more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. they are you watching r t the main stories we're covering this hour the now a former head of the international monetary fund is granted bail placed under house arrest on charges of attempted rape but there are fears the euro went survived without a. regime replacement president obama says he wants an immediate transition of power in syria he was given a keynote speech outlining america's policies in the middle east. alteration better

use of the cases of opposition leaders jailed for allegedly inciting a restaurant next day supporters say it was a setup for the country's seemingly permanent residence a. year on from the worst oil spill in american history well see this is the coastline that was worst hit and discover how the fate of the local environment is determining how local communities recover but. everywhere you look inside in the reason there is one. rivers creeks swamps the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. and because of this abundance today everyone in southern louisiana has a water story. three.

louisiana. for me it's in some ways a dream. if you have a little bug or whatever within ten minutes you can be away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok if some fish for supper he can watch birds to your heart and say that's the beauty you know you can own a little place like this where i can have my own little swamp and on the volokh

it's a really is a magic place to live. in the space of about five to seven thousand years all the coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sediment is slowly but surely built out to the sea creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. where. the very wide unload coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to say because of the fisheries for animals and so on and also navigation and trade because of this parade route. well unfortunately because of the nature of the

land and to rain being close to sea level. flooding is a big issue. so the europeans you came in from from the western part of europe had grown up if you will build a levee systems just think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had the birth of new orleans and i levee system associated with it and then levee system continued to expand. utilizing the existing natural banks or levees of the river system until nine hundred twenty seven in one hundred twenty seven we had a major flood on the mississippi river where a large number of these levee systems were breached huge sections of louisiana were flooded and thereafter congress passed the nine hundred twenty seven flood control

there that called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding . nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came terribly for storm and it flooded lawns parts of new and. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we will ball the night hurricane protection system there immediately started to interfere with the natural land building capabilities of them the security. plan so i mean beneficial in a physical sense they are our number one protection. and we destroyed. katrina to put this all in perspective

was was barely a category three storm at landfall missed new orleans by thirty five miles new orleans was on the weak side new orleans didn't even experience hurricane force winds. and yet we destroyed a major american city and twenty four hours. in the with of a local. millions

around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth . what has received far less attention is how the storm's devastation was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five ivor was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was a coal vention yes for the shoddy shoddy engineering.

but after i've republished his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before. the levees along the mississippi river entered schools before we cut out everything with oil and gas taxes and else we used to have very expensive cypress sponsors all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles of moss swamps ago you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress rock. protecting the museum this coastline and its people in the future will require some

difficult choices coastal erosion must respond to remain in cypress swamps and must be protected the mississippi river may have to be diverted again. we cannot save every single community we can build a wall of town across louisiana. wetlands protect the levees the levees protecting . the coastline is quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field every thirty minutes or about twenty five square miles every year

. on by two thousand and fifty it is predicted that another seven hundred square miles will be lost. people think about us they think alike and awful of mother and they're ready for by the din six on the ski toes and on and they have you know. completely from his face

you probably would have more live around you in the basin and a winner of a murder. would be here like twenty three years. i came here boxing i was in love with them and someone forced and i wanted to get used to the heathenish key to the frog while it would be in his now as a psych enthusiast. that went to the swamp was there in the form once the thought of all the errors. spear a hoax. and i fell over the shock. and there once the amazon. lets up a lot of bases one performer in a. more than forty percent of the u.s.

coastal wetlands in southern louisiana claims one of the wonders of america he says . is a must watch the. name of another how are a hundred species of feast and chauffeurs and we haven't finished because your birds leaving the tough love basin and many a vendor would migrate through his woodlands and the one to the rest of the country so the political or anyone within. the us try to study that serious because your birds will be going to. the pacific a percentage or what proportion of the birds used these a long time ago that when the lobster. compared to everglades you know that it is a little marsh that's awful aves and as many trees as the straw just way more by the verse in the everglades way more important for the nation of the rebirth of leavitt's. you know.

the one i can watch everything like the red and the veils is it the trees and the need for that what it was that all the pollution god has actually told us all the moment of all to make will climb trees and let me hold. since nineteen twenty one and tens of thousands of miles of canals have been cut through the wetlands to extract oil and natural gas.

is manmade oil and gas canals have reshaped southern louisiana as well nancy and contribute to the rapid erosion washing more land out to sea. this used to be someone like you that used to be smart right deal was done in one out nice i cannot. for several years again went undercover spying on lumber nodes and following logging trucks. he infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress mulch illegally. and. this time logan the south assumption is going to focus more on the idea of the folks. a long time they were throwing them away the forty thousand acres

a year between the year two thousand as he seeks to lower eighty thousand acres that's nonsense the oldest of the force in question was you. know they got serious and c.n.n. will talk about illegal logging in immigrant zeal you know this happened here at the states and i got a scolding and look under the phrases you go to a country like brazil and the poor people trying to make a living. there's no law to really use in the world leading roles fall into that because they come across to subscribe to soul creek. and. people go to wal-mart only paulo's and they were fun about they would have bought florida address and they would say made for environmentally suffers and actually was one of illusion awful close calls for swamp the american buck so they must pay in the sickle systems and son of a somali the harbors. of. illegal logging operations

have stolen tens of thousands of acres of trees from salinas coast. cutting down the natural barriers that once how could technicals from devastating storm surges and hurricanes. the company is the largest lists. and we do fly to the base every once in a hostile months looking for those kind of violations. and right now we're only good to do it in one engine flew the load. so when you beyond a group is done in between that augers on the floor. you ain't drilling off the coast of louisiana for a number of years any or all spills to worry about you know that's one of the great

unwritten success stories after katrina and rita these awful storms no major spills . the truth is three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand and five. covering a call from mexico. and they just spill is considered anything over one hundred thousand gallons. after the two thousand and five hurricane season the louisiana department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled across the state and in the car.

spills have been considered business as usual in the easy for a long time. the father ship company. the model itself. it could. be shut. the gate. july twenty third there was a down taker that ran into a wayward barge. the taker pierced the barge basically cut it well was covering the river from thanks to think. this isn't an uncommon occurrence for us with the willing gas industry that we have. here's a predominant environmental factor. to secure rivers uses

a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for points south of here so immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area after a couple of days we found oriel gotten almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here.

thus it favors god's blessing. on their nets on their on their lives on the resource that they harvest. we pray that they will have a safe and abundant harvest here after the. little fishing was ever tamed and fishing is the way of life you know fishing as a source of food fishing is the industry it was only natural that they would have work on the resource and the men who who do the work and harvest the resource.

we're in the try that. of an industry here. between all the different conflicting interests the art interest the natural gas in there's you know so many conflicting groups. traditionally have the the big boys fishermen they're more interested in in the fish that are out in the open end of the slaughter fisherman is interested in the values that wetlands makes for a small craft can function. and that of course the economic factors that have taken their toll. the globalization of the economy the import of practically everything from overseas countries.

there's no way that people here in louisiana can compete you know with wages against such such mega size competitions. the cost of running a simple family business and was the family visits small version and his life and his children so they can compete against these sheinkopf for asians that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's a hard life is take this calling the family life here it's often the land size it's a harsh way to make a living you know fighting alligators to see is the way of the wins that's all that we have a blessing of the fleet to invoke god's help to carry you through the hard times and the challenging time. and. it will.

bring. the budget's boat and they approach someone down to the ship has just got off to do . the first are fish from out a start and on a boat would move follows brought up and nine hundred seventy seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him again to check a forest in her dolls up the hills ridge eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and got forty eight hundred dollars you know what to do with that you know a man owes a lot of money and i stuck what i love is like a challenger to him he left to go out those a as a child to see because more from the notable. you know what no

handles we just want to make honestly. i like knowing that one of our comments somebody is going to eat the best protein. that's beautiful i know which i actually do know i don't make and usually kill people i just make food fail we just looked on a vision i guess it was in a balloon so i thought people is in a boat it's a disease. of born here raised in morgan city and when my husband i were married we moved to new

iberia. this is just the kind of people there are in louisiana they live for the life they have here they're very happy living here they've lived here for generations whatever is negative they deal with it may just move forward. they live off the land they have they fish and eat the seafood i wouldn't live anywhere else. this is a wonderful place to live it's a wonderful place to raise your family. other than getting shot out. over time my office would get broken into and they would steal the fax machine they would steal. food out of the kitchen and the sheriffs would tell me you know it's just somebody harassing me. well. summer of two thousand and six my husband was

working out the flower bed my house was around the corner and he could see in the sky michael up and down the road and i was trying to get out a bunch of things because i was going to go to d.c. and give a presentation on the impacts of the hurricane and you saw them come back and the guy with the gun out the window on the passenger side the chief of my own. sheriff stopped long before they even came for us the passenger was gone the gun was gone and we couldn't find out who the driver was because it would violate his rights. culture is that so much of him and there's a huge musician on the mark with a loveless marriage or a dangerous embrace take your pick but pakistani american male asians probably can't get any worse barring a complete. bad

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