allowable ssion up to 14 weeks the largest south american country to do so activists say they're sharing strategies online literally the fact that we are a reference in terms of empowerment and the building of strength is very exciting i think that if we could we could get on a plane and we would be on the front line with them supporting that the green scarves that became the symbol of argentina's abortion rights movement aeration a reminder not to give up. brian al-jazeera. quarter of 0 it means a whole rob to remind of our top stories the world health organization is calling on governments to pause or crow to virus vaccine rollouts was essential workers and vulnerable people receive their jobs the organization is concerned that rich nations will stockpile supplies causing others to miss out peru is beginning

a strict lockdown for the 2nd time in 10 months the government is aiming to reduce the burden on hospitals overwhelmed by the volume of patients families are resorting to buying medical oxygen on the black market juta shortages daniel swine flu has more from. it's going to be very difficult they've had lock downs before very tight lock downs this one will affect about half the country's $32000000.00 population including the capital of lima in the surrounding areas it's only going to go to people to stay at home if they can only essential business is the trouble with that is something like 70 percent of the population of the workforce work in the informal economy if they don't work they simply don't have enough money to feed their families so they resisted previous lockdowns they're likely to resist this one. a russian billionaire says here seaside palace which jailed kremlin critic alexina valley has accused president vladimir putin of od'ing putin's friend arkady

rottenberg says he owns the property worth more than a $1000000000.00 the valley has claimed that putin used illicit funds to build the mansion. military says it will abide by the country's constitution amid concerns the armed forces might attempt a coup supporters of the military marched in the city of yangon on saturday days after a military spokesperson declined to rule out a power grab the army has been alleging widespread or get irregularities and november's election won in a landslide but on some suit she's ruling national league for democracy. the u.s. court has charged 2 members of the far right proud boys group over their involvement in the capitol hill siege supporters of donald trump stormed the capitol building in december the washington d.c. on january the 6th those were the headlines are back with more news in half an hour do stay with us the bottom line is next when the news breaks then let's. take you if you wanted to play the heavy in parts one like this one when people to be. our

demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the families leave i will too but if another pharmacy i will stay. to see iraq has teams on the ground this is the insurrection president trump is accused. to bring. documentaries and light. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question will the pandemic lead us to rethink our relationship with nature let's get to the bottom line. today we take a step back from the usual ups and downs of american politics to talk about something much wider and crucial to our future the planet that we live on for tens of thousands of years humans and that means you me our ancestors have been manipulating the environment for economic gain it's just what we do we move mountains that shouldn't be moved cut down trees over fish eradicate diverse species from the face of the earth the world economy is not designed to promote

environmental sustainability at least not yet in fact it's the exact opposite it's built for endless consumption of resources the question today is whether in the middle of this horrible 'd pandemic can we push reset can we get back to normal in a way that restores balance with the natural world and we're talking to one of the most influential advocates for the health of the planet jane goodall has been a leading voice for conservation and protection of wildlife for decades ever since she spent decades studying chimpanzees in the wild and opened our eyes to broader questions in the scientific world in many ways she has become the ever present responsible voice of our conscience without which we could even be more destructive dr goodall it's very good to be with you today to talk about these important issues and i'm going to start where we last met which was in devil switzerland at the world economic forum where i saw you blow away a lot of the rich and powerful in the world but today the world economic forum started this week online and then 2 in yoga terrace the secretary general made the

statement we are waging war on our night shouldn't destroying our life support system and they should be striking back i'd like to get your comments about that because he's both warning you know the rich and powerful that the world is descending into chaos and telling them they better get on it do you agree with him is there more to the story that we should be discussing. well i said i said you know great with him don't you know i've been saying for ages and i probably said it to you before but we compared to our closest living relatives the chimpanzees the biggest difference is explosive development of intellect and there's no question i mean chimps are highly intelligent on animals and to me i mean i think we leave designed a rocket that went in mohsen a robot that took photos maz and it's amazing what we have being able to do isn't it bizarre that this most intellectual creature is destroying handsomely we don't want to go live on we've seen what it looks like i mean i don't want to live now

i'm sure you do. and you know we've only got this one beautiful planet and we are in the process of destroying it no question but if intellect is as amazing as i think it is then we do have the ability if if if we get together and run to want without wasting time and try to heal some of the harm and at least slow down time and change which by the way is a much more existential threat to our future and the future of life on earth than this pandemic horrible no this endemic is. but i know the world does not revolve around the united states but we do have a new president and one of the 4 pillars that he has put out there that he says he wants to embed in all of his policy actions is is action on climate change and you've just mentioned that are you boyd are you hopeful by what you've seen from

from president biden so far do you think this is an inflection point for american leadership on these issues in a way that matters or you know i think we've always you know heard things but now we have this line you know well way of walk the walk what is your sense of it. not my senses he's already will get woke he's already committed to rejoining the paris climate agreement and you know i think i think well i feel and i know hundreds of american friends of mine that we have a new possibility in the united states which after all is the most economically powerful skinner and all of these terrible restrictions on protecting the environment that the trumpet ministration put into place by the has committed to to change and he's already kind of become. i understand i'm very hopeful

dr goodall i have the hour spent hours many many hours upon hours watching. as much as we've been able to see your relationship with chimpanzees and i guess i want to ask you to not facetious way in a serious way i mean if they were in charge of this planet what can we learn from them about how they deal with their environment how i mean what would you say are the biggest lessons we could draw from the primates you've spent so much time connecting with you know this is really a question that isn't going to really help us very much because the way chimpanzees are not they're not overpopulating their own term and the way we are then not using complex technology innovations but they would if they could and you know in the old days if you go into some of the people who are still living out in the forest they are not harming that environment but again they wouldn't

recruit and i think from the industrial revolution when food began to be more plentiful restarted a population began growing and that was the beginning of the rot. i think that's a very fair answer i've thought about it but i mean there is a there is a beauty out there know one of the things that i've been thinking about all of us mean very smart animal smart folks with our environment being able to manipulate as i mentioned in the introduction in a race of this question we know we have a pandemic and we have a virus that literally has in a way hunting us down to some degree you know we have the ability i think potentially to survive it but that victimhood that knit notion one of a zoo or an arctic virus passed from animals to humans and passed from animals to other animals in whether or not our you think there's a there's a chastening and that a moment where we have to be humble and look at the fact that there are there are

elements of what we're doing that are quite dangerous that we need to change course and i absolutely do think it i mean this pandemic has disrupted economies around the world it's led to death it's led to suffering is lead to loss of jobs and we now know that this is because we have so disrespected animals and the natural we create the conditions where these pathogens can jump from animals to people and it's been predicted by those studying zoonotic diseases for a long time and you know the next one could be worse if mona had a very high rate debt to interaction and this condom it doesn't but supposing the next one. kill so many more people like it would if it was it going or if the bona was in as infectious this coach and so we really do need to rethink our relationship with the natural one of which we are caught and on which

we depend and our relationship with the animals with whom we should share this planet. do you have thoughts on this time on covert in what kind of red warning lights are going off that were you. well that one in light of simply that as i say we disrespect animals we're treating them in ways that i mean you know the golden rule of every single major religion around the world is do to others as he would have them do to you and animals a sentient being to not just think and way treating them as though that commodities and this if you care about animals the way i do if you understand that sentience then this is it's a black mark against our humanity actually and we really do need to change that now

is mahatma gandhi who sent you can tell me something about the nation by the way it treats its animals we're not treating animals. correctly and it's not just the wildlife in the bush meat markets in the wildlife markets in asia and the trafficking it's also our factory farms. all over the want a miss treating our animal well i want sound silly on say britain but that's what tonight americans would say i mean it's a fascinating challenge i'm wondering as you and the and the jane goodall institute have worked around the world i just be interested you know i look at these moments a show and tell opportunities are there moments in your institution's work that you've been able to turn this around that we can talk about say here is a positive way that we've been able to change the way gravity worked around preservation mutual respect for species sustainable environmental practices you

know i would love to see those stories told more often i'm just not as aware of them as i should but what are some of those that are top of mind for you. ok well you know one of them is that when i 1st went to africa in 1060 coming actual part where we still study the chimpanzee in this part of that equitorial forest belt stretch right across equitorial africa and by 990 gandhi was a small island forest surrounded by totally bad. and don't really want people living now in the land could support too poor to buy food elsewhere and it was very clear we can't help these people find ways of making a living without destroying the environment we can't save chimps forests or anything else so we began our program called take care of karri and my working with the people by. working in such a way that they came to trust us by developing

a very holistic program which included microcredit opportunities for women scholarships to keep girls in school with a management project and everything else if you fly over gandhi today you will not see the bang hills anymore so when you were with the local communities when you help them understand that saving the environment is the future not just wildlife then you get partners in conservation and this program is now in 6 other african countries so that's one piece of really good news they are ready to scale it. and listen in our program the youth roots and shoots. we've seen change in young people or in refugee camps they begin to understand animals on just think and that's not the way they were brought up the culture doesn't tell

them so i have seen a lot of change and actually i always say the media is at fault because they just concentrate on the doom and gloom which is important but please give space to ollie's wonderful things amazing people to refute projects which are so hopeful that are happening all around new ways of. new ways of treating animals pushing for social justice trying to get rid of discrimination all of these think that happening but we don't talk much as will the destruction seem good i like to talk about positive things but i also you know want to recognize things that are going so well but i know you start a new line of pod cast dr goodall and i think they're called hope casts. as well and just of the i think you just start of the beginning of the year. and i guess

you know i are you are hopeful right you are hopeful i mean you're not despite all of these things we just talked about my sense is you are hopeful. well i'm hopeful if i mean it's not it's not just it's we we have a window of time pretty sure and i'm not the only scientist to say that but we can only succeed in turning things around if we can to count them not harm that's why i was traveling 300 daisy and around talking about leasing this is why since i've been grounded here in iran i grew up but we created a virtual chain and this hope is part of the ivory millions more people sitting here. around the world in many more countries than if i was traveling but it's so exhausting i mean it's nonstop doing things like this gazing at this will specks of camera on the top of your laptop and i miss meeting people i miss having fun

evenings with my friends but it's reaching many more people so i go on doing it don't i and no choice many were very grateful for that and i guess my question to you because you know these people they many donate to your programs and support you they want to spend time with you and be in your company but do they are they doing enough i mean i mention the world economic forum before their meeting this week and i just want to raise up ok what have you done since last year folks have you really move the needle in a credible way or is this a kind of vanity island where the where the rich and powerful get together i just like to get your sense of what you think has happened in terms of the time you've talked to to that crowd and whether they've begun to move the needle in ways that you think matter for the planet earth. i think some of them definitely have i think more people are donating putting some of the allied. into programs that will help

to save the planet to turn things around i know that the regional economic forum itself has pushed a whole new emphasis on the environment which wasn't bad before. and so you know these are hopeful signs but we need to really need more it's not quite enough but on the other hand leadership from some of the really really wealthy people is perhaps encouraging other people to donate more premal to saving the planet for the future i mean you know these people are mature and branches. and they do care and when you sort of look at them and you try and tell stories to reach the heart you can see a change you see the ice change so are important and that's why. maybe i can do it a little bit on a screen like this but it's not the same as when you're that with somebody and you know i've always and we can only reach our true human potential when head and heart

work in harmony too many people separate those 2. i couldn't agree with you more on that but on the part of the head side you know i had this crazy idea once i wanted to create a global map and in different parts of the world are different countries i wanted to give a rating on whether galileo would be found guilty or not you know to go back to the galileo trial and i sort of fell in the united states in the last 4 years that even though technology as you mention has has you know accelerated and we have so many incredible opportunities on so many fronts that i sort of felt galileo probably wouldn't get off you know in america now i'm beginning to feel it's a little bit different but i'm just interested in the state of science in the world and the respect for science if you go to developing countries i often find a greater respect for science for doctors for research than i do in the developed

part of the world do you find that. i think. i found some countries developing countries have little regard for science i think it depends on on a government that's impala and you know to some of these more to plastic uplands if they don't like science they don't believe in it the same sort of attitude that the trumpet ministration. and i've seen not going through so i think in just about every country those people who truly truly respect science and are encouraged by what it can do and then there are other people who are trying it inconvenient i mean like al gore was inconvenient truth it's much better not to believe. in climate change if you want to carry on making emissions don't believe in it and

it was. and slight working with animals most scientists not really that animals a century and they have been martians the pure pain but if you will in a business that is treating animals in a very cruel horrible writing it's much more convenient to consider that they're just things isn't it. i think you're absolutely right i think one of the other things that i don't know if you've discussed much but i imagine it has come up as you started so early as this pioneering anthropologist extraordinary relationship that we've all seen and grown up with you're a model for many other women and people but also women going into science i'm just interested i don't know the answer to this have have you seen you know we talk about gender and gender equity and science have you found your role in model have ever out of both men and as many women into the field of science that you've been

part of. well i think more women certainly have come in but you know i think i think there's a reason why when going into sons it wasn't just sexual discrimination gender discrimination but when when i 1st went to cambridge university and being with the chimps to be honest i had never been to college the congress goes to do a ph. and i was taught the difference between humans and animals was one kind and it really only beings that personality mind and emotion but it was also taught that to be a good scientist you have to be coach any objective you should not have and being with your son. and of course i knew that was wrong and this tour i might do and i mean if you have empathy that leaves you will kinds of aha moments means and many contest but i think that what i did sort of stuff around the idea of

science to many young lives and i think perhaps there is a kind of inborn gentleness in women because that then role in evolution has been to raise families more patients more tolerant perhaps and although. it's the culture changes that in women maybe it is something in. that girls preaching to. you. have you been able to see or be with your chimpanzee family. friends i shouldn't call them family but your acquaintances. during this crisis where have you had to be distant from them as well beyond being here we are literally aunts moment i've been branded him and.

so you're traveling the world view that via the net like we all are i just i saw some very beautiful pictures of chimpanzees that have been rescued one that came over and i probably have the time stamp on it that came to hug you and caress you and help hold you as one of the most moving things but it looked as if it were recent so we're probably probably off on that but maybe but maybe that happened you know just before the covert crisis happened. it you know the strange thing about that that was ruined and. she came and i mean that's an area and executive director sanctuary say tonight i now turn that day the day she was released on to this island and met up before i was on the boat trip and i was trying to comfort her she must be married what's happening to me now. and yet it was me that she came and embrace that if you remember that for teenage she

climbs out in a crate she chimes on the top of it she looks around and then she does it double take who comes back an immigrant says me it was that most moving thing that ever happened to me and. i said how dish how does that ship now that this lady is responsible for it to her she. is an extraordinary moment and i encourage everyone to see it i hope we can put a little connection to that let me just ask you just as we get to the close here you you said 2 things that our greatest danger is apathy. but you've also said that there are many ways to move in the right direction and i just like our viewers and listeners from all over the world to hear from you what are some of the ways jane goodall thinks that we can move in the right direction and avoid apathy. well i think apathy comes when you lose hope and when you lose hope you do nothing and

that's the danger and some people feel helpless and hopeless and i always say to them but you know find ok you can change that well and can change the amount single handed but when you live is this something you could do could you raise money for the homeless could you volunteer in a soup kitchen could you pick up trash could you write letters to try and save a local environment like i would do or a forest or something like that if you get involved and you get involved in other people such as yes i do make a difference and then in 88 do more and i think that people need to understand that every single day really we make some impact on the planet and we have a choice as to what kind of impact we make where do we lie where does it come from

if it harm the environment was it cruel to animals is it cheap because of child slave labor made the ethical choice when millions and then billions of people make those ethical choices but that'll never happen in big enough numbers until we leave he ain't pretty because when you're really poor you just do what you have to do to ledge cut down the trees because you're desperate to get land to grow more food to feed your family buy the cheapest junk food you can't on school those ethical questions because you got to stammer. well dr jane goodall someone who makes me hope that i hope that we begin to move in the right direction thank you so much for joining us today. thank you too thank you for inviting me. so what's the bottom line listening to the wisdom of people like jane goodall helps us to get out of our narrow boxes and remember how much we're part of the natural world and how much our existence depends on the survival of other species zoonotic

diseases like over 1000 in a bowl and one h. one z. keep from mankind's intrusion into the habitat of animals we can rip up and wound the earth but it's going to bite back so maybe the silver lining in this covert story is that it chasen's us dr goodall talks about hope so my hope is that her work will inspire us all the action to have a greater respect for nature and give the environment a much higher priority and that's the bottom line.

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