and generation byby generation, this has further degraded ththe soils. the vital question we have to ask is, can this destctive prococs be reversed? [indiststinct announcncements] 15 years ago, chinese and internanational experts were confidenent it could be. they decided that to prevent further erosion, it was necessary to cease farming on certain key areas to allow the treeees and shrubs to grow back. but this could not happen without the consent of the farmers themselves. >> [speaking in chininese] >> they took some persuading. what eventually convivinced the local people was the assurance that they would have tenure of their land, that they would directly benefit from the effort they invested in the new project. >> [speaking in chinese] the goal was to give a hat to the hilltops, give a belt to the hills, as well as shoes at the base. the hatat meant thatat the top of these hills had to be replanted with trees. the belt meant ththat terraces s had to be buit to be used for crop planting, and also for trees. the shoes were the dams which we had to bui

>> today on ththe "earth focus"- biodiversrsity. ththe world's s species arere disappppearing at a surprising rate, and the consequences for human health are enormous. cocoming up on "earth focus." >> bioiodiversity as a way to describe the sheer variety of life on earth. lifefe -- on land, air and sea. the sheer diversity of life on earth is a testament to the majesty, beauty, and wonder that is the natural world. millions of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms and the environment that habit are part of a creature interrelalatd system. they depenend on what other forr survival. human beings are part of this intricate web of life. biodiversity is also a source of cultural and spiritual wealth, an essential part of human tradition and inspiration. the earth's natural systetems provide a range of services vital to our survival. species for other our food, livelihood, medicines, as well as to purify our air and water. oceans provide food and help regulate the climate. forest regulate water supplies and provide fuel. but all

thisis water is maintainingng ththe landscape because as s son as rain n falls on the canopy, on this vegetation, that rain then ininfiltrates gradudually to the groundnd, endnding up with this steady flw of this river. water is life. without water, nobody can do o anything. i'm amazed asas short as five years--six years, you get t clean water like thihs provided youou work hard for restoring this degradeded landscape. >> a about a 1,000 kilometerss furtrther north in the villagege of abraha atsbeha,a, another near miraculous phenomenon is occurring. farmers are finding water at the bottom of their wells, despite the poor rains this year. the famine of 1984 struck the people of this valley very hard. many migrated, many died. now the people arere returning. the village chairman, gabre giday, remembers well how life used to be. >> [speaking in foreign language] ten years ago i'd say,y, even five years ago, i'll tell you what the situation was: it was absolutely terrrrible. the sun, the drdrought, the win, it was all dry like the desert. there was a a refugee program fr our village, so

wolves have had an interesting impact to ththe prey and predatr relationship in montana.they have had an additive effect to the other predation that is going on. in recent years, we have also seen mountain lion populations, grizzly y bear populations, but your populations also on the rise -- black bear up regulations s also on the rise. so the wolves have made some decreases in numbers of certain animals, which makes it a little bit harder to bring meat to the table. is certainly frustration as part of that reintroduction. it did feel as if we had to go along for the ride for a while, willingly y or not. but now, since the hunts have started it, now we have regained that sense .f empowerment self-sufficiency, involvement in the e process. that is really important for us as a state that has the hunting traditions that we have. i get thousands of e-mails per year castigating me as a terrible human being because we allow hunting of wolves in montana. remember, we have in montana some of the healthiest wildlife species on the plalanet and somehow our wildlife managers are abl

ththe wolveses, the mountain lis and the e grizzly bebears. we use t t do over a hundred elk a year. now w we are dowown to around 4. and of lot of thehem are cocomig to other parts werewolves are not. that many to go around anymore. there e is a place for them, but they need to be regulated like every other animal. i just feel they haven't been. it has gotten way out off control. our wolf season started 10 years ago. >> it was my interpretation that the states were not thrilled about hahaving wolveves back in idaho, wyomiming, and montana. it's kindnd of like why did you pipick our statate? why do we have to live with them? our state, to be in while put ththem in central park in new york? it is unfair. people tell me that we don't really care for wolves. >> the delisting of wolves from the endangered species list is agreed-upon based on the estherville science at the time. and that called for a minimum of 300 wolves in the rocky mountains states for threeee consecutive years or 10 breeding years for each state. and we reach that in 2002. mini

and ththe u.s. insnstantly rejed it. and d you can't blame that on trump. obobama did the same thing a couple of years ago.o. same offer was presented. i think it was 2015. the obama administration instantly rejected it. and the reason is that it calls for a quid pro quo. it says, in return, the united statates shoululd put an end t o threatening military maneuvers onon north korea's borders which , happen to include, under trump, sending of nuclear-capable b-52's flying right near the border. now, maybe americans don't remember very well, but north koreans have a memory of not too long a ago when nortkorea wawas absolulutely flatteneded, liter, by american bombing. there was -- there was literally no tgets left.t. and i really urge people w hahave not done it to read the official american military histories, the air quarterly review, the military histories describing thi they describe it very vivividly and accuratetely. ey say, "thehere just wen'tt any targets left. well, we decided to attack the dams, the huge dams. that's a a major war crime. peoplele we

ththe coss of these kinds of crisisis last for generations. the amount of human damage, the amount of waste of resources is beyond calculation. a ssystem t that does this, let alone a system that does it repeatedly, cannot talk about efficiency because whatever the efficiency is of a particular factory or a particular production process is completely overwhelmed by the inefficiency of massive nunumbers of unenemployed peopl, un-utilized resources, and lost output that could meet social needs. but it's worse. it's not just that we're in a crisis now of horrific pproportions for 5 years. it's that this is the second major breakdodown of t this capitalist system i in the last 75 years. the last one was the 1930s. begins in 192929 and isn't realy over until 1940, '41.. a terrible crisis. and between the end of that one in the 1930s and the beginning of this one in 2007, the national bureau of economic research, which is the official agency that counts crises, counts 11 more----11 moe downturns in which millions of americans--and i'm not even talki

ththe prime minister did not tel us that. does he e have a criminal recor? busy a british national? we were not told of that. -- was he a british national? anchor: you are in the northern part of england. ,here is the feeling of london the morning after the horrific attack? reporter: of course, it is headline news and all channels the canceled a lot of programs. all of the news was dominated. where downingto street is, the official residences were the former in office is opposite to me -- to agn office is oppositee mate. you have the defense and scotland yard down the road and two minutes down, parliament. that is exactly where a man was by lots, a photograph of people walking around only two weeks ago with knives. he has been arrested and charged. i looked across the parliament and that is were six weeks ago, there was an attack on was mr. -- westminster and 4 people were killed. a police officer was killed by that assailant and that assailant was killed by police. it is beginning to be little bit frequent around here and also london. it was an attack in manchester, a very vibrant,

we t talk to bototh the mann and ththe woman. we show them pictures and tell them what can happen if theyey give birth at home, at the mototr of the bababy can fall sick or dieie. deaths have decreased, diseases have decreased, and d life has improved. i am very hahappy becaususe if the student fails, you are not a good teacher. i see fruits of whwhat i teachc, and i'm proud that i am a good teacher. narrator: accessss to healthcare isn't the whole story, of course. helping women must include an investment in education. in rural bangladesh, communities are learning the real value of empoweri women. this film from "save the children" shows that giving girls a voice can be the most powerful solution of all. woman: shilpi's father died when she was very young. her mother worked as a maid to support shilpi and two younger sons. she earned only enough to feed them one meal a day. when "save the children" started the "girls' voices project" nearby, shilpi joined. she met with other teenage girls to build self confidence and learn new s

and ththe fact that he experiend all of that and told us about it was very moving. reporter: shlomo graber is optimistic about the future. he's not even worried about the rise of the far right across europe. shlomo: there was no war in europe for 70 years. i am not worried because i like the system. i will be able to leave the world later because i know that it's going to be ok. reporter: until then, he'll continue to talk about his experience, so people can learn from the past. damien: they were just children living in communist yugoslavia when they first started having visions of the virgin mary. today, more than three decades on, those children are adults, and that region has become the country of bosnia-herzegovina. now if you're catholic, you'll probably know that i'm t talkig about medjugorje. believers say the virgin mary appears there. but the vatican is not so sure. reporter: they come by the thousands from all over the world to gather here in medjugorje on what has come to be called the apparition mountain. they are waiting for mirjana, one of six so-calle

trututh, whwhich is that ththe confederacy was on the wrwrong side of humanity. a aererected 166 years the founding g of our cities, 19 , theseafter the civivil war monuments that we took down were meant to rebrand the hisistory f ouour city y and the ideals of e confederacy.. these statues are not t just onn metal, notot just innocent remembrances of a benign history. these monuments celebrate a fictional senate has confederacy, ignoring the death and enslavement and terror that it actually stood foror. and after the civil war, these monuments were part of that terrorism, as much as burning a cross on him once on. they work erected us and a ststrong message to alall who wd in the shahadows of about whwhos still in charge in this city. amy: white natationalists have staged a series of protests and issued threats in the lead-up to e memorials' removals. a car belonging to one of the workers had also been set on fire. though the four most prominent confederate monuments have been removed, activists are calling for new orleans officials to remove all monuments, scho

ththe officials say they'll no longer share information with thee u.s. after u.s. law enforcement agencies released information and pictures about the investigation before british agencies did so. u.k. prime minister theresa may says she'll raise the issue when she meets with president trump today during a nato summit in brussels. the leaks s come as british authorities have arrested a total of eight men suspected of being connected to the attack, including suspected bomber salman abedi's brother, ismail. abedi was a 22-year-old british man whose parents emigrated from libya. abedi's brother hashem and his father have e also been arrestsd by special forces in libya. the italian coasast guard says t least 34 refugees, including many small toddlers, have died after their boat capsized off the coast of libya wednesday as the refugees were trying to reach europe. their deaths come as a new report says as many as 6.6 million people are waiting in countries around the mediterranean hoping to emigrate to europe. back in the united states andd montana, republican congressi

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no to ththe silence.e. no to o the self-censorship.p. notete to o the fear.. we havee couragege to keep informing,g, keep repoporting, p investigating, keep announcing, keep sharing opinions and speak out. speak out. speak out. amy: in britain, labour party leader jeremy corbyn on tuesday rolled out his party's manifesto ahead of a general election set for next month. the platform proposes raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 5% of earners. the revenue would go towards health care,versal in and to public university tuition, free child care, housing subsidies, and other programs. this is jeremy corbyn, speaking tuesday. >> because people want a country run for the benefit of the many, not the few. for the lastse -- seven years, our people have lived through the opposite. in britain for the rich and the elites in the vested interests. states,k in the united a federal judge in mississippi has sentenced a gulfport man to 49 years in prison monday for murdering a transgender teenager, in the first-ever hate crime prosecution involving a transgender vict

nararrator: the bridge whwhich e acaccess to ththe local scschool became a front line between wawarring factctions. un peacekeeperers supported local effororts to resolve differerens so that momoslem and christianan children n could go back to sschool. [people shshouting] narrator: the central african republic, a country wracked during decades with religious conflict, innocent civilians, as in all wars, caught in the crossfire. [men shouting] narrator: when sectarian violence pitting moslems against christians again erupted in 2012, thousands were killed, and many more fled their homes, moving to the relative safety zos definedd by theheir religig. due to thehe violence, more than half the schools closed, including g yakite school, one f the few schools in the capital bangui where once christian and moslem children studied together. the only access route to the school from the two communities was over the now-disputed yakite bridge. ludovic bienvenu, a christian lolocal youth leader, explains w the bridge between the two communities became a front line between warring factions. narrator

they are now found routinely in stream samples as well as well samples across ththe united states. >> birds like swifts and swallows depend on insects as a food source. if insects are killed in their breeding ground, usually a body of water, birds are deprived of food. >> the concentrations of the neonics in our waterways are sufficient to kill the aquatic invertebrate life on which these birds depend. >> in canada, where neonicotinoids are widely used on crops, dr. christy morrissey is also finding high levels of wetland contamination. she focuses her research in canada's breadbasket, the prairie pothole region of saskatchewan, where agricultural land is laced with potholes, small temporary ponds fed by snowmelt and rain. >> in 2013 we found up to 90% of the ponds s that we sampled n spring, even before the farmers were out seeding, had detectable levels of neonics in them. but our peak concentrations occurred after seeding, not surprising, particularly after rainfall events, at levels that were, you know, upwards of, uh, 3 parts per billion, which is well known to affect aquatic ins

ththe moneyy is being ststolen. it is a fraud factory in a way.the public is really getting shafted on this one. amy: very quickly, you have sued the federal government on behalf of the workers at hanford. we have less than a men up. can you explain what you have sued over, what you're demanding, and with this latest accident, what needs to happen? >> so we brought a lawsuit along with the union at the hanford site, the pipe hitters union and the state of washington, to force the governrnment to provie better protections for the workers out there who inhale chemical vapors and then get sick. sadly, people e are not being protected, even though there are some pretty great help injuries that result. we're demanding that people are protected with respiratory protection in the future and that they do something to protect these people. this latest incident is a great illustration of how workers are on the frontlines of harm out there. amy: tom, thanks for being with us, executive director of hanford challenge, which advocates for workers at the hanford

that led to ththe whole rerest f the investigigation. the second thingng was when you had the senate select committee on w watergate. you had sam ervin, a democrat, southehern democrat, constitutional scholar, asas the chair. howard baker, the republican from tennessee, was the vice chair. he started out ass a total partrtisan for richard nixixon. he c came up with a ries o of questions. what does ththe president know d when did he know i it? he thoughtht those questions wod show that ninixon had nothing to do with the break-in, with a cover-up. so he asked those questions of the witnesses. when he asked those questions, the answers repeated and repeated and repeaeated, , shows that nixon was aware, the whitee house wawas aware, and showed hs involvement. as a result of the facts, they curve became an advocate for the rule of law. on the house side, house judiciary committee, i think most of the republicans, if not all of them, were advocates for the president. but the facts came out. in the end, most of the republicanss voted for the ar

person with the power and the control. . >> the way i have found is thi project, which iss called ssave ththeldren. saving palestinian children who have every right toto lead. if no aid is able to get to ththem, they die. they have almost 600 childrdre. israeli and palestinian dodoct have worked on thehem. reconciliaiation is working togetherer. i don't think we need reconciliation. i think we work together as if there was already peace. i hope that things can change and i always believe that the power is in the people. so they can make the change. and it depends on that. >> i think that i hope we can make children not to hate my neighbors, my arab neighbors. testimony we're good neighbors, one day we will dance together. .

and ththe notice said i had to report for an interview with a deportation officer at the federal iceuilding in newark. juan: and you have been very active at rutgers universityy among the undocumented students. talk about your work there. >> my advocacy for started by starting rutgers first student organization for undocumented students. the start of the organization with the objective of providing resources as well as support to undocumented students to improve the graduation rates, as well as retention rates for undocumented students because they are currently very low for higher education. juan: what is your fear of deportation? have you seen other students either at rikers or students you know whoho were -- rututgers or students you know who were deported? >> there was a national case a couple of weeks agago of a a daa recipient is either out to lunch or dinner with his girlfriend and ice officials started asking him questions that very same day , he was later deported to mexico. so that is a direct violation of the regulations set forth by daca. daca is supposed to be deportatio

food to malnourished children or getting support to teens with hiv, or even sending the spspitalo ththe tient.t. om malawi ecuador, see some of hlthcare's mostnventive solutions d stay ted to e the winner of the "viewchange" film contest leadership prize. second narrator: malnutrition. every year, malnutrition kills twice as many children as aids, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. yet there is hope. an inexpensive, revolutionary therapy is saving children's lives right now. (rooster crows) since 2004, project peanut butter has been treating children in malawi, a country with one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. (speaking nativeve language) second narrator: as a faculty member at washington university medical school, dr. manary founded project peanut butter to bring the most effective malnutrition therapy to the children who need it most. alefa is 7 months old. she is just entering the critical 6-month-to-two-year-old window where children are most vulnerable to the impact of malnutrition. jason: alefa is, uh, severely malnourished and, um, (unclear), as you can see from

here is a map showing the shafa and ter ale l ththe streets eff right now. police are warning peopleto avoid the area of market mutween fifth and sixty. ngni bdeeipartisment says to expect delays. >>> following developing news out of the east bay. a train has struck and killed a young man. kpix 5's jessica flores is live onscene very latest. jessica? >> reporter: yeah. it hstd pen a dliju lthooowk e at what we can see from our advantage point. the atortry to figure out how this happened. boy on the tell you is the ll tracks around 8:00 a.m. ficis t residential area. officials tell me the boy was struck on a bridge. an area of the track where pedestrians should not be crossing. the sheriff's office official tells us the boy y mabe school from a middle school. officers closed off the road happened. union pacific is also investigating the t to friends and family and they are sing this tragedy to mi rendony cross in are still investigating what happened as we get more information we will bring it to you late:00 i 5can tell you the coroner's office is not releasi

what you have seen the past several years, ththe concern was at some point the world as a battlefield and d the president can exert more power is inside the united states. what you have seen over the last couple years is very much moving in that direction. security.s. national officials five years ago talked about al qaeda as the greatetest nanational security threat werel qaeda and the e arabian peninsua or vararious affiliates, now thy talk about almost uniformly the greatest threat eating what they call homegrown terrorists. what you have seen the civil liberty abuses, new ones, spreading up almost exclusively on american soil. two years ago, the obama justice department announced new rules where miranda rights weree diluted. delududed -- you have legislation being proposed to strip people of citizenship and eliminate legal protections they h have. and the end of last year, you had the national defefense authorization act which codified the power, probably the mosost un-american power there is, lookining at america and he romanticize sent, on u.s. soil as well. you see ththis incre

would be ththe only nonparticipant in n the only effort to stop the climate change. that decision promises to have a big impact on businesses. >> you can bet investors are listening closely to those reports from u.s. media that donald trump pull america out of the agreement. we are awaiting confirmation. in the world of business, ceos and businesses are getting ready to act. >> the ceos of exxon mobil, dow chemical and tesla urge trump to remain in the agreement. elon musk threatened to quit white house advisory councils he sits on if the president pulls out. he tweeted we will have no choice but to the park councils in that case. other ceos have called on trump to stick to the climate deal. they are afraid of the negative consequences of nonparticipation. >> let's get the reaction from wall street. standing by, what are traders making of the plan to pull out of the climate agreement potentially? >> we had some surprising and not so surprising reactions. we had stocks from solar companies, from renewable energy firms trading to the downside at coal stocks they suffer

event or staysys at a hotel l for the presidenent's ne is brandeded from the top of the building to ththe chocolate on e llows, it may violate e this cause ofof the constitution. the e trump organinization c cuy has business ventures in nations around the world, including saudi arabia, the philippines, india, argegentina, and t turke. and because of his refalal to unveil his tax returns or really any documentnts that explain wih whom and where he e does b busi, there are e many dealings s thae may never know about. amy: los angeles joins three other california cities, cambridge, massachusetts, and charlotte, vermont calling for , trump's impeachment. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman in chicago with gonzalez in new york. juan: welcomome to all of our listeneners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show in france, where the former investment banker and political centrist emmanuel macron has been elected president in a landslide victory over far-right candidate mari

at the heart of ththe success of this model lie two linked ideas.he first is an image of "the good life" based upon the accumulation of consumer goods, and the second is the idea of perpetual and infinite economic growth. what i want to argue today is that both those ideas

t without t sponsors, ththe country sisimply can't afford i. the plan to make otjivero a model fofor the whole e of namia is, for nonow at least, onon ho. >> what do you do if you have no prospect of work? that's reality for millions of people today, even in europe. unemployment figures are skskhigh thrououghout southern parts t the contitinent. a good education used to be a guarantee for a well-paiaid job. but now occasional work is all millions of qualified young people can hope for. in greece, the job market has been devastated by the debt crisis, at over 23%, unemployment is the highest in europe. in that atmosphere, it's hard to remain positive. >> in greece today, most people have a sad story to tell about the financial crisis. but not these two. christina katopodi: you cannot stay and cry all the time. you have to be a little optimistic. because life is now! konstantinos kouvaras: everybody was like: you are crazy, what are talking about to create something now? and we say now. now it's the best moment, because now, during crisis, this i