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have their hopes from me 10 years after the arab spring, rebellion starts june 7th on d. w. the news . this is b. w. news, one from berlin. colds for sanctions against fellows. after it forces object to land, an arrest and activists on board for him and practice, david was detained after his passenger slice was forced to make an emergency landing in minutes. the 26 year old was traveling to live with me from athens when the aircraft was intercepted by bella versus air force. also coming up,
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14 people are dead after a cable car crash the italian alps. the tragedy happened close to the summit of the motor on a peak over looking like majority and in formula one red bulls max for stop and proved. he means business as he wins the monaco, bram free and leap francois champion louis hamilton at the top of the driver standing. ah i'm aaron tilton. thanks for joining us. european union leaders will discuss possible further sanctions against bella. ruth, on monday, after authorities admins force or ryan airplane to land and arrested a passenger on board to remind prophecy which an exiled by the rules in activists and blogger, was traveling from greece to lithuania when the airplane was diverted to the bell, a russian capital and a false security alert. the flight eventually landed in vilnius after
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a 7 hour long detour. but practice david was not on board. the united states has called for his immediate release a journey finally coming to an end. ryan air flight f r 4978. arriving at vilnius airport in lithuania, after being diverted and helpful, ours and the bella, ruth and capital men. the normally 3 hour fled from athens to vilnius, had almost reached the destination and below roosting floor. it is diverted, the plane, citing a bomb threat and escorted with a military plane to the airport. in minsk, the authorities never found any explosives, but they arrested a passenger, rama protest everidge about lucy, an activist and blogger living an exile from president alexander lucas. shank has authoritarian governments. passengers said they saw bella, lucy and police confiscating the activists passports. you know,
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it's true something i'm civilized, scary government functions about to get always doing that. they can pretend there is a moment to stop here playing with the true romance, but i have been protesting against president lucas shameka. the outrage was sparked in august when he was 6 term and office in a presidential vote. the opposition said was rigged. the government crackdown and arrested thousands. by then practice you have it's already lived in poland. he is a co founder of meta a channel on the telegram messaging app, which was used to help organize the protests and published video from them. was collecting information from citizen journalists. he was posting videos and pictures from protest about torture in presence above the conditions in jails. and he was one of the most prominent figures pick in about the horrible
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a violation of human rights. and they think what we saw today, it was their revenge international lead us i calling the episode a hijacking and demand the release of from on practice you have it's, you lead us a set to discuss their response on monday, 100 level coffee is a journalist and she told the w news earlier that it's still unclear what are among prophecy, which has been accused of and why he was detained. it's very hard to say what's going to happen to him, but it's important to mention that he was on the list of terrorists by the k g b by the national security agency. we do not know the exact the exact positions and. 7 the case that might be, he might be accused of, but i doubt that someone who's not dangerous for, for the regime or who the regime is not considered dangerous, would not be,
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it will. the jet fighter was the whole plane was basically he jacked to arrest him . so it all seems very seriously. and i cannot even imagine what might happen to him. that was journalist, 100 little cova in men's speaking to us earlier. at least 14 people were killed and a child seriously injured when a cable car plummeted down the side of a mountain in northern italy. the crash occurred near the top of a cable carline that began in these town us theresa on the shores of lake majority . authorities are investigating why one of the cables apparently broke this cable car plunged 20 meters to the ground and rolled down the state's flight before trace started going any further nearby high could say they heard a loud heath just before the crash. officials believe it was caused by one of the cables breaking the name of strays. i says the news has devastated the local
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community just as it starts to open up. after the pandemic ambrose momentum made a terrible moment for me and for our community. and i also think for the whole of italy, these people thought they were going on a nice day out. we encouraging everyone to get out. so we can recover from the pandemic that everyone has lived through. instead, this is a terrible disaster. the cable car is popular with visitors and locals seeking a mountain top view of northern italy, picturesque lake, missouri, tourists who used the same cable car feel lucky to be alive when we got on the cable car an hour before the tragedy. when we got on the cable car didn't give any strange signal. everything was fine. when they told us the news, we were shocked. the local authorities say the cable car recently underwent
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a successful safety check. the italian government has announced a commission to investigate the disaster. let's turn now to some other stories, making a headlines at this hour. hundreds have rallied in minneapolis on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the murder of george floyd. lloyd died after a former police officer derek shelven knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes, is murderous or protest against racial injustice. across the world, brazil's president valuable sonata has led a motorcycle parade in rio de janeiro as the country struggles with high numbers of corona virus cases. also, nora was recently fined for violating restrictions after going out in public without a mass. brazil has latin america's highest coven, 1900 death rate. british media reporting the prime minister boys johnson and his partner carry simons planned to marry next summer vacation is set for july
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30th, 2022 and would be johnsons, 3rd wedding. and the 1st for simons, a couple are parents of a son born last year. israelis and palestinians are picking up the pieces after the leave is outbreak of violence shook the region. experts say that the damages inflicted by israeli airstrikes and gaza will likely take years to repair and cost hundreds of millions. d. w, corresponded tonya kramer sent us this report from kansas city. picking through the rubble in just enough days, holmes shops and bro. y towns and hundreds of lives have been last survivors of the strikes and goals. the city are dealing with the aftermath of li carnac, has lost over 10 of his family members in an as strike trauma. it's an inexplicable stephen strange, simple fear, or the whole account happened. i don't understand simon shop in just
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a couple of seconds, minutes our buildings on cool world building or say we're all flashing in nevada and medical residents are returning from wherever they could find shelter. some feel like know where is saving garza and i totally agree with teaching difficult in the last this time around the science for concentrated on recreational building and facility and media offices lightly anything but also haley. this will of course, have a logical on us 3 was we tried to write it trash, and they put this back of it and they will talk with everything that difficult you see any even after the see sign, garza still faces another dangerous crisis. the corona virus pandemic. we had the 2nd wave, of course we didn't gaza, the hospital was ever overwhelmed. you know, we have no vaccines,
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enough vaccines for that population. we don't have enough testing. and then this came this war. there was a huge destruction of the main roads, electricity, water, that with waste management. the stopped but that impacts will be felt for a long time. people in the city of goma, in the democratic republic of congo, have begun returning to their homes. after fleeing in panic, after a nearby volcano erupted, the stream of molten lava came to a stop, just a few 100 meters from the city limits. authorities urged gomez, $2000000.00 residents to evacuate after you've gone go erupt it for the 1st time in almost 2 decades. but many of them accused the government of responding to late. the smoldering remains of houses consumed by a river of lava from mount near. you're going to villages, east of the city of goma, where hit without warning,
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by the 1st major volcanic eruption in almost 20 years. residents trying to protect that property were angry at the authorities. understand the congolese government, like you know, it delayed, giving us the information while the fire had already begun. john as the lava slowly approached the outskirts of goma, people began to flee. whichever way they could not. he's never seen anything like this before. we study the volcano, people talk about it a lot, but really we've never seen it. never. we're all shaking. so, something with dawn, the welcome news that the lava trail had halted a few 100 meters from goma and stopped short of the city's airport. some relief at being able to return home without being harmed. for others. the
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charm of an extraordinary soto hope everyone. reminder of the devastating and unpredictable power of nature. turning to sports now and in formula one red bulls mark 1st off and has won the monaco grand prix. the young dutchman moves to the top of the driver's standings for the 1st time in his career with a 105 points defending champion. louis hamilton finished with a disappointing 7th, but this was a race for much of the drama came before the green light for the go. the money gas funds we're hoping to watch local boy shuttle declared when his home grown pre from pole position. but the gearbox problem, so the for the driver cruelly forced out of the race just minutes before the start . oh oh, oh good. let's look clear. waive the refill, goodbye red bills. max pushed up and took up position alone on the front row. and
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he dominated the rest of the grid on a circuit where overtaking is notoriously difficult. the young dutchman was helped by a disastrous day for mercedes reading champion. louis hamilton finished 7 and was frustrated after his team changed its pre race pit strategy. for in the meanwhile, the britons team make volatility bought. us was forced to retire. when mechanics couldn't remove a front wheel as he pitted pushed up and cruise toma had to ferocity. carlos science and mclaren land noticed, taking a checkered flag waived by the guest of honor tennis superstar serena williams and his team was quick to confirm a career milestone fabulous drive. my newer moto, cooperate with another 1st for an
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increasingly bullish, pushed up and you know, looks to be the biggest obstacle between hamilton and the record. 8 world title, the lead singer of the italian rock group who one year old vision says he will take a voluntary drug test after accusations that he was using drugs at the contest that miano adopted from maine, his skin was filled to bending over a table. lean viewers to speculate that he was snorting cocaine. thought he'd strongly denied the accusations and says, but he will take a test to prove his innocence. he claims he bent over because another band member had brought last at their feet. the controversy has damp and the celebrations of the italian rock roof. here is a little taste of their winning song city a wanting to know why the money that the money the
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money up next is doc film and it takes a look at sri lanka, the darker side of paradise. don't forget, you can find all the latest news from around the world on our website at w dot com for me and the entire team. thanks for tuning in the me. can you hear me now? yes, we can hear you in germany. we bring you on going to a mac or and you've never had before the price just so what, what is what? who is medical really? what move back and walk to people is the way myers and critic
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join us from the i the sri lanka is a country still were suffering from civil war. and it's a country with 2 faces on the one hand, exceptional natural beauty at the island center, a 2000 take pairs of lush vegetation, mainly comprising t plantations. legacy as the british colonial. this is where the world renounced on t is growing. a bigger attraction for tourists of the nature of research, which a home to some of the plan is the rarest creatures. the mean before the corona virus pandemic, the island nation. so foreign tourists attracted by the low prices and the 1300
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kilometers. if christine beaches, the reality behind this post comp paradise list because he won the sri lankan space discrimination in their own country with the drawing number of establishments now reserved. dave not allowed to get into insight. we also visit the north of the country. an area traditionally as a balance for tourists, choose the devastation of the civil war and the hundreds of thousands of last month . the still have to be cleared. fish and areas remain elicit with unexploded ordnance. there, i can't go any further into dangerous ensuring that tourists do come back here means to queuing land. adjoining the beaches. tourism has become a vital source of income for the country. and among the party is wanting their
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piece of the pie a some you might not expect id and reservation details. in the north with the time minority constitute the majority of the population. the army seems only present. some villages have been requisitioned in order to develop an unconventional business model. sri lanka has around $25.00 hotels and gone by the military army. isn't it strange for the army to do this kind of business, say live to banking and community life? we look aside a sri lanka, the get to see this is a high security zone and i think we made a group of tourists staying in this fishing village. there's no beach bar and certainly no night club. if you want to party, you need to be more resourceful. yeah,
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it's never easy to find out where it is. you got to earn your evening pine at noon . she was off. he simply followed to music. today the tourists will be spending the evening at the guest house. it's like a sort of a block party where all the visiting sisters in the area have decided to meet the every night. the guest houses in the village take 10, setting up an improvised nightclub with a d. j. and above the point of being close to us 50 posting these kinds of events enabled the owners to boost their income in a good month. they can make 5000 euros just from party. that's a lot of money here. the average monthly salary in sri lanka is 250 euros and the
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party high could earn a lot more if it weren't for the regular mishap. the ah, the such frequent power outages, the guy this is no energy conducted. everything was going so well until the power cut. the chairs boom has led to regular power outages, which isn't great for business. with every minute the passes, the party moved face further. the family hosting the venue tried to contact the local electricity company the years, the number 011, but the line is busy. it's 11 pm and the d. j is getting restless. if the outage last too long, so have to cut the evening. sure. yeah,
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the now in the tonight, these revellers won't be back at their hotel until the early hours in sri lanka, not everyone is in the mood for partying. the . the for the pandemic business was booming in the sri lankan terrace sector in 2019. it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holiday makers. it's one of the country's biggest income and but it's a development that has seen the emergence of controversial practices. shaggy is 26 years old. please asserting instructor. but for the last 2 years, he's been unable to mingle free with tourists after work. because the certain guest
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house owners, locals, are not welcome. it's not allowed to get inside the book and come here and they can. they have sophia and told him ongoing threat of insight. that's strange enough. they did good. and what's perhaps also strange is that the guest house makes no effort to hide what it's doing is openly advertise discriminatory policy. i'm a local and i'm from here. and there for me also here, there's a red flag because i do into it, i say the long, long time, but they don't, they just started now new people, you know, down the road. another guest house also proclaimed locals are not welcome. this kind of segregation is less will know face to should link up some establishment
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of sound. other methods that barely less conspicuous to structure can joining the party by targeting the woman. the people on his way to popular club entry appears to be free. the bounces on the door a task with keeping sri lanka, guess to a minimum the and those locals who do pay for the privilege of getting in also have to wear a red wristband on like the tourists. how many have to pay the smile to move peace is the equivalent of $12.00 euros
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a sizable firm given that the average monthly salary and re lanka is $250.00 us. as a result, pushes pin sri lankan made it through the door inside the club, just don't seem to bolted. even the sri lankan who had to pay to get in and just not know todd, in many people in the club owners have introduced the missions in order to reassure foreign tourists. this is a country that has for years struggled to shake off a negative image and associations with finance. the we want to know why sri lanka had taken so long to become such a popular to destination. we now take the road north to the part of the island less frequented by tourists and what's happening there doesn't reflect well on sri lanka. either
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a driver has agreed to take us there on one condition that we don't reveal his identity. after an hour on the road we pass an army checkpoint martinez porter internal border where entering a different country, a different sri lanka. the big the population in this area is mainly campbell. most of them hindus currently live under government military control. the ideal landscape is increasingly blemished by houses in ruins. it's the 1st time our driver has been to this area for several years. was in the space days that owning anything, that one thing shooting and something that there isn't. nobody's come displays us is vanya for decades,
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if not longer to communities, have been in conflict with each other in sure, lanka. 15000000 in her leis who have governed the country since the end of british colonial rule and 3000000 hindu terminals who live principally in the north of the country. and who have been seeking independence in 2009 after 25 years civil war. with the terminal tigers, gorilla group. the government in columbus made a radical decision to effectively carpet on the north of the country. in just a few weeks for the estimated 40000 civilians lost their lives the on the ground government troops, they committed numerous atrocities. some even filmed themselves performing summary executions. with 140000 civilians remaining,
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unaccounted for the you and has repeatedly demanded an investigation into war crimes. today, entire communities have been wiped off the map. ghost villages when no tourists ever venture. the is how's it will during the oil was totally demolished and i have the gunfire. trim is a journalist from the time community. he's been investigating the attack from the people living in the mall of the island here. so just open fire on houses and point blank range if if the hall goes out a bullet calls you see everywhere the there was an ounce by the government. no fire song but then never kept me then the bomb than
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sheldon where the people who living today the villages obit deserted most of its inhabitants died during the attack. only the most fortunate devised like this man. for present these witness accounts are essential for proving the armies involvement in war crimes and freedom when we tried to shelter in our houses. but the shells kept falling and killed everyone inside longer and higher families were killed in an instant. and none of us to any investigation is practically impossible. since the area has been filled off for years. in jeff campbell, cultural capital, governments soldiers of visible on every street corner. this is the sri lanka,
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the 2 don't think a pity that until 2010 was close to foreigners in an area cut off from the rest of the country. through little the newspaper print work for has never stopped printing. this openly, pro camel publication has however, paid a bloody price for its political leanings. and i go to learning after incidence, all of them. and now me do, you know, can be so that we actually been here in a one of the rooms, stupid evidence of divine reprisals. the prince colleagues subject to a shot every minute in 2006, 7 armed men attacked the office, killing 2 campbell employees and the nightmare. and they after that,
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2011 our news radio as i fact happened, stormed to the end of the pool. prim blaine's the intimidation of pro militia that so much of human rights, while asian and human rights abuse of happening in no wife, mystery and other pulses. and we are bringing out that information. so there are people who are in the power doesn't like us. despite the threats. prim has no intention of giving up the case. he's currently investigating a particularly sensitive on state scandal involving the army. cam started from these during the war 300000 times, for the agents were forcibly displaced by the army. now refugees in their own
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country, they would split up and sent to 67 different times. $4000.00 of them, including hundreds of children, a still living in this one. in utter destitution. their homes was a made out of corrugated sheet metal, an old, dry sex. these other was forgotten, people now deemed undesirable. pooley and buckets make shift shower for the 350 families who live in his camp. ah, my lady prim approaches, an elderly woman. questions. i, viola, the baby girl is a 3rd generation. she doesn't even know in their homeland and she never go back and she's the 1st generation and then to 5 years, maybe him and 99. the display from that you
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have your way she came. i can't go back. we're not allowed to leave any before being sent to this camp. she lived in the north of the country and that a lot of out on your show us on this map where you lived in the lending a live in the one many, many years. but it was, it was around here. even just there. i remember there was that road to the side. this huge green zone on the map does not represent a sprawling green forest. another high regard is on the land, all land keeping by me make and on entering without the
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permission, the 24 square kilometers of coastline on the army control. during the war, the military place troops stopped. camel guerrillas receiving weapons from india territory confiscated by the government has never been given back to the terminal population. and government soldiers have him decided to make money from this land that isn't theirs via some more unusual business model. i'll request a film he went on by the army without official authorization. it's probably impossible to pass the barriers placed around this high security area. but we found a way to enter incognito me. after a little research on the internet, we discovered a hotel that has been set up in the middle of the army control done me from the outside. it looks like a classic resort. there's
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a swimming pool and access to the beach. we decided to try our luck. hello. i go to a booking tours. they have rooms available. we book to with them. okay, thank you very much. by booking a room, we now have 24 hours of authorized access. entering the secure, she's our means being checked and id after a 20 minute card journey. we come to a military roadblock. from this point on we have to fill in secret. i'm taking to tour it to the hotel id and reservation details. what name? pay me? where are they from? when france so relevant to them, not to kicking. how pay to spell it through me when now on land with
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a 10 refugees in the camps used to live? the army has put up barracks to house that soldiers. mm. and in the middle of the complex, facing out on top beach, we reached the hotel, will be booked room. me at the clock at the entrance tells us in 2010 just after the war ended. the hotel was opened by none other than the armies top commander. and it soon becomes clear why the on the arrival form, we have to fill out. there's a list offering preferential right to function for the best, and that means is for your military with everybody. mediators. this man in civilian clothing
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is sergeant major and the sri lankan army. the employees who are with him are also soldiers, including the 2 women. we bring up the subject of the temple refugee camps. before yesterday i met the guy in law and say me, he lives in the refugee camp before the civil war. he lives here in the north, in the se actually reserve his records have never persist. let me before the wise family lived there and now he lives in the refrigerator campaign he does. he doesn't come back. he never liver ever with an awkward laugh. the soldier receptionist categorically deny the existence of
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the camps that we visited. only a few days ago. the once the war ended, the military talk brought to fight to exploit the land for their own benefit and built this hotel complex with the stunning ocean view. as far as army personnel are concerned, it's simple. the soldiers who will mobilize to combat the guerrillas full relocated to the hotel. a new business concept was board military results. the hotel doesn't attract many western tourists, which isn't surprising. fod, there's no one in the pool. in fact, the was his duty and the law for poorly maintained. the whole thing feels like what is essentially is a barracks rather than the hotel for holiday makers. it's mainly used by families visiting soldiers who are still occupying the region. we decided to take
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a walk along the beach. the don't get very far going to the beach, run off. a soldier in uniform calls a span. does this place you? yeah. okay, i don't know if area. no, this is rudy. i'm leaving the hotel without authorization is prohibited. this is a strictly guarded environment. nonetheless, military hotels, extremely popular sri lanka, ministry of defense is in fact the number one her till group in the country. and n g o has identified 17 other resorts owned by the army. most of them are in the north, on land belonged to the camel's. the aim to take advantage of the
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country's tourism. and more importantly, to re deploy some of the 150000 soldiers, the mob since the end of the war. these military commercial ventures on time land are a controversial issue and true lanka. in 2015, the president himself asked the army to give the land back to the local population . since then, the ministry of defense has returned a poultry to square kilometer of territory. the north, the sri lanka represents a golden financial, but unity to develop the countries tourism industry. the region both endless stretches of to should beaches. the problem is that when they do decline, the soldiers leave behind areas that are among the most dangers in the world. it's 6 am at 100 also temples of life by truck
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for the last 5 years. this is helping hands has been doing baby to clear the land of unexploded munitions under the management of a bush in g o. s me again. so i'm heading up, the team is head come a fishing 9 year old said as you everybody know, a lot of them that you do the job all the yesterday. you have found 121 mind in all minds you into like the one that i did during the war. these temp civilians cleared up the army combatants today, they're also the ones reading the homeland of land mine. but remember, safety 1st is a very, very dangerous job,
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and we have to keep roads and we have to maintain discipline. otherwise things get out. we don't want to make ready for it. it has years of experience cleaning form or conflict zones. but the type of work he's doing here in tree lanka is like nothing he's ever seen before. i thought it was working, convert him. iraq. troy was a big one group, one of the most my fields in the, in the world. we found here we've cleared here nearly 20000000 square meters since 2002 halo operating on this country, me to 100000 minds have already been destroyed. but there remains a huge precautions are essential for the rest of the team. he domes a protective theft ready to go to the my village and
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a protective plexiglass visor from here on there's no deviation from the set off. this is unclear there, so just please do not close the rest. and just please just follow me. this is, went outside, is learn to fully appreciate the term mine field. the area is cleared by hand, inch by inch. how many my minds of them and as you see the minds laid very, very good. and this is a mind like all the yellow indicates of the mind for me and there are a yellow markers as far as the i can see the entire field. oh, give you an idea. the intensity. if it is still a lot of work to to the next mine is really far away. some easy to support those
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another mind just for the son to one day, one there to flush its amount of pressure on the detonator could take the mind clear is laid off, but most of the devices are buried several centimeters under the surface. and as such, they are invisible to locate them. experts like the show have to exercise extreme caution. keeping enters to avoid coming to contact the didn't a vicious starts from underneath, crunching dignity to the surface. the mind he on the left is only a few centimeters away from her pickax. didn't i just visible about the sand? she now has to remove the mind. it's a delicate operation. one wrong move could set off an explanation
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table. i can't go any further. i do dangerous. since the beginning of clearing campaign to sri lankan have lost their lives for this high risk job, the vision is paid 160 years. stay back in order to have maximum used to pay hands. supervisor works without clubs. the only tool she does now is a hook clearing away. the sand requires the utmost concentration. you still have to be careful at this point throughout the entire operation. the team leader has shown immense precision and skill. now it's in the box. the danger is over. these minds were planted by the army in order to stop the time of rebels from advancing during the war of today
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it's the camel come of risking their lives while the senior lead soldiers then taking the explosives. hi hi. how are you? ready for bank every day the army comes by to destroy any devices that have been found. i think. why do you insist on destroying the minds yourself in a way it forces i'm, i'm not trying to own the army as authorized to designate these in that i didn't get no one else. so the army doesn't trust the terminals. you're asking too much. that's exactly that is it's clearly a sensitive issue. it's out of the question that these minds full of explosives would end up in the hands of the camels. why? why did she strip of
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land dotted with mines in the gateway 2 highly tricia territory, which is also why the tunnels are taking such great risks to clear it they hope to attract tourists to the area with its unspoken nature, including lakes lagoons and a little further on a long, sandy beach, very good sense or the very, very clean water and pretty much leather. and you may have that potential for thursday. in a few years time, holiday makers may start frequenting these speeches. in the meantime, it's south of the country that's completely untouched. by the war that's profiting from to is the central sri lanka is covered in which they taishan. and there are
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plenty p meek, fonts for foreign visitors to discover here, such as this statue overlooking the city of candy. but the biggest trough to the animals this group of 6 to got up to me this morning. getting ready for a once in a lifetime, 2 week trip through the sri lankan countryside. the all inclusive package cost $1500.00 euros. 60 year old veronique has saved up all year for her dream holiday. i don't know cuz we're off on safari and we really hope we'll see all the animals in our guidebook. so can you give me the 6 friends are about to enter the yard, a national park and h was known to have the biggest,
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let the population on the planet up we go cheap has cost them 25 euros per person. it must be one of the cheapest the far is in the world. we are thinking and they'll certainly get their money's worth mile for the camera. the reserve covers 800000 heck, there's a plant to, to get to see buffalo india and also exotic goods that can be found anywhere else in the home. but the animal everyone is here to see is lifted,
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the guides on the lookout while the french tourist getting impatient, fought after 6 hours of searching over there. what's that we need to be cats emerge. no, no. oh, leopards. very rare. also. although beautiful, they can only be found in 7 countries around the world. why millions were so incredibly lucky. nick and her friends chosen to cross the center of the country, accompanied by a french speaking god. it's a traditional trail on we'll we'll get on here that thursday in sri lanka,
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taking the train is an experience in itself. the me to train us a ride to work in a region that's about 2000 meters above sea level. it's main attractions of the t plantations. a legacy of british colonialism today, sri lanka is the world food because the producer of the india and china it's specialty, is the variety named after the british name for the island ceylon level to begin up with, you learn about the entire process. what is what we used to make tea for the young lead, just that there's no charge to visit the plantations. the french tourists are happy to go on a walk about,
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but they guide worried about the picture postcard image. the authorities want to convey, then stops the group of french tourists. on stop filming. that's not good for tv. let's get the wicker back. if you, all of a sudden the picture appears to be a far more central one pickers on the plantation or all time old women, they work 6 days a week. and here the work is done by hand don't fit. i'm so i mean women are paid kilo that might not seem very heavy with that. i imagine it must be quite difficult in field with the tricky slopes. how much keela you keep in her little the for euros says the god. and that's not the 120 kilos for norfolk you. thank you for. thank you to a hard work. the tickets and 20 years since the keeler barely 50
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years a month. it adds up to a cheap workforce into lanka. some 1000000 people look on the t plantations. he is 1st and foremost, the business. she likes the industry is deluge around 1000000000 years a year. since the end of the colonial period, the market has been controlled by private companies. a few kilometers further on, one of the companies put that he's on prominent display, guaranteeing the health, safety and well being if it's workers. but the truth is rather different. when a company into the tea industry, it buys hector of plantations and also all the people who work on
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the lani has been working on this plantation for 10 years. she's also tamela going didn't i became a picker because there is no other work here. i mean, i don't have a choice, i need to learn to be a what i have to do, but at least bonnie is now 30, like most of the peak as he, as she was born on this plantation. the t fields are world apart. in exchange the small salaries, the companies promised to house their employees and a contractually obliged to do sir. but as for what the company has actually given bonnie and the other pickers. slum, hidden away in the middle of the plantation. foreigners and not normally allowed him to enter. we spoke to this man. hello. he's the kind of workers' representative. let me
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show you the conditions we live in here. the around 20 families live here in region entry conditions. some don't even have running water. he shows his house the look, it's full of holes in the land. yeah, the company says it's a hand renovate the house because the plantation doesn't make enough money. in this village, everyone works at the tea company. the women pick the leaves and men like pad trump maintain the plantation. he's $35.00 and in charge of spraying the 2 plants
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moved to sign. the company has given him this container with no label federal only notice that he needs to mix with 3 pots. water from the river, he with no protection when he's working with the highly toxic chemical i have some gloves is already damaged. so no, i don't whether what kind of head room is criminally under a quit? his job is to spray the pesticide he's been working in constant contact with the chemical for 7 years now. health and have had a crazy doesn't where are you little but i can start blocking
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last month, his headaches. worse and. and she was unable to work. his absence from work cost him dearly. i only worked. the company paid me 1269 rupees up. he was only for 2 that's less than 8 euros for 2 days. there's no health insurance definitely could, but if you got ill because of this chemical and the company won't pay him and they always find someone else to do the work that the videos and cut in durham has little choice. he had to start working. he can to feed his family. in this village, the t workers seem to be left to provide for themselves. several days we tried to contact the plantations management to no avail. the office several kilometers away. behind this barbed wire fence.
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but some cheaper juices in sri lanka had made the will being if they work as a key element, their business use companies like vilma take at each of its plantations. it is built proper housing for speakers that don't earn any more than elsewhere. but ro, hand who is in charge of the plantation, has created an environment that is more comfortable for the workers facilities standardized. but we, we tried to help them by other means we tried to like the gardens, giving them the chickens, giving them what they can do. i'll be want to start another beta so that they can buy deck at len. keep that so that we will be collecting the milk and if you have a healthy workforce, you're definitely going to get a better and to make family life easier schools to be set up inside the
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the news . the, this is the, the news coming from the light from berlin, cause for sanctions against the officer is forcibly diverse a passenger jets, and the false pretenses miss orders. the plane to land alleging a bomb threats only to arrest are prominent opposition. activists on board. the incident is being lab as a hijacking, also coming up 14 people die in a cable call. crash in the italian of the tragedy happened close to the summit of the metro peak overlooking late measures.
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