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a syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target an exploded in southern israel there a nuclear facility a missile was fired during israeli air strikes inside syria very force that has this update from west jerusalem. the context of what's been happening in recent weeks the very high tensions between iran and israel over iran's nuclear program and the attack ascribed to israel some 10 days ago on the iranian chants enrichment facility they were immediately concerned this could be potentially the next step in the shadow conflict a very dangerous and escalatory one however the israeli military says what took place was syrian anti-aircraft batteries targeting. the incoming israeli wouldn't which overflew its target and went way over israeli territory and exploded in southern israel. a search operation is underway for an indonesian

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a lot going on in this show and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear the new and be part of today's discussion the stream on out is there a. lone welcome to a new series about right it's pretty calm over it rather windy out here amongst qatar's mangrove forests but there has been

a real sense of urgency making this in the middle of content mix that's brought the world for its means which started because we have been bringing nature to its name it's been 1000 is just one of many illnesses that are spilled over tossed wildlife as we quite frankly plumbed a notch well and come into close contact with viruses found that a boa saw as 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 as our own has never been clear. but the time it has also generated a desire for a green recovery or about here to ask for solutions to the environments crisis by starting a serious by looking at protecting was life and therefore helping to prevent future outbreaks i think such origins of cover 19 are on the investigations have been carried out into the likes of bats and kind of labels and some. that these models were amongst the 1000000 plants and it was fresh and the extinction of it is hard

and yet now we meet the team rehabilitating tropics hunk of it and in southern india locals are defending the only remaining home of one critically endangered bats. nearly one in 5 mammals in the world is of bats. and the rumors that surround their existence has extensive. associations with darkness and evil witches and pirates including contract killer have led generations to see these flying creatures as sinister. but the grime attitudes 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 it 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 protected status for this land the last remaining home in the world of the elite no spot. only around $200.00 of these bats exist in the conservation reserve. it is also home to 5 other species the majority of which reside in the tiny cave in the rock face. i'm meeting with bats biologist roy chuck rivers the un citizen scientists but just. how i have over to finally know where it. is going to today they're capturing bats using miss nets and collecting d.n.a. samples. as night falls these nocturnal i. begin to emerge out of the cave flying into the soft. the place of the ring from where i'm taking the bunch.

in 3 weeks' time. it's remarkable to be able to see any danger from. vital rolling ecosystems including pollination and controlling. insects each day. but threats including habitat loss and hunting have left $21.00 species of bats critically endangered globally including this one. goes. in hunting and in 33 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 on a move to humans including sars. this is why the destruction of their habitat

has potential public health consequences it's only when people start destroying. directly or indirectly come in contact with bots and there's. that's when these diseases break out so it's not the bot it's not the degree to do it that actually threatens us as a species is that the. bats use the technique called. to navigate using sound damage sound waves to very high frequency which bounce off objects and maybe to quickly establish what is in their vicinity if you have seen small boats fly in on st leonards just the speed at which they got the anger is whether it's 3 whether it's there it's all or whether it's another bout so they do all these calculations and milliseconds which we fostered and use it for. the

mark i got a lot of them on the left but there was a. feeling the spread of govan 19 people have attacked bats around the world in march 2020 in solo indonesia hundreds of bats in a wildlife market were called on orders of the mayo. and i'm a 2020 authorities issued directives to protect bats across the state of rogers town in india after more than 150 were killed there. the call are legion is one of india's grommets mining. miners would still be on the hill word north of the determination of bats scientist dr barghouti srinivasan who discovered a colony of gold are leaf nosed 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 a lot skin mining happening lots of trucks on this hill and the mining had come to almost 100 metres near the dosing site so immediately we entered the local authorities 1st and also the local communities we also ran a signature campaign with the village just with our continued protest that you know you need to stop mining a ban on mining happened in our january 2015. and an area of 223 acres was declared a conservation reserve in 29 team finally bringing protection to this critical bad habits. these are the current monks that you can notice who you are the mining that was happening back then because there is no disturbance at all and the habitat is healing and the 1st signs of healing is the presence of grasses on around us i mean it just goes to show that when you're given land the time to heal it will bounce

back. have you seen a difference in the number of black and are they coming back to the old who sings for the bats had stopped using the secondary hosting sites because they were small dark by the miners since the mining ban has happened we've seen that you know that they are coming back to those interesting sites and their populations have also increased wonderfully with and do you think their populations will continue to grow yes is there kind of reclaiming lost land in a sense 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 leaf knows bats 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 big bats scientists. this is right next to my face so cool. we could hold the star in there i mean there's so many if you are the ones who are trapped here but none of them are back and contrary to popular belief. is asking a lot does not make the. so yes the back. and you can see the axis quote from game 200 you know what sort this is peak winds here we're at this time so this spectrogram represents the sounds of the bats i'm making right now yes that's 8 to 9 times more than what we think

higher than what we can go. faster because only from scratch. the goal our leaf no spot has a distinct call which can be used to identify it amongst other bats in the cave. to show it without disturbance i need to put your phones on. there's a couple of them calling it now. you know when i put these uniforms on i can hear these battle 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 nearby of the farmers who live alongside bats i mean if there's any evidence of the fact that on humans down co-existing at the scene the flea 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're not overlooking the other 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 jimmy in and out come from local farming villages around the results of the. day that things are getting a lot why we looked into it. you know. and the reason is i'm a part of more than that but once i get my period in your little project we're. managing perceptions around a vilified species takes can so to do. especially when public custody to them runs high. rejecting bots in the 21st century will entail engaging with the local community as well live alongside bots and awareness

walk 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 good. you know what i can. put on. my time here has left me with renewed optimism about the survival of the cold our leaf no spot 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 19 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 whether or not that happens it's really down to us any given 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 through 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 and expansion of farming systems deforestation and land use change even the wildlife trade were 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 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 we are 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 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 the next step is to make conservationists protests and 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 of the of

the training and here i'm here to visit the town of conservation and work regular going higher in the world only for killing and. 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 1000 outbreak. i'm on my way to the center of the noise 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 help from a. 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 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 big enough if a plane flying out that. came out and made after. all they have to open it down and have a right to step up and get 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 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 to compare. 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 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 am not. what you did there and i know what. they did a more. than been what you want to. be to me. but

my my. with numbers plummeting each pangolin baby offers new. yet their survival rate at the center is low with many born prematurely females that arrive pregnant but injured and stressed. since 2014 only 10 out of $23.00 made it. this female now 3 months old is a welcome addition. rather than a man. not one i want to interfere but our number one i'm moving him out of bed if you. some would not give. medical just a way to get i pad even mingle from him i've gotten i think no man him but i think i mean when i'm in town alone with him i've been meaning quitting lots of the want

but they got on that job and single. this is the only baby at the center right now growing more independent by the day she'll be able to breed herself with a year. to cut than to take on the link i want go but i'm going and i thought of going out with a open up with a mature woman who wasn't going and going to the mayo knowing he had a guy that i don't manage 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. what people call paying. more work in. the home can start looking like

a grown woman cutting in line for. joining 1588 for his dinner or rather breakfast. amputated penguins don't always 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 patrolled by forest ranger to. these need to be on constant alert to ensure the animals don't fall prey to the most dangerous animal poachers. but there is another threat the rangers will need to look out for pathogens. no evidence has been found that 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 animals they encounter in the wild to aid ongoing research efforts on the potential spill over of disease. the specimen for today's training is a dead stuart. all on one walk. when. i'm here with a number of active military. but that is. it but yeah. they do say that. 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 another dot com one time because if it did there. was onslaught.

on. the 14th if. we're going to get our 5 hour journey to a national park in central vietnam where the penguins are going to be released under tight security tonight 'd 'd 'd. and we've got workers from so-called pork i think i'm going to back me up there with your garage and i think i'm not because of all of the guys at me look at the life of the for. the 1st pangolin we set free 88. 11 of the in the good news boy behind that. i've

only been here for a few days but during that time i really see how vulnerable the scriptures are so this is a really special moment i just hope they don't end up as tropical statistics. with so few pangolins left in the world everyone that survives in the wild really count . the covert 19 revealed only to clarity 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 lift umble 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 freshly tuttle's nested in the usually high numbers leave

us highlands turkey and here in qatar. these glimpses of nature. they serve to remind us we must renegotiate our relationship with the natural world like a fellow creatures on earth is a fault depends on it he says coated mighty and has shown us they really do. one 3rd of all the food produced is wasted with tens of thousands of food outlets told in south korea has been transformed from what the founder if a global leader in food recycling i have been reporting on how new technology is making this possible. in kenya i mean the pharmacy and scientists. that depend on it was a new place. we understand the

differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take a. 0 read the news and current affairs that matter. how interesting. the u.s. justice department launches an investigation into policing in minneapolis after a former officer is convicted of murdering george floyd. hello there are more. live from doha also coming up. in protesters in russia demand the release of opposition leader alexina bolli who is in a prison hospital.