to stay behind. my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there he would have died of hunger. sent down. stuart's journey 15. this is the. coming up the man to. japanese billionaire. that took it to the border and he wants to take a special with him so he's invited africa on his website break down the why and when of his astronomical cost. over troubled waters rampant done construction at least. from the people.

i'm going to welcome to. it's good to have you with us a trip to the moon it's a flight of fancy for many dreamers down here on earth but one lonely begin to head of there is now looking for a soulmate when you go with him he's japanese fashion tycoon and you saku myself up in trying to find its feet you said you want to be the 1st private passenger to make a new space x. the company founded by tech entrepreneur in the one must. spending to hand-pick a crew that includes a group of artists a project he's calling on. musician director fashion designer. or that represent earth on his journey to. the field when they see the movie. when they see the earth in full view.

all they create. the mind boggles. has been doing some investigating she joins me know in the studio to show welcome we're going to go with the. well here's just a lonely guy approaching middle age looking for love who happens to be an eccentric billionaire so you know he got his start in the music business actually he was an indie musician and then he decided i'm not going to go to college he followed his american girlfriend to california and then he got into rock and arts he came back to japan he started releasing some records that he sold online and then he took that business and turned it into this huge e-commerce site zozo town and became a billionaire he's now valued by forbes that $2000000000.00 is not worth and he's also a darling of the art world he just paid a record $110000000.00 for

a. painting so he's got a lot of money he's got some time on his hands he says he's lonely looking for love and this is the ad they were going to bring up that he put out it's on twitter and this is on his twitter account i quote called you suck 2020 kind of a point to his humor he says wanted why not be the 1st woman to travel to the moon hashtag mc looking for love he's got a sizable social media audience already $7000000.00 followers on twitter so he's casting his net wide one click takes you to a website that advertises a series documentary he's going to make about a search for a special someone to visit a very special place that documentary will be called full moon lovers but seriously better to handle. and you should just as the one he has 2 people have to apply on his website so what are the unique qualifications this special someone needs to have ok well you know he's been around the block he's he's got 3 children from 2

girlfriends so he's had his heart broken and he looks like he's thought about what he wants but this is what he's looking for. when it comes to lunar left single women aged 20 or over are eligible to apply get a bright personality interested in going to space want to enjoy life to the fullest and someone who wishes for world peace i think it should also be someone who can handle artistic temperaments as we said there's going to be a bunch of artists are going to go up there is going be a group date kind of thing. so ladies if you're interested get typing because the application is due january 17th i don't have this to be extension the not maybe not but what has been the response so far to this belief or love this online. and now he's a man on a mission and that has received some mixed responses on line we seem to reach from fans like me can make a who are concerned for him she said you're an awesome man with many talents and all hope you find the right girl not for the money you got but for someone who

loves you for who you really are no gold diggers and then there's this one that captures the conflicted feelings many people might be processing right now about this included. is there a term for simultaneously having strong feelings of wow what an offer and wow that's super creepy. so you know he's a billionaire it is time for a moon shot at love 5 he says that he'll make his final selection in march i will not apply i have many reasons to keep our leaders down here on earth and if i go to the man i'm going to buy the ticket myself. he would fly the person to the morn and . michelle storefront thanks a lot for coming in very welcome. river all that sustained some 60000000000 people is dying the because it is one of the world's largest river systems but manmade construction activity in the form of dams

is slowly choking the river. now the 5000 kilometers long the river flows through 6 countries china vietnam was thailand and cambodia but along the way a network of dimes is interrupting its not for all some. planned in addition to the ones already existing our correspondent reports on the impact that choking the flow of water with its life giving your trance is having. the color of the mekong river has changed from a murky brown to a marine blue a fascinating motive for tourists in self-defense and a dry rainy season certainly was responsible for days but the root cause might be found upstream china has built 7 hydro power dams on the upper mekong and many more are planned laos recently completed to show up or a dam on the lower may call this is severely disrupting the water flow when it sediments downstream. 60000000 people depend on

the water and the nutrients of the mekong directly fishing and farming like this fisherman in the company in thailand. the water level is too low and the climate is also changing the water is lower than in other years in the clear and shallow water there are far fewer fish coming up the river i only catch 60 percent of what i used to catch while it was dated a month. opic i mean. last year i could catch a lot of fish and sell them for 200 baht a kilo. now there's not much fish not even enough to pay for the fuel than a month. so i have to grow vegetables and flowers to supplement our income.

low water levels like no normally occur at the end of the dry season but that season only recently began and water has already cut the scales many more dams like this one are being planned on the tributaries of the mekong as well this will escalate to problems of those depending on a healthy river basin experts from institutes like to science faculty in a compound on university have been sounding the alarm for some time now. and not long and not. that. the fog. the mekong ecosystem seems to be in peril but

nobody has yet halted a single dam project to look pretty promises have proven to enticing drought less fish and dying crops a grim outlook for the people on the banks of the mekong. when the water is so low it's not good for fishing because we live from hand to mouth. as long as there are hardly any fish to catch fisherman can only buy their time by repairing their boats and pray to disappear it's for better times but as things are now not even those spirits can help. and joining me now from much on raw in northern thailand is prime pandita is from the advocacy group international river where he's the thailand and burma campaigns director is it is welcome and i just quite clear that rampant dam building is having an adverse impact on the make wrong

the question is why is it still happening. it's already been taken the. communities along the mecca has felt and experienced the downstream impact. you have built in china already 11 power station there and in the lower reaches to dams already be constructed the. dam both in laos on demand stream rivers i think the reason why. impact has been going on is because there is no political will to. 6th riper in countries that chair de meco river to be. sincere to the problem and negotiate and try to manage the river in good governance manner it's interesting you mention the mekong river commission because it was set up precisely to monitor the river it's an intergovernmental body so are you basically saying the river commission exists in.

yeah pretty much because the member country are only for downstream countries thailand laos cambodia and vietnam which are participate upstream countries like china and myanmar so making regarding power. not include all reparation governments and even though it a member. commission as process and agreements to manage the meco river in good manner anyway we have seen that we lost our plan for hydro power on the michael who has very much to rest not based on knowledge that produced by them accountable commission but more on political and financial benefits of some country are some sectors and some industries not for reverend communities as a whole. let's just talk about those communities were talking out of our gruffly

16000000 people who depend on the mekong in some way is there any plan of action to help them in any way if it if it is an american continue in the way they are currently. not really we haven't heard any plan to mitigate the impact up existing hydropower station even. in china and in laos but what we have seen is that. rural communities have experienced and witnessed this hang up because just them the law. and destruction are because his them services loss of fisheries and loss of income for example or so meaning that millions of people are now buried a cause for the name of the development of power under macro river. out adequate mitigation measures for them so not a very vital prognosis there but thank you so much for speaking to us here and point out details thank you. and if you're interested in the subject or been at

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