in the massacre was my daughter i'm not going to see again she's not here she's not here she's in north florida della whatever it is king david cemetery that's where i go to see my kid now and it stops wallwork together and come up with the right idea that school safety is not about gun laws right now that's that's another fight another battle let's fix the schools and then you guys to battle it out whatever you want but we need our children safe around fifty nigerian school girls a feared missing after book around fighters attacked a village in the northeast of the country a roll call at the girls' school in depth on monday night initially showed that ninety one students were missing nigerian police deny any abductions have taken place you're up to date with all of our top stories but set for myself and the team here in london people in power is coming up next and then they'll be more news from

doha after that at the top of the next hour in about twenty five minutes time. once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon one of many as follows dr moon. as returns to his hometown baghdad to give amputees the hope of walking again at this time on al-jazeera. in august twenty seventh a devastating landslide in sierra leone killed over a thousand people a terrible blow to a country that still bears the scars of the civil war and to be opposed to six initially three grains pulled on by climate change will fall to the coals but then of the stories of corruption greed and environment that. we've been to wasps want to start warnings of catastrophe or ignore.

the past decade has seen a rise in the number of catastrophic weather events around the world. be it freak storms or drives or unprecedented rainfall extreme weather is becoming the new normal a no where are the effects felt more keenly than in developing nations. from bangladesh to peru and sierra leone to the dior sea record breaking rains have

triggered devastating floods and lethal landslides. among them the landslide that struck sierra leone in august two thousand and seventeen it was one of the deadliest with over a thousand people killed or missing. but was this disaster all it seems one more portent of the havoc that climate change will be sending our way. or was it compounded by other more prosaic human failings. we've been to investigate the root causes of the serio landslide. to ask what can be learned and what the future holds for this and other countries if those in power fail to act.

on a. good girl simple actions good story sky. sports icon which. was more. on the morning. of aug fourteenth two thousand and seventeen after days of heavy rain the side of the sugarloaf mountain in region to sierra leone collapsed the avalanche of mud water and rock that followed destroyed three hundred homes and killed over a thousand. more divestiture. is the maids. i don't remember even the war when for a single day one thousand wound up people died in two minutes there was a big sound. like a plane coming down you know that goes on with you wasn't easy to get where i live

in the the ground by brits and i'm. what i'm if i'm in it if i get me someone get me but if no one's. six weeks later the rains have come to an end and people are resuming their lives. but not everyone thinks heavy rainfall alone calls the disaster. not far from the site of the landslide in the hills around regent stuns the taku gamma chimpanzee sanctuary. for over twenty years tucker gamma has been a haven for chimps orphaned by habitat destruction and the illegal to trade. but for the past decade the centuries finder. has been fighting a different one that has implications for people as well as wildlife.

always looking good. so when they come here we have. them back mentally and physically and will form them into a filing and. closure so they have given a second chance to life and their slaves. yes. the law is on the border of the western area national park it's a seventy square mile stretch of mountainous rainforest adjoining the capital founded more than a century ago the park is home to ninety percent of sierra leone's biodiversity including while chimpanzees and numerous endangered species. it is this forest and its wildlife the bow and his team of forest rangers have been

fighting to protect feed this line here there was a caterpillar that was trying to come in all the way and we stopped it at that point or people but then it's like going to me is fire fighting. move then after one two month the attempt again this is how the his looked historically and that is how they should be preserved for many reasons and we. help protect this forest is going to come down one day and that's what happened that we have been warning about this landslide all potential for something like big discussed like that for the last say ten fifteen years. for the collapse of the sugarloaf was triggered by rampant deforestation and illegal building. for over a decade he warned the government of the damage being done to the hills around free time he took his message to local radio and television and even planted trees in

the area. in the last three times a documentary produced a decade ago appeared alongside local architects and urban planners calling on the government to control unplanned building and environmental damage around the city. with the war situation we had everything stopped for many many years just suddenly there is this thursday everyone wants to build deeply want to come back to see the new industry left. so that is a huge. demand for land are going the building code as rebuilt simply ignore the building good nobody has ever got to the some of the roads. we obviously slide down the mountain government you learn sleeves it's an environmental disaster into you in a few years you see over the course of. the warnings were dire. but no one listened. patrolling

the bindery of the national park today takes power and his team to the site of the landslide where one of their guard posts once stood. a year before the disaster it was burnt down by angry locals determined to build houses in the area. mistaken the lawyer but make you feel say that when in a period you come where look you look at it what i see is not the top i'm imagining what is under so many people perished here we are actually standing on top of a was a basically because it was literally missile to be released like all of the of the people the problem was not cost here the problem was caused by the ground that you can see this landscape a lot of rock when you have this rock you have a little soil in there and it's the trees that's where the roots are spreading into these areas around the rocks and that is holding everything together and once you cut the tree basically little to stem dice that means there is nothing holding

these rocks again soil is already lose it's becoming like dust and once you have the heavy downpours and it's all based basically taking it away then the rocks are being exposed. we're playing games with people slice if you ask me really it's going to hurt again it will hurt the. architects millions scarboro and quinn journey alan return to freetown at the end of syrian civil war and find a city where the rule book could be in front at the window. like they warned of the dangers the city faced. truly remarkable what has happened. just post whole post war. small area that opened up totally unplanned. three hundred home. were destroyed in the region planned slight.

but the collapse of the hillside didn't just destroy the houses beneath us. he created a mudslide an avalanche of water earth and stone that swept downhill towards the sea. the houses that stood in its way were built in floodplains were close to water courses areas normally classed as high risk when i got to know it would i want to be with. you. now maybe you did if you walk around it or while being get away. with the family or die a. little tin shack there has been built into the side of the hill and the earth is left exposed will rain come in will cause that slope to fail if you have houses like this it would all of them would just be going collaterally despite the disaster when in millions find the area around the landslide

a hive of building activity. with laborers rushing to meet the demand for new houses this is that this selling these broken aggregates to whosoever will. only bullies them. so that they give the stone from the riverbed here you can see that bridge is being eroded and this obviously have taken stones from out there that is going to collapse eventually through ignorance we were wrecking the landscape. look the height. none of these houses should got been built in this vicinity a cult. is a mishmash of houses placed on the hill it will be interesting to find out if any of this. houses here and sharks have. a building

permits. but those we spoke to around the landslide site did have paperwork including conveyances site surveys and building permits all stopped and signed by the ministry of lands it's very painful it brings heaviness in my heart to see that we do have people in so long who know what to do who would advise governments on how to proceed but if if if that is ignored then then what's. the risk no silver bullets that would have prevented the region's landslide. not everyone thinks loss of forest cover or damage to the landscape played such a critical role the landslide might have happened anyway but if the law had been upheld it would have been far less deadly the area around pretty towns sixty percent of the forest covered has been lost in the last four decades all borderline

sluggard the exact spot where it happened was actually densely forested which points to a differing different issue there the that the hills around free down odd relatively unstable and landslides a frequent arguments because what we've only seen of the people of the iceberg because if this unplanned development keeps happening the garneau see the martin slide landslide becoming much more frequent there's going to be a lot more level a loss of life. sierra leone is ill equipped to deal with natural disasters and such a scale. even with the help of the international community the government has struggled to bring aid to those affected. do you to still. you. know we. grieve.

well. because of you that the drama of days and it burst. and it just says we all the good we did. even with this get people to. see that you can raise a good. plans to rehire those displaced people in new communities outside the city are costly and still in the early stages but what about prevention and enforcing the existing laws. six months after the disaster it's business as usual a stone's throw from the landslide site multi-story highs are still going up wealthy and influential people live in the area on property prices are high i'd side tuku gama a two story house a sprung up it's inside the by entry of the national park and the forest rangers had i to investigate. if i did ok but what i do differently. with

working with other can. see is that ok man dogs shoes are due to build the i didn't hear their ideas go from didn't ministry of lettuce and in this did out gives authority to be able to. do didn't work. we do are forced to push them off says the documents the sign building permit means the guards are powerless to act even though the property is being built in the national park but not everyone agrees that the land is the government's to begin with those who have the money to give land to people here is still on hold and finally would have me. economy to people for you to get those people on day you have to spank you some of the money. again and again. before ever you could acquire this country's very very poor old my brother very very corrupt this is

a n.p.a. . those that don't leave that up i smartly everything you know. africa. the government is. the very people in the office is the minister of law and the sound of document they want it in the water they don't want to move documents building permits in syria are issued by the ministry of law and the location of each property is meant to be verified before the paperwork is issued the ministry is also supposed to monitor and demolish legal structures supported by a number of other government agencies this is a very complex issue. there are times you need people to produce documents claiming to be given to them by a government authority and this is where the challenge comes in the institution responsible for that we believe should change if they think they have not issued

out those document issued challenge individuals and there we enforce the law in this case it is a to the ministry of land itself to enforce the law the minister of law diana kona manny was unavailable to speak to us but a spokesman explained the problems they face when in fact that you can easily get in a building permit for example to peer in a polluted area because of corruption it is possible for someone to buy land in a national park with a silver plan and the building permit because there's a there's a longer a who grabs those lands and says it's a buyer who is willing to buy regardless of the location of the property and there is a government official who is really ready to issue a bill a permit without due diligence. in most of these ministries.

employees are not paid there are no incentives. no equipment to do with the people even when they have the skills and so it's difficult for them to perform. and the whole question is about making sure the governance system functions effectively and then you'll be in a position to address most of the spartans the problems are compounded by resistance from local communities eager to make use of labs they consider and heritage from their community as far back as in one nine hundred sixteen the west interns there was declare as a reserve so if as far back as one thousand sixteen it was declared. it's very difficult for me to understand how communities can lay claim to certain areas. if government does bear any responsibility for it would be very minimal we

have consulted with the communities we have advised the communities to relocate in order to protect their own welfare and we have been confronted with earache and violent groups members. no one in the government of sierra leone or in the ministry of law has resigned their position. no one has lost their job for issuing a building permit in a dangerous really go area. there have been pledges to begin demolition and some homes around the landslides have been cleared but there is been no public inquiry into the issue of building permits in the freetown area. the government of syria does franks enormous challenges the population of free turn has increased by ten times since the one nine hundred sixty s.

. freetown has expanded horizontal e. it has not expanded war dick really all been planning the extremely poor and that a lot of slum areas which have been buried in the brains of many of the world and streams are around in the very down balance a lot like other cities across africa free turns low lying slums are plagued by flooding each rainy season. nicholas was he was seeing what some of. any athlete with. any. yeah yeah. unfortunately when. it will find. a way and that is where you will find most of the settlements and so unfortunately the ones who get affected in such a way lose their lives. amount of water flowing down the hills that is no way you

know it's not really being held back by the tree cover or the vegetation the intensity of flooding is really increasing and because the intensity of the flooding has increased that is making the hills more and more unstable sierra leone is already experiencing the effects of climate change the rainy season is growing shorter and more intense and with steep hill stripped of forest cover the effects are deadly. if you see just during the period between the first of july seventeen and the fourteenth of august the bones that were being which is when the landslide happened pretty down received more than one thousand millimeters of rainfall which is more than thirty times the average in a period of a month and a half and they need a big steps toward arrest these issues because the situation in the future is going to get worse.

freetown has to much more than the rainy season but in the dry season it faces a very different problem. much more on this tact of the day. so people when you have got on tonight tell us. one more question what you have. is not easy for them to stop blood or die every day. trees retain water they absorb it through their roots and release it slowly through their leaves into the atmosphere. to fall again as rain. it is this ability of the forest to hold and release water that feeds the many streams in the hills around free time. streams feed rivers and rivers feed

reservoirs. free turns population depends on these reza forests for its drinking water. but without forest cover the water cycle breaks down as rainfall runs quickly off the slopes and into the sea. without the national park in its forests a city of one point three million people will find its water supply in jeopardy. the problems facing freetime are immense but the forests are resilient. bachata gama has seen first time time nature can recover from human interference five years ago a hillside outside the chimpanzee sanctuary was cleared for construction by governments on the land grabbers were evicted today a forest has already begun to grow it's not the first success they've had when we first moved in here this is like this kind of trees everywhere they go this was all

kind of innovative in the last one to twenty four years these other ones you see you know there's not a big trees in. this particular team i'm so proud of that i planted in twenty three years ago. and it's just a big mess and. it's something that yes i'm living up to it is. part of me a part of the a story. sierra leone is a poor nation. that has done little to contribute to climate change. and i would find itself facing an uncertain future. but there is still cause for hope. we have six months of rains and good foot does soil and everything goes but you don't really need to plant even if you are allowed to rest in close but it's not

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