clear taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an overnight assault on a southern military camp the group set off two suicide car bombs at the base in the my one district of kut kandahar followed by hours of gun fighting more than one hundred twenty people have been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban this week police in the us are bracing for protests as white supremacist richard spencer prepares to give a speech at the university of florida nate on thursday a state of emergency has been declared around the gainesville campus is spencer's first public appearance since he was involved in a white supremacist rally in charlottesville in august which turned violent leaving one person dead. female kurdish fighters who helped to defeat i saw in what was the group's self declared capital rocka i mean celebrating in the streets of the city they dedicated their progress against arsenal to. the jailed head of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party in neighboring turkey. britain's prime minister is in

brussels trying to restart stalled grex it talks to resume is calling for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the bloc. there's the headlines over the city can hear now to zero risking it all vietnam is next i have more news for you after that thanks for watching back in after.

oh about. the be. a about. the above. there are two staples to vietnamese life rice and bamboo for its many uses.

thank you. ha ha ha ha ha. now we're going out not on the out like that before we never got you know. i am going to make one more. look in your pride and i'm going to get new laws what good are you going to. help that isn't that right you want to be done. right so make up your seventy dollars that's not looking here no i mean here we make up someone else's the money that we didn't get it means you know when you're going to be going to one fine particle living but we didn't mean that i'm going to. write. the province of tongue who are has one of the largest bamboo forests in southeast asia. in just three years bamboo stalls can grow up to eight metres tall.

and in my field the lamb was. a bundle. of that myself. until night means i can. write a line and. a later. model. they carried the bamboo for more than a kilometer. from the my way. up the you know video you. had.

the laborers on just over a dollar a day cutting and transporting the bamboo. but the bravest among them can make ten times that much transporting the goods. so mediocre. you don't need. your own little.

you. might want to. do in. more than a thaw the news that dory. and lucked out in. some why are not the same we'll keep doing them we're told by a minute in the thought. a good draft must be flexible and narrow to offer a minimum resistance to the current. to move. the raft will be nearly fifty metres long. we do know. no poor. no poor me because. you got monkey. that you

mean you mean like the other one. the captains know well the challenge that awaits them. i don't mean only army money where no you go like such a way to get. in good only by the name of the indian be indian if you are bombing. they've been right all know and are. so not only them working on a. thirty kilometers lie ahead

and five hours of being tossed about by the river. go. ahead. but. i know someone feeling. like i'm. feeling. the time is the hold the bamboo are slowly loosened every time the raft hits some roque's. the raft risks breaking up.

feel . i have. a few who hate. you hold my screw. you level old boy moment me where me helping almost all but i'm a bit of it the week you'll be on the ground and then you can go if they go into warning you that you'll be on the detail to help when you all have to. go. no you know. at the end all.

the men know well the dangers of the long river. up ahead the cave ghost passage will test that no. thank the legendary mekong river old mother of waters is vietnam's main waterway. it nourishes the six countries through which it flows including laos which borders vietnam. after travelling five thousand kilometers from its source in the himalayas this is where the river vent sits right. over time it's carved out the cone fulls one of the widest waterfalls in the world . yet allow fisherman jump into the water without fear of hard for

me and before that they're right or in my book one rule for a credit card cartridge the rope up your hair and come get you if you are going to your typical are going to fart not god what if the sun yang is fifty two. he says it's no coincidence he's never had an accident in forty years. oh he got i don't know if you need one would hope but outside that come up what bob would we have a guy up as that would be why don't we hear it one boy be at that by what those were the what. the full stretch over navy ten kilometers. the loud call this region see found don't the full thousand on.

land jumps out from the foals and countless waterways of the mekong. this is a familiar hunting ground for. getting there takes good balance and steady nerves. feel

at work but don't feel that. my life. was out yet if. my. son might feel. what. about if i want them in my life. like that i want. to have. fish worried upstream. they eventually become trapped and will pulls further down the river. like the old. set up on it but i like it that you know. i some yank casts his net relentlessly to nine. i. know why.

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not get that get me going john that i got a lot of them and not a lot in life if you want them back whoa. whoa. several families share the dangers of the rapids. each has its own fishing take. no. noise and his colleagues catch up to one hundred kilos pudding using a remarkable method. but

it was not about. what i. feel what. the current pushes the fish into their ingenious wooden ramps all they have to do is pick the fish out of the water. the mekong is home to two hundred different species of fish the largest of which are cool with a trap that must be set in the middle of the rapids. was cool for you. ok coming up i'm not talking about how hot hot.

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you can hit a lot of us in our head coach and i'm so good and i would put up with. someone wheeling or somebody. else would someone who was not. one of the sahara . one but the mule. was fun but they had to kill it to follow the leader and you know what if you know all about it below is you up for sale that was what we saw good no good good mother lay it all by saying he knew what there. has to be a lot of what i. each year too will three fishermen i'll take on the make all.

the money the lot of you want to marry. me the argument why don't you use it do you know you're in the sand i'm a hot mama. i don't mean you know why you did all. we. lose kind of my life. but i do like my life. all my life good bye i go but you don't know how. slowly the fish are disappearing. pesticides as well as a series of dams the largely to blame. in vietnam on the long river the bamboo raft as in smooth the waters the men take advantage of the calm to reinforce it. bamboo

cuts as usually belong to the moment ethnic group. allies of the french and then the americans in the two wars that have shaken vietnam the hmong are still discriminated against. it's hard work for some of the lowest wages on your part and then when we where would that the mean that only going to look like you are part of it war and that will come. to you looking into it was good but don't go there because of what i know one to one that i'm going to go by doing number. one. as the watch has become agitated the raft seeing begins its mad rush.

a love song bought one. for. two days would. turning a rough nearly fifty meters long. no easy task. in the distance lies the infamous ghost cave one of the most feared terms in the river .

this time the ghost was leaning. on their last trip the raft was wrecked against the walls. and its bamboo cargoes scattered into the rhythm. one song the song river a motor boat comes to help. the

river bank marks the end of the trip. everybody had. given up on and again. and again by one young. now go on to what i know like yeah. i don't know if. i knew and i'd been telling you i doubt it was in doubt i don't i didn't know you had. back on land the bamboo must travel another thirty kilometers through rain and mud before reaching the processing plant. the jungle roads are slippery and the driver than lead can only take a portion of the goods. being car hungry been mounted him in

the night out front and have been applauded accurately and even mounted the hope and are in him enough i believe they handed me a bike you know that call buddy in them what can i share my body like you knew i wouldn't go in the car any need i mean have a good idea you can do not go in here the way that i knew what. you think you could get a deal is struck but for twice the price is. one slip pull wrong turn and vine lead could be crushed under his vehicle. and you know santa don't know how i'm going to harlem and joe what i don't know i guess i don't know but i need until now when i'm going to the lot will be all we want to tell him you know that's all he fucking died i was not a total dr i'm

a little young to help out i thought i was always had only my money you know we love michael ball but in the bountiful was a toy we hold michael it's really my night of arnold and i want to have come out ok . but i needed a little while of all to roll out. the big. vehicle plug. along at the speed of an ox cart. after five hours the bamboo finally reaches the processing plant.

dirt tracks may well become a thing of the past in vienna. as one of the last communist countries to join the free market the country is thriving. this bamboo is near the end of its journey. seen consumers across vietnam will put it to a variety of uses and the hard work of harvesting and transporting it will begin again. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads less good saving lives is a dangerous job the vaccine talks on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his mothers who must be in

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al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist about. getting to the truth as an eyewitness that's what his job. the russian orthodox church is deep pockets in the rapid expansion may bear its crucial role in putting his grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to sainthood president putin is our leader that given top people in power investigates how often it's attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the hock to the russian state the orthodox connection at this time on al-jazeera. and it was a political crisis that i need spain says it will suspend catalonia is all talk.