i'm currently working on the seychelles marine spatial planning initiative. the plan will look to facilitate that we are able to continue with our fisries industry, with our tourism industry in a sustainable way to ensure that we can rely on these economies for future generations to come. so iyou have the right protected areas, right size and right place, then this will minimize that impact, not only to our biodiversity, but to our economy and for the people of the seychelles. antat: we carry out diving activities with the intent of collecting data on coral reefs to ensure that the management of protected areas in seychelles is affective. we're really looking at the state of the corals, especially with such events as coral bleaching. we looked at coral, measured the corals. we looked at coral recruits and we also looked at macroinvertebrates. the idea is to use this data to look at effects on different activities on coral reefs, to look at diseases, at pollution in coral reefs, most specific to protected areas, but also outside protected areas. mapping the ree

idealally, you wowould cl the seychelles a large oceanic state. the seychehelles economys driven by tourism and fisheries are the two main drivers of our economy. antat: t the corals provide a he for different species in the ocean,n, macroinvertebrate, , fh species, but they also provide for ececonomic activities, including diving and snorkeling. but at t the same time, corals protect your coastline. there has been a rise in ocecean temperature. . and this h has an impact on n your corals becacause en t this leads to coral bleachingng, and then u lose the corals because ththen u endp p with dead d cols. when coral bleleached, you obsee the e white coralsls, and oncece they're e dead, theyey are usuay taken over b by tough algae. the resources that you had and the activities that youou could cary out on a cororal reef, t then 'e losst that. sims: mmost of ththe main challenges that ouour country is facing is relateted to climate change. t the reefs closer to the e inner islalands are the os ththat are most impacted from humans. ththese reefs s are m

it will erode ages, we are seeing that in the seychelles and our number one industry is tourism. verely affected. which means all of us who are remaining in the paris agreement and that of course is 194 out of 195 there have to step up our game and see amongst ourselves how can we make upfor see amongst ourselves how can we make up for the gap, at least in the short term because according to the latest science, the us's absence will not have an effect in the short term if china and india continue to surpass their pledges which latest indications do show. now it might be that he renegotiate, this is what is asking for and that he goes ahead with a better deal, do you hold out much hope for that happening? well amongst us there is still a jury out. we are not sure what he means by renegotiating. we're not sure what he will ask for and we're not sure, depending on what he asks for what effect might have on other countries in the paris agreement. one of the fears has been that if the us leaves, will others leave but we do not see indications of that yet. the positive spirit that came

we know about a meeting in the seychelles. we know all of these meetings that happened. we know someone talked to a front for russian intelligence. that part we know is true. it's hard to say what he is taking an issue with, whether he's splitting hair on whether it's a russian intelligence officer or russian intelligence agent, or whether he's saying... we attributed this to intercepts and call logs. is he saying, no, no, no, it wasn't intercepts and call logs? it's hard to get into that become and forth. we will continue to follow this. doing this stuff, you want to try to be as transparent as possible. >> woodruff: for sure. matt appuzzo with "the new york times." thank you for that. john yang at the white house, lisa desjardins at the capitol, thank you all three. >> woodruff: and now we get analysis from four people with extensive experience in government and the law: george terwilliger served as deputy attorney general under president george h.w. bush. gregory craig, former white house counsel to president obama. john carlin served as assistant attorney general for

coral crusaders in the seychelles, plastics pollution a threat to us all, and saving the pacific's tuna. 115 islands in the indian oceann and over a million square kilometers of sea--the seychelles, tourist paradise and haven for fish. woman: we depend on our m marine resourcrce for evererything. wee don't have anything without

the seychelles population 99,000, prison population 650. technically slightly above us. if they released 45 people from prison we go back to the bone. in all fairness we are number one. the only countries become close to us are places like russia, kazakhstan and cuba. places like england which is the highest rate in western europe is about 200 per 100,000 french in germany, 100 or so per 100,000. nothing close. since. since 2010 with seeing a slight decline. reformers are looking at this as signs may be we have turned a corner. they are putting this remarkable reliance on incarceration behind us. when you look closer it's a little less optimistic. that itself is not optimistic. if you look at it by state with states seeing a decline in prison, when you seen increases 2010 can we see is the united states is -- california, top line. what else not so much. basic numbers come in 2101.49 people in prison. between 22-2015 that declined by 77,000. a drop of 5.5%. not a lot but not nothing. we turned red this giant numbering machine and i think it's a present use prison growth ex

the expectations here at least in south korea is not much. not likely to be any substantial agreement mainly because both moon and trump are basically walking in seychelles of them -- egg shells. they do not want to appear contentious. they want to give a good appearance of solidarity mainly because they do not want to play into the hands of north korea which has been trying to put a wedge between the two countries. so, i, the expectation is that the u.s. and south korea will least emphasize their agreement that north korea should stop developing a nuclear weapon. as to the details on how to stop them, that will go to another summit. mark: on the other focus of bes summit, will moon able to convince trump not to alter the bilateral trade agreement? peter: they have put in all stop effort to do so. top has taken 52 of the executives of the major conglomerates here. last night, they announced in pledged billion investments in the u.s. moon will is that yes, to trump and say, there could be some updating's and modification but the trade agreement has benefited both countries. so, we should not look to make some big changes to the bilateral trade agreement.