me ah ah, this is al jazeera ah, the time is 1500 hours the gmc here on out 0. hello, i'm kim all santa maria. welcome to the news i'm. extreme flooding is tearing through central china. it's force around 200000 people to flee the low lying area. and as these extreme weather events become more and more common all over the world, we're looking at the promises made and the product is broken by the world's politician. also in the news, police and tons and the rest, the leader of the main opposition party before a meeting to demand constitutional reform and france rolls out

a new system. the way to keep her of ours infections at bay. pleasing every one of them to the sport, the opening ceremony of the tokyo limping on friday. but competition is already underway. willing softball is the 1st event at the game. ah, so we're beginning to see with a look at actively the whole world new, extraordinary weather events which are happening right now. there is everything from massive wildfire to devastating floods. and in the woods, one environmental professor at harvard university. everything we worried about is happening. and it's happening at the high end of protections. so let's take you around the world. let's show you the flush point literally right now is china. the death toll is mounting from unprecedented flooding and central regions. at least 12 people have now been killed in the city of jango, which has been hit by the heavy rainfall in generations. there is also those once

in a century, floods that we've seen through parts of germany, belgium, and the netherlands in the middle of summer. let's not forget, there are forest fires burning through siberia, one of the coldest places on earth, you know, in some siberia average is around 20 degrees in the south, 0 degrees in the north. this year there was a peak of $48.00 degrees on the 1st day of summer. in the united states, dozens of wildfires burning across california and oregon. some of them so large, they create their own weather systems and are sending smoke over to the east coast . and canada also experienced multiple reco temperatures last month peaking at just under 50 degrees and the western province of british columbia. well, it is a global story. we're going to look at the big picture in a moment. the cause the effect to the action being taken. first, let's take you to china that this report is from katrina. you in paging rescue teams work to do the night to help. so boy passengers get to safety in downtown

john doe in the space of just 3 days. the capital of china's central clint and province received as much rain as it usually gets in the year. hundreds of trapped for hours underground tunnels were flooded. this man says he was lucky to survive. the impact of the flood water was so powerful that i have to remove my shirt backpack, and everything except my pain. with much the upper part of the glass window to let some aaron, otherwise it would have been suffocating. the sudden torrential rainbow caught john jo, 7, the residence of god. these pedestrians formed a human chain to avoid being swept away. more than 10000 emergency workers have been deployed to help with rescue and clean up abrasion in the neighboring city of glee. several people were killed and landslides, more than 200000, have been evacuated from their homes to safe areas. china's yellow river runs to holland and a province for the population of 100000000. authorities say

a dad at the historic city of william has been severely damaged and can burst at anytime with the experts they. these are the worst for the ship. the region in recorded history. presidents change and paint has described prevention efforts as extremely difficult. he's called on all local governments around the country to review the emergency response system to prevent similar tragedies. severe storms have also hit cities and in magnolia, in china's ne, to dan burst there after a weekend of torrential rain environmental group say the extreme weather is caused by climate change. be kind of a disaster going to becoming more and more frequent because of the change in climate. and we would see that this kind of disaster poses very sort of huge economic and social loss. the city of jungle remains on high alert. rain is expected to continue until friday. residents have been advised to

remain indoors to stay dry and safe between you i'll to 0 b j. let's move on to germany, where the cabinet is approved of $470000000.00 package of a me yet flood aid. the government says billions more though will be spent to reconstruct infrastructure more than $100.00. 60 people killed last week in the countries worst natural disaster in decades on tuesday, chancellor anglo merkel visited by month rifle, one of the worst hit towns where people say, i just isn't arriving fast enough. step boston is best for us. with a bare hands and a lot of determination chains fallen tears clean up one house after the other. this story town of batman's the i felt so sweet washed away by the power of the swollen river, our jeanette dinner and her husband feared a 400 year old house has become uninhabitable after water inundated the ground floor. the couple are known as the gatekeepers of the centuries old fortress and

work as to guides. i spoke best, but we always told tourists about the horrible flood in 1956 when part of the wolves disappeared. but the one in 2021 is a very special story. i can't talk about it now. perhaps i'll be able to intent in at the moment. i can't. when chancellor i'm going to merkel was 2 in the town. some residents complained she was hampering the clean up. she's blocking everything we now can't use the machines that he's annoying has been standing there for a while. this is outrageous. the 30 people here want to continue to work to rebuild or city what words it can be done. thousands of hands are working long hours to clear rubble from the trees and houses, but after 5 days of hard work from here. and so i and i'm getting tired and frustrated. i feel that on their own i can't rely on help from the authorities.

the boomer family will help by 40 volunteers will clear their house of debris in no time. they don't think merkel faces is doing anything to improve their situation. thanks to the cycle for it would only help if she brings bags full of money for those who have lost everything. words alone don't make any difference. merkel, after 16 years as chancellor will be replaced after elections in september did promise financial support soon. and then we'll miss your minds on the financial aid must go to the people as soon as possible. have more often than not have nothing over the clothes say a wearing and a completely reliant on this. residents are worried to poses of delivering that emergency 8 will be long as you regretted. for now they rely on family, friends and complete strangers. steadfast and al jazeera that moves the isis and so inevitably becomes about trying to slow as dramatic escalation in climate change. but there are still major gaps between what has been promised and what's actually

being done. i want to show you some charts here to the climate action tracker, which is an independent group. it tracks government climate action against the promises made in the paris climate agreement. and you will remember the parents common agreement said this, the red line, 1.5 degrees, rising in temperatures, that's what we want to limit things to. the problem is at current rates, we're looking at an increase of almost 3 degrees. this is by the 2100, i should say, a pledges and targets i kept looking more like 2.4 degrees celsius. and if we're optimistic, what would be looking more at about this 2 degrees? now, where does the optimism come from? well, something like this. net 0 emissions, the pledge of the countries which are said yes, we're going to cut our emissions to 0. and what you need to look at is the pink fiction market here. the 27 percent of countries in the world which have not committed to any sort of net 0 emissions reductions. now sure,

you've got the united states saying, we'll cut by 12. you've got china thing. we'll cut by 25. those a huge amounts, but that is what will be needed only to keep to those numbers if we are to reach even that one mark of today's, not even the one and a half percent degrades, i should say, of the parent climates agreement. let's get some expert opinion on this, on scott, from london, alina average, and clover, who is a distinguished policy fellow at the grantham, research institute on climate change in the environment that is at the london school of economics and political science. i know you couldn't necessarily see the graphs i was pointing to that, but i think the short stories that there's a lot of if there aren't there, if pledges come through, if we keep to these sorts of levels optimistically, we may only reach that 2.0 degrees change, it's not looking that great who doesn't feel like it's looking that great. welcome . absolutely right, we're running out of time and climate change is not just a threat of the future. we're living it every day. and that graph that you're shown,

you know, free degrees temperature increase. we haven't seen that for the past 3000000 years . at that time, the sea level was 10 to 20 meter of higher than what we have today. so we absolutely need more cons. that is making commitments to get to mission. so mad 0 but also keep the plans and i think what is helping the extreme events that's different regions of facing at the moment? they're very unfortunate, but what they're doing is they're raising political attention to the issue. and i think, you know, you mentioned uncle american in germany road i just seen climate change answering very firmly the election campaign. we're also seeing climate change being more important than the european level in the united states. and hopefully, that will bring more commitments as we get. so the major climate summit to say end of this young glasgow just as you've been talking, we've been looking at some of the pictures from around the world, from europe, from china, the extraordinary flooding that's going on there. they get called extreme weather

events. oh we at the point now where we can say actually know the, the climate change events, this is what's happening because of climate change. i think scientists grisly clear that those of the frequency of those extreme events is increasing just a climate sense. and we'll see more of that in the future. and that is why it is very important that confidence don't just limit themselves to making international commitments, but actually introduce some bishops climate legislation at home that it is emission, but also thought that so those extreme effects of climate change until very recently, we have some great news from the european union, for example, which just last month agreed a legislation that the level of the whole blog which will aim to limits emissions by 2015 and bring them 0. but then you get into internal politics. you've described a lot of countries which are trying to do things, but let's take the netherlands, for example, with i said, yes, this is

a good idea. and principle we want to come down to $1.00 degrees. but then you've got say the farming industry, which is saying yes, but we don't want these emissions targets to hurt our industry. there is always going to be someone or some thing who pushes back transition to low carbon emissions to the economy that is green. that is more efficient. we'll of course, have some industries. so some groups of people who will be more effective than others. and therefore, it's very important as countries designs, polish of climate change policies that they actually think for how to help those plots of populations like farmers in the netherlands, like coal mining communities in south africa and poland. and there are great initiatives, great examples of governments actually setting up what is called just transition commission. that will look at financial incentives, skills and training, so that new employment can be created for those groups which may be affected by climate policies in the future. and just one final thoughts from you,

and this is not sure if you have a specific answer me here, but when i think about siberia at the moment, we mentioned that at the start of our broadcast siberia, it's cold, it has permafrost, and it's hitting 48 degrees and it's got wildfires. how has how was that happened? how is it close to that point and apparently so quickly i think that the example of siberia and the impacts of climate change that those facing at the moment. i think that's one of the examples of really extreme change and that, that's the change that's happening in different regions. so there was also an important sort example on the fresh water disappearing and unpack ticket because of, of the i see it's melting basically. so we'll see more and more of such events, and i think it is very significant. the mounting of thermal us will be a significant source of emissions as well because better for us captures

a lot of greenhouse gases on as it stops melting. they are released in the atmosphere, so the speed of change and climate is going to be even greater. so i think that is a great urgency in all of the countries acting together and moving beyond politics after climate cannot wait for politics any longer. so willing to act together. i'm step up the effort. absolutely extraordinary, isn't it? alina? i've a chunk of our joining us from london, a pleasure talking to you. thank you. thank you. we're on to other news now and the leader of tens, and he has main opposition. party has been arrested freeman, boy and 10 other shooting party members were detained overnight in the city of wonder. it were planning a conference to demand constitutional reforms. authority say they were arrested for inciting unauthorized assembly. public gatherings have been restricted to cur, the spread of coven, 1900 offices, to partner with bad. any political party activities from taking place in this area

with just making sure people are here to the laws of the country that invited many people. turning their plan, meeting from a party meeting into a public one, even though their plans are for an indoor meeting that catherine story is following this story for us from the if you have a capital out of a demo opposition 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 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 of the 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 like you know, having public gatherings which is banned, but some opposition leaders and also officials off to them. a party off saying that this really is continuing to draw back the democratic gains that have been made just going back to and forth or continue enforcing the policies that had been put in place by the late president. john pulled them up for 49 times on. mia has a new president now. some. yes, 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 indians that was spoken to that she's just going back to the footsteps of how predecessor some analysis with focused care. now he is

a research analyst in the africa program at chatham house and says, the tanzanian opposition will struggle to achieve its gold. under this current government been a long running debate among the opposition seeking constitutional reforms, particularly around on the electoral system. they argue that time, denise constitution, which has been in place for many decades now. that's a huge amount of executive power in the presidency allows the president to appoint m p 's high court judges, and critically the, the national electoral commission. so the opposition are keen to revise some of the immense executive power in the president. see the president's position? is that the constitution? well, the report will need to weigh lifting the bond on political rallies. that's in place and times and year. we'll also need to wait until she has had time to in her words,

open up the economy. that's something that's consistent with with our previous magazine. you said more or less the same things, but you needed time to fix up the economy before coming back to this constitutional question. so i think certainly this is a debate. it's going to continue to rumble on for some time, especially in this respect, time of the new president, 18 minutes past. the news down here is what's coming up. no end in sight to the current of ours pandemic. so we're looking at the impact of having on life expectancy. the people who are the was also reporting who fennic are, where age calibrations are being overshadowed by fear of a new search in the cases. yeah, very emotional. my in know, walkie at the n b, i finally come to a close the action, important piece for them later. so, plenty of current of our news to get through. now france, 1st of all,

which is rolled out, a new coven, 19 health path. as it see, the surgeon infections, people wanting to visit cinemas, museums, sports matches, other cultural venues. a lot of that in paris of cause and will, over france. they will not need a proof of vaccination, a negative test, or a recent recovery from the virus. but as natasha butler reports, the new system isn't being welcome by everyone. lingering on a terrace is one of life pleasures for many people in france, but soon need those with a covey pass showing that they are fully vaccinated or have a negative piece. the artist will be able to enjoy the experience. so if we have to check customers policies, something 5th restaurant says i'm saying we consider that this is not our job. to check your id and your family. we understand that this is certainly something necessary that we are not fully men. the path which is now mandatory cinemark theaters,

museums will be extended to large shopping centers and some transport. the french government hope it will reduce health risks and encourage people to get vaccinated . ga, not be in no doubt, our goal as always, to take measures that are proportional to the health situation to guarantee public freedoms, while assuring the sanitary security over. and the french president, the manual micro announced the new covey path rules last week. and since then, there has been a search and the number of people booking vaccination appointments. within days, nearly 4000000 people who signed up for that 1st job was every politician said we weren't obliged to get the vaccine. but without a coven pass we have fewer freedom, so we decided to get it on the phone for the past made us to now as we have planned, waiting until august to get vaccinated and the passes dividing opinion, these protestors in paris on sunday said the government trying to force people to get books and aided by eroding they writes,

most people should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be vaccinated. so it's more democratic. some scientists say that france is in the 4th wave, fueled by the highly contagious delta coven fair. and the government says that the pulse will be necessary for as long as the virus is the threats. there are some regard it as an anti democratic opinion. polls suggest the 2 thirds of people in france support. it is a way of hopefully avoiding another lockdown. katasha butler, i'll just sarah paris. you know, the life expectancy of americans has dropped by a year and a half in 2020, which is the biggest decline since world war 2. the cdc, the center for disease control says it's mostly due to course the pandemic covered 19 accounting for more than a 10th of the record 3300000 deaths in the u. s. last year. it's had a disproportionate effect on minorities as well. the life expectancy of black and hispanic americans dropped even more dramatically an average of 3. he is and will

say, long term, social, and economic qualities of made minority communities more vulnerable. during the pandemic, most european countries, i've also seen a drop about of less than a year. while in south africa, it is as much as for use looks on it is a global health advisor lecturer at university college london school. the pharmacy explained to us the pressure that the why their health care system has failed during the pandemic and how it's contributed to the drug. it's not just about cobit itself when there are very high rates of transmission and early opening, et cetera. are these types of factors. it means that when hostile is get overwhelmed, other surgeries and health procedures don't go ahead. so part of that lowered life expectancy is not just plain covert depths, but also covered impact on the health care system itself. such that we saw other groups of people not being treated for routine and regular reasons. this 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 gets forgotten or left out of the public discourse. this means that overall, they're more likely for error to occur and we cannot continuously apply this type of pressure without looking at other solutions. and one of the solutions 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. so it is so important that we get that back nation rates up globally as high as possible, not just for live individual life, but for to protect the health care system itself. indonesia has reported its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began with 1400 people that is

currently the worst outbreak in asia of 900 restrictions have now been extended until july. the 25th india is recorded its highest daily deaf toll in a month for me is 4000 and they're off to the state of my roster updated. it's count of unreported cases and the number of new infections also increased to more than 42000. and while a neighboring me and my the medical infrastructure is on the edge of collapse, unable to cope with the rising number of infections. on tuesday, a senior politician from the former ruling, now deposed and the party died in jail after contracting the virus. the warning that tony change report does show some distressing images. on the old issue, emergency medical responders enter 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 mamma. 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. 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 adviser to uncensored choose party, he was jailed by the military following the qu, off the contracting covered 19 in prison. he died in hospital on tuesday night. even getting help to those who needed his hard, natty, 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 ma, the official death toll of several 100 people a day is a gross underestimate. the volunteers and the ambulance. people say that only 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 shadow of the government, the military 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 going 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, there are concerns, aid celebrations in senegal, could see a new search in curve 19 cases. tight restrictions are in place in the capital dot com. but officials are worried about gatherings being held elsewhere. 30 cases of written from just a few dozen a month ago to almost a 1000 on tuesday. because hawk has the support from decker. this is an unusual day of celebration for many cynical use. usually thousands of people gather prey in the car central law this year, only hundreds of people are entering the law. and in order to get any special measures in place, ation is mandatory. so is wearing a mouse. well, the government has the weighted people, hearing the delta, the very will credit even more. this is holding its prayers,

trying to dare to strict social this thing rule. but outside the capital in the country side, the fear is people are gathering and mixing and niggling. and that perhaps the delta varying will spread even more. following the celebration, the head of state prison like yourself suggested that he might put in further restrictions like clothing, the border, adding a regional law down or even imposing a purse you. but there's been a lot of push back again. all of the measures. there's been right months ago, and there's a sense among many facilities that the current of ours is one of many problems and challenges they are facing. the restrictions has badly affected the economy. so there's a sense among them that despite the thread of the delta vary and they'll go about their daily still ahead. beyond the seas on police in south africa reveal a list of suspects accused of instigating the countries was unrest in years

bringing a close to 2 weeks of uncertainty. haiti's new prime minister born and you can unbeaten the u. s. suffer a shot law women limping for want to get the money for the we're gonna choose choose hello there. let's start in the middle east and we've seen some really unsettled weather, particularly in the south with the flooding in oman and in yemen. and even southern areas of saudi arabia now a lot of those rains have ease, but they are going to pick up across western areas of yemen. as we go into friday, you can see the yellow peaks there. but up north, it is a very hot and dry picture with a temperature sitting in the high 40 for iraq and q h. iran is also seen attempt just climb. we've had some flooding across provinces

here, but the rains have these. we could see a few scattered storms and showers. we have got a shamar wind that's blowing down across iraq. that's gonna kick up quite a lot of dust and cool. some hazy sunshine in q weights. and in cuts ha, you can see some of those showers affecting parts of musket in are much. and a lot of the showers that we're seeing in western europe are joining up with the thunderstorms rolling across the sea pin rift valley. so the storms particularly heavy across sudan and into chad. we've seen flooding here. we could see more floods as those rains continue to fall, and they join up with the storms across the gulf of guinea. up north. it's hard to picture down south. they does get cold, particularly for south africa. we've got a cold front moving into cape town.