of this house every chest full of this one will come here often here isn't 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 we eat it this past week drink this but so that is why so many people here this is the silent killer this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who you know for

years you know. this. is six years old. 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 peeps gotten 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 you know maybe when she wants you

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 peers like dando around i was the same symptoms same health issues yet i do know and there's a pinch out there it's going to go down the 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 same street you're going to have them there 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 to them out today taking them to today day to day so but if you go of any

distance from here believe you me you never find this key. to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses mark thomas 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 run from as was rivers each. day since then to me it turned to this was going. on there was a major. crisis. takes five hundred grams of the sand. 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 livestock sometimes their children even bay the net this was all. ok or if i can put in all due. for the. killer. was in 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 at least for 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. beatrix translate to. elevate. ok. i. lost. a few thoughts and it would seem recently gone by. so. many done but in point of missouri. so there's a through it. and you can also think we just come over. and. call you just keep looking like. us. so i think it's likely. they design committee gambale just so you know it was our

example of whatever says 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 and the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. but i know you will see it on the front end is somebody. coming to. us to try to include we are doing

a plus minus five thousand five hundred tonnes. a day i mean we have reaching around three hundred tons valid depends on the order availability and how many of those there are. so there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the plus minus five times but done that's always great 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 dispensed on. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. nothing to make goes there we used to i'm i sit in the sun and that's still pretty nice i can make those you know prices. for a mega 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 falls. 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 tons 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 hail will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to seventy meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are its 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 and you have the metals for example there . it be trace amounts but but very small concentrations some olds and some of the gold ores there is your random sauce deep has very little you're on your 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 simple as you were talking about this on daily basis the gold from. 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 at. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding six hundred thousand tonnes 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. 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. let me just quote. siddur there will be a little bit difficult or also paul not just on the are you office all the moves you want to take to sardis yeah i make sure the group on television help me to detect the presence i know my point of view to see that yes you're there your mom

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hundred wanted to close on a letter that the. 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 up about 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 and my writings show then said as for success this is the. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know is beyond.

them but a muslim know what they 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 go and talk about it 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 mind savings farm that money will look really sick i mean according to you 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 he was looking. i come up with the results of the china factor i think strong thanks so 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 sailings just across the. it is used as a recursive water jesus us immigration and also for almost a drink we also learn some more small samples train job is done with the soil was

contaminated as look make good pets and so what can you what can you look for years almost all of their dead and the man goes by did and then contentment goes like oh you know now i'm the old lead you know what a cynic we shop and talks and can basically when. we don't expect to get them in order once we get them then that reason on the go right. as he waits for the analysis must 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 pity is a colossal bad idea.

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on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. hello again i'm martin dennis in doha with the top stories here about zero a top u.s. official is in afghanistan in the latest step toward trying to end the seventeen year war the defense secretary patrick shanahan made an unannounced visit to the

capital kabul he's meeting u.s. military officials as well as the afghan president ashraf ghani to talk about national security shanahan says it's crucial the government is part of peace talks with the taliban it's so far been sidelined because the taliban regards it as illegitimate. the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria within a few weeks the trumpet ministration has so far been sending mixed messages on the exact timing but president trumps top commander in the middle east says it all depends on how things pan out on the ground iran's president hassan rouhani says the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program he addressed tens of thousands of people as a mass the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution oh yes so today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anybody and we will not ask permission from anyone to build them our military power will

continue and i would like to make it clear to you the iranian nation that our military power over the last forty years and specifically over the past five has been shown to the whole world and how surprised them saudi arabia says it doesn't know where the body of murdered journalist jamal khashoggi is in an interview on u.s. t.v. the minister of state for foreign affairs says the kingdom is still investigating addle alger bear accused turkey of not sharing intelligence. where is jamal khashoggi body we don't know what do you mean you don't know we don't know they said that the the public prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact we have asked for evidence from turkey and he asked them several times formally through formal legal channels to provide evidence we are still waiting to receive any of them to me. is the final day of the african union summit in ethiopia's capital egypt's president abdul fattah el-sisi has taken over as chairman of the group from rwanda's president paul kagame

e this year's focus refugees and internally displaced people or i'd have to say those are the latest headlines let's go back now to south africa toxic city. 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 waste heaps 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 lot of your. money where your around. in a month well i worked at an environmental challenge 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 will have written lots of reports i must have

some sort of a record in emails probably over the 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 because the contaminates. the land that is number one number two you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from greeks than with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a basically put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does that make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you fear makes you 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 won a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we're feeding the nation well the gold mining industry do it in 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 would sing head master 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 place and by frank bender. the johanna's but professor studies also one of them of what 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 foam and uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your in your water 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 it will solve the five hundred ok to 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 form surrounded by pollution changed. its animals badly contaminated and.

it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest levels of or so. levels you see uranium is sixty times for elevated but all the lead is elevated to eighty times meaning almost one hundred times above what's normal that the same was cobalt that's the same as also nick and at 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. that was out of flynn a ling 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 conditions so clear cut. stoff at the screen open health clinics might have some odd sense.

among their patients is. it's the third time this month that my youngest son has ten and l. . ok . now i think this is. neat i let him use. too much of the stuff it was ages and doesn't like it not to go to the stylist is wonderful because of them don't know whose it was. so i always go to yours. their baby has called brocade she's. i was just in to

school and it's sometimes we see worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having a test in drawings of us in the dust because of the dust is something that you will see on the leverage yes you have been here you've got number of clues is not really there should be a study like you're mentioning in a people who are living lives through 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 must carry . he catches up with to listen to again back in her township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting water.

there is go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok there's two lesions the small child with her four children. is again as saying oh i like. to play lindsay i'm up on the corner quinola is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. and her children live only a few doesn't 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 levels. contamination but the response to it is ok we have to get through that it knew all along some pinay

director of the institute for research and scientific expertise and comes online. i mean you know. who will come on tell you come on that is commotion to pull. it in yeah you can blow it was he killed you gale norton i'm just you know me. i'm so me i don't. you know she. is one of the sort. of want to put it maybe it will go. see what i'm going to do yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of move. you put in culture get your book you takes yourself. national. love that they don't pay you well. right if you turn.

it all right that should be more than enough. for us and then. just the more i mean you would put it. we have to be more focused also i mean did you like this want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we matched only a little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. this is one of a lot of thinking so done as it. is to look beautiful. and then more ten in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor 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. approach you know jennifer was full of those that are. nor are any of them keen to respond to questions show there where there's under control just how to yell matilda clearly because you don't know how good the flow of their lives can for the job business comes from them on this one is of utmost importance she is really going to communicate but leaving don't you know for the mother was mumbai was a good move when the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from.

new delhi then who can you compose one question the reason 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 in. johannesburg a low catered in sanden city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent and a luxurious shopping mall made 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 called the gold yes the gold you use in your jewelry. knowing you know the ones here that are ok don't you think it is

kind of a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the directly from the material believe me to tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my own mines also for telephones and for the mind savings uses when you burn injuries better in private insurers are going to go but. that's just the reason directors of our preferred of the person were. still hurt thank you very much for you i'll 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 here to see or to exist in

a wide their drugs on people with here. 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 have gone quite a long way to be here must all runs through the results gleaned from soil and guts us on holes 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 over so long to live we don't know what it was before the huge tree of ago took

to be. sure who. was a very good as your dodo. oh it was a. yes you will. always lose all your work. you all do it don't do. it all those who. don't. set seven just didn'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 as it says there is an opinion i don't think it is the least was rule yet it really all was vague ya know you know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. so it's all people just like

western. people which. i don't. and all those who are you with of course are very ass if you do. more hot again it was a joke 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 uranium and four times more exposure to us nick than the average french person even jesus into easy to mean we eat is dangerous for.

killing us. what can we do. it. looks to give us. a lot but usually we don't. even know she'd miss you know you can focus. on them and. you know. i think you know life. is this one moment and this is not all those people that are really. miles apart still the scientists who can be sent in to say 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. 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. and here are some pretty pretty

don't seem to see if what they mean look at them in an effort just to someone just can't. soumitra element eckstein to put on through some twenty. almost one hundred twenty years later stuff in a mood runs that we're going to is ations 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 mine ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tailings the mine tunings is not it's not that i'm well ok so we don't some some some smashed and 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. 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 companies mind yes we do have the responsibility do you live close to the mine to know. 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 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. when it when you say something do you think it's something where when what is it about eating the media and the we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i think we need in all that all management strategies as 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. can't. believe a book. is director of the national institute for occupational health one thousand six. hundred mentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much high and that there would be negative health effects on the children and at least one of the real tragedies that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue. 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 higher 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 tonnes of gold from south african soil. producing twenty seven million six hundred thousand tonnes 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 exportable gold reserves in south africa. how many move it dims will have to be in

that time before people realise that life is more precious than gold. that a severely heavy rains of the last couple weeks has eased down a little bit we still got the typical summer pack in a fair amount of rain falling in a line more or less from peru than towards southern brazil and every now and again you get a batch as on the storms form in the north of argentina run across what is there is

now both these areas going to be relatively active the next day or so but not necessarily extreme he says if i could find a wet day on monday when azeris and rio likewise equally sao paolo an increase in the shafts invited to come over paragraph since his temperature drops as a result on the green in the blue he has quite a good widespread pot right up towards ecuador and into southern colombia the north of the constant we draw at the moment and that's right this time the the breeze roughly speaking coming from the east gathers showers and collects and gets yucatan peninsula every now against and as he honduras is well they're not significant but they are fairly frequent and the biggest showers are still showing cells around jamaica and possibly cuba the story in the us is fairly typical winter not extreme at the moment for the most part the lot of whites here some which is cloud some which is still low temperature and surprisingly maybe and you've seen this on the news already there's been stone falling in seattle the worst in nearly eighty years

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the next sixty minutes president my daughter rallies his streets in venezuela as the opposition calls for more protests on the streets of caracas. tough time of defiance from the president. the round celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its islamic revolution. flying into extinction scientists warn insects could vanish within a century and will be affecting. about heath's them with all your sports refugee football a hockey mom or a b. has been freed from jail in thailand off to bahrain drops its extradition request all of the latest developments coming up later this news hour. nicolas maduro has put on a show of strength with venezuela's forces at his side the leader along with his vice president and his defense minister they've been attending military exercises

in the northern state of mid and president maduro is vowing to defend his country saying his soldiers are ready to fight the u.s. and indeed the rest of it send him is he's received more backing this time from the southern african development community all sadek the sixteen nation body says other countries are undermining a democratically elected government but the opposition leader who has stepped up his attacks on president maduro he says it's almost genocidal to block food or medicine at the border from reaching the starving and the sick right let's go live now to our correspondent who's in the capital caracas today's a bow today is a many people have been anticipating the president the daughter would have gone by now that the army would have turned against him clearly it hasn't. while most definitely it has and that it continues to be one of the strategic and

most important asset that the president continues to have until now most families would say that it is for continues to keep him in power i made i did hear a rating economic situation where thousands and thousands of people have went. and you to take to the streets and what's interesting about military said legion to motherhood is not so much to muddle but to former president all chavez who gave the military after tea just rolling in venezuela a socialist revolution it gave it an ideology the bolivarian ideology is from leave out of that independence hero here in venezuela he also gave them keep a sessions with them by government but also of those who are denouncing the caring military it has also benefited from kickbacks corruption among other things so until now we have seen some units rebelling against the government but the forest they leadership of the military continues to remain loyal to the president. who many countries around the world are supporting as an interim president of venezuela

is calling for for people to turn out in force today. well most definitely one why of all members of the opposition are getting ready for massive demonstrations this week are expected to begin before monday here in cadillac i said in other parts of the of the country but the big demonstrations are expected to take place on tuesday where the opposition is calling on to the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country this is how they're calling it they say that it's in order to help the people that are desperately in need in venezuela with shortages of medicines mostly but also shortages of food so it be a bit of one way though has in a way changed the strategy of the opposition and this is what has changed in the past few months it's this call from the opposition mostly to the military to rebel against the government of unequal as mother would have to stand with the people of

venezuela and that's why they have been proposing what is known as an amnesty law where they're saying that those who dare turn sides on equal at modo word later on be forgiven for any of the crimes they committed in the past for now today is a thank you very much today's a correspondent there in the venezuelan capital meanwhile of course the economic hardship is being felt most acutely of calls by the vulnerable the very young and the very old his a latin america editor lucien newman she's been to a care home for the elderly to see how residents are coping there. this is hill of hope western business willa in old age home where destitute are 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 he keeps the gate locked and helps those who can't walk because he still can't. help each other wrote

amongst ourselves a catalyst everyone he suffers from hypertension but there's no medicine here. until your 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 i think. last night i was in terrible pain. i cry from the pain i am very sad. only god knows how long i'll remain. 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. they used to throw away the food once there was abandoned. until the crisis came the crisis began six years ago she says most of the donors have left the country hyperinflation has led to widespread poverty and scarcity of almost everything. it's time for dinner and so on 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 eat also grandfathers as they're called it's corn flour boiled in 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 needs. you see in human i'll just see that. in this way that. president hassan rouhani says iran will continue to expand its ballistic missile program he's been addressing tens of thousands of people in the capital tehran to mark forty years since the islamic revolution nationwide commemorations started on february the first marking the day toller khomeini returned from exile in france in one hundred seventy nine while the rounds president rouhani says iran will not seek permission from any nation to continue its missile program oh yes. today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anybody and we will not ask permission from anyone to build them our military power will

continue and i would like to make it clear to you the iranian nation that our military power over the last forty years and specifically over the past five has been shown to the whole world and how surprised them. well we've got a team of correspondents in iran for the fortieth anniversary of the revolution got the same bizarre views in the city of mush odd first let's go to andrew symonds he's in the capital tehran in freedom square and. president rouhani of course is generally considered to be a reformist to be a much more softer to take a softer approach to iran's advancer is how much of a shift of tone is this would you say. you feel a very strong point martine there was no all of branch in this speech whatsoever he came straight to the point and it was an attack on the united states and allies who were supporting the line the u.s. is taking and not only did he refer to the missile program and insisted that their

weapons would be increased and more sophisticated that is in line directly with the revolutionary guards who announced well ahead of this celebration on monday that they were actually unveiling and they showed pictures of a major new missile program the deaths full system which is a smart missile mid range there's a longer range missiles around but a ground to ground missiles are which will be used they say for defensive reasons this is a contentious issue with the united states because the u.s. is insisting that ballistic missile program should be shut down in iran and that is leading to even more tension in this situation what ronnie went on to a was the situation with the u.s. having pulled out of the nuclear deal having done that in may last year and

therefore then reimpose sanctions europe is just about keeping the nuclear deal alive by a special deal in trading in order to get around sanctions the u.s. isn't happy about that so there is a very sensitive situation on board all together furthermore rouhani said without without iran no plan could be made anywhere in the region because iran has more influence on the middle east region than it's ever have has done in the past he went on to say the americans were arrogant and the israelis are arrogant and they should know better the great nation of iran he said is in a state of economic war with our crew enemies there's. rhetoric there but it's also meant for an audience that wasn't just in the tens of thousands before him in the hundreds of thousands all over the country but also to the population as a whole because there's been so much controversy about the state of the economy how

people are suffering he said the people had to suffer they had to keep it together keep together to actually try to put down what the doing. now a carpenter mohammed raise a week is one of iran's many revolutionaries he reflects on life changing events forty years ago with the style during pride. well before will hold khomeini took power some of the razor defected from the shah's army during the revolution. he went on to fight in iran iraq war of the nineteen eighties hundreds of thousands were killed and maimed among them mohammed raises a younger brother hammy the razor. as well as you know our belief in personal sacrifice or the revolution is our spiritual leader says we are the victim laureus ones because our.