when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the signs that office solutions it's very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. so the and london with the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela's self declared interim leader wang has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas he's calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border but delivering the aid would require the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to him but and president nicolas maduro true isabeau has more from caracas who are here outside of

a national assembly where you lawmakers with one while you go inside are discussing how to get humanitarian aid into the country we know that this week some medicines and food will start to arrive to the city of kabul that's right next to the border between colombia and venezuela what's not clear yet is how that aid is going to make it into the country the government of the kilometer would always said that that entering that date would be illegal and that's why why there has been appealing to the troops to the military to allow that aid inside the country saying that it's not only for the population but also to their relative to the relatives of the mill military her who are also suffering from the economic crisis that exists in this country today what we know is that the opposition is also hoping to create what they say is a humanitarian corridor that's going to be composed by members of religious groups n.g.o.s and doctors among others and to protect that aid so that it can reach those who needed them most there's lots of talks of dialogue countries like turkey like

mexico like your wife say but the way out of the current crisis is that dialogue even recall a mother would have said that he's willing to negotiate but the opposition is saying that this time they don't want to sit down and discuss anything at all that back in two thousand and seventeen. after enormous protest the government used those talks in order to win time and in the end they ended up calling for a presidential election where the opposition was under represented at that election with filled with irregularities and that's why they're saying that they're not recognizing me. as president of venezuela and that's why the idea man doing general elections as soon as possible pope francis says the vatican is willing to mediate in venezuela if both sides are asked speaking aboard his plane returning from a visit to the pope also confirmed that nicolas maduro had sent him a letter marked with the will of both sides and if necessary both sides have to washington forward that is what happened in the case in argentina and chile in the

middle east but there are small steps that are needed in diplomacy and the last one is mediation you negotiate is the need to move closer together to begin the possibilities of dialogue to boy this is how diplomacy is carried out. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to that abdel fattah el-sisi stay honest president well beyond the end of his term the move is raising fears of growing authoritarianism in the country and the national proposal to extend cc's presidency by another six years after twenty twenty two has been approved by a committee of m.p.'s the proposal will need to pass a final vote in parliament as well as a national referendum before it becomes a constitutional amendment doctors teachers and lawyers have joined anti-government protests in sudan half the two men were killed in custody the sudanese professional association called the demonstrations are the teacher across the aisle care who was

arrested in the eastern state of casella was pronounced dead on sunday his relatives say his body showed signs of torture. france's yellow vests movement joined forces with a major union in an day of nationwide protests over taxes and buying power tensions were lower than in previous protests though there were scuffles with police firing rounds of tear gas previously become the struct c.t.t. and other unions have refused to collaborate with the yellow vests but the c.d.g. secretary general said they now have the same demands and turkish president roh chip type earlier on says he wants more cooperation from greece over the extradition of current suspects they're on has been holding talks with the greek prime minister alexis to for us in ankara suppress says the issue of the eight turkish soldiers is a matter of greece's judiciary as are the headlines coming up next al-jazeera world looks at iraq's dying rivers stay with us.

down on the banks of the river tigris in the iraqi capital but. the river source is in turkey and it flows southeast through the capital until it eventually meets the euphrates. for centuries since the first urban

settlements grew up in ancient mesopotamia thousands of years before the common arrow fishing has been a lifeline running in families for generations. this is the story of the fishermen and women living now in the land often known as the cradle of civilization. college lives and works on the river in baghdad. already until their uncle i mean while you watch and. i didn't hear so i hope. that. this was one of the men that i limit. the euphrates flows from turkey through syria and iraq

and is the longest and one of the most historically significant rivers in asia. the vast ancient mesopotamia and marsh lands sit where the tigris and euphrates meet in southern iraq. tens of thousands of iraqis live in marshes like these in. like a bull hide and his wife who rely almost entirely on fishing to make their meager living. alleys callosum. i have a life as i last only a. couple why they don't know why that's why. the tigris and euphrates meet in basra province in the south of iraq where they form the shuttle waterway where camels live fishes on one of the trawlers.

and outside of the that wave with the defender. said. you know i'm about to die when i don't want to fit in god who had a hole in the bit about that about how to get out of a fight. with. this vast channel flowing into the arabian gulf is iraq's only source of marine fish on which the country's once thriving fishing industry with built. near here is a foul and iraqi ports on the borders with kuwait and iran and the center for landing and auctioning marine fish for many decades.

this is a region steeped in ancient history and its relationship with water the rivers and the scene goes back thousands of years. the tigris and the euphrates made ancient mesopotamia part of what was called the fertile crescent where agriculture and. earliest human settlements grew up. fishing continued to develop in mesopotamia while it was part of the ottoman empire and then under british rule in the twentieth century. the country became one kingdom under king faisal of iraq in one nine hundred twenty two then gained independence ten years later. fishermen sold their catch in

the baghdad fish market to merchants from other iraqi provinces as well as to the citizens of but. now when baghdad and in the marshes of the south and on the shuttle a lot of waterway whole ways of life are under threat as outside forces and manmade pollution are damaging the tigris and euphrates in reversible ways for all his commitment to a life on the tigris. days as a fisherman may be numbered all the others. are on hand. well what about. on a so. you were busyness off of. it.

was sad that someone had done the. for the better. the better machine want to own. that the machine. does have a she was just. on a fit and she had a launch into to go. dolly the. wind. is very small scale especially compared with. there are fewer boots on the tigris compared with when he started out with his father. making a living here is tougher now than after. both died has been through appalling of

people in the past three decades and that has affected the river environment as much as the land. a layer. of whatever. i'm going. to lodge with one shell at. all out of hand and will. you know what an angel. i like i want to hear when i'm strong. as the capital baghdad has been the focus of the outside attacks and internal turmoil that have hit iraq in recent years. but for. the people of the marshlands in the southeast disruption to their way of life goes back further to the one nine hundred fifty s.

am in some ways little has changed here for the past hundred years. are still produced and hung just as they've always been. the long fishing boats are still builds to the same design as they were in the one nine hundred. between the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. large areas of the wetlands in the tigris euphrates river system where people like his wife live were trained. the reasons were political to force people. out of the area. and to punish them for their

part in an uprising against the government in one thousand nine hundred one. saddam reduced the nine thousand square kilometers of wetlands in the one nine hundred seventy s. to just seven hundred and sixty square kilometers when his government fell in two thousand and three. the displacement of infer two hundred thousand marsh arabs and the campaign of violence against them let the international community to condemn it as ethnic cleansing. the united nations has described the draining of the marshes as a tragic human and environmental catastrophe on a par with the deforestation of the amazon rain forest. but the marshes were lead to be flooded and the high didn't his wife returned to the water.

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a sly look at involved with another seven and no one has that oddly other to live on. or rock loggerhead alice has she was actually over sick of the man of the love of god and the same thing was i got honest and she was a one. off out of unless until i went on the why they have this admission that. now that. they have a vehicle well in one. of the little article you.

have no one. will for one. you know. love it. and want that article out. of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large areas of the marsh and three ancient cities have now been included in unesco's list of world heritage sites but the reflooding has not restored the wetlands to their pre-drawn.

the damage to the iraqi environment has also not been limited to the marsh. iraq as a whole has suffered massive turmoil in the past thirty years. saddam's invasion of kuwait in august one nine hundred ninety led to the first gulf war and defeat by a coalition led by the united states the effect on the country was described as near apocalyptic taking iraq back to the pre-industrial age. then the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq and fall of saddam hussein's government the occupation and violent insurgency caused further widespread destruction. the armed group i saw was a major part of the post-war insurgency its military activity in iraq and the campaign against it by the iraqi government and western forces have led to huge damage to

infrastructure and the environment. the tigris in baghdad where ahmed khalid ekes out a living has been badly affected by this prolonged period of violence and instability . if. you're going to solo what i want. i don't have the belief now what did i miss. that she was one of the best about usual. out of the. house only now because she doesn't know i'm innocent.

all above and no one. had the c.r. would not have. been a had and the other not a question any in the head and fear. the instability and tighten security. have led to an increased police presence on the river. harvey. said i want to. know something to come or so not when we. do just that is about the fellow with one of those or innocent had to get through with them i mean. right. in the way. i believe i got.

my lodge and they did. not want to. know. that i was on the one on the back with a gun because i want to. its problems on the tigris are to do with restrictions on his movement but on the euphrates in the south the issue is with water quality. salt levels have risen because of dams higher up the river in syria and turkey there is waste from agriculture. and sewage from cities all of. used to make.

me go. back there. and the good bishop of feeding. i get. your. point and that is what.

all. of us are war. and i am a lot. cousin lives in our city a city where people cannot drink the water from the euphrates because of the drop in water level increasing its salinity. furthermore in late twenty eighty when tens of thousands of freshwater fish died in the euphrates south of baghdad and soaring pollution is believed to be

a major factor behind the sudden death of the fish i mean. how wildly how. monopolists. we're doing on a song that's a lot of. a lot of. how. you measure i don't. i mean it's not so much and if you watch a lot all shop so much as it was. not the muscle me there's the well i still. think i've gotten really. good a mother. just

. oh. well just. the dams built up river on the euphrates in syria turkey and iran are also having an effect on the marshlands in southern iraq. this is impeding conservation and restoration efforts in the wetlands the dams have reduced the flow of water reaching iraq since one nine hundred seventy by as much as the hof. hundreds of people have been forced to migrate from iraq's once fertile central marshes because of the lower water levels still at night and all i got out of and i've never had

all the of a live in there she quite not at all and i've never seen or made it hard to have a record of living. now than we are now he'll be ok i know i am not here to flee i hope. of lego star i did not hear any woman who had watched her little one within your war room so i didn't want to do it all on my. world on monday you know did i was that i did i did was a girl i would love to. be. bent out of my wealth and i know he didn't know how. one might and i didn't. know what i

do with the young lad in any of them have i. missed already. know we had it in. my head right now is there one lot of knowledge that you. i don't know. but the problems of the marshes and the upper rivers extend on a larger scale beyond the points where the two inch intruders the tigris and the euphrates merge at basra. from here the vast channel of the shot a lot of waterway runs through basra province into their goals. coming up the shot to the heart of waterway faces an environmental catastrophe it's taking with it livestock and fisheries and i really the point though is that walk it and let you know what. mark what i say and as this year's nine majority malitia and i start here. and iraqi fishermen say they often fall foul of the kuwaiti and if we

need these patrolling maritime borders on the frontline of a dispute that once led to outs now two or other are all the. output and anywhere. near. me then they are low on them in. public work but not me level manasseh me and me and others in the rubble adult. men. of allah saw in yellow. the latest news as it breaks the difference is that in both bottles ossified this that authentic in the ritz with the this time go for the truth is do not come up with details coverage has already said that he's ready to take over as interim precedents and calls for you elections. from around the world volunteers are doing

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personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen if you want to be relations with india that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just zero. in london with the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela's self declared interim leader wang has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas is calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border but it's uncertain how the wife without the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to him battled president nicolas maduro turns about he has more from caracas it's not clear yet what and how and what's going to

happen because he has already said that he won't allow that aid to come into the country and that's why in a way why there has been appealing to the soldiers and troops in general saying that that aid is not wholly for the population in general but also for them and for their families because that's they opposition has been saying that appealing to the military in general is that the hold all of venice well as i was suffering for been enormous economic crisis that exists in this country hyperinflation shortages of food and medicine among other things. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president well beyond the end of his term the move is raising fears of growing of force here in ism in the country eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak and then there's a proposal to extend cc's presidency by another six years after twenty twenty two has been approved by a committee of m.p.'s the proposal will need to pass a final vote in parliament as well as a national referendum before it becomes

a constitutional amendment sudanese president omar al bashir is hosting a ceremony marking the end of peace talks between rival factions from central african republic a deal between the government and fourteen armed groups was reached on sunday in khartoum after two weeks of un led negotiations the formal agreement will be signed in bongi on wednesday doctors teachers and lawyers have joined anti-government protests in sudan the two men killed in custody the sudanese professional association called the demonstrations after teacher ahmed al care who was arrested in the eastern state of casella was pronounced dead on sunday is relative say his body showed signs of torture. today with the headline stay with us al jazeera world continues next.

for thousands of years two famous rivers the tigris and euphrates media iraq one of the most fertile regions in the middle east. the first urban settlements grew up on the lines between them and the cradle of civilization. but today things are dramatically different for the rivers and the people who depended on them decades of war sanctions upstream dams pollution and a phone in water levels have seriously damaged iraq's engines rivers and water resources. the sutta lot of waterway runs one hundred and eighty four kilometers south from the confluence of the tigris and the euphrates in basra province and forms the border with iran. it provides access to the arabian gulf iraq's vital source of commercial sea

fishing. either the society and how i just tell us i am czar of the literal and i was resolved so i counted down a little. dollars on. the the committal of work as a woman does not have the most volatile gun and already. some out of saudi are going to slap a marble off the how will. and etc. as they are i have been out. here than mark allen and the dollar. has done as i thought i was there a thousand dollars dollar mark mckay me out of. dollars now that are not as ours are out alive. i have a collective human it's going to. have

an image on it unless i have to our car lot jonatan it was the guardian there i know what house selected to give me a message to mr g. to be a how hard to serve on your machine and that mess i had stalled here at the car and got this done about but first i'm a saddam of our father while loudly as i would the only show on earth and i kept it said how is it not only an amazing yard to be a loved one until that last march of death was that if achieve any reality on some sort of time a while for the market in the world the logic of this. world is so i then jerked it to block those who would hurt bourbon balloons my seven million in most of the support which is a jeep you know there was a group much of that behind hundreds of are there most of us we saw a bunch of them with the hologram is a most beginner kind of a house the one on the so they also have the furnace on their own the larger of

they are my guess so the me in your home seen it. these boats now stand idle in the port of umm foul at the south east end of the and fall peninsula on the right bank of the shuttle. rusting old diesel boats pollutes the waterways. has around forty thousand inhabitants and is a traditional fishing community but town officials admit that's hundreds of families have now left in search of other work leaving the ports in danger of becoming a ghost town. mark with out. now as a highly it looks like. an eternity. i was just going to the but nothing god john lithgow to be novel about me that god has

given me of god to me it was to be with me. at the piano. well you know not about thirty macho in my fellow. to get it if they were. because i write i want. out of the outside that that is weird. on. our blog but that's my house i'm our. one side of a peninsula is a fifty kilometer stretch of coastline darva to peace in kuwait. the other has the shuttle out of water way which runs alongside the marshes of southern iran. pollution intercept a lot up and produced fish stocks in their own territorial waters have forced iraqi

fishermen to risk sailing close to rainy and kuwaiti waters. believing them richer in fish stocks or to deliberately trespassed into foreign water used in the hope of a quick and easy catch. these fishermen used to be protected by the iraqi navy but that's now to p.t. and largely carnitine the country's oil terminals. and. out of. out of me really a lot. out of me i'm on the. right. we are not and i thought i would tell you that i invest heavily to plan. a tour of

it because i'll be a lot of through us i want to quit through a lot had the money. has a lot of there's you know why. they are in the. euro while the me i am levy is the most out of money will be a. mess and a living will do it on me then no other not all the. outputs and in the play. what i've done. not been is yet to do and i love playing. then they are involved you know out of them in. public finance meet up and when those mean mean there is a lot of. minute about it so i look what i want to go on. as if pollution and the perceived threat from kuwait and iran were not enough the

fishermen on the shop. and then the guys have to deal with iraqi security checks. as once young women are developed the heart of a lot of all the good luck as you accused of are going to be they're no longer you could dorio about it i didn't even go to the hours that i'm going to let go of it out because of the. result of malaysia me you know that will have a lie or the gravel on it that they're going to do with those i don't buy on me out on an a lot of want to. go to. the wrestle for

control of the shuttle what i'm watching where was one of the causes of the long costly and bitter war between iraq and iran throughout most of the one nine hundred eighty s. . that's border disputes is still not settled. kuwait and iraq have also yet to agree on a sea border in negotiations which have been going on since the dam for sales invasion of kuwait in one nine hundred ninety eight that sparked the gulf war. many fishermen at the docks say iraqis are viewed with hostility by iranians and cretins who are still bitter over their conflicts with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's. on the shuttle that in basra

province. this is not the size of fish or catch the days men need to earn a living. be turned for a day on the watch. the shuttle out of here suffers from increasing pollution with industrial waste domestic sewage and agricultural fertilizers after finding their way into its waters no surprise then that fish stocks are diminishing. the salty tide from their arabian gulf has also advanced north up the shuttle ata resulting in an act of fresh water.

some fishermen have also resorted to damaging ways of catching fish including using poison to bring them to the surface to leak syria or jordan. join us and with. jani i don't know well. as that i sent. them. a and i. can work it up i id dynamic. john. and that's it all with. the animals and what are they and as this year said now in majority my list up as i fear jerry the bash up the month off and i've got a macair to jerry that bit much and i shop where i know i live off i don't mind me

no job askin one god then and headed man i thought i'd been wise when i didn't watch already when might get outta shape then a or hide them i doubt i didn't model i was shocked. to learn that i'd heard of. a la la la. la i had a good you know i love dial if you will but i will be a test player. in the thirties was it me when it is my job really just said we will

help them to go to see the chicken yard he said and said i said i'll send it as ugly so i said i got the big idea when you look at he doesn't have a plate i don't want to how do i not do with another guy. on the other said there's a lot of value to her. well luckily not just because but. when i see justice and. know it i'm honest in my to shop and i settle with that at the shop. i shall go see general john or i said them russia of course i said when i'm on you know most of the younger when i show up. back in baghdad methodic now talks in a similar negative way about life on the tigris. not had

minute. not had one law ministry and one how to why. i had not thought of not as high as it like. and how long and has of it i now bought. and on the southern marshes inch by inch the u.n. environment program sees that thirty seven percent of the permanent twenty lines have now been restored. to full recovery will take many more years. what if you buy your mom market we're going to look at another john model year when i was in the a while when i was

a dollar model as you know of another now when i was in the i have already goggle i'm going to very much for the third in the world we're all in with i would run the amount of coverage i'd like i had my own more than a live there were not even know under five hundred i was under the yard undercover i was there and i got in i. you know you i give your my i give you. any.

but away from the problems facing professional fishermen and the pollution of the euphrates and. in baghdad there is one positive heartwarming story. i resent that. but that. doesn't come from a fishing family but has befriended a local tigris fishermen. and discovered a love of the ancient river.

like a god. or their. backyard and. give him a should get more. beguiling he got one of the air. at the other betty. where mother bear. does a lot of us a lot of hair said alice so it ate. at them but their eyes. an atlatl. of a just. a matter. so what i mean yet i am. not

on the record fella. in real life as definition constitutional to my own i only tell. what i'd madonna and so we're trying to so we brought. a lot of boys they. have a seven we are no question you were you were you a drink you were oficial pulled over. also. if ya law is just. a juggler but on clue issue i didn't even have so i was only shown to have like a man who waits had like

a sore arm with it but any leans in only i agreed to let a quick obvious i look up minutes and come in and say that i said god bless the drug field theory the minute they're so we. didn't even mean why no no no. we're not man or. i didn't know i'm not. one i'm not a fed when i had no. they are near government and about five not anyway i family of of them. i'm going to go look at the not so much comes in below me and you can go to any

college in another layer by ramtha county near if you're going to run your ad with . that and good night money so we. after honeymooning give this much effort a sniffle in on hi fi i'm kinda shovelhead us and you. are no business in a two way the matter how i assign you lucky hyphen of the and if i join it and you show on your leg. then the letter where. damage up the damage that the fridge only a part of not in the way that an affair while you get how well it would not have an obvious even a monster. that

loosely trouble the. owner as it is it and that that was shot last night you know on the other so that i'll be out as out as i am on auckland largest what i'll. go to college a lot of well. i watch our early. earthenware stuff that i love for a lot of fish tell them well. that's just a. mess good is a traditional method putting in dish made by cooking seasoned fresh water car on the fire. i've done cooked it in the marshlands and it's often considered iraq's

national dish. but that prides itself in making the best mess good with the up no was district almost dedicated to the dish in its dozens of fish restaurants. have been a good cult leader but really. so i live i live. i one what i meant of another when. as what had been. us is you me push us and i was just. close to the heart of its people. today's crisis means that iraq.

now. it's threatens the roots of iraq. between the two rivers. for thousands of years.

i went to places say that the heaviest rain has now eased in townsville but i'm afraid that weather yes it does stay in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days still plenty of cloud there across a good part of queensland and we are going to see further heavy downpours generally to the south of townsville but the good parts of central and southern queensland seeing more big downpours as we go on through the next few days right becoming a little lighter a little more spots minimal sporadic as we go through thursday is still there nevertheless the flooding concerns will stay in place heavy showers to make their way across tasmania high temperatures there from melbourne for adelaide thirty one thirty eight degrees over towards the southwest in kona in perth want to see if i could be on the live the side with some fund but a bit of weather making its way into new zealand so as we go on through the next day outside and not too bad it's colder than it has been recently she was a fresh fifteen celsius there for crosschecks twenty five degrees they have an open mic in pretty good as we go on through the next couple of days but little bit of

increasing cloud just spinning its way across the country really fairing quite nicely with some decent spells of sunshine some sunshine into northern parts of honshu southern areas of japan seeing some cloud on friday but brightening up with this day. again i stand as good p.r. would be both minimal resources and hydrocarbons why are they so who are the measuring you guys going to finally form a government that we may have the toxic land a century now where the more we lay close down the more they push back we knew it was coming the question was to be sent to wait for it to be surprised with a preemptive strike the tongue going on just here.

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