is available in a safe health and measles expose coming to us from a village in nigeria. now it s known as the great green wall it s an ambitious projects to improve life in africa s desert regions by planting a belt of trees across the continent along the hell it s hoped that the wall will help combat does it if occasion where land is worn away by soil erosion human activity and climate change now the great green wall project involves twenty one countries in total with the wall set to run from senegal in west africa all the way across to djibouti in the east now when completed it will stretch a staggering eight thousand could almost is at a total cost of eight billion dollars although the end point is a long way off sinegal has made the most progress so far twelve million trees have been planted there in the last decade let s take a look at how the great green wall is already transforming the lives of communities
eight thousand kilometers is at a total cost of eight billion dollars although the end point is a long way off senegal has made the most progress so far twelve million trees have been planted there in the last decade let s take a look at how the great green wall is already transforming the lives of communities there. in the plains of northern senegal cattle herd is a struggling to feed their livestock deserts if occasion forces them to go for the south leaving their villages. where all the men. there someone. many migrate because where they live is becoming too dry to survive what i have there s no food left we have to move away to look for grass for the animals. it s in places like this that the great green wall can help the trees provide shelter from the wind and soil erosion their roots keep moisture in the ground.
housing market in the past couple of years we see in prices rising and at the same time also mortgage rates are on their way up at least they have been in the past year and that is a tough combination for the u.s. housing industry for homebuilders so we got the new figures for housing starts they dropped by eleven percent to the lowest level in a good two years and we specially saw stocks in the housing sector trading to the downside here on tuesday and carter there on wall street for us thank you very much . record figures for a french auto giant p.s.a. with net profit rising forty seven percent to two point eight billion dollars and twenty eighteen that s after nearly twenty years of losses c.e.o. carlist of ours said the company has finally quote found the path to profitability but a caveat that path of profitability get further away from europe and more towards
much. record figures for a french auto giant p.s.a. with net profit rising forty seven percent to two point eight billion dollars and twenty eighteen that s after nearly twenty years of losses c.e.o. carlist of ours said the company has finally quote found the path to profitability but a caveat of profitability get further away from europe and more towards the u.s. . everything s going to plan and p.s.a. but the board says that in the next few years the european market could stagnate that s why the company wants to boost its sales outside europe by fifty percent by twenty twenty one. i also want to tell you that we have made a decision that this rule will be the brand that we will bring to north america. the u.s. market and or the canadian market. but it s not that long since u.s.
other purposes that mr trump says that he needs about eight billion dollars and he was confident that his administration would defeat the expected more challenges. and here he is at today s rose garden news conference i m going to be signing a national emergency we re talking about an invasion of our country with gropes with human traffickers with all types of criminals and gangs and we fight wars that are six thousand miles away wars that we should have never been and in many cases but we don t control our own border so we re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border they say world s don t work walls work one hundred percent let s get more on this we re joined from washington by david beer and immigration policy analyst with the cato institute think tank he s also helped draft legislation for a u.s.