taken place it is an incredible sight but deeply troubling two classes have always collapsed and carved into the on top to goshen however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps centuries ahead. it is laundry day or not sunrise and here's the thing we all think of being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing. but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of microfiber is end up in the world's oceans so here in port it wouldn't and not for girls.

and of course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the largest rules of the planet there could be a ploy to do they carry by successfully greenpeace to conduct this experiment taking samples from the water to see if any micro plastics have infiltrated this environment. just simply into the sea surface like quest five is that maybe first so they're both taking such a feeling it's just more to. the. extent. that bush should find that he this is very hopeful just the way the seas are very close try a system and there's very few local sources of micro plastic fibers should be coming from however evidence is growing around the world from studies that. like

the past before the sparks three the prisoner releases and there will be found the right place location. you know it's a bizarre thing be afloat on these wild remote and desolate war says he'll quite expose you to g.p.s. google map and zoomed out we can be highly speculative. to draw from this guy. yet beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just t.v. with life and these are some of the remotest pools on. and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist susan lockhart what she sees is a stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life life not yet touched by mankind but enormously at risk not least from the effects of industrial scale fishing it has one hundred percent coverage of the sea floor i've organized it has

a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if they're and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to make up after a disturbance such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and the estimated fourteen thousand species on the sea bed vulnerable not just to fishing but to other threats like warming sea temperatures and plastics pollution and that's why the expeditions walrond research so important in the bid to protect these waters all the scientific data will be compiled to form a body of evidence in support of the sanctuary proposal presented to the antarctic commission in less than a year's time. but the team needs to find out more about the growing threats encroaching on the region we leave the lonely waters of the weddell sea heading back through the antarctic sound a day shaped by the routine on board. everyone has different ways of feeling

sparrows from the top practice to running repairs of course looking for old guys and they get what's cooking today but they do it right and best evidence that when you have that somebody will know the customers yeah the same every day and we share that with them it is not everybody who has a few like this in their restaurant critics but that's why we are here. later we had for sure making landfall on the south set the night and the tip of the antarctic peninsula. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off but it's been careening around all over the place to me welcome high colinear facets.

penguin shared territory with the seals one making the most of the comfortable feathers the multi juveniles. but here too evidence once again of how the world is closing in on i talked to cut the number of terrorists twenty years ago it was around four to five thousand a year now it's more like thirty thousand. all like me desperate to see this wilderness while it's still here. despite myself i can't help the sense of unease and surprise about the sheer numbers. of it saddened by the. great big crucial. here in pristina untaught the care and lines of terrorists. there's dormant volcano which is ridiculous because it's a free will. but it does just demonstrate the. new accessibility that there is in the dangers of. these. there is becoming tainted.

by the footprints of humanity. next day was steaming down the west coast of the antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately sixty miles or so western area both pretty violent where we have seen. three fish we want to go and you. see there on. the vessels off from china ukraine and chile they're fishing for krill a small shrimp like creature which the whole ecosystem depends there are a keystone of the ocean cycle that diet of plankton helping to transfer c o two to the depths of the ocean. but cruel is being harvested on a growing scale the fish feed and omega three or ships nets are out and they're in the thick of the krill swarm the krill are obviously densely packed into this area up against the island is the basic just circling around the grounds to bring them

out of the months ago over whales the fee to see them blowing and whale tails disappearing flipper is showing as we go about. the krill companies say they're tapping into a resource that is sustainable but the view on board is that that is what they said about other species like the bison in north america all called stocks off new found and before both were decimated it's essential areas such as weddell sea are protected so stocks can replenish the proposal first area would put the area thirty kilometers offshore off limits to fishing industry so when so that's a solution you can continue to fish an entire tradition but keep it outside of these areas currently being a protected areas because the reason they've been proposed it's because a solemn autumn for the ecosystem down here. soon will begin the long journey home but this time to make another landing and the variety of species here on livingston island is just astounding. just like the folks at heart.

truly spectacular just a lot more diverse me having to use fish is a pain when it's time petals that open the seals went on tilt has not been another landing with quite a variety and when you look at this place from the ship you think that's really good and yet you're right here you have to be teeming with life and it's thriving right now and you can see all around us it's driving. you know what it was like a hundred years ago it was doing even better but right now it's still compared to most other places on earth it's doing a lot better at the point of protecting it is to allow it to continue in this way we haven't yet met this place up we have the opportunity to protect.

the question that the dynamics of this place around thoughts get changing you have the seal population expanding rapidly it was a penguin die off in the east last year ice is changing krill populations are under threat tourism. i mean this is the last great wilderness one. we need to protect. it's time to head back in for five days we crossed the stormy seas of the drake passage to south america before heading home. an opportunity to consider the wonder of what we've seen and the challenges that lie ahead in winning the protection of the precious part of our planet. and whether or not this protection would indeed be

granted if you bought it nine months time. after months of campaigning and intense lobbying by the greenpeace team it all comes down to hear how you vote on the island of tasmania in australia but the future of the way will see we've decided. this is where it's all happening the headquarters of the antarctic commission that protects and manages the planet's southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing rights are being thrashed out right now by twenty five government delegations historically the departure point for several antarctic expeditions today hobart is the place where the fate of the continent hangs in the balance. after a voyage together in antarctica i hook up again with will he's been lobbying hard for the weddell sea sentry since i last saw him and the news he brings is

unexpected to say the least it's not looking bright i think we've seen a real. a bit of a disaster of a meeting to be honest something that noma's really expect they were i we were always in the knowledge it was going to be hard and then what we've seen is a few countries just really undermine the process and essentially block any progress on any issue not just not just the antarctic ocean sanctuary but actually progress in any field good luck thanks for to shoot the next twenty four hours goodness me. i'm hoping for the best perhaps we'll hear some good news to more. it's decision day and the country delegations have been locked in top journalists aren't allowed in so we wait and wait.

we have developments something's afoot just have a call so we're going to go try and find out what's happening. so that is the head of the indian delegation talking to him straight across from you told us what he's saying is this is this is kind of a cultural surgery to reveal this that. is dead in the interest not to be adopted it's just not going to. it's just devastating news or caught them as you know. how the greenpeace team of three right now say the other delegations all the other n.g.o.s who supported this proposal it's just wanted to nations it go the way of russia and china. it confirms will's worst fears but it's not until much later we can speak to him. he's devoted so much to this project. it's terrible nice i mean it's.

it's just a complete failure on the behalf of the commission on behalf of you know the millions of people are signed this petition you want to visit to happen and we've just seen the entire thing trashed here twenty two countries of the twenty five supporter they believe this is a good proposal but china russia norway you know one by one. three different means and different reasons have just taken it apart and kicked into the long grass and from a personal point of view you invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this. what's what's if it's horrible you know it's. nearly two years of us working on it. in an r.v. you know there are other good proposals on the table and this proposal in it's is still a good one. and we'll get a chance next year to resubmitted but something's going to have to shift in the

next year. it is intensely disappointing for everybody involved but it does just demonstrate the challenge we face in protecting this planet of ours especially in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self-interest. you know it's not just about the whales and the penguins in the wonder of antarctica it's about us us and our descendants we do we want to leave them a world without wilderness without healthy fish docks. with the ecosystems in taxes . we're the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about to.

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not letting them into our country. trump has vowed to keep migrants out of america people in power travels alongside those hoping to make even. more pin their shoes on al-jazeera. if three seamy automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in this country new zealand's prime minister announce a strict new gun laws following the attacks in which fifty people died. hello and welcome to al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha for autumn also

ahead desperate affects efforts to reach people stranded by floods from. zimbabwe and malawi affected. this is a great regret. prime minister criticizes her parliament on the brakes at. a three month extension from the e.u. . and the. one point seven billion dollars for blocking online advertisers google's third penalty in just two years. we begin with the breaking news out of new zealand and the announcement of sweeping gun control measures following last week's attack on two mosques in christchurch that killed fifty people. and has announced an immediate battle on military style semiautomatic weapons the measure comes and under an interim directive until long

term measures lation has passed a law made the announcement a short time ago and short if every see me automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in this country these changes will require legislation that legislation is now being drafted and will be introduced under urgency. it's going to talk correspondent wayne hey he's joining us live from quiet keywords and wayne the band comes into effect three pm this afternoon thursday afternoon and the promise to hoping to pass the legislation by april eleventh she said yes wasting absolutely no time at all just in the road and her cabinet they met on monday just a few days after the attacks in christchurch and in that meeting they agreed

unanimously on these laws changes and a couple of hours ago she made those lot of changes public with immediate effect of course as you mentioned it has to go to parliament first to be voted on there's no doubt it will pass that process fairly easily i would expect we've already already seen the leader of the opposition saying that he supports these little changes but as of three pm this afternoon two hours ago she says that there are no new rules in place before that legislation can be passed effectively making those weapons illegal now yes owners of those military style semi automatic weapons can go to a police station as of right now and get special dispensation but she basically said in her announcement in the media conference don't bother the police have much more important things to do right now obviously dealing with the fallout from the christchurch massacre there will be some opposition to this in new zealand probably not as much as there has been in the past and clearly the prime minister believes

that most here will support these changes. i absolutely believe there will be a common view amongst new zealanders those who use guns for legitimate purposes and those who have never touched. that the time for the mass and easy availability of these weapons massed in. and today they were. and when death will no doubt be a little bit of good news for the grieving families some of whom we saw burying their loved ones in the first funerals on wednesday are we expecting more today yes we saw the first six funerals take place on wednesday actually the first two. were buried with a father and son from syria they were refugees arrived in new zealand to settle in christchurch just a year ago yes we have seen more take place on thursday all bodies the police are

saying have now been identified they have gone through the post-mortem process they've been formally identified to the satisfaction of the coroner and that are all available to be released to the families yes that will come as a relief to those family members who have been saying that they are concerned about the process and the speed that this has been moving at some of the good news is that work continues elizabeth to reopen the two mosques where the attacks happened friday prayers coming up of course will be an extremely difficult but poignant time for worshippers from those two mosques and of course it all mark a week since the attacks took place it is both the mosques will be reopened the police investigation at those scenes has come to an end now it's a case of cleaning and repairing those facilities so they can reopen when thank you very much for that for now that's when hey live in christchurch thank you john battersby is a fellow at the center for security studies at massey university of new zealand and

he says legislators have become complacent in recent years. the problem i think was that new zealanders have been sight from the sort of thing not just the last in the fifteen years where we've seen a rise of international terrorism but it's a way because they are a mess killings and nothing on the scale of this book or in the review very few and far between it's a new zealanders a gotta send it to my time doug long time these sorts of things just aren't we are low but not a new and we've been lazy when it comes to security we should have woken up. in the area not only did we should have that we should proceed realise that actually watch different from the year to year we should have followed we didn't you're right last year they had the opportunity but again the scenes of just didn't seem to be they were never had anything really like it is a reasonably go who and what we are. mostly made up of law abiding

people who are responsible gun owners and by my big eyes they didn't want to be punished or the sins or the restore law and we've now got the we left it cost us really into we can a pool the privilege of owning firearms as freely as we have when the lives being the cost. well as when wayne mentioned earlier the length of office to victims from the shootings have now been identified the father and son the fed the war and severe weather service to be buried and funerals are continuing throughout the day islamic courts journals as soon as possible the criminal investigators have had to formally identify the bodies. let's move on now to other news and rescuers in a was and big fear the number of deaths from it i will continue to provide as with more bodies being found in the flood watches on his left

a trail of destruction across southern africa and mozambique zimbabwe and malawi a corresponding farm in the minute few of the one of the hardest hit areas and central was and bake. the roofs of buildings from the water that's all that's left of this town by floodwater almost a week ago. the province it's not known how many people made it out safely. on stagnant water across the horizon on an isolated piece of dry land rescue workers drop off desperately needed food hundreds of people queue for what could be their only meal in days. to find let. the. nightlife.

as we fly further we see what was once a sports ground now a temporary shelter for hundreds of people who are stranded sit wait and sleep on a back to grandstand a short and so it's a group preview from floodwaters. to save a critically ill patient this woman is pregnant and needs medical help as quickly as possible. ten minute flight between. safety of city maybe her only chance initial concern about how cycle of die would impact central mozambique has been replaced by a widespread flooding a growing number of deaths and the displacement of thousands of people this is just one rescue of what aid agencies say could be thousands more from al-jazeera. at least fifty seven people have died in neighboring malawi and earlier we spoke to

in the southern africa director regional director for the international charity oxfam in malawi's capital a long way and she says the main fear now is disease. i've the moment of the floodwaters have gone but it has left so much destruction in different places so at the moment we are having to deal with people who have lost the house this is they have nowhere to go back to we are left with the fields that have been washed away people should have been have a sting in their maize this coming may but if they have lost all that and some harm moved into temporary shelter where they have no food water points in most of the villages have been the contaminated and so at the moment people are having to use contaminated water our medical center at the moment is that we may have another wave of a crisis that will come out of water borne diseases so there is a need for immediate to support immediate assistance for the communities that are affected british prime minister tourism am defending her request for an extension

to the bracks a deadline while criticizing the british parliament for failing to back her agreement with the european union may want to extend the departure date from the end of next week to june thirtieth european council president says that may be possible but only if the u.k. parliament approves may's existing deal but that's already been rejected by british m.p.'s twice may made an emotional appeal to the nation i passionately hope m.p.'s will find a way to back the deal i've negotiated with the e.u. a deal that delivers on the result of the referendum and is the very best deal negotiable and i will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues the d u p and others for this deal. but i am not prepared to delay breck's it any further than the thirtieth of june. john how has the latest from westminster hall to resume a prepares now to face the e.u.

and its leaders in brussels and be issued formally with these old to make to you have your short extension if you want but only if you pass your deal first will in one sense that gives to resume a what she wanted and now the vote on her breaks a deal and in circumstances potentially that make that vote more winnable pitting it directly against the much see no deal breaks it option but the numbers may yet be against it would be potentially a large number of m.p.'s on the right of her party who don't mind the idea of a no deal breaker and potentially not enough in these in the labor benches and elsewhere to make up that gap as much as to reserve a says in her statement in her address to the nation this evening.