fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an overnight assault on a southern military camp a group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar followed by hours of gun fighting more than one hundred twenty people have now been killed in a series of attacks by the taliban this week. about one hundred thousand kurds have fled the kook region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports civilians are being forcibly displaced in their houses and businesses looted and destroyed the u.s. secretary of state has hit out at saudi arabia for failing to resolve that standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope that the crisis would end soon and blame the saudi bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments today before you embark on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate and e.u. leaders have welcomed a proposal by the british prime minister to resume a aimed at blocking rights it talks but said concessions to ease the fears of

eastern isms living in person and not enough arriving at the today e.u. summit in brussels may sought to shift the focus away from a divorce settlement and on to trade talks this just seventeen months before britain is due to leave the union. that's it for myself aaron and want to one east is next. valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades took to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera. you know still years remote northeast big lands are in the pipe. the largest coal mine in the country and one of the biggest in the world is going to be built here.

the indian company behind the market says it will create thousands of jobs. but at what cost. and steve cho on this episode when he's confessed to gates whether the mine will mean rich or ruin for australia. we're going to you know if. we got together. right. bruce an innate carries cattle station is on the edge of an area called the galilee basin in the north east of the struggle. to live here isn't for the faint hearted the climate time and the land grabs for the first by god i pray i want to draw on

dog. but in the past few years and there breached breaking point. the couple is fighting for survival as the coal mining industry led by indian company adani marches into the region. if that adani my guy. it's going to be devastating it'll destroy the galilei bison because they die any more and if it starts the rest of the morning will come and be on. the carries biggest concern is having to share the most precious resource groundwater is on run and they can live on a six year as it is it's nice to sensual meant a lot and if we don't have a. dog you have the ability. and the two boys on the property. all they want to see is in fact that we lease the waters that.

the currys property spreads across twenty five thousand hc day is beneath its dry surface is one of the world's largest and deepest underground water systems known as the great basin it underlies more than a fifth of the continent and for many in the countries our cinta it's the only source of fresh water. for the carries it's the lifeblood of a pastoral business and they believe it's under threat from the coal miners it's. the only certainty we get is whatever groundwater that i destroy in the morning operations is lost for cape cod and probably worse still if they impact on the quality. that's that's a real concern because it's now a claim that will regain. the carries fee they could ultimately use their livelihood and the stress of that is taking its toll i just want to get on and got

back to the way we were before all of that started just want to run my business and it's very frustrating physically it's been it's been driving but for me. emotionally it's it's hot it's being. nice support from government and actually trying to my crazy for the companies to get in and i walk all over the top of my nine is side impact on something like the great out asian bison to have that destroyed this doesn't bear thinking it's just about callous uncaring i challenge anyone to climb that this morning has not been subjected to my stringent him far mental assessments of controls and what government's responsibility is is to get the balance right environmentally socially and economically and on call for that that will happen with a developer gelling australian conservative senator canavan has been

a driving force behind the government's backing of indian energy giant. what does adani mean to queensland a first the company proposes to build a straight a's biggest and one of the wools largest coal mines the catch cry is jobs for a region where unemployment is high and the delivery of electricity to millions of india's poor he's done he's proud to build along tim with queensland call as a second biggest export in the country thirty five billion dollars a year helps fund schools hospitals and public services so i bring up the galley bison could at around ten billion dollars to export revenue huge benefit to. the coal rich galilee basin covers an area greater than the united kingdom adanis mine is in the heart of it so rounded by wildlife and cattle stations.

the company says it will start work on the sixteen billion dollars ration. so we know and we don't like it you can see this little here at the moment. so the proposed mine will span sound thirty kilometers and include massive open cot and underground mines at its peak capacity it will produce sixty million tons of coal a year. from the galilee basin the call will be transported almost four hundred kilometers by rail to the company's pool at point the great barrier reef. to india. adani is banking on a seven hundred million dollar low cost loans from the strike in government to help fund the construction of the railway no major strain in bank is prepared to back the company believing global climate change policies undermine the financial

viability of new coal projects and it seems finances are the only challenge adanis facing. just a kilometers from the planned mine site of the dome a bullet springs. the water comes from the great basin and feeds into the comical river that runs through the mine site. a scene of tranquility today but a fierce battle is raging to protect them for the future. we're fairly emotional about this thing the thing is i would be basically writing a mother myself. saying no means. a nice nice johnson from the local indigenous community the one going and jangling good people. the springs are integral to their culture and traditional ceremony and

they believe they're in danger of drawing up with the mind perceives. is about the water. and the water is lot for us. government has attacked and i mean. and i'm glad for morning company some indian person that has no respect for our customs coming to our country and destroy a second cream. we've been given and to keep the springs going the river is falling to protect the water and if the threat to the want to raise the mine that we have to stop the mine and it's just that simple. the one going in jenga lingo people twice refused to sign an indigenous land use agreement with the dani but the aboriginal community is divided and last year an agreement was signed. i thought

attorney three to one in five or ten or three to one is a pretty. extatic and enthusiastic support for the law and it was a scam meeting adani bustin like two hundred people who people accusing the company of corrupting the voting process adrian and maher was families are now challenging the agreement in the poorhouse. they manufactured an outcome by getting random aboriginal people from all over the countryside to come in they paid them to put their hand out so it's not a true decision of the one going to tackling it people. we know who we are we know where we come from and we know what our responsibilities are. what detrimental impact the proposed adani mine will have is obviously a matter of speculation but many believe the company's history in india should set alarm bells ringing as the country's biggest producer of energy it's been accused

of environmental destruction exploitation of workers corruption and fraud. the man behind the indian corporate power house is fortune adani he's a regs to riches story in less than three decades the adani family has risen to become one of the richest in india with more than eight billion dollars and along the way it sees they have cultivated powerful political allies everybody knows that i use of the millennium there are learning is simultaneously that i use of our prime minister. and yet there is a prominent human rights and environmental lawyer in india's western state of gujarat where danny has its headquarters and we know render modi service chief minister from two thousand and one to twenty four chain or prime minister

before you got elected as a prime minister in the election campaign as a chief minister. in the dunny being not even your lines not in india and india and yet next been spearheading cases against it done since i'm made nine hundred ninety four on the day one may have been after me. but they had a very warm very loving. going to me that i should stop mediating against them i should accept their regain and i have resisted all efforts. so. my mother in law. to investigate some of the claims being made against adani we're heading to the coastal town of mundra. here the company holds more than seven thousand hc days of government land most leased to it in the me to thousands for as little as one st

a square meter. on it it's built to the country's biggest private fortune and the second largest power plant as well as a special economic zone here it's a blend blend at up to one thousand times the amount of play it's been a massive windfall for john but for local cattle herders like checa it room it's been anything but. his village and many others have lost all their common grazing land to the company i know what. we had a thousand four hundred acres of land. but all the grazing land for our cows has been taken. and big bungalows and. i'm scared if i can't run my business what will my kids do. companies going to give them jobs i can't even educate them because it's all so expensive.

every day abraham has to herd his cattle through an open sewer then several kilometers before he finds a patch of grazing land. going to. the cows need to see. it over there with what we now have to take in the hiring. there is so much traffic there. all of this years to be grazing land. there are no boundaries no no no fences behind these high walls he said donnie special economic zone or. in twenty fourteen the high court found the zone was illegally developed without environmental clearance and shut it down but it wasn't long before it was back in business after another the more he became prime minister. the ministry of environment and forest granted the force set off

and you know and i want to go to friend mr goble madani and ask a question have you complied with the dams and conditions of any yes the answer is no according to four independent reports commissioned by government departments and the judiciary they all found adani bypassed and flouted environmental laws. was like an earthquake for all of us when he first came here. with the environmental violations by a brought about tremendous suffering for local eggs and the government has done little about. ve heads up a local. he says adanis mega power plant operation has devastated local crops by failing to properly seal lissie water intake canel and storage pond. you can

see how green and lush this area is. because of increasing salinity levels in the ground water our farming is being invaded the dives of farmers have really gone down. home they say overall. these are photos of fly ash from a danis power plant you can see the have dumped all the fly ash on the roadside and . fly ash is a dangerous toxic dust created when burning coal they're not supposed to just dump it anyway as it could have an impact on people's health. in order for more than ten years get busy ngo has gathered evidence of violations for legal cases against the company. to show us what he claims to be the impact of adanis developments on the coastal environment we're heading out along the river with some

local fisherman according to environmental clearance conditions sand dunes and mangoes must be preserved and creeks mustn't be blocked or reclaimed but it's not long before god bees pointing out breaches. we're seeing adani has gotten destroyed the mangroves here and this creek has been completely out of. the drinking pipes pumps and to reclaim land and not far from the shore dredging machines continue working with the afterguard adani is one person who can create the land and once they create the land this sell it off to other companies. at a huge profit. on another creek nearby we hit a wall of sand. we can see adani has dumped dredging material

here and has blocked the creek that's why we won't be able to seal any further. or so maybe this mangrove forest was all around. but today you can see donnie has completely destroyed the mangroves in this region and i'm going. round to his family have fished in the area for more than a century he says they were once able to throw nets down in the local quakes but now they have the added cost of boats. who could walk to the water before. but now we do because we have to go further to find places where we can fish. were still he says they catch is now quarter of what it was. you know the cat used to be really good. there were plenty of fishing be such. a big fish would lay their eggs and these men. are short of fish.

forced to take out a high interest loan to survive his life has become desperate. but. they have taken our livelihood of us. so we pray that. you. will. we want relief from the situation. of what do we feed our children. the view across the waterfront development reveals a carpet of reclaimed land this is a land which is created by throwing the sand on the mangrove forest they say man going to what it was never there i'm sorry your biggest and you will be able to come to know the satellite image shows how the coastline looked twelve years ago. this is today. we have been telling them in the sphere of involvement in one of the

bunch of hard core us. what all that i mean is that you want to see that there. in the name of investor would be the mutilation. the problem we face is that we are fighting people who have a lot of money and the government is supporting the rich and the powerful. company of the company goes to any extent to silence any form of opposition and to cover up the matter. first they try to bias over but we didn't give in so the implicated us in a false case. they did that to me in two thousand and fourteen and i was stuck in a jail for five or six days. narron gavi says these photographs were taken after

he and his brothers were beaten by security guards when they tried to enter a local forest near the special economic zone. but according to adani the activist has attacked its offices and trespassed on company land. gadsby says last year adani tried a different approach. donnie himself called me asking me to stop helping these farmers nobody he said would give me what ever i want to get it. i said i don't want from you i just want justice. the fear of johnny provokes in the local community taints but this film a power plant worker agrees to talk with us providing his identity is hidden he says environmental regulations are consistently breached at the debt ridden plant

to save money when the company is required to continuously operate a system to reduce dangerous so for a missions but he says that doesn't happen. on any installed this system. but they don't run it for or. if there is an audit a visit by the government only then do they use that system advise it is not used he also says the company releases fly ash through the chimney stacks at night. and the evening emissions can't be seen as there is hardly any light visibility or they do it because they want to save money because electricity bill be saved. all that about money they don't think about people. the former workers says they're also serious safety issues at the power plant. in april last year when

a boiler was restarted a block steam vent caused boiling water to escape. tragically men were planting the boiler at the time or the robert all those working there got burned and died. it was a danis fold them grave for your board this was a very wrong thing. that happened at other than me. because when start of happens no one is allowed to work there because there is no way to escape and an accident could happen at any time zone or. workers died and thirteen was seriously injured police have charged three power plant managers with criminal negligence and accusations against adani practices don't stop pia in twenty eleven are retired supreme court judge found adani employees bribed customs officials police and local politicians to allow the illegal export of iron roll

through one of its ports. he recommended the company be blacklisted today no action has been taken and adani denies any wrongdoing. back in a strenuous adanis plans for its mine are going full steam ahead but here on the great barrier reef there's grave fears the mine could wreak havoc on a global scale and help destroy one of the natural wonders of the world. the. decision to go ahead with a guided by who's just about the most. unbelievably negligent decision you could possibly imagine it's the worst thing you could possibly do with the great. charlie veron is one of the world's leading marine

biologist he spent most of the past fifty years surveying coral reefs earning him the nickname the godfather of coral. he says the bleached indeed coral here on the great barrier reef is a sign the world's reefs are in crisis as a result of climate change. it's hitting the oceans above their tours. and whole reason will live a dying in. these last two years we saw. because of the great barrier reef. it is that it is entirely like the climate change and climate change is driven by greenhouse gases which is by far the most important. and coal is the worst contributor the paradox right now. charlie veron believes the carbon emissions from the extraction and burning of coal from

a danis mine will be catastrophic that were provided not carbon dioxide as all of a straight it can produce two five to seven years. but found much of it doesn't matter where it comes so it doesn't matter word spread it winds up in the atmosphere and if it goes ahead what's your prediction for the rain you know every day. there's no doubt of that that it will it will be did. that would be great very which is something we have. and imagine. and if the great barrier reef girl who's so too will the tourism industry around it estimated to be worth more than fifty billion dollars to the country's economy what do you say to scientists who are saying that this whole mining is going to escalate the death of the right balance well i think it's absurd it's absolutely absurd to fit anything it will likely reduce carbon emissions because alcohol is a high quality and called typically used in india if we don't provide the best call

here and i just. call it a call only harm missions only high temperatures and it'll be worse we've got very . destroyed in government is banking on jobs in royalties flowing from the adani mine but given the company's controversial track record in india and with so much at stake many wonder if the coal mine could be a disastrous mistake. provoking

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