at first glimpse, it is a typical training session for the academy kicks under 8's but these bromsgrov boys are wearing kits made completely from recycled materials. right at the start, there were not any great solutions out there but, yes, actually now we can get to the day where we can see these lads running around, its just fantastic. and it is notjust the clothing. take the average kit bag and there is plastic everywhere — the water bottles, shinpads, the bibs are made of polyester, the cones, this wooden handle is because the plastic original one broke, even the bags themselves, they are made of plastic. birmingham county fa have already won awards for their green initiatives on plastic, with 5,200 clubs and 80,000 players, they can make a big difference. over time, the message is starting to get through

and people see the benefits now in obviously making the game more sustainable. long journeys start with small steps. hello. i'm jack with the catch up. we're going to talk politics. they would become the wp mr and justice secretary, that was this man, dominic raab resigned today after this report was published into his behaviour around the people who work with. an investigation was launched last year because those people made a series of bullying allegations which he denies. it's pretty complicated but here are some of the main points. during a meeting as foreign secretary he acted in an intimidating way, the report found. that word was used to go and when talking about how he gave feedback as justice secretary and he once described

some work as utterly useless. the report found no evidence to suggest abuse or misuse of power after a complaint when he was secretary and have found no persuasive evidence that he shouted out people. so if the report didn't call for him to resign, why did he? i report didn't call for him to resign, why did he? i resign from cabinet _ resign, why did he? i resign from cabinet today - resign, why did he? i resign from cabinet today because | from cabinet today because 0seto would if there was any adverse finding from the enquiry. i'm true to my word. politician should be. but i do think it's at a very dangerous precedent. think it's at a very dangerous precedent-— think it's at a very dangerous precedent. the reaction then, the prime _ precedent. the reaction then, the prime minister _ precedent. the reaction then, the prime minister accepting l the prime minister accepting his resignation, as you can see, with great sadness and the leader of the labour party is that this was not a big question for the prime minister is why he was so weak to report it in the first place. the second _ it in the first place. the second question - it in the first place. the second question is - it in the first place. the second question is why| it in the first place. tue: second question is why didn't he sack him? and now it is left to dominic raab to resign. im’ith to dominic raab to resign. with dominic raab _ to dominic raab to resign. with dominic raab out _ to dominic raab to resign. with dominic raab out of— to dominic raab to resign. with dominic raab out of those posts, we have a new deputy pm and justice secretary. let us move politics aside and leave you with ten seconds of island

living. forget animal crossing, you could buy your very own island are real, just off the coast of scotland. you would be the only person living that, there isn't electricity or running water but there is a pebble beach. up for 150 grand. i will see you then. bye. keen for a bit of freedom and a beautiful day for it. time for licorice, turmeric, and sage to return to the wild after months of being nursed back to health. of being nursed back to health. first is turmeric. having one eye is stopping her. it is licorice who is causing a stir. she is a black steel, mlm's dicks hill, they are very rare stolbova nissin once and so worked at the seal factory. super exciting. not that she had come in.— had come in. the last big release _ had come in. the last big release of _ had come in. the last big release of the _ had come in. the last big release of the season, i had come in. the last big - release of the season, watching

pups release of the season, watching pups take to the waves always draws a bit of a crowd. but there is no looking back for these three who now should have a long life at sea ahead. they could have — a long life at sea ahead. they could have 30 _ a long life at sea ahead. they could have 30 years, - a long life at sea ahead. they could have 30 years, think, l could have 30 years, think, 20-30 could have 30 years, think, 20—30 years. could have 30 years, think, 20-30 veere— could have 30 years, think, 20-30 years. you know. it is the last release _ 20-30 years. you know. it is the last release for- 20-30 years. you know. it is the last release for randy, i 20-30 years. you know. it is i the last release for randy, who is moving on from the st ruth. what is better on amounting like this in cornwall than releasing seal pubs? pups. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the new stories for you at the top of the hours straight after this programme. i am michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter who is passionate about conservation. my work has taken me all over the world. and in that time, i have seen huge changes, many due to climate change. in extreme conservation, we meet inspirational people

who've dedicated their lives to protecting the natural world. this time, i'm in turkey. this country's stunning forests are facing devastating losses. but it is notjust the trees that need saving. it is also the creatures. i'm meeting the remarkable people trying to save honeybees... you are a bee whisperer! ..and those building turkey's brown bears a safe to roam. this is extreme conservation turkey. turkey is huge, a vast and varied country stretching over i,500km.

turkey is surrounded by water on three sides — the mediterranean sea, the black sea and the aegean — and then in the east, it's mountainous and rugged, and all that influences the climate in very different ways. it is a country that is so rich in natural diversity, its sweeping pine forests are one of its key assets. but as temperatures rise, these forests are being destroyed by wildfires that are getting ever more intense. i start myjourney in mugla province on turkey's western coast, a short boat ride from the coastal town of bodrum where thick pine forests stretch all the way down to the beaches.

like so many places around the world, summers here have got hotter and drier, and recently, they have had horrendous forest fires that have completely changed the landscape. all of this used to be green forest, and now look at it. here in mugla, an area bigger than 100 football fields was wiped out in a matter of days. and these most recent fires were more ferocious than any wildfire turkey has ever seen before. huseyin aydin is one of the many thousands of people who have lost almost everything in the fires.

people rely on these forests to make a living, not from the trees themselves, but from the creatures that live in them. these trees are vital for the survival of one of the most important insects on the planet, an insect you might not immediately associate with forests — the honeybee. a stroll down a street in datca, a port town in the region, and you can clearly see how central honey is to the economy here. this is the honey that is pretty unique to this area, it's not flower honey, it is pine honey. it's produced from pine trees

and in fact almost all the pine honey in the world comes from this little corner of turkey. i have never tried pine honey before, so i am very much looking forward to this. apparently it tastes very different. 0oh...that is so good! mm! tastes woody, almost spicy. but pine honey isn't made by a bee alone. a small grub called marchalina hellenica has a big role to play. i am meeting yonca tokbas, a bee expert, to find out more about these intriguing insects and how they contribute to making pine honey. yonca, hello! hello! she has dedicated herself to preserving the bees' way of life, even running ultra marathons for her bee—focused cause.

what a beautiful forest. this is a healthy forest. you get the smell and the sound of the forest. this is the bug. that tiny little thing there?! yep! it is taking the sap from the pine tree, then creating this liquid — can you see that? and that is what the bee is taking from the pine tree. that tiny, tiny, tiny animal that you have so much difficulty seeing is the magic creator of the whole process. more than half of these essential grubs were wiped out by the fires. if you don't have this insect, you do not have food for bees and you don't have the pine honey.

with natural food sources dwindling and many hives destroyed, yonca warns that some honey producers are putting too much pressure on the remaining bees. we encourage their sickness like treating them with chemicals or trying to feed them unnatural sugary stuff so they can produce more than they can. so basically, we are exploiting bees? exactly, it's an abuse. alper kuyucu comes from a long line of bee farmers. to him and his family, bees are notjust a source of income, but a way of life. they are not even bothering you, they clearly know you. you are a bee whisperer!

mm—hmm. alpar uses traditional methods to look after his 10 million bees. that's amazing. wow, look at all those bees! alpar�*s way is simple — he believes the bees should be left to do what they do naturally — collect the nectar from the wild and return to the hive to make honey. this is not the optimum production method. intensively farmed bees just come out of their hives and drink the sugar water left for them, and then go back in to produce what alper calls false honey. they do not travel around the ecosystem as they should, pollinating plants, including our fruit and vegetables. he says they get

unhealthy and die sooner. this is a pot of alper�*s honey, naturally produced, and it really does taste delicious. it is interesting, isn't it, how we are all familiar with battery farming, exploiting chickens for eggs and meat, but how many of us have thought about the exploitation of bees with intense beekeeping and the damage that that's doing? it seems to me that the extreme conservation for bees is to go back to basics, go back to this, the traditional way of beekeeping. for alper, the recovery of the pine forests is crucial. until then, these bees have limited resources to survive. what are the main things that people need to understand about bees for their future conservation? plant, for example, some of the flowers that they love, it's a food resource for them. this is the amount of honey

that a bee can produce in a lifetime. for one bee, just in that?! just in that — do not waste it. finding out each bee produces just one—twelfth of a teaspoon of honey has made me think about how much we use. for yonca, she is determined to save the bees by inspiring the next generation. the youth is amazing, they are much more aware than we are, and they are working on trying to help nature more than our generation i would say. when we think of forests, we think of their importance to fight climate change, but they are equally important for biodiversity. so much of our wildlife lives and thrives in a forest. as we have seen here

with a honeybee and that tiny, little bug — the marchalina hellenica — it would not survive if it was not for all of these trees. it's a precious ecosystem that desperately needs protecting. continuing myjourney of extreme conservation, i am in the mountains of east turkey. i have travelled 1,400 kilometres from the aegean coast to sarikamis on the armenian border. in winter, this area is popularfor skiing, but it is mainly a farming region. over time, lots of forests have been felled for pastures, leaving just a patchwork of trees behind. but i am here as this is home to turkey's majestic migrating brown bear.

naturally, the bears would live in these mountains during the spring and summer, and then when food becomes harder to find in the autumn. some of them travel over 100 kilometres to the black sea reagion when they fatten up and come back to hibernate for winter. but this natural pattern of behaviour has now been disrupted. researchers aysegul and emrah have been observing the bears for over a decade, and have dedicated their lives to protecting them. i am joining the duo in the hope of getting a glimpse of these magnificent creatures. hello! hi, michaela! so, you're listening for the bears, hey? yes, we are searching for the signals of one of the collared bears, one of the collared bear. we understand

the signal has moved. emrah and aysegul have been collecting detailed data on the bears to understand how human activity is impacting their migration habits. the forests they live in have become fragmented, dramatically changing their behaviour. we are here before dusk to increase our chances of seeing them. and we are in luck. this has been really exciting, we have seen seven bears come out of this forest including two cubs, but the only reason we are seeing so many of them together is because they're on their way to this, the dump site and they're going there to feed. the bears are here to scavenge.

some of their forests have been overtaken by urban development, so they're forced to feed on our rubbish. oh, my word. look at them, there's so many of them, and there are cubs as well. so many of them. one, two, three. . .18. is that what you counted, just in this bit? yeah. this is really depressing. look, and you can see the cubs, even. for me, it's exciting to see bears, but not like this. i mean, this is really, really sad. now, here is too much food. they are not fighting, they're trying to eat

leftovers, but many times they eat the plastics. the young cubs copy the adults, and so learn this scavenging behaviour. cub learning — eat in the garbage. yeah, he's walking off with a whole bag of rubbish. some bear is very fatty and very lazy because they are not moving too much. this is a really sad sight, and it is all—too—familiar sight across the world. as habitats are being destroyed, wild animals forced to come into built—up areas to find food. a massive problem that needs a massive solution. the team has come up with an ambitious plan to lure the bears away from the dump. they want to create a new travel route for the bears.

taking existing patches of forest, they're planting 11 million trees to fill in the gaps. this forested route will stretch over 160 kilometres, right up to the georgian border, creating turkey's first wildlife corridor. they hope it will entice the bears to migrate once again. this is perfect for bears. it's thick, healthy forest, but then it just stops and there's this vast expanse of nothing. and the next forest is 1a kilometres away, so this habitat has become really fragmented. the bears have a big role to play in this ecosystem. they keep the balance amongst the animals that roam these forests — the lynx, the wolves, even the rabbits. these all have a kind of silent

agreement with each other. if you take out one species out, we could think the health and balance agreement would not exist anymore. we are tracking along their route looking for any clues to show at least some of them are still trying to make the journey. look. 0h, are they the prints? yeah, this is footprints. this is our rubbing trees. you can see, so this is where the bears come and rub. yes, some hairs and scratching here. i can see that. yeah, like this. yes, some bears scratch but most bears like this, this. oh, that must be great to see. quirky music this is the sort of information

emrah and aysegul have been painstakingly collecting for ten years. this is like our eyes in the forest. they have installed around 50 of these cameras, which help them document the animals natural behaviours and their relationships with each other. and they've also collared some with gps trackers so they can map how they move around in this patchwork of forest and see where they are running into trouble. this is the bear movement. it is recorded every hour. we have the information of their movement, their behaviour, the time they are spending in the spot. it tells us that these animals need more space to move, to go further. also in the way are the pastures cleared forfarming.

these are the gaps that are planned to be planted. aysegul and emrah�*s data shows some of the braver bears do still move between forests, and they hope that more tree cover will encourage others to migrate.

the initial trees in the project were planted only a few months ago. i'm joining bulent aydin to plant one of the first saplings in this area. hey! she laughs well, i've played a tiny part of a huge and exciting project. it's going to take years before it's finished. but wouldn't it be amazing to come back here and see this whole area forested, full of bears and lynx and wolves and so much other wildlife, and become

an incredibly precious ecosystem? only when the wildlife is roaming freely in the forests and can find food in nature can this dump be safely shut off to bears. 20 years later, i hope everywhere is trees, not open area like this. the bear is not eat the trash, just the healthy food. and can you imagine these large carnivores we are working withjust hanging around here and having the fun of being in the real wildlife? yes. we hope so. during my time here, i have met incredible individuals fighting to protect the creatures living alongside them, desperately trying to manage the delicate balance between people and nature.

rewilding the forest will take time, but it also takes care and consideration of all its inhabitants, big or small. we've pushed so much of our wildlife into unsustainable pockets, and we've lost whole ecosystems already. climate change and our insatiable appetite for development has destroyed so many habitats, and it's up to us now to try to find ways to recreate them. what they're doing here in turkey is ambitious, but if it works, hopefully it will be an inspiration for other projects around the world.

hello. a beautiful day on friday across scotland and northern ireland — quite warm, too. the coming days, however, are going to be pretty chilly in the north. a cold wind will set in even some wintry showers to come across the scottish hills, maybe even the pennines. here's the forecast for the short term — outbreaks of rain across parts of northern england and eventually reaching northern ireland by the early hours of saturday morning. some clear spells overnight, too, in scotland and the south of the country. that does mean a touch of frost, especially outside of town. but for most of us, around 5—6 degrees tonight. let's pick up on that rain in the north — you can see showers in northern england. that weather front reaching the southern uplands by lunchtime or so and certainly looking quite wet there in northern ireland, but also showers clustered in the south—west of the country. so these areas will be pretty chilly, 10—12

degrees, the south—west, northern ireland, the south of scotland, but where the sun does pop out briefly, i think on saturday, maybe 13—15 degrees. now, talking about colder weather, there's that chilly atmosphere spreading in from the north on a east, north—easterly, so that change really starts to happen on sunday. in the north, frequent showers, really strong winds up to gale force, increasingly falling as wintry across the hills, and then elsewhere it's a real mixed bag, even a crack of thunder here and there. the temperatures on sunday will struggle again in the north — 7—8 degrees, 12 degrees expected in liverpool in the south, maybe a couple of degrees high. but the winds will be strong everywhere, so we really will start to feel that chill. and then, sunday into monday, we'll see even stronger winds and colder air spreading into parts of scotland. notice the wintry showers there across the hills spreading further southwards and really chilly along that north sea coast. and then elsewhere, i think a mixture of sunny spells and showers. so the temperatures really disappointing on monday — six in aberdeen, eight

in birmingham, maybejust about double figures there for cardiff and for london where showers are expected. and that chilly atmosphere spreads right across the uk and into the continent, into scandinavia as well on tuesday. warmer weather will reach us, but not until later next week. so, here's the outlook for this weekend. chilly mixed bag on the way, that chilly air relatively for the time of the year is with us until wednesday, then from thursday, should warm up. bye— bye.

live from washington, this is bbc news. the us supreme court blocks new restrictions set by lower courts on a widely used abortion pill. as earth day approaches, a new climate report paints a dire picture of our planet. and secrets beneath the sea. a previously unknown coral reef is discovered after thousands of years. hello. i'm sumi somaskanda. we start here in washington. the us supreme court has ruled in favour of maintaining access to an abortion pill, while a legal appeal against its use is still considered. the decision temporarily blocks a lower court's ruling in texas that restricted the use of drug. the drug, mifepristone, is used in more than half of all abortions in the us.