Threatening an all out assault. If they dont, the military has warned civilians to leave the regional capital before the deadline. Fighting between the government and great forces began over 2 weeks ago. Human Rights Groups say better routes, police have arrested more than 300 demonstrators in the capital. Minsk, many of them were beaten. Thousands protested for the 16th straight sunday, calling on president alexander to step down. They accuse the president of rigging elections in august. This is g. W. News from berlin. Follow us on twitter and instagram, or visit our website, w dot com. This melting glacier may be thousands of kilometers away from you, but it could have a Significant Impact on your life. Rises insane levels, rising sea level rising sea levels, sea level is rising. Take mumbai, for example. This red area shows the parts of the city that could be underwater by 2050. And that applies to coastal cities all over the world. Sea levels could rise by several meters, but there are still ways to prevent the scenario. Indigenous fishermen in mumbai are trying to save the natural bastions talkie to protecting the city. Autism, fisherman coming, is keeping up the tradition of the mumbais 1st inhabitants. They have lived off the seas, bounty for generations to spot me covered by mongrel forest, which used to protect the citys inhabitants. Today, the bigger the issue of these mangroves is a threat to the coolies livelihood without them. Coastal erosion would both leading to cvo flooding. Come lock up about is, but about the future of the place. He calls home his gadgets steadily decreasing. A clear sign that the mangroves are not doing well. The edges of the mongrels get down indiscriminately. You see garbage everywhere. Even industrial plants release their chemicals here about getting oil on one side and polluted the water. So many fish have died and the ones that remain gone breed fast enough to bring oil of their situated between the ocean and the land mass. Mangroves reduce the intensity of crashing reaves by acting as a buffer. They also act as sponsors by soaking up excess water to prevent inland flooding and by releasing tiny droplets into the air to regulate the citys temperature. To prevent further digger dition, some fishermen have taken action. Mark are started a Grassroots Movement with neighborhood fisherman. They want to save and protect more than 1000. 00, hectares of lush mangrove cover. Surrounding his village pando in mumbais northeastern corner. We gave our action on our own. We stop any kind of engrossment. Thank the Community Organizations out and clean the incessant flow of solid based on a daily basis. They know that their livelihood is in jeopardy. Many fish species of a liberal, an abundance in the past have disappeared from these waters. Local fishermen keep constant vigil and allowed the organization if they notice illegal and coachmans or poaching. Often members of the Village Community are part of the problem. Give us the also organize of their mysteries ing initiatives in the local community to help families understand the importance of mangroves to realize many are not aware that pollution is destroying mumbais, mangroves about 40 percent have invited doubt over the last few decades. And thats not all say, and by mentalists in legal constructions which happen, people repair their houses, demolished wall structures, reconstruction, their braces, come in and bomb the mangroves. One of those being is that the government themselves are one of the biggest threats to mangle because they have set up the mongols dumping grounds in the greeks of inserted among grows inside, dense mangroves, and the leisured from there is going into the mangoes and, and degrading the system, if you refuse to be a please, or where you could come for fresh air. Now you can barely stand there because of the nature which is coming out of these. Dumping grounds into the creek. More than 100 cases of mangrove destruction were reported in mumbai in 2018, both on government and private land. The mangroves number and his Community Project are part of the ecosystem that occupies only 0 point one percent of the earths surface. And thats how scouse they are. The state of my russia, which mumbai is a part of, is the only state in india to have whats called a man groups dedicated to their conservation. The sale relies on participate re projects like the ngos, she read. I petition to save the citys mangrove. The contribution of fishing village mysie minuscule today. But its thanks to the initiator of our fishing communities like this one that the rest of the city may now stand a chance against rising sea levels in years to come. Water is not only a threat, it is also an essential element in our lives. For centuries, cities have been built close to water sources to ensure citizens have access to enough. But vast growth in urban areas. Ition is having an unforeseen effect on the foundations of the cities themselves. Where will you be when your city sinks . And what does that have to do with drinking . A glass of water. Jakarta, mexico city, calcutta, miami, hundreds of millions of people live in drowning 50, some of which could be wiped off the map in a lifetime. People are fighting harder than ever to stay afloat right there. How those people were making it in the last 25 years. All the thermal Energy Heating the oceans as up to as much as 3600000000, atom bombs. Thats melted ice raids, sea levels, and made it 3, weather, even more extreme storms and floods, but used it once a century can strike many coastal cities, everything. But climate change. Its only half the story. d d d in sprawling megacities from jakarta to lagos, the bigger problem is that the land itself, literally sinking in some of the land of fighting 10 times faster than sea level. The right on binding of Sea Level Rise, me was released on a few c. D. s. If we are looking for a will be where this is because were very directed rivers and built cities on soft soils. The ground isnt just solid. Theres also water and have been eat your feet. But people across the world have dug deep wells and pumped up the groundwater. Less water means less pressure pushing up on the land above it. So the soils get squashed and the cities think this is how much 4 major asian cities are falling by each year. It may not look like a lot, but it quickly adds up. Over the last century, bangkok has sunk by more than one metre, shanghai by more than 2 metres, delta by more than 3 meters and eastern tokyo by more than 4 meters. Parts of california have dropped by the height of a house. In the indonesian capital jakarta has at the west imagine a baby born today. By the time a child having a higher cost player in the city will be under water. Why is the car to think and think well indonesias groundwater problems are worse than most like the car in bangladesh. Jakartas river, the full of plastic and whites. Well, government can only produce 60 percent of the supply of whatever. Oh, we got banking. So 50 percent of people still relate undergird. What i add to that, the fact that carter sent some swampland is home to 13 rivers and is among the most densely populated cities in the world but isnt alert calcutta is also sinking. Even if its just a few millimeters each year, the cause massive extraction of groundwater in parts of the city. Almost a quarter of the water used by calcutta residents comes from the ground the way the larger groundwater act. I think, you know, i do it. I met excited to go and what but yeah, yeah, he get off that i thought he did it. We cannot stop. You know, i think what you, what the consequences are already visible in some parts of the city thats still tiny fishes. But scientists believe that if allowed to develop, the result could be devastating. The process is in full swing, just a few months ago. The ground gave way via during construction work on a metro cannot get covered day and its a day begin not being bad. They had said yesterday lever that was in going to be as big as the boss of the how much worse can it really get . Honestly, along the major study last year found that scientists have wildly underestimated the number of people exposed to flooding. Climate central find just estimate 3 times as many people at risk of coastal flooding than we thought many live on the same river deltas that are rapidly subsiding. Now, the study didnt account for coastal defensive, like sea walls, berms or levees. So its not like the city to do, but it shows theres less room for them to for all this catastrophe, particularly for citizens who cant afford to move of the water presses in some cities that drop meters last century have pretty much stopped sinking. Take care in shanghai restricted how much ground water citizens could extract and recharge Water Supplies that would run dry. That everything. Just one. In fact, we kind of monitor. But in cities like to carter residents dont have easy access to other sources of drinking water. The government would 1st have to spend years cleaning up rivets before it could pipe water across the country. Instead building a giant. But experts say this just delays the problem and isnt even the best way to spend the money. If we look at management, its only 10000000000. If we do this, that will give you a future. Its still very much in our Scientists Say we can limit Sea Level Rise to less than half the meat of this century by rapidly cutting our mission even half a meter for some cities could already be too much. Estimates put the Sea Level Rise around venice in italy at more than 20 centimeters higher than a century ago to that high tides. And you have shops and the cathedral in italys lagoon city facing a deluge more often. But before now, flood gates are being tested to protect the city. But many inhabitants remain skeptical. Monica amber seanie doesnt have an easy job. She has to persuade the public that venice is on the brink of salvation. She says spokeswoman for the huge most say flood protection project, its past 2 significant tests, but its taken more than a decade to complete. The people have lost faith after so many years. They cant see an end to it all. And november 29th, much of the city was flooded and damaged in october, the most a flood gates the tested. They prevented high waters from reaching the city. But the system is still in its test fades. Monica amber seanie took us to believe whether venetian lagoon connects with the adriatic sea. On jenny ended at the new key wall. The Security Guard told us we were not allowed to come any closer to safety reasons. Its still in the test phase after all. So we had to make do serving this mammoth construction from a distance. This project poses a real engineering challenge to begin with. The foundation payloads, 60 metres long, will lowered into the water and connected by an underwater lock system. Then 78. 00 movable chambers, each weighing over 300. 00 tons were placed above them on the seat. Just these enormous floating gates had to be positioned right alongside each other that there was a 5 millimeter margins. Maybe it was an extremely precise remote controlled underwater operation to complacently. You know what, it was even down to this area between the lagoon and the sea has been a construction site for the 17 years. There have been various interruptions and a series of corruption scandals leading to arrests. This is also why most say still has a poor reputation among many venetian those. Andrea bury me as one of the most vocal critics of the project, which he said is lax, transparency. Waste of public money like weve never seen before. He thinks that there are other ways of protecting the city together with a fellow campaign, a from his association. He showed us the damage caused by the storms and floods. Last november. Many walls were destroyed, but the jew deck island served as a bolt walk and prevented similar damage in other parts of the city that didnt own one to the how much of the most a funds could be of used for effective flood Protection Systems in the whole city because of climate change, there are going to be more and more storms and floods in the future, and theyll be more intense. And the relevant skeptics believe in the long run these mobile locks in the aging attic sea wont protect venice and jay every night as among them. Hes also angry that the most they money wasnt used to maintain the citys historic buildings. If the floods are a problem, but the ships and the cruises are worse too because theyre causing the foundations of the city to erode. So there are endangering the structures that the future dollar for knowing what it would make sense to during the canals on a regular basis and renovate the foundations. But this Maintenance Work hasnt been done for decades following the successful tests in october, monaco amber seanie is more optimistic about most say and that it will be able to go into full operation in the coming year. Then in her eyes, the 17 year construction period and all the stress surrounding it made all finally be worth it. What if we didnt need protection from rising water in the future . Because we lived on the water with islands and cities threatened with drowning architects are looking at how to rebuild them on the ocean surface. Some countries are already taking their 1st battle in the netherlands. For example, living on water in the city center. One day more than 100 people live on this side canal and Marcus Schmidt and his wife, yvonne trying south the 1st residents to the its a different way of life here. The water sparkles and reflects everywhere. And yes, you experience it much, much more. The house is one of 30 buildings that are part of the project and each building has its own design. But they all have one thing in common. They float on special concrete rafts fastened onto pillars. The Swimming Foundation needs to be able to carry several 100 tonnes precisely. Here at home is one of the project architects. Because you have to calculate every thing that you put on the boat, how heavy it will be. Because if you put in too much weight, it will be too low and the water starts to come. In 20 different architects were involved in the project. The houses were built on land and then boat to the dock by boat. Sustainable and eco Friendly Materials were used for the house is the facade of peda, reichs home, his native cork, you had discussions with a whole group, and we had help from different pfizers on materials. So we ended up with a listing, green orange list and a red list. Wreckless was a no go orange was ok if you really have to. Because of course, reasons or technical reasons, but prefer to use only materials from the greenest on the green list. And we like this very much or that was, are just living on water, has a long tradition in our house. Boats can be seen on almost every canal. One of the 1st floating districts was built a couple of years ago in the district of eyeball 50 houses on artificial islands. Now the trend is spreading to other european cities in london, for example, where british architects back and are planning Floating Homes in the royal docks. Copenhagen has responded to the lack of Affordable Student Housing with the socalled 12 floating houses designed by star architects. He doesnt shy away from even greater visions of Floating City for 10000, people in regions threatened by climate change. We think we in the future, we will need more housing on the water for several reasons because this the city is very but also because of sea level rising, for instance. So we will need this kind of projects, and we want to be a showcase in that sense for evolve and sarka markets schmidt. This vision has become a reality 115. 00 square metres, 2 floors, and a roof garden. Its almost like a house in the countryside. But theres one difference. Their entire home sways this. I havent felt sick yet, but i did have a day where i thought i need to set foot on solid ground. But its a small price to pay for their dream of living on water. Around 31000000, people were affected by floods across the world. Last year lives were lost, possessions in a single year. Flooding caused almost 70000000000 euros in economic losses for weavers in cattle, it meant losing their livelihoods. But with the dawn, they found hope for the future. This miniature dog has become a symbol of hope and resilience for the people of god who survived a devastating to lose that destroyed in 2018. And each one is made by hand from hand that were drenched beyond repair in the flood waters. When they look at the fabric, you just go to nature and cleaned it still had stains and so on. And i could see that it does a true reflection of those days because they had a way you going could see stains. I mean, they really had this of thought in august 2018, catastrophic flooding that cost more than 400 people, their lives and 5000000 their homes and livelihoods the wii version of the traditional honeymoon, capital of gender, among them suffered damages that were submitted to be around 150000000. 00 rupees. A close to 1700000. 00 euros but all the equipment was destroyed. They were broken to the point to be felt there was no way we could salvage them. I was the one who had i 1st and i saw the die a condition. I do remember thinking i weaving days are over we would have to start from scratch and that was unlikely to get a lot of the criticism hind limbs. They used around 500 doctors who for generations have been reading with a fine art. Of course, that is hardly found in india today. Soon after the floods based designer, Shalini James cotton touch with the veevers, supported by her network of designer friends. She dry cleaned some of the fabric and also managed to raise funds for the community. Who would say the water needed for the society was that most of their confidence gave the rebirth, you know, some light of hope that you know, there are people people theyve never seen or heard of before. Who are interested in keeping to the problem they face was that a large quantity of their fabric had been damaged beyond repair and had become. But this luxury menin is one of 2 designers who came up with the project to make dollars from the fabric that could be save the people not only by the door, but also making them different. But they did all that does actually made in 9 countries. Buy 8150000, what it is, the expression, the decoration, everything is different in its actually that makes it all the more, you know, Beautiful People are very keen to be part of it because th