the area is hearkens gray stronger and the protective marshes disappear. i can tell you about all of them have came from here bad thing or drill coming you and katrina reading this. i think is camille ma hard drive about 300 feet away and for andrew. in the middle of the room right down. here the biloxi chichi much of a native american tribes have lived for centuries but the chief is reluctantly conceding that the moment has come to make a change we're now in the last 7 years the last 7 percent of our people there so i mean so we don't know how much of all of this is going to be here there is one levy plan to salvage some of the communities along the southern coast but it may come at the expense of others like chief not queens people we want to move as a community because of our heritage the history we have here on niland and to try

to keep the culture to get also. he has also a government for aid to relocate but some on the island are resisting his plan i don't want to. cast me something. and it's a life or death. but the majority say they are ready to face facts after years of rebuilding and recovering from the old slaughter of nature you can't plant anything here you can't grow any animals here the parents have to bring their children to school if we want groceries in the waters on the road without either do without or tried to watch the water go down and then and then come back what's left is mostly memories among the ruins and all of this was beautiful they had trees and they had the land out there where you could walk and it's going to feel good again to be safe. it took the mississippi river 7000

years to build the coast of louisiana it took less than a century to wash away a 3rd of it to understand how we don't at this point have to go back 80 years to the time of huey p. long he was a visionary state governor he helped create much of what we see today the streets the levees built to protect the city the bridges and the canals all help the state of louisiana it hold it out of poverty but there was a floor in the plan without the sediment brought down by the mississippi river the line started to subside. the night he sees long he had consolidated enormous political power again unprecedented public. aimed at lifting residents out of poverty and bringing more industry to the state. that when you roads bridges there were dogs for ships and with all of this along

came the only industry. bricks began sprouting up along the bayous and canals with dredged across the fields to facilitate drilling volume supply but. we unleashed forces that we did not quite understand and it's. very bad outcomes. roy is a professor at louisiana state university if you started using g.p.s. technology to study how the surface shifts. it's revealed that data that everybody had been relying on for decades had been exaggerated or here we can actually see today 12 satellites the reality is that the land is actually lower than records show which means the threat is fog greater than people think initially there was a number of people. denied it they didn't want to hear it in fact they actively

worked against even the publication of this work but over time. the reality c.t.m. because now people are beginning to see this effect wherever they go. because not only the wetlands that are in trouble were on the east side of new orleans in a place called lake forest it is a quite enough community but it's what lies beneath that's a problem. in this neighborhood just on the edge of new orleans you can see subsidence in action foundations opened up by the sinking ground and you can't park a car you know garridge because the driveways and more than a foot below the entrance so. the problem is nobody can agree on a solution coastal restoration efforts have been underway for 2 decades but for every square kilometer of land that the government has by the saved or created 5

square kilometers have been lost to the gulf these internal bombs become big big and big and they carry some pay more so as a marine biologist and director of the teddy bone national estrie program we couldn't build a land where there was a land before but we can build land where. there was land before we can build a ridge where there was land before. because you have the the foundation to support that land sampai and others reject the idea that more levees will save the the land all towns instead he and other support a 2 pronged plan to pump in massive amounts of new settlements and allow the mississippi river to restore the rest of the river is the key it's the only way to get the the most efficient way of holding on to what's still left and it will take a lot of money. there's no question that we cannot afford this alone.

there's no question that you know that this is dot a louisiana problem alone this is a national problem and will require a national commitment without making that neglect and we've been forgotten we're basically 'd being ignored by the federal government. meanwhile virtually all the practices that exacerbated land loss were allowed to continue and in some cases even encouraged. i don't want to be critical of my federal government but they really did do a whole bunch here constraints it is a hobbit policeman he took us to a place where many believe the only hope to save southern louisiana lines. wolf you show is a cluster of sport fishing camps in a gated community surrounded by huge dogs it is a city of ships in the marshes with supply vessels for the $500.00 or more oil rigs out in the gulf of mexico. a 3rd of america's oil and natural gas comes through

here accounting for hoffa the nation's refinery output about despite all of this industrial capacity just a small slice makes it into the coffers of the state. out of the $7000000000.00 in revenue louisiana receives less than one percent. and people just don't understand the importance and the benefits to that song for example watson as a country but the price of his few buy for the seafood his ability to get his grain to market is all the pan that point south louisiana functioning properly and that understanding of that. there is a congressional plan to reroute funds to states like louisiana but not until 2017 many observers say that will simply be too late. when i was a little boy my grandfather used to say this was the bank. if you needed

money you went to the bank caught it sold it and got your money but it's not like that any more. government regulation salt water intrusion habitat destruction you know these guys here they're all dying they're getting old and there's no one morning getting there my generation or the next generation may very well be the last of this. this is place a tipping point in the balance between man and his into. an is this river delta fated to be a clarion call for help humans and nature must strike a better balance so that both can survive. they rob the bank they're all the bank that's a good way of putting it yeah they were on the back. losing louisiana from 2009 but some dire warnings about what the next decade would bring

so 10 years on we asked clock analogise the u.s. environment correspondent to return to louisiana to find out of the anticipated death of the delta became reality or whether to quote mark twain those reports turned out to be grossly exaggerated. i'm on my way back to by the force in southern louisiana to catch up with window curio his job is to maintain the levee that surrounds it protects this area from the elements. very stay when the great ladder you have you know it shaves a bit well and i reckon. that's good. when we were last here

how much have we lost since then or is. as in the last 10 years we're losing about how we use the road back in the 70s we're losing about 70 square miles a year down to maybe 15 square miles ok it's still substantial but it's less so it was 70 years no 15 when i was a kid i mean you would see open water from the room it was just solid more used to so the canal the side road the used to build the road but it was all the more you look at it right now from when i was a kid i was more $951.00 where you would have 85 percent was land then more so now 90 percent is open water. to live in relative security in this part of the world you need a huge amount if you didn't get it i'm walking on a hard levy which. all the way around in circles 3 communities $26000.00 people right here is the town of gold medal a gold medal is several feet below sea level and the sea. is just here on this side

of the levee that is the front edge of the gulf of mexico and without this hurricane levy gold medal the other communities would not exist. but some parts of be left to the enemies this is the once thriving community of leaving which unlike golden meadow has no levee to protect it from rising sea levels or even minor storms the course with the levels to rise. that. it's a lot of these kids. you know we had there was a lot more than that. imagined this land all of this land being fortified hardness today that's what people. yeah there was as you say there was

a cemetery right that wasn't right and that took a boat out to it and you can clearly see the tombstone sticking out of water or not it's just it's just flat right. to the community here in e. ville 10 years ago it was about what's a 30 yeah and i think it just it's been a continuous you know from the 1915 hurricane it's been losing population and then 10 years ago it might have that you know but now we're down to 6 feet. you see this area though we look at the golden meadow golden meadow would look just like this just like this if you didn't have a lot. i met this man and sold his family a fish these waters for generations but he now faces the very real prospect of losing everything here here. this is right yes.

around. this is. one of the last remaining level residents the death of the mississippi delta is very much a reality. and when you hear a storm is brewing you just you just start praying you have to you have to pack and go you know they make you leave and then you don't know if you coming back to in their areas do things in there preserving their land and areas it's not there's no future in them or future for residue. it hurts it hurts to know that. you have to move and i know we'll have to move on no we'll have to leave here.

there was nothing in the water you'll have water. if she's right and in 10 more years time there will be no records and they leave this whole area will be underwater and in the gulf of mexico. well that's it from us join us again next week and do check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series but for now thank you for joining us and we'll see you again sir. in just 20 years. on from been some it. will be a lot of those if one sold some. many to move them to such

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streets of so was rallies are also under way in your cairo this comes after thousands went on the streets across the country on friday dozens of people were arrested during clashes with police at an anti c.z. demonstration in the capital the protests were sparked by an online call from the prominent egyptian businessman and actor muhammad ali he's in self-imposed exile in spain and has been calling for protests in regular videos which have gone viral across egypt well the former government contractor has posted a new message on social media modalities calling on egyptian security forces to move president sisi from power by next friday or he says millions will take to the streets. i'm still waiting for a response from the defense minister and security forces saying the c.c. is out he is no longer fit for this next friday is ultimatum i'm waiting for that

decision and the next step is a multi 1000000 man march we started in our local streets next friday we will take to the major square. there is banned from reporting in egypt but we have our correspondent with us right now in our studios here jamal 1st i'd like to start with that caller we saw from that businessman and actor him ahmed ali well what do you think do you think it is enough to gain traction or more protesters out and why is the military targeted this time so it's important to remember early in the end of the day isn't a political figure he's not somebody with the same maybe grab. some of that but are you before the 2011 you are praising he's not a movements like the prospects or the muslim brotherhood so. whilst his videos are significant because they have helped trigger something similar to for example who are these internees year in the fact that he was unknown before he lets himself he

wasn't exactly somebody very important but there are underlying issues that have been fermenting for some time and he's maybe one of those 2 kind of quarter cliche the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back whether the camel's back actually gets broken we'll wait and see over the next few days so his call isn't necessarily because people connect with him or because they must certainly agree with a certain ideology for anything he's actually a political he hasn't come out with any demands other than that either for the sisi resign but the fact that he's been able to come at a time prove what everybody already knew that there was so much corruption but whilst the president kept telling people be patient egypt is a poor country the state doesn't have enough funds to subsidize living costs the fact that that has happened and now he's saying ok i'm going to release more videos and people need to continue to go out on the streets it's given a certain encouragement and maybe the political nature of mohammed ali is something that is welcomed across the pro democracy kind of camps in egypt because it allows

for people to unite over one thing which is a call for better governance rather than get bogged down in. internal politics over the rules and islamists and so forth what's important about momentum here is that if we're going to look from here until next friday is there needs to be if this is going to come into something bigger constant protests we've seen now for the 2nd night and a role will be speaking about that now but also very important the return of university started to make life young people whether they're going to start mobilizing their own ways that could very well lead to a week of activism that has never been seen since under fatah over power through the military coup in 201324 hours ago the center of the gravity of these protests seem to be tarrier square which which fomented that 2011 revolution but tonight we're seeing protests in suez but that too seems to be a center or a place where there's a lot of attention on our unrest can can you explain the significance of suez so

there is a specific significance to sure as a city and there is maybe an understanding that needs to be broken down with regards to how these popular movements in the arab world but specifically in egypt are able to gain traction if we speak about sewers 1st if you are talking about the city that is very industrial there is a lot of fracture workers as well as working class people there it is this city obviously which is most depends its local economy on the suez canal which is always been one of the main lifelines of the egyptian economy because it's been a source for foreign currency with taxes being imposed on maritime traffic going through it now why is it even more significant now aside from the fact that it's had a history of mobilization resistance even during the wars that egypt for through its most significant because of fatah has sisi spent millions of dollars and this is something exposed by him from a valley in his videos on the expansion of the suez canal and he spent those

dollars not out of state funds but actually by rallying on the egyptian people telling them give up your savings in. rest in the suez canal and you will get a return well several years have gone since the expansion happened nobody has seen not a single penny has been paid back to the people so for the people of sewers to come out and protest when they should be the ones if he she was being honest about his great governance they should be actually the 1st people supports him is a clear indication that not only has he failed economically but also the support and he did have popularity even despite the group that has waned a lot what's also significant very quickly here is to break down is that whilst as you mention obviously tahir has its symbolism because of 2011 but the more protests it's not necessarily about the size of protests and numbers but the size of protests in terms of how many take place because the security forces can't be everywhere at the same time so when you have significant protests and sewers and alexandra in cairo in these and 100 and so forth that will exhaust the security

apparatus which already the average soldier doesn't get paid enough works very long hours and valleys where you could get a breaking point where either they get run off the streets of greece or on january 28th 2011 or could very well switch allegiance and realize that the people they're firing on are their own compadre its and relatives and so forth and the military and security forces is key to all of this but. you know. since he came into power he's made illegal unauthorized protests illegal people are out there on the streets at great risk to their safety can you explain what what is driving this desperation for them to put their personal search safety on their lives to be out on the streets so we're going to hear a lot of different people analyzing different kind of trends and political things let's put them to the side and just speak numbers and facts right world bank tells you up to 60 percent of the egyptian population lives either on or below the poverty line what's not true dollars

a day so we're talking about 60 percent of $100000000.00 people living on or below true dollars a day that's enough to make somebody lose patience at some point you're talking about $40000.00. and according to human rights watch and amnesty international other rights organizations political prisoners $40000.00 each one of those friends and families and so forth and prisons are notorious for the torture and so forth but also something that builds discontent you're talking about false promises that have been made of egypt being turned into the most developed country and so forth and people seeing on t.v. a certain image of other fatah has sisi and his regime that doesn't match the reality you're having this new administrative capital these palaces coming out last week said yes i've built palaces and i will continue to build palaces when you have people literally struggling to feed their family that is enough to make people at some point say enough is enough yes i might die or might be arrested but if i'm quiet i could also starve to death or nothing's going to change that's one element

to another element to it is the demographics the age a lot of the people we've been seeing in these videos are young people you're talking about in their late teens so they didn't necessarily witness firsthand the branch of the military that was responsible for the massacre of 2013 they were still maybe 1112 years old 6 years on now they're 171819 just going to university and that may be that fear factor for them is a bit less from the others who witnessed that they haven't and carnage essentially who may have been more reluctant to take to the streets. great to have a onset and to explain much of what's going on there of course we'll be following developments for that thank you well as the protests rock the country just president of the c.c. is in new york for the united nations general assembly and we are just seeing these pictures of protests in new york where people are holding banners again fifi he

will be giving a speech before the assembly on wednesday where he's expected to outline egypt's vision. mike hanna now joins us live from washington a mike so while he has faced criticism for his heavy handed approach towards the protests or previous protests he's also enjoyed a warm relationship with president trump is that likely to change. very unlikely that that will change and it's a very strong relationship indeed president trump invited to receive to the white house shortly after he was made president he's met with him now on a fairly regular occasion he describes him as a strong leader who's done a fantastic job in egypt is what president trump says he also a strangely enough at a meeting of the g. 7 last months said at one stage where is my favorite dictator according to a number of people who were present at that particular meeting but he met the

egyptian president f. g. 7 summit and of course he's going to be meeting him again on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly next week so regardless of the human rights abrogation is within each of president trump has never made any comment about that the white house has stayed completely silent while many in congress have expressed deep concern about the human rights record in egypt and have called into question that $1400000000.00 that the u.s. pays a jew egypt each year thank you very much mike hanna live for us in washington dalia fahmy is a senior fellow at the center for global policy in washington d.c. and she says these protests have taken everyone by surprise i think what we saw last night was unprecedented not knowing when to sit here and the fear barrier that president instituted all over the cover all over egypt that will be years to grow can't be broken by on.