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in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, they've been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they don't know how they're going to be able to get back to the way their lives were. both this man's shops in zhuozhou, hebei province, were submerged by the floodwaters. translation: it will take me 8-10 years to recover - from these losses. the government has not said whether it will compensate us. another man who runs a warehouse said even goods stored high up were destroyed. his wife showed us their mud—filled home. translation: i can't describe how i felt when i saw this. - our life's work, it's over.
china's recent floods hit hard in parts of the country not accustomed to them. and its meteorological administration says both extreme temperatures and precipitation have definitely increased in recent decades. it's one thing to talk about climate change in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, they've been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they don't know how they're going to be able to get back to the way their lives were. both this man's shops in zhuozhou in hebei province were submerged by the floodwaters. translation: it will take me 8-10j years to recover from these losses. the government has not said whether it will compensate us. another man who runs a warehouse said even goods stored
chinese scientists are blaming climate change, warning that extreme weather events are hitting the country more frequently, and with greater devastation than ever before. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell visited luoxingdun island, in the country's flood plain in the south, and also, to the town of zhuozhou in the north, which is normally flood—free. here is his special report. china's recent floods hit hard in parts of the country not accustomed to them. and its meteorological administration says both extreme temperatures and precipitation have definitely increased in recent decades. it's one thing to talk about climate change in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, they've been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they don't know how they're
climate change, warning that extreme weather events are hitting the country more frequently, and with greater devastation than ever before. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell visited luoxingdun island, in the country's flood plain in the south, and also to the town of zhuzhou in the north, which is normally flood—free. here is his special report. china's recent floods hit hard in parts of the country not accustomed to them. and its meteorological administration says both extreme temperatures and precipitation have definitely increased in recent decades. it's one thing to talk about climate change in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, they've been completely trashed by the floodwaters, and the people here, they don't know how they're going to be able to get back
i think maybe you could flip that graph and go back ten years and keep the same numbers. it is remarkable. he is probably the most effective public messenger we have ever seen in terms of delivering his own message to his audience. they believe everything he says despite the fact that he's been proven to have misled them hundreds and indeed thousands of times. >> look, this is the playing out in legal life that i could shoot anyone on fifth avenue and get away with it. you're talking about homicide and i think maybe that might have been a clearer example. i think part of what perhaps the president's supporters are struggling with are the kinds of questions you asked evan a moment ago. it's abstract to people the question of where the line between candidate trump and candidate aide mark meadows ended and the people who worked for the government did, it's a little blurry and confusing to many people. >> intentionally so. >> yes. >> which is one of the reasons
two things that occurred to me, data harvesting is much easier obviously with digital and what about rural communities where there is a terrible... i wanted a stronger word, but you know what a mean —— you know what i mean. terrible signal. give me a date. when do you think effectively cash will be gone, annie shaw? i think effectively cash will be gone, annie shaw?— annie shaw? i don't think it is aroin to annie shaw? i don't think it is going to go — annie shaw? i don't think it is going to go completely, - annie shaw? i don't think it is going to go completely, but i | annie shaw? i don't think it is i going to go completely, but i do think— going to go completely, but i do think there will be this increasing move _ think there will be this increasing move against it. the thing about car-hoot — move against it. the thing about car—boot sales in rural areas, case in point _ car—boot sales in rural areas, case in point yes. _ car—boot sales in rural areas, case in point. yes, you need cash to conduct — in point. yes, you need cash to conduct those. if we get a better digital— conduct those. if we get a better digital service, that is when carpet sellers _ digital service, that is when carpet sellers will — digital service, that is when carpet sellers will actually want to have the card — sellers will actually want to have the card scanners, apple pay, one of those, _ the card scanners, apple pay, one of those, the _ the card scanners, apple pay, one of those, the technology has not caught up. those, the technology has not caught up you _ those, the technology has not caught up you can _ those, the technology has not caught up. you can compare it with the telephone _ up. you can compare it with the telephone. i am old enough to know when _ telephone. i am old enough to know when people don't have telephones. nowadays _ when people don't have telephones. nowadays the complaint is landline
investigation of this length and rigor in any of the states. we have obviously indictments in michigan on the vague electors. a much broader -- but i do think that we will get a better vision of the kind of granular details of how the state level part of this was operating. probably more than we have thus far as my expectation. >> i feel like it is sort of the sequel to the jack smith indictment, right? which was very much leaning on the fake electors plot as the sort of central thesis of it indictment. and here we are gonna get the local eye on that whole plot. >> yeah, and i also think, look, you guys have said this tonight and it has been said before. but, you know, it's not insane that to enunciate concerns about a local prosecutor indicting a national political figure in the abstract. there is a thought experience,
individual calculations of their defense interests are going to start to make themselves known and what that's going to mean for how this plays out. >> yes. and i think that's for a huge indictment like this where 19 people are all alleged to be part of the same criminal conspiracy and that criminal conspiracy had ten different plots in it and she wants to try them together, but if we'd known the abstract of what happened, and this is someone who knows what he's doing. while it seems daunting to us
although we don't think it will ultimately end up at the end of the day with 19 defendants in the same room, that's the question. but i think if we know in the abstract this was gonna happen i think my answer is to whether or not that's viable would be well, this is a prosecutors ever dealt with these things before? yes, this is the 11th rico indictment she's brought since 2021. and it's only 2023 right now. and so, this is a person who knows what she's doing and she brought on a special assistant district attorney john floyd specifically for his expertise in georgia rico prosecutions, while it seems daunting to us and, well it seems daunting to the defendants right now i'm sure, seems the prosecutor set up this way on purpose. >> the last thing i would add here and i completely agree with that, is that the big difference between this and the federal case aside from the reality of georgia rico law is the presence of the indicted
he goes, we don't have a technology problem, we have an ownership problem. >> bingo. >> which is a really interesting question to me. when you start talking about the studios having a eye that does the work of the rioters, the rioters could have the a.i. that does their work for them. >> you are getting abstract. >> bring out that distribution idea, i don't know, maybe is to do start have the norm monopoly they think they have. >> i agree, let's say you have what substack did for reuters about either go. let's say you have that for people who can create scripted content. i don't know where that is, i'm not the one coming up with it, but it is not that there is no chance that could come up. ultimately, you have these rioters and they are the ones who are, if a.i. will hurt people who are not good at their jobs, but people who are good at their jobs and able to learn how to use a.i..