the men are preparing for a long journey. their traveling salesman training in kosov a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. and we're going on a mobile version you should know the owner and your question she was doing what you do does she mom up on the topic or you one of them was to kill them all so much do you go one on one ok when you're a big. man and his companions a setting out on an arduous 160 kilometer journey through villages in the country so. it will probably take them around 4 or 5 days when. you look at the little. ones you.

can't. most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on dirt tracks so the congolese improvise. they converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to 300 kilos of merchandise. if. you cool down the. market if you know. you know. what it would have put a foot in if you don't know what you know. you know. my name was

a difficult decision. to shoot. it takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. to sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep. at night. no one up we are no more but was there but it was. john

or was there something good to know we know. by nightfall they reach a village. for once they won't sleep by the side of the road but in the church. this will be their only meal of the day. here in this you impose your mother that they don't want to know you because you have one do you guys you can a woman whose son was good enough to go for seen you know what's going to sort of us here. you know funny you know looking to go you know they'll. come over you know the whole book. new york but you do. wind up my song was just if we made up fun it was just too much fun in the muscle place you don't like to do it

well because it was a joke when the window muscle bit the foot did will come and go say look at the mush still didn't move we don't know what they don't see. the village of cars stuck to is 60 kilometers away. another 3 days of hard labor. yeah i ended up photos of yeah the forwards oh boy. a man and his family are on the track. by waving a red scarf he's been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of

the bush and go up up. up so i'm just done with him i'm not going to that would you please don't hurt me i don't know yet where what when where i mean i'm sure. it's often like this. cold work for little pay. mr malone go belly ends $140.00 a month. or never ever survive the markets out of the cup the never a lot of 1st of all what they did for the motel. room. that was going to separate what it. see ever go get your pick up a bottle or anything that up on the.

but right now his main concern is the state of the truck. he has to reduce speed to less than 10 kilometers an hour. at this point the rails are not really aligned to any particular but that's why it was that our luck therefore loaded up with this sob in. this outfit a simple society sifaka. such official. i said you've got. to give up our belief is just trust going to the dump risking up i said about lasts just. turn dodger you know with reversion to this about budget talks argue it out yet is good i will not go.

back in the bush man and his 2 associates have covered a 3rd of the journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. somebody get out the welcome. it's the 5th time in one day. without a repair kit to a new in a cheap. patches the puncher with a piece of rubber from an old cheap one hopes for the best.

most men and his companions still have another 30 kilometers to go to reach the next village. and you'll come up on your show the vehicle was on. but good for you up you know what help with we give. you the bottom up on. the end your hunger. and fatigue. they barely had the strength to push their bikes any further.

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the 3 companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a week's time they live and enough money to feed their families. back home build the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. some from there. but just when everything seems more or less normal missed him a long go is confronted with a new problem. the train is losing speed. eventually it comes to a complete still. the fact that he does so in the middle of a village is no coincidence. mr malone go believes it's sabotage he suspects the

vendor is the one known as traffickers in the deal congo. this is because a lot of people saw. it go through the one i got through that does that it's. just to get lucky. but we go back to the fast. methods but then again i would love to get to the top and i. c got about a. good. picture has been riding the swallow for 10 years but on this trip he's selling soul during while the next time he'll sell something

else about it on the way the train provides him with a living one to do so but i think i sort of don't like to drink and to cover my toe to toe then it would have to be my last morning isn't it blue not be so is that open up but they said if i have a bucket i know you've been in so much notice about that if you go most in august about that no we're going to succumb with an absolute those old one about the time that the other no muslim got to be so bold whose. that there more do more to want to read out loud. mouth shut down than look up oh. so subtle that. missed him a long go still has 900 kilometers to go before reaching their labor the trains

final destination. if all goes well the 1600 kilometer journey will have taken 8 days. to swallow continues on its way. despite the obstacles it's a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of congolese. in the heart of the amazon the libyan family of the band lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. nuts getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it all believe me out. on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told

pretty remarkable too to valerie it died last week and crossing from mexico to the united states with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports we can live according to their fishing life it is exceptionally al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lightning. then say to really know someone you must walk a mile in their shoes. follow in their footsteps as they forge their way in the was. al-jazeera shares these personal journeys. inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. witnessed documentaries on al-jazeera. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships.

somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a just you know. the u.k. prime minister barak johnson hauled seargent talks with irish counterparts on this contentious plan to live leave the u. . i'm sam is a band this is a live from doha also coming up taleban warns the u.s.

stands to lose most after the u.s. president calls off talks aimed at ending the conflict in afghanistan. a setback for russia's president his party loses a 3rd of seats in moscow's regional parliament. and devastation like a nuclear bombing a day agencies describe the dire state of the bahamas after how it can dorian. now the u.k.'s prime minister johnson is in dublin meeting with his irish counterparts ahead of what set to be a day of major bragg's it drama at the top of the agenda will be how any irish border and customs system would operate after the u.k. pulls out of the e.u. johnson then flies back to london where he's expected to call again for an early election because we must get breaks it down because the u.k.

must come out on october 31st by october 31st or else i fear that permanent damage will be done in the u.k. he to trust in our democratic system and i knew that breaks it was not to be perfectly frank a problem a conundrum that arland wishful and i think there are certainly questions that we need to resolve. lawrence lee joins us now live from london so the big question is can he get anything moved forward in talks in ireland how does it look like it's shaping up there. well just just listening to johnson there there's still taking questions from journalists and johnson's line basically is simple tenuously we have to get rex it done as you heard him say there otherwise will be a crisis of political legitimacy in the u.k.

but at the same time yes we'll be slick knowledge all the problems the island has we are just as committed to the other side and in keeping the border open and recognizing good friday agreements. but i don't and we want to ensure the free movement of goods and people and cattle it kept saying because. they're the u.k. imports so much cheese and beef in particular from ireland we need to do all those things so the question then arises well how then how how how exactly do you want to do this mr johnson because the the old plan plainly this thing called the backstop was to keep the u.k. in these customs union with the with the european union until some other probably technological mechanism can be found of checking things at the ports so they don't have to get checked at the border and you don't need a border going up but he can own so the question of how that exists because the european psyche saying that technology simply doesn't exist yet and so johnson then

is reduced to talking about concepts like trust a trade to schemes and accepting that that the quality of the food is good enough so it doesn't need to be checked at the border but it isn't any good for the european sides because they just think that it's it's a messy woolly source of scheme and that's why the irish keep saying we've got to go back to the backstop and they also say to the british look if you do leave without any deal at the end of october we're not going to enter into any negotiations with you so all about trade unless and until you can sort out payments to leave in the european union of any 40000000000 pounds what you're going to do with the irish border and the rights of the millions of irish and other european citizens who will live in the u.k. . so you know they're going to go into talks at this very late stage in the game is the 1st time that boris johnson visited dublin since he's become prime minister and i don't think anybody really expects despite all the all the encouraging signs of confidence and we can do this for most chance of the actually going to come out

with anything concrete whatsoever. no and he's also expected to try and ask again for an early election also not expected to go anywhere why is he bothering. well because he wants to get it done because he still wants to leave at the end of october and i think the supposition is that if they want an election in october then he could revoke this piece of legislation demanding the delay to. but he's not going to do that because not so much support now inside his own party as well as the opposition parties that they now control the parliamentary timetable so the last election again later on today and they won't get it's some point out that he'll suspend parliament where i think they're now heading frankly because they've said they won't break the law is to go to the european council in the middle of october with with with the expectation they have to seek a delay because parliament's demanded its but then behave probably so badly at the european council that they will try to force at least one european country and you

only need one to say what we're just so fed up of you we're not going to agree to a delay everyone's looking at france as a likely country to do that there's also noises frankly coming out of the netherlands from ministers there who are saying that they might just prefer the u.k. to leave because they're so sick of the behavior of the u.k. that's their one ball they're trying to get a delay and they will force no deal they are a side obviously would hate that it would be exactly what johnson wants and i think that might be what they're reduced to doing at this point. lawrence thanks so much for that. major travel disruption for hundreds of thousands of people as british airways pilots carry on with an unprecedented strike most of its 850 flights are expected to be grounded for 2 days the company and its 4000 $300.00 pilots have been locked in an increasingly bitter pay dispute the pilots union wants the airline to share more of its profits managers say staff get world busy class

salaries and benefits the lebanese armed group has been lost says it shot down an israeli drone outside the border town of its fighters say they now have the aircraft has run has blocked change fire along the lebanese border just over a week ago so the holder has more from beirut. this is the 1st time since 2006 that hezbollah says it's down to an israeli drone over lebanese territory in 2006 israel and hezbollah went to war it was a month long war that ended with a cease fire but according to hezbollah secretary general has on the stroller we are now in a new phase this followed what hezbollah says is an israeli attempt to target a babe ruths southern suburbs a stronghold of hezbollah 2 armed drones approximately 2 weeks ago one crashed one exploded in the middle of the night so hezbollah really imposing new red lines

creating some sort of at the terence because even the secretary general himself said we do not want israel to feel that it can do whatever it wants and act with impunity in lebanon because in neighboring syria what israel has been doing over the past 2 years is a targeting what it says are iranian bases and bases belonging to iranian backed groups and this has been happening for years now because israel wants to contain iran's growing influence in the region and just overnight there have been reports of airstrikes close to the iraqi border in the syrian town of book come out of an area which has really a heavy presence of iranian backed fighters according to reports a base being built by the iranians was hit and some more monitors are reporting at least 18 iranian backed fighters were killed there's been no confirmation as of yet from syrian state media but clearly israel expanding its scope of operations against iran and its allies in the region like we mentioned syria over the past 2

weeks there have been attacks mysterious attacks which nobody has claimed targeting iraqi backed iranian groups in iraq and of course there's a recent drone strike as though the drone incident in beirut so tensions lebanon in the eye of the storm as tensions rise between iran and the united. states and iran and israel. the syrian government has condemned joint u.s. and turkish patrols in the northwest as a flagrant violation of its sovereignty vehicles returned on sunday after entering an area that used to be controlled by u.s. backed kurdish forces the u.s. and turkey want to establish a so-called safe zone in the area american support of the kurdish wife u.g. has been a source of tension with its nato ally which sees the group as terrorists president vladimir putin's ruling united russia party appears to have lost a 3rd of seats in moscow's regional election but still holds a majority the opposition communist party almost doubled its number of seats on

sunday the vote led to some of the largest protests in the country in the years after dozens of opposition candidates were banned from running for more on this let's cross over announced that fastens live for us in moscow how much of a setback is this for the. well definitely some interesting developments here and also politically very complicated but for sure what you said united russia has lost more than ever before here in moscow city duma and a place where they always held of course a very large majority and this is of course a sad back for a party that's not used to losing at all so despite the fact that they still have a majority it's a psychological loss and at the other hand of course we can say that now because of the loss of the independent opposition is in the city duma because of this march

forward by the opposition the communist have now a large number of seats and independent the opposition has called for this march for because they were simply banned from running during this election so what it means for president putin it means that his power base is weaker or if shaky at the moment that it also means that the opposition is not so easily crushed anymore and something to be reckoned with. all right thank you very much the boston there live for us from moscow well still ahead on al-jazeera in south africa protests against immigrants and foreign owned businesses turn violent. and how an ancient martial arts from the far east is making an impact in west africa.

how the dry season hasn't broken into an easier and barely been touched in malaysia as you can see there aren't that many showers around there is a concentration still in the philippines but even here it's luzon all the same have nothing in the middle there's maybe a bit of an increase in peninsular malaysia sumatra thailand that's been on and off now for a while to be honest bangkok could well be where place k. and singapore might get a shower jakarta almost certainly not and say this continues for a little while longer yet till the sun brings the rain starts with it whereas you got a very active change of season australia disappointing when i think you may get to grief because part of the wildfires inland whipped up by what are strong winds if you're in sydney or melbourne or capital chances are it's colder than erotic specht is when you might want and he would have had some right now because some of the rain is useful in victoria.