capetown desperately needs water. its taps nearly ran dry last year. may sound crazy but a team of experts have been assembled who believe it can be done. they're not the first to pursue it. iceberg towing has been floated to solve problems from southern california to the gulf. many previous efforts have been met with skepticism but that has not deterred him. his team has a plan, to sail to a point near gulf island, south of capetown. from there, they would identify the perfect iceberg. it would be more than 3,000 feet long and 800 feet deep, weighing 125 million tons. then two tug boats would lasso the iceberg with a two-mile long net made from an exceptionally strong rope. they would pull the rope guided by tug boats to the cape. 90 days later, the iceberg would hit ground 20 miles off the coast of cape town where it could be harvested for water. sloane says he has secured financing for the maiden voyage which would cost more than $200 million but he still needs the government to give him the green light. if he did succeed, which by no means certain,

he works to save lives but often his own is at risk in areas in capetown so dangerous he needs armed police protection the 1st call of the night comes from mitchell's plane where over. says she's been physically assaulted the crime rate the video life your risk of the late the it's the worst it's not only what you do is load and go but we don't have a choice now because the world begins when we have to get to stabilize as the crowd grows the police keep a close watch the need for security is an all too familiar reality pacific's patna susan we have a. bank and when we ran outside to we saw that people were breaking into our vehicle 2nd incident and when we need to call people see that we kind of liked and they started checking mark carney and they stretch it to us another crew heads to what's known as a red zone an area of high crime paramedic candace mox can only respond when police arrive this is hanover park overcrowded poor and riddled with violence you don't with the lights on. but there were things that for this attack move people to the scene of. the incident is you know this

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going to lose those clouds as we go toward saturday temptress come up to about 21 degrees there but capetown we are going to see a nice day for you with a temperature of about 80 degrees and sunny. follow the. koran the koran is so little better now in syria the whole world of. course of a minister accused. a european judge tasked with imposing nor an order and a trial road testing the nose of a newly formed nation. witnesses. highway on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. even if the opium prime minister is honest way to sudan to try to end the crisis. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. baxter promises to step up security along its border with water mala to stop migrants but the u.s. wants it to do more to avoid tariffs. britain's price of party fails to win a seat in westminster as labor scores a narrow victory. kazakhstan's growing youth movement rally supporters ahead of a presidential election. ethiopian prime minister has arrived in sudan to broker talks between pro-democracy protesters and the that's after the african union suspended sudan's membersh

and around the coast of madagascar as well elsewhere though it's largely fine and dry so forth in capetown a cool day but at least a sunny one with a top temperature of 15 degrees. $115000000.00 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear from upcycling to save the forests the famous yellow dress made from blue jeans. to conserving the well being wetlands free of aids world's global bird migration flight intersect right where we are the basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special low clouds in the place at fry's ecosystems in light on al-jazeera. this is on to syria right of the top stories for you and i the african union has suspended sit on and response to be cracked on all protestors by the military jointer more than 100 people have been killed since monday. russia's president vladimir putin is warning a treaty with the u.s. on limiting the number of nuclear weapons is at risk of breaking down and speaking as an economic forum and some petersburg you cues the americans backtracking on the starts treaty. and the president of france is calling for glo

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i think my favorite bobby kennedy speech is the university of capetown. >> south africa. >> yeah.t. it was an extraordinary visit because it was a senator. he gave a beautiful speech. in fact, the words are at arlington cemetary etched in stone. it's his ripples of stone speech. he talks about if a person stands up against injustice and strikes out against indecency, how that creates ripples and those ripples together create currents and those currents can wipe out the mightiest walls of oppression. that was south africa in 1966 and it worked and apartheid was defeated. we're not 1966 south africa. we're not in a period of apartheid. we have challenges. but we have it within ourselves to correct them. sometimes in my conversations with people, they speak as if our political maladies is a term cal illness, there's nothing we can do about it. one of the things i say in my book is we have to shake out the cynicism, we have to shake out the fatalism, and we have to retain the country we love. politics matters. it's a complicated profession. it has its down sides. everybody here knows