tv Documentary RT February 21, 2013 9:28am-10:00am EST
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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 eight large six 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 constant flaring of precious natural gas pollution the ecosystem. companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict has ignited which militant pipelines. closed haitians and kidnapped
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foreign oil workers telling an i.a.s. bassett's to leave my kid until he did i had to leave my guess. who took the lives who decide life is who come to depend on me. mrs 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. but as sad. as it is. your new book. i'm going to tell you through.
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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. to live manage a good life is not easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers had already been expelled country. government sources told the creeps and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the
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niger delta field as the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonny island where multinational oil companies like shell. and agile tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in the charter of a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. i said. i think it's deserved. the government we have been i do in the event not
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to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. but i beg go out of office. and 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. the far don't hold my to see it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. the new women. are they dragging the other speedboat along they're using their guns to signal
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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. so. i'm ok mom a has come. 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 a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. that is saturday night live and you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it
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audio to noodle identical album for take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demo is gone then he's used all of them does not speak to your body divided he. is the causes they need to be with the wood and knows how to give us his i love you . oh goodness given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such a lover. now i thought i'd let it come to want to come out now god you can do it do it now doing to zeus the baby emerging then bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not presumably good son got.
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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 down take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. by. enough way out i see many planes during the delivery name a pain once the baby's out.
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you guys are right you. will never. forget what i do. 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 seem just. but i want to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders that draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. israel to a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the limits of the greater the niger delta. all until recently launched the salvage on development company monday. everyday our next things are on
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the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing or maiming and it said people. at the. time i was. told them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding managerial strike taskforce he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continental for a deal that would permit them to return. this
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my life. we had in mind i thought if you don't fight. so we need developments schools i just all. know the government should do something about some. group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference. that will. be goes on so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces the. minute i'm muslim
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no. one. so. it. may be a. company. i was fired i must fight. everybody. i do. so when we look back when if i do that i will not tell you it's going to. how can you have peace if you don't do that without how i just when you forgot governments and. all that is. when you see sincerity you know if you would just
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this instead of me what forms of. you know and i know. the president no i don't like like like something doesn't like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok. for the last. sixty. but you should see him do to live. off the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not reverse that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to be i mean i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. well you've done.
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this with. an album will you stay. i don't know two governments all because. you're going to have all swelled long thought i. am and if. you're our country congressman i will leave just first. do nothing but i'm going. home i'm going to. come from us. i'm from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school. no development when you've been is as far as.
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when i first met chambers it resided 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 a tech and where his own father fell short. of. rice. and so sweets. i get. this is logical. and this is. it this is a dishy. body. with these evil presidents. but making it into destroy it is game. after i'd not taken
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a fall for me to wear. every team. logo on official loomis each and then also the dots and i might think of i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. for me. never it is looking. after me most it's. called movietone dissolved. and part of a word or way into i don't. have a hammer. and i need yeah i think from from here.
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if he can one hundred times. it's just that i didn't gave it to him but he is my child i hold there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. i have six children three boys three goes. is a good kid the wise hardworking. and since do. i want to see him. in my wasn't even here until he did as his primary school and he went to. 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 market was operated. i really want to see what i said. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like to come
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back so i will see him. you know. it's good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm age and i want to 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 he went any other place i don't know. you know i'm going to talk about how i was i don't know but i know there was no doubt the highlight. of my. life was that how do i that was. my life.
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that i didn't. really believe i'm going to get out of. those who are. yet to top it i did. they do about it but i did my job i got i decided. to stick to fix them up when we were. on the. roof over the fire. you know about what. was going on that. was the name in the time to do a thing before i was it's morning and it's afternoon it's in the evening that it's drink for you daddy sigrid for you to smoke so use this event out of your. food is
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not one of the money is not the law of moses we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god and i grew up under the law and i did i'm like i'm not going to talk about as well you know what i'm going to live i want to do what i don't know you by the way you know how much everything i would not like then i want to be identical don't want to live with you that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your job and i'm feeling a little out of the world i want you don't worry about that that's awkward i thought that was the big. question i want you. ok let's go to the middle. out of the what i know there's. an idea that i'm going to be and i doubt you're not. going to help you know. we all want to. go down you know what it. was
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like you are not the new guy do it that way they got find out that. i was my dad's god damn i've done i do not deny the fact that i. was doing. so. well. you know found what. appeared. to look lou well the. problem of them all. i mean i don't i don't want to go on the department of. welcoming times.
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i don't know the fall but if i was i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i know. i should and i think they're not and i'm not. a. very good. mother and. who knows. what might not. are you doing i was the o.r. was the was out. i was you know man that was the was and then i know is there no god is on the other clothes. was. there
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was. i. was here was. it. the. week he got up and he said. he. i mean i made some noise doesn't. lack. for life and tries to leave. phenomena to come fall down with the golf. to do boosh. for my own science which i don't like the. time that these absolute is the one that. is not. i would be in the prison yard to be
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