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health problems make africa particularly susceptible to the virus of a number of deaths from cover $1000.00 is continuing to rise throughout europe but there are concerns the official figures could be far too low as they don't include victims in care homes that are has more. disinfecting in nursing homes in both remote in long body the region at the center of italy's koblick 98 outbreak these pictures show russian military doctors helping out their italian colleagues but a scandal now surrounds italy's largest nursing home in nearby milan where at least 143 people have died since the beginning of march families of residents there are demanding answers following reports medical staff was stopped from using protective gear prosecutors are now investigating that facility and more than a dozen others italy's officially recorded over 22000 coronavirus deaths but most care who deaths are not included in some doctors suspect the real figure could be twice as high. in spain the government ordered the 17 autonomous regions to unify

their criteria on counting the dead the official toll stands at almost 20000 but it doesn't take into account the deaths of people who had covered going to symptoms but were not tested including thousands of people in care whose eyes. meanwhile in germany germany to footage has emerged along with hopeful news here medics who grew suffocated coronavirus patient transport him by helicopter to a special isolation chamber nationally new figures show the number of people infected by every person we call big 19 has fallen from $1.00 to 0.7 in just a few days meaning transmission is slowing markedly germany has the world's 5th highest caseload but has kept fatalities relatively low thanks to early and extensive testing of the house caucus on toy to the outbreak has as of today become controllable and manageable again i believe a very encouraging figure is also that as of the 12th of april more people recover

and get infected we currently have more than 80000 people who recovered out of some 130000 who got infected based on figures from the robert caution to choose. while in portugal where the death toll is lower than 700 parliament has approved the president's request to extend the national state of emergency for another fortnight before he has a can present extension of the state of emergency set in such a way they can give time and room for the government to decide on criteria to study and prepare for the gradual opening of society and the economy after the end of april. over in belgium they've also extended restrictive measures for 2 weeks in the capital brussels as part of a europe wide initiative the head chef a restaurant conscious work has been cooking meals to give to hundreds of homeless people not the regular dishes that cost up to $300.00 but they're welcome a small sign of how people are trying to make

a difference and trying to cope with life on the look down the dbo about al-jazeera in the chinese city of who han where the pandemic began the government has revised the number of deaths by 50 percent that's an addition of nearly 1300 ficta mz obey provincial officials said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions on the fact that some patients died at home it's raise questions about how accurate china has been on the scale of the outbreak smoke from wildfires near the tour noble nuclear plant has pushed pollution levels in ukraine's capital to the worst in the world according to the swiss monitor i.q. eric here have recorded the highest level of air contamination on friday giving millions of people another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus lock down those are the top stories on al-jazeera south africa toxic city is coming up next thanks for watching but by.

at 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. or an eye catching natural phenomenon. these strange hills surround johanna's by. the largest city in south africa. but their beauty is deceptive and toxic. in fact the dunes are made up of mining waste. from. the leftovers of south africa's most profitable industries. and within the life some disturbing secrets. now it seems that heart

wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly what's in these mind types and just how deadly they may be. sunrise america river basin. one of south africa's largest freshwater reserves. bridget corrigan is a botanist. and a specialist in the region's biodiversity. this is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if it's a unique biodiversity from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our

diversity is very special it's got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. there about $200.00 tree species in america. that's 17 of them. and about $400.00 in the various places. it is a national treasure and the north west doesn't have a lot of these river systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this not true treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. a sanctuary hidden at the heart of the reserve. this is america i we're at the source of america river. and the

water levels up from big underground what to kevin's at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conductivity which means there's no salt is not pollutants in this in the system it's really very very pure. the water is crystal clear but it might not stay that way. recently the mining industry has become interested in the areas subsoil. which is full of precious minerals it's regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. compass over gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and it's you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. you can't just get that back it's not going to come back . so could the marco river basin one day resemble the of the desolate landscapes left behind by the south african mining industry.

like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. or these mine tailings in the midst of south africa's forestalling and. some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown comes back. from that point on the mining industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city. more and more waste piles of here. often only a few dozen meters from residents homes. some of the may look as innocent a sign to humans but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold i don't go there to scare. away. the day it comes or is here a whole year it's run as was the day i bowled in

a. because i was out to disable the p.c.'s with. the procedure for the truthfulness of it i don't even 1st question just. sort of at the plutocrats he wants to drop his daughter from the course alters the discourse 100 euro edition . so what does it mean for those living next to these tunes. like here at snake. so does the wind come from the mind. it flows this rose this or this. tiny dylan is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. so the neighborhood has become one huge psalm. 20.

sometimes your eyes become ok this is not if you go to detaining this choice as some make some can you. do so i'm advising you to take not to go today because it's too big it's unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. leave it you're good 'd at it. a few months ago tiny dylan mili wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every dual this house had as keith. this house here the model the owner of this house as i just told them this morning you come here often here each and every man or women or child around here is coughing has a pulpit of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them up only to. the man who.

says. he them i want to test in your question i want to. question that needs. over one and a half 1000000 south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailing mountains. that itself it gets into off one week this past week the brink this that so that is why so many people here this is the silent killer 7 this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who i believe you know for years you know. that if. you returned this 6 years old.

she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time ok and the dust from the mine heaps gotten this dust you pull your good and the people. before you sleep you must face. that and everything kids. yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. communicate with her. when she she was to be changed. yeah and then she she kicks is ok they're all maybe when she wants you to go i said ricci she kisses him and she screams no. they you know she has to go say you want to. poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove

a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other fields like under our own i was the same symptoms same health issues yet i do know in days there's a pinch out there it's going to go down the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they don't want anybody knowing of our day kids in this situation there's 2 of them open houses in the in the same street you're going to have them there many of them you know personally personally strange is something that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel to them and today taking them to today they don't think so but if you go and fight off any distance from here believe you me you never find this key. to find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. must climb snake park hill. it has been abandoned ever since the

mine was closed. access is supposedly forbidden there's nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while the motive for about 6 is being run from a soldier's each. day since then to me it done the dishes. was soumitra. must take 500 grams of the sun. the dust that's blowing over the village but no. on the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. it's used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even

bay the net this was all. ok or if i can put in will do. for the. paws on the screen you have put it. frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa can see me. linda is also an expert on mining aleutian the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which permit those fish do you think i should i was 1st in the water finding. the tracks trying to. elevate.

your eye. as you thought and it would seem recently gone by. so. many done but in point of misery. so there's a through it because i see that. you can also take cover. and . although you would like. us. so i think it's likely. just so you know it was all example of what that says on the ground 0 the maximum they were going to continue to pose for then. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must

takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. with the to the. goldfields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. but at night you'll see on the front end there's some. business right including we are doing a plus minus $5500.00 tons. a day i mean we have reaching out on 300 tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many times on there. so there or that you see

on the still fall is i mean at the boss minus 5 days but done that's how a guy got into the. only 5 grams of gold for each tonne of all mind that's a remarkable ratio. and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. nothing to make goes there we used to i'm i sit in the sun that's still pretty nice i can make calls in the price of quarter macguineas instead he got. the concession that c.t.r. so you add all of these together with these with the ball.

the last stage is the cost at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result gold bars. at 84 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around $538000.00. goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within a few years this hail will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are its grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from the from the

extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off the gold has been removed so it's silica and other materials it's the sand. and other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. and some of the gold ores there is you're a nym soft deep has very little uranium minutes or so. there's very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. can really. not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams of time. $40.00 to $50.00 annually south african mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the

uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is the daily basis of the gold from. but the radiation 50 would probably be. ok or. over time the waste produced by south africa's gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as nuclear installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft

a township with over 20000 residents. of. bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from career at a research association on radioactivity when i was i was government only. going to . visit us. that commercial school shaken too much was. to feel they would be a little bit difficult or also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know i make sure the group on television i mean to depict it. i know my point of view to see not just hear you and mom come up it even to be able. to do is if you did your in you do risk or deporting your she thought of us here your mom and me. wanting to join

in our corn meal i don't is wrong but you don't want your little does when this point 300-0000 because you. and you can not sell gounder. on a cell with a contract on let's work on the us for. just one. and only because you want to force daughter to try to. do you can find us. do think it was only. 4. $192.00 close on a letter that the. master has discovered that radioactivity

levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long lead them up about he said last week that's week by 01 month one month. yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your money why do these old ones that has a for success this is a. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know is well. know what you must. but this is the fungible one it is. mine so. i want to learn. it. and i met. so when you

see these every day what do you think. was the. about telly but it's just the bins. it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. we are close to the mind savings farm that money will look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should do some hair sample of the animals. takes 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one

who is blind. i come up with the results of the trauma factor or the instructor thanks so you but i. must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africa's council the scientific and industrial research. your views the water from the failings just across the trading. it is used as a rigorous know what urges us immigration and also for almost a drink we also learn some more small samples train job is done with the store was contaminated as low main competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all of their dead and the man goes by did had it encoded in windows like oh you know now on the old lead you know what arsenic we shot off air in

trucks and can visit cluny. we need an expert to get them in order once we get them then and raise a nano and go right. as he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part 2. as the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live pities a colossally bad idea. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman thought that she could selectively goods and have only boys changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at

every level were being hit being given money money to agree destro zation by. need to get other people to agree to sterilization al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. medieval western society it was a feudal society so detailed you keep the wind out of the ball and as soon as the pope ended his speech some people stood up and said god will sit down and the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in the houses and in. the crusades an arab perspective that the sold one shot. on the jersey and. throughout history humankind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the ups guy laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near to every generation has its moment where individual

sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after this war is ours. this is al jazeera i'm doubting you navigate that with a check on your world headlines the world health organization warns africa could become the next epicenter of the corona virus outbreak the united nations says it's likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and push nearly $30000000.00 into poverty the u.n. secretary general and sort of a terrorist has said africa needs more than $200000000000.00 to combat the virus officials say poverty crowded urban conditions and widespread health problems make

africa particularly susceptible to the virus. in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does with the current charlie doing testing kits it's likely that the real numbers are high you don't report it there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths in europe that says italian police broaden their investigation into dozens of deaths at the country's largest rest home near milan where the country's epidemic was at its worst the known number of fatalities in spain and the u.k. are also missing the total of those who died in care homes the global stock markets are heading towards a 2nd straight week of gains after the us president outlined his plans to reopen the country's economy traders were also hopeful after encouraging data you know

potentially antiviral treatments for covert 19 and in the chinese city of new han that's where the pandemic began the government has revised the number of deaths by 50 percent that's an addition of nearly 1300 victims who bait provincial officials said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions and the fact that some patients died at home the announcement has led to further questions from world leaders recuse china of not being accurate about the scale of the outbreak. smoke from wildfires near the chernobyl nuclear plant as post pollution levels in ukraine's capital is of the worst in the world according to the swiss monitor i.q. where kiev recorded the highest level of contamination on friday giving millions of people another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus lockdown after dates with the headlines on al-jazeera it's back to south africa talks 6 city next then it's the news hour at the top of the hour all see that by.

hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg south africa's most populous city but they aren't a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africa's hugely profitable gold industry. many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. with expert help the french journalists must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. but one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious voicemail message along. mining greater around ground under the bridge in their mind well i would build an environmental geologist period for

a while and i would very much appreciate you you know you could come around we're going to have a word about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist. eagle club. after a 20 year career in the mining industry has now left it disgusted by the industry's failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste i'll tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is you radium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said when were you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in e-mails probably over the over $100.00 so after a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to become the contaminates the land that is number one number 2 you

can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from the wood up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way in saying basically put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. what we have done like i said we have created an enormous and we're all mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and what a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we're feeding the nation why did gold mining industry do it in reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made

and probably one of the biggest and one of mental disasters in the world. so yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing would sing head master heads back to sea from everett from goma. his current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered and person by frank bender. the just kind of professor of our mental studies also one of them of what we're joined by name is frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. you see here. is. the test results a clean material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's foam and uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your in your water sample over 2 cells times what would what one would

find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated 50. 500 ok the most let's say indicative mental form binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see in the natural environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did about 100 times more than one would find in on polluted pristine waters off of. the farm surrounded by pollution which is just. its animals badly contaminated and. it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest level go for. all and. you see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is elevated to 80 times meaning almost 100

times above what's normal that's the same was cobalt that's the same as also make a 600 times one nickel but maybe you didn't know if you're just going to say ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have. my was out of 4 now living in doubt right for you fly me. a farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have neurological disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. but all the medical links between poor health and mining conditions so clear cut. stoff at this radio call health clinic might have some months since. among their patients is. it's the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has to and.

ok. all right there is no. need to let you know it's too much of yourself it was ages of us and mike is not to let you go to the left is wonderful. because of them don't know whose it was. so how are you going to yours. their baby has called brocade she's. i was just into you squint all sense sometimes we see worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having. in

drawings of the little does because of the dust this is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here you've got number of clues is not really there should be a study like you're mentioning is that everybody who are living lives through their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. but can. you catch up with to listen to again back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting would. give us go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok to leash as the small child with her 4 children.

is again as a single i live by is a dad. i'm up on the corner when i left is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. to leave zulu and her children live only a few doesn't need his from the mine dump where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide has samples to test what level of contamination but the response to. the greed of a group. long songs pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise and comes on line if you will i mean you know. will come on tell you come on that is commotion to pull. it in you know if you can

walk or security and you gale norton i'm just you know maybe. i'm still me i don't . know she. is one of the sort. 1 of want to put anybody. see what i'm into there yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of move. you put in culture get your book you takes your self. measure should look. up to that they don't pay you well that's. right if you turn. it all right that should be more than enough. for us and then. the more i mean you would put it. we don't really want to consult you do you

like this i want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we mad. a little girl suffering from your own to suit us. look. this is were of a would have taken so done little. to look beautiful. ah. and then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor penny in france. once again they'll be a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime goes looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used in the electronics industry

some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the world's major luxury brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. do you oppose you know jennifer was going to pull those that off. nor are any of them seem to respond to questions show then there's one who can call just how to yell matilda clearly because they don't know how good the flow of their lives can for the joe business on this one them on this one is of utmost importance she is really going to communicate but leave it don't you for the mother was was a good moment when the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. medicare and then who can you compose one question the always an. italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using

a lot of gold. it's time to go shopping. to greece headquarters in. johannesburg located in sandton city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent and a luxurious shopping mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost 70 $8700.00. but again no one hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced but we wanted to know whether. here in the national gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you can talk about it it's called the gold yes the gold you use in your jewelry. hey you know i you know the ones here that are ok don't you think it is kind of a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the directors of the e.u. leaders to tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my

own mines i forgot that for example the mind savings this is what you learned in your is better environment to learn to know but. that's just starting is a major step by product of the western world where you know. it's her thank you very much for you i'll come. back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africa's a vast gold mining industry. people are gathering in a church hall. tiny the activist has come to see or to exist by their drugs on people with you. so to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing.

much has spread and even the national media present. everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. for thank you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you've come quite a long way to be here must all run through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human head that's been gathered more recover somewhat only we don't know it and i suppose a huge tree i think you're totally belsen was really sure who. was a very nice you don't owe anyone else who has read. this you will. surely it was a residual job or always will be you should tell you who it. was issued to you will

do it don't do. it. said something just don't do do this for us all for it when you would expose your post and go this was on when you were exposed to it with people. that cough it up to them don't go and no one as you'd see them as in the preview i don't think it is the least was rule yet it really orders it will take yard you know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. so it's all people just like western. people which. i don't think and all those who will focus on it get more civilian as if they need to. more talk to you next time

since it's you i don't need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by my. from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is $330.00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium $100.00 times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your ania and 4 times more exposure to us nic than the average french person even jesus into easy to mean we eat is dangerous for it. can cause celeb can we do. it.

but usually we don't. even know she'd miss it you know you can feel. the money. coming in and. you know. i think the only. is this one normal and this is not all those people that are really. blows minds are seriously the scientists who can be sending us things we've had enough of this man's exposing us all so we are building now to elude you once again from a shortage of the vision there was a. you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead

documented in the you're doing now so you'd lose the universe. will know what's. and. there you very much once again. as residents begin planning their next move. including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. matha obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. on yourself probably pretty dull success if that's what they mean look good enough and you should have someone just as soon as you are emma and extend to put on the new sometimes no.

almost 120 years later steffi and i moved out runs that we're going to is ations anti-pollution department on string for those issues that the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the environmental impact of the mining industry and do you think it's it's going in there on the right track on the gridley. yes there is significant progress achieved this far in terms of my main companies dealing effectively with environmental impediments. chamber of mine every convicted human health impact assessment regarding the tellings to mine 2 things not it's not that i'm way off ok so we don't some. bench shows the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i don't know. what does that make you

think now it's quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the mining industry that you represent have a responsibility in these numbers. i think it is with our member companies mind he is we do have the responsibility. do you leave close to the mind. why not even me. i'm in most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow the table as not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing the people that live around the tape these 2 things this huge paintings are on drugs producing they're saying they're not safe they're not at all there's a lot of. environmental risks as well a safety of risks and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own. when you when you

say something do you think it's something a lot of what is it about eating the media in the we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i think we need an all vote all management strategy as the industry and obviously in putting up with government. so what does the government have to say. south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. in the evil. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00.

fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much high and that there would be negative health effects on the children and at least one of the real tragedies that the study 2nd and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know what would you like a copy we would absolutely love to have a copy for because you see we don't have this we don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels. of these different heavy metals and you raney and and go in more physical examination do

blood tests do unit tests and monitor there. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in 2017 mining companies extracted 130 tons of gold from south african soil. producing 27000000 600000 tons of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still 35 years remaining of exploitable gold reserves in south africa. how many move it dims will have to be in that time before people realize that life is more precious than gold.

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are a lot lower than we have seen lately just 21 degrees on sunday but look at this massive rain working its way across the great vice probably won't make his way to far east was on sunday but the rain is certainly on its way so enjoy that 23 view in adelaide on sunday and it's improving picture too for the last off of the weekend across into new zealand i mean into japan this is where we're going to be seeing more of this very heavy rain some strong winds as well particularly the eastern side of honshu and some particularly torrential downpours temperature wise but really it's about the rain and the wind and some very heavy rain as well developed in 3 more central areas of china working its way east was on sunday so a very wet day and shanghai and cool just 16. in the far reaches of the new siberian islands gold rush is in the. hunters searching for price this bully mammoth tasks. the holy grail. an incredible

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