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too much really crucial is that there is coherence. and across party all of government all of society approach us president donald trump has announced a new project to fast track a coronavirus vaccine dubbed operation warp speed the project will be led by a former pharmaceutical executive says he hopes a vaccine would be available by the end of the year in the house of representatives a sex apos a colossal 3 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package. aid workers in bangladesh are racing to stop corona virus from spreading in the world's largest refugee settlements more than 1200 rohingya families have been placed in quarantine after the 1st covert 19 cases were confirmed a cox's bizarre you have to dates with the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up right after risking it all but by.
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venezuela a country in crisis. hyperinflation political instability said their debt and chronic food and medicine shortages. once the wealthiest country in the region venezuela is mired and the worst economic crisis and its history. almost exclusively dependent on oil revenues and this way in the fall into the severe economic recession of 2 oil prices dropped and 20. the economy contracted by over a 3rd between 28132017. inflation increased by more than 1000000
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a cent the cost of basic commodities like flour and milk skyrocketed some venezuelans turn to the trafficking of fuel to make a living. they found a good source of accomplices and buying is here in neighboring colombia. fuel costs $1.00 cent per liter in venezuela it's resold for more than 30 times its original price in colombia a real opportunity for traffic is. the colombian village of one freo lies near the venezuelan colombian border here smuggling of the trade passed from generation to generation. carlos and his cousin 20 years old. every day they take the same route through paddy fields just a few kilometers away by crossing camp they can reach the venezuelan border while
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evading police. from. the. benefit of. the. regulars you know but you know they're over to keep going it would enable me going to become a cult carlos and his cousin are meeting the venezuelan accomplices who will be arriving with containers filled with fuel. going damage if. you haven't done a 5th in the. but . you know.
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also soft to film from a distance he's worried he hasn't told the other traffickers that we are with him but. he also just found out that there are soldiers patrolling the area. using gestures he explains that the police could shoot at us. once we arrive at the meeting point call us worries that it was a mistake to bring us very loud but i think i think. i might want to then i'm going to you know rather have an. accident but how about that what has been the are down . i mean hide in the bushes but we don't have to wait long 20 minutes later
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a few silhouettes appear at the edge of the cliff. first 5 then 10 then 20 then 30 all these men i'm nervous and exhausted they've taken huge risks to deliver this fuel. on me. oh. oh. oh oh oh. oh and it was gone do you know that i got out of it is gay and it's a. yes a lot other than i am only out. thank.
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you no this random and was the only thing i'm going to make is that it's a little lonely in the. growth of the slayer and it's. no secret there's a sense i know you got me when it got 100 percent when i was i mean someone who. is going to plan until the leader of the venezuelan traffic arrives he doesn't believe that we are journalists. not have enough money to cover. all of us. who can do things themselves you know who came for you know you know the close to the no no no no no. i got up i got up but i know. nothing because they got. the traffic this crowd around us to stop us from leaving. well.
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i don't know about it but you know. when i was about to get out and i went to go and that. was. after 2 hours of ongoing we managed to calm the traffic is down they finally understand that we're not here to turn them into the authorities. that we're going to. c bomb why we're not what. the death threats are forgotten the traffickers continue their march each carrying almost 50 leaves his on his back in just a few moments a ton and a half a few illegally crosses over from venezuela. columbia i mean to van dam home.
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that. 7 they're going down there although there is still another field to cross the group is now out of the soldiers' range the venezuelan traffic has begun to transfer the fuel to the colombian counterparts. oh i know i've got. some individuals weren't even able to afford plastic containers things they carried the from their hands and. that's what. i have a bundle but i've got a bend over. for someone how you. like that in and i you know thank you. it's a little do you. think one of em if they say nothing on. yes yes no i just. thought
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oh yes i wanted to. know folks don't believe some of the. just. like kerry has an $11.00 per trip a fortune in today's might as well go for you know what i put out for me i'm buying my house i don't like that i know i'm going on here no not for a job oh i don't i am flacco its own medical without know where you are going to be a good account of how much you don't know you know call me later medical mom family i look these up at us and drop us a law oh so i got a young man maybe not i don't know if i am to or yes i did. before the crisis broke out in venezuela all of these young people had a bright future those that i will but you didn't but i laos. better than i used to you high down the list too you have my love. now the only thing worth learning is resourcefulness and it's not without risk right here the defense are
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going to let you know the coming that annoys you ended up from way down and for the most difficult by yes what that love about papa. don't give you a not better they don't know. what it. was not those. alone if. you know me oh. but it's a little gentle but a. while these traffickers carry the fuel on their backs some have found more elaborate ways at the foot of the mountain between colombia and venezuela is a small village it lies in what has been described as one of the most high risk buddhas in luck in america. quest to sita and village where few containers live side by. side with the estimated 4000 inhabitants everywhere kinds of petrol sold illegally on most road sites.
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jose luis has a fast a way to transport his contraband. bottle . and battle going on. and what i love all of them a lot of us long in o'clock o'clock local what the. owner of what it's all said and the bottom up at that of what will finance it. but i got a little mole by which. they were not going to allow me maybe one on a i'll say that affordable yeah i'm at the office without it caught up with a lot of. ok i want out of them in the oval office like this i'll make it a lot i will. see say yeah the end of the day. he's leaving to collect food 1000 liters of fuel in venezuela.
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and. say. it was a deal that is so good up front that i think i'll go home and it's one of my most are over the table to. help you i'm not obvious of a good thing not so long we got him thinking about the little boy if you. want to get up on his heel. at the thought of all the mafia lift up out of there. and they did a lot of. good guessing is still. ok at the local i mean i was a little girl of the. on the end of the other little seal.
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plus a new lease arrives at the border to collect the mood of contraband fuel waiting for him unfortunately police everywhere he takes a science route this route is much safer it's his the traffic is have placed and lookouts. as i would just look at by you when i'm on the hour when i get only one thing at the end result that i. do. ok in the hospitals all over again above and below that level if you. see all of that you go. yes call. this as a low rumbling something awful and they are saying when i move a lot of you know there's a little plug for the dental yadi. by doing this hosain always risks
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a 7 year prison sentence and the compass cation of his vehicle was almost $5600.00 . but i can proceed i'm going to put c.n.n. on today or is it added to the by at mco some probably have a blanket that i got a note from him but one of the lookouts is missing from his post carefully moving forward plus a new we spots another he warns them the police are patrolling the area and attempt to tell where i'll. be any backing. jose luis turns back he's not willing to take the risk.
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has gone up and said i was going at them again. and then i start to use my so man and woman are part of the family of small time traffickers family they don't understand why the police are jeopardizing their business to them this is the only way to and i living out of the name will. be a little gentle although there are a lot of billions well there are a process into later oh i don't know that plant back airliner is going to point toward panel only list the lowest or so so much and i'm gonna go there must yell that on the. lake front. the money for some sort of the gun in the local manager seems from what sammy and. what i. saw was that often. lying. is not good. at rep have been here all morning the group of police officers and soldiers began
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their operation at dawn this river was turned into a makeshift border crossing it separates venezuela from colombia. this summer such as the single palomino. saturday i'm going to the moment. just a few hours ago a small stretch of rocks linked to the 2 shows together dozens of traffic is used this passage every day. among the most for just for your skin as opposed to coming must know something in telling when to sing my song then hang dumas. solomon fan i never thought of as i stand by going up what can honestly. tell. me that. you know that they don't exhibit no need. to hear that you can never know
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is an experienced traffic. jumper. but our peril. there when i look at those anyone. can measure dadi is the model again these are joining. you. every day laurel and his accomplices make the round trip to venezuela but today there is a problem they've just spotted some men in uniform and on the opposite shore venezuelan soldiers no no calls one of his accomplices on the other side of the border. well about where you go to sleep. wherever the end of i but what i.
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was. all mean needed. to unleash better. the team of smugglers are worried along with the usual soldiers there's a man they don't recognize a senior officer the man on the left with a red scarf around and then you're being studied. normally the traffickers offer the soldiers a bribe in order to cross over the presence of an officer who they don't know complicates things. you know but i have a good outcome in most of those. well if i guess another can afford to but i miss you and windows into both one sky our island chain got lima.
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on the opposite shore motos accomplice indicates that the coast is now clear the soldiers are gone no no is free to go and collect his gas bottles from venezuela. the. other smugglers also take this opportunity to cross some of them are carrying unexpected goods like this car engine. and. many things have now become hard to get in venezuela even chickens poultry trafficking has become new crittenton but it's not always easy. or . thereabout unless. this man drives nearly $100.00 chickens per day across the border he earns almost
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$170.00 for that amenity calculate often enough that a sort of a civil case the elementary level delicate opposite but your list and i got a sudden. it where you where would it get them in a complete come in or for those of us old enough. that. come out of. this small trafficking business allows a dozen people to and i live and. he left just 2 hours ago but loto is already back. his gas bottles he's exhausted. the man he was. on a 1000000. and then
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my. god i hear oh dear oh dear oh. yes again a gasoline. so . there are there are limits going to pound out of getting. it. almost all of the inhabitants of the villages along the border have turned to trafficking work is scarce in this region and unemployment overwhelming they see no better options but to smuggle. you know.
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. business leaders just for to find a brass pot. county mcauliffe they're rich in resources but some opec nations are struggling to make any money right now but also it could be oil price crash be opening the green economy needs all that plus spoils biggest player moving in on a little piece of north east england. counting the cost on al-jazeera. to use their own. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities
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