all of latin america for most in my career but no help you don't like and it's my job to shed light on and why. hello i'm down jordan with the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has been recorded telling the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough folks to overturn his election defeat georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden trump refuses to concede repeating unfounded claims of fraud alan fischer reports from atlanta so from a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find food to health overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary

of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i use one of. $11780.00 wells which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong donald trump refused to accept the loss the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from

various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is remarkable it's an outrage it's the president of the united states putting pressure on a public official to lie to cheat possibly to steal votes so that he can win the state of georgia vice president elect harris has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff but the president's call was there hanging over her comments was yes certainly the noise the desperation. most certainly then. and it was a. they polled the use of power by the president and the united states even if donald trump did manage to flip georgia it doesn't matter joe biden won more than enough electoral college votes to secure the presidential election. will actually be in georgia later on monday he's here

supporting 2 republican senators whose fate in a runoff election will decide the balance of power in washington a race which is now been overshadowed by the most controversial oval office tapes since nixon in the 1970 s. alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia for trump's refusal to concede does lead to speculation that he may deploy the military to hold on to power and that's prompted all of the 10 living former u.s. defense secretaries to warn against the use of the military in an election dispute in an open letter they wrote that such a move would push the u.s. into dangerous territory. the u.s. recorded more than 291000 new coronavirus infections on saturday a new single day high so far about 4200000 americans have received their 1st vaccine doses but that falls well behind the target of 20000000 president trumps administration promised by the end of last year the armed group boko haram has

abducted more than 50 people in a raid in northeastern nigeria the attack happened in borno state between the towns of my dewberry and. a un aid worker is among the missing last month hundreds of school kids and children were abducted in the northern state of cuts here. the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western asia has risen to 100 the prime minister visited the bury region an area neighboring mali. between. thousands of people have turned out in iraq to repeat their calls for u.s. troops to leave they were brought to the streets on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of the right in general qassam somani he was killed by u.s. drone strike in baghdad. well those were the headlines the news continues here on the al-jazeera after south africa toxic city stations are still ticked off and.

at 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. an eye catching natural phenomenon. these strange tales surround your highness back. the largest city in south africa. but their beauty is deceptive and toxic. in fact the dudes are made up of mining waste. from. the left to visit south africa's most profitable industries. and within them line some disturbing secrets. now a team that part french journalist must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly what's in the mind taps and just how deadly

a maybe. sunrise america river basin. one of south africa's largest freshwater reserves. on bridget corrigan is a botanist. and a specialist in the region's biodiversity. this is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if it's a unique biodiversity from not just the tourist trail but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special it's got about 14 species of fish and

a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. there are 200 trees species in america. that's 17 of them. and about $400.00 in a bird species. it is a national treasure and the north west doesn't have a lot of these river systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this not true treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. a sanctuary hidden at the heart of the resort. this is america and we're at the top of america. and the water levels up from big underground what to kevin's at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conduct of its he which means there's no souls

there's no pollutants in this in the system it's really very very pure. the water is crystal clear but it might not stay that way. recently the mining industry has become interested in the area subsoil which is full of precious minerals regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. compass over gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and it's you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. you can't just get that back it's not going to come back . so could the america river basin one day resemble the of the desolate landscapes left behind by the south african mining industry. like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. or these mine tailings

in the midst of south africa's porn stars and. some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown culture has been. from that point on the mining industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city. more and more waste piles of here. often only a few dozen need. yes from residents homes. some of the may look as innocent as son to use but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold. over their past. so. david ensor is here to do something different from his book the day i. suppose i was out to disable the p.c.'s which will. depreciate 170 i don't even

disposable just. drop something for the plutocrats he wants to destroy his books for cost all to discuss and to tell him to do. so what does it mean for those living next to these tunes. like him and snake. so does the wind come from the mine 38 it flows this side of a rose this side or this side just a tiny dylan mimi is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere i. saw in the neighborhood has become one huge samba to meet your. 20 kids that's 15. funny sometimes yeah your eyes become each ok this is not right if

you go to detaining them this choice has some make some chemical in it so i'm advising you to ok not to go to mine because it's very dangerous to only baby it's unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. leave it you're going 'd to . a few months ago tiny dylan mimi wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so. she knocked on almost every duel this house that is keith coffee this house here the model the owner of this house is just full of this when you come here and here each and every man will we mentally child out around here is coughing has a pulpit of coughing as appropriate each his skin some of them up only change from the man who. said that the moment it does to me a question i will wind up with a. question that needs. over one and

a half 1000000 south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. that itself it gets into off one week this past week during this that so that is why so many people are here this is the silent heat. 7 this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who i believe you know for years you know if you. look at it. is 6 years old. she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the

tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time and the dust from the mine cotton specially this dust you pull your good in the piece that before you sleep you must face. that and everything kids. yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. communicate with her. when she she was to be changed. yeah and then she she kicks it is ok you know maybe when she wants you to go i said richie she kisses me and she screams no. do you know she has to go say that you want to. poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt is there are other fears like under her own was the same symptoms same health issues yeah

i do know and there's there's a pinch out there it's going to be the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they don't want anybody knowing up idea kids in this situation there's 2 of them oprah's tulsa's in the in the sense 3 of them 2 of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is something they paid me to do you only find in here this is actually centered it in my angel to them like today taking them to do today they don't think so but if you go of any distance from here believe you me you never find this key. to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. must climb snake park. it has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. access is supposedly forbidden there's nobody guarding the site which

extends over 4 square kilometers while i'm out of the all for about $63.00 summers which rivers each. day so then do me a turn the dishes. with soumitra. mustard take 500 grams of the sun. the dust that's blowing over the village below. on the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. it's used mostly to arrogated adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net of this order. or if i can put in will do.

for the. killer. was on the screen you have put it. frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa can see me. and linda is also an expert on mining allusion to government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parent those fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water finding. the tracks trying to. elevate. ok. i.

thought it would seem recently gone by. so. many down but in point of missouri. comes. to get arsenic which is a medical. exam. room you can. see. and. you can put it back. so they can. just so you know it was. says although. the maximum they were going to continue to pose for them. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious

questions. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. with the. gold fields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself and the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. but i know you will see it on the front but there's some real. business trying to include we are doing a plus minus $5500.00 tonnes. a day i mean we have reaching out on $300.00 tons of our depends on a lot of viability and how many times of oil is there. so there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the plus minus 5 days but done that's always

great currently. only 5 grams of gold for each ton of coal mind that's a remarkable ratio. and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these kilns. something to make goes a little here we used to i'm i said no sorry not that you're pretty nice to actually make those you know prices they know the order macguineas instead he got. occurrences that c.p.r. so you add all of these together with these with all. the last stages the cost at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes.

the end result told us. at 82 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around $538000.00. goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within a few years this hail will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are its grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from there from the extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off

the gold has been removed so it's silica and other materials it's the sand. and other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. and some of the gold always there is your n.m. sauce deep has very little you're on your minutes or so. there's very little uranium. in the us in the stomach you. can really. not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a ton 40 to 50 annually south african mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is the

daily basis the gold from both of them. but the radiation 15 would probably be. ok or. over time the waste produced by south africa's gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as nuclear installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents.

of. oil bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from career at a research association in radioactivity when i was i was government on the. same thought they were. that commercial school shaken too much you must. feel they will be a little bit. also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know i'm a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. i know my point of view to see not just here young men came up it even to be able. to do is to during you do risk. deployed in your she thought of us here your mom and me. wanting to join in our corn meal i don't is morgan but we'll go on the truth when this go forward 300-0000 because you know. and you cannot sell

gounder ticket for 3. bonus there was a contract on let's work on the us for. i just don't. know i guess you want to force dodger to try. and they said no. to you to find us. do think it was only. 4. 100 would be too close only let it go to the. master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the $96.00 nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from

gomez nearby farm. era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long lead them up about if they last week last week by 01 month one month. yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your money why do these old ones that has a for success this is a. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know as well and. know what you must. but this is the fungible one it is. mine so. i want to learn. it. and i met. so when you see these every day what do you think.

about twitter but it's just the bins. it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. we are close to the mine tailings farm. look really sick i mean according to the owner do you think we should just has some of the animals. have to take 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one who is blind.

i come up with the results of the china factor or the instructor thanks for you but i. must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africa's council the scientific and industrial research. here's the water from the savings just across the traders it is used as a recusal water jesus integration and also for almost a drink we also have this on a stool samples train job is done with the store was contaminated as low new competitors and so what can you what can you look for as almost all of their dead and the man goes by did had it encoded in windows like you know you by now on your lead you know what as in the uk we shop there in trucks and can visit cluny. we need an expert to get them in order once we get them then and trace anon are on the

right. as he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part 2. as the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live pity is a colossal bad idea. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants at all 0 in the race but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some

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to back part of the radicalized nude scenes on al-jazeera. and i'm down in jordan with the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has been recorded telling the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat that georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden has refused to concede the presidential election the people of your year i mean the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you've retaliated well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is why you should want to have an accurate election and your

republican. we believe that we didn't over there are elections now i don't know you know you don't have you don't have not even clubs you got your own by hundreds of thousands of you know what they did and you're not reporting it that's it you know that's criminal that's a criminal offense and you know you can't let that happen so like me all i want to do is as i use one of. the. $11780.00 loans which is one more that we have. because we want to say and young about that recorded conversation. was yes certainly the boys in desperation. most certainly then. and it was. pulled abuse of

power by the president and the united states. or trump refusal to concede has led to speculation he may deploy the military to hold on to power and that's prompted all of the 10 living former u.s. defense secretaries to write an open letter warning against the use of the military in an election dispute. the armed group has abducted more than 50 people in a raid in northeastern nigeria attack happened in borno state between the towns of my degree and damage to ruin you an aid worker is among the missing. now the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western asia has risen to 100 the prime minister visited the tele barre region america neighboring mali but you know faster and benny and those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after south africa toxic city state your hands are watching life. the health of humanity as it stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o.

is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving tools supplies and training to help the world's most vulnerable people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that seed keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg south africa's most populous city but they aren't a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africa's hugely profitable gold industry. many are also said to be dangerously

toxic awash with heavy metals and poisons and radioactive debris. with expert help the french journalist must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. and. put one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious voicemail message a lot lot of your. money where your around. in a month well i worked at an environmental geologist me up for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know you're going to have a word about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist and eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the mining industry has now left it disgusted by the industry's failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste i'll tell you what i

found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said what was the only way you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over the over 100 so after a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to because the contaminate. the land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from creeks then with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a basically you put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you fear makes you feel like

a murderer. what we have done like i said we have created an enormous and we're all mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and what a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we're feeding the nation why did gold mining industry do it in reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made him probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. so yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing were using hand. heads back to sea from everett from goma. his current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered and person by frank bender. the janice

but professor studies also one of them of what we're joined by name is frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. you see here. is. the test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's foam and uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and you'll want to sample over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated 50. 1500. the most let's say indicative mental binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see in the natural

environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did the bud 100 times more than one would find it on polluted pristine water source of . the farm surrounded by pollution. it's animals badly contaminated and. it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest level or so. you see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is elevated to 80 times meaning almost 100 times of what's normal that's the same was cobalt that's the same was also in a 600 times for a nickel but maybe you didn't know if you're just going to say ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have.

when they're living in doubt for you fly me. a farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have neurological disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. but all the medical links between poor health and mining conditions so clear cut. stoff at the screen open health clinic might have some odd sense. among their patients is. it's the 3rd time this month that youngest son has taken an l. . ok . you're going to. come up. with what i thought was yes. indeed i'll let you know it's too much of

the stuff was it isn't doesn't like it not to me it is that left this world with. goes numb don't know who's awake. so how are you going to yours. the baby has called she's. i was just the interest couldn't both science sometimes receive worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having a test in drawings of the little dust because of the dust is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here you've got number of clues is not really there should be a study like you're mentioning is that everybody who are living lives to their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do realize that.

astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. but can. he catches up with to listen to work and back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out connecting with. ok let's go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok julie shares the small shack with her 4 children. in lam lachlan iowa but as. it is again as single i live by the bible is a. claim and i'm up on the corner quinola is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. and her children live only

a few doesn't need his from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide has samples to test what level. contamination of the student of ok we have to get through the new long songs pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise and comes online. will come on tell you come on that is commotion to pull. it in yeah if you can walk or security and you gale norton i'm just you know me. i'm still me i don't. you know she. is one of the sort. of i want to put anybody. see what i'm into there yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of move

. you put in culture get your book you takes yourself. national show. love that they don't pay you well that's. right if you turn. it all right that should be more than enough. and then. the more i mean you would put it. we got to be more. like this i want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has some from the time to whom we matched. the little girl suffering from your own to suit us.

look. this is were of a would have taken so done little. to look beautiful. ah. and then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor penny in france. once again they'll be a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used in the electronics industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the world's major luxury brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. that both you know jennifer was forceful apollo's that all. nor any of them seem to

respond to questions show then there's one of them called just how to yell matilda clearly because you don't know how good the flow of the instance of all your business on this one i'm on this one is of a muslim but again in a community called book review don't you know for the mother was one time was a good move when the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. medicare and then you can you go bust and question the reason the italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. it's time to go shopping. to greece headquarters and. johannesburg located in santa the city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious shopping mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost $78700.00. but again

no one hand seems to know whether that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. here in the national gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you can talk about it it's a call to gold yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. do you know i mean you know the idea that or on the bench you're thinking is kind of a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the directors of the material believe me to tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my own mines i forgot that for example the mind savings this is what you burn injuries better for your eternity no but. that's just reality is unless you're stuck by product of the 1st world where you know. it's going to hurt thank you very much no you won't come.

back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africa's a vast gold mining industry. people are gathering in a church hall. tiny the activist has come to see or to exist in a wide zeros some people will hear. so too have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. much has spread and even the national media present. everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. for thank you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you've come quite

a long way to be here must run through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human head that's been gathered rufus i want only we don't know it and i was always a huge fan of the go to play bass and was really sure who. was a very nice you don't owe anyone else who has read. this you will. surely it was a residual job or always will be you should tell you who it. was issued to you will do it don't do. it. said something just don't do do this for so forward when you would expose your post and go this was on when you were exposed to it with people. that cough it up to

them don't go and no one as you'd see them as in the preview i don't think it is the least was rule yet it really orders it will take yard you know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. on down the. shores of people just like western. people which. i don't think and all those who will focus on it for civilians if you don't want more talk to you next time soon i don't need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by my. from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is $330.00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium $100.00 times the international limit

the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your rainy and 4 times more exposure to us nick than the average french person even jesus into easy to mean we eat is dangerous for it. can cause celeb can we do. it. but usually we don't. even know she'd miss it you know you feel. the need. to know not. really need.

to know and i think the only. is this one normal and this is not. people that are really. minds are seriously the scientists who can be sending us things we've had enough of this man's exposing us all so we are building now to elude you once again from a shortage of the fish there was a. you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead documented we believe you are doing now so you'd lose the universe. will know what's. then you very much want to see it. as residents begin planning their next move. including

a possible legal claim against the mining companies. obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. only offer some pretty pretty dull success if someone they mean look good enough to just shoot someone just as soon as you know i am an extra and to put on the you sometimes know. almost 120 years later steffi runs the lincoln eyes ations anti-pollution department on string for those issues that the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the environmental impact of the mining industry and do you think it's it's going in the on the right track on the gridley. yes there is significant progress achieved this far in terms of my main companies

dealing effectively with environmental impact how's the chamber of mine ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tellings to mine 2 things not it's not that i'm way off ok so we don't some some some small bench shows the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i don't know ok. what does that make you think now it's quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the mining industry that you represent have a responsibility in this numbers. i think it is with our member companies mind we do have the responsibility do you leave close to the mind. why not even me.

i mean most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they fall on the table is not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing that people believe are on the tape these tapings this huge paintings are on drugs producing they're saying they're not safe. at all there's a lot of. environmental risks as well a safety of risks and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own. when it when you say something do you think it's something when what is it about eating the midi end of we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i think we need an all vote all management strategy as the industry and obviously in putting up with government.

so what does the government have to say. south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. i don't believe a book. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1006.00. 100 mentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much high and that there would be negative health effects on the children and every one of the real tragedies east at the study 2nd why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue. to

contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this we don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels. of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor their. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in 2017 mining companies extracted 130 tons of gold from south african soil.

producing 27000000 600000 tons of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still 35 years remaining of exportable gold reserves in south africa. how many move it dims will have to be in that time the food people realise that life is more precious than gold. how the weather looks pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment we have one or 2 light showers in the forecast you might catch a sharrow to winter northern parts of iraq you want to catch a shadow to the northern parts of saudi arabia here in concert with the top temperature of about 24 celsius on monday type cool as we go on into tuesday but at

least the way in this easing off so i think that will feel really quite pleasant south of that it is generally dry maybe one of 2 showers around the southern end of the red sea and maybe the odd shower rootsy into somalia maybe a shower or 2 into central parts of ethiopia but the majority of the showers they offer the south as they should be around lake victoria gonda seeing some showers shallows there into tanzania and they are showers into the democratic republic of congo and plenty of showers of south there of wet weather there into southern parts of angola remember the tropical cyclone that we had made its way across madagascar lights on last week that punched its way through mozambique zimbabwe all the way into namibia well the same circulation too concerned about the winds but same circulation brings some very heavy rain into south africa spins its way further east was runs across the eastern seaboard off south africa grassy pushing out into the open waters by wednesday.

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