instead of going to class others can attend classes only to be finished making. millions of children for the world to go to school. we ask why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own body. w. make for minds. of these 4 young bucks for this gleaming with the word right to your species called the amazing view of galaxies extending in the sky full of stars and light these not someone does are becoming increasingly of it and it's not only the biodiversity

that is true but also help this week we look at how we can restore balance which we need and shipments along welcomed india and some of that i. let's start today's show with the big eyed slender loris a primate need to ft to the sub continent discovered in the mid 1700 these nocturnal animals have been considered magical in parts of the me and because of these there's a grave threat to their lives not to mention the imbalance in the ecosystem it will cause if they were wiped out all the musicians of the region i'm now coming forward to protect. it is extremely rare to see this tiny nocturnal the slender lotus live in the branches of trees and like monkeys they don't jump from branch to branch but move

slowly and carefully and being extremely shy by nature they're really spotted in daylight. despite that one species of slender nortons is gasified as indentured. boredom or the model of the good god and i don't want the world there wouldn't be any up particularly would they live in groups you know but come out to hunt alone at night. on average they only be about 300 grams and don't run fast you know and out of the really what about instead what i would really mean with liberation. they really want when they come out at night to hunt for food or water they sometimes come down to the ground and crossroads. i remember one of the one of our lots of bikes and cars feel to see them in the dark and being the slow animal and they often. cross when you go oh yeah girl i'm going to get very want to get there you have it. maybe i rode actually and then

i don't need to. although they are protected under the indian wildlife protection act their numbers have declined for a range of reasons including climate change and have a talk. yes sometimes they're supposed to believes. endemic to the eastern gods the graceland ones found great numbers from southern on the predation to the southernmost tip of india today only exists across this country in areas. i have one has been involved in efforts to safeguard the slender lot as for the past 60 if he's away in the feed stress a nonprofit organization based in southern india. the program focused on raising event as well as creating or dunnit of sources of income for those who previously on money from hunting the lawyers. the slender loris is all of this been linked with various local beliefs they may be associated with black magic are considered

a bad omen for pregnant women but they're also used in traditional medicine as a result this little animal has been hunted for years. you know gotten a lot of good to you in the past children used to catch the races and tie rules around their necks so that they could live it. being a small animal the concept of that kind of for us and so did i i take it back when we did a study in one area we found there were only 4 slender lorises left but square kilometer. poaching has been a big issue up until a few years ago. belonged to a group of villagers regularly for which to look for a quick buck. you had done years ago there were many mortar landed a lot of people were calm. so we would hunt them at night following their

deflecting the other would you with a walk. on a very of that if a cautious these men would hand over the captured on to middlemen and born in the animal training most of them one from the many of the animals were sold illegally on the international market notice is often exported for research purposes in medical labs similar to lab rats. since learning from the and you'll see a lot of benefit of approx and my life we have left poaching and real life dockets that we no longer allow poaching if anyone's traders come here we inform the forest department immediately and the media. with an average length of 20 to 25 centimeters this small mammal plays an important crude in a species of biodiversity feeding on the nectar of several kinds of fluff slender lotuses has fallen into and see dispersed helping to regenerate block life

throughout their habitat. through the effort of the seeds truss i allude is a forest has become a sanctuary with its fringe religion just as more than 8000 acres in size a safe haven for the lawyers. the very men of this district also play a crucial role in many ways they are the backbone of the conservation program they depend on produce from the forest for their livelihood or the last few years close to 50 women from the local area have planted hundreds of native trees and shrubs both to help raise the water table and to provide more canopy for their small friends today the vermin of our lower are also well trained in sustainable harvest practices and bad assets in the love. in the past we used to pick up all the turkey babies we didn't know about largo from 4 seeds could help groom

trees. only that we have begun our relieve that is when the fruit falls down that new trees begin to be crude as variants all high up but it won't be until a good one part of the law. today most of the local budget the growers have switched to organic farming realizing that the widespread use of best defines it was also killing the lotus as they mainly feed on insects. today boast $15.00 to $20.00 slender lotuses but square kilometer that's 5 times more than just a decade ago attracting the attention off comes a vision ists around the bush for this success a story. for many of us artificial light changed our lives my home for instance like many homes and cities has some like mimicking a leading light with which i can work read and do countless other things once the sun sets in the evening but is it all positive the energy needed for lighting is

often not from renewable sources and contribute to the carbon dioxide emissions causing climate change and that's not the only negative impact what can we do to combat light. let's take a deeper look at this problem i have never ever seen anything like this obviously every 3 years a magnitude 6.6 earthquake. in 1904 los angeles was hit by a strong earthquake it caused chaos on the streets and the blackouts just as you look out your window it's probably fish dark right now during the blackout many people called observatories and even 911 not because the earth was shaking because they saw a giant silvery cloud in the sky that cloud was in fact the milky way countless stars they had never seen before 'd you maybe haven't heard much about it yet but light pollution doesn't really consume stars it seriously affects our health and the environment. terms of proportional changes to the world the

introduction of this late into the night is one of the most dramatic changes that we made to the players here. this is because of the research is artificial light emissions from cities and their impact today more than 80 percent of the world's population no longer experience dark skies for example nights are so bright in singapore that people can't adapt their vision for darkness today scientists are warning of the dangers of artificial light at night. and that's when i decided he was made. this is nina's desire activists in india his goal reduce night but scientists now consider artificial light at night before most pollution. free we're tired development of. multicellular organisms plants and animals that vertebrates than mammals primates and humans very death hold her there

was this constant signals coming from the environment this is the time this is the right time this is though there must. be areas that have experienced are the right conditions that signal is affected green has been dramatic we create. industrialisation over the past century has led to assertion artificial illumination so we see that most countries in the world are becoming brighter this has accelerated in recent decades particularly in asian cities all violet dots on this map show new light sources installed in india between 20122016 there are various components of light pollution there's clear that's when extremely bright light causes visual discomfort. and clutter imitating groups of bright lights. like trees pass when night falls with it's not needed or wanted and sky glow when

artificial light brightens the night sky over cities. instance in oregon. so you would you know you can you can see the aren't going to. find it with a lot of this is the view from the los apartment in mumbai he lives in the 7th floor with his family and is literally in the spotlight the lights from nearby streets and the stadium shine directly into their apartment light used to your leg program or sometimes. and be more i used to get because nobody will like to know bright lights coming into my adult. my bedroom it differently. curtains and sleep masts failed to improve the situation so in 2018 he complained to the authorities claiming rights to darkness at 1st they ignored him even though studies link to fish like to eye injuries sleeplessness. and maybe even depression

some studies of chip workers have indicated that exposure to light at night putting crease the risk of breast cancer but why there is a hormone. therapy rain makes called militant in which barrels as a signal of darkness. when we don't get that hormone we don't produce that hormone because we're exposed to so much later apartment or the shift worker. then the whole working of this whole biological system becomes problematic. sleep digestion and blood pressure are regulated by this biological clock. the problem is not only brightness but also color blue light from phone displace screens and it is is similar to daylight while light in general can suppress the production of melatonin blue light from screens and a disk can do so more strongly that's why experts at harvard recommend not using bright screens or any delights for 2 to 3 hours before going to bed or switching to

dimmer and warmer shades of light. the light at night doesn't only threaten our health there is a tremendous change because increase of brightness at night time is new. this is a big from the lightness institute of freshwater ecology and inland fisheries in berlin she researches the impact of light on ecosystems lives. like half of the. corals birds and many other species of wildlife struggle when it's light at night where it used to be dark freshly hedged turtle street make their way into the sea but lights near the shore can mislead them they had inland and. artificial light at night contributes to the decline in insect populations one study says the decline amounts to 100000000000 every summer in germany alone such light also contributes to a decrease the nocturnal pollination activity a u.k.

study found that where there's nighttime lighting trees but earlier and lose their lives later than elsewhere all these various of facts and different creatures and plans together affect the environment as a whole so could take your skin maybe humph. in the. spring and this historic 1st 3 day care that's crazy. and dangerous because just because it's with cheaper and more efficient light sources. the world is getting brighter every year the international dark sky association estimates that one 3rd of all outdoor lighting in the u.s. is wasted fulfilling no purpose. as fossil fuels are still the main source of energy this contributes quite unnecessarily to air pollution and climate change so what can we do as individuals that might sound obvious but turn on lights only when

and where you need it and then turn it off again or let a motion sensor turn it on and off or you use lamp shades for instance to block unwanted stray lights use lights with a warmer tone they can be just as efficient and lower the intensity when possible dimming is the magic word here. entire cities even entire countries can adopt such solutions france for example has banned sky beams and in some places says times when lights in public spaces have to be dimmed or switched off as well as keeping the brightness of lamps and ecological the sensitive areas. i'm afraid but people will be amazed this is a c.b.s. issue. that needs to be nursed reagent regulation that's. after protests from citizens like militia desired by politicians have signaled

they're open to reducing light pollution they have called on the indian ministry of environment to implement laws ilish design hopes it won't take a blanket for the people of mumbai to see the milky way one day or rather one night . i for one always love the chance to see a sky full of stars but our actions are continuing to make that less likely they're also having an impact on the weather whether it's the increased intensity of tropical storms flooding drought it's being felt all over the world in all the. hope finland has been getting in one of the oldest off. spring but residents have started campaigning to cost the 22 summer olympic games it may sound like a joke but there's a serious message behind that beat. a skier in shorts braces along the icy track pulled by a reindeer the video clip is

a humorous advertisement to stage the olympic summer games in sala northern finland . the reindeer driver in the video is chemo too hot he says it was great fun but the video comes with a message climate change means winters in his homeland are no longer as cold as they used to be. normally it would have been sold at 1st time for below 0 degrees on the river and creeks they freeze and then we get the snow on top but now this reenter the last 3 into really got like 2030 centimeters of snow on on frozen land. every morning team of 2 has still checks his most valuable reindeer the ones that pull a sleigh to succumb to sala love the sleigh rides so the attraction is a good earner. solid claims to be the coldest place in finland.

aside from reading reindeer 3000 residents make their living from tourism and selling wood from their forests. the visitors appreciate that they can ski here as late as may for the time being at least. but to hakon pack up the sleighs if the winters get warmer here. climate change could even keep the summer visitors away. and last time of guarding middle european people in summer time the reason why they came to love london summer was that it was too hot in in germany in the netherlands and they definitely don't want it to get is warm as it does for the summer olympic games despite the fact that in this tongue in cheek video they're playing volleyball in the snow and swimming in ice. what. scientists are confirming salo isn't all that cold anymore climate researcher took

up petrea of the university of helsinki has a research station near sala your choice he says in northern finland climate change has reached crisis level. the arctic areas in general general are warming faster than the the global average so even double the global average so this would mean if we talk about $1.00 now global average transfer 2 to 33 to 4 degrees. in the in the arctic areas so it this a considerable and very serious issue. soundless mayor says they broadcast the seriousness of the situation effectively to the whole world with their humorous olympic ad it attracted a lot of interest on line people discuss about it and

i'm quite sure that this discussion goes on and on and then people we want also the people. here of their own acts what they have done. well tourist guide t.-mo to how worries about the effects of climate change in the future reindeer herding nina much has to deal with them here and now. she and her 2 children regularly have to take extra fodder out to their herd a direct result of climate change. in winter time when there is snow and sand comes raining water and then comes freezing time so they are on the snow and the rain they can't have any fault onto the ice without the expensive store bought fodder the reindeer would go hungry and nina much would have to move her family and livestock somewhere else

or give a pretty reindeer everyone in the chilly little town of sala in northern finland hopes there is a future for them here. but without the summer olympics. one of the biggest impacts we are having as humans is for burning of fossil fuels particularly in germany the government has promised to phase out the use of this polluting crock by 20 curtain but then comes the question what will happen to the cool lights well so enthusiastic and badminton is so already providing us with an answer let's take a look. at one step closer to extinction opencast mines in germany the 7 issues here in the east will stop extracting brown coal in 2023 for decades the digging in demand secure energy supplies and jobs but it's also a dirty business the main contributor to c u 2 missions and

a blow to the landscape now blank and ripped off its by diversity and vegetation and homes christina glads grew up in a village that was destroyed to make way for the shuttles. losing her home and seeing nature vanish left a mark on her life today the biologist is giving the region's deserted landscape a new face by bringing back local flora duc to the green heart this meadow in the midst of the open mine is the core of a 1200 hectare big area for conservation giving regional and sconce vegetation like fielkow weed a home. everyone affected as a boat innes i could cry when i'm here it just warms my heart because it is so beautiful 90 percent of the vegetation here on the red list of threatened species that would be the spirit i should think

a safe haven for the wild and read the green heart was the 1st pump in the open mind to be restored in 2009 it's a team effort between the local coal company and clients with the know how about wild plants ecologists from all over the world visit to learn about this project. city back before i now see post mining landscapes as an opportunity for nature huge spacious that are solely reserved for nature with out settlements. in the future this concept will be applied to many more spaces one example so the parks they're usually embedded in fields with only a little plant variety but here especially blended combination of regional flowers blossom and focusing a grass that's an important pillar for her business close to the open mind she and her team grow wild and raff laois for regional and in you conservation projects and it's also here on the company's farm where they're pretty use the seed mixes unlike

cultivated plants the seed of wild ones are ripe for harvesting at different times and they are harvested by hand a tough job. it's learning by doing and lucrative depending on size and harvesting technique seats can cost from 352-1600 euros per kilo buddy end of the year contracts and a group will have 4 tons of the valuable goods the business that once started with 2 employees in 2011 today keeps 25 scientists and workers busy conservation will now requires that only regional seeds are used in such restoration projects and kansas company is one of the 1st to offer these also making expert analysis rescue threatened plants more relocating hands so nothing gets lost its clients that being there every little thing in nature on this planet in this universe is somehow interconnected we belong together also humans belong to this and if i lose

a part of it then i lose part of the whole thing and a bit of myself this is where my personal motivation comes from. through an aisle and that's also why christina katz wants to go further asked the baron lance around the open mind nearby of getting greener and the business is growing she's offering her knowledge abroad where there are still many open minds and spaces that could be revived with threatened regional plants. reduce reuse recycle nature has been using this framework to heal itself long before we hit winds came up with a sketchy slogan whether we get with the plan and walk with nature or resisted and work against nature is a choice one of us has to make cost or used to be have shown the impact of these

choices i hope you can make an informed decision about your actions going forward i'll see you again next week from all of us an hour in germany good buy.

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millions can live. this is day to believe news live from perth bringing social equality to the european union no small task for the diverse 27 member states but it's the focus of an e.u. summit in portugal looking to transform work and fight poverty also in the program international calls to wipe patents on could be 19 vaccines a growing u.s. backed the idea of the germany projects the proposal in sides with drug develops and in the account same to catch a break more than 400000 new coronavirus cases for the 2nd straight day aid is

getting through but experts fear the crisis will get worse before it gets better. anatomy how it broke into the program we start this hour in portugal where top european union officials are attending a crucial talks in the city of port au the meeting is dubbed the social summit because of the focus on finding ways to fight poverty in a post coronavirus world european commission president on the line is at the summit in person along with the majority of the blocks later is the host of the event portuguese prime minister antonio costa earlier highlighted the cost of unstable working conditions and gender inequality he also said new ways of working including from harlem and on digital platforms need to be regulated. and the fair distribution of vaccines is a big pot of the outlook for

a post pandemic world now but the bite of the waving patents because it 19 jabs is overshadowing some topics at the e.u. social some of the world try. organization supports the idea along with the u.s. and several other countries but germany has voiced caution saying it's not the best way to ensure vaccine equity and that protection of intellectual property is vital . in the global race for corona virus vaccines by antec pfizer was 1st out of the gate a proud a chief meant for by on tac the german company that went from start up to pharma superstar now in the debate over waiving patents on proving 1000 vaccines the german government is siding with drug makers saying the protection of intellectual property is a source of innovation and must remain so in the future the limiting factor in the production of vaccines our production capacities and the high quality standards not the patents. germany says industry and government should work on transferring

technology to new manufacturers if they want to scale up vaccine production quickly and in a jab at the biden administration german health minister again spun had this to say the least if the real problem isn't patents but production capacity and availability then i'd be delighted if the united states is now willing to allow the export of doses manufactured there just like the european union. was indeed it was an export fights with. the us is just one of the wealthy nations accused of vaccine hoarding extending their immunization programs far beyond their vulnerable populations while poor nations go without the pharma industry says that problems should be fixed 1st. world we need to do is tackled the real problems such as caller id rage comes face to share those is within the next few days or weeks not

in 45 months of to be vaccinated everybody in our countries we need to look at the trait barriers we are which are hindering the ramping up of supplies and we need to improve the efficiency because there are scarcity and bottlenecks in supply chains to bats and wouldn't give you a single dose more but for many global health advocates removing patent protections is the right way forward companies have earned a tremendous amount in this this year alone on covert backing $7000000000.00 us dollars for pfizer that seems like more than efficient amount to be investing in innovation in the future moreover patent protection didn't deliver the fact that we have now significant government intervention and government investment from across the world has done that for us. the discussion about patent waivers is only just getting started and it could take months whatever is decided it wanted to rest the immediate issue of making more shots to end the pandemic. brussels' bureau chief

alexander phenomena is in port for the summit alexander welcome joe biden has backed away before vexing peyton's is that one powerful voice and not to make it to the top of the agenda among european leaders. well yes indeed this indeed to this issue is very high on the agenda here and this must be a bit disappointing for the portuguese government that organized this summit to talk about social issues and social problems and the european union but the e.u. leaders are definitely going to talk about a potential culverts they've seen patent waiver and this is also understandable because the you as and now it's been has definitely put a lot of pressure on the european union and the e.u. leaders to find a common position. germany's position is that it wants to protect the intellectual

property of drug companies what's the position of the other you states. well we have seen a couple of very positive responses the dutch trade minister for example said that this is a good idea to waive intellectual property rights on vaccines we heard from the tele and foreign minister saying that there must be an equal access to patents and the french president. told reporters here in porto that he is open to discussing that idea however earlier he also stressed that the bottlenecks are not patents or prices but the production capacity and big scene exports and this seem this seems to be a position that many other governments in the european union is sure there was a letter sent by the french spanish and swedish governments and the belgian

government saying that they are very willing to share knowledge and technology proactively with other nations so that didn't sound like they would be willing to really give up the patents beyond the hot topic of patent that's being called the social summit what makes this different from previous e.u. summits. both front and center of this meeting was the idea to really talk about taking more action to tackle social problems in the european union especially when we think about the economic fallout of the pandemic and the european union has been criticized for example by the united nations that they are not doing enough to to solve economic and social problems in the block. and says that more than 20000000 workers at the european union are at risk of poverty due to precarious work contracts was the main topic of

this meeting here in porto however and now overshadowed by the discussion about it . patent waiver. alexander phenomena important many thanks. to india now where the coded 19 caseload continues to rise at a record pace on friday alone in the country reported of 400000 new infections and nearly 4000 deaths actual numbers are feared to be much higher international aid is starting to trickle in but for many in a country ravaged by the pandemic that helping hand comes to light. this is the bitter reality of india's covert emergency nearly a quarter of a 1000000 lives lost as the bodies mount the crim atory a struggle to cope. and there's no end in sight to this crisis. hospitals to a buckling under the pressure. there's a lack of beds and

a lack of staff but the one crucial thing that has made this 2nd wave different and more devastating than lashes emergency. is a lack of oxygen. for the. hypothetical rice was. more than 50 votes and also the process of recording. these people could have a greater chance of surviving the crisis there in the queue to be vaccinated but the role being slow and jobs are in short supply. international aid has begun pouring into india. but the aid cannot arrive quick enough to slow down the dying. families are helpless as their

loved ones succumb to what researches say is a far more infectious strain of the virus. but there is anger too. with some asking why the government of decided to allow election rallies and other large events. call it the system or government or whatever was it necessary to conduct elections right now. for this family and countless others that question comes to late. well earlier i spoke with our delhi bureau chief and read the cima asked her about the current situation in india. well at the new some extent the numbers speak for themselves and not the huge recognize new infections obviously that virus is on the run across the country in some areas some signs of improvement jenny for example so it's like dropping numbers in the past 24 hours and also gone by there seem to be signs of improvement there these 2 cities were

the hardest hit but the mud is has bites in other parts of the country in states in the south and in the east and we couldn't your reported by election rallies in fact some of the states the elections lead recently absolutely huge surge that most worrying at the moment is actually news coming out of her areas for example in the unsuitable to believe people say the situation there is dire and infections are going up. ok now some of the other developments in the pandemic the world health organization has authorized the emergency use of china cinephile vaccine is the 6th vaccine to be approved by the church officials have said that people under 40 should be offered an alternative to the astra zeneca jav due to a small risk of blood clots and new york city wants to offer vaccines to tourists jobs would be given out at times square and other attractions. and hire some of the other stories making headlines this hour. the u.s.

justice department has filed criminal charges against the 4 former police officers involved in the killing of george floyd are accused of willfully violating floyds civil rights and for failing to provide medical floyd died after one of the officers knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes. 25 people have been killed during a pretty police operation against alleged drug traffickers in brazil rights groups are calling the death toll from the right in rio de janeiro. sensible to the mining and independent investigation. beijing has dismissed warnings from u.s. military experts that a chinese space rocket could crash into people or buildings the craft is expected to bring into a speed this weekend along march 5 the big rocket carried part of china's space station into orbit on. germany heads to an election later this year with the leadership race wide open for the 1st time in nearly 2 years the environmentalist

green party is now leading in the polls surveys put then 4 points ahead of angela merkel's conservatives the greens recently selected be a bloc to run for chancellor in september and so far she is proving to be a very popular candidate right after the nomination of i'm in the bear book as chancellor candidate for the greens polls showed her party in the lead ahead of chancellor angela merkel's conservatives a temporary bump many thought a brief surge on the back of her designation and a difficult few weeks for the ruling conservative bloc but almost 3 weeks later the bear book effect appears to be sticking. the greens are now pulling ahead of the c.d.u. c.s.u. with a 4 percent increase compared to a month ago the conservatives have dropped 4 points and their partner in the current government the social democrats have also lost some support. it's not only the green party and the enough they have of herself is riding high 28 percent of

germans would vote for her if the chancellor could be elected directly a few percentage points above her opponents in lash out for the conservatives and all of shows for the social democrats the rise of the green party goes hand in hand with the drop in the government's approval ratings a majority of germans now say they are dissatisfied with the work of the government after record approval in 2020 skepticism has grown about the government's crisis management during the 2nd and 3rd waves of the coronavirus pandemic and it shows the election is still more than 4 months away and anything could happen in the race but these numbers show that the greens pose a serious challenge to america's conservatives you're watching news from birth. with business and always get the latest on our website at www dot com at any time of day to stop today we're also on twitter and instagram the handle in the. news

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