very interesting that global perspective that i would say our lives. i mean the top stories on al-jazeera for the 1st time in the months of unrest in hong kong police have shot a protest to with live ammunition leaving him in a critical condition the incident on a large scale protests in the city overshadow the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a day when the communist leadership wanted to present its best face to the world a german brown reports from hong kong. the police it wounded choose day would be very dangerous it was the pitched battles carried on into the night with protesters defying repeated police warnings for people to stay off the streets even diners ignored to cool. this kind of spread from one side of hong kong island to the other

and then back again police a day earlier banned all marches but people still took to the streets not to celebrate 70 years of chinese communism but to moon it really don't come until they were may have cast this is an illegal notch does are you all or will we all know there were more than a 100 arrests some of the most intense violence was on the other side of the harbor in cow looting a much watched video on social media appears to show a policeman shooting a young protester in the chest with a pistol the hong kong police force say it was in self-defense but this was the 1st time someone had been wounded from a police bullet since the protests began almost 4 months ago today i'm set our national day is supposed to be a day to celebrate and be happy. but unfortunately some rioters

choose to. do all these all these sorts of criminal damages assonance woundings assaulting police officer and their ers. behavior which more or less to a riot of fans the anger of recent weeks had been building up to this day the most important date in china's political calendar this year many train stations and shopping malls were closed in the security clampdown just a few months ago hong kong was regarded as one of asia's most law abiding cities a model of good governance now all of that has been turned on its head with the police left to solve what is effectively a political problem these pro trying to protest is also see themselves as defenders of hong kong. today's the 70 birthday of our model and i wish madeleine to have prosperity to have peace people to be happy national day celebrations here

were low key this year the annual flag raising ceremony was held in a secure area well away from the protests which marred what was never going to be a day of celebration adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or has called an order for 5 of his officials to appear before congress bullying the chairman of the 3 high for houses committee investigating donald trump's dealings with ukraine say any attempt to obstruct access to information will be illegal in his latest tweet the president denounced the impeachment inquiry as a coup. police could soon be within peace rather could soon be within reach in eastern ukraine leaders have agreed an election can be held in the region controlled by russia back separatists a deal involving ukraine russia russia separatist groups and international monitors

was signed after a meeting in ballarat is seen as a major move by ukraine to resolve a conflict this killed 13000 people since 2014. north korea has fired 2 missiles off its east coast towards japan just days before planned nuclear negotiations with the united states south korea and japan say they detected the launch is about 7 30 am local time they came from one side and crashed into the sea of japan the launch comes just as north korea and the u.s. agree to resume talks in the future pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after man made on the trail don't go away.

i'm going through this pile of real waste that i've been down here looking for the

us that tugs on a property togs it gives a lot of indication and provide a clue also who owned it we used it be it in holland general denmark spain wherever it would help me get to the bottom of this dumping to get to. these types of public places universities hospitals and a lot more the 1st one. that i found was like ages ago they're very both even my luggage so i'll need to cut them sort of fitting. the idea is to take these things but to the preview as well as the original and these are the belong to people in the u.k. i wasn't clear. us to call these things go to go on do they have any idea. what goes around comes around. somebody has to pay for these things because the environmental and health consequences in almost killing people here it

is simply immoral and criminal initial response to. the last night of the timing to me and maybe i'll be. leaving nothing. other than the mother is the constant my name is mike and i. like to come and see to show you what i found and to investigate how your just out of computer equipment found its way to god. this is the moment that i have been waiting for to listen to the side of the story . well he's doing it casually but then he want to come his way with me about the. cycle of the awesome tax some of the he wished the good spell been going on well college and they're saying this if you medical students some garlic salt

bank university young university i'm going to say you go fast spread of the of england you know let me show you the place where fathers equipment. this is why i keep the west. talks. it's. shut off. it's sort of a one to mark session was you know is this a symbol of all the africa is your specific bastard i figure well well there have been problems with we have nigeria and of course gone you know these 2 countries are the major countries do you see even 20. years research as far as we can learn that particular piece of waste from the serial numbers look in there to me which on 20 years ago and. i mean the ethical the most fought to be ethical was. always really called mission and given the challenges account for their own culpability but i don't think anybody actually thought things through what happens when when it

is no longer in you. were not able to complete a chain to acquire knowledge where the equipment from these went to be was a deposit on to a community organization but if we didn't see she no longer is it's. really something where the part of that we're not able to get that much information that could offer improved in the story for me. so this is the piece that i found in gone from a dump site that's on the woods belongs to be sure constabulary and i really do want about it in 2009 yes we put the story on the front page because we knew people would be outraged that officer police you know were somehow getting their equipment

on and on fill in god it was a difficult investigation the story. no i had to phone the press offices several times and to push it they said that they at that time were using a contractor to deal with their way and it was the contractor who had arranged well for the waste to be disposed of and so i guess there was a little bit of then saying it's not really us here it's the contract is. a waste i don't think people have quite grasped the seriousness of it and can brush it away to a certain degree in a way that they wouldn't necessarily in ways you know it's kind of other crimes with drugs and so on. and you look at those speeds of equipment yes you realize that obviously there's a lot of talk but it belongs to them which of course the lawyers yeah it does. really please you've come way from gone with us and let me 1st of all apologize to

you and all the people of ghana with this is happened it shouldn't happen this too is going to acceptable to most of the time you find children some as young as 5 dismantling and burdens and then exposing themselves to very toxic chemicals yes the police at the time did use a proper bona fide the licensed recycling company to recycle old computer equipment that had to be replaced they do conduct formal investigations into what happened the munder standing is was quite a long subcontractor chain from a company we were using that was called broke our o.c.c. . lease came from possibly only from one person from one of these asian company to the other because they were very difficult to be in one who is acting to walk in with.

my name is mike and i mean able to train to reach to him to. get issues and you have. good look at their surgery but they grow but they can't come very far down morning and you're making a new turn by your hair that. way you and i have nothing ignited. very much support and i have been to several places and the usual excuses is when 20 is all we give them to charity and i find these as cues rather funny. you know because it doesn't take away the problems it doesn't take away the complicity and it doesn't take away the. blatant. today business on the fish for 2nd plan for the u.s.

and space. this is. generated by developed countries should go for recycling. the shredder is done using proper equipment with a hill specialized machine. which is protected. you don't have to use the bit like the children and dump site in a. lot . of to 90 percent of the materials i reuse of

tools. let me ask you this question you have this wonderful recycling facility and so why do we still hope the little electronic was illegally being dumped in gonna for instance. they don't. go to the black market to block that i don't know but really it is that we are safe 25 percent normal consider wrist what does a go i don't know. become to my country ready ready ready ready ready ringback.

this is a tracker for money touring a waste so in this way we can control what are the movement from didn't quite extreme point to their treatment plans. so it means that one's it is installed in the us and some form of the movement to look and possibly notify them of this to mention here just for him and. i think is very important so we can get to move similarly wired to send it in the way of these things on board this go. now we have this is. a computer we can follow this ng now from days that allows. we can see down the street where we are going to the next.

i'm taking the discarded computer with a tracking device to a public collection point. i wonder where it is and. this we sold you how we control all the money devices this is the battle of the small need we have an indication of the street where we have placed so we can go that if we can in this good field so we have every other week share of the players we have received this money so it's possible to track all the way to gone there yet when we see this thing not all we can say is singh got up. it's

a last minute in the cowboys have to program up on this fancy globus he. doesn't but i was he was the in the case look i'll just go. to. the underside of the city and then don't understand it because it's going on here that little. one everywhere if it has. to be which is the given and i thought i'd been dubious and we got the door to the house and it went on in fear that another innocent going to get out to get another just because what us is really about on are not a mother this compound though a city beagle class to the problem but i think when i think you are aware those. who are last are going to go on the eve of. the media and see us come follow. the bill but i've had people yes i got to be up.

to. me directly that it was like i had a lot to let me see on time and they're looking at you know a lot of that building where stock is the list of middle is this how they see the masses look i said you buy the. less police units d n n or not will be now the good it is going to go to cisco so yes there will be a battle. what the all projects trucking the movements and flying album locations of it was what are the findings to do share that with me i think it's the by cisco so if you're in a story in some cases it was all the less than half of the devices they are rife on

a fisa authorized is limited little nyquist yes what happens is that he was just there is a bird in a market if he is you are a story because if somebody does value so if you have and you can take these ways to an illegal market where you can sell these devices do out of attaining a benefit. responsible for that you needle shipments and dumping of used from africa and gone .

on in this occasion season and you were trying to rise to expose and come out one as a crime. where does it all go wrong. for research we found it was leakage of an inversion every stage of the process here in the u.k. at least half of our waste and is about market. live in china expose that link our child gets diverted. we set up a fake company based in hong kong and we then put together sort of a weekly hit list of countries we thought were suspicious and we contacted those companies to see what they're offering. i know that's a few meetings with this company's. story was there one of our customers from the other goods in china that asked us to secure some supplies of c r t's katherine choose from from europe and so we were just presenting us i was

going to middleman if you like yourself because it's your field and we all. just before they die when it was a fern call is something these thing europe and he's able to say you know we can get your 1000 pretty quickly mean we get them from a major recycling firm he said yeah about $1000.00 or more slower and less and so there's a computer solicitors article or something else so what i've read is not a wall thing it's huge is that small towns are. he she said on the president good stuff from you know this whole staged does that he was good i bet it members of the public to you know hold a criminal to a civic i mean it's the site you know council dump site at that point these sites are run by by companies they subcontracted by the local authority local council to mines the waste but often in these locations as we found there's for this a contract thing to small companies for deals specifically with the other child

waste and instead of this material being recycled it's is simply put in containers and shipped out to places like west africa and the far east. resident. for you know that they must deal with people who are off to. the star resort could be suffered through the corner here they've been. in what is the motivation why is this so much he was been sent to got to the most recent story is just pure money pure profit if you can receive a payment from a local council. subcontracting $200.00 this waste and then instead of recycling and simply put in a container and ship it out you're basically getting paid twice or because you're avoiding the cost of recycling and you maybe give us some money to pay for clothes harvest.

stagnate idea how to bag the items stored in fun lend it golson heffron that wouldn't feel not so muncie contain a list. we have full of electronic shots when that falls on does iowa in a guy. we do want to close the loop hole which is leading to so many electrical goods ending up in developing nations being taken apart by by children bonfires and jumps.

at least kenya he had to hope miss for us in god's own fucking electoral shot into the tibetan and suppose an awfully kikes but yet one is just my nominal mischa to top it. in the center my view does this does they are marked into a name as i suppose lima. elect to live in an age say about an economic being as i say this to me and. this is a very toxic waste stream pouring out of europe we are wasting what could be and should be used again mom it would know she had a little puss puss giving him suit off to the productive it up with alectryon us next to 3 years since cousins tot mom in the suit off to the top that.

i would assume. with or without the 3. yeah bro i. should not invest in is. god's elect want. to be an athlete conscious linda exported to. the us a d. you needn't be x. partier in the us alice beleaguered with some documentation with snuff eyes most innocent was off watch that. it was interesting seeing the port in scotland and having a feel for what is actually done by way of controlling these ship names of the with

. the actually open a container my presence in the for me was so important. and historic places in west africa play model in nigeria over the last 3 years we have noticed an increase to ghana one of the usual tricks the b.c. legal exporters use is an example change in the container drop off point last month so as we can't be there to check our potentially how the material in the 1st feel fear of the container of our walking or the butts of until something find out that this is not working order. was a lot of money to be made and export must consider that we estimate the number that exports are organizing it could potentially make up to 5000 pounds in a container. of the container and inspect the material to see if it's waste them off. as waste fridge equipment not being private to them and belittle so due to the very thing you put my full functionality not of this angle

of covering the amount of exports that is placed in the us or someone because the fact of the use of resources affects what. can come a spike to check for back of the container for material. goods regular for 2 for the pool table but the camera was no longer there is yet to be endless as little as another and occasion that's why the majority of effort goes into that. is of intelligence and the use of inspections on analyst day. we've already out information for mags most of the sure the feature of the trenches have been tested when i was a small object in children and people of the governess marched up. for me i would say that the control that i saw on the port in scotland was not good enough every single item would have to be checked for functionality particularly of

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barker in doha the top stories on al-jazeera a teenager is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot by police at close range during violent protests in hong kong people gathered earlier at the victim's school to hold a silent protest tuesday's protest coincided with celebrations in china marking 70 years since the communist party took power. is in hong kong with more no major organs were hit but he's still in critical condition underwent surgery when he arrived here late on tuesday we know that his lung collapsed and he was hit in the chest earlier police identified it more as well in the shoulder but no it was squarely in the chest because there was a collapsed lung as a result and he's still critical condition so is this a tipping point it has to be you know there's really no other way to look at it

because you know the protesters have been around the streets as you mentioned you for nearly 4 months this is a new new territory we're in now police say they do self-defense they actually shot one of the protesters so this brings it to a new level u.s. secretary of state might bump has called an order for 5 of his officials to appear before congress bullying the chairman of 3 of the house committees investigating donald trump's dealings with ukraine say any attempt by pump to obstruct access to information will be illegal in his latest tweet the president denounced the impeachment inquiry as a coup peace could soon be within reach in eastern ukraine leaders have agreed an election could be held in the region controlled by russia back separatists a deal involving ukraine russia septics groups and international monitors was signed after a meeting in belarus is seen as a major move by ukraine to resolve a conflict that's killed more than 13000 people since 2014.

north korea has fired 2 missiles off its east coast towards japan just days before planned nuclear negotiations with the united states south korea and japan say they detected the launches at about 7 30 am local time they came from one sun and crashed into the sea of japan several members of congress in peru have refused to vacate the building even after the president's decision to dissolve the body on monday police have been guarding the area and preventing other politicians from re entering. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after man made on the trail stay with us. centuries it was the remote this of brazil's indigenous communities the 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 of the county tonight had their 1st

contact with the outside world in 1978 and one i catch eager to he had native language translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they brought diseases that decimated her community but that. we had a lot of land and we lived peacefully now i really fear that are very few of us the invaders are coming closer it's difficult 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 realized that now is the smoke fills the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too.

we don't have a law in this country forbidding that type of export right now electronic waste is the most traded hazardous waste it is recognized as being the most severe problem with respect to toxic trade and it still goes on every day from our ports here in the united states. i. see the country that is the. wasteful country. and produced most of the ways.

and all the different types of brokers in explorers out there say we're inside all 3 of them all the time they cozy up charities the symbol of this very nice there is help for so much money in ways. but basically it's all about filling up a seagoing contain. things. one of the things we've been able to do to demonstrate. just how prevalent this type of exporting is we will just go around to these people calling themselves recyclers and you drive by them and the beauty is that you can't hide big old 40 foot container. they're all at a loading dock so these buildings are designed so you can't drive them into the

building. so it's very easy to photograph them and they have prominent numbers and we take pictures of those and we date them. or i can type that number into a database called track trace and here we see the whole record of that particular container and it's last week's voyages it's gone from thailand to singapore now it's in new zealand. we've been starting to get this data which nobody else has was really the flows look like. it comes through kong con almost 65 percent of the time from us we didn't know that we started tracking and tracking tracking wow they're all going to hong kong.

come from every way oh uncle from the united states of america from europe and even from africa. every day do about 80 ocean going wessels coming into hong kong and up 63000 boxes in containers coming to haunt us it really is a huge number of rights. to smoke us just one some places to visit the ways and see if they can find some loopholes they think that they would falsify the descriptions of the decoration. so as they try to. deceive their customs of officials but i can tell you that

districts will get. a receipt back to high risk on janus or ships for processing. we have 2 types of x. ray scanners we can scan on to a truck in less than 2 minutes the whole truck bombings i might have a right. his movies put the content under the scanner because season one is us. for you ways that we have a number of kazan apos failures and most of them are the credits posix scrap metal scrap. we intercepted a container from the united states and processed the container container is being repatriated back to the states and then to have

a successful prosecution in hong kong the hong kong company and the us company also . we do not process each and every container coming or going out of hong kong around a while there's no known one custom administration that can process 100 percent of them. have always wanted to do something to make some change so i joined going peace in 2002 the 1st can pat is launching on the waste.

missing the amazing and the money shot we can fund of the. united states you waste in hong kong. farmland. i heard about the waste from alyse coming to hong kong 1st store in rio. i checked my mobile phone that i found here of a big contents ariel we have here.

in this region. you can see. from the 2nd book and whole. thing. coming from the human mental protection bureau in united states you know what i'm going to do with.

united states government feel we still you with the united states not send that waste to our country trying to. meet. you name to us from here to manage on. the trucks and reload in new territories and drive across 3 clubs and they have to pay a bribe and the only way they can get across or use a small coaster boat to go up the pearl river delta into areas like man high and there again you pay a bribe to unload it. when we went to look we don't see. any signs to say ok this is what we just said smail very strong the smell ok we know we arrived.

every year. median us throw in to look from overseas that the united states and european japan korea are l l l l at least home over 80 percent local people make life depends on you waste recycling. this is very typical local family will show. the world has recycled the plastic or c r t. the sky used to light to burn the plastic and cause 5 difference that. the

walk don't have any protective mask to protect the health. this isn't a daily life they will. miss family books are people used to pick up the. expensive metal for all my cheeks. and the bad seeing is the waste i see people using only going out into the river so local iran mint has been able to read. in the sun that the children jump into a river mystery splat is full of hate. but

always feel ready side. of meals when he even mental friendly is good but people health well harmed and the local environment also well. really what's happening is people are extremely wise in cost you don't want to solve the problem you'd leather let someone else deal with it and you'll never have to pay for it you don't ever get a bill from china saying you contaminated my land you have to pay. we are all the time appalled which is one of the biggest balls that we have and discomfort. is so much from your little ships coming

in here from all over the wall. it is a very lovely beach here i mean a coastline in ghana here it's marvelous is beautiful. but it's sudden so you hobbes to realize that most of the ships that are coming into the port made it would contain is the poles that helped so much in that when they would say. we'll be environmental protection agency you know that it's the responsibility of educating or no more and so somebody the moment the problems. so when you say the countries of origin a little has been shipped to god when it is

a country survey of the do. we realize that about 60 percent of it comes from here and then the new used equipment not the qualified as we just. so for me the whole thing is being is for economic reasons and it is all organized like cooking business is organised. so that makes a community there's a cascading effect big money for the book as who are mostly europeans then how do the middle grow being africans who are involved in any clinton isn't bringing them here we also get a certain proportion and then when it comes to look at market then do it was all in a statue that was on selling and other things what is the way old what should be the solution we didn't have laws so we have developed a draft policy which was in the palin meant to be passed say that we can prosecute in country once we have the laws passed nationally that is our empowerment and

we're going to stop it and challenge any government is to say things. that you do to get on my team responded by 6 months doing that mr keeshan and then we got even undercover press agents. it was was one of the biggest areas that we looked into for example most fraud have been through the evil east system. the stones have a form of valuation for such home appliances so it's an evolution is next to

nothing. somebody goes who clearly used comes from the west's and you look at it as condemned goods we are not going to pay the value that you would be ordinarily noble. he does this thinking about them but meant that not even a ministry not even the customs offices all that they care about is that you say you do for them to be used kooks ways that my cat from to amy i am going to. the intake right instead of credit taking those. upon which. you. may know from the footage you see this as of his as walking through the 1st afforded him cells that became somebody think it's useful. to scrap the law to come in on this done by at the polls waiting for

a bias to declare or declare some of the system to claim that most of them must occur and that's way to take if. it was not then they and it would ease me into check if you could see if i had a disability fund but told that this is it if we have a forum for example if you think about pay people and i was the only way can really be about 2 or 3 but then if you would buy a little reliable and do some repair work on it you'll want to give it to mechanics tools you can look at it to see what had become repaid. with you and get it in the. evening go to. look at it.

and. this machine didn't need to find out about god this is not. an action that is next week and then this one through the 4th wall from the legion of egypt. if i find out when the forces continue some of the names when seen in. africa is no easy feat for a film guest on 3 guys no easy to it off isn't one just. the same since.

the who comes to buys schools of the season 2 things. by george a good man's about 90 percent of the man's would want to depend on these 2nd homes that provide. all the new forms new laptops but it is still expensive but people going up the money good will for these the. people of slate particularly some of those behind it should read books a bit while we're trying to bridge the digital divide between you merica and in the wrist watch. but the reality is that these computers didn't last and did not helping anybody here. in. the group are.

believe it we're going to come back under the knife thank you very much ok to business or places. what you know of any of this is that the primary area and most of the children come from deprived homes that's right. you read it and all right. oh my this is a pool of money coming in the money to buy everything but you know. when all was brought everything was taken all right i says tell us in dan you saw that if you press it to get into not come up during the off was needed and they

were tingles off it's really worked for how long how many months. before why a year. not fun on that day who it is obsolete said virus a tad dame to deploy it's possible if not take the disk. so this is not that. this is the old look where they are not liking them when it is wilkie so the break into 2 with on the process is not working out to buy some memory and some heidi's and others the change they look at it price in town is a specific kind. of thing is going to control when to be told with burning coal companies you wouldn't hold a. positive those old equipment dust up and recycled or dispose of and then as this is just a hobby to dump on one to the electrical items. here

you find young boys some age between well let's say 5 from 5 on what's you know breaking this month cling to these computers and television sets and it burned up most wall to salvage the metals and particularly couple. to go to waive it and then the middle name would put these things together and sell them to companies and they're shipped to every part of the world companies that would need them to buy china you know anybody who wants a. meeting the people who own these are literally right to life owning god

was indeed a mixed feeling for me ongo saddam is then of course. george. isn't a very difficult thing going numb very much 1st for him to but i'm not going to give up. my government should not be a place to recycle or disposal for the wisdom of a couple of your colleagues and every country should learn to disposal recycle it's own we just. know a lot of the kids tell me that well when we break these things we burned we have paid deeks miscreants headaches. isn't a call for us to run i mean that they have all respiratory problems they're not able to breathe free will.

in 10 years i want to see the kids in school i would like to see the kids do what children do to lay in very clean surroundings and not state all the other dumb side and burning all these things. because to them it has to stop. oh. oh.

hello there still staying very warm and pretty dry across much of the southeast of the united states then we've got this line of cloud and this is bringing with it some severe times and this is the dividing line really between the very warm dry as and then this much cooler behind as you can see quite a line of. the way up towards the northeast into new york where we have seen in the last couple days we will continue to see is a slight warmer into southern canada and also across northern sections of the united states that rain with the snow. that is another winter storm heading to british columbia tom it is not too bad. the cool in new york at 19 and a very 35 celsius there in atlanta and then let's head to south into the been widespread. across much of the region and of course we've seen some very heavy

amounts of rain into southern and western mexico of what was a tropical storm now look at this this is a bridge that collapsed and all that water this is. and this is the damage that those rains can do but the good news is the rain is actually easing out of the picture we will see more across central america and fairly widespread particular much of cuba but wednesday and thursday it is an improving paycheck. for. people checking account still. i think it is possible to fully cleek. the premises all forensic evidence but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned and missed that he wanted to give an exit and i'm going to stop speaking about the whole. before even the saudi government just a. murderer in

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