experience the happiness of the moment. let us 1st severe. the 4th al jazeera book comes international documentary film festival. sorry, a vote went online from the 10th to the 14th of september, 2021. a j b dog. don't be a ah, holding the powerful to account as we examine the us this rule in the world on al jazeera. oh, well, i'm fully vegetable in dough. how the headlines on jazeera, i knew lebanese government has been formed after a 13 month deadlock. it will be headed by a billionaire, businessman, nigi mccarty, lebanon has been without a functioning government since last year. be able to fort explosion. county comes to power with a country in an economic crisis. where i don't know how to help me.

i hope that we can bring our country back on its feet. i hope that this government will be able to function and at least put an end to the bleeding. and we can all come together as one hand to bring back 11 on feet proud and prosperous. agidir's in a harder has more for me, be rude on the challenges. the government faces. 13 months of political wrangling, lebanon's, shooting. politicians have now agreed how to distribute the power in a new cabinets, but most of the faces are familiar there. familiar to the lebanese people with many people telling us that this is not a break from the past. this is not, the non parts has been cabinets of specialists that the international community has long demanded in order to unlock aid because you need these specialists to carry out reforms. but clearly the political parties who have been governing this country for decades are refusing to let go of that power. and right now, so much is at the stake. yes, politicians over over recent years,

over the past decades, it usually takes them months to form a government. but like i said, so much as i think we're just outside a gas station. people wait here for hours to get fuel. there's shortages of almost everything in this country, medicine fuel, there's hyper inflation. so the politicians were losing support among their, their constituents and they realize this at the end of the day they will have to make compromises among themselves. but it's not just us. there has been a lot of pressure from the international community in particular from and the united states. these 2 countries to off want to see a security breakdown. the army has been suffering. the head of the army has been saying that my soldiers want to want to leave to teach. they're looking for other jobs because their salaries are no longer enough. so pressure from the international community and the realization among those who have the whole. so i've been holding power for decades that they really have little choice. they need to come together to form the government. but in no way is this crisis over. they've

been protest in going to support palestinian prisoners in israeli jail. the demonstrations follow the escape of 6 prisoners on monday from a high security facility organizers say inmates are facing for the punishment following the breakout. the red cross has acute is really authorities of denying personal visits from their families. the u. n. development agencies warning that are gone is done is on the brink of universal poverty. it's calling for urgent efforts to bolster local communities and very economies. john stratford has moved from coupled we're expecting a 2nd passenger flight similar to the one we saw yesterday. we understand that this will be bringing in more aide, picking up families with either foreign passports or afghan paul sports and the requisite visas for foreign travel. we understand they will be taken as we saw yesterday, to doha, before being moving on to, to their respective countries. us present,

joe biden has spoken directly to chinese leadership being for the 1st time in nearly 7 months. the phone conversation was initiated by the american president biden told she both leaders need to ensure competition, does not vere into conflicts. chinese state media reports that she her saying that the u. s. policies are straining relations. a delegation from the economic community of west african faith is expected in guineas capital con a cray following last sunday school grew from colossus, said to press the military rulers there to set a deadline to form a civilian government. zimbabwe government is making cove in 1900 vaccines, mandatory for all government workers, including teachers, vaccines are ready, mandatory for people working in markets. and jim fan for those wanting to dine out or 16 versus the exams, with few doses coming in this has caused growing crowding and angry vaccination centers. those are the headlines on al jazeera coming up next south africa,

toxic city. the news at 1st glance, they could be the remains of an ancient civilization ah, all, and catching natural phenomenon. these strange hills surround your hon is the largest city in south africa. but there beauty is deceptive and talk. in fact, the jews a made up the mining ways the left of the south africa as possible in gold and within them lie some disturbing hunger. now it seemed led by french journalist,

enough time to do, has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly what's in the mind. and just how deadly they may be. all me all ah. oh sunrise in america river basin. one of south africa, the largest fresh water with me ah, bridget corrigan is a botanist and a specialist in the region. biodiversity. this is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons. it's quite

a unique by diversity from not just the terrestrial, but also the 1st. what about diversity is very special. he's got about 14, be the fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates credit in 6. that's contrary to the health of the, of the service system. they're about to enter 2 species in america. i'm 17 of them all 3. and about 400 and 33rd, it is a national treasure, and the nautilus doesn't have a lot of these are. a lot of the systems in this province. heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this natural treasure lies just a few pedal strokes upstream, a sanctuary. hidden at the heart of the result, ah, this is america i the course of the america river and the

water bubbles up from big, underground water. kevin, at that point of the day, the water is cure is anything very low conductivity, which means there's no salt. listen in the, in the system. it's really very, very pure. the water is crystal clear, but it might not stay that way. recently, the mining industry has become interested in the area sub soil, which is full of precious minerals. because it is about 10 miles payment for things like copper, silver, gold in the region. so display the risk. yeah, this place is definitely at risk. and, you know, we would like to see the status is an absolute no go for money. if you pollute the, this area, the underground, i prefer you can't just get that back. it's not going to come back. me. so could the america river basin one day resemble the other desperate landscape left behind

by the south african mining industry? use like these flat lands died, read by chemicals ah, or these mind tailings in the midst of south africa, or township. some of them back to 1886. when gold was 1st discovered under small towns who gentlemen? from that point on, the mining industry began to deposit its debris all around the city. in more and more waste piles had often only a few dozen meters from residence. some of them may look as innocent, sandy, but they are mine to dislike heaps of use it extraction and digging for gold. the rest the day to consider this was the date i bought in

a sometimes that was to say will not proceed to sondra filters, additional gain vision. so what does it mean for those living next to these genes? like here at, ah, yeah. so it does when come from the mind savings, it flows besides this still is this i, on this side like tiny de la mimi is a mother of 5. she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country. it's residue is everywhere. lucky in the sun, the neighborhood has become one huge sample. meet you. 22000. your call from new

york. oh funny. sometimes. yeah. your eyes become easy. ok. this is not played. if you go to the killing, damp, this floyd has some it, some can cause this image. so i'm advising you today not to go to the maintain because it's very dangerous to all day. it's unhealthy, at the same time. to go the you mustn't go they, it's about to go. busy a few months ago, tiny de la mimi wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood over a 1000 residents were unwell. so she knocked on almost every door. this house is key, was coughing. this house here, the mother, the owner of the house. when you come here to coughing here isn't as we men, we men with child around here is causing a problem of coughing is appropriate to gain some of them for me. thing i

wanted us to know question one more question i now question i need over one and a half 1000000 south africans live in townships like this at the foot of mine tailing mountain. the self. it gets into our food. we eat this past week. drink this, that's so that is why so many people as the kid, this is the silent killer. 7 this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. well, you know you're going to do today to now another

tando martin. she's paralyzing brain. doesn't you? doing my lady. however, her family st. tonda was born perfectly healthy. the problems arose soon after the roof and the house was under repair. at the time from the mine heaps gotten test like this test you put it on the test before you sleep, you must see she did that and blanket wine. yeah. a few weeks later, the 1st sign of illness appeared in the years since nintendo has been unable to. how do you communicate with her? when she she was to be changed. and then she, she keeps saying, okay, maybe when she wants to, she wants to go to cooper. because they, you know, she has to blog said that you want to go outside. poverty has always prevented the

family from being able to prove a link between attenders, illness and the mind dust, but they are a no doubt. there are other like around with the same symptoms, same health issues. yeah, i do know, and then the of them, the only problem is that the kids they don't want anybody knowing about their kids in this situation there took them open colors in the same street. you show them 2 of them. so many of them, you know, 1st of all of you met personally 20 something to take me through only finding this if i sent to the main to, to my, to detailing them to the, to detailing thing. so, but if you go outside, often in distance from here, i believe you may never find this key to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine. tailings really is the cause of

these illnesses. maxim of climes make park hill. it had been abandoned ever since the mine was closed access is supposedly submitted and it says nobody guarding the fight which extends the full square kilometer was $69.00. you can join them to me. addition was to me to take 500 grams of the sun dust that's blowing over the village below. on the way down, he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope is used mostly to irrigate adjacent farmland

residents, also give it to their livestock, sometimes that children even bathing it. okay, well, i can do ms. reynolds on them to put it back to my killer, pre owned part of the senior police, puffy. so when frank linda is professor of environmental studies at northwest university and south africa, can see me. linda is also an expert on mining the world health organization. all right, with your help, mazda has developed a scientific protocol at test catch the different water pollutants. yes, so on the bottom of the mind, there's some water all around. i was wondering which parameters do you think i should analyze 1st in the water mining normally have a signature whenever you have elevated sulfate which, which translate into into an elevated connected connectivity. if this is

a night but a no ph, you know, i'm probably because she felt when it was to drink and really gum valid. so don't live with the maximum. so for me to you, louise in the korean dash to do it because i see the awesome, which is a mental light which is income lives elevated chromium as well as the building and let the all the usual people like that much. so if you're thinking lead zillow, vegas on committee. com valid dothan each, you know, if we don't pull up with his older group, maximum, no data to meet the person and it's impossible to analyze everything there and then

come after takes another sample to check from the pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out. he's serious question. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 goal to produce agrees to a meeting. the goldfields. 8750 kilograms of gold was minded the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mind itself. the company will only allow them to some stuff that's opperation. we get to all from on the phone. but i know you will see it on the front via credit and we are doing a minus 5500 times a day. i mean, we everything on pretty on our depends on the old availability and how many

of the or that you see on this fall is running at minus 5 gems, but done time. that's always great. currently, only 5 grams of gold each ton of mind. that's a remarkable ratio, and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the all and then heated in these pill. because we use line, i said that you're pretty major chemicals enterprises. for megan, ethan city gone. the solution that has all of these together would be the goal.

sage is the coughing at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result sold at 84 percent purity each weighs in it just or the 16 kilogram. and it's worth around $530000.00 goldfields. make 5 of these gold ball the week. producing 16200 tons of residue equivalent to the weight of 2 of frances eiffel towers. me, the company's waste accumulates here on this he said, constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within a few years, this hail will become another steep mountain of debris, reaching up to 70 meters high. andrew parsons and stephen joseph, are its grand architects. what's in there and basically, what is it?

well it's, it's what's left over from the, from the extraction process at the rock that held the gold and what's left behind off the gold has been removed. so it's silica and, and other materials it's, it's a sand trills. i bought i in and other metals, but mainly silica. is there any other mental frequently there it be trace amounts but, but they smoke concentrations for some orse in some of the gold or there is uranium south deep has very little uranium in. it's also there's very little uranium in us in the stomach. you don't know how much it it can not off hand. i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams of 1040 to 50 annually. south african mining

companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold. so that the uranium isn't abandoned leaving behind radioactive mine, tailings that are kind of control. you do the samples you were talking about these databases. the gold samples are done daily. yeah. ok. but the radiation testing would probably be any. okay. over time, the waste produced by south africa, golden destry, has formed increasingly larger radio active he dumped outside in the open air. according to official estimates, the mind tailing surrounding johannesburg now contain and astounding 600000 tons of uranium. the quantities are so high that in reality, the mountains of waste should be classified by the state of nuclear installations. they should be confined unsecured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area. but those rules are routinely ignored. as here into the shaft,

a township with 20000 residence. i'm having a full committee. about miss jackie this it was on our player professor sheil bruno sherry. ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from cree raj, a research association on radioactivity. when i was, i was on the same day google was sell off to for me, lama noise. when i was for the last 2 months it was going to be a little bit later. they also call not on the law office on the move you on a phone call to make sure call me on my my video. yes. young lilian montgomery evaluated level of do those 2 that you don't need to do yet, or they put in? yes, she don't go to your more recent larger than

a jointed meal. i don't it was the one that you did when there's over 3. don't. didn't even do it. there will be good to meet with you on the on the get for 3 north country on that doesn't work for this larger than a drawn loan . it goes, you only for you didn't try it on, it seems like one of these on us lunch for larger than a child just really just wanted to close on a let it see me ya, drug makeeta has discovered that radioactivity levels are close to those. and the

exclusions zone around the fight at the 1986 renewable nuclear disaster. he follows the grazing animals to eric fun gomez. nearby farm. eric keeps around 40 goats and a few sheets, none of which seemed to live very long linen lab of last week that week. yeah. not by the one month. one month. oh, wow. yeah. and do you have a lot of baby though? not because of the month. yeah. why do you ask them? show them the 4 sixes if this is feed, eric wants to show us the most common symptoms amongst his flock. they want ice morn line. yeah. for the muslim, but i'm, i didn't know what to montgomery the metro. this is the i told the nephew the funny one and is it n w still got a pencil of mine so you will get

a supply one at atlanta dot is 11. and you can actually run and i'm so when you see these every day, what do you think i'm filling out because the machine and hello lenders pill and i will go under my toilet buddies up city. and it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed configured when we are close to the mind failings in a farm that home anymore. look really sick. i mean, according to the, to the owner, do you think we should do some hair sample of the most people, environmentally? i think it's a very good way to do it. so it is like an archive in archive environment. if you could kind of collect your coordinate, that would help a lot in your study will go into this met as well. what must take some samples from

to goes intended to be used to meet consumption, including one who is blind. ok. so i come up with the results shown as well. i think things are you, but i my son takes the sample to be tested in south africa, counsel the scientific and industrial research here is the water from the tailings just across the savings. it is used as a restriction of what or to use as the regression and also for animals to drink. we also do some goals, stranger, understand whether the sun was company. well, my good, perfect. so what can you, what can you look for as almost all the amount of the important amount was like your you by now your lead, you know,

i see me which our family talks basically when we don't have time to get them to once we get them then that 3 for now. okay. right. as he waits for the says must return to the investigation in part to the shocking results come in. he share the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider. what i find particularly scandals to take the worst possible material, which is uranium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into place where people live. it is a colossal bad idea. i can look my phone with my face. you can access your bank accounts with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification of biometrics

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this is these brought together in this one nice organization. and just diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage, giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on and that's a key strength of answer 0. 0 so again, i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al jazeera, a new lebanese government has been formed after a 13 month deadlock, it will be headed by billionaire businessmen at g, mccarty, 7 on spin, without a functioning government since last year's bill was fort explosion, the county comes to power with the country in any comic crisis. i don't know how to help me. i hope that we can bring our country back on its feet. i hope that this

government will be able to function and at least put an end to the pleading. and we can all come together as one hand to bring back 11 on its feet proud and prosperous .