do it exactly as you want to do because you know nothing will happen and that's a problem and we have seen statistically when there is law enforcement fires in deforestation goes down when we don't have it it goes up. the fires are still burning but will bolster nado bend on the bay heat of international pressure or bow to the ambition of some his strongest supporters that there al-jazeera ground on your state northwestern brazil. thousands of people have been out on the streets of latin america as well to protest over the fires in the amazon they gathered in rio de janeiro calling for greater action others rallied in colombia and peru chile ecuador and mexico 77000 of fires across brazil have been recorded this year 85 percent increase on 28. now officials in chile said the capital and its outskirts of suffering their worst drought in decades the government has declared an agricultural agricultural emergency in half of its districts chile is among the

countries most affected by global warming in december it will be hosting a global conference on climate change and the news ahead on al-jazeera taking the fight to the kidnappers nigeria's crime crisis where even traveling on trains isn't safe and the syrian government stop its offensive retaking towns lost to rebels early in the war. hello again and welcome back well some better news here across much of japan we're finally seeing an end to a lot of the rain we have seen over the last couple of days and that rain is making its way towards the east right now so for tokyo expect to see a warm day with plenty of sun getting better today at $31.00 degrees by the time we go towards monday though we're going to be seeing clear skies as well as the

temperature at 27 sendai you can be seeing 25 a very nice day for you there well here across taiwan we have finally seen our landfall of tropical storm by lou this storm made landfall on the very southern part of the island bring some very heavy rain across much of the region we're going to be seeing winds right now of 102 kilometers gusting to about $130.00 continue to move to the northwest now the storm is going to be decreasing intensity over the next few days we do expect to see another landfall though in china rainfall totals look like this over the last 13 hours we've seen well over $360.00 millimeters of rain in taiwan even in the philippines lose on we have seen over $250.00 millimeters of rain just in the last 24 hours the rain will continue to still be a big problem as we go towards sunday as well and this is what we do expect to see landfall in china still very heavy rain across much of. the area but by the time we go towards monday the remnants of the storm is going to bring a lot of rain across much of southern china as well as in hong kong. the weather sponsored by catamaran weighs. in the next episode of techno the team travels to

the heart of the amazon. where we are now should be grateful to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic of finding the goal for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging a forest of very high fidelity stream. techno on al-jazeera. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. president is stepping up his country's trade war with china announcing 2 new tariff

increases each of 5 percent donald trump also ordered american companies to return home in retaliation to beijing's decision to impose tariffs on $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods an employee of the british consulate in hong kong has been released by mainland china are off to being detained for more than 2 weeks police say simon chang was arrested during a business trip to shenzhen for violating public safety thoughts thousands of people in brazil and across latin america have protested over the fires in the amazon rain forest president jaya both sonora has now ordered the military in to help. japan says north korea has fired what appears to be 2 short range missiles into the sea off its east coast according to south korea's military they were fired from some duck in south young province japan says they cause no damage but it is the 7th such test in a month and u.s. president donald trump is apparently unconcerned by these latest missile tests no i

don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll see what happens kim jong un has been you know pretty straight with a i think. we're going to see what's going on we're going to see what's happening to the likes of testing missiles but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations that. we tested a very big one the other day as you probably know. mr ritchie is a professor of international relations at hankook university on foreign studies in south korea and he told us the missile tests so the number of purposes. we should always remember that when north korea carries out this will tell us they're always over determined they have more than than one cause so we'll hear certainly that there is messaging involved with the possible coming restart negotiations with the us nuclear ization i would also argue that there are simply testing the deployment

in the fielding of no operational capabilities we're not sure what it is yet could be they can $23.00 could be a mess this could be something else we don't know yet we'll find that out later but there's also cross internal messaging as well this is a way for kim jong anderson the message from his military that even though diplomacy may be ongoing they're also stored values his military and their capabilities to syria where the army has now sees the last pocket of rebel control in hama province reclaiming towns lost early in the most recent government offensive in the northwest intensified in late april hundreds of people have been killed but now parts of italy province are all that remain of rebel held territory after more than 8 years of war but it smith with the support from one town near the syria turkey border. family thought they'd found somewhere to stay the landowner moved them all this is how it's been for hundreds of thousands of

syrians throughout the 7 years civil war traveling further and further north to escape the fighting while this displacement is never ending i never expected to be in this situation no one knows what will happen next the fighters don't seem to know if they should advance or that is jim what advance on that the traffic is mostly one way as people head away from the advancing government forces towards the last rebel stronghold of italy province the syrian regime now controls all of the countryside in our province south of it live after taking over with russian help the last villages and towns that have been in rebel hands so it's all. under the noses of turkish soldiers they're behind this wall in one of a dozen observation posts established to monitor what is supposed to be deescalation zone. is a more than dollars market the our observation posts are not besieged b. and nobody can besiege our troops or observation posts i want to clarify it yes

there are attacks in the region of ad lib the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran turkey is also worried that regime advances to push more than a half a 1000000 syrians to exporter. taking everything that they are giving us a kicking up 36 helicopters over our heads forced us to live on my dad was bonding checking on that our legs turkey's president has told his russian counterpart that syrian military attacks in northwestern syria a causing a humanitarian crisis regine type one told bloody mir putin that what's happening there threatens turkish national security it's one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far there's still no indication that turkey has agreed with the u.s. military on who will patrol this zone and how deep into syria it will go burner to

al-jazeera and taqiyya well the standoff between the u.s. and its allies over iran will be among the contentious issues that are wonderful they come up at this weekend's g. 7 summit in france you've also got a worsening trade war between washington and beijing which we've already talked about and of course climate change diplomatic editor james reports now from barrett's where the g 7 will take place. just hours before the g 7 started and the iranian foreign minister was in paris mohammed jarbidge zarif met with president mccraw no pictures of the meeting were released probably so as not to anger president trump. the meeting behind the closed doors of the palace highlights the very different approaches of the u.s. and europe towards iran however there is a new face at this year's g. 7 u.k. prime minister boris johnson some are speculating with breaks it looming he may

want to consider taking a tougher position on iran in order to win favor with trump. if. really is true and if what he's been doing in berlin and paris has really been a ready ruse of sorts then you're going to see the u.k. pivot towards the u.s. they're going to see. more of the u.s. than his european neighbors and they're going to start seeing a much more aggressive. level of posturing from boris johnson who will be in the company of trump and who will almost be egging him on to start behaving in a way that's more u.s. friendly than you friendly iran is just one of an increasing number of global issues whether 7 leaders are likely to have very difficult discussions the french president has already taken the unprecedented step of deciding not to seek a final communique at the end of the summit because he knows there are no words that will be able to sign up to. a number of other countries have been invited to this year's g. 7 prime minister narendra modi of india will be attending and the growing tension

between his country and pakistan over kashmir is bound to be discussed growing trade wars are also leading to fresh rifts the u.s. and china's difficulties could further destabilize the global economy and here in france the new digital services tax which targets big u.s. tech companies like amazon and google has angered president trump who's even threatened to retaliate with higher tax on french wine. ever since trump took office the issue of climate has been one that's cause divisions that global summits it may well again be 6 of vs one with president macro and the canadian prime minister justin trudeau leading calls for the thousands of fires burning in the amazon to be treated as an international crisis james bays al-jazeera the ritz. ukraine is celebrating the 28th anniversary of its independence from the former

soviet union. this time around there festivities won't be as grand as on previous occasions because the president wants to spend some of the $11000000.00 meant for the big day to pay soldiers bonuses instead. one of tennessee is the most prominent presidential candidate has been arrested on corruption charges. he was detained just outside the capital tunis on friday members of corey's party say it's an attempt to exclude him from next month's election the candidate has been leading in recent polls but the government denies these charges are politically motivated 6 e.u. countries have agreed to take in refugees and migrants who've been stranded at sea for nearly 2 weeks more than 350 people were on board the ocean viking when it docked in malta they've been rescued from the mediterranean off the libyan coast remember malta and italy had initially denied requests for the ship to dock to

nigeria now which is in the grip of a kidnapping crisis thousands of nigerians have fallen victim to a rise in the crime and having to pay millions of dollars in ransom mohammed to reports now from could do you know in an area known as a kidnapping hotspot. taking the fight to the kidnappers these offices of nigeria special into robberies desponding to a tip off kidnappers have decided at this point on the object to do not highway. the thick forest nearby serves as a cover for the guns this highway has been a popular sport for the kidnappers to attack potential victims the police say they're making gains against the kidnappers were over 200 reporters there. yes. we sure need to do a whole lot in last 2 weeks we parted up our summer intern and kidnap suspects. traffic on the highway tells a different story. this was once one of the busiest highways in the country the

highway links the muslim states of the country to the other parts of nigeria now feel motorists are brave enough to travel and. many are choosing not to drive when instead use the train yet even on the trains a squat is a must as the kidnapping guns get bolder and more sophisticated few places appear say. abdul malik muhammad the siniora government official was abducted from his home in the city of could do. then they begin to say ok i should give the money as i don't have money they keep on asking are you have it because we saw cars in your ass country sell those cars we need money you have to give a body if you don't you are going to kill you after 7 days in captivity of the malik was released after paying a ransom but not before being told to deliver a message to the world for it is them as if they give you all that i should be able to tell the government that most of them only poit they are graduate dimity

placement if they're not employed or people kidnapping people. but it's not just frustrated you threw a ton into kidnapping it's now a free for all with both pity and 100 criminals joining in. robert and. was kidnapped and held in a forest by a group armed with machetes he says they tortured him until his family paid or not some of $200.00 we were drinking he said i want to give her a life course would for all through a good hearted church. so or i was in between i was in. the back of my remark i had a quick last one and give me a slap on the record it was all is well up. until now kidnappers in the g.d. had to get the public officials that a litigant for him work is often in the oil industry what is worrying most nigerians about the current we were kidnappings in the country is that no one here feel safe anymore how about the world is either on the border could not hire. some

good news from kenya where scientists say the northern white rhino is one step away from being saved from extinction on thursday they successfully harvested eggs from surviving rhinos in a groundbreaking procedure that explains the. new gene in fact 2 of the only 2 northern white rhinos left in the world they live under 24 hour protection in all projects of conservancy in kenya and that's because both females are the last and only hope of saving the species from disappearing forever. with the help of science sperm was saved from the last little northern white rhino male called sudan and a few others he became famous around the world when he featured on a popular dating app to raise money for an in vitro fertilization procedure since his death the team of international scientists has been racing against time to

fertilize eggs from the gene and fast to. using pioneering technology and millions of dollars later on thursday they successfully extracted 5 eggs from each female. the eggs couldn't be frozen and were immediately flown to a fertilization lab in italy. that is already in the laboratory. so the moderation starts and everything goes well but he also says it will be. it was. for health reasons and the gene in fact you can't give birth so once the embryos are fertilized they'll be implanted into a sorry great southern white rhino instead. demand for rhino horn in traditional chinese medicine as well as things like dagger handles in yemen fueled poaching in

the 19 seventies and eighties largely wiping out the northern white rhino population in africa but if a surrogate 7 mother can produce a baby northern white rhino then these beautiful creatures that have roamed the earth for millions of you may avoid what seemed like certain extinction. from a russian spacecraft carrying a robot the size of an adult human has failed to dock at the international space station problems with the automatic docking system caused the failure of russia's flight control center will attempt to dock again on monday. santa maria these are your headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president is stepping up his country's trade war with china announcing 2 new tariff increases each of 5 percent donald trump also ordered american companies to pull

out this is all in retaliation to beijing's decision to impose tariffs of $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods an employee of the british consulate in hong kong has been released by mainland china after being detained for more than 2 weeks but he was arrested during a business trip to the city of shenzhen for violating public safety laws. thousands of people in brazil and across latin america have protested over the fires in the amazon rain forest president diable sonora has now ordered the military in to help japan says north korea's find what appears to be too short range missiles into the sea off its east coast according to south korea's military they were fired from some dock in south hung province this is the 7th such test in a month however u.s. president donald trump is not concerned by the latest missile tests no i don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll

see what happens kim jong un has been you know pretty straight with a i think. we're going to see what's going on with the what's happening he likes testing missiles but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations that. we tested a very big one the other day as you probably know. the syrian army has pushed rebels out of their last pocket of territory in hama province in the northwest the army took the remaining rebel villages with the help of russian air power and ukraine is celebrating the 28th anniversary of its independence from the soviet union. this time around those facilities won't be as grand as before because the president wants to spend some of the $11000000.00 meant for the big day on paying bonuses to soldiers instead and you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera techno gold at any cost is coming up next.

september on al-jazeera up to gears of war and famine al-jazeera looks at the dramatic transformation emerging to the inspirational stories of diversity p.o.b. and israel elections can benjamin netanyahu the former majority and sometimes another time listening post to 6 the world's media how they operate and the stories they cover do not succeed the natives in president dissent see join us for live coverage as to his united's a documentary that examines the worst atrocities committed during the war in libya . september on al-jazeera. on counting the cost this week we check the pulse of the global economy that age a populist government says the independence of central banks comes of the threat and the other intended consequences of trumps trade all plus the i.m.f.

warns on the missteps of bragg's its trade rules counting the cost. this is techno innovations that can change lives the science of fighting fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware in humanity and we're doing it the unique way. this is a show about science. by scientists. techno investigates gold at any cost. we travel deep into the rain force of peru these illegal mining operations except for miles and miles away from the main highway to uncover a gold rush that's turning lush jungle into utter devastation high pressure water hoses and blasted out and it's not just the land people are stepping into my carry on filled tour as i'm an entomologist i've conducted extensive research in this

rainforest so this story. it is personal really pains me to see this marie today vicinities a biologist specializing in ecology and evolution now she shows us the high tech tools that are exposing what even the i can't see so where it's blood red that's where the mercury pollution is most intense we will share our findings with lindsay merengue she's an ex cia analyst that's our team everything we've been saying it's for this you know it's do some signs. hey guys welcome to techno i'm photo was joined by lindsay moran and marie to davidson this upcoming episode is an important one to me takes place in true have done a lot of my research and it is a tale of contrasts we will see rain forest full of new species and then we will see the devastation that humans have done to extract gold and as we know with

devastating stories like this where there's a lot of damage science can play are all here not just in monitoring and discovering what's going on but in trying to help process i think this is a story having looked at some of the images that one image of the devastation pretty much says it all absolutely this is an important story it's one that's very near and dear to my heart and it starts in the proving rain forest. and. the amazon rain forest for more than 50000000 years it's been a cradle of life. this is what pristine rain forest looks like. rush. untamed. bursting with wildlife. but maybe not for long because the soil underneath is

laced with gold and the human desire for it can turn all of this. into a toxic waste land like this. this is love pompa in the buffer zone of the pot to national reserve it's part of more than $100000.00 acres of rainforest and truth that have been decimated by an illegal gold rush. to investigate techno travel deep into prove to a region called bodger it did the us the mother of god it's one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet and the source of 70 percent of the illicit gold produced each year in peru fled into the area called mighty strong look out the window at all but. we arrived at. the regions capital in a gold mining. is

what it is. an estimated 30000 illegal miners word in modern day that the u.s. chances are you might find some of them here to sell gold or buy equipment i stopped into one of the shops to look around at a place called amazon gold and right we walk in there's a sign this is gold order meaning i buy gold and as i exchange my money there was a little scale right in front of me still had some gold dust on it from past exchanges but this sign was removed as soon as our camera was spotted. perth tomorrow malo is also a place in transition while many of its roads are still dirt paths the new intro hsien of highway his opened up the area to the wider world people come from all over the country to work the golf fields here miles luis ferdinand. directs the carnegie amazon mercury ecosystem project he's been studying gold money toxic

legacy in the amazon since 2000. so now miners have better access to the remote force they can get their equipment their trade everything's easier because of that highway everything's easier it's essentially part of the perfect storm that is mother. so not only do you have a brand new highway that makes transport easier you have record high gold prices and the preexisting condition of extreme poverty. tell me about this illegal gold mining what is a process where really on the edge between the amazon in the indies and erosion over millions of years has worn down the rocks of the andes which are gold rich and all that sediment has washed down the river. next stop a mining area near look pumpa but that can be dangerous for an outsider. the only way into this spot is on the back of

a motorbike. the going is tough. and . makeshift bridges don't always hold up. as we get closer to trees give way to something hard to grasp. impossible to put into words. and so where we are now should be rain forest and get the rain but the forest is missing having done so much work in the areas that have perceived rain forest it really pains me to see this the only way to get a handle on the devastation is to. stand how illegal miners get to the gold. they

start by clearing the trees so the process is one that's very very primitive. you use high pressure water hoses and blast it out. of water dissolves the soil removing anything in it that's organic you concentrate it using sluices which kind of looks like a slide where you run a slurry of the sediments over carpets. which captures the tiny flecks of gold that you find in the sediments the process can turn primary rain forest into this in a matter of days. something in the bud this is president of a small community of miners who work them on one river nearby even she was disturbed by the level of destruction other miners had done to this land. and that the. bed they want to fit on but mining does more than strip of forest

bare miners bring in mercury to extract those tiny flecks of gold. mercury has a very unique characteristic of binding with gold forming an amalgam for a minor it's almost like magic if there's any question as to whether or not this area was contaminated with mercury the answer is right here. in the film amazon gold documented miners working with mercury at a mine deep in the rainforest people are stepping into mercury people are stepping into that mix of sediment mercury and water and stopping on it like you would grapes. because you need all those little pieces of gold to touch the mercury to be able to capture it manu any minor john valdez works with mercury almost every day and he has moved choreo it into the. it is.

it because you can you can put out a lot. and i don't have the money. to look at it it looked ok because i don't know yet that the. miners can also be exposed to mercury vapors that's because once they extract their malcolm they have to burn off the mercury to get to the gold so these miners are touching mercury they're breathing mercury one of the health effects so the top american way that these miners are exposed to is extremely toxic especially when you breathe it. in starts to a fact that liver kidneys the digestive system and starts to affect the central nervous system. today the money miners aren't working because of the rain but john bob is showed the equipment he used just 2 days ago to burn mercury off a piece of gold. everything we've been saying it's for this is about 3 grams of gold which translates into $100.00 which the average worker here could make in

about 3 days. that's a lot of money. the average for worker makes less than $200.00 a month that lure of gold is changing the face of the amazon as jungle is replaced by mining camps like this magnets for crime underage prostitution and poverty. symbols of gold at any cost. in 2013 hunting images of the toll illegal mining had taken on the proving amazon went viral the video was taken by the carnegie airborne observatory a high tech plane developed by greg as nerve from the carnegie institution's department of global ecology. what is it about these mining activities that are so destructive from let's say from an environmental

perspective 1st gold miners not only remove the forest to go down below the soil surface down into what would be called the mineral soil below the biologically active part of the soil so deep in the soil that there isn't a science to tell us that there's forest could ever recover. the devastation exposed from above was dramatic but it was also only part of the story the aircraft but south fitted with all sorts of cool technology but how did you use some of that technology to 0 in on what was happening in terms of gold mining yeah one of the key technologies on board the plane is a laser imaging system what it does is we fire laser beams out of the bottom of the plane the lasers can penetrate all the way down to the forest floor and so what we end up doing is we end up imaging the forest in very high fidelity 3 d. . most of the work that had been done on this gold mining problem was using satellites that see some of the larger mines we started finding that there was

a much larger contribution from thousands of small mining operations that weren't known and suddenly we had a problem to report the rate of gold mining expansion tripled after the 2008 global recession if you are on a typical amazon river before seems like it's intact all around you but this is that same river that we just were on in the boat. when we peel the forest back we reveal the ground which is shown on the right here and what we see here are gold mining operations there so by and large they're said back from the river's edge so that they are being executed clandestinely the observatory also has a one of a kind spectrometer which can detect chemicals in the forest below including mercury our system is unique that it can measure.