china's foreign minister set to arrive in north korea for a two day visit when ye is the highest ranking chinese official to visit the north in three years relations have been strained over a cut in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with neighboring countries in march he visited beijing in his first overseas trip as leader hizbollah chief is warning that conflict could break out between who he calls the real backers of the syrian war tensions been rising between his one a supporter iran and israel in recent months has warned that it will respond to what it called israeli aggression after the bombing of an arms depo in northern syria on sunday it suspected that israel was behind the strike which reportedly killed twenty six people most of them iranians france's president of money is on his first official trip to australia mccrone joint prime minister malcolm turnbull and

commemorating those who lost their lives in two world wars mccrone strip will have a strong focus on defense as he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors of course in australia says one of the catholic churches most senior officials is likely to face two separate trials related to sexual offenses cardinal george pell is the vatican treasurer and a former archbishop of melbourne tell us entered a not guilty plea it's expected that he will appear again before the court in to us others the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after earthrise next. once pristine indonesia's chittering river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain one of many of the examined the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera.

the conditions for existence on earth a sustained by complex web of climatic processes. i mean the rains predictable seasons and consistent temperatures all allow life to flourish. but over reliance on fossil fuels is causing the delicate balance of our planet to shift. instances of extreme weather used to be rather but now deadly heat waves wildfires powerful floods hurricanes and trucks are becoming the norm. the question is no longer will they happen but when and how we can cope with them.

i'm going to in kenya to explore a high tech solution that is helping her to survive on going to. a number who viewed in myanmar where drones are helping to protect coastal communities against extreme weather events. two years kenya has been in the grip of a devastating drought amongst those worst affected are kenya over five million pastoring for whom finding fresh water and lush postulants is critical for the survival of their herds but something has been developed could something like this hold the key to getting heard is around the country through these difficult times. today and app called every scout is being launched in the town of. they'll be heard

from all over the region who've come to learn more about the app and take that information back to their villages i'm interested to see what they make of the new technology. every scout is the brainchild of project concern international p.c.i. and committed to helping. nearly four thousand people around africa use it so far and today it's been officially rolled out in kenya. i mean. i think what. p.c.i. hopes to revolutionize how hurt is find water by using something eighty seven percent of kenyans already have in their pockets. a smartphone well. the app access is satellite maps which detailed the water conditions throughout kenya every ten days or. yeah ok. ok

here. you could all see i'm so fine there was so c.d.'s i was not. to find out more about how the app can help it is i'm off to southern kenya with some messiah i have lost both huff to cattle. joshua has been using toffee scout three months. joshua yes thank you so much allowing us to come to your home and join you today these are your animals yeah these are my animals is my father says it to me. is my. brother. is my it's a pleasure to meet you all so we're going to get started are we going to walk now or. we will.

be. a bit wild when you go. for the cattle. as much as five hundred dollars that market even move. something that seems so simple but it's really not. good rhythm strength to make it. so when you have a drought like kenya is having now how does that affect your cattle. where they might get to. fifteen big.

big impact. is very bad but. i mean i know today we're going to take a trip i'm hoping that you can. make. the journey that will be making. us. wow long way to go.

are accustomed to working hours it takes to find good pasta. this is why. when i was a. if. we tried to help.

so you had gone to try and look for water and pastures for the cows but the car just couldn't make the journey and the car just collapsed here yeah it was a big call. in the morning six and in the event so it was a real loss for you. and just it brings back home just the thought that it's such a difficult way of life because you have to keep on the move to find the water and to find the grazing lands but in order to move these animals use so much energy to go from one place to another so if you don't know where you're going and you're just trying your luck wherever you can it's incredibly hard for these animals. with almost thirty percent of his livestock already lost drought it's even more pressing for joshua to keep his surviving cattle in good condition which means

finding ample water during the training flow we have won't be the. point somewhere here. according to the app it's thirty kilometers from where they start. is a really popular place to come in drink someone else's. can we find a place under the tree maybe have a bit of a rest. so can we see this watering hole on the map this is immoral we. are. here you can see from somewhere here. knowing the location of attempting to source like this could mean life or death for hood. well get better weather was. nice it was a woman the app can make all this much simpler it's all about what you. do you do know what is felt and you teaching them how to yeah ok because at the moment when

you need to look for water for your cattle for pastures what do you do you just go blind and so you think you might use it. and does it sound interesting that it's something something you would use and you could. it's been ten hours and we're into what should be good posture that. this is where you are in the morning. and we have on the way from order to carry we may be. not so they maybe have an honorary myside maybe. numbers you can see the difference. yeah yeah it's so much better. so the cows will be able to stay here they'll have enough food to eat they will stay here oh almost one month and then left there we. give them up i mean

that's the thing i've had a wonderful day thank you so much i'm tired and i've had a wonderful story and i must thank you now we can move to the homestead just because the sun is going to spend a couple couple. yeah. yeah i could use one year. from home for the herders with access to satellite maps livestock mortality has really hard. since joshua has relied on i for scout he hasn't lost any cause to drought. to him he has been a real. access. yes they have a lot more money and oh yeah yeah. yeah that was an.

extreme weather reference and now a regular occurrence around the world. scientists have found that human caused climate change is at the root of over two thirds of plan the result is often human suffering. in twenty seventeen hundreds were left dad and many thousands homeless by a unusual weather conditions. the hurricane season in the caribbean caused unprecedented levels of destruction. devastating floods swept across southeast asia tornadoes hit the south of the us and california was roasted by a heat wave. since two thousand and nine one person every second has been displaced by disaster. it's predicted that by twenty fifty they'll be two hundred million environmental migrants. but the country observed

is stuck people migrate temporarily and there were short distance internally between their countries if there's a drought or an environmental stress you move you temporarily move to thunderstruck expectation and incentives and the reality the people come back with we might see in the future is permanent migration and longer distance collaboration you might see how communities having to look right across their life records are no longer have sustainable it might be an entire nation states that have to move. mangroves are among the most fired up. vers habitats on the planet may play a vital role in the lives of coastal communities but these forests are facing the forestation thirty five percent of the world's man groups have already been lost

and here in the irrawaddy delta only sixteen percent were originally covered is left and in myanmar where local innovative project is combining grassroots conservation state they are drawn technology to take mangrove regeneration to new heights. jamar is vulnerable to cyclons which strike every few years in two thousand and eight the worst ever cycle nargis claimed more than one hundred thirty thousand lives. experts now believe that mangroves hold the key to saving thousands of lives and the next big storm hits. to find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest.

while it is a proper tree. the tallest man groups here reach twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after a cycle of nine hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had audio with aggregate human behavior and i knew. you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blow in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and stop some of that storm surge making its way into these settlements and farms and how about maybe some of the other farms where there's no mangroves do you know of any farms that suffer because of the storms ending up there. is it any are you that the dead line and look at your.

home and machinery out about you know our common humanity maybe here i miss you gotta go i mean. i know i get up there so it's a protection yeah. so if mangroves is so effective at protecting against storms why if one million hecht is being cut down since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight leaving the population here unprotected. i'm meeting with a known and ecologists with thirty years' experience in forestry to finally. going i know you thanks for me are. there to be do you thanks so much. when heads to worldview international foundations among groups regeneration project here in the i'm not. going.

to. get the feet that. we could get. that. oh. wow. at the moment there is this segment grocery all over this mental condition is a severely degraded right in that caused. percent of the villages they don't have a million jobs they try to find out their money from their made over here and there they can come in three within that one hour while they can get money for their livelihood now i understand so you're talking about really

a negative feedback just like oh yeah it's this confluence of the environmental stresses and the economic stresses that has driving people into the mangrove yeah yeah i understand. shrimp and rice farming as well as charcoal production of strip myanmar of mongoose leaving a critically exposed. if action isn't taken soon the communities who live here in danger of being decimated by the next big storm. there are still trees here yeah yeah there is this intrigue ok this is a war going to be ok from there to baldwin fifteen. when the hundred locals have systematically planted four hundred thousand seedlings by hand here in the last me years goes right back all the way through disney. yes.

but the job is far from complete ok so we'll come right into the thick of it here at work that we can hear in the background that's a lot of chopping and preparing of the ground before three hundred thousand seedlings or more are going to go into this mud so it sounds like there's a lot of hard work going on so we should maybe go on try and lend a hand. so can you tell me and you tube are you from this area you know i know that all of them are literally. i don't even know why they're all loaded i'm all on the you know. they're all going. to read it to me or. indeed any. more little you feel some way you're. giving something back when you know i lose i get out of. here you know are you going to do yeah you want to look good or anomaly and we've

got all my d.v.d. of you know we we've been married we've got it why would they not they'll be able. to. you know. yeah i understand you show me how to do it i mean i am a complete no of it just. can't. get it get the hang of it i feel it's all about the angles to get. just like that. the team of thirty five thousand hectares of coastline to plant. their racing to do it before the next big cycle it's. this is an incredibly complex ecosystem but with looking at you as an ecologist

it must be incredibly challenging. to move towards restoration to win this turn to the latest technology. business. we're trying to. make the planting find room and they are they working today they. don't want them to be. today the oxford based team of scientists will be testing with their double triple and quadruple co-opted room in front of seven thousand seats in an hour it is still continue edge to stand back. and reena for the rink who heads up the project. so as this have been the mood for anything like this you know of no two thousand knowledge we are definitely the first one and it's going to be our largest experiment is it just we can have

a look at one of the poets just to kind of get a sense of what you were actually dealing with here so what is what is inside this they're made from by the great evil plastic and on nature of material and society also while you have local science and you have called me or else and natural material it looks like we're nearly there i just saw a green light you're. ok oh good. the test will be successful if one show into the ground. imbedded in the soil deep enough for growth to occur if it works the team returned in a few months time to time twenty million. that is. i have never seen it from a guy before yeah. the drone has

a preprogramed flight path if the seeds penetrate the soil the chance of each of these pods becoming a tree is greater than if planted by nature or hand because the depth will be moving system to it goes. down and the team are happy the seeds are in the ground and it's time for nature to take its course i was just thinking inside this thing i mean it's there's so much more than just seeds it's insta future it's a potential to save a life because it's to live in a shield they protect people from the ocean they protect people from tsunami from here against and we have to do it now and we have to do it at the massive scale because from today to maybe six not months from now maybe one year from now is maximum we will have a growing shield already so if the cycle hits next year people here will be protected and when you when you put it like that you know all of

a sudden something so small can seem very significant indeed so i'm actually going to put that back in the ground where we found. the scientists test is finished. but for women his team is just the beginning. they wanted to the seeds progress carefully. and fall goes to plan many more trees will be planted by drone here in the near future helping to safeguard the coast from extreme weather. all over the world people are having to adapt to unpredictable climate and weather patterns. in canada west sea ice has become dangerously thin a scheme is providing real time measurements of ice thickness to local communities

. this data reveals which routes the safe to travel and which i know it's. meanwhile in los angeles where extreme drought has become the norm. ninety six million shade people have been put into the l.a. reservoir to help reduce evaporation rates. these projects show the level of innovation that communities are using to protect themselves against increasingly volatile weather. but the question remains are these long term solutions or are they just masking the real problem. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships one

mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china talk to on a just. made on al-jazeera. marking world press freedom day al-jazeera shines a light on this important issue and examines the state of freedom of the price of around the world people in power ross the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating by the taliban and an isis insurgency. with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally set to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for resources beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is a territory still to be claimed commemorating seventy years from now but al-jazeera

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