beethoven is for her. is for the. beethoven is for cause plato from his former employer the a beethoven 2020 the 250th anniversary here on the air. there's a news and these are our top stories but lou says leading opposition figure maria kolesnik over has resisted an attempt to expel her to ukraine she remains in custody after tearing up her passport to avoid crossing the border kolesnik over was reportedly kidnapped by masked men in minsk on monday she's been leading protests against president oleksandr lucas shango following his disputed election

when. top police officials in the u.s. city of rochester new york say they will retire following the suffocation death of a black man in police custody earlier this year the incident has triggered days of protests state prosecutors are now investigating the death of the departing police chief has accused critics of trying to quote destroy his integrity. sudan has announced a 3 month state of emergency after record floods left more than 100 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes the authorities say rising water levels in the now river are also putting the country's historical sites at risk. this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at b.w. news over at our website w dot com. one

by one the leaders of the political opposition to bill roos are being detained or disappearing on tuesday morning at the border with ukraine maria kolesnik over reportedly ripped up her passport and prevented her own deportation kolesnik over is one of 3 women who joined forces to become the opposition in another is former presidential candidates but longer to have. tonight her police up to help the forces of democracy in bello reuss before it's too late i'm bored off in berlin this is the day. my country my nation frankly not meet. these 8 international trash on the street. this one seems to be doing this very

quickly in front of this news it's me still. does not have any regrets missy is the president. and founder of leave the situation. to the research i am now fighting for the bill use of these and in this issue just treat it as. a human rights democracy and there are. also coming up the west coast of the united states is on fire the worst is in california more than one and a half 1000000 acres burned in 3 of the biggest blazes ever recorded in the state our number one priority for this fire is the protection of life property situation that we have right now is a life threatening situation with the weather forecasts of for the next 3 day.

our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day as a country tries to dispose of its political opposition for 4 weeks the streets of the capital minsk have been filled with protesters demanding an end to the 26 year rule of president alexander lukashenko last month he was declared winner. of a nationwide election but the opposition claims that that vote was rigged ever since they made that claim the leaders of the opposition in bella ruse have either been detained or they have disappear one by one the latest maria kolesnik over on monday she was seen being thrown into a van and driven away this morning she reportedly prevented her own deportation at the border with ukraine her whereabouts tonight remain unknown kolesnikov is one of

3 women who came together this year to lead the opposition in another is former presidential candidates for atlanta the home of scalia last month and she lost the presidential election but she says the vote was rigged she then fled into neighboring lithuania a decision she says she was forced to make in order to save her children's lives today she delivered a plea to europe to help the forces of democracy in bella reuss she says before it's too late i refuse as the militants the dearest sense to accept it they were out there simply stand and watch this congress abuses of human rights this blatant disregard for human dignity this complete in here nation of any basic respect for human decency i refuse and stimulants of beer a sense to stand down and give up my country

my nation my people now need help we need international pressure on this regime on this one didn't do all this perfectly clean and on to. we need some actions on individuals who issue an executive criminal or this that to violate international norms and human rights we need an immediate release of all political prisoners and to start to see the civilized in order to find ways for our country to move forward only yesterday one of the leaders of the peaceful protests medea kindest nicola was kidnapped also kidnapped there and done a new war and iran craft so all of them were members of the team that

nobody. who is in jail for simply daring to run for president my husband said get to him whiskey is in jail for the same reason well there are 2 versions tonight of what happened to opposition leader a maria kolesnikov a bellerose says she tried to leave the country tuesday morning and flee to ukraine but the ukrainian government is offering a very different account. kolesnikov bravely preventing ballew special forces from expelling had to ukraine 2 other opposition members were forcibly expelled valorous now the on ukrainian territory. kalashnikov in an attempt to provoke and discredit her as if she had failed to flee valorous we said to have been detained during that attempt alexander lukashenko the russian dictator is responsible for health and life. as. well for more

i'm joined tonight by all good friend over with the research center for east european studies at the university and braman she is following developments in belarus organs good to have you on the program the leaders of the opposition in the rooms detained and disappearing what does this do to the protest movement and the calls for president to resign. well i think we're here to make a difference if it's 15 i was you know of people protesting in this case and other leaders of the disappearing and each disappearance arrest of kolesnik of her and her team and it's i mean it's not the 1st case of such methods that there isn't a slaughter of kids will also watch. other members it was like one. or the pilotless couple who were also forced to leave the state so it's kind of not

a surprise when you've got the state just continues to use the menus and get it and use it for but you also have to remember that even kolesnikov are not economics that actually our culture produce and people still so organize themselves to receive a protest must implement a 4 week seems quite a precedented for the history going to recent days and i really have been question that people are learnt to organize themselves in this camp without any political center as well i would not leave that she walked to the floor to those who could reach they ain't going to see him to dinner belies him didn't she beat people going to see her in his 1st interview since last month's disputed presidential election president lukashenko he's signaling that even he realizes that he has been in power too long he spoke with russian reporters and he was quoted as saying i may have stayed in power a little too long but only i can really protect bella russi ends now i'm not going

to leave just like that i've built up bella ruse for a quarter century i won't just give it up besides if i leave my supporters will be slaughtered and president lukashenko he varies that his supporters would be slaughtered by whom is he accusing the opposition if it were to come to power of being prepared to murder. well maybe not to murder but to you know some aggressive reaction continent societies and i think it's also nothing new because it's you know part of this official and narrative not approved as i'm not really that peaceful as they seem to be and there will just this kind of reaching out to split the society pool question going on to question so just gave was also tried to organize a number 0000 look i shan't go plus state revenues as well where their commission didn't so i think it's do you know what this kid message to show people of those

who still support question can but also international public in specially they get public in russia and yet he's been the only person so to say sure it's killed controlling the situation in the country which is not actually the truth because we've seen how how many people when needed to go on the street so it's kind of a party official narrative and matt. cooper should also take it that you know it's the kind of police state narrative of the president i don't fit into the same moves to see what he does more to make about the protests having staying power i'm wondering if they do continue with that provide president lukashenko with a reason to ask for the russian military to move into the country. she was actually one of the biggest questions for the time being and again here is

actually a dam but we have to remember that i mean that there are some subtle agreements between better recently russian military agreements that's only public use and that's generally russian and we have not seen any external aggression till now also have seen that the protests ah peaceful so they have been also some statements by wilson that there are you know they are ready some police force has prepared for this case in valerie's that's wonderful the case of. expressing the sky restiveness coming from the who just isn't also a big case when for example proof just does come some actual gosh which is also not going to keystone so it's quite a sum to go if syria if you know if they could do that legally without any other you know in connection from from the birds how realistic is it do you think that president lukashenko will convince russian president vladimir putin to say yes to

a closer alliance with bell routes there's talk about him even giving up some of bill ruses sovereignty over to moscow. well i think it's just exactly the other way i mean that question should be us like this anyhow why is it possible that actually. will do that. well up to date prints from the question to because it's actually it has been happening for for a number of years already so just this whole conversations evolved you know in union states russia in belarus and about getting out there so rent economics already political slower to 6 actual want to name names of russia not to look. and it's also quite dangerous not to belarus i have to admit because president has lost legitimacy within his own society so his extremely dependent now to rome from

russia from time to change economically important to golf course is the engine still there i would expect you she would need to tackle deep integration with russia these consequences i think that would have as a consequence would have given you know at a higher wave of protests within the recent society the recent are tired of the question though that he doesn't mean you know that they would like to become part of russia so she is not present. in the close in public opinion so she would just become an album within that since it's not over and over with the research center for eastern european studies at the university of breman are we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you and. well here in europe governments are facing pressure to act as new corona virus infections go through the roof hitting levels that have not been seen since the

darkest days of the 1st wave of the pandemic spain has become the 1st european country to pass half a 1000000 cases with the 7 day rolling average now higher than it was when the virus 1st hit britain which has europe's worst coronavirus death toll is also seeing cases rise mostly among younger people and germany it too says that a high number of new cases are being reported among the country's young. well that's good news and bad news young people are less likely to fall ill and die from the virus but they often show no symptoms meaning they can unknowingly infect those who are vulnerable despite the statistics many remain skeptical some who reject government regulations are even making their outrage public here in germany mass protests have erupted where skeptics now find themselves marching alongside

neo nazis right wing agitators and conspiracy theories d w news met a man who took part in one of those recent berlin demonstrations he says that he's just an ordinary citizen not a political extremist. about you know was at that big demonstration against the coronavirus measures here at berlin's brandenburg gate he's 50 years old lives with his family and barely and does freelance work in advertising. frank does not believe that the corona virus is especially dangerous he says the infection numbers are low and that coronavirus mortality rates are similar to those of influence he feels the restrictions are excessive. if i go somewhere to eat my i have to leave my address behind and it makes no sense if i get up to use the toilet i have to wear a mask as everybody knows these totally absurd regulations that i think are in

themselves pointless are based on a theory that actually doesn't justify this. thousands of people demonstrated in central berlin against the policies to tackle coronavirus such as social distancing in mosques like for protestors question the science behind them. that we are all alive because we've worn mosques simplistic thinking. think that something we should have left behind after the age of 5 or 6 it's as if we were to say someone's wearing red jim serious and has a headache and then i stand there and say oh man i'll go read gym shoes calls headaches. frank describes himself as a democratic citizen for him the people protesting the coronavirus measures come from all walks of life. as you can mention to.

these people stand for democracy for freedom and so on i found it all very peaceful as if it was a very peaceful demonstration it was a huge gigantic and it showed me that there were many many people who think this way or seeking similarly to me. we need stream this groups among the demonstrators called for the german parliament building to be stormed. a few 100 radicals breached the barriers and got to the steps of the bundestag symbolic. images that made the news around the world the entire coronavirus demonstration was tainted by the action frank buckley says that he had nothing to do with it. i decide i distance myself from any kind of violence i distance myself from any kind of raj we may extremist ideology it doesn't appeal to me. but does it not bother him that far right radicals also took part in the demonstration this one on for that if it was

a handful of people what else can i say imagine that you're running a train and a right wing radical who gets on t.v. get off the train. frank says he accepts that his protests will be joined by right wing extremists he says that one stop him from attending the next demonstration in berlin. a controversial decision from a controversial president president. has pardoned a u.s. marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in tears he issued the pardon on monday to lance corporal joseph scott pemberton who had been in prison since 2014 for the murder of jennifer well on burton pemberton has served just over half of a 10 year sentence for that murder. is here with more on this

story a public brings up a speed on what the story is about well pemberton met jennifer in a bar back in 2014 now they decided then to get a motel room and it was during that encounter in the motel room pemberton found. out it wasn't fact transgender and then what happened was he assaulted her and he said that when he left the room she was still alive in fact she was found the next morning. apparently strangled subsequently he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and this is where we are right now just last week a local court decided that he should be released early from prison for good behavior which of course jennifer allowed his family were outraged by when he led to an appeal process and this is where we are to the start of this week where the government decided to intervene yet the government their ideas about how to proceed

exactly this is where president detailed at the decided to pardon pemberton for the crime and in fact it was announced on twitter surprisingly it was actually the secretary of foreign affairs who released this statement essentially saying pemberton was going to be released early from prison and used the word justice which was something that was also being used by president detent there when he spoke to the media what's also important to say about this is that pemberton actually didn't even spend his prison sentence in a regular prison in the philippines in fact he spent it in solitary confinement in a military facility in the nella and that's because of the visiting forces agreement which is an agreement between the united states and the philippines with regards to u.s. military personnel which is angered many people to what has been the reaction of the all of the presidential before obviously the family are up. and in fact their

lawyer virginius what it said that the decision was a mockery of the country's judicial system and we've seen a lot of outrage online we're seeing here some tweets saying that the government is transphobia that they deem a white murderers life more important than that of our trans sisters there's also another tweet in which they say that this pardon is an affront to the suffering of jennifer allowed to and her family and rewards criminal behavior so brand it comes as no surprise that of course this is causing a lot of upset and it's interesting me cause upset for many different reasons is renew the feeling of anti-american sentiment in philippines as well for. former marine has been treated and the fact that he's going to be released early it also comes at a time to present to ted at the interesting meet back in 2016 very much distance from step distanced himself from the united states and sort of shifted the focus of the philippines towards china and most importantly this is once again a murder committed against

a member of the transgender community it's you know it highlights the fact that there are a huge number of assaults committed across the planet every year and also there are many many murders over 300 in the past 18 months alone against people of the transgender brings into question how many justice systems are there one for certain people and one for other problem for us as always public thank you. really need to the pay attention to the instructions on evacuation fire is likely to move forward 6 commuter. lot of people on the property or so the business model right now. and so work very hard with all the water martin and then law enforcement make sure that we're. there it is fire. dramatic

images there from california where wildfires have come early this year destroying at a speed never recorded before my next guest has been called the world's leading authority on the history of fire in the latest edition of his book fire a brief history stephen pyne addresses the importance of fire in the 21st century and he contends that our fire crisis is morphing into a fire epic which he calls the piracy i'm happy to welcome back to the day tonight stephen pyne stephen joins me tonight from phoenix arizona steve it's good to have you back on the show we've spoken several times the last time i think was last october we were talking about wildfires in california now we're talking about them in september and they're worse than they were last year why are these wildfires getting worse. well there are

a number of reasons certainly climate change is a part but it's also the land use how we live on the land how we manage our forests landscapes in general on fire is that is like a driverless car it has no single sort of hands on the wheel it integrates everything around it and different things loom larger it at other times i think what we're seeing now that was an extraordinary outburst i mean california is built to burn it's built to burn explosively let's build into its physical geography but for years running of serial conflagrations and fires of this sort happening at this time of the year all of this is. the whole system has been put on some kind of performance and hits are in there faster than worse the more damaging way is there anything that can be done then to reverse this process if that can we take the

fires off steroids if you will. well we administered the steroids now we can quit administering and we can start some kind of race have there are a few fairly simple things we can do. likely relatively quickly and that is get a better control over some of the ignition in this case we're talking about lightning some of that that's out of our hands the power lines. gender reveal of ants where you have exploding targets just idiotic stuff like that we can control we can also harden our houses in communities there's a lot of research that points to the main vulnerability and structures as being from swarms of embers coming in and it's pretty well identified what you can do is relatively simple number of things to prevent those from taking out houses then houses taking out other houses those are things we could do within a couple of a handful of years the deeper the deeper issue of course is getting getting control

over fossil fuels. slowing if not stopping and ultimately reversing. the climate change that is exacerbating so much of this and also coming to some. point of resolution or at least resolve of what to do with our larger landscapes and the countryside public lands we've been locked in to yet another form of political paralysis over how to respond to these things or fire isn't listening it really doesn't care. anyways if it's like a virus story behind it unfortunately we're out of time but the thought with you longer but we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and come back again stephen pyne thank you. thanks for the invitation but the days almost on the conversation continues online that we will see you tomorrow.

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a messy chemistry a lot of machinery such a. clear d.m. . cut should also lessen the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery ticket and i say look it would. what if earth were unique start september 18th on g.w. . welcome to global 3000. this week we visit the mountains of columbia home to the speckled bear but for how much longer their numbers are dwindling. we report on the permafrost in siberia or what's left of it climate changes all too visible here.

but we begin in thailand where the pandemic has left many sex workers without income the entire industry is struggling to survive. the coronavirus is like one long nightmare for the global economy of thousands of companies will not survive the pandemic what's often referred to as the world's oldest profession is especially hard hit there are around 13800000 sex workers worldwide and that's just the official number. female male and non-binary the largest workforce is are in china india and the united states lockdowns social distancing and hygiene rules mean a large majority can't do their job. history was worth around $186000000000.00 worldwide. this entire sector has collapsed more or less

overnight leaving those who work in the industry wondering your feelings will never be the same again. the time it is often called thailand sin city. it's a resort normally frequented by tourists from around the world for dominantly men. for sex tourists in particular a hedonistic paradise for money can buy anything. but the coronavirus has left the sex industry here in limbo. as main party strip is now so quiet that the clink of an ounce high heels is practically the only sound to be heard of. the 33 year old is transgender and a sex worker with a clientele that has all but disappeared. at night to tie on has become

a ghost town with sex workers comprising over a quarter of the town's 120000 inhabitants but time has lost its biggest source of income. weeks under lockdown have brought tourism here to a standstill anna has been living and working here for 11 years her services as a sex worker used to be in high demand and a good month she would earn 850 euros a very decent income here now and has to get by on just 100 euros before. and i'll. have to check. the fall. all be in big out. come back to me. and now i have to. come back the night before. so i have 2 kids. and change is something emma has gotten used to which also

includes changing her work outfit. she now helps out at a soup kitchen that provides 500 meals a day for sex workers in need. demand is actually far higher but the charity has limited funding. the government has set up a pandemic aid programs but they do not cover workers in the sex industry. and i think the government wants to take the opportunity to make a regular holiday resorts without sex tourism but that won't work with the sex tourism is important for bhutan it provides an income for a lot of people and i hope that when the pandemic is over it will become a normal business again. of the. and in the meantime sex workers are just trying to survive so the hot meals delivered by anna and her colleagues are highly appreciated. most of the workers

are from villages where their families depend on the money they earn and. there's no money coming in from any way i work because i'm a says i'm not ending anything if things continue like bits i have to find a job as a shop assistant but of course that would mean a lot less. the underground nature of the sex industry means workers are often stigmatized without state support they're desperate to get back into business but there are limits as to what is feasible under the conditions. if we can reopen. impose a lot of restrictions like girls keeping their distance or not doing this or that but the men come here for almost without touching their body who came up with that idea. in the capital bangkok

bars are now open. the workers dance on stage. except now they wear masks. provide their name and phone number and have their temperature checked. i'm happy that we've been able to reopen but i don't know if the custom is on except the condition or whether we'll ever be able to get back to where we used to be. so i hope it's by where you are i go over to bali i should be. pretty much just. statistically speaking thailand has had a comparatively low incidence of the corona virus the government says that's a result of the lockdown but the past weeks and months have been desperately hard for a lot of people including anna and. this is my difficulty in my life i had. to. if

not better. with my family but. all. for all. the freedom. the pandemic has turned life here upside down for anna who knows a lot about change and upheaval it's a more uncertain future than ever. what's been bad for people's livelihoods has given the environment a break companies closed planes grounded and the streets more empty than usual. some climate goals now seem more achievable than before the pandemic but compared to the trend of years and decades this is just a brief trying to climate change is continuing the coronavirus hasn't changed that . deep inside the arctic circle especially the areas in northern canada and russia

have continuous permafrost shown in light blue where at least 90 percent of the ground is permanently frozen. we traveled a long way to the town of butter guy in siberia wearing creasing li the permafrost is melting. the. a driving. the bus a guy crater is about. and a 100 meters deep. it's the biggest heaven for us crazy in the world. day by day new layers of ice melt away exposing ever more ancient pema frost wind and weather. but despite the continuing melt the regional environmental inspector isn't too concerned about the rising temperature.

from what i've observed the crater grows by about 10 metres every year. i don't think that's very worrying. the melting of the permafrost can have an effect on us but the process is very slow. nature and the locals here will adapt to the changes. that. we created started off as just a small gully a section of forest was cleared here in the 1960 s. that meant the icy ground below was no longer protected by trees the layers of permafrost contain animal and plant remains from hundreds of thousands of years ago when that will get a massive thaws it rots releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which scientists warn is further speeding up global warming.

on a small scale the processes that we're seeing with the butter guy crater are happening everywhere the ice melts onto the ground the ground sinks down. toppling all over the place so when people look at the bottom guy crater they can see the perfect example of why you shouldn't joke with the permafrost. live in but a guy just a short drive away from the crazy is still determined by the ice underfoot. temperatures drop to minus 50 degrees centigrade here in the winter there are village streets but getting to the guy on land is only possible for 4 months a year when this river freezes and can be used as a road. and people here use the pen of frost as a resource year round these so-called ice and is a built directly into a slope. only if run several shops even in the summer it's minus

15 degrees celsius in his eyes because the town is so remote food supplies can be a problem here that makes permafrost refrigerators like this one practical. here we have some flowers seed oil potato chips canned meats. christine says he could store some products here for up to 2 years without them going bad. but he's had to take some precautions this due to the record heat their brother who is having a refrigerator is expensive for an entrepreneur upkeep and here nature keeps things cold in the permafrost we close the cellar off with these sheets so there wouldn't be any heat loss. the temperature in here went off by one or 2 degrees this year. but that change isn't critical. it's bearable.

but the change could become critical soon enough buildings in the usually stand on stilts designed to drive down into the permafrost and give houses a solid base. that means rising temperatures could soon threaten the very foundations of many villages and cities here. increasingly hot and dry some is also a danger to the surrounding woods forest fires are common here but things have been disastrous in the past 2 years this year the blaze in siberia destroyed an area larger than the size of greece and the flames have a long term consequence for the permafrost. and. the destruction of plant life means that the permafrost is not protected from the sun's heat. sums. we need to permafrost to remain intact.

so we shouldn't cut our forests we should put out fires and not leave them to burn . much of the area covered by permafrost so that it doesn't get to please or what. the region yakutia is huge and largely uninhabited the forest fire is often smoldering the distance far away from any road pushing them out would be hugely expensive and allowing them to burn is actually permitted by law in many regions in russia. families from the regions a working on a clear day is a luxury the wind often blows smoke directly onto their fields. the fires burn every year there's smoke everywhere there's smoke over there too. when we start we can't lie around just because that smoke we have to work in the fields

and cut the hay this smoke everywhere you can't hide from the. people here have accepted forest fires as a fact of life but ignoring those fires threatens to change the landscape and ecosystem in russia's arctic beyond recognition. in our global idea of ceres we reported on ecosystems and endangered plant and animal species all over the world and we meet people go to q. to do protecting those species. today we look at the spectacle bear for an indian bear whose numbers are dwindling due to habitat loss our team went to the colombian islands where the bears can still be found. on the edge of the geyser national natural park they met up with 2 men with devoted their careers to saving the bears .

located high up in the end the bottom of the grasslands are a vital source of fresh water for people and animals. the spectacle bear is one of them. emblematic animals native to the undies and the 2nd largest mammal in south america after the mountain tape. daniel rodriguez is a biologist for the past 35 years he's been dedicating his work to preserving the species. on this important as well as one of the reasons why we protect the spectacled bear is its important role in nature. i think it's a kind of gardener with both eating habits help to spread seniors that it consumes in other places in the form of fruits and leaves then gold so the spectacled bear contributes to the conservation of the forest but on the immediate benefits the

consumable loss but. it's also the only species of fish and.