
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have it. that way but what about that once you get going to go live what are you going to find. in three days' time it's back to school alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late is afraid he's ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic. full. must cross a tributary of the amazon the rio beni. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. it. just dumped.
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more inclusion i formed. into going to me i find. the dock has disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. the ferry struggling against the current finally arriving. edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every one. more moment that people from what's coming i don't know some of them but there's no . question. the bus is too long.
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so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring safety. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. enough for them. because it will go national but look at first in the gulf war when. the ferries no longer being pulled and begins to drift.
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it's dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across the the. edgar is no the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel and the food this trip will hardly make him enough to live on. a fairly level something again coming to the net over. there you mean doing a film and tell him and don't forget history that this was how he was going down this issue. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers
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eg it completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industry. today one hundred thousand people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the precious nuns arrive every day. because of the dam many may rot even before they're open. to be dried they have to be ventilated. but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountain of nuns around. the operation is repeated of the other end of the way house. but a lot of that go lives up but i've been there but like i love when i get to the light
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. oh. oh in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the. miriam the director of the factory and full of his measures to deal with this as a mother london a lot of money this is the only form of. monday we'll look for yes i need somebody to sort out i don't want to get out of my life. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. i began to see what i mean isn't any good i mean if i get money and said ok get it
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this is the basis i will feel safe i was ok but then i was a boy again if you were never allowed that said i wasn't ok i was really good i mean. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than three hundred sixty dollars a month. who's on the eighteen has worked here for two years. c.n.n. thank you so much. you're good. you know. if you think that. if. there's. a that.
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the workers repeat the same mechanical action all day long. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. to come. it will without. the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around thirty dollars a kilo. and
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get has just learned that the road to lipans is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how will get alan back in time for the new school in. the unseasonable rains continue and the river benny has now flooded. the main road to the capital is submerged. the country is split into. this year the flooding has been. density with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to
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the bolivian capital lipans. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options . this moment that i do but i myself will come in last night she want to hold the march for the neon first day. of the for the plan. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for day. world love love love love love love love love love love love what i don't get it but i don't care for that. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything on. the best that's ever asking
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him to sleep with a few dollars on my must have a bus around. he could easily be swept away by the current. fact. he was now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you know. he's one of the family friendly yes forest. the bear stuff where they keep out the stuff that you know. that we're not that band of it all set up where to stay at the moderate off.
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the air. coming up. i'm going to whom must i get out of going without them because you know my heart don't we don't know what i want to talk about. the rain doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the pines. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to the hospital he thought he. doesn't prohibit it but how to begin to get that high but it does not. stop to look at any of it i have seen. this. at the bottom of an i.v.
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that. a landslide has swept away the rows of one hundred meters below. together that of there's another number up at an average of three eighty. to the. dozen out of them which at least there's. the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route to leave is a canister moment in quite good moments with the when of course you know at c.s.u. one never meant to let you have you know most of us with them but i was here for you in the forty. five minute and see course you must refuse you. again see and we can go on with you this evening is through the sea gives him time to see. if you are not in the official be a misstep. the trouble is have no choice but to brave the danger.
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stuck on the other side the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. you know if you are convinced that all said i was one of them not to go if there is no number on them again it was a must. when i was there was a little young but never heard the time i thought yes i guess it's really going to matter you don't have a clue what to do to find them you know. when i hear your opinion about what is really great ok for me i think you can hear you just. got a compensation plan have
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a way with the noise you're going there if you're missing much of that ok there's no noise they don't see. that i want the gun the way i did i mean that's. going to connect with the ample most of the one nobody that's the best in. ramiro will have to wait it out another four days before being able to continue. to lose. at three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level la pass the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding. young alan made it back to class but was one week late. he and get his father both
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flew home with help from the government. not a ploy or money and can only pull will. then of course shatter the book as they were yesterday tell you and you're not in a house with a stint with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs. for the money there's no a nickel research or what open or much story asking him to volunteer years for this kind of it's made up going to be easy for me for stand of a bunny for me despite its natural beauty year after year the rains in bolivia continue to have an impact on people's lungs. from the whole of the stairs navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finish we're scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. i'm afraid
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of falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go by coughing my family need the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise would certainly be risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. when we managed the financial system between one nine hundred forty five one thousand nine hundred seventy one there was not a single financial crisis anywhere in the world and then in one thousand seventy one the bank has lobbied and they said no no no we don't need controls you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to sovereigns why because behind the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see in reaction to the liberalisation of finance just as we saw it in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be. too ready is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government went look after my interest then i would look for
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a stronger if he's a fascist i don't care if he promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will vote for him i think that's where we're heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that's the threat that we face. in bono services on a mission to help local children break the poverty cycle what oni's follows their journey of sacrifice become top class performers. but one is that this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a convoy of turkish troops is entered northern syria a new military operation or armored vehicles are waiting inside.
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