after he failed to reemerge almost four months ago now we understand from mr x.i.i. that he conveyed to honest that he believed that the the the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saw a man who was responsible for ordering this killing we know from the un special rapporteur that she's been talking to also the chief prosecutor the man in charge of turkey's investigation trying to figure out what exactly it is turkey has discovered also the foreign minister friends of democracy also his fiance trying to piece together get a sense really of what happened here key that she really wants at this point in time before she leaves is to listen to the order according to all the recordings that turkey has from that murder inside that called to that she's currently meeting with intelligence officials in ankara whether she will be played a copy of that will have to wait and see certainly mr act i believe that she will be hearing it before she leaves this is an investigation that. has taken upon herself to investigate in her remote as her role at the united nations because she

says that neither the united nations nor any of the member states are pushing for an independent investigation this is of course a hugely loaded political story it's a political minefield if you will in almost four months on there really seems to be no justice certainly the body of mr jamal khashoggi has not been found and still nobody knows who exactly ordered the murder u.s. president donald trump is again warning that all options are on the table to deal with the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. as well as several latin american and european nations of publicly backing self-appointed interim president. but president nicolas maduro is standing firm also u.s. vice president might pence has been meeting with venezuelans living in miami to discuss the crisis square thing now and. sure. we are with you. people are with you. these leaders gathered here and this president and our

administration are going to continue to stand with you until the suffering is over and freedom is restored. still ahead for you on the program remembering the revolution thousands of iranians gathered to commemorate forty years of the islamic republic and the man who founded it. a memorial of grief and anger hundreds of south koreans mourn the death of a woman who was sexually enslaved by japan and world war two. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts we have seen plenty of messy weather here across much of europe we have a storm out here in the atlantic causing a lot of snow across parts of the u.k. but we're also seeing a lot of snow here in germany i want to take you specifically to cologne show the

snow that has come across the city there not only in the city but also at the airport almost white out conditions at some points when the wind was strong enough and we did see a lot of kids lesions as well as delay unfortunately over the next few days we expect to see more snow across much of germany take a look to forecast map right here saturday more snow across the area from berlin all the way over here towards paris which could be seeing some snow the good news is for the u.k. the snow has ended by the time we get to saturday and things are going to be much better by the time we go through the rest of the weekend i'm fortunate to be seeing a lot more snow across much of the alps with that same system vienna you're going to see a mix as well down towards rome it is going to be a chilly day if you would some rain in your forecast here towards the northwestern part of africa we could be seeing rain along most of the coastal areas algeria tunisia that is going to be the forecast through the weekend we think with some windy conditions as well as we go towards sunday we are going to be seeing that windy conditions and rainy conditions make its way towards the east in tunis it is

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welcome back a quick look at the top stories now in ited states is withdrawing from one of its main nuclear weapons agreements with russia saying the one nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been consistently violated for my ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been released by the international criminal court two weeks after being acquitted of crimes against humanity and six months on from the latest ebola virus outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says four hundred sixty people have now been killed. all in all the stories we're following police in karachi a fired tear gas at protest as angry at the course of a christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy demonstrations have taken place in karachi and several other cities out of pakistan supremes courts upheld a previous decision to release b.p. maybe spent eight years on death row on charges of insulting the prophet mohammed.

the indian government has released its final budget head of this year's general election prime minister narendra modi is hoping to win the backing of bin and rural voters by promising more than ten billion dollars to support poor farmers and reduce taxes for the middle class but on the streets of new delhi many say the government scheme doesn't go far enough to address the concerns well my job jhoom has mol. these farmers protesting outside the indian parliament what the government to help them they're demanding loan waivers and better prices for their produce. the government has pledged almost eleven billion dollars to help him india's interim finance minister is optimistic the economy will improve they are poised to become my hero was to become the five trillion dollars economy in the next five years. and i supplier to be a supplier to become a ten trillion dollars economy and that makes it yes. but the farmers feel they are

not sharing in india's economic growth isn't ok you can't be farming has become a loss making proposition for the farmers because seeds and fertilizers have become very expensive it is also expensive to hire farm labor for irrigation sowing and harvesting the fields. prime minister narendra modi has been facing widespread discontent from farmers about six hundred million indians depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and many have huge debt debt they say that won't be lowered by what the government is now offering them this is was then a lot. six thousand five hundred a month it comes to fifteen rupees per day a couple of the cost that much per day in india i think that this is a total sell out. of the farmers by the government budget. among the crowd on friday many simply didn't believe the government's latest promises would come to pass especially with elections expected in the coming months

a shotgun loaded with these governments will end soon and be in their graves by the month of may so whatever they are now says now who will implement this if a new government is elected why should they agree to these budget proposals and want analysts say the direct cash support being offered to farmers in this interim budget is a clear attempt by modi to shore up crucial political support in the countryside protesters say the plan doesn't go nearly far enough. thousands of iranians have been visiting the most the lamb of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini the founder of the islamic republic have gathered to mark the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution that overthrew a centuries old monarchy the same bus or r.v. has more now from tax on. when the man who led iranian revolution toppled the king and ended centuries of empire was buried his final resting place was a humble empty plot next to a graveyard now the muslim of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini iran's first supreme

leader serves as a symbol of the islamic republic its grand halls a reminder to visitors perhaps of the reverence he is owed as men and women young and old civilians and soldiers packed into khomeini shrine to commemorate forty years since his return from exile iran is going through one of its most challenging economic decline the government remains clear about who is to blame. and that he had got even america be damned it does whatever it can to break the power of islam like the many sanctions they've been hosed they're waging psychological war they want to make people pessimistic about islam they haven't achieved it so far and they never will. iranian leaders often speak of the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution as a living thing its mission and islamic ideals as perpetual usually for a political purpose forty years later the revolution that khomeini brought to iran

continues to be a source of strength for iranian leaders who are the focus ideals to rally support for things like the foreign wars in which iran is currently engaged but leaders here also speak of it simultaneously by something fragile and precious that need to be protected against external threats which years of economic struggle has led many iranians to have more practical perspectives not at the end of the medication that the revolution has been beneficial i would try to change those of shows that don't think about the people and not one of the people those who live in luxury houses an expensive car the officials don't understand the difficulties of livers and painting them awful nice the economic situation is not good today we are under sanctions if the sanctions did not exist. it could have been better iranian leaders who came to power at the time of revolution still wield enormous power but what is happening inside the country stands to change the status quo more than any outside

influence as the old guard continues to promote decades old ideas as part of modern day politics iran's billing economy chips away at government popularity. zero to her own. israeli forces have opened fire on palestinian protesters in gaza injuring at least thirty two people according to gaza's health ministry thousands of protesters had gathered for weekly demonstrations near the border fence east of the gaza strip the rallies began last march in a calling for palestinian refugees to be allowed to return to their former homes now inside israel meanwhile the u.n. envoy to the middle east and egyptian delegation holding meetings with hamas to try and find ways to stop the violence in other developments israel is moving forward with plans to build a cable car over parts of occupied east jerusalem the government says it will reduce congestion and attract tourists but palestinian critics say it's part of israeli efforts to take more control of the city's eastern sector have a force that reports. so this is the area where the cable car is due to terminate

just outside jerusalem's old city walls very close to the western wall very close to the luxor mosque compound berners the temple mount to jews it's being promoted by the israeli tourism minister and the marriott jerusalem as a traffic easing tourist attracting measure it's also being promoted by the city of david foundation which is due to build the visitor center cum cable car stop that's also the organization which is behind a lot of the archeological digging that takes place in this area and it's behind attempts to try to increase the jewish presence in the palestinian neighborhood which abuts this area the neighborhood of silwan which is in this valley just below us here now that's one reason why palestinians are opposed to all this the very funding for this project was announced on jerusalem day in may last year part of a two billion dollars slew of projects of the israeli government announced including trying to increase the uptake of the israeli education system in

palestinian schools increase business infrastructure increase the amount of archeological digging in areas such as this one so many palestinians see this as part of a wider attempt to cement and solidify israeli control in occupied east jerusalem there's also been opposition from israeli architects and n.g.o.s who say this will be a blight on a beautiful landscape that the fifteen pylons that will be used will be much bigger much more obtrusive than are been argued by the proponents and they also are attacking the argument that this will reduce congestion in the area they say that will merely move that congestion to other parts of jerusalem nonetheless the plans are now published there are sixty days during which members of the public can either support suggest or oppose them before they're put for final submission. hundreds of south koreans have mourned the death of a leading campaigner for women who were kept in sexual slavery during world war two kim bach dong and thousands of other girls were forced to work in brothels run by

japan's military she was one of the first so-called comfort women to speak out and kept protesting until she died at the age of ninety two. reports now from cell. it was a highly charged event walking alongside the coffin of a woman who's come to symbolize a cause that touches nearly everyone in south korea forced to work in a brothel from the age of fourteen can book don't devoted the latter part of her life to making sure others wouldn't suffer like. she traveled widely to speak on the issue and supported groups helping the young victims of violence in conflict zones in the lieutenant as the japanese empire was waging war and order was issued to collect young korean girls they said we would work in a factory to make uniforms for soldiers they just forcibly took us. as evidence of her influence president moon j.

in that senior government figures to pay their respects ahead of the funeral japan's military brothels and slaves thousands of women and girls from neighboring asian countries many from korea. the funeral procession led to the front of the japanese embassy where campaigners hold a permanent vigil. rather than saying it has taken legal measures japan should offer a sincere apology that comes from the hat. kim taught us the universal value of humanity and that women should no longer unfairly fall victim to war. often frosty relations between japan and south korea are especially chilly right now. tokyo and seoul are still disputing a close encounter at sea between a japanese military aircraft and a south korean warship in december and the incident came soon after south korea's supreme court ruled in favor of laborous forced to work during world war two by

japanese companies with those firms now ordered to pay compensation japan called the decision totally unacceptable claiming the question of compensation had been settled by an agreement back in one thousand nine hundred sixty five as for the comfort women it says an agreement reached with the previous south korean administration in twenty fifteen was meant to have resolved the matter once and for all accusing the current administration of reneging on the deal. many south koreans believe the fight for justice is far from over for campaigners kim was a symbol of that struggle in death she symbolizes it still the bride al-jazeera so . now castle is celebrating football history the world cup hosts have won their first major trophy beating favorites japan three one in the asian cup final for the match took place against an uneasy mix of politics and sports the tournament was

held in the united arab emirates one of the four countries that has imposed a blockade on castle since june two thousand and seventeen dosage of bari was among fans watching gang in doha. certainly a historic day for fans in qatar and for the qatar national football team as they went on to win the championship but the asian cops held in the u.a.e. of course many of the fans i spoke to here said they wished they could have supported their national team in the u.a.e. but given the current political situation they felt it was best for them not to attend and of course tickets were also very hard to come by for qatari france now one of the highlights of the final game was a penalty shot one of the qatari team members scored in the eighty second minute in the second half the fans in this zone were so quiet nobody made a sound as the penalty shot was taken but also one of the other most important

things about the players me a man is that she was player number nineteen i was twenty two year old qatari who broke all kinds of records during this entire championship as well as they gave he managed to score nine goals in the tournaments eating record previously held by reigning in football legends. with eight goals. he received the most valuable player on the asian cup this year so qatar in general as a whole will be coming back on saturday as champions and the fans could not be happier. when more on that story and everything else we're covering right yeah that's the address al jazeera dot com. quick recap of the top stories this hour now the u.s. is suspending one of its main nuclear weapons agreements with russia in one nine

hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the u.s. says russia has consistently violated the terms of the agreement which restricts short and medium range nuclear missiles i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room through a new treaty that would be much better but certainly i would like to see that but you have to have everybody at here to it and you have a certain side that almost pretends it doesn't exist pretty much pretends it doesn't exist so all of us will get to have something that we all agreed to we can't be put at the just a very just go right a treaty live with a what we do when somebody else doesn't go by the treaty. in our other top stories this hour before me former ivory coast president long bag has been released by the international criminal court and his former right hand man charles but good acquitted of crimes against humanity last month judges ordered their release on the

condition they live in a neutral country pending an appeal by the prosecution six months on from the latest ebola virus outbreak in the democratic republic of congo well the health organization says four hundred sixty people have now been killed they've been seven hundred forty three confirmed cases overall since the virus returned last august making it a worst outbreak in the nation's history the u.n. refugee agency has called on the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces to help civilians access medical care after news that twenty nine refugee children had died of hypothermia in the past two months i've been asked to designate a transit site where people fleeing war in harsh winter conditions can get life saving eight. and senior figures in turkey's ruling ak party have met the un human rights investigator is looking into the matter of saudi childless jamal khashoggi they say agnes their frustrations and fears that they won't be full justice for

everyone suspected of involvement in the killing iraq today with all of our top stories this hour up next techno looks at conservation efforts in the peruvian rainforest i'll see you after that. as politicians and washington fights are over the border although we talked to the people at the center of the story many of them just said oh no it's very dangerous ghosts and the many guns are there and it's not it's a very safe place migrants smugglers and people who live along the border talk to all just zero. i.

tell you. some of the like. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara on culture. this is techno showboat innovations that can change lives in the science of fighting the fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it to you need it with me. this is a show about science low turnout by scientists. tonight saving the macof i'm in the proving amazon that we're on the search for endangered

mccall no techno is on the one of a cunt mission looking to lose weight from a car graceful elegant and in some parts of the world in danger it's a race against time to the climber up top just yell down saying that she saw a lightning strike to save his species come to her i'm filled tour is fun minutes molecules do much of my research in this jungle or i'll share my findings with merida davison she's an environmental biologist and dr chrystal deal with a muscular neuroscientist that's our team and i know it's do some science so as. big as welcome to techno i'm phil tours joined by dr chrystal de worth and maria davison so just picture this you are deep in the rainforest of peru when suddenly a flock of red and blue magnificent creatures takes off in front of you they are

beautiful but let me tell you they don't start out so pretty you have to be talking about my cause i'm a bird biologist so in my day i've seen a lot of baby birds and i have to admit i mean they are bald and can be pretty ugly but i mean it's also ugly that they're cute because they're still associated with the rain forest kind of like their mascot but they're not so ubiquitous and are in there an endangered species and they're at risk because of habitat live salute because when the habitat is in trouble these birds are in trouble and we join a team of scientists down there that are working hard. to make sure it doesn't happen take a look. elusive charismatic cause or undeniably stars of the rain forest and there's a special place in peru where it's still possible to see macaws and all their wild glory that is if you don't mind

a little travel. and we're heading to the tumble pots a research center a place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there. there are sixteen species of macaws left in the wild down from more than twenty the populations of all of the species remaining are on the decline . seven such as the blue throated macaw in danger of becoming extinct. because of deforestation close to three hundred thousand square miles of the amazon rain forest gone since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. timber and recall tour and mining. then there's the illegal pet trade it's not easy being one of the world's most beautiful birds pack these these juvenile cars and to bang to

smuggle than and more than half of the an individual dying during this process. any hawkinson is the fuel leader for the macall project at the tumbled pata national reserve she's one of a team of researchers who are using science to save the macaws why study because our very special anna monica there and mary intelligent and yet they face a lot of threats and their habitats today's mission takes is deep into the reserves for those threads are constantly mad play where in the middle of the breeding season tom. potter is essentially a giant laboratory in the wild six species of macaws inhabited this thousand plus where miles of rain forest rain is a constant in winter but too much rain can be a problem. today we're going to see how a pair of two week old macaques effects are fairing the odds are against both of them survived examining the chicks is

a delicate dairy operation. one lead veterinarian elizabeth pore through gives louie oh preps for the chick exams on the ground any hawkinson gets ready to climb to their nest above i don't like heights but with nest close to one hundred feet up the team has no choice but to cause i'm. macaws like deep cavities high up in old growth trees those spots are hard to come by even in a protective force like. this scarcity of mess leads to deadly fights between nesting macabre parents and other macaws looking for a home they will kill chicks if a well harm the parents and they may cause such a disruption that the parents might be unwilling to return to the nest that's why the macabre project is researching man made miss like this one called mandy lou once any reaches the nest she opens a special door to access the chicks separate from the opening the adult macaws used

to get in an element inside our first peek at the hope for the next generation of macaws. the frail pale chick is not what you'd expect but it is alive and any needs to get it down to the ground quickly safety is paramount for these vulnerable chicks any uses sanitizer on her hands to protect them from germs the bucket that will take them down is warmed with the hot water. bottle because these chicks have no protection against the cold. dr portuguese lou your first way is the chick and then photographs it and yes this is what i'm a car looks like in the first weeks of his life no hint of the jungle beauty it will become this chick is the first of the two to hatch like it's sibling it's

named after its nest mandy lu and then you know not the interest of the other that a man needs to get in those or the other for them and they say yeah but on the wood nest like mending glue have been a big success story a tumble part of research here has shown that more cars can raise chicks in vs just as well as they do in natural nests. the veterinarian takes a detailed body measurements to determine how the cheek is doing at this stage of development. in the flying. then men dilute you is taken out and photographed next to its order sibling. is normal and there are those between no nos not in my now moment in which only and on there on the eternal. no but i say you know it out of the earth. if you are him a car chick its best to be a first hatched because i'm

a car mom typically neglects those that hatch later so the first chick that hatches will receive all of her care and then the second tick that hatch as if she has enough resources to care for that check text number three and four will usually die from starvation. even chick number two has at best a fifty fifty chance of survival to. most on the story and nothing in which i let a fit into the menu of those doing. this one isn't. that is the case. today both men delude chicks had a good checa. there's a new kind of nest being tested out at tumble pata it's made of cement soaked burlap researchers want to see if it's more durable than wooden nests which only last a couple of years in the jungle. sixty

five. but today things don't seem to be going well for these two chicks from the experimental nest neither shows signs of being fed by their parents and researcher liz piper is concerned i mean these because it's just the beginning of the way and they come back from the clay and they're going to feed them later no. time to get these chicks back home. research after sundown at the center can be challenging a generator provides electricity only seven hours a day. a good head lamp is your best friend along with your mosquito net to keep unwanted guests out of bed. and during meal time you have to keep an eye out for the occasional thief. this one

targeted our techno crew. pretty good idea. this macaw is in a sense near the center with his mate. they're both scarlett macaws a species that can live to the ripe old age of fifty in the wild scarlet macaws are doing well here but endangered in other regions in mexico less than two hundred fifty survived in the wild. twenty thirteen the result of illegal pet trade and habitat loss. you know sencion has little to fear of humans that's because a little over twenty years ago in one thousand nine hundred. six were chosen to be raised by hand at the center then released into the wild the macaws participating

in the study known as the chicos. the ones that these researchers were going to die they remove them from the nests and raise them here what was the purpose the cars were disappearing because the illegal pet trade was looming cars were at a really high demand in north america and in europe so they wanted to see if reintroduction of the cars was a viable option to save some of these populations the study was a success more than half of the stroller macaws released survived at least seven years in the wild some of these new cars still stick around the area and those cars are the most aggressive with us because they have no fear that humans. and this morning the team is doing a check up on you know since you and your choice two chicks but unlike the wild macaws these parents don't leave when annie climbs to the nest. and getting chicks out when mom and dad are home and home is more than ninety feet up

his challenges. in the us. uses these paddles to gently push the adults out of the way. then she places the chicks in the bucket and sends them down to researcher liz pipe below. and they leave. she goes can breed out of season because they haven't ready supply of. food year round they steal it or charm it out of humans at the center of the. race and bred into it is. if the extra food source also means chico's or more likely to raise more than one chick to adulthood. his proposal. it was time for these little guys to go back to their

parents and any to come down. after seeing the researchers reach heights and views normally only the macaws get to see how figured it out for me to give it a shot. is much harder than the researchers make a walk through for. more hands a time a length of time out of breath he will be sweaty. with

a view. over his ears. there are two more chicks the need their checkups today from the nest called hugo. huge. only. a problem of the known here from the learn as. you go one is a little over a month away from being ready to fledge or take its first flight more than a teacup is needed to hold this bird as its weight. by this age the wings in the feet are almost the size of an adult and. so the climber up top just yelled down saying that she saw

a lightning strike and she thinks there's a storm by ten or fifteen minutes away obviously not good to be at the top of the tall tree during a lightning storm and these are cars don't do well in the rain so it's time to hurry up right here. a few more photos and it's time to bring out hugo to nest with two healthy chicks is rare i was lucky enough to see several including these two guys look so different three days. later that the system is in. use a precise veterinarian elizabeth for through good is is also going to take a crop sample from this bird to get an idea of its diet the crop is this board where they store food before digesting she's put some lubricant on the tube so they can pass through the throat of the macaw comfortably.

hopes that because they're. basically in the first fifteen thirty days of its life this will be quite red from of the clay that it eats but once it's this age their diet varies a lot more so this. good stuff research on a macaws diet helps scientists see how the rain forest is critical to their survival a quick swab to make sure the macaws mouth is clean and a good check up for this mccall is done that is amazing look at. what cars are known as umbrella species making the right conservation decisions to protect them means protecting the countless other species and this special habitat they call home. and right now this habitat here in the tumble part the national reserve is thriving. researchers reported that all of the chicks we saw have now fledged even the two in the experimental cements nest in

each success here offers hope for struggling macaw populations throughout the tropics. overlooking there is absolutely nothing sacred he wonders for now. and. when it comes to studying creatures living inside the amazon rain forest. is about as good as it gets. this gorgeous creature is a juvenile red tailed and it looks so fresh because it just. brimming with forest in life there are likely thousands of species yet to be

discovered and that's where i commit techno first visited here in two thousand and thirteen to look at this spider i helped discover it's a family's fighter disguised as a bigfoot ship. that was the first animal recorded to actually build a fake animal from scratch we also went to solve what was making this mysterious structure we call so can't judge. these discoveries were talked about around the world like your online at reddit even on m.s.n. b c which compared my discovery to the hairstyle of a new york city celebrity or perhaps the inspiration for donald trump's hair back in tumble ponta it was time to check in on the spiders and more. first up the decoys. after searching the forest the night we came upon one just meters away from the research center and were able to document it for the first time ever in the act of actually building the fake spider and catching prey consider this

a success in my book. but not all of field work is guaranteed success some. times the forest has its own plan. a moonlit boat ride to a nearby island to take a crack at solving another amazon mystery last year i led an expedition to this island to solve the mystery of so can. and despite a few hours search in the area in which i had previously found many turned completely empty frustrating but all part of the process. but not all was lost on this island visit i encountered one of the few species out there that even scares me and had to documented for a colleague's research project to meet the wandering spine the deadliest spider in south america one of the ways you can tell it's

a wandering spiders by the color underneath the its front legs so i'm going to tap it a little bit see if it gets the pencil it should lift them up to take a shot i get at it. the next day tracking down a recent discovery that really has me excited and never before seen butterfly interactions i had been able to solve despite several attempts. coming back to peru i had no idea if i would ever see this butterfly again but i just spent three hours observing it and already learned so many amazing new things the scientist in me couldn't be happier. here's how it works it all starts on young bamboo plants first the butterfly lays the eggs then the skin involved the caterpillar stages a butterfly actually feeds the clients out of a specialized gland and in return be protected even from us but what's new

here and what happens nowhere else in the world occurs once that caterpillar develops into the butterfly stage the. butterflies actually trick the air and steal their liquid food coming out of the bamboo and normally eat butterflies not share a meal with them. these butterflies likely trip them by smelling like air but even more unique they look like them to. the wings of the butterfly have a pattern of an ant hidden within only revealed when we saw them in the wild. to top it off we caught a butterfly actually taking food right out of the mouth of an ant something also never documented before. with this behavior recorded a new i wasn't coming home empty handed science like this helps us understand the

wild world around us and the importance of protecting individual species which may influence another. after one last jungle stroll into the night i had all but forgotten about not finding silk hinge the night before when miles from where it should be this happened well this is completely unexpected end of my trip through the proving amazon heading back to base to pack my bags and i turn to my rights and look what i finally found. this is the rain forest wild unexpected always a challenge to understand and though my time here is over the mccullough researchers and others will keep on hiking climbing and documenting their way through tumble part of. it because as

a group some species are extremely into injured others not so much the ones that you guys were looking at where they fall so they focus on is somewhere in the middle basically a lot of their population is fairly well protected and that's why this is such an amazing study site because you see them as they should be however if you step outside of that in places like central america the same species is in a lot of trouble because they're regionally endangered things like the illegal pet trade is given to them have a tad losses get into them so by understanding what is going on there we can see what should be going on in other places that for me it was so exciting because you know i'm a chemist and a biologist i work in a lab indoor is a very sterile environment so this is a really great reminder for me that science really happens anywhere and i mean you guys have entire rain forest is your laboratory it's been almost a tell you sometimes i'm out there and i envy the life in the lab because you guys can do repeated experiments they are controlled held there in the rain forest it's pretty hard to control starting to hold invited. from climbing up to the canopy to

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dish every week news cycle going to see any simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump town through the eyes of the outstanding ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most in bad news a free palestine are they listening on al-jazeera. i know i'm in london just a quick look at the top stories now the u.s. has announced it suspending its involvement in a decade's old nuclear missile pact with russia the drug administration has accused moscow of violating the treaty and says it will end the agreement in six months

unless russia complies with the terms of the deal donald trump a says he has said he is ready to negotiate a new pact while russia says it's open to dialogue can be reports now from washington. suspension of the historic treaty that has been a cornerstone of european security for decades for years russia has violated the terms of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty without remorse the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february second. the white house maintains the u.s. has adhere to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty while russia has not in that time it accuses russia of covertly developing and fielding a prohibited missile system that poses a threat to european allies and u.s. forces stationed there the u.s. did not give specific examples of violations russia has consistently denied it's

breaking the agreement but u.s. secretary of state says that russia is in violation what's your response we're not going to approach this many times but they don't want to listen the agreement was signed during the cold war by u.s. president ronald reagan and russia's mikhail gorbachev in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven most agree it's not perfect it did halter the escalating arms race between the two superpowers still u.s. president donald trump has long been a critic of the tree was he. not tobar he took a hard line presumably to deter russia from expanding its arsenal russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years and i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. that we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out of their weapons and we're not allowed to still there's concern the u.s. did not exhaust its diplomatic options and is trump pressures north korea to give

up its nuclear arsenal many question why he would relax any missile restrictions on russia it actually opens the door for russia to deploy more of these missiles and opens the door. for a new european missile race some analysts have speculated the troubled ministration isn't just worried about russia. china is not bound by the treaty there is criticism it's been gaining military advantage deploying large numbers of missiles with ranges beyond the current limits there are now just six months for the agreement to be saved the united states is russia must destroy equipment in violation of the agreement or it will move ahead with a response designed to deny what the united states perceives to be russia's military advantage can really help at al-jazeera the white house. former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been released by the international criminal

court backbone his former right hand man shells good day were acquitted of crimes against humanity last month but it been kept in detention judges ordered their release on the condition of their live in an as yet unspecified country pending an appeal by the prosecution by both found not guilty of an issue in a wave of violence that followed disputed elections in two thousand and ten six months on from the latest ebola virus outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the world health organization says four hundred sixty people have been killed now been seven hundred forty three confirmed cases overall since the virus returned last august making it the worst outbreak in the nation's history. casto is celebrating football history the world cup hosts have won their first major trophy beating favorites japan three one in the asian cup final but the match took place against an uneasy mix of politics and sport the tournament was held in the united arab emirates one of the four countries that has imposed

a blockade on castle since june two thousand and seventeen. but as the headlines coming up a story of oil wealth power and shifting fortunes in saudi aramco. it seemed like a great idea the world's largest oil producing company pumping millions of barrels a day to become the world's largest ever traded stock on porsche can had just met the holy see it had been for you what a novelty. novel. and over ambitious prince eager to make his mark as a reformer wanted to partially trade saudi aramco for a fellow you ation of two trillion dollars but the venture failed to get off the ground and the prince's vision twenty thirty now seems blurry. saudi aramco is

almost like the basis of politics in saudi arabia they are always intrinsically tied everybody in saudi arabia in one way or another is a beneficiary saudi aramco a strong saudi arabia it needs a strong ram and vice versa as well the history of saudi aramco is the history of saudi arabia transforming itself from an isolated tribal society into a global presence. get it right you reap a windfall get it. and the risk is huge the whole saudi economy what's at stake. all the balance be done how did you face that and. living. in a world they run the risk of being toppled the royal family could be running for the.

issue is really you know is an i.p.o. best for the company and when you look at graeme coke the company you have to realize that unlike other companies. graham co operated for years without ever imagining and i p o. so they've never had to make decisions with a lot of oh maybe going to be publicly listed or we'd like to publish this here's how we need to have our finances are great here's the kind of growth that we need to be showing in our financial statements to make investors see our value. analysts have never followed around because it was never seen as a potential investment and now that's changed around for many years to have a strategy of form term growth and long term revenue because their idea was that they were making money for the benefit of the saudi state if they're going to

i.p.o. then they've got a suddenly think about their quarterly reports and that may change how they invest and that may not be the best strategy for saudi arabia. the kingdom holds about sixteen percent of the world's oil reserves it's the largest exporter of petroleum among opec countries and that means its economy relies heavily on oil ninety percent of exports eighty seven percent of budget revenues and nearly half of g.d.p. is from oil. towering over these numbers is the company which digs out refined and exports that oil it pumps one out of every eight barrels of oil in the world and it's the only company which can produce a barrel of oil for less than ten dollars. says it employs sixty five thousand people but creates direct and indirect work for hundreds of thousands in the kingdom so if it's doing so well why let it go. i think there was

a strong case for the i.p.o. and there still is selling off a stake of saudi aramco and there are lots of reasons for it now it's been talking about diversifying its economy for years i think the specter of. climate action has finally made the saudis get serious about it and really the only way to diversify is through aramco i mean aramco is the source of revenues that saudi state needs to build other economic sectors even and the reason is big and i took on these you know in the middle east but still this deeply deeply socks that some day a sample of the oil will be depleted pretty exhausted so they have to thing that you know you have to be fired there and have to get the economy was kind of ironic you're going to be relying on oil to diversify away from fossil fuels so if you think about saudi risk it's one hundred percent owner of this company that supplies

almost one hundred percent of its government budget ok if they if it sees a risk to to that company even a far off risk it's a nice start diversifying that risk and passing some of that along to foreign investors is one way of doing it. concerns about radical changes in strategy put a spanner in the works for saudi aramco public listed for the first time in its history the company would have to disclose everything i think when you consider the size and scope and the opportunity there's a lot of emotion and also a lot of momentum and sometimes a momentum and emotion get rolling you may lose sight of the reality of what you had to do when it came to. affectively being now an open public company. vision twenty thirty was unveiled as a master plan for socio economic reforms as

a result women can drive cinemas have begun to pop up. mohammed bin solomons aim was to reorient the saudi economy away from oil and reassure investors that saudi arabia is stable and progressive. a lot has changed since the prince's international public relations drive the efforts to convince businessmen to feel comfortable working in the kingdom also faced a blow when top saudi business kingpins were put under arrest in an opaque anti corruption drug and as a cascading effect there has been flight of capital reduced foreign investment increased saudi borrowing and a halt saudi aramco its i.p.o. . the increase in internal repression inside the kingdom you know locking up of folks inside the the ritz carlton a lot of those were heads of family businesses or large companies or big conglomerates you know that gives foreign investors pause. the

murder of one journalist has washed away the veneer of change and quashed investor confidence in the north. sea i'm asking for people to be allowed to speak for the name of. the interest of a stakeholder never get priority over the kingdom the privatization process would mean saudi oil reserves will be up for scrutiny and to ramp those finances will be in the public eye. you go from running a business where you have endless resources and no oversight to one day having to register your company with the exchange and have to disclose every single number. the companies have over the last five to ten years every piece of cap ex every decision that's been made every partnership every single thing you've done is now in the public purged.