spot is where kids used to play volleyball until a few years ago when the beach vanished this is what climate change is the expected to bring to many pacific island nations the stakes are high. but said you know we've lived here for years you know our interest to move here and we don't want to be relocated to climate change in the fold which we're standing up to call the you stand up climate change. travel between pacific island countries cover some enormous. distances the first leg of our journey takes two days and for stopovers. from tokyo to guam then to choke and pompei to kwajalein and from there to marginal capital of the marshall islands. some of the atolls that make up the country are only a few metres wide with the highest elevation of two metres above sea levels here halfway between australia and hawaii impoverished islands are struggling to cope with rising sea levels and paradoxically with water scarcity in bottles canisters of gallon jugs carrying water in the marshals in the middle of the world's biggest ocean is hard and necessary work. ok emilie's here they have their own tap water so they use that as an alternative but sometimes when that runs out they have to buy bottled water to build ingres water or you could eat the. good if there were a lot of the real world. where there is no true. please no drinking water people get sick. something is seriously out of whack in the pacific spring tides floods the islands that used to be the exception now it's become the rules. sea water fills the wells and drinking water become scarce and droughts are becoming more frequent and lasting longer than in the past. the marshallese government has declared a state of emergency several times because when water sources dry up water quality declines and infections can spread people here traditionally collect rainwater every home is equipped with a volume in a rain barrel. for didn't live it took us tap water is a luxury he gets most of his water from a well in his garden and collect some hoards what falls from the sky like dollar on an hour we only get tap water at certain times and then we have to fill up the tanks first. but there's always salt water. his washing machine toilet and shower all use rainwater. elden son lucas is a good climber he keeps the roof got to clear the government would like every household to have three water tags but most people can't afford that. i like the reality and i help out as much as i can only will i don't mind if my neighbors take some of it lots of people here have no drinking water some of them they don't even have a tank that it's hard for them are you fully accurate kicking the islands have many problems from the air they may look like paradise but on the ground the need is plain to see the lagoon water is dirty and the highest elevation in the marshals is a waste dump. piled up here are the residues of the western world under whose influence the atolls have been for years through colonialism and war. the republic of the marshall islands is a developing country among other problems the prevalence of leprosy there is one of the highest in the world about a third of inhabitants have already left not fleeing climate change yet but poverty and the lack of prospects most of this exodus involves young people and most of them go to the united states. one of the main sources of revenue is the granting of fisheries licenses to foreign vessels but that also takes precious resources abroad. coconut oil production makes more pollution than money but this factory is harder responsible for global warming. that's being tracked by the weather service in module with the friendly support of the u.s. with the vast reaches of the pacific stretched digitally before him meteorologist reginald white can recall carefree times there diving and fishing but those days are over the road for the last twenty years we've had to deal with a lot of sea water inundation and devastation towards our shores as well as several incidents reaching where you see all whites where you normally go and fish and look for. shellfish. is this deep in the muscles or is it the last alms of the titanic. sank. the popular lure of beach shows what coastal flooding does here there's not much of it left just the trees eroded by the salt water. when i first came here i think those three big trees and raise. maybe fifty feet from that bank they saw in the bank some maybe somewhere here maybe fifty feet. perspective visitors to lower beach should come soon. while it's still here. not only the ocean poses a threat so does the weather it's a life between extremes sometimes people are in water up to the next then there's no rain for months as happened a few years ago in the northern nut holds the us sent desalination plants. i am. here even the country's president has to get out of the rain it's the annual culture day holiday in the marshall islands. hilda hina is determined to stand up to climate change and refuses to sink into resignation. i am. well i think it's easy to be hopeless and i don't think we can afford to be hopeless sleep over night you know at night time thinking about the threat of climate change and more about positive things like if we can do it let's work on it . hina has built her own home next to the water and she shares the concerns of all her fellow citizens. her provisional retaining wall has collapsed twice already what can she do leave the marshals and become a climate change refugee. for the nida it's not an option her strategy reduce the threat as much as possible with sand replenish mint and land reclamation . it's a colossal task and further out rising sea levels are real wakening and old hasn't seen water in. well treating the legacy of u.s. nuclear testing. we expect them to clean it out we expect them to phase it off so that people from the on again a or you know units and people can of just walk in there and get you know contaminated. anywhere talk at all is three hours flight from the capital. president hina was talking about a normal forgotten relic of the explosive nuclear past. this part of the pacific is steeped in history it's mute witnesses are everywhere here. anywhere talk wrong galop butyric bikini these are tolls were ground zero for us atomic weapons tests the islanders were evacuated from their homes and off the cleanup work the americans left to they placed radioactive soil in the brink ninety thousand tons of atomic waste under a huge concrete dome on roommates island but the provisional shelter is deteriorating and the water is seeping into the bottom of it. climate change is reopening old wounds. do you hate the americans. while i was it was i don't. i don't want to be somebody that. anger and disappointment a thousand kilometers from her home. a bone sought refuge in multiple she had lived in rounded up the bomb took away her island and the friends and relatives who died of radiation poisoning her thyroid gland was removed due to cancer we just missed that it is. when the baby came out some. babies. and some grapes. and some other we can just see it through their brain. they're going to wonder why in a few months on the morning of the first of march nine hundred fifty four the u.s. detonated costal bravo its most powerful thermo nuclear bomb at bikini atoll wrong lap one hundred fifty kilometers away saw two suns that day. radioactive fallout rained down there in the afternoon children played in it unaware. the evacuation began three days later too late like many others the mayo about underwent regular medical checks in the wake of the test many children were born with six fingers and six toes. bill graham came to the marshall islands with the us peace corps in the one nine hundred sixty s. and stayed over the decades he helped the victims make compensation claims against the us government the way america dealt with the calm time in mention change his attitude towards his native country. i can't accept that there was any conscious intent to expose the people however once the exposure had occurred then i think the human experimentation began with a decision let's move the people back to their at all after only a three month period of evacuation in. i would say is clearly a crime. how could anyone argue that it's not a crime against humanity when you subject people to that level of of exposure ongoing exposure and risk. graham says the u.s. has chosen to ignore this chapter of its history and has never faced up to its responsibility. that's been far too little compensation and no apologies for this radioactive to the room that dome is the resting place for the debris and soil from forty three tests but the sarcophagus is not adequately sealed beneath it tony and is leaking out and the cover is crumbling. the temporary structure even contains unexploded nuclear ordinances they're buried under concrete slabs the dome was only completed in this form in the one nine hundred eighty s. the waste that didn't fit was shoveled into the reef. last . to me as an embarrassing symbol of the the manner in which the u.s. came in here conducted these nuclear weapons tests created all this radioactive debris and then try to just sweep it up and push it under the rug. internally displaced people there are many of them in the marshall islands the tiny island called age it became provisional home to the homeless exiles from bikini. ninety three year old lyric joy ash had to move five times because of the bomb tests her grandson alson kalen is often at her side since she was twenty new iraq joy she has had one overriding wish but alson can't grant it now the americans told us to leave bikini when. we said we want to go back that's all. but going on and i'm when you feel like i want to go home this place is not right even though you. all in the name of pieces of us said at the time today age it is an overpopulated dismal spot of land bikini remains a distant dream. the us flag upside down a signal of distress for an uprooted exhausted people. i had america has destroyed our culture and all the problems come from america the usa destroyed my life meaning. was there. first the radiation now climate change but this time no one here expects help to calm. we have liberty and justice for our lives my only worry when he said she stays out there i'm going to get you well. lemay our bond can't begin to imagine what it would be like if the rising ocean forces her and her family to relocate again. i don't know where. and even then them. what course is the climate says already. so i will not stop them i don't know i like it even. the worst even a of money money will stay and i. died soon after she said those words she was followed not long after by bill graham two major eye witnesses and defenders of human rights the marshallese will miss them. the fate of the sarcophagus that symbol of the two fold curse facing the peoples of the pacific is still unknown. in the southern marshall islands people try not to worry about it it's so far away and who knows what tomorrow may bring but today work to scarcity is the most pressing problem. to help in case of drought to storms the water utility montreaux maintains a rainwater reservoir of nearly one hundred forty million liters that's gigantic for a natural but who will actually use the reserve if only one out of four people can afford tap water. to do it like john menadue plan in place in case another drug does come to measure. but it can only last so much if it's really really long yes we'll need external assistance from our apartment. then the u.s. will have to help again with plastic bottles and sea water desalination units but until that day comes we'll continue to save it's valuable rainwater and most of it is collected from the runway of the nearby airport. it has a new retaining wall of the sea front once the runway was completely inundated and that fate now threatens the entire algae peleg oh at least according to forecast by the turn of the next century. we mete out some kale in the ground some of the elderly lady from age it if anyone knows how to stay above water then he does. house and still knows how to build a traditional outrigger canoe and he can navigate them without technical aids we ride in a motor boat alongside he has sailed four thousand kilometers home from hawaii with only the stars wind and waves to guide him to news this hour. the backbone of our culture or tradition is the first clue the marshallese you need the fuel to france . would been one out also to transport goods to an apple store it is the best tool for sustainable livelihood. but the canoe is not just a means of transportation it creates identity and anyone who can build one has a skill that can and money with this project allison kaylin the coworkers give young dropouts a chance at a future they also learn how to make the traditional stick charts of the ancient marshallese marantz. out in new york at least i don't know they looking he's going in. and out on his i really wonder how dave to travel. if at a time when the pacific islanders are facing rough weather even a wood model can help make people more resilient give it a look it's like the ancestors. and i'd like to have a family and be a carpenter on a. building boats boosts confidence these people may become homeless but they're not without hope you know it's the saddest thing is nine hundred forty six a lot of our people in the marshes god we look at it from their islands. two thousand forty six we probably will be relocated from this country so we will be but a we have a vessel if something ever happened we have a vessel we have something that we can sail out into the garage first. three thousand kilometers to the south of the speech. palms sun and friendly fiji and complete the image of the perfect vacation spot but these volcanic islands are fighting the same monsters that form the other pacific islands declining fishing catches devastating typhoons eroding coastlines can planting mangroves help now much akula is a small village on the sea the people here had almost capitulated to the forces of nature until a young man in his mid twenty's got involved today somewhere according to army heads a village brigade. in the monument of the little we did it in a bit of a bit of a political level but today we're planting palms he tells the man he wants our t.v. team from germany to show people in europe what effects climate change is having here. corey johnny has founded an environmental aid organization its name is kindly called meaning tree of life. and there's lots to do the water has sucked up twenty meters of beach in the past five years a few steps further along the shore it's even broken through now a stream of salt water occasionally flows through the village. the delicate seedlings of coastal protection but there's only so much such measures can achieve land is sacred to the island as but will there be any left for coming generations you know there's a community in fiji that was relocated for climate change and we don't want to do that so what we want to do is to be a pilot village think e.g. did she have an in-joke and it would create a climate change and other issues that affect us. recognizes that climate change is a health risk it's turned itself into a greenhouse for more resilience and food security and to combat poverty. a holistic green plan for a model village which has the first minister paul compost heap foreign wine. there was a farm has been damaged you know from continuous events of you know side clones and stuff so it's sort of bring it closer to us you know at the same time you're promoting healthy living and you know it makes the place looked beautiful with all the trees and flowers in it all the fruits and crops are on the house here. thinking ecologically has called home the school on the other side of the street is taking part in the village gardening project. reconcilable but this is far from paradise the foundations of every house make it clear what a struggle for existence is taking place here. the window to something our whole village is threatened but we don't want to leave. when i'm old my husband is dead when the waves come and destroy our house who will help us. here. this is the operations center planning office and community center the village of number to cooler is working. to ensure its future everyone contributes something on a volunteer basis. a lot has changed here we work together now to do something against climate change or aid organization as their voice which we can achieve something. and. i'm going to learn very much in the tree of life the young people are keen to whether it takes root or not somewhere or could be drawn me says he's ready for the challenge. but a new label is fiji's second largest island. here the sea has already won the contest this was once a spit of land. but every defeat can also mean a new beginning. we head to. a settlement that was forced away from the coast it relocated to a hillside two kilometers inland. thirty two prefab houses for one hundred thirty thousand residents the move was completed in twenty fourteen it was a way of adapting to the realities of coastal erosion. village chief silo cdrom all too says it's unfair that the village has had to shoulder with a third of the relocation costs but he praises the new site. we really love this new site because we are away from the third. personally at least for our new generation children to frequent through it it will show that we can look through see any. food crops or any restaurant was growing it out because all the trees have been covered by shoulder work. and a secure livelihood can provide people with more opportunities for example to t.v.'s amiga was able to spend several months in india to learn some groundbreaking skills installing solar electricity a social media network taught her how and the housewife became a community leader a woman and powered by solar energy. and go to india come back on her i mean do the wiring every house this. and all the posts on the lights. and all the people in the villages where the very. food crops or any restaurant was growing it out because all the areas have been covered by shoulder work. and a secure livelihood can provide people with more opportunities for example to cheer for mika was able to spend several months in india to learn some groundbreaking skills installing solar electricity a social media network taught her how and the housewife became a community leader a woman and powered by solar energy. and go to india come back on her and do the wiring every house this. and all the posts under the lights and all the people in the village city with the very hippie . the electric lighting was not god given but proof that people faced with climate change are not helpless and there are more ideas being put into practice here further up the hill they're planting pineapple it's a cash crop like the fish that they farm as well but the new orderly settlement poses also conflicts with people's sense of identity. this is just a pond many residents miss their old village with its smells and sounds it's a good taste in the city but this one is the simplest not least the. and now here we don't have some fun time like that just come into us gets fierce go home. there we spend time in the city then come to call until all died in making. this road leads to the place of the longing the lost hope it's a three kilometer stretch across the land without a person in sight. when we. head to the. breaks me all the. living nice memories. brought. by pets. just by very pleased we left before that to say. to says the next step is to move the graves as well the ocean has left the no choice once you can see the still houses on the other side of the water from here but not. the bay has widened and water levels have risen. you know certain we would be here for you. but just because so far feelin right bloody. climate change. again there's land inside tarrar told the capital of keep us located on the international date line if an island is likely to be submerged then this one. perspective measures taken here include sea walls and bank mints. and sandra pension meant to shore up the coast but experts say the world's first climate refugees driven by rising sea levels could come from quito boss. the government has already bought land to house them in fiji two thousand kilometers away climate change is turning into the biggest pacific battle since world war two. kerry vos is already dependent roadworks health system food the country cannot survive without aid from abroad what it needs is more resilience infrastructure income and jobs for the growing population. there are too few structures in place for sustainable tourism but one facility is creating jobs in kitty bus and it was never needed more than now. only muster at the marine training center on the islet of b.t.o. it's six am and the directors have shuttled thirty minutes of early morning sport before breakfast. the merry time school known as m t c was co-founded more than fifty years ago by a german shipping company hamburg sued. rubio says he's here because he wants to be a seafarer and earn money to help support his family. he's particularly interested in japan he'd like to go there and see how people live and fish that are just. as it. is standing in the first row but like all the trainees here for the time being he's just a number. the future sounds adventurous but very few of the candidates have ever been far away. drawn up. and you see. you can walk on any kind of fishing grounds if you are in the country or know. who will call to. where on board ship or on it should be a message. is a kind of. yes maybe a couple should part of it for. the cadets life is strictly organized as it would be on board some find that hard to get used to most of the trainees would like to work for the s.p.l. mess shipping line a consortium of six german companies. captain andrew hanks and runs things here he points out that these youths have grown up with the water something the maritime industry values but they often lack something that's needed for a well paying future. just also believe the big problem is disciplined and also trying to explain time the clock to the sailors side in europe or an ocean shipping we have other times and other than us and we have to try to teach that to these mariners these candidates as well fortunately ladan already in in under by observing. trainee rubella will need six months of schooling before he can work on the deck of a junior trawler. japan supports the training program anyone who wants to work on the bridge needs eighteen months of training but that is too long for him he's in his early twenties and soon will have to help feed three generations. and that then it will be very sad to not see my family but the school is an opportunity to help my parents this is the only way i can help myself and others. the larger war on. working for a foreign fishing fleet is good for him personally but not for everyone and his country. will gain financially but the ocean is still losing resources the small scale fishes have been catching less and less for years. we don't want all of them coming here the fish is ours. we depend on that's. the only where some display of bony fish. or other kinds of tuna from the open ocean are rarely found at the markets most of the catch here was fished in the lagoon and it's contaminated with bacteria we don't want to walk twenty years ago it was easy to catch tuna the one the fuel for the boats wasn't so expensive now everything's gone up and we hardly catch any tuna that's why the prices are rising so steeply. just one glance at the water reveals the situation but things are changing a joint venture started a few years ago with private companies from fiji and china could help carry bass get back more of its big fish that's money that the company will need to combat the rising waters even if it's almost impossible to compete with industrial trawlers but the big fish the ones we really need but it's getting harder and we can't stay out there longer than two weeks. but the strategy of a domestic fleet factory and processing seems to be working kerry bus has managed to position itself on the market with its tuna and make profits in late twenty seventeen it delivered the first ten tonnes of juno to high end restaurants and retailers in france the number of employees is rising as is the tax revenues they provide. it is very important because with this victory there will be employees if you can't they just went hungry people are able to bring in former years in here out even before status and they are able. landfall there are people murdered in front of their neighbors a good bit for the families asking for yearly meeting from a. period boss retains just ten percent of the value of its fish it has to add to that and hope that the fish stocks don't peter out. as it heads. back at the marine training center rubio also hopes that tuna stocks will want to climb his future job is so important to him because climate change is posing a threat to livelihoods here but now he's off for the weekend. and now is boat ride will take him to his home on the island off the bone ybarra on the ocean side the waves are eating away at the reef only the lagoon is undisturbed like a lake his teachers dropping off. it's like a different world no electricity or running water or t.v. or movie i was father suffers from asthma. he believes the climate is changing due to the earth being closer to the sun rubio's wife has just had a baby she's concerned about ruby leaving. i'm afraid of the dangers mariner's have to be very careful but my husband promises that he will always pay attention. to. his father is happy to have some help now because of his breathing difficulties he has trouble pulling the strong tower roots out of the ground. i have another younger son he's fourteen and i hope he will help me when the older boy goes away. the family lives from what nature gives them the government will buy up their dried coconut but the harvest has been declining year after year. rising water temperatures and the associated rise in sea levels are playing a role further out in the ocean often the father only brings home seagrass. everything is changing so we are catching less fish no matter what kind of the marine worms are disappearing to be unlearnt we have erosion in the well water is getting salty in the coconut palms hardly bear fruit any more. and they take it any day now the enemy his son says he's really worried about what climate change will do here while he's gone he's scared that everything will change. that ik. curry bus is one of the poorest countries in the world effects of climate change are set to make it poorer still. group al will soon have what many people here don't a job to support his family. but he will pay a huge price he'll be leaving his home so while others can stay. focused. enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful. the situation in venezuela could hardly be more compact my guest this week here in brussels is clouded some comeback stories venezuela's ambassador to the european union for the record of a cooling human rights abuses missed the montoro desire to stay in office. conflict so for thirty minutes w. . once upon a time there was a young girl. with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. i was a very curious child and very excited and in love with music and i would go to concerts with my parents and i always. mirrored for being on stage with musicians and being part of that magic it was difficult for the first one. to come oh world famous doctor thanks mom drove the nine eleven. miles to. start the during the t d w. play. business d w news life from berlin to the stand up at the venezuelan border intensifies opposition leader one why the warrants that blocking much needed aid to constitute signs against humanity the soldiers loyal to president nicolas maduro the main firmly at the bridge marking the border with colombia but girl has vowed not to let anyone he called fake humanitarian aid from the united states also coming up. tens of thousands gather and lagos is a border.

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