ah, ah ah, ah, this is did up in years a shack coming up to date, the aftermath of the deadliest flooding in pakistan's recent history. thousands of children are at risk of missing out on their education. after floodwaters destroyed schools, where kids be able to get back into classrooms. we asked the unicef chief impact to thought plus india awaits the return of the chief of the big gut,

went extinct 7 decades ago, and is now making it a ton from namibia, a conservation triumph or a vanity project. ah, i'm british bands. you're welcome to d w. news. a sure glad you could join us. bach hassan has been enjoying severe monsoon weather since june of this year, which has brought rainfall nearly 3 times the national 30 year. average latest figures say that almost 1500 lives were lost in the torrent. now the great danger is waterborne disease. children are particularly vulnerable to den gear fever, which is currently spreading. fast malnutrition is the other enemy of 8 agencies like uni sir, who say only half of the non adult population in

a flood defected areas is at risk. will speak to someone on the ground in pakistan in a moment. but 1st, a report from the soft valley looking at just one child, one among the 16000000 children in pakistan affected by these unprecedented floods living day to day and thinking of his future. mam machado says he was lucky to survive the raging flood that ravaged his home down in northern pakistan, swath valley even as people fled low lying areas, many houses were swept away. the teenagers school was destroyed too. for now, he's working in the field with his father instead though they are harvey. i am now afraid a lot of the floods will also bring disease. so like you where the roads are blocked here, mr. holder,

the sick are dying in their houses because the infrastructure is completely damaged . outdoor and are elena than. sheriff's village is now cut off. as the flood swept away the dilapidated road network and bridges. this is the only school in the area that stands still. all the residents now hope to send their children here, days, elegant, clear. i am here to assess if we can accommodate all these children. and i don't expect many students to come to school anyway. automatic may be only the older ones . as the younger children are still traumatized for, give it to me, i think they're very curious. if it is the decision shadows father will have to make to he doesn't want his son to travel a long distance to school until roads and bridges are rebuilt. but on both of the day care is very scared. i didnt armina this area was unsafe already

sequence a year before the flood. the 2 children had died while coming home from school to dakota. when would be we had built 2 bridges after that the with for the safety of the children is go pull away this, but now it, but those have been destroyed by the floods border by gear weather bug. you will go greenish a need for now shot of his trying to keep up with his studies at home and to help his younger siblings do. but they worry about what marines could bring, not on their shoulder shoe, it has started raining again for love. and there is a possibility of new floods. oh, my house is old and we can't rebuild it because my father is a laborer. now i request the government to build a school for us. is that no snow, no water, no flood can ruin her to. so we can continue our education in peace. now north, this is moon that at the america, one next of of such a school is likely to remain a dream with government aid yet to reach remote areas like this one. the future of

children here remains uncertain. and gentlemen are from so quarter and send the province is jernace of spot. cassandra presented. abdulla father, mister father, let's talk about parkinson's children. first. the education of some 670000 kids is in doubt. after more than $18000.00 schools were either partially or fully destroyed. how soon do you think these children can go back to school? well, not soon enough, but unfortunately they don't have schools to go to. what we did over the last few weeks was actually to set up temporary living centers where for the 1st time you have actually people who children who never set foot in the learning space and learning for the 1st time. and now they're saying, we want to really go to real schools as soon as this climate is over. so no, i mean sit back sun as normal, 23 minutes. they're out of school. almost 12000000 to come from the provinces that

are hit this you don't really are in dire need of going back to school as soon as possible. what are the other immediate threats you are seeing in the immediate aftermath of these floods? well, here's your question. with integration, that's why i really would be facing is a catastrophe monitor. since we've seen children, we're both connected to the last 4 parts, 6 weeks, but absolutely not. this area again, this probably in the district that i had, i'd actually have the worst indicators of what we call general attrition, emergency levels. usually 15 percent in this district is almost 50 percent and ready. you had communities that were really struggling, facing normal attrition. thank if either malaria skin disease just because of this darkness and water. so it's really, really serious situation and we're afraid much of them will die if we don't act

quickly. and you and also launched in a pain to raise about $160000000.00 to assist pakistan with reconstruction and post flood efforts. has any money started coming in where somebody started? my money was under a lot of but it was gross. but unfortunately, it hasn't reached us fast enough yet. 160000000 actually was only for the still saving lives. now, what the need is actually is quite huge. and actually this was our 1st assessment in the next 2 weeks. we'll come back with further assessment. but even to 160000000, we asked, we don't have much of that yet. can partis, under cover without international assistance they're not. absolutely not. they can recover without international support. i mean, this climate, the environmental climate change i bucks that look to be to, to climate change. it's countries develop that happen to be significantly. and we

hope bring those countries now will assist because the model of the general set, it could be us that are decisive tuition. so for external needs, a lot of help. but for now, we need to save lives immediately. and that's why we are saying, please support all the entities you can. so the chip more children don't have to die in the next few weeks. believe it there. thank you so much for joining us today . of the la father units are focused on up, isn't that. thank you so much. thank you for having me. ah. now to an upcoming moment of pride for india 70 years after they went extinct cheaters are making a comeback. each cheetos will be released into a national park where prime minister under, under more the on saturday, which is also coincidentally, his birthday. these shooters are arriving from namibia. these images provided to us with the organization sending his animals the 3 meal and 5 female chief 3rd will be

introduced into the pool, nor national park in mud to put their steed in central india trails. more cheaters will arrive from south africa in october, with glands to gradually introduce more later and did a little report on nail jory has been stalking this story for us and joins me in the studio with more and they helped welcome an animal that's been extinct for 7 day kids did in there, suddenly decided wanted back. well, it wasn't quite sudden, ever since the cheaper went extinct in 1952. there have been intention to bring it back. and the indian government's interest in this is that they think cheap. that is a last glory and that it was originally present in the indian ecosystem and so needs to be restored as well as they believe that eco tourism will boom if the cheaper comes back. and so already in the 19 seventy's devote attempts to bring the cheetah from iran that didn't quite pan out. and, and they were conversations with several countries. finally in 2009, there was

a major meeting in india where global exports got together. and the plan was green lit by the indian government. and so this year, a memorandum of understanding was finally signed with the media and the chief on the way. so it's been a long time in the making. so years of intense. surely, conservationists must be very happy bunch. depends who you ask, how it could. conservationists are working very closely with the project. feel that the chief bell will re white allies, the grasslands of and the logic killed is that she does hunt very differently from lions and tigers. so lions and tigers will attack any animal that's in its proximity. she does on the other hand, target animals that a week. so that's being seen as an animal that will fill a wide in that sense. but i've also spoken to conservationists who feel that the chief project is sidelining, the conservation of other animals and india that already needed help and are well notable. for instance, the is yet la him. so the place where the teeth are being moved,

the cool no national park was actually cleared for the last several years to make space for a static lions, the land originally and good wrath, and a source of massive pride. but they're not quite safe there. you know, humans have encroached upon forest land there and so sometimes the lions run on to highways get stuck by traffic, stop by traffic cars. or sometimes there's retaliation from people when lions run into religious. so the plan was to move them safely to corner. now, for many reasons, fast forward several years that hasn't quite happened. and in the meanwhile, the chief task force was looking for the right place to bring the chito, and they picked out cornel. and so kudos getting chief us. now you can imagine that the conservationists have been crusading for is yet lions are quite unhappy about this and we're going to listen to what one of them had to say. who would you be

managed since 1994? i asked the sy dark blue host to lunch since 1995 more than 1500 families of the local community. so hardy us have more made the sacrifice made this b as a relevant for alliance. and what are we doing? real bad children? she doesn't read us the concentration. where is the science? where is the role of one? so that's another angle, right? like $24.00 villages had to vacate, to make space for these lions and they did it. they got compensation from the government. now one royal family that had to move is actually taking the government to court, saying we didn't move for the chief as we move for the lions until we want our property back. so this is clearly been a lot of people from the local community who've been affected by this. and according to conservationists like tell them not necessarily for solid conservation reasons. and one of them is also that india identifies its conservation priorities

every few years. and the last one was done in 2017 chief as want even mentioned in it. so that led people like tell them to write our article in outlook magazines, calling this al vanity project, vanity project over conservation efforts. interesting, really with her. thank you so much for coming in to talk about this and may have a jury that's what all we have time for us this week. we're back again on monday at the same time and see you then defy she's up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program on line d w dot com, highlights closely. ah,

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