That it. Is 6 years old as well she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time the dust from the mine cotton this does you pull your good and the people. Before you sleep you must face. That and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. Communicate with her. When she she was to be changed. Yeah and then she she kicks it is ok arrow maybe when she wants you to go i said richie she kisses me and she screams no. Do you know she has to go say you want to. Poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other peers like under her own i was the same symptoms same Health Issues yeah i do know and they theres a danger to them its going to go their only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they dont want anybody knowing up idea kids in this situation theres 2 of them open houses in the in the same street for them 2 of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is one thing they paid me you only find in here this is actually centered it in my angel to them out today telling them to do today they dont think so but if you go outside of any distance from here in eve you me will never find this key. To find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. Must climb snake park hill. It has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. Access is supposedly forbidden theres nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while im all busy on succeeding summers which rivers each. Day so then do me a turn the dishes. With soumitra. Must take 500 grams of the sun. The dust thats blowing over the village but no. On the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. Its used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net of this will. Ok or if i can put in will do. For the. Killer. Was it on the screen you have put it. Frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at Northwestern University in south africa can see me. Linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the World Health Organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so im at the bottom of the mine turnings theres some water all around i was wondering which parameters fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water finding. Tracks trying to. Elevate. Ok. I. Thought it would seem recently gone by. So going to. Be done by. Missouri. And you can also pick just cut. Cut cut cut. Cut cut tax cuts. All you speak to the fact. Its. Not just us on each. So i think its likely. Just so you know it was. Says on the ground 0 the maximum they were going to continue to pose for them. Its impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. But the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. After some convincing one of the countrys top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. With the. Gold fields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. The team cant go underground into the mine itself and the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. But i know you will see it on the front but theres some real. Business right including we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 tons. A day i mean we have reaching out on 3 on a ton to our depends on the order availability and how many times of doing their. Job or that you see on the stool follies and i think that the plus minus 5 times but done thats always currently. Only 5 grams of gold for each ton of coal mind thats a remarkable ratio. And it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. The precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these kilns. Nothing to make goes here we used to live i said no sorry not that your putting my eye to make those you know rise in the order meghan may sincerely call. The concert that c. P. R. So you add all of these together with these with the goal of. The last stages the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result gold was. At 82 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around 538000. 00. Goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. Producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of frances eiffel towers. The company has wasted humiliates here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. Within a few years this hail will become another Steep Mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. Andrew passons and Stephen Joseph are its grand architects. Whats in there. What is its. Well its its whats left over from there from the extraction process its the rock that. Held the gold. And whats left behind off the gold has been removed so its silica and and other materials its a sand. And. And other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. Would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. And some of the gold ores there is uranium sauced deep has very little uranium minutes or so. Theres very little uranium and in the us in the stomach you. Can really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a tonne 50 annually south African Mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is on daily basis the gold from. But the radiation 50 would probably be. Ok or. Over time the waste produced by south africas gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open air. And according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as Nuclear Installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. Full. Of oil Bruno Sherry Ron is an engineer in Nuclear Physics and an expert from korea ratched a Research Association in radioactivity when i was i was government on the. Let me just quote the us humans. Do feel they will be a little bit. Also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want a focal to do sorry you know im a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict. I know my point of view to see not just here young men get much it even to be able. To do is if you did your in you do risk or deep within your she thought of us here your mom and me. Wanting to join in our community i dont is. Built on the truth is when this poetry to. Me was you know oh its not you cannot sell gounder. Bonus it was a country lets hear from you as for. I just dont. Know i guess you want to force me to try. And they said. To you to find us. Do think it was only. 4. 100 who did to close your name let it go to the. Master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 96 Nuclear Disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. Era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long linen above all if they last week thats week. One month 11 months of all yeah well yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your. Writings show then said as for success this is a. Eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. They want to. Know as well and. Know what you must. But this is the fungible one it is. Mine so. I want to learn. It. And i met. So when you see these every day what do you think. Was the motion and. I would go and talk about it but its just the bins. It seems as though erics goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. We are close to the mine tailings far. Look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should just has some of the animals. Have to take 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for Meat Consumption including one who is blind he was looking. I come up with the results of a trauma fatboy the instructor thanks so you but i. Must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africas council the scientific and industrial research. Here of used the water from the failings just across the trading. It is used as a recusal water jesus Us Immigration also for almost a drink we also had some more small samples train shows then with the store was contaminated as low made competitors and so what can you what can you look forward almost all day then the man goes by did and then contentment i was like yo yo now i am your lead you know why as in we shop and in trucks and can basically when. We need an expert to get them in order once we get them then the trays anon are going right as he waits for the analysis must time returns to the investigation in part 2. As the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an Industry Insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is youre a me im grinding into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live pities a colossally bad idea. Aljazeera exposes controversial allegations about the bahraini government. 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That alliance up next to the rest of south africa. Hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around Johannesburg South africas most populous city but they arent a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africas hugely profitable gold industry. Many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals and poisons and radioactive debris. With expert help french journalists must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. But one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious Voicemail Message a lot lot of. Money greater around. In their mind well i would go to a mental geologist me up for a while and i would really much appreciate you you know youre going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. The message is from a geologist and eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the Mining Industry has now left it disgusted by the industrys failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste ill tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is you radium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said what was the only way you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over the over 100 so after a while you know i was explaining look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to decode the contaminate. The land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from breaks down with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is really basically put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their Health Problem doesnt make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. What we have done like us said we have created an enormous and were all mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and won a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we are feeding the nation why did gold Mining Industry do it in reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made him probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. So yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing would sing head master heads back to sea from everett from goma. His current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered to him plus and by frank bender. The janice but professor of studies also one of them of what were joined by name is frank frank and. The professor has come to see erics livestock for himself. You see here. Is. The test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated eriks foam 02 and uranium isnt the only problem. For example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and your water softball over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated 50 times and zinc as well solvent 500 ok the most lets say indicative metal form binding impact so that if youre a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see it in a Natural Environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did the bud 100 times more than one would find in unpredicted that show pristine water source of. The form surrounded by pollution changed. Its animals badly contaminated. Its disturbing news. The health of your goat yeah shows the highest level go for. Metals you see uranium is 16 times for elevated but all the lead is an elevated to 80 times meaning almost 100. 00 times above whats normal that the same was cobalt thats the same as also make a 600 times for a nickel but maybe you didnt know if you know dishonest ok right i can have all of the yes you can have its all yours but soldiers. For nailing him down for you fly me. My lifestyle died prematurely townships which children have Neurological Disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. All the medical links between poor health and mining and so clear cut. Stoff at the screen open Health Clinic might have some odd sense. Among their patients is to me. Its the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has taken an l. Ok. All right there is no. Need to let him use. Too much of this stuff was it was a lesson by. Not to let you go to the left is wonderful because of them dont know. So how hes going to yours. The baby has called brocade shes. I was just into school and both science sometimes received was you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. She was having a test in drawings of course it does because of the dust is something that you will see on daily average yes your behavior here but number of clues is not really there should be a study like you are mentioning in a people who are living lives to their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do realize that. Astonishingly the South African state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. But can. He catches up with the work and back and the township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting the trash. Ok lets go oh its. Very heavy so you have to do this every day. This is your house ok tunisias this small shack with her 4 children. Is again as a single i like is a dad who claim and says im up or. Is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. And her children live only a few doesnt need to is from the mine dump where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. She agrees to provide has samples to test what level of contamination but there is going to. Agree that a new. Long songs pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise and comes on line. I mean you know. Who will come on do you come and then hes commotions to put the notice in you know if you blow or security in your gale norton i just you know me you. Know me i dont. Know she. Is one of the sort. Of i want to put in a bit what he said quote im into the yes you could for a minute is this food kind of move. You put in culture get you looking takes yourself. National should look very closely at hobarts well they dont pay you well thats. Right if you turn. It all right that should be more than enough. For us and then. Use them all and then you would put. We have to be more. Just. Like this i want to. Go next. Or a perfect. Master has also taken to has songs from the time to. The little girl suffering from your own to suit a moving look. This is one of a lot of thinking so done little. To look beautiful. Ah. And then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor pinay in france. Once again theyll be a few days of waiting for the results. In the meantime looking for gold. Some of south africas most profitable export is used in the Electronics Industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the worlds major Luxury Brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. Given that both you know jennifer was full of laws that all. Nor any of them seem to respond to questions show that theres under control just how do you know matilda clearly because you dont know how good the flow of the instance of all your business comes from them on this one is of almost no confidence you have sort of going to communicate by leaving dont you know from other was going to have them visit you more the cold among federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. New delhi where you can you compose and question the. 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 located in santa the city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious 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 hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether it was here in an area of the jury you knew whether gold comes from if you can talk about it its called the gold yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. You know i you know the idea that are ok dont you think it is kind of a surprising that you dont know where to go comes from the directors of the material believe me to tell you you know ok ive heard of the. Of the consequences of my own mind says i forgot that for example the mind savings this is what you learned in your is better environment to learn a job and thats just are is a measure still by product of the 1st and were. Still going to hurt thank you very much for you ill come. Back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africas a vast gold Mining Industry. People are gathering in a church hall. Tiny the activist has come to see or to exist and. Their drugs on people with you. So to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. What has spread and even the National Media present. Everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. Or thank you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that youve come quite a long way to be here must run through the results gleaned from soil and pellets samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human head thats been gathered moreover someone only we dont know it and i was always a huge tree on the go to play bass and was really sure who. Was a very nice you dont know it was else here it is. You that you will. Surely was a residual trooper always will be you should tell you who it. Was issued to you will do it dont do. It. Said something just dont do do this for us all for it when you would expose your post and go this was on when you were exposed to it without people. That cough it up to them dont go and no one is youd see them as. The preview i dont think it is the least was rule yet it really. Makes yard you know these findings could help South African doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. On down the. Charts ill be able to just one question. That people which. I dont think and all those who will focus on it cant force fill your ass if you need to. More talk to you next time susan and i dont need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. The soil gathered by my. 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 ania 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. It. But usually we dont. Even know shed miss it you know you feel. The need. To know now. That is the name. You know. I think the only. Is this one normal and this is not all. People that are really. Minds are seriously the scientists who can be sending us things weve had enough of this mans exposing us all so we are building now to elude you once again to make sure that you cited the vision there was a. You know weve lost because of insufficient evidence but now were dead documented in the us do we know youd lose the universe. Will know whats. Do you very much want to see him. As residents begin planning their next move. Including a possible legal claim against the Mining Companies. Matha obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. The industrys association for some of south africas most powerful mining concerns. Only offer some pretty pretty dull success if the sean what they mean look good enough and you should someone just got the scimitar i am an extra and to put on the you sometimes know. Almost 120 years later steffi and i moved out runs the lincoln is ations antipollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually or getting the Environmental Impact of the Mining Industry and do you think its its going in there on the right track on the goodly. Yes there is significant progress achieved this far in terms of my Main Companies dealing effectively with Environmental Impact how does the chamber of mine every convicted Human Health Impact assessment regarding the tellings the mine tunings not its not that im way off ok so we dont some. Bench shows the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township you 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 represent have a responsibility in this numbers. I think it is with our Member Companies mind we do have the responsibility. Do you leave 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 as not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing that people believe are on the tape these tapings tissue around john is producing theyre saying theyre not safe. At all theres a lot of. Environmental risks 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 but when you 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 think we need an all vote all Management Strategy as 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 evil. Is director of the National Institute for Occupational Health 1006. 00. 100 mentally 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 one of the real tragedies. 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 their. 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 waste. 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 weve been telling about the rain into pakistan a bit of a break for the next. Couple of days a 6 hour drive you can see we could see of course the afternoon thunderstorm study not as heavy as it has been elsewhere it is a fairly quiet picture time which is warm as usual for this time of year for 21 celsius in toronto 36 degrees across in kabul another warm day in ankara with a high of 33 degrees wanted to showers to the north of that though what the way across into western sections of georgia as we head through friday time which is not really moving a warm day and aleppo on friday with high the of 35 degrees celsius then we had down towards european peninsula same story the last few days we go to look out across the southern portions and this really is all paul so this monsoon rains coming across the south indian ocean but a clear day for most of all thursday in will scott with a high of 33 already up again in doha the breeze also a little bit stronger the winds just picking up a little bit but still feeling very whole very humid as well and you can see no break really in this cloud it reaches lie along all of these coastal areas and we have down into Southern Africa now we have got some rain pushing across into mozambique in the next couple of days cooling off to into but we might just see a show there 18 degrees celsius in cape and then it warms up dramatically on friday with the 27. A unique story about a french syrian family who traded their peaceful lives in europe for revolution in syria marking 2 years since the start of myanmars military campaign thats forced hundreds of thousands of muslims into exile musicians shaking up stereotypes of africa a powerful new witness documentary from ghana another bid to preserve multilateralism within a group of the 7 most advanced economies will cohesion prevail over challenges that the g. 7 faces drawing on a decade of aljazeera documentaries rewind revisits to find out how the story moved on august. Irans president describes u. S. Sanctions on the countrys foreign minister as a childish and says theres evidence that washington is afraid of law on the job and so every. Hello and welcome to aljazeera headquarters in doha with me as a problem also ahead under fire democratic frontrunner joined by dennis head hot in the race for the partys president ial nomination. Trying to contain an outbreak of 3rd patients tests positive for the bulk of the virus as authorities try to deal with the epidemic and the political divisions in the u. K. And out in the open as boss johnson visits belfast for the 1st time as Prime Minister. But we begin with some breaking news an explosion. Has killed at least 3 Police Officers in yemen city of aden it was targeting a parade at military camp dozens of people are reported wounded who the fighters say they carried out a drone attack we will bring you more information on this breaking story as we get it. Now the United States has imposed tough sanctions on irans top diplomat mohamed jarhead zarif president Hassan Rouhani has called the decision childish especially since around proposed unconditional talks recently the u. S. Accuses the foreign minister of promotion what it calls the reckless agenda of irans Supreme Leader that he has had back saying its all because the u. S. Considers him a huge threat roslyn jordan reports from washington d. C. The u. S. Is not Pressure Campaign against iran has claimed a new target for. American educated comfortable in front of the cameras and the one who negotiated the 2050 nuclear deal with world powers. But the trumpet ministration says the wreath is no honest broker and has imposed sanctions on him we consider javid zarif the foreign minister an illegitimate spokesman for iran are and iran itself is a government you consider illegitimate do not well exactly it is a state sponsor of terrorism it is the worlds central banker of terrorism biggest finance or biggest arm are the sanctions come at a time of great tension between chalfant in washington whether in the waterways of the gulf or in proxy conflicts around the middle east any assets zarif might have in the us are frozen these approvals to visit un headquarters in new york are no longer guaranteed and the trumpet ministration says its no longer obligated to talk to zarif since the us quit the Iran Nuclear Deal last year on this point one expert says the u. S. Is recognizing the real source of power in town brought on the managed power is not mr rouhani the president is not was as are you the foreign minister it is the Supreme Leader ayatollah ali holland he was in charge of the armed forces the judiciary of course after august intelligence agencies ministries and so on and so forth and not not to say that he is a nice old power broker power maker in the country but by far the most important and all the Armed Forces Special of the revolutionary guards that judiciary sourness so forth are most loyal put in but another expert says this isnt why the u. S. Is targeting zarif the troponin stray shin or at least the faction that is behind this decision is not interested in the pla mysie they want to prevent it at all cost this is an effective measure towards at least making it much much more difficult for us and iran to talk and if the u. S. And iran cannot talk that increases the likelihood of a military confrontation which is the explicit desire of john bolton the National Security adviser even as the u. S. Was rolling out its sanctions announcement zarif was reacting on twitter thanking the trumpet ministration for considering him a threat to its agenda for also in jordan aljazeera washington lets get more on this a correspondent joining us live from the iranian capital and deserve a face close saying he couldnt be less bothered about this story. Yes weve heard from the foreign minister again this morning he tweeted the following saying that we know that calling for dialogue and peace is an existential threat to the bt and since reason for deserting me as my words would get us persons need to know if they see license to engage with me by reading my. Writings or listening to the interviews this is the Foreign Ministers reaction saying that really he has absolutely no interest in what the United States is saying that the reason behind his designation the sanctions on him is really something that he said is irrelevant to him he has absolutely no assets in the United States even though he was irans permanent member to the United Nations from 2002 to 2007 he lived in new york city and he said he has no assets in that country and he said really this is another example of how the United States government views this country they dont really understand the system that is the Islamic Republic if they think they can talk to somebody more important than the foreign minister they dont really understand how the system works the foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif was picked specifically for is diplomatic experience by president Hassan Rouhani in 2013 to lead the Nuclear Negotiations which led to the 25th clear deal the fact that the u. S. Government says they dont recognize his authority is something that is really a surprise to the iranians because my homage of luxury of is known to be a favor of the Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei he has in the past the Supreme Leader has thanked the foreign minister for his service and all his efforts in negotiating the nuclear deal and the Foreign Ministry in their tireless efforts really years of negotiations to bring this nuclear deal together which the United States withdrew from last year thank you very much for that with the nations reaction from thank you. Now despite pulling out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal the u. S. Is keeping one part of it alive for now washington has extended waivers allowing foreign firms to work at Irans Nuclear facilities without penalties that will continue for another 90 days the way with the last remaining part of the Nuclear Deal Still recognized by the u. S. Germany has rejected a u. S. Request to help patrol the strait of hormuz washington want to germany to join the u. K. And france and mission to help secure the route which is used to ship one 5th of the worlds oil but German Foreign minister heiko maher says his government wants to avoid escalating regional tensions nato hasnt been asked to be involved in that mission but the secretary general says Member States are following developments closely. Of course. For all ready our laws and civil it was all of the assets. Both of those being quest for a. U. S. National security adviser john bolton says north koreas latest missile tests dollar violate a pledge it made to stop testing long range weapons john yang says it tested a rocket launches system on wednesday and that it was personally are the same by leader kim jong un kimmitt the u. S. President last month along the Demilitarized Zone which separates north and south korea the 2 leaders agreed to revive talks on pyongyangs nuclear program. Mcbride has more from seoul. The weapons system north korea says it tested is very different to the 2 short range Ballistic Missiles 1st described by south korean officials on wednesday in an official statement from its state run news Agency North Korea says that it was in fact a multiple guided Rocket Launcher system a test that was overseen by north Korean Leader kim jong un he was said to be pleased with the test a system which it said would cause inescapable distress to whoever was on the receiving end the fact that it doesnt seem to be a Ballistic Missile makes it less of a provocation but it also seems to indicate that if a rocket could be mistaken for a missile than it does show a significant advance in north koreas Rocket Technology and still this is a system that would put much of south korea within range the timing of this test is still significant it comes just ahead of planned exercises between south korean and u. S. Forces in its statements north korea made no specific reference to south korea but in another editorial wednesday it has criticized the south for socalled double dealing in being involved in these exercises meanwhile the u. S. National security advisor john bolton has been speaking on u. S. Television playing down this test saying it doesnt break with kim jong uns promise that he made to donald trump not to test long range intercontinental Ballistic Missiles but as far as the working level talks are concerned that are meant to get under way between north korean and u. S. Officials that they agreed on in their meeting on the d. M. Z. A month ago he had no news on that saying it was up to north korea to respond that basically it was for them to make the next move. About an outbreak in the democratic republic of congo continues to. Fred one year since the 1st case was reported in north kivu province a one Year Old Girl has become the patient to test positive for the virus in the city of goma on wednesday more than 1800 people have died in the outbreak so far lets get more on this our correspondent catherine saw is monitoring developments from the kenyan capital nairobi for hours and even with the measures in place by Health Workers catherine the disease is spreading what are you hearing about the latest case. Absolutely theres a lot of fear and this is a dose of the mine. The man who died. He was working in a mining area in need to re province one of the areas that had been affected and came back home to goma thats when he fell sick now he still has had this one Year Old Girl has been tested positive with the ball as she is currently at a Treatment Center her mother has also been isolated and is waiting for test results and as i mentioned this is causing a lot of fears weve been speaking to a resident of neighbors of that family and a thing that this man was really a family man very involved with im yet to duty he was playing with his children and then theres all of that fear that you know these children would go and play with other neighborhood children so people in that village a very afraid and very concerned been there waiting for Health Officials to come and vaccinate them a lot of fear in goma right now is there and one of the reasons why goma is such an area of concern is not just the big population but its close to the border with a wonder there is confusion about whether the border remains open or wait to hear from the World Health Organization. A lot of uncertainty as the boat. And giving you that missing is a randon border town and john at least ive been speaking to who are the border saying that it appears people will going into wanda being pushed back to congo and the people who are out of boredom