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u.s. president donald trump is accusing china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang these satellite images appear to show chinese ships transfer and cargo to north korean vessels china has denied the accusations a fire in the indian city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the fire broke out late at night in the building near several hotels and restaurants roadside bombs killed an egyptian officer and five soldiers in north sinai happened in the town and there are suspected fighters carried out an attack on a mosque and november killing two hundred fifty people this embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions on visa services ending a two month rift between the u.s. and turkey as ankara has made assurances that local embassy staff won't be detained or arrested and tech giant apple was issued an online apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down older i phones the company says the issue is widely misunderstood those are the headlines the news continues
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here on al-jazeera after people in power keep it or. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied for the state of their economy this is easily a study his biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. an underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath india's largest coal for two decades of under strange open calls mining has brought the fire to the surface with dreadful conspiracies for three courses of a million people thousands of homes already been destroyed their inhabitants forced into school to become a nation hospitals have been inundated with victims of toxic fumes so what lies
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behind supporting human and environmental disaster. this is area. will freeze over into. the premier there who 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 being. 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
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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 both fires actually in government i believe. it's been exactly a century since underground finds the first ignited in the area coal fields in abandoned mines that went decommissioned properly coal was left to spontaneously combust and since then around forty million tonnes of the field with billions of dollars have gone up in smoke. situated in east india these come fields are 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 as that as it come nearer nearer the ground gets
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cracked up and then he'll eventually for people have deserted this place will go to the fires gradually gone under the houses and it does become a place where people generally 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. down of the number of your audience. but if. you're not going to be a much our. jury 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
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mining here taking the coal out from the surface but only one diesel decided to go involvement gas mining the idea was they'll get quick call and then god keep cool. with that idea they started to open ridges 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 really these people make and they extract called 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 those of three floors air inside and now you've got a massive fire. the cavities the fans the hollowing out underground have created a treacherous landscape the day before we arrived the heavy take a full so far into collapsing ground that only the body of its driver can be
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retrieved. and people like melty davy struggle just to keep their houses together. that is how well the lot of some about what's been there that. above all they don't mean. melty and her children if just metres from an open const pit. there is a view that us out of if you saw that little part of yes a doubt on other part ali that here the here's a good guess i don't have are south america we're off on a lot of them got a lot of got a lot to get numb with mark these similar law is in the camp what i know well i give that a lot of it what is that imo you got out of the council. apart from subsidence houses like multis also take a pounding from blasts in the nearby mines you see that there is something like small birds not really small the blast has been has taken place over just to track
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up the place and that is the poor 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 nitrogen fell for it and of course cool the gas gobbled more excited that's a very poisonous gas so far adapted to go through for those through a certain extent and then you have plagues of nitrogen clinic guess somebody else but is that as of david that only as good of other godless liao that i got it and they had the us about with us on the bombs on all the ammo losses. well whatever. she broke you know sis and other respiratory illnesses are filling up the hospitals in the area area.
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will be up to me who. went past god like a blast explosives it was called blast get out of blast you know what are all of our best you know what i want to do to help i was caught by desperate. couples are being backed by that good will be one who would have been. if it did hey. if you could give me hope to see what. is the problem. with what you. do with it that i deal. with that it would kill you if you had no health desire to do. it.
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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. for. almost forty years old are 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 you. know we all want thank you.
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so. i'll. probably go with my grandma danielle. van. you're going to get to have a little bit of the look of that you need. well you got a really good i'm going to be looking a little you got it at seven nothing. bilger it has 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 it's 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 jr 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 there's
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a lot of progress there and some of that issue 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 scavenger. hunt out there. thank . you thank you get a nice. or you hear. an answer. believe. me i do believe. you have to tell us we tell the other the other one i say. but beyond any gotta
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go. look anything about our. livelihood issues do. but this was much bigger when forced a lot of people was sifted through. because going to yeah it's. a market because so many people are. apart from that we're giving two years minimum and as for five hundred days. these 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 living before. it's something if you. don't know how long your car. would you happen to have one. movie that's like to have that without having it myself when you. start to get it yeah which is why i think it.
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other problems include a scarcity of basic amenities like education or health care task was to convince the people that they are in the danger it's in their benefit. or some other sites so that if you have mostly going to. go for that school and hospitals and other facilities. they 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. we could get out here. in the lot i live in. the left finally i lit it. but not if. i look down doing it take a look in the eye and the kids. and i am going to come and i would say you know.
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sometimes you also receive. a more specific complaint is there some complaints with the building that can be addictive for that community but. we did have people of problem one play store that this type of problem emerges but do you if you look at . what is no place it. that is also not so. big. but this isn't how many people in the new built see their old homes. just down the road from a similar settlement could comment on to some to construction. their home over the years upon what they're. really about to thin it up are years upon who want to come and live up there. not. they had the odd government not upon whose television he got a plan. here
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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. money would it matter. come when i have to. put out a boom town local market is so. much a part of the gov to muster total of. one kind of the year. you would have been looking up 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
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counsel down anything. over forty years ago but not the outside with the law i'll get you i would say it's not worth the half. of the op would have. come up with. the frustration of the resettled here is nearly matched by that of the construction company who the first port of call for their complaints. that you got yeah yeah yeah. yeah. no. don't you know. that you know he wasn't you. know that. oughta in the back when they got the backbone. that somebody really had. it remains to be seen whether the settlements will eventually create their own source of livelihood and commerce but there is another
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group in the area who feel that these have already been taken from them the peasant farmers who owned the land which is being built on. the last three or. so so everybody going well. he is a local politician and activist fighting for the rights of the villages. 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
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from syria. your dick your body building up on the bone were deliberating upon the year in germany in particular follow gives everybody a pretty good if they were able to work out of the idea or theory of building up and i got a lot of the building up on the. way and all that was either god or whatever gospel solo guy i had ordered into the room by god it was when i got out that. the pentagon's budget going to see india dead out there gentlemen oh god god oh god yeah look what would you don't do. a.j. i'm not going to pull a new one out at the young opus on my style get down low but i can't think of september not going down now that i was so michael just how so maybe i've been meddling and we don't know when they ask us a payment good yet i get mad when i look well nobody can see. this con can do them in the. scope you were seeking to not say here to sort of hope you'll get the upper hand. no more than i was to some one thing that he had
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a son in his office in the district. has been inundated by villages bringing in their grievances because songs how can pick a song harder to move us you have. lost someone now this isn't just a company that love. also minimal coupes the congo. blues the vocal. one concern is a me so probably. when i got i didn't know what was didn't like young german get bottom edge on little german double the leveling they're going to download just gotta get i'm saying it will not going to go aka like he had lost all my middle doesn't it well 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
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pharmacist started to sit down protest. construction hasn't started here yet but the grievances a similar to those in belgrade the exchange of land for jobs that haven't materialized and the general sense of being cheated by the authorities that are not on loquat look they may not like what jumps out of hamas' time had the ad that well you have some money and know what's happening so that you will see your full new facility 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 sixty and by law the government can force people to sell in fertile land well you can this is a real that what are they going to get that dug out a load better the other way yang will give out of activity out of
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a single cup of highly trained us to yakka what you hear. 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. home a good example is not. going to. get well says i mean nobody can. open it as you work to do. you know. how to look at the. beach you don't want to have to think about it to be put up in a group. yeah you could have anybody who could cover to sponsor. one of those trespass is shows the some of the land the j.o.g.a. wants to build on your do a look at the dog domain get a da bun got a bull got the going got. hollow judgement to see how many then get done then they
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get a good look it's only thing. this is clearly first on land it's many villages took the money offered by the jr da. i talked a little go look for the i got that i'm gonna get but i'm going to get like i'm out i got. back when i said i hang in there just gotta get them in german i sounded at the gas got thinking i started to get up i got to get up i got to put dummy not go for not putting up with agent research and you see how gas production was right and because of the line it was a. disabled mine is bullshit but probably doesn't. 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 something what about that. you put what i know but were committed to.
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not wood unity or even the ship was about twenty but i think it is from go on don't you know but it was a real joy to think about the coming of the company i thought american to forward things german how do you have come up with a regular talk a little boy and i sometimes argue we are not a view. of the car that we're going to go on longer. 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 poll for you would never see five writing going on and that is something to be zealous not done and if you ask me they have not done it deliberately but it was
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because you see the board of first address in the fire i got fired traveled underneath using more and more places become dangerous so people have to be record while the people evacuated them they get their plans for expansion of them out of the open guys minds for better by the gore 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 he only agreed to talk to us in an unofficial capacity i think it is the guy who didn't come for us in forty years but infrastructure men and decision making good decision making combined for this work what is stopping this from happening i feel this is the only policy decision sponsor this is a v.m. on points you can see just yet simply saying just busy and who not own companies
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will not be can one little that be had the technology to build the fire her. i didn't get the. then production there are other teams there brianna to be said for nixon most rather than sit. in the. case. so. we can not think unemployment of this think. he can say. whatever the truth behind the matter is resigned to the into the town he grew up in. when she need a day in his disdain. bizzle is going on and they want to double the bar exam by the leader in that case more and more money in mining will be done over and one limb or village will have to be shipped out so eventually this place is going to become absolutely desolate was good the struggle continues to get
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b.c. seattle and the government to take responsibility for letting this conflagration great chance of control and putting hundreds of thousands of lives in the line of fire. in russia many cuddy's migrant. grazing. creasing need for many a global trend. of force left vulnerable to exploitation the. people in power investigate. stand. at this time. and hundred ported world on. u.s.
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