since knowing that that recent raid on the president's attorney michael collins office is that likely there is something in there that would contradict what the president had said and instead of having that revelation come out at an unexpected time send out a member of the president's legal team to say yes that's the case that it doesn't matter but certainly there are many that will say this does matter because essentially what this does is this does confirm what many have been trying to prove for some time is that the president knew more about this than he was letting on flooding in kenya has left at least one hundred people dead and more than two hundred thousand displaced major roads across the country have been blocked future heavy rains and landslides since early april nearly one hundred people have been killed after a powerful rain and dust storm hit parts of north and northern and western india at least sixty four people died in two pradesh states and twenty seven others in not just on twenty seven others and not just on angry protests broken out on

a strategic yemeni island after the united arab emirates deployed military aircraft and troops there to use a coach or archipelago is a unesco world heritage site it lies in the gulf of aden and on important oil trade routes yemen's prime minister made a rare visit to troops on the coach or on wednesday shortly after residents say the u.a.e. unloaded soldiers tanks and armored transport to try to intimidate the government there's the headlines to stay with us next up it's one i want east. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new tariffs on imports of steel in alameda for a five gene would mean off the data transfer ten times faster than forty we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost of this time on al-jazeera.

for generations millions of indonesians have depended on the chip to run river but today the river is poised to. textile factories that supplies some of the biggest fashion brands are using it to dump talks the chemicals. on steve on this episode a one on one east we investigate the human cost of the world's most polluted river . the river fisherman like rudy no longer catch fish they catch cluster. but they are the last look. a month

will kill all of the. indonesian rivers dump two hundred thousand tons of plastic into the sea each year. but for the millions that live along the river there's something worse than plastic talks chemicals. noor has always lived here. every morning she goes to the world which is fed by the children. that is so what if airings how much it's imagine what a manatee. this is how you what i'm a lot of now i have i don't find out if i'm. another man i'm. sure is two children are always sick. she

blames the river. will see. the developer tools and can't. now. apply. to move. in low gold and. just keep. going with the under the bed. today the children have a doctor's appointment. noor takes them twice a month you do her eldest son calls you as soon as he finishes his medicine. about the heidi. but still.

a lot of fun one on one on a long. kind of a pool betty. the time that i had to go get the thought that i do monday night the m b i everybody alley. so what could be making them sick. one day runs the only environmental group in the region. for seventeen years he has been surveying the chitral in search of evidence of pollution by the textile industry. because for them to. be the mother just was on them but i don't read the papers on russia. and by germany would go by. the want to come to me on the computer to read the group just not on the full.

amount of. it now bella are working on the burner imagery that it will bring up in the city that are burning with the gun in them and. now don't look at the most upon us. the books the football but if. you're going to. look at the portfolio. three quarters of what is produced along the river is sent abroad mainly to be u.s. and europe. one of the largest exporters in the country is the kids text group. is tech produces mainly polyester fabric a synthetic material that requires

a lot of chemicals. in these buildings one thousand machines operate twenty four hours a day seven days a week. the factory produces three million liters of fabric a month. each of these machines process is the fibers with water filled with chemicals. forty liters of water for every t. shirt. the waste water then flows to the settling tanks. so on is out always but the fifth month far i thought that the floods the size.

they made their way and handed me the blank and then death is out thanks mate that it will become a permit to. do is likely. to be. printed . really. not every day. only five measurements a day international standards require at least thirty one. divided by. yes is it true. i don't think so. but if it's not come home for most people think i'm ok i still need to be feel that it's on the day but i mean it's ok. you can pass but part of me fishhook andro is what the tax i think i put in or if i don't get it

then good. to find out what the waste water from this global textile company contains we head to the factories one around. thirty meters away and the water is covered with a film of white foam. if. this is what gets taxed did not want to show what. we take to leaders for now and since. along the river all rights feel. this is congress's lair.

little thing with the. other one will show the mark i'm going to be nothing but a new what my next colleague. it's been a thorn in my neck. to it because it's a symbol of poverty in oregon yeah michelin supply. to them than i can buy a new one so. it's. only it. but the unit. and i'm around that. want a little profit on mom or. can i only mining his crop is surrounded by factories . the water that you were gave his rice field is purple and frog.

he agrees to let us test his rights. as. we take our samples of rice and water to the institute of the home of university. writes professor soon already runs the only environmental studies lib oratory in the region up for auction spectrum one tree this is a show for heavy with. measurement this is. mostly chemical chemical spider-man does tell you this isn't going to be canonized as seen. from the rise. and there are some so this is the. it isn't water.

it is this is the runs from this water here this is the water. from the desert through from the waste water. i come back you know we are going to get out i continued and to get here to see you thank you michael. while we wait for the test results we arranged to meet some of the women and children from the village near the factories. we want her to analyze their hair to better understand which pollutants they are exposed to. advise us we've heard price athens are on the line. more for. he is the person to speak to in europe when it comes to researching pollutants with care samples and pens the human bio monitoring unit at the luxembourg health

institute. joining. me now not national shortage. of credit i think they should. be doing a lot. more than seven. and i not so much trying to be are you. going to come up. with. the final get. assistance to them but isn't this. going to continue. to take care from ten children aged from twelve months to fourteen years.

we send them straight to professor appen cellar in luxembourg. as we are leaving the village we receive a call from environmental activists alerting us to night time we stop you from the fact. three. parts ok. it's part of the pennies a group one of the largest subcontractors in the indonesian textile industry. that we're going to see. so what is this. about a. year. old. close to the water it smells so toxic we need mess.

thank you. thank you i think this. is a. little to no good oh. well . ok. it's all good oh we'll. ok. ok that's cool. thank you so much thank you. should. we send these samples to a lib oratory in france that specializes in environmental study.

in the meantime dr sonority has finished his analysis of the waste water and writes he can't believe what he found he wants to see the rice fields form so one thing. or this strain. from chromium content and by the plants we found a very high twenty. eight point zero four milligrams because we found that. a lead concentration on the body plans is much higher then come the sound that the limits will be found twenty nine point zero three maybe milligram per kilogram while the standard only zero point five million one times three. bodies because we actually lead this very dangerous. lead will disturb our nervous

system blood central african our system so. if the children exposed to the lead then they will have like intellectual disability in the way that it is. the worst of the lead. i believe there are men. from the. us. this rice the growth along which is solved through old indonesia will he also found the water from the guest x. factor had lead levels one point five times the international limits for industrial waste water. where there is more bad news when we receive the results for the pan asia factory where we took the water samples at night and people. at the home of environmental activist danny responded we contact professor bernard make

you a french chemist who analyze the pan asia waste water. and. use in your bill it. could be different. it's. clearly all known to. all of the costs. to. the norm of human not. just the detriment. you know that. you have not to release. john the aleutian. pollution

is going to do. long and. not. this you. know. really a little closer each says you know. we want to know what major clothing brands do the polluting factories supplying. we see if through dozens of globes. their labels show which ones are sourced from indonesia. we find a baby gap there just made in indonesia. h. and m. sweater made in indonesia. adidas made in indonesia.

we then get the lists of indonesian subcontractors from these big brands. the factories from which we took the wastewater appear on lists including. the company is registered as one of his sub contractors it also works with other brands like unicorn. it was in the pan asia water that we found high levels of nano for a powerful hormone disruptor. the guest x. plant and its waste with high lead levels is also subcontracted by the unique lobe rare. h n m has an office in the indonesian capital jakarta. and changes from and she. began posting. yeah thank you. to the

director of h. and m. indonesia agrees to see us and so we made some promises. interesting specially that. the. ocean in malaysia i would like my sis in a. more technical level than i usually looking at but from an. engineer who has a commitment all. and you know the world is not perfect this is of course not what we would like to see. three weeks after this interview h m m writes to us saying. we are sincerely concerned by the subject of your report h. and m. as the size scale and ambition to lead the change towards a truly sustainable fashion industry. they

claim independent audit of companies like. there are no levels that exceeded limits in their wastewater. unit also responded saying they consulted reports of the plant. but they would investigate further with independent experts. two hundred fifty to. work with indonesian subcontractors who dumped waste water into the. big fashion groups here are all gathered in the same association. the textile industry lobby in indonesia a key sector with a twelve billion dollar turnover. e.g.

meat is their representative. so what do you need to create leave for an environment. of our own border for someone like the cleaner for a call. or go utilization or someone to pick the environment is good for business. do you think the word that comes out of the research here do you think it can be used for drinking for irrigation we think it can be used this isn't from use we presenting our analysis of rice and water which show the presence of industrial pollutants of textile factories including harmonial disruptors and neural toxic or carcinogen genic molecules would you drink this water this is just comes from an asia for this is one of your members we do this what are you use it for you irrigation if i only put it i guess that even if you saw the all the problems

we don't have to ask for your country we're looking for the environment when you see that we do not. when you talk a little bit in them and then at the order and close simple so the grounds of your power yes but the blame and there's still money and clothes. and then you miss. as a father does that make you feel that you see their children living around factories sometimes like this if so many of our lives and i think maybe next fifty years we have no. but this you know. and that's. the fifth i think of the i know. of a certain oh your book oh you're following us thank you for taking some time thinking

at the ministry of environment the person in charge of pollution control agrees to meet us because he reads our analysis and seems surprised. by the. consists of i would. say this is good information. i think i will ask for what purpose and on the total. and. this number we're going to. meet. and we're also looking for a fight like. that would be good news but it may be too late for the residents along the river.

professor appenzeller from the luxembourg health institute has the results of the hair analysis to school with. us on the see this issue of the death on the news you . i'm just going to go on what you're not going to. do is. go to. that go sound going to bond off in the dishonesties he says it's easier than others to think you're just for deposits you know jokes each is only good difficult. for just except. that he should make sure he goes through a box the need to start the next scene and then finish it ok. now see i was going.

to meet mobile demand textile production in indonesia is expected to increase by seventy five percent by twenty thirty. major clothing brands can no longer look away. too many victims are paid a heavy price. the nativist news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protestants had blocked the road through final higher than anything else they could find with detailed coverage then there's no doubt there's an extremely hard to stop everyone striving

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