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tv   [untitled]    September 22, 2012 2:30pm-3:00pm EDT

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i was twelve when i first came here. nobody wanted to hire me them. i brought my younger brother too. he had just finished fifth grade. no actually fourth grade he could barely write his name. this twenty thousand ton cargo ship arrived here two months ago. today's task is dismounting the engine without damaging it. the four point seven ton engine of this ship will be sold for ten thousand dollars . we're always in danger eight hours' work means eight
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hours of danger. only recently we started wearing helmets used to wear just caps. a small not falling from above could kill us. fatal accidents can happen at any time because we work with heavy materials.
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a ship that just finished an exhausting trip arrives in chicago. once it arrives the distance of this ship is six. more than half of the world's retired vessels dismantled here. on. p.h.p. is the oldest among the more than thirty ship breaking. an
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authorized entry is strictly prohibited. today an old ship is arriving here to be dismantled flagpoles they used to indicate a place for the vessel. so. i'll give a little bit of that with a little. bit you want to. see
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both of them a little money cause when the ship arrives we have more work today better and make more money. it's hard work but we are happy because we should feed ourselves. all of the things i'm saying. that. the tanker had been crossing the oceans for the past thirty two years now it will have its funeral. and all the fun. out of this ship should be pulled as close as possible to the shore tonight during high tide otherwise the
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company will lose lots of money in the. pot that are already. going on around. that.
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for the past two months a cargo ship was being dismantled and an oil tanker arrived last night both will be broken down bit by bit until nothing is left. it was you this rain is nothing get back to work you know.
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it's the job of the y. a group unskilled laborers to pull for ton metal chain they are from the north the poor part of bank today. they are not so fast. so. let's. cut our. money.
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our lives are like this a build a oil tanker here we live and die. if you get it this is all we have. this is a ship graveyard but it could also be a grave for living humans. in this area approximately twenty ship breakers die every year.
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get out of the way. the for. wealthy british soil. is not on the tires.
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else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture.
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the. line in motion would be soon which brightened if you knew about some move from phones to freshen in some. means for instance on t.v. don't come. into. the
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get out of there. accidents always occur in a flash it. here is a good example of what can go wrong suddenly. i'm. not going away a little bit of the. fact i will but i'm going to be. saved you. you know you're scared me to death. i. didn't really saved you
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you could have died if you were crushed down there. already. going to hell you've got to be strong your hardest still pounding. a little bit who do a good. getting the money nobody can escape from accidents while working here. but i'm not scared i can die today tomorrow or the day after.
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often fate comes with an accident a random event shaped the destinies of both and. i'll tell you a story. there's a huge cyclon in the sixty's one morning after the cycle. stranded on the shore. it was washed down there on a thousands of people came to take a look at it they wondered could there be a ghost or devil in there. they decided to dismantle and recycle it.
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they started to strip the ship with tools this is how we started breaking ships in bangladesh. now about twenty thousand people work at over twenty sites. the ships that came here many people from starving. ships. that's why i love. to think. that so many people have died. on. the furniture please come in.
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and. two weeks later auction is rushing to p.h.p. four to five auction is bid on each item everything from a generator to dishes. p.h.p. made twenty four thousand dollars today. nothing is wasted here. without these workers hundreds of huge old vessels would have sunk into the ocean like the titanic.
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lead ship breaking of hundreds of recycle shops that often stretch for over two kilometers on both sides of the road it is in a way a huge recycling factory. outlet.
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feel. i looked it up properly you don't. place a migrant on our bodies i'm it will stay there and you know why. there are iron flakes in our bodies we work with iron every day we are iron eaters our bodies have become pieces of iron themselves. in order to survive in such a hotshot environment one must be strong. here the crows build nests out of
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fragments of on while. the workers here call those tough. in english on crows. this boy's eyes are full of those little boys work here to. they work to feed their hungry stomachs. and this is. this is shameful. this is the youngest we've called him the smallest this is pothole this is beyond delhi everyone works here for their hungry stomachs. i mean the children are starving i'm crying you don't want to welcome parents do with that children are born with nothing to eat. what kind of parent really do nothing so many
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crazy things happen i mean some hiding themselves or others leave home poverty drives them into despair it's all because of famine. or you. were twelve. i'm twelve. i must work no matter how difficult it is you know why when there is nothing to eat at home. yeah. why are you taking this this is mine. i don't know how. you can go and get one. why are you taking mine back now.
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what is the most important thing for human life. therefore the law that bans child labor doesn't make sense here. and the fact that asbestosis fatal for humans is not even an issue. who lets these boys work here they need to eat they're not old enough to work don't you see them working boys are not allowed to work. when there's nothing to eat a tiger will eat grass. you think they like to work they come here because they have nothing to eat a. criminal stopped working i told you clearly i don't want to get into trouble
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with the balls if you keep doing it you'll be fired first and never work here again . listen they are per boys at the make some money to buy a ticket to go home. send them home now you will have to leave otherwise. and what am i supposed to do. the youngest boy. came to chittagong three months ago following is uncle.
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mo said a fourteen year old boy came with a chromo. just to do a fifteen year old has been here for over a year. and . he gets angry with the cheese that could get infected. me. sometimes you need to strip both the filth. and god i did yesterday. look it's clean. oh wow that looks cool. how much did you pay for your shirt. dollar twenty.
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what's a dollar twenty one i don't want to talk about it i'm hungry why i said you look cool. boys let's go eat. and he did what was it was the menu for the night. cauliflower potato and eggs. and when he bats why it costs eighty cents. well it does when you eat you know we eat a lot. the friendship asian of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the.
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sub jet the emperor napoleon has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right i don't. bloody bottle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldier's a back to do it all again. but you know version twenty twelve on r.t. .
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