al jazeera, south sumatra. >> hurricane patricia is adding to severe flooding across texas. rains triggered flash floods, forcing evacuations. a union pacific train was derailed, stranding passengers. nearly half a meter of rain fell south of dallas. >> floods in southern brazil caused a state of emergency to be declared by the president. the damage was caused after rivers burst their banks following torrential rain. she is promises funds to help thousands made homeless especially in the state of rio. three have died. >> it's the end of a political era in argentina, voters electing a replacement president, replacing christina kirchner after eight years in power. wwe have a report from buenos aires. >> for 15 years, working as a scrap merchant, he works on the streets every day and says until now it's been difficult for someone like him to find another job. >> i struggle every day to make ends meet. i make around $400 or $500 a month. with inflation, we are always struggling. >> the economic situation is on everyone's mind as people head to the polls on sunday to elect a new p

in just one week, four babies died after having difficulty breathing in south sumatra. on of them, a 15-month-old had been a happy, healthy baby. she died struggling for oxygen. her parents are angry at companies and farmers who continue to burn forests and vegetation to clear their land. >> those who burn are not using their brain, otherwise, they would think about the impact on other people, and they would know it would create this haze. clearly those who burn are greedy. >> scientists have calculated that this year's fires are emitting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than across the entire united states every day. patients in this hospital are suffering from a fourfold increase in respiratory diseases. >> it's not enough to just wait for the rain to come and douse the fires. there should be more sense of emergency. >> there is anger among the millions forced to breathe poisonous air for five months now. victims of the haze, like the 3-year-old and parents of the baby have yet to receive government support. those in the affected areas say their plight is bei

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al jazeera, south sumatra. >> it's six months since nepal was hit by its worst earthquake in more than a century. more than 9,000 people were killed. large parts of the country lie in ruins, waiting for reconstruction work to begin. we have more now from the capital, kathmandu. >> we are in the square, one of the seven world heritage sites of nepal. like the other sites, this one was badly damaged by the quake, but unlike the rest of the nepal damaged, six months after the quake, normal life has resumed here. behind me, there is worship despite the lack of the temple. young people have started hanging out over here. funds have started coming for rebuild sites. $200 million will be needed to rebuild the heritage sights of nepal. much of the 14 districts severely affect by the quake has not been rebuilt. more than 800,000 houses were severely damaged or destroyed, and the government estimates that the cost of rebuilding all of that would be more than $3 billion. >> around 9,000 people died in the quake and more than 8 million people were affected by it. most have received some form of re

we have this report from south sumatra. 10 people have died. >> reporter: millions have breathed mistake. is contains dangerous mem kalts. such as carbon dioxide, cyanide and ammonia. in a week four babies died after having difficulties breathing. one of them was a 15-month of old, a happy, healthy baby. she died, struggling for oxygen. her parents are angry at companies and farmers that burn forests and vegetation to clear her land. >> those that burn are not using their brain. they rely on other people, and would know it would create the haze. those that burn are greedy. >> scientists calculated that this year's fires are emitting more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than across the entire united states every day. patients in the hospital are suffering from a 4-fold increase in respiratory diseases. >> it's not enough to wait for the rain to come and douse the fires. there should be more sense of emergency. >> there's anger among the millions forced to breath for five months now. victims of the haze, and the parents have yet to receive government support. those are the effective are

al jazeera, south sumatra. this is techknow, a show about innovations that can change lives. >> the science of fighting a wild fire. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. tonight: technkow in search of the great american prarie. >> we're in the prarie state yet ironically, we have such little of it left. >> farming and overdevelopment killed it, now get ready for this... an explosition of color and the return of these native animals. >> how many plant speices do you have in here? >> but volunteers trying to bring back one of the planets most complex ecosystems ran into trouble. >> we just needed something to help level the playing field. >> why a certain animal from america's past was needed to pull off the impossible. >> we've just arrived at the nachusa grassland and i'm seeing these bisson for the first time. >> marita davison is an environmental biologist. tonight, a trip to the heartland. >> oh, there

we have this report from south sumatra. >> reporter: millions of indonesians have been forced to breath toxic smoke for five months now because of fires burning in large plantations. it contains dangerous chemicals, such as carbon mon oxide, cyanide. in a week, four babies died. one of the borworst, a 15 month old. her family is angry at farmers who continue to burn forests. those who burn are not using the brain. otherwise they would think about the impact on other people. and they would know it would create the haze. those that burn everything. >> scientists have cal kate that the fires are emitting more gas than the united states. patients are suffering from respiratory teases. >> it's not enough for the rain to douse the fires. there should be a sense of emergency. >> there's anger among the millions, forced to breathe poisonous air for five months, victims of the haze, like this 3-year-old, and baby latifa are yet to receive government support. some say that their plight is ignore. >> after losing her baby sister, this 13-year-old is afraid. most of her friends can't stand to wear

four babies died after having difficulties breathing in south sumatra. a 15-month-old, who had been a happy, healthy baby. she died struggling for oxygen. her parents are angry as companies and farmers who continue to burn forests and vegetation to clear their land. >> those who burn are not using their brains, otherwise they would think about the impact on others and know it would create this haze. clearly those who burn are greedy. >> scientists have calculated that this year's fires are emitting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than across the entire united states every day. patients in this hospital suffer from a four fold increase in respiratory diseases. >> it's not enough to just wait for the rain to come and douse the fires. there should be more sense of emergency. >> this anger among the millions who have been forced to breathe poisonous air for five months now. victims of the haze, like this 3-year-old and the parents of the baby have yet to receive government support. those in the affected areas say their plight is being ignored. >> a

step vaessen, al jazeera, south su math rah. sumatra. >> artisans have made their living making hand made copper goods. but now the industry's dying out. imtiaz tyab has the story. >> for 40 years, madek has hammered sheets of copper into intricate pieces of art. it was taught to him by his father, who learned from his father. he's afraid he's the last one. >> translator: my sons are not going to follow my footsteps. unfortunately, they believe this profession is going to be ex extinct. there is just a handful of us artisans due to the poor security and economic conditions of the country as well as the lack of foreign tourists. >> reporter: baghdad's safafir market has been around for generations, it was the place for traders across the middle east looking for highly prized copper handicrafts. that only changed with the u.s. golf war in the 1990s. now only around 15 shops remain with just five still crafting new pieces. the artisans of the safafir copper market say it's not just successfullivsuccessive changese growing popularity of che

south it's largely dry. we have showers continuing into the malay peninsula, into a good part of sumatra.howers in borneo, into a good part of the philippines, and it will change in the next couple of days. no signs of useful rain over the next few days. >> thank you very much. staying with indonesia, they are seeking international help to put out the fires that sent a choking haze across south-east asia. an after weeks spent insisting they could deal with it alone. president joko widodo expects assistance from russia, japan, malaysia and soing pore -- singapore. it set to be the worse. haze has been drifting across neighbouring singapore for weeks. the n.a.s.a. satellite image fan in september shows plumes of smoke billowing across south-east asia. the red marks are hot sports where n.a.s.a.'s temperatures are associated. we have this report. >> borneo's forests, considered a major supplier of the planet's oxygen is on fire. emitting dangerous greenhouse gases instead. the fires raging inside the thick layers of peat are nearly impossible to stop. they are causing a haze of smoke that sp