just us and also he says that it's a real story of hope and result and of course he wants to get more of the wall actually built so the documentary uses the great green wool more as sort of a metaphor rather than sort of a literal story i mean it's all it's also really being built but as a metaphor as to how these different countries a dealing with climate change and each of these chapters deals with a different problem that's being addressed there are some very positive stories one of them is ethiopia is the chapter on a theo pia i don't have to remember in the 1980s you're probably too young to remember but there was a terrible terrible famine in ethiopia that saw hundreds of thousands of people die so then every greening of the place has really had some very very close need to fix with the whole right thanks so much for coming on the show. culture makers here in germany saying that the government is silencing the arts with its new coronavirus

rules musicians around the country posted silent protest videos against germany's new partial lockdown on monday night that included the hamburg philharmonic and conductor can't not going to war this week germany's shut down concert halls theatres museums and cinemas to have least the end of the month while allowing retail stores and other businesses to stay up and running. in the jungles of southern mexico the luck and don't people are one of the country's most isolated indigenous groups without contact to the outside world they preserved their interest mayan culture for centuries and recent years that's starting to change and one of the outsiders they've let in is austrian photographer martine i know mine he's been visiting them for over a decade now documenting their traditions before they disappear. tempos of the maya a lost civilization the practiced astronomy and mathematics phone time was sacred

and made him an sacrifices tribute to the gods. martin engelman travel to central america for the 1st time in 2008 in a small village in the rain forest of southern mexico he encountered the left hand on descendants of the mayans whose ancestors fled to the forests from spanish conquerors anthropologist alice powers and early often travels with a woman. she lives with the lack on gone 6 months a year and speaks their language the entrance of the cave the court. from dawn's belief that this is where the souls of the ceased are purified on the way back from the underworld. about 700 mine have survived to this day. the culture can still be found will cease to exist in

a very few years and for me as a photographer this is a painful realisation but i can't stop it and i had to accept that of our youth and our heart to. turn it has arrived in the village of know how there is now electricity telephones streets there are only a few old people left the last guardians of the group's cultural heritage. and women also met the last shaman mouthpiece of the gods don antonio. born and in the face of the mayan and owns everything in life has a meaning of the everything lives everything is animated no matter whether a small blade of grass or tree everything. has a soul has a spirit and you can also communicate with everything that is what the maya believe

i believe that if we go through nature with this attitude there is no more good and bad but you can see everywhere how valuable creation is be valued for the ship. in the writing forest everything sayings the maya say everything has a voice. museums and galleries in england are going back into lockdown this thursday but before that happens we managed to get a tour of the architecture for dogs show in london we got a 4 legged friend to go sniff it out. in london and sure she's a female shiba inu inspects the architecture for a doctor exhibition of creative furnishings for man's best friend. the piece is the creations of internationally renowned designers and architects.

massive car is a london based architect who has gone to the dogs. interested in giving the brief to create architecture for dogs instead of humans and it's not about making houses though of course pacific in the prefer it was about trying to express yourself the scale of the dog and so what's really interesting about it the creative tools how to get sharpen the bit where to start to see things from a different perspective and see how the dog sees the world. the concept for the exhibition came from japanese designer kenya howrah from 2012 it went on shore around the world only now arriving in europe. massive contact with this design i see you it's intended for dogs with black coats . the idea is that it's the dog is able to camouflage itself amongst a kind of black background is made from sheep's wool the whole thing has

a smell the delicious smell the dog which attracts it initially and the shape you can see starts in the ground and lifts upwards in this curved arc the idea is that kind of resembles the way the dog discovers the world around it maybe the way it sees is by smelling the ground and slowly looks up to discover what's the surface in front of it for sure there's plenty to discover. but it's about more than seeing and sniffing is more than an exhibition it's really a. global project whereby people can interact by downloading versions of the pieces which are exhibited and make them themselves we upload them and they are then shared via social media. architecture for dogs sounds barking but schorsch seems to approve. diggity dog.

definitely a lot easier than filming our report with cats well that's it for this edition of arts and culture for more stories about designing the music film and art visit us any time online or i d w dot com slash culture by for now think. how

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the general language and not enough mr keeps me and pick up us meekly to interact with the thing you want to know their story goods are fighting and reliable information for margaret. this is g.w. news in these are our top stories the militant group islamic state has claimed responsibility for a terror attack in vienna in which 4 people were killed at least one gunman.

which is struggling with a huge surge in cases more than $36000.00 new infections were announced today a month long national lockdown is now in force. this is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram or you can visit our website that dot com. it is election day in the united states the decisions made today will impact

america and the entire planet for the rest of this century the pandemic and climate change are getting more the american century feels like yesterday uncertainty and fear look more and more like tomorrow well that means unprecedented responsibility at the ballot box in the face of unprecedented crises around the globe the world has always been invested in what american voters choose now more than ever the world is tied to the consequences too i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. i love where the greatest in this. day so i had to because we have to get combat troops but there's no way we can have 4 more years with them yes i thought the biden oh. i don't know callous or it's medieval for me

but i think the transplant i'm going to. than you did last time it's actually really close i think it's pretty close to i think give me you know it's something i've been at the top and i think that and i think it is a good day to make a change. also coming up with the business of predicting u.s. election results in 2016 the polls missed the mark big time just ask hillary clinton in 2020 there are still plenty of predictions but this time they require patients were rightly not going to get a clear winner on election night and that's different from not having a clear. that's not a sign of our system failing us actually just means we're giving people who are counting the ballots time to count about. we're viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day at

the finish line that will most likely be moved several times before anyone reaches the finish today is election day in the united states traditionally this is the final sprint at the end of that uniquely american marathon known as the race to win the white house in 2020 however tradition has been tranced by trepidation boarded up buildings faces with masks and toxic politics that describes this election day in the united states across the country there are emergency plans in place in case unrest erupts our correspondents say the tension is palpable inflamed by a president and vice president who have refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should they lose this election. due to an unprecedented number of mail in ballots that have yet to be counted we may not know or have a winner until tomorrow or even later this week patience is

a virtue and it's a necessity there is one aspect however that is familiar 2 men are vying for the presidency democrat joe biden is asking voters to give america a new chance president donald trump is asking voters to give him another 4 years. one has dedicated his life to public service and the other has dedicated his to winning. 2 men with contrast in styles and competing visions of the future. we choose hope over fear unity over division science or friction and yes truth over a law in this election is a choice between a trump super recovery which we're in right now or a by depression. joseph biden story is one of triumph and tragedy of overcoming a childhood stutter to reach the u.s.

senate at just 30 years old only to lose his wife and daughter in a car accident weeks later. in 2015 biden was again left a rare when his son beau died of brain cancer. i found the best way through pain and loss and grief is to find purpose. donald trump inherited a new york real estate empire and turned the neve into a brand. his life of waiting to posses a mouthful of fears were talk of the tongue. also followed him everywhere and so too did bankruptcies. but it was heads in the show the apprentice that reversed his fortunes the prestigious helped turn trump from hapless new york businessman to longshot

presidential hopeful. while to a vast series a white man in their seventy's the similarities end there for decades biden rode the train to work. while crump enjoys the trappings of wealth biden spent his career shaping his foreign policy beliefs. and forging friendships abroad. conspiracy theories about barack obama our president has finally released a birth certificate and run for office on a nationalist ticket for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states so help me go to prayer arrived promising isolationism. it's going to be only america 1st which saw him embrace dictators unfolds

while pushing need to allies around the tour deal after deal. i am announcing today the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal from the paris. climate a court. staged on treaties with russia. so we're going to terminate a brit we're going to pull out he's gone where few presidents have he was impeached and he repeatedly cozied up to violent white supremacists. very fine people on both sides. providing america 1st means america alone he's on a mission to rewind the trunk years and he's hoping his folksy appeal will win over swing voters. we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. will he too is no stranger to fighting talk doing this because he didn't like it wrong. when he sticks to the script his

pitches the after 4 years of chaos on hundreds of thousands of crudely $1000.00 day he is uniquely placed to mend the country battle for the soul of us that's the job of a president to hear. the trump campaign by contrast has been the lights on unity and heavy on fia and misinformation for the president this is about coming fast at any cost. reject left wing fascism vote for american freedom vote for america 1st vote for make america great again. both candidates have cost themselves as america's salvation but the truth days and this high stakes pot so the result will reverberate well beyond her borders. and it brings us to today it's election day let's bring in rachel risen she's a political analyst and director of programs at the truman center she joins us from

washington d.c. tonight good to see you again rachel well let me ask you about what president trump was asked earlier today a reporter asked him if he's prepared both a victory speech and a concession speech and he answered in an unusually somber tone do you think he senses that the polling numbers might be right after all. well i think that's a great question that you ask but i think that what's helpful is to point to the fact that for weeks if not months i'm trump has hinted that he may not conceive the even if polls show that joe biden is ahead so i think that we'll have to see exactly exactly what happens there he has also said that he could declare victory even if he is not the clear winner but as we all know that's not in the constitution so it really doesn't matter if he comes out in declaring victory that could cause a lot of confusion so that is definitely something we're concerned about and

watching closely every 4 years the u.s. presidential election becomes the world's a legend if you will people all over the planet they feel like they are a part of this process in some way that has it's been a been a fit for america in the past this time around though it looks like a liability would you agree with that absolutely and it's really concerning to read reports that have been coming out from you know human rights organizations saying that people need to be watching what happens with the elections in the united states to make sure that polls and vote so are counted fairly and that people have their voices heard and so you hear any reports and the fact that they are coming out and being talked about talking about the united states like that is just so concerning and it shows just how far the united states has slid in the past 4 years during donald trump's presidency and when trump was elected back in 2016

german chancellor angela merkel she was the 1st european allied to congratulate him with conditions a friendship based on shared values she said marilyn trump ended up sharing very little these past 4 years take a look. even before donald trump became u.s. president it was clear the relationship wouldn't be easy. now merkel what did she do she's destroyed our bridges in the process of destroying germany with a migration and will once trump did become president she congratulated him on his election but in typical american style she threw in a subtle dig. george want america germany and america connected by values democracy freedom respect for the law and for the

dignity of human beings regardless of their origin with skin color religion gender sexual orientation or political views. order. this photo of medical facing trump at a g 7 meeting went viral seen by many as a perfect illustration of their report so was their 1st encounter when trump ignored america's suggestion to shake hands like. thank you. one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. one percent and this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than. when trump

treated racist attacks on this group of democratic he was congresswoman merkel openly condemned his actions. this is one of those even moved up on. those i firmly distanced myself from the attacks and i stand in solidarity with these women. of a strained relationship but also opposite approaches like on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and how to wear a face mask. now with trump fighting for a 2nd term in office and merkel in her last year as chancellor it may soon be time to kiss goodbye the question is how soon. donald trump and. he looks like her has become the end. ty miracle miracle is a scientist turned politician trump of reality t.v. star turned politician merkel's handling of the pandemic has obviously been based

in science trumps has been based some would say n.p.r. others would say denial is this an accurate description from where you're sitting. i think it's a very accurate description and just a few years ago even when donald trump was elected as president people started talking about on glenn murcutt as the leader of the free world and so i think it goes to show that even other world leaders look at donald trump and as a president that can't really be trusted as a president who flouts democratic norms and i think now in no relationship has that been clearer in how he and merkel have interacted with one another over the last 4 years and the sort of disk 18 that he has shown for her especially when it comes to german defense spending and various other issues that have come up like for example north stream to and so i think that if donald trump does have its reelected then it's really concerning to think about where that relationship might be headed you

know there are predictions that if trump wins reelection that this would be the beginning of the end of nato and that it would mean a total withdrawal of u.s. troops from germany maybe from all of europe i mean that's what we're hearing on this side of the atlantic or u.s. voters aware of what is at stake in terms of foreign policy in this election. i think u.s. voters are aware of what is its stake and there's good news here american voters are very supportive of nato and so while donald trump has used disparaging words against the alliance over the past 4 years that really hasn't translated into a decrease in support for nato throughout the united states now there is higher support among democrats than there is republicans but i think it goes to show that americans are you know they're they're multilateralist at heart right they want to see the united states as a leader on the global stage and so even though donald trump has created problems

with some of our strongest and you know our historical allies sense that you over the past 70 years and americans themselves still see the united states as a country that's you know worth being an ally to and we're being friends with and so hopefully that's something that continues going forward yeah there aren't tonight a lot of people on this side of the atlantic you hope that your words are true political analyst rachel rizzo joining us tonight from washington d.c. rachel good seeing you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. i have covered u.s. presidential election since 1992 and this is the 1st election with violence and unrest as a possible result the images of businesses in washington d.c. and new york city being boarded up preparations for a hurricane have become a bulwark against american anger now the u.s. president is responsible for much of this acute hostility in one of the

presidential debates he told the far right group or used to stand back and stand by our correspondent has been traveling across the united states listening to people he put this report together for. these images are fresh in the minds of many american voters. use it destructive protests and violent rightwing backlash dominated headlines for much of the summer and early fall. i've been traveling the country and talking to voters and if there's one thing americans expect in november more than a decisive victory for either joe biden or donald trump it's violence that goes for biden supporters and all these different extremist groups and militia i'm concerned people see you're not going to let up as well as trump supporters i think if by there will be violence there's going to be

a civil war. yes i believe we're going to stretch a little bit of what they're going to put up with this man's going to be a civil war or don't do this i mean there seem to try to try to do or think it's not going to happen in britain stand up for what we believe the word to the american way but is this just talk or is the prospect of post-election chaos a legitimate concern. one of the reasons people are talking about this is because it is. the data show that there has been a rise in the number of terrorist plots. and attacks in the u.s. in 2020 about 2 thirds of them through the 1st 8 months were caused by white supremacists and far right by far right extremists in about 20 percent by anti-fascists anarchistic and other violent. but it's not just analysts who are discussing the possibility of disorder in november and beyond law

enforcement has already begun to prepare conversations across state local. federal agencies f.b.i. or justice national counterterrorism center there is. about tensile for violence particularly after the election and also increased effort to try to mitigate those risks by ramping up the f.b.i. and attrition. it's not surprising that many americans are uncertain of how donald trump will act if you lose the election he's been asked that very question and refuse to give a clear answer would you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transfer for all of our after the election you were going to trump just dodging the possibility that he could very well lose to joe biden really implying that he would refuse to accept the outcome of the election. when pressed another time on the peaceful transition of power from said that yes he would allow biden to

take office if you want but some analysts say that trump is trying to gain an advantage by casting doubts on mail in ballots and other common voting practices. well it. all electoral system is a little nuts if you have a wobble but it's corrupt at its root and that's the only way for the system to demonstrate its legitimacy is for going to we. are stupid stares social media companies like twitter. facebook has promised to clamp down on calls for violence after the election like the law enforcement agencies they believe a peaceful transition of power will require all hands on deck. but things look good for joe biden heading into this election he's had a consistent lead in the polls pollsters however have been wrong like the last time in 2016 when hillary clinton was tapped as the next u.s.

president but despite her poll lead and winning the popular vote america's electoral college system it was a calculus not in her favor as votes are cast this year the latest polls give joe biden an even bigger national lead $8.00 percentage points so what lessons have pollsters learned from that 2016 debacle and could we be looking at another upset well tonight we're going to try to get some answers i'm joined by galen drew q. host a podcast on politics for the analytics web site 538 dot com beyond it's good to have you back on the show good to see you again on your twitter feed i noticed you've penned a tweet in which people can ask you about forecasting the election or to forecast the election so let me start by asking you for a forecast what do you forecast. well essentially our forecast at $538.00 takes all of the polls the national polls the state level polls and creates

a probabilistic forecast of how likely it is that either candidate will win the election so right now on election day it was frozen at midnight last night we it shows that joe biden has a 90 percent chance about winning the election and president trump has a 10 percent chance of winning a 2nd term all right so that's that's it's a clear edge there for joe biden but we all remember the song 2016 the polls going the wrong are the polls are they worthy of our trust this time around. there's a lot of things to think about when we talk about trusting the polls so 1st of all the national polls were not very often in 2016 they project in a 4.0 way clinton win and ultimately she received 2 percent or more votes sorry she won the national popular vote basically by 2 points in 2016 of course the

national popular vote doesn't really matter in american elections it's all about state level actions so that 2 point difference is about the average polling error that we would expect in any election now when we look at the state level polls in wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania which really key states that handed president trump his presidency we saw that the polls were off by more than 2 points they were off by a greater than average what year and what this came down to is a couple things one the posters were not reaching enough people who didn't have college degrees when pollsters call americans for some reason or another of more educated voters are likelier to answer the pollsters and this time around we see that posters have changed the way that they conduct their polls so that they properly weight people without college degrees we also have more undecided voters in 2016 and they broke wait cts trump after the call me a letter to congress saying that he was we opening an investigation into every quentin's e-mails now in 2016 about 12 percent of the electorate was undecided this

time it's only 4 or 5 percent so there is less of a chance of a great breaking shift towards trump this time and ultimately you know pollsters have done a lot of work in 2018 they were pretty spot on for the midterms so i think that we should go into tonight with a do you think that gailey is there risk that imposters efforts to not repeat 2016 is there a risk that they have over corrected i mean they're telling us that joe biden hands a lead but could it be that the real lead that he has or the edge over trump is much larger than what we're being told. absolutely show polling error as i mentioned is very normal it happens in most elections we don't know how big it will be and we don't know in which direction it will go and so it's just about as likely the polls are under estimating biden as it is that the polls are under estimating truck you know we see that nationally by me is about out about it not half points

in pennsylvania he is closer to 5 points which right now is the likeliest tipping one state so that's that's a less of a solid lead in the state level races but of course there are other places that really buy doesn't have to win like texas georgia and ohio or iowa we're told me a one point race and if there's just a slight pulling error there in biden's direction you could go from a somewhat tight race to all of a sudden a landslide yeah you know the historian allan lichtman he has accurately predicted the outcome of every u.s. presidential election since 1804 he has his own formula known as the 13 keys to the white house and he told me on this program that polls are not worth our attention because they mean little if anything what you say today i've got 30 seconds for you . i say it's the best way we have to judge public opinion using the scientific method the only other way to do it is subjectively by talking

to voters here or there in a particular town or county the most rigorous open minded and thorough way to gauge public opinion in the united states or frankly in any country is to sample accordingly and that's what pollsters do and yes they are also sometimes and we should expect that to be the case but that does not mean we should throw out the scientific method altogether writes cliff that's a clear message right there galen drew from 838 dot com good to see we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thanks a lot take care. all right the day this election day is almost done but the conversation continues online go find us on twitter either g.w. news or you can follow the bridge go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day but before we get there we'll have wife coverage of that u.s. election if you can join us right here on.

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issue of martin trees and certain pandas and more. exhausts that's the danger of surat nasrin true or realizing there's a radically different way of living that is from brother in law for china starts nov 6th on to w. . welcome to global 3000. shallow water says how panama is protecting its key revenue source from the effects of climate change. farming city style singapore is determined to produce more of its own food and it wants its citizens to help out. that 1st we had to syria where the long running conflict has

devastated the knife's of many including children. for more than 9 years syria has been embroiled in many cities and i in ruins more than 500000 people have lost their lives countless people have been injured many have lost limbs among them many children what kind of future do they now face. mohammed can play football. again though he's not quite as deft as they used to be his prosthetic leg is not a perfect fit sometimes it hurts but the 10 year old is adamant he doesn't want sympathy. in february 26th teen his life was turned upside down he was on his way home from school when syrian fighter jets appeared in the sky with a need. for bombs hit our district one after the other.

when they exploded i was completely conscious. and i remember being taken to the hospital. my leg was bleeding and i used my hand to support it. in january mohammed and his family fled the rocket footage live in syria's last remaining rebel stronghold they feel slightly safer here there's a ceasefire which means fewer airstrikes. mohammed copes as best he can. he lives in a small rented apartment with his parents and brother. they are among the lucky ones most displaced people here live in tents in densely populated camps mohammed longs to return to his hometown which was devastated in the war one day he says when peace returns. i want to play with my friends in zarar kids again go back to school there and then study. i want to become

a doctor and help children who have lost their arms or legs so that they can be happy again. in the saddle up for. mohammed was not the only one to suffer in the airstrikes a neighbour's daughter was killed and his brother was also injured bone not as badly as mohammed mohammed nearly died. in. my son was 5 years old. he was in the operating theatre for 5 hours. it was a dreadful moment when he came out the lower leg. doctors told me they'd removed 10 pieces of shrapnel from his stomach. the following months with tough for mohammed supported by his father he had to learn to live with his new prosthetic leg.

his fate is shared by many in syria. since the beginning of the country's civil war more than 22000 people have lost a leg. this priest static center is one of the few places they can get help. but funding is tight and the technical possibilities limited. they can't offer more complicated prosthetics but they do what they can to make life easier for those affected. we care for many patients here that unfortunately we don't have such high quality materials that out disposal often our patients can't wear the prostheses for very long or simply too many injured people for the funding that we have. initially mohammed came here several times a week he was told exercises given massages and above all received

a lot of psychological support. he quickly grew out of his 1st 2 prostheses and is now on his 3rd. mohamed suffered a great deal he became introverted and depressed his injuries really shook him to the core he saw that i hadn't had that in a city. is doing much better now. but life is tough for people here in india 1st the war and now the coronavirus pandemic the schools are closed prices have shot up and unemployment is widespread. officially the city has no cases of covert 19 but then there's almost no testing here either. if cases emerge it could prove devastating many hospitals are in ruins sanitary conditions are poor

hardly anyone wears a mask. mohammed sells thread and cloth on a street corner. he uses his earnings around 10 euros a day to support his family he'd be better off at school but every cent counts right now. mohammed's father up that has lost his job and the family is living off their savings mohammed doesn't want to be a burden to his parents he has fought his way back into life and he wants to prove how strong. and. many people would like someone with something missing with a disability. he wants to prove the opposite to show that he lacks nothing. whole you want me better than his friends to win a pittance especially a football. player and no one else. and he's not without role models in 2017 some football this who had lost legs in the wall

formed a team there are now 15 of them and they have lots of fans. they play serious football wearing purse d.c.s. . but mohammed has his sights set even higher. when i want to play like chris johnno ronaldo. moments of happiness life might have thrown muhammad a curve ball but he's determined to survive and thrive no matter what. brazil asia africa north america across the globe forests are on fire in $2911.00 forest land the size of a football field was destroyed every 6 seconds yet forests are essential for our climate to handle planets water supply without trees now and becomes dry and that's

apparent in panama and its famous can now linking the atlantico on the pacific ocean this deforestation has led to climate change in recent decades panama has felt 20000 square kilometers of woodlands the result heavily loaded ships are having increasing difficulties travelling the panama canal. the journey through the panama canal is expensive large container ships and tankers pay up to $1000000.00 u.s. dollars and this year they've had to carry less cargo in order to reduce their draft because the water level has been so low the canal authority says climate change is to blame for higher temperatures and a lack of rainfall on the canal passes through lake got to and is fed by rivers with sources in the rain forest. we had a very dry 2001 thing so in february the fresh water rate was stablish the fixed 10

percent of the amount of the toll on a fire wall of the pendant of the elevation of the lake. every time a ship passes through the canal 200000000 liters of fresh water are poured into the locks some of it is recaptured in basins but most flows into the sea the fresh water surcharge was introduced to finance the development of new water sources the rivers and lakes that feed the canal also provide drinking water for millions of people securing the supply depends on the conservation of the rain forests but a lot of trees continue to be felled. we're headed to think. the land was covered in trees until it was turned into a cattle ranch a german company 12 tree that invests in regenerative agriculture projects has now

bought the finger and is busy replanting the forest. the estate will focus on the production of cocoa and native hardwoods saplings are being planted on the grass land where cattle used to graze around $100.00 people have found work at cowen go in a region where unemployment is high up on the. water because of the pandemic many people lost their jobs in the city and not to go to the countryside i was one of them always learning something new. and there on the. on a 3rd of the estate $500.00 hectares cocoa will be grown the project also wants to promote social progress. in the villages around here a lot of people are unemployed a lot especially affects us women. we have as good as no job opportunities because we're women. but there isn't much awareness of the issue of equal opportunities.

for now what one sees are lots of banana trees the cocoa bushes are still young and small they grow best in the shade of banana palms some are already bearing fruit in blood that are born on a plants enhance the soil with a large amount of organic matter. and the cocoa bushes are expert at absorbing this organic matter and using it to grow. i am other for show you cultivation we also use pigeon people and forest trees right now mainly almond trees were planting around 80 trees per acre. the banana plants provide shade and for the time being until more cocoa has grown are the main source of income for the farm when the coronavirus pandemic hit the government bought up almost the entire harvest of cooking bananas across the country in order to ensure the supply they are a staple food here

a strict lockdown meant weekly markets had to close. 700 hectares of the finger are covered in rain forest set aside for nature conservation howler monkeys insects and amphibians live here understood deeper in the forest there are also promises and eaters and also lots of this nature reserve covers almost half of the estate and will be left untouched. cuando is an integrated agro forestry project with 3 main components the natural rain forest crop farming and a tree farm that will provide timber to carpenters in panama the trees in the commercial forest are registered and can only be felt with a permit this is what sustainable ecological investing can look like. development there we had of them there but all of this had been turned into pasture

for cattle. and nothing else was being grown to offset the loss. the one we're now implementing a system of agro forestry that got on the air is cocoa don't come by nona's followed by pigeon peas if they're blander at that level it will mean on the 4th and final level is made up of cedar trees and above all trees which still have to reach maturity. if they will process so they go through. the owner of co on go $12.00 tree is based in berlin it only engages in green investment it's also a co-founder of a latin american climate initiative. peter commons back at the project manager for central america can't travel to her office in panama because of the pandemic they video conference with roderick bins in quantico. he says the banana harvest is good and as to the coronavirus everyone on the estate is healthy again. they're busy

pressing ahead with the reforestation effort. i few years ago panama launched the alliance for a 1000000 initiative which aims to create a 1000000 new had tears a forest over a period of 2 decades. the fact that things aren't moving so fast is largely due to a lack of capital for investing in new projects like these. at finke they are working to develop sustainable organic farming methods that can adapt to the changing conditions brought about by climate change it will take not just encourage mint but also major investment to win over smallholder farmers to agro forestry. and the changes to the climate are having a huge impact on the canal. they can no longer rely on a supply of water as in previous years. the rains are starting much later in the

season. it's crucial to secure the water supply and that means more reforestation projects. but. panama's economy is dependent on the canal restoring forests will enhance the ecosystem and yield more fresh water to the benefit of the people and they can now. in this week's below bill ideas we look at be like many other insects there aren't a threat our reporters headed to the shower mountains national park in kosovo their conservationists are working to protect a unique in that trial landscape in which the busy pollinators play a key role. it's usually men who wear this kind of outfit in kosovo they are hardly any female beekeepers in the country sheep or shall or is one of them the beekeeping season might be over but

she still checks on her charges regularly. and electric fence protects her hives from the bears that still roam this area near priestman kosovo's 2nd largest city. the shar mountains national park just to the self is a refuge for balkan links this species of wild cat is critically endangered there are only a few dozen of them left. she has 150 beehives she's the boss and her husband works for her that's quite an unusual set up but it works for them. they're all we like to do things systematically. i start from one and. my husband starts from the other. we like to compete. it's kind of a game to see who can check more beehives. today

it looks like a tie. once the inspections are done sean or takes care to extinguish the coal in her smoker which is used to come the bees a forest fire could have disastrous consequences. then she reveals a little trade secret. passion. in order not to mix this is our bees wax harvest from this autumn we use it to create new hives it's a lot of work but this is the most natural option for the dog and instead of using mass produced industrial wax unfortunately the government doesn't provide any funding for the extra effort involved but it's the only way to treat our bees well informed model. and it's worth the effort she doesn't have any trouble finding buyers for her organic honey. that sells

for twice the price of the honey sold at street side markets beekeeping sheep breeding and she's making are an important part of the economy in kosovo the youngest and smallest nation in the balkans. shallow went abroad to study organic farming methods. nowadays environmental activists come to see her to learn how she applies organic methods to be keeping. the aim is to raise awareness across kossovo of eco friendly farming practices. i attended a workshop in germany i learned a lot about animal welfare which nobody here knows anything about i'm now getting courses to pass on this knowledge i hope people will come to realise we have to want to take me and that includes being as they are so important for the environment. nature conservation can be an uphill battle.

the director of the shark mountains national park has been sounding the alarm. he says there are just 8 rangers patrolling the park's 500 square kilometers he also says that they need at least 3 times as many ranges. far mentalists could help us by bringing our staff shortage to the attention of the government. but there are also other problems to address such as illegal logging and garbage with the. approval also the construction of hydroelectric power plants are mostly. in kosovo and neighboring albania hydro power plants are still widely considered an eco friendly way to generate electricity but building more of them alongside illegal timber felling would further shrink the habitats of endangered species such as bears lynx and wolves. sheepish alice

says most of the people don't realise what is going on they're just not aware of the issues but she wants to change that. we have to pay more attention to our natural environment especially in the national park this also affects my business. if forest clearance and everything that goes along with it is allowed to go on i will eventually lose my beliefs. because of it gained independence in 2008 it's only natural she says that it will take a while for such a young country to sort things out sheep a shelter for one remains optimistic. according to the un by 2050 almost 70 percent of the world's population will live in urban areas only to eat because spreading cities leave less space the farm land urban farming is on the rise estimates suggest that worldwide there already are around $67000000.00

hectares of land being cultivated within cities and that's just the stuff out empty plots roofs walls balconies that all great urban gardeners disused buildings could also become green houses like in singapore. up here on the 31st floor you can glimpse singapore's future. maya hari is potting melancholy flower seedings she also grows chilly over jeans on her roof terrace. the technology executive is a step ahead of many of her compatriots if singapore's government has its way the high tech city state will soon become a nation of allotment gardeners you don't have the seasons but you can pick the vegetables and fruits and things that grow in tropical weather and you can give that a shot what's not obvious is it's hard to do that in flats which is really the predominant we we live in singapore and that's the hard part to grow at the front with your

growing vegetables at home gardening the government isn't just stopping at this promotional video 150000 of these starter kits with vegetable seeds are currently being sent to people like my own citizens or to become part of an ambitious plan whether purple peppers or coloring her up to know singapore is only produce 10 percent of its food but by 2030 the government aims to increase the up to 30 percent my hari says the pandemic has shown the greater self-sufficiency is the right strategy it helps the singer parisians are becoming increasingly interested in locally grown produce embracing a lot of technology and modern and growing. alfonse in addition to really getting the whole country and all the citizens together to try and grow more than just growing on balconies alone is not going to get there that it's a start. singapore as an agricultural nation it still seems hard to imagine for

decades the country still dies as a financial and economic hub packed with more and more glittering skyscrapers. despite the lush greenery agriculture seems like something from yesteryear but now singapore wants to reduce its dependence on foreign countries. space is in short supply so roofs will be turned into vegetable patches on market gardens the new strategy is already bearing fruit. this is the roof of a popular shopping mall and beyond low gave up his career in advertising and started growing for rosemarie and passionfruit here in 2015 people laughed at him now he is a sought after expert. the entrepreneur has now created 200 gardens like this across the city and he's experimenting with new technologies installed in shipping containers. kale won't grow in tropical climates but here it thrives in a nutrient solution and with l.e.d.

lights which replaces the sun's rays. vertical cultivation carried out on several floors is seen as a promising trend that can compete against countries like neighboring malaysia to grow food much more cheaply. low says that's because his vegetables are rich with more nutrients. put out does all sort that additional health care. or health benefits to the consumers to justify the price and the 2030 cents on the average watching wall vegetable as well so so this is how we put that she will get a profit on his. own. the one percent of singapore's land area can even be considered for traditional farming in the soil. that's why multi-story farms are springing up everywhere backed by the government fish will soon be farmed in this 8 story building the company apollo marine developed the concept so far they've been

producing 300 tonnes of fish a year in their farm across the street but now the state has stepped in as an investor. in the future almost 10 times as many tropical tribes will grow in the company's pools. apollo says it will all be ecologically sustainable 90 percent of the water can be reused and during the lockdown when fresh fish from abroad was not always available apollo was able to win many singaporeans as new customers basically when you break down in the usual shoreline reading is actually very exposed to pollution green whereas if michael ross takes from oil spill use the pollution a lot of contamination when you breed them is a. system i would say she away from all this of contamination and pollution. up on maya hari's balcony she now has started growing strawberries even though they're not really a tropical plant if you fruits and vegetables seem to be off limits for singapore's gardening enthusiasm the high tech nation is discovering just how green its fingers

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this is due to reduce noise from growing tonight america decides voters in the us casting their ballots in the most divisive presidential election in decades. you know i'm not thinking about concession speech or except in speeches. hopefully it will be only doing one of those 2 when you know. winning is easy losing is never easy for me it's done with a record number of ballots already cast in early voting we look at the choice

facing the u.s. also coming up austria in mourning chancellor sebastian cortes condemns what he calls a repulsive terror attack after 4 people are shot dead by a supporter of the so-called islamic state and germany's intensive care units grease for a 2nd wave of cool that patients hospitals have enough beds but it's infectious keep climbing they may not have enough nurses. very warm welcome to all of you millions of americans are casting their votes in one of the most polarized presidential contests in u.s. history the race pits president donald trump against democratic challenger joe biden and it's election day for a nation in crisis mode voters face

a surging coronavirus and concerns over unrest the turnout is set to shatter all records around 100000000 have already cast early or mail in votes today long lines are forming in many states with americans determined to have their say this is what us to mock racine licks like today huge lines at many polling stations and one of the world's oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north through the city that never sleeps. to tropical florida in the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during a pandemic indicating just how important today's vote is for them i want voted for the greatest president in history gone ok wrong trump is doing nothing for us

now that he's going to have very thing more in the control than what. trump does loved as intensely as he is loathed donald trump has become the biggest issue on the ballot and tonight americans and many around the world will be watching how he reacts to their results win or lose. concession speech or acceptance speech. hopefully it will be only for doing one of those 2 and you know. winning is easy losing is never easy now for me it's the. right joe biden is the man determined to turn trump into the loser his campaign through much of election day promising to heal america's divisions a proverb. or rather a proud democrat through work ready i'm going to be her friend robert redford for bloomberg are. both contenders have

presented the battle for the white house as a struggle for the country's soul leaving many in the united states preparing more 1st storm than for an election party. and it's not just at home that donald trump divides opinion with his america 1st policies and brash style on the diplomatic stage he's also polarized opinion outside the united states has been asking people around the world who they hope will when i spoke the united states can find they really are shit in this moment because we are facing up to many. here in costa rica we depend on. for example we really have. the frontiers open again when a possibility i hope biden wins because with trump things are not going very well i hope that with biden's triumphs relations with mexico will improve. i think donald trump will win he won so surprisingly last time as well for many non ex-pats that's

why i think he will win the election. if i give him i hope trump doesn't win i really don't want trump to win because he has been hiding really badly when it comes to managing politics cool weird situation but any kind of scenarios that it appeared in the last one year. i'm expecting anything even a civil war anything can happen. he's from around the world there will donald trump and joe biden have vastly different background and in presenting starkly different vision for the u.s. let's take a look now at the choice facing american voters today. one has dedicated his life to public service. the other has dedicated his to winning. 2 men with contrast in styles and competing visions of the future.

we choose hope over fear unity over division science over friction and yes truth over a law this election is a choice between a trump super recovery which we're in right now or a by depression. joseph biden story is one of triumph and tragedy of overcoming a childhood stutter to reach the u.s. senate just start to years old only to lose his wife and daughter in a car auction and weeks later. in 2015 by who was again left a rare when his son beau died of brain cancer. i found the best way through pain and loss and grief is to find purpose. donald trump inherited a new york real estate empire and turned the name into a brand. his life of waiting cocktail parties and marital affairs where talk of the

tongue. followed him everywhere and saw to did bankruptcies. up to space. but it was hit t.v. show the apprentice that reversed his fortunes for the prestigious helped turn trump from hapless new york businessman to long shot presidential hopeful. wilder to a vast series a white man in their seventy's the similarities end there for decades fighting rode the train to war. well trump enjoys the trappings of wealth biden spent his career shaping his foreign policy beliefs. and forging friendships abroad. trouble conspiracy theories about barack obama our president has finally released a birth certificate and run for office on a nationalist take it

a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states so help me go to prayer arrived promising isolationism. it's going to be only america 1st which saw him embrace dictators and food while pushing me to allies around the tour deal after deal. i am announcing today the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal from the paris. climate a court. decision on treaties with russia. so we're going to terminate a brit we're going to pull the he's gone where few presidents have he was impeached and he repeatedly to violent white supremacists. very fine people on

both sides. america 1st means america alone he's on a mission to rewind the trunk years and he's hoping his folksy appeal will win over swing voters. we are in the battle for the soul this nation. is no stranger to fighting talk doing this because we did what you're wrong. when you stick to the script his pitches the after 4 years of chaos on hundreds of thousands of corporate 90 day he is uniquely placed to mend the country battle for the soul of us vets the job of a president to hear. the trump campaign by contrast has been lights on unity and heavy on a mission from a show for the president this is about coming fast at any costs. reject left wing fascism vote for american freedom vote for america

1st vote for make america great again. both candidates have cost themselves as america's salvation but the truth is in this high stakes pot so the result will reverberate well beyond her borders. well let's take you now to washington and our bear chief there in a so paula joins us now inez you are standing outside the white house where the path of victory will and obviously anticipation building where you are what are you hearing now as the voting gradually wraps up where you are. so low we're yet the black lives matter plus are right behind me is the wide tolerance we talked to from supporters we saw some women dancing with big flags saying every movement of the flag is kind of a prayer and they pray for donald trump to win because he's anti-abortion that is

so it's a significant voting bloc so they're trying supporters here on the other hand they're also biden supporters we talked to some younger females women they said they're absolutely for biden because they want to fight climate change. and there also for human rights so far the mood is still happy with your music but as it's getting dark no it has little bit a little bit of a feeling as if the happy hour is coming to an end now the 1st polls i understand have just closed in the states of kentucky and indiana it is about to get really interesting right. absolutely but we have to be really really careful with predictions like that because people are still voting and those who are standing in line they still have the right to vote so this is going to be a probably a long night before we are really able to know if we are knowing that tonight if you know anything more precisely what have we heard from the incumbent president

donald trump and from his challenger joe biden so far today. they've actually fighting until the last moment and that's quite interesting because one would think with so many mail in ballots they kind of wouldn't have put so much emphasis in these last days but every single vote counts because it could really come down to a couple of thousands by the end of the day what was quite remarkable that the campbell joe biden says you know we wait and see if we have a result tonight and then we will call that and president obama trump was really outspoken saying and really we'll know who the next president of the united states is tonight and that's durst the fear that teammates called his victory before we really have a final result let's talk a little bit about the record setting up early votes that we have seen i mean this is truly a net precedented in terms of turnout and

a us presidential election. absolutely we were able to travel this country from one side to the other we were on the road for 7 weeks at 7000. miles talked to many many people and it doesn't really matter from which political kind of corner they are many said this is the most important election of their lifetime so therefore the outcome is really really huge this is great on the one hand because democracies live from that right on the other hand we also have to be aware that to ever loses or i should say the the those who voted for those the person who didn't make it they have all this energy in them and we shall see how they will handle the loss so there is a lot of tension a lot of energy at this year's election here in the united states

a lot of animated voters there where you are you know us poll reporting from washington catch up with you later and bring it back here to the studio i want to welcome my guests have you were part of william who croft and are in charge of a very warm welcome a filmmaker who worked on barack obama's campaign in 2004 bernie sanders and 2016 william want to give you the 1st word biden versus trump i mean that's what we're here for a one of the probably most closely watched elections in contemporary history when it comes to the yes us unfair question to you how do we think this night will play out it's going to be long this nice to go on for days possibly we're not going to have a clear winner we are very unlikely to have a very clear winner by morning by night whatever time zone you happen to be and whatever you wake up or star still awake hours from now i think we're going to know less than we would like to but we will know more than we think right now

a lot of states you know north carolina florida for example they say they are their election counters are saying actually we can get our votes counted pretty quickly we have a pretty efficient system in our states we're going to know most of them but every state decides for itself how these bostick. counted with the order they get counted in you know what is it in person voting the gets counted 1st when they open up those ballots that have been mailed in you know more than 100000000 americans have already voted that's almost 2 thirds of all the votes from 2016 so it can be a long night we have to be patient we have to ignore exit polls which are always dubious but today especially and let's just see where the where their results take us as they come in and as states say they are where they are you were there in 2008 with the barack obama i was very electrifying at that time how does that election compare to this one with these record shattering early votes that we've been seeing 100000000 people already cast their ballot i mean it's just a big long extended election day with that kind of intensity but that kind of

intensity especially pushed online because the pandemic stopping the campaign so it's hard to compare for lack of a better word touchy feely campaign is obama had really were you know interested in touching people and getting up real close animating voters this time around you think the pandemic 100 percent of the pandemic i mean the angry or hurt people are angry at the incompetence of the trumpet ministration towards doing it he's losing older folks he's he's hurting his most important base directly and i think him getting coded really was the kind of final chapter an appropriate final chapter in this campaign because it meant that no matter what else he wanted to run on taxes the supremes court there was no escape route it had to be about kobe and his reaction to it william let's let's continue on that theme that the pendennis obviously there looming large in the background it's covert on the ballot oh absolutely i mean before corona virus hit america hits so hard and hit harder than

it had to as we know with better leadership with more unified response the united states did not have to go down the path where it is now it's now seeing its 3rd surge if it is you know some people even say we never got finished with the 1st surge. donald trump actually had a pretty good shot and we should say could still win but could have won reelection would be much harder for joe biden over the candidate could have been in that alternate reality to have waged a successful campaign to have some of trump coronavirus has really pulled away everything that democrats that liberals that critics of trump have been saying for years now that this guy is not fit for office trump before coronaviruses very easily when i say no that's fake news that's nonsense people are unfair to me people are mean to me then he gets coronavirus as a room just points out i mean it kind of just brings it all the way ahead where this spinning of facts alternative reality the trump ministration has been trying to put out there just you know at some point it can't square with the facts and

that the coronavirus is out there that has killed 230000 if not when looking at excess deaths maybe even 300000 americans and it's just going up and they don't seem to have a concrete plan for it and people see that you know what effect did the president contracting covert have them did people sympathize with him in terms of his base i mean i think people sympathized with them for at least a couple of days there were folks outside the hospital in d.c. rooting for him but it just meant that there was no way that he could avoid it being the main topic for every day for the for the rest of the election how are you feeling have you been tested you know all those debates were then very much tainted and also he didn't do too badly in the debates and not having an opportunity to have one with joe biden was definitely a missed opportunity for someone who was looking for opportunities course that had the opportunity but he pulled out because he didn't want to do it online. and he did for that 2nd and final debate which was less chaotic less wild less jerry

springer his microphone muted microphones was he able to gain some ground there and make up for that that 1st very bad debate i mean it's hard to tell why. just how much the bass player role in changed people's opinions historically the debates aren't a huge changing in polls and by that point already what made late october a lot of results are baked in by that point and as we see 100000000 voters at that point it was many many tens of millions by that point who were voting. decisions were in in a different year i think it would have been similar to romney obama debate where people really thought romney made up a lot of ground katzman hold on to those thoughts we're going to continue obviously at the top of the hour we'll be back with rolling coverage with these 2 guys of the results and projections as they happen in the u.s. presidential election but 1st i want to take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. the president

of ivory coast the ouattara has won a controversial 30 in office the election was boycotted by the opposition who have vowed to set up a parallel administration when police have been deployed outside the home of the main opposition leader amid growing fears of post-election unrest. archon time soccer superstar diego maradona is to undergo brain surgery for a blood cloth a 60 year old was taken to the hospital on monday for tests after not feeling well maradona's the doctor says the procedure is a routine operation and if all goes well he could be home again in 48 hours. britain has raised its terror threat level to severe its 2nd highest following attacks in austria and france on severe means that an attack is considered highly likely the u.k. home secretary says the decision is

a precautionary measure and not based on any specific threat. and on a related note austria has declared 3 days of national mourning after 4 people were killed in a shooting rampage in the capital vienna a gunman opened fire at multiple locations in the city center he's been identified as a 20 year old sympathizer of the so-called islamic state militant group well police have arrested more than a dozen suspects in the hunt for possible accomplices of the killer. and even require it on the streets a few at the city woke up to a sense of dread. i did not sleep i feel for him and i still feel the panic. on doing only nervous for 8 i live in the neighborhood next to i will go from there you could hear a lot of police have regained control over the city center after the traumatic

shooting on monday night chance was a bust in courts condemned what he called an islamist terror attack. it's it was an attack out of hatred out of hatred for our financial values out of hatred for our way of life out a favorite for our democracy people are equal in rights and dignity. but one thing is clear we will not be intimidated by the terrorists. until monday i had been spared large scale terror attacks motivated by religious extremism urged his country meant to remain united in the face of this new threat. we must be aware that this is not a conflict between christians and muslims or between austrians and migrants no this is a fight between the many people who believe in peace and who want. to

enter the 1st gunshots rang out shortly after 8 pm the gunman was killed in the ensuing fight he was later identified as a 20 year old man with both austrian and north citizenship he was dead last year after trying to join the islamic state in syria he was later released. the police are now is we're going through videos sent in by eyewitnesses to determine if he was a lone shooter. the video so far gave no indication of a 2nd perpetrator however since the evaluation has not yet been completed we cannot finally say how many perpetrators are actually responsible for the crime here since. chancellor cortes went to the site of the shooting to pay his respects to the victims declaring 3 days of national in mourning.

kerry's intensive care units are getting ready for an expected increase in cove it patience as the number of new infections hit record levels while the country has come through the pandemic with plenty of spare capacity in intensive care but now germany has gone back into a partial lockdown in the hope of heading off what chancellor angela merkel says is an acute emergency situation. this patient has been in a coma for over a week his condition is so serious that he has to be artificially ventilated is 48 years old and one of 19 and thence of care patients at this hospital in. the 2nd wave of covert 19 has arrived and it's different to the 1st. ringback we have a lot of older patients in the 1st wave some young ones too but now they're almost all young which means age 15 or younger. and there's

another difference to what happened in spring the hospital is treating more seriously ill patients from neighboring belgium the hospital's head of medicine says belgium took too long to introduce new stricter measures against coded. belgium is an example of what happens when these decisions are made too late there isn't enough capacity so we're taking in more and more belgian patients. and during the 1st wave just under 50 patients were on ventilators at this hospital at any one time putting a huge strain on all the staff but they're benefiting now from the huge amount of experience they gained. we had standardized procedures last time. i will reactivate in those standardized procedures having these standards is very beneficial even if we get more patients

we can just implement them. how well the system copes with the 2nd wave also depends on staff availability and there are shortages already caused by start getting infected with the virus by having to go into quarantine. and those on the frontline of the fight against covert haven't really recovered from the 1st wave. in the market like we're in summer even if we had vacation time we were here there was no real time off and after the 1st wave we still had to deal with normal cases and also all the paperwork that was left from the 1st wave not there by the others because. there's little time to relax because the number of patients who are seriously ill with cove at 19 is set a rise again experience to show that 2 percent of covert patients end up in intensive care. so there will be more i'm expecting more intensive care patients

than in the 1st wave. they were. just under $3000.00 then i'm afraid he's going to be mauled this time. here and they're hoping to rise to the challenge all the way through the 2nd wave but the demands on all of them will be great. and watching 7 years i'll be back with my colleague publicly alias in just over 30 minutes with special rolling coverage of the u.s. presidential election and that.

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baltic sea finally gets court approval if so go for the famine. this is the w. business i'm joined now on in berlin thank you very much for joining us. well we're in the final hours before polls formally close in the united states and the business world is watching closely now traditionally investors that usually back republican candidates for president that's thanks to their support for lower taxes and minimal government regulation but historical data show market performance under republican presidents often don't match investor expectations here's a ranking of past administrations american markets and more specifically the s. and p. 500 saw a 210 percent jump under bill clinton making its time in office the most profitable for investors a similar picture for barack obama who presided over

a 182 percent increase stocks 7 rose only around 50 percent during the administration of george bush sr and his son left office with markets down some $0.44 which brings us to the incumbent donald trump under him the s. and p. is up 44 percent here and scored to our financial correspondent in new york joins us now now again for this election is often framed as a referendum on donald trump does his stock market record help him with the wall street vote. well it's always tough to tell what's better for the markets i remember very well 4 years ago where the rest they're sort of saying in the unlikely event that donald trump would win the election that would probably cost more and sinking stock prices than that of the asli did not happen as a prospect if joe biden would win and we might see higher taxes definitely won't be welcomed on wall street on the other side if we were to get a blue sweep so that the democrats also win the senate that could mean that we

might see a bigger stimulus package to get the economy going and that would be good to the markets so i personally have the impression that investors just want calm exterior winner and they probably could very well if if there should be a bruce we what we won't know if that will happen or not a clear outcome certainly preferable to everybody but yes i think you're standing on a shopping street maybe you can tell me a bit about the atmosphere it looks pretty boarded up where you are it it's completely boarded up i'm in soho in manhattan i've been reporting from here also in the spring when they had the protests and also the looting after the killing of george floyd and it's a very similar feeling right now most places are boarded up here it's you know we quiet so i don't know if anything big is really planned to year over the night but at least business is clearly to get ready for everything that could happen tonight

and also in the days to follow ready for anything and so as an escort to our financial correspondent in york thank you very much for your analysis on this election day. moving on china has slammed the brakes on what was meant to be the world's largest i.p.o. 2 days before trading was set to start the and who had planned a 37000000000 dollar listing in shanghai and hong kong before the sudden suspension the governing body of the shanghai stock exchange said it was jus to changes in regulations in china analysts saw it as a move to rein in the thin tax founder billionaire jack ma who wanted out to be treated as a tech firm rather than a highly regulated financial institution. now to some of the other global business stories making news. saudi arabian oil giant aramco has posted

a 45 percent drop in 3rd quarter net profits compared to a year earlier the coronavirus found it continues to weigh on demand and prices it's also increasing pressure on the saudi government to diversify its oil reliant economy. dacha airline kalen and at 7 unions have reached a deal to cut wages that will last as long as the carrier needs government pandemic economic relief no agreement clears the way for the next installment of a 3400000000 euro aid package. a german federal court has approved the construction of a contested major infrastructure project the famine belt tunnel a direct connection between denmark and germany funded by the e.u. the plan tunnel has enraged and byron mentalists and residents of the island a family on. a ferry is still the only connection between the german on the defeat and denmark that's the moment the trip across the baltic takes around 45 minutes

the planned tony would shorten the travel time to 10 minutes great news for drivers but for the private ferry company it's a threat to their livelihood. scare and klein says go. going to court suing the tunnel project for unfair trade practices. because the from my our main grievance is the use of e.u. money to build the tunnel. we demand transparency if. it's wrong that the project received unlimited state sponsored subsidies without any time limits imposed. the case that. the project is set to cost more than $7000000000.00 euros denmark once it done fast and has already began building very end of the tunnel. the largest working toward in europe is being built off the coast of the island of la and should be completed by the end of next year. on the land the

groundwork for a gigantic factory is underway this is where the concrete elements for the tunnel will be produced in the future. it will be the world's longest emersed tunnel with 18 kilometers of train tracks and a 4 lane highway. by building disconnection and we can actually save a significant amount of time and fuel and c o 2 emissions by connecting 2 industrial hop lands together with a direct route that is also why he supports the project. but resistance is building up on the german side environmental activists fear that large areas of the environmentally compromised baltic sea would be destroyed by the tug. and the tourism industry on the vacation island of fame on is concerned as well years long construction could scare away visitors. like

was supposed to we expect a 9 to 10 percent drop in tourism because of the huge construction site experts have done several studies and that's something we have a lot of respect for. connecting the china to germany's rail and road network is being hotly debated around 800000000 duros have been earmarked to do just that but experts say it will cost much more. well here's a fun fact to win the 2nd most expensive spice in the world south from being the 1st but researchers are seeking a change thought. real vanilla is a luxury product the plant is a type of orchids both delicate and demanding. from north studies vanilla from the university of wyoming and then holland he's exploring new techniques producers can use to grow vanilla in greenhouses if i do things cool to flowers in 2 years so these plants. from

2017. flowers here flowers in march till may and we will this in november. the problem with the nell is that it only bugs when each flower is fertilized by hand and time is of the essence when the petals open farmers only have 6 hours to fertilize the plant greenhouse cultivation can still be worth this around 4 years ago the price of vanilla exploded jumping from $30.00 to over $600.00 per kilogram most commercial vanilla comes from one land. here vanilla is an important source of income for some it's the only one cultivation is a protracted an exhausting process. without a helping hand the plants wouldn't be as productive the longer the vanilla has to

ripen the better the quality of vanilla scarcity makes an attractive target producers harvested earlier each year to avoid theft and it's become a speculative commodity. there's some people here who take advantage of the situation on the revenue we make our living from canelo it's getting harder because some people have been cheated and sold rotten bonilla. even then some was. back in the netherlands the world's oil supplies may have lost value but dutchman early experiments are still bearing fruit. for the near la and for a lot of other crops. we think. if you want to be rowed in a greenhouse it should be more stable us to know more about the background will feel for righties because of bonilla cultivation are high making it a risky investment but researchers here say anything can be cultivated as long as

there's a will and a profit to be made feeding the world. all under glass. and that's all from us thank you for watching.

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minds hopelessness he writes here for you and those how you everything you need to know as america decides will bring you the numbers issues the background to join us for a special place close range from the u.s. election today sunday to the news. the sound of silence is filling concert halls here in germany we'll tell you why top musicians are staging silent protests amid the government's new walk down that's coming up here on arts and culture and later on the show leading architects have a go at designing for dogs what are the dogs think about it. first though a new documentary on one of the most ambitious climate projects to date a campaign to plant a wall of trees right across africa the trees are meant to stop the spread of the

sahara desert creating more stability for people living on its edges american director jared pisgah documents the project in the great green wall a film that's also a musical journey across africa. africa a continent of diversity with the youngest population on the planet. but it's. the scene of conflicts and crises brought on by climate change. 60000000 people. expected. by 25th. what else can you do. then try to find a better life. madeon news ition an activist. takes the viewer on an epic journey through africa saw my region that's being heavily affected by

climate change through the music more just to promote the great green room project . tree planting campaign that aims to plant. long green forest and greenery across the. continent of africa. let's go to stop. the film is a musical road movie with more just singing about the subject closest to her heart's line china which i predict that you. and i can only read our. first stop senegal this is where the great green wall has made the most progress across 150 kilometers 12000000 trees have been planted creating 12000 hectares of 1st soil and.

another stop on more just journey is nigeria here climate change has made the country's conflicts ever more acute. like challenge a source of livelihoods for millions has shrunk by almost 90 percent the terror organization in boko harm its rise in part to social unrest brought about by climate change. people ask themselves what do i have left should i join a group go to the city try to reach europe. great green wall project is about creating a viable future for over $1000000000.00 young africans if it doesn't succeed there will be more migration so far only 15 percent of the green wall is completed

continents fate hangs in the balance. my colleague melissa holroyd is here to tell us more this is such a humongous project isn't it yeah it's. it's epic and if it's completed it would be the lot just living structure on the planet it would be 3 times the size of the great barrier reef he said. yeah well they hope to be completed by 2030 they started in 2007 with a half way there and they've done 15 percent. you know it's sort of a little bit about you know my job. in the person in this film with a she's really a powerhouse she's not just a singer as she knows she's done a whole lot of things she's also a model she's been on the cat waltz of paris and around the world she's been on fire she's got 3 best selling albums and what she does the documentary is broken up

into chapters and in each chapter she meets with local musicians and i collaborate and they put together they put together songs to create an album to raise money for me great great more so there's a chapter about each of these countries along what will be their great green wall this is also just. film project and you know mojo is one of the big names involved there are some other big names i believe to have the map from and on the red this is oscar nominated brazilian director he did city of gold and also as you mentioned jared piece scott he's done a number of eco documentaries in the past 2 days with one chomsky and he says that he was motivated to put together the documentary because he felt that the people that are suffering the most in the world from climate change have contributed the least to climate change so he's sort of just us yeah a real sense of justice and also he says that it's

a real story of hope and result and of course he wants to get more of the wall actually built so the documentary uses the great green wool more as sort of a metaphor rather than sort of a literal story i mean it's all it's also really being built but as a metaphor as to how these different countries a dealing with climate change and each of these chapters deals with a different problem that's being addressed there are some very positive stories one of them is ethiopia is the chapter on ethiopia what are we if you remember the 1980s you're probably too young to remember but there was there were terrible terrible famines and ethiopia that saw hundreds of thousands of people die so then very greening of of the place has really had some very very positive effects you know with the whole right thanks so much for coming on the show. culture makers here in germany say the government is silencing the arts with its new coronavirus

rules musicians around the country posted silent protest videos against germany's new partial lockdown on monday night that included the hamburg philharmonic and conductor can't not going to well this week germany's shut down concert halls theaters museums and cinemas till at least the end of the month while allowing retail stores and other businesses to stay up and running. in the jungles of southern mexico the luck and dawn people are one of the country's most isolated indigenous groups without contact to the outside world they preserve their anshan mayan culture for centuries and recent years that's starting to change and one of the outsiders they've let in is austrian photographer and amman he's been visiting them for over a decade now documenting their traditions before they disappear. the maya a lost civilization the french just

a strong army and mathematics time was sacred and humane human sacrifices tribute to their gods. martin engelman travel to central america for the 1st time in 2008 in a small village in the rain forest of southern mexico he encountered the left hand on descendants of the mayans whose ancestors fled to the forests from spanish conquered anthropologist alice powers and nearly often travels with a woman. she lives with a lack on dawn 6 months a year and speaks their language the entrance of the cave of the gods back. from dawn's belief that this is where the souls of the deceased are purified on the way back from the underworld to about 700 mine have survived to this day. the culture can still be found will cease to exist in

a very few years and for me as a photographer this is a painful realisation but i can't stop it and i had to accept that of. to eunice now. has a rowing in the village of know how there is now electricity telephones streets there are only a few old people left the last guardians of the group's cultural heritage. martin engelman also met the last shaman mouthpiece of the gods dawn antonio. dawn and in the face of the mayan and owns everything in life has a meaning of the everything lives everything is animated no matter whether a small plate of grass or tree everything. has a soul has a spirit and you can also communicate with everything that is what the maya believe

i believe that if we go through nature with this attitude there is no more good and bad but you can see everywhere how valuable creation is be valid for the ship. in the rainforest everything sings the maya say everything has a voice. museums and galleries in england are going back into lockdown this thursday but before that happens we managed to get a tour of the architecture for dogs show in london we've got a 4 legged friend to go sniff it out. in london sure she's a female shiba inu inspects the architecture for dr exhibition of creative furnishings and for man's best friend. the pieces are the creations of internationally renowned designers and architects.

passive carney's along based architect who has gone to the dogs. each of us did been given the brief to create architecture for dogs instead of humans and it's not about making houses now of course pacific in the prefer it was about trying to express yourself at the scale of the dog and so what's really interesting about it the creative tools are to get sharp and that's the bit where to start to see things from a different perspective and see how the dog sees the world. the concept for the exhibition came from japanese design of kenya from 2012 that went on shore around the world only now arriving in your a. massive contact with this design i see you it's intended for dogs with black coats. the idea is that it says the dog is able to camouflage itself amongst a kind of black background is made from sheep's wool the whole thing has

a smell of delicious smell the dog which attracts it initially and the shape you can see starts in the ground and lifts upwards in this curved arc the idea is that kind of resembles the way the dog discovers the world around it maybe the way it sees is by smelling the ground and slowly looks up to discover what's surface in front of it. for sure there's plenty to discover. but it's about more than seeing and sniffing is more than an exhibition it's really a. global project by people can interact by downloading versions of the pieces which are exhibited and make them themselves we upload them and they are then shared via social media. to take just for dogs sounds pocking but schorsch seems to approve. hot diggity dog.

definitely a lot easier than filming a report with cats well that's it for this edition of arts and culture for more stories about design music film and art those of us anytime on line i d w dot com slash culture but for now.

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