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if you need to. slow. down for a look at the international headlines now go to. southern the immunity of palestine's rival factions race israel's hold in the region reconciliation with a host of that nature intended move more isolated than ever. from a former nazi death camp guard accused of murdering thousands of jews will soon get its fate on the eighteen month long trial and decades of waiting until this alleged victims. joins action against
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a common threat or supercargo stubbornness in moscow one card is strong motion of terrorism and for trouble. well next our special report looks at how cleaning up the previous was adam's family a blooming risky business. the little.
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the.
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into the articles of this is in the early posts along a little. so let's go through all of. the for him to go to something this is in can go through so long over.
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probably the most and completely the other crap.
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i know my name is gemma far from the village about julie. and we have orange grows. a being our job since we were born. there's my father my brother and hired help.
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well you know the day after the war was over i came back because my father. think i know what has he. she you know this summer had passed and that we had one of the groups and this was the minister from the pacific. when it was then that he stepped on one i was there for dinner on the way he thought it was a battery or something. i noticed it and i'm told him he's a take your foot off that is a cluster bomb. he was surprised jason because to be sore crew first 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
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cluster bombs on the road you have to be careful. with that festival. once where a village the wind blew a bit 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 israelis up into may two thousand when the israelis withdrew they left behind a huge legacy of ones and the united nations saw a need to resolve the problem will be three months and therefore the next we'll see i reckon two thousand and one now it's one structure on the nation by the lebanese army and the united nations. down the seas for hundreds of thousands of people come flooding back into the sea i reckon they're going to speculate. and we're confronted with. you know hundreds of
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thousands of unexploded possible. on their first day. i think carries with it else people walking back in the forty's. part of how to push the record over to the right office will go on august fourteenth two thousand and six the lebanese army started clearing the roads sneak into residential areas so people got turned to their homes a lot of them were good there was a fortnight managed it and conduct which insurance. we had working for us no i'm going to 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 have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what do you mean 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 to get the clearance i was going to be that. when i found the first bomb though i felt as though i had saved the person. will let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes something known in south lebanon they're the only body. and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of what. times are difficult. i heard that some guys are applying to a company called the cia. and. i thought of it this way and 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 you know i don't cluster bombs you know second thing this is my country i like for my country to be beautiful. surgeon which is also important as we would be better financially i think. there it is i'll shoot it. that's how it's done right you see how it falls oh my god oh my god there it is i know you know i don't have a house but we want to live we should. because we've been in a very long three years of being impeached and no marriage. yes we are planning on getting married once we have the money and the only thing
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holding us back is having a house that's going to announce we have a house we can first move in and live. i swear to you and you didn't head it only 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. i swear you didn't hit it when feathers why doesn't that mean i got it yes i see fat is here everywhere. because i'm out of the world to look for work several times and there is nothing else that i shook your image we found this company they needed employees so we have plight. here we see. the numbers we decided to work in the cold war zone the cleaner country for almost
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a little bit. but mr to keep on working up not the law will make money i'm going to house. you know with. a lot let's keep them separate away from these thieves. we did well today with the birds they have. now we'll have a rock with the birds it'll be great it's going to give me. oh and. i think we'll.
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on the ground on the farm markets not big on this. this is profitable. at its most first turn to call of a cluster. that's it that's the presentation but if anyone's around they can still get. twenty metres around everybody gets interest. from. this house was heavily heavily hit you can see the fragmentation there in the same same thing if you go behind the poles. so here you see these from the roof. you just gone through the roof. today you can see the whole full. on this bus there he. has been one and so forth but. 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 will let it be it so there'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 on a canister opens over the target each one of them is then going to pull out and they're going to spread out there then going to turn to the bottom because the weights on one end and as they fall through the sky it is ribbons. and the spinning is what arms the trigger you have a copper or concave cone inside of the base that will superheat a 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 was going to cause death and injury to be
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a. problem is they're not made really well and a lot of them can not explode. this is a weapon with an after effect these weapons always leave unexploded duds at a very high rate so it becomes like a landmine and what we find. that we can sell time. while we were still just time in the first bunch the reason was to go to her hands it was part of the bomb she threw it to the ground that she threw it to but we were thrown into the air it was blue no. time. i visited because he wanted to film it. and then. we came back to work to find cluster bombs everywhere in our fields.
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bit the national bank we had no choice but to work next to the bombs. and did this i had a field in the area. and then when the pilot was picking for it's a cluster bomb exploded. but i lost a kidney and honestly. the scary thing about cluster bombs is literally how they've managed to find their way into every aspect of life in southern lebanon . 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. that you never know when the next one is going to better me.
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when and where is the coffee. or the morning over you're so so on your list right now and that's the moment now the i wasn't there but i think here we must find the bomb to give it more get it in here and it will be going to conserve face around them a lot but every signal everywhere we see the poster. who was very well and the thinkers just. checked and it pushes. over and i think you know.
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the. truly is a dangerous job so it needs a lot of attention. someone is clumsy or doesn't pay attention for sure he will lose an arm or leg or likely die.
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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. but more. i am. working i say. you see. in the morning.
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i told you. because. you're no. longer untold millions of people are shocked. when the clearance teams go in 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 break the school disco interfaces and so on yeah we start playing songs about it and then we come back to. the name literally move inch by inch very slowly and very laborious leap in the heat and in an area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you know if you
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can see the bombers over there oh it's marked. this is a world war i'm forty two and there are environmental things that are over time for these weapons. everybody. knew it. 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 with garbage and trash and stuff moving about this is a nightmare. it's a nightmare because there's so much mental scrap by the war by the people. took everything that animals moving around can move them and then all the sudden see who uses every day to if you want. to do you. go. along though. the bad guys ali is on the edge so
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ask him to bring you a. boat when. it's hidden under all of these small little going to the sea view of life ninety nine we find her. and put people off. 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 and 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 say. and you really do have to blow these up one at a time where they're sitting because that's how dangerous it is. a little bit of them about one thirty we will clear
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a cluster bomb so at least you the doors open and the kids inside the house god bless you 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 cluster because. people of the area be ready for a cluster bomb demolition which will occur at one thirty. am. a. big. chunk. thank.
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you. if. you. can see him. ok not only am i was fourteen years old when i started working with tobacco and all that. many. people are surprised that i'd use it as
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a girl's clearing cluster bombs. right. this one. one point by this point. but i love the challenge. and not just for the salary. i love to work outside. and i'm not afraid because i want to rule. out it took me three months to try to cluster bomb on how i'm just doing something that i was how do i want to have all my worst moments i wasn't afraid at all. i love this job it's like. they're almost. identical. and there's a i'm still i naive palestinian living in love and on. that i studied here in
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lebanon on been working as a nurse for a few years. after the war there was another war how did the war of the cluster go. we're still suffering from a desire and then one of the model n.g.o.s came to levon on to health care but of the cluster bombs had been when i started working for one of these n.g.o.s it's called them church state or dca when you see a study and i worked with them for seven or eight months as a medical team coordinator. but after i left the cia a friend of mine who works in the armor group which is one of the biggest clearance organizations to shake it not that i was on but of and then asked me to help them they needed first aid coordinator stop it you know what do you know when i'll behave and find out. you know miles down the road you.
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can learn how to present home during the war i was here in south lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance it was a difficult period. and it was scary. and i was always nervous the planes were above me my thought i would hear nothing but the sound of dogs it's only heightened my fear.
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