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that the labor unions have formed a body and they want to press for a general strike we don't know when that might take place perhaps in march. again to show that this government's new economic policy is a big mistake and i think if they have enough behind and poll suggests that a majority of hungary and do not support this go on then the opposition parties can make inroads potentially in european elections european parliament you know and crucially in local elections back here in hungary later this year it is worth of course pointing out that hungry perhaps needs some changes to its reform to the legal side of the law here because it doesn't have enough. labor it doesn't have enough skilled labor and that's why the government says that these reforms the necessary all of that sort of some of it's with you in hungary as the days progress
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thank you well the weather will be coming up in a short while but then a firebrand cleric jailed over the two thousand and two bali bombings is freed from prison angering survives as. i was about to rain again name china in the middle of winter not much to it from the point of view of the satellite picture but that is a bit telling that cloud was white tops being fed from below a bit of moisture and that is a result during sunday with the rain tearing off the west as none which means hong kong remains drawing quite over twenty for the cold is coming to shanghai isn't that cold or the height it's allowed to give it a little bit as snow and that's even visible on the northern edge come monday when the rain is heading south towards a rather cooler hong kong felt as a gathering of clouds further south and to some degree on the same latitude to
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further west the active from that brought the dust storms through the arabian peninsula is still this one here which i think would use a few showers in pakistan over the next day or so and the north budget ahead of the now developing storm bring significant snow to afghanistan northern pakistan the far north of india as well might have some effect in new delhi trees in the breeze maybe in sparking a shero say it seems unlikely most of india is dry and fine and that's still always now the case in the arabian peninsula but now look at the temperatures riyadh's about right at seventeen doha as in the cold side still with that northerly breeze and that doesn't change very much even on monday. my main mission every weekly news anchor brings a seemingly simple breaking story segment of course their star trek town through the eyes of the world's jannah least that's right out of
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a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all joined the least mean post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were brought on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching all of zero with me so rob a reminder of our top stories a leading u.s. senator says america's relationship with saudi arabia can't move forward until the murder of journalist to market step is dealt with on a two day visit to turkey republican senator lindsey graham also says he hopes
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donald trump will slow the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria until i saw our destroyed. the us president of north korea's leader have agreed to a second summit next month for more denuclearization talks the white house announcement came after the north's leader nuclear negotiator but donald trump in washington. a more protests are being held in sudan the latest in the month of bragged about for the president to go villages sublingual nor the return of the hostages for the end of obama bush's thirty year will. be is being mobilized to guard pipelines after an explosion killed sixty six people and injured many more victims to death as they fill containers with leaking fuel truck hole but are small for mexico city. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gasoline it had erupted from what mexico's state oil company said was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the
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pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened. dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many. were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down on oil imports the most important thing now is to look after the injured to save lives that is the most important thing the fight against the illegal theft of fuel will be strengthened. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few years in two thousand and eighteen the army found more than six thousand illegal taps vulnerable pipelines have been shut down while the secured it's left many communities with shortages. the government's trying to make up those shortfalls by delivering petrol in heavily guarded tankers in the capital the system is beginning to work but elsewhere emits crew second city. and several
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states there are still queues operations costing serious money not just the tankers but the full thousand troops deployed to guard them pipelines and fuel death pose experts say it can't go on indefinitely the president essentially made this a game of chicken let's see who gets tired first he said those dealing the country's oil or his government with its mounting cost of pipeline security and. the polls have shown the majority of mit's can support the president stand. by that but if it's to fire people who are stealing the fuel it's good we just have to put up with it for a bit if it's to make the country better that's fine friday and. with another pipeline explosion in compared to this time with no casualties but the clock's running for the president to come up with a long term solution to fuel there and all that comes with it john home and now does into mexico city but this weekend marks two years since donald trump took
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office the first half is term was seen in the u.s. president pull out of the global climate accord launch a trade war with china crack down on undocumented immigrants and trigger the longest government shutdown in america's history and as our diplomatic editor james bays explains people are worried about what trump's next move could be. on his very first day in office president trump made his international agenda very clear his actions abroad would be guided by his view of the interests of the people at home in the u.s. from this day forward it's going to be only america first. fors. this policy made him the disrupter in chief on the world stage freaking out the u.s. is closest friends are pending international treaties like the paris climate deal
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which the u.s. had signed and threatening to completely change the international rules based multilateral order that had existed for seventy years. after two years of trump u.s. allies are worried about what could come next there are nerved by his attitude to russia since world war two nato has been the u.s. is most important defense alliance but each year when trump has attended the annual summit he's questioned not only how much others are spending on defense but also the basic premise of the organization a mutual defense pact alliance leaders are so nervous they haven't even set a date for this year's summit. they're walking on eggshells right i mean it is. a bit like a borderline personality the central right like you're always you're guarding yourself what is the thing that i might say or do that could set this person off that's not it you don't know how to manage
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a relationship like that and some of that he can't help himself and some that is actual strategy it is actually who he is it's how he thinks he gets is successful the u.n. is also deeply worried chum pulled out of the cultural body unesco cut funding to the part of the u.n. that helps palestinians annorah and in a move that may have been bold in the world's dictators gave up the u.s. is seat on the un human rights council now the white house is turning its attention to the un's budget as the u.s. funds twenty two percent of the regular budget and almost a third of the cost of peacekeeping such cuts could be devastating in other parts of the world they fear a u.s. pullout to the government in afghanistan has been propped up by u.s. troops and cash for nearly eighty years and there's confusion over the u.s. involvement in the middle east trump older than him egypt pullout of u.s. troops from syria but other senior officials have suggested the u.s.
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will make sure i sall is defeated first. there are many questions for the next two years will this administration take further steps to confront iran will dialogue with north korea continue although be a return to threats of nuclear conflict with this most unscripted of presidents there is only one certainty and that is that things will remain unpredictable james pays i'll just era at the united nations while the deftones inauguration in twenty seventeen hundreds of thousands of women flooded on to washington streets to march against the new president it's known on you live and but some are pulling out of this weekend's march brunell's explains. two years ago the first women's march spilled out across the heart of washington d.c. they came to protest sexism racism environmental degradation and president donald trump's behavior toward women similar women's marches were held in hundreds of
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cities around the u.s. the ones marching twenty seventeen was a huge deal as the largest protests in u.s. history it turned out people not just in washington d.c. in the streets of washington d.c. i think the estimation was around seven hundred fifty thousand people participated but in cities and towns across the united states and actually around the world this year the washington march has been caught up in controversy one of the organizers to make a mallory attended a rally with reverend louis farrakhan of the nation of islam who has a long history of making anti semitic remarks mallory tweeted praise of farrakhan prompting intense criticism in washington media malory then awkwardly tried some damage control on a popular t.v. talk show i don't agree with many of minister farrakhan statement says simply about jewish people as i said i don't agree with many of minister farrakhan statement i condemn them maybe i don't agree with the statement at the end of the day what kind
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of damage going out to be very clear it's not my language it's not the way that i speak some organizations and individuals have dropped out of the march as a result of the controversy. the twenty seventeen march was a catalyst for political activism among women on the left last november a democratic party wave of diverse female candidates won seats in congress flipping it from republican control and establishing a powerful check on trump sociologist dana fisher has correlated participation in the march with political activism one of the things i found this really interesting is the degree to which people marched in the streets or what i call them as they resist in the streets last initially and then they started resisting in their congressional districts i found that people. who participated in the resistance were very involved in the midterm elections. attendance has fallen since the original women's march this year only ten to fifteen thousand people are expected
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to gather in washington the weather forecast of sleet and snow no doubt play a part in that but the annual event is now it seems a feature of the american political landscape rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. they were trials become a global event as we set up we're going right not to the weather is among us and started slowly how well attended as a conference. well those of us too discreet thousand people that came to this march days started a portland place march to central london for about half an hour and arrived here to phone us where were several speakers have mean addressing the crowds for the last hour or so so still quite a good turnout organizers here they selected the polls and closed it
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so a lot of the marchers had flowers a symbol of that and what that actually comes from the hands of a slogan. uttered by an american dream male labor union activists who say the worker must have bread but she must have grosses two meaning that women should just be able to survive just to get by that they also need to drive in their or her life so i believe this sentence business more than a hundred years ago and organizers say now those words are still very relevant because our security has been really women are women have borne the brunt of austerity measures of. what they're trying to say in this march is calling on the government to say you need to provide some assurances for even the most vulnerable women in our society who are the most affected by cuts to social services and
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things and they say that brags it which is looming in just a few weeks away that because women have been left out of the bronx that narrative they say. when this have been. women will be more disproportionately affected by it and that further austerity will mean even. a even worse situation for women so this march they say is very important today more important than you have ever given the u.k. it's to be feared just a few weeks. through the day with you in london thanks catherine. the elderly indonesian cleric who was the ideological leader of the bali bombers is being done today early release from prison for what is being described as humanitarian reasons. were sentenced to fifteen years for his links to the two thousand and two nightclub bombings in which more than two hundred people were killed alexey abroad reports. the many of
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those in bali on that night seventeen years ago abu bakar bashir is a promoter of terrorism but for his lawyers and now the indonesian government he's an old man who suffered enough. of us here are bashir is release was based on humanitarian reasons and based on acceptable reasons according to war among others book our bashir was too old the oldest prisoner in indonesia he also suffered from illness. the bombs were planted and not clubs more than two hundred people mostly tourists were killed and more became the most deadly attack of its kind on indonesian soil. the icy year old has so far served nine of a fifteen year jail sentence for his links to camps where the bombers were trained he had been an allergy for parole because he refused to renounce his beliefs president. into those lobbying on bashir has behalf and agreed to release him but.
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one of the conditions for obtaining parole is being loyal to the philosophy of the state if inmates don't want to sign the document they cannot get released in this case the president used his authority to release bashir but some in indonesia suspect the president has one eye on elections and i and is concerned about accusations he criminalizes clerics the shia who set up an islamic boarding school known for producing feiss has repeatedly denied involvement in the bali attacks and says he's not hostile to the state. to have this country protected by god's rule so everyone is safe that's the meaning of defending the state i want to defend the country so that everyone is safe be the muslim or infidels. of the two hundred victims were astray ians and one survivor who lost his friends in the attack is disappointed that. radical groups.
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the bombing spurge account had to beef up cooperation on security matters with the us and australia have always expressed the dangers of reservations and we will continue to work closely with them on this issue we are partners when it comes to capturing terrorism and religious extremism but despite those reservations but she is expected to walk free as in early as next week. al-jazeera and you can follow all of the stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. your charges there are a whole robin a reminder of our top stories a leading u.s. senators says america's relationship with saudi arabia can't move forward until the murder of journalist shows she is dealt with on
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a two day visit to turkey republican senator lindsey graham also says he hopes donald trump will slow the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria until i still is destroyed the us president north korea's leader have agreed to meet for a second time next month for more denuclearization talks the white house announcement came after the north lead nuclear negotiator but donald trump in washington or protests are being held in sudan the latest in a month of growing demands for the president to go villagers in the northern region of mass chanted for the end of president omar bashir as thirty year rule activists say at least fifty people are being killed and hundreds injured all rested since civil unrest began over the rising price of bread. hungary and back out onto the streets in large numbers to denounce a labor of forms that many have dubbed a slave law it allows employers to demand more overtime from the stuff while delaying payments for the extra work the move has sparked weeks of demonstrations
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and united rival opposition parties against prime minister viktor orban. demonstrators marching for the tenth straight week headed for olds to protest against president about world buchwald's government. it's the first mass rallies publish an open letter and called for a grand debate a response to protesters angry with his economic policies the demonstrations broke out over a decision to raise fuel taxes at least sixty six people have been killed and dozens injured in a pipeline fire in central mexico it happened in his august day north of the capital mexico city on friday the state oil company says people were illegally tapping a pipeline. cleric who was the ideological leader about the bali bombers is being granted early release from prison for humanitarian reasons back a bashir was jailed to fifteen years for slings to camps where the bombers were
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nothing has stopped the terrible trade in the legal ivory. now. new tools straight from the lab that could find a crime that's brought elephants to the brink of extinction giving a seizure is a great victory but the owners are already dead. from rita davis and is an environmental biologist i am holding a tray of an elephant who should show us the high tech plan to stop the killing. then céline stranded along the california freeway yes freeway doctors should do some more is a mechanical engineer chill show us what's been done to find out why this is happening at this thanks dave feeling to stressed and i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist vamps our team then people. know it's do some science.
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techno on phil toys joined by marie to davison and doctors should do some laura because they were outlaws out there who are working in the shadows committing horrible acts against the pencil is yet majestic animals we're talking about the ivory poachers who have decimated the populations of elephants in africa and it's really the case ivory guys for about a thousand dollars a pound move than an illegal drugs and you know what that means is that the damage has been devastate. adding over one hundred thousand elephants have been killed in just the last three years and the question is what can we do about it we found a team of scientists that are using some unexpected weapons d.n.a. and radiocarbon dating check it out. april eighteenth two thousand and fifteen. intercepts four tonnes of ivory smuggled in being sacks from the democratic republic of congo. it is the largest seizure in
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this country's history the ivory on the way to laos seized in bangkok after a tip the seizure makes headlines customs displayed over three tons of confiscated african ivory worth six million dollars a historic bridge from kenya and. nine hundred elephants but the perpetrators of this horrible crime against animals are never caught for law enforcement entities like interpol stopping the killing of elephants at the source is what's critical. the question ins where exactly is all this ivory coming from they almost always shipped the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start your search looking in the wrong place sam wasser is the director of the center for conservation biology at the university of washington. when it comes to solving the mysteries of the illegal trade wasser has created a coalition of scientists virtual detectives using techniques in d.n.a.
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extraction from ivory. genetic mapping through dung sampling and radiocarbon dating this multipronged approach attacks a criminal enterprise that's brought the majestic african elephant to the brink of extinction and there's probably only four hundred fifty thousand elephants left so the whole focus of our lives is to really try to use d.n.a. assignment of large. singapore two two thousand. six and a half tons of ivory seized the largest in the country's history roughly six hundred fifty elephants were killed for this haul of ivory. but where in africa did the ivory originate from they assume this much ivory must come from multiple sources authorities send samples to washer's lab for analysis right now from anywhere in africa we can assign a seizure of ivory closer than three hundred kilometers to where it came from
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wasser and his team get to work the first step is to prepare the samples of seized ivory. we cut off a piece of the ivory and then when we do is we stick that piece inside a plastic tube with a magnet and stain the steel plugs on the end we drop that in liquid nitrogen which cools it to about minus two hundred forty degrees celsius so extremely cold within three minutes it comes out like baby powder. so it's a polarizing is the ivory and it preserves the d.n.a. at the same time that was one of the biggest breakthroughs of our. elephant d.n.a. from the ivory seized in singapore is extracted and analyzed in last year's lab the d.n.a. from the tusks is then matched against a genetic reference map of africa's elephant populations this map has been generated by d.n.a. taken from another source rich in elephant d.n.a.
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i am holding a tray of elephant hoop not exactly something you'd associate as a tool for fighting international crime but these samples provide critical pieces of data for creating a genetic map of elephants across africa yup collecting dung samples may not be glamorous work but it's a task wasser and his team take seriously we make the map from the dung we take genetic markers out of the dung samples so you see here this map of africa there's about fourteen hundred total samples here and each sample is from a separate family group wasser was able to determine the origin of the six and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi it all came from a neighboring country zambia. wasserstein had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to poaching basically the study debunked some of the assumptions that you and interpol had about how these activities were working what were those assumptions and so it was
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assumptions that law enforcement in general had and one was when you get a big seizure they were cherry picked from all over africa and what we showed is that's not what's happening there poached in the same area over and over and over again. the plight of the african elephant has been well documented these heartbreaking images were shot in a sanctuary for elephant orphans in kenya from before the biggest enemy of elephants when the out in the woods on this two year old being bottle fed stood by his mother's body for three days after she was murdered for her tusks the first to kill the bowls and then you killed the matriarch so now you're destroying the leadership in your group as well as the long term knowledge that these elephants have and when elephants become vulnerable so does the rest of the ecosystem there are these keystone species where you take this one out and it has this huge ripple effect on all these other species elephants are true keystone species.
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sophisticated transnational syndicates oversee every step of the trade from the illegal poaching to the smuggling of tusks to carving factories and shops around the world. this footage part of an undercover investigation captures a shipping agent explaining how ivory is smuggled out of africa very wrong that. we need an urgent method that stops the killing even getting a seizure is a great victory but the owners are already dead. last month singaporean customs seized another shipment of ivory coming out of kenya and headed for vietnam three point seven tons worth an estimated eight million dollars singaporean authorities have already contacted wasser to oversee d.n.a. analysis was his lab and now receive samples from over ninety percent of all marj ivory seizures what we are trying to really do is to figure out where are the major
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poaching hotspots across africa his latest study based on d.n.a. analysis of twenty eight seizures between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and fourteen reveals there may be only two major hotspots. poaching in africa southern tanzania and a place known as the try them. when you're saying hotspots you mean hot spots of poaching activity hotspots of seizure activity what are you referring to a hot spot is a place where you are able to provide multiple tons of ivory repeatedly over multiple years then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps choke the source of the ivory from entering the network and unravel it so that's the big plan.
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a techno crew member is on vacation in thailand when he comes across this all too common display he's told of their ivory pieces offered up for sale for a price the sale of ivory to foreigners is illegal in thailand yet as our camera reveals it goes on as this old newsreel footage shows ivory was once very popular. croft but soon to his own but all that changed in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the international trade in ivory was made illegal. d.n.a. analysis is one tool that could ultimately help government's crackdown on where ivory is coming from but it can't tell investigators when the killing took place anything post ban is illegal to trade what it comes down to is this this radio carbon dating method can tell us if trade of ivory is legal or not kevin you know is a geochemist who uses a method known as radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ivory this is the part
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of the tusk that was actually growing when the animal was shot because we need to know when did this elephant die and so this part of the tusk tells us that so we drove the powder on to this wave paper here. and they collect it into these vials next to ivory powder is combusted and turned into pure c o two so what is this we can bust it in this tube it there's other impurities in there other gases we need to get rid of those so that when we measure the radio carbon content we just are measuring the c o two gas radiocarbon dating literally relies on the fallout from the events that took place from one thousand nine hundred fifty two to one thousand nine hundred sixty three. by. aboveground atomic testing between the united states in the soviet union we basically doubled the radio carbon concentration in the atmosphere now what does
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that mean then for organisms when you have a spike in radio carbon in the atmosphere what it did do is give them all the unique geochemical fingerprint in their tissues all these photosynthetic organisms trees grasses that sort of thing are taking in c o two some of it having carbon fourteen in it and in the animals that eat that then also take on that radio carbon signature but there it is. you can actually see it's freezing down on the right side so now we're going to do is torch it off and have the final final product. and bring this to them and you do this individually for each sample yeah this is it's time consuming it's so you want to wear these to to watch this process so this is just a regular methane torch not to be done at home and warm the glass. all around it it's sort of like. holding soft serve. and so.
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on and now you can see. there's our c o two right there so that's that's the frozen c o two from an elephant heading for radio carbon announces after. receives the radio carbon content of a piece of ivory he can match it against the bomb curves a record of atmospheric levels of c fourteen before and after the atomic testing era the radio carbon dating a five re could be used to verify the age of ivory being sold on the legal market as antiques but here's the curve and i call this left side before nine hundred sixty three the rising limb so that tusk is imprinted with the radio carbon concentration from that year so we can then go and measure that radiocarbon concentration and say ok it's for example one point three and that allows us to draw a horizontal line across the bottom curve here and you can see it actually intersects it into place two answers it could be nineteen sixty or it could be one thousand
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and eighty so the way to do this is to sample part of the test that you know is older and in part it's us you know is younger and compare the relative radiocarbon concentrations and just fit them back onto this curve so if the older one has a higher concentration in the younger has a lower then you're on this falling women of the bomb curve november two thousand and thirteen canadian authorities learned that a pair of tusks are being offered by this toronto based auction house as antiques suspecting the tusks are not as old as the sellers claim authorities confiscate them and turn them over to. buy david a pair of tusks clearly showing that his elephant was poached after the law went into effect and the auction house went to court and pleaded guilty now you know and collaborator turi serling have teamed up with wasser to apply this technique to investigate trends in the international trade in illegal ivory since the international ban african countries have been stockpiling confiscated ivory
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occasionally they destroy some of it but much of it remains sitting in government warehouses so they have huge stockpiles on the order of one hundred or one hundred twenty tons in some of these nations there so they're sitting on this ivory. waiting for the day that the international market opens again if current poaching hotspots are shut down the next major source for ivory could be the stockpiles and radiocarbon dating would help confirm it to what extent do you wrestle with despair at the situation and to what extent do you embrace hope and there have been some seizures where i got to say you know when we pulled them out and started rinsing him off in the blood was pouring out of him that we were just sitting there in tears i mean you know that that has happened but you know you get. used to it and and then you start getting these breakthroughs and so no i feel like you know we've got a plan i feel like we're making an investment and that's really what drives me.
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to steps of d.n.a. techniques that you talk about that practice has been done for a long time to maybe track the origin of the disease what took him so long to get through tracking down poachers you know we've used d.n.a. techniques to understand populations of lots of wildlife we're using it within the context of conservation a lot more now it's still a fairly new field so there was a time when i really was used in canada and believe pools and now it's illegal but why is the market still so robots the main markets are in china and then actually the united states is the second largest player here part of what's driving that is that there's some communities in the u.s. that really value ivory ivory is you mostly find it as an ornamental carving it's a very beautiful when it's polished and carved and it carries a sort of status because of its values so there's still
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a pretty high demand and there is a crisis unfolding on the coast of california from cindy a go up to san francisco and beyond sea lions are leaving their natural ocean habitat and wandering up on shore even sometimes in people's yards. and streets well i joined a rise along where we were literally rescuing sea lion parts of the story is crazy some of it's heartbreaking and it's coming up next. this the lion park named johnny cash is making a run towards the open ocean with a satellite transmitter tied to his back he may hold the answers to a sad epidemic among california's coastline. there are plenty of highways that hug california's ocean shores and he's ninety freeway isn't one of them the sight of a baby seen a quarter of a mile inland is unsettling. but in two thousand and fifteen it's not that unusual
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according to local news agencies the creatures are stranding starving and apparently dying in record numbers this year along the coast the images tell our haunting story well we have seen spikes in recent years two thousand and fifteen is already off to an unusually start the headlines paint a picture of an epidemic of sick pops in desperate search of food but what's really going on is more complex techno went to the san diego headquarters for a federal agency that studies the oceans far on says what's happened in the last two years is the waters in the northeast pacific have warmed up way beyond anything more use to according to noah a warm up ocean off southern california has made it harder for nursing sea lions to forage and as a result the pups are not getting enough nourishment el nino is an event scientists have seen several times but this year's temperature is a quite different what's really different is that the waters in the northeast
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pacific warmed up over a year ago and usually that warming occurs after the el nino develops in this case that preceded it ocean warming impacts the food chain from the bottom up as upwelling wins a causing deep. it's occurrence typically rife with cold water nutrients to circulate up mostly nutrient depleted warm water so when you talk about nutrients what is that that biologic material in the deep ocean gets remember allies tend to forget an organic nutrients and so the upwelling them keeps that cycle going so how does it affect the top of the food chain the whole food chain gets depressed a lot of the those fish species that could move have moved northward and a food source has a lot less than we had last year and the evidence can be seen daily all along the california coast from san diego to san francisco in san diego. the company which face public heat for shows has taken a public role in sea lion rescue efforts. it's really. the i was
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lucky i think that is how long do you feed them full typically it will be two painting for about twelve days and about five days they have gained enough strength for their actions to start showing some interest again a question and they will start taking water to fish sea lions and first admitted to an almost tree like setting the pups to fed a special protein rich formula up to two hundred two feedings a day take place behind the scenes we have to gradually read about it because their bodies haven't seen fresh and they can't process it properly they have to show to us that they can fully process three to five pounds of fish per day which is what they would require to maintain their weight before we stop to feed brands to it observe sea lion health at sea world's nonprofit research on. so in studying their habitats you able to get a better idea of what's happening in terms of global climate change food seem to have vanished for some reason the question is whether that's
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a sign i think of long term climate change the bigger issue is are these little intensive answered we're seeing recently going to become more common as climate generally changes according to the national marine fisheries service is the west ever as rescued pops are returning starved again it is the most historically busy year ever of this already been twenty five hundred sea lions stranded in california this year alone in the first twelve weeks that we're into the year marine biologists and executive director of the pacific marine mammal center a key from a tosser has seen it all. there are actually six months old coming into us under birthweight that's all start there the other difference in this year that we didn't see in twenty thirteen and twenty forty is that we're now seeing a lot of adults coming in that are very me seated very star you can see every bone in their body and that's
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a difference from the last two years metacity and his team east satellite titan technology to understand why this is happening tagging felines is so new to these pups the research pioneers and we want to make sure that the animals that we're putting back out into the wild during this unusually bad rush and make the tagging happens fast as i learned watching johnny cash get his device he spent two months gaining twenty five pounds and is a worthy candidate here so you'll know that by him you're get to say you're trying to seal the edges a little further somewhere in the back that not so feel good think you're going to tighten up the back but will be good this year several sea lions return to metastases rehab starving once again but rescue centers along the coast compiling satellite tagging days. this hype that johnny cash and his need to release friends who beat the odds a look at the line toward survival rather than the stranding. believe that no
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return needs and they live a long happy life that's the plan and that's what's going to happen we're going to see them out on the rocks in nine or ten years when you begin healthy and you. know i work a lot of behavior in my research and what i found really fascinating about this is what is causing this behavior of the pope's arches going in a little bit from shore they're going miles are going on this long journey in there so something evolved in them that the changing climate is just messing with their their innate response to temperature it's more could it be just utter desperation right i mean if you reach a certain level of lack of nutrition does that suddenly kick in some sort of in instinct to just go where ever necessary to find something i mean because of see the temperature is it the food that they normally feed on has moved somewhere and cited the scene i'm starving and they are cold you're right they are absolutely
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so you're with the news and streaming online through you tube facebook life and al-jazeera dot com trumps facing resistance on how to complete a u.s. troop withdrawal from syria on a two day visit to turkey from a leading u.s. senator has warned that a rush to put out will lead to chaos and called a nightmare for washington's allies republican lindsey graham trying to slow down the withdrawal until eisel is completely defeated graham added that plans to contain iran and protect kurdish rebels from turkey need to be finalized before troops head home it also said the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia will suffer unless the crown prince is arraigned. and well for more on that let's go to. the turkish syrian border had certain issues just won't go away and lindsey graham certainly keeping them alive right now. absolutely this is not this voice that you expect from the united states which has
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been adamant that it wants to pull out from syria even the presidential advisor. to resign because he was off the other opinion but lindsey graham who's seen as a key ally of the trump has come out with not just to criticism of president's policy but also to shore and for his turkish counterparts that this is going to be a phased withdrawal the united states is not going to need a void inside syria and it is not going to be filled with either syrian government forces or rainy and back forces and an option which both the united states and turkey are not looking forward to graham met the turkish president and you have to realize that this is the second visit in one thousand days of twenty nineteen by a senior u.s. official earlier when we saw the national security advisor come to turkey it was a flare up of tensions rather than defusing them and graham coming and coming with the olive branch saying that he's got the air of the u.s.
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president he's urging the u.s. president to reconsider and he's also talking about a change in policy in the united states military where it will not be leaving the dotted tree on the turkish border in the hands of good fighters but it will try and move them away from the front lines and when another key thing that the united states will be looking to take back heavy arms something that turkey is not happy with these weapons have been given to the kurdish fighters because these good fighters are an influential asset when it comes to the fight against isis but it is a very tight line that he has to tread because it's not just turkey that he has to placate is a message going out from the united states to its allies in the times of war as well as the kurdish fighters that is not going to leave them on abandoned them for other interests as always the hard to see how they're going to resolve the kurdish issue because the united states are very much explain what their position is on this and turkey that is they want to go in.
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well i think it is very important for us to kind of unravel what this is because it is a very complicated issue where there's a peace there's a stretch of land inside syria of which turkey wants about thirty kilometers deep inside syrian territory for it to be declared a safe zone in this part of syrian territory u.s. forces and its coalition allies are placed on either side is the iranian backed militias and bashar al assad's forces on the other side is the turkish forces both of whom who don't see eye to eye with kurdish fighters turkey sees this as a terrorist organization and the united states has obviously been allies with them so it is going to be very difficult because the kurds have been trying to move towards the syrian government because they were afraid that after the tweet that the president of the united states came out with that there would be of a dog within thirty days if it left them scrambling looking for allies and they have open channels of communication with the city and government
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a syrian government which is backed by iran and russia both of them who are not partners or allies but rather adverse rings of the united states so it is a complicated situation it's not just that border area it is also the city of miami beach which is falling out of that thirty kilometer zone this is a place where the road map to member is being discussed by both united states and turkey and they're trying to find a way where the shot of the sides forces and iranian militias do not take charge if syrian democratic forces which are the kurdish fighters leave that area and it is known that is it because lindsey graham also been talking about the soldier for two . well that is something that lindsey graham is the second point that has disagreed with his president on generals d'amato was killed in istanbul after saudi consulate and the cia which is the intelligence on of the united states concluded that muhammad bin some on the saudi crown prince was
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involved somehow this was something which was rejected by the u.s. president and now lindsey graham comes out is used it is not the first time you have to remember that he's come out against what the u.s. president has been saying but he's been very vocal in his practices i'm off the saudi crown prince rama been so long here's some of what he had to say. we will. start sanctioning those involved with the killing of mr because shogi will make a definitive statement that m.b.a.'s know about it and is responsible for it and come up with a series of sanctions to. make sure that others understand this is not what you do if you're an ally of the united states. so a strong choice of words but this is definitely not the first time in the graham has said it and i don't think that is going to be the last time you hear it from lindsey graham and the senators from across the political divide in the united
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states but it is worth noting that this is not the official u.s. policy these words make it come out again and again but the united states still believes the president of the nastiest still believes that it is the killing of journalism. is something that needs to be addressed by the saudi government and the u.s. president saying that he thinks mohammad did so mine or his father. were not implicated in that mode as all of thanks very much indeed that is the picture from gaza. and more on lindsey graham's position right here the full exposition of the trump pullout stance and indeed the ice and attack that has always been talked about. plus links to the latest in the story al jazeera dot com and why don't you get in touch with us we want to hear from you on these stories and more you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hashtag a j news grid. a j english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash zero
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or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine i can tell you immediately we've been hearing quite a few people already talking about lindsey graham visit to turkey jessie and you tube saying that this is a great success for turkey's government finally a u.s. official has recognized their claims about the p.k. can p.y.g. be related to each other so keep your comments coming in. now protesters are back on the streets of sudan trying to increase pressure on the president to resign what began as an outcry over the rising cost of bread one month ago has become the biggest challenge to help as she is the two year rule even more reports from the capital. one hundred of the brothers left home and ten days ago and never came back he joined anti-government protests in sudan second largest city on demand. we didn't realize he was shot while we were protesting security forces
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were coming at us and we ran for a bit and he said he couldn't he thought he twisted his arm then we learned he sustained a bullet wound we hid in a house and try to give him first aid that's when we noticed that he was also shot in the back when we were able to get to the hospital he was weak and lost away an hour later three protesters were killed that day human rights activists say at least fifty have lost their lives in the month long protests demanding the resignation of president obama and bashir the government total is much lower protests started when the government announced a rise in the price of bread the outcry spread to other towns and cities nationwide and police have repeatedly fired bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds hospitals and doctors have been attacked by security forces for treating protesters. demands to end bashir thirty year rule can be heard in every protest march it's been one month since people started protesting to demand change people have been expressing their frustration at the way president obama has been running the country for the
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past thirty years despite the use of live ammunition and tear gas the protest seems to be gathering strength and for weeks on the president remains defiant was president bashir described protested streeter's influenced by foreign agents as a criticism by the e.u. and the un of attacks on unarmed protesters sudan's government lawyer is promising to investigate. we will be looking into the deaths that occurred during the protests and urged people who have information to come forward and presented to us so we can conclude what happened and how people have been killed we'll also look into those injured and those who had their property destroyed in the demonstrations but she remains wanted by the international criminal court for work. arms and crimes against humanity in the western region of dar for some analysts see the biggest challenge he's yet faced at home has the potential to end his rule. this movement will be successful in changing the regime is true that the government
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doesn't see that but it can happen that can happen through a new political party taking over the ruling party sidestepping bashir and bringing someone else in his place but one thing we can be sure of is that saddam before the nineteenth of december is not the same saddam post nineteen december when the protests started. bashir has promised economic reforms but as protests continue into a second month some sudanese see they are ready to sacrifice their lives to see change changes which president bashir doesn't appear ready to meet well we're going to hear now from. members of which is a nonviolent resistance movement which is helping to organize the protests in sudan and he says that people want change so the number of protesters is growing despite the violence this is a decentralized that's happening and there's always they're all uniting on one cause which is like. a lot of the organization is happening.
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