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against each other playing against each other properly the super league's remaining members now say they will reconsider ways to reshape the project but the english team exodus means the so-called dirty dozen have now been reduced to just 6 barcelona real madrid and athletico in spain and in italy it's the 2 milan clubs and you ventus the event is president andrei and yellow he is the vice president of the super league and says the project is 100 percent going ahead he claims that fee for a new wafers threats to kick teams and players out of their major competitions is illegal the super league has written letters to both governing bodies to open negotiations david stokes al-jazeera. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now former police officer derek shaaban has been found guilty on all 3 charges including 2nd degree murder for the killing of george floyd troll vinnie's due to be sentenced to
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8 weeks and faces up to 40 years in prison. now no verdict can bring george pairing floyd back to us. but this verdict does give a message to his family that he was somebody. that his life matters that all of our lives matter and that's important and i also hope that this burden for all of the rest of collective all of us will help us further along the road toward a better humanity. the us president has called the verdict a rare but important step towards justice in america joe biden spoke to floyd's family before addressing the nation this scribing his death as murder in broad daylight. in other news major hospitals in india's capital new delhi are warning bell ran out of oxygen in less than 24 hours india's reported almost 300000 new
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cases and more than 2000 deaths both record all daily numbers russian police have detained 2 aides of the jailed opposition leader like scene of on the 8 prone around the protesters have also been arrested the demonstrations could overshadow president vladimir putin's annual state of the nation address that is taking place now chants military as promised an 18 month transition to free elections after the death of president to restate be the army says he was killed while leading soldiers fighting rebels in the north a south korean court has rejected a compensation claim by women forced into sex slavery by the japanese military during world war 2 it ruled the japanese government enjoyed sovereign immunity it's earthrise now. the climate is changing and production now is
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paramount. the challenges are immense overcoming the this crucial will president joe biden galvanized efforts for stronger action stay with us for special coverage of the leaders summit and. alone welcome to a new series of earth right it's pretty calm albeit rather windy out here amongst qatar's mangrove forests but there has been a real sense of urgency making this in the middle of a pandemic that's brought the world's which means and which started because we have been bringing nature to its knees. is just one of many illnesses that are spilled
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over tossed wildlife as we quite frankly plunder the notch world and come into closer contact with viruses found there about sars hiv aids 3 out of 4 emerging infectious diseases come from animals and one surfaced every form. of the need to safeguard wild spaces like this one and to protect nature for its survival and our own has never been clearer. but the time it has also generated a desire for a green recovery or about here to ask for solutions to the environment crisis by starting to seriously look at protecting was life and therefore helping to prevent future outbreaks i think such origins of. investigations have been carried out into the likes of bats and labels and some space that these mammals are amongst the 1000000 plants animals fresh and extinction for that is hard and yet we meet the team rehabilitating trafficked. and. southern inchoate locals are defending the
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only remaining home of one critically and. nearly one in 5 mammals in the world is of bats. in the room us that surround their existence. as extensive as. our associations with darkness and evil witches and pirates including contract killer have led generations to see these flying creature as a sinister. bug the grime i totes of call our home to a unique conservation story. for decades devastated this land leaving its god and created but that was supposed to stop when a colony of bats was discovered in a cave in these hills belonging to a species so rare that i was thought to be extinct i've come to go not to caught in india to find out how conservationists. took on the mining industry to win
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protected status for this land the last remaining home in the wild of the elite no spot. only around $200.00 of these bats exist in the conservation reserve. it is also home to 5 other bot species the majority of which reside in the tiny cave in the rock face. i meeting with bats biologist roy chuck rivers the un citizen scientists. high gear to finally know where they're. going to today they're capturing bats using mist nets and collecting d.n.a. samples. as night falls these nocturnal animals begin to emerge out of the cave flying into the softness the place of the ring from the bunch grow in 3 weeks time.
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it's remarkable to be able to see any danger from. vital role in ecosystems including pollination and controlling. our leafnode. in saxony each day but threats including habitat loss and hunting have left $21.00 species of bats critically endangered globally including this one. used by outside the world or 30000000 years and scientists believe anything goes to show to help them in hunting and detecting 3 when in complete darkness it's been proposed that bats have links not only to covert 19 but also to other zoonotic diseases which can spread from animals to humans including and sars. this is why the destruction of their habitat has potential public health consequences it's only when people start destroying for those. directly or indirectly come in contact with bots and then.
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that's when these diseases break out so it's not the boss it's not the degree to do it that actually threatens us as a species is that the. bats use the technique called. them to navigate using sound damage sound waves to very high frequency which bounce off objects and they bring them to quickly establish what is in their vicinity if you've seen small boats fly in on st leonards you should just observe the speed at which they got the anger. whether it's 3 whether it's. its object or whether it's another bout so they do all these calculations in $3.00 to $5.00 milliseconds which is really foster then any supercomputer. on the. of govan 1000 people have attacked bats around the world in march 2020 in solo indonesia
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hundreds of bats in a wildlife market were called on orders of the mayor. and i'm a 2020 authorities issued directives to protect bats across the state of rajastan in india after more than 150 were killed there. the goal our region is one of india's dry major mining. miners would still be on the hill would not the determination of both scientists dr barghouti srinivasan who discovered a colony of gold are leaf knows bats inside the cave in 2030 the species hadn't been spotted in several decades we found the roasting side of this bat and we found that there was mining lots going mining happening lots of trucks on this hill and
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the mining had come to almost $200.00 metres near the dosing site so immediately be alerted the local authorities 1st and also the local communities we also ran a signature campaign with the village just continued protests that you know you need to stop mining a ban on mining happened in january 2015. and area of 223 acres was declared a conservation reserve in 29 team finally bringing protection to this critical. these are the months that you can notice the mining that was happening back then because there is no disturbance at all the habitat is healing and the 1st signs of healing is the presence of grasses all around us i mean it just goes to show that when you've given the time to heal it will bounce back. have you seen a difference in the number of rockets are they coming back to the old roosting spot the bats had stopped using the 2nd read hosting sites because they were small dark
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brady and my nose says the mining ban has happened we have seen that you know that they're coming back to those interesting sites and their populations have also increased wonderfully rich do you think their populations will continue to grow yes they're kind of reclaiming the last london yes exactly. various species of bugs deer and even predators like leopards have been sighted in this landscape in the recent past all because the protection that a batch brought it. today roy and i are heading inside the cave to try recording the high frequency vocalisations of the call our leafnode spats using an ultra sound recording device will be getting right up close to them the cave is less than a metre high and 15 meters deep. i'm pretty sure there are no classes for
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brick bats scientists. and this is right next to my fears so. we're going to throw in there i mean really if you are the ones who are trapped here but none of them are packing contrary to popular belief. you ask a lot does not make the. so yes the back to picked up. you can see the axis quotes from game 200 kya hota sort this is peak winds here we're going to sustain i'm so this spectrogram represents the sounds of the bats i'm making right now yes that's 8 to 9 times more than working higher than what we can grow. anything that's because
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only. the cool are leaf no spot has a distinct call which can be used to identify amongst other bats in the cave. to show it without disturbance i need to put your phones on. this a couple of them calling it now. you know when i put these uniforms on i can hear these bottle girls they shins that sound almost alien but as soon as i take them off i can hear the sounds of the communities who live now by of the farmers who live alongside bats i mean if there's any evidence of the fact that humans can co-exist together seamlessly the soundscape is exactly that. this resolve would not have been possible without the support of the community here . some of whom have become ranges. and we are not overlooking the
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other good just want to get out there and properly more than live our lives and i love the glory of it what i own i love going to gym in and out come from local farming villages around the result of the. day that it can be given that one looked into. consideration as a part of more than that but once i get my 3 i looked in your little prick. managing perceptions around a vilified species takes can so to do. especially when public custody to them runs high. protecting bats in the 21st century will entail engaging with the local community as well live alongside bats and awareness while shops like this with the next generation can make all the difference. if they can i'd like to preserve. very few that the bad girl.
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you know what i can. get. my time here has left me with renewed optimism about the survival of the cold our leaf no spat now that it's only home has been safeguarded for the future. if anything this pandemic has heightened the need to feel sleep protect every corner of habitat that we're left with a newly protected areas. are a step in the right direction. so we'll all still reeling from the effects the kind of 900 pandemic remember we said that a new infectious disease imo just every 4 months or so much the estimate there are 1700000 viruses yet to be discovered in mammals and birds and around half of those could cross over to humans now what happens it's really down to us any given
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species of animal has viruses and bacteria that circulate within that population of animals these are viruses that have grown up with that animal over evolutionary time to the point where they've come to an understanding and the normal interactions different animal species might exchange farces or bacteria those pathogens are able to jump from one animal to another human activities like agricultural intensification expansion of farming systems deforestation and land use change even the wildlife trade we're moving wildlife out of their natural environment and moving them around the world these are the types of activities that bring people into closer contact with wildlife and create opportunity for those viruses that normally would certainly within wild animal populations to make the jump in the people and that can happen directly or via domestic animals and once a virus successfully makes the jump from animals and people then if it's able to spread from person to person and has the opportunity to do that through social
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interactions locally well local outbreak might occur but really because we're connected globally more so than we ever have been in history all it takes is a person getting on an airplane carrying a new zoonotic virus and that virus moves from one location to many locations and that's how a localized epidemic becomes a global pandemic it's almost guaranteed that we're going to see another large scale epidemic or even a pandemic whether it's a corona virus or another type was doing a lot of virus as long as we're continuing to do the types of activities around the world that allow these viruses to jump from wild animals into people we need to. stop thinking about epidemics as random chance of beds that were victims of we are directly influencing and have the power to prevent pandemics from occurring we need to make better choices and do things to protect ecosystems and the natural environment around us which is ultimately going to protect our own health and security. of the global wildlife trade as we've heard is one of the things
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increasing the risk of animal foresters coming into contact with humans since the start of the pandemic the cools to panic to become louder but no regulation of course will stop the illegal wildlife trite and that's estimates to be worth up to 23000000000 dollars each year and it's driving a number of animals to extinction and. to make conservationists protests in one of the trafficking is most vulnerable victims. have been roaming the earth red least 45000000 years but now they are threatened with extinction despite an international trade ban nearly 1000000 have been trafficked over the past 2 decades with many of them being used in traditional medicines or served as highly prized to meet. one of the better you know how to fill in the training and here i'm here to visit the town of conservation that are regular going higher end of the world only for
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a fairly narrow. annoy the bustling capital of vietnam far removed from the natural habitat of the shi'ite sensitive wild animals. but behind closed doors illegal trade in penguins continues here even with the country's tough wildlife protection laws and the prime minister calling for their strict enforcement after the 900 outbreak. i'm on my way to the center of the noire a popular destination for people looking for traditional chinese medicine i hear it's not hard to find the animal scales here for a range of health. right to lactation problems. i'm going undercover with our producer who's got a hidden camera will tell the shopkeepers i'm seeking remedies for my sister just had a baby and is having trouble breastfeeding. we try 6 stores the shopkeepers either tell us they don't sell scales because it's illegal or say they have them but get
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suspicious then he finds out. and buy it and i am not left out of our own house on the map but if thing like they are not they left it in a place long after that. came out and they after. all they have opened it down and have a right to step up again on what. were the pangolin is one of the world's most trafficked wild mammals. vietnam is home to 2 of its 8 species the chinese and assumed pangolin. both are critically endangered globally and their numbers are thought to have fallen by 80 percent or more in recent decades. wildlife trade monitoring network traffic estimates that between 201620 nearly 90 tons of the animals scales these globally
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were linked to vietnam. but there is still hope for this disappearing mammal. i am traveling south of annoyed to cook for a national park where local n.g.o.s working tirelessly to rescue and release penguins. can i. hope with a good. time and his team have returned nearly a 1000 penguins to the wild since 2014 and took a. aaron to release another 7 over the next few days. there are currently 20 at the center all rescued from trafficking networks between vietnam and other southeast asian countries many of the animals that come here are week d.h. read age and have serious injuries. like this one penguin
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1588 identified by the last few digits of his coat a number at the center this 7 year old lost part of his front paw after being caught in a trap is now ready to be released no. one want to. have a. good know how. long . about the good we're. bad but it's how i get the i'm not mean that you don't but to deny. that there are more to. be in what you know what you. might need a light on but. my. with numbers plummeting each pangolin
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baby offers new. yet their survival rate at the center is low with many born prematurely to females that arrive pregnant but injured and stressed. 'd since 2014 only 10 out of $23.00 made it. this female now 3 months old is a welcome addition. rather than a man. one i want to interfere in our number one home movie if you want to read it you. some would not give. medical just a way to put i pad in mangle for him and i've gotten i think no man him but i think i need one on one time alone with him i've been meaning quitting lots of the want but think i'm in that job i think all. this is the only baby at the center right now growing more independent by the day she'll be able to breed herself with
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a year. to cut than to take on the link want know what i'm up to now to help going and i thought of what i need open up with a mature woman can undo the male chick known to have a guy that i don't matter much and when you know what can you make of it you know that the mountain won't mean. penguins are mostly nocturnal and as night falls it's time to prepare their 1st meal. and i think you will go to the. caracappa to. some ground. what people call paying. more work even. while i was at home can start looking like i didn't cut in line. i'm joining 1588 for his dinner or rather breakfast. amputated penguins don't always
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recover well enough to be released so he is one of the lucky ones. not too many meals to go here before he has to find his own in the wilds. save vietnam's wildlife releases penguins in protected areas which are controlled by forest ranger to. these need to be on constant alert to ensure the animals don't fall prey to their most dangerous enemy poachers. but there is another threat the rangers will need to look out for pathogens. no evidence has been found but covert 19 originated from pangolin but some have been known to carry coronaviruses related to the one behind the disease. today the rangers are being trained to take samples from animal bean counter in the wild to aid ongoing research efforts on the potential spill over of disease. the specimen for today's training is
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a dead stork. all along what walk. when. i'm here with a number of active military. but it is you who are there to but yeah he must. be due. back at the center it's the big day final health checks have been done microchips attached and pangolin 1588 and 6 others are ready to be released. if you know that sometime because there. was some talk. on. the 14th if. we're going to get our 5 hour journey to a national park in central vietnam where the pangolins are going to be released
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under tight security tonight 'd 'd 'd. and we've got workers from so called mccarthy got going to back me up now with you good night we got not because of the guy saw it with the line that the for . the 1st pangolin we set free 88. more get out 11 of the in the good news. that. i've only been here for a few days but during that time i really seen how vulnerable based creatures are so this is a really special moment i just hope they don't end up as tropical statistics. with
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so few pangolins left in the world everyone that survives in the wild really count . the covert 19 pandemic has revealed only to clady how our health depends on the planets but it's also showing that nature can thrive given half a chance during lockdowns world over that was sightings of animals reclaiming open spaces as we retreated into our homes dolphins falling to the bosphorus listenable in turkey. he was proud to santiago chile. mountain goats roamed the streets the welsh town of landed now in the u.k. . as beaches emptied out presents hurdles nested in the usually high numbers in the u.s. highlands turkey and here in qatar. these glimpses of nature at least were relatively common. they serve to remind us we must renegotiate our relationship with the
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natural world fight the lies of fellow creatures on earth as if our own depends on it he says coded mighty and has shown us they really do. ahead of us day on april 22nd out a series joined a number of other major outlets in making it to the ration which recognizes that the climate emergency is here and that this is a scientific statement and not a political one there's more information about this at covering climate now dot org the global consortium of major organizations and of course here on al-jazeera will continue to bring you coverage of the climate so much and see it's here it affects everyone and we all need to stay informed so keep watching. thousands of children were removed from east timor during the indonesian occupation decades later why don't want to join the last generation as they find head.
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