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for disease control says at least 20000000 americans could be infected with corona virus that's 10 times higher than the 2300000 cases confirmed india has reported almost 500000 coronavirus cases the country's largest medical facility is being readied in south delhi to tackle the surgeon infections is the size of 15 football fields and candor accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time but association of southeast asian nations summit is underway leaders are meeting remotely though due to the pandemic plight of the remainder is expected to be raised other topics like these dominate discussions on include reopening borders after lockdown and the dispute in the south china sea it's 101 eastern hour stay with us. on july 1st russians head to the polls to vote on constitutional reforms including changes that could enable putin to remain in office to 2036 but with
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a drop in approval ratings for his handling of the pandemic are they willing to pave the way for an even longer presidency follow all the developments all of those you know. indonesia is home to asia is that largest remaining rainforest. but resource companies are paying as little as $5.00 a day for these ecological paradise through questionable land grabs. but. also a genetic money in. indigenous tribes accusing south korean run hommel jobs of plundering west papuan for a piece of the $300000000.00 revenue is pure fantasy that's not the case at all 1018 investigates allegations of fraud and human rights abuses deals worth billions of dollars. 3.
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1000 kilometers from the indonesian capital jakarta west papuan is more law as it gets. the province is a rich tapestry of with plans survives and forests where indigenous tribes complete the central. local ranger like he said his home for indonesia's biodiversity he's found. sits at a low bottom you can say well i'm walking in the us house of the. new york you don't believe me. so be careful but in this area that i'm up i think i'm going to go myself you know what i'm saying but i've got to really have. been about them but
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i can put up on one of my own coming up on what i'm buying up but i'm. big into nature has some of the fastest deforestation rights in the wode. he said pump was wilderness and hundreds of people digitas trunks and now on the friends. they come but you know monkey what have you been doing me singing yemeni government taking you out on a snake it's a take it only one way that i mean. i'm not until you can win then i said i'm going to do it up and then when they got a couple done about the lovely little. investigation the issue isn't easy soldiers monitor a whole lot of yes sometimes. look i'm ok. i'm . with how one separatists have been fighting to gain.
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independents from indonesia to 50. foreign observers rarely granted entry to these threats to wimbledon 30 people were killed in clashes with the army last year. but we've gained special access to west pop woods conservations a. cousin that is near and up on the ground. there are military heists like this one because of the national politics. because. as we head deep into the hostile west palm. we see widespread destruction the locum site he's. more than a decade ago and indonesia has been dubbed the reach to the resource sector and
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allowed companies to buy up tribal land. to companies that benefited from the sell off careened and pasco b. to national groups and major investors up based in south korea. in a yearlong investigation with journalists from among the bad and the good could put one on one east has uncovered evidence which the just some of these deals provide food and lots of saving. we've not found the full bore stuff the scottish put up to that. defeated me up because i'm not here to come on their doorstep they got i just focused on the government for the public plus how was minus 05 is the leader of the man tries he's showing us the run fish to land spanning more than $3000.00 hectic he says they forest was
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destroyed in $22.00. when a posco international says featuring cleared all the trees and planted oil palms with out they can see. why don't. you. become dynamic. in america. and with. modest told the company there was a long standing agreement between them and dubbo and then neighboring tribe the marines to share the land. but these documents showed the land deal only had agreement from 2 marine. staff on the smallest. most. meaning and what most about that. medicare is so cool. but also on that committee demolition possibility
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this company kopi t b i a the forest for $5.00 a head with an estimated total land size of $200000.00 while lot of his tribe got nothing leaked documents showed that the company expected to make more than a $1000000000.00 from the timber and plantation. a few months after the deal korean giant international. retaining its owner manages. the company. we spoke to both marine elders who admit to taking the company's money documenting one of the signatories damiana is that possible.
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sade's the honest is mars was included in the deal here i remember at the time to time terry tell you what i do to bed not. bostic posix signed a deal leasing the land to the company for 35 years after which ownership would be passed on to the indonesian government and in return the marine eldest says he's tried would receive cause and housing but he alleges they received no benefits do you feel any guilt given all the land was just right now i'm not buying new you know about the new woman it's not a new one it took on. my mind not who'd a penny one on them up. and 2 up on me sung up at the penny one medic up when united for your company and you have been young jenny. who download global you've got a monitor that can only put on tick and then munich. posco international
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denied the deal was fraudulent they claimed the project provided adequate compensation and was approved by all levels of government. not even forrest linus on the price to his ancestor lost in israel. but he's also resorted to more confrontational measures. for my long and we can go do peace and war. long ago. but also. coming was not talking about the end up we didn't pay to go to. my car come it didn't pass and then. this amateur footage at a roadblock the posco international's plan tension shows armed forces firing a rifle. in a confrontation with linus and other tribes. he says such you
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can become even more hostile. and like. i would. need. someone to come up with a lot of. them marked by. clip of pick i could walk either. we need telling us and that is something to look at. and then some to get i back up the. company. better. go international argue dealings with local communities predated the acquisition of the land and in the statement deny all allegations of fraud and its conduct what the company claims look who manages provided sufficient consultation to help tribes deter. ownership and compensation on the indonesian customary law. but a 2009 legal document leak to one when east states the same local manages were
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trying to acquire land without verifying the onus were pasco international claims the so-called insufficiency was resolved in 2011. but making notes provided by the company revealed they were still resulting tribal land boundaries online is blocking 2016 more than 3 years off to the forest was destroyed. other indigenous communities accused karoonda whisp with biggest pomo producer of taking their land in simla dispute. to mistiness thomas tribe and 5 other clans claim there would never told the forest had been sold in 2010. and it got it and he had money and. i made fun of all and you know what.
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i mean find something he's not. looking at and question could not. get him to muscle got a new day. and i mean. that if. i'm young at this now i want to do what. is that over the river that there is what you are going to villages say they would not employ to work on the project and gave a 50 families just $100.00 each one 7th of what they demanded. must have gone up. by. him. my motto.
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of the the thing was. the. seems to stain ability often. denied allegations the company has violated people's rots they were all called. misunderstandings but all in all i think if you want to take a survey with the residents there do be highly paid world war all over the problem we join the way 11 selves of 500 and we've got the 1500 kilometers of road. christie to some roads and also we have to provide 11 for so exhausted all 19 that but the next 20 schools 6 to 6 most essential just a lot of development. local
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store in a picturesque worked with kareena after one of the company's subsidiaries approached him in 2014 with promises of development for local tribes. begin a big amount of work for the. calabar but there are more you do b.m. by most i doubt there are. more in general but i'm very current of where. some are going to only. impressed with corinne goes south beach pétrus persuaded his tribe and 10 other clans to sell their forest for $8.00 a heck there. they also asked for houses electricity and school scholarships but he claims corrino avoided putting the deal on paper and instead gave them simply $1000.00 among other gives me the sort of if you need to continue concern at the most of them were because he didn't or when you know by name only by 'd adding
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a man. there was the mayor that was misquoting misquoted yet he said what if you don't so that nothing but it's a photocopy got it to my daddy didn't we that's a recent contract the klan's rejected the deal but petra says the company obtained government approval to build the plantation anyway by misrepresenting tribal discussions as an agreement there might be a comparable muldrow that work document us here does that option i did read those at the light the board game on a. process he did an interview took a lot and i now argue new loose attack is to produce fear living transparent we have been open we have work conducted a proper lucian's prove the laws and regulations when the russian government it's not true that not go through the proper channels. but korinos conduct has been the . subject of a 2 year probe by the forest stewardship council or at their say
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a global certification body this is. after legal threats from the company the certification body only published a redacted summary of its investigation which recommended corrino be stripped of its f.s.a. membership the redacted report also found corrino violated the human rights of west papuan and destroyed 30000 hc days of fi conservation value forest in potlucks it's almost impossible not to choose primary force we get convert of all 60000 hectares of was forced into law and obviously there was a you know destruction of up in our own values. in excerpts from the uncensored report seen by 101 aced the authors found corrino benefited from close military ties to obtain economic advantage. they estimate west papuan tribes lost
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$300000000.00 in these team big deals and said corrino acquired land for as little as board dollars behead. a deal also it misleading the accusations is part of the contacts on those reports that the cia decided to maintain membership with us here's their decision and we happy with their decision in a recent response to the redacted report corrino recognized there may have been some shortcomings in some of our operations what are the shortcomings of course there could be improvements and specifically i guess we could build more schools for the better if i could just to pop in. here so i think it was in his own life isaac we crept on google groups and. based on industry data one o one east estimates quinto exported wood with more than $320000000.00 from their project a figure the company denies but it's clear tribes got mega sums for their land is
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that fair compensation for the transfer of their land and resources to create or market dictates the price not us. you know west papuan town we need nicolas mahut a tribesman who says he worked with corrino and pasco international to acquire pharmacists. nicholas confirms the deal he witnessed some tribes were only offered $5.00 a hectic do you think korea is a august negotiator for you and your new young comedian or can hardly media trying to measure. maybe he cannot have doesn't. nicholas is a driving force in many troubled negotiations with your highness good to get see who is from one of west palm with most powerful political families in 2007 when
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gibbs he was elected local government leader he promised these lands would deliver incredible prosperity. tori's of time by one to one east showed gives easy in a hotel with a career no director allegedly signing concession documents government map shows no one day alone gives he granted permits covering 160 down hit days of rainforest the companies that will light is sold to careened and pasco international. into. by the bulge and are you part of. an awesome upper genuinely daughters into mcgovern the only elevator. anything. on this remote property johana school begins he is currently under house arrest unrelated corruption offense we contact him by phone. down. and out the top back
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a. gives he denies he's local government approved the permits he blames national politicians who were in power at the time of the deal that it took up on our staff of $100.00 up at the time half. staff to conduct that if after that. and. i just i think at the moment. what connex posco international anchor window to the contentious land deal is these korean businessman kim man crew who appears in many of the persian isn't documents with the time. keeping them true started primetime. ancient governments obtained lucrative lawsuits through good sea and other politicians then sold them to both companies for tens of millions of dollars. nicholas mom who's a ses he received a $300.00 monthly stipend from kidnap crew to help facilitate land deals for him
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i now want to. go to rawlins i want to read on program book and it can work and i can watch the avant garde. living can fall very. young some better ones are. allows room. you know good to know as compared with the fact that i'm wrong about an event doesn't want to come when young couple i do think laugh and don't imagine are. in such makings one i want to east has confirmed q. man crew paid as little as $5.00 a head did to tribes to de forest. this document shows he was the director of p.t.b. ira the company that brokered the controversial land deal which led to the destruction of linus on this forest. damiana stone a buffet buffett says he met him and crew during the negotiations and in a traditional ceremony i split these pigs skull to mock the deal had been done. you
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know who can do to look too good to be given the 3. yeah we had a more. modern even then look up on a mummy can turn. into food at kong. and it was kim now i'm coo who then signed a contract to sell his cup the p.t.b. ira to pasco international the price $10000000.00. with help from the korea center for investigative journalism we cool keep them could. only be good to be. with you when you don't. care about our good and go. from a look at communicating. to all the good of a muslim isn't going to sort of calling us was an onlooker that. this was not the
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only deal he nam crew was brokering one on one east has financial statements which show in 2030 a careen go shell company in singapore made a payment that nearly 22000000 dollars to an m a consultant described. an experience in giving plantation rides. we asked him and crew about the payment on loan until the. will could talk as a jumble of. so we did and in a written statement careened over executives confirmed that the $22000000.00 consultant is kidnapped. they claim the payment gave them ownership of his company and almost 40000 head days of west papuan rainforest. careen doe says that translates to around $560.00 a day for the land. keep them crew pocketed at least $30000000.00 from land
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sell to the palm oil giants the west papuan tribe say they got very little or nothing at all he refuses to discuss these deals. that take you along. for the. 'd korinos $22000000.00 fine right question as a plantation permits have little or no cost in indonesia. with their company look to brucia be a former prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice is an expert on financial crimes. what kind of expert is paid that much money at a market rate. and what kinds of things besides expertise are being provided do you think your thorough he should be investigating this case that law enforcement ought to be taking a hard work at cases in the palm oil sector where there are huge unexplained
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payments to consultants there are possible signs of corruption there certainly are lots of bribery chases you know where the term consultancy is used as a euphemism for bribe payments through an intermediary or a bag for a corrupt obligations. to nation government declined to comment. corrino denies any involvement in bribery or any wrongdoing in this matter after looking 760 square kilometers of pasco international and careened or say they have stopped large scale deforestation the west papuan but now. both companies have lost palm oil deals with my detritus and brands likeness like. some indigenous tribes say they feel robbed careened makes no apology. rights groups like reno should return cuff 3 lands resolve tribal conflicts in fairly common sight local community
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for the last livelihood the damage to ecosystems will careen don't do that. real americans returned to apathy centerpiece the we up part of it those illegal means little agreement with the bush indonesian government and resident. we big public opposition would stay happy yes there are those who are not happy with it but that's not the field will people . well you will never. know when they get. in a bid to protect nation of foreigners in the nation's current government pamyu palming licenses for 3 years but that ends in 2020 want a change in political power could leave west cop with isolated communities open to
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a new wave of i'm sure you with the best of. the system and that's led to past land conflicts and corruption. like thank you with the vast profits to be made how long can west pop with pristine wilderness survive. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world for the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part 2 on a just you know we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across
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