Transcripts For ALJAZ The Colour Of The Chameleon 20240714

A couple of days ago changes them is mind them will march with the protesters and people are considering this the biggest threat to the implementation of the peace stealing. All right still ahead on a period of mourning in tunisia as the country swears in an interim leader after the death of its 1st democratically elected president. The high cost of medicines is sending diabetics in the u. S. Across the border into canada to buy drugs and travel with one of the socalled insulin caravans. Notes about weather picture across central and eastern as a china you can see thats where weve got some icy clear skies out towards the west and that is where the cloud continues to go. And continues to bring some very heavy downpours not to but they say the 135 degrees and clearing in that rain fears being fairly prolonged for the last few days a cloudy day in hong kong with a high of 35 and maybe a shower into shanghai with 34 degrees celsius warming up for you certainly on sunday but it should be a dry day and in fact on hong kong we should see those range is on sunday thought you wanted degrees meanwhile that rain as i say is further out towards the west and the south but i bet its sunday i think sunny then saturday across much of northern asia then we had for the tools the south you got to scattering of showers really across the sections here son across into know the born years ago through saturday and that rain staying in picture really as you head on into sunday and sunday is the day for a more of those scattered thunderstorms into kuala lumpur and also singapore 31. 00 cells is a pace and we will see some fairly strong thunderstorms at times and we had tools india now the rains have been heavy across the central southern regions for the last few days similar story on saturday very heavy rain but taking to not poor for the next couple of days with 127 on sunday. Whether sponsored by cant. Take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to how to make a reliable and put it into place where people live think is a colossal event. As well so many people are here. But does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. And investigation south africa toxic city on aljazeera. And again youre watching our dear reminder of our top stories this us human rights chief has condemned what she calls International Indifference to the rising death toll in syrias rebel idiot province. Says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes past 10 days 104. 00 civilians were killed. And use it as a paint a copy of a un report on child casualties in conflict zones saudi arabia has been highlighted for its role in the war in yemen but israel has been left off a blacklist of concern despite killing 59 children last year. The us president is celebrating what he calls a big victory for his southern border war from the nations highest court ruled donald trump can divert 2500000000. 00 from defense money to fund the project. A President Trump accused of Frances Emanuel my craw of foolishness our Digital Services tax charge says he will retaliate hinting he may tax french wine france is putting a 3 percent digital tax on sales from google and other multinational companies. Libyas coast guard says its recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u. N. Calls the worst mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 350. 00 migrants were on board the boats that capsized off the town of homs east of tripoli on thursday about 145. 00 of them were rescued by libyan coast guard around 120. 00 others including women and children are missing and feared dead the u. N. Is demanding immediate changes in the way migrants are protected the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150. 00 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. Opinion here is observing 7 days a mourning for its late president. Who died on thursday at the age of 92 is being remembered for guiding the country in a new era of democracy state funeral is expected to take place on saturday they were changed to has more now from carthage. The body of president. Is subsea being taken back to his official residence in carthage as tributes to his role in establishing democracy in tunisia followed in his wake the french president Emmanuel Macron and the german chancellor Angela Merkel both praised him for his courage. The new phase introduces government is now on the way the speaker of parliament Mohamed El Nasser sworn in to serve as the countrys president he will take over for up to 90 days while elections are organized. I swear by god almighty to protect the independence of tunisia and the safety of its lands to respect the constitution and law and fully take care of the peoples interests and be loyal to tunisia. In such a young democracy the vacant posts of the countrys leader could spark a power struggle among chooses Political Parties there for not what candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial. Have been barred from running the president ial elections by parson parliament not too long ago this law is not yet been signed by. The before he passed away and i think well hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days. The president spent the last few weeks of his life in and out of hospital he was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as Prime Minister and then tunisia as 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech. Were going to have his accomplishments were often overshadowed by a weak economy and a high Unemployment Rate oh no worries though he started his mission on a positive note and he finished that the same way may he rest in peace his predecessors who the country but he was a good man who served his country no one did that before him no one shall any of he she we hope the next president will be even better we hope our country will be stable and safe we have some terrorism but the country doesnt blame him 7 days of National Mourning have been declared as the country on as its fallen president no front runner has emerged amongst the candidates who said they will be standing in the president ial elections in september but all shades of the political spectrum here are united in wanting one thing both a stable and a smooth transition of power David Chaytor aljazeera cottage of thousands of algeria have rallied nationwide for the 23rd week in protest against the government president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in april after 20 years in power to demonstrate is one greater changes to the countrys ruling elite president ial elections planned for earlier this month were cancelled because of a lack of candidates interim president didnt care that had been solace as a special panel will meet soon to oversee plans for a vote. At least 2 people have been killed by a book around fighters in northeast nigeria the gunmen attacked one of the regions biggest camps for internally displaced people in maiduguri on thursday they shot at soldiers at a nearby military base set fire to tents and raided Food Supplies about 50000 people are living in the camp hundreds of activists packed the main terminal of hong kong airport for more than 12 hours to call for greater democracy they have been pushing their message to International Visitors theyre angry at what they see as chinas growing influence on hong kongs affairs and the government response to weeks of mass rallies the protests which we gain over a planned extradition more have grown into some of the largest in decades. Of sanctions on north korea appear to have a devastating impact on its economy its shrunk at its fastest rate in 21 years thats according to figures compiled by south koreas central bank but that hasnt dampened north koreas military ambitions with more missile tests carried out this week rob mcbride reports from seoul. The figures provide the stark is devore dense yet of how sanctions against north korea are hurting it economically last year the economy contract did by 4 point one percent thats on top of a 3 and a half percent contraction the year before at the height of the nuclear and missile testing crisis when the tougher sanctions were introduced compare that with 2016 when the north korean economy grew at nearly 4 percent better even than south korea in the same year figures released earlier this month in seoul also show how sanctions have cut north koreas trade with its neighbors by nearly half with a staggering 86 percent drop in exports especially affected has been its Mining Sector with a complete ban on one of its biggest exports coal it shows the extent to which kim jong un stated ambition to develop his countrys economy rather than the military is being frustrated but state run media is reporting that thursdays launch was overseen personally by kim and that the missiles were a new type of guided weapon much harder for anti Missile Systems to detect and intercept the north says there were a warning to the war mongers of south korea but seem calculated not to jeopardize the chance of a further summit with u. S. President donald trump they havent done Nuclear Testing they really havent tested missiles other than you know some are ones. The which is something that asked kim seems to be following the same strategy of using his countrys advances in military technology to build pressure for crippling sanctions to eventually be lifted rob mcbride aljazeera sole. A europe has been sweltering through its 2nd heat wave of the summer and provisional data shows the u. K. Man had its hottest day ever on thursday temperature of 38. 7 degrees celsius was recorded in the city of cambridge if confirmed by the National Weather service that would be the u. K. s highest temperature on record germany france belgium and the netherlands also had record breaking temperatures this week in france hundreds of hectares of fields caught fire because of the heat wave several firemen were hurt other heat now appears to be moving towards greenland where the u. N. Has warned it could cause record levels of ice melt greenness ice sheet covers 80 percent of the islands territory and is the 2nd largest in the world but its been losing ice at an accelerating pace from the turn of the century the ice loss in 2012 was 4 times the rate in 2003 and there are fears this summers heat could break that record the extent of the melt in june has been 4 times the average between 19012010 this month alone its already lost 160000000000. 00 tons of ice to surface melting thats roughly 64000000. 00 lympics sized swimming pools why should we worry while the total volume of the ice sheet is 2900000 cubic kilometers if all that eventually melts it will raise global sea levels by 7 meters devastated most of the worlds coastal cities are a small term is a climate scientist at the Denmark Meteorological Institute she says a clear link can be drawn between Climate Change and the growing 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 the patient 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 right 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 if its irreversible or not 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. By extreme weather has affected the one of the worlds great cycling races the Tour De France was stopped 30 kilometers from the finish when a freak hailstorm triggered a small landslide the block to run this is how the teams were alerted by race organizers. Are very important to the board and. Very bad about it i dont know what are. Busy we are. We are for the core business but for a bill did they give at or good or. Have the particular. Door we had to get. The regular order. Now the rising cost of prescription drugs in the u. S. Has seen many people crossing into canada to buy cheaper medicines those traveling in the socalled insulin count vans all going to draw attention to their financial burden daniel lack followed one of the. 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 like my every day like the diabetes look site this is kind of basically one or 2 months right survival for me also along for the ride Nicole Smith Holt who doesnt have the disease but shes here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the scare and in 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 and. We need a long Term Solution to this this 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 lifesaving drugs the diabetics from the United States will come to the home of Frederick Banting 1920 came up with the idea that lead 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 Daniel Lak Al Jazeera london ontario. This is as you know thats going to round up all the top stories the uns human rights chief has condemned what she calls International Indifference to the rising death toll in syrias province says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 have been killed. Al jazeera has obtained a copy of the un report on child casualties in conflict zones the calls saudi arabia as having put measures in place to reduce child deaths in yemen something Human Rights Watch describes as a mockery and israel has been left off the blacklist altogether despite being held responsible by the un for the deaths of 59. 00 palestinian children last year turkish president. Says he is determined to eliminate what he calls the terror corridor or in Northern Syria u. S. And turkish officials have been holding talks for a safe zone east of the river euphrates to address security concerns of the presence of kurdish fighters there but. We are determined to destroy to pieces to tear a corridor in the east of the euphrates regardless of the way negotiations with the United States go on the forming of a safe zone along the border with syria with this operation we will in the context between tira groups based east of the euphrates entier wrists and Northern Iraq this way we will be able to squeeze and destroy the tira corridor from the east and the east the supreme the u. S. Supreme court has ruled that President Donald Trump can divert 2500000000. 00 from defense money to fund his southern border war last month a california judge blocked a move ruling the trump needed congressional approval to spend money on the war europe has been has been sweltering through its 2nd heat wave of the summer and provisional data shows the u. K. May have had its hottest day ever on thursday the temperature of 38. 7 degrees celsius was recorded in cambridge if confirmed by the National Weather service that would be the u. K. s highest temperature ever germany france belgium and the netherlands also experienced record breaking heat this week those are the headlines inside stories next. As Climate Change to blame for the heat wave in europe temperatures have hit records and many countries their Scientists Say heat waves like this will be the new normal in the future so if thats right isnt enough being done to prevent them this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey a heat wave has baked western europe this week with cities and france and the netherlands seeing record breaking temperatures and germany a new high forced the shutdown of a Nuclear Reactor after the water became too hot and the temperatures in the u. K. Soaring past previous levels its met office is warning heat waves like this could become normal and 2 decades well thats our guess but 1st this report from today. Enjoying the heat in paris the water fountains by the eiffel tower a popular place for those trying to stay cool. As a red alert was issued for northern france in the capital reached an all Time National record of 41. 00 celsius well french media reports suggest 5 deaths might to be linked to the current heat wave. Of one state belgium germany on the netherlands all recorded the highest ever temperatures and they did it again on thursday topping 40 degrees celsius. While some of the belgian capital brussels are making the most of it its led to a socalled code red being issued for the 1st time we are observing the weather since 1933 so nearly 200 years and we never experience this kind of temperatures over in britain as temperatures soared activists in london staged a small protest outside bass building housing Media Outlets demanding they concentrate less on images of fun in the sun and more in explaining the extreme weather. We can talk about a short stay on record with headlines like scorcher without looking into why is it the hottest thing and what does that mean for she manatee whats that mean in the next 102030 years. There were to eat for food for particularly for people in developing countries who this is affecting right now but aljazeera had no difficulty finding people who are concerned about whats driving the increasingly common heat waves people start realizing that things are changing and quite quickly in the climate and so is that is the moment to just to change something. Before its too late this is something that makes our planet less. Comfortable to live on say we have to think about how to stop it so that also our children can still survive on this planet most people here in Britain Welcome a bit of sunshine but for when the humidity and on a day like this the priority for lots of people is actually staying in the shade more broadly more and more starting to draw the line between europe 6 streams summers and the Climate Crisis the u. K. Governments Advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the country is not prepared for the extremes that Global Warming is expected to bring here the current heat which prompted Health Warnings and brought trains to a standstill in some parts. And in Southern Europe this was greece on wednesday a series of wildfires are a reminder of conditions that many are calling the new normal. And while those conditions have their upsides they bring their own dangers the aljazeera london. Lets take a closer look at those soaring temperatures across western Europe Germany netherlands and belgium broke all Time Temperature records over the past 2 days a new National Record was set in germany when the thermometer reached 41. 5 degrees celsius in the netherlands it hit 40. 7 temperatures in belgium reached 40. 6 degrees that is the highest in 7 decades paris experienced its hottest day ever at 42. 6 degrees red alert was issued in northern france and 13 cities in italy and its 2nd hottest day ever on thursday as temperatures soar to 38 point one degrees extreme heat disrupted travel across europe with trains running slowly to avoid buckling rails. Lets introduce the panel now in london nathan thankee a coordinator of the Global Campaign to demand Climate Justice engine eva by skype tessa kelly a Climate Change coordinator at the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies and love proton matthews a lecturer in Climate Science at the university there welcome to all of you and im tom i want to start with you if if we have a hurricane or a tornado or earth flooding that is immediately seen as an emergency do you think that these heat waves and Climate Change are being treated as a proper emergency. I mean thats an excellent question here are the things like triple psych loans very visual did the destruction that they they cause is rightly seen as an emergency heat waves are a very different very different being because theyre sort of a creeping threat you dont see the heat but youve said you fear it and worldwide does anyone my concerns are they are in extreme heat we really have billions of people worldwide living in places that experience really extreme conditions far more extreme that weve seen in europe in the last few days temperatures approaching 50 degrees celsius and they really challenge peoples ability to you know sort of even to just survive and certainly in a really challenged people was options or the district them becomes doing things like earning a living and out of all the all the climate hazards that can respond to a warming Climate Change in a warm climate its extreme heat is but that is perhaps the click the clearest change as temperatures increase worldwide dangerously hot weather becomes more frequent and it becomes more intense so expect to say temperatures of the likes of 40 degrees that we saw in the u. K. Are close to 40 degrees the high fortys and south of france and the 54. 00 degrees occurred in pakistan in 2017 occurring more frequently and events of the same rarity to be even more severe higher temperatures and i think to date perhaps that has been slightly off the agenda or at least not as high on the agenda as it should be in terms of how we sort of prioritize climate hazards in a in a warmer climate nathan how predictable are decent ways. I mean im not a climate scientist but i think that you know layperson can say that theyre quite predictable. The last 4 years have been the highest on record when we look at them its a cumulative effect 2015 is the highest the hottest year that there ever has been followed closely 5201620172 extension 8 team we dont know what we are art for 21000. 00 but we can we can say the high degree of certainty that its going to be up there so the likelihood of these types of events heat with but also the other imparts from Climate Change. Being sing more frequently is increasing exponentially its not really a matter of debate anymore and it. Will talk about Climate Change broadly in just a moment the 1st pacifically when it comes to heat waves like this what does that mean for whats expected red cross and red crescent where the red cross and red crescent have volunteers that are working with communities that are working with the most Vulnerable People affected by current change and in particular heat waves and what were seeing is that often the most Vulnerable People were are affected the elderly pregnant women and children and people with preexisting medical conditions we have to make sure that in times like heat waves but with which looking at them and making sure theyre ok this is exactly what National Red Cross and red crescent societies do on the ground tom how would you say if you had to critique how governments in the west right now are dealing with this how how would you grade them. So i mean certainly policy is not really an area that i research actively but we can we can observe some very positive things have been done by western governments in the last few years since the last time europe at least was hit by really big heat waves that was 2003 and that really opened lot of peoples eyes that have 70000 People Killed and in the wake of that a number of initiatives were set up by governments across europe these he Health Early Warning plans that sort of kick into action when extreme heat is forecast and when weve seen those those plans working well far so we havent seen the large loss of life we witnessed in 2003 despite temperatures of passing those values and in the rest of europe now of course a bigger question i suppose is is how well we in the west generally are supporting you know sort of measures worldwide to to reduce the challenge posed by extreme heat because one thing i will say is that in newark its possible with the Behavioral Changes and the sorts of things are done these he health of the patient plans to minimize the impact of really extreme heat elsewhere in the world its not quite as easy when temperatures approaching 50 degrees slowing down Drinking Water only by you sort of so much and i say men who have so much latitude to increase our president i said just a moment were going to have the challenge out there if i could ask them for just a moment we are going to come back to what to bing this broadening this out beyond europe in just a moment so if i can just get you to hold that point for a moment but in the meantime nathan Climate Change is not something that we debate here at aljazeera is it is fact but the fact that it is still debated in some places particularly places like the u. S. How troubling how dangerous is that. Its really troubling. The rest of the world is effectively being held hostage by the small number of very wealthy very white quite old men in the United States. Who have funneled over over a period of decades billions of dollars into this information and into delaying the kind of progress on them that might have happened within the United States in terms of reducing its own mahsud of emissions share so i think that its a you know frankly its a disgrace. Generally more surprised that that hasnt been in the United States an uprising. To really root the might because the dont serve any interests other than their own elite interests. So tom if you can hear there nathan said you know hes surprised theres not more of an uprising and there are in our protests and demonstrations about Climate Change in a lot of different places but why do you think that it still doesnt really resonate with some people the since of urgency about it well again im in my expertise in the physical system so you know ill come in him or sort of. Objectives i suppose with variations that question theres been a lot of research that shows that Climate Change is something this can be easy to distance himself from because the immediate impacts are felt by others a long way away and in this case i think thats quite a person with respect to extreme heat. They didnt train for this for this discussion because the most challenging conditions worldwide are faced away from the west they are faced in places like Southeast Asia around the persian gulf and around east asia and when we see impacts like that somewhere else is perhaps easier than appreciate the agency of the situation perhaps that that propagates down to policy that does not an area that are all comment on so to say you do see this up close this is not something that is far away and distant for you and for the red cross. Tell us how much more this is a bigger piece of what you do now having to deal with the after effects of Climate Change and weather so not only is there. I am from sea and now. Up to 3000 weather events in just the last decade and expecting that this will continue to increase and frequent change is becoming. A primary concern for us as a humanitarian act and remove not be able to continue to pick up the pieces. Extreme weather events and as we do take more action action. And i want to go back to something you were talking about we were talking about policy and there are countries like the u. S. That are not. Carrying their weight not doing their part what countries would you say are at least making an attempt or at least making a difference or trying to do their part. So there was an interesting study the combined a couple of years ago examining the contributions that countries are making towards the parse agreement the socalled paris plage is on what it did was of value much their pledge represented their quote unquote fair share of responsibility and what it falling was the. Broadly speaking that developed countries or failing miserably to deliver on what their fair share would be meanwhile the developing countries and including in that china were again broadly speaking more or less doing what their fair share would be the fresher being determined by what they have historically contributed up to this point and also what their current capacity in terms of Financial Economic pie are means for them and so that was i think a shock for a lot of people to realize because the message that were often told is that in europe we have of sort of many green leaning governments who are leading the way on this empirically proven but that wasnt the case. So there are i dont think we can say that any government on the face of this earth is doing enough within the scope of what would be considered to be fair we can say that at least the developing countries are trying they obviously need to do more about being able to do more will be contingent on being able to do more by having finance provided technology provided but currently were not seeing that forthcoming instead were seeing actually reneging on financial commitments under the Green Climate fund were seeing really prohibitive intellectual Property Rights being placed in that little aid system that prevent the rollout of these technologies that we really need at scale ok let me jump in for just a 2nd you talked about finances an economy. At some point if it isnt already Climate Change costs businesses money over time is is that the way to get their attention. I mean it it might be. Some of them think very short term so it depends on what time scale youre talking about and they also im sure factoring in at this sort of executive level. Really that will mean for them and if theyre able to kind of get out before things get really nasty so it might motivate some i think for certainly for like people that arent in multinational business i think its a big concern but for the real for the businesses that and corporations that have the lions share of pollution that contribute the most about im not so sure that theyre really actively thinking about. How much money theyre going to lose and instead theyre when we look at the fossil fuel industry in particular. Going after what what many people called stranded ossets so that all of these hydrocarbons that havent yet been dug up and extracted. And cant be if we have any you want to have any hope for living on that on this planet but theyre still pursuing those so it doesnt seem to be an argument that this winning enough of them over at the executive level told me to come back to this and we absolutely are you were talking about how Different Countries different parts of the world are theyre not all impacted by Climate Change in the same way who gets the worst of it. Well you really dont need depends on the last top or hazards off in the context of Climate Change so thats how we feel the impact is not through the change in the average its a change in the frequency or intensity of extreme events so be they things like tropical cyclamens be they heat waves or be the extreme storms and the likes we see in the latter 2 years of thunderstorms are kind of depends where you are. Generally speaking an area that gets hit pretty hard as over region is the low latitude places close to the equator thats certainly the case when we talk about things like extreme heat and tropical cyclons 2 of the most impactful extreme weather Events Worldwide and unfortunately in terms of heat alone this place is already very close to dangerous thresholds in terms of temperature and humidity and it doesnt take much therefore to push people into conditions that are really dangerous where its perhaps difficult to either work or simply to stay healthy and on top of that those readers are already very hard see the largest absolute changes in whats called the whats called the feels like temperature when you combine humid into into the into one variable so i would say generally speaking the latitude sort of contributed perhaps less to commit of Carbon Emissions to date and perhaps have the lowest ability to adapt in terms of resources. In the firing line the most it has are you deal with people on the ground that are you know dealing with this right in their face explain why you know 1st fathers really nowhere to escape but its also not that easy for a family to just pick up and move because of the conditions or they live this is internally displaced people. Absolutely likely when people are back to by extreme weather whatever it is dont want to have to leave their homes dont have to read families and their communities and so we very much work with governments with local authorities and other Civil Society organizations to help communities prepare for i meant activists and to make sure that theyre living in safer homes and have access to resources to act early when when they hear of an oncoming storm and cite bruner of in the upcoming heat wave so theres a lot that can be done to prepare and to reduce the impacts of extreme weather and this is exactly what we need to be doing war of as we experience the impacts of Climate Change nathan i went to turn a critical eye to the media i read a comment today and im curious in your ear and put on this paraphrasing a bit loosely said you know why is the media what are they whenever there is heat waves why do they treat these stories like theyre fun stories and everyones getting our jumping in the poor and that the media plays a role in shaping the way the public thinks about those things what are your thoughts on that. I think its outrageous. Youll notice that i think one of the extinction of millions targets as has been in this country the b. B. C. And theyve been trying to call them white for what they call a sort of bias almost towards the point of being climate denialism. I think that theres a there is a massive degree of responsibility the lies with the particular Corporate Media for done playing the seriousness of this challenge for also kind of missed directing the focus of the anger away from elite and corporate polluters and away from the sort of taking us a systemic look at the crisis and narrowing it down really to the level of individual behavior and consumption changes which means that people feel guilty themselves but they also will be then taking actions which were not a mind to anything near enough in terms of impact so we were not going to see the kinds of changes its not only because of the medias dumping of the crisis but also because of their sort of in incessant mis direction away from a critique of the Global Economic system really i think its fairly easy to explain why that is when you look at who really controls the media particularly in the u. K. Tom is this is this trend these heat waves and Climate Change is it reversible. Thats a very good question so i mean in the short term temperatures will continue to go up almost regardless of of what we do and thats an Inconvenient Truth that just reflects the fact that it takes some time for the climate system to respond to the emissions that are already already up in the atmosphere. Reversible or long term yes if we if we become carbon new juror c o 2 levels are reduced in the atmosphere then of course it is reversed by the trend increasing temperatures and then the increase in intense heat waves to the follows something that i suppose in the short term we have a greater capacity there is to increase our sort of adaptive ability and that relates to things like the health or Early Warning pads adaption of a patient more broadly said to respond well to the changes that we do we know are coming in the short term we are committed to more warming and we dont even necessarily know what a planet is one degree above preindustrial is where we sit right now we dont really know what the extremes look like in a world like that because weve only had you know a couple of years of this this temperature level so in the short term adaptation is really where we need to invest some so miss him energy because more changes are coming but further along the line i think going back to your and back to your question i very much hope they are of the trends that were seeing in the short term and we committed to the only way they reversed because by reducing the amount of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere tesa were it real quick to you i know that the red cross has sounded the alarm do you feel that governments are listening more. Yes actually i think with teens and really positive development. Programs its slow but i feel like this year because of the increased public attention and also because of the impact that really experiencing across the board wherever you are there is more ambitious now to address Climate Change and raising that particularly now in the run up to the u. N. Secretary general Climate Summit where theres an expectation that governments will come and put commitments on the table and show how much theyre committed to addressing Climate Change and in fact weve been really believes to see that there are some positive developments there and we hope that it comes that tender that we salute really strong commitments and exactly as tom said it around this adaptation. But of course we want Life Commitments not just to stay at statements we want to result in group action on the ground and this time well have to scout thank you very much thank you all for this discussion appreciate it very much nathan thank you kelly and tom matthews i thank you for watching as well you can watch the program any time to get our web site aljazeera dot com for further discussion of our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com ford slash a. J. Entire story and join the conversation on twitter i had a list at a. J. Inside story from a Rachelle Kerry the entirety i found out. A victim. Of bullying is pasta as an instrument of pinochets brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. But his sons quest for answers reveals there are often 2 sides to even the dacosta stories witness the cala of the chameleon on out as their. 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As the last 20 to emigrate to president ial candidates take to the stage for the 2nd Us Democratic debates. Join us for coverage from detroit on july the 30th and 31st on aljazeera. A lot has them seeking in the hall the top stories on the uns human rights chief has condemned what she calls International Indifference to the rising death toll in syrias rebel held probably as a show but she says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 have been killed in an strikes in southern italy 27 of them children. Well were definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the Government Forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so and just in the past 2 weeks i would say its escalated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily i mean over and what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more strikes last night and some early today as well so its ongoing its relentless and the people suffering most of all im not the fighters on either side its the civilians who are caught between them i mean just in the past 10 days alone we know of 10 different locations that have been hit by a strike some of them. More than once several times over 10 places where the been civilian casualties that in other strikes where theyve been having been casualties these tend the strikes are along 2 main routes the m 4 the m 5 in live and there are essentially civilian areas the civilians really have nowhere to go and bombs are falling in market squares in bakeries and so on or the wider issue of child casualties in the worlds conflict zones is the subject of a new report to the United Nations has obtained a copy of a draft syria myanmar and south sudan are all on the blacklist and saudi arabia and israel have also been criticized but Rights Groups say the report doesnt go far enough of diplomatic effort to change base has more. This report comes out every year it makes very grim reading its from the secretary general of the u. N. To the Security Council its not yet been published but aljazeera has obtained a copy of the report ready in recent years its become a political hot potato with 2 countries not wanting to get mentioned in this report and thats israel and saudi arabia its pretty clear to me from reading this report that theres been political pressure again because inside the report it is says that israels responsible for the highest number of deaths of palestinian children 59. 00 in 2800. 00 for 5 years and yet at the end of the report the amex which lists the countries and groups responsible for killing children israel is not mentioned saudi arabia does get a mention on the list but on the part of the list here of listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children in our saudi arabia the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen has been under that section for 3 years it does though beg the question if theyre putting measures in place to stop killing children to protect children why are children in yemen still dying. The Supreme Court has ruled u. S. President donald trump can divert 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 of defense money to fund his southern border war last month a california judge blocked a move ruling that trying to needed congressional approval to spend money on the war trump declared an emergency at the border earlier this year and allowed him to seek funds from government defarge and to fund the war the United States and guatemala have signed an agreement to restrict asylum applications from Central America thats days after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on guatemala if it did not agree to the deal the u. S. Has been trying to prevent a surge of Central American migrants trying to cross its southern border. Europe has been sweltering through its 2nd heat wave of the summer and the u. K. May have had its hottest day ever on thursday 38. 7 degrees celsius was recorded in cambridge if confirmed by the National Weather service that would be the u. K. s highest temperature on record germany france belgium and the netherlands also experienced a record breaking heat this week those are the headlines youre up to date were back with more often south africa toxic city. At 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. An eye catching natural phenomenon. These strange tales surround to hundreds back. To city in south africa. But their beauty is deceptive and toxic. In fact the dudes are made up of mining weights. And left to visit south africa is comfortable in this. Role. Within the some distant sea its. Now 800 journalists last time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly whats in the mind and just how deadly they may be. Sunrise america river basin. One of south africas largest freshwater reserves. On Bridget Corrigan is a botanist. And a specialist in the regions biodiversity. This is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if its a unique part of versity from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special its got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. There are about 200 trees species in america. Thats 17 of them. And about 400. 00 in the bed spaces. It is a National Treasure and the north west doesnt have a lot of these River Systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. The crown jewel of this not true treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. A sanctuary hidden at the heart of the resort. This is america and were at the sort of america river. And the water levels up from big underground what to kevins at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conduct of its he which means theres no souls theres no pollutants in this in the system its really very very pure. The water is Crystal Clear but it might not stay that way. Recently the Mining Industry has become interested in the area subsoil which is full of Precious Minerals regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. Cup a silver gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and its you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. You cant just get that back its not going to come back. So could the america river basin one day resemble the other desolate landscapes left behind by the South African Mining Industry. Like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. Or these mined tailings in the midst of south africas borstar and. Some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered under a small town called johannesburg. From that point on the Mining Industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city and. More and more waste piles of here. Often only a few dozen need. Says from residents home. Some of the may look as innocent as son to use but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold. Over their past. So. The day he considers he had a whole different run is born the day i. Suppose i was out to disable the p. C. s which will. Depreciate 170 i dont even disposed to just. Drop support for the plutocrats he wants to destroy his group of course alters the decision to tell him to do. So what does it mean for those living next to these tunes. Like here at snake. So does the wind come from the mine 38 it flows this side of a rose this side or this side is tiny dylan mimi is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. John the neighborhood has become one huge psalm it reads your. 2050 year quote from the. Sun times yes your eyes because if you ok this is not right if you go to detaining them this choice has some make some chemical in it so im advising you to ok not to go to mine because its very dangerous to own a baby its unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. Leave it youre going busy to. A few months ago tiny dylan meanie wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so. She knocked on almost every duel this house had as keith. This house here the model the owner of this house every chest full of this one will come here often here its an every man or women or child out around here is coughing as appropriate of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them are only things from the man who. Said. Either when a test in your question i will wind up with a loud. Question that needs. Over one and a half 1000000 South Africans live in townships like this. At the foot of mine tailings mountains. That the south of it gets into off one week this past week i think this but so that is why so many people are here this is the silent killer this dust doesnt just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. Or who you know are just you know youre. Eating. The best