and con, pay the debt e k is connected to the capital lima along a major highway, which is also used to transport minerals and petrol. about 4.5 percent of the country's g, d p comes from this area. the finance ministry says bid, who has lost more than one half $1000000000.00, and there's been 0 investment in the south. sustainable work to became precedent in december. this is the 3rd time security forces live located in this area of the pan american highways in december. and they're still here, guarding the error it to so how difficult the situation is here and nothing guarantees. it won't happen again. that's why good monkwood fears the worst for his small farm. just i wonder, wanted that i see, i don't know how long we will be in the situation. if protest continue, we're going to lose our product. so everything many here, belief this truce is only temporary because once the security forces are gone, it's just a matter of time before protesters block the road again. medina, sanchez,

i just, cedar ika. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories, european commission president ursula vonda lyons says a new sanctions package, including price caps and russian oil would be ready for the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion. she made the comment soon after arriving in keith, i had a for summit over ukraine's pushed to join the e. u. the pentagon says it's tracking a suspect of chinese spy balloon spotted in u. s. s. based on wednesday. they are reports, military leaders even considered shooting it down, but decided against it because of the potential safety risk from falling debris. particle haine has more from washington dc. so what they're saying is that they are tracking this, that they've taken steps to make sure that no surveillance can in fact be done. but

again, the official statement is there's a balloon, we're watching it. it does impose a danger to air, travel, or collecting of sensitive information in the pentagon. what they're telling reporters on background unnamed officials that they believe this is the chinese i what we do know is that they did close the air space for a bit on wednesday in billings, montana. we believe they were putting up f $22.00 raptors in the wax, those ers electronic surveillance radar up planes. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attended the opening of charge embassy near television to may to step and normalizing relations between the 2 countries. todd 7 ties with israel in 1972 in solidarity with palestinians. meanwhile, israel and see dawn have agreed to normalize relations to israel's foreign minister says an agreement will be signed once he african nation transitions to a civilian government. us house republicans have voted to remove democratic

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i'm making my own space that i live in forever. this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by a sheesh

i just want to do this today. sink at the positive says what it's doing. so it's helping him patting a water. i know which is the waiting hip. this is the hardest part. is that soon? well, maybe not. but on the 2nd her as far as the we a day, anticipation mean, anticipation done with it. all right, let me get we got extra with the screen.

i'm looking in there, you know, hanging little hang up. i know you though. i know, you know, i know, i know, i know for i haven't been on college this overseas thinking mm hm. mm

with ah, i don't really know what the immediate future is going to hold. i mean, i can't stop the treatments and i wish that i had a way to control this. ah, my 1st intention was passes to the side

then i think to myself in every culture that i've studied death and there's some kind of vessel, some kind of vehicle that takes them to their side. and part of me is like, i don't know what's out there. i don't know what the other side is, but i do know that i need a vessel and need to make my own vessel. and that feeling gives me a very big sense of security in something that i can't control. i can't control what's happening. thing inside of it, my body. but i can control the thing that i put it in. so the project ah, we'll started off just finding

a lamp and then progress from there. and i was pretty young to have such a a, an aggressive thing. yeah. so we went fur, we had to go full on so i had a double mastectomy. hysterectomy and i lived down to move tennessee. oh, thanks. and so unfortunately when they found that it was pretty advanced, and so it's now stage 4. it looks like it's about 3 years that i have left. so one thing i decided i wanted to do was i want to buy my own coffin and i want to carve the entire thing. so one of the things that i do is basically put might, might oh, i mean, a bunch of different sizes in here. i think i showed you this drawing before, but this one is the little bit about with life death kind of all right, so we're gonna practice this guy on. you'll be your 1st like practice piece

with this project. it's become something that has been driving me and instead of driving me in to every time i get very depressed and every time i begin to focus on what's to come, i go back to. i got to finish those things for deborah. ah.

me that height? sure, sure. okay. can we need, let me get back to you on that because um some more uh, let me look at my schedule and get back to you on that one. thinking about how to talk to my family about it. it's very, very stressful. i can't just say i want to carve my coffee.

i'm happy about mom on taking her off her birthday on friday. oh, we're going to see katy's line. it's a show. it's a, it's a broadway show at the walter cur, and then we're going to go for dinner night. so that's thursday. and then so i'll go home and then i'll come back, come back to me. i need an apartment. it should be, i mean, just pick up like even just treatment days, like you don't have to come all the way. you can stay, well i would rent, i would rent 1st, but if it looked like it was something i could buy a. yeah, i mean if you can do that were crazy good investment. i mean, i'm beginning to think of what life would be like without me around. it's like, you know, but i can, i haven't. if i have to plan that, i know i understand what you're saying. that was in a while. when did we do the other one? do you remember a couple months? so i'm going to come back for you to do appear mermaid, and then, well the mermaid also the can do lines on line. the lines of the lines of poetry.

sorry about that. purple, i know it looks like a bruise or something, but it just says the central. yeah. it's a little around, you know, go down. yeah, very nice. feel like it. thank you. you're welcome. it was for my little, you take my cold little hand chemo. i love you so much since i made the decision to do this project, i went back and forth with thinking my family would be okay with it because there

were times they could see that i was trying to give up. and i have to make sure that they know that this is not some kind of cry for help or suicide. oh, i me guess letting go of a lot of stuff that that i thought before. and narrowing everything down to what's important like i wanted children who i'd like to have a daughter. ah, who i was basically in the year that maybe was one of the last years i would have

been able to have a child. and i didn't really think about it, but when someone tells you rocking of ovaries anymore, and like the chemo will make you sterile anyway. sometimes i would think about it, and i would just get angry blue to, to get through that loneliness. do i need this project with thanks. i don't know

what to do, go you i i am worried that that this hairline fracture had something to do with this because i didn't hurt my foot. it just started turning bodies crumbling pieces here. so i just hope is anything that well, let me say one thing. all right. tubes 1st.

mm mm. oh oh my god. oh, oh. lou oh ah ah. i broke my my voice. oh my god sweetheart. all to read really

bad. hey. oh hey. you know what it was, i was so afraid to tend to go near the feet. maybe i should use a smaller one. see like right there? step on your no, no, you know, let me move it out of the no. just stand where you. it's better. it's better now. okay, ah, i'm working with the company that ships coffins. they said to me, we're going to set the date to deliver on the 24th. and so i can't wait for that part. and the kind of propels mean forward when i think about what it was less than a year ago, i'm getting ready to start the final art project that i do see

with oh hello. hi buddy. so i thought i'd talk about the current status of the project, especially during this current, p criminal iris meltdown. it pushing everything back. every company with every single person's effect. so that doesn't bother me so much as it starts to make me worried. and

as soon as they close the schools out as like yes, desist code and push it back to me i'm doing right, staying as far as they can, i can't work. i can't really go out in pick up a paper, coffee or anything. so the problem is bad news. mental, what's happening now is i need their art to like,

sketch, reinstate. my stomach hurts. ah i remember freshly dug grades and i saw the trucks that had these boxes

you don't know who's in then there's something personal and my heart was like ah, as my body starts to fail, i have such a limited time to do the things that i want to do with

is this not the most beautiful thing you have ever seen? i mean, it smells so good. usually how i roll. okay. so it's white pine and literally buried in a white pine box. ah, this was the one i had it bill to size, so it's perfect size. it's just a little bit bigger than me. and they don't normally make this shape right here where the heart would be like my head is here. my heart will be here. we can do a lesson remote lesson where you're, you're working on it and i'm and i, i love the library we can. yeah. the way that we are with imagine why? oh, wonderful. if you could see me, i'm smiling. honey, i can see your eyes are. they are smiling,

isn't it nice to me, i really need to explained my family. this project keeping me rooted and grounded and ultimately i just want to let them know that they didn't fail. and that's the opposite. and i want them to be more of a part of it. my father will understand it immediately. i don't know why she and i have that connection and i think your different questions for me than the rest of the family does. ah.

on this employee thing i'm looking for it. right. there's a couple things like i found this print which is view of the newer quarantine and staten island, which i thought was cool. real yes. that is real. that the actual newspaper from the herald. yeah. from the herald tribune that isn't so and then i love the life. yeah. and then this i restored, i put this back together. it was all broken pieces. it took a while and just want to tell you my friends and family in here and can. and then i've got the space out there to work on and for community stuff. and then i want to show you my life. this is my big project. i've been working on so this will take it off. is my coffin, or what do you think? oh my goodness. yeah. where did you? oh god. okay. wait. wait. oh,

okay. this exactly fits me. so this is my, this is mike berry. i hope god and you like that. we really want to mention, i mean, we know we want to mention, i just want to make sure that i, this is my final apartment. you know that i end up in this i like the fact that it's not finished. it's not as you can say that it's not finished, not even close. i would have been done by now if things i didn't do it, but it's ok. yes. ok. yeah. but it's not really bad, it's, it's growing. i

think he didn't really get it. the rest of my family does not know. he said, i will not tell your mother.

ah as long as i make this vessel, my vessel as long as my family knows that i would like to be buried in it and my family knows it's because of them and their love and support that i'm doing that i made the right decision. ah, under sizes store they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud,

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