tv Documentary RT July 31, 2013 2:29pm-3:01pm EDT
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under the circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited in which militants blow my plans sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers we had. to leave one can't only did i had to leave my guess. who took the lives who decide life is who troubled economy. 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. bob as a bad. guy i bought 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 and 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 patrolled the streets and gone on
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a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the 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 joc of a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. as. i said. i think it's deserved it. the government we have been arguing the event
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not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke i didn't understand. it. but here. 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 and they bend to. the cargo hold my decision 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 which
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a lot of the new women. are they dragging the other speedboat along so they're using their guns to signal each other. 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. how bad is it is it not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to choose to. take it ensure
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you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it audio to neutral identical album for take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you were cheering it you listen it's still reading. all this once and then was gone demi's used all of them does not speak to you but they did i did he. is the causes they need to do with and knows how to give us his i love you. oh good lord just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma settle over. god let it come to want to come out now god 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 original my
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good. woman. i love it. but. 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. they're not way out she made me feel my pains during the delivery naima pain once the baby's out.
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over you guys it was like you were going. to tell that. good guy. 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 to 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 record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel that might add
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to the movement to the greater the niger delta. all until recently learned to be salvaged on development company monday. every day are next to join the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as generally being killing or maiming and he said people. if i was. going to tell them. 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 hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they. maintained in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continent for a deal that would permit them to return. about
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with. this my life. my life we have in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out you know the government should do something about some. group of local journalists committed to visit to take his campaign for a press conference. that will go. to those on both sides.
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but there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces the. minute in muslim nobody tell them to arrange themselves by men just just. as you can with. do that. i will forget it. i would rather ask questions to. people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t.
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question more. the arab muslim world is ablaze with conflict and turmoil be revolution civil wars or external meddling there can be no doubt this region will never be the same again it would also appear that the old and new colonial order for much of the region is coming to an end but what is replacing it is who is on the right side of history. wealthy british style sign some time to. market why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds
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a report on our. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia we did very profitable also in is a very high return on investment. and you'll know me that he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups are a part of me that is i knew that about a ministers of change their name a strategy but i just feel the same murderous. high ranking suspects gives no comment where you have to say about that mr president your soon. to president clinton. but the news. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation. is it dead and. get it up and says you can stop it and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the
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consequences. you got your bodyguards to watch themselves to because the same goes for them. regards from st i've never heard of such a case as ours are so much money and gold still for so many. for all the gold in colombia. we speak your language well enough to dance. music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles keaton's stories. for you here. just to enjoy spanish. visit. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you
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knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. and i already. new developments. just like a bridge on oh yeah. really everybody. it was one. soul wants. to do you want. it done if used to do it. maybe a. couple it done for a child. i was fired spock i was fights. fights. everybody. is dead governments i do want me.
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to. tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president no not like like life up to 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 see him do to live. up to them you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise
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that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to be i mean i didn't grow up i want to. say how long you've been here and you can. why you've done. this. and eloise day. i don't know two governments all because. if you go tonight you've also been lost or thought i. am and if. you're my country congress me and i lived first. nothing but i think. i'm going to. come from this. one from. we are facing
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do not. they voice. when i first met chambers they 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 tekken where his own father fell short. of. rice. and sweets. i get. this is. this is. this it is this. issue. with.
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body. with these presidents. what make me destroy his game is my father. asked for me to where. i left everything. open official louis each and then also he doubts i might think of athletes. if i want to know is that it is game it's. on me. never it is lying. from interest it's. called movietone dissolved.
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and my name or the way into that i. have my hair. to me yeah i think from from here. p. m. one hundred nineteen. 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 tomorrow which imo is a good kid the wise hardworking godall. and since do. i want to see him. him i wasn't even here until he did his primary school and he went to court to look
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for his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and 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 tina to come back so i would see him. you know. if you're good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a major 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 you went any other place i don't know. i was guidance that we know there was no alcohol and i.
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about what. was. the name in the time to you it's strange if i was it's morning afternoon evening that is drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so use is a better level. food is not one of the money is not. the. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god and i grew up under the law and i don't like it i'm not going to talk about it as i will never know what i've done the lives i want to what i don't know you by way not much if you did not would not like that i was. like what he was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you are with your god now go back and i'm feeling a little bit loud i was going off about that it's awkward i thought i was. i. don't know well you know good stuff. if you listen to the bible but i don't want
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to know what i know that's. what i do know than i do you remember that day and i doubt very much. that i do not. want to let it. go down to their credit. report it up. but you are not you are you going to do it that way they're going to find out that . i was my dad's god damn have you done enough to deny the fact. that you. know. what. i mean. we're going to. move almost.
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every day i don't i want to on the bible not welcome in times. i don't know the fall but if i don't i must fight unanswerable. i must have a comp went to fight. or not fire. next time i know. i should and i think there's enough and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. well white or no not unlike you know i live i. i.
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feel. which i don't like to think i mean if this is the one that. is not. i would be in the prison. wealthy british style. market. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news to two name. there's a report. that judges a sense on some. children the streets. that
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women kidnapped and converted to islam by force will be another layer of motives for the coakley christians of egypt to their constant use muslims future victims. the way of the cross. over my language of all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports to the pollution and know i will leave them to stay calm and comment on your latter point of the month to say that if mr k.l.a. car is on a dock in melbourne. they go no more weasel words when you veda direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a bad. print of a speech and
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