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all threat can genetic engineering help crop stand up to climate change and the u. s. a. is battling against a drug of the deadliest kind with no end in sight. around 1000000 americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999. most of them from opioid says the u. s. health authority, c, d. c. the so called opioid crisis was triggered not by drug dealers, but by us pharmaceutical company pud. due in 1996 purdue introduced a drug to the market that it advertised as a homeless pain killer. it was later revealed to be highly addictive. even when taken as prescribed. several lawsuits have been filed against the family who own purdue. last year, multiple u. s. pharmacy chains were ordered to pay $13800000000.00 in damages. it's

hard to see a way out of the p o. h crisis, especially as drug cartels have long since discovered the lucrative market for themselves. a ruthless killer on the streets of america, fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroine in the us. someone dies of fentanyl overdose every 7 minutes. where does the truck come from? why is it so dangerous to search for answers leads us to the city of could you come in, northwest mexico. the notorious in a lower cartel have a strong hold on the trade in illicit drugs him. after months of research, one of its drug lords has agreed to talk to us on the way from the airport. a mexican producer receives a phone call. uh huh. there is an on

some of these people are writing near with on god we're not in the village but on a wednesday like you're across the bridge or across the bridge road. yes it was. which is one of the like over and over the bridge in a hotel, we meet a man who says his name is kwan. he immediately issued a warning oh, off a little as long as you stick to what we agreed and disguise our identities, our voices and faces that it's all good. if you don't spread misinformation, then there won't be any problems or how long of a long, long one overseas part of the cartels fentanyl production. the drug is the latest best seller responsible for the deadliest drug waive in american history. he says he'll give us access to one of the many safe houses where the cartel produces

fentanyl. oh, we used to have a few big laboratories, huge industrial spaces where we produce the drugs. oh, but we learned from our mistakes. a big lab is easy to find, for example from the air. and if you're exposed, the damage is considerable. oh oh quan leaves. we are told to wait at the hotel until he contacts us again. we get to call late at night when we are less likely to attract attention. the cartel has many enemies. get to my location and when you get there, don't stop. just keep driving and give me a call and i'd be guiding you. what follows for hot hey, and his assistant are making fentanyl using chemicals,

illegally imported from china. the gradients for fentanyl are relatively easy to come by compared to other opioids. and only a small amount is needed to induce a high, it's easy to smuggle and the profit margins are huge. the cartel knows exactly how deadly the substance is. just 2 milligrams can be fatal or family accidentally inhaled some last week. oh, i fell into a coma and spent 8 days in hospital. i only breathed it in once a month ago in the u. s. one pill cells for between $5.00 and $10.00. in this house alone hold, i produces 50000 a day. mexican drug lords do whatever it takes to keep this $1000000000.00 industry going. ah, we have people who test each badge for us. we take the pills and tell us if they're

good. they're drug addicts. they don't even get paid. they're happy because they get the gear for free on all the cartels reign of terror of a public life here has brought the power of the mexican state to its knees. this was made clear in 2019, during the arrest of a video, guzman lopez, the son of the former cartel boss and the most famous mexican drug kingpin of all time. i'll chopper with gun battles broke out between the police military and heavily on cartel members in broad daylight wholesalers, he's later released him to avoid further bloodshed. then in january 2023 guzman lopez was re arrested and a similar wave of violence broke out killing 29 people. yet the heavily armed gangsters are by no means the cartels deadliest product. last year, around 70000 people died as a result of fentanyl abuse in the u. s. hello,

a drug related deaths and the country are at a record high. the kensington neighbourhood of philadelphia is one of america's drug hot spots. the fentenol crisis is plain to see here. matt had managed to win himself of the highly addictive drug, but recently relapsed. i was on suboxone. this is pe 7 mines in wood. my type of mind for him is, is, wasn't enough. they needed to be more and more and more and more. and eventually on, you know, i was kind of scared of doing fennel again because showing if he were overdose, an emergency 25 year old natasha has passed out an overdose. the police officer stand by just as helplessly as the government in the face of the biggest drug crisis and us history. with finally natasha regains

consciousness. but he would rather she hadn't thought after. it won't come robin slow the growth and often i've heard before i had more that listen of i o the vision learners in me. let me go believe that i feel our home. we are 5 years ago, sarah laurel, if social worker was addicted to drugs too. when she finally managed to get clean, she decided to dedicate her life to help the victims of drug abuse. she offers addicts advice, and helps them to get clean to that was much more pill in a much more deadly. so what we saw a fennel is that it was being laced into drugs other than opiates i was inc. okay. it was a map, amphetamines, it was an crack, you know, it, their drug market is a very competitive market. so people wanted to boost sales by making the high a little bit more intense. the number of drug related deaths has donna,

by around 20 percent of the policy in the us. the crisis is going from bad to worse than the fight against it appears to be hopeless on both sides of the boat, maize, rice, and wait a some of the world's most important crops. but how will harvests fat as temperatures increase? research suggests that the mays harvest st. hot areas could full by more than 20 percent. and the world meteorological organisation fears that even before 2030, the average temperature on aspirin, have risen by 1.5 degrees celsius. that will need to crop damaging, heavy rains and droughts as an urgent need for more resistant plant species. ah, genetically modified plants, a viable solution. oh, could they pose

a new threat? we started improving plants by cross breeding. the best variety is the 1st records of humans, selecting ancient grass and wheat date back 10000 years. since then, we've multiplied corn, wheat, rice, and so yields by several times and read them to something which would probably be hard to identify for one of the early settlers back then. for example, do you know what this is? today? it looks like this doesn't seem like a close relative does it. in the past, decades yields have skyrocketed to feed an ever increasing population. we did not stop at just multiplying yields. our excessive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and the ongoing conversion of sense of ecosystems to crop land have degraded 40 percent of fertile soils globally. what's more, the climate crisis is forecast to reduce harvests. the problem is we actually need to produce more, but without using moorland and more resources is

a 50 percent gap and in the thirty's to day. and what we need in 2050 just just to feed people adequately. if everyone became a vegetarian, we could produce enough sustainably, but that doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon. if we just stick at the current yield way to say was great is can power sample on the back and move on. and then the only way that we would meet those needs is to expand the agricultural frontier even further. which means sort of good bye to the remaining natural ecosystems. scientists are designing climate resilient super crops that might produce higher yields and need fewer resources to grow. they want to speed up the process by changing the plants. genetic code with genome editing, such as with rice, drought was major news. it is brutal down there, drought emergency unprecedented droughts and hate waves have put, bought a scarcity into shop focus. that's a problem for rice,

a thirsty crop used to being soaked. a new breed might help in the future. this variety, i are 64 is mostly grown in the global south, but it's eaten worldwide. scientists tweaked its genes to make it more drought resistant. the new rice uses up to 40 percent less water in some weeks, while the conventional varieties did not survive a week without water in 40 degree, he'd half of the gene edited plants. did. scientists did this by instructing a naturally occurring gene in the plant to be more powerful. this gene helps reduce the number and size of the plans pores which are responsible for gas and water exchange. fewer and smaller pores meant the plant saved water yields increased or remain the same. the method they used here is called crisper cas 9, also known as genetic scissors or genome editing. it is fundamentally different to

traditional genetic modifications or gm technologies. it relies actually on natural processes, but it makes the mutation process much lesser and most gm products contain a synthetic gene or a gene from another organism inserted into the plant or animal of interest insect resistant cotton and means for example, grown widely around the world contain a gene originally found in bacteria, instead of using foreign dna gene editing, mixed changes in the characteristics of any organism using the information present in its own genetic code using special enzymes, working like scissors, we can delete swap or repeat genes present in the plants dna. it will take many dozens of generation until you have only this one gene transferred by crossing and then often will not be very viable. the crystal would just take too long. so the it gene am editing is really super powerful because it can go and the single gene

change it and boil up. it takes 7 to 15 years to get a crossbred plant with the desired trait with gene editing just a couple of months, plus a few years of testing. globally, gene editing research is speeding up from only a couple of patterns filed in 2011 to about 2000 patents in 2019 by private companies and public researchers. the us, china, and multi nationals are investing heavily in the technology which is expected to develop into a multi $1000000000.00 market by the end of the decade. it's risky, especially as many new crop varieties are still in the research phase and little data and few risk assessments exist. we can have been have to see what happens in nature. it's all uncertain, and it will be really experimentation fact, and we're will be far ahead of assign, sometimes we'll have to catch up some experts point to cases of off target genetic

changes or cases of deleting much more genetic information than intended. additionally, genes involved in increasing yields and some type of drought could crease yields in wet years. and as there is a large number of genes involved, turning one or 2 genes on or off is mostly not enough here. the less optimized the crop, the easier it is to improve. that's why experts see most potential in quickly developing old varieties that haven't been part of industrial production so far. such as millet and corn, wheat, or mannion which already have stronger defenses against climate related challenges . but where breeding is still in its infancy. so i don't want to take anything with the table. the challenge is so significant. i don't wanna take crisper technology don't. i don't want to take shift and diet. i don't want to take restoration or reduce you. it's all of these things. the, you genetically edited crops are labeled g m and therefore heavily regulated. but

there is increasing discussion about whether the g m label is still appropriate or of genome editing should be considered a new breeding method instead of classic genetic manipulation in the us, china and many latin american countries. genome edited crops don't need to be labeled or controlled as g m. and the sector plans to bring several crops to the fields in the coming years. as highly advanced as genome editing methods may be conventional breeding will remain as important. neither will be able to make up for the huge burden we currently put on our ecosystems. but they'll probably fill the food gap in the future. several african countries have experienced a, bola outbreaks. in recent years, thousands of people have died from the infectious disease which likely spread from meet sold at markets. cove at 19 is also said to have jumped from animals to humans

in a similar way. guerrillas can also contract corona virus in the republic of the congo was such as a taking a closer look. it is 5 o'clock in the morning and robbie booker is already tracking through the congolese jungle. early mornings are the best time for the young environmental scientists to search for and study the gorillas. after a one hour trek, he spot some. under strict precautions, he tries to observe them, study their behavior remarkably, with the liquid, damascus to avoid contamination. dearborn contamination with the gorilla with corolla virus, it's important that we protect the animals against the disease because we know that when the disease migrates from humans to animals and then possibly back to humans, it gets very complicated and alone. that would have been a thought on pick up the north of congo, browser vol. as home to the western lowland gorillas. thousands live here. no.

where else in the world, can you find such a density of guerrillas? how dangerous as covert 19 for them? that's a question, robert cocker and his research group often debate, but they simply don't have an answer yet. after a silver back, i'd seriously sick with cove it in the u. s. su, they've been very careful. they keep at least 25 meters away from the guerrillas, and everyone here is vaccinated. in the early, 2, thousands a bowler killed almost 5000 guerrillas. that disease was most likely transmitted by bats, possibly from eating the same fruits. that's why rubber cocker and a group of students from the university of roosevelt are also researching the areas massive back population. because i got on the phone, it's very important to follow up on that pathogens because there's a local community that eats bets new and scientifically. we know that there's a risk of transferring disease from bad to humans. wish of saki island in the

capital browser vill. there are several high risk places for the spillover of diseases from animals to humans. bush meat markets, while selling endangered species like a relas and chimpanzees is illegal. many other varieties of bush meat can be bought here for thorn be masika pivot coffee on these are markets that can be considered breeding grounds for diseases. in those markets. viruses can be easily transferred from animals to humanist, let alone a pre up, and we're not someone contracts the disease, it quickly spreads to others to prevent future disease outbreaks among the guerrillas. the scientists have increased surveillance, creating an early warning system. the research base is the core of the congo conservation company. his research has financed by eco tourism, but they want to keep the number of tourists as low. we don't want to push on the glorious to much and or so we don't want to have a,

a kind of factory and like a lot of people coming in coming in, coming in. we wanted to keep bits or as was come as possible to be a bull. oh, to manage that lives of park and we have the conception aspects. we don't want the most to rhythm here. in the meantime, robbie, because getting ready for his next track to the gorillas, he has a few more weeks for his research here before returning to the capital to write his master's thesis knowns on his plans because it is. and i think i'll never get tired of seeing the gorillas fit for me. it's a dream, you know, it's a dream to be here, to be able to go and see them as a dream. if i can spend all day long watching them before me. if that's the life i want to live for, letty could come in rather the cocker once more congolese, to appreciate the environment and study natural sciences. in his master's course, there are currently only 4 students

according to the world bank, around 40 percent of columbia's population lives in poverty. that's the result of decades of civil war. and now many people are also suffering the economic consequences of the corona virus pandemic. many colombians are desperate to leave their home country and make a new life in the u. s. and yet, dreams can also come true in columbia as our next story shows. when the music starts to play, diego feels joy and every fiber of his body, the dreary world around him disappears. and he transforms from a poor young man into a proud ballet dancer, as he always owner the pin. yeah, it's always been my dream and i'm working hard to achieve my goal of upward road. i'm always training biando is di headed in at the water. it's always been his dream to become a ballet dancer. and there's only one place where his dream can become

a reality. the day starts early for diego lopez in the hills of columbia's capital home to the cities more impoverished residence. diego lopez's family is so poor that they only have enough money for their daily sustenance. being a successful ballet dancer has always seemed out of reach for diego cdo pro i tried taking drugs. i didn't have a job to education wasn't an option. i didn't have any life goals. i had no idea what to do with myself. diane, the bond did go ahead and get him. nina. his aimlessness is now a thing of the past. the 21 year old young man travels more than 2 hours a day to a place where others share his passion for dance. the festival art foundation in the heart of bogota is diego new home, where he spends 8 hours a day with his new family. in just 2 years time,

he has improved significantly to become the foundations, most promising dancer, according to foundations director marley hernandez. he's not the same strange kid who 1st showed up at their doorstep. i know there, but as in our, in our nar, wendy eggers showed up here with these little capital wood away, he looked, i thought, oh my god, diego was already too old, thin and meek. then the transformation began, and his poise grace, power, and endurance, quickly developed, along with an unshakable self confidence that he didn't have when he 1st arrived. all the students here come from poor families. marleni hernandez used her own money to start the foundation to help them. she is always on the lookout for new sponsors because she can't rely on the state for help. that is gone. elma, who plays

a paper with a lot in the spirit her working hard to make their dreams come true. but up would really. they are driven to succeed so that they can survive wireless. they have the same rights and deserve the same opportunity that there's intell. ah, they have to work hard to better themselves. it requires brutal discipline, and they have to make difficult maneuvers look easy. they're also developing leadership skills and learning how to work as a team. male group members in particular, have to fight back against preconceptions that men don't do ballet. when and performers, alicia muma, when i told my mother she immediately asked me if i was gay. i said no, then she asked me if i wanted to be gay, and i said, no, i don't. okay, no. even diego mother was against him dancing at 1st. she's the family's mean breadwinner, and diego helps her on the weekends. her daughter suffers from epilepsy and another

son is homeless. then there's diego with his dream of being a ballet dancer open cps here. the hope on that. yes, at 1st i was again step. i told him it's a waste of time and that he should go to work and earn money. i'm lazy, fat black, diego puts love into everything he does the, even if he is just earning a few cents by selling coffee and a hot meal. he hopes his mom will be able to leave the life of a street vendor behind the dilemma. today. i want to be able to tell my mother that she doesn't have to work any more that she doesn't need to worry because i'll take care of her. i want to inspire others to achieve their dreams. julia looked on the 30th at the foundation. diego is not only working hard and belly issues. he's also developing his english skills. these are essential for an international career. everything they learn here, prepares them for the future. diego dream could soon come

true. the foundation has already produced several international success stories in diego have completely turned his life around from that of a poor boy with no life goals to a confident and talented dancer. i can miss only the richest men in the world because i do it. i love we're doing cadillac, and that's so from us at global 3000 this week. do send us your comments right to global 3000 at d, w dot com, or visit us on facebook the next time ah, [000:00:00;00]

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