at least. european leaders are backing spain as the car long crisis escalates in brussels prime minister mari allard a whole one support from french president emmanuel mccall and german chancellor angela merkel but the e.u. says it won't intervene in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. china's president is said to have his own political theory incorporated in the constitution it will be known as she jinping fourteen has fourteen principles according to chinese state news agency sion the move is expected to further consolidate she's helped putting him on par with mao zedong founded china's ruling communist party. togo's opposition says three people have been shot dead in a third day of anti-government protests demonstrators are demanding changes to limit how long togo's leaders can stay in power or president for nothing based family has been in power for more than half a century kenya's opposition leaders has his decision to pull out of next week's

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and in my field the lamb. i'll have done. that myself. until night means i can. go to line academy a later. model. they carry the bamboo for more than a kilometer. probably the my way. up the you know did you know you're going to. 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.

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the captains know well the challenge that awaits them. i don't mean only army money where no you go like i don't with. india and only by the name of the indian be indian if you are barmy. then belies the following ever. well not only them like you not only. thirty kilometers lie ahead and five hours of being tossed about by the river.

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dangers of the long river. up ahead the cave ghost passage will test the. 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 vents its rate which. 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 one

mark for one rule for a credit card cartridge for proper care and comfort you if you are going to your didn't call our number but not forgotten what it was. some knowing is fifty two. he says it's no coincidence he's never had an accident in forty years. oh he got shot don't know if you need one but pull back outside that come up what would be but you have to have a guy that has that but the boy don't need it one boy be at that by what those would do what. the full stretch over navy ten kilometers. allow 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. last one

was out yet if. my. son might feel. what. about if i want them in my life. that's what i want. to have. fish worried upstream. they eventually become trapped and will pulls further down the river. but. that about it i would say i like it that you know. i some young casts his net relentlessly to nine zero. zero. zero five zero zero zero they. follow it all the way. i'm

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a lot in life if you want them back why. why . 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 are. 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 thank you for taking the time not like about how hot hot.

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. to get out of the tsunami that hit the roof and i'm no good and i'm what put up with that. someone is wielding of the box. full of someone who was not the one. to six. one but the mule. was one but they had to kill it to follow the leader and you know what if you know about it below is a lot i said it was. good no. good mother lay it all by saying he knew what they're. supposed to be a lot of what i. each year too will three fishermen taken by the make all.

the law abiding don't want to me. or my dog meat argument i don't use it do you know you're in this and i'm a hot mama. i don't mean do you want me to doll. we. lose. lose kind of my life. but i do a lot i think. oh my god i feel 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 go home where we were then the i mean that's only going to look like you are part of the war and that will come. you're not going to do a lot of the what you would then don't go to congress on what i know you want to have that i'm going to go buy new number you. know. as the watch has become agitated the raft seeing begins its mad rush.

a love song only bought one. for. those who would love. to. turning a rough nearly fifty meters long. no easy task. in the distance lies the infamous ghost case one of the most feared turns in the river .

this time the ghost was leaning. on the last trip the raft was ranked against the walls. on 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 one young. now gone through what i know like yeah. i don't know. i'm young i had been telling me that you doubt it was a down day though 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. for the jungle roads are slippery and the driver than lead can only take a portion of the goods. being parked around hungry been planted him in command out front in hand when would it accurately and when manatee help and are

in him enough i mean they handed me a bike you know that call buddy in the morgue and 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 do a deal is struck but for twice the price of one slip or wrong turn and vine lead could be crushed under his vehicle. to get a sample don't know how i'm going to harlem a joke what i did not know i was 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 the sort of doctor i know that we'll still have our you but not us always had only hope my money you know we love i hope all are but in the thought michael

was a joy we hope michael coming home it's only monday night tomorrow when i want to have him up. when i need him to hold out hope when i call to roll out. the baby. the for. the 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 throwing. 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 own lives in taking these roads with cadel saving lives is a dangerous job a vaccine so it's only good when twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his medicines who must be in pain life's worth risking a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road at that can do it with

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