there's probably no place in the world things were such a quick succession. the renaissance. starts april twenty second two w. . welcome to global three thousand today we visit a vast electronic waste site in many earn a livelihood here that huge cost to their health. in better rooms we meet activists campaigning against a new factory which they fear is an environmental disaster in the making. but we start in rwanda many fled the country during the genocide some and now returning we

find out how that feels. the rwandan genocide was without doubt one of the darkest periods in human history. in january nine hundred ninety four the u.n. commander in rwanda only or dallaire alerted the headquarters in new york he received word that a pro regime hutu group was preparing an attack against the two at sea minority but he was told to take no action. in april one thousand nine hundred four rwanda's president juvenile havea ramana who too was killed when his plane was shot down within hours the genocide began in one hundred days radical hutu militias had killed up to a million tutsis and politically moderate hutus those who could flat at first to seize then later hutus fearing revenge by the victims thousands headed to neighbor . ring democratic republic of congo and only now twenty five years later some of

them finally returning to their homeland. daybreak in eastern congo a region that's been wracked for over twenty years by fighting between rival rebel groups the un peacekeeping mission in the democratic republic of congo has so far failed to bring an end to the violence the most it's managed to do is encourage a few individual fighters to lay down their arms. and still no. more was a member of or a london group of armed rebels operating in eastern congo he felt trapped until he found out that the un could help him leave and return to the country of his parents first he undergoes a thorough medical examination. the young man knows little about rwanda he was born in d.r. see his parents fled there after the rwandan genocide along with hundreds of

thousands of hutus who feared reprisals will come. here from a long way away now i'm safe with the u.n. and i think they'll help me i have a better future now. more on another former rebel who will be taken over the border to rwanda or later today the government there has pledged to reintegrate them into society. i'm so happy that i had wings i fly up to heaven. i'm going back to my country. i'm getting out of the bush. so glad it. was having on a maurice was born in one thousand nine hundred ninety four the year of the genocide his parents fled with him to see and he grew up here. he began to bear no responsibility for the must slaughter that happened twenty five

years ago the young men are simply victims of circumstance. extremists in rwanda as government were behind the murder of between eight hundred thousand and one million people most of whom belonged to the to the minority. fearing retaliation many who choose fled the country including the parents of the two young men. in today's rwanda few visible traces of the genocide remain. at least the two men are brought to a reintegration come where former rebels are prepared for civilian life it's run by the rwandan government. was. you know who i haven't even been here for an hour but i already like it and it's

a good place. some of the men already here recognise happy man they fought together indie r.c. in recent years tens of thousands of former hutu rebels have voluntarily returned to rwanda. at mealtimes the young men are served with generous portions here they no longer need to steal them plunder to come buy food. the next day the men gather for an assembly they sing songs celebrating their country rwanda. was. it was. the state led efforts to promote reconciliation and unity have been underway for some twenty years now these days hutus and tutsis once again live side by side notions of ethnicity and sectarianism have been effectively

raised. the psychologist talks to the men about trauma. you need to talk about it he says. but something these men have never learned to do. some of them were already adults in one thousand nine hundred four even now anyone suspected of having played a role in the killings can expect to stand trial. for whatever reason the subby manisha man's parents have chosen to stay in d.l.c. he doesn't know where he will go when he leaves the camp the authorities will try to help him track down some relatives. who have been monomoy he's on the other hand will soon be reunited with his family the manager of the reintegration camp was a soldier with the army that defeated the rwandan government forces and ended the genocide he lost many members of his family but he's committed to helping the

perpetrators reintegrate into society. so talking about who doesn't involve what but. we do talk about it. the way of. teaching these people. the. lord we have. a. mission. the next day happy man or morning is issued with some money and a permit to visit his parents for three days. it's an important step in his rehabilitation. he hasn't seen his mother for ten years she returned to rwanda when he was just a teenager he stayed in the d r c with the rebels. group.

i'm so happy to see my son again. when all the neighbors are also happy some of them are who choose some to see it's not that it's supposed to matter in today's rwanda happy man i'm always has other things on his mind such as how he will make a living. under the bridge and the d r c we always hoped we'd find gold. but we never did. i'm wondering what i'm going to live from and what sort of a future i'm facing. you know in. a few months than a reintegration camp can hardly make up for twenty five lost years in a war zone those who witnessed the genocide are not the only ones traumatized by it their children to face an uphill struggle in their search for peace unity and reconciliation. when industrial waste

is not safely disposed of the results can be disastrous in hungary in two thousand and ten a huge basin of chemical waste burst causing a red sludge full of lead in metal oxides to flood several local towns. three quarters of the world's lead is used in the production of car batteries now a new factory and then a ruse is bringing residents on to the street. welcome to the future a huge industrial park is under construction near the belorussian capital minsk a collaborative project between china and. the new high tech eco city will cover more than one hundred square kilometers but back in the present people in the city of brest in the west of the country are protesting against a factory also developed with chinese funding that's already complete. this

factories come in for criticism because it will produce car batteries containing lead a toxic heavy metal. plant run by a company called i power which plans to make up to two million batteries a year here. you're subic wants to stop that she's one of thousands of activists who've spent months protesting against i power they say the plant damages the environment. in fact teach camille in to us that we're doing what our city authority should be doing is protecting the health of our residents the janja national guard. helias house is just a kilometer away from the battery plant she's just finished building it with her husband now she's worried that lead from the plant's production waste will pollute the air and saw oil. from my listeners. it's a real tragedy this is dangerous because it puts my health and my children's health at risk. and her fellow protesters want to prove that i power management installed

old machinery to save money. photos taken in secret cannot logically prove this some suspect the equipment came from similar factories abroad that were shut down. by power denies the accusations it says plant construction was supervised by the bella russo environmental author already. of course these sorts of plants rank among the more harmful ones we know that. we've invested a lot of money and energy keep the ecological dangers to a minimum boston. union doesn't believe. she shares photos of the company premises and documents from abroad supposedly proving that far higher levels of lead end up in the atmosphere from lead battery production than i power is admitting to. on

a separate issue i power told us that seventy percent of their batteries are exporters also to asia. china has been raising its environmental standards recently could it be that china doesn't want plants like this on its own soil because they're too dangerous and would rather import more batteries instead. in this protest song the people of breast say their health means nothing when it comes to industry. that in belarus of all places where much of the radioactive fallout ended up after the churn of builders aster thirty three years ago. we want our protest to change i power's profile to the point that kids toys are made there instead of. you know you isn't that naive and yes of course we're talking about a miracle. a miracle that probably won't ever come true breast city authorities

have confirmed that the battery plant will go into operation as planned. just how destructive toxins can be for both the environment and people's health is devastatingly clear at a vast electronic waste site in ghana in our global ideas series we headed to the capital are crap there are reports have a fire zinger visited the dump sometimes called the gates of hell and witnessed another side to it namely some highly proficient and extremely tough recycling. repair force yet. whether it's a damaged charging socket a cracked screen or even a processor parent jobby can repair everything the way.

he simply replaces the broken component with a used part. there are a pair shops like his on every street corner they tend to specialize in one type of electrical product. most canadians can't afford to buy brand new electrical goods instead they buy used electronic equipment passed on from developed nations which they then have to keep getting repaired and one of the. if someone brings me a television set that's beyond repair i dismantle it and take out the parts i remove the aluminum casing and the plastic parts and then i sell it all to scrap collectors. and if. you abdul

karim is one of approximately five thousand workers who collect and resell scrap from across vast electronic waste dump known as. they also buy ups crap from waste collectors on the side of the road to sell on televisions for ages and vacuum cleaners all these discarded electronics contain valuable components up to cut him has learned to drive a hard bargain it's the only way he can earn a living. in the late afternoon the scrap workers head back to about lossy inspecting the truckloads of goods as they arrive. the demand for electronic waste is insatiable. sometimes. for fabiano we. sometimes you know reach. more get. unlucky. by dismantling

i don't think. they dismantle all the items manually and find a new use for everything. parts for example can be taken to a workshop melted down and transformed into a bracelet. alinea recovered from old fridges also gets melted down. the heat is unbearable and the smoke stings the workers' eyes and fills that minds. the resulting. bars are used to make cooking pots in all shapes and sizes. and the toxic side effects of all this recycling are impossible to overlook the ground is visibly polluted livestock rummage around in the waste so that meat and

milk ends up contaminated too. but it's the burning plastic and the fiqh dust and such in the air that pose the most serious health risk to you and me. julius forbidden from the university of ghana has spent years studying the adverse health effects suffered by the people who work at the landfill site. skinless through issue number one and also skin disease but often security would be just great for health and for the moment of pollution here in terms of publicly much of the quality of. what we know. but there's really nothing that us what that's going to do we have to make a living and so. it's secured. to get the money. the german development agency g.i. zed set up a recycling center on the site in a bid to tackle the problem in a pilot project the g.s.a.

has begun buying copper from the workers so that they no longer need to burn it is as. i spent most of the first year gaining their trust an important part of the approach to this is and i think one reason why it's working so well is that we made sure we listened closely to what the scrap collectors said they wanted and needed before and then thought about them for you know one thing one of our main considerations is to preserve the spirit of this place. so i don't think he workers were keen to make the process of recovering the scrap metal safer with protective masks and proper tools for example they also want to. advice on how to earn more from recycling now they can attend workshops here in the middle of the scrap yard the idea is that they can pass on their expertise to the forty thousand other workers here. they should be morticians you with because it's also linked to the climate change they've been making noise about. dismantling is the cornerstone

of the classes. the participants are shown how to take the electrical goods apart in a way that minimizes the risk of damage to their health and the environment. plastics and metals are then sent on to professional recycling companies. in the batteries that rice sells as well they are very explosive sometimes you spew can you see that barely make it worse and if these are among the people who knew in years sparks of fire and explosions all over thanks to the lessons that the workers have also been able to increase their income. we need to be. meeting the. market prices of we were on line and we see this is how much you say this is how much you sell and it was the world market and because of the profits going nature of this exercise easy to go on. the whole of the turned out to celebrate the

inauguration of the new recycling center. the site also includes a health center which ghana's environment minister came to inaugurate. and perhaps even more importantly the german development agency also met the workers number one request that very own football pitch right at the landfill site now both onlookers and players can enjoy some well downtime and fresh air. if you're born into poverty you've a high chance of staying cool forever it's a vicious circle commonly children in poorer families have only media access to education and limited schooling leads to limited work opportunities much of which are badly paid prosperity remains a pipe dream. but education can offer

a way out around seven hundred eighteen million people worldwide needs in extreme poverty. but with the secondary level education more than half of them could lift themselves out of poverty. that's the premise behind the hospitality school on the indonesian island of somebody it offers a very special education program. soon these hotel trainees will be working at the reception desk in the bar or doing housekeeping but before they get to that stage the young people have to get their hands dirty. seventeen year old girl it has been at the symbol hotel school for two months. for . the entire. i'm learning about restaurant and bar management and growing vegetables is part of that it's fun but so far the best part was learning

how to make a cappuccino picking up. the simple hospitality foundation is largely financed by donations. each year the foundation offers some sixty young. men and women from poor communities the chance of a lifetime an apprenticeship in a five star hotel. they don't have enough like you who are more dos the be ex accept for some of the side to see their family and their neighbor yet but they believe they have and see they have a big motivation and if you see them since beginning and you've compared to the situation now it's really wonderful the different courts. lessons in the kitchen include making manet's serving breakfast and mixing cocktails. yari and his fellow students have never done those things before but now they're learning. yari wants to be a cook. from a particular tone we eat corn and sometimes fish. that we don't own

anything like manet's it how much. did other. such. the sun bathes the bamboo roofs of some but in a magical light. less than an hour's flight from bali somebody is still wild and undiscovered spared from the blight of mass tourism. but at the time comes the head of the hotel school says the people of somebody should be ready to profit from it. yari is visiting his family for the first time in two months they rub noses in a traditional greeting. from. the sun but as one of indonesia's poorest islands many residents have no running water or access to electricity and many children don't go to school.

john darche i'm so happy i can get this education so the people back when i went to school here i had to walk three kilometers after. school i helped my parents getting water from the stream wood for burning and grass for the buffalo it was a hard life. carolyn grew up with her aunt and this is the first time she's visited her for a long time they have a lot to catch up on. carolyn describes her first day at school. she says her heart was beating so fast. the good that i always took care of that ever since she was a little girl. but now other people will take over they will teach many new things in her life. since. the

teenager will be away from home for nearly a year then she'll do a seven month internship in the hotel itself and that time airline will learn much more than business the hotel school also aims to give these young people confidence and independence among my. fellow ma i promised my aunt i'd be able to support our family better if i went to the school so she let me go. this until it scene is the setting for a world class hotel. yari in erlend are hoping they'll be able to test out their skills by getting an internship here. i imagine some day the hotel wrists will be full of guests drinking the cup and she knows i've made. making capital could turn out to be the first step of

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. with such amazing people fight for survival no money based on a budget the budget budget when there's a floodwater comes up drawing on your clothes faster every morning but. the lack of water is. he called me dangerous. junk you can see it will move south so they can plant crops and find feet mrs chapman said floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of them to come to. exodus starts people thirty s on t w. education is not only thought and glamour and education is fought empowerment i'm saw that in coming times of two mirrors a lot of them think about how through in coke or devalues all tolerance mutual

understanding these things cannot be ignored for have a because the fundamentalist forces in the center to close it also acting very deeply and intensely and they cannot undermine their power the power of communication the power of technology ordinary people must not modernise support them must not socially support them the international community has to invest more on the education which can prevent young people to enter into that trap of kind of the courses. the from.

the book. thousands of protesters face. charges attempts to break up demonstrations. demanding money media transition to civilian rule also on the program. german prosecutors did. c.e.o. for his role in the company's emissions test the cheating scandal invented called.