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Following saturday announcement that he was quitting frontline politics, theres the headlines. Do stay with us risking it all is coming up next or nice feel after that. A weekly look at the worlds top business stories from Global Markets to economies and small businesses. To understand how it affects our daily lives, in homage damage in 50 millionaires, counting the cost on our g 0 ah map has the capital of bolivia in latin america. Ah. Its the highest calf. Do city in the world over 3500 meters above sea level . Ah, it is truly city and a 1000 meters of all to, to separate the poor neighborhoods in the armies. Mountains where the air steam from the wealthy districts below it can take city. So whole day dakota ties to the lack of oxygen in the mountains. But if you live there, you get used to it. Like maria ramos, dont god give us an mamma bad when father my mom and dad, my dads bought them every 2 weeks. Maria made the long journey from a Mountain Village to lap has to buy goods for her grocery store, i guess. And for her mother he said cannibal them here. This almost understand somebody level one of them was the almost thought all righty. So a complete but, but i did not for them to get them or they had i will will. Yeah, really bad. What followed . Maria lotes to tons of goods in do a truck alone . I get a fully get out there a month. Yes. Had saw maria is not typical in bolivia. Shes one of the few women living in the mount who tries. And some men disapprove of that she ah, with olivia as a rapidly developing country advance to economic reforms. Its cruel, which weight is strong. But many of his roads are terrible. Some of the most dangerous in the world. A rental shop which is both a business and a public. So this to i submitted Mountain Villages, a lot to deal with. One of the Natural Resources of the andes is called flor desk, used to work in the gold mines, but that dangerous and difficult to access. Ah, i figured out for dis now makes women aware of the dangers of pollution linked to mining Precious Metals. Probably not the record i have for my food coordinator at getting off the plane, hit me that they can sit there would battle to be in the middle where the cell eat, unless you back a marty the environment here is being badly damaged when mining and logging both apart, youre responsible for disasters like this and they never table human cost. In the believe in andes, life can be a constant struggle. Ah, maria is climbing higher into the mountains in a truck full of goods. And as she does so, the road gets narrower, starts to disappear into the clouds. The roadside headstones are a constant reminder of the dangers of driving here. And at safety is more important than speed. This accident had only just taken place. I use yeah. I feel familiar though to me with this. I keep not army lab, ill keep them in. I think ive only Sandra Lubbock 7 of bus accident. It was coming all day long one day before going any further, maria checks the wheels. If a truck ah, a golden family jennifer in the park gave i look on the sheriff in america in coverage when the brake pads overheat. It takes maria longer to stop or control the truck. She lets them cool down and tightens a few balls to make sure she doesnt belong to them is gonna, daniel, they must good day. A boy whats of him a, the better civic and let him begin on the scholarship and say, well, i love living here is now leaving the tower my road from now on. It will be a dirt track and mud 100 kilometers along the steep chris edge to have an its, ah yes, both of us on the got that and ill go d as in dog again. My name is mel ronda manhattan with a metal band with maria is now leaving the andes where its fairly cold. An entry, a tropical forest, he co region known as the believe in you got this root canal flap past to the amazon rain forest. And the youngest is a hot and humid place where trees nearly all year round her toll with plant. Just because there was only difference between november and march, the clouds in the andes collide with hot air from the amazon. This leads to very heavy rain and causes destruction across the u got including hundreds of landslide. Ah ah, this was one of the deadliest landslides and a witness captured it on video. In march 2019, the 1st last night here caused the whole world to disappear. Survivors dead quite to cost and foot, but the earth started moving again. Ah, this is also claimed the lives of 70 people that do ah, human exploitation of Natural Resources is causing environmental problems here and around the rest of the world. Forest subbing cleared and driven damaged in order to extract Precious Metals from them. Oh, new esl, maxine ideas. Biological better people can see, and youre gonna, laura dance used to work in the gold mines, which is now set up an organization that supports women who continue to work. Then she choice to make them aware of the fact that this work will never meet them. Rich and more importantly could endanger their lives with after around a 160 kilometers, your day has to change in sporting graham with idle before me because the little ah a ah ah, its still raining today, but the road ahead is blocked by a truck. Got rent out she that back in under mariners room and as, as the, like i said, emily, another driver has also to take the risk of towing it but its dangerous because the truck is stuck on an uphill bent and could slide over the edge a nobody but in the of the drivers have no choice but to wait patiently. The all know that the my be next to get stuck after 3 are wait, lord, this is on the move again on a journey to the gold mines into one in recent years, Climate Change has made clothing bolivia quite difficult. Extreme weather means that some regions a regular di, flooded while others have experience dropped in 2015. The 2nd largest loop in the country, dried up completely. The problem is exacerbated by the man me deforestation of the amazon. The great rain forest covers around 40 percent of olivia. Ah, i mean why maria . The shop or now continue said trot. Journey through the youngest. She has already been on the road for 10 hours, negotiating these difficult roads. Its tiring. Some local villages, however her found a way of making a subsistence living from basic food maintenance. I guess. 5 wasnt gonna be any higher. Yeah, i believe. Yeah, yeah, but it was a and i go with players and let me dep, albany, eagle. Im a st. W those. But as again, as is where it goes, what the other, but again, my check will that work with 280 to norma to journey from la pass taking 15 odds rear finding features of vintage. Ah ah. Oh maria, the local grocery store. She runs with a husband if a small business, but for the 300 villages, the lifeline itself, everything food to school with in in the an sd one it was that received kenai mills and then they bought that debbie. Debbie thats the lucky up in one for us have yell marie and one is to farm pool collies and the cash club enabled them to open their course restore. Lo my, let me get it. Be live in a remote area where traditional ways of life have changed. Little by their mans is an equal partnership. In bolivia, women really enjoy such equality. The quan is pleased to see his wife working some brochures understood for years to the m. The solar brazilians watchers thou hamstrung us. Yes, but a yo, miss breski or the little that amused was up, i killed them in shipper. The libido gave common as to the trouble. Is the real but another impossible in another. But as far as i lived for the girls for marie and one farming colker even higher, up in the andes was tough. So the appreciate their lives as shop born as now. And it explains why theyre prepared to deliver to remote locations, despite the way this is a ton of to plenty known locally as the city of gold. Nor does an organization try to persuade female gold miners to give up a job that simply keeps them poor. But because of the floods, some families have left town. So she had for the river, where she knows kirby women working despite the floods and do it. Ah, this is in deal with the planet to sit with it. Im lucky enough by then into lamina as of yet the other hand that she had read those this got, but he died. Those are your cell, but theres very little less to exploit on this side of the river and the miners have to be satisfied with tiny specks of gold. Maria, so till its per 2 years old. And its worked here for 5 years. Ballard, those fellows made your grandma and need a light them in i go on. Those alarm theyve done now. Co colleagues, not really a healthy meal. Most of the miners were on the other side of the river. They have more chance of finding golden, but its also much riskier ah, a bottom of that. But the main danger comes not from the cable totally leaky. Ah, the band sits below an Industrial Mine family is rummaged to its waist in the hope of finding some precious metal if you will need the the problem is that the water released from the mind which is poisonous. It poisons the miners and their food didnt them . What about it was mean compound that was probably not the back that i handle may pull you into her or they say jam al deal in india. Black company not hadnt brought the hair nor death, and her Small Association dont have the power to attract these families out of poverty. But they hope that one day they will succeed in banning big use of mercury in the gold mines with maria and Juan Carlos Ramos are also on a mission. They make this hazardous journey in order to provide a remote village with facing supplies. It takes them 3 hours to try 620 kilometers to this remote village. I hey, go with my mom in near non do mother. Yeah mm hm. Mm. Gonna go to there is quite the order arsic armina. But at the latest role that i see in getting you in a c, a f l o, a, mary anne juan, dont do this for the money. Its more of a public service. And to enable the villagers to be able to put food on the table, a young man perform bundle got a novel gear, but i feel like on top of that promotional value to it. But if youd like to learn with your dance and others like them, or find me blazing a trail for believing within unthinkable even a few years ago, they are becoming more involved in politics, the community, and environmental issues. They are challenging old entrenched attitudes and showing if they can truly be considered equal to men. With on the 5th to september prisons, conservative party will elect a new leader who become the countrys Prime Minister, a row likely to be defined by an unprecedented cost of living crisis by winning inflation and away the strikes across the country. Stay without his era, for the latest developments on the you case, new Prime Minister for science, its the evidence is the refutable. But americas Climate Change denial stubbornly mistrust of the fact. Despite soaring temperatures, raging wild fires and shrinking water reserves, the Worlds Largest economy, its still split along ideological lines. So can it ever reach consensus to avoid catastrophe . Climate wars ought to, on a just 0 in columbia, transforming urban waste to Building Block the u. S. To for a same there waste blast of the war. We can finish their house in charlotte fishing in america in just 10 years. And in singapore critical farms and living buildings, anything you do on land, on the ground, it doesnt make sense to do that. Apply on a building now can, we might have not just decorative that can we make it biologically productive. Earth rise . Describe as cutting Edge Solution for sustainable cities. On al jazeera, indonesia, your investment destination, the worlds 10th largest economy is busy transforming, ready to beat your business, partner with a robust talent pool, politically and economically stable and strong policies. Being the power house, indonesia is confirmed by the g. 20 presidency. Bringing opportunities for you in vest indonesia now ah, to hal gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union who helped and the cold war has died at the age of 90. 1 blamed in russia hailed in the west