imagine how many polish old loves us right now in the world right no climate very different story. this is one place they went from just one week. how much work to really do that. we still have time to work i'm going. to subscribe to the morning news like it was. a new beginning is often a wonderful opportunity to examine our choices and at our life if these trying times that something it's this inspirations to make a positive change towards

a more sustainable real life at all around us today we introduce through to some people who have devoted their lives to words making environmentally friendly choices hello welcome to eco india. coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai. india is the largest producer of milk in the world because of rising demand it goes without saying that the primary reason for varying a college this fall. but if i'm an india which has more than 100 cars does not commercially produce a single drop of milk what may be your little bit to make such a contrast choice let's take a closer look. at. 28 because of lush farmland in the busy city of noida. why organic farming is not uncommon even in the city this farm has taken things to. new level.

beach as it is called has built a community of farmers that is self-sustaining and practices natural farming methods with a focus on the wellbeing of livestock. what makes this far more unique is its relationship to its family of cattle. meat conquered age a native of good get out scotch. from the sindh region. this beauty is called red cindy. to a sturdy body from tama not especially suited for farming. areas of indigenous cattle from across india this farm doubles up as an animal sanctuary. cows and bulls have always been a part of agriculture but indigenous breeds are disappearing at a frightening rate tanks to the introduction of machines and the growing focus on

dairy which prefers imported breeds to native ones because of the higher milk. some indigenous populations are down to as little as 100 animals. be john has a herd of 135 indigenous cattle of various breeds of which fox are bulls. it's striving to revive some of the mad practices in farming in india today. which. i think everyone knows how cruel the dead industry is and when i walk into this and when i started seeing how many beautiful indigenous cattle were there and how the history of us importing cattle from the west for this nuclear evolution and a lot of other things then the need to protect these. kind of became very strong so these beautiful indigenous cats. on the farm and many of these are dropped and

walkie which don't actually give a lot of men. and i realize that these cattle are dying because our whole focus is on going up. to preserve these breeds logical the focus had to shift away from dairy. and so be germs dung whole project was born i delayed it up i didn't buy the down in oil washing a lot and it's going best and only a lot of dung are lying around also means release it releases and you can get it's not even going to the right is. that dung whole project promotes an economy around cow dung every day some towels in $400.00 kilos are gathered to be converted into a very dry a t of products. ensuring a 2nd income for farmers. suitable were not there he says we make seed boards like these using seeds from big trees like the neem. who are

a few scattered them on empty fields before drains they start growing. body. we also make images of the day it is going a shot and luxury using dung and mud these are used during the valley and customers come here to buy them and if you have. the dung is also used as many your on the fields doing away with the need for chemical fertilizers of. the reality are mild to them he says when we came here the feel of a sandy we couldn't do anything without going over. board and once we had enough stock of dung we started making natural mineo and used it for the fields and it took us about 2 years of preparation time or now the soil has regained its natural for to lety and we are able to grow vegetables very well.

most of the plants are grown from heirloom seeds. the farmers used traditional systems of into cropping companion planting and crop rotation. all food is grown organically. the vegetables harvested here include bitter gourd squash and pumpkin. be june produces its own solar power and is off the grid. it's home to a large community of farmers from all over india. it runs its own school a clinic a women's group and has direct access to weekly markets. the women's new skills allow them to generate extra income and the aim is to become completely self-sufficient. it is one such woman whose husband farms while she knits and stitches products that are sold to visit does i'd be charmed. she says now we're mostly making mosques like this we make about 20 in

a day and each $1.00 costs $50.00 rupees. it. takes a sustainable approach to farming with a focus on caring for the land and the animals. found not. non-dairy kawas eyed its heart will inspire others to follow. around the world biking is becoming more and more popular not only is it trendy it's also good for your help and the and by bit and if you do says well chances of getting infected in the school were 19 times but many of bikes often multiply audited by especially if you move to the city of don't plan on staying for very long. we found some biking enthusiastic we're preparing bikes for refugees and

short of visitors. its benefits. chi wanya sci fi repels fights for refugees here in berlin. he fled iran 4 years ago last year he started working at the hook invent a tailwind association. a bike is important for refugees. so it helps them. mean when you look for a bike online somebody cost 50 or 70 or 100 euros or longer but i had to put in there and we accept a donation of 5 or 10 euros from a refugee from forward the senate well i've got 6 almost everyone who works here is a volunteer the bikes they were pat all donated once they've been fixed up they go to refugees. only one yes the fee

has a paid job but the association and it's partly financed by the national volunteer service it all began 5 years ago when germany took in a large number of refugees the team not only want to help the new comers they also want to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport and recycling old bikes is especially sustainable if you cannot as we use everything if a bike can no longer be written if we take it apart and use the components for another bike you could see that from 2 broken old bikes we create one new or usable one with the strongest of. the team come from many parts of the world irishman graeme pope who's been helping out here for 2 years. one. outside of the convince pope and some friends have set up a bike sharing nonprofit organization called bike surf it maintains

a fleet of 25 people can bore them for a small donation. bike so if doesn't aim to compete with commercial bike rental firms uses mainly come from the sharing community. the idea that if you can surf somewhere or you can cheaply someone. and then maybe you can find somewhere to stay you can maybe find some cheap places to eat or for free then you might have for a wife i then the next thing is getting around a big city like berlin the obvious answer is to be on a bicycle it's environmental it's good for you good for your health. pope says he hopes the idea catches on you can't currently borrow a bike in many other cities. you can book a bike theft bike online. and you can usually keep it for a few weeks or even longer. look invent meanwhile

has a new project it wants to visit school classes to talk about bikes and sustainability . we want to get children and teenagers interested in cycling again so they think it's cool to ride a bike we want to show them how easy it can be to repair a bike we hope to get them so excited about biking that they don't even think of buying a car or even getting a driver's license but want to move about the city on wheels. so convinced says stuff in such a project with volunteers is difficult they're looking for funding so they can hire and pay more people. but and it they're part of an unavoidable eternal cycle of the all encompassing bushfire of the debilitating monsoon floods natural events destroy life yet at the same time create

a base for new life conservation is another study a similar phenomenon in military training areas amid bombed out deputy of army with was. constant tank movements and artillery exercises make nature conservation at this army training ground a complicated affair before the ecologist start work the search party patrols the area to make sure there are no nasty explosive surprises lurking in the grass they're always accompanied by munitions expert from the german military or. they found a missile its location is marked down and laser bomb disposal experts will pick it up. you have to search carefully as we use everything from. small 20 millimeter ammunition to large ordinance and explosives of course it's much easier to find bombs that to find small munitions and don't forget we've been using this troop training area for 80 years so you find all sorts of stuff here. just those 80 years of army maneuvers have helped create

a very landscape in bomb holder or grasslands with wild herb's as well as woodlands and brush all ideal for biodiversity. grasslands are so valuable because they're hard to find anywhere else there's no arable land so no pesticides no nutrients no fertilizers this is only for military maneuvers. the army has all the heavy equipment it needs to preserve the natural environment does armored vehicle is used to take care of open spaces to make sure they don't get overgrown the tears up shrubs and flattened small trees. germany has 1400 square kilometers of land for military drills the environmental group nabu commissioned a study and found something astonishing although there are pollutants like heavy metals and kerosene residue the sites are ecologically important. the almost didn't let food of was another situation in these areas is unique the

exercises create a patchwork environment there are temporary changes what we ecologists call disturbances in areas where soil is removed there are pioneer sites where rare plants can grow as well as animal species you can't find in the regular landscape. destruction by tanks and artillery creates new ecological niches says army ecologist wilfried korten pons foreman tank trails and bomb craters where frogs and mutes can spawn. it's extraordinary the damage we see here from tank trucks you only see this in military training areas is especially important for nature conservation this is not static environmental protection habitats are constantly changing they're also valuable areas not in regular use by the military where nature can evolve organically guns it's not too early. in the

areas used less often they deploy sheep several 1000 sheep graze all summer long of the military training ground so that's that's what makes sheep really useful is that they get into all the corners under the bushes into parts of the woods we can't reach a machine can't do that the prince grazing and dropping us at the turf into the state that nature needs. the sheep of spent numerous summers in the military zone and are well used to it so shepherd karl-heinz kinkel. in there regularly generally whenever they're shooting even heavy fire you'd be amazed how fast they adapt if they do get frightened they huddle together. in germany large swathes of the natural environment to being wiped out she feeds through intensive farming the untamed an army training areas is highly valuable in ecological terms. despite the bombs and grenades this unique environment get special protection. elephants

we've. made a huge boldest attraction and have to perform tricks on command for the hordes of applauding tourists who visit them. these tricks are often perfected by doctoring them repeatedly but the pandemic is put in the land of incoming tourists while on the one hand this is good news for the elephants on the other their future their means threatened some of them now have received a new life we accompany them elephant rescue team to see for ourselves. just one look and she knows exactly which elephant is which she now has 80 of them each one has suffered lect child learn knows all their stories. until just a few years ago this elephant worked in

a nearby riding camp as the conservationist explains he had to carry tourists around every day if he didn't obey his trainer would pierce is thick skin with a bull hook the tie activist has been working to protect elephants for 25 years with her foundation she aims to improve the lives of the packet derms donations and able her to buy up animals who have suffered especially harsh treatment most of the elephants have spent decades being ridden or in showbiz but in childbirth elephant nature park they no longer have to work or be in chains paying guests are allowed to watch the elephants but nothing more. people come and visit they don't discover a friend they just watch and be yours the money to come and the congress gear more and more. again and again like china learned has exposed animal abuse using a hidden camera for centuries wild elephants have been subjected to prolonged

violent taming methods now there are laws in thailand that prohibit animal cruelty . but china says this is done little to change the taming practice known as elephant crushing. the tie everything and that now is the plan for them to do with the whole. lot of the bribe breeding everywhere. the baby are called bravely you can see the blood when i work. i have the will i have the totem pretend that i had ordered i don't care why i don't get that i don't get that from there. but up that cob whole lot of how i cry i cry with a lot of disappointed about here when. i angry angry a bit rude to people who have is. that. shooting. and her team are once again on a rescue mission this time the conservationists will collect 7 elephants from this

riding camp southwest of bangkok and bring them to the reserve near chain mind the camp owners themselves contacted china its foundation and asked for help as hardly any tourists are coming to ride the elephants to the coronavirus pandemic. and adult elephant is usually worth about $2000000.00 baht or more than $50000.00 euros but due to the pandemic the animals have become more of a burden for their owners. it cost them nearly a $1000.00 euros a month for food and care. final thought cairo is happy to at least get $1000000.00 baht per elephant from china or its foundation. our situation has been dire since the start of it we had to close the camp from. before but regardless of whether we're open or closed we still have to take care of the elephants and we need to feed them every day. we were allowed to reopen on july 1st

but there are simply no visitors. that might make it. the convoy sets off in the early afternoon. nothing like that little to eat. as long as that feeling out there. that i'm hungry and no one. even if i think the journey or kids are. the next morning after a nearly 20 hour drive the convoy reaches its destination the elephant nature park north of chainline the team is exhausted lecture i learned has hardly slept but nothing can dampen her mood. all the happy because the journey is spliced i felt angry so yeah. i feel believe.

that once the restraining bars have been removed it's time for the elephants to take their 1st cautious steps into a new life. one. look at the newcomers will have to be isolated from the rest of the herd for 2 weeks in order to prevent the possible spread of disease. the rescuers freeze the animals from all their ropes and chains. so beautiful. lecture i learned has. invited a new home for well over 100 elephants. home where they're no longer forced to put on a show where they can simply elephants. the lives of women in india changing slowly but steadily more the women getting an

education and have despite this 24 india of the top of the list of countries considered most dangerous for human we met the founder of a nonprofit organization in mumbai encouraging women to stand up against sexual violence and gender discrimination this brought us to the day to day struggle it's 5 steps forward 2 steps back 5 steps forward 2 steps back and the protest has to be a daily protest and you don't let the government know that. the fact that you had the rule child who was brutally gang raped and murdered as a crime of ethnic cleansing that you had political leaders across party lines take to the streets with indian flag and in defense of this it's just something you've never seen before. no child's body should be subjected.

no one on religious grounds. a lawyer in a social activist back in august or anything. along with a group of young amazing feminists we started an organization she says the movement in india to fight against all sorts of gender based violence and discrimination and fight for equality. at that point i started receiving extremely. aggressive dead and real threats. if you know i'm following you i have people following you i know where you live i think the idea of a woman cleaning agency an idea of a woman a sort of a demanding for her rights a sort of the fighting for justice. scares all structures and these weak people the only thing that they can resort to do is going online and threatening us thinking

that that is somehow with their sight and sound boyce's. but while i'm still here i'm still fighting and. it's obviously taking a toll on them but i have an incredibly supportive family my family is realizes that the work we do. has a significant impact on people's lives. and. everything and stuff below deck to you being a woman will object to you being young they'll object to you very western clothes they'll object to you varying make up their objective you speaking english. objects do you. fighting against discrimination based on religion they've been objects to you for raising your voice too much there's this notion of. there's this notion not to speak up and fight for your rights but do so politely you know

without offending people too much. agreement that we don't pass on these realities to our future generations as accepted way of life that mothers don't have to tell their daughters marital rape is a view of life you just have to adjust to it a dream that. you know more children are not being subject to child sexual abuse like so many of the war. i dream. that. equality would be a normal way of life and more than anything. my dream is do you know the she says do not be needed. now each one of us has access to a new lease on life many young joseph our life it comes down to how we grab it and run with it i hope to be as episode has inspired you to take

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commemorates the victims of a racist shooting spree 10 people were gunned down in the rampage one year ago today. i'm rebecca riches thanks for joining us and just a few minutes from now the ladies of germany and france will join the u.s. president joe biden to talk about the future of transatlantic relations it will be an opportunity to show just how much or how little the e.u. has in common with a new washington administration. but discussion will take place as part of the munich security conference this year with virtual discussions because of the coronavirus the event follows the group of 7 meeting another virtual gathering where world leaders focused on rebuilding the global economy after the covert 19 pandemic. so a lot of high level talking going on today and here to help us analyze it all is

chief political editor. and joining us from brussels with a view from the e.u. is barber of a zone before we look ahead to munich you've been following today's g 7 meeting can you fill us in on the outcome of those talks you have just come back from the press crowned conference of german chancellor angela merkel and reiterated the signal that the g 7 wanted to send now that joe biden is the president after donald trump that multi-lateralism is back at the same time because a pandemic is overarching everything and then of the 7 countries are very much on the defensive they have earmarked another couple of 1000000000 euros to deliver those vaccines to poorer nations at the same time they recognize that china and russia have been doing a lot of work also dear is to teach it work as the german chancellor put it in delivering vaccines with very strategic aims in mind so that's certainly what we

will also hear debated there at the munich security conference or i know bob returning to the munich security conference that we've been speaking about joe biden will be speaking shortly what's the e.u. expecting or perhaps hoping to hear from him. they more or less know what he's going to say because he is going to reach out to europe and this is the 1st time after those 4 horrible dark and leaden years of the former administration when you never knew where the next foreign policy horo would come becoming flying from so yes there is a feeling almost of excellent aeration it's more than relief that joe biden is in office but it is also the idea that at least we can talk to each other anymore if you look at the foreign ministers' meeting yesterday evening in paris where they were considering how to get back to the iran nuclear dear deal i mean that was not possible was the former administration now the american foreign minister.

video and they could talk to each other and say how do we do this how do we best sort of forget about it and this is new and this is really what everybody is sort of clutching at the moment yes at least we're sort of in conversation again or i mean hello barbara gave a little bit of a flavor there but after 4 years of the trumpet ministration give us a snapshot of where he left the transatlantic alliance. well very much fragile and a lot of trust was lost there was a sigh of relief here in europe as barbara just fleshed out but the overarching question really is whether democracies can deliver at this moment in crisis whether transparency is the way forward when we're seeing evidence particularly in china that more autocratic regimes have been ahead in beating this pandemic and this is something that. flagged up very early on months ago in this crisis and we've also

learned that we expect this to be very much the cool theme of what the newly elected president biden from the united states there will really see as the center point of his remarks barbara would you agree with that view is that something held also in brussels. they know of course in europe that power politics is being played now with and using the chrono crisis yes of course everybody talks about here look at china look at russia how the a using the situation in order to sort of make themselves appear stronger than the e.u. commission chief or slough underline said this just a couple of days ago pointing at russia and say we don't even know how effective you a vaccine is but you're sort of flooding it all across the world so everybody is aware of that everybody is aware of how dedicated delicate this issue is because the

united states and the europeans are somewhat in the same boat none of them is going to really share large amounts of their vaccine because they don't have enough for their own population it is sort of 1st seen from the standpoint of upcoming elections and contentment of the own population simply not possible to do this to give this out at the moment on the other hand they know they have to do it the french president gave an interview and said yes we basically should right now give away 5 percent of what we have well the i have my doubts. all right thanks foreign bomb i had to stay with us but the transatlantic alliance will certainly have a lot on its plate in the coming years chief international editor richard walker gave us his take on some potentially thorny issues. 24 years of the trumpet ministration were a toxic age for transatlantic relations. americal could barely conceal her relief after joe biden speak tree. with president biden we simply have

a much wider range of political agreement. but that doesn't mean that the u.s. and germany suddenly agree on everything they really don't so we're going to take a look at 3 issues that are right at the top of the transatlantic agenda. first up north stream into a russian natural gas pipeline under construction to germany that team biden says must never be completed. because it divides europe it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian mint russian manipulation and because it goes against europe's own stated energy and security goals the us is even threatening sanctions against companies involved in the project here in berlin the government says that that is no way to treat an ally so the big question is can merkel and biden find some sort of compromise next china the rising giant challenging u.s.

leadership in almost every thinkable way and shocking the democratic world with its crackdown on freedoms in hong kong. the u.s. and china are entering a period of profound confrontation and biden wants u.s. allies firmly on side but on that merkel seems decidedly cagey. we've pressed her on this just recently asking why she seemed reluctant to line up behind the new president on china and. i believe that it is very important for the european union to have its own china policy he nonpolluting it's really no surprise that merkel is so cautious china is after all a massive market for germany's export driven economy but they could come a time when biden says you have to pick sides. finally in the biggest crisis of all for the world perhaps more hope for transatlantic togetherness

climate change is back as a top priority for the u.s. after 4 years of denial john kerry is the new teams climate czar a high profile name raising hopes that the u.s. and europe can make progress together on cutting back on carbon but there's one thing that transcends all of these global issues. for leaders watching biden from here in europe they remember how his presidency began with washington bracing for violence after its very democracy came close to collapse their biggest question will be can biden restore some stability to america because if he can't they fear another trouble could be on the way. so the north stream to gas high of china and climate 3 prickly issues for the transatlantic alliance let's pick up with mahela and barbara mccain i'll start with you the north stream to project germany's remains reticent to back away from it is it just too big for germany to

budge on. well that's 2 central project both in terms of supplies all those experts say that wouldn't be strictly necessary but the big difference is that russia is a european neighbor and that will not change by taking a different policy line so unlike the united states europe knows it always will have to find some kind of way to deal with russia and ideally on friendly terms so we're not really expecting any kind of rash movement on the german side despite it being deeply unpopular also why parts of europe you often struggles with a unified approach toward russia with that mind what's the view from brussels in relation to the north stream project. struggle in those europe with regard to russia we're going to see this again on monday or when there will be talks among the foreign ministers about new sanctions because of the imprisonment of alex in

a volley there will be lots of warm words but there will be very very slow progress on sanctions on actual sanctions so yes they're divided and bolan and parents are sort of in or stepping on the brakes because they don't really want to alienate russia further then the relations have already deteriorated so that is going to be one big problem and yes north stream divides europe and the eastern europeans are jumping up and down and have been doing this for years demanding from berlin to sort of give this project up in berlin so far hasn't done it so this is not going to be resolved so there are many will have to be some sort of compromise that is face saving as well for bolin as well satisfying the other side what that could look like at the moment it is very hard to tell or i let's move on to the next thorny issue of course relations with china. in richard's report that we just saw

he said merkel was cagey in taking a stand stand against beijing our economic interests came here. clearly the recovery of pretty fast recovery from the initial covert 19 economic crisis here in germany is made in china that's where germany is currently selling its cards so i'm going to machall doesn't want to see any kind of debate over whether the e.u. will eventually have to pick sides it wants to find we want to find europe wants to find a way of finding a rather comfortable position in between those 2 chairs or barbara merkel merkel spoke of an policy on china or does europe have broad agreement on what. the if china policy is not really that contentious because i mean remember just at the end of last year the e.u. signed this investment agreement that was years in the making and did they do that

before the biden administration came into office so we know that there were raised rows in washington about that like couldn't they have waited for us but no the idea during the last 4 years of the trumpet ministration in new york this philosophy or maybe just let's call it idea of certain european autonomy in world affairs has really sort of the taking ground and it was in monreal mccrum the french president who pushed this really strongly and in the merkel was only too happy to follow so no they're not going to give up on this overnight they will sort of keep this going on the other hand they're also new and they must know at the moment they will have to compromise with the biden administration and they will have to accommodate washington more than they did during the last years of course right now another thing we know about the by the administration is that the main climate of priority

we had are surely that area is one where the u.s. and europe can forge together ahead on. absolutely and that become could become the one success of transatlantic success for that suddenly blooms while the german interpretation of european sovereignty is somewhat different from the french one the german one is keeping the united states' interest the french one is becoming a bit more dependent but when it comes to climate both sides across the atlantic will see eyes who are in wanting to take more significant measures and it's simply not possible without the backing from the united states and the new president biden he's there all playing on the same team there now because the stability of the u.s. itself is an issue after the capital riots of january 6th how concerned are e.u. members about the resilience of the u.s. democracy not overly of course during those riots and when everybody was sort of watching those pictures coming from washington more or less open miles there was

there was a lot of corn syrup and many people were saying we we expected something but we didn't exactly expect things to be so bad as this now it's over the new administration sort of gives the impression of being very focused and very sort of the quickly in getting into gear so i think that has faded a bit but what is there of course is the idea that one electoral cycle lasts only for use and as the republican party is still fighting amongst itself nobody knows what will come after joe biden will sort of this specter from the right wing populist in the roof the within the republicans reemerge so that i do still is part of the european thing.