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his end of year victory of victory that people like not a whole will guarantee what happened to her daughter will not happen to anyone else that is how will. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines and i was here at the u.s. house of representatives is back to 3 fold increase in direct print demick relief checks to $2000.00 the measure will need a 2 thirds majority in the senate to pass the house is also overturn trumps veto of the annual defense spending bill russell and jordan reports from washington congress voted for this spending measure to fund the military through october 1st 2021 the president objected to the legislation for a number of reasons and decide and voted it and vetoed it now what is happening is
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republicans and democrats are joining together to have basically push back trumps a veto and that means that assuming the senate does the same thing as early as on tuesday this funding bill will be calm law president elect joe biden as his house again over the lack of information that his transition team is getting from trump's of ministration point and warned that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by trump's policies south africa's president sorum opposer has announced stricter measures to combat a surge in corona virus cases driven by a fast spreading variant after it became the 1st african nation to pass 1000000 infections indoor and outdoor gatherings will be paramount but a curfew will be enforced. the government of bangladesh has started to relocate a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled there from the amah up to 1800 refugees
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are being moved from their camps in cox's bazaar to an island in the bay of bengal that's prone to flooding the un and human rights groups have condemned the relocations arguing that they amount to ethnic cleansing the family of a prominent saudi women's rights activists say that they were appeal jail sentence to jane oha flu was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison on monday during international condemnation a relative say that she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison ok the 1st president has pledged to fight corruption and bring stability as he begins a 2nd 5 year term rush markab or 8 was sworn in at a ceremony attended by the presidents of ghana senegal and mauritania he won the lead 58 percent of the vote of last month's election what do you see here i was there after the stream next. talked about is there a winner scott realistically having to deal with institutionalized corruption and in this country we listen if there's breaks up and
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a conflict between pakistan and india this has implications for the rest of the world we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. hired like a look at incidence to need a whole week of episodes that means just by you online community look at the coupon and buy less and climate change just to buy a few major. was. and how lucky has she friends she want to talk about the intersection between the truly and current. already jumped in. on the change and oh no virus will need to be induced.
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i want to introduce you to the guess the guest getting she's disaster you've heard how they under the strain tell when you are. thank you my name is alvin when i work with oxfam international and africa program together we there are partners we present their voices of ordinary citizens to the africa union made member steps up to the global level on issues to do with food security and climate change and what is going to have you welcome to the stream again 800 larry. thanks for having me i'm a climate science and environment correspondent with a.j. plas and national geographic channel. thanks elaine in the stream and welcome back to the scene christiane and then maybe one or 2 people in the well who do not know who you are but i guarantee they know your education. well everyone knows who you are and a south thank you very invitation lovely to be with the late ghana and to get
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a sign i am opposed to reconsider sen i am speaking to you from a story i used to work for the united nations and have the pleasure to lead the negotiations into the paris agreement on climate change and i continue to be a faithful servant of the global atmosphere and our wonderful planet so it's interesting and guess i'm going to start with making mocking next june when we are of the global pandemic and come a change of climate action it's gonna be some other candidates. well i would say not if you look at him rather superficially one obviously notices that nature is having a ball right now we are seeing birds butterflies and come back to our mode lines animals roaming the streets we have clear skies we have air
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crash and. the air because we have paralyze the economy so why only environment has actually been benefited by the last 2 months it is actually nothing to celebrate because that is not the kind o. repair and regeneration that we talk about our when we are engaging with climate change or with biodiversity protection we're not talking about something that is circumstantial or something that isn't temporary we are talking about the need to have sustained efforts this year we already know that we will be dropping in greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 8 percent the 1st time in the history of humanity and it's pretty close to what we need $7.00 but we know that as soon as we engage again with the economy that is going to go back up so what we need is
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a very different change and most importantly the dehumanization the protection of biodiversity and working out aren't it cannot come at the huge human cost that this do not come at the cost of human lives and millions of human life and it's so interesting and the actual size that we have had but not what we want to continue. getting bring you in here you are these new tourists from pollution small cars and one of the 1st beaches i saw of what the distance not. it was a beautiful night. right now he got a routine he's got zionists generally these are amazing if you're not down you really not down pages would he make of this what is this telling us about what . your needs. johns aren't. well what's been
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incredible is that the drop in pollution and the clearing of skies it's had a tangible effect where you can literally step outside and breathe in much cleaner air and as christine was saying you could see the birds or the animals out and it seems like nature is having a comeback it's been so hard to explain climate change because it's less tangible it takes so much longer for c o 2 to be originally atmosphere so you don't get that direct impact and these past few months of clean air have been a great way for people to realize what life could be like the quality of life that you have a big kind of connector between the 2 crises for me has been the law that's been our achilles heel in this crisis and cities where people are breathing and polluted air and tolerating that they've been harder hit with the coronavirus so there's interesting links that are happening between the 2 major crises. just to go to. and i'm going to put this to you judy hughley says need is good idea that once
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a year one months with shut down and help heal. the just cause clothes from us walk or go cycling with that. i don't think it will work because for me in my view inequality and poverty increases the value that ability to climate change and and pandemics like karada it is the common denominator inequality especially between rich countries and poor countries it is the most obvious flaw of the current new liberal economic model just as my colleagues christiane has put it but the climate crisis and the pandemics excessive but they persist until the qualities that different levels of the society and those that are bound to suffer the most from this extreme effects august 2 phenomena are the poorest and the have nots in
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society so it's not about. shutting down there were. about addressing issues of inequality where think of it in a global economy where there was 3 just one percent of people how more than twice as much as wealth that's 4600000000 of the poorest people and this is our report that we have done so the ability of this majority of population right now to to even access the resources they need to holistic in the blood of their resilience and bounce back to the global crises is severely limited and in some cases not non-existent so it's about fixing the economic not about shutting their cool new. unison is to think yes this is. done but not as in climate change as a little bit special. rethinking next time don't need this don't. want to hear.
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me. mentioning. it. india reporting thousands of new cases of covert 19 and by mid week the countries were monitoring supercycle one of the most intense cyclons ever measured in the bay of bengal one crisis is not and because of another one and in south asia this week because 19 crisis will collide with the climate crisis many of the solutions of the climate crisis such as stopping deforestation and ramp in agriculture are essential to mitigating the risk of the next pandemic we must pass transformed a policy that any burning fossil fuels and restore the stability of our ecosystems are unprecedented times demand all thinking and in this moment of profound disruption we must fill our moral responsibility to the safety of our children by
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investing in the health of our planet. cristiana gary isin personal interest. and well very well replied that. i had ever a simplistic and perhaps irresponsible. summary and that is human have evil's global how we have been so used to thinking that human how can be completely independent from and not factor by god's help and we are saying no that is not true so we have to understand how it is fullest interpretation at those all away from individual humans to the entire planet and to every one of the ecosystems that actually are at the basis of our life finally perhaps we have our own anderson as ivan the current crisis is just slap doesn't the face would lessen upon lesson upon lesson and the question is going to be relearning those lessons every day we are on
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the greatest learning curve that we have ever been the question is why as we are on the doors of our homes and offices will we remember what we have or will we take the lessons into policy will we take the lessons into individual behavioral change will we take the changes and make them sustainable take the lessons and make them sustained changes and not just one stop. giving before you jump in and counting your conversation i want to go to see lynsey who's in our v.g. jack junot he says we will see in masses really industrialisation to make things worse he's not feeling very optimistic. he's absolutely right already and countries like china are seeing what's called the rebound effect where they're trying to make up for lost economy and working double
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time factories are pumping out way more emissions already scientists are starting to see a spike in levels and that's the fear that ripple of fresh effect across the planet as everybody is trying to rebuild the economy get everybody back to work that we're going to really just lose all the great gains that we've made in the short amount of time something of the doctor talked about that i'm really happy that he touched upon is the issue of deforestation it's been harder to explain that link to the general public but the more we cut down trees and enter the habitat of wild animals and take over their homes the more we're going to have these viruses you know spreading across the planet we need to make sure we talk about overpopulation we talk about how we build cities and cutting down forests and natural habitats to create homes for human skywriters is more about part of blocks is not the solution either we have to change the way we live and do well in our cities. and i'm looking
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at some of the piccies from nairobi album where your price and people were. not kenya like we can see now kenya that sunni's inc but in terms of the. prints it is made no have on the environment around africa needs so that the. climate just what he's seeing the strange so changes. you see robey and africa has has clean air when we talk about emissions africa contributes about 3 percent of global emissions and christiano is here so africa is also bearing the brunt of climate change so we demanding for rich countries to to pay their climate debt what we need in this there but on their way out is for the international community
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to or now their commitment of the paris agreement let's talk about climate they they agree to that they will be investing 900000000000 of climate finance to strengthen africa's response to issues of climate justice this is critical for countries in africa that are vulnerable who need to reboot their economies in a sustainable and resilient way adaptation is needed to help well not a book communities withstand shooter shocks they are already suffering from climate issues and the risk of this pandemic will leave even we live our people even more violent future so for us it's about honoring. you. give me. a more people to listen. well we have been we have been saying this. during cop $25.00 activists leganes from macarthur we were together
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with them to one of our corporate in their footsteps crocked them out we have been pushing for accountability and transparency from the international community to pay their climate debt and we have been campaigning to enable developing a caucus already drowning in the catastrophe of climate justice to be assisted through climate right now because climate change is real and africa has contributed . 'd a little on the catastrophe so that must be. we will continue to fight for climate and your message. is with where we are in terms of the global house of injustices and any sense get to. the needs in energy our international city housing to. meet me in.
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a new energy needs. 90 shows how we can and must hurry house building a new energy systems which are much more resilient to figure shocks additionally. hundreds of hours to those of us who are in his injury revisit some of our life choices in how to live more sustainable things that distract attention choices getting a clean empty office buildings which can be converted to sustain our housing and green buildings could be sensible lines of how we can build back. yeah it's pretty easy just just on her. idea green jobs of the global. well this is a great opportunity to get people back to work and to retrain industries people who come from industries that are so fossil fuel dependent you know it is a chance to get people back to work to retrain a sort of set up
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a new economy might my fear though as i've sort of been investigating a bit deeper is that that in itself is a band-aid solution if we don't start looking at our own consumption issues you know completely just electrifying you know getting electric cars back on the road and mining lithium and creating materials to build these cars that's not the solution we really have to look at our habits and our our addiction to consumption at the root level and i want to start myself before i point the finger to everybody else you know this endemic has made me realize how i do my own work you know i'm an international correspondent i was in australia bushfires the amazon covering deforestation and here i am with this simple lighting kid a microphone and i'm still not producing films that are having just as much of an impact if not more than my field reports so do i really need to be traveling the world time these stories can i be collaborating with local filmmakers and stock images and telling just as compelling
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a story i'm having my own you know she mental shift that's happening and my own look at my consumption rates and i think that's where we need to start. well i totally agree i've been doing exactly the same thing i have also been traveling the world met my match. climb and just about the vulnerability especially in developing countries the urgency to the climate crisis that is not on my end to the current crisis as we have heard and my experience is exactly the same do i really want to travel to the turns around the world to go to a meeting that last one hour or one day or even 4 days fortunately we have now all become so much more fluent in these technologies that allow us to participate and gauge live each other. perhaps not and exact same impact as if we
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were personally in our bodies present with each other but honestly the marginal difference it's just not worth it is not worth the additional cost is not worth the additional emissions it's not worth the additional drain on our health is just not worth that so i also think that we will be a. major major ships not only in the way we that we travel we will travel last certainly for business we will not be commuting as much we will be commuting much less because companies are understanding that it could actually save an office spaces by at 40 or 60 or 50 percent of their workers working from home effectively we might even be affecting urban design because as you heard we are not that many cars we have a much better use for our 3 streets and for parking places we will can you imagine
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if we now have cities that actually have much cleaner air is going to be if we remember the lessons that we have that we are having around here from these. 2 months these are the lessons and really have been learning you know 3 years and didn't and now they're just being squashed into that reality right in front of our analysis and our obligation are really here is to take those lessons and make it a reality starting from the bottom up in the new reality that we create we cannot recreate what we had in the past this is not about recovering and the economy this is about resetting we designing reinventing an economy that is one resilient that is more fair that starts from the bottom up creation of jobs but not jobs that are going to disappear syra 10 years from now because those sectors basically i don't run they're wrong we have to be able to think into the future and who readers are
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in the economy. let me just remind everybody that you said right at the beginning in this isn't is that john tell me it's kind of nice that much closer to missions for up to 7 percent this year and in the pandemics of the lockdowns and. yes industry etc but we got this question from twitter from the china and she says the drop in emissions service a president immediate financial international climate action targets you told us many times we have 10 years to get. him to do need to climate change to really act stuff do you think these months back here. clooney yes traffic not so much what happens to me. well you know this decade really is a defining decade for a climate because we have to be at one hot the emissions that we had at the start
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of this here not right now why and how by treaty so a 50 percent drop over 10 years is ambitious because we've never done it but it is doable because we have shown this year that actually that was a 7 percent that was in that article the latest saying that actually pulls us away at 8 percent drop now as we said not the way that we want to reach but it does mean i would require both individual behavior changes as well as top down regulations from got around that are going to help us on tomorrow as our emission reduction potential with our reducing the well being that's the trick we have just sat right greenhouse gas growth from economic growth especially in developing countries those 2 things to be dealing a.s.a.p.
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. i suppose it isn't beginning of the view is that these my day came to us from for this discussion some slight urge you can tell who is a kind activist a filmmaker and she wanted to just put a little period on the end of this conversation what she needs thinking about in the last couple of months of lockdown missions. there's a lot of time to sink and a lot of time to reflect and what i keep coming back to again and again throughout the surreal nature of this and the heartbreaking nature of this is how fast we've been able to move as people and adapt to this crisis if we can take something that we always thought was not slacks a ball and actually change everything about it within a matter of months and weeks then if we can do that for this threat and this crisis it gives me some optimism that we can actually rise to the challenge of the climate crisis and adapt as people and be able to create the society in the world that we need to live in in order to survive. and good will more time to dance to change
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your. ways that needs change to waste than this experience. and that scene is guess and just you know asking to do only to you teach us i mean you don't last year. we are now approaching that crossroads this is a not an opportunity that we must not miss we can either continue with the business as usual way of development or weak on church we can transform the way we do things and build an economy that's not as our people and our planet this is a political choice that is at stake and follow a sick country or the sick or children we lead us internationally and look up to choose the latter because taking the that's the tough school will only bring about more suffering and destruction of our planet in a way watsons learned a lesson to take us. i mean i couldn't agree more but i have to say and it's all
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this suffering and fear and loss that we're all going through we have to make sure that we hold on to our environmental protections so rebuilding the economy and getting people back to work is really important but we don't need to lax important environmental protections to get back to work so we need to keep an eye on those and make sure governments hard swiping off those cheap protections in the name of the economy and rebuilding and getting people back as we fight hard for those and they're going to protect us in the future to see. what would be the most impactful sentence that you can deliver to people remember. well i agree with my 2 wonderful colleagues here i would summarize by saying our transition to sustainability has never been as isabeau and never been as achievable as it is right now let us not miss this operation. out
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thank you very much for helping this explore the connection between the current vice president make our environment and climate change plans in place much xenix to take. frank assessments ollie's on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all seriously. but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudiced some
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pride in hungary on al-jazeera. said tis only a change because some people believe in a post that is bigger than their. trying to make a political my city around the state representative they put themselves in knots to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long to be the new name it's got to. have a disco to slosh and more to create new areas we have to change this culture and one of the fortunate ones in any any thought it might not outside but all the people and the majority of the legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to me and mark.
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the u.s. house of representatives votes to more than triple and demick relief payments but also overrides president trumps veto on the defense bill. hello i'm adrian said again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up many of the agencies that are critical to our security have incurred norma's damage president elect joe biden warns that america's ability to protect itself has been seriously weakened by the trumpet ministration.

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