exposed and you will pay a high price facebook has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to stop outside interference in the twenty six thousand election it's determined that won't happen again and it says it continues to work with the f.b.i. to identify threats and remove them from its platforms i was estimating that ninety seven percent of iran is suffering from some form of drought. sake a look at the reasons behind the shortage every day a small group of iranian farmers meet up at the edge of their town once where the fields of a spawn lush with crops now barren land by a dry canal they beg for government help. out of them you know where rainy and citizens to we are rainy and to live in this part of the country we just want to be hurt people are really tired the cold make ends meet they go to bed hungry most of the last and during fighting between police and protesting farmers and march acute

water shortages are worsening problems such as inflation and unemployment. and there are warning signs of rising anger. more conflicts are expected to break out an empty stomach doesn't have any religion people are going to have to fight for every single drop of water especially in dry regions like this that are hit hard by drought and climate change environmental experts say weather is a small part of the problem they blame years of government mismanagement for the manmade water crisis since the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine the government's rush to develop industries meant skipping environmental impact assessments before building dams and piping water around the country one solution has been to try using less water for things like these but most of iran's water is used on farms where old ways of watering crops means waste on an industrial scale environmental experts also say the government needs to take the problem more

seriously. first we need to revise some laws and adopt the procedure for the stable development and management of water resources so we can better preserve water and control usage so we can be hopeful to have better conditions in the next one or two decades even by summer standards these river beds in the north of the capital are drier than usual that's being felt downstream where they feed ancient underground springs from up here you can really get a sense of the impact of the country's water shortage on public facilities in just twenty years a single generation what was once a sizable body of water has been reduced to little more than awaiting. people who live here say they had to plug part of the pool to collect enough water for kids to play and escape the summer heat. some of them are old enough to remember when the pool was full. i remember my childhood i mean my friends used to bike and swim

now it's fifty square metres back then it was about five thousand it was deep and considered dangerous the swimming. for now it's enough for these kids to cool off and have some fun and concern perhaps that when they have children of their own the little water they have loved probably won't be here. now from water shortages to wildfires the past twelve months of raise global awareness about the economic and human cost of extreme heat events we've seen wildfires in places unprepared for such outbreaks due to unusually hot weather drought and blistering heat of been turning forests into tinderboxes in places that were previously fire free you need a number of ingredients for wildfires in particular climate change is one of them tally events so far this year sweden has experienced sixty five fires already this year up from an annual average of three fires over the past decade glazes are now

happening as far north as the arctic circle that's according to copernicus the european union's earth observation program at least ninety one people died last month in the worst wildfire to hit greece in decades fire raced through a seaside area northeast of athens and in the u.s. the annual average number of large fires has doubled since the one nine hundred seventy s. putting lives and livelihoods at risk gamblers on the has more from the destroyed town of keswick. the entire community of keswick california has been turned to ash nothing remains a once slightly little town of about seven hundred people now resemble something like a faraway planet from a science fiction movie the fire that roared through here was described as a tornado of flames there was nothing firefighters could do to stop it the way the front fire front was coming through it was going to do what it wanted to do we

might be able to save one little spot here but the risk would have been real just announced to try and even be anywhere near there in what remains are the remnants of people's lives there are small signs of life here like the burnt pages of this children's book it's silent there isn't a sound there's still a mandatory evacuation zone residents aren't being allowed back only the occasional emergency vehicle passes by ironically the only color remaining in town a red fire hydrant that was no match for the flames it's the middle of the day but the sun can barely be seen because it's so gray and dark here the sun can barely peek out through that thick layer of smoke and ash that covers the air not only here but in this entire region of california doctors say people that inhale the smoke now face health risks. by all accounts everyone here was able to flee just

before the fire overtook them the residents are mostly low income the future of the historic town is now in doubt i don't know if they'll have the resources to rebuild if i hope it goes or have insurance have the opportunity but those who don't it's. a low income type of area so i'm not sure that a lot of people will be able to rebuild. if they decide to rebuild it will be a new town because the old one simply no longer exists. well joining us now from london is sam fine cows us sam is the director of the grantham research institute on climate change and the environment good to have you with us so first of all how unusual are the extreme heat events we've been witnessing this year well at the moment these events still feel slightly unusual me sort of talk about direct court temperatures certainly in the north and hemisphere but if you

start looking forward to in fact there in climate change this will become the new normals norm of their predictions that the kind of heat we have this year we might experience every other year from about twenty forty onwards that's quite scary you mentioned climate change that how is it linked to climate change break it down for us where this quite the clear link between the probability of having a heat wave and climate change to the climate or the weather sort of fluctuates the stock of temperature on top of that fluctuations and we're about one degree warmer now when global average were in pre-industrial times under two hundred years ago and that means that we can statistically start to show that the probability of certain events increases because of climate change what we currently seeing in north in europe and preliminary estimates tell us is about two times as likely that

it would have been if there wasn't manmade global warming what sort of heat events should we expect to occur every other year going forward more of the same or something even more little intense it could probably even become more intense and we shouldn't just talk about only heat in temperature climate change changes a lot of variables that that can be dangerous to us we will see more drought events and that can be really really destructive we can look at seven nothing of the cape region at the moment where water is in in very. short supply and that causes huge disruption and damage we might have too much water in in other instances extreme downpours flooding events hurricanes typhoons we've seen examples of that in the us a year ago with hurricanes like maria and harvey we see it in japan at the moment again there are very high damages associated with too much water as much as damage

from not enough water so listen him course you have to heat waves so just listening to you speak there one assumes this will be very disruptive to current patterns of economic activity right it will be very disruptive we can adapt to certain sayings we can change our act agricultural practices we can plant different crops we can airconditioning air condition our houses so it's a lot of things we can do but it will ultimately be very disruptive we will have to change our infrastructure the way we do things infrastructure is a very long lived building sit these. trains power stations for twenty thirty forty years if you have to read the sign and retrofit climate change adaptation on took those structures that will be very disruptive and very expensive it will be worth doing because we have a different climate but it will be very very expensive it's been fascinating

talking to you thanks so much sam my pleasure and finally a brazilian government commission has recommended easing restrictions on the use of pesticides it says the move would help aid the agricultural industry but families in rural areas say pesticides are already contaminating and food and water causing death and disease daniel schorr on the reports. the residents of the north chain northeastern brazil live by agriculture but many of them are also killed by it these widows and their families have been fighting for years for compensation for recognition they say that their husbands died from diseases contracted pesticides with inadequate protection as has been jaws a die twelve years ago. he asked me not to give up that i should keep fighting for justice that was his last request brazil uses twenty percent of the pesticides

produced markets it's difficult to avoid seeping into this local reservoir from neighboring soya fields it may look at the lake but extensive fumigation has poisoned this area that i'm breathing the water that the people here drink and the food that they grow a way of life poisoned by the big agricultural companies quest for short term profit for the temp pesticides most commonly used in brazil abandon europe university studies found cancer rates here forty percent higher than the national average for we get worried hearing that so many people feel but what can i do i need to keep working to pay my bills but cancer is not the only problem and tony his daughter suffers a congenital disease which doctors believe was caused by pesticides. even if we plan to vegetables or fruits in our yard we can't be sure that air or water aren't contaminated according to the studies it seems everything is contaminated here many

others here including his daughter sophia suffer similar diseases. but doctors from c.r. university did research here they identified a chemical substance in my daughter's blood that was banned in the one nine hundred ninety s. . however a government commission is recommending a relaxation of the existing regulations to allow the powerful agribusiness industry to spray more this is one of the best proposals for brazilian society we want to make sure the farmers provide the best food for the populations this bill is for food safety. campaigners say laws are flouted monitoring is poor and when they are trying to remove or limit they'll offer health and environmental in the process of. pesticides and we think that's very dangerous that we don't think that this is to modernize this system and it would take. justice here moved slowly down the bureaucracy that we fight to be heard the

response from the powerful agri businesses in the distant government goes on and that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag a j c c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al jazeera dot net is our address for you on line around zero dot com c.t.c. that'll take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on. for this edition of counting the cost time sam is a than from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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a quarter to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes we have requested and the u.n. three days of tranquility associated with the first color of vaccine the world health organization calls for a cease fire in yemen to help it stop another color outbreak. zimbabwe's opposition

leader says he's does not accept the election victory of emerson meaning god what he plans to challenge the results. china says it's ready to impose sixty billion dollars worth of tyrus on the u.s. in an escalating trade war. and european heatwave record breaking temperatures have people looking for relief. aid agencies are demanding a cease fire in yemen a day after airstrikes in the port city of kut data killed at least fifty five people the world health organization wants to deliver half a million color of vaccines to the north of the country where it's warning of another potential outbreak has more from neighboring djibouti. that come to buy fish and then the whole plane skate doesn't that i cannot do it i miss the

strap so back we went to the hospital right away and found a disaster a criminal disaster there are twenty six people dead twenty six martyred and we counted thirty five to forty wounded that's not even counting the many wounded we sent to private hospitals and we're still nursing the wounded and dealing with those killed. a second strike at the busy market. his rescue workers. conducting the night i was saving people in the second airstrike happened its impact and shrapnel hit my face my kenyan plate a little i couldn't feel my hand because of the shrapnel. the fish market was just twenty meters from the gates of the hospital the largest on one of just one full of medical facilities still open in the city of but they both the saudi and u.a.e. led coalition as well as who the flights as did my cutting all the talks they hop and does the u.n. special envoy for human announced he will hold talks between the government until

the rebels in geneva on the sixth of september these consultations will provide the opportunity for the park use among other things to discuss the framework for negotiations. so we agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process for next month's planned talks could come too late for some the world health organization is warning yemen could be on the brink of a new caller i'd put them in with even more deaths up to now the choice calling for ceasefire in north and yemen to allow for bugs initial campaign to be carted off but we have requested as the un three days is tranquility associated with the first or color of vaccine campaign across fourth fifth and sixth in the north of the country he recalled that we were able to start a cv campaigns in the south of the country previously but we've never before been

able to do it in the north and we have planning with almost three thousand health workers to vaccinate more than five hundred thousand individuals by the age of one year the world's wost humanitarian crisis may be about to become dramatically was the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen is warning that any father attacks in her day that could be cut with the human toll extending far beyond the limits of the city although seventy five percent of food imports into yemen go through the ports of the day that which is essential for imports such as fuel medicine and essential supplies. or james farwell is a senior fellow with the middle east institute in washington d.c. he's joining us now on skype from new orleans in louisiana nice to have you with us thank you very much indeed what do you think first of all are the chances that the un's call for talks are going to go ahead. well first thank you again for inviting

me on the show where you know the last round they had the united nations a couple of years ago the un has been pressuring the parties to come to a cease fire the attacks today to fifty five and wounded one hundred forty four coming on top of a war that has killed ten thousand people in our weekly fifty thousand children have died of disease and starvation is putting a lot of pressure when the united arab emirates and the saudi launch their attack on the data base over confidently predicted they would be able to out who these they outnumber these that hasn't worked out that way and the problem that you have is in the impasse in which the who the steps teach interest in holding up they've been accused of go for it supplies that are intended for civilians on the other hand the saudis in the end the u.a.e. finding the fighting much tougher to go and i think that the problem that you have is the one that we have which is that you have parties with different interests and driven by

a very emotional response in the case of the saudis they've been worried about whether the who these constitute a threat to the border they're experimental about iran the emirates have slightly different interests these want to not be dominate so it's going to be very difficult i think get people together it is possible given the international pressure that's being brought in there could be a cease fire i think that is very possibly the right international pressure especially if washington breaks it and european nations fearing it might cause the saudis in the emirates to agree to a cease fire just in this case six one side to agree to it all of the people that are the attackers of course on the the emirates i want to assume forgive me for interrupting sorry i wonder do us care about the international pressure and a moment but first of all in the event that the talks do take place what do you think a workable settlement to this conflict would look like. i think putting the

food supply totally under the auspices of the united nations which would be not partisan would not be taking sides with the view that those food supplies would be going to innocent civilians and therefore not affecting the strategic balance between fighting people is the argument and the rationale that gives an opportunity for ceasefire to take place ok let's talk about the international pressure that you were talking about earlier on the u.s. and the u.k. and france have obviously been providing the saudi led coalition with free feeling facilities and also intelligence gathering so they have a vested interest in this conflict on one side of the conflict it seems a little bit of a dichotomy when you've got on one hand trying to support one side of the conflict on of the other hand trying to bring pressure to end it how does that work. when he gets like anything in these situations they're very fluid if the saudis and the

emirates decided to. upgrade the pause to their it's back by definition you'll have a cease fire because the who these are going to do tense. the united states values its alliances with as did the european nations with both the emirates and with the saudis and so i think that there is some common ground and there's a good rationale that would give the united nations an opportunity to negotiate a cease fire it's like anything else until you try it you really never you know i just think that the rationale right now is stronger than it has been really interesting to get your views on this jim thank you for your time thank you. one person is being killed during protests along the gaza israel border palestinian officials say one hundred twenty other people have been injured as the israeli military fired live ammunition towards demonstrators tensions along the border have been growing protests against israel have been held every friday since march the thirtieth more than one hundred fifty palestinians have been killed since the

protests began seventy deca has more from gaza. it is the nineteenth week of protests and people still keep coming to the scene is really the same you can see now tear gas landing on the crowd the crowds are smaller probably even less than one percent of gaza's population but the message is the same they want their lives to improve and what is different this time is the political negotiations that are going on there is a senior delegation of how mass leaders including sali uprooted he is one of the main deputies chief deputy of hamas he is wanted by israel so him coming back here first time in eight years mean there are some kind of guarantees on the table that he won't be touched he comes from cairo have been negotiations going on there extensively with the with the u.n. with egypt the bigger picture is this they're trying to establish a long term cease fire with israel they're trying to improve the situation for the people here water elektra's city power openings of borders the details are

difficult they're complicated but certainly it does seem like something is moving moving hamas is talking the israeli cabinet will be meeting on sunday to discuss this specific issue we've been hearing also from leaders here that these protests nineteen weeks of them have borne fruit so we'll have to wait and see if anything comes out of these talks at least twenty five people have been killed in an attack on a shia mosque in afghanistan police say two suicide bombers have talkative worshipers during friday prayers in god is the capital kabul they opened fire inside the mosque before blowing themselves up more than eighty other people have been injured shala balance has more from kabul. president danny has come out he issued a statement he very rarely does that after bombings and attacks but this time with it being a shia mosque he has come out condemning the attack saying afghanistan will not be divided sunni shia we stand together and we're unified against attacks of this nature taleban has said this is not they work eisel is suspected they have targeted

shia many times especially over the last year there were two attacks here in kabul in march thirty nine people killed both suicide attacks last year there were four quite significant attacks all in kabul suicide attacks and more than one hundred people died in go again i see took responsibility parliamentary and district elections are coming up on october the twentieth security is a big issue the presidential elections are announced for april next year and it is everyone's mind not just day to day attacks we've had a couple of attacks on civilians and then province isolating up its operations there and then she put a few attacks between the taliban and i saw this so this is attacks across the country.