officials told farmers to stop harvesting in was france's 2nd largest grain producing region where the harvest is in full swing across the european union's largest grain producer and exporter. well on top of the heat wave fronts in the u.k. have been struggling with major travel disruption transport between france and london's are trains rather perceive paris and london were cancelled after a pair of failure at the garden or railway station eurostar which takes passengers across the english channel as more and passengers not to travel unless it's essential in london a technical glitch it see the city's main airports caused major flight delays. we've got the weather up here next and then myanmar tries to convince rangar refugees to return from bangladesh but is it safe and paying the price the killing of hundreds of human rights defenders in colombia scrunch worldwide breach.

hello there we can promises to bring some much cooler weather across central and western areas of europe but also as i see case guys across eastern sections it's out across the west the cloud has been heading in and bringing with it the rain but of course also bringing that much cold as 0 temperatures a lot lower fact they london and in paris a little bit below the average for this time of yet meanwhile a warm day in 08 despite the rain 26 degrees in iceland rid 28 till saturday now that is that she 10 degrees below what we have seen for the last several days and this is heading to sunday what you will notice the temperatures across eastern areas actually beginning to warm up so walsall for example your high there of $34.00 degrees as about 9 degrees above the average for this time of year 30 celsius in kiev and that rain pushing at us is steadily further tools the east and in fact just slight improvement on this. which isn't sunday london and paris both

as you can see up to 23 degrees and i'm afraid it will be there with a high of 30 degrees celsius northern africa it is dry no sign of any rain here and if the time which is again typical for this time of year but it's certainly a warm day suffering car with a high of $3631.00 in tripoli some on shore breezes in robot with a high of 23 as you head on into sunday got a great deal of change 24 there and 34 in tunis. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but a remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on

a jersey or. you're watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour the un's human rights chief is condemning what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held province michel bashfully says those targets and civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed 27 offend children. but hey it has gone ahead but the execution of 2 men convicted on charges of terrorism despite its international calls for clemency un special

rapporteur on extrajudicial killings agnes kalam art and calls on men ahmed to hold the execution or for ali and. the rights groups say their trials were unfair. and police in hong kong are bracing for more violence protests gather in the same area where they were attacked by alleged gang members last week demonstrators are heading to you norm a rural town on the. outskirts of hong kong the town it isn't expected to be high after police banned the rally citing a serious risk of violence. earthquakes in northern philippines have killed at least 8 people see tremors with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.9 struck on saturday near the bataan a silence at least 60 people are injured and there's been significant damage to homes and other buildings libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies over dozens of refugees migrants who dies in what the un has described as the worst

mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 350 people were on board the boats that capsized off the time of homes east over tripoli on thursday around $145.00 of them were rescued by the libyan coast guard $120.00 others including women and children are missing. 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 were placed in that the jury 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. as for. use of 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 among the invisible i lost my 7 year old child i don't want anything now except to go back to my country sudan to die their. 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 years and become a pawn in this game they're used to make money for people who are you going to see

you know. servitude in effect a little not just the is not a happy situation. turning away from it or banning those from rescue 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. that's allegation from dan maher has survived at rangar refugee camps in bangladesh the group traveling to cox's bizarre is trying to convince the rangar refugees to return home as for hundreds of thousands have been taking shelter after fleeing unprecedented atrocities by myanmar's army in 2817. and conflicts in the most northern states of kachinas forcing more people from their homes a cease fire between the government and the kachina independence army ended in 2011

since then instability has been putting many families at risk including women who've been trafficked to china mama junction reports. along me in mars border with china in this camp for the internally displaced the stories are full of sorrow. as singer hour works she contemplates the desperate choices she's been forced to make how work dried up when the 17 year old ceasefire between me and more government forces in the kitchen independence army broke down in 2011 how being unable to support her family let sing route to a decision that still rocks her with guilt he has had all the ga and my daughter was still young i didn't want her to get married at 1st but the chinese family said they would take care of her well my relatives they greet she should have a better life so i made the decision for my daughter to marry a chinese men in. the groom promise to pay almost $7000.00 to sing rao but

ended up paying only around half of that saying raus daughter we're not identifying for her safety eventually returned home. my friends keep asking me how it was to marry and live in china was it fun were you happy i told them it wasn't fun and that i'm not happy i was very sad and disappointed to get married. the escalation of hostilities in kitchen state has resulted in a huge increase in the number of displaced many people who used to cross into china to earn a living as day laborers can no longer do so saying come who works with the kitchen women's association says that makes the situation more dire for the internally displaced. and that a growing number of families are now forcing their daughters into marriage alone i i think many of the parents want their daughters to marry a chinese man because they thought they'd have a better life in china they thought the chinese government would take care of

china's citizens barry road for some there is a darker side to finding a new life away from the kitchen and out of me and more yeah according to human rights watch traffickers are increasingly preying on the despair of women who feel they have no choice but to seek work across the border this woman who are also not identifying for her safety was trafficked to china hong kong on my last suffered i lived in terrible conditions they were abusing me with sexual violence i do want to sleep with them about was forced i begged them to let me go but he was not listed in and he raped me on to became pregnant. at a contacted china's ministry of foreign affairs for comment but has not received a reply human rights watch says another reason the situation is worsening is because for every year since 1987 the percentage of women in china has fallen a gender imbalance that is leaving many chinese men without wives for now concern

is growing that more traffickers will try to take advantage of the increasing desperation of people who are already vulnerable. as. thousands of colombians have been out on the streets of bogota protesting against the recent killings of human rights defendants hundreds of activists and community leaders have been killed by criminal groups since the signing of a peace deal with foreign cripples 3 years ago that sense of john increasing criticism from the international community from the capital. reports. thousands of colombians took to the streets of the capital and of dozens of cities worldwide all united by a single message and the alarming rate at which human rights defenders and civil society leaders are being killed. hundreds of latest have been killed and our government pretends to be deaf and blind they pretend they don't see what's happening to our leaders. and he's moody us one of 1300 community leaders

currently under threat almost 500 have been killed since the signing of a peace deal with fark rebels as criminal groups fight for control of look at the drug trafficking and illegal mining in remote territories and as paramilitary groups connected to criminal political elites oppose lamed restitution programs. that but i think this government doesn't want to find out who is paying to kill these leaders there are very powerful look at how us with high collection to the national power and i believe there is a complicit silence. of a 9 year old crying over the dead body of his mother community leader. sparked a wave of indignation that spurred the rally. 0 protestors want the government of president. as part of the peace deal to do more to protect the leaders and impunity

and recognize that the killings are systematic in nature. but while president ducat did march in the coastal city of kut the hanna is. right wing party was the only one not to endorse the rally despite being booed by protesters who came made a call for unity a tone is going to be. heard when a life is lost in our country when a voice of silence when hope is distinguished by violence we deeply reject old expressions of violence which are fueled by drug trafficking organized crime and illegal mining this is the largest demonstration since the signing of the peace agreement and will undoubtedly put more pressure on president bush yet everybody here agrees that unless something gets done to truly effect the power structures behind the violence there will be more killings and they will remain the single biggest threat to be limitation of the peace deal in the country i listen to just

you know what that. thousands of miners in south africa who are suffering from potentially deadly diseases have reached an historic legal settlement where $350000000.00 and a class action lawyers for the mine workers see 10 major companies for compensation 6 of the companies accepted a deal which has now been approved by a court in johannesburg up 210-0000 miners or their dependents could benefits many miners were afflicted by lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work a group of leaders from south sudan has visited room to see a catholic group is trying to help with the peace process in the country the leaders spoke about the formation of a national military which would bring together rival factions they also discussed efforts to release child soldiers from armed groups. greece is banned import support from its northern neighbor bulgaria gita breaks of african swine fever more than 20 cases were detected in paid so industrial farms simple garry's north

$50000.00 animals have been combed breaks have also been reported in countries across asia including china north korea and cambodia. ivory coast is known as the world's leading cocoa producer but another crop is america as a big money maker that's cola nuts i reached record highs last year and producers say they're determined to become the world's number one producer. at address reports. pruning quality used to get more not over the last 3 years farmers here have been improving the way they work and the yield from this 7 hectic colored farm has doubled. 4 years ago zombie sizzle there was a cocoa farmers. are like many others he says turning to color

has been easy. to dicker with everything being a cook from before i had a little experience that is helping me but for me or for a new adventure it's not saying much at the moment but i think it's worth a try. was trafficking traders especially from roger area come here to ivory coast to buy. some of the goods find their way to the middle east in 2018 ivory coast produce more colors that we did 3 years ago for about half that of nigeria the world's number one producer but farmers here say they can be given over leader if they were given the same support and find myself as a country school performance. there is little in the way of government support for the farmers but help is coming from elsewhere where the researchers helping to improve farming techniques bald poor reported it's essential for the farmer to be

paid a good price per tonne access to new markets is also important and that will ensure that they keep doing what they do. in africa colander time mostly used in traditional ceremonies but also used to make drinks and pharmaceutical products so many here say their potential is huge traders and farmers say if their government could help them get a fixed price for their goods they would prosper and others would be encouraged to take up farming and that way they say their country would not only be the leading global producer of cocoa but of color that tool. the trees al jazeera i will feel ivory coast. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the un's human rights chief as condemned what she calls international indifference to the wise and death toll in

syria's rebel held in a province michelle bashar lay says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed at least 26 of them children. 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. just in the past 2 weeks i would say that even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily over and above what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more asteroids last night and early today as well so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all are not the fighters al-jazeera has obtained a copy of a draft u.n. report on child casualties in conflict zones so the arabia has been criticized for its rule in yemen but the report says it's trying to reduce casualties israel has

been left off a blacklist despite killing $59.00 palestinian children last year syria me and mark ansett sit on have also been highlighted for concern. bahrain has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted on charges of terrorism despite its international calls for clemency the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and this calum art had called on manami to hope the execution of arab and ahmed al malaki rights groups say their trials were unfair. police in hong kong are bracing for more violence as protesters gather in the same area where they were attacked by alleged gang members last week demonstrators are heading to the u.n. long a rural thai and on the outskirts of hong kong near the border with mainland china police have banned the rally but organizers are going ahead with it anyway last

sunday a group of men armed with sticks stormed into a metro station to attack pro-democracy activists and commuters. well those are the headlines the u.s. continues on al-jazeera after inside story. on counting the cost this week south africa's debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy take a look at taylor swifts back with big business over who owns her music plus we find out why radio kurds are looking for work in both of iraq. charge of the cost of al-jazeera. as climate change to blame for the heat wave in europe temperatures have hit records and many countries their 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 want to be linked to the current heat wave. of one state belgium germany and the netherlands all recorded the highest ever temperatures and they did it again on

thursday 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 old images of fun in the sun and more in explaining the extreme weather. we can't talk about a short stay on record with headlines like scorcher without looking into why is it the highest and what does that mean for she manatee what's that mean in the next 102030 years. there were 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 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 country is not prepared for the extremes that global warming is expected to bring here the current heat waves 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 dean bob 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 here are the things like triple psych loans very visual 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 a creeping threat you don't see the heat but you use that you fear it and worldwide

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 was options or the district them becomes doing things like earning a living and out of all the all the climate hazards that can respond to a warming climate change in a warm climate is 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 $54.00 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 in a warmer 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 a 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 to be any more 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 affected ready . print women children people with preexisting medical conditions we have to make sure that in times like heat waves but with which looking at them and making sort of very case 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 when 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 only by you sort of so much and i say men who have so much latitude to increase our president i said just a moment we're going to have the challenge out there if i can get them for just a moment we are going to come back to what to broadening this broadening this out beyond 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 on them 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 surprise that the 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 their 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's 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 and him or is sort of. objectives i suppose a violation of that question there's been a lot of research that shows that climate change is something this community to

distance himself from because the immediate impact saw 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 that propagates down to policy but that's not an area that are a 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 so not only is there. i am from sea and now. to 3000 weather in just the last decade and expecting that this will continue to

increase and frequent changes becoming. a primary concern for us as a humanitarian act and remove not be able to continue to pick up the pieces of extreme weather events and lastly to 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 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 came on to couple of years ago examining the contributions that countries are making towards the parse agreement the so-called paris plage is on 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 that developed

countries 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 green 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 prohibitive intellectual property rights being placed in the trade 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 and 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 that 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 call stranded ossets so that all of these hydrocarbons that i haven't yet been dug up in extracted and can be if we have any 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 tells 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 last top or has it off in the context of climate change so it 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 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 stay healthy and on top of that those readers 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 speak a lot of shoots that have 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 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 don't 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 bruner of an 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 our jumping 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 done playing the seriousness of this challenge for also kind of missed directing 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 is not only because of the media's dumping of the crisis but also because of their sort of incessant misdirection 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 these heat waves and 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 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 reversed by the trend increasing 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 pads adaption of a patient 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 and we committed to the only way they reversed because by reducing the amount

of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere tessa were it 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 it impacts a great experience 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 and 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 that we

salute really strong commitments and exactly as tom said 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 say no 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 join the conversation on twitter i had a list at a.j. inside story from a rachelle carried the entirety half an hour. i am happy if things.

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militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. al-jazeera. where every. the world is accused of not caring as days of air strikes in northwest syria killed 100 people including more than 20 children.

hello and how my head in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. in executes 2 men convicted in a mass terrorism trial that was denounced as unfair by rights groups. hong kong protesters defy a police span converging on a border town where pro-democracy activists were attacked last weekend's. at a legal victory for donald trump u.s. supreme court rules he can spend military funds on his mexico border wall. the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls the world's indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held at lib province michel bashir laced . as those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have died in air strikes in southern adlib at least 26 of them

children and the warning viewers may find some of the images insane hunters' reports to starving their images that have shocked many a tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the government's assault is it it's the records. of the law desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in a syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to our 3 year old sister drove around for as long as she could. but then they fell to the ground i. died. well when 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 monitors 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 all with it and most of all it's the places they live then that are being hit marketplaces hospitals like the facility is schools no one and nothing is the thing more and then. 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 bombardment hasn't stopped it's intensifying the u.n. describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players in this conflict but international humanitarian rights organizations say they are being targeted. istanbul. well report colleville is the spokesman for the united nations high commissioner for human rights he described the syrian government's offensive as relentless 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 so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all are not the fighters. well the wider issue of child casualties in the world's conflict zones is the subject of a new reports at the united nations al jazeera has obtained a copy it says that last year the saudi and iraqi led coalition in yemen killed or injured 729 children in israel the report's authors blame the government for the deaths of 59 children and the wounding of nearly 2700 the highest numbers in 4 years in syria airstrikes barrel bombs and crossed in munitions killed or injured more than $1800.00 children while afghanistan had the most child casualties for another year with more than $3000.00 and it's at fanatic adds to james pace has

more from the united nations this report comes out every year it makes very grim reading it's from the secretary general of the u.n. to the security council it's not yet been published but out zeros obtained a copy of the report ready in recent years it's become a political hot potato with 2 countries not wanting to get mentioned in this report and that's israel and saudi arabia it's pretty clear to me from reading this report that there's been political pressure again because inside the report it says that israel's responsible for the highest number of deaths of palestinian children 59 in 2800 for 5 years and yet at the end of the report the amex which lists the countries and groups responsible for killing children israel is not mentioned saudi arabia does get a mention on the list but on the part of the list here of listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection

of children in our saudi arabia the saudi led coalition in yemen has been under that section for 3 years it does though beg the question if they're putting measures in place to stop killing children to protect children. why are children in yemen still dying. but her ain has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted of terrorism charges despite its international concern about the fairness of the trial un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and yes calamine had called on behind notes to carry out the death sentences and it is she activists are up and milan the they were sentenced over the killing of a policeman after a mass trial of $56.00 men last year amnesty international says the men were beaten and tortured in custody to take confessions well on friday night a protester kline's on top of bahrain's embassy in london demanding the executions

be hold seats and fold a banner before being arrested by police. son khamis is chairman of the gulf institute for democracy and human rights and joins is on skype from sydney thank you so much for talking to us here on how to syria can i start with your reaction to these executions if unfortunately. for you told and ali kamal lara. we're excuse joker's unsellable the bahraini capital manama on friday our private meeting with their families the public prosecutor's office announced that malawi and i don't know where i put on on charges of course the scene try arms thanksgiving a police officer. in bahrain ingrid he carried on the dish plenty

is destroy or feel nice profit is why the united nations and several several have human rights n.g.o.s their bahrain center of the earth. yeah and i'm sorry to cut you off there has been criticism from international. partners but the bahrain embassy in washington d.c. has a released a statement defending these executions saying that capital punishment slides in the u.s. so it is also a prize in bahrain is that a defense of these executions you know that's one of our say that stated today we we received. at the curation from the prisoners families. feel that there are. their prisoners a way around torture. and so one of them that

a lot of us on we've shared during that period when you was in the jail cell or blame it was ex extrajudicial and. way we were still we were still in the process to move formation from the family and we we also mentioned earlier this incident in london were a protester was on the roof of the behind the embassy they were protesting and this is on sex and see over whether allegations whether he was being. protected or if he was about to be punished what do you think this proves i says about attitudes to dissent and behave. we are always trying to put oppression on the. execution helen is as much as we can cook food. because they.

cry. for. prophecy they are proceeding at london and. there's a tour where you try to. train and i favor having technical difficulties there with the connection but thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. chairman of the gulf institute for democracy joining us on skype thank you. to other news now in fact people were marching in hong kong in the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week the rallies being held in you alone rule turn on the outskirts of hong kong that's near the border with mainland china i will turn it is the expected to be as high and as in previous protests after police banned the rally citing a serious risk of violence but as you can see from the live pictures we're bringing

you organizers are still going ahead with that rally but the accused police of corporates and with attackers who stormed into a metro station last week to target to mock crissy activists were al jazeera sarah clarke is in hong kong for as syria receives significant amounts of people on the live pictures just how many are expected to take part in this rally or just why is it being held in this particular area. well it looks like thousands are here now and there's still lots more flooding in from the m.t.a. which is hong kong's train line transport system so if not the numbers here are building and the reason why it's in your long is simply because last sunday we had a mob of people wearing white shirts to climb in and violently attacked a number of anti-government ready protesters who were turning from every peaceful

rally back in central now they attacked them with roads with batons and more than 40 people were injured some critical the rates of whites here and there is much right next the play.