This is the small belong iranian rockets that hit this neighborhood a couple of hours ago almost 2 hours ago this totally a residential area right in the city center the rocket fell here it exploded fully and you see the buildings that are damaged the roofs have partially collapsed and the parked cars have been damaged and we hear that there are one civilian who got killed during this rockets hit and 5 civilians have been over wounded and they are telling us that just a couple of blocks away almost an hour an hour after the rockets hit here the 2nd rocket hits the other streets and there are also 2 other wounded people over there. The true picture of president Donald Trumps condition remains unclear after conflicting reports from the white house and the hospital ways being treated for covert 19 in a video on twitter trump said he was feeling good but said the real test was in the next few days. And the intersection of state has decided to cut short his asia tour following the president s hospitalization might pompei will hold meetings in japan on sunday but will not go to mongolia or south korea 2 days ago when news of toms infection became public had said he had no plans of canceling his trip. Voters in kyrgyzstan are picking new members of parliament but there are widespread allegations of parties trying to buy ballots throwing doubt over the legitimacy of the election. People on the archipelago of New Caledonia of voting whether or not to become independent from france is the 2nd time in so many years that theyve been asked to weigh in the debate that goes back 30 years their state now with all the headlines more news after rewind. Not just the Republican Party but America Needs for more years at President Donald Trump you know why they are to be outcome of this election will determine i believe the course of our country for generations to come live coverage of the Vice President ial debate on al jazeera. And i welcome again to rebuy and im Elizabeth Piron and our task here on the wind is to dig out some of the best and most influential films from the past decade and to find out how the story has moved on since one of the earliest series launched here on aljazeera was earthrise a show which tackles increasingly important issues of Climate Change but also tries to find good news stories wherever it can back in 2012 reporter Russell Baird traveled to detroit and the heart of the u. S. A. s decaying rust belt a city built on common you factory he was on the trail of a growing urban Farming Movement aiming to change the face of detroit and reverse decades of decay rewind recently returned to see how that movement progressed the 1st lets take a look at motown to grow town from 2012. In 1900 detroit covered 30 square miles and was home to just 300000 people with an economy based on manufacturing the Railroad Cars farming and timber industries. Thanks to the introduction of the Mass Assembly line by the 1920 s. Detroit was the World Capital of automotive production and americas 4th largest city. 50 years on and things were very different the major Auto Companies moved their factories out of the city to the suburbs and the workers followed meanwhile the citys racial tensions were exploding into some of the bloodiest race riots in american history. Today more than a 1000000 taxpayers have moved out of detroit leaving behind 40 square miles of vacant land nearly 40000. 00 abandoned houses and a municipal government struggling to pay the bills. For many detroit is the epitome of urban blight but to find out how detroits urban environment is already showing signs of a green renewal we head across town to georgia Street Community garden. Set up a few years ago by mark colvin tin urban farming pioneer and local hero mark. A man who you know i. Am i have to lead a neighborhood when i was younger it was a car dealership owner on down the street we had restaurants all the stores shoe shops everything you need it was right here. And. Over half a 1000000 detroiters live closer to Convenience Stores than groceries and with limited public transport and nearly half of the city living below the poverty line access to healthy affordable food is often a challenge they call if you dont drive and you cant get out of town the malls where people buy food. Like this. Tours gas stations and the little scarce markets that we Grocery Store that weve been there because we do have places where people can go get food but its how healthy it is you know and how cheap i can arm pull is for you to buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. Size bed for these for a dollar. All this used to be how things this is just a ive begun street cred right now some credit. When they get lots are vacant houses to one inhabited house. People move to the suburbs for a better life and the more people do move away. The less tax breaks we had on this tax base the same comforted in the mean is that i dont want people dont realize what a tax base really means to a city you know as far as getting things done and having money word play so a lot of things we have to do on our own. And messy and police in each other and cleaning up after each other. But this this is where it all started. I lost my job in the summer of 2007 i had to move back home on George Street with my mother my grandmother and. I came out when the snow started melting off all the garbage trucks powered up on the curb and in the process of cleaning it up. I just said i need to put some food here and ill hear you know work and Start Talking to people in the neighborhood and finding out that a lot of us are struggling you know our Senior Citizens we try to choose whether to pay for them or by medicaid. And i decided to make it bigger everything ive done ive tried to engage to the community but its easy for me because i know everybody so. Much help in the garden from the city not really other than because technically having a Community Garden is illegal still has eagles right yes growing food. Is technically illegal in the city detroit ive got Family Living like Columbus Ohio and friends im in mississippi which is a farming state and now its like going home in detroit yeah im like yeah right the middle of detroit you can go to chickens in detroit im like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance its a you thats its as if thats a pheasant you can have presents and all the while but what have. I you just give me yeah weve got pheasants rabbit. Box if you if you took a shot right here it went right across the street it looks like youre in a forest and a speck in the fama no when people ask you what you do and they say would have been clear in. My coding tints no the only open farmer in detroit in fact hes part of a growing movement when i started obviously roland seedlings in the house my dining room im living in was full of plans somebody sent me the email saying that there was a meeting of diners and they were telling them about the different resources that they offer its all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and ill think yes i have to just. You know. Must take me to thats works highly productive urban agriculture and education hub supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings morning. Among the stuff you know that i. Is to be able to have a space where folks can learn how to grow food at a level that. Would be for their own economic interest so if they were trying to grow it to start a farm where they made money or if they were trying to grow it at a scale in order to provide a really nice amount for their family to introduce you guys real quick to this is russell here we can find him a spot this is a lot of our youth works as hard for a Training Program and were learning to be harboring farmers so what we working with here. Actually i think thats a good one thats got some good roots on the good news i got into it because i have i have Young Children i want to be able to grow as i think they are growing out who is one of the most revolutionary at least you can also test the baby and i also have a small. Beginning Catering Company so how can a girl cook for purposes you want to make a business this year you trade is not only unhealthy financially but with help i dont know 1st popular that you can do so here yourself is do you have somebody for you so we do it ourselves we know what we have. And should be gentle with them theyre just so fragile these little thing last concert was saying its stronger than you realize really. Folks oftentimes think of the gardens as that and the farm as being what we do but we see it as being more like the canvas upon what we do our work that really the work is about people these seedlings will be distributed to over a 1000 families in Community Gardens all over the city on the days when we pick up transplants its like a carnival there so many people want to mind you know. This part of it is using this as being sort of the classroom but then showing that it can be replicated on a smaller level you know you can go out to the Hardware Store and do this instead of being dependent thats one thing being able to provide the food but you think people who start more fresh fruit vegetables if it was available as a country we dont not grow enough fresh fruits and vegetables for what were supposed to be eating so that. Capacity has to ramp up of that we have to be growing new farmers that are growing fresh fruits and vegetables. The flipside of that is how do we get folks to eat fresh fruits and i think its relationship based and i think for most the folks you talk to that find this work very sacred almost always theres going to be some sort of memory attached to it it might be way back in the back of their mind but when you start asking them theyll almost say you know its because of a parent or grandparent or my neighbor taught me how to do this and we carry that with us still this is my friend de de floyd shes. One of the pioneers in bloody for taking over vacant lots and now. Having a daughter. The latter. Is well worth. The money to this image. It is moved to detroit as a child in a 40 years living on mount olivet street shes seen a lot of changes so how many houses used to be on the street 6464. And i can count 123. X. 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we have done this push lot right here and then the next house got torn down to the next one. And we kept on going until we got down to the end so how many how many looked to be adopted so far just 28. 00 just 28. 00 foot this is good for washing thing is the pick i mean bush. They are delicious read good schools. Wow this looks great and what do you think mark what do you reckon to all this learn. A lot of work it is a lot of work but its fun oh yeah yeah and. Id always say i get tired but its a good tired but not content with utilizing detroits adopt a low program that allows residents to lease abandoned properties for personal use it is plans to turn the whole street into a drive through fruit market. And if they want they can take it out and pick it themselves and if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is youre going to be able to manage them yes is easy all you got to do is have the clip when you visit them in no time. You just got the grant money she needed to buy the truck to buy volunteering to maintain the local park. Just take i was cut it with a push the way. It was on the burner but 23 lot more so less it does not work you need to get a tray of lead this just remember were in the middle of detroit. Oh. Ok ok so were going to do some 2 in here now were going to let you get. On. And thanks to this you can turn that wears learn that tall grass into productive formulate it into a template fashion because i can plow implant those whole thing in one day yeah thats how fast it is and you think is a real need for that in detroit right now yes because right now i cant walk to the office store is so far apart you can go to the gas station to get joe but to get fresh food is no way no way around you. Need to get a goal 7 mouse on buses. To get the food you need. Is so much later in your why business if you didnt go to nothing id rather work with the laying in the world and yet feeling. I like to. Use the. Its not free and if you use people any take here you take hear me it. After decades of urban decay the citys getting back on track with improvements to Public Transport Services and the installation of thousands of Energy Efficient streetlights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a City Investment is totaled over 9000000000. 00 since 2006 as entrepreneurs hustled to stake a claim in the city while still going cheap the last 10 years so 59 percent rise in young graduates moving into the cities core reinventing arts and cultural home on the outskirts a new wave of bourbon farmer social arriving. In detroit so were really going to be cuddling literally. As if he could you see here in the city in this market the computer. Thats where i had heard. Which was much smaller than it is now and wasnt Getting National publicity. And feed. An agriculture. World here we take everything Eastern Market. And its mostly big trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. People want to brand it is this you know green place which is great and people are kind of taking on that mentality still detroit still always going to have a big cars until. Something else. Yeah its. In cities. In cities. We dont use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything. Just lots of compost and hard work. So this garlics been saved in detroit for about 7 years now so it does better and better each year because youre selecting the ones that do the best. Like oh my goodness. Is a match. Living some kind of you. Dream here and he. Is going to give. Me here most of the folks that still live here now kind of have been through hell and back you know in this neighborhood with crack issues and drugs and gangs and whatever and so i feel like the folks that are here now are probably not going anywhere theyve kind of. Thing i mean i think that we need to slowly transition to a smaller scale more Sustainable Agriculture and i think pretty you know soon that like economically just will make sense to grow the way we do now you know our well our whole in style or society is completely reliant on the fact that oil is cheap yet so once that one element isnt so cheap anymore i mean. Everything will change and i think our culture has taught people that you know you should have whatever you want you know buy buy buy and this is not the reality when you live in a low resource economy you know you have to support each other you have to Work Together you got to share resources and thats what detroit is doing you know the Eastern Market is one of the largest open air markets in the United States and its been growing steadily despite detroits suburban isolation is all about knowing your farm are very important to believe the story from you know you got a preferred stock in most of the 5 probably do farmers are pretty secular and were going to be sensitive. To treats probably a little behind the times when it comes to like the whole food local food thing and especially the organic thing but i feel like its changing every year. He tried sometimes to tear a piece of plastic. Or so far how was i to miles youre buying stuff in season here for that stuff thats being trucked in from from who knows how far and it might it might have something on it you dont want to see but youll never know every saturday about 45000 people come here to do the shopping and community here you spend enough time down here you get to know your cellars you get to know your farmers good morning how are you and did you pick these just so this morning it took me 5 times the world around me something someone like you takes everything you know not come back and make you do those as well as you go out to put gas in a tank thats coming more from the. Earth. Would you think about these you have you seen the. Yeah. Yeah its going. To reach out you know california mercy that we havent passed but. Its going to get a good challenge in the city here his land shocking and theres so much land you think available the city owns it theyre not really doing anything with it and cant maintain yeah. Its just caught up in the bureaucracy yeah and meanwhile were kind of doing it under the radar a little bill hopefully will you know get around to the same promoting this and supporting it as opposed to being a barrier. We we painted the owner of this picture of victimization and we started talking about these food deserts the exact opposite is what a lot of Community Gardeners and food activists are saying is no we dont need outside interests we have the capacity to to care for ourselves and that of that we know whats best for the community and i certainly think mark is it is a stunning example of that when you literally same people move into your neighborhood because of what youre doing you know and so theyre not a lot of folks can claim a neighborhood is. Its seeing people moving into it. Id rather see a bunch of how this bunch of people. But you know even in the future i would like to see some of the vacant lots are all a big and lots you know have houses and apartment buildings along with people walk around but i still think we even in that future will need Something Like this so we can grow. And i think ultimately nature will heal itself i think that when we look at only slots that we refer to as being baking which is a higher anthropocentric view point of that theyre not in fact vacant theyre full of all kinds of life bu