so, so, coal do use drones instead, use of tech, the environment for how good as well as a reminder of our top story is mounting of a humanitarian and environmental disaster and southern ukraine after a russian controlled damn was breached on tuesday 1000 samples, but he lost a host of flooding, but the true scale of the disaster as he had to a much better talk. you mentioned coming up next on bands as well. and thanks for joining us here on dw, i'll see you again very soon by. the ukraine was like a stepping points to, you know, 5 or 2 into that warranty wants to finish your studies. now you have a sandy feet from the train. you can choose to go back or somewhere else. currently, more people than ever on the move in search of a pass in life. yeah. give me something that is coming very very soon and yeah,

can we learn more about oh no one nice story. info, migraines. the since the beginning of time, melting glaciers in the himalayas had been feeding countless rivers. they pour out of the mountain range, running like veins throughout the south asian continent. one of the most powerful is the drama, tow truck, which travels thousands of kilometers before crossing bangladesh and flowing into the bay of been go. here the river is known as the the gym, lunar creates and floods and many islands and its course in

ben gully, these ever shifting islands and bars are called chalk, derived from schroeder, which means wondering the 3000000 people who live on the island called themselves chat with us, but we don't migrate, they say the islands do. we just have to wonder along from june to september during the month to the rivers tides wash of fertile settlement that produces a bountiful harvest in the dry season. the floods provide both fish and joy to the child the but they also take knowing at the shore line of the old jobs flooding the islands and causing pain. the

like no man's. the child has moved from flooded islands to newly emerging ones. but they are used to this. they know the river gives them fertile soil on which they can grow and to work again. a life of construction, destruction, and reconstruction. the weakness dish. nothing over the last model. no. the what you're saying is told you, oh do you didn't you catch anything?

that's the careful careful. that's a, that's enough for lunch. the talking to 33 year old, the heem shorter god isn't actually a fisherman, but a farmer. together with his wife leah, be gum, he feeds his 6 person household besides their 2 children, his younger brother and mother also live with the the raw him and his neighbors live on child early. but up in the middle of the moon,

the monsoons began months ago, and the river is knowing away at the island. but the tidal waves that usually flowed the jobs are not here this year, even in august the me. but for us, child has to be, there is the cost and the blessing. and here with that, you know, now flows which are really para, was actually everywhere. they were both schools concrete building and we had, every states were 5 minutes really then from the east river started pushing and ripping everything away. i was glad to do it because the sort of right here a child could come up again and people could settle again. what's the use or is it find the the where the village of relief is now. the moon used to float,

sort of big ships used to pass by when i saw it myself as a child and the child early. but i has now been stable for 12 years, but it is the exception early, but is one of a dozen charge that make up the gum shot a union district. not all the islands in the district have reached such an age every few years. jemina washes away some of the jobs only to later wash up new settlement elsewhere. the not far from the heem until recently lived. shoot some on the there only one or can be seen now because your munos has reclaimed the large parts of his former home. jemina has taken over the shoot us i'm on

a farmer, lived here with his family for 8 years. and everybody kept over here was my home, a piece of field was washed away with the property that kind of worried about here was a house over, there was a neighbor, there was another one bit of a, you know, it was another friend of mine, 7 homes were here the school that showed us a month son attends must be demolished. the water is only a few meters away from its foundation. the rubble will be reused. building material is precious. it's not clear where the school will be rebuilt. for now, it remains closed. yeah my, my son went to the school,

my property is gone and now we are losing the school to the ca bubble into the some in the building. you see here we build 66 years ago. so we have to take it down and think of the before the school was some or else, then we have to take it down due to erosion and rebuild it. tens of times we have to move at the school by the name of the monsoon season. and erosion go hand in hand, you never know which island of the river will take next. northward perhaps the this job is only

4 years old. that doesn't make a particularly powerful impression. but farmers who don't have many fields often have no choice, but to settle here the cause, follow your mother. i mean i could tune lives here. she is married and has 2 daughters. her husband, a seer, or dean khalifa is a farmer. unfortunately, some of his fields have flooded and he's no longer able to feed his family from field work alone. he also sells goods at the market, the

killing of the game. we all have to live in a hot with the animals because we are afraid of thieves or robbers because the river is so closely if there are often river pirates. here we are poor. we have a few animals. if the thieves and robbers take that away from us, how will we survive the new zillow and it is it just last time the water was up to here up to the waist. it was very difficult to live here under the name, but then we moved to a neighbor's house for a few days and the flood hit us there too. then we had to build a rack up high to keep the animals away from the water. often we also slept on a boat and there was no gas. the water taxi keams job relief, but is stable for the moment. the people here still feel safe from jemina

and its powerful tides. but even they are not completely safe from the floods. is the dominant when we're done, what i'm, that's mine. i agree with that myself. it's growing. well, it dropped out that is that the same, these arises brand new thanks to technical development and we can try new varieties, look good. just the see it and they grow very well. hi. can be used as high on. so when the, when i was a child, you could only have as just the feeling like this, a big gap up to 50 is what i'm, what i'm gonna be a lot of moving down at the 830 the, the job. and they came up from the 12 years ago, but well, people have become wise, so i'll get to go to court

a hook up because somebody planned trees immediately to and get this oil and the level one lucky pulling definitely got happy, definitely avenue. and we can eventually sell the trees later. is that one right? the business in this foundation we built in 2011, ever from after that we had to wait until the settled our mission is from either the edible doesn't mind when the water comes onto the property here. we have to bring extra soil here, like with the boat, and then we build a hill, and then we put the animals on this hill near that. can you tell us how lucky and for cooking? you can see the dove, and of course it gets covered with water, finding police mazda, and then we build a high rock. and on top of this, again, a new stove, we tried to keep the wood dry, and on top of it, we sits in cook. i often tell him that maybe we shouldn't move to the main lands, but he doesn't want to leave the chalk kind of. he loves the child more than anything the mainland does. that's the question for him. i'm glad that i tell her

why didn't you get some money from your parents? why don't you get 500000 and tucker will buy a plot of land today, but she contract. she dreams of a house on the mainland. we just don't have the money back on the whole night ready to go to the flow that about him and his wife aliya are busy all day like her husband. she's educated a lot here on the jobs. there is no opportunity for women to put their schooling to use a li, a supports her husband in his work and earns extra money as it seems through the neighbors by their clothes, from her instead of on the mainland. the

because little harvesting takes place during the monsoons, many showed us live off of fishing during the rainy season. but in recent years, the highly sought after catch has been dwindling. the . 8 the, there are many different kinds of fish and practice showed us can even catch them with their bare hands. the account

big it is the, the former is no longer use the fish solely to feed their families. at the port of golden down sheet, they bring their fish to be auctioned off a supplement, seeing their livelihood on the. 2 team to sometimes visits the market and go be not cheap. nothing to me here. the 400. 6400. 60 anyone? 7400. 750-1500

. 15515 nobody. then he's gone for $500.00. the the he brings the expensive fish home for supper. the flushing can still trust that his land is safe from the rising waters. but not far away. it's a different story. to do some on has given up his land and a store in parts of his house and his relatives, the excellent. yeah. all the individual pieces of a complete hon to go to

a band. if you was of another hunt. i also put them on top. so how does it say go to the other one uh, find out how i can buy when we take down no rebuild the home. so it takes a lot of people to that. how did this logistically? it's a big effort that also costs money. what it's from getting is very tedious when i started monitor the vehicle, some of the buses, but we charles help each other. i mean that if i decide to take down my house today and tell the neighbors they come right away, we have to have this out a little bit. if i hear that another neighbor is relocating with it. he tells me all knowledge and i go there and help take down the hunt. transported away and rebuilt it. that's how people pay to move on. got little showers help each of the sorting more monitor optimal depth as the

pseudo some on and his family have to stay with relatives until they find a safe place for a new home. the river is rising, the as honest able, as the childs are, the land and farm land on them are still surveyed and entered into the land register. all showed us keep their title deeds in case they are flooded. land

reappears perhaps this time should have some on we'll get lucky. and jim luna will give him back the land until the this is what it looks like before the flooded waters arrive. the green grass land is food for cattle. but in order to cultivate the land, the grass has to disappear. usually the flood takes care of that. when it doesn't, the farmers have to destroy the grass with chemicals in order to be able to plant the, the jude is a particularly hardy cross, but it can only be grown in the rainy season. the,

there's a reason it's called the golden thread of bangladesh. it drives even when flooded for the jude water is a friend. it likes stagnant water, the more brackish the better after harvesting, the stalks must be left to soften in the water so the threads can be pulled. the, the remaining parts of the plant are used as building and burning material. the

material dude, such as about one year old, the farmers earned about $400.00 to $500.00 euro is from the harbor. significantly more than the 100 to 200 euros. they would otherwise earn from us not with products like dude and rice. the cho does have adapted to the rhythm of the dry in during the season. when it comes to electricity, they must also adapt to the rules of nature. solar panels are easy to use and the mobile until a few years ago,

expensive oil was the only source of energy for the child us today, children grow up with solar energy as the norm for 6 year old chic, it's common place the that he was brother or only chicago even runs his laptop off the panels. the computer is connected to the internet through his mobile phone. when you are done here, could you please wait the patty field? okay, i have to go to a meeting or go away and when you, when you want to,

i get my product graduated well from school event. the timing is his great fashioning. he didn't want to do anything else, you would have how many devices? and if i want to work as a web designer from home, i mean, it was you who were doing the brother supports me to learn this professional, but again, with to buy all this equipment is uh, this is supposed to be financially is helping us with the visual video gosh, and what else is she knows here, covers it out to them. a lot of ideas i get i get with the one thing that we don't love economical image the honey. but i don't have any training and web design, so i follow the work professional web designers in the country and they will even the internationally known ones that you read the books, the follow the law under cheap the most i me the, the needed to see the it's as large as life event, i think for young people on the job at the very small. now that if i can get them together, i would like to start a company to provide services like this online. but it's always been

a johnson. the unusually late in early september, the title floods have finally come. normally the showed us expect 3 title waves between june and the end of august. but this time, the rising water is come only once. here to climate change is evident the within a few days, the flooded waters reach dangerous levels. as the river takes its toll, no one's thinking about the fertile settlement. it breaks. even though the floods

will ensure to mountable harvest for the child us in the coming dry season, the by means you're doing the volume. and water has been standing here in the field for 3 days. 7 days ago it started to rise. first the river was swollen and then in the last 3 days, the water ended from here. if the water just continues to rise folder rice will be lost on what it is a good. i figured it was the, i don't know if i'm lucky enough to save this right scrub. it's growing so beautiful in the bottle. here at the finish of the me see find the water. he's close to l ya now move when the children play here. they could fall into

a hole. it's dangerous. i want to take a bath papa hyphen because you know, you just had a shower and i don't want it. well, that's how it is a life you in a few days ago we were working on this pos. everything was to drive, and now we're walking in the water, the water. sometimes the water comes up to a chest for over a head. sometimes there was even a current to you will die, come grow. he seems relaxed about the flooding. aliyah is more concerned. the ground near their home is still dry. but if the water enters the yard every day, life will become much more difficult. as

evidenced in this footage from the past quarter century, the child us have had to develop extraordinary survival skills to adapt to the flood floods which the child us they are increasingly worse due only in part to nature. a bridge was built here 25 years ago. forcing the once 14 kilometer wide river and to a narrower channel, the child se then, until the bridge was built, the floods were not as dramatic as they are today. the, the, the,

this time there was only one tidal wave in the monsoon season. it left behind huge amounts of fertile soil, but had to be till the dry season has long since begun. now, 5 months later, its harvest time. the but uh she uh, jo mode. it goes to a to me uh but uh she uh, not to be long done that the hard. no,

but sheila, i'm going to go look, gone all mom. they had the buzz back from me so that he was not lucky with his rice field. the water destroyed the crop, but he was able to save his other fields of the the landscape, which until now was

a disaster area. suddenly looks very different and now gives the impression one can live well here. it is a different world, but distances that could be covered quickly by boat or water taxi in the monsoon season. now take much longer. the in the monsoon season, the water is overwhelming. now it is scarce. let farmers desperately need it to

irrigate their fields. the soil is still wet in some places and the good for planting rocks. rice can be grown all year, but must be harvest it before the floods come the

it's not just the rice that grows here. throughout the dry season, the child as are busy harvesting one field after another at ground knots, mays, sweet potatoes, mustard, and cory, end or keep it. i came busy the number to bobby, that's literally what i'm doing. i actually think there is a river here. all these floods a like a blessing for us. i'm wonderful because the more often the flooded comes, the better it is for our farm. and i want the more we can grow. so to do this, but the thing for us to go to level 5 but more, this is just the reason when the monsoons come was that when it's all about this is l farm land. that these fields only lie on plants. if the 2 or 3 more don't over the just where they are flooded, what are finding peggy only during this time? can we not told you that the ticket then when everything is verbal? when it is?

that's why i think we live in the river. but it doesn't seem like the november move data key. i'm a busy partners, i'm a glenda soil here has a big advantage. we don't necessarily always need the plants. sometimes you just see send for the bar example here, this oil and the see how the peanuts a thriving problem is, but you can see how dry of the soil is good. bottle front of your business, and that's who can i go? the that he was neighbor suit us i'm on has been lucky. but jeff, port island has reappeared from the river. he owns a plot of land on it. the soil is nice and high and it seems to be protected from the erosion that cost him hudson fields during the last 2 months soon. now he's building the foundations for his new home. here it will need to be high enough to

stay afloat during the next flood on the ports inbox. now we are moving from the east and to the west and signed to solve the problems like we can actually make a good living from farming and anchor calling check from them. but this erosion, the pro body by that will just say kind of model by example, this house that i have to rebuild here. it will cost me almost a $1000.00 euros altogether. i could have saved this money. i think it's what i'm forced to spend. is it a problem with that's the problem for us. the child really have to do it every 3 or 4 years. the river eats away my property. why do i cannot keep my savings that i bought in? as soon as i was talking about the, [000:00:00;00]

the, even though there are no trees here yet to fortify the island, the new plot looks promising. the river is a safe distance away. i should have some on plan to move ahead of time. and all the neighbors are pitching in the things are looking good for showed us a month at the moment. but no one knows when jumbo know, we'll get hungry again and start knowing on the shore line.

the most of the told us are developed muslims praying 5 times a day however, is something very few do. but no farmer wants to miss the spiritual chancing at heart of his time in late february the have you been to school? yes, i saw the teacher. what did he say? he said i should study hard. i invited him to our house. you know, who did you see? because i think so, but check because of the the bugler drive by playing

the broad. that's right. and what's that, that to you alone you look see these are off to you. yeah. do you know what that's made? ok. well banana trees, right? whatever. and what did they put on this roster though? is it bad? yeah, that would be. and to look at the go, that's the boy. it's just the see how sketchy is. she's afraid of falling into the water. finding a way to like, uh, yeah, but i'm not afraid of the water. the a child of noted food has also survived the monsoon. but now there is a lot to do in the fields. i mean, those husband associated with dean can take care of their younger daughter. she doesn't have to travel far to work. this means i mean i can take care of the older daughter schooling and have more time for house work.

the other girl said that my father was a capital trader, as a child who used to take me with him, and i watched him alone and how the business works that i didn't finish school, so i have to and my money as a salesman. i managed a little bit until the 7th grade. my parents married me off so i couldn't get into and you know, it's a lot of people that are so the we are poor child on the with the know do the girls get married off quite early, but if and when you're married, you can't go to the 1st because then you have to work at home, but that's

a little problem. i would have had a good chance to finish school. my parents made an effort, but i blew i to the room. so probably one of those are the states like you are blind, even though your eyes are healthy. the people who have education, they can see properly, they can understand everything and do a lot of things with their lives. everything is much easier for the and those who have no education at all. they are like blind people with healthy. i think that's how it is. there are even people who can't write their own name or the pay i can home educate my children up to great stuff. i never know better just because of of the i don't think another bundle. no, no, no, no, no, that's enough. ready or wait until next time. here, i want to take one more minute that's enough and i want another one. you wouldn't

make it. i will. the, the dry season has brought a good harvest and some security. the rice dogs are a precious commodity because they feed the most important thing of all the animals . they have to be stored outside so that the floods won't reach the top us look, look what i have here. my goodness, so much. where do i put it? bring it here, place for a 6 year old of chic life on the child is still an adventure. he doesn't know what's in store for the family. the monsoon season. with it, a time of uncertainty will begin again the,

even though the family knows how to deal with the rhythm of nature, there is no secure foundation for an easy life. aliyah knows that the move you have to cross the river here every time to bring in the harvest. that's going to be hot again. guess what did you grow? probably the last you know, even further away. i think that was very exhausting. yeah. hm. where they were down, so you know, we wanted to keep up in one. i don't know yet how i'll make it this year. are you coming home? is that? no, i don't want to. why not do what i mean? okay. did you foster volk? why didn't you get some of the, the, the of them we've gotta pay more lower for, you know, the women who work in the fields carry a huge stacks of pain, not been able to have a good

a use to it. so i've never done that with up in the vein of fiber. why shouldn't you you can try it. sometimes they look at a called a home. no, i don't want to as i'm supposed to do everything myself or what, who else i can learn. when do i go the i was hoping that's at some point we would live on the main them so that the children could go to school. you could do you have assets there on the mainland, a clear thought, well, you don't want to give up your fields here. you also create your job in the city just to plow on the charles all the time. but that's not enough for allowing you to know for that. we'll see when we're actually, i guess you want me to toilet line in town and send you money so you can have a good life to sort of then keep digging into sam's. you don't need to go up, but i tell that to your sons because they should make money on the mainland and due to life the. i'll stay here on the job. many child us think like that. they may never give up this land, but to constance,

remain the child shifting nature and the child us desire for security. the a special edition of complex zone with tim sebastian. this is a border crossing point from moldova into ukraine, severest fight, the con moment between ukraine and russia, is roughly a 100 kilometers away. the big question dominates here is where most of

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the, this is the, the we news line from berlin. it only gets worse, southern ukraine reels from a burst spam as flood waters rise. thousands of people are homeless, humanitarian and environmental, catastrophe,