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Off a century ago as war raged in vietnam and isolated community in the jungles of northern laos was recruited by the cia to help fight the viet cong over 50000 of the hmong tribe became part of americas secret army disrupting communist supply lines along the whole human trail thousands of monk died in the war but their problems didnt end when the americans pulled out fearing a crackdown by laos communist Government Forces many fled the country but some 7000 stayed behind then continued to fight what they called red laos from deep within the jungle where they lived in hiding in 2008 ounces there is tony burke they tracked uphill for more than 2 days through dense forests in search of the hmong who were left behind he found a settlement of fewer than 200 people most of them born after the war but still living as their ancestors had he was the 1st outsider they had seen in 32 years from 2008 this is the last tribe secret army of the cia. An arduous trek through thick jungle a journey to find a lost try. People been hidden from the outside world for more than 30 years too scared to leave the jungle but too afraid to stay people on their knees. They are among part of americas secret army in the vietnam war. Now they say theyre being hunted by the laos army picked off one by one time is running out for the whole month of northern. The dead of night and a rendezvous on the fringe of ages dances jungles. These are my guys they are home on a rugged tough people used to harsh conditions. For the People Living in fear. When we talk we whisper when we walk we try not to create noise and we try to avoid the danger. The danger is posed by the laos army they are everywhere the hmong told me and ambushes are common its about midnight now weve been walking for route 3 hours up this huge hill hallways are put up with his tortures route for somebody like me but for these young hmong fighters its a normal walk in the jungle and the sort of care they have to take to avoid the laos army. A few welcome hours asleep beneath the dense canopy awaking to the chill of an Early Morning in the highland jungle of northern laos. Breakfast was a kind of yam a staple diet for the hmong but something i would come to dread in the coming days. After 2 and a half days of tough trekking i reached the outskirts of the village i walked on and a quite unbelievable welcome. To earth. Yeah. Yeah im fine thank you. I was the 1st outside that anyone had seen for 32 years to some it was the 1st time ever. I didnt know it then but my visit had taken on a significance i wasnt prepared for. They called me father and gave me a deep respect for someone who could somehow end their plight to give them a new beginning and for the 1st time in a long while in the hope. That like everybody. I. Sit there like youre waiting the demand out a little bit harder. Who only if they want to tell me you are. All right all right. Yeah. Yeah yeah that really fucked up. This is just the most incredible welcome about. Dance a welcome to introduce me to the lives of. These people crying oh no they havent really progressed since 1975 theyre living the same way that their ancestors did living in the forest in the jungle and it seems like theyre abandoned by everybody. Dont know that its hard to appreciate their sense of isolation the reality of what those last years mean. He said had to do. That. You dont have to be in this village very long to understand why there is such a sense of desperation. Children are visibly malnourished theyre dressed in all clothes barefoot or just with flip flops no medicine no education and little food almost a bigger fight than the Government Forces before coming here nothing actually can prepare you for what you actually see in thats the really depressing scene People Living on the lowest level of human ladder and you look around you cant see much prospect for improvement the emotion of these people they really come to the end of the line they believe that if nobody helps them it is really the end of the line and the end of them on Something Like 580000 people among have died in the last 32 years they claim and he doesnt get a solution his problem they reckon theyre all among her going to die here in the jungle. The area is close to the vietnam border and where the vietnamese communists had their supply lines it was called the whole cimon trail. 60000 hmong were recruited by america as part of the cias socalled secret army to fight the cons but the fight against the laos communist forces has continued long after the vietnam war. Today 155 people live in the community most of them born after 1975. 90 problem. Is the leader of the 7000 hmong who he says remain in the jungle 32 years ago he was chief of 18000 most he claims have been killed people increasingly look to him for a solution to their plight. The leader looks to me a lot of work not. All load up a 2nd with filmy on mung. 50 who are color or not too new in your. I dont know what they thought up all are all moral wrong. You might like a bottle. O. With the rope drop talk or a little here and awkward got the heart of a goal with the thought alcoa oclock oclock local model here top in gold or short off along all the hmong reveal him as animists they worship the land the nature incense is used as a means to communicate with their gods. On your heart and you know i go right down here alone. Wait all tarango gonna get the man i thought. Oh you know. Being a savior is a big responsibility for the people kneeling before me was so desperate they would snatch any glimmer of hope even if it was me quite a long war hole or bed time with the gone with the new if you drop a new car down to the top it up a hollow hoop and all conduct human war only not our want the moon. Well its a really strange situation moment when i was interviewing the leader and then suddenly he declared that i was formally being taken hostage until the United Nations could resolve their problem here i did point out that one journalist like me couldnt resolve anything certainly not from inside the camp but this is a 1st for me being taken hostage by people to come to try and help but it does show also the mark of desperation of these people they are really living a very difficult and hard life and from one day to the next they dont know how theyre going to fare so i do understand to a certain extent but i hope they do change their minds an unreal situation Everything Else that could change their lives for the better was a long long way away but i was here and the hmong were getting used to the idea. But you know i dont know if you would. The region will go there or will im going to die jock laurie. Going to go higher you know what we dont know and the. People have been scarred mentally by their experiences everyone has been touched everyone seems to have lost family or killed they say by the laos army last year the leader told me 54 of his people were murdered by the military and their physical scars as well. As 72 he claims 10 children and his wife were killed by the army and then he stepped on a mine planted on a route villages took to get food marco mortgage daryn it. Was a lot of money. Would they know what theyre doing. They. Would. Be the long. My song is 59 and a grandmother she has lost 5 sons or shot dead she says by laotian soldiers. She says the scars of Bullet Wounds suffered when she went to dig for food. Now you know how. Do you do your. Laundry and my. Not. Knowing you know how much you. Are. You know. This is the thing survive on here its the root of a plant and you have to dig down about a meter in order to get it take some i can tell you is what we lived on for 3 days in the jungle getting here the surprise was that is what we have on every single day here lucky to get 3 meals a day if not its about to change and you know if you know you have been there no no no no she doesnt like im not im not someone to also call me sir do. You. By the light of a count by the singer pushtuns and dance the steps of their ancestors who moved from mongolia to china and then to laos. Care. They try to retain what little culture they can and scrape by in a harsh environment that is now their world one that with every generation slowly ebbing away good. Dawn is always the most vulnerable time of the hmong in the jungle the time when the laos army is most likely to strike one in. The wash more a splash really is a luxury the hmong would be too exposed living in rivers. This is for me to take. The lead it was still insisting i stay but hed written a letter which he wanted me to deliver personally to the United Nations in new york. At the moment. They were tough resilient people which is why the cia used them for 10 years during the vietnam war just a handful now remain in the jungle of northern else and finally i get to meet some. New. Poll on our do your part do you know your poem dont yet you know im a god i dont know. What all big. Well youre not descartes tell us all. The hmong feel the communist government in laos they call it the red laos is punishing them for fighting for the americans ok yang was a young man he fought for the americans against the communists been a nice now he feels abandoned by me got it all in our low. I. Q. Who told you. There were. Well the want their power board. My feeling it will sound very kewl argument. When youre watching the slow death of a people its hard to know what to do or even what to say i try to reassure them i gave them what i had in my pack of medical supplies of food the 1st time the younger hmong had seen ham and cheese. Dictate one piece of good thick 11000th of a whole. Different i. Dont. Know sheepishly they came forward for a taste 1st the men. Who were going out and then the women some a little confused about what they were being offered and your mother well i dont know what are you i mean or not i dont. Want to know about you and then the children inched forward wary and wondrous at the same time looking at acknowledged that. It was you know what i did say that im not going to write you know im not good enough. You. Know what then if youre not going to like. Family you can have. A lot. Of the time passed the hmongs belief in me as a savior didnt diminish quite the contrary they stated me killed one of the few chickens they have in my honor and lit candles as a blessing to bestow on a good luck don de marco the admiral got delay tied strings on my wrist to ward off the bad spirits they knelt before me in acts of homage it was also overwhelming and has been quite a moving experience ive never had anything like this happening before and i miss some great belief that i can suddenly. Change around their fortunes and i can singlehandedly make the United Nations come in and do something they treat me like some kind of god here. And im got the heart to tell them that so many other people around the world in so many other dire situations have been let down before by the international community. A chicken no matter how small an anorexic has good luck signs the wishbone almost suggested good omens maybe my release. For the hmong the jungle of now than laos is a place of nightmares and dreams. 18 years old he married at 15 and has 2 children he dreams of studying music and taking his children to a park. The melancholy sound of b. s guitar made me think about my hopes i might increase in desire to leave. Ive been here for about 5 days now and i havent had a proper water in that time i lived largely on the roots in these parts of harvey have the sun on my face because along up the live in places like this which is giving plenty of cover in case of the aerial reconnaissance of the laotian army spots them. And. Im finding out that our. And ive got to go but i see these people around me and every day i see the children it makes me think of my children my family and my life and i realize that i cant stick as much longer so i want to go. After a week or rumor spread the translator and i were about to leave. He created panic and angry scenes. That. I had to. From that moment. That he money. Think that look. That you. Are not mine you know. That sheep that you dont like you dont like you. Dont. Know you dont know how do you know so good that you know and how. Subsequently i believe all these people these women of packed up their their baskets their clothes their possessions and they want to come with me they want to walk out today walk out of the forest and civilization but i keep trying to explain to them that but the last army out there and. I cant guarantee their safety quite quite the reverse its bizarre. You know no. You know heated argument about whether to stay or to go with me. Probably 30. I know you know what. The mood of panic could come from nowhere and disappears quickly because the homeowner reconcile themselves with reality and battle for survival. And people walk for days from surrounding villages to plead with me for help. This man had lost all his family and he amputated his own hand after being badly wounded. They began to sing a song about the plight of the hmong people about persecution and injustice about survival. Is haunting words followed me as my release became a reality and i believe the lesson for the journey ahead. No. No. You are. Going. To. Go. You are. Not go home until. I turned one last time and i wondered what would happen to the hmong of northern laos and how many would live long enough to leave. That was the lost tribe secret army of the cia well were joined now from london by the filmmaker tony birthday and tony why dont you start by telling us why you went looking for the moment the 1st place. Well i suppose ive got a bucket list of stories that ive always wanted to cover i was too young to cover the vietnam war its something that really interested me but a spin off from that was the hmong so i kept in contact with what was happening to them as much as i could and then they came an opportunity there was a connection that i learnt of in in california among community there and they i contacted them and they put me in contact with the Hmong Community in laos and arranged for me to go in and see them so it was something that i really wanted to do its a great desire to cover that because its one of those very i think very important stories but one that is overlooked because its so difficult to do start challenging was it actually reaching the hmong i mean did you did you know youd be putting your life in danger well there always concerns because the people in california may be quite aware of the dangers from the loutish laos army they said that people in the jungle being hunted by the laos army they were being killed so i had to be prepared for that sort of thing i wasnt really prepared for the physical side of it because actually getting there was physically challenging i wasnt perhaps the fittest at the time but soon as i started walking it was a monumental hike for nearly 3 days over really really large hills in darkness sometimes and im not due to go with a camera man who was carrying a bit away and when he learnt about the rigors of the of the hike and the fact the potential dangers he decided not to go so therefore i took the camera myself which ive done in the past and it wasnt a problem for me. But as i say i found it challenging he would have found it impossible to be honest tony you within as something of a savior but then you were also taken hostage how did you cope psychologically. Well im a tough old dog so it didnt really get me down too much to be honest it was never a case of my life being in danger i didnt fear these people i understood their desperation and they were using whatever bargaining tool they could nevertheless funny idea if this is one of those stories that really thays with you long after youve left well it was a profound experience because i never really expected to find what i did i didnt understand from all my research the deep. Fear and the deprivation of these people so to actually go there from the moment i entered their camp they were on their hands and knees praying and crying and this was not just to greet me was not a show because in the course of the next week i saw it on a regular basis people crying people pleading with me people saying theyve got no hope theyre all going to die theyre all heard stories about you know their loved ones being killed they said by the laotian army the fact that they were on the run they were sick they were needy and they had very little you also made a promise to take this up with the u. N. Did you manage that i went to new york i went to the United Nations i wrote to the secretary general i told everything i saw or i gave a link to the documentary i did absolutely Nothing Happened when i raised it in a press briefing to the uns press people they looked at me like yeah and what it didnt register on the social consciousness of the United Nations or in fact the world so i feel a tremendous sense of failure and i suppose thats why the images of stayed with me so long longer than some of the other horrible things that ive covered Tony Berkeley great talking to you thanks for joining us and we want. And that is it from us this week be sure to check us out online though the re one page at 0 dot com for more films from the series im come all santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us seems to. Rewind returns with a new scenery. And brand new updates on the past about dizziness documentaries. Need. To. Rewind continues we have to be an afghan an adult the president im going to stand and this is the proudest day out by the op my life that was a real turning point for those that give them a lot of confidence that they can beat any team in a shoe on aljazeera this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing the coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures. The great a strain the area the Cultural Heritage its iconic little rhythm Industry Based on steps we will lose instantly if we have another bleaching event of these magnitude if this continues they just will not be the opportunity for the currents to recover in between those mad. Scientists a calling for stronger Climate Policy from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation will finally get worse. A story of financial scandal with billions lost in the United Arab Emirates ive never seen a story like this where 2 Government Forces<\/a> many fled the country but some 7000 stayed behind then continued to fight what they called red laos from deep within the jungle where they lived in hiding in 2008 ounces there is tony burke they tracked uphill for more than 2 days through dense forests in search of the hmong who were left behind he found a settlement of fewer than 200 people most of them born after the war but still living as their ancestors had he was the 1st outsider they had seen in 32 years from 2008 this is the last tribe secret army of the cia. An arduous trek through thick jungle a journey to find a lost try. People been hidden from the outside world for more than 30 years too scared to leave the jungle but too afraid to stay people on their knees. They are among part of americas secret army in the vietnam war. Now they say theyre being hunted by the laos army picked off one by one time is running out for the whole month of northern. The dead of night and a rendezvous on the fringe of ages dances jungles. These are my guys they are home on a rugged tough people used to harsh conditions. For the People Living<\/a> in fear. When we talk we whisper when we walk we try not to create noise and we try to avoid the danger. The danger is posed by the laos army they are everywhere the hmong told me and ambushes are common its about midnight now weve been walking for route 3 hours up this huge hill hallways are put up with his tortures route for somebody like me but for these young hmong fighters its a normal walk in the jungle and the sort of care they have to take to avoid the laos army. A few welcome hours asleep beneath the dense canopy awaking to the chill of an Early Morning<\/a> in the highland jungle of northern laos. Breakfast was a kind of yam a staple diet for the hmong but something i would come to dread in the coming days. After 2 and a half days of tough trekking i reached the outskirts of the village i walked on and a quite unbelievable welcome. To earth. Yeah. Yeah im fine thank you. I was the 1st outside that anyone had seen for 32 years to some it was the 1st time ever. I didnt know it then but my visit had taken on a significance i wasnt prepared for. They called me father and gave me a deep respect for someone who could somehow end their plight to give them a new beginning and for the 1st time in a long while in the hope. That like everybody. I. Sit there like youre waiting the demand out a little bit harder. Who only if they want to tell me you are. All right all right. Yeah. Yeah yeah that really fucked up. This is just the most incredible welcome about. Dance a welcome to introduce me to the lives of. These people crying oh no they havent really progressed since 1975 theyre living the same way that their ancestors did living in the forest in the jungle and it seems like theyre abandoned by everybody. Dont know that its hard to appreciate their sense of isolation the reality of what those last years mean. He said had to do. That. You dont have to be in this village very long to understand why there is such a sense of desperation. Children are visibly malnourished theyre dressed in all clothes barefoot or just with flip flops no medicine no education and little food almost a bigger fight than the Government Forces<\/a> before coming here nothing actually can prepare you for what you actually see in thats the really depressing scene People Living<\/a> on the lowest level of human ladder and you look around you cant see much prospect for improvement the emotion of these people they really come to the end of the line they believe that if nobody helps them it is really the end of the line and the end of them on Something Like<\/a> 580000 people among have died in the last 32 years they claim and he doesnt get a solution his problem they reckon theyre all among her going to die here in the jungle. The area is close to the vietnam border and where the vietnamese communists had their supply lines it was called the whole cimon trail. 60000 hmong were recruited by america as part of the cias socalled secret army to fight the cons but the fight against the laos communist forces has continued long after the vietnam war. Today 155 people live in the community most of them born after 1975. 90 problem. Is the leader of the 7000 hmong who he says remain in the jungle 32 years ago he was chief of 18000 most he claims have been killed people increasingly look to him for a solution to their plight. The leader looks to me a lot of work not. All load up a 2nd with filmy on mung. 50 who are color or not too new in your. I dont know what they thought up all are all moral wrong. You might like a bottle. O. With the rope drop talk or a little here and awkward got the heart of a goal with the thought alcoa oclock oclock local model here top in gold or short off along all the hmong reveal him as animists they worship the land the nature incense is used as a means to communicate with their gods. On your heart and you know i go right down here alone. Wait all tarango gonna get the man i thought. Oh you know. Being a savior is a big responsibility for the people kneeling before me was so desperate they would snatch any glimmer of hope even if it was me quite a long war hole or bed time with the gone with the new if you drop a new car down to the top it up a hollow hoop and all conduct human war only not our want the moon. Well its a really strange situation moment when i was interviewing the leader and then suddenly he declared that i was formally being taken hostage until the United Nations<\/a> could resolve their problem here i did point out that one journalist like me couldnt resolve anything certainly not from inside the camp but this is a 1st for me being taken hostage by people to come to try and help but it does show also the mark of desperation of these people they are really living a very difficult and hard life and from one day to the next they dont know how theyre going to fare so i do understand to a certain extent but i hope they do change their minds an unreal situation Everything Else<\/a> that could change their lives for the better was a long long way away but i was here and the hmong were getting used to the idea. But you know i dont know if you would. The region will go there or will im going to die jock laurie. Going to go higher you know what we dont know and the. People have been scarred mentally by their experiences everyone has been touched everyone seems to have lost family or killed they say by the laos army last year the leader told me 54 of his people were murdered by the military and their physical scars as well. As 72 he claims 10 children and his wife were killed by the army and then he stepped on a mine planted on a route villages took to get food marco mortgage daryn it. Was a lot of money. Would they know what theyre doing. They. Would. Be the long. My song is 59 and a grandmother she has lost 5 sons or shot dead she says by laotian soldiers. She says the scars of Bullet Wounds<\/a> suffered when she went to dig for food. Now you know how. Do you do your. Laundry and my. Not. Knowing you know how much you. Are. You know. This is the thing survive on here its the root of a plant and you have to dig down about a meter in order to get it take some i can tell you is what we lived on for 3 days in the jungle getting here the surprise was that is what we have on every single day here lucky to get 3 meals a day if not its about to change and you know if you know you have been there no no no no she doesnt like im not im not someone to also call me sir do. You. By the light of a count by the singer pushtuns and dance the steps of their ancestors who moved from mongolia to china and then to laos. Care. They try to retain what little culture they can and scrape by in a harsh environment that is now their world one that with every generation slowly ebbing away good. Dawn is always the most vulnerable time of the hmong in the jungle the time when the laos army is most likely to strike one in. The wash more a splash really is a luxury the hmong would be too exposed living in rivers. This is for me to take. The lead it was still insisting i stay but hed written a letter which he wanted me to deliver personally to the United Nations<\/a> in new york. At the moment. They were tough resilient people which is why the cia used them for 10 years during the vietnam war just a handful now remain in the jungle of northern else and finally i get to meet some. New. Poll on our do your part do you know your poem dont yet you know im a god i dont know. What all big. Well youre not descartes tell us all. The hmong feel the communist government in laos they call it the red laos is punishing them for fighting for the americans ok yang was a young man he fought for the americans against the communists been a nice now he feels abandoned by me got it all in our low. I. Q. Who told you. There were. Well the want their power board. My feeling it will sound very kewl argument. When youre watching the slow death of a people its hard to know what to do or even what to say i try to reassure them i gave them what i had in my pack of medical supplies of food the 1st time the younger hmong had seen ham and cheese. Dictate one piece of good thick 11000th of a whole. Different i. Dont. Know sheepishly they came forward for a taste 1st the men. Who were going out and then the women some a little confused about what they were being offered and your mother well i dont know what are you i mean or not i dont. Want to know about you and then the children inched forward wary and wondrous at the same time looking at acknowledged that. It was you know what i did say that im not going to write you know im not good enough. You. Know what then if youre not going to like. Family you can have. A lot. Of the time passed the hmongs belief in me as a savior didnt diminish quite the contrary they stated me killed one of the few chickens they have in my honor and lit candles as a blessing to bestow on a good luck don de marco the admiral got delay tied strings on my wrist to ward off the bad spirits they knelt before me in acts of homage it was also overwhelming and has been quite a moving experience ive never had anything like this happening before and i miss some great belief that i can suddenly. Change around their fortunes and i can singlehandedly make the United Nations<\/a> come in and do something they treat me like some kind of god here. And im got the heart to tell them that so many other people around the world in so many other dire situations have been let down before by the international community. A chicken no matter how small an anorexic has good luck signs the wishbone almost suggested good omens maybe my release. For the hmong the jungle of now than laos is a place of nightmares and dreams. 18 years old he married at 15 and has 2 children he dreams of studying music and taking his children to a park. The melancholy sound of b. s guitar made me think about my hopes i might increase in desire to leave. Ive been here for about 5 days now and i havent had a proper water in that time i lived largely on the roots in these parts of harvey have the sun on my face because along up the live in places like this which is giving plenty of cover in case of the aerial reconnaissance of the laotian army spots them. And. Im finding out that our. And ive got to go but i see these people around me and every day i see the children it makes me think of my children my family and my life and i realize that i cant stick as much longer so i want to go. After a week or rumor spread the translator and i were about to leave. He created panic and angry scenes. That. I had to. From that moment. That he money. Think that look. That you. Are not mine you know. That sheep that you dont like you dont like you. Dont. Know you dont know how do you know so good that you know and how. Subsequently i believe all these people these women of packed up their their baskets their clothes their possessions and they want to come with me they want to walk out today walk out of the forest and civilization but i keep trying to explain to them that but the last army out there and. I cant guarantee their safety quite quite the reverse its bizarre. You know no. You know heated argument about whether to stay or to go with me. Probably 30. I know you know what. The mood of panic could come from nowhere and disappears quickly because the homeowner reconcile themselves with reality and battle for survival. And people walk for days from surrounding villages to plead with me for help. This man had lost all his family and he amputated his own hand after being badly wounded. They began to sing a song about the plight of the hmong people about persecution and injustice about survival. Is haunting words followed me as my release became a reality and i believe the lesson for the journey ahead. No. No. You are. Going. To. Go. You are. Not go home until. I turned one last time and i wondered what would happen to the hmong of northern laos and how many would live long enough to leave. That was the lost tribe secret army of the cia well were joined now from london by the filmmaker tony birthday and tony why dont you start by telling us why you went looking for the moment the 1st place. Well i suppose ive got a bucket list of stories that ive always wanted to cover i was too young to cover the vietnam war its something that really interested me but a spin off from that was the hmong so i kept in contact with what was happening to them as much as i could and then they came an opportunity there was a connection that i learnt of in in california among community there and they i contacted them and they put me in contact with the Hmong Community<\/a> in laos and arranged for me to go in and see them so it was something that i really wanted to do its a great desire to cover that because its one of those very i think very important stories but one that is overlooked because its so difficult to do start challenging was it actually reaching the hmong i mean did you did you know youd be putting your life in danger well there always concerns because the people in california may be quite aware of the dangers from the loutish laos army they said that people in the jungle being hunted by the laos army they were being killed so i had to be prepared for that sort of thing i wasnt really prepared for the physical side of it because actually getting there was physically challenging i wasnt perhaps the fittest at the time but soon as i started walking it was a monumental hike for nearly 3 days over really really large hills in darkness sometimes and im not due to go with a camera man who was carrying a bit away and when he learnt about the rigors of the of the hike and the fact the potential dangers he decided not to go so therefore i took the camera myself which ive done in the past and it wasnt a problem for me. But as i say i found it challenging he would have found it impossible to be honest tony you within as something of a savior but then you were also taken hostage how did you cope psychologically. Well im a tough old dog so it didnt really get me down too much to be honest it was never a case of my life being in danger i didnt fear these people i understood their desperation and they were using whatever bargaining tool they could nevertheless funny idea if this is one of those stories that really thays with you long after youve left well it was a profound experience because i never really expected to find what i did i didnt understand from all my research the deep. Fear and the deprivation of these people so to actually go there from the moment i entered their camp they were on their hands and knees praying and crying and this was not just to greet me was not a show because in the course of the next week i saw it on a regular basis people crying people pleading with me people saying theyve got no hope theyre all going to die theyre all heard stories about you know their loved ones being killed they said by the laotian army the fact that they were on the run they were sick they were needy and they had very little you also made a promise to take this up with the u. N. Did you manage that i went to new york i went to the United Nations<\/a> i wrote to the secretary general i told everything i saw or i gave a link to the documentary i did absolutely Nothing Happened<\/a> when i raised it in a press briefing to the uns press people they looked at me like yeah and what it didnt register on the social consciousness of the United Nations<\/a> or in fact the world so i feel a tremendous sense of failure and i suppose thats why the images of stayed with me so long longer than some of the other horrible things that ive covered Tony Berkeley<\/a> great talking to you thanks for joining us and we want. And that is it from us this week be sure to check us out online though the re one page at 0 dot com for more films from the series im come all santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us seems to. Rewind returns with a new scenery. And brand new updates on the past about dizziness documentaries. Need. To. Rewind continues we have to be an afghan an adult the president im going to stand and this is the proudest day out by the op my life that was a real turning point for those that give them a lot of confidence that they can beat any team in a shoe on aljazeera this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing the coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures. The great a strain the area the Cultural Heritage<\/a> its iconic little rhythm Industry Based<\/a> on steps we will lose instantly if we have another bleaching event of these magnitude if this continues they just will not be the opportunity for the currents to recover in between those mad. Scientists a calling for stronger Climate Policy<\/a> from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation will finally get worse. A story of financial scandal with billions lost in the United Arab Emirates<\/a> ive never seen a story like this where 2 Companies Similar<\/a> tiniest plea involving the same group of people have failed at the same time but where the money go is the 1000000. 00 question aljazeera world investigates the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an indian tycoon b r shetty and the missing millions on aljazeera. 0. Hello this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes lebanons information minister becomes the latest politician to quit over the port blast as a powerful religious leader says the whole government may need to go. Paving the way for peace talks in afghanistan the president agrees to set 400 taliban prisoners free. 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