the at. the at. this is the dabney news coming to you live from berlin the taliban inflicts small carnage on kabul several landed and more than a 100 injured in a bombing claimed by the minute and group the attack comes despite its promises in recent peace talks to protect civilians also coming up. russia's losing battle with massive wildfires it's being called a climate catastrophe we'll get an update from moscow. and millions in zimbabwe are on the brink of starvation the u.n.

issues an urgent appeal for aid we look at what's behind the crisis. plus trying to stop the coral reef from dying we go underwater in belize for a look at how conservation they are working to keep them alive. welcome to you. we start in kabul at least 14 people there have been killed and a 145 wounded by a suicide bomber in the afghan capital the taliban has claimed responsibility for the explosion which sent a plume of smoke into the air above the city the car bomb detonated outside a police station and a military school but the majority of victims were reportedly civilians this attack comes as the taliban holds peace talks with the u.s. to draw its troops from afghanistan.

ok let me now draw in a correspondent. in kabul now. really just because this is one of the biggest bomb attacks in recent days tell us more about it so this is yet another attack that took place during morning rush hour in and fizzy area of the city with a bomb continued to claim that they're targeting either police headquarters or military training facilities or any kind of facility having to do with the afghan national security forces or the government but what makes veiled to state is that these facilities are always in the eye of the traffic 1000000 heavy areas morning rush hour in another busy area of the city so when a bomb explodes there you're basically targeting civilians larry and this is the problem this is how you end up with a 100 people wounded and more than

a dozen and more than a dozen killed is the fact that they're targeting areas that they're so busy in such a busy time they're not having actual sort of strikes that would actually target specifically say security forces which is what they playing and of course their claim is that what they ended up killing were security forces and the taliban has been really quick to claim the sponsibility for this attack with all these cache of casualties what is it trying to achieve given that it's in the midst of peace talks with the earth representatives in doha and says that it wants to protect civilians . right so so this is exactly the problem obviously what they're trying to show is that you know they're so powerful while they're arguing while they're debating with the u.s. they can show that look they can still stage attacks to their demands have to be met you know it's i would imagine it's seen as leverage or what their constant mean not admitting to them what they're not saying is that these areas are not being

submissive they unfortunately in afghanistan none of these areas aren't specifically corgan doc places where civilians were in the red there wouldn't be stores where a lot of the school where there were a v.a. hospital and i visited all of longwood know this was their target these attacks deliberately and so on the one hand they tried send a message that they were strong you know we can take on your security forces we can attack the heart of the capital anytime you want but on the other hand really what they're all going is the fact that what they're end up doing constantly is killing civilians so what are you hearing about these peace talks which are going on between the taliban and u.s. representatives in the they even some reports that there may be a breakthrough ahead of either. well this is the thing is that my on paper when you came to kabul about a month ago the u.s. secretary of state key gave the taliban and the u.s. representative there the juggling of the beginning of september so that's why they're really pushing to get some kind of

a deal through and before they even holiday because obviously will be a holiday in doha it will be already here and they're really trying to show that they're making progress but that progress actually is very difficult to gauge because all are hearing that was rumors you know one sources saying that another source is saying that there's really no accountability not visibility from these discussions there's no one really allowed in the room obviously there's not from the top on government there's law from civil society there's no you know women no nothing it's literally just the u.s. representatives and the taliban talking about you know what has been the same sort of issues that they've been talking about in the last 7 rounds and that has been the taliban will not allow on the song to become a horrible safe haven for terrorists which it hasn't been able to do any teen years and probably would never be able to do again and follow on is talking about you know foreign forces withdraw and these are the 2 points of the keep going back to and the fact that these 2 points are the ones who keep getting the glow shooting

shows that really this whole discussion is about washington and its folks all of on it's not about the up on people and it's definitely not about on the island and we just have to see how this latest attack came from the taliban really play into those talks and if you thank you very much for that update from the afghan capital kabul. turning now to russia where firefighters are struggling to contain massive wildfires the country's air force has joined the fight to snuff out the flames ranging across iberia the area that's ablaze is growing with some $45000.00 square kilometers affected officials say they've given up the efforts in some of the most remote areas in the hardest hit province of crushingly ask residents are choking on smoke as the flames come. these crews the fighting a losing battle above 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 they're hard to reach the most effective method is a comprehensive one. planes pull water from above while firefighters on the ground extinguished all the small small drink points. dropped into the wild the firefighters move through the haze in search of flames fed by the foliage. smoldering points 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 fines have been reduced by a quarter but the aerial force protection service admits that its given up on 2400000 hecht is the forest are new 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 have a bus this represents a climate catastrophe. so if the fires are releasing as much c o 2 into the atmosphere as $36000000.00 cars a year. before i answer also having a direct impact on people in the region the village of bog chinee lives around 100 kilometers from the blaze but having small his shroud of the village creating a health hazard for residents when the way of climate it's been a long time since we've seen small group of 8 around for so long more. is that the we can't breathe anymore. even in our apartment we can smell the smoke. it's the feeling that never leaves you there it's really hard to breathe. with all this chronic cough sapir in both children and adults. 10005 fighters 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 sharon from our moscow bureau and what is the latest situation why are firefighters have been such a hard time getting these this is on the 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 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 hotspots the problem with these fires that 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 and we also hear in this piece 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 the release is describing these fires as a climate catastrophe can 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 a huge amount of c o 2 which is obviously a 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 accelerated the melting of

ice caps in in the arctic so it's understandable that green that greenpeace is sounding the alarm and the sheldon in moscow thank you very much. it may not bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the protesters have rallied across pakistan after india revoked the autonomy status of its spot officially a thinkin government to send thousands of troops to the disputed territory and shot down communications neighboring pakistan which also claims kashmir has warned india's actions could lead to war. the men of the ohio city where 9 people were killed in a mass shooting criticize u.s. president ahead of his visit there the matter of dayton and really said trance rhetoric has been being floated and defended president's rights to protest against his arrival. the gaza strip is home to some extraordinary relics from over 5000 the as of human history dating from the bronze age to the 20th century but

decades of fighting mean that the heritage is at risk of being destroyed or plan dead despite the destruction palestinians are taking it upon themselves to safeguard the traces of ages past. despite decades of conflict and looting treasures like the remains of this by church still survive conserving it is a big project funded by foreign aid. but palestinians have started their own individual collections. from people here because this museum was established by personal efforts and at the expense of my children brought more than one piece and like put them in this museum to protect them. well lead began storing artifacts in 1975 he runs one of 5 registered private collections in gaza people running their museums are monitored

by causes tourism ministry. they gave us a document noting that we only use collections that we have the right to preserve them and add to the collection but with no right to trade them for one. wants. the ministry has opened a public museum with several 100 pieces on display they have plans for a national collection but the on going blockade of gaza means the project is on home. but the ministry has plans to build a large national museum for all these archaeological pieces at the political and economic situation and the siege on gaza are preventing this. until that changes conservation work is vital at every level to help preserve the heritage stretching back more than 5000. the u.s. stepped up its emergency appeal to zimbabwe warning that more than 5000000 people

that's a 3rd of the population are in desperate need of food aid and at least half of those on the brink of starvation the one food program has launched an appeal for $331000000.00 as a meeting in the capital harare the u.n. leadout the scale of the crisis zimbabwe was recently devastated by psycho and you die harvested rules have been badly affected by drought and the price of food has risen choppy people act risk of famine. let me now join our correspondent in zimbabwe a privilege. previous tell us 1st of all just how serious is the situation who other was affected. the situation is a bit critical you find that most of the people are vulnerable particularly because of the weak economy right now either west affected previously you would find that they're believed to have vista and even if they don't know it's

performing badly they have something to put on the table right now the drought has affected people and you have been and very eban people and because they couldn't is not performing a lot of people they are disposable income. and they can't afford to buy food and the cost of living keeps on growing up since the beginning of the year and a lot of people salaries have been eroded so they can't buy most of the best seek foodstuffs so you covered a cycle and i did 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 cycling each day. gets the most because

any us right now infrastructure which was destroyed by the 2nd one is yet to be restored you trip a few roads you took off your bridges and 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 the lives again. they criminal activities that were happening in areas where affected so for them to pick up their life it has been extremely difficult let alone the drought which is affecting the rest of the country there seem to be multiple problems there in zimbabwe so more to the most immediate priorities for the 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 their 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 task for the government and the government is little intense all 5 it's 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 fuel is not that 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 their true aid and that international donations will come in privilege almost one here in harare thank you very much for that. they're quick they're fun and supposedly they have the ability to revolutionize city traffic in the us to come. electric scooter has this zipping

to global popularity a few weeks after they age duction in germany about a quarter of a 1000000 of them are out on the streets but not everyone is convinced that east scooters are the breakthrough they're claimed to be. together with your special someone on a new electric scooter touring through berlin a moment too romantic to bother with traffic laws. but a lot of car drivers and cyclists can share the excitement. well the kind of varus so many people using them who have never ridden before who have no idea how to ride them and then they even ride them on the sidewalk and they could end up really hurting someone in this thread i feel about it more people are on the road makes it more dangerous. they just shoot out of the parking spots without even looking. with a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour the fun factor sometimes switches off

commonsense rights of already ended up brooksley with abrasions bruises and sometimes even bone fractures since mid june they have been more than 20 accidents in berlin alone to my small one so far most of the accidents have been caused by the east scooter drivers themselves either they didn't understand how the east good or works or they thought they were better drivers than they actually are just because you can ride a bike doesn't mean you know how to use a nice scooter the little wheels react completely differently. but accidents are not the only concern the 1st are already lying around the city some fear they will end up as a waste according to manufacturers' the school just last a year but a us today claims the average lifespan is actually only 28 days of them on line unless durable scooters are scooters they can easily be damaged by vandalism with a life span of 28 days is much too short because then new resources have to be used

to produce new ones that's not in the interest of the environment and not in the interest of conservation. according to her a scooters are only ecological if they can completely replace trips taken by car. otherwise there nothing more than a hip toy. men can a spokesperson on cycling for the german transport club a campaign group joins me welcome monica but 1st of all how do you feel about scooters have you been on one and i haven't tried one yet but i would say that they can be a very useful part if used properly of course and of that integrated in the system so you think they're useful to the mix of transport options that we have in the city of broadens expand our variety of transport options and there are of course only sustainable if they replace a car trip and would be heard in a report many people consider them dangerous for a variety of reasons well i think the east quarter itself is dangerous it's

a system where you put the scooter in or any transport made road and so the challenge is to make the system safe we need you mean but what's this to do you mean the bypass they have to be driven on the bypass and you need a larger bypass because there are way too small and you need more bypass so you need much more room to drive them and to when you want to park some so you see because at the moment the east scooters as i see them via allowed to actually drive on normal draws that they do not use the bike path well if there's a bypass i have to use the bike and if there's no bypass and they have to use the street they're just not allowed on the pedestrian areas because a lot of people look when i see them and people are whizzing down the streets in a lot of people look really wanted that they crash into someone so it's not a danger that people need to get used to them or is it just a question the need to have a completely separate bike lane for them i think it's both people need to get used

to new ideas always challenging and sometimes the story being of course we need to adopt. a system or the system to the scooters and we also heard that they launched a variety of these scooters is not. long is this just a kind of fad now a keep toy as we heard or is this a mode of transport that's here to stay. it will stay on because there's not only the share us with a very short lifespan. tyo bert but the car industry is pushing in that market to they're gonna produce in us part of the trunk and there's a public transport and we're trying to integrate it into their system as part of the 1st and the last mile so i think they will stay so it could actually be a nice kind of market for scrutiny on economic and thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. on the laws remaining batteries need that's

according to a recent court action by unesco with says warming sea temperatures tied to climate change are taking a massive toll the billies is one country that's making progress off its coastline is the 2nd largest coral reef in the blood it has fostered laws to safeguard its reefs and conservations there have found that painstaking work than the underwater world back to have. with its breathtaking beauty is a paradise that was almost lost. the country's most prized possession lies under water the incredible biodiversity of 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 burden is one of those fighting on its behalf. well i feel like when i look at work it's like. when they call me a say all right we're going to all do this laughing work here check the corals here

whatever it is i'm like all right let's do this let's let's wrap this let's wrap that is beneath the surface it's clear why the reef is struggling the corals have been dying off the water is too warm to acidic and the frequent hurricanes have wreaked havoc here climate change is turning everything gray together with marine biologist lisa calm on the fragments of hope organization monique is rebuilding the corals. overdue and so there's no time to straighten out clothes are basically like the forest for the season so just like the trees in the forest provide a habitat shelter for so many other animals the coral didn't seem 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 survived 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. and the state with marine life new research has found that human activity is not the biggest factor affecting shark populations now a report by the launch you can society of london says that human activity has pushed sharks away from coastal towns and cities and further out into the. and research has also found that shocks and body size a significantly smaller and communities that live near human activity discovered

remote locations where then marine predators congregate but said that these habitats are often not protected areas and are under threat from the fishing industry. coming up next equal africa environment magazine that's it for me on the touchy money esteem by.

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