connected to jewish culture today researchers are searching for the missing works of art. it's challenging for the experts. and painful for the descendants. to someone. in the 3rd russia starts feb 10th on t.w. . more than 12000000 hectares of land have been ravaged since the outbreak of the astray in bushfires in october 2900 that's an area almost one and a hard times the size of australia. 1000000000 mammals reptiles and birds have died in the flames.

many firefighting crews are working to the brink of exhaustion. heavy rain has brought relief to some areas but it's already causing flooding in others. strangely it was not prepared for a catastrophe of the scale. how could things get so out of hand. our journey begins in the southeast in broken hill in the state of new south wales . the cullen's live here in the outback the country's vast and remote interior.

when i'm his friend and callum and i live on cars station which is 60 kilometers southeast of broken hill and spent a whole lot of rock until. it's spring and everything here should be blossoming but the region suffering from a severe drought the last raindrops fell in october 28th. twice a week brendan cullen travels into town to buy drinking water. is he spent a lot busy of tomboy self driving around say say a lot. and you think a lot probably too much taller and. you do. you know some toffs. you know i wish. for ryan and i think at times we've got together 'd as a community and. you know i had

a couple running dances. 2019 was the hottest year in australia since temperature recordings began in 1910. certainly not look at the 20. because i mean wall i mean it just gives yang saudi levels i mean they go through the roof 'd and i was told it yourself with an . australia is currently experiencing the worst drought of its history in many regions the groundwater is running dry that's unprecedented. so what will go in the ocean. 'd brendan cullen has some 5000 sheep the grass is too dry to keep cattle there's seldom more than a few sprinkles of rain the drought is not just affecting the southeast of the country almost the whole of australia has been hit. in

2019 there was 40 percent less precipitation than average that is the lowest figure in 120 years. it's a bit of a base from all angles. the drought will affect your animals it'll affect. your mental health and that's the whole family. brendan cullen has been forced to drastically reduce the number of livestock on his farm he no longer has enough water for the 10000 sheep he used to have this would be only the longest dry period with their right. to get something

but this is becoming ridiculous. brendan cullen is trying to take heart from photos he took after the last rains. look back at what it used to be like and you know that history on the corner. and look at him and. just reminisce and what it can be like. so i asked her to. just say no more what we've known each other since for about $14151.00 of the best things have been i would have just seen or been i would have is to be out of bringing our kids up in the bush and it's a great grounding. i might say some horrible things along the y. but i become very levelheaded there i would deal with some very ordinary situations because i see a lot of their children help whenever they can but none of them want to follow in

their father's footsteps. but when we come home we often help dad i'm in a boarding school sorry i come back to it and i notice things change and i come back and things are changing and it's getting dry air. one factor contributing to the drought in southeastern australia is the south would shift of winds in the cool season which cause rain bearing fronts to bypass the region. climate change is making a strain is unpredictable weather even more volatile. last time i think i have a problem break from any work was probably maybe maybe to use a gary i think you had a he had a pretty good bike. the cullen's have gone into debt to feed their animals. it costs them thousands of euros

a week to fill the water tanks and buy straw. i'm 45 years of age and what i've seen in that period of saying china or feel it's hotter in summer or maybe i'm just getting way. is just same sibby a lot more. dry periods i mean if anything's going to be. in a business will be a drip and unfortunately it's one of the mining instigators of people leaving the wind so obscene that of saying that before the experience that. for months they've been strictly rationing water for showering and laundry they use grey water for cleaning or for watering flower beds and trees. just into cullen continues to care for her garden despite the drought the few square metres

of greenery served as a reminder of better times. with my own husband i see the pressures of the drought and i see it with with my friends you know it's really disheartening hearing them and their stories too going 3 hardships and. we did and we just not socially we just don't catch up as much as we normally would because people are too busy fading and just can't just can't get away. many farmers in southeast astray or have already thrown in the towel. the question is whether farming will be feasible in the long term the suicide rate in rural areas is almost double what it is in urban areas i suffered from depression and i didn't realize i was suffering from a and it's all spies what brought it on was. just tough periods work so i went into the right you know by saucepans by some people and.

i was dog nice with depression and. all i spent the next 6 months on. on tablets and i found wise in mainz a very now to recognize and understand the trigger points and what was swell setting me off farmers lot stand in the interface and. and they very good at that but unfortunately their environment where. you know this is set the ball to what you know the weather. trout brings another danger with it the likelihood of fire. fires have shapes this country aboriginal australians have long carried out controlled burns to avoid large scale fires and while this practice is still commonly used in western australia it's been neglected for decades in some other parts of the country. instead of preventative fires the focus has

shifted to containing the spread of fires a lot of combustible brush has accumulated. the consequences are catastrophic and not just for australia analysis from the u.s. space agency nasa indicates that the bushfires have admitted more than 250000000 tons of c o 2 into the atmosphere. as fire approaches the sky turns black and then read them the flames arrive. westralia as fire service depends overwhelmingly on volunteers cooks students and lawyers are among those who have been trying to face down the flames. for weeks or even months at a time they have neglected their day jobs to try to save their country they risk their lives to try to save communities from the flames the firefighters have lists setting out the order of priority in which things should be saved. buildings that

serve the community at top of the list and private homes come last. never going to swallow. them if you were. arrested. this firefighting team just managed to save themselves in time. in camp i'm a white. male

. normally it's the sparsely populated remote areas that are hit but this year the fires have come very close to coastal areas where the majority of australians live. the temperatures in the bushfire areas can reach hundreds of degrees celsius almost 2 thirds of kabongo has been destroyed the village in new south wales is just 10 kilometers from the coast. getting it saved my ass is still standing in the still. at the beginning of january liz lacey was forced to leave her home stables and her horses behind. to work.

with the boys good god for that. most of the 774 inhabitants were evacuated in time but for one man and his son help came too late. there's nothing left of liz lacey stables but because they were left on locked most of the horses were able to escape. but anyway it's gone now. anyway if you are building in. actually we shouldn't even be here because i have a trademark for long if it's spinning. ok you should go up. we're just going to go over the fiscal or the day. so it's not that simple.

and it was simple. but will do it for anybody else i'm a good a great community we all help each other. to smoky air affects everyone especially to see the elderly and the young. and pollution here is no worse than in india's small place capital delhi. most of the villages leave from farming some of their livestock and pets could be saved some escaped but others died a dreadful to. hear their own or some goods site. where the men who are actually mums in it by the sea and bark. sing. yeah it would start again hopefully the insurance is up to. the money. it's got

herring only bought this land for himself and his family a few months ago. pretty quick on this lot more and more fuel in their. house. was my spew for us in the world but we were going to do something with it. this is the project. and you just before you. go he. goats coming goats can come on. scott herring was lucky at least his goats have managed to survive. without support. here it's it's difficult going to be difficult or that i think if anywhere can do it really working poor through then from what else is. can do it.

after the fires have been put out ash settles on the roads the fields the destroyed homes for the livestock that did survive there's a shortage of feed shortages caused by the drought and exacerbated by the bushfires . the situation is even more dramatic for australia's unique wildlife. an animal sanctuary stood here in this nature reserve there's no sign of life there's no sign of the dead animals there they're just beyond you know the venture ash if i had to evacuate the animals of the show they could definitely been under threat so the toll on may is huge i. sorry potent.

cool. there we go see. you just deny this if you see a return even. here they're mainly looking after young animals that have lost their mothers. when they've recovered they'll be released as quickly as possible into the wild. just a few kilometers away volunteers are looking for feed for koalas the creatures survive primarily on a diet of eucalyptus leaves and only certain types of them. if one forest burns

down you can simply move koalas to another. tens of thousands of them are believed to have perished in the fires it's estimated that heart of the koala population may have died. over the years one bats another animal native only to australia have also lost a lot of their natural habitat surely lacking looks after these herbivores people that's not one but a lucky animal they don't have a lot of impact by surprise going either but it's when they come in and out after the fire that the ground or bit is now if you change. the other guys on the side of the road looking for food and the heat island effect is a little in the bar right at this stage in life but it comes back to get them and then after a couple of days by beginners looking for mom. it'll

never recovery model. i don't need a recovery my grandkids are down. 2100 kilometers further north is astray as outstanding natural treasure the great barrier reef we accompany one of the world's most renowned marine biologists out to sea. first. coming to a world which i had no idea existed. i thought this was creation. it was what the gods must have created to make something ultra special. veron has discovered and studied more than a 5th of the world's corals. he spent more than $7000.00 now is on the water and the 75 year old isn't finished yet.

as soon as i'm in the want to. i feel on of her i really do. their very very essential thing about causes they build their own place to live carles of got together with alvey to build things the nothing on earth could possibly rival that's how they live and i reckon that's is fascinating it is biology you can get. the corals of the great barrier reef has been bleaching out for years because the ocean is warming due to climate change and. i predicted that

by 2015 the carbon dioxide levels would be so high that it would cause the bleaching practically every year. to build horrible to be rocket scientists long to be right because that's what they have their businesses but it's all happening and the consequences of that have turned out to measure worse than those predictions the earth's largest coral reef system a unesco world heritage site is in trouble. it's exactly like me seeing my family slowly dying of something. it's very grave like. it's very hard to continue when so many people think there's nothing wrong and that makes me angry because this is utter stupidity. it's not just rising sea temperatures that are threatening the reef agriculture is also partly to blame for the dying coral despite attempts to limit

pollution pesticide runoff from farms continues to destroy this unique marine habitat. european settlers 1st began planting crops and tending livestock in coastal areas some 150 years ago. this agricultural land use has increased up to 10 fold the amount of sediment carried by rivers and streams into waters surrounding the great barrier reef along with large quantities of fertilizers and insecticides. australia has unique natural treasures which attract growing numbers of tourists each year some 8 and a half 1000000 visited in 2018. but a strain here is also the world's biggest coal exporter and the government continues to issue mining licenses. one in every for australians is skeptical about climate change like retired miner

tony mcgrath. is or was that they were then used to working out you know you're unhappy are there but mayo is more temporary like libel or for employers they're not turn a job and i think. australians are not just world leaders in coal mining they also have their share of climate change deniers is it your 100 year goes through pretty hot and i think it's going to be hot or rude. but i don't use any proof really. astray is biggest and probably best known susie is sydney with some 5000000 inhabitants. there are several mining areas in the cities hinterland. 15 year old jean hinchcliffe has become the icon of australia's green movement. for months now the schoolgirl has been fighting the plans of the indian concern and danny to build a mine that would increase coal exports by 20 percent to transport the coal port

facilities very close to the great barrier reef would be expanded. out 3 major goals are firstly so no new sources of fossil fuels including their done mine full renewable energy and exports by 20 saudis and for a just transition and job creation for all fossil fuel employed workers in communities. the strain here has some of the highest per capita c o 2 emissions for a highly industrialized nation. by mean i've spent my life growing up surrounded by this constant use of like polar ice caps melting and the great barrier reef dying animals losing their homes in bushfires floods and this really enormous issue which no one is seeming to care that much about and that's been really scary for me growing up knowing that this is my future and this is what we're leading into. as well as going to

school jean hinchcliffe organizes rallies and demonstrations with the help of her friends and her mother. last september hinchcliffe attended the un youth climate action summit in new york. say well. she didn't plan to become a leading figure in the australian environmental movement. actually i just send e-mail saying how i love to help out if there's anything i can do and suddenly i got a response saying all would love to help you achieve this goal and i'm like oh my gosh i know that isn't how i was in the book. more than 2000 businesses a banking school students around the country killed strike today to demand more action against climate change for months now tens of thousands have been regularly

demonstrating against their government's climate policies. the conservative liberal national coalition is coal friendly. let you know how. i'm. so. glad i was right as recently as last november the prime minister still denied a link between australia's activities and the severity of the bushfires i think we've got to caution against rising the anxieties of children in our country we've got to my sure that our kids understand the facts but i also have the context in the perspective and that we do not create meanings r.t. amongst children in how we talk about and do with these very real issues. but the

devastating bushfires now appear to be changing people's minds according to a new survey some 78 percent of those trains now want to reduce the use of fossil fuels. my. my my my my my. my. my. the demonstrators make a direct link between climate change and the scale of bushfires in astray. this is not any city issue or iranian issue this is not a young cousin you are wealthy person it is you this is an everybody a sure. sign

sure. your family see your daughter again you see talking to. such a comparison i feel like it's i don't care it's just someone else i have such a great. job that stuff. that.

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