well with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've. covered. russia the victims of a devastating flash flood in the krasnodar region which is killed over one hundred seventy in effect almost thirty five thousand becoming the area's worst natural disaster. international envoy kofi. well damascus denounces america for its role in the civil war. protests rage across pakistan with demonstrators marching chanting and taking part in huge convoys against the reopening of nato supply routes.

and held for all this next week travel to nigeria to explore its regional battle. but the best is yet to be seen lost in the brush just a few meters away i say. you know. them for the. obasanjo the former president of nigeria in march two thousand and one promised that if i got a manager it was a beaut. oil and gas research institute to be here and let the foundations to me and our walk was supposed to commence the following him much by that respect this is the only institute that is in the. list business the truth this is the oil and gas research institute in nigeria yes that's a good resource so 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 was led by the president not an artist and not a minister president of the for the republican idea this through. that is what we. would it would look like a local. port harcourt three million inhabitants the principal city of the delta and growing exponentially it's country it's like the nigerians who 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 you don't know these are fairly difficult for you to trust somebody here because it was a lot of stories there but. the boy employed. or drive your house needs they. could not know that it. will fare for 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 was the. spotted i could not by the way take it but after i did these no more the spotted about fire and they had a good outcome when they shone in an exclusive body in one theory as an all a that's so you'll have to. prove the 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 i don't go there. when it's not necessary. don't go out when he just needs to know it's a look around the people. before and you are no that's. not it this was just me show. you some numbers that we arrive at the house a super secure is a little fortress but outside and inside. is a sieve for so from you know you guys see look through this who is that we decide if anything is going on you look through yet to see all the doors already does and i was here with a view. there are like. more here

with the orb lie still so good. so. so then i look at god minds and gives off a wish with oprah for what they get of anything it's to be for security purposes difficult for them to get to you isn't it so you call the police are you. patrick and his wife so you get used to it all that the state of alert becomes second nature when patrick quits the tension of his high risk job he confronts another tension ashore. the eye ito family is very well off. they leave the country during the vacations to take a rest i've heard people say that. it was not that she. was a curse or material. is because of what is there now. because of what is happening so people now see it as close because of the militancy the kidnapping

and. they're taking this. and that's what you see. it's just the government isn't here is themselves that's why. this labor costs are not sublists. this is what mrs i told is 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 mine grows their chiefs are in the big cities or abroad. acquiring their revenues from arms sales oil smuggling and ransoms demanded 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. and 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 men who terrorize the oil companies workers and who by their attacks managed to reduce production and 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 saved three or seven years. just given forgiveness a position of language that i will settle for your suppression of those in the lane the reader. has just. this isn't like the said girl says there's the using the same type to vote in

a different way but doing in the schoolyard is they were doing divide a room and they were. like my old pop it's. more the same to the fact is the center. because this oil company is that and give money to one look for one government official only suppresses the cries the rights of the people so it's nuclear. we have to do this to force and to do some. not just economy with the government to cause if we destroy production it's a phrase the government of. mr swallow it is sit of and or destroy how you book to goof off sure to form for example if you're in the cons of. the main 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 to go 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 figures. twenty two mismatch from. twelve point three was due to just export. our production gas was that point one five new start in two q. we injected five. full day. with c. due to. the gas exports was.

a good initial for. what injection was doing this and. there is a plan for a gradual plan one nineteen. off most of the major plant positions on the f.d.a. so. much and we have all the shows on by this year so. it's possible but i think that would be. the seach. it to be would look here to be if it's if it does happen. i would think maybe it would be in the next fifteen or twenty years because. the fact is we have to lie all the. technology from the outside we don't have 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 fill in. the set 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 were 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 flee. love all those in our boat call to them reassuring upward. a refinery. an illegal refinery under the open sky. here men distill

crude oil barefoot bare handed amidst the top on the risks of explosion. men who've welded together a few cams to make stills. and who feed the fire by tossing bowls of oil onto it. it's an apocalyptic scene under the dying palm trees. the men live here d.t.'s. sleep here and die here and toddle from the inside.

like if a thief with a geeky film. would. find useful and if purity. condition. i think there's a different to refining process we need all coal from the steam baby. they call one of. its local. diesel define honesty. ok there's always room to see if you.

the skins east we went to the. fish block then and we put it inside the old we said fly on the opened up that from. the greenspun coke they were until. we gave up that we don't get greedy to. do each leg that's going to knows we want to. define with each new team that would. be. on opening day with people we wanted to always buy and i do wish. we. can you say it's dirty it's dangerous. in a corner of a dying micro fisherman turn borders of crude oil are 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. to here and. of course because this is look i don't think we did know what the concrete webmonkey line on anything everybody's trouble nice although still we go to find a less safe. well on the. hills and are pouring out boiling refined oil the residues of the under still task will be thrown into a hole dug in the ground to fuel another operation. opposite the refinery canoes full to the gunnels with oil await their turn. the

boat is using confident i could. probably use. the. sort of yeah you're using convened i'm crude and. like a truck. like a truck like a truck like a truck because i'm. getting from somewhere far away from here so we can't take drum or bucket to the point i come back it will be strenuous. many times so they use these to convey a good quantity of the product to just fill the boat like that show with the crude oil. so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of till terminator on time they do water they put it into the kino this is called the put it to the canoe and process it

here refine it here. and after all where do sell the refined oil ok. is the soul of the black market in local markets local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that are not even. i to do it has a new talk this does business has a network so that people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves and of course there's been a day when using it 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 to the government for this. every 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 mangroves. which is the crude oil that these and refined come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees planted like all but some economy. scorched earth that once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. the menace coating 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 blacks do you. nothing on the

surface but the end of a plastic pipe half emerging the well is here to stay here others work there's a button on the ground here b.s. there is a trance niger. pipe connecting the flow stations to bonnie tom and there's a ton going on him but no where he is gloat export queue crude oil from day and the pipes are being laid on the ground from here to bony yes what is the technique people from here use for collecting the crude oil when they see that one to see that there is a leak to go to disport because it looks from the ground up to the day on to get to the point on the ground when they get there he put tourists on the sufi's of the i'm going with all those where you can still get. used to oil too much or too much too much water here.

thank you. never stopped. dick closing wonderfully to close it in didn't know when to con the open need to use it on the day time to close it because there willacy they don't want people to see that. you have to continuously about the oil. they use pumping mostly mission the machine. to the host there. was. around the makeshift drilling a migrant 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

they pay us the pipeline and they put in a town. 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 who 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.

thought it would be a lot would cost a lot of no no to do that would that i would push that's what will split up with that to be dug up that we did about it. that. is going to us way it's the duty of god or gods ask us to do it without getting. so without it without. god. you know how to do better i going through that old every day. with sometimes one we don't. want to go. most. study going to do one you don't want close it's like got some by nine hundred. you know.

it will probably. be a. big selloff to keep on the looking. god given the big one three. because the guy got it. 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. not going to. live up to what a. lot of. guys i was like. oh shit i see this too. but i spend yeah i think i'll do 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 drilling to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand meters. from land and watching

ice at night the f.p.s. i was like a magnificent motionless firework display and i am one last question to ask. you. i thought i would. board we mean. we maintain a principle that everyone is equal and some of the company rules on without a source where you come from long whether you're 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 the other sites that i've talked to a. person workers some workers the

best saying that. each of nigeria. was feeling the. ledger of was there are companies to make work. but i was saying. it's. its sides and can say it's unfair. probably not probable but. life life is not.

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