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[00:00:18] Here's a bar
[00:00:18] here,
[00:00:25] this is your store, yes, it's mine, yes, there's basically everything
[00:00:28] for life. And canned goods, and
[00:00:32] eggs, here you have a store, a billiard club,
[00:00:35] and a bar, I understand, you can have a drink in the evening, the store works
[00:00:39] every day, and the bar and billiards only on weekends, every day
[00:00:42] we don't
[00:00:43] pour alcohol,
[00:00:49] listen, you're so quick, like an Amazon, do you know Amazon
[00:00:53] women, do you consider yourself an Amazon or not, yes I am
[00:00:57] an Amazon, and what are Amazons like...
[00:01:00] the story describes that they are warlike women, absolutely
[00:01:03] invincible, in reality such Amazons as you, that's
[00:01:07] how it is, our life is a constant struggle, just not with fate, but with
[00:01:11] nature, life on the water has its advantages, it's not as
[00:01:15] hot here as on land, a breeze blows, but we want to move to
[00:01:18] another place, it's hard to live when you're constantly afraid for
[00:01:22] your life and the lives of your children, for example, just
[00:01:25] recently a child drowned, even on land you can't take your eyes
[00:01:29] off them, and... to
[00:02:30] walk.
[00:02:33] Waterfowl cows are a common sight in these
[00:02:36] parts. They have long been accustomed to this.
[00:02:39] They just really don't like it when a boat passes by and raises
[00:02:43] waves. The Amazon is an important transportation
[00:02:46] navigable artery all year round. The waves that
[00:02:50] boats raise don't only bother cows, it's a big problem for
[00:02:53] water settlements. Waves shake houses on stilts
[00:02:57] and wash them away. Officials of flooded
[00:03:01] settlements are trying to do
[00:03:04] something about it. Good morning, good morning, my name is Dima, yours is Sebastian,
[00:03:08] that's right, friends, sometimes you can meet the mayor
[00:03:12] as it should be, because there's
[00:03:16] работа с письмами, вот в таком виде, немножечко
[00:03:19] Amazonian, tell me about your town,
[00:03:23] our village is big, 250
[00:03:26] человек, в основном это семьи, мы занимаемся с...
[00:03:30] fishing, that's how we
[00:03:32] live, well, basically you are the mayor
[00:03:36] of the settlement, the head of the village council, good job, do you like it, yes,
[00:03:40] yes, I like it, how much do you get paid, in this position I don't
[00:03:43] get a salary, I work as a volunteer, that's how it is,
[00:03:47] friends, a mayor, a volunteer, listen, I think this is
[00:03:50] really a very interesting
[00:03:54] model, when the mayor is a volunteer, it means he really
[00:03:56] wants to do something useful for people. That's
[00:04:00] true, I try, listen, well, your town doesn't
[00:04:04] seem simple either, because I see a sign on the school, personally opened
[00:04:07] by the mayor of Manaus, the governor of the state,
[00:04:11] the president of a large company, such
[00:04:14] VIP-VIP persons, they sponsored the construction of the school,
[00:04:18] a well with drinking water, donated a diesel generator and
[00:04:21] an eight-meter motorboat for the needs of the residents, that's how it is,
[00:04:25] listen, that's called getting lucky, does the oil company have any interests here,
[00:04:29] I
[00:04:32] don't believe that rich people just came and just helped,
[00:04:36] I don't know, it's rare here, maybe they have some work
[00:04:39] going on here? Yes, several years ago they laid a
[00:04:42] gas pipeline here, and before that they asked what
[00:04:46] compensation we wanted for it, how they could help us, they bought us
[00:04:49] everything we asked for, so friends, that's how
[00:04:52] billions of dollars revolve in this water, because it is here
[00:04:56] that the Manaus-Coari gas pipeline passes. Coari is...
[00:05:03] a city famous for pirates, Manaus is the capital of the Amazon, so gas is pumped through this underwater gas pipeline,
[00:05:07] so for the construction of the gas pipeline they built you this wooden
[00:05:10] shed and gave you one boat.
[00:05:42] house, it's a studio, you could say, friends, so here we have a
[00:05:46] kitchen, here we have a dining room, from here
[00:05:50] there's an exit to the rooms, an exit to a chic terrace, I would give a lot just for
[00:05:53] this terrace, for such a view, there's a washing
[00:05:57] machine, so right away the question,
[00:06:01] where do the waste products drain, directly into
[00:06:03] the river, yes, there's a strong current here, the river immediately
[00:06:07] carries everything away, does the toilet also flush into the river, no
[00:06:10] no, there's a special pit
[00:06:13] there, we don't drain waste into the river, and what else do you have, we can
[00:06:17] take a look, friends, this is the mayor's bedroom, and there's
[00:06:21] here, does it cope, considering
[00:06:25] how many gaps there are in the house, yes quite well, listen, you also have a second
[00:06:29] TV here, you're a rich person,
[00:06:31] definitely, yes, a little rich,
[00:06:34] a little, to be a little rich here, in
[00:06:38] this water settlement in the Amazon, how much do you need to earn per month approximately?
[00:06:42] Two minimum wages - that's about 200 reais.
[00:06:46] Friends, that's 500 bucks. Listen, for 500 bucks in the city you could break
[00:06:49] your back. And how do you earn these 500
[00:06:53] dollars? I transport residents along the river
[00:06:56] and take children to school and back by boat. For this,
[00:06:59] the Manaus administration pays me a salary. Look,
[00:07:03] this is a small settlement here in the Amazon, in
[00:07:06] the wild jungle. And here the mayor of the town, well, essentially, the chairman of the
[00:07:10] residents' association. huge, a house can be one
[00:08:42] meter, and the house gradually
[00:08:46] collapses, and do you somehow address your higher
[00:08:49] leadership, as an official too, even a volunteer, with a request
[00:08:52] to change this situation, so that some kind of fence is put here or
[00:08:56] the route is moved a little, run it on the other bank, a little
[00:09:00] further from your houses. Yes, we appealed to the navy,
[00:09:04] to the city administration, time passes, but
[00:09:07] nothing changes, so it turns out that this is your native, I wanted to say land, but
[00:09:11] that would be illiterate.
[00:09:47] At a meeting of the village residents, people chip in for a lawyer
[00:09:50] who is supposed to legalize the buildings in a new place and secure the land for
[00:09:54] the village. Years of
[00:09:56] construction lie ahead.
[00:09:59] Despite all the difficulties, people are moving to land, away
[00:10:03] from the dangers of the Amazon, intense traffic,
[00:10:05] floods, predatory animals, but on the river bank
[00:10:09] local residents will have to face an environment unfriendly to humans.
[00:10:13] Here, not only large predators can cause serious harm, even
[00:10:16] barely noticeable insects. In this expedition, we repeatedly encountered
[00:10:20] the most dangerous inhabitants of the Amazon, huge crocodiles,
[00:10:24] black piranhas, and even three-meter anacondas,
[00:10:27] but I couldn't even imagine that a small insect would send us to
[00:10:30] the hospital. We don't show such footage in regular
[00:10:34] episodes, but now, telling about it, we want
[00:10:37] to warn you about such danger, these are behind-the-scenes
[00:10:40] moments of the world turned inside out, we came to the clinic, it says
[00:10:44] spa on it, but this is not at all a salon for relaxation and rest, Sasha
[00:10:48] is limping a little, Sasha, tell us yourself what happened to
[00:10:51] you, yesterday evening...
[00:10:55] I got a pimple on my
[00:10:58] leg, on my big toe, such a pimple, I thought it was
[00:11:02] a splinter, decided to get it out, picked at it
[00:11:05] with a needle, uh, and then small white larvae
[00:11:09] started crawling out, alive, alive, yes, in
[00:11:13] short, Sasha got some
[00:11:17] living larvae, we have now come to a center that deals with
[00:11:20] diseases when some live worms settle in
[00:11:24] a person's body. We don't yet
[00:11:27] know how this infection may affect Sasha's
[00:11:30] health, so we are trying to see a doctor as
[00:11:33] soon as possible, but it turned out not to be so simple. There are
[00:11:37] a lot of people
[00:11:41] here. And many of them came to
[00:11:44] extract worms
[00:11:47] and bugs from their bodies. This medical center is very similar to
[00:11:51] our usual polyclinic. Everything is in order of live queue. And we are
[00:11:55] shuffled from office to office, please sit down, you are
[00:11:58] next, no, I
[00:12:01] am next, I have been sitting here for an
[00:12:03] hour, so we had to sit in the stuffy corridor for
[00:12:07] almost an hour, the wait became
[00:12:09] unbearable, I don't even want to imagine what
[00:12:13] Sasha was experiencing at that moment, but when hundreds of
[00:12:17] larvae are crawling in your body, it's impossible to think about anything else, we've had
[00:12:21] problems with insects before, at the beginning of the Brazilian expedition.
[00:12:25] What happens when a local midge bites you in the jungle, these are
[00:12:29] not just pimples, these are bites that we
[00:12:33] got in previous
[00:12:36] hikes, it's going to
[00:12:40] hurt now,
[00:12:42] oh, oh what a nightmare,
[00:12:46] this is what I have to go through in a few
[00:12:49] days, these pimples that I have on my leg, in a few
[00:12:53] days they turn into... a nightmare,
[00:12:55] into such wounds, and this is normal, as
[00:12:58] the local doctors told me, you just
[00:13:01] have to get through it, horror, Sasha, girls will stop loving us now after
[00:13:05] this video, patience was running out, I
[00:13:09] was already going to look for the chief doctor, but finally Sasha was called into
[00:13:13] the office, show me
[00:13:15] the wound,
[00:13:21] very similar to botfly larvae, we are sending you for...
[00:13:25] an operation, they did not let me into the operating room
[00:13:28] with a camera, I had to wait for Sasha outside for
[00:13:30] an hour and a half, as the dermatologist
[00:13:33] later explained to me, such cases are not uncommon in the Amazon
[00:13:37] vicinity, and if you don't seek medical help in time,
[00:13:40] the consequences of such an infection can be life-threatening. Sasha
[00:13:44] asked: Dima, do you have any alcohol and a knife,
[00:13:47] and I said, what happened, he shows, and small white larvae
[00:13:51] are falling out of his wound and wriggling.
[00:13:55] Scientifically, this is called dermatobiasis. Sasha
[00:13:58] was bitten by a mosquito or a tick infected with botfly eggs,
[00:14:01] which is found here in South America. Your friend has become
[00:14:05] a living incubator for larvae, no one is
[00:14:08] safe from this here. And tell me from your experience, from your
[00:14:11] practice. The largest worms you have
[00:14:15] had to extract from a patient's
[00:14:18] body.
[00:14:55] cut, cleaned, removed all remaining
[00:14:58] worms. Unfortunately, our plans are changing, now
[00:15:01] the filming that we wanted to do in
[00:15:04] the forest, in the jungle, in the tropics, we are forced
[00:15:07] to postpone. Sasha will now go for dressings every day, and we have
[00:15:11] learned from our own experience that worms that enter
[00:15:14] the body are a common situation, a hospital full of
[00:15:18] patients, many have their legs cut open and live worms
[00:15:21] and larvae are removed from them.
[00:15:29] Watch in the next program, we will go deep
[00:15:32] into the Amazon, here are basically normal
[00:15:35] Amazonian roads.
[00:15:39] to experience an ancient shamanic ritual, I go to
[00:15:42] die and be born again,
[00:15:45] which, as the Indians believe, opens up human
[00:15:48] superpowers, hearing is very acute, very
[00:15:52] strong,
[00:15:54] a miracle, but it also makes you experience sensations very
[00:15:57] close to death, I think about how to get out
[00:16:01] of this state faster,
[00:16:03] I don't want to be in it anymore.
[00:16:24] In one evening, three piano concertos by
[00:16:27] Bach: Tähelev and the Tallinn Chamber
[00:16:30] Orchestra, Muusikal Bach, premiere
[00:16:33] of Anna Pert's new work on September 23.
[00:17:07] Poneta begins its tenth season with a new concert
[00:17:11] series, Suramattu. The first concert, Beethoven and
[00:17:14] Ratz, will take place on September 20 at
[00:17:17] 5:00 PM at the House of the Brotherhood
[00:17:19] of Blackheads.
[00:17:23] The Südalinna Theater opens its new season with Russian classics on
[00:17:26] the theater's main stage. The best play by Alexander Nikolaevich
[00:17:30] Ostrovsky, "Without a Dowry". This is a poignant
[00:17:33] story about love, human dignity, freedom, and
[00:17:36] choice, leaving no one indifferent. Don't
[00:17:39] miss it, see you at the Südalinna Theater.
[00:17:42] Sometimes I feel that it's not me taking the picture, as if this
[00:17:45] shot is being given to me. I'm always with those I photograph, I tell myself,
[00:17:49] they are you, and you are them. The exhibition of French
[00:17:53] photography master Jean-Louis Courtine, "This Concerns Us
[00:17:56] All", is open at the Docphoto Center in the Telliskivi Creative City. There is
[00:18:00] life in Docphoto. A lithium battery, a powerful but
[00:18:04] at the same time sensitive energy source, almost like the human
[00:18:08] body: a leaking, swollen, or damaged battery is especially
[00:18:11] dangerous and should be taken to a waste collection point.