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round it takes in more property, potentially more buildings and infrastructure in its path that we know that over night. there were more buildings that did succumb, engulfed by the lover. although at this point were told houses are not under a threat or the head of the local government in a press conference described as a worrying. he said this meant more drama ahead. potentially more people who would need to be helped. there are no current plans for further evacuation, but it goes to worry will be that among the $6000.00 people already evacuated, that at least some of them may in the coming days and i was lose some of their property or potentially their homes. ah, it is good terry with a slo, adrian finnegan, here in doha. the headlines on al jazeera, $4000.00 refugees, migrants including women and children, have been rounded up and detained in libya. that's one of libya's largest
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crackdowns in recent years. more than $600.00 marches are taking place to support women's rights in the united states. the march is focused on laws in several states that restrict access to abortion, especially in texas, which is effectively band it. he was president joe biden says he's hoping that republicans will allow congress to raise the debt limit. the u. s. will reach its limit on borrowing money to pay a stance on october 18th, unless an agreement is reached to raise the debt ceiling. well, i hope we probably will be fully responsible with philip. uh that would be totally uncomfortable. never been done. so i hope that won't happen. taliban says that it's speaking directly to the us about building relationships, but the groups foreign affairs spokesman denounced us drone operations in afghanistan spaces, a violation of international law. george, as for president,
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may call suckers philly, has spent the night in detention after returning from exile to support the opposition and elections robin for estie. a walker reports from tbilisi. nobody expected that because that really was going to show up on the elite, on the eve of these elections. he has in the past stated he would come to georgia this time. he said he would fly in to night. well, he said, surprised. everybody showed up yesterday morning, then everybody was wanting, where was he wasn't really here. what impact, what was he going to be able to achieve on the loose in georgia is a wanted man in any announcement last night that he had been arrested. what this goes to show is how much of an influence this man continues to exert over the georgian political scene calls on our closed after cut us fast legislative elections. people have been choosing members from the sure council. so to us will decide who fills 30 of the council's 45 seats when he has been here and i was 0
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after people in power next. ah ah, recycling used clothing and docilely helps reduce the carbon emissions from the global fashion business. but what happens to the secondhand governments donated to charity shops in the developed world, summer re sold in the west. many of them end up in gonna, where they support a major industry, employing thousands of people. but they are also creating a toxic environmental problem. ah
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ah, on the coast of west africa, the ships arrive, day after day, with an unrelenting cargo. and what is it gonna they call them a brawny while the clothes of dead white men weren't whip it. was shot demick into looks like a light blue to this one's grey lightning. don't pull it there. the charity shop tossed offs from the western world that sweat to see
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a rubbish to lucky shot. too many of them arrive in on wearable condition. while the tried in used clothes has created thousands of jobs, it's also turning parts of ghana into a toxic landfill. the world's unwonted fashion ends its journey here. and it's creating an environmental catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. i. oh oh, you know cra, the working day begins long before dawn with
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thousands of ghanaians make their daily migration into the center. is this west african capital from old father mock across the biggest slum iesha, he dresser, and her 18 month old son sharif joined the throne. working in the secondhand clothes tried. ah enough, each minute. well we can let j b a back it got that was it m dot oh lawn. oh yeah. now i have a young boy and i sat down with a salary. a samoa starts his day early to he's a successful importer of used closing hours,
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follow my broadband class, be out doing business and fortunate to my brought out possibly. so he hand written to me, why am i always and got lots, you know, if i see you made me who i am to die new battles rod and a, sorry, he's checking on his order anyway. that'd be nice. yeah, and i'm in front of his out of these vials, a being dispatched to almost every corner of a cross commercial hot the scrolling can't a man to a market. so bustling labrenz, we're almost everything is for so with
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these markets i, one of the biggest in west africa, if not the world and there are central hub, the 2nd hand clothing from here, i get shipped all over africa for the past 2 decades. the re style of western cast offs has been t. it's created of thousands of jobs. oh, good luck. these men and women, a retailers eager to see the best clothes from a prize. you buy a 0 friends this morning. there's lots at stake. i know now. so for the next few moments, the rule, so arch competitors. if they don't grab the best clothes,
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they don't make money. i owe you. with osher is on her way to collect a pile of clothes from a sorry, the importer, and i will follow, no doubt shop all white and black and black. so we get it back close. yeah. she's a car young or head porter. zachary and i have not missed that family and i let them yet. it's back along the display sang and donna's ty, women. i usually displaced from the villages in the north of the country by
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conflict or unemployment cargo. but even in a crop on she was lucky to win $5.00 a die. i did get shocked with the bottle of cleansing. she's carrying twice more than 50 kilograms. it's tough and dangerous work. if your home listed as well. no, i don't. when you get my head, not enough for myself, i put my money for it. oh okay. well it who i'm sad to flee. ah. the tried and used clothing is also risky for importance. they pay up front as much
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as $95000.00 for a container with no guarantee if the clothes inside it are any good i lose. yeah. now i see that in that it's not easy. sometimes if you don't have money to do business does business is not easy for you. sometimes you'll go and bought, bought sonton, then you courts, you will not get to what you want. then you lose your money. sorry, imports as many as 3000000 items of used clothing every year. most of it from the united kingdom. when he finds western exporters with good quality clothes prophets are there for the taking so if you know inside that this moves his fire by one you are willing to bite, then you get your profit. if you don't know that this boost,
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it's nice that you guys bought in a 10 day unless your money a sorry, also sells to other retailers in can't demand our market. western cost offs so cheap that local text. all mike is the can't compete. since the 1980s, their output has fallen by as much as 75 percent. i ah! every evening with the markets customers hating home. a clean up operation begins with allie's full, unsolvable clothing, a swept up and bundled into sacks, ready for tomorrow's collection. ah.
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the next morning she volume weiss is staggering. ah. that before it's even been driven away. i buy another load of used closing the p is it is put up to sale. i made a meaning like solomon neu is the city's wife manager. this place is 7 as a dumping ground for tech star week and any more for 2nd globin ah, close to 40 percent off. what there was shipment by the hour coming on a daily basis as off to be complete, chopped off,
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no value every day. this truck is soon to overflowing with ah, there's roughly 6000000 dominates every wake that life tantamount on market is waste. and a huge proportion of all of that clothing is trucks, 2 hours north of a crop and ends up being dumped as landfill. ah, the pressure from the used closing industry is relentless. the city of a cra now has to find some way to dispose of more than 160 tons of textile weiss,
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existence for the single mother of 3 who travels for hours between the can't demand home market and alkaline villages. ah, she says she still into the tried after her brother a sorcery to force her off the family farm. meeting out because miss always so let me be that. should i miss away? a prius being seen quite well. we'll catch them seats on what day it grew. say when one today is, i mean one dorm enormously. i mean, feet, russia, ah, when you feel foolish, bank ah,
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yes. i. she goes from village to village, selling her clothes. a $2.00 dress is a something of a luxury auto. i said if i thought with christiane, his arrival is a highlighting agree. we're fine and i'm a saying sold to me. will you be we now near my knee now? will you be to is the desire to return for c g i but it's a precarious enterprise because many of her customers insist on being granted credit. oh, but i went to this address, i've been me, i'm and are you new going aud, abby, members, i live now. yeah,
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let me. oh please. i may by no b, i s i will not end up on the i'm on i'm i'm, i'm impressed. i didn't lamp all going aboard. christiana works hard to care for her family, but it's becoming harder because the biles of clothing being imported into gonna arriving in worse and worse condition off. okay, beautiful. not a net or bad genie scott, i'm fine. i say a black ah, it's monsoon season in ghana. and when these fees rains come,
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the unwanted clothing washes into the cities open suicide and chokes it's water wise. you know? yeah, and the tropics. so we are very high press. it be dishing that form of re well, so and no heavy downfall of reed will get. there are these on colette that miss into the stormed rays which are not covered in a week, and then it gets into the ocean. it means all these layers of texts are without bath, soc piling either or she embed and that's is working with choke, the aquatic life in that like that internet bang. so when we've done clean up here, you can big like 15 feet and still find angles. at least ricketts has spent the past decade documenting the impact of clothing waste on john up. that also becomes really dangerous, where people, when they're swimming,
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because they're like going back and forth and it'll hit them and then on the procurement and wraps around their motors. the takes dolls which wash back on sure, become so tangled in the sand. they're almost impossible to dig out that tangled mass flow they, we call them because this is all tangled that very below the higher you see. but when they 1st one wash out there very long, you know, they can be 8 needs a needs and sometimes 3 feet. why these tentacles have their origins at kat demantzy market? ah.
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a manual. yeah. hello. hey, wow. nice to me. i thank you. my, you, a job is another importer of that that will find that we, i went to think there's been this work. yeah. we want to see what it is to live is some a decade. yeah . and weren't whooping was shorter demons into groups until they opened the bales. importance have no idea whether they can obtain trash or treasure light blue. so this one's going like the top quality. okay. here we go . well this one is that going to be robert's? yeah. edition see rubbish. and this one tool will call it the 2nd one second. okay. okay. we come will. yeah. this one is going to look. it's
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what it's sort of staying here. no, no book. it's not good to know. emmanuel and his colleagues to spear at the growing number of low quality clothes, arriving in ghana. or you think of this one? see how it is a debt from here, or is it sweat to should not which it seemed a bit because lucky. short disease or efficiency in europe or you can to a sri america and it think africa year we are, we are known. let women being sold to say that use this because what they are given to us is a lot, even if someone didn't lock your door and you want it, you can not just given, picking something from your desk been and give to the patient. so in this case it's like they are doing this to us by all cost emmanuel $92.00
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per hour to this wild cider was you can sell. okay. after sourcing the whole bio, you can see he's going to mike was significant loss today. 45677, position, ebay. and how many altogether and a bio. and this one was 180 to 200 pieces in the bed. and you found something better back. so at the end of today, where will you put that? where would your demo it? now the problem is there is no room anywhere enough craw list to throws this massive carefully engineered landfill was meant to be the solution to accuracy, waste crosses. it should have provided enough capacity for 15 years. but once it
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started accepting clothing weiss from can't manage, our market was filled to overflowing within just 5 now the cities only alternative is a growing network of informal unregulated dumps. so a lot of the ways of brought here by informal collectors who pick it up at the end of the day like this one on the age of old fatima the cities biggest to slum it doesn't work is anything wrong with him at all. synthetic textiles can take hundreds of years to decompose this mountain of waste. my cast, it's fitted shadow of these neighborhoods for generations to come
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in. i think unfortunately, what happens is that the way they are blamed for the waste, the people of old pharma are not responsible for this problem. but they are forced to live with it than this waste and other places like this where it's used to, for their disenfranchised people, were already living in poverty, to blame them for late that they did not receive. while all consumers be some responsibility for this waste crosses, lose rickets lies much of the blame at the door of the world's big fashion houses. really it's the brands, it's the brands that are over producing waste is a part of the business model, a fashion, a lot of brands that are produced by up to 40 percent. so when did i start building
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d. at that time fashion than being at that that with there are other problems which is simply more pressing why she lives in this small, windowless room with 4 other women and all the world we belong to a landing yet. i hear talk. so perhaps it's for the waste in steed to think more carefully about the quality of what we darn eyes. i'm not sure i'd never been conscious to ox. where is the final destination of india discarded by the come here like you've come and see the practicality for years that then there was no doubt no but that take care of this
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in, within our country and not to ship. the problem to people is ah, the after decades of conflict between successive colombian, government and the false marks this guerrillas and historic peace, the code in 2016. so a fight has laid down. there are 5 years on a rising defense and fruitful police repression. a new cycle of violence has robbed the nation. people in power of if the agreement is failing and what's next, the country columbia killing the piece on al jazeera with
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when you're from a neighborhood known as a hot bed of radicalism. ready you have to fight to defy stereotypes in going to show you the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them and when they make it by the supervisor. initially, some of the book says, this is year on al jazeera, with the conflict between the ethiopian government and the regional to great people for the origin front has killed thousands and internally displaced more than 2000000 over the past 7 month. 350000 people in the region are facing famine,
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according to the united nations, which says that starvation is being used as a weapon for those who managed to cross the border, say it's not because conditions have improved back home. they say it's a great continue to be targeted because of the in many a prophecies are being reported. all they come to taking refuge conditions. here are 5 idea. ah, 4000 refugees and migrants detained during raids in libya, authority sale to port as many as possible. aah! i may vary in for the good. this is on to 0 life and doha also coming up. hundreds of women's marches take place across the us while a court decides whether to strike down
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