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the me the news this is the w news alive from berlin, columbia, as president sans in the military. he says the troops will restore order after more people are killed overnighted anti government programs. it comes as his country marks one month since those demonstrations began. also on the program, france and germany pledge more than half a 1000000000 euros to help african nations ramp up. vaccinations in this fight against the krona virus, but they disagree on how to do it. and the us imposes sanctions unveiling for forcing
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a passenger plan to land in order to arrest the discipline on board. lucian leader, alexander lucas shank tells russian president it's a western plot to destabilize his country. ah and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. michael oak, who columbia is marking one months since a wave of deadly protests began. they started as an outcry against controversial tax reform, but soon turned into a national uprising against going poverty and inequality. weeks of negotiations to any unrest have failed to bear fruit, and the prospect of a peaceful solution seemed to slip even further. on friday, when president yvonne duke a announced he was deploying the military after more people died in demonstrations . from says tower above,
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the city of pope john like monuments to the resistance a month of protest was turned streets across the country into smouldering battles. gorse from what they see as their flight for justice is good, it was done. the deed is the message we want to deliver, is that we are tired of so much injustice from this corrupt government. of so much an equality. god love us, almost. we're not asking for any handouts. we're not asking them to give us anything, but we're only asking for an opportunity to grow for quality. not only for the rich, but also for the poor. you know, get to me. but the, the protest abruptly when president even to k, saw, to raise taxes to pay for the pandemic, the blowback forced him to kill the bill. what the outcry continued in outrage over the government handling over crisis. that's in unemployment double and inequality.
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search. the attempts to progress and to the stand off have so far pro futile according to official figures. more than 45 people have been killed. dozens more disappeared and thousands on both sides were injured. but human rights groups say the real toe is likely much higher. and it's only likely to get worse in the days ahead. on friday, the president duke said he's deploying the army to the epicenter of the unrest target, where at least 3 people were killed in the last 24 hours bulletin. to get a how to be absolutely clear gap out a few days. tonight, we begin the maximum deployment of military assistance in the city of things. yeah . and the department over by the cns, you know, of anarchy do not have a place in our country on our kia, not by next,
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the student we so face meeting with colombia, the vice president on friday, us secretary of state anthony blink and expressed his concern over the deepening crisis in the country backing the people's right to protest peacefully. for now though, the deadly cat and mouse game on the streets of columbia continues france and germany are promising to spend more than 500000000 euros to support vaccine production in africa. the european union also plans to deliver more than 100000000 doses of vaccines to the continent. this year. many african nations are struggling to secure vaccines on the global market. and south africa is entering a 3rd wave of infections or corresponding address increase reports from durban. it looks like the arrival of ahead of states, but it is actually just the delivery of $316.00 doses to an inoculation site and do
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have been hundreds of eligible senior citizens over the age of 60 have been waiting since morning. i'm not happy at all. it was because most of them has lost their lives, so they decided came here so they to get stuff needed for their to prevent it. i think we're all very excited about least getting into the into line yet and getting it been done with. and then we can get on with our lives again. less than 2 percent of south africans have received the depth so far, not even $1000000.00 people. many south africans are not happy about this low roll out of the vaccination program, but the government says they simply cannot get their supplies earlier because of the massive global demand. and also because many industrialized countries secured themselves huge quantities of vaccines, south africa has ordered 16 for 75 percent of its population, but only a fraction of that has arrived in the country. this is why french president demand
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with him. i clung and german health minister in span of visiting south africa to support technology transfer and the establishment of regional manufacturing centers . friends committed up to 500000000 euros. germany will invest up to 50000000. we have very keen to support and cooperate in this area with other countries around the world. we think it is very important that we can make it possible that everyone on the world that wants to be vaccinated can get vaccinated to be on the safe. when everyone is safe in south africa has been a leading voice, speaking out against lack of vaccine access for poor countries and demanding and intellectual property waiver for over 19 vaccine. and on this we are not going to retreat because for us to retreat means that we say our people's lives are not worth much the lives of people with a great deal. and we do this because we want to save our people's life. and we
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therefore wait to continue insisting that this wave i should be there so far, not a single vaccine is produced in south africa from scratch. only one covered 1916 as partly manufactured here, filled in vials and distribute it. experts say it will take a long time to create the necessary capacity time, but south africa doesn't have infection. rates have been increasing in the past days. the country is going into a 3rd wave, and people who are under the age of 60, still not sure when they will be able to get inoculated again, d w other increase, filed that report from south africa. he caught up with a german health minister, yet spun there to find out how germany plans to help france and germany flesh multi 1000000 euro supports for south africa to create local vaccine production capacity . can that still make impacts and the difference and the short $1.00 to $5.00, the current condemning yes can. and that must make a difference because you see
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a 99 percent of the vaccines used here in africa coming from outside from abroad. it's important to africa and we want to support for now for this point, the next iteration as well on mit and long term. we want to support south africa and africa as a whole to develop its own from a surgical industry. in this regard for vaccination production manufacturing bots, and that is actually what i discussed with president mccord and president mcroy last night during dinner as about a for research because we have so many neglected diseases. we have cobit 900. no, we need to focus at, but there are so many neglect infectious diseases, especially here in africa that need research to and then speed up of production. but isn't it rather long process? most experts, it will take months, possibly years until the capacity can be really set up and know how technology transfer can happen. definitely, it will take some time, some months,
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and that is already quick. but we have seen that that quick in this and make situation already with paste transfer. and that is why we'd actually count on voluntary partnership between pets and told us companies like biotech cubic from germany, us that actually willing, i know from them they want to cooperate. and we actually count on cooperation because that makes it easier if they're willing to re corporation. and then the test transfer, the cooperation between the experts. this test is much, much easier. and we do have companies here in south africa like as a bi awake that they actually do already meet the standards. aspen is producing already for the word market. for example, johnson johnson. and had chose its possible need some time, some months. but that still could make a big, big difference for this. one damage never got president once again during a visit for intellectual property waiver. and he says,
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this will make things faster. this will make the availability of vaccines in africa and even the french president, micron, also said the president, we're behind you on this idea why it's germany against the if you look at the go, what we're aiming for that is feeding up and actually making it possible in general, that there is manufacturing here in south africa and africa, and really to, to speed it up to really make a difference at not just the general debates. cooperation is the way because you know, this is about a very complex product to dive. the production of scenes is one of the most complex things in the world. and for that, you really need to know how you do. it's just the patient alone does not make the vaccine. and for that, the corporation is really essential. it's crucial. and i see that most of the companies that have developed a vaccine against 19 are really willing to cooperate with companies. for example,
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in south africa. and what we want to do was money with financial resources, but as the politically is to support this and to, to push them even to be foster. thank you very much. thank you. looking at some other world news. now, republicans in the us senate have blocked a bill that would have established a commission to investigate the assault on the capital. on january 6, only 6 republicans joined democrats in supporting the commission. others express fears the commission would become a political weapon against the 50 for the needs are. thousands have taken pardons for virginia's biggest protest in years to demand the resignation of conservative prime minister young as younger. they accuse him of using the grown of virus crisis to attack free media and damage democracy. lavinia is set to assume the presidency in july. the u. s. says it will re impose sanctions,
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unbelievers in response to last week's force, landing of a ryan air flight and the detention of an opposition blogger. the bite in administration is accusing, been scope using false pretenses to divert the plane. they loses authoritarian liter, alexander lucas shank says it's all a plot invented by the west to destabilize his country. that's what he told russian president vladimir putin when the pair met for talks on friday. the european union has already implemented sanctions in the wake of the incident. alexander lucas shanker has a briefcase full of documents for vladimir putin. so we'll go to, i'll show you what really happened with ryan air. it was an attempt to stir up trouble. they wanted a situation like last summer. lucas shank o paints the west as a common enemy, while putin says the 2 nations have come together from his message. russia stands
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with lucas shank. oh. even now, there were some issues in minsk. people are already feeling the effects of new sanctions imposed by the you. some bela ruffians hope the measures will have a positive impact was you know that, that those we are suffering of course, but the sanctions are deserved. we need help stopping this regime. and you asked me who's to blame? you know the answer. if i say it, i'll end up where everyone here goes when they speak the truth. speaking the truth, alexandra. so that's why her mother was arrested. she hadn't seen her in 5 months. but every day, she delivers groceries to the prison where she is being held. she has had no blue the. they have a dish, they're called the fish grave. it's a lump with fish heads and bone was sticking out. they bring one plate for everyone in the cell. the wall of her mother, the president of the minced press club,
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has been charged with avoiding taxes to mirror. not exact says that's just an excuse to lock up critical journalist for the last of august at the beloved psychiatric a last summer i was so happy i saw hundreds of thousands of fellow ruffians on the streets. and i know they're still out there. but it's not a sprint, and it's a marathon. we have to learn to conserve our strength name for it. but i haven't noticed it at bremond protests of which a prominent dissident and bella ruth was taken off the ryan airplane in minsk and arrested along with his girlfriend. sophia pago, a russian citizen, bella, mercy, and authorities released a video of her claiming to show a confession. but her mother says she could hardly recognize her. she's lucca boone . my daughter isn't a k g b jail in minsk. i'm asking the whole world to help my girl get her freedom
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back because it's a common fate in bella. bruce, desperate families fighting for their loved ones and looking to the west, not to russia for help. coming up next documentary series, dont film goes just re blanca for look at the dark side of paradise watching dw ah, what people have to say to me, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. ah. the
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sri lanka is a country still recovering 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 tis of lush vegetation plainly comprising t plantations, the legacy of the push colonial erupt. this is where the world renounced on t is ground of speaker attraction for tourists of the nature presents, which are home to some of the planets rarest creatures. in before the corona virus pandemic, the island nation, the cost for foreign tourists attracted by the low prices and the 1300 kilometers the 15 beaches. but the reality behind this post comp, paradise is the list because you want st. icons face discrimination in their own
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country with a drawing number of establishments now reserved for florida's only allowed to get insights. we also visit the north of the country. an area traditionally out of town for tourists choose the devastation of the civil war and the hundreds of thousands of landlords. the still have to be cleared. fishing areas remain listed with unexploded ordnance. well, there, i can't go any further into dangerous ensuring that to do come back here means securing plant joining the beaches. the tourism has become a vital source of income for the country. and among the parties wanting their piece of the pie, some you might not expect id and reservation details in the north with a timely manner. she constitute the majority of the population. the army seems only
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present. some villages have been requisitioned in order to develop an unconventional business model. sri lanka has around 25 hotels while the military. isn't it strange for the army to do this kind of business, say with autism meeting and community life. we looked at side of sri lanka, the get to see this is a high security zone. 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. but yeah, it's never easy to find out where it is. you got to earn your evening pine at noon . she was
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a simply follow to music. today the tourist will be spending the evening at this guest pounds. 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 give towns, owners to boost their income in a good month. they can make 5000 euros chess from party. the that's a lot of money here. the average monthly salary and sri lanka is $250.00 euros and the party host could earn a lot more if it weren't for the regular mishap. the ah,
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the frequent power outages, the guy there's no energy to fit everything was going so well until the power good. 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. is the outage last too long? so have to cut the evening. sure. yeah, the now me,
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the, tonight, these revellers won't be back at the hotel until the early hours. but in sri lanka, not everyone is in the mood for partying. ah, the for the pandemic business was booming industry lincoln terrace sector in 2019. it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holiday makers. it's one of the country's biggest income owners. but it's a development that has seen the emergence of some controversial practices. chunky is 26 years old, is asserting instructor. but for the last 2 years, he's been unable to mingle free with tourists after work. because the certain guest house owners, local and not welcome the days not allowed to get inside the book and come here. and again, they have sophia and those in congo instead of
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a inside. 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 therefore modal here. there's a red flag because i do enjoyed, 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 is kind of segregation is less will know, face to sure, lanka some establishment has found other methods that are barely less conspicuous to stop sri lankan joining the party by targeting the
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woman. the people on his way to popular club entry appears to be free for tourists. at least the few bounces on the door with keeping sri lanka, guess to a minimum the and those locals who do pay for the privilege of getting in also have to wait a great wristband on like the tourists. how many? 9. 30 could smile. because to south peace is the equivalent of 12 euros a sizable firm. given that the average monthly salary entry link is 250 years. as a result, pushes p like in to make it through the door is called the club guest,
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don't seem to bolted. even the sri lankan who had to pay to get in no todd in many, many months i the social club owners have introduced the measures 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 the destination. we now take the north to the part of the island less frequented by tourists and what's happening there doesn't reflect well, i'm sure like either 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 passed an army checkpoint martinez tort
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internal border where entering a different country, a different sri lanka. the population in this area is mainly tamela. most of them hindus currently live under government military control. the ideal landscape is increasingly blemished by houses in ruins. if the 1st time our driver has been to this area for several years, was that owning any day that things shooting and something that the, the reason nobody's come displays us is vanya. for decades, if not longer to communities have been in conflict with each other, ensure lanka, 15000000 buddhist dinner lays who have governed the country since the end of
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british colonial rule and 3000000 hindu temps. who live principally in the north of the country and who have been seeking independence in 2009 after 25 civil war with the tamil tigers, could really group the government in columbus made of radical decisions to effectively carpet on the north of the country. within just a few weeks, an 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 unaccounted for. the un has repeatedly demanded an investigation into war crimes. today,
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entire communities have been wiped off the map. ghost villages when no tourists ever venture. how's? during the void was totally demolished and i have the gunfire. prim is a journalist from the time will community. he's been investigating the tax on the people living in the mall of the island here. soldiers open fire on houses and civilians at point blank range. if if the hall it's a bullet hall you see everywhere, leave there the hours and hours by the government. no fires on but then never kept me than the bomb than shoulder where the people who live in the very act
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today it's religious, but deserted. most of its inhabitants died during the attack. only the most fortunate survived, like this man. for present these witness accounts are essential for proving the armies involvement in war crimes and freedom that when we tried to shelter in our houses. but the shells kept falling and killed everyone inside one entire families were killed in an instant. and none of them in the investigation is practically impossible. deals is the area has been filled or for years. in jefferson as a temp cultural capital, government soldiers a visible on every street corner. this is the sri lanka, the 2 cities. it until 2010 was close to foreigners in an area cut off from the rest of the country. through little the newspaper
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print works for has never stopped printing. this openly, pro, terminal publication has however, paid a bloody price for its political leanings. and i go to learning incidents on them. and now i need to, you know, can be so that we actually been here in a one of the rooms, stupid evidence of divine reprisals. the prim colleagues subject to a shot each and every minute in 2006, 7 in the office killing to campbell employees and the nightmare. and they after that, build $1011.00 our news, $80.00. i fact, the threats haven't stopped to see end of the pool prim blaine's the fear of
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intimidation and pro on the militia that so much of human rights violations and human rights abuse of happening in, not by mystery and other pulses. and we are bringing out that information so the people who are in the power doesn't like us despite the threats. prim has no intention of giving up the case he is currently investigating is a particularly sensitive on state scandal involving the army. camps from these voluntary during the war, 300014 the giants were forcibly displaced by the army. now refugees in their own country, they were split up and sent to 67 different tabs. $4000.00 of them, including hundreds of children, still living in this one in utter destitution. their homes was
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a made out of corrugated sheet metal and old dry sex. these other was forgotten, people now deemed undesirable. pooley and buckets to make shift shower for the 350 families who live in his camp. ah, why let the prison approaches an elderly woman. questions? i villa, 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 25 years. leaving him in 99 the big display from could you her? why she's here who just came. i can't go back. we're not allowed to
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leave only 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 little money. and i thought the money but it was, it was around here. you know, just there. i remember there was that road to the side this huge green zone on the map does not represent a spalding green forest. another high regard is on the land, all lands keeping by me make and i'm in building 24 square kilometers of coastline on the army control. during the war, the military place troops had stopped camel guerrillas receiving weapons from india
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. the territory confiscated by the government has never been given back to the terminal population. and government soldiers have even decided to make money from this land that isn't theirs via some more unusual business model. i'll request to film here when i'm in that by the army without official authorization, it's impossible to pass the barriers placed around this high security area. but we found a way to enter incognito me. after a little research from the internet. we discovered a hotel that has been set up in the middle of the army control done me from the outside. it was like a classic resort. there's a swimming pool that the access to the beach we decided to try our luck.
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hello. i go to booking. they have rooms available. we book to let them. okay, thank you very much. by booking a room, we now have 24 hours of authorized access entering the security zone means being checked. an id after a 20 minute card journey. we come to a military roadblock. me from this point on we have to fill in secret. i'm taking to tourists to the hotel id and reservation details. what name? pay me. where are they from? when france to them to kicking out papers, philip is through me. when now on land with a 10 refugees in the camps used to live. the army has put up barracks to house that soldiers me and in the middle of the
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complex, facing out on to a beach, we reached the hotel, will be the book to ruin me. as a 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 then i'll come from your meeting with everybody. maybe there's this man in civilian clothing as a sergeant major and the sri lankan army. the employees who are with him are also soldiers,
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including the 2 women. we bring up the subject of the table refugee camps. before yesterday i met the guy in law and say me, he lives in the refugee scamp before the civil war, he lives here in the north, in the say, actually over the reserve refugee camps. no, no, i have never persist. let me before the wife family lived there. and now we lived in the refrigerator campaign. it does, it doesn't come back. never, never, ever with an awkward loss. the soldier reception is categorically, deny the existence of the camps that we visited only a few days ago. the once the war ended,
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the military talk brought to fight to exploit the land for their own benefit and built this hotel complex with a stunning ocean view. as far as army personally concerned its simple, the soldiers who were mobilized to combat the grill as relocated to the hotel. a new business concept was bored. military results the hotel doesn't detract many western tourists which isn't surprising. outside, there's no one in the pool. in fact, the waters does, he and the law supposedly 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 was still occupying the region. we decided to take a walk along the beach, but don't get very far. going
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to the beach. a soldier in uniform calls back to this place. 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 guard 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 results owned by the army. most of them are in the north, on land belongs to the camel's. the aim to take advantage of the country's tourism. and more importantly to redeploy some of the 150000 soldiers di marks since the end of the war. these military commercial ventures on
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time, a land, or a controversial issue in sri lanka, in 2015. the president himself asked me to give the land back to the local population. since then, the ministry of defense has returned a poultry to square kilometers of territory. the north, the sri lanka represents the golden financial opportunity to develop the country's tourism industry. the region both endless stretches of deserted beaches. the problem is that when they do depart, 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 for the last 5 years. this is helping hands has been doing baby to clear the land of an exploded munitions under the management of the bush in g o. s. and then
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i'm heading up, the team is hell come assist you 9 year old said as you everybody know a lot of them that you do the job all the yesterday. you have found $121.00 minus in all minds you into, into like during the war these temples to be ins cleared up after army combatants. today, they're also the ones reading the homeland of land mine. but remember, safety 1st is a very, very dangerous job, and we have to keep roads and we have to maintain discipline. otherwise things get out. we don't want to make ready. it has years of experience cleaning
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form, a concept zones. but the type of work he's doing here in tree lanka is like nothing he's ever seen before. i started working, convert him. iraq to way was a big learn 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 payloads operating in this country. 200000 minds have already been destroyed. there remains a huge number still to be cleared. today he's one of the most important thoughts, a strip of land covering civil square kilometers right on the coast. the precautions are essential. like the rest of the team, he does a protective best. the 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 path . this is unclear, there are so just please do not cause the read take. and just please just follow me . this is where outside is learn to fully shade the term mine field. the area is clear by hand, inch by inch. many my minds of them as you see the minds all a very, very good. this is a mind, like all the yellow indicates is a mind for me and there are a yellow markers as far as the i can see the entire field. oh, give you an idea of the intensity of from a lot of work to to the next mine is really far away. some easy to suppose. another
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mind just for the sunny to one, there was there to fly. just amount of pressure on the designated could take the mind clear lake off the 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 in mind, to avoid coming into contact with the didn't nascent, vicious, starts from underneath, gradually digging up to the terraces. mine he, on the left, is only a few centimeters away from her pickax. didn't asia is just visible about the sand. she now has to renew the mind. it's a delicate operation. one wrong move could set off an explanation. save
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or i can't go any further dangerous. since the beginning of the mind clearing campaign to sri lankan have lost their lives for this high risk job vision is paid 160 years. stay back in order to have maximum used of her hand. supervisor worked without gloves. the only tool she used is 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 within the box, the danger is over. these minds were planted by the army in order to stop the time rebels from advancing during the war. many of the today,
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it's the camels who risking their lives while the sin least soldiers then taking up the explosives. i. 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 honored in trying to own the army as authorized to designate these and then i didn't get no one else. so the army doesn't trust the terminals. you're asking too much. that's exactly the it's clearly a sensitive issue. it's out of the question that these minds full of explosives would end up in the camels. why? why is she strip of
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land dotted with mines? is the gateway to highly tricia territory, which is also why the titles are taking such great risks to clear it they hope to attract tourists to the area with its unspoiled nature, including lakes lagoons and a little further on a long, sandy beach. very good sense. the very, very clean water is pretty much leather and you may have that potential for thursday. in a few years time, holiday makers may start frequenting these beaches. in the meantime, it's south of the country that's completely untouched by the war that's profiting from tourism potential. sri lanka is covered in which vegetation and there are
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plenty of unique firms farm visitors to discover here, such as this put a statue overlooking the city of candy. but the biggest room for the animals this because the fixtures got up to me this morning. delivery actually getting ready for a once in a lifetime. 2 week trips with the sri lankan country side the all inclusive package cost 1500 euros. 60 year old veronique has saved up all year for her dream holiday. hello. don't cuz we're off on safari and we really hope we'll see all the animals in our guidebook and kill me. 6 friends are about to enter the jala national park and they theresa known to
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have the biggest leper population on the planet. we go. gee trip has cost them $25.00 euros per person. it must be one of the cheapest the far is in the world. we're thinking and they'll certainly get their money's with truly mile for the camera. the reserve covered 800000 heck days of land. the to get to see buffalo india and also exhorted goods that can't be found anywhere else in this home. but the animal everyone is here to see is a leopard. the guides are on the lookout while the french tourist getting impatient,
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fought after 6 hours of searching over there. what's that? why don't we leave? the big cats emerge. no no. oh, leopard, a very rare. also full of uniform. they can only be found in 7 countries around the world. why millions were so incredibly lucky and her friends chosen to cross the center of the country, accompanied by a french speaking god. it's a traditional trail. the law will get on here that 3rd entry lanka taking the train is an experience in itself.
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the train has a ride to work in a region that's about 2000 meters above sea level. it's main attractions of the t plantations and legacy of british colonialism. today, sri lanka is the world 3rd because the producer of the india and china it's specialty, is the variety named after the british name for the island. because it's still on a level to figure out what you learn about the entire process, what it is, what we use to make tea. what is it? the young lady just said there's no charge to visit the plantations. the french tourists are happy to go on a walk about, but they guide worried about the picture postcard image. the authorities want to
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convey, then stops the group of french tourists thought. hang on, stop filming. that's not good for tv. let's get the wicker basket. and all of a sudden the picture appears to be a family centric one from the pictures 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. come march kayla. but you can do it in capital a little the for euros says the guys. and that's not the 120 kilos for norfolk you . thank you for your hard work to pick it in 20
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years since the keeler barely 50 years a month. it adds up to a cheap workforce into lanka. some 1000000 people work on the t plantations. he is 1st and foremost the business she likes the industry is valued as 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 values 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 industry, it buys hector of plantations and also all the people who work on them.
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the launch has been working on this plantation for 10 years. she's also tunneled during the i became a picker because there is no other work here. let me i don't have a choice to be. it's what i have to do that i'm lazy. bonnie is now 30, like most of the peak is here. she was born on this plantation. city fields are world apart. in exchange the small salaries, the companies promised to house their employees and a contractually obliged to do so. 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 will not 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 shows in his house. the news is look, it's full of holes grounds and some one. yeah. the company says it 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 pet drum, maintain the plantation. he's $35.00 and in charge of spraying the t plants.
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mother moved aside in the company has given him this container with no label. headroom only knows that he needs to mix with 3 parts water from the river. he was no protection when he's working with the highly toxic chemical i have some gland about the damaged. so now i don't like 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. and i often have had a crazy doesn't that were you know, a little but i can't stop walking last month. his headaches worsened and she was
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unable to work. his absence from work caught him dearly. i only worked a company paid me $1269.00 rupees up with us only for 2 that's less than 8 euros for 2 days. one, i think there's no health insurance definitely could. but if he got ill because of his chemical and the company won't pay him, and they always find someone else to do the work at the videos and cut and durham had little choice. he had to start working again to feed his family. in this village, the t workers seemed to be left to provide for themselves. several days we tried to contact the plantations management to no avail. the office is several kilometers away. behind this water fence
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ah, but some t produces in sri lanka had made the will being at their work as a key element. their business companies like bill marquee at each of the plantations, 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, the felonies standardized. but we, we tried to help them. by all means, we tried to like the gardens, giving them the chickens, giving them. i can do it, i'll be want to start another baby farms so that they can buy land keeping that so that be 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. how school would be set up in for at the
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plantation to ensure the children getting education here at least so long. that famous symbol of sri lanka does not leave the bitter aftertaste. the the the international i've seen has been eagerly waiting for this new contemporary collection. pino museum, ah, a forgotten jim is really as a modern temple of art. ah, your romance ah. 30 minutes on the w.
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