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and economic crises the family freed after being held hostage in pakistan for five years has returned to canada joshua boyle and his american wife coleman was seized by the taliban linked to colony group while hiking in afghanistan the couple had three children one in captivity those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one i want to say thanks so much about that. china is holding what appears to be its most significant communist party congress in decades with president xi jinping keen to consolidate his power but what does that mean for this country and indeed the rest of the world join me adrian brown for live coverage and analysis here on i'll give you. the camaro rouge once ruled cambodia its oppressive policies by the nation's rich culture performances band and most artists and musicians here.

today a local circuits sparking an artistic revival by turning street kids into world class at the band and at the same time pulling them out of poverty. this week and one on one east we go backstage into the lives of cambodian circus to . play. their song like the lower. part of my heart on but also. for the life go on but i love my family in the show i played a part of the devil spirit that possesses the body of a despicable man who played a part on mongolian foul play at this hour the man just wants to fit in and be a part of the community. he was aboard the villages to be checked and appease him for the fact that. the gods on say his planes and turned him into

a beautiful woman a long hard look at. the beautiful woman and then take the bench and the holy just . twenty five year old enough really is living out her childhood dream she's a star at far the kemba and so close to him. the study of young playboy i first saw a circus performance in school when i was a little girl it was amazing how they moved their bodies and their own way and after that i knew i wanted to be like them. based on the shelf until for tonight's performance is a story of rejection of friendship and reconciliation with a good doze off humor. truly is known for a contortionist skills and this movie never feels the take the crowd's breath away

. the circus is one of the biggest attractions in town but it doesn't just entertain people it's a lifeline for these performers who have one thing in common they were once hungry street kids who had to work to stay alive. and i do when i was seven. i spent half of my day in school and the other half said i would expect my mother having them then i am a member of the family my family was very poor and then in the early years i trained and performed just to feed myself and we had so many siblings and together one of the seven boys and four girls sat. straight up grew up in the province of bottom ball three hours drive away. grinding poverty here drives countless children to work on the streets picking through trash

to be sold for recycling. many families rely on everyone working hard to scrape by . trillions father died of ill health when she was very young leaving her mother to raise eleven children. help came from a local school that provides free education and meals it became us. home force really have an older sister. i went to far so there will be fewer miles to feed at home. i study and. funded by circus revenue and donations for the subjects you would find in a public school. but is best known for its circus training. inside a gym there is no selection process it's restriction for the kids. anyone damn enough to take a tumble can. combine them into

what i. was the most difficult for me and i'm not a natural talent i'm a normal person but i loved it. i trained long and hard to be a contortionist. and what i often cried when my teacher bent i meant my back hurt my bones hurt whenever trying to bend my body to do splits. my training my how and where to bend me safely but it was so painful i was left in tears. that. oh. surely it's mother has been working in the school kitchen since the husband died ten years ago she's great for the school rescue the kids from life on the streets can run off the map back with me on the school has helped poor people like me and

my neighbor is just one free meal a day for the kids eases the goodness of my wrong i am the only song on the thousands of hungry children during our time here and watch them grow up she misses them when they leave none more than her daughter. i miss are a lot of. we speak on the foreign but i hardly get to see her. i've never seen her show and she a marine. when she was hearing about him own one i used to watch every single show she performed in school and every performance made me happy one minute. now there is another generation of her family here the ten year old granddaughter. mine and. she's very good with the trapeze and she builds a body well everyone says she's very played out. today childers teacher wants the

kids to get used to performing in front of an audience. who each take turns to perform for the class it's all pretty impressive but teacher him food has high standards. i. think. i'm a good listener. but you're going. to have ninety nine we are. talking to my. my first i love what. you typed i don't know if you just. know that i'm a patient and. you don't need to take this supplement. doesn't it don't. you just want it and i mean i eat well right now. so why not my love life hours of my hands my mouth. and i'm not.

hearing what is strictly for the kids love of god we're. going to have young. women look around get over it oh. i love understand i love it when i tell. you what. the fact that i'm all right oh i'm going to. tax us. five. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero was that was to do. it will take a few more years before the young ones can juggle like most teenagers the screening in the schools because. sixteen year old notes relying is a specific image of an older sister playing on the left but my sister it's really

about is the contortionists bang in ok i fell in love with this circus when she brought me here to watch her training. she's my room model. is part of her you keep hearing up for the first public performance in a few days time they've been training together every day for several months now conduit to show off what they can do for. those who do well here eventually become professional foremost and so. they even get to travel the scenes . i want to be a professional i hope to perform in some route and all over the world like my sister. straight line is a female lead for the student show it's reflected cambodia's changing society. in the story her characters love a returns home after working in the city. she

doesn't like how he's turned from a humble farm boy to a flashy city slicker. and yes to try and win her heart again. the male lead is nineteen year old. his friends call him long long and straight line grew up together their friends tease them about how realistic the spiritual man. well we. live our lives. we don't really. care. less whether they will get back together in the future.

is better known by his nickname brandy. he's one of the stars i'm sorry but he's taking a break the teenagers here in. performing days are over. motivated and no one. discussed it with the teachers and to form a team for the show. guided us to the level we're at today. but

he still takes time to care for. their first big performance for the first time the team completes a full rehearsal that lasts over an hour with hot and stuffy. because i don't have a. right not that i have no idea of the. brandy gives a pep talk to lift their confidence and reminds them to focus on safety. what worries me was how they rushed when they became tired home. i always tell them when you're tired but focus on your breathing. and how it helps their acting concentration and makes them ok. they need to understand the rhythm of breathing

and how to follow it. let us know the next day they know the tricks one after another. for it's a high and i'm looking forward to you having a few dress rehearsal. with. like. knowing where you are and. randy is satisfied with technique but wants to express himself better man. than you're going to come to the right to live up. to my b.s. i heard. from the owner. i never hear that

when i bend it like the old. man we get to train as actors so we're a little step up and not quite there when we perform. they have a quick bite off the practice the pump of the such a good rehearse. so let's realign those they've got to get it right each and every time. i'm nervous and excited but. even if you train every day you can still in a high stakes of you know that i feel. sure enough that evening the full dress rehearsal goes horribly wrong. they make one mistake after another the school staff and some villagers are here for a preview it's a smart libyans but the team isn't usually. they slip up again and again struggling with moves that who don't so well in training. the tree line recovers as the show

goes on but long is having a nightmare. for the fact that hundreds of hours. they saw the audience and became nervous and frustrated long and the worst part of the day before and so stiffly how did you have time. i just went step by step from here today until they lost the beautiful one but i don't. feel the heart i love of god i was exhausted so i lost control tried to tell you my so nervous on the microphone most of the drug i was much better yesterday. live longer than your home i pictured morse what happens when a long time don't you love the look on my. back when i'm in bed thinking of all the baggage that i get there but oh man wait a bit to task my love you. were going to join game of the hockey game. but

you're only human players and black men but you may come home a comet while you're on your avatar taking over. there's a lot of pressure riding along this family's pinning their hopes on a circus career. there's a wooden hut in a rundown neighborhood near the school. long mother had fifteen children mine died from illnesses because they couldn't afford proper nutrition and medical treatment . from when they were very young every day now many siblings collected garbage for recycling just to make ends meet. and. where a person. very poor. the children fell sick often and although was garbage collectors to help look after the family. their own money to buy

a medicine and rice. went far start the school it offered courses in the painting and circus. they let the kids choose a skill the oldest sister learned to paint and now has a job to help the family. long father earns an irregular income as a drummer at weddings and funerals. but if he does well he can't help and poor family refused. all especially who i don't. know. if he makes it as a long starting salary working more than four hundred dollars a month four times the average wage in rural cambodia. that's why he stopped collecting trash two years ago to focus on training. when i turn professional in

the future i will help my. build a new house and buy have all the good food and i just. as a viking lungful i will practice hard every day until our team is so good that everyone cheers. thank you carol. just the day of the teenager's first public performance that's a full house to impress as a take the first step to becoming a professional thanks for the cheers for the big grow in confidence turn on the style. audience they love it. most parents are very proud. of. what i haven't taught my son could do all day long that i'm excited that he has to show

up. for my cat i'm happy to see my son perform i'm very happy. after the show the team has an important visitor. debt and his friends founded a school in one thousand nine hundred four after returning home from a refugee camp following the fall of the camaro. they believe in using the arts to heal the wounds of the war and to empower the rural poor. from fact while the land from our art scene flourished as far back as a twelve to thirteen century why. many musicians writers and c.d.'s blossomed especially in the sixty's. but in the seventy's the civil war wiped out the arts and to perform. like a man who'd destroy everything and when it's still possible we want to use the arts as a recall for us to understand our national identity and the spirit he represents.

that night straight line goes home to one of very few houses in the neighborhood with concrete walls and cable t.v. it was built thanks to the earnings of her two older sisters from performing at the circus in monarch back like we used to live in a. rented wooden heart that leaked when it rained water came in from above and below we couldn't even find a dry spot to have a meal my uncle of mine i often pray for our children's happiness for my family to be safe and free from illness. and she has a prayer of. one day i would like to see my daughter's straightly act before. i hear a show in c.m. replace amazing and they have good music nice lighting and

a big crowd. i was happy for her when i heard that. i used to hear old people say make a wish when you see a shooting star so i did. and i wished very hard that one day i'll be able to ride in a plane and perform for the circus all over the world. but my childhood wish has come true. enough truly has traveled to europe and across asia with a circus. but she knows this won't last forever. injuries catch up with all circus performers in the end. an old injury on her. in two thousand and seven she broke her back during training and couldn't perform for a year. to thank him. every time i feel something there i worry and

pray that it's ok because i want to keep performing. and not in pain the doctor gave me the all clear but it's all said the back of my mind. to prepare for life after the circus really started english classes in theory a few months ago today a classmate is helping her with lessons she missed the. the training yesterday. benefits. me saunders take. them down and i want to speak english because i want to communicate with forest. it will also help me find other jobs any job these days requires you to speak in english. runs a small unit most far from the big talk to the husband richard

a reserve performer and the stage manager at a circus. of my english is good enough i hope to work in communications at the school but the children perform. if not i want to be a circus trainer because i love the craft the way. the couple are saving up to build a house and start a family and bottom boat they've already bought a piece of land yeah mother. but i think a lot about my mother i told her one day i'll bring you to visit somebody but she said no. she's never been here. i want to see the show but she says she's busy with work. so much has been for a surprise we've arranged for special guests to visit from bottom ball that's the team gets ready for the next show and mother and sister may go away and. the mom will finally get to see her perform at the same respect talk. backstage i asked

whom she hopes to see most in the stands tonight not one hundred round out of town done. wrong but she might like this surprise better her sister and mom are excited the hurt so much about this performance. the lights go out and it's showtime through that doesn't see them in the shadows. but one of her teammates spots her mother until three between scenes. the secret's out so this time it's true that executes a signature move it is extra special thank. you . i don't. oh i. forgot i had the minister baby i want to say but i

brought your mom was the host to a nice surprise. for you but it was not. straight out mother has finally seen a perform with a big crowd and the stunning lies she always has about. one a sister straight line has had a taste of the future if she takes a look at her there's no sign of fiance though as the tonight but one can never say never in cambodia circus of hope was. an indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks

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