i think they're both interest to take notes on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the sentiments a man you take it will bring you the news in kind of fast. poleski as far north as one of the world's last pristine environments but now the trumpet ministration wants to let oil companies drill here as campaign is take on the white house and the energy industry indigenous communities are divided between those who want jobs and those who want to preserve a unique landscape and way of life reporter zoe daniel went to find out more.

alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge known as i am well. protected by the u.s. government but also contested for decades. clinging to the icy tundra on the shore of the both at sea in the arctic ocean is cutover it some unlikely tourist hot spot at the edge of the world. are going to switch from barrier yeah lots of over there do it.

you're. a resident of more than 30 years today a local god robert thompson is taking me out into the lagoon to be the main attraction. the polar bear is. around for more now because you have a church where the ice should not in utter and they can begin to come ashore comes in a form we're going to sink or swim nation or float around break ship. or come ashore . making. it utterly breathtaking to say the polar bears in their natural environment but it's also kind of sad when you consider that just

a few decades ago they would have a mass right up to the edge of the village and now it's hundreds of kilometers away . scientists estimate that there are about 25000 polar bears left in the wild here in the u.s. they listed as a threatens. bases and they might be extinct in alaska by 2050. that makes qatar take a break make a few 2 arrests cain to catch a glimpse and a photo of polar bears in the wild before they go on. their alaska has always been on my bucket list this is my 2nd trip to alaska polar bears they are incredibly adorable. i mean you just like family you just want to play with them of course it's not safe. we see these bears are beautiful she and i should never be saying but. they're in

peril they're going to be gone they become extinct. people caused it. and now they're aware of it we should do what we could mitigate it but not many people are especially the president we have no taking a shot of the parish agreement with every road for around or trying to open up more resources for the world but even here in oregon. the tovey can it surrounds or at the center of a battle between big oil and conservation. less than 200 kilometers from here is the country's most productive oil field put out by.

this is the trans alaskan pipeline which traverses 3 mountain ranges and more than $500.00 rivers and streams across icy tundra from the top to the bottom of alaska to deliver or oil to americans and of course that's what it's all about delivering energy to a hungry nation which even now continues to increase its consumption of crude oil as the oil field begins to run low donald trump has big plans to open up and wa. but not without a 5. i'm on my way to make the indigenous people leading the opposition.

i made up of 15 communities across alaska and canada. this. is seal skin then a date demented is coordinating the campaign from the central alaskan city a favor. really can vary. our ancestors lived and survived off this land for thousands of years and now we have a government coming and saying you can destroy what we've held sacred for so long we're not only being attacked by this government but we're being attacked by climate change and i worry i worry about my children survival everything that i know now i cannot. and that's why i think it's important that we use our voices.

most live in remote areas like. an aptly named settlement on the age of the arctic circle. the only way to get here is by. it's home to about 150 people. everything in there about community is flown in and prices are high. people here rely on hunting the caribou to get the through the long winter months.

when i 1st harvest my 1st care but i was 9. even at a young age they started teaching us only take what you need. that's what i was really introduced to you know this fight you know to protect these you know. while hunting is a rite of passage the tribes young men like general john see themselves as custody ins of the land and animals slant was set aside for us we're doing our job you know protect you know as lanky peers. we handed out no we cut it up into pieces and make sure that not everybody gets

a good meal or been for them a few where they can hold. 300 gram they'll say hey. this is the way that we were taught and this is the way we practice and this is the way we. can pass on our teachings. the guys have killed this one caribou and you can say that they're starting to process it in the field of pull the n. trials out there taking the skin off and then they're going to pack it down to the village and cut it up and distribute it to the community and they really pride themselves on nothing going to weist. these are you have to try campbell strips now you know. and that's how we eat it. you make an even case where. sarah

james is one of the elders hard this very tenderly could be good for toothless people in here so i gotta warn people so hard that's how they spread their power and the smoke and. right now as winter learns she's busy preserving caribbean nation which has been a staple food for the gene for generations we were one whole nation of people and we call ourselves a good and you're in the bone marrow. and that's how we always feel if. we were colonized into a village because a force was trying each patient on us and to have a school or to have our kids to go to school we have to we have to colonize into a village who are we can some wives. sarah james has been campaigning for much of

her life to protect the arctic national wildlife refuge her community is deeply concerned that drilling for oil and gas will disrupt the caribou migration. of 75 years and i can remember since 1950 and it's always been my way of life protect the care bill it's nothing new and nothing new to any anyone up last. sound we have. everywhere around here already made. and the oil company as part of full we had a great education to do because they don't even know there was good and they don't

even know there was an arctic glitch someone then don't even know there was an arctic refuge. the oil companies want taxes to the area known as the 10 hour to a 1.5 near vegas why the tundra at the top of the refuge this is where the far right wing porcupine cariboo give birth. it's a sacred ground it's a birthplace is it god's got it by gold plate that means a sacred place for the life begins and to us is also our birth place because it wasn't for the care bull who we want be here today.

to get to the town or to from our village you have to cross the 1100 kilometer long brooks ryan church the highest mountains in the arctic circle. the mole of the 19000000 i cut arctic national wildlife refuge is the largest protected wilderness in the united states. this narrow strip where the refuge makes the sea is home to many of the optics diverse wildlife spaces. this is the heart of the arctic national wildlife refuge one of the most pristine environments in the world and it's here that the trumpet ministration and the oil companies want to drill.

this is where care of an activity this is the part of the cabin grounds of the porcupine carol her and what we're walking on right here i'm here with retired biologist and conservationist friend malla is a caribou expert who spent more than 20 years studying this special place this is a shed you know her from an adult female caribou when you find out hers lying on the tundra your collar at lotusphere in a cabin ground. it's unclear how much oil actually lies under the tundra and exploratory will drooled in the mid eighty's apparently delivered mega results but the oil companies won't release the data files now the trumpet ministration wants to sell off the drilling leases by the end of this year. in my opinion the rush has to sell lisas

before there's another election. it's a simple. and they're trying to push it through well they have the force and the power of the white house to do this right so it's a crime quite honestly that. the american people are being brought up. if the laces are approved this landscape could be crisscrossed with in strips roads pipelines and treatment plants. more the years working up here i feel. i feel the pull and. i feel that the land is speaking for that through us. i think that's happened.

and nation comes from take turns. at squabbling yes and what is. your cost or disaster. if we lose a special spice. it's a great loss. to all mankind. if. the only tell the refuge fits home to the people.

the majority of residency of support drilling for oil in the town are 2. generations have hunted both whiles. the waters are a lot warmer than usual. we don't have an eye for sure. and it's been happening for years in a row now it's really weird not to see i wrote. 56 year old. has gone white most of her life. since i was sick. patients. learn to control go where.

i don't know. they have the right to free wild. up to feed the community. but it's a time slot. where. i'm. like that. is taking. me like paying you. he's paid good it's not yeah it's good. oh. tracks the polar bear into the village and the locals run a $24.00. troll. they're

smelling it and they want to get to it and there's no way to get their seal right now they've got no i use to hunt. so they're coming in to try and get whatever they can he feel sorry for that they. know where. i live with my mom my life there are no listen for me they get my good. i could make money out there for. a minute. there's not much money here in qatar because the oil industry is the mind's will some income helping fund the school and buy 6 services like power and sewerage.

recently the oil companies paid for and i sell up to kate while me saif from the pope is. you can see this is why. matthew rexford is president of the kaktovik n.e.p. at cooperation. with all of these are heavy metals and serious ya know the heavier equipment it's tends to be more bare proof yes i think a very scary and then also a few days before oh yes yes. we're regs but he's met his mom she's pregnant about the choices that my. the community are for their companies wanting to drill. when i 1st heard about

i do like. the. opportunity. what it can do for you. i think it'll help it'll help. when the refuge was established the new p.r. of qatar vic what consulted. after generations of government interference murray is clear on who should make decisions about the land. god gave us this land to live why for us not the government but the people that live here. why should they all get involved in how we live here we're doing fine everything's

here everybody's getting involved in our problems we live here we make the rules not there you don't live here we do we shouldn't have to listen to them wouldn't not drilling for oil help protect your way of life. probably. but you know saying do it anyway. it's going to happen base ace just going to happen. it's happening already. a smarter so we don't want it to. anwar and alaska one of the great sights of energy in the world and i didn't think it was a big deal and then one day a friend of mine was in the opposite is it true. that you have anwar in the bill i said i don't know who cares they said well you know reagan tried every single president tried and not one president was successful in getting at the bush years

when everybody i said you got to be kidding i love it now and after that we fought like hell together and work. creator we had you for guidance today we're honest you're the guy who is in the right direction provide us the knowledge that we need to protect our home ones and protect the complaint her book hers and all the tools that. make their way to the arctic national wildlife refuge which in later but i did demented takes the fun to washington d.c. . i'm always ois from my family and. trying to educate the world of what my elders told us they're the ones who lived and survived off these lands they're the ones who got knowledge from thousands of thousands and thousands of years. being hair of living where we are not only here to use our voice for our

people but for all people for your children and your grandchildren. we are here to speak for our animals because they can't tell us when they're sick they can't tell us when they're hungry and they can't tell us about the impact that they're dealing with with climate change we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas. the democrat held house voted to prevent drilling. while the administration is determined to push ahead the fun isn't over yet. i think we're going to come together to stand up against this administration. i think we are i see it i see a lot of people that never usually work together unite. and i have to hold on to that how.

how the weather still will settle down in the arabian peninsula another westley way has gone should you probably call it that is what produced the flooding in yemen the under storms over consarn last couple of days before that so not seen the end of them yet i'm still got a few shots coming on what it's like another developing kelso that's windy weather that will be quite dusty in bahrain for example and q 8 might just catch qatar a few showers art of that and particularly in kuwait and in central iraq and you

couldn't rule out a shower for the south once again with the potential for flooding in yemen somewhere sinuses like these anywhere to be honest and still cloud elsewhere not that many showers i was a warming trend in the eastern med so the event you're into the twenty's not even maybe the end he says he's if you really want to war. that's right north africa expect worse the rain to be further south and it is still just about in the tropics the breezes that were quite strong through chad aren't as strong as they were this is the hot area and this streak is bringing rain tomorrow to tell you how often can you say it's raining in mauritania what it is that it wasn't a sudden algeria that's crossing difficult as well but so because of where it's like to be persistent the rainy daily showers are in cameroon and the capital produces 3 days of the.

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villages back into the ground. hundreds of thousands displaced. mass murder. that is compelling evidence of genocide and genocide against. the gambia has taken me to the international court of justice accusing its government of orchestrating a campaign of destruction against the rocking the people there will be no tolerance of human rights violations and the kind. of thing you did he added but now we have

evidence showing that for many rohingya the nightmare continues what they want about what began as well. as the well it awaits a verdict when no one east has been given access to years of secret videos. and we travel to me and must record in state to meet a people still facing danger discrimination and death. the gambians case is centered around the brutal military crackdown which began in late 2016 in response to attacks by an armed group. it led to a mass exodus of rohingya into neighboring bangladesh in the months that followed.

norm but to be a little a mother a bottle to be a mother going to live yet another one i'm wondering about i didn't ever come up with real money to model. this video is one of many filmed by local activists determined to expose the royal hangers plight to the world. they are a rare glimpse inside rakhine state where journalists access is severely restricted . dania. honeycombed. one o one east has reviewed and verified more than 3 years worth of footage it tells a horrific story on my show 100. 1 and panama canal who really. he. says.

at a secret location outside min ma we meet a former member of the activist group for his safety while hiding his identity money. when it got up to all of them i did not want to become a billionaire i mean to do that if i don't want to be out of india. and we're going to. you know believe it you can look at it as it went out of the family. he filmed this interview just before the mass exodus in 2017 that so hundreds of thousands of rohingya fleeing bangladesh.

got. into the revival of. nearly 3 years on we managed to track down the woman in the video. she now lives in bangladesh inside the world's largest refugee camp. the scars on karim. are a constant reminder of what happened to her in myanmar she says hundreds of soldiers attacked her home in church been a village on the 27th of august 2017 when she and her baby were shot. why bad blood out of that i get a handle on i don't want to meditate or go by that there was no way that i want to or don't i want to be on how little love allowed the woman my life and the mother would have brought up no matter what i did karim as

husband was also killed in the attack along with 3 other members of their family and hundreds of her fellow villagers will go to. my flat out there was. all of that the other woman by the mother by the letter got up and a lot and i got another little bit and i wonder what about anger we're going to get out of mattingly what i want i want i wanted to let the little guy do what they want to let him go to the not only my own mind all of the way out there would. at the international court of justice in the hague on sun suchi says trippin was one of a dozen main conflict areas in 2017 pages of the most importance of the court assess a situation obtaining on the ground in rakhine dispassionately and aker's regretfully the gambia is place before the call she insists the military was merely responding to an. that had targeted more than 30 police stations and that army base in north

america but she also says this it cannot be ruled out a disproportionate force was used by members of the defense says in some cases in this is a god of international match humanitarian law if law crimes have been committed by members of the mostest and services they will be prosecuted to all military justice system in accordance with the most wants to. the case against myanmar has galvanized own son suchi supporters back home. one day before her testimony at the international court of justice thousands gathered in min most largest city young go on in support of their leader. and i am

mom and dad. and i need them i think and i am going to yet at midnight and then on. the for many here they can be as case is an assault on the dignity and soften up their country. they insist the rule him go off for notice to get the wrong hands. and the one who is right no matter who had done that no they know your little bit down on the one hand i do know that now no one is you. boss for him to refugees now sheltering in bangladesh in system in ma is their homeland. so tara back on doesn't know if she can ever return

she lost her husband during a military operation in august 2017 they lived in. one of the 12 areas on su cheese list as they were fleeing her husband decided to go back to knock that door when the bab said that the little little reunited there anderson this is going to keep. going to going to continue like that. and i mustn't let you did it and it. would have been a bunch of you and i did and it's egg. she. wanted to get it. so tara is now struggling to look off to her 5 children. the youngest is just a total the most wonderful of the only imo but let it happen it is there and they did not have what it would a little has led to the beloved the. more people get out of losing not looking good

in a long way to the delight that he didn't. throw over the side of mohamed i assent his family also fled the same area for bangladesh in 2017. he's kept a record of what happened there in the debilitation i'm a lot of a lot of the got. a whole lot of it on the one of. a lot i know one of the but i kind of like india out of all about you know the level of really put it to you well 'd you know the other one goes all the other k.b.'s among bit about. videos filmed by residents show the extent of the destruction. i assess the attack was unprovoked.

out of out of the media was all i wanted out of out of the meeting of the people and all i would then get out i got out on the line i did call my all to get out the other side of the learned a long time and they had a lot of. monologue about the one other bit ones and that a lot of junk then. the other fish but other than that a lot of what i did out of it's really good and i did out of it should also look at it as a possible model that all the money will do you know about it and you know they've got a kind of model i'd argue with you got to go lie about that i don't know that we're going to do that in the. me in moscow says it's willing to take back refugees like i asked. but it wants them to register for a national verification card and the see

a process that will supposedly pave the way to citizenship. but many rohingya are reluctant. the process assumes that they are foreigners the thing to fears that even if they are granted citizenship they won't have the same rights as regular citizens. i a census the rohingya should be treated equally. as you do then to buy out the obvious to get out. a lot of other means a lot of what the hell you do it's not like you know i didn't i demanded it on all the common in vehicle and then demanded to yell it on audio on the. bottom of that a lot of. we're visiting rakhine state on a rare government supervised press tour. from yank on it's a hard day journey by air land and sea. it's 5 days since the

i.c.j. handed down a preliminary ruling ordering the myanmar government to take all measures to protect the rohingya from genocide. will be spending the night in mohmed or near the border with bangladesh. security is tight on the drive up there are police everywhere. on our way we passed meal to g. . there's nothing to suggest this used to be home to a large community. offense and new buildings have been erected. the land is now occupied by a police outpost. our 1st stop is a meeting with monkey or district administrator who so on. we ask him for his reaction to the i.c. chase preliminary ruling. don't let them know you're good on that end of it i

thought oh my god i think you know about to be remembered and i don't know much of you know him i don't know why. did i tell him of your capital you are here and i do not detect we are not good at any mcgovern are there with the general problem of your you got him out of what i don't want my american government to look . over. and i mean i did i made a kind of a bear i'm out on my machine and i do not i think you know better than i do give my dog i'm out of here. with then ask him about wrecking the land that is now occupied by the government. now you know when you are you do as we buy the new new orleans we are meeting you i know when we are 2 or 3 i don't believe. in his reply the district administrator uses the word bengali to refer to the rohingya a controversial term that implies that they are foreigners and are going to we all

are you know. what your mom and i mean not to you not. me my god we're not holding to you by saying them as you wish you well know going on. during most of our 3 days in northern rakhine state we follow a shuttle set out by the ministry of information. but if i'm in a 45 minutes mistake yeah we're there for you had nothing. but a minute and in the next 20 minutes you're. armed police stand guard at the village as we visit. a government cameraman films us as we go about our work. in the outfield. and mind us recall the names of everyone we talked to making it impossible to speak freely. and although we may never.

in yamaha children at an end geo funded center able to learn and play. but most conversely if more than a high school education. is 19 years old it was on. their hands. most as father side says it's because he doesn't have the right type dentity documents no one ever. told on him they have. decided they don't need. only one. but then minders from the ministry of information take down the moose's details and

he declines to answer any more questions. one afternoon we managed to walk into downtown without mind as. we were going to talk to him ok outside a mosque a man agrees to talk to us. but he got all dirty money out. of it it was good and i think if you didn't you know you'll be the one missing. but we're interrupted before we can even begin by the administrator of this area who thought they in 90. 3 or. between are you know made up of them marching out there i wouldn't you know within a one hour you know move out of the receiver at all my moment i don't know what. about the leader. i think about it you know i wish it.

at us on a go. we finally find a way to speak without our mind as listening in. the villages who have kept their distance during office it have agreed to be interviewed by phone. for security reasons they've asked us to hide their identities. putting out of their. need any. idea that. a saturday. that are going to get are going to where people knew you know that a boondoggle where you are going to be murdered burning remember to write about a bigoted need to go on. your mood when they were good people or a bit of not going to be good maybe go to a good game and are going to get there they're not. going

to be good they're going to. get better but you know what are your market be. in more than 3 hours of conversations we learn that life for most reading is relentlessly stressful. they must observe cuff use conch travel freely and have limited access to health care and education. and since early 2019 they've also had to cope with a new crisis. or they will give it up to the one who did it or. not let them. have. the rohingya have been caught in the crossfire between the myanmar military and the rakhine group called the can army and then what i don't want to get up a little over a little. in this clip filmed by an activist in

a. pool 2019 an injured boy lies on the ground as frantic villages try to flee from 1 o'clock that. night. well you. can bet my bottom dollar. particular. military helicopters can be heard flying overhead. the boy was eventually taken to hospital he survived. but for others the attack proved deadly news in. iraq going on the only good don't you. have. a bag of body parts is all that remains of 2 rohingya men killed during the same as strike.

they'd go into the forest to cut bamboo says. to me no way it seems is safe. in this video shot just days before a trip to rakhine state a woman moments of death of her daughter. was out there yet you know what i am that is not out not of an easy as i know who i know of i love a leader. we've only one thing you didn't and 1000000. the victim had been hit by shrapnel from a rocket that crashed through her roof. and. the conflict has also affected locals who are not. over $500.00. in this rakhine village 68 year old ethan new shows us where she hides whenever fighting breaks out. she says there are several bunkers like this in the area

that is ok i bought it. back out gaff. other villages are just as frightened. and they do their job either up there you only live by by the neutral be the r.d.f. and we know you. are leading that many. anybody. that we've had near you you good enough already by body many. are looking me up and we have been here. that. it's nearly the end of our tour but there are 2 more rohingya villages to visit. both were partially destroyed in 2017. the myanmar government says they will resettle villages who didn't flee. in poteen

remnants of a mosque are a reminder of what happened here. once home to more than a 5000 people only 300 remain today. village administrator mohammad hassan is unusually candid. he says it will take more than new houses to make things right and i lived in an only child and wanted all along in muslin to buy my. new my and i was from the money i wanted in maryland a little more money and now my want will be musical middle name where you don't. belong on the wall again until. the better leader than the more than a girl. in young child villages have been told to wait for us in a school whole watched over by mind as and armed police. inside

the atmosphere is tense and few are willing to speak to us. i don't. know how but rest is 22 years old no man on a ship and on a few sloman if you don't know me made out in an illusion i will be brought up the enemy me lies my muse. they're going to order them over to throw it into the desert and i'm on. any difficulty you know. you're from new york. and. it's not part of the government site in a hurry but we managed to find the houses that were down. a village or approaches us. you know how it would be $100.00 little mom. who is it with. the bombers and the.

another villager tells us it's not safe for the writing to return. the emotion of the one from. pulling up and arming up with a home. it appears we've been spotted. among. people now no one. will know. for i don't. care when rakhine state the rohingya can only speak in whispers or in private about the violence and discrimination they've had to endure. in the girl on the local level. and journalists are closely watched over by government minders.

we end the tour acutely aware there's a lot swe haven't seen. the international court of justice isn't expected to release its verdict anytime soon. but whatever the outcome it's clear human rights violations against the rohingya aunts confined to the events in 201617. they've been happening for a long time and they're still happening right now.

be the hero the world needs. washing. take the worst possible material you radiate drive it into dust comparable to flower and make a hell out of it and put it into a place where people live is a cause colossal bad as well so many people afflicted with of the file in cuba but as it makes you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous normanton disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera alaska's far north a pristine environment that's become a battleground with the trumpet ministration keen to let oil companies start drilling some in its remote communities are tempted by the promised wealth we leave here we make there not there but others bitterly opposed we should not have to

trade our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the arctic circle to investigate the people in power at the edge of the earth on al-jazeera. the w.h.o. says africa has yet to see the worst of the corona virus outbreak and hundreds of thousands could die if immediate action is not taken. there watching out to 0 life from london i'm dead in obligato also ahead the pandemics hidden in crisis hundreds of elderly people dying in care homes and italian facility is investigated markets react positively is a drug developed for you both.