♪ host: welcome to "global 3000." this week we're in kenya, where a woman fighting poachchers hs developea special l way of protecting elephants. in suriname,ropical wood is being logged on a massive scale. chinese businesses are reaping the profits. and on t the indonesiaian islaf lombok, people hit hard by an earthquake are trying to reclaim their lives. it's the world's most seismically active area,

extending from new zealand to japan, to alaska and chile -- the ring of fire. along its 40,000 kilometers are at least 450 active volcanoes, and 90% of earthquakes take place along the ring of fire. in recent weeks, japan and indonesia have been hit particularly hard. a major quake in august had its epicenter in indonesia's island of lombok. the devastating shocks claimed hundreds of lives and caused enormous damage. reporter: a warning from god. that's how local residents describe the catastrophe on lombok. five severe earthquakes, hundreds of aftershocks, and new tremors almost every day. judith edel has lived on the indodonesian i island fofor a yd a half. the german national works at a diving school on the island of gili trawangan, near lombok.

once a party destination and diving paradise, today it's a ghost island. we travel with her to lombok to deliver aid packages. judith: we got a call from our employees. they said, "we've received nothing. please, please, please help us." at that point, my other german colleagues and i said, "ok, we have to do something." i'm right in the middle of this situation. since the first big earthquake, i've been trying to make a difference. reporter: here, the earth shakes on a near daily basis. judith has counted more than 300 tremors since the start of august. judith: everything that is still standing has to be demolished. these buildings can't be left like this.

they have to be taken down before someone gets hurt. that was a school classroom. reporter: judith is visiting this remote village for the third time. she's delivering supplies like baby food, medicine, and toys. for a few moments, these young ones can again feel like children. they can forget what they've been through, even though the memories are still fresh. muhamad: i'm always afraid. during the last tremor, my mum was carrying me. she fell down, so i hit the ground, too. since then, my back's been hurting. reporter: the residents have built a tent village high in the hills for fear of a possible tsunami. judith is tired, but happy she can help, even if just for a while. the last weeks have shown that a new earthquake could strike again any moment.

and around 5 560 people haveve . indonesia lies on the pacific ring of fire, an area of extreme seismic and volcanic activity. on the way, we find ismiyati and her children. together, they search through the rubble of their home for remnants of their former life. ismiyati: i can't put my feelings into words. but i have to stay strong. we're not the only ones s who he been affected. everyone here is suffering. i believe that god wanted to send us a warning. reporter: everyone here is hard at work clearing the chaos with their bare hands. the sheer amount of rubble makes this seem like an endless task. ismiyati hopes that government-supplied bulldozers will soon help clear her property. crisis management here is

functioning well, the locals say. we travel to the far north of the island, where the devastation is extensive. almost 400,000 island dwellers are living in tents like these. this is the biggest emergency shelter on lombok. it's also a temporary control center, where the military, government, and aid organizations are coordinating the relief efforts. bernadus: the biggest challenges here on lombok are the destroyed infrastructure and the traumatized population. people here live in constant fear of another earthquake. reporter: in a trauma center, six psychologists work around the clock to care for children of the catastrophe. some of them have lost their parents in the earthquake. muflih: most of them were very scared.

they cried on and d off again. but little by little we make treatment. we give them therapy. we give them s something what ty need, psychologically and physically. reporter: it's the biggest disaster the region has experienced since the 2004 tsunami. the tourists who have stayed behind, and who are so important for indonesia, know this. judith's diving school is almost empty. few people want to wait here until either the ground settles or a new quake shakes the island. but the 32-year-old doesn't want to leave. judith: i know that my decision to stay here and not to return to germany has worried my family. but if i were to leave with the images of destroyed and empty

islands, it would take me longer to processss the trauma of tht than if i stayed t to help wih the reconstruction. reporter: the gili islands economy is fueled almost entirely from tourism. but we only found a handful of tourists on the whole island. like this couple from france. renaud: : i may fe a a bit guiy about it because i'm just on holiday here. i don't have the worst side of the story. i'm just here to enjoy and have a good time. but the other people, they also need us to be back in the future again, so. reporter: the authorities hope to complete their reconstruction efforts within six months. it's an optimistic goal for the people living here in the rubble of lombok. host: when china invests abroad, it mobilizes lots and lots of money. at a major forum in early september, chinese president xi

jinping pledged $60 billion in assistance to africa in form of investstments, development ai, and loans. more than 10,000 chinese companies are operating in africa. they build roads, rail lines, harbors, and airports. those infrastructure measures are needed locally, and they help export raw materials back to china. the hunger for natural resources is also attracting chinese businesses to latin america. $250 billion are set to flow there by 2025. but this involvement creat dependency. three quarters of brazil's soy crop goes to china. tiny suriname's big export is tropical wood. reporter: the green treetops seem to go on forever in suriname. almost the entire country is covered by rainforest.

but things are c changing. paulus has a family to feed, so he's happy that he can cut down a few of those trees today. paulus: this tree is more than 600 years old, i think. it might even pull down a few other trees with it, but there's nothing i can do about that. we need the money. reporter: the 600-year-old tree will earn $60 u.s. the workers split the money. but who's buying the trees? >> the chinese. reporter: chinese firms are turning the tropical wood into luxury floor panels, which are then shipped to germany, belgium, the netherlands, and elsewhere. xu: you have some wood that looks red or some wood that looks yellow, or even purple, like purple heart. it's purple. it's really rare for a wood

species to be purple, actually, and people are like, "wow, we want to buy this." reporter: one company allows us to visit and take a look around. the family business has been operating in suriname for 20 years. for its director jimmy chen, time is money. each month, he ships ten tons of wood to europe alone. the business is a gold mine. but still, chen is restless. jimmy: if my business is having problems, i can't sleep. my b brain starts rattlilin. the chinese mentality is to work hard. i once did double shifts for three years straight. reporter: chen's son is slated to take over the family business. the supply of wood seems endless, labor in suriname is cheap, and the government is generous. xu: no, they don't put any conditions, not for export at all. no, nothing.

reporter: and it's easy getting chinese workers into the country. having employees with the same mentality as the bosses makes things easier. suriname's valuable resource appears to be fily in chchinese hands. locals like paulus are only employed as manual laborers. the former dutch colony is tiny compared to other south american countries. it has a population of just 550,000. different communities live together peacefully. the mosque stands right next to the synagogue. these days, people of chinese descent make up some 10% of the population. the governmement sees china asa engigine of development that t can control. ferdinand: they are a little bit more easier if it regards the rules. but we have to -- it's our task to educate them. reporter: educating the chinese? a bad joke says suriname's

leading economic expert, who claims the government can be bought. winston: i think the minister is not wewell informed. because the chinese,e, they mae and break ththe rules. in the country there is a lot of corruption o on all levels. and the chinesese are involvlvn their level, they're involved in paying unofficial money to people. reporter: chinese companies are very generous. they build playgrounds for children, houses for the poor. these builders have arrived directly from china to oversee the latest project. the government minister is delighted. it's the ground-breaking ceremony for 500 council flats, courtesy of beijing. yun: the two governments are very close. the chinese government sees that there are many opportunities in suriname, and that is why we are here. reporter: china has lots of experience, his translator says, as well as good technology, and money. is china giving suriname money

to do this here? yun wang says yes. and surinam counts on the money from china. so how can one so dependent call any of the shots? far from the world stage, china's financial and political influence are continuing to grow. jimmy chen doesn't doubt that, eitherer. jimmy: we're everywhere around the world. our government opened the doors for us. china's become powerful. reporter: paulus works hard too, and he's angry. paulus: our government sells our land, our property to strangers. we get nothing. nothing.

hostst: now we meet up withh teenenagers around t the worlo find out what mamakes them t t. >> i am a global teen. host: today's globobal teen cos from georgia in the caucasus region. mariam: my name is mariam. i'm 15, and i live in the georgian countryside, in anandidi. i have lotots of friends. anand when we get t together,e likeke to play sococcer, volley, or just run.n.

my motheher is a librarian, bt works for the army. my father doesn't have a j jo. he's currentntly unemployeyed. i have a sister, diana, and a brother called georgi. i do like going to school. anreally l le maths and gegeorgian. i want to finish school and then go on to u university. i don't know yet, but i think i'll study medicine.

from my point of view, the global problems are climate chchange. and also t that people often dot understandnd each other.r. i'i'm happwhen my family is well and i can be with my friends. host: in our global ideas series, we head for kenya to track down wildlife poachers. the trade in ivory is a vast global business. how can it be stopped? our reporterer bettina thoma wt to the south of the country to meet faye cuevas. the american uses military surveillancece methods to o cot popoachers.

she says it's the e only way o break k up the networkrks of ill hunters, d dealers and b buyersd protect ththe remaining g eleph. faye: my name is faye cuevas. i'm m with the international fd for animal welfare in kenyanand i i leadur elelephant protececn and counter poaching projess foeastst-afra. reporter: yeye cuevas useded o work for thehe u.s. militatary, fifighting milititants. now she's s in southern n ken, fighting poachers. the laest t and rongesest animals are ththe ones most in dadanger. faye: i can see the cor.r. oh, , fanttic. reporter: itit's a race agagat time. faye: if elephants are extctct, ececosysms crurumb. there's cascading effes s for e communities th livive the areaeathat areeliant o wildlili for the l liveloods.. and, you know, in thenend it would be humuman greed.

wewe are the geneneration thatn takeke this on andnd stop i. reportrter: like thehe militant groupsps, poachers f form netws that reach beyond their llllage. becae they have no worork,hey turn t to illegal acactivities. poachihing is very l lucrative. goods suchch as ivory fefetch ah price e on the globabal market. faye cuevas's goalal is to desty those nenetworks beforore te poachers getet a chance toto k. she needs s the maasai c commuy on h her side to achchieve that goal, becausshe e depes on their assistance and adve.e. the e elders welcoco her. these are men with l lots of influence.e. they still l live accoing toto centnturies-old tradition. faye: it is thmaasai that are presentati o of a cuure that have peacefullcoexexisd with wililife f millelenn. so of f urse we look to em a as a source of lol l knowdge, a a

th to o partner in m modern conservatition. reporter: it's 8:00 in the morning. more and m more young mamaasai,e robertrt kone, are t trainingo become rangers. protectingng wildlife e creates jojobs. ththey patrol ththe remote foref loita. this is their land. they know ery square kilometer here, , and recognizize every al track. rort: it's an elepha foprprint you s s, from this mornining. rereporter: the e ranger expls that the elephants could be tataking a new rououte, perhapss becaususe they sensese danger. this is s all importanant informatation for fayeueuevas. withhehe aidf gps,s, the ranger documents the elephas' movements.s. faye: a goodod place to puput of the camera t traps. >>eaeah. ifif it's a normrmal corridor t

theyey usually usese, a camerap willll help us identntify, likew many, ththe numbers ththat pass here. reporterer: the rangerers risk r liveves on this jojob. wherever you find elephants,ouou usuaually nd poaoachs, too.. many of f the hunters s come m local villllages and knonow thea just as s well as the e ranger. the wildlife o of southern kena is spread across manththousand of sare kikiloters, momo of it maasai-country. the landscape is brereathtakiny beautiful, but it's soso under threat. local women also play an importt rorole in faye c cuevas monitoring n network. they arere the eyes anand earf the community. she maintatains good conontacth them, , and some worork for hes infoformants.

faye: it's the women that are out in the markets and are out talking and hearing about potentl popoachi plansns. and, youou know, we'veve sen throh ouour won's ememporment programs, that where women have trusteted channels to report n suspicious activitity, they d, and d that can dririve big impc repoer: the formatio ovided blocal peop is collecd at thego's offe in nairob along wh the da compiledy the raers. these e all pas of the puzzle that faye cuevas's team is analyzing. any solid leads are then passed on back to the rangers or reporteded to police a acrossh regionon. faye cuevas began working inin wildlife protection a few years ago, back in the united states. then she realized she needed to

be i in kenya tackle ththe problem at its source. faye: wewe sat down asas a fay d i i said"we hahaven opportunity for andvdventure d theyey said, "whatat, what, whwhat?" and i said, "well, we e have n opportrtunity to movove to kenyd save elephants," andnd they wee immediatelely all-in. reportrter: hedecicision seemso have p paid off. the organizazation says 2727 possible poachers have been caught in e last 1 15 months. and elephahant numbers are risg again n in kenya. faye: we can't stop therere. we h haven't won.. so where w we've seen popoachg dedecrease in kekenya, we've s t incrcrease in otheher place. so as s a wod consnsertion communitity, it's not time to re. poaching remains ahahallenge host: our global snack gives you something meaty to sink your teeth into.

reporter: anguilla. this beautiful coral island in the mimiddle of the e caribbeas one e britain's ovoverseas territories. a lot v visitoronlyly comto the tax ven becausof its bank yet ananilla has so much more to ofofr. noleast, aich and vaed caribbbbn cuisine which incorporates global influences. from early evening to late at night, people line up at ken's barbeque. the grill resembles a production line, with a range of meats basted in a variety of marinades. hot, fruity, and packed with spices. chef ken vanterpool mans his own grill every day. ken: when i started doing barbecue, i started barbecuing pork. this is the pork. i started doing this alone.

and then it migrated towards the chicken and the ribs. and now the chicken and ribs has taken over. reporter: the chicken is based on a jamaican jerk chicken recipe, with garlic, ginger, lemon, and brown sugar. a final flourish of hot barbeque sauce rounds off this culinary delight. most here eat it with french fries. you won't find any other vegetables at this grill. ken: ken's famous ribs. i'm just getting some prepared for the customers as they come along. at the same time, we have the fan catching up the fire. no longer do we use piece of paper to fan the fire. we use a fan now. all high tech. reporter: and what do ken's customers like most? >> pork. >> the grilled pork, with fries. and sometimes garlic bread, right? yeah.

>> it't's just authentic local food. it's nothing fancy. it's just local. you can come and hang out. everybody is friendly. so that's what makes it good. reporter: ken's anguilla grill is limbering up for a long, hot caribbean night. announcer: who cares about the flower industry's destructive impacts? >> i do.o. announcer: who c cares about lt rirights in auststralia? >> i do. announcer: whoarares abo homeless people living on the streets of los angeles? >> i do.o. annonouncer: who c cares that r superbrberries are desestroyine raininforest? >> i do. announcer: whoarares about female empowerment in senegal? >> i do. all: and that's whwhy i foow dw global society. host: that's all from "global 3000" this week. we love to hear from you. write to us at

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moderator: 3 people on the panel. they're gonna talk about capitalism as a sociopathology. one of them probably doesn't need much of an introduction because he's been out here a couple of times. that's that guy sitting in the middle right there. um, derrick. and on his left right there is stephanie mcmillan. stephanie has been a political cartoonist. [cheers and applause] ok, you've got fans. there we go. she's been a political cartoonist since 1992. she's the creator of the editorial cartoon "code green" a and the comic strip "minimum security." she's written 7 books including "capitalism must die! a brief introduction to capitalism: what is it, why it sucks, and how to crush it."