recchi but i mean from the international union for conservation of nature believes the rapid expansion of the settlement had a profound impact on the natural environment this is the edge of the camp of a cave right here as this is where the forest began yes what's been going on was the cause behind all of these that you see on all camps they used to be forest there seems to be an elephant have habitat. the cap expanded at an astonishing rate over $1500.00 hectares of forests were cleared to accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. but nobody realized the devastating impact this would have the growing camps severed a vital lifeline for some of bangladesh's last remaining wild elephants blocking a herd of 40 from their only path to essential grazing brown. just over there is there is a space we call the elephant now the since the camp is completely blocking that coded door elephant cannot pass through this have it in such an office shelter in search of his food essential fizz migration path elephants was trying to come inside the camp elephant came so many times and 1

the international union for conservation of nature has changed the status of mountain gorillas from a critically endangered to simply endangered the total population split between 2 regions has risen from 680 a decade ago to over a 1000. tourism has become a significant source of revenue to finance conservation work and support local communities each per bit cost a 1500 dollars last year the park took in $19000000.00. 10 percent of the park's revenue goes towards infrastructure projects in nearby villages including clinics and schools children here. of caring for the forest and its wide life. we don't want to protect the park with the guns we want to protect in this park with people who understand why and how. that is possible it is as wet and the that is. really do. british model naomi campbell was a bounce against at this year's naming ceremony for baby gorillas an event designed to draw attention to rwanda's conservation efforts. and in the name will be. the birth of every baby gorilla is cause for celebration for its own sake and for all the people here who would do it better to g

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amy: 7500 public school workers with the service employees international union who had been striking also settled with the city earlier this week. they stayed on the picket lines through thursday. well, for more, we're joined by two guests. in chicago, stacy davis gates is with us. she is the executive vice president of the chicago teacher union. and labor journalist sarah jaffe joins us from philadelphia, author of "necessary trouble: americans in revolt." welcome to democracy now! let's go d directly to ccacago. stacy davis gates, can you talk that yout this deal is struck, the chicago teachers union, with the city of chicago, that if all of the workers today, well,nds teachers are back at school. >> our members took a ten-day sacrifice to finally bring about some equity in the chicago public schools. our school communities will have a nurse five days a week in every school, a social worker five days a week and every school. school communities on the south and west side of the city are now being prioritized. they will get the wraparound support they need, the class size limits will

sharon borrows the head of the international trade union confederation.o defend the climate as well as workers. we want to see this region live. at the end of last year, spain reached an agreement with unions and the companies involved to suck down all its remaining coal mines. a deal was forged which promised 250 million euros to help miners like these retire early or retrained. they call it a just transition, and believe it is a model for the rest of the world. sharon is here to tell miners there is hope for them, but the spanish coal mining industry is done, but some miners remain unconvinced. it's good to look for alternatives. sharon is visiting the recently shut down escondido mine in castieau early on, one of many she has visited around the world to reassure workers about their future. coal burning is responsible for around one third of the rising global temperatures, the biggest source. it looks very rich, guys. globally, around 6 million people are employed in coal mining. and in some parts of the world, mostly in asia, coal—fired power stations

sharan burrow is the head of the international trade union confederation.ants to defend the climate as well as workers. we want to see this region live. at the end of last year, spain reached an agreement with unions and the companies involved to suck down —— with unions and the companies involved to shut down all its remaining coal mines. a deal was forged which promised 250 million euros to help miners like these retire early or be retrained. they call it a just transition, and believe it is a model for the rest of the world. sharran is here to tell miners there is hope for them, but the spanish coal mining industry has some miners who remain unconvinced. it's good to look for alternatives. sharran is visiting the recently shut—down la escondida mine, one of many she has visited around the world to reassure workers about their future. coal burning is responsible for around one third of the rising global temperatures, the biggest source. it looks very rich, guys. globally, around 6 million people are employed in coal mining. and in some parts of the world,

sharan burrow is the head of the international trade union confederation.ants to defend the climate as well as workers. we want to see this region live. at the end of last year, spain reached an agreement with unions and the companies involved to shut down all its remaining coal mines. a deal was forged which promised 250 million euros to help miners like these retire early or be retrained. they call it a just transition, and believe it is a model for the rest of the world. sharan is here to tell miners there is hope for them, but the spanish coal mining industry has some miners who remain unconvinced. it's good to look for alternatives. sharan is visiting the recently shut—down la escondida mine, one of many she has visited around the world to reassure workers about their future. i love being with the workers in their place of work and where they live. coal burning is responsible for around one third of the rising global temperatures, the biggest source. it looks very rich, guys. globally, around 6 million people are employed in coal mining. and in some pa

sharan burrow is the head of the international trade union confederation.ll as workers. workers are already on the front lines in many communities with their families of loss and damage, and their lives and livelihoods have really been threatened. we want to see this region live. and people like you who have been so important to the history, the employment, the economy of the region. at the end of last year, spain reached an agreement with unions and the companies involved to shut down all its remaining coal mines. the fourth generation. a deal was forged which promised 250 million euros to help miners like these retire early or retrain. i perfectly understand why people wa nt to i perfectly understand why people want to stay living here. it is so beautiful. they call it a just transition, and believe it is a model for the rest of the world. sharan is here to tell miners there is hope for them, but the spanish coal mining industry is done. some of the miners who remain unconvinced. it's good to look for alternatives. sharan is visiting the recently shut—dow

paris they're accusing the government of holding back their industry the 2 main farmers unions say international trade agreements of course unfair competition or policy reforms have failed to be used to earnings the tractors are headed to the famous shopping street of the seans elisei from where our correspondent. joins us if i'm right in saying you're quite close to the outer tree of the trash or any sign of the tractors there yet. no no sign of the tractors i actually can probably see behind me it's a pretty empty road are the moments there at the foot of the we understand about a 1000 tractors are heading towards paris they are supposed to be just on the outskirts and the idea is that they're going to drive up avenue fortune or actually going to be on the shores of just they're going to be on a road quite close there also of course in the area near the lease a palace and that is where the french presence emmanuel micro is and it's a some all symbolic protest here if you like in the heart of paris because they are here to try and demands a meeting with the french president because they say tha

has now asked party leaders to join in peaceful talks there are also now international reactions to disintegration the european union and mexico both have issued statements saying they're watching what's happening so the international community's eyes definitely are on the situation in libya differently be caving in on that situation madness our state thanks very much for breaking it down for us thank you. as for sport now and in the soccer heads of the enjoin the wall celebrations even tease me with an elaborate ceremony at the olympic stadium before their home clash with. the inform visitors spoiled the bell and his party. this wasn't just any great your sunday in berlin exactly 30 years on from the fall of the berlin wall pass or commemorated that historic occasion with a replica that their fans tore down this hall because. there was another symbolic moment in front of the oscar nothing sums up the spirits of reunification like an old east german tragedy bursting through the wall and her head channeled that spirit to burst into the late nights a 1000000 little stand hammering. the berlin wall midfielder made his

vonnie: there's no particular regulator for these type of missions but the international telecommunications union coordinates the allocation for frequency of communications, matthew, so in a sense space x is given a lot of freedom and seems to be using the freedom pretty well. let's talk about the satellites and go up in the tower and then one is at the ch lower orbits and they have to push their own solar panels to survive in space. it's very ingenious. matt: they're using a lot of technology though it's got a lot of space garbage and putting a lot of satellites up there will make it difficult to go into the distant galaxies and continue with their work. they have to think about space junk and what happens when you see satellites get into their lives and they're seag these satellites are fully dissolveable as they come back down into the earth's atmosphere and have thought about a lot of things but there are developing issues in space and from the kind of telecom perspective, you do need licenses to use the spectrum. they are going to have to have lots of ground stations and will become a fully

westminster has its habit of doing a deal which is not a deal but an international treaty between the european unionhis kind of language. i feel that this deal, this treaty, is the best we can have. it is not the first time that i am considering this treaty would be the best because when i negotiated with my good friend theresa may, i said the same and she said the same but what happened in the british parliament, the other day i was saying that by comparison to the british parliament, an egyptian sphinx is an open book, but ok it is parliament that does democracy. if we start with boris johnson because he... i like him by the way. ok, so he says, if he wins the election and the withdrawal bill is passed then he thinks it is possible to get a new trade deal negotiated by the end of 2020 so in less than 12 months. is that possible? i don't want to be a prisoner of this timeframe. but is it even possible, it took seven years to negotiate a deal with canada for example? it takes time to negotiate a free—trade agreement. sometimes i have the impression that in britain, people, parliamentary representati

union. it is his performance at the international level that made him a global sporting icon. ugby league world cup final. in the middle of it all, a career as a professional boxer. now canada seems the next step on his incredible journey, canada seems the next step on his incrediblejourney, only formed three seasons ago, they want a promotion to the super league and 110w promotion to the super league and now seem poised to be where the profile signings that the rugby league is ever seen. at 3a, he is best years may be behind him but for him, the incrediblejourney continues. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are helen brand, chief executive of the association of chartered certified accountants and the political commentator & former labour party director of communications, lance price. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the front page of the metro leads with the rapper stormzy, who's calling forjacob rees—mogg to resign over comments he made ab

union. it is his performance at international level that have made him a global sporting icon. e a rugby union world cup winner with the all blacks, he also played in a rugby league world cup final. amidst it all a career as a professional boxer. now canada seems the next step on his incrediblejourney, only three seasons ago toronto won promotion to the super league and now seem poised to make him one of the highest profile signings rugby league has ever seen. at 3a he may have his best years behind him but for sonny bill williams the incredible journey continues. so what can we expect from sonny bill williams then? robbie hunter paul played alongside williams at the start of his rugby career and chatted to me a little earlier. rugby league is the type of game that will allow him to flourish once again. it is second nature to him as he grew up playing rugby league and made his name in rugby league. as a by made his name in rugby league. as a rugby league boy it would be nice to see him finishing in rugby league where he started. for toronto this isa where he started. for toronto

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it's comeing from a background like i do, i had a union specialty printing shop, a member of international union of iupat. d ally trades, i can tell you the benefits that happened for my family and the people i work with's family, of having good union supporting wages and good union-supporting benefits and why that matters so much. the problem we have right now in this country is the organized effort going after working people by going after their ability to have a voice in their workplaces by having unions. we have patched -- we have watched attacks across the country, where states have gone to right to work law. what that's often referred to is a right to work for less law. when you get these laws people lose about 3% in pay in states that do. this federally under the trump administration we have watched laws that make it harder for working people who win the legal right to form a union through a union election run into all kinds of stumbling blocks and all too often there's no legal recourse against an employer who violates the rules or stacks the deck against people and doesn't allow that vo

capital paris accusing the government of holding back their industry the 2 main farmers unions say international trade agreements are causing unfair competition while policy reforms of failed to boost the tractors are heading to the famous shopping street of sean's iliza. for a job today those are the very latest headlines in about half an hour or so will be the news or today's hosts will be raman but coming up next it's earthrise. h.i.v. aids is still a major killer and african nations are struggling with the highest infection rates thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to exchange ideas and work out how to come from one of the world's most serious else challenges special coverage on al-jazeera . to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the vast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half their area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet's from cleaning and

capital paris accusing the government to holding back their industry the 2 main farming's unions international trade agreements have caused unfair competition those are the news headlines i'll be back with a news hour in 30 minutes stay with us for our anchors. for some people the decision to move to a different country is a very deliberate one for others chance is a major factor and when opportunities do more rides it can also be about being in the right place at the right time. geologist carson was living in iraq with a young family this was some 50 years ago and young adult had no intention of leaving a good job in iraq. but then events took over. the other room not always come out here for a. while and. one of the file of us off. my little beer while i was at the mom what kind of mentor fall out of a don't fit our poor daughter but i really of course saw how and all i said. my daughter made obviously my lester. and i was emotional. when i have enough air cones old steam in the reeds can never know all i want to. have been and. a lot of bar all why do i know all them can on the side. that's

to safety in an emergency the star will ferry astronauts to and from the international space station. program. cabin crew union u f o has called for a 2 day strike at lufthansa starting this thursday the union said all flights starting in germany will be affected the airline has condemned to the walkouts and is considering legal action to prevent it. apple has committed 2 and a half $1000000000.00 to tackle california's housing crisis the take john says it wants to help community members like teachers and firefighters to access of fordable are committed ation but critics say the problem of skyrocketing rents is one the company itself helped to create. welcome to california a place where some people's homes look like this. and other dwellings more like this but but this is it i had an essence of it which is more conducive to. homelessness for at least a discourse doing the good i try to be like it's not my business and i don't know in the past few years the states has in crisis has intensified the arrival of highly paid tech workers in the san francisco bay area in particular has led to fear spitting boards in

with china when it comes to cooperation that we've made russia and when it comes to internal issues of the european union as well sometimes you do have the feeling that some smaller member states. for the same things for which some of those got praised you know and this is this is really something that we have to change that's why we are very vocal about it comes to dubai. the future. debates in very actively. now the last time i heard you mention that word was in relation to. central and eastern european countries willingness to do business with china and you made the point that bigger countries like germany and france are far ahead in the game and yet for some reason they seem to be rather displeased about other countries willing to catch up how do you interpret that kind of criticism is a competition is it an effort to control is it something else. making business with china is pretty beneficial for everyone because the chinese companies are getting stronger and stronger. chinese investors. are. countries. no question about it i mean the old. laws. for cheap labor knowledge base all of the changes reg

and england's women began their rugby union autumn internationals with an impressive win over francee back with more on those stories later. snp leader nicola sturgeon has been campaigning in scotland today. the party are calling for the minimum wage to be the same for younger workers as it is for those over the age of 25. campaigning in liberal democrat leaderjo swinson‘s seat of east dumbartonshire, ms sturgeon stressed the importance of voting in this general election. scotland's future is on the line at this election. if we don't come out and vote snp, we risk boris johnson taking us out of europe, taking us down a path we don't want to go down. we can't trust the other parties to stand up for scotland. i remember the last timejo swinson had any say, she went into david cameron's government. that is what we can expect from the lib dems. we need to make sure the snp are there standing up for scotland. if there is a hung parliament, we will tip the balance of power, making sure we can escape the mess of brexit and most important of all, putting scotland's future into scotland's han

the international report the european union was collaborating with disobedience to talk to an entity of all young people i'm sorry i can't allow you to say such things without backing i mean we i. mean there's fact there's no reason to raise on the international report i can send you the link you gave me a study of this stuff that is confirmed ok so some very serious accusations being leveled not just against you but international organizations that are just here for the power point presentations of the end of things here i hear effective as i aware or any u.n. agency or any international organization our role in any country is to support the government to address its concerns and a huge part of that is as rightly mentioned perhaps 2017 there was a limited capacity on behalf of the government to manage this issue but i think at the same time it's a bit unfair to say that any intern. organization will solve the entire problem on its own expertise in a.v.r. which is assisted voluntary return and reintegration so many of these individuals. were in a situation in libya they just could no

. >> it was the whole international community. it was the european union. ernational financial organizations. it was about reform of our prosecutor offices. which were fundamentally and systematically corrupt. >> among the loudest voices calling for shokin to be fired was vice president joe biden. to help push the case, biden threatened to hold up a billion-dollar loan guarantee program. an episode he boasted about months later at the council on foreign relations. >> i said, i'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. i said, you're not getting a billion. i'm going to be leaving here, i think it was six hours. i said, we're leaving in six hours. if the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. well, son of a bitch, he got fired. >> remember this, it's important. shokin was fired for failing to investigate corruption. as you'll see, president trump and his personal lawyer now tell a very different and misleading story. >>> when we come back, how president trump is rewriting history. >> it's [ bleep ]. from first word to the last word. >

international from the team myself union o'neill and welcome following months of protests fold from the rest in hong kong is now being felt much further afield for the 1st time since antigovernment demonstrations began on the chinese territory activists have attacked a hong kong official who was visiting london. well for more on what happened to join. coast some of the pictures there quite dark was helping and i couldn't quite follow what more do we know about this incident we know for sure emotions are running high well the video that we just saw shows hong kong's justice secretary to resign chang who was actually at the time in the u.k. giving a speech about successful dispute resolution how she was targeted by dozens of protesters who pretty much mobbed her as she left the car now the activists were yelling murderer and they also chased her down the street to put it show of the incidents the one that we just saw shows a chain being swamped and screamed ads and at some point she was even pushed to the ground and she injured her arm and she was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatm

standards making bodies between those dominated by governments that are multilateral like international telecommunication union, the big 5g conference, to harmonize wide spectrum policies, in charlottesville egypt, and we have more than 120 u.s. government officials at private sector delegates represented representing us. there were taking a pretty aggressive posture in all of these standards making bodies. i think we can by calling certain talk a little bit about what they do in the congress department and how they are involved internationally and the standards we can buddies but we are virtually about what's going on there. we have noticed that the chinese have come in in larger forces there. we think there's been a pretty successful distribution of patents coming to u.s. companies and to western companies generally. we work hardly with our partners on what comes out to this conference. it's also important war how we can think about what how we can encourage the private sector to participate fully instructed spot. these standards companies pretending to standard parties because the sea value in. that some co

to cooperation with china comes to cooperation the real russia and when it comes to internal issues of the european unionas well sometimes you do have the feeling that some smaller member states. the same things for which some of those got praised you know and this is really something that we have to change that's very vocal and it comes to debate about the future of the union be one of these debates in very actively. now the last time i heard you mention that when it was in relation to. central and eastern european countries willingness to do business with china and you made the point that bigger countries like germany and france are far ahead in the game and yet for some reason they seem to be rather displeased about other countries willing to catch up how do you interpret that kind of criticism is the competition is it an effort to control is it something else. making business with china is pretty beneficial for everyone because the chinese companies are getting stronger and stronger. chinese investors. are the. countries that the logical upgrading no question about it i mean the old. flaws from west

relations to athens and moscow have agreed on a for most of co-operation over international issues including the european union and nato that was announced after greece's top diplomats held talks in the russian capital. the you love up as you know greece is one of the oldest members of both the e.u. and nato but we're trying to ramp up our role in the international scenes as we're occupying a key strategic position in the region given the undeniable fact that russia is an integral part of europe security architecture greece is ready to assist in settling various disputable issues to cooperate in terms of safety and security in the region and to develop a positive dialogue we hope that both my visit to russia as well as mr lavrov the upcoming visit to greece and other bilateral communications will contribute to the issues presented together. let's go live now to the greek ambassador leonid as christiane thoughtless to discuss this further welcome to the program it's great to have you on at do you think greece is in a position to influence european policies in regards to russia. i think i think yes. yes. mention

future of germany in the future of germany's role in terms of on the international stage but also specifically in the european union. we need definitely more european engagement where so many proposals on the floor regard to the european union is specially investing into the future of the european union and germany has been very reluctant over the last year and this is a big problem and that's why we propose that they have to be a big fun course in the european union investment of infrastructure but also making the banking system secure against the next crisis. and to engage also in the question of agricultural policy where the most of the money goes into it. and looking ahead now it's the 1000000 euro question right now do you see yourself as the next chancellor of germany while this is not already paid because you don't even have the election coming up it's supposed to be in 2021 and we focus on the question which on the table right now thank you very much i think you. are now to some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of protesters have gathered in the czech capital prong to call on prim

relationships with the european union cited as a key issue in britain's general election campaign well here's one country famous for repeated violations of international law and one that has been bombing damascus and reportedly killing civilians in syria this week israel has a privileged trading relationship with the european union based on the e.u. israel association agreement establishing that products originating in israel within its internationally recognized borders benefit from pressure and show tariff treatment upon their n.t. into the european union yes special treatment for violators of international law so israel's detractors might have it but there was more this month from the european court of justice that you has a longstanding and well known position that it will not recognize any changes to pre 967 he said.

the athens and moscow have agreed on a format of cocoa up of cooperation over international issues including the european union and they said well that was announced of degrees as top diplomats held talks in the russian capital. he your lover as you know greece is one of the oldest members of both the e.u. and nato because we're trying to ramp up our role on the international scene just as we're occupying a key strategic position in the region given the undeniable fact that russia is an integral part of europe security architecture greece is ready to assist in settling various disputable issues to cooperate in terms of safety and security in the region and to develop a positive dialogue we hope that both my visit to russia as well as mr lavrov are becoming visit to greece and other bilateral communications to contribute to the issues proceed to go from a great canvas of the any death christa populist todas cooperating with russia is to greece is a plant which the basic reason that minister then the u.s. went to moscow in order to stroll the difference that it is that this government has in order to continue ha

cooperation with china when it comes to cooperation that we need russia and when it comes to internal issues of the european union as well sometimes you do have the feeling that some smaller member states. the same things for which some of those got praised you know and this is really something that we have to change that's why we are very vocal comes to debate about the future of the union we want to take part in these debates in very actively in order to. now the last time i heard you mention that word was in relation to. central and eastern european countries willingness to do business with china and you made the point that bigger countries like germany and france are far ahead in the game and yet for some reason they seem to be rather displeased about other countries willing to catch up how do you interpret that kind of criticism is a competition is it an effort to exert control is it something else. making good business with china is pretty beneficial for everyone because the chinese companies are getting stronger and stronger. chinese investors. and you can be sure they help countries technological upgradin

relations that's after athens a moscow have agreed on a form of cooperation of international issues including the european union and nato that was announced after greece's top diplomats held talks in the russian capital. your lover as you know greece is one of the oldest members of both the e.u. and nato because we're trying to ramp up our role on the international scene as we're occupying a key strategic position in the region given the undeniable fact that russia has an entire group parts of europe security architecture greece is ready to assist in settling various disputes about issues to cooperate in terms of safety and security in the region and to develop a positive dialogue we hope that both my visit to russia as well as mr le bron's upcoming visit to greece and other bilateral communications to contribute to the issue of the degree from a great comeback for the any death christiane populist told us cooperation with russia is to greece's advantage the basic reason that minister of india's went to moscow in order to stroll the difference that it is that this government has in order to continue having its