shit, light on the opaque world. who's behind benefits and why are they a threat to whistle o peak world starts january 5th on d, w ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. another independent voice in hong kong is silenced. the website stand, news says it's closing down after being rated and having its assets. frozen. police made arrests and confiscated documents, also coming up. the rarely documented reality of becoming collateral damage.

a syrian family hit by a u. s. grown strike while driving in their car child passenger who barely survived capture of the attack on video. and in sports, the nfl says good bye to a legend hall of fame coach and analyst john madden has died at the age of 85. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. one of hong kong last independent news outlet says its folding after being rated and having its assets frozen hong kong police search the officers of stand news earlier to day arresting 7 and removing evidence. it's the latest blow to the chinese territories shrinking free press.

ah, it's becoming a familiar sight on the streets of hong kong. after several staff members from the pro democracy media outlet stunned news were arrested. over 200 police was seen entering the website's head quarters. saying in a statement, they were authorized to search and sees relevant journalistic materials. both the current and former editors of the publication were among those detained as well as the pop star, turn democracy activist. denise, whoa, an ex board member at stuns news oh, feed. i got 9 deputy assignment direct to ronson. john was questioned, but not arrested. over when he released this footage of police turning up at his

home by the authorities can be heard demanding. he stopped filming. i thought, i know i'm speaking early this year. his prophetic words have now been realised in what many c as a further erosion of the free press in hong kong. i think that the situation and a message is clear to from the government that making reports and doing uncovering new story will have some criminal results. you may be charged, you may be anymore that your freedom, whatever. so it's not easy to say that i'm more afraid of the situation. the rate on sunday news is the latest move in a space of crackdowns and beijing's opaque national security law. this was 1st for media, so to detect a national security crime under the national security law in june. hong kong lodge

is pro democracy paper. the apple daily was also rated and false to close. it's founded july was recently sentenced to 13 months in jail. but we've stunned news. gone, and more journalist detained. the grip on hong kong free price grows ever tighter. of what alice bring in our correspondent, phoebe cong she's in hong kong. phoebe authorities have been cracking down on free press there for some time. now. how significant is this closure of stand news? indeed, this is another major blow to hong kong shell, organized the industry following the closure of apple daily. earlier this year that this is actually the 2nd collapse of a, a leading our pro democracy media organizations in hong kong. that stanley has, is very populated hong kong and has a large read a base of all of

a 1000000 readers on followers as subscribers and all like most of them are mofas's supporters and he's also an award winning news organization. so this is a, is going to create a huge impact as, according to the hong kong gentlemen association and express deep concerns to us the case as expected. he will on create a photo, a chilling effect and also then intensify the south censorship among gentlemen. because on report us will be built more fearful about either we paused on pellets, cody sent us out. every one is not sure about whether it could be accused of seditious or not. right? with free press being strangled phoebe. what options do hong kong or is her for informing themselves properly now? well, after the closure, i'll stand the ost areas of. so if you have a very few remaining at independence on news organization,

but on the scale is smaller than scanner than, than, than stand news. and also the influence is, are smaller than standnew. so people have to be sought to other ways to get informed, especially for example, maybe reading the news from fi medias or ah, to out basically many read us that they don't like leaf in our reports out from mainstream media. so people are definitely finding other ways to getting forms, but it's getting more difficult as more restrictions. we're expecting that government is proposing as some kind of our antique effect new laws and some regulations to i'll restrict the, the free flow of information. so i'm, it's getting harder for people to get that free. it information here. phoebe, thank you very much. that was our correspondent. phoebe cong there in hong kong. to catch up on some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world today. in a further blow to russia's most prominent rights group memorial,

moscow court has shot down the organization's human rights center. it comes just a day after the supreme court ordered the closure of memorial international, the embryos main organization, or moral documents, stories of millions of people, persecuted in the soviet era. authorities in poland say nearly 800 coven related deaths have been recorded in one day as the highest number. so poor in the country . 75 percent of these people had not been vaccinated. omicron variant of the corona virus is fast becoming dominant in europe, including in countries like france, written italy and portrait indonesian authority say they will push a boat with $120.00 range of muslims on board, back into international waters. the united nations refugee agency has called for the people to be rescued. the boat is reportedly leaking and has been drifting 4 days oft, indonesia has northern coast today,

it's no longer just armies on the battle field. that wage wars unmanned drones, often controlled by people on a different continent, have become a weapon of choice or touted as precision strikes against individual fighters. but often civilians get caught in the violence. in one recent case and syria footage has emerged of what actually happened. a warning this report contains images you may find disturbing. they somehow managed to survive. first, the attacks on their village. then the escape from serious assad regime. and now a drone attack targeting a suspected al, kind of find her. the family was in their car right behind the suspect on their way to visit grandparents. the children were in the back seat. this simple farming family is what the army caused collateral damage. has been if a link i am the colon saw the my entire family was wounded. my son and i were hurt

very badly with by around fulfillment and we don't have a car anymore. yeah. that we have nothing left thea, one other and the she the mother fancy mom needs to go back to the hospital, but she is terrified of the journey. her infection can not be treated at home with her. ah, so it is, i don't know how to describe my feelings and she will alone. i can see the pain suffered by my wife and my son. my daughters let mark moore's legs and head. i haven't eaten for 4 days. hope this is the village of al rami, the grandparents live here. the area is also a hide out for al kind of fighters. on december 3rd, the family was heading home. the children were filming happily the motorcyclist and the blue jacket was the drone attacks target. a us soldier on the other side of the

world, pressed a button. at that moment, the father off mud decided to overtake the motorbike. ah, good. oh . oh. somehow a 10 year old mock mood survived. he was taken to id live 35 kilometers away for emergency surgery. he was then in a coma for 3 days. part of his skull is missing. a few days later, father archman returns to the site of the attack. he finds parts of his car

on his little bosley willard gun. what will be we were drinking fruit juice. we were happy he'd be on the way home. lot mood. i was like, the children were having fun marbles. all of a sudden this happiness turned into a blood bath obama's. they screams. we all screamed. i did what i could euro then help came the sho in oma liberal. i remember that, barbara boy, this is how a family outing ended. the global coalition against slotting state flew more than 300 drone missions in northern syria. this year alone. this one happened to be filmed. well, american professional football is mourning. the loss of john madden, the hall of fame coach, was a legend in the sport, and one of its most exuberant voices madden one. the super bowl. as a coach with the oakland raiders in 1977, then became one of america's best known tv sports announcers. the 3rd act of his

career was attaching his name to one of the best selling sports video games of all time. madden nfl. we're here to talk more about john madden and what he meant to the nfl is chris harrington from d w sports. chris could see thank you. talk to us about the impact that john madden had on the nfl. well, he was really a larger than life figure be born in oakland, california. i was, i had a really strong education in who he was and it, he was a coach of this rag tag, you know, kind of rebellious type of team the oakland raiders when a super bowl that was important, obviously a huge accomplishment. but during his induction ceremony at the hall of fame, he said he never worked a day in his life. you know, he was a player to a coach than a commentator. and that's where he became very popular. he was a commentator color commentator in the nfl, and he was known, you know,

for making maybe you could call obvious statements, but he was a very likable personality. and we have a few step it to some of his live calls or we should. he goes into napkins. he wanted bob look like the only one. there was only fragments trying to grow appears and he just can't do it. i mean it, you know, the blind here guys, a lot of my problem, but i can't even, i'm working. but here it is. but see, i mean, i mean, he got a little in here and a little up here, but he doesn't have anything here at all. watch when you take it off, he doesn't have anything going up 21 years of being together and, and everything is you say those memories will be with us forever and they can never be taken away. and yeah, you know, this is a few examples and another popular commentator during the time said, you know, you put on a great show and he said, hey, this is not a show, this is my life in,

in that was just a little look back. it's some of the color commentary provided, but i'll tell you, you know, it definitely sticks in the memories of many nfl fans worldwide. john madden, a larger than life figure. oh, what about his legacy? chris howell. john madden b. remember? well, the nfl, you know, they gave john man a lot of credit because he was instrumental in the rapid growth of the nfl because of his color commentary, but outside of football, outside of the sport itself. you know, in kind a popular culture of video game, as you mentioned earlier, is named after him and many people don't associate the video game to john bad. the individual, you know, but his video game is still popular, very popular and it, there was even a curse attached to it. some of the people on the cover, you know, didn't have productive seasons and so forth, but we'd, nonetheless now the idea of mat, in being associated with the game, i'm sure people will make that relationship and maybe learn a little bit more about the, the man himself you know, but moving forward,

and i think he deserves all the credit that he's received in terms of what he's meant to the nfl, and he will definitely be forgotten. a will be missed and never forgot. not forgotten. chris, thanks so much chris and him from d w sports. thank you. you are watching dw news, just reminder of our top story. hong kong independent news outlet, standnew says it's closing after its offices were rated and assets are frozen. police arrested 7 people and complicated evidence. it's the latest blow to the free press in hong kong. i'm terry martin. thanks. watch. with people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families, please see the reason for these critical illness

with people seeing extreme dreams. ross getting 200 people. hassan from the agency around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah ah, the big switch off begins germany is set to shut down 3 of its nuclear power plant by the end of the year. it aims for a total phase out by the end of 2022. when i look at what it means for your it

as labor supply chain problems drive more and more fall is out of the industry, spain is going on. it's women, drivers to keep on truckin and germans are looking elsewhere for that new year. pyrotechnics is authorities again ban the sale of io x summer, even crossing borders to get them with the state of your business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. germany is saying good bye to nuclear power reactors representing almost half the country's nuclear capacity. ought you to be shut down? by the end of this year, the remainder we switched off during the course of 2022. it could be seen as the worst possible time to do it with your battling and energy crisis. but the big switch off is being met with glee from anti atomic activists. ah, these protestors are making their voices heard and have been doing so for decades outside a nuclear power plant in northern germany for over 35 years now. activists have

been meeting up once a month to call for the reactor to be shut down. today is the 425th meeting and the final time that they'll be here breathing the elements. that's because the brock to off nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial in germany, will be decommissioned at the end of the year for a pastor and protest. co founder hans cont vanna, it's a day of mixed feelings. su, of the cities mean the sense of relief that the nuclear power plant is, find the history of what we never imagined back then that we'd have to hold out for so long. that's about on the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster prompted germany to declare a nuclear phase out by the end of 2022. but many countries continue to rely on nuclear power. this promotional phil made by the french nuclear industry depicts it as clean and above all climate friendly. a line of argument also favored by the

countries president. yet donal knows object to achieve our objectives, in particular carbon neutrality by 2050 that we will for the 1st time in decades relaunched the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and on it will be greenhouse gas emissions are lower than those from fossil fuels. but compared to wind or solar power, nuclear energy production is far more expensive. it's really clear those countries around the world that a most intensely committed to settle nuclear power. ah, either countries with nuclear weapons or countries really de monster became on nuclear weapons. the reactor will be shut down, but the radioactive waste will remain and storage there for decades to come. there's still no permanent disposal site anywhere in the world, which is why the activists plan to continue their fight. also understand what the

nuclear phase out means for germany. let's just take a look at the countries energy makes. so in 2020 renewable energy sources like wind, solar bio mass and hydro had increased to make up 43.8 percent of germany's power. but coal is actually the 2nd most important source, lig night, and hard coal supply, almost a quarter japanese electricity. the german government is though aiming to close all of its coal plants by 2038, as it reduces carbon emissions. next up, gas fired power stations provide 16 point one percent of germany's electricity in 2020. then we come to nuclear power plants which generated 11.3 percent. but that is obviously about to change with all of germany's reactors g to be switched off by the end of 2022. now the world is watching germany's energy transition as it aims to switch off sources currently providing almost 40 percent of its electricity. that's nuclear and coal. critics say that soon,

it that it could be too soon to that and could even leads to blackouts, especially when it's dark and there are no wind blowing, no winds blowing, and there's no sun. they suggest that keeping nuclear power plants running as a stable source of energy is the best thing to do. well, let's discuss this a little bit further with michael schneider, who is lead author of the world nuclear industry status report and an opponent of nuclear power. thank you very much for taking the time to join us on deed of your business. what do you say to that suggestion that this is with europe suffering and energy crunch the worst possible time to be turning off energy sources? well, you know, i mean the, the german nuclear pays out has been in the making for a long time. it's decades that the german society has been discussing the issue by the way that the term like in

a given that which now has been integrated into the, the english language like energy transition dates from 980. and you know, as soon as 1986, when the channel bo disaster started happen to took place, there were in germany had actually published in germany, there were 20 nuclear phase out scenarios published. so there's a long exercise of thinking and designing this, this nuclear phase out. so what is happening now is, is just the consequence of these latest decisions that are now 10 years old. so there was a long period of preparation for that. and let's face it, it's, it's been a phenomenal investment security. you can, you know, imagine you can invest into other electricity generating technologies, knowing that 4000 megawatts will switch off by the end of the year. that's

a phenomenal investment security that doesn't exist the same way in other countries . that's something we need to back. i may talk about when, when we, when we talk about the switch off of the nuclear power, is the environmental impact. and the fact that germany's renewable sources aren't quite ready to make up for what's going to be lacking from the the nuclear switch off. is this actually a bad move for the environment given the nuclear, given that germany will be using coal to make up that loss? no that's, that's the miss. and that's what the problem, you know, the, the, the reduction in nuclear out bit output of the past 10 years has been compensated for twice over by the increase in renewable energy sources. so it's, it's a myth that actually, that has less lead to more coal. no,

it's actually well in the coming years highway it says exempt to this, it will mean there is more coal and leg night being burnt to make up for the loss of nuclear power over the next few years. because wind and sun are not ready to fill that gap one, no, it's actually not true. i mean, there is a very clear pathway now in order to double up the speed of implementation of renewable energy sources. and in fact, the new coalition has a target for 2032 to phase out coal. it differently from what was said earlier. so to bring it further closer to a now a originally was 2038 and have 520-3080 percent of renewables in the electricity mix. so in fact, what we have in europe is that especially france is, is worried about the nuclear phase out because germany and belgium,

the 2 nuclear phase countries have actually saved. and the french grid in the last week when the terminal dropped below, it was below 0. so which we actually have a quite unique situation where nuclear friends is depending on the nuclear phase, our countries in order to stabilize its grid. we do have this unusual situation that we in europe where we have germany in one hand facing out and france, if anything wanting that to be more nuclear power plants across europe. why do we have that enormous difference? well, you see in france there has been always the, the a mis of lag on us young. you know, that, that france can only be as powerful and as radiating in the world with nuclear weapons and with nuclear power. and, and frankly,

france has always used the nuclear technology, whether on the military side, on the civil side as geopolitical tool. so don't forget, there is now a presidential election coming up for francis taken over the presidency in the european union at 1st of january. so there's alliance buildings. so again, once again in france, uses a nuclear power as a geopolitical tool. so, but on the other hand, don't forget that the new nuclear power plants that the president has been talking about. we're talking of a grid connection between 204-2050. so which is sort of a bit late for the environment. and it's a bit late for, you know, changing the, the situation or the generating sources. or thank you very much for your time, michael snyder. i do appreciate you giving us so much of it. that's michael

schneider from the world nuclear industry status report on date of your business. as take a look at some of the other global business stories making use more details have emerged of chinese right hailing giant dds plans to d list from new york and released on the hong kong stock exchange. reuters is quoting 2 sources, same company plans to use a mechanism that allow it to list without raising capital or issuing new stock listing by introduction, as it known would allow holders of its u. s. chairs to gradually transfer them. now usually fireworks make new year's eve in germany, a noisy and colorful a fab. this year for the 2nd year in a row german authorities battling the only con corona virus. parents have decided to ban the sale of them. however, some determined germans are getting around the restrictions by crossing international borders. ah, is even berlin typically goes off with a bang. but the 201920 tick over was different. in a suburban street,

in the midst of crowds of revelers. and huge explosion from a home made bomb, hundreds of thousands of euros of damage. scores of people injured for berlin's authorities. it was the cracker that broke the camel's back. then, with the onset of the pandemic, authorities feared the usual stream of wounded would overwhelm hospitals, already groaning under the load of covered cases. a national ban was put in place, but germans just want to have fun via plus and get as event despite everything we want to celebrate the new year. last year it couldn't happen. therefore, we are happy that it's possible this year. in germany, we are not allowed to buy fire crackers, but we are allowed to set them off top them up, then decide. so many germans are making a pilgrimage across the border into denmark to buy their fireworks. ha humble. they

come from hamburg, hanover blaming rostock, dusseldorf. purveyors of pyrotechnics had been worried about their economic plight as denmark prepares for a more subdued and new year's celebration than usual. but now, business is booming. that's all from me in the business. same here in berlin from o, from as do had to our website d, d i. e dot com slash business. you can also find is only doing useful youtube channel and from facebook with small access can inspire big changes to meet the people making it possible on it go africa joined them as they set out to save the environment,

learn from one another and work together for a better future ah many thoughts to you all for tuning in eco africa. next on d w. these places in europe are smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you up to record breaking sites on google maps, youtube and now also in book form with ah, what the forest logan in congo have to do with the grow in camera population, a mortgage issue, and shrinking see gross me dues and pots, goals, all region,

the answer to that question at others is coming up in the next 30 minutes. welcome to echo africa. i am chris, the lamps. report in from lagos, nigeria, and sandra to interview hello from compiler. here in uganda. hi there. i can name at least one thing, the police, both issues together. they all are related to dramatic ways. our environment is changing. also only show this week. i want the democratic republic upon the doing to them, we have a pollution and how the countries environment minister trying to protect the country for it. once symptom of climate change is that droughts are becoming longer and more frequent. according to the word metro, logical organisation drought has claimed over 650000 lives worldwide in the last 50 years. life store keepers,

i especially frightened by droughts. goats cows and commonwealths can survive without water in somalia. some common heard us have found success by bulk in tradition. ah, it is breakfast time. it the bed a camel farm. on the outskirts of the somali capital, mogadishu, one or 2 animals, have found something to chew on, but they are all pretty hungry. all eyes are all the activity at the edge of the enclosure. in the heaps of freshly cut grass leaves and trees tis to morsels for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to breathe on the cindy ground. a sun . abdulla man. so beer is the fund manager. a head, this size typically is more room to room, but space here is limited. there are a lot of the really al your

a couple are. you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the see children or not. and also has the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area your cobra. so that requires a lot of patience and experience the all. the other challenges are finding enough food for the camels in the city and ensuring the are provided the things they would get from the does it see the nerve who were all high finally, the gate is opened year in the enclosure. the is more than enough for every one that wasn't always the case when they had had to scrounge for food out on the open plains just as camels here have done for centuries. a warden king good already by the year when the draught struck the countryside, where camels traditionally leave, there was nothing to graze on and a short fall offering. it forced us to move our animals here to the city on sir la,

jr. no, actually. so malia is one of the country's heat, particularly hard by climate change. persistent drought is slowly destroying the traditional grazing length. the vegetation is buying bag and water holes or drying out even camels, which can survive long stretches on very little a dying from thirst or hunger. the despair felder who st. ibrahim was seen in other head as is going by the day, their flocks are shrinking, become old, simply cannot find enough to eat in the bushland of the lot of billy ridge in eastern somalia, running february, we had us talk a lot about how to get our candles away from here and find new grazing areas because it hasn't rained in so long. drought is everywhere. if it gets worse and we can't feed our camels, we have to abandon them and go to the city to civil children and ourselves. callaghan, the milan, many somalis are moving to the capital to escape the effects of climate change.

mogadishu population has doubled, 2400000 people over the last 20 years. it was in that growing market that her son abdulla months, abriya recognized an opportunity soft alcala, in turn cool. naca. another reason we brought our candles to the c t is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu. and it's surrounding areas in the past, people have to go to law areas to get it. now we can deliver it freshly, milt right here in the ne board annual about his own obama. helen, on his looking is done every day in the bed, a camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls. but business takes precedence was, is i ari alyssa will be here. halligan element, dollar. we sell one liter of al cannel milk for $2.00, and i saw a hallmark. i had also a tie. we normally produced 900 to 1000 liters of camel milk every day of school in

a long plane on by the niagara hay alicia, normally if demand is high, we increase all no protection to meet the needs of our customers and clean unmet, are commonly term said al, am all the other, the fresh milk if immediately loaded up in taken to the city. restaurants in hotels are important. customers come al. milk is very nutritious impact would be to means making popular not just insomnia. with business to me, the better camel farm can afford to buy concentrate feeds for the animals. it's an important way of making up for drought related food shortages. being the camels to the city is turned out to be a good move. but not everyone can afford to do the same. so instead, was st. ibrahim was sing plans to his own with his camels, in the hope of finding enough food in water else way. ah,

water is a precious resource. it's essential for survival. so why do we wish so much of it? now think about the mighty congo river in the democratic republic of the congo. it's one of the words, deepest rivers. millions of people depend on it for their livelihoods, but it's been polluted at an alarming rate due to paul waste disposal. as we'll see, the capital kinshasa more rubbish than water. that's the state of almost all. the cone goes tributaries in kinshasa. and every day, the mountains of waste continue to grow, because almost every one disposes of their rubbish. along the small rivers and drainage canals that crisscross the city. organic waste and plastic bottles suffocate life in and around the water and plug the waterways cause in severe, flooded during the rain season. it's the situation that horrifies the lane,

said ala, after learning about the damage caused by plastic waste. in his meteorological science course, he founded and environmental angio. she was like teacher, so on our but with the, the rivers in kinshasa are polluted with run off from industries. plastic ways to share plastic. we plan to clean up the rivers by collecting plastics which are then turned into our object that, that i intend to start a business that will help to protect the rivers, only i business or what this is lydia. and he's using a lot of imagination to do it. elaine said, baylor knows his initiative, can't solve his shots, his overwhelming waste problem. but he sees the decorative optics made from the plastic waste as a step towards raising awareness of environmental probably decades

of conflicts a rapidly growing population. and the lack of investment of all contributed to the cities failure to develop a function in water and sanitation system voice 15000000 inhabitants in 2019 the government launched the kin better projects aimed at making kinshasa cleaner and greener on the last saturday of every month. conscious as citizens are encouraged to clean up their neighborhoods, $300.00 trucks are deployed to collect garbage and transport it to landfills on the outskirts of the city where it's burned. still, the project only scratches the surface. according to official figures, the city produces 7000 tons of plastic waste every day. but environmental

activists like a lame sevilla, r undeterred by the task ahead of them. even if it has to be removed one sack at a time. all next report also comes from the democratic republic of the congo, which is home to the 2nd largest room forest in the world after the brazilian amazin lost tropical forest covers about 60 percent of the r c. for now that is white grease. it is a disappearing, fust, over 15000000 hits is have been cleared in the last 20 years, partly due to the dubious life agreements. but these forests are valuable. couple of things valuable, not only for the year, a see bond with a global climate equal africa spoke to the countries environment minister to find out what is being done to talk with this problem and others with

a pool. let me double cartoon here in the democratic republic of congo. the best way to protect choruses would be to provide more people access to electricity, and not just private household soccer, new communities on the whole, need alternatives to burning wood for energy going broke. and that would include was mall and midsize businesses. mil. yeah, they're pretty ben. why a man could pretty juniper pi. lila's will, did. i'm like home simply go back to the village where i was born and tell folks they stopped chopping down trees. it stopped burning wood. charged because they must be given an alternative that, that, that's your given, we're waiting on funding to implement the change that will allow us to develop land for large scale, productive agriculture. he knows a lot at the moment. just 14 percent of the congolese population have electricity

lately. it was that we can increase that to 70 percent 3 solar power generated by the sun that shines above us marie, but also from bio mass and wind power. who is in it as yet, did not, did gandhi buell that should go a long way towards protecting the forest or to justify his or my life? what a all of our preferred christiane. i left 43 . live your new landmark. we here in the d. r. z, sacrifice ourselves if and refrain from exploiting our oil reserves for the good of the environment. you and what, what do we get in return? because if we choose to protect the environment, that's not only good for the d. r. c. it's good for the whole world, since forests store c o 2 emissions and help preserve biodiversity. who yeah, even if someone makes us an offer, we can weigh up our options. if the deals right, we can say okay, oils stay in the ground, we don't need to exploit to you. we have other funds, other means of survival,

mathee or profit. but without an alternative, we can't afford to pretend we don't know it's there on back one thing and the law also ya ski diversion, we must quite simply act in good conscience nor that what we know there is the problem with pollution and we know that for us is can absorb those carbon emissions up we'll use that's reason enough to preserve and protect them. his invasive would garcia the global north, the well, the industrialized countries, the g 20 as well as the newly rich possessor, 80 percent of the world's g. d. p. i assume is, are couple of they have the means to do something with what is on him. why? yeah, it requires a willingness to comprehend, to realize that if we don't take care of our forest, the spirit or the industrialization in the world will lead us in no way that's on the news. i'm because of temperatures rise by 3 full 5 degrees celsius. will all cease to exist. existence is not in this rather than

in portugal. all. gov region researchers. i'm 1st to get in house, see gross mo, those can be protected and the benefit that could have in terms of reducing the fact of climate change. ah, for conservationists, sea grass, meadows are heroes of the ecosystem. home to many different species. they grow in shallow coastal waters and harbour huge benefits for life under water and on land. that's why team of scientists is studying the meadows of portugal, southern algarve coast. to day the team is preparing to dive down to the sea grass beds of 30 a foremost lagoon to collect sediment samples in

a time of climate crisis. carmen santos research is more crucial than ever for months to come. she and her team will be coming back to the lagoon. each trip usually spends several days the field work in close mapping the approximately 10 percent of wetland that's covered by c cross, which is one of the lagoons most valuable assets. they are very efficient carville scenes, which means that they can sequester and the store a huge amount of carbons in their biomass. and in the say, the one behind where they roll. and this is very important because when sequestering their seal to and the carbone that he saw in their sediment, they are helping us to mitigate the climate change. scientists estimate that coastal ecosystems, like c grocery store 3 times more c o 2 than forests at no cost.