we've seen the liverpool result and gained inspiration from that we've not had an all english final for more than a decade i think whoever gets through liverpool will certainly see that chances the momentum is on this side of mel that to avenge the final the feat against real madrid last season i think thank you. and up next here on news a documentary about the treasures of how to decay and grace you're up to date now i d w i'm sorry kelly and for life it's fraught. shifting powers the old order is history the world is reorganizing itself and the media's role is keep the topic in focus of the global media forum twenty nine change today one out of two people is online who are we following who do we trust to beijing and shape the future at the touch of

a global media forum twenty volunteer. day for mining magnus sites in hull could be key in north increase for one hundred years and goals to be mined fifty kilometers east of here. a lot of people are upset about that. mining and stuff cards are very sensitive you know chivvying up question what are we supposed to do eat grass this treasure in these mountains would go we'll know it would be shoved in a school years ago it's not. we will be destroyed here. tourism is a key elements of the economy here in the region. fishing and agriculture also important but can i go culture in terms of coexist with them to strip mining greece's economy needs foreign investment but at what price.

we're on our way to the helis gold company a subsidiary of the canadian mining group eldorado gold we once interviewed some of the managers here. the security guard tells us to wait we want to find out more of the three mines that the company operates in this region especially the gold mine and skerries telephone calls from the public relations departments. a number of gold mines are to be built to northern greece the proposed projects have led to bitter disputes between opponents and supporters. to lease papa gorgo as a co-founder of

a citizen's movement that's trying to stop the mines he's been fighting against gold mining here for twenty years. more people here is that with. their fishing and tourism and told me. he means water means clean a minister in bahrain. and if good years will start everything it will be destroyed so. the fire in the people is still existing. now we're headed for the gold mines of skerries with us is maria could go to lisa's partner and another outspoken opponent of industrial mining. she's considered an official leader of the movement that's standing up to the eldorado gold and its greek subsidiary. stop outside the entrance to the mine and it was that by the time maria gets out of the car the security

guards are already on the phone. maria often comes here with a photographer to document possible environmental damage caused by the mine. this is where the gold will be extracted first with surface mining and then underground. twenty four thousand tons of rock pre-date will be dug out of the soil but there's a lot of gold there less than one gram for total. smelter will also be built here the value of the gold silver and copper deposits in this region is estimated at about fifteen billion euros more than three square kilometers of forest were cleared to make room for the mine. they built all this without a permit they got one later but it's still illegal. we checked and we were

ported that and other violations to the appropriate government ministry. security guards arrived to find out what we're doing the entire area is sealed off like a top secret military base and visitors are not welcome. the mining company has been arguing with the greek government for years about this project some of the company's obligations were approved but others were not several of the disputes ended up in courts or arbitration. the government has not yet given permission for the mud to open so things are on hold here. at their home marina and to lease shows documents that outlined the long running dispute over the mine maria post news about the project almost every day or blog. there have been violent protests against the environmental damage caused here by

the mine police or fire tear gas at the mining demonstrators. company equipment has been set on fire we did two reports in all of this for germany's a.r.d. t.v. network. we were filming in a nearby forest in april twenty third one of dispute broke out between activists and a mining company worker. who was trying to drive a bulldozer into the area where the protesters were determined to stop and. the worker said he was just doing his job and if he didn't he'd be fired. he added the protesters might get him to leave but the company was staying posts. top of the officer this is an old growth forest and the mining company wants to build a road through here and a landfill so they're knocking down all the trees with their bulldozers even though

they don't have permission to do that work and i need to go then that would now be . in july twentieth well we interviewed cut a renewed glitzy who'd just been elected to represent. in parliament she was a member of the left wing cillizza party which was then part of the opposition. makes a lot of. the people of this region and elected me so that i could go to parliament and try to stop this catastrophic gold mining project says you know better than the sardis except that. maria has often watched this video that shows the reason leader alexis tsipras and june twenty thirty you know we cut to rina glazier at a rally in the town of your recess. the result is that we will not abandon you in your legitimate struggle against armed police and oppression the next time i come to this town we will have doubled our share of the vote we will form the next

government and we will guarantee social justice and environmental protection. for the never never got there never going to be good people to put us came there to take advantage of the. situation to exploit the movement for political gains what they were saying was that we get elected on the twenty fifth of january two thousand and fifteen and on the twenty sixth they are gone the other is gone. not only did this not happen but during the years of the city is a government and entire plant was built at school yes. eighteen hundred hectares of forest were wiped out. the years of legal wrangling i've hit eldorado stock price hard drop to

a five year low of about sixty us cents a share and late twenty eight in other words recovered somewhat recently. here's a map of the cult beekeeping and some of. the region resembles one hundred with three fingers. the satellite view clearly shows the locations of the mines and retention basins. quite close to some populated areas the effect of the mining operation of the surrounding landscape has been considerable. so this here is the village of the tony and this is villa case when were they knew the new facilities will be built they knew what they saw in plant then you meant there was a plant and the house of theirs because of the waste facility of working all of us both of which you can already see over there in its size when you're talking all of

us waste facility is even bigger than the village of sort of thought that you can see behind me also the dam that will confine their waste is that the distance of only five hundred meters from the village of star tony whereas in about a month of impact statement headlines gold stated that the stance is three point five kilometers. you can see is obviously not true. in addition the proposed landfill is located in the seismic hazard zone. one hundred thirty two this area was rocked by a severe earthquake that measured seven point two in the richter scale an estimated five hundred people were killed or injured. if huge landfill that contained several million tons of highly toxic mining waste were to be struck by an earthquake effects on the surrounding area could be devastating.

a lot of miners live in st tony. helis gold operates a facility here the process is gold silver lead and zinc as concentrate. the company also has a similar plant nearby a. lot of people here say that these factories are good for the local economy. this banner says the mines are coke addict he's only future. this is the village of the gallipoli gear located not far from the skerries gold mine. about three thousand people live here and they are divided on the benefits of local mining. the dispute is cause friction among friends and family members. those who work in the mines say these facilities benefit the entire community. the more you the only resource is that we have in this region are the mines.

there's nothing else we don't have tourist beaches or farmland there's nothing. there what are we supposed to do eat grass this treasure in these mountains up to. the shop with a mining company if you get the local economy moving again when they don't open it . you will see along that last. report. georges cutter a zero to us is a veldt or has been working for hella schools since twenty twelve here it's a good living and the complete pays wages on time. i work at the scowrers mine and it's a good job we used to have some problems with a few local people who were opposed to the mine but that's changing slowly. but if you are still dead set against the mine i don't know why. they're real hard liners

. there. they don't even sit down with us and discuss the situation but the limited order they got good distributors would be similar. this is the east coast of the. minerals including gold have been mined here since ancient times but today the extraction of these resources take place on an industrial scale and that has caused severe environmental damage. the government's archaeological oversight agency must approve all construction projects. but has not yet been signed off from the scary mind. because ancient roots were found there by the site of the city of a compass silver coins dating back to the fifth century b.c. have been found here this indicates that the city was prosperous at the time.

the village of euro keeney is located about fifty kilometers to the west an open cast magma site mine has been operating here for one hundred years explosives are used to extract the so-called white gold. after the raw magma site lumps are blasted out of the ground there transported to the crushing plants. the mining company in magna site employs three hundred forty workers and ministry toure's. it produces one hundred sixty thousand tonnes of magnesium carbonates and fifty thousand tonnes of basic refractory products per year. seventy five percent of the output is sold in europe including ten percent that's exported to germany. most of the beat is more my. company managing director demetrius porter loss shows us around. the business was

founded in one nine hundred fifty nine by his father and grandfather. today it's one of the world's largest producers and exports of magna site. portales joined the company after he completed his studies in military service since the one nine hundred eighty s. the site is paid close attention to the environmental protection. of the the other side of the mining it is still work now but we have to make plans so the idea is doing clued. in and the protection of the environment as part of your job and also to keep the area is live up to i mean. people live here people move around the area and one has to consider all saw the end of the life of a mining and you don't want to leave something that looks terrible dangerous and

i'm appealing. as with our minds and grease the land in which the grecian magnus a facility is located belongs to the state. the government sells the exploration and mining rights to companies. they are in money by selling the minerals they extract and they pay taxes on their profits. the rocks are crushed in several stages. and the employee keeps a close saw in the process. after the magna site is washed sorted and ground up it's fired into a rotary kiln at a temperature of about one thousand five hundred degrees celsius. the site is widely used for insulation and as a refractory material for blast furnace is in steel plants it's also a component part of products as the verses aircraft electric cattle and fertilizers . the meter supports

a loss and plants manager. are making a final inspection of their products. the company works hard to keep its regular customers happy. but it also has to move into new markets and that's where it faces tough price competition especially from china. but portal us believe that greece's mining industry could compete effectively i think it is for a couple of reasons firstly very is there a lot of interest being especially invested in. minerals in greece which have not been fully exploited so there is there say good leads in europe. and it's part of the european union that you don't have to rely on fire away places that will be sold the things so that's a signal. there is

a lot of mining know how to get people working at this mine then look at the head. of state job. which. is. covering there. this simple financial needs which is interesting in many ways which i think what is it a lot of. fiction knowledge is then everything so we get a lot of young people that are interested to be employed in a place where new methods are not that in order to do that you have. that opens up new training and job prospects for those who can't or don't want to work in the tourism sector or in agriculture. or parts for.

a lakers forward that this part of the mine complex. the water depth ranges between four six meters depending on how much it's rated recently. the lake series is a habitat for birds and fish. water from the lake is used to irrigate olive groves and pine trees which are grown in the company's own nursery until they mature. then they are used in reforestation projects. some of the olive trees here are two thousand years old and they still bear fruits . demitra sports are lost loves to visit the nursery and reforestation is an important part of his company's business philosophy. we head live in

the program for over thirty thirty five years or started in the in a very small scale and then as we. increase in the vision of the city we increased also the old. trees that were sprayed in the mine and then they have a dead body as. greece is the world's second largest producer of olives. these pine trees will also be replanted elsewhere. near the mine complex we meet nico. he worked at the facility for more than forty years now nikos to sixty five and retired he owns a little extra money tending to these farm animals. what is it that well. he's in good physical shape. and soul is goats and chickens.

all the animals are fine the song for doesn't bother them at all i even let the chickens back around for food at the mine site. it's called a sort of a drug you get on. nico says his mother also worked at the mine i'm a tains good health even in old age it's just. it's. just. in recent years going to kenya has been transformed from a miner's village into a tourist resort. this pier where transport ships were loaded with magna sites doesn't seem to bother the visitors. some people have proposed converting the site into a trendy new restaurant but they have to find investors first.

the local economy is focusing more and more in terms of. where now hotels apartments tarrance and shops the cater to visitors many of them use gary kinney as a starting point for trips around the cult of the region. at a cafe we talked to a local couple about the mining facility. after the flood the month of. ramadan a little of what the magna site mine has been here for a long time. a lot of people worked there for years and then retired. now a lot of those jobs have been filled by young people and i don't think the mine has had a negative impact on local tourism up to be with you the dollars more and the car

number. i'd say that the mine has actually helped the region in some families people from several generations of work there in some cases three generations in fact. that is going on with. the mine has had a mostly positive influence. i can't think of any negatives. but up in skerries people are really worried about the gold mine. and that's why they get so upset and exhort execute. your government because they got. a group of anti mining activists have got it up the spire a new resource to tell us about some of the clashes that have taken place between demonstrators and police at the scariest facility. talisa maria appear to some of the protesters were arrested and charged with various crimes here several of the people here full of the demonstrations and the police response and i didn't

get the message that they meant giving the puppet up on them yesterday and that was actually some of the. we heard the police talking on their radios and then they moved in. we started running. some of us wanted to move forward. but couldn't because there was a lot of smoke stack that many people started to get the people on the property and the police insulted us. i'm not going to repeat what they said. in my log at the bottom up bar must be so they roughed us out. i broke one of my arms. later i was charged with resisting arrest disturbing the peace and a few other things started these that see. the effort that. marina curry stereo was sentenced to probation but she's appealed the course

decision. to get what is with them they charged us with manufacture of explosives. possession of explosives. disturbing the peace and attempted manslaughter. it was like half the entire penal code the image of when you were going to go. he was the only got to the mines front gate the police fired tear gas at us people panicked and some photos of the ground that several of us were there for the whole demonstration and we were the last to leave the mess with the government because the police took photographs of us and that's what he was and that was the evidence that the prosecutors used to do accuse us of war when i was in the demonstration. force to start weeks and they to proceed without the middle we woke up in the middle of the night because we were afraid

that the police were going to come over in a restaurant right away. they picked up some people from the village two days later we found out that they'd been taken to police headquarters. there were several trials and i had to pay court costs that was really expensive. i've already spent ten thousand euros just for this carries trial. good luck to all that if you got to go. home and. this is the town hall if you're a source one of sixteen communities that makes up a municipality named for aristotle the ancient greek philosopher. georges so bust has been the new mr polities mir since twenty fifteen he's

a member of the party and an opponent of the gold mine he's been called several times to testify at the trials of the protesters. or that he would be for them so the indictment covers half the penal code. the defendants have been tied up in the courts for years and years ago when up and i've had to spend a lot of money on lawyers and court costs. even though they might be acquitted in the end up with this awful. there's less water now in the rivers and streams of color. because of climate change. the reasons water reservoirs located near mt of us geology professor surrounds us dimitri out as says mining operations pose a serious threat to the reservoir so yeah the usual stuff so. if the old fart is allowed those calories mine to open

a facility has to be kept dry both above and below ground. there's a lot of water in the mountains. and it has to be pumped out. from a height of six hundred seventy meters above sea level to about one hundred thirty meters below sea level rises that will completely drain a large area in the mountains. so will. the reservoir is essential for the entire region. to your lots more cowries mine would release to toxic chemical substances into b. environment especially oss and crystal in courts. if those materials content to pursue rounding community is either is da storm mixed with rain they could cause cancer. you know and i got to go yourself.

a stair is monsanto so this friends the retreat i personally and beekeepers mysterious owns twenty five beehives the village of gertie. about three kilometers from the skerries gold mine i mean he's worried that if a gold mine is allowed to open it would pollute the surrounding trees and soil with toxic materials. those pollutants would then be absorbed by the bees and that could be deadly for the insects and for humans. it's. the story of much of your monthly bill we had a similar situation about forty years ago. back then the power lines around here were strung up on wooden poles that were covered with coal tar creosote.

during the hot summer months the creosote mounted. beans thought it was nectar because it smelled like pine wood. later when people extracted the honey from the hives it was full of creosote. or there's something one bank could happen again. with that pollutants from this gold mine. so the honey could be contaminated with the hospitals and crystalline quartz that we talked about earlier. but unlike creosote these materials would leave no visible trace. a lot of local farmers are worried about toxic materials getting into the ground water the soil where they grow their crops and the pastures with their livestock grades.

this is the satirist area the business was founded in one thousand nine hundred six and has grown steadily since then. the dairy no employs twenty five people they produce yogurt and cheese and ships around the clock for sale to wholesalers and individual customers one of the managers dimitrius the florists says the local residents are always talking about the gold mine. for the birds the things that people are nervous about it. but i think that we have to make use of the wealth that we have in this region. over the. border that may be a difficult choice. but i believe that this sort of development will be good for the community. for the environment for jobs and for the tourism sector of the us. the dairy also supplies products to the hotel where thomas as linnaeus works is

manager he is the thoris believe that the future of depends on supporting an expanding local commerce and resources. the local beaches are popular with tourists. during the spring and summer hotels guest houses and other accommodations are usually fully booked. hotel owners are trying to attract more tourists by extending the high season and targeting new demographic groups. they want to focus on promoting a high quality travel experience that highlights the region special features. thomas as a need us says that the cult region has a lot to offer. its the identity of our area local production is the pride of how give e.q. we have so much gold being produced here in terms of. products.

that really we could leave only with those as promotion and marketing of our area. local hotel owners have been demanding that the government do more to improve infrastructure. some of them even finance various improvements themselves like high speed internet services thomas as a need is tells us that his hotel the alexandra palace spent more than eighty thousand euros on this so far. the hotel philistine it was built at the end of the nineteen eighties at that time most of the guests were greeks germans and britons. today many of the visitors come from nearby balkan countries like bulgaria romania and serbia. the number of greek guests has fallen off sharply in recent years mostly due to the country's financial crisis.

several years ago gregorios to serious took over as the hotel's manager before that his parents had managed the facility. the family's invested a lot of money improving the accommodations. to see this as president of the car could equal hotel association and the national hotel leo's federation. says he believes that turns them in greece has a bright future either napoleon allahabad it's dangerous to demand the exploitation of the underground treasures in our region and. we should focus instead on the potential of the tourism industry. including the development of alternative tourism and hiking trails and golf courses then we also need major infrastructure improvements myke roads and projects that add value to the tourism sector. and of course we'd like to have a rail line that links their saloniki. to sell them into boston held in here.

thomas says leaders serves on the board of the coke addict the hotel association. spends a lot of time lobbying local and national politicians for improvements in the regional tourism industry. i'm not going to ask for two months and that's the basics roads. very odd system in hell giving not the best trains. imagine just getting on a train in half an hour and you're at the beach from the saloniki it will boost. the federal ministry of economy development inters and told us that it's now financing fourteen road projects in calcavecchia alone at a cost of more than thirty five.

expansion work continues at the airport of thessaloniki. this facility and thirteen or to regional airports in greece and now managed by a subsidiary of the german company fraport. greece needs more investment especially now that the e.u. is ended its financial assistance program. but mines have a limited lifespan. the skerries facility would only be open for about twenty three years. then there's the man the corporal the model we want sustainable economic growth and for that we'll need sustainable jobs. but gold mining is not sustainable a mineral resources will run out one day and people who worked at the mines will have to find new jobs that's happened before in this region. let them know what i raise these points at the regional development conference in first in march two thousand and eighteen. my stand on this issue is well known to the series of party

and to the prime minister alexis to press and the minister of development and tourism your star talkies. and over the years all of them have expressed support for my position. on the scene for known those men to the camis upset about a woman that. we've come to thessaloniki to interview journalists the liers nikka topless. he's done several reports in the mining industry in the region he says that the government will have to make some tough choices as a decides whether to sign up for the skerries mine. here for buried in causing more feel after the government to earn income from gold mining that a smelter will have to be built to produce or pure gold not just concentrate like now. but if that smelter is built it could cause serious health problems among the local residents. so that's to be controlled to see. if the

government approves the scowrers mine. it will be risking the health of people who live near it. the perfect bastard everything you hear the. stella shows is a video of a twenty seventeen t.v. report. it to hell a skilled managing director talks about the new floating smelting process that the company was the years. out of the one you know brought to florida this would be the first time anywhere in the world but this floating smelting process would be used to extract gold in a location that has high concentrations of arsenic. yet that means they'll be taking a pretty big risk. but even if the permits for the scare is gold mine were turned down stylistically topless predicts that the mining will continue in the region.

by the european union is on record as saying that it wants member states to become self-sufficient in the extraction of raw materials. back could mean turning all of northern greece into a mining zone the eldorado company is already looking at potential sites around the city of kill keysar trad opi mountains and in the ever else river. meanwhile we're still waiting outside the hellish gold mine instead tony. we sent them a written request for an interview more than three months ago but the security guard still won't let us in. by. well. the company has put up a sign that says nature hides power and prosperity in the depths of the earth but what lies ahead for the mining of the stream greece. can large and potentially

dangerous projects because it's only in countries that disregard environmental protection rules and ignore the civil rights of citizens. the acceptance is essential and you cannot have good business group cannot have hair and industrial production in navy awards not accepted. as we drive through the forest at skerries were followed by a police car. the rear cutler says that whenever she turns up at the mine company officials call the cops security is tight everywhere around the mine there's not much transparency here. so this is only a very small part of it and also you have to think that's good it is only the beginning of this month and cock of those has many men that have deposits of gold and copper deposits identified by the company there are over thirty seven mining

concessions if you are allow this to happen then there is so the entire mountain would be full of holes open pits and things. i do have hope that the people will still have that this will not make it happen but it is extremely depressing to come here it's like an open home local people come up here and cry is mistaken. it has taken a lot of tears and a lot of blood in the lives of. several weeks after we finished filming for this report hello school sent us a letter. the company said that it would fulfill all of its contractual obligations they noted that they had already invested about seven hundred fifty million dollars in this project. and said that this mining facility will create jobs and generate

revenue for the greek government. in september twenty eighth dean heller skull filed an out of court claim for damages demanding seven hundred fifty million euros in compensation from the greek government. the company said it suffered huge financial losses because the authorities kept stalling on granting permits for the scams mine sort of dispute between hellas gold and the government turned political . in december twenty eighth in the greek council of states the country's highest administrative court began deliberations and whether to allow the mining companies to use the controversial floating smelting process. it's a complex situation for the color the region and for greece as a whole should the country's mineral resources be exploited simply to provide revenue for the governments or should greece focus on developing other less

profitable sectors of its economy. how do you define process and losses anyway. the ancient greek philosopher ira stoppel summed it up well enough nature is constant wealth is not. the spider-man of moved by it's on the cross. but he's out to protect in the. righteous some half the secret life of the leg. toure's like no other. can and he

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