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the three—tier system next wednesday — but what people can and can't do within the tiers has changed. the government will review the restrictions in england every 1a days with the first review on 16 december. our north of england correspondent danny savage reports from yorkshire. this, it turns out, was aspirational thinking in hull. there was an infection rate of 776 per 100,000 people a couple of weeks ago. no surprise here, then, that they're going into the new tier 3. during the first lockdown, the only people that i knew were a friend of a friend's auntie who had it, really, in this area, but more so, i've got children at school, and they've got friends that have contracted it, friends‘ parents that have contracted it. people here say not enough locals have stuck to the rules, while some are sticklers for them. it's absolutely rife. my husband's been self—isolating since well before. he's on the extreme list, so we have to be everything careful. and you're happy for that

to go on for some months? i'm happy, because if it can save lives, then yeah. those living on this side of the humber were expecting tier 3, but over there in lincolnshire, the whole county is also going into the highest tier. that is a very large rural area, where even the conservative leader of the county council can't understand government thinking. huge areas of lincolnshire actually have lower rates than the national average, so it does seem very perverse to put the whole area into tier 3, and obviously that will mean businesses and families and individuals will be suffering far more restrictions than is really necessary. 70 miles away, harrogate has moved from tier1 pre—lockdown to tier 2, where one new concession is that up to 2,000 much—missed spectators are allowed at sports events. the crowd is coming along to see the goals and the trophies. it's like the horse and carriage, they have to go together. next wednesday, all the shops

can open again too. it's not fair, marks & spencer's in harrogate is open, and i can't sell, you know, my clothes, so very, very important, and i can't wait for wednesday. and in the highest tiers, there's many more weeks of sitting outside in the cold if you want to catch up with a friend. danny savage, bbc news. now on bbc news: how a remote province of indonesia has become the new frontier of palm oil expansion. west papua, indonesia. some of the last untouched rainforests on the planet are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations.

indigenous tribes paid less than $10 us a hectare for their ancestral lands. here, a south korean palm oil giant carried out deliberate and illegal burning on its land. you have to develop a technique that can determine if a fire is intentional or not. this can bring liability to big corporations who are in charge of these concession sites.

the company at the centre of this story associated with the world's leading sustainable certification body. sings. the forest of west papua are some of the most biodiverse in the world. filled with unique flora and fauna, these rainforests are sacred and essential to the hundreds of indigenous tribes who call them home. mandobo tribal elder petrus kinggo explains how the sago palms that grow wild in these forests are a staple food for his community.

six years ago he got involved in something that changed his tribe's fate forever. he negotiated with a korean palm oil giant, called korindo, and persuaded his tribe and ten other clans to acceptjust $8 a hectare as compensation for their land.

he shows our bbc team a map of the area he claims is his ancestral forest. this receipt showing he received just over $30,000 us for 5000 hectares of land. korindo say they paid an additional $8 for the trees, an amount set out by the indonesian government, who gave them the permit. petrus says they felt pressure to sign.

the company deny this and say all their dealings complied with indonesian law — laws made 4000 kilometres away in the capital, jakarta. west papua, a former dutch colony, became part of indonesia in the 1960s, after a controversial referendum overseen by the united nations. jakarta maintains it is an integral part of the nation, recognised by the international community. but a low level separatist movement has been waged here ever since. translation: this is my land. our ancestors gave us this land. we want independence.

indonesia has stolen our land from us. how long have we been suffering in the jungle, how many people have died? there are just so few of us now. last year, the biggest independence protest in decades turned into riots and ended in deadly clashes with the army. control over the region's vast national resources — gold, copper and the forests — are one of the key flashpoints. despite its rich resources, it is amongst the poorest regions in indonesia. jakarta has vowed to change that, pumping money in, building infrastructure, and opening up the region to investors.

korean palm oil giant korindo has benefited greatly. they now control more land in papua than any other company, clearing nearly 60,000 hectares of forests, an area the size of chicago or seoul. their vast plantations now protected by state security forces. in may this year, when a local farmer turned up at the local office of korindo to complained about the destruction of his banana plantation, the police were called.

three hours later, he was dead. his daughter grieves over his body, at the health clinic where he died. police say he died of a heart attack. cctv footage seen by the bbc captures a police officer hitting him.

korindo, while having no role in his death, says they gave the family $15,000 us and will pay for his two children's education up to university. his daughter says nothing

will make up for the loss of her father. our team heads deeper into the heart of papua to reach another korindo concession. here also, our team found palm oil development has bitterly divided tribes and families.

elizabeth left her village to work in the city. when she returned she found out her brother, now deceased, had sold their land to korindo. there is no electricity here or clear running water. those who can afford it use generators, but it costs four times more than in the capital, jakarta.

korindo turned down our repeated interview request, but said in a statement they have paid their compensation to communities and have put an additional $14 million us into social programmes. many of the tribe's allegations were investigated for two years by the leading global green certification body, forest stewardship council, or fsc, of which korindo is a certificate holder. the final report was never released but the bbc obtained a copy. it found evidence that korindo violated the rights of papuans and benefited with close military ties for its own economic benefit. the report recommended korindo be stripped of its fsc membership, but they decided to work with them. the fsc logo is meant to tell you as a consumer that the product comes from an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company.

the logo is used everywhere here in europe. it was on the sandwich napkin i was given with my lunch, and on the train ticket that got me here. we are here at the headquarters of the fsc to ask why this logo is being given to korindo. these things that happened in breach of our values, they were in breach of our values, they would remain in breach of our values. what is the best thing to do with that? they haven't, right? is the best thing to do is to say, they were in breach of our values, and we're not going to have anything to do with that anymore. that is one option, that environmentalists would say you are taking a strong stance and therefore maybe other companies will feel they cannot get away with it as well? the end result, i think, and the logic of the board has been, we want to see the improvements happen. we want to actually see if we can help those communities that have had problems, that have been treated in wrong ways, that have not been listened to, that have not been understood, to actually get something

in terms of options, possibilities, remedy for what happened. remedy, he says, could be in the form of restoring forests, land rights orjobs. but he admits it will be a process that could take up to three years to work out. in a statement, korindo denied they were involved in any human rights violations, but acknowledged there is room for improvements, and say they are implementing new procedures and economic programs for locals. the fsc‘s investigation found no evidence of deliberate and illegal use of fire by korindo. it's also something the company strongly denies. researchers from the group forensic architecture, based at goldsmith university, have been testing this claim.

we had images and video footages that were looking, that were showing fire, and the smoke coming out of it, and it wasn't clear whether they were intentional or not. and with that, we started our research. this footage, taken from a plane by greenpeace indonesia in may 2013, shows stacks of timber burning. using clues in the image, they located it in satellite images, inside a korindo concession. they then went back to 2011, when this area was all forest, and used a technique that detects patterns of land clearing from satellite images. the blue, thick vegetation. red shows cleared earth. so, when i play this

month by month analysis, you will see that the pattern and the direction of clearing is very clear, it is moving from the central area, very clearly towards the east. next they added the heat sources picked up by nasa satellites, hotspot data, and they put the two together, over the same period of time. the patterns, the direction and the speed with which fires were set matched perfectly with the direction, the pattern and the speed with which land clearing had occurred in this concession site. that is evidence that the fires were set intentionally. if the fires were set from outside the concession sides, or due to weather conditions, they would have moved with a different directionality. they would be diffused. they would be going up

and down and south and west. but in the cases that we are looking at, there was a very clear directionality. korindo says there were many natural fires in the area, especially in 2015, due to an extremely long dry season. it insists all the land clearing was carried out with heavy machinery, and that the fires found in their concessions were started by villages to hunt giant wild rats hiding under stacks of wood. the people living near this concession told our team a different story.

another man said smoke from the fires covered their community for years. every year in indonesia fires send a thick haze across the region, causing breathing problems and sending large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. if korindo had deliberately used fire to clear land it would be in breach of the law.

the indonesian government turned down our request for an interview. the fsc says the company agreed to stop all further forest clearing for now. in august, the fsc board met again, deciding korindo was on track and that they would continue to work with them on improvements. i believe there is a shift that needs to happen in korindo. they need to improve in a number of different areas and one of them is to actually seek and get the approval of the community. do they understand that? why would we ask for training of all their staff this year to happen if we thought they understood that? we don't think they understand. we think it is a new concept to them. isn't it too late for that? isn't this about putting

a rubber stamp on something that has already happened? we are taking the bet, you could say, that what we are doing is the best chance for the people and the forest to get into a better situation faster than any other track we could have taken. elizabeth, whose brother took compensation for their ancestral forests from korindo, is sceptical that anything can make up for what has been lost. others have decided to go

and work for the oil pump company, hoping to build a new future there. petrus is fighting to protect what is left of the mandobo tribe's forest that now fall within korindo‘s concession. he carries a heavy burden.

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one of the last untouched corners of the planet, petrus hopes other tribes hear his story. music plays hello there. if you need to head out on the roads on friday morning, fog could cause one or two problems, certainly some poor visibility in places particularly across parts of england and wales. the fog slow to clear through the day and it will feel cold out there. two weather fronts, one to the northwest, one to the south bringing some cloud and patchy rain. but in between, very light winds, temperatures have been dropping, it's going to be a very cold start to friday morning. widely around freezing, some spots below and we will also see some fog. indeed, some freezing fog across parts of england into east wales as well. these are the areas most likely to be affected.

slightly different across the far southeast, here it's more likely cloud bringing the odd spot of rain. some early sunshine through wales, parts of northern england, and then for northern ireland and scotland, it's a slightly different story again. this band of cloud and weather front bringing some outbreaks of very patchy rain, and that band of cloud with those bits and pieces of rain not moving far at all through the day. the fog struggling to shift as well across those parts of england and wales starting off so murky. i think in many places, it willjust linger as low cloud all day long. a bit of rain creeping in towards the english channel coasts. temperatures, if you stick with fog all day long, maybe just 3—4 degrees. even in some brightness, 8—9 the best we can expect. and then through friday night, the fog will once again reform with a lot of low cloud and some spots of rain

and drizzle working northwards across england and wales. lowest temperatures likely to be across the far north of england, also southeast scotland — some spots here will see a frost because of clear skies overhead. and there will be a slice of sunshine for some on saturday. particularly across scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. but for england and wales a lot of cloud, some misty, murky conditions. temperatures just a little bit higher, though, down towards the south, 11—12, possibly 13 degrees. the milder airjust trying to sneak its way in. now for the second half of the weekend, high pressure remains in charge — this frontal system up to the far north—west might just bring a little bit of rain in northern and northwestern scotland. otherwise a lot of drier weather, but again a lot of cloudy weather and any fog for the morning will struggle to clear during the day, and those temperatures for most of us in single digits, at best around ten degrees.

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