truths from the inside. witness the women of myself. on how to see. these are the top stories here it is here these are the latest pictures of the british prime minister boris johnson he's in new york and he is facing his latest setback it came from the u.k. supreme court he didn't respond to questions about the court which earlier declared his suspension of palm and unlawful the speaker of the lower house of commons says calm and will resume on when say i have contacted party leaders and where that has not been possible senior representatives of

political parties in order to inform them of my thinking and to prepare the way for the house of commons to do its work for the leader of the main opposition party jeremy cool then has called all new boris johnson to resign. and i invite boris johnson in the historic words to consider his position. of the e.u. and big. and they come they and because i got that message and become the shortest serving prime minister this ever be. well now from our correspondent there his that at the labor party conference. here in the labor party conference people were glued to the screens in their mobile devices watching the

scenes in the supreme court when the decision came through there were a lot of cheers lots of people patting each other on the back and then within minutes the party leader jeremy colvin unexpectedly popped up on the main stage now he said well of course he welcomes the judgement he said it shows that boris johnson has acted wrongly he said he's shown contempt for democracy and the use of power he says the supreme court i have now passed the baton on to the speaker of parliament he would be demanding that m.p.'s be recalled straight away he said but a labor government by contrast to the conservative government would want to be held to account by parliament obviously this was a very very welcome decision here in brighton there were chants of johnson out in that main whole now we didn't hear jeremy corbyn specifically talk about

a no culprits vote in the house of commons but we can expect that to be something at the top of his west if and when m.p.'s do return to westminster people here certainly certainly welcome the decision parts the big question is when. will there be a general election some people here are still not convinced that the that the numbers are very in terms of how many seats a labor might win what they're brick's it policy means for electability right now though there is relief and support for the supreme court decision the yemen 50 fighters say is saudi led coalition air strike in the south of the country has killed at least 13 the bomb hit a residential building in our province on monday in a strike in the province killed 7 people all members of the same family they were hiding in

a mosque the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding are adding to major concerns about security just days away from the presidential election the government says the army was targeting a taliban training base spain's supreme court has ruled that the government can examine the remains of the former leader general francisco franco franco currently lies in the valley of the fall and that's i'm also live for the civil war dead his descendants and right wing politicians have opposed removing his remains he will now be moved to a family tree and the ruling comes as parliament was dissolved and elections declared right those are the latest headlines for us here at al-jazeera coming up next manmade invents of all threat.

it's bad enough to catch a disease naturally but to take a disease and turn it into a weapon to enhance the disease to make it more virulent or more contagious or resistant to known vaccines particularly again it's kind of goes off the charts there it's turning mother nature against us. weapons that destroyed by spreading deadly diseases have

a long in unhappy history billions of dollars have been spent by governments to create pathogens that can cause fatal illnesses even today some countries are stockpiling just such a deadly arsenal in a widely reported news conference syria has admitted as much. or perhaps more dangerous than the age of rapidly advanced technology it's quite possible for individuals or groups to create biological mayhem. 12 countries that are battling an outbreak of a nasty strain of e. coli live theater streams of all the consequences of this would be longer just not a libya harm see image i know alison interests you want to tune in for the clearly this is not mission critical 16 people have already died identify the source of this because like contamination has become ever more urgent some have even suggested that this super super resistant strain recall i could have been

engineered in a lab. the world health organization calls the deliberate contamination of our food one of the major biological threats of the 21st century. in the modern globalized economy where food gets transported all over the world there are a lot of opportunities for somebody to contaminate food with with biological agents . and i don't want to go into much detail but there was a an article that was published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences about. some touching dairy products milk using branch line talks and you can cause horrible damage with death many thousands of coffee.

kolchak's and is a senior scientist at one of the united states most important biological laboratories. that is kind of frightening when you think of loss of 2 different passes will somebody get so i think there are a large population or a small part of the population what goes with food and there are cases in the are not so this will pass for people about that. oregon authorities announced that the most serious biological attack in u.s. history was carried out not by foreign terrorists but by the followers of a homegrown religious cult. salad bars and 10 oclock restaurants were deliberately contaminated with salmonella. 751 people were poisoned and 45 hospitalized as disciples of korea right knew she sought to incapacitate voters and see their own candidates when the 1984 was a go county election.

the sun the incident occurred in the united states the biological attacks could happen anywhere in the world and so father has not been a coordinated global plan about how to deal with this. i know. 6 the word terrorism evokes images of airplanes smashing into office towers of bombs blowing up in markets these remain real threats so do attacks by chemicals mustard gas defoliants on nerve agents. but there is something even more

insidious biological weapon see. that's the whole point of terrorism is this to put enormous psychological pressure on the audience to try to reach for talking about biological agents i mean unseen in many cases that you can smell them for that very reason those kinds of weapons have a much more powerful psychological impact audiences. even going 5 people with a bio if you would would be more scary than killing $200.00 people with a conventional explosive it's been no confirmed. this is a bad press in britain but it's been a day of false alarms the sorting office in liverpool was closed down and workers were forced to leave the stock exchange in london for a short time today police say people should stay calm but vigilant the latest victims in florida the scene of the 1st outbreak of anthrax 5 new cases reported by the american media company overnight on the basis of blood tests carried out on every employee the fact that this seems to be spreading 10 days after the 1st victim died confirmation of america's worst fears never mind the source then the

point is the kind of on capitol hill today you could hear loud and clear threats from biological and chemical agents are real. following the $911.00 attack and the 2001 anthrax murders the united states government poured billions of dollars into homeland security experts from around the world where tractor to well funded scientific laboratory and think tanks high on the list of threats to be investigated was the use of deadly pathogens as weapons a long and ugly stain on the history of mankind oh my gosh warfare 1st reared its head when man started fighting man you know whether it was putting scorpions in a clay pot and tossing him at your enemy or taking bodies people who had died from the plague and tossing them over city walls in medieval times poisoning water supplies these are all ancient techniques and biological warfare but it was only

during the major wars of the last century where science started just to conduct this time. the real danger of the real threat was the beginning of the 20th century you're moving into bombs airplanes and the. really is of microbiology. doing the sino japanese war the japanese government engaged in a massive biological weapons program between 19401943 japan dropped hundreds of bombs infected with deadly germs on 11 chinese cities.

as many as 200000 chinese citizens perished. they did initially the attacks on northern cities with plan aig and people did die and then later in the early part of the 1940 s. there were more aggressive attacks where they used anthrax planters cholera and other diseases. martin for months is a united states pathologist with an interest in medical history in 1998 a colleague sent him a package containing autopsies performed on chinese victims years before i opened it up and they were page after page of these people murdered by biological weapons . it was the 1st time and one of the few times when i looking at it.

i could feel palpable evil and there were. docked with a man's discovered that some of the victims of japanese bombing had survived in 2000 to travel to their villages they're called rot making villages for the simple reason that people who were there in the summer of 1942 got rotten eggs when you interview these people you get a very similar story a lot of people started getting boils. take a breath now going to get the very latest was it have been answered by the british prime minister boris johnson who's just been reacting to that supreme court ruling in the u.k. which judge that his suspension of parliament was unlawful he is in new york and this is what he had to say 1st of all your response to the supreme court ruling yes

obviously this is a budget that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices have done and i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course upon the come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway more do that but the most important thing is we get on and live a brick sit on october 31st and this is clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to frustrate that and to and to stop that i think i'd be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which of the people want delivered more difficult but well we'll get on you say you want to get on with the queen's speech but you can't prove the court found that would be unfair on undemocratic at this time i'm not certain that the justices did say that i mean i think that they certainly thought that the

purgation that we chose was not something that they could approve of it's an unusual. judgment to you to come to in my view parliament has used purgation. many. of the we need per the program of a purgation is a very old one and i think being contested before in this way the main thing is look we're going to get on and deliver better all to the 31st and yes of course it will have to come back but. you know i will respect that and get on with it so you mean some press ahead with a fresh as it. should even though the code is given the vote of the highly critical verdict that it has because as of now parliament is still sitting in session that's that's right but i don't think that the justice is remotely excluded the possibility of having a queen's speech but what we will certainly do is ensure that column and has plenty of time to debate breaks it publishing debating breaks it for 3 years solidly. now

has a chance for us to get a deal come out of the e.u. all of the 31st and that's we're going to do the co-found that you know actions are not in the unlawful but essentially undemocratic do you not feel some some form of some expression of regret or even apology might be required well as i say i strongly disagree with this decision of the of the supreme court i have a respect for ah judiciary i don't think this was the right decision i think that. the 2 of purgation have been used for centuries without this kind of like this kind of challenge it's perfectly usual to have a queen speech that's what we want to do but more importantly let's be no died there are a lot of people who want to frustrate there are a lot of people who basically want to stop this country coming out of the e.u. and we have a parliament that is unable to. be parades unable to doesn't

what happened election. and i think it's time we took things for you so you wouldn't extend breck said but how do you avoid doing that now you've run out of options on the country. the law as the law currently stands the u.k. leaves the e.u. on october the 31st come what may but the interesting thing that would be exciting thing for us now is to is to get a good deal and that's what we're working on and. it's not made much easier by this kind of stuff in in in parliament or in in the course it would be getting a deal. he's not made much easier against this background but we're going to go on do you just finally you say as the law stands we leave on october 31st that's not true is it as the rule stands we cannot leave with no deal on the 31st without the permission of parliament as the law stands we vote the 30000 i'm very. hopeful that we'll get a deal and i think what the people of the country want is to see parliamentarians

coming together. what he on. in the national interest to get this thing done and that's what we're going to do when mr thank you. for the latest comments from boris johnson in new york talking to journalists where he's reacting to that supreme court ruling listening to that with us is right chalons he's there in london outside parliament and rory barr still to not seeming to be too terribly phased by what most people are considering to be a massive judgment that's going to get said. no there was no contrition from boris johnson whatsoever and as you say savingly phase this is the famous boris johnson bluster really to. keep on when the headwinds seem to be blowing again 7 boy have they been blowing against him since he became prime minister the last 6 votes in the houses in the house of commons and

he has now heads on precedented ruling against him from the u.k. supremum courts which found that he was unlawful in probing suspending parliament for 5 weeks so we had reports there questioning boris johnson and boris johnson saying that he strongly disagreed with the decision of the supreme court even though he said he at the utmost respect for that you just free. now this was crucial he was asked about. what next does and he said what he wants to get on with the queen's speech the reporter asked him to clarify whether that meant another programme gratian another suspension of parliaments and boris johnson said yes absolutely that is going to be a red flag to m.p.'s in the party in parliaments who have been called back now john bercow the speaker has called parliament back to say it's from

10 30 am g.m.c. tomorrow. parliament will be receiving normal business jeremy corbett has moved forward his speech at the labor party conference so that he can go back parliaments and be there in time for it to start tomorrow morning john major a former prime minister conservative prime minister of the united kingdom has called for boris johnson to make a repair and apology to parliament saying that no prime minister should be able to treat parliament or the monarch in this way again but as we just heard from boris johnson there is no apology right and jerico been the leader of the main opposition labor party of calista is leading this charge of opposition m.p.'s who are calling actually for boris johnson to resign now does he mention that whatsoever but it looks very much as though he has no intention of quitting. no i would

be incredibly surprised if forest and suddenly fell on his sword he is not that type of man and. all his behavior thus far suggests that this is not the likely course of action for him to take so if opposition leaders want to get rid of boris johnson then there are 2 ways of doing that there's either accepting his challenge of an election and defeating him at the ballot box or if they want to get rid of him before that then they have to call a vote of no confidence in the government and bring him down that way if they were going to do that essentially what they need to do is establish some sort of caretaker government sticker takeover and that's where things get complicated and things get difficult for opposition parties because gerry swinson the leader of the liberal democrat says that she does not want that person leading

a caretaker government to be jeremy corbyn the leader of the labor party there are many other people who do not want jeremy corbyn to be the leader of any kind of caretaker government so working out who might be there in jeremy colvin's place is going to be a difficult thing if opposition parties decide that a no confidence vote is what they want to do the prime minister has no intention of quitting it would appear but what we do know is that from john bercow the speaker is was and indeed him from jay since i'm the leader of the lib dems they are going to converge upon polymers they're going to resume business as normal and can they get on with anything constructive anything really useful when the head of government is out of the country they need him to be in position if for instance they were to launch a vote of no confidence against him does he have to be there. well i think one thing that we have seen. over the last few weeks since boris johnson

became prime minister is that britain is essentially not being governed fund the governments anymore the government has no majority in the house of parliament he just isn't that when he threw towards he wanted his own m.p.'s outs of the party for voting against his policies and he also lost other m.p.'s in defections so this is not a government that actually has any majority in parliament it's not a government that has any control of parliament so what parliament does now is kind of up to parliament itself it's up to these m.p.'s to work out where they want this to go next boris johnson is right though the the deadline for bret's it is the 31st of october that has not been changed for some months now but we have had recent legislation as we've just heard there saying that the united kingdom cannot crash

out of the e.u. without a deal unless parliament the size of that's what that's what it wants to do they have not done that yet to be question is what happens between now and the 31st of all this that we are still in uncharted territory we still do not know what is going to happen absolutely right thank you very much indeed right let's go over to new york now outside the u.n. is that of a massacre that's james bays and james. what's barra's johnson said joan i can dissent he's due to be meeting the irish prime minister to talk about life after brett said any ideas whether he's going to stick to his shadow and indeed what about the speech to the general assembly. yeah we're watching very closely to see when we see the u.k. prime minister clearly extraordinary political developments playing out in the u.k. a prime minister who says he respects the opinion of the supreme court and then

goes on and basically says that he doesn't just agree with tolls so doesn't really respect it all playing out at a time when he's not in the u.k. he's here at the most important gathering of world leaders the high level week of the un general assembly he has a number of different meetings arranged he's jew to see president trump in a couple of hours and that that meeting unlike the 2 weeks to escape the press because both the u.k. journalists who are in the so-called pool and the white house pool of journalists will be there and they'll be trying questions to both leaders of course the actual start of the high level week of the general assembly even though we had an extra day tacked on at the beginning for climate is happening in the next half hour or so and so leaders are actually arriving here and some of those they'll be most interested in what's going on a have i've just seen i just saw mark return the prime minister of the netherlands heading in i can tell you that 24 hours ago for the climate summit he could come by

car but boris johnson walked in through the entrance behind me and actually at the end of the session he walked out so quite possible we might see boris johnson here in the next half hour or so as i say a series of engagements for the u.k. prime minister and then his big speech to the general assembly happening late on cheese date new york time for most of the world it will already be wednesday because he's one of the last speakers because all the early speakers of presidents and in fact he's at. he much earlier in the order than he should be the u.k. were given a speaking slot on friday but they managed to negotiate i think with some swaps and negotiate with the un to be moved to the choose day but a lot of attention on that speech i can tell you other nations are watching this very closely but one european diplomat said it's almost as though of boris johnson isn't like all the other leaders here at the general assembly discussing the issues of the world he described it to me as saying forests was in

a boris 'd breck's it bubble and in some ways that is the situation here i've spoken to u.k. diplomats who stay studiously on message they're not going off message and they stick with their talking points but these are people i know and you can hear the tension in their voices this is an unprecedented moment in british politics and as i say it's taking place here in new york in the glare of the world's media and there was speculating anyway james as to whether bars johnson would actually give the united kingdom's address in the general assembly at given that there are so many politicians braying fans resignation at home. yes well he could use that moment to say something that was more conciliatory when he spoke just moments ago in that interview that you heard but instead a very defiant as perhaps you'd expect from this political figure that is his whole image his whole way of working boris johnson speaking

a short time ago and i suspect you're going to hear something similar when he addresses the general assembly no indication at this stage that boris johnson won't give that speech he was only here for a whirlwind visit to do the climate speech that he was giving on monday at the climate summit and then this speech and then return to the u.k. so i think they're going to stick with that plan and he'll keep his speech late here on cheese day here in new york and then head back to the u.k. worth telling you on one other issue that the u.k. seems to have slightly wrong footed some of its european partners with regard to comments that boris johnson made in the last 24 hours on iran in 2 separate interviews he said the iran deal was a bad deal and needed to be renegotiated that clearly is a change of the u.k. position even though u.k. spokes persons came out from the u.k.

government said no change of policy nothing to see here they were i think doing damage limitation because the words of the prime minister were very different talking for renegotiation talking for everything not just the nuclear fall but everything to be renegotiated which is again not the u.k. government's previous policy which was to deal with nuclear on the nuclear deal and then have fresh negotiations about the other issues and that certainly is wrong footed the other u.k. allies at a moment where iran of course is the other very big issue here and we're going to be seeing president trump speaking in in just over an hour an hour and a half will says time to the general assembly give. in his annual speech and we're also going to see the president of brazil speaking before president trump and clearly our people watching there very closely on the amazon and the environment because president ball sonora was not part of that climate summit and he's very dismissive of some of those who are going to take more action with regard to be

honest all right lots to talk about i look forward to talking to you a bit later on diplomatic editor at the u.n. well as we mentioned a bit earlier jumper the speaker of the house of commons has now said that palm meant will resume on wednesday. i have contacted party leaders and where that has not been possible senior representatives of political parties in order to inform them of my thinking and to prepare the way for the house of commons to do its work. now let's hear from the leader of the main opposition party the labor party jeremy called him because he called on boris johnson to quit. and i invite forest johnson in the historic words to consider his position. in the.

sun because. and become very angry because i got that message and become the shortest serving prime minister there's ever been in the sea as you can see this is a breaking news situation the situation in the united kingdom where the supreme court the highest court of the land has ruled that the prime minister's action of suspending parliament was unlawful we're going to be following all the developments because there are lots and lots of fallout to this the prime minister himself meanwhile as you've heard is in new york his due to make his address to the u.n. general assembly later on today that's changed they will be following every twist and turn in this city stay with us coming up next rewind.

hello and welcome again to rewind on there's a problem back in 2006 when we 1st launched al-jazeera english our goal was to find stories that are the channel simply weren't covering here on rewind we revisit some of the best of them to find out how the story has moved on in the years since today we rewind into 2009 into the wetlands of the mississippi delta on the gulf of mexico in 2005 the u.s. state of louisiana was devastated by hurricane katrina a category 5 storm which breached levees and flood the city of new orleans and in july 2019 tropical storm barry again forced thousands to evacuate as heavy rainfall brought widespread flooding but hearkens aren't the only problem louisiana's facing

it's been losing land to the gulf of mexico at an alarming rate caused in part or the exploration a made by rising sea levels from climate change all of which has threaten the unique and ancient way of life on the by use as those communities now face the prospect of having to read a cape to higher ground as their land and homes a loss to the rising waters from 2009 here is losing louisiana. what was once a thriving community. only water with lettering above downtown louisville right on the southern tip of louisiana it lies submerged 30 feet below us and what happened here could be what license store for the whole of this region as line continues to be claimed by the sea. this is vital issues part of the delta system of the mighty mississippi one of the great rivers of the world and an american icon. for the

fight along highway one towards the gulf of mexico and you'll find what's left of leavell above water level. hit to the remnants of the french speaking cajun communities the 1st arrived here in the 18th century evicted by the british from canada. has cajuns take on these fos what it's finding freedom and independence in this polish such huge leaf tile terrain the marshes became and remain home to their descendants today. in one line 70 information online 5 generations of course of the recent windle curio is the general manager of the south food levee district the 1st generation and learn english for french his family's journey through the generations reflects the cajun experience in southern louisiana a fragile existence in

a delicate environment these waters are the lifeblood we're here because of the water we're here because the water it feeds us about it is also the nemesis for generations of people resent and have been retreating and we're going to keep on retraining until we have to the point of stability. the problem today is that nobody really knows where that vanishing point lies. it's ending with a it's i feel they get a real sense of the scale of the loss. aeration . glad. you got a pretty. at one time these waters were completely planted in green and natural defense against school insurgents through the is the channels with the commercial navigation and oil pipelines with that's more and more salt

water began flowing into the wetlands poisoning the entire ecosystem of the natural marshlands. the results. well for decades the land has been sinking recently the rate has fluctuated between 30 to 50 square kilometers a year today that totals almost 7000 square kilometers an area larger than some us states has disappeared. and now experts are predicting that as global warming brings stronger and more violent hearkens and rising sea levels the rate of land loss will only accelerate. in the past the mississippi used to deposit millions of tons of sediment into the votes. but no longer levees built to protect against cyclical flooding instead channel all the sediment out to sea starving the mushrooms in a. way displaced. from the mississippi river the water the settlements. and

now we don't we didn't allow that flooding anymore so yeah this expanse of delta that basically it's north was cut off much like a heart attack when it went out vessel gets clogged and you can't get the new entrants into different parts of the heart muscle. windell takes us to a small title gauge on the eastern end of highway one the system measures the speed at which the waters of the gulf of mexico consume the surrounding land. the monthly increase is a microscopic narrow than a single strand of hair but climate scientists believe they indicate something died the more we wait the more places it'll be too late the fact that a lot is 10 years is going to be too late for a lot of areas there's not only movement groups or it's rules of the past it could be that right here one of the 1st major stories in the age of global warming is being written the obituary for southeast louisiana once flourishing can cite person

trees like these quickly die as salt water intrudes those trees drowned seen as nature's tombstone. then leave and in other towns along the by even the dead on spanned a poignant reminder of a community that has disappeared and. for those who remain the rapid change and sense of loss runs deep to what data that's evolved already have the farmland that raise judgment day and it rises and that blood donation. that plantation all those of goma. captain bobby brown has been running the legal dock for 4 decades in front of him now is only water the people who lived here distant memories that trapped if they wanted to live it. they swim in it called austria. that this

machine push water. now salt water. is a shame. it's a shame to lose. one shot many people that want to raise their head age you know as the fresh water turns to salt water ecological changes swiftly followed. and with that a profound impact on the lives and livelihoods of the cajuns especially for those in the shrimping of. us who are either the food base of every species between here and the gulf it all starts in the marshes so once we lose our marshes the food they see roads and everything else just this goes. louisiana shrimp need the fresh water marshes to mature before heading out into the gulf now they are running out of room as a consequence the fishing season is increasingly shortened. coupled with an influx

of cheap foreign bred shrimp saturates in the u.s. markets and local fishermen have no way to turn that's one thing about the numbers now they their resilience bunch and they work hard and they just have to work harder for less money but like i say it's just been tougher and tougher the economics you know are getting worse and you know it seems like every year for these guys heads it's a struggle. add to that more than $300000000.00 in damage caused to the local industry by the last 2 hearkens alone a nice fishing beach towns of years gone by have all but gone down. for their. food at 2 pm every day of what they call the cajun dolphin along side highway one a group of old friends gather. there are so much fun. they still speak the pats were offering their ancestors it stuck. but goal of the day is

lost as of the value instead they collect cans for a few extra $1.15 it was that changed a lot in this life the words of that girl she was more than a mole on the tile way off. life ever all. going to pot. almost how i'm near to the now no. she's not going to get a small link to it he said it's yet sad. it's really sad to see still the land been no poorer or gone away society and i don't know how much more still people. these old timers a pretty much all that's left of the cage an existence on fire. it was all in and the progress would just call it away i'll have. to live like. that and. not hated.

this is an island road the only connection between the mainland and killed is josh on. the island isn't funny smee rigid land now below sea level it's surrounded by levees that have failed to protect the area as hearkens grow stronger and the protective marshes disappear. i can tell you about on them have a king on his bed. or drool coming through and the train reading this. i think is comin ma hard drive about 300 feet away and feel andrew. went in the middle of the room right now. here the biloxi chichi mucha 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 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. 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 plan 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. in the night he sees long he had

consolidated enormous political power again unprecedented public works. aimed at lifting residents out of poverty and bringing more industry to the state. there were new roads bridges there were dogs for ships and with all of this along came the only industry. rigs 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 you know he started using g.p.s. technology to study how the surface shifts because research 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 far 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 you see here because now people are beginning to see this effect where 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 it'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 ponds become big big and big and they carry some pay more so as a marine biologist and director of the terry 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 they 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 others support

a 2 pronged plan to pump in massive amounts of new settlement 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 not 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 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 depend upon south louisiana functioning properly and that

understanding is 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 to think they're my generation or the next generation may very well be the last of this. is this 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 often clock now as 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 windell

curio his job is to maintain the levee that surrounds and protects this area from the elements. very stay when the great ladder you have you know it saves 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 were ruling about how we use the road back in the 70s we were using 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 now 15 when i was a kid i mean you would see open water from the room it was just solid more used to fill the canal on the side road than the used to build the road but it was solid marsh you look at it right now from when i was a kid out more 951 where you would have 85 percent was land and more now 90 percent

is open water. to live in relative security in this part of the world you need a huge amount of student debt and i'm working on a hard levy which all the way around in circles 3 communities 26000 people right here is the town of gold medal gold medal 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 pots a be left to the elements this is the once thriving community of leave which unlike golden meadow has no levee to protect it from rising sea levels or even minor storms the cool ones with levels to rise.

it's a lot of these kids. you know we had there was a lot more than. a match in 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 was in the right and took a boat out to it and you can clearly see the tombstone stick you know it was or not it's just it's just flat right. so the community here in louisville 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 or it's been losing population and then 10 years ago my dad that you know but now we're down to 60. you see this area though that we look at gold into gold medal would look just like this just like this if

you didn't have a living. i meant for this man and sold his family a fish these waters for generations but you know faces the very real prospect of losing everything here at c.n.n. here again the for this is how it right yes let me show you around so you while we have. this is our boat. one of the last remaining leavell residents the death of the mississippi delta is very much a reality. so tell me what it's like. and when you hear a storm is brewing you just you just start praying you have to you have to packing go you know they make you leave and then you don't know if you coming back to in their areas do things in their preserving

their profit land and here is 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. they won't have nothing water you'll have water. if she's right and in 10 more years time there will be no record and maybe for 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.

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