during a protest against the government's pandemic policies hundreds of far right activists and science than ayers overwhelmed police and occupied the steps of the guy starved police regain control of the situation before they could get into the building. police in portland oregon have launched a homicide investigation after a protester was killed the victim was shot dead as supporters of president clash with black lives matters of protest protesters portland mayor ted wheeler blame trump himself for stoking the racial unrest. this is deja vu news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website www dot com. a new beginning is often a wonderful opportunity to examine our choices and at our life if these trying times. it's inspirations to make a positive change towards a more sustainable real life. to be we introduce through to some people who have visited their lives words making environmentally friendly choices hello welcome to eco india. coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai. india is the largest producer of milk in the world because of rising demand it goes without saying the primary reason for very. big but a fall in india which is more than $100.00 does not commercially produce a single drop of milk what may be your little bit to make such a trusting choice that's to conclude. the 20 acres of lush farmland in the busy city of noida. why organic farming is not uncommon even in the city this farm has taken things to new level. beach as it is called has built a community of farmers that is self-sustaining and practices natural farming methods with a focus on the wellbeing of livestock. what makes this far more unique is its relationship to its family of cattle. meat conquered age a native of. from the sindh region. this is that beauty is called red cindy. belongs to a sturdy. and specially suited for farming. reads of indigenous cattle from across india this farm doubles up as an animal sanctuary. cows and bulls have always been a part of agriculture but indigenous breeds are disappearing at a frightening rate thanks to the introduction of machines and the growing focus on dairy which prefers imported breeds to native ones because of the higher milk yield . some indigenous populations are down to as little as 100 animals. be john has a herd of 135 indigenous cattle of various breeds of which 40 are bulls. it's striving to reverse some of the mad practices in farming in india today. which. i think everyone knows how cruel the dead industry is and when i got into this and when i started seeing how many beautiful indigenous cattle were there and how the history of us importing crackly from the west for this milk revolution and a lot of other things then the need to protect these. kind of became very strong so these beautiful indigenous kathleen up your greed on the farm and many of these are drought and. actually give a lot of milk. and i realise that these cattle are dying because our whole focus is on me. to preserve these breeds. to focus had to shift away from dairy. and dung whole project was born i delayed that up by i didn't buy the oil and it's going this and. a lot of dung lying around also means leases and you can get it's not even going to that i mean. the whole project promotes an economy around. every day some towns in 400 kilo's are gathered to be converted into a vigil 50 of products. ensuring a 2nd income for farmers. you've all been out there he says we make seed balls like these using seeds from big trees like the neem. if you scatter them on empty fields before dreams they start growing. we also make images of the day it is going a shot and luxury using dung and mud these are used during the valley and customers come here to buy them off. the dung is also used as many on the fields doing away with the need for chemical fertilizers of. the real happy are monitored and he says when we came here the feel of a sunday we couldn't do anything without downer. once we had enough stock of dung we started making natural mineo and used it for the fields and it took us about 2 years of preparation time or now the soil has regained its natural fatality and we are able to grow vegetables very well. most of the plants are grown from heirloom seeds. and the farmers use traditional systems of into cropping companion planting and crop rotation. all food is grown organically. the vegetables harvested here include bitter gourd squash and pumpkin . biggio produces its own solar power and this off the grid it's home to a large community of farmers from all over india. it runs its own school a clinic a women's group and has direct access to weekly markets. the women's new skills allow them to generate a. extra income. and the aim is to become completely self-sufficient. is one such woman whose husband farms while she knits and stitches products that are sold to visit does i'd be charmed. by me ma she says now we're mostly making mosques like this we make about 20 in a day and each $1.00 costs $50.00 rupees. it. takes a sustainable approach to farming with a focus on caring for the land and the animals. found. hopes of farming journey nondairy kawas eyed its heart will inspire others to follow. around the world biking is becoming more and more popular not only is it trendy it's also hopefully will help and the above meant under produces what chances of getting infected in the school were 19 times but many a time by so often multiply audited by especially if you'd move to the city or don't plan on staying for very long in berlin we found some biking enthusiastic we're preparing bikes for refugees and short of visitors so that. its benefits. chi wanya sci fi repairs bikes for refugees here in berlin. he fled iran 4 years ago last year he started working at the hook invent a tailwind association. a bike is important for refugees from somewhere it helps them. mean when you look for a bike online somebody cost 50 or 70 or 100 euros or longer but i had to put in brand we accept a donation of 5 or 10 euros from a refugee from forward the senate well i got. almost everyone who works here is a volunteer the bikes they repair all donated once they've been fixed up they go to refugee. only one yes the field has a paid job at the association and it's partly financed by the national volunteer service it all began 5 years ago when germany took in a large number of refugees the team not only want to help the new comers they also want to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport and recycling old bikes is especially sustainable. but not as we use everything if a bike can no longer be written if we take it apart and use the components for another bike you could see that from 2 broken old bikes we create one new or usable one of the strongest most of. the team come from many parts of the world irishman graeme pope who's been helping out here for 2 years. one. outside of the convince pope and some friends have set up a bike sharing nonprofit organization called bike surf it maintains a fleet of 20 violent people can bore them for a small donation. bike so doesn't aim to compete with commercial bike rental firms uses mainly come from the sharing community. to idea that if you can more or you can cheaply someone. and then maybe you can find somewhere to say you can maybe find some cheap places to eat or for free then you might have pretty wife i the next thing of getting around a big city like berlin is the obvious answer is to be on a bicycle it's environmental it's good for you good for your health. pope says he hopes the idea catches on you can't currently borrow a bike in many other cities. and you can book a bike theft bike online. and you can usually keep it for a few weeks or even longer. look invented meanwhile has a new project it wants to visit school classes to talk about bikes and sustainability . we want to get children and teenagers interested in cycling again so they think it's cool to ride a bike we want to show them how easy it can be to repair a bike we hope to get them so excited about biking that they don't even think of buying a car or even getting a driver's license but want to move about the city on wheels. could convince says stuffing such a project with volunteers is difficult they're looking for funding so they can hire and pay more people. but and dip their pot of an unavoidable eternal cycle of nature be the all encompassing. of the debilitating long floods natural events destroy life yet at the same time create a base for new life conservationists are now studying a similar phenomenon in military training areas amid bombed out deputy of army with was. constant tank movements and artillery exercises make nature conservation at this army training ground a complicated affair before the ecologist start work the search party patrols the area to make sure there are no nasty explosive surprises lurking in the grass they're always accompanied by munitions expert from the german military for. they found a missile its location is marked down and laser bomb disposal experts will pick it up. you have to search carefully as we use everything from. small 20 millimeter ammunition to large ordinance and explosives of course it's much easier to find bombs that to find small munitions and don't forget we've been using this troop training area for 80 years so you find all sorts of stuff here. just those 80 years of army maneuvers have helped create a very landscape in bomb holder or grasslands with wild herb's as well as woodlands and brush all ideal for biodiversity. grasslands are so valuable because they're hard to find anywhere else there's no arab land so no pesticides no nutrients no fertilizers this is only for military maneuvers. the army has all the heavy equipment it needs to preserve the natural environment does armored vehicle is used to take care of open spaces to make sure they don't get overgrown it tears up shrubs and flatten small trees. germany has 1400 square kilometers of land for military drills the environmental group nabu commission to study and found something astonishing although there are pollutants like heavy metals and kerosene residue the sites are ecologically important. the almost isn't let's situation in these areas is unique the exercises create a patchwork environment there are temporary changes what we ecologists call disturbances in areas where soil is removed there are pioneer sites where rare plants can grow as well as animal species you can't find in the regular landscape. of. destruction by tanks and artillery creates new ecological niches says army ecologist wilfried korten pons foreman tank trails and bomb craters where frogs and mutes can spawn. it's extraordinary the damage we see here from tank trucks you only see this in military training areas is especially important for nature conservation this is not static environmental protection. so constantly changing they're also valuable areas not in regular use by the military where nature can evolve organically it's not too early. in the areas used less often they deploy sheep several 1000 sheep graze all summer long of the military training ground so that's that's what makes sheep really useful is that they get into all the corners under the bushes into parts of the woods we can't reach a machine can't do that the sheep saw prince grazing on droppings at the turn to the state that nature needs. the sheep of spent numerous summers in the military zone and are well used to it so shepherd karl-heinz kinkel. in the really really generally whenever they're shooting even heavy fire you'd be amazed how fast they adapt if they do get frightened they huddle together. in germany large swathes of the natural environment have been wiped out chiefly through intensive farming the untamed land in army training areas is highly valuable in ecological terms. to spite the bombs and grenades this unique environment get special protection. a majority of the elephants live in captivity there are huge daughters to traction and have to perform tricks on command for the hordes of applauding tourists who visit them every year these tricks are often perfected by doctoring them repeatedly but the pandemic has put them in the land of incoming tourists while on the one hand this is good news for the elephants on the other their future threatened some of them now have received a new lease on life we accompany them elephant rescue team to see for ourselves. just one look and she knows exactly which elephant is which she now has 80 of them each one has suffered lect child learn knows all their stories. yet up. until just a few years ago this elephant worked in a nearby writing camp as the conservationist explains he had to carry tourists around every day if he didn't obey his trainer would pierces thick skin with a bull hoke the thai activist has been working to protect elephants for 25 years. with her foundation she aims to improve the lives of the packet derms donations enable her to buy up animals who've suffered especially harsh treatment most of the elephants have spent decades being ridden or in showbusiness but in china elephant nature park they no longer have to work or be in chains paying guests are allowed to watch the elephants but nothing more. people come and visit they don't disturb a friend they just be yours the money to come and become risk your more and more. again and again like child learned has exposed animal abuse using a hidden camera for centuries wild elephants have been subjected to prolonged violent taming methods now there are laws in thailand that prohibit animal cruelty . but china says this has done little to change the taming practice known as elephant crushing. and that now is the problem for them the view of the whole. lot of the bra ridden everywhere. the baby bravely you can see the blood when i walk on the. i have the will i have the totem pretend that i had ordered i don't care why i don't get that i don't have a point there. but up a whole lot of how my cry i cried would a lot of disappointed about here when. i angry angry a bit. rude to people about is. that. just a lecture and her team are once again on a rescue mission. this time the conservationists will collect 7 elephants from this riding camp southwest of bangkok and bring them to the reserve near chain mind the camp owners themselves contacted chandler's foundation and asked for help as hardly any tourists are coming to ride the elephants to the coronavirus pandemic. an adult elephant is usually worth about $2000000.00 baht or more than $50000.00 euros but due to the pandemic the animals have become more of a burden for their owners. it cost them nearly a $1000.00 euros a month for food and care. the final part kyra is happy to at least get $1000000.00 baht per elephant from china its foundation. our situation has been dire since the start of the pandemic that we had to close the camp from. before but regardless of whether we're open or closed we still have to take care of the elephants and we need to feed them every day. we were allowed to reopen on july 1st but there are simply no visitors. that might make it. the convoy sets off in the early afternoon. love them they love the game. as long as that feeling out of. it i'm hungry and no one. believes in them i think the journey old kids. the next morning after a nearly 20 hour drive the convoy reaches its destination the elephant nature from north to change the team is exhausted lecture learned has hardly slept but nothing can dampen her mood. although happy because the journey is. arafat angry so yeah. i feel believe. that once the restraining bars have been removed it's time for the elephants to take their 1st cautious steps into a new life. one. look at the newcomers will have to be isolated from the rest of the herd for 2 weeks in order to prevent the possible spread of disease. the rescuers frees the animals from all their ropes and chains. so beautiful. lecture i learned. provided a new home for well over 100 elephants a home where they're no longer forced to put on a show where they can simply elephants. the lives of women in india are changing slowly but steadily more of the women are getting an education and have the spy business 24 india of the top of the list of countries considered most dangerous for women we met the founder of a nonprofit organization in mumbai was encouraging women to stand up against sexual violence and gender discrimination this brought us to the day to day struggle it's 5 steps forward 2 steps back 5 steps forward 2 steps back and the protest has to be a daily protest and you know that the government know that. the fact that you have a child who was brutally gang raped and murdered as a crime of ethnic cleansing that you had political leaders across party lines state to the street with indian flag and in defense of this it's just something you've never seen before. child's body should be subject to that kind of brutality let alone on religious grounds. i'm a lawyer and a social activist back in august 25th along with a group of young amazing feminists we started an organization she says which is a new movement in india to fight against all sorts of gender based violence and discrimination and fight for equality. and at that point i started receiving extremely. aggressive dead and real threats. if you know i'm following you i have people following you i know where you live i think the idea of a woman cleaning agency and idea of a woman to sort of be demanding for her rights a sort of the fighting for justice. scares all structures and these weak people the only thing that they can resort to do is going online and threatening us thinking that that is somehow going to sight and sound voices. that well i'm still here i'm still fighting because. it's obviously taking a toll on them but evident credibly support a family and my family's realizes that the work we do. has a significant impact on people's lives. and. everything is stuff bill object to you being a woman they looked up to you being young they'll object to your very best and close the object to you very meek up they'll object to you speaking english be hidden objects to you. fighting against discrimination based on religion david objects to you for raising your voice too much there's this notion of. there's this notion not to speak up and fight for your rights but do so politely you know without offending people too much. agreement that we don't pass on these realities to our future generations as accepted way of life that mothers don't have to tell their daughters marital rape as a way of life you just have to adjust to it i dream that. you know more children are not being subject to child sexual abuse like so many of. i dream. that. equality would be a normal way of life and wouldn't. then my dream is do you know the she says do not be needed. now each one of us has access to a new lease on life many junk justified life it comes down to how we grab it and run with it i hope to be as episode has inspired you to take a step in that direction i'll see you again next week until then please stay safe and dig good care of yourselves and your loved ones good but. it's a constant companion it. makes us feel. headaches dizziness and tonight are just some illnesses that can be caused by normal. life. and what can we do about it. in good shape the. next. do it yourself kenyan style lincoln while my bills electric wheelchairs from scrap metal. he wants to help people with physical disabilities in an environmentally conscious way his clients are very enthusiastic. about. global 3000. and 60 minutes on t w. life on earth movements are coming to an end. getting coincidence. that set off a previously was earth was just a messy chemistry lab i thought mission you saw. where the empty space shuttle shoot off was from the creation of our solar system which are slanted is a bit like winning the lottery get caught up there is a little bit with. what is earth where you need to start september 18th on d w. cut up. good. luck from sunset mums mums mums stop. ok wouldn't it be great if you could simon's noise just like that we all know this only works on t.v. let's face it if i would sit here and. 3 single day i would presumably be dead or sick in any case especially road traffic noise is a risk to your health and well being. headaches dizziness and tonight is just some illnesses that can be caused by noise. a moment of quiet nothing but. blissful. but unfortunately. our everyday lives are usually different when confronted with all sorts of noise 24 hours a day closing out isn't an option sounds become noise when they disturb us often when they're very loud but it's not just a question of volume psychologist daniel crystal says noise can't be described in purely physical terms. noise isn't an acoustic property it's a sensation but it is related to the acoustic properties of the sound. the louder the sound the more likely it is to bother me so it also depends on the situation. my favorite bands playing a concert i won't mind it being really loud but if i want to sleep my favorite band hopefully won't be playing in my living room and an important factor is whether or not you have control. a sound that i can turn on and off is less likely to disturb me than something like street noise or aircraft noise because i can't control those . noises in our environment can especially become a problem when we're completely at them see it's no wonder that lots of people are affected by traffic noise and noise can cause illness even if we've become so used to a soundscape that we no longer consciously perceive it noises can still affect our health. for example scientists are studying the connections between noise pollution and mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. and immense as to noise pollution is a huge factor in stress especially if it persists for years off a gate we just completed a new study where we were able to show that noise pollution can predict the onset of anxiety and depression even 5 years later as well as insomnia as bit of. but not everyone can choose where they live and work for many the only option is to cope with noise as best they can. in fear. and i would advise people not to limit themselves because of concerns about noise but to continue with their activities and do the things they enjoy stress up to pawn that's an important way of reducing stress and then you can avoid the vicious circle of noise pollution and possible anxiety or depression it often. these days away scenes of quiet are rare and therefore precious. the important thing is to seek them out. as the philosopher friedrich nietzsche remarked the greatest events are not on noisiest but our stillest hours. at the technical university of berlin since january 2000. he works institute of fluid mechanics and technical accusatives researches noisy face and noise assessment among other things. hi hello over the period how i i don't know i see through i see media what's he doing here i measure the top of the level also good traffic noise at this very busy street yeah so it's quite noisy isn't it yeah as expected it's. much lower than 70 to be an average so it's very loud so it wouldn't be very appropriate to live here yes i would really like to get me to ok so what about if you go to something more quiet great ok. it's a very very busy street it's very noisy is there a difference between noise and just sound yes there's a difference and. it's noises on want to know is if you think it's inappropriate it details it's a noise and therefore it is a psychological phenomenon it is not the physical event it's in the printed auditory event this makes sound to unwanted noise so it depends on my perception of what i do about this. yes yes and therefore it is difficult to measure if such a device unwanted noise because it is is your perception. a lot of engineers tried to reduce noise from cars but it's in the noise and so so why is this there is a simple reason because we have so many cars and on our roads so i think of it as a single car is quite up then and up parsed but we have much more cars on the roads a day off for the road traffic noise is quite high in our cities so but when you take a look at all the capitals in this world to me the cities are getting bigger and bigger and more mobility more mobility so can we do anything about the noise there are some approaches to promote develop being in cities to reduce noise on the technical side but also to offer torque to places like parks green areas because we can observe that it is quite quite beneficial for the for the health and life satisfaction for people living in cities but the divide would say well i love this noise here it's great it's a booming city and i like to watch all the cars and i like it here and there's still some may make its effects on me. i would say it helps if you have a positive thinking in a positive attitude towards the noise over city then it might decrease to a certain extent potential health effects but because our ears sylvia always listen. and therefore he cannot really adapt to noise it always stress therefore you can't avoid any health related risk. even with a think that the the so nice all and even if i like the lawyers even feel like a lawyer but it's quite simple if you listen to a lot of music over a long time then of course you will. have hearing impairment of those soldiers at its most exposure so that's 1st have a look at how our ears work and how they do this 24 seventh's. call this is how dangerous prehistoric times when you shut your eyes for some while undressed them and not even knowing it you're on the dinner menu for the competing species. bumps. that's all it takes despite sleep mode the ia is wide awake it's registered the telltale sound and in a flash it transmits the signal to the control centers a moment later the adrenal gland releases the stress hormones adrenalin and noradrenalin they activate the unarmed systems in all the important tool in. the heart immediately steps on the gas to increase the body's oxygen supply. blood vessels constrict blood pressure bryce's digestion is now of minor importance it gets decoupling from the bloodstream maximum blood supply has to go to parts of the body needed for survival right now the muscles a crucial. a rude awakening but at least the internal systems are already running at full speed so fight or flight in this case best to make a speaking exit. if you have this case but now it's time to replenish the lost energy. after a short delay the stress hormone cortisol is also taking effect fat from the body's deposits is being mobilized. in the liver should die is manufactured and released into the blood. coaches i mean shows that we don't run out of fuel when fleeing from danger it's an ingenious survival strategy for emergencies. but ever since we traded life in the wilderness for roads houses and traffic there's been a problem the alarm system that protected us by pads from saber tooth tigers for thousands of years now seems to have run its course. even though modern sources of noise can be annoying they many signal life threatening danger. but our gnome systems still react in the same way beware of saber tooth tigers to prepare for a fight or flight. so stressful minds are released on one test during sleep and particular courses a levels a permanently elevated when this continuous noise we get into a fight or flight mode our blood pressure goes up and energy is quickly made available in the blood. even though it isn't needed. in the long term that can cause health problems too high levels of sugar and liquids in the blood and type of attention can be precursors to cardiovascular disease sic windows are the only permanent solution to help us sleep soundly and to give our in a a gnome system some rest. even in our modern world there are some loud noises that are somewhat outdated warning system should respond to. when it comes to distinguishing between annoying and my stretching sounds. human evolution still has a long way to go. we've got something more listen closely. andrea garcia is getting ready for bed but 1st he setting up a gadget that will measure the noise levels in his room because it's going to be a noisy night. while he's asleep he will be exposed to the noise of airplanes flying overhead. tonight it will be 30 planes tomorrow night 60. andre tries to sleep as best he can he's in for a restless night. people who live near airports have to put up with a lot of noise often until late at night and then again from early in the morning. thomas missile has spent 7 years studying what noise does to our bodies the cardiologist is especially interested in the noise of airplanes at night which many people struggle with. the idea of studying aircraft noise at night is based on major studies that have shown clear link between insufficient or interrupted sleep and a greater risk of cardiovascular conditions so heart attacks strokes cardiac arrhythmias or cardiac insufficiency. could too much noise be the cause the next morning and drag garcia goes to the clinic to be examined the doctors use ultrasound to evaluate the blood flow through his arteries that will show how elastic they are as a result of his poor night's sleep his arteries are less flexible because andrea was healthy his body would repair the damage but that isn't the case with everyone . you say i have coronary heart disease for example and i'm exposed to aircraft noise at night then the condition of my arteries deteriorates and then i have to assume that this noise related deterioration of my arteries will lead to more heart attacks or cardiac arrhythmias heart failure and so on that's how to use them. so how come noise affects our blood vessels. that's something thomas mental has been investigating in mice when the rodents are exposed to the sound of airplanes their bodies produce more stress hormones they also suffer inflammation of the arteries because free radicals seen here and brown are formed in their cells. just usually in those. 100 garcia has now had a 2nd night of aircraft noise again he has not slept well the cardiologist want to know whether his body has got used to the noise in which case his arteries ought to be a little more flexible this time and less affected by his lack of sleep but the ultrasound shows the opposite to happen that i was confronted with. we've discovered that once an individual has had exposure to noise at night the deterioration of the arteries is considerably worse the following night stick up office huysman in other words your blood vessels don't get used to the noise the damage inflicted on them is actually more pronounced. studies have shown that aircraft noise of nice not only damages blood vessels but also the brain causing it to age faster the doctors have discovered that memory and the ability to learn are impaired as a result. mice exposed to aircraft noise in this study for example were less able to remember where their rescue platform was in the water. the results of the study can be transferred to humans. we think it's just picking the point is we know that children who live near airports develop a learning ability and memory more slowly and we can do is one fossil research results explain the cause of this phenomenon very well. people constantly exposed to noise at night are at increased risk of high blood pressure atrial fibrillation strokes and heart attacks depression can be another resulting factor. the scientists are now working on a drug designed to reduce the harmful effects of noise on the body even though getting a peaceful night sleep on a regular basis would of course be the best medicine. well i do love my headphones i have to admit and many young people are wearing headphones all over the day this is a problem.