safe, i pray to god to ease my pain and he is in that hole of dust. yeah. the rescue has gripped the nation and beyond. hashtags save ran has been trending on social media across north africa with it's the 4th day that braden has been under ground. we're asking the authorities to bring him out. he's been down there too long rescue team say that close to rescuing ran a police helicopter his own standby to take him to hospital victoria gate and be al jazeera ah and are you watching out his ear these the top stories this hour, the 24th winter olympics has officially begun by james the 1st city to host both this summer and winter olympics. but the build up has been dominated by covered 19 restrictions and diplomatic boycotts associated press. correspondence. stephen wade

has more from the opening ceremony. my 1st thought is it's so very, very different and 20. 08. i remember being in the stadium. it was about 32 degrees hot sweltering night here. it's below 0 probably 2 or 3 below 0. 0, the stadium and 2008 was filled. 91000 people this time we have a select a few friends, very, very few friends. so it's a very, very different ab, as for the winter games or course, much smaller than the summer games, it's much, much more restrictive in tokyo and tokyo, people will get around after 14 days. go have dinner. none of that here will be out of the country as soon as these games are over. that's just the way it is because a coven, and because of china's measures against a games are happening as tensions either. ukraine, a high between russia and the west. russian president vladimir putin ease in china though moscow in banking say they oppose and nato expansion and accuses of cold war approaches. france east to help the united arab emirates reign force. it's

a defense defense system. following recent missile attacks by who the rebels in yemen, the french armed forces ministry says it's boosting the u a's capability to protect its air space against any intrusion. u. k prime minister bars johnson is facing pressure to show up his primary shape as a circle. patty gate scandal deepens, 5 aids have now resigned, including johnson's chief of staff, private secretary and director of communications and northern islands. high court says checks on food from great britain should remain in place for now. that suspends an order from a minister to halt. custom checks, the european union says the order breached the northern island protocol and agreement between westminster and brussels. to implement rex it. and those are the headlines. i'm emily anglin state you now for whiskey at all. and i'll be back at the top of the hour. ah

the car, the hurry desert in botswana monte it's a farmer in the note on a dbi mission to find them to fasting blood. you to help me if you could want

a don't ever volvo water. he has a truck but it's low and fuel, which means a folk lama to war brody. i got is ranisha dog federal. so americans in getting this 5 you dog container is federal. ah, for his thumb. he has a 1000 liters of water in the back of his old pickup truck with drunk has hit botswana hot and recent years. especially in 20192020. ah oh no. no.

no, no, no, i'm good. no garage, no war, nothing. nothing is 1st time this thing happens with monty has to constantly search for new sources of water from the different pools in the area. but his local sources increasingly drawing up and it's costing him tenuous dollars per day in petrol alone have to have to tend to trust with hundreds under put up a day in the day. the river bed is visible from a distance. but when monte reaches the bank, he's disappointed. the river water is gone down. his drive is furnished.

mm. this stretch of water is all that's left of the river. it's either evaporated or the animal flood. waters never arrived here. landlocked botswana witnesses, one of the great natural phenomena in africa beyond will flooding healthy. oper, bangor, river, which wayne fall flowing down from angola. it is always town the northern cal hurry into rich oasis for several months. but that may be changing. moving around the desert is also very difficult. sick in his tribe have lived here for generations. and he's used to walking this track down . look, a crew co, goodbye therapist is kind of interested. so i want to

use the throughput i did the color. harry's no clue as to write down the heat can be intense until it leaks into much trouble with sick amy belongs to the sun. people. sun translates us push trellis and the live mainly in the western col. hurry. they've always been hunters, but their traditional way of life has had to change the carry can only live now on designated reserves, and has become marginalized with g. i, jerry, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. it's it looks like you're gonna go to go to both of those

actually go home at cooper. so cuz i didn't ya. ye shop for guys. oh okay. it should work. yes. okay, joe, look, golf morgan to dean the carry and his wife live on this. we're setting and camp. we have to move from their home in 1997. when one of the biggest diamond deposits in the world was discovered that hollywood air conditioning guides that she did god 0 will you will talk to, we are how to see if i go dba god to the gym. i, you know what i read for who i've got security and his wife margaret marianna. don't want the young people to forget san traditions. so they are teaching the nephew bondo to the answer, to land with the size ah,

where the journey is along. 70 kilometers of this desert track. that's a tough assignment for titus. and it's spotty. don't pull by full tightest nose the way the road. it's difficult because the sand is very try driving on. it could cause engine problems with the engine. there's no over huge sol and we, we couldn't don't even know if we just open it or door then would hit us don't outside.

ah, the yoko vanco river is unusual because it doesn't flow into an ocean. instead, it opens out into the color her desert thoughts delta in the world. much of the color harry is bone dry, but the far north is permanent. swampland. den around may, june or july. we'd more to from angola, thousands of kilometers north arrives and filled the whole delta vast numbers of animals migrate to the region to enjoy a fertile area, covering almost 17000 square kilometers. beyond with floods normally fill, make an gummy to the south of the delta. but a with

a mock i will it, this is a very luck on pick up one moment. wonder if and them a bit on it about a leak and gummy has gradually got smaller over time. the stream that fed it has evaporated and beyond will the ocho vanco river floods don't seem able to sustain it. in 2011, it was an estimated 32 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide. but yeah, it's shrunk to a small water hole and its shores have become a death trap for thirsty animals.

ah, this herd of calls has been stuck in the month for several days. and it's now too late for them. ah, but for this one towel, there is still hope miracle is going to try and save her as he is already lost several calls and might see that it is more like been healthy. oh, love love with god that not gonna ha reserve a

. 6 yeah, i knew let's a fly. however, lake and gobby is not completely dead. marie co and his brother have mad to find life deep in the mind. ah. in the middle of the mire, the mind is still faint enough for thousands of catfish to survive. with

all our little delay remar due on august a all net i have with you the total a couple other rooms to open. lucy, whom do i lou and i'm with a whole new one. and while i piece, i don't believe that i may have deal when lasers are bad. one of your grandma and i go in at the, the, your, i'm with lisa blanton with marine corps and his brother have to be careful

while they're fishing with they used to be around a 100 or to my living in and around the lake. now the only 2 adults and a baby, the other is either managed to reach the r banker river or has a a dental hope with a

medicare to carry on with my teeth. today's catch block home to the account on what used to be the show of the queen. it would only come down provided, welcome food for a whole community,

but now one is family. don't know how you're going to survive. a, it's a 2 day i got a j with we look at the whole thing with comes with a 100 pieces. there will now $1000.00 with the really expensive over here with in a few weeks or even days, the heat will try out the lake month. and that might be the end of fishing for this year. but my wrinkle has

a plan to combat the drought up because on the day give it a day, give us a solid or panel drug, how we would try. it isn't cognitive balboa, which i know where the uncle vanguard, delta meets the color. how he does a proper destroyed up river has left enough water to fill a few water home. but it is the bar permit farms like monte we'll have to pay for hunters to supply water to them. i stopped, for now he can make trips back and forth to the water home from one to let them go home with

ah, monte keeps around 30 goals and 70 towns. job failure worth a 1000 that he doesn't have enough money to buy for day every day. he's old so lost around a 100 animals to the drought. so father's care. mm. monty and his wife survive. thanks to her smooth grocery store on the main highway

. the drought has also affected christmas that i i, i wanted to let go with my guy again jamila montague de la model. yeah. automobile. yeah. not a lot of woocommerce. well can let it live, been abandoned. that's another good one of i don't work. i don't home general, i did not want to use very tired, but he has no choice other than to make return trips to the water hole to keep his flock alive. thought, but saul is not the only trip to the survivor. mm.

ah. when he gets back home, warranty discovers that his schools have escaped from the enclosure down the trees. they broke. this doth ofen oven, just come instant here. and this is frank and put into the water tank and drinking water. now it's shouting too much, which means no what i hear. so now they know that they can drink. what does the problem? what do you do when is only fun? come when you get the right from just shoot you kill already. why i didn't. we are not allowed to kill like this

is chosen too much in there. you can shoot it. monty tries to rely on his b, i why device to scare the elephants away. but they are not the only danger dogs are here looking after this, when they ins or juggles. come here, the dogs are chasing them. monty has to spend his nights outside on god. ah, we live out in the desert to kaylee and his wife austin on their way to the land they used to live on

a good will that work because bad blood with one of our old rule for man man to say he's available for the a what with the government of what so on us line is that the science, traditional hum, take me a fly, had become incompatible with wildlife combination but the both swan and diamond industry, the biggest value in the world. and they haven't several legal battles over the eviction of the sand. where we were wondering, got during,

was to watch. i didn't find food. so yet when we have like money, you don't have money orders 100 alexis with hello, hey. this journey is risky for 2 reasons. one, they are openly challenging the government and to tie this is full by full, it's still overheating. the database is king of interest. lucian bought the bodies out. so i want that easy throughput i did. ah, but tight is his truck. thank develops a mechanical problem. now come with

the boys. good program. there's a song coming from with yellow could cope with, it's not a cooling problem. it's the engine itself with ah, you can find why did this on this program is the engine heater. i called becky base. i get

a quote on my plastic that goes with gavin. if you've got lead rental of it, i think the oh god does that photos how good it is up to go home with the safest thing is to try and get back home. so gary can take his nephew, found ancestry home. so the he down to the savannah. so he can pass on some of the secrets of the old way of life as his father did free a meal. as a do got to go law franklin black,

blue. i was got, have a security teaches bondo hunt to catch a wild animal without having to hunt it down. he quickly make the trap with this is secure his way of keeping sam traditions alive in the face of a changing world, but sworn as economy has always relied heavily on the yoke of anglo delta including agriculture and tourism. now, there are several different threats to the data, including my meat ones. and scientists are also divided as to whether it's been permanently affected by climate change. but it is possible that the yoko van would

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