been slow to reach affected regions as some roads and bridges have been cut off by landslides somalia ethiopia and tanzania have also been hit by heavy rain with more forecast. police in georgia have used water cannon to stop protesters attempts to block politicians from entering the country's parliament they're campaigning for a change to a proportional electoral system thousands of protesters agree to rest it over to. is a top story stay with us earth rises next conservationists fighting to protect the world's ecosystems where news of half an hour a seat on. a chinese casino empire is transforming cambodia green fog funny rapid development and criminology one o one a 50 gave to win is a loser you can go to to see. on al-jazeera. back. to cope with our growing population we've tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the fast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half that area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regu

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as their interpreter and they now live scattered throughout the area they come from eritrea somalia ethiopia and most are still minors so their faces may not be shown on camera or to talk about are you looking for an internship. i don't exactly have a place yet but i will you also want to go into medical profession right no no. i want to be so what do you want to be what profession thank you no kinda got me going that god could have gotten over a childminder that's so nice. they like talking about boys after all they're young girls west so how does he was when his posed him self so that you can see everything it's absolute. 0 like all the foreigners and the dishes go they stand like this all the time it's ok just to go and watch them is hilarious she. tries to find a playful way to familiarize the girls with the new open western world of femininity and. sexuality despite their trauma. you never meet incompetences when the other girls are phenomenal. they talk about sex all the time about having babies about their figures and make up with but i think they're all in delayed puberty the confusi

slow to reach affected regions because some roads and bridges have been cut off by landslides somalia ethiopia and tanzania have also been hit by heavy rain with more forecast police in georgia have used water cannon to stop protesters attempts to block politicians from entering the country's parliament there campaigning for a change to a proportional electoral system and the prime minister of malta as chief of staff and 2 of his ministers have resigned as investigations into the murder of a journalist intensify he schembri is understood to have been taken in for questioning in relation to the case the tourism and economy ministers of also step down the investigative reporter daphne cutter when they see it was killed in a car bomb in 2017 those are the top stories al-jazeera world continues next. 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 are rise 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 ag

so it involved somalia and its neighbors, kenya, uganda, ethiopia, and certainly lately sudan, south sudan, sedan in its wider setting. and as things have developed each would become about how this region called the horn, one, begins to resolve its internal national dispute that it has, of which there are a number. outgoing to that. the relations among the countries, and the most recent challenges situating and helping a region navigate its way into a completely changed geographical landscape, the dynamics coming from the indian ocean, from the gulf, totally altering the balance come from a european point of view. i'll just conclude of that, our challenge then is to say, well, are we as europe -- this is sort of the underbelly of europe. it is immediately below north africa. and it's on one side of the red sea where a lot of our trade goes through. are we in this change global setting? and given what is going on in the region right now, going to become spectators, or how do we engage and how do we define our interests as europe in this change setting? there's a lot of firefighting an

there's about 2500000 people affected by the flooding across the region and that includes in ethiopia somalia south sudan and sudan as well as more people in tanzania and uganda so there are hundreds of thousands of people who are being displaced who have lost their homes who have lost their livelihoods we've got many reports of thousands of livestock killed across these countries by the floods was referring flooding and flash flooding and of course we've got roads down and we've got access challenges to get to people in meat right talking about those access challenges how are you getting the aid into those remote parts where bridges have been swept away and roads as you say. so in each of the countries across the region the humanitarians are scaling up as rapidly as they can where using helicopters in many countries in south sudan and somalia for example in other countries where using boats to try and get to people in need and in other places you see humanitarians literally walking the last mile to reach people who need assistance and those if it's must be commended him or we are talking abo

it involved somalia and its eighbors, kenya, and each open ethiopia, sudan and in its wider setting. as things have developed, it has really become about how is region called the horn, one, begins to resolve its internal national dispute it has, of which are there a number, and we will go into that. the relations among the countries and the most recent challenges, situating and helping a region navigate its way into a completely changed geographical landscape. the dynamics coming from the indian ocean, from the gulf, are totally altering the balances. from the european point of view, and i will conclude on that, our channing is to say are we as europe, this is the soft underbelly of europe. it is just immediately below north africa. it is on one side of the red sea, where a lot of our trade goes through. are we in this changed global setting, and given what is going on in the region right now, going to become spectators? or how do we engage, and how do we define our interests as europe in this changed setting? o there is a lot of fire fighting and attempts to change that into some so

the source from where these animals come from, often it is very, very pure regions in somalia, north kenya and ethiopiaets, for someone's vanity, for the vastly rich people that are in that part of the world. tell us more about that. why? maybe you havejust the world. tell us more about that. why? maybe you have just answered that question, why would someone wa nt that question, why would someone want a cheetah cub or a pet? is it legal? are you allowed to have a cheetah as a pet? you have hit the nail on the head. and in a lot of these countries, it is not actually legal but the authorities will turn a blind eye to it because the parts of the community, the super wealthy, the super—rich, a very influential, it is driven to some degree partly because getting likes on social media. so having these animals pose with their fast cars, they are diamond studded collars, etc. as i said, whilst this happens, whilst there is continuously a demand and it is not being tackled, we are going to see the cheetah in this pa rt going to see the cheetah in this part of the horn of africa driven to extension. and then we

emergency assistance is now arriving they have in the normal rains are affecting ethiopia in parts of northern kenya with somalia and south sudan hardest hit south sudan already devastated by civil war had more had more recently been recovering from a prolonged drought but the rains are making things worse and forecasters say there is more to come. water to the horizon entire villages have been submerged aid workers say they're among the worst floods in the areas history south sudan has declared a state of emergency. rising waters have pushed out more than 400000 people but not everyone can leave easily. this is so hard for disabled people like me that everyone is trying to save themselves 1st you know now. whether or not all of the water is getting deeper every day and i can't crawl in it. we need help to improve the situation here. for the u.n. and aid groups providing relief in south sudan poses a huge challenge a brutal civil war has already worn down the country's infrastructure and health system and as waters rise so does the risk of disease. after this situation is so bad that now we're living with dead a

though still it is not over yet we do expect to see quite a bit of rain across much of somalia as well as into ethiopia over 100 millimeters of rain still could be seen in the next 3 days well speaking of the tropics where i wanted to you over here toward the arabian sea we are watching one storm here this is a small storm making its way towards but we do have a new storm out here in the band beguile now this storm is not so new this was tropical cyclone matt mo when it was in the south china sea and over the next few days we're going to be watching this very carefully because this storm here in the south china sea as. me in the bad been gall is going to be intensifying and making its way towards the north you can see we do expect to see some very heavy rain from in mar as well as bangladesh so flooding is going to be a big concern and over here towards the west well for. we're going to see some very heavy rainfall parts of missouri back to you. the weather sponsored by town and. the story of black man. and. you'll have to kill i have strangled you have a story of carnage a lot of the fear is real. pas