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hello sunshine it is Monday happy to
start the week with you lovely people
I'm KY wire this is CNN 10 where we tell
you the what letting you decide what to
think we're going to get right into it
today we start in the Middle East as us
and Iranian leadership are playing a
delicate game of diplomacy and testing
relationships in the region the
officials are reporting increasing
concerns about proxy militias in Iraq
Syria and Yemen who threaten to disrupt
the global economy in Jordan a recent
drone attack killed three American
soldiers and in Yemen houti militant
attacks have targeted commercial ships
in the Red Sea here's our Orin liberman
to explain why the US is striking the
region for the third time in recent
weeks the US and the UK carried out
joint strikes against houthi Targets in
Yemen this time the Coalition air
strikes targeted 36 targets across 133
different locations in Yemen as the US
and the UK backed by Coalition of
Australia baharin Denmark Canada the
Netherlands and New Zealand try to
disrupt the ability of the iran-backed
Rebel group to Target international
shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the
Gulf of Aiden the US went after
underground storage facilities command
and control missile systems uh Dron
storage and operation sites Radars and
helicopters of the houthis so in that
Target list you see the effort of the US
to try to disrupt the abilities of the
houthis to continue to attack commercial
vessels as well as us warships it's also
worth noting this is the first time we
have seen the US strike Iraq and Syria
simultaneously the US carrying out
strikes at seven locations across Iraq
and Syria more precisely four in Syria
three in Iraq targeting 85 different
targets and using uh more than 125
Precision guided weapons that is an
order of magnitude more powerful than
the strikes we've seen the Us carry out
in Iraq and Syria over the course of the
past several months the US had made it
clear it wasn't trying to start a war
with Iran here and very much trying to
avoid that possibility so no strikes in
Iran directly but very much going after
Iran's proxies in a region in the region
and the ability of the proxies to carry
out these ongoing attacks on US forces
worth noting that these uh strikes of
course come 5 days after a drone attack
in the region killed three US service
members in Jordan and wounded scores
more but it's not just that there have
been more than 160 attacks on US forces
in the region and this was effectively a
more powerful response to all of that
that and yet there is no expectation
that this is the end of it because
President Joe Biden saying there could
very well be more to come and defense
secretary Lloyd Austin being even more
blunt about this in a statement
afterwards saying this is the start of
our response the key question here of
course what does the rest of that
response look like and where does it
play
out
Pop Quiz Hot Shot which of these animals
is the largest rodent in North America
squirrel muskrat Marmet or
Beaver if you said beaver put your tails
up North America's largest rodent
typically weighs between 35 and 65 lbs
and comes in at 3 to 4 feet long but
capy baras in South America are the
largest rodents in the whole
world let's hop on across the pond to
the wetlands of of England where the
Eurasian beaver a species hunted to
Extinction are returning to London for
the first time in 400 years CNN's Anna
Stewart introduces us to the family of
five that was relocated from Scotland to
West London in hopes of rebuilding the
country's lost Beaver
population this is the moment that a
family of five Eurasian beavers happily
settled in to their new
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home oh it's been a massive day I am so
excited it's a bit of a weird surreal
moment to know there's beavers now
living in urban greenford and eing
behind me have to admit my heart was
going like the clappers when I opened
that first box and Big Mama Beaver came
out she's a
Whopper they did fantastically I was
absolutely thrilled they uh came out
they showboated in front of the world's
media it's only you know a few
Generations ago that they they were
exterminated and um yeah it was a real
proud moment to see them swimming around
here in this main Pond of paradise
Fields again like they had never been
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absent hunted to Extinction over 400
years ago Britain's largest rodent was
welcomed back to a wetland Haven on the
outskirts of the capital adjacent to a
retail Park and a busy
highway the project has been done with
the support of Mayor sadik Khan's reward
London fund one of the reasons why we
and seaha have invested millions of
pounds in this project is it's good for
humans it's good for nature it's good
for our city it's really important to
create environments like this where we
as londoners can appreciate nature
84% of people now in the UK live in
towns or cities so we can't think of
Nature and thriving ecosystems as being
a Countryside issue actually we need to
embrace nature and nature-based
Solutions on our doorstep in cities as
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well one month on and the Beaver family
is already having a positive impact on
the local
habitat so we're in a almost a low-lying
basin surrounded by Urban landscape and
hard standing and Roads and things like
that in high rainfall events we're
getting flooding of this area and the
water is basically gushing through and
it's going into the storm drain systems
and into the sewers and it's gushing out
in urban greenford
Downstream Shaw mccormac from eing
Wildlife group believes that nature has
the answer so here is their magnificent
creation their first
Dam so absolutely incredible this
started as just a couple of Twigs across
the the stream bed and as you can see
now you know we've got almost a meter
difference in height between the water
Upstream the water
Downstream beavers create dams under the
C of Darkness not because they care
about Urban flooding they have an
instinct to create pools of deep water
to hide in the happy consequence for us
is that their Refuge systems actually
slow down the flow of
water the land will actually over time
act as a giant sponge and it will absorb
those High rainfall events and it will
release it
slowly even if you're not interested in
Wildlife or nature it's it's a win for
the urban community in greenford to not
have so much flooding so they build
resilience in the landscape especially
in times of climate change I've been in
a very privileged position to be coming
in here every day on my own or with a
pair of volunteers at a time and seeing
it for myself but I think the real proud
moment will come when we're showing the
urban community here in eling just what
beavers can
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do today's story getting a 10 out of
attend a Trailblazer starting each week
this black history month we're going to
be highlighting seminal black figures
who transformed America in profound ways
first up civil rights activist Sadi
Tanner Mosel Alexander in 1921 Alexander
became the first black person to earn a
PhD in economics in the country then she
later became the first black woman to
graduate from the University of
Pennsylvania's law school and to
practice law in the state she shattered
so many glass ceilings all while facing
racial Prejudice during her first year
in college she was told she couldn't
check books out of the school library
but she persisted and remained a
champion of equal rights throughout her
life here she is in 1947 right next to
President Harry Truman who appointed
Alexander to his committee on civil
rights which became the backbone for the
movement over the next decade and
another American differen maker getting
today's 10 out of 10 inventor Garrett
Morgan in 1916 he patented a precursor
to the gas mask used by soldiers during
the first world war he hired a white
actor to pretend to be the inventor so
as to avoid any possible racism of
potential buyers but one invention that
many of us see each and every day
Garrett was the person who came up with
the idea of a three signal traffic light
that's right he thought you know there
should probably be a yellow light in
there so people know when to slow their
role we are going to go full green light
though on our shout outs for today let
me hear a roar for The Talented tigers
at Plaza Middle School in Kansas city
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