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Robert mugabe is to be buried in his rural home town today and it follows weeks of wrangling between the government and his family over his final resting place. Im rebecca rivers welcome to the Program Fresh rallies have been taking place in hong kong to mark 5 years since the start of the socalled Umbrella Movement which saw mass protests in the territory prodemocracy demonstrators have been protesting for months after a controversial extradition bill was tabled back in march this year its since been shelved but protesters have a wide range of demands that echo those of 5 years ago they include direct democracy for hong kong and autonomy from china. Lets go live now to hong kong where our correspondent charlotte shell some pill is standing by charlotte how is the protests today shaped up on this anniversary. A lot of people were back i had predicted clashes on the streets today and that is what we saw for a brief time protesters were throwing bricks and stones and government buildings
Of human rights abuses Catherine Sawyer travel to southern book enough to find out more. So. This is a meeting of people who say theyre members of what they call the largest softy fence group in booking a fossil. Hunting guns and other homemade weapons the selfstyled vigilantes are meeting in the countrys south in district by sega to discuss security in the area and what they say are new strategies to keep people safe. This is their leader he says the group has members across the country. You know. Were not Civil Servants were a group of herders traders women we provide security and advise our people on Good Investments if people want to reward us we take the money for our logistics. They call themselves. Our bush dads in the long haul more a language they came to prominence in 2015 when Government Security collapsed after the toppling of former president place can power who had ruled for 27 years. To this day such socalled vigilantes continued to fill the power vacuum and. You know as
Talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they changed over time. Because most of us, when we think about preservation, we think about some things staying the same, and yet preservation actually things. So thats really kind of the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to manage this. So there we go. So in the context of of open space lands here in the u. S. , were often there sort of this presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect the landscape. And we even see, you know, the the mini series by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks that was called am