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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. nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states it is the eight large six power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the 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 pollutes the ecosystem. well 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. the conflict has ignited which

militants blow my plans sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers who have tended. to leave my kid until they did i had to leave my guess. who took lies who 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. but as bad. as. 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 is just up 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 forces from the creeks and gone on

a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but many in the niger delta builders the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonnie 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 a jock or 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 then i do in the end not

to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. or. do you think they're no longer here. but not my bag go off. 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. they then. doesn't it. is the cargo hold michael see it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets. a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. and you and i.

are they dragging the other speedboat along they're using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and it's twenty three year old named mom goes into labor force. for. them ok mommy has come. i mean and that's when you're done eating please check her 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 it is not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure come on . to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper

and chew it audio to know it identical love it take it quickly come on. my stomach . if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone demi's used all of them does not speak to your body did i didn't you. this is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give advice i love you. oh good lord this 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 hard you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerging him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not preaching of

a good. son not. one with. a lot of. life. is that enough do you need son. done to long time down i do it to first do it to done take take the sound. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. by. enough way out then i feel my pains during the delivery name of pain once the baby.

love you guys it was like it. was never. going to get. done. 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 and fears that might add to the image of the greater the niger delta. still raising the lani to the

salvage on development company monday. every day our next things are on the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed criminals to carry out such as being killing and maiming and he said people. of the . time i was. on. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's joint task force 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 to return. this

is really about going. to. present this my wife that good life we have in mind that if we don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out as you know to go measure to something about you know probably a good thing. that. it was a group of local journalists committed to visit a tech is camp for a press conference. for. the people that i go. to goes on also so.

there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen does does. and i think it would be a little down. to that. i will forget it. well

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i already. developments. on oh yeah. there. was one. so. maybe. i'm hoping if. i was fired spock i was fights. fights. everybody. is dead governments i do wonder how problem with me. if i can tell you. how can you help peace if you don't. just. governments.

but when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president no i don't like like life doesn't like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should say and do to live. up to them 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 be i mean i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can.

i use on. this group with. an album will you stay. i don't know two governments use. to go to my divorce will be lost or thought i. am and if. if my country congressman i lived for. nothing but i think. i'm going. to miss him. i'm from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school few. minutes when you visit as far as.

well but. somebody like. what. is the. human rights activists. how many men in the hands. of the two. enemies is to an end to. this man if it is my. if you. do not have the. voice.

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. nice. and so sweet so. i get. this is. this is. this it is this. or dishy. body. with these evil presidents.

but making the destroy his game he. asked for me to where. i left everything. on official louis each and then also the dots and i think i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. on me on the. navy it is lying. it's. called movietone dissolved. and my main order way into that i would. have my hair.

and i knew yeah i think from from here. there's someone and it's. it's just that i didn't gave birth to him but he's my child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes she is a good kid the wise hardworking. 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 market was operated. 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 family you know. it's 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 he went any other place i don't know. ok i was right about the you know there was no alcohol and i was. smoking was that was that was how i got out of

that i was. valid. good idea. going going going going to be good how do you are. yet to try it out it. is. very much i love you but i got i decided. to stick to fix them up when we were. on the. verge of building bill strikes. me about how well i was under. the name in the time to do its thing before i was it's morning and it's afternoon evening that he's trying for you daddy sigrid for you to smoke so you see this

event out of your. food is 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 think that i'm like i'm not going to talk about it as well you know what i'm going to live i want to do what i know you by the way not that you did not would not like that i want to act like the devil don't want that one thing that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your god when i go back and i feel a little out of the world i don't you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was. but you. know well you know. ok let's go to the bible but i don't want to do what i know there's. an idea that i'm happy and i doubt very much. that i do know.

that i've. got to do what it ought to be to avoid it. but you are not bloody very good with that but i guess finding out that. was not god's god damn i forgot about that and i haven't. done without you i can't. prove that. oh. well found. we're not going to. move almost. every day i don't know if you want to under the bible not welcome in times.

out of the fall but if i don't i will fight on a symbol that i must have a comp went to fight. or not fire and. next time i know i am i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. god. and i've got a good. mother. who knows. what fight oh no not on here are you doing i was over oh i was. out. i was you know that was the one that i knew that i know.

was on the other clothes there. was. there was. a load was here was. that. he got home he said. he. yeah. i mean i made some place doesn't look. like and tries to leave if there's no money come. to do. my own science damaso much of the logic is. i mean that these absolute is the one

the thing that. is not debunked i would be in the prison yes it's good. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power instead of speak

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going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture today president obama took to the stage in tennessee to offer republicans a grand bargain for america's economy a grand bargain that includes lowering america's corporate tax rates so why are republicans the great protectors of corporate america ballpeen at the president's proposal also america's fast food restaurant chains making millions of dollars in profits each year those c.e.o.'s are awarded with a million dollar bonus sponsible for the success of these companies the workers they're reaping some of the rewards too and tarzan's oil has been leaking into the alberta canada countryside.