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tv   Borneo  Al Jazeera  May 23, 2020 5:32pm-6:01pm +03

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has that witnessed arab spring movements to iran has threatened to retaliate if the u.s. tries to stop it from delivering millions of dollars worth of fuel to venezuela 5 iranian tankers are approaching the caribbean where the u.s. has a big military presence the 1st tanker is due to arrive in the next couple of days . spain's prime minister has promised the country will reopen to international tourism in july i mean there is also announced the leader of the football the league will start again on june 8th spain relies heavily on tourism and the government has been under pressure to reopen it in time for the summer season with a new corona virus infections have been reported in china for the 1st day since the outbreak started there in december but health workers of warned of some suspected cases. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after risking it all i will see you from 10 g. tomorrow until then leave the building as the sun goes down a little satellite to is a very challenging place to work probably i think on
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a little you're always thinking of bali very hot of the sound from moscow we've got to go along the way i had a lot of travelling the extra mile where i maybe are going to go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. thanks
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. for the use it is on a mission he has to set up a lumber camp before nightfall the house is delivering will become home for him and other would cut deep in borneo is a rain forest. among his many challenges the unpredictable terrain little ogled. that the whole basis of a. lot of those that are it was a bit of news in
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a month ago and that. he . did and you know whom by knowing the. thinking. behind you said 2 of the trucks have also come to a standstill. as you did. with the governor who was running the legacy but. i didn't. love him. very much that. morning as rain forest is shared by 3 countries indonesia malaysia and bernanke
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it's home to hundreds of endemic plants and animals are rich in unique habitat that is slowly dying its abundant resources overexploited its right woods decimated today less than half the trees remain. yet the procession of trucks never ends the forest tries to slow that progress as best as it can. but here wood to means money loaded trucks stop at nothing to get that call go to ports and big cities 7 days a week. each journey is fruitless challenges for drivers overcoming them and them a salary of about $550.00 a month. yousif has now been carrying this house on the back of his truck for 7 hours he's tired but remains focused.
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live league play. play upon arrival they have to negotiate a difficult unloading. with no crane to help you save on the law business rely on that own resumes on us. or. lease this embankment under the bulldozer act as an unloaded dock.
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and that because that's only going to get. itself out of the lease almost looks like this is. because i. was putting. the houses johnny is still not. it's headed for the river bank where the men when made in the depths of the jungle for 11 months.
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flood as the locust prepare for tomorrow's walk the terentia will rain pounds down the but it's not without consequence. on bad days off the man only on hoff of the usual salary. none will risk working with a chainsaw or driving on it's been reduced to mud. up to 3 days of rain the locals have equally taken up by what. each of them makes sure to speed up the cutting and transporting of the wood to. hoping to own a bonus for the extra efforts they want to make up the wages that lost.
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this giant tree grows one centimeter every yeah it's taken thousands of years to grow to besides. its wood is the hardest and densest in the world and yet the name ironwood. even once on the ground it still managing to make the longest lives difficult. to share way to the tree is driving the bulldozer. towards the ravine. police
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even in their still cages the drivers have to be careful. how i got. the bill but. i think i'm being in a. place moving the trunk is proving to be a big challenge especially as the bulldozer is now stop please to free it the forest will once again pay a heavy price. lift. another
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tree is filed to help slide the logs on to the bulldozers trucks. please live through fleet about so between wood and steel last small than an hour. please please please please. please please.
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yousif is heading elsewhere to no doubt 10 tons of iron works but the rain has transformed the tracks into muddy trenches. league. play live. this journey promises to be especially difficult as you'll be tackling completely unexplored tracks. the. whole series of the los. lobos
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it is also doing some. of the for. the bulldozer devours everything and that's creating a trail for the drive it's. up now but not much. but by a. look. each new track brings its own unknown dangers. according to the drivers they have never been any deaths but many injuries. each one of them except it's the risks as an occupational hazard.
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i. play. the drivers on a fixed salary with added bonuses if they manage to transport more would have been expected. it's not looking promising for today's bonus. the bulldozer driver brings back bad news the road is an accessible unless the dr is used this technique nicknamed the calm guy played.
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you since return journey promises to be event. will take on the same routes in the opposite direction to you know did transporting the joint would logs to the river. player. played.
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you got. it going that was because you know the guys who made a point. that . were going to buy. you should not. be playing. it. live.
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even on the most dangerous journey yousif thinks of his family at some point 5000 kilometers away in indonesia. oh no no. let. up on the mighty one. of. them that's. about. to day's journey is over for you said. the monks he did live it the journey is just beginning. tomorrow they will take a completely different route to reach the sea and the shipping ports.
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off to 10 hours of driving and logging the men are exhausted. deep in the middle of the forest temperatures average around 30 degrees celsius the humidity a suffocating 80 percent. going on a nice month you can almost not i don't want to back out to stop i am not talking about it but i need a lot of that what. i love most i'll go through out a day i would rather not go on yeah yeah that's what i'm hearing but do you think
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you're just not being mean i'm just. i'm not moving because it's not you've been getting fed up with. a lot if i think about that every company will. be open up about. that about you know i mean. what. i don't i. don't mean to but. you know i mean we don't have time to do the most so we had to go. but he joined the right. so you can be dealt with. i don't look i'm going to go up one day soon get out of the woodwork but if you're just. saying that.
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there are thousands of tons of tree trunks piled on this for the bad. transporting them requires massive quantities of petrol and expensive option. instead of binocs will complete the journey to the shipping ports by water a small outboard motor to keep it moving forward. this trial is for the hell and driven driving tribe. it takes considerable know how. the ropes holding the rough together can easily trap back hands and feet.
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across a bunch up enough that you can select. in the pit with. 'd us yeah it was. that it was a little fish in. the river itself can present different challenges there are twists and turns and the carts can be unpredictable. the small engine is struggling. and eventually gives up. like a conduit i'm using. the. in get in there and. i
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think the past so. that i am. the one. but endicott that i hear i don't. get. up i took them out of the cellar nice. if that's what i want to. leave. it. at the you to start with.
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yes or no just say once and i will say oh i know among so moment i said i never. said that. and he said. about us about us he also went. on this state close to 30 rafts i had it down the river. and what many describe as an ecological massacre. forestry companies are the ones who profit most oil palm plantations and residential communities often replace the de forested areas. sometimes mother nature seems to exact a little revenge. 20
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years ago housing development of around a 100 houses built him was completely swept away by a hurricane and huge waves. that's prompted to get spain the property developer to make a change. and. i was in on the. name. of one of the book. of the. inside of rebuilding the houses the builder decided to start gardening. after removing the rubble i can spray replanted hundreds of thousands of trees the
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now famous dream varia preventing the erosion of the coast. and they. may be going to. sit in a comma. among the rocks or some of my money. in it. oh you got me through. and you get in. i'm not. but if you need. a cup i'm to sit down there are because. of the why you. did. i don't know i doubt. it started out. apart from why i dropped out of india.
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i guess building is housing development within a few months. it took them 20 years to replant $100.00 hectares of mangroves. and get new ground in midwest but i thought it would be rough perhaps i was about meeting. today some ammonia is endemic pumps and animals are once again starting to return to the area. that so many have not done from burnett long and to run around a big of a lot now and you do it welcome to the uk a part of it on our parish i've been i've been on a bike on the run yeah and to get money straight i see the at the dot of being on and job are the ones that are most are up in that i can do x. i'm after
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