a superpower, we reflect on how the relationship between east and west has changed. marco polo on al jazeera, the welcome pixel, as the main event gets close that out is here it is here. every step of the way. i'm going to get with updates from across the globe. things can expect some strong support hearing with the spotlight on north and central america. can canada build on that 1st place? finishing, qualifying all will the us mexico or costa rica right to be gated. the local countdown on al jazeera ah and carrie johnson though, how with headlines on al jazeera ukraine's president says, there is evidence of widespread torture. as more bodies are found at

a mass burial site in the countries east. the city of is human was reclaimed from russian forces last week. the czech republic, which holds the e u presidency, is calling for an international war crimes tribunal to be established. the head of the pro russian administration, which abandoned is you, has accused ukraine of staging atrocities. golly o'con bonded to galvan, kimberly appointed less machine. and now as the occupiers fled, they also dropped the torture device. lay slippery even at the railway station. we found a room for torture until 3 electric torture could wine envelope us both. hulu is just a train station. torture was a wide spread practice in the occupy territory. that is what the nazis did. we will establish all the identities of those who tortured our people who brought this atrocity from russia to our ukrainian land. you as president joe biden has warned russia against using chemical or nuclear weapons in ukraine, be speaking in an interview before lever for the u. k. to attend to queen elizabeth

the 2nd funeral biden said the use of chemical weapons in ukraine will change the face of the or on saturday. the queen's 8 grandchildren held a vigil around her coffin as she lies in state at westminster hall, tens of thousands of people have been queuing in london for many hours to pay their final respects ahead of monday's funeral. yes. how speaker nancy pelosi has arrived in armenia for the latest outbreak of fighting with neighboring azerbaijan. the white house says the visit is a show of support for media. the 2 sides have been in conflict for decades with disputed region of the owner. car back. lazy is traveling with a delegation, including california congressman shockey spirit, who's of our mean descent, security chiefs from kurdistan, and to just on have discussed the latest therapy fighting along their disputed border. dozens of people have been killed in the violence. the 2 former soviet

states blame each other for the fighting that broke out on wednesday. they've been aboard the skirmishes between the 2 nations ever since they gained independence after the breakup of the soviet union in 1991. those are the headlines of the news continues here on al jazeera. that's after birth rise. ah, the survival of people and wild life depends on the health of the land, which i am on for resources is destroying the land and all it happens. our consumption of the us not to with increased by 50 percent, and the last that is with over use mismanagement and climate change. a 3rd of the

planets land has become severely degraded. each year we lose 15000000 trees and 24000000000 tons of fertile soil. and at least 10000 species become extinct in the land we live on is being strange to breakpoints, restoration and conservation a key to it. survival am julianna shots and guayaquil ecuador where an innovative device is helping to protect the forest from expansion and exploitation from the city i. rachel hawking in western australia for an ancient culture is leading the way of protecting unique. does it world enough? mm. ah lou located in southern echo are settled, uncle is one of the last remaining dry forest and the country threatened by the expanding city, illegal settlements hunting and coaching the forest in critical danger of extinction. along with the state of wildlife in ecuadorian,

dry forest are incredibly by a diverse habitats. yet, due to human activity, they have been reduced to just one percent of their original coverage. i've traveled here to see how listening device is made from recycled technology could help protect the forest and its endangered wildlife for the population of here has increased tenfold over the last 60 years and is now home to nearly 2000000 people drawn here by employment opportunities migrants are often only able to afford to live on the outskirts which have now spread within the boundaries of the set of local reserve. i'm heading into the forest to meet the people who are conserving this protected area. don perfecto is the reserves chief ranger, just re elect video that affect the yeah. wildly little. but i said really which oh so he has been working to protect the forest for over 20 years. but this has become increasingly difficult if there was get found only one been griffey. i'll come

whole different feel larissa level you fatima light fiscal louisiana. he is a if you look into further your mama, l or morton, they were yankee, a long nico you know, preparing for engine. yeah. wow. alive, hassan. who here not to allow you put him in mild yet him. on a yearly. he put actually a you and if they were gonna come, you know, but i got so low. yay! but i gave you that. and where the rangers have managed to stop the city moving further into the forest, they still have to deal with criminal activity such as land trafficking, illegal logging and hunting. less have a nice has margaret on this. but al serra longhorn, if they went to san quantities owner cascadia, a boat de la la edward, feebly meant that he knew what the n i g or she knew them with her. yeah. it does

look wonder. yeah, very clearly. it was a panic, a pleasure, but as gover didn't illegally come, what they leveled to kiddie. yet that that a c. e laska followed his k. if are these or unless our lower the fusion or, or girl you on the matter model, you know, so no credit on one item. the friend that gave me, i give me a buzz. ah, the rangers not only protect the forest, but the native wild life that inhabited allah, allah, i know, but i love you, leon mungo arranger. here for 11 years. for the past 3, armando has been fighting to protect one of settled blanco's most iconic birds. i said how i am not a good one to lamar. we, i'm going to go by you. deforestation and hunting has left the great green mccoy in

critical danger. conservation programs have been successful in increasing their numbers in captivity, but it is thought that there are now less than 10 left in the wild here and settled on it. and how many of these? because were recently released and still need support from the rangers. for kathy and kick with our faith and land that there was a low, a low, a fight on going and circle bertha america myers. m. oh madison no. and will be available seat out and borrow it on my by. you know he bought on yes. look, woman move the rangers are doing their best to stop all illegal activity in the forest. but with 60 square kilometers to patrol and armed men to face, it's a big and dangerous job for just 9 of them. it's especially difficult for them to see or hear when somebody is trespassing a legally. but there's a new technology on hand to help that out engineer tow for white has developed rain

forest connection surveillance system consisting of an old mobile phone external mike phones and recycled solar panel. shards which listens in on the sounds of the forty's. ah, i joanna, and so for the 3 chair i j is reach out to her. why are these listening devices important? it's not really feasible for the rangers themselves to walk around in and petrol the entire place. but noise travels pretty well for the voice. and so if you put these other devices up in the tree, these guardians, that can listen to the forest and pick out all sorts of stuff like chainsaws or, or old gunshots, or even just animal, know the garden of ice. and how do they work? what are we made of? these are basically old cell phones that people sent to us. we put them up in trees and they can last for years. they listened to the forest and we can pick out anything we're looking for. we're about to go up the tree right now and uncle johnny up there and see how it all comes together. yeah, i love that. i mean the far away i but i think i can manage now you got it. ah.

mention of to working. okay. i'm ready. ready? in going plays scary. ah, take a look, a little solar panel, the panels i want to be at the bill out of recycle charts. are there lined up here? i feel to make use it on my under a tree. kennedy. how many guardians do you have in the saddle? ankle? are there a 10? is there a block? all right now in different locations and different locations and because the microphones are pretty sensitive, we can pick up a lot that happens within a pretty broad area. all of this data extremely up to a server that we have through this antenna that we have now to appear at the top. wow. and we stream that over the standards up on network, even out here in the forest, is pretty good. even our conversation right now is being, is being seen for the input nature system. i can open up our app and we can listen to ourselves. so this may be

a company just a little higher up is the unit containing the firm that be solar panels charge loses off on inside, and that's a little microphone. we'll try to make sure that we're using what's in the country already to allow this thing to grow. so using existing cell phone service or using ecuadorian cell phones. and eventually we're hoping very soon that these windows themselves can build these fine to plot themselves. they're the ones who are the now course we're just here to buy them special tools that help them fine with just so laden. okay. saline. yeah. it's okay with a storm brewing. it's time to make a quick exit from the tree the next day. i know exactly how this device can help stop the illegal activity in the forest. so these are these layers of resumes. and in there is the time. what

type of alert location goes away. and then you can start seeing all this on a map. there's phone one cars and it was on there were only a few changes. she's kind of what we expect. okay. you say tougher and i are. today's illegal loggers are with our chines are we want to check the range is are able to find us using the device which can cover an area of 3 square kilometers. so tell me a little bit about how this works. i mean, how do they know what a chains off the train, this artificial intelligence model that we built, give it a little bit of a hint, could speak the training data, and they can pick out. so what looking for from their on forward. okay, let's give it a go. ah, gladly those young well brought ramos

with a big in the same ball with when people are caught, their chainsaws or guns will be confiscated and they could feast jail time or be fined up to a quarter of a $1000000.00 a week. almost a year. carlos ll advice is further and further guy when we open or we we work with it which i'm one beta. oh and then what the caea, i mean any glass or gas out of interest that i eat there. sadly, for that, the reenforce connection devices are relatively new to set of blanco. but they have already had great success in sumatra and cameroon,

stopping illegal loggers and poachers. the world has lost nearly half its forester, human activity, simple and sustainable. these guardians may be able to make a real difference to the forests and wildlife that lives within them. armando takes me to one of the critical locations for the listening device in one of the few nesting places in the forest for the great green macaws. are you a long layer of be here? this is bang. yeah, one of the i'm only or the name of it that i able to have been there. one of i'm be john among i'll be here. e look or halo ending of an hour. then they are good for by your yes, effecting in e yellow a on symbol, or if a by you way, i give you another microphone. i have my america with that, hey,

look at grandma said, ah, with the global population increasing, the rush to use an exploit of finite natural resources is set to intensify. but it isn't just the environment that suffering since 2015 at least 447 land and environmental defenders have been killed globally. that's more than 4 people each week. in the philippines alone, really 100 activists have lost their lives since 2010 while trying to protect lands . meanwhile, in honduras, more than a $120.00 people died during the same period, including the country's most prominent indigenous environmental liter. betty caceres, who have the campaign against the construction of a damn, was murdered in her own home in march 2016 fellow activist gustavo castro was with

her that day. he was interviewed by out. his ear is full or been tissue or young rhythm. we flattered. a niecy momento actually generals, he caught it is which our panel studies molasses, confirm it moist where we to assume elaine going through in the the in and it be solely sangre. it isn't the possible you know, to like, am when you were dropping me was you killed key armies, fuschia. what can we know nika? i can p article annuity company. but he was taught to what i was perceived. india noticed that he thought he of is internal homes, believe it was okay. up to 65 percent of the lands on the planet is managed by

indigenous peoples and communities. and yet it's estimated that less than 20 percent is legally owned by them. with these vulnerable environments increasingly becoming a battleground, the fight to protect them is never been more important. ah, ah, australia is one of the most fired of f countries on f and for tens of thousands of years. it's land has been skilfully managed by its 1st peoples traditional small scale burning was an integral part of maintaining the ecosystem. since colonization many indigenous people have been forced off the land. in their absence lodge wildfires have moved in, aggravated by climate change and rising temperatures. i'm in west in australia where the traditional learners are returning to their ancestral lands,

rekindling ancient practices to protect one of the largest and most intact, already co systems in the world for tens of thousands of years. a vast area of the western desert was home to the modern people. some of them were contacted by europeans as late as the 1960 and they were cleared off their land. since then, enormous wildfires have devastating the landscape with around 18 animal species disappearing from the area on my way to the desert. i'm stopping off to meet garrett, an expert on how fire has affected my to country. have there been any particularly bad fires in recent years? on modern country, the biggest flaws in somewhere in the order of 2 and a half 1000000 hectares. this is a composite image taken out of a 10 knots and it shows some of the flaws in the west and does a is fire is emitting more lot than sydney if these, if there's a mega flies,

those are extreme events. we're saying these huge events where there's a lot of right out of some, a lots of cross drive and then you end up with the landscape. it's entirely fundable and ignore with the 1st blocking strikes of the on coming stones, the next on the top left on checked. this sort of thing will only get worse to how important is it to have moto, on country auto for this plan. scott, with the interaction of people with the does it as in tom shakita to submit the solution to these destructive wildfires is surprisingly fire. modern traditional burning practiced for millennia is now being brought back to the land in 2002, the modern one native title over the land warning. and they have since started a ranger program key part of which is continuing this ancient practice. a

dry season has just begun the sized, so i'm joining one group as they go deep into modern country for 2 days to stop. they apply a program before wildfires can take hold right with i'm indigenous to from whoa, pretty country. i spent part of my childhood in a remark community northeast. so i'm looking forward to getting back out to the desert. kara williams has been a range of here for the last 5 years. what made you want me to ranger out to learn more model content. gina, or about these things before you became a rank just, i'm not really. i learned from the one with walker is one of the relatively few aboriginal out his left crew members using fire to hunt during his bushman days. he's in good knowledge of the landscape, means he can show the younger ranges, how and where to plant to kate, the land,

healthy a while ago, a dinner, a young woman. i got a bit of flam. so you're like, tougher than walked in. and what a these traditional method forms thousands of small, clear patches that can prevent large wildfires from taking hold with weight. or how does lighting fire stop fire if they make a fire like they've been making a fire break. so lightning strikes and it's my thought

a big before the by the time that was 5 gets here, just stop. yeah. and friends, with no matter there's no firebreak in the range is only been at school. and as the vegetation is still grain from the rains, this small file will soon go out with or you miguel avalo with oh my god, i went on a little meg. it crawled off because of the fire you. their eyes are so in tune with what to look for on this land. landry with a la la la la la la union, m. o n a. i did

a long yellow my know out of them are in awe. once areas have been bent, they provide a diverse mix of habitats that can serve the native flora and fauna. the re, growth in this small burnt patch provides perfect foraging grounds, and the ranges now map and monitor the animal seo. this is the male li. it's got a bushy tail biggie. is there? a stray? li has the worst rights of mammal extinction in the world. like other animals, the bill be a small, nocturnal marsupial has been in decline since the modern left the land, the ranges now map and monitor population numbers using gps trackers and camera traps. they're say beyond that building. oh really the, the tracks there from last. i don't want to put the camera, dan, so again, i'm counting how many elizabeth time was over here. miss

tamara, over the name again in modern while we're as good right now. we've got a bit of push tucker, it's time to set up camp for the night. oh, i'm ah, we're going to cook up some kangaroo. how's it like this? i used to just sit back and watch matthews, but we can eat them because there's so many of them all over our country in the matter we have a building, but i, when i got a deal for

tomorrow, we're going to head out to monitor another of the endangered species? yeah. the black flanked rock quality ah, the ranges don't always work alone in their conservation of the wildlife here on modern country. one of their partners is elisha whittington from parks and wildlife has been working with the ranges for the past 5 years. i know that we're gonna report, let me try something, they feel good at risk of extinction. in the past few years, black flanked rock wallabies have been found in several new locations on modern country elisa, who told you that they were rock boulevard, was lucky enough to come out and say, this exact form walk i told you they were able to work with other countries i will really have these traps will enable the ranges to monitor the health and genetic

diversity of this will a big population. allen's just fancy scott flow be pay. yeah. and that's a good time for you. for a qualities large scale was everybody's ranges really tight holder and also a really good fog. it's really important in the country so much hope you, because my, to a jared managers to recover a camera truck which could show whether a healthy population of rock wallabies is persisting thanks in part to the continuation of traditional mod burning in the area. and then boom, wow, that's incredible. look at that one is brad of clothes must be are. and since smile, you have returned to the does it in areas where they're burning the overall size and intensity of wildfires have reduced dramatically. but the modern on

a learn there are over 100 indigenous ranger groups across australia, helping to restore over 67000000 hectares of land. mm. when you're out here and you see people like walker sliding by as you see the ranges caring for the endangered species, you understand that without them this country is not going to survive. mm. it's made me think about my own country. it's funny, it's hard to articulate, you know, that connection that aboriginal people have to that harm country and it really brought home a family. no, but on go daddy though loved by gorda with the serious consequences at destroying on land prompting the development of

new methods of conservation. his drawing technology from the u. k. ames to reduce deforestation by sewing seeds faster and more efficiently than ever before the while. the alley croaking technique and central america replaces slash van agriculture by planting rows of english trees. this creates healthy soil, allowing crops to be cultivated in the alley, ways in trinidad and tobago. the roots of the better for plants which can be over 7 meters long mind to the soil, to prevent landside solutions like these a vital to help us protect the land. but more important still is that we limit our consumption of natural resources. the future of our planet depends on it. ah ah .

hello, we have trouble storm fiona, now making its way across the lesser antilles. to the arrival of the storm. they're just running up towards puerto rico will continue to drive its way a further westwards winds around $95.00 from 2 per hour moving reasonably quickly. but it does bring with the usual threats of life threatening storm surge, flash flooding. some parts could see good color, 100 millimeters of rain as it sweeps its way across the dominican republic. and of course, possibility of much slight as a result of that, there we go. sunday, the where to where the crossing puerto rico, pushing in 2 hispaniola said the dominican republic sang some really wet weather at that state. and then it'll slide its way farther northwards and head up towards

turks and take us. islands may well develop into a hurricane early next week, but for the time being state as a tropical storm with copious amounts of rainfall. big has at this one, heavy showers longest bells afraid to make in the way across that western side of mexico was trouble. storm lester, dis, clips at western side of the country, western part of the us also seeing some very heavy. right. and that could cause some flooding over the next as a, the system tracked its way a further southwards. it'll bring some heavy rain across a good part of california, with a possibility of flooding. the ah, ukraine's president says widespread evidence of torture has been found in a city retaken from russian forces.