on the fish and they prey on the fish that live in the gulf of morton for the fishing industry. but the blue crab could also pose a threat to another much larger marine animal. the sea turtle, or me the mediterranean, is home to 3 species of turtle, all of which are endangered. they gather in the gulf of god, best to feed and to spend the winter to the north. korea island is an important nesting ground for the loggerhead turtle, which lays its eggs at just a few sites on the island. throughout the entire mediterranean, the number of nesting places has dropped rapidly with the animals being disturbed by bright lights and tourists. when they 1st had the babies way, just 20 grams without a hard outer shell, bare completely defenseless. only one in

a 1000 survives many get eaten by fish and crabs. and now of course, there's a new predator in town. the blue crab just a few kilometers away on the mainland. how tim is currently being cared for by the adult female is more than 30 years old. she is malnourished and has a large fishing hook inside her. a fight suffered by many sea turtles. the scientists here say injuries from both propel is also common. they found these pieces of plastic in her sam's feces. the pollution of the seas is another huge threat to the turtles. around 2 thirds of the animals examined here have plastic inside their bodies. the scientists record and keep everything they find it ultimately full on sea turtles are very important for the marine ecosystem

that go to maintain the balance in the food chain. even if in animal there, loggerhead turtle, for example, it's everything and it will eat crabs. and mollusks fish jellyfish used to make sure no individual species can take over. if things start to tip out of balance the sea turtle helps to get things back into equilibrium. telecommunications, one of the biggest threats to the sea turtles is the fishing industry, landed in a fishing net as bycatch. once a juvenile turtle has recovered and is able to dive for food again by herself, she'll be released back into the sea. but 1st, the scientists want to take blood and tissue samples to analyze had d.n.a. the data is needed for an international research project studying the effects of

plastic pollution on sea turtles. meanwhile, efforts are underway to curb the numbers of blue crab, its initial company called golden fish, is now making money from the invasive shellfish. other companies along the gulf of governors are doing the same in other parts of the world, the blue crab is a delicacy. so they are now being cool, it's taken a pass and frozen, ready for export. last year alone, the company sent out 60 tons of crab and crab meat. most of the customers are in asia, but the blue crabs are also popular in spain and italy. in the capital tunis, we visit in the, in the bar trade. this one focuses on developing a question by a products researchers here study marine organisms to identify natural substances that could be used in cosmetics and other applications. they found that the meat of

the blue crab is rich in various proteins by turning the crab meat into a powder. they've developed a protein rich food supplement. so now the blue crab has an appeal for the domestic market to the blue crab, all but destroyed the livelihoods of many fisherman. but now it's become a source of income, allowing the fishing industry to survive. and by catching and using the crabs, this invasive species is being kept under control of tunisia's coast. in this week's global ideas, we go to south africa to learn how axe breaks can promote nature conservation. something that's easier than it sounds. south africa is famous for its wild life for a vast areas of almost untouched land. now an ngo there is working to turn much of

that into nature reserves. we met up with 2 of its teams in the can do in the east of the country and chemist grown in the west. no plantations, no crops, no combine. harvesters. 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture. it's too rugged, too dry and too one even but everywhere you look, you see life in abundance. the country boasts rich biodiversity. but how best to preserve it. in south africa, environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stevens comes in. she's a tax specialist that the n.-g. o.

wilderness foundation, africa. she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves. the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public. good. yes, and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that biodiversity. so even as you plough money time, if an energy into looking after the sun farm is may think you're not getting in your now is a special tax incentive just to give a little bit back. this man is already converted his land into a protected area. he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period. that extra cash and pocket would be able to, to give a little bit more financial sustainability to you in managing this in perpetuity.

and so that you could put a little bit more interest, which would be your decision and you know what needs to happen on the side of photographer, cause funded and purchase the land 5 years ago and has taken countless pictures of the area since then. it rarely rains here, but when it does, the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it could act as a corridor for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas . we stand on the northern border of it to the west and east of self stretching down national park and then to the north east. look up and you can see the proposed corridor linking the 2, protected the crew region of south africa is home to more than $5000.00 species of

plants. and some 40 percent of them can only be found here. the good of the school because the rain season is gone. oh yeah, this will be the final flower. we had some beautiful rain a couple of days ago. so it's just a little bit early. but surely once upon a time this area was farmland, this was going back for a long time since the 17th hundreds with the sit by news that that formed here with a high rainfall that time. but due to global warming and the rainfall diminished quite a bit, and it just became impossible for these people to, to make a living with cattle and agriculture. and eventually they had to sell. and that's why we bought in the farms for conservation with climate change,

threatening biodiversity. candace stephens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow suit, having grown up on a farm herself. she's adept at communicating the advantages of the tax scheme. tax is not everybody's favorite subject and when tax season rolls around, it's not like everybody. so my experience with is that they understand that there are implications to tax financial. and so they want to fully understand what the tax incentives for their dozens of landowners have signed up to the scheme. her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the kwazulu-natal province. in order to protect the land, locals introduced a herd of cattle and really a great the animals serve an important function. keeping the grass short helps prevent wildfires in the dry season, but it's just the start. we want you for

a time when the whole nature reserve will be fenced and i know that will slowly introduce starting with the plains game, which will be zebra springbok. and those type of animals. and then once they are established slowly, the cup will be removed. the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve the chance rebates that kandor stevens has been promoting, have gone some way towards addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa. and in the future. she's hopeful of further progress in this development. conservation work can become the mainstream and become something that's part of everyday life and not something that's a pretty and with additional finance that's sustainable. it means that we're protecting biodiversity on

a scale that we haven't done before. and if we can all answer that global challenge with all the resources that we have at our disposal, the marches have a chance of saving the world around us. and that's all from us that global 3000, this time. as always, we love receiving your feedback, right to global 3000 d.w. dot com, and check us out on facebook. label ideas and new women. see you next week. take care

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the safety of the unit was a live from berlin, and us president donald trump, orders thousands of troops to leave afghanistan and iraq. the move helps fulfill his campaign promise to bring american troops home from conflicts overseas. but some military officials and nato allies are sounding the alarm about the decision. also coming up on the show. hurricane iota, tears through nicaragua,

claiming several lives and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee. forecasters are still warning of life threatening flooding and landslides. plus i am looking at exclusive new news footage of an air strike in ethiopia's tigris province. the rebellious region has ignored a government ultimatum to surrender. you feel good? defense minister tells us he expects the military offensive to be over within a week. and play richardson welcome to the show. the united states has announced it will be, bringing some troops home from iraq and afghanistan by mid january. u.s., president donald trump had earlier suggested he want to trade, celebrate the troop withdrawal from both countries. by the end of his charm in

office, the pentagon says just 2500 troops will remain in each nation respectively. now, these conflicts have lasted through 3 american presidents. he's with u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan since 2001, and in iraq since 2003, u.s. national security adviser, robert o'brian says, the troop drawdown fulfills an election pledge important to the outgoing president . before years ago while president promise to put a stop to america's wars. today it's just announced that the pentagon president trump, is keeping that promise to the american people for president. trump understood that the way to end those wars was a dot to adopt a peace through strength approach to the world. he rebuilt the american military, which had been decimated by defense, sequenced ration under the obama administration. he required our allies to step up their game. and for more on this i'm joined now by our washington correspondent,

all of various outlets, all over good to see you. how is trump's call for troop reductions going down in washington's powerful defense community? there's a lot of criticism clear even from within his own republican party and look, donald trump is trying to make good on a campaign promise. we've just heard o'brian laying that out, essentially in 2016 promise to bring american soldiers, they comb and he did that already in syria, in 2019 when he pulled his troops out from there. that was a big blow for the kurds at the time that we're a partner in fighting isis on the ground. now it happens again in afghanistan and in iraq and analysts have called this move already a huge gift for the taliban in afghanistan. also, nato secretary general stoltenberg said that afghanistan could become again a platform for international terrorists. so essentially throwing the country back for years. but we do have to keep in mind clear though,

that it takes time to withdraw. troops from an assignment like this in time is exactly what the outgoing u.s. administration doesn't have. it's just a little bit under 2 months left until president elect joe biden takes office. and that's right, and you mentioned some republicans are unhappy about this decision. we know that even trump's close ally mitch mcconnell, the republican senate majority leader, opposes the idea. let's take a listen to what he had to say. erupted with the role of u.s. forces from afghanistan, now, would hurt our laws and the light. you're like, the people who wish us harm violence of fucking afghans is still rampant. the taliban is not about and by the conditions of the so-called peace, the consequences of a premature american exit would likely be even worse than program obama's withdrawal from iraq, iraq and cornell, over which view fueled the rugs of isis and

a new round of global terrorism it was mr. mcconnell, they're now all over. break this down for us. what are their concerns with a quick withdrawal you just heard senator mitch mcconnell laying it out basically the united states and they told me go should a peace deal with afghanistan. that was in february in the peace deal included a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan until 2021. the 1st of all those peace talks they stalled, and then also former acting secretary of defense mark asked for a set the time is not ready to pull the troops out of afghanistan. and he was fired, as we know by trump. he put a loyalist in place. cristobal miller, sold the announcement to pull the troops out. it was one of the 1st things we heard from him. his job is that knowledge to fulfill that plan though there is just one big question that remains on answered, and that is how to secure stability on the ground because that withdrawal is certainly a threat to peace. and it's also a possibility it once again for the,

for the taliban that would go all strengthened out of that such a withdrawal. and of course we are in the late days of this u.s. administration. we'll have a new president there in a january. where does president elect joe biden stand on this to? his plans for afghanistan really differ so much from donald trump's. they actually don't. if you look into is agenda. basically. he wants to work with draw a vast amount like the vast majority of the troops there certainly biden knows that those assignments are unpopular among american voters. and he certainly for that very reason won't send any troops back to of now the government, the afghan government, the hopes that he has a tougher stance on the taliban. and also, joe biden is certainly more open to leave a small amount of troops on the ground to act like a counterterrorism force. so no big difference, but certainly a better position for the afghan governments to continue their peace talks. a

correspondent in washington, d.c. many thanks. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. has sworn in a new interim president, its 3rd head of state in just a week. and francisco sagacity will lead the country until a presidential election next year. there have been a massive protests across the country since the impeachment of prudes popular former president, my teen medics say more than 40 people were injured. in tuesday's protests in bangkok, 5 with gunshot wounds, thousands gather to march to the parliament where lawmakers were mulling constitutional amendments. earlier police fired water gas water containing tear gas on the pro-democracy protesters in an attempt to break up the rally. hurricane iota has been battering central america with high winds and torrential rain since coming ashore in nicaragua on monday night. the storm has been blamed for at least 5

deaths across the region. forecasters say, flooding and landslides will remain a big threat even as the system weekends iota is moving across the region at that still reeling from hurricane earlier this month. it's the 30th storm so far this season, strong enough to have been given any hurricane. are you the storm roared ashore on nicaragua as counter being coast packing, 250 kilometer per hour, winds and leaving chaos in its weight. you know, this is the 3rd hurricane i've seen in my life, and it's one of the strongest and most destructive, hurricanes i've ever seen in my life. is that, i mean, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters, and the area is still reeling from an equally powerful storm. the same stretch of coastline was devastated by hurricane etta just 2 weeks ago. we're running out

for this atlantic hurricane season record, but it's record breaking and every sense of the word it is turned out to be even worse than we thought it started earlier and is going to end even late. this unprecedented season is focusing more attention on climate change. scientists see it's causing where stronger and more destructive storms. november usually signals the end of the hurricane season. something that can't come soon enough for people here to ethiopia now where prime minister abbey off met has announced what he says would be a final military operation against province after local leaders ignored his surrender . also made him earlier. the federal government carried out what it called surgical airstrikes on it. he cries, regional capital, because the government has so far resisted international pressure for mediation in

the conflict. but fallout from 2 weeks of fighting has the potential to destabilize the entire region. and it's already started with the u.n. says is a full scale humanitarian crisis. ethiopian air force fighter jets on a mission in the skies above tikrit i captured by d.w. journalist on the ground. local t.v. later showed what appeared to be buildings damaged by the air offensive was the escalating violence has sent thousands, spilling out beyond ethiopia's borders. hate groups say 25000 people have fled to saddam. since the fighting broke out, half of them children,

some may not see their fathers or husbands again. well, i took it out of. we came with the clothes on our backs. i don't know where my husband is. i've been looking for him for 5 days. and i don't know where he is in an exclusive interview with t w. ethiopia's minister of defense says his country's fight was with rebel groups. group that you really must occur in ethiopia, gross violation of rights and conflict in ethiopia. therefore, it is, the operation is getting this the state t.v. pictures claim to show national forces liberating towns, but hundreds are reported to have been killed. nevertheless, the government continues to resist calls for external mediation issue let your to

let so lonely or income let fares. so and also it doesn't take many, many pounds. it is really going to be a complete get within a week there for all we don't want. it is a big income. but regional t.v. appeared to show footage of captured eritrean troops with whom the rebel forces have also been fighting. ethiopia's prime minister has promised a quick end to the conflict with his quote final and crucial military operation. he said then he'd be ready to reintegrate the swelling numbers of refugees now trying to survive on the banks of the to keys the river in sudan. well, it was one of the biggest of george heists in germany for decades. now,

it looks as though there's been a breakthrough in the case of the green vols, a break in at one of the country's most famous museums. last november, thieves made off with an estimated 1000000000 euros worth of precious gems from the museum in dresden. early this morning, suspects in berlin got a pre-dawn wake up call from police. it was the pride of preston's green vault, 18th century jury of immeasurable worth. items that once were worn by german kings and queen us. but since a smash and grab burglary a year ago, it has been no trace of them. but there could be of the thieves in berlin, more than $1600.00 officers from around the country, raided several apartments, taking laptops, potential evidence, and arresting 3 suspects of the of i'm talking about so much of it for 2 of the arrested suspects. the judge in charge has issued an arrest warrant to

please the 3rd suspect who will still be brought before the judge. the prosecutor's office in dressed in expects an arrest warrant there as well. the much a plea from government always the stuff to feed him push through because they've got the police have also launched an international search for 2 additional suspects . all of them have been identified as german citizens who belong to the so-called criminal clan, seen organized crime networks whose members are mainly of middle eastern origin. germany's capital bolin has become a stronghold for them in recent years. and the challenge for police and prosecutors . the jury highest is the 2nd high profile robbery in germany. in 2017, a 100 kilogram gold coin was stolen from a berlin museum. the theft was linked to the same criminal clown that is now in the focus of investigations around dressed and green bolt. sports news now when the

german soccer team has suffered its worst defeat in almost 90 years, germany lost 6 nell to spain in their final nations league, a group match. federer on top, scored 3 of spain's goals and the result means a spade finishes ahead of germany. in their group, that's a news update at this hour. remember, you can always get the latest news and information are round the clock on our website. they are dot com and guy richardson in berlin for me. the whole team, thanks for watching the fight against the coronavirus. endemic has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the coronavirus update. 19 special on t w.

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