la palmas airport has managed to reopen after being closed for 2 days due to ash once in a lifetime of june, seasoning i, the volcano has become a draw of its own. it's hard to look away when hell has been unleashed. local officials hope the lava will continue flowing down the main path, keeping people watching rather than running into chappelle al jazeera ah, at how fast they are. these are the top stories. voting began in iraq to elect a new parliament in a poll brought forward in response to mass protests. prime minister must throw academy, was among the 1st to cast a ballot in an attempt to encourage voter turnouts. madame de wanted with more now from baghdad. high at security measures have been put in place to secure this sir electoral law process, but he had the turnout. is it still at low?

and that could be also explained because of the, some kind of disillusionment among people, especially young people who are this is how are up disappointed that in fact, at the political parties, you know that these are the boy cutters. most of them are at the young people who rose up against corruption against mismanagement in 2090 in what is known as the at that that, that, that the serene a volition. on to other news, in fact, life pictures from tennessee looked at the thousands of people out back on the streets of the capital. soon as protesting against the presidents, they continued to accuse kai said of orchestrating a qu after he at suspended the parliament and assumed pretty much executive powers back in july talks between us and taliban officials of entered their 2nd day. here in doha, the 1st in person meeting since the group ceased par, security aids evacuation flights the rights of women,

rural disgust on day one. the taliban ruled out though cooperating with the u. s. and the fight against i sold in afghanistan, towns president, sighing when says her government will not bows a pressure from badging. she was speaking during national day celebrations. in the past week, nearly a 150 chinese fighter jets have approached ty, one's air defense zone. they are going german, chancellor, anglo merkel meeting prime minister, or is ready prime minister naphtali bennett in western islam, the pair of disgust, regional threats and challenges, in particular, iran's nuclear program and the austrian chancellor, sebastian kurtz as stepped down in the wake of corruption allegations. the public prosecutor's office is investigating kurtz for using public funds to gain favourable press coverage. peter darby with you in half an hour for the news. our next on out is here. it's earth. ras, on causing the cost is the world to dependence on coal and dollar, and best is about to get a bailout. venezuela launches the digital volleyball. i'm attempt to revive its

currency and back to the seventy's of this patient, making an unwelcome with counting the cost on al jazeera ah be in conflict. one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment from the chemical contamination of soil and the collapse of water and food supplies to the habitat damage caused by displacement or has devastating consequences. wow, no. so any man made infrastructure, but also natural ecosystems,

a destroyed and animal lives are lost, as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles through people fighting to protect the world, we live in and recover. what was last? i'm tanya rashid and bangladesh and the world's largest refugee camps, where people are working to coexist with the elephant for which this region is home . and i've had the baton lebanon, were a group of sciences, rebuilding a seed bank that was displaced by the war in serial i. o. in august 2017. a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in me in march. oh, the military and buddhist radicals claimed the lives of more than $6000.00 bohemia in a single month. fearing death, thousands more fled the country for the forest, the bung with oh, the scale of the exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home

with a 1200000 ro hinder refugees living inside of the falling cats. the band with this is now the biggest, not meant of refugees in the world. many of them have access to clean water sanitation, or even electricity good. after they arrived, the survivors space to new threats. while i was rampaging through a meeting and one of them witnessed the initial episode 1st hand it came from there with the elephant, came through on the past, from the jungle over that way, went directly to her and started beating her hat with this was no one not allison, struck repeatedly throughout the camp, killing 13 people in the space of 5 months. can you tell me

a little bit about what happened about mother by the who did so i thought about it with me. oh, oh i did it a you. and what happened after that that i thought that with that i did that i will a mother that the, that the huh. i said the whole are going to deal with a lot of you. i got a little mark on how to do a ah, the attack sparked an investigation into what was going on. grecki, i mean, from the international union for conservation of nature,

believes the rapid expansion of the settlement had a profound impact on the natural environment. this is the edge of the camp through a cave right here. and this is where the forest began. yes. what's been going on? what's the cause behind all of these? that is the, on the all camps. they used to be forest. they the seems to be an elephant, have habitat. mm. the camp expanded at an astonishing rate of $1500.00 heck. tears of forest were cleared to accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of ro hinder refugees. but nobody realised the devastating impact this would have. the growing camp severed a vital lifeline for some among the vicious last remaining wild elephants. blocking a herd of 40 from their only path to essential grazing browns in the east. just over there, there is a space we call elephant corridor. now, the st. the cam is completely blocking that coated all elephant cannot pass through

this camp is in search of his shelter in search of his food in central. his migration pop elephants was trying to come inside the cam. elephant came so many times and thus 13 innocent life was lost. an elephant is not necessarily a violent mammal. it's very intelligent, understands it has, is his emotions. and it's just that it's lost, his habitat is desperate. do this, analog migration is in the dna elephant as a genetic memories have been, know exactly where they have been going. when they have been roaming generation after generation that they the same pot, the elephants of bangladesh are critically endangered. there are just $268.00 left and they're increasingly under threats. $15000.00 hectares of land are already deforested in the country every year. and this cap only adds to the problem to help

me understand what the elephants are up against. i've hired a local guide. so a man in front of me is shawna mia. his name means golden boy, and he's our tracker for the day. i think we're in good hands with it's not long before we find clues that were on the right path. honda had said, hey, a hunted up that is a full not a bonded little mongolia says his edkey. and you fell bon global and gave him the color, the net out. whoo thought i got a busy guy, but that. okay. yeah. the bank will of uh we find evidence of hungry elephant everywhere way. akiko citic alice at the skies like the elephant westberg. ready shawna me, it tells me that by the end of the summer, much of the elephant's food here will be gone. then they face a nightmare scenario, attempt to migrate through the cap to me and mar,

in search of fresh vegetation or risk running out of food. and again, i split has a face with the unami guess if they've logo dicky very, were following the actual footsteps and elephants. elephants have walked along this path every season for thousands of years. i'm fairly, really excited. i wonder if we're actually going to encounter some elephants. we're being told that just a few steps away that they're there. then against the on a moment, i can't believe ah, a majestic elephant. standing proud on the horizon. berry. i can have her seen an elephant like my my 1st time. ah, it looked so peaceful in its natural habitat. it's just really crazy to think that before the caps were put in place, that this is what it was. a large forest with animals roaming

about and now there is a human mate crisis at play with sprawling refugee camps and is just a very sad situation. ah, but a select band of refugees is working to solve the problem with the support of the international union for conservation of nature. they have formed a group dedicated to safely shepherding the elephants from the cap. they call themselves the task force central to their strategy are $94.00 watch towers, which they built around the cap perimeter. mm. they are mad by a team of over 500 brave refugees ready to intervene and protect both the people and the elephants. i'm heading up for a birds eye view. oh, okay. so what's going on there?

yeah. assimilating what actually happens when an elephant commerce an easy, the yellow shows. yeah. and the, and the veteran possibles members. so they are using the megaphone the how to respond. and they went to foreman human sales and slowly moved towards the michigan elephant lumber stems. deangela head down on the ground. it's clear how committed the test scores are happening. initial training caught on. mm hm. um, how do i get out of my the hockey? i see my job. i grew up with my loud and scary. i think that was certainly shoe and elephant off. mm. since the test 1st started, there has been no loss of life here. despite $45.00 incursions by elephant, it's an effective temporary solution until a longer term plan is made for managing the animal's migration. ah,

the tough sports has motivated the community with over 500 people signing up to join. and it has the porters throughout the camp. what are you doing over here? what is this angelina that the the at the la tampa at the, to get that happen. kept that the lives of a do the la la viet love a v i been saw these different patterns, different colors seems like it's a lot of work to do. why go through all this trouble to do it? it out of the home a house 9 by but i had to be sha marsha. i miss you. the one on my bed only been hung with the machine that they ab would have would add the depth of my yard for a ready machine. did you learn the medically i'm going anybody? do you feel that there's more danger? a living on the edge of the forest versus people who live in the interior of the cap? i'm lucky to allah with the equity. lucky back that i bought some good money. i sort

of philip is not go to them as at the did of had i did i demand api? somebody will love melendez. it wouldn't be on his own. we will, letty. i'd been the luggage and not only do people feel more secure, they are also more sensitive to the elephant situation. saving the animals is now even part of the school's curriculum. i. the objective is not to build on this momentum. rocky is already taking steps to find a permanent solution to the problem. beginning with an in depth scientific study of the elephants migratory happen. we are planning to put radio paula on the elephant kiss when he was a valuable data, valuable science to how much a management of the whole situation. once the exact migration route is known, the goal is to clear a path for the elephants so that they can migrate unhindered. once again. of course,

we want to open the portal as soon as possible that are so few issues that we need to consider before doing this. it will take about a 100000 people, going get people to move somewhere else. that would be an immense logistical challenge. but as human refugees continue to resettle around the world, bold moves are needed to reduce the impact on local animal populations. what i've seen here gives me hope that animals do not always need to be victims of conflict. and that a peaceful coexistence is possible. ah, there were over 40 armed conflicts happening in the world's day. each of them will leave a dangerous environmental legacy. we can see that's protection. the environment is a norm has something which we do. there are standards in place. we had joined conflict. it's almost if anything goes, we can cause whatever damage you like,

and there's no accountability, there's no redress. we see very severe found damage to many countries in many different ways. damage to infrastructure such as sewage work, so water facilities over extraction of resources. attacks on industrial sites causing bust mass pollution. so you can have these impacts. there's going to expire on a last for decades after the conflict times are in iraq in 2016, 2017 islamic states that f i c factorial wells. somebody's been for 9 months covering hundreds of square kilometers in fall out of pollution. dealing with help termination caused by these fires is going to take years. so for the last 10 or 15 years, we've seen increasing interest from governments around protect the environment and relations. conflicts is got to me. favor. it's got to me fast x know the conflicts of merriment. fan bombs been damaged in many ways and that has consequences. so unless we focus on the environment during conflict and soaring up lots of problems, a feature will

need to live in a turbulent world where conflicts and climate change are threatening our environments . scary part is that the crops rewind for food are increasingly finding it hard to survive. and in some cases they're going extinct. crop diversity is essential for food security and has declined by 3 quarters since the 1900. but there is an insurance policy, a global network of c banks. these are backed up repositories of seeds which safeguard their biodiversity. and can be turned to in times of crisis. ah, when war broke out in syria in 2011, one of these vital stores came under threat. on the outskirts of aleppo, the team of scientists charged with maintaining the seed bank were forced to

abandon their work and flee the country. ah, but they never gave up hope. when some of them re settled just over the border and lebanon's because valley they began rebuilding their collection. i'm traveling to the i cart a seed bank to meet one of these scientists, dr. alisha harvey. i. allie, good to see that to hugh, what happened to the seed bank in aleppo, syria, it became on possible to access to the gym bank. all 3 got the premises in october 2015 because we banned to exist to the center by the armed group consoling the area. they sold the vehicles, they stole the lot of equipments, nothing left in the headquarter except the buildings and the gym by the war, forced 5000000 refugees out of syria right now. it's not safe for a doctor so hot to continue his work at home. how hard was it to leave that seed

bank behind? i spent more than 27 years of my life working to the gym bank. so it's a like is someone who left behind the babies or a long, long history. we dealt with them day by day. we knew everything about the behavior, all of those plants in the field, in the plastic houses, even in the gym, bangs, time effort made by everybody, both syria and lebanon. ly, in the fertile crescent, which is where farming began. it makes this part of the world an ideal place to work on safeguarding future food supplies. this is the center of origins or we can probably the center of domestication because it contains all the forms of old crops like molly wheat, lentil cheek, bes, all these crops originated from this area,

ah, i want to get a closer look at the operation dr. mariani as big leads a team of 20 scientists, including 3 who have relocated from syria. their task is to painstakingly rebuild the syrian seed collection. the seed vault here has a capacity to store 130000 sea varieties for over 100 years. the seeds are preserved by freezing them at temperatures of minus 20 degrees. all right, there we go. with gold. see, you can see here, samples of the french crops that are being conserved, we're looking here at do to meet this is the heart, the hard we that is used for pasta making. so we have a big collection of this affair, pasa, safe years with it here again, a 30 types of all the cups are here. you have here, barley,

a very important cups. when you talk about dry areas and you talk about the 3 main crops, which are we to talk about rice and you talk about corn. so these are 3 main staple food that most of the humanities are using to support in place. this is a treasure. these are important samples that we have to make sure they are surviving that are monitored, they are available to the international community. there are $1750.00 strategically placed seed banks around the world. each keeps a back up copy of their collection at the jewel. in the crown of seed, banks norway's fall barred global vaults of the doomsday vault. it is built into the side of an arctic mountain so that the seeds can be frozen without the need for power. and over 1000000 sea variety are stored here. so in the syrian seed bank was abandoned due to the war, dr. yes. mix team were able to recall their back ups,

so that decision was made to reconstruct our collection. we retrieved it from small bar, we brought part of it here to lebanon, and who could build our collection here, we could make it available again for researchers. all the seeds that come here are tested in the lab for viability. some are then cross bred to increase their resilience and improve productivity. yeah, to make sure of 2 things 1st, that they are free of diseases. second, that they can actually germany. they can produce plaque. they're alive and working live and working, see the each one of those samples should have at least 85 feed out of 100. that crowd and give healthy class. that's the thrush that's, that's fresh. the seeds are thriving. but back in syria, the war has decimated the countries ability to grow food. one of the goals here in

lebanon is to create a healthy seed collection to help ensure the future of agriculture and syria. when the conflict ends up here from the roof, i can see that there are fields, there are green houses, there's even some cattle. and it's not just about saving the seas, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand climate change and secure our food supplies in the future. in this region has been struggling with worsening drought for decades. the dry soil in lebanon is similar to serious by testing seeds in the harsh conditions. here. dr. hardy and his team can be confident that the crops will be resilient enough to survive the arid syrian farmland. what are these plants right here? this plant is wise we, this is opposed to domesticated wheat. they are very unique and very valuable for our genetic useless because they have adapted already to the harsh environment and

has very, very useful genes to overcome climate change effect diseases, drought, frost. he with climate conditions changing. the biodiversity found here is vital not only for local, but also global food security. already one of the wheat strains, bread here, has proven resistant to a disease known as yellow rust and has been sent to the u. s. work crops were failing to fight it but with global warming, seed banks themselves can be vulnerable. what's worrying is that melting permafrost is even threatening this vol bar doomsday. vault. research shows that the arctic town in which it's based is warming faster than any other. which makes the work

being done in lebanon, even more critical. 25 syrians in the same number of locals. 10 the farm land here. so it looks like they're doing some really important work over here. can i give them a hand? yes, of course. they are doing hand reading ah, seems that modern science has in quite figured out an alternative to getting down your hands and knees and just getting your hands dirty. so we're just looking for the weeds. ah, we don't want to weeks interfere with his experiments. i want to make sure that his crops grow right and we have to be careful not to hurt the crops of the weeds kind of grow in between here. he really got to have a good i o l. o ma'am? nick, need it. i was gone. i should but a settlement on a but then then it and i had assume less than one im can let. is she a mr. friedman, nova america, my son, i was headed by the doctor, ali has invited me for lunch, meals are of course,

the final product of the crops grown here. it's a chance for him to tell me more about the life in syria. he was forced to leave behind. this is after the nice memory everybody had the role for we being because we had the field infested by oral, wonky. the unit had decided to go all together, the breeders of the international stuff, the scientists that technicians assistant, the labors, even the t lay the contribute to that fin day. happy days. it was happy. there is one of the most beautiful days. and you're sure you'll go back. yes, i am very confident that i wrote back because i should go back. nothing like home. i would have an easy to write up the car to seed bank as just a casualty of the searing conflict. but the hard work and dedication of ali and his team have ensured that their work transcends to the conflicts and is able to

continue to play a vital role in protecting global food supplies. ah, oh, environmental fool, out of who can lincoln for decades. but what is being done to heal the damage? the charity haine of trust to create nearly a quarter of a 1000000 minds from combo jack. helping to make over 6000 heck tis of land, safe, farming, and camp rings. almost 50000 trees. safin we planted on degraded lands around mina . wow. camp which shelters refugees escaping violence in nigeria. and after 50 years, a conflict in ago was able to protect columbia to beek. it's a rain forest, a former gorilla stronghold, declaring this rich spite of us area to be a world heritage site. in the midst of all the consequential damage to the

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