more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. so you're watching a lot of stories we're covering this in the u.s. under israeli fallout over palestine was understood women are rejects the presence of almost part of the peace in the middle east washington is pushing for an independent palestinian state wants to return supreme guide to the sixty seven borders something israel uses to consider. the legal white house side law as the u.s. constitution by skipping the deadline to keep its forces in action in libya without

approval from congress as being next to new criticism on capitol hill as a costly intervention brings into its mouth. the end is nigh according to one video screen from america they say they're preparing to meet their maker this saturday which they've calculated to be judgment day. next year on from the worst oil spill in american history all special report looks at its catastrophic impact on the coastline and the suffering it inflicted on the local population. everywhere you look inside and the reason there is one. rivers creeks swamps the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. because of this abundance today everyone. has a. three.

louisiana it for me it's in some ways a dream place. if you have a little. whatever. ten minutes you can be away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok at some fish for supper you can watch the birds to your heart and say. that's

the beauty you know you can own a little place like this walk and i have my own little small on the wall long it's a really is a magic place to live. in the space of about five to seven thousand years all of coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sediment which slowly but surely built out to the sea creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. there. very wide and loads coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to settle because of the fisheries for animals and so on and also navigation and

trade because of this paid rather. well unfortunately because of the nature of the land and the terrain being close to sea level. flooding is a big issue. so the europeans who came in from from the western part of europe had grown up if you will build a levee systems to think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had the the birth of new orleans and i levee system associated with it and that levee system continued to expand. utilizing the existing natural banks or levees of the river system until nine hundred twenty seven in nineteen 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 a nine hundred twenty seven flood control where they called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding. nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came caliber for storm and it flooded lot of new ones. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we were building and i came for tips and system there immediately started to interfere with the natural land building capabilities of the mississippi river. and so i probably beneficial in the physical

sings they are our number one protection. and we've destroyed. katrina to put this all in perspective cause was barely a category three storm at landfall most 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 houses. to . the front of a local.

millions around the world heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth. but 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 the corps of engineers

for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've published his official leddy report his university contract was terminated. for rebuild the levees lock them in a city or a good schools before we cut up everything with oil and gas taxes canals we used to have very extensive cypress swamps all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles north of us wants to go you can knock the surge they are and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where.

protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must be slow and they remain in cyprus swamps must be protected by the mississippi river and they have to be diverted again. we cannot say every single community we can build a wall of china across louisiana. weapons protect the levees the levees protect.

louisiana's coastline is quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field every thirty minutes or about twenty five square miles every year . by two thousand and fifty it is predicted that another seven hundred square miles will be lost. what people think of the swamp you think of an awful of mud dirty for biting

insects and mosquitoes and they have you know. completely from his face you probably would have more live around you in itself while bass in the system anywhere north america. be here like twenty three years. i can give oxygen i was in the way to the amazon rain forest and i wanted to get used to the heathenish tejas the frog waleed with in his now as a psych enthusiast. i went to the swamp was there in the form once with all the errors. of last year hans a hoax. fellow with a small. and there went to the amazon.

that's awful abasing one performing in a. more than forty percent of the us coastal wetlands are in southern louisiana is one of the on this remark of these plans is so much like the. name of another how are one hundred species of fees and show fees do we have ministers or births that even the tough love isn't in the many a vendor would migrate through his woodlands and i was the one to list for the county so the critical for everybody nothing. to do is try to study the serious business birds who may be going extinct. pacific up percentage or what proportion of the birds used these a one time ago that in the livestock. and birth of everglades you know that it is a little marsh that's awful obvious and is merely trees some straw is to a more bother verse in the everglades way more important for the nation

a matter of burden lifted weights. you know. i'm. going to walk and walk every day like the reptiles he gets easy by the trees and the need for that what it will that all of whose job it is actually will also all the mom of it all to make a full will climb trees and nesting holden's. since nine hundred twenty one tens of thousands of miles of canals and from cuts through

the wetlands to extract oil and natural gas. is manmade oil and gas canals have reshaped southern louisiana as wetlands and contribute to the rapid erosion washing more land out to sea. this used to be small like you used to be small regular was done in one out nice and out . and. for several years went undercover spying on lumber nodes and falling knocking trucks. and infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress mulch illegally. and. this

dialogue in the south assumption is an affront to from watching the beautiful. i want on the water organ them a way to twenty thousand acres a year keep from the year compassionate as he seeks to lower wages. that's one tenth of all the supper for some customers you. know they got serious in c.n.n. no joke about illegal logging in brazil you know a little over has happened here in expats and i was covering a dog and the difference is you go to a country like brazil and they're poor people trying to make a living. there's no water really moves in the real leading roles got into that because they come across to subscribe to soul creek. people go to wal-mart only paulo's and they were on about they would have a florida address and they would say i'm a four environmentally cyprus and i actually was going to lose enough on credit cards for trump the american market so they've lost their lives across systems and

son of a somali the harbors. of. illegal logging operations have stolen tens of thousands of acres of cheese from salinas coast. cutting down the natural barriers that once helped protect the coast from devastating storm surges and hurricanes. the companies don't like until. we do fly to the base. for months looking for those kind of violations. right now we only do it to do than once and so the logs. are really really on the group the stunning the claim that all those books that.

you've been drilling off the coast of louisiana for a number of years any oil spills to worry about you know that's one of the great unwritten success stories after katrina and rita these awful storms and no major spills. the truth is three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand and five slicks coming to 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 had been considered business as usual in the easy for a long time. the public ship's company. didn't know what i know michelle can call it a good name. brigida just wanted that they wanted it. they got. this july twenty third there was a down taker that ran into a wayward barge hit the tanker piers the barge basically cut it in half loyal was covering the river from bank to bank for miles this isn't

a uncommon occurrence for us with the willing gas industry that we have here's a predominate environmental factor. mississippi rivers uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for all 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 loyal almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here.

aggressive cases caused 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 fish rangers have retained fishing is the way of life you know fishing is a source of food fishing is the industry it was only natural that they would have

work on the resource and the men who do the work and harvest the resource. we're in the try that. other than the show 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 big boat fishermen they're more interested than in the fish that are out in the open and all of the slaughter fisherman is interested in the values the wetlands spawn makes for a small craft and function. and then 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 competition. the cost of running a simple family business it was the family business small fisherman his life and his children they can compete against these sheinkopf for asians that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's a hard life please take this tall under family life here it's often the land sized it's a harsh way to make a living you know fighting the elements to seize the waves the wins that's all that we have addressed in the fleet to invoke god's help to carry him through the hard

times and challenging times. and. a. great. number does both and they approach our son one dollar to show his just want us to do. the first our fish from the us border and on a boat would move follows brought a and one thousand seven to seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him he gave me a check of four distinct dollars on doubles rich eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and got forty eight hundred dollars you know it's a good day you know a man knows a lot of money and i stuff but i love those like the challenger tommy left to go

out those as a child to see the place more from the net a boat i. don't want no handles we just want to make honestly. i like knowing that one of our comments somebody is going to be the best protein. that's beautiful i know which actually do and i don't make a nation to kill people i just make food to feed and we just hope one vision i guess is in a balloon so i tell 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 and always yeah 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. they live off the land they hired big fish that you can see through i wouldn't live anywhere else. it's 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 chair and sheriffs would tell me you know it's just

somebody harassing you well. summer of two thousand and six my husband was working out my house was around the corner and he could see on the scanner go 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 put the gun out the window on the passenger side and she took my off. the shelf stopped before they even came to 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. twenty years ago the largest country in the right to search with a sense of. what how did

you try. to teach began the journey. where did it take.