spectrum here in northern ireland we've heard some very damning comments from the likes of 9 dogs the do you piece a leader in westminster accusing boris johnson of being 2 faced of being hypocritical for the one hand promising only a few months ago that they would be no difference in tariffs between northern ireland to the rest of the u.k. no difference or economically between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. and then of course he comes up with the bricks it plan that exactly does that create a fact so customs border down the middle of the irish sea and that is hugely symbolic for the democratic unionist party as the name suggests unionists implies that they want to be always as aligned with the rest of the united kingdom as they possibly can be and a lot of the words that have been bandied around in the last 24 hours have been to do with the word betrayal and that's completely across the board from a unionist perspective if you get if you're hard line a hard liner from that camp or whether you're a more of a moderate to the fact that this light when amendment has passed is being going to

be seen positively most certainly by the d.e.p.t. dobbs has released some statements a short while ago implying that this gives much more time for the democratic unionist party to scrutinise boys johnson's breaks of plans going forward what is clear is that unionists are not happy. and what they want to make sure is that they continue to have absolute relevance in british politics going forward by continuing to hold boris johnson's feet to the fire move ultimately i guess at this stage if we're at a stage now where the lantern amendment has passed and the won't be a crash out in the eyes of some people that increases the chances of a 2nd referendum how would that resonate with people where. very much depends on which political camp you come from and here in northern

ireland that often means what community you come from as well when it came to the immediate response to boyce johnson's breck's it plan we heard from nationalists the likes of the shin fein party who as you know don't take up their seats in westminster there are 7 m.p.'s who object to the sovereignty of the british parliament and its right to legislate here in northern ireland and indeed any legislation that may impact the whole of the island of ireland they somewhat warmed to boris johnson's plan largely because they see it as the lesser of 2 evils it was a plan of course that was mainly designed to avoid the prospect of a hard border on the aisle of the aisle on the island of ireland and we've seen of course the previous prime minister to resign may stumble and falter and crash and burn because she didn't come up with a plan that that scrapped that border boris johnson to some extent did come up with a solution but of course it didn't satisfy the unionists so the prospect of there being a 2nd referendum here would be received in

a mixed capacity i think nationalists would be more inclined to go with it unionists would be i assume more inclined to push for changes within the agreement that's already on the table because they have a foot in parliament already as it stands they have a foot in government an alliance was forged between the d p and to reason may in the past and it has given the do you piece a sense of clout and weight and importance the last thing they want to see is to see their influence in any way de rails going forward right now barkha thanks so much for that. protesters are once again calling for political change in lebanon with people joining demonstrations against the government for a 3rd day prime minister sidle how to be has given rival groups in his government who are blocking his reforms 72 hours to find a solution to the crisis center hold the reports from beirut i was there

up against the political leadership that is clinging on to power and they have used force to do that. i day 3 of protests lebanon's army and security forces are being accused of heavy handed tactics which are further inferior rating demonstrators they haven't left the streets despite the crackdown and arrests their demands remain the same was shot. the government should resign and early elections must follow the response from the ruling alliance what's clear one act play out well now we don't want the government to resign if it does it will take one or 2 years to form a new government and the economic crisis will worsen any will be made up of the same political forces. but that is what protesters don't want they want change tension has been building

for months these are difficult economic times and they blame those who have been in power for decades for corruption and the mismanagement. many here are unemployed some can't pay their children's school tuition fees others can't buy medicine or pay for their hospital bills the defiance is palpable people behind us are refusing we are all gathered living knees from old age and from order we're saying one word we come up any more accept you. as giving them support. you're supporting the last mars not the government has put on no more yesterday president how do you decide we have 72 hours the 72 hours i'm not going to change anything. plans to impose more taxes triggered the protest prime minister sato how d.d. on friday gave his political partner 72 hours to come up with alternative sources of revenue for the by just it seems the political elite are scrambling to find

a solution but that appears to have done little to call the anger tens of thousands are protesting but has made clear the majority of lebanese have the secretary general has on the stroller said if hezbollah supporters decide to protest they will change the equation and balance of power other lebanese consider that a threat and the child of the iranian backed group has a military way closer a law also told those on the streets they won't be able to topple the ruling alliance oh. lebanon's political and sectarian divide is deep but those who are raising their voices are standing united carrying only the lebanese flag this is the biggest nationwide protest in years but there is a large number of lebanese whose allegiance remains with their political parties it's unclear how much those on the streets can achieve their beirut.

it's got the very latest now from stephanie she's in beirut judging by the scenes behind you doesn't people of look like people of lost their appetite. not at all those thousands that have been here all day remain here you can just show you were right outside what is the seat of government here and people have been chanting that the slogan the people want the downfall of the regime they're insulting politicians by name they're singing the lebanese national anthem that's the police behind you also have the army also to the other side of where we are there are thousands of people. waving the lebanese flags people on top of buildings there is a bit of a party atmosphere sami i have to say but certainly we were here last night and this was the area when at some point come sunset when it became dark that the army tried to disperse them a lot of tear gas being used water cannon being used but certainly those tactics

which were harsher than the night before this is now day 3. haven't seemed to stop people from coming out to protest. the fact stephanie that we've seen protests even for example in the south with in shell strongholds in villages is that a sign of the threats the potential threat that this protest movement can pose to the current political structure the current political parties. is i think you touched on it when you say political structure political party is the way never no one is really made out is all of sectarian allegiances and sects the people will stand by their leaders you have the president of this country that always has to be part of the constitution and my night christian the prime minister is certainly the speaker of parliament is she also when there's been criticism people will always stand behind their leaders what is unprecedented this time so i

mean everyone will tell you this is that people are turning against their own sectarian leaders in their own strongholds saying enough is enough you're not doing enough for us you can hear they continue to charge they want to be able to eat they want to be able to pay for their kids' education they want to have a working electricity water they want to afford bread they want to afford fuel and what they say is that the politicians and the main straw todd that runs this country a lot of them a billionaire so there is a massive discrepancy that has really come to a head the lot of different events of the last couple of years and months sadly which is why we're seeing this now the people are you. knight it was crossing different sectarian divides boxing class you see all kinds of people here. and they will tell you they're excited but they're going to be able to change anything of course i we're going to have to wait and see. and wait and see well thanks so much stephanie that. is just to recap our main story this person britain's prime

minister suffered a huge setback after british m.p.'s voted to delay his breaks that deal of voting on at least until all lessons are a u.k. legislation is passed barra's johnston's told parliament he is not willing to negotiate an extension with the e.u. he says the law does not compel him to do so. people i continued in the very strong belief that the best thing for the u.k. and for the whole of europe is for us to leave with this new deal. trying to separate the questions that are coming from the bench is not that i will not negotiate a dilemma with the e.u. . and i'm neither does the law compel me to do so i will tell our friends and colleagues in the e.u. exactly what i've told everyone in the last 88 days that i've served as prime minister but they would be bad for this country.

was bad for democracy. more on that story now we can cross over to the north of england let's go over the hallway emma haywood joins us live from of course an area where we had a lot of people supporting to leave the e.u. i imagine it's a bit of disappointment there now. i think will be deep disappointment of any potential delay to break that i was just telling a man on the street or she would have been happening in parliament and he told me it was absolutely scandalous he said m.p.'s are there to represent the people and the people voted to leave and they are simply not doing that and we have heard that time and time again here this is a late breakfast stronghold 2 thirds of people voted to leave people have been telling us all day that they put their cross in the box back in 26 and leave and they would still leave again today and they simply want to get is over the line and

for politicians to concentrate on other issues such as housing welfare living standards to try to bring most up this is a deprived part of the u.k. and they want to improve things many people here believe that leaving the european union will help that now not everybody of course is a supporter of works that i spoke to a mother and her daughter a short while ago and they said we have so much to lose and more to gain by staying in the european union. or i will leave it there for now i'm ok with thanks for that . well moving on to other news now russia has carried out 15 air strikes in the last rebel held province of idlib in syria 2 people were killed many more were injured yes strikes hit the rebel held poles and a nearby refugee camp. meanwhile turkish president about iran says he'll discuss turkey's offensive in northern syria with his russian counterpart

vladimir putin next week he also warned ankara would implement its own plans if a solution was not reached the truce in northern syria is largely holding despite accusations from both kurdish forces and of violations chel strafford has more from a jackal lay at the turkey syria border. while the ceasefire largely seems to be holding there are reports of mind of clashes around the flashpoint town of russell in the east and potentially reports of a very worrying situation developing there for what we hear are civilians and wounded trapped inside the town we understand that pro turkish forces those syrian arab fighters that have been part of this operation have surrounded the city there saying that they are allowing civilians out but they're also saying that there are ongoing talks or attempts to try and persuade kurdish fighters still trapped in that city to leave their weapons and withdraw. the syrian democratic forces have

released a statement saying that this humanitarian corridor is vital to save lives we've seen video footage reportedly showing. aid agencies and volunteers trying to move north into the town and they saying that they are unable to move any further to go and try and pull people out because of those syrian arab fighters meanwhile we get reports that the withdrawal of the s.v.s. from areas between to lobby out the town close to here and russell line is going president order one very keen to say that any reports of violations being made by his forces and those syrian arab fighters what he describes as fabrications but yeah all. town of. the moment a town which saw some of the heaviest fighting and repeated claims by both sides

a victory before this cease fire was declared. pro independence leaders calling for talks with the spanish government following a day of violent protests at least 60 people were injured in the riots a 1000000 people marched through the city on friday morning for the jailing of 9 for the jailed 9 protest leaders to be released you know jailed for their role in catalonia failed independence 2 years ago on the go go has more from barcelona. or just in front of the exterior of the spanish national police headquarters the site where the troubles started last night between the right the law enforcement officials here as well it was a trick a point the police had managed to push the crowds all the way up to the top of the street water cannon had been deployed for the ferry 1st time here in the region now what we have been seeing this morning. onto secessionists coming

out in front of the police station these are people who are against any idea of this siege from something they've been training up. the police. force they've also been counseled most of that and i'll give it's breaking out thank you procession a little this building has become a flashpoint the violence that we've seen a week. now the president of honduras is facing growing calls for his resignation after his brother was convicted of trafficking 200 tons of cocaine into the united states prosecutors say one turn your head amanda has relied on his coconspirator brother president one. for protection he says the allegations are fabricated by criminals bent on revenge for his efforts against organized crime.

the president of chile has declared a state of emergency a day after protests over rising costs of living turned violent riots on friday night left a bus in your apartment building burned and the capital city subway system closed president sebastian pinera says here invoke a special a security law to prosecute individuals responsible demonstrations began on monday over a hike in metro fares mozambique's main opposition party renamo is rejecting the preliminary results of tuesday's general election which says the ruling for labor party is headed for a major victory european union observers are raising concerns about reports of ballot stuffing at some polling stations and an election observer was killed and others attacks there was a lot of rigging fraud in this equation and there for.

not. this kind of election. a new exhibit has opened at the paris sewer on saturday but it's not an animal or a plant going on this play it's technically a slime mold called the blob it can move without legs or wings and can heal itself in 2 minutes if cut in half it doesn't have a stomach or a brain but it can find and digest its food it's the 1st time this kind of biological oddity has ever been displayed in captivity so got to modern man it behaves like an animal it's capable of learning if we put it in the maze it will learn and take the best route out of the maze to find its boot if we put an obstacle in front of the blob so it will learn how to get past the barrier and it will start to do this more quickly and more strongly if we fuse to blobs together the one which learned will transmit its knowledge to the other.

and let's take you through some of the headlines here and now to syria now britain's prime minister suffered a huge setback after british m.p.'s voted to delay is braggs that deal until all necessary u.k. legislation is passed but boris johnson's told parliament he's not willing to negotiate an extension with the e.u. he says the law does not compel him to do so. i continued in the very strong belief that the best thing for the u.k. and for the whole of europe is for us to leave with this new deal of truth. trying to separate the questions that are coming from the bench is not that i will not negotiate a delay with the e.u. . neither does the law compel me to do so i will tell our friends and colleagues in the e.u.

exactly what i've told everyone in the last 88 days that i have served as prime minister but then they would be bad for this country. for democracy is the 3rd day of protests in lebanon's capital demanding what demonstrators call a revolution prime minister saddle how d.d. accused rival groups in the government of blocking his reforms has now given them 72 hours to find a solution. russia has carried out 15 airstrikes in the last rebel held province of idlib in syria killing 2 people and injuring many more the airstrikes hit the rebel held tufton hours airport and the nearby refugee camp meanwhile turkey's president says he'll discuss his country's offensive in northern syria with his russian counterpart next week he also warned ankara would implement its own plans of a solution wasn't reached the truce in northern syria is largely holding despite

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time marie to davison is an environmental biologist tonight a trip to the heartland always a baby. dearest santa maria is a news scientist i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist the epic drought of 2015 takes a hidden toll. from above these trees may look green and healthy they're not here we see something that's dramatically different now the technology that can see what we can't that's our team i'm a prairie fire we're now let's do some sun it's. hey guys welcome to techno i'm phil tours joined by a care santa maria maria to davison and so they were going to talk to environmental stories and to start off the great american prairie to me it's one of those iconic

images of how the us used to be unfortunately now it's almost entirely just a part of our history yeah there's been a lot of over development of farming and a suburban explosion that's really taken a toll on a lot of prayer ecosystems illinois has been extremely hard hit it's changing but there's been a big change in the landscape there yet this is happening across the united states but i got to say what i really love about this story is that there's a bit of us west so there is i want to give anything away so let's go about 90 miles outside of chicago where they're bringing back a little piece of history it's kind of a big piece of history ok a big piece of history to go on. you're looking at a $3500.00 acre experiment in a growing field known as restoration ecology. this is the new choose the grasslands preserve in franklin grove illinois 90 miles

west of chicago where the nature conservancy is rolling back time 200 years to restore a tall grass prairie that was almost extinct. where in the current state yeah ironically we have such little of it left at the time of european settlement about 2 thirds of the state some 2025 1000000 acres in the state was tall grass prairie we have less than 1100th of one percent of the native prairie but still intact. the mission is being overseen by 3 illinois and natives just walk to rector of science for the nature of concern. c. project director bill kleiman and restoration ecologist cody considine. it was a vast landscape dominated by those grasses but the real diversity of the prairie was in the wild flowers in the form of the broadly plants and thousands of species of insects and dozens of birds and mammals and reptiles called the prairie home

along with the animals like the bison. what was once this bass landscape across much of illinois has been virtually eliminated and turned into the corn belt. but illinois isn't alone since the late 1900 prairie grasslands across the united states have been steadily vanishing. i've heard grasslands and general referred to as the unheralded counterparts of the rain forest and grasslands have a critical role in terms of climate change as well in a prairie most of that carbon is stored in the soil and so it's very secure for very long term storage a soil organic matter in essence the plants of the tall grass prarie absorb carbon dioxide trapping it in their deep roots. the restoration began in 1906 growing from a small plot of remnant prairie land that had never been farmed. and

starting with fire the process hasn't changed much in 30 years. it's completely fire dependent without fire we could not have pretty the vegetation grows more vigorously most species of plants have a season of more intense blooming right after you do the 1st year the 2nd year after a fire no one knows that transition better than restoration ecologist cody considine . gray we're standing in what looks to me at least 2 very different types of areas what happened here so yes or right in the line of 2 different prairie restorations the one right here was planted 2 years ago and the one behind us was planted a 3 years ago and so over seeing is as these prairie restorations get older more plants emerge they get more mature they're flooring so they're quite dynamic how many plant species do you have in here for this particular plane and i believe we had 130 species ranging from there's a native western sunflower this is a conal species we have rattlesnake master here we have grassley of goldenrod here

isn't a neck in a show here a paper book on foot already flour. all those bloomers started here all right so this is the cedar and. project director bill kleiman well you might think that the prairie stude would find its way out into these former corn fields but it doesn't walk very fast so we would have to wait millennia whereas we can collect the seed from the remnant prairie of bring it out to a cornfield that we're retiring planted and it'll grow back year do you have a sense of how many see you in the volunteers here have planted over the years about $250.00 species a year so it's it's millions and millions of sea. conventional wisdom was to plant 10 pounds of seeds breaker but bill ordered 50 pounds and the fields blossomed none of that would be possible without

a core of volunteers like jay stacey. so what are you cutting today this particular for is called per coreopsis scientific name coreopsis palm 8 how long have you been doing this i've been doing this is my 21st year. i'm a prairie bar where. all the tall grass planting was a little too successful. we just needed something that helped to level the playing field. what they needed was something to thin out the grass. like an enormous vacuum the solution not a dyson but a herd of bison. a posse of 800 pound grazing machines. we've just arrived to furnish use a grassland and i'm seeing these bison for the 1st time and i feel like i've just

been transported back 15200 years it's pretty it's pretty remarkable to see these enormous animals. we're almost wiped out from north america all there's a baby there's a little one 0 a couple of. bison have been part of the vision for the project since the very beginning but it's taken us close to 30 years to be able to put together enough of a landscape where it was a practical consideration for us. these iconic bison were the missing link for a massive restoration of this endangered tall grass prairie run by the nature conservancy. would you say that they have been a game changing factor here. as these animals are going to make a difference on this prairie. i hitched

a ride with misuse of project director bill kleiman and restoration ecologist cody considine to track down the bison in their $500.00 acre grazing area. the wire the bison so important to the restoration process bison 8 grass and they're the disturbances they're creating puts diversity on the landscape as they graze the nutrients are going in one of them is coming out the back and they are getting a very quick nutrient cycling on the prairie. those bison patties are spreading seeds and fertilizing the soil what's the average weight of a full size bison with a coach can range from 800 to 1100 pounds and the balls as they mature they can get up to 2000 pounds massive so how many bison do we have on them on the reserve 30 adults and 16 calves the calf was just born last week

a little tiny want to get easily pick it up it's pretty exciting to think about the calf being born an illinois prairie that hasn't happened for probably 200 years. what happened to bison here there was a tremendous slaughter of bison in the 870880 s. . just walk is the chief scientist for the illinois chapter of the nature conservancy. as estimated by the turn of the 1000s there were probably 402-1000 animals that had persisted out of that massive herd of 30 to 60000000 it's close to extinction it's absolutely closely extinction there was definitely a market for the hides for the meats also part of it is that it was encouraged by the u.s. government as a strategy to help reduce the food supply for the native americans in the conflict with the native american peoples it's estimated there are about 400000 bison now in north america. but most of those mice and were bred with cattle for meat production

only about $20000.00 are pure american bison. that genetic line dates back to 913 when 14 bison from the bronx zoo were trucked to wind cave national park in south dakota at the behest of teddy roosevelt. so when it was time to bring bison to choose they looked for a posse with the wind gave lineage. we went to broken grassland another nature conservancy preserve in northwest. when i was in the october 24th team and brought back $28.00 holes with us we were essentially separated off the animals that we were going to bring back to illinois make sure that they were how to clean bill of health. 7 of the females we strapped g.p.s. collars onto so that we can get near real time movements of the animals tracking

those movements with the g.p.s. collars is julio brockman a bison researcher at southern illinois university. what kind of data are you receiving so we're getting location information a g.p.s. point on a map every hour 24 hours a day so can you show me what you've been seeing sure these are the bison locations for yesterday they seem to be spending a lot of time along their corral and trap pasture and i can corroborate that because we were there and we saw them there so what would you say is the ultimate goal of your study having an amount of data really changes how we look at their movements and their selection it helps to understand what type of habitat they're like for reintroductions in the future. among the 2 dozen scientists doing research at the choose is dr holly jones a conservation biologist at northern illinois university with her team she's traveling in tagging small mammals to assess the impact of the big bison. the

completely restoration ecologist playground i get so excited about this field say let's see if some of the men. there it is small mammals or food for aerial predators things like hock things like owls and so it's really important to know how they're doing to be able to say how the person doing as a whole and that's because if the small mammals are tasty enough to become good prey they're feasting on a healthy environment of insects and plants. what do you see since bison have been introduced we've had. 13 lying around the world which was very surprising the line of evidence is pointing towards a shift in community compositions and there are different plots of land that have been restored at different times and all the way back to 20 years ago we can look at a plot of land like this that was restored 40 years ago and we're going to plot of land over there that was restored 6 years ago and one sees and look at how restoration progresses. how we think improves science and some way.

you can do you can go there. less than a year since the bisons arrival the environmental impact is subtle some changes to plant growth and small animal populations but the biggest change may be on humans. for a very connected to this herd they still feel like these are their bodies and this is such a cool thing that we've returned this iconic mammal to illinois it's exciting. i got to say i love when you guys bring stuff back from the field especially from someplace as iconic as tall grass person read it what did you bring us at 1st till you got to stand up ok i'll tell you are about 62 ok so here is a tall grass from the tall grass player that is some tall grass stalk i mean i was literally swimming in this stuff you know this is amazing this is part of the

vegetation we're taught in this is what the bison munch on this is that's exactly what they munch on this is what the bison were brought in to help control the kids still. now these are little seed pods they look like musical instruments but they're seed pods of some of the vegetation on the prairie got a nice little ring to like it and this is what they've been using to replant some of the native vegetation and then when this this is the last piece of the puzzle this is a bison ferment. that surprisingly soft yet and. can see there's stuff in there arrows a lot of stuff in here so you can see really easily how bison would be dispersing you know these these little seed these large sea disperses across the prairie or does even come a shape like a buzz from when i was looking at that footage i was blown away by the color in the prairie the biodiversity the flowering plants and i wonder if a lot of people have that preconceived notion that nothing grows that there would

if i told you kara that along with tropical rain forests prairie lands and other grasslands are the most biodiverse complex ecosystems in the world would you believe me. i mean i believe you because you are an expert it's like it's it's totally true but it does hold my mind and i thought it was really interesting to learn how important the prairie land is here in america for you know this big plane it changed problem that we're all facing these these grasses and these different plants actually act as a kind of a carbon sink don't they they really do the bulk of the plants in the prairie are not above ground they're underground because that's how they survive fire they actually are a big factor in storing carbon yeah and that really does feed into the very next story read until you guys tag team do a little verify both from this guy and from the ground you know i got to see california forests from an airplane like no other and while you were in your flying laboratory i was on the ground seeing the reality of trees and what's taken him

down. is so epic it's so out of the norm that we actually don't have the answer to what can we expect long term california's epic drone. reservoirs are near empty farmers herding and it's forests are aflame or under attack by opportunistic pests so we're seeing tree mortality all over the landscape but in order to understand these changes to forests scientists must 1st assess their health using field observations and airplanes we have the most advanced airborne remote sensing package that i know of on earth today for over a decade ecologist greg as never has been monitoring the health of forests around the world in an aircraft called the carnegie airborne observatory techno profiled his work mapping the amazon in a previous episode this time we joined him on his latest effort to map drought

plagued california forests in his tricked out door need to 28. in the back of the aircraft are unique sensors designed to take measurements of the forest canopy while the plane flies over it we're flying over about $8000000.00 trees per hour one of these instruments is known as light our this instrument is a laser system that fires 2 lasers out of the bottom of the plane in a pattern that image is the forest canopy over it ever it is that we fly over in 3 d. what the instruments do is provide us a very accurate very unique way of understanding the amount of carbon stored in california's forests if you don't put carbon in forests then it ends up in the atmosphere and that contributes to climate change the plane is also equipped with a pair of spectrometers used to detect the chemical composition of trees it was time for takeoff where we going today today we're heading out pretty close to the oregon border where we have

a lot of force that's unknown in terms of its drought stress and with that we were off from the air we could see reservoirs and rivers clearly depleted of water lake shasta reservoir that's right it's a lot of water policy what you see of a pro but the forest canopy actually looks pretty green but the big. it looked like a pretty good seat but majority of california is porous. throughout stress today by . bad both of these wars are in trouble back at the lab as there's team got to work analyzing all the data that's where tech news phil torres picks up the story see you did a flight with merida these are the results and looking at the cockpit it looked green but here we see something that's dramatically different and what you see we see that the forest is varies from what we would consider pretty average conditions in the yellows and blues up there down to areas that looks severely drought stricken in red next we looked at an area where the drought stress was more acute

so this is from los padres national forest this is what it looks like when you fly over gray green looks like your typical southern cal forest. this is what it looks like in chemical detail those trees are doing ok but everything else is showing severe drought stress and that's showing here in red now that we have the view from above we decided to head out for a boots on the ground perspective i'm standing here in the middle of los padres national forest and as you could tell from all the dead trees behind me there's plenty of evidence of the impact of a multi-year drought one of the biggest problems here a bug that attacks water stressed pine trees. and now we're talkin all those a bunch of tom coleman is an entomologist with the u.s. forest service has a lot of dead trees right here yeah this is a nice will active spot of bark beetle. bark beetles kill more trees than

any other kind of insect or disease in north america when you just look across the landscape and you see this kind of patchwork of dead trees mortality is quite dramatic this tree here is full of thousands of bark beetles does that mean that all the trees around here are now susceptible right. now from what i've seen it's just basically across the entire landscape have you ever seen this but not here in california. so just 10 minutes where we're looking at the devastation caused by the pine beetles and now we are here and you can see the damage done by forest fires and there's a lot going on here so even though the wildfires actually gone through an area and cause major mortality it will still see bark beetles coming in afterwards scientists studying our forest are concerned about the impacts from drought not just in california but also around the world now what we're starting to worry about

is whether these droughts are somehow all interrelated in length at a global scale to suit a lot of force of the world or in trouble droughts putting pressure we don't know exactly how much of the global forest cover is at risk but where in the process now of finally getting the measurements we need to make those predictions. the scientists that are studying these things they can say here's the problem but their hands are tied they all they can do is wait for the drought to be over for only you know to pass and try to influence management and policy they need to get the data into the right hands i think that's the plan that has to get into the hands of managers and decision makers so that they can actually implement changes and whether we're talking about managing america's grasslands or america's force and one thing is for certain that if we have healthy ecosystems we will eventually have a healthier climate absolutely and thank you for the story today guys know from prairie

being restored by bison to forest being decimated by beetles one thing's for sure it's a complex ecosystem out there but there's a lot of scientists working hard on it that's it for now we'll see you next on your own techno dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes at al-jazeera dot com slash techno follow our expert contributors on twitter facebook instagram google plus and more. hello heavy rain again has for not so much on the river plate but now up in brazil probably this massive cloud he was was actually reported so part of the seasonal change which bring some welcome rain to the amazon as you can see but the line of persistence is this one the goes up through believe via through peru ecuador and

towards colombia and that will continue well as ours is cooling down again as the cloud builds and showers seem more likely empower quiet and that part of reserve again those have been some good downpours in the lesser antilles on there's a cloud there was real did produce rain than a big gap to reach what's up in the gulf of mexico comes up in the 2nd in mexico itself on the pacific side the potential for developing a tropical depression might produce some pretty heavy rain in the next day or so all over central particularly the pacific coast of mexico and then a tropical storm not quite a hurricane this one here that's going through the florida panhandle and georgia its main contribution to your life will be too much rain's a tickly course if you're in georgia and then later the carolinas the rest of the u.s. is fairly fine that's a lot of quite substantial storms rolling through the midwest and winter is returning to the higher ground from washington eastwards.

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a deal with the e.u. . hello and welcome on peace at all but you're watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes protesters in lebanon are out in force for the day to demand political change and cuts to the cost of living. a state of emergency is declared in the chilean capital after rioters attacked subway stations because of rising ticket prices plus . i'm a common job even though never. on the rescue service. british members of parliament have in the last 90 minutes or so told the prime minister boris johnson to delay breaks it again m.p.'s held their 1st emergency saturday

session for 30. 7 years today they're still in session technically they didn't vote yes or no for the government's deal with the european union instead they voted to approve an amendment to it it means that boris johnson must seek a further delay from the e.u. something says something he says he won't do or a stance and says he plans to hold more votes next week i continue in the very strong belief that the best thing for the u.k. and for the whole of europe is for us to leave with this new deal all of the time. trying to separate the questions that are coming from their benches not that i will not negotiate a dilemma with the e.u. . and neither does the law compel me to do so i will tell our friends and colleagues in the e.u. exactly what i've told everyone in the last 88 days that i have served as prime

minister but further they would be bad for this country. and bad for democracy. or the main opposition leader jeremy corbyn says the prime minister can no longer use the threat of leaving the e.u. without a deal the prime minister must now comply with the law then. he can no longer use the threat of a no deal crash out to blackmail members to support his sell out deal labor is not prepared to sell out the communities that we represent we are not prepared to sell you. and we believe that ultimately the people must have the final say on breaks in which actually only the labor party is offering. in a few moments we'll head to brussels where barbara is on standby for us also we'll get reaction from northern ireland with neve barca he's in belfast and roy chalons

is following the march in london where people are demanding a 2nd referendum 1st let's speak to andrew symonds he's outside the palace of westminster for us here on the news so andrew by law mr johnson has to apply for an extension but he says no i don't. yes is it a play of wood swell we'll get into that a bit later but let me just give you a feeling for what's going on today because it's been an extraordinary day the 1st time that paula meant has sat for since 198237 years that was the focus is will the conflicts between the u.k. in argentina this was a major effects yes it didn't happen there was no vote despite all the extraordinary lengths boris johnson went to gonna support not just from within his party bringing rebels bringing them back into the fold having discipline them when

they voted against the government few months but early this again bringing in labor m.p.'s who are defying their leadership by voting with the government but they're being allowed to do so they're not being disciplined and the death blow really the death blow for them was the democratic unionist party which had been in allegiance with the government but because of the boston backstop was bold because of its special arrangement called a lot of being part of the customs union would not support the government so they put the knife in they voted for all this let's win amendments and we found ourselves in this situation now where by the government folks. didn't take place because it had been lost because this amendment means that they cannot get approval that they session they have to go through the legislation foodless i mean doing so

they have to then go for an extension now to the boats at the issue because what's the prime minister said was that he would not negotiate any extension that doesn't mean he votes do as the band roll of this amendment says and they put a letter through requesting an adjustment. extension that is not the case so tb will go ahead and do that we think not necessarily from his own hand but he gets destroyed being it's the downing street briefing team working overtime right now describing this as a means of the palmer asking for an extension of the boris johnson wants nothing to do with us now the question is if he does put that let's assume he was the little insists is he breaking the little boy told thing against it by basically trying to bring the european union attempt to not accede to the request where is the dividing

line between the little well government lawyers who are working overtime along with the briefing james right now we have steve and bob are a political analyst to give his opinion all this is the prime minister intent on breaking the law with this undoubtedly defiance stultz saying that he will not negotiate the extension of that with the size of what he said he would not negotiate extension middle doesn't require him to do so but in that sense he's pretty correct the band x. requires a prime minister and he sets out the. form of the letter to buy to let into brussels seeking an extent. by 11 o'clock today and i suspect he will do that but they may have a. storm being whipped up by downing street by saying that there could be a no show at e.u. summit that could be active briefing against. leaks boycotts of any

dialogue it's up to also be. all the opposition will someone in all of them to discuss any extension if there is to be. you know this is a pretty unusual and ever since the ban act was posse if you recall was johnson and the government refused to say that he would he would comply with it in fact they actively said that that that he would. actually when you look at the defeat the the court case recently when it comes out of the papers seems that the government has accepted that it would send that letter it was even with him for something speech that they would have a letter they make he said that he will request it now it is then down to the e.u. $27.00 whether they. grant written a further extension. to article 50 clearly there's there's a lot of reluctance to that because just that just like a lot of people here actually because he wants to get on with other things as well i suspect this comes down to what doubly want to be 26 of the government would want

to back up and government's position be interesting but they all miss thank you very much indeed for that analysis and so basically we have a situation now where the government says that it was on the cusp of actually winning over with this deal by a few votes in a calculated it would have done now that hasn't happened it could happen next week it is very likely to happen next week whether it's positive at all it is not short of the legislation is supposed to start going through the process of the commons on the upper house next week so this is no. it's certainly delayed and the question mark is how long is it delayed by and the question mark also remains over whether all the you will put extra pressure on by refusing a an extension of all will exceed to a lesser

a lesser which basically boris johnson says he willingly will will present it would seem one way or another to brussels extolled recent us where prime minister has technically requested an extension but then he's actively telling everyone in the open union he doesn't want an extension far from it far from it at all he wants a deal done but took before october 31st. andrew many thanks we'll talk later i'm sure now hundreds of thousands of protesters converged on the u.k. parliament today to demand that 2nd referendum that we've been hearing about rory challenge joins us live from the march tory how many people were there what was the atmosphere like. huge numbers of people here i was at the demonstration back in march and other people's votes and it was said of the time that there were a 1000000 people on the street then it feels a bit of a roughly similar amount say here today it's definitely a big big turnout they were all coming down here to. the m.p.'s same side

column it would hear them calling for a 2nd round 2nd referendum hope that they would reject boris johnson's deal where they didn't quite do that but they did cost the let win amendments and when that votes was actually broadcast on the big screens here in parliament square there was a huge cheer from all the demonstrators who've come down today 2 of them are with me now i have had enough you know to have been here and fiona next to her we're both veterans of these demonstrations we've been to them before why was the left when amendments are going through greeted with such. cheers here and i think it delays things it gives the opportunity for us to come on the streets nice the actual dealing and from being stunned when i see me to like displacing the lies and think it would have been passed on the plate and it would have truly seemed to me because it didn't stop rex doesn't it doesn't stop right at the moment now but at least i hope that steve make full commitment to lengthen the impact of it and then

we can and hope that he will. like the people. so how do you think we can actually get that was the path may be different it is a difficult one and it's got to be on and off and peace realizing that it has to go back to the people in here. i don't hold another referendum i call it a come from a to vote the calls when we voted in 26 days nobody knew what a deal looked plastic is like the best steel in the world but nobody knew what that was and so may be something with people will go in blind now they need to follow the new deal and remain in my view to say ok what do you want the small you want to eat a lot of shit we've got along the way and so he said come from a chili salt while this and it's not everyone is going to excite legs in the world on something tangible he said and you need cold.