as formally abdicated during the ceremony in tokyo he thanked the public and said he prays for peace the ritual which involves handing over the chrysanthemum throne as it's known to his son took place at the imperial palace crown prince not a veto will not become emperor this is the first abdication in japan in more than two hundred years and the jury's former prime minister is appearing in court as part of a corruption probe according to our jury and media reports. is being investigated over allegations of misusing public money here's one of the many senior officials including the finance minister and several billionaires facing judicial investigations earlier this month of course the long time president. step down under pressure from demonstrators and the military the latest news from around the world particularly out of venezuela coming up on al-jazeera in half an hour.

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live. live again. again. the folks there are two staples to be enemies life rice and bamboo for its many uses. thanks thanks thanks i'll have had a lot on. the way though not not on the road out there i mean like that because they never got you know. i am going to make one more. thank you when you get new laws what good are you going to. write your for you what should be done i'm not.

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are. probably otherwise i would. not leave my contact so that it would do so little of me to. thank you. for. all. the labor is just over a dollar a day cutting and transporting the bamboo. but the bravest among them can make ten times that much transporting the goods. would. be if you know body id. go with me to a poet. if i did they all go so nor. do

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a good draft must be flexible and narrow to offer a minimum resistance to the current. the mood of. the raft will be nearly fifty metres long. in fact that we don't move. move to our. no poor me becomes our i'm sorry you got a monkey. that you knew me last year out of. the captions know well the challenge that awaits them. i don't need no

money we handle the like such a way to get me on the piano a lot in. india by the name of the indian be indian a bomb. that belies the following of our. well not only for my keen on going on. thirty kilometers lie ahead on five hours of being tossed about by the river. bank i. don't know

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you hold i stood you level oh boy moment you need. me help clean your mouth all but i'm a bit of it the week you'll be on the ground and then you can go if they go. warning you that you'll be on the detail the hoping you'll get. a good. no you know just ok and. the men know well the dangers of the long river. up ahead the cave ghost passage will test the. the legend dream a cold river old mother of waters is vietnam's main waterway. it

nourishes the six countries through which it flows including laos which borders vietnam. after travelling five thousand kilometers from its source in the himalayas this is where the river sits right. over time it's carved out the cone fulls one of the widest waterfalls in the world. yet allow fisherman jump into the water without fear. for me before the right one mark for forty or. forty card for power. comes to you you are known as your didn't call our number but not god whatever. some new knowing is fifty two he says it's no coincidence he's never had an accident in forty years. will he get help or no you need one book but have that come up up up up when you say how.

high up has that to be why. if one might be at that by what they would do what. the full stretch over nearly ten kilometers. allow call this region see found don't do. four thousand on. land from the foals and countless waterways of the mekong. this is a familiar hunting ground for. getting there takes a good balance and steady nerves.

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i i. i. i. i i. i. i i i i get that and the god that i thought it was not a lot in life you might want them back. several families share the dangers of the rapids. each has its own fishing ten.

millions his colleagues catch up to one hundred kilos pedantic using a remarkable method. i. love it but i'm not about it i live. it what. the current pushes the fish into their ingenious wooden ramps all they have to do is pick the fish out of the woods. live.

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sunday hot. slowly the fish are disappearing. pesticides as well as a series of dams largely to blame. in vietnam on the river the bamboo raft is in smooth the world has the men take advantage of the come. to reinforce it. cuts as usually belong to the mulling ethnic group. allies of the french and then the americans in the two wars that have shaken vietnam the multnomah still discriminated against. his hard work for some of the lowest wages while you only talk and then when we where. did the we go me a bottle and you look like i'm going to eat it and that was something you're not going to do and though he was the one who would go to congress i'm told that my

local one to one that i think you'll find will normally. go cook ut as the world has become agitated the raft scene begins its mad rush. clean. clean out of the box one day i want. nice little. likelihood turning a run nearly fifty meters long is no easy ten. o'clock. in the distance lies the infamous ghost caves one of the most feared terms in the

river. clique of. i. live. i. didn't. hello hello. hello had . this time the ghost was leaving. on their last trip the raft was ranked against the walls. and its bamboo cargoes scattered into the rhythm.

one song the song river. comes to help. the river bank marks the end of the trip. anybody. can give up born again. and again. now go on to what i know like you have to be i guess though i don't know if. i can i had been telling you i doubt it was and i do not know you.

think i'm back on land the bamboo must travel another thirty kilometers through rain and mud before reaching the processing plant. the jungle roads all slippery and the driver badly can only take a portion of the goods. mean car. been mounted him in command out back and have been but accurately in manatee hope and are in him enough i need a hand with you but you know that call buddy in the morgue and i share my fate like you knew i wouldn't go and you got me beat i mean a bit of a beacon you do not go and the little that i knew what. a deal is struck but for twice the price. of one slip or wrong turn and find

lead could be crushed under his vehicle. santa going to harlem joe pa time i decide that i know what i need to do and now when i'm going to fall out will be all on the blue a lot to tell them you know that all the time i love the office all the time i'm a little young to help i always had only took my money you know we love michael ball but when the bell michael was a joy we hope i can. sleep at night i wind up and i wonder how much. we can do a little when i call to roll out. of . the vehicle plods along at the speed of an ops car.

after five hours the bamboos. finally reaches the processing plant. does trikes may well become a thing of the past in vienna. as one of the last communist countries to join the free market the country is throwing. this bamboo is near the end of its journey. seen consumers across vietnam will put it to a variety of uses on the hard work of harvesting and transporting it will begin again.

in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads risk saving lives is a dangerous job as a vaccine so it's on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for these medicines who must be in pain lives earth risk is a real could go one of the gang stop some because of the road that can do it with weapons risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera.

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