Then who can you call doesnt question the poison. Italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. Its time to go shopping. To greece headquarters in johannesburg a located in sand and city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxury a Shopping Mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost 78700. 00. But again no one here seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. Here in the National Gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you could talk about it. All the gold the gold you use in your jewelry. And you know why it is. Annoys you better ok dont you think it is kind of a surprising that you dont know where to go comes from the caribbean so here you can even. Tell you ok ive heard of the. Of the consequences of my own mines i forgot of for example the mind savings who says we can burn injuries better for your target job and thats just our islam director stuff ive heard of the 1st word where you know. Her thank you very much know you will come. Back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africas vast gold Mining Industry. When people are gathering in a church hall. Tiny the activist has come to see or to exist to avoid their drugs on people with here. So to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. What has spread and even the National Media present. That. Everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. Or think you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you have gone quite a long way to me here musto runs through the results gleaned from soil and guts us on holes and then he cools off on some inane and straws putting them in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spouted in the human head thats been gathered moreover so long to live we dont know it was before the huge tree of ago. With you guys your data. Into the street and through the weeks that you will. Surely vishal too early for all to see the yahoo. Was a sure you will be so so the do it dont do. Those who. Expose that i said several bottles. So sorry just dont do this for so forward when you would expose your posts and go this was on when you were exposed to give the people who are sure that god loves you then dont go and no one of the scenario is because while youre the people i dont. Know what your ex was. Yet it really. Makes ya you know these findings could help South African doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. Or yours and all people just like western. People which. I dont. And all those who are you with of course they are. More hot to you nick was killed and its. Ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. The soil gathered by much from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is 330. 00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium 100. 00 times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your opinion and 4 times more exposure to us nic than the average french person even jesus into easy to mean we eat is dangerous for it. Can cause celeb can we do not look good for you know it. Looks to give us. Your usual we dont. Even know shed miss you know you for your. You know. I think you know it. Is this one moment and this is not all those people that are really. Miles apart still the scientists who can be still be able to say weve had enough of this mans exposing us all so we are all being out to everybody once again from a shortage or saying to the fish there was a piece you know weve lost because of insufficient evidence but now were dead document that we really like doing now it will ease the universe be able to know what theyve been. Doing to very much once again. As residents begin planning their next move. Including a possible legal claim against the Mining Companies. Obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. The industrys association for some of south africas most powerful mining concerns. When the us will truly prevail sixs if someone demeanor look good enough to just shoot someone just as soon as your eminence extend to print on you sometimes now for. Almost 120 years later stuff in a mood runs that legalize ations antipollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the Environmental Impact of the Mining Industry and do you think its its going in the on the right track on the goodly. Yes there is significant Good Progress achieved this far in terms of my Main Companies dealing effectively with Environmental Impact hows the chamber of mine ever conducted Human Health Impact assessment regarding the tailings to mine 2 things not its not that im well ok so we dont so much. Then shows the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i dont know ok. What does that make you think now its quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the Mining Industry that you were present have a responsibility in these numbers. I think it is with our Members Company is mindless we do have the responsibility. Do you live close to the mind. Why not even me. I mean most of the its i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow the table is not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing that people believe are on the tape these tapings this huge paintings are on drugs producing theyre saying theyre not safe. At all theres a lot of. Environmental risks as when the safety of risks. And why do you think youve been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own. When it when you Say Something do you think its something when what is it about eating the media and of the have been tahsin of those should get rid of the yes i thing we need in all that all Management Strategy is the industry and obviously in putting up with government. So what does the government have to say. South africas environment minister declines to be interviewed. And his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. The ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. In the evil. Is director of the National Institute for Occupational Health 1000. 00. Fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much high and that. There will be negative Health Effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies is that those studies and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces dont continue to contaminate the Living Environment for communities and so on. You know would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we dont have this we dont have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got higher levels. Of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor there. The South African government will soon begin a major study on the Health Impacts of mining pollution. But time is of the essence in 2017 Mining Companies extracted 130 tons of gold from South African soil. Producing 27000000 600000 tons of supplementary weights. More ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. There are still 35 years remaining of exploitable gold reserves in south africa. How many move it dims will have to be in that time before people realize that life is more precious than gold. Hello there it is a fairly subtle weather pattern across much of the United States and also pushing up. Quite a bit of cloud in the us this is actually leading to a line of rain. Eastwards and also pushing further south with that a or all the wet day into. 27 degrees celsius meanwhile across in new york 28 on the sunny skies warmest in washington d. C. With 32 and also a warm day out into l. A. With a high of 30 degrees celsius you can see that. Out west in regions and then on sunday that rain really does sweeps across much of the great lakes so many apis in minnesota 27 with rain thunderstorms that could be heavy at times but chicago you should stay dry that rain really just to the north of you another very nice day new york city you can see there 31 degrees celsius on a warm down in atlanta and we had further south we had tools the caribbean we have got a bit of cloud here but no real. And then you can see to Central America more in the way of rain. Spread into much of the honduras and also across into nicaragua and then on sunday more pushing into southern areas of mexico city and maybe a show in havana with a high of 32. 00. In south korea around 2000000 dogs are eaten every year but now Animal Rights groups want the ancient tradition taken off the menu when no one east investigates korean dog friends or food or knowledge is iraq. The faceoffs continue. As the last 20 democratic president ial candidates take to the stage for the 2nd Us Democratic debates. Join us for coverage from detroit on july the 30th and 31st on aljazeera. Our war on terror begins with out but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of Saddam Hussein and this is a regime that has something to hide they have their a significant Propaganda Office and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq since the 1991 iraq a deadly deception on aljazeera. Al jazeera. Where ever you. This is aljazeera. This is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes this is a failure of leadership by the worlds most powerful nations condemnation from the un as syrian children bear the brunt of bombings by government and russian forces. Un secretary generals report on children and conflict blacklists saudi arabia Led Coalition for its role in the war in yemen but critics say its not enough. The u. S. Supreme court clears the way for president trying to tap into pentagon funds to help build a wall along the mexico border. Fire spike as europes heat wave threatens to melt the arctic ice sheet to a record low. Of the uns human rights chief has condemned what she calls International Indifference to the rising death toll in syrias rebel held province michelle says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have died in air strikes in southern italy 27 of them children and warning viewers may find some of the images in zeno hoarders report disturbing. They are images that have shocked many a tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the governments assault is if its there its not. That its a love the law desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in a syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to our 3 year old sister drove one for as long as she could. But then they fell to the ground i died. Well when struggled for life but later passed away in hospital. The high number of People Killed and injured here particularly children reflects the scale of the humanitarian situation war monitors say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths 200 of them children since the russian backed Syrian Government offensive began in april in the past months at least 33 children were killed according to save the children thats more than in the whole of 2018. They only problem and most of all its the places they live in that are being hit marketplaces hospitals that the facility is schools no one and nothing is the thing more and then. These scenes have become all too familiar and rescue workers at times dig for hours to find survivors and remove the dead civilian infrastructure schools hospitals. And Health Facilities are protected under International Humanitarian law theyre meant to be spared and yet theyre being impacted more than anything else so there has to be outrage. The latest offensive is no different from previous ones during the 8 year war they are carried out with impunity and little accountability. The pope sent a letter to syrias president bashar assad asking him to protect the lives of civilians the European Union says attacks on critical civilian infrastructure must stop the United States and the u. K. Renewed calls for a cease fire an adlib but the International Community statements have not been backed with action. The bombardment hasnt stopped its intensifying the u. N. Describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players in this conflict but International Humanitarian rights organizations say they are being targeted. Istanbul. Earlier we spoke to rupa colleville the spokesman for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights he says government and strikes are relentless and indiscriminate where were definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the Government Forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so and just in the past 2 weeks i would say its escalated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily over and above what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more as strikes last nights and some early today as well so its ongoing its relentless and the people suffering most of all of them not the fighters are they really is executive director at the Syrian American medical society he said medical facilities are one of the most dangerous places to be in syria the situation has a school aged even worse in the past week on a daily basis we are hearing of medical facilities that have been attacked have been a target have been targeted or who are treating hundreds of injured on a daily basis so just yesterday we heard a minute of an account of a family of which a community literally had to dig from the rubble to try and save most of whom eventually died it is just a daily tragedy and were looking for the outrage were looking for accountability from all parties from the International Community to provide help this is such a dire situation people need water sanitation they need shelter there are since this has started over 350000 people in the past 3 months have been displaced 20 percent of whom have already been displaced in this war in northwest syria. All the wider issue of child casualties in the worlds conflict zones is a subject of a new report at the United Nations al jazeera has attained a copy it says that last year sowed the saudi iraqi Led Coalition in yemen killed or injured 729 children accounting for nearly half of all child casualties in the country it also blames israel for the deaths of 59 children and the injuries of nearly 2700 the highest number in 4 years in syria airstrikes barrel bombs and cost the munitions killed or injured more than 800 children while afghanistan had the most child casualties for another year with 3062 our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the United Nations. This report comes out every year it makes very grim reading its from the secretary general of the u. N. To the Security Council its not yet been published but aljazeera has obtained a copy of the report ready in recent years its become a political hot potato with 2 countries not wanting to get mentioned in this report and thats israel and saudi arabia its pretty clear to me from reading this report that theres been political pressure again because inside the report it says that israels responsible for the highest number of deaths of palestinian children 59 in 2800 for 5 years and yet at the end of the report the annex which lists the countries and groups responsible for killing children israel is not mentioned saudi arabia does get a mention on the list but on the part of the list here of listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children our saudi arabia the saudi Led Coalition in yemen has been under that section for 3 years it does though beg the question if theyre putting measures in place to stop killing children to protect children why are children in yemen still die. A newly charbonneau ears u. N. Director Human Rights Watch he welcomed parts of them for. Its good that the Syrian Government remains. The worst part of the blacklist for what its been doing in the war there same for the military in myanmar and the south sudanese military were quite disappointed by the inclusion of the saudi Led Coalition on what is known as the not so bad part of the list of shame its the category of countries and that are trying to him prove that are taking that have put measures in place to improve their record when it comes to protecting the rights of children theres simply no evidence that the saudi Led Coalition has made any improvement and theyve been committing appalling atrocities against children for years now since 2015 and to to include them year after year as a as a country that is as a coalition that is improving sort of makes a mockery of it because if they are improving why arent they getting off the list there there is another element to that. The as you said israel is not included in the blacklist although the report highlights some very worrying facts that more children have been killed more palestinian children have been killed largely by Israeli Forces since 2014. Libyas coast guard says its recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u. N. Has called the worst mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 350. 00 migrants were on board the boats that capsized off the town of homs east of tripoli on thursday but 145. 00 of them were rescued by the libyan coast guard route 120. 00 others including women and children are missing and feared dead the u. N. Is demanding immediate changes in the way migrants are protected the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150. 00 refugees and migrants lost their lives after the boats they were in capsized off the coast of libya on the 25th of july children and pregnant women are among the missing he is also concerned by reports that many of the survivors rescued by the libyan coast guard were placed in that that you are a Migrant Detention Center which is close to a military facility and was hit by an airstrike on the 2nd of july that resulted in more than 50 deaths the secretary general reiterates that libya is not a safe country of asylum and that refugees must be treated with dignity and respect and in accordance with international law. Plenty more ahead on this news hour mothers selling their own daughters into marriage the streams myanmars refugees going to just to survive. Plus the erosion of religious diversity in jerusalems old city and why the imminent closure of this Historic Hotel is adding to the problem. And later in sport a freak hail storm causes chaos at cyclings tour de france. The u. S. President is celebrating a victory for his southern border war from the nations highest court ruled trump can divert 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 from the Defense Department to fund the project a month earlier he was blocked by a california judge who ruled trump needed congressional approval to spend money on. Those funds are still a fraction of what he needs though reuters has reported the department of Homeland Security estimates it would cost 21600000000. 00 and he says the war would take 3 and a hard years to complete had to go hand has more from washington u. S. President taking to twitter claiming a huge victory at the u. S. Supreme court and for now it is a victory the conservative justices ruling that he
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