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the final frontier stay with all just as jeff bezos, boards the blue origin. you shepherd, space flight on july 20th the billionaires face with special coverage me 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 mantic evidence that coble mining is poisoning the environment with di, health, consequences for those living in shadow. we've been to investigate, ah,

me. in the hearts of contained provinces, democratic republic of congo. these miners are digging 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's reserves are in the l. c. an art as and miners like wednesday extract about one 3rd of the countries output in this way. working underground is dangerous, yet global demands for cable is insatiable. for many here, it's best, so source of income. me the most of the fees cobalt is mind on an industrial scale from fast 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 hang as capital leaving buffy the right and her husband or her brought the 2 children to see a doctor on the jewel, andrea, whether the members celebrate fun for life. winery shows he got isaac sim and the money went to summer. the summer p. c will

just fill it up is on the sebastian bri moves. and i is a pediatric mexico facial surgeon who's become a specialist in repairing birth defects. 15 years that i'm thinking of many countries are my formation. many families now are coming to see us at the beginning. it was very hard for them because they didn't know where they can go with their children. if they are going to be the formation to buy the new me, michelle and i need someone to look at the same way she may want to scale. mom would be from bugs. then

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 in pregnancy, we were asking some questions to pot on 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 emissions that we are seeing in patient in funding into someone in my case because i will not sell my car. yeah. but we found that there were me between mining activities and us of, or if i felt like, for example, and for that we found out father of modern looking in the

money companies are sometimes $3.00 or 4 times at least to have. so then we've autofocus, maybe somebody will be via colors, young miss gwinnett, mom and all of them. they've got a similar formation. i think we can make our surgery revolve problems, ah clef palate and not the only birth defects that are being found in newborn babies. acute diversity clinic live and she needs mental nurse nadine and 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 cannot be saved. oh. where do you forget, i mean you thought up on your mind for my silly basket? for my son, i mean you got backer. now give me. don't get in a shin. the keys are down with an up by monday because my fun to see i don't my for much up on the loma, my mom for myself. why channa clinicians a seeing spun the before the organs outside the baby's body. a neural chief defect where the brain has failed to develop by mean you begun to talk in my why she watch on bringing out my book up. lizzie, being on book, i'm, was she like when you goal washing minding, always it was on me big when i, when i'm mindful my dog miles on. come on. i got to you ferg drug nick was

gotten the by not the key. we met a call system in its office. if they've got a birth, we've going to become a mission the heck to me. they have to call on us. and we've got it false as well that many families who are living near some mining company of many kids is of the month 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 sciences. 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 look him on the list simply so to let you know it's hard to confront. you get on the very problem, but i thought, surely me dentist actually felt my lady. he saw dr. andre bye. and if you saw it literally show it to the ironically, cobalt is essential for human health and is found in bitterness. be 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 couple show up in a battery process is the truck. so that facade only me me for the if you

decide yet to have it on the not the one month. it also had the year they get a few may bills to missouri to do it or he ended up with, i mean, you're the best on the fiscal. i was i have a that is up issue of the la police show me. yes. she of a lot of any dement for my song quantity that the team know this is a complex problem and continually investigating the multiple causes. they're currently working on a new analysis that's about to be published. do got to graph here. liaison cosign principal with the levin. we'll see that if you listen to the

police show, this is tony, kind a, is a doctor, and toxicologist, and is leaving this new research. currently we are working on or one design, which is called the incidence of quantum or formation that i don't need to design. we map the frame mining in level bashing to see if they are close thorn, where we are both feet or where we men are going to deliver. 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 minds 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 the on the way to residential areas close to mind processing plants and smelters. when tables is mine, tier 2 processes a used pyro metallurgy, using heat which produces smoke and hydro metallurgy, using liquid, causing waste products which is 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 of c 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 the straight dope heat

substance in the berlin of the population. when we get the rain the open the day. and these substance toxic substance spray in the army and this population are living in the vicinity of this might complain of these exposure lease if young is already good year to keep again, the tip model, the excise. so the, the net it was on the very dollar to the southern with the disorder, bruce, they said they got more than they could do on it again. okay. ah chamberlain, a man made lake located between the 2 largest mining towns of this region.

ah, if seen this go to biases, who's was there as a professor of public health and wanted to find out the some of the areas that this lake been affected by mining pollution from the rivers that feed into this basin? ah, not all. busy bo put these in mid a lot, lot with all worked on doth shifted live fish immune year, even if the mar dot ga book

would be fall for me in the region where most people live on just less than $2.00 a day. fish, the best most affordable source of protein. it's relied on as a staple. professor koya collected fish for different areas to be tested. we're not the song, the sums on militia air after this is josh. some plan, examine me. know what the lo, real time, you know, start the parcel saw him. i want them, you know, to start the big news. i love the surgeon sebastian them do

a move design is going to operate on ben and jessica today to repair the cleft palate before then with this multiple mission, i'm not feeling well some time was getting food are coming out from most news. they are not growing with one and a half or 2 years old. why they begun speaking? they're not big very well because they're bennett, especially the soft palate is open and their muscle slippery. that's why there are some phones which cannot be very well. but now the promotions were similar by the boy who, although of a clip of the hud and the soft, but by the girl of the class, only of the sub bennett. and for this we did 2 different procedures

shown on the other. bob, i did so by not done for me to melbourne the, the team, a 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 this human body. ah, this is maria moore. i used to live we're living being of the thickness in my towel, in one bus commune. but mine is near one company which is gone dead. and where we have got smoke and smoke which coming for

many companies can also have some competent sides. and it can be true or not for mission also has been working in mining company while she was pregnant. it's military many fuck those involvement factors which were link and which was making very high belief of itself all of us on multiple initiative. but for mariah and her husband gala, they were completely unaware of any of these risks to me. and of course the, for what we should really mom will visit written girl of learning more than i'm on my chair. please do want to for my,

my many while my chair, michelle, i with 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 vehicle that was all the all through very it isn't that she's on federal said in the life jungle really that isn't going to he lip was all so content me. i knew that i knew it among, i mean it got more lip. i saw so on time. you mean to start to divest denique, the among men? look about l a. last long, summer and plus all the content and you know young of

a good new home a mid the yes you see that? yes. so la folk are babbler. the approval of the month of the month from now you're going to need your per what you did. but it slack sun, sunday da da. got out. so would you be on this? you mean the bad? if it answers in mythology role, ah, professor panza and sebastian and emissions, i also wanted to investigate fish was fun and it was for t v. but that's it. talk you later the again and the 3 year it was of course i was also to my what i mean back and limited

toxic until the elect lily is to be large of us on the it was you saw, she called me about them. it took me mariah 8 the fish when she was pregnant with both pen and jessica. we found that people were hitting those fish efficient. we mean other 3 for the month of pregnancy. the then time up to 70 time as to had to do with congenital mindfulness. open and jessica are ready to go home.

they need therapy to assist in the full recovery. but at present there's no speech and language therapist in the 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 do not have sufficient means in terms of material on how to conduct the fin inspection.

why didn't find that solely the polluted you will need to have good level x rays. so that's also he gave the 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 that aid is born with clef lips and pallets which may well be linked to the increase of mining activities in this region. nevertheless, i believe there are solutions on the present for

that because on the line to be material, the prediction that i get on my like the used in movies is the shaky pal. again, that is the shit. so dial is under your own mouth. no catholic, their masculine she was submitted at the cable may be part of the global solution to climate change. but isn't right that congress next generation should be paying the price in damage to that house. many hoping that the more the world understands that flight the more pressure will be pushed on the industry here to clean up its act. me

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