[000:00:00;00] ah, al jazeera went down to the me, the hello, i'm down, jordan dough with a crooked mind of a top stories here on al jazeera, the united states, australia and the u. k. have announced a new strategic alliance for the in the pacific region. it seen as a way to counter china's growing influence, the practice aimed at sharing technologies including artificial intelligence and

will help australia develop nuclear power submarines. i'll just was my car has more now from washington d. c. l. 3 nation. to me. it was an unusual prelude to a bite in white house briefing video extolling the depth and length of the relationship between the 3 countries. the only time the u. s. a shared it's nuclear propulsion technology was with the u. k. back in 1958. now a trailer will become part of the exclusive club. in an alliance labeled, the us president joined remotely by the other 2 leaders. the 1st major initiative of august will be to deliver a nuclear power submarine flight, frustrated. over the next id, months we will work together to seek to determine the best way forward to achieve this. only a handful of countries possess nuclear powered submarines and it is a momentous decision for any nation to acquire this formidable capability and

perhaps equally momentous for any other state to come to its aid. and president biden confirmed a few emerging us strategy in the, in the pacific region allies. we need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve. because the future, the reach of our nations in indeed the world depends on a free and open and up a civic, enduring and flourishing in the decades of head. then osmond came only alas, off the north and south korea conducted miss l. t. s q and around putting up a tension in the region and just meet the interest is in bundle. china was quick to make a call for restraint. amidst mounting international criticism, the word china was not mentioned by any of the leaders during the washington announcement. but there's no doubt that what is regarded as chinese expansion isn't . is a motivating force for the formation of the new alliance. and clearly it would appear

china think so as well. the chinese embassy here in washington has been quick to issue a statement saying, countries to shake off the cold war mentality. an ideological prejudice the u. k. and the us have long maintained a significant naval and air presence in the pacific region. in competition with china, the injection of australia, nuclear power submarines could well intensify this new cold war under the water as well as above mike hannah era, washington. more details are emerging about wednesdays. miss our launch by north korea state media say a new train mounted missile system was tested. south korea reported its own test just hours later and a sign of escalating tension. the government of the philippines says it will not cooperate with an investigation by the international criminal court into it so

called war on drugs. the icpc a proven inquiry into a president adrica detect has campaign. on the wednesday, prosecutors will look into claims of human rights abuses. thousands of people have been killed during anti drug operations. an earthquake, a strong southwest china killing at least 2 people be shallow magnitude 6 tremor hit fish, one providence. local media, say hundreds of homes are destroyed, emergency crews have been sent to the area. i've got phones acting, deputy prime minister has denied reports. he was hurt in a clash with a rival faction and a video released by the taliban and organic. but i said he's safe and well, it follows days of rumors that support is about. i had clashed with members of a have connie network and taliban affiliated group. based near the pakistani border and 4 civilians of a history after being sent into orbit in a space. ex rocket with no professional astronaut on board. inspiration for mission blasted off from cape canaveral in florida financial. jared isaac men is leading 3

fellow novices on the voyage. so those are the headlines and you've continues here now to 0 off to south africa, toxic city, state you in terms of watching. ah, me. at 1st glance, they could be the remains of an ancient civilization ah, all. and i'm 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 deals are made up of mining ways,

leftover just 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. oh, sunrise in america river basin. one of south africa, the largest fresh water reserves. ah, bridget corrigan is a botanist and

a specialist in the regions. 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 fact, that's contrary to the health of the, of the service system. there about 202 species in america. i'm 17 of them are 3 and about 400 and 33rd. it is a national treasure and the north race doesn't have a lot of these are. a lot of the systems in this province. heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this national treasure lies just a few pedal strokes upstream,

a sanctuary hidden at the heart. and the result of this is america or the american river and the water bubbles up from big, underground water. kevin, at that point of the day, the water is clear with anything very low conductivity, which means there's no sense 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 regardless of attain mining payments for things like copper, silver, gold in the region. so despite the risk, yeah, the place is different yet risk and, you know, we would like to see those places as an absolute no go for money. if you pollute the, this 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 dyed red by chemicals? ah, all these mind tailings in the midst of south africa, or a couch and some of them date back to 1886. when gold was discovered 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, and often only a few dozen from residence home with some of the may look as innocent a sunday. but they all mind telling this,

like he use an extraction and digging for gold the rest the day i'm sitting here a distance. it's going, it was the date i bought in a comes out to see when i press yes or $200.00 either there's one in order for the filters, additional issue. what does it mean for those living next to these genes? like here at the so it does come from the mine stating it flows. this size is still this i on this side and from 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. its residue is everywhere. lucky in the sun, the neighborhood has become one huge summit to meet you. 22000. your call from new york, coughing you. sometimes. yeah, your eyes become easy. ok. this is not clay. if you go to detailing, then this floyd has some it, some chemicals in it. so i'm advising you today not to go to the main temp because it's very danger us to be. it's unhealthy at the same time to go they, you mustn't go they, it's all 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 residence were unwell. so she knocked on almost every door. this house, if keith 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 met with child around kid is coughing, has a problem of coughing, is appropriate multitasking. some of them are for me, thing i them, i, when it does to me 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 12 it gets into our food, we eat this past, we drink this, that's so that is why so many people as the kids. 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. i

know you're going to do today to now another 6 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. 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 communicate with her when she she was to be changed. and then she, she keeps saying, okay, oh maybe you into a to. she has to go outside, which,

you know, because they, you know, she has to say 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 that the of them the filling the only problem in that dashing 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 of all of you 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 and do things from here,

i believe you may never find the key to find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of these illnesses, maxim must climb snake park hill. it had been abandoned ever since the mind was closed, access is supposedly submitted and nobody guarding this fight which extends over the full square kilometer was $46.00 each joint. then do need addition later must 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 enter a date adjacent farmland residence. also give it to their livestock, sometimes that children even bay than it. okay. once i could not do ms. reynolds on them to put in the killer pre, always posted on the senior police puffy sewing. 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, nocka has developed a scientific protocol at test catch the different water pollutants. yes. so on the bottom of the mindset, he does 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 that doesn't come tonight, but a know ph. and you know, i'm probably because super than it was to drink a mealy gum volume. so don't glide them up as soon as he met him. so for me to give you louise in the korean dash to do it because i see the you can also make which is a metal line which is income minus elevated chrome. you will have the ring and let the all the usual people like that much. so if you're thinking the lead though vigorous on

committee. com valid authentic, you know, if we don't pull up with his older group, maximum, no data to meet the person in. 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 mind at the site last year. the team can't go under ground into the mind itself. the company will only allow them to film stuff that's operation. we get to all from on the phone. but i know you will see on different bio currently we are

doing a minus 5500 times a day. i mean, we everything on pretty on it sounds fair. our depends on the old 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 2 because we use line. i said that you're pretty major chemicals. unit pricing is $40.00 mega nathan city gone.

so you had all of these together would be the goal. the last stage is the coughing at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result gold 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 $16200.00 tons of residue equivalent to the weight of to francis eiffel towers. me the company is waste accumulates here on this. he 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, wants 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 a sand rules. i bought i in and other metals, but mainly silica. is there any, had the mental simply there be trace amounts but, but they smoke concentrations some orse in some of the gold all there is uranium south deep has very little uranium in. it's also, there's very little uranium, and in this, in the stomach,

you don't 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 for the kind of control you do the samples you were talking about on databases. the gold samples are done daily. 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 $600000.00 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 and to to shaft, a township with a 20000 residence for me to keep it. 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 going to say, david, google was out to for me longer than either of us for the last 2 months it was going to be a little bit later. they also call not on the law will give 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 thought of going to your more recent law johnson than a jointed meal. i don't, it was the one that you did when it was 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 3 dodger, you didn't try it on it seems like the fun of do they get us in a 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's 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 my 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, and so when you see this every day, what do you think i'm filling out because the motion and i let us put on, i will go under my toilet bodies in it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed 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 exposure? 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, it would help

a lot in your study. we're going to just met as well. what must take some samples from to goes intended to be used to meet consumption, including one who is blind. ok. come up with the results. show me what i think. sure, thanks. but i must take the samples to be tested in south africa counsel the scientific and industrial research here is the water from the ceilings just across the settings. it is used as a restriction of water use as the revision and also for the most drink. we also do some goals. trench under the sun was company. well, my good, perfect. so what can you,

what can you look for as almost all the amount of content amount was like you're, you're going now your lead, you know, assuming which i haven't talked basically we, we don't happen to get them to once we get them, then that 3 for now, okay, alright. as he waits for the analysis must return to the investigation in part to the shopping 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. tv is a colossal bad idea. it's one of the wells most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises. central to

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