Skip to main content

tv   Fiji Destroying Paradise  Al Jazeera  March 7, 2020 6:32am-7:01am +03

6:32 am
police from both sides trying to keep them away tens of thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey opened its borders with the european union the greece has been using tear gas and was kind to repel them saying it was trying to enter illegally. i saw has claimed responsibility for the tank in afghanistan's capital which is left at least 30 people the head of the country's peace council was giving a speech in kabul when shots were fired the country's chief executive who was there but he escaped unhurt is the 1st major attack since the taliban signed that peace deal with the united states. got more news channels here in al-jazeera right after one of many. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so
6:33 am
blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. on the pristine shores of this p.j. in arms this. is truly this is not your lens or you are me. really isn't. a chinese developer is building a large resort and casino basically tell me you know we're taking your land. feel like i'm living next door a lot. i mean no respect for anyone else except for money but locals say the company is breaking the law and destroying their home the good fortune this is. one of just this one i want to investigate what price the genie is paying for is the development.
6:34 am
the crystal clear waters of malone no island feature. we're going to design to fiji's biggest resort development a development that's caused serious environmental damage last year we heard that china develop sort of all the land next to us and moved in australian navy and folks in fiji and join a just and another see things and own the land along the chinese development you know when when we rocked up we went really ready john to read feel this in a little bit but along here we here at home are taught right now but there was 2 or 3 here just digging up the really hill is it is in which. to be. fluid going everywhere and i'm just going hell for leather. all without permits and i for sure i mean it's no nothing and i think prime minister is so strong on his
6:35 am
stance against the informant being wrecked you know he's is really being in the un and it's also what he's doing it's just that in his own backyard i don't think he really understands how much getting wrecked by what these developers are doing and tell me about the tree and all that they have dug out here we worked out was about $4000.00 square metres of raif and they've dug and they stuck paul that either on their land. and then they've also you know built this makeshift sort of piece of land in front of what used to be a bitch about 30 made is of illegal gracie's there and then they've made a rod through them and drives around the corner to access their land and mike rode bicycles that used to be all mangroves and modern because their land has no access they bought land with no access so wanted they do about that which they've just taken over alan and. did you help them out about apps yeah i spoke to dickson peng a while ago about it. and years ahead of us develop as a director of the company for a sole real estate limited basically told me you know. you are taking it anyway
6:36 am
we're taking your land right. this is on the other side of the reed gates behind. to the right. this is what it looked like before free so illegally reclaimed it said the hard toil was he said what you say this year the whole todd mark was here and that's a legally don't agree so they have just come and i'm a full time. full. yeah so tell me how i can put this fence up inside. i shouldn't be allowed to do they're going to approval to do that. but after being here for well not very long and the 3 so representative primarily to confront us have you might not know if this is this is never never
6:37 am
a side here. yes it does. so let's go i don't know which is on the right over the 2nd we go through the go to hell and no no no but this is our land this is here this is this is not your learned this is not your land no but this is not your land this is these this is no you know no it's not dixon no dixon is dixon's many of the do. not want development don't know it's not dixon line you know you're going yeah i mean. you can get the police know this is there you can get the police is an injunction on this and. a layout.
6:38 am
so try to go around it. the courts have now deemed that free so is entitled to have this theme. because it blocks public access to the for sure if a neighbor and folks the only why through is around the bank you get a felon. you get a felony you get off never leave. you get off. you get off land. get off while you're called here. this is how little you know i don't know who will do what stop it stop him this is a lame these out along know why i'm ok. this is. what i've. got what i get off now are you
6:39 am
a little bit right my mike said to me you know what i just what i want. this is a good deal you'll notice to believe the blanks knight the boundary of the students free so he's. down most of the trees here this is clearly this part of the land is behind the free so gates your kind if you know that's full on but it's. sure to come here. and have this guy questions. yeah it sucks you know it's. you know what do you say you know i mean are you coming for this i mean if a.j. you know me to have a look at the land that we've invested in and doing the right thing with the jane family step aside. any stand i would end with the middle what's that all about what's he going to do you know like come on noel and start hitting us with it. like
6:40 am
what. look we're on ellen and look where the offense is. is you can ask me. you. if you. were going to be a movie. of course not i don't know anyway if you are in the lens that someone can stop you. so what do you think about this. movie. that daybreak has that yeah this is the day. so you can see it you know it's all.
6:41 am
it's there's just tons and 10 hundreds in tones of dead rafe further in their property. where they've just got stuck paul to. extinguish the mango forest. and build the rice for tourists. just devastated devastated for the fiji and for fiji is just thinking can this happen you know the company does come in. from any part of the world in the us. i guess i feel like i'm living next door to a lawless monster. a moment no respect for anyone else except for money and i agree governments.
6:42 am
well i am going to. be up 1000000000 but i don't want to blow up on you. the local people all think mallow island want the world to know they are crying for the land. the only way to get a good look at the land the thought of the mess that resort development free cell is from the year. 350 barrier is were planed here many of the implicit over the water. obvious is the illegal recombination of the food and by. the dread jing and smashing of an easter maajid 5000 square meters of raif to build a boat channel the in illegal roads built on the for sure using the deed rate.
6:43 am
is the gash is true the mangrove is destabilization of the hillsides causing exceeds the 3rd thing and. in rubbish going into critique did seaside areas. that few drawings previously flown over the saw it crashed in there were rumors that the developer has an jamming thing that the 3 to draw in least sophisticated work is tried to knock it out of the air by throwing rocks at it. even 30 in the chief has cooled. having never gated the reefs in the dock we arrive at sully village for a meeting of the elder is. the chiefs have
6:44 am
a court injunction against friso over the lane and is ship inside to the chinese as well as to stop free so on. the damage to the environment we think this. is the. in the never to. be given to them by me but i suspect. they're referring to free so ignoring stall. in the government not doing anything about the goodness of the very seriously. you're the one. they walk. the. walk of. the plan is see they're going to front up to free cell and they've invited us to go with them so that.
6:45 am
one justice. the early morning we made the birds from the village. no right to stop them going on to the side. to the food. morning. i'm good with them documents from the court the people from the village want to bring an issue of the flames and ensure that any food that decent creation of the area is wrong and immediately. we will be stopping people getting crabs fishing. yeah stopping the right of the people from the breach. collecting crabs has become an outside when. they pull. planet. is right on the many groups when they leave the
6:46 am
crips ok so if the rules just going into the man cards with the craft. they don't even when they come to the village everywhere in the bush. which was. given to them in the school and on the other side of it they do that. for the people he. looked. at me he is the fijian director for free so we don't have time for him he's only one. but i don't. know i don't care you can do ok i'm not telling you that because it's a matter you want to police. why you want to punish to come here 1st thing you know . do what you want i won't worry. we know them well fiji you don't
6:47 am
know the law. i don't think you know the lord no. otherwise manny is also the man responsible for selling the chinese develop is the lease to sorry has a drawing to do that is and it contains should is an understatement how. to channel the loss is it no no no this is not too pleased. i know for you to know you don't. know me you. know i think only that you don't know if they know me and know my land mine are also use my piece of land and the full of the few sr is my no some are just might not want to see mine. tell me why i was being prosecuted it took to the law about why they're paying for it and why it's very self is going to everything is not money she's going to pay everything that's going about money we have. that's
6:48 am
all about the money yes this isn't about money is because i'm quite typical on the story for you so is doing for you as much if not move filming with a film crew. that plays eventually arrive and calm the situation down in the villages agreed to leave without going on to the thought in wait for the cool decision. we continue filming. constantly raised by free samples in. this was repeated lies your own going out cameraman we underwater to film damage to the brain. the man working for free so security. id. i take. it you think.
6:49 am
i don't need to give you a. and own a good. business if i didn't tell you anything i tell you the in the usual pre-sold 3 of involving. we wouldn't say. the theory needs to. be. after 3 days of filming. and back to the main. we take a small boat instead of the theory to avoid unwanted attention. in the travel 3 hours to fiji's capital says. this. it's the public. street.
6:50 am
previous attainments to get hold of the dixon paying have ended in the phone being hung up so to find him here. there is no one in the reception area so we pull into the office. to get away to think about the. development. and then environmental damage that's being done in. we need to make it. ok when all that i. know you've. got here has not been so well. because we just want to talk to you have a. situation. well that all the work is being done without environmental provo i think. really readers of these.
6:51 am
take particular note of this man a former fijian army officer who would free cell who play a food the part in this story. is you might be breaching a court order. we leave the office in what seems pretty much a nonevent but as they say anything can happen in fiji and there non of it will soon become the big event so the court will make a determination on those issues we interviewed a lawyer keen chambers who was presenting the soul of you village in the supers with the land adjoining free so when a knock on the door. outside is the man from the free so office he watches as the policeman tells us we need to go to the station the allegation criminal trespass.
6:52 am
we're being taken in by police for asking questions at the free so office a few hours earlier. sorry place it down the if you've been down on it's coming back up just because of what a pick up in my career. he said i've got about the play station for criminal. criminal what. i've had here. so welcome to. it's what. is it with you. what does it mean. for us and i want to get out of the country wall. for. could ever riot there's
6:53 am
a. back down stay is the placement and we've been patiently way. wants to get going noticed the phrase i still creeping around across the road and then we get. up off the top of this is. a police station which will see a lot of over the next 2 scene hours. initially foreign so i get hold of the new zealand embassy in fiji. already and. we'd be in this room for hours on end as police interview for a soul stuff. eventually we are taken to a holding room where we spin the night on the floor. only the next morning things move pretty fast food business is the commission and the police himself he'd had
6:54 am
a phone call from the then prime minister frank bonny madama. be our relief. and now a night we a picked up by the police motorcade and taken to parliament because the prime minister wants to apologize to us for being detained. the question was why did police on such as south sudan complain from are you so and why hate it attracted the most important people in fiji. with the prime minister's stats with him asking how we knew about the phrase development story. i feel. he. feels so do you. feel you. are.
6:55 am
i just feel. i. feel. i i don't. feel you see. this is that space age. where. you come in. was. 300. and 30. 5.
6:56 am
question for the. future. of. our 2. 100. 50 thank you thank you thank you thank you. who within one day if they had morning today to fiji and government has officially stole the phrase so resolute. government officials have revived free sos the environmental pyramids because of the repeated breaches of its conditions. with the environment payments go on and the high court ordered free so to pay the costs of restoring the land and for sure the mangrove
6:57 am
forests and the reef to its original condition. the voices of the people have finally been good to just a few days of extraordinary activity.
6:58 am
with a plummeting birthrate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one no one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment companies breast power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these developments we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breast passed by a nearing future energy full of struggles full of pleasure the rewards of the evil done with a little and with time this is you done with the pieces you do and with. me yes in
6:59 am
france when i get our bond film an intimate look at life in cuba or song daughter of course i'm going to pass hammy when i came out of a sort of long ago i may hang in my cube at this time on al-jazeera. when i entered the spittle for modified current $600.00 plus power i feel the happiest. women tearing up the track in the west bank. challenge stereotypes. living life in the fast lane it's like putting the brakes of. the sisters on the street.
7:00 am
and. arrests in saudi arabia a number of high profile members the role fabry have been to taint including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef. life and turn up the program. it absolutely can be a catastrophe. absolute devastation new concerns about the coronavirus off the number of cases worldwide tops 100 styles. 24 hours of an easy column is a ceasefire in serious into that still holds. a new generation of top.

58 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on