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Or if he does anything with respect to Guam, or any place else | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
that's an American territory, or an American ally, | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The North Korean nuclear crisis keeps roiling away, | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Is all of this making the actual use of nuclear weapons - | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
for so long unthinkable - a real possibility? | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
We speak to the man who advised Obama | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Acid attacks in the UK have more than doubled in three years. | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
We've seen it on the streets, thieves on mopeds | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
throwing acid at people, now it's happening in people's homes. | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
He pulled the bottle out, squeezed acid on my face, | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
This man was attacked with acid two and a half years ago. | :01:09. | :01:24. | |
And, the green innovation staving off desertification | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
I campaign for human rights in my homeland. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
In a generation there has been a catastrophic change | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Korea and its surrounding region are in a state of high | :01:35. | :01:47. | |
President Trump this morning tweeted that US military options | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
North Korea maintains that it intends soon to fire four missiles | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
in the direction of Guam, with its American base. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
But we're also hearing moderating voices. | :02:08. | :02:08. | |
James Mattis, the US defence secretary, has stressed that the US | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
is dealing with the North Korean threat by diplomatic means. | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
And it emerged today that talks are actively taking place | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
between President Trump's Korea envoy and a senior North Korean | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
official at the United Nations in New York. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
But there are bigger issues here that won't go away. | :02:31. | :02:43. | |
At the end of a week of high bluster, I've been looking | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
into the question of whether the use of nuclear weapons is genuinely | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
There's a real chance of military action between nuclear armed | :02:50. | :03:09. | |
It also comes at a time when many experts feel nuclear war | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
During the Cold War, it would have been the soviet union | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
and the United States, both with thousands of nuclear | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
warheads and God forbid if they'd gone to war, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
the whole planet could have been destroyed. | :03:29. | :03:44. | |
Now, if you had, and we must desperately try to prevent one, | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
if you had the use of nuclear weapons, either North Korea, India, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Pakistan or the Middle East, disastrous for these regions, | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
but compared to the Cold War, the risks at the time | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
of the Cuban missile crisis, it wouldn't threaten the very | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
What Korea reminds us of is proliferation and the more | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
widespread these weapons are, the greater the scope | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Pakistan and Israel are each believed to have more nuclear | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
India has them too and Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
are all believed to have had nuclear weapons programmes, | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
The next threat is what experts call lowering the nuclear threshold. | :04:18. | :04:37. | |
That means to some, their use is becoming more thinkable, | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
in circumstances short of global nuclear war. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Recent Russian exercises reportedly involved a small scale | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
use of nuclear weapons against European countries. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
In the US, meanwhile, Donald Trump hinted on campaign, | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
that they might be used against the Islamic State group. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Were a conventional conflict to happen again, where North Korea | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
could probably inflict a lot of damage, it certainly | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
wouldn't be able to prevail in a straightforward, | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Which is where nuclear weapons come in for North Korea in part, | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
because those weapons give North Korea what we would call | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Even if wiser heads prevail, what is the scope for | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Several senior Cold War statesman campaign on this issue, | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
highlighting concerns about computer glitches or cyber attacks | :05:43. | :05:43. | |
And if all that isn't worrying enough, there's the question | :05:44. | :06:02. | |
of whether some countries might have cut conventional forces to such | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
a degree, that they have few other options. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Some countries that pursue nuclear weapons, pursue them | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
because they are conventionally inferior to their adversaries. | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
So nuclear weapons in a conflict scenario might come into play much | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
earlier because their incentives to keep the conflict conventional, | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
A stable nuclear balance, like the Cold War or the India, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Pakistan situation is underpinned by large conventional forces. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
That's the anti-imperialist case for proliferation, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
if you like, that buttressed by other forces and | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
rational leadership, it can stabilise regions. | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
In the case of India and Pakistan, what has happened, | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
and it is disturbing and uncomfortable to acknowledge | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
They had a real wars three or four times before they both | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
And since then that has acted as a discipline, as a constraint. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
That's perhaps the biggest military unknown in this present crisis. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
The US could mount strikes no doubt, but Kim Jong-un has a wide variety | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
of retaliatory options, from massive conventional | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
attacks to chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
No wonder key allies from South Korea to Australia are worried. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
He was the White House Coordinator for Arms Control under | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
President Obama and he's now at Harvard's Kennedy | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
We will look at some of those big issues on the on thinkable in a | :07:37. | :07:50. | |
moment, but let's start off with North Korea, the issue of the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
moment. You have been dealing with this on and off for decades. Where | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
do you rank this situation right now, how serious? I continue to | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
think the risk of actual war is low because nobody would benefit from | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
it. For North Korea, it would be fatal and for the US and its allies, | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
it would be costly. But we are seeing posturing and I hope it is a | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
prelude to eventually resuming negotiations. A lot will depend on | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
Kim Jong-un's calculations. He is demonstrating long-range missile | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
capability, but the cost has been more serious economic sanctions, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
which the Chinese have been as serious to support. At some point | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
when Kim Jong-un decides he can come back to the bargaining table with a | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
strong position and look to see what he can get in return in return for | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
accepting a freeze on his nuclear return. We are not there yet, Kim | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Jong-un of thing he cannot be intimidated by the Security Council. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
So I think we will see another round of missile tests but I think they | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
will be short range tests. It would be extremely provocative? It would, | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
but at the same time with the Trump administration, they are trying to | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
manoeuvre towards a resumption of diplomacy. Rex Tillerson has said if | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Kim Jong-un would just pours his testing programme, the US is | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
prepared to open talks. We know there are low-level talks going on | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
between the State Department and North Koreans and New York. You were | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
part of the conversation in the Obama White House. Iran was a big | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
priority, there were many other things going on, to what extent do | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
you think it is fair to say the North Korean was pushed onto the | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
back burner under Obama? The Obama administration took several runs at | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
an effort to negotiate with North Korea and they all ended unhappily. | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
The first run ended after the sinking of a South Korean vessel and | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
the second ended after a league date agreement in February 2012, where | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
the US provided humanitarian assistance and the North Koreans | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
agreed to suspend testing and freeze their nuclear programme but then Kim | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Jong-un violated the agreement three weeks after it was done. So the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
conclusion was there was no valley in talking to North Korea until more | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
luggage was built up. The testing continued and unchecked? You have | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
seen two processes happening at the same time. 1-0 has accelerated his | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
testing programme and the sanctions have begun to build up. You | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
mentioned the likelihood of reverting to the diplomatic to | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
approach, you quoted Rex Tillerson, but how do we read the statements | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
from President Trump? The others all seemed to be behaving like the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Washington figures, like yourself that we are used to, but this is | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
different, is it dangerous in itself? In substance, Trump is not | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
saying anything different that President is always say in that | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
America will defend itself and its allies. But Trump is doing it which | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
has a locker room quality to it. My concern is, I would hate to see the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
president of the United States putting himself in a place where | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
he's being equated with Kim Jong-un. It is important Trump does not go | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
too far in terms of making our allies nervous. There is some value | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
in making the Chinese nervous, to get diplomacy started, but if you go | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
to bar with that rhetoric... You have spent a lifetime working on | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
proliferation, so is it just delaying the inevitable that other | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
countries will get the bomb and then one of them will use it? South | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
Africa has given up nuclear weapons programmes, South Korea, Taiwan. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Other efforts fail, Pakistan, India, North Korea. You never know, when | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
you start, whether it will succeed or fail. You have to play out your | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
hand and then at the end of the day, you will know. Thank very much. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Acid attacks are on the rise across the UK. | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
There were more than 400 in the six months up | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
and the numbers have more than doubled in England since 2014, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Most reported attacks have taken place in public places, | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
but Newsnight has spoken exclusively to one family who were victims | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Elaine Dunkley reports, and her film contains images some | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Where does it hurt, mate, are you all right? | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
We're here to try and get water into your eyes. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Mate, keep your eyes open, keep your eyes open. | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
The use of chemicals as a weapon is growing in the UK. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Victims left physically and mentally scarred by | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
I was thinking, I'm not going to see anything after that. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
A common household product widely available and used in the | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Back in April, 20 people were left injured and two | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
blinded following an acid attack in this nightclub. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Thieves on scooters throwing acid and people to steal | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
And now it's happening in people's homes. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Zahadine Barba was attacked in his living room three weeks ago. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Showed the phone to him and he said yes, I'm | :13:51. | :14:08. | |
And grabbed a bottle out from his bag and he just pressed on that | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Twice on my face, and acid comes on my face and I'm | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
totally blind, and I know that he attacked me with acid. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Fortunately Zahadine was able to wash off the acid. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
He has no visible scars and has regained his sight but | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
his family has been left traumatised. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
I went to the kitchen and then I saw my dad over there, | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
And you know, like putting the water on his face, and | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
then I ran off to the garden because I really didn't want to see that | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
I never had anything like this before happened | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
And how are you now, how are things now for you? | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Recent attacks have brought into focus the urgency in helping | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
someone who has been a victim of this sort of crime. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
And although it is still very rare, the Royal | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
College of Emergency Medicine is calling for more training of | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
This is Newham University Hospital and it's in East London. | :15:25. | :15:41. | |
This area has the highest number of acid attakcs in the UK. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
In the past five years there have been 400 cases and that | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
We are seeing a case about every day or | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
two, especially in this area, it seems to be a lot more frequent. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
And some members of the public, what should they do if they see someone | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
with eyes burning, skin burning, what do you do. | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
It's important to stay safe as a bystander, make sure you | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Other than that if you can help the person | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
by rinsing the acid off them and tap water is good for that but you need | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
I would recommend using 30, 40 or 50 litres of water to | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
get rid of the acid from someone's face. | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
This is extremely important, you can make a difference to whether | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
someone can walk away from an acid attack with just a superficial burn | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
or be blinded for the rest of their lives. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
The problem is reflected across the UK. | :16:25. | :16:37. | |
Attacks carried out in the six months up to | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Since 2011 there have been nearly 2000 attacks in the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
There are petitions online to restrict the sale of industrial | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
It is cheap, easy to obtain and disguise. | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
It is a challenge for those trying to take it out of the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
I think it's far too easy for people to get hold of | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
it, whether in a domestic setting or retail setting. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
But one thing that is important to say is that it is | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
One of the things we are doing now is, we are | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
looking to do pre-emptive testing to identify where people carry that | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
acid, we are also working closely to send | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
strong messaging around the | :17:17. | :17:17. | |
If you choose to carry acid you can be | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
liable for a four-year imprisonment sentence for carrying it is an | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
If you use and the courts can sentence you to life | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
So the penalties are very severe and it's important that | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
anybody that goes out with acid, whether carrying it or whether they | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
use it, that they understand that because we will be coming after you. | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Victims want tough words to become a reality. | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
For those who have been left scarred, their injuries | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
I'm now joined from Truro by Andreas Christopheros. | :17:41. | :17:56. | |
He suffered serious burns when a beaker of sulphuric acid | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
It happened on his own doorstep two and a half years ago. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
His attacker, who mistook Andreas for his intended victim, | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
was jailed for life, but that sentence has | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
Andreas, we are grateful to you for coming in to talk about this. It | :18:09. | :18:24. | |
cannot be easy. When you see how much coverage has been attracted by | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
this issue of late, do you think the rest of us have been too slow to | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
wake up to the seriousness of this? I think it has become very shocking, | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
shocking matter for the country. It is hard to see what the solution | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
should have been but I believe that the real solution at this time is | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
tougher sentencing. And with my attacker having his sentence made | :18:57. | :19:08. | |
lighter, it seems completely wrong. You have been through so much, and | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
trying to get your life back on track, do you feel that anyone who | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
says that this is not as serious as I've broken attack is wrong? I would | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
have preferred to have been shot or stabbed. On the first might might | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
doctor sat down my wife and my mother back and said, we do not | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
think he will make it through the night. The difference was that if I | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
was shot or stabbed the wounds would heal, the scarring caused by | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
sulphuric acid which was what I was attacked with, I will never heal. I | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
will have these scars for the rest of my life. I'll will forever have a | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
loss of sight. There is no miracle cure for me. I'm sure you have heard | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
in recent months, all sorts of ideas have been put around like stopping | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
people under 18 buying corrosive liquids, saying you have to do it | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
with a credit card, changing sentencing guidelines, which of | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
these ideas make the most sense to you? You can buy sulphuric acid in | :20:21. | :20:36. | |
such an easy manner. Someone wanting to get their hands on it, they will. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
And ultimately I think the real deterrent for anyone thinking about | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
committing an acid attack or an attack of any corrosive substance | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
should be the sentencing. You recently met with your MP, who is | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
also a Home Office minister. Do you get the feeling that the government | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
is giving this type of crime the attention it merits? It is nice to | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
hear this week the suggestion that any person who does commit an acid | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
attack will receive a life sentence. I think the indicators are there. I | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
feel everyone is on the same page now. It's only in the last week or | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
so that I can say I've felt like that. But anyone who commits an acid | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
attack should face life. It is a life sentence for me. They should | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
face life, minimum term of 25 years. I will have my injuries until the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
grave so why should they walk the streets? Thank you for putting bad | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
beauty us. Thank you, Andreas. Well, we've been dealing with some | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
tough issues tonight, but bear with us, this last story | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
has a more hopeful note. Climate change poses huge challenges | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
and, it's projected, will cause hundreds of millions | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
to become refugees. Desertification in sub-Saharan | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Africa plays a big part in that. And that in turn feeds into Europe's | :21:59. | :22:14. | |
unfolding migrant crisis. Inna Modja is a Malian singer | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
and activist who has been to Senegal for Newsnight to witness | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
a pan-African initiative, It aims to improve livelihoods | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
in the Sahel region, reverse desertification, | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
and break the cycle of exodus. Stretching across the width | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
of Africa, the southern reaches of the Sahara desert are known | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
as the Sahel. It's a zone between sand | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
and productive land, which has been severely degraded | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
in recent years by climate change But here in northern Senegal, | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
the Sahel is starting to come back to life again, | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
thanks to a little-known pan-African initiative called | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
the Great Green Wall. Launched in 2007, it hopes | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
to provide a new way of thinking I'm Inna Modja, a musician | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
and activist from Mali. I perform my music around the world | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
and campaign for human rights The Great Green Wall was initially | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
conceived as an ambitious plan to plant a natural 8,000 kilometres | :23:23. | :24:05. | |
wall of trees and plants stretching from Senegal to Djibouti, | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
but that hasn't happened and the grand idea of a continuous | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
wall of trees has gradually faded. Critics argued that a wall promoted | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the idea of a barrier against the desert, when in fact | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
it's a much greater region So, the wall has evolved | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
into a vision to green the areas surrounding the Sahara with a mosaic | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
of trees and small developments, This has been a shared | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
political vision of African Notably Thomas Sankara, | :24:38. | :25:16. | |
Burkina Faso's revolutionary Now 20 countries across the region | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
have come together to $8 billion have been | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
given or pledged so far, mostly coming from international | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
partners, such as the World Bank with some funding from beneficiary | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
countries and the African union. People here live on the very front | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
line of climate change, But in their day-to-day lives, | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
they feel the effects of climate change, they feel | :25:47. | :26:01. | |
the effects of desertification. This project really aims to redress | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
this by creating food security And it's not just about food, | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
every day we see the wider impact The Mediterranean migrant crisis, | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the Boko Haram massacres in the Chad region and terrorist | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso. At their root, all of this can be | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
traced to a cycle of poverty and lack of opportunity | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
that is fuelled by a decline In a generation, there's been | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
a catastrophic change The Great Green Wall aims to provide | :26:25. | :26:44. | |
new opportunities for communities, not just to survive, | :26:45. | :27:25. | |
but to thrive here once more. Places like this in Senegal are | :27:26. | :27:54. | |
known as the villages with no men. There's a gaping hole | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
in the local demographic. The young men have left | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
to seek jobs elsewhere, It's driving the young away | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
from their communities to seek I can see that you have | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
henna on your fingers, This lady has not heard | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
from her son for years. He was the major breadwinner | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
for the family before he left. How does that affect | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
you economically? It only takes a walk | :28:35. | :29:09. | |
through the dusty street here to see whose relatives have made it | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
to Europe and whose haven't. The homes of successful migrants | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
are large properties made The others are wood | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
and straw with thatched This is the pull factor that drives | :29:25. | :29:36. | |
many towards the perilous boat In west Africa up to 80% of | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
the population live in rural areas. Youth unemployment is a huge problem | :29:41. | :29:58. | |
across the Sahel and a massive By 2030, the project aims to restore | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
100 million hectares of land, sequester 250 million tonnes | :30:02. | :30:32. | |
of carbon and generate more Although it's not clear exactly how | :30:33. | :30:34. | |
these numbers will be achieved. It's definitely small beginnings, | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
with the hope of building The Great Green Wall is a powerful | :30:46. | :30:47. | |
symbol to focus global attention It remains to be seen how successful | :30:48. | :31:00. | |
it will be in breaking Fascinating, that is all from us | :31:01. | :31:20. | |
tonight, we are back on Monday, have a great weekend. | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
Good evening after disappointing weather this week the weekend is | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
shaping up nicely, not altogether dry | :31:34. | :31:34. |