Be like in the desert city. Urban centers created on a computer rows of uniform houses all are acted in record time planned cities can be found around the world the modern prototype is brazils capital brasilia built on a towering plateau it was the late one nine hundred fifty s. Architectural megaproject. Barcelona sent petersburg and manhattan all also conceived on a drawing board and now its egypts turn. Its fifty kilometers from cairos eastern edge through sandy deserts and blistering heat. On the horizon is the somewhat of a new mosque its egypts biggest with four massive minarets and a huge dome a gigantic building at the entrance to the new capital a city of soup. Privative. Apartment blocks for up to six Million People appear as if from nowhere investors sense big money. Mohamed comics and his companions want to invest a sizeable sum in the town houses villas and Office Buildings out on the desert sand. Not far away the new church the biggest in the middle east their tour of the new capital leaves them stunned. This is a really huge project. Its enormous very very big. Big smart clean and free of traffic jams the new capital is expected to cost forty billion euros thats going up at its heart the new parliament at the president ial palace thirty six ministries and embassies the government is supposed to begin moving in next year. Its clear the project is bigger than we could have imagined that its hard to comprehend the dimensions of this place. Its everything the old capital city is not home to nearly twenty million and habitants cairo is bursting at the seams it has gigantic traffic jams small chaos and infrastructure there is crumbling not to mention the high unemployment millions of people without hope live in the grimy megacity. The team party is one of them to live he collects plastic bottles at this garbage dump. The twenty eight year old friends about three euros a day just barely enough to survive. For over the summer and for sure of course this work isnt good for my health but who else is supposed to feed my family i have to do something. Karim lives in s. But. A slum in the middle of cairo. They call the quarter the peoples republic of china because its hopelessly overpopulated and dilapidated. Houses here are practically all in need of repair the sewage system doesnt work right and the air is polluted he pays twenty euros a month here for two rooms a kitchen and a bathroom it may be cheap but its also very basic. Theres just enough money left over for a single warm meal a day. But not enough to educate his children their future prospects look bleak. Theyre going to run the economy and i would be very nice if we could move away from here find a cleaner. Cleaner than here at least a job a school for the kids because theres nothing here. But what to do with the people in cairo slums. Another new settlement on the citys eastern outskirts is one of the governments answers to this burning issue in just eighteen months it sprung up from nothing. The buildings everywhere in the development have the same design and layout. There are apartments here for about ten thousand of the citys poorest families the housing blocks have names like jewel jasmine or paradise. And there are three Elementary Schools and two supermarkets but otherwise there are a few shops and few jobs. Mohamed asyut and his family moved here from central cairo in july his house was torn down to make way for a sleek new one. The government offered him a cheap apartment in asmara it now like most other people here he has a big mortgage to pay off over the next thirty years mohamed gave up his job as a cashier at the trip to his Old Neighborhood takes an hour and a half. And now he just works occasionally here in a smart painting houses. When we were in the center of town and now were in a suburb it certainly makes a huge difference whether you live on the riverside or in the desert. The new apartment may be clean and modern but for mohameds extended family its awfully small they werent allowed to bring their own furniture the new decor is more subdued. We dont hide shot i used to sit with my friends in cafes around the corner they dont have that here in a few people have to fend for themselves and if i want to watch a soccer game in a cafe i have to leave the district. And the new capital with all its prestigious mega projects may earn investors like Mohamed Khamis fantastic returns but will it also benefit cairos poorest residents in the long term. I dont think that there are apartments for people on a limited budget here in the new capital. But we are helping these people by rebuilding their houses they dont like to move out of the neighborhoods where they live and grow up you. And see that with us in iraq. Mohamed would certainly rather have stayed in the inner city minor renovation work in his old home would have been enough for him but the government wants to tear down and rebuild and many people will end up paying a price for it. Around a billion people donate their time to volunteer work organizations like the red cross and greenpeace would be lost without it volunteers are also indispensable when it comes to rebuilding regions in the wake of natural disasters. A year ago Hurricane Maria devastated the small island of. Volunteers from around the world to helping heal the wounds. It said that if Christopher Columbus were to return to the caribbean the one island hed still recognize would be dominique. Its unspoiled landscape thanks to an environmentally friendly approach to tourism has given domenico the name the nature island. A restful place them. Not for these women. Their day begins at five thirty in the morning. Yeah. Matty simmons a student from britain is spending her vacation with a group of international volunteers. Because only last week when theyre also. Trying. To have. A little over an hour later taylor from the us is considered the groups late riser. Should be aware. Of the twenty volunteers are helping rebuild a Daycare Center and a Primary School destroyed by Hurricane Maria in september twenty seventh seen driven by warm ocean waters the Tropical Storm left devastation behind here. For domenico it seems a terrible irony that the island that has been so committed to sustainability was hit so hard by Climate Change. Reconstruction has been slow more helping hands a needed but no fee in pay boosh volunteers and locals here all working eight hours a day six days a week building is coming along quickly. The stores for work for a start. Earlier. That really didnt really got going. On there was no heavy coming from the right order along here really do you think over the job. Doing what like this the prospective engineers pensioners and english teachers like taylor none a lot about construction remember and things like. Yeah that he has but if you could show you. Know minor injuries a par for the course mattie paid for her own plane ticket but other costs are covered. I have the option to right now my lifes you have to help other people say its and i still have to do tonight im spending my time. Like going to school thats going to have a last impact on a solution. Honest injun lives next door unexpectedly shes become a cook for the hungry crew your boss puts out thats why its oks. Allison learned how to cook from her aunt whos also helping out there doing their best for the group. Voluntary and its something that you should already know that you dont have a week chose to call in to help like on the way to behave did not call that was the way it feels as it was rude the rains are starting and this years Hurricane Season is fast approaching so are a woman is another volunteer. A psychologist from jamaica spending her three weeks of holiday treating people here for trauma she says they dont just need new roofs their psyches also need to heal. You. Know you know. I was relieved that we all housing rules and i guess we werent certain circumstances may force you to keep going even though you may feel devastated right after a hurricane after the earthquake allowing some spaces for that gives you. The women and girls start out shine skeptical but slowly they start to open up and find room to express their feelings oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh really. Do me a. Just a few meters away theres a five hundred year old tree that withstood the storm sorrow sees it as an allegory of strength the ability to reach down to your own roots but in fact it was. You if you feel i need strong you know see it as charity but i feel like there is a reason that i studied what i studied and that i feel like theres something that i had to offer was. The last hammer has driven in the last name. The construction site time to clean up for tomorrow another long but satisfying day of volunteer work on dominica draws to a close. I think thats something that of. Trying to. Find a job like this for you in spite of the. Negative. Vibes. And thats a world thats a dream shared by many in africa to me jet is where the main migrant routes out of nigeria and west africa meet a gateway for many people hoping to start a new life in europe. And until recently migration provided illegal Business Opportunities for many in the asia. Since the botched operation left arm are unable to walk properly hes been devoting most of his time to his Football Club the star agadez he used to earn his living by transporting hundreds of migrants across the desert he was one of the local bosses. But now people smuggling has been outlawed nowadays bashir is interested in getting young men to join his football to be. Able to deal. With. The rebels north through the desert are much too dangerous now. Try to persuade the boys to stay here maybe that will mean our team or get promoted to the first division. Currently the club is just about breaking even says beshear he pays their modest wages from his savings or on occasion from transfer revenue there are six migrants in the shia squad but despite his efforts not all planned to stay jeremy from nigeria has his heart set on europe he dreams of becoming a professional footballer in italy. Thousand and seven. So. When i when i finished when i got myself. In the past agadez would have been the ideal jumping off point for the trek across the desert the city was long a hub for migrants heading for europe migration was big business thousands here and their livelihoods from it bashir has also made his fair share but those days are over he says now unemployment is becoming a problem and he blames the european union. We. Knew is responsible. For that pressure the government of nigeria to introduce an anti people smuggling law in twenty fifteen. Europe has to answer for all of the people who were abandoned or died in the desert. Since the law was passed the authorities have arrested dozens of drivers and impounded their vehicles basheer tells us many people smugglers now risk more dangerous routes to dodge the checkpoints introduces us to someone whos still in business. In in the beginning we no longer take the official routes. We have lots of other routes that avoid the patrols and the military you know bugaboo. The journey to the mediterranean coast is hellish enough as it is many fail to make it through the desert whether in the share in algeria or in libya there are abandoned abused kidnapped those who do survive often end up here in an immigrant Transit Center in i get a. Yes. When the young men spot the t. V. Cameras they flock around us wanting to show us videos of what theyve been through more than just you know what i think you know what you know what. They are jury and have sent us back to new geragos when we were in the desert they robbed us of everything we had our money our cell phones even our water we had to walk for kilometers they treat us black people like animals any more political activist abraham manzer diallo is the head of radio so hari and i get to as as best he can he tries to document whats going on out in the desert and writes disturbing reports his information comes from staff in the field ibrahim also blames the e. U. And them in europe is funding this blatant disregard of human rights if the murdering the rapes the slave trade as weve seen in libya and we need the e. U. Envoy tunisia and the capital niamey he rejects the accusations. Very european union. To avoid this people dying in victims of the traffic people smugglers have repeatedly been accused of brutality that she denies that was true in his case even if the work has provided him with a certain degree of prosperity a t. V. Now stands where migrants used to sleep but he says that he did everything by the book before the people smuggling law banned the activity. And. We registered with the authorities. We got official papers for the route. We were even accompanied by soldiers as far as the libyan border. To boost the economy and i get. Uncreate alternative employment the e. U. Is now funding such things as Start Capital for new ventures launched by former people smugglers. Bashir has received some money to set up a small restaurant but many havent received any support yet bashir says its too little and possibly too late but hes relying on the restaurant to be a success who knows whether his Football Team would ever turn a profit. And now its time for global ideas this week we had to mexico the country has been dogged by poor rainfall in recent years creating huge problems for local biodiversity a reporter alexa my advisor to the said maya tropical forests didnt collect money where scientists are working to get a handle on the effects of Climate Change and. Night fall and its the hour of the bat two million of them fly out of their cave at dusk hunting for food and water but thats becoming more difficult by the year the same is true for many of the other animals that inhabit this including spider monkeys. The ten million hacked tropical rainforest stretches across three countries at least. At mexico the seven hundred twenty three thousand hectare Biosphere Reserve is part of it. And in the middle of the reserve is the mayan archaeological site of the same name one of the largest sites in mexico. But the rain forest is critically threatened is the most weve had to cope with less sun less rainfall for a while now. And that means theres too little water in the watering holes so the you know the malls have less to drink. The drive began back in twenty fifteen. Twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen were the driest years ever recorded and records go back fifty years maybe. This watering hole in the middle of the collage Biosphere Reserve still provides the vital resource. Researcher raphael rina has set up motion triggered cameras at ten sites like this. That is a whos in the come. And he wants to know exactly which animals whether bird species tap ears or jaguars come to drink and how often and how their numbers change from year to year. What can we do. If you were me there. There are only four hundred fifty jaguars left here theyve been just a species many endangered species depend on these watering holes which are impermanence and unpredictable. You know somebody thats here some years their fault and others they dry up. Every time we investigate its clear how important they are for wild and threatened animals because they believe. Reno has the support of the g i c a German Development agency. G i c provides cross border financing of various hmong term studies and coordinates projects and bottom mala belize and mexico. Data has to be made more freely available including across borders and thats where we have a lot of potential to effect change with our project being. The goal providing cross border Biodiversity Conservation and the silva maya in mexico the g. I. C. Has equipped park rangers with Digital Smart technology the Software Works even in the most remote areas. Where. Today the rangers have discovered an area in the woods that has been burned illegally they can send pictures of it directly to a database. It used to take a long time before we could pass on the information at the end of a five day patrol so now things are totally different we can record the information in two minutes at the location weve already examined which legal activities we found or. The we will just be watchful and observing what happens in the forest thats something youngsters can do to be in their free time and seventeen girls and boys from the village of monk are learning how to recognise and categorize birds. G. I. C. Supports the training of groups like this and supplies binoculars and field guides on days like these the group is out for several hours they have to be very patient its pretty rare to actually see the rain forests dazzling birds. And the. But sometimes they do get lucky and catch sight of a two cam or parrot. Yes but. Apart from learning that the birds contribute to plant diversity and keep pests in check the idea behind this project is that the children will later become ornithologists or biologists. And its important to protect the birds and the environment. Cloudy on lopez records which of the approximately three hundred fifty species of bird the schoolchildren have seen on their field trips in an International Database called the bird. The platform helps clarify where in the world which species exist and how often theyre spotted. And most importantly where they are under threat. Almost one of the. Researchers like rafael raina have grown increasingly worried that larger tracts in the Biosphere Reserve will soon be cleared for farming and theres always the looming threat of Climate Change still his work has already had an effect. And i would rather that i was in the rather than a fall in the eye because we keep talking about the watering holes and the animals the people are slowly growing more aware of the problems but i would have to ask themselves for example how they could more effectively use Water Resources and preserve them in the book or less but i believe that we are helping change perceptions among locals researchers and Decision Makers on this and their work has drawn attention the government now wants to set up a n