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tv   Documentary  RT  February 20, 2013 4:28am-5:00am EST

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so. simply.
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for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states just a large sex power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and
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constant flaring of precious natural gas pollutes the ecosystem. companies and corrupt politicians reaping norma's profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militants. sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. who took to the ice blue decide lies who come to depend on me. mr leslie. the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them.
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bob as bad. as. you thought i bought your new book. i'm going to tell you through. all who got you into so i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or like your fault you know but a yes or you want my butt out the blood clot yes it comes to my data yes or no but i don't and i dug up yes
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a few footy thank you see only what you see doesn't add. but. i decided to follow the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself what life is like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militancy was born. my brother such a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. manager good life is not
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easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers have already been expelled country. government forces patrol the streets and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but many in the niger delta feel it is the oil companies and the federal government who are robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonny island or multinational oil companies like shell. and magic tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in the joc of a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp.
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i was. sent. i think it's disturbing. the government we have been idle in the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go after. the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they carry some people in this big bed that they bend to. doesn't it
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. is the cargo hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets . or world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. a new home and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. food. and the man came out by his cum. i mean and that's when you're done eating please check your stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper
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a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. how bad is it is it is not imminent and you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you come on . to it stand up. the way this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it audio no doubt identical love it take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you but they did i didn't you. is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give us i love you. oh goodness given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such
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a lover. god let it live wanted to come out now card you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not bridge nobody. son got. a lot of. life. is that enough do you need sun. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to. take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out.
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enough way out then they feel my pains during the delivery name a pain once the baby. love you guys that was like you. will never. forget it was. during my time in h.r. career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants have laid claim seemed just. but i want to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders to draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take
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a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. israel to record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel that might add to the image of the of the greater the niger delta. still raising the lani to the salvage on development company modern day. every day our next things are on the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing or maiming and he said people. if i was. that it would. take a time i had been driven into hiding by nigeria's truck taskforce he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to
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hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the conference or a deal that would permit them to return. about . this my wife. we had in mind i thought if we don't fight the house so we need development schools i just saw them walk down you know to go measure to something about. the. group of local journalists permitted to visit to take a scan for a press conference.
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that will. be goes on so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in the sun and nobody tell them to arrange themselves gunmen does. and i look forward to move . to to. defeat it.
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its. reporting from the talks about six of the interviews intriguing stories tell you. he's been trying. to. visit. today. and these are the images. giant corporations are today.
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yeah. really. one is. maybe the. company. i was fired i was fights. on. i don't. when will we know if i can say i will not tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. know how i just when you forgot governments. and i just. when you see sincerity you know what if it was just this instead.
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you know and i know. the president no not like like life up to the like like everybody you know what is involved. is not what's got his you ok ok. it was. fixed. but you should see him do the lives. of every off the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to do and i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here and the kid. went off on. what you've done. with. an album where you stay. i don't know two governments all because. you're
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going to have all swelled long thought i. am and if the friends you know if my country congressman i lived for. nothing but i think. i'm going to. come from. no. one from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school. no developments when you visit as far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activists. is that.
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how many many millions. of people to. do now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my. own. if you. do not. voice. when i first met chaman it was i did mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and
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a techie where his own father fell short. of. rice and so sweets. i get. this is logical. this is. this is a dishy. body. with these evil presidents. but make no end to destroy his game. last night not for me to wear. every team.
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loomis each and then also the dots and i think i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. nice for me until. it is looking. up from in most its. own dissolved. and my neighborhood or way into that i. have my hair. and yeah i think from from here. if he. is just that i didn't gave it to him but he is my
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child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes to mold is a good kid hard working. mizen since do. i want to see him. in mother wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to court to look for his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the mark i was operated. with i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like to come back so i will see him. i work with my friends and
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family you know. if you're good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a gentle warner i thought he was dead. i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead. if you went any other place i don't know. well i was right about when i was about to highlight. some of the things. that i was that matter how you feel about how that was. how i live.
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about it i. really got a lot of them could how do those who are. yet to try it i hated. it. very much. but i did my job i got i decided. to stick it in the mobile world. for fun. for. women over the fire. without power. thank you for on. what they mean the time to do it's thing before i was it's morning and it's afternoon evening. drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so you see this event left you. food is not one of the money is not one of the most we don't. have all the time oh
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god that is just like you and i grew up under the law and i did i'm like i'm not going to talk about it as i would never know what i thought then that it was i don't know your mom well you know how much have you been on the job like that and i like that like. a lot of what that was i was not marriageable with you know not yes i know your go bang i'm feeling a little bit loud i was going off about that it's awkward i thought i was good because of the love you. good stuff. coming out of the what i know there's. an idea of i'm happy and i doubt very much. that i do not. feel. that i've. got to do what it ought to be to avoid it. but you are not brought to bear to do it that way they're just finding out that. i was my dad's god damn i forgot about that and i
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would if i. was going to get. well. you know. what. but. we're not going to. move almost. every day i don't i want to be on the title not welcome in times. out of the fall but if i don't i will fight and i suppose. i must have
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a comp went to fight. or not get married and i know i am i should and i think they're not and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what might follow. here are you doing i was over the o.r. was. was out i was up the you know man that was the was and then i know it. was is on the other clothes there. was an l.n. was. the doctor here
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was. it. the. week he got home he said. yeah. i mean i made some list does a. random. life and tries to leave. does not become. to do. for. my. arm that this is absolute is the one that. is not. i would be in the prison yard to get.
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