Of the firm belief that this Current Crisis in the amazon rainforest has to be dealt with. So the french president definitely has the chance on the side. Both sonora has called discussing the amazon without representatives from the region colonialist but with more leaders calling the blaze as an International Crisis the fires appear firmly on the agenda. All right so a huge topic but of course these fires a just one of the issues likely to be on this weekends agenda tell us what other important issues also will be discussed. The 7 would lead the protests which i saw here know the disarray the disagreement within the g 7 is so big that they can also be blown up by for example the us President Donald Trump who is opposing just everything the g 7 stand for us to so far. Trade International Cooperation fight against Climate Change is against everything the other 60 does want to agree on and thats its why president mccall said there will be no final conclusions normally do 7 ns was a consen
As a travel writer and novelist has made the landscape and the citys office native brant burke famous. 200 years ago she would often tell him that was born here in mobile he also got a monument in his hometown his famous work. Book rambling through brant burke will accompany me on my journey today. Killed a fun time to shape the image of this region with his travel reports about brandenburg the vast land its lakes castles and people i know fontana from my german lessons back in school but very theoretically and today not quite as theoretically i am following in his footsteps. Of course we show you the tourist highlights in grant park. And that you can also dine here like the people did at the time a fun time in. Our of your video this week shows us the sights of belfast in Northern Ireland. Fun time there as a traffic light youll only find that in the it will be to hold off on thomas birthplace after a fire in 1787. 00 the center of the city was rebuilt in the classicist style with whi
His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere, is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling and the coauthor of where the river burned the carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me be been by asking physically where youre located and explained what happened 50 years ago this month. Thank you for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie so you can see over my shoulder one of
Out the importance of planting trees. San francisco has one of the smallest urban canopies of any major city in the United States. And we know this, we have an urban forest plan that called for the planning of trees of 2,500 trees per year. Since we rolled that out, we have failed every year and last year we added a total of one tree to our urban canopy. And part of the problem is the lack of budget. Even in this years fiscal budget, next years budget for this city, we barely have enough money to keep up with the rate of removals, let alone growing our urban canopy. And the only reason that money was put in because of the good work of the board of supervisors and the public outrage when it was discovered that wouldnt be in there. And the department of the environment, it would be wonderful if they would add an f. T. E. Who is actually dedicated to urban forestry. To the San Francisco Public Utilities commission, in the last 10 years you have removed 475 trees and planted 39. And to the
Exhaustive. Abuse and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, clevelandakron would not exist. The river was a reason for settling the portion of this western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and so man came and continued coming until today nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epethithat for cuyahoga . Joining us is the coauthor of where the river burned. Where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this month . Thanks for having me. Were sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Were sitting where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie. You can see one of the railroad tr trussels that crosses the cuyahoga. Downtown cleveland is to my left. They run up several miles. T