conciliation, becoming black, a witness documentary on out jazeera. i've worked out there english since it's launch, as a principal presenter. and as a correspondent with ne, breaking the story, we want to hear from those people who would normally not get that voice is heard on an international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud all was when we covered the depaula earthquake of 2015, a terrible natural disaster in the story that needs to be told from the hall of the affected area. to be there to tell the people story was very important at the time . lou hello there. i'm dealing with donald's here in london with a look at our top stories on al jazeera us says it will designate the russian

private military company, the wagner group as an international criminal group. the move will freeze the groups assets and ban americans from providing funds to the organization. the white house said wagner has tens of thousands of fighters in ukraine and around 80 percent of them are drawn from russian prisons. additional us sanctions against the group are set to be announced next week. we continue to assert that wagner currently has approximately 50000 personnel deployed to ukraine, including 10000 contractors and 40000 convicts. our information indicates the russian defense ministry has reservations about wagner recruitment methods. despite this, we assess that it is likely that wagner will continue to recruit, write out a russian prisons due to recent events, we assess that it is likely there are mounting tensions between russian officials, mister promotion. a meeting of western military leaders in germany has concluded with the agreement to provide more military support to ukraine. but the question of

whether germany left the 2 tanks will make their way to the battlefield remains unanswered. ukrainian troops are currently bull grinding battle with russia around the eastern city of buck. berlin has denied its blocking the delivery of tanks from european countries with u. s. and i'm still in jail for the $2500000000.00 to keeps war effort. asylum seekers trying to reach europe have described being forcibly moved from italy to greece on makeshift presence in fairies, alpha 0 as part of an investigation with lighthouse reports and other media upon us . as our testimony about refugees being locked in small rooms on ships without food or water, some of the victims, a minor piece in brazil have carried outweighed some people suspected of being involved in the storming of government buildings earlier this month. authority say they're looking to identify people who participated in or funded the riot on january the 8th supporters of the former right wing president jericho scenario we're calling for october. the election result to be overturned. the vote saw both

and are defeated by left as president lewis in our seo lula da silva. your firm up to date. those are our current top stories to stay with us on our 0 arthritis life after conflicts is the program up next. and i'll have a full news are at 2100 gmc bye bye. ah . be in conflict. one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment from the chemical contamination of soil and the collapse of water and food supplies to the habitat damage caused by displacement or has devastating consequences. wow,

no. so any man made infrastructures, but also natural ecosystems, a destroyed and animal lives are lost, as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles through people fighting to protect the world, we live in and recover what was lost. i'm tanya rashid and bangladesh and the world's largest refugee camps, where people are working to coexist with the elephant for which this region is home . and i'm happy baton lebanon where group of sciences is rebuilding a seed bag that was displaced by the warrant serial i o. in august 2017, a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in me in march. oh, the military and buddhist radicals claimed the lives of more than $6000.00 ringers in a single month. fearing death, thousands more fled the country for the forest,

the bangladesh. the scale of the exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home. there is a 1200000 ro hing refugees living inside of the falling has the band with us. this is now the biggest not element of refugees in the world. ah, many of them have access to clean water, sanitation, or even electricity. good after the arrived, the survivors space to new threats while rampaging through a meeting and wonder about them who witnessed the initial episode 1st hand. it came from there with the elephant, came through the past from the jungle. read that way, went directly to her and started beating her with. this was no one on

elephant struck repeatedly throughout the camp. killing 13 people in the space of 5 months. can you tell me a little bit about what happened? a lot of them mother by the who did so i thought about it with oh, i did. oh, i did it a little that i do what you and what happened after that that i thought that i did that i will a lot of you, but don't i do that i use with i didn't i a hall hall another that the that i said the whole i got to deal with a lot of you i got a. 1 a little mama, every mark on how to do a voice. ah.

the attack sparked an investigation into what was going on. grecki, i mean, from the international union for conservation of nature, believe the rapid expansion of the settlement had a profound impact on the natural environment. this is the edge of the camp through a cave, right? yeah, and this is where the forest began. yes. what's been going on? what's the cause behind all of these that you see on the all camps? they used to be forest. they the seems to be an elephant, have habitat. the camp expanded at an astonishing rate of $1500.00 heck. tears of forests were cleared to accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of ro hinder refugees. but nobody realised the devastating impact this would have. the growing camp, separate of vital lifeline for some a bung with ashes. last remaining wild elephants blocking a herd of 40 from their only path to essential grazing grounds in the east. just

over the desert. there is a space we call elephant corridor. now the scenes, the camp is completely blocking that corridor elephant cannot pass through this camp is in search of his shelter in search of his food in central. his migration pop elephants was trying to come inside the cam. elephant came so many times and thus 13 innocent life was lost. an elephant is not necessarily a violent mammal. it's very intelligent, understands it has, he uses emotions and it's just that it's lost, his habitat is desperate. do this, analog migration is in the dna elephant as a genetic memories have been, know exactly where they have been growing when they have been roaming generation after generation that they the same pot, the elephants of bangladesh are critically endangered. there are just $268.00 lot and they're increasingly under threats. $15000.00 hectares of land are already

deforested in the country every year. and this camp only adds to the problem. to help me understand what the elephants are up against. i've hired a local guide. so man in front of me is shauna. mia. his name is golden boy and he is our tracker for the day. i think we're in good hands with it's not long before we find clues that were on the right path. honda had said, hey, a hunted up that is it. when i say, hey, bob, good mongolia sketches at k, a u fell bond global, and you can see that the color, the net at boulevard i will a busy guy at that idea. the bicycle of anger as we find evidence of hungry elephants everywhere. i think how i said as of the skies like the elephant westberg. ready shown him, he had told me that by the end of the summer,

much of the elephant's food here will be gone. then they face a nightmare scenario. attempt to migrate through the camp to me and mar, in search of fresh vegetation or risk running out of food. i cannot split his face with the unami guess if they've mambo, they could very, were following the actual footsteps and elephants. elephants have walked along this path every season for thousands of years. i'm fairly, really excited. i wonder if we're actually going to encounter some elephants. we're being told that just a few steps away that they're there. then against the on a moment i can't believe ah, a majestic elephant. standing proud on the horizon. perry, i can have her seen an elephant like wild. this is my 1st time. ah, it looked so peaceful in its natural habitat. it's just really crazy to think that

before the caps were put in place, that this is what it was. a large forest with animals roaming about. and now there is sub human made crisis at play with sprawling refugee camps and is just a very sad situation. ah, but a select band of refugees is working to solve the problem with the support of the international union for conservation of nature. they have formed a group dedicated to safely shepherding the elephants from the cap. they call themselves the task force centrals through their strategy are $94.00 watch towers, which they built around the cap perimeter. mm. there man, by a team of over 500 brave refugees ready to intervene and protect both the people and the elephants. i'm heading up for

a birds eye view. oh, okay. so what's going on there? yeah. assimilating what actually happens when an elephant commerce and usually the yellow shows. yeah. and they have the veteran possibles members. so they are using the megaphone. how to respond and they want to form and human sealed and slowly move towards allison sugar elephant lumber stems. deangela head down on the ground. it's clear how committed the test more sar aphne initial training caught on. mm hm. um, how do i get out of my the hockey? i see my job. i grew up with my loud and scary. i think that was certainly shoe and elephant off since the touch 1st started, there has been no loss of life here. despite $45.00 incursions by elephants,

it's an effective temporary solution until a longer term plan is made for managing the animal's migration. the task force has motivated the community with over 500 people signing up to join. and it has the porters throughout the camp. what are you doing over here? what is this bag i live at the the at the la tampa at the to get that happen. kept that the lives of a do the law, the viet as of a d. i been all these different patterns, different colors. seems like it's a lot of work to do. why go through all this trouble to do it? it out up bahama has 9 bye, but i had to be as yamashita. busy the bottom of my bed, only behind with the machine look better they ab would have would have been dick. but my daughter for ready, michigan, did you learn the letter to young and anybody? do you feel that there is more danger?

a living on the edge of the forest to braces, people who live in the interior of the camp. i'm largely ally, which was the accuracy log back that i bought some good money. i sort of philip is more got along as it at the did of had i did. i did man. i mean ok is on moody with love will on diaz. it wouldn't be on his own. we were leddy, i'd been the loving. involves. ah, not only do people feel more secure, they are also more sensitive to the elephant situation. saving the animals is now even part of the schools curriculum. i mean, the objective is not to build on this momentum. rec eve is already taking steps to find a permanent solution to the problem. beginning with an in depth scientific study of the elephants migratory happen. we are planning to put radio paula on the elephant kiss when he was a valuable data, valuable science to have

a bunch of management of the whole situation. once the exact migration route is known, the goal is to clear a path for the elephants so that they can migrate unhindered. once again. of course, we want to open the portal as soon as possible that are so few issues that we need to consider before doing this. it will take about a 100000 people rowing people to move somewhere else. that would be an immense logistical challenge. but as human refugees continue to resettle around the world, bold moves are needed to reduce the impact on local animal populations. what i've seen here gives me hope that animals do not always need to be victims of conflict. and that a peaceful coexistence is possible. ah, there were over footie armed conflicts happening in the world's day. each of them will leave a dangerous environmental legacy. we can see that potentially environments as

a norm, as something which we do there are standards in place. we at joint conflict to somerset elephant goes, can cause whatever damage you like, and there's no accountability. there's no address. we see very severe, proud damage to many countries in many different ways. damaged infrastructure such as sewage wave. so what extent is over extraction of resources attacks on industrial sites causing bust massive pollution. so you can have these impacts as going to expire on a last decades after conflict. and we're in iraq in 2016, 2017 islamic states that fighting, settle wells on these bend for 9 months, covering hundreds of square kilometers in fall out of pollution. dealing with health termination caused by these fires is going to take years. so for the last 10 or 15 years, we've seen increasing interests from government surround, protect the environment and relations conflicts. it's got a new service cut to me, fast external, the conflicts of merriment, ban bombs, been damaged in many ways,

and that has consequences. so unless we focus on the environment, showing conflict and soaring up, lots of problems in the future will need to live in a turbulent world where conflicts and climate change are threatening our environments . scary part is that the crops required for food are increasingly finding it hard to survive. and in some cases they're going extinct. cropped diversity is essential for food security and has declined by 3 quarters since the 1900s. but there is an insurance policy, a global network of c banks. these are back up repositories of seeds which safeguard their biodiversity. and can be turned to in times of crisis. when war broke out in syria in 2011,

one of these vital stores came under threat on the outskirts of aleppo. the theme of science is charged with maintaining the seed bank were forced to abandoned their work and flee the country. but they never gave up hope. when some of them re settle just over the border and lebanon's because valley they began rebuilding their collection. i'm traveling to the i cart a seed bank to meet one of these scientists. dr. alisha hardy. hi, are they good to see? to see you what happened to the seed bank in aleppo, syria. it became and possible to access to the bank. all 3 got the promises in october 2015 because of the band to access to the center by the armed grove, controlling the area they sold the vehicle, they stole the lot of equipment, nothing left in the headquarter except the buildings and the gym by the war forced

5000000 refugees out of syria right now. it's not safe for a doctor. so how did to continue his work at home? how hard was it to leave that the bank behind? i spend more than 27 years of my life working to the bank. so it's like someone who left behind the babies or as long, long history. we dealt with them day by day. we knew everything about the behavior, all of those plans in the field, in the plastic houses, even in the g bangs, time effort made by everybody. both syria and lebanon lie in the fertile crescent, which is where farming began. it makes this part of the world in an ideal place to work on safeguarding future food supplies. this is the center of origins or we can probably the center of domestication because it contains all the forms of crops

like wildly wheat, lentil chick bees. all these crops originated from this area. ah, i want to get a closer look at the operation dr. marianna. yes, big leads a team of 20 scientists, including 3 who have relocated from syria. their task is to painstakingly rebuild the syrian seed collection. the seed vault here has a capacity to store 130000 c varieties for over 100 years. the seeds are preserved by freezing them at temperatures of minus 20 degrees. oh, here we go. with cold. see, you can see here, samples of the french crops that are being conserved, we're looking here at do to meet this is the heart, the hard we that is used for pasta making. so we have

a big collection of this affair past that say for years with it here again, a 30 types of all the crops are here. you have here, barley, a very important crops when you talk about dry areas. and you talk about the 3 main crops, which are we to talk about rice and you talk about corn. so these are 3 main staple food that most of the humanities are using to support in place. this is a treasure. these are important samples that we have to make sure they are surviving that are monitored, they are available to the international community. there are $1750.00 strategically placed seed banks around the world. each keeps a back up copy of their collection at the jewel in the crown of seed, banks, norway's fall barred global vaults of the doomsday vault. it is built into the side of an arctic mountain so that the seeds can be frozen without the need for power.

over 1000000 sea variety are stored here. so in the syrian seed bank was abandoned due to the war, dr. yes. mix team were able to recall their backups. so that decision was made to reconstruct our collection. we retrieved it from small bar, we brought part of it here to lebanon, and who could build our collection here, we could make it available again for researchers. all the seeds that come here are tested in the lab for viability. some are then cross bred to increase their resilience and improve productivity. yes, to make sure 2 things 1st, that they are free of diseases. second, that they can actually germany, they can produce plaque. they're alive and working, live and working, see the each one of those samples should have at least 85 feeds out of 100. that's proud and give healthy class. that's the threshold that's. that's fresh

. the seeds are thriving. but back in syria, the war has decimated the country's ability to grow food. one of the goals here in lebanon is to create a healthy seed collection to help ensure the future of agriculture and syria. when the conflict ends up here from the roof, i can see that there are fields, there are green houses, there's even some cattle. and it's not just about saving the seeds, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand climate change and secure our food supplies in the future. this region has been struggling with worsening drought for decades. the dry soil in lebanon is similar to serious by testing seeds in the harsh conditions here. doctors hardly and his team can be confidence that the crops will be resilient enough to survive the arid syrian farmland. what are these plants right here?

this plant is wild we. this is opposed to domesticated wheat. they are very unique and very valuable for our genetic uses because they have adapted already to the harsh environment and has very, very useful geez, to overcome climate change effect diseases, drought, frost. he with climate conditions changing. the biodiversity found here is vital not only for local, but also global food security. already one of the weed strains, bread here, has proven resistant to a disease known as yellow rust and has been sent to the u. s. where crops were failing to fight it but with global warming, seed banks themselves can be vulnerable. what's worrying is that melting permafrost is even threatening this vol bar doomsday. vault. research shows that the arctic

town in which it's based is warming faster than any other. which makes the work being done in lebanon, even more critical. 25 syrians in the same number of locals. 10 the farm land here. so it looks like they're doing some really important work over here. can i give them a hand? yes, of course. they are doing hand reading ah, seems that modern science has in quite figured out an alternative to getting down your hands and knees and just getting your hands dirty. so we're just looking for the weeds. ah, we don't want weaves interfere with his experiments. i want to make sure that his crops grow right and we have to be careful not to hurt the crops of the weeds kind of grow in between here. he really got it. have a good i o. elona hadn't mcneally. i was gone. i should but a sudden loss, elena, but then vanished and had assumed less than one im can let. is she a mr. friedman,

nova america, my son, i was headed by the doctor, ali has invited me for lunch, meals are of course, the final product of the crops grown here. it's a chance for him to tell me more about the life in syria. he was forced to leave behind. this is after the nice memory everybody had the role for we being because we had the field infested by oral, wonky. the unit had decided to go all together, the breeders of the international stuff, the scientists that technicians assistant, the labors, even the t lay the contribute to that when day, happy days. it was happy days, one of the most beautiful days. and you're sure you'll go back. yes, i am very confident that i go back because i should go back. nothing like home. i would have an easy to write up the car to seed bank as just

a casualty of the searing conflict. but the hard work and dedication of ali and his team have ensured that their work transcends to the conflict and is able to continue to play a vital role in protecting global food supplies. ah oh, environmental fool, out of who can lincoln for decades. but what is being done to heal the damage? the charity haine of trust to create nearly a quarter of a 1000000 minds from combo jack. helping to make over 6000 taxes of land safe for farming. in common ring o my $50000.00 tree safin, we planted on degraded lands around men of wow camp which shelters refugees escaping bobbins in nigeria. and after 50 years, the conflict go was able to protect colombia to be could say rain forest,

a former gorilla stronghold declaring this rich spite of us area to be a world heritage site. in the midst of all the consequential damages, the environments can easily be overlooked. but if we don't act to protect our natural woes, though, be nothing left to fight for. ah well sidney hit 30, but it's disappointingly cold along the entire coasted new south wales and up

towards brisbin as a cold front has gone through the night time temperatures come down and by day you got clyde in onshore breeze. outbreaks of lightest rain in lad. it's warmer and that's producing thunderstorms. this is a forecast the saturday sunday will be similar in those thunderstorms produce and then drift slowly towards the major cities. much of inland australia is fine and warm. perth is in the low thirties and there are showers in the northwest as you might expect to be tropical queens, but dryer than it waltz. and new zealand for now is pretty dry, as well as temperatures in the 20s. light is breeze. there is rain coming to the far south of southfield and the far north of north island. and it might be noticeable just in land from gibbon as the southeast asia. the picture here is actually rather a cold wind which generates big showers, catching viet nam, more especially things sumatra. and that cold emanates from the inland real deep cold in siberia, which means snow shout developed over the open waters heading towards japan.

temperature dropping and getting china, but probably not south of the yank. see here, it's turning rather wet significant, right. in fact, developing ah, award winning documentary from around the world on al jazeera, singapore drug lead to a string execution, devastating families and walking where both one or one in best on the al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, ah.