the world's stand today, 10 years after the arab springs and rebellion starts june 7th on d w. the news . this is d. w, use live from china, do things for violent system in shanghai, video cameras and artificial intelligence team up to keep close eye on 24000000 citizens is a smart company for violation of civil rights w. get special access to the monitoring center called city brain. also coming up, a russian opposition activist is hold off

a plane just before take off. while another prominent kremlin critic is arrested and threatened with jail. you calls it a patent of shrinking space for critical voices in russia. and the world's biggest mate backwards getting back to business after a cyber attack, disrupted production in north america. and australia. the white house has gps, received a ransom demand from a group based in russia. ah, ah, i'm anthony. how welcome. when the pandemic broke out, china was credited with getting it quickly under control, and that was partly down to its strict enforcement of locked down. but in the city of 24000000 residents, like saying hi, how do will 30 go about keeping an eye on people. and next report looks at video surveillance in the country. now political latest i shanghai is a 21st century smart city using eye, facial recognition and big data. and i,

i am to expand the system across the country. but where does that lead concerns of the privacy and human rights mathias building? again, special access to way all this monitoring takes place. it is called the brain and it has hundreds of thousands of eyes. and please of this surveillance center called city brain in shanghai put on district of direct control over cameras that cover almost every corner of the district. in the background, artificial intelligence scans the footage for rule breakers. on this construction site, it has identified a worker was not wearing his helmet. besides camera footage, the system also collect data from the city administration and property management. the government wants to create a powerful tool to govern the city and its citizens. so don don is one of the designers of the system that has been operating since 2018 ton of woman. she said

there were tensions on the log. i see nichol for us citizens in the city. the system had to providing a secure, orderly, and clean environment that the government doesn't mean to govern the city more efficiently. due until financial nicole considered the while the hard on the go to the city brains, employees have access to more than 290000 cameras. and this is just one hop of what the government envisions. as a nationwide network. the goal is 100 percent camera coverage at all important places, like train stations, crossroads parks, in berlin scholar, my guy called back has studied these efforts for many years. she says she has downloaded millions of tenders for surveillance systems from government websites that often spell out the goal of the surveillance explicitly comes from the

machine. doesn't want to mention a mentalist intox. they're describing how human interaction is the source of any social conflict. conflict is what could cause trouble for the government who is concerned the social stability. so as long as you can cover every aspect of human life with cameras and surveillance, one can react, diffuse and calm down the situation. come and listen. conflict, side and decking and chaff. on hot on composite will put on shanghai central business district is but one of many places that have such extensive data and surveillance infrastructure. there is little opposition from the public to the or seeing system put on city brain. not only collect surveillance footage, but also detailed data about each household in the city. in the covert outbreak, its employees were given an additional task. the data is used to ensure citizens

are observing their quarantine. though i may have to go, we install interconnect consensus at the apartment door. if somebody leaves the flat and breach of the anti epidemic ruse, we will get an alarm signal. mental health authority and compound workers would be informed by us and can react swiftly across to the project. like to don't city brain show, china's government sees data as a means of control. the pandemic has only advanced these ambitions. the more i'm joined now by one of the authors of that report, the w mathias building a welcome. how has that corona virus pandemic impacted the top and the amount of surveillance carried out in china? well, we've seen some exam one example in this report, magnetic or camera,

magnetic sensors, or cameras installed in front of doors of people who have to core and teen the have been especially in the beginning, quite some excesses in that regard. i remember one friend telling me that her property management insisted not only on installing a camera in front of the apartment, but in the apartment. another thing that has changed or how, where surveillance and data has advanced in everyday life apps where you need to scan. when you enter a building, when you enter a taxi, these apps, they register where you have been, so the authorities theoretically would be able to identify anybody who has been close to anybody who has, has been diagnosed with coven 19, or tested positive. so a lot of data on the movements of the citizens is collected that was not collected

before. mathias, according to one study by the comparative china has 18 out of the 20 most vile cities in the world. it's a sensitive topic in most places, but how the residents are they ok with this level on this type of surveillance? there's very little discussion in china about this surveillance. and the reason is, of course, that a discussion about this is not really allowed here, except for maybe some singular voice is my impression is nevertheless, that many people are okay with it. as long as it delivers a safe environment. i've heard people say montana usually not being asked, not being in some context government contact, but they feel the cities have become safer, the negative sides, the invasiveness officer, a lindsey is of course something that people might not notice as easily if

a discussion about is suppressed we don't know really how big the percentage of people who might not be okay with this is precisely for these reasons. but what we know is, of course, that they're not heard in public without hearing many of those voices. we ask, i guess there are many big cities around the world like berlin, washington, the london, they have video type abilities is what's happening in china. really that difference well, the cameras might not be that different. and the recognition systems that operate in the background, technologically, are available in other countries as one of the question is, what is the government willing to do? how far is it willing to go and what it is, is it used for? and, and that's a question of who's controlling the authorities who have access to all this. and of course, there is a very big difference between china and other countries in the world. in that this

control on the authorities does not exist except by the superior level of these authorities. if the government wants to use this data for whatever purpose it is free to do so. the w mathias building in beijing, thanks so much. and he now some more of the stories making headlines around the world. this l. fillings is already say a cargo ship carrying tons of chemicals is thinking. the ship was 1st damaged by a fire in light. nice plastic waste has swamped the coastline and chemical containers of fallen overboard has been described as the countries worst marine disaster. in the us, the bobbin ministration has suspended oil and gas exploration in an alaskan wildlife reserve permits to drill in the 19000000 acre preserve were given in the last weeks of the trumpet administration. despite the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups, the suspension is pending. an environmental review. israel's parliament has elected

the veteran politician isaac het. so as the countries, the president take up the largely ceremonial roll next month, it comes to salt position low, make a scramble to form a coalition to $13.00 prime minister benjamin netanyahu has until midnight local time to reach an agreement that will rest us up a house of parliament has backed legislation that could potentially by anyone with ties to criminal and critical ex i, nevada, me from running in elections. the bill would exclude anyone from what the terms as extremist organization from contesting and russian court will decide next week if that turn applies to the valleys, organizations. this comes as russia further ramps up pressure on dissidence ahead of september parliamentary poll, prominent opposition vigor. andre bobo off is the latest of several activists to be arrested in recent days. he was hold of a poland,

bound playing just before take off. the eu has demanded his immediate release secretly taken images of andre. people are of being led away by police after being hold off a plane about to take off moments before his arrest. the activists tweeted the picture of the officers boarding the aircraft. i'm just you and i had already turned his phone off as the plane began to take off a few minutes later. andre went back online and wrote me that the plane had been stopped and he saw the police driving to the gangways after us and it was a course it from the plain alone. vincent, who is somebody with them. people vera was taken to his apartment, which research before he was driven away. he has been brought to the southern city of cross nadar, his allies, say, to keep a man, i mean taken for questioning. now,

the remarkable thing is out there have been no information about this case earlier . if i have been asked to come for questioning, i would have come. that's why this is all a very big surprise. the social people of our, of the rest, st. petersburg airport comes days after his open russia foundation felt that its activities to avoid persecution under russia's repressive laws and opposition groups. but the police did not stop there. on tuesday, they rated the offices of opposition. politician, dimitri good cause. who was planning to run an upcoming parliamentary elections. now go into the next department. i've never felt so important before. there are 60 people working on our case today. when i'm alive, i'll speak to everyone. thank you. good call for then we'll so arrested and some of his associates taken in for questioning. the question explains if this is a personal case against the opposition figures to pressure them,

push the massive politics and prevent them from running in the elections. with such scenes, repeating themselves all over russia. the opposition is bracing for a tough time before pose open in september. for more were joined by the w correspondent, emily show when in moscow, emily, welcome. what's the latest you're hearing about these arrests? well we've just heard that and the provider will be placed in a pre trial detention for the next 2 months. he'll be in custody while awaiting trial, while the investigation against him takes place. initially, he was a suspect in this case. now he's a witness. now he's a suspect, and he stands accused of working with an undesirable organization. meanwhile, good costs trial could apparently also take place today. he's being accused of not paying rent on a space and office space that he rented from the moscow mayor's office. and the

robot of could face up to 6 years in prison, and a good cough could face up to 5 years in prison. emily, let's focus on the rest of the country. people bought bottles from the open russia foundation given that he was taken off applying about to leave the country. how unusual is this style of arrest? i would say it's very unusual. usually opposition figures can freely leave the country. in fact, there even been cases where opposition figures report that they were kind of encouraged by the authorities to leave the country essentially so that they're out of the kremlin se hair. in this case, we saw a rather different strategy, i guess, from the authorities or from the police, where we saw this rather theatrical arrest. just ahead of take off, you know, in the st. petersburg, airport. people, water was taken out of the plane and arrested. and i think the parallels to

neighboring bell ruse, you can't really ignore those. and i think most people because there was of course, this recent arrest of our i'm on the see which an opposition journalist whose plane was actually forced to land in the capital of the belly region capital mens. and he was then arrested, taken off the plane as well. and i think those parallels are very clear to, you know, most russians who will be following what's happening in the country. they watched protests in neighboring bella, bruce, closely, many people. and they also saw the crackdown that happened there after the protest . i think this could be the russian authorities sending a clear signal that they aren't going to shy away from taking a much, much harsher stance on, on the opposition here in russia ahead of the elections and really upping their crackdown russians. and this is now have moved as well, just adopted a so called extreme, this bill that would buy critics entirely from the polls. is this the ultimate step

in to silence opposition? while the that law critics say is directed at no vine these organisations because 3 of his organizations, the opposition politicians of ne, that is 3 of his organizations face and trial on the 9th of june, they could be declared extremist. and this new law could mean that anyone in any way connected with these organizations would be barred from running. but as we see, the crackdown that we're seeing at the moment extends beyond me. it's extended to most opposition. politicians. there's hardly any prominent opposition, figures at the moment who haven't been facing either or the arrest that we've been seeing with those 2 politicians we were just talking about or administrative finds . the same applies to activists who have been facing searches, arrests, journalists who has been facing police searches,

media organizations here have been being declared for an agency and joseph and being declared undesirable organizations. and people as well have been pacing arrest just for taking part in opposition. politicians, opposition protests rather. so it seems that united russia, the ruling party here, doesn't want to stop at anything to get the results that they want. and these elections and we're seeing the authorities crackdown ahead of those elections. emily? sure. when in moscow? thank you so much. you're watching d. w still to come crunchy, packed with protein as officially on the many europe street authorities that even neil went the green life. we made the producers who hope they have bugs will become a big business. but before that, the world's biggest meat processing company, j. b. s, is slowly getting back online after a cyber tech disrupted production in north america and australia. the ransomware

attack on the brazilian make packet came just weeks after a similar incident shut down the colonial oil pipeline in the us. j b. a said it was resuming operations at the vast majority of its plants. earlier, the white house that j. b. s. had received a ransom demand from a criminal organization based in russia state basically from the deadly business, joins me for more. stephen, how serious is this particular attack? will anthony j. b, a says that it's systems are coming back online today. we've already seen that happening in australia, so that's a good sign. believes the vast majority of them will be ready again. at any rate, it still is a big deal. it will be a big deal if for some reason they're wrong, or if there remains a major disruption. it's the world's largest me processing company by sales. i'd accounts for a quarter of be production in the u. s. 20 percent of poor production and a great amount of its beef also ends up in china through export sales. so it is a big deal if there's any disruption at all. what we're seeing right now is that meet buyers are really scrambling,

and so that means that prices are going to go up. as everyone tries to get a hold of what they can. this is in an industry and in a sector that's already seen price rises due to the corona bars, had many shut down that plans that processing facilities. and now as the recovery is beginning, we're seeing rising prices again as demand picks up. but the labor supply is still tight. that means already high prices, they're going to get higher. so you mentioned that last month we think colonial pot one now the world's biggest mate producer. why are we seeing a string of these more high profile attacks? yet remember, and this is still a pretty young field of crime if you about it. i mean, the internet is still pretty young. the idea of networks systems is still pretty young. and so you might want to see it as sort of boundary pushing. how far can you go? i remember there are different actors to right. there's the state level actors that includes the u. s. russia, china, they're all testing each other out. they, they're testing their probing critical infrastructure like electricity grids, even water supplies, that some of the scarier stuff. and then there's these ransomware guys who seem to be targeting gps as well. it's unclear how much affiliation they have with states.

there does seem to be some but you know, these guys were pretty small ball for a long time. in the county, i come from in georgia in the u. s. it got attacked by ransomware. i think last year, the year before paid $400000.00 for these were the typical targets because they were, they were small, they were unprotected. they were below the radar. now they're getting bigger and it's going to be interesting to see what happens because, you know, modern commerce has allowed for certain vulnerability. there's more automation, for example, j b s. there's multiple scanning and data input along every bit of the process and higher networking, but they're also highly centralized the pipeline, for example. so that once you bring down one corporation, you could bring down a major major supplier, and that's a lot of disruption. it seems like the pathways there for, for us to see more of this. so how can businesses protect themselves? it's the big question, right? i mean, they're going to have to pay for it. the best way is probably redundancies. you're going to have to either pay for backup servers. you're going to have to build out your it department so they can quickly engineer and re engineer systems. once

they're down, you can look at cyber insurance, but that's still a very young field. it's trying to understand risk management, so there's not a whole lot of options there. right now, at some point the government is really going to have to get involved, more governments are going to have to and there's more talk of this in the u. s. for example, so you're going to see for example, maybe they'll go out there crypto currency because that's the chosen currency for a lot of these ransom attacks. they could try and target that try and regulate more or they could perhaps forbid ran some payments from companies and that would be a pretty big deal as well. so there's some options. we'll see. so basically from de w business, thanks a lot. as a more well news, now, the largest ship in the iranian navy has sunk in the gulf of a man after catching fire the vessel. the card was dispatched to international water several days ago. it's unclear what caused the blaze. the money and navy says nobody was killed in the incident. molly has been suspended from the african union after the 2nd 2 in less than

a year in the west african country colonel. assuming goiter late that the uprising last week. and since they named transitional president, the african union has threatened sanctions. if a civilian government is not restored will insects have long been part of the dive in asia and africa in europe? not so much but habits are changing and it's more people turn their backs on traditional animal products. some c, a market developing the european food safety agency, recently approved meal whims, as a human food here. and the new industry is already flourishing, with farmers hoping to transform insects into another source of protein for europeans, even if it's just a nice one. i report love health visited one of germany's largest insect farms. sniffing in a little town in southern germany. not far from where the danube river starts. its long journey east is a small church and feels as far as the i can see. and it is right here where you

can catch a glimpse of the future of our food. and these guys have nothing to do with it. no, we're looking at another source of protein and it's coming from this rather non descript place to huge factory buildings. the farm is called 6 feet to eat. and they're raising mealworms here. these tiny insect just over 2 centimeters long could be key to feeding the planet. infection $40.00 to $60.00 insect a rich and protein living up to 70 percent of their entire masses protein. in addition to that, they're also rich and healthy. omega 3 fatty acid fisher. somebody's like fish tissue, except with fish, you have a 2 percent shared mega, 3 fatty acid for somebody. and some in say, my, especially the new housing over 14 percent to 47 times as much for me. i said

so on split the sci fi. literally millions of insects are being raised here. mealworms, crickets, grasshoppers. each breed with very particular needs lakes, debbie temperatures of up to 40 degrees. the insects live for just 4 to 5 weeks before they make their way into a fridge fall into a deep sleep. that ends in a roasting oven there packaged and sent for stores, restaurants, or straight to consumers who are currently paying premium for the product. but with you paving the way the company hopes to produce cheaper soon. because i am sending out these letters to new york city, there are some insects ideally suited for ethical factory farming, like a meal with cricket. currently establishing some level of automation in our processes to get away from a lot of the manual labor that is currently needed. and that's

a way to cut costs alas. and that will help bring the consumer prices down to push this bond on this because it looks in the recent placement. but what about all those people who can't stomach bug on their salad or their pastor? this while they can go to the noun, becca, quote, heinlein is a baker in your back, and he has been specializing in interesting ingredients like spells or insects. he's in 6th grade, contains 20 percent me a warm flower. it's pricey as over a euro for a small loaf, but customers have quickly taken an interest as a given positive, but we were positivity surprised, especially with regard to our older customers. we thought that the younger generation would be more likely to try out something new, but in fact, it was the over room and how that got really excited about that. and many even tried to hold me a worms to tom reason enough for the baker to hope that his

store stays busy. and customers are enjoying more of his experiments. okay, time to catch up with the latest in the corona virus pandemic. now in the world health organization as approve decoded, 19 vaccine made by china's sin of that for emergency use in adult 18. it's the 2nd such authorization. it's granted to a chinese company, a ground of our slough down in the street. the 2nd biggest city melbourne, has been extended by another week following a cluster of cases there. and reports as africa faces, recession growing violence and higher unemployment because of the pandemic. that's from the most abraham foundation, which promotes good governance. the sport and pressure is growing on tokyo, olympic officials to cancel next month's event. japanese media. se organizes have admitted $10000.00 volunteers recruited for the games have already quit amid the current of our crisis. tokyo had plans to 80000 volunteers but might have to do

with significantly fewer opinion pulse in japan. so a big majority of people think the games should not take place. the final decision though, rests with the international olympic committee. and it has say that the games will go ahead you're watching data, blue news up next. eco africa looking at how more and more cities across the world, a trying to become caffery. i'm anthony, how it. i'll see you at the top of the next downs who's the news. the news

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both big and small. welcome to visitation of africa. i'm chris alone. illegals nigeria high the crease out. nice to see you again. i am sandra 2 of you here in compiler, uganda. and yes, today will be looking out a couple of ways to get low from. he's a quick look out what is good for you to on the program. we will see how core points can be used to produce energy as well as the delicious land. how forming our gate out of fish together help produce better food and visit other centers that adjusting to changes in mobility. did you know that fresh water mix up less than 3 percent of us would apply? but at almost half of all fish lead in fresh water lakes, rivers, bones on whitland. some people think ought to lead to attention, is paid to these fishes to the detriment or fish diversity of us report,

texas to south africa, where walk is on the way to raise awareness on behalf of local water wayllace on a mission with a wet suit and an under was a camera, marine biologist, jeremy shelton from cape town, wants to bring people closer to the fascinating role, the freshwater fish, and warm them of the risk of losing all that. i'm passionate about bringing some of these amazing creatures and these amazing stories that i see unfolding underwater, up into the public eye, to hello and interest, and why the funds light up red, or why they get these little bumps on their snarks to spock. a curiosity within south africa, the public about the ecosystems that have remained pretty hidden until recently

south africa, the cape region is home to many species of freshwater fish of which are found nowhere else. but the presence of predatory invasive species like baths and trout, as well as the use of river walker irrigation purposes, have placed in mainstream on these ecosystems. and the creatures which call them home. lo believe freshwater fish have become one of the most threatened groups of animals on the planets, a group of organisms that are becoming more and more scarce foster than just about any other on earth. and here in south africa, the situation is no different. according to a recent report, a 3rd of all freshwater fish globally are threatened with extinction. the aim, so use of cape nature, are trying to save species in the western cape. they're taught is to preserve

biodiversity throughout the province. they collect and analyze data as well as work with local landowners. however, fresh water environments prevent unique conservation challenge. protecting patient taking rivers is so difficult that the long you no longer you know, systems and they've always upstream and downstream. and it's not like a ratio conservation where you can put up again, things and say, you know, the species who want stays on the side of the things. and once we don't say on that side. and the information collected by k nature and other organizations has not been collated in any way. now the team of jeremy shelton's fresh water research center hopes to improve access to this vital data by a single platform. in bringing in data collected by a range of different organizations from across south africa and making those data accessible for decision making for conservation planning. with the end goal of beta, conserving a fresh. what about every city and ecosystems?

but for that to happen, it's necessary to raise awareness of the problem either in a small urban task in cape town, facilitators from the fresh water research center or showing students how to run a basic scientific health tech on the river here. and it's not just about the face. the project is teaching young people to gauge rivers health by looking for other indicators. species such as dragon flies, kettle flies when the idea is to show them just how interconnected the species are in this ecosystem generation. as a generation that's going to have to do these, this well right now. so we have to understand how this stuff works and i have to understand how we can fix it and how we can, i think, doing these kind of things make you like, realize how important it is and like realized how important it is for your mental health and how much you love it, and it just gives you more, dr. task isn't going to get any easier in the future. in addition to all the other

threats, global warming could also endanger these ecosystems and lead to the extinction of species before the end of the century. so where we're actually sitting right now is one of the last lowland rivers in this part of the world that still has healthy, fresh water, fish population that still has enough clean water in summer to support these fish and its places like that i think are so important because they can remind us what a healthy river looks like, and they can inspire us to promote healthy rivers here in south africa. and throughout the world. as a semi arid country, it is essential force of africa to conserve its fresh water ecosystem. and the unique species within them. all creases need adequate space in order to thrive, not just under water button land,

but suddenly humans often how be all ideas about what constitutes profile on teams . through through sandra, we'll also see an example of that in kenya. but after what seems like decades of commerce of conservation, could it be that the tables are turning elephant traversing humana century. a crucial wildlife corridor close to amble. silly national park, this land is communally owned by local messiah rising in the distance mound, kilimanjaro africa's highest p. some all counties family have lived here for generations. he and many other messiah support a local conservation program. they lead still end to the program. so the elephants can safely follow, they are established routes as herded m a side benefit by maintaining access to large areas of graving land for their cattle. but last year,

some advice on their plots to an agri business, specializing in abil cato cultivation, one was jeremiah lush. it's all right. no problem. one on, instead of listening this agricultural land to consumption people because they think, how can the possible cynthia echolls of lunch wasn't going to be played on the printer. and you have a fun minute. want to go to the head of another. and who am i missing it? so if you want to cut, you can make a lot of money. but i, because farming requires a huge amount of water. critics, one, it could upset the balance of the local ecosystem and deprive them aside the livestock and wildlife of the water. they rely on killing more to do it with a credit forming the only benefit a few people. it will only benefit which companies like with and why that are worth billions, amanda, they can afford to purchase

a car to be worth $20000000.00 kenyon shuttling unlike them, a sigh. who can bally afford a ball hole? kenya's environmental agency has since intervened and pulled the agree businesses license. and while the company has challenge with decision conservation and the fake such cultivation could be devastating danger of having you set up placing them. but there's another family come up in the shape. and the woman who is crossed, you just count 11 institution, i'm most welcome and you can but it may never come to that the company's low speed has been rejected relief for the conservation of those who hold on. and the hosting that you use that to show us. most importantly, this is where the fame national one left not the same way people buttons

adapted because elephant defined the move from that you lose columbus hailey to do my dental national buck. totally speaking of that and we have a few, a few investigations in the area where when i told him not withstanding and we have potentially the ruling protects. not only the future will be elephants and the messiah herders. it also proves that active conservation programs can both stand up to and when against economic interests. now that's certainly encouraging. and not just for the elephants. there are plenty of people will also tend to keep puff with open and flowing in cities to the believe about mobility could be more efficient, more sustainable, and certainly held. the next report comes from the german capital berlin.

their vehicles may vary in form and color, but these multi wheels demonstrators in berlin have a common goal. they're calling for more car free cycling routes, more pedestrian zones, and generally fewer cars in the city. it's been said and i think there's enough infrastructure for motorized transport and stuff and that's what we need is to make more provision for cycling. we need to fight for a greener berlin. we noticed that in the berlin government has adopted some new transport policies in recent years, adding cycle lanes and converting some streets into bike and pedestrian zones. c with some activists say, it's not enough to improve the quality of air and life. they organized a petition to allow berliners themselves to decide the future of city center traffic in a referendum. you can see all the 10s of thousands of people who live here could

have a say in development shiana history. in addition to things being much quieter and greener with more, it would also be a public space that people could use. and that's all jammed full of hearts which day it will damage fiber space. so it's missing out in many parts of the world, urban centers are already being transformed. the increase in online shopping and recent years has led to a drop in business for many retail stores. a trend exacerbated by the pandemic. a lot of commercial space and parking lot now stand empty. that's prompted architect to reimagine urban planning and mobility. light cited most of the puzzles lines, it's important to cater to both living and working in the city. some get done. that's the only way to reduce the amount of commute traffic and pendant care. this former to hartman store in the center of one german city was converted into an

apartment building with shops comprising a pedestrian friendly zone and in berlin. this building was likewise designed for people who don't used cars. it has shops, studios for artists, apartments, and offices to all designed for living and working under one roof. passers by can see inside flower beds are also an intentional feature. cities like copenhagen have shown it's possible to exclude cars from city centers, reserving them for pedestrians and cyclists. only in the times square portion of new york's broadway has been converted into a traffic free zone with st cafes designed by danish city planners. the and paris wants to plant hundreds of trees on the shore, a and around the octave off,

while also taming traffic. there's still a long way to go for berlin, but activists there do have some clear goals. what we want to do is we want to create the world's largest auto reduced area in the world so that 85 square kilometers. really it's about asking people what they wants to do. environmentalists are also fighting plans for a highway running through the city to be extended because that would take the city a step backwards rather than forwards. thicken with about mobility, cos sharon was held up a step in the right direction when it was 1st introduced on the largest scale, not so very long ago. now a group of people in another, german city have picked up the idea ticket h 2 on even more eco friendly level. here is this week, doing your bits. the

c o 2 emissions from cars are one of the major drivers of climate change. so finding alternative means of transport is vital for our planning people from the germany initiative, transition town by doing just that they provide cargo bikes to anyone, free of charge. most of the bikes work with them. electric motor people reserve, the bikes via an online platform. and can pick them up at 6 different locations and kind of for me, it's a small way to help combat climate change to have an alternative to buses, trains, and cars. people always talk about how hard it is to do something for the climate. but with this project, it's actually really easy. people use the cargo bikes instead of cars when they go shopping or need to transport larger items. the members of the initiative.