annual floods plagued jakarta. annualfloods plagued jakarta.he city i've called home for more than ten years. they are getting worse with climate change, this january the heaviest rains in decades caused widespread flooding. but jakarta the heaviest rains in decades caused widespread flooding. butjakarta is also a victim of its own policies, example of urbanization gone horribly wrong. most people in this mega city rely on ground water. so much is being pumped out that the land surface is sinking, and so to the buildings and houses above it. so where below sea level now, aren't we? yes, and already to metre below the sea level now. and what happened aof the sea level now. and what happened a of years ago here? this is the original dyke. in 2007 the sea water was over this here and the government increased it about one metre, and then in 2017 is sea water came overtop the stake. the water rushing over at great speed flooding homes here. in response, the wall was made higher. but not long after we visited it collapsed. irma leaves metres away fro

jakarta is the world's fastest sinking city.we do nothing, then by 2050 95% of the coastal area of jakarta will be below the sea. the indonesian capital is subsiding and the java sea is rising. this was built in an attempt to hold back the tide, a giant sea wall that goes for hundreds of metres. but what's on the other side has become an iconic image of a city that's living on borrowed time. this mosque went under years ago and the predictions for this area are bleak. faceed with this future, the government is vowing to build a new capital. on the jungle covered island of borneo. they are promising to build a world—class sustainable city, but what will it mean for the people that live in this unique environment? annual floods plague jakarta. the city i've called home for more than ten years. they are getting worse with climate change. this january the heaviest rains in decades caused widespread flooding. but jakarta is also a victim of its own policies, an example of urbanization gone horribly wrong. most people in this mega cit

there are some 22000 fisherman in jakarta. these people harvest green mussels from the bait a local speciality they're cooked right on the beach. 4 years ago the city or solitudes began building a chain of artificial islands off the north and caused to slow down lin subsequence . it set a serious impact on deck h.s. . how many kilos do you catch a day about 50 kilos. and what about before the islands were built. back then we've got about 200 kilos. now in newport display and along with a brick wall that's actually in the sea 50 metres offshore the fishermen are worried they soon won't be able to catch anything at all. they've learnt to live with regular flooding but the new coastal wall would mean the end of their livelihoods. as they want to know whether the coastal wall will disturb our access to the sea i say that even if it has benefits for the community the development plan has to be discussed with the affected community as a. pool of gun once the fisherman to be part of the decision making. the covered market where they

lots of indonesia's capital jakarta are submerged to flash floods and landslides in the country. and on time how much would the poor be n.b.a. pays its tributes to david stern the man who built the modern game and on the court and the most valuable player of $2900.00 itself to graze the box. this news hour in turkey where pollens due to vote on a government motion to deploy troops to libya uncursed supports the un recognized administration in tripoli that's been fighting against the war lord honey for half ton his forces launched an offensive to capture the capital last april but turkey says its troops will protect its rights in the mediterranean and interests in libya and current tripoli have recently signed deals on military cooperation on maritime boundaries but opposition parties in turkey are against the government move they say and promote 1st give priority to a diplomatic solution well without the why it is done by in the libyan capital tripoli but 1st let's go straight to ankara now where mohamed of dough is live for us mohammed said the turkish parliament set to vote on

in a city as diverse and populous as jakarta it seems there's no easy solution. one measure that comes into place from today is the enforcement of quarantine measures so what that means is that anyone who test positive for the virus in jakarta will no longer be allowed to isolate at home they will be taken to a government facility until they recover but of course what that actually looks like in practice remains to be seen all right to just go washington live for us there in the in the nation's capital jakarta jessica thank you israel's government has announced a 3 week nationwide lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus making it the 1st country to reimpose restrictions on a national scale prime minister binyamin netanyahu says the restrictions will come into force on friday it means israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their homes schools and places of worship will be closed as will all but essential shops the government's handling of the pandemic has been a key issue during weeks of protests against netanyahu. 2 former british prime

here mohammed al jazeera jakarta. well joining us now from london is. she's the head of adaptation research at the grantham research institute on climate change and the environment welcome to the program so we definitely have for a fact sea levels rising and tens and hundreds of millions of people are exposed tell us more about what coastal communities face and the impact on people and the economy. yeah well thank you very much for having me it's a pleasure talking to you about this climate change it's really the defining issue of our generation and we see this not there's a distant threat as maybe we used to do a couple of years ago because it is now now real and we can see this happening around us we can see the impacts. coastal areas are particularly exposed not just because of sea level rise but also of other challenges so water usage also the fact that a lot of coastal cities particularly megacities at the moment we have around half of them half of all the global mega-cities are and coastal areas so these are massive and still growing. size where p

jakarta just coming online here. could be still seeing some pressure here about 1% low for the jakarta here. the nasdaq mini futures as well, a little touch lower with brent slipping. overnight there are concerns that u.s. stockpiles are swelling up again. chinese equities still in focus after declines from yesterday. we're up by more than 1% from the csi 300. the chinex as. we small cap tech stocks doing well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, we'll see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. we are expecting a bank decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. also with the ecb as well. watching the euro very closely. did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. they're likely to hold. we'll see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. pound still under pressure here. things like the -- seems like the e

measures that jakarta needs to address is. stop or slowly reverse the excessive groundwater pumping and recharge the aquifers but that's only one solution there are many other factors that contributed to the floods as well the rivers that i mentioned earlier have now narrowed down significantly and cannot accommodate these flood waters coming in from the south and that needs to be widened for example and a lot. more open spaces greenery public parks for example need to be built in the city to absorb rainwater back in the 1960 s. the 1st must the plan to jakarta came up with the master plan of mounting 65 to 985 there was an idea there was a thought of building a lot of greenery is in the city this you shape. area called the green belt but it was just a planned over subsequent years and decades. plan was erased in a subsequent updates of the master plan of the city thank you so much for sharing your insight and talking to us about this until mostly from northwestern university here in qatar joining us on this thank you. now hig

the bbc‘s indonesia reporter, liza yozephine, joins me now from jakarta.nce 2013 and the national meteorological agency mentioned the numbers of rainfall recorded this year we re numbers of rainfall recorded this year were at the highest since 1996. 26 years ago and the numbers of rainfall has actually been actuating but this is the highest. and in an area near an but this is the highest. and in an area nearan airport but this is the highest. and in an area near an airport in east jakarta, there was up to 337 millimetres of rainfall and the agency has noted that 150 millimetres average rainfall per day is already high. we know the 26 deaths have already been reported. just how bad is the situation on the ground, do the authorities have the ability to try and help people and to de—escalate or mitigate some of the damage? the latest numbers from thursday evening, actually, the number has risen to 30 people who have died. search and rescue have in action all over the city and there has been no comments from them about being overwhelmed howeverfrom the 65,000

in jakarta predict give us a sense of what it feels like to be in jakarta right now are people scared are they masked up. yet there aren't there i mean if you look in the streets and other places you can see some people are quite a bit is it wearing masks still not everyone's very them and being the authorities so ruled out of mass patrol as they have recorded more than 22000 housebroken calls violators and they've given you know verbal warnings to progressive finds and i'm sure you've heard about this does social work on a trend from digging great is for those who have died of cooking 1000 to live in the ground but yet now we're back under martial law doubt less strict than before and mean that curves are more relaxed than when they were 1st implemented bacon roll and yet in recent weeks we've seen any increase in positive cases at another record in your eyes. people have confidence in their government to contain the pandemic well i mean and he continues to claim more lives are as a country end flowing as by in. corona virus infection rate in a capital the recent days i guess i think

higher as decanters grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta no work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10. it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of covert tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and. it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lock down people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income and. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he s

our investigation continues at the tsunami monitoring center in the indonesian capital jakarta. this control tower monitors seismic activity across indonesia including the bay of power loom. seismologists here can detect any undersea earthquake in real time advanced algorithms allow them to simulate the formation of a tsunami and warn coastal communities before the 1st wave hits since its introduction in 2008 the system has issued 22 alerts saving countless lives. why then did palu fail to receive a warning on september 28th 2018. qian poor innocent he was the seismologist on g t that night i guess that. the earthquake in palo registered a magnitude of 7 for 2 minutes then just afterward the magnitude rose to 7.7. i instantly ran to the top table where we simulate tsunamis yet the media modeling tsunami the center in jakarta registered an earthquake 80 kilometers north of palm bay early in the evening. and the epicenter is here. and here's palo. according to the simulation the tsunami risk posed by the surface quake was only moderate nevertheless an alert was treated within the

jakarta has 13 rivers running through it. of plastic, and residents are pumping out groundwater, causing flooding as sea out groundwater, causing flooding as sea levels rise. here is one of the worst flooded neighbourhoods in jakarta. as you can see behind me, workers are cleaning the mud off the streets. residents were evacuated when two metres of water hits their houses on new year's eve. while this neighbourhood is regularly flooded, residents have no other choice than to come back to this area wants the water disappears. the indonesian president has said he wants to move the capital to a new location, but people don't want to leave. this is the biggest flood i have ever seen since 2002. it looks like an ocean. the rain was very heavy. this is the new year, and we are greeting 2020 with a massive flood. but i want to continue to live here, because when the flood hits my neighbours and i are in it together, not alone. there have been many plans over the years to try to improve the situation in jakarta, from cleaning up rive

our investigation continues at the tsunami monitoring center in the indonesian capital jakarta. this control tower monitors seismic activity across indonesia including the bay of palau. seismologists here can detect any undersea earthquake in real time advanced algorithms allow them to simulate the formation of a tsunami and warn coastal communities before the 1st wave hits since its introduction in 2008 the system has issued 22 alerts saving countless lives why then did palu fail to receive a warning on september 28th 2018. in a scene he was the seismologist on judy that night. i guess that. the earthquake in palo registered a magnitude of 7 for 2 minutes then just afterward the magnitude rose to 7.7. i instantly ran into the toss table where we simulate tsunamis yagami more dealings and i mean the center in jakarta registered an earthquake 80 kilometers north of palm bay early in the evening. the epicenter is here. and here's. according to the simulation the tsunami risk posed by the surface quake was only moderate nevertheless an alert was triggered within the prescribe time

really mohammed al jazeera jakarta. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from terror on wednesday after iran fired missiles targeting u.s. forces based in iraq western countries have been piling pressure on iran which it spent days denying that it was responsible for the crash as a bank has more from tehran. the. defense system shut the thing down is that it was he said it was a mistake saying it's a mistake and it was the unit that mistook the plane it was a sensitive time with the armed forces were heightened it. was a human error did that happen on purpose they offered their condolences to the families of the victims and has the revolutionary guard to explain what happened to the public on state t.v. . and washington has announced a new wave of sanctions on iran in the latest escalation following about u.s. air strike that killed a top arraign in

jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income is. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he says it's necessary to help hospitals cope and keep people alive it's not enough for us to see they're doing good because that. is good compared to other places. but for now the grim task of burying the dead continues without a vaccine stain apart is the only way to stop the viruses spread and slow down the loss of life. no italy was one of the 1st countries to impose a coronavirus lockdown back in march the international community watched on as the country's hospitals overflowed and struggle

the capital jakarta has had its most intense rainfall ina jakarta has had its most intense rainfall inf a century. the number of dead is continuing to rise full stop thousands of people have had to leave their homes, many forced to haul themselves across swollen rivers. the ones able to get back to their neighbourhoods form human chain to remove the water and mud. this was an area outside jakarta, which is one of the worst affected. translation: the water level is pretty high, reaching five to six metres and it could have reached the second and third floor. it was raining all day from morning to evening so the water level soon increased. this is the rainy season in indonesia, and jakarta does see annual flooding but the in indonesia, and jakarta does see annualflooding but the heavy downpour of the past week has been the most intense in decades. rescue crews have been trying to get people to safe areas. the rains aren't due to safe areas. the rains aren't due to peak until next month, and long—range forecasts suggest more is on the way. duncan kennedy, bbc news. the argument about leav

at least 26 people have died and tens of thousands have been evacuated in the indonesian capital jakarta after flooding following the most intense rainful in 2a years. and this video is trending on bbc.com. western norway is experiencing a rare heatwave at a time when temperatures normally stay well below freezing. record after record has fallen, with the highest temperature of 19 degrees, more than 25 above january's average. more on our website, bbc.co.uk/news, and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. climate change and the economy. australia's prime minister is heckled for his response to the bushfire crisis. and interpol issues a red alert for the former nissen boss, carlos cohn. —— nissan. —— carlos ghon. iam sharanjit i am sharanjit leyl. we begin in australia because what is happening there is unprecedented. the bushfires have killed at least 18 people so far, they have killed close to half a billion animals and they are over twice as big as the amazon forest fires. they are exerting extreme political pressure on prime minister scott morrison.

the heaviest rainfall in more than a decade has caused deaths and flooding in jakarta and surrounding areas in west java. the rain began on tuesday night and triggered landslides on the city's outskirts indonesia's meteorology department has called the rain very extreme nearly 20000 people were stranded as jakarta's domestic airport was shut down after its runway became submerged. but when the rainy season comes we already know what it will be like so if the water flow is fast we have to move our stuff and evacuate immediately but usually the water level is not this high. the flood came without any warning it was not anticipated and we were not paired up people have drowned and others have died from hypothermia or been electrocuted as power supplies were damaged by the flooding thousands were forced to evacuate their homes crews are pumping out flooded areas and rescuing those who are stranded. has been said by many experts is one of the fastest sinking a city in the world because of that the 13 rivers that passed through in jakarta 2 of the big ones include river and she says that in

covert 19 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown any time soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday indonesia hit a record daily high of nearly 5000 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as to count as grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers and jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and can remove them wholly and it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others and guns and who didn't comply with prevention protocols and when you go to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for busin

jakarta. the mayor of colombia's capital is calling for reconciliation after days of violent protests 13 people have been killed and hundreds injured in demonstrations against police brutality the riots followed the killing of ordonez who was repeatedly shot with a stun gun by officers. residents lit up candles and. pains to remember the victims of one of the most violent weeks in the . star wars. i fear will get to the point that the state is going to shut every news of free expression we're already seeing this in the way the security forces are acting against people. 13 people died in 2 days of protests against police brutality the demonstrations were sparked by the killing of an unarmed man by 2 officers most of the victims were young people allegedly shot by the police. during a commemorative event broadcast on television the mayor begged for forgiveness and reconciliation. but also reiterated the need for police reform insisting that there was clear evidence of indiscriminate use of firea

after sulawesi the next community logging destination was the regency near jakarta. with a member of staff. they will discuss the l latest trendses trends in lumber sales. >>> he visits the cooperatives in person. listening to members' concerns and requests was key to improving community logging. >> in 2016, telepack and its cooperatives sell the lumber each group logged. ♪ ♪ >> its offices are in jakarta. it has international clients as well as domestic ones which means more potential buyers. each cooperative receives a dividend depending on the company's results. the company also works with an international group called the forest stewardship council or the fsc. it certifies lumber which is grown andfeld according to certain environmental standards. >> such a high price. >> annual assessments are required which cost money. ungel first began community logging with residents 15 years ago. more regions have joined up and there are now ten looks with the total of 7,000 people registered. today, ungel is heading out to a talk. he ask cooperative staff are looking for ne

jakarta. time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back as campaigning gets underway in zanzibar we take a look at the issues facing the semi autonomous islands. and the new depths of discovery a lost world in mexico where humans haven't ventured for more than 10000 years stay with us. however there's very little change in the weather across the middle east at the moment so lots of sunshine like warm sunshine still just around the levant by the roots and jerusalem getting up around the 30 degree mark all sunshine in baghdad and kuwait around the 46 degree mark over the next couple of days little cooler than the late here in doha temperatures at around 39 celsius just a gentle braised if anything at temperatures just dropping off a touch as we go through tuesday quite brisk winds coming in through the red say some showers there around the southern end of the red seems that western side of yemen is still saying those showers just drifting off the ethiopian highlands and poly way fu

the major problem faced by big cities around the world including jakarta it's typically caused by the lack of a good public transit system with a growing number of vehicles on the street jakarta's air quality is going from bad to worse. energy based on hydrogen is one of the solutions for creating a transportation system with less noise and fewer emissions. professor any analysts yani doing is among the leading experts in this field since 1988 she has been conducting research in alternative energy with hydrogen fuel cells. of the drug and we did research on producing hydrogen. from waste or from methanol but the easiest way is to get it from water. and here the end product is again water that we can use the electrolysis method to produce water from water the hydrogen goes into a fuel cell becomes water to electricity this is current energy storage. the 2nd way is to source it from natural gas as is done in the fertilizer industry or thermal power stations because it's cheaper. the 3rd method is to get hydrogen from renewable materials. fuel cells work in a similar style to batteries t

in a city as diverse and populous as jakarta it seems there's no easy solution. to this that locked down this partial lockdown in indonesia's capital city is set to last for at least 2 weeks but that of course depends on the trajectory of the virus here if cases continue to rise if that death toll remains troublingly high then of course the restrictions will be extended jessica washington with that update from jakarta thank you the veteran u.s. journalist bob woodward has revealed u.s. president donald trump knew of the severity of the coronavirus in february but downplayed it to the american people that admission made in a series of recorded interviews with trump but now woodward has spoken to c.b.s. about his new book on the trump presidency. this is the tragedy a president of the united states has a duty to warn the public will understand but if they get the feeling that they're not getting the truth then you're going down the path of deceit in cover did the president ever disclose to you why he wasn't telling the public what the stakes were with the coronavir

grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day. it was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols when go to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income and. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restrictions but he says it's nec

jakarta maintains it is an integral part of the nation, recognised by the international community.el separatist movement has been waged here ever since. translation: this is my land. our ancestors gave us this land. we want independence. indonesia has stolen our land from us. how long have we been suffering in the jungle, how many people have died? there are just so few of us now. last year, the biggest independence protest in decades turned into riots and ended in deadly clashes with the army. control over the region's vast national resources — gold, copper and the forests — are one of the key flashpoints. despite its rich resources, it is amongst the poorest regions in indonesia. jakarta has vowed to change that, pumping money in, building infrastructure, and opening up the region to investors. korean palm oil giant korindo has benefited greatly. they now control more land in papua than any other company, clearing nearly 60,000 hectares of forests, an area the size of chicago or seoul. their vast plantations now protected by state security forces. in may this year, when a local f

grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're not complaining about how many bodies we bury every day and can remove them whole unit was very unfortunate for those who died they died in vain because of others who didn't comply with prevention protocols to jakarta is now the epicenter of indonesia's corona virus outbreak. the city alone is seeing more than 1000 new daily cases more than double the average caseload from early august a surge that's prompted another lockdown people are supposed to work study and pray at home for business owners it could spell ruin. a modern we only just managed to survive the 1st round of large scale social restrictions and here comes another one but for now i'm just relieved that we're barely surviving but it will definitely cause an impact on our income and. a tough call for jakarta's governor to reinstate restr

jakarta maintains it is an integral part of the nation, recognised by the international community. low level separatist movement has been waged here ever since. translation: this is my land. our ancestors gave us this land. we want independence. indonesia has stolen our land from us. how long have we been suffering in the jungle, how many people have died? there are just so few of us now. last year, the biggest independence protest in decades turned into riots and ended in deadly clashes with the army. control over the region's vast national resources — gold, copper and the forests — are one of the key flashpoints. despite its rich resources, it is amongst the poorest regions in indonesia. jakarta has vowed to change that, pumping money in, building infrastructure, and opening up the region to investors. korean palm oil giant korindo has benefited greatly. they now control more land in papua than any other company, clearing nearly 60,000 hectares of forests, an area the size of chicago or seoul. their vast plantations now protected by state security forces. in may this year, when a

resty woro yunia reports from jakarta.ia is hoping common table salt will become the secret ingredient in fighting floods. the new decade has brought massive flooding in and around jakarta. the capital was hit by the most intense rainfall in 150 years. now, the government is sending the military into the sky, armed with salt, to try and control when and where the next big rains will fall. it is a process known as cloud seeding. once the salt is loaded on board, the military fly high into storm clouds, and the salt is released. salt particles attract moisture in the cloud, creating droplets. when those droplets group together, they become too heavy to stay in the sky, the idea being to encourage rain to fall while storm clouds are out at sea. translation: we have managed to cut 30—a0% of rainfall intensity since our operation began. that is the ideal number to prevent further flooding. once a threat is identified in the sky, crews quickly get to work. it is a simple process to artificially create rainfall over the ocean. if

after sulawesi the next community logging destination was the regency near jakarta.ce with a member of staff. they will discuss the latest trendses trends in lumber sales. >>> he visits the cooperatives in person. listening to members' concerns and requests was key to improving community logging. >> in 2016, telepack and its cooperatives sell the lumber each group logged. ♪ ♪ >> its offices are in jakarta. it has international clients as well as domestic ones which means more potential buyers. each cooperative receives a dividend depending on the company's results. the company also works with an international group called the forest stewardship council or the fsc. it certifies lumber which is grown andfeld according to certain environmental standards. >> such a high price. >> annual assessments are required which cost money. ungel first began community logging with residents 15 years ago. more regions have joined up and there are now ten looks with the total of 7,000 people registered. today, ungel is heading out to a talk. he ask cooperative staff are looking for ne