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otherness' foreign minister has said there will be no limits to about both movements under his conditional release. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president well beyond the end of his term and initial proposal to extend cc's presidency by another six years after twenty twenty two has been approved by a committee of m.p.'s it will need to pass a final vote in parliament as well as a national referendum before it becomes a constitutional amendment. so the nice president omar al bashir has hosted a ceremony marking the end of peace talks between rival factions from essential african republic a deal between the government and fourteen armed groups was reached on sunday in khartoum after two weeks of un led negotiations a formal agreement will be sign bungay on wednesday. those are the headlines stay with us earthrise coming next. as venezuela is on the brink. with
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but over reliance on fossil fuels is causing the delicate balance of our planet to shift. instances of extreme weather used to be raw but now deadly heat waves wildfires powerful floods hurricanes and droughts are becoming the norm and. the question is no longer will they happen but when and how we can cope with them. i'm done it in kenya to explore a high tech solution that is helping her to survive on going to. and i'm a few viewed in myanmar where drones are helping to protect coastal communities against extreme weather events. two years ahead i have been in the grip of a devastating drought amongst those worst affected are kenya over five million
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pastoring for whom finding fresh water and lush postulants is critical for the survival of their herds but something has been developed could something like this hold the key to getting heard is around the country through these difficult times. today and app called scout is being launched in the town of. they'll be heard from all over the region who've come to learn more about the app and take that information back to their villages i'm interested to see what they make of the new technology. every scout is the brainchild of project concern international p.c.i. and committed to helping. nearly four thousand people around africa use it so far and today it's been officially rolled out in kenya. i mean. i think what. p.c.i. hopes to revolutionize how hurt is find water by using something eighty seven
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percent of kenyans already have in their pockets. a smart phone what else. the app access is satellite maps which detailed the water conditions throughout kenya every ten days or. you could all see the five or so c.d.'s was not right or right using it head is can see instantly we had to target migration and avoid using dry areas which need time to recuperate i. to find out more about how the app can help it is i'm off to southern kenya with some messiah i have lost both hof their cattle.
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joshua has been using a few scouts three months. joshua yes thank you so much allowing us to come to your home and join you today these are your animals yeah these are my animals is my father says it to me. is my. brother. is my it's a pleasure to meet you all so we're going to get started are we going to walk now or. we will. be. a bit wild when you go. for the. five hundred dollars that market
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when the conditions. this is what. well i was moving on if. we tried to help. you. that's incredibly sad. so you had gone to try and look for water and just for the cows but the cow just couldn't make the journey and the cow just collapsed here yeah it was a big call to. be. in the morning six in the in the event so it was a real loss for you. and just it brings back home just the thought that it's such
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a difficult way of life because you have to keep on the move to find the water and to find the grazing lands but in order to move these animals use so much energy to go from one place to another so if you don't know where you're going and you're just trying your luck wherever you can it's incredibly hard for these animals. with almost fifty percent of his livestock already lost to drought it's even more pressing for joshua to keep his surviving cattle in good condition which means finding ample water during the training we have won't do the. point that it's somewhere here. according to the app it's thirty kilometers from where they start. is a really popular place to come and drink someone else's book because. can we find a place under the tree maybe have a bit of a rest. so can we see this watering hole on the map
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is the model we can form this. so we are here you can see it somewhere here. knowing the location of the tempi water source like this could mean life or death for hood. or get better weather was. nice it was a woman the app can make all this much simpler it's all about what you. just don't allow you to. because at the moment when you need to look for water for your cattle what do you do you just go blind and so you think you might use it. and does it sound interesting does it something something you would use and you could. it's been ten hours and we're into what should be good posture.
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this is where you are in the morning. and we have on the way to carry we maybe a. day maybe of an honorary maybe. numbers you can do the different. yeah yeah it's so much better it's less this. so the cows will be able to stay here they'll have enough to eat they will stay here all most one month and then left there we shall see them up to where i mean the rest of the news animals i've had a wonderful day thank you so much i'm tired and i've had a wonderful story and i must thank you now we can move to the homestead just because the sun is. up a couple. i could use one
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here. for her for the head as with access to satellite maps livestock mortality has yearly high. since joshua has relied on i feel scout he hasn't lost any counts to child. rearing out to him he has been a real success. yet we have a lot of the young oh yeah that was. it however the. extreme weather of things and now a regular occurrence around the world. scientists have found that human caused climate change is at the root of over two thirds of them the result is often human suffering. and twenty seventeen hundreds were left dad and many thousands homeless by our unusual weather conditions. the hurricane season in the caribbean caused
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unprecedented levels of destruction. devastating floods swept across southeast asia tornadoes hit the south of the us and california was roasted by a heat wave. since two thousand and nine one person every second has been displaced by disaster. it's predicted that by twenty fifty they'll be two hundred million environmental migrants. but the country observed people migrate temporarily and there was a short distance internally between their countries if there's a drought or an environmental stress you move to temporarily move to tender street you expect a strong incentive from the reality the people come back or they might see in the future is permanent migration and longer distance cooperation you might see how communities having to look right across their life people. it's are no longer there
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sustainable it might be an entire nation states that have to move. mangroves are among the most biodiverse habitats on the planet may play a vital role in the lives of coastal communities but these forests are facing deforestation thirty five percent of the world's mangroves of already been lost and here in the irrawaddy delta only sixteen percent which will cover is left and in myanmar where local innovative project is combining grassroots conservation state they are drawing technology to take mangrove regeneration to new heights. and. jamar is vulnerable to cyclons which strike every few years in two thousand and
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eight the worst ever cycle nargis claimed more than one hundred thirty thousand lives. experts now believe that mangroves hold the key to saving thousands of lives and the next big storm hits. find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest. these are proper trees. the tallest man groups here reached twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after a cycle in one nine hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had thought it was sad because. i knew she thought.
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you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blew in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and stop some of that storm surge making its way into these settlements and farms and maybe some of the other farms where there's no mangroves do you know of any farms that suffer because of the storms. if you don't you know you did the dead line and look at your own machinery out about you know our car michigan maybe here i mean you got it. i mean i didn't get it so it's a protection yeah. so if mangroves is so effective at protecting against storms why if one million hecht is being cut down since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight leaving the population here unprotected.
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i'm meeting with a known and ecologists with thirty years' experience in forestry to find a. willing o.r.u. thanks for me. and the media thanks so much. when heads the world few international foundations mangroves regeneration project here and now i'm not. going. to get. the feeling that. if it is. that good.
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oh. wow. at the moment this segment grocery all over this mental condition is seriously degraded right in that cost eighty are sixty percent of the villages they don't have a million jobs they're trying to find out their money from there. and then they can come in three within that one hour while they can get money for their livelihood now i understand so you're talking about really a negative feedback yeah yeah it's this confluence of the environmental stresses and the economic stresses that has driving people into the mangrove yeah yeah i understand. shrimp and rice farming as well as charcoal production and strip myanmar of mangroves leaving it critically exposed. if action isn't taken soon the communities who live here in danger of being decimated by the next
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big storm. there are still trees here yeah yeah there is this intrigue ok this is a war going to be ok from there to bob then fifteen. when one hundred locals have systematically planted four hundred thousand seedlings by hand here in the last three years. that all the way through doesn't it yeah. yeah. but the job is far from complete ok so we've come right into the thick of it here all that work that we can here in the background that's a lot of chopping and preparing of the ground before three hundred thousand seedlings or more are going to go into this model so it sounds like there's a lot of hard work going on so we should maybe go on try and lend a hand. so can you tell me and you've are you from
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this area you know i know there are all of them are literally. i don't even all buy it all loaded i'm on old d. you don't seem. to me as he immediately when more lethal you feel some way you're. giving something back when you know i lose i get out on. you know on the glory of cold while you do yeah you lied you look people are going to nominate me we've. got all my d.v.d. of you know he made me mad he got well i would say no they'll be able to all. who my. mom of the dollar. you know. yeah i understand you show me how to do i am a complete know of it just. can't. get it
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get the hang of it i feel it's all about the angles to get. just like that. the team of thirty five thousand hectares of coastline to plant. the racing to do it before the next big cycle that. this is an incredibly complex ecosystem but with looking at you as an ecologist it must be incredibly challenging. to move towards restoration to win this turn to the latest technology. business. we're trying to. make the plant the room and they are they working today they. don't want him to be here. today the
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oxford based team of scientists will be testing with their double triple and quadruple co-opted room in front of seven thousand seats in an hour it is so continue edge to stand back. and reena for the rink who heads up the project. so as this have been the mood for anything like this you know of no two thousand knowledge we are definitely the first one and it's going to be our largest experiment is it just we can have a look at one of the poets just to kind of get a sense of what you were actually dealing with here so what is what is inside this they're made from by the great evil plastic and all natural material and society also while you have local science and you have local minerals and natural materials it looks like we're nearly there i just saw a green light. ok well good. the
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test will be successful if one show into the ground imbedded in the soil deep enough for growth to occur it works the team returned in a few months time to time twenty full believe. that is. i have never seen it from a guy before yeah. the drone has a preprogramed flight path to see to penetrate the soil the chance of each of these pods becoming a tree is greater than if planted by nature or hand because the depth will be moving system to it goes. down and the team are happy the seeds are in the ground and it's time for nature to take its course i was just thinking inside this thing i mean it's there's so much more than
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just seeds it's it's to future it's a but then told to save a life because it's to live in schildt they protect people from the ocean they protect people from tsunami from here against and we have to do it now and we have to do it at the massive scale because from today to maybe six not months from now maybe one year from now is maximum we will have a growing shield already so if the cycling hits next year people here will be protected and when you when you put it like that you know all of a sudden something so small can seem very significant indeed so i'm actually going to put that back in the ground where we found. the scientist test is finished. but for women his team is just the beginning. they wanted to the seeds progress carefully. and fall goes to plan many more trees
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will be planted by drone here in the near future helping to safeguard the coast from extreme weather. all over the world people are having to adapt to unpredictable climate and weather patterns. in canada west sea ice has become dangerously thin a scheme is providing real time measurements of ice thickness to local communities . this data reveals which routes the safe to travel and which i know it's. meanwhile in los angeles where extreme drought has become the norm. ninety six million shade balloons have been put into the l.a. reservoir to help reduce evaporation rates. these projects
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show the level of innovation that communities are using to protect themselves against increasingly volatile weather. but the question remains are these long term solutions or are they just masking the real problem. desperate for a mole we heard news about newton's babies person you want to take a week or two officers i need to work i need the money part of it i think it's humiliating because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life in america risking it old fifty dollars. or towing walgreens. for a better future always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on this holiday . on al-jazeera. february on al-jazeera we investigate the toxic legacy of south africa's mining industry and examine
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