so, therere is a very strong lk between conflict and land degradation, and also between migration andand degradation. reporter: maimuna traorÉ tells rinaudo that she now has to get her charcoal from 160 kilometers away because sources closer to bamako have dried up. it's a similar situation in and around many of africa's big cities. the disappearance of forests and degradation of the land is a huge problem. tony: how do we tackle that? fortunately, through farmer scalable method to reverse that degradation. reporter: in the 1980's, rinaudo discovered that in many places there are intact underground networks of roots struggling to grow, and that pruning shoots can help trees and bushes flourish. world vision is now promoting the f.m.n.r. technique in 24 countries around the world. in yameriga in northern ghana, samuel bantang was among the first farmers to adopt it a decade ago. samuel: it has changed so much in my village. we used to have to drive our cattle long distances to graze. and thieves could steal them. but now they can graze nearby. reporter: but there's a lot still to do. t

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therere's no way to prt what'll happen. things change, bubut a lot ofof the thingngs te know, a lot t of the bususinesss thate know arere in threat, are in danger of closing now, and as thisis progresses more, will ben danger of closing. you know, t e commercial fisisheries, the recreational f fisheries--if ththere's no kelp, there's no fish. catton: one of the t things that the watetermen's alliance i is g to help progress our goals is to enengage the a abalone diviversd otheher recreatitional divererse area that are passionate about helpining to bring back the kekp forerest, to target the purple urchins inin their recreationall harvest.t. [overlrlapping chahatter] russo: in 2013, there was an abnormal spawning event with the purple urchin in sonoma, where they spawned in deep water and it washed ashore, basically the entire sonoma coast. so what happened then is you have the kelp trying to come back in the cold-water years, but in an abnormally large population of purple urchin. so every time the kelp would pop up, it was

. >> therere was nothingng back . noing g for baby,y, nhing foror us. that's no way to live. medicinine, no food, , noth. reporter: but things w't't be easysy in combia, either. to get a work permit, yoyou ned proper i.d.d. almost half the venezuelans who've come here don't have that. many are exploiteded as y laborers. some just hahang around e ststreets anbebeg for ney y ad food. even peoplple with a jobob haa hard time finding a decent place to stay. many of those who make it here sleep in so-called "paga-diarios" -- shared rooms packed with beds. they have no rights there and could be evicted at any time. luisis is a hairdresser and haa job, but he barely makes enough st to pay y for his bed. luis: it's likike a prison. we are like prisoners. there are three bunk beds per room. that's six people. so you have absolutely no privacy. and you can't leave any valuables there either. reporterer: colombia i is tryio copepe with its owown displacedd pepeople and manany more frm venenezuela. the ununited nationsns refugee agency unhcrcr is worried d thae country cannot handle the

you know, the commercial fisheheries, the recreational fisisheries--if therere's no kelp, there's no fish. cacatton: one of the thihings tt the watermrmen's alliance is s g to help progress our goals is to engagage the ababalone diverersd other r recreationonal divers se area that are passionate about helping g to bring back the kelp forestst, to target the purple urchins in t their recreational harvest. [overlapapping chatttter] russo: in 2013, there was an abnormal spawning event with the purple urchin in sonoma, where they spawned in deep water and it washed ashore, basically the entire sonoma coast. so what happened then is you have the kelp trying to come back in the cold-water years, but in an abnormally large population of purple urchin. so every time the kelp would pop up, it was dog-piled by urchin, so there's an urgency to o getting this doe sooner rather than latater. catton: so we're here to estimate the number, the totalal numbers of urchihins that are being caught. we're taking a look at the sizes of those urchins and looking at wtt their condition is, what they''e been

bush: therere's a a really strog demand domticacally. almlmost al of our product is sold in california or just on the west coast. we do everything in-house. we're a completely integrated farm. we have adult abalone, which we'e'll takake io the hatchery, and you get a tiny littttle fertilized abalonee emembryo. we g get them by the mimillions. 24 h hours latater,y hatch,h, and feed, feed, feeeed, repeat, and harvest at about 100 grams, aboutut a 3 1/2-i-inch sl length. and ththat's s the markt size, and we crank those out 52 weeks a year. aquilino: much of what we e do here in ththis program has been inspired b by what abalone farms do, people likike doug bush and dan swezezey at the e cultured abalone e farm have e really hed us figure out how to maximize producuction in this lab. so wee take their best methods and then we tweak them for r white abala, so it t really helps sustainable aquaculture in this coununtry ad the restoration of a species. bush: i'veve been banging this drum for a whilele, to really st ofof draw attetention to a a

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president trump is welcocome to take a seat right therere. anand make plus, we go to chile where protesters led a massive national strike tuesday as they condemned the government's plans to rewrite the country's constitution, which dates back to esther pinochet's regime. we speak to coping founder medea benjamin about why five police squad cars came to heher house wednesday in an attempt to arrest her. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. house lawmakers on wednesday opened the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. two witnesses, george kent and liam taylor, but testified president trump withheld aid ukraine in an attempt to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter who served on the board of the ukrainian natural gas company. in his opening statement, ambassador taylor details about her previously unknown phone call from july between president trump and gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the euro

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so there is corruption, thereres political distribution of economic revenues of the government.n top of that we have also the sanctions. so all of this has come together to really deteriorate the economic situation of the vast majority of the rainy and people. that has expressed itself in this particularly severe reaction to the raising of the petrol prices the last few days. brent: thank you for the latest from the unrest in iran. we appreciate your time tonight, thank you. >> thanks for having me. brent: here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo has announced that washington no longer considers its re-settlements in palestinian territories a violation of international law. pompeo says he hopes the u.s. will soon be able to release a peace plan for the region, but the move today risks inflaming tensions further in the region. u.s. president donald trump says he is strongly considering testifying in his own impeachment investigation. he tweeted the announcement the day after house speaker nancy pelosi challenge him

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any time you talk about disrupting that system, therere are people whoery nervous about it, the idea of moving from the system they kno n-- they mayot be crazy about, but at least it is something they are familiar with -- to a government-managed system, even something like medicare, which they have heard of before, that is risky. when you are talking about a $50 trillion plan over years, that is a lot of money. it is a risky tack to take, but if you listen to elizabeth warren, she says be bold, you have to paint in broades, that is the only way you get things done. nada: the poll i mentioned showing warren leading in iowa' polls, bidenurth place, is this a turning point? anthony: biden -- iowa is not his natural state. it is very, at least with democrat voters, far-left. biden is doing better with black voters. the same in new hampshire. he is trailing in those. he is doing good nationally, but it is something to concern himself with. if elizabeth warren knocked out wins in iowa and new hpshire, biden has his back up against the wall. momentum means a lot in these early primaries, pa

would love that their dream should have no single use plastic and have it largely solar powered so therere's an idea of what. they're trying to achieve r racial whenen watching yes but there is also the question- what is the band's carbon footprint in this study the bbc reported that- the figures suggest that live music generates four hundred and five thousand tons. greenhouse gas emissions in the u. k. every year and that's in the u. k. and then we can see this carbon footprint of toward this is a graph. showing t the total carbn footprint and as you can see the total biggest portion that takes up is on menus and audience travel. so that's the largest yes the person that the actual the band's travel is just 99% exactly small so exactly the largest part is on the art. it'll have to switch to solar panel boats then yeah. traveling on to see them now as a cool ended the victoria's secret. fashion show has come to an end exactly just as he stated it is because they are trying to make their marketing plans. involve in an era of me to work consumers are demandingg more and more diverse city sexis

space to protect people's information, to have the proper protocols in place to make sure we are thereringnd making sure are no nefarious uses of ouronal data happening in city, our state, and our nation. we are not there yet. there going to need assistance of a cybersecurity workforce, and that is again part of the smart cities goal, is to establish a workforce that is committed, that is focused, that is well-trained, and constantly learning what it is to protect personal data, infrastructure, everything that is needed to make sure that as we build this 21st century infrastructure we have the workforce commensurate with that. rep. clarke: do you think -- joseph: do you think congress is commensurate with it? ofre have been some hearings mark zuckerberg where people have questioned whether congress has the technology and cybersecurity savvy to legislate in this area. now we are inviting a lot of companies who will be in charge of smart cities to collect more data about citizens. can we ensure that is being done responsibly? rep. clarke: i think we have an obligation to do so. we are not a

therere are particularly worrisome aspects whether racial or gender expectation who should be forgivensociety but those were acting out of a religious belief and it was the right thing to do. in my own analysis it has nothing to do with what the law should do and in this instance wherere dylan had an inexcusable act has never shown contrition to the contrary he has been boastful and proud about what he did because he violated the trust of everyone. >> so we expect sometimes african-american people or women or lgbt to be more forgiving when we are confronted with justifiable grievances. >> that is completely true. and for the same reasons that they come out of the mouth that they are viewed as angry were disproportionate who has that position of relevant power in society is someone who does r not. we need to be vigilant and concerned and at the same time i add meyer with the 18 -year-old brother of the murder victim killed by amber geiger said i forgive you but there should be no lesser sentence than my own view for conduct. >> so when the judge steps down from her bench and as she was

i noticed therere was the supree court pressroom, the size of my chair here. i called her and i get an hour long lecture. as how i met ruth. that's how i have known her more and more. she is a fascinating person. >> she cares about that. she could educate you for an hour. [laughter] >> andrew shapiro, a question, there's been speculation on minds that one of the reasons why democrats don't need to subpoena others is because once impeachment happens, they can call as witnesses during the impeachment trial and chief justice would roll than. why not just wait until he gets to the senateth floor try and gt those witnesses then? i was wondering what you've thought of that. >> i'm not going to predict that, itn think the witnesses cn be called then but i think there were lectors two copies. ... objecting to the court at the same time. you couldn't do that. i mean i know that we all have always thought that its impeachment at least some people think it's the only remedy. some people think it's not the only remedy but it is at least that the remedy. >> there's a court

therere's about one point formay people that live in the rio grande valley. it is about 90% latino.is like an if we were have our primary and rio grande valley of texas and have candidates spending three months there continuously going to barbececues and different events being sponsored by the local elected officials, nobody would think that would be -- a represented primary that you would have to start your elections with. and so i think this is a process that has been established tradition. tradition doesn't work anymore. i think it is not f fair to the candidates, either. they spend in a norma's amount of time and money. -- enormous amount of time and money. people go to big dinners. candidates go there. they have to put their supporters in the dinner and pay for the supporters to be there. they spend thousands of dollars to get the attention in the small state of iowa that doesn't produce the results that are reflective of what are democratic party represents all across america. so i think it is something that should change -- at least we have to have a conversation. i've been o

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but if you could read your column since "the daily news" did not stop calalling you o one you got therere juan: once the city was paralyzed, they wanted to hear as much as i could write. this was the beginning of the column i wrote on december 1, baptism by tear gas for americans to dance. i wrote "a new generation of rebels came of age in america yesterday. thousands of young people paralyzed this city's downtown, delayed the opening ceremony of the world trade organization meeting, and a stunning protest that harken back to the great civil rights marches of the 1960's." december 3 i wrote -- going "it did not matter to these diehard kids the city had been turned into an armed camp and was firmly under the control of an army of cops, state troopers, national guard. they had been studying -- stunningly successful in giving a black i into an obscure organization and had alerted millions of americans to the enormous power the wto wields in the world and turn it into a household name. as i said, most people did not even know about the wto before these protests occurred. you cameana shiva, fr

and wewe're talkingng about t kashmir, in some ways it does have to do with climate change because therere is a prediction that india's greatest crisis inin the very near future is going to be a water crisis. and, of course, as you know, i mean, i have spent a lot of time writing about water and dams and development and crop patterns and all of that. amy: the battle against the narmada dam and others. >> yeah. he gave himself the full-to-the-brim reservoir of the narmada dam on h his 69th birthday, five days before he came to america for the trump -- amy: what did he give himself? >> he filllled the reservoir of the narmada dam, you know, a reservoir that's, i guess, larger than the size of rome or something. and so the people who had been fighting the dam just watched their homes go under. this was his birthday present to himself. but, you know, the thing is that even like i'm saying about kashmimir and assam, underneath all this, there is also calculations about climate. for example, there are five rivers that run through kashmir. and to commandeer that water to have proper access to it

>>it would be rough and it was rough tonight now therere 4 teams in the nba who have one only 2 gamesnight golden state cing nd the first place team out west the time world champion terence crawford,ne of the best pound for pound fighte in the world didn't take long for the lakers to deliver their knockout blow despite d angelo russell is 21 points tally up 12 after porter. >>2nd ha lebron james full-court pass to kyle coups much how you pla of coups who started 3 resting thony vis had 22 and james. 23 points and 12 assistthrough 3 quarters city in the force. one 2094 lakers in your final. next up. celtics on friday at chase boston. has the best record in the league. now to the giants usually an introductory press conference is fled with a ton o optimism very few difficult questions. >>but today's first meeting with gabe kepler struck a much different tone. the former phillies manager who was let go after 2 seasons officially, named the successor to bruce bocce toy, the 44 year-old infield many questions about his managing style or x's and about controversy in essed his pa. specifical

wealth from communities who c can least affoford to have thahawealth extracteted b because many y ti, therere underinsured or uninsur. folks have to carry that cost. amy:y: what is yoyour assessmsmf the presidenential candidates addressing this issue? >> it is great to see folks have finally, after 400 years, have begun to actually have environmental justice platforms, climate justice platforms. it is great to see some of the candidates are actually visiting these community's, frontline communities, sitting down with leaders. but there's so much more that needs to happen because a part of this forum is about accountability. folks want to hear, what is your vision? how are you going to build an administration that has expertise from frontline communities, indigenous leaders also in that? it is great to see people saying the e words, but we need action behind the words. amy: we're talking about both the democrats and republicans. what has happened under the trump administration? >> under the t trump administration, it h has been deadly for many of our communities because their rolled back over

alththou thereres no formal activation, he is taken byororce fromom t police, creeds dd presessi off gltlt. amy: that wasn't the moment that he was deciding whether to go to jail. but explain what it was, petra costa. >> this is really 2016 when judge moro declared that lula should be taken in in forced coercion, which is basically meant taking him to enforce interrogation, which many said at the time was unconstitutional because lula had volunteered to speak. many did not know at the time if he would be imprison or not immediately after this interrogation. it was dull take two years for him to be imprison. juan: tell us a little bit about how you got started with this film, why you decided to make it. you're relatively young for the leaders of this movement, covering this movement. how did you get involved? >> i grew up believing d democry was my birthright, guaranteed from a lifetime of my parents struggle. my parents bought against the military dictatorship and dedicated their lives to establish democracy in brazil. when i was born, more or less the same time as brazilian democrac

now they are saying therere areo people d dead. there are peoplele dead. their brothers are here. there are e people dead. >> the bullet went through him. when the doctors are saying he is g going to die probobably. the press is not saying ything. they say there are no clashes. amy: tuesday's killings follow the massacre near cochabamba where security forces killed at least nine morales supporters. this all comes as germany has secured access to bolivia's vast reservoir of lithium, a key raw material used to produce cell cell phone and electric car batteries. shortly before his ouster, the bolivian president evo morales said he planned to cancel the agreement with germany, but the right-wing government of self-declared interim president jeanine anez is movivi forward.. the region is home to 50% of the worlds lithium reserves.s. the u.s. senate unanimously approved a bill tuesday aimed at protecting human rights of hong kong pro-democracy protesters. the senate bill would allow the president to impose sanctions and travel restrictions on people who are found to be responsible for t

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therere is no doubtbt he ran on local and statate issues rather than tying in with other national stopts no great left-winger the truth is he rent as a prolabor, pro-abortion rights candidate for governor of kentucky. he was supported by a lot of progressive forces in that state. he prevailed. he prevailed with a huge mobilization in louisville and other urban areas, but also by cracking some of the suburban areas. by flipping rural counties -- amy: some cold counties. ose yes. voted 40%0% kentucky for r trump. yet a 40% victory. any beshear went in and won by 20%. amy: ranked choice voting here in new york city come also in the town of east hampton on the eastern part of long island. ranked choice voting is part of a package of reforms that we should be looking at around the country that allow you to open up the politics to let people run who maybe don't have as much money, who may come from a variety ofof backgrounds. brokenchoice voting has througugh the state of maine a d has s been a big factor there. now new york city becomes a largest jurisdiction in the country to embrace ranke

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tell everyone inside the building is the auditors find 1300 additional findings those are always therere. the more clearly the identify the sooner we can make sure we have corrected lands. we will keep closing them and get better more efficient. those numbers will come down but it's exactly what we are payingt them for andme what i hope he would get out of them. see if my time is expiring. again thanks for your leadership on this issue. it's a bureaucratic beast and trying to sort through them and were letip down and we had congress do appreciate your efforts so thank you very much mr. secretary and thank you mr. chair. >> thank you. i would add my appreciation to what you've heard from my colleagues about the work that you are doing. he talked about the list of examples and successes that you've uncovered as a result of the audit. at some point it would be helpful for us to get more of that list so we can share that with others, what has been successful about the audit. i want to go back to your early comment about the grove and preaching to the choir about the grove -- preaching to the