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and as i live in those large must be stopped, the commandments made under the international humanitarian rule, and the recently voted un security council. resolution must be respected by our bodies to the conflict. each of us each single one of our candidly who here, of course, the parties to the conflict have it in the fall or to see the hostility. and that's in the international community does play a role in 1st by not looking away. but i think this your money didn't response supporting women led organizations back towards get it does. because let's not think about women. as weekdays, they are the 1st responders in a crisis, it is not about the needs never was, never should be. it is about their rights. the 1st responders data on the ground, they know the problem. they understand the context and they have to solution. so let us come together to strengthen them and prevent this humanitarian crisis to
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becoming a famine situation, which probably the world has not seen in decades as blood projections. i would not be surprised if things do not change. it could even be worse than the 2011 farm in which we saw him. somebody else has a wake up call from the mala mala to a few minutes here. an officer of care. thank you so much for your time. in the wake of heavy floods, brazil is now facing massive wild fires in the country spawn to no region. she wouldn't be a climate change and the new weather phenomenon have increased the risk of devastating blazes there. take a look now at how it residents and some of the largest tropical wetlands in the world are dealing with a situation. an ominous orange backdrop looms over brazil, sponsor now wetlands. it reminds residents that the fire season has started earlier and with more fury than usual. so the price guthrie years ago, the pump now wasn't like this. it was supposed to be flooded and this year it
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didn't that complicated things. up until now which a sandwich between brazil, bolivia, and paraguay is the largest tropical wetland in the world. it's a mass of carbon sink and it's home to thousands of plants and animal species, many of them endangered in other biomes. it's normal for the region to have rein periods where the wetlands flood and dr. periods were some man made wildfire as breakout. but according to the results national institute for space research, the number of fires is especially high. this year. it has increased by more than 1000 percent so far in 2024 compared to the same period last year. keep it a whole bowpoint and now a key basically what's worry, some about the punter now is that due to climate change, the bottom has seen more dr. periods is charges one to because of the vegetation that would usually burn and a certain period is burning more frequently. that came by the edge of june,
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8th room set to bed. you do a like came equal mile for the queen and these fires are much bigger and much harder to control. and i said when we to space is pointed you see says you can throw uh climates. ridge can make droughts more likely and more intense in some parts of the world. as we burn fossil fuels, the worse the atmosphere. and there's more of operation from land. and a warmer at this here can affect rain patterns too, so that it rains more insured for us. that makes it harder for the ground to retain sol moisture over a longer period of time. for sale has also felt the effects of a natural phenomenon. so new, this complex windham temperature pattern in the pacific ocean can make the weather in parts of the country, hotter and dryer. all in all the perfect conditions to make the wetlands highly flammable several months to early cities. for me sort of what others are. we already started the season badly. the fun is it propagating very quickly. and we are worried about how the situation will progress in august,
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september and october. this year, experts urged the government to educate residents about the dangers of starting fires for small scale agricultural activities. because there is no knowing the damage they may cause as climate conditions worse and batteries, christopher l file that report and joins we now here in the studio. the entries, how extensive is the drought that facilitate these wildfires? now the situation is really critical and a good way to look at that is look at the product y, which is the main river, the crossest, the wetlands. and right now, even though it's june and we're just kicking off of dry season, it's already 2 meters below the average water level. so that's very low. and usually the area surrounding the river would be pretty lush. so you know, that would be submerged with water, but right now we're already seeing, you know, the ground cracked dried ground. and that's where some for 2 reasons. first of all, lots of animals, especially rep chileans and,
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and 50. and they need those shumate wet spots to seek refuge and now they're running out of spots to hide. and then of course of the, those dry conditions kind of a, they push the perfect fuel for these fire, suspect really quickly and tell me why is it so difficult to extinguish a blaze in a wet land? is it because of those dry conditions or other other factors that play a role also, but it's also about acts of because it's a very remote area. so there's very few roads and usually the way across the continental us by taking a boat through the rivers. but with the water level so low, that means that lots of, you know, large swath of the wetlands are inaccessible right now. and then now there's also the audit factor of really strong winds, you know, blowing those fires if the best buyers are not broad under control. what's at stake . and you know, lots of people don't know the frontal now, and i just want to remind everyone, again, these are the biggest tropical wetlands in the world. and they're a very, very unique place with huge biodiversity. and we saw in 2020 just how much we can
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lose when wildfire is get out of control and, you know, destroy massive parts of the month. and also in that year, almost 30 percent of the vegetation, of these massive wetlands were destroyed. about 17000000 vertebrate animals died. so there were really horrible images at the time of, you know, burned in the 100 jaguars and eaters, of caymans. so that really just shows you what a historic clause for biodiversity that was okay. so we don't want that to happen. again, what can be done to avoid this from occurring again and again, you know, looking at how the climate is involving. i mean of 1st on a local scale, we need to be looking at fire management. it's very common for rogers and farmers to use fires to, you know, clear fuels to have more land. that's okay. but they need to be educated more about how to control the fires,
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or to also make the assessment when or conditions to drive to make one of those controlled fires. when is that gonna get out of control? but if we don't want the pump now to turn into the house of tinderbox, we also need to zoom out a bit and look at one of the root causes. and one of them is climate change. there's some evidence that suggests that climate change of making the front on how hotter it's making it more a more vulnerable. you know, the, we have the wet season in the dry season. they're both starting to become more extreme. um, so really there is an international responsibility here for it mean for everyone, but especially for high polluters to reduce the amount of fossil fuels that they're burning to stop heating the climate because otherwise the conditions for wildfire is like different. the very uniquely rich biome are only going to become more and more common as batteries, christopher of our dfw environment. dest, thank you so much. thank you. and some sports now, while the euro 2024 football championship is in full swing here in germany,
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there is another tournament going on at the same time. a different version of the beautiful game with teams drawn from people who struggled with homelessness on the game is the same. the patient is the same, but inside home, the expands on your 2020 for a different type of tournament is underway. there's no glitz and no dilemma nor other 1000000 euro salaries. these plans will experience homelessness. and the really to get here hasn't always been easy. i used to play all my live you football . but the, when i, when i started taking drugs, i spoke to the director of importing the football, bought the api, i stopped the game and we had the now i stopped the company, but i changed all my life. i stopped a football game organized by a local charity and funded by donations 8 teams competing. they play for aside
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games was to 7 minute tubs. so many football has given them a fresh start. so i think that's, that's a soon to see. we have as a full point community in germany. now the countries that football is a place where people come together with so many different lives, which probably was fortunate like like all is maybe one as lucky as, as we all, maybe i'm to have full play us such a unifier to, to come together to celebrate the game we lost and said to, oh, just just be hopefully be be playing football. i think that's the purpose of this event. since from the launch, a euro tournament have turned out to show the support the week long the vein gives a chance for the so called beautiful game to bridge divides. 7 and for players from old backgrounds to she a and a love of the school. and the latest results from the euro. 2024 soccer
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championship. france has managed to pull off a narrow one mill when over austria, things to an unlucky own goal by austrian defender of maximilian grew up. but it wasn't all good news for the friends. their captain, gideon and buffet came off in the 90 a minute with a broken nose after colliding with an austrian player to unclear what that means for france when they faced group the leaders, the netherlands on friday. and monday also saw the 1st match day for the teams in group e. and it was the 1st major shock result of the tournament delivered by so lock in who snatched an early goal against belgium and defended furiously to hold on for a one year old victory. and the 2nd grew game romania played their 1st european championship game and 24 years and b, u crane 3. now the ukranian team apologized to their fans after the final was all saying they did not show their best. and germany will already face or seconds
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game of the euro championships on wednesday when they face off against hungry. this comes after a 51 win over scotland and the opening match of the tournament last week. and according to bought into an oracle orangutan, at once to germany, will emerge victorious ones again, one face with a choice of scarves in his enclosure. there you can see them both dead shows. the german colors, the 35 year old prime age correctly tempter means when over scotland and don't forget, it is not always good to go where you news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. that's all from the news for now. stay with us until for least thank you so much
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on january 14th, 2024. disaster struck the coastal iceland town of green the bank. there was never supposed to be a possibility of both cain or ups and ink when they're just round to drink, a crack opened and the earth's surface love of began flowing towards the town. the dream to vic defamation is an unprecedented globally for having the formation of the risk valley in the middle of the populated area. more than 3000 people were
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evacuated, residents could only look on as lava flows bored down on their homes. and he saw the lava slowly moving into town and it was just like watching assessed to move in slow motion. you couldn't do anything with your students. first house school, everybody to pay the you knew them to state the for the 1st time in 800 years, the lava field beneath green the big is once again active. the town's inhabitants are now scattered all over iceland, torn between the need to carry on with their lives and the hope that they may yet
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be able to return home. we had a town meeting with the government and i told them that story this so they would understand how much totally hard it is to not have a whole loose all your money at the same time as you lose to community years you your security, the residents have had to be relocated, businesses closed, one man who fell into a crack in the earth's crust, couldn't be rescued. the question for residents is, when will it be safe to return to their homes? or will glinda vic remain a ghost town forever? when we look at the distribution where the grabbing isn't going to fix, it's a low lying area. we know the lava is like water, it's like a river. it takes the lowest level and the landscape, right?
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rivers don't flow over the top of mountains. lava doesn't flow over the top of mountains, so the easiest path is to go straight through town. there's nothing that can be done. brenda is going to start to home. was born in green, the vic like the other over 3000 residents of the coastal town. she had to leave her home on very short notice. today she's coming back to green to victor the 1st time in weeks hoping to recover a few last items from her house. you go home, but it's not home. it's not the same. it's. my house is almost empty. there's no people there to this new job. so now with this 3rd school event, i was be so mad if this thing is close. there. yeah, that's it. okay. because that's a little bit. you know, i,
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because i don't know the rules on who's allowed to enter the town can change by the minute iceland, us department of civil protection and emergency management keeps track of everyone who's including the vic at any time of the day or night that way. authorities can evacuate the town immediately, in the event of another, a rupture that uh, which could happen at any time, but also what, what i tell them. okay? that to the authorities tell brenda's to drive straight to her house and to leave again as soon as possible. in the movies, do you see the volcanoes and you always think about the wolf cables and you've taken for the lava, but what is really destroyed whose talent is not the volcanoes and the lava. it's the earth moving because of it and that there are cracks, go to town, and they're just opening up the town. they're destroyed, houses, the disaster occurred not 50 kilometers from the iceland to capital re cubic. aside
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from the 900 metre long fisher, northeast of green to vick, another crack opened at the northern edge of the town, scorching 3 houses with lava. brenda's house just barely escaped being swallowed up as well. my house is very close to the law, but if it came into town then where yard has been punched off because there's a crack going to it. if this doesn't feel safe and this you didn't want the level just go into town. but let me run down to town and it took the 1st house, the damage was done, you know, the town was heard. and i remember the only thing i wish for at the time was for the law of this gold away and take my house. because the pain of not knowing
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what the future would look like. or if my house would be like i would get no money for it or whatever. if i lose all my basically investments was so much that i rather wanted the lava to go over my house. and everything would have been done over. i would be paid by the insurance and i couldn't move on with the life the there's no reason to be here. and the people who are here are usually working and they'll talk about the harper. so it's just that goes to the, it's this set, this home home because it's not,
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oh yeah, there's like a opening between here like here is this guy because of the forest kind of seeking a little bit finally say of the, the pain of not knowing your future and having all your savings in the house that you
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can't sell. you can't live and you can't be there and not being able to build the future. and that's the no, i'm pregnant. i just want to build a home. i don't want to nest. i want to have a baby in the suit q a y requirement. the i've been born and raised to the school. here is a kid. i have not all my friends. so my family here, i was in the city council. i have bills to town of coach basketball, like all my big provides. well, that's been happening here and it was always supposed to be here. the doesn't have any are in the left here too long. the
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dentist regularly checks your phone for updates at any time she might learn that the ground has opened up even more or that researchers have managed to estimate when, if ever green the vic will become habitable again, as one of those researchers is gregory to pasco, a few kilometers away, he's working to answer these questions so vital. the green vics future. i think i was always curious. i really loved mountains. so i was really curious, why mountains are there? why do you have, you know, areas that are flat and why do you have areas, you know, big spike, you peaks like the elves, the and these are the rocky mountains tectonics that are really the driving force. it's kind of a balance between tectonics and climate. gregory to pass go,
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teaches tectonics and structural geology at the university of iceland. t in the background is just the lucky in graduate student danielle force. there are studying the fissures in the earth's crust from the air tracking how they change here, and where it's really smoking a lot is where it's hitting the barriers. so we're doing repeated surveys of the tracts over time with drones. and so we can use drones to surveys, we're doing high resolution photography and the photos. we can states together using the modeling technique called photogram entry. and we can make very high resolution photos. so we can actually have photos that are, are models that are on the order of like 10 sending me to resolution. so it's incredibly high resolution. so we can track how these faults and fishers move or do not move over time. using this digital photography. the case of danny,
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just keep an eye out for if you mind maybe even just go to like that hill. if it looks safe to go on top of it and just look for any helicopters or planes. the so we are located in the north atlantic. we're not far from the arctic circle right now. and this isn't oceanic spreading centers, creating crust. so the, the earth is actually extending in this area, and most of the time it doesn't actually do any extending. it's just sitting there waiting. then at some point, stress builds up on the system the when the fault rupture, the energy that we experienced as an earthquake,
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the sometimes the stress in the system needs 100000 or something happens. gregory takes hundreds of photos later to combine them into one high resolution image. danielle records all the important data needed for a geological computer model the other way back. it's like 210 meters and then i'll try to come back even lower, maybe like a 150 of the drones our radical revolution. how science has done and tried his teacher students how it's done, sorry, i'm trying to monitor this as well. i go too far, i'm in the atlantic ocean. so that's but know things are changing really,
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really rapidly. every time we have earthquakes, we want to see if these are moving still. it's really important for recovery and safety because there's, you know, still people working nearby here at some of these factories. so, and it of course, could still abrupt again, we think it's been her up to any time. the past 3 years have seen repeated erupt. sions in the region. but only recently have they started effecting residential areas. and it's not just the inhabitants of glinda, vic. in february 2024 interruption disrupted hot water supplies to 30000 people living nearby. at a time when temperatures were around minus 10 degrees celsius in order to predict future russians as accurately as possible. researchers have set up 30 gps stations around when the vic so between interruptions. the whole
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thing starts the dome up over a large area. and so these gps stations record how that's moving over time. and then effectively when the russians take place, it's like picking the top of a balloon, the balloon starts to deflate back down. and so the stations will actually move down between interruptions are immediately after options and then they start inflating again slowly. and so it's one of the moderate monitoring ways we used to track how things are changing over time. and the really important the gps data is vital for green. the big safety before the ground began opening up. this was one of iceland, the wealthiest towns, thanks to its abundance fishing industry. seafood companies are eager to get processing plants up and running again. but 1st, the protective barrier around the town has to be extended to divert lava around residential areas. it's an expensive undertaking.
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before the disaster going to fix economy was strong enough to support several professional sports teams. brenda's as co coach of the towns female basketball team . since evacuating basketball games are some of the few chances she has to meet other former residents purchasing know in the gym, that is kind of like our whole life mall. and we have a game tomorrow against natalie to tell like, arrival team product because this is what we need to keep the communities together. people up showing up for games and i can just see in the faces how much the team is inspiring them to keep on. and the girls know they feel it to the field of responsibility and then actually handling it on to the teams captain. his food of york, all of stuff.

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