extinct lemurs are among the many species unique to the island in the indian ocean now the international union for the conservation of nature says that a 100 in 3 of these surviving 107 species are in danger their latest report calls for a fundamental fundamental reimagining of the way people interact with nature the organization classifies 30000 species worldwide as at risk of disappear. those numbers are not good let's bring in christophe spencer now he is in the primate specialist group at the international union for the conservation of nature he is a specialist in this it's good to have you on the program just how close are we to losing these species of lemur. yet we are indeed very close to losing salty species i wouldn't run into any of them off to you have the ability to bounce back even from very low numbers but the rarest of all the limos pieces which is the north and sports safely nocturnal little species of about 6700 grams of all the weight is now down to just under 100 individual limas in the wild when you think about them that's not very many at all so there are a couple of villa

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 the cave right yeah 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 they the seems to be an elephant have habitat. the camp 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 realised 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 financial grazing brown. just over there is there is a space we call the elephant now the since the camp is completely blocking that coated elephant cannot pass through this have it's in search of its shelter in such of his food essential for his migration path elephants was trying to come inside the camp elephant came so many times and

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president of the service employees international union.alifornia governors future of work commission. good to see you. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you, ali. >> let me ask you about unions. this has been a tough few years for unions in part because some of the things that donald trump has done have appealed to unions including the tariffs that he put on. the steel tariffs. you know, the pressure is on international trade, some of the trade war. on the other hand, he had promised people particularly in places like i am that manufacturing would come back and industry would increase in america. and that hasn't happened. so how do union members evaluate how to vote in 2020? >> they -- union members know that 40 million of our brothers and sisters are unemployed and that this president has failed to provide personal protective equipment to every essential worker on the front lines of this pandemic. health care workers, janitors, security officers, have to make the terrible choice to go into work every day while they

> san francisco has a new mural in front of city hall with members of the service employees international union and their supporters painting a role that states defund the police. essential workers in the bay area to part in a nationwide strike for black lives in oakland and in san francisco. they say they are calling attention to systemic racism and inadequate tensions in the workplace. dozens of janitors demanded transparency and personal protective gear when it comes to colleagues who tested positive for covid-19. >>> a strong reaction in oakland after president trump threatened to send in the fed spirit betty reports that many local leaders are telling them to stay away. >> the move to send federal law enforcement to oakland would be similar to his deployment of officers in military gear to portland. he said the ongoing protests were out of control. in the east bay, the threat has been loudly credit criticized. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> i'm going to do something, that i can tell you. we are not going to let new york , philadelphia, chicago, detroit, baltimore, oakland is

i think they are still challenging times ahead of us and this is why the international union of cinemasbout there is the additional safety measures that are in place and they should be there because health and safety is of course paramount for cinemas for their staff and their visitors. but they are different, depending on where you are in europe, in the country, and they will actually evolve in time, depending on the situation. you might be able to sit together with your family or yourfriends, able to sit together with your family or your friends, you might have to book your tickets in advance. sorry to interrupt you. i only have a short time, but i wanted to say we should expect, presumably, that a number of cinemas will have to go. i think what we can expect is that recovery will take a long time and it will not happen overnight because cinemas will have to recover from this, being unable to operate at full capacity for some time. what gives us hope is seeing the numbers being driven by new things being released. that is our big challenge at the moment. we need new content, both home

. >>> members of the service employees international union and their supporters painted a mural saying defund the police as they held a black lives matter rally. >> workers from the bay area took part in a nationwide strike for black lives in oakland and san francisco. they say they're calling attention to systemic racism and inadequate protections in the workplace. dozens of janitors demanded personal protective gear and transparency when it comes to colleagues who have tested positive for covid-19. >>> in sacramento, dozens of workers gathered on capitol avenue where they took a knee in support of the black lights movement. the demonstrators also staged a caravan. >>> coming up, streaming on cbsn bay area, new warnings for e-cigarette makers. of the fda is trying to bring the companies around. >>> let's take another look outside at the sparkling bay bridge on >>> it is for:42. kanye west has been on a bizarre twitter rants, claiming kim kardashian tried to knock him up as he says with a doctor. it comes after his campaign rally in south carolina on sunday had a presidential campaign

before that she ran the international union for conservation of nature. n 30 years experience in sustainable and international development. and lily cole is the british actress, writer and climate activist. her new book, who cares wins, reasons for optimism in ourchanging world, examines different approaches to the environment crisis. welcome to you both, and to our audience. you join us from all over the world, and a solitary round of applause from me, and rememberyou, too, can join the conversation. it is #bbcglobalquestions. let's get down to our first question straightaway. we are going to just outside cairo in egypt, to amira zanoun — amira, fire away. although the proportion of pollution has been decreased, during the coronavirus pandemic, but also we witnessed a significant increase in using disposable tools such as face coverings and other things which are used in restaurants and in takeaway meals, so how is the government limiting these and producing reusable and affordable alternatives? lily cole, a lot of people worried about all that plastic th

the international union for the conservation of nature has been updating its red list, which detailsof the primates, which only live in madagascar. this is bbc news. hello. we‘ve had a real mix of weather across the uk so far this week, but things are now beginning to settle down. and certainly by the time we get to the weekend, it should be dry for the vast majority, with some spells of sunshine, because high pressure is going to build its way in. now, that area of high pressure is currently down to the south—west of the british isles. and for friday, well, we‘ve still got low pressure fairly close by, so that means we have got one more showery day to contend with in many areas. now, those showers could crop up just about anywhere. they‘re most likely across northern and eastern areas, so through parts of scotland, northern england, down the eastern side of england as well. some of the showers here could be heavy and thundery, some being blown into northern ireland on this north—westerly breeze. for parts of wales and the south—west, yes, one or two showers, but most places here sho

covert 19 and 238 have died according to the unions the united food and commercial workers international union has called on the president to do more to protect workers cold damp and overcrowded slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants are the perfect breeding grounds for the virus this isn't just a problem for the united states meat processing plants in europe have been forced to close prompting localised lockdowns and china has banned the import of pork from the netherlands now a 20 trillion dollar network of investment funds is warning that the meat industry is at serious risk of creating and spreading a future pandemic fare is also challenging the meat industry to reduce the use of antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistant superbugs causing the next pandemic last month i caught up with the director of fare. i began by asking as someone who's been fighting and challenging meat producers to change their working practices for some time is the message finally getting through. well and i'd actually like to say that the code that is knowing the person died of disease that is that is that upon it

named martha baker a registered nurse here in the miami area and head of the service employees international union or sci you jackson health system that's a big health system here in south florida university of miami health in a hospital among others anyway she called on governor rhonda santas to quote become the leader we need him to be and to come up she says with a consistent strategic plan to fight the ongoing pandemic here in florida here's what she said listen so please governor to see anticipate and all the way up to the president honored the mass let's deal with the science and heaters start mandating masks in public social distancing hand washing and it would be ideal if we could get a testing done and tracers done to actually identify where this virus is hanging out and how we can put an end to it once and for all we are the richest country on earth and i expect more from our leaders that i'm seeing right now. well currently miami dade county in the city of miami speaking of mass require people to wear masks and public and police are enforcing that rule issuing citations to those who are

members of the service employees international union and their supporters painted a mural stating defunde as they held a black lives matter rally. workers from the bay area took part in a nationwide strike for black lives in oakland and san francisco. they say they are calling attention to systemic racism and in adequate protections in the workplace. dozens of janitors, the men in ppe and transparency when it comes to colleagues who have tested positive for covid-19. >>> a look from the white house, where president donald trump is eyeing the city of oakland. he is threatening to deploy troops to the city. there is a similar move to what is going on in portland. over the weekend, federal agents in camouflaged carrying batons moved in on protesters and the portland mayor says the federal response is making things worse but in oakland, there have been no violent protests for weeks. mayor libby schaaf says they need covid relief, not troops. the president of the police officers association agrees, saying the protests are peaceful. >> people -- i think this has been positive all the way aroun

the service employees international union says fast food, nursing home, ride share and other workers6 that is the amount of time that george floyd was pinned under the knee of a minneapolis police officer before he died joining us now is mary kay henry, the president of the sciu what is the goal of the walkout? what do you hope to accomplish >> we want to invite the fight for justice. i hope that congressman lewis would be proud of the tens of thousands of workers that have made the courageous decision to strike, and the millions more who are joining us online, and will take solidarity actions that you just described in honoring the life and memory of george floyd for 8:46. also in joining with the demand for black lives, that we have to win justice on every front in the black community. and this has grown from 25 cities to 200 cities just in the past couple of days. and 12 dozen countries around the world are expressing their support for our demand that we have to have justice in black communities, that we want every elected official to rewrite the rules, to end structural racism, a

also just as importantly as the organization that we are going to hear from today is that the international unionf police associations, back in the fall, which has a membership of over 100,000 officers, it adds to the fop. the fall of 2019. they have over 300,000 members. that is kind of unheard of, the amount that early in the game to endorse the president. >> harris: i would mention that last time around this particular police organization sat 2016 out. before that they backed obama and biden, and now they are talking with president trump. what is it about biden's message that specifically is something you let john to and say it's a strategy for us? >> the unity platform wants to pretty much, in essence, without listing the 30 things they want to do, do away with federal law enforcement. do away with i.c.e., do it with the border patrol, and prosecution for people crossing the border illegally, if you will. they are going to support sanctuary cities. i heard the president early talking about ms-13. not only is this law enforcement, but after i retired i worked with the u.s. marshals of the cont

chinese leaders at the international telecommunications union and the international civil aviation organization have leveraged their positions to advance china's narrow interests. certainly, the united states and many of our free willed friends have our differences on the subject of multilateralism, but we can all agree these institutions should be rooted in democratic values, and reflect the interests of all member states. look, we have already done some good work this spring. i led a global diplomatic effort to make sure the next director general of the world intellectual property organization protects intellectual property rights on behalf of the world, not on behalf of china. the trans-atlantic world has thrivered like no other part of the world since world war ii, so much in part because our countries protect intellectual property. i want to thank our friends in france and the uk with whom we worked closely for their efforts in securing that important and good outcome. we should keep protecting multilateral bodies as transatlantic partners. my message today to all of you is this, we have t

the exploration and exploitation to give a single example, chinese leaders in the international telecommunications union and civil aviation organization have leveraged their position to advance china's narrow interest. certainly, the u.s. is our differences on the subject of motoric literalism. we can all agree these institutions should be voted in democratic values into the mission and interests of all m m members we've already done some good work to spring effort to make sure the next director general of the organization protect intellectual property rights, not on behalf of china. the transatlantic world has thrived like no other part of the world since world war ii because our countries protect intellectual property i want to thank your friends and family in the uk mostly efforts in securing outcome. we should keep protecting transatlantic partners. my messagege today, will have to work together to continue trade at the lake china challenged in the interest of preserving our prosperity and our future. most home tensions and exemptn increasingly belligerent ccp. it's nonsense. i don't accept the argu

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your training in from right across the globe welcome to r t international my name's union. it's the final day of a week of voting that's been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the country's constitution while many have already had their say by voting online president putin the 3rd today a national holiday to voters who haven't yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. let's go through it's a package of more than $140.00 amendments many things social legal and economic guarantees to the constitution one ensures the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures a new will adjustment to maintain the value of pensions allowance has also tougher requirements for civil servants such as bombing key officials from having foreign citizenship or bank accounts are brought also some proposal seen by some controversial more age would be classified solely as a union between a man a woman and although god is referenced the constitution will still define russia as a secular state but there are some political changes proposed chiefly concerning pr

i just saw a letter from the laborers union international to the ohio oil and gas association talking about how many union workers were working how many hours getting paid what kind ofs wages in order to work in the energy infrastructure that iser rising up in ohio and western pennsylvania as a result of the fracking revolution. you are right. this campaign needs to be about big changes, big contrasts and the big changes that joe biden would like to affect on the country that aren't for the good. >> sean: you have an opinion piece on "the wall street journal" re you are right, if biden wants to lead he needs to specifically denounce the violence in these cities that have been run by liberal democratsth for decades with only one push does he givee the, okay, we need to stop that. he also said that police are the enemy. not one supportive ward of the 99% of police that protect and serve. this is such a disservice. seeing these cops pelted with everything! >> look, he wants to be the head of the federal government and he can't find one word to say, to defend federal property under attack

while he has made moves, he has sent out security forces, trained byommando the european union and funded by international normally men to fight armed groups but these security forces are being protesters whof are peaceful. so this situation remains tense and while the european union and u.n. have condemns the use of the security forces, the united states and state department have said they will not tolerate protesters ,estroying government buildings alluding to the national assembly on friday that was attacked and looted by protesters and saying as well they will not tolerate any type of move that would be beyond the constitution, so there is an international context to this. this is the current situation here. the fighting in the north and center of the country between armed groups and security forces will focus at the heart of power . miles away from the presidential palace, they want him out of power. nicholas, thank you. protectingave been against the nomination of a new electoral commission chief in the congo. opposition politicians have accused of being complicit. toward the is biased former who fo

government's changes to the judiciary, for example, which had been criticised by the european union and many other internationaltitutions as undermining the independence of the judiciary and undermining the rule of law in poland. president duda has said in his remarks immediately after the polls closed was that he said he was happy that he had won a victory, but it was just a victory of the opinion polls. it's not a victory of the official count of course. on the other hand, his challenger, mr trzaskowski, said that he was confident, absolutely convinced that he would win and it was just a matter of counting the votes. president duda has invited mr trzaskowski to the presidential palace to shake hands was up and at the moment, it's all... everybody is saying tht this is still — one politician described it as a marathon race and that we're still farfrom the end. let's go live to warsaw and speak to kamil turecki is an international affairs journalist from onet, poland's biggest online information portal. it is so incredibly tight. the latest exit polls have got the two candidates as having a difference of 1.6%.

professionals, aarp, the alzheimer's association, catholic charities, the ark and the service employees international union all came together to write senate leadership to demand this action and more. now, let's just think about that group. that's not a group that is always on the same page. they have often direct conflicts on a lot of issues, but they have all come together to support the residents in nursing homes and those in other settings and the workers, because that's how dire it is. groups that are often in conflict on legislation are together on this. here's part of what they wrote to the senate leadership. quote, the urgent need to save lives prevent -- lives, prevent the spread of the virus and give the services and support older adults and people with disabilities need cannot be overstated, unquote. so in addition to nursing home supports, this coalition calls for dedicated funds for home and community-based services under medicaid that i have described earlier. i've got a bill to do that. the house-passed heroes act, in fact, does that. remember, heroes passed two months ago. and her here in t

a decision is expected in the next couple fo weeks about the autumn internationals, with the home unionslans for a six nations style tounament if those games can't take place. one of britain's most decorated female divers, alicia blagg, has been forced to retire at the age of 23. the two—time olympian, who specialises on the springboard, struggled with depression and anxiety in recent years following previous wrist problems, but now a shoulder injury means she will have to give up for good and miss the tokyo games next year, where she hoped to add to her three european and two commonwealth medals. my my shoulder wasn't so much pain still, and it still is to this day. i think ne i need to get surgery on it again, so it was just a of i think ne i need to get surgery on it again, so it wasjust a of my mind wasjust, i can't do it again, so it wasjust a of my mind was just, i can't do this any more, i can't keep fighting the demons in my head. it'sjust exhausting. i thought i would listen to my body, and i think it isjust time. the president of the tokyo organising committee says he is not su

international civil aviation organization, the food and agricultural organization, the international telecom unionand u.n. industrial development organization. for comparison, a french national leads two specialized agencies, the imf and unesco. the uk leads one, the ilo, and the u.s. leads just one, the world bank. although u.s. national does lead the u.n. children's fund and the world food program, which are large and prominent u.n. organizations. so building on senator murphy's earlier line of questioning, why don't we look beyond the world health organization, and i ask you, mr. secretary, what implications does this, this losing of ground within u.n. bodies and agencies have on advancing u.s. national security interests and other foreign policy priorities that we might have in the u.n. system. >> it's very significant, and it is at least a 15-year-long slide that has taken place and growth of the chinese communist party's influence on these organizations. we have done a couple things to turn this around. we had real success at the world international property organization. the chinese thought

the service employees international union is joining forces with other groups to demand not only racialimum wage and more pandemic protections. many of these strikers are what is called an essential worker. janitors, nursing home employees, airport and delivery workers and they are demanding action by their companies and by government. in an instance where they say racial inequality, wayne inequality and the pandemic have collided around hit their communities harder. stuart: we hear it. thanks, lauren. big city exodus, there is a story we've been covering for you. look at these numbers. online views of properties in the suburbs and rural areas are up 30% from last year. looks like demand is there, outside the cities. mitch rochelle is with us, pwc business development leader. what's driving this mover? >> stuart, this is something that started a little while ago actually before the pandemic and my observation is this pandemic has just hyper accelerate ad preexisting trend. i think families that lived in urban areas that were worried about the education of their children and access to th