Towards the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet which is essential to the Global Climate system and then cause record melting this will then cause sea levels to rise even further and the weather to become even more unstable already this month greenland has lost the ice equivalent of 64000000. 00 swimming pools in surface melt alone well earlier we spoke to ruth mottram whos a climate scientist at the denmark Meterological Institute and she says a clear link can be drawn between Climate Change and the increasing rates of ice melt in the arctic. We know that the arctic is warm so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called the arctic have that occasion so that Climate Change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment were not where very close to our rep or to melt year 2012 were getting very close to matching that fright now we wont really know till the end of this month or even mid august which one has been the highest amount but thats what were looking at right now its probably fair to say that we will not know until weve passed it if its irreversible or not and there have been a lot of studies looking at how much Climate Change we have and and still keep the ice sheet and its important to remember that the ice sheet will still take hundreds if not thousands of years to melt completely doesnt go overnight. But there is a lot of work now indicating that one and a half or 2 degrees might be the sort of temperature global temperature threshold beyond which we cannot keep Greenland Ice sheet frozen. Well more weather is next still ahead a historic core training for gold miners in south africa where for more than 350000000. 00. And the National Home comforts we look at how people are fairing now that the economy is improving in all of iraq. How do we got plenty of cuts on town across the middle east that moment i want to show is up around the coaxes a little bit of cloud that just billing outs of to keep pushing towards the caspian sea out of the black sea and thats about the only rain that we do have on our charts for the time being far eastern corner of afghanistan could see want to send showers kabul 34. 00 celsius 30 celsius there for beirut lots of sunshine into the mid fortys once again. At 42 celsius folks who a city said not as hot as it has been raised in labor so the hot enough but you hate to across the river potentially the temperature is edging up a notch here in doha perhaps a little less humid but a little hotter in the process 43. 00 degrees and want to see showers just around the southern end of the red sea western parts of yemen could see the odd shower sas day looks a little dry as you go on into sunday as is the case across much of the race but a 38 and humid 38 once again here in doha not too much right on the forecast for cost for Southern Africa over the loss of sunshine coming 3000. 00 sales is in cape town so warm sunshine it that we have got increasing cloud just spinning in across the oceans as we go on through the next couple of days but across the region this windy dry and fine. I know again im not on our minds of our top stories this hour more than 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days 27 of them children are increasingly becoming the victims of a government and russian assault on the rebel held province of it. 40 bodies have been pulled from the water off to the west mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 150 refugees and migrants saw fit to have drowned off the coast of libya on thursday. And a severe heat wave is threatening the wilds of a 2nd largest ice sheet and the u. N. Says it could cause record melting raising sea levels and leading to more unstable weather. Thousands of miners in south africa with potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement with 350000000. 00 in a class action lawyers for the mine workers to 10 Major Companies for compensation 6 of the companies accepted a deal which has now been approved by a court in johannesburg up to 100000 miners all their dependents could benefit many miners have lung disease or illnesses as a result of their way richard spore is a human rights lawyer whos been working on this case for many is and he says the courts decision is a landmark in the history of mine his rights in south africa. Before this there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of employers towards workman who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big bright 32011. 00 but the last 78 years of being spent litigating against the Mining Companies and the last several years in parallel with at a geisha in process. Of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today we had a migrant labor system for many many decades the majority of the most living in deep religious in south africa and in neighboring countries like mozambique lawsuit 2 in swaziland where they really dont have access to medical facilities to screen and examine him so we dont know the status of the vast majority of full mind work is up there and step one is rolling out. A program to get medical facilities to them for chicks it just it strays learn french and tastes and generally physical exams. To a 6 whether or not they are suffering from lung disease and qualified to be compensated. Well coal mining is partly to blame for making south africa one of the continents west polluters and now businesses are big on paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight Climate Change. Or has more any and rang a province. South africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africas worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fossil fuel to produce electricity environment groups say the towering coal fired power stations release dangerous Carbon Emissions every day into the atmosphere the government introduced a carbon tax law earlier this month requiring big polluting companies to pay tax each time they emit Greenhouse Gases those in favor of the tax hope it will be enough of a deterrent and they must remember that the more they pollute theres a concoction of pollutants in the atmosphere you can do business in a did climate a message that were getting there they should do things as possible. To that because emissions are marked 8. 00 times per person every year the World Bank Says thats among the highest in the developing world its ranked among the Dirtiest Energy producers in the world number 16 on the global emissions list. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and committed to an Emission Reduction of 34 percent by 2020 and 42 percent by 2025 but Industry Experts warn in a country where the official Unemployment Rate is more than 27 percent carbon taxes and to growth and jobs and anti investment the problem is the Cost Increases and the uncertainty around how the church will be applied because the carbon budget regulations have not been published and. The Carbon Offset regulations. It will still be years before their focus is a significant reduction in Carbon Emissions and thats only if the carbon tax law proves to be effective South Africans who support carbon tax say the money must be used to benefit poor communities by helping pay for progress. Provide cleaner and safer energy for low income households. People living near coal fired power stations are concerned about their health temple is one of millions of South Africans who are unemployed and dont have access to electricity he got a call from nearby mines so that his family can cook and keep warm in winter theres of course its not the effect of a break in i think of the chemical they use thats making us sick but we have to live with it what else can we do until coal is one day replaced by Green Energy Sources or gas emissions are drastically reduced for mining communities will continue to be polluted air every day. Aljazeera. South africa. A u. S. Congressional hearing on the rising cost of prescription drugs has begun there discussing among other things the increased expenses that a sending diabetics and others across the border and to canada to buy medication the socalled insulin caravans are designed to draw attention to their financial burden correspondent on a lack followed one of those groups into canada. The n. C. A. A. s. Activist Quinn Nystrom shares the good news with fellow u. S. Diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local Walmart Store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the United States their caravan crossed 3 u. S. States to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life that diabetes looks sight on this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesnt have the disease but shes here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the scare and memory of my son alex smith who passed away on june 27th of 2017 from diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of rationing because he cannot afford it the group came to canada to buy cheaper insulin but mostly this is a gesture aimed at u. S. Political leaders in the pharmaceutical industry insulin prices are so high that one in 4 diabetics in the u. S. Has to ration the insulin they can afford putting their lives in danger. We need a long Term Solution this just isnt isnt the solution this isnt the fixes to whats going on in america but if its temporary prices for life saving drugs in canada are regulated by a government appointed body organizers of the caravan say that should happen in the us too we are from a developed country. We are from a great country but we are not taking care of our citizens after buying their lifes. Saving drugs the diabetics from the United States who come to the home of Frederick Banting 1928 came up with the idea that led to man made insulin. Banting sold the patent for insulin for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit but that hasnt happened and diabetics from the United States say its time to honor the wishes of the man who helped make sure they could survive a disease that used to be a death sentence dont you lack aljazeera london ontario White House Correspondent candy how that has more on the hearing about the high cost of prescription drugs lawmakers on capitol hill debating how to combat the rising drug prices crisis that exists in the United States well all agree that this is becoming an escalating crisis for ordinary americans one that often comes down to life and death the difference in opinion is how to resolve it democrats say the answer is socialized medicine where there are negotiations with Drug Companies to keep prices low conservatives republicans say that is not the answer was needed is to reform the patent system in essence preserving what they see as important for research and Scientific Development and that is competition patients say they spoke on capitol hill that they dont care what the solution is they just want to see one as soon as possible for many including David Mitchell a cancer patient it is literally an issue of life and death. Every 2 weeks i spend a half a day at the clinic getting an infusion of drugs that are currently priced annually at 650000. 00 i relapsed twice and unfortunately im failing on this current drug regime eventually im going to run out about this so the importance of innovation is not theoretical for me its literally life and death but my experience as a patient taught me one year refutable fact and that is drugs dont work if people cant afford them so expect that this will be something that will be debated hotly on the campaign trail not just by the democratic president ial candidates but also by donald trump as they approach the election for the president for 2020. Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas at palestinians protesting against this weeks demolition of their homes and occupied East Jerusalem the houses that what he had hamas were on land controlled by the Palestinian Authority but their owners lost a 7 year long battle to have a town in israel. The un and various human rights organizations have condemned the destruction. Well theres optimism in the kurdish region of Northern Iraq that the economy is improving 5 years after the defeat of eisel since the formation of a new government many people are hoping for a more positive future and sascha going to reports from a bill. That when we 1st met the hussein is my old family last year they were worrying about how they would pay their bills each month after their salaries were slashed to hard works for the government and book called teaches the government owes them even more money 15000. 00 in unpaid wages but at least now theyre getting paid their full salary. Their good salary still feeling secure were getting old fool seller is now ok but we cant be sure that will be the case next month there are 1400000 people working for the government and Public Sector in the semiautonomous region of Northern Iraq they watch their paychecks shrink or disappear beginning in 2014 thats when the war with ice will began the price of oil plummeted and the federal government in baghdad cut budget payments to the Kurdistan Regional government austerity measures were implemented and workers paid the price with reduced salaries the dispute has been resolved the new Prime Minister who came to power this year says the estimated 10000000000 dollars thats owed to Public Sector employees will be paid although hes not given a timeframe the. Government says unemployment has dropped from 14 percent in 2016 to 9 percent so far this year theres more confidence among people like businessmen come out. He develops residential and commercial buildings he says when i saw began terrorizing the region he was forced to put 20 percent of his Construction Projects on hold we come. Back on them and i lost between 14. 00 and 16000000. 00 now i have a belief with the stability of the situation in the kurdish region the wheels of the economy will be back on track will earn money again and business will be fine. With the freedom to think beyond meeting their minimum expenses because all is focusing on the familys future big money. We have plans in our heads the 1st one is to visit the doctor so we can pay for fertility treatments to have a 2nd child if we keep getting our salaries as we are not all will be able to fulfill our dreams for their 4 and a half year old daughter to noack the hope of having a sibling to play with cant come quickly enough natasha going to aim. Well you can find a much much more on our website do go and have a look at the address for that is al jazeera dot com. Hello im just with the headlines now more than 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days 27 of them children they are increasingly becoming the victims of a government and russian assault on the rebel held province of. The uns human rights chief says there is targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes. 40 bodies have been pulled from the water off to the west mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 150. 00 refugees and migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya on thursday around 300 people were on board 2 boats that left the town of homs east of the capital tripoli the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150 refugees and migrants lost their lives after the boats they were in capsized off the coast of libya on the 25th of july children and pregnant women are among the missing he is also concerned by reports that many of the survivors rescued by the libyan coast guard replaced in that that you are a Migrant Detention Center which is close to a military facility and was hit by an airstrike on the 2nd of july that resulted in more than 50 deaths the secretary general reiterates that libya is not a safe country of asylum and that refugees must be treated with dignity and respect and in accordance with International Law a severe heatwave is threatening the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet in greenland the un well to meteorology says it could cause record melting raising sea levels and dating to even more unstable weather thousands of mine is in south africa who are suffering from potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement where 3 150000000. 00 now is for the mine rock is syria to 10 Major Companies for compensation 6 of them accepted a deal many miners have lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work chinas it is observing a 7 days of mourning for its president 92 year old bed. Who died on thursday his body has been taken to the president ial palace in coffee where hell be buried on saturday and said he was replaced by the speaker of parliament to mohamed and the election until september 15th well those are the headlines next stop its inside story stay with us. As Climate Change to blame f