today it's run by the kiribati government. rubeaua: i'm in training here because i would like to work on the high seas. i want to earn money to support my family. i'm interested in japan. i would like to see what it's like there, and how they fish. reporter: rubeaua is in the first row. but, as with all the trainees here, he's just a number. still, many of the candidates are excited about their future. few have ever sailed beyond the horizon. this man says the training here will equip him to work on any kind of fishing boat. it doesn't matter whether it's a trawler or a vessel that fishes long line. we ask if he's been to another country before. no, he says. this man says he's looking forward to working on a german ship later on. he says it might be a cargo ship or some other vessel, he doesn't really mind. most of the trainees here want to one day work for the spms, or south pacific marine service. it's a german joint enterprise involving six different companies which all take candidates that have finished the training. the d

in the pacific the nation of kiribati has a population of around one hundred fifty thousand but many of its islands a gradually sinking into the sea making the future uncertain the encroaching sea water is also salting up groundwater sources threatening staple crops many families are in a precarious situation. it's the first roll call of the day at the marine training center if the sailors island at six am before breakfast the m.t.c. trainees to thirty minutes of exercise. the center has been around for more than half a century it was co-founded by a german shipping company today it's run by the kiribati government. i'm in training here because i'd like to work on the high seas. i want to work money to support my family. i'm interested in japan to see what it's like there and how they search on the city. so. rubi hour is in the first row but as with all the trainees here he's just a number still many of the candidates are excited about their future few have ever sailed beyond the horizon. this man says the training here will equip him to work on any kind of fishing boat it doesn't ma

kiribati is one of the poorest countries in the world and climate change is making it even poorer ruby our will soon have what others don't a job so that he can support his family but he's paying a high price to have what. this week in global ideas we had to southwest in uganda to them the pango. the once beautiful waterway has been a dumping ground for sewage and waste and the rich vegetation along its banks has been destroyed but things are starting to change a reporter. headed to the small town of fort there he met people determined to revive that. there wasn't always as much rubbish and then around the pongo river that's what locals say but the problem has become worse and worse the garbage now blocks the flow of the river and pollutes the water. to clean it up these days everyone pitches in with locals from fort portal and western uganda coming together once a month to collect garbage as head of a local conservation group edgar moo guns e successfully raised awareness of the problem. to start with he had to contend with a lot of reluctance. to do the problem dumping we didn't. eve