that leaving the block still ahead on al-jazeera the russian president accuses the u.s. of avoiding talks on extending a major nuclear arms treaty plus. i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming out. hello again it's good to have you back what we do have a mix of clouds and rain across much of the levant over the next few days some of those showers could be heavy but we think most of them will be passing in terms of where they are going over the next few days so here across much of the middle east clouds in the forecast heavy rain up here towards eastern parts of turkey but in the overnight hours from friday to saturday maybe a few passing showers here anywhere from aleppo all the way down here towards

beirut temporized beirut's again quite nice at about $26.00 degrees a little bit warmer in aleppo at 35 degrees there and then here across the gulf it is going to be hot it's going to dry as well doha 43 degrees as your forecast high really stay like that as we go toward saturday much of the area into the low forty's right now that along the coastal we are picking up a few clouds anywhere from saliva all the way down across yemen maybe have a light shower in those clouds but nothing too heavy so your high is going to be only 32 degrees there and then very quickly across parts of southern africa really we are seeing some clouds mostly along the eastern seaboard temperatures a little bit cooler here for johannesburg at 1000 degrees and durban in 1000 degrees but we are going to lose those clouds as we go toward saturday temptress come up to about 21 degrees there but cape town we're all going to see a nice day for you with a temperature of about 80 degrees and sunny. a natural resource that's gone on top for more than 2 decades. of.

years before israel has found its own. 0 world tells the untold story of gaza's un exploited gas fields guzzle of the only miming the us of the palestinian so it's a lot of money and how this valuable resource could have transformed palestinian lawyer. because the gas deal on al-jazeera. hello again i'm mr a reminder of the news the south african union has suspended sudan over the military joint has cracked down on protesters the health ministry

has denied reports that 108 people were killed claiming just 61 deaths. an attack on 4 oil tankers off the u.a.e. last month was most probably carried out by state actor that's what the u.n. security council has been told by the u.a.e. alongside saudi arabia and norway ships were targeted the u.s. has previously blamed iran which denies involvement. and mexico says it will send up to $6000.00 soldiers to its border with guatemala to control the flow of migrants into the united states but u.s. vice president mike pence says it's up to president trump to decide if that's enough to avoid tariffs going into effect on monday. demonstrations have been taking place and what is there is as brazilian president makes his 1st. official visit to argentina protesters are critical of his conservative policies with some accusing him of homophobia and fascism brazil's need to held talks with argentine

president america on regional trade on the crisis in venezuela. has more from the demonstrations in the argentine capital video the social groups in argentina behind me have joined with residents brazilian residents in one of cyrus to protest against what they say are the messages of hate portrayed by president also know of brazil they're making reference to his attitude towards the environment. his attitude towards the o.g.t.t. community towards afro brazilians they're saying that those messages have crossed the borders in a resonating across latin america where they are joining with other groups to oppose his use earlier in the day job also now to met with president. can see you know in the presidential palace let's talk about a number of issues energy a cross border co-operation the environment but the the main issue the main issue that resonated between them was their opposition to the government of nicolas

maduro in venice way those countries are hosting the 10s of thousands of venezuelans who have fled the economic and political difficulties in their home country the key presidents of a was in argentina don't want to see more of that they support the self declared interim president one white all trying to get nicholas was removed from office. for now though i said that he doesn't want to see all the venice whalers spread across argentina the 2 men with a great deal in common but facing increasing the opposition across a broad argentina brazil now thousands of teachers are on strike until his capital a better weapon conditions and employment rights in america as a new stand newman has more.

russia's president vladimir person has used a meeting with his chinese counterparts to accuse the u.s. of backtracking on a key nuclear duction deal speaking at the economic forum in st petersburg he warns that the strategic arms reduction treaty with the u.s. is its risk of breaking down he also said the u.s. should not intervene in venezuela step bason has the latest from st petersburg. president putin has used this forum here in st petersburg to lash out again against the united states and the breakdown of nuclear forces treaties there were 2 major treaty still in place but the one the intermediate forces treaty has collapsed earlier this year because the u.s. is. accusing russia of violating the treaty then this one out of treaty still in place which is the new start treaty and that's the one last standing treaty to

protect people against a nuclear war in the world so it's very crucial that this is going to be real negotiated and putin has been asking the united states to open these negotiations for a while now and he said there was a little room when he talked to president trump on the phone earlier and it was also some discussion about it when michael bay you visited russia a few weeks ago but now he says nobody is talking to me meaning that no negotiation no negotiations have started basically that's. correct to global security he sat at this forum of course there's a lot of topics being discussed but he also talked about venezuela still supporting my dual saying that this opposition leader would be a disaster for the country i started upon so many topics but of course the main guest here is the president teaching ping from china he brought a huge delegation of a 1000 delegates to the meeting here lots of deals have also been signed and will be signed between russia and china here at the forum now the world health

organization estimates that a quarter of a burglar infections and eastern democratic republic of congo are going undetected there have been more than 2000 confirmed cases since the epidemic broke out an organist and nearly 1400 deaths the u.n. health agency says its teams have been unable to reach some areas because of violence by rebel groups. we are definitely missing cases because when you have can community debts like that and probable cases then you are definitely missing transmission and the 1000000000 dollar question is how big is that number we believe at this point and let me be let me be very cautious here we believe that we were probably. detecting in excess of 75 percent of cases we may be missing up to a quarter of cases. higson those in south korea are taking emergency measures to

stop an outbreak of swine flu that in north korea from crossing the border from as in the south are concerns that pyongyang is ignoring calls for joint quarantine effets currently has. well here on gungho island one of several places designated by the south korean government as a special surveillance area following an outbreak of african swine fever in north korea were really close to the border with the north it lies just beyond the river about 2 kilometers away an endless island that about $35.00 pig farms african swine fever is harmless to humans but it's fatal to pigs to prevent the disease from spreading south korea's agriculture ministry is taking several measures access to and from pig farms is now on tightly controlled farm workers have been told to carry out disinfection and then fences and traps have been set up to prevent infected wild boars from coming into contact with domestic pigs not many wild boars

will be able to cross the bob wire fences or make it across the heavily mined border area but there's a possibility that some of them may be able to swim across the river and get into south korea and that's why the south has proposed to the north that they work together to prevent the spread of the disease and that is the political dimension to this story relations between the 2 countries have cooled considerably since a february summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and ended without agreement on the outbreak of the disease cannot come at a worse time for north korea which is already experiencing a severe food shortage following its worst harvest in a decade but while some analysts say the promise of aid may not be enough to north korea back to talks there are others who say that humanitarian assistance may lead to other exchanges perhaps even in the political arena and that could possibly be what south korea's strategy is. tree lankan officials investigating the easter

sunday bombings say repeated warnings were ignored including one just before the attacks happened more than 250 people were killed in the coordinated blasts which have been blamed on a local group linked to i saw one alpha landers has more from colombo. trying to make sense of the easter sunday carnage that killed more than $250.00 people a twelvemonth special parliamentary select committee heard from police chief. who's on compulsory leave for refusing to take the blame and resign. there is no practice anywhere with regards to intelligence information that the inspector general of the police should share with the president suicide bombers from a local muslim group attacked christian churches on easter sunday as well as 5 star hotel more than 250 people were killed and hundreds injured eisel claimed

responsibility for the quarter need to detect. the police chief said the state intelligence service received repeated warnings of possible attack and detailed a series of delays by all security agencies to act. i got a phone call about an imminent threat that something to interest could happen you know when you are being told repeatedly something happened something and i went to war or been to ask what steps have been taken because it's not possible for you. to do. what. the police chief told the committee that president sits in or asked him to resign after the attacks he says he was offered an ambassador his job if he agreed to resign and he was told that any investigation would find him responsible for failing to stop the attacks the other big name to appear the select committee was former defense secretary him a serious finance he highlighted the restrictions imposed on him by the president

but it was not an independent. instruction from the president for every little thing fernanda told the committee that it was difficult for him to contact the president and said the strain between the president and prime minister affected governance after the incident when the prime minister called for a meeting you said you did to the president were told by the president himself not to go for the meeting goodwin with the prime minister. he was answering yes yes yes yes. the committee is due to reconvene next tuesday when the finance charges era colombo now palestinians are accusing israeli settlers of setting fire to hundreds of olive trees in the occupied west bank and abraham reports from the town of genoa and olive trees that have been here for the past 60 years have turned into ashes after the recent arson and jubilant north of the occupied west bank. israeli

settlers were seen attacking the school in the village ahead of the fires locals say they started it they will submit the surveillance camera footage to the israeli police but they don't expect a fair trial has been the day it's difficult to imagine that they would hold settlers accountable usually the israeli justice system stands by the settlers in the face deterrence from the israeli forces and police they wouldn't repeat their attacks every year there's a problem of the sort of. human rights organizations say less palestinians are reporting settler attacks and accuse the israeli system of biased toward settlers this is really a human rights organization yes dean says that 93 percent of cases regarding olive trees attacks were closed due to israeli police investigation fear people here say that secular violence and lack of accountability are meant to establish feed and push palestinians out of their lands they believe that this will help the expansion

of illegal israeli settlements. stale and concrete other things that come to mind when you think of skyscrapers but in future the wilds of great cities may have some skylines built out of a different material would john hendren reports if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would be challenges actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there we're working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions check knology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined

to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the factory in snaps together with not a saw on site but there's another more pressing reason to use wood timber buildings are greener both ice caps are melting in the storms are getting worse it we all have to step forward and do what we can and in my profession what i can do is change my material choice for what i'm going to build with and build with something that's more socially and environmentally responsible the manufacture of concrete and steel emits planet warming carbon dioxide would absorbs carbon actually cleaning the air i fell in love with a building i love their windows the view is at 29 meters this is the

tallest cross laminated timber building in the united states but the architect who designed it is already designing another one at 137 meters and he says with these materials the sky's the limit the growing industry faces to nagging questions is it deforesting the plan and they say by using smaller trees from certified renewable forests there would supply is sustainable and what about fire architects a wooden buildings can be as fire safe as any other is treated mass timber char's rather than burns. the biggest open question is whether builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky john hendren l.g. 0 portland oregon. hello i'm in with the headlines on al-jazeera the african union has suspended over

the military crackdown on protests as early as this week the health ministry has denied reports that 108 people were killed claiming the real figure is 61. is reported to be stepping in to help mediate heads prime minister is expected to meet military leaders and opposition members on friday. an attack on for oil tankers off the u.a.e. last month was most probably carried out by a state actor that's what the un security council has been told by the u.a.e. saudi arabia and norway whose ships were targeted the u.s. has previously blamed iran which denies involvement mexico says it will send up to 6000 troops to its border with quote amala to control the flow of migrants into the united states but u.s. vice president mike pence says it's up to president trump to decide if that's enough to avoid tariffs going into effect on monday. our best. our men are both working. time is going to go back to. work

with the united states of america to just those words in our wallet by forcing their along by their board and we've made clear to them that breaking up is going to continue. so we bring the. right to legal immigration and also the border security. demonstrations have been taking place and what is aries as brazilian president makes his 1st official visit to argentina protesters are critical of his conservative policies but some accusing him of homophobia and fascism brazil's leader held talks with president. on regional trade on the crisis in venezuela and russia's president has used a meeting with his chinese counterpart to accuse the u.s. of backtracking on a key nuclear arms reduction deal speaking as an economic forum and some pieces bag that i'm a person said the strategic arms reduction treaty with the u.s.

is that risk of breaking down all those other headlines join me for more news here after earth rise. a horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people killed at mosques in christchurch new zealand why i want to investigate the full court could have done more to prevent this massacre on 0 to 0. to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the vast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other

human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half the area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet's from cleaning and water to providing food we simply cannot survive but there is still time we meet the pioneers striving to protect 2 of our most valuable remaining ecosystems. bred in sweden where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight before station and i'm a man to borrow in tacking where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating bugs. the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year textile

manufacturers make billions of garments why only be born wants a choice before ending up in a landfill the so-called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive. and perhaps surprisingly one of the key draw is biodiversity loss and deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem but 1st i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers of sage still cool is to try to meet in the forest a forest that we're in a way that to me the cool right approach she's conservationist and she's on a mission to protect against forests around the world to them it's. great to see you thanks so much we come to stockholm to do a story about fashion why everyone for it so there's 115000000 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear and slated to double within the next

decade i have never heard of that connection between between fashion and an a for street you know world it's not an intuitive flick that something that soft and soaking extra skin and actually it starts off as a tree many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old known as primary forests around the world 50 percent are already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy an organization dedicated to protecting those still remain it's a complete breakdown of the ecological function of that area and is a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupts species have attacks even though trees can grow back ancient and in danger of farce or clay simple. after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called rail and viscous but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the harvested

wood is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the going to be where. people works with businesses that source from primary forests to find green alternatives one of their main focal points is the global fashion industry what's your strategy here how are you going to make a difference in this my experience is that it's some of the speed global brands they have the ability to actually engage their suppliers to stop them from logging in ancient and endangered forest ecosystems and if we can redirect it to be more sustainable now using recycled fabrics rather than ending up in landfill and for the current capacity that's already in production let's just make sure it's not coming from really important ancient endangered forestry chance. so you're talking about kind of a 2 prong approach one is the kind of conservation stopping that deforestation in the 1st place and the 2nd one is this recycling element so reusing what's already

been produced so that's a big priority for canopy is to really help kick start commercial scale production on things next generation solutions like recycle clothing being used a confession to make i have to get thermal because i was terrified we're going to freeze and i looked at the label on the way here is that there it's 3 percent this go there we go i wouldn't feel bad i was surprised when i 1st discovered the link between ancient and endangered far some discos. can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian called the new cell. they've invented a pioneering technology that promises to transform textile manufacturing. became a beach in 2014 when a catwalk modeled on the yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically research group fabrics the 1st time i. see you might is johnson has offered to show me how

old works. start right at the beginning yeah this is poached don't you. this is this is the blue jeans that people have a where the chair and them disposed off so what's next for this it goes into our frederick that is the protests and riots they would be separate any home and then it goes into what stage we just told you just lowering that it would take out some of the color we believe. and then we draw it what would be happening in itself if you guys weren't using it you approached it most of it would be your land failed or. were getting from evil know from your guide i think if we don't lead in the machine i think both of them break down. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dyson chemicals are all recyclable. and the water as we used to. after the drawing process the fabric is pristine packed into

people 8 sheets. surprising can expect to see the end product this is most of the time this is contains a lot of sentiment and that's one of those really good start for making the go for . this is to roma to you from which the fiscus fabric is finally made. and this is the best you can put it like a normal fiber then you can't go on but it could be woven into any our clothing. when we go here this is the famous yellow dress this is the world's chemically recycled piece of garment well ok it's made from blue jeans you know from the same stuff it doesn't look like a would be environmentally friendly garment this looks like any other garment you would see in the high street absolutely and that's why we are not necessarily

called this recycling we call it absolutely. i'm inspired but we're seeing here when you sell hoping to open another 3 plants would. in the next 5 years manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing the pressure on primary forests for all this to make a real difference that needs to be demand and that demand starts here high street. we are aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both of you know what frisco's it's. yeah it's synthetic material right. you know where it comes from no idea who you are aware of this connection between the fashion industry and the forestation no i had no idea. but judging by these shoppers there's some way to go before awareness we drive to my. organization kind of be working to bring suppliers like we knew so together with

brands can stalk their products big fashion brands they are driving a lot of the problems that we're seeing how do you dress that sure seems to be a bit of a disconnect the clothing touches all of our lives on a daily basis it produces 100000000000 gallons every year it has a big footprint and i do not have a big footprint when you're that big and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution so it's fun to be here i think on on high street name a tween and canopies brand partners kampala and who are part of $170.00 plus brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discourse on rails on change so he said you've been working with them and we see some of the stuff you've been working on yeah absolutely let's just go inside and have a look. kind of the success is growing all the time because hoopy soon every store will stock research. so this is

a frac of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality so this product here is really interesting as far as you can tell just a pair of denim jeans. scott 20 percent recycled car review so we saw them producing a credible feed stock which was 100 percent recycled quote and you think we're going to get to that point i do and i think you know in the short term this is what's available today and when you sell is hopefully next season it's clothing so that this moves from having 20 percent recycled cotton to 100 percent recycled. h. and m. recently partnered with the new so to support its continuing research this is part of the clothing joints pledge to use 100 percent sustainably source of clothing by 2030 which should be praised the same cost as non-sustainable items and in-store customers are encouraged to drop of unwanted garments to be recycled by companies like what you sell. i'm quite serious to see if there's anything in here if there's

that's the only thing in your own look at that they can be any quotes they can be any brands of clothing we have been working with big global retailers and designers on ensuring that this recycling program actually continues to increase so that it gets fed back into the calling supply chain and ultimately becomes next season's fashion so literally kind of closing the loop on it that's where we want to get that's that's where we want to get to. discovering the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was deeply shocking i think with organizations like canopy and when you say oh raising awareness there is hope for the future it's a massive challenge but i think in the public are armed with the right information they'll be able to demand more from the retailer is and then we might see a precious forests stop being the victims of fashion.

ecosystems. are just like the systems of the body as long as they are looked after and managed well in the body is in good shape and if they're mismanaged and not cared for the body could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is akin to organ failure in our own bodies if enough of the organs that make up the terrestrial body are removed or are made sick the body dies the again the earth is no different. in each of us has a role to play in fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital and alive or one that is quite bleak and quite brutal it's directly related to.