a prison in about 2 months and that that's not a coincidence because i think the incoming biden ministration really is weighing heavily on the decision of the saudi authorities on this talk how to move family says last year saudi authorities offered to release her but only if she gave testimony denying that she'd been tortured and sexually harassed the saudi court say there is no evidence of this the family say the tool she was designed the brutal way to break her but she won't be broken you're about money out to syria. this is all to syria these are the top stories u.s. president elect joe biden's hit out again over the lack of information as transition team is getting from donald trump's administration biden's warning that he's still being obstructed on national security issues and that key agencies have been severely damaged by trunk's policies. the u.s.

house of representatives has voted to approve higher cash payments to americans struggling joining the coronavirus pandemic but president trump's demand for $2000.00 per person now faces an uncertain future in the republican controlled senate today's pro-democracy activist tony chung's being sentenced in a hong kong court after being found guilty of desecrating china's flag and taking part in an illegal protest there in the pollen is outside the court in hong kong. he has also been charged under the national security law in fact he was the 1st to be charged under secession under the national security law he was a member of a group that advocated independence for home kong he had shut down the group well before or just before that law came into effect on july 1st but had been caught for facebook posts following that. flight risk he's currently in jail as he was caught outside the u.s. embassy he is allegedly according to prosecutors here trying to seek asylum in the

united states and so they have put him in jail since october bangladesh has started relocating a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled there from me and they're being moved from a refugee camp on the mainland to a low lying island which rights groups fear could be vulnerable to flooding south africa's and i instructed measures to combat a surge in coronavirus cases driven by a different fast spreading variant indoor and outdoor gatherings will be banned on a 9 pm curfew will be enforced failure to wear to moscow directly in public has been made a criminal offense in south korea has secured vaccines for another 10000000 people as it grapples with a rapid rise in covert 19 infections the deal comes with madonna on the same day the country reported 14 new coronavirus deaths its highest ever one day toll there was the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's the stream 5 an hour. if you

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and how lucky has she friends she wanted to grab the intersection between the truth and. have already jumped in. on the change or knows iris i will need to be honest. and introduce you to the guess the guest getting she's disaster i loudly well under the strain tell everyone who you are. thank you my name is alvin when i work with oxfam international and africa program to get that we there are partners we present their voices of ordinary citizens to the africa union made member steps up to big global level on issues to do with food security and climate change and what is going to have you welcome to the stream again 803. thanks for having me i'm a climate science and environment correspondent with a.j.

price and national geographic channel. thanks again 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 that i know your education. well everyone knows who you are and a south thank you very invitation lovely to be with you like ghana and to get 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. 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 mowed lawns animals roaming the streets we have clear skies we have air crash and so hell 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 in gauging 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 will and greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 8 percent 1st time in the history of humanity and it's pretty close to what we need 7.6 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 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 has 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. and get in bring you in here you are his new tourist from pollution small cars and one of the 1st beaches i saw of what the difference not. it was a beautiful night. she is right now he's got

a routine he's got plenty of 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 . we can do john's aren't. well what's been 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 a roof of the 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 meat is good idea that once a year for one months with shotwell down and help heal. the just cause clothes from a 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 end pandemics like khurana 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 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. and he misunderstood and this is. done but not as a little bit special. think the next time don't need this don't. want to hear. 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 because of another one and in south asia this week because the 19 crisis will collide with the climate crisis many of the solutions of the climate crisis such as stopping. and rant 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 investing in the health of our planet. cristiana gary as a personal interest. and well very well reply that. i have ever a simplistic and perhaps irresponsible. summary and that is human how are evils 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 still 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 ivan the current crisis is just slap doesn't the face it would lessen upon lesson upon lesson and the question is going to be relearning those lessons every day we are on 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 ones not given 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 about. 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 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 humans guy raz is more about part of blocks is not the solution either we have to change the way we live and well in our cities. and i'm looking at some of the piccies from nairobi album where your price and people were. not kenya like we can see now can you that's amazing but in terms of you meet. friends it is made more have on the environment around. the need so that the. climate just what he's seeing the strange 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 play to pay their climate debt what we need in this there but on their way out is for the international community 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're already suffering from climate issues and the risk of this pandemic will leave even live our people even more violent a future so for us it's about honoring. you.

and. gain more people to listen. well we have been we have been saying this. during cop $25.00 activists leganes from macarthur we were together with them to one of our corporate in the 4th district crop to 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 columnist already drowning in the catastrophe of climate justice to be assisted through climate right now because climate change is real and africa has contributed . a little on the catastrophe sort that. we

will continue to fight for climate and your message. is women's because of where we are in terms of the global house of international citizens even in the sense get in. the needs in energy our international city how to think about it recently thinking. about a new. 90 shows how we can and must hurry has building new energy systems which are much more resilient to figure shocks additionally. hundreds of hours to those of us who are in position to revisit some of our life choices and have a little more sustainable things i just have to take in joyce's getting a clean art empty office buildings which can be converted to sustain our housing and green buildings could be sensible lines of how we can build back. you know it's pretty easy just just heard was. green jobs turned out of the global.

well this is a great opportunity to get the 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 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 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 with my math and. climate just as the vulnerability especially of 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 were personally in our bodies present with each other but honestly the marginal difference is just not right 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 assuming that it could actually save on office spaces by at 40 or 60 or 50 percent of their workers

working from home as effectively we might even be attracting 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 carry you imagine 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 that i 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 our risk 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 cyber 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 in the economy. let me just remind everybody of that you said right at the beginning in this isn't there is a hedge around that john tell me it's kind of nice that much closer to missions to 4 to 7 percent the amount the pandemic is of the lockdowns and. less industry etc but we got this question from 2000 which china and she says the drop in emissions service the president immediate financial international climate action targets you told us many times we have 10 years to get. into to meet climate change to really act stuff do you think these

months back here. clinique yes traffic not so much what difference does. well you know this decade really is a defining decade for current climate because we have to be at one hot the emissions that we had at the start of this year not right now why how by 20 or 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 emissions

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. . i suppose it isn't beginning of the view is that these my day came to us from these discussions some slighter jhoom can tell who is a clown 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 if she ends. there's a lot of time to sink and a lot of tender 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 one what time did manage to change your. ways that needs change to waste in this experience. and that scene is that guess and just you know asking today who are they to you teach us i mean you don't last year. we are now approaching a 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 we can 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 sticking with that status quo will only bring about more suffering and destruction of our planet in a way watsons learned the lesson to take us. i mean i couldn't agree more but i have to say and it's all 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 is a long and never been as achievable as it is right now let us not miss this operation. out thank you very much for helping us explore the connection change the current vice president make our environment and climate change plans in place of much xenix to take. january on al-jazeera it's 10 years in feet arab spring still to bring change to the middle east al-jazeera looks into how successful look at pollutions was a new documentary series examined the history and giancana takes in drug trafficking and the way states and drug lords abused it as an instrument of power

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