and the lifeblood of this city is the tigris river.move down it, the more polluted the tigris becomes. it's almost as if iraq is poisoning itself. it's nearly 500km from baghdad to the city of basra. it's home to the country's main port and once fertile farmland. but now, it's hard to find fresh water here. and the rising salinity of the water is having a crippling effect on the city. this was basra last summer when the city erupted in anger. protesters were furious about corruption, unemployment and poisoned water. gunfire the authorities cracked down hard. more than a dozen demonstrators were killed. basra was a broken city. this wounded protester cursed the city's leaders as the scum of the earth. a city once known as the venice of the east had become a vision of hell. its canals, a symbol of corruption and dysfunction. the sweltering summer heat, turning this into a toxic stew. tens of thousands were rushed to the city's hospital, suffering from stomach cramps and serious diarrhoea. doctors and nurses were overwhelmed. the city had

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we all dread the day when there isn't enough water from the tigris and euphrates to keep the marshesmillennia, but they may not last much longer. u nless they may not last much longer. unless iraqi gets to grips with its water crisis, millions could be forced to move, and a way of life could be wiped out forever. charities working to protect the orangutan in sumatra are warning the species could become extinct within two decades. its habitat in indonesia is under serious pressure as vast areas of tropical rainforest are cleared to make room for palm oil plantations. from sumatra, our correspondent mehulika sitepu. this rescue team has been told the wife of a soldier has been keeping a young orangutan as her pet. bom bom was kept in a cage for three years. they have agreed to hand him over. it's hard to watch. life with this family is all bom bom has known since his mother was killed. getting him to a rehabilitation centre is his only chance of freedom back in the wild. bom bom is a victim of indonesia's deforestation. this country is the world's biggest palm oil producer. in the past

disclose his link to mercenary army tiger swan an internal document noted that rice had assisted tigris one in developing an information operations campaign against the pipeline protesters so beauty ben stein here is a mercenary not a little youtube or in iowa rumors are swirling protestors want to kidnap your daughters or granddaughters or if you don't have either then your pet cats and hamsters. and protesters want to take away your favorite t.v. shows like family feud and give your genital rash. whoever raisins and those they enrich will stop at nothing to profit off of our misery they are sucking the wealth and resources out of america out of fairness well out of countries around the world and because average people good people normal people don't support this kind of they have to create manipulative astroturf campaigns they have the money but we have the real people power if we choose to use it i mean for washington d.c. to. say thank you. thank you our. welcome i'm late can know if they've been news from behind a protest real protest is in the air my friends can you feel it can yo

researchers have uncovered that hundreds of sites and rivers around the world from the tames to the tigris are washed with dangerously high levels of antibiotics and that some of the world's best known rivers including the times are contaminated with antibiotics classified as critically important for the treatment of serious infections this this would be like you tweeting out your social security number and banking passwords for all the world to see and then praying and hoping that no one decides to drain your bank accounts and steal your identity in 72 countries across 6 continents researchers looked for 14 of the most commonly used antibiotics and discovered them in 65 percent of the rivers they monitored 65 percent and let's not forget that added to the adubato xs last year's discovery that more than 60 per scription drugs are getting into river food chains not to mention all of the illegal drugs like the cocaine and ketamine recently discovered contaminated water ways in the united kingdom. so my friends with our addiction over use of pharmaceuticals now destroying.

rivers around the world from the tames to the tigris are watched with dangerously high levels of antibiotics and that some of the world's best known rivers including the tables are contaminated with antibiotics classified as critically important for the treatment of serious infections this this would be like you tweeting out your social security number and banking passwords for all the world to see and then praying and hoping that no one decides to drain your bank accounts and steal your identity in 72 countries across 6 continents researchers looked for 14 of the most commonly used antibiotics and discovered them in 65 percent of the rivers they monitored 65 percent and let's not forget that added to the adubato xs last year's discovery that more than 60 per scription drugs are getting into river prude chains not to mention all of the illegal drugs like the cocaine and ketamine recently discovered contaminated water ways in the united kingdom. so my friends with our addiction over use of pharmaceuticals now destroying our freshwater rivers with the promise of antibiotic superbugs on the way

ceding control of the tigris islands in the indian ocean back to marine islanders say their descendants and they hope that this will pave the way for the return. the expulsion of locals from the islands has been described as one of the worst examples of britain's days as a colonial power a community of displaced islanders in london has been campaigning for decades for the right to be resettled on the island so great a gene from the refugees group says the u.k. isn't the only side preventing the islanders returned however. my question has been always why they don't want. to read the. british open ricky thought how much. this oh and then. morse the us saw me as a 2nd generation. it's told them to realise what they've done ease of rolling the child goes to trial goes nuts will the u s y d they need to return the country to the child lotion. charges islands have been at the center of a decades long dispute between britain and which in the 1960 s. ceded the territories in exchange for independence plus $3000000.00 pounds that moved a lot of the united states in 1971 to build a military base

since mirages is a sovereign nation and it has always maintained that it has sovereignty over the tigris archipelago so any u.k. need to handle control over to militias had control over to meshes that is one scenario that might happen constantine us has another one have a listen to what he has to say earlier this year the principal judicial organ of the united nations told the u.k. government to return the chickens and to marry shoes as soon as possible the u.k. government have participated fully unit court proceedings presented its case but its arguments were rejected now that you can government rejects the findings of the court and says that it will return at some point in the future when they're no longer need it so what's next now to turn on the un general assembly to make it move and act on the advice it has been given by the i.c.j. here on twitter abdul hobson as they will be consequences the u.k. is already struggling internationally and this will leave it floundering and isolated robin are you hopeful that the un can can fix this well well of course i am in the beautiful advisory

al-jazeera the white house and general assembly has demanded that britain give up control of the tigris islands within 6 months or so says it was forced to give up the territory of the indian ocean in exchange for independence as a diplomatic editor james reports the un decision to set back for britain and the us. a humiliating defeat for the u.k. and its ally the us in the un general assembly countries voting overwhelmingly 160 nations in favor of the people who still live on a small group of islands called the shah goss just 4 countries voted on the side of the u.k. in the us back in the 1960 s. britain did a secret deal with the united states to build this military base on the largest of the shadow silence diego garcia the islanders were forced to leave their homes more than 50 years on earlier this year the international court of justice ruled the u.k.'s actions at the time were illegal in 1968 when rishis gained its independence from britain the share goss was split off from the rest of the country so that the base could be built one would have who. that any country found to be eng

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the tigris and euphrates basin most of it originates in the mountains of neighboring countries. there is no international compact in place for sharing the waters. that's a big deal. when i found out, i couldn't believe it. apparently there is a memo. and that memo is not followed strictly, not sacrificingly. turkey has said there's been conversations with turkey in the past. and turkey has said well when you guys use the water efficiently then we'll make sure you get enough water. you know,s in some respects it's hard to argue with that because iraq still uses flood irrigation to irrigate the crops. and they are not doing it efficiently. they are not paying special attention to soil health. they don't have good efficient irrigation systems in place. you remember, i said that iraq has more water than any other middle eastern country to deal with. but they are still importing agricultural where countries like jordan per capita has 15 times less water to work with. they export agricultural because any use efficient irrigation systems. there is work to work in iraq to make more effi

we heard about iraq, and problems that characterize relations between turkey and eastern over the tigris, and one could imagine the relations between iraq, syria and turkey over the euphrates would be even more complicated. so one should not expect uncomplicated matters here. but one should also be very careful to what is happening. because iraq has deteriorated so much, that right now, i was in turkey several times in the past month, in turkey, they are becoming very worried about outbreaks of cholera in iraq. this is not widely reported because it is inconvenient, and people don't want to talk about this. but if you talk to people who know the situation, high level political leaders, they understand that. and they understand that things have to go further. now, of course, the questions of bilateral, for example, water measurement, the water data have been discussed for a long time. and countries like switzerland help in that regard. and however this has not quite become an irreversible success. and further work is needed from data and cooperation. and turkey has appointed their former