into al qaeda is promising a fierce fight against those who enter its territory in syria's province. is responding to an offensive by the free syrian army or f.s.a. turkey he's backing the operation from its side of the border and forces have opened fire from there. at least two people have drowned offer a boat capsized as it was carrying refugees from me to bangladesh it's the third time it's happened since people started escaping violence in the state in august the composting almost five hundred twenty thousand refugees is now facing a cholera outbreak hundreds of thousands of people have joined a unity rally in spain's catalonia region one week after a session referendum regional governments considering a unilateral declaration of independence more than one hundred thousand people are without power in the u.s. after how to hit the gulf coast the worst affected states mississippi alabama and louisiana native quickly weakened being downgraded to

a tropical storm those are the headlines coming up next talk to all jazeera for now but by. well you. know what. you wore. when the sun came up on the morning of tuesday september nineteenth the people of domenica got their first glimpse of hell it's just like for a moment when their small caribbean island nation was destroyed people were missing some of your dead these images filmed by

a camera man who works for the government is some of the only footage from that morning the night before the eye of category five hurricane maria made a direct hit it ripped apart anything in its path. the entire country was left without electricity water or phone service there was no way to contact the outside world or the world to reach buddy inside domenico went dark for nearly forty eight hours nobody knew you could even existed anymore eventually the scale of the destruction was evident the nation of domenico would need to be entirely rebuilt. the man leading the recovery efforts is the prime minister of domenica roosevelt skerritt when he took office in two thousand and four he was only thirty one years old at the time making him the youngest head of state anywhere in the world he faces huge challenges right now how to rebuild

a country that is in ruins and how to uplift people that are facing their darkest times we came here. speak to him about what it was like to live during that hurricane the challenges his country now faces rebuilding and also the threat of climate change on or island nations such as this roosevelt scare the prime minister of domenica talks just zero. mr prime minister we have a lot to talk about but a lot of viewers around the world might not know a lot about domenica so i want to share a few things you were the last caribbean island to be conquered by europe primarily thanks to fierce resistance from the local indigenous tribes here eventually were colonized this island by the french and english but you gained independence in one nine hundred seventy eight. you're an economy that was based on export bananas for

many years but you've changed the economy a bit and now it's up and coming eco tourism here you have no military and the ninety five percent of the population self identifies as black or of mixed race and because of the volcano islands here it's considered the nature island of the caribbean beyond that what do you want the world to know about domenico a very peaceful country very welcoming country very hospitable people we have the top five best insights into. the second largest. leak it will. have many boiling lakes beautiful foreign fund the. only country in the caribbean which has national. trail. from the south to enough to the east from the east to the west the country. black

sand beaches waterfalls rivers three hundred sixty five rivers. only country one of the fewest few countries in the world to boast of the caribbean sorry of local indigenous population. so wonderful country you know forty five percent well put if i was in the country protected by law forest forest reserves. we had one of the. national parks and one top of national park this was a national park for forty years world heritage site for twenty. very days it was a fight small economy davis if i recall supplied many of the caribbean islands we produce. pretty. not very developed but certainly a very pristine and beautiful island when the eye of the hurricane hit your island

what was the moment when you said this is going to be really bad i think from the moment my roof gone i said to myself and the. sense of what's up to friends in the kitchen that when we wake up in the morning we're going to see a country device to. the. fellas it's of do we really hearkens today's island which in four to five hours moving very very slowly so the moment my roof went away i felt that we're going to have serious destruction and. i was pretty good that would be true. but i had to face reality. so live in and put an experience and station of i felt the country would have been devastated. after the storm passed the next day when the sun came out and you were able to get out on the streets and see the destruction what did you see

and what was going through your mind from the time. i saw the destruction in the neighborhood really. because this will host is it will be pretty strongly. most of them recognize and respect and the construction cords and. every home every house in this area as it was impacted by the hurricane. every tree down power lines were down telephone lines were down and. my mind started to rescind on other communities they know whatever vulnerable. communities where no hoses were not constructed to the construction codes. and i felt like if this area was impacted. we would have a complete national bus station. so i walked from my home.

to town. and as i went along you could just see the device station and meeting people everybody's hope with an impact. that we could see do their fair deal with trauma in the eyes of the people in the expression. so i was able to move into the city in different parts to look at my family and of course to look at the destruction of just total destruction and i was able to go on to helicopter a litany of the two to see it and fly it over the country and visit in many villages what i. what i felt would happen on monday night tuesday morning after that happens the country. complete devastation and every street and every village in the country. it is it is very painful to see the suffering and anguish people. flying into the

island everything is brown all of the trees are just completely destroyed there's one researcher there's been looking at the destruction he's estimated that one hundred percent of the agriculture has been destroyed on the island and that ninety eight percent of the homes have either been destroyed or damaged. his career i recall it was one hundred percent destroyed there's no question about it. one hundred percent here they have no food varian trees. for each and every single tree has been impacted fires or entire forests of been. completely washed away and of course what ninety five plus percent of homes affected their homes they'll have to be reconstructed completely maybe a few homes that can be salvaged for the new roofs. you may see some of them standing but structurally. they are not solid to have to be demolished. so his character the tourism has been impacted. all of the hotels have been affected

adversely when you're out on the streets and you see people homeless what do they tell you and how does it make you feel. pressured to myself. because in large measure of days a feeling that they are going to require me to meet with you know i recognise that as a leader a country that is my responsibility people are happy to do life yes but in many instances they've lost everything and. we have. you know have to instill in them the hope the expectation the assurance that if we will together we can make life better for sales with the help of international community so it it is a myth and people can is very depressing. it is very emotionally draining

because you don't know want to see people in that suffering. i can't sleep at night because i know that many people who was roofs open skies. you know and when it rains at night one can imagine the dips off and people. and. people are coming back to this tale and shock many of them are still. getting over to but not completely but discuss and will be for us for a long time. you know people are still broken one into tears every single day. to come to this office to see me. people are still emotionally distressed and the fact is the same people who have to provide the services the nurses adoptive the police officers the public servants and all of them have lost their homes their life investments you know. some of them up their properties are not insured and you

know so it's very very disturbing thing for demand for the emotional state of all people do you have any idea how much money you're going to need to rebuild now after hurricane maria. because we have invited the world bank to come in to do. rapid assessment would rely on them to advise us and international community of the of the for size cost of reconstruction is going tree but you're talking about hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to build homes to schools to build hospitals infrastructure seven or bridges washed away you don't need to have that money. and we wouldn't want to you know we don't have any. you know we are developing country. we poverty level. because america. twenty

five percent. we have very limited capacity if any more. we can borrow. rates so. you know if we need international help we absolutely i just am i. this is of the international community and our hope and prayer is that. is that there will be goodwill among nations and. and the recognition that they need to come to our rescue and it's literally going to come to our rescue. the. we really need the international community and to help us in this situation. just a few days after the storm you chose to get on a plane to go to new york to address the united nations why we went there to declare an international humanitarian emergency nominee. and to indicate to the

united nations that our country will need the help of all countries we dug graves today. we buried no one yesterday and i am sure when i return home to morrow we shall discover additional fatalities as a consequence. and we also took the opportunity. to lead into coming to know that this discussion on climate change and its impact on contradict it had been going for too long and in the process of all of these conversations and discussions and workshops and seminars and summits people die in people's livelihoods of being washed away in people's live lives there was a being blown away countries are disappearing you know here it is that we have spent all this money to build in this country you know and in a matter of

a few hours it is don't to his knees it is flattened before decenter. generation had seen more than one category five hurricane in their lifetime in distant years this has happened twice. and notably it has happened in the speed of just two weeks to deny climate change is to procrastinate to sing. it is to deny the truth we have just leave it is to mock thousands of my compatriots who in a few hours without a roof over their heads will watch the night descend on dominico in fear of sudden much like us and what the next hurricane may bring and we need to lead it as coming to know that we need the help i'm going to help from every single

conscientious. would a leader in this country anyone leader who would sit in his own country and see the situation in dominico and not give a helping helping hand it would be very very unfortunate for the future of the world we as a country and as a region did not start this war against nugent would not provoke it the war has come to us you have any doubt that this was climate change no doubt the historical facts and. magnitudes of hurricane will tell us that we see no a bitch is washed away we say in the dry a spell has taken place no country i mean in dominic and his island who had what you call a dry season and ended racism you is already in and you have sometimes a rainy season all you have is drought so we're seeing the change in climate

climate the conditions and every single time your say in the hurricanes are getting stronger erma there was a category four. it was beyond five i was here was a one hundred sixty five miles below. you know what kind of infrastructure could we stand this you know. which country would be standing and the fact is. we have militarized we're island. we just this is a. place where you could have you could go from one province to another or ones to do order to secure some from the hurricane this is an island and you feel flown over the country and where could this people go to run away from the hurricane they were in shelters the shelters were affected so they could be left alone and went to the shelter center with them back that there's no way as it would have gone so

there's we have low. no reservation to see emphatically that climate change is responsible for what we've experienced in and dominate and we need to acknowledge because if we've not had control of the money go and we're not making the case only for dominic we're going to case for all of the world and especially for developing countries like ours that are going to receive in the brunt of the destruction and devastation from the stones and this terms in order to happen in during the hurricane season happen outside of the hurricane season a few years ago we had a trough system in december christmas eve. cause lives cause major destruction so we have no doubt that the climate change is responsible for its trends of desire again. in a lot of capitals around the world the discussion of climate change is theoretical for you is a theoretical or is it practical practical one. you know you know it is all saying

we have set. up we have started to know to set the example you know when we have set the exams is the practical situation you've seen it because the streets are good our culture you know whole are going to survive in the next few months and two years we're going to reconstruct thousands of homes people are going to reconstruct their health centers the hospitals the schools the bridges they've been washed only the lord was not in contact you know holy go restore their the private sector hotels have been destroyed this is this is all life or labor who you know the forest was part of all ecosystems and also but there was a bible over we rivers we know of the access to them in terms of benefiting from that the entire country had been brought to its knees and so this is a practical situation that we're facing you know to the point really if you know if they may say so you know if some level of humility the premise of the country was

wilderness for quite a few quite a few days. you know it tells you about the extent of our vulnerability it's a small island states who are facing the brunt of the wrath of hurricanes and storms largely due to the effects of climate change. the united states is considering pulling out the paris climate accord. how would that affect your country you know we we do not believe that climate change ought to be and i don't it's going to be. an academy exercise i said previously we leave in this experience. the folks in florida to tell you the folks in texas will tell you also do they have experience and this is climate change oh hope is that the united states will recognize this. and come back to the discussion to

those have some discussions whether it will be where it concerns you may have a whole kind of mix of amendments but we absolutely need leadership of the united states. in this discussion without them it would make things much more difficult for concha because the united states you know it has the results is it has the capabilities. it in many respects it is required to show some leadership in troops in and dealing with issues related to the climatic conditions in the world this isn't the first disaster you've had to deal with in two thousand and fifteen tropical storm erika caused a lot of damage here on the island you asked for over six hundred million dollars in aid to rebuild after tropical storm erika did you get that money they've been coming. maybe. half of that.

i would have to realize. that the challenge we have in many situations in the days of very protracted process of care industry sources and. in circumstances like these i believe the international community the international financial systems need to recognize that. the next hurricane season next year and if we do not move quickly to rebuild homes and to put in mitigation systems in place it's not to go along. so the comment was a made must be. multi robust and its efficiency. is in the harsh realities which we are facing so we got quite a bit of help quite a bit of commitment but these commitments and i'm going to take a very long time to materialize like all countries domenico has a political opposition how do you plan to work with them to move the country forward to reconstruct the country after this tragedy this this reconstruction is

going to require an absolute nationalist spirit of every single citizen organization and institution. and there's no room for any partisanship or any division within the country. what we intended as ago and we were discussed is and we've second advice from from various sources is to put in place a national reconstruction team and that national reconstruction team will have representation from all stakeholders the church the political part is included in the parliament your position the parliament itself. unions n.g.o.s the private sector the various by receptive groups the farmers the local community organizations and every single stakeholder group will be involved in this national

construction because it is going to require absolute cooperation and understand in lot of manton contribution positive contribution there's no time for negative his people are suffering people need help we rely on international community energy in this country should be united to build back this country and restore their lives and livelihoods of people so they have a part to play it one would have to switch to see how disciplined and mature. we can be as a people. as with truth we have this very very difficult and daunting task over but we would be in this country given all of the destruction when you go to bed when you close your eyes what is your hope for demeanor in the future well the world is not going to bed is the easy though. i leave the office every night after ten ten o'clock and when i get in. my preparation is. that the

people will still thousands of them and how do we go about restoring the lives and and giving them the hope to live. and. we were doing some things we know we're pretty patient is to provide supplies food supplies water to the people which added to properly hydrated much of the property. to minimize any potential health risk in the country but the worst you know you want to have is a break of some of the water borne diseases in the country so we can to manage this . and showing the security the state of clear and concrete access to the communities but vision is and the welfare of the citizens and we're going to need a lot of help and quickly. and solutions. for citizens we can to

improve the telecommunication services so people could be in touch with each other because this what this helps in reducing the money in the. citizens of my appeal to the international community. is too big and small mr prime minister we wish you and your country all the best in the difficult days ahead thank you for speaking.

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