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a german motel could that be possible we meet the variance now fearing for their long term health. but we start in el salvador gang violence has left many men behind bars yearning for a second chance at life. curbing immigration into the u.s. that's one of president trump's key concerns and he seeks support by describing potential whoreson arias this vision scared outstrips for but once peaceful beautiful commuters who took blood stained killing fields. he's referring to m.s. that seen a gang founded in los angeles by latin american immigrants thirty years ago the u.s. government had members deported back to their countries of origin like in el salvador that the gangs cornered the market some drug dealing prostitution and record tearing and donald trump fears that criminals like these could. easily enter the

u.s. illegally in its struggle to get a handle on the situation el salvador's government has had thousands of gang members jailed. el salvador's prisons are full to bursting through them here and there this man is nickname is outreach or slang for vigilant he's been behind bars for ten years now after being jailed for murder. jail was built to house three hundred inmates it's currently home to one thousand seven hundred twenty members of the m.s. thirty mg and murderous rapist six tortuous all cooped up together tattooed on their faces the name of their gown the and there is a thing of the mothers of the thirteen as my family. it offers me protection and respect. some people look at us as if we were from outer space but in my eyes were quite normal we're like brothers who help each other out. many of these men will

never see the outside world again they live in their own world with its own rules. why you hear. of murder like everyone else here it's normal. not for me. it is it's a tradition here. el salvador is one of the world's most dangerous countries seventy thousand gang members terrorize this tiny central american nation there are ten murders each day the state fights fire with fire. it's four thirty am in the capital san salvador the crack police unit the jag us are out on the streets the situation in the capital is akin to a war zone. you cover us up front and he will protect us from behind. just a day earlier two of their colleagues were killed by gang members. are going to locations

where police have come under fire and previous deployments. that's why we have to be prepared for anything and. the squad heads to the district to san has scinto which is controlled by the eighteen revolutionaries down the police's mission this morning is to track down gang members walter leone and his team frequently have to enter enemy territory. the state has lost its authority in all too many places. where there are neighborhoods where the walls are painted with the slogan watch listen remain silent. that's a clear message to the residents those who talk died. and today again the police meet with a wall of silence people here claim to know nothing about gang activities in the district the police need the locals help but the fear of revenge is great and there's nowhere to hide. live in fear. soon as you leave the

neighborhood another gang has you in its sights. the police is often accused of brutality to anyone with a tattoo often the sign of gang membership is treated as a suspect in the struggle for control both sides play hardball with. these sneakers hanging on telephone lines demarcated gangs territory the city is crisscrossed with borders many invisible if you don't respect them you could pay a very high price bus drivers live especially dangerously their routes cross various gang territories making them open to extortion each gang wants its share. oh we drive through all the zones anything can happen to you on the street. there's a lot of crime. the bodyguards serving catalina miranda follows him everywhere the

country's biggest bus operator refuses to follow the gangs rules he doesn't pay any protection money that makes him a target. he's already survived four attempted hits while on his company's premises . there you've been at the we have surveillance cameras everywhere and then in one of them. he spends twenty five thousand euros a month on security there are security cameras on his buses to each journey is monitored closely conditions like this a bad for business miranda believes that el salvador miss rid itself of its gangs if it is to have a future larry i get that you need to have courage to take on the gangs in el salvador we say that there's a lot of talk about few people have the backbone to really stand up to it all. before you set up a business here you have to consider the possibility of various things kidnapping

harassment extortion you're now. el salvador's gang problem has its roots in the united states in the one nine hundred eighty s. salvadorian immigrant set up criminal operations in los angeles. the u.s. deported the newly formed gangs back to el salvador. the government's only answer to the problem is putting gang members behind bars isolating them from the outside world the inmates aren't allowed visitors despite the tough conditions inside we don't witness any aggression here in chelate an anger oh the prisoners sit together quietly. it's obvious that outreach is the one giving new orders here like a proud prison governor he shows us prison activities idle studies handicrafts and painting courses with motifs depicting the stuff of dreams. there

were some of us have discovered talents we didn't know we had. some guy might suddenly realize that he can paint. eldritch or wants to see. his family again which is why he wants to demonstrate the criminals and murderers can reform has a message for el salvador's leaders that. we have changed please recognize that we need reintegration programs and work and we shouldn't be treated as if we're scum forever we're human beings too. it sounds like a chance for dialogue but both sides are unwilling to make concessions. somehow gangs and government must come up with answers if they are to stop the spiral of violence. and now to europe where drinking water is of the very highest quality at least that's

what we're told european environmental austerities have conducted widespread testing and ninety eight point five percent of all samples met e.u. standards sounds good but that doesn't mean it's on contaminated as a result of excessive fertilizing nitrate has seeped into the groundwater in germany twenty eight percent of measuring stations report elevated levels of nitrates. sewage from the chemical industry contains a whole series of toxic substances including p f o a a chemical that makes clothing waterproof that may be linked to cancer in humans. on the surface is the essence of bavaria it illich conservative and squeaky clean but if you look closer the region is tainted by something you can't see smell or grasp. edmund has lived here his whole life he

never thought twice about drinking water from the tap it was dubbed the purest in the region but that's conviction was shattered when he had his blood tested amid a widening scandal in the district of utter ting. my blood has over forty three micrograms of p.f. away per liter my wife has the same thing and not a day goes by when we don't talk about p.f. i way it's depressing tens of thousands of people here in the outer ting district are affected. for the past three years concerned citizens have been meeting on a regular basis to pressure the authorities to lay everything on the table they feel district administrators have done too little and too late to inform the public

on p.r. for a levels in the water for frank blame our it was a shock to find out he was contaminated you know organised my plasma was refused when i tried to donate to a blood bank we formed this group because we were not informed about the p.f. we contamination here in the district only after putting pressure on the authorities and we achieved a certain degree of transparency. but just how dangerous is p a four way for humans it. is technical officer for chemical safety of the w h o's european center for environment and health care for a is a persistent them by accumulating substances so we've put out shell harmful effects for human health it's classified by international agency for research of cancer like possibly carcinogen it for human health and despite of much more studies are needed to confirm the health effects now we have evidence that high concentration

of human blots relate this or this fire or it functions disorders and active health disorders. even though many citizens knew nothing about it has been saying for decades district administrators say they didn't warn citizens sooner because the concentration was always under the guideline value district environmental protection head says there was and is no cause for alarm is a site that's team up here for. ever since the authorities were made aware of p.f.a. in the late ninety's the district administration provided extensive information and regular updates to the citizens of ultratech in the meantime carbon filtration systems have been installed so that the entire population has access to p.f.a. way free drinking water. so could i phone call. was produced and used that gandalf chemical complex for over four decades until two thousand and

eight for way was in the air and the plants waste water which is channeled into the river it's the chemical ultimately seeped into the region's soil and groundwater the u.s. company responsible three m. has agreed to pay for activated carbon filtration systems to purify the drinking water supply for the next fifty years but this doesn't fix the contamination of the soil and groundwater we asked three m. to comment three m. commissioned a detailed soil investigation it concluded that the most significant intake of p.f. away for people in the district is through consumption of drinking water the state office for health and food safety was unable to detect any relevant concentrations from the food chain industry and authorities are currently discussing how best to manage the soil within the district. according to that twenty eighteen study over

one hundred ninety two square kilometers around the chemical park are contaminated however it concluded that the levels represented no in danger meant organic farmer and there's been more fire and his wife have four young children they all have at least ten times too much p.f. away in their blood even his animals have tested positive for the chemical as of many four million for all of my family and i moved here eight years ago at that point we had no p.f. away in our blood now were heavily contaminated stock they lost it. this much for all that doesn't a lot of the all i'm shocked by just how fast our levels got so high it can't be just from the water it's from our animals in the food we grow here full of well for all that in leaves middle. of all the contaminated areas in the region the levels in the ettinger forest almost severe at montpelier loves this

forest but now he can't even collect mushrooms here. this start with you first hear is. the forest here is part of my high mart it's been contaminated by p.f. i weigh both for us and for generations to come it'll probably take centuries before it's gone. when the scent coming near the animals a contaminated you can see the mushrooms you can't see it but a part of our high mart has been badly damaged. we're coming to see edmund has lost a part of his home to be a far away he hopes he won't lose his health to it p.f. away will be officially banned throughout the e.u. as of july twenty twenty but the full scale of the problem won't become clear for decades to come. we meet teenagers from around the

wells and all school simple. j.l. global teen comes from colombia. a young reality based on carlos contrast nobleness i'm sixteen. there we were and i live in the same paper and the department of says i'm colombia and called. my house my siblings. and two brothers one of the boys is my twin the girls are four and eleven years old and say i know you know and that was my twin brother is sixteen like me and my big brother is eighteen and.

by that my father works in construction and he also fishes here in the sea and i got enough in the. meanwhile that i my mother is a housewife she also owns money by cooking for other people and i you like and if you go. to. the link i guess i'm fascinated by the lessons because i want to learn so that i can get ahead. on long to do homework or read up on things we don't learn about in school on the way i like to go swimming at the beach with my friends and i also like to play football or other traditional games here in the village. and i like it well ok. yes i mean.

i like by and. by and all to region it's news that gives people a way to express their feelings dreams you understand as. well what i also like it because it's music me and my brother can play together i can write a song and then sing it right away at school or for our family on record i mean. we talk about the environment i think the biggest problem is deforestation all humans created a crisis and i've completely overrun nature. boy and makes me happy to live in a simple peaceful village that's filled with wonderful good hearted people.

and. the world is a wondrous place both on land and in the sea and humans are hungry for knowledge of so what's the world's biggest fish whale sharks these gentle giants can weigh up to twelve tons and the largest ever measured was fourteen metres long and while they're free to swim the seven seas a coastal town in the philippines has discovered a way to get them to stick around. just before five in the morning jose the fisherman and all slop heads toward the sea to mysterious giants of the deep waiting for him like shadows. he knows

they'll be there. they come every day as they've been doing for the past six years when the story began. to. feel that. we look after the whale sharks and make sure they get food that doesn't harm them and we depend on the whale sharks for our living. the whale sharks have changed everything in us law posthaste life and the lives of all the other villagers. but it's the creatures themselves that have experienced the real change . usually the world's largest known fish travel the oceans in search of kremlin. every day after morning prayers here in the southern philippines something happens that nature never planned for. in the past the fishermen view the whale sharks as rivals that depleted their already slim catch. whale sharks were also hunted for customers in china. i don't know but it became that you know they were only

interested in their friends and so they said they can sell shark fans at a high price but we don't do that it's for a good shot where the sharks couldn't tangled in our nuts we free them. we are in a lot of money thanks to the. tourists come to see the sharks and we live all that . for the whale sharks that must seem like a feast one hundred kilos of crilly day more if necessary some and eventually move on but there are always one or two cruising about sucking up what the fisherman tot's in their direction from dawn to noon. no none. in the past we were told that we weren't allowed to feed the whale sharks. but why shouldn't it be a law that we look after them and the cruel that we give them doesn't contain anything toxic we'd have given them poisoned they wouldn't have returned. and then

the hordes of tourists wouldn't have come either hunted elsewhere in these huge fish have found devoted fans. of course there are certain rules such as the four metre safety zone but people often get far too close to the large creature. perhaps because far too many people now come to see them. so. the number of visitors has increased six fold since twenty twelve turning a flip into one of the biggest tourist attractions in the philippines you might know there are a fascination exerted by these gentle giants is simply too strong to resist. its big mouth and its sides it's like a big peter. like it's a good thing tourism and you know i mean so i don't think it's about so i'm not

sure if they're hurt but i don't think they should be fit. for your figurative not . also that they can roam around and do that anyway as late i mean by the case with. every day and the question resurface says is this relationship between man and beast really a healthy and sustainable one. we noticed injuries fresh wounds on a well shark's fin. what might have caused that. to make it we show the images to marine biologist. he's been researching whale sharks for years and wants to ensure their survival. has to be if. i don't i don't specially look how clean cut is that's not something knowing audie or in. a very sharp direct cut is he able to survive he might be able to survive luckily he still has to be. in there

but he's definitely going to have to waste a lot more energy when it comes to getting. through for the whale shark expert it's clear that there's a connection between the feeding of these huge fish and their injuries. if a whale shark is trained up mean suit then it is not completely unreasonable to think that they could see another boat which is not one of the regular feeding boats and go after it resulting in an injury. and i was lucky everyone says that they want to protect the whale sharks but at the end of the day big business takes precedence over the welfare of the big fish. the fishing village is now bursting at the seams the boat trips alone bring an around four million euros a year. and with funding but. i don't know.

if they don't feed these well shocks. will go away again yes or no. then everything will go back to how it used to be. no one wants that particularly not jose who's now the proud owner of a karaoke machine he's also built a house. he's grateful to the whale sharks and for every day that they come along on monday i earn much more than i did before how about it then i earned eight euros a week. now and a second or not to two hundred fifty and we only work until noon we finish at one pm. a lot of things have improved. but there's no happy ending for the whale sharks. ultimately they are the ones who will pay the price for the close encounter with humankind.

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