ah ah, cave's main tv tower comes on the russian bombardment as a long military convoy drives to words ukraine's capital aah! on residents are killed as homes are destroyed in all the ukrainian cities, including the mayor and khaki. ah, hello, money inside, this is out there, lie from dough hall with continuing coverage of the russia ukraine ball. the

russian foreign minister said lovegrove defends the invasion during a speech to the un prompting a walk out by dumpster maps. ah, and out of harmony, a well leading conductor with close connections to russia's president is cut from concerts, and the war is among several pressing issues, weighing on us president joe biden, who will soon deliver his fuss state of the union address. ah, russia is intensifying it's bombardment of urban areas in ukraine, hitting a tv tower in cave, and launching more attacks on the country. second largest city. speaking from a heavily garden compound in the capital president vladimir zalinski said russia must stop forming people if talks ought to make any headway. but the kremlin says

its operation will continue until goals met. to find by president vladimir putin as disarming ukraine. as the invasion enters a 7th day, let's take a look at where things stand. there is shaded, read on the map, are controlled by russia, an allied separatists in the east of the country. as we mentioned, the ukraine 2nd largest city khaki has been coming on the fierce bombardment to the south. the port city of multiple is facing once described as constant shilling and north of cave russian. army and artillery. artillery had been building up. jane ha, begins are coverage from the viv in western ukraine. russia has widened the scope of its war on ukraine. a suspected cruise missile hit the local administration building in freedom square, no less in the center of the eastern city of harkey. holmes regularly come under fire now to this is an apartment building in the black sea port city of her san and

this hockey again, those guess how bad you think if, if the, the russian liberators have come, the man shouts in the aftermath of tuesdays miss al strike president followed him at zalinski, addressing the european union called it the price of freedom this morning. temper is miss isles, hit this, the freedom square, dozens of kill ones. this is the price afraid of the translators, struggles to contain his emotion. what we are fighting both of the fleas, just for our lad and for our freedom 70 ukrainian soldiers died when a military base was targeted by heavy artillery in arctic. but the veil has fallen from russia's claims that it's carrying out a special operation aimed purely at military targets. civilians are increasingly fair game and as night fell,

huck eve came under heavy attack again a change of tactics, a possible consequence of russia's slow moving advance on the ground. satellite imagery shows a column of artillery and armour, logistics, and support units more than 60 kilometers long bearing down on the capital key of from the north. another is advancing from the south. the aim to encircle the capital, intimidate the civilian population, and force the surrender of ukraine's government. western intelligence points to poor communications and frequent mechanical breakdowns. there's a dog, good ukrainian resistance as well captured, russian soldiers are said to have been told that they'd be welcomed here as liberators. this is how people actually feel at the heart of

it all in the capital he of attacks have resumed, including on the main television transmitter, cutting public broadcasts, people already eking out an existence in conditions of unimaginable stress. no, the worse is to come. and the scramble to leave the city on the few exit roots still available, is growing more desperate by the hour. deposited. fighting has not yet come to the western city of believe, but they'll be ready for it if it does. civil defense units have formed all over the country and basic training and weapons handling is available for anyone that wants it. they know the time may come when they'll have to fight the russians themselves for control of their streets. the government says it believes russia is deliberately shelling cities, including residential areas and civilian infrastructure and the goal. it says to

create mass panic and civilian casualties. but one thing you don't sense here is panic. instead, the steely determination of ukrainian civilians to resist and fight back the we want to study. we don't want to be afraid of the word. the young in ukraine students multicultural, multilingual, joined the chorus for peace on bright minds whose ideals until the week ago was still intact and whose hopes and hogs, now broken, or others who are stuck. jona whole al jazeera leave. the or ukraine's governance has 4 people, including a child, have been killed after russian cruise missiles hit residential buildings in the west. russia says the strikes targeted a military base in the city of z. tamir. several homes were set on fire and windows were smashed in a nearby hospital. mm hm. elisa some of the

latest pictures from khaki, even the east where shelling has continued into the night has been heavy artillery fire and residential neighborhoods with civilian buildings hit as well as the city's main square. ukrainian force is still controlled, concave and the coastal cities of cason and mario pole. at the you case, defense ministry says all 3 are encircled now by russian forces. meanwhile, ukraine's president has been speaking about what life is like inside his heavily guarded compound. in case you're gonna flip that. okay, here's your fabric. no, no i got. when was the last time? so before this war, i no longer have orders for all to do to the little but hold

on to plot to get us a james base reports nouns, landscape remarks to the european parliament. after making an official bed to join the ear, the european parliament a strong show of support for the people of ukraine. this chamber with many parliamentarians wearing the ukrainian colors, was addressed by video link from keith by president zalinski. he had one clear request. ah ha, motor motions of july, we are fighting for our existence for our survival. and this is the main motivation for us. but we are also fighting to be an equal member of europe. and i think that today we are showing who we are. the european union is with us, with ukraine. the european union will be stronger without ukraine. it will be lonely. we've proved our strength. we've proved that we're at least the same as you . please prove that you're with us. please prove that you're not going to let us go

prove that you're really, europeans would. that was strong combination of president who transactions and hulu for to lee. you considers illegal there, charlie, and up horned. it's not only you train that's under touch, international law moves. bruce, international order, democracy, human dignity are also attach. this is joe political terrorism, pure and simple. the president of the european commission then spoke about the possibility of ukraine joining the european union. today. the european union and ukraine are already closer than ever before. there's still a long path ahead. we have to end this war and we should talk about the next steps . but i am sure nobody in this hemi cycle can doubt that the people that stands up so bravely for our european values belongs in our

european family. at the end of the session, the parliament voted overwhelmingly to call on the you institutions to work towards granting ukraine candidate status. but the vote is purely symbolic. it's the european council, the 27 member nations who make the final decision. and then there's a long drawn out process to qualify to become a member. the size of the vote, $637.00 out of $676.00 though an indication of the level of feeling in support of ukraine. here james bays al jazeera of the european parliament in brussels. us and foreign minister said, i love ralph told a you understand that meeting in geneva that ukraine had been seeking nuclear weapons. he provided no evidence though. and as a lover of spoke by video link in support of russia's invasion,

dozens of diplomats walked out in protest. for those, those are the sooner years with us to live with united states and its allies are creating their own new world order. as of 2014, the key of regime is waging war against its own people from the constitution of ukraine has been changed and the new not says that have gained power there are waging real turtles. russia says it is a restricting access of to if it's media outlets that a widely seen as liberal in their outlook. the head of the echo of moscow radio station which has had opposition lead alexi, nev only as a guest says it was taken off fare on tuesday, also silenced as tv rains, new online channel. yeah, let's accused of broadcasting false information about the military's activities in ukraine. on the ground and east and ukraine, volunteers have converted a soviet era cinema into a shelter. charles traffic reports from their the i tell you when i might as what i

did, the last i need 5 people quickly. any volunteers, the man says, the former line to unload donated food water baiting with clothes is taken into water for decades, has been a center pic culture in arts and has now become a vital and potential life saving a distribution point. it is an incredible sense of purpose and energy in this sense of what these people are doing is they're taking in donations of food, clothing, bedding medicine. they're boxing them up watching the materials up and then they're gonna be distributing them too many of the hundreds of thousands of people that have fled to fighting across the region. this question is to give them though, mom, i have much better than sitting at home. we are as depressed as every one in the country, but we come here to leave. our spirits will feel proud and unified here. our list,

if a young fallen tears duct tape on the windows, in an effort to stop shands, of glass being blown into the building, to show land near by a piece of history is being offered as a place where people can hide. so it's been 20 years since this soviet built cinema was used. and now volunteers are offering it as a place where people can come and shelter from the shelling you fall. reassured, some goals explosions. oh, we'll give to people. instructions to open mouth and to hold. can and put lake making there's a basement where people can also take shelter upstairs. the salting the packing. the distribution continues as this city prepares for the worst char

stratford al jazeera, the ne pro and we've more on the russian ukraine war. just ahead, we'll talk about the economic fallout from the sanctions that have been announced against most gay and in albany. we look at the immigration policy of u. s. president joe biden, over the past year. ah hello, we've got a lot of dry weather now across much of north america. we've seen some a wintry weather pulling away from that eastern side of canada. little area of low pressure here, cold air to the north of this sir, where the system here co front. there's a name implies it is going to do to introduce some cooler air from canada. south of that. it is generally on the miles side and mulder to over towards the pacific northwest. got to where the system rolling through here that will bring some rain,

some sleet, and some snow into the pacific northwest into western parts of canada. eventually, at where to where the will slide down across northern parts of california as well. san francisco, seeing the right by thursday afternoon when she weather pushing across the place where the prairies, much of the us of the said on the dry side, some fy and sunny weather coming through here. fun is only for a good part of the caribbean. as usual. we have got to a few showers. i would towards the year when would arden's delay was perhaps catching a shower or 2 line of rather more persistent showers for a time on wednesday, just around the greater antilles. and wet weather, just pushing down towards southern parts of central america. see some heavy down. pause then just around panama for a time where to where the pushing up towards costa rica, sunshine and showers to the know that ah, this feels like representation of who i am and what i want to

remember me by moxon, is my get all taken is, is not even just mark figures. people around like got away. i'm to have a story about my, my friends going to take the group in future to do it. don't. so i will need to do the next you deep award winning documentary. witness? oh, now to sierra. ah ah ah, you're watching out her mind if i top stories as our russian forces closing in on ukraine's capital cave. they've attacked the cities, tb tower, killing, at least 5 people rush as worn residence to flee that homes as they plan more

strikes. e cranes, governments as full people, including a child happen caled, off to russia. cruise missiles hit residential buildings in the countries west office as the strikes targeted, a military base in the city of z to me. e cranes, president vladimir de lensky, has received a standing ovation at the european parliament after dressing them from keith. he's made an impassioned plea to the you to prove it, support a day off to officially applying to join later of the pollution president. alexander lucas jenko says his troops will not join russia in its fight against ukraine. but early on today, he a keys, ukrainians, planning an attack on beller bruce last week. because shank, i spoke at a meeting of his security council saying that that plan was full said off to russians fide on ukrainian possessions from bluish and soil elevation. and russian

troops conducted military drills in the run up to the war was super good on. thankfully those guys warned us we had pounded, literally footfalls before the launch and the rush of attack, those muscles, those positions during the russians advancement and from ukraine. we did not see those positions anymore. but as why i'm saying yes, there were launches from been a russian territory. and i told you openly what point we targeted or the war and ukraine on the heavy sanctions imposed against russia and response, a throwing financial markets into turmoil. oil prices assorted because of concerns about russian production. the u. s. is releasing fantasy. mary, a 1000000 barrels from its strategic reserve. gabriel, alexander tells us more from you. us stocks, again falling on tuesday, given the uncertainty of the conflict between russia and ukraine. on tuesday, the dow dropped 700 points about 2 point one percent, s and p 500 about 1.9 percent and the nasdaq dropped to percent as well. but oil

prices are going up while they reached over a $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time in about 7 or 8 years. some analysts are pointing to about $125.00 a barrel is where oil could get to. the longer this conflict goes on. right now, it's about at a 100, a $1607.00 a barrel. commodity prices are also being effected, particularly wheat, russia and ukraine account for about 29 percent of all of the wheat exports in the world. and wheat has jumped up about 5 percent to its highest price in many years as well. this is all part of worries of potential shortages of both oil, certain commodities, such as wheat as well. and that is why you're seeing these prices go up. but the bottom line is the markets are continue to not react well to the current conflict.

as investors seem to be saying that they get the sense it is going to be going on a very long time. and that does not bode well for the global economy or the global markets. but now says saw on the pressure to denounce the invasion of ukraine or face being sacked by cultural institutions in the west. munich, philharmonic orchestra has fired. it's russian conducts at rank up to reports, blue validity gate gears. fans called him the greatest conductor alive ah, the russian maestro lead some of the worse most famous orchestra's. and he's a close friend of precedent. vladimir putin with you once said, we are rich with not only tchaikovsky do you remember. if a professional or a colleague told me that, i'd agree, i'm pleased that the country is led by a person who knows that as well as off get gears supported,

rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 yet congress such week or 2 years later he was criticized for conducting a performance in the in should ruins of palmera and syria. ah, after russia had the syrian government re take the site from my so now his silence on the invasion of ukraine has led him to being removed from concert in milan, lascola, and york's carnegie hall, barbara and next. but, and his manager says he can't represent him as a client anymore. are the western cultural institutions, such as new york's metropolitan opera have cut ties with po putin performers? we can no longer engage with orders or support or for supported by not until the invasion, chilling has been stopped. porter has been restored at restitution have been made.

the decision could mean the end of the mets partnership with mosque was bullshit. ballet and star soprano on, on the trip co who's due to perform and he proved she feast criticism when she was photographed with a flag use by russian back separatists in, don't ask on social media network, go cold for the war to end. but said it was unfair to force artists to voice political opinions and denounced their homeland. others like these 2 russian and ukrainian sopranos in naples, decided to use their performance as a gesture of peace and friendship. as the war worsens, it seems russia's culture figures will have to keep making tough choices to stay in tune with the public. brianca hooked her altogether. mm. was a war escalates years,

president j dot biden will deliver his 1st state of the union address. he's also confronted, of course i stole the legislative agenda at home along with rising inflation and the lingering pandemic as case can be. how can, who's life for us at capitol hill? so it's president buttons, very fast state of the union speech. what are we expecting? kimberly we know that the u. s. president is going to be talking about the russian invasion of ukraine. this is typically a heavily focused domestic agenda speech, but given the events in ukraine and the fact that there are many americans who are fixated on the events, this is something that the u. s. president is going to be focusing on. and what we know from excerpts given to us by the white house, is that the u. s. president is going to call this a premeditated an unprovoked attack. and he's going to make the case that when dictators do not pay a price for aggression,

they cause more chaos. and the threats the world keep rising. and that is why america needs to be involved in terms of supporting nato allies to help support ukraine. and the reason he's going to make that case is that there are a lot of americans that aren't feeling entirely comfortable about any sort of u. s. role in supporting ukraine and to that, and a lot of americans also not very happy about the rising energy costs as a result of this conflict or the high inflation that americans are feeling right now. the u. s. president expected to talk about his prescription for resolving that, lowering costs, making more to america, and really the supply chain here in the usaa making sure that it's more domestic instead of foreign. and to talk about some of those domestic challenges, steve clements, when you come in here and familiar face here and al jazeera host of the bottom line . as steve, let's talk about the sour mood of the country. how is this

a challenge for president biden's domestic agenda? his foreign policy and the dynamics of it have changed in america? used to be a rule that politics stop that waters edge than in big national security issues. republicans and democrats were largely on the same page. we're right now we have republicans and republicans not on the same page as a deep divide in the republican party on whether potent is a bad guy or a good guy. so that's one part of the nation. the other part of it is you have people like bernie sanders and others that say the domestic agenda in america is, is calling for such attention that some of these other problems out in the world are a distraction from those. and so there's ambivalence through a significant part of the country of the united states about the importance of taking action on ukraine because as you said, they feel like our costs are going up. they feel like they're losing jobs over it. they feel like things aren't getting better because of the distractions abroad. and this has been a real problem for the president from day one has an a hasn't just been ukraine.

but prior to that, it was cold with 19 that seemed to be hijacking his domestic agenda. how does the president tonight really sell the message to americans as he see in his numbers fall like the he has the solution to everything was making americans so frustrated . right? nobody knows foreign policy, national security issues better than joe biden. he was a long time chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. he's probably met more world leaders then. then certainly than barack obama had before he came in. but most of presidents have come in. he's got to translate for the person in bartlesville, oklahoma, and selena kansas. you know, a northern california southern alabama. he's gotta basically come to them and say this expertise he has this knowledge can translate into something where america is going to be compelling in the world. it may not solve all the problems, but it is going to strengthen americans at home. it's going to help solve these problems and not worse than them. and he's got to give

a compelling plan for it. and he's gonna have to level with them and be honest and say, you know, was have a conversation about what's real. alright. and we're going to continue to have conversations to anybody yet at thank you so much and we're on the count down now because though we're going to be hearing from the president in just under an hour as he delivers his 1st state of the union speech, many thanks for that cavity. how could that for us on capital hill or president biden has mostly avoided speaking about immigration, on the southern us border over the past year? critics of argue that biden has done little to change the harsh tactics of his predecessor, donald trump. how did you cast our reports from mckellen, texas on the border before sunrise is when most migrants crossed from mexico to the united states. here in the rio grande valley of texas, they hope the darkness gives cover as they move north. but these children from central america are cold and alone. they've turned themselves in to

a us border patrol agent. his truck is full of others, so he uses the heat from his engine to warm them. right now is the perfect time for them to be crossing people because all of this it's, it's nothing but wooded area. sergeant who l. v. areas with the la jolla, police department takes us on his morning patrol. he says fewer people crossed the rio grande river. now because it's winter, but over the last year, border patrol agents reported encountering migrants $1600000.00 times along the southern border shattering previous records. we had never seen numbers like that ever before in the past. officers and agents when encountering hundreds and hundreds of people in it every hour, people hoping to escape poverty and gain violence in their home countries. many came thinking america's new president would help them. when joe biden took office, he promised to reverse the harsh border policies of his predecessor,

donald trump bite and did hold construction of the border wall. but beyond that little has changed, migrants are still being expelled from the country using the pandemic as a reason. and most still have to remain in mexico while they wait for a chance to apply for us asylum. they're exploited by the criminal justice system in the united states. they're exploited by the criminal entities inside of mexico. they're exploited by everybody. startling images from september showed us border patrol agents on horseback, aggressively rounding up haitian migrants fight and denounced the incident and vowed a thorough investigation of 5 months later and still no public results. then there's this for right now. this is where we have them. the still an identified bodies of migrants who died while trying to evade capture further north of the

border. brooks county, texas is where $119.00 bodies were found last year. the sheriff's office has recovered and other 15 this year, so many dead bodies. you're looking at any given time, maybe between 7200 people walking through the brush. you know, that's an acceptable migrants appear to be taking greater risks, walking further through dangerous terrain, to avoid being caught and sent back to mexico. they're moving that way. it's feared many more will die as the weather warms and as more take on the desperate journey. heidi joe castro al jazeera texas blue. i'm a lead side with a headlines on al jazeera, russian forces, a closing in on ukraine's capital, keith. they've attacked the cities, tv tower,

killing at least 5 people. russia has worn residence to flee their homes as they plan more strikes. ukraine's government says for people, including a child have been killed off to russian cruise missiles hit residential buildings in the countries west. russia says the strikes targeted to military base in the city of the to me or shelling of ukraine 2nd largest city call. cave house continued into the night alley. on tuesday, russian forces bombarded the city center. a mayor says dozens were killed. equations president has been speaking about what life is like inside is heavy, gone and compound in keith. bork, i flip. can you see your fabric? nope. nope. i got one was the last time. so before this war i no longer voters for all to do it. the little boy. oh,

this one. yeah. well, is the lensky received a standing ovation that the european parliament, after dressing them from keith, is made an impassioned plea to the you to prove it, support? russian foreign minister sang oliver off told a you under solomon's meeting in the in geneva that ukraine had been seeking nuclear weapons. as lover of spoke, dozens of diplomats walked out in protest. bravo 0. i would assume a yes with us to live with united states and its allies are creating their own new world order as of 2014, the key of regime is waging war against its own people from the constitution of ukraine has been changed and the new nazi's that have gained power, there are waging real terrors. okay, it says your headline is continues here. now. there are 2 people and power. ah.

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romania espoused, ancient forests a, some of the most precious in europe. but wide spread illegal logging is destroying both the environment and people's lives, and made allegations of corruption and violence against those working to defend this remarkable landscape. we've been to investigate. ah ah romania is blessed with the most precious forests in your with which with the rise of illegal logging, it's getting dangerous in these vast ancient woodlands. for fool certainly the

figures a stalk. 6 forest range is moved is to last ultima alone. under further 650 attacked with axes, knowledge and guns. login romania is a doctor. this is where you have guns, violence, cross section zones and then killing with some bills. the co pay thousands was 70 percent of europe's virgin. forest is fine. all the scene of a desperate battle between boss has been to the timber mafia and those risking that lives to protect this precious environment. if one tries to mess up with dana trace, dr. forest mafia, you get in trouble and you can even die. remain used, forests are disappearing fast trees, both ancient and young,

are harvested at an astonishing right. some of which is destined for cheap furniture in western europe. over half of all logging here is illegal. the countries rose the full of trucks carrying timber 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. we have joined agent green, a remaining, and ga who are tracking one such laurie car. there is no line code for the last 72 hours for their license bite. the transport days, a legal call to $11.00 tool which we just did. so it up on it is coming and they will organize it. our old block the truck appears to be carrying substantially more timber than had been declared. if we look at the volume of the missing wood, from romanian for a year, lea,

legally we are talking about 20000000 cubic meters by the authorities, they only catch one percent. so in romania, basically, you have 99 percent chances this data would and get away with it. but wanted stage 9 years old growth forests had fairly changed since the end, the ice age, their variable wonderland. the time has passed by. ah, there be this example. so how nature processes shape an ecosystem that it's on touched by human. although for us have a spectacular composition in this mix of old trees and young trees. creat mosaic of habit that show there for a very reach biodiversity. over half of the population of best in mania, about 30 percent off the wall population. we have links,

we have wildcats if forest are of infinite values. the say, think value, the inspiration of speech or the value of these for us. they are fragile and they need to be protected. the biggest player in remain is forestry. business is rome, silver, which is stained and controls about 48 percent of remain used woodlands. it has been played with scandals full deal that they've all the funny things. contracts either when they sell the product, which is wood, or when they buy services. so i bought up a problem and their corruption inside the tanya door teagan his rooms hilde, this newly appointed director. having run their operations in early county in the east to remain here for the last decade on paper, he's the most powerful forest in the country. we asked him about claims that there

is corruption in rom silver. no. go ahead, could pots, if he assets of did you feel was one experience. i got a lot of but got a alarm, but they are the legal berlin. wonderful. and the financial problem at all. and so several of the rooms had ministers looking and hunting as well. as nature conservation on the face of it, a conflict of interests some grown 40 day in terra. 2 cotta efik the home. oh, she has a pro but the yeah, the don't my painted if you thought god daughter would for room silver for 10 years. she was supposed to monitor impact on the forests of the same manic national park. but the more she drew attention to illegal logging the worse it

became for her, the fear that went out for a human being. what? ok. ok, i'm one other piece or the integrity. talk down to the lord. god laquanta that god, things came to a head when to door it was ordered to a remote part of the forest by the regional director. with literally at the last minute the driver had a change of heart. he's got pretty neat or some mon dorna is there today. she asked on the price for the chicken lametre michelle's body for us. i'm not put absolutely me. she was going to support the shot. you should've been a canal one thoughts albany thought to keep them on the door for looking around for a column sent them lots of times, you know, supply chain. dora has no damage. they meant to kill her about the car carter now with the lock or ledge of the term. i mean because she put down so

feel job that got credit presence on here. i don't see a box. not too much said of me not so it wouldn't have been the 1st time the troublesome work. as a drum silver had been dealt with in the forests. this is linton melissa melissa was left nature in his family, looked after 5 straight dogs for his stranger. for 30 years. melissa refused to get involved in the logging stones, which he says, but him and aunt with her superior at rome, sir, he says, threatened him. there are many more did a 1000 ship within on the on on me shy positions in 2018. melissa was ambushed in the forest beaten and left for dead. he showed as the hospital report. thank god it is shown. i believe she fell not describe what

you had brought up from the store chick who for $24.00. was that absent for all my fees, but also for all month this onto bus for today with the plus on it. she shots, you know, specific r t h. she will also be a rom silva, classified the incident as an industrial accident when, after several weeks in hospital, melissa went public about the attack, prompting media coverage. he was fired by rama silver and accused of stealing timber. that disappeared whilst he was recovering. i pulled up for you over the coast in the shop. i still need for they've been able to, to savage their distant foresters or try to defend their for it from the legal ogres. and some of them were able and killed, you know, save 2019 for

a stranger live. you car was shot dead in the forest with his own gun. the latest victim. many ranges, se room. so that is part of the problem. and claim to witness widespread criminality. what sort of things you witness or the cove mercurian bruce to classify while he's a, there was for the muslim also for the, for the commanded as a to, to do people wrong. so the senior people that they know was staring off gartner going to go caught a shift or call that a bassoon, a lot of liter bassoon sponsor. he's as a, and we de akeem is to select all this company she had to go. titian makes the employment in order to get some money back for us. what it does on this legal chamber. again, the clog going on each got it and

a little put your service roving. do gen, try coffee, and dish. why soften? know what's going on. crack of my mom cause you go to 60 homes industry slides, have changed its name to h. s. timber after cavers recording emerged in which they admitted to no saying excepting that paying a bonus for illegal timber they just timber declined to be interviewed in a statement. the company said it now had an action plan for sustainable and secure with supply chain that goes far beyond all legal requirements. and that it maintains an open and transparent dialogue with the civil society for its representatives. the company added that it denied allegations that bring our company in connection with any counties. the company has wooden hills. nationwide

consuming remain is forests intern astonishing speed. in the county of clues we joined hoary at one of above the volunteer foresters who agreed to take her to a site formerly known as bear valley, where we could see for ourselves the impact of h. s. timber. after more than 3 years of evaluating the damage, we reached a number of 4000 big drug food with the timber that went out from here illegally. the big company that bought all the theme, but from here, fire offered indoors. the knew exactly what happened and they didn't do anything. they just made a lot of offered in its statement, a chest in the contested this claim. it said there was no clear cuz at all a chest him, the group in compliance with all was acquired some volumes of timber from the storm

effected by the either way. the country is being stripped clean of its precious forests. and yet the secretary of state, a former senior official at rome, silver is strangely up beat lamb la, mostly spare part. that is which inflexibility, that comes on management. that bill i sell and could lodge after that they put him splinter. good, good. that he has some temp one room for me was yadda wilton. christy got daughter yesterday she jo lane portland, but still the forests are disappearing and there has been public outrage. a government complacency multiple examples of wrong doing that being close to the authorities. but any attempt to confront illegal logging seemed deemed to end in failure. even in the face of irrefutable evidence.

in 2018 agents from remaining directorate, investigating organized trying rated h s timbers offices. the prosecutors officially stated that they are investigating a lease for managers of the cycle, for a company being involved in the transactions of the legal woods and also forged auctions with however, inexplicably the case was kicked into the long grass and nothing has been heard about it. since despite the public outrage of the romanian authorities, in theory, in practical basically nothing happens. the company enjoy to complete monopoly and remain you softwood until the strict forest code was introduced by a tough new forest, a minister in 2015. evidently, i don't want a white glove shuttling, i mean listen out of the call and go to see if you can good to neutral. few months,

i will defeat my son for the benefit of them. i will raise a glass involved with them. i said nothing for that on the shelf are good with i'm with the la geo module. it's not the one me nice little got a luck was out. good. go in from the lot in my pseudo ricardo, but also li, our evil, the to call such as long as they were on. the minister also brought in a raft of measures in an attempt to close down the trade in illicit timber, which she said, incurred the roth of the forest mafia on to guzman. who said that the political because of his scheme, but that the broken wheel parted informs yeah, human from got i was going to let you know when you sell out the record. play me not i my future. the minister resign citing ill health. only later did she reveal that she had being poisoned with near fatal doses of mercury. and yet they ended. laura clark said in domino bundle lot. it's

a de la garland on. come off young. come, i would ask you, i'm contract with this because it is that while my system is just a couple international water, but the minister's efforts had run the occasions right across the timber industry. and as a chest timber, they were having to look further afield. and a new mill was opened in the far north of the country. there's a mill, which is very close to the border with crime, which is one of the biggest meals anywhere in europe vos. you can see it from space . this thing has its own rail spur going into crime in order to bring the vos train . so you have these kilometer long train loaded logs and kinda coming into this back to the regular base timber there are simply 2 big ride now supplying 50 percent off there would in mania. and the other 50 percent were including auto countries of the car bases and so for other than biologies then

specialist in ecology doesn't make a big difference because we look at the car bases not from the country point of view, but from the ecosystem point of view. the same system but it's hard to imagine this view holding sway in the dreams of foreign multi nationals companies like furnish, then another austrian timber conglomerate. his factory salvage change over a 1000000 g. the meters of chip board every year. oh, nearby forest, including the new tora, 2000 sides of to neutral pension, ill on being illegally locked to serve is chronic, spends enormous processing plant nativity says and is a network is protected areas covering europe's most valuable and threatened species

and habitats. this physician shows by activists inside the protected site shoes where trees were cut and new roads built to get the logs and it's a potential death knell for the side. we filmed these 2 trunks, thieving to neutral, paint, renew, carrying illegal timber. first, the trucks go to attend the ard we have interesting, this went from that protected area to the log yard and from the yard the wood is being loaded from trucks loaded onto auto trucks. basically these log yard is functioning as a laundry for illegal woods and it's being sent to kronos bonds in celebration to be sold to furniture companies, including ikea. we asked kroner spent about these claims that the company didn't

respond to a request for an interview or a statement. for each part i kia, one of the world's leading furniture retailers, insists it will cut off any supplier fine to have breached it. stringent rules on sustainability, but that is easier said than done. i can only say that in a key area using about 17000000 cubic meters a year. that's quite a big amount of food. and it of course puts a lot of responsibility to toys here to really find that this food is sort of responsibly. but it would be impossible to say that there is not any single cubic me, per trip. and that our supply chain that could not have a ronco region. basically i care is the biggest consumer vote on the planet. it consumes a tree every seconds we town. and it's consuming $2000000.00 more trees every year and the year before because it's growing so fast. and so if you're going to save

the world forests from the consumption for timber wood products, you have to look at the biggest consumer of this work on the climate. and that's like here. and i key is very dependent on eastern europe, romania, russia, crime on these countries with big problems with corruption and gas it. interestingly, the biggest private source tone in romania is inc. or investment, which falls within the ikea brand group of companies. in car for us in romania, working very hard to implement. what we believe is needed to secure legal and beyond legal requirements. it is to one of these inc forests that thomas white's m e. p. joins lead to the european greens has come on a fact finding mission concerned not about illegality was environmental damage. pen to lose is another authority fans inside. as we approached the income property

logs littered the roadside. the main problem i seen that forest is actually that kind of road. you see massive erosion down there. there's like dozens of cubic meters of earth, and it has been spilled into the river. and that's river is on the high protection stand there down there. and if you spill all that into the river, you're effecting directly to eco system in the river. and that's not how we do it in the 2000 areas. this property is full of old cro forest. the key habitat which supports an abundance of flora and fauna. and just according to the forest action plan, it is the very trees which ought to be logged out as a matter of urgency. the point is also to leave some old trees for the seeds actually for spreading of the seeds. and if we look here, the big trees are completely missing and here it's not too late to save pen to lose . the plan is to extract the trees here until 2026. so there is still time.

but next day, tom joins activists on the spur of remain his highest mountain mould the vein to see what pen to the might look like when the locus had finished. it's a steep climb through another knots or 2000 size. 2 3, the mists, glimpses of ancient trees stems such as to what must have been an extraordinary landscape. what happened here is that there was a complete, clear cut done on the whole mountain ridge. it makes me feel very sorry, because forest offer a huge opportunity to harvest would support biodiversity. the forest is serving us with drinking water. they're serving us with fresh air. they're crucial for our society and crucial fall battle against the climate crisis. need from viet in the

to scale of the devastation be fully understood. however as awful as the scenes of crossing all they term only part of the story. 2 5 this is lake natasha, which just a few years ago was a famous resort, but the climate change remained new deforestation. so the direct impact in the past during the dry season. trees provided much needed moisture to the air, but without treat over the waters evaporated from the lake with tragic consequences . because the land is not covered by trees. the fact that needed to take it off from the wet lines from the lake or the species this fish, the micro climate disappeared in just 3 or 4 years. and if we don't act very fast, it's a disaster then we can't imagine before. but it is still much in romania

that can be saved. and it would be wrong to say that there is no hope. gabriel, pam, the find of agent green, has agreed to take his to the single most important forest in romania. he is driving to a remote sport and the comic lead national park where a campaign in 2019 brought world attention to illegal logging. this nation or bark is home, or on more all existing spacious floor and phone i in europe is paradise. i would say the capital of diversity in european union was in the port we find signs of fresh logging yet that disaster. i'm disgusted and i'm angry. the government is this respecting its own legislation and the highest court

decision in this nation are park in this place. where we are logging should be completely stopped. and sure enough, as we leave, we pass a logging truck coming to pick up the illegal tinder for those who wish to save remain his forests and their endangered inhabitants. there is no rest in their fight against ineffectual governments, powerful multinationals and the timber, marcia. ah, the latest news as it breaks authorities tell us the brutal violence like this one

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