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but there's just a bit but i was ask you to circle it has taken a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside but it does kill it and it will kill it in the hands and that would make things much better that was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters muslims across the globe are marking ramadan their holiest month of the year with coronavirus restrictions at transforming the holy month people have been banned from islam is holiest site the grand mosque in mecca the prophet's mosque in medina is also closed for the duration of the fasting period those are the headlines coming up next risking it all peru looks at the danger is that people face making a living from the country's natural resources that's coming up next i'll have more news for you in half an hour.
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american country rich in precious minerals. and gold. it has seen steady economic development in the last decade. while the number who live under the poverty line has haul of to 20 percent of the population many still take desperate measures to make ends meet. gold one of peru's main mineral exports. for centuries miners have been picking the andes to pieces all with the same dream. carlos 1st struck gold 14 years ago.
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he used to work in the coffee and kick out plantations earning almost nothing. now he continues to work hard but the pay is better. almost $600.00 a month twice the minimum wage in peru. he decided to get his brother involved in the gold mining business and more recently his son and nephew as well. the small family works in an abandoned mine. the company that used to excavated left as the mine was not producing enough profit. normally go out. and say they're. done with thanks. each working day is filled with the rest of the mine is crumbling around them because a lot but if you're going to. work up a little. but i clean but that's up front. of
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folks there that. it's. in my lap i assumed a lot on ben but i reversed their consorts or no one likes eventer for the set up are you now. well let's go through the front of this put as a time go get on the house. during the time of its exploitation the mine produced hundreds of kilograms of precious metals and. now the family barely finds one and a half kilograms per year. they have to have a. hours to live it. just says going there on the grounds that. extracting the gold with a pickax would take too much time so the men drill holes to place explosives down there about the. letters as they live in america.
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so they don't learn it there there's a guess there was a car but as i was. telling your story it is somewhere up above that. 'd 'd 'd you have a moderate muslim and as an old army know those kids can. 'd 'd write. books. off of. the explosion releases toxic gases. less time to get out. and there is so much dust that the air is i'm going to boil. the bodies of america . or more nuclear power. like.
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one hour later the ass settles down around them. yes a little bit. of a trip but you know. thomas and his family extract around 5 tons of minerals every month within that just 125 grams of gold. not a huge amount just enough to get by then was it the god it was to see who was there yuck down with us if one died young muslims who very early on almost out guns in the navy or what is it what do you want to see who's good am i seeing him being alive and doing a lot of this you don't know. what . we're. not going. to.
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tell us and he hasn't as well yes i guess we got to how long was the idea of us. every year in peru an estimated $171.00 tons of gold and $4000.00 tons of silver a minute. a country also rich in many other minerals as well as oil and gas. this tremendous source of income has helped to build a stronger economy. but despite all this infrastructure is still developing. promise no promises of god of course. is a wine maker he's a phony and is 35 kilometers away at the other end of the call to watch the canyon a gaping valley 3 and a half kilometers deep. it's a 35 kilometer journey along one of the most dangerous parts in the region's.
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central is one of the few locals who owns a vehicle so he also works as a taxi driver. stem out of sheer modify this to death but i've been lucky enough not to think i'm also sample that during the last month and nothing like it was put in there is right out there a little bit of it. just drives cassilis he trusts his driving abilities and his 20 year old truck. he knows a dangerous road requires confidence it's true. that the sort of stuff the lust for a legacy is. not a matter. of but a little. luck that sort of thing you know this but you have already. heard it got that me this time not so many yeah good out and i'm up to. the truck is approaching 40 kilometers an hour. spending goes for me to believe it was me get
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into this obvious malloy i mean i into i get into television. at get a foil not i mean it up i end up in. from buy in to fill. it appears bit sad little bit but still a sort of hope as you note are forced to see up by and the real. pitiful know much that the internet is the end of. the time. in. stuff you. know when things. are going about someone. new book called if he's alive got a lot of possible thought of. this or was it up it is a bit. that's just wishful thinking the road is many 18 years old and is already a major improvement it used to take him 2 days to get to his vineyard on the back
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of. the biggest problem is the cliff face the rocks crumble easily. so you go away. you know the. mother to their car lift off. but i suppose. you. just don't want mustard on the if that's one of them do. not go. right about it but you got. to me the. amount. of studying it does is the shit that. got. into the.
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way of whale meat at the. quarter was the county and is worthy of its nickname the devil's mouth. or the other in the season. yeah it's me better than the real but it was dope it out of the deal but. not this got it got not only if he did it but that i needed a better. start to do it as the oh i don't know many would eat out may be a couple of what that. irritate each of them which by the dish was part of a maybe the. many
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making ends meet him peru requires hard work and a strong will conditions are often be this man's work takes him to the middle of the desert and the pockets peninsula this evolves to barren expanse buddhas the pacific. ocean. not to the beach full beach but with a hard cliff edge. and . if he wants to on some caribbean sourness to cook up we'll have to climb down. a little higher. up to what is. not the way it should be about. the ability. but not.
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a 60 need to dissent with no safety measure well apart from a short warm up. the are going up one of the way of how you handle. that you know i want to. play that but both you know. i think we're not going to do it you've done your. lucky my mum now let me. begin to let you look at miami my.
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leg. is possibly the only fisherman mountain man in the world the a. we're going to. the 1st 2 of you know that i'm going to knock on my leo but i'm going. to marry her i'm going to go where you want. and. leave. this place is a natural reserve teeming with fish. net fishing is forbidden only fishing drugs are tolerated consequently chukotka has almost no competition. i don't like to show you everything you know you love it but mostly. you
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think if you're building where you never know what i'm a. bit. of but you don't know. somebody. i. love. on average the fisherman catches close to 20 kilograms of fish a day but today he catches none of the strong waves and the sea lion seem to have scared off the fish. load and go. on like that.
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but to caucus day is not wasted he also collects seaweed that he sells at the market. the for. at 66 years old this accession is becoming increasingly difficult. to cook us spends weeks at a time and the doesn't he doesn't have the means to pay for the petrol for his motorcycle to drive 35 kilometers home every night.
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that goes from the red line to the end of it up with a k up coming or. you'll know they you know you you know so. maybe you can i become juliet but i've been there you must know that i'm going to. let up way you add it back up what i mean. as it is it will get it but. it. won't her room has many riches some require particular sacrifices to exploit them. these men are headed to asia island centrally situated along the peruvian coast. we did get involved for
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a little. bit in the fall of the. beginning forgive me but they are still a maze insidiousness of other study as well was the foot of the small lot of this with. the feeling that obviously the feet of the guy i fell over the bed got that good that the yellow stuff but you know this on the bus i wasn't going to get. out of. those who can and do the walk and almost double the minimum wage. the working day begins at 5 am. a man that was going to show. you. what cities where.
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it was for good or to see. that he didn't go mad it is a sin to know this digital fingerprint reader is the only modern day equipment the rest of the time the men new century old tools. will want to know what you got what i think about a little word if. because. for the for the 1st part of the so-called. problem. they're all here to harvest guano more commonly known as about dropping us it's one of the best natural fertilisers in the world. pelicans gannett's cormorants millions of birds flock to the peruvian islands. it takes between 10 and 15 years to dig out to me to fix
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a layer of dong. the harvesting is done by hand machines a forbidden they would scare off the birds and damage their natural environment. working conditions here are terrible. the smell of the decaying bird droppings almost unbearable. at 1st this level we had just got was. a body blow to my audience. ya know i want them to like jump. the sifting is the most challenging aspect the dust is constant. and nobody escapes
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this task. and. he is he appears he won a little pin that blew my d.n.a. be the board is no such the selection i love you. look at this look star star is going to start going to pull us out on the yes the yes person but the upper limit is a good one but. the role of the joins from both of. the men harvest 50 tons about droppings a day. but . she a. kid. is here because he must.
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each bag weighs about 50 kilos. below cost on others just as the cover is from holding. the really low cost in the starkest nice to keep. the soldiers command. equal but to a person with a chuckle. these men might be able to cope but at what cost the island is swarming with takes carried over by the. will of the people who didn't do their job assuming. this is political. to say just.
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the government provides workers with mosques but nobody wears them but must post. if they're beginning to. yes a little bit. but the length. of the terms and the different all along the law. look wolf a lot of the. one advantage really is why because is that their expenses are paid they are fed and housed but conditions are extremely tough. there's no fresh water on the island a tanker comes weekly to deliver it. to
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. the precious liquid is russian and only 8 liters a day to wash and do not drink the trick is to put your clothes on the fools as you shall. i go out i go to i want this door they are one of those as you know most of. them are going to go down once the working days are over there is almost nothing to distract the man they have to find their own entertainment. that is today or most slow but of course i must go said this head of the food that he got us all up this. go to look at also said ok if they see a little. bit but it's not going to say.
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you make. me feel. better. to tell us than telephone me the thought that of the man that has been one of. the that all of i mean that they. are part of this deal with. me that you know. that is a good all i meant in a style modeled on the idea of. the from. a ruse economy is projected to continue to steadily grow still find many ending in living comes at a high price. of
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. business leaders just want to find a bra spot. for
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. business leaders is to find a bright spot. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe but. sometimes their dreams of century are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drives them home. people and power goes to the north german city where a humane approach to integration is proving surprisingly effective assimilation. on al-jazeera. every generation has
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a higher purpose. ours. the . hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera world leaders have announced that they're teaming up to develop and deliver a coronavirus faxing that will be accessible to all work will start with a global fledging effort aimed at raising $8000000000.00 but there was a notable absence from the meeting the united states diplomatic editor james bass has more it's just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u.s. leadership a global crisis and.

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