speak spanish they were afraid to bargain but no longer now we're more dacia. and they're also more proud and independent thanks to an ancient crashed the chip experiencing a long awaited revival. you see in human al-jazeera normally imperiously. your child is there always a whole wrong reminder of our top news stories on our breaking news coming out of croatia which has been hit by a strong $6.00 magnitude earthquake one person has been confirmed dead at the epicenter of between or the victim is believed to be a 12 year old girl the extent of the casualties isn't clear widespread damage to buildings is being reported electricity and phone lines are out the earthquake was felt in neighboring bosnia as well as serbia and slovenia now has shut down the nuclear power plant as a precaution al-jazeera balkans reporter tanya novak is monitoring the situation

from zagreb. first part is definitely one of the to know of some. population surrounding. the earthquake was very very strongly felt in zagreb as well it was very strong. found for quite a long time for about 20 seconds and it does seem like eternity when it's happening let me just remind you. this spring by an earthquake of 5.5 so this was much. much stronger earthquake a group of health experts in the u.k. says the british government needs to double its target of vaccinating a 1000000 people a week about 200000 people every week are currently getting injections. israel says it's already given 650000 people an injection it wants to increase that number

515-0000 every day rising infections her force the country into its 3rd nationwide lockdown the house of representatives has voted to approve higher cash payments to americans struggling during the coronavirus pandemic but president trump's demands for the $2000.00 checks faces an uncertain future in the republican controlled senate a hong kong quarter sentenced teenage pro-democracy activist tony chung to 4 months in prison he was convicted of desecrating china's flag and taking part in illegal protests in may last year in a separate case he's accused of seditious activities under a controversial national security law the former student leader has been imprisoned since october those were the headlines more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's the stream do stay with us for. long before the cove a crisis broke the world was grappling with another global crisis the climate breakdown the structure of nature can lead to destruction all hail the lockdown

examines links between these 2 crises and asks why it took a pandemic to bring on changes that should have been made long ago all these things we were told a week impossible suddenly become possible connected the wake up call the can't be ignored on a just enough. time to locate and look at incidence to need a whole week of episodes that it needs just by you online community to look at the coupon and finalists and climate change just to well as you make money. and how has she friends she want to talk about the intersection between the truth and. have already

jumped in. and you plan a change or knows iris i will need to be honest. i want to introduce you to that yes and yes indeed she's disaster how loudly welcome to the stranger when 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 the global level on issues to do with food security and climate change and how it is going to have you welcome to the stream can i tell everybody needs one. 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 they know your education. well everyone knows who you are and a south thank you very in the taisha lovely to be with you like ghana and ghana who 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 the 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

mode lines animals roaming the streets we have clear skies we have air 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 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 $7.00 but we know that as soon as we engage again with the economy that has room 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. getting bring you in here you are saying he's notorious for pollution small cars and one of the 1st pitches i saw of what the distance not. it was a beautiful night. 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 . your needs. johns 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 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 in 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 a killie's 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 ringback the 2 major crises. just to go to. and i'm going to put this to you judy hughley says meat is a good idea that once a year for one months with shotwell down and help the time it heal. just because 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 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 of these 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've 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.

unison is to think yes this is. done but not just 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 cycles ever measured in the bay of bengal one crisis is not 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. and ran 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 the manifold 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 i salute personal interests. and well very well replied that. i didn't have a simplistic and perhaps irresponsible. summary and that is human have 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 and that those all away from individual humans still the entire planet and to everyone in 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 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 unity says we will see in masses really industrialisation to make things worse he's not feeling very optimistic. he's absolutely

right already 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 skywriters 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 pictures 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 unique. strengths it is made more have on the environment around africa needs so that the. climate just what needs seamless change to change. you see robey and africa has has clean air when we talk about emissions africa contributes about 3 percent of global emissions and christiane 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 try not they they agreed 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 we 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 you. 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 india for their strict 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 caucus already drowning in the catastrophe of climate justice to be assisted through the issue of climate right now because climate change is real and africa has contributed. a little on the catastrophe so that must be. we will continue to fight for climate and your message. because that's where we are in terms of the global house of justice isn't even in

a sense get. the needs in energy our international city how to think about it recently thinking about. a new energy. 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 position to revisit some of our life choices and have a little more sustainable things are just transportation 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 that. you know it's pretty easy just just 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 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 timely 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. 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 told me to come so much more fluent in these technologies that allow us to participate

and gauge live each other to have perhaps not the and exact same impact as if we were personally in our bodies present with each other but honestly the marginal difference is 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 shifts 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 adams 40 or 60 or 50 percent of their workers working from home 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 country 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 the. 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 noses and that 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 a matter of recovering and the economy this is about resetting when we design it 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 that you said what at the beginning and in this is the who is ahead on that john tell me it's kind of nice that much closer 2 missions to 4 up to 7 percent this year and in the pandemics of the lockdowns and. yes industry etc but we got this question from 2 inches in which center 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 gear to reach climate change to really act son do you think these months back here. clooney yes traffic not

so much what difference does. well you know this decade really is a defining decade 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 that we require both individual behavior changes as well as top down regulations from governments 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. . 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 activists assume a catch and she wanted to just do a little period on the end of this conversation which 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 get one what time to dance to change our. ways that need change to health than this experience we have and that scene is that guess and just you know who are they 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 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 the sick or children we lead us internationally and look up to choose the latter because taking that status quo 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 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 government's hard swiping all of 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. will 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

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