with its pelican numbers in recent years the poker numbers have reduced by 50 percent that's right sondra and who's to blame yet again their experts say are old friends climate change and pollution wrecking the lakes delicate balance in who africa take stock of one of europe's biggest public and reservations. in some of its shallow say line lake in southern russia as republic of color makiya attracts countless birds some of them have journeyed thousands of kilometers to get here and while there are dozens of different species it's the pelican population that environmentalists are looking at most closely the birds have been coming to lake money for centuries but this year numbers are down. the population has fallen. last year there were about 700 and this year there are only about $500.00. that's because there were a lot of cormorants among them last year and we don't have that many ponds now to provide enough fish. the lake itself is 344 square kilometers an area and has an average depth of just 0.6 meters but the effects of global warming causing it to shrink as the water level goes down

della della say the election seems to have been better than past falls we spoke earlier today of your sondra headers a man who's reported extensively from afghanistan and we asked if she agreed with the official appraisal well let's start with what we didn't see there wasn't any major attack and the capital kabul as many observers had anticipated but having said that there were mighty post small scale attacks throughout the country with dozens of people killed in jets as is the case on most days in afghanistan which is still the words that the conflict today and that i think is the sad reality that the scare tactics of the taliban seem to have worked because a lot of people just decided to stay home today because of lack of security there was a lot of brave people coming out but 1st estimates indicate. that voter turnout might be anywhere between one or 2000000 people compared to the last presidential elections in 2014 this is a mess if massive drop back then close to 8000000 voters were brave enough to cause their ballot despite equally massive threats and if i may add one final thought her

sanctions against iran he was speaking in new york a day after addressing the united nations he wus i'm sondra fun naaman spoke to brian ho the u.s. special representative for iran and i asked him about washington strategy the u.s. government has imposed new sanctions and travel restrictions on the iranian regime but state iran as seems to remain defiant so it's you makes him and pressure strategy not working no we're very pleased with it and we're also very pleased here at the united nations this week that germany france and the united kingdom have announced that we need a new nuclear deal that is much more comprehensive than the iran nuclear deal that the united states left last year the iran nuclear deal failed to cover iran's missile program in fact it relaxed constraints on iran's missile program and now here today we see the consequences in the middle east with iran using missiles to attack saudi arabia so we think this was a very productive and good week with our european friends they all said that iran is behind the attack on saudi arabia so i think the press has overstated our differe

there is no ca sondra fjords anymore here on the west coast. that's not an isolated development sea ice cover in the arctic has shrunk to almost half its size and less than 40 years. in the nearby town of long a 1000000000 people say they can see their highness changing and they no longer feel safe. in the summer of 2015. and a child died. there was a whole apartment complex that was caught in an avalanche and repairs like 50 apartments getting crushed. but it was the middle of the night and nobody knew was coming. since then landslides and avalanches have become more common leaving the low. to paint a doomsday scenario because of climate change and the different fact makes through the soil the ground some of the grace we see behind us marked actually and the sliding into the road a little valley. the next thing we could see it might all be covered in the next big landslide coming down from the hill after just a. couple of the last part. it's a grisly prospect and still a way off in the future but this reason to worry about the here and now ros

already paid him barcelona also accuses superstar of breaching his contract when he joined perry sondra2017. in extreme sports now the fascinating and terrifying world of free solo climbing this is outproduced danny on the climbing achieve a grand day in the italian alps no ropes no safety harness just he's bare hands on the vertical rock face the 1st national climb the 550 meter mountain and record 46 minutes and 30 seconds smashing the previous record about 90 minutes he now holds a free solo climbing record on 4 of europe's most difficult north facing peaks. i mean reminder our top story this hour u.s. lawmakers a crash in the arctic national intelligence director about allegations of president's trump try to pressure the president of ukraine into investigating former vice president joe biden the complaints prompted democrats to begin i'm in preachments inquiry which mr trump has described as a disgrace. on taliban terror threats are fresh out of south a stop the presidential election in afghanistan a daily life in the capital come strong despite the islamist group saying it will dis

sondra digs into the hotel market to keep up with airbnb. we will have the details.loomberg. ♪ brad: apple is taking on hollywood. dow jones is reporting that company will bring feature-length films to theaters before releasing them on their streaming service. apple hopes the move will attract producers and directors, and apple reportedly hopes to avoid the tensions that have bubbled up between theater chains and another hollywood player, netflix. in the past year, hotel chains on home sharing sites have started encroaching on each other's turf. airbnb advertises hotel rooms on its platform and marriott launched a homestay offering. the latest player to blur the lines is short-term rental startup sonder. the same for cisco spaced hospitality company is expanding beyond its network of vacation apartments. is sonder a rival to airbnb or a partner? we are joined by olivia carville. i guess i'm unfashionable because before your story, i have never heard of saunter. tell us about it and how it fits into the fast-growing short-term rental market. olivia: they are a relativ

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