Have been scaled back it doesnt involve the kind of troops and the kind of weaponry that we have seen in the past they are almost a simulated classroom type exercises nonetheless north korea isnt happy about that its also interesting the timing given a regional conference thats due to get under way in bangkok they are attending this conference will be the Foreign Ministers of south korea japan and also the u. S. Counterpart mike pump. So thats really military gentile suspended schools across the country until further notice the announcement comes out to Security Forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters mass rallies are being held against mondays killing of 5 students the head of the ruling military judge has blamed the opposition for tensions in the country. When have you heard of this protest has deviated from its course the group the called for the protest had exploited the students and other groups in the text the market one of the banks and looted some of its property some people say they were people on top of the building of Khartoum Bank who started shooting others say security stationed in front of the bank are the ones who shot. Sanam basters from the u. N. Security council had delivered a petition to the secretary general on syria they want a done a good terrorist to launch an investigation into the bombing of hospitals in the the u. N. Humanitarian chief has also pleaded with the World Leaders to end what he called a bloody onslaught in adlib mark local warns that continued violence may create the worst humanitarian disaster of the 21st century a 2nd case of a bell has been confirmed in one of the democratic republic of congos biggest cities goma 2000000 people live in the city which is on the heavily traveled border with rwanda the World Health Organization has declared the bill outbreak in the d. R. C. Global emergency. Demonstrators have surrounded a Police Station in hong kong after 40 people who rallied at the weekend were charged with rioting in the past 8 weeks protests have turned recently violent they actually started after an attempt to introduce a controversial extradition bill that have turned into a wider call for democracy Indias Parliament has criminalized instant divorce practice by some muslims in the country it comes to years after the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitutional Rights of 170000000 women were being violated or than 20 countries including neighboring pakistan and bangladesh have already banned it u. S. Democratic president ial candidates have taken center stage in detroit for their 2nd televised debate theyre expected to highlight Donald Trumps recent string of racist tweets also trying to sell their vision for the country. Now the u. S. Civil rights lawyers say that more than 900. 00 Migrant Children have been separated from their families at the borders since last year the American Civil Liberties union found that nearly one out of every 5 children taken away from their parents is under the age of 5. 20 a judge ordered that the practice of splitting families must be halted and russian Opposition Leader alexina vonnie will have to serve his full prison sentence after an Early Release appeal was rejected his lawyers argued prison was unsafe as they believed he was poisoned while inside somalia serving a 30 day sentence for organizing illegal protests the relatives of 57 inmates killed in a brazilian prison riot have gathered to identify the victims 16 prisoners were beheaded Authorities Say it was a targeted attack between rival gangs. Those are the headlines up next south africa toxic city stay with us. At 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. Or an eye catching natural phenomenon. These strange hills surround john is. 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 law some disturbing secrets. Now it seems that heart wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly whats in the mind types 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 a unique but a very city from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special its got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and Aquatic Insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. There are about 200. 00 tree 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 not true 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 big underground what to kevins at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conduct 70 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. Compass over gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is definitely at risk and its you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute the 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 desolate landscapes left behind by the South AfricanMining Industry. Like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. Or these mine tailings in the midst of south africas forestalling and. Some of them date back to 1886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown culture comes back. From that point on the Mining Industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city. More and more waste piles of beheading often only a few dozen metres from residents homes. Some of the may look as innocent as sunday and see but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold i dont go over there to scare. The day goes there is here a whole year its run as was the day i. Suppose i was out to disable the p. C. s with. The project i would prefer interest over i dont have a response but with the same. Sort of at the foot of the tree onto the road is brutal. Core still to discuss and mature enough to do. So what does it mean for those living next to these dunes. Like yeah thats me. So does the wind come from the minds earnings it flows this side of the rose this side or this side from just a tiny dylan mimi 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. So the neighborhood has become one huge psalm. 22 your quote from the. Sun times yes your eyes becomes ok this is not if you go to the to new day this choice is some mix some chemical in the act so im advising you today not to go to mine because its too big its unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. Leave it to go busy. 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 dual 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 no women or child around here is coughing has appropriate of coughing as appropriate to skin some of them up only take from the man who. Says. He the minute the. Question that needs. 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 our 4th week this past week the brink this that so that is why so many people here this is the silence. 7 this dust doesnt just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe Neurological Disorders. Or who you are for years you know if you. Believe. That 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 heaps 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 way she wants you to go i say richie she kisses him and she screams all. Day 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 yet i do know and they theres a danger to them its going to be the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they dont want anybody knowing how by day kids in this situation theres 2 of them open houses in the in the same street youre going to have them there many of them you know personally personally strangers one thing that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel to them out today taking them to the to dig a little bit so but if you go outside of any distance from here believe you me you never find this key. To find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses thomas 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 them all busy all succeeding from a soldiers each. Day since then to me it turned to this it. Was a major. Crisis. Must 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 arrogated adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net of the songs were. Ok or if i could put in will do. Middle of some of them to the. Killer. Was a funny thing 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 mining. Elevate. The tracks translate to. Elevate. Ok. I. Thought it would be recently gone by. So. Many done but in point of missouri. Ok i think we just. Put it back. So i think its likely. That your son Community College just so you know it was example of what that says all thinkers you know the maximum and theyre going to continue to pose for then. 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. The 1st of the. Goldfields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. The team cant go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get a lot from from the stuff. But i know you will see it on the front end theres some. Business presently we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 tons. A day i mean we have reaching around 30 on a ton of balance depends on the order availability and how many grams of coal is there. So there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the boss minus 5 days but done thats always currently. Only 5 grams of gold each tonne of 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. Nothing to make goes there we used to im i sit in the sun thats still pretty nice i can make those you know prices i know he put it make a nice instead he got. The concession that c. T. R. So you add all of these together with these with the ball. The last stage is the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result gold falls. 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 paulsons 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 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 of some olds and some of the gold ores there is your random sauce deep has very little youre on your minutes or so. Theres very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. Can really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams of 10 to 15 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 simple as you were talking about this on daily basis the gold from both of them. But the radiation 5th of may 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. 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. Going to think that they were. When i visit us. Let me just quote she can do what she was. Seduced and there will be a little bit. Also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know im a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. I know my point of view the scene i just shot there young men get much it even to be able. 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