louise and to and jose were bad, yet could it doug solvable? it's not only states that have responsibilities, companies who move to countries because it's profitable for them, can also end up contributing to international crime, including crimes against humanity and financing terrorism. and it's in the far is decision to stay in syria when the danger seemed clear damage the company's reputation and raised questions over the role of the french government at the time . if the judges decide the force can face charges of crimes against humanity, it would be the 1st time that a company in the european union would face such an investigation. natasha butler al jazeera paris. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories, an afghan government negotiate. it says the taliban is proposing a 3 month ceasefire and exchange for the release of $7000.00 primitive. it follows

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sorry, should be about raising prices, and this is hardly down to the government. we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in time in that says he has the task of fixing a war torn economy. counting the cost on al jazeera ah, the democratic republic of congo is the world's greatest producer of cobalt metal, a huge demand for batteries, helping to combat climate change. but there's also mounting evidence that total mining is poisoning the environment with di, health, consequences for those living in it. shadows. we've been to investigate the

me in the heart of tangled province democratic republic of congo. these miners are thinking for a mineral, essential for clean energy use, the mineral, we need to make the batteries for electric cars. ah,

cables is playing a key role in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change. most of the world reserves are in the sea, and arthur than mine is like wednesday extract about one 3rd of the countries output in this way. working underground is dangerous, yet global demand for cable is insatiable. for many here, it's best, so source of income. me the most of the feeds cobalt is mind on an industrial scale from vast open pets like this and either by the state or by large multinational corporations. and there's

a problem because many of these mines are adjacent to towns and villages. now research is showing that the methods used in such place to produce this mineral could be poisoning the environment with di, health, consequences for the population. ah, akila versus the hospital in ca. tank is capital leave. in bashi, mariah and her husband law have brought the 2 children to see a doctor in and found joe, do you know whether to me on my cell phone on my front winery that shows he got isaac finn and i'm gonna some of the some of

the will go up and just picked up is on the sebastian bri moulins. i is a pediatric like zillow, facial surgeon, who's become a specialist in repairing birth defects. it does 15 years that i'm thinking of many countries are muslim nation. many from it is now are coming to the other beginning. it was very hard for them because they didn't know where they can go with their children. if they are going to become formation due by the new me, michelle and i need someone to show me was she made it was kel, mom would be from the bulk of the been 3 years old. and jessica

14 months were both born with clef palate. this is a birth defect found throughout the world and can be linked to mother's exposure to environmental factors. early on and pregnancy. we were asking some questions to parents to people where they are living. to see if we could fall a link between one environmental factor which can be linked to those multiple missions that we are seeing in bishop informed me that someone was in my kitchen. because so we found that there was me between my dr. if it is off or if i felt like for example, and for that, we found out fathers or modern walking in money companies

are sometimes $3.00 or 4 times at least to have to then we've all felt left me, but somebody only via colors who will me school and i don't think we'll go through all of them. they've got a similar formation. i think we can make our surgery move out problems ah, left pallets and not the only birth defects that are being found in newborn babies at university clinic live. and she neo natal nurse, nadine and good is about to start the night shift. she seeing many babies born with such serious malformations that they need emergency surgery. but some of the babies have such serious birth defects. they can be saved. and i do forget,

i mean you probably a month for my family basket for my son. i mean you got back now give me don't give me an issue with an up by my call now, my front bill. i don't my, for my snap up on the low. my, my, my, for my wife shanna. yeah. i mean, then clinicians seeing spine the before the organs outside the baby's body. unusual chief defects where the brain has failed to develop by mean you big when i talk to my wife she i watch being, you know, i'm going lizzie, being on book i'm, was she like when you goal washing mining? always it was on me because when i'm on my, for my see dog miles on,

come on. i think up to you for gun drug we were equals, i'm not ok. we met a call system in its office. if they've got a birth, we've gone to the commission, the heck to me, we have to call on us. and we've got it. we found sets of all that many families who are living near some mining company of many kids is open for mission. that from when we began, our research, ah, not saw from the hospital is the university's department of toxicology, where professor sell esteem bans heads up a small team of research scientists. they've been studying the effects of this mining pollution for over a decade in collaboration with the university of love and in belgium.

and i did the multi fear, the sick boy so. so let me know it's hard to confront. you get on the very problem, but i thought, surely me, denny smith actually found my laddie. he saw dr. andre bye, and i saw it illegally show it to the i run the cli cobalt is essential for human health and is found in britain and b 12. it's needed to make red blood cells for healthy neurological development. but in anything other than minute doses, cobalt and other heavy metals found during the extraction process, a highly toxic and damaging to the human body. ah, pretty self it though the formation of the last time you should cut on level to show up in a bad and the process is the truck. so that's the only metaphor for the if

you decide you have a bond on that one, it also has to get a few. may those team is already do it again to to try to get that up on the deluxe on the best. on the fiscal, i have a that is up issue of the la police show me yes, she of less of any demand for my some quantity that the team know this is a complex problem and they're continually investigating the multiple causes. they're currently working on a new analysis that's about to be published below to graph year liaison, kasanya principal,

the levin. we'll see that if you listen to the police show, this is tony, kind a, is a doctor, and toxicologist, and his leaving this new research. currently we are working on one design, which is called the incidence of going into formation title and need these. i know we mop different mining in global bashing to see if they are flaws, phone, where we speak, or where we men are going to get if you want. what the scientist, the finding from the data is that in loop in bashi, the proportion of baby is born with birth defects is higher in the 5 health zones. the red areas that contain mines and smelters, then how phones with no minding activities. the green areas

the, the team must collect samples of vegetation, soil, and water to test for toxic metals. and they're on their way to residential areas close to mind. processing plants and smelters when tables in mind here to processes a used pyro metallurgy, using heat which produces smoke and hydro metallurgy, using liquid, causing waste products which are stored in large tanks. it's these processes that the scientists believe may be at the heart of the problem. we know that if we have might have to be d like i drew metallurgy, it's mean that the use acid to produce or to get mentors and is, was the remaining what can be used in the system that we call drainage. they expose the population when they sprayed these p

substance in the window of their population. when we did the rain the open day. and these substance toxic substance spray in development. and this population we're living in the vicinity of this might complain of these exposure, lizzy for young liz already good year, keep again the tip model, the excite. so the net, chris was on the dollar to the shuttle with the disorder. and bruce deville got more than they could do. done it again. ah, knight chamberlain, a man made lake located between the 2 largest mining towns of this region.

ah, if you go to buys, ah, was the professor of public health and wanted to find out if some of the areas that this lake had been affected by mining pollution from the rivers that feed into this basin. ah took a book with the mit a lot you luck with all walked on down off the dish. i mean you give them all ladies i think will be for me in the region where most people

live on just less than 2 dollars a day. fish. the best most affordable source of protein is relied on as a staple. professor koya collected fish for different areas to be tested. we're not there yet, but my song, some downtime. melissa, shit. air. this is josh. some crime examined me black, the lo, real model. i mean, as soon as possible, so i want them to start the big news. the surgeon sebastian them do

a move is i going to operate on ben and jessica today to repair the cleft palate before since then with this multiple mission and not fitting with sometime was fitting food are coming out for most if need. they are not growing. we're running out of 2 years old. was a gun speaking there is not a big very well because the bennett especially the soft but it is open and their muscle are slippery. that's why there are some phones which cannot be visual pro. now. the month promotion were similar by the boy who, although of the eclipse of the hud and the soft, but by the good as the left only of the stuff. and for

this we did 2 different procedures names shown. i'm barbara who bought me no, not dumb, fly me to melbourne. and when i me the, the team collecting vegetables that the local population eat. they will be tested for the presence of a range of heavy metals, including cobalt manganese and think all of which are toxic in anything but very low doses to the human body. ah, this is the in the rio memory. i used to live the family living or the being of the pregnancy in my town is in the muscle commune. but mine is near one company which is called dead. and where we

have got small and smoke, which coming for many companies can also have some competence decides and it can be lead to fashion formation of thought or husband working in a mining company while she was pregnant. it means many fuck those environmental factors which were linked and which was making very high risk of itself or functional multiple initial but for mariah and her husband gala. they were completely unaware of any of these risks to me. and of course, they forgot and they said really, mom will visitors and gala learn more than i'm on my mind. please

give me, do want to for my, my many while my chair, michelle, i was a professor koya published the results of his research into fish from lake jungle ailey and the rivers that feed into the basin in the scientific journal in 2016, a plague, i'm at the ecology all the all through very it isn't that she's on the go said in the life jungle really that isn't really a he lip was all so content me. i knew that i knew it among, i mean it got more lip. i saw saw them in stock the events last week, the among men look about. look, we've last long, summer and plus. all i mean,

i knew the young vicar like a mid the yes you're it. see read your soul. our focus babbler. the approval of the month of the month for i'm not sure if your firm would shoot it, but it slash sun sunday da da. got out. so would you be on this? you mean the bad you fit and use in mythology role? ah, professor panza and sebastian and emissions, i also wanted to investigate fish was up on it by saki v, but that's a dorky curious. why is it yankee and $23.00. yeah, it was. of course it was also to my point,

i mean back in the dog toxic to the left jelly is to be large of us on the plus. you saw, she called me about the middle me mariah 8 the fish when she was pregnant with both pen and jessica. we found out people were hitting the fish efficient. we mean other to the 1st month of pregnancy. the then time up to 17 time as to head to be with congenital mindfulness. open and jessica are ready to go home. but

they need therapy to assist in the full recovery. but at present there's no speech and language therapist in the been bashi. ah, be mining in this region for more than a century? yes, in the past decade, health problems including birth defects, of being found to be late areas affected by mining pollution. i be in miami is working to hold the mining companies to account and to improve that practices. it's clear about what should be done back in practice. many companies are not committing legal requirements on this out of the government. i can pay off the show or technical services to north have sufficient means in terms of material on how to conduct the fit inspection.

so i didn't find that solely that you need to have good level x rays. so that's also he gave a challenge to the government. we asked the d. r. c, ministry of mines and the chamber of mines, the industry trade body to comment on some of the issues raised by this film. what more should they be doing to address the problems caused by cobalt mining? neither chose to respond. nor did any of the mining companies. we approached for a comment. i, i since the 1st study, professor barnes and his team have found an increase in the incidents of babe is born with clef lips and pallets which may well be linked to the increase of mining activities in this region. nevertheless, they believe that our solutions 70 percent of them

did not pick us on the line to be until the prediction going to get on like the used in movies is the shape you plug in. that is the shit. so dial isn't here on my desk alone. she was submitted up yet. i mean, the cable may be part of the global solution to climate change, but is it right that congress next generation should be paying the price in damage to that health? many are hoping that the more the world understands that flight the more pressure will be put on the industry. here to clean up its act,

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