There we have a lot in store for you on todays program so lets take a quick look at whats lined up today. In senegal we visit some students who are thinking with the new solar car. In germany we hear about a push to make textiles on look we source room. And can you know we learn once again how crucial it is to protect our Water Resources. First we had to the south of the continent south africas energy comes almost exclusively from coal fired power plants which is a major factor behind rising air pollution in an atheist the government has announced plans to significantly increase the use of renewable sources within 10 yes being solar wind or hydropower they mischas of is being spearheaded by green cape a Nonprofit Organization that provides assistance to innovative young green startups. One to go the protests Heights Academy school and camp town went solo without paying for the installation the system was financed by code funding platform their idea small investors buy ponies and on an income from setting the crizotinib to the school that is using them so far from cambridge is crowd funding platform equipped over 30 schools and companies within 5 years they plan to have more than 200. 00 additional assistance. Install it so if you want to put money in solar panels for an environmental reason put them in south africa youre offsetting 8 times the Carbon Emissions by the side of herds of africa than it would do in germany for example and youre getting twice as much electricity out of it so it just makes more sense to put a solar power away you create more social environmental and Economic Impact and for the school the solar energy is cheaper than power from the grid with investment as little as 4 euros san extant is also open to people with less income in fact many of the pupils that protests how its invested in the solar cells themselves when the horn is the schools former principal she says that aside from clint cheap energy the project also brings another benefit to me always that yeah kids are so excited allen is to actually get involved and interested neural thing and actually buy still sells in south and see how the money would increase or decrease or whatever i mean it was it created a huge into been nearly excitement and then it was so what do you want to teach our children for the features into premier or skills innovative models to fund and produce green energy gently need in south africa the government aims to produce a quote off on electricity from renewables by 2030 general jones works for green care a Nonprofit Organization committed to expanding the green sector together with other lobby groups they are made sure that and i just thought tops gained an Important Role in government plans to transition south africa to its review up was. Dismissive. And they said this this road to 20 cities in the road. It states that there were 20. 00 gigawatts of Renewable Energy being procured and that comprises technologies within the Renewable Energy space but for the 1st time what is very interesting is that. They have. Designated gigawatts of small scale generation in the. To put it inside the Police Document i r. P. Integrated Resource Plan to have small scale Solar Power Solutions account for some 10 percent of south africas total energy mix then they are in effect as who are looking to the question for have some on one big company developed an underwater pump powered by the oceans waves it turns salt water into Drinking Water while at the same time producing a constant source of energy that could power up to 10 european ill so its all year round is always energy. If we said were looking at whole range of waves that come from different areas theres a lot of stuff thats produced locally by the local winds but theres an enormous amount of energy thats come from storms that could be thousands of miles away. There with pump is tied to a boy that leads with each wave that never movement pressure rises walked out to purify it and generator to cities at the same time for years the prototype unit was tested under water and is now back in the workshop for some Maintenance Work so far the unit has proven that the concept works the team says despite the challenges. We stay confident that these systems are going to. Be a big part of the solution and future is not really arts or wind but working in conjunction with them the the challenges with the ocean is that its an expensive system to develop when theres very little funding available with sufficient funding the company could start you drag it pumps next year that would feed into the power grid the san extant card funding platform meanwhile has just received an additional 3000000. 00 euros from one major investor powering on south africas green energy translation. Now its off because of us know weve all. From feature reports on research for the environment from electric cars to doing it yourself we servants and recycling old laptop batteries they are the creations of inventive young minds on various countries hoping to make their visions reality let is right near to and this week we have an innovation from cynical a group of young researches on a university in dhaka have been walking on the sun the poet they call for everyday use he is this weeks doing give me. This is a. It was built by University Students in dakar. Its powered by the sun. The idea was developed by students in canada. The technical drawings come from italy. The students in senegal put the pieces together. It has a range of 60 kilometers. It can negotiate bumpy surfaces. And carry 2 people or goods weighing up to 250 kilograms. More than half the population of senegal has no electricity. The majority live in rural areas. Their method of fair minded to provide power people need for their various endeavors in the field or for any other activity that requires electricity. You would realize that the kid is the answer to the problem. I said to. Them. Battery can be used to charge mobile phones. Or to run a 500. 00 watt water pump for a full 12 hours. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website post set us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit so. We share your story. Well roaming the countryside. For sheep or goats to graze. All of of the was. In their days its gonna be a hard life but for Different Reasons in different places in germany it is not a privately owned livestock has become increasingly rare another problem the price of what is so little its not even selling but people would like to see these various not sure textile put to good use. Shepherd florian pies has brought his animals to rest in a green patch between warehouses and factories in the industrial ruhr area in western germany hes one of the few shepherds left in the country. There are around a 1000 professional shepherds left in germany thats not so many i dont know many young people who want to do this job ill continue to do it with passion until i have to step down its certainly a dying profession that nobody wants to. Dont make much money. For. The sheep are eventually sold for their meat but unisa polities also pay shepherds to have their flocks graze on public land. But wool has become a losing business these days sales dont even cover the costs of having the sheep sheared so that some uniform merino wool. I have merino sheep they still have the best quality wool i get over a euro per kilo. One colleagues of mine who have other breeds get a lot less they get 45. 00 to 0. 65 per kilo. You know. If some of them dont sell it anymore choosing to burn the roll or toss it instead. Theyre going to. His wool goes to china where its processed and ends up in bedding upholstery carpets and other textile products some of these end up back on the European Market where theyre sold at high prices that make spaghetti pappa furious as to talent its totally absurd buyers here purchase the wall and send it all the way to china for washing and it sent to paris where its packaged and suddenly Everyone Wants it. Really gives you the is a selftaught tailor. She initially trained to be a dental assistant now shes a businesswoman with a passion for wool she calls her products tweed habbush mr mcmullan i wondered whether the wool from the sheep in our region was also suitable for fabric and it turns out that its very suitable for cloth and at that point i told myself that id do my best to save local wool. The cloth is made in germany soley from will out of the region she already has about 100 meters in stock the company produces vests caps and sport coats from the material. So most assigned sharma. Have to receive support from the viking fan Spinning Wheel. In a globalised textile market producing fabric regionally is difficult the production costs are too high the quantity is too low. For wool is processed here died and spun into yarn the vatican felt Spinning Wheel wants to promote local wool but has no illusions about the future of wool from germany of almost like youre sadly consumers today are not willing to pay higher prices at the retail level theyre more interested in getting new products faster they want to see trends and changes in fashion so the cost has to be low it would be nice if people could change their priorities and still. Get a couple remains enthusiastic about her will in fabric it may be expensive but demand from high quality sustainable fashion is growing her mission is to eventually produce quantities approaching 10000 meters of her muzzle tweet. The next away had to go on which is home to africas largest a stable forest and if on population but sunday the numbers have increased dramatically in recent decades thats right sandra for farmers who knows their crops are roaming elephants that may seem like good news but in fact the large animals are important for maintaining that ecological balance so while ive authorities know pretty National Parks are working to protect the elephants was helping the locals to protect their fields and their villages. For the and his antipoaching team this is the easy part of the job not far from their station in low pay National Park theyre gathering data on flora and fauna. From. A family of elephants passed through here they ate here. And then they moved here and left their traces. Thanks to the rangers the nature reserve has experienced no major Wildlife Crime in the last 2 years. Low pay is one of 13 National Parks established in cabo in 2002 its a you know asco World Heritage site and home to elephants panthers gorillas buffalo and over 400 bird species these days the elephants pose more of a problem than the poachers do. An important part of the work of the park manager and his team is communicating with the residents of the villages on the edges of the National Park. We realized that the elephants were more or less fleeing the interior of the forest because of growing pressure from poachers from the south and southwest. Thanks to fences that the park officials have set up around the villages the elephants are slowly retreating back into the forest. In 3 of the villages electric fences protect the plantations plus weve been going hungry for 2 years people were losing weight there wasnt enough to eat but this year we have enough again we have vegetables weve been able to harvest what we planted to get. The cooperation between the Park Management and local residents is proving successful for the way in dong the fences in these communities have also come as a relief. If it was costing a lot of money it takes 46. 00 people to chase away 3 elephants elephants not a dog its not a sheep that you can push away with elephants you have to be very strict teaching and vigilant wolf would have visuals and grew up here like many of the rangers hes confident that humans and wildlife can coexist peacefully. Simple as we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today today we only read about dinosaurs and books. We cant just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought. That would be a big problem. Tomorrow well be back at work in low pay National Park and the rangers and villagers will continue to maintain the fences that can help to ensure their future. Securing food is essential for all living creatures it takes up much of the day for some im the more we humans encroach on the Wildlife Habitat the more we have to assume that i mean most will come on me from our gardens are serious issues like water shortages getting gold gardens to grove is becoming harder and harder in the south of frogs farmers are having to drill deep wells to obtain water for their fruit trees and vegetable prides but devising a present ways to use the water also helps to preserve it. These nectarines are growing plump even though there has been little or no rain here recently. Now grosss fruit and 120. 00 have tears in the co a region of southeastern france each tree needs about 8 leaders of water and day on average during the summer there have been long periods of drought in recent years and they exact a price theyre now has installed a sophisticated irrigation system with a water pump and sensors on all the trees and an app that lets them see how each tree is doing thats almost 40 if the leaves are too wet they can rot and attract pests with this system i can treat them with pesticides directly and only when its absolutely necessary. So its a very economical but if they can to support but he says. No need bess is in charge of the equipment and the programming of the irrigation system. It is spent from a well that taps ground water at a depth of 80 metres the water is filtered and carefully dispensed with the help of a computer. The orchard is divided into 72 smaller plots. But also going to come up and this is what we used to run the system all through the program the watering schedule i select which plots to water and at what time of day and for how long. It lets us steer the entire irrigation process very accurately of course. Summers in europe are getting hotter and drier water is becoming scarce the summer of 2018 was the hottest on record in europe drought in the north and center of the continent. Plunged as much as 50 percent water rationing was introduced in some countries. In france to the funny sector is under mounting pressure so its important to optimize irrigation and not waste water the local chamber of agriculture is interested in pioneering work in the field. Hes letting it conduct experiments on 3 of his 72 plants. Monitors how much water there is in the soil and the trees. The dam dromedary lets you see if the branch of the peach tree is growing or shrinking. If its shrinking the tree needs water i guess. The project will track tree growth and yield for 3 years the aim is to study the economic and Environmental Impact of a shortage of water growing fruit is an important part of the economy in this area. Want to model future scenarios. If one day 1020. 00 or 30 percent less water is available will the Fruit Growers be able to respond appropriately. For. The project will help him fine tune his irrigation program. Now carefully is what size a crucial issue here too in africa only swamp is a wetland in Campbell County kerry i know so they have a water all over nairobi river tributary the wetlands these are the important source of water awful farming and of our cities and the reason more to the new to the swamp also helps to reduce the impact of floods during the rainy season and helps improve Water Quality the area has suffered a major degree as a result of the Illegal Discharge of west and encroachments by local people that want to vent it members of the community to find a course of action project to protect the vital ecosystem. That used to be lots of great credit and cranes here but not all on the wetland was once home to all kinds of birds the duck and herring populations of also declined. What lands bowing to c o 2 and store rainwater on daily is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi. Is growing and getting ever closer. The wetland greenhouses and fields now reach right up to the edge of the swamp which covers 3. 3 square kilometers the equivalent of 450. 00 football pitches families used to harvest large amounts of grass from the wetland to feed their cattle which meant birds had less room to build their nests but that is no longer the case thanks to david work ok and his colleagues who make up the friends of on t. V. Wetland group when we started our walk there are so many for the harvest so our harvest in florida and the vendor of the year. Just after sama they goodbye and these bullies and this is. How the whole biodiversity destroyed the group purse 300. 00 members. They are in the process of planting 8000 young trees around the wetland to help prevent soil from the fields washing into the wetland when it rains and to hinder cattle from going there to graze. David kyras farm is next to the wetland hes keen to make sure that the trees here can thrive. Since the trees were planted in the place looks good in the past there was grazing and sometimes cows would get into the swamp and sink in the bog. And now theres no more grass harvesting either. Another problem is that waste water from the greenhouse pollutes the area with toxins including heavy metals that serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose water is the capital depends. The friends of the on t. V. Wetland have persuaded some farmers to give up this kind of intensive cultivation. And theyre helping to undo the damage. We are blank and bumble trees along this wetland they are very good. Trees when it comes to. Sippin in the meadows that are coming out of the greenhouse farming. For a long time the local authorities did little to protect the swamp but that too is changing. Were walking dead through the farmlands because. Part of the allowed so were. Getting them and creating awareness but. To do all the next i mean because. Because the. Banks in particular to the efforts of the friends of on dairy the wetland has started to recover. The next project is to build a trail for that watches. The bugs that are found here. Be very important. To this area because one. Those areas that have been marked. Area i would be is. Not one of them and that is one of the things that friends of mine didnt want to achieve if things go well on t. V. Will once again become a paradise for birds a recent survey found the wetland now supports more than 70 different species as conditions here slowly improve. I hope. The importance of caring for our environment and maybe also inspired you to rethink the precious Water Resources and i hope you found a mixture of topics as interesting as a deed for now it is a good bye for me sandra to nobody here in kampala uganda. And from the military when lagos is goodbye i hope you join us again next week in the meantime jewelry sure to check in with us on Instagram Facebook so its up for our websites so long for now stay safe by. Good. Good. Good good. Good. This is deja vu news live from Berlin European Union leaders prepare to slap sanctions on belarus were Alexander Lukashenko clings to power and increasingly emboldened opposition is raising pressure on the veteran president to resign but how much leverage does the e. U. House. And as e. U. Leaders hold an emergency summit on sanctions on valorous the conference comes against this backdrop of growing discontent with the rule of president Alexander Lukashenko chance on america well be announcing the outcome of those talks well have live coverage. Well as we said domestic pressure has been growing on president lukashenko ever since israel lection 11 days ago that was followed by a Brutal Police crackdown against those who take into the streets to protest the election result on wednesday authorities in belarus announced the death of a 43 year old man whose family says he was shot during those postelection protests in the city if confirmed to be the 3rd person to die in connection with the on rest nevertheless increasingly bold waves of resistance seem to be undeterred by the threat of repression. More workers joined the walkout in the past president Alexander Lukashenko could count on state employees to support him but he had to order manages to threaten them with disciplinary action if they joined the nationwide strike. Some ignored those threats. Even with the president ial challenger svetlana chicken of sky a still in exile the opposition is growing more confident they set up a Coordination Council in bellerose to organize a peaceful transfer of power. With the commission imo we are only beginning to rebuild mechanisms to feel like a strong and independent nation yes of course it will be very difficult but we have taken a step and we are setting an example for all to see how we can unite how we can Work Together and speak with one voice. But belarus is authoritarian leader is not ready to talk about ending his 26 year rule yet at a meeting with his Security Council he branded the oppositions actions a coup. What cuba will do the western countries that are behind these protests toss this other side to toss and demand no less them to hand them power we consider it a clear attempt to seize power with all the consequences of the protesters have already experienced brutal consequences and opposition activists shows photos of injured demonstrators he says were beaten by riot police 2 people have been killed during the mass protests and thousands jailed the violent crackdown has drawn criticism from some of bellary says neighbors. But not from one important one. The bit of russian president Vladimir Putin received phone calls from german chancellor Angela Merkel and the e. U. Leaders on tuesday merkel said Political Prisoners in belarus must be released and there must be a National Dialogue to settle things peacefully. But according to the kremlin putins reply was to tell them to stop meddling in belarus where the powerful neighbors get involved or not the bellary see an opposition is planning the next step to bring Lucas Shanker has rule to an end. Lets go right to minsk for more our correspondent nick conley is standing by for us hi nick good to see you so another day of unrest in belarus or strikes around the country more protests expected this evening is there the sense that the opposition and the demonstrators