7 days of national mourning have been declared as the country honors its fall and president no front runner has emerged amongst the candidates who said they will be standing in the presidential elections in september but all shades of the political spectrum here are united in wanting one thing both a stable and a smooth transition of power david to al jazeera cottage. now the impact of a severe heat wave across europe has been made worse by travel holdups a power failure at paris has gone to normal railway station caused the cancellation of trains to and from london eurostar which takes passengers across the english channel has now warned passengers not to travel unless it's essential also in london a technical glitch 2 of the city's main airports caused major flight delays while the u.n. world meteorological organization now says it's worried that europe's heat wave is headed for green and the forecasts indicate atmospheric flow will push the heat

towards the world's 2nd largest ice sheet which is essential to the global climate system and then cause record melting this will then cause sea levels to rise even further and the weather to become even more unstable already this month greenland has lost the ice equivalent of $64000000.00 swimming pools in surface melt alone well earlier we spoke to ruth mottram who's a climate scientist at the denmark meterological institute and she says a clear link can be drawn between climate change and the increasing rates of ice melt in the arctic. we know that the arctic is warm so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called the arctic have that occasion so that climate change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment we're not where very close to our rep or to melt year 2012 we're getting very close to matching that fright now

we won't really know till the end of this month or even mid august which one has been the highest amount but that's what we're looking at right now it's probably fair to say that we will not know until we've passed it if it's irreversible or not and there have been a lot of studies looking at how much climate change we have and and still keep the ice sheet and it's important to remember that the ice sheet will still take hundreds if not thousands of years to melt completely doesn't go overnight. but there is a lot of work now indicating that one and a half or 2 degrees might be the sort of temperature global temperature threshold beyond which we cannot keep greenland ice sheet frozen. well more weather is next still ahead a historic core training for gold miners in south africa where for more than $350000000.00. and the national home comforts we look at how people are fairing now

that the economy is improving in all of iraq. how do we got plenty of cuts on town across the middle east that moment i want to show is up around the coaxes a little bit of cloud that just billing outs of to keep pushing towards the caspian sea out of the black sea and that's about the only rain that we do have on our charts for the time being far eastern corner of afghanistan could see want to send showers kabul $34.00 celsius 30 celsius there for beirut lots of sunshine into the mid forty's once again. at 42 celsius folks who a city said not as hot as it has been raised in labor so the hot enough but you hate to across the river potentially the temperature is edging up a notch here in doha perhaps a little less humid but a little hotter in the process $43.00 degrees and want to see showers just around

the southern end of the red sea western parts of yemen could see the odd shower sas day looks a little dry as you go on into sunday as is the case across much of the race but a 38 and humid 38 once again here in doha not too much right on the forecast for cost for southern africa over the loss of sunshine coming $3000.00 sales is in cape town so warm sunshine it that we have got increasing cloud just spinning in across the oceans as we go on through the next couple of days but across the region this windy dry and fine.

i know again i'm not on our minds of our top stories this hour more than 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days 27 of them children are increasingly becoming the victims of a government and russian assault on the rebel held province of it. 40 bodies have been pulled from the water off to the west mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 150 refugees and migrants saw fit to have drowned off the coast of libya on

thursday. and a severe heat wave is threatening the wilds of a 2nd largest ice sheet and the u.n. . says it could cause record melting raising sea levels and leading to more unstable weather. thousands of miners in south africa with potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement with $350000000.00 in a class action lawyers for the mine workers to 10 major companies for compensation 6 of the companies accepted a deal which has now been approved by a court in johannesburg up to 100000 miners all their dependents could benefit many miners have lung disease or illnesses as a result of their way richard s'pore is a human rights lawyer who's been working on this case for many is and he says the court's decision is a landmark in the history of mine his rights in south africa. before this there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of

employers towards workman who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big bright $32011.00 but the last 78 years of being spent litigating against the mining companies and the last several years in parallel with at a geisha in process. of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today we had a migrant labor system for many many decades the majority of the most living in deep religious in south africa and in neighboring countries like mozambique lawsuit 2 in swaziland where they really don't have access to medical facilities to screen and examine him so we don't know the status of the vast majority of full mind work is up there and step one is rolling out. a program

to get medical facilities to them for chicks it just it strays learn french and tastes and generally physical exams. to a 6 whether or not they are suffering from lung disease and qualified to be compensated. well coal mining is partly to blame for making south africa one of the continent's west polluters and now businesses are big on paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight climate change. or has more any and rang a province. south africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africa's worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fossil fuel to produce electricity environment groups say the towering coal fired power stations release dangerous carbon emissions every day into the atmosphere the government introduced a carbon tax law earlier this month requiring big polluting companies to pay tax each time they emit greenhouse gases those in favor of the tax hope it will be enough of a deterrent and they must remember that the more they pollute there's

a concoction of pollutants in the atmosphere you can do business in a did climate a message that we're getting there they should do things as possible. to that because emissions are marked $8.00 times per person every year the world bank says that's among the highest in the developing world it's ranked among the dirtiest energy producers in the world number 16 on the global emissions list. the paris agreement on climate change and committed to an emission reduction of 34 percent by 2020 and 42 percent by 2025 but industry experts warn in a country where the official unemployment rate is more than 27 percent carbon taxes and to growth and jobs and anti investment the problem is the cost increases and the uncertainty around how the church will be applied because the carbon budget regulations have not been published and. the carbon offset regulations.

it will still be years before their focus is a significant reduction in carbon emissions and that's only if the carbon tax law proves to be effective south africans who support carbon tax say the money must be used to benefit poor communities by helping pay for progress. provide cleaner and safer energy for low income households. people living near coal fired power stations are concerned about their health temple is one of millions of south africans who are unemployed and don't have access to electricity he got a call from nearby mines so that his family can cook and keep warm in winter there's of course it's not the effect of a break in i think of the chemical they use that's making us sick but we have to live with it what else can we do until coal is one day replaced by green energy sources or gas emissions are drastically reduced for mining communities will continue to be polluted air every day. al-jazeera. south africa. a u.s. congressional hearing on the rising cost of prescription drugs has begun there

discussing among other things the increased expenses that a sending diabetics and others across the border and to canada to buy medication the so-called insulin caravans are designed to draw attention to their financial burden correspondent on a lack followed one of those groups into canada. the n.c.a.a.'s. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states their caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life that diabetes looks sight on this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesn't have the disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the scare and memory of my son alex

smith who passed away on june 27th of 2017 from diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of rationing because he cannot afford it the group came to canada to buy cheaper insulin but mostly this is a gesture aimed at u.s. political leaders in the pharmaceutical industry insulin prices are so high that one in 4 diabetics in the u.s. has to ration the insulin they can afford putting their lives in danger. we need a long term solution this just isn't isn't the solution this isn't the fixes to what's going on in america but if it's temporary prices for life saving drugs in canada are regulated by a government appointed body organizers of the caravan say that should happen in the us too we are from a developed country. we are from a great country but we are not taking care of our citizens after buying their lifes . saving drugs the diabetics from the united states who come to the home of

frederick banting 1928 came up with the idea that led to man made insulin. banting sold the patent for insulin for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit but that hasn't happened and diabetics from the united states say it's time to honor the wishes of the man who helped make sure they could survive a disease that used to be a death sentence don't you lack al-jazeera london ontario white house correspondent candy how that has more on the hearing about the high cost of prescription drugs lawmakers on capitol hill debating how to combat the rising drug prices crisis that exists in the united states well all agree that this is becoming an escalating crisis for ordinary americans one that often comes down to life and death the difference in opinion is how to resolve it democrats say the answer is socialized medicine where there are negotiations with drug companies to keep prices low

conservatives republicans say that is not the answer was needed is to reform the patent system in essence preserving what they see as important for research and scientific development and that is competition patients say they spoke on capitol hill that they don't care what the solution is they just want to see one as soon as possible for many including david mitchell a cancer patient it is literally an issue of life and death. every 2 weeks i spend a half a day at the clinic getting an infusion of drugs that are currently priced annually at $650000.00 i relapsed twice and unfortunately i'm failing on this current drug regime eventually i'm going to run out about this so the importance of innovation is not theoretical for me it's literally life and death but my experience as a patient taught me one year refutable fact and that is drugs don't work if people can't afford them so expect that this will be something that will be debated hotly

on the campaign trail not just by the democratic presidential candidates but also by donald trump as they approach the election for the president for 2020. israeli soldiers have fired tear gas at palestinians protesting against this week's demolition of their homes and occupied east jerusalem the houses that what he had hamas were on land controlled by the palestinian authority but their owners lost a 7 year long battle to have a town in israel. the un and various human rights organizations have condemned the destruction. well there's optimism in the kurdish region of northern iraq that the economy is improving 5 years after the defeat of eisel since the formation of a new government many people are hoping for a more positive future and sascha going to reports from a bill. that when we 1st met the hussein is my old family last year they were worrying about how they would pay their bills each month after their salaries

were slashed to hard works for the government and book called teaches the government owes them even more money $15000.00 in unpaid wages but at least now they're getting paid their full salary. their good salary still feeling secure we're getting old fool seller is now ok but we can't be sure that will be the case next month there are 1400000 people working for the government and public sector in the semi-autonomous region of northern iraq they watch their paychecks shrink or disappear beginning in 2014 that's when the war with ice will began the price of oil plummeted and the federal government in baghdad cut budget payments to the kurdistan regional government austerity measures were implemented and workers paid the price with reduced salaries the dispute has been resolved the new prime

minister who came to power this year says the estimated 10000000000 dollars that's owed to public sector employees will be paid although he's not given a timeframe the. government says unemployment has dropped from 14 percent in 2016 to 9 percent so far this year there's more confidence among people like businessmen come out. he develops residential and commercial buildings he says when i saw began terrorizing the region he was forced to put 20 percent of his construction projects on hold we come. back on them and i lost between $14.00 and $16000000.00 now i have a belief with the stability of the situation in the kurdish region the wheels of the economy will be back on track will earn money again and business will be fine. with the freedom to think beyond meeting their minimum expenses because all is focusing on the family's future big money. we have plans in our heads the

1st one is to visit the doctor so we can pay for fertility treatments to have a 2nd child if we keep getting our salaries as we are not all will be able to fulfill our dreams for their 4 and a half year old daughter to noack the hope of having a sibling to play with can't come quickly enough natasha going to aim. well you can find a much much more on our website do go and have a look at the address for that is al jazeera dot com. hello i'm just with the headlines now more than 100 civilians have been killed in syria in the past 10 days 27 of them children they are increasingly becoming the victims of a government and russian assault on the rebel held province of. the un's human rights chief says there is targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes.

40 bodies have been pulled from the water off to the west mediterranean tragedy this year as many as $150.00 refugees and migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya on thursday around 300 people were on board 2 boats that left the town of homs east of the capital tripoli the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150 refugees and migrants lost their lives after the boats they were in capsized off the coast of libya on the 25th of july children and pregnant women are among the missing he is also concerned by reports that many of the survivors rescued by the libyan coast guard replaced in that that you are a migrant detention center which is close to a military facility and was hit by an airstrike on the 2nd of july that resulted in more than 50 deaths the secretary general reiterates that libya is not a safe country of asylum and that refugees must be treated with dignity and respect

and in accordance with international law a severe heatwave is threatening the world's 2nd largest ice sheet in greenland the un well to meteorology says it could cause record melting raising sea levels and dating to even more unstable weather thousands of mine is in south africa who are suffering from potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement where 3 $150000000.00 now is for the mine rock is syria to 10 major companies for compensation 6 of them accepted a deal many miners have lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work china's it is observing a 7 days of mourning for its president 92 year old bed. who died on thursday his body has been taken to the presidential palace in coffee where he'll be buried on saturday and said he was replaced by the speaker of parliament to mohamed and the election until september 15th well those are the headlines next stop it's inside story stay with us.

as climate change to blame for the heat wave in europe temperatures have hit records in many countries there scientists say heat waves like this will be the new normal in the future so if that's right isn't enough being done to prevent them this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey a heat wave has baked western europe this week with cities and france in the

netherlands seeing record breaking temperatures and germany a new high force the shutdown of a nuclear reactor after the water became too hot and the temperatures in the u.k. soaring past previous levels it's met office is warning heat waves like this could become normal and 2 decades to get to our guests but 1st this report from the day. enjoying the heat in paris the water fountains by the eiffel tower are a popular place for those trying to stay cool. as a red alert was issued for northern france in the capital reached an all time national record of $41.00 celsius well french media reports suggest 5 deaths might to be linked to the current heat wave. on wednesday belgium germany and the netherlands all recorded their highest ever temperatures and they did it again on thursday topping 40 degrees celsius. while some in the belgian capital brussels are making the most of it it's now to a so-called code red being issued for the 1st time we are observing the weather

since 1930 trees nearly 200 years and we never experienced this kind of temperatures over in britain as temperatures soared activists in london staged a small protest outside this building housing media outlets demanding they concentrate less on images of fun in the sun and more in explaining the extreme weather. we can talk about a short stay on record with headlines like what scorcher without looking into why is it the hottest thing and what does that mean for she manatee what's that mean in the next 102030 years. there will to eat for food for particularly for people in developing countries who this is affecting right now but al-jazeera had no difficulty finding people who are concerned about what's driving the increasingly common heat waves people start realizing that things are changing and quite quickly in the climate and so is that is the moment to just to change

something. before it's too late this is something that makes our planet less. comfortable to live on say we have to think about how to stop it so that also our children can still survive on this planet most people here in britain welcome a bit of sunshine but for when the humidity and on a day like this the priority for lots of people is actually staying in the shade more broadly more and more starting to draw the line between europe 6 streams summers and the climate crisis the u.k. government's advisory committee on climate change has warned the countries not prepared for the extremes the global warming is expected to bring here the current heat which prompted health warnings and brought trains to a standstill in some parts. and in southern europe this was greece on wednesday a series of wildfires are a reminder of conditions that many are calling the new normal. and while those conditions have their upsides they bring their own dangers the al-jazeera london.

let's take a closer look at those soaring temperatures across western europe germany netherlands and belgium broke all time temperature records over the past 2 days a new national record was set in germany when the thermometer reached 41.5 degrees celsius in the netherlands it hit 40.7 temperatures in belgium reached 40.6 degrees that is the highest in 7 decades paris experienced its hottest day ever at 42.6 degrees red alert was issued in northern france and 13 cities in italy and the u.k. saw its 2nd hottest day ever on thursday as temperatures soar to 38 point one degrees extreme heat disrupted travel across europe with trains running slowly to avoid buckling rails. let's introduce the panel now in london nathan thankee a coordinator of the global campaign to demand climate justice engine eva by skype

tessa kelly a climate change coordinator at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and left proton matthews a lecturer in climate science at the university there welcome to all of you and i'm tom i want to start with you if if we have a hurricane or a tornado or earth flooding that is immediately seen as an emergency do you think that these heat waves and climate change are being treated as a proper emergency. i mean that's an excellent question you're right the things like to post like clones are very visual it's a did the destruction that they they cause is rightly seen as an emergency heat waves are a very different very different being because they're sort of creeping threat you don't see the heat but you use that you feel it and world why does anyone my concerns are they are in extreme heat really have billions of people worldwide living in places that experience really extreme conditions far more curing what we've seen in europe in the last few days temperatures approaching 50 degrees

celsius and they really challenge people's ability to you know sort of even to just survive and certainly in a really challenge people options or the district them becomes doing things like earning earning a living and out of all the all the climates or the hazards that can respond to a warming climate will change in a warm climate it's extreme heat is but that is perhaps the clip the clearest change as temperatures increase worldwide dangerously hot weather becomes more frequent and it becomes more intense so expect to say temperatures of the likes of 40 degrees that we saw in the u.k. are close to 40 degrees the high forty's and south of france and the 54 degrees occurred in pakistan in 2017 occurring more frequently and events of the same rarity to be even more severe higher temperatures and i think to date perhaps that has been slightly off the agenda or at least not as high on the agenda as it should be in terms of how we sort of prioritize climate hazards in a in

a warming climate nathan how predictable are decent waves. i mean i'm not a climate scientist but i think you know layperson can say that they're quite predictable. the last 4 years have been the highest on record when we look at them it's a cumulative effect 2015 is the highest the hottest year that there ever has been followed closely 520-162-0172 extension 8 team we don't know what we are art for $21000.00 but we can we can say the high degree of certainty that it's going to be up there so the likelihood of these types of events heat with but also the other imparts from climate change. being sing more frequently is increasing exponentially it's not really a matter of debate anymore and it. will talk about climate change broadly in just a moment the 1st pacifically when it comes to heat waves like this what does that

mean for what's expected red cross and red crescent where the red cross and red crescent have volunteers that are working with communities that are working with the most vulnerable people affected by crew change and in particular heat waves and what we're seeing is that often the most vulnerable people were are. doing criminal women and children and people with preexisting medical conditions we have to make sure that in times like heat waves but we're checking on them and making sure that barricade this is exactly what national reprocessed rechristened societies do on the ground tom how would you say if you had to critique how governments in the west right now are dealing with this how how would you grade them. so i mean certainly policy is not really an area that i research actively but we can we can observe some very positive things have been done by western governments in the last few years since the last time europe at least was hit by really big heat waves that was 2003 and that really opened lot of people's eyes would have 70000 people killed and

in the wake of that a number of initiatives were set up by governments across europe these he health early warning plans that sort of kick into action when extreme heat is forecast and we've seen those those plans working well far so we haven't seen the large loss of life that we witnessed in 2003 despite temperatures of passing those values and in the rest of europe now of course a bigger question i suppose is is how well we in the west generally are supporting you know sort of measures worldwide to to reduce the challenge posed by extreme heat because one thing i will say is that in europe it's possible with the behavioral changes and the sorts of things are done these he health of the patient plans to minimize the impact of really extreme heat elsewhere in the world it's not quite as easy when temperatures approaching 50 degrees slowing down drinking water or any body sort of so much and i say men who have so much latitude to increase our president i suggest and just a moment we're going to have the challenge out there if i could step in for just

a moment we are going to come back to what to broadening this broadening this out the on europe in just a moment so if i can just get you to hold that point for a moment but in the meantime nathan climate change is not something that we debate here at al-jazeera is it is fact but the fact that it is still debated in some places particularly places like the u.s. how troubling how dangerous is that. it's really troubling we're the rest of the world is effectively being held hostage by a small number of very wealthy very white quite old men in the united states. who have funneled over over a period of decades billions of dollars into this information and into delaying the kind of progress that might have happened within the united states in terms of reducing its own mahsud of admissions share so i think that it's

a you know frankly it's a disgrace. generally more surprised that that hasn't been in the united states an uprising. to really root the might because the don't serve any interests other than their own elite interests. so tom if you can hear there nathan said you know he's surprised there's not more of an uprising and there are you know protests and demonstrations about climate change in a lot of different places but why do you think that it still doesn't really resonate with some people the since of urgency about it well again i'm in my expertise in the physical system so you know i'll come in him or sort of. objectives i suppose with versions that question there's been a lot of research that shows that climate change is something this can be easy to distance himself from because the immediate impacts are felt by others a long way away and in this case i think that's quite a person with respect to extreme heat. they didn't train for this for this

discussion because the most challenging conditions worldwide are faced away from the west they are faced in places like southeast asia around the persian gulf and around east asia and when we see impacts like that somewhere else is perhaps easier than appreciate the agency of the situation perhaps that the property is down to policy that does not an area that are or comment on so to say you do see this up close this is not something that is far away and distant for you and for the red cross. tell us how much more this is a bigger piece of what you do now having to deal with the after effects of climate change and weather certainly is so. i am from sea and now. up to 3000 weather events in just the last decade and expecting that this will continue to increase and frequent change is becoming. a primary concern for us as a humanitarian act and remove not be able to continue to pick up the pieces.

whether events and as we do take more action action. they don't want to go back to something you were talking about we were talking about policy and there are countries like the u.s. that are not. carrying their weight not doing their part what countries would you say are at least making an attempt or at least making a difference or trying to do their part. so there was an interesting study that combined a couple of years ago examining the contributions the countries are making towards the parse agreement the so-called paris plage is and what it did was of value it much their pledge represented their quote unquote fair share of responsibility and what it falling was the. broadly speaking the developed countries were or failing miserably to deliver on what their fair share would be meanwhile the developing countries and including in that china were again broadly speaking more or less

doing what their fair share would be the fresher being determined by what they have historically contributed up to this point and also what their current capacity in terms of financial economic pie are means for them and so that was i think a shock for a lot of people to realize because the message that we're often told is that in europe we have of sort of many dreaming leaning governments who are leading the way on this empirically proven but that wasn't the case. so there are i don't think we can say that any government on the face of this earth is doing enough within the scope of what would be considered to be fair we can say that at least the developing countries are trying they obviously need to do more about being able to do more will be contingent on being able to do more by having finance provided technology provided but currently we're not seeing that forthcoming instead we're

seeing actually reneging on financial commitments under the green climate fund we're seeing really pretty bit of intellectual property rights being placed in the late system that prevent the rollout of these technologies that we really need at scale ok let me jump in for just a 2nd you talked about finances an economy. at some point if it isn't already climate change costs businesses money over time is is that the way to get their attention. i mean it it might be. some of them think very short term so it depends on what time scale you're talking about and they also i'm sure factoring in at this sort of executive level. really that will mean for them if they're able to kind of get out before things get really nasty so it might motivate some i think for certainly for like people that aren't in multinational business i

think it's a big concern but for the real for the businesses that and corporations that have the lion's share of pollution to contribute the most about i'm not so sure that they're really actively thinking about. how much money they're going to lose and instead they're when we look at the fossil fuel industry in particular. going after what what many people called stranded ossets so that although these hydrocarbons that haven't yet been dug up in extracted. and can't be if we have any if you want to have any hope for living on that on this planet but they're still pursuing those so it doesn't seem to be an argument that this winning enough of them over at the executive level told me to come back to this and we absolutely are you were talking about how different countries different parts of the world are they're not all impacted by climate change in the same way who gets the worst of it. well

you really don't need depends on the lesson we took the hazards off in the context of climate change so that's how we feel the impact is not through the change in the average it's a change in the frequency or intensity of extreme events so be they things like tropical cyclamens be they heat waves or be the extreme storms and the likes we see in the latter twos or thunderstorms across the pens where you are. generally speaking an area that gets hit pretty hard as over region as the lower latitudes places close to the equator that's certainly the case when we talk about things like extreme heat and tropical cyclons 2 of the most impactful extreme weather events worldwide and unfortunately in terms of heat alone this place is already very close to dangerous thresholds in terms of temperature and humidity and it doesn't take much therefore to push people into conditions that are really dangerous where you know it's difficult to have to work or simply to to stay healthy and on top of that those readers are already very hard see the largest

absolute changes in what's called the what's called the feels like temperature when you combine humid into into the into one variable so i would say generally speaking to chewed sort of contributed perhaps less to committee of carbon emissions to date and perhaps have the lowest ability to adapt in terms of resources. in the firing line the most it has are you deal with people on the ground that are you know dealing with this right in their face explain why you know 1st of all there's really nowhere to escape but it's also not that easy for a family to just pick up and move because of the conditions or they live this internally displaced people. absolutely likely when people are back to by extreme weather whatever it is don't want to have to leave their homes and have to regroup families and their communities and so we very much work with governments

with local authorities and other civil society organizations to help communities prepare for i meant practice and to make sure that they're living in safer homes and they have access to resources to act early when when they hear of an oncoming storm and cite were you nervous upcoming heat wave so there's a lot that can be done to prepare and to reduce the impacts of extreme weather and this is exactly what we need to be doing war of as we experience the impacts of climate change nathan i want to turn a critical eye to the media i read a comment today and i'm curious in your ear and put on this paraphrasing a bit loosely said you know why is the media what are they whenever there is heat waves why do they treat these stories like they're fun stories and everyone's getting out something in the poor and that the media plays a role in shaping the way the public thinks about those things what are your

thoughts on that. i think it's outrageous. you'll notice that i think one of the extinction of millions targets as has been in this country the b.b.c. and they've been trying to call them out for what they call a sort of bias almost towards the point of being climate denialism. i think that there's a there is a massive degree of responsibility the lies with the particular corporate media for don playing the seriousness of this challenge for also kind of misdirecting the focus of the anger away from elite and corporate polluters and away from sort of taking us a systemic look at the crisis and narrowing it down really to the level of individual behavior and consumption changes which means that people feel guilty themselves but they also will be then taking actions which were not a mind to anything near enough in terms of impact so we were not going to see the

kinds of changes based not only because of the media's dumping of the crisis but also because of their sort of incessant mis direction away from a critique of the global economic system really i think it's fairly easy to explain why that is when you look at who really controls the media particularly in the u.k. tom is this is this trend the heat wave climate change is it reversible. that's a very good question so i mean in the short term temperatures will continue to go up almost regardless of of what we do and that's an inconvenient truth that just reflects the fact that it takes some time for the climate system to respond to emissions that are already already up in the atmosphere. reversible or long term yes if we if we become carbon new juror c o 2 levels are reduced in the atmosphere then of course it is reversible to try and increase in temperatures and then the increase in intense heat waves to the follows something that i suppose in the short

term we have a greater capacity there is to increase our sort of adaptive ability and that relates to things like the health or early warning plans adaption adaptation more broadly said to respond well to the changes that we do we know are coming in the short term we are committed to more warming and we don't even necessarily know what a planet is one degree above pre-industrial is where we sit right now we don't really know what the extremes look like in a world like that because we've only had you know a couple of years of this this temperature level so in the short term adaptation is really where we need to invest some so miss him energy because more changes are coming but further along the line i think going back to your and back to your question i very much hope they are of the trends that we're seeing in the short term we committed to and the only way they reversed bill is by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere tesa. real quick to you i know that the red cross has sounded the alarm do you feel that governments are listening more.

yes actually i think with teens and really positive development. programs it's slow but i feel like this year because of the increased public attention and also because of the impact that really experiencing across the board whenever you are there is more ambitious now to address climate change and raising that particularly now in the run up to the u.n. secretary general climate summit where business spectator that governments will come and put commitments on the table and show how much they're committed to addressing climate change and in fact we've been really believes to see that there are some positive developments there and we hope that comes that tender there we see really strong commitments exactly as tom said it around this adaptation. but of course we want life commitments not just to stay at statements we want to result

in group action on the ground and this time we'll have to scout tessa thank you very much thank you all for this discussion appreciate it very much nathan thank you kelly and tom matthews i thank you for watching as well you can watch the program any time to get our web site al-jazeera dot com for further discussion of our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. entire story and for the conversation on twitter i had a list at a.j. inside story from a rachelle carried the entirety half an hour. this

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hello there i'm from london with the latest from europe including concerns of a severe ice melts in greenland europe's record breaking heat wave moves north. and a historic court ruling for gold miners in south africa with more than $350000000.00 out in sport colombian eagan but i'll take the lead after a dramatic day the tour de france afrique hail storm forces organizers to abandon friday stage 30 kilometers from the finish. now more children are becoming victims of the government and russian assault on syria's rebel held it in a province the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll michelle bash says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes

a warning viewers may find some of the pictures and then hot as reporters stabbing their images that have shocked many tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the government's assault is that it's 3 months. of a loved one desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in the syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to her 3 year old sister drove around for as long as she could. but then they fell to the ground i died. struggled for life but later passed away in hospital. the high number of people killed and injured here particularly children reflects the scale of the humanitarian situation war monitor say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths 200 of them children since the russian backed syrian government offensive began in april in the past

months at least 33 children were killed according to save the children that's more than in the whole of 2018. they are linked wrong with it and most of all it's the places they live in that are being hit marketplaces hospitals that the facility is schools no one and nothing is safe anymore and. these scenes have become all too familiar and rescue workers at times dig for hours to find survivors and remove the dead civilian infrastructure schools hospitals. and help the syrians are protected under international humanitarian law they're meant to be spared and yet they're being impacted more than anything else so there has to be outrage. the latest offensive is no different from previous ones during the 8 year war they are carried out with impunity and little accountability . the pope sent

a letter to syria's president bashar assad asking him to protect the lives of civilians the european union says attacks on critical civilian infrastructure must stop the united states and the u.k. renewed calls for a cease fire an adlib but the international community statements have not been backed with action. the book borgman hasn't stopped it's intensifying the un describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players of this conflict but international humanitarian rights organizations see they are being targeted. istanbul. for the past 10 days have been particularly violent in the southern countryside of it province in that period the united nations says at least 104 civilians have been killed in airstrikes of those deaths 27 were children the u.n. veins the syrian government and its russian ally schools hospitals markets and businesses have been the targets and the u.n.

adds with the frequency of the attacks it's unlikely they were hit by accident it's estimated that 400000 syrians were displaced just in the past 3 months earlier i talked to report caldwell who's the spokesman for the united nations high commissioner for human rights and he says government as strikes are relentless and indiscriminate. well we're definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the government forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so and just in the past 2 weeks i would say it's escalated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily i mean over and what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more asterix last nights and some early today as well so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all i'm not the fighters on either side it's the civilians who are caught between them i mean just in the past 10 days alone we know of 10 different locations that have been hit by

a strike some of them. more than once several times over 10 places where they've been civilian casualties have been other strikes where they've been having been casualties these tend the strikes are along a 2 main routes the m 4 the m 5. live and there are essentially civilian areas the civilians really have nowhere to go and bombs are falling in market squares in bakeries and so on 40 bodies have been pulled from the mediterranean sea off to the west tragedy that this year as many as $150.00 refugees and migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya on thursday the u.n. is demanding immediate changes in the way that migrants protected the secretary general is deeply saddened by the news that some 150 refugees and migrants lost their lives after the boats they were in capsized off the coast of libya on the 25th of july children and pregnant women are among the missing he's also concerned

by reports that many of the survivors rescued by the libyan coast guard were placed in that that you were at migrant detention center which is close to a military facility and was hit by an airstrike on the 2nd of july that resulted in more than 50 deaths the secretary general reiterates that libya is not a safe country of asylum and that refugees must be treated with dignity and respect and in accordance with international law. when put her children on a wooden boat she was trying to make it to europe by any means possible instead the journey became the worst tragedy this year in the mediterranean sea nearly 150 passengers were rescued by local fishermen her son wasn't one of them she's blaming international organizations for a lack of support the most of the numbers that i lost my 7 year old child i don't want anything now except to go back to my country sudan to die there. survivors

were returned to libya a primary departure point for people fleeing poverty and war in africa and the middle east one person drowns in the mediterranean for every 6 that successfully reach europe's shores we've now had more than 700 deaths on the mediterranean this year if current trends for this year continue but will see us past more than 1000 deaths on the mediterranean for the 6th year in a row it's a really bleak milestone really bad is thinking about it comes just weeks after more than 50 people lost their lives in a detention center following an asse strike into giora and really once again stresses the edge and see if it was needed of a need for a shift in approach to the situation in libya in the mediterranean. libya's coast guard continues to take migrants to 2 jura the detention center holding mostly african migrants that was bombed 3 weeks ago by air forces believed to be loyal to

the warlord khalifa haftar it's near the front line of fighting as huffed are tries to take the capital the u.n. says the current model which is backed by the e.u. must change one where libya's coast guard intercepts and forcibly returns people caught trying to cross the sea. there's a conflict going on in my dues and become a pawn in this game they're used to make money for people who have to pay their passage. then she served you can affect a little bit with not just the just not happy situation. turning away from her banning books from rescuing people are certainly not the way to go the un refugee agency estimates that 6000 other refugees and migrants are being held in libyan detention centers even though they haven't committed a crime yet they remain highly at risk of getting caught in the conflict or dying at sea and are schapelle al-jazeera. to nazir is observing 7 days of mourning for its president but. the 1002 year old will be laid to rest on saturday and said he

will be remembered for guiding to nazir and to a new era of democracy david chase reports from carthage. the body of president. is being taken back to his official residence in carthage as tributes to his role in establishing democracy in tunisia followed in his wake the french president emanuel and the german chancellor angela merkel both praised him for his courage. the new phase introduces government is now under way the speaker of parliament mohamed el nasser sworn in to search term purlieus the country's president he will take over for up to 90 days while elections are organized. i swear by god almighty to protect the independence of tunisia and the safety of its lands to respect the constitution and law and fully take care of the people's interests and be loyal to tunisia. in such

a young democracy the vacant post of the country's leader could spark a power struggle among chooses political parties there for not what candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial who have been barred from running the presidential elections by parson parliament not too long ago this law is not yet been signed by. before he passed away and i think we'll hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days. the president spent the last few weeks of his life in and out of hospital he was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as prime minister and then tunisia's 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech. we're going to have his accomplishments were often overshadowed by a weak economy and a high unemployment rate oh no worries go to the start of this mission on

a positive note and he finished that the same way may he rest in peace his predecessors hurt the country but he was a good man who served his country no one did that before him no one. any of he we hope the next president will be even better we hope our country will be stable and safe we have some terrorism but the country doesn't blame him 7 days of national mourning have been declared as the country on as it's fallen president no front runner has emerged amongst the candidates who said they will be standing in the presidential elections in september but all shades on the political spectrum here are united in wanting one thing both a stable and a smooth transition of power david chaytor al jazeera cottage now the united nations as warned of a possible record breaking ice melt in greenland as a heat wave which struck europe this week moves further north for more now we can cross to felicity.