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least intends nea arrest. the leader of the main opposition party before a meeting demanding constitutional reforms and brittany close to 2 weeks of uncertainty. haiti's new prime minister is sworn in time on the richardson in tokyo, a city preparing to host an olympic games like no other. ah, to begin in central china where the heaviest rain since records began, has triggered, devastating flesh floods. homes have been swept away streets, subways, factories and farmland. nothing has been spared. more than 200000 people are being moved now to higher ground to get away from the flooding. at least 12 people had been killed in the city of jang ju hit by the heaviest rainfall in generations. and 4 others died in the neighboring young g city. katrina,

you reports now from paging. flood water wreaking havoc across china's her, none province. the damage visible as far as the i can see. the army is warning under the region, 7 stricken dams may collapse at any time risking the lives of around 7000000 people have downpours, have flooded streets. stranding travelers bring the region to a standstill cause a completely submerged as residents of swept away underground. unmistakable panic among these passengers trapped inside a submerged subway car or waste deep waters rising to their shoulders. the emergency crews reportedly opening a hole in the roof, evacuating passengers one by one. the this terrifying moment. sure. as bystanders swallowed by a sink hole with the crowd rescuing this woman a deafening explosion at this elemental factory. after a nearby river burst banks,

the sled water mixed with chemicals, lighting up the night sky. the government has been upgrading its emergency response . the crews working round the clock to rescue residents inside their flooded homes, and cars increased as an, as ation and climate change has worsened the impact of floods in recent years. this is the most rainfall the region has seen in 6 decades with no sign of letting up anytime soon. and katrina joins us live here on the news. out of paging, katrina are the flood waters still rising. well over the locals that we've spoken to say, the rain has subsided somewhat, but shell is still expected to fall for the next 2 days. so the region remains on high alert. now the government has sent about 10000 people to help with rescue and

clean up efforts a combination of firefighters and soldiers who have been sent to the city of jung, joe, which is the worst effected region in the area. but we also have heard that outside of jung joad, another city in good news for people have died for people at least in a landslide, caused by torrential rain. so that brings the death toll to at least 16 after 12. people were reported dead on tuesday after floods. inundated the subway system in the city of jung. joe, now these heavy raisins have been falling for at least 3 days for in choose the afternoon around 5 pm local time. the city was hit with about 20 centimeters of rain in the space of one hour, which caught all of the residents about $70000000.00 in the city of john joe completely off guard. so as you mentioned earlier, at least 200000 people have been evacuated to stay for areas. and much of that city still remains without power or fresh running water. and all the authorities having

to face up to it's the classic reality of this kind of situation, isn't it? where the rain can fall in one area, but the flash flooding actually happens. sometimes hundreds of kilometers away in another area and another region. that's right. so this whole area, this is the central chinese province of her, not 100000000 people live in this province, province. it's cause it covers a great deal of land. so authority having to do with these major cities, these extremely dense urban areas as well as these rural counties which are also affected. now every year this part of china does expect and receive a lot of rainfall. it's currently summer in china. but what's different this year is that this, these regions never received this amount of rain. actually some experts where the experts have said that this region has received as much rain in 3 days that usually

received in the space of an entire year. so authorities are really struggling to deal with the consequences of the severe storms. also, it's usual that, as i mentioned earlier, that you have more rural counties, townships with less developed infrastructure. they're usually the worst effect. it's not often you get a major city like jung dro population of 7000000 people affected this badly. no president, she didn't. ping has underlined how difficult this is. he says that fraud prevention efforts very difficult. he is called on all local governments in china to review their emergency response systems to try to prevent similar tragedies happening in future and environmental groups that we have spoken to say that this is the right approach. they say that because of climate change, governments should definitely expect more extreme weather events like this to happen in the near future. katrina, thank you very much. katrina you that joining us live here on the news paging. well though it is difficult to directly link global warming with extreme weather events . recently, we have seen everything from massive wildfires to devastating flooding around the

world. once in a century. floods of devastated parts of germany, belgium, and the netherlands in europe. for a sy as a burning through siberia, usually one of the coldest places on the planet. in the u. s. dozens of wildfires, a building across california and the state of oregon to above the border north of the border, canada also experiencing reco temperatures this month. experts believe we're running out of time to reverse the damage from a warming planet. will. stephanie is a climate change experts at the australian national university. he joins us on skype from cambra. well, good talk to you again. is this old down to global warming? i certainly think there's a very strong fingerprint of climate change in all this. we know the basic physics tells us this. as we pull more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, a temperature is rising, which in fact, is a measure of the heat and energy content of the atmosphere. and that's expressed in different ways in different places. it could be extremely walk in british columbia

in canada. it could trigger wildfires like we had mr only a couple of years ago and now ravaging siberia and so on. but also a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor. and that means that it's much more likely to see every down worse than it was 34 years ago. so although they seem like quite different extreme weather events, in fact, they can be tracked back to that we have an atmosphere now the tax significantly more energy than is just 34 years ago carrying more water vapor. and simply making much more probable that will have extreme weather like this, the chinese government signaling today. very clearly they're going to think about their emergency response mechanisms. that's something that's like something we hear from governments around the world from america, candidates your we were hearing from angle americo in germany. thing something not dissimilar to that this time yesterday. but if you're going to change your response mechanism, seems to me that's a bit like putting a band aid on

a broken leg. you know, you're dealing with the immediate circumstance. you're not curing the problem. yeah, that's a good point. but i would say in defense of these measures is that we know certain that these sort of extreme events are going to get worse for another decade or gene that's sort of built into the system. so even if we start getting our emissions down rapidly and say dropped by 50 percent by 2030, which would be an impressive effort. we still will experience more extreme weather in 2030. so we really have to do about we have to prepare for these extreme weather events because people's lives through a lot of infrastructure and stake. but also we must get emissions down very rapidly, or else will be overwhelmed by extreme weather events another decade or 2 events. we couldn't even pick. therefore, does this come down to will politicians? i mean, on this channel we do a lot of the time seemed to be talking about a climate summit for presidents and prime ministers. this just happened all one

that's just around the corner. and then there's the family photo opportunity and they say yes, we're working on saving the planet. and yet we're seeing these extreme weather events. now look, i think there's some really fundamental problems here. i think we have problems with vested interest built in infrastructure built in industries that are powerful players and political systems. we have audiology, particularly strong here in australia were conservative ideologies that very unfortunately, may climate change in the partisan political issue rather than a threat to all of us. so we have some, i think, quite serious political problems to get over. it makes it doubly frustrating because a lot of the solutions are coming online in terms of renewable energy sources, new ways of transporting ourselves and so on. but these are being slowed or blocked by audiology and vested interests. when you talk about ideology and vested interest, there were reports 10 days, 2 weeks ago, of some very, very localized flash floods in some european cities because they was the anti

flextronics system that just lingered over central europe. and there was some reports claiming it was because we're just building too many buildings and people nowadays as well, that building down into the ground, the changing the water table, the changing the way the water table can run off. is that something that we, as individuals can stop doing? yeah, certainly there are contributing factors to extreme weather events worse. and that's part of the issue of adaptation. we have to learn how to adapt to worsening extreme weather. and that means we have to look at our built infrastructure, we have to look at our emergency practices and so on. so yes, these extreme weather events can be made worse. by the way, we build our buildings, the way we organize or urban areas and our waterways and so on. will thank you very much. will stephan talking to us there on scar? listen. lots more still to come for you here on the news, including with no end in sight to the corona virus pandemic. we look at the impact

of having on the life expectancy of people around the world. yeah. and emotional nights in milwaukee at the n. b. a finals come to an end action coming up later in the 4th i the police in the area say they secured the release of 100 villages who were kidnapped 6 weeks ago. many of them were women and children are abducted last month in northwest and them far est heavily on criminal gangs are responsible for a series of kidnappings for ransom across the region. made addressed joins his life now from the nigerian capital of butcher. so admit this must have been going on for some time. yes, the kidnapping has been going on for some time. the attacks on villages have been

going on in the zone for a state, for example, for at least 9 years. we've covered the story from 9 years ago and the situation keeps getting worse and worse and worse. we only have the release of $124.00 victims of kidnappings released in for a stage. like you said in the introduction, 80 women 20 children 24 more to be released later today on the way to safety right now because they were, they were not evacuated yesterday due to their condition. a lot of them why wonder? now the police are saying that they have secured the release of these individuals, these women and children, and the one that without paying around. so a lot of nigerians have 2nd thoughts about it. well, in some for a state, there's been some kind of discussion, some kinds of negotiations between or, or just bass and bandits. all men. they call the bandit for some kind of amnesty for patricky updates violence. and it's been going on for years. and we've seen

these promises and these agreements broken by the bandits over and over again. so a lot of not just believe that it's not working now, but the question of whether it's paid or not. it's not verified at the moment, but what we know is there been some military operations in the region for quite some time for weeks and the military claiming victory over the past few days. we've seen a lot of activity by the bandage rating villages and they've also inflict just lost us on the niger and security services. just a few days ago, they killed at least 13 policemen at a mobile police training camp in the north west of nigeria. and they also shut down and get in military jet that was bombarding doubts in the north west of the country . so that's the situation that's currently going on in the north west of the country. and we understand that the president has asked the ministry to step up oppressions in the region. do we think that the victims now go through some sorts of debrief process?

i guess almost because personally the authority is they want, they need information on the band that they need information on the gangs. exactly. they will go through some debrief and some medical checks as well. but again, we've seen this over and over again, negotiations leading to the release of possibly just around some being paid a claims and counterclaims of russell paid or not paid. we have currently more than a 1000 people. nobody knows exactly how many there. ah, but there are over 10200 students in captivity. these are school kids who are taken from their schools in the north west of the country and not to stay in a can be always places these operational errors, by the way, the area where these spend its release. this 124 people was actually in a forest that borders to 30 states active, but locations. and these have been areas where hundreds of people have been taken right now as we speak. you cannot even travel from the state or the federal capital

. a boucher here to which if this is 167 kilometers without having a in your mouth, simply because that area that highway if know, 12 costs a lot of lives, mondays have kidnapped hundreds of people in that room. and the policies are struggling to keep up with the with, with a situation and it's still happening in the central nigeria and other parts of nigeria. smith. thank you very much. interest and correspondent, the in boucher, the leader intensity as main opposition party has been arrested freeman and boy, and 10 other shoddy and party members were detained in the middle of the night. they were planning a conference to them on constitutional reforms. the authority say the members were arrested for inciting quotes, unauthorized assembly. there are restrictions on public gatherings to cut the spread of covered 19. catherine soya is following those developments from the e. c o p and capital addis ababa with a demo or position party has released

a statement, confirming the arrest of 11 of the members, including the lead up room. and boy, they rested very early this morning at around 230 a. m a hotel in, in ones. they had trouble there to attend a constitutional forum, a meeting where they were to sensitize people on their push for constitutional reforms. they want, for example, to have the powers of the president reduced to have proper rules to ensure that their rees an independent electoral commission. and also to have laws that enable a president up to retirement to be tried in court for crime committed while on the home. now, the local administration there, i said that says this individual was flouting. call the 19 regulations that have been imposed. they're like, you know, having public gatherings which is banned,

but some opposition lee does. and also officials off to them. a party are saying that this really is continuing to draw back the democratic gains that have been made just going back to enforce or continue enforcing the policies that had been put in place by the late president. john pulled them up before the times on. mia has a new president now. some. yes, to lou who had people are hopeful when she was appointed a few months ago that she was going to open up the democratic face. but now they're responsible for me. sometimes the news that has spoken to that she's just going back to the footsteps of her predecessor in south korea has reported its highest number of cupboard 19 infections in a day since the start of the pandemic, more than 1700 new cases were recorded on tuesday, the recent search is being driven by the highly contagious delta variance. just 13

percent of the population there is fully vaccinated. australia's 2 largest states are reporting arise and infections, even though they've been under lockdown. new south wales has reported another 110 new cases while neighboring. victoria has had 20 to the health authorities ramped up testing with more than 140000 carried out on tuesday a single day record. india has recorded its highest daily death. so in a month, almost $4000.00 off the states of my roster updated its counts of unreported cases . and the number of new infractions also increased to more than 42000. not the rise of 12000 on the day before neighboring me and me are the medical infrastructure is on the edge of collapse. unable to cope with a rising number of infections on tuesday, a senior politician from the former ruling and now deposed and l. d. party died in jail after contracting the virus. a warning but tony change report does show some distressing images. on the emergency medical responders, inter

a house in east gone in yang, gone by the doorway. a middle aged man sits as if he just dozed off to sleep. in a bedroom, an old man. his father, lies unmoving on the bed. both men are dead, suspected victims of coven 19. as it spreads, uncheck across me and ma elsewhere, mere mas largest city. they've been cuing through the night to refill oxygen canisters most have to risk breaking the military imposed curfew to get in line with a weight of at least 12 hours ahead of them. for some, it's too long. my sister has been suffering from coven 19 for 3 days. but while i was queuing to fill the oxygen tank this morning, my niece called me to come home as my sister died, because she ran out of oxygen. now the pandemic has claimed the life of

a senior and l d. politician. and when a spokesman and legal advisor to uncensored choose party, he was jailed by the military following the crew of the contracting covered 19 in prison. he died in hospital on tuesday night. even getting help to those who needed his hard, knotty, used to live in young, gone. now. she's trying to raise funds for oxygen and aid to send back from neighboring thailand. from the report she's guessing from inside me on my the official death told several 100 people a day is a gross underestimate. the volunteers and the ambulance. people say that all the in young gone alone. 6 to 800 people died every day since last week. so of course, the number that we see from the official channels of the government, the government is not very reliable across se asia nations and being overwhelmed by coven 19 as the delta variance sweeps across the region. but no, we're, the defense is weaker than the miasma. where those challenge was fighting the

pandemic had been arrested by the military. no social distancing this young gong crematorium for the living. or the dead bodies stacked, waiting for the furnace relatives waiting to get to the front of the queue. ambulances empty of their patience and a smoke stack, bellowing black smoke, tony ching al jazeera. okay, let's stay with the cobra pandemic. the life expectancy of americans dropped by a year and a half in 2020, the biggest decline since world war 2. the centers for disease control says, is mostly because of the pandemic covered 19 accounting for more than 110th of a record 3300000 deaths in the u. s. last year. and it's had a disproportionate effect on minorities, the life expectancy of black and hispanic americans dropped even more dramatically by an average of 3 years analyst,

a long term social and economic inequalities of me. minority communities more vulnerable. during the pandemic, most of the european countries have also seen a drop but of less than a year. while in south africa, it's as much as 4 years. let's talk now to ox on up pacific a global health advisor lecturer at the university of college london school of pharmacies to join us on skype from london, oksana pies x. so this is a guest, i guess, a numerical mathematical interpretation of another aspects of corona virus. certainly, and we see that that short in life expectancy is certainly alarming when we compare united states to other high income western countries when we look at the beam communities, having been disproportionately affected. but it's not just about cobit itself when there are very high rates of transmission and early opening, etc. these types of factors, it means that when hospitals get overwhelmed,

other surgeries and health procedures don't go ahead. so part of that we lowered life expectancy is not just plain covert depth, but also cobit impact on the health care system itself. such that we saw other groups of people not being treated for routine and regular reasons, altogether creating this really alarming drop. i just that also have a knock on effect when it comes to the people that provide the health care points of contact. because already we're hearing this from particularly the european union health care systems in individual countries where health care workers, they haven't had any holiday or leave time for 18 months. they're not going to get any holiday or leave time because for understandable reasons. the doctor's, the nurses, et cetera, they're playing catch up when it comes to dealing with those people who have got heart conditions, those people who got cancer and all, i'm going to say that they are at death's door anyway. yes, his backlog is certainly means that even when we're not in a coven surge,

that the health care system is working on overdrive anyhow. and that's something that i think it's forgotten or left out of the public discourse. so this means that overall they're more likely for errors to occur, and we cannot continuously apply this type of pressure without looking at other solutions and one of those solutions and ensuring that those communities that are not more resistant to taking the vaccine. again, there, there is a trend amongst being communities, hard to reach communities in terms of improving vaccination rates because it will, in some sense also helped to prevent other complications. long cove it that we also know in the u. k, there have been 2000000 people who have reported complications as a result of suffering even mild cases of coverage. and additionally, we look at specifically neurological and psychological complications. those who are hospitalized one in through received

a diagnosis. so this means that it's not just in a short term that in coming years, that gap can be reverse. we're also going to be looking at other complications that will put pressure on the health care system. so it is so important that we get that back to nation rates up globally as high as possible. not just for live individual life, but for to protect the health care system itself. is that the only long term solution vaccinate, vaccinate vaccine? it, particularly if we talk about the idea or the theory, i guess that this situation could get worse because of long cove. it because those people are sick now, they're going to be long term sick, but they may not make the ultimate journey for a year or 2 or 10, but they have a bad quality of life between now and whatever happens to them in the future. well, certainly we can't let vaccines do all the heavy lifting, but it is the most effective intervention. and we need to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to improve accessibility,

particularly in countries where they are already available. but there is some element of mistrust at that tra, but other than that also we see that even thing simple measures, such as wearing face mask in areas where they're on high level to transmissions because it can be very effective and cheap intervention for individuals to take forward to protect themselves, and we also need to see alongside that further treatments for cove itself to be developed and implemented such that people who are hospitalized will have better outcomes, such that they won't have a will, will be able to save lives, but be to really prevent any long term issues if possible. so i think we need to be looking at holistically, certainly, and treatments have taken a bit of a background role. however they are in for some reason for a lot of the concern around the moral so cost. if we look at something like

regeneration, it's extremely expensive, not available everywhere on a thank you so much on a project talking to that from london. still to come here on the news for you will travel to tijuana in mexico, close to the us border with refugees and asylum seekers. left out of the vaccination efforts there. the and, and sport, the international olympic committee. and i was in the host of the 2030 to someone else. ah hello there. it's all about the heat across europe at the moment, particularly around the western areas. the british isles, are seeing a heat wave and bricks and recorded. it's hot as day of the year so far on tuesday

as temperature is in london rose up to $32.00 degrees celsius. now we have got an amber alert out on thursday. that's for southwestern parts of england and for northern island. but we are expecting those hot and sunny conditions to lock until the weekend when the weather weather kicks in on saturday. and for spain, it's continuing to civil under a heat wave, with temperatures in madrid, rising up into the high thirty's. but as we move further east, it's when we see the wet weather kicking in northern parts of italy and for the balkans remaining is seen some of that heavy rain and ukraine. thiessen's thunder, re downpours and stronger winds west in areas of russia also affected by that wet weather. but up in the north, the temperatures have picked up and the heat is building. as it is in turkey, they said in all time temperature high on tuesday in the south east. so lots of sunny conditions coming through. it's a similar story for greece, but of a brisk wind blowing and, and as we moved to north africa, it's very hot and dry,

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