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British politicians gathered in the countrys parliament on friday to commemorate the death of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd impeach, including the current and 2 former Prime Ministers paid their respects and shared memories of the late monarchs. I picked up some cheese, put it on a plate and was transferring it to the table. The cheese fell on the floor, had a split 2nd decision to make awe with it on the place which is on the table. In other news, russia is deploying more troops to hark eve as Ukrainian Forces conduct a major counter offensive in towns and villages in the east cave says its military has advanced almost 50 kilometers in 3 days. European Energy Ministers have failed to agree on a plan to put a price cap on russian gas supplies during an emergency meeting and brussels. E u Energy Commissioner admitted that no agreement had been reached. As those countries heavily reliant on russian gas fear, they will be cut off altogether. Next on al jazeera 1. 00 oh, 1. 00 east. Thanks for watching. Talk to al jazeera, we ask for the rebound you speak of is clearly coming. Get a high cost for airlines and the industry. Whats going wrong . We listen. You were part of the im struggling in the 19 seventys. Do you have any regrets . No, we meet with global news makers. Im talk about the stories that matter. On al jazeera, 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 becoming more and more and time to have a 60 read through an intelligent species scenario that should have been predicted 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 aligning development. How do you feel about going to prison or Something Like that . Not great. Pretty rochester, i bring it on for one i one east meets the ordinary citizens making a stand to save australias ancient forests, or lmi, ah, its early january and the astray, leon, state of tasmania. And a small band of passionate environmentalists is on a secret mission. Wag, westcott too, 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 so as a combination of trepidation and excitement for my youth worker scoff. Jordan is a veteran environmental campaign. Theres all kinds that element when you come in and say, whether youre going to get set up for that around. So its, 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 a there a diverse bunch aged from 21. 00 to 70. 00. 3. Among them are a retired fit, the doctor, a bartender. And to chemist. In the dine design, we made course 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 geez, plans for a tailings dam. On my the i type 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. And then 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. Ready to mine is just a few kilometers away. I say you got to know the fast leather was celery top 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 where we are sitting at the moment on the slope, this is in the air 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 say 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. Ah, toxic mining waste, known as tailings, would be piped tia from the mine in the nearby town of roseberry across the pine river. Mm. If the bull does it 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 mitch the young horticultural list. I met on the white of the blockade. You dont do coffee finish, show us what looking on and both of you actually have a good job. Much too much of my wrist with this little dog china down this ominous looking ha. And then at the bottom of the pot, ill look on to a train and then on this duck here, if the Police Arrive now mich says he could be arrested for obstructing the road and failing to comply with a police order and probably find about 700. 00, hes already been arrested 3 times. How do you feel about going to prison for Something Like that . Not right. Im pretty 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 game all out of that fail to know that there are people angry of what youre doing that they prepared to get arrested. The 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 small in the strider 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 rody paid from one company. If you tell me its about 100000000. 00 before 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 assess 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 had 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 itself 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, to, to, to get to the point where a potential dame 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 in more 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 or very little ball. We havent got a day off. I think its pretty gentle. Deny risers thats gonna rebuild with just like to be here though. Id be glad to 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 on to say that is 500 year old little trees and then follow the orbital tracy law applies to do there. Are the 45 back there every way to ride for the full of the body based. Good. This guy just really 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 and voice. And its queensland mind its called paste fil been supposed true is a solution. When i take the time crushed in daniel power, 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 and were not opposing, glide, they can have a long and productive future. They have to do the right thing with italians, 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 took on attack on that is theres raged for episode ease. What is the kind of talk on whos referring to is the tackling for many years been m regional or food is stuck on its about half a 1000000 hacked is in that contain destroy his largest remaining temperature that has some astray is 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 not 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 from tasmania. 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 b 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 of understood, natural, Healthy Human pine. Just a few kilometers upstream is a tree thats 2 and a half 1002 years old. Left undisturbed, things will grow to one or 2 or more 1000 use. And from that route stock on the shoe in pines, my will grow and so we can have this ongoing, theoretically immortal stand of trees. Its wonderful concept. 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 have a model. And we could have a line, and i had to come to settling 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 learning i minister and 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 before . 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 in 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 leasing team. This is carols brother in law test, manias, resources. 3 minister guide by nature. Mm hm. Hes a vocal supporter or the m, m g s, proposed tailings and tough penalties for protesters. We strongly support the companys right to proceed through the environment and planning approval process. And thats what theyre attempting to do, not withstanding the, the very radical bar environmental protestors 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 procedures 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 tasteful 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. Ah, and she did get approval to preliminary works and the police ejected the protest is in april. But that hasnt 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. Im 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 luck with its 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, how is it . Nice. Yeah, really good. Yeah, very code. Luckily ive got my buddy brought me up a hot water bottle. Dr. Collate 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 poor been to my work cited for the dumpster road. Wanted to drive my vehicle on this road to cleaned up a works in your district from forcing you to please more of the roach, a contract to motor muscle. It amount once more, lose move this row. So if you move on to the policy we did move from there or not, comment say the try heavily. Ha, it means the well, the you and may, i dont let them cut down one more me. 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 about good enough in prison with china . Protect the planet . I hear that. Thats a criminal offense. Does feel better now that if you go to the hold back thing with every minute, can you 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 to with, when the law is unjust. People woo 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