an amendment call has used special constitutional power to push through a controversial pension reform. the unpopular move his back widespread protest and braces waits the bill of rights, the retirement age from 62 to 64. that's all for now. coming up. next we have a documentary film on mozambique landed treasures and terminal it's coming up after a short break break. gulf will be here at the top of the hour with another bullet. and don't forget this more news on the website at www dot com and on social's at day w needs to be held in building 3 company and stay with a new tag. a starts in germany, a d,

w. travel freely when i 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, what is it? however, it will be a one hour boat journey to the islands where we'll do to dive and have lunch on by the 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 issue archipelago is located practically on the doorstep of the hotel. the waters offer an extraordinary underwater will to delve into mad food on receiving. there's a hole in the reef right here. it's like a world pool for sharks, or if we're lucky, we'll see sour or by god. why you visitors can look forward to an abundance of sea life. 3 quarters of species in the

indian ocean are found here. divers come from all over the world to school these reese and experienced the thrills that await them and they are in d. it. lucky. as the shocks make an appearance, the resolution islands have been designated to a nature park, a refuge untouched by mass tourism. given us a welcome to buzzer router, he 1st fell in love with mozambique. it's beauty and untamed nature. ah, in the top of the june's offers a breathtaking view. ah, he sat dia, ready to die for, isn't it glorious for? it's just dizzying and makes you want to jump in. 2 more dogs are there? it's easy back van. i immediately called my on an santa when moving to mozambique.

wait till you see it was ron to buy. 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 his 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 troubled history, a kalashnikov rifle, mozambique for a long war of liberation against the colonial power, portugal finally gaining independence in 1975 after communist, who power a bloody civil war ensued, exacerbated by proxy cold war politics nearly 1000000 people had died by the time

a peace agreement was finally reached in 1992 mozambie cans thought who was behind . but in recent years, civilians in the north of the country have faced a new deadly threat. jihad as groups in this predominantly muslim region, pledged allegiance to the self starved islamic state law and with support from abroad, a few 1000 fighters of terrorized and intimidated the population next time will spare. no one. not a single trial. willburn everything down. ah, the insurgency has cost i for 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 the 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 an 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 by this one run by french company total energies. mozambique is also a center of jim stone mining exclusive footage of the world's largest ruby mine,

or in the grin. there is a little result. hundreds of tons of earth carefully filtered here every day. at the end of the production line, these little precious, we'd find 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 conflicts for years. combo delgado province in the north eastern corner of the country has been devastated by the local olive ins rather special flight. we'll be taking off today from the provincial capital pembroke. florian maria worked for the united nations development program or u. n. d p. he's needed to make exact preparations for his trip to modern board a 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 pick the bullet. why look and find a webpage accompanying florian 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 will be the 1st visit to the region by you and agency . phillip honda of this is our 1st evaluation mission in this area and i said one way is of particular interest to us because up to 3 weeks ago we had no access. young god that's now changed. so we've got to get there right away and up the net. alexa, when you got to sleep, it's been heavily impacted. it's been 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 wars dogs following assignments in somalia and chad. he's now

responsible for all the conflict ravaged area of northern mozambique. it is just who to arriving missing by the player, the cat is waiting for us and her director of interested teacher is waiting for us as well. oh, yes. oh no. no, it's not there. i will put any she invitation. okay. final briefing before heading out on a delicate mission floria. maria is eager to see the region despite the danger i thought that it was best we've been trying to arrange in on the grand visit for 2 months now. so i'm looking forward to finally getting down to work on it, but mostly like time

funniest is she 5 minute flight to the teams destination with a runway was repaired and reopen. 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 are going to visit with us? yeah. okay. okay. uh 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 board a player has become a ghost town. also,

i saw the board room. we were expecting this level of destruction, so there's nobody on the streets on it 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 critical more that the with in a task of daunting proportions awaits florio. with so much rebuilding to be done with the mob or safety that the think them with why the choir were here in the provincial capital of both in bo prior. outside the office of the regional administrator, it is signal for an entire year. ios imposed its brutal rule here.

the entire provincial administration fled when the town was overrun. now they welcome florio and his team. where was your own office? with the u. m. 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 chabad took control of all official buildings and ceased part of the weapons arsenal of the defeated mozambique an army right.

wow. over the course of the year, the jihad is re to have it on the abandoned port city. some 120000 civilians slant with the help of her london soldiers. the town was recaptured in august 2021. after being alfred the militant scattered in all directions, ah 5 months later time seems to have stood still and muffin, bore 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. what is it?

is a boma dot la von boyer b g a u f f b advisory board and costly? is it just for this? right? i guess they destroyed everything and every one in their wake them in the town hall of i did good. thank. remember, 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. our job used to be taking care of the people in the

city than everything was suddenly gone. it's life has come to a standstill since because the, the bottle in order to crystal a minimum level of public services here, florian believes the town hall should be a priority. but the more cerebral to hampton 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 actually they don't want the family. you're in a hurry, go by. we yes, we don't have much time, but i caught up with the team, have no time to lose. i have a full schedule for their one day visit. and sometimes they would is not made easy for them. ah, this is a precision, right? yes. okay. how many per police officers there we expect to have hearing the bath lucas one to the to see what us. unfortunately,

we are not authorized to give you that information. a lot of them isn't amazing because it's always tricky for us because we are the partners in sastrugi. i believe that by we cannot encrypt if we don't know the numbers of birth on. so this is the mutual we have every the, every well, okay, that's fine. we will give will 2 laptops and one cough because we don't know the number of person with up of, with close it. it's a bit frustrating. we always need approval from higher and higher up because no one wants responsibility for sharing sensitive information with, you know, you few hours flooring. all, maria has gained a sense of what challenges lie head and what needs to be done, means of euros will be required to bring most in both the prior back to life. florida 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 ah, of a 2 and a half 1000 kilometers away. in the south of mozambique lies the capital motto,

lou, this burgeoning city of 1000000 people appears to be a world away to day mozambique is a democracy. but its communist era passed 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. a scene in the city hall and the railway station are today. m, a po is the country's economic engine and showcase city. far away from the wars zones. it attracts talent from all over the country. ricky is a young fashion designer. vessel he should you pay attention to the details which gives good. no one is very active, is there okay,

did it just needs to be more in the night before coming to my window? i explored one hour, wasn't each radley looking for opportunities to lance? my friends and then i ended up in love. 1 over with you, so we all creating my wiki is part of middle class him a porto who have a particular way of life. young urban martin. the very opposite. what the she babs 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. i forgot the company's facility is still intact, now served as

a base camp for the real want an army? i drive through. yes. the cars arrived, an 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 to that open and look when we came to start opening up the facility, we had problems with shabani. sometimes we were working and then had to take our children and fleet. all of the relative piece at the moment is g to the london armies presence, but not far away that she had to stay and just still looms. she didn't mean a strong course. they were defeated in their main strongholds, but they've now rebuilt their forces. the terrorists have new tactics and

a mobile. now we cannot make the insurgents go away overnight days. i guess we need to reassure the population. the ones active on france that includes conducting regular police operations in comp delgado, electric. they're thieves who steal electrical wiring. they break into homes, cut the power lines, remove the casing, and sell the metal out to do a vote on that is that we often arrest them to help the local police force. when they see us, they run away kind of move way. it is all this one even left his motorcycle behind the copper thief didn't get far on foot and was swiftly arrested by the rwandan soldiers. over commanding officer is the 1st to question him. where are you from? from over there, from manguno. what are you transporting?

oper job, where did you go? it's not mine. the owner is over that with you. is that him, he's in, can younger you said you want to bring them all here are going to do it. now. hutchins got to sit down with the men i 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 maggie she ma 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 pembroke. 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. fellow mamma al kesha and i shall work for

a local enjo called adel. their assessment of the situation is simple. as a shortage of everything here is not working go north or to local needs here. they need to walk a long long. they're still 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 the jihad is threatened, 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 breach. 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. abdul towers. 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 and showed that no army ever managed to take the idiot, mozambique the island, the gave the country,

it's name, this is a, according to the history, this monument a was important because it, it was very, very important to the fan. did the island was the mozambique foster was here as a that he started say the wasn't being was born on the island. that's why this for is, for me is important for is the most important of the content has been made to protect you. this is i didn't for the future. inefficient still further south. we returned to the lung close when the french couple run the hotel, the edge of these curious 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 hazards. ah, aerospace, as if almost mounted are bay harbor. it's dangerous for your feet and hands. this for example, you can just find lying in the water. so you dance your 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 if i don't, 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 move soon enough that if it's payoff off to spending only an hour in the water, a mondo and a lead, you have a very decent ho. collecting almost 40 kilograms of show fish, a now start cleaning, insulting them according to their market value. mm. oysters

are the most expensive muscles and clams are worth far less. again, m a marsh guy don't. busy oh, not a mile breeze jacket dumbbell, but if the leg i in a lot of monday not simply study. we're happy with our work every day with amanda and the leading out. now need to be on their way in order to sell the couch. will uncle, this 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 . a good. well,

that's the one with the ball. okay. occupied on this evening, we have a 13 or 14 people for dinner or kill choir, so we'll take 40. thank what info and how long have we been doing business with each other? amazon, or 4 or 5 years? all right, you were just a little boy then or by. yes, i remember this is supposed to say, well, 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, quote yes, with the red. oh, a minute with december and january a high season in the hotel is fully port 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 cowboy 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, or today the mind produces a half the world's supply of rubies. this blue with is beginning remo. we started here in 2011. that's come up because i'm not coming in 10 minutes. i will come up with

the signal is very strict without back guard, they will not a load id cards. i'll show 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 hectic of land, an area 3 times the size of paris. along with rogers of a car, there is 1600 employees here working to extract the local natural assets. so you can see this students. so in between there is a rob is also which is very robust. it's not an inside. distant is with dust once and this if you say 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 gemstone, nothing is left on 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 a feel for you. we are in the off brand, know, this is our for the blank. tons of earth, a washed here. 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 so that it doesn't have any walkerson in this marketplace. they sent me my part of the office. 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. come, he's busy grading, i was, i was 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 covered custom with 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 day. but i don't, i couldn't tell you guys, are you good? that's difficult because everything's all over the place. no, no, there's not minutes. 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 jewish prover. com, the chief engineer. all the hard work at the mine has more than paid off all process starting grandma explorer is on my knee, then processing them, salt water, and then finally visit the border for all we are doing for this. and we're getting, this is very satisfying it. and everyone who is what it is i've been i've, i lose i've, if i am happy to feel and next i with a motorcycle revolving, let mother give gary 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. peralez camara, seeing also from india, is the science general manager why he

also oversees the company's community projects and is welcomed by local farmers as a benefactor. oh really? i some we moved to bon, you'll ruby's great that the mine is here and they are the ones who are helping us . they provide us with fertilizers, chemicals, and also tractors on with so without that, everything comes from the ruby mine. so we think it's really dirty. some remarkable there are 7 villages located on the licensed mining area with various initiatives. the company is making 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 informed or definitely legal mining is one of our very she

yes it was for us the way you find them all say we are one of the wrong signatories, all fall rib usage. i don't feel you, my god, that is a 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 by so early we're 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 pool. mm. ah, they start working as fast as they can as soon as they arrive using the rudimentary tools at their disposal, a vent free. this is taking way too long. past me the bag a. it's really difficult, you can use up 203040 or even a 100 bags and end up with nothing. i want to go to fill the cycle to they wash the content manually. very crude method for filtering at any gemstones

for now then it's inspection time in the hopes of finding a ruby quick harry up with the buys 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 was a bit of them were afraid where paul, even if we go to the mining company, they don't give us, was it? that's why the deal with but if it was available by them, after 15 minutes of work they returned home with a meager home there they can inspect the stones again in the hope of striking red

cold 2000 kilometers away from the hardship of kabul delgado. sabrina 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 barely 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 measuring it was the it, if i to you about years 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. mm. to the point, strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. migration to europe is wise. again searching you. authorities are reporting the highest number of irregular border crossing since 2016 destination europe can migration being controlled. find out on to the point to the point with on

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