A day of remembrance and quiet tributes when the people of scotland, the only queen, many of them had ever known. A herse carrying her flag draped coffin left balmoral castle. But she passed away on thursday from that the cottage began the 6 hour journey to all the rude house palace in edinburgh where her body will lie and rest of thousands of people lined the route to pay their respects to the lake on it. Many were moved to tears as a convoy move past. The hearse was met at the palace of Hollywood House by military god of honor, a coffin, it will remain at the rog residence overnights. He will be taken to Saint Johns Cathedral in edinburgh on monday and long repose for 24 hours before being taken to london by a people lining the streets to see the queens cortez drive by had been remembering her and what she meant in the field. We just had to come in peabody space to the queen, because then i mean, shes about so hobbs horribly and just seem dre to come here to want to thank him for such is come for us and we fleet some flavors. Pit floaters dont and day. Yeah. Just want to shoot gratefulness, weve only been an interview for 3 days and i was say, thursday she passed by and we obviously want to stay here and stay an extra day. Just a pair respects from california. I was, she, you know, dont know, lot about the green and or the marketing problem, but the history, you know, and obviously a sad time for the country. Meanwhile, britains new monarch, king charles, the 3rd has been proclaimed the monarch in scotland, wales and northern ireland. Ah ah, in edinburgh, the proclamation was followed by guns to lead on a military ban, paying the anthony god save the king was also some billing from a group of republicans similar ceremonies took place in belfast and that kind of carson earlier proclamations were held in other parts of the commonwealth, including new zealand and australia. Those are the headlines. News, continues Herron Al Jazeera after 1. 00 oh, 1. 00 east. Ah. Australian, environmentalists, a sounding the alarm. They say one of the countrys most precious rain forests. The ta kind is under threat. Places like this, i just become more and more and find to have a 60 read through an endangered species scenario that should have been protected decades ago. And we still have been fighting for as the government introduces tougher penalties. These protests is a prepared to break the law to stop a mining development. How do you feel about going to prison for Something Like that . Not great. Pre rochester, i bring it on for one i one east meets the ordinary citizens, making a stand to save. Australias ancient forests are mm its early january and the astray leon states of tasmania and a small band of passionate environmentalists is on a secret mission. Wag. Westcott, so in a convoy of maybe 8. 00 to 10. 00, cause theres repercussions if if we get saying particularly by cops, particularly in israel ah 27 year old horticulturist Mitch Houghton is expecting trouble. Is there a Law Enforcement that come into the side . Its 99 percent likely that ill be getting arrested the here to protect old growth, rain forest from a Chinese Mining Company that wants to build a dam to store its toxic waste. Further down this road, months of planning will all beef and nothing if they discovered it was a combination of trepidation and excitement for my youth worker scott. Jordan is a veteran environmental campaign. Uh this olga is that element. When you come in and say, whether youre going to get set up for that around. So its racing against the class to make sure that happens. Oh, theyre preparing a common blockade tool. A vehicle destined for scrap things carefully placed over a pipe, already concrete it into the road a. This will be the anchor for an activist to lock on top with their a diverse bunch aged from 21 to 70. 3. Among them are retired, fit the doctor about chanda and to chemist in the dining design. We made course rather go with well i with oh, this isnt the 1st time the group is made a stand here. All right, sorry, good. Get back with me. They say that in 2020 they stopped the logging but left this scar a ye, alicia. They set up another blockade here when they found out about Chinese Mining Company in and jeez, plans for a tailings dam. On my the i tight place rolling and likely in the block i had camp and named jay started pushing ahead with its road works from home. And so either the next 60 days, every day volunteers will turn up, often at 3 in the morning in the pouring rain in the middle of a test monument would go in and unlock themselves on those machines to prevent any more roadworks from occurring. We so 72 people arrested. It was incredible. The, the step up, we sold me in july 2021 m m g stopped work pending environmental approval from the federal government didnt. Yeah. Everybody expecting this to come through in early january. The activists have returned to the forest and so we back and i guess were picking up where we left off in 2021. So you know, stand here in the valley. You dont get the eucalyptus historically, you get on the ridges. I asked scott and some of the other activists to take me into the forest, where the new tailings dam is supposed to go to. Mine is just a few kilometers away. I say you got them. Now assess the leather was celery, tough pa and thats as far as like tasmanian doctor lisa cell has been working to protect these forests. Finelli 14 years mark like a breath mint as forest is thousands of years old. And some of these huge metals that you can see around us would be 45. 00, even 600 years old. But the forest itself is old and, and where we are sitting at the moment on the slope. This is in their plans. This area was going to be always going to be minus clinicals down. So everything below i want to say yeah, yeah, everything, all of the trays and all of the forest that you can see around me would be gone. Totally flattened. Ah, everything is a 285. 00 picked a stretch of land which would need to be cleared for the tailings dam and surrounding infrastructure. Mm. It includes christine rain, forest, which is home to many threaten species. Toxic mining waste, known as tailings, would be pipe tear from the mine in the nearby town of roseberry across the pine river. Mm. If the bull does is do come down this road. All that will stand between them and the forest is this van. And the activist inside, hey, well know about them right before yardy. Good morning. The person who sleeps here is ready to lock on at the 1st sign of trouble. And today, thats mich, the young horticulturist, i met on the weight of the blockade. You dont do coffee finish, show us what looking on and both of you actually have a better job. Much too much of my wrist with this little dog china. Dennis, ominous looking. Ha. And then at the bottom of the plot, ill look on to a train and then unless done here, if the Police Arrive now mich says he could be arrested for obstructing the road and failing to comply with the police order. And probably find about 700. 00. Hes already been arrested 3 times. How do you feel about going to prison to Something Like, not right . Pre rochester. How do you family feel about you being here doing this and i hide it . I think its stupid and dangerous and im really compromising my future for little gain all out of that fail to know that there are people angry of what youre doing that they prepared to get arrested to try to stop that is frustrating. Were doing everything right in terms of the term. Its an Approval Center intent to be a responsible co existing on the west coast time. My name steve scott, is the general manager of m. N. Gs roseberry mine and hes sick of being portrayed as the bad guys. He started out in the Mining Industry 22 years ago as a laborer cleaning out tanks. Bring on is one of the oldest maintenance trailer and id 6 years a continuous operation. On think lead and copper and a little bit of gold and silver doors as well. When i have about 40 to 50 percent of the total roady paid from one company. To me, its about 100000000. 00. Over 40 years. Its been here for a long time and, and we had to be here for a lot longer. The rose, pre mine employees, about 500 stuff in contract in lower more as a chemical engineer and manager surface operations. Its great working here. What i love is the fact that we take something that exists in the ground, bring it to the surface, and were able to add value and converted into products that assailable the Precious Metals can be used. Anything from my boss, binds to medical equipment. I, the mine already has to tailings down in one of which was the thought of 18 leaks of contaminated water into the time and river since 2018 blue post dams, a close to capacity, which is why the construction of a new damn across the river is a top priority there, a National Trace day that a hundreds of years old. How do you feel about the prospect of cutting them down to store toxic white . I think you go to look at the Bigger Picture i most. I know this sounds a little bit off track, but the more thought that youre on is co existed in this environment for any 6 years. We look for the lowest impact area and thats it. South merrinac is the best viable option force. Why is that preferred . Because its an a current morning lease, so we have access to the land. But the still a multitude of things to understand to turn to, to get to the point where potentially a game could be built. Sounds bit like at a site out of mind though. Definitely lets put it in the forest where we cant see it. You know, what put it in town if you dont have to. Ah, with a population of just 700. 00 roseberry would struggle to survive without the mind. There that a toddy dan, got a bill are very little ball. We havent got a day off. I think its pretty gentle. Tonight risers, next rebuilt with just like to be here though. I be double go. I mean, i believe in the sustainability of that planet. But at the same time, you know, mining provides us with everything that we have in life. What do you think about the environmentalists that are out there trying to stop in in j from doing their work . All right, now should gramma back soon as it is 500 year old little trees in this holiday. Abil tracy law applies die. There are the 45 back there every way to ride for it was full of the body based. Good. This guy says, ready . Oh, but environmental aside, you dont have to choose between jobs. Forest play argue theres a better way to dispose of the waste method that has been embraced as best practice by the Mining Industry in which m. M. G already employs and its queensland mind its called paste fil been supposed true is a solution. When i take the tanks, crushed in daniel powder, then combine that with with concrete, into a paste, which they can inject back into the voice in the line. Mm. But m m g says i still wouldnt work here. Partly because the voids are already filled with waste rock and partly because in an old mine with unmatched holes, paste, it posed a safety risk to workers underground with the environmentalists. Refute these claims and assist the im is not to close down the line. Were not opposing line, they can have a long and productive future. They have to do the right thing with a child, and the rising isnt dumping them into a rainforest. Even if this Campaign Just about one patch of forest look for us, its not this, this is, i guess the lightest Battle Ground in a fight for protection of to kind of tackle. And that is theres ranged for episode ease. What is the kind of talk on whos referring to is the tackling for many years . Been the em regional people referring to in a 2nd. Its about half a 1000000 hectares in that contain destroy his largest remaining temperance that has some of the strange, most significant leverage lacking. Once i had time to, im a 60 read through nym engine spaces. Its an area that has verified national and World Heritage values. And shouldnt, okay, ah wilderness photographer rob lake is no use as much as any one about the top kind and is offered to show me some of the treasures it contains just 12 kilometers from the protest site. So heading down to one, the rest and i will place sometimes. Oh wow. And probably the strider he said, so its got some of the oldest trees in the world. Ah, to fantastic ancient view. And pon, within a 50100 meters of where we stand, the a dozen big trees are filled to these phrases upwards a 1000 years old. Why . The hue and pine is native to tasmania, but its numbers have declined dramatically since european settlement. Often due to logging and mining and nowhere else in tasmania is to that extent old understood natural, Healthy Human pine. Just a few kilometers upstream is a tree thats 2 and a half 1002 years old. Left on the 3rd base will grow to one or 2 or more 1000 use. And from that route stock on the shoe in pines, my little girl. And so we can have this ongoing, theoretically immortal stand of trees. Its wonderful content. So is this a National Park . Finally, there are more threats to the top kind than the m g tailing stand. In fact, another Mining Company holds a Mineral Exploration license here. Ah, has applied for tourism as an icon. And yes, we dont tell you the model. And we could have a line, and i had to fill this out and i be gone back of the blockade. Another part of the time, the activists to preparing to reinforce the defenses among them is artist and retired nurse carol barnet. I soon find out shes the sister in law of the state politician. Responsible for resources. Ready . I minister good justine, Center Policies that are all designed basically to disregard this beautiful World Heritage valued area. Um i just dont get that. Does he know what you think he might have an idea . I would be very surprised if he didnt. Have you been arrested the phone . Yes i am. I see you really are on opposite sides of this conflict. Ah, yes, and facts and the minister wants to instill ha shapiro. Chase for people like myself who believe passionately in protecting the far again i would that detail you go with it was designed to deter paper and i feel that the front to democracy it would not to to me, not at all in fact come on, bring it on bring it on. Yeah. Yeah, im not no Nelson Mandela maam, just to granny. But i think hes on the lazy, tame this is carol. 2 brother in law test, manias, resources minister. 3 guide by nate. Mm hm. Hes a vocal supporter of m m g s, proposed tailings and tough penalties for protesters. We strongly support the companys right to proceed through the environment, the planning approval process. And thats what theyre attempting to do, not withstanding the, the very radical bar environmental protesters who are trying to stop at that sign that theyre above the law. Where place safety is important. Workers should have the right to go to work without thing. I stopped, you sang as a threat to work a safety from the actions of the protestant. Absolutely. M under his proposed new law procedure is could be fined up to 6000. 00 or jail for up to a year for a 1st offense. Ah, it will have no impact whatsoever on case full practice. Its still a peaceful process though. Then they can still be arrested and charged under the existing laws. Well, the laws are working very well in m. G did get approval for preliminary works and the police ejected the protest is in april. But that hasnt been stopped. Ah, now the activists returned to the forest by night to obstruct the road before m. M. G work is arrive in the morning for the offending to bias. Linz works in the pharmaceutical industry and spin tonight and much of tomorrow in a traces time. Going to attach a line to that, tracy, and it will be hanging from whatever structure is being made of her and the other side. Ah good. It is about 4 30 am. By the time most people lead to remain to block the road. One in a tree, sit and one in this tripod. Ah good morning. Good morning. Hey, hows your night . Yeah, really good. Yeah, very cold. Luckily, ive got my buddy brought me up a hot water bottle. Doctor Colette Thompson is a vis and a long time activist. Youre obviously expecting to get arrested today. Yep. Ive been arrested many, many times and im currently on a 3 month um suspended jail to him. I for forrest defense. I just feel like this is, this is my last avenue of, of trying to tell the politicians and the people that this has got to stop. I hope it makes a difference. Good morning. Oh, good. Good. I was giving you permission to fill in the favor. Im not sure that we need to michelle public or i doing im in portland to my work site is for the dumpster road. Wanted to drive my vehicle on this road to conduct a works in your district, from parsi. Would you please more of the roach a contract to motor muscle oxy was more lose . Move this row so that you know, go to the pharmacy. We did move from there or not . Comment say the try. Heavily. Ha, it means the well, the you and may, dont let them cut down one, marty. Ah, its around mid day when the Police Arrive. A search and rescue unit has been called out. Only they have the skills necessary to safely extract the protesters. Activists who arent locked on get move on orders, which means they forbidden from returning. Usually for about 2 weeks. Are you feeling with good enough with china protect the planet . I hear that. Thats a criminal offense. Does feel better now that if you guys have to hold them back, 1st thing every minute. Can we come to the last training the fact that youre breaking the law makes it very easy for the government to label you as criminals because you are yeah. Look, and were going away that when the law is unjust, people woof hand up and break. Lauren and went on. Apologize for that. By the time collection tobias are arrested and the road cleared. Its too late to the m g to do any work today. So far this year, 18 activists have been arrested, but theyve had a significant victory. In july, australias federal court ruled, but government needs to reconsider its approval of m. M g s works in light of its impact on tasmania is endangered moscow. In the meantime, m m g was ordered to remove all its machinery from forest. Guy bonnet is no longer resources, minister could face questions and course over the legality of the lease. He gave him in j over the excess run with the Tasmanian Parliament recently passed the governments new anti protest laws are down there. Its a well finished glazing glamour. But with the paparazzi chasing india celebrities, its a high stakes game. 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