this is our progress from washington d.c. . a cluster. and inside the container you have a mall. and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of 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. which you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance they'll let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk

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mean my name is gemma far from the village of isolation. and we have orange groves. ok and i know it's been our job since we were born. there's my father my brother and fire health.

how well you know the day after the war was over i came back with my father joke and kind of what husband. gino summer had passed and then we have what are the groups like this mr mitchell this is our feet. when. it was the man that he stepped on one i was there for going on the way he thought it was a battery or something. i noticed it and told him to sort of take your foot off that is a cluster of homes. it was a prized days because we saw our group was full of them. the most vivid memory is literally driving into these villages. and just seeing

almost fields of clusters everywhere many of them had sort of failed to explode last car bombs on the road you have to be careful. with that crystal. ones when a village the wind blew a bat 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 a monk and the united nation saw a need to resolve the problem will be three months and therefore to make associate second two thousand and one now it's on structure from a nation by anybody's army and the united nations. without the ceasefire hundreds of thousands of people come flooding back we will see a record of what it is back to the others. and which were funded. you know hundreds

of thousands of unexploded possible. thank you. i think carries with him else walking back and he told his. father how to push up and over to the right after the war on aug fourteenth two thousand and six b. the lebanese army started clearing the roads make of the residential areas so people got turned to their hope that one of them would go to. management and conduct which is sure as. we have working for us no i don't miss the organizations there's a huge market right now for battle area clerics 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 sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is be go to these places 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 and train the locals how to do the clearance i was going to do that. when i found the first bomb i felt as though i had saved the person. mostly because they'll let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes this is something no one in south lebanon . and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of what. times are difficult to snap and i heard that some guys are applying to a company called dca notice and it has something i thought of it this way i mean it was a good opportunity from all sides i want to see first of all we couldn't go into our

growth and the i would have cluster bombs second thing so this is my country i like for my country to be beautiful. thirteen which is also important as we would be better financially i think. with all their news i'll shoot it. that's how it's done right you see how it falls over. there it is only about an hour you know i don't have a house i want to have one yes we should and it was a while. because we've been in the gauge for a long three years have been engaged and no marriage.

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 on once we have a house we can furnish it move in and live. where it's well 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. slice where you didn't hit it when fathers why doesn't that mean i got it yes i see fathers here there everywhere. because i'm out of the world i look for work several times and there is nothing else. we found this company they needed employees so we applied. here we see. the numbers we decided to work at the co was a loving leader cantor for almost

a little kid. the mystery to keep on working songwriter. will make money i'm going to house. to go with. let's give them separates away from these themes. we did well today with the birds. we'll have a rock with the birds it'll be great you know i'm pregnant but you. know how i wanted. to be.

on the ground on the farm markets not paid on this. place is possible. i just missed the first time to call up or close to. it said about the presentation but if anyone's around they could still get injured twenty meters around everybody gets interest. on. this house was heavily heavily hit you can see the freshman bass in the same same thing if you go behind the halls. so here you can see it is from the roof. and this is going through the roof. and they do seem to hold. on this is a pastor he. has been one and so for a mason very sharp small fragments. it's company it's very it's one centimeter

concrete so you can imagine if they come through the human body they call what he did 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 when a 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 hand and as they fall through the sky this ribbons. and the spinning is what arms the trigger you have a copper or concave cone inside of the base that will superheat 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 gotten injured to be

a. problem is they're not made really 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 what we find. consult by. well we're still this time of the first bunch everybody was telling go think it was part of the bomb she threw it to the ground just through that combat who were thrown into the air who was playing no. time. and it is a bit odd because you want to film this. is the night and i think on it we came back to work to find cluster bombs

everywhere in our fields. he's been the national we had no choice but to work next to the bombs. kid then i had a field in the area. and then when the pilot was picking for it's a cluster bomb exploded. that i lost a kidney and i honestly. the scary thing about her savant is literally how they've managed to find their way into every aspect of life and suddenly. you know from the field to people's balconies that your backyards on top of people's cars and people's trees it really creates this sort of. sense of insecurity. that you never know when the next one is going to go to me.

when there's a coffee. or the morning over you know you're so so on your list right now and there's some and i'm out. of the. i think here we must find the bum to get it. to get it and we're going to do that we're going to insert face around them and will i. ever see that everywhere we see that all the stuff. to watch very well and the thing is just. to check. and efficient. and i think you know.

the. truly is a dangerous job so it means a lot of attention look to go when someone is clumsy or doesn't pay attention for sure he will lose an arm or leg or likely die. in. something.

far. this month. a lot of stories about young lebanese men were injured in different companies. for myself i don't know anyone. came. from or. i am. working i say. for that isn't in the

morning. i told you. because. you're now. a few moments i'm going to crash for. three bombs for its legs. when the clearance teams go and field 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 this it was the cases to close this one yeah we still made small got back on the local market. and they literally moved inch by inch very slowly very laborious in the heat in an area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you know you could

see the foam and over there i know it's marked. this is the world war. and there are environmental things that occur over time for these weapons. with my. dark reign and the rain comes they start to sink into the earth. a lot of times you know that kind of mixed in with with garbage and trash is the stuff moving about this is a nightmare. it's a nightmare because there's so much smoke all scrap by the war by the people you know the security that animals moving around that can move them and then all of a sudden see who uses every day to if you will can see the chiefs and. you. juggle. a lot.

of the bad guys ali is on the edge so ask them to bring you they. go boom. it's hidden under all of these small little going to all of them the city of five nine nine we find the political. move. i think about that. and then you've also got an issue with the trigger over time. that trigger such degrade with the environment can expect any more you can handle it safely. you know everything is ready and what they have to do is they actually have to blow it up exactly where they say. and you really do have to blow these are one at a time where they're sitting because that's how dangerous it is.

a little phenomenon that's one thirty we will clear a cluster bomb so please keep the doors open and the kids inside the house god bless you 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 when they brought the question there's. also the people of the area be ready for a cluster bomb demolition which will occur at one thirty everybody. just. a bit. big. nann.

but. if. you. could sleep in some study. ok normally i was thirteen years old when i started working with tobacco and all of. that work until june in d.c. let's go to sleep and are surprised to let you guys work as to how as

a group leader in cluster bombs you're right we're going down this one one point by this point we're going to have the best mike you. can but i love the challenge. and not just the salary one part of school i love to work outside here and all my partner and i'm not afraid as i because i follow the rules. it took me three months to try to cluster bomb a person i thought i was doing something wrong and it was great i was hurt i want to almost months i wasn't afraid at all. i like this job it's like ok. almost. honest i'm sure lol i naive palestinian living in lebanon. that i studied here in

lebanon been working as a nurse for a few years. after the war there was another war a war of the cluster. we're still suffering from it. and then one of the model n.g.o.s came to levanon to help get rid of the cluster bombs and i had been when i started working for one of these n.g.o.s it's called damn church aid or dca my. 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. and asked me to help them they needed first aid coordinator stop it oh well you. know my.

pleasure at home during the war i was here in south lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance. it was a difficult period through i thought it was scary lucky for you. and though i was always nervous our planes were above me and i thought i would hear nothing but the sound of dollars i did see the new it's only heightened my fear. culture is the same of charging her with the model there's 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. to move. more news today hard.