tv Documentary RT June 2, 2019 8:30am-9:00am EDT
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dr eric journey is from santa ram is considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. by the way this man with no clothes isn't don't or jennings he's a member of the indigenous zoe tribe who's helping the don't oh put together a personal archive. this is dr jennings people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move sailing yachts and flying aircraft a little like models dr strange of with a full set of working fingers this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limits to the public carrick's allowed in because he's the zoe's personal doctor.
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in. the. center room in the north of brazil was founded as an amazon jungle bought it 1st exported spices then cocoa later rubber before turning to cocoa again today it specializes in gold book sides and soy the latter is now a major reason behind the deforestation of the amazon. for these reasons santorum has become a symbol of economic conquest and environmental destruction locals even compose ballads about it. no doubt 2 it was the go. no learning english because all those are little game with me got. their back i gave up. not down by. changing it someone did.
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q do you see. them must be our. nominee. you're going to get one of them from me that in share your bidding will think you got going to. continue wars or once they've. given i'm going to look you in the piece of it if you get up bash got to go i have asked michael lawmaker who will be with. me i think with a. disease boats of the river people's main mode of transport so santa ram is a hub for the inhabitants of the many remote villages scattered along the banks of the amazon and it's hundreds of tributaries. people travel here for medical
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assistance groceries household goods and official documents such as some death certificates that said there is no passenger terminal in sansa rem only a congo one. being here you can't avoid feeling that the amazon belongs to everyone except the locals to capital the government is even planning to construct a hydroelectric power station nearby. unless they have been asked of you know what there could be one major john moxley and one of us i think but in the past and you've been making lots of them in would you consider me or do we know dine if we're going to find what the market i think actually diplomats i think i've been in all the. movement you make would ask me loud to build up on the most background which bases you feel now that got a warming. panel to get. what. i
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could get. it's just another day for dr eric. in his department in center and federal hospital where he puts on a small must a class on how to wash your hands properly this. this. will force you every. wrinkle and. he is the don't as patient today. he'll be performing open brain surgery while other surgeons are removing part of the patient's skull don't to erika's time for a simpler procedure. it
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seems he has a little while longer to wait and. if . i need to save my time and to part of my talking to him to morrow. doing. every time we see the same doing so many things at the same time but very nice and very life. finally it's don't to erick's. he'll spend a few hours in this position his tiles is to clip an aneurysm to prevent blood from flowing to an attenuated off the wall in the brain. use. the microscope came as
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kathleen find his way to the aneurysm and seal it with a suitably sized clip. any false move could lead to brain damage or death it's a routine procedure for a neurosurgeon. patient is well i think if we could to help this man. among them i want to paint that as interesting you came along with the reason why but i did you did not watch it was going on bob these men. don't know most of them i. was but i want to get up the end of the journey in mind it's not going to i'm going down there this year to think what i did do you see. this moment of.
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their own you murderous programs that enable don't provide medical assistance to remote riverbank communities mostly indigenous tribes. or in case of emergency for example they had nothing to do just. like the people in one small boat and cording don't river until 4 and some some help and from here to somebody in on small boats to do you think so rolled 800 dollars or to community. up river it's even longer. for example every couple of months these guys travel up the tributaries of the topologist river it's an exhausting trip for recently qualified don't is an important opportunity for locals to benefit from timely medical attention. all the professional most of them around the doctor. yours and everybody they are all volunteers. no one
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receives anything for the work they do the money come from people for example. we have a several airline captors who donate their all money for us to buy the fuel for the bolter to buy material for of for ready the work here so. you sterile for waiting for someone to do something we decide to go and do it ourselves . some travel as part of a group some independently what's notable is that it's become a tradition it's for this reason that many really don't as have become boat captains and even pilots. now. ericsson's us with the amazon rain forest has been turned into
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soybean fields. that. feel. respect if. we don't have it we thought you saw you die not much. once in 2003 eric was called on to give in the agency treatment to assume he tries woman suffering from a brain injury. he borrowed a plane from a friend and immediately flew to the rescue there was a small field hospital on a landing strip and into the so he tried to land however the flight was illegal and made it eric's and risk he evacuated the woman to the hospital operated and flew her by. 2 days later in so doing he became
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a personal doctor today they are a model for the brazilian government's approach to tribal people the situation was very different in the late eighty's however when their very existence was threatened. after a visit from missionaries caused half the tribe to die from viral infections the state took them under its protection. the main ritual in this life involves piercing the lower lip. a ceremony carried out once children who develop their adult teeth. the piercing is made with a mechanics leg. which is then left in the live for some time. later it's replaced with an embed port plug an adornment made of potoroo wood. healthwise the plugs are problematic as they all to the shape of the jaw and cause issues with nutrition. nothing personally is known about the sacred meaning of the
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m.b. have affordable. simply say that it's beautiful. to consider themselves dressed in their normal environment zoe and then wrap their private parts in a palm leaf. this counts as clothing without which they would feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to go to. the jennings family has always striven to maintain their connection to nature. it's traditional in these parts to go to the swamp with a hammock to swing around for a few days among the venomous snakes and spiders this attitude to the environment has been passed down the generations eric even decided to build his house close to the jungle. we go to my.
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wedding. to start because this is my. youngest brother that's going to build it. into. to stay with my family. because. jennings our local aristocracy that ancestors were confederates who lost the american civil war roughly 200 american families came to center him back then. although the 233 remain. all 3 took favorably to marrying the local people on the amazon has gradually washed away their confederate views families who didn't mix with the locals simply didn't last .
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the river people have their own rhythm music carrying bow it can be heard wherever you go and forms the soundtrack to the local life. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i want of a new challenge and
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a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way what is it that's like here. standardized testing. it's a very well done no that is you know to say we should have standardized testing to be like saying well we shouldn't have our blood pressure checked or or even or weight if you're going to see the doctor those are standardized instruments and you need to be able to know how children are doing right from when they start school.
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china is not a partner number one for us yet steel. and e.u. countries are trade partners number one with us and. i cannot share the. news who are those who say that it's a turn of russian he's. no russia i hope will never turn eastwards you know russian egoless this is. eric is a school in a neighboring town to give the presentation he was preparing during the operation. discussing with you that was still standing with youth with his usual glamour girl who says she is going to sit in class welfare lupul was a stupid to put
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a sell noel thought it. would in no way this was an emotional song which wasn't one . who was doing well says. was the stillness with pleasure when she's young yes this book you have overflowed as a mile boxes are going to cost this is a key i shall buy the box. book and also i think that mr stubbs gives him an overall yes in just a little bit as the sample because i think of it as a team built then it was really in step book as far as fuel flow but as you've seen by plastic. you know. those are. looking for a number of them got tell that to death you don't. do when you board you don't want the shown. that shown saw the movie sound genuine logic wold to believe. that not
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sound obvious all night shopping. the booming promo so i got a new. top and she got it. that's happening amazon. our souls. going out to busy doing now amazon and laughing. nothing's going to do the population nothing is going to people on the phone will you can see you can feel. this is the famous amazon rain forest along this of the planets one we were sailing to the morrow indians land we passed formal barges
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laden with. eric is going to check up on the morrow try they aren't as exotic as the so they're easier to reach. ready ready ready one more small river to navigate a movie that. the indigenous people complain of conflicts with lumberjacks over their rain forest the limits of permissible deforestation a somewhat vague. on the lumberjacks interpret them as they see fit cutting down only 20 trees is enough to change the ecosystem within a radius of a few kilometers. ready ready the chief is now showing us his fishing gear. all.
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the venomous snake bites and one of the main local health concerns it's speed the response is vital but the locals boats of such low powered engine that. it takes them about 12 hours to reach sounds around. the local healers apply a boiled ink to the bite to buy some time. ready ready ready ready ready then it's more medicine is like here. i go around no i broke or in with you what they fear is that the don't offer up their upper hand should you care to name . him as impreza that you get the what. they're going for the money. and don't have near there. was she to pre-season dinars. braised thereby that it did a good luck with the main on man city. a
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come up one through the 11th. again less so for it. and. don't to eric has been allowed to use the church for examining patients. here is the key you. go with the end of this image you don't guide the kid as a kind of good you know a i could do for me if i have violated. the can take a look at what is the question that you but are. basically the key here. i brought a lot of closer than ideas for what could this. he actually do know. you know well
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enough with this stuff because. i'm sure that the question mark is a part of and i know. eric is working as a cheapie examining patients and writing prescriptions he can do more in one day the book and go through it therefore it's all i. meant by you know of course has found a way about our family for. all of africa. but. i think. that's something. to think a book i think. rather that there may be a lot of what. we could be. i saw you at the end of the movie yes you would you like a bull. that would do.
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the fool here leaves erik's treated to small performance i got a home with your mum in the above. i have. the big headed and isn't just a dog it's also a biology some a lesson in jungle survival children must remember that these ants a dangerous. well lead isn't gentlemen you have to know one thing when henry ford built a town in the middle of the amazon and fordlandia he made 3 big mistakes here for bead women alcohol and soccer if you want to become an enemy of
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a brazilian man or even the brazilian woman you just read this 3 thing and you will have the greatest problem when the world. food bill is so important in brazil. sometimes people from all social classes any a social layer actually know each other and surprisingly. that you can see people canceling business meetings just to go and meet dear friends they played soccer with in here childhood so today they're still meeting like that and sometimes they remember some person just because they played soccer with their father or someone and it helps sometimes to build their own career actually. looks like eric is not in his best save. if you think about it this man
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a neck and you look at the 3rd group are you dinner for the 2nd you can be there can you. the patient to send for an m.r.i. . this is his 1st experience of modern civilization. for him it must be like visiting a spaceship. the old man was eventually given the all clear and sent home the same evening.
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the word zoe means us in the local language it seems the doctor eric is a little zoe too as he tries to make the world around him a little less poorly than it actually is aha not nice not to sum up not no more. armagnac beaten new thought nothing been out the mood was not months one year it's not futile to throw mud out there. sean. because the slowness of the mood of them so moving. to build your local was
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