Sandra you are so right about our waters in fact you could go so far as to say that the future of our planet may be pen on the conditions of our oceans lakes and rivers well have more on that in the coming reports but 1st a brief look at whats lined up today in our program. Sessions has a rescue plan its called still a way as well take a look at how that works. They Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just presented its report on the condition of our oceans well see what he said and in germany and other parts of europe you can go kayaking for free as long as you collect trash along the way. First to the seychelles where environmentalists are working to protect coral reefs these projects ecosystems lungs the most especially rich bio tubes on earth and the island nation relies on them for its very survival. I mishit of launching 2014 aims to support a healthy ocean and implement Climate Change strategies and to promote the stable blue economy and the region depends on winning 115. 00 islands that simple a go truly unique marine ecosystem. And. This issues is a tropical paradise the iraqi political covers around 455 square kilometers of land. But more than 1300000 square kilometers of c. Band on our American Resources for everything whether its economy activities or for tourism and the truth we dont have anything without that. Many tourists come to visit the archipelago for this big truculent child. So i realised it wasnt horses for quite a survey old fellow was growing up and understanding the relation that the say show up people have with the ocean with the american system and how much we rely on it. So marine scientist shes concerned about the growing pressure on. Exports go on regular days to assist the foundations fishing environmental pollution and to resume put strain on the seashells unique underwater world. The coral reefs are suffering the effects of Climate Change because theyre very sensitive to changes in water temperature and. They provide a home for a whole host of them in real life d from sea snails to sharks so without them by you dave softens reefs near the cost are especially vulnerable and therefore strands today. There has been a rise in ocean temperature and this has an impact on your corals then this leads to coral bleaching and then you move the corals because then you and the corals by the late 1990 s. Most part of the reason the shallow waters had. Why quarrels and once they dead they are usually taken over by. The resources and the activities that you carry out. That. None of the governments recently agreed to protect merely a part of the countrys marine more times within the next 2 years as part of an initiative called decision is going to time. Danish a t. V. Scurrying out of some of the of the underwater ecosystem. We carry out the activity with the intent of collecting data on. To ensure that the management of protest. Is effective in partnership with the Nature Conservancy ngo position economy to use hoping to understand exactly whats happening to their lives. Heard reeves often trouble regenerating. Because the waves and currents are constantly moving this kind of times are good coral around making me tired for new ones to sit. Down if youre going to. See the changes really have a very long period of time where the temperature is really high in the corals recall so this has a huge impact on your marriage. We have started a coral reef restorer project looking at all the ways to try and restore coral reefs using the corals. And growing corals and putting them on the reef. Together with the fisheries in terms of compounds the country wants to find ways for everyone to use the seasons tentatively even after the pretty. Action in. The marina especially is the fastest kind in the indian ocean very point that we constantly have this good healthy coral i want everything i do should make a difference and if you have any i think its a really wonderful feeling knowing that whatever information. Its going to point you to the way we do conservation thats going to have a positive in. America so they should face. The project transit least until 20900000000000 which time the fos long term Protection Plan should be the eco system in the sea shows is counting on. What a beautiful place lets hope it stays that way about the United NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published its a supplement on the state of our oceans and it wasnt good news the same process thats happening online and theres also hardening of the sea yes sadly youre right and we are being too careless with our quartic eco systems the increased levels of a board being absorbed by the water bodies how slow to acidification coastal areas are being polluted or awarded marine life is disappearing in a moment was picked to an expert in nigeria but for now here are a few raw facts in our new segment ecologic oh. The ocean is a place of many wonders. But now its also a garbage dump 8000000. 00 tons of plastic land in our oceans each year about one garbage truck per minute. Thats not only harmful to all sea life but also to human beings. Climate killer Carbon Dioxide around 30 percent of Greenhouse Gases from human activities are absorbed by the ocean thats roughly 1000000. 00 tons per hour. That helps to reduce the greenhouse effect. But the more c o 2 the oceans and seas absorb the more acidic they become 40 percent of all call reefs have perished in the last 3 decades. The oceans are getting warmer sea levels are rising. Between 20172018 they rose by 3. 7 millimeters its the highest see that a rise in a single year and its already enough to flood small island nations. Its pretty shocking isnt it the oceans have huge potential to adopt to change and even to compensate for 8 but thats going on a walk if we humans also play our part my colleague n. T. Paid a visit to the nigerian is stated for oceanography on marine results in the while his spoke to dr resident following the students collect data and mix recriminations to the government on how best to protect the sea or off the coast caused dr follows so had some interesting things to say take a listen. Dr follows thank you so much for speaking with us on the coffee cup now weve just heard of. Horrible story about those who walk with junkies holes in the film i said can you tell us what exactly is the state of the ocean. Around the world become now confident that oceans ocean of plastic. When you take a sea cruise of the National Environment for example official man you will catch tons of plastic and very little fish the fish gets in dead because the im just saying plastics and they have a slow month full of plastic what the situation like the margin i mean what companies dont clean up the glass you know the polluters should pay they should encourage people to come out clean ups there are also domestic waste in the oceans there are several things the biodiversity is depleting the mungo budget fission is deeply tight and the ocean is not so good do you think the government can do anything to make some countries out bonds rustics yes our governments can help by. Gets in the salience groups of people to create the awareness of the damage and effects of Single Use Plastics for example cops you know plastic cards strolls plastic box also some of the use we should go back to what they used to be you know in the fiftys whereby we use a vegetative leads to save food we use a cotton box to shop most things we ought to be doing to save the environment lets the last exam because a little bit about the question of overfishing and africom on the course of because of course the region the message size for fishing you know tsunami. Is smaller than this specific fight mr eyes because if you measure sizes are smaller than it is that you take on bald more fish is done just what you targeted the federal government can help by has been you know money train systems all over the coastline because weve got our fish resources with the people who would do more to come from and you you cant really. Dispersed the environment nigeria without talking about the oil industry and its impact on the well we have oil fields and this oil fields affects the fish resources because the juveniles cannot breathe when there is oil on the surface of the water for the juvenile die and then we have the whole fish top of the level for human consumption this week as the u. N. The u. N. Talk about Climate Change do you think some of these marches need to be looked at more more deeply than it would for us because we have to save our next generation these are the resources we have to live for them so we have to look critically at the Climate Change issues at pollution thats a single use plastic you know being dumped anyhow when you look you must be sanctioned you know when we put some of these things in place to keep on vironment safe for the next issue thank you very much both of you. So know we a bit wise about the state of the woods oceans but what about the lexx on the ring this well to make up a significant part of the water system in many countries i hear things arent much better sandra not if you talk to the people at the Danish Initiative great kayak but they are not just complaining about the state of us rivers they are taking action theyve come up with a pretty cool idea as youll see in this weeks doing your bit. Moving far too much waste ends up in rivers and lakes especially in cities that bother to b. S. D. About london and from denmark so much that in 2017 he launched an initiative called green kayak travelers can use boats for free in return for collecting any trash they find in the water. Cannons recorders. It ends this trench its just a small bits of plastics and. Its. Green kayak now has support in 5 countries including germany after reserving online a boat a bucket and trash grabbers can be picked up at the dock of a cooperating boat rental a few enjoyable hours on the water that benefit the environment too and others are also getting on board to mention people are pretty conscientious these days almost everyone who rents a canoe kayak or paddle boat picks up whatever trash they find along the way and in that green kayak volunteers have collected over 21. 00 tons of waste so far and as word spread via social media the amount is sure to grow. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about. Visit our website or send his or tweet. Doing your bit. Sharing your stories. That will be a good idea for logan here in lagos were going to stick with the subject of rivers and verse of one of germanys biggest waterways know the right even major rivers are feeling the heat as Climate Change gathers pace right and what we tend to forget is that a river system like that one os provided a high bit on on the source of water for people and nature for thousands of the is here to the eco system is frogs and our needs protecting so our Water Treatment plant on the rhine purifies millions of little is a water. The rhine is one of the most important rivers in europe. Its 1200 kilometers long and over half of it flows through germany scenic as it is its also. A busy transport asiri industry lines its banks and much of its waste water is discharged into the river if it isnt clean 1st the water is contaminated and cant be used for anything else here before the wind sampling points close to the river bank the water is extracted from the river as it flows by and then to transport writes each with a diameter over a meter directed to the water works. There the water is intensively cleaned before being directed back into groundwater reserves via these shafts the Water Treatment plant south of frankfurt is the only one in germany dedicated to processing river water the infiltration process taking place in these tanks has a number of advantages. Historical there and. Historically surface water hasnt been used for Drinking Water in germany mainly because the potential for a disaster on the rhine is unavoidable so we couldnt guarantee supplies around the clock and there are also hygiene reasons the infiltration process filters bacteria from the water im reducing if not actually completely removing the risk of contamination in the summertime the water in the rime can be as warm as 28 degrees the infiltration ensures a temperature balance so the top priority is maintaining groundwater levels guaranteeing a clean Water Reservoir even in the event of extended drought 43000000. 00 cubic metres of water per year a process here at the main Treatment Facility in biebers heim the process is managed in monitored any control center which forms industries and you need to bear in mind that this solution is only possible thanks to local geological conditions of what we have here as a vast natural aquifer you dont get them everywhere. Across eastern germany for example there arent any natural reservoirs. So this sort of solution wouldnt work there for geological reasons and if youre looking to shut. Water from the rhine flows into these basins and this purified using a specially developed process. The theme is roughly once the water has been mechanically purified in the untreated water pump station the next step is flocculation thats part of the chemical purification process a flocculation agent is added so that flocke forms which is the nationally soluble that is turned into sediment and floats to the top and the next step is to filter off the purified water. The facility was built 30 years ago at the time it was state of the art today its been extended to be able to cope with the increasing. Contaminants in the rhine. The water is examined for bacteria heavy metals and pesticides here in the abort tree in germany drinking in Irrigation Water must satisfy stringent quality standards that are based on specific micro biological parameters the facility also provides clean water to farmers such as hands fish if it irrigation. The soil in the region suffers badly during heat waves lately local farmers have needed to irrigate much more than usual to secure their harvest around 12 percent of the water purified in the facility is a market for farmers its going to be its essential we grow onion strawberries and a step is flocculation but its part of the chemical purification process a flocculation agent is added so that flock for its almost as clean as Drinking Water and that means we can sell our strawberries directly i can wholeheartedly vouch for our produce. Farmers pay between 30. 50 per cubic meter for the Irrigation WaterDrinking Water would cost 10. 00 times as much says hans you can fish out against a backdrop of Climate Change clean water has grown more important than ever for the region. Back to africa here in uganda but also in tanzania and kenya fish stocks in like victoria are being depleted while this one is pilot of them ours is over exploitation of Natural Resources a project with partners from 7 countries in europe and africa so in forces to tackle some of these problems we went to the gun inside of lead with toria to meet up with a team from the university of cars in germany the scientists are here told what their goal is to boast fish stocks and also to show the local communities how to preserve the environment. Now that. Mohammed has been fishing off their gun and shows of Little Toller for more than 25 years. We no longer fish like we used to. Be Economic Impact on us. Right now you can sit traps and come up empty or get just one catch a week in the old days we would get a good catch every day. The main cause for the depletion of stocks is over fishing pollution from industrial activity is another problem these issues have made it harder to meet the rise in the mind for fish. This has prompted some ugandans to set up fish farms. One of the Biggest Challenges is the lack of clean fresh water. Fish from outside the capital kampala. To fish farming you have to keep flushing your ponds all the time so you can imagine the amount of money that was spent just an action that we had water running into the different points every 10000 liters. Shes taking part in a union funded project called vision one she and the other fish from us are learning about a new technology. It was developed by a team of european and african scientists the project is led by Professor John from the university of causeway in germany the team has come up with a new system 3 use west water order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. One develop a system for the market its called research aquaculture so this is to makes use of 100 percent water. Reuse water is circulation so its mentally very friendly because theres no water going through and theres no nothing spoiling the environment and we make use of Renewable Energy in order to reduce c o 2 footprint. In the tunnel on the side of the lake its already in place the water is filtered using whats known as membrane bio reactor technology. In uganda has been using recycled water for the last 18 months the used water is pumped into our time from there it flows into this business which contains tons and sun that help clean the water. Wants to use recycled water to have big bones too. So we already have a system and it has proved to be very efficient for us using the same water would maintain the same temperature because thats also very crucial when youre watching exit to the into her chair so for the points that still work in progress for us to see how we would be able to integrate it. This is just like more farmers to recycle water ideally using Renewable Energy the professor and his team have been working on this project for the last 3 years so far their workers brought them to uganda kenya and tanzania. We want to train we want to show people and we want to see how everything develops in the future and finally very very important is we need to at that this solution for the local market so at the moment we brought a lot of ideas from europe and now we need the feedback of the local people to give us a guidance in future how can we develop a low cost system one of the ways theyre hoping to achieve that is by promoting exchange between scientists and from us the aim established best practices that boost fish stocks and protect the environment. So what we us and see a dramatic decline in sea life oceans and waterways full of plastic and industrial waste surely its time for all of us to do our bit and hopefully you know how you can do what youve been watching a special edition of africa on aquatic eco systems its time for me to say goodbye from kampala here in uganda. And goodbye from me in Lagos Nigeria you can find the show on further information on our website and social media platforms and remember our oceans and waterways are just as important for the planet as the lad see you next week by. Board. Fake hair and real stories. Where i come from a lot of women like me who have fake hair sometimes a hairstyle takes up to 2 and. Its a lot of time that needs to be filled so people at the salon talk about whats happening in their lives and i became a journalist to be a storyteller and i always want to find those real authentic stories from everyday people who have something to share. With all the time i spent at the salon i know one quality here when i see it and a good story when i hear it. My name is Elizabeth Chong and i work at steve allen. Im ill and im going to look at a brand new w. From the bottom of its person face to face its about topics that affect us all. Climate change and the return. Form of check out. My. All we can be the generation that ends it. Malaria must die so millions can live. This is g w news live from berlin tonight as germany celebrates reunification day chancellor Angela Merkel says theres still much to do. Then so be done some minutes on the surface shantha 29 years since reunification the maturity of people from eastern germany fielding all 2nd class citizens the chancellor is herself from east germany so could she do more to bridge the divide also coming up tonight an extraordinary request from the u. S. President daltry