all these shrewd individuals profiting from their friends and neighbors. have been busy now you would. need i need i know how do you know. they are. the longest. is the village seamstress but she doesn't spend much time behind the swimming machine base and. yeah we know. about i was on it and it is how do you remember you want to be you want to tell you you are not. how did you do how mean and i'm not gonna get out of it i mean a lot of. them are down on it yet i'm a bit how did you get my drift i haven't bothered to do it i said because. you need

my money and i do is eat a little and he needs now he had eight dollars you know i said five you need i need to be babied. no shortage of people looking for some quick money lending takes up more and my daughter has time. for that one lever that i love. and i do and we did the day that he had. me now they are not. so on. time or i don't think is really common ground i got in line is that i she gonna be in a. loving god if. she do that. or not. and then nothing. martin i mean are

suited. you living in a nest in there. in the. town. here or not. she has around twenty clients you pay monthly interest rates of either twenty or thirty percent technically this makes her work legal individual money lenders cannot charge more than eighteen percent. and they require an official license. but under quoted law is ready and daughter he says all the money lenders get away with charging a lot more and i'm now the. world around. them. and. i don't. want anyone to tell

you. you. know we're down would you say that your money lending operation as well the business or service that are lazy him or not if you don't let me know what they don't lead you when i use i don't use i learned i bought my lab the water or my lab. b.b. been at the one out of. work we needed that. we've met families so crippled by their interest payments that they struggle to feed their children do you think that it can still be classified as a service but these are the consequences. if you really get a. little bit of. the born it. down or. been enabled. in fact according to daughter. the risks to soley upon the money lenders with

clients regularly disappearing in the middle of the night without paying off that debt you. gave you need to. be aligned and by your middle. and in the end you either got lucky taking the law all about it. being on a couple you want. anything but. a lot of. it is read here for money lenders to get violent on their clients refused to pay so shooting is a common tactic and one that is often employed by doing take a few controls the neighborhood i don't know exactly what they know though for that guy they had the. same again those are the kind of be like the bailey man you might be on i will be my nanny be my lot. went. through that door. i love the way they walk right over.

the door take the benefits outweigh the risks. and with interest rates of up to thirty percent she's decided money lending makes good business sense and. it was a you know i show laid out even up to me you know why you are now having a go again are. you know i don't really know the natural way and you know i wanna grow up and have a child over again or you know. and with a steady stream of clients that future. and her profits and looking very easy spending time with d'orsay has shown the ethics of money lending and not black and white the one shots are profiting from the vulnerability of their neighbors but there's such a vital component of the local economy that monthly interest rates of twenty to

thirty percent are considered normal. the problem is that cash is still killing me i'm up less than twenty percent of the population and thank you. however there is one place i need the banks nor money lenders before i've come to the suburb of young dawn to meet a group of women that have managed to escape the clutches of lying sharks their collective sable skew the results of your life changing. for the last nine years these thirty four women will be meeting every week to invest their money in a great savings account. and deposit two dollars fifty into this green card and after three months of great quest and the energy bill for my. democracy. do you want to get it you would have to miles you walk around it a while but not if you don't. wait. for the system to work everything must be fair and accountable to the women have set up strict rules which they must fall into to

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be i'm allowed. and they want to tell others how about me now than it. all but one thousand say a lot of bonding b.-a only be able to where they were said about the only bit of a woman issue. one is inability to miss out with a clear. but i doubt it will not be able machine. she is one of the few you can make traditional percussion minutes in and gone before she could only produce around fifty a week so now my and she did do it tonight you got to go without it let you go without it. but you know you are able and all but you go without it having at all be out as a maci although tonight i'm not in with you but even if. we overlook that much of an itchy out how to the what she did she let go that it wouldn't have been any and ended up boredom or go down. with help from the group she now more was able to buy the additional materials that she needed in order to meet the demands from her

clients she now produces anything from one hundred to one thousand pieces a week again no one on the machine will go deep was an amateur go. yes i am in. authority in. the army how do you how do you lead about that camera how do you do any you'll i mean. you know me. do you know where do you know the impact of this group is. the issue of money and it is quite widespread do you think the model could be replicated broadly to help other families in the young go on to. do i mean. do you. do it in. the totally i do if they do go to.

do what am i being i do is. to get double marks on the top of. that humanity has paid. with the sound of sewing machines drifting from almost every house you can literally hear the entrepreneur and the two created by these low interest loans. and with the women taking care of family finances the husbands have plenty of time for game of these believes. you don't know no matter what the new. album at the top i'm going to have i'm going to not follow my position if you don't know what you thought it was propped up on me and tell me. but until that. point you continue to be trapped by that predatory lending practices you know and i'm as quick as an expensive form of credit.

nine and have found going to be a mum then. it's been a week since i met a young mother of two by now she should have finished paying back this month's interest so how have you been so it's been so we haven't got any further towards interest rates i thought i was out of sight i may have got a little now on my family i think i didn't hang out at tiger i know that but my out a demigod lived out all of us hanging out and i've always knew that i can you know . i hand out of the language and. i don't doubt a lot of being now a lot about it. and i learned. something new that. it wasn't the news i was hoping for nine nine and have family a film an even deeper into debt. i did all of the one of the last and i mean.

does it all go out nothing and here i would lose it idea j. lo want and i'll buy you some time and then you know. i will hold on to. a little tear you down either one of you down. a on as you are bt out being. then let him see at least honestly who hasn't seen the tide. so now rather than focusing on the one hand the family has had to borrow money from multiple lenders. it is a complicated web of debt that is even harder for a loan and escape especially if the family injures another financial emergency in the coming months. but this is the reality for anyone struggling on

a no income in myanmar. because when illegal money lenders will the street few can avoid the crippling cycle of debt. the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. now private corporations are capitalizing on the chaos. one east investigates on al-jazeera.

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providing a glimpse into someone else's well. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to know well what we did sacrifice and that. is going to be sold as the member of all. witness on al-jazeera. after twenty two years of negotiations an agreement is signed which could finally settle a territorial dispute over the caspian sea. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up a vigil by anti-racist campaigners in the u.s. town of charlottesville a year after

a white supremacist rally turned deadly the final hours of voting in the presidential election in mali for election workers all killed in attacks in the country. three two one zero. liftoff and the launch of the fastest manmade object in history the probe on blocking the scientific secrets of the sun. a come to the program our top story off to twenty two years of negotiations the leaders of russia iran kazakhstan azerbaijan and menaced on have signed an agreement on the legal status of the caspian sea it means the five countries can move ahead with sharing out the resource rich in a body of water the largest in the world or a challenge reports now from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the

legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakhstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because you have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that he has some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not determine the borderlines we mark that the countries with the coast of particular significance should take a special position that includes iran the dispute is centered on whether the largest inland body of water in the world is a lake or a sea defining it a lake would mean the caspian should be divided equally amongst the five countries

but if it's a c. then each state gets a share in proportion to the length of its shoreline the new agreements is that it's not quite either not a lake because of its size and not a sea because it's not connected to the world's oceans so the surface will largely be open for joint use whereas the floor will be divided between russia iran turkmenistan azerbaijan and kazakstan though the exact size of each country's lot is still to be agreed. at stake are several trillion dollars worth of oil gas and pipelines for years the full economic potential of this has been blocked by the lack of a settlement the u.s. government estimates caspian gas could boost global production by twenty seven percent over the coming decade but it's not just about energy. which it which to security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east this really affects the basic

interests of our states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and trans boundary criminality these summits also makes the caspian sea a lockout zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their waters no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. dozens of activists and residents have held a vigil in the u.s. city of charlottesville to mark the one year anniversary of the death of a woman killed during a white supremacist rally the thirty two year old was part of a counter demonstration and died after a car was driven into protest as a rally against racial hatred will also be held in charlottesville on sunday and gallacher has more now from charlottesville well we've been here since wednesday and for the most part it's been very peaceful and for one good reason there is

a huge security operation here in place in charlottesville one of the biggest deployments of this state's police force in years but there has been of course also a lot of soul searching after last year's events much of the city's leadership stepped down including the mayor the chief of police many of the people on the council here but that self reflection is really about what happened many of the residents here blame external forces for what happened twelve months ago but a lot of other people say this was a reflection of the white supremacies that still exists in this city they want to see things happen like last stop and frisk of police on minorities more affordable housing they want to address those problems going forward but of course a lot of people are simply remembering the life of heather here the thirty two year old protester that was killed when that car was driven into the crowd last year we spoke to her mother just a couple of days ago and she said her one hope that the sacrifice her daughter made is that people will wake up and see what's happening in modern day america. well in

washington a huge security operation is underway as far right groups and counter protesters are expected to hold separate rallies outside the white house hundreds are expected to gather for what's being dubbed a white civil rights rally organized by the unite the right group alan fischer has the latest from washington allan what's happening there now. well this is lafayette park is right in front of the white house you can see perhaps the world's most famous building right there across the park and the crowd has grown in the last hour there's a few hundred people here these are people who intend to confront the so-called all right the white supremacists have been given permission to host the rally here and it would be unusual for a first amendment freedom of speech rally to be refused permission here in washington d.c. and that's why this unite the right rally to go to its approvals you can see that the police are taking all sorts of precautions on many of the law if not all of

them there is a reminder that no one is allowed to be carrying a firearm here in washington d.c. these roads will be closed there is an extensive police presence in the streets around here but also particularly in the park the intention is there will be two lines of police and there will be what they call a decontamination room in the middle keeping both sides apart so on one side you will have those the here seeking to verily confront the so-called all right and on the other side you will have the white supremacists who got permission to come here to rally their rally starts at five thirty but they'll be arriving any time in the next hour or so and will be here for a while they have permission for up to four hundred people to be here know they're going to hear from jason castro the man who has organized this event he sent out an e-mail last night telling people that if they come not to bring any weapons or minder of the ordinance that are working under here in washington d.c. itself told not to think about can bringing any sort of sense that they're going to

provoke violence and to leave their racist baggage behind what that exactly means we're not entirely sure perhaps we'll hear more of that when the speakers take the stage here in the coming hours but we know that they're going to hear from david you know that name might seem familiar david duke is a former imperial grand wizard of the klu klux klan the extreme right wing organizing. and of course was famous particular in the twenty's and thirty's for its oppression of black people in the south and he will address the rallies also a figure you may remember from the twenty sixteen presidential election because he endorsed donald trump and there was a contriver see over that because donald trump didn't immediately disavow his backing his endorsement and it took him a few days to do so first he said he didn't know he david was and then he remembered that i actually had met him and that's part of the problem for the people who are gathered here to confront this so called all right they're concerned that the message coming out of the white house isn't strong enough you'll remember a year ago the donald trump said there were bad people on both sides of what

happened in charlottesville to many people that wasn't acceptable and again the president has tweeted out just in the last twenty four hours that he doesn't accept racism of any kind something that many people here say he should be much stronger on because remember it's a year ago that people were on the streets of an american city chanting nazi slogans they were like nazi slogans and actually slogans used by the nazis in the one nine hundred thirty s. and so that is why i would expect to see somewhere in the region of three hundred people expecting so-called all right white supremacist protesters in one side of the park and we will see a significant number more on the other side of the park who are here to very really confront them with the police in the middle making sure that those confrontations don't become physical ok thank you very much allan monitoring developments there for us in washington well now polling station official has been killed in an attack by an armed group in northern mali this as people vote in

a presidential runoff likely to returning. to power first round of voting in july was by violence. with three election workers killed in voting materials destroyed opposition leaders somalia say who won nearly eighteen percent in the first round alleges voting fraud how much value has more from the capital bamako. yes the government is not taking any chances according to their own statements and ultimately said that they are increased the number of security personnel from their thousand to thirty six thousand and they have been trying to make sure that these ground across the country and the all the polling centers are we know that the government has very big issues with that you know present the government has a very weak presence in many areas in the center of the country and in the north the center of the country and the north they represent more than two thirds of the territory of mali and those are the areas where the government doesn't have much

presence so there are no guarantees how the security will be better now than on the first round on twenty ninth of july. taliban fighters have attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in gaza me as the battle for the southeastern afghan city enters its third day u.s. aircraft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under threat of collapse but lawmakers from gaffney say the taliban is in control of much of the city after launching an attack in the early hours of friday morning over one hundred people many of the members of the security forces have been killed there correspondent eunice i.t.s. seen sent us this update from kabul. the situation is very tense a source told the that taliban fighters at the election committee office in the city and they said the building on fire. didn't provide any further information meanwhile the afghan military chief of staff said that his troops can clear the

city within two days also that there are more troops headed to the city to assist the special forces that are already there fighting the remain in taliban fight. in the west side of the city there are little information coming from. the main road linking kabul to where i am and that has me one hundred fifty kilometers to the east is broke now three days and electricity in it work at the the phone networks are not working even the local radios are off. so there is little information but our sources given us that. people are not very happy with the performance of the government managing this crisis now three days because people told us that they cannot even rescue the wounded people in the street.