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in other news a court in israel has found a jewish settler guilty of a 2015 arson attack that killed a palestinian toddler and his parents the man fire bombed their home in the village of duma while they slept a 4 year old's survived. has lifted more of its coronavirus long gun restrictions in what the prime minister is calling a calculated risk for the 1st time since march people can go to come face restaurants and bars more shops are open and so are libraries museums and beauty salons free movement is now allowed within regions and churches can hold mass india meanwhile has extended a nationwide lockdown for another 2 weeks it saw its highest daily spike of kovi $1000.00 infections on sunday with nearly 5000 confirmed cases taking the toll to more than 95000 schools malls and other public places will remain closed those are the headlines coming up next it's risking it all. talk to older sara. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen with
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listen this is the moment you stop all the 30 action this is the moment also trades on fighting we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the soldiers there are.
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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 in the worst economic crisis and its history. almost exclusively dependent on oil revenues and this way in a 3rd into the severe economic recession of 2 oil prices dropped and $25.00. the economy contracted by over a 3rd between 200-2017. 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 as. 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 because you think it will be going on a culture of calo son his cousin meeting the venezuelan accomplices who will be arriving with containers filled with fuel. going damaged if. you haven't done a fair. you
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know but. also suss to film from a distance he's worried he hasn't told the other traffickers that we are with him. 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 carlos worries that it was a mistake to bring us very loud but i think i think it will make when i have been i'm going to hear about them. but how about that what has been the are down. now we 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. for me. oh. oh. oh oh oh. oh you know that i got out of it is gay and it's i think. yes a lot older than i am really yeah. yeah i'm ok yeah. it was that you know this put out that if you went on the internet we're going to
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because that sort of you don't live in. the front of a group in this day and it's well. yes there were these go through this incident i know you got me when it got to gaza and hamas as well as 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 and. all we're not. going to be who can do this to solve you know who can put you know you know that little to no no no no no. i got out i got up i hope. they got they got. the traffic this crowd around us to stop us from leaving.
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was always well. i don't know but i doubt it but you know. when i was. out there was. after 2 hours of on queuing 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 about. the death threats off of goats and the traffic has continued 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 to colombia. need to be had come home.
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rather than i have only heard their mission. there although there is still another field. across the group is now out of the soldiers' range the venezuelan traffic has begun to transfer the fuel to that colombian counterparts and. i think you know i was you know. some individuals weren't even able to afford plastic containers and things they carried the foreigner hands i'm. very. much on the board on that i've got a bend over the bottom up or somehow you. might get in and i know thank you. it's a little give. me one of em if they say nothing on composite yes yes i just. thought
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oh yeah they're honest. with you know folks don't believe some of the. just. like harry has an $11.00 per trip a fortune in today's might as well go for you know what are what are for me i'm buying my house when i got about i know i'm going on we are no no no my though and i am flacco it's own medical without waiting for your data going out how do you 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 do not buy into or yeah. 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 lie is to you high down the list of my low. now the only thing worth learning is resourcefulness and it's not without risk right here the defense accountability
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to the coming that annoys you ended up from way going to and from what defendant would love a pop pop pop i. don't get it you may not be a they don't know. what it. was all those. alone. i know you know me oh. but it's a little gentle behavior 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 unlocked in america. quest to sita and village where few containers live side by. side with the estimated 4000 inhabitants that everywhere cans of petrol sold illegally on most road sites.
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jose luis has a fast a way to transport his contraband. then i'm home i can. follow . el battle going on. and what i love for example get a load of us along in o'clock o'clock local what the. general of what it's all said and the bottom up at that one will finance it. but i can battle on my own which. there will not be an elderly man woman a i'll say that affordable ya'll i'm at the office without it caught up with a lot of. ok i want out of them in the oval office i guess i'll take it all i will . see say yeah at 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 all good all right i think i'll get them but as i know i'm on top of 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 lifted up out of there. and they did a lot of. good guessing they still. at the look at all of you have a focal of the. upon the end beyond the call of the other little seal.
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plus a new lease arrives at the border to collect the loot 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 to place than lookouts. it's only just look at the you. know you get only one thing at the end was what i. do. ok and about that also i'll bet not thinking about. the i'll tell you i'll. just tell. long for the need to define this as a follow problem with a novel and they are the one i do a lot of you know there's a little plug for the penguin the idea. by doing this hosain always risks
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a 7 year prison sentence and the complication of his vehicle was almost $5600.00. but i can proceed i'm going to put c.n.n. on the way out of the head of the data but not post some program on a blanket that i got over because 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 me where i live. yet if i can. close a luis turns back he's not willing to take the risk. of
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going up and said i never met them again but. then i start to yes by this 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 belittles ironic process scenes that later oh i don't back there a lot of internet want to know what band only rules the lone star so so much and i'm gonna go there marcial around. 5. well money for someone stole the gun in the local manager seems. like you got. so lost that all. money. does not get. out right rob they've been here all morning the group of police officers and soldiers
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began their operation at dawn this river was turned into a makeshift border crossing it separates venezuela from colombia. this summer such as the singer palomino. took a saturday i'm going to summon. just a few hours ago a small stretch of rocks links the 2 shows together dozens of traffic has used this passage every day. but. the numbers for chess. most common must know something entirely inconsistent with all the language of. solomon fan i never thought of as i stand by them and it was not a muslim. oh. yes. they did. you know that they had a good job and then. they hear that you can never know when we agree no.
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one will get a. o'connell's and so say the contraband of choice is fuel. 25 year old andreas traffics gas across the border. and various doesn't know which side of the border he comes from he's nicknamed laurel the parrot because he is very talkative know is an
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experienced traffic. jumper with analysts. that are better or yep i came out here when i look at does anyone. dadi is the go model again these are joining. every day and auto 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. where about where you go to sleep. where no into the end of i but what i.
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was. all mean anything. to enlist but of. the team of smugglers are more eat 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 for them and then you because they. normally the traffickers offer the soldiers a bribe and would have 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 guess you mean those gentlemen both one scar island chain guy 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. 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 crittenden but it's not always easy. or . about 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 calculus other than the threat of a civil case the elementary level delicate opposite but your list of narcotics and i are not where you where would it get them in a complete come in or for those of us old enough. to. 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. when he was. on a miracle mia. when
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a little are going. to break down for you. for this. forest of again menteri besar. $9.00 and he sells them for double that price the profit will allow him to support his wife and the new born baby. jesus stuff well. ok jaw but i saw i got press all the face. on it and i won a world like an arsenal about. a
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cause of the needing a proper order a meal. if a little boy. has. his assistants main job is to push the motorcycle. league. hybrid now it's a hard enough. when you know. that they want to get him yet on wait wait oh.
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my. god i hear oh dear oh dear. oh yes again a gasoline. get out there are limits going to. give us a. lot of. to. 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.
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