lake and the arris river wetlands have a chance to champion them but as global development continuesapace more wetlands in other parts of the world are going to need a local hero to fight that corner. across the globe ecosystems are falling victim to human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring their protection is to enshrine their right to defend themselves in law. in the us in the 1970 s. a legal scholar called christopher starr proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people. it which through human representatives be able to stand up in court and defend itself against threats to its well being. since then the idea has been gaining traction. in 2008 ecuador wrote it into its constitution becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in 2017 new zealand sad largest river the fact he knew he was given legal status after marriage tried for it for its rights to be preserved. the way forward isn't simple for the future of conservation may lie in ensuring nature has recourse to justice. global food produc

chan has some reason to feel hopeful in his efforts to win protected status for the arris river wetlands in 2009 with data provided by him and his team mate 70 kilometers north of paris was designated a ram style. international recognition as being of global importance i can see hundreds hundreds or any yeah and i did it and i was so badly kitted out and see the cranes got there and there are some ducks in there these critical lakes when dealing in going out one by one so could you because one of the last and most important lakes in the entire north eastern turkey but from star state. doesn't mean the lake is thriving direct impact such as draining it for irrigation and hunting have stopped but indirect threats remain ground water extraction through need by wells is reducing the lakes water levels and animals still raise the rate beds in september 28th the lake dried up completely it was just dry but during the season when it is the most important for birds there was no water and no birds the chance a it's a rap star sight and declare victory and walk away i mean conservation is a never

important not only for local birds but also for those migrating from all over the world and yet the arris river wetland is under threat i've come here to me some man who's hoping to save this remarkable part of the world's. chance check out your lawn as a world renowned i want to tell attest to do something a professor in the united states every year china returns to his homeland of turkey and comes to this arid part of the country bush draws him here at the 5 kilometer square pocket of land the arid river where. chan came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth and i thought this looks like a globally important oasis in critical spots for migration breeding and wintering birds and is confident coming here in person and i thought this is a this is a place where i want to do long term research to really understand what birds use this area this rare wetland situated in a dry sub desert region is created when the iris river floods it's ideally located the migrating birds are of 35 global hotspots we're at the intersection of not one but 23 of the eights world's globa

this week, another baseless challenge was made against ice presidential candidate kamala h arris. >>ould've assumed the democrats would've checked that out. that is very serious. they are saying wouldn't qualify as she wouldn't qualify. >> she was born in this country but her parents did not receive their residency. >> i just heard about it, i will take a look. anchor: joining me now to discuss that is an attorney and democratic political analyst. thank you so much for being with us. we should obviously clearly say that there is no suggestion at all, everyone knows kamala harris is able to run for vice president. >> i think within less than a few hours of joe biden announcing that she would be his running mate, questions of whether or not she was qualified , none of that is surprising. we saw this with barack obama, where he questioned the location of his birth. this is something we expect to see going forward. coming from the republican as well as donald trump. we are at a point where we can move forwa kamala pick going forward, it will be an exciting time. her pick has energized th

demonstrations as you mentioned that are happening across the country we've been speaking with ben arris editor and publisher of be any thank you for your time and your comments. in beirut people are currently gathering for a protest around the outskirts of the port it comes exactly a week after the massive chemical blasts reduced much of the city to ruins the number of those killed now tops more than 200 with hundreds of thousands left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily across live now to our correspondent paula fleer who is in beirut paula what's happening right now. well this is the 4th night of protests hero in front of the parliament building in the last hour with the protesters say fired at the barracks that lead to the parliament building on the other side would be police and the army that you are looking at now they managed to push them back so we've actually been running for the last hour and avoiding tear gas now they've closed off this road and they waiting to see if any of the protesters surge forward i was talking to the protesters earl

well we spoke to eastern europe specialist ben arris about this he believes that the crisis is a major concern for both russia and the european union. a few days ago look at chang go. to the kremlin and said that he was going to us puts in supports the suggestion was that the present was reaching out to the russians or significant force beer riot police beer troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and it's raised the question will russia invades. that ownership where there's been a lot of speculation navy terms that people have for the situation closely that idea has been pretty written off putin is unlikely to do that and the veteran population has actually warm image of russia and see them as friends and they fought so hard to oust look the shanker that if a person came in and crushed the. demonstrations by force and kept the percent go in office by force then the entire population with then suddenly turned against russia and putin and then you'd end up with another ukraine situation which the kremlin doesn't want so because of these fears you've got macron and merkel 'd

party ticket arris told the democrats' convention that donald trump's leadership was cost lives. u.s. president donald trump is demanding that all the united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran he says that secretary of state like pump aoe will meet the un secretary-general lace on thursday to stop the process. iran will never have market and market iran will never have a nuclear weapon when the united states entered into the iran deal it was clear that the united states would always have the right to restore the u.n. sanctions that would prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon we paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east well this follows an earlier u.s. failure to extend an arms embargo on iran at the security council but the new proposal will likely face strong political and legal challenges as i was here as mike hanna reports from washington. symptoms of resolution 2231 which is the one which actually sets out the er a new nuclear deal that makes very clear that snap back

i'm not going to have to do it alone because i have a great vice president at my side senator kamel arris she's a powerful voice for this nation her story is the american story she knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country women black women black americans south asian americans immigrants the left down on the left behind but she's overcome every obstacle she's ever faced no one's been tougher on the big banks and the gun and the gun lobby. no one's been tougher in calling out the current administration for its extremism is failure to follow the law its failure to simply tell the truth come on i both draw from our families that's where you get our strength for comalies doug and their families for mates jill and ours i've said many times no man deserves one great love in his life let alone 2 but i've known 2 after losing my 1st wife in that car accident joe came into my life she put her family back together she's an educator a mom a military mom and a home stoppable force and she puts her mind to it just get out of the way she's going to get it done she was a

arried on in japan it is certainly something moving fx markets. tom: our stephen engle with us in a bit. to 1955, between essentially the rural party, the natural lbp party, and the parliamentarians. mr. abe has straddled that divide for many, many years. with our news in new york city, here's what -- here's ritika gupta. ritika: the longest serving prime minister in japan's history is resigning. shinzo abe is stepping down after eight because of health reasons -- after eight years because of health reasons. reports say he has been undergoing treatment for a chronic digestive condition. he agreed to stay on until the ruling party picks a successor. donald trump made his case for a second term last night at the republican national convention. he promised to create 10 million jobs in 10 months enter in the u.s. into a manufacturing superpower. pres. trump: in a new term as president, we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full incomes, andoaring record prosperity. ritika: the president also warned that joe biden ca

arry kudlow talked about v-shaped recovery, if you can believe that. -- it is two different visions.e private sector lead or should the government lead? morning to you, jim. so it is clear that the coronavirus, covid-19, has played havoc with the u.s. economy, but has it played havoc with republican voters' assessment of the trump economy? do republican voters think he has done a good job or a bad job with economy? seven out of 10 republican voters still approve of trump on the economy. his ratings with certain groups are quite resilient, aren't they? jim: that is actually the case. george w. bush by this point in his presidency already lost a lot of his core supporters. trump has surprisingly good ratings on the economy from people who otherwise do not like his personal style, for people who disapprove of his character, and so on. so what trump started to do last night is to make the case that really, i'm the guy who can deliver the economic performance that you have already seen, whereas biden is an unknown quantity. parties always tell you that it is all about the winning, no matt

interviewed congressman john lewis humbling me by being in my prns on my radio show i felt like i arriived, i made it, this is a legend, one of the greatest americans to ever live. to be in his presence was unbelievable and to hear president obama talking about it gave me chills. he was such a great man and president obama honoring him that way was poin nant. >> michelle you had a similar encounter with congressman john lewis right? >> that's right. it's not a secret i struggled in last three and half years with the utter despair of living through this particular administration. so i met john lewis in 2007. i ran into him when he was campaigning for john osoff who is now running for senate at the time was runner for special election in georgia sixth district the first that was to be a referendum how americans felt about this new and awful administration. john was john lewis's former intern and he was out campaigning and i asked him what i asked people then which is whether they thought america was going to survive this man. and he was utterly confident that it would. you know. this is

it will be fascinating to see what those two men say when they arri arrive?rhetoric he is hearing on right-wing media. in 2018, as i write in "hoax" itself all about the caravan. this alleged invasion of migrants from the south and mexico. now, the narrative is all about law and order. so it's hard to tell where sean hannity and tucker carlson ends a . >> you're executive producer of the new cnn film "after truth" which is premiering right at the top of the hour, here, on cnn. tell us about it. >> not as busy as you, wolf, not as busy as you. look at me. i have got my home studio failing with my background going behind me. this was a film that was three years in the making. director andrew rossi wanted to explain the real-life consequences of mis and disinformation. so tonight, we take you from texas hill country to washington. we go from the alabama state house all the way across the country to look at what the impacts of mis and disinformation are. you know, when there are these smears and hoaxes, both on the right and on the left, they are real-world victi

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it is unclear what happened when officer ace arris arrived but t to arrest him and used a taser on himhe had a knife in his possession and a knife was later recovered in blake's car. >> mr. blake opened the vehicle, and leaned forward. while holding on to his shirt, officer schesky fired his weapon for seven times. >> he is now on administrative leave. meanwhile, 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse has been arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide after allegedly shooting and killing two protesters tuesday night. social media accounts believed to belong to rittenhouse show his affinity for guns and police. writing, quote, blue lives matter. he also voiced his support for president trump, even posted video of a trump rally he attended at drake university. police are investigating whether it is rittenhouse in the videos that have surfaced online of a man walking with a gun with his hands up in front of police. authorities are also investigating whether the shooting was part of a conflict between demonstrators and a group of armed men, claiming to be protecting businesses duri

republican convention they're all speaking at the democratic convention tonight on behalf of the biden arris ticket that shows you how much disaffection there has been. long republicans under donald trump's presence and let me ask you briefly about the virtual convention that's going to be held obviously we're used from the outside to saying that the big spectacle of the conventions with the falling balloons the chairs and the signs and so on let me ask you how you feel this virtual convention is going to resonate with voters given the fight that that it's it's almost like a a town hall a virtual town hall that's going to be held with people actually up without appeal to people. we have no idea that is the big unknown going into this convention look there has been a tradition. for you know many many years now that each party gets a bump in the polls after its convention and a lot of that is because of the hoopla the extravaganza the excitement the enthusiasm conventions can bring to voters i mean to seeing the excitement in the crowd just hearing those sort of stem winder speeches and people

most notablyy senator kamala arris, the first woman of color ever nominated to a major party ticket... >> let's fight with conviion. let's fight with hope. let's fight with confince in ourselves, and a commitment to each other. to the america we know is possible. >> nawaz: ...and the first entirely virtual roll call vote, giving viewers a tour and, in some cases, a taste, across 57 states and territories. >> mr. joseph r. biden! >> nawaz: a diverse slate of every day americans were heard from every night, like kristin urquiza, whose father died of covid-19...'s >> my father only pre-existing condition was trusting donald trump. >> nawaz: ...gurnee green, whose small business is struggling emmid-pa... >> i'm alone. >> nawaz: ...and 13-year-old brden harrington, who credited biden with helping him control his stutter. >> without joe biden, i wouldn't be talking to you today. >> nawaz: issues like immigration and climate change tooerk centtage, but on gun violence, gabby giffords >> we can let the ng continue, or we can act. we c protect our families, o future. we can vote. >> nawaz: amo

his speechn in framed the selection of senator .arris as a historic pick he said black and brown girlsbe looking up to years to come. they think they can energize african-american voters and asian-american voters, indian-american voters as well will stop i think it's an interesting point that harris did not get a lot of traction with african-american voters in the democratic primary. in south carolina she was pulling well behind joe biden by the time she dropped out of the race. thee is an open question to degree to which she will energize the democratic base. she is someone who didn't have a record of doing so during her own campaign. her ticket is historic. organizationamong -- i think she will benefit from the historic nature of her selection. host: you mentioned how joe biden framed that. here is that moment from wilmington, delaware. [video clip] mr. biden: her story is america's story. different from mine, but not so different in the sense she has worked hard, she has never backed down from a challenge, and she has earned each and every of the accolades and achievements she has g