every chest full of this one will come here often here it's an every man or women or child around here is coughing has a problem of coughing as appropriate to skin some of them up only to. the man who. says. he them i want to test in your question i will never quit. now a question that needs. over one and a half million south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. that itself it gets into our food week this past week drink this but so that is why so many people here this is the silent heat. this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who you are

just you know it. is six years old as well she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time ok and the dust from the mine heaps cotton specially this does you pull your kid in the piece. before you sleep you must face. that and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the first signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. communicate with her. when she she was to be changed. yeah and then she she kicks it is ok arrow maybe when she wants to

play she has to go i said richie she kisses him and she screams all. day you know she has to go say you want to. poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mine dust but they are no doubt if there are other areas like under our own i was the same symptoms same health issues yet i do know and there's a danger to them is going to grow their only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they don't want anybody knowing up like their kids and the situation there's two of them open houses in the in the sense three children two of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is something that has made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel today my two detailing tend to do today didn't get so bad if you go of any distance from here in

eve you me never find this key. to find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. must climb snake park hill. it has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. access is supposedly forbidden there's nobody guarding the site which extends over four square kilometers while the motive for about six is being mined from a soldier's each. day since then to me it turned the dishes on it. was similar. to. the price it. takes five hundred grams of the sun. the dust that's blowing over the village but

no. on the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. it's used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their lifestyle sometimes their children even bay the net this was all. ok or if i could put in will do. for the. paws of the news media have put it. frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa can see me. linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parent those fish do

you think i should analyze first in the water. elevator. tricks translate to. elevate. it. ok. i kind of lost. a few thoughts and it would seem recently gone by. so. many done but in point of misery. so there's a through it. and you can also take we just call it. and. call you speak if you would like. us. so i think it's likely. legs of

a good son comedic on body doesn't it just you know it was our example of whatever this is all vigorous zero zero zero maximum in order to claim it as for then. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top three gold produces agrees to a meeting. with the rest of the. goldfields eight thousand seven hundred fifty kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get to live from from the stuff. but at night you'll see on the front but there's somebody. coming to. us to try to include we are doing

a plus minus five thousand five hundred times. a day i mean we have reaching out on three hundred tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many grams of coal is there. so there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the plus minus five days but done that's always currently. only five grams of gold for each ton of all mind that's a remarkable ratio. and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. i think to make goes there we used to i'm i sit in the sun that's still pretty nice i can make those you know prices in the quarter make a nice in-city got. the concession that c.p.r.

so you add all of these together with these with the ball. the last stage is the cost at eight hundred degrees celsius for forty minutes. the end result gold bars. at eighty four percent purity each weighs in at just over sixteen kilograms and is worth around five hundred thirty eight thousand dollars. goldfields makes five of these gold balls a week. producing sixteen thousand two hundred tonnes of residue you equivalent to the weight of two of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly twenty four hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within

a few years this hill will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to seventy meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are it's grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from there from the extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off the gold has been removed so it's silica and other materials it's the sand. and other metals but many silica is there any other metals for example there. it be trace amounts but but very small concentrations some olds and some of the gold ores there is uranium sauce deep has very little uranium minutes or so. there's very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. can really.

not offhand i think the numbers around about forty to fifty grams a ton. annually south african mining companies extract ten times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is on daily basis the gold from both of them. but the radiation fifth of may be. ok or. over time the waste produced by south africa's gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open air. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding six hundred thousand tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as nuclear

installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least five hundred meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over twenty thousand residents. forced into. the process. of oil bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from korea ratched a research association in radioactivity when i was i was government only. going to think that they were. who. visit us. that commercial school shaken too much was going to seduce the would be logical to also paul not just on the are you office all the moves you want a focal to do sorry yeah i'm a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. i know my point of

view the scene i just shot there young men get much it even to be able. to do is it to get your in you do risk. deployed in your she told us of a young mom and me. in a large wanting to join in our community i don't is wrong but i don't want you to do this with his poetry talk don't you good news it will feel good because you know oh and you cannot sell gounder tickets for three years on a cell with a country that's real funny as for. just one. and only because you want to force the daughter to try. and they say no. do you define us. do you think it was only one tree for. her and.

how did we did to close on a letter that. master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the one nine hundred eighty six nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. era keeps around forty goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long lead them above all if they last week that's which buys you a one month eleven months of all yeah yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your. writings show then said as for success this is a. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know as well and you have a muslim but

a muslim know what you must go to. the next is the fungible what is. it in. the mind so you. want to learn and it passed. on and i met. so when you see these every day what do you think. was the motion and . i would wonder about to you but it's just the bins. it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. because we are close to the mine tailings far. look really sick i mean according to do you own or do you think we should just have some bowl of the animals.

just like you. have to take five samples from two goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one who is blind. i come up with the result of the trauma factor or the instructor thanks for you but i. must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africa's council the scientific and industrial research. here's the water from the failings just across the traders it is used as a rigorous no water jesus us immigration also for almost a drink we also have some more full samples treasurer has done with the soil was

considered as low made competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all of their dead and the man goes by did and then couldn't move those lego you know now on the old lead you know what a cynic we shot a fair in togs and can visit gloomier. we do an effort to get them in order once we get them then and raise and go right. as he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part two. as the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live with is a colossal bad idea.

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hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg south africa's most populous city but they aren't a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings ways teats left over from south africa's hugely profitable gold industry. many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. with expert help french journalists must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. but one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious voicemail message along i heard that you are your. money where your

around. in a month well i worked at an environmental challenges for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know you're going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist eagle club chick after a twenty year career in the mining industry has now left it disgusted by the industry's failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste i'll tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said when were you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over over one hundred so after

a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean first of all you have to decode the contaminates. the land that is number one number two you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from grapes them with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a basically you put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you fear makes me feel like a murderer. what we have done like i said we have created an enormous and we're mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and what a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we're feeding the nation or the gold mining industry do it in a reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless

thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made and probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. so yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing ricing head. start heads back to sea from everett from goma. his current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered in person by frank bender the johanna's but professor studies also one of the vote we're joined by name is frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. you see. the test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's phones and

uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and you'll want to sample over two cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated fifty times as of all cells and five hundred ok the most let's say indicative mental form binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about ten times what you would see in a natural environment ten times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did about one hundred times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. a farm surrounded by pollution which just. it's animals badly contaminated and. it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest levels of or

songbook of all analyzed metals you see uranium is sixty times for elevated but all the lead is that elevated to eighty times meaning almost one hundred times above what's normal that's the same was cobalt that's the same was also in a three and a six hundred times one nickel but maybe you didn't know if you're just going to says ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have it's all yours but soldiers. my dad was out for nailing in doubt right for you fly me. a farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have neurological disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. but all the medical links between poor health and mining pollution so clear cut. stoff at the same breed open health clinic might have some odd sense . among their patients is. it's the third time this month that my youngest

son has taken an l. . ok. all right that is yes. please i let him use. too much of this stuff was it isn't doesn't like it not to need to go to the stylist physically because of them don't know who's awake. so how he's going to yours. their baby has called brocade she's. of ours just in to squint and sometimes we see worst so you get a child with

a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having chest in drawings covered with dust because of the dust this is something that you will see on the record yes you have been here you've got number of clues is not really there should be a study like you're mentioning is that everybody who are living lives to their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. but can. you catch us up with to listen to again back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting water. ok let's go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day.

this is your house ok to leash as the small child with her four children. is again as a single i like is it out be able. to play lindsay. is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not when the pollution. and her children live only a few dozen need to is from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels twenty eight times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide has samples to test what level of contamination but the reason is to. give us a break will agree that a new. von song pinay director of the institute for research and scientific

expertise in stride comes online. to mean you know. his cover will come on though you come and then he's commotion to pull. it in yeah if you blow it was he killed you gale norton i'm just you know me. i'm still me i don't. know she. is one of the sort. of want to put in a bit will. see what i'm into there yes you could for in on that is this food kind of love. you put in culture get your lucky breaks yourself. lester sure. hope they don't pay you well. all right if you turn. it all right that should be more than enough. for us and then.

the more i mean you would put it. we have said you must consult me did you like this i want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we matter only a little girl suffering from year old to suit us. look. this is one of a lot of thinking so done as it. is to look beautiful. ah. and then more ten in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to profess a penny in france. once again they'll be

a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime goes looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used in the electronics industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the world's major luxury brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. on the boat you know jennifer was full of those that are. nor are any of them keen to respond to questions to show their love for theirs under control just how to yell matilda clearly because you don't know how good the flow of their lives in for the job business on this one i'm on this one is of utmost importance she is really going to communicate by leaving don't inform other was mumbai was a good move for the mongia federal police each of them to confirm the city indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. new

delhi where you can you can bust one question the only the. italian brand is the third largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. it's time to go shopping. to greece headquarters and. johannesburg located in sand and city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious shopping monet by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost seventy eight thousand seven hundred dollars. but again no one hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. here in the national gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you can talk about it it's a call to gold yes the gold you use in your jewelry. knowing you know the idea that are ok don't you think it is kind of

a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the directors of the material believe me to tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my own mines on such a gallon for example the mind savings this is when you burn injuries where the fire insurers are going to go but. that's just sorry isn't the register by product of the person we're. going to hurt thank you very much more you will come. back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africa's a vast gold mining industry. people are gathering in a church hall. tiny the activist has come to see or to exist and

ride their drugs on people with you. so to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. what has spread and even the national media present. everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. or think you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you've gone quite a long way to be here must all runs through the results gleaned from soil and guts us on polls and then he cools off on some inane and straws about them in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spouted in the human hands it's been gathered for rufus i want to live. although it was before the huge tree of a go to. be sure who. was a very good as your dodo. oh it was

a. yes you will. always lose your would. do it don't do. it all those who. don't. set some injustice don't do do this for so forth when you would expose your pose and go this was on when you were exposed to it with people who are sure that god loves you then don't go and no one is you'd say there is an opinion i don't think it is the least was rule yet it really all was vague ya know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. all down the. charts and all people just one question only looked at people which. i don't. and all those who are you

with of course are very as if you know. more hot unix was killed and you don't need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by my from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is three hundred thirty times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium one hundred times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains eighty three times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show sixty four times more exposure to lead five times more exposure to your ania and four times more exposure to us nick than the average french person be adjacent to easy to mean we eat is dangerous for you.

and can cause. can we do. it. looks to give us. a lot but usually we don't. even notice it miss you know you can feel. them in that. moment. i think giving away. this is one moment and this is not all those people that are really. miles apart still the something needs to come the sentiment i think we've had enough of this man's exposing us all so we

are appealing to everybody once again from a shortage of saying good position there was a good case you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead documented and the like do we know it luis the universe. will know what they've been. doing very much once again. as residents begin planning their next move. including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. o'neill says pretty pretty don't since his chief. demeanor look at him in an effort just to someone just can't.

scimitar r m n x tried to put on through some points now. almost one hundred twenty years later stiff in a mood runs that were going to his asians anti-pollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the environmental impact of the mining industry. do you think it's it's going in the right truck on the goodwill yes there is significant good progress achieved this far in terms of my mean companies dealing effectively with environmental impediments how's the chamber of mining ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tailings the mine tunings is not not that i'm well ok so we don't some some some small then shows her letters the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in

the township we never heard about that and i don't know ok. what does that make you think now it's quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the mining industry that you represent have a responsibility in these numbers. i think in areas where our member company is mindless we do have the responsibility do you live close to the mind. why not even me. i'm in most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow the table as not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing the people that live around the to these two things this huge paintings are on drugs producing they're saying they're not safe. at all there's a lot of. environmental risks as well

a safety of risks and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own but when you when you say something do you think it's something where what is it about eating the media and the we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i thing we need in all that all management strategy is the industry and obviously in putting up with government. so what does the government have to say. south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. in leave

a bill. is director of the national institute for occupational health one thousand . fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children and at least one of the real tragedies east that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't could. new to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this we don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels. of these different heavy

metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor their. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in two thousand and seventeen mining companies extracted one hundred thirty tons of gold from south african soil. producing twenty seven million six hundred thousand tons of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still thirty five years remaining of exploitable gold reserves in south africa. how many move it dims will have to be in that time before people realize that life is more precious than gold.

hello there the winds have already changed in perth they coming in from the southwest now bringing in some far off fresh air it's flooding across the city so twenty seven degrees will be a moment monday a far cry from thirty seven that we've seen over the past few days the temperatures will stay fairly low is very reasonable as we head through the day on tuesday elsewhere there will also be a lot of dry weather for us across parts of queensland that's good news no more

really heavy rain here but there will be a few more showers in the south some of them across tasmania and a few of them just grazing their way on to parts of victoria over towards new zealand away what one system in the fall northeast that's gradually pulling away but as another weather system works its way in from the west so we're going to see more cloud and more rain from this particularly along the western coast of the south island further north you can see plenty of colors here loss of heavy rains here with the remains of a few storms here so generally speaking the rains are very in hans and prosy at the moment to even further towards the north and forest here it looks like it's going to stay fairly cool as we head through the next couple of days another system is bringing some rain and a bit of snow there as we head through the day on monday should clear away for tuesday there and then we should have more in the way of sunshine.

recruited to win a war exploited to on the battlefield the call the new regime placed in different value on african lives and with payoffs and then abandoned for a lifetime we should be ashamed. for for all. over three people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops they gave me the forgotten heroes of empire. zero. zero zero i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in

the next sixty minutes and the aid groups proposal from venezuela's all physicians leader as the u.s. and russia offered rival solutions to the country's crisis. fears the u.s. shutdown could return as time is running out for lawmakers to reach a deal. claims political strategist lynton crosby offered to work on a campaign to undermine the castle world cock and the african leaders begin their summit in ethiopia the u.n. secretary general says they're setting an example to rich countries and their treatment of refugees. and i'm only a hearty man doha with all your sport as lindsey vonn races for the last time in her glittering career at the ski world championships and sweden we'll have that for you and more coming up later in the program. bookham to the program our top story the united states has presented

a draft united nations security council resolution on venezuela and it calls for free elections and seeks the delivery of international aid president maduro has blocked u.s. aid so far saying that it's a ploy to stage a coup no date has been set for a vote on the u.s. draft russia has also offered a counterproposal expressing concern that any attempts to use force to topple madieu are who is an important ally of president vladimir putin meanwhile venezuela's opposition has been taking part in a religious ceremony in caracas declared himself interim leader of venezuela last month dozens of countries have since endorsed him he says he will look at using volunteers to open new groups into the country in defiance of the government. those who were in the supreme court today. said they have declared humanitarian aid unconstitutional just imagining declaring humanity and constitutional declaring venezuela's right to life constitutionally i think this obviously is not

a political. let's go live now to alessandro m.p.'s he's in. ways that his wife and son to understand there's been a demonstration where you are what what's been happening. yes mary and a couple of the guys in the venezuelan medical doctors from. crossed into colombia and stays the demonstration in front of last in the bridge that's the international crossing bridge between core longer and venezuela where the aid that with sent by the united states is being stored in two warehouses they were holding a gigantic a giant venezuelan flag and they were chanting demanding that the buddha let. in or at least that the military rebelled against the president nicolas and i do have to let the aid in because they say that the situation in their hospitals is

this heartening due to the lack of medical supplies and basic medicine and that their theory is that essentially and not letting them do their work and that an increasing number of patients are dying. when i. mean really early we don't know this is kids and we have to ask patients to try to find them the kid to perform a dialysis costs twenty thousand full of hours minimum which is. most patients need to dialysis performs three times a week the result is that those patients are dying because there are no basic supplies and of course it is that humanitarian crisis in the country that has led to so to millions as that is like being many of them have gone into colombia just tell us about the impact all of the crisis in that is on their neighbor colombia. well it definitely had a very deep impact not only here in colombia but across the region as you were

saying the crisis in venezuela spurred an exodus that has no president in latin america according to the united nations more than three million venezuelans have left the country since two thousand and fifteen of those over a million are here in colombia and this has caused the major problems to public services from schools to hospitals shelters inside the country just to give you an example i've been living here for seven years now and before it was almost impossible to see a to meet a venezuelan and now it's almost impossible not to encounter one eyed there working in a restaurant in those are the most lucky ones or asking for money on the streets or at red lights or on black and that's just the situation that every kind of man is living here is something completely new for this country and while the government

has kept an open arms policy so is this migrant it has also been spearheading this international coalition that is now demanding regime change in venezuela thank you very much. p.s.e. reporting for us there on colombia's border with venezuela and could turn. venezuela's economic hardship has been hurting vulnerable elderly citizens out of the latin america and it's at least in human has been to see how one home is surviving. this is a hill of hope western been in old age home where destitute or abandoned senior citizens are meant to live out their last years with dignity. but as always in times of acute economic hardship it's the youngest and the oldest who suffer most in the absence of full time staff seventy nine year old. keeps the gate locked and helps those who can't walk because he still can. we help each other out amongst

ourselves michael most everyone he suffers from hypertension but there's no medicine here. and solace could walk and see when he came here three years ago now he's blind from untreated cataracts can't walk and is tormented by a hernia. last night i was in terrible pain. i cry from the pain i am very. only god knows. sometimes there is nothing to eat we have no help from the government there is no one to help us. the home is a foundation that runs on donations but they've dried up so there are no nurses or doctors and very very little food. the cook says it wasn't always that

way. somebody used to throw away the food once there was abandoned soviet until the crisis came the crisis began six years ago she says most of the donors have left the country hyperinflation has had to widespread poverty and scarcity of just everything. it's time for dinner and so until you have a c.e.o. who's confined to a wheelchair helps guide for the beneath this who's blind to the dining room and this is the dinner for the i will little so grandfathers as they're called it's corn flour boiled water because we're told it's been more than a year since they received any donations of milk and this will be the last thing they're going to eat until tomorrow. the cook and the cleaner will be leaving soon and they'll be left alone to put themselves to bed no later than six so they won't feel so hungry until breakfast. they are resigned they say to being forgotten in

a country with so many other desperate need. to see in human are just. in this way that. talks to a version of the u.s. government shutdown have reportedly stalled disputes between democrats and republicans over immigrant detentions have led to an impasse it could see a resumption of the government shutdown that left federal employees missing two months worth of paychecks or us president has been quick to attack the democrats over the current breakdown he tweeted it was a very bad week for the democrats with the great economic numbers even ginia disaster and the state of the union address now with the terrible office being made by them to the border committee i actually believe they want to shut down they want a new subject. algis there is andy caddick joins us live now from washington and he wed do the negotiations stand in line and while depending on who you talk

to these negotiations have either broken down or simply stalled it's a very partisan process obviously the democrats have been pretty clear that they don't want to see any kind of physical barrier built along the u.s. border but it seems the sticking point in these latest negotiations is the number of detention beds that the republicans want is suggesting something around forty thousand the democrats are saying they want about half that but we're really getting down to the wire here remember the last partial government shutdown lasted for thirty five days the longest in u.s. history lawmakers have until february the fifteenth to sort this out that is the this coming friday but in reality they need to get some kind of bill to the president's desk within the next twenty four hours that doesn't look likely to happen at the moment let's listen to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney let's say for sake of this discussion that the democrats prevail and the hardcore left wing democrats prevail it was a democrat congresswoman who put out a yesterday about zero dollars for d.h.s.s.

let's say that the hardcore left wing of the democrat party prevails in this negotiation and they put a bill on the president's desk with zero money for the wall eight hundred million some certainly low number how does he sign that he cannot in good faith sign that it takes a presidential signature i'm sure there's been a bill that can you imagine senate republicans would go along with a proposal like they do that skeptical of senate republicans i don't think so but you asked me a question if they shut down entirely off the table the answer's no. so this leaves president trump with a few options he could as he's been discussing over the last few weeks declare a state of emergency something the president has the right to do to get that five point seven billion dollars to build a physical barrier on the u.s. border he could as some republicans have suggested simply find the money from various different parts or the republicans democrats could fund do a short term front of the government like they just have since the last government

partial government shutdown but it certainly seems that negotiations between the democrats and republicans on going very well that doesn't bode well for the eight hundred thousand federal workers who went without pay for thirty five days the longer that went on the bigger impact that had on things like airports the i.r.s. the tax revenue people who have to start working very hard soon to give people their tax refunds all those departments could be affected but it seems like at the moment both sides are sticking to their guns which is not good news for the federal workers going forwards and certainly not good news for president trump in his desire to get more than five billion dollars to build a barrier on the u.s. southern border thank you very much with the latest from washington and gallica we can now speak to eric cantor political analyst and author of the bestselling book the g.o.p. civil war he also joins us from washington thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us the situation at the moment has an unfortunate familiarity to it is always just posturing or could there actually be another government shutdown what

to u.n. to a. no this is not posturing at all and a potential government shutdown is real and remember i mean we.