and explore fascinating and cultural heritage sites in the in the d w world heritage for 60 gibeah. the be. the end. of. this means coming to you live from berlin russia is a losing battle with massive wildfires firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes now covering an area the size of denmark it's being called a climate catastrophe we'll go live to moscow also coming up a paralyzing locked on kashmir remains under high security alert after india's

contentious move to scrap its special status communications are cut off political leaders are under arrest and many residents say they're running out of food. and millions in zimbabwe on the brink of starvation the u.n. issues and appeal for aid we look at what's behind the crisis. grasp trying to stop the coloring from dying to go underwater in believed to look at how conservationists are working to keep them alive. hello and welcome i'm good to have you with us. we begin in russia where firefighters backed by the country's air force a struggling to contain vast wildfires in siberia that area that's a blaze is growing with some 45000 square kilometers already affected but we should

say they've given up the efforts in some areas some of the most remote areas in the hot biscuits province of. residents aren't sure king on smoke as the flames. these crews are fighting a losing battle. about the vast expanse of disappear in forest they qualify as that simmer under the canopy. helicopters also ferry and reinforcements to combat the smoldering fire on the ground. the difficult thing with these fires is that they cover huge areas and the hard to reach the most effective method is a comprehensive one. place from above while firefighters on the ground extinguished all the small small drink points. was. dropped into the wild the firefighters move through the haze in search of flames fed by the foliage. smoldering planes are

continuing to appear we're also using machines to dig them up we're doing our best to extinguish the fires and see what. the russian government has claimed that the fires have been reduced by a quarter but the aerial force protection service admits that its given up on $2400000.00 hectares of forest only monitoring the fires in those areas from space . greenpeace meanwhile has sounded the alarm over the environmental impact of the wildfires. it's a pleasure to ship of. this represents a climate catastrophe for so well at the fires or releasing as much c o 2 into the atmosphere as 36000000 cars a year. before as are also having a direct impact on people in the region the village of bog chinee lives around 100 kilometers from the blaze but heavy small has shroud the village creating a health hazard for residents when the way of climate it's been

a long time since we've seen smog the state around for so long mark. the start that we can't breathe anymore. even in our apartment we can smell the smoke. it's the feeling that never leaves you that it's really hard to breathe. with all this corner coughs appear in both children and adults. 10500 years have been dispatched to siberia but with fires still raging in vast tracts of land villages like this will not have a clear view of the sun for some time yet joining me now is emily shipman from our moscow bureau and the what is the latest situation why are firefighters having such a hard time getting these this is under control. well there are reports today amrita that actually the fire in the cross and our region has increased by 30000

hectares overnight meanwhile there are other reports from the air quotes reason region from the ministry of defense which was sent to put out fires there from the air last week and they said that they've put out 30 kind of fire hot spots the problem with these fires and rita is that they are just so huge by some estimates this fire is burning on an area of the size of belgium and the other problem is that the areas are so hard to reach many of them are uninhabited many of them are very remote and firefighters say they just are too hard to reach to be able to put out the fire if you also hear in this piece that in some areas another 2 and a half years with the government and regional authorities handling of the situation what are they saying. that's right well last week hundreds of cities across the region were choked by smoke and people were sharing images on social media of kind

of smoke and smog and how they couldn't see of their problems breathing there's also a petition circulating online which has garnered over a 1000000 signatures right now which is calling for a state of emergency to be called across the entire region where the fires are raging and not just across a few regions which is currently the case now there is some debate about wildfires forest fires in general not just in russia but internationally and here in russia as well these fires rage every year and according to russian law actually russian authorities can ignore blazes that are too far away and so-called control zones which are uninhabited they aren't obliged to put those out and also if the cost of fighting the fires actually exceeds the damage that they could do russian authorities are also not obliged by law to put those fires out release is

describing these fires as a climate catastrophe going to give us an idea of the scale of the environmental damage that's being caused by these days is well i just described to you the scale of the actual fires you have to imagine that they're also emitting huge amount of c o 2 which is obviously very bad for the climate plus there is the problem of black carbon which is being released and can settle in the arctic and that actually accelerates the melting of ice caps in in the arctic so it's understandable that green that greenpeace is sounding the alarm and many shillman in moscow thank you very much. let me now bring you up to date with other stories making news around the wild at least 95 people have been wounded by a car bombing in the afghan capital kabul the attack was claimed by the taliban and gangs as the group talks with the u.s. to its troops from afghanistan. the philippines department of health has

declared the country's outbreak of dengue fever to be a national epidemic it says about $150000.00 cases have been recorded this year and this comes after a severe outbreaks of the mosquito borne disease in bangladesh and honduras. the matter of the ohio city where 9 people were killed in a mass shooting criticized u.s. president ahead of his visit there the mare of dayton and really said trump's rhetoric had been painful and defended residents rights to protest against his rival. indian controlled kashmir remains in lockdown for a 3rd day with security forces on high alert with many shops residents say they are running out of fresh food telephone and internet connections have also been caught indian security forces imposed a curfew over the weekend it came just ahead of the hindu nationalist government's surprise move to revoke the majority of muslim regions autonomy and bottom and also

approved legislation to divide the state of me into 2 territories. joining me now from delhi is one and so on if so what is the government hoping to achieve bundy's reorganization breaking up the state of jump me into 2 and how if people reacted to it. well under the rank and file off the ruling party in the many supporters of prime minister nouri in trouble the across the country have really and to see a sickly welcome this move to split bush meat off its autonomy you know the spontaneous street celebrations in some parts of the country and we have to remember that and repeated election manifestos the b.g.p. the ruling hindu nationalist party has really played to scrap bush needs special status you know they've long this is a party that has really long argued that guaranteeing special status this article $370.00 which guarantees special status to kashmir has long been the biggest

obstacle to integrating this region with the rest of india they say that this move now will you know it's slow much needed investment and growth and development of the country but critics said slanderous move as unilateral some of called it as an assault on democracy the been you know they've been solidarity protests and marches in some cities they've been quite small i attended one this morning in daly and the ordinary coach midis i spoke to there spoke you know of a sense of betrayal and anger really at the indian government. as we had a state of jungle is under a clamp turn what are you hearing from their. well to be on the summit though we have very little information of what is actually happening on the ground in the valley and that's because as you said there has been a complete media into the communications blackout you know internet lines are down the mobile phone networks landlines they've all been caught

a complete curfew has been imposed the indian government has you know rushed in additional tens of thousands of troops to a region which is already one of the most heavily militarized in the world not the kind of splayed reports that we're getting from the area suggest that people have really been confined to their homes the street for fighting in the shops the shuttered fresh produce really isn't making its way in and despite this lockdown a few reports and certainly agencies that i've seen suggest that that has been sporadic violence instances of stone pelting that have even been reports of the potus to be killed though we have no way to confirm that. and so this is how india reacted to pakistani prime minister in run const wrong condemnation of india's move on me describing it as an illegal act. that's right over there when we haven't really had any official reaction from the indian government on this as yet but we have to of course remember that bushmeat has long been you know a flashpoint between india and pakistan the 2 countries have been locked for

decades over this region they have waged was over it so i think this latest move would only serve to heighten tensions between the 2 neighbors right soon if i make it in delhi thank you very much for that. and i could describe it as a 5 g. in 0 gravity a new satellite system known as the space is on its way into orbit a rocket carrying the blasted off from the european space port and french guyana on tuesday the crypt with that technology. by transferring data and images of any point in a real time. flying at an altitude of 36000 kilometers the really satellite has a view of large parts of the earth's surface the system runs around the clock and some of the satellites orbit the globe with even greater trajectories the 80 are as

c. is intended to improve and accelerate data transmission from space by using a so-called laser communication terminal it can receive data from earth observation satellites through a laser link then it immediately forwards the data to the ground station the system is $100.00 times faster than high speed internet. to ricky to the ground. during floods and other disasters swift access to satellite data is crucial radar satellites can see through clouds there is able to capture the extent of floods over a wide area. emergency support

needs this information as quickly as possible they can then determine the location of the greatest damage and how to get to affected areas. earth observation satellites orbit the globe every 90 minutes. but they can only send data to earth for 10 minutes at a time the new laser technology extends the transmission time and users can obtain data more quickly there are other advantages this is to me as useful for weather services accurate forecasts rely on huge amounts of data from around the world. the e r a c satellite works like a laser node in space. a 2nd node is already in place sonnie telecommunications satellite together they form the basis for europe's space data highway.

altimeter goal will of course be to achieve global coverage so the become transmit imagery that is taken anywhere in the world to europe with. me almost immediately. at the beginning of the next decade a 3rd satellite r s d is planned to be stationed over asia after its installation the system will cover most of the globe a 4th satellite is already in the works. the un has stepped up its emergency of peace was in bob warning that more than 5000000 people account of the population desperate need of food aid and at least half of them on the brink of starvation. for $331000000.00 as a meeting of the captive harare the u.n. laid out the scale of the crisis zimbabwe was recently devastated by cycle id harvest have also been badly affected by drought and the price of food has risen

sharply putting people at risk of famine. and our correspondent in zimbabwe privilege. previous tell us 1st of all just how serious is the situation who are the worst affected. the situation is a bit critical you find that most of the people you're vulnerable particularly because of the weak economy right now either worst affected previously you would find that there are believed to have missed and even if they quote annoys performing badly there would have something to put on the table right now the drought has affected your rural people and your eben and kerry eban people and because they call them is not performing a lot of people they have disposable income. and they can't afford to buy

food and the cost of living keeps on going up since the beginning of the year and a lot of people at their salaries have been eroded so they can't buy most of the best seek foodstuffs so you covered and cyclon id and the devastation of course how people in those regions coping with this current a food crisis. it has been extremely difficult for the people particularly in the eastern part of zimbabwe in the province called money and where you date. the most because any as of right now infrastructure which was destroyed by the site alone is yet to be restored you took a few roads you took off your bridges and the houses that were swept away so a lot of people are struggling to pick up their life because the government at the moment it's hamstrung in terms of supporting those communities to pick up their

lives again their livelihoods the criminal activities that were happening in those areas affected so for them to pick up their life it has been extremely difficult. the drought which is affecting the rest of the country there seem to be multiple problems. so what are the most immediate priorities for government to get food to the people at the moment i think international support is what the government is requiring because on its own they can't really be able to meet the demands for the food situation that is in the country he's got talking if you have a 5000000 people almost a 3rd of the country that needs food aid it is a mammoth task for the government and the government is little intense all 5 it's clear for us to meet that demand for the coming in of the international community

will be you know needed at such a time because you find also a few will not have valuable in the country for them to also distribute those foodstuffs so. that needs to be done in terms of support to the people who are vulnerable at the moment so hopefully they're true to aid and that international donations will come in privilege almost one here in harare thank you very much for that. the remaining batteries the urgent 10 that's according to a recent court action by unesco with says warming sea temperatures tied to climate change are taking a massive toll milly's is one country that is making progress off its coast lines the 2nd largest car or reef in the wild it was it has lost to safeguard its reefs and conservationists there have found that painstaking work can mess the underwater word back to him. with its breathtaking beauty is

a paradise on earth that was almost lost. the country's most prized possession lies under water the incredible biodiversity of its 7000 year old coral reef the 2nd largest in the world the reef was dying but it's now gradually being brought back to life monique vernon is one of those fights on its behalf. well i feel like when i look at work it's like. when they call me or say all right we're going to all do this laughing work here check the corals here or whatever it is i'm like all right let's do this let's let's wrap this let's wrap today beneath the surface it's clear why the reef is struggling the corals have been dying off the sea water is too warm too acidic and the frequent hurricanes have wreaked havoc here climate change is turning everything gray together with marine biologist lisa

car and the fragments of hope organization monique is rebuilding the corals. overdo it so there's no time to waste right now trials are basically like the forest in the seas so just like the trees in the forest provide a habitat so there for so many other animals the corals do the same on the reef very meticulously after much research and careful selection they take a few fragments of some especially hardy quick growing corals then they plant them in new places several times a week they place the coral pieces in the prepared cement as they need to secure foundation. around 80 percent of the fragments survive these ones have been growing for 18 months life is returning and attracting more life with it the reef protectors work is financed by project money and donations they proudly show us the

results of 8 years' work the corals here have increased from 6 percent to over 50 percent all the hard work is worth it the reef has been able to recuperate. this is not solving the climate change craze it obvious to you is a little bit ended binah some time for the cause of the people here i see it's all about political will i think we can do this if we have all if we have the people behind us hurricane season is about to begin for more meek that means that the coral has to be established enough to withstand any storm that comes its way. a report from a u.n. monitoring group says that north korea has used cyber crime to circumvent international sanctions and raise $2000000000.00 now the report alleges that north korea has been able to finance the development of nuclear weapons through these funds it says hackers have still been $32000000.00 from crypto currency exchanges

such as bitcoin which are difficult to sanction and the isolated country's financial institutions allegedly maintain or with 30 illicit overseas contacts to make international transactions. now for more of the story a hybrid may hands a really him doing he's the president off the fiber security council here in berlin welcome to you 1st of all what are your reactions to this report because of a strong allegations and the push today does not scale crime yes i think it's already important to say that it is the report has not been released yes we have only some special agencies have a salary and now we have only a few informations about it but it's a nomo fellow minimum its normal daily life in the cyber field and it is very. successful mete out to catch money from the

public sector so how could a country which is so isolated like north korea set up an operation which is so large with so much money involved it's isolated country in the political environment and in the daily life but not in the cyber space there we have no borders that we have no legal frame no rules nothing and it's very easy in a very i would say a symmetric setting to. organize criminal groups to organize attacks against for example here in the banking sector so how does the u.n. work to uncover an operation like this and how much going to conclusive evidence do they have to prove what this thing it's not that easy to prove it that is a field of attributes we want to know who is the attacker behind the mission behind the computer and that is very complicated and you need a long time you need weeks and months to organize to get forensic and oh you need

a legal framework for that you need technical skills and that is our biggest problems and i don't know who are the experts at the moment in the un but it is a very comprehensive and holistic approach you need. with a lot of skills and this operation you think is state sponsored i would say it's state sponsored because you need a lot of cap abilities you need a big budget to find them such attack and that is typically for state sponsored actions and the u.n. report says the report which hasn't been released is it says that north korea is using this money which is making through this operation for its nuclear program so what needs to be done next if the evidence is that what this will happen now that i think we need special cyber security strategies from national states and we need to un resolution to organize it and you need very high specified

strategy and i think that is the only chance we have and we need awareness as a warning in the political field and understanding in the decision maker sector right so how big are these kind of threats of cyber attacks and cyber crime. that is a daily fellowman it's very attractive because we have a lot of problems with forensic and attribution and that is a big advantage for the attackers and for the criminal groups are state sponsored. in intelligence agencies and so on and it's very easy to do it right that the words of hans william did president offside the security council here in berlin thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. you're watching news here is a recap of the top story that your phone rang feel russian firefighting teams are struggling to contain a massive one finds in siberia the blazes now cover an area the size of denmark

environmentalists a warm the vos release of carbon dioxide from the finest resents a climate emergency. up next is eco india our environment a magazine but for me i'm not that she minded news stream thank you very much for your company and have mostly at the top of the hour i look forward to seeing you then from by.

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