and there were verery old trees, 600 oror 700 years old. the ancient forerest was preserved.i asked ththe local people how is this possiblele? people said d this is our sacred mountain. this was a big shock to me. just the concept of sacred moununtain was g good enough to preserve the resources. it's more powerful than the law or the preaching of scientists. todaday the system is still functioning. in the core area, nothing should be touched. then in a broader area, killing g is not allowed. no liviving beings should be harmed. we d d a survey y on birds, and we discovered that wherever the belief in sacred mountains is strong, there is greater biodiversity. so this shshows scientificalally the environmenental value of sacacred motatains. fred: then foror two years, dr. lu and her students used gps to map the sacred mountains in the ganzi district of western sichuan province. they found an average of three sacred mountains near each monastery in the district. in the united states, the protected area would be about the size of vermont and new hampshire combined. nearly one thi

the met has a new exhibit called -- plant loud oror co- -- play it loud." the european union is digging in as the brexit deadlock continues in the united kingdom. wants a long extension, renegotiating the existing agreement remains out of the question. a no deal exit looks more and more likely. >> they need to vote on a deal. if the u.k. wishes to leave in an orderly fashion, there is only one treataty available, the one we negotiated with the u.k.. the option of a no deal looks likely. we can go to thomas brooks. with the discord in london, does the european union have the upper hand? >> they will try to get through a deal the prime minister agreed with eu leaders, not getting anywhere in parliament now, and needing an extension, it is not something the prime minister can use unilaterally. it gets things moving. a difficult u.k. in position given how much trouble the u.k. has had getting a deal through. >> it is unlikely the eu will grant concessions. >>>> it is very unlikely. one can imagine if the u.k. wants it more than a few weeks, wanted a few months

fact is that our chemical policy system in the united states, whether itit's at the state e level oror at the e fedl level, is broken.. >>>> the toxic substances coconl act, my joke is it's the laww that never lived up to its nama. >> when they passed the law in 1976, they grandfathered in about 62,000 chemicals, called them safe because they were already in use. some of these chemicals that we knew nothing about at the time are turning out to be problematic. >> and according to the general accounting office, 85% of new chemical applications and their technical names of pre-manufacture notice include no testing data whatsoever. >> under the toxic substances control act, or tsca, the burden is on the environmental protection agency to show that an industrial chemical is unsafe. epa can only ask the company for data or require testining if epa can prove that there is a potential risk. and that's hard to do without access to the company's data in the first place. >> the burden of proof has to shift. it has to be on the companies, not on the government. the companies are making the profit,

they're just really furry and ororable. >> reporter: visitors to the san diego zoo have been caught upium since 1996. now, a 23-year loan from the chinese has ended. 27-year-old bai yun, the oldest panda in the u.s., and her six- eear-old son, xiao liwu, are going home. what do you think about that? >> uhm... sad. >> sad, yeah. >> reporter: giant pandas were going extinct when bai yun arrived, but research done by the zoo has helped boost the population to more than 2,000, from close to 1,000 in the 1980s. but it hasn't been easy. pandas can only get pregnant three days a year. l> we're with the pandas all day. >> reporter: trainers kathy hawk and dallas dumont remember having new-mother jitters with rse first cub born at the zoo. i> was ago mot we were like nus first-times,it >> reporter: six cubs later, bai yun is the most experienced panda mom in the u.s., and so are her trainers. now, when the cubs take a tumble from the tree-- >> did he bounce? he's fine. because by that time, we had learned, these little guys, you know, they're resilient. >> reporter: is it almost like ais is you

let me tell to those four or five people am never, never, ever, ever saying anything nice oror rootingexas tech again. just so you know. congratulations, uva, you earned it t hard way in overtime. raindrops today, not a big chance, may want to keep the small umbrella at hand just in case. there's a not ttiny chance. tshower. warmth, upper tenear -- upper 50s to near . we'll have no trouble getting back to near 80. sunshine, a gusty wind, as well. we'll track the later day rain chance in a few. melissa, goomorning. >>> good morning. take a look, frederick county after 80t urban ari lane is the only thing getting by, this ol a crash ing an overturned box truck. sounds like it's on its wheels. a staheavy, a six-mile backup. there won't recover quick lie. tray --ic y. you can do 85 to 80 to 270. that will work for you. hillcrest heights, a crash there. inner loop and outer loop, no problem, northbound democrat niece atorest park, closed for a traffic investigation. [ cheers ] >>> wahoo, university of virginia students all night long flooded the streets of charlottesville to celebrate the c

iron orore without put hit 5%. the company also raised its full year production costs amid lower volumes and an uptick in remediation costs. can that is the picture for the miners this morning. for the most part seemed to be trading in the red anglo-american -- bhp, the largest miner in the world, down 2.6% rio tinto, again, we had weak goidance from then yesterday also down 2.9% not so pretty, and it's one of the reasons why the ftse 100 is under performing today let us bring in an expert to chat with me i have pat ruk armstrong, the managing partner and cio great to have you with us. i want to pick up and ask you about those china gdp. we have overall a higher than expected number. 6.4% versus 6.3% a bit of a rebound in industrial production coming through for march. are you of the view that worry going to see a reflagsary impulse out of china in the second half of the year? >> we're already seeing it the gdp numbers, you have to take with a grain of salt. they can be massaged the fact that you saw consumer retai

collaboratingg with these folkl, despitite t the fact theyey mada public statement saying they neither condone oror endorse thr activity. we have plenty o of video documentation showing border patrol showiwing up to take thte folks they have i illegally detained into custody.. o of the pictures constitutuonal patriotot folks pong and photos with border patrol on horsebeback. there seems to have been a fairly easy and cooperative relationship between the vigilante group and the border patrol. you know, the question i am left with is, why did no one tell these fololks to cease and d de? if the bordeder patrol is a fact or law enforcement agency, evenn if they themsmselves were not going to initiate an ininvestigation into these folk, why couldn't t they have called on fbi to o look into the matter? we met witith the u.s. attororny here in new memexico late yesterdaday afternoon and asked him what has been done to tell these folks to stop what they are doing. share so much, but it is my understanding -- i have been given no evidence to say any federal authority as to lose folks they need to stop what