dreams of the most industrial nation and he wants to fast but to do it he needs a few. lemon ones the coal is the bread of industry and during the soviet union the miner was held up as a shining example of what a work should be timeless and ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the hardest workers of old were here in siberia is whose boss region taking the coal that would make everything from steel to record. more than seven hundred billion tons of coal on the mines and a hundred thousand people i want to meet these men and find out just what it takes to work in russia's coal basin on the first. is how to keep themselves safe from.

the six six seven m. life support system is designed to protect the lungs from gases in the event of an explosion. if you have smoke around. you take the cap off and drop it. but you know. i have my briefing and it's time to head down. to ten o'clock in the morning to join the day shift at the pits. should be six in the. country where they take out almost two hundred thousand tons of

coal every month. the machine carrying us was like something out of a science fiction movie a massive metal snake suspended. and slithering its way three hundred meters beneath us. and the piece itself is equally ominous. black was covered with a child. in white dust. the ceiling is held in place with hydraulic beams and each minus shuffles beneath them as they get into position behind the massive feet. and it's this multimillion dollar cutting tool that allows them to extract the files and tons of coal every forty minutes.

or machines operated by two men will be in choosing control panels one of the right to left just. frankly. don't produce good professionals the safety precautions described in the books and regulations really aren't helpful you only get experience by working as a team with the newcomers may watch the old miners to learn how to do the job. doesn't mean the mine isn't just thrown in at the deep end the man operating that she has a lot of his colleagues in his. nice new recruits needs up to a year of training. with a local you've made a mistake. you have to adjust the support leg before you can start extracting my cold. if you don't make the grade it's back to the drawing board but there's

much more than just classroom training involved each miner needs to show they know what to do if an emergency really does and. you've got to be physically fit enough to get others out under the toughest of circumstances. each new recruits has to undergo a grueling workouts in a special sauna is ridiculously holmes. and insulin. in this heat. will be just keep coming and i was starting to feel a little dizzy but this was a real situation i might be expected to put out before so you have to be able to stomach humidity but once one hundred fifty i was told to take

a break from doctor's orders. cooled down a bit it was back to the go and started. by this. day three hundred if that. little bit sick but now.

fortunately convey isn't heavy machinery to take most of the weight in today's modern pits but the next day so much so that they can also break. ok. next time we'll drop everything and do as you say we're good everything needs to be in order. the power's out oh ok let me check a christian is all we did in the circuits are open for five minutes i'll get the power to you. get to it. but it doesn't take long to get things going again that makes everyone happy. except me perhaps.

this is a pretty good job with the best of times but the thing about being the new guy is you get to do everything that no one else wants to do is well. glamorous life i lead. there's no doubt the mind is lost is better than he used to be the men work less hours for more paid and the times when you had to put in a full day of back breaking labor along. some of the problems they face now are as real as they were more than a century ago. now back when these calling is first arrived here you couldn't imagine a more difficult or dangerous profession than mining as well as having to dig out all the coal by hand there was always the ever present threat that the roof might

just collapse on your head and that's when these planes supports came in they would actually start to squeak if the pressure became too much so at least there was a chance that the miners would hear and be able to get out. if that. isn't bad enough. they also had to worry about the build up of methane gas because of the poor ventilation and then along would come the man with possibly the worst job in the entire world dressed head to toe in went to go toilet and carrying a lid to watch it literally come up suck it into the gas fill tunnel and. couple who with might be explosion you've just seen was the result of safety

regulations being violated there would have to be the supports weren't in line with safety regulations. a mass of coal caved in and hit the cable and ripped open the insulation with it but the explosion was caused by an electrical impulse from a faulty ventilator. the electrical equipment in the shaft was also faulty but that's how it happened. the same build up has to be constantly monitored and mine is now the way to do it on the ground. so this little gadgets is a very important piece of safety equipment not everyone has one because it measures three different gases that are present in the amount of oxygen the amount of carbon monoxide i mean amounts of methane. if the amount of methane for instance reaches more than one percent then lights off last a long full sound and ever oh no maybe they're out. to come small it

also has technology that tells them where the miners at any time. it was so now there are two guys down in the pit i'm ninety above ground with a simple click of a mouse you can see the name of everyone on shift today and i'm sure they all are right now. it's another michael precaution because you never know exactly when an accident. oh it was really a lot of story. three duty manager go ahead with. six or six. ok even understood.

the. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon bt and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker see it's a step forward a little corrects it is toxic is a look a lot like spray. it was a it was not a picture that either the government or b.p.

really wanted to have i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite touch if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch ati anytime anywhere . on the roof another one to maintain contact with. the c.e.o. level number three set of communications take temperature readings every five minutes if you find that one.

would like to get our task today concerns both tactical and technical training it will involve two units our unit is up the underground base we are to keep in touch with the second unit if the second unit of needs help when we are duty bound to give it the from the. media this search unit is currently moving along the route. absolutely you know injured people have been found so far. there is gas and too much smoke and then the men will navigate further with the help of ropes tethering them together in

a line this method will assist them in the operation. all right. understood be careful. here this. is an internet. of the planks. of wood plants. breathing. he's breathing. didn't see any obvious injuries. there's legs broken. moment too soon. this is a carry he's breathing. this will help him very. low pressure is ok. bring the stretcher here. it's going to split him it's

a sad fact the coal mining is still one of the world's most dangerous professions every million tons of christmas coal is estimated to cost three to four life's. work with this false history that. we must be responsible not only for the people we are searching for but also for ourselves but will there be in cases when the rescuers didn't come back. the injured men have then taken to hospital. you know that it's a training exercise but when the dust of the smoke comes in it's actually very frightening i can't imagine what it would be like have to go through for real.

thank god there are guys like this the do the job that they do. because some of the best trained rescue rangers in the country and they're ready to go at a moment's notice and can be trying but it has its rewards. well thought she. was live months they called us in to search up central mine shaft. and caved in. your bits of the most spent about twelve hours digging the man out and show. to begin with we had drilled a small holes to give them food and water and. all three of them survived to be above well as it turned out they were my former colleagues used to work together in the mine for years before they were lucky. with lear. the whole thing collapsed and was closed off moments after we pulled them all alto. my boys we will

only be just in time. but tragedies like the response to mine explosion which killed sixty six people back in two thousand and ten is still very fresh in the memory. problem feels there is still certain private companies who put money before safety. and as a girl i was on a different career the most normal safety procedures were ignored then even tied rags over the sensors to disable them a better more wave had on many investigations but there's no money in the senate and no two is going to invest money here. i went to see some of the processes that they're working on a camera of his new clean coal or a trim but the man in charge says they still have a long way to go. i didn't please call signs you're in forty years

and i know big because as million tons black because this kind of coal and swings because we don't know what is it. will be researching into or digging it out of the rock coal is ever present in the christmas region and if you've not had enough of it at work you can even grab a bite to eat in a restaurant that's devoted to it. the bit that evening for your safety please take this hard hat you'll get a sense of the atmosphere in the cold my and let me take you to your table. and surprisingly this local eatery has a very minor friendly menu. sorry your beef tongue salad with coal dust.

every spare in the coal mine is a real treat for me. but be warned the regulars can be pretty toolkits of progress i'm sure that's all fascinating stuff but you know i am trying to eat here more and. still there are a few house specialties which probably didn't make it into the lunch boxes of the mine as a bowls. of hard working. were mostly things the reason ice cream. let's say it's a dessert that's was doing a shift in the fall. we be friends you drink oh well rather than to smile on. our bars special cocktail to cave in.

to. the rules. orderly. generous the words of. my pulse to punch might have been in no hurry to get back to the pits but i had a date with one of the most experienced miners in the entire come some moments company. james let's go over the past two decades me high heels has seen and done it all and he's been joined by his son alexander a pattern that's been the piece of in these minds for generations i've been working here for twenty three years and one of them is that we now have modern equipment and people have changed a lot to get a bosses have become very demanding border safety measures are much more strictly

enforced all that's resulted in increased production. but fewer and fewer men seem to regard it as a job for life. there are thirty two out of every ten to a hired only two or three will stay and those who do a very hard working if the bosses see anyone being lazy one bell be forced out one you would up with another down here you have to love your job and you have to work hard because if that's not your attitude then you really can't work as a team you by job. and alexander is not mikhail's only some preparing for life down the pit his brother alexei will be graduating from mining vocational college next year. and even six year old son

again seems destined for the family business. what's your favorite toy. that one. would know look good he'd show. he says it is a right now but let's feel when he grows up. he's too little now. and doesn't really know what he's talking about. here playing with that hard hat now he likes that. there is no escaping the coal mine. you can't get away with the only thing we have here are mine. if he does go into the mines so gay will help keep the coal coming and the convey is rolling twenty four hours a day production here never stops. so behind me you can finally see the fruits of our labors this year paul i love cold has just been purefoy of

the coming out of the pits and now it's ready for it's a long journey to the still far trace. most of the regions like most soulful a bit too much cold and ends up in its messy plugs where it's transforms. into this stuff and. more clues it hot. gets heated up to a profound decrease in more than twenty hours and turned into. the fluently it's been paid guy and much tell you what you really do not to want to be getting this close to it. now i just want to give you a quick easy recipe so make your own soup bust the holes in the seal rice some stuff.

then pour in to some quantity got. out a quick list. killer oxygen sent up the hoots and signals that gather. no one should be on the slightest. night manageable. just. as. the finishing touches.

of the cars buses fuel ends up on the final this woman has a far more creative use for this. is the cosmos is a cold sculptor. for the years when you come a piece of coal some saw it was it gives you a clue about what it's meant to be one of it's a very beautiful material. when i go to exhibitions coal miners sometimes come up to me they've been working in pits for ages they look at one of my pieces and i can almost see tears in their eyes when they see what can be made from a lump of coal and there is no hole just destined for the furnace when i cut it or do i know that this is the product of a coal mine is hard work and maybe even of lives lost that's why people appreciate it. coats the coal with a special solvent and uses

a razor to prevent it from shattering and the results are quite astounding. the better it is finished you wouldn't believe it's possible to make such a beautiful thing out of something so brittle and difficult but apparently in the beginning that any. go because here he started working with coal and his friend bet him that he couldn't make freestanding sculpture out of it. but i hope you didn't put too much money on that. there's no getting away from the facts that coal and money will always go hand in hand in the cause of us region and the this multi-billion dollar business will always be dangerous but it's the glue which binds the people together it's the heart of the community and with new technologies being developed to make life safer for the miners and more productive for their

employees to sell a pioneering spirit in this cold color of siberia and still light down in the darkness. manufacturing consent or determining a foreign policy consensus in washington in the halls of power in western capitals drive foreign policy decisions particularly when it comes to iran and israel and syria is american foreign policy in the country's own interest. both. good speech. you.

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