world's mangroves have already been lost and here in the irrawaddy delta only sixteen percent will bijan cover is left and in myanmar where local innovative project is combining grassroots conservation state they are drawing technology to take mangrove regeneration to new heights. jamar is vulnerable to cyclons which strike every few years in two thousand and eight the worst ever cycle nargis claimed more than one hundred thirty thousand lives. experts now believe that mangroves hold the key to saving thousands of lives when the next big storm hits. find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest. these are proper trees. the tallest man groups here reached twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after a cycle one hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had to do with. my. thought. you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blew in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and stop some of that storm surge mak

the first of two semifinals for this year's euro bijan song contest took place in lisbon on tuesday evening ten of the nineteen participants qualified for the grand finale being included big favorite. representing israel with their song toy. and any of the singing for you go for cyprus the total of twenty six candidates who compete in saturday's fun. the seventy first cannes film festival picked up on tuesday with a star studded red carpet featuring the likes of martin scorsese and kristen stewart but the spotlight was focused on friday about them and penelope cruz the oscar winning actor has played the lead in the festival's opening film everybody knows from iranian director. it's one of twenty one films competing for the palme d'or the festival runs until may nineteenth. but. have you ever called a movie as a film festival and this week's audience survey we want to know how you most like to enjoy films so add to our website www dot com slash lifestyle and join in by taking part you'll be entered in our prize draw and in with a chance of winning a euro max wristwatch. now let's turn to the

sixteen months are big shuttles um and as i mention any under the idea of the regime change is back on bijan the in washington and this is something that the iranians likely at the moment it seems that we are in in so to use the economy diplomatic muscle in gauging with the european counterparts and the russians and the chinese to try to kind of find a we out of kind of the mounting pressure is that what so without the player of course we've yet to hear those reactions from china russia some of the european players are much and so to go to an interesting time for geopolitics dr option sorry u.k. university of write for thanks for joining us today great to get your take today here on r.t. international. a former us presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony at yale university she followed that tradition by wearing a pretty unconventional hat. a russian hat. i think if you can't beat him today i know. i was on the way to winning until.

government will have to face moving forward always what are your thoughts on some you just heard from bijan from bridget and also could you talk to our viewers about some of the other reasons why voters were so angry and why they voted the way they did in malaysia. well i think as regards one m. series of scandals i think now that mr nudge it is no longer the head of government of a sarin country sorry an immunity would very much be lifted and a lot of those jurisdictions such as the united states and switzerland as well as several. international jurisdictions which previously were sort of reticent in. naming mr not directly would now do so and even if the malaysian of for it is not to take up those charges i think those far enough already is with now bring forward criminal charges and it's up to the malaysian government the new malaysian government to decide whether to sort of extradite mr not give for those trials and then as to what are some other reasons why people rejected b.n. i think it many because over the past sixty years or so evolve into an extremely core up read game corrupt to

hundred thousand range of muslims fled to neighboring bangladesh after a military crackdown last here bijan racing seems to have taken off of the tropical island of sri lanka but the locals have found it a way to unwind and feel of one with nature but it's with the breeders and their birds as they took to the skies in jeff the first pigeon race. now that reaches for his favorite but irene won the first of a pigeon race here earlier this month and this one. a hindu priest would like more pigeons but says his wife has drawn the line at the hundred or so he has in his yard. i have hundred this bridge in from the time it was twenty one days old i feed and look after it so it identifies recognises us we spent a lot of time with the birds even when it's flying in the sky we can recognise which is our list. it takes a couple of months to train a homing pigeon used for thousands of years to carry messages gracing the birds became a sporting belgium in the nineteenth century now the sri lankans of picked it up and for the same reasons people the world over take up hobbies and so on observation and a

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