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such danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with every breath is precious or if it is not an option. but we're knocked most. the in. the oath. israel continues to show locations in gaza forcing families to flee some have taken shelter in un run schools and more troops are deployed to the border with gaza as israel considers a ground operation. alone barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up violence erupts in israel's as mclean makes towns and cities in scenes not witnessed in
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decades plus outsourcing its vaccine needs india's government goes straight to the manufacturers promising 2000000000 doses by oprah's. think you for joining us israel is continuing its aerial bombardment of gaza ignoring international calls for calm and the rapidly climbing best toll hundreds of families have taken shelter in un run schools in northern gaza fleeing israeli artillery fire $103.00 palestinians including $27.00 children and at least 7 people in israel have been killed since monday palestinian factions also continue to fire rockets into israel targeting tel of event a lot where all international flights have now been diverted so we begin our coverage in gaza with our reporter suffered to. suffer what that would be speaking
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for the past few hours of course the artillery fire continues tell us a little bit more about the situation there. let's start with the latest how much just said it's politically that it's been honey you have been receiving calls from egyptian officials on. united nation voice for the middle east. to discuss reaching the cease fire that's the short statement that we received. in the underground we could see from the offshore and from the top of our building hundreds of families leaving evacuating their homes coming from east of gaza city and from the north of gaza city they were forced to evacuate their homes because of the heavy artillery shooting that started before the sunset in gaza city in the gaza strip some of these families they have opened some. schools are
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now sheltering in these and this is cool until finding a solution for a cut on imminent crisis that suddenly appeared. now we could hear another explosion it's one of the rockets that fired from gaza into southern israel just minutes ago of the islamic jihad fighting the military wing of islamic jihad claimed responsibility for firing longer range rockets into. a school on. an the north and the south of gaza city pacifically. and in the rough off. the medical teams they said they have deployed lots of glances to risk. some of the families that were stuck under the rubble of their
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destroyed house and they believe according to what they confirm to us they believe there are some people. alive under the rubble of the destroyed houses the. so far $103.00 people killed including 20 children and more than $150.00 injured. in the latest collision yet the death toll unfortunately but perhaps predictably climbing very quickly as sofitel kaluta with the latest from gaza safwat as always thank you. and now let's go to southern israel near gaza and speak to our desire as harry for said harry when we spoke to you in the last hour basically you kept on going in and out of the shelter what's the situation like there now. well i mean that the operations on both sides are still going on but there has been a bit of
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a lull in terms of the most recent rocket fire out of gaza and therefore the rocket interceptions above us however we are still hearing regularly artillery heading into gaza from locations around here also the last 10 minutes the that the sound of machine gun fire apparently coming from a nearby helicopter as well and so the situation remains that this is a continuing military attack that the israelis seem to be intent on continuing what we saw earlier was the 1st sort of major movement of heavy armory that we had seen so far tanks tracked vehicles heading in a line south towards gaza at the same time as there was this extremely intensive artillery but barrage lasting about an hour then there was some of that something of a pause and another big artery bar coming later and suffer it's been telling you about
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the impact on the people of northern gaza and people fleeing and the deaths that are being reported there it's not yet clear whether this is a ground invasion or whether it is kind of a warning of the potential of a ground invasion either way it's already having a devastating impact it seems in northern gaza and mean as you say there's no way of knowing right now and we have to always clarify as you mention that you know these are reports of a possible ground invasion but what is that this course the israel over something like that which obviously would be an enormous escalation. it would be an enormous step in the escalatory nature of this it's possible that it is being done to try to head off the continuation of these huge barrass. on built up urban areas around israel to try and demonstrate the seriousness of this option
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that the israeli army said it was drawing up and was going to put to the political leadership and the kind of calculations that about leadership would have to make about the risks to israeli soldiers and therefore potentially the feeling about this operation on the israeli populace itself don't forget that it is a conscript army and one of the things that benjamin netanyahu has benefited from politically is largely keeping the late teens early twenty's children of voters out of major in the last 7 years or so major military escalations and so to go against that policy that he's been at here into pretty closely for several years now would be a pretty major step in all sorts of ways and of course we mustn't just talk about the impact on the politics here in israel or on israeli soldiers lives and major
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ground operation inside gaza would have a huge impact on the life there and we're already seeing in just what could be the preliminaries or just the warning shots these aren't warning shots they're actually impacting people's homes killing people inside gaza of course and in such a densely populated populated area ground it would have an enormous impact herefore said with the latest step from southern israel hairy thank you. and in the past hour or so lebanese security forces have said rockets have been launched from south lebanon towards israel is that harder has more from beirut. well lebanese security sources saying that 4 rockets were fired at israel there in lebannon and these sources to tell him that in the territories and it's not clear where the other 2 fell but the israeli army is now saying that these rockets landed in the tree and
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that there been no casualties and damage the united nations interim force is in southern lebanon there is a peacekeeping force along that volatile border they are urging restraint and they say that they're in touch with both sides who are true that there's no flare up lebanese security sources believe that palestinian factions were involved in a little blockade launching palestinian refugees who have been going on they didn't camp some of those camps had closed the border and some of the palestinian factions in the camps are likely armed get they do have arms so security sources don't believe this is the work of law that's sort of close to as broadly as many in fact group which is also armed in which have gone to war with israel in the past has denied any other piece was an apparent show of support and solidarity with the company of people who are confronting the israeli attacks in gaza over a message. another front can easily open while israel
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continues to pack a gaza left to remember hezbollah is heavily armed has been that considers itself was part of the so-called resistance track along with how miles along with with the avon that there is no doubt opening a new fun case for hezbollah they need to take into account to domestic reaction it will be very it will be a very very difficult decisions that it has to do that because a full blown escalation at the pacific time while lebanon is undergoing or going through a deep political and economic crisis but then again like i mentioned is this issue of show of support for the thought that there is the with the palestinian people in the past when gaza has come under attack some rockets have been launched across the border or is there a political message to israel that another front can easily open. well the spokesperson of harasses military wing said the group's the session to strike
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israeli cities was easing a lot of us that the decision to bomb television jerusalem dimona ashkelon ashdod. and any cities before or after that from our occupied cities is easier for us than drinking water. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited one of the defensive missile systems known as the iron dome he reiterated israel's resolve to continue its bombardments. are going to the defense activity of better resists giving us an offensive space in the israeli defense forces have already attacked hundreds of targets who will soon pass $1000.00 targets we continue striking hamas will defending our citizens it will take more time but with great firmness and off since as well as difference we will achieve our goal of bringing back come to the state of israel as well as the violence seems to continue to escalate mohammad vaal has more now on the strikes to both sides in the past
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a day. gaza skyline earlier in fez they and new wave of israeli air strikes has targeted the hamas police academy among other facilities israel says being used to launch missile attacks on its cities. the israeli bombardment how so far killing dozens of palestinians was israel says hamas has fired up to 1500 rockets into its territory over the past 3 days killing several people. sirens were heard in northern israel and elsewhere warning of more hamas missiles. israel's iron dome defense system was seen in action over the border with the gaza strip to intercept palestinian rockets. incoming international flights to been good in airport near tel aviv or diverted to the southern part of that came under attack although is
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a way of says the rockets fell short was but in gaza and the west bank palestinian celebrated it did fit the festival marking the end of the holy month of ramadan despite the bombings and on set and on landover think it all is good but it's just such situation because some people can feel happy and others god help them. it's hard for people in gaza west bank and elsewhere in the world to watch what is going on and keep silent i hope it will be good for all. i will celebrate aboard money to buy new clothes for my son in order to challenge the situation and celebrate i want to make my son happy journey and i hope next day they will take him to pray in el aqsa mosque and chant god the greatest. hundreds gathered at the compound early morning for 8 previous. days it was a scene of unprecedented raids by israeli forces that from to the west of violence
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in the. palestinians say those incidents meant israel had crossed what they describe as a red line as the israeli airstrikes and the hamas rocket attacks continue there are no signs of either side agreeing to a truce. israel has called up thousands of reservists and is massing troops near the border with gaza in what's feel to be a preparation for a land invasion our desire as the airstrikes continue so too does violence among palestinian israelis and jewish residents inside israel it's on a scale not seen in decades the tactics of police are now being called into question for a burden man leave reports and the warning there are some strong images from the start. the the was was
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a chants of death to our obsessed anger and hate has spilled out into the streets in the coastal city of. palestinian israelis and jewish israelis living in close proximity turning on each other. among many violent incidents on wednesday a palestinian man was dragged from his car by dozens of jewish israelis who continued to beat even after he lost consciousness the video is brokaw's live on israeli television. oh and the 7 7 i am closer to tell of eve palestinian businesses will run fact the wave of violence has hit dozens of cities and regions across israel it's the worst between communities living alongside each other in decades israeli officials say they're more violent than the protests that led to the al aqsa intifada in 2000 was
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the tension came to a boiling point as a court prepared to rule on the force expulsion of palestinian families from the homes in the occupied east jerusalem shaikh jara neighborhood israeli journalist yossi melman says he's worried about the janata groups inside israel running amok he says the headed to the abyss as a result of absence of governance and years of incitement and prime minister benjamin netanyahu has both sides to stop the attacks in the attempt to quell the violence netanyahu ordered the emergency deployment of border forces. police tactics are under scrutiny after this video was shared on social media of officers storming a family home in the northern city of haifa they could be seen beating on a promise to hit israel. and to the south of tel aviv the city of la has been put under
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a state of emergency the 1st in an arab community since 966 it's been one of the worst hit by riots. on tuesday night jewish kargil silicate was satellites a mosque was the next day and palestinian mussa hassouna was shot dead by jewish residents during protests even though the court is the hearing of chief jura many are now more worried about how to stop the violence caused by anger that's been simmering for much longer. al-jazeera let's speak now to iran he's a senior lecturer in international politics of the middle east at london's city university and has a special interest and arab in the arab israeli conflict and joins us now via skype sir thank you for joining us here on our dizzier or just been watching an upsetting report with upsetting scene scenes showing how we are seeing an increase of
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inter-communal violence 1st of all do you see this as a significant difference steps through similar clashes that we have seen in the past. yes absolutely in the history of israel i think these are really unprecedented interethnic clashes the closest that israel has witnessed were as your reporter stated clashes that preceded with the eve of the 2nd intifada or the alex and father but these are sent certainly on precedent and in this scale in the intensity of the violence and also in the spread between various cities absolutely and it obviously we're seeing the attack. and the rockets coming out of gaza as well but do you think that this goes beyond that that perhaps at the root of this is also many of the political changes that we have seen in the knesset itself and the old men of a lot of the far right jewish extremists yes absolutely i think these intercommunal
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clashes really have 2 levels there's a long term level to that which includes a very prolonged social and economic neglect of palestinian israelis by successive israeli governments of course there is to add to that the political marginalization of palestinian israelis not least the passing of the nationhood law that was passed a few years ago which define israel as a country that is exclusively for its jewish population in departure from israel's own declaration of independence and that has been long term process that has been happening for a long time now but then of course there are the short term process is that really i would say brought this tinderbox 2 to explode one is the on going. interest and determination of jewish settlers to evict palestinian polity. families from the neighborhood in iraq and of course compounding that was the reckless and very violent conduct of the israeli police during what is called jerusalem day in
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israel and of course during the friday prayers in the exam was and to add fuel to that fire we have the recent election of a jewish racist party called religious zionism whose leaders are disciples of the late rabbi kahane who was in fact ousted outlawed from being elected in israel because of his calls back in the eighty's to evict to transfer forcefully palestinian israelis and that elections and the active participation in fueling by israeli plant parliamentarians have certainly heightened the flames of the fire and all of these into communal clashes and speaking of elections israel is seen quite a few in the past for the past 2 years and they have been inconclusive i mean they were in the process of possibly forming a new coalition that when that violence ever up they had what do you think that leaves the situation now is the risk that whoever is
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a government could lose control of the situation in many of the towns. yes there is a real risk of losing control you're right to say that having 4 elections in 2 years have said has certainly left a positive that q and therefore into that vacuum into these vigilante groups these racist groups but at the moment the interesting thing is that we still don't have a government in israel mr yang lapita the head of there is a future still has 20 days to form his own government but in the context of the current crisis that we are in mr enough that he bennett who up and so last week was part of a conversation that now almost seems surreal namely of the jury. government together with the sudden. faction of the islamic movement in israel and the payment service was still under discussion now mr bennett said that he's not part of that he's not going to form any government in that context duck in
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a sense to the drawing board and it is not entirely unprovable that israel is even will be heading to a busy lection this very profound crisis i think that that mr netanyahu has now has a higher chance of forming a coalition than he did last week. and on the iran senior lecturer in international politics of the middle east at london's a city university sir thank you for sharing your views with us thank you. and of course it always matters what the u.s. has to do and has to say with the current situation and the u.s. president joe biden has called for a significant reduction in the rocket attacks but says there has not been an over reaction in the israeli response one of the things that. i have seen thus far is that. there has not been a significant overreaction the question is how.
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how we get to a point where they get to a point where there is a significant reduction in the attacks particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired in the population centers it's going now to john hendren in washington d.c. so in a sense we've heard the similar mantra as always that israel has the right to the fend itself and the jew pick up anything. and what joe biden was saying that might hint at a slight change in policy. this seems pretty consistent with joe biden's policies over the decades as he's been a senator there are 2 main parties here in the u.s. but there's really one policy toward the israeli palestinian conflict and you heard it right there its condemnation of rocket attacks out of gaza by hamas and then essential the support for what israel is doing and in this case. this
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statement that it's not a disproportionate response by israel which seems to be belied by the body count which is much heavier on the guns aside. but it is consistent with biden's position over many years the president has been essentially acting as if this all started with rocket attacks firing out of out of gaza and he's gotten some heat increasingly democrats are separating with the president on the issue of this conflict you've got alexandria cause you cortez a member of congress from new york who says. that blanket statements like these with little context or acknowledgement of what precipitated this cycle of violence namely the expulsion of palestinians and attacks on al aqsa dehumanised palestinians and imply the u.s. will look the other way human rights violations and she ends it by saying it's
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wrong are can really help get the white house correspondent for al-jazeera tried to press jennifer psaki the white house press spokeswoman about this this is her exchange. in the statement that palestinians also have a right to sell part of the car that attacks not coming from hamas do you consider hamas the palestinian leadership let me rephrase the question that you've repeatedly in the statement condemning the rocket attacks does the white house does the buy the ministration also down to the actual. palestinians who are saying that he is looking to that in our readouts and certainly our national security adviser has raised and we have raised at many levels the importance of. addressing the building in these in these communities and the fact that you know in order to move forward and move toward deescalation that's an important issue to address that has
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been that has come up i think we've got to move on and let you rock. so despite kimberly's persistence there you heard the white house spokeswoman essentially just double down on the white house's position refusing to condemn the israeli government's position here and condemning the firing of rockets out of gaza . and anthony blinken the new secretary of state for the president recently addressed this is well in an appearance with the australian prime minister and he doubled down as well saying condemning the rocket attacks and reiterating the white house position that it is opposed to any action being taken out of the united nations and that he in his words they're waiting for time for diplomacy to take place but as that happens that allows the israeli military to continue this lob sided conflict essentially buying time for israel to continue this conflict
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which could lead has no end in sight so that me john hendren with the latest there from washington john thank you. ok let's take a look at some of that they are news and more than 2000000000 though says of corona virus vaccine will likely be available in india between organist and the same bar a top government adviser has said the government is in talks with multiple vaccine manufacturers with a bureaucrat reap reportedly saying that money was not an issue because the government had a quote huge budget several states report an acute shortage of doses in the face of record coronavirus cases and that on thursday the country recorded 4120 new kovac 1000 deaths and 362700 and 27 more infections 5 nemeth outlays in new delhi with more now on the vaccination effort. the city of order for this has come out and said that it will be spending more than
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$1300000000.00 to import vaccines the state has said that it has been in touch with several companies including sputnik and pfizer for this order in all 10 states have now come out and said that they will be looking to float global tenders to import vaccines so they can accelerate the vaccination drive in their states these states include raja's thought on entrepreneur delhi and even maharashtra the modi government has come out and said that any vaccine that has been approved by the f.d.a. in the us and also by the w.h.o. will be allowed to be imported and that import licenses will be granted within 2 days this development comes as states have been scrambling for doses several of them over the last couple of days have actually halted vaccination drives especially for the 18 to 44 age group saying that they just don't have enough supplies you know the more the government has come under
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a lot of pressure by health experts and also by opposition parties now who are demanding that the government start a mass vaccination drive and do it for free for many muslims it's the 2nd the under coronavirus restrictions muslims in pakistan are marking the ied holiday in mosques and open fields as cases of covert 19 continue their surge prime minister imran khan sent a message to people on twitter asking them to celebrate responsibly been urged to ensure social distancing a partial lockdown was introduced last week to prevent people from travelling before the holidays the government says the next few weeks are critical. colonial pipeline reportedly paid nearly $5000000.00 in untraceable cryptocurrency to hackers after a cyber attack shut the largest fuel pipeline network in the united states on friday the attack calls the 6 day fuel shortages motorists rush to fill their tanks
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and pump prices rose to a 7 year high the f.b.i. blamed the criminal gang darkseid assault to be based in russia or eastern europe u.s. president joe biden says he does not believe the russian government was behind the cyber attack but believes the hackers are russian based and did not rule out retaliation he's urged a business not to get out prices and assured normality will return by the weekend. it was. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israel's military bad continues and it's being reinforced with substantial troop movement near the border the israeli defense minister has approved the call up of 9000 reservists and the military has prepared a ground invasion plan but any decision to invade would be made by the israeli
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government and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visited one of the defensive missile systems known as the iron dome he reiterated israel's resolve to continue its form bartlett's. going to lose a little the defense activity of mine done better resists giving us an offensive space news really defense forces have already attacked hundreds of targets who will soon pass 1000 targets we continue striking hamas will defend your citizens it will take more time with great food medicine all things as well as different we will achieve our goal of bringing back come to the state of israel. international calls for calm meanwhile continue but so far they have been ignored since monday $103.00 palestinians including $27.00 children and at least 7 people in israel have been killed in coming international flights to ben gurion airport near tel aviv for a diverse said to the southern airport of ramon that 2 came under attack although
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israel said the rockets fell short. and the spokesperson of her masses military wing said the group's the situation to strike israeli cities was easy. the decision to bomb televisa jerusalem. and any cities before or after that from our occupied cities is easier for us than drinking water meanwhile there is growing violence in the makes the cities palestinian israelis and jewish israelis turning on each other on a scale not seen in decades the wave of violence has said dozens of cities and regions across israel the tactics of israeli police have also been questioned it was seen beating a palestinian israeli man inside a family home those are the headlines out of more in the news hour in just under half an hour from now stay with us earth rises the x. . i am.
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as populations grow and incomes rise with eating more and more animal protein double the amount of milk as the early 1960 s. and 4 times that right means that the average person out of the 40 character arms of me to a chair think $350.00 coats of hounds. some of this is about persuading you to go seek an overactive tally and that's a personal choice there with a big warning light about what all this meat and dairy consumption is doing to help planet and house of livestock farming is highly looting it will cause huge amounts of resources and summits large quantities of rain house gases. but i'm going to 1300000000 people around the world who depend on livestock of us wife of how do you
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this is less animal protein none at all look at it from sustainable and ethical sources and this program we visit not the state of the u.k. but found as a p.c. make them a stored diary and croplands the 1st all to santiago chile where a parent company is revolutionizing the trade industry the cancer and artificial intelligence. the world's growing no exception to food made for money more products many of them process is increasing not only cholesterol levels but also our environment that footprint. scientists say we have to curve a craving for meat in their e. not only for their own health but also for the planets but how will the money just keeps on growing well the answer may not come from humans here in santiago chile well start to say leads to the help of artificial intelligence. and maybe
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a nice maybe you're welcome to not go thank you. this is actually experimental not go so what you're going to see here is the interaction between technology and humans in this kitchen there is a very special chef an artificial. so where is the step here though you say here in the experiment then nice one more member of the chefs to use their big generates receive peace which rebin an emo bass the she's using plants and then the shift followed them. basically it's trying to get a technology that would allow us to predict what combination of ingredients should result in the same sensory experience tastes textures smell the colors for a human being that might sound really crazy. for an algorithm it doesn't the process starts with giving you so bit
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a dish to recreate who betray something you know of the fania for instance you have power you can one or both we can try because we have to meet also we have to act and be seen that all of the lesson you we have to tease and also you have written us asked that it's made from milk. press the button go and generating the recipe. oh you save us more than a 100 different recipes we have the ingredients you save it is suggesting that here mushroom lemonade or and rice also baking soda. we have a new talent base there not last time yet so go with her let that become melt but not with their lesson here though and meet with the will and yes and the little self i've been assigned to to steam a recipient glutes red pepper and not while using carrots and potatoes.
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ok so my teeth isn't quite working perfect or yes so here we have 2 different results combining different plants we are trying to achieve this tread at least for spraying in the less than year and this is not a threat or and that this quite good more salvi there are very different. game of bull the efforts here isn't actually to make up a tyson vicious but to enable you simply to learn more about the qualities to be for implanting rience so the mishaps like my most are really are just as useful as the successes so we have the results and now we are giving they put the smell the flavor the text so you say peace actually learning from our sensory. yes. it's going to take
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a week to go through for the recipes that you say if we have. in the meantime i'm going to find out more about the science behind the operation. get for nothing like it a lot of thought and then after you separate began it though you said want to see some of this event guess i'm. going to get an answer to that. for my and then. after you said if i'm one of the. film we're going to. use that exact moment think through on a lie singing really into them breaking them down to their military level. to work out what makes them taste feel luke smell and behave and to understand their nutritional properties then you can determine how to use different plants in order to simulate the final product. creepy charter computer scientist and the brains behind you simply. start i was sitting in
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my office in the university and not just came and told me what do you come up with i'll go to them that finds a plan based formulas to me. and i had no idea how to come up with the solution but we could create the 1st algorithm there was already able to generate the 1st one based formula after we try them in the kitchen we realized that they were actually working and we realize we have something since that moment we never stop. what if your goal. changes. pandemics all that comes because we are using the animal to produce food at scale the biggest goal is like one they want to see that the whole food industry changed thanks to the hostile to push the system to come up with new solutions we've disrupted formulas with great product out there now not. the anyone any would.
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have a challenge for you here you have the not products that are currently sold in america and out of these various i was here you must guess each of these products what is the vegetable container so let's start with the not meal. great not an apple yes. you can continue with the burger. are there any grapes in this burger not really strawberry no cocoa yet actually has cocoa on it. you ones are not going to combine this creasing review is able to without any prior bias find this mind blowing in winning combinations that actually match by star get their only way to really make people to change their current honeywell based products and start consuming plant based products is when they have a really tasty alternative. and it seems people do find these products they speak
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for must start the same people in 26 the not the britain's world not in america and has recently entered the us it's one of a number of food companies writing a global trend towards value we released the name of products or known as the old one prediction says that in 10 years' time the alternative media industry will be bored $140000000000.00 supermarkets and 1st brands are jumping from the bandwagon. i've been pretty well we do you want to bother you here. there are a lot of people make it up on solution to a plant based diet and we want to be part of that also that we want to reduce our carbon footprint and how many people are consuming it we're probably delivering between then of course 1000 pieces each month. now for with the folks. not me yeah it really feels like an actual pound of cheese if you use this
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interview peter goelz. it's been a week the site left the chefs time to see how they've been getting on the double standard. well. so what has happened since the last time i was here we do their try arrow a lot of times. maybe with a ts 10 formula with the 6. point i can say in care of ingredients. here inside you have science. technology here you have you sitting. there go my chances of making these at home competitive and secretive business. may seem. a little trite right with. thank you.
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this is it. means he's fearless and i lowed is no less than. this actually amazing him for me that i probably tasted many is doing. what i've seen here is a living example of how the communication to solve a very challenging broadly can go a long way in how it's aren't going to radically change overnight but these a few me hope that it could be possible to curb the world's unsustainable addiction to any one product. so we are seeing a shift there is still massive imbalances this way if all the world's mammals were weight and tokens are then 4 percent with wild animals 36 percent of the us humans
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and 60 percent of the livestock and that 60 percent needs pasture and 4 across which take up around 40 percent of us habitable lambs. so ecosystems are disruptive and viruses and wildlife are more likely to come into contact with livestock and humans add to this trap set a base to strike and other illnesses which can be associated with excessive meat consumption and you've got a ticking time bomb the science is today clear food is so important that if we don't fix food we are very unlikely to fix the planet and over consumption of red meat continued towards undermining both planetary health and human health this does not mean that we don't have to go for to terra we carried out a global scientific assessment the commission trying to define scientifically a healthy diet from sustainable from systems and what we find is that a flexitarian diet gives the best outcomes in terms of life expectancy and healthy
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conditions what is a flexitarian diet will is a diet that quite drastically reduces red meat consumption compared to the high park up at the levels in the industrialized parts of the world animal protein dishes can be served $3.00 to $4.00 times per week to from fish to from white meat and one from red meat so if it's a 10 diet there's a more balanced diet it has reduced dairy products more nuts more fruit more vegetables less solved less sugar and a very large increase in whole grain and if you apply this across the world we find that it's not difficult to adapt this to different cultures if all of us eat the healthiest diet the one that benefits us the most we would also have a significant positive in fact on the health of the planet and the could muses that we have so much evidence that what we eat is probably the single largest
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contribution towards not only improving the climate but also the. pollution better water management and saving biodiversity so every day our food choices really matter. so how can the meat we can seem as part of a flexitarian dot actually help the planet but in the course of restoring that damaged farm lands a husband and wife team discovered a highly sustainable way of raising livestock why. the conversion of wildlife habitat into farmland is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse the u.k.'s provision for nature is among the poorest on the planet around 70 percent of the country's land surface is used for agriculture while less than 3 percent of ancient woodland remains. hundreds of plant and animal species face extinction including iconic animals such as the turtle dove and the hedgehog. but an increase
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in the opportunity for environmentally friendly food plus a rise in domestic eco tourism could offer a lifeline to british farmers and a beacon of hope for british by diversity. i've come to sussex in southern england to visit a dynamic project that is proving it's possible to boost biodiversity at the same time as producing food that's healthy for people on the planet. this is the 3 and a half 1000 a kidnapper state run by husband wife team charlie borrowed and isabella tree together they've taken farming convention and turned it on its head. so. isabella thank you so much for having a pleasure so this is the famous net it is it is not it's native this tree we
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reckon is about 50550 years old so it see in the interests of a war it scene you know we just can't imagine. what it's witnessed it was concerns for the health of this ancient oak that led isabelle and charlie to radically reconsider their intensive farming methods the other trees in the landscape which were much younger than this one they were beginning to die back and it was what we were doing to them that was making them suffer and we were plowing pretty much up to the trunks of all these other trees and pouring chemicals over and we suddenly thought like god you know those trees are dying and it's down to us and it was a sort of moment of epiphany really that sort of kicked off a completely different way of thinking. isabella and charlie spent years trying to make net pay but farming the land profitably was proving impossible this soil this very very heavy clay just isn't conducive to modern intensive farming so after about 17 years we were one and
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a half 1000000 pounds in debt so in 1909 charley said we gotta stop farming we've got to look at something else that's something else was the decision to let nature take over to stop conventional farming altogether. suddenly just letting it go it was like the whole land was breathing a sigh of relief and to austin i felt amazing just looking out of the windows on on land that was recovering and hearing the sounds and watching wild animals with the follow deer you know slowly moving past it was like being in the middle of the serengeti it just felt amazing. after selling off their milking herd isabella and charlie introduced red deer from the highlands of scotland they're just beginning to kick off and the rot so he's warring day and night to attract the females. are just absolutely astonishing the life that poor back even the very 1st summer.
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nap is now hoping some of the rarest species in the u.k. make a comeback turtle doves night jaws and purple emperor butterflies are all thriving here. not really inspired us i think to think could we roll this out across the whole estate but could we actually then do something wilder more of the estate was given over to nature with dramatic results. so this is the 2nd chapter of the net while band project and i'm told this is where things get really wild. morning ladies and gents. so we come down to the southern block here and we're going to meet charlie paul and he's the other half of the net wild land project he's offered to take us and give us a bit of a tour around the. region about you.
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hear him across an ocular this may seem strange getting in a safari vehicle to drive around the english countryside but wildlife tours to see next. big 5.2 part of the business morning. isn't long before our 1st sighting. you see in something followed you're really flighty thing all your local blah blah blah blah. but i didn't love my dog just. that was genuinely funny. charlie wants me to see a rare visit to the last 8 on the shores of a high centuries ago a white stork. if you look at the tree like that and there's a there's a brown area with there but doctors will see that and they all go. oh my goodness so that is actually the 2nd nest to be built in britain and 604 years.
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stalks were almost extinct in the u.k. but charlie and isabel are helping to reestablish their big draw for eco tourists wanting to see something unique post over $50000.00 visitors every year. these animals we hope will be a connection for people in nature with these cosmetic animals you can start to. thomas people into the countryside to think again about what they're looking at the same. they're going to find some long or the 3rd just up there somewhere. spotted them. just over here in the scrub. longhorn cattle one of net so-called big 5 animals introduced to the estate to mimic the behavior of the wild
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ancestors. these longhorn. the biggest of the big 5. so these are proxies of the wild cattle of europe and it's got traits we hope of still there in the breed so that grass eating animals their brows eating animals browse being there eating leaves and bark and and how the vegetation as well as grasses why is that important ecologically so we consider that the drivers of creating new habitats are these big havel's they are the ones that are driving a system and they are creating the habitats where everything else is then pouring in so you really flipping it here rather than having a field and putting cows in the field you're essentially employing these longhorn as staff so that they have a job to do and yeah yeah. from the air it's easy to see how this landscape is changed from neatly arranged crop fields to savanna like scrub land is kept in
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check by the free roaming herbivores nibbling at the scrub to keep it at bay and whilst at the same time spreading seeds and enriching the biodiversity in the soil . they also produce 50 tons of wild organic free range meat every year the vanishing all provide an important source of income for the state. this would be an arab oil field in 2005 say so we were putting on fertilizers and pesticides they've got double the amount of organic matter in the sold double the carbon the soil is becoming healthy and and wholesome again. the animals known as the big 5 x. more ponies red deer followed the tamworth peaks and long horn cattle are allowed to move freely around the estate. ecologist laurie jackson one of 16 scientists on site is taking us out to track down some of the. most affected
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ecosystem engineers. so this is one of our lovely tamworth south and what she's doing is this great behavior could retooling so you can kind of see if you get in here what they've actually done this but this is really sort of strong my pulse now using that to just basically get back and and sort of lift over the tire and see what might be hiding underneath that they might like to eat. is the constant disturbance of the land by these animals to create such a diverse ecosystem. we're not sort of plowing the ground in any way and we are trying to get back to what our ecosystems would have looked like and so these 5 different types of animals that we have here they're oshea from this landscape instead of subtly different ways because they've all got different things that they want to do different places they want to cry that's the in the midst of cutting edge science yes it's very much about the sort of process so it's kind of as much as possible taking ourselves out of the equation and the theatre things that just
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$530.00 there is quite refreshing. charlie and isabelle is radical decision to stop conventional farming is starting to pay financial dividends the council is booked years ahead the wild range meat business is booming and there's a fire eater growing ever more popular. but it's a success in encouraging wildlife this attractive increasing numbers of farmers to visit now to see how lessons learned here could turn around britain's biodiversity crisis. when i was it i recall 2 college you know there were the environmentalists who we called the bunny huggers and they were the proper farming folk and we were learning how to how to be productive and to and to intensively farmland and it seems mad that we're still in these 2 camps and what we need to do and what this will assist us to do the whole next project i think is to is to bring both camps together and say farmers finally twigging they can we what we can learn here into their day to day activity on the farm profitably.
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everyone is talking about now everyone is looking at this wonderful island of biodiversity and a thriving business and where we're going to get to in the future how are things going to change. what i think is begun to happen and that's what's really exciting this projects across the whole of britain from devon to norfolk to northumberland we have visions of wildlife corridos i'm really joined up landscape again which would be thrilling so this is not just conservation for its own sake we're talking about a business that has to be financially viable in the moat with setting 120000 pounds worth of bint in 5 years' time we're hoping that that will turn over 3 quarters of a 1000000 so we're hoping that we're going to create a business with some of the best mates in the world did you ever dare to dream that it would grow in the way that it has done so i think at the time it was just you know wouldn't it be interesting if we could do this experiment and if biodiversity could increase just
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a little bit that would be worth doing and really had any idea that it would take off and become a magnet for us through all these incredibly rare species so it's been beyond beyond anybody's dreams i think really. so what's the upshot here while avoiding or at least significantly reducing meat and dairy is probably the single biggest way because less of our environmental impacts and there are plenty of means to do that plant based burgers misread in the last baby food made from alfie this may take a bit of a mindset change but they are real alternatives for those of us who don't want to or can't become vacant a vegetarian or a more more sustained resourced animal options available as long as we eat less of them the risk how a in our place and it's up to all of us who are lucky enough to be able to choose what to eat today he said. most people
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