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the hopes of free trade and reduction of disparities see the light follow us on al-jazeera the coverage and in-depth analysis. thanks. glenn. glynn. live. live. live live live.
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live. glynn glowing. the tiny village of tundra deep in madagascar has lost primeval jungle. the people who live off the land hunting fishing and farming. as there are few paying jobs money discuss. because they are they must build. cities from russia south from them the. team you can plan their lives. and also doing any and some of that stuff that you have. to do so much. for you.
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robert now it is one of the few villages who has ever had a proper job he used to be a forest ranger he protected the forest from those seeking to plunder its precious woods but a few years ago robert was fired the game keeper has now become a coach he smuggles groups which i read and true. play all different and i don't. need the all laughing. we shall be need for fighting with but coaching is not without risk the tree is in such high demand that it's close to extinction for the past 3 years authorities here had banned all rosewood logging. ahead lies a 9 day journey where robert and the other smugglers will seek out fell and carry a rosewood treat while evading police and navigating madagascar's unpredictable
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rivers and forests. and untangle of the. big. reaction. but it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area i. think that i'm afraid i'll walk away when i was going to move the. public in general in london but. down the bugging of the bus yeah. yeah i'm saying go on for. punishment x. in their own meaning they were there for whom one of the would be locked up what indian call by killer don't get on well you.
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can find them are. carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. he was born in london. after a harrowing 2 day track the group spots another truck because. robert is worried that he may be carrying the loss of the roof of the trees from the area. a day to come on up the mccann might. be dumped on the midterms when out to. visit with its mates when i got off with a function a year from when little lana and then she. knew not
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a fashion she didn't like using the risk of harm can outlast us i kissing him asylum i'm not alone. 6 days deep into the forest robert and his men have found their tresham. if they can get this rosewood tree to market they would make enough for the next 6 months a tree this size confide to around $10000.00 that. i think. is going your money and i'm with. so let's cut down on the little rosewood trees grow extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop. and. fatten. on your
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new workers. minimum not. going to go for the morning battling it out. no thanks. but after a back breaking hour of trapping down this giant there's a problem the organising in young men is when you are in danger when we're talking and then when the hours on bond. way to bring it down is to chop down the trees around it it's estimated that for every 100000 precious trees chopped down half a 1000000 other trees are sacrificed to bring down and transport the valuable cargo addict thing. that's going to. local pool.
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in the middle east the panic. room. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics says give him a hearing. he's got the insulin it automatically. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. the men will have to sweat and their money. so far. away from ample yourself. for hours the men toss the axe around. the heat is overbearing. words
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therefore marking them being in the north. restaurant or another of our for all more talk me through what you call this won't go. under i mean everything is organized. your. money like yours truly. thank you. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still traveling the top of the tree that's up so they tried to pull it down by force. that's off to another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the
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tree trunk it won't bring in much money or there. any hope of bringing this tree down is disappearing so is the money it would fetch they have to start searching again but the rosewood tree has become so red it's like finding a needle in a haystack. treat poaching is not the only extreme way to make a better living on the island some are willing to take even more risks. while magic asco is blessed with natural resources such as spices rough fight and cold one particular resource has new of thousands to this mining town of and so on. this town sprang up in just a few months attracted by the promise of easy money more than $10000.00 people live crammed together in extreme poverty most of the stones they dig up are worth just
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a few dollars however a large a very pure fire can fetch as much as 5 or $6000.00 more than $100.00 times madagascar has minimum wage thousands to go away with the same dream the lucky ones might find the smallest stockpiles. bacco and massey used to be farm as the 2 brothers left their job in hopes of striking it rich and building a better future for themselves but their entire fortune from now is this small cabin just 5 square metres shed by the 2 families with their wives and children 7 people all together. i thought and i thought it was a high. like thing that like. down the shop tonight but the shop did and i. chatted and got
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a. they let champney to get out mission damage to ben actually mission to me at all . events report as i am on that small lump on and i'm beyond it down as i man how do you suffer up a bit about how we have all. the brothers work for a miner who owns his own mind that pays less than $2.00 a day if they do find a stone they get a percentage of the sale. monetary . one over with. that eva. and what do the monolith. and i mean i. only let. the money rub. but finding stuff is not easy.
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bacco massey and others can tunnels barely 50 centimeters high 30 meters below the ground. it's enough. to move on nice try. but if you must. try. to trickle through a test. strips. out the on the top on the farmhouse now maliki's negotiations have gone to god but i didn't. buy both the time of the mile and a half hour to. the early. after. chance
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on a fashion arm candy. a multivitamin lambing long as and this somehow alexandra found the number of the bomb and arming. the common man out of all the. conditions down here are excruciating it's a constant food 2 degree celsius making this whole feel like an oven. to 3 legged animals. hoping no one in the compound could have been writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone. that was it.
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from my model. model from my samples in the live. footage she. spoke raised in my mommy's a little young child who. saw it all up out of. 30 meters below ground oxygen is. none of the miners kind of food proper ventilation systems fresh as provided by the men's ingenuousness. it's basic but it works most of the time. and importantly it costs very little. the problem is the tube is barely 25 meters long and doesn't reach.
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the mom woke. up because a lot of. john the. amount of the stuff for the last bag could have cost them their lives. thank you. both thank. you they don't look that much the fun not the money. that thank you. thank.
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you thank you. thank you. thank you. for the a life fruit of danger and all for less than $2.00 a day. after more than a week in the jungle robert and his men still haven't found a rosewood tree that's big enough. running out of supplies they will soon need to head home but today determined not to return empty handed a few months earlier the army have chased them from the forest and they have to abandon a rosewood tree trunk they are now looking for that tree is a. cousin in that you. could buy your life with that but it got away. while the hole is smaller than they had hoped this one trunk will get them enough
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money to get them by for a few months f.-i such as it is a funny thing they have the heart of the ending of book causing a modern monster suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $300.00 kilos transporting wood principly depends on the length of the rope for. when today because of a good thing a thought on its own. is gone but comedy to the zing busselton could cause using my bottom this ng. just so long to. rebut. them then he she runs exactly the. vocal. than you or i love to see you put the victim left as i mean it looks like.
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the trunk needs to be taken to the river 30 kilometers away but getting it down hill is a very risky part of the journey the danger is that their legs get snagged in the rope. so most of the men are not coming. up. an important role in the book are going on d.v.d. and we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more boring go into the woman. she had and now this is our moonlit flesh and i'll body let the thing that we love i love i mean anything is evil with a little talk with the fact that the other john she went off being a lot of other modern woman them are all down so out it came out again that.
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no one knows for sure how many are killed in the process of smuggling precious wood robert estimates there are at least 3 fatalities again. from. a club. of. jurors in the g.g. and i got out. years 8 years and then that's he's done nothing. wolf agendas in case you haven't just because you didn't want to 2 years and that's going to combine the pushes it. grew over you. you. know how about a story. like. this one knowing. it was all finding out it. was all.
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done. by night. i was all fine thank god. god god god. god god god god. god. was saying this is. the only t.v. we've been to school and then have the monks in the swimming covered one 3rd of the journey. 6 ahead. exhausted they'll spend the night here and the white clothes. but one of them a king after the day's exertions. w.v.u.
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put in a whole lot. of projects. for the argentina beautiful. despite the 2nd night roman and his companions have lost none that a timely fashion. thank. you come to the test because. it's taken me nearly 30 hours to reach the river but the trip is far from over the head still in the rapids. this is the last leg of the journey for robert and his men and the most dangerous shooting the rapids with the trunk attached to some inner tubes. 2 men are in charge of the makeshift raft if they fall overboard $400.00 commuters
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a bruise which will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the communion down when you fill up the total thank you to the 2 days in coney you because in color which is out doesn't mean if you think of the one the 3 having it out you're going to keep. before. you know is the pilots. thank. you. thank. you thank you the 1st rapids you know dismisses his copilot who apparently isn't paying much child. thank you if our son the pilots and say oh i'm
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a special the family fun during the causing what i mean if you think that's someone bought somebody look like they did. the wrong. off to is virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the law of. the woods as a bait and should know can look for another paddle. examiner for the building in the condition in the many colors that she. does it.
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it's taken 5 hours to travel down ruka. thanks to. the others will now take the wood as far as mechanics of using the fingers on the continent but. once the trunk is in the canoe it just needs to be had in. the wall going to mean she showed up for a measuring these 2 year transfer of one going to actually turn one the lack of english and the like a visual thing into them i mean in and out of me. yet out that is just for that part out man yes smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar and the authorities lack the means to stop the train but for these men
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