even if we had all the original material, we don't have the right to do it on such a scale, then in and get us get plenty of new marble has been inserted into the buildings of the acropolis as part of a 40 year restoration project, including in the gate house whose restoration, tallulah oversaw. it's a compromise between 2 schools of thought. conservationists believe in preserving the historical record interventionists would rebuild the temple of athena to it classical glory. and it is that high classical period that tourists come to mark and celebrate to day. so it would appear that goddess is merely giving the greeks and the world's visitors what they want. but critics say his view favors some parts of the archaeological record over others. jumps are hopeless, al jazeera evans. ah, well, again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera security forces in sudan and fire

tear gas at protesters in the capitol cartoon. tens of thousands rally to call on the military to stay out of politics. it was the 10 major demonstration since october, mom, it van has moved from cartoon as her the day progressed her and particularly after sunset. we have noticed that the year protest has begun to wayne and there has been failure on the part of for testers, to cross the bridges linking to lincoln central cartoon tour. both there are on doorman and barry, so that hasn't happened. unlike in the previous, on the previous occasion, and that has a really reduced the momentum of their protests to day or within cartoon itself. central cartoon. there have been 2 or 3 attempts to reach the presidential pollies. thousands try to march the palestinian red crest and says

is rarely forces have injured $240.00 protesters near novelist, security forces, fire tear gas live ammunition and rubber coated steel bullets at the crowds. tensions been escalating since 2 palestinians kill them is rarely set low on december 16th. human rights groups are accusing man mars military of committing a massacre as it intensifies an offensive against rebel forces. the charred remains of 30 people have been found in kaya state. they've been emotional scenes in northern iraq after the bodies of 16 migrants were returned home from france. the victims were among a group of people who drowned last month trying to reach britain. those are the headlines on al jazeera as always, we have more news on our website, al jazeera dot com. i have more use for you coming up after counting the cost. stay with us. in 2002 coins and bank notes mark the launch of the euro. today's the official currency of 19 of the 27 member states of the european

union. on the 20th anniversary of the euro entering circulation, al jazeera investigates how the eurozone benefited from having an official currency . i lose . hello, i'm sammy's a. this is counting the cost and i'll just there are look at the world of interest and i cannot make this week 1000000000 as in space. we go beyond tourism to see how the world's richest men are making the grant control, the place, industry, all county, the new coal, agriculture accounts for a 3rd of all global greenhouse gases. aware of the target, the cap commission and the mon bronson town lane is all production pollution for

killing people. use now for decades. space was the preserve of government and accessible only by taxpayer funded rockets. its exploration was politicized by cold war rivalries. that was the all tourist to occasionally though hitched a ride to help out a cash strike nation. but in the last month, privateers have wrestled attention away from the government sponsored launches. now, billionaires are accelerating our passion for the heavens. first 70 year old, serial and tropic nor richard branson ended his 17 year quest to travel into space on board, his reusable plane. it's not known how much has been spent to reach this stage, but the recently new york listed company burned through 250000000 dollars in 2020. however, it doesn't have that. then there's the question as to where the branson actually

crossed the threshold for space, the common line. rival billionaire, jeff pays off succeeded in doing that. the world's richest man initially invested $500000000.00 of his own money in 2014. as of 2016, it's been caching in in is ever increasing amazon stock to spend $1000000000.00 a year on blue origin. and of course, there's a lot mosques, space x. it's already one contracts and has flown astronauts to the international space station. is companies estimated to be worth $46000000000.00? bays off and mosque deploy? re usable rockets, the stuff of science fiction dreams come down on the costs of getting them into say whatever your feelings about these endeavors, you could argue a lot of money is being wasted by 1000000000. as for other 1000000000 as to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness, one of the carbon footprint of sending the wealthy into space is also much more to

space. according to morgan stanley, the global space industry could generate revenue of more than one trillion dollars in 2040. that's up from the 350000000000 currently. yeah, it might not be space tourism. that's the cash cow. rather, satellite internet service may not surprise you that ill on mosque is already deploying $1500.00 satellites to blanket the us and provide internet access that could cost up to $10000000000.00 to get it opperation or. but it could bring in revenue of $30000000000.00 a year. it's already in testing, costing $909.00 a month would be subsidized antenna to receive a signal costing $499.00. what's the purpose of that? what are the insatiable appetite for internet links services, and there's more demand coming as autonomous vehicles of rolled out. but they also faces competition from the british government's rival,

one way of which was rescued from bankruptcy. and unsurprisingly, virgin galactic is one company that will be using its boost the technology to put satellites into space from a spaceport near you. i. one of those sides could be spaceport cornwall. delighted to say the head of the venture melissa thought joins us fire skype from true row in the u. k. good to have you with us. so melissa spaceport, cornwall will be a horizontal loan side, right where modified planes will be launching satellites into orbit y. horace zone to launch though. i. yes. so we're going to launches is kind of what we feel is the way forward for satellite launch, because you can use existing airports and existing runways anywhere in the world that has a long enough from way. and here at the airport, new key, we have a long runway that goes direct over the sea with low residential build up around it . that means that the systems like working orbit, who are working with, can take off at the end of the runway,

go out over the sea and deploy the rocket mid air. so it's a different way of doing it, but it's, it is using an existing asset, an existing airport, rather than a launch pad, you know, some re really remote or i will tell us more about the 1st launch that's planned in the spring of 2022 with virgin orbit, right? yes, that's the time about this time next year. actually we're hoping to have our 1st launch with virgin or bet that will be the 1st launch from u k. soil ever so. so see very exciting for us here in the u. k. and that will be a 3 day event. it's going to be really big festival and celebration of, of the space industry in the u. k. and to get the satellites up to space for the 1st time here because they've never been able to launch from the u. k. and we build huge majority of the world small satellites here, but we can't launch them at the moment. so it is a big, big, big opportunity for the u. k. you've also recently signed a deal with sierra space, haven't you? how soon will that translate into a launch? sheer space is a very different system for us,

so it will take off vertically somewhere else in the world, but it needs a horizontal spaceport to land that's will run, waited to return from space. so that will be their return location and where they'll be bringing amazing r and d and research back from microgravity that we can process here in the u. k. and we're looking at doing it out in the next 5 or so years. they're due to have their 1st launch out in colorado, in 2023. so it's a of a few years away still, but it's something that we're working on the concept of operations for at the moment we've son and will you with them. so the relationship will develop over the next few years and we hope to be able to have the landing in the near future. now we've talked a little bit about satellites. what about space tourism could resume that from spice pools. at the moment we're just focused on satellite launch, that's hard enough, i would say get up and running for the 1st time. so we'll be really focusing on that over the next few years. but human space flight and base tourism being part of that is, is all really exciting and gets all the headline for us. i think the future will be

in that human space flight element. so looking at that microgravity research, putting more humans and researchers into space to test different health care solutions, up in lower orbit, i think is a really exciting opportunity. and space tourism, who knows as a, as the market develops and is more launches happen over the, in the us. maybe that's something that you might look to do in the future. but you know, hats off to the companies doing it because we know how difficult it is and congratulations, obviously to blue origin and introvert. blocked it. he did recently. we've seen a lot of billionaires in the headlines recently. you're right about that. would the commercialization of space, the progress that's taking place with any of that be possible without 1000000000 as like branson mosque and bays off? you know, i think it's actually taking place of what governments used to do in the space industry, government and state lead enterprises used to put most of the funding into space. and now what you're seeing in the newspaper industry today is on 2 printers,

billionaires and private companies actually doing a lot of the pioneering activity. and i think that's really interesting for the industry because what you're seeing as is new entrance into the market with obviously different ideas, different backgrounds, different industries, making the most, the space to help benefit life here on earth. so i think the are pioneering and they're opening up space and access to space for, for more businesses and more people. so i think it is a good thing. is it worth it? is the carbon footprint the worth it for? what? for at least some of it when we talk about space tourism is going to be alton at least some might say about putting billionaires in space to have a little bit of fun. i think there's 22 sides to that story. i think the impact of launch has been something that's been quite secret over the years. and that's something that we're trying to change here. it's facebook home also responsible launch, launching these technologies to space cleaner and greener i think is something that spaceports around the world need to be challenged on. and that's something that we want to be doing here. but also i think the put some of the most influential people

into space and that overview of fact they call it for them to see the curvature of the earth and maybe challenge and change their perceptions about their activities on earth. i think could be actually really powerful as i think there's 2 sides to i think if we decrease the impact of that launch work together all not, but also, you know, trying to have a reason for these people going to space and that the come back to her and maybe make some changes and action to climate change. let's hope so. it's always good to be optimistic. suppose tourism has grabbed a lot of the headlines recently, but it's unexpected to be in a $1000000000.00 industry right. when you look at the total value of the space industry right now, $350000000000.00, it's obviously just a drop in the bucket. what is the rest of the bucket made off of one of the biggest market for space is pretty much everything we do in daily life, modern life. now here it's from going and getting money out of an atm, ordering prescriptions online to health care. it's agriculture and drivers,

tractors, making other industries more efficient from space technology. that's where the value of space really is. so going and getting better access to space for satellites, for space technology is huge because we can get some of these in amazing innovative technologies to where they need to bay and to make our lives on earth more efficient. and also to provide the imagery and unbiased information from space about earth, down to, to change policy and to influence policy to start to tackle some of the biggest global challenges that we have. so i think the real value of space is as exciting as the tour is inside, is the real value is, is, is benefiting life on earth with making, you know, our lives more efficient and more environmentally friendly. these technologies is space, say, so in the hands of billionaires making a grab for what is ultimately trillion dollar market. i mean that may be the richest people on earth, but they don't always have the best track for holds in people of business

management. i think from opening up space commercially, and i think with all these new entrance, whether it's billionaires or businesses that you can't forget that they're still are. it's still a domain of government. i think the united nations, for instance, is working credibly hard on getting some fundamental policies to go into space that we protect democracy in space and we protect peace and space. and that's something that i think the industry is actually collectively working on together. and from what i've seen, you know, it is, it is moving in a positive direction, but there still is a lot of work to be done on how space will be used. and who, you know, fundamentally is, is responsible for their practices in space. and we see that with space to pay for instance, and that is something that is starting to change in a positive way. so i think it is up to us the spaceport to maybe be as a gateway to space or what we are putting into space. and have a responsibility there as well. so i think the ethics of space is something that is, is growing and moving in the right direction. but like i said, a lot of work to be done. all right, thanks so much for talking to us,

melissa. i'll thank you. ah, people in a small town in southern iraq say pollution from all production is killing them by blaming the process of gas flaring. that's when oil is extracted in excess natural gas is burned off for leasing c o 2. in the same. the rocky government is investing billions in an attempt to use the gas for electricity. but as the touch of a name reports from babylon village in basra, many say it's already too late. ah. people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one, no some one who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already

have cancer and only god helps me. we continued to be worried about our families and loved ones. the bus for health department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the iraqi high commission for human rights says, due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. there is no stability for 6 or 7 years every 2 years. there is some chilling political challenge, security challenge gases, long term investment. it needs some stability on his knee, some cash outcome, which meant the world bank ranks. iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring, instead of polluting the air, the gas could be recovered and sold or used to generate electricity for millions of people. the bus for gas company is investing $3000000000.00 to do just

that. at the remailer oil field, iraq's largest, anything that the iraqi government can do or, or it's neighbors can do to create in a stable environment is, is good for capturing will guess. and for creating a better environment for the iraqi people. the people of butler say the land, their families have been tied to for 200 years is toxic, and they wonder how many more of them will get sick before the government can help them. natasha name l. g 0. basra, iraq. ah cows. the new coal, that's the question. a 40 trillion dollar invest, the network is asking why? because farming represents a 3rd of all harmful greenhouse emissions. yet no g. 20 country has the plan to count the balancing jobs and livelihoods is proving a tough cell for government. thousands of farmers recently protested in the netherlands against the government effort to come nitrogen emissions intensive,

agriculture and fertilizer use have made the netherlands, one of europe's largest emitters, stefan reports from the hague. ah, not an unusual sight in the netherlands. these days tracked us on the streets of the hague, joining a protest as the police try to block them. it becomes clear that stopping a tractor isn't easy. that all men, we hope that the government will understand that the netherlands can't exist without farmers, the netherlands need, farmers. we are producing the most sustainable food drilled right. so without us either low moville feeds old these people after melting his couse dairy farmer, young from the wind, left his farm to get some answers from the government for generations. his family as farmed in an area where experts now say there's no future for large farms. it's just not sustainable. if a government target of nitrogen emission reduction is to be met by us boulevard. oh,

gotta go. so don't want the environment to be polluted. there is no debate about that, but that the netherlands wants to take drastic steps and farmers are 1st to be targeted . and i am concerned that in 10 years when funds are gone, we will regret this. like more than $50000.00 dutch farmers, his 17 year old son, tom was keen to continue. the farm has no idea what lies ahead. now, young farmers driving for hours on their tractors the demands certainty about their future. if it colleges and fire mantle groups and increasingly politicians have their way farming as we know it in the netherlands, can't exist any longer. a message many here. i'm not ready to here. and here you see a lot of dead trees and dying trees with fairly low facility with fairly low leaves, an expert on the effects of nitrogen emissions. researcher roland bobbing brought an alarming report for greenpeace. his conclusion, large part of the dutch ecosystem have been so badly affected,

that there will be lost if the government does not act. now, i think it, this is fairly urgent. and i, meaning you can do it in one or 2 years. you need maybe 5 to 10 years, a really high reduction of the nightstand deposition, maybe 50 to 70 percent. and therefore you need to difference echoes or system in the netherlands. greenpeace, have threatened to take the dutch stay to court for violating european regulations . if the government does not reduce nitrogen emissions much further amidst all the pressure, some farmers are starting to realize that business as usual won't be an option for much longer farmers organization, billions of years and needed to save dutch farms and meet them and buy a mental friendly step, fasten al jazeera, bake, reaching net 0 missions will be impossible without a radical overhaul of the agricultural sector. says my next guest. teneo quandary

is the head of invest. the outreach at the fair initiative, which represents investors with 40 trillion dollars on the management. good to have you with us 10 me. so why have g 20 nations left out any plans for account of emissions from farming? yes, great to be here. thanks for having me, sammy. well, 1st of all, just wanting to mention that climate obviously is a huge issue that we're all facing globally. and since inception of that, we have been looking at climate risk that then we'll focus on that. and we've been seeing that companies are doing more about trying to engage on this topic and invest as well. and we just need to regulate as to step forward and do a little bit more here as well. now in terms of why the g 20 nations have left the south, i think it's more that historically it has been a really difficult sector when it comes to the carbon izing. obviously it has very close links with livelihoods and income for a vast majority of people. and also there is still a lack of disclosure and it's been difficult in terms of actually trying to measure

climate impacts and measure emissions and trying to understand who is responsible for specifically what kinds of kinds of emissions. and so what we're saying is that there needs to be a significant reduction and these significant reductions are in fact possible. but we just need it to be that governments and policy makers, the regulators are really starting to put their eyes on this and address this bully . so we'll be happy some say when you say the needs to be reductions, what are we talking about? what they need to do, what they need to count. yes. well, there's so much that, that, that so many different areas within agriculture that can be reduced by emissions moody. so if you think about the feed that they give the animals, for example, trying to reduce the emissions that actually generated within the animal. when you think about the volume of animal dumps are being produced, we have found that over the last year there was actually been an increase in emissions from a, from animal agriculture. and really that is logic as a, as part is result of the fact that more animals are being produced. and so emitting

that me, that needs to be an adoption of electric vehicles for example. and really trying to stop the mission that happened. so there are lots of areas in the production of the animal and bit of animal protein that would trip start to see reductions happen. we just need to see that there's more am regulations and more incentivized ation of farmers to actually do things like this. is that a happy balance between livelihoods and farming emissions? absolutely. i believe that there that there is. it's not that we are slow to say look like that. cuz i mean, oh my god, agriculture is a big money generator, isn't it? exactly it is. and so that's why i think is going back to in terms of the emissions coming from the sector. that's why so much needs to be done in terms of if we're going to meet the pass agreement, let's make sure agriculture pops about solution as well because it is a huge money generated, but it is also shoot behind the imaging as well. so it needs to be that balance

between likely has an emissions that not all factory, not all animal forming needs to end a nice me that we are empowering farmers to be part of building a more robust and sustainable solution. so where we've seen that biden, for example, that ministration bite, an administration announcing $30000000000.00 of incentive to farmers when it comes to carbon capture all last week we had the u. k. natural to touch g announced which is again, incentivizing farmers to actually be part to building a sustainable system. so if the kept soil improvement, blood prevention, carbon sequestration, so that's palmas, feel that they are part of the solution as well. and on the flip side, we also have to recognize that with the huge emissions that we see there is that increase in climate risk, which is impacting likelihood already. so in texas, you seen about to just under $230000000.00 of losses this year from g to the flooding that we seen. there been at the animal, the stress on the animals. and so the heat stress leading to death of animals means

that this is already costing palm as their livelihood, which is why that needs to be more per response in terms of trying to address the missions from this area. i'm glad you mentioned animals there. if we look at some of the figures on this 2340000000 tons of meet globally produced every year, how do we convince people to change their diet? i think it's making sure that it's not that people feel that they are being dictated to. i think if there's one thing that has come out globally from the last 18 months is that people do not want to feel as if choices are being actively taken away from them and that they're being restricted more and more. so we need to make sure that people are more informed and that they given choices, but has to be that they able to make an informed decision on what it is that they are consuming. whether in this case look at food or anything else really. when it comes to the kids and services that we need to survive and thrive. so i think that it's helping central that supermarket, but supermarkets as well as regulators are playing their part in giving consumers

information they need. so are we actually aware of the reduction that's at the health benefits, for example, that has when you reduce your meet consumption, as well as the environmental benefit that comes with that as well. so then me see the ship go away from dictating and saying consumers must do this on must not do that, but helping them to see well, what are those it is. how can we move towards a more plan based diet and what benefits that have for people or planets and for the animals as well? the more successful though, that sort of message is tenny. the less income revenue there will be for big beef supplies in a world like argentina and brazil. what kind of proposal do you have for them? now we are seeing already that they are starting to understand that the shift is happening and so it puts, it's almost a case a well gets on board the ship to get left behind. you are seeing more more of the cloud based alternatives start to really move up the, the agenda when it comes to consumers, purchasing power, and you're seeing,

for example, in the u. s. at last year. i think those of us are 200 percent increase in plant based products being bought back. and so you're seeing these big beef players thought to move towards satisfying that need as well as that they're not losing out on the new customers, the potential revenue profitability bare. but they're starting to set up their own plant based protein products as well, and don't pump base brought brands as well. and so as we see, the start to happen, more of them could more of the be producers will actually start to recognize that this is something that they need to be involved in as well, in order to make sure they are part of that. they are strategically moving in the right direction for the future of what consumers actually picking up and choosing to do with that wallet as well. all right, it's been lovely talking to you. thanks so much for coming to the show 20. yes, it's been great being here. thank you so much. and that's our show for this week. this more for you online though, al jazeera dot com slash c c. c. that'll take you straight to our page, which has entire up says view to catch up on. i'm sammy's

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