this is d.w. news live from upper left should germany extend its 2nd lockdown while vaccinations are under way more than 2 weeks of lockdown restrictions have failed to curb new infections medical experts are raising the alarm also coming up on the show french police are shut down on illegal new year's rains but they fear it could be a super spreader of that some 2500 people to find a coronavirus curfew it took to heart and through the night. and of the bundesliga is back after

a short winter break we'll bring you all the highlights from frankfurt clashed with italy for kazemi. and i'm kyra phillips and welcome to the show we're starting with some breaking news a from of the west african country of news share where gunmen have killed at least 56 people and wounded 20 more in what the interior minister is calling a suspected terror attack he says the attack a targeted 2 villages is situated near the border with mali as yet it is not known who carried out the attack but a number of fundamentalist groups are active in the country and are battling for control of the region now this came hours after the results of a recent presidential election were released with no clear winner or will hold a runoff election between at the parties the ruling party's candidate mohamed a costume and former president of mohamed mine. and let's

get d.w. correspondent why you drift on the line his he is in a bizarre new nigeria and is following these developments in new jerrold for us what more can you tell us about this attack or this is on that was to killed by a terrorist or militant in. that boat that the general public we can miley for now reports are seeing the number of cards or piazzas into 70 people and increases because of the shows i just getting into the area to see what happened in these somewhat 10 years attack clearly civilians are the ones that were killed in that area did we jerry amused for interior has already called file that tack and what happens. is that the potential for the death toll to rise as officials are able to validate what has happened as attack of course comes the day that election

results were released with the news that there will be a runoff next month could the attack have anything to do with the elections it is difficult for now to say with that it has any relationship with the elections but do you should remember that even today in the just concluded position elections book has tripled from syria's defiant one in them look to conduct the elections and some people stayed away from voting because they don't want the book why rahm to come on to anything after the might have participated in the election so that responsibility to the cause is a very troubling area all right good of you correspondent thank you so much for your reporting. moving on now to one of our other top stories here in germany there has been a surge in covert 1000 deaths over the past month more than half of all the deaths

in the entire pandemic were recorded in december alone calls are now growing louder for germany to extend its current lockdown chancellor angela merkel is due to hold talks on tuesday with leaders from germany's 16 states to discuss that lockdown which is set to end on january 10th in the doctors union is urging for an extension saying the health system is in desperate need of relief. and for more i'm joined by professor toby ascribes he is an epidemiologist and the director of the institute of public health at the sheraton a hospital here in berlin dr carter calls for the lockdown being extended are growing louder are they justify it. unfortunately yes we could expect that the numbers are not going down over the christmas holidays and in new years the hospitals are fooled the use of full and because we have a high rate of infection still going on these numbers won't go down so unfortunately there's no a lot of chance but to extend the lockdown now as we're going into this new year

what about schools and kindergartens a should they be allowed to reopen. it's very difficult really to make this disease but i think with the constant infection rate and the hospitals being full that opening schools for a normal school days not possible so we definitely have to find different solutions for that too so what would be the way forward there that is remote learning going to be the foreseeable future of schooling or is there another way that they could safely reopen. well it's a combination of things vaccination has started as you have reported and we hope that the number of people getting vaccinated are substantially increasing over the next weeks we have to learn to really that the locked on is is working alternately and we have to maintain to see as minimal people as possible so that they're locked on actually is working and we get the numbers down we need to get these numbers down otherwise you will not see any relief for the hospital staff and any relief

for the i.c.u. so let's talk about that mass vaccination program because it's no secret that germany has had a bumpy start there distribution of the vaccine is falling behind what was planned so how concerned are you about that situation where we know since weeks to the number of scenes available enormously in the beginning of the end of the exactly what's happening and i do not know all the details but for sure you could have organized in a different way in other countries is certainly better other countries are worse so we definitely have to continue to think about how to improve the situation and to vaccine as many people as possible and what specifically do you think needs to be done there to make sure that as many people as possible can get the vaccine as soon as possible. well have enough vaccines available 1st of all i think the test and us are ready to stuff is ready and as soon as enough vaccines are available hopefully we will see more people or people get vaccinated it and what are germany's locked

out exit plans i mean why is the way out of this in the end there's been now multiple lockdowns here it seems like they haven't worked we're now talking about an extension is there an end in sight. well in germany we have to understand with that we didn't really have a hard way we have to stay whole what is called a few at 6 pm or so and we really cannot leave the homes in many of the states in germany so and we decided to leave christmas open a new us open to see friends and family up to 5 people from different households so that was in my opinion multi good decisions so we definitely have to understand that we need to work together now to get these numbers down and then we can discuss what we can do to open public life hopefully as soon as possible a strong call there for a continued lockdown until a compendium that is brought under control tokyo epidemiologist and the director of the institute of public health at a charity hospital thank you very much. to france now where travel is limited and

large gatherings are prohibited in an effort to limit contacts now police in western france are investigating how thousands of young people were able to join an illegal rave as the number of coronavirus tases has reached new highs. as the sun rose on saturday the police moved in hundreds of party goers were aidid in fine for breaching france's coronavirus restrictions. in the cavernous warehouses near the city of the party was finally over. the police moved in to restore public order. could i please do surest officers secured the area in an operation that went off. largely without incident. we then issued a number of citations to people found to be in violation of the lol. hours

earlier the raid had still been in full swing around 2500 mostly young people had gathered on new year's eve define police efforts to stop the event. a could be the situation got out of hand very quickly 3 officers were injured and so i made the decision to withdraw all forces and while this run the risk of letting the situation get even worse is removing police from the scene allow them to pursue a strategy of containment. with the police holding back the party continued for a 2nd night the organizers defended their decision to stage the event. i think there was a real desire to come together. most of us are in our twenty's and we feel we're losing our youth in this time demick. and many of us are also struggling against

depression. friend says the highest number of covert 900 cases in western europe to contain the fire as bars and restaurants have been closed and an 8 pm curfew is being extended to many parts of the country one. of the risks but we wanted to come together and party the whole world of culture is shut down since the crisis began we had to come and support the organizers. fearing a super spreader event author and he said urge everyone who attended to self isolate when they get home. let's turn our attention now to some other stories making headlines. u.s. senator ted cruz says he will be among about a dozen republican senators who challenge president elect joe biden's victory when electoral college results are congress next week it's a largely symbolic move that has little chance of preventing by taking office.

police in norway say the death toll has risen to 3 people following a landslide in ask northeast of oslo several people are still messing up for the landslide it tore into the town early on wednesday it collapsed houses and forced more than a 1000 people to be taken to safety. iran says it plans to start enriching uranium to 20 percent at one of its nuclear facilities the move would exceed the threshold set by the iran nuclear deal tensions between tehran and washington have mounted since u.s. president donald trump holds out of the international deal in 2008. go to yemen now where the latest victims in a grinding 6 year long war are 5 women who were killed when a shell exploded at a wedding party in the port city of odessa are both the saudi backed government and iran backed rebels blaming each other for the attack the conflict has been called a forgotten war yet it has left more than 100000 people dead and many more stars.

is just a year and a half old to use fighting for his life science parents brought him to this hospital in yemen's capital sanaa. dozens of starving children all right every day . but in many cases the doctors are powerless to help. they don't do i think with them how i visit don't disappear but on being paid we have no medicine for the sick children there's no food for them even though they're among the irish some of the mothers are really desperate they can't breastfeed their children because they too are starving. in the. 5000000 children in yemen don't have enough to eat the u.n. figure show. many have to go to work instead of to school. and their plate is only washing. the country has no been at war since 2015 its economy is in

ruins and no yemen is being hit by the coronavirus. charity say this is the world's worst humanitarian crisis the situation in yemen is very serious we are very close to the stage of the clearing of famine in yemen because of the deteriorating food security situation for millions of people across the country. aid workers say some 1500000000 euros are needed to help yemeni survive the winter money is running out as the situation worsens. get some sports news now and the bundesliga is back after an unusually short winter break the highlight of saturday's early match as a saw frankfurt inflict a second's defeat of the season on visitors by if a person. in the 70 bundles to get clashes between these 2 sides will nil has never been the end result and after just 10 minutes this peach got the visitors off the

mark courtesy of not seeing my memory. skill luck and ingenuity helping him to his 2nd goal of the season. the lead lost is just 12 minutes as i mean eunice raced clear to calmly put away the equaliser his 1st goal for frank yes i will fall defending have opened the gap and after the break leaving couzens back line once again looked shoddy with daiichi come out as cross finding live accusing defender edwin taps of who posted into his own net. i rub of the green but enough for frankfurt to claim a deserved to one when i was later cruising loose pace in the title race. and the benders leaders early saturday games are now over so let's take a look at all the results from match day 14 so far when you're in berlin beat braman gladbach of down to below fellows freiburg hoffenheim cologne lost to. shaka

took our verses life is drawing to a close and on sunday dortmund play will spike and might travel to bahrain. and if you news update at the south of course you can always get the latest on our website . at. joining us. in the fight over climate change. for. what's in store. for the future. to make your city hall to get insight. into. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. is the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken.

what does the latest research says. information and context. coronavirus of the code special monday to friday. isn't that cute robots like these are meant to replace live pets i meant leaving robel pets designers in japan to see of their inventions more than just toys for techies join me for our topic today on. so-called personal robots or robots designed to assist in our daily lives have been developing in great strides apart from humanoids like. we also have robots that look like animals could they make that they have pets could they even replace cats

and dogs as our lawyer companions. while the. as most renowned roboticists of course i think we want to keep pets but the. here are not so bad to have robot ferrets as fish are over there with their you know sometimes they cannot take care of the on our pets you know but you know what doesn't eat and doesn't do them but things are much easier for there with already. that keeps lonely seniors kompany in japan they take this concept very seriously and have been practicing it for years i experienced it myself on the streets of tokyo i have a robot that i know i still. his name is really. only one thing seems perfectly normal today pet robots have become quiet versatile one

of the latest additions to the market is this little guy the so-called love boat was developed by konami hayashi he is a leading figure in the field of emotional robotics and also the inventor off pappa but unlike pepper doesn't use language at all it comes to any case with adorable little skin i must admit it really tugged at my heartstrings. equipped with congress for facial recognition so-called slim technology for spatial orientation and over 50 contacts sensors. creators say that it's neutralise robots. his response patterns are determined by deep meaning of the machine learning algorithms. the goal was to stimulate the most behavior possible. so that the movement and its own could create a unique. first of all you have to study the brain at i.q.

all i think he got that name game how the humans think and how do they use their brains one kid i don't want. another while to study is the relationship between pads and humans beating your and i've got one it's a subsection of ecology to get it. so we studied these 2 fields now and together a they tell you a bit about what love is all about me you know. the love us took 4 years to develop. it cost around $45000000.00 euros when i asked about data security tell me how you actually emphasize that all the data collected is not stored on the cloud in the robot and some. of those require regular software updates and backups. there are many robots out there that have a lot of information stored but people don't actually trust. you on your clock at the quitter's. my goal is to create

a trustworthy robot could take a double quick and morning. storing data locally rather than on a cloud service sounds like a safe solution is specially considering that love god needs lots of personal data to function well it fills my home scans my face and knows exactly when i common goal that's delicate information i wouldn't want falling into the wrong hands i was truly surprised at how lifelike love it seemed and it really was able to stand up true emotions high and social bonds like love all that are produced almost exclusively in japan one reason is that japan is known for being crazy about tech. robots have a long tradition in japan and it was there that the plastic egg tamagotchi was invented 18000000 virtual chiclet have been sold worldwide since the mid ninety's the robo pop ibo by sony has also become

a popular favorite in main stand for artificial intelligence provide in the mid 2000 production came to a temporary halt as the company underwent restructuring had sony anticipated the outrage this would spark in japan it might of reconsider it to the 150000 eyeballs that had been sold by then withdrawing support was like a death sentence one that probably almost wouldn't stand for to this day you can find dogs that repair old models how can a computer get so much love even scientists are scratching their heads test with children and adolescents show 60 percent attribute emotions to the robot dog and enjoyed giving it orders just as much as a live animal the newest i would generate has been on the market since 2018 very popular and the 1st time of year over 20000 models were sold in japan alone despite the steep pricing. round shapes expressive eyes complex movements

this is willing to be a tool viable alternative to a pet. equipped with cameras voice recognition software and contact sensors bibles can recognize and react to their owners because losing up to 100 different voice commands and quite a few tricks currently this robotic dog cost around 2400 euros this includes 3 years of subscription fees for the cloud connection it needs i've always generated a ton of data and it's saved and processed in the cloud and like you noticed that. we are using deep learning technologies and big data to supply ibo with additional features. so ai plays a big part in how i bowl works with those. when it comes to data security the company prove this is them moving is profound to 3rd parties or use for eternal purposes. they say the cloud based and is elementary to find each book is very

interesting. when used. in multiple that the any ibo that you will buy will develop in a different way based on the user's lifestyle and the surroundings if they eat of all life goes will develop in different ways. they will act differently and feel differently. sensitive private data safe to look lots of it doesn't sound too vincent to me on the other hand if my eyeball ever did break i could simply transfer its personality so i might hold in to a new model that's wild but is restoring movements facial and voice recognition all that it takes to have a personality as a dog owner not so sure isn't it the unexpected and sometimes even pleasant moments that really create the bond between humans and animals like when he's stolen my socks again not that i will left me completely unmoved but i still doubt i could

truly connect with the robot dog in the long run if you're not a dog person anyway there's something else. what is it we asked passers by in tokyo's trendy shibuya district. discount to. look. i know it is. it feels nice very cute. but this is i really like cats but unfortunately i'm allergic to them look a little cons but i think this could make a good replacement. a little kind of charge for all those of the loan through the feeling is good with a tail. so cue ball as it's officially named didn't really raise any eyebrows in japan but here's how one german tourist responded well yes this is. a vacuum

cleaner that. i know idea or maybe a question cleaner or something in japan it's used as a surrogate cat of sorts i've got my 10 year old daughter would love one of these c.d.'s they cost $150.00 euro would you spend that much absolutely not what you see . it's an emotional companion to those just a cute toy but even all the pillow is nothing like high tech robots like eyeball and love god it's still based on a bright idea that could only have come from to pat a pet that provides comfort and joy with those all the work involved like dogs and cats responds to touch its surface is covered with sensors the tail is powered by an engine that can perform 40 different movement sequences less technology less designing and more room for the imagination. yeah i see and i.

always a curious being it's not a cat and not a dog it doesn't really resemble any other pet at them it's more like the enemy care. richter totoro there an imaginary being. we want to give the owners more room for their own associations. there with the company behind this you kind of engineering based in tokyo. since 2017 they've designed around 20 robots that are geared less towards functionality and more toward bringing joy to which. these cutters can measure brain waves and move according to the mood. in this communications robot can connect to the local y. find family members exchange messages with one another. there or even rather than androids that are super clever i want to make something that forgives you and makes you feel good that's when you hear i believe humans want to

interact with robots that they can open up to and share feelings with. stress reduction instead of performance optimization the relaxing effect of this cuddly toy has already been proven across the board no matter the age of study with the robotics you hold that some of patients who played with it regularly had lower and higher blood oxygen levels both sides for stress relief the test also showed fewer symptoms of depression. and required less pain medication than the reference group live animals are really allowed in retirement homes and hospitals here robot pets can be a real help but they can also give emotional support elsewhere after all humans want to be needed level but the humans want a robot that relies on them and not the other way around. if love out was

a perfect being and didn't need any input or help from us it would not result in a strong attachment when i developed a love it often. fell or got stuck and i noticed that people seemed more happy to be able to help it rather than let it help them this was very interesting to me that if so humans prefer a robot that they can take care of not a perfect companion that makes sense to me what do you think. the path of the future that is no and if you're interested in finding out more about robotic that's why you're there you can find more in-depth videos on the topic and a lot more on japan's passion for robots that's it from the new sort.

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have a lot in store for you on today's program so let's take a quick look what's lined up today. in senegal we visit some students who are thinking with the new solar car. in germany we hear about a push to make textiles some locally sourced move. on can you know we learn once again how crucial it is to protect our water resources. first we had to the south of the continent south africa's energy comes almost exclusively from coal fired power plants which is a major factor behind rising up pollution and is the government has announced plans to significantly increase the use of renewable sources within 10 yes being solar wind or hydropower they mischa chip is being spearheaded by green cape a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to innovative young green

startups. one to go the protests heights a cut in his school in cape town when told that without paying for the installation the system was financed by quote funding platform their idea small investors buy ponies and earn an income from selling their the true city to the school that is using them so far from cambridge is crowdfunding platform equipped over 30 schools and companies within 5 years they plan to have more than $200.00 additional systems . install it so if you want to put money in solar panels for an environmental reason put them in south africa you're offsetting 8 times the carbon emissions by the side of an hour here's africa than it would do in germany for example and you're getting twice as much electricity out of it so it just makes more sense to put a solar power away you create more social environmental and economic impact and for that school the solar energy is cheaper than power from the grid with investment as

little as 4 euro's sun extant is also open to people with less income in fact many of the pupils that protest how it's invested in the solar cells themselves when the horn is the school's former principal she says that aside from clint energy the project also brings another benefit to me always that yeah kids are so excited allen is to actually get involved in chipping neural thing and actually buy still sells him sow's and see how the money would increase or decrease or what do you i mean it was it created a huge interest in nearly excitement and then he says what do you want to teach our children for the future is interview nearly skills innovative models to find and produce green energy gently need in south africa the government aims to produce a quote off on a cruise city from renewables by 2030 general jones works for green care a nonprofit organization committed to expanding the green sector together with other lobby groups they are made sure that and i just had types gained an important

role in government plans to transition south africa 2 or 3 new up was. dismissive. and they said this this road to 20 cities in the road. it states it will be $20.00 gigawatts of renewable energy being procured and that comprises technology in the renewable energy space but for the 1st time what is very interesting is that. they have. designated gorge of small scale generation in. 2 inside of the police document i r.p. integrated resource plan aims to have smaller scale solar power solutions account for some 10 percent of south africa's top to energy mix then they are in effect as who are looking to the question for have some on one big company developed an underwater pump powered by the ocean's waves it turns salt water into drinking

water while at the same time producing a constant source of energy that could power up to 10 european out so it's all year round is always energy. if we said we're looking at a whole range of waves that come from different areas there's a lot of stuff that's produced locally by the local winds but there's enormous amount of energy that's come from storms that could be thousands of miles away. there with pump is tied to a boy that leads with each wave that level movement pressure rises walked up to purify it and generator to cities at the same time for years the prototype unit was tested under water and is now back in the workshop for some maintenance work so far the unit has proven that the concept works the team says despite the challenges. we face a confidence that these systems are going to. be

a big part of the solution and future is operating outside or when but working in conjunction with them at the challenges with the ocean is that it's an expensive system to develop when there is very little funding available with sufficient funding the company could start you drag the pumps next year that would feed into the power grid the san extant card funding platform meanwhile has just received an additional $3000000.00 euros from one major investor powering on south africa's green energy translation. now it off because of you was no we've all. from feature reports on research for the environment from electric cars to doing it yourself wind turbines and recycling old laptop batteries they are the creations of inventive young minds on various countries hoping to make their visions reality that is right near to and this week we held an innovation from cynical a group of young researches on to

a university in dhaka have been walking on the sun the poet they call for everyday use he is this week's doing give me. this is the. it was built by university students in dakar. it's powered by the sun. the idea was developed by students in canada. the technical drawings come from italy. the students in senegal put the pieces together. it has a range of 60 kilometers. they can negotiate bumpy surfaces. and carry 2 people or goods weighing up to 250 kilograms. more than half the population of senegal has no electricity.

the majority live in rural areas. and. provide power people need for their various endeavors in the field or for any other activity that requires electricity. is the answer to the problem. i said to. them. because the battery can be used to charge mobile phones. or to run a $500.00 watt water pump for a full 12 hours. and how about you if you'll also do it tell us about it visit our website oh set does a tweet. hash tag. we share your story.

well roaming the countryside. for sheep or goats to graze. all over the was. spend their days it can be a hard life but for different reasons in different places in germany most land is now privately owned and livestock shipping has become increasingly rare another problem the prize award is so little it's not even selling but people would like to see these various not sure textile put to good use. shepherd florian pis has brought his animals to rest in a green patch between warehouses and factories in the industrial ruhr area in western germany he's one of the few shepherds left in the country. there are around a 1000 professional shepherds left in germany that's not so many really i don't know many young people who want to do this job i'll continue to do it with passion

until i have to step down it's certainly a dying profession that nobody wants to. don't make much money. for. the sheep are eventually sold for their meat but municipalities also pay shepherds to have their flocks graze on public land. but wool has become a losing business these days sales don't even cover the costs of having the sheep sheared so that's from a beautiful merino wool. i have merino sheep they still have the best quality wool i get over a euro per kilo. one colleagues of mine who have other breeds get a lot less they get $45.00 to $0.65 per kilo. of some of them don't sell it any more choosing to burn the world or toss it instead. they're going to dip. his wool goes to china

where it's processed and ends up in bedding upholstery carpets and other textile products some of these end up back on the european market where they're sold at high prices that make split get a pap and furious as to talent it's totally absurd buyers here purchase the wall and send it all the way to china for washing and it sent to paris where it's packaged and suddenly everyone wants it. gives it a is a self-taught tailor made. she initially trained to be a dental assistant now she's a businesswoman with a passion for wool she calls her product mosel tweed habbush mr mcmullan i wondered whether the wall from the sheep in our region was also suitable for fabric and it turns out that it's very suitable for cloth and at that point i told myself that i'd do my best to save local wool one. the cloth is made in

germany soley from will out of the region she already has about 100 meters in stock the company produces vests caps and sport coats from the material. so most assigned schama. have to receive support from the vatican felt spinning around in a globalised textile market producing fabric regionally is difficult the production costs are too high the quantity is too low. for wool is processed here died and spun into yarn the viking felt spinning male wants to promote local wool but has no illusions about the future of wool from germany of almost like they're sadly consumers today are not willing to pay higher prices at the retail level they're more interested in getting new products faster they want to see trends and changes in fashion so the cost has to be low it would be nice if people could change their

priorities see evidence until. we get a couple remains enthusiastic about her will in fabric it may be expensive but demand from high quality sustainable fashion is growing her mission is to eventually produce quantities approaching 10000 meters of her muzzle tweet. the next away had to go on which is home to africa's largest stable forest and if on population but sunday the numbers dramatically in recent decades that's right sandra for farmers who are crops are roaming elephants that may seem like good news but in fact the large animals are important for maintaining that because logical balance so wildlife authorities in locating national park our working to protect the elephants while helping the locals to protect their fields and their villages.

for. his anti-poaching team this is the easy part of the job not far from their station in low pay national park they're gathering data on flora and fauna. the family of elephants passed through here. here. ok and then they moved here with it and left their traces. thanks to the rangers the nature reserve has experienced no major wildlife crime in the last 2 years. low pay is $1.00 of 13 national parks established in cabo in 2002 it's a unesco world heritage site and home to elephants panthers gorillas buffalo and over $400.00 bird species these days the elephants pose more of a problem than the poachers do and important part of the work of the park manager

and his team is communicating with the residents of the villages on the edges of the national park. we realized that the elephants were more or less fleeing the interior of the forest because of growing pressure from poachers from the solve unsolved west. thanks to fences that the park officials have set up around the villages the elephants are slowly retreating back into the forest. in 3 of the villages electric fences protect the plantations of the bus and we've been going hungry for 2 years people were losing weight there wasn't enough to eat but this year we have enough again we have vegetables we've been able to harvest what we planted to get. the cooperation between the park management and local residents is proving successful for the way in dong the fences in these communities have also come as a relief. before it was costing

a lot of money it takes 46 people to chase away 3 elephants and elephants not a dog it's not a sheep that you can push away with elephants you have to be very strict and vigilant visuals and grew up here like many of the rangers he's confident that humans and wildlife can co-exist peacefully. so we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today. so they we only read about dinosaurs and books. we can just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought that would be a big problem. tomorrow we'll be back at work in low pay national park and the rangers and villagers will continue to maintain the fences that can help to ensure their future. securing food is essential for all even creatures it takes up much of the day for some and the more we humans encroach on wildlife habitat the more we have to assume that i mean most will come and eat from our gardens but due

to serious issues like water shortages getting those gardens to grove is becoming harder and harder in the south of france farmers are having to drill deep wells to obtain water for their fruit trees and vegetable plants but devising efficient ways to use the water also helps to preserve it. these nectarines are growing plump even though there has been little or no rain here recently. now grows his fruit on $120.00 hector's in the coal a region of southeastern france each tree needs about 8 leaders of water and day on average during the summer there have been long periods of drought in recent years and they exact a price ben now has installed a sophisticated irrigation system with a water pump and sensors on all the trees and an app that lets him see how each tree is doing. what if the leaves are too wet they can rot and attract pests

with this system i can treat them with pesticides directly and only when it's absolutely necessary. so it's very economical what they've got to support but this is. know me best is in charge of the equipment and the programming of the irrigation system. it is fed from a well that taps groundwater at a depth of 80 metres the water is filtered and carefully dispensed with the help of a computer. the orchard is divided into 72 smaller plants. that also get us per month and this is what we used to run the system own crew the program the watering schedule i select which plots to water and at what time of day and for how long. it lets us steer the entire irrigation process very accurately course. summers in europe are getting hotter and drier water is becoming scarce the summer of 2018 was the hottest on record in europe

drought in the north and center of the continent. plunged as much as 50 percent water rationing was introduced in some countries. and friends to the funny sector is under mounting pressure. so it's important to optimize irrigation and not waste water the local chamber of agriculture is interested in pioneering work in the field. he's letting it conduct experiments on 3 of his 72 plants. no monitors how much water there is in the soil and the trees. the damn drama there lets you see if the branch of the peach tree is growing or shrinking. if it's shrinking the tree needs water i guess. the project will track tree growth and yield for 3 years the aim is to study the economic and environmental impact of

a shortage of water growing fruit is an important part of the economy in this area also want to model future scenarios just like if one day $1020.00 or 30 percent less water is available will the fruit growers be able to respond appropriately. for. the project will help him fine tune his irrigation program. now careful use of what size a crucial issue here too in africa only swamp is a work lot in campbell county and also the head of water over nairobi river tributary the what life is very important source of water awful farming and divisive. and the reason more to new to the swamp also helps to reduce the impact of floods during the rainy season and helps improve what a quantity the area has suffered a major degree as a result of the illegal discharge of west and in question meant by local people

that want to vetted members of the community to find a course of action project to protect the vital ecosystem. they used to be lots of grey crowned cranes here but not a new poll on the wetland was once home to all kinds of the duck and herring populations of also declined. c o 2 and store rainwater on daily is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi. is growing and getting ever closer. the wetland greenhouses and fields now reach right up to the edge of the swamp which covers 3.3 square kilometers the equivalent of $450.00 football pitches farm is used to harvest large amounts of grass from the wetland to feed their cattle which meant birds had less room to build their nests but that is no longer the case thanks to david what cokie and his

colleagues who make up the friends of on t.v. wetland group when we started our walk there are so many for the harvest harvest in florida and i've end of the year. just after osama they goodbye and these bullies and this is. how the whole biodiversity destroyed the group purse $300.00 members. they are in the process of planting 8000 young trees around the wetland to help prevent soil from the fields washing into the wetland when it rains and to hinder cattle from going there to graze. david kyra's farm is next to the wetland he's keen to make sure that the trees here can thrive. since the trees were planted the place looks good in the past there was grazing and

sometimes cows would get into the swamp and sink in the bog. and now there's no more grass harvesting either. another problem is that waste water from the greenhouse pollutes the area with toxins including heavy metals that's serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose waters the capital depends. the friends of the on the wetland have persuaded some farmers to give up this kind of intensive cultivation. and helping to undo the damage. we are planting trees along these wetlands there are very good. trees when it comes to sippin in the meadows that are coming out of the greenhouse farming. for a long time in the local authorities did little to protect the swamp but back to

this changing. we're walking dead to their farm months because. india is. part of the allied so we. do keep digging them and creating awareness but again we also encourage them to do all the nick funny because when it demeans the cause then cause it up. thanks in particular to the efforts of the friends of on dairy the wetland has started to recover. the next project is to build a trail for that watches. the bugs that are found to. be very important. to this area because one. those areas that have been marked. i be is

unknown didn't have learned is not one of them and that is one of the things that friends of mine did i want to achieve if things go well we will once again become a paradise for the recent survey found the wetland now supports more than 70 different species as conditions here slowly improving. i hope. the importance of caring for our environment and maybe also inspired you to rethink the precious water resources and i hope you found a mixture of topics as interesting as a deed for now it is a good bye for me sandra to nobody here in kampala uganda. and from me in outside when lagos is goodbye i hope you join us again next week in the meantime do it be sure to check in with us on instagram facebook twitter or our websites so long for now stay safe bye bye.

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