Constant floods erosion and salinity to combat these farmers are using rafts which remains afloat for a period long enough to grow vegetables theres a lot of problems during high tide this area get flooded with little water remains during low tide this is why were using floating beds to grow vegetables floating platforms offer up to an additional 40 percent of arable land creating opportunities for poor lentulus farmers aquatic farming a century old practice in bangladesh that almost disappeared is making a comeback with limited resources and threats of Climate Change people here are now starting to appreciate the importance of environmentalists friendly traditional cultivation systems some of you know john can earn around 2. 50 for days more. Of us are going to put a lasers on the seeds than keep them in a shaded area to mature later we plant them in the floating beds with natural for us and sell them and ready in the markets farmers generally do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides using this method so theres a greater demand for them. These plants and vegetables are from the floating beds farmers bring them to us by boats we think carry them again in boats and sell them at serious bizarre. This year floating seed beds have been used on 290 hectors a predisposes marshall an area there are now around 50000 people involved directly or indirectly in this type of farming in the district. With. This method of farming its getting really popular and its now practiced in at least 15 to 20 other districts farmers are making a good profitable one many poor bangladeshi farmers have now been given a financial lifeline by turning back the clock and relying once again on a traditional farming technique to protect their livelihoods. Peter to poor southwest bangladesh. Lets go back to hong kong now and the ongoing demonstrations planes are flying again after thousands of protesters flooded terminal buildings causing mass cancellations china has condemned the protests were joined by joshua long hes an opposition politician and to mr thats a Group Pushing for greater democracy in the territory he joins us live from hong kong we appreciate your time very much so as i understand it right now things are relatively calm at the airport what do you make though of the tactics obviously the point of a protest is disruption but some of the tactics have resulted in violence and physical harm to people what do you have to say about those particular tactics no one would look to see a clash no one would love to see fathers room would love people to be injured and thats why we know that the only way out is Hong Kong Government must respond to keep post them on instead of hiding behind all those riot police cars and activists good at airports and they are planning to have half a 1000000 people join the protests on sunday to demanding for you Crystal Clear requests for 1st is terminate and withdraw the extradition be the 2nd one is to stop brutality and finally the only way out is to have free election hong kong people need to elect our own government so china doesnt seem to be backing down kerry land doesnt seem to be backing down does their language the increasing harshness of the language does it concern you Chilling Effect len graced of threatening threatening hong kong peoples freedom is the tactics used by beijing and Hong Kong Government but women would not be scared as that would because were just asking for the fundamental right in this basic versus goliath battle so how do you do you think that this is actually going to lead to talks. The Democratic Campaign lawmakers sent a local elected to carry lambda leader of hong kong urged to have a open dialogue on early july but wait for later trumans Hong Kong Governments do have no response and yet it seems that they just a lot of brutality continue mode into a dozen here guess where fire 700. 00 citizens were arrested those Chilling Effect and generated chaos is just the result of carolan be the puppet of communist party of china what more can you tell us about that the next wave that you say is coming on saturday apart from planning a rally on sunday we also preparing for the generals and class boycotts on september we have just the monday to get whats in the election we hope to have a say on the palm kong because the leader of hong kong should represent the lloyds of people is that of the puppet of beijing and serving the interests of beijing authorities and now is the time for the well be those keep their eyes on hong kong no one could guarantee beijing would never ascend pm 8 the People Liberation army to hong kong thats the reason but what leaders should send a clear message to president xi jinping sending p. O. V to a whole call this is not the solution to stop the conflict in hong kong. Joshua long thank you so much for joining us we appreciate your thoughts on this and obviously out to sara well continue if you are what is happening and hong kong we can tell you as robin brightest reported things at the airport seems to be going fairly smoothly but we know that that could change at any moment keep it here on aljazeera well keep you posted in the meantime the stream as that next and then another billiton at the top of the hour. What is going to give the people would be a workshop wed listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone whos also terrorizing me we meet with newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. Here in the stream today is Brazilian Development a death sentence for the amazon well look at the push to bring more business interest protected areas of the Worlds Largest rain forest as always you can join our discussion via twitter or in our live chat. From brazil. Amazon deforestation is happening rapidly under president brazilian president on our 0 according to brazils National Institute for Space Research the 1st 7 months of 2019 showed a 67 percent surge and before station thats compared to the Previous Year the far right leader called those figures misleading hes also said that environmental protections are whats holding back the countrys economy since taking office this year regulations have been scaled back and the green light has been given to logging mining and other Development Projects and by them until its worry that too much deforestation in the amazon could create irreversible damage to the regions unique biodiversity and worsen the global state of Climate Change so how will opening up the amazon to business interests impact the Worlds Largest rainforests with us to talk about these issues in salvador brazil as a political ecologist and professor of humanities at the federal university. How low are tasho and environmental physicists from the university of south from where he joins us. His background includes work studying the amazonian ecosystem and how to build Sustainable Development in the region and in london. A multimedia journalist who covers latin america welcome to the stream everyone i want to start with the view of our audience our community has so much to say about this so this is a tweet we got from who says i have known the amazon forest since i was 7 watching a series its very saddening that its going to be cleared for agribusiness and its fall and flora that i dreamt of seeing by age 30 im 27 now are going to be destroyed so mia talk to us about how proportionate this tweet is to whats been going on because of course president took office in january whats happened since then when it comes to the amazon. Yes emmas on before especially is not a new phenomenon in brazil but i think what the concerning. Rising rate of the destruction which are almost record high so in july we saw an increase of 300 percent comparing to last year thats the equivalent of could well actually 3 quid every minute so thats the rate of the struction were talking right now so what happened when joe youve also got to be can present any even before during his elections was that he promised to ease regulations. Mining companies in india operating and yammers our Agricultural CompanyCompanies Operating operating in the rain chorused but he also hinted that he was and he not only hinted but he has admitted that he is open to opening up the amazon for exploration so he believes that yemen is on is like a very valuable commodity it up or is your house not only because all the food it can create mean rolls water and even oil so what he believes is that brazil reseating on this wealth and its not using it and so it seems hes Electoral Campaign hes being very very vocal about pushing for this and sometimes his words actually head at the legal businesses and he sort of condemning these illegal deforestation it seems like hes just lucky being a lot of value to what is happening and know what critics say is that he sees just pushing the illegal loggers and miners to continue their activities right so you mentioned 3 football fields worth of deforestation which is a good one for our audience to get a visual of if you know football of course so i want to broaden this i want to share a map so that everyone knows what were talking about here when it comes to scale so take a look at this the amazon is outlined in the. Oh it is shared by 9 countries 6700000 square kilometers to indias could fit inside the amazon and 10 percent of the worlds known species call it home so philippe when it comes to this section of brazil how does this current government differ from the Previous Administration when it comes to policies that affect the amazon. Well to have an idea its much worse then than well its actually in the teeth ive just been in one community of our Indigenous People in the amazon and there was this beautiful river that i used to swim there with the kids 4 years ago today theres no river anymore that entire reason has been destroyed by illegal gold miners who are also different the. So there is that for the 1st station for it at the range it but there is also a lot of illegal Gold Mining Company to every single indigenous land in them as of this writing river basins its unbelievable how fast it can be what goes on aries do is not peace is amazon is not open for business is open for blender its a crime against Humanity International audience should be really really weird off what is being time whats happening in brazil its a horrible crime against humanity villa need to display i mean i think that this International Attention that brazil has been getting the past few weeks out say after these last day that i think it has showed just how much it bothers as ive also narrows intent to open them is on for business hes a very probusiness president and sorrow. Of course i agree with felipe that in everyone everything everyone in the scientific. Community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. Play in our planet its not only like like you said a species it is if it homes but also its our economic its controls our temperature and it slows Climate Change it also is home to most of the. Freshwater we can drink but its just shells what present with the brazilian government says that if you did have. Towards these criticism coming from a from International Bodies is that the amazon is brazils and not the worlds reserves. And the control of the amazon rain is my cover and position you mention i need a Community Just how low you are in that community go ahead because not just get a lot of the bill for business you open for predatory b. C. B. S. You know they are muslim funds short of a very nice example of that is it but should walk to develop adamas when you know us you still go away theres not too much money and it can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give you a window for the people who lives the numbers were not sustainable we are full of it because i was one of these critical for to Global Carbon cycle if you know what if a significant fraction of all muslim bullshit yeah. I love it if very significant the greenhouse effect to good will be also a muslim is critical for you i dont know if you will for the whole group choice critically important to preserve the jumpers on a resume. To trickle down to the Sustainable Way yeah and probably if you correct me if im wrong but from what ive heard from what ive read and most of the protestation is right now at a total of 17 percent so 70 percent of that whole chunk you saw on the map is not destroyed and what scientists are calculating is that that point of no return that weve been hearing about is between 20 and 20 percent so we if this calculation is correct we are very close to seeing point of no return indianas on we dont have but i was told i was doing an article about it and i was told that every human being every being in the planet we dont have to kill the whole thing. To kill it all you know youve got me that mothers i know is suffering pressure for Climate Change because the climate in numbers are nice changing but all for a lot of sugar equal to it oh so you know that i actually put out 50 fairly. Small number of people who only bring this solution to all. Of the water the book relation so the scientists that come up with a very nice way hes showing that it is possible to get a log a muslim in a Sustainable Way does not cost too much money we do need to have the political will to do still mainly the issues not scientific you want to leave to go any c. E. O. s so you said and i didnt go which is why i want to come back in here because i want to share news that broke in earlier this month in august the beginning of august this headline was everywhere brazil scientists sacked after deforestation row with president were talking about ricardo galileo he headed the Government Agency that revealed an increase in deforestation in the amazon and that was the Space Research agency this is what our community thinks of that firing rafael says he was clearly fired because he showed based on facts what is really happening with the amazon forest devastation of the forests increased to 178 percent comparison with the same period of last year but i want to share with you well scenarios words from his own mouth here is what he said in all this when it came to the facts of this report. If these figures were all true the amazon would have been devastated 3 times over during the past 20 years we have to combat zone but if you put us psychologically on the figures came from inside from one of our organizations that is the big where you we have i even think that studying it more closely we should see that maybe people released this information in bad faith to damage the current government and harm brazils image political him for the pain what did you make of that firing. Well thats true censorship but its not only censoring science hes also sending a message to the ones who are on the ground in amazon you were allowed into the forest you were allowed to invade unusual conditions out you were not allowed to kill you setters and violent explosion thats a message of good bosso not to be sending to the kids support this. Never mind the law now isnt it time for you and im there and piracy its the reality that you can see in the amazon today its not for the station fire there is the movement i think women Indigenous Women today in brazil marching for defending their territories its a brother censorship from from the administration not only to get out of the oval but to everyone who just want to live in their environment to go being this process as exact as opposed to mad to its trying to push. On that sense i would say i talked with a couple of government workers and as a generally 2nd set thats not where they should be hard to reach someone in the government to have for example a quote and i got to speak to some government workers who are talking bad now which is the Environmental Agency to say so and they relayed was sleep just said that some of them have been indicated not to talk to the media that some of them are not talking to the press because the are worried they will be fired and they also told me that what they feel from the government hes a complete shutdown of communication between these agencies and the government so and also complete these beliefs of the Scientific Data which was what happened with the firing of because caldwell so also not all and the minister of environment because its all about denying these data they are saying that they are false and that they are false because there is a belief still ideology and a belief go will to overthrow the government and so these people are taking the seda according to the president and hes in the situation to convey a bad image of the president across brazil now even not has said that news that these is correct. Yeah you know its important to note that. You said you would. Not open to wouldnt put it before we have it all going to do list to 40 years they can always use to fight on the ground so we had good leaders who would leaders not want you to what people want to be called forest problem is that when. False if you wish it were meant to go over and for a few rich now so be discrete lets see what this is really. The result science of. Philippe you mentioned earlier the protests that are happening right now and i want to share with our audience what those look like because of course we have brazilian Indigenous Women who are marching all the way to. Protest some of us in our roles policies and among them are these Environmental Policies have a look you know some thank you. We will be here shouting women women women s. O. S. Our fire is disappearing Mother Nature is asking for help and nobodys listening we need a shout s. O. S. For the defiant station of our land we need help we need to have visibility do you understand were crying for how did i stop it in football. So Philippe Paolo here on twitter says brazil under the helm of all scenario has prioritise industry interests by mining and farming on Indigenous Lands and weakening environmental restrictions the development of the amazon poses a threat to the plethora of indigenous communities that live there talk to us about the specific incidences that have been happening with some of these communities. My job being is i made a strike to the defendant education at the same time that im on strike defending diamonds and we are all in striking. As university in brazil. Results of voting a new if i remember licensing deal that she just wasnt to make it any easier for big Money Companies invading these are serious or this is not business this is another thing this is pure what you want to open in the amazon is not new businesses we were doing business before because our astronomers are going to let us know the beginning of his mandate on the 2nd day of his mandate but also not a try to move the responsibility of demarcating indigenous lens the ministry of justice to the ministry of agriculture which has exactly the opposite interest of the indigenous communities and these Indigenous People are on the forefront of these of these battles if you look at most of the green patches in the amazon they correspond either to natural reserves or to indigenous reserves and its a very unfair battle as they have been told me telling me as i told philippe certain you know you are comparing these people who still eating a very thin way to cattle you know you because miners for example that come in and some tractors and go. Away off them its not only just destroying reverse or forest mining since the beginning of the year we have seen killings we have seen stonings and i have seen that things they have thing you know schools wanting to just communities on fire and there was a peak increase of these all the electoral. Votes when i was 12 per se but since the beginning of the year hes been saying a lot of a lot of his one. Can come out and can be separate as very anti indigenous almost racist you know calling you just people breaking story beings like you said on the same press conference you just use a clip from right so you know these people are in fact that they are actually the last frontier of protecting the amazon not only of them and i should add that most Agency Workers even Public Servants even there theyre part of the government but they are under attack because most of you can. Sue me me im polo polo i want to go to you with this because we just got a comment and thats a little bit of a push back to the conversation weve been having this is luge is from brazil he writes i think it is a it is good for the economy if we do a more careful approach to this business i think we can be careful and dont give cause deforestation without thinking about the consequences the english is a little bit broken there but you get his point though he says that there is a Business Case to be made here. If not conscious that are also very good experienced enough long enough that we can do for a lot of the reasons we dont just going to do was think that. If you strike a spoonful of there was released or not to go resource just for to profit from very very few. Orders so the us fighting under the messiah you know its a good point you can make the economy grow but then you destroy this product it kind of backfired. Yeah you know. In many ways we. Really believe. So basically its so. Short. Really do not long for the law to stop these kind of Political Party development. And. Sustainable development for almost do you know i want to share with you all a comment one moment i want to share with you all the comment because you took the time to send it to us and its interesting philippe ill directed to you he comes from amazon watches same as i r 10 deaths but he me hes an indigenous biologist from the cane gang people and a consultant with the group amazon watch and he has this message for the International Community. Than the originals movement of brazil we represent the truth and the future and the government represents talk to all of us should he present destruction and set back he will do everything to force his agenda and attack his opponents he try to diligent the minds of those who disagree he wheat hes sorry tarryl ridging does not respect brazilian people and their diversity and the environment wealth of the contrary so we call for International Solidarity to help us spread the misdeeds of this government that hes always trying to create fake news today for attention from hes irresponsible acts. So philippe he calls for International Solidarity will he get it do you think that the rest of the world the International Community realizes how important this is. Im sure he will were not going to let them as im be destroyed he was precise the indians are fighting for the future their fight for the future generations when you talk about these most movement in brazil were not talking about the best were talking about the future truly speaking the Tipping Point that we may soon be here its already happening the shingle part is so its a route that by sawyer. Plantation its the force that has been this right where the indians are defending the future of the forest is the future of presume its to protect the possibility for future generations to live in this country. And yet weve got this here youre talking about the future and some of that hopeful but i want to share this tweet from someone who says there is little to nothing that can be done about the amazon Climate Change is dangerously rail and deforestation is carelessly an ending we our our own nemesis. Do you share his sentiment or do you have a little bit more hope because it has been done before that the rates of deforestation have gone down in brazil before ya know im not besame its like at this mash h. Because we im sure that the International Community to gather with you brazilians we will reverse de strange this has happened as you mention brazil has a very nice story of reducing the forestation from fall from 28000 square kilometers in 2003 to only 4000 square kilometers in 2012 right now weve doubled that number to 8000 instead of people beating 2080 chill basically this shows is it possible to reverse deforestation but these need these policies that should be applied on our long term this should be you options for do local population and also should be legislation for the big island on it not to destroy us on putting stead to develop a Sustainable Development for the regions and many very good experiences showed that this can be done does not cost too much money. It is the promise of the government to develop the amazon in a Sustainable Way so i think well just have to let him see if that will be applied in the future but i have to say that International Community might have a very Important Role in this i mean weve seen how people have reacted to palm oil to plastic around the world who are seeing big you know environmental consciousness in the world and there are already products on the shelves that we consume every day crude coconut oil and so many that come from brazil come from Sustainable Development but i think in the moment that people realize that these products we are consuming come from illegal trade and not fair trade as we have promised i think theres going to be an International Reaction to bright caught product and even in sweden you has happened in a very small scale that these very small supermarket has banned brazilian could and has created a campaign called great cockroach you conclude just approached us that they were receiving products promised us create trade and there were not i think the International Community might have a role in this i think people will react and lot of except this is happening and also our good rock wants to to do is cry and you are not the only one that thinks that is all the time we have for now but i do want to share this because youre not alone this person on twitter says this is not a concern of only brazilians but of the world amazon is the lungs of the world we should stand and say no to these policies thank you so much for joining us today Philippe Paolo and leon thats all the time we have but well see one line. 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