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the attack prompted warnings from the international community diplomats from twenty nine countries met in powers to push for sanctions and criminal charges against anyone responsible for similar chemical attacks. four libyans have been arrested accused of torturing sudanese workers the army freed the refugees who were being held captive and tortured by human trafficking gangs they're now in hospital and will be deported to sudan. amazing break in a remote region of indonesia is feared to have killed hundreds of malnourished people government health workers say the crisis in the eastern province of papua has killed sixty nine children pakistani police say they've taken matching d.n.a. evidence from a man suspected of raping and killing a seven year old girl zainab on saris murder triggered mass protests against investigators who've been accused of incompetence in handling the case german chancellor angela merkel and the presidents of brazil and france are among the seventy heads of state gathered in the swiss resort of davos they're set to speak
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at the world economic forum as it enters its second day. those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us risking it all is coming up next thank you very much for watching. as witchcraft is sorcery killing spreads across papa new guinea. when east exposes shocking human rights abuses. of the specific nations darkstar one east at this time on al-jazeera. these men and their extremely consumed living stock of an altitude of three thousand meters for half
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a day already. the snow is permanent the thrill is no they're not visible gonna look you know. what they don't want to do is spend the night on the mountainside on the ari parts known to all as hell's road which is partially collapsed the drivers only solution is to rebuild it themselves. and. the first edition of. something to hold this little book loaded to the opening of the cave of the people at the foot of the buffalo good looking. a little. better. than that. but it's taken the driver's seven hours to fill in the gap. the pos is roadworthy at least for the time being. the
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worry pos begins in the town of deer in the tribal regions of northwest pakistan. the road is two hundred forty kilometers long and is the only supply route through the mountains to the small villages of the should trial valley which is she. with afghanistan. a road where even the slightest error can be fatal. the most dangerous the most vicious is the realty policy. to take serious here great work as a kid but the political will doesn't get to the for the. buffalo the put the life of the.
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roads each day tons of goods are loaded and unloaded from trucks the only means of transport in the region. the truckers quarter provides most of the jobs here. drivers. mechanics assistants of all ages book here every day amid the dust and pollution. twenty three year old come are a is a successful businessman he already owns two trucks one of his trucks laden with two tons of sugar for a village in the she trial is about to tackle the ari pos and not surprisingly he's worried. he has his best driver at the wheel. of what. it takes to. run over a mission. but that. sixty dollars a month is the average pakistani son or
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a few drivers would accept the risks of the pos for that money so come our is offering a one thousand dollars bonus each way a bonus the younger drivers find irresistible with dignity and that they take that very little unsettling donnelly's know what a bit of a resume david it was in a can also cause or finish the that's the thing i love i was there to pay them and they said. that wasn't out of the database. it's a good idea. in my. business i don't do it on and it was a. bit out there with a bad guy for the board i see it. at seven in the morning it's time to start i. the journey along below are a pos is far from being a picnic over two hundred forty kilometers the road snakes through the mountains
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and breathtaking cornish is in theory it should take one day to reach the destination but there are a few drivers that can manage that i would however is eager to get the trip over as quickly as possible despite the danger. he wants to make as many journeys as possible in order to take advantage of the bonuses so he drives without stopping and seems to spend his life behind the wheel of his truck. but it is better that that i've felt for a. little while will be in focus of us. still well a lot of people want to get to the end of. the wood has been a drive of a ten year is the truck is ageless he has been stuck forever on seven hundred seventy six thousand kilometers. the brothers don't appear to care and have decorated the truck in their own fashion photos of benazir bhutto to form a collage with those of the indian pop stars young pakistanis idolize.
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two thousand meters up on the first difficulties. melting snow shoes from torrents that's why is through the road dozens of meters at a time creating holes and landslides. tell us will. they get there they want a. bus to get a lot of us. come to support them i think that's the ticket you know this is. what i want they put out dick said but they think that their day.
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every trip damages the tiles further cut up by the shop rock some ready to form so kind of checks them one by one for any risk they might bust. the lhari pass poses one problem after another to help them relax the drive a smoke the local drug. is just what was that at that that. you know what. is head elsewhere woods condition only adds to the dangers of the road drugs i want
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of the main causes of accidents. four years ago faced with an increasing number of injured the pakistani government financed the construction of a tunnel through the mountains i thought the guy that i dumped all of them yeah i figured it out was that if i was lucky. i would lives just a short distance away before tackling the mountain roads he stops to kiss his children goodbye. i was but then i left it isn't about. what they'll follow look at today with. the wood has three kids two boys and a go in this valley where religion is paramount the women are obliged to hide themselves from the glances of a man that would even forbids mama his wife and his daughter from meeting the crew
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and if. it's a photo. of that and that's of us that was that cut out for we just don't know. what side is casey. well as you. see that footage this us of them that like that. beast piece there but there was a. this or that. question less that alysha was. used to ship. after a two hour pause the brothers resumed their travels the hardest part of the ascent is about to begin. it's an area where the melting snow causes avalanches and landslides.
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within an hour they will have climbed one thousand meters to a height of three kilometers. a climb that poses a stern challenge to even the most experienced drivers. in. the truck struggles to make ten kilometers an hour on the steep climb. at twenty eight hundred meters the lack of oxygen causes drowsiness and concentrating becomes a chore. the smallest movement requires a real effort. and staying awake is
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a major challenge. three hundred metres to go before the pos had a chance to rest. that's how we. can put it that water. was the home of gravity c.f.l. which i thought it was but the other. day the guy in the hot brick place i know what a lot of beer. or long ago was that he. looked outside the tavern the drivers check their merchandise is securely fastened. to the experience inside of us relax from the strain of the climb and good themselves for
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the next leg with a hearty meal of boiled mutton the local speciality is what causes your visitor where you always are going to go which. i did do. a little from just want to go with a look at what gets you so late good for you to. tell you by james i took the stand so this. was you. i wouldn't his brother head off to face the forty five bands. plus some moron you can go. by. but i just don't know nobody got me i was the fellow i you know what i thought of. did back you wouldn't suffer. still around but you saw fit.
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a one way ticket over the edge into the ravine. so what's accomplished on the. good. bus i'll. look up out of the well at the thought. oh well. yeah it. would i was his life to the perfect control of his truck but he has no control over nature of course and is at the mercy of the sudden i have a launches that sweet old before them such as this electricity by the. us did
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a. lot. of us. on it. was a good. bottle of. thank you. one final bend and the brothers finally in the chitral valley. the road is better here that surfaced and protected by the foothills and it will soon be time for collins driving lessons. but there's bad news in store just a few kilometers further down in the valley thanks to the mountain has
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slid onto the road making any further progress impossible. thank. you thank god that it. was a. little bit better but rather than rush it right though if you're. out of them was one of the self-indulgent oh i didn't know what. but thank you i'll put that out. thanks the side of the mountain is unstable and there's a constant series of rock falls. below risking life and limb the work has labeled nonstop to open the way through. red we thought it would be a look at all of that but not a. walk breaks loose
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and hits the front of the truck to. thank you. thanks. think. on either side of the one behind me although some thirty trucks wait for the road to reopen and. some of the truckers of been stopped for days some more patient them out as poss the time as best they can. i do with the political. process i don't know going away but that will just look what i'm going to. hold out there but the fault was that a problem. it's a small truck to for such a huge milnes and everybody's pinning their hopes on the big government bulldoze of
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that is being sent out from drop a few kilometers away. drawl she is renowned throughout pakistan for its splendid trucks. and it's no coincidence. that since the small town is where the most famous trunk decorating company in the valley some mean and co can be found. it's a family run business that attracts clients from all over the country. that's and i think you know you kind of and i think that that generation if you're going to college and by fifty would really want to. vote. for second is because everything. was thinking that i'm going to be pushing for kiki i don't but he. told me. that you know you don't want to put his nationality got
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a definition of thirty. the following morning on the stretch of road that's being closed the much anticipated bulldozer finally arrives it doesn't take long to clear a path through the rocks i. have to get up i cook. like this. quote i think it was a little bit like i believe that. it's only a temporary pop through the rubble as the mountain continues to collapse i think.
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braving the rocks the first drive is chance that luck i. i now it's dogwoods to. younger brother x. as is guy. i. think. they make it i think i'm fine he resumed bad journey. it is particularly proud of his brother who helped ensure they made the trip in safety and decides to reward him. though out of the.
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was just so just snags myself get almost says all this there was just skip. staubach i thought it was only. twenty percent of the person going to go there was quite a. cello and a public who was as you say if i were to keep him. around your head there was really a lot of us my love and i'm not out because of and. i would finally make it to trawl the two hundred forty kilometer long journey took
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nearly four days. with other by now me to unload the consignment quickly and get back on the road as soon as possible if the make another round trip before the end of the month i love to love love love to the face. of the father but. i lived a somewhat disillusioned the life of a trucker is not what he had hoped it would be. the child has never been this risky. but nothing can stop them in their tracks chasing the merican dream and escaping poverty but the legal route is their only option and their hope for a better life can lead them into trouble braving tough conditions generally the more help put their lives in danger just to learn from the family risking it all
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