of the bar in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring go to health, smart nature, the more likes watching it on youtube. dw documentary, the the tyra canyon and move in montenegro. reaching down some 1300 meters, the unesco world heritage site is the deepest scorch in europe. now it's threatened by the construction of monique rose fest highway. you have to have certainly at least the visually i mean just, but they want to have a high rate on, i mean this is a cost of the $1000000000.00 highway is being built by one of the china is not just stay turn construction companies. i like send them the data is the projects

environmental and safety consultants other. so this is a construction side like the next the next we all screwed up. i call it like a gold rush. everybody's so keen to to drive on the highway is that of which has a passion for fly fishing. did hope to attract like minded tourists to the terrorism. but the construction of the highway, his desktop dream for the time being. yeah, the other one. i'll probably never again experience this particular spot of the titled river like i used to have put eyeball on the board. the meaning is that of each sprint is committed to the upkeep of the tower. rizza

is also the president of the fishing club in crushing for me that the construction of monte negroes 1st highway means the destruction of his beloved driven horses before mountain rivers. like these have taken millions of years to form settlement deposits on which close the capillaries. so that the water can stay on the surface of the swimming pool. the 3 yet yet say, now that's all been reversed in water, is sleeping into the ground. plus the river bed has been new. is day according to what is the fish are gone in. life has disappeared from the river. so we basically have a desert care to i'd say the water level is only a 3rd or half of what it used to be negative. triple the unspoiled nature of montenegro is its greatest treasure. and well, this is exactly why towards from the west come here. for the sight of your services,

a sizable portion of mountain negroes longest rizza enjoys unesco protection. for a long time, the population had no idea that highway superstructures, bridge p is, would be built directly on the river that will probably take 3 or 4 years for any fish to show up. everything is all. how do i few extremely sad about what's happened to this beautiful rivers, which should have been saved by any means necessary, but of almost a to and this was probably like kaiser that supported according to european regulations mistress of highway here should have been as short as possible cartridge is dead, it runs a full 2 kilometers along the river bank to the highway is being built by the china road and bridge corporations, school c, b, c,

a chinese stay tuned enterprise but local companies are also involved in what is the largest infrastructure project in mountain eclipse, history. ready the highway will stretch a total of 170 kilometers, connecting the port city of bo, we've probably got it in the north and will eventually run from the atria see to the via sub yeah. 42 kilometers between the capitol put godsa and cor lashing are practically finished. the original estimated cost of this section alone is 1000000000 bureaus, 800000000 of which is financed by loan from china as x and back. in the meantime, the cost of this section has turned out to be over a $100000000.00 euros higher than originally planned. at exxon domestic is a montenegrin consultant who has been involved as the direct just the health safety

and environment. since construction of the project began, he was hired by the china road to bridge corporations 7 and a half years ago. construction began in 2017 for project incorporating 16 tunnels and 21 bridge is one of the highest bridges in europe. the highest point from the river itself is 200 meters to the level which was very challenging for 5. and that design is difficult to deal with. the huge difference in elevation. we have 1000 explain this project. the most wonderful thing that happened to 560 or 100 years from now, if it can come to for the capital and then on the coast equal venus as

a minute. for me, it was a challenge and a privilege to be a part of this kind of national national life project. montenegrin officials hope that the highway will provide to boost the under develop northern part of the country and attract more towards the subsection is scheduled to open in a month 3 years later than planned up to 3000 chinese workers are included on the construction site during peak activity, you know, they're not allowed to to the media part of the company's communication strategy. how about, how are you? i don't think okay, good these pets, we have soft, electrical mechanical installation. so the singles on the list of things that sending policies to 4 months and it shows up in the, in the sufferings this is up to the allow the you have to be the any, any,

any risk from, from putting down or anything. and it was really, really strong. some had to make sure the don't have any sort of the construction company, his face repeated criticism, especially in connection with environmental violations. be honest. this was but i'm not sure that i can, they can speak like this, by my, my personal opinions. politically driven and driven by some environmental and zeros. that negatively oriented towards these projects. because they, they want us to avoid the river. bodies for us will design the routes of the highway we did is according to the conceptual design made by the government. this is the section to attracting most criticism from the ponies to the highway.

web bridge, p is run direct beyond the risk of several kilometers. well this particular area we made, let me do some plan which was adopted and approved by the environment agency protection agency. and you can see at the top of the holding cell phone and put the grocery upon the grass and found some, some, some nice fees. and the little green and the river received its, its previous me so river course and the river bed. you have to have certainly at least the visually but i mean, you choose, but they want to have a high rate on. so i mean, this is the cost of civilization, but still again, i wouldn't mind even to the go down and going from from the civil.

ready mean is that of it's fishing club protected and took care of the fish population of the tara near cor, lashing until the construction began. at the time he was one of the 1st people to draw attention to the impending damage. the project would cause and the 1st group to listen to him was an engineer called man's sound performed driving the phone. but we begin to question why a highway was even allowed to be built, that we were trying to find out if the state was managing construction properly and whether environmental instinct is with doing the job that others work well. so i'm not sure i love that. we'll let them in, our government declared vital information to be subject to state secrecy. it was by no means, unless we still don't know where the money went. now, instead of 800000000 euros the highway costs over a 1000000000 or solar system and it will not as cost of itself, they're coming out of the man's is financed by the u. and deals primarily with

corruption, an organized crime. the n g o has also found evidence of nepotism and waste of public funds during the freeway project and is pursuing cases of incompetence. so you think the revitalization measures are insufficient? almost only cosmetic, at best. the most damage was caused by excavating right in the river itself. they cleaned the machines and the tata in the cement from those machines, damage the river, especially young fish. the cement gets caught in their gills and causes them to suffocate. nicola sheen, the tunnel became as brown as earth and it was devastating for all river life. we tried to fight and organized protests of that. the government refused. here is the only sort of listening when months also began criticizing for months.

montenegro is currently seeking you membership, but the country's debt has increased significantly because of the highways construction project as part of china. so crowd initiative which has been investing around the world, including in the balkans months and he goes current parliamentary speaker was instrumental in developing plans for the highway and negotiating the project for the chinese at the time even by of which was minister of transport. nice for me, but i thing that we never said no to the you was really nice, but they would just no serious offers me and meal. and i understand you're going to not be thing, is that still the simplest concepts of why we chose a chinese company is that it had the best and cheapest delta e commerce me slope customer. that'd be just the critics attack of saying it was a highway from nowhere to nowhere what i'm get on those me. so all equally so could you call it. in fact, what could we started with the most difficult section of the type of route and use? so that we could have a nice, you know,

hands with you and implement the rest of the highway with the private and was full public financing, quail. most of them on the book with some of the viewing said, i don't know if we can pretty luckily i don't know, but that's where the rest of the funding will comes from. remains unclear. needed is none of which house is located in core lashing not fall from the tara, where he and his friends remain. i would fly fishes. the media has trying to make the winter result is crushing, appealing to fishing interest in summer. but the damage to the tower river has ruined his plans. are small and then usually add a drop of nail polish to ferment. i'll call your gomez. and sonia my dream was to organize a world championship for fly fishing and montenegro school, but arose the benefits for local residents would be a normal news. i minutes. we are over 30 below to lose our good tourist. little

shot. you also, but mostly belong to the upper middle and upper class abuse, and they have disposable income. they like to spend, or you might with or you know, so the, for, through our sure, the next on the med tech to only sit on the highway construction site every day change . so everything's caustic, the head of the opening. as i said, everything will be here. you have also police station, firefighters service area. and the come on the face. the command center is the brain of the highway, the around 560 cameras have been installed along the 42 kilometer stretch. one of them will connect it to small software that will ensure maximum safety for future road uses.

for this particular car would slow down, then they will focus on that old car would stop to go reverse of both just too fast . then if a smoke up would appear, then you have special especially design software to recognize the smoke. basically the most sophisticated software, which is still on the, the preparation also on the ground china road and bridge corporations, software developers who come to montenegro from single pool and malaysia. so happy . so the subset of everything, you know, that's being in the system on the final cnbc is, is delivering the, from best product to citizens. and i'm sure there's some say many lives in the future. thank you very much. you might the highway,

you still work in progress, but some drive is already enjoy using the completed sections as a foster route to put gloria scene, which is a big safety issue for alex and a move that they just drove into it all. yes. and they put their foot down, they passed me at a $120.00 last. the option is, what are they getting? they don't know? are they bribing someone? i really have no idea sites. it's really difficult to, to fight this, that every, every single day. 24 of ok, thanks for now. all of that to then wait for them. then when i start the step products, are they the ones who came in at smoke? that's okay. let me know if i'm yeah yeah, catching the illegal task process of of 65 security at the end. and if i see something suspicious, i call them to,

to block and call police in case a few minutes later, alexander has located the road. driver's location is from sub you to i in too much of a hurry to get to be a dramatic coast the afternoon. you know, this is a construction site just you have to go back out where you drove in. otherwise you'll be find, find the police. this is a construction site, it's close to the traffic, not to the gps. let us here drive to the next day. so i call it like a gold rush. everybody so keen to to drive on the highway because the kind of drugs drive for get it sent to collection is extremely narrow and dangerous. the old road was built in the 19 seventies and is currently the only connection

between the capital and the northern parts of the country. and we have just just 2 lanes of the road and then you have available. and then you have a big like a canyon, a big rock pulling down. and it's, it's very narrow, it's very curvy. then we have lots of trucks, lots of buses, and they have to drive slowly. and then they drive slowly, then you pile up. hundreds of cars behind people die fast. want to overtake and if you want to avoid a car, then it just lead over to the rails has been many so many victims. tough with accidents along this road a year ago. economy because alexandra is also had to stay til accidents here. one of the strongest arguments cited by highway advocates is that the project will help to avoid further such tragedies. that is, that

a good daily just from the man's and g o has documented evidence of how regulations and laws have been bent and broken during the highways construction. the government has granted extraordinary concessions to chinese investors in or sub contractors involved. c, r b c. cause that is up when cnbc realized it was expensive to dispose of construction waste, they came up with the projects to regulate the refund me by dumping it all along the banks, claiming that it would prevent flooding away. pretty charles, sire 5, but his meal has already said they basically just lift piles of garbage from the tunnel drilling. is that a completely changing the character of the tower with us? which has become the dumping ground? so rubble and debris from the tunnel is football on your lot. cordial style. what is it that and that's certainly one of the marietta accusations gravel has also been taken from the tara, which is strictly prohibited in a sense that lead the c,

b. c. to be charged and find one of those non where yes to the so so we know that all the fines imposed on c b c and this sub contractors were very smooth and not nearly enough to cover the damage close to the re the there was so many problems with this project and that it see it was something the 3 minute i guess the most glaring example that the montenegrin public has learned about joe, is that the highways may in connection to go. it's the smoke of absolute. we simply for dosing up or hasn't started line around the point where it says he was not even part of the original agreement. it was added later. the great cause the la deal, oregon 9. busy plex the e knox of the rod on the coolest. we need a highway on, you know, so, but it needs to be done in a way that serves the public interest of all the and doesn't just line the pockets of privilege companies and individual states in the, i know not trans up the company. and for the simple, do you have any question benefits? it has a sudden down pull changes the sounds comes. he's driving to visit someone who's

properties right on the highway of the most of the people like patty shaw bush go. beach are an important source of information. so is the patient is it painted in to court cases because the construction material used in the so called risk management and stuff and he's gotten which is right next to one of the towers to be 3 or 2. something like that was just dumped on my field. not to mention the big stone. you always have the 20th of this material that was dug out of them. i tested both time on is, what am i to shovel 3 is for 5, i knew the over there is the tunnels x at the time. are you going to, is that need to know what that was taken out of that tunnel and ended up here in the gardens. you city? yeah. you said, you know, be able to watch. uh huh. we tried to get them to take it away. that's cool. but it's dave here, i'm sorry. who did the nfl them you?

you told me a lot. of course this is a problem for me to call you bet on. i used to be able to access the river directly fit them. now they've built this protective lot here. scott says, all this whole circuit and it looks ugly. when you go there go, yes, that is what you do. like my brother, i used to be able to look directly at the river from my house. i've been removed, now i have to walk around or climb up there. no, i bit felicia, he's abandoned. he's gone into full years because of the construction site. mila has a visit to today. natasha cove activate. she's an environmental ex, but who works for the n g o bank watch which scrutinizes investments by international financial institutions in terms of environmental and social criteria . the loan agreement, montenegro has entered into it's china is controversial. and the big talking points of the countries relations can this yep. can you national, i'm not blaming the chinese name is i'm blaming

a government is not something that does what it next. the i'm a whichever of can i ask who i'm in the state that will charge montenegro be unable to repay the loan. installment the contracts and allows the chinese investors to claim on to meet with state property as compensation, equity. and excuse me, my, most them you for the most unlikely. the. and that could affect strategically important assets to talk up up up to a symbol. for example, appleton barley, illinois, the next you can do defendant before the railroad claim on which i just didn't say stuck with that level. so this is a danger that has already become reality in other countries will try the course of which costs clearly or will do games. i mean, i'm of that stuff that obviously trade routes are of great interest to china. it is, it's one trillion dollar new silk road project aims to open up the countries access to markets in asia, africa, and by the balkans to europe. so to ever take you through this stuff and get them in this level, they will come out to e mail with the we have a week for democracy,

save on dana country. it's investors with pretty aggressive kind of take the to the ones with influenza them yet, but kind of crew to even the bulk and countries like montenegro as the by a to a new membership own. yeah. that becoming increasingly oriented to truly nice investments. skinner's k with state government feel more comfortable working with the chinese government and chinese investments. probably because this daunted, so not the same. and the more convenient if you had a less than a full portion of understand that the me a nice for me will right now it's on 3 a when or even to build the 2 missing highway sections to the coast and to sub. yeah. so this is the end of the road, so you can see and the 42 kilometer long highway, the this is the, the hill calls especially big this. it will be the next challenge. hopefully we'll

see how to be see the next phase from under david. so i bet on there is to 7 boulder and i and i highly appreciate the chinese investors and, and time is extreme back. and i think both times the easiest to, to work with the best qualities and develop over the country. now if, if you would be a well bang for your opinion to make some calculations and what you need to do, then be able to start in 5 years or 10 years, or 15 years. and we have to think of our sales 1st. but meet it as that of which and natasha go back to beach on just thinking about themselves that thinking about future generations as well. that's why for them the price of the highway is just too high. the in the middle i look here for example, who the see you can see it on the bottom on yes, but on as it is recalled. yes. i can see it really nice and that's a lot of a small one. the coming out well

the that tell you that it is love it here. there are more here. yes, ontario, some tiny crayfish. no. let me pull this up over to you. i have no idea on it. we are in an area here that could be a good, happy touch, the trout and other species of fish buddies. but the buffering between the blue give us that which if we're talking about babies to have g, the same on no way to be seen here. to pro, exactly yours, but it's a shame i used to fish this part of the tub all the time. it was full of fish wherever the la puente on river, on us. this is a unique feature is monique, where is constitution isn't the 1st article, declares the country to be an ecological state. but the government and the business and industry sector has been failing for years to deliver on this patient that the,

you know, be a while you probably won't see of a ton of return to the way it used to be a little nutcracker from club. maybe some day will recover when not in my lifetime, probably the one or 2 of them is the

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