this used to be. my tree let's put the bees would need to giver and they'd leave behind a piece well. or ahead or less savory. equality in politics education health and earnings there's still a long road ahead if we continue to move it our current pace it'll take another 100 years before we attain real equality between the genders that's according to the 2020 global gender gap report in many countries there's still a big divide when it comes to politics and the economy but there are some nations leading the way among them sweden finland norway and top of the bunch is iceland with almost 88 percent equality women their have key roles in all areas of society

and they have a decisive influence on the country's climate and environmental policies. what better place to save the planet from global warming than iceland it has energy to spare everywhere the ground is in motion. scientists call it an act of volcanic area. icelanders have long realized that the country's hot springs can serve as much more than just tourist attractions. the half hour's drive east of the capital reykjavik lies the hedley shiv power station it's been generating electricity and heat from steam since 2006 it's become one of the world's biggest geothermal power plants but there's another reason why scientists entrepreneurs and reporters are now flocking here. they want to meet with other dirty

a c.e.o. of a company called carfax it's working to reverse the greenhouse effect albeit on a small scale. basically what's happening is that we are stuck in the office fear through this machine ever see a true stick store specific chemical within. this year that. and so what comes out of the back is so much cleaner office with with let's go see it that. they began using this kind of vacuum cleaner for carbon dioxide 8 years ago supported in part by e.u. research funds it can now suck up several 1000 tons of the gas in one of the pumping stations out of the tier explains what then happens to the c o 2 so here we have our own underground pipe transporting. a busier through that was kept track of the kupchak watt and it is all that water and this is then

what we inject into the subsurface 700 meters underground. the c o 2 then reacts with the basalt rock and is captured and stored there permanently it's a method that works especially well in the volcanic rock here this is a piece of just off the court you see the steel to both feeling base within within the course of the fractures but also on the force so gradually this all of these these still open pores could fill up with me in your list so you too depending on how much reenter. the technology is still very expensive it also consumes a lot of water and can only be used in specific terrain still cart fix is convinced that this technology will eventually help to reduce the amount of c o 2 in the atmosphere worldwide. few countries in the world are feeling the effects

of climate change as acutely as iceland it's once mighty glaciers are shrinking continually scientists believe these ice rivers which grew throughout the millennia will have disappeared within a mere 150 years. so iceland's environment minister is taking action. aims to make the country c o 2 neutral by 2040 they're turning to new technologies and a belief in ancient stock us. we have these stories in iceland thought trolls became stones when they if they were exposed to sun. we can say that we are trying to. turn see a thaw into a stone where us trolls are turned into storm and the medicine. but that alone won't be enough since iceland's canonization 95 percent of its forests have been lost millions of euros are to be invested in reforesting large expanses of the

island nation something which should also help the c o 2 atmospheric balance sheet icelanders know they can't save the planet on their own but they're developing technologies that other countries can also employ in the future and the idea that believing in elves and trolls can also help well we need all the assistance we can get. in this week's global ideas we go to south africa to learn how tax breaks km promotes nature conservation something that's easier than it sounds south africa is famous for its wildlife for vast areas of almost untouched land now an ngo there is working to turn much of that into nature reserves we met up with 2 of its teams in the can do in the east of the country and chemist grown in the west. no plantations no crops no combine harvesters 88 percent of land in

south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too one even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where canned to stephen's comes in she's a tax specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. and go. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the

public good yes and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that bind of this city so even as you plow money time if an energy into looking after the sun almost may think you're not getting any younger now is a special tax incentive just to give a little bit back this man has already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over a 25 year period that extra cash in the pocket would be able to to give a little bit more financial sustainability to you in managing this in perpetuity and so that you could put a little bit more interest which would be your decision and you know what needs to happen on the side of photographer cost fund of endor purchased the land 5 years ago and has taken countless pictures of the area since then it rarely rains here but when it does the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it

could act as a carter for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas. we stand. on the northern border of it. to the west and east for self stretching down the macro national park and then to the north east look up . and you can see the proposed corridor linking the 2 protected. once upon a time this area was farmland these trees going back for a long time since the 17th hundreds. with the sit to the pioneers that that formed here with a high rainfall that time but due to global warming and the rainfall diminished quite a bit and it just became impossible for these people to to make a living with cattle and agriculture and eventually they had to sell and that's why

we bought it in the fall for conservation with climate change threatening biodiversity candice stevens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow suit tax is not everybody's favorite subject and when tax season rolls around it's not like everybody. so my experience with is that they understand that there are implications to tax and financial and so they want to fully understand what the tax incentives for the. dozens of landowners have signed up to the scheme. her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the kwazulu-natal province in order to protect the land locals introduced a herd of cattle. the animals serve an important function keeping the grass short helps prevent wildfires

in the dry season but it's just the start we were due for a time when the whole nature reserve will be fenced and at that time i will slowly introduce. starting with the plains game which will be zebra spring book. world of b.s. and those type of animals and then once they are established slowly the cattle will be removed the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve. the tax rebates that candace stevens has been promoting have gone some way towards addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa and in the future she's hopeful of further progress in this development. conservation work can become the mainstream and become something that's part of everyday life and not something that's separate and with additional finance that's sustainable it means that we're protecting biodiversity on

a scale that we haven't done before and if we can also that global challenge with all the resources that we have at our disposal we might just have a chance of saving the world around us. that's all from us this week on global 3000 we hope you enjoyed the show and tell us what you thought right to global 3000 come and check us out on facebook. global ideas see you next week take a. the

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the contest of the cathedral splay the 12th d.w. . player. play. play. play this indeed of the union to live up. britain's royal family breaks its silence on accusations of racism buckingham palace says the queen is saddened by the challenges faced by prince harry and his wife and that can affect their claims of racism will be addressed in private not public also coming up on the show. defiance in the face of myanmar's deadly crackdown footage of this extraordinary moment goes

viral a catholic nun begs police to shoot her and spare peaceful protesters. and it's the end of an era in german football throughout healing those who coach the national team to world cup glory is stepping down a year early. poem clay richardson welcome to the show britain's queen elizabeth has responded to the tell all interview given her by her grandson prince harry and his wife meghan markle the couple shocked millions with their accusations of racism especially the charge that a member of the royal family voiced concerns over the skin color their son could be born with in a statement released by buckingham palace the queen said the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been

for harry and i can see the issues raised particularly that of race are concerning while some recollections may vary they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately harry may can and archie will always be much left family members. and charlotte tells them phil is in the london with the latest charlie it's at the palace quite a while to come up with a statement what do you make of it. i think a lot of people in palestine ackles wouldn't say what does it take quite a while you have to bear in mind that the allegations that have been leveled at the world family at the palace have been extremely serious particularly the issues surrounding race which she mentioned of course mental health as well that was something that was covered extensively in the interview meghan saying that she felt so lonely and so isolated that it times she felt like she was having considering taking her in life that's extremely serious and it's something that the powers who

want to look at very closely they want to put out a carefully crafted statement that represents the whole family showing the public that they are taking this seriously and let's bear in mind this is also a family drama that's playing out the family themselves will have needed time to digest what was said a lot of the claims in that interview i'm sure many in the royal family would have found streaming difficult listen they needed to process of now release this this short statement and i think looking at it it's clear that the royal family now would like this at least for now to be the end of this they're trying to put a stop to the media frenzy that surrounding this interview saying they're taking it seriously but they will be handling it privately well it remains to be seen whether or not that is going to be allowed to be the case because to a lot of questions are asked about what exactly is going to be done to address some of the claims made in that interview and you write that these are extremely serious allegations and the royal family clearly under pressure here do you think that this

interview is going to do serious damage to support to public support for the marquis which is after all an institution seen by many as outdated and intolerant. yeah well you have to bear in mind that public opinion in the u.k. is split about the royal family and that is very clear from the polling that you've seen that's come out since that interview ad in fact the majority of the general public feel more all sympathetic with the royal family than they do for obama than they do for meghan and harry which is extremely interesting given the nature of that interview i think there are some people here really found it less advanced haste in their mouths not only the way that the megan and harry the suffixes left the world family but the nature of this interview the way it was conducted the fact that it was done while grandfather was in hospital for example is something that a lot of people have talked about what is interesting though is that young people

seem to have more sympathy in the u.k. for macon harry than older people this is the taste of a drama a family drama old this nature i mean a lot of the older generation myself i would include in this remember what happened with princess diana with with harry's mother and the scandal that then on sold it in the way that the world family had to really know the way that it's managed conducts itself remains to be seen now whether the reverberations like that will be felt for years to come off of this and and awakening for the younger generation charlotte charles until in a london thank you very much for that update. all of us has stepped up its condemnation of the situation in myanmar saying it's quote repulsed by the ongoing use of lethal force against protesters 2 officials from the overthrown and party have died in police custody since monday there have also been a new raids targeting independent journalists but each day the protesters assure

the sacrifices they're prepared to make for a return to democracy. a moment of peaceful defiance sister and rosa new tongue knelt in front of riot police in her hometown in myanmar's north saying she was prepared to die to save protesters. but minutes later protests turned violent as police attempted to disperse crowds protesting has become increasingly dangerous as police and soldiers have used tear gas rubber bullets and live rounds on crowds . last night in yangon residents to fight an 8 pm curfew taking to the streets to show solidarity with hundreds of protesters trapped by authorities police fired stun grenades at the gathering supporters finally the trapped protesters were allowed to leave. when the sun rose protesters marched once again in mandalay they carried makeshift shields but stayed

for only a few minutes a change in tactics to avoid another violent reaction from the earth or she's. more of the way they are but at night we couldn't sleep actually we don't want to go out but we're going out anyway. so we've been going out for 22 days and we haven't rested yet we are going out every day we keep fighting for the fallen heroes we will fight until we win. the military also attempted to suppress the spread of information revoking licenses from media outlets and detaining journalists from that there were military. targets year progresses out but we managed to report back on satellite and on social media. about that we already got journalists arrested at you know when

you're. just now you know that. it's got arrested again most recently. protesters say they will continue to gather across the country daily acts of defiance in the face of mounting risks to their lives and freedom. and for more i'm joined now by an activist in myanmar 2nd biggest city mandalay we will refer to just as david for security reasons so david since the coup over a month ago security forces have become increasingly violent in their response to demonstrations is that affecting the way that you and others are protesting. i cannot see but it doesn't affect us but it affects us in a way not to back off but to change tactics and switch how we express ourselves right now we are exercising you know avoid and regathered tactic work which is basically when the come to practice we would. disperse

a little bit and reconsider at a different place at the city and especially in mentally we have a lot of model bikes so we can do that quite easily and it's been 2 days that there hasn't been any you know major crackdown happened. so it's quite obvious that our tech this so far is working because we mobilize our protest pretty quickly and we have our own people looking out for their police vehicles which beagles are heading all if we and we communicate with each other to disperse quite quickly now aside from the protesting what other kinds of resistance are you putting up as activists against the military junta. i think the protesting is basically all mainly made to

raise awareness on international platform but the main thing that the military or states are sponsored terrorists are afraid of is their civil disobedience movement which is which can potentially shut down the whole mechanism off the government so that's one way which is we are urging the government to stop going to work we are arranging different places for them to stay we are raising funds to support their living and so far we can you know confidently say that it is working and that's why we see their frustrations on protestors and the other ways that we can we are doing now to repel the military government is how we stop paying taxes and many shops and restaurants also agree not to pay taxes and we also

are you know gathering information as we are we collecting photographic evidence to send them to international platforms and we also have various teams who. you know strategically tackle social media channels of the military government so those are the few things that we have been working on david an activist in mandalay thank you so much for coming on the show thank you. and that's get you up to speed now on some other stories making news around the world greece's prime minister has condemned the protesters who attacked a police station the petrol bombs in the capital athens the violence erupted after thought thousands of people turned out to demonstrate against a video of police officers and beating a man over the weekend authorities are investigating the use of force in the video . u.s. a special envoy for climate john kerry has held talks in brussels to discuss

transatlantic cooperation to curb global warming the u.s. rejoined to the paris climate of court earlier this year and doing it with a drawl from the agreement under former president of donald trump. sudan has started rolling out vaccinations against coke at 19 health staff in the capital khartoum perceived at the 1st shots sudan received its 1st batch of the astra zeneca vaccine last week through the world health organizations vaccine sharing program kovacs. time for some sports news now because there is big news in german football national coach iraq even though they'll step down after this summer's european championships the 61 year old famously presided over germany winning the world cup in brazil but his side has struggled ever since. assuming these 2014 world cup triumph we sure can move scrimping glory. you'd already been in the job for 8 years at that point but decided supply will in search of more success.

4 years later and the mood was very different as germany return from the world cup in russia having been don't turn out as holders in the group stage. sounds were in short but still live thorough to continue more disappointing results followed camp of the 6 mil hammering by spain in the nation's league in november led to wide. calls for him to step down. had been due to stay until the 2022 world cup but ahead of qualifying games later in march he has suddenly decided to give clarity he has announced he will leave after the european championship for june. he will hold a press conference on thursday but in a statement said i am taking this step very consciously full of pride and with enormous gratitude but at the same time with an unbroken level of motivation as far

as the euros are concerned. the timing of his decision is good it means there won't be any speculation about contracts cheering the euros. now it means the decision has been taken and there is clarity and it could even give the team a boost knowing that it's the coach's last tournament and he'll want to make use of that. liverpool's german coach jurgen klopp has already ruled himself out of the running to replace love if that's the question we want to ask if i were there before the job. for the benefit of quarter to draw national to redesign. the euro's being postponed from last year because of the coronavirus means there is little time for the successor to stamp his offer of the on the team the qatar world cup kicks off in november next year assuming you qualify. and before we

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