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EARTH REPORT - CLIMATE PROOFING THE NETHERLANDS
Two out of every three Dutch people already live below sea level. Now, with climatologists predicting sea levels will rise a further 0.8 metres, the Netherlands is rolling out a radical new action plan that overturns three centuries of flood engineering. As water experts from around the world gather in Turkey for the 5th World Water Forum, this week’s Earth Report goes to the Netherlands to see how this delta country is planning to climate proof itself against rising seas and rivers.
The old doctrine of keeping out flood waters at all costs has been superseded. The new approach - ‘soft engineering’ - allows land to be sacrificed to rivers and the sea. It’s a long term strategy built around ideas of accommodating flood waters, rather than always holding them back.
BBC World News broadcasts ‘Go with the Flow’ at the following times:
Friday 13 March at 20:30; Tuesday 17 March at 15:30; Wednesday 18 March at 02:30 (all times GMT).
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BBC NEWSNIGHT BROADCASTS TVE REPORT ON JUSTICE FOR WAR CRIMES IN UGANGDA AND LIBERIA
On the second day of the trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, BBC Newsnight broadcasts the first of two reports from tve on justice for war crimes committed om Uganda and Liberia. The films ask whether old ideas of African justice are compatible with the vigorous pursuit of war criminals by the ICC.
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