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you can, birds are at risk of extinction in bishop plan to read the nation. if the president sides of one of the best, the guy on i was in the me, ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm emily, i gwen. this is a news our live from coming up in the next 60 minutes, a code red to humanity, a landmark un report issue the warning on how human activity is causing irreversible hating while planet. i'm seeing bas robbie on the north tip of every island increase for wildfires that have been raging for a week are still burning the
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taliban intensive by the bonds as it captures the problem in ghana stand for day i'm going to go with all eyes only and see if the form of ball slona stars report to be heading to paris for medical with p. s g. following his emotional farewell with, punish johnny ah, planet. he is facing a grave crisis and we need to do something about it immediately. that's a message from the world's leading authority on climate science. the intake of a mental panel on climate change says the impact of rising temperatures is already being felt and some changes, and now it reversible. let's go straight to our environment editor nick clock in men nav gas in southern turkey,
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where while fives have caused widespread destruction there, nick took us through the main finding yeah, might have gotten antalya in southern turkey. in fact, since while i was have indeed struck him in a very devastating way. if you look behind me, you can just see the great swathe of damages. the fires swept through, eddie took about 20 or 30 minutes for all of that to happen. forests fields and livelihoods, last homes all gone and that if you get down to the nearby villages, you'll see and speak to villages who are just standing there. shell shocked, looking at the rubble of the old homes. similar story for the west in tech here in the budrum area and mom was area and also as well here. but later in greece, i've seen some devastating scenes in this kind of extreme climate event is precisely while the i p c. c is talking about when it says it, extreme weather is getting worse and worse if nothing is done about climate change
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. so let's look at the key points of what report says. first of all, the world is about a degree warmer today than it was in 185850. that's pre industrial time, says warmed one degrees since and within a generation the report says, we'll likely see the arctic sea free of ice for the 1st time. the greenhouse gas emissions of the past and those would like to reduce in the future will lead to and this is quite chilling, irreversible changes, especially to our oceans, ice sheets, and sea level rise. that extreme weather events like which i've been talking about had become more common. that means wet. a monsoons, long drought, strongest light claims, and yes, extreme heat events. all right, let's here now from acid bag who rounds up. the latest developments is simply picture this year alone. has been storms, floods, and wildfires. now, according to scientists,
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it is unequivocal that humans are largely to blame for warming the ocean's land and sea through our burning of coal, oil and gas. you've been telling us for over 3 decades of the dangers of allowing the kind of warm the world listen but didn't hear the wellness in. but it didn't. us act strongly enough. and as a result, climate change is a problem that is here. now, nobody is safe and it's getting was foster. the 1st you in report issued in $990.00 had predicted human caused climate change, would become evident at the time it couldn't prove with evidence that it was happening. that's now changed on nearly every measurement. our climate is more extreme and it's set to get worse, causing climate change and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. second, it shows that climate change is affecting every region on our planet. and lastly,
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its place that strong, rapid sustain reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions would be required to limit global warming. right now, it's some of the world's poorest countries that feeling the effect, but they contribute less to greenhouse gases. there is hope though, if the biggest emitter, the able to commit to and deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we may see some positive changes. but it would happen within the next 20 years. the cove in 1900 pandemic brief reduced air pollution. but it did not hold to climate change, the damage it seems, is already done. some issues like greenland glaciers, melting and fi levels rising, irreversible, and her nest as dramatic change in human behavior. the world should expect and unsettled an uncertain future. i said bake of desert,
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let's get sim analysis now we can hear from tom book who's from the think tank e 3 g. so tom, thanks for joining us today. the world is clearly in trouble. the you and climate summit in glasgow is coming up. what needs to happen now at the policy level? well, the most important message from this report is that we've got to stop burning fossil fuels as fast as we can. and that means that the summit meeting in glasgow is a really important moment for the world to come together and start doing more than it's already been doing to make that happen. and i suppose there are 3 things that really got to come out. we've got to, ah, 1st of all, move forward the $100000000000.00 that were promised to help the emerging countries play. that part when we've not done that. the 2nd thing that got to come out is we've got to have commitments from countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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by about 9 gigs, tons of carbon ah right away. so that we've got any chance of keeping the temperature below 1.5. and then we've really got to agree to put an end to the use of coal in our energy systems. the thing is telling me we've said this countless times of the way we, all these things have got to happen. and this is what needs to take place, but it never does. why is this time going to be any different in what way will this report i have to those negotiations in clause can really make a difference. well, what i think has really happened and have been, you've just been describing, make it very clear that the things that are happening in people's lives are validating the science experientially for them. i think that will matter
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politically. but at the end of the day, this really is a problem for politicians to solve. we have the technology, we know we can afford to do this. it's really a question of politicians. recognizing how urgent an immediate problem is and actually doing the things we already know we need to do in order to solve it. now, why will this time a different? i honestly don't know that it will. it really depends on how politicians react to that kind of pictures you've been showing you say we have the technology, but really do we do? we have the ability to, to make that giant energy transition that is needed. but as soon as 2050, that's less than 30 years, which is not ready for the o. again, technologically, it's no. i mean, given that kind of technology zillow means we have today. and the way the broker is, it's not bigger than it was than the exercise involved in the united states after
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pearl harbor. and turning their economy over from producing cars to producing tanks in less than a year were much more technically competent. and indeed, economically competent than we were then the u. s. was able to do it then the world is technically capable of doing it now. but it really is a question whether we can find the right kind of political agreements to do that. but i don't think that we know the technologies we need to do to replace fossil fuels. we know that there were not investing them enough in them at scale in order to meet the deadlines we need to meet great, get your thoughts to appreciate that. that's tom, back from the think tank e 3 g. now, as i mentioned earlier, it's not just taking place here in turkey. we've also been seeing terrible devastating scenes in greece. vast areas have been destroyed. the zane beds robbie
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has been correspondent covering those files and he's been covering them for several days now and saying, well, falls on so uncommon in greece, but this is very different. it's on a completely different scale. that's exactly right, nick. we spoke to the program director for greenpeace greece, and she said, this is one of the most acute seasons of wildfires that we've seen and it is now the new normal. it is too late to go back. that when we consider seasonal weather, what we're seeing now is the new normal. when you say something is reversible, that means that these weather patterns are likely to be how the weather patterns are from now on. and there is nothing we can do to change that. now, and that is simply the reality for places such as greece and others, experiencing extreme weather. we spoke to a team leader on one of the fire rescue teams here on area island. and he said that they are doing the best they can, but they feel like they are fighting
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a losing battle. and this because the scale of these fires is absolutely enormous. now he has, he said, this is absolutely an ecological disaster. along with the ecological disaster, we're seeing people having personal crises. this is certainly and a national disaster, but people are having personal experience is on an individual level. but in parallel to the ecological catastrophe, we're seeing an economic catastrophe play out as well. when you talk about life not being the same anymore, the way of life for people changing from now on because of climate change. this is what we're talking about. i'm just going to pan up and show you here. that helicopter is one of several doing bio over for fire rescue here. what's happening now is it is reloading its water bays at a beach town resort. it's reloading its water base to fight fires in nearby via we came in on a road in that direction. the direction that the helicopter is now traveling in,
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we were in those areas we were on the road driving and through the forest, those small fires, we saw along the way, are now re igniting and, and sparking new larger fires, which is why we've seen helicopters, rerouted to this area of the north of every island we one helicopter to finish refueling. we've got another one already in these waters. nick, when you say there's economic impact to be, i want to make it very clear that these waters at this moment is gone. any other year, these would have been filled with people swimming on the beach. people coming to the tours top to, to, to enjoy a vacation to get away from, from the heat to escape need to come to the beef. now it is a completely different profile. this landscape is now being used as a front line to carry out firefighting operations for forest fires that are ongoing as we speak. your giant slow cloud, ash cloud all over these islands any other year at this time you would have
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a clear view of the coastline, but instead we're looking at an environment that is totally changed. there is a large boardwalk behind me running the length of this beach restaurants, shops, hotels, all empty, all deserted. the beach shares here. there is no one on them. this whole area is completely different from, from how it's been in the past. and that's because the ecological catastrophe that we've been witnessing for the last week has taken a huge toll on one of greece's most important economic revenue generators. and that is the tourism industry. and you can see why just beyond the boardwalk, there are hills and forests that are covered and smoke and ash from these ongoing wildfires. and really when we talk about the fact that life as we know it is now changed forever. this is what we're talking about. this is, this is this space, this publicly occupied civilian territory, these residential areas,
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these tourists tubs, on the, on the a, g and coast. major revenue generator for greece are unlikely to be that any more during these wildfire seasons. yeah, there's a mass exactly as her render scenes. a life changing scenes, as you say are examples robbie: the in greece. thanks very much indeed. ok, not any wildfires that have constituted the extreme weather that we've been seeing in recent wiggs, also big floods, devastating fatal floods. in germany and in belgium, more than 200 people killed just over 3 weeks ago. that's it now from the vast and who's in our villa system, the floods to say with a little over 3 weeks ago. how things now yes, i'm here and there are while and nick, it's a historic sound but also very much at that town at the moment and also a town in which people told me from the very beginning that they only thought
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disastrous on television. they never saw disaster with their own eyes, and they never expected the effects of climate change to hit this town. so soon, i mean, experts were talking about possible flooding due to climate change in these parts of the world may be by 2050, but it's now 2021. and this is the result of free days of rancho rains amount of work that they haven't seen here before. reference birthday banks, a small river, which is near by the sound totally over, flooded this area. it is a tourist town rest when stories shops, they're all close now and i'll show you one example of how such a shop knocks life right now. this is a shop for hearing aids here in the center of our wireless. and you can see, this is all that's left of it. there's only cables hanging, nothing in this room. and this area shows that there was ever a shop here. and that's the same people i've been telling me here. i've been
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covering this story for the last 3 weeks. they don't even know if they can come back to this area. there's no electricity infrastructure, it's down and they never expected it. they were so taken by surprise. got their warnings on the phone, but they said, well, of course it wouldn't be serious. we could still be at home, but they couldn't. so people had to scream to tell them to go upstairs. and many of us were slightly too late and they died. and i'll take you back to the 1st days after the slotting started, when people started to realize that climate change is actually very serious and is actually very near by not game as a completed prize too many on highway 265 in germany. people were returning home from work, but need a town of f stop in north rain or failure. it was suddenly confronted with a wall of water 12 meters high. remarkably, everyone survived. they'd been 3 days of the ranch rain in some places up to
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$150.00 millimeters and just 48 hours. germany normally gets about half of that in the whole of july and nearby towns and villages along the river. there was also shocked at the sudden rise in water levels and they were tragic consequences in syncing 12 residents in a home foot, it is able died when they weren't evacuated in time. what remains of this horrifying moment are the thick layers of mud sweeping to houses, restaurants and shops. people's lives have been changed forever. we may please take markets in the historic wine town of our while, with dozens of people died. he tells us of a man who loves both. his parents told me the image of the woman been swept away, waving her hand crying for help. you know, i have to it and it didn't. it didn't make it. and i'm not sure if they were found
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across the board or in belgium, where at least 40 people died. a criminal investigation has begun to find out who is responsible for a failure in the warning system. a prettier one, not to miss all when we have nothing left to know home, no furniture, clothes, it's so hard, but i say to myself, at least i saved my child as a mother, that's the most important the river most birth, it's banks and flooded. part of the ash province, including hundreds of municipalities. there was also damage of the dutch side of the board, and the town of falcon berg would estimate the cost would reach billions of dollars while the water has receded. the images of the sudden, deathly floods, will remain with people forever, some expert, se, building better protection measures won't be enough in the future. and more steps need to be taken to prevent temperatures rising on the ben can people feel safe
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again? is that focus very much on governments to take action now, how much of a wake up call has this been for, jim? well, that's a very good question. nick. this is one of the most industrial areas here in german and even in western europe. this is all based on fossil fuels. there's a lot of coal power plants in this particular region. the prime minister of not rain must fall. it is one of the potential successes of chancellor merkle who will stop after 16 years. as a john look after the elections in september. so the main question is, if he is going to be elected, will he push true for climate change? for renewable energy, this energy transition he has been crucified for doing is to low. germany is known for a lot of investments in renewable energy, but also known still for these cold power plans and this use of fossil fuels. so the big wake up call will come in september,
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hopefully when these elections will take place. and people here in germany have to decide if it's a wake up call or business as usual. i said, thanks about putting that from germany. i beforehand back to emily. i just want to show you the, a village just down here of kind of like more of a towel i'd say, or at least it was because what you can see now is the mosque which was unscathed, pretty much in that kind of blue gray house. but surrounding that area, there were 20 or 30 houses and they've all been completely obliterated by the far a lot of them has now been reduced to rubble by bull days. and it was down there that we have seen consistently as a man who's by that white building, who's just been sitting there day to day, just staring at the rubble of what was his home and small farmstead and just completely shell shocked. and you know that it's what it is like for many, many people. so really the focus, very much on to world leadership now fast forward to glasgow and the you and
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climate summit. and mary is saying that is make a break for the action that needed to be taken against climate change. no bad, devastating same. thank you so much for your comprehensive report there. nick clark, our environment editor, and thank you to our team with the update on the landmark us report or out of time . now whether he is jeff with more on other parts of the world facing fires. hello, there is the risk free. could see more wildfires the rep through northern africa and iberia and the dates the com. let me explain why. first i take you to northwestern africa. look at this tunis, 48 degrees on tuesday. the all time temperature ever recorded in tune, it was 47.4. so this could be record breaking stuff next to iberia. this is a few days out now. so here we are on saturday look, lives been 36 cordova 47. i point out cordova because much like tune is high temperature ever recorded 46.9. so once again, we could set a new record there on to the weather of tuesday as promise. we'll get him to some
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sunny spells across the british isles, including for london, but still disturbed weather across the low countries, scandinavia, and a pretty good run of rain in and around. war sat. next, an update on the wildfires in greece and turkey. sure, temperatures have come down. 36 in athens, but low humidity, so the air is very dry for turkey, rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region and area. still trying to recover after devastating flooding off to africa then, and we've got our storms moving across the gulf of guinea, east to west, but particularly heavy as we check towards the leone and liberia, free town, a hive. 27. that's it, that's all for me. fuzzy morehead, on this new sound way, including shelter. but listen, i see why asylum sake is sent back by the us, our easy price, mexico's drug gangs. and i'm say several things going on on the house house. and i read it from katie, cuba, another country as crossing the jungle to panama will make it to the united states
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. i'm the richardson in brook ashima finding out pick the tow carolyn fixed, lived up to attain of being the recovery games for this region. me afghan government forces fighting to retake several cities which were captured by the taliban of the weekend. the group now says it's taking control of 6 provincial capital since friday. live now to our correspondence in cobble, rob mcbride. hello there, rob, you've got an update on the latest provincial capital that the taliban claims to have taken. that's right. this is the latest victory being claimed by the taliban. the city of i back now, this is the city. that's the capital of famine guns. a fairly small province in the north of afghanistan. pictures, which had been up loaded by the taliban, which con,
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independently verify. but they do show fights has been greeted in the streets by towns, people, a streets which we are told them. it's video inside i back now, this, if it's true, that this is the 6 provincial city to be taken in just a few days. and in this broad sway, the northern afghanistan where we have seen a lot of other fighting and other gains being made by the taliban, like, like back, some of those gains are small cities. but it does include, for example, conduce, which is a very big city. strategically very important, it is very significant victory for the taliban that previously they have taken conduce. about 5 or 6 years ago on 2 separate occasions its fighters occupied, conduce, or as a symbolic gesture, was only very temporary. and then day where the force doubtful withdrew. and we'll retake by the government forces. now the government forces base time have pledge to retake by do these areas. it is confirmed that special forces are engaged with taliban inside. couldn't dues, but we are seeing fighting,
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continuing in other areas across i've done this down out towards the west for example, around the strategically important city of how that fighting continues around that city. i've been also of course, down in the taliban strongholds of kandahar in helmand, in those provinces. and also in the capital city of helmand, laska, or inside the city itself. that we do know that the afghans have been using as trying to fight back its own force, but also supported by it, by us units, but significantly not with the ground forces, a nato. so soldiers that it has county in the past. just finally, just a reminder of the cost that's being inflict on the civilian population of afghanistan as always fighting continues and we see guns dying in the last few days of all of the afghan civilians who have been killed in those 3 days more than $27.00. of them have been children with
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a 136 more injured. rub 27 children killed. that's just harper, i can thank you for the update there. robert mcbride, they. busy live from campbell, appreciate that. at least 51 civilians have been killed in attacks by an armed group in northern molly, that's according to the army. it happened in villages near the border with ms. jan . let's get more from ahmed interest in a boucher brother. the 51 dead is provisional trigger or the army saying that many people who are injured unspecified number of people who are injured and that civilians have been evacuated from the 3 villages as a by just walk as i've been called into resettled them in temporary shelter. for now, families have also been asking security forces for secure to protection so that they can pick up and bury their dead at that's the situation in that location right now. but these areas have seen numerous attacks as the start of this year. and the
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thing seems to be getting worse and worse and worse. now what we understand is that the security forces, i've also deployed large numbers in the area, trying to conduct coordinate site operations in those areas to find out if there are any fighter or any fighters looking in in those areas. we were assured that by you might get workers that they will try to update us on the situation in those areas. but they also expect that the number of debt could rise beyond 51. canada has started leading us citizens crosses borders once again. the rules which banned non essential travel across the land border were lifted earlier on monday. travelers need to be fully vaccinated against coven 19 to present a recent negative 10 before injuring canada restrictions on canadians injuring the u. s. star, remain for more on this. she hub were times he joins us from detroit,
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which is right across the border from the canadian city of windsor. hello the she had, this must be welcome news, loved ones who being a pop for more than a year. it is because the community omby, they 1800 kilometer border, also interconnected such integration between the communities. having said that, as you can see, i mean this is traditionally the 2nd busy fly crossing, crossing between the us and canada. and that's how big huge rush on right now. the volume profit volume is without about 90 percent since the pan debit began. even with the relaxation of the rules. canadian border officials say they didn't expect that any more than maybe a 10 to 25 percent increase at least today and then be in the near future. but as you said from today, us citizens who have been vaccinated because it also show proof of a negative cobra test within 72 hours of that crossing all being allowed on the
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expectation is accounted that will allow, in other international businesses in the september, perhaps september the 7th she have, is it clear why the us hasn't returned the favor and open the land boarded to it, nor the neighbor? that's something of a mystery. and that there is some, some debate about this. we should be very clear there. this is always an a symmetrical relationship during the pandemic candidate shops, all of its borders to international travel to non citizens. so not a central tribal by a non citizen c. and now that's all been lifted and out us travelers can, can, can travel to canada by any of those means. the us didn't actually do that. the us, the spot more liberal in its policy, canadians could still fly in to the us, but on the central travel throughout the pandemic. so that they said, which is already been that however, the u. s. has decided not to lift its land, border closing, and there are various theories as to why that. okay, 1st of all,
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there's a great deal of anger and it really is that, i mean 9 governors from border states have written to the white among white us demanding that the us open the land voted because of the economic imperative there is i get from chamber of commerce is on both sides because there is a 2nd to get out. of course we also have, we also how about the communities that have been divided by the theories as to why the us hasn't lifted if it's border restrictions is liable to restrictions either for the white house i've told canadian authorities and one report that it's waiting for it's vaccination rates to rise, it's about 10 percent behind canadian vaccination rates at the moment. so that's one possibility. but that's a very intriguing, geopolitical possibility that's been why do you discuss? yeah. and on the other side of the border, is that the if the us were to lift a land border with canada, that would be great pressure for the u. s. lift of land border by a mexican arrivals of the southern border. and.

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