tv [untitled] May 11, 2011 5:30am-6:00am EDT
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in the. last hour here in moscow the headlines for you know europe or follows the us in stopping sanctions on serious talk officials in the travel ban classes for its official reasons of barrow n.c. government protesters some analysts believe the west is off the if you check engine can flow through the. european union has to vote on whether it wants a seat at the u.n. security council on giving block more say over world's acuteness move to damage the strength of some member states independence from georgians have to turn to the
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well you know the day after the war was over i came back with my father. i know what has been. seen as summer had passed and that we have what are the groups that you mentioned just a minute with the suffering. with me. and it was then that he stepped on one of their for dinner in the room he thought it was a battery or something. i noticed it and then told him to sort of take your foot off that is a cluster bomb. he was surprised because we saw our group was full of them. the most vivid memory is literally driving into these villages. and just seeing
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almost fields of clusters everywhere many of them had sort of failed to explode or lost or bombs on the road you have to recover. whatever rest of the. mines were a village the wind blew a breath and a handful of them fell on the ground and we just started hearing explosions. make itself it's now it was set up as a result of the occupation of the israelis up and so we may two thousand when the israelis withdrew they left behind a huge legacy of a month and the united nations saw a need to result of all mobile became once and therefore the next always the uptick in two thousand and one now its own structure combination but nobody's army and the united nations. without the ceasefire hundreds of thousands of people come flooding back in the south back to what it is
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back to the ice. and we're confronted with you know hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bombs. their first day there were. fifteen carries with it else people walking. by the how to push up and over to the right of the to go on august fourteenth two thousand and six the eleven easy army started appearing to broach sneak into residential areas so people got turned to their homes a lot of them were good there was a board and i managed to conduct quality assurance and we had working for us no i don't miss the organizations there's a huge market right now for cattle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that are basically showing up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places
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they will hire local. they were thrown everywhere in front of your house and in the garden in the valley no place was left untouched not even most and churches were spared to train the locals how to do the clearance i was going to be. when i found the first bomb i felt as though i had saved a person. must go well with the locals basically taking ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes that is really something no one in south lebanon only but you know one of the and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas and. times are difficult smith and i heard that some guys are applying to a company called d.c. a notice any sympathy sort of this way and i think that it was
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a good opportunity for most sides i want to see them first of all we couldn't go into our growth and you know i have cluster bombs you know second thing so this is my country i like for my country to be beautiful. third time which is also important as we would be better financially i think it. was ok there it is i'll shoot it. that's how it's. you see how it falls. there it is i don't want the money i mean i don't have a house but i want to have one this is how we should and there's a while. because we've been engaged for very long three years something and i'm no marriage.
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yes we're planning on getting married but once we have the money and the only thing holding us back is having a house that's going on once you have a house we can furnish it move in and live. well i swear to you and you didn't hit it. come get it can't you get it i'm not. if we don't have a house then we can't get married so it was a. nice where you didn't hit it when father's why doesn't that mean i got it yes i see that is here everywhere. because i'm out of the world i look for work several times and there is nothing else that i should do and which we found this company they needed employees so we applied. here you see.
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the numbers we decided to work at the kind of large i love the cleaner the hunter for almost a little bit. the mr will keep on working right up to the law will make money and get a house. to go with. let's give them separate so away from these thieves. we did well today with the birds. now we'll have a rock with the birds it'll be great community thank goodness but you. know how it . has to be.
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on the ground on the farm markets not big on bass. this is a profitable business just the first thing to call up or close to it. that's it that's the presentation but if anyone's around they can still get. twenty meters around everybody gets interested. in. this house was heavily heavily hit you will see the freshman base in the same same thing if you go behind the house. so here you can see it is from the roof. you just blown through the roof. today you can see the. full. on disease buster he. has been one for. very sharp small fragments. it's company it's very it's one centimeter concrete so
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you can imagine if they come through the human body the old lady keep it so it's. a cluster munition is basically a container and inside the container you have many many small bombs and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them where the canister opens over the target each one of them is then going to pull out and they're going to spread out there's then going to turn to the bottom because the weights on one hand and as they fall through the sky this ribbon is spanned and the spinning is what arms the trigger you have a copper concave cone inside of the base that will superheat and shoot out like a hot knife through butter that's going to go through armor. and that's going to end up killing whatever crew is in there. the secondary charge is going to then
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send out the shrapnel and that's what's going to cause death and injury to the. problem is they're not made really well and a lot of them cannot explode. this is a weapon with an after effect these weapons always leave unexploded guts at very high rates so it becomes like a landmine and what we find. that we can still find. and i think well we're still just time to first which everybody was talking. it was part of the bomb she threw it to the ground that she moved. to but who were thrown into the air which was doing no. time. i visited because i want to film it.
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is that. we came back to work to find cluster bombs everywhere in our fields. this bit is the national ban and we had no choice but to work next to the bombs. good then did this did i have a field in the area. and then when the pilot was taking first the cluster bomb exploded. then i lost a kidney and i didn't really love. the scary thing focus from bombs it was literally how they've managed to find their way into every aspect of life in southern lebanon. you know from the fields to people's balconies that was backyards on top of people's cars on people's trees it really creates this sort of. sense of insecurity. that you never know when the next one is going to mean.
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when and where is the coffee. or the morning of that you're so so on your list right now and that's a moment. i think here we must find the film to give it. we get it in india and it will be going to surf ace on them but every scene that everywhere we see that it was tough. to watch very well and the thinkers just. checked and it pushes.
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morning in britain i told you. because. you're no. one and so much. for a bundle of. sleep for it's like when the clearance teams go where you basically roped off areas and they create zones so that they can then figure out where the weapons are that need to be cleared and prioritize what's going to be taken out break this this village of cases it's one. we stopped me. and then we'll come back to it. and they literally move inch by inch very slowly in
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a very laborious lean in the field in an area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you know you could see the boma though very low it's marks. so this is the world war unfolding. and there are environmental things that occur over time from these weapons. you. know with my. got rain and the rain comes they start to sink into the earth. a lot of times you know they'll get kind of mixed in with it with garbage and trash is going about it is a nightmare. it's a it's a nightmare because there's so much smell struck by the war by the people. over the . animals moving around that can move them and then all the sudden see who he uses every day through if you will. you.
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go. along though. the bad guys ali is on the edge so ask them to bring you the. boat. it's hidden under all of the small little going to the sea view of life. we find the good and. move. i think of it. and then you've also got an issue with the trigger over time. that trigger such degrade with the environment can expect any more than you can handle safely. you know everything is there the that's what they have to do is they actually have to blow it up exactly where they said. and you really do have to blow these up one at a time where they're sitting because that's how dangerous it is and.
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i love the look of the at one thirty we will clear a cluster bomb so please keep the doors open and the kids inside the house. and to you as well in fact right now every day at one o'clock in the afternoon in south lebanon everyone knows that's when they blow up the clusters. well the people of the area be ready for a cluster bomb demolition which will occur at one thirty. am and. yes. and. thank.
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surprised that i don't work as a group. right. this one. by this point i know my best. but i love the job. and not just the salary. i love to work outside. and i'm not afraid because i love the route. it took me three most trying to cluster bomb i thought i was doing something wrong i was happy when i had all my worst on this i wasn't afraid to go. i like this job it's like. that almost. as.
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i'm sure lol i. mean living in lebanon. that i studied here in lebanon and has been working as a nurse for a few years. after the war there was another war the war of the cluster. we're still suffering from it is out of men one of them up and she was came to lebanon to help get rid of the cluster bombs had been when i started working for one of these n.g.o.s it's called down church or to see a much. stuff i worked with them for seven or eight months as a medical team coordinator. at a worry but after i left dca a friend of mine who works at the armor group which is one of the biggest clearance organizations and out by sake it was about i was on that up and then asked me to help them they needed first a court major stop at that oh well you know when i'll be identified out. you know
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miles. if they want to call that they feel a little ahead of the present home during the war i was here in south lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance it was a difficult period this way and felt that it was scary. and i was always nervous the planes were above me and i thought i would hear nothing but the sound of the ball. it's only heightened my fear.
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