Transcripts For ALJAZ South Africa Toxic City 20240713

To Police Headquarters. Their investigations being carried out into the deaths of people in care homes in the u. S. Canada and italy its fair thousands of similar fatalities linked to caught on a virus worldwide arent being reported the governor of Washington State has accused u. S. President donald trump of fomenting domestic rebellion thats after the president took to twitter encouraging people to protest against and knock down measures in several democratic states and gallacher has more from miami. This is the president really playing politics because guess what all 3 of those states have democratic governors there are protests in other states like utah and also here in florida in orlando the president is clearly playing politics here when he was asked about it at his latest press conference he said look those people are being treated rough thats clearly not the case people in all of the states across the entire country are following the c. D. C. Guidelines are supposed to social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus what youve got here is an ideological split between conservatives who want to see businesses reopen who think that the cure may be worse than the disease itself and then youve got the democratic governors who are trying to very slowly reopen carefully doing this by watching the medical advice by looking at the numbers vitally so the president is very aware of who is talking to the people on the streets in those 3 states michigan minnesota and virginia i was all wearing my go hat some of them carrying guns they are trumps base so that so hes speaking to he was never going to walk those comments back despite the fact hes been criticized by members of his own party to the conservatives saying look you simply cannot do this jay inslee the governor of washington saying look this could incite violence we are at a very critical juncture in this country right now there is a plan to slowly reopen things its going to be science based thats what the president himself said and here he is backing up far right people armed people on the streets of these 3 states saying that theyre being treated roughly in a so its clear what the president here is doing but its also clearly pretty irresponsible at this moment in time theres a great deal of pressure for people to get back to work those 22000000 people have now filed for unemployment there is a desire to do that but to do that carefully so youve got President Trump on one hand saying hey governors you get to call the shots and then on the other hand tweeting out these these messages of support to people who are taking to the streets with guns and in one case yelling to the governor there lock her up lock her up so hes playing politics without question. A lot done has been announced in sudans capital khartoum that said to be in place for the next 3 weeks the decision was made as the Health Ministry announced a sharp increase in people who have contracted covert 19. Forces fighting for the u. N. Recognize government in libya out advancing on as large a stronghold in the west of the country the city of tal hona is the target of Government Troops after they regained control of 7 coastal cities from the warlords forces earlier this week after launched his offensive to capture the capital tripoli a year ago police in hong kong have confirmed the arrest of 14 private prodemocracy politicians and activists in connection with last years mass protests chinas Government Office in hong kong said on friday its not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering and those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after south africa toxic city. At 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. Or an eye catching natural phenomenon. These strange tales surround johannas back. The largest city in south africa. But their beauty is deceptive and toxic. In fact the dunes are made up of mining waste. From. The leftovers of south africas most profitable industries. And within the life some disturbing secrets. Now it seems that heart wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered to the shocking truth of exactly whats in the mind taps and just how deadly they may be. Sunrise america river basin. One of south africas largest freshwater reserves. Bridget corrigan is a botanist. And a specialist in the regions biodiversity. This is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if its our unique biodiversity from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special its got about 4000. 00 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. There about 200 trees species in america. Thats 17 of them. And about 400. 00 in the bed spaces. It is a National Treasure and the north west doesnt have a lot of these River Systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. The crown jewel of this natural treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. A sanctuary hidden at the heart of the reserve. This is america i were at the source of america river. And the water bubbles up from the underground what to kevins at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conductivity which means theres no salt is not pollutants in this in the system its really very very pure. The water is Crystal Clear but it might not stay that way. Recently the Mining Industry has become interested in the areas subsoil. Which is full of Precious Minerals regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. Cup a silver or gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and its you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. You cant just get that back its not going to come back. So could the marco river basin one day resemble the of the deseret landscapes left behind by the South African Mining Industry. Like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. Or these mined tailings in the midst of south africas forestalling and. Some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown comes back. From that point on the Mining Industry began to deposits to breed all around the city. More and more waste piles of here. Often only a few dozen meters from residents homes. Some of the may look as innocent as sundays but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold i dont go over there to scare. Away. The day going to see a whole year its around as was the day i. Suppose i was out to disable the p. C. s with. The procedure for reform just over i dont even specialist. Sort of at the plutocrats who want to destroy his daughter from the cost of those who decide to tear him to do. So what does it mean for those living next to these dunes. Like here at snake. So does the wind come from the mind. It flows this rose this or this. Tiny dylan is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. The neighborhood has become one huge psalm. 20. Sometimes your eyes become ok this is not if you go to the team this is summit some chemical. So im advising you today not to go to the mine because its too big its unhealthy at the same time. You must think it or. Leave it to go d. A few months ago tiny dylan meanly wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every duel this house had as keith. This house the model the owner of this house as i just told them this morning you come here often here each and every man or women or child around here is coughing has a pulpit of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them are only take from the man who. Says. He them i want to. Over one and a half 1000000 South Africans live in townships like this. At the foot of mine tailings mountains. Thats the south of it gets into off one week this past week the brink this that so that is why so many people here this is the silent heat. This dust doesnt just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe Neurological Disorders. I dont believe you know for years you know if you live. You know i live it. Is 6 years old. 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 and the dust from the mine keeps cotton specially this dust you pull your kid in the piece that 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 you know maybe when she wants you to go i say ricci she kisses him and she screams you know. They 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 mine dust but they are no doubt if there are other peers like under our own i was the same symptoms same Health Issues yeah i do know and they theres a danger to them is going to be the 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 opus tells us in the in the sense 3 children 2 of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is something that has made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel tonight today telling them to do today they dont think so but if you go of any distance from here in eve you me never find this key. To find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. Must climb snake parkhill. 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 out of the all succeeding line from a soldiers each. Day so then do me a turn the dishes. Will sue me to. Take 500 grams of the sun. The dust thats blowing over the village below. 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 lifestyle sometimes their children even bay the net of the swans were. Ok or if i could put in will do. For the. Killer. 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 allusion to 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 permit those fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water you want to. Try to translate to. Elevate. Ok. I. Thought that it would seem recently gone by. So going to. Be done by. Missouri. If it comes. To getting arsenic which is a medical. Group you can. See. All the usual suspects if you put it like that. Just so you know it was. Says although. 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. Goldfields 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 at night you will see on the front end theres numbers. Coming. Out including we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 times. A day i mean we have reaching out on 300. 00 tons per hour depends on the order of viability and how many times of oil is there. So there or that you see on the still fall is i mean at the plus minus 5 games but done thats always i 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 killings. I think to make goes a little here we used to im i sit in the sun on sexual freedom i like to make those you know rising quarter mega nice and silly golf. Including so that c. P. R. So you add all of these together with these with the call. To. The last stages the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result gold was. At 84 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 human lives 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 the 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 other materials its the sand. And other metals but many silica is there any other metals for example there. Could be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. And some of the gold always there is uranium sauced deep has very little youre on your minutes or so. Theres very little uranium. In the us in the stomach you. Will get really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a ton 40 to 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 the daily basis the gold from both of them. 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 at. 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. 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 only. This is a good example of the area. Who. Visit us. That commercial school shaken too much was. It would be a little bit. Also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want a focal tick to sort of you know make sure the group on television i mean to depict. I know my point of view the scene i just shot there young man get him up it even to be able. To do is if you did your and you do risk. Being near she thought of us of a young mom and me. In a large wanting to join in our community i dont is wrong but you dont want to do this with this point 3000000 because you. And you cannot still go on theres. Been a zone with a country lets welcome the us because you will see for. Just one. And only because you want to force the daughter to try. And they said. To you to find us. Do think it was only 24. 100 wanted to close on a letter that. Master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 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 last week. One month one 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. So you. Want to learn it cost. And i met. So when you see these every day what do you think. Was the motion and. I would doubt 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 farm. Look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should just have some bowl of the animals. Have to take 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for Meat Consumption including one who is blind. I come up with the results of a trauma fatboy the instructor thanks for you but i. Must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africas council the scientific and industrial research. Here used the water from the failings just across the trading. It is used as a rigorous no water jesus integration and also for almost a drink we also had some more full samples train job was done with the store was completed look at main competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all day then the man goes by did and then couldnt i was like oh you know now im your lead you know what as in the uk we shot off air in trucks and can basically when. We do an expert to get them in order once we get them then that raises a good right as he waits for the analysis 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 your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live there is a colossal bad idea. An extrajudicial killing and a north african capital. 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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 the 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 along. I heard that youre interested in the mining greater fear out there out there under the bridge 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 and were going to have a word about it thank you very much. The message is from a geologist an eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the Mining Industry hes 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 radio grinding 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. When were 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 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 declare the contaminates the land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from breaks them with just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way israel basically put it to normal you put it back to where it was how does that make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their Health Problem what does that make you feel myself feel like a murderer. What we have done like i said we have created an enormous environmental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made environmental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we are feeding the nation well the 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 michael disasters in the world. So yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing would sing head must stop heads back to see farmer eric from goma. Hes going to try possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals of being delivered in person by frank bender. The johannas but professor of environmental studies also one of them of so were joined by there was frank frank with. The professor has come to see erics livestock for himself. The test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated eriks foam and uranium isnt the only problem. For example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and youll want to sample over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have nickel being elevated to solving times of authentic this elevated 50 times as opposed to 500 ok to most lets say indicative metal for mining impact that if you were 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 could say about 100 times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. The farm surrounded by pollution which just. Its animals badly contaminated and. Its disturbing news. The health of your goat yeah shows the highest level or so. 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 thats the same was cobalt thats the same was also nick and at 600 times one nickel but maybe you didnt know if youre just going to say ok all right i can have all of the yes you can. But soldiers. My dad was out for nailing in doubt for you fly me. A farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have Neurological Disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. But all the medical links between poor health and mining conditions so clear cut. Stoff at this radio call Health Clinic might have some odd sense. Among their patients is. 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 isnt doesnt like it not to go to the left is wonderful. Because of them dont know whos awake. So how hes going to yours. Their baby has called brocade shes. I was just they introduced clint both science sometimes we see worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. She was having a test in drawings of the little dust because of the dust this is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here youve got number of clues is not really there should be a study like youre mentioning is that everybody who are living lives through their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. 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 again. Back in her township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting the. Care is go oh its. Very heavy so you have to do this every day. This is your house ok to leash as the small child with her 4 children. Is again as a single i like is a dad who complains. Is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not in the pollution. And her children live only a few doesnt need to is from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. She agrees to provide has samples to test what levels. Contamination but the response to ok im going through that it knew all along some pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise in straw comes online. I mean you know. Because google will come on the you come and then hes commotions to pull. It in yeah if you blow it was he killed you gale norton im just you know me. Im so me i dont. Know she. Is one of the sort. Of want to put it maybe it will go. See what im going to do yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of move. You put in culture get your lucky breaks yourself. National. Love that they dont pay you well thats. Right if you turn. It all right that should be more than enough. For us and then. The more i mean you would put it. We got to be more. Like this want to. Go next. Or a perfect. Master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we matched. The little girl suffering from year old to suit the look. This is one of a lot of thinking so done as does it. Is 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. On the boat you know jennifer was full of those that are. Nor are any of them keen to respond to questions show that theres one of them called just how to yell matilda clearly because you dont know holger the flow of the instance of all your business on this one the more this one is of utmost importance she was really going to communicate by leaving dont you knew from the mother was was a good mother called ammonia 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. Medicare and then who can you compose one 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 and. Johannesburg located in sand and 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. Here in indiana on the jury you knew whether gold comes from if you can talk about it its a call to gold yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. Or 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 caribbean so here you believe you know her you know ok ive heard of the. Of the consequences of my own minds as i forgot of for example to my own savings this is what you learned in your is better environment to learn a job and thats just starting is a measure step by product of the western world where you know. Its 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 by 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 think 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 scroungers in the human head thats been gathered for rufus i want only we dont know it and on his part he says she used to have a go to clean. Unit. Was a very nice you dont know it was the answer is. Yes you will. Surely was a residual super always will be sure to tell you who it. Was. Do it dont do. It. So sorry just dont do this for so forward when you would expose your post and go this was on when you were exposed to it with the people who are sure that god loves you then dont go and no one is exempt as an opinion i dont think. Your ex was rule yet it really all was vague ya know these findings could help South African doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. Or yours ill be able to question. People which. I dont. And all those who are you with of course fill your ass if you need to yes youre more hot you need was still there and you dont need 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 you rainy and 4 times more exposure to us nick than the average french person be adjacent to easy to mean we eat is dangerous for it. Can cause celeb can we do. It. Looks to give us a lot but usually we dont. Even know shed miss it you know you fill your. Own land. You know they dont really. Know i think the way. This is going it alone and this is not my all those people that are really. Miles apart still the scientists who can be still be able to say weve had enough of this man is exposing us all so we are building now to everybody once again from a shortage or saying to the fish there was an important piece you know weve lost because of insufficient evidence but now were dead documented we really like doing know it would leave 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 youre so pretty pretty you dont seem to see if what they mean look at them in an effort just to someone just as soon as your eminence extend to put on the some 20 snuff. Almost 120 years later stuff in a mood out runs that lincoln is ations antipollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually are 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 fall in terms of my Mean Companies dealing effectively with environmental impediments hows the chamber of mining ever conducted Human Health Impact assessment regarding the tailings the mine 2 things not its not that im well ok so we dont some some some small 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. 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 these numbers. I think it is with our Member Companies mind he is we do have the responsibility. Do you live close to the mine to know. Why not even me. Im in 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 the people that live around the to these 2 things to see huge paintings around one is producing theyre saying theyre not safe. At all theres a lot of. Environmental risks as well a 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 the we have built in 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 leave a book. 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 at least one of the real tragedies that the study said 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 what would you like a copy we would absolutely love to have a copy for because you see we dont have this. Dont have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels. Of these different heavy metals and you raney and and go in more physical examination do blood tests do uterine 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 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 the food people realize that life is more precious than gold. Brazils capital is about to get us out of the psyching but the mass of white. 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