turn here ever again, so we are sorry about every life that is lost, then we just wanted to end as soon as possible. but then there are reports that the families of those hostages to, to be released today have not been informed. what more do we know of 5, the release of the hostages? kidnapped by how much we know that this is a very delicate, a very tricky military operation. uh, that's why so many people have been coming down here today. lighting candles uh, looking at pictures of the hostages and reading the messages and being written to them. what's going to happen is over the next hour is, is that how most, uh, findings will uh, take the hostages out of that hiding spots, hand them over to red cross workers who as fulton over the border of the rough uh for the crossing into egypt. id f, the is where the military will take it from there. uh they'll be medical tapes,

they'll be allowed to close the families for the 1st time. the 1st time in about 50 days. so families are really holding out to hear from their loved ones. they've been told who they are, as we pointed out, and we know approximately when they're going to be coming out arriving. it is route by about 6 pm local time. uh, shopping in with uh, medical stop to hospitals to be given another look all over and also psychological checks. and finally me says families at the same time, i will have a quick ring in regards to those many, many civilians who need help. and at the same time this prisoner swap a couple of hours off to the release of the hostages. the palestinian prisoners will be released thanks, ben dw correspondent fences even in telling me as well a short while ago. my colleague terry martin spoke with sharon lift shits intel

aviv. both her mother and father were taken hostage by hamas during the terrorist attack. on october 7th, her mother was released last month, but her father is believed to still be handled by home us. we started by asking her how her mother eoc that is doing. my mother is doing very, very well. um uh, halts has been under. does she say by table? the stronger her mind is strong. um. she's quite involved in preparations for the return of either hostages and shoes advising from my own experience. so she is busy supporting other families. that's as hostages supporting the meanest through else and the other parties with ease real estate pretty fast. so the return of hostages and in particular very orange juice. and tell me if you would about

your father or dad, he's 83 years old. understand and and understand. he was injured when i'm us kidnapped him. yes, my father was at home with my mom in the secure room, which is the bedroom. she was shots through the metal door and he, we didn't know that sent to my mother cause we know that using gaza. we know that he's a 23 and quite frail and we know that he, we don't know if he's large, but that's 49 days into the event. so i gather you have not received any sign of life then from your father since october 7th, except what you heard from your mother or or from your mother. no, we know that he's there, but we don't know if he's dead. busy i caught up to explain how call the red cross or, and joe's other angels. nobody's able to tell me this basic fact. i find it up so

you can see for me 6, but i'm not the only one. quite a few of us are disposition. that was share on life shits speaking to us earlier. her father is among those hostages, believe to be held by him, ask militants in the guise district. well, in exchange for the release of hostages, this temporary seas far deal. we'll also see 150 pounds, standing in prisoners freed from his rainy jails over the next 4 days. a 2nd exchange could then follow later. the prisoner release is expected to happen here at the offer military trail in the occupied west bank. 39 palestinian prisoners will be handed over to the international committee of the red cross. among them 24 women and 15 teenage boys. israel just disappeared. history has identified 300 palestinian prisoners as slated for release. their names are compiled and

a list that includes a $144.00 men aged 18 years old. a 123 miners. $33.00 girls and women with the youngest prisoners aged 14. while the head of the palestinian authorities commission for prisoners affairs confirmed the hand over. so let's have a listen to what he said. what can you spell that the better the prison is and hostages swap will stops at 4 pm. the minute is rail receives is present is a draft crossing the prison authoriz he will hand over the male and female prisoners expected to be released to the red cross. the process will happen here in the open ministry, comfortable. a journalist hasn't elusive who is in gaza until recently and is now in the jordanian capital. a mine told me more about the palestinian prisoners who will be released later today. what we know, the $2.00 to $9.00 prisoners,

a 20 for women and the rest would be a teenagers and going to be released at 4 a, b, m, local time. old. the prisoners are gathered from different prisons into one present an offer in any of my lot the these, these prisoners will be handed to that with the cross and those who are from jews that in with go to the city or was it in and the rest will be gathering a, be tonia in near my law and their families will be waiting for them there and they will be handed and they travel to their homes and places all over this. as i agreed. and in the, the full day at boz, between how my son is. well, now israel's, just as a ministry has identified 300 policy indian prisoners as slated for release. many of them teenage boys and women, what kind of offences are they being held for? or its, um, uh, according to the names where,

where we least they are, you know, um, most of them were arrested recently and some of them and mean during the war from different cities from the west band, with the men or, or teenagers. and the 2 prominent names that i hear and about that the 2 women were actually one women and one teenager, a young girl and a sort of job these who was from tourism and, and she was sentenced. and because of accused the fed trying or attempting to, to attack is or eighties and any other tourism. and other one was sitting up with her mad as she was 14, a good time when she was arrested and she was sentence for 12 years now. she's 16 and she's gonna be released later today. how have the families of these prisoners being reacting to their release and unpolished indians in general to this?

um definitely there's a assignment, music's it especially those who are, you know, they are in the members or people going to be nice. they are happy and they are satisfied. i, i watched and i so many of them they were cheering and happy for the release and they are hoping for, for others to be released as well. they are small amount or small number of, of the student in prison is held in these, what 80 jails we are talking about over 7000 philistines are in, in, in the age of 80 jails. and the whole of them, they are looking for their sons and, and, and people to be with hasn't very briefly, if you could, how have that you were recently. and guys a how is people therapy and reacting to this temporary so as far or it's a lease um i just spoke to a couple of people in,

in dallas. uh. and they were like both they were in shock because of the things that they had seen that the destruction that was dating plus this is a kind of for relief. and they, they are looking for this to be extended, or even like they are looking for a complete ceasefire. and the war to be over the, the one to uh, the name their normal life and to rebuild their houses and to have a future for their turned in tanks as a journalist hasn't blueshot in. i'm on thank you. well, here in germany, there's also hope that hostages holding german citizenship might be among those relates to many of the people keeping up by some us are jewels. citizens including members of one family whose house was burned during the october 7th terror attacks . 4 of whom are german citizens among the families hoping to be reunited with the

loved ones. are relatives with roots going back to the crimes of the nazis in germany? your navy and 3 year old yeah. hell. siblings snatched by how most terrorist, the whole family ripped apart. no, they may just be coming home for grandfather the lot, the beginning of the end of a living nightmare. i go to had them use them. and i of that, and probably there will be those be done in the 1st time to just the check up and everything. but i don't know, i don't know as even single. they go to doing what they're going to say. the family descended from holocaust survivors are among those hamas hostages to hold german citizenship. the last month's relatives traveled to bad lynn to pressure german officials to help bring their loved ones home in the center of the german capital

on thursday. street talk just drawing attention to their cause. the thing going back in the, these are on our children, on the these involve body service, the battery come us keep nothing shows who we are dealing a site between this we should not forget it and 9 that should the whole well, despite guessing without being on savannah: no, all the families at the heart of this tragedy can do is wait. if you're watching dw news, here's a reminder of our top story, this hour. the israel, how much time precedes far has begun and appears to be holding the poles and fighting is set to last 4 days. and the rest bite has brought guys the citizens out onto the streets. hostage and prisoner releases are part of the trees under to, to take place in a few hours time. watching the data of interviews by from brendan

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the award winning offer is available for every language and has never been set up online on facebook. and due to the, when i go to bed, i sometimes still have the sound in my ears, the sound of the sea, the voices of the fishes to cause i'm when the votes went down on the other boats, making this, oh, sound we humans comp suffice. without test and yet we just keep them wasting at this point, knowing full well how does all stress we'll discuss the t can be the arrows see used to be the world's full largest lake, then the rivers that fed it with text irrigate farmland and it shrank from optically how of things now

the, the old man and the sea except the sea, as old but furnished were in moines, that in the far west of whose becky stone in central asia, the kids were the last spoke to the left, the rest sending dusk continued to eat away at people's livelihoods and loans. 74 year old ali, shutting off is one of the last sleeping boat captains here. cuz the old, like people have lots to see when we used to work on the streets and the lakes that existed. yeah, there was always a wonderful breeze coming from it. it's crazy. when we were young in 5th or 6th

grade, we always looked at the monthly total. it was very close to that. no. but now what's left of the r o. c. as the once huge lake is cold, is far away. instead, endless dust plains and sand, but didn't put ex teacher delia quickly more. i told her and her family of moving here, the 43 year old, his face, and the future, and in tourism, in the region. you to the not that isn't that they used to be a key here. a large harbor view of life was extremely busy. children based here, i thought so latham, they were for holiday counters, the recreation zones sanatorium and yes, at some point we decided to build a year and a half year youth will. while i get, the more in that museum was also built to attract visitors it on is the good times with films, photographs, and kinds of fish, as well as being a tourist hot spot, the town used to be known for its fishing. there was a fleet of boats and

a large kinda re which has long since closed down. many residents have moved away. we're on the way to the areas for the hospital. it's now a guest house. delia could lead motor tova bought the property with a loan, and turned it into a simple accommodation. she then moved with a family to my neck, the regional capital of the around 14000 people still live here, but many have long and other health problems. they suspect due to send storms and the environmental talks in that remain from the lake at least shutting off is also stage. and part of his large family, 10 children, i'm 36 grandchildren. his house used to both of the late directly when i go to bed,

i sometimes still have the sound in my ears, the sound of the sea. the voices of the fishes, when the boat went down on the other boats, making this o sound or it still rings in my hands. all the we've been driving along to form a lake bed for hours of fruit. it's the only way to appreciate the full extent of the dried up salt lake. it was once the size of the various delia quickly motor a total. but as a company does that each city of the i comes here 3 or 4 times a month, sometimes with guess. but it's quite a distance and it's not that easy. you know, it's 3 or 4 hours from one not to here. this, but it's really worth it just of a what a landscaping guy?

well, you could make a blockbuster here. this was about 2 months of the blood was the arrow. see which struggles is bank is down, and catholic stone is only about to 10 to bits for messiah. he's a human induced environmental disaster, which had his origins in the soviet union. the regime relied on one of the coaches, especially the water intensive cultivation of cotton, and so will to begin to be diverted from tributaries to the late and used to irrigate the cotton fields concert. when the water receded already back in the seventy's and eighty's, these canyons formed here. as you can see, such as this, they are naturally beautiful. though there isn't a single tree or greenery because it's an almost otherworldly beauties. but in reality, this with a stall to the dishes circle, the salty sediment eventually ended up back in the ground water,

just like the chemicals from the cotton fields. the often powerful winds hit, whip up the salt dust and toxic chemicals, and scott, to them over a large area. 68 low top to homage sugar beads comes to check on his sex or plants. oh goodness. let me explain. remember, for the plant is now totally covered in dust, the company is because the dust is settling. but when it rains, the suck sol plan will turn totally green on. you can feel the wind. now, if we stand here like this for 10 minutes, we just as dusty pretend as though here where the c bed used to be the around come deserts, now stretches as far as the i can see. sex. so plants in particular are extremely important here because they help contain the salt stones

and then we finally see what remains of the around see the arduous journey for moines. that took almost 4 hours. only a few people find that way here to this wasteland. most to make the long drive a manual workers will start from local companies who come here to carry out tests and then take a snapshot. as a souvenir. extremely high salt contents, however, means there's hardly any life in what's left of the lake. delia quickly, maria tova, who is a company, does this boss is pleased to bump into old friends again? here it goes for spend several times a month. she makes the long journey because it's here in the middle of the deserts that she built yet come me. i need to provide

nothing really scares me. what would you say when i used to work as a teacher, i'd like to pass it on knowledge and drawing energy from is where your photo in that, you know, i talked about my own country. so yeah, my homeland of visitors here get to hear different stories about the canyons also and i drawing inspiration and energy from that. yeah, it's a full cha if i do you and that of you, it's remote region of who has beckett. stone still doesn't get many tourists. those who do come tend to be people who are looking for something unusual and special. and yet when she's there in person, the entrepreneur for past everything meticulously of the role, she wants a visitors to feel at home. my name is on my notes, one of my parents were here in the area in 1975 and told me back then that there was a link that was beginning to dry out. and over the years it was on my mind. and i really wanted to see it. and then i realized that i found driving where that water

used to be my lead cree pieces. i was like, wait really well. sure. um, we submit it unless we humans have destroyed our great see, we're over the 4th largest link in the world is likely that should be less than 2 us all these items. all we need to save our water. we should plant trees. it is. yep, extra to is may come here, but the old man is being left without him to see the once a month. some people takes it guy to such a waste. so disability endo which hayes? no. yeah. and these critics don't talk to dave too deep says plastic flux to us at his office like victoria of because he gets fresh with that lake is quite of crush

. don't they? oh, and when they, they don't do the some plastics on this fishing nets which are no longer being used by the fish. i mean how something relieves and that you can't insure for like victoria. so he was most of you, somebody from what's to us for almost 3 years now. he's been diving for a look organization that seems to clean up the lake. they put low to bundle and fish and eats or goes to mit, which had been yes for the day of as the project is a day when i don't. and there was web me with a fishing net. yeah, that's the worst thing i heard. i use my knife, which i'm always on the crate, the cut over, they say, you know, totally clean up the water. they also retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this the condition. the main men to most of them gets help from volume t as each month. they get tons of plastic. i'm going to land

face over to him, but started the initiative. he's been organizing ridge like clean up c o 4. yes. he's program. you can the junior ranges seems to retain the lake. it's not just state the plastic. in other words, the leg, victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're getting discovery to accomplish that is which should have been much of it will come out. the team of the junior ranges, lexia 3 times a week. so we try to ability stewardship of the community by you mean what we're trying to do uh, through these community activities clean up activities and when they are going to commit to re engage with the community. do so try to get them involved and then uh, educate them about the negative impact. it has to the communities and the neighborhood, those leaving the canal starting to realize that it's healthier and be to for the environment. let's just to waste into the water. to solve though, for these sites,

which are meant for that for the free and meaningful of streaming and the for fish, the or the for all of activity directly will take for us on how to get people to plastic out of like, victoria would be huge undertaking in lake is almost as big as your and your and fully as low as i guess the water contaminants shouldn't be gunned. fitted very fixed if the control so doesn't have his functioning with the management system. see, given me discussions like discussing is such a environment protection rule, that's what penalize pollute as a hopeful you couple before the good enough. and in most cases, people think that it's still good for me to, for you. and then governments and to be able to do the clean up the effect in finding buttons with you find that are going to be there under the, under the nice environmental act which will then cut, which will discourage people for mutare. the government supports the organization

for them to increase. the only original source of income comes from sending plastics to recycling companies where they are converted to break what's similar products, the money, the and from that hoops cover the teams course. they propose to collaborate with to international a given a solutions to the health, you'll be able to buy to cover bikes and billboards. that's supposed to get these by jelly to arrive a few of the more then facilitates uh, they use the teams the who are free with no major money that we gain for release of age on the board into one sofa. and not enough people have to convince us to help protect lake victoria, greenwater, east creek eco, for the survival. those are leave on the lake i sent in your comes from is find me to fish as and those 1st time. how important is these fees? i don't 100 load phone daisy, but the way i knew i loved this you'll and just to up so that i've heard of other

people's life and his group wants to continue the project that will continue to catch him. young people in the process which will allow the diving team to keep growing. the every 2nd river in the world is regulated by a down. this is done to irrigate agriculture generate power. unsecure, the drinking water supplies the us, china and india based. some of the world's knowledge of stems. just how sustainable all day. deep and wisdom in the our lives. one of the largest and most controversial dams on of sub does settle but a mega project that was so important to the government. the integrated, the world's tallest stature nearby to look over it for its own entity. while it was

shrouded in control the sea for decades, dams like sub that's that over the 3 gorges. and it will produce hydro power that contribute far more renewable energy to the mix. then all of those sources combined and to do these mega struck just like getting more mega plans for the world's largest hydro electric projects in congress that would be twice the size of the current global biggest 6, the largest such projects that india has ever commissioned a lot is happening with hydropower, but with the younger and 60 of the new but holding the limelight, these old and boring structures don't get much attention behind the scenes those hydro down. so that's a really interesting story about our quest to energy global power dynamics over the last century. now with the modern twist and the big iron the invitation, if you look at the last uh september, october are supposed to be the lowest hydropower,

up with months and 6 years of china base or has power dropped by 30 percent. so let's look at what's actually going down with hydro and whether it can continue to play a role in the energy future. somewhere between all the chapter about fossil fuels destroying the planet and renewables like sola and when saving us lives. a big a really big grey zone. this is located by hydropower which is great in every sense . it's kind of sustainable, kind of green and even only kind of renewables. let's quickly go over how it all works before we get into it. this is the image most linked to hydro and rightfully so, most hydro bala comes from the dams that are built across rivers. water is stored in it as a form and when we need energy related to on to to binds, which then run generates us. of course, not all damage generate hydro and not all the hydro come sometimes. sometimes still binds, also stuck into the diversion. less disruption,

but less control. the 3rd kind is bumped the storage where the station is split into one physically higher water is pumped up when there's enough energy and allowed to run down to it to bind when energy is needed. this one is supposed to be, looks really relevant lodge the actually that can counter the intermittency of sola . i'm going, which is really positive for hydro power. we've actually been tinkering with the technology for over to midland. yes. we have a lot of experience and comfort with his grandfather of renewables. it's reliable, predictable, unavailable, on demand. it integrates well integrateds and over the long term electricity from hydro power is really cheap. no wonder some countries relies really heavily on it, but that's one major problem. the free flowing rivers around the world, dams due to them. a freshwater equal systems have declined faster than all others,

including forest affected by deforestation. and construction is the number one reason for this dies of course with the poster child of this tragedy. and many projects have come up with ways to get fish boss done some work and some of done by just dixon is that it's not only about 2. so it's also about other organisms that in the river tuesday out of saw. so looks at the many ways hydropower disrupts and dial water systems. layers within the rest of the reservoir. and so in some of the lowest later is the coldest one. and so if you and let's say at the hydropower them from time to time to bulk them up and the big gates for the water to produce electricity. and then it usually has a very strong and cold pink of water. so that's also

a 2nd thing on the types of organism in but done this thing is bad in other ways to steal and cement, to use them in a plan. so some of the most common intensive materials on of and as well, remember when i said hydro is any kind of green and sustainable? one big reason that's true is because greenhouse gas emissions from aggressive was in the tropics, have proved to be the dictators a sub much trees degrade much fossil, the normal they release meet the and end up making. hydro projects was for the climate, then comparable coal plots. this national graphic shows the more immediate impacts, the 3 gorges dam flooded, 13 cities, a 140 downs, and over 1300 villages, up river. it even changes the local weather being so huge, it's even cause of the quakes and the region. the other, the down in turkey has created

a huge block to the euphrates that has ended up causing severe water shortages down river in iraq. then in the, in molly, as with 550 projects underway, dams has made the impact of land slides was over the years. hydra dams have also displeased at least 18000000 people from their homes. you might be thinking a lot of this is pulling news and you're right. it is in the case of said that sort of a local people are protesting the environmental effects and social costs already back in the 1980s. eventually the world bank, one of the largest funders pulled out under pressure, and many other banks followed suit. but now many of back we're seeing development banks and governments embracing large hydro. jocelyn mcdaniel is the deputy director of the international accountability project that looks into corruption and injustices links to internationally funded infrastructure. we started to get the

feedback and concerns about specific projects, and many of them were hydro power. and this does not surprise me at all. a with the climate crisis, there's a push for renewable energy. that's like the big push for hydro today is coming from the time of movement seems compared to fossil fuels. hydro doesn't look so bad . go up 26 and 2021. many countries push for hydropower as a key, so also clean energy and that makes it only 2023, the international renewable energy agency declared that we need hydropower capacity to do that by 2050 the limits global warming to 1.5 degrees. but the thing is not much has changed in terms of social environmental impacts since hydro is days with a bad reputation, either old problems and that exist that underscore any of these development projects. and it's, you know, it's because they're very deep seated. a symmetry is and power between communities

and project components, right? the government for development banks, the company is investors, and that hasn't changed. that hasn't changed at all. the estimate trees locked here when you look at where most mega projects, i've turned africa, south america, eastern europe, and south and southeast asia. and most of these are funded by us, european and chinese bax bax. i, b and other organizations have found that these projects leave a lot of scope for corruption. often ballooning countries, banks, intermediaries and even local governments take most of the profit, especially to infrastructure contracts, and by providing technical expertise. most of the button is blown by the local environment and communities who can lose a livelihood and homes and are often even left without electricity themselves. this brings us to the iron, the in the to hydro has had its blue murphy's. i'm today this day that's meant to

mitigate the time of crisis is becoming a big victim of the crisis itself. as rivers i the flood don't dry up. the productivity of all kinds of hydropower, big in small is dramatic. the dropping in we build all these latch, i don't know what damage that a car into the 1052 percent of the remaining, the free flowing river, the big loss in the tropics. they wouldn't be fragmented. so we need hydro, but do we still need them. ready there is a potential for a 9 percent increase in global hydropower top city without building any new facilities. kayla got a month for the hydro research lab in texas when they looked into 3 ways in which this could be done. the 1st category was dams that i use for anything, audits and hydropower, which i've already had an impact on the environment. maybe put in generators

turbine. and i guess the transmission lines are the scale of an entirely new hydropower development to retrofitting and existing not on power dam presenter ration there is a lot of on top potential there. the 2nd category was plants that need upgrading, including generator units of software upgrades. and then up to a category we know from the ceiling and our data day, there is a bunch of them that are the smaller scale. so that may be, you know, a farmer, he's not a small damn built in his property to create a bond or small late for his farming operation. there's this many additional opportunities for high your par development of very small gales. which in developing countries maybe a much more hello global,

equitable and quick integration where hydropower projects sometimes might still need to be better. but these can be used for more than just hydro in general. and this is kind of a key when you have to think in a whole system. and this is also true for thinking in terms of renewables. it's important to think about how to combine their renewables. so nice. so now what, what time like winds and so on. ready this is already happening in some places one portugal giants ok but as for floating solar panels, feed soul plus energy directly into the dams hydropower system. projects like these have a lot of potential to use existing hydro as diet batteries to store renewable energy . energy from hydro needs to be a part of the future, but not of the cost of so much else. when this is considered, we can move towards

a truly green future. the, the,

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