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

his challenge is. to get. it in. any 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. could have been a lee. she goes can breed out of season because they have a ready supply of food year round they steal it or charm it out of humans at the center of the. race and if bred into kids 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 her figure it out for me to give it a shot. who . is much harder than the researchers make a walk through. your hands a time my legs are tired out of breath to move or sweaty. with

a view it's overfished. there are two more chicks the need their checkups today from the nest called hugo. huge. only. a problem of the known dead 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. 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 macaws don't do well in the rain so it's time to hurry up right. by a few more photos and it's time to bring out hugo to a nest with two healthy chicks is rare i was lucky enough to see several including these two guys look so different three days. that the system is in. use a precise veterinarian elizabeth pore through good 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 prison lubricant on the tubes they can pass through the throat of them comfortably.

hopes that because they're. basically in the first fifteen thirty days of its life this will be quite read from all 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 the absolute do nothing secret he wonders to 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 hill 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 come in 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 should. that was the first animal record 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 they 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 catch. and despite a few hours search in the area in which i had previously done 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 spite of the deadliest spider in south america one of the ways you can tell is

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 bends that 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 eats the clients out of a specialized glands 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 it's still there liquid food coming out of the bamboo ants normally eat butterflies not share i'm ill with them. these butterflies likely trip them by smelling like air it 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 when 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 habitat loss is given to them so by understanding what is going on there we can see what should be going on in other places that are near it was so exciting because you know i'm a chemist and 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 the entire rain forest is your laboratory it's pretty cool i must 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 out there in the rain forest it's pretty hard to control snow out in the old environs row. from climbing up to the canopy to

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of them or a call this is al sara live from doha also coming up. haven't you countries that support venezuela's leader. after their election demands are ignored. turkey's president says he can't understand us. and denounces what he calls. about them. and yemen's crumbling hospitals are overwhelmed by a new health crisis an outbreak of swine flu. at least seven people have been killed by a car bomb that's been set off in somalia's capital mogadishu it happened at a shopping center in a district that's full of shops and restaurants meanwhile gunmen have shot and killed the head of a port operations company in the semi autonomous somali region of. responsibility for that attack. joins us now from nairobi first of all the last in.

huge cloud of smoke could be seen from very far away what more do we know about it . well yes laura it was a powerful explosion and residents say they heard it from almost all parts of the cup at all it happened at a busy intersection right between the newest and biggest moral in mogadishu an investment by a baton and somalis from exile coming back to invest in their country and also right opposite it is the headquarters of the mogadishu city administration it's not clear which of the two was the target but what we know is it happened in a busy time when people the morning rush hour when people were going about their business and medics are saying that they ease the possibility of the high death

toll given how busy the place was when the explosion happened we're seeing an uptick in violence being waged by al shabaab have been cutting out of tuck's against civilian targets such as the mall we have this morning but also security installations on saturday they cut it out. vehicle bombing against its european peacekeepers in the southern somalia town of bought a very they're also been on the receiving end of u.s. forces all been cutting out a number of strikes against them killing dozens of their fighters and almost at the same time at this port official who is shot dead in the semi autonomous region of puntland where it's reminds us doesn't it is how widespread the presence of al shabaab is. indeed. a foothold in portland for a very long time until you four more so was killed by to us about fight is who had

disguised themselves as fishermen as he was going to work according to the governor of the body region where boss saucily the port is in and he works for the u.a.e. owned by ports world a company that had under controversial circumstances the can over the running of the port of course something the somali government in mogadishu was really angered by and they've been expelled d.p. world but they continue to operate the al-shabaab operates not very far away from town and it's been very difficult for the security forces to remove them out of the range of mountains quite near the port ok mohammed atta bring us the latest on those two attacks that we've heard about and somalia thanks very much monitor. ok we're just seeing pictures of spain's prime minister pedro sanchez briefing the

media in spain and he has just announced that he recognizes. as the interim president of venezuela he joins a number of countries france being one of them to declare that is to recognize venezuela's self declared president as the man to organize and carry out new elections seven countries and totals are set to throw their support behind one guy do after the current president nicolas maduro refuse their ultimatum or put more pressure on majority u.s. canada unless an american allies are already calling for him to go but he does maintain the support of russia and china came up with the time we have to go to wellington him in order that we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like as if i told the european union i give you seven days to recognize the republic of catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures you know international politics can't be based on ultimatums that was the area of empires and colonies

when we were u.s. president donald trump says military intervention in venezuela remains an option even their majorities ally russia is warning against it speaking to u.s. television network c.b.s. trump also said he won't meet the door while he is requested a meeting and i turned it down because we're very far along in the process you have a young and energetic gentleman but you have other people within that same group that have been very very. if you talk about democracy it's really democracy in action or last in america as a lucy in human reports now from caracas and how became the hope for change and wants but his supporters both at home and abroad. it's late at night at the basketball court when one wide summons his neighbors to share with them his vision for than israela. we were born on this earth to be happy we'll do everything

possible to achieve a political way out of our crisis and show that we are powerful united you are powerful will never let them take away our ability to dream no listen he's only thirty five years old but for those who dream of seeing president nicolas maduro go why the law is the yes we can. thank you many in fact are comparing his looks and his style with barack obama. a remarkable turn of events considering that most venezuelans had barely heard of why the until the opposition controlled national assembly proclaimed him than israel is interim president i heard of him two weeks ago when i put on the t.v. . and what is your opinion of him anyone is better than the one we have now at. this working class neighborhood used to be fiercely loyal to deceased former

president chavis was it hard as we tried on this day we can't find anyone who doesn't believe that his successor. has struck out. is angry. white or represents hope for our country we need takes over god willing investors will return to venezuela and so will my two sons because with no one believes in venezuela he's handed it over to criminals twenty six year old across several east says that now that he's heard of he likes what he hears. chains to be able to go to a supermarket and find what they want a future. not that it's been easy for why daughter get his message across in venezuela the governor. has shut down or curtailed much of the opposition media and that includes access to the internet i put into a european n.g.o.s the track censorship addressed

a mass rally on saturday the state internet carrier blocked the social networks for twelve of the thirteen minutes in which he spoke. president charges of foreign intervention to bring about regime change are heard everywhere was but many venezuelans the issue of sovereignty has become less important than the promise of better days to come to see in human al-jazeera that acts. president says saudi arabia's crown prince and foreign minister have told lies about the mud. or depth. of the u.s. and action seventy two. was killed in saturday's consulate four months ago. speaking to the state broadcaster mentioning.

i suppose about how there's been no real movement also referred to the united states disappointment in how they are tackling it and this is what he had to say. i cannot understand america's silence been such a horrific attack took place and even after members of the cia listened to the recordings we provided. but he had harsher words going back to when it all began. the saudi foreign minister of course he was saying that there was a collaboration there was a collaborator to dispose of the body of jamal khashoggi this is the saudi version of course the body of mr hersh has still not been found who said well if there is a collaborator who is he where is he what is his name if you know that he also mentioned the saudi crown prince mohammed of inside man saying that initially his version was that jamal khashoggi had left the concert and he said now we know that

those two things were laws so he also called for those fifteen men the fifteen saudi nationals that flew into it stamboul on the day of the murder he said these are the perpetrators we need to know who they are and of course turkey has already requested their extradition but the saudis are conducting their own investigation nobody knows who the men are that they have indicted eleven men have been indicted five of those facing the death penalty but it is a very opaque process now all of this comes just as. the u.n. special. has wrapped up her visit here in turkey she's really the first independent person looking at this because of course it is such a politically loaded story all the countries yes they want to put pressure on saudi arabia but the same time no one really seems to be willing to go that extra mile to break relationships with the kingdom so for months still no body and certainly a big question as well as to who ordered the killing of a high profile journalist in the saudi diplomatic mission here in istanbul. yemen's

war ravaged hospitals have a new health emergency to deal with swine flu and as to a severe cholera outbreak in a country where millions of people awakened by starvation gupta reports. another arrival in this hospital in the capital sanaa another victim of the consequences of the war in yemen fatima is suffering from each one n one influenza also known as swine flu it's known to break down the immune system and cause lung problems among other complaints but the saudi u.a.e. coalition's repeated targeting of hospitals means the flu which is best treated of detected early it's been diagnosed late or. she suffered from coughing for about twenty days we have seen several doctors in several hospitals but it is here where she has finally been properly diagnosed.