again, the with the will do anything, just freaking melton. ah, me. hello, i'm emily, angling joe hi with the top stories here on al jazeera commemorations have been held across the us to month 28th and september 11th attacks. us president passed imprisoned to join families at ground 0 in new york to remember the victims and memorial was also held in shanks filled pennsylvania to month. the moment when he nodded airline flight, 93 crashed into an empty field, then president joe biden, to raise at the ceremony. to honor those killed the f. b. i has released the 1st declassified documents about the attacks. the material described context. the

hijackers had with saudi associates in the us, but the 16 page report off is no evidence the saudi government was complicit in the plot. mike, hannah has the latest from washington. now this is a 1st tranche of documents to be dropped released on the f. b, i's website to a short while ago, and it's 16 pages. it doesn't provide any real revolutionary material. and also it is very heavily redacted. so very difficult to understand exactly what it is saying . in essence, what it does is deals with a 2015 interview with an individual whose name has been rejected, who was applying for us citizenship, who told us investigators of contacts he had a number of years ago with to saudi nationals who investigate to say, had given heavy logistical help to a number of the hijackers in 911. so it's 2nd person account doesn't provide any real detail. and certainly the saudi arabia itself has welcome the release of this

documents early on in the week. it said it would like all the f. b, i investigation to be made public as it contains continues to maintain that has had nothing to do with the $911.00 attacks. what the 1st tranche of documents does show is that investigators do believe that at some stage there was contact between saudi nationals and those who carried out the hijacking president biden and previous administrations have come under immense pressure from relatives of those who are killed in 911, to provide the evidence collected by the administration. agencies like the f, b i into the attacks to use them in an ongoing quote case that the relatives are attempting to bring against saudi arabia full. it's alleged involvement in the attack. so the families have placed immense pressure on the administration over a period of time. president biden paley acknowledging this instructing the justice

department to begin to release these documents. but in terms of what they actually mean, very difficult to see from this 1st drop that off, thousands of pay pages of documents. it is understood that the f b, i has its investigations. this is the 1st 16 many more will probably come in the next 6 months, whether or not they a the case of those relatives. that is something that we'll find out in the weeks and months ahead. and f chemistry has been on the gender. it talks between the ca, terry, and russian foreign ministers in moscow to discuss how to coordinate with a response other and russia is agreeing on the necessity of moving to help them to support the afghan people. and also we see it from our perspective that the humanitarian assistance need to be independent from their political situation over their security officials in

northern iraq say to drawings with explosive strunk outside urban international airport, where us forces a sanctioned this is the 3rd time the airport has been attach recently for palestinian prison. escapees. recaptured by israeli police have appeared in court prosecuted thinking to add 15 more years to the sentences on new charges. they were allegedly planning an attack and health authorities in columbia worried about a potential coven, 19 surge next month. columbia has run out of vaccines and many people with 1st choice, a currently unable to get a 2nd shot. it comes as the delta variance is on the rise. those are the headline news continues here. now. does era after south africa, toxic city, bye for now. oh i

at 1st glance they can be the remains of an ancient civilization ah, all and catching natural phenomenon. these strange hills surround johanna is the largest city in south africa. but there beauty is deceptive and talk like in fact the jews are made up of mining ways. the leftover just south africa, comfortable in the and within them lie some disturbing hunger. now, as team led by french journalists has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly

what's in the mind. and just have deadly. they may be all me, all. oh, sunrise in america river basin. one of south africa, the largest fresh water reserves. ah, bridget car again 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. it's got about 14 be fish,

and a lot of really endemic species of invertible credit in 6, that's contrary to the health of the, of the service system. there about 202 species in america than 17 of them are 3. and about 430 it is a national treasure and the north res 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 river, this is america, the source of america river, and the water bubbles up from big, underground water. kevin, at that point of the day, the water is clear is anything very low conductivity,

which means there's no source pollutants 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 regarding is about 10 mining payments for things like copper, silver, gold in the region. so despite the risk, yeah, this place is different yet risk and it's, you know, we would like to stay as an absolute no, go for money. if you pollute the, the area that 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 landscapes 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 discovered under small towns. 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, just found you. but they online telling this like he use it extraction and digging for gold the rest the day i'm sitting here on a business and he was the date i bought in a comes to save and i appreciate it $200.00.

i don't even press 3 for filters to do so. so what does it mean for those living next to these genes? like here at i. so it does when come from the mine stating it flows besides it's still is this i 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 sam. it was to meet you 20 to dusty to your call from new york offering you sometimes. yeah, your eyes become easy. ok. this is not like if you go to detailing them,

this voice has some it, some can cause it in it's. so i'm advising you today not to go to the main temp because it's very danger us to 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, if keith was coughing, this house he, their mother, the owner of the house. when you come here to hear each and every man we met with child around is causing his problem of coughing is appropriate of his skin. some of them are only thing. i don't know when it does to no question. i will bring them up with another 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 path. we think this but so that's why so many people as the kid, this is the silent sheila, this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. i think you're going to day to day to now another 3 years old martin. she's paralyzing brain. doesn't you? doing my lady, however, her family st. tundra was born perfectly healthy. the problems arose soon after the

roof and the house with under repair at the time from the mind keeps cotton test like this. does you put it on the test before you sleep? you must 1st see she did that and blanket. yeah. a few weeks later, the 1st sign of illness appeared in the sense that tanden 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 she wants to go. i said, we should keep the notes just because they, you know, she wants 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 much they are and no doubt there are other like room

with the same symptoms. same health issues. yeah, i do know there's a pinch of them. the only problem in that dashing kids they don't want anybody knowing about their kids in this situation. there took them open causes in the same street, the children, 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 the 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. ah, to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of these illnesses matter, must climb snake park hill. it had been abandoned ever since the mine was close,

access is supposedly submitted and nobody guarding this fight which extends over the full square kilometer was $4689.00 from us was financial and immediate addition was to me to 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 residents also give it to their livestock, sometimes their children even bathing it. okay, well, if i could put it in or do ms. reynolds on them to put it back to my killer,

pre only posted on the senior police office owing frank. linda is professor of environmental studies at northwest university in south africa. can you see me? linda is also an expert on mining the world health organization. all right, with your help, muska has developed a scientific protocol, a test case for different water pollutants. yes, so on the bottom of the mine jelly, 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, which translate into into an elevated collector connectivity. if this isn't a night but a no ph, you know, minds are probably the cause. see if i don't,

it was recently done valid. so don't log on with the maximum for, for me to valid louisiana korean. right now i'm trying to do it because i see the get off, which is a mental line. we can come miles elevated chrome as well as the building and let the all the usual people like that much. so your likely lead though vigorous on committee. com calling dawson 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 serious question. after some

convincing one of the country's top 3 goal to produce has agrees to meeting the goldfields. 8750 kilograms of gold was mind at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself and the company will only allow them to film stuff. it's opperation. we get the all from, from the but i know you will see it on the front via currently we are doing a minus 5500 times a day. i mean, we averaging it on the, on our depends on the old availability and how many of the or that you see on this go fall is 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 kill chemicals. we use line. i did notice that your 3 major chemicals, enterprises for mega need and city gone vision. sorry, i old of these to get it would be the goal stage is costing at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes.

the end result sold at 84 percent purity each ways in it just or the 16 kilogram. and it's worth around $530000.00 goldfields. make 5 of these gold balls a week. producing $16200.00 tons of residue equivalent to the weight of to francis eiffel towers. me the company's waste accumulates here on this heat fed 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 physically? what is it? well, it's, it's what's left over from the, from the extraction process. it's the rock that help the gold and what's left

behind off the gold has been removed, so it's silica and, and materials it's, it's a sand, but what kind of rules i bought i in and other metals, but mainly silica. is there any head to mental, for example, you there it be, trace amounts but, but they smoke concentrations some oars in some of the gold, all there is uranium soft, deep has very little uranium and it's also there's very little uranium. and in this, in the stomach, if you don't know how much it can not off hand, i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams at 1040 to 50 annually. south african mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold. so that the uranium is then abundant, leaving behind radioactive mind, tailings that are kind of control. you do the samples you were talking about 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 golden history has formed increasingly large radioactivity 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 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 a 20000 residence for me to allow us to it

was on sale. 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 going to say, but david google was out until 2 for me longer than i was fake. i'm to let you months. it's going to be a little bit of a vehicle to also point not on the law will do you want to make sure. so critical donors just fell into a normal mind video. yes, young lilian montgomery, evaluated who level who did those 2 that you don't need to risk yet? they put in. yes, she thought of going to your larger than a joint meal. i don't, is morgan, but the one that you will do when there's 3 don't the need to is there will be

a good you know, down the, for 3 north country on that's does mostly for just a larger than a drawn loan, cuz you only for the larger kids and it's right on it was sort of nathan define us. do they just on us entry for larger going to try and just wanted to close on a lot of the see me ya. drug master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those, and the exclusions zone around the fight at the 1986 turnover nuclear disaster. he follows the grazing animals to eric from 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's week near now by the one month, one month. oh, wow. yeah. and do you have a lot of baby the most because of my, my day ask them show them for 6 feet. 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 you must carry them as mrs. yet told. the next is the fund number one and is it and i will just gotten a pencil of mine. so yoga as a supplier, one at atlanta, at the is 1100, i'm going to actually run and i met so when you see these every day,

what do you think i'm filling out because the machine and then just put on i will go under my toilet bodies in 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 animals look really sick. i mean, according to the, to the owner, do you think we should do some hair sample of the most environmentally. i think it's a very good way to do it. so it's like an archive, an archive environment. so if you could kind of collect your coordinate, that would help us a lot in your study. we'll 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 take the sample to be tested in south africa counsel the scientific and industrial research here is the water from the sailings just across the savings. it is used as a recreational, what are those immigration and also for most drink, we also samples strange, understand whether the sun was contributing writers will make perfect sense. so what can you, what can you look for as almost all the amount of the important amount was like you're going now i'm your lead, you know, i see me, which are fairly talk basically we, we do an effort to get them to once we get them then that way for now. okay.

alright. as he waits for, the analysis must return to the investigation in part 2. and the shopping results come in to 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. frank assessments this by way. it is, again, freedom, surprising informed opinions. what you saw happening is come on to it was 40 to come up with 2 new critical debate here. it's not between cool and any other. great. then we have corporate here between 34 years re running that

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