The hour and these are the headlines on aljazeera white house adviser stephen millers become the latest Trump Administration official to test positive for covert 19 is the man seen as the architect of trumps anti immigration policies but a dozen white house officials have now tested positive including of course the president and top pentagon officials are in quarantine after the u. S. Coast guards 2nd in command tested positive as well mike hanna has more from washington. Steven miller whos a very close advisor of the president has now tested positive for the coronavirus has been in close proximity of the president for a long period of time he was also in close proximity to some of the other assistance to the president to have tested positive in recent days and certainly that list is growing and growing indeed a large number of members of the president s staff now have tested positive a number of journalists who work there and as well as a number of military aides it is said who are also working at the white house. Prime ministers resigned after widespread protests over sundays disputed election the countrys election commissions now in the early results from the vote representatives from libyas rival administrations have agreed on the appointment of several high profile positions m. P. s from the un recognized government in tripoli and the government of been holding talks in morocco. And turkeys foreign minister is criticizing International Efforts to end the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia. Cover so uses diplomacy has failed to resolve this decades old conflict over the region of the go on a kind of a. Thats my lot but i thank you company rewinds is next and bam with the latest news. The remote kingdom of tahn has become known for its decision in the us. What i want to expose this National Call to spawn the Younger Generation on aljazeera. 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 usa is 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 my. Man 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 needed was right. Down. Over half a 1000000 detroit is live closer to Convenience Stores than groceries and with limited public transport 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 it 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 boy is for you to buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. Slice Pepperoni Pizza for a dollar. All this used to be how this is just a a bacon street cred right now. Then 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 you know 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 who are trying 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 and to see detroit i got family and living like Columbus Ohio and friends i mean mississippi which is a farming state you know its like going 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 if you can of present you know the wild but what have. I you just give me yeah we got pheasants rabbits fox if you if you took a shot right here it went right across the street it looks like you in a forest kind of speck that can go from a no when people ask you what you did 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 it was full of plants and somebody sent me emails and 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 we working with here. Actually i think thats a good one thats got some good roots on it 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 of this one of the most revolutionary at least you can test the baby and i also have a small. Beginning Catering Company so how can a coral cooker purposes if you want to make a business say this. Tray is not only unhealthy financially but with a healthy i dont know very strong factor that you can do so here yourself is do you have something different. So we do it ourselves we know what we have. And try to 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 theres so many people want to one you know. This is 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 of bloody for taking over vacant lots and growing food. Having our daughter. Would allow to. You if you were a. Lawyer you must admit to. It is moved to detroit as a child and 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. Weeks 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we have done just push a lot right here. 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 looks to be adopted so far just 28. 00 just 28. 00 puts this school theres 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 and. Ive always argued tirebiter for 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 if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is you going to be able to manage that yes is easy all you gotta do is have to put up with it you deserve to live in no time. You just got the grant money she needed to buy the truck to buy volunteering to maintain the local park. Just think i was cut ill push more. It wont be brought up but 23 love morphs there as it does not work you need to get a track of leave this just remember were in the middle of detroit. Oh. Ok ok so were going to do some telling you 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. 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. Is so much later in your why business if you didnt go to nothing i rather what with the laying in the world feeling. I like to. Use the law. Is not free and if 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 Energy Efficient street lights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a City Investment is totaled over 9 1000000000. 00 since 2006 as entrepreneurs hustled to stake a claim in the city while still going cheap the last 10 years so a 59 percent rise in young graduates moving into the citys core reinventing arts and cultural home on the outskirts a new wave of urban farm social arriving. In detroit. In the early going to be counted and ledley rising 1st to keep could you see here the city this market the computer. Thats where i had heard. Which was much smaller than it is now a national. Urban feed. That there is 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. Somebody else. In the city. Is says. 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 and like oh my goodness the truth. Is a match. Living some kind of you. Dream. Is going to give. Yeah 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 all 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 in the Eastern Market its one of the largest open air markets in the United States and its been growing steadily despite detroit suburbanite stations all but knowing your farm are very important believe the story you know youve got a preferred stock in monthly i probably do farmers are pretty particular were up against the standards. Detroits 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. The tracks are sometimes sheets are pieces of plastic so were so far out that the 2 miles that youre buying stuff in season here for instance 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 if 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 that ive left the world around me sometimes im like to taste everything you know not come back and make a few dollars as well as you go out to put gas in a tank thats coming more from the. Book. Which you think about these you tube you see the. Yeah. Yeah its going. To reach out you know california mercy that we havent passed but. Its going to get biggest 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 moaning this and supporting it as opposed to being a barrier. We we painted the owner of this picture of victimization if we Start 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 this 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 but those plants i think are really healing the soil that that ultimately is the legacy that we provide to our children and our grandchildren is that we have taken the soils that have been wasted and to allow them to reflash. Everything has