the operation is still ongoing and maybe it might take a couple of more days and we actually need to get it with you know. it's very hard for us to know right now when and where we do all we can in order to speed up. france's president has saudi arabia to lift the blockade on yemen the blockade which has been in force since october is limiting supplies of fuel food medicine says he's concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the amman where millions of people are on the brink of famine parts of yemen are also in the grip of a cholera outbreak. the ukrainian president petro poroshenko has greeted ukrainian soldiers who were released by pro russian separatists they were freed us part of a prisoner swap between the government and rebels in ukraine's war torn east the exchange happens near the city of horlivka which is mainly controlled by the pro

russian separatists the philippine government is setting up hundreds of new shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and flooding in were always city the army we took the area from fighters linked to iceland toba after five months each only for tropical storm have been to sweep through the city . those are the headlines but stay with us on al-jazeera people and power is next. as another year draws to an end we'll take you around the world to find out what's expected in twenty eighteen. join us for a series of special reports as we assess the potential global impact of what's to come. an underground fire has been burning for over

a century beneath india's largest coal for two decades of under strange opencast mining has brought the fire to the surface with dreadful consequences for three quarters of a million people thousands of homes of the ready been destroyed their inhabitants forced into squalor determination hospitals are being inundated with victims toxic fumes it's what lies behind supporting human and environmental disaster. this is here. will freeze over into. the premier

that you knew him when we were children it was a very small don't back together lee but he knew each other. in the kind of eldorado and that. people from all over india came and said all of you because they would make the fortune and today you look at the desolation of this place the massive village of year and look at what is left of the village today this very cool has become a curse for us with those fires actually in government i believe. it's been exactly a century since underground finds the first ignited in the shari'ah coal fields in abandoned mines that went decommissioned properly coal was left to spontaneously combust and since then around forty million tons of the field with billions of dollars have gone up in smoke. situated in east india these come fields of the largest in the country covering two hundred seventy square

kilometers nearly a tenth of this land is now regarded as unstable thanks to the more than sixty fires burning beneath it. see this year is crack because the fires are has been gradually approaching and that is that as it come nearer nearer the ground gets cracked up and then you'll eventually four people have deserted this place will go the fires gradually gone under the houses and it does become a place where people gather live. eighteen years ago a chicago wild and others set up the save geria coal fields committee to help locals who are waking to find a fire literally on their doorsteps because i mean i guess it'll die. but it's. not going to be a much our. syria is vital to

india's economy almost seventy percent of the country's electricity is coal based plus geria contains its main supply of prime coking coal an essential ingredient in steel production whilst they are burning in underground mines the fires went a big problem for the local population but in the one nine hundred seventy s. the government owned company bought it coking coal ltd b c c o started open cast mining here taking the coal out from the surface but only one b.'s and decided to go involvement goes mining the idea well they'll get quick call and then god keep cool. with that idea they started to open which is actually not conducive to this place there was underground mining already done over here so there were a lot of galleries you know gully that tunnels we did people make their extract call the ground of the galleys is always full of these of course and that catches fire when you went in for pentagon's mining about already underground mining has been done you opened up the fears of the galleries and then there was

a flea free flow air inside and now you've got a massive fire. the cavities the fans the hollowing out on the ground have created a treacherous landscape the day before we arrived have you take a full so far into collapsing ground that only the body of its driver can be retrieved. and people like melty davy struggle just to keep their houses together. that is how well the law part about what's been there that. above all they demand. melty and her children live just metres from an open cast pit. it was a real get us out of the if you saw that little part of yes a doubt on other part ali that here the here's a good day one of our south america we're off on one of the got a lot of parts that i want to get numb with not the similar law isn't that half

what i'll wear idea that a lot of it what is that imo you gotta look out for. apart from subsidence houses like multis also take a pounding from blasts in the nearby mines you see that. something likes more words not really small the blast has been has taken place over the edge of thought to track up the place and that is the core doesn't just play imo this sort of blast explains all the data. geria is one of the most polluted places in india thanks not just to the usual by products of coal mining but also to the myriad toxic gases released by the fires. these are all plagues of. then of course. there is a gas called moral sorry that's a very poisonous gas so for about sort of also for those with a certain extent and then you have a third of nitrogen when it gets some out of your body service of david that only

has a body of other conversely other i got it and they had the course recently the manzano gamma loss. of whatever is a lot of. tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses are filling up the hospitals in this area an area. that's. would be up to me who. can't just go like a blast explosives to a school blast get out of blast. one of our best to do what i want to do the pilot was caught by desperate those couples are being backed by the good will be one hundred. ninety nine percent effective hey. if you could be we hope to see what. is going to. lead to. the problem.

with what you. do with if there is an ideal but you have. to live with that it would kill you if you had no health to hold on. things are unlikely to improve as prime minister nuri interim government is seeking to double in just coal production to one point five billion tons by twenty twenty and so many injuria depend on it for their survival on the bottom rung of the ladder here are those who sneak into the mines at night to scavenge coal which is then hauled into town to sell on the black market. almost forty years ago these. days and. the problem. is that. this is all illegal but many would starve without it

and p.c.l. tends to turn a blind eye to the scavengers. even when i think i might hear. them know that. we all think it. probably goes with my grandma danielle. van. would have to live up to that number who come here and. well you got a really good one to give i've been looking a little you got it at seven nothing. bilger it is the name of one of the new build projects the government and b c c l a constructing in order to evacuate up to seven hundred thousand people after the disaster zone that is geria the scheme is known

as the master plan but has got off to a very slow start in the seven years since it began less than ten thousand have been moved it is managed by the j.i. da the jury a rehabilitation and development authority which is overseen by the deputy commissioner for dhanbad district for the last one and i think a lot of progress but there are some of the tissue that we have to the job that i don't. that's why at some time the pace then for some time is. quite small. but even the few that have been moved far from happy the biggest problem is that thousands of urban families are being shifted to a rural area fifteen kilometers away from where they were earning their livelihood from a convenient is a form of scavengers. right up and down but they do. you think you actually get a nice. or you hear. an

answer. they didn't. really believe. the other day i don't know if i can only say. but beyond any gotta go. look anything. so the livelihood issues did. but this was much bigger when forced a lot of people was shifted to build it here because going to yeah it's sense it's the market because so many people are. apart from that we're giving two years minimum and as for five hundred days. this five hundred days of minimum wage is less a gift than a guarantee of work for that length of time usually on the construction sites

they've been moved to and that minimum wage is less than even scavengers like graham can work before. it's something you have a. don't know how long have you heard. what you may have done have a. movie that for them without having it myself when you. start to get it yeah. i think it. other problems include a scarcity of basic amenities like education or health care task was to convince the people that they are in the end it's in their benefit. or some other sites so that if you have mostly going to. go for that school and hospital some of the facilities. there seem to have been quite a few oversights in the master plan. control is another one this tower block was only built a year ago. you can get out if you. haven't

been that long i live in. the left finally i looked it. up but not yet i looked down to where he'd take a look at me and i added if you. can i would say you know. sometimes you also receive. a more specific complaint is there there is some complaints in the building that can be addicting for that community but. we have needed people of problem one place store that this type of problem emerges but if if you look at. what is no place. that is also not. big. but this isn't how many people in the new build see their old homes. just down the road from a similar settlement called comet and is under construction. like

a. not duty on local knowledge base is alive out there they are government not upon whose television he got a plan. here could only happen he. could only have. someone that can occur when they travel but you. don't have a port do you have the. exxon. but would it matter rather than look. up from a come when i have to. put out a boom town local market is. i'm local much

a part of the gov too much or total. routed one kind of the other. woman i'm looking up at if i want are on a part of your. income atlanta as elsewhere the master plan has been moving slowly . by lucy laconic jungly lock up how would you counsel down anything. over forty years ago but not the outside with the law i'll get you well i would say it's not. your home but you know you are pretty hot i'm going to the up without summa cum laude book i've come up with. the frustration of the resettles here is nearly matched by that of the construction company who the first port of call for their complaints. that. you might be a has a one hundred that are not present for about an hour or not and when you don't get it. you know he wasn't you. know

that. ought to be in the back but he got he said that but don't want to. believe that someone really had. it remains to be seen whether the settlements will eventually create their own source of livelihood and commerce but there is another group in the area we feel that these have already been taken from them the peasant farmers who owned the land which is being built on. the over of us to all those gone and so. because everybody going. ramesh right he is a local politician and activist fighting for the rights of the villages you know very. well. i mean. also.

the c.c.l. boat much of this land in the one nine hundred eighty s. for the macondo opencast mine project with the promise of local jobs in the end the project was scrapped so the farmers continue to till the land then in two thousand and nine b.c. when the jr da started to encircle the village with tower blocks for the refugees from syria. you had dick your body building up under your own way deliberating about the year and it's very important because. if they were able to walk out of the other three a building about i got a lot of the building up on the. well you know. where there are gas balls a lot of i have. got it with you when i. when the pentagon's budget do you see india there they're down local god god oh god what would you lord. a.j. i'm not going to pull only one out at the young locus of my style go down low but i can't think of september not going just that they are dumber than i was so might

just how so maybe i've been meddling and we don't know when they ask us a payment because you get mad when i look well nobody. could just gone can leave them in the. skull curable seeking the one who said i hope you know that they are. no more god than i was somewhat living. in his office and the district comfortable down dad has been inundated by villagers bringing him their grievances. song talking cricket song. hunger to move us you have. lost someone now this isn't just a company in the long. also in the congo. blues the vocal. so probably. am and when i was out i didn't they work within like young german get bottom edge

on local german double the leveling they're going to download just gotta get i'm saying it will nigga to aachen like he had lost all my medical does are going to go it's just not that nickel. loved. in the nearby village of nipping near the jail ideate has been acquiring land for another settlement and from a started to sit down protest. construction hasn't started here yet but the grievances a similar to those in build the real exchange of land for jobs that haven't materialized and the general sense of being cheated by the authorities having man loquat book they may not like my watchable. jeb sound of hamas time i had the ad that well yeah funny how you know what's happening got you will see you two new facilities will relocate the yemeni and putin yeah fifty percent is really high have one year old when you're asleep because that he really are they going to deal with boss getting it wasan oh yeah both of these

a government reports but within four years the amount of barren land jumped up from seven point five acres to sixteen and by law the government can force people to sell in fertile land what do you think this is like we're not what are they going to. dog out a load better the other way dang it given what you've got to be out of a jungle got highly trained us to yeah got what you hear who you are going with. non-violent this protest is local police have still threatened to charge these people with breach of the peace and the man in charge of the j.o.g.a. isn't bending. comedy an example is not. going to. get his i mean nobody but him happening oh but he has your work to do. you know. how to look at the. beat you took one had to think about it to be put up in

a group. yeah you could have anybody who could cover this was some sort of. one of those trespass is shows the sum of the land the j.o.g.a. wants to build on your door look at the door you don't mean go get it i wonder. what they got and got. to see how women a ding dong when they get good food i mean look it's only thing this is clearly fertile land here to many villages took the money offered by the jr da. i talked a little go look for the i got that i am gonna get but i'm going to get like come out i got. back what i said and i guess god thing i mean yemen. i counted at the gas got the get but how did it get the time to get up i got to put dummy not go for not having a better agent research and he said hot gas well you know dust was an iron and because of the line it was to get on without him he said when he can it would not

want him to save all my days because he but i'll have let us say. was i thought maybe one of them can see the boat they can have was about to buy something rather bizarre but i believe i think it was got something. big here something what about take the heat you put what i don't have but it will commit you to said clean postcard to the. woman or not would you need all the meat in the shadows about article on route twenty but i think it to some go on don't you know but the tourism industry or the jordan to think about comedy doesn't come in the company i thought american troops are going to work under german how do you have come up with a regular talk a little boy and i sometimes argue we're not a view. of the car that we're going to come under. whoever wins in the open air it doesn't seem that the fuss it may get creates two waves of refugees are

going to stop burning anytime soon i chicago suspects deeply cynical motives if you go around the whole of the year don't you had a call for it you would never see firefighting going on anyway that is something to be zealous not done and if you ask me they have not done it deliberately but it was because you see the board of first address in the fire the fire traveled underneath using more and more places become dangerous so people have to be regulated while the people evacuated then they get their plans for expansion of the open grass mine feel better by the door group. p.c. sales declined our request for an interview say for another opinion on why the fires haven't been put out we turn to a scientist from india central institute of mining and fuel research here near greece to talk to us in an unofficial capacity i think it is the guy who didn't think forty years in forty years but infrastructure men and decision

making good decision making big combined effort is what is stopping this from happening i feel this is the only policy deceit unsponsored this is a v.m. on points you can see just yet simply saying just b.c. and who not own companies will not be can one little that be had the technology to build the fire her. i didn't get the. then production the other teams then began to be sued for took seven months for rather than sit. in the. case. so. we can not say i'm game of this thing. no beacon and. whatever the truth behind the matter is resigned to the into the town he grew up in . when she needed injured yeah but today it is destroying.

bizzle is going on and they want to double the production by two liter and that gets more and more my mining will be done over and won't let me move. so eventually this place is going to become absolutely desolate how our good the struggle continues to get b.c. seattle and the government to take responsibility for letting this conflagration of control and putting hundreds of thousands of lives in the line of fire. it took. the town.

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