about this because it goes to the very root of who we are with me, mark lamond hill. what, how does it this isn't my story. it's the story of my friend jesus i'm. she told us that she didn't want to be here. she didn't want to love any more, was too hard. a survivor, the da gates her life to educating and saving others from suicide. we're the ones that are dying, where the ones that are losing our friends, and therefore we have to be the ones that will stand up and solve it because no one else is going to way there is hope. a witness documentary on a just 0, lou. lou again, i'm fully back to ball in doha, with the headlines on al jazeera, the united nation is deputy secretary general has told al jazeera,

the women and girls of afghanistan cannot be abandoned. i mean a muhammad has just returned from a high level meeting with the taliban. she says her delegation made some progress on women's rights, but much remains to be done. some exemptions have been made to the edicts that have covered the health sector. and i think that's because the international community, and particularly the partners who have funding this, were able to show the implications and the impact of your women to women's services, particularly childbirth getting food across and very hashmi to conditions. not enough. that's just the very beginning. we've opened up a crack and we hope that through the reversals, we can eventually get to a stage where you neutralize those effects and women back in school and girls. and of course, in the workplace, the u. s. is designating rushes back in a group as an international criminal organization. it says about $50000.00 of its mercenaries are fighting in ukraine. the classification will allow the us to apply wider sanctions to the group. germany has not yet decided whether to send leopard

to battle time. see ukraine despite pressure from its nato partners, defense places for more than 50 countries met in germany on friday to discuss the next stage of military support for ukraine. a palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli settler in the occupied west bank. jericho de molly was calles near the village of ross cow car. west of ramallah video posted on line appears to show him chasing a settler who then stops and shoots same israeli forces say he was shot to prevent this fabbing in peru. dozens of people have been injured as police confronted crowds demanding the resignation of president dinner. bal watty tens of thousands of people from all over the country are marching in the capitol. velocity has accused him of trying to cease power and has ruined that any one who breaks the law will be prosecuted. and in war keener fossil, the army has freed a group of more than 60 women and children who were abducted by gunmen earlier this

month. the unprecedented mask had not been happened in the northern district of our bender. it's an area under blockade by aunt gorb sling to arcada, and i saw the captives were found by the military in a neighbouring province. and those are the headlines i'll be back with the al jazeera use our right after earth rise there with us. 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.

not only man made infrastructure, but also natural ecosystems. a destroyed and animal lives are lost, as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles there are people fighting to protect the world we live in and recover. what was last? 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've had the baton lebanon were a group of science. this is rebuilding a seabag that was displaced by the war in 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 bro hernandez in a single month, fearing death. thousands more fled the country for the forest. the bung with the

scale of the exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home with their of a 1200000 ro hing refugees living inside of the falling cat, the bangladesh. this is now the biggest nato meant 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 the rampaging through a meeting on where i beg them, who witnessed the initial episode 1st hand. it came from there with the elephant, came through on the pass from the jungle. read that way 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 about mother by the who did so i thought about it with, oh oh i did it a you and what happened after that that i thought that when i did that i will a mother that the that i said the whole again to deal with a lot of you. i got a little mama, every morgan, how to a 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 is the, on the all camps. they used to be fullest. they the ceased to be an elephant, have habitat. the camp expanded at an astonishing rate of $1500.00 heck. tears of forest 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 severed a 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 st. 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 the central fis 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 hindered 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 left 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 guy. so a man in front of me is john amir. 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 we're on the right path. honda, how to set a hot it up. that is a full, not a bonded little mongolia sketches at k, a u fell bond global. and you can see that the colored the net at will thought i will a busy guy at that idea. the bond qualifying event. we find evidence of hungry elephant everywhere with alex at 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 when again, i guess if they've mambo, disciplinary were following the actual footsteps of 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. 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 central to 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 an easy, the yellow shows. yeah. and they have the veteran possibles members. so they are using the megaphone the how to respond. and they wanna foreman human sales and slowly move towards allison. should that elephant lumber stems deangela head down on the ground? it's clear how committed the tests more sar aphne initial training caught on. mm hm . um how do i get out of my, the hockey? i see on there 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. ah, 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? if i gotta get the, the at the la, tampa at the, to get that happen to get that. the layout is of a de la la la viet is of a d, i. d, 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 of the home, how can i by that i had to be as yamashita. miss you the one on my van, only behind with the machine that they ab would it would add the depth of my data for ready machine. did you learn the medically on the line? if i did, do you feel that there is more danger living on the edge of the forest versus

people who live in the interior of the cap? i'm lucky to allah with the equity lock it up that i bought some good money. i sort of thought this might go to them as at the did of had i did. i demand onto somebody will love melendez. it wouldn't be on his own with a lady. i'd been the luggage and 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 school's curriculum. i. the objective is now to build on this momentum. rocky 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 better 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, going get 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 40 armed conflicts happening in the world's day. each of them will leave a dangerous environmental legacy. we can see that's potentially environment is

a norm has something which we do. there are standards in place. we had joined conflict. it's almost if anything goes, you can cause whatever damage you like, and there's no accountability, there's no redress. we see very severe found damage to many countries in many different ways. damage to infrastructure such as sewage work, so water facilities over extraction of resources. attacks on industrial sites causing bust mass pollution. so you're going to have these impacts. there's going to expire on a last for decades after the conflict times when iraq in 2016, 2017 islamic states that f i c, 13 wells. some of these been for 9 months covering hundreds of square kilometers in full outs of pollution. dealing with help termination caused by these fires is going to take years. so for the last 10 or 15 years, we've seen increasing interest from governments around protect the environment in relation to conflicts. it's got to me favor, it's got to me fast x know the conflicts of merriment. fan bombs been damaged in

many ways and that has consequences. so unless we focus on the environment during contract and soaring up, a lot 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 rewind for food are increasingly finding it hard to survive. and in some cases they're going extinct. crop diversity is essential for food security and has declined by 3 quarters since the 1900. but there is an insurance policy, a global network of c banks. these are backed 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 team of scientists charged with maintaining the seed bank were forced to abandon their work and flee the country. ah, but they never gave up hope. when some of them re settled 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 harvey. i ali good to see that to see you. what happened to the seed bank in aleppo, syria. it became on possible to access to the gym bank. all 3 gather premises in tolbert, 2015 because re band to exist through the center by the armed group controlling the area they stole the vehicles, they stole the lot of equipments. nothing left in the headquarter except the buildings and the dean by the war forced 5000000 refugees out of syria

right now, it's not safe for a doctor to hide it to continue his work at home. how hard was it to leave that seed bank behind? i spent more than 27 years of my life working to the gym back. so it's a like is someone who left behind the babies or a long, long history. we dealt with them day by day. we knew everything about the behavior, all of those plants in the field, in the plastic houses, even in the gym, bangs, time effort made by everybody, both syria and lebanon. ly, in the fertile crescent, which is where farming began. it makes this part of the world an ideal place to work on safeguarding future food supplies. this is the center of origins or we can close the center of domestication because it contains all the forms of our crops, like volley, 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. all right, there we go. with cold. see, you can see here, samples of the french crops that are being conserved, we are 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, pasa, safe years, just that here again, a 30 types of all the crops are here. you have here, barley, a very important cups. 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 back ups, 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. yeah, to make sure of 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 seats. and each one of those samples should have at least $85.00 feed out of $100.00. that proud and give healthy class. that's the thrust that says fresh these seeds are

thriving. but back in syria, the war has decimated the countries 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 seas, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand climate change and secure our food supplies in the future. in 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. dr. hardy and his team can be confident that the crops will be resilient enough to survive the arid syrian farmland. what are these plants right here? this plant is wise 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 genes to overcome climate change effect diseases, drought, frost, heat with climate conditions changing. the biodiversity found here is vital not only for local, but also global food security. already one of the wheat strains, bread here has proven resistant to a disease known as yellow rust and has been sent to the u. s. work 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 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 of it. have a good i o l. o ma'am? nick, need it. i was on a sugar but a settlement on a but then then it and i had the soon lesson hon. im can let. is she

a mr. friedman? no be america. my son, i was headed by 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 field day. happy days. it was a happy days, one of the most beautiful days. and you're sure you'll go back. yes, i'm very confident that i go back because i shouldn't go back. nothing like home. it would have been 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 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 put 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 heck tis of land safe for farming in common ring, almost 50000 tree safin we planted on degraded land around men. oh wow. camp which shelters refugees escaping bonded in nigeria. and after 50 years, a conflict in go was able to protect columbia to beacons, a 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 a $150000000.00 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear from up something to say to find the famous yellow dress bay from blue g law to can saving the wealth, dwindling wetlands, 3 of the worlds global bird migration white intersect, right? where we are basically discovered a treasure child. it is one of the most special wetlands i fries. ecosystems relaxed on al jazeera, ah,

with summer thunder stones are growing, forming a proper circulation going off shores, argentina, temper some of the heat. but in the north it's been really hot. we set a new record for january, just shy of 45 degrees in around a lot may well hang around because other are sudden psalms, just the size. they are not moving north at all, but they are going offshore elsewhere. and although on the other side of the andes, it looks rather sherry for argentina is largely finding some shots coming back again throughout brazil. big chows seasonally correct, but make you a bit miserable sometimes in re others and ice. 31 flashlight potential and

certainly water top up and amazonia is to be welcomed. but the flashed up potentially in western columbia in ecuador, maybe not so they don't look too big. those showers risk is still there and overcast, rather dull conditions are accompanied by 31 human degrees in mac. while this has been cold, recently tis warming up. you'll notice norton gulf and florida looks rather wet. this general area in the states will be very wet in the next 2 or 3 days is slow moving. big thunderstorms. but winter's around for most states is coming back to far northern california in washington, and the still plains snow not particularly heavy, but still there. next couple days ah ah, this is al jazeera ah.