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tv   Up Front 2019 Ep 5  Al Jazeera  April 21, 2019 7:32am-8:00am +03

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right. edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every. moment that people from both go i don't know some of them but not. in the bus and. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp. they usually try and get as many customers as possible full ignoring the safe. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. enough
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but i'm a gun. control goldust robot looking for a nickel. the ferries no longer being pulled. and begins to drift i. gets dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across i.
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edgar is not the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel of the food this trip will hardly make him enough to live on i am pretty tough on him going to the middle. doing a film and telling me that just because he didn't that's one thing going on down there. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers is a good completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industries. today one hundred thousand people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the
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precious nuts arrive every day. because of the dam many wrought even before they're open. to be dried they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountain from notes around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the way house. that i love. that i've been able like a lot but like i like to. thank in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the know. i. miriam the director of the factory and forces measures to deal with this deadly. some other london sounds a lot of love is that it was only for
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a minute it monday hello yes i need somebody to sound like i would get out of what . i and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the not. to be an example because i mean does it make you come in that particular item on the main thing. is it was there was a subtle signal you got it was a labs that said i was a was i was. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than three hundred sixty dollars
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a month. who's on the eighteen has worked here for two years. such and such was such and such it was such. a was such. a look it's repeat the same the kind of shit hole day long. was such. paid per kilo of show. knots the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop
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illnesses it's get a leg up. it will work out for you because. you. brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around thirty dollars a kilo. has just learned that the road to le pears is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how i will get alan back in time for the new school year. the unseasonable rains continue on the river benny has now flooded. the main road to the capital is submerged in the country is split into.
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either. this year the flooding has been extensive with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed. and the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital of pads. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options. it. yes i'm intelligent but i suppose i must not see on the whole the market then the out as the. police that was really another part that.
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but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. but you know i get it but i don't care but. fed up with waiting ramiro risked everything. to the best of the southern ski industry went back to the. us how to help us out. he could easily be swept away by the current.
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house. he must now get across amount an area eroded by deforestation you're no good dump what about on our mother to let me go go family probably go with us just go for a stalin look policy at the first gulf war the keeper of the stuff the mule. i know you're not the fan of it all say about. to stay at the time i did i. would see the end of the coming. i told the old man. deposited money without the because you know i was going we don't know what i want what are. the right doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a. age and natural disaster. ramiro he's making slow progress towards the
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pounds. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. to a. civil hospital he thought he. was impulsive if i thought he didn't make it i had a bus not. to stop to look at any of the high. school but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the road is one hundred metres below. the benefit of the internet and comes up at an average would be eighty so this. does not have that much of the stairs. to travel those are angry they say the road was poorly constructed maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route to leave is
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a chemist a moment a look at a moment was the political view at c.s.u. one movement that i do view the most vivid with embedded i was to get close to him to. talk about what i don't. see what's going to refuse you. again soon we're going to go on with this thing just to see just in time to say see about this obama film if you're not in the official what would it be a misstep. the troublous have no choice but to brave the danger. stuck on the other side. the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. you
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know your kids at all said that is a lot of. young i don't remember going to a bus i must. went to the office i don't. understand yes i guess it's really you know my mother doesn't have a good. bit of fun you know. when are you going to use and you know what you're doing great ok for me if you can get here you. can accomplish something and have a way with the noise you're going there if you're missing much of that because there's always been a day or you see. on the way that i think that's. going to connect with the. most and whether this is the one nobody that's the best in. ramiro will have to wait another four days be full being able to continue.
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you. are three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level. as the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding. to new route young allen made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government year old. boy a muslim community. that the other workers that are your story tell you and your mother how sure they stand with his truck stuck in the amazon edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs not for the money. must
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fighting intensifies in the battle for tripoli as a wall of honey for half dollar pushes to capture the libyan capital. voters in egypt decide whether to change the constitution possibly allowing the president to remain in office until twenty thirty and. columbine was twenty years ago. people who were born after columbine are now voting and that matters two decades since that high school shooting in littleton colorado we'll take a look at what if anything has changed. color several top members of sudan's former ruling party have been arrested including the acting head of the national congress party that's according to a senior party official who spoke to the reuters news agency protesters continue to
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camp outside army headquarters demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government from military rule the attorney general has ordered a committee set up to look at corruption the public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the ousted president all modern bashir on money laundering charges let's go live now to mohamed vali is in the capital khartoum for some hamad what more can you tell us on these arrests. yes the news came from. the party itself he confirmed that former parliament speaker amadou brahimi at bar here. with my man abdullah abdullah abdullah him at the scene who was defense minister and president omar bashir former president have all been arrested but we know that they have been put under house arrest since. april eleventh the new development here according to this of this party official is that
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they have been transferred to cobra prison that's where also news came two days ago that omar bashir has been transferred or. the military council has not confirmed any of these at rests and it has not even confirm of the rest of our model bashir or his transfer to the prison the only confirmation that came from the military council was that the two brothers of martin bashir. have been arrested and put in a vat prison but the understanding among the population here and our sources is that all of these men that i have mentioned have been under house arrest and now they have been transferred to the khobar jail in khartoum that's where i want to shoot these are still held and we understood understand as well mohammed that protesters saw or people representing protestors have been meeting with military leaders what more do we know about that. we know that that meeting has been concluded
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without a major agreement the two sides confirmed that they agreed on the on continuing these meetings this has been the third round of meetings today and the understanding was that they will agree on a road map for what's next for sudan particularly the creation of. a government the protesters wanted the creation of a sovereign presidential civilian council to rule instead of the military council the military council hasn't shown. flexibility on that they suspect instead they gave the green light for the creation of a civilian cabinet the chairman of the african union is visiting cult on his here today and he has been consulting with the two sides he asked for between the two sides and a mutual agreement between them as soon as possible african union gave an ultimatum we can go to the military council to hand over power to civilians but it did not
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clarify how much power it wanted to transfer to the civilians. there are two interpretations going on one is that the african union wants a complete transfer of power to the civilians but there is another understanding that what is needed what is what the african union once is in fact between the two sides and that's what the military council seems to be willing to do tomorrow the leaders of the protests saying they will help they will still hold a press conference and they will announce a list of names name is the suggestion be the the members of the government they want to create a civilian. council to rule the country instead of the military council if that happens it may be to go more confrontation and more differences between the leadership of the protesters and the military costs. mohamed thank you mohamed vall
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in khartoum for us. there's been heavy fighting near the libyan capital as wall of a half starts forces continue to attack tripoli they're battling the u.n. recognized libyan government south of the city in the town of qassam have been. the fighting is happening near the international airport which is under control a spokesman for after us forces known as the libyan national army briefed journalists earlier on saturday. forces providing fire support to at ground operations the economy is trying to flank our forces from the beck but they have failed in the face of the strength of our fighters and the experience of our fighters it has become a war of attrition so the sick is good is controlled by the well i'm not there what has the latest now from the libyan capital. fierce fighting happened today according as the spokesman of have those forces described. have those forces lost
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the ground today as the government forces proceeded and took control of the strategic locations including the vinous cities of the disused international airport on the southern part of the capital meanwhile civil military units on the government of national called the you and the recognized government have joined each other forming a kind of defense could have gone as military commanders describe it they have managed to push have to his forces back beyond civil war locations in the southern outskirts of tripoli and also now these say that military commanders with the government say that they are now besieging military units loyal to the warlords have to have been here the area that's near the tripoli disused international airport meanwhile the spokesman of have to as was said that his forces received strikes from the government of national called all planes today near the city over the yan around eighty kilometers to the south from tripoli in the city of fallujah
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and there is a central command of running the battles in the southern outskirts of tripoli and also government of national called warplanes targeted. around one hundred sixty kilometers to the southwest from the capital tripoli that is there has the runways from which have to warplanes have been taken off from their targeting to target locations of the government forces on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli. ronald bruce st john served on the atlantic council working group on libya and the international advisory board of the journal of libyan studies he joins us now via skype from albuquerque new mexico thanks very much for being with us i want to ask you first of hearing. about the the fighting that's been taking place in and around tripoli there is a fear that this could ignite
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a wider civil war in libya on the on the scale of the twenty eleven. that toppled one market daffyd do you do you share that fear yes i think there is very much a realistic possibility that happening if the general after a military national army or press for short tripoli they're very lightly don't you . present a stiff resistance through of course is where they end so well there's no lotions from zones on and misrata so we could end up with a very major battle here also it's been going to push and the the white house statement that president trump. the phone call took place between the president u.s. president and khalifa haftar. people are taking that as evidence of a u.s. support which could go some way to explaining his after determination to pursue
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this offensive what do you read from that. well if in fact the only conversation between president and general after hour is as the white house that has portrayed it it looks like i don't need a green shift in u.s. policy towards libya i mean since the libyan plate but really what was signed in december twenty. ninth go to the national court was formed the united states government bilaterally there was an injunction well you're the and the allies and the united nations has pushed for some kind of brokered political settlement. as recently as ten days ago secretary of state peo called for general after to withdraw his forces and reengage in the iran brokered out day starts so to go from that situation to president trump the report of the last monday calling general
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have you aren't. going a great job in fighting terrorism and bringing stability to the we are all producing areas of libya going to talk about some kind of a joint. concern for bringing democracy and an election to the libya it is quite remarkable those who support huffed and his forces are saying that the did the government in tripoli the government of national accord is as it's known. is getting a lot of its support from extremist elements and militias who they they refer to as terrorists what do you say to that what's your take on. well it's a very complex situation in libya both sides get support from outside forces turkey and qatar of particular who have supported in the past the government of national accord or at least the forces the militia forces. supporting it on the
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libyan national army at the reactors side we have beecher we have saudi arabia now you have united arab emirates france to some degree russia a certain degree of supporting outside so it's very complex situation where both sides. calling on the other side terrorists i'm not so it is all in how you define terrorism i guess wrong precinct john good to speak with. you thank you very much. since have begun voting in a three day referendum that could open a door to president abdul fattah his sisi staying in office until twenty thirty voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military.

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