you can see why ruin its remoteness made it seem like a good place for the dawn and its contaminated contents but like most of the islands of the marshal's route it is bailey a major above sea level at its highest point. when the storm was built in the light nine hundred seventy s. there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out as it is now ready zero active isotopes from underneath the dime roll out with it that is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change which it will be very devastation even if it really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's making this nuclear

waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacies it's link. is a poet in climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and there's also just nothing like it anywhere else and it's part of why i am. a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how the marshall islands is on the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands

encompasses more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate. change dear much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise of gummy smiles you are bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunders shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walk along the. dear much if. i want to tell you about the lady lounging in the gloom lounging against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline too at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones. don't cry mommy promises you no

one will calm and devour you no one. no one's moving no one's losing their home no one's going to become a climate change refugees. in a place known for so to speeches in poker face diplomacy heavy jet gnocchi genius pledge to her daughter to fight climate change leave me to tears. i mean when they all stood up i kind of thought they were just being polite but i just found out later that's not that doesn't happen all the time. some estimates put the sea level rise here in excess of sixty centimeters by the end of the century that's enough to inundate three quarters of the country so. now we're on alert every time there's a high tide is the water will come over and flood our houses you know crushed and

homes are destroyed homes it will dry the crops and you know that didn't ever happen before you know we're getting a lot of more extreme weathers like droughts too and so it's just gotten a lot worse in the past couple years. it will. a reef so he kills a reef it kills of fish kill so food and you know marshall has a very very limited land so there's really nothing for us to survive on so i would you know i was sitting very very short time and i cannot give you the year but. we will gradually probably start moving halts on to the clock is ticking before you hit release it is ticking. for many marshallese the dome on rumor tile and remains a potent symbol of the threat of climate change it may be made from half meter thick concrete panels but as we've seen elsewhere the ocean is likely to we now

have a concrete every time. the radiation levels of the people of in a way talk the supposed to be monitored here in this space age us built lab on the main island that when we visit the machine for assessing radioactive exposure isn't working. and as we're about to find out it's not just the people of the marshall islands who are living with the fallout from what happened here all those years ago. this was the side of the largest nuclear cleanup in united states history four thousand young soldiers toiled he for years to fill in the bomb crater underneath this dime among the more than eighty thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil and debris with plutonium one of the most toxic substances on the planet. for many of the young soldiers who worked here there was

a high price to pay. those young men and now in their fifty's and sixty's and few in the united states know they are storing. the suburban sprawl of less vegas feels like another world away from the remote emptiness of in a way talk at all but the dome is something former u.s. soldier g.-man drole can never forget and neither can he forgive i've never heard of and we talk and there are two there were forty three nuclear tests so i don't know as radioactive the top story landed. everybody kind of pretty much flipped out on a phone no. because it was right because it was radioactive. i was told i was going to visit a tropical paradise for the last six months of the service. a specialist in the army's eighty fourth in geneva talian mandrel was one of

thousands of u.s. soldiers sent to help clean up in a way talk at all in the one nine hundred seventy s. a thousand workers from the u.s. armed forces are giving the northern islands a facelift striving to dig and scrape away the radioactive soil and debris this u.s. news story shows soldiers on in a week talk wearing radiation suits b.g. mandrel says this was just a show for the t.v. cameras there was no special gear issued we were just issued our normal oh warm weather gear which we've been sure to teacher tat in the jungle been to nuts and were you given right away gave decontamination truck no none whatsoever was there any safety equipment no if people do come back to rhode island they'll be risking perhaps the hottest radiation on earth this island won't be fit for human habitation again for at least twenty four thousand years unrooted island site of the daum soldiers were exposed to one of the most toxic substances known in the

result of a bomb test gone wrong one of the attempted nuclear weapons explosions didn't work and so the who put tony and rather than having a nuclear blast was just broken apart by the conventional explosives leading to a about four hundred little chunks of put tony and that were spread all around the top. those four hundred chunks were put in plastic bags and tossed into the crater underneath the dime well they have this round of walk around pick up loose pieces for instance and just gather up whatever we could throw it in a pile and i never had any clue that dust could literally get into your lungs. but these girls are dealing with it every day all of us were. declassified u.s. government documents reveal that washington knew the troops would be exposed to put tiny i'm on router tile and this secret cable from one thousand nine hundred eighty two talks about the existence of solid plutonium bearing chunks on the island

surface it warned that the quantity of plutonium was undoubtedly large and that a presented a new and serious concern. many of the u.s. soldiers in particular who worked at and we have since come down with illnesses that they say were caused by their work there. jim mandrel is one of those soldiers for years he suffered from a myriad of complaints he says a link to his service on in a way talk he had as gallbladder out shortly after their. seventy pound tumor cancerous tumor in his abdomen i suffer from roughly four year forty five years old from the going to. us rose far more alert of the

watching good news the problem for former cleanup workers like jim enthrall is that unlike the other u.s. soldiers involved in the atomic tests the government does not recognize them as atomic veterans this means the four thousand plane a bit trends have no special health care coverage many lumbered with crippling medical bills washington argues safety precautions on in a way top or exemplary workers radiation exposure fell below recommended limits and that their illnesses and the time they spent on in a way talk and not linked i mean these people were in the army what choice that they are they were told go clean up any way they want. i think mostly they're trying to get health coverage medical care because they've got just out there some of them have terrible bills really high bill bills from from hospitals because of their treatment. there has never been a formal study of the health of in a way talk workers but one informal survey reported that hundreds suffered problems

such as cancers brutal bones and birth defects in their children. l r has a guy i didn't think of me saying in hospital you know i tell you yeah yeah i just . tell you feeling. strange that. i might have had some damages done to another part of my body when they were putting in the stomach aneurism in a way took veteran cain keswick knows all about hospital bills we meet in hawaii although by the time i arrived kane has been rushed to intensive care with a brain aneurism as a twenty four year old he was working at a u.s. air force base in hawaii when he was asked if he was interested in running the military exchange on an idyllic pacific at all called in a we talk. that's it. my whole vision in life was to live on

a deserted tropical south pacific island what's what you tell the lord. it came through. this would be no posting to paradise not long after arriving on in a way talk cain realized he was living and working in the middle of a messy nuclear cleanup one centered on the dime on route island. it was a very dirty operation and the same below calls that transported this filthy filthy filthy horrible atomic waste to ruin it the boys are on these boats you can see the crap going on their faces and their bodies you know you cannot get away from them. like you mandrel ken kesey says he was never given any safety gear old training he says the thousands of young marine sent into the cleanup had no idea of what they were exposed to it's a total secret we didn't even know the guys didn't know none of those guys would would be in an area that's so contaminated if they knew about it and we were lied

to and our boys work six month tours on a dirty island and the government says you were never there. has undergone nearly forty surgeries for cancerous lesions which he blames on his time and i know we talk but he in g.-man droll count themselves lucky america dumped all of their worst rubbish to the marshallese and abandon them with it's a disgusting shame. and it. it looks makes us look bad. m f but not even a threat to the people of the united states but they are welcome in their simplicity and their present past and their kind of family and willing to cooperate although they don't understand the world of nuclear energy any more than we do. ruin a dome embodies injustices in many different ways. the

fact that all these weapons worse both are there the fact that this plutonium was left behind the fact that the workers who work there have not been compensated. and very importantly the fact that the entire nation is endangered by sea level rise which is caused mostly by the greenhouse gas emissions the major abating countries for which the us was historically number one these are an accumulation of the justices. these are situations where the marshallese people are almost are you drinking e.p.a. eggs or they're just seen as disposable we're seen as disposable in both of these situations we're disposable our lives no matter the war matters nuclear bombs matter our lives no matter whose money matters gas not. profits now.

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but she. is a challenge and so is life. because . it. had been stripped away. in. the whites. for human rights. we love being people are being arrested candidates are being arrested. bangladesh's government says at least eighteen people have been killed with complaints of vote

rigging. a line has i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from davos a coming up. give us a chance to vote frustrate a polling booth in the democratic republic of congo's long delayed election plus. the reports we could be witnessing a major transfer of power in yemen's port city of her data. and our record of only make god help us after all these heavy rains we haven't been able to sleep for the past three nights and life gets even tougher for thousands living in syrian refugee camps when severe flooding wipes away the little shelter they have left.

alone a government spokesperson says at least eighteen people were killed during the general election in bangladesh reports say the election commission is investigating accusations of vote rigging and the opposition party now rejecting the results demanding a completely new vote bangladesh media put the number of dead much higher than the reported government figures the deaths occurred during violence between supporters and opponents of the country's ruling party. people are being killed people are being arrested candidates have been arrested and one good little going to receive an unprecedented amount of the heard of it would not be like the bloody would you be able to do it. even a bad dream one man i could not think that bangladesh after forty seven would i would have proved it isn't here the. prime minister. is looking for a third consecutive term in office her main rival former prime minister has been

jailed for corruption party has accused the government of of arresting and killing opposition activists but the prime minister is blaming the opposition for the latest violence maybe sam. didn't get them but that's not that much but we lost a. game of our my team members. there were killed by it. you know that it took this party orders for that and the fact that. arrest let's cross now to tanveer chadri who's live for us in dhaka so tanveer what can you tell us about these accusations of vote rigging and the opposition's rejection of this election. well i mean it was a predictable scenario you know i mean since the campaign started about a tenth of december the opposition has come systematically under attack in many

cases under the eye of the police and security forces in some cases the police were actually even involved. in the ruling party activists to attack opposition activists now this is allegation but it's also been documented by the newspapers at least sixteen international h.r. bodies to be at least criticize the election commission for not creating an even playing field for the opposition have the fight at thirty seven incidents where opposition candidates motorcades where a pack by the ruling party members there's been cases of at least twelve journalists beaten up the general not t.v. and your guns are buying the newspaper had not been arrested in that particular case we spoke to a lot of the journalists he has been openly saying that look there is a systematic self-censorship here there is also the jeconiah what

we call digital security act which is designed to kind of and it kind of dissenting voice in the social media this country has one of the largest social media activists in asia this has really discouraged the young people to debate on the election issues and to express their support for the opposition because they have been monitored by the security agencies someone could get arrested just simply criticizing the prime minister yesterday at least eight people were detained the government said were spreading fake news and propaganda. it's out came under attack by the cyber security unit of facebook who said that at least fifteen pages of facebook and eleven tweeted pages well orchestrated by the state to spread propaganda considering all days there was not really a good level playing field for the opposition to clearly carry out their campaign and today at least forty seven can you that withdraw from the polls saying there was but ballots rigging stuffing the ballot in the boxes many of the videos are now

spreading in the social media since the internet came back we'll still see more reaction tomorrow and more videos and other kind of picture that coming out what happened the capital city itself was rather quiet and there was no disturbance yet except for a few events but one of the biggest allegation was what drinking and most of the opposition polling admin who had witnessed to the counting were not allowed by the ruling party and even in some cases by the police to enter the polling station even to have the commission admit that they have witnessing to polling station in dhaka where there was no opposition polling agents so all those will come into play critically also most important is how the international observers the global media and the international community that they will give the legitimacy to this election obviously the opposition is not calling for a real action on their interim government we'll see more reaction tomorrow the government is job and they have already gone unofficially one hundred and hundred

and fifty three seats so that clearly got the majority com a government but they have luck to be seen how stable this government is in coming days. certainly a very messy picture there are in bangladesh tanveer choudhry in the uk a force thanks then our polls in the democratic republic of congo are closing voting has been extended though in some places but many have been unable to cost their ballots at all the vote was supposed to be held more than two years ago but was continuously delayed by president joseph kabila my only concern is that we have the city everyday. and over the voter turnout might be real but the forty first president clear and the will to the top know and when but what you see i think i think that they don't believe that he should leave them because of how. over time we but this clear that the election and our fear and fear and we are

different if you're into three main candidates are vying to succeed joseph kabila in this election emmanuel show daddy is his chosen successor the largest opposition party put forward felix to see katie while martin for you know who is from a coalition named. and reboot the house to watch those who hardly look to a car to be able to vote and each single polling station has to open and people are surveyed we are monitoring it and we know that some day are we having problems. everything is going peacefully now the people of. you know beneath the people of you me because all of would. be doing their communities and you have to force. violence in the run up to these elections

and voting was perspire and in three areas mostly opposition strongholds which sparked protests in the eastern parts about one point three million people have been excluded from sunday's election but will get to vote in three months people in beni had their own unofficial vote more now from now called webb in the capital kinshasa. president joseph kabila dated early usenet the democratic republic of congo even eighteen yes. this election two years a video is to choose the successor my only concern is that we have this very heavy rain. and over the for the time now that might be wrong. and this is the man he wants to take over from a zani shattering he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses seventy i think victory is on my side and tonight i will be president. but the heavy rain hit the capital kinshasa didn't put people off. this side of

a low turnout and has had to get it to provide has already registered. with the tool of pain able to vote as a polling station inside this primary school the school voting machine is ready to go there's no copy of the electoral register here subsequently practice for the people inside it. since sunrise waiting to vote a big crowd of people outside as well they sent his body thin people here blame the president of the electoral commission for not delivering it demanding their rights of votes. until morning we are looking for which bush we won't go anywhere. he wanted the main opposition contenders three of his strongholds have been excluded from the presidential poll the electoral commission says because of conflicts and the butler outbreak and reno dug some heavy ice we're having problems so more there is everything is going peacefully you know if you pull over for. me

if people are a little for you maybe if you feel awful to. go with. this out of congolese you have to force. people in the eastern cities if any in the template demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could vote i think when it came to voting this made their own polling materials and open their own polling stations in protest. thousands came opinion polls indicate that most congolese trust the electoral commission. when its president came to check on a polling station in kinshasa was greeted with chants clearly give a big lie in saying that she had to recant when. millions of voters across the country counted will be contentious and many congolese say they wanted

to accept the result they don't believe. web al-jazeera kinshasa the democratic republic of congo. joins us now live from the capital kinshasa so katherine bring us up to speed on what's been happening there are people still waiting to vote. yes they are housed but let me just fast give you some information that we're getting from an area called zero south cuba and democratic republic of congo right at the border with uganda so some people have been killed in a polling station so this is what happened there was an election commission official who was helping people use this electronic voting machines some suspected that he was made misleading the elderly and other voters who could not use the machine process the wrap said of.