The west the cloud is a big old clay because this system is well just sitting there into Southern France some very heavy rain as we head on through monday could have some thunderstorms could even see some localized flooding and that will also impact the fall north on the northwest of italy also down across the west a med in fact the belly erikson warnings in place today for the child. And that threat doesnt really go away by choose if anything the rains becoming heavy through Southern France and down as a through much of the western med and on into spain touches about 5 degrees below the average image or it meanwhile across the east where weve got these clear skies book arrested 23 thats about 5 degrees above the average im going to very nice 21 across into care now these systems that to the north they are impacting areas of Northern Africa some cloud in the last few hours as being taking some showers with that they could possibly still come down to shows as we go on through monday into Northern Areas of libya on into egypt and then this cloud which is trailing down from the western end of the med through cheese day that could again be some flash floods across as morocco and on as you can see the into algeria. Whether sponsored by. The population right. Is increasing the money pregnancy some woman puts herself christopher mchenrys back introducing the family turning into a patriarchal culture is a challenging task for the ferry system which it comes from a man when a woman can decide for him one day and how many children she wants he thinks should be empowered but one movements perseverance is transforming her community of women make change on aljazeera. Welcome back it could come out of our top stories here on the aljazeera lebanons Prime Minister is expected to announce a series of reforms in an effort to stop the protests saad hariri has met the president at a cabinet discussion on a new economic measures. And it is incumbent president is ahead in the election but it looks like hell have to face a runoff in december the results put longstanding leader even iran is ahead of his rival colace message but not enough to win out flight. And u. S. Troops of crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from Northern Syria envoy has passed through this ahead of Border Crossing heading into iraqs northern kurdish region. Britains government is expected to try to put its new brags that deal before parliament for a vote this week it could happen in the coming hours on sunday the European Union said it received Prime Minister baraks johnsons letter asking for a 3 month delay to the brags that deadline of october 31st was forced to send a letter to losing a crucial vote in parliament on saturday where britains government still insisting that the u. K. Will leave the e. U. At the end of the month with or without a deal. We are going to leave october the 31st we have the means and the ability to do so and people who you know yesterday we had some people who voted for delay voted explicitly to try to frustrate to this process and to drag it out are you think actually the mood in the country is clear and the Prime Ministers determination is absolute North Macedonias Political Parties have agreed to an early election in april after talks on joining the e. U. Were blocked the Prime Ministers or enzyme says he is angry and disappointed at the delay in hope to date will be given for talks after he changed the countrys name to end a long running dispute with greece both lay claim to the name macedonia North Macedonia expects to be accepted into nato later this year. Will result 2 days ago in brussels a huge injustice was inflicted the European Union hasnt delivered on what it promised we met all our obligations we delivered we form and resolve disputes with their neighbors but they didnt stand by their word and have not delivered been unable to reach the decision on starting the membership talks with us is their historic mistake now there appears to be a green wave taking over switzerland with fears about Climate Change putting the Environment Party is on track for historic gains in National Elections a surge in votes for the Swiss Green Party could loosen the center writes grip on power theyre projected to win around 13 percent of sundays vote along with another Environment Party that set to get more than 7 percent surveys before the election so that Climate Change has replaced migration as a leading concern for voters. Pro independence supporters in catalonia protested for a 7th straight night theyre angry about the jailing of separatist leaders organized a band independence referendum 2 years ago the mayor of boston of the regional capital has appealed for calm law to some of the protests turned violent hundreds of counter protesters were also out in force they want catalonia to remain a part of spring. A state of emergency in chinas capital is now being extended to other parts of the country the military is struggling to keep control as protests and civil unrest spread and these people have been killed in the rioting buildings and train stations set on fire trees about reports now from santiago. It all started as a fight against a rise in the subway fare but it has escalated into this. A major crisis that has the south American Country in chaos look vocal over social injustice is everywhere the minority concentrates all the wealth this is about how they rob us in supermarkets in health care how they profit without pensions protests like this one happened in many areas around the capital. The government declared a state of emergency on friday and pulled the military on the streets for the 1st time since the end of. 1990 but that did not deter people. So this is how the clashes have been ongoing mostly young people coming here to protest against the government and clashing with the police and that is responding those leads with that tear gas and rubber bullets people are using the not i think to protect themselves most of those we have spoken to say but angry because they are fighting against us that is perpetrating inequality. He says hes been protesting peacefully and was shot by the police with a rubber bullet. In the air and this is how they responded. Remain on the streets and we wont respect a curfew we are in a democracy they cant prevent us from being on the streets. On the other side of town families banging pots and pans supported the protests against our you know. Were tired of prices going up politicians making money we dont want to live in a bubble we have to protest peacefully so they listen to us people cannot make it until the end of the month and that needs to change looting has been ongoing in several cities some supermarkets and shops were set on fire on sunday there was transport deadlock in santiago and kills have International Airport the government was forced to impose a new 11 hour curfew precedent. Has been meeting with his cabinet to try to address the discontent but always source says its chiles economic model that needs to be revised i dont think any serious will buy the part of the over the ruling class so to say of changing the model and the problem is the model and the model. Based on the constitution is the model and its a. Completely unfair. To the private sector. Has gone from being one of the poorest countries in latin america to one with the highest per capita income the problem is that the economic boom has not benefited everyone. And thats what these people would like to see change. The e. U. Special envoy for afghanistan has called for a ceasefire in the country he says the breakdown and us taliban talks last month is an opportunity to push for a truce when on sunday u. S. Defense secretary. Made an unannounced visit to kabul in an attempt to revive those negotiations last month President Trump broke off talks with the taliban after the armed Group Carried out a bomb attack in kabul it killed 12 people including an american soldier. Chinas defense minister says resulting what he called the taiwan question is a National Priority china considers taiwan a road province he defended beijing stance saying no force can prevent reunification of china hes also spoken about chinas military relationship with the u. S. Which he called generally stable. Now apple farmers and indian administered kashmir say restrictions on communication and movement adding a devastating impact on their businesses the Indian Government revoked the regions autonomy and sent in soldiers 9 weeks ago to also shut down internet and telephone lines that are against india as more. Its harvest time in indian administered kashmir where apple production contributes 10 percent to the states 20000000000. 00 income. But this year apples are being left to rot because thumb is confines people to pick them after Prime Minister and render him 80 abolish the state futon of the status and imposed a security lockdown as. The situation is bad we can harvest the apples on time and most of them fell down from the trees now were collecting the rotten apples and throwing them away. Internet im a both and Services Remain cutoff for this moment that means his business is in jeopardy then the basic communication is dollars we have no neighbors will build up people. Who are sitting in delhi westin in bangalore were staying in. Another big market and theyre not able to come any good with them its fairly difficult. This wholesale fruit market in srinagar would normally be packed with trade is business is down by 95 percent this year compared to last years as big as the left on each year export about 200000. 00 boxes of apples in the domestic markets across india this year because of the situation farmers arent able to send their projects to market they dont know where to send it because communication lines arent working. In response to the crisis the Indian Government to set up a National Cooperative through which families can sell their produce bought it imposes strict Quality Control measures which many farmers find hard to meet to tell we can only select the produce if the color of the apple is good so far we have rejected 80 percent of the pharmacist come here to sell their produce the apple industry in kashmir involves 3500000 people around half the population of the state the look down has devastated the economy and farm is a cooling on the Indian Government to immediately lift the security restriction must secure a gate and be there. Now people across australia woke up to a striking sight on monday morning the front pages of every daily newspaper blocked out spot of a campaign to highlight government plans to penalize whistleblowers and so on and some journalism under thomas has more now from sydney. They are normally rivals but on monday all major news organizations in australia joined forces similar tiny asleep protesting restrictions on press freedom by the government and in parliament the opposition questioning the Police Commissioner joined in commissioner have you seen the front page of the strain and today it wasnt just the australian anything strike you similar in all of those pages of t. V. Ads its also highlighted concerns the government can range in the summer of voting the tree if it says youre not allowed to couldnt happen in history and its happening journalists are worried after police raids in june on the home of one journalist and offices of others whod run stories on the behavior of australian soldiers in afghanistan their work was based on documents leaked illegally the police said by whistleblowers media executives are concerned that there arent enough protections in the law to allow journalists a Public Interest defense when publishing information the government wants to keep secret if government operates on the basis of a culture which is keep things secret because we dont want it being discussed then i think way as people way as taxpayers ways effectively owners of the government lose out media executives say 75 Different National security laws passed since 2001 have chipped away at the freedom of the press and need reform but the government disagrees they are striving people want to see a balance in the way we get all with the job but there are National Security considerations that need to be taken into account Reporters Without Borders says australia has dropped to 21st in its list of countries with a free press Mondays Campaign highlights that not many people buy physical newspapers anymore but what these front pages represent is a much broader conversation whats happening in parliament on t. V. On social me. And in the streets about whether australias government is becoming to offer a tarion prioritising its right to hide secrets over the publics right to know Andrew Thomas aljazeera sydney. A powerful tornado has damaged homes and cut power to tens of thousands of people in texas it touched down in dallas on sunday night which was already under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning or no media reports of injuries. One of the natural wonders of the world is in the hills of North Western iran and the solder is the largest water filled cave anywhere in the world it once could have been a candidate to become you know asco World Heritage site but not anymore as a mozart reports the locals say commercialisation is to blame dinosaurs still walked the earth when spring water began cutting through rock to create what is today the largest water filled cave in the world in the heart of hama down province other cave is an estimated 150000000 years old local historian say shepherds from a nearby village began using it for water and shelter around 900 years ago its been open to visitors since the 1970 s. Roughly the length of 280 olympic sized pool most of it is only accessible by boats in some places the water is so deep it could fit a 3 Story Building they got to the visitor numbers are controlled to protect the caves ecosystem bring food in is not allowed algae that gradually grows inside the cave due to body heat and light is controlled as well the 1st priority is preserving the cane then providing services to visitors provincial government has spent the last decade cashing in on the caves pulling power with hopes of attracting even more visitors this is the largest part of a lease other cave that is open to the Public People that are mapping these caverns know that the network of tunnels keep going but much of this cave remains unexplored and inaccessible to preserve the delicate ecosystem some sections are off limits 3 restaurants that were once inside the cave were shut down to control pollution but using the cave as an economic engine to drive the local economy has led to the in evitable clash of humans and nature despite the best efforts of its caretakers there is evidence of commercial interests leading to environmental consequences thats. Almost 1000000 people visited the cave one of the items we look at the tourist sites is visited it was and there was a naturally the government took some measures welcomed by tourists and open air mall souvenir shops cafes theme park rides a hotel even a celestial observatory all the 1st things visitors see when they step out of the car the entrance once you get to it looks less like the mouth of an ancient cave and more like an airport complete with ads for other attractions theres a nearby zoo visitors can go see next. People living in the village of say commercialization is what cost the community a chance at unesco World Heritage status. Last year a group came here from unesco but unfortunately they raised 2 shortcomings the entrance of the cave is ugly and needs to be. And the steps built inside the cave should have been made from the original materials to preserve its original form at the edge of the villages the original entrance to the cave abandoned buildings once a market now falling down while the village has experienced economic progress you know status is something that would have been a game changer for this Small Community the rush to replace the old with the new for those living here is a door that is now closed and an opportunity missed the same old a 0 early so there village in Hama Province iran. Time for quick check of the headlines here the sound lebanons Prime Minister is expected to announce a series of reforms in an effort to stop the protests hariri has met the president head of a cabinet discussion on new economic measures but protests are continuing their calls for the government to resign santa has latest from beirut protesters have called for a general strike shops its called universities banks theyre all closed in fact in many ways protesters have taken over the streets there blocking roads its very difficult to move around the capital and its also very difficult to reach one city to another highways are being blocked so the protesters piling yet more pressure on the government bolivias ing cumberbund president is ahead in the election but it looks like you have to face a runoff in december plenty of results but longstanding leader the morale is ahead of his rival Carlos Messer but not enough to win outright chiles government has extended a nighttime curfew to cities across the country its in response to violent protests against the cost of living at least 8 people have been killed in rioting yes troops of crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from Northern Syria a convoy has passed with the Border Crossing its heading into iraqs northern kurdish region. In Syria Kurdish fighters say they finished pulling out of a border town clearing the way for turkish but rebels to take control evacuation of russell lane was agreed under the u. S. Brokered cease fire would civilians have also been evacuated but he was special envoy for afghanistan has called for a cease fire in the country he says the breakdown in the u. S. Taliban talks last month is not bitching is it to push for a truce on sunday u. S. Defense secretary markus made an unannounced visit to kabul in an attempt to revive the lives your actions people across australia work up to a striking sight on monday morning the front pages of every daily newspaper was blacked out and asked the question when the government keeps the truth from you what are they covering up its all part of a campaign to protest legislation and media groups say restricts press freedoms those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera of the techno stage and thanks so much and. An act of youthful defiance. Your turn next dr ross out in the school or the arrest on your home at 4 in the morning to let your shock treatment was the worse that trinket in a revolution. The arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the Armed Struggle in syria. The boy who started the syrian war on aljazeera. Al jazeera its sweat every day. This is techno a show about innovations that can change lives the science of fighting wildfires were going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and were doing it in the unique way. This is a show about science. Are now by scientists. Tonight. Techno in search of the Great American prairie where in the current state yeah ironically we have such little of it left farming and overdevelopment killed it now get ready for this explosion of color and the return of these made a band of us how many flat species do you have in here but volunteers trying to bring back one of the planets most complex ecosystems ran into trouble we just needed something that help to level the Playing Field why a certain animal from americas past was needed to pull off the impossible weve just arrived at the macis a grassland and im seeing these bison for the 1st time marie to davison is an environmental biologist tonight a trip to the heartland always a baby. Dearest santa maria is a new scientist im phil tourism im an entomologist the epic drought of 2015 takes a hidden toll. From above these trees may look green and healthy theyre not here we see something thats dramatically different now the technology that can see what we cant. Thats our team im a prairie fire weather now lets do some sun. Hey guys welcome to techno im phil tours joined by kara Santa Maria Maria to davidson and so they were going to talk to environmental stories and to start off the Great American prairie to me its one of those Iconic Images of how the u. S. Used to be unfortunately now its almost entirely just a part of our history yeah theres been a lot of over development of farming and a suburban explosion thats really taken a toll on a lot of prayer ecosystems illinois has been extremely hard hit its changing but theres been a big change in the landscape there yet this is happening across the United States but i got to say what i really love about this story is that its a bit of its west so there is i want to give anything away so lets go about 90 miles outside of chicago where theyre bringing back a little piece of history its kind of a big piece of history ok a big piece of history to go on. Youre looking at a 3500. 00 acre experiment in a growing field in known as restoration ecology. This is the new choose the grasslands preserve in Franklin Grove illinois 90 miles west of chicago where the Nature Conservancy is rolling back time 200 years to restore a tall grass prarie that was almost extinct. Were in the curry state yeah ironically we have such little of it left at the time of european settlement about 2 thirds of the state some 2025 1000000 acres of the state was tall Grass Prairie we have less than 1100th of one percent of the Native Prairie but still intact. The mission is being overseen by 3 illinois and natives just walk director of science for the Nature Conservancy project director bill kleiman. And restoration ecologist Cody Considine. It was a vast landscape dominated by those grasses but the real diversity of the prairie was in the wild flowers the forms the broadly plants and thousands of species of insects and dozens of birds and mammals and reptiles i call the prairie home along with animals like the bison. What was once this bass landscape across much of illinois has been virtually eliminated and turned into the corn belt. But illinois isnt alone since the late 1900 sprit grasslands across the United States have been steadily vanishing. Ive heard grasslands and general referred to as the unheralded counterparts of the rain forest and grasslands have a Critical Role in terms of Climate Change as well in a prairie most of that carbon is stored in the soil and so its very secure for very long term storage a soil organic matter in essence the plants of the tall grass prarie absorb Carbon Dioxide trapping it in their deep roots. The restoration began in 1906 growing from a small plot of remnant prairie land that had never been farmed. And starting with fire the process hasnt changed much in 30 years. Its completely fire dependent without fire we could not have pretty the vegetation grows more vigorously and most species of plants have a season of more intense blooming right after if you do the 1st year the 2nd year after a fire no one knows that transition better than restoration ecologist Cody Considine. Gray were standing in what looks to me at least 2 very different types of areas what happened here so yes or right in the line of 2 different prairie restorations the one right here was planted 2 years ago and the one behind us was planted out 3 years ago and so over seeing is as these prairie restorations. Get older more plants emerge they get more mature theyre flooring so theyre quite dynamic how many plant species do you have in here for this particular flight and i believe we had 130 species ranging from theres a native western sunflower this is a coral species we have rattlesnake master here we have grassley of goldenrod here is an american a show here a paper book on foot already flour. All those bloomers started here all right so this is the seed room. Project director bill kleiman well you might think that the prairie stude would find its way out into these former corn fields but it doesnt walk very fast so we would have to wait millennia whereas we can collect a scene from the remnant prairie bring it out to a cornfield that were retiring planted and itll grow back year do you have a sense of how many seeds you in the volunteers here have planted over the years about 250. 00 species a year so its its millions and millions of sea. Conventional wisdom was to plant 10 pounds of seeds breaker but bill ordered 50 pounds and the fields blossomed none of that would be possible without a core of volunteers like jay stacey. So what are you cutting today this particular for is called per coreopsis scientific name coreopsis pomade how long have you been doing this ive been doing this is my 21st year. Im a prairie bar where. All the tall grass planting was a little too successful. We just needed something that help to level the Playing Field. What they needed was something to thin out the grass. Like an enormous vacuum this. Lucian not a dyson but a herd of bison. A posse of 800 pound grazing machines. Weve just arrived at the niche use a grassland and im seeing these bison for the 1st time and i feel like ive just been transported back 15200 years its its pretty its pretty remarkable to see these enormous animals that were almost wiped out from north america all theres a baby theres a little one 0 a couple of. Bison have been part of the vision for the project since the very beginning but its taken us close to 30 years to be able to put together enough of a landscape where it was a practical consideration for us. And. These iconic bison were the missing link for a massive restoration of this endangered tall Grass Prairie run by the Nature Conservancy. Would you say that they have been a Game Changing factor here. And these animals are going to make a difference on this prairie. I hitched a ride with misuse of project director bill kleiman and restoration ecologist Cody Considine to track down the bison in their 500. 00 acre grazing area. Why are the bison so important to the restoration process bison ate grass and there the disturbances theyre creating puts diversity on the landscape as they graze the nutrients are going in one of them is coming out the back and they are getting a very quick Nutrient Cycling on the prairie. Those bison patties are spreading seeds and fertilizing the soil whats the average weight of a full size bison the coyotes can range from 800 to 1100 pounds in the bowls as they mature they can get up to 2000 pounds massive so how many bison do we have on them on the reserve 30 adults and 16 calves the calf was just born last week a little tiny want to get easily pick it up its pretty exciting to think about the calf being born a illinois prairie that hasnt happened for probably 200 years. What happened to bison here there was a tremendous slaughter of bison in the 870880 s. Just walk is the chief scientist for the illinois chapter of the Nature Conservancy. As estimated by the turn of the 1000s there were probably 4021000 animals that had persisted out of that massive herd of 30 to 60000000 is close to extinction is absolutely closely extinction there was definitely a market for the hides for the meats also part of it is that it was encouraged by the u. S. Government as a strategy to help reduce the food supply for the native americans in the conflict with the native american peoples its estimated there are about 400000 bison now in north america. But most of those vice and were bred with cattle for meat production only about 20000. 00 are pure american bison. That genetic line dates back to 913 when 14 bison from the bronx zoo were trucked to win Kiev National park in south dakota at the behest of teddy roosevelt. So when it was time to bring bison to choose they looked for a posse with the wind lineage. Going. To want to broken grassland another Nature Conservancy preserved in northwest. When i was in the october 24th team and brought back 20 animals with us we were essentially separated off the animals that we were going to bring back to illinois make sure that they had a clean bill of health. On the. 7 of the females we strapped g. P. S. Collars onto so that we can get near real time movements of the animals tracking those movements with the g. P. S. Collars is julio brockman a bison researcher at Southern Illinois university. What kind of data are you receiving so were going
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