From jail to hospital president had republican since he denies the pardon was part of a deal to avoid his only a peach bent on corruption allegations but that hasnt stopped thousands of people from taking to the streets to protest his decision those are your headlines and news on aljazeera thats after people in power. These stand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the way. Aljazeera. An underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath indias largest coal for two decades of under strange open calls mining has brought the fire to the surface with dreadful conspiracies for three courses of a Million People thousands of homes for already been destroyed their inhabitants forced into school its become a nation hospitals have been inundated with victims of toxic fumes so what lies behind supporting human and environmental disaster. This is here. All fields of india. There there who knew him when we were children you know a very small dont back together lee but he knew each other. In the kind of eldorado and that. People from all over india came and settled here because they would make their fortune and today you look at the desolation of this place the massive village of year and look at what is left of the village today this very cool has become a curse for us because fires are actually in government i believe. Its been exactly a century since underground finds the first ignited in the area coal fields in abandoned mines that went decommissioned properly coal was left to spontaneously combust and since then around forty Million Tonnes of the field with billions of dollars have gone up in smoke. Situated in east india these come fields of the largest in the country covering two hundred seventy square kilometers nearly a tenth of this land is now regarded as unstable thanks to the more than sixty fires burning beneath it. See this year is crack because the fires are has been gradually approaching and that is that as it comes nearer nearer the ground gets cracked up and then hell eventually four people have deserted this place will go the fire is gradually gone under the houses and it has become a place where people gather live eighteen years ago a chicago wild and others set up the saved area coal Fields Committee to help locals who are waking to find a fire literally on their doorsteps i mean i guess itll die. Theyre called one of your hands on. Something but its on you did not mean much our. Syria is vital to indias economy almost seventy percent of the countrys electricity is coal based plus geria contains its main supply of prime coking coal an essential ingredient in Steel Production close they are burning in underground mines the fires went a big problem for the local population but in the one nine hundred seventy s. The Government Owned Company bought it coking coal ltd b c c o started open cast mining here taking the coal out from the surface but only one diesel decided to go involved in gaza mining the idea was theyll get quick call and then god. With that idea that started to open ridges are actually not conducive to this place there was underground mining already done over here so there were a lot of galleries you know gully that tunnels really these people make and they extract called the ground of the galleys is always full of these of course and that catches fire when you went in for but it goes mining about already underground mining has been done you opened up the fears of the galleries and then those of three floors inside and now got a massive fire. The cavities the fans the hollowing out on the ground have created a treacherous landscape the day before we arrived have you take a full so far into collapsing ground that only the body of its driver can be retrieved. And people like melty davy struggle just to keep their houses together that is how well a lot of our valley some about whats been there that. Above all theyve done in. Melty and her children have just metres from an open cast bit. Here have a sort of if you saw that little part of yes a doubt on of your part ali. Theyre here theyre here to give us a lot of us out and they were off on a lot of the got a lot got a lot to get numb with mark these similar law is in the camp what ill wear idea that a lot of it what is that i know you gotta look out for. Apart from subsidence house its like multis also take a pounding from blasts in the nearby mines you see that there are Something Like small birds not really small the blast has been has taken place over just to track up the place and that is the poor doesnt just play imo this sort of blast explains all the de. Jure is one of the most polluted places in india thanks not just to the usual by products of coal mining but also to the myriad toxic gases released by the fires. These are all sades of. Them of course. There is a gas covered more excited thats a very poisonous gas so for ducks i do also poisonous to a certain extent and then you have claims of nitrogen clinic get some out of your body is that as of david that only you know how good it other guy obviously had that i got it and they had the us out of our course recently the bonds are all game our last visit is to let him kind of out of whatever is a lot. To burke you know sis and other respiratory illnesses are filling up the hospitals in this area an area. That. Will be up to me what i cant just go like a blast explosives to school blast get out of blast your doctor was one of our best you know what i want to do the pilot was caught by desperate. Couples are being backed by that but it will be one hundred i think. If it did hey. If you could give me hope to see what. Is going to. Lead to. Problems. With when you. Get. There and i deal. With that it would kill me if i had no health to hold up. Things are unlikely to improve as Prime Minister nuri interim ots government is seeking to double indias Coal Production to one point five billion tonnes by twenty twenty and so many injuria depend on it for their survival on the bottom rung of the ladder here are those who sneak into the mines at night to scavenge coal which is then hauled into town to sell on the black market. For. Almost forty years old are these. Days and. The problem. Is that. This is all illegal but many would starve without it and b. C. L. Tends to turn a blind eye to the scavengers. Even when i think i might hear. Them know that you. Know we all think it. Probably goes with grandma danielle. Only we are going to get to have to live there for them to come here and. Well you got a really good one to give a good looking letter you got it at seven nothing. Bilger it is the name of one of the new build projects the government and the c. C. L. Are constructing in order to evacuate up to seven hundred thousand people after the disaster zone that is geria the scheme is known as the master plan but its got off to a very slow start in the seven years since it began less than ten thousand have been moved it is managed by the j. I. Da the jury a rehabilitation and Development Authority which is overseen by the Deputy Commissioner for dhanbad district for the last one and i think a lot of progress there and some of the tissue that we have to the job that i dont. Thats why at some time the pace then for some time is. Quite small. But even the few that have been moved far from happy the biggest problem is that thousands of urban families are being shifted to a rural area fifteen kilometers away from where they were earning their livelihood from the convenience is a form of scavenger. Hunt up and down but they do. You think you actually get an arsonist. Or you hear. An answer. Believe. Me i do believe. The other day i dont know if i can only say it but leon and we gotta go. Look anything. Livelihood issues do. But this was much bigger when forced a lot of people was simply to build it here because going to yeah its something the market because so many people are. Apart from that we are giving two years minimum and as for five hundred days. This five hundred days of minimum wage is less a gift than a guarantee of work for that length of time usually on the construction sites theyve been moved to and that minimum wage is less than even scavengers like graham can win in before. And sometimes you have a. You know bombs in your car for. What you happen to have on happening thats a movie thats a grand time i think that with. Myself when you. Start to get it yeah. I think it. Well. Other problems include a scarcity of basic amenities like education or Health Care Task was to convince the people that they are in the danger and their benefit. Or some other sites so that is to have mostly going to. Go for that school and hospital some of the facilities. There seem to have been quite a few oversights in the master plan. Control is another one this tower block was only built a year ago. You can get out if you. Havent been that long i live in. The left finally i lit it. But not yet i look down at doing it take a look at me and i added if you. Can i would say you know. Sometimes you also receive. A more specific complaint is there there is some complaints in the building that can be addicting for that community but. We have needed people of problem one place store that this type of problem emerges but if you look at. What is no place. That is also not so. Big. But this isnt how many people in the new build see their old homes. Just down the road from a similar settlement called comet and is under construction. At night duty on local canal b. Says a lot did the our government not upon whose television he got a plan. Here could only happen he. Could only have. Someone that can occur when they travel but you. Dont have a port do you have the. Exxon. But would it matter rather than look. Come on i have to. Put out a boom town local market is. Im local much a part of the number two most are told to look at. The bunker of the. Woman im looking up at if i want are on a part of your. Income a chant as elsewhere the master plan has been moving slowly. By lucy laconic jungly lock up how would you counsel down anything. Over forty years ago but not the obscene with the law ill give you well i would say it not worth a half but you know you are pretty hot im going to the output of summa cum laude book ive come up with. The frustration of the resettles here is nearly matched by that of the Construction Company who the first port of call for the complaints. That. You might be has a one hundred that are not present for about an hour but not when you know getting. You know he wasnt you. Know we had the idea now that we. Ought to in the back when he got he said that dont want to. Believe that someone really had. It remains to be seen whether the settlements will eventually create their own source of livelihood and commerce but there is another group in the area who feel that these have already been taken from them the peasant farmers who owned the land which is being built on. The over of us to all those gone and so so they have been probably going to. Ramesh right he is a local politician and activist fighting for the rights of the villages you know very. Well. I mean. Also. The c. C. L. Boat much of this land in the one nine hundred eighty s. For the macondo open cast mine project with the promise of local jobs in the end the project was scrapped so the farmers continue to till the land then in two thousand and nine b. C. When the jr da started to encircle the village with tower blocks for the refugees from syria. You had to care body building up under your own way deliberating about the year. Very important because everybody would if they were able to walk out of the other three a building about i got a lot of the building up on me as well you know. Where there are gas balls a lot of i have. Mark on the pentagons budget do you see india there out there down the local god god or god. Or dad age im not going to pull only one out at the young locus of my saga john logan but i cant think of september not going just that they are dumber than i was so might just how so maybe ive been meddling and we dont know when they ask us a payment because yes i get mad when i look well nobody. Could just gone can leave them in the. Skull curable second when i tell you that i hope you know that they are. No more god than i was someone clearly had. In his office in the district comes to done bad has been inundated by villages bringing in their grievances goalkicker song talking cricket song hunger to move us you have. Lost someone now this isnt just a company in the long. Also in the congo. I mean so i. Am and when i was out i didnt their work was done like young german go bottom edge on local german double leveling theyre going to download just gotta get im saying it will not going to go aka like he had lost all my medical does im going to go its just not that nickel. Love. In the nearby village of nipping near the jail ideate has been acquiring land for another settlement and from a started to sit down protest. Construction hasnt started here yet but the grievances a similar to those in build the Real Exchange of land for jobs that havent materialized and the general sense of being cheated by the authorities that man loquat bought the mine and love my watchable. Sound of hamas time i had that though i did that well yes suddenly i know whats happening so you will see your full new facility will relocate the yemeni and give ya fifty percent is really high have one year old when youre asleep because that people really are they going to deal with boss getting it wasan oh yeah both of these a government reports but within four years the amount of barren land jumped up from seven point five acres to sixteen and by law the government can force people to sell in fertile land when you kiss is like we are not what are they going to. The ground a load better the other way dang it given what youve got to be out of a jungle got one highly trained us toy yeah got what you hear who you are going with. Nonviolent this protest is local police have still threatened to charge these people with breach of the peace and the man in charge of the j. O. G. A. Isnt bending. Comedy an example is not. Going to. Get. His i mean nobody but my opening open house you work to do. You know. How to look at the. Beat you to but you have to think about it to be put up in groups. Yeah you could have anybody who could cover this was some sort of. One of those trespass is shows the sum of the land the j. O. G. A. Wants to build on your door look at the dog go get it i. Got the going got. A little judgement to see how women a ding dong when they get a good look its only thing this is clearly fertile land here to many villages took the money offered by the jr da. I talked a little go look for the i got that i am going to get but i only get like come out i got. Sad when i said i just got to get them in germany. I counted at the gas got the get i started it getting up i gotta get up i got to put get me not go for not having a better agent recently too nice a hot gas well you know this was right and because the line there was a victim but had to be said when he could be good mouth was open enough to save all my days because he but all i have let us say. Was that the maybe one of them can see the boat they can have was about to buy something rather bizarre but i believe i think it was got something. Big here something what about take the heat you put what i dont have but what the miniature tube said can bust up to the. Woman or not would need all the meat in the shadows about article on route twenty but i think it is from go on dont you know but he tours of the city of jordan to think about. Coming up in a company i thought american troops are going to work in. Germany how do you have come up with a regular talk a little boy and i sometimes argue were not a view. Of the credit were going to come under. Whoever wins in the open air it doesnt seem that the fuss it may get creates two waves of refugees are going to stop burning anytime soon i chicago suspects deeply cynical motives if you go around the whole of the year dont you had a poll for you would never see five writing going on and that is something to be zealous not done and if you ask me they have not done it deliberately but it was because you see the board of first addressing the fire as the fire traveled underneath using more and more places become dangerous so people have to be regulated while the people evacuated then they get their diet plans for expansion of the open grass mine feel better by the gore group. P. C. Sales declined our request for an interview so for another opinion on why the fires havent been put out we turn to a scientist from india Central Institute of mining and Field Research he only agreed to talk to us in an unofficial capacity i think it is the guy who didnt think for us in forty years but infested men and Decision Making good Decision Making big think combined effort is what is stopping this from happening this is the only policy decision sponsor this is a v. M. On points you can see just yet simply saying just b. C. And who not own companies will not be can one lead and that we had the technology to build the fire her. I didnt get the. Production on the other teams be any decent part accent most other than sit. In the. Case. So. We can not think unemployment of this thing. We can say. Whatever the truth behind the matter is resigned to the into the town he grew up in. When she needed jed yabba day it is destroying. Bizzle is going on and they want to double the production by two liter and that gets more and more my mining will be done over and one many more villages will have to be shipped so eventually this place is going to become absolutely desolate how our good the struggle continues to get b. C. Seattle and the government to take responsibility for letting this conflagration rage out of control and putting hundreds of thousands of lives in the line of fire. In russia many cuddys migrant. Labor force left to exploitation the. People in power. At this time. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. To. The future. Of