time we need to also prepare ourselves for the ongoing, increasing both heat waves, drought flooding events, and all kinds of extreme events that we know are connected to, to global warming and to various aspects of climate change. so you know, these 2 things have to go on in parallel. it's really good to get your thoughts on this. jennifer francis, we appreciate your joining us and i'll just to thank you very much. indeed. you're very welcome. people and madagascar are on the verge of starvation. after the worst, dr. baron, 40 years, the u. n's food agency says there's a desperate need for a 2 mall nutrition more than doubling in the past 4 months. lecture bryan reports this days at waste land and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile. but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops and sandstorms cover whatever's left and a layer of dust. the food here has nearly run out. many families are forced to eat

and sick the leaves to survive. it took me in the morning, i prepare the plate of insects. i clean them up as best i can give him. there's almost no water. my children, i have been eating his plans every day for 8 months because we have nothing else to eat and no rain to allow us to harvest what we have sewn. 8 groups a warning of catastrophe, especially for children like these 2 now orphans after the mother died of hunger, the arms of wasting away. while they stomachs a blow said by malnutrition, they had allowed. if i look it up, i rely on god. today we have absolutely nothing to eat except cactus leaves that we are trying to clean up. we have nothing left. their mother is dead and my husband is dead. what do you want me to say? our life is all about looking for capital lees again and again to survive. medic ask is, southern region is the epi center of the crisis. more than a 1000000 people, about half of the areas population need food aid,

and the karone of ours pandemic has made everything worse, flowing the delivery of much needed supplies. many of these women and children have walked for hours to get help, were facing the worst drought, and over 40 years. and this is an area where people depend on their own agriculture, home grown school, meals, small holder farmers. this is how they lived down here, but with drought back to back to back. people can't survive. and so the government partner with the world food program, others were doing the best we can. but it's a terrible situation who reigns during this years planting season, suggest yet another harvest will fail. the us food agency says the world must act now, or a generation could be lost to famine. alexia bryan, l 20. still had an algebra. knocking down and starting again to rebuild stronger homes following 29. g. deadly

earthquake and tokyo cons done to the olympics for the months time we're going to hear what i mean. think about the lack of funds allowed to attend. coming up with peter. ah hello from dough. good to be with you. our shamal wind blow and out across the gulf has east and guess what? that's allowed temperatures to rise. so we look at q $848.00 over the last 24 hours . we're going to note down a bit as we head towards thursday with a high of 47 degrees. and you know, the humidity has been building toward cats are doha, this will create sun peasy conditions, fog and misty, particularly for the morning and the evening just because of that high humidity off

. next we're going to go to the mediterranean. we're temperatures are climbing here as well. is mere $35.00 degrees antalya? $32.00. but look at cyprus garcia. you could be touching 40 on thursday. ok, i think saturday will be the better bet to see that 40 degree reading will just have to wait and see through the tropics of africa as usual spells of what, whether through the democratic republic of congo central african republic rate, through the gulf of guinea. and as we look toward the south, you know for the eastern cape, it's unsettled on thursday, but watched it says we head toward friday, it's the western keeps, turn a lot of wind associated with this disturbance. we look at the next 3 days for cape town because this wind gusts up to 75 kilometers per hour. a bit of a break on saturday. but those winds ramp break back up on sunday. the news in 2020 new york city was the global epi centre of death. and in this, from the corona virus. like many cities,

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ah, what you know, just reminder of our top story, this the u. s. secretary of state on to the blank and it's crucial that maybe a whole national elections in december and show peace and stability. thinking that a conference in berlin ended producing violence. and livia, dozens of people have reportedly been killed often air, so i get a market if you see great region health workers in the village of to go household the associated press. soldiers blocked medical teams from which senior southern african nations have agreed to deploy forces to mozambique at a meeting in the most unbeatable capital. april group storm, the town of palmer, the north healing dozens of people, and his places a former colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped by

fog rebel as maybe 20 years ago is about to come face to face with a former captors in good, better cor, was held in the jungle for 6 and a half years after being captured by the revolutionary armed forces in 2002, she's now appearing for columbia as truth commission, which was set up after the 2016 piece of equipment. let's bring in on a song ramp. yeti whose life for us in vulgar tough talk us through what's going to be happening? yes, robert ingram. better for the president. we agree it better is obviously the big media draw here. she is by far the highest profile for more hostage of the former fi gravel in columbia. but this is a crime that has become systematic during the worse years of the internal conflict

in the country. and the event is ongoing. now, in a theater, in downtown boca, and a number of other victims of kidnapping and their family members or their president to a meeting in many cases for the 1st time their captors in public. and some of them have already started speaking among them are a bad luck who kidnapped back in 1989. he said that he is a conservative man, a catholic, somebody that will never forget what has been done to him by the said that you want it to be there. even if he, he believes he will not be able to completely forgive the fact because he wants to hear the truth from them. also, his wife just spoke her name is deanna. she said that she was there to heal or

heart the all the victims that have spoken so far. i've been extremely emotional. i've had a hard time holding back at 2 years as they remembered what happened in their past . but this is a very, very symbolic public event to that. the people here in columbus, b believe is on the mantel to try and heal the wounds of the internal conflict in the country. the fight, in particular, from the mid 1997, sail 2005 f kidnapped more than at 20000 people in the country in a process, a crime that had become a systematic and we are hearing stories also from entire families that work in miners the, at the time, that's $545.00 command. there's have recognized for the 1st time the role in this

crimes back in september and our expect later today to ask for forgiveness in public in front of their victims. so we're following what is happening, and this is definitely one of the most symbolic days for reconciliation in colombia, santo's on p as in bullet. sandra, thank you very much. indeed. in more than 20 cases of a highly infectious covered 19 strain has been fined in 3 indian states. it's closely related to the delta, very 1st detected in the country health official save. the new mutation is a variant of concern. elizabeth put on him has more from new delhi, the ministry of health is worried. that's why they have classified. this is a variant of concern saying they give the title a variant of interest or concern when a variance is more trans miscible or is more virulent. they said they found $22.00

cases of the states of mind. ostrom, entrepreneur, dish, and, and catalogue the governance press information bureau is now pushing that number at 40 days off the states to put very strips containment measures in place where the clusters of the various have been found. that includes contact tracing, testing preventing any gatherings, and also prioritizing vaccinations that they're saying that so father by then to $53.00 characteristics of what they call in the delta plus the variance that it is more transmissible that it has stronger binding to the receptors of long cells and that is a potential reduction in antibody response. they've also said that india is one of 9 countries with what they call in the delta plus has been identified. that's also being found in the us, the u. k. switzerland, portugal, japan, poland, may, paul, china and russia. and they are trying to get the delta plus on the control, which is something that they weren't able to do with the original delta variant.

which rates habit both in india and abroad. we have the white house chief medical adviser to add to the fact you're saying on tuesday that the original delta variant is america's greatest threat to get included on the control. so to patrick time is a medical microbiologist and a division chief of pathology sciences that symptom medical and research center. he says the virus will keep evolving, but vaccines are largely proving effective against the new variance. so far we've seen a lot of the, the mutation being recycled by the buyer as it evolving the natural person for the buyers to keep evolving as long as we don't have it under control. so what we've seen with the delta variant and now the delta variant is that you know, the delta barrier, it's already a variance or concern in now it picked up an additional mutation that similar to

a previous there and the beta variance and, and potentially going to go into allow the virus to be able to have a higher ability to be in unity from the back being and from the 15. but i think that the big back here is that, you know, the vaccine protection that would mean again, the beta variance is protected. so even though there's a minor reduction in bacteria advocate the for the m r n a back in they are still highly effective. we see 80 to 90 percent protection against the beta and you should expect the same thing with a new delta variance. the vast majority of mutation don't do anything for the virus . they don't make it more transmissible. they don't make it. give it the ability to bade immunity or increase it, they are in the bath majority of your napping. right? so the only tiny proportion of vacation are able to give extra characteristics to

the virus. but what we've been is that, you know, the different type of mutation are very similar between all the different variance . they are converging in that, in terms of, by using berry himmel invitation to do the same thing. in one month. the world's attention is going to shift to tokyo for the delayed 2020 summer olympic games. protestors have used the occasion to gather outside the japanese and the headquarters, calling on the government to cancel the games trans health care system struggling with a pandemic. peter's going to have more on the build up the tokyo games in the sport and a couple of minutes. 9 separate as activists are promising to keep pushing for a catalog republic after their release from prison in spain. that is having sentences of between 9 and 13 years after catalonia has failed secession in 2017 by mister federal sanchez. pardon them on tuesday. news out. that is,

what we want is amnesty today is a day of joy, especially for those who left prison today and for our families. but the joy is not full because what we want is repression to in, so that every person who's being punished can go ash on the street, freely lack of those in exile can return today's a step towards that goal. let's just use the small victory to achieve our big victory. amnesty self determination and the catalog republic gets us president joe, by the says he'll keep up the fight to overhaul the electoral system in the u. s. after senate republicans blocked to bill to begin debating the proposals, 3 fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative . the motion is not agreed to. how short of the 60 votes require democrats said that reform package will counteract laws passed in the public and lead states which restrict voting access. republicans argue that reform package infringes states

rights and is aimed at tilting elections in favor of the democrats. it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern. it is an american concern. this is about the american people's right to vote unfettered. it is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way because nobody is debating. i don't believe whether all americans have the right to vote. the issue here is their actual access to the voting process or is that being impeded? and the, the bottom line is that the president are very clear to support f one, support the john, the with the voting rights. and the fight is not open. parts of albany are still rebuilding 18 months after a devastating earthquake. 51 people were killed. but as john set off at supposed, some from man and not everyone is happy with the rebuilding effort. my the to card use house is at risk of collapsing. the unstable roof seems ready to cave in,

but she, her 2 children and 5 grandchildren have nowhere else to go. for now, they've been given monetary systems. some were very happy. we've had help with groceries and i get a $150.00 a month to shop. but the main reason she's happy is that the obedient government is giving her family an apartment in these new developments in some manner about 30 kilometers north of the capital to run the 5 buildings collapsed to what a powerful earthquake struck out dania in 2019 killing 2 dozen people in savannah alone, but anyone who lost the house will receive a new one for free, and the government is paying their rent and the meantime, part of a dynamic response to turn adversity to advantage. in the port of judas, there are few signs left but 25 people were killed by collapsing, hotels, and houses. the sights of tragedy have been bulldozed, clean and lifting buildings removed.

yes. we've seen to transform the response for the earthquake story. people supported us mostly because of how we acted exactly to cove it and earthquake. so we turned this to blows in into the opportunities to prove that we can, we can do, we can do great things together and we did. the government has spent $150000000.00 on earthquake reconstruction this year alone, but the timing has been political more than half that aid was dispersed during the month before april general election. that helped prime minister at rama when

a 3rd term. but it also means that for many people, that compensation arrived 18 months after the earthquake prolonging the misery at amazon. does your family say they haven't received anything yet? municipal engineers didn't tell him his damaged home is safe, light gun, see the home. we sleep and fear that they could be another earthquake and will suffer more damage. we have no assurance that we safe with staying at our own risk with very afraid with even disabled the front door lock. so we can run out into the street as a moments notice local authorities gave that she this tent, but he never used it. his neighbors told us they spent a year in their tent and ended up fixing their house at their own expense. at the heart of this community, 70 units are going up 1st to how's the last of those 2 homeless? it's unclear whether people will get to keep the damaged properties. but eddie ramos earthquake response was 1st and it helped him win an election jumpstart, hopeless al jazeera for mana albania. so i had an old junior joker,

which impresses as he helps his dad prepare for wimbledon digits. the details and his fault. i use use with

me. ah ah ah ah peter, well, thank you very much. one months ago until the delayed olympics, begin in token of the games which were pushed back a year because of the current of ours pandemic will open on july the 23rd in the japanese capital. but they will be going ahead under strict health rules, overseas fans have been banned and venues will only have a 50 percent. capacity for local fans are not allowed to to cheer they must way

masked and go straight home after an event. is huge pressure to manage both the games and the pandemic in japan. folk as governor utica quickly has announced she is taking the rest of the week off to recover from via fatigue. meanwhile, the uganda methodist tested positive for code 19 in japan. this is the 2nd member of the uganda limping delegation that is tested positive for the kuranda virus. upon arrival in japan, on saturday, a coach became 1st concerned infection in an overseas team to be reported. the olympic village is usually a hive of activity and fun for the athletes to interact with a team, as was competitors from other countries. that will not be the case in tokyo as a peaceful journalist. steven way it explains. let's get the numbers on this 11000 athletes. one pic, athletes will be in the village, $4400.00 paralympic athletes in the village after bigs. all the athletes who come in will be tested twice,

72 hours and 96 hours before they leave their home country. they'll be tested when they get in japan. you'll be tested every single day in the village. anybody, the test positive in the village will be pulled out important, something called a fever clinic. the athletes are, are basically not allowed to socialize. they're being told to stay in their rooms, essentially, go to their venues, come back to their training venues and come back over the weekend. we had announcement, there'll be no alcohol at all in the, in the village. not that this should be a big drinking place, but no alcohol at all. if athletes want to have a drink to celebrate their told the drink alone in the room, that's how austere it's going to be. you can imagine the rooms we looked at over the weekend there, tiny summer, 10 square meters, 2 beds in a room. they're going to perhaps space people out to allow more ventilation. but it's very tight quarters and it's going to be a very austere olympics. not very much fun. steve graham is a former wolf 1500 meter champion and a lympics silver medalist you now compensate some coaches and told alger there,

that the lack of fans in the stands won't affect the athletes performances. hesitate to say this, but you know, obviously if you're quite used to reading in front of quite small how it's and in particular last 18 months, diamond lead meetings with no crowds whatsoever. which for that incredible performances will records. you might even remember that you know, the control, the 3 round, the lack of that is in the world championships in 2019 and yet we had probably one of the best world effect challenges ever hot in them to perform. so i don't think that's an issue, it would be great, and it will be great if there is your chance to have some funds in the stadium. but rest assured that you know, this is belinda gaines. you athletes and coaches coach as well. prepare for the event for the food for competing against the competitors and to try to to women perform the higher level the, the crowd atmosphere is a tiny, tiny addition to everything that they do. yes. from

a commentary point of view it. ready is always nice to be, you'll have that fear around everything else, but again, hopefully we'll all will raise again as well. the news. it's the final they have group matches at the euro's 8 teams a waiting to find out if they'll make it into the fix. but still up for grabs in the knockout stage. among those are defending champions, portugal they'll go through if they avoid the fee to will champions, france who have already booked a place, but if they lose and germany lose on wednesday to then portugal out, germany currently said thickening group a fellow play hungry. another team also still in the running again. if germany avoid the fees they will go through but hungry can go through if they win. the only team through from group e, so far as sweden. if poland beat them, they also reach the last 16 spain will go through if they beat vakio. but if you

get a point, then they'll be staying in the competition and the race go home. new zealand, the 18 year to becoming the 1st ever will test cricket champions. india redeemed, play on $64.00 for 2. but the key boat is the disapproved job in dismissing indifferent 170. and the 2nd is the last day of the final in south hampton. to be taking full wickets the new zealanders need only $139.00 for victory. a short while ago they were 56 for 2 in the n b a western conference finals. the phoenix suns beaten the los angeles clippers by the narrowest of margins and gain to the sons had won the series open at the 2nd lead. in this matchup, the clippers were not going away in phoenix. in the 2nd game. they were in the lead looking like snatching a win with just 0.7 seconds left on the clock to look well that was more than enough time for the under agency, complete the winning rocket as the sun when one of them for 103 and i now leave the

theory to nothing. in the n h l semi final place. montreal canadians are just one, went away from the stanley cup final. on tuesday, they easily beat the vegas golden mice for one in game 5 that give the canadians a 32 series lead with the rest of the match up scheduled to be played in montreal. now that talk a bit, she's preparing for wimbledon next week by playing in the 1st atp events in may, yoko the will. number one is the office a playing space because the family and 6 year old son stephan. he's in love with then it's, you know, he's in love with different sports. a love he loves to now actually he was very inspired to come and play on the grass for him. it was a new experience and he likes it a lot. you know, he likes to dive and so forth, so he was watching my practice picking up the balls and then, and then in the, in the breaks he was playing as well with me, with my brother, with my coach. and that's all the sports needs. rob peter,

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