A Country Music festival. Thirty four year old Charleston Hartsfield was off duty during the incident he was among fifty eight victims of. The worst mass shooting in u. S. History. But those were the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after risking it all stage and thats a little bit of. A Mining Company is heading to australia to build one of the worlds biggest mines will it be an economic. Or an ecological disaster. At this time on aljazeera. Can mean a is a ghost station in the south of the democratic republic of congo. Theres been no Train Service for five months but now its running again. The train left lubumbashi the second largest city five days ago. No one knows when it will arrive. And the train everyone is waiting for has a surprising name holmdel or the swallow. The. News of the swallows arrival spreads like wildfire via the bush telegraph all word of mouth. Its the cheapest rail service in the d. R. Congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. Half of them a Street Vendors a day every stop even in the remote villages the station becomes an instant. Her younger. Look i dont know the end of that young woman where yeah right. Over. Your thirty five foot. By car but theres not much time for selling. The train is already packed. Passengers clamber for remaining seats. Yes. Yeah yeah clement has been riding this train for twenty years. He knows what to expect. From somebody that day i think they call you the selfemployed size it said this is deducted. They. Said to senior. Young today. Some of the distance to your day for these young people for the business. Not decisive he said so this is a sonic as i said if. People cram into whatever space they can find nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity. For those who want to able to find a place or who cant afford a ticket theres always the route. You say it doesnt work you simply say well let you go. But only did you know you said you never were. Located in the heart of the continent the democratic republic of congo is the largest country in subsaharan africa. The swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to aleppo and is the only link between remote villages and the outside world. The swallow has been around for more than fifty years. The old engine was bought second hand in south africa. A relay of ten drivers is needed to cover the one thousand six hundred kilometer journey. But. The driver is sixty three years old missed him a long go has one of the hardest parts of the trip. One hundred twenty kilometers of trouble saying about the road where weve never done right it said thank god its already. Got this on the subject that i think about so that you know already officer. Thats why the trip was this every something i said i dont have a problem. Mr malone go is the monster on board and supplements his income by allowing ten passengers to travel in the drivers cabin. Its as close as he gets to first class on the train. Back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and move around the carriage. But. Its something clear can get used to. Fly up but that was said on bus in the us he said it. Was at it this sends us he said dont go to the nothing for this think this is a lot of it this was just one of them up there on the song baby song they put up with the only solution you know the limo passengers take as much luggage as they can. So put a corner media. On a cd expose it equally possible and. You want. To look at the files on the way. Supposed to play along as of old to see the form of the voting booth extraordinary things sometimes happen. You know much as i. Know you. Dont want to see what you want to do that what goes again goes on in. Front of. The muslims something subtle. But. It does. Argue we have i mean come on. The train can also be a death trap. To be told its not so funny because i said a third of my supper force is not good for us also what. The fuss is about to help us in my life and. Last year the snares named several passengers. And those in third class risked their lives here on the rigs. They can easily get knocked off the moving train. Wreck no wait i can tell you now before going up was nice i got back last days i did not so there was no not to be spoiled boy what about. His fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. But if they dont. Sluggers says. The danger comes not just from above but also from the signs. Even if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. See. There are a lot of dollars so far here and theres a lot of other. Sewer service reporters say since. These are some of the remotest areas of the d. R. Congo. As dawn breaks free men are preparing for a long journey. Theyre traveling salesman trading in kosov a flower and palm oil in the villages they work for osama. Bin laden on a mobile version yes you know the only one here what it was you were doing what you do does your mom want to. Talk or you know one of them was to give them all so much do you go one on one ok one your big. Man and his companions a setting out on an arduous one hundred sixty kilometer journey through villages in the country south. It will probably take them around four or five days. You know the little one yes. Most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on the tracks so the congolese improvise. They converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise. You know what do you think you are you cool to live with on the. Market if you know school you know to be sure to put a foot or put a foot in if you dont learn of course you know you. Dont know my name was difficult to speak. To me i wanted to get. Better but. It takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. The i. Was. Just sitting. There tonight. Well i was there. I was there. To know we know. By nightfall they reach a village. The ones they wont sleep by the side of the road but in the church. This will be their only meal for the day. Here when this you impose your love of the good dont focus on. One guys you can a woman whose son was good enough to go for single notes. You know funny you know. Look. Good in new york with you good luck to wind up my song was just if the only major fun was just coming on in the. Place you got the idea. It was a joke when the window muscles. Dont come and theyll say do you look at them like. You do need dont dont want to know. The village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. Another three days of hard labor. Yet the hordes. A man and his family are on the tracks. By waving a red scarf hes been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush go up up. Up so im just a good woman i dont know that would you just really i dont know yet what what when where i mean im sure. Its often like this. Holiday work for little i. Missed him a long go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. For an advantage that by that time i had it out of the cup that i was part of first of all over the for the most over the long. Run. It was going to separate what i. See every go get your pick of the bottle. Was leaving that up on the. Oh. But right now his main concern is the state of the truck. He has to reduce speed to less than ten kilometers an hour. At this point the rails are not really aligned and he will do just that but thats why they dont have that are locked if we were loaded up with this stuff then none of this stuff fit on a Simple Society said my gosh ive. Got to fish or. Not i said yeah thats it he does not know he said just was going to the dump listening up said about us just. Turned our journey you know with regard to regard this about budget talks argue it out yet is good i will. Back in the bush man and his two associates have covered a third of their journey but the day is off to a bad start as one bike has had a puncture. Somebody get out the welcome. Can we hope its the fifth time in one day. Without a repair kits or new in a cheap. Patches the puncture with a piece of rubber from an old chief and hopes for the best. Oh as. For. This man and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. And your come up with a full and youre sure the vehicle was on what a king in one is but good for you up when up was dealt with work in marriage go for the green go you know what if you went off on. That. Day and your hunger thirst and fatigue. They barely have the strength to push their bikes any further. The move to the moon. I dont know the fun one of the older we use when we want to go from there. But i think it will make a sort of a moment of wonder the horner q. My mike came to me today. And perhaps their prayers have been answered the rain has stopped and they finally arrive. When no. One yeah. Well youre. More whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on to a. Young. Boy. Dont need a friend. Of mine you could know. A farm where you. Must go. To the up on. Wheels. A lot of. The three companions journey will soon be over when they get home in a weeks time they live and enough money to feed their families. Back home build the swallow the danger has passed the rails all straight again. Something under the sun. But just when everything seems more or less normal missed him along go is confronted with a new problem. The train is losing speed. Eventually it comes to a complete still. The fact that it does so in the middle of a village is no coincidence. Mr malone go believes its sabotage if he suspects the vendors who are known as traffickers in the d. R. Congo. Coming in. This is because they want to keep the song. For over after the one doctor book that does that its for your friend i just got nothing to. Do with hogan you think you know that stuff now do you know what your if you. Never would one day get to the tonight. So do you know if the thought of going to. The national guard. Has been riding the swallow for ten years on this trip hes selling soldiering while the next time hell sell Something Else out of it on the way the train provides him with a living i want to do what russian guy suited to my children on to government to do to learn to love to see my life more you know not be so. But if i ever. Notice about the seagull most of us about the know we are going to succumb as an absolute does only one of. The motor motor motor was handed out on. The. Road from one to the. List im a long go still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching a labor of the trains final destination. If full goes well the sixteen hundred kilometer journey will have taken eight days. To swallow continues on its way. Despite the obstacles its a necessary but precarious lifeline to thousands of connally. In the hard to me amazon believe me in families but then law is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. Its getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. Risking it two million yeah. At this time on aljazeera. And under pointed one of. Us and British Companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped Natural Resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to from dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country havent truly been able to escape the war. Right. My provocative or is it a listen when theyre on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new u. K. Has to address or if you join us on sat im a member of a complex one but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a. J. Stream and one of their pitches might make the actual join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. 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