and traditional affairs in south africa and joins us live from johanesburg and thank you for talkingere and the wealth and vast wealth of johanesburg was built upon mines, doesn't the government have at least the responsibility to do a study and to find out exactly how toxic all these mine dumps actually are for resident residents? >> thank you, ma'am, and thank you to the viewers out there. yes, the province is actually a way of the problem and with the government and traditional affairs and this is with the department of human resources who are here to deal with the issue and there are regulations that are now being put together in terms of making sure the mines take responsibility. the only issue is. >> sorry to interrupt but that sounds all perfectly well and good for the future but what about for now, what about for the air that people are breathing in now, the dust that is regularly blown into their houses? >> the dust issue is with terms of finding away of taking the dumps to make sure during the winter seasons the dust does not actually affect the mine and the households in t

al jazeera, johanesburg. >>> the age group doctors without borders opened a new reconstructive hospitalnd serves war victims from the region completely free of charge and plastic surgery is expensive so the hospital is offering hope to its patients and we report. >> there are more victims of conflict in the middle east that need more treatment than ever and why the international charity doctors without borders set up its own specialized reconstruction hospital and from iraq is 24 and living with a terrible face injury caused by a mortar shell while iraqi and government forces were fighting in anbar. >> translator: they removed some bone from my pelvis in order to reconstruct my jaw. my next operation will be a bone transplant for a new nose and a third will give me teeth. before coming here i completely lost hope because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. i never expected to improve. >>> doctors without borders has also been treating mohamed for years. he has had tens of operations for injuries he sustained during the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. most of the 150 beds a