against a culture of violence. despite coming from poor families to become president. the challenges around those. credible story. starts december 10th g.w. . welcome to global 3 thousands. underwater bangladesh's farmers are having to adapt to climate change. sustainable lifestyle farming can new methods save mexico's clowned forests. but 1st we find out how faith can conquer

violence the former gangsters finding god in brazil. the average number of people to be murdered worldwide every year is 6 per $100000.00 citizens that figure is 5 times higher in brazil last year an average of $114.00 people were murdered there every day that's $41600.00 search and find over the year of all countries not at war brazil is one of the most dangerous the countries for a particular hot spots when it comes to violent crime much of it gang led the military and police regularly move in on the areas and shootings the commonplace yet many young men see joining a gang as their only chance of a future and leaving is notoriously difficult. this evangelic. a preacher was once boss of

a drugs gang past. he seeks to make amends for his sins and wants to give others hope. when he speaks gangsters listen. to the tougher get the sound of the kalashnikovs. he lives in rio de janeiro but nowhere near that the. moment he has his wife always prays for his safe return whenever dimitri on march eans sets off to preach in a dangerous neighborhood the moment he himself grew up in the slums and ended up making lots of money through crime. and 50 men cheat yourself to steal. they see it there. unfortunately i did bad things. kill people. that's why today my mission is to convert drug addicts and criminals he will begin

to profit. he's on his way to a prayer meeting it will be the 1st time he attends one since the pandemic hits. while gangsters patrol the streets with automatic weapons dimitri on march 18th prepares to deliver a sermon. evangelical christianity is booming among the poor in rio this is one of the many churches in the favelas. uganda believe that if you go astray you usually have 3 options get killed go to jail or end up in a wheelchair that's my message to you and you. the church's pastor is get the service going extatic practices are typical of this brand of christianity there are a lot of young people in the congregation.

dimitry 0 asks anyone to come forward who has a friend or relative in a drugs gang. soon half the gathering is standing in front of him that's when he starts talking about his time as a gangster. and they are. part of life that i lead i had money and power but i had to hide every night because i couldn't trust anybody. not even my friends. later back at his home he told us he never got a good night's sleep as a gangster but he had had high expectations when he joined up as a poor boy from the slums he saw it as a chance to be somebody. let me see why i was that. i started to take drugs and got in with a bunch of criminals and we would attack other guys. i rose up through the ranks to

become boss in the complex so alemao favela. he reached his criminal zenith in the late 1980 s. and early ninety's a wild time with lots of partying and lots of drugs. dimitri on march 25 drug dealing benyus as the right hand man of a major drug. 2 fights with rivals were bad enough but attacks by the military police were even worse a hit team caught him by surprise one morning. i was walking down a steep when i noticed i'd walked into a trap they started to shoot. you *. but i don't know i fell i was in shock he stopped bodyguards ran off.

since then dimitri has been paralyzed from the waist down nowadays he spends his days going around the favelas preaching and trying to get gangsters to reform his own story is well known a bad man who found god in the path of virtue many people here find it moving. through a family that. he often talks to the dealers hanging out on street corners here. they seem to accept him and they pray together. even those who carry a hand grenade with them just in case. the government needs to create opportunities for the kids here so they don't just make the obvious choice to become dealers or lose their freedom or even their lives what about.

those who choose to go clean and renounce crime are relatively few in number. wagner jody vega is one of them he got his 1st revolver when he was just 15 so i came up by page. my rear went well i was soon one of the bosses and had loads of cash. and in a shootout i was grazed by a bullet. as if it going to get out the way dish. nowadays he's deputy head of the local residents' association he helps people fill out forms and deal with the authorities. get all know me benefits. so all i have left from my former life are bad memories and scars i sleep much more peacefully than i did back then. even died due to me by. he's devoted himself to improving conditions in the neighborhood digging drainage ditches and clearing roads they plan to tarmac this one. when

dimitriy omar chines the preacher does manage to sway a gangster it's usually during a prayer meeting it's quite standard around here for dealers to attend and engage with the pastors. towards the end of the meeting a young man is moved to get up and tell his story of redemption. a lot of it of course the part was sentenced to 14 years in prison then i found god and then i was released now i shall always walk with god. was other congregants find such declarations inspiring it gives them hope then another dealer comes forward to receive the blessings that you've got these 2 outsiders it might seem very odd that drug dealers can be god fearing. here and everybody must know in his heart what he is doing. it was bizarre he declared his intention to live

a cleaner life if he doesn't if i want to give up drugs. dimitri omar chines good example seems to be a healing influence helping others like himself to escape a life of drugs and crime. past. in may 2020 a tropical cyclone hit the coast of bangladesh millions of people had to flee for their lives storms in the bay of bengal often drive sea water fall in lands damming 2 of the country's main rivers the ganges and the brahmaputra this can cause them to burst their banks flooding knowledge areas of lands experts believe that climate change will inevitably make extreme weather more common the countries and. it will monsoon rains are already becoming increasingly heavy. they also fear that by the end of the century sea levels around bangladesh could rise by $1.00 to $1.00 and

a half meters large areas of the low lying country would then be submerged under water. in southern bangladesh the monsoon rains are getting heavier year by year and that means ever more extensive flooding. nowadays overdone models fields are not just under water during monsoon season but for a full 8 months of the year so he's turned to growing vegetables on floating beds the water here is fresh not salty mana has become a farming pioneer by reviving a technique that dates back many centuries. but i got i learnt from my father a few plants on the water but he didn't do it systematically. i have what we've developed a technique further we don't really have any other option if we don't want to starve. my. mother has got used to

spending much of his life in and on water the venture is proving very successful. the goods are growing fast they're almost ready to harvest. grown on water taste better and contain more bitterman. we don't need any chemical fertilizers or pesticides so these vegetables are better than the ones grown on the much better. seedlings have already been planted on the adjacent bed the roots store nutrients out of the water the beds are made up of the highest since decayed organic material compounds that fertilizers the plants they held together by nets and hardly move there's almost no current here. of it all mother has become something of a star in his village his income is now 3 times the local average the whole family

works on the farm. his daughter is embedding good seeds in bowls of compost they will then be planted on a floating bed farmers in bangladesh are innovating their methods in response to climate change have those tunes of the high what's a bit scary is that my father's out on the water all the time. it's getting hotter and hotter here and mosquitoes breed on the water and cause diseases. my father's often ill that's terrible because he is the only one in the family who earns any money so we get very worried whenever he's sick. in the neighboring village of bread fruit tree has just been felled. the timber is form of an under some a day has given up farming and now it only builds boats.

it takes him 6 hours to build a boat by hand the business is great he could sell a lot more than he can build. all of our you guys are very busy right now it's not time of year the farmers have to take to the water or porter. garden for us it's doubly good because we have to use up the wood otherwise it will rot in the rainy season. but we still offer the farmers a good price or. more and then do some a dad goes to the boat market every friday he may be 70 but he paddles the 5 kilometers there comfortably. hundreds of rivers flow through bangladesh and they have tens of thousands of trivia trace and low lying coastal regions like here in bury cell division is a growing threat the sea level is rising in the bay of bengal so rivers flow most

sluggishly towards the sea and spread out across the land salty sea water is intruding deeper into the interior. for boat building it means more work for the boat market stretches for more than 2 kilometers along as. these boats sell for the equivalent of 40 euros they are a bust and can carry loads of up to 450 kilograms mohandas some of debt has a number of loyal customers. it all depends on the skill of the boat builder experience i have a boat so people like me but i've had to work very hard to get to where i am now down. that at. dawn on roy has come to visit he's an agricultural engineer with a district of thora to use and stops by regularly the government is keen to promote floating farms all kinds of crops can be grown on them spinach tomatoes

cauliflowers as well as cool climate change could mean that a 3rd of the country will end up under water the question is. floating farms like here in bury so could be developed across the country i wanted a bomb on the. right now bangladesh produces enough food to be self-sufficient but we don't have enough of a say food food free of toxins and contaminants floating gardens make a valuable contribution because the farmers use a lot less pesticides because there are fewer pests on the water. at the local wholesale market sells his produce and also seedlings to other farm this. he says they used to grow just rice and that involves much less work but switching to farming on water has proved to be much more profitable.

seedlings grown on land are weaker ours are more robust and look fresher. we sell more than lamb farmers. mother water seedlings are greater demand command higher prices. more and more farmers and berries sell planning to switch to flushing cultivation and essentially no shortage of water. ok cheat. on their travels on reporters often meet interesting young people like this week's global team from thailand. hi my name

is playing i'm 16 years old and i go to the international school of bangkok i'm currently a junior and i live here in bangkok thailand. i like to go diving because there's no other experience like being in the water it's just you and the water and you feel a sense of connection that nothing you can ever experience on land when you're connected to meet here on that level everything just sort of disappears and you just realize how amazing and connected nature is to you. i like to learn but i don't necessarily like. how schools are organized so i feel like you put so much customer on. getting good grades 6 cetera instead of just the aspect of wanting to learn.

my mom a parenting seminar company called me into 60 degrees and my dad he just makes business still. hasn't i currently hope to work in the u. and i think it'd be really cool to just. be in the middle of it all and try to make the world little bit more fair. afraid of world leaders because i have no control over the decisions that they make is what it feels like and when those in power have their own political agendas. that's when things get really scary. like they do rather. than the future people become more sympathetic towards others

and realize. how similar we are instead of focusing on our own self interests because at the end nothing can work without each other. and i hope that in the future we can all just come to terms of how everyone is different. yet we all strive for the same thing even if we hold different beliefs we all want the same thing. this weekend global ideas we look at the told farming takes on. millions of hectares of woodland have already been destroyed worldwide to make way for agriculture. in a nature reserve in southern mexico more sustainable methods are protecting by its farm as livelihoods of the forests. it's daybreak and head to cut he is on his way to milk his cows he follows

a path up the number you grew up a mountain in the. biosphere reserve in southern mexico. legend has it that anyone who tries to take something away from the mountain will never return home. the slopes are shrouded in an almost primal mist there's been widespread deforestation on many of the other mountain slopes in the region farmers keep their cattle in the forests that remain. cows grazing on land that's fenced off to protect the woodland. want to copy wreak havoc in the forest they destroy everything contaminate the streams and cause ground erosion so if they run around the forest and it rains there be landslides. most fair. hector keeps 20 cows he used to have many more but he got rid of half of them because he knows that traditional livestock farming is bad for the environment

decades ago his grandfather switched from growing corn and beans to livestock farming because it was more profitable. 3 years ago hector joined the project b.-o. possumus which promotes cattle farming that's sustainable and doesn't destroy diversity his income is starting to increase and the environment is gradually recovering. but it's been a difficult few years. only little ball leave the article i argued with my father but i was the 1st ops to go i have to overcome well i haven't been easy but i asked him to give me a chance the. moment of weight if you think that well i took the risk by a small farm i went through some hard times very hard times i milked my cows constantly but the yields were low level. with that.

indigenous farmers traditionally let their livestock graze in forest pastures and also grew vegetables their methods were sustainable their expertise had largely been lost now their descendants are looking to revive it and save the cloud forest . jose antonio jimenez coordinates the bee opossums project in a state of chiapas right all for about. meticulous planning facilitates the farmers switched to the climate smart livestock concept. knows the region well and can provide practical support when necessary. the biggest challenge he faces is convincing the farmers to change the way they've always done things. up really but not the most we need to work with the farmers to identify problems together. we also need to work with them to find solutions when this process taking into account

the expertise and experience of the farmers and their families it helps them to learn new things and then we must always factor in what the farmers know. protection through production that's the motto of be opossums farming practices don't have to entail force degradation some 1200 farmers in the region have joined the initiative most of them are cattle farmers. who 1 pm in town still has a herd of cows. but he's also cultivating bananas and soursop trees on a section of his land. even though it'll be 5 years before the fruit provides him with a solid income he signed up with b o pass us. at the local book of people think we're crazy they don't know why we're planting small trees when we won't even live to see them grow. but my wife and i hope that even if

we never get to harvest the fruit one day our children our grandchildren will benefit and they'll also benefit from improved air quality even a little later. an hour. a year ago 1 pm and tells why fully at out was one of several local women in the village and has to found their own cheese dairy which they run as a co-operative. they all used to make cheese at home by themselves now they've joined forces. the equipment is all brand new and was provided by bill passes. the women produce 5 varieties of cheese. and then we'll head if we went out to talk a lot we say what we think it's good that we're making different kinds of cheese

everyone knows different varieties so works permanent ng. life that if we women support one another and then the whole yam. the farming families used to sell their milk via a middleman at a very low price now they're earning better. the focus of going to money. that was one of the main incentives for joining the project and switching to sustainable production. said it would all get. through on eco they pull. it allows them to diversify it means they can sell their produce at higher prices. is our aim was not only to teach them new technical skills but to support them in the whole production chain from the farm to the consumer. in the. door and rosa county you have also invested in a cheese press it's helped speed up the production process and they hope that in the

long run it will secure them a steady income. that's all from us at global 3000 this week what did you think of the program write and let us know we're at global 3000 at d w dot com and check us out on facebook to d w global ideas and d w women see you next week bye for now. trump

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