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tv   Risking It All Madagascar  Al Jazeera  January 11, 2021 1:30am-2:01am +03

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with garza's rubicon to be more than a 1000000 live below the poverty line is stark and it's reflected every year the images of the sport's biggest day are a force that al-jazeera. our main stories this hour senate democratic leader chuck schumer's warned the threat of violence remains high after the storming of congress by supporters of president donald trump joe biden is due to be inaugurated in washington in 10 days time which could prove another flashpoint she says he's over the f.b.i. directed to relentlessly pursue the perpetrators to avoid a repeat of wednesday's scenes 2 more people have now been charged of the violence including a man seen with plastic restraints democrats are also drafting new articles of impeachment against trump and a 2nd republican senator has called on him to resign. i think the best way for our
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country charges for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible. i acknowledge that may not be likely but i think that would be best does not look as though there is the will or the consensus to exercise the 25th the moment an option and i don't think there's time to do an impeachment there's 10 days left before the president leaves anyway i think the best thing would be a resignation. and our other headlines a search and rescue team in indonesia has found human remains and twisted wreckage in the java sea comes a day after a passenger jet with 62 people on board disappeared shortly after taking off from jakarta the aircraft's flight recorders have also nap and found. rescuers are still working to recover bodies after friday's ferry disaster in the democratic republic of congo 46 people are confirmed to have died but dozens more are missing after the boat which was also carrying a cargo of concrete capsized in the congo river investigators are looking at filing
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criminal charges. so. horrified and heartbroken the strategy is the result of fraudulent behavior on friday evening a boat owner and his crew undertook to travel at night despite time cross and unfortunately they defied it and that resulted in the routes we all deplore. and some news from iraq where a policeman has been shot dead and dozens of offices in protest as injured during clashes in the southern part of the country crowds gathered in the city of nasiriya to call for the release of activists arrested in earlier protests they've been demanding more jobs and better services in the city. risking it all madagascar is the program coming up next that's it for myself from the team here in london but more news from doha coming up in 30 minutes time. it's 10 years since the arab spring shook countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of the revolution. join
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us as we assess the changes in the political landscape in the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. glenn. glenn thanks. glenn. glenn. glenn.
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leg . thanks. the tiny village of tundra deep in madagascar has lost primeval jungle. the people who live off the land hunting fishing and farming. as there are few paying jobs money is scouse. because they have their money. situation must pass out for them the. market value team you can plan their life. and also doing any and some of the facets stuff that you have. to do so much about isaac and for you.
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robert now it is one of the few villages who has ever had a proper job he used to be a forest ranger he protected the forest from those seeking to plunder its precious woods but a few years ago robert was fired the game keeper has now become a coach he smuggles groups which i read and true. play all different and i don't. meet the all out laughing all the time be needful fighting among and with but coaching is not without risk the tree is in such high demand that it's close to extinction for the past 3 years authorities here had banned all rosewood logging. ahead lies a 9 day journey where robert and the other smugglers will seek out fell and carry a rosewood treat while evading police and navigating madagascar's unpredictable
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rivers and forests. and untangle of the. big. reaction. it's not only the police they have to avoid neurontin thieves have also been attracted to the area. that i'm afraid i'll walk away but moved. by killing double blinded by the. down the bugs me about this yeah. yeah i'm saying go i'm cool. understanding in their own meaning that the room would be looking like indian football but yellow don't get on well you.
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can find them are. carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. both on a monday. after a harrowing 2 day track the group spots another truck because. robert is worried that he may be carrying the last of the roof of the trees from the area. to come on up the mccann might. be dumped on the midterms when out to. visit with its mates when one got off with a function a year from when little atlanta and then she mentioned a lap in
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a fashion she didn't like using a discussion can outlast us i kissing a salamander i'm a. sixty's. deep into the forest robert and his men have found their treasure. if they can get this rosewood tree to market they would make enough for the next 6 months a tree this size confided to around $10000.00 and that all. i think. is going to your money. so let's cut down on the little rosewood trees grow extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop. and. fatten. on your
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new workers. minimum that. is going to offer you the morning battling it out. if i can say. no thank you chad. thank you. but after a backbreaking hour of trumping down this giant there's a problem the organization young and. former talk and then when i was a man and the. way to bring it down is to chop down the trees around it it's estimated that for every 100000 precious trees chopped down half a 1000000 other trees are sacrificed to bring down and transport the malleable cargo i think. that's going to. local pool.
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in the middle east the panic. room. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics so if you give him a hearing up on it it is. going to. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. the men will have to sweat and their money go for. it from i'm from yasser. from ours the men pass he acts around. the heat is overbearing. words
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therefore marking them being in the north. restaurant or another of our 4. look at all. this won't go. over to sort and eyes. i don't want to. kill. me or if you wish to live. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still traveling the top of the tree that's why they tried to pull it down by force. that's off to another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the
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tree trunk it won't bring in much money or there. any hope of bringing this tree down is disappearing so is the money it would fetch they have to start searching again about the roof of a tree has become so rare it's like finding a needle in a haystack. treat poaching is not the only extreme way to make a better living on the island some are willing to take even more risks. while madagascar is blessed with natural resources such as spices rough fight and cold one particular resource has new of thousands to this mining town of and so on sufiah as. this town sprang up in just a few months attracted by the promise of easy money more than $10000.00 people live crammed together in extreme poverty most of the stones they dig up are worth just
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a few dollars however a large a very pure fire can fetch as much as 5 or $6000.00 more than $100.00 times madagascar as minimum wage thousands to go away with the same dream the lucky ones might find the smallest stockpiles. bacco and massey used to be farm as the 2 brothers left their job in hopes of striking it rich and building a better future for themselves but their entire fortune from now is this small cabin just 5 square meters shed by the 2 families with their wives and children 7 people all together. i thought and i thought it was a high. land like thing that like. down but that's the shop tonight but the. shopping and i. shop and got
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a. they let champney to carry out the mission damage to pay not to mention me at all. events report as i am and it's my long time and i'm beyond it down as a man how do you suffer up a bit about how we have all. the brothers work for a miner who owns his own mine their pay is less than $2.00 a day if they do find a stone they get a percentage of the sale. monetary time but they are still one of with. a multitude of the monolith. and i mean i. only let. money rob. but finding stuff
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is not easy. bacco massey and others work in tunnels barely 50 centimeters high 30 meters below the ground. beneath the sea. to move on we try to. think if you must. try. to control. a test. strips. out of the on the top and the farmhouse nominal next negotiations have borne the garbage and. both up all the time of the mile and a half hour to. the early.
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she was on a fashion arm candy. a multivitamin lambing long as and this somehow didn't sound i'm too far but i bought a poem and bombing. the farm from a man out of baltic. to buy my. condition down here or explain the tank it's a constant 40 degree celsius making this whole feel like an oven. to 3 legged animals. hoping the organ in the compound could have been writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone. that was.
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from my model. model from my samples in the live. footage she gave me on the. script in my mom is a little young child. 30 meters below ground oxygen is. none of the mine known as kind of food proper ventilation systems are fresh as provided by the men's ingenuousness. it's basic but it works most of the time. and importantly it costs very little. the problem is the tube is barely 25 meters long and doesn't reach. much more
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again you. do it. on god's way of. showers we all saw signs of ouch book that i've been along to see mom woke. up by midnight on the puzzle i'll tell you. john the time of. hell is i met up with all of the amount of the stuff for the last bag could have cost them their lives. off. the fun not the money. that's going to go. for.
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them. in the eye life fruit with danger and all for less than $2.00 a day. after more than a week in the jungle robert and his men still haven't found a rosewood tree that's big enough. running out of supplies they will soon need to head home but today determined not to return empty handed so a few months earlier the army had chased them from the forest and they have to abandon a rosewood tree trunk they are now looking for that tree is a. cousin and that you. are left with that but it got away. while the hole is smaller than they had hoped this one trunk will get them enough
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money to get them by for a few months after such as it is often work and then there's the heart of the ending of book ozzy's a modern monster suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $300.00 kilos transporting wood principally depends on the length of the rope. when today because of a good thing a thought on its own mouth as any. gump of comedy to these english cars using my bottom does ing. me just so long to. rebut. them then he she runs exactly. vocal. than you or i love to see you for the victim live as i believe in love from.
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the trunk needs to be taken to the river 30 kilometers away but getting it down hill is a very risky part of the journey the danger is that their legs get snagged in the rope. so most of the men are not coming. up. an important role the cook are going on d.v.d. and we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more and more go into the woman. she had and now this is our moon lit for us in our body like the way we love i love a minute meeting is over with a little talk with. dr phil the other john she went off being a lot of other modern woman them all down so out it came out again that.
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no one knows for sure how many are killed in the process of smuggling precious wood robert estimates there are at least 3 think how to tease again but from. a club. of. jurors in the g.g. and i got. cheers 8 years and then that's he's done nothing. wolf agendas in case you haven't just because you don't want to 2 years and that's going to come on of course is it. grew over you. you. know how about a story. like. this one knowing. it was all finding out it. was all.
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done. by night. i was all fine thank god. god god god. god god god god. i do not. know how to say this is. the only t.v. we've been to school and then have peace in the mountainous terrain covered one 3rd of the journey. 6 ahead. exhausted they'll spend the night here and their white clothes. all of them aching
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to the day's exertions. w.v.u. put in a hole no one module will project. it out and take a beautiful. despite the soaking night and his companions have lost none that a timely fashion. thank. you come to the test because. it's taken nearly 30 hours to reach the river but the trip is far from over the head still in the rapids. this is the last leg of the journey for robert and his men and the most dangerous shooting the rapids with the trunk attached to some inner tubes. 2 men are in charge of the makeshift raft if they fall overboard $400.00 commuters
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a bruise where it will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the communion ground when you fill up the total thank you to the 2 gazing tony causing color which is our jazzy fifty's in kind of on the trail bring it out if you want to keep the fish you know is the pilots. thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you the 1st rapids you know dismisses his copilot who apparently isn't being my child thank. you thank you it's our son the pilots and say oh my my
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special killing them is something wrong with the cause i mean i think that's someone bought somebody looked like they did in. the wrong. after is virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the law of. the woods as a bait and should know can look for another paddle. the modification a building in the condition in the many colors that she. doesn't. it's
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taken 5 hours to travel down river. after. the others will now take the wood as far as mechanics of using the fingers on the continent but. once the trunk is in the canoe it just needs to be had and. the ongoing rules i mean she was showing measuring these. traits of when you're going to eat and when the lack of being there and i like a very good thing and i'm in and out of me. a lot out that is just out and out man yes smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar and the authorities lack the means to stop the train but for these men
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a i don't know where he's taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents carla benvar galas family of cleaners her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago 2 of her 3 sons now do the same work despite protections under the constitution dullards or untouchables are treated as outcomes many dollars have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b.g.p. control state of what the british has prepared a 90 conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the law is aimed at keeping delegates in their place. they come in here and in search of work to provide a better life for the families they've left behind. but though their labor is vital to least food industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime.
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