is more than showcasing african cinema to an african audience. it allows people to explore new and alternative narratives that are often ignored by the film industry and for young african directors to meet distributors so that they can showcase their talents and reach a bigger audience. we end with the volcano on the spanish island of la palmer uses the live pictures coming to us. i love the continues to pull from the home ravia located which started iraq thing 3 and a half weeks ago. oh . just a quick look at the main stories now and the taliban is pledging to step up security at she and mosques after the 2nd major attack against worship is in a week. a mass funeral has been held in kandahar following a bomb attack on friday, which is now known to have killed 65 people and wounded more than

a 100. i still has claim responsibility. it's the group's 1st large scale attack in the south of the country out there. a stephanie deka is in cobble kandahar is police chief bowing to increase security with special police units at chia mosques across kandahar. this attack claim by i so significant in the sense that it's the 1st of its kind in kandahar kandahar is the birthplace, the stronghold of the taliban. and i'm really what we're seeing over the last couple of weeks is an increase in pace, an increase in geographical scope in these attacks. initially, there were more centered around jalal, about in the east of the country. they moved to cobble moving to couldn't do in the north. and now in the south, in kandahar we've also noticed it here in the sense of the taliban beefing up security. we went round a couple of the ministries today and the security procedures were tighter and different. than before, all the fighting continues in northern ethiopia. food, fuel and power are all running out. millions have been displaced by the conflict

which started into gray. hospitals overwhelmed and children are suffering from severe malnutrition. the area is on the blockade by the government and the u. s, as just 14 percent of much needed aid has made it through since june. but no medicine has reached the regional capital. macaulay. thousands of demonstrators of rallied near the presidential palace in the hard tune. as to dawn, grapples with its biggest political crisis since the asking of president bashir in 2019. but calling for an end to the transitional government that supposed to lead the country to its 1st elections after 3 decades of dictatorship and the head of man miles, military jones, her has been excluded from the summits of regional leaders. later this month. neighboring nations of frustrated over the military's failure to comply with a road map to peace. more than a 1000 people have been killed. and the unrest since the military seas power blows the headlines. authorize is the program coming up next. you know,

you can watch out to say we're english streaming live on like youtube channels plus thousands of all programs award winning documentaries and in depth news reports. subscribe to youtube dot com, forward slash al jazeera english ah . in to cope with our growing population, we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years. as a result of the vast expansion of mining, industrial scale, farming, fishing, and other human activities. natural ecosystems have lost nearly half the area and

1000000 plant and animal species, a facing extinction. without the ecological networks which regulate our planets from cleaning air and water to providing food, we simply cannot survive. but there is still time we meet the pioneers striving to protect 2 of our most valuable remaining ecosystems, roberta, sweden, where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight deforestation. and i'm a man to borrow in tacky, where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating birds. ah . the fashion industry worth $1.00 trillion dollars. every year term for manufacturers made millions of dollars. why only be worn once or twice before

ending up until the so called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive. and perhaps surprisingly, one of the key drivers, biodiversity laws and deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem. but 1st, i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers, i'd say still cooler is the primeval of dressed up for us that we're on our way there to meet the call, right? she's a conservationist and she's on a mission to pick ancient forests around the world. a great to see if i so much we come to stock on to do a story about fashion, what i have written for it. so there's a $150000000.00 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all where it's slated to double within the next decade. i've never heard of that connection

between between fashion and 4 street. yeah. well, it's not an insured, if like that something that soft and silky next skin actually it starts off as a tree. many of these trees come from endangered forests, thousands of years old, known as primary forests around the world. 50 percent hold ready, be lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole runs canopy, an organization dedicated to protecting those that remain a complete breakdown of the ecological functioning of that area. there's a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupt species have attacks even though trees can grow back. insulin in danger. far, sir, or place simple after the forest to clear the wood is pulped, and processed into fabrics called re on and viscous. but his shockingly wasteful as much as 70 percent of the harvested wood is dumped or incinerated,

just 30 percent. and so in the going to be where canopy works with businesses that source from primary forests to find the green alternatives. one of their main focus points is the global fashion industry. what's your strategy? how are you going to make a difference in this? my experience is that it's some of these big global brands. they have the ability to actually engage their suppliers, to stop them from logging in ancient and endangered forest ecosystems. and if we can redirect it to be more sustainable now using recycled fabrics rather than ending up in landfill. and for the current capacity that's already in production, let's just make sure it's not coming from really important ancient endangered farsi regents. i like that. so you're talking about a kind of a 2 prong approach. one is the kind of conservation and stopping that deforestation the 1st place. and the 2nd one is this recycling element. so reusing what's already

been produced. so that's a big priority for canopy is to really help kick stack commercial scale production on face next generation solutions. mike recycle clothing being used. i've got a confession to make that figure of thermal. aha. because those terrify, we're going to freeze and i live to the label. and the way here is that there is 3 percent this good. there were yeah, i wouldn't feel bad. i as you, i was surprised when i 1st discovered the line between ancient and endangered far some viscous blue can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian ham, cold renew. so they've invented a pioneering technology, the promises to transform textile manufacturing. it came of age in 2014. when a catwalk model dawned, the yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically recycle fabrics. the 1st time

c e o mathias johnson is offered to show me how it all works. so it's right at the beginning. yes, this is a post consumer. this is, this is jean blue jeans. that people have a wear and tear about this both all the worth next for this it goes into our frederick and that it, but it broke that in a dry est with separate and a whole. and then it goes into what stage with this a little bit is lowering that we would pick out some of the color we bleach it a bit. and then we're dr. what would be happening for this cell? if you guys weren't using your, your process, most of it would be a landfill or a bar. we're good from evil or from you guys. i don't read in the machine either and all that to break down every stage, the process has been carefully considered. the dies and chemicals are all recyclable and the water is reuse to after the drain process,

the fabric is pressed and packed into paper like sheets. surprising, pregnancy and product. this is a fall and there's a lot of fellow i'm, that's one of those really good stuff for making it go fiber. this is the raw material from which the fiscal fabric is plainly made to rest. so you can print it like a normal fiber. then you've got you on that to be woven into any quoting or we go here. this is a famous yellow dress. this is the world's 1st chemically recycled piece of garment . wow. oh, this made from blue jeans. no, all right, same stuff. it doesn't look like a worthy, environmentally friendly garment. this looks like any other carmen that you would see in the high street. absolutely, and that's why we're not necessarily call this recycling. we call it up sonically.

but i mean, buy it, but what is seen him when you sell it, hoping to open another suite plans within the next 5 years, manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing that pressure on primary forest. for all this to make a real difference, then these to be demand that demand stores here on the high street. were you aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both. you know what viscous is? yeah, it's synthetic material, right? organic material, you know, where it comes from. no idea. are you aware of this connection between the fashion industry and deforestation? no, i had no idea. judging by these shoppers, there's some way to go before awareness will drive demand. but nicole's organization can be a working to bring suppliers like when you so together with brands,

can stock their product, big fashion brands, they are driving a lot the, the problems that we're seeing how to address. that sure seems to be a bit disconnect. the clothing touches all of our lives on a daily basis. it produces a 100000000000 gallons every year. it hasn't been footprint. american not have that big footprint when you're that big. and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution. so it's fun to be here, i think on, on high street and in between to have canopies brand partners can powell and h n. m, who are part of the 170 class brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discuss around supply chain. so you said you'd be working with h an m. yeah. we see some of the stuff you've been working on. yeah, absolutely. let's go inside and have a look. canopy success is growing all the time because hope the soon every store will store recycle clothing. so this is a rack of clothing that has

a variety of different environmental quality. this product here is really interesting, as far as he can tell, just a pair of denim jeans is cut 20 percent recycled cotton renew. so we saw them are producing a kind of a feedstock which is a 100 percent recycled quote. and you think we're going to get to that point? i do, and i think, you know, in the short term this is what's available today. and renew cell is hopefully next season clothing. so then this moves from having 20 percent recycle cotton to a 100 percent. recycle h an m recently partnered with renew. so to support us continuing research. this is part of the clothing joints. pledge to use 100 percent sustainably. so as clothing by 2030, which will be priced, the same cost is non sustainable items. and in store customers are encouraged to drop off unwarranted garments to be recycled by companies like when you sell. so i'm curious to see if there's anything in here, if there's actually

a financial look at that, they can be any quotes they can be, any brands, clothing. we have been working with big global retailers and designers on ensuring that this recycling program actually continues to increase so that it gets fed back into the calling supply chain and ultimately becomes next seasons fashion. so literally kind of closing the loop on it. that's where we want to get to that's. that's where we want to get to. ah, discovering the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was shocking, i think with organizations like canopy and when you sell raising awareness, there is hope in the future for massive challenge. but i think in the public are armed with the right information, they'll be able to demand more from the retailers. and then we might see a precious voice. stop being the victims of fashion.

ecosystems are just like the systems in the body as long as they are looked after and managed well, then the body is in good shape. and if they're mismanaged and not care for the body, could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is a can to organ failure in our own bodies. if enough, of the organs that make up the terrestrial body are removed or are made sick, the body dies. the again, the earth is no different. each of us has a role to play and fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital, and alive, or one that is quite bleak and quite brutal. it's directly related to what me choose to do. whether or not we actually choose to do the work necessary to

mend and repair and rehabilitate our ecosystems or to participate in their death wetlands. some of the richest habitats on the planet, in this remote corner of ne and tacky, is one which is proving to be an ecological gen. conservationists of only recently realized it's vital importance. not only for local pads, but also for those migrating from all over the world. and yet the iris with a wet plans is under threats. i've come here to meet a man who's hoping to save this remarkable parts of the world. john shaquille alone is a world renowned own authentic se listening to keep a professor in the united states every year, chandra times to homeland attacking and comes to this iris part of the country.

what draws in here is a 5 kilometer squared pocket of land. the iris river weapons john came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth. and i thought this looks like a globally important oasis in critical spot for migration breeding and wintering, birds. and it's compet different coming here in person. and i thought this is it, this is a place where i wanna do long term research to really understand what birds use this area. it's rare wetland situated in a dry sub desert region. it's created when the iris river floods. it's ideally located for migrating birds out of 35 global hot spots. we're at the intersection of not one, but 23 of the eight's worlds global bird migration flight with the intersect right, where we are in north eastern turkey. it is one of the most special wetlands on the planet. you basic discovered a treasure child. how did he fail?

it was so exciting and it was so beautiful. i mean, i didn't really did not expect. after 15 years, we would have recorded almost 300 bird species. as 2 thirds of the antar eva far off the whole country recorded over centuries. i mean, in this one spot of the 290 bad species or eva phone are documented. 1021, a globally threatened or near threatened, including the gyptian, vulture and the car here. but further danger is looming. the government wants to dam this and tar valley. as for us, that village over there, flood this whole place. all this would be under 45 meters of water and airy season . i come here to seeing it's still there is like a relief because i'm always afraid ill all be gone. i have to come here and see it for myself.

early the next morning chant takes me to the birds ringing station down in the wetlands. it is currently fighting in the court to reverse the government's decision to build the dam. he hoped de, together here were proved to wetlands rich by diversity, and thereby in sure it's protection. we see everything here from minus 10 to our plus 40 santa. great. and the shade king had very cold here, or very all at minus 10 degrees today. exactly. to get invited is yeah, they learn is he or not something? oh yeah we, we do. we only have one in his turkey inside the team already hard at work on ng raising. the said the 2 in the 1st is tiny way. can i touch myself with this guy? hello. hello. when you got out with quote amongst the 600 meters, the glad nets that surround the station every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons, the nets checked to see if any pads have flown into them. they've gone to check the

wrapped or not and there's nothing there. so we go back by to migrate to find condition favorable for living and breathing. it's early in the season here. so bird numbers are low, but there are some beautiful specimens. so we got a birds. ok. and the net. what this this i'm over go to the collector. yeah, they his dinner slide into a pocket and then get entangled. some of the pad, katia haflin pertains nonstop and my great for hundreds or thousands of calamities initially to be able to survive. germany is one thing. they owe me fat as their fuel right before migration. some birds will double their body mass and that's why please like us are so critical because they did these stop over locations to keep eating and to keep replenishing their fuel reserves. now that i'm down in the valley, i can get a sense of why they still care because it's warmer than just

a bit higher up. there's water everywhere, bits of foliage coming out. and the thing that you can't see on camera is that there's actually a lot insect say it says the huge amounts of food to be got here by migrating that one. and 8 bird species are facing global extinction due to perils including habitat loss and pollution. so it's only increases the importance of an oasis like this these days. if you're studying by diversity, it's almost impossible not to become an activist because you know, you're studying things that are being destroyed every moment you study them one roman remy. this is a spanish ornithologist. one of 400 volunteers from 33 countries who have come to work here since chance, set up a station in 2005. now we got the birds from them is that it will go to the station willing them think. so miss roommates on the, on the back to the gulf is bed was born definitely last year. and this

is the 1st spring negation for this bird that away. since i even when it's just one year old, it know is instinctively where it has to go. as incredible natural signs, including changing de lengths trigger the birds hormone switch, switch on the urge to travel all the information gathered here. it's then to a central database at chance university in utah. let them look very awkward on m. let tom on see that. make them joke, he's not upon john's order. so it's on a truck. yeah. that of your 6, a little muslim. the hard top roller nose and we're going to live talk in under the tricky shit. the small, good southcourt free on the for these were some very condition on the other one by blowing on the birds chest. one can tell its fat levels if the skin is pink, they are low. and if yellow, the bird is plump enough to travel on it just for slights. and to think

that this 3rd has come from little thousands of kilometers from, from the start of its journey in africa said it's, it just extorting because it's so tiny on them often what the legs. oh such for every individual with a couple of feathers. i'll go to the law. oh, you can feel it's hard facing a tiny little hut. one for the data has been gathered. the bad can be released to go or doesn't want to go. over 14 years, the team have ringed around a $108000.00 birds. when they are caught up, why research is can contact the station here and their migration can be tracked. i feel like have learned so much about why this place is so important as a refueling station for, for those birds which are travelling across the wells on their journeys and being

here with the team. witness saying that passion and their commitment to the cool was, has really brought home to me just how important is places. but 16 kilometer is not the right. it's a reminder that despite it's important the fates at the iris river wetlands, it's far from secure. this is why i want to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on the are us river. could birds not live here? i've scanned already, and there's basically nothing. i mean there's couple things on the arid cliffs. but where are the wet lambert's? nothing on the shore line? no waiters on the mud flats. about a decade after this is built, there is no revisitation, hardly anything has come back. and remember at our us, it's the flood plain of the river that's creating all those wetlands. and because here by design,

there will not be any flooding. you're not going to have that rich soil and all the vegetation that grows on the whole arrows valley will look like this, ecologically dead. every way you go around the world is that fine balance development in nature. and of course progress has to be made. what needed a solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world child has some reason to feel hopeful and its effort to win protective status for the iris river wetlands in 2009 with data provided by him and his team, future 70 come to the north of iris with designated around wetland giving it in national recognition. being a global important i can see hundreds 100 turning. yeah. can i start by the kitchen? see the crane and there are some ducks in there. these are critical lakes are

dwindling and going out one by one. so could you because one of the last and most important lakes in the entire northeast and turkey which run status doesn't mean the lake thriving. direct impacts such as draining it for every cation and hunting dog. indirect threats remain. ground water extraction 3 need by wells is reducing the lake water level and animal still graves. read back. in september 2018. the lake dry dock, completely religious black, dry mud during the season. when it is the most important for birds, there was no water and no birds. the chant say it's a ramps on site and declare victory and walk away. i mean, constant issues a never ending battle, like as long as that place is there, you have to make sure it stays. john is working on a number of fronts, the safe, the lake, and i just signed an agreement protected with a provincial governor. meanwhile,

he struggled to prevent the damn from being built on the iris with the wetlands continues just coming here regularly, year after year. reminds me the importance of the work we're doing. and even if i lose, i'll have it on my conscience. all know, i have done my best and i did a just turn my back and gave up. it is estimated as around half the world's wetlands disappeared in the past century. project lake and the iris river wet plans have charmed champion them, but as global development continues a pace more wetlands in other parts of the world are going to need a local hero to fight that corner. across the globe, ecosystems are falling victim to human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring their protection is to enshrine thy right to defend themselves in law. and the us in the 1970s, a legal scholar called christopher stone,

proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people it works through human representatives, be able to stand up in court and defend itself against threats to its well being since then, the idea has been gaining traction in 2008 ecuador wrote it into its constitution, becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal rights to exist and flourish. and in 2017 new zealand, 3rd largest river. the flank ennui was given legal status after mary tribe fought for its rights to be preserved. the way forward isn't simple for the future of conservation may lie in assuring nature has recalls to justice. busy busy busy busy in germany's capital, there is a barber, like no other sort of quality to your home for my mark,

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