well you want to know what makes the devil you. join the love. away from. i'm not even out of my own. and everyone with little holes in everything . are you ready to meet the germans and join me right. welcome to global 3000. drought is a pressing issue across much of india how can farmers irrigate their crops using as little water as possible. christmas time is usually high season in bethlehem we report on the city of pilgrimage without its pilgrims. a fascinating documentary tells the stories of 7 young activists who want nothing less than to

transform our future. these 3 might be young but what they've achieved in their lives so far is nothing short of heroic. gratitude and bag her determination to fight the climate crisis has given rise to the biggest global youth movement of all time and boy and slot at 16 he decided to tackle plastic pollution the ocean cleanup has attracted worldwide support. and use of sign his efforts to secure an education for girls in pakistan won her the nobel peace prize but many children are doing a huge amount as one documentary reveals. excuse me would you like to eat this. yes it's a tell you. thank you. really to kind i haven't seen my children for a year and a half that's hard but when i see you it's incredible.

that i would love you in rumania with your children it's just the way things happened now i'm stuck here. filming this scene was a deeply moving experience for directors he did mr though he's only 10 has been distributing food and clothes to homeless people for years. he's deeply admired in the town where he lives. but you're not sure you can carry all the world's pain on your shoulders. i still want to try it's not that hard. yes we can relieve everyone suffering and turn it into happiness. here sells pictures he paints himself and uses what he earns to help people who are homeless. his determination to not simply accept things as they are impressed to do

mr the documentary filmmaker is currently filming in senegal. his film about children who want to change the world is what he considers his most important project to date. we showed the film to about a 1000 children in the small town of listener in southwestern france and discussed it with him after. well the next day the cinema's owner went for a walk in power he came across several groups of children who were setting up a community kitchen for the homeless and handing out food he asked them what they were up to. the children said they'd seen out in the cinema the day before and wanted to do what he was doing. was you know. you don't want. to mr and his camera company children from all over the world who are fighting back in europe asia america and west africa. 12 year old i starting from guinea was outraged when a female classmate was married off officially

a child marriages are banned in guinea yet more than half of the country's brides are minors i saw you started a foundation for girls that fights against child marriages. to match their new low we're here today to talk about child marriages you know that our appearance marry a soft because they're oh please he wants his sister don't give us away if you don't marry your girls are. why should girls like us have to go through that we have no rights why do we have to suffer under this violence seems to be your last contact as soon as i start to hears about a child marriage she goes straight to the police and tries to stop the legal proceedings this child bride was supposed to marry her cousin who is more than 30 years old she's the 16th girl i start who has been able to rescue. their children are taking

a huge risk they get pushed around beaten and demonized yet they keep on disrupting child marriage services to prevent them they are very brave. in peru there's now a co-operative bank founded by jose adolfo his young clients can bring in plastic waste and paper and in exchange get a credit to their bank accounts one of the things they can do. it's use those savings to buy school supplies. but that's all they need to open an account you need 6 kilos of paper and 2 peruvian salles there's also an eco store where you can buy food to school supplies and household goods and my clients who can't afford it can take out a micro credit which they pay back monthly. that means everyone has enough to eat and can continue their schooling even with very little money many thanks. just. to say adolfo i saw 2 and 2 are exceptional young people who are tackling the

world's injustices. the film portrays them as glowing examples to others showing that it's possible for children to make a difference even if adults sometimes have to help out a bit as well because ses assistant is his father. in those adults have to understand that children can do more than just play do homework and tidy up their bedrooms. i want them to take it seriously and that's what i'm fighting for. you know you learn a lot i learned so much from him. tomorrow belongs to us is a powerful film that encourages not only children but adults to. want to have girls are strong very strong if that's right. back it got sort of that we shouldn't wait for politicians like i'm in america all or a manual to solve the world's problems like hunger and homelessness. i want my own

and all other children to see what the film shows that everyone can do something to solve problems the extremely talented and the less talented. millions of people are doing a little something is what will change the world. cheer for one still has big plans he wants to build a shelter for the homeless and of goodwill by the sounds of. the film seems fitting for the time of year christmas the christian festival of benevolence and charity the city of bethlehem figures large as the birthplace of jesus but bethlehem has enjoyed a lost over the centuries patient by 11th century crusaders for example ottoman and then british rule and the 2nd intifada in 2002 when israeli troops moved

into the city. so bethlehem's residents are no stranger to turmoil in 1949 the city which is just a few kilometers from jerusalem became part of the west bank. recent years have been more peaceful attracting tourists and pilgrims particularly during the christmas period 29000 so record 3000000 visitors many from poland romania and italy and this year looks set to dazzle too but then came the pandemic . the church of the. nativity in bethlehem christians from all over the world usually flock here to celebrate christmas. but not this year. the pandemic has put paid to that. the mood is far from festive it's more melancholy and gloomy for many here no visitors means no income. this street is

full of wood carving workshops only one is still open the craftsman create nativity figures and scenes by hand. it's a minor miracle that they have any work at all. and that's thanks to their boss who was determined not to be beaten by the coronavirus crisis. jack he said just come on is a christian he learned the craft of woodworking from his father and grandfather. before covert 19 he'd always sold the output of his factory and his store next door but since march his jesus mary joseph and shepherd figures and all of would have been waiting in vain. like countless others in bethlehem jack was sitting at home with nothing to do. he knew he had to come up with some way to support his wife 2 daughters and 22 employees to tell you with this he it was the most thing in my

life i had my life i thought the 1st intifada of the 2nd. the war against iraq and ok that was the war but at least you can see people walking around tourist free to buy things but this year completely over you can see nobody even working in the street the churches there in. the church of the nativity is right around the corner from jack. people here are saying it hasn't been so empty since before the crusades . this footage is from 2019 when 3000000 tourists came to bethlehem. visitors often waited in line for hours to enter the grotto of the nativity in the church's crypt. it was built at the spot where jesus is said to have been born. now we have the chapel all to ourselves.

we can relish in the beauty and the tranquility but it also feel sad and lonely. and in the afternoon a funeral procession passes by jacques shah. more than 50 covert related deaths have been registered in bethlehem and thousands of cases bethlehem was the 1st city in the palestinian territories to see an outbreak it's thought the virus was brought here by tourists a strict lockdown was imposed in march the ensuing economic crisis forced jack to get inventive he recently began selling his wooden figures online that was quite an innovation for a rather traditional business and it's brought with it new complications. i stopped the fellow mother and i and with the help of a friend overseas we managed to make some internet webpages to sound like it feel like the whole family has since got involved.

on the square in front of the church there's a big christmas tree just like every year. as if the situation were normal. jack's work day is over but his worries aren't. part of the new government that cannot order or that people are going to look for work looking for the land without any income and you know unfortunately we have a very rich. very thorough situation. the orient palace is the biggest hotel in the palestinian territories. during the christmas season and it would normally be full of christian pilgrims this year too many rooms were booked long in advance but to no avail. it looks as if time has stood still since march. it's extremely tough for the owners. lined up to ruminate and his family had invested millions in expanding the hotel

right before the pandemic erupted but he's not ready to give up hope he knows what great significance bethlehem has and always will have for his fellow christians for the rest of your confession and i know tourists who would give anything to be able to visit the holy land at least once in their lifetime. when i see it on their faces when they arrive at my hotel. happy they are because they find the fulfillment of their faith in bethlehem. we've been invited to tea with jack's wife tamera and are surprised to see that there's no nativity scene in sight in the house of a woodwork factory owner. she tells us that she doesn't like wood. jack explains that thomas father was also in the woodworking business. commerce says that's exactly why she's had her fill of wood. the wood issue hasn't disrupted

family life. and they intend to weather the disruptions the pandemic has brought about in the hope that tourists en pilgrims will soon be back in their beautiful and beloved city of bethlehem. me. and now we had to india for all global ideas. in some parts of the country water has become a luxury many farmers would dearly love to irrigate their fields more often but instead they're forced to use as little as possible. and we headed to a village near the city of poor to find out. the sun is merciless here rain is scarce. for a long time the northwest indian climate has been hostile to residents. rainfall

here comes in a fairly $750.00 millimeters a year only a 3rd of the precipitation the falls in mumbai further to the. the situation was once traumatic for the families living here on their fields says 55 year old farmer how. he lives with his family in the small village up. at kota. our crops used to dry out and our family members were constantly worrying about things like the crops needing water how to irrigate the fields and where to get animal feed is any where the. things have been transformed partly because of how. he's what's known here as a john karr the hindi name means someone who knows all about ground water. as their nickname here live in the surrounding villages. got 3

regularly checks the water levels in the wells and records on the trace of rain. no matter what will go guys yeah i used to feel really strange in front of the other villagers but when i 1st started taking the measurements they used to ask me what on earth are you doing. every now and then your comes to see how. she works for the marvie project run by a nearby university and poor together with australia's western sydney university the project aims to help people find ways of dealing with the constant water shortage here living on location to be jay's are key participants so they have to be trained up to handle their tasks. they didn't have a new classroom addition to know so it was a new experience for them that they wanted me. and learn about things and knowing it was like for 7 days. 4 to 6 months but it was.

b.j. has informed the other villagers about the days that they've gathered advising them at meetings like this one. most farmers here used to rely purely on wheat it was a lucrative crop but one which consumed huge amounts of water now they cultivate a variety of crops depending on the market situation on the time of year to do that they divided their fields into individual plots. we take a piece of land and divide it into 4 sections. we use one part each for wheat mustard a shock of flowers and chickpeas. by doing that we have enough water and we are in more from our crops and then the knowledge of that. anyone who needs water takes some of the precious ground water from their own well of

which there are millions in india getting people to only take a bare minimum and leave enough for everyone else as a challenge for the project. to live upon marvie there are markings that they were getting there on and there were no. one did no wrong and they were just going to go by the site and water they have water but now they are thinking that. if you're about to go that. worker among them. then be charged much more water. drip irrigation a kind of micro irrigation and sprinklers are also helping now they mean much less water evaporates search trickles away on use on the fields the new agricultural methods mean farmers here use 70 percent less water.

at the department of soil and water engineering a new die poor scientists constantly monitor the water quality in the region john karr's operation. they compare the results from the various pj's in their respective regions once a week the australian project leader links up from western sydney university. he's glad the project has been so well received but adds that there's still a lot to do. think the important things we want to do in this project there would still need to be done level of being this village grown or décor pretties. before either so that they become reality and also we make sure that farmers are genuinely involved in the process not just there's a who lives there is. now another opposite arrived which collects all the data.

in hindi as well by special request from the b.j. . the marvie project was logged 8 years ago in the states a garage on raja star with a plan blogspot of 4 years. it's been extended several times and last year it was decided to broaden its reach to take in another $20000.00 villages across 7 indian states. to children 2 continents one giant problem mortar. and love only ever seen a few drops of rain. this year the flood drowned everything. how will climate change affect our health and the health of our children find out more at d w dot com slash water. is too often scarce polluted

difficult to access in nigeria water supply problems can have an impact on basic dignity of the 201000000 people living in nigeria 56 percent only have access to an adequate sanitary facilities and a further 23 percent have no access to toilets at all and have to relieve themselves outdoors gaps in the power supply are a big problem too something that is particularly clear in the most impoverished areas of lagos. the riga is a poor neighborhood of lagos an informal settlement with no school or hospital. came days samuel is a widow and lives here with her 4 children before the coronavirus pandemic she was already struggling to cover energy costs for her house and to feed her family it's become even the hardest since lagos went into lockdown. when the coronavirus came everybody had to stay indoors. lots of family starved we only have food handouts

from private organizations and sometimes if you're unlucky the help might not reaching. here women do the cooking usually over an open wood fire and since this area is not on the grid people use diesel powered generators to get electricity. burning these fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. the authorities had no clear idea about the fuel usage here so they started to gather information before we record them here are used to ignore that type of image. in light and cooking i mean not activity we should get. i don't use it to fit into our climate action plan to ignore how we . you know. our options. before march before us at the missing levels. c 40 is

a network of almost 100 cities around the world including lagos that promotes climate action this energy usage survey is being carried out under its guidance the team go door to door they've already uncovered the main reasons why solar energy is not used more widely in such informal settlements where people are not going. east because one they don't know about and finance is actually good. but a local mini power grid is coming to argue a clean bill reka the government wants 10000 solar powered mini crit set up across the country by 2023. and environmental n.g.o.s teaches neighborhood residents how to set up solar panels and how to turn daytime sunlight into nighttime street lamps to make life years safer. and when it is night everywhere

would be getting dark you can see if you can see from here to that these so but when we start these you can see from here far distance so the reason why we are doing this in the communities another problem here is put sanitation this is a public toilet the waste goes straight into the river and contaminates the water used for washing and cooking another indio called justice and empowerment initiatives recently built this toilet facility which uses a kind of composting system called a buyer for digest to breakdown the waste. artist metallic danny taiwo is contributing to the project. some other do color me x. future storms oh my mechanism beautiful like this is this been this should be should be for my house. and i said well that's it we help attracted to the telecom use it nobody. is interested in the community about.

the facility cost $1800.00 us dollars to use it you have to pay the equivalent of just under $1.00 cent for all the money goes towards maintenance and cleaning. it goes off. and lights those people. so i mean it is the force in this community. so either we're going to do more to live because we knew there was about. for $5.00 indiscriminately this is a one we often hear now is solid for draws on limits adoption is. people in the reader also happy about the new solar powered streetlights that are going up . in days samuel is looking forward to having light during the long evenings she might eventually be able to do away with her diesel generator this would save her

some much needed money well also reducing the area's carbon emissions. and that's all from us at global 3000 this week don't forget to send us your feedback you can write to us at global 3000 at d w dot com and we're on facebook to d.w. global ideas and t w women see you next time take care. of

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