make it far more difficult to infiltrate or recruit informants the general consensus here is that regardless of the outcome of the trial it's not going to affect the day to day operations of the group but the fact that the trial is taking place at all we're told sends a strong message to what is one of the most powerful violent and richest criminal organizations in the world the prosecutors on their case and i determined to do everything possible to bring them to justice stephanie decker al-jazeera. was there with means the whole rob a reminder of our top stories donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached for a 2nd time the house of representatives formally charged with inciting violence over the storming of the capitol building last week the left 5 people dead 10 republicans joined democrats to back the move. truck made no mention of his impeachment in a video message on twitter released soon after the proceedings but in

a change of tone he condemned last week's violence and called for unity i want to be very clear i unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement making america great again has always been about defending the rule of law supporting the men and women of law enforcement and upholding our nation's most sacred traditions and values. voting is underway and uganda's general election long time present yarima 70 is facing a serious challenge from opposition politician bobby wine the run up to the vote has been plagued by violence. the african union has secured 270000000 current virus vaccine doses for the continent with that least 50000000 to be supplied between april and june the a use commitment comes on top of the world health organizations kovacs scheme which

is working to ensure fair access for low income countries china has reported its 1st krona virus death in 8 months as the country battles a resurgence in cases the fatality was an herb a province where most of the country's new cases of emerged 138 new infections were reported on thursday the highest single daily tally since last march iran has committed another breach of the 2050 nuclear deal with world powers to her and says it started working on new rainy about metal based fuel for a research reactor is the latest in a series of breaches that started in 2019 in response to the u.s. withdrawing from the agreement and re imposing sanctions those are the headlines about more news in half next it's risking it all madagascar do stay with us. in the last episode in the new series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade we're going to fire and i'm heartless crooks are so use like very much want

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the. 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 there are there must be. cities from russia south from them the. little man the market value team you can find their life. and also doing any and

some of the facets stuff that you have. to them so much about isaac and for you. 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 poacher he smuggles ruthless and rare and valuable troon. play all different and i don't. need the all our losses you know we champion need for fighting 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 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 rivers and forests. and in a time going to be. a big boon we are. caught it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area so i. know that other people i work with and i just got to move the. public in general and london bank. account can bug me about this yeah. yeah i'm saying go on for.

understanding in their own meaning before the full bloom of the word because look what indian public yellow don't get on well you. can find them are. carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. people want him and then. after a harrowing 2 day try the group spots another truck because. robert is worried that he may be carrying the loss of the roof of the trees from the area. to come on

up the mountain might. be dumped on the midterms when out to. visit with its mates when i got off with a function a year from when little atlanta and fancy romance in the lap. of fashion seemed like using a discussion can outlast us i can sing it with a salamander i'm a. 6 days deep into the forest robert and his men have found their treasure. and. 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's all. i think. it's got your money. so let's cut down on the you know in the little rosewood trees grow extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop.

and. fatten. on your work and. i mean i'm not. going to offer you the morning battling it out. if i can say. no thank you. but after a backbreaking hour of trapping down this giant there's a problem the organising in young men is when you are in danger when we're talking and then when the hours on bond. 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 valuable cargo

addict thing. that's going to. local pool hall and then. in the middle east we'll see the panic. room. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics so as to give him a hearing upon it it is me that he's got the insulin it automatically. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. the men will have to sweat their money go for. it from ample yasser.

hours the men pass the x. around. the heat is overbearing. therefore marking them being in the north. restaurant or another of our 4 or more top look at the whole. this won't go. under i mean everything is organize. to. your. money i like your strongly. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still trafficking the top of the tree fabric so they tried to pull it down by force. of.

will but the so. that's off to another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the 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 rosewood tree has become so red 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 it thousands to this mining town of and so on. is.

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 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 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 it was a high commission could go to mission like think that like. many out

down but that's the fish up tonight but the shepherd and i. chatted and got our. 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 i man 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 time of the money over with. that eva. filing and what good are the monolith. and i mean i.

only let. the money rob. but finding stuff is not easy. bacco massey and others can tunnels barely 50 centimeters high 30 meters below the ground. it's enough. to move on. if you must. try. to control. a test. strips. out of the on the top and that the farmhouse anomalous negotiators have

borne the garbage and. both up all the time of the mile and a half hour to. the early. as long as they can arm candy. thank you. so much drama i'm going along as a little somehow out of town i'm too far but i'm not the bomb and bombing. the common man out of all think. that 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 going in the same town could have been writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone.

that was. from my model. mile from my samples in the live. footage she gave me on the. script in my mom is a little young still. so it all 'd part of. 30 meters below ground oxygen is. none of the mine known as kind of food proper ventilation systems that are fresh as provided by the men's and you know it's not. 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 to get me. to do it. on god's way of. showers we all saw signs of ouch book that i've been no longer see mom woke. up by midnight on the parcel i'll go. down the toilet then if i mess up at all or i'm on to them stuff like that for the last bag could have cost them their lives. although. the fun not the money.

that's going to go. 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 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 the tree is

a. cousin in that you. could buy your life with that but it got away. while the hole is smaller than they had hoped this one trunk will get them enough money to get them by for a few months after 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 principle depends on the length of the rope. when today because of a good thing a thought on its own singing. gump a comedy to these english with some good cause using my bottom this ng. mostly just so long. to. rebut. them then he she really needs. global.

banu or i love to see you for the victim live as i believe in love from. 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. on them up and won't work are going on d.v.d. we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more and more go into the woman. they had and now this is our lives for us in our bodies like the way we love our love i mean that meeting is over 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. no one knows for sure how many are killed in the process of smuggling precious wood robert estimates there are at least 3 fatalities again. from. a club. of. jurors in the g.g. and i got. cured and then that's he's done nothing. wolf agendas in case you haven't just because you're dealing with one or 2 years and that's going to come on what is it. grew over you. you. know how about a story. like. this one knowing. it

was all finding out it. was all. done. by night. i was all fine thank god. god god god. god. god god. god. this is. the only t.v. to go to school and then have the mountainous terrain covered one 3rd of the journey. 6 who.

exhausted they'll spend the night here and the white clothes. all of them aching after the day's exertions. number you give clinton a whole module will project. it out and take a beautiful. despite the 2nd night and his companions have lost none that's a timely fashion. thank. you cut because. it's taken me 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 $400.00 commuters a bruise which will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the filming and around when you fill up the total thank you very much indeed mazing tony because in color which is our jobs i mean if you think of the one that they are doing it out you want to keep coming thank you know is the pilots. thank you thank i 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 thanks to our son the pilots and say oh my my special killing them is something wrong with the cause i mean if you think that's someone bought somebody look like there is a. leak . the raw. it's virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the wrong. the waters abate and she no can look for another paddle.

in a building in the condition in the many colors that she. does it. it's taken 5 hours to travel down ruka. 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 rules i mean to me show a lot of measuring these are 2 year terms of when you're going to actually turn it on the lack of being there and i like a very good thing and i mean in the end on the. alabama

a route that is just hard out there yet smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar and the authorities lack the means to stop the train but for these men the search for the rosewood is the best way to earn a living. the venezuela colombia border has become a stomping ground for trespassers. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage. to feed an emerging field trafficking markets. we follow that perilous journey unguarded through the line of lead risking it all played venezuela in colombia. on al-jazeera. the zipper will ring and disjointed days especially for the young my life changed because i can't go will say we have to be careful to not get sick and oxford

university study found the warnin 5 children and now afraid to leave their homes the sense of disorientation and confusion it would be very understandable natural reaction to children in the past few weeks secure mental health units have been forced to discharge large numbers of patients there are children suffering from psychosis who believe the virus is a conspiracy others with eating disorders or histories of self harm we fear that we're going to have a time bomb now this is building up to nation mental health. the world's attention is on controlling the virus for the recount list he didn't victims even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. the american people have finally folk in america is i slid. off or become more dangerous the world is looking at us live next year of sanity. with the election behind us will

the republican party dump truck the fuel weekly take on us politics and society that's the bottom line. you all deserve me so robin and horrible and of all top news stories donald trump has become the 1st u.s. president to be impeached for a 2nd time the hours of representatives formally charged him with inciting violence over the storming of the capitol building last week the left 5 people that turned to republicans joined democrats to back the move mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the result was a foregone conclusion given the democratic majority in the house because the vote is conducted on a simple majority that being said there was something surprising there and that is the number of republicans who joined their comp.