and i, gabriel's on to along the anacostia river in washington, d. c. were scientists are using muscles to help make this river healthier? that story coming out. ah. the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to cattle. hook your travel package to day. hello, welcome to another look at the international forecasts. we've got some rather heavy rain coming in to ne, in parts of china over the next couple days. larry, a cloud here developing and that's going to feed some big downpours up towards the beijing a little further south of that sliding over to watch a shanghai over the next day or 2. and it really peps up as we go on through monday . very heavy rain there. once again across the korean peninsula, we are likely to see some localized flooding as a result of that. and you can see how that wet weather makes its way right across into the heart of china. ahead of that, still a few showers in the forecast for japan, but i think her sheltered by the mountains tokyo largely dry temperatures here around 32 celsius temperatures, around 38 cels

but thanks to a slow and steady cleanup effort to anacostia river has improved to the point where aquatic life can actually be seen swimming in its waters. again, this is the clarified that within the water. and now the continued improvement of the washington dc river ris with the fresh water muscle and the part clam port snail like show fish excluding water. marine biologist from the anacostia watershed society, have released over 26000 native muscles into the river. they act as sort of a natural vacuum cleaner. to cleanse the water muscles are, are filter filter feeders. so they help clean the water. one muscle of the size of the muscle we were collecting today can filter between 10 to 20 gallons of water a day. so when you add up the numbers in a year, that's a lot of water that they can filter. now the muscles filter the equivalent of $106.00, a limping sized swimming pools of water every year. this is what they filtered in less than 2 hours, but propagating muscles and reintroducing them to the river has had a dual impact, clean the river, and help keep them from going extinct in the

river ris with the fresh water muscle. and then the part clam part snail like show fish is clearing water. marine biologist from the anacostia watershed society . have released over 26000 native muscles into the river. they act as sort of a natural vacuum cleaner. to cleanse, to water muscles are, are filter filter feeders. so they help clean the water. one muscle of the size of the muscles are collecting to they can filter between 10 to 20 gallons of water a day. so when you out of the numbers in a year, that's a lot of water that they can filter. not the muscles filter, the equivalent of 106 olympic sized swimming pools of water every year. this is what they filtered in less than 2 hours, but propagating muscles and reintroducing them to the river has had a dual impact, clean the river, and help keep them from going extinct in the united states. we need to work to conserve muscles because greater than 70 percent of them are listed as endangered. threaten or are just like conservation concerns. and there's like 300 species of fresh water muscle in the united states. so when you think of like 70 are saying that 300 species a

i'm gabriel's on to along the anacostia river in washington dc where scientists are using muscles to help make this river healthier. that story coming up and in sport, frustration for africa's biggest tennis store to wimbledon. fundies here to that story. ah ah. ah. save that. mm hm. and then international anti corruption excellence award boat. now for your hero, ah ah, welcome back to you as capital as one of the most polluted rivers for quite some time. now, a science is to try to change that. the anacostia river is being brought back to life with a little help from shellfish. al jazeera is gabriel alexander reports in washington, dc. it's a body of water that was so polluted for so long. it was often referred to as america's forgotten river. but thanks to a slow and steady clean up effort to anacostia river has improved to the point where aquatic life can actually be seen swimming in its waters. again, this is the clearest i've ever seen the water. and now the continued improvement of the washington dc river. ress with the fresh water muscle, the part clam part snail like show fish

river. ress with the fresh water muscle. and then the part clam part snail like show fish is quoting water, marine biologist from the anacostia watershed society. have released over 26000 native muscles into the river. they act as sort of a natural vacuum cleaner. to cleanse, to water muscles are, are filter filter feeders. so they help clean the water. one muscle of the size of the muscles are collecting to, they can filter between 10 to 20 gallons of water a day. so when you add up the numbers in a year, that's a lot of water that they can filter, not the muscles filter, the equivalent of 106, olympic sized swimming pools of water every year. this is what they filtered in less than 2 hours, but propagating muscles and reintroducing them to the river has had a dual impact, clean the river, and help keep them from going extinct in the united states. and we need to work to conserve muscles because greater than 70 percent of them are listed as endangered, threaten or are just of like conservation concerns. and there's like 300 species of fresh water muscle in the united states. so when you think of like 70 percent of that 300 s

i'm gabriel's onto along the anacostia river in washington, d. c. were scientists are using muscle to help make this river healthier. that story coming up. i'm in for the ons. deborah will play her wimbledon final with an entire continent, cheering her on that to news the news amy to come, the 1st arab an african tennis player in history when a grand slam title on saturday. ah, hello, we begin this news now with breaking news from shall income, where protest is in the capital, colombo. i've stormed the official residence of president. gotta buy a raj pack sir, demanding his resignation. people from around the country have converged on the city. they are protesting against a month long economic crisis and widespread shortages. they called saturday the day when the president and his government would have to go. some of the protested occupies the president's home, have been taking advantage of his facilities, including having a deep in the swimming pool of the historic building. the president was take him to safety earlier, but his whereabouts are unkn

. >> reporter: ryan hill lives east of the anacostia river in southeast washington, d.c., where she saysn't easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables >> there are just not as many healthy options. >> reporter: 160,000 people predominantly black live in ward 7 and 8. they only have three grocery stores >> i have a small child. so i want to make sure that she has access early on the healthy food >> reporter: hill said she had to travel more than a mile to a full retail grocery store in georgetown >> i know that the selections are better. >> reporter: but some help has arrived. a small market called the fresh food factory >> what we offer is pop-up to permanent solutions to address this food issue, this food crisis, this food apartheid. >> amanda stevenson opened the store a few years ago after receiving a grant from the d.c. government's food access fund. >> so many people don't have access to fresh healthy food in the community. i like them had to travel miles across the bridge to other state, virginia and maryland, to find the foods that i needed. >> reporter: the store sells fresh prod