narrator: as welell as surveillance from the airir, sae the rhino trust trackks are out every week monitoring and photographing bckck rhino andnd enteriring them intoto a databa. they also look out for sususpicious vehicles anand activitieies. 30 years ago, there werere only 60 b black rhinonos in kunene.eh successfuful conservavation eff, that tripipled. but now, in thee last few years, that number has been dropping again because of drought and poaching. so what is the way forward? simsmson: i guarantee you iif yu don't have the support of the community on community land in conservation, then yoyou migt as well foforget. it's not working. narrato the most t effective way to prorotect the black rhino iso bring in the local commumunity. bondnds roman has been locally rrecruited aa guguide forr ourists whwho come to desert rhino camp at the heart of kunene. the camp is run by wilderness safaris, who in turn collaborate with the save the rhino trust. it's s a win-win-win. a limiteded numberf tourists bring in money, which finances the momonitoring and protection of f the black rhino and also cre

nobody knows if we can do apapplied if we can -- anand plt that can d do both welell. theyey have to b be verifieded h actual plalants in the field. we t think we hahave some -- - k we have some solutions. by t trying to develop plans to put roroots where the goodies ae , that is how we are goioing to improve crop production in these environments. but in these poor countrtries, people may not be literate, may not have access to government services, may not have much moy or capability to do some sort of new farming system or machinery. one thing they can do is plant a new seed. they are planting seeds now and if you give them better seats, this might get significantly food. that is an imporortant improvemt there. in the u.s., if we had corn plants that neneed less fertilizerer, we can reduce thee cost for amemerican farmers and reduce thehe environmentntal im. >> how far off is the en relt? >> therere varieti being grown daday in rica, as america, , that have e better r, betterer yields. that is happenening today. double and tririple the yields without fertililizer, jus

t that's--welell, that's acting. that's a gogood actor..eh: t the acting, you know, so the politics surround it. lee: right. right. shohreh: what you have to be careful of. lee: well this, again, also about you is that you're very vocal about various issues, world issues, current events, politics, and i love it when i see high-profile people, celebrities, vips who use that--their platform, their fame to be able to talk about issues that are important and, you know, educate the public that way. that's really important to you, isn't it? shohreh: absolutely. the platform which you beautifully refer to is the essence of my work. i started it in the uk, london. hyde park. right after i migrated to london, drove to london, drove myself to london from tehran to london, having--i had to go through istanbul, yugoslavia, italy, south of france. lee: how long did that take you? shohreh: got--12 days. lee: wow. ok. shohreh: got myself to london and started studying--went to hyde park corner, speakers' corner-- lee: mm-hmm. shohreh: saw people standing

t that's--welell, that's acting. that's a gogood actor..hohreh: t the acting, you know, so the politics surround it. lee: right. right. shohreh: what you have to be careful of. lee: well this, again, also about you is that you're very vocal about various issues, world issues, current events, politics, and i love it when i see high-profile people, celebrities, vips who use that--their platform, their fame to be able to talk about issues that are important and, you know, educate the public that way. that's really important to you, isn't it? shohreh: absolutely. the platform which you beautifully refer to is the essence of my work. i started it in the uk, london. hyde park. right after i migrated to london, drove to london, drove myself to london from tehran to london, having--i had to go through istanbul, yugoslavia, italy, south of france. lee: how long did that take you? shohreh: got--12 days. lee: wow. ok. shohreh: got myself to london and started studying--went to hyde park corner, speakers' corner-- lee: mm-hmm. shohreh: saw people stand

>> welell, for a start, we shoud cut off and resign from this war . are part of this war, so we should quit it we should not be supplying any more weapons. we should not be supplying anymore weapons. it is difficult, but was should suddenly cut off the flow of american contract workers. we should make it clear that we are not part of this. will bethe saudis hysterical about it, but we should make it clear we are doing that and are trying to work for some kind of peaceful solution before there is anything left of yemen, which not much is left as far as i can see at the moment. as yet, the saudi have a backed side has to stop the unconditional surrender of the houthis. on the other hand, the houthi allies to former president saleh , which is no angel himself, have to begin in some inducement, perhaps by is working with the iranians. -- we have top quit this wawar. it i is unconscionable. amy: andrew cockburn, thank you for being with us, washington editor to harprps magazinene. we both link to your latest piece. this is democracy now! when we come back,

. >> welell, let me just -- lelete just put in my two cents. think political strategy i is not to elect donald trump, to elect hillary clinton, and, for four years, to developop an alternative, another bernie sanders-type candidate with an independent party, outside t the democratic party, that will l te on hillary clinton, assuming that s she is elected and that e runs for reeeection and d that , also develops the infrastructurere of a third pary that is a true, new progressive party. >> well, that's s precisely what we're trying t to do.. there is a point w where you hae to -- do i want to keep quoting ralph -- b but where you have to draw a linine in thehe sand. and that's part of t the problem with the left, is we haven't. i covered ththe war in yugoslaa, and i find many parallels between what's hapappening in te united s states and whwhat happd with the breakdodown of yugoslavia.. what is it that caused this country to disintegrate? it wasn't ancient ethnic hatreds. it was the economic meltdown of yugoslavia and a bankrupt liberal establis