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tv   Bolivia The Amazon  Al Jazeera  February 21, 2018 12:32pm-1:00pm +03

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the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera but first it is risking it all .
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live. for. you when you. live in the humid undergrowth of the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian if. alcohol on the way i'm going to my mother get the. ball into. the place is infested with insects and snakes genco the eldest of the siblings had
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a terrible. experience and no longer use the phrase and. its ethical code will want the a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there i knew i was in with the end of the one hundred for me what i think on the mark siegel and it may have been what it had been the middle and the. whole thing coming up with the math when we fight for them in the air and i've got them in for the gen co's wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shelves with the batman but her great fear is to wrench it that. much. that on. five hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shelves around the giant no.
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you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't quote what i mean one of the i know the above that i am what he knew but i'm an author from mindful of every photograph and handle. the shell the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the not that are exploited worldwide. chopping the shelves requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous if he. if that if caught and then fell about on the roof that if. i don't know i will be among the low water around them as the governor wanted them i wanted one for the record. i move there from here along all your
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medical if. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nothing but them up to heavy at this hour and they're going to haul it and us up a little got a. lot of heat but nature often provides solutions he. feels if one hundred. fifty. one. if. the tropical rain threatens to raise old trade through the drive in the family decides to leave the deep forests to see if they can.
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flew on the way home the young couple who had known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of notes will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any mole because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents twenty six year old genco is the head of the family and
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has fifteen mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and cool idea her dream. genco younger brother roma who's eighteen will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs there on their. feet. and. if each of us some. of them becomes a. few flights. looking for a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual prize. that figure thank you every one.
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for. fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo won't be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rocks due to the moisture. to avoid losses edgar must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague. in the month of may. despite his troubles edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone.
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a taxi has just dropped off a son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. from the moment these are in the point of view none of us can go. on our middle of the middle think. this week or maybe out again as he says there will be another nick. in the gift of the motor me on the radio because we are going to where. the fittest. will be. the.
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precious cargo of notes begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. to make him. feel that way but yeah i want to touch him but then once you get to me i want one of the most beautiful thing. in three days' time it's back to school alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late as afraid his ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic.
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across a tributary of the allison the rio beni. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. is done. by inclusion i phone four. going to the us and. the doctors disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arrives.
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edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for everyone. most effective but i'm going to go out on some of them but it's not. the bus ride. the bus is too long. so the sale is let the real wheels rest on the rusty. they usually try and get as many customers as possible ignoring safety. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky thank
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. goodness but i'm a gun. thanks. because pro bono showboat looking for a nickel thank the fairies no longer being pulled. and begins to drift. thanks dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and. at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across. i.
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get as you know the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel and the food this trip will hardly make enough to live a. few if any of us on the end of the metal. yeah i mean don't fool me. the rest is history and that's what i'm going to say on the. basis of. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers edg it completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industry. today one hundred thousand people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the precious
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nuts arrive every day. because of the dam many wrote even before their open. to be dried they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountains and knowns around. the operation is repeated of the other end of the way house. them better love one of the. better ones but they have. lived. in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the no. miriam the director of the factory and forces nations to deal with this debt deal some audio and it does
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a lot of money if it was only thought of it. on the yellow yes i need somebody to say i thought it was. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the notes. again i began it was because i mean i make it and if i give any money if they. give me a set of basic level it's as if it was self-defense how do you know you get it you know whatever that was the only thing i was that was any good i mean. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than three hundred sixty dollars
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a month. who's only eighteen has worked here for two years i was telling you that is was. was . a was you that was. the workers repeat the same mechanical action all day long i was . paid per kilo of shelled nots the workers hardly ever rest on quickly develop illnesses
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. i guess it would come. to brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around thirty dollars a kilo. you. edgar has just learned that the road to lopez is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how will get alan back in time for the new school year. the unseasonable rains continue and the river benny has now flooded. the main road to the capital a submerged. the country is split into. this
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year the flooding has been extensive with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital of pandas. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options. this time and then i do but i stumble come on. she want to hold them off but the. police come in the but the. but it's what they see is special
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treatment that angers those who've been waiting for days. but you know i get it but i don't care but. fed up with weighty ramiro risked everything. and the best of the federal ski industry went back to the. us how to help us out. he could easily be swept away by the current.
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house. he must now get across amount an area eroded by deforestation you're no good what about when i'm out that he may go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the first gulf war to keep out the stuff that you know. that you're not the man of it all say about. the modern off. which you didn't bother coming up. i would go that old man is good but not going to weed out the because you know how it's going to weed out what i want what. the rain doesn't stop and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the
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planets. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to. civil hospital he thought he. was impulsive if i thought he didn't get that i had a bus not. a shop full of it and that i had. just quit going to have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the roads one hundred meters below. i got that on the internet and found out that an average of three eighty. to the phone. does not have that much at the stairs and . the travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an
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alternative route to leave they can miss the moment in quite good moments was to win it going you know at c.s.u. one move i meant that i do view the move to the for the benefit of what he did for c.m. before that. was my life and see course you must refuse you. again see if we can go on with this thing is to see get him funded see see about hand. if you're not in the official quantity be a misstep. the trouble is have no choice but to brave the danger. stuck on the other side the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. you know
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your driver board but what if it all said that that is a lot of court case yes but not so good if it is not don't really like it it was a bus. went to hospital by for a little. bit yes. well you know my mother doesn't have a fruitless just a little bit of fun you know. when are you going to get to know about what is going through because the magic in your going down. of the company jumping and they have a way with i don't know if you're going to share this with much of that because it is there must be a day or you see the only one of that wind up on the way that i think that's. in the knesset the ample most of this he is the one nobody that's the best in. ramiro will have to wait it out another four days before being able to continue in
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. a three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level pads the capital of the n d's also suffers from flooding. young allen made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government. can only pull world. shutters or other workers that are yesterday tell you in the end loaded a partial list. with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs mobile money. what open or must
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seem him to volunteer years for this kind of it's made for me for stand of a bunny for me despite its natural beauty year after year the rains in bolivia continue to have an impact on people's lawns. harvesters navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finished scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying breed if i don't go i can't think my family meet the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. but you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and surf and risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. business updates to you by qatar airways going places to get.
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