they're pretty ninety's state and independence. the. calls are not recent calls these calls have been made for decades by the southern people you know it's unfortunate that these this legitimate government is more focused on destabilizing liberated and non the or the lis areas. and to cause chaos over there only to prolong the conflict while they enjoy their stay realit and they. govern a country from the jarius hotels in riyadh france is calling for an immediate end to fighting in the syrian province at least 14 people including children were killed after a suspected russian airstrike in hasse on friday thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting in and around and when government troops supported by russia have been on the offensive in the last couple help province sense april.

still ahead on al-jazeera. rights groups in zimbabwe are accusing the police of using excessive force to disperse protesters. the u.s. congresswoman explains why she rejected israel's offer of a diesel. how i was still got some rather lively weather pushing into western parts of the year if you see this area cloud and right ness just making its way across the north sea into scandinavia comes down across parts of northern france as well stays blustery here but it should be a little dry in place to say as we go through the next couple of days a sunny dry into. but east and there isn't certainly just around potent things

quiet enough for a touch of early morning fall cool set to take a little more unsettled here's a go through the next couple days the breeze will pick up but for saturday 26 else used walsall cold enough which enough a little further east into that western side of russia was going no warmer than around 18 celsius will see the temp just picking up a touch on recent values for london we're about 18 degrees here over the last couple of days 21 on saturday she loves the bright bright and breezy there but a cloud some rain just around the southernmost parts of just easing across the low countries and sinking down is that eastern side of sunshine let's go further south is warm sunshine rod across the maddest looking good here temperatures getting up into the low thirty's over the next couple days not clear whether of course it extends across a good part of north africa change for the top temperature 30 will. whether sponsored by catalona is. talking about ivory poachers who have decimated

populations of elephants in africa they almost always ship the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start your search looking in the wrong place this radiocarbon dating method tell us their trade of ivory is legal then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps the source of the r.v. from entering the network take note at this time on al jazeera. says al jazeera and these are the top stories right now authorities and in the administered kashmir say they have begun to lift some of the restrictions put in

place nearly 2 weeks ago this comes after the un security council held an emergency session which ended without a joint statement. government protesters in hong kong are rallying for the 11th straight weekend expected to be the 1st major demonstration since the airport was shut down after trying to mobilize security forces at the border and chanting. the saudi marauding coalition in yemen has ordered separatists who took over aid last week to withdraw their forces on the port city but the u.a.e. back separatist say they won't leave. for now on our top story despite government reassurances to ease restrictions on any administered kashmir some people are skeptical its promises as tamil has more from new delhi. anger spilled onto the streets of sri lanka following friday prayers nearly 2 weeks after india stripped the region of autonomy and imposed a communications blackout. hundreds vent to their pent up frustration being unable

to move in their own home shut off from the outside world. how many go through if no prime minister or the sees everything is fine here then he should leave the go few. the protests happened as indian officials in the region announced plans to ease restrictions imposed they said to counter security threats el kong going to d.v.d. which has been a blend of sort of. gradually east and. keeping in mind the. polls by terrorist organizations in news in mumbai kind of divinity blog a nice direction. this journalist who spent decades covering couche mir doubts the government's explanation so they can give whatever excuse they want to give it what it would they want to get and people like you and i can be suspicious of it. but don't know whether it's true or not. whatever the

truth it's aspiration is on display in srinagar the indian government says some of its offices of already resumed operating in the region and schools will reopen on monday it also says it will gradually lift restrictions on communications say they'll believe that when and if it happens which they do many of these kasmir students studying new delhi haven't been able to speak to their families back home for nearly 2 weeks. they're wary of indian government promises to loosen restrictions they do lose in the conditions that will lead us to family so we're hoping that a mature lead time it's happening where you can actually have been we are losing for that you know your home is. my peer jane gave. me this we are in a kind of mental seat. while restrictions were relaxed for friday prayers which allowed for these protests for you in the fish near valley seem aware of the plans

to use the lock down all they know is that right now they can't move or live freely says camille al-jazeera you don't the u.s. is continuing to push for the detention of an iranian oil tanker held for 6 weeks and your alter the department of justice has issued a warrant for it to be seized but the ship is still preparing to leave gibraltar by sunday after supreme court charges in the british territory ordered its release a new crew is being assembled on the super tanker has been renamed it will now sail under the iranian flag after its registration was switched from panama. john hendren has more from washington d.c. . the british government says it has ended this seizure of an iranian ship injured . that was alleged to be violating international sanctions but now the u.s. government has filed this in court here in washington d.c. this is a complaint that alleges that iran is violating u.s.

sanctions after the united states pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal in 2018 the u.s. reinstituted a series of sanctions and added some others and the u.s. government is now saying that iran is violating bank fraud money laundering and aid to terrorism sanctions the u.s. instituted as far back as 1977 the united states government says that iran was using shell companies to disguise where this oil was coming from it used the u.s. financial system in violation of u.s. sanctions laws and it says that confidential informants have said that the oil on that ship was destined for syria that's a violation of u.s. and international sanctions and it says the iranian government used falsified papers to allege that in fact that oil came from iraq when it came from iran it also says that the iranian government turned off the transponder on that ship that would alert other ships as to where it was it various times so the u.s.

government now wants to seize that ship and once it to be forfeited the big question here is will the british government help the u.s. by seizing this ship will interpol be involved with the u.s. government tried to seize that ship right now that ship has been freed off the coast of gibraltar and all of those open questions remain the united nations has by its government to stop its crackdown on peaceful protesters that come after riot police use tear gas and batons to break up a protest over the rising cost of living. state authorities have a duty to ensure people's rights to freedom of expression and to facilitate and protect the right to peaceful assembly in addition we urge the senate when reviewing the maintenance of peace and order a bill which is passing through the parliament now. really urge them to protect the essential democratic freedoms of peaceful assembly and demonstration foreign suring

the bill's compliance with the zimbabwean constitution friday's demonstration had been banned but large crowds to 5 police and harare hermit hasa reports in the capital. the what was meant to be a protest over the economy turned into chaos police in zimbabwe had banned the demonstration saying they were expecting violence alleging some opposition supporters were armed a high court judge dismissed an application by the opposition movement for democratic change to overturn the ban opposition leaders then called off the march but some of the supporters were defiant saying they had a democratic right to demonstrate in a show of force pride please remind people what happens in a country with a history of brutally silencing voices of dissent like one of the 100. 1000 boys not free where are we going as a country we're suffering we're hungry we can't afford to send our children to school. was c it but every time the police disperse the crowds some of them kept

trying to come back some opposition supporters are refusing to disperse so riot police are slowly trying to push them back he aims to get them out of the city center the police fear that if people are to stay in this area they could be looting and damage to property many zimbabweans blame president was government economic mismanagement soaring inflation rising food prices and growing unemployment they say they want an end to their misery and to be heard every road leading into iraq is good. it's dopes that thousands and thousands of people that are stopping people from our. march. someone of much of a can of kind of being in a position to parliament it doesn't last for more than one hour but it is good to believe it has been stopped much of a city center was unusually quiet on friday shops and businesses were closed many

people stayed home fearing violence president says fixing the economy will take time and that's a beans a need to be patient but it seems patience is running out how do. simba voice main opposition leader said his m.d.c. party backed down from anti-government protests to avoid bloodshed we didn't want to. wait for them to be. there would be blood in the street what would one want to walk on. to there is a crisis we're going to resolve this. so thousands of women have marched through the streets of mexico city demanding justice after a series of alleged sexual attacks by police officers. the latest cases involving alleged rape of 2 teenagers a 17 year old says she was raped by a group of policeman days later another teen accused

a police officer of raping her in a museum 6 officers have been suspended as part of the investigation allegations have led to outrage over the high rate of violence against women in mexico an autopsy is found jeffrey epstein died by hanging himself in his prison cell this financier was awaiting trial in new york for sex trafficking 2 guards have been suspended and the jail warden given another job for failing to prevent the suicide following epstein's previous attempt and he was previously convicted of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. u.s. president is condemning the u.s. democratic congress so much for an israeli peace as a quote complete set up she had to leap said israel had imposed unacceptable conditions on a request to visit family in the occupied west bank israel had initially banned her and fellow congresswoman hall. and that's because of their support for the b.d.s. global boycott movement that's critical of israel's policies on palestinians have

requested it be said to visit her grandmother. it was pre-term mounted to go to her when i had to deal with this somebody to me they were asking. him you know like my grandmother said i do not think your prayers occurred to her i know you are my dream manifest and i don't want to come back here you don't come here to come is my country and my granddaughter so proud please relatives and palestine say they support her decision they should be good to me shoot the boomers you know for she does visit to her homeland is under conditions we reject that it's for she does right as a palestinian to come and visit her family in country. jordan has more from washington d.c. . on friday to put out a statement saying that her initial decision to accept a visa on humanitarian grounds in essence was undercutting the very reason why she

chose to run for the us congress to stand up for the rights of those whose rights have been oppressed she said that she could not live with herself even though she very much had wanted to spend time with her 90 year old grandmother and with other members of her extended family this prompted an immediate response from the israeli interior ministry which accused the leap of essentially trying to play the visa application process for political gain here in the united states the israeli government recently enacted a law that bans those supporters of the b.d.s. movement or boycott divest sanctions movement from visiting israel or the occupied west bank but because of her status as a member of congress and because she had promised that she would not discuss politics while in the occupied west bank the interior ministry had decided on thursday to give to leave

a visa to visit her family conservation i says to me 55 african alum elephants are killed for their ivory every day and much of it ends up being trafficked or vietnam campaigners are calling for tougher action says the illegal trade as discussed at a wildlife protection conference and switzerland and reports. running wild and free for now at least while elephants aunt on the verge of extinction more countries could lose their herds altogether destruction of habitat complet with people over land and poaching threaten the elephant down a back street in hanoi the capital of vietnam the floor of a timber plant is strewn with elephant ivory the result of illegal poaching part from here but traded in. where it's possible to buy pretty much anything using your phone. one man told an undercover investigator from a group campaigning against the illegal wildlife trade how he's able to open his

contacts in a pool of ivory inside a customs compound standing next to officials who are supposed to stop him campaigners say more needs to be done to tackle the traffickers in vietnam which has become the global hub for the illegal trade writhing there are compelling reasons to use these noncompliance proceedings against vietnam so we are calling on all sides parties and world governments in this month to begin these noncompliance proceedings against vietnam with a view that if significant progress is non demonstrated. that they should be slapped would treat suspensions vietnam is under pressure to reform its practices and has bowed to do more there have been modest increases in elephant populations in kenya malawi in uganda but losses in tanzania mozambique and the democratic republic of congo complex with people over habitat loss is a problem but so too is poaching. that's despite the $989.00 international

ban on the trade in ivory there are estimated to be about $400000.00 elephants in sub-saharan africa it's also estimated $55.00 african elephants are killed for their ivory every day that's $20000.00 a year there is a long standing debate about what the ivory stock should be sold or whether that would provide a burger a cuppa but the illegal trade campaigners say wildlife crime is worth noting that more needs to be done before it's too late and the heywood al-jazeera. take out the headlines right now on al-jazeera authorities and in the administered kashmir say they have started to lift some restrictions imposed nearly 2 weeks ago when india revoke the region's autonomy they say the easing of the lockdown includes the reconnection of phone service as in some areas for the 1st time in 50

years the un security council held an emergency session to discuss the kashmir crisis at the meeting in new york on friday ended without a joint statement we are ready to address these issues in a manner that states who have normal approaches to international ties should address them. i'm innocuous via commit to to the same like limit it's now for pakistan to make that commitment to stop terror to stop ducks the fact that this meeting took place is testimony to the fact that this is an internationally recognized dispute there was an effort to stop this meeting from convening. and we are grateful to all 15 members of the u.n. security council for the green to having this meeting. the saudi coalition in yemen has ordered separatists who took over aden last week to withdraw their forces from

the port city of the u.a.e. back separatists have repeatedly said they will not leave the capturing of the city created a rift in the coalition which has supported yemen's internationally recognized government based in aden. thousands of protesters are herning out for rallies and hong kong's cohen district the city's school teachers braved thunderstorms earlier on saturday to kick off a weekend of demonstrations against beijing's influence and the police response to the protests and opposing pro-government rally is also planned for central hong kong under the banner save hong kong together israel has carried out air strikes on armed groups and the gaza strip that's according to local media palestinians say the strikes on saturday hit farmland and central gaza israel claims 3 rockets were fired into israel a day earlier from the gaza strip thousands of women in march of the streets of mexico city demanding justice after a series of alleged sexual attacks by police officers the latest cases involve the

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in stopping crime. this is techno innovations that can change lives the science of fighting a wildfire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in the unique way. this is a show about science lol or not by scientists tonight techno investigates the ivory trail they've tried to seize it. bernie but nothing has stopped the terrible trade in the legal ivory. now. new tools straight from the lab that could fight a crime that's brought elephants to the brink of extinction giving a caesar is a great victory but it owns already dead. from rita davison is an environmental biologist i am holding a tray of an elephant who should show us the high tech plan to stop the killing.

then céline stranded along a california freeway yes freeway doctor should do some more is a mechanical engineer chill show us what's been done to find out why. this is happening at this stage today feeling distressed and i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist events our team plenty. to know it's do some science. while going to techno on phil toys joined by maria to davison and dr shu some more because there were outlaws out there who are working in the shadows committing horrible acts against defenseless majestic animals we're talking about the ivory poachers who have decimated the populations of elephants in africa and it's really a nominee because ivory guy is for about a $1000.00 a pound more valuable than an illegal drugs and you know what that means is that

the damage has been devastating over 100000 elephants have been killed in just the last 3 years and the question is what can we do about it we found a team of scientists that are using some unexpected weapons d.n.a. and radiocarbon dating check it out. april 18th 2015. customs intercepts 4 tonnes of ivory smuggled in being sacks from the democratic republic of congo. it is the largest seizure in this country's history the ivory on the way to laos seized in bangkok after a tip the seizure makes headlines thai customs displayed over 3 tons of confiscated african ivory worth 6000000 dollars a historic busto by boat from kenya somebody just 900 elephants but the perpetrators of this horrible crime against animals are never caught for law enforcement entities like interpol stopping the killing of

elephants at the source is what's critical. the question ends where exactly is all this ivory coming from they almost always shipped the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached. that's where you start your search looking in the wrong place sam wasser is the director of the center for conservation biology at the university of washington. when it comes to solving the mysteries of the illegal trade wasser has created a coalition of scientists virtual detectives using techniques in d.n.a. structure and from ivory. genetic mapping through dung sampling and radiocarbon dating this multipronged approach attacks a criminal enterprise that's brought the majestic african elephant to the brink of extinction and there's probably only $450000.00 elephants left so the whole focus of our lab is to really try to use d.n.a. assignment of large overseas or. singapore 2000 to 6 and

a half tons of ivory seeds to the largest in the country's history roughly 650 elephants were killed for this haul of ivory. but where in africa did the ivory originate from they assume this much ivory must come from multiple sources authorities send samples to washers lab for analysis right now from anywhere in africa we can assign a seizure of ivory closer than 300 kilometers to where it came from wasser and his team get to work the 1st step is to prepare the samples of seized ivory. we cut off a piece of the ivory and then later we do is we stick that piece inside a plastic tube with a magnet and stain the steel plugs on the end we drop that in liquid nitrogen which cools it to about minus $240.00 degrees celsius so extremely cold within 3 minutes

it comes out like baby powder. is the ivory and it preserves the d.n.a. at the same time that was one of the biggest breakthroughs of our. d.n.a. from the ivory seized in singapore is extracted and analyzed in last year's lab the d.n.a. from the tusks is then matched against a genetic reference map of africa's elephant populations this map has been generated by d.n.a. taken from another source rich in elephant d.n.a. i am holding a tray of elephant hoop not exactly something you'd associate as a tool for fighting international crime but these samples provide critical pieces of data for creating a genetic map of elephants across africa yup collecting dung samples may not be glamorous work but it's a task wasser and his team take seriously we make the map from the dung we take genetic markers out of the dung samples so you see here this map of africa there's

about $1400.00 total samples here and each sample is from a separate family group loesser was able to determine the origin of the 6 and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi it all came from a neighboring country zambia. washer's team had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to poaching basically the study debunked some of the assumptions that you and interpol had about how these activities were working what were those assumptions and so as assumptions that law enforcement general had and one was when you get a big seizure they were cherry picked from all over africa and what we showed is that's not what's happening there in the same area over and over and over again. the plight of the african elephant has been well documented these heartbreaking images were shot in a sanctuary for elephant orphans in kenya from before the biggest enemy of

elephants when the out in the woods mind this 2 year old being bottle fed stood by his mother's body for 3 days after she was murdered for her tusks so 1st you kill the bowls and then you kill the matriarch so now you're destroying the leadership in your group as well as the long term knowledge that these elephants have and when elephants become vulnerable so does the rest of the ecosystem there are these keystone species where you take this one out and it has this huge ripple effect on all these other species elephants are true keystone species. sophisticated transnational syndicates oversee every step of the trade from the illegal poaching to the smuggling of tusks to carving factories and shops around the world. this footage part of an undercover investigation captures a shipping agent explaining how ivory is smuggled out of africa very wrong for the good. we need an urgent method that stops the killing even

getting a seizure is a great victory but the owners are already dead. last month singaporean customs seized another shipment of ivory coming out of kenya and headed for vietnam $3.00 tons worth an estimated. $8000000.00 singaporean authorities have already contacted wasser to oversee d.n.a. analysis washer's lab and now receive samples from over 90 percent of all marj i have receivers what we are trying to really do is to figure out where are the major poaching hotspots across africa his latest study based on d.n.a. analysis of 28 seizures between 19062014 reveals there may be only 2 major hotspots for poaching in africa southern tanzania and a place known as the tri them. when you're saying hot spots you mean hot spots of poaching activity hotspots of seizure activity what are you referring to

a hot spot is a place where you are able to provide multiple tons of ivory repeatedly over multiple years then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on take those out and perhaps choke the source of the ivory from entering the network and unravel it so that's the big plan. a techno crew member is on vacation in thailand when he comes across this all too common display he's told of their ivory pieces offered up for sale for a price the sale of ivory to foreigners is illegal in thailand yet as our camera reveals it goes on as this old newsreel footage shows ivory was once very popular. croft but center is owed but all that changed in 1990 when the international trade

in ivory was made illegal. d.n.a. analysis is one tool that could ultimately help government's crackdown on where ivory is coming from but it can't tell investigators when the killing took place anything post ban is illegal to. what it comes down to is this this radio carbon dating method can tell us if trade of ivory is legal or not kevin you know is a geo chemist who uses a method known as radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ivory this is the part of the tusk that was actually growing when the animal was shot because we need to know when did this elephant die and so this part of the tusk tells us that and so we drove the powder on to this wave paper here. and we collect it into these vials next to ivory powder is combusted and turned into pure c o 2 so what is this we can bust it in this tube it there's other

impurities in there other gases need to get rid of those so that when we measure the radio carbon content we just are measuring the c o 2 gas radiocarbon dating literally relies on the fallout from the events that took place from 1952 to 1963. 1. above ground atomic testing between the united states in the soviet union we basically doubled the radio carbon concentration in the atmosphere now what does that mean then for organisms when you have a spike in radio carbon in the atmosphere what it did do is give them all the unique geochemical fingerprint in their tissues all these photosynthetic organisms trees grasses that sort of thing are taking in c o 2 some of it having carbon 14 in it and in the animals that eat that then also take on that radio carbon signature look there it is you can actually see it's freezing down on the.