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as announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial it includes kenneth starr prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago and the celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz who has represented jeffrey epstein o.j. simpson roman polanski and mike tyson the trial will be led by white house counsel cipel loney and trump's lawyer jay sekulow the legal process was set in motion in the senate on thursday. the 1st aerial images of the tell the kaino in the philippines show the extent of the devastation there tens of thousands of people have been displaced and have been advised not to return home because of fears the volcano could erupt again risking it all is the program coming up next looking at the libyans risking snakes floods and landslides to deliver brazil not harvest.
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you knew him for. the fire in the humid undergrowth the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian. i'll go along the way i'm going to my mother get the. ball into. the place is infested with insects and snape. jan code the eldest of the feelings had a terrible experience and no longer use the phrase and. its ethical call point of
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a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there. i was in with a handful of offended me what i think on the mark siegel and it may have been what it had been the mental the it may lead the whole thing come on up with them and when we fight for them in the air and i've got them in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shelves with the batman but her great fear is torrential that i think. this is much. better on. for hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shells around the giant know. if. you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't what i mean one of the
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i know the above that i am what you are on your but i'm an author from mindful of every photograph and handle. the shell the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the know that are exploited worldwide. chopping the shelves requires skill the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if needed if caught and then forget about it if that if. i don't i would be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted one for the record cold arsala. i moved there for a long while i their medical if. by the end of the day they filled
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2 bags of brazil nuts but then must be heavy at this point and they're going to holler and a little got to. about one of these but nature often provides solutions he. feels. if. the tropical rain threatens to raise an old trade to try. the family decides to leave the deep forests to see that they can.
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live. plane flew on the way home the young couple who had known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of notes will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any mole because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents 26 year old genco is the head of the family and has 15 mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies on claudia her
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dream. genco younger brother roma who's 18 will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs them on their own for the public they see. if each give us some. of them become those. few. looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. that's a good drama thanksgiving when. a.
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$50.00 or $0.25 a kilo one be enough to pay for romance university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rots due to the moisture. to avoid losses egger must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague he. planted in the month of may. despite his troubles edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if.
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a taxi has just dropped off the son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing the. moment these women point of view none of us can go. on the middle of the middle trying to be there but then the single message. this made me out again is he says there will be another nickname. you get when they get out of the motor me on the radio because we came here. with the feelings for you. with your. precious cargo of notes begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz.
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edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. jim to make him. feel that way but yeah i was out in the fall but that wasn't going to get what i wanted to feel like. in 3 days' time it's back to school alan 1370 kilometers away. if he's late as afraid his ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic.
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across a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. just. like listen i phone call. going to madame's us and. the doctors disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arrived.
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at gare is one of the 1st to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that people from boca raton or some of them but not. in the bus on. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty rajon around. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring the safe. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. thank .
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god but i'm a gun. because i'm going to showboat looking for when they go. the ferries no longer being pulled. and begins to drift. it's dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and. at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guy the ferry across. and get you know the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel
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and the food this trip will hardly make enough to live. comfortably the most on him going to the middle. yeah i mean doing a full name charlie made the best history that us was going down a special. after 3 days and 445 kilometers and get completes the 1st stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industry. today 100000 people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the precious nuts arrive every day. because of the dam many will rot even before they're open.
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to be dried they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountain from notes around. the operation is repeated at the other end of the warehouse. i think. that i've been able i've got a lot of lighting. in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the no. i miriam the director of the factory enforces measures to deal with this that some other london a lot of money is that it was only part of it is a. lot of yes
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a. lot. and inside a 1000 workers mostly women are manually dissecting the not. a good idea because i mean this is amazing that particular. kid was in the basement to suffer because there was such a boy again it was that said was he of was. in fact several members of the same family you know taking turns on a single machine. this family averages less than $360.00 a month. has worked here for 2 years.
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such and such. was such a was such. a was. gutting. the work because repeat the same the kind of. old a long. time but it was such. now. paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly develop illnesses. get
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a leg up. it will without. the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around $30.00 a kilo. lego has just learned that the road to le pears is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how will get alan back in time for the new school year. the unseasonable rains continue and the river beni has now flooded. the main road to the capital is submerged. the country is split into.
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this year the flooding has been extensive with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital of pairs. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options. this time and then i do but i stumble come on. she want to hold them off but the. police come and tell him of the fun of them. but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. but
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i do know i get it but i don't care but. fed up with weighty ramiro risked everything. and the best of subtlety and the she went back to the. us how about how. he could easily be swept away by the cover. that. he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you're no good what about on amadeo he may
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go to go from we probably go yes go go to stalin look at the 1st gulf war to keep out the stuff that no. one knew not the man of it all say about. ok there which you didn't bother coming up. i'm going to home as i get positive going without a because you know i was going without what i want what god. the rain doesn't stone and bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the pines. but now it's
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a whole hill that's went down over the road. several hostile the fleet has impulsivity about how to get make it that will happen but it does not. stop to look at any of. these courts have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the road as 100 meters below. got a bit of there's another number up at an average one for 80 so this. does not affect the much of the stairs. to travel those are angry they say the road was poorly constructed maintenance teams are overwhelmed and the trying to open an alternative route to believe they can miss the moment in quite good moments with the political view at c.s.u.
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one moment that i do will be. the most vivid for them because i was he i would be able to put out. what i thought my life and see was you must refuse you. again see and we're going to go on with this thing is for us to see give him time to say see about how on this program tussle if you're not in the official what will you be a misstep. the trouble is have no choice. but to brave the danger. stuck on the other side the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. they're not really sure if they're all saying that is it was or just yes i'm not sure if it is
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none of them really like in a bus i must. want to box out of my for a little bit of a 3rd test yes i guess it's really you know my mother you don't have to feel good but a little bit of fun you know. when are you going you know about what is going through the kitchen as she could hear you john i don't quite know how to compose jumping and i have a way with i don't know if you're going to share this with much of that because there's no no there's been a day or you see the only one i have that i want the way that i think that's. going to connect at the. most and whether this is the one of my that's the best thing. ramiro will have to wait another 4 days be full being able to continue.
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at 3800 meters above sea level. as the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding. from young allen made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government. normal support your money can only pull we'll put you. in a shuttle or other workers that are yesterday tell you and you're not in a house with a stint with his truck stuck in the embers and edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs michael money her and nicole the success or drop in or most story asking him to hold on to yesterday's can or will this make not going to easy for me as for stand of a bunny for me despite its natural beauty year after year
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investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in on the quick look at the headlines this hour libyan warlord khalifa haftar has secretly flown to greece for talks with the prime minister and foreign minister greece's criticised its exclusion from a un backed peace conference in berlin on sunday russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will both be at the conference when it's a good the most important thing though is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the security council supports the conclusions from the conference if the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional can.

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