looks pointing to the province of 100 and some buildings family has owned this piece of land for generations. their members of the one tribe in books point and the agricultural town in the western philippines. in recent years, it seemed a mining boom. well, hired and blames to nickel stockpile next to their property for contaminating the soil by pulling up all the. so let's start good on top and they've been underneath, and when it's flooded on january 14th, that ice crops, we looked at it because i told them i that came with the flood harden and hundreds of other people protested for 2 months in 2023. arguing that the p then the mining company operating in their area didn't have proper permits. eventually it was granted the necessary licenses and that employees, 1800 mostly local workers. we are the biggest employer and the municipality. we are going to be doing a lot of a lot of boxes. the philippines is believe to hold $1.00 trillion dollars worth of

mineral reserves, and the government is keen to tap into this potential. in 2022, there were 44 mining companies operating in the philippines. more than 60 percent of which like the one at the site in the province of that one. extracted nickel is a key component in batteries for electric vehicles in the country. it's already the world's 2nd largest producer, but president for the men marcus junior wants to jump in on the rush and expand industry further. critics say it's a threat to the countries forest international enter your global witness release the report in december, the found more than a quarter of so called transitional mining sites in the philippines overlap with protected forests. and there's no doubt that we need to transition away from fossil fuels, and that's going to require some mining of critical minerals. but that can not come at the expense of communities and the importance of by diversity eco systems as

well. what we're mining contracts were awarded before these areas were declared, legally protected environment department says the way forward is to find a middle ground. we are now left with balancing whatever legal rights that have have been granted by way of contracts of the state to the new law facing these areas under protection. mining companies like appeal and say they're complained by we planting trees, but hot and says they'll take years to grow time he doesn't have when he's slightly good is that steak barn to below al jazeera brooks point, the philippines. okay. up to date, as of the, the bulk of the news continue seo, announcing 0 to witness. stay with this bye. for now. the trump's agenda includes everything from tax cuts to the integration,

but how much is real and how much is bluster? is it runs footprint across the middle. the shrinking beach front administration is wing options to end the rest of your brain more. but what does it mean for your a quizzical look at us politics, the bottom line, the sometimes uh, i wish i could be long someplace. but i feel the site. you know, if i don't get close to anything, when you get close to somebody and something happens, take something away. last time i saw l. v was

in the hospital the they met of at this out on the st. john or where to same hospital. i looked all the way down s l e g s me and knock you are right. i says, yeah, i'm all right. you 2nd, but i didn't know. i thought we're going to all get well in the hospital right there, but that was the last time i saw and when i woke up out of my surgery bed was empty. just stats were so v that moment. oh and you know, i kept thinking about them all the time on shaping or the

big bruce well, i worry about depression and loneliness but ready. he's been digging in his heal about it. any hunkering down and not leaving home very often. the one conversation we had, the said sorrow and pain is what he mocks. me, i'm not a good soldier field guilty for shame, ma'am. nobody would understand what i've been trying to get ahold of him for a long time. i never got a response. so aspect of his past i'll never see or hear from adobe again. i think that was one

time. i think it was the a pay. i don't know why the there i happen. i see that to them. you haven't looked at them. my picture, gross was tall, husky. you know like it'll be just our style that he was after from america and window he was looking for him. he never said just last night. there is a nickname we come, knock ye. uh, i said, not rushing back on. not what's up, how you doing? uh what, what can you yeah. knock. you know, really nothing. i meant bruce's board been i did it was a change agent now japanese, i remember raised a big old black can't big strong till i got on

a service. i never was in contact with black. i then with the main page of campus in alabama. so what's the all stand for l? what's the v spent for v? what's your last name? hen king. tell you what wrong and call you hendo. seemed like me, i'm not cute around the band with the errors, indigo thing. my i love the come rod to ship freely. you know, the long someplace. everybody for to love not the same with the live or body, you know, age, sit around and, and joke around with all the fellows. you know, all the brothers were dues. i got the tag along. you called me a deuce and a half a mer without the, the kind of had the brothers talk, you know, where to, to, to access. so where is the phone but with the name in the fan after so many years, you just like, you know,

what? al jane, i don't think that he's alive anymore. my granddaughter come look at my facebook page and this is i'm looking at a of the with a galvan and the 1st categories in v in. uh hello is that you're not. i could tell by his voice narr, you will never forget that. i knew it was him. i know with him and i would look for you for a long time or even looking after the phone call and he say, you know his japanese you said yeah, i say no. yeah. i

was born gap roar, arkansas. where were you in the can? um they thought we were a threat to the united states, so they all put all the japanese americans and these caps. my dad was fighting a journey in italy and i was, he can't say ever a hug me or told me he loved me or anything like that. just use my dad and water said so one the vietnam was starting off. i says, well, i better volunteer to he didn't want me to go. i mean, you sure you want to go in the army? yeah, it adds, cuz you were everybody's got their yard stick. they got the major up to the we were going on a recon operation and we come up to this village,

the ceo's of what we got when we got up there. right on the latest down this trail . low gray. i don't know, sheep live and 3 or 4 years old. and she pulling a water buffalo on back and then her smile. you know, in the middle of what she smiled about. she chestnut smile, life is precious. you don't realize it until experience some thought this is why me . my little cousin linda see grew up on the 8 ranch. i would see these price varies. now i see all the farmers on the look like when i was on the farm, the south that connects the

i started seeing the resemblance. i looked like dan lee, that's what i was told or even a l. v. a said that i had a root has looked the same right. he looked just like them. well, if you knew him, that's our afraid of somebody might mistake him for the dinner. bell. what am i doing here? them? i would see these people that were dear, that remind me of my parents, brothers, sister, my, me and my grandfather kind of scared me today. would it be easier for me to be a good soldier or not feel guilty about killing the ation or destroying or cancer feels

when time or somebody on the we are to kill all if you're not thinking, i mean that's me. it is, or as the ations at the at. com, i couldn't understand so. so we brought up now we are in the mexico. we kill all met scans. or if we was in africa, what would kill all the escape? guy, not just the very end of i'm getting scare bruce different bruce best

only certain people that you can share your moms with. they know where you're coming from. like i was here broke. i got you back, man. don't worry about it. it was in the afternoon and area. what do we call in happy valley in front of me was out in front of him was maybe louis a baby lewis step gone online the the path of gone for a local word load come from his head. it's legs are. ringback and then a piece of the can knock in there. so the helicopter came in and we loaded it up, knock,

she might be just powered and taken off. i remember that they brought in 3 or 4 wounded, leasing. lots of gotten out a couple. dave was gone and i can say it's calvin same now i'm starting to feel scared. when telling her about those prisons being pow wow, that's like gory are ugly. i feel very guilty that i couldn't maybe stop it or you know what's going on. the color field operation hassam al serra meaning when i woke up

just as worse, jenkins should. if we ship them out to major hospital started thinking for one for him. you know, taking over our guy down. i guess i felt they could have them take a bathroom and then you can do the various people for the people the the

a the kind of, well we, we say expect from the desk. it was so amazing that made my day bruce piecing past week. let's say, you know, close off the, it's a that a lot,

maybe age what i mean. he's the thinking about the to get them off the defense in the house all day in the run your crazy last camp stressing, you know, you really should come and visit and his same kind of skeptical lam uh, i want him to come see the challenge. my lifestyle now got into a life in the bottom. he didn't have anyone to watch it can, you know, and i heard the music playing in the background. you know, like the violin, like yeah. ok here. here we come with all the excuses. so cyber 9. 0, really dirty. i really then think he was coming. i got a letter back from the landed in san francisco. mom dad came to visit me at the

hospital and it's okay. now, 1st time my dad hutton can give me a good fight to my father face as nice as oh my god. i think i'm in trouble. i was kind of stand offish about having any type of relationship with nations. i couldn't explain it to my mom dads, so i detached i felt shame.

i didn't have no way drunk. do have to be in the fast lane so i wouldn't never think i missed the ash tree. yeah. stop him. i've asked to visit my mom show me this picture that she said, she said, does it look like a pass that's that's all she said, yeah, i so the kind of line i had to get out of there. did you ever get close to them again? now the best part of my gills, i never. ringback hard to say, you know, after the fact after the pass. ringback now life insurance, and this is where i'm at now. track. we lonely,

the oh, every morning. first thing i see is the pay mind to be a mom on time, but i think she's looking at me. you're watching me is sometimes that things off kilter off center sometimes most within some rooms. ready are and i, so i got a tree strong, tall, dark tennessee at the hand. guess slider. ready the

cheap i'm not use i'm glad i have that. i believe she did that to guide me. when you get older, you think about that slide it in trail. gotta go up to the path. and without the stop that i have to do before and make my whatever my travels complete the

sun lawn agreed. thanks. firms work for the post office, erased a big family and then maybe half a year asked me around, chris you see how fast it will reach out? and i see i hear to jen who brooks can understand everywhere. he's saying that's the bottom line. now there's certain things that the talking that because a lot of people don't understand l b understands. he was there. and you know, when i 1st came in the, in our home, i hear the world again over the cost. and i realize you can't keep just angry. you a bit, you know,

he doesn't have any bad bonuses by except once said he got wounded with maybe realize i shouldn't hold things in a bruce. we've tried a couple of times for you to talk about what happened on the helicopter after you guys got hurt on the way to the field hospital. but we've always had a start. i know it's difficult for me. is it easier to talk about it when you're next to me? i don't know the boy i remember being put on now. they got you out 1st and then i one second. yeah, rubber taken off your list out them all,

things that i that sounds more like going in for a while. all way in to prison. look like young boys like the jesus. all the pages strong man the face. they're pushing it for that and the look to me grabbing the way, graham and i knew oh is that all said there's no he just said my name was

bruce the man and pushing them. he was flying now and i grab this and he's my friend. he's my friend and he's not in my actual and maggie and say one follow the helicopter a crowd on my team and then just tell me how it covers going right. there was a long flight to the hospital, breaks the 30 reserve reserve. the

thank you for saving one la. twice. yeah. yeah. the i want you to leave me. yeah. the something that i've been caring for a long time. wait on my shoulders. the a lot of pressure. early morning is the feeling me right now. i mean, which the you on tv right now to even mess the

young lady found even messed up. they don't let them go. the actual found a still be me crazy. i still feel resent i found here to go, or they're still a lot of route, but reconnecting with l. v. vendors, a lot of my hurts, negative thoughts. i left some of that stuff, gong sizes. i got to forgive myself.

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