the, the business day will be news long from berlin. joe biden bows out of the race or presidents with an address from the oval office. so i decided the best way for some past source, for new generation. find me makes way for a couple of harris after weeks of pressure and questions about his health. also coming up counting the dead in god though we look at why the number of people killed in the war is increasingly being disputed. and ty phone came me roars and to mainland china after leaving a trail of destruction. across taiwan,

the island assesses the damage from its worst storm in years. climates protesters close down. frankfurt airport, active is fluid themselves to the tar back and hauled twice as one of your busiest travel hot welcome to the show on nicole for life. on sunday, the us president announced he was not going to seek a 2nd term an office last night. he explained to the american people why he had chosen to abandon the campaign trail and endorse his vice president. come on, harris for weeks spied and had been under pressure over his health and doubts about his ability to beat republican candidate. donald trump, the reviews back in front of the cameras. for the 1st time since biling out of the

race to be re elected for joe biden, laid out the reasons for his decision. democracy, you know, racial weeks has become clear to me. i need you 9 my party in this critical endeavor. i believe i recognize presence, my leadership and the world, my vision for america's future. all marriage and the 2nd term nothing. nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. that includes personal ambition. so i've decided the best way for it is a past the tours from new generation as the best way to unite our nation. pressure on binding to step aside had been growing since lots many democrats felt was a disastrous based performance against republican domini donald trump. in june, in the days and weeks that followed very public gaffes by biting food, including coding, presidents, savanski of ukraine,

president putin lead to more calls for him to buy lived of the race at times by biden and his staff to allay fears about his age and cognitive ability, the little to quell the cold for a new democratic candidate. and to know that he's out of the race fight and made it clear who he wants to see winning the white has in november. just a few months. the american people choose the course of america's future. i made my choice. i made my views now. i like to thank our great vice president. come on wires. she experienced she's tough, she's capable, a vendor of incredible partner me, leader for our country. one of several important endorsements for coming to harris . the vice president is already busy campaigning to win the presidency, despite having not yet officially being named the democratic nominee. the parties

convention is expected to decide that next month. my kilbourne researches us politics at the european university v. adrena here in germany, and i asked him what he makes of buying this explanation that he's stepping aside to save democracy. so thank you very much for having me on. the 1st thing to say is, is very clear and bite and wants to this to know in this stage that he's been pushed into this side. the fact that he says, and this to speak, this line about merits being a 2nd to makes it really clear the why do really to choose this. this has been kind of pushed off upon it. having gone to this position however, and he's in a place where he can't really talk about his kind of age or his purpose and capabilities. and the reason for that is that he talks about those things that he's kind of giving the republican party a ready made attached to the line against it because the republican party and just to the straight away turn around the side. what, okay, if you're not fatal, you're too old to, to do this job that you need to resign immediately. so what he ends up having to do

is to kind of lead on implicitly these kind of cool hit the head polity performances that we will see against from i'm like doing so he then also kind of gives himself the space to, to use this platform that he still has as the president to, to kind of say that trump is a threat. and so to use this as a kind of attack line against, from an even kind of gone us to assume that the, for his position by saying these lines about putting the country fast and putting, you know, the interest of the country before his art interest. i think given the opponent, i think very many american churches which struggle to imagine the trunk kind of taking this type of a decision inside that full kind of ends on the. i'm kind of the most positive way that the democratic party can see. what's been a pretty chaotic at last couple of weeks a couple of months. yeah, it is interesting though, what

a job. i didn't say that it was becoming increasingly clear that he was not going to be able to win against donald trump in november. isn't it? again, i think here what we've got is, is kind of a difference between maybe what the democratic party of races have pushed him into . and what his own personal belief might be. um, it is true that the pony had moved and wasn't looking good off to that. i'm pretty disastrous debate performance. but again, we all still many months away from the november election. it's, it's, it's a possibility to say that, you know, there's no chance that what else being equal, he would have, would have been out a to, to necessarily a trump. but i think what we still say to the, in the last few weeks is pressure from the donors pressure from leaks within the policy, particularly nancy pelosi, really applying that pressure to him, which is why he didn't comes out and use it as long about utilizing the policy, it's clear that there are parts of the policy that at this point all willing to

continue just for him without the simple advice thoughts of the party then yes, of course. then then wouldn't be election in november. i kept became very difficult to the impulse. a political scientist like kelburn there is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defended his country's conduct of the war and gaza and an address for us lawmakers speaking to a joint meeting of congress and then yeah, who described the military campaign against some us as a proxy fight with a ron, that must be one at all cost. he also took aim at anti war protesters outside the capital, calling them quote, ron's useful idiots. dozens of democrats, boy called at the speech recording the number of dead in gaza is a contentious issue. how boss are in health ministry has been providing figures since the start of the war. figures international organizations and journalists

have been relying on. but as the finding drugs on documenting the depth is becoming more difficult and the figures are increasingly disputed in the war in gaza. only one institution has been providing detail of death toll the territories health ministry which is overseen by him. us. the ministry collects data from hospitals and regularly updates a central list, including not only the name, sex, and age of the victim, but also their personal identification number. whenever possible. multiple independent studies have shown this list to be trustworthy. in january of this year, even is really intelligence confirmed that the cause and health ministries count roughly match their own estimates. although they remain skeptical of how many casualties are combatants and how many civilians. but now is the word directs on counting, the debt has become more difficult and has led to renewed accusations from israel that the figures are unreliable. with more than 3 out of 4 hospitals damaged or destroyed. the traditional system for establishing

a casualty list has all but collapsed more and more how mazda authorities are using on the ground media reports, and i witness testimony to count bodies over 30 percent of the health ministries death. so now consists of an identified individual's and yet, even as it's really authorities draw attention to the increasingly poor quality of data, some independent analysts say the cause of death toll could be vastly underestimated . study published earlier in july, in the medical journal of the lancet claim that at least 186000 palestinians had most likely died. as a result of these really bombing and ground defensive and gaza. a clear picture of the death and destruction will likely emerge after the fighting is over and a non partisan investigation is allowed to take place. i comes back, it is the chair of the n g o. every casualty counts. and earlier he told me about the reliability of the casualty numbers published to find the homeless run health industry in gaza. so i would say that that's a plausible number,

but it consists as a report side of 2 components. and one component is actually much more credible than the other component. i should say that just yesterday, the ministry of health released another detailed list of victims that has 28185 on it. and that comes from their mort based monitoring system plus a form that people can fill out reporting tests that they know about. so i, i view that 28185 as a highly credible rock. bottom minimum. the other bid of the, essentially $10000.00 additional tasks that bring you up to the figure that you just mentioned is really a black box. and they've never explained where that comes from. they said that it's based on the liable media reports, but they've, they've never actually publish those notes reports or even a methodology for how they go about compiling them. yeah, i want to talk about methodology because other studies estimate that the number of

tests and gaza could be multiple times higher than those 39 thousands that we were just talking about. how do you explain this, this enormous difference? a well really fab letter. i won't even call it a study because it's it's, it's really um, more of a joke than a study. i mean that, that, that letter is just not a serious piece of piece, a piece of work, but they're, they're tapping into something that is real. which is that there are some dots that are not directly caused by the conflict and in a violent way. so, um, so that's, that's true, there are going to be some depths like that. but where that number comes from is, is, is really just not serious. and in any way that they, they just took 13 other on flaps. none of which really resembles very closely the cause of conflict. and then they use some very poor measurements for indirect

depths caused and those, those conflicts. and then they said, well, it's cause it kind of looks like what happened. and those 13 very to similar conflicts. then there, there, there, click this, huge number of tasks is it's just, it's not serious and people should just ignore and i got a whole article about this by the way. yeah, a lot of some very, very important context. you're giving us there. i really appreciate that, and i'd like to focus for a minute on the is really government's perspective and a play, a clip from prime minister netanyahu speaking yesterday at the us congress and then returned to you. that's why, despite all the laws you heard, the warning garza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non combatants casualties in the history of urban warfare. and you want to know where its lowest and guys it's lowest in roswell. and michael,

is there any evidence whatsoever for the claims being made there 5 prime minister in that you know, you know, that's just ridiculous, but what, what is he's saying? but he also said apparently that, um there, there are virtually no civilian deaths in rafa. i can tell you, based on the, the latest detailed list of tests that was released by the administrative helped us yesterday. that since the rock block in the invasion began there, there were recorded by the ministry of health, which as you pointed out, has it in perfect monitoring system right now. but they still managed to record about 3500 new task. and of those $1656.00 children under the age of 15. so. so it's, it's not anywhere near as,

as clean as i suppose. he is trying to make it out to be know is michael spank it of every casualty counts. and then g o, a quick look now at some of the stories making news around the world. israel has recovered the bodies of 5 or more hostages from gaza. is really armies as 3 of the victims were civilians who died while being held by him on the other 2 were soldiers killed in the october 7th terror attacks. their bodies were then taken into gaza to chinese, into a russian bombers on control. have been intercepted off the coast of alaska for the 1st time to join us and canadian defense agency. nora says the war planes were in international airspace and not seen as a threat. canadian authorities have ordered residents to evacuate as wildfire as blaze across british columbia. and over to the flames, also threatened jasper national park with around 600 fires,

already recorded. it's feared canada could see another exceptional wildfire season to type in tammy has slammed into mainland china where residents are bracing for strong winds and heavy rainfall. the storm has left a trail of devastation across taiwan, killing at least 3 people. at least 6 sailors are missing from a cargo ship, which sink. type soon came, he has left a trail of destruction in taiwan, and the philippines is the strongest tropical storm to hit taiwan and 8 years now the type food is set to batter, mainland china is food you and province with strong winds and torrential rainfall. china's national marine forecast or issue to red alert. the highest warning level for a storm surge and the province to local media showed preparations and food in for the impending deluge of all trains out of food yet and has been suspended.

john has been experiencing a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains across the eastern side, coming as much of the north as swelter to under success of heat waves. tie when use authorities were forced to shop schools and offices council moved, treat maneuvers and evacuate thousands from landslide prone areas. more than 200 people were injured and 2 killed. before came, he made landfall at around midnight. a motorist and the southern cultural city was crushed by a tree while a woman in eastern body and died after part of a building fell on her car. taiwan and still experiencing persistent downpours and floating in the sides. it's flooding everywhere. it's all flooded. there's water in the washing machine, water and the refrigerator came, he parked wind speeds of

a 190 kilometers per hour, or is it slammed into the island? a cargo ship sank off the southern coast. a 9 crew members are missing. tammy also exacerbated seasonal rains in the philippines, triggering flooding of land slides, streets and there were devastated a tanker car in 1400000 liters of oil sank off the coast of the filipino capitol. the tar. he's racing to contain a spill the region as well. used to tropical storm some july to october, but experts say climate change has increase the intensity of type food season, leading to worst flooding and heavier rainfall. perez is preparing for fridays opening ceremony of the olympic games. francis trying to cut the carbon footprint of the 2 weeks sporting extravaganza. new construction has been limited and the river send cleaned up for swimming events, organizers and to make paris 2020, for the most sustainable games so far. the 1st type in the summer sun in paris and

just in time for the olympics. first may a new dial go fix and media savvy dip in the sand, the french capital. so story for the ones polluted by industrial waste, sewage and debris. it had been impossible and even illegal to swim it for more than a century. until now it's a very lucky and happy day. it's also for the plan that's, you know, and for the river and for the ocean we, we did it. we did, it has invested $1500000000.00 to clean up the river also to the infrastructure, to catch most storm water when it rains. that as them can hold, the equivalent of 20 lumping. swimming pools of 30 was on something to the river, but that would now be treated. it is a center use of major infrastructure improvements for the games, but to also insured as parisians have a clean us and, and the us to come. the organizers of the games one to stand out,

not only by having a clean river but with a sustainability concept of a new kind that would take them into the future. instead of building numerous new stadiums and the reason is 95 percent of the locations already existed, all of the temporary furniture and the equipment have been reused. although they welcome the efforts campaign, i say it doesn't make the game screen. paris had planned the biggest infrastructure project in europe as part of the game. several metro lines were due to be built to transport millions from the metropolitan area into the city, boston, and in a more climate friendly way from us that has not yet been kept. so far, only one extension of a line needed for the olympics has been completed and local transport tickets prizes would definitely during the game. experts say that monitoring the olympic games footprint as being done in paris. so with the aim of making them most of sustainable is essential to go green. but to truly minimize the impact in the

future, such mega events would need to become much smaller. well, let's bring in then daniel, well, he is an urban and political geographer enjoys is now from parents. he's lecture at the technical university zurich, and also represents the swiss national science foundation. welcome to the w that you study the impact and after effect of mega events like the olympics. will these parents olympics be as green as the organizers claim? uh, thanks very much for having me here. uh, nicole. i think the thing that's really important to pay attention to really is what we mean by green. uh, there are certain aspects of the organization of this gains of these games that are really important and needs to be celebrated. but that doesn't mean that they are truly authentically sustainable on, in ecological or social economic terms. so what we need to do is look,

the needs to discourse and examine. i think the reality, let's look at one of the realities and, and one point that is often brought up because menus and stadiums are often only built for these mega events and then left to decay. the parents as an approach of mostly reusing already existing structures or building temporary ones. do you see that as an example to follow? actually yes, to be perfectly frank, that's one of the things that i and my colleagues have been calling for for a number of years. so it's quite heartening to see the parents will not see. i'm most likely in the kinds of way ellison structures these empty carcasses and stadiums that, that the previous megan that hosts have suffered from. and that is only to the good . so i think we do need to underscore the importance of those reforms and continue that said there are uh costs. for example, when we say temporary infrastructures, that means that those are being used like say for the public part,

the phone or some of them uh, in front of the eiffel tower is targeted with a lovely venue for a beach volleyball. but that means that local residents are not able to use their park. so it brings up interesting questions of uh, you know, who the city is for, who the games are floor. so there are, there are still costs under the stuff to go on. i think it's important to remember that even as we celebrate the progress, that's the main. and i want to look at a different kind of cost the, the, you know, the budget in paris. it was for seen as a perfect financial balance. but that goal is long, been abandoned, since is being more environmentally conscious, not financially sustainable. that's a very good question. and there are always tradeoffs when you, when, when, when you try to organize anything, but especially in the event of this size and complexity. but i think one of the for, well, for people like me looking at these events over time,

it's not surprising at all to see that budgets are broken. and they're always in every mega in every instance. um, you know, the, the budgets are buses to a greater or lesser degree. so i don't think it has anything to do with the environmental goals even though there are trade offs. rather is more of a function of, of, uh, hosting big events in, in the 1st place, having this giant mega projects and doing so under a really tightly regulated deadline with the eyes of the globe on you is going to break budgets always end um, as leasing parents unfortunately that's been the case here as well. yeah. you've looked at many such events and i'd like to get your opinion. is there a way of making the olympics of making a worlds cop truly green? i would like. i would like to live in that world very much as long as we agree on the definition of, of green is so not just logically sustainable on and not just using some, you know,

clever mathematics to, to offset carbon, so to speak, but actually authentically sustainable for the cities and societies that the host of these, particularly for the host city residents. i think it's really time for some kind of a radical or innovative thinking. um we could keep the very best of the games that togetherness, and that sort of magic atmosphere. the bread, i think it would be a shame to lose that. but at the same time, i think it's important to remember that we are living in an era of crisis that requires bold decisions. so we do need to frankly, games. we do need to continue using existing infrastructures, which probably means limiting with the games to a set number of cities. but we were clever as easy as we could also come up with new ways of hosting. so for example, of a cultural host in, in, in paris for example. so we could have and put, or hosting cultural events in paris the next time the games come here to paris. i

think it's just important to remember that we either change the way we do things with these names or the bias here will change them for us. as urban and political, geographers send daniel golf, joining us from paris. thank you so much for all those. very interesting insights. thanks a lot go frankfurt airport, germany's busy is, has resumed to operations after suspending flights because of a client protest active as broke through offense and glued themselves to the tarmac . police have detained 8 people, the group, last generation posts and photos of a protest, her own ex, the sign, reading oil pills there, you can see it. use a conscious explain a has the latest from frankfurt airport. a slight subsides for the international airport, have resumed, as or for me to run these all clear again, many people are still stranded here with their families, add germany's busiest airport during the destruction about 10 percent of air

traffic was effective and several cancellations, pause, frustration and i'm good among passengers. the people i talked to told me they agree with some of the demands of these professors. but they were unhappy with the v. this has been gathered out. a group of climate activists called last generation is behind this protest. they are demanding the german government to pursue a global agreement to exit boy gas and cold by 20 towed be the domain to continue with for the disruptions and see then now working in alliance with other active as groups in new york and north america. so this might well not be the last for this we have seen. and before we go, a quick reminder of our top story today. joe biden has spoken from the oval office to explain why he ended his re election bid fight and said the best way to unite and divided america is to pass the torch to new and younger leadership with us.

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