that's a compensation for a little bit of community you know as a composition to them for the boy they came from this place obasanjo the former president of nigeria in march two thousand and one promised that if i got a manager it was a beaut. research institute to be here to fund. me and our walk was supposed to commence fully in him much well that's respect this is the only institute. i listen to this issue this is the oil and gas research institute in nigeria yes that's a good resource joe you can come out to do research if you want to come here you really see a lot just. inside you do your research this is and this will live by the president not the nicest time not mr president i'll be for the republican idea. that is what we have.

port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially expansion it's like the nigerians who work on the platforms often live here whenever. 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 you to throw somebody here because there was a lot of stories whereby. the boys were employed. or drive your house needs they. could not or that it. will fair

fair a struct in one of the school everyone tries to parks close a possible maximum security cars 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 take it but after these no more of the spotted fire and they had a good outcome when they shone and had an exclusive. on all the it's so you have to. prove kind and the how you try to provide security for itself. just as a very careful one to see how you can take care of. yourself i know if i'm in there but overall it's. when it's known that sister. don't go out when he just needs.

it's a look around the people. who are on you on all of that it's. just. a month of we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve for so from you know your bed and see look through the sue is that decide if anything is going on you are yet to see. or does i was here you. were here we see your life story so. so. so than there look at god minds it is a fair wish we don't proof for but the guess of anything is to be there for security purposes difficult for them to get to you is it so you call the police on

. patrick and his wife so you get used to it all but 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 cheats but was a curse on the jury. because of what is up now. because of what is happening so people not see it as close because of the need to see the kidnapping and. being taken this. is just the government isn't to raise themselves. it's like a call. this is what mrs i was talking about

a militant from movement for the emancipation of the niger delta. groups of highly armed guerrillas who attack sites blow up pipelines and kidnap oil workers. they hide and train in the mangroves chiefs or in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from almost sales oil smuggling and ransoms the money from 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 mend militants. they agreed to talk at a secret location where we were taken eyes blindfolded during the journey. in a room behind closed windows and doors we met the man who terrorize the oil companies

workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production. the man who's going to talk to us calls himself commander rambo. because when there was. a slave for the buzz sift. through for the suppression of those in the radio. there's the. different way. of doing. my. because this is the give money to one look at

a cheerful one goldman. only suppresses the rights of the people. we have to do this to force their hand to do so. we're with the government because if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. mr so though it is sits of and or destroyed are you. sure. that form for example. if the cause of suppose so. amanda 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. 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 was a mismatch from. twelve point three was due to just export. our production gas was that point one five million not into q. we injected five. full day. with c. to the top of the exponent was. a good new start for. jackson was done so. there is. plans for a gradual plan one that gina zation. of most of the major client positions on the

f.d.a. so. megyn or the focus on more this is so. it's possible but i think that would be ceased. to be a baby if it's it does happen. i would see maybe it would be in the next fifteen or twenty years because. the box is where you have to live. it's technology from outside we go house to 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 mangroves in the countries arms of the delta is scary. because huge areas where oil spread. six 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. love all those in our boat

call to them reassuring up. a refinery. an illegal refinery under the open sky. men distill crude oil. they're handed amidst the steam on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few counties 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 and die. from the inside. if .

if if if what did he feel. he would. find. and if his kid. i think there's a different to refining process we need all. to find. ok there's always room. for the skin we went. and we put it inside all we said on the open up that. grandson when. we gave up that we. do each leg that's going to know if we want to.

define our speech. on. monday with. what i do with. what can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner of a dying micro fishermen 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 so. this is you know. this because

this is look i don't. know what. tree line anything everybody's trouble nice old silwood goes fine the last. on the. hills are now pouring out boiling refined oil residue something under still taz will be thrown into a hole dug in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the refinery. oil await their term. used in complaint. is. he. using crude. like a truck. like a truck like a truck like

a truck because these crude just got in from somewhere far away from here so we can't dig drum or bucket to the point i come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these to a good quantity of the product just like that with the crude oil. so many so many so many so these bodies sometimes they go there instead of this. time you need to contaminate the 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 are not even. i to do it has a netbook these days business has

a netbook so people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day of been using to supplement the d.v.d. the national. product because it is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million population and about a friend i was at work and as you are aware and these people guys are doing these two. for the. ever way this is the yes 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 mangroves. which is the crude oil that these men refined come from how do they get it.

on the way christmas trees abound like gold but some economy. scorched earth that once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. and then a scorching us have taken a risk the village 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 black stew. nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half in managing the well is here to stay here harvest work there's a button on the ground here b.s. there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations to bony tom and there's a ton going on him but no where he is cloaked export queue 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 the day they leak they go to disport because it leaks from the ground up so d. d. want to get to the points on the chrome when they get did he put tourists on the sufi's of the i'm a pretty good vessel you can still get. used to used oil too much or too much which was hit. so the leak never stopped. it did close it wonderfully the close it in didn't know when to call the open need to use it on the day time to close it because they'll be

mislead you don't want people to see that. you can never do this you. know what scares me they used to machine. to the host. around the makeshift drilling a mangrove is dead eaten 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 counts 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 and 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. just a bottle. to the good stuff that i would push to split up with that to be dug up that would be about if. it's going to. be do because i. was going to do it when i was going to. give it up.

you know i wanted to better i going through that old f. . a day. sometimes when we don't. want to go close. to study going to do one you don't want close it's like got some by nine hundred. you know. we'll probably have. these. big sell off you know people on the local. god given the big one three. because the guy got. 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. going to.

put out. my. eyes i was like. oh shit i see if this. was spam yeah then i was yeah. you know. twenty four hours a day off the coast of petra 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. bold

would mean. we maintain a principle that and what is equal in some political rules that results will come from all whether they are male female and so on and. with sure that's as much as possible no problems come from and so far so far we haven't had any and it's applies to most of all out of the sites that have to. person workers some workers. find each of nigeria. was feed. their gender it was their company's network. but i was

saying. it's. sad and can see i'm saying. probably not probable but. life's life is not.

arab league officials say there are observers a mission in syria will be extended for an extra month despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the un step in. croatia voting on whether the country should join the e.u. already sparking protests and some violent clashes as the clock continues to be shaken by anti austerity rallies with people in romania now rising up against their government. and turning to the other stories that shape the week tensions around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by plans to impose an iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the region. and the power of the internet in

action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws . eight pm in moscow by mattress or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t arab league officials say the group has decided that their team of moderators will carry on helping to settle the crisis in syria the league also reportedly agreed to increase the number of servers who'll be trained by the un the mission expired this week but violence continues to flare in the country as are reports there is a desperate need for professional mediators in the region conflict. while three of service delegation has been meeting in cairo here in syria the observers who were made in.