A far from dazzling role in the lives of locals and afghanistan how Emerald Mining supports the taliban in me and ma there are rich supplies of gate but what are the risks for those mining it. Also in china zia we ask entrepreneurs why theyre choosing to invest in Environmental Technologies. But first me an ma is a multiethnic nation with eight launch ethnic groups a new miss smaller ones two thirds of its citizens of a maze coexistence within the country isnt always peaceful as the plight of the muslim or hinges shows tens of thousands of rangers who fled to neighboring countries like india and bangladesh into an uncertain future. In man miles northern catching province another conflict rages on this one is about Natural Resources the chain is home to. Supplies of jades. A torrent of rubble and screens armed with picks and hammers the workers begin their search. Where in the jade hills of myanmar in catching state in the north east of the country sam has a teacher hes hoping for a find that will make him rich did you find anything today with a yellow father says he found two stones. Its his lucky day. In the old. Men from all over the country flock here to the edges of the jade mines in the himalayan foothills to dig for that single stone that will make them a fortune and there are even children among the scavengers picking through the trailing us from the mines its perilous work. Theres at least one death a month when somebody gets buried in a landslide or killed by rocks. And good. Stones can roll down the hillside at high speed the bigger fragments could break your bones you wouldnt stand a chance sometimes in the rainy season the whole slope is a mud bath. One mountain after another is being reduced to rubble by prospecting. Catchin is jade country the Worlds Largest deposits are here on the border with china but the stone of heaven as its known in china is stained with blood. By war is raging and catching but one thats hidden from International View a war over land and resources jade mining is a billion dollar industry controlled by the military few of the mines are controlled by the ethnic. The chin who are native to the jade hills. The party of Nobel Peace Prize winner and myanmars defacto leader aung sang suu kyi came to power in two thousand and fifteen it promised to put an end to the fighting between the military and ethnic catching guerillas seeking self rule in northern myanmar jade is the biggest obstacle to peace but the war has worsened one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee. Their. Home was in the middle of the battlefield. If wed stayed one would be dead now we had to leave everything behind. But there is no trace of the war in mandalay the former capital glittering gold pagodas line the mighty irrawaddy gold tropical wood and jade me on mar is rich in Natural Resources. Mandalay is a hub of the jade trade. Center sin has made a fortune with the near translucent green stones he trades mainly in large stones the jade trade is lucrative thirty one billion dollars worth of jadar minded myanmar every year one kilogram alone of the finest jade can fetch millions. Fencing shows off his giant stones most of his clients come from china. The chinese think that jades good beer helps that it has a cooling effect a stone like this can be unbelievably expensive the more translucent it is the higher its price. But the human cost of jade is even higher and. Many of the mine workers end up with drug habits opium heroin crystal meth these men have been for. To go cold turkey. We see want to know we thought the drugs would protect us against malaria i kept taking more and more i ended up in hospital i couldnt get off that awful to figure out what i was going to go oh. Christian aid organizations are trying to fight the drug epidemic in northern maam are their methods include singalongs and bible readings. On. Drugs are illegal in myanmar but ubiquitous the military and the police have their hands in the drug industry to activists say. The mines are lawless the drug trade is controlled by gangs theyre making lots of money. Working in the mines is exhausting and the miners are a long way from their families theyre very vulnerable. Right. Some of the camps rehabilitation methods are draconian medieval even this inmates feet have been shackled to a wooden block he has only a blanket to keep himself warm. So. I behave badly so late brought me here ive been here for two days and a night. Its an ignominious end to the dream of finding jade and making a fortune the rehab takes six months then the men are sent back to their families. Few of them managed to stay clean. Back in the jade mine the day is drawing to a close. With sam and the others size up the days taking. The torchlight gives them an idea of the stones value. Were all poor we all have the same dream to find a valuable stone then will have struck rich. People. But the fortunes made with jade arent made by people like sam and for as long as the mines are controlled by military elites drug kingpins and ethnic catching guerrillas the jade industry will benefit only a few and peace in myanmar will remain elusive. Me and ma is not the only nation where role materials feed conflict would coal oil and rare earths a key to our Global Economy but this commodity based wealth comes at a high price devastated forests toxic soils polluted water for many countries Raw Materials are more of a curse than a blessing. Any rewards they bring usually end up in the hands of a few while the masses remain poor. In many countries conflicts rage over Raw Materials on the profits from mining end up funding terror and prolonging wars. Like in pan share valley in northern afghanistan. Conditions in the emerald mines that are tough and only a few reap the benefits for most of the precious stones bring only mystery. Emeralds from afghanistan a beautiful valuable and in demand but experts say the trade is funding terror and violence and these dealers in cab all are inspecting their latest delivery its worth several Million Euros but is this business legal you were you know a model of friendship yes they come from the pension family we bought them officially its legal. In the dealers might act innocent but in fact ninety five percent of afghan emeralds are smuggled out of the country the taliban by weapons and explosives with the proceeds. Were on our way to the pangea valley home to the emerald mines the landscape is rugged and inhospitable the region as a taliban stronghold the fundamentalists hold sway in large parts of the country between capital and the pancho valley foreign visitors are in danger of being taken hostage remnants of the soviet occupation live beside the road. Its difficult to make contact with the men who mined for emeralds most of them come from nearby villages some around Emerald Mining up in the mountains is a highly dangerous business. Thoughts flow are always afraid there are bandits who would kill for the precious gems if you have a mine you have to watch over it every second. Were heading to a mine thats around thirty seven hundred metres above sea level just beneath the snow line the climb takes three and a half hours the men make the trek across this rocky terrain every day some of them in just flimsy plastic sandals. Were having breathing difficulties the air up here is thin and the sun is beating down relentlessly. This is one of the caves where the emerald vein runs. Lunches flatbread and sweet tea these are rough and ready men desperate enough to do this dangerous and laborious job its not making them rich but theres no other work available. Who knows how they got this generator up here. Sometimes we dont find anything for two months our sides if we get lucky or not no one knows for sure where the mountain has hidden the jam. Using explosives theyve managed to blast their way about half a kilometer into the mountain its freezing in here from the mountains of the pancho valley are home to untold riches and precious gems three b. Sapphires and emeralds with these and other Natural Resources afghanistan could be a wealthy country but instead the gemstones help Fund Violence and atrocities the men drill a hole in the road nothing is secured the method. They use a high risk and completely antiquated the demolition experts as they call him has spent his whole life here in the mountains we ask him about the explosives hes using. Its got thats all i know we buy it illegally in pakistan and smuggle it over the border. So i dont have a rollover and take cover they call the fuse is already burning we head for a site tunnel. The men sift through the over. This break this in a space to see how long time since we found anything here at home theyre complaining because theres nothing to eat until now this was all rock we had to blow it up to follow the very. Sad i mean for the record. Its unclear who the mine and the emeralds in it belongs to basically whoever happens to have the say at any given time sometimes thats the government sometimes its local warlords sometimes the taliban theyre all looking to fund their wars with precious gemstones. There are only slim pickings today Foreign Investors could provide modern Mining Technology but that put off by the violence in afghanistan fast profits can be earned with the emirates just a handful of the stones are worth hundreds of thousands of years but these men dont see much of it and they happy with what they found today. Yeah. Yeah im happy i climbed the mountain ten times to get there and i earned around two hundred euros for what thatll fetch in a couple i have no idea but. The miners send the stones to kebble by korea the journey through the pension valley would be much too dangerous for them to undertake themselves. Back in kabul hidden behind a maze of passageways the stones a custom polished is tedious work over the years the cusses learn not to grind away too much to no one is getting rich from emeralds. Was a name of a spy way we get fifty afghani per carriage but. Thats not even one your hair is where the trail of the stones is lost most of smuggled across the border to pakistan or by plane to dubai to deal is from europe and the americas. Here in cabo we also encounter one of our two dealers again. We dont ask any questions when someone comes in pays he gets the goods and what happens after that its no longer our business or the business. In front of the camera mohammed as eamon is vague but later he explains to us how the emeralds a smuggled abroad with regional bosses warlords the taliban and yes even the government take that cut. Afghanistans emeralds could provide the country with work and prosperity but in reality they finance the taliban civil war during the country deeper and deeper into the abyss. In global living wanes we visit people around the world today were in a stand. Alone my name is better. From i am from estonia you are welcome in my house and in my small private. 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Since twenty fifteen the tunisian government has been expanding its commitment to environmental technology. Light is just a year and a half old and already has a workforce of thirty the Company Makes every day dumps which are cleaner and more efficient than the older incandescent light bulbs. Twenty four year old many ben has and is the daughter of the companys founder and is set to take the reins. Theres the government is calling on young people to get involved. It offers funds for developing new projects i qualified for a subsidy. And i also try to encourage other young people to invest in this new technology. Energy costs are high in tunisia the country imports most of its electricity mainly from algeria an industry consumes a large part of that supply. The onus is therefore on companies to reduce their energy use. The biggest brewery in the country is bt it makes soft drinks as well as beer. German Development Aid agency g. I. Said is advise in the company on ways of saving energy. On changes already underway. The company has now installed bio gas plants for example. The booming process generates a lot of heat. In the past this went to waste but not any longer. This boiler behind me has been fitted with an Energy Saving system it uses the heat of the thermal energy escaping from the chimney its basically a heat recovery system. So most said one of the biggest ceramics manufacturers in the country is based two hours southeast of tunis. The temperatures in its giant ovens reach over one thousand degrees celsius. Despite the expense the company has now up to to install a combined heat and power system. The facility costs five Million Euros. It allows the company to produce its own electricity while feeding any Surplus Energy back into the grid. Dedicated energy manages keep tabs on the energy supply. Back in the capital tunis efforts are also being made to make the Construction Industry more energy efficient. The Technical Center of natural Building Materials office trying to out of work architects Civil Engineers and people who are simply interested in new affordable and Environmental Technologies. We want to create new jobs especially in regions where unemployment is rife it will help revitalize these regions and create new industrial sectors. And. It is your. Economy is in poor shape. Struggles for some time but after training at the tenable center he set up his own business. And you made them as you know how. And when i was working in the Tourism Sector but i want to do my own thing. Something in this fledgling industry. So i looked into manufacturing gypsum boards and i got trained up. Officer. Brook masses company now employs thirty five people it insulates buildings with the chips and bolts. Unemployment is rife among many but hoskins generation of a half the population of tunisia is under thirty many people she went to college with have yet to find work but Environmental Engineering is a growth industry. But. Our generation is the most affected by Environmental Issues and so now theyve started to become a big part of our thinking. This is them going on given more. Environmental protection and Energy Efficiency new technologies that could give the tunisian economy a major boost on the countrys Younger Generation new opportunities. By. The clinton team. Now were off to ireland to a global teen hes starting to think about his future. Plan for. Well whatever stance because. I dont know were all going to try to do something awful for. I want to have a quote from. You that depends on where they are in the war if its in africa or asia if they want to have the things that we have so we should be grateful but we do have. Some of the biggest problems in the world are. 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