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this is d.w. news live from berlin and the u.s. house of representatives moves forward with a vote to impeach president trump over last week's attack on the capital trump projects responsibility for the violence the democrat said now also some republicans say he is in danger to the nation and must be stopped. also coming up indonesia launches
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a campaign to vaccinate nearly 200000000 people against cope with 19 but unlike other countries it will not be inoculated the elderly 1st but a different group and the largest mafia trial in over 30 years because in italy with more than 300 defendants set to take the stand we will speak to the informant risking his life to put the mobsters behind bars. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is on the verge of becoming the 1st leader in the united states to be impeached twice the house of representatives is set to move forward with a vote to impeach trump in a few hours a number of key republicans now say they also back the move will face a single charge of incitement of insurrection over the storming of the capitol
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building by his supporters last week trump denies he encouraged to violence. president trump has been subject to massive criticism of late but he can still draw loyal supporters. banned from major social media outlets trump seized the opportunity on tuesday to reconnect with his base he headed to texas to talk about one of his favorite topics the border wall with mexico but before that he remarked about efforts to remove him from office the impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger in division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand which is very dangerous for the usa especially at this very tender time. his comments came as debate continued in the house of representatives democrats are stepping up their efforts to remove the president
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from office. democrats accuse trump of having incited the capital riots and say failing to hold him to account would be a dangerous precedent all of us should do some soul searching about 5 dead americans a capitol police officer who's did it dozens of people wounded lots of our capital cops in the hospitals and a country on edge and inflamed right wing which thinks that we are on the verge of a civil war. the assault on the capital has eroded support for trump in congress several republican lawmakers say they're willing to back impeachment efforts they now include 5 members of the house of representatives notably liz cheney the number 3 republican in the chamber she's released a statement saying the storming of the capitol was trump's doing and that he did nothing to stop the violence she said there has never been a greater be trailed by
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a president of the united states of his office and his oath to the constitution cheney's move lays bare a split among republicans over trump and the future of their party and let's get more we are joined by peter peter what is the latest on the efforts to remove the president from office. right so today is said to be a historic day donald from best were in that report they're all trying to become the 1st president in united states history to be impeached twice and we also heard in that report that 5 republicans now openly backing not efforts the final number according to reports could be closer to 10 even 20 republicans joined democrats to impeach and that's notable because just over a year ago during the 1st impeachment exactly 0 republicans voted to impeach and it does suggest that the insurrection on january 6th was the final straw for
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a lot of republicans who long struggle with how to navigate from turbulent tenure it really does signal a strong break with trump who is fighting felt increasingly isolated as he is about sweep the white house and that many republicans see their party ask for at an extension crossroads senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has apparently even indicated that he believes and teaching trump would make it easier to raise the republican party not just of the president but of trump isn't in general and i think you know the question right now is whether that translates into trump actually being removed from office you still need 'd a 2 thirds majority for that in the senate and that is all but guaranteed what is something about all of this. will come with never one to admit failure let alone mistakes and his 1st public appearance since the violence on capitol hill was really no different he went down to texas on tuesday and continued to deny any culpability in the violent riots that left several people dead threaten the lives
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of many members of congress and even trump own vice president you know trump insisted that his remarks to his supporters in washington that many took to be an encouragement to essentially storm the capital that those remarks were quote totally appropriate and trump also warned that his impeachment could lead to more violence and that statement has left a lot of people really worried because they know that from supporters are really hanging on to trent every word and then they could take those remarks to be essentially a half that instruction to even more about demi has peta roland on thank you. meanwhile the united states has carried out the 1st federal execution of a woman in nearly 7 decades lisa montgomery was put to death by lethal injection in an indiana prison shortly after the supreme court lifted a last minute stay of execution she was the only female prisoner on federal death row in 2004 among gomery killed
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a pregnant woman and stole her baby rights groups had called on president trying to commute her sentence saying that she was not mentally fit to stand trial. now human rights in the u.s. will be our focus in just a short while so stay with us for that the executive director of human rights watch joins us here on news but 1st a quick check of some other stories russian opposition leader alexina vali says he plans to return home to moscow despite new efforts to jail him for allegedly violating his suspended sentence of only has been recovering in germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent the kremlin denies responsibility. flooding has left more than $10000.00 homes in southern serbia without power days of heavy rain and snow in the balkans region have caused rivers to burst their banks inundating houses and fields and disrupting transport. spain is grappling with record low temperatures after the
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heaviest snow falls in half a century temperatures have plunged to minus $25.00 degrees celsius and areas unused to extreme winters authorities are urging people to stay indoors and to avoid straining hospitals already busy with covert 1000 patients. indonesia has begun vaccinating its population against the coronavirus it comes 2 days after authorities gave emergency approval to the corona back an occupation developed by china now unlike other countries indonesia has to decide to inoculate its working population 1st rather than the elderly the country is facing one of the worst outbreaks in asia. a presidential ceremony to kickstart a mass public health campaign indonesia's 59 year old president joko widodo rolling up his sleeves to become the 1st person in the country to receive a coronavirus vaccine and hoping many 1000000 members of the public will follow.
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fox you not sneak off with saddam but you need to get out of this are even 19 vaccine is important for us to break the chain if it coronavirus transmission. and to protect health safety and security. in indonesia. it will also help exaggerate the economic recovery process. top officials posed for photos after also being inoculated this stage managed and live streamed event is one of several efforts by authorities to boost public confidence in the corona vac shot. the china developed facts and was given emergency authorization by regulators earlier this week. and indonesia's top religious body approved it as hell allow a keyset a vacation in a country with the largest muslim population in the world but tests show the shot
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has an efficacy rate of between just 50 and 65 percent on the streets of the capital jakarta not everyone is convinced. of it as i don't want it myself because i put trust more in traditional medicine. i do want a vaccine and the reason is for my immune system. not being vaccinated perhaps the indonesian people will be even stronger against this disease which has become a pandemic. at this moment i refuse it because there's no assurance from the government whether after vaccination we can have a normal life again or not if we still have to use a mask and do social distancing then why should i get back to the natives of. indonesia has already taken receipt of millions of doses of corona back along with other vaccines authorities aim to use it to inoculate over 180000000 citizens in
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indonesia in the next 15 months frontline medical workers are to come 1st with the working population following next rather than the elderly but a recent poll suggests only a minority of indonesians are willing to be vaccinated for the president and his government it may be an uphill battle. to germany now where the health minister yen spahn says the country will not be able to lift all the restrictions in place to curb the spread of the corona virus at the beginning of february the news comes as the death toll from covert 19 continues to mount and new infection show no signs of decreasing now in 24 hours more than 1000 people have died of the virus nearly 20000 more people have tested positive chancellor angela merkel has reportedly said she expects the situation to remain tough for at least another 8 to 10 weeks i'm joined now by d.w.
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chief political editor mahela cook so tell us we just heard that spawn was giving a statement he's been under fire because of a slow start to the vaccination program how is he likely to defend himself. well the german government and he and spawn insist that going the european way was the right way to go also because not having an emergency licensing process rather due process and means that the government wouldn't have to pay up if anything goes wrong with any of these vaccines yes one is speaking in parliament today under pressure because there's simply not enough vaccine to go around and yet spawn is already going a step beyond what angela merkel said when she spoke of 8 more tough weeks he believes that this lockdown that has been extended and deepened until the very least the end of january won't be long enough that's the 1st clear indicator that
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the lockdown could be extended yet again and could be even more restrictive going into what is seen as a critical point by the german government here with those mutations both from britain but also from south africa having been proven in germany and the race now being on that this mutation of the virus which is believed to up to 70 percent more contagious than harvard 19 as it prevails or is it dominates in germany it could get the upper hand which could then see germany propelled back into exponential growth so that's what everybody is up against with the health minister having to defend that the vaccinations aren't being turned out as fast as in other countries most prominently israel and given all of those factors may. also the fact that merkel as you've also iterated has said that these are difficult weeks that are
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ahead until at least easter how is that going down with german. well the support for over strict sins is unbroken in the upwards of 3 courses behind them many believe that these restrictions could be a lot tougher there's still a lot of disparity though when it gets to actually feeling those faces a lot of in-fighting between those state premiers who in the end have the all sorts about whether schools should open how far they should open under which conditions so although overall germans are behind these measures there's a growing fear that there could be growing impatience if there is once again the message to have patience to brace that the worst still isn't over because that was the common feeling here pretty much after christmas that now this should be some relief in sight instead it's a very very long tunnel until enough vaccinations that light of the at the end of
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the tunnel can be reached. and berlin thank you. the largest mafia trial in over 3 decades has started in italy the defendants include more than $350.00 suspected members of one of the world's most feared organized crime groups the enduring guetta they're accused of offenses dating back to the 1990 s. including murder drug trafficking extortion and money laundering. sandor spoke to the lead prosecutor in the case and also to a former mobster termed informant who now fears for his life. he has to move quickly the chief prosecutor of capone's out to the conductor t.n.t. has powerful enemies illusion number one mafia hunter is leading the fight against the notorious calabrian network then that on get to his on a woman e they learn that. there are men of the internet and get there within the public administration by attempt to manage it in whole or in part trying to succeed in
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dominating not only on the economic level but also on the administrative and political level because the means that the you are putting think of. teddy has been fighting them for more than 30 years and he has been preparing a strong message to send to the calabrian families and the public. over the next 2 years more than $350.00 mafiosi and accomplices will take the stand in the biggest mafia trial in decades here and especially build a bunker courtroom set up to accommodate them together with hundreds of lawyers and witnesses the family's reach and influence go far beyond calabria over the years its business model has evolved from fighting bloody wars in the streets to more sophisticated financial crime. scene that i'm getting now operates in the shadows for example by importing tons of cocaine from latin america and quietly buying power and influence for europe this in their twisted but strong sense of family are
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the main reasons why it's so hard to fight the family clay. we have been to or tells us now working with prosecutors he was raised to become a powerful. that if you start with guns as a child make you shoot. if they carry guns and you're a kid and it's all a game to you. the other kids have toit guns but your guns are real you're not afraid of being beaten but of disappointing those who are training you whenever drugs extorted people and even participated in murders but after the birth of his 2nd child he decided this life was no longer for him and turned against his own family. when it became known that ambushed me twice within 12 hours the 1st time i managed to escape the 2nd time i was armed and returned fire 3 people they tried to kill me several times and set fire to my wife's shop since then has helped put
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hundreds of my fuel supply bars he welcomes the efforts of prosecutors like but he is not the only one worried that i will fight back. if i understood that if they knock me down all this great work and discreet team will stop there are thousands and thousands of people who believe in me and therefore i am the last hope. so this also gives me courage and helps we have to carry on what ever it takes if i pulled out today i would feel like a coward but it meant that i mean the recent it would be that while this trial won't free calabria from the clutches of the mafia it is a real chance to bring attention to the cause of suffering for millions of people not just here in italy. and let's bring in correspondent max ender who you also saw
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there and that report max is standing by for us in limits yet tell me where the trial is taking place max what's expected. great this is a historic day not just for the law but also for italy this is a very important trial that just is about to kick off. but to understand the magnitude of this process is it's important to understand how the end of anger to operates their core business is to import cocaine from latin america to europe to make a lot of money with it they control the majority of the cocaine trafficking and selling that throat throughout europe and they use this money to invest to buy power to buy influence to buy politicians and even for legitimate gittin the businesses and a lot of white called the crimes and the aim of this process is not to take out the interim get but more so to shine a light on their business shine a light tell the operates in the shadows. we've just heard from
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a witness from the prosecutor in your report and the trial is of course dangerous for them how do they handle that. right it's incredibly dangerous for xmas yossi who cooperate with the authorities that's why there are so few actually but even for the chief prosecutor we tell it so he cannot get a theory he has he is from the region he is from collaborate he grew up with some of it and if you see that he's putting putting away put it behind bars in the process of this this is this this trial he tells us he played woodstock with in the streets he knows their mentality and as a kid i had a very early age and when he would go to school he walked past bodies people shot dead by by the mafia so he decided in early point that he wanted to do something against it and he has been living. at a great risk for a very long time he has been under police protection for 30 years he told us yesterday that he sleeps in a bunker eats in his office doesn't have a life and he lives with constant death threats but he also said it's worth it even
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having a target on his back because if you can take back the country from the mafia and give it back to law abiding citizens then it's worth living like that max sander unlimited to me where the trial is getting under way thank you. human rights watch has handed us president donald trump a scathing report card in their annual roundup of the rights of people worldwide the report says that donald trump was a disaster for human rights and that his term in office has severely eroded the credibility of the u.s. government internationally it calls on incoming president joe biden to entrench human rights in the u.s. policy and allow the prosecution of his predecessor for alleged crimes. joining us now from geneva is kenneth roth he is the executive director of human rights watch kind of thanks so much for joining us always great to see you how much
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has she been writing suffered under president donald trump. well trump completely abandon the cause of human rights say at home he promoted divisiveness racism attacked immigrants from abroad he you know cozied up to basically every friendly autocrat under the sun he did occasionally speak out about human rights but it was always a with respect to perceived adversaries like venezuela cuba iran in the end china but those you know protestations had no credibility because they were so completely on principle so you know that's the bad news the good news is that the rest of the world didn't have bad human rights just because trump did they saw homeport they were and we saw many governments stepping forward and assuming leadership roles for the 1st time this happened through various lot american democracies they banded together something called the lima group to address human rights violations in venezuela we saw the organization islamic cooperation which rarely addressed human rights coming forward in defending the rohingya muslims from persecution in myanmar
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i mean there is european governments you know foremost germany played a very important role germany helped to rally governments to condemn china's repression issue trying it helped press putin to stop the bombing of civilians and it will province in syria so there is this broader more global defense of human rights that we urge biden to join and not supplant to come in as a partner not pretend that the u.s. is suddenly going to be a leader especially given that you know historically the u.s. has liked to think of itself as a beacon of democracy as a promoter of human rights the so-called shining city on a hill that you know others could look to as an example. how much work does biden have to do in order to you know bring the reality more in line with that image. well i think the big challenge for by ironically he has to start his term in president in the presidency by thinking about it's ant and he's got to worry about
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how does he avoided a new president coming in and reversing everything he did the way trump came in it was 1st everything that obama had done and the answer that i think is to try to find a way to better entrench a commitment to human rights in u.s. policy so that we don't find the double standard that so often is impacted the way the u.s. has treated him and rights i mean so one thing we've asked biden to do is to in a sense find his jimmy carter moment that is to say jimmy carter broadly and human rights is an element of u.s. foreign policy buying should treat it as a guiding principle and then apply it even when it's hard you know cutting off. to places like saudi arabia or the united arab emirates or egypt when you look perhaps more broadly now at the world when we're looking at autocratic regimes leaders leaders elsewhere in the world in your annual report where were the major points of concern which you say. well i mean i think the biggest threat to the global human
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rights system remains china it has intensified repression at home in a way we haven't seen since the murderous crackdown on the tiananmen square democracy movement in 1909 and it is attacking the global human rights system because it doesn't want anybody criticizing china now we've seen no significant pushback you know traditionally governments are or were reluctant to criticize china for fear of economic retaliation but we've seen safety in numbers and germany played an important leadership role in october rallying 40 governments together to condemn china's repression in shin jay where they have detained over a 1000000 wieder and other turkey muslims basically to force them to abandon islam and their culture and we're seeing increasing pushback of the sort more governments are trying to ensure that their supply chains of the supply chains of their companies are not infected by reader forced labor in shinji and this kind of pressure matters to beijing they care about their global reputation and we're
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seeing them begin to react to this sort of pressure. can we have just 30 seconds but i just want to give you the opportunity to perhaps briefly tell us what gave you hope this year in your report you know one sign of hope was the outpouring of popular support for human rights and democracy in so many countries if you look at you know hong kong thailand ballo reuss poland even the united states people took to the streets to defend basic rights and that's a source of encouragement and frankly also a source of support for governments who want to defend human rights kenneth roth executive director of human rights watch thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise that you. a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you here on your news the largest mafia trial in more than 3 decades is opening in italy over 300 suspected members of the get that criminal organization are being prosecuted in the southern region of calabria the group has used billions of
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dollars in cocaine revenues to extend its reach across the globe. up next in a single africa our environment magazine taking a look at alternative energy there's always more on our website to them to talk com you can also follow us on social media at to diffuse i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching take care and 6. o'clock.
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of that we'll have more on that later on on the show welcome to the environment show eco africa a military way then to visit kano park in lagos now let's see what's coming up on the show today. we'll take a look at a cleverly designed and envisioned free street sweeping devising gonna. find out why farmers in the netherlands are big fans of bad see. and hear about how people in the ivory coast are protecting baby turtle. and now we're off to kenya the east african country has a high domestic energy demand i mean many sectors including the t.v. industry people are kings of find alternatives to fossil fuels kenya is africa's leading producer in cary coal country there are several t. processing companies that are using sustainable energy sources from the local area let's go have some tea.
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when the sun shines the rolling landscape of times it comes to mind the fields are covered in t. bush and the special climate here makes it kenya's most important growing region. really has a plantation here he's one of hundreds of thousands of small will the farmers who make a living. t. is the base just north of income the main source of income i have the bullies who have a computer for a book and i've been in there for a nicer but it's on the. chance. orton to that of a sunny t. factory here walk us divide up the lives into batches and prepare them for the drank process. the factory uses a great deal of firewood but because of deforestation wood is becoming us cus
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resource in the region. so the factory has begun replacing it with a brick it's made out of sugar and residue you. about the compactor grow to grow a lot of storage space and very it's also very easy to transport less bulky and from units you need to retool we're prepared we're able to you know more and i do them by word. liberal get some made in a nearby factory the end made of sugar cane fibers a west product that is left over in sugarcane production sugar factories often dump the residual at the roadside where it crosses and emits the greenhouse gases come on the yolk side and me thin. but in this processing plant it is turned into a funny resource for us to the sugarcane residue is dried and shredded. and
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then it's pressed into briquettes system made out of a west production no additional land has to be put under cultivation. diaz chevys is an expert for sustainable energy and has been assessing the environmental benefits of briquettes. the same language to kill our economy so this is what we want to promote with bio energy and by quantum how you can really have a rounded cycle for biomass. back to the tea factory it has been able to replace one 5th of its firewood with briquettes. and other t. factories are following suit training their workers on how to make this speech the hope is that one day they will be able to face out firewood completely. if they succeed it will help preserve the remaining woodlands and protects the
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habitat of numerous animals and plants it would also benefit to the tea plantations and pharmacy. he said when they use the brigades the company. uses the expenditure and this is money and the money saved goes to the farmers for the environment and the teakwood uses in kenya the british are sustainable solutions with potential the potential to make even. in germany like in many other places forest fires are a growing problem so understanding how best to help for us recover i regenerate is more important than ever a group of scientists decided to see what would happen if a forest destroyed by fire well left more or less change own devices to several yes we may think we are vast in many ways but as is so often the case when given the
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chance mother nature will heal herself even from damage caused by humans like us. whether beech trees maples or estens jeanette bloom her and here are always glad to see a new member of the family arrive about 12 months ago the 2 researchers began documenting changes big and small to this section of a forest ravaged by fire. the 1st year to go off topic we got what we hoped for i mean the ecosystem is starting to recover and certain species are quickly appearing and spreading such as these aspens they've now brought about changes to the area that are in turn helpful for other species. good 6 and in august 28th seen a forest fire raised almost 4 square kilometers of woodland outside the town of
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twine pleats and in eastern germany an area larger than $500.00 soccer pitches the usual practice after a forest fire is to clear the entire area and replant trees as seen on this private land but not in this case thanks to a government funded project here dead trees are left standing. local forest think it is testing an alternative solution removing most of the dead pine trees and planting other species in their place the idea is to create a mixed forest that's also home to oaks poplars and other deciduous trees. for me so i can i 1st wanted to see which species of tree i could use and how old they need to be before being transplanted carrying out tests is important to get the full picture. and that's when the forest abroad in the expertise of these researchers they're here to find out the best way for
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a forest to be able to regenerate and become more climate resistant with or without human assistance. the researchers take a hands off approach limiting their work to observing which plants and animals settle in the habitat it's a rare opportunity. it's now standard procedure to see to it that we repair the damage that humans have done all too frequently we do not give nature the time or space to do that itself and that deprives us of the chance to learn from nature to forgive him for all the false stuff and. among the things they have learned is that in addition to providing shade dead wood also in the hands of the soil when it falls to the ground it creates more humus which gives the soil more moisture the work has carried out on his test areas is on
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a smaller scale and is common in conventional forest management there billy accessible by car and he's a wreck did a fence around the forest to keep larger animals at bay he left a number of dead trees standing leaves have also been spread to keep the soil moist and protected during drought year we're seeing large scale forest fires in the region and that's going to continue so we need to learn how to respond to. that and that's why researchers in that blue murder is here she's been collecting data on soil humidity and temperature which plants and animals settle there and how all these factors impact on the ecosystem 8 other research institutes are also involved in the project the data gathered over the project's 5 year time frame is being collected at her university and has filed a near bilin but it happened habits like death data shows that natural reach even
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nation far exceeds the number of trees planted by humans. we have seen up to 3 times the amount. naturally resettling can head to the prying or trees that were planted on the area. after after he found wooden. the researchers are also part of an international network they're eager to hear about the experiences of colleagues in the u.s. and mediterranean countries and to learn if and how forest ecosystems can be made more robust. starts. to go and starts cooling our work is really important it can help us to compare biomes or large ecological zones so that we can discuss common patterns or and also told. one thing and number of studies show is that even the remains of trees killed or damaged in severe fires help the
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forest ecosystem rebound which supports the argument of letting nature be. ready. now we are africa love people who take initiatives to help protect the environment our next report looks at a young innovator in ghana who has a truck with a view of finding cost effective solutions and sustainable wants to the problems facing his community his latest suit will bring jobs a bicycle that doubles as a little sweep here's this week's doing. this is no ordinary thought i can trade and this sweeping bicycle collects trash as it travels the streets of a crown its inventor frank doctor is on a mission he wants to help clean up ghana's capital. and i'm not happy when i go outside. and i see so many rubbish from the ground is so sad and i want to see
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someone nice from another country looking around i feel like painting but i want to be tough in the regime so relieved my new invention i am i believe become if i can be and i can do all i can put an end to come to something to do that to restrain the risk on the streets. he puts his sweeping bicycles together from discarded bikes and scrap may soon. it takes the south to engineer around a month to complete one. it's just one of several inventions he's working on. from dhaka and hopes he will one day own a factory and his eco bike idea will sweep across the nation. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. after doing your thing. sharing
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your stories. pollution is a problem all over the world and comes in a range of forms some obvious like plastic waste in our rivers and oceans all of a cloud of smoke billowing out of factories but even some things we consider useful can be the souls of pollution and have their own kind of impacts on our wellbeing we shed a little light on the issue in a new segment called eco check. gazing at a sky resplendent with stars. something many people around the world are sadly no longer able to enjoy. and events thanks to artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in $24.00 team the skies over hong kong were already 2 times brighter than they might be naturally.
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we suffer sleep deprivation from too much artificial light including that committed by smartphones. it also just wraps the orientation of nocturnal birds and insects. our energy consumption could also be cut drastically by ensuring responsible outdoor lighting. for starters it would help if advertising signs and building facades weren't eliminated on mike long. and if nighttime lights were used only for the places where it's really needed. some cities have already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fulda in germany it's among the $29.00 places so far to earn recognition as international dark sky communities. cities like these make it possible to see the
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starlit sky again and reset the. body clocks of us creatures below to their natural day and night rhythm. doctors not only helps us get a better night's sleep it's crucial for maintaining a balance in nature light pollution poses a serious threat to not tunnel species like bugs however scientists in the netherlands seem to have found a solution to this by creating special refuge areas for the flying mammals and that issues of keeping the bats safe they also make sure their role in the local ecosystem is preserved. and there's one. and there's also on a figure at least 5. far away from the bright lights of amsterdam ducted commute is afterward.

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