made an unannounced visit to afghanistan talks were cancelled by trump in september of following an attack by the taliban or 3 state news agency has called the japanese prime minister and imbecile and warned tokyo could soon witness a real missile launch the attack on a comes after north korea fired 2 short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on thursday japan described the test as a ballistic missile launch that poses a threat and violates u.n. sanctions 49 people are now known to have died in alice albania's worst earthquake ever rescue workers are still sifting through rubble in search of survivors report douras was the worst hit by this 6.4 magnitude quake which also damaged buildings in the capital to ronna that's a headline to keep it on al-jazeera earthrise says that next. on county mccall squat start the protest in ecuador could it be a multi-billion dollar loan which both types the goodness to the corporations

hysteresis of the poorest buskins off by a good part of the economic policy did it help to pan recover from its last decade . counting the costs on algebra. to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the fast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half the area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet's

from cleaning and water to providing food we simply cannot survive. with the is still time we meet the pioneers striving to protect 2 of our most valuable remaining ecosystems. are muscle buried in sweden where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight before station and i'm a man to borrow in tacking where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating bugs. the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year tech so when you factor is made billions of garments why only be worn once a choice before. ending up in landfills the so-called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive and perhaps surprisingly one of the key trial is biodiversity

loss and deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem the 1st i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers of sage still cool is to try to meet me in the forest a forest that we're on our way there to meet the cool write a book she's conservationist and she's on a mission to protect against forests around the world it's. great to see you thanks so much we come to stockholm to do a story about fashion why everyone for it is so there's 115000000 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear and slated to double within the next decade i've never heard of that connection between the train and the fashion and and the forestry. it's not an intuitive flick that something that soft and soaking extra skin and actually it starts off as

a treat many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old known as primary forests around the world 50 percent already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy and organization dedicated to protecting those to the main it's a complete breakdown of the ecological function of that area and is a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupts species have attacks even though trees can grow back ancient and in danger of farce or play simple. after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called rail and biscuits but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the harvested wood is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the gods to be where. kind of people works with businesses that source from primary forests to find green

alternatives one of their main focal points is the global fashion industry what's your strategy how you're going to make a difference in this my experience is that it's some of the speed global brands they have the ability to actually engage their suppliers to stop them from logging in ancient and endangered forest ecosystems and if we can redirect it to be more sustainable now using recycled fabrics rather than ending up in landfill and for the current capacity that's already in production let's just make sure it's not coming from really important ancient endangered forestry chance. so you're talking about kind of a 2 prong approach one is the kind of conservation stopping that deforestation in the 1st place and the 2nd one is this recycling element so reusing what's already been produced so that's a big priority for canopy is to really help kick start commercial scale production on things next generation solutions like recycle clothing being used

a confession to make have to get thermal because i was terrified we're going to freeze and i looked at the label in the way here is that there it's 3 percent there we go i wouldn't feel bad i was surprised when i 1st discovered the link between ancient and endangered far some discos. can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian called. they've invented a pioneering technology that promises to transform textile manufacturing. became of age in 2014 when a catwalk modeled on the yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically research group fabrics the 1st time. c.e.o. mattie's johnson has offered to show me how old works. starts right at the beginning yes this is coach consumer this is this is jeans blue jeans that people

have a where the chair and them disposed off so what's next for this it goes into our frederick and that the protests and riots they would be separate any home and then it goes into what stage we just told you just lowering that we would take out some of the color we believe. and then we draw it what would be happening in itself if you guys weren't using it for your protest most of it would be a landfill or. we're getting from evil no from you guys i think if we don't weed in the machine i don't know if it didn't break down. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dyson chemicals are all recyclable. in the water as we used to. after the drawing process the fabric is pristine packed into people like sheets. surprising to me they could be the end product this is. the basis on things on normal channels and that's one of those it's really good

stuff for making people go. this is to roma to you from which the fiscus fabric is finally made. and this is the best job you can put it like a normal life but then you don't go on but it could be woven into any our clothing . when we go here this is the famous yellow dress this is the world's 1st chemically recycled piece of garment well ok it's made from blue jeans you know from the same stuff it doesn't look like a worthy environmentally friendly garment this looks like any other garment you would see in the high street absolutely and that's why we are not necessarily call this recycling we call it absolutely right. i mean. but we're seeing here when you sell hoping to open another 3 plants within the next 5 years manufacturers are

taking steps towards reducing the pressure on primary forests for all this to make a real difference in this to be demand not demand starts here high street. we are aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both of you know what cisco's it's. yeah it's synthetic material right. you know where it comes from no i know you're aware of this connection between the fashion industry and the forestation no i have no idea. but judging by these shoppers there's some way to go before awareness we drive to my. goals organization kind of be working to bring suppliers like we knew so together with brands can stalk their products big fashion brands they are driving a lot of the problems that we're seeing how do you dress that sure seems to be a bit of a disconnect the clothing touches all of our lives on

a daily basis it produces 100000000000 gallons every year it has a big footprint and you can not have a big footprint when you're that big and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution so it's fun to be here i think on on high street name and tween of canopies brand partners kampala and who are part of $170.00 plus brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discourse around supply chain so you said you've been working with them and we see some of the stuff you've been working on yeah absolutely let's just go inside and have a look. kind of the success is growing all the time because who soon every store will stock research clothing. so this is a frac of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality. so this product here is really interesting as far as you can tell just a pair of denim jeans that's got 20 percent recycled caught renu so we saw them

producing a kind of a feedstock which was 100 percent recycled quote and you think we're going to get to that point i do and i think you know in the short term this is what's available today and when you sell is hopefully next season it's clothing so that this moves from having 20 percent recycled cotton to 100 percent recycled. recently partnered with the new so to support its continuing research this is part of the clothing joints plates to use 100 percent sustainably source of clothing by 2030 which would be traced the same cost as non-sustainable items and in-store customers are encouraged to drop of unwanted garments to be recycled by companies like what you sell. i'm quite serious to see if there's anything in here if there's that's the only thing in your a look at that they can be any quotes they can be any brands of clothing we have been working with big global retailers and designers on ensuring that this

recycling program actually continues to increase so that it gets fed back into the calling supply chain and ultimately becomes next season's fashion so literally kind of closing the loop on it that's where we want to get that's that's where we want to get to. discovering the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was deeply shocking i think with organizations like canopy and when you say oh raising awareness there is hope for the future it's a massive challenge but i think in the public are armed with the right information they'll be able to demand more from the retailer is and then we might see a precious forests stop being the victims of fashion. ecosystems. are just like the systems of the but as long as they are looked after and managed well then the body is in good shape and if they're mismanaged and

not cared for the body could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is akin to organ failure in our own bodies if enough of the organs that make up the terrestrial body are removed or are made sick the body dies. again the earth is no different. each of us has a role to play in fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital and alive or one that is quite bleak and quite brutal it's directly related to what we choose to do whether or not we actually choose to do the work necessary to mend and repair and rehabilitate our ecosystems or to participate in their death.

when the richest habitats on the planet in this remote corner of north eastern turkey is one which is proving to be an ecological jam conservationists have only recently realized its vital importance not only for local birds but also for those migrating from all over the world and yet the arris river wetland is under threat i've come here to me some man who's hoping to save this remarkable part of the world's. chance check a geologist as a world renowned on astrologist souljah to become a professor in the united states every year china returns to his homeland of turkey and comes to this hour it's part of the country push draws him here at the 5 kilometer squared pocket of land the arid river where. china came across in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth and i thought this looks like

a globally important oasis in critical spot for migration breeding and wintering birds and is confident coming here in person and i thought this is a this is a place where i want to do long term research to really understand what birds use this area this rare wetland situated in a dry sub desert region is created when the iris river floods it's ideally located for migrating birds are of 35 global hotspots we're at the intersection of not one but 23 of the eights world's global bird migration flyways intersect right where we are in north eastern turkey it is one of the most special wetlands on the planet if you base it discovered a treasure trove how did you feel it was so exciting and it was so beautiful i mean i really did not expect after 15 years we would have recorded almost $300.00 burst species the 2 thirds of the end tar even far off the whole country. recorded over

centuries i mean in this one spot of the 290 bird species or a phone i documented here 21 globally threatened or near threatened including the gyptian vulture and to the current but further danger is looming the government wants to down this tar valley as far as that village over there flood this whole place all this will be under 45 meters of water and every season i come here just seeing it still there is like a relief because i'm always afraid it will all be gone i have to come here and see it for myself. early the next morning chantix me to the burgeoning station down in the wetlands. he's currently fighting the calls to reverse the government's decision to build the

dam he hopes the data gathered here look at the wetlands rich biodiversity and thereby ensure its protection we see everything here from minus 10 to plus 47 grade in the shade during a very cold here or very well that was 10 degrees today exactly to get inside sort of yeah we're going to see on the oh yeah we do we really are right in this turkey inside the team already hard at work. raising the city to the tiny way and i touch i don't want to. miss you got. 600 metres the curtain that surrounds the station every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons the nets to check to see if any bad flown into them is going to check the raptor and that. there's nothing there so we go back but it's migrate to find conditions favorable for living and breathing it's early in the season here so bird

numbers are low but there are some beautiful specimens so we've got a bird's ok and then that this is up. to the electorate. yeah they hit the slide into a park and then get entangled. some of the birds courts here have flown for days nonstop and migrate from hundreds or even thousands of kilometers initially to be able to survive the journey is one thing they all meet that feel right before migration some birds will double their body mass and that's why places like this are so critical because they need these stop over locations to keep eating and to keep replenishing their fuel reserves now that i'm down in the valley i can get a sense of why they stop because it's warmer than just a bit higher up there's water everywhere it's a phone it's coming out and the thing that you can't see on camera is that there's actually less insects so there's a huge amount of food to be got here by migrating birds one in 8 bird species are

facing global extinction due to perils including habitat loss and pollution so it's only increases the importance of an oasis like this these days if you're studying biodiversity it's almost impossible not to become an activist because you know your study things that are being destroyed every moment you study them one roman ramírez is a spanish on a fellow just one of 400 volunteers from 33 countries who've come to work here since chancellor station in 2005 now we've got the birds from the minute it would go to the station would bring them think. that on the back of the right. it was born. last year and this is the 1st being the nation for this bird it's amazing so even when it's just one year old it knows instinctively where it has to go that's incredible. natural signs including changing day length trigger the birds

who moans which switched on the urge to travel. all the information gathered here is sent to a central database a chance university in utah. ready with on m.f. . talkies. someone of your sex or. one of those. who will live to get on the. mom's get. the fact score free for this very very condition on the other one by blowing on the bad chest one can tell it's fact levels if it is pink they are low and if yellow the bird is plump enough to travel on it's the. ice just so slowly it's and i think that this bird has come from really thousands of kilometers forever for the start of its journey in africa. it's just extraordinary is it so tiny.

or something. like oh for every individual with a couple for this. or you can feel its heart beating this tiny little heart once all the data has been gathered the bird can be released who doesn't want to go . over 14 years the team have rings around $108000.00 birds. when they are caught elsewhere researches can contact the station here and their migration can be tracked. i feel like i've learned so much about why this place is so important as a refueling station for those birds which are travelling across the world on their journeys and being here with a team witnessing of their passion and their commitment to the cool was has really brought home to me just how important just places. but 16

kilometers up the road is there a mind that despite its importance the fate of the iris river wetland is far from secure this is why i wanted to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on our us river could birds not live here i've scanned already and there's basically nothing i mean there is a couple things on the arid cliffs but where the wetland birds nothing on the shoreline no waders on the mudflats. about a decade after this is built there's no revegetation hardly anything has come back and remember at our us it's the floodplain of the river that's creating all those wetlands and because here by design there will not be any flooding you're not going to have that rich soil and all the vegetation that grows on the whole valley will look like this ecologically dead everywhere you go around the world this that fine

balance between development and nature and of course progress has to be made what's needed is solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world. chan has some reason to feel hopeful in his efforts to win protected status for the arris river wetlands. in 2009 with data provided by him and his team make 70 kilometers north of paris was designated a ram so. international recognition as being of global importance i can see hundreds hundreds or any yeah i did it and i'm so badly kitted out and see the cranes got there and there are some ducks in there these critical lakes when the lng in going out one by one so could you because one of the last and most important lakes in the entire north eastern turkey but rams are stated. doesn't mean the lake

is thriving direct impact such as draining it for every geisha and hunting and stopped it in direct threats from a ground water extraction the 3 need by wells is reducing the lakes water levels and animals still raise the rate beds in september 28th the lake dried up completely it was just dry but during the season when it is the most important for birds there was no water and no birds the chance a it's a rap star sight and declare victory and walk away i mean conservation is a never ending battle like as long as that place is there you have to make sure it stays chan is working on a number of fronts to save the lake and has just signed an agreement to protect it with the provincial governor meanwhile his struggle to prevent the dam from being built on the iris river wetland continues just coming here regularly year after year with eyes me the importance of the work we are doing and even if i lose i'll

have it on my conscience although i have done my best and i didn't just turn my back and gave. it to that tomatoes around half the world's wetlands have disappeared in the past century. lake and the iris river wetland to chant a champion then because global development continues apace more wetlands in other parts of the world are going to need a local hero to fight that corner. across the globe ecosystems affording victim to human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring their protection is to enshrine their right to defend themselves in the role. and the us in the 1970 s. a legal scholar called christopher stone proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people. it works through human represent. tips be able to stand up in court and defend itself against threats to

its well being. since then the idea has been gaining traction. in 2008 ecuador constitution becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in 2017. was given legal status after a tribe fought for its rights to be. the way forward isn't simple with the future of conservation ensuring nature has recourse to justice. global food production is wastrels and this training our planet. but pioneers are adapting with new food sources jellyfish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and a texture and some that calum ari. and innovative production techniques i've seen

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can knock down the rules and inspire hope for a better life a.j. selects on al-jazeera. i wish i'll carry on to hobbies are the headlines right now on al-jazeera weeks of deadly anti-government protests could finally force a major political change in iraq prime minister mahdi has announced he intends to resign he just took charge last year he says he will submit his resignation though to parliament it was on the scene as the news emerged and has this report from baghdad. the celebrations were instantaneous as soon as it up the prime minister i did the announced his intention to resign anti-government demonstrators but that's to leave a square practically threw a party. the stunning development came

a day after more than 50 people were killed by security forces in one of the bloodiest days of violence since the anti-government.