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will come here often here isn't every man or women or child out round here is coughing has a problem of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them up only to. the man who . said. he them i want to test in your question i want to work with. now a question that needs. over one and a half 1000000 south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. that itself it gets into off one week this past week i think 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.
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that it. is 6 years old. she saw 1st in 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 and the dust from the mine cotton specially this dust you pull your kid in the piece. before you sleep you must face. that and different kids. yeah a few weeks later the 1st 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 way she wants you
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to go i say richie she kisses him and she screams you know. they 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 mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other fields like under our own i was the same symptoms same health issues yet i do know and there's there's a pinch out there it's going to go the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they don't want anybody knowing how by day kids in this situation there's 2 of them go visit 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 have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel tonight today taking them to today didn't think so but if you go and fight off any distance from here believe you me you never find this key.
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to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses 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 4 square kilometers while the motive for about $69.00 farmers was rivers each. day since then to me it turned the dishes. was soumitra. must take 500 grams of the sun. the dust that's blowing over the village but no.
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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 the songs were. ok or if i could put in will do. for the. killer but for yourself it. was a funny thing you should have put it. franklin 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 1st in the water you see finding.
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example of what that says on the ground 0 the maximum they were going to carry me to those 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 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. with the rest of the. goldfields 8750 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 all from from the stuff. but at night you will see on the front end if somebody. has got into the we are doing
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a plus minus $5500.00 tons. a day i mean we have reaching out on $300.00 tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many times of coal is there. so there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the boss minus 5 times but done that's always currently. only 5 grams of gold for each ton of 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. probably to make goes there we used to i'm i sit in a sauna that's still pretty nice i can make holes in the price and they know the quarter mega nice instead they got. the concession that c.p.r.
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so you add all of these together with these with the ball. the last stage is the cost at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result gold falls. at 84 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around $538000.00. goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 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
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70 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 missiles for example there. would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. and some of the gold ores there is your enemy sauce deep has very little uranium minutes or so. there's very little uranium and in this in the stomach you.
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can really. not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a ton. 50 annually south african mining companies extract 10 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 the daily basis of the gold from both of you but the. 5th of may be. ok there are. 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 600000 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 500 meters away
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from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. of . oil bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from korea ratched a research association on radioactivity one as i was government on the. same thought they were. that commercial school she can do what she was going to seduce there will be a little bit. also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want a focal to do sorry you know i'm a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. i know my point of view to see not just their young monk come up it even to be able. to do is
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a good you're in you do risk. deployed in your she thought of us of a young mom and she's. going to join in our corn meal i don't is wrong but when the truth is when this point 300-0000 because you owe and you cannot sell gounder ticket for 3 years in a cell with a country town let's work on the us because you will stay for. just one. and only because you want to force the daughter to try to. place you know. what. do you define us. do you think it was only one trip for. her and.
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how did we did to close only let it go to the. master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. era keeps around 40 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 one month well yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your and my writings themselves then said as for success this is the. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know who's behind.
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them but a muslim know what they must go to. the next is the fungible what is. it in. the mind so all you. want to learn and it cost. and i met. so when you see these every day what do you think. was the motion and. i would don't doubt 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 mine tailings farm. look really sick i mean according to do you own or do you think we should do some hair sample of the animals. just like you.
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have to take 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one who is blind. i come up with the results of the show on the 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. your views the water from the failings just across the traders it is used as a rigorous what urges us immigration also for almost a drink we also learn some more small samples treasure was done with the store was contaminated as look make good pets and so what can you what can you look for years
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almost all of their dead and the models but they did encoded in windows like oh you know now i'm your lead you know what arsenic which are very toxic or busy glue you we need an expert to get them in order once we get them them that reason on our group right. as he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part 2. 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 but he's a colossally bad idea. going behind the scenes of one of mexico's most love so using fiction to mirror the
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it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the oceans $21.00 geologists are secretly bored. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin. 0. m how he'd seen in doha the top stories on al-jazeera hundreds of people in sudan's capital of protesting against the findings of an investigation into the deadly crackdown in khartoum last month it blames broke soldiers a violent break up of the sits in demonstration. of the. i don't believe what
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happened today undermines the political process unless the military council looks for excuses to prisoner go see a sense or procrastinate the process what happened todays a natural response let the military council see this is a strong message that the people cannot remain silent. as the investigation commission was formed not to establish the truth but to conceal the truth. syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 13 civilians in northwest at le province many of those killed were children russian backed government forces launched an offensive to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in april more than a 1000 protesters have been arrested many violently at an unauthorized march in more sco they were protesting the barring of opposition candidates from local elections hong kong police again fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters to thousands of people defied a government ban and rallied in
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a small town near chinese border a group of men attacked protesters than last week. donald trump's twitter attack on a democratic congressman has been denounced as racist by the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives unleashed the online tirades after representative elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policies in response the president called cummings districts a discussing rats and wouldn't infested mess that is far worse and more dangerous than the border. thousands of people have marched in gaza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during the weekly process that the border fence. was shot in the stomach near the barrier another 38 palestinians were injured by gunfire in southern gaza or current staff is the 1st since june related to demonstrations and world leaders have attended the state funeral of china's year's 1st democratically elected president said see
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a 92 year old died following what authorities described as a severe health crisis those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after south africa toxic city. she's the head of 4 generations of family and the bearer of 40 years of suffering fools a heart or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in myanmar 3 separate times in her life 1st in 1970 then 1991 and finally in 2070. 1 the war they beat as they kidnapped as they detained does. ghoul and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so
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many other rohinton who face decades of oppression and abuse the ranger aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. 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
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a mysterious voicemail message. i heard that you're interested in their money later theory or are under the bridge in their mind well i would go to a mental geologist me up on. i would very much appreciate your. you know your time around me we're going to have a word about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist an eagle club. after a 20 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 you radium grind it 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 $100.00 so after
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a while you know i was explaining look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to decode the contaminates the land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from greeks then with a 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 how does that make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you feel like 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
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a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing in the whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses. and yet we have made him 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 sink head must start heads back to see farmer everett from goma. his current sentra possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals of being delivered and cussen by frank bender. the johanna spoke professor of foreign mental studies also one of them aboard were joined by neighbors frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. the test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's foam and
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uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your in your water sample over 2 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 50 times as of old 500 ok the most let's say indicative mental form binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see in a natural environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did about 100 times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. a form surrounded by pollution which is just. its animals badly contaminated and. it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest level go for
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songbook overall and unless. you see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is an elevated to 80 times meaning almost $100.00 times above what's normal that the same was cobalt that's the same as also nick and at 600 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 dog was out of 4 now living 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 this radio call health clinic might have
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some months since. among their patients is. it's the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has taken an l. . ok. all right that was yes. indeed that he knew. too much of the stuff it was it was a lesson by it not to me it goes this the list is one which. goes numb don't know who's awake. so how are you going to yours. their baby has called brocade she's. of ours just in to
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squint both hands sometimes we see the worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having chest in drawings of the little dust because of the dust is something that you will see on the leverage yes you have been here you are number of cases not to really there should be a study like you are mentioning in a people who are living close 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 up with you again. back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out connecting with. ok was
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go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok tunisia's the small shack with her 4 children. in langley. is ignorant as saying oh i like. to play lenses i'm up on the corner quinola is it a corner quinola you'll get the last pictures 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 mind where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 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
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for research and scientific expertise and comes online. to mean you know. will come on tell you come on then he's commotions to pull. it in yeah if you blow it was he killed you gale norton i just didn't know maybe i did wrong i'm still me i don't. know she. is one of the sort. of want to put in a bit will he see what i'm into there yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of love. you put in culture get your lucky breaks yourself. national should look back look at hobart's love that they don't pay you well that's . right you can turn. it all right that should be more than enough.
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to more than you would put it. we don't so you must consult me 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. the little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. this is one of a lot of thinking so done little. to look beautiful. ah. and then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor pinay in france.
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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. do you oppose you know jennifer was going to pull those that off. nor are any of them keen to respond to questions show that there's one of them called 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 almost important ships are going to communicate by leaving don't you know from other was mumbai was a good moment 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.
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new delhi then who can you compose one question the only the. italian brand is the 3rd 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 located in sun city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious shopping mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost 70 $8700.00. 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 yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. and you know i you know the ones here that are ok don't you think it is kind of
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a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the caribbean so here you believe me to tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my coal mines i forgot that for example the mind savings uses when you burn injuries better environments your eternal job or that's just starting his index or stuff i've heard of the 1st word where you know. her thank you very much know 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 syria to exist and
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why 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've come quite a long way to be here must all run through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant them in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human have it's been gathered looking for someone to live we don't know it and i was born with a huge tree of a go to be a son was really sure who. was a very nice you don't know oh it was
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a hoax or it is. yes you will. surely was residual to girl always will be sure to tell you who it. was. do it or don't do. those who you. are. so sorry just don't do this for so forward when you would expose your pose and go this was on when you were exposed to it without people who are sure that god loves you then don't go and no one of the scenario is because while you're in the prison i don't think. your ex was. yet it really or was a big yard and you know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. so as old people don't like
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western. people which. i don't. and all those who are you with of course failure as if you need to. talk to you next was a job and it's. ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by much from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is $330.00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium $100.00 times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your opinion and 4 times more exposure to us nic than the average french person even jesus into easy to get mean
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we eat is dangerous for you. and can cause celeb can we do. it. jules way. give us the middle or usually we don't. even know she'd miss you know you for your. you know. i think you know it. is this one moment and this is not all those people that are really. miles apart still the scientists who can be said to be able to say we've had enough of this man's
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exposing us all so we're not being out to everybody once again from a shortage of saying to be sure there was a case you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead document that we really like doing now it would reduce the universe be able know what they've been. doing to very much once again. as residents begin planning their next move. including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. matha obtains an interview. with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. when you're so pretty pretty you don't seem to see if someone they mean look at them enough to just shoot someone
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just as soon as you're out m. and extend to put on you sometimes now for. almost 120 years later stuff in a mood runs that we're going to his asians anti-pollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually are getting the environmental impact of the mining industry and do you think it's it's going in there on the right track on the goodly. yes there is significant progress achieved this far in terms of my main companies dealing effectively with environmental impediments how's the chamber of mine ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tellings to mine 2 things not it's not that i'm well ok so we don't some. bench shows the same scientific
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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 were present have a responsibility in these numbers. i think it is with our members company is mindless we do have the responsibility do you live close to the mind. why not even me. i mean most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow and attainments is not the on the way around they choose to go and stay there thing that people believe are on the tape these tapings does huge paintings around town is producing they're saying they're not safe. at all there's
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a lot of. environmental risks as we're in a safe to. and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of us to something should be done for the tailings that our own. when when you say something do you think it's something when what is it about eating the media and of they have built in of those should get rid of the state yes i think 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
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is very interested. in the vba. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00. fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much and that. there will be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies east coast of the 2nd 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
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metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor there. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in 2017 mining companies extracted 130 tons of gold from south african soil. producing 27000000 600000 tons of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still 35 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
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precious than gold. and i was a bit more cloud floating around in iran around the caspian of course market share out of it by i don't think much to be honest and it has not been tempted back in the full cost around still around the 40 mark if anything done in iraq is actually going to war for the next couple of days back that up to 46 about or you can think of 48 to 49 kuwait just a little bit lower than that typically there would still sunshine for the most part and it was so out last few days of forecasts where i've been standing over the levant nothing much has changed the breezes picked about of iraq is running down the gulf at the moment as hampshire is probably slowly on its way down having had 45 or thereabouts on saturday we're down to below 40 for both sunday and monday and
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that usually indicates rather more humid air and look at the wind direction that's probably exactly what to feel like in qatar and in bahrain not necessarily dubba dubba dubai or the u.a.e. typically has got this dry air breeze from the empty quarter although it's still producing the beef in salalah which is of course overcast and. now the weather in cape town is warmed up considerably still a bit of a breeze mistily but 70 degrees for you on sunday and more sunshine but the same temperature on monday.
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ard. talk to al jazeera. what guarantees will you give to the people will be attending the minimal workshop we listen i'm supposed to explain apologize for someone is also terrorizing me we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter does their own. anger in sudan after just a handful of officers are blamed for a raid on a protest camp that killed dozens of people.
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hello i'm hella mohit in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up 5 children are among 13 people killed during the latest airstrikes in syria's last rebel stronghold where the u.n. believes war crimes are being committed. the violence ends to a band protests in a home called border town crowds are gathering for another mass rally in the city center. and more than a phase and people are arrested as russian police crackdown on an increasingly defiant opposition movements in moscow. demonstrators have returned to the streets in sudan's capital angered by the findings of an investigation into a raid on a protest camp last month the military jones has blaming a handful of rogue officers for the violence which the opposition says killed at
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least 100 people have a morgan has more from neighboring ethiopia. a few offices diverting from their orders and no blame on saddam's military gentle. that was the core of the report from the investigation committee set up by the military to look into what happened on june 3rd when security forces attacked pro-democracy at army headquarters in. one of the brigadier's was warned that he's not responsible for the operation yet he disobeyed orders and led the rapid support forces into the sitting area and handed down orders for them to get out of their armored vehicles and force the protesters out it's also stablished that the riot forces led by one of the colonels he alone with his forces moved into the sitting area and some personnel started battling protesters firing indiscriminately into. the attack killed at least 100 protesters and injured over 400 others according to the central committee for
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sudan which supports the protest movement the raid was lifestream by protesters as they ran for their lives and widely circulated on social media when the internet which was cut off on the day of the attack was restored more than a month later the investigating committee disputed the number of fatalities saying $87.00 were killed and 168 who are wounded. the attack halted talks between the military and the opposition coalition known as the forces for freedom and change which represents the protest movement talks resume to months later as protesters continue to demand accountability and an initial power sharing agreement was signed earlier this month the sudanese professional association part of the opposition coalition and the body which has been leading the calls for protests since december insists the committee was not independent but says it should not affect the talks to form a transitional government hours after the report was released people protested against its findings. i don't believe what happened today undermines the political
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process unless the military council looks for excuses to prison a go she asians or procrastinate the process what happened todays a natural response let the military council see this is a strong message that the people cannot remain silent as the investigation commission was formed not to establish the truth but to conceal the truth. as the 2 sides continue to try to form a transitional government protest on the streets continue their demand for justice but some analysts believe the investigation report could end up obstructing that justice from the justice perspective the reason they need to be independent. and i think the problem and also the information about this is. true. is. this how this went on for. the june 3rd attack was the most violent part of the protest in
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december many say that the justice and accountability they demand cannot be achieved without a civilian government and a change in the system the reason why they started the revolution in the 1st place people morgan on their own. at least 13 civilians. kryten 5 children have been killed in the latest syrian government's airstrikes in rebel held at le province the campaign backed by governments ally russia has targeted hospitals water plants and homes the u.n. says that could amount to war crimes reports. i seem all too familiar for the people of northwest syria homes reduced to rubble i was families ripped apart. i was again i really united nations there are no armed people no headquarters only unarmed civilians and
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armed people. the syrian government backed by its russian ally launched an offensive to capture it live in late april since then markets schools hospitals have all come under attack children have not been spared more than 200 were killed in just 3 months more than $800.00 civilians have now died. but it was like i'm going to assad is targeting us because he wants us to give up and become displaced but where can we go there is nowhere to go with forced to remain here despite the bombing. it is the last major syrian opposition stronghold nearly half of its population is internally displaced people from different parts of syria have sought shelter here in september russian turkey agreed to designate it live and surrounding areas as a deescalation zone civilians were meant to be protected by the air strikes haven't
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stopped and the bloodshed continues but there were $4000.00 as good as the dollar to be deescalated with the violence should be escalated 3 of them were one of the one the only specialty about it live that is the last place where people could be deported to and it's got in it with the turkish border which could be cleared refuse you probably for 30 or for the e.u. and hence where there is some pressure on russia and related to a lead but who actually did not respect the 1st 3 for the escalation as ours we don't believe is going to respect the 4th. on friday the u.n. human rights chief michel accused the world of indifference to the plight of syrians for activists on the ground the carnage an adlib in hama represents yet another brutal but all too familiar stage in the a.t.l. war priyanka gupta al-jazeera. now hong kong is bracing for what could be another day over and rain stones protesters return to the city's center district
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bringing you live pictures of people gathered in the downturn area some protesters say they'll defy a police ban a march towards the offices of china's representatives in the city where large crowds divide police on saturday demonstrating in the outlying turn of your lawn not far from the border with mainland china 20 people were injured when police moved in to several hours of protests began on june 9th against proposed changes the whole concept tradition most put it since school in so why is a movement against the territories beaching leaders and police brutality while for more let's cross live to syria couric who's in hong kong for us syria yet another protest planned for today just how many people are we expected to see and have police given this round leave their approval.
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but we're at the starting point of this is this rally sunday's rally the protesters had requested to do a march from here which is in central hong kong down to an area called sun not sand but more of this is inside important just a couple of kilometers to the west of the central part of the city now that request was denied the organizers that appeal that decision in court i would not that again was refused at the moment this particular part of the rally it's been by it's considered legally if they do actually much too soon yet say memorial park and that will be considered an illegal assembly we're expecting thousands of people to come again to this rally sunday something that is really also. had a huge attendance but this is just the beginning it's just started the last little while i should update on yesterday or saturday's rally that 11 people were arrested so far and the all denies of yesterday's rally a separate. has just been arrested in the last hour or so and his arrest was by so
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the fact that he was encouraging and illegal assembly but today we're expecting thousands of people once again to rally for a number of reasons a based on firstly the cool for the dumping of the extradition bill the proposed extradition bill but as you mentioned earlier it's now a greater hold water movement of a great it calls for democracy in hong kong i will say we are seeing with increasing frequency these marches to sending in savoy confrontation want to you anticipate will happen if the protesters to march through this area near china's own office will sort of security is lying. do you think pioli it could be called into service. yes sir yes in memorial park that's right across the road from china's mine the ice office here in hong kong and last sunday there was another rally in a group of radical protestors did the face and bomb with height this building defies the china's national emblem on the front of that building that china's
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response was i want to tolerate this type of behavior i should start there about 12 realize that the people's liberation army barracks are garrisoned that's china's army now that can only operate openly into. its on the other threats of the government but if there's any activity or any kind of behavior that does undermine china's my lentil farsi an appeal i could easily be called in to assist i'm bi so the fact that it's partitions going to end up down that area where expecting a whitey to see if the rest will be by and to see if hong kong does take it up the people i request to intervene and assist in mine timing of managing these protests ok will sarah expects will be getting more updates from you throughout the day but for now i thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest from hong kong. now u.s. president donald trump has been accused of more racism following his attack on a prominence african-american politician and that's
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a strictly represents trump so mine tirades came after the launch of cummings criticized the u.s. president's mexican border policies which calls cummings a brutal belief saying his baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous than the boards are described in baltimore as a discussing rats and would since infested mance the congressman responds and say mr president i go home to my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fights for my neighbors will pass equal hane brings us all the leases from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a us president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his
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strategy to get reelected he believes if you fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own base his core support hasn't moved he's also fired up the base on the other side. we're going to weather up for you next then displaced again syrian refugees in istanbul are given a deadline to lean plus. behind bars and out of reach the palestinian children imprisoned by israel and denied contacts with their families.
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