is credibility, who has to stand by the statements it's president makes the most i have to admit, i don't feel about the case. so i find it hard to offer my support. mindful, infantile, may not be flavor of the month in europe, but his huge popularity among the majority of 5211 members means his re election as president is likely to be a formality. coming up next, our doc films series this time mozambique and land of treasures and tamela as more news and d, w dot com and our social media handles as well. actually, don't be nice to hear laddie book, thanks for being with us. and we're interested in the global economy, our portfolio d w business. beyond here, the closer look at the project,

our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance. get us to the head with d w. business beyond ah, ah christian sandy beaches as far as the i can see stretching for hundreds of kilometers. 10 years ago a french couple decided to make this seemingly boundless coastal paradise. their home, denny and sabrina, run a hotel and diving club in the town for lank los. today they're expecting a group of tourists who want to make a trip to the c, as, as we are the of a process. when is it ever, it would be a one our boat journey to the islands where we'll do 2 dives and have lunch on back

a router. so it's lovely out there, as always, will be doing our best to enjoy. everyone has a fantastic time. that's our johnson. we'll do today's customers of french, but live in south africa at high tide. the boats in the open sea, just a few steps down from the diving club. ah ah, the bazaar rousseau archipelago was located practically on the doorstep of the hotel . the waters offer an extraordinary underwater will to delve into no food on receiving. there's a hole in the reef right here. it's like a world pool for sharks. if we're lucky, we'll see sour. oh my god, why visitors can look forward to an abundance of sea life. 3 quarters of all species in the

indian ocean are found here. divers come from all over the world to excuse these reefs and experienced the thrills that await them. and they are in d need. lucky. as the shocks make an appearance, the resolution islands have been designated to a nature park, a refuge untouched by mass tourism business. welcome to buzzer router. the crystal clear waters a perfect for a snow cling workshop. in the meantime, denise shows us the place where his adventure began. this is where he 1st fell in love with mozambique, its beauty and untamed nature. ah, in the top of the juno offers a breast taking view. ah, zach de leon,

ready to die for? isn't it glorious for, it's just dizzying and makes you want to jump in your more dogs within a c c back than i immediately caught my eye on an sadder when moving to mozambique . wait till you see it rightly bye. i bet you've never seen anything like it in your life. well, i haven't love at 1st sight for country that unfortunately does not just comprise these kinds of images. mozambique has a turbulent history, a country with its fair share of tragic episodes, and more recently haunted once again by this spectre of conflict. mozambique has a coastline stretching 2 and a half 1000 kilometers, and a population of over 30000000 people. the national flag is adorned with a symbol of the countries trouble history, a kalashnikov rifle, mozambique for a long war of liberation against the colonial power,

portugal finally gaining independence in 1975 after communist to power, a bloody civil war ensued exacerbation by proxy cold war politics nearly 1000000 people had died by the time the peace agreement was finally reached in 1992 . most em beacons thought who was behind them, but in recent years, civilians in the north of the country have faced a new deadly threat. gee, had his groups in this predominantly muslim region, pledged allegiance to the self styled islamic state law and with support from a bruise, a few 1000 fighters of terrorized and intimidated the population next time will spare? no one. not a single trial, wilburn everything down. yeah. ah, the insurgency has close at the 3000 lies and seen the displacement of 800000

people. for more than a year, refugees have been living in camps under desperate conditions. one of the most combat hardened armies in africa has been called in to help. the rwandan military, within a few weeks they succeeded in recapturing that she had a strong holds. but the piece remains a fragile one. movement of the enemy has consolidated their farther north. our goal is to occupy the area where most of their attacks are coming from them. it's a conflict filled by poverty, injustice, and corruption. mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, but it is home to a variety of riches, portuguese colonial rule, left impressive visual heritage, jewels of colonial architecture that have been declared world heritage science. natural gas is another of the country's treasures. huge reserves have been

discovered in the north, but the threat opposed by the jihadists has brought various projects to a stand still like this one run by french company total energies. mozambique is also a center of gemstone mining exclusive footage of the world's larger ruby mine. in the grin that is a ruby's also hundreds of tons of earth carefully filtered here every day. at the end of the production line, these little treasures refined the bigger, more valuable pieces, rubies gas, ideally beaches and jihad. our investigative journey shows a country blessed by natural assets and cursed by armed conflict. for years cobbled delgado province in the north eastern corner of the country has been devastated by the local arm of ins. rather special flight would be taking off today from the provincial capital pembroke. florian maria works for the united nations development program or

u. n. d p. he's needed to make exact preparations for his trip to modern board prior a former i s stronghold. although the town is only 350 kilometers away, traveling there by car is not possible because the roads are still too dangerous. but we shall not think the bullet. why not? because and finally i represent accompanying furinora engineers who will assess the extent of the damage and the work to be done. they're traveling with the charted private plane on what would be the 1st visit to the region by you in agency. phillip corner of this is our 1st evaluation mission in this area with us insulin. why? it's a particular interest to us because up to 3 weeks ago we had no access, young core core that's now changed to have got to get there right away and up the net. alexa, when you got to sleep,

it's been heavily impacted. it's being completely destroyed like which we know from photos and i witnessed the cow as it had been 142 year old. swiss national is well acquainted with warsaw following assignments in somalia and chad. he's now responsible for all the conflict ravaged area of northern mozambique. it is just 2 to arriving missing by the player. the cat is waiting for us and her very carol, of infested tra, is waiting for us as well. oh, yes. oh no, no. it's not there, i don't think any she ever please. okay. final briefing before heading out on a delicate mission floria. maria is eager to see the region despite the danger

i met with we've been trying to arrange in on the ground visit for 2 months now. so i'm looking forward to finally getting down to what i did come up with them. it's only a 55 minute flight to the team's destination with the runway was repaired and reopened. just recently, the visit is scheduled to last just a few hours. for security reasons, the visitors will be escorted by soldiers or is it you? are you agree with us or has yeah. okay. okay. let's go with me and go and gun. the gun. the scale of the destruction is evident as soon as they leave the airport,

just as florrie all had feared. after being targeted by the jihadists, most in border player has become a ghost town hall . i saw it before blue. we were expecting this level of destruction. there's nobody on the straits now that the military has cleared the zone and introduced a bit of security. it's important that we take action and help the civilian authorities to reorganize all critic or more that the with in a task of daunting proportions awaits florio. with so much rebuilding to be done with the mob

or safety of the defeat them with the blood. the choir were here in the provincial capital of most in bo, prior, outside the office of the regional administrator. it is signal for an entire year, i as imposed its brutal rule here. the entire provincial administration fled when the town was overrun. now they welcome florian and his team. where was your own office? with the u. n. d p. engineers quickly go to work, commit the rumble. the goal is to restore the buildings destroyed by that she had asked as quickly as possible. here the young islamist middleton's a cold al chabad, local arabic for youth. awe in august 2020, around a 1000 chabad fighters conquered the city. after

a 5 day long battle. allied with bias, the ship babs took control of all official buildings and seized part of the weapons arsenal of the defeated mozambique an army. wow. over the course of the year that she had a street havoc on the abandoned port city, some 120000 civilians fled with the help of her london soldiers. the town was recaptured in august 2021. after being else, did the militants scattered in all directions ah, 5 months later time seems to have stood still in ma symbol to prior. the city is still badly damaged. despite the large military presence, the city is deserted, its citizens have yet to return. there are no services, no water,

and no electricity. the militants targeted all monuments and culturally symbolic buildings, including this church. mm. whether that is a bummer, that they have von boyer viji with a u. f. f b g advisory board and course the bid did just destroyed, i guess they destroyed everything and everyone in their wake them in the town hall of i could take them out what we're going inside to talk to the mac. if you see that he told me that he's living here again. miraculously, the mayor of must impose, survived the attack. he was the 1st to return, when a very few to have done so, 6 of his staff were killed by militants. he managed to escape in time,

but lost everything ah releases and didn't care when it's all very sad. the people have laughed and there's no life here any more job you to be taking care of the people in the city. and then everything was suddenly gone. his life has come to a standstill because the battle in order to restore a minimum level of public services here, florio believes the town home should be a priority event. them was a capital to happen. look it up at with the military on the ground where hoping people to resettle as quickly as possible. the military has secured the city. so now it's over to our city. they don't mental family. you're in a hurry, go by. yes, we don't have much time, but i got it up with the team, have no time to lose. i have a full schedule for their one day visit and sometimes they work is not made easy

for them. ah, this is a pretty fish and right? yes. okay, how many purpose of the service there are we expect to have hearing the bath wilkinson to the the cigarettes? unfortunately, we are not authorized to give you that information. a lot of them isn't amazing because it was tricky for us because we are the partners and sastrugi. i believe that by we reconnect. equipped, if we don't know the numbers of 1st on, so did them usual. we have every the, every well, okay, that's fine. we will give you 2 laptops and one cup because we don't know the number of person that was close it. it's a bit frustrating, but we always need approval from high and higher up because no one wants responsibility for sharing sensitive information myself. you know, you few hours flooring all, maria has gained a sense of what challenges lie head and what needs to be done. millions of euros will be required to bring more symbol at the prior back to life. florio has to raise the necessary funds and attract companies willing to work in a war zone. in the best case scenario,

he foresees months of construction work before residents are even able to return the 2 and a half 1000 kilometers away. in the south of mozambique lies the capital motto law . this burgeoning city of 1000000 people appears to be a world away to day mozambique is a democracy, but its communist era, past is evident everywhere with street names ranging from the former north korean leader to communism's intellectual father. the colonial history of the portuguese, who founded motto, has likewise been preserved as seen in the city hall and the railway station, or to dame. a ppo is the country's economic engine and showcase city. far away from the war zones, it attracts talent from all over the country. ricky, is he on fashion designer?

vessel he should you pay attention to the details which gives good. no one is very active, is there, okay. it just needs to be more in the night before coming to our window. i explored on our wasn't, it's rapidly looking for opportunities to lance, my friends in the and i ended up in love. 1 opportunity so we enter on creating my enter. vicki is part of the middle class in the porto who have a particular way of life. young urban martin. the very opposite. what the she bobs in the north sea to enforce them. today, the country is enjoying a period of respite from conflict with the g had us haven't been beaten back by the

intervention of the rwandan army. after previously carrying out other peacekeeping missions in africa, it offered to help the government in my portal, which was powerless to stop the threat. 2000 highly trained and well equipped soldiers were deployed to coupled to god or with a mission. the rwandan government house will give it political influence and economic benefits. a russian built in my 17 helicopter stands on the airfield in pembroke, ready for take off. it's headed for the conflict, ravage region in the north. when we were granted special permission to come on board and join up with rwandan troops already on the ground that will be less than an hour was flight moved to total city named after the french energy conglomerate that built the sprawling facility was evacuated when the jihadists attacked the 2 kilometer long runway is brand new and

extremely well protected for the companies facility is still intact, now served as a base camp for the real want an army drive? yes. the cars arrived in ambulance and and off road vehicle was a very big project. yes, a very big project. we had to secure the premises. the total energy is once had big plans here, very big plants. it invested 60000000000 euros in order to unlock the gas field, considered the most promising in africa. and yet, despite global demand being an unprecedented level since the war in ukraine,

everything is now shut down. in this state of the art plant, 5 trillion cubic meters, a gas a simply waiting to be extracted me for months. now london officers have been taking their meals in the company's canteen of the 3000 people who used to work at the size. only a handful remain there in charge of the plants maintenance and had a narrow escape from militants. when we come tools that to, to open in the, our mood when we came to start opening up the facility, we had problems with shabamo. sometimes we were working and then had to take our children and fleet or something. i think all a big of so i would go with the relative piece at the moment, is g to the rwandan armies presence, but not far away that she had a stain,

just still linens with a strong force. they were defeated in their main strongholds, but they've now rebuilt their forces. the terrorists have new tactics, i guess, and a mobile. now, do you find yourself with see, we cannot make the insurgents go away overnight days, i guess kind of were, we were wanting to reassure the population. the ones are active on all fronts that includes conducting regular police operations in compo delgado without it. but at the valet defeated electric, they are thieves who steal electrical wiring, bizarre, they break into homes, cut the power lines, remove the casing, and sell the metal will up without you a vocal candidate that we often arrest them to help the local police side. mr. brown for the law that when they see us, they run away. and in the way it is awfully. this one even left his motorcycle behind a death length on with the the cup,

a thief didn't get far on foot and was swiftly arrested by the real wanton soldiers . what was the commanding officer is the 5th to question him up? i've got everything. where are you from? from over there, from manguno, the one up. what are you transporting? other oper, java. where did you get up? they thought it's not mine. deonna is over that. what is that him? he's in can younger the by that with you said he's one about bring them all here. very good. no. anyway. hutchins hutchins, it down the men are turned over to the local police and the commander can now resume his patrol. in the 6 months have been here, the rwandan soldiers and police have acquired a nickname. they called my jesse my carly swahili for very strong

men. thanks to them. hope is re emerging in kabul. delgado for the peace remains uneasy. the withdrawal of the rwandan army is not expected any time soon. there is still several 100000 refugees in mozambique in the summer of 2020, at the height of that she had as defensive. around 800000 people left the north of the country. many fled by boat and landed on the beaches of pinball. ah, after the initial panic, the 1st refugee camps was set up. matuse became home to one of the largest in the country. to day it houses, 16000 people have been there for over

a year. with fellow mamma, al kesha and i shall work for a local india called adel. their assessment of the situation is simple as a shortage of everything here. it's not working go northern to local only here they need to walk a long long there's to have water. so the biggest issues yet is the food in the water, water and the health. yes and healthy. yes. obviously and health and was, i'm become and there you know that 3rd, this is a so complicated. so has, i'm from up would by they live my family, they had to come here to support the my people with them because people and people that the suffering a lot with these far from that she had a threat in the north. there is another mozambique that lives in peace.

e da mozambique is connected to the mainland by a 3 kilometer long single lane bridge. the island is the former capital and also a world heritage site. the old town has been sped from war and is an architectural treasure with its colonial villas and palaces from the portuguese era explorer of a school. the gama claimed the island for the portuguese in the late 15th century, and for a long time it remained a trading post on the route to india. abdulla how was he a works at the local museum and knows the history of his island inside and out. he was born here and his set himself the mission of preserving its unique cultural heritage. ah, the fortified church of san antoine built in the 16th century. ah,

all the imposing fortress of san sebastian, which withstood repeated attacks of the centuries. it's walls ensured that no army ever managed to take the idiot in mozambique the island gave the country it's name . this is a, according to the history this morning, meant a was important because the air was very, very important to the friend. did the island was the mozambique foster was here as a that he started say that was a big was born on the island. that's why this forty's, for me, is important for us. the most important of the content is very, very important to protect to this is i didn't for the future. inefficient still further south. we returned to the lung collapse with the french couple run the hotel,

the edge of these glorious speeches. mm. we made 2 fishermen whose daily life remains blissfully undisturbed. every day of the year they go out catching show fish using a traditional technique that's not without its houses. ah, it works best as if almost mounting a bay. but it's dangerous for your feet and hands. this for example, you can just find lying in the water. so you dance you way through the water. you can imagine what happens if you tread on one of these up what i would very, what do i do? measures i move my feet and dance a bit to feel what i'm stepping on. and also one hope is if i find anything i call out and been down to pick it up. and it didn't matter. i got, i don't know if we're gonna do soon enough that if it's payoff off to spend the

oni an hour in the water, a mondo and eladio have a very decent tool. collecting almost 40 kilograms of show fish. a now start cleaning, insulting them according to their market value. oysters are the most expensive muscles and clams are worth far less. again m m, my scar. don't pause. not a mile of brief jacket. dumbbell placed the leg i in law bundling no self study. we're happy with our work every day with a mando in eladio. now need to be on their way in order to sell. they catch the lung close is a small tourist town with $25000.00 inhabitants. so their main customers at beachside restaurants and hotels. on this day they've received an order from sabrina and denise the french hotel owners.

ah. oh really? well, that's all we thought with. okay. okay. or this evening we have a 13 or 14 people for dinner or kill choir. so i'll take 40. thank what info and how long have we been doing business with each other, amazon or 4 or 5 years long? was that right? you were just a little boy then or by 5. yes, i remember this is supposed to say we're actually are from is i think i've been working with him for 10 years. it was if i need something, i call him he's my shellfish supplier. yes. with wow,

a minute with december and january a high season in the hotel is fully booked in the south tourism is one of the country's most important industries. while up north mozambique has a very different source of income. oh this is monta pool is in the province of cobbled delgado home to one of the largest ruby mines in the world. roger puffer car from india is the chief engineer here. he's been at the side since money began here 11 years ago. today the mind produces a half the world's supply of rubies. this blue with is beginning remo. we started here in

2011 is where that's come up because i'm not coming in 10 minutes. i will come up with the signal is very strict without back garden, they will not allow c id cards. oh sure, bob have never made it this far. dozens of kilometers down a dark red dirt road. there's a huge open pit mine. it covers over $33000.00 hectares of land, an area 3 times the size of paris. along with rochester buffer car, there is 1600 employees here working to extract the local natural assets. so you can see this. students saw in between there is

a little bit also richest freebies. it's not our inside. this front is with dust once and this if you see this is a gravel road. so we're dec lake ha, madera, born up with our below. so you take everything everything. so that we should not miss anything in order not to overlook a single jim stone, nothing is left arm turned every day. hundreds of tons of earth are removed before being put through a lengthy processing operation. there are a series of security checks, even for the chief engineer. i feel for you we are in the long run for this is our brothers, blank tons of earth, a washed here with no end of water. preliminary sorting,

separates the stones by the end of the process. during calibration, the rubies emerge stringent requirements are in place for anyone wanting to even get close to them or their it doesn't have any walkerson in this market place, especially made one of us. yeah, already i think on the precious gems are locked away behind these armored secure. she doors the entrance to the inner sanctum. it looks more like a laboratory with no more mechanical equipment visible. everything here is done by hand and i

this is where edward from south africa comes in. his job is to oversee the classification of rupees, according to their quality, the size of a stone, it's shape. it's clarity and it's color. this is so kong is busier. um, he's busy grading, i was our secondary product. okay. so this is been way we'd find the bigger, more valuable pieces this stage here where we've, where we see the stock here. this should be almost ready to export. in other words, to exported. we get the government here, we get the cuff and customers, customs officials and everybody that comes together with him. we'll do our inspections here. we'll get all the necessary approvals. and from there we'll, you know, we are export process will take place on this table. i don't, i couldn't tell you the price i for you. that's difficult because everything's all over the place. no, no, there's not many. if not,

millions. edward does not wish to disclose any specifics, but the price of rubies has been rising sharply. the red gemstone is highly sought after in asia for a dish prover. com, the chief engineer. all the hard work at mine has more than paid off all processes that they run. oh, florida my knee then processing them, salt water. and then finally, this is the border for all we're doing for this and we're getting, this is very satisfying belief and everyone who is what it is i've been i've, i lose that if i am happy and excited, the person is a motorcycle revolving mother is getting in my, in the last 10 years, the minds,

british owner, jim feels his sold over 500000000 euros with of rubies all over the world of fortune that is tainted with a contentious reputation in mozambique. some people call them blood rubies. the want to prove, as mine is located in one of the poorest regence of the country, the discovery of rubies. unless to rush for the rate cold, people come in their thousands from across mozambique, even from neighboring countries to try their luck. in response, jim fields began enforcing its laws. some 7000 illegal prospectors were driven out by private security firms and local police with the methods employed were brutal as seen in this video forwarded by human rights activists. jim fields to the queues of violent attacks and even murder in 2019 the company agreed to pay nearly 7000000

euros to avert a class action lawsuit. today the mind is trying to rehabilitate its image among local people prior lead. kumar, seeing also from india, is the science general manager why? he also oversees the company's community project and is welcomed by local farmers as a benefactor. oh ruby, i shall be moved to, won't you, ruby, it's great that the mine is here. they are the ones who are helping us. they provide us with fertilizers, chemicals, and also tractors on from here. so without that, everything comes from the ruby mine. so we think it's really dirty. some movable. there are 7 villages located on the licensed mining area with various initiatives. the company is making a conspicuous effort to win favor with the residence. but nevertheless,

there is widespread hardship in the region and for many, the rubies of the hope of a bright future. there are a lot of illegal my minus in are only one if you this really is you can find when you little minus what info or definitely legal mining is. one of our very she, yes it was for us the when you find them all, say we are one of the signatories all fall replace it also humor that, that is the charter for human rights for you. and once we capture the minus, we immediately try to send them to the local police. but have times really changed . is the situation to day for the illegal will be minus 5 am the following day. we meet a group of illegal prospectors, a few kilometers from the mine they did away on the company's land. despite the ban .

a lot of people were off to walk, to dig. i so rarely were afraid of the guards. it's less risky. this early i would have been on foot, it takes only 10 minutes to reach a place of already scouted out on the edges of this poor mom. they start working as fast as they can, as soon as they arrive using the rudimentary tools at their disposal with this is taking way too long, passed me the. i mean, it's really difficult. you can use up 203040 or even a 100 bags and end up with nothing wants to agree to fill the cycle to they wash the content manually.

very crude method for filtering at any gemstones. then it's inspection time in the hopes of finding a ruby that quick harry up with the bias cheetos. so we don't know the prices. i mean, how much is a gram we don't know. so we accept the price, they give us a say. and today to their very wary at the company security guards, they cannot afford to be quarterly. so you don't, you live for one of your live buyers on their violent, they beat us, take away our equipment and put us in jail and we live up on like a day. i fall. i was a little for me. we're afraid where paul, even if we go to the mining company, they don't give us, was it?

that's why we're forced his deal with. but if it was available by them, after 15 minutes of work they returned home with the meager home. there they can inspect the stones again in the hope of striking red cold. yes. 2000 kilometers away from the hardship of cobble delgado. sabrina and denise daily life is shaped by the tides. for 10 years, the french couple have been basking in a feeling of freedom. from here, it's difficult to imagine conditions in the north of the country. said he, mister bailey gets it's hain't sir really negative and brutal picture of mozambique, but that's not what the country is like. it's a real shame to measure it was the theatre. if i see it probably is of civil war, have killed a 1000000 people and left the country drained. they don't want to fight again,

that's for sure. but unfortunately, there is only poverty applewood despite the great wealth present in this country, poverty still persists. under these circumstances, it's still a challenge for mozambique to finally enjoy some pace. ah, ah ah, artificial intelligence can be an engine for economic growth in the, in the, instead of corolla, a, i is creating new jobs, especially for women therapy,

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