the palm oil is generating revenue for the government in terms of export taxes on palm oil, in terms of payroll taxes and payments io sociasecurity systems and all of the government programs. palm oil is more valuable than the forest right now because of the way we value forests. >> while indonesia is looking to scale up its production of palm oil, this will come at a great cost. it will come at a great cost to the environment and the ecosystem. >> with their old homes deforested, elephants and other wildlife have to move somewhere. it's here in farming villages that humans and elephants collide. in aceh, communities rely on agriculture, and when elephants begin eating those crops, conflicts become deadly. >> [speaking lal language] >> loss of lifesn't new to the people of aceh. for over 30 years, violent clashes occurred between rebels and the jakarta government, until 2004, when a peace treaty was signed. over 15,000 people died in that confct. two years after the peace treaty, aceh was hit by a series of deadly floods, killing dozens. experts believe extensive logging in the surrou

every day we consume palm oil, labeled as vegetable oil. and a lot of it is coming from here in indonesia. ey've converted the lowlands already. and now the palm oil plantations are moving up and up the slopes, to here, leuser rainforest. we've gotta go. >> leuser isn't the only place experiencing deforestation. since 1985, more than 50% of the forests in sumatra have been cleared, not just for palm oil plantations, but also for paper, wood, mines, and road infrastructure. what took thousands of years to grow is coming down at an alarming rate. >> look at that. we traveled for over an hour, deep into this palm oil plantation, till we've got here, the front line of the expansion. this expansion here is illegal under indonesian law, and it's all happening foralm oil. this timber will be shipped off to market, and in its place, in a matter of days, young palm oil seedlings will be planted. >> palm oil is one of the most widespread vegetable oils throughout the world. within indonesia itself and also china and india, the 3 of them account for fa

oils. today, palm oil and its derivativeves are presesent in % of all packaged food. products like bread, cookies, chocolate, chips, and even shower soap. the c consumer r benefits,s, bue sumumatran elephants pay y a pr. their habitat is cleared by legalal and illegal logoggers to make room for palm oil plantations. we sentnt our u.k. field producer jim wickens to the aceh region of north sumatra. here the leuser ecosysystem is one of the last remaining strongholds for indonesian wiwildlife. it's a 6-million-acre protected park, but it's being illegally cut down to make room for palm oil. >>> we've drivenen into the leur ecosystem. ththis is a place of tigers, e elephants, rhinos, and orangutans. it's supposed to be protetected. but we've been tipd off by r rangers here that thehe is illegal deforestation goining on as wewe speak. we're going to go and d try to film tm and d get right up clolose to te deststruction. keep going. we've been hiking for hours to get here, right on the edge of where the trees are being cucut down. i'm s standing just metersrs from where th

still to come on the programme: using street art to start a conversation about the palm oil industry.oceros by using ivf. the flamboyant italian fashion designer gianni versace has been shot dead in florida. the multi—millionaire was gunned down outside his home in the exclusive south beach district of miami. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worse floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally called the "great white way" by americans, but tonight it is completely blacked out. it is a timely reminder to all americans of the problems that the energy crisis has brought to them. 200 years ago today, a huge parisian crowd stormed the bastille prison — the first act of the revolution which was to topple the french monarchy. today, hundreds of thousands throng the champs—elysees for the traditional military parade. finally, fairy penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging themselves on a huge shoal of their favourite food, pilchards. some had eaten so much they could barely stand.

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butterflies and our soil and poisonous xml we're going to starve and yet what to produces corn and soy and palm oil and sugar mainly for pigs and cows and trans fats and diabetes. they don't feed us at all. this i get summer they feed as is simply not true. they feed us. this is where -- [shouting] yeah. so in this case what's the solution? the solution is that she gets the same seed, tools and information that men get. that's all it is, and what happens is she produces a lot more food and impact on force and so forth is less and nutrition gets better. thithis is a cool dude in berlin his electric bike. i know. it's so cool here nutrient management which is just a runoff from the fertilizers we don't really need. this one, can you guess what this is? thank you, household recycling. this is a woman in ethiopia, and they built a bridge across from her village and they put a bar therefore the workers and so the women go across the river every day and pick up a bottle caps and make these beautiful headdresses. now they sell them in boutiques in france. [laughing] beautiful, beautiful women. this went a

palm oil also for biodiesel. a couple others. interesting ones, non-profit organizations. it's one to keep one's eye on because one of the important revenue streams of course is international development financing and so if you can situate yourself to capture that flow it's a pretty significant one. and then there is the criminal sector and i don't think i need to belabor that in case of honduras, but we have a case going on in new york right now, the former -- right? son of the former president, is that who it is? >> i did want to ask you a question, i'm not trying to deflect -- >> no. no. of course. >> so what makes it an operating system as opposed to just the whole bunch of crooked people? >> that's a great question. and partly it's -- you look at the personal relationships so in this case a piece of the private sector element is somewhat self-contained and it's culturally uniform to some extent. it's a lot of people who are descendents of immigrants from the middle east and they tend to live together, inter marry, go to school together and exchange positions on each o