and kiribati is bang in the middle of it all. the ocean has destroyed all but one of our young villages flooding salinisation the population resistance is pointless. to them it's just fun these kids can't understand that the freshwater lagoon is gone the milk fish as well that the palm trees are losing fruit. and is it all told the. tonight now used to be bananas here and papayas that with lots of houses and a shop. the whole place was full of people and freight and plants you know nothing. freshwater in the south of the atoll maria's daughter in law helps her wash up a mother of eleven maria had everything under control but she fears no one is a match for the rising floods. well i don't know when i didn't like it when i got a lot when i look at. the item disappointing and the plan it's a dying one i believe there's no future for us here soon everything will be underwater it was simply become part of the same. well now for a bit of culture news and the swiss theatre director mueller rao is one of the most controversial directors

anyone arriving here from kiribati will have to learn to survive. residents know of carry bodies back up plan and they're wary. what if the foreigners do actually come. it did me a big problem there but yeah what could happen. maybe really they find a way to maybe. they won't give up that is really going to be living devastation here and. we head to the potential refuge there's no c.x. says here instead of a gravel track leading fifty kilometers inland from saddam saville. it's a one and a half hour trip. kiribati paid nine million dollars for the land which comes with neither electricity nor ocean. but there is a village navea via its three hundred residents are descendants of plantation slaves from the solomon islands the land sale has shrunk their area to just fifty hectors kiribati meanwhile owns two thousand hectors twenty square kilometers. navi of years village chief leads us up the steep slopes kiribati plans to use these for agriculture how tens of thousands of former fish or people are supposed to survive year is beyond him. and so these.

pacific island nations like kiribati are already threatened by climate change swift action is needed if we had to prevent such places being completely swung late by the sea in a few decades. after the election six weeks ago the only way for germany's ruling conservatives to form a stable government is to a coalition with two on likely partners the greens led by. others and the liberals headed up by. talks are going on as we speak and many commentators think any deal is doomed to fail but i see things a little differently let me explain. they say every country has the politicians. as trudeau france has markov and germany will soon have. i know you might be thinking rum reggae maybe runners. here in germany jamaica now stands for a very rare government coalition and america needs a partner to govern and jamaica refers to the colors of the parties black for the conservative green of course for the green and yellow for the liberals the free democratic germany. funny. german sense of movement and for me that is a coalition of hope. because style wise german politics as it is us. bill fitt

come by i learned how to make palm sugar in thailand the government of kiribati financed is training and getting. there no. idea what. the carry of us government also paid for the equipment here. this is the body fresh one. quantum the a. up until now locals have only used the fresh syrup for drinks no. fresh water first study so all. we want to eat for those. that there are these so that we can crystallized that already become you know. the island of i am is the perfect place for producing palm sugar there are thousands of coconut palms across the thirty seven kilometer island. we only have. you know copra. source of income so our conmen try to find ways with people to win more money and this is one of the one of their income no income for the fall by going to take seven liters of sap to produce one kilogram of palm sugar. by young people this is how you have to do it when you've reached this point the fire mustn't be too hot you have to stir it the whole time watch how i do it you have to push the toady up the side until it becomes hard and powdery the palm sugar from buying is sai