witness on al jazeera we understand the differences for minority cultures across the world that i'm taking out here. we're bringing the news and current affairs. ah, era. the, the hello i'm has him speaker in the hall, the top stories on age 0, lebanon has a new government off the 13 months, a political gridlock, billionaire, businessman and g. mccarthy will now lead a country that has been without a functioning administration since last year's beirut port explosion. that plans the country deeper into an economic crisis. then hold has more from beirut. it's been more than a year of political wrangling,

lebanon's feuding politicians have now reached a deal on the distribution of power in cabinet. it's common for them to argue for months, but this time so much is at stake. the incoming government needs to stop the financial collapse and know how to help me. i hope that we can bring our country back on its feet. let me hope that this government will be able to function, or 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. the political paralysis had worse than than economic crisis. the united nation says more than 80 percent of the population is considered poor up from 42 percent 2 years ago. since then, the local currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value. the minimum wage is worth just $35.00. now our salary barely less today's the are depriving our own children from what they need you taught those you went on with those

officials should return all the money they stole and transferred abroad. the political class is blamed for decades of corruption and unsustainable financing. months of street protests and international pressure failed to bring about a new leadership. not optimistic that this government can actually undertake the forms because they have shown voc they are ready to hijack. i need the forms that actually help the people versus safe guard. the interests of the one percent or the ones for the connected people have been struggling to meet their basic needs. there are shortages of almost everything, including fuel. the incoming government is not the non partisan cabinets, especially demanded by the international community to unlock a, but it appears they are ready to work with what they call a capable government. matthew does say he has 4 and backing, but many people feel that there will be little change with the same parties in power. the local currency did gain against the dollar on the exchange market,

but lebanon is experiencing hyper inflation and in days, subsidies on basic goods will end. the government's formation is only the beginning, so who they're also theda, beirut. israeli police have caught 2 of the 6 palestinian prisoners who escaped from a maximum security facility. police arrested the inmates on mount precipice, a christian holy sight near the city of nazareth. the 6 men escaped by tunneling their way out of gilbert prison in northern israel. israel says it is stepping up a search for the 4 prisoners still at large. the world food program is warning. nearly all afghan families are going hungry with many resorting to extreme measures to survive. the un says 90 percent of the population will be living in poverty within a year. it is calling for urgent efforts to boost the economy. afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, but international aid has been cut since the taliban took over. morocco has

a new prime minister, billionaire fuel tycoon as ease honey. she was appointed by the king on friday, 2 days after his liberal and r i party one parliamentary elections. anousch is a former agriculture minister and one of the countries richest people the african union has suspended guineas. membership of the last weekend's coo and envoys from the west african alliance co us have held talks with army leaders in the capital con. actually, the block has also suspended guinea. they've also met deposed president alpha con day and are demanding his release. a remembrance ceremony has been held at the pentagon to honor the victims of the 911 attacks in the u. s. saturday marks, 20 years since attack has flew planes into the world trade center in new york. as well as the pentagon just outside washington, d. c. nearly 3000 people were killed. those are the headlines up next to south

africa, toxic city. the news. ready 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 the beauty is deceptive. and talk in fact, the deals are made up of mining ways the left of the south african 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 is 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 piece, the fish, and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates, credit and 6. that's contrary to the health of the, of the service system. they're about to enter 2 species in america than 17 of them are 3. and about 400 and 33rd it is a national treasure and the military doesn't have a lot of things. a lot of the systems in this province heavily degraded the crown jewel of this natural treasure lies just a few paddle 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 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 different. the risk and 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 covered under a small town, who from that point on the mining industry began to deposit its debris all around the city. in more and more waste piles 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 i'm sitting here in addition. it's was the date i bought in

a sometimes i was to say will not proceed to send press 3 for filters, additional addition. so what does it mean for those living next to these genes? like here at, ah, yeah. so it does come from the mind stating it flows this i just did a really decide on this side and from the side. 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. 22. does 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's some can cause this image. so i'm advising you today. not to go to the main temp because it's very dangerous to all day. it's unhealthy at the same time to go they, 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, the mother, the owner of the house. when you come here to coughing here isn't as we men are we men with child around kid is causing a problem of coughing is appropriate of his skin. some of them are for me thing. i

just 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 3 mac

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 with under repair at the time. from the my 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, oh maybe you into a to. she wants to go outside, which, you know, because they, you know, she wants to go outside 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 in no doubt, there are other like around with the same symptoms, same health issues. yeah, i do know there's a feature of them the filling, the only problem in that dashing just the kids. they don't want anybody knowing about their kids in the situation there. took them open colors in the, in the century, the show them 2 of them. so many of them, you know, 1st met personally 20 something to take me through. only finding this if i sent to the main to, to do 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 maximus climb, snake park hill. it had been abandoned ever since the mind with closed access is supposedly submitted and nobody guarding the fight which extends over the full square kilometer was $46.00 each joint then do need addition was salita matter. take 500 grams of the sun, the 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

residence, also give it to their livestock, sometimes that children even bathing it. okay. once i could not do ms. reynolds on them today, the killer pre only posted on the senior police officer when frank linda is professor of environmental studies at northwest university in south africa. can see me linda is also an expert on mining the world health organization. all right, with your help, naca has developed a scientific protocol at test catch the different water pollutants. yes. so on the bottom of the mine jellies there's some water all around. i was wondering which parameters do you think i should analyze 1st in the water mining? nobody has a signature whenever you have elevated sulfate, which has been translated into, into an elevated electric connectivity. if this isn't come tonight but

a no ph. and you know, i'm probably because super than it was to drink a newly gum volume. so don't glide should see maximum. so for me to go on you, louise in the korean dash to do it because you also get to make, which is a metal night, which is income minus elevated chrome as well as the cool thing. and usually people like that much so if you're thinking lead though vegas on committee. com valid dothan each, you know, if we could pull up with his older group and let him know that it took me to person and it's impossible to analyze everything there. and then from often 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 has agreed 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, from the but i know you will see on the currency we are doing a minus 5500 times a day. i mean, we everything on pretty on that sounds fair. our depends on the order availability

and how many of the or that you see on this fall is running at the plot minus 5 gems. but done time, that's always good. 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 killed chemicals. we use line. i said that you're pretty major chemicals in photo mega nathan city gone the that so you add all of these together would be the goal.

the law said is the coughing at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result go 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 to francis 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 their visiting? what is it?

well, it's what's left over from the, from the extraction process at the rock that held to 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 the sand trills. i bought i in and other metals, but mainly silica. is there any, had the mental story simply there be trace amounts but but they smoke concentration . some was 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 within us, in the stomach, you know how much 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 is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mind. tailings that are kind of control. you do the samples you were talking about based on databases. the gold samples are done daily. yeah. ok. but the radiation testing would probably be in unity. ok. over time, the waste produced by south africa's golden destry has formed increasingly larger radioactive heat, dumped outside in the open air. according to official estimates of the mind tailing surrounding johannesburg now contain and astounding 600000 tons of uranium. the quantities are so high that in reality, the mountains of weight should be classified by the state as a 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 and to to shaft, a township with a 20000 residence. i'm having a full committee about me. it was on our player and a professor sheil bruno sharon is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from cree raj. a research association on radioactivity. when i was i was going to say, david, google was out sell to for me, lama noise. when i was for the last 2 months it was going to be a little bit later. they also are not on the la on the move you on a phone call to make sure call me on my my video. yes. young lilian montgomery evaluated cleverly. do those 2 that you don't need to do yet? they put in. yes, she don't go to your more recent law johnson than

a jointed meal. i don't, it was the one that you did when this book over 3 don't, didn't even do it 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 because you only for the dodger, you didn't try it on it seems like fun of do they get on us lunch for not going to 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 the lot because of the my yeah. why do you ask them? show them the 4 sixes. if this is feed, eric wants to show us the most common symptom 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 windows 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, but i must then takes the samples 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 revision, and also for animals to drink. we also phone calls. strange, 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 happen 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

a far from perfect big convenience and see me infallibility comes across. most crucially, our privacy. in the 4th of a 5 part series addie re addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics. all hail the algorithm on jazz. examining the headline. we can have a political the census. well, that's because this is should not be the reason for kill other human investigative journalism location we've gained access to a training can run by a boy from different corner. i never see no american dream in america. you just feel like your caged animal, things like that. my child shouldn't go through the program that open your eyes to tennis. if you, well today on al jazeera, when freedom of the press is under threat, you know, you just cause thought genuinely about your thought toward the bacon government step outside the mainstream. the has been a all,

if you implement here just some of access points, the shift, the focus, the panoramic that's turned out to be a handy little pretext. the prime minister clamped down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered, listening post on a oh hello and has them seeka in the headlines on i just, you know, telecom, billionaire, nat geo mccarthy has become lebanon's new prime minister. the previous government resigned after the massive port explosion. 13 months ago. mccarthy's cabinet faces an economic meltdown with few shortages and power cuts. man, 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.