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00:01Part of the Bald Range wildfire in Canada, which began on 7 August, have been contained
00:06and evacuated residents can return to their homes in Summerland, British Columbia.
00:12The latest update comes after the deadly wildfire in Western Canada forced some 20,000 people to flee
00:18and claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman.
00:22According to the mayor of Summerland, damage assessments have not been fully completed.
00:26The mayor reported some 150 structures have been damaged or destroyed.
00:33In Southern Okinagan, authorities say about 22% of the 5,500 properties that were under an evacuation order
00:42due to the wildfire are now under the lesser evacuation alert instead.
00:48Environment Canada said large swathes of Southern British Columbia are under either an orange
00:54or a yellow air quality warning due to wildfire smoke.
00:59Meanwhile, the Bald Range wildfire continues to burn out of control in other areas of Western Canada
01:06and has spread to over 212 square kilometres.
01:15Hi, ORAS, we say New Zealand. Kia ora. I'm Anna.
01:19And I'm Callum from Conservation Amplified
01:21and we're cycling the entire Danube River from source to sea.
01:40To me, it was that moment of this is becoming real now, like we are now actively interfering in the
01:49river ecosystem to ensure that, I guess, human needs are
01:55and the electricity and the power needs are being met.
02:08One is seeing a lot of wildlife, in particular birds panting during the day and, you know,
02:16we're obviously cycling sometimes in the heat and we're struggling, but then seeing them struggle is even worse.
02:27We can take ourselves out of that environment and go into the shade, but for a stork, for example,
02:33that nests on an open platform, they don't have that ability.
02:43We started seeing a wildfire beginning to pick up. It's hot, it's dry and it's windy. This is not good.
02:50Just seeing how dry the ground is, like, it's just, it's just the sparks needed to go up in flames.
03:00As we've developed in Europe and we've commercialised and channelised and adapted the river for human needs,
03:08from an environmental perspective, it's a lot better if we can think about the needs of nature
03:13when we're building infrastructure.
03:25They created, I believe it was an eight kilometre fish bypass channel so that the fish could swim around the
03:30dams.
03:31And then that, through a series of measures, allowed for ecological flooding
03:36so that then these floodplain forests could be flooded periodically, allowing all this shade and habitat for wildlife,
03:45but also for humans and recreation.
03:47And then they could also get a bit more fluctuation in the water levels.
04:00There's a lot of cool stories of wildlife coming back to the Danube River.
04:07A river is a lifeline. It's fresh water.
04:11It's so important to treasure these places and not take them for granted
04:15and just notice the wildlife that's trying to live along the river as well
04:20and that should be thriving along the river and give them space.
04:37At this restaurant, located in the city of São Paulo, attention to detail and the quality of the dishes served
04:44are paramount.
04:45In addition, Toujou, a venue known for its award-winning cuisine, also strives to respect the seasonality of ingredients
04:52and adapt to the different seasons of the year, particularly the rainfall patterns,
04:58which are becoming increasingly erratic in São Paulo due to global warming.
05:25The restaurant is run by Chef Ivan Halston and his partner, culinary researcher Katerina Cordas.
05:32Research and exploration, combined with innovation and adaptation, give rise to the dishes served here.
05:38The tasting menus change every three months.
05:41Normally, the month of July, August, is dry. And it's still not dry, right?
05:47It's raining sometimes, right?
05:49This has to do with superannoy.
05:51This made us have a bigger season of cogumelos.
05:57It took almost the most of the time.
06:07This year, Toujou received its third Michelin star, along with another restaurant in the city, making these two establishments
06:15the first in Latin America to earn these top culinary distinctions.
06:29This award-winning dining experience is not, however, within everyone's reach.
06:34Reservations must be made weeks in advance and the price of the set menus can run as high as 277
06:40euros.
06:49Reservations must be made.
07:00Reservations must be made.
07:06Reservations must be made.
07:12Reservations must be made.
07:16The first June, our new opportunity has been taken to the Star, November, 2020.
07:28and now we sign up to about 900 visitors today.
07:35This is an increase in 85 to 90 percent.
07:40We can actually stand now say that this trend also holds up.
07:44So it's really broken up to today.
08:03I think it's a bit of a political direction that I support.
08:12I think that it was a very stable time with her.
08:17And I sometimes wish this stability in the politics.
08:22It's a bit of a childhood for me.
08:23I was born 20 years ago.
08:25I was already born in Merkel.
08:27And until now, when Scholz was Kanzler,
08:31I was my whole life was Kanzlerin.
08:34For me it was a part of Germany.
08:36It was always like that.
08:38For me it was a kind of childhood.
08:41It was a kind of connection.
08:44Because I had a kind of childhood.
09:09It looks like the whole neighborhood has lost power.
09:12I don't need you to worry for me.
09:15The hell is that?
09:23We can't leave.
09:27I think that our neighborhood,
09:31our house,
09:34our whole street has moved.
09:38How the hell is that even possible?
09:43That's what I loved about the script when I first read it,
09:45was the family story.
09:49I didn't know exactly where the story was going to go,
09:52but once I realized that it was a crazy dinosaur survival movie,
09:59I was still really impressed that David was writing about this couple
10:04and about their relationship
10:07and how through whatever's happening in their life,
10:13they're unable to talk to each other properly,
10:14express themselves properly.
10:16And through fighting for the actual survival of their family,
10:20they find each other again.
10:21I really, I loved that.
10:23It was very, it was very well written.
10:25What the hell is going on?
10:27Get inside now!
10:28Get inside now!
10:32It was a mixture, it was a mixture of a lot of different types of movie magic.
10:36So I had been told when I signed on
10:39that they were going to make every effort to do this practically
10:42and it was going to be animatronics and puppetry.
10:46That didn't happen with this.
10:48But we did get really kind and wonderful stuntmen in leotards
10:55holding long poles that had dino heads on them,
10:59sort of prancing across a suburban street.
11:01And the thing that was so amazing was when you saw them
11:04and the scene wasn't happening, it looked so funny.
11:07And then the second David said action
11:09and you were there in the mindset of the character,
11:11they were the most terrifying things you'd ever seen.
11:13They were like just creepy and strange.
11:21Gather supplies.
11:22Grab anything you can use as a weapon.
11:28What are we gonna do?
11:33We're gonna survive.
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