oh no. they meant they would. be no longer but i only know. him from a mini me. my song is 59 and a grandmother she has lost 5 sons or shot dead she says by laotian soldiers. she says the scars of bullet wounds suffered when she went to dig for food. yeah. well you know how. i'm. going on you know monday leave me to go. down to my. no. no leave now you know how much. are. you know.

this is the 3rd to survive on here it's the root of a plant and you have to dig down about a meter in order to get it take some i can tell you is what we lived on for 3 days in the jungle getting here for the surprise was that is what we have on every single day here looking to get 3 meals a day if not it's about soon and you know if you know you have a plan now unknown. she does. have an awesome imo it's almost also called me. by the light of accounts by the singer pushtuns and dance the steps of their ancestors who move from mongolia to china and then to laos.

they try to retain what little culture they can and scrape by in a harsh environment that is now their world one that with every generation slowly ebbing away did. the. dawn is always the most vulnerable time with the hmong in the jungle the time when the laos army is most likely to strike one in. the wash more a splash really is a luxury the hmong would be too exposed living in rivers. this is for me to take. the leader was still insisting i stay but he'd written

a letter which he wanted me to deliver personally to the united nations in new york . at the moment. they were tough resilient people which is why the cia used them for 10 years during the vietnam war just a handful now remain in the jungle of northern else and finally i get to meet some . nice. job paul on our do you up for i do you know your poem don't yet you know i'm a god i know. what all big. well you know non descartes tell us all. the hmong feel the communist government in laos they call it the red laos is punishing them for fighting for the americans who want yang was a young man he fought for the americans against the communists been a nice little now he feels abandoned by me got his own. make up you who called you.

there were. well the one their power board. will need to shout. circle on him. when you're watching the slow death of a people it's hard to know what to do or even what to say i try to reassure them i gave them what i had in my pack of medical supplies and food the 1st time the younger hmong had seen ham and cheese. dictate one piece of good thick 11000th of a whole. different or. if. you don't. know sheepishly they came forward for a taste 1st the men you know how you were going out and then the women some a little confused about what they were being offered and your mother well i don't

want to. know you i know you all know i don't. want to know about you but then the children inched forward wary and wondrous at the same time look here that. i did say that i'm not going to write you know i'm going on because you're not getting. what they need you're not alone. and you can have. as the time passed the hmongs belief in me as a savior didn't diminish quite the contrary they stated me killed one of the few chickens they had he might on a county be used as a blessing to bestow on a good luck i thought damn i don't think we had more got to lay tied strings on my wrist to ward off the bad spirits they knelt before me in acts of homage it was also overwhelming while i was being quite

a moving experience i've never had anything like this happening before and i miss some great belief that i can suddenly. change around their fortunes and i can singlehandedly make the united nations come in and do something they treat me like some kind of god here. and i'm got the heart to tell them that so many other people around the world in so many other dire situations have been let down before by the international community. a chicken no matter how small an anorexic has good luck signs the wishbone almost suggested good omens maybe my release. for the hmong the jungle of now than laos is a place of nightmares and dreams. 18 years old he married at 15 and has 2 children he dreams of studying music and taking his children to

a park. the melancholy sound of b.'s guitar made me think about my hopes my precinct desire to leave. i've been here for about 5 days now and i haven't had a proper water in that time i lived largely on the roots in these parts of hardly had the sun on my face because along up the live in places like this which is giving plenty of cover in case of the aerial reconnaissance of the laotian army spots them. and. i'm finding our night off. and i've got to go but i see these people around me and every day i see the children it makes me think of my children my family and my life and i realize that i can't stick as much longer so i want to go. after a week or rumor spread the translator and i were about to leave. to create panic and angry scenes. that.

i had to. from. the money. on the old jag not that you. cannot when you know. that you think you don't like you don't like you. don't. know yet when how do you know so good that's you know and how. subsequently i'm believe all these people these women of packed up their their baskets their clothes their possessions and they want to come with me they want to walk out today walk out of the forest and civilization but i keep trying to explain to them that but the laos army out there and. i can't guarantee their safety quite quite the reverse it's bizarre. you know and i don't know. you know so a heated argument about whether to stay or to go with me. oh

no no you know what. the mood of panic could come from nowhere and disappears quickly because the home long reconcile themselves with reality and battle for survival. and people walked for days from surrounding villages to plead with me for help. this. had lost all his family and he amputated his own hand after being badly wounded. and began to sing a song about the plight of the hmong people about persecution and injustice about survival. is haunting words followed me as my release became a reality and lead a blessing for the journey ahead. no. journey. no.

go. yeah. well you are. going to. go there if you are. not go home until. i turned one last time and i wondered what would happen to the home of northern laos and how many would live long enough to leave. that was the lost tribe secret army of the cia well we're joined now from london by the filmmaker tony burke tony why don't you start by telling us why you went looking for the moment the 1st place where i suppose i got a bucket list of stories that i've always wanted to cover i was too young to cover

the vietnam war something that really interested me but a spin off from that was the hmong so i kept in contact with what was happening to them as much as i could and then they came an opportunity there was a connection that i learnt alvin in california among community then they i contacted them and they put me in contact with the hmong community in laos and arranged for me to go and see them so it was something that i really wanted to do it's a great desire to cover that because it's one of those. very i think very important stories but one that is overlooked because it's so difficult to do start challenging was it actually reaching the hmong i mean did you did you know you'd be putting your life in danger well there are always concerns because the people in california may be quite aware of the dangers from the loutish laos army they said that people in the jungle being hunted by the last army there were being killed so i had to be prepared for that sort of thing i wasn't really prepared for the physical side of it because actually getting there was physically challenging i

wasn't perhaps the fittest at the time but soon as i started walking it was a monumental hike for nearly 3 days over really really large hills in darkness sometimes and i'm not due to go with a camera man who was carrying a bit away and when he learnt about the rigors of the of the hike and the fact the potential dangers he decided not to go so therefore i took the camera myself which i've done in the past and it wasn't a problem for me. but as a i found it challenging he would have found it impossible to be honest tony you were seen as something of a savior but then you were also taken hostage how did you cope psychologically well i'm a tough old dog so it didn't really get me down too much to be honest it was never a case of my life being in danger i didn't fear these people i understood their desperation and they were using whatever bargaining tool they could nevertheless funny ideas this is one of those stories that really phase with you long after

you've left. well it was a profound experience because i never really expected to find what i did i didn't understand from all my research the deep. fear and the deprivation of these people so to actually go there from the moment i entered their camp they were on their hands and knees praying and crying and this was not just to greet me was not a show because in the course of the next week i saw it on a regular basis people crying people pleading with me people saying they've got no hope they're all going to die they're all heard stories about you know their loved ones being killed they said by the laotian army the fact that they were on the run they were sick they were needy and they had very little you also made a promise to take up with the u.n. did you manage that i went to new york i went to the united nations i wrote to the secretary general i told everything i saw or i gave

a link to the documentary i did absolutely nothing happened when i raised it in a press briefing to the un's press people they looked at me like yeah and what it didn't register on the social consciousness of the united nations or in fact the world so i feel a tremendous sense of failure and i suppose that's why the images of stayed with me so long longer than some of the other horrible things that i've covered tony berkeley great talking to you thanks for joining us and we want. and that is it from us this wait be sure to check us out on line by the real one page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series on come on santa maria from the whole team thanks for joining us seems to. rewind returns with a new series. and brand new updates on the best about using these documentaries.

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hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up an army deployed tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers begin the fight bring the amazonian fires under control. hezbollah's leader bows to do whatever it takes to stop israel from launching more drones over pay route plus. i'm going fishing in hampton virginia where the people here are commemorating 400 years since the 1st africans were brought to the english speaking colonies and forced to work sleep. there on top diplomat has made a brief surprise visit to the g. 7 summit in beer it's the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif flew in for talks with the french president emanuel on the sidelines of the 3 day meeting the meeting was organized to very short notice france has been trying to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal that the u.s.

pulled out of last year well after zarif left out its he went on twitter saying this iran's active diplomacy in pursuit of constructive engagement continues mess emmanuel mack wrong on the sidelines of the g. 7 after extensive talks road ahead is difficult but worth trying to get as a james bays is there. the 1st that reporters found out about the arrival of the iranian foreign minister's plane at beirut's airport was on flight tracking websites is now clear. other g 7 leaders also got little or no advance warning of the bold invitation by president macro macro had met to have a job at serif before the chiefs haven't started on friday in paris apparently according to the iranians the final invite to brit sitcom on saturday after g 7 leaders had come to an informal dinner at beirut's lighthouse at that dinner iran was discussed but al-jazeera understands the arrival of mr zarif was not disclosed

to the other leaders by president mackerel it i think it was an advance that mr sirius was coming but it was somewhat dependent on a result of the talks last night last night we didn't develop our up map of choreographed specific next steps but we went through different options juri his visit to bere it's the only pictures of the foreign ministers meetings were posted by zarif himself on his twitter account he met with macro and foreign minister joy evil adriel and representatives of the u.k. and germany the key question now is what president trump makes of all of this he pulled out of the 2015 iran nuclear deal and has imposed tough sanctions as part of a maximum pressure strategy to your forces here you were ministers you. know government president macro's invitation to zarif was certainly a bold move whether it ends up being seen as a stunt or

a diplomatic coup depends on what happens next zarif and his delegation left the ritz after just a few hours what new proposals if any did they make and how will the g 7 leaders respond on the last day of their summit james pays out jazeera pierrots. the new you k. prime minister boris johnson has held his 1st bilateral meeting with donald trump at the g. 7 mr johnson said he and mr trump were quote. so gung ho about a post broke the trade deal with johnson cautioned the americans would be tough negotiators though saying he wouldn't rush the talks mr trump promised a big trade deal for britain after it leaves the european union. this is a different person. and this person is going to be a greek prime minister in my opinion morris only by a. very. good very free figure.

they want to have what they want. they were. around during. the election for. the americans a very ambitious to get this done you know as fast as possible and they were really want to results you know within a year i suppose in mind by next june or july where to go as fast as we can but we want this to be a really big story going a comprehensive trade deal was no point in having a deal with justin in agriculture in industrial goods and so on that's not where the real advantages are for for the u.k. and i've been telling donald trump about some of the barriers that british service industries experience whether it's transportation or shipping or noirs or architects tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers begun heading into the rain forest to join the fight against the recent fires their military aircraft had begun dumping water on burning forests in iran borneo state the number of fires is about

85 percent higher than this time last year and many people are blaming the policies of the president. well hundreds of new fires have been reported adding to the several 1000 already ablaze across the region official data compiled by the national geographic shows the scale and intensity of the fires 6 brazilian states are asking for federal help and 77000 wildfires have been reported since january alone. well mr bolton are expressed confidence that the situation is under control there that the civil average burns are down over the last few years and are going back to normal the tories approach has more now from nova bandied around tesh in the state of much across to play here right in front of the asian way now a river in my pocket also this is one of the states that has mostly affected by the fires affecting the amazonia region and we know that the government has just

announced that they're deploying to hurry cuties military planes to the states of them don't yet however several states are requesting the presence of the armed forces in order to be able to control the fires on our way here where we're able to see several fires right next to the road from cleared land mostly so farmers are clearing the land in order to be able to have tackle or grow crops among other things but this fire can get out of control and that's part of the problem presidentially you will cannot is trying to show some type of action after being heavily criticised worldwide for what is happening here with the european union threatening to call a fact free trade agreement between america through trade bloc and the european union among other things because of the situation here on the ground in spite of this fire is affecting the region this is just the latest problem but the region like this one is facing the say the biggest one is deforestation brazil is up the

top the list of countries that have lost tropical rain forests because of deforestation and as i said before the fires are just the few are a thing that situation even further. well many of the fires have been started by developers clearing the amazon rain forest they're claiming the land for cattle rearing and soil production environmentalists fear this could cause irreversible damage reports now from in the state of round on your. trees it was the remoteness of brazil's indigenous communities that protected them from the rapacious outside world now it's what shields those who are encroaching on protected indigenous territory starting fires and threatening the residents. they carry through and i had their 1st contact with the outside world in 1978 going to. catch eaker talking her native language translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they brought diseases that decimated her community that. we had

a lot of land and we lived peacefully we lived with fear that are very few of us in the invaders are coming closer. but that was just the beginning the perspectives keep coming brazilian moore says these cattle should not be here and these fishermen are trespassing on protected land but it offers little protection in areas that are so remote many of the fires started by developers to clear vegetation burn out of control it's difficult at 1st to gauge why a place so remote so tranquil should matter so much to the rest of the walls the indigenous people who live here have always realised it but now as the smoke fills the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realise it too. has been to europe way off the european union and the united nations for protection and protection for brazil's indigenous communities he says

is not being provided by their own governments. biggest threats now i'll be in regions of the mission of the logos of the gold prospectors and. recently they've been a lot of fires in the region around kearny put on territory and that's affecting our lives because the smoke is reaching the community. and re the village chief says when the land the community dies to. we've been scared from the moment we heard about the invasions from the moment we reported it the neighbors have said they want mine and my brothers heads and when we caught them they'll come for the rats to kill everyone. reminded the world of the importance of preserving the region but they're just another consequence of the young controlled i'm remitting more gradual destruction being wrought in the interest of development at the expense of this land and the people who live here. that you find there al-jazeera. a state northwest of brazil.

the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah says the group is now in a new phase of its conflict with israel after 2 israeli drones crashed in the lebanese capital beirut says one drone damaged a building housing its media office when it crashed in beirut southern suburbs another israeli drone exploded in the air and came down in the same area in a televised speech called it a very dangerous development and. enough is enough we will never allow israeli aircraft to attack lebanon or a target in lebanon in the israeli side will never feel safe that israeli drones that are coming to lebanon are not coming here to collect information they are suicidal drones that aim at killing us from now on we will face the israeli drones when they arrive in lebanon skies we will crush them we will drop them. israel's security cabinet met on sunday morning to discuss recent security developments comes after the country's military said it hit iranian backed targets in syria

activists say 2 members of hezbollah were killed the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has threatened further attacks. if someone rises up to kill you kill him 1st in a complicated operation revealed that iran dispatched a special unit off to syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drones i'd like to emphasize this was an initiative of iran and we prevented serious attacks that we will expose any attempt by iran to attack us and any iranian effort to hide behind excuses will not tolerate a aggressions against israel from any country in the region any country that allows its territory to be used for aggression against israel will face the consequences and i repeat the country will face the consequences the israeli authorities have evacuated a music festival after rockets were fired from gaza and happened in the city of steroids close to the security by.