on this you are facing scare tactics intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoking mirrors it's not just about being prayer for balance or being neutral it's about being truthful. funniness for golf and i work in ego. and the world seems to pay attention to bangladesh only when catastrophe strikes there but for bangladeshis natural disasters have become part of everyday life here and entire villages feel the effects of climate change.

and. this woman has lost her home. or at the cost where will i live now. we're tearing down the house i first came to thirty years ago when i got married i gave birth to my four children there my two daughters got married there it just breaks my heart. the. stream conditions people here face may soon affect us all. for being with the earth six kilometers from here we had two hectares of land or sea gobble them up.

most bangladeshi climate refugees moved to the mega city of dhaka the country's capital. an estimated two thousand people arriving every day. during monsoon season the number rises to four thousand today. the world's second largest river delta is located on the bay of bengal two large rivers flow through the country from north to south the brahmaputra and the gun

jeez much of the land in bangladesh is flat and its numerous rivers often burst their banks the country is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change a real danger for its one hundred sixty million people. there are a number of factors involved in the impacts of human induced. change on the river systems and the water systems first made the glacier ice melt in the himalayas the second impact is on flooding we will have greater amounts in intensity as of rainfall during the monsoon which will cause more flooding we are already seeing that what used to be a one hundred twenty year flood has now effectively become a one and five year flood so the magnitude of floods has increased already and will increase even more with human induced climate change and the third factor. that come from the bay of bengal in the south those are going to become more intense and we are going to have to deal with higher intensity site.

even now at the beginning of monsoon season the brahmaputra is nine kilometers wide in some points it's filled with melted snow from the himalayas another effect of climate change. in future other rivers around the world may experience similar increases in water volume. this is where the brahmaputra merges with the gun g.'s to become the padma. when these rivers flood it can have a devastating effect on nearby communities. as here in the village of how revamp or . market. here on the left the partner river destroyed everything in just three days. on the right everything was gone in four days. the river has covered an area sixty one hector's in our village three hundred

families lost their homes because of the extreme river erosion. but our daughter boarded with their beginning of. this i'm really scared our house may be gone soon. eleven year old mahfouz hussain walks past an area that used to be a garden. the local residents are preparing to move inland to escape the rising water. one of my friends his neighbor says he's not going to let the river take history. mahfouz his house is fifty yards from the danger zone but the situation here could

become worse when monsoon season starts. this used to be the center of the village now it looks like a battlefield you can still see the remains of several houses. this fragile sapling has become a symbol for the villagers as floods caused by climate change consumed the ground beneath their feet. until yesterday montages big long lived in this house with several members of her family including her son his wife and their child. i didn't sleep at all last night. i'm worried that i'm going to drown in the floodwaters of. the house was the family's pride and joy montages son and some workers are

salvaging everything they can from the structure. where will i live now my house is gone. i'll have to rely on the kindness of others but. i really want to go i'm going to have to move to dhaka and find a job so i can afford to come back here buy some land and rebuild my parents out of . the river flooded the big family's farmland two years ago montages husband and her oldest son left to take construction jobs in the united arab emirates the younger son celine has now also

become a climate refugee in his own country. no question that i'm so sorry my father built this house and now i have to tear it down really hearts. miking a good. job in the jungle montage big room is saying a prayer. to remember where does all this water come from. the gang is closed the longest from the himalayan mountains into india for about two thousand kilometers before it comes to bangladesh where much of the water is taken away upstream in india by a series of dams the biggest being the for a goddamn just outside the border of bangladesh as a result bangladesh is locked receiving as much water as it used to in the dry season the problem is in the monsoon season they open up all the water they look at

going to bangladesh but during the dry season they take the water away and divert it away from bangladesh and we don't get enough water so we have floods in the monsoon period and we have too little water in the dry season. i know that. i am at her desk. but not like up. the lives of these people have been severely disrupted by the effects of climate change and the water resource policies of a neighboring country bangladeshis are left with few options but to try to protect themselves. selene and the others transport the walls and roof of the house deep into the forest he hopes to return to the village one day he hopes that the job he

finds in dhaka earn him enough money to buy some land here many of the large have similar plans. no one here actually wants to go to the capital but they believe they have no other choice. from the money ganja region we moved south west to the pusher river which flows through the show and our bands region. are balanced means beautiful forest in bengali us the area covers ten thousand square kilometers most of it in bangladesh. and it's home to the world's largest mangrove forests region. it's also a unesco world heritage site. for sure no one else is actually seen as the lungs of bangladesh it absorbs all of that while you shine for us to sunderbans protect bangladesh and if we lose that protection then the country will support.

this should our bonds forest helps to protect millions of people from floods that are caused by cyclons. if it also offers a. habitat for wildlife including the endangered bengal tiger the region is the country's largest source of forest based raw materials but its future is under threat. the. informal four eyes. i mean packs of climate change. because the bay of bengal is slowly rising salt water is getting into the freshwater channels of the bans. and there's another environmental threat the government plans to build a coal fired power plant in the region. very poorly a detailed study of that so that people not hard botch the environments and this is

not so many actually. that's the means we have planned what. we'll be from the cold but you could be told. many are against the power plant which is a joint venture between public sector power agencies in bangladesh and india. india will build the plant located near rampart under the supervision of a german company. once construction is completed india would also operate the facility. you news carl has asked the government to provide an environmental impact study on the project. it is completely disastrous decision to build a coal fired so close to the forest and all environmentalists

indications indicate that it would bring disastrous consequences for the survival of the forest and in general for the environment we have in fact from save the. produce seventy. i reports from various aspects that what will be the effect. on florida and for. everybody. about the dredging problem and everything which shows very scientifically that it's definitely going to harm. india will supply the coal that the plant will burn. the potion a river is to be dredged nearby to make room for the transport ships environmental experts say the dredging operation will contribute to river erosion. this is the poor sure river about ninety kilometers above the point where it

empties into the bay of bengal. there are numerous fishing villages along the riverbanks. the christian minority in this village have put up a cross. people have to walk carefully through the mud so they don't fall. you mean. the main entrance to an old church was over there we built a new one but the river took it to. fifteen days ago i lost my house again. to river erosion fangorn in unison. it was on this side where the poster

river is now. getting my house was next to that church entrance. the effects of climate change often hit the poorest of the poor the hardest. swapna khan is raising a teenage son and her husband is ill. after the last flood a neighbor allowed her to build a small dwelling on his property she used materials from what was left of her house . solar energy panels are common here in a village that has been ravaged by the effects of climate change. i like to know that my son sleeps back there and i sleep here in the front this is all we have. and i. know harvests river shrimp and sells them in the hut they sleep in her son attends a local school she wants him to have

a better life i want to help them why can't read or write so i don't have a lot of options i was born here and i don't want to live anywhere else i can earn a little money here just enough to get by with a. swap now also owns a few sheep. she calls them her life insurance policy she can sell the sheep to pay for her son's education. but for now she's concerned about the river which is moving closer to her home. so what does elderly neighbor is also worried about the rising water. and i told my son that when i die he should put my body in the river because there's no land left

to bury me. we travel from the village of bombed on kuwait to china come on young. the scenes of devastation are almost identical. this is the grave of my grandfather more know what it was and if we could find some doctor i could take the grape with me and rebuild it before he could look up. then boniva sar climbs

a coconut tree to get some of its fruits before the river washes those away to. nothing here is safe from the rising water. not even the graves of the dead. and. a similar scene in the next village eight people live here. the family of shanteau kumar mundell one earns a living as a fisherman. his wife ruth about char says they've had to rebuild their house three times. a lot about neighbors have gone to dhaka to work in the textile factories

and there are a few a fish in the river i'm going to want to. feel shanteau and his son fish in the sure it's just like his father before him now shanta fears that the coal fired power plant will pollute the water here. if we don't catch enough fish. i'll have to take a job as a day laborer. with the. fees. fees. fees and no one i can't move my entire family to the city house alone or fill it.

so feet. from the bands we now move east to bola the largest island in bangladesh. well. fortified dikes were built along the meghna river after the last round of floods. the dikes were built too late to help mohammad most of. his village was washed away by the river three years ago. because he couldn't farm anymore he turned to fishing . there was a mosque here a school and some houses. but because the river erosion and flooding we had to move

to another village ilesha. more than a hector of my land is under water here in. the village of any shell is now protected by the dike but only a few of the two thousand residents of mohammed's old village have been able to find a new home mohammed says he was lucky because a local resident rented him some land and he going to a new house there. he lives here with his wife one of his three sons his daughter in law and a grandchild. his son abouta hair helps his father on the fishing boat. the family can't grow their own vegetables anymore so they have to buy them. this is mohammed's daughter in law and his grandchild. i've had to

move three times because of river road. if it happens again we're all have to go to talk. or you believe that but. i would love i see my two brothers already live there we had no money to pay for my younger brother's education of. twenty kilometers upstream we find another village ravaged by flood waters the dike burst here four days ago. did you know it was the day of the muslim feast of the sacrifice on the river carried away everything we owned there was a cycler in a lot of rain the wind flattened my home i still come to the river every day i was terrified and i can still feel it in my bones. the river has taken everything.

i don't know how to survive this. economic you could watch while you could see. the farmer mohammad newell lives in the village of dhobi ram poor. we had a lot of field scattered around the village almost a whole hectare of land. i mean only this rice field remains but the water no longer drains off. the authorities have built a new dike here and a storm shelter but the shelter is dangerously close to the river bank. and the dike has cut off mohammed's village from the rest of the region. to. the second look at this rice the roots are rotting

i have no idea what to do now. should i move. allah help me and show me the way. he kabul. the local residents fear that the magna river will soon wash away everything. this is what's left of mohammed's house his young family and parents now sleep in temporary accommodations. there's an old saying in bangladesh water is the mother of our country. but mohammed believes that is no longer the case. always here on the water used to mean life to me but now it means death.

and. flooding is not new in the flood country bangladesh. it was once welcomed. the rivers deposit a little soil throughout the delta region and this creates some of the country's best farmland. but now it is from eight days to seven days that hughes changes his opinion because of one source is on the song of the cyclops because of the sea water of rice and because of the highest speed of the wood. you hold up in the safety of the body does. it taste ten times i have done. so the speed of the water baby i. mean young cubic feet but second to water the

speed that it is creating but we got it. although this people that maybe know some victim of the crime because they had a meeting on leave think eighteen's up on anyone but compared to develop developed countries in a meeting place then fifteen to point b. johnson. due to the sea level rise which is the beginning to happen one which will happen in a major way in bangladesh beyond for it to fifty according to the i pursue says triple bangladesh will lose anything between seventeen to twenty percent of a scot and lambastes at twenty percent down most of the sea due to sea level rise

will cause the air at least twenty five to thirty million people to be displaced within the country so we are going to create a modest refugee population due to climate change in one single country. this school which has two thousand pupils is threatened by the rising river even now. the primary school has already been shut down the remaining rooms are now overcrowded. but the loss of livelihoods of the population will be much larger we're talking about twenty to thirty percent of the population of the country that will be badly affected those living in the coastal areas in the lancaster areas and eventually they will have to move so they are the potential future climate like crips and that clearly they are undoubtedly climate like. these four to five cement

blocks that make up the dike near the village of alleys. shot are being undermined by the river that flows past. at least one of the blocks falls into the water every day. the blocks aren't holding up. so this area will be flooded too. it's dangerous for all of us. from a shower. hardly a day passes when mohammed must have does not see ships full of people headed for dukkha. something.

every day there are more than two hundred slums in dhaka are receiving more and more what bun might call environmental refugees or even climate change refugees coming from other parts of the country the city police. the. police. dog has now come to a size of twenty million people with their adequate infrastructure. on

the outskirts of the city factory waste and garbage laid dumped on the streets. sello teen is mohammed most of them my g.'s twenty six year old son. he now lives in a slum that's located near the textile factory where he works. the textile workers share this public bath. if. if my parents land hadn't been flooded i'd still be in the village going to school so that if you don't follow. the money you took into we had to move three or four times because of flooding my parents finally ran out of money. so that's why i had to come to dhaka first i

worked in a shop but it didn't pay much that's why i switched to the textile factory but it got me into. saluting his wife and child live in this small apartment. or. life in the village was good i went to school and lived in my parents' house i won't see that kind of life ever again you know. there's no work in boehner so i had to move here. i did it all for girls this is southern teams davey booty his job at the textile factory. thank you thank. you. thank you thank.

you thank you. thousands of other climate refugees make a similar trip every day. thanks. in front of the factory day laborers gather to see whether there's any work available for them that day. feel ultra plain people also wait outside the big companies around the corner to find out whether there are any jobs for them today. i

thank. the i. i but the one hour masinga i make the equivalent of about one hundred twenty five year hours a month so. i have to support my wife and child pay the rent and buy food while i spend everything her out of the grocery. it's cheap labor the clothing that's made here is later. all in western countries including germany and france. which. mohammed's wife earns a little extra money at home by so in clothes for the textile companies. i get five cents per blouse my neighbor brings them over one quarter of the money that my husband earns goes to pay the rent. you know that they.

have out of here and but if we get sick we have to borrow money from our families that's the only way that we can afford to see a doctor. other word it was you know what they're. saying is the boatman from bala mohammed my g.'s eldest son. he sells mangoes on the streets of dukkha here he's buying his fruit at a big wholesale market. he was ill for three months and his debts piled up. so huge and a neighbor transport the mangoes in a bicycle cart may share the cost of renting the vehicle. the car is filled with street vendors.

many climate refugees live in miserable conditions there's going to bitch everywhere and open sewers nearby. some people who came here from the island of bola have formed their own community they call it the bull in a slum. the area is surrounded by high rise buildings where white collar workers left. many of the slums residents work in those homes. so it's wife earns extra money by cleaning apartments. playing. so i went hungry and bala i had no choice but to move to dhaka what else could i do with our house was gone and the river cup flooded i didn't have much of a choice about the theatre. she saved his wife and two children live in this

cramped room. so your sister has also had to move to dhaka. so i laid. down. a school of this and my kids both go to school my wife and i can't read or write but we want the children to have an education should go work for. or get little i want to take my family back to paula there's no future for me in dhaka. i'd like to build a house in the village and my kids could go to school. that i was running out of.

an estimated one third of the cars population live in slums the city's infrastructure is on the verge of collapse. what would happen if up to thirty million more people moved to duck out over the next twenty years there would very likely be severe shortages of food and water. and the car itself is at risk from the effects of climate change the city is situated on a movie of flatland and surrounded by lakes and rivers. the climate refugees often build their shacks in areas that are flooded during the monsoon season. there are no toilets and they have no clean drinking water. since many of the refugees are living in illegal squatter settlements local officials arrive on a regular basis to evict them. sometimes

all the refugees can take with them is food most in bias. once again the refugees are driven from their homes not by floods this time but by the government. if we are all able to completely manage this it can lead to conflict it will lead to be stabilization it can lead to social call for we don't call gray already the region or it can lead to him into a state offered between states and countries so in all accounts of consequences this is of need that we need to get it clear. understanding of the whole issue of managing club a terrific g.'s a large numbers so that we have the back and of them some place

when it happens. it seems as though we are only really seen the early stages of these conflicts. why is the government doing this to us the all foreigners were bribed to do this. there is no justice for the poor. this government is just useless. at twenty five to thirty million displaced refugees where lot on be destabilized bangladesh from within it would also destabilize the stability and the security of the region because it will result in large scale trans boundary migration into the neighboring regions of the country that will cause serious destabilisation on their regional scale.

we move onto the island of crete to dione on the bay of bengal. along the coast of bangladesh the sea level is rising by up to twenty one millimeters per year the world average is three millimeters the coastline is so flat that major floods can cause enormous damage. you see them back and has. some line or giving will begin the houses in just four days of the forces of that i don't see very strong. comments he's constructing this back every year but if he's unable to sustain. reasonable karim choudhry executive director of a coastal protected. organization warns about potential health hazards. people start getting the word thinking awarded. a high level of p.p.d.

so i mean so it's creating a black pressure high and creating a lot of these. people are unprotected. from the climate change. basing in this region of the population which is around not less than forty million or something. unicef supports chartres organization which provides micro credits and other support for people who've been affected by flooding storms and other natural disasters. choudhry believes that once the monsoon season starts the storms will destroy this family's home young good hobbles and action he points out that developed countries will not reach this year's paris agreement targets for limiting global warming and reducing c o two emissions experts say that's a major cause for concern but to make it. concretely it means that the whole world

is in very great danger when this is only one part of the world but all of this is the first part of the world which will be inundated by sea level rise and affected by the impacts of climate change but every country in the world including germany is going to be affected sooner or later the best way to express this will be are there we also together or we would all sing together. result karim choudhry says the locals don't know if they are climate refugees. so became the climate influences are top of difference but they don't know this that can save them that it is fading from a god. and

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