years ago hopefully the droppings will into the forest. or words and not on. your skin real soft touch on the back. so how much longer do you think you're retiring may fourth of releases for but a few more laces today and then after that it's mainly just monitoring the populations. which upon the now exist on four islands as in base to predators us lowly removed from other locations that number is expected to rise the hope is that one day later punk could return to the mainland they want thrived. there is certainly the bill for change here in new zealand while people and institutions are taking action in support of native species the government has even committed to rid the country of human introduced pests by twenty fifteen there is still

a bang way to go but at least the future is now looking optimistic for the. plants reproductive cells are found in its pollen. when an insect visits a flower to feed off its nectar pollen rubs off from the male stayman on to the insect and sticks to the hairs on its body. as the insect moves on to another flower grains of pollen are transferred to the female stigma that's when pollination happens so that seeds and fruit produced. around seventy five percent of all crop species require pollination by an animal often insects including beads but also other animals such as birds and bats but two out of five insect pollinators a disappearing and with them our food supply. in southwest china wild bees have

been eradicated by intensive farming so people are doing the work the bees once did . every year in hundred one county thousands of villages painstakingly pollinate every single apple and pear blossom by hand using a long stick attached to brushes or chicken feathers. the method works with some high value approaching us but the simply aren't enough people to pollinate the world's crops much more effective would be to nurture pollinating insects populations in orchards by banning pesticides and planting natural habitats. bees and other insects have been safeguarding our food supply for millennia the least we can do in return is to provide them with what they need to survive.

with a long history of habitat loss and industrialize farming fear of having some of the worst cases of infected hine and extinction in the world i've come to the u.k. to see how all the industrial sites are being turned into bug reserve. in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. professor dave goulston has been studying insects for over twenty years and understands just how damaging their rapid decline could be not to go so why are insects disappearing there's a whole host of challenges for a face to do with us modern farming methods become very reliant on using lots and lots of pesticides which mean the farmer can grow a perfect monoculture without an insect inside the entire baton ical diversity surrounding us is just a hunt for species instead of the hundreds of species that used to live here and a lot of people think this is war the the british countryside should look like but

it's only been like this for a few decades it's basically makes the landscape uninhabitable for most insects is there anything we can do to turn this around or have we sort of passed the tipping point for some species it's too late some of gone extinct but for the majority best still here and we need to make sure we look after we should be absolutely terrified about this issue should be something that everyone is talking about and everyone is key to it because if if we don't we face a really believed future. that's a call to arms if there ever was one and here in the u.k. some groups are taking the warnings of entomologists seriously. i'm on my way to camp you wait to see the you case first reserve for in sacks. i'm due to be dr sarah henschel an entomologist a bug life an organization dedicated to the protection of insects. but this desolate next industrial or brownfield site is not exactly what i was expecting.

her you must be sarah i am married here and soon i'm very. welcome to come us just two days goats that is one of them a spider virus and while. rich sites in britain so you join to say hello i really was. going to this place used to be the best side you stupid i know you were finery you can see remnants of industry all around us has been abandoned for more than forty years and why is an old oil refinery an ideal spot for protecting bugs hasn't been managed has been made a society so it's providing not true habitats that have been walks in the wider landscape wildlife is using this is a rescue to release. their words as it looks like a helicopter should be landing any minute now a large tarmac base there's about sixty of them across the site they would have how

is the large oil storage tank as you can say now is coring back and how many species of insects are there on the side over two thousand five hundred different species on this site alone including some found nowhere else this is why the site is a huge case focus because three try to find some little hunting one of the things about a brownfield site which makes it so many there is always different habitats and really small place a barrier ground to back nests flowers feet on scrub and trees to the winter and lied about shelter is an amazing mosaic of everything they need all in one place so why are these insects so important to the natural landscape so we need healthy eater systems invertebrates indicate for us if the books to hop a and the metaphor is happy so the mammals and the birds have also hardly said we need to look after the books and everything else will fall into line. can't be a week has been described as a little brown field rain forest and i can definitely see why. there are bugs

everywhere so many that a team of volunteers carry out surveying work throughout the whole year. rorion image and already have their morning's work set out on their table which doubles as a lab i don't like to read here what's going on here this was really active. beatles there's a predator a living this back grounds. are actually only found here did you catch these all today or over the past week do you think spring day to day you still see this and which life here. and what will this help you moving forward so give us a girl run our hair and not wait we can see how it's improved on what we're seeing more of what we're doing regular studies like this in such. like it is really important to see how the rest the country is doing do you release the insects or do

you take them back to a laboratory what happens to them most of them we can so we can release. them we might need to take a look at kind of caterpillars this this is i'm lucky my cancer has ever lived and saw this protective on the joys you used to find and if you were out in the u.k. . you'd probably find these consequence and we see them all over the place i think this is a package of. the. rights that they were acting as real wrecking to spaces that it's a swag for the surviving on sites like this. since bug life started serving nearly ten years ago three insects species believed to be extinct has been discovered here and. it's exciting and i can't resist trying to find a few myself that want to go to the sox all right. i've got something. this is a tree back here and i want to look at this home a flaw i have

a fire that i really critically important to the ecosystem and i'm not. quite down to just. to the sort of thing as well as i was talking about. was a bomb but yeah things on. it all seems like good fun but this surveying is crucial not only for monitoring insect numbers but also managing the land so that it provides the best possible habitat for these creatures the tried. image and has offered to show me a declining species that needs some special treatment but i haven't here say that's a brown debate and it's one of the two hundred different species of peace and last you can find on this site and over what is to remove some vegetations they have some background they can borrow into and make what we call b. cliffs removing vegetation sounds counter-intuitive to a nature lover like myself but emission is the expert so i'll wait to see what she has to show me she's taking me to find an elevated spot to create our b.

class. so what we're going to be doing is we're going to be cutting back a lot of across a lot of scrub a lot of people when they want to save invertebrates they figure they have to walk far meadows which is incredibly important but also they do really need these nice areas that they can live it and how do they occupy the space so they sort of burrow into the sand yes so what about it is so obvious finest i know how you like this one. and i'll take a bit on marston's have a normal day that i. can give a really good dentist to we really base yeah definitely. is so amazing to be so close to it especially when it's such a rush to be sure we often think of conservation and species we just think of these meadows in these perfectly manicured landscapes in the middle of a wasteland you know away sun to them it's taliban it's in fact the last place they

can be in this area so it's really important that we take that into consideration when we make decisions about. today can be weak has been a resoundingly success. but to save britain's in sex more land must be given over to their protection. sara wants me to see another site the bug life is looking to reclaim twenty kilometers down the road at western marshes if successful it could add an additional seven hectares of protected habitat to the cause it's been a quiet so far with. fire and i went over a few times already so. before the site was abandoned it was a coal fired power station this black substrate is the fly ash which is the byproduct later on in the summer these low nutrient poor quality cereals really

favor the wallflowers that. was. really love and take advantage of the untrained eye it looks like so we've had to do a huge amount of work campaigning and raising awareness and we hope this is going to be one of our next big reserves and. you have a lot of resistance when you approach developers and local governments when you want to talk about conservation on sites that could earn a lot of money for them of course because this is prime development. fortunately in just ten years ago hoff with the brownfield a person just in the thames gateway or you've been developed so it demonstrates the need for sites such as can be wet and hopefully that's in the future that preserved things because we're losing this resource quicker than even finding out how important is. this i prize an amazing opportunity to challenge perception on the key drivers of size investments books that are important and i think we should have

more of these not only in the u.k. but elsewhere in the world. after hanging out with sarah and her amazing team of bug life i don't think i can ever go by any piece of land no matter how derelict and forgotten and not see its full potential and we really need to have this shift in perspective because as our own species rapidly grows in industrialised his land every square inch counts and by protecting our insect neighbors will ultimately safeguarding our own future. insect's numbers are in steep decline but across the globe people are endeavoring to reverse this alarming trend. in the u.s. conservationists at oregon zoo a saving to local butterfly species by breeding and releasing as many as two

thousand along the coast each year. and an engineering student at simon fraser university in canada has designed a real time beehive monitoring system to track b. health through microphones and heat senses. by helping to pinpoint the causes of colony collapse disorder or invention has the potential to save millions of bees. the race is on to prevent the collapse of the planet's insect populations if life on earth is to continue as we know it and we need to move fast.

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communities with the promise of a prosperous marriage. but countless young indian women find themselves gene commodifying saul and sold again. to toil by day. only to be violated by night. slavery a twenty first century evil continues with bridal slaves on al-jazeera. we will also obviously have some very robust discussions on trade kind of in france prepared to pressured trump on trade at what promises to be an awkward g. seven summit for the u.s. president. well japan's prime minister visits trump again not to forget his allies when he meets kim jong un.

and. live from london also coming up in the program that's fighting gets closer to yemen's a vital port city of how data the u.n. envoy proposes a peace plan to end the war. spends the search for survivors around month saying rain and heartfelt kind of material make it to. the leaders of france and kind of have been busy forming a united front ahead of what set to be a tense g. seven summit in quebec on friday emanuel and justin trudeau both harsh critics of president trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and on the menu they say they will not be intimidated by the united states and warned once again about the dangers of a trade war well let's go live now to john hundred in quebec city in jordan sounds like things are going to be pretty tense. yes indeed nic they're calling this the g. six plus one because all six countries are on one side and the united states and donald

trump are on the other when it comes to trade after those steel and aluminum tariffs they instituted everybody here has been pretty upset they gathered together a few days ago and issued a unanimous statement saying they were disappointed by that it's a it's a little like a family intervention where everybody is talking about the guy who is about to enter the room and about how they're going to talk to him when he does that's what did this morning they were talking about how they were going to approach the president donald trump and they have both suggested that they're going to try to convince him to drop those tariffs which at least canada says are illegal. does not appear in any hurry to back down he tweeted this morning getting ready to go to the g. seven in canada to fight for our country on trade any added we have the worst trade deals ever made this could be a bartering tactic he is after all trying to renegotiate

a number of agreements including the north american free trade agreement we put together a story setting up exactly what's going to happen here at the g. seven this is what we found. the gathering of world leaders was supposed to be is celebration but instead of highlighting the global economic expansion the talk at this year's g seven summit is all about averting a trade war. the great disruptor donald trump in his america first agenda levying tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum coming from allies in canada mexico and europe the trouble ministration has managed to alienate systematically almost all of the allies who would be involved in this so canada mexico the european union or new additions it's going to be a tense meeting i would imagine canada's prime minister displayed the diplomatic anger and announced retaliatory sanctions somehow this is insulting to them the idea that the canadian steel that seven military military vehicles in the

united states the canadian aluminum that makes your out your fighter jets is somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable europe's leaders are also irate and threatening sanctions on a litany of iconic american products from levi's jeans to kentucky bourbon to harley davidson motorcycles. all made in the republican staged needs to keep his party in control of congress in this year's midterm elections. at a news conference on thursday french president emmanuel mccrone and trudeau signed a joint statement of multi-lateralism a show of unity before an expected confrontation with a unilateralist us president sort of a mass. in terms of trait i'd like to say to president trump that the measures taken are counterproductive even for his economy only good for me it's

a question of principle we can't wait to trade war between friends. in hamburg when we have the g. twenty we had to be nineteen plus one on the climate us did not want to commit to the power sic remans when you're saying that mr trump doesn't really care perhaps that's the case but nobody lives forever our country's in the commitments we've taken what extend beyond our lives instead of celebrating their usual uni diplomats from seven of the world's largest economies are scrambling for common ground there was consensus under trump's predecessor barack obama on iran and climate change now there's a budding trade war that threatens to turn allies into adversary but some analysts expect a last minute agreement to avert an escalating trade conflict it's mostly done for posturing and because trump sees this as part of his base is particular the swing voters in midwestern states that got him elected and he wants

to show or pretend that he's doing something but again i don't think these tariffs will stick with a family photo of world leaders that traditionally ends the meeting depicts an awkward alliance with the usual show of unity is largely up to the man from washington so john what's all leaders looking for from this conference. but what they wanted is unity and they're not going to get that at least not at the beginning of this meeting they hope to have it and by the end at the end of these meetings they all come out with this statement that's what they usually do and what they intend to do this time around that statement is supposed to summarize all of the things that they agree on the one thing they cannot agree on right now is trade and some of trump's brashness his undiplomatic language seems to be spilling over into influencing some of the other members you've heard justin trudeau use words like unacceptable and insulting for the trade tariffs he also says that they are

illegal emanuel mccrone has said that when trump goes to north korea he's going to have a hard time with credibility because he backed out of the iran nuclear agreement so these people are putting pressure back on trump in the end they hope to have some kind of agreement on tariffs if they don't then the big issue that they wanted to resolve at the g. seven summit will not be on that document that they signed at the end and they are still saying they hope to have that or a john thanks very much indeed been trying to see what happens on friday john hundred in quebec city or u.s. president says that signs on north korea will not be lifted ahead of his summit with next week trump was speaking at a meeting with the japanese prime minister. at the white house and he stressed that north korea must abandon its nuclear weapons program. we cannot take sanctions off the sanctions are extraordinarily powerful we cannot and i could add a lot more but i don't buy for chosen not to do that at this time but that may

happen by the way with iran were adding tremendously powerful sanctions they understand that very well i think iran already is not the same country if you look at all the good looking so much to the mediterranean like they were two months ago so it's a big difference it was number one nuclear but also out of it you also get the side benefit that iran is a very different place and we'll see what happens and maybe ultimately something will happen with iran this is something that should have been handled many years ago by other presidents it should be handled now it should have been handled years ago but it is being handled now and i'll take care of it and i speak on fisher joins us live from washington d.c. and out in the trump bed setting out a stall ahead of the summit next week and meanwhile chin's abbé pushing japan's case too. well donald trump was asked what preparations are you doing for the some of the said not much what you need is a willingness to do

a deal and that's really an attitude it's all about attitude so he's going into the room to be the president of the united states with the intention of delivering some sort of deal accepted the fact that it could take two or three meetings and that this summit could last over two or three days shinzo out be said in the oval office when he was asked that he'd like to make sure that their policy direction aims arline no he wants to make sure that concerns that he wants to raise are brought up with the north koreans and the include alleged abductor plus north korea's long and medium range ballistic missile program and so he wants to make sure that they are clearly on the agenda and everything in the neighborhood is considered not just the united states doing a deal for the united states that make donald trump look good put him on the path to a nobel peace prize and also plays well with this big so he wants to make sure that there is some preparation that he does consider not just what he wants or the

summit but what others want to do in shinzo abby has been quite hard line on the approach to north korea much more saw than the president of south korea he knows it plays well with his base but he wants to make sure that these concerns are addressed they're brought up and not just brushed off by the north koreans so well we're getting close now or we can be confident that they'll go ahead. well we know that might pompeo his the secretary of state the new secretary of state he's been really taking the lead on this there's a reason for that that's because john bolton who's the national security advisor who would normally be one of the main players has kind of been sidelined and that's because of the comment he made which put the summit in jeopardy when he said that the looking to do nuclearized north korea and he drew parallels with what happened with libya about them denuclearizing but of course that didn't end very well for the leader of there and that is something that came going is very keen to avoid and

so they said look we're not going to go to the summit everything is no back or in the meetings we're told are going well donald trump talking about attitude and willingness to do a deal but he has said that if things aren't going well if the koreans don't look as if they're going to denuclearize that he might walk away but of course on the other side if the koreans don't get what they want if they don't see an easing of sanctions if they don't see some sort of incentive for denuclearizing then they're not going to it's just a case of the u.s. saying this is what we warned and you've got to deliver then they could walk too so i suspect that a lot of the preparation is to make sure that this is just the first stage of what could be a many stage process there could be many summits and they want to make sure that the two leaders who are considered volatile by some might actually stay in the room long enough to come up with some sort of agreement or alan thanks very much indeed alan fischer the washington d.c. .

there are reports of a new effort to end the three year long conflict in yemen where a sighted led coalition is backing the government against the rebels and the reuters news agency says the u.n. special envoy has put forward a peace plan proposing the who these hand in their weapons including ballistic missiles in exchange for an end to the coalition bombing campaign it also refers to a transitional government with all political factions represented the u.a.e. has hinted that it would support this plan or the red cross says it's pulling seventy one stuff out of yemen because of security incidents and threats concerns of mounting of a possible offensive to take the port of her data from the who thinks the port is a main lifeline for humanitarian aid into the water one country pro-government forces backed by the u.a.e. which is part of the side led coalition fighting with rebels have closed in on the city and wednesday they dropped leaflets telling people to rise up against who.