so see ation is saying that video is insufficient evidence of her safety tannist i had not been seen since accusing a high ranking chinese politician of sexually assaulting her. there have been calls, but trying to prove that she is safe and well ah. a quick look at the headlines stories, the sour now and the world health organization has one that half a 1000000 deaths could be recorded across europe by march. unless urgent action is taken to stop the spread of cov, at 19 thousands of people have been rallying against vaccine mandates and restrictions in european cities in vienna, protest has demonstrated against a national locked down on the introduction of compulsory jobs. people are also protesting dutch government plans to ban on vaccinated people from indoor venues. a surge of infections is driving governments to tight, uncovered 19 measures,

and then elsewhere, tens of thousands of people marching in state capital across australia, protesting vaccine mandates and restrictions their state. government backed industries have made vaccines. compulsory for people in certain jobs restrictions have also been brought in barring those who are vaccinated from activities like dining out ad concerts. moving to or other top stories in the or secretary of state is saying that washington is investing in africa without imposing on sustainable levels of debt. he's been in santa goal on the 3rd and final leg of his trip to the continent. lincoln sign $1000000000.00 tre deals while asking african leaders to implement social and economic reforms when it comes to urgent global challenges, and also opportunities from ending public 19 pandemic to building a strong, inclusive global economy to combat climate crisis or revitalized in democracy and defending human rights there is

a simple reality. we will not succeed without the leadership of african governments, institutions, and citizens. and in the sudanese capital, hard to a police station has caught fire in the latest round of demonstrations. oh, people are demanding justice for those killed during opposition. protests to last month's military qu, they are also cooling on the military to hand over power to a civilian government after the army chief bill fortelli. but hon ended a power sharing agreement between civilians in the military and seized control of the country. that's it for myself and the team here in london. earth rise is a program coming up next. but i will be one year from doha, in about half an hour time. the latest news, as it breaks it in the brazilian rainforest means these areas are now emitting more

carbon dioxide and they're absorbed with detailed coverage country like chile because of its geographic conditions has an enormous advantage from around the world. what's happening here is local forming communities using simple methods to solve big, complex environmental problem. ah, [000:00:00;00] with with insects make up 80 percent of the species on us for over 200000000 of them for every human they play

a critical role. pollinating crops, decomposing waste and supporting food chain. a german study from 2017 has caused worldwide to lum, showing that in some areas flying insect numbers of food and by over 75 percent in the last 27 years. and humans are to blame. if development and pesticide use continue, we could soon face what some experts the calling and 2nd to get in the ecological collapse of the insect population. what is to happen? it would change life on earth as we know it. mm. i'm yeah, i love him in new zealand where an enterprising group of scientists, a bringing a dinosaur era insect back from the brink of extinction. and i'm guillory to robbie in great britain to see how overlooked industrial wastelands being turned into bug

reserves in, ah, ah, you zealand is rich in wildlife and because of its isolation, there are hundreds of plants and animals that evolved here that i found nowhere else that human introduce pests, have threatened and even wiped out many species. one of those in the native when a pango, it's one of the world's heaviest insects and has been around for a 190000000 years. even out living the dinosaurs. they used to be found all over new zealand, but now they close to extinction. these amazing ancient creatures play a vital role in the co system. and without the other native plants and wild life could also disappear forever. the oak, lindsey has launched a set of programs to save the wet a punker with her starting with a new interactive exhibition that aims to excite the next generation about insects

. like of my lead featuring giant 3 d model infects with educational games and puzzles, bud lab shows just how fascinating with so what, what do you like about these really, to me even really day to be really cool. these children have never seen a wet of hunger yet, had they lived several generations ago. they would have spotted them in the garden hose learning center guide. kirsty mcfarland explains why we should all care more about our native insects. fascinating and people dismissed them. and the only that they're really, really important for the environment may, is how everything wits together with that and fix is it the younger people about in the right?

so the other ones are going to have to be helping to keep them safe and coming invented. they can connect with them and ended up with them. i've been that kinda be right with the vision can be great raising awareness of causes. but on the other side of the do that some really significant work is being done to protect and revive the threatened wet upon. got i meeting been goodwin and in tamala, just at oakland is weight upon good breeding program. have n t a y. good. thanks. how you doing? this is where i went to market this is one of the world's only industrialized insect conservation programs providing be optimum light and temperature conditions. so whether hunger. so these are the ones that you read. yep . some adult would appear in here. incredible, massive. they one of the heaviest and 6 in the world. this is an adult a now,

so they don't get too much bigger than us weight upon the can way up to 70 grams. that's the equivalent of 3 small mice to think i can call her shot. wow, incredible. do they jump, do they? why not so they're totally flightless. they've got really good camouflaged, inopportune. oh so they are very, very well adapted for predators, mammals, and just tell them out. is that why i started to die out, though considered really common in the middle part of the 18 hundreds and in human text, stablish read museums and ones in the industry? and i would like to place things everywhere, aside from one on the side effects a bit incredible. why would you save the lab from that? they have a function supply and the ecology foliage because net spaces

which i read about in the can get my problem with the breeding program started in 2012 with only 12 with her since then as a 3 and a half 1000 in 6 had been released onto a few key islands which still provide the ideal conditions for them to flourish. to day bens readying a batch for transport. me the easiest ones today. because it said us health and come down. they'd like to hide me, but on choose me. and this is the size that you want to be taking to the island. yeah. once they've got a bit of size on them, a little bit more about your printer. like to share with you on that same also just tele, here. wants to success rates as your rating program to 90 percent of all right. which is really, really good. did interesting. they're upset that we work in them are. i'm sure.

there is one. it was great. since everything was realism not as bad. here we found 385 ways her packed and ready to move. it's time to head to the docs. ah, we're off to a private island in the how'd okie golf? when a 4 still hospitable to wetter, it's a one hour boat journey from the mainland. broad and su roy to the islands owners. avid conservationists who have given their land over to the protection of native species. you must be rod, yeah, r n a. have you always been involved in the releases as much as possible in 2003?

broaden su, finally breed the island of invasive mammals, like rat stokes and feral cats making it a safe home for wet of hunger. ah, we've never really looked at ourselves as owners, but more as i am, guardian for the wonderful place that we've had the privilege of growing up and how does releasing the whereupon go on to the island actually fit into all of your plans. so they're critical to the health of the island. nothing exists and i for license. so the, whereupon gower, a bit of a one of the missing links ahead for building it part of the jigsaw, even though with her are a crucial piece of the landscape here. the young insect still need to be handled carefully, which means selecting the perfect spot for then you hope, rock law, paradise. how do you choose the fights where you release? where says yes. so this is one of our lay sites here. and so we want to look for

places, got lots of hardings bought, and somebody that's got lots and lots of good food plants as well. my goodness, this is incredible. how. how old is this tree? that is supposed to be about 800 years old? you can see the fecal pellet from now, one of the with massive good way to em. sometimes to take the presence of you can actually bonham. and i thought this is really important for the ecosystem. yeah. yes. so that's, i'm thankful of you translated recycling with a single could phillip pants on the soil health finding these droppings isn't only a sign of a healthy environment, but also evidence of an already thriving population. that will surely will come newcomers. this is kind of the ideals for the best place now on for them to be released to cisco heaps and heaps, and heaps of potty holes with his. were there prepared food plants that can go from this training and boston is right across the whole forest here, cuz it's got

a huge crown on the west have will be released at night when they are most active. this pink tape will help us find this spot in the dark later on. i can't believe they've trusted me with these letters. or i thought of the really thought here. yeah. hey, can see how much more active loans when she went in and we're going to release more on the truck will move along in your ford and is it for you to reestablish with a panda here?

awesome. because the just giving back something that probably would have been here years and years ago. hopefully the dropping will end to the forest. amen. now another one is getting a real stop touch on the back for how much longer do you think you'll be doing these sorts of releases for but a few more releases to do. and then after that, it's mainly just monitoring the populations allen, the big one with a hunger now exists on full islands. as in basic predators are slowly removed from other locations. that number is expected to rise. the hope is that one day wait upon the could return to the mainland where they want thrived me. there is certainly the bill for change. hearing more people and institutions are

taking action in support of native species. the government has even committed to rid the country of human introduce, pass by 2015. there is still a long way to go, but at least the future is now looking optimistic for the upon ah, a glance reproductive cells a found in its pullin. when an insect visits a flower to feed off, its nectar. pullin rubs off from the mail stamen on the insect, and sticks to the hairs on its body. as the insect moves on to another flower grains of pollen, a transfer to the female stigma that's when pollination happens, so that seats and fruit are produced. around 75 percent of all crop species require pollination by an animal. often insects including bees,

but also other animals such as birds and bats. but 2 out of 5 insect pollinators disappearing. and with them our food supply. in southwest china, wild bees have been eradicated by intensive farming, so people are doing the work. the bes once did. every year in hon, one county, thousands of villages painstaking me pollinate every single apple and pear blossom by hand. using a long stick attached to brushes or chicken feathers, the method works with some high value produce, but simply aren't enough people to pollinate all the world's crops. much more effective would be to nurture pollen 80 and set populations in orchards by banning pesticides and planting natural habitats. bees and other insects have been safeguarding our food supply for millennia. the least we can do in return is to provide them with what they need to survive.

ah, with a long history of habitat last, an industrialized farming. here for things that were the worst cases of insect the klein annexation in the world. i come to the you k to see how all industrial sites are being into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this warring trans, ah, professor dave colson has been studying insects for over 20 years, and understands just how damaging their rapid decline could be. that it goes away, or insects disappearing. there was a whole host of challenges that they face all to do with us. modern farming methods become very reliant on using lots and lots of pesticides, which mean the far mac and gra, perfect monoculture, we're not an insect inside. the entire botanical diversity surrounding us is just

a handful of species. instead of the hundreds, a spacious, that used to live here, and a lot of people think of this is what the, the british countryside should look like. but it's only been like this for a few decades. it's basically makes the landscape uninhabitable for most insects. is there anything we can do to turn this around or have we sort of passed the tipping point for some seizures, it's too late. some have gone extinct, but for the majority, they're still here. and we need to make sure we look after them. we should be absolutely terrified. viper says should should be something that everyone is talking about and everyone is came to fix. because if, if we don't, we face of really bleak future with that. ah, that's a call to arms if there ever was one. and here in the u. k. some groups are taking the warnings of entomologist seriously. i'm on my way to canvie, went to see the you case 1st reserve for insects. i'm due to me, dr. sarah henshaw, an entomologist, a bug life,

an organization dedicated to the protection of insects. but this desolate ex industrial or brownfield site is not exactly what i was expecting. hello, you must be sarah. hi, barry here through. i'm very high. welcome to can you just see those guys that is one of the most bye diverse wildlife rich sites in britain. so you want to take a look. i really with one of those places to be the site used to pay an oil refinery. you can see remnants of industry all around us has been abandoned for more than 40 years. and why is an old oil refinery? an ideal spot for protecting bugs? it hasn't been managed, has been there. pesticides, providing actual habitats that have been lost in the wider landscape. wildlife is using this as a refuge rarely for ah,

what's as it looks like helicopter should be landing any minute now. has it a large tarmac base? there's about 30 of them across the site. they would have how the large oil storage tank is, but as you can see, nature is calling back and how many species of insects are there on the same with over 2500 different species on this site alone include him so much found nowhere else this is why the site is a you case, 1st book reserve. can we try to find so we can little hunting where things about as brownfields i, which makes it amazing. there's always different habitat and really small play. so therapy grounds, bath burrow and nest flowers to feed on, scrub increase to over when to when and provide a bit shelter is an amazing mosaic edison the need all in one place. so why are these insects so important to the natural landscape? so we need healthy intro. systems invertebrate indicate for us, if the books are happy and the megaphone is happy for the mammals and birds also happy. so when he's looking for the books and everything else will fall into line,

can't be week has been described as a little brownfield rain for us. and i can definitely see why there are bugs everywhere. so many that a team of volunteers carry out surveying work throughout the whole year, rory and image in already have their morning's work set out on their, which doubles as a lab. i need to reach here what's going on and here this guy's really active. so that all ground beetles, there is a predatory species that a living this bad open grounds candy, which we've got a few species that are actually only found here. oh, did you catch these all today or over the past week? yeah, even though it's quite a cold spring day to day, still see those of which diversity of life he on can be what and what will this help you establish moving forward? so give us a good, a sign of what's here. and then that way we can see how it's improved and what we're seeing more of what we're seeing less of doing regular studies like this in such a bite of as hot spot like can be weight is really important to see how the rest of

the country is doing, do you release the insects or do take them back to a laboratory? what happens to them? most of them we can isaiah on site. so ethan released in the mail that day. however, some of them we might need to take back to the have a better look at kind of counselors this. this is a lucky, more caterpillar, where they are live and saw this protective web on the high choice. you used to find an app you went out in the u. k. g 2 more to landscapes each holiday for these classes and this and kathy wake. we've seen them all over the place. i think this is the perfect example chaise. what the, he's abandoned sites that over acting is real racking j as a species, a declining elsewhere. well, the surviving on site like this blue since bug life started surveying nearly 10 years ago. 3 insect species believe to be extinct has been discovered here. it can be when it's exciting and i can't resist trying to find a few myself. ok, one thing with this. all right, i add something. so in this is

a true back here. i have a floor, i have a fi really quickly pulse into the ecosystem and a lot of our insect life are quite fabulous. we'll floyers with secular bus buys and bumblebees. yeah, i it all seems like good fun. but this surveying is crucial, not only for monitoring insect numbers, but also managing the land so that it provides the best possible habitat for these creatures. the thrive image and has offered to show me a declining species that need some special treatment. or we haven't heard of it and say that a brown bonded car debate and it's one of the 200 different species of beast and was that you can find on this site. i'm a little white queen do here is to remove some vegetation. so they have some background that they can borrow into and make what we call a be quick removing vegetation. sounds counter intuitive to a nature lover like myself,

but i mention as the expert. so i'll wait to see what she has to show me. she's taking me to find an elevated spot to create our b class. so here we are 3 of them. so what we're gonna be doing is we're going to be coming back a lot of grass. i'm a lot of the scrub. a lot of people when they want to save and vertebrates, they think that they have to parties while far meadows, which is incredibly important. but also they do really need these nice areas that they can live with. and how do they occupy the space? so they sort of burrow into the fans. yes, there. what i'll do is i'll probably find a new home like this one here. and i think a little math into there and the know lay the egg new thing. we're good. again. tell this clearly. yeah, definitely learning is so amazing to be so close to it, especially when it's such a rush. when we often think of conservation and saving species, we just think of the meadows and he's perfectly manicured, landscape,

or we're in the middle of a waste land. it's not a wasteland to them. it's their home and it's in fact, the last place they can be in this area. so it's really important that we take that into consideration when to make decisions about land to date can be week, has been a resounding success. ah, but to save britons in sex, more land must be given over to their protection. sarah wants me to see another site that bug life is looking to reclaim 20 kilometers down the road at west the rec. marsh's. if successful it could add an additional 70 heck, tears of protected habitat to the cause. it's been acquired very little with you on the fight. i think that here, few times i'm really excited show you o before the site we've abandoned it was a coal fired power station. this black substrate is fly ash,

which is the byproduct later on in these low nutrient poor quality. so you really favor lots wallflowers, that bumble bees last have a flies which flies would really love and take advantage of the untrained eye. it looks like wasteland. so we had to do a huge amount of work. campaigning, raising awareness, and we hope he's going to be one of the next book reserves and the cat. do you have a lot of resistance when you approach developers and local governments when you want to talk about conservation on sites that could earn a lot of money for them? of course, because this is prime development lung. fortunately in japan, yet half of brownfield person, just yolanda in terms gateway or even developed to demonstrate the need for sites just can be way and hopefully this in the future that preserve and save because we're losing that resource quicker than we even finding out how important is the prize and amazing opportunity to challenge perception on the key drivers and vice

versa. books. they are important and i think we should have more of, you know, i mean the u. k. elsewhere well, in after hanging out with sarah and her amazing team a bug life, i don't think i can ever go by any piece of land, no matter how derelict and forgotten and not see its full potential. and we really need to have the shift in perspective because as our own, b c's rapidly grows an industrialized land, every square inch, counter, and bike, protecting our insect neighbors. we're ultimately safeguarding our own future, me ah, insects numbers are in steep decline. but across the globe, people are endeavoring to reverse this alarming trend ah, in the us conservationists at oregon zoo,

a saving to local butterfly species by breeding and releasing as many as 2000 along the coast each year and an engineering student took simon fraser university in canada as designed to real time b, hiv monitoring system to track b health through microphones and heat fences. by helping to pinpoint the causes of colony collapsed disorder or invention has the potential to save millions of bees. ah, the race is on to prevent the collapse of the planets in set populations. if life on earth is to continue as we know it, then we need to move fast. ah, oh, african narrative. mm. from african perspective.

i new theories of short documentary by african filmmakers from across the continent. this is when really committed to handle the african direct coming, sued on al jazeera, pick from the al, jazeera london, bro carthage test to people in thoughtful conversation. we were 1st generation of black versus people and we have to really find our way with no hope and no limitation. the world is a much smaller place. we do better to get away with these regional boundaries, films. i reckon if you're in to tell me things home, right. skin you think about race? vicki certainly have is making are invisible. you hear b unscripted on out to thera, move the story of a small community. in one of mexico's most dangerous states standing up to criminal

cartels and corrupt politicians you, we don't want to politicians anymore. they just dis, united the people in the last episode of democracy. maybe we explore how sharon's elders lead the fight for self determination brings that lead time thinking that the nar coast was the same as thinking of trans government by the people on al jazeera. ah, the focus is back on europe has cases of corona virus continue to climb, but locked down as frictions are being met with protests across the continent. ah, i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive from dall also coming up to leanne's, get ready to choose a new president with 2 very different sunrun as leading opinion. and wrapping up his tour of africa. secretary of state, anthony blink and promises the us will do more to help development and formula one

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