. >> reporter: i am john hulman where hundreds of thousands of hertl arrive each year. the majority of their egg es are being stolen. >>> we begin with the war in syria where russian airstrikes have entered their third day. turkey and its partners in the u.s. errico lungs say they are concerned with the russian military involvement. they have urged months to you could you to stop attacking syrian groups and attack isil instead. russia is it's not just isil but other groupings like the al plus rah front, they say the campaign could last for three or four months. syrian president bashar al-assad opposition are bearing the bankrupt of the airstrikes, it's impair i have to for isil to target skiles no other groups. they will be meeting putin in the next few hours. our diplomatic editor james bays reports. >> reporter: for over a week world leaders have been in new york and all the keys figures have all said their pray or at this iprioritiesis to get peace. so what has changed? the answer is this. whether they were timed to coincide with this global gathering or not, russian

john hulman, al jazeera, mexico. >>> knew a piece of art called donkey documents by gray neat i artists sold for $250,000 at an auction in california. the mural created in bethlehem in 2007 was expected to fetch more than half a million dollars. the piece shows a donkey having it's identification papers checked by an israeli soldier, it was one of a series of works left by bay along a concrete barrier we diamondback describing the occupied west bank from israel. a reminders that you can find more news on our website aljazerra.com. >> if you got to choose how long you would get to live for, how long would you want to live for? >> immortality >> why? >> i wouldn't die or anything >> what's wrong with dying >> well, i want to be with my family. i don't want to miss out on any of the fun >> my kids are probably like most kids out there. for them, the idea of living forever seems pretty great. >> would you wan l

john hulman, al jazeera, mexico city. >>> now, for centuries or kids have been amongst the most rareble flowers, but urban developments and changes to the landscape mean entire fees us have disappeared, how one program in the u.s. aims to make the flowers bloom again. andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: at this school in miami they are plant for this future. but this isn't your average gardening project. >> you will measure from where the root come out higher to the base of where the leaf is coming out. >> reporter: this school and dozens of others across the city are taking part in a scheme to reintroduce native or kids that were once commonplace. >> so this is the -- >> reporter: the idea is based on a similar project in singapore and the aim to bring these blooms to miami's urban streets. >> this is the future and this is almost a bleak reality of it, we are losing habitat at an unprecedented rate. populations are growing, we need it find ways to be creative to main tape biodiversity and need to start with these you are began matrixes. >> reporter: the million or kid project hope

john hulman, al jazeera, mexico city. >>> damsels in distress have been placed by real life heroins.bow reports. >> reporter: nadia and he have come to the slum to show children something new. tired of classic disney stories, they invented one they called the anti-princesses collection. >> translator: we are working to change the model that beauty is on the outside. we are opposing a view that a woman is waiting to be rescued, they are waiting for a prince to change their lives. the women in their stories change it for themselves. >> reporter: the collection has two books, and another one on the way. the first one tells the story of frieda, the famous mexican artist. the second one is the history of. [ inaudible ] the chilean folk singer. creatively and a search for freed company justice are some of the characteristics of this clerks the big difference with other children's story is his that this anti-princesses are not a fantasy. they are some of latin america's most respected women. the third book is based on. [ inaudible ] a south american military leader. the illustrator says he

john hulman, al jazeera, mexico. >>> and a reminder that you can keep up-to-date with all of the news, all the time on our website. aaljazeera.com. >> this week on talk to al jazeera - the once high powered capitalist in russia turned human rights activist - bill browder. >> i had more than $1 billion, which was a huge amount of money-- in any circumstance, but certainly back then, and in russia. >> the financier had a spectacular rise with his investments quadrupling - but then browder began calling attention to corruption and crossed the wrong people. >> i was locked up overnight. and then i was deported the next day and declared a threat to national security, never to be allowed back into russia again. at that point it became obvious to me that putin's interests had diverged. >> browder's tax lawyer sergei magnitsky stayed behind to fight against the crimes committed by the kremlin - and expose those responsible. it did not end well. >> so he was-- he was incarcerated for 358 days. and the tor-- and they tortured him and they tortured him. they chained him to a bed. and then eight