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scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our team for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice ceased to face with the news makers. hey you parliament voted that the bloc should have a permanent seat he said to the u.n. security council critics though say the union's enough problems to solve back home without getting more involved in international issues. are the top stories from our team tonight a crackdown on anti-government protests in syria intensifies and so does international pressure on the country to stop the bloodshed what many see sanctions and critics and calls for regime change as echoes of the intervention in the libyan conflict. and present value says it is continuing to send a steady stream of agents to russia's north caucasus is that often found among
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militants killed in anti terror operations russian leader also stressed that terrorism is a shared problem and bin laden's death is beneficial to russian security. next as promised a special report for you at how cleaning up war zones can be a lucrative but risky business. the the in
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. in golf balls and so this is in the early posts along the left. so let's hope well wolf. if. a. big.
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thank you both us on three this is in kyoto so long over thanks. for the mostly complete over. thank you you thank
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. and my name is gemma far from the village actually. and we have orange groves. ok and that's been our job since we were born. there's my father my brother and fired help me and that for you. today.
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the day after the war was over i came back with my father joe can kind of hush me. geno's summer had passed and we had one of the groups saying this mr mitchell this is our friend. when. it was then that he stepped on one if they're going to know if it was a battery or something. i noticed it and then told him it is a take your foot off that is a cluster of a hole. he was surprised the days because we saw was full of them. the most vivid memory is literally driving into these villages. and just seeing almost fields of costers everywhere many of them had sort of feel to explode closer
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bombs on the road you have to be careful with that rest of the. mines when a village the wind blew a bad and a handful of them fell on the ground and we just started hearing explosions. make itself it's now i was set up as a result of the occupation of israelis up until may two thousand when the israelis withdrew they left behind a huge legacy of violent ones and the united nations for need to resolve the formable the same ones and therefore to make associate up back in two thousand and one now it's on structure on the nation by anybody's army and you know to nations. down the seas for hundreds of thousands of people come flooding back we will see record it really gets back to their homes. and we're confronted with. you know
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hundreds of thousands of unexploded possible. there chris thank you. i think carries with him alice walking back and he told us. about how to push her up and over to the right outside the door on august fourteenth two thousand and six b. the lebanese army started clearing the road which make up the residential areas so people are going to turn to their homes most of them were good that was important i managed to think about all this insurance and we have working for us no i don't miss the organizations there's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. but you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire local. they were thrown everywhere in front of your house and in the
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garden in the valley no place was left untouched not even most and churches were spared and train the locals how did you get clearance i was going to be there. when i found the first bomb i felt as though i had saved a person. mostly because well let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their home that is it's something known in south lebanon only that he's one of the he and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas and when. times are difficult. smith i heard that some guys are applying to a company called dca notice and it has a like the i thought of it this way and i think that it was a good opportunity from all sides i want to see first of all we couldn't go into
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our growth and the art of cluster bombs second thing so this is my country i'd like for my country to be beautiful. surgeon which is also important as we would be better financially. if someone. with all their news i'll shoot it. that's how it's done. you see or it falls over. there it is on the mound i mean i don't have a house. we shoot in there's a while. because we've been in the cage for very long three years have been engaged and no marriage.
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yes we're planning on getting married once we have the money and the only thing holding us back is having a house that's going to have a house we can furnish it move in and live. here where. i swear to you and you didn't hit it. come get it i'm scared 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 one further supply doesn't that mean i got it yes i see that is here everywhere. i look for work several times and there is nothing else that i should which we found this company they needed employees so we applied . here we see. the numbers we decided to work at the kind of are some of the elite or the country from
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of almost for the little kids and the mr that will keep on working someone. will make money and get a house. to go with. let's keep them separate away from these themes. we did well today with the birds. now we'll have a rock with the birds it'll be great you know and we will. go home and. i think we are.
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on the ground on the tarmac it's not big on these. places. i just missed the first time to call up or close to. that's it that's the presentation but if anyone's around they can still get. twenty meters around everybody gets into. this house was heavily heavily hit you can see the freshman base and they're the same thing if you go behind the holes. so here you see these from the roof. and just blown through the roof. and there you can see that home full. on this cost thirteen. has been won and so for them there's a very sharp small fragments. it's company it's a it's one centimeter concrete so you can imagine if they come through the human
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body they call what it is deep in such. 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 when the canister opens over the target each one of them is then going to pull out and they're going to spread out then going to turn to the bottom because the weights on one end 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 super heat and shoot out like a hot knife through butter it's going to go through the armor. and that's going to end up killing whatever crew is in there. the secondary charge is going to then send out the shrapnel and that's what's going to cause death and injury to the.
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problem is they're not made really well and a lot of them not 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 would be fine. if you can still find. well we're still this time of the first bunch everybody was tangled in her hands it was part of the bomb she threw it to the ground that she threw that can but who were thrown into the air who was playing no. time. maybe is a bit sad because you want to film it. is that. we came back to work to find cluster bombs everywhere in our fields.
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these bit the national ban and we had no choice but to work next to the bombs. kid and i had a field in the area. and i am a pilot was picking for it's a cluster bomb exploded. in iraq i lost a kidney and i was really. the scary thing about this for bonds is literally how they've managed to find their way into every aspect of life in subtle. you know from the field 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. you never know when the next one is going to go to me.
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and where's the coffee in. the morning over you're so so on your list right now let's summon up now the love that wasn't there. i think here we must find the bomb to give it. to get it in and it will be going from service around them and all of us every see that everything there is see the list of. who was very well and the thing is just. to check. and efficient. and i think you know.
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the. truly is a dangerous job so it needs a lot of attention. to someone who's clumsy or doesn't pay attention for sure he will lose an arm or leg or likely die.
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from. what. i'm going to a lot of stories about young lebanese males who are injured in different companies . for myself i don't know anyone. thank. you. both more. i am. working i say. you see. in the
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morning in brief i told you. because. you're no. one so much. for when the clearance teams go and you basically roped off area 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 right this is this it was a patient who kills it's one yeah we stop playing songs about us on the welcome back you are. the main one literally move inch by inch very slowly very laborious sleep in the field in an area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you are you could see the bullet
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over there although it's marked. so this is what was unfolding. and there are environmental things that occur over time to 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 stuff moving about it isn't like. it's a nightmare because there's so much metal scrap by the war by the people. took everything that animals moving around that can move them and then all the sudden see who uses every day sue if you will chief since. you.
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got. a lot. of the bad guys ali is on the edge so ask them to bring you a. boat. if it's hidden under all of these small little going to the city of five nine nine we find that but. i think about that. and then you've also got an issue with the trigger over time. that trigger such degrade with the environment and expect anymore that you can handle it safer. you know everything he said 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. i
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look over the last one thirty we will clear a cluster bomb so please keep the doors open and the kids inside the house god bless and see you as well in fact right now every day at one o'clock in the afternoon in south lebanon everyone knows that's one thing for the questioners. well the people of the area be ready for a cluster bomb demolition which will occur at one thirty. am. yes. thank you thank you. thank.
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you. thank you. thank you thank. you thank. you. if. you. like. to. study him. ok and only i will i was fourteen years old when i started working with tobacco and all of. the.
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surprise that i don't see how is it clearing cluster bombs. right. this one. one point by this point they're not the best. spots but i love the challenge. and not just for the salary. i love to work outside. and i'm not a great because i love the route. it took me three months to find a cluster bomb i was doing something wrong and i was having one of all my worst months i wasn't afraid at all. i love this job it's like. you're almost a. i'm sure lol i naive. in living in lebanon. that i studied here in lebanon and have
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been working as a nurse for a few years. after the war there was another war had a war of the cluster in the lower still suffering from it. then one of the model n.g.o.s came to lebanon to help get rid of the cluster bombs i had been when i started working for one of these n.g.o.s it's called dan church they were to see a much. stuff and i worked with them for seven or eight months as a medical team coordinator. but method after i left dca a friend of mine who works at the armor group which is one of the biggest clearance organizations but shake at me as i was and then asked me to help them they needed first aid coordinator stuck at the lower your television in the quote i will be identified out. you know my right. it
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was the cool. head of clinton pleasured home during the war i was here in south lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance it was a difficult period thought this way and felt that it was scary o'keefe you. know i was always nervous our planes were above me and my thought i would hear nothing but the sound of all i did see it's only heightened my fear.
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culture is that so much i can tell if i use my father's name to model the taliban bad guys with the killing of osama bin laden u.s. president barack obama has an historic opportunity on afghanistan will he use it and what is the downside. wealthy british style sun. spot on to the zeitgeist. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global.

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