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everything that's missing. the race track isn't up to standard sometimes the horses as you see there are no response there's lots of people lots of disorder no prizes for the winner we want to be able to travel abroad and take part in international races because of the siege we can't garza has a long tradition of a question is a riders here compare themselves favorably to their counterparts in the occupied west bank it's not uncommon for wealthy enthusiastic to import european horses worth tens of thousands of dollars to contrast with garza's ruined economy where 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. headlines on al-jazeera this hour the united states is moving to designate yemen's hurty
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movement which controls the capital and yemen's main aid port as a foreign terror group the u.s. backed coalition's been fighting the group in yemen since 2015. the rebels of launching attacks against civilian targets in saudi arabia and targeting major oil facilities it is reacted to the u.s. action saying it is in fact america that is the source of terrorism in a tweet that said the policies presented by america express a crisis and think. with more from santa. the many observers believe that this was for the worse and the humanitarian situation and the were torn country especially as according to the united nations over 1880 percent of the country's population now. under the poverty line or have been. imposed to the brink of farmer so the many hope that the upcoming administration world would bring warring sides to back to the negotiating table to resolve their
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differences peacefully other headlines u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she'll go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless he's removed from office 1st the 25th amendment allows the vice president to declare trump unfit to carry out his duties. search and rescue teams in indonesia are working to recover the black box recorders from the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board on saturday the devices are expected to shed light on reasons behind the sudden plunge into the sea and it in asia is approved the chinese developed sign a back covert 19 vaccine for emergency use the 1st country outside china to give it a green light indonesia's food and drug agency says a human trial showed it is 65 percent effective so he's got you news hour in half an hour next on al-jazeera risking it all. realistically how can you do with corruption and in this country we listen if this breaks up
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0. it's. the tiny village of tundra deep in madagascar last primeval jungle. the people who live off the land hunting fishing and farming. as there are few paying jobs money is scarce. because they have their money billions getting the city from russia south from them the. little man the market team you can plan their life. and also doing any and some of the classic stuff that you have. to do so much about isaac and for you.
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robert now one of the is one of the few villages who's 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 poacher he smuggles ruthless and rare and valuable troon. play all different and i don't. need the. love as you know we champion need for fighting among and with but poaching is not without risk the tree is in such high demand that it's close to extinction for the past 3 years authorities here have 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 on time going to be. a big boon reaction. because it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area so i could talk about that and it was all local and i was going to move to. the public in general in london but. down the bugging the bus yes yeah. yeah i'm saying go on pool. foundation and acting in their own meaning they were there for whom one of the would be what looked like indian poverty a little step down well you. can find them
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or. you don't think about carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. bunny 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 roos with trees from the area. are going to come on up the mccann might. be dumped on the midterm to going out to. visit with its mates when i got off with a fountain a year or 2 when little atlanta and then she will mention the last room
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a flash if you like using the discussion can outlast us like using a sky on color for. 6 days 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. tree this size confided to around $10000.00. i think. is good your money. on the. roads would trees grow extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop. and.
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fatten. the workers. minimum. is going to go for the morning. but after a back breaking hour of trapping down this giant there's a problem the order is in young and. former talk and then when the hours are 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 a sacrificed to bring down and transport the valuable cargo i think thing. that's going to. pull. in the middle east will
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see the panic of the moon. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics so it's good to make up on it it is. going to get. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. the men will have to sweat and their money so far. away from ample yasser that we're. ours the man tossed the axe around. the heat is overbearing.
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therefore mocking them living in the north can you. cool restaurant oh now that our for all the more talk and look at all. this won't go. under i mean everything short and eyes. your. money i like your wish to live. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still travelling the top of the tree. well 7 they tried to pull it down by force. but ofter another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the tree
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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 but the roof of a tree has become so rare it's like finding a needle in a haystack. tree 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 coal one particular resource has new and 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 has minimum wage thousands to go away with the same dream the lucky ones might find the smallest stockpiles. bacco and massey used to be famous 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 commission could go to mission land like think i like. any out down but just to fish up tonight but the thing shouted and i. chatted and got on.
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they let champney to cut out the mission damage to pay not to mention to me at all . to report as i am on that small lump on and i'm beyond it down as i'm on how do you suffer up a bit about how we have all. the brothers work for a miner who owns his own mind that pays less than $2.00 a day if they do find a stone they get a percentage of the sale. monetary . manova with. that eva. and what good are the monolith. and i mean i. only let. the money rob. but finding stuff
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is not easy. bacco massey and others work in the finals barely 50 centimeters high 30 meters below the ground. beneath the sea. to move on try to think it's just. a cultural thing with test. strips. out of the on the boat on the farmhouse now maliki's negotiations have borne the carbonation. both the time of the mile and a half hour to. the early.
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richard i'm touched. thank you. so much roman lambing long as a listener how did santa fall when i bought the poem and bombing. the farm from among out of all things. that my. conditions down here are excruciating it's a constant 40 degrees celsius making this whole feel like an oven. to 3 legged animals. hoping no one in the compound could have been writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone. what. was it. i.
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saw my model. model from my samples in the live. footage she gave me on the. script in my mom is a little young still. saw it all up out of. 30 meters below ground oxygen is. none of the mine known as kind of food proper ventilation systems and other 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. i'm not going
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to get any. amount of. good. shall we all saw signs of ouch that i don't want to see mom woke. up by midnight on the parcel i'll go. down the toilet still fill up then if i mess up at all or if i'm on to them stuff i go in the fall the last bag could have cost them their lives. although. they don't let the fun not the money. it's the cycle.
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from. a life fruit with danger and all for less than $2.00 a day. thank you 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 respond 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 in the challenge of such because you're left with that guy that got away . while the hole is smaller than they had hoped this one trunk will
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get them enough money to get them by for a few months f.-i such as it is in a funny book i think they have the heart of the ending of book ozzy is a modern monster suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $300.00 kilos transporting wood principally depends on the length of the ropes. when today because of a good thing a thought on its own might act as any. gump at comedy to these english with some because using my bottom this ng. is just so long. we want. them to any human need. global. bond you know or a lot of these are the exactly for the victim live for the love.
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in. the trunk 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. for them up and want to cook are going on d.v.d. we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more boring go into the woman think they had an immaculate moon lit for us in our body like the way we love our love i mean anything is evil with a little talk with. the other john john they've all been 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 would robert estimates there are at least 3 fatalities again. 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 were 22 years old and that's going to come on of course is a. good. go over you. know how but i don't. like. this one knowing. it was all hot and. was on my. mind the gun.
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off to the day's exertions. number you give clinton a whole module mccroskey. it out and take a beautiful. despite the something night and his companions have lost none that's a timely fashion. thank. you cut because. it's taken nearly 30 hours to reach the river but the trip is far from over head still in the rapids. this is the last leg of the journey for robots and he's 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 $200.00 kilos of rooms which
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will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the communion down when you fill up the total thank you very much indeed mazing tony because in color which is out doesn't mean if you think i've done a raising it out you're going to keep coming thank you know is the pilots. thank you thank i thank you 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
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if our son the pilot saying say oh my special killing them is something wrong with the cars i mean i think that's come on bob somebody look like there is a. leak . the raw. after is a virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the wrong. the waters a bait and should know can look for another paddle. in the building in the direction in the many colors that she. doesn't.
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it's taken 5 hours to travel down river. but. the others will now take the wood as far as the kind of. musical numbers on the continent but. once the trunk is in the canoe it just needs to be had in. the world i mean she was showing measuring these 30 year range of when you're going to actually turn it on the lack of being there and the longer you're using it and i mean in the end on the whole me. than a lot out there is just another part out man yes smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar and the authorities lack the means to stop the train but for
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these men the search for the ruins what is the best way to earn a living. the venezuela colombia has become a stomping ground for us. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage. to feed an emerging fuel trafficking markets. we followed that perilous journey unguarded through the line of. risking it all. on al-jazeera. news as it breaks the explosion. mobile phone and internet service. details coverage many.
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of the country around the world. seems to conclude. that. since the beginning. the hillbilly a harmless caricature or a malicious label denying the people their culture to justify the exploitation of their natural resources that devoting hunka thing has been so successful that even people in the region believe the stereotype then becomes dangerous it's only a region of trash so. why not trash it what's in a name hillbilly a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the brazilian journalist investigating a political and grab all the farmers helped elect and he's repay them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away and guarantee the occupation of the
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