Finding gold in the Congo

Please visit http://www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information. While making his BBC TV series Equator, Simon Reeve meets an elderly man in the Congo who is hauling wood on his back for 42p. In Equator, Simon followed the equator through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Colombia and the Congo.
The Radio Times said Equator was an extraordinary journeyrevelatorythrilling and thought-provokinghits us with jaw-dropping factseye-openingdelivers a string of revealing snapshots. The Sunday Times said: You cannot expect much more from a documentary, frankly. And the Daily Mail said it was: Unmissablespectacular and thought-provoking.
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Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and broadcaster. In recent years hes travelled to scores of countries around the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.
The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books.
In his Places That Dont Exist series Simon travelled to a group of unrecognised nations countries so obscure they dont officially exist, including Somaliland, South Ossetia, Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
And in the series Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Simons book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller.
Simon has contributed to other books on organised crime, terrorism and biological warfare. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, is also an Oscar-winning feature documentary film narrated by the actor Michael Douglas.
Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding.
You can find out more information on Simons journeys, and see more of Simons films, at his website: http://www.simonreeve.co.uk or at http://www.youtube.com/shootandscribble
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[TheEwooz]

is that man crazy to call that a blessing. geting paid 50 cents for something worth a thousand dollars.!!!!

[richard199522]

@1488rohowa go see a doctor

[GOaLz517]

@1488rohowa your sick man



[mushrooms4201]

i say fuck the niggers you fucking brit go home mind ur own buisiness

[1488rohowa]

It's just niggers killing niggers, so who cares.

[am3lya]

the war in D.RoC is more than just about gold. who is this person??

[ZOOKAROOS]

1:31 its osama bin laden