Weeks secession referendum the deployment is part of joint military drills with Iraqi Armed Forces the vote was held in defiance of the government in baghdad as well as iran and turkey fry those are the headlines risking your soul is next. You know the stand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world. Aljazeera. Zero. Zero zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero. Zero. Zero zero. Zero zero. Zero zero. Zero zero zero. Zero. Zero. Zero zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero zero zero s. To. Come ina 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 home bell 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 deol congo like a local bus it stops a virtually every station and drools huge crowds. Of them a Street Vendors at every stop even in the remotest villages the station becomes an instant market. Her younger. Look i dont know the end of that young home where yet. Every. Year you know you have been. Put. By. But theres not much time for selling. The train is already packed. Passengers clamber for remaining seats. Like. This. Yeah clement has been riding this train for twenty years. He knows what to expect. From. This ill temper says it was a decision deducted the rest of. The. City. Today. From of the distinct a year before this before the business. So this its a sonic as i said if. People cram into whatever space they can find. Nearly two thousand people altogether 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 root. Of what it is and you say that it is ok suppose i did say well lets you got up. But only did what you said that was that some of them 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 elate of hes 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 river where weve never done that it said that its already. Got this on the step down at the time i said yeah all right officer. Thats why the trip was this every cent that it did have from. Mr malone go is the master on board and supplements his income by allowing ten passengers to travel in the dr his cabinet. Its as close as he gets to first class on the train. You. Get. Back in second class the challenge is to avoid stepping on someone as you try and move around the carriage. Its something claim all can get used to. Like it but it was said on bus and since it was set up over cement. In my head it will be somewhere else in sussex i dont go to the nothing for this thing to see a lot of this was just ones i think will back him up there on the song baby song they put up a video of the loser you know. Passengers take as much luggage as they can. So put a corner media. On a cd expose it equally possible i love. You. But if the full song to were. Supposed to play along as i want to see the form of his voice do you believe extraordinary things sometimes happen. You know much as i. Know you. Dont want to see what you want to do that what those again those earning money from some of. The most innocent son. Can get out but. It does manage to argue we are very encouraged that was on your side that you took. The train can also be a death trap. To be truly successful for it because i said a third im a sucker for. Did. To help us in my life. Last year the snake is named several passengers. And those in third class risked their lives here on the rigs. They can easily get knocked off the moving train. Right now way back under now before going upwards sad sad sad sad sad sad sad not going to spoil. The smoke boy were talking about what the fuck. His fellow travelers up on third class have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. Flaw. But if they lose that job. Because of. The danger comes not just from above but also from the songs. Even if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour on a tree branch can come like a machete. But there are a lot of the dollars some are good and theres a lot of other. So what is your best reporters say. 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 training in kosov or flour and palm oil in the villages they work for smile. Were going on a mobile version yes you know the only one here what it was you were doing what you do does you mom up in the office or you know one of them was to give them all so much do you go one on one ok when youre a. 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 to the local. News. Most of the villages are in the middle of nowhere and reaching them means travelling on dirt tracks so the congolese improvise. They converge and reinforce their bicycles to withstand the poor conditions and up to three hundred kilos of merchandise. Now look into your. Live son of. School you know him be sure to put a foot or put a foot in if you. Dont know my name was difficult to speak. To me. But. It takes remarkable willpower to undertake such a journey. With. The. Same. Method no. One was there. John. Was there. You know we know. The the live 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. The i. Hear the bendis you impose him over the bit dont poke. Fun you can a woman son. Theres enough to go for single notes. In the fine you need to. Come out when i was. Doing new york with you good luck to my song of course if the only major fun was just going in the place you dont like. It was a joke with all muscle. Income and oh say do you look at them i just didnt need it dont know what they dont know. The village of his statue is sixty kilometers away. Another three days of hard labor. And. Yeah i have a horse yeah that affords. A man and his family im on the train. By waving a red scarf hes been able to stop the train at this tiny village in the middle of the bush double. Up so im just. Going to that would you just really i dont know yet where what when where i mean. Its often like this. Hole in work for little pay. Mr malone go belly ends one hundred forty dollars a month. Or never ever survive i never got it done. A couple of them was one of. Them a little bit different so most of the. Family. It was going to separate what they. See have a go get your pick of the bottle. We didnt let up on that. 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 be said about the floor i ended up with that on monday if we were loaded up with this stuff then some of. This stuff fit on a simple societies of my gosh. The fish show. That i said yeah thats it he does not know if i just was going to the dump listening up i said about us just for that to dodger you know with reversion to the support budget talks argue it out yet is good i will not. 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. We hope its the fifth time in one day. Without a repair kit or new in a few. Patches the puncture with a piece of rubber from an old chip on hopes for the best. Oh was. This man and his companions still have another thirty kilometers to go to reach the next village. And do your come up with a full on your show if youre going to come with on what i can name. But good for you open up what you up with what we give me a job to clean yo yo would a heap of fun. That. They enjoy the hunger thirst and fatigue. They barely have the strength to push their bikes any further. Theyre. The no. No no no the fun one of the older folks we will go down there. And people make a beautiful moment of hundreds of honor for you. My mike came to me today. And perhaps their prayers have been answered the rain has stopped and they finally arrived. When no. One yet. One. More more more whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on. Done. Your. Bit of a. Minute. Oh you. Want to. Will. 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 mr malone 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 vendor is the one known as traffickers in the d. R. Congo. I mean. This is because they want to keep the sun. For over half the world ive got to hope that that does that its good for your friend i just got lucky. In. Finding we go back you think you know its fascinating how do those who do no good. Methods but again i would limit get to the tonight for the big. Ones who do you know if you got a lot of good to know about slavery did you know theyre going to be part of the big ten has been riding the swallow for ten years. But 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 morning to select russian guy suited to my children came onto government. In my last morning isnt the be so. But if i ever. Notice about the freak out most i know this or that i know we are going to succumb as an absolute does only one of the. Window motor motor motor one hundred zero zero zero. Zero zero. Zero zero. Zero zero zero zero one. Mr malone goes still has nine hundred kilometers to go before reaching a labor of the trains final destination. If all 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 commonly. In the heart of the amazon the libyan family is but then law is in peril to harvest brazil not. Its getting the congo to the capital in an even more dangerous challenge. Risking it to believe yeah. At this time on aljazeera thanks. This was a day brought to you by karzai always going places together. Business updates brought to you by karzai always going places together. Right. Last. This is aljazeera