only it's. the truth this is. the truth. yeah that's a good resource that i'm sure you've got to do it i said if you want to. see a lot doesn't interest and i say you do i would say this is i'm just wanted by the president not that much just. me is the president going to put out a public. that is what we have. port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially expansion it's like the nigerian to work on the platforms often live here when they're ashore. we're in the car of patrick and we met on the f.p.s. . he's head of the control room

a major post two weeks at sea two weeks ashore he suggested that we stop to visit his home just now patrick is off to fetch his children from school. normally. gone out for a drive but. it's difficult for somebody here because. of how they love the stories we have. to put in employed. or drive your house needs. a struct in one of the school everyone tries to parks close a possible maximum security cause even drive into the playground patrick actually goes into each classroom to fetch his three children one by one initially when he started it was that it was the it was the spotted that he could not buy the taking but after these no more the. yes spotted about fire and they have

a good accommodation in an exclusive. on all a that's so we will have to. kind of know how you try to provide security for itself. just as a very careful one to see how you can take care of yourself i'll find it i don't go all the way and it's known as a street. don't go out when it is needs. it's a look around the people. who are on to i know that's. started just show. them up as if we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve so from you know you can see look through this who is that decide if

anything is going on you are yet to see those he already does i was here you. were here we see your life still so. so. so then there look at god minds and good software which we don't through for but because of anything it's to be for security purposes difficult for them to get to you is it is so you call the police. patrick and his wife so you get used to know that the state of alert becomes second nature when patrick quits the tension of his high risk he confronts another tension ashore. the eye ito family is very well off they leave the country join the vacations to take a rest i've heard people say that he. was not a cheat but was a curse. or imagine. it is because of what is there now. what

is happening so people not see it as close because of the militancy the kidnapping and. they're taking this. is just the government there isn't it here is themselves that's why. this labor costs are not sublists. this is what mrs i talking about militants from men movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed guerrillas who attack all sides blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mind grows their chiefs are in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from almost sales oil smuggling and ransom demand upon foreign companies they confront the forces of law and order directly in

exchanges which end in death some both sides. after endless bargaining during our various trips we were able to make contact with the men the militants. they agreed to talk a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors we met the men who terrorize the oil companies workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production it's the man who's going to talk to us calls himself commander rambo here. because when the angel was in lake it's a slit for the buzz fifty three of selling is. the spokesman for the loss of the cylinder that i will settle for your money suppression of those in the radio as of

this. isn't like you said. there's the jews in the sea that brought in a different way of doing. this they were doing divide a room with. my own people where they put that. almost the same to. the center. because this is that and give money to one look at cheerful one goldman of. only suppresses the cry as the rights of the people. we have to do this to force and to do so. not just the government because if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. mr so though it is sit of and or destroy.

are you. sure. that form for example. if in the close of suppose so. amend the militants are able to travel far in their fast and powerful boats. aboard the f.b.i. so they're waiting for them but with our name when they might come the price of a ransom for an expatriate fifty thousand dollars thirty thousand euros the hostages are always returned in good condition it was from his office patrick is in contact with the offices on shore several times a day though his reports are like a poem with ficus. twenty two mismatch from. twelve point three was due to just export. our production gas was that two point one five new start in two q. we injected five point. four day. with c.

to the top of the exponent was. a good initial for. what. was done so. there is a. plan forward gradual plan one man gina zation. of most of the major point positions on these to soak. maginot all the jobs are more this year so. it's possible but i think that would be. the ceased. to be we're looking at the baby if it's it does happen. i would say maybe it being next fifteen or twenty years because. the facts is we have to.

technology from the outside we go after the local technology. contrary to what patrick thinks they do have the technology but not the same means . a little trip continues along the delta for a sequence that nobody has ever yet managed to filter. through said time from a village whose name the inhabitants also is not to mention because their revenues don't exactly derives from the declared economy. the journey through the mangrove and the countless arms of the delta is scary. to cross huge areas where oil spread. thick layer of black oil that covers the entire surface of the water below which all life is totally disappeared. kilometer after kilometer of mangrove

are affected and yet no scientific mission has ever yet come into these territories and. the six black smoke is rising over the mangroves. we've arrived at last. as we approach the men fully. of all those in all both of them reassuring up.

a refinery. an illegal refinery under the open sky. men distill crude oil. there amidst the steel. on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few cans to make stills. and who feed the fire by tossing bowls of oil onto it. it's an apocalyptic scene under the dying trees. the men live here e.t.s. . sleep here and die. from the inside.

if if. he would. get his kid. there's a different to refining process we need all coal from the steam. to

find. ok there's always room. to skin feast we went. fishing. we put it inside all we said on the open up that. grandson paid for and. we gave up that we. do each leg that's good to know if we want to. define our speech. on. the ways we go. by what i do with. what can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner of

a dying micro fisherman turn borders of crude oil just trying to get by. a nightmare no. more of a parallel economy which learn the basics of refining from oil company technicians . where does the crude come from and where does the refined products go. and. how close. did you all know what. tree line anything everybody's trouble nice old school would go to find a less safe. on the. hills are now pouring out boiling refined oil residue something under still tal's will be thrown into a hole in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the

refinery. with oil await their turn. using confident. use. as a crude oil. sort of. like a truck. like a truck like a truck like a truck because these crude oil just got in from somewhere far away from here so we can't take draw more bucket to the point and come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these to. good quantity of the product just like that with the crude oil. so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of. terminator

contaminated water they put it into the. this is called put it to dick you know and process it here refine it here. and after. the refined. ok. is black market in local markets the local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that i don't even. i to do it has a netbook these days business has a netbook so there are people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day of been using it to supplement the d.v.d. . production is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million population and about a friend i was out walking as you are aware and these peeved guys are doing these two. for the. ever way to sustain yes yes.

here and there across the forest smoke rises to indicate a refinery apparently there are dozens we do a little further into the mangrove. which is the crude oil that these men refine come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees down the glycol bit some economy. scorched earth once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. courting us have taken a risk. chiefs people in high places get dividends from illegal refineries but the feeling of

a dead end the point of no return is drowning them in indignation. after a moment we stop in the middle of an expanse of blacks do you. nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half a matching the well is here to stay here others work there's a pipe on the ground here is there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations tube. there's a ton going on in but a wedding is cloaked export coup crude oil from day and the pipes are being laid on the ground from here to bony yes which is the technique people from here use for collecting liquid or when they see that when to see that there's a leak they go to disport because it leaks from the ground up so d. d. want to get to the point on the chrome when they get did he put tourists on the

sufi's of the i'm going with. that as well you can still get. used to oil too much or too much which was. never stopped. dick closes wonderfully to close it in didn't know when to com the open need to. use it all day time to close it because there we mostly don't want people to see that. you can never do this you. know what. they used to machine. to the hoost. balls. around the makeshift drilling and one group is dead even away by the oil. it's this type of leak more or less assisted that is the source of the black swamps we pass through. and we learn that retired engineers and technicians from the companies do

the jobs themselves. because the operation requires skill. for two thousand dollars they come with their equipment d.p.'s the pipeline and they put in a tap. the commissioner of this act of piracy then becomes owner of his own oil well. and sells the raw material to the buyers in the canoes to refine it further on. so all along the road you find tiny independent service stations consisting of three or four cans to supply the motorist. a flourishing black market based on chaos and man's inventiveness. out at sea it's a final stage in the process a giant boy will serve as a morning of supply point for supertankers from all over the world. two hundred kilometers off the coast the d.i.y. man and backyard refiners won't be piercing the pipelines pilots are responsible

for that operation by hand and by hook. what spy to see going tugs the maneuver seems almost traditional. if. it would be allowed to cross the bottom no no to that would say that i would push to move up with that to be dug up that would be about it was. as good as way. because i. was going to do what i was going to. be without. you know any better i going through that old ever. stay. with me don't.

you study. one you don't. like got somebody one hundred. you know. it would probably. make some. people on the looking. god given the big three. progressing gradually. filling the tank it would take three days and it will be immediately replaced by another. you can almost hear the oil slipping through the pipes. i don't know. what a. lot of. guys i was like. oh shit i see festool. spent yeah it's been awful yeah. you know. twenty four hours a day off the coast the petrol is pumped treated then delivered the world needs

energy and we haven't found anything better. in the future they envisage turning to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand metres. from land and watching ice at night the s.p.s. i was like a magnificent motionless fog display and i am one last question to ask. we . will maintain the principle that and what is equal in some political rules. where you come from. where the evil is one. was sure that's as much as possible no problems come so far so far we haven't had any and it's

applies to most of all of the sites that have to. person workers some walkers the best set up. find each of nigeria. was feed. their general was their company's network. but was saying. its. sides and can say it's one thing. probably not probable but. life's life is not.

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back from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and you see now it's six pm here in the russian capital four pm in damascus our top story moscow's vowing to do everything it can to make sure the u.n. security council doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria that plaids from russia's top diplomat as he wrapped up a briefing on twenty eleventh's foreign policy parties peter all over is at the foreign ministry. blames both the assad government and the opposition for fighting continuing in the country and moscow wants to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there though what was new that was said by surrogate love rival wednesday is that the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo said should they break down should they not come to through.