Equator

For most people the equator is just an imaginary line running 25,000-miles around the globe. But the countries along the equator are among the most troubled on the planet. In this new series Simon takes a journey around the region with the greatest natural biodiversity and perhaps the greatest concentration of human suffering: the equator. In Equator Simon meets illegal loggers, father and son circumcisers, drunk villagers, and a young woman stuck in the baking desert. Simon and the Equator film-crew are protected by soldiers in a coca field, and UN 'peace-enforcers' in a gold mine. They are blackmailed and abandoned by drivers in one country, and travel through another that has just 300 miles of paved roads - despite being the size of Western Europe. Simon is drenched while white-water rafting, surrounded by a million flamingos and swallowed by a tidal wave. After being warned about the deadly virus Ebola, Simon vomits blood and develops a temperature of nearly 40C. Diagnosed with malaria, he's saved by medicine derived from the Vietnamese sweet wormwood. One remote tribe takes Simon to their sacred monument, while a father from another tribe of former head-hunters decides to make Simon part of the family. After presenting his 'father' with a fine pair of trousers, Simon is blessed with blood, presented with a short sword, and adopted. Simon discovers a matrilineal society where daughters are called 'iron butterflies', mass graves in the jungle, and islands where protesting fisherman have killed giant tortoises. He helps an orphaned orangutan into a tree, swims with sea-lions, fishes for piranha, climbs the equivalent of half-way up Everest, and discovers the city thought to be most at risk from volcanic eruptions. Simon's trip takes him through the nation suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western hemisphere, and the African country that's endured the most violent conflict on the planet since the Second World War

Cast

• Simon Reeve

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Africa
  For most people the equator is just an imaginary line running 25,000-miles around the globe. But the...
• Episode 2: Asia
  For most people the equator is just an imaginary line running 25,000-miles around the globe. But the...
• Episode 3: Latin America
  UK:17 September 2006...

Equator

Equator takes you on a journey to some of the earth's most extreme environments to examine animal and plant life in six of the world's equatorial 'hot zones': The Rift Valley in Africa; the Amazon Basin; the peaks of the Andes; Borneo; Indo-Pacific and the Galapagos Islands.

Cast

• Peter Hayden

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Power of an Ocean
• Episode 2: Battle for the Light
• Episode 3: Rivers of the Sun
• Episode 4: Reef of Riches
• Episode 5: Paradox of the Andes
• Episode 6: Challenge of Change

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Äquator - Wolfgang Ambros
• Ecuador - Sash!
• We Go To War - Memorials
• Actor - Braces
• Aa Aake Darr - Mohana Sarkar

Rund um den Äquator
scheint immer die Sonne.
Palmen wiegen sich im Wind,
es ist eine Wonne!
Die Menschen sind fröhlich,
bunt und lebendig
rund um den Äquator,
obwohl es ihnen dreckig geht
oft ganz elendig,
abgesehen natürlich vom Diktator.
Und es wird, wo man hinschaut,
verfolgt und geschlachtet,
die primitivsten Menschenrechte missachtet,
Politiker halten feurige Reden,
und die Freiheit wird mit den Füßen getreten.
Rund um den Äquator
viele Mörder, viele Diebe,
doch gleichzeitig unfassbar große
Gastfreundschaft und Nächstenliebe.
Rund um den Äquator ist das Leben echt,
was gut ist, ist gut
und was schlecht ist, ist schlecht.
Die Kinder gehen zur Schule,
wenn die Glocke läutet,
zu lernen, wie man lebt,
beherrscht und ausgebeutet.
Rund um den Äquator
viel Not, viel Hass, doch keine Eile.
Was geschieht, geschieht von selbst -
wer recht hat, der richte,
wer teil hat, der teile!

Dame tu mano
y venga conmigo
Vamonos al viaje para
buscarlos sonidos magicos
?de Ecuador!
?Ecuador!
?Escuchame!
Vamonos al viaje para
buscar los sonidos magicos
?de Ecuador!
?Escuchame!
?Ahora si!
Give me your hand
And come with me
Come and travel with me to
search the magic sounds
from Ecuador!
Ecuador!
Listen to me!
Come and travel with me to
search the magic sounds
from Ecuador!
Listen to me!

Featuring: The Memorials
My ideals are not refined,
I work for the greater blind.
Miscommunicate my cause:
Blame it on sacred law.
I?m an insult to your fate,
My God you?ve betrayed,
Self-destruction?s in my fate.
Unafraid,
A willing sacrifice!
And what a shame
You must forget your life!
Black on black if in the dark,
I?ll be unseen and still make my mark,
Striving for infamy!
Your rules aren?t meant for me!
I won?t be bound,
I?ll leave here in a blaze.
Unafraid,
A willing sacrifice!
And what a shame
You must forget your life!
What a shame
You must forget your life!
?I?m eatin? your bleedin? heart for dinner,
Don?t think anything else will keep me warm in this cold winter.
I?m so cold i?ll call you my sacrifice,
It may be bold but this holy war
Leads to paradise?
On a mission that will end with both our deaths?
I?m not afraid of letting go of all these worldly
Things, my flesh is just a temporary fit!
Cowardess is not what this is all about,
there?s no innocents in this instance it?s time for judgement!
I?m eatin? your bleedin? heart for dinner??
[We go to war!!!] We are the falling and we?ll rise again.
[Ready for war!!!] We are so rich in culture,
This fight is forever. [We go to war!!!]
Concede oh never,
[Ready for war!!!] My guns are bigger, this happy trigger?s calling?
We go to war!!!
Ready for war!!!
We go to war!!!
Ready for war!!!
[We go to war!!!] Some trained assassins and some are just freaks
[Ready for war!!!] Everyone needs a puppet
To spread their truth [We go to war!!!]
Unhappy leaders play war for fun [Ready for war!!!]
What is this terrorism?
We?re killing our own sons!
[Not ready for war]
We go to war!!!
Ready for war!!!
We go to war!!!

You could be a friend,
Or you could be a foe,
And you could just pretend
That life is one big show
'Cause I wasn't joking
When I said, you'd regret
You cry when they tell you,
Smile when they tell you,
Laugh when they tell you
You'd die if they told you to
Kiss when they tell you,
Love who they tell you to be
What they tell you
'Cause they want to sell you to me
You thought if you were famous you would finally be happy,
But it could only bring you comfort in the form of money,
The sad excuse you used "whatever it takes"
You're an actor, so put on your face
The kind of person everybody's dying to be,
On magazines and movie screens and on the TV,
You've seen yourself so many time's you can't even hide,
You're an actor, so read your next line
And I wasn't joking,
When I said, you'd regret
You cry when they tell you,
Smile when they tell you,
Laugh when they tell you
You'd die if they told you to
Kiss when they tell you,
Love who they tell you to be
What they tell you
'Cause they want to sell you to me

Tanha Na Samajh Khud Ko
Tanha Nahi Hai Tu
Har Jagah Har Lamha Main Teri
Khidmat Mein Hoon
Aa Aake Darr
Aa Darr Ke Marr
Aa Marr Ke Tu
Ban Jaa Ek Darr
Aa Aake Darr
Aa Darr Ke Marr
Aa Marr Ke Tu
Ban Jaa Ek Darr
Main Ehsaas Hoon Bina Badan
Main Tere Saath Hoon Har Kadam
Main Ehsaas Hoon Bina Badan
Main Tere Saath Hoon Har Kadam
Zindagi Se Hain Meri Dushmani
Jee Raha Hain Tu Besharam
Aa Aake Darr
Aa Darr Ke Marr
Aa Marr Ke Tu
Ban Jaa Ek Darr
Dara Dara Ke Main Tujhe Maar Daalungi
Khamoshi Aaghaz Hain
Yeh Mera Andaaz Hain
Khamoshi Aaghaz Hain
Yeh Mera Andaaz Hain
Marr Ke Tu Aabaad Hain
Jee Ke Tu Barbaad Hain
Aa Aake Darr
Aa Darr Ke Marr
Aa Marr Ke Tu
Ban Jaa Ek Darr