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the latest on the pandemic, this will have vaccinated more than 1100 people here, all of them migrant farm workers, people on home testing because they think that there is a risk to democracy, special coverage on i'll just, there are, ah, ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm has, i'm sick of this is the news out live from coming up in the next 60 minutes code. read for humanity. the un panel warns of all planet is in crisis, and we need to act fast to prevent irreversible changes. signs those changes already visible from green to fi barrier to the us fire of destroying
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forest and devastating the lives of many a 6 afghan provincial capital for, for the taller bon. as the arm group pushes deeper into urban areas, and canada reopened its border to fully vaccinated americans. 16 months after closing it because of the pandemic. i'm going to go with the all eyes on leno. messy is perform a false loan to size preparing to make his next move. after an emotional farewell, the spanish giant ah. the earth's climate is changing in ways that are unprecedented and in some cases irreversible. that's the warning from the world's leading authority on climate science. the un intergovernmental panel on climate change says the impact of rising temperatures is already being felt and extreme weather events from storms to floods
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. the heat waves are likely to get worse. let's go straight to our environment editor nick clock in my nap. get in southern turkey, where wildfires have caused widespread destruction. nick yes, has him to say, report is the most comprehensive one we've had today's on the states, the world's planets. it takes and all the projections and future dates are on expected rainfall. patton's glacial loss and temperature rises and so forth. thousands of scientists and various people have been involved in assessing all the information that's coming. it made this kind of this synthesis of that information which has finally been agreed on as now, being released by the i p c. c. this is a 6 assessment they've done. the 1st assessment was done back in 1990 and then they said that there was evidence for that. there was, it was evidence that my may climate change was happening,
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but there was no direct evidence that they could publish today. it's very different . the evidence is unequivocal. it is a bleak picture. this year alone has seen storms, floods, and wildfires. now, according to sciences, it is unequivocal. the humans are largely to blame for woman, the oceans, land, an atmosphere throb, any of coal, oil, and gas. you've been telling us over 3 decades of the dangers of allowing the kind of warm the world listen. i didn't hear the wellness and but it didn't us ex strongly enough. and as a result, climate change is a problem that is here. now, nobody is safe and it's getting worse foster the 1st you in report issued in 1990, had predicted human cause climate change would become evidence at the time it couldn't prove with evidence that it was happening. that's now changed,
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or nearly every measurement or climate is more extreme, and it's set to get was 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, explain 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 poor countries that feeling the effects that they contribute less to greenhouse gases. there is hope that if the biggest emits is, are able to commit to deliver shop reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we may see some positive changes. but it would have to happen within the next 20 years. okay, with 1900 pandemic briefly reduced air pollution. it did not hold climate change
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damage, it seems already done. some issues like greenland, glassy is melting and sea levels rising, irreversible and less as a dramatic change in human behavior. the world should expect an unsettled and uncertain future. what is extreme, whether it is very big part of the future. according to the i p c. c, and somebody knows a great deal about that is joining me now right here. it's maybe susan alec, who's a clever satcher at the ac. dennis university here, an untimely welcome to the program. thank you for joining us. you know very well what's happened here. you've been involved in the volunteer effort trying to help all these people who've been so devastated by the fall in this region. yeah, i was here last week and we were trying to help rescue animals also help fire workers to stop in control the fire and flames. and but it was really
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challenging to tell us more about that. what was it like? what was it like to to deal with and how have local people dealt with it? local people put so much effort in it actually. and we came from cities and to support them and everybody did what they can do. but the flames were so devastating and, and it was like a cut just because we have never seen something like this before and was just not, you know, for sure we could say, because wildfires are normal in southern europe but this time of the day. but it's just not on this scale that into this degree. is that right? exactly, exactly right. because climate change is very vital part in this because if impacts affects the ties and peace off those fires. and because last week at the temperature was 48 degrees higher than the seasonal average. so with all the up to 8 degrees, well high it so it was not normal fire,
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we use teeth. sure. and so moving forward because the i p c. c is saying that all right, this is, this is a new normal more and more of these going to happen. how do we look at how we manage these kind of areas where was so prevalent and now naturally in mind made way will get worse. it will, i mean, all the mitigation of towards, but we need to think about the patient of course, because we are living through in it. and i think this is most important thinking. this is the climate justice because as we all know, people who have almost no share of the period of time change our old also the ones who share the most. so this is what's happening here in one. i've got 2 people to leave the are there lodges depends on for 3 culture be
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keeping so they depends on the course echo system. so they just don't load. they didn't lose but only their homes also they are live. so when we are facing all last and damage happens here, we have to consider the preschools of crime, justice, and social justice. of course, of course, there's a great deal of hope, if not expectation for the climate summit in glasgow in november to do do the goods you know, produce what's needed to make things happen. especially given this report, trying to encourage governments to do what they need to do. do you have any conference about we don't have any time left, so we have to ex now. and as for keith, we have to sign taurus agreements soon as possible. that's i to pay for now. all right, maybe we'll leave it there. appreciate your time. maybe susan alec from the attendance university. thank you. and tanya appreciate that. thank you. well, as
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a saying st. wetlands, big part of the new normal it says the same, we're already seeing that as we just be discussing here in southern europe and elsewhere. and we are now joined by. busy 4 correspondents who witnessed 1st hand those devastating events vass and 1st of all is in germany who were deadly. the flood struck 4 weeks ago, russell said, is in budrum here in turkey, and he'll have more in the wall far as there about 6 or 7 miles to the west, john hendrick. he's in north california. well, why fi of course, shoes, destruction. but let's start with zane beds. robbie in greece. weather have also been just terrible. seems as a wall of swept through that day, tell us more about what's been happening. well like we spoke to the program director for greenpeace greece and she told us that it is already too late to change. what has happened. it is already too late to turn back the clock. this is how things will be from now on. now that really does resonate
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with people, people do understand that, but it didn't really become obvious to people until perhaps a few days ago when we saw instagram footage of people being evacuated from the island, the hardest part of the country people were being evacuated on a ferry and they were incredibly dramatic pictures of forest fires, of coastal forest ablaze. there was nothing else you could see from the perspective of those inside the ferry that were filming this footage. but fire in it really gave people a sense of how close thousands of residents of the island came to losing their life . we've come to the northwest side of the island to a port at a deep sauce. and at this port, there are these ferry boats. these are the fairies. these are the kinds of fairies that we saw in that footage. and these ships are now a lifeline for people in case of emergency. this is the point of last resort if the
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fires become as bad as they were a few days ago. if the fires in gulf, the towns and villages along the coast, then people must come to these pours to the water line where the fire will stop and board these fairies that will take any one that needs that help over to the mainland. they are now on emergency standby. they have informed us that these fairies normally just fairies that shuttle people back and forth from the mainland . this is a tourist town. they now only go one way. the route has been changed to only leaving the island. no one is allowed back in the current state of emergency here. so what we are seeing is that boat captains and crews that would normally simply be shuttling people back and forth on a lazy ferry ride. these folks are now effectively 1st responders on the front line of this fight against the fire. because the front line,
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due to climate change due to the climate threat, the front line has moved closer to them and is now knocking on their doors. or as they they so that's a picture of the dramatic picture. they're increasing robbie reporting let's go across the atlantic now to north california. in fact, john henderson is standing by the and john, terrible scenes that to what have you been saying? well now i'm taking off my mass because the air quality here is so bad. i'm in the town of greenville, which was destroyed a few days ago by the dixie fire. that is the largest fire in the united states, but it's only one of more than a $115.00 different states. 10 fires here in california alone. and that's more than has ever happened in the past last year. 2020 said a record with wildfires. we've already exceeded the 2020 number and this is the
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result here. you can see that used to be a bank. it is now completely destroyed like much of the town. and if you just follow the line here, you can see these buildings have all been destroyed. there is a jail over here that is a century old hotel, the facade of which remains. and i know it's hard to see all this because there is so much smoke and that's part of the problem. i grew up 4 hours away in the san francisco bay area in a town called palo alto. and i don't ever remember seeing wild fire smoke when i was growing up, but now this smoke has reached there about 4 hours away. its cause dangerous air quality throughout the state. and i was on vacation a couple of weeks ago in utah, which is 2 states over and this smoke was clearly visible over bear lake there. so it's really a dramatic,
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you could see this is almost apocalyptic. seen this house was wiped out, firefighters were trying to hold the line, and the fire jumped across the road and just wiped out this town. and it's now threatening other towns and it's grown enormously. just this one fire is consumed. 185000 hector's in what part of the problem here is that it's the climate has grown dryer, and it is grown hotter. and what that means is when something sets a spark, things are more likely to go up. and in this case, the look of utility, pacific gas and electric say that they believe a tree fell on one of their transmission lines. and that, that spark to fire in park because of the ground is so dry here and there is no end in sight. so these wildfires just continue to grow and these are the results the date, it's clear that things are changing and it's
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a speed of change. that's the troubling thing. don't engine the northern california . thanks very much indeed. let's return now to southern europe about 6 or 7 hours, 500 kilometers on from here to the west, wrestler said has been following events or the mattress and boardroom wrestle. tell us what's happening. well now there have been 200 d, y 5 reported to 56 of them are under the control according to the alternative. but there are 4. why fi stealing programs that are still burning? so here, if the ration themes that is getting calm down, but the weather conditions here are not that much. bradley, because if you're in the low humidity i'm strong range are still continue. so it's quite hard to predict. however, hoping to the previous days it's quite cool. down here just where we stand here as
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a boardroom and one of the most popular for the suggested nation or turkey. and you can see to the station behind me, killer materials from started from here to the course lines. hotels and hackers of the land have been just simply burned up just a couple of weeks ago. we will have had a completely different we. this is one of the most precious horsemen at the waldrum. dove is not the only 1. 12 days ago when i came here, i was not expecting them going to experience such as the kale of the station because we're going to be in just in my now got to be these cows and how there's the lance we're just powder, be turned into the dark, this is definitely the company's worst wide fires at that the, the company has a software from and i think the company was not prepared in the when you send it in google, what was there when it was still burning?
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i could see that the people that pier and one of the guys around 45 years old, he was desperately looking at his home when he was under the blazes and twin into the ashes. just saying that crying and saying, what am i going to do? i have 4 kids, and it was not the only one pounds of the other people there were asking the same question. people seen their houses just mentioned don't in my 1st life when i arrived here, i've been asked what i see and what's happening. it was quite tough, really to describe what's happening around because i was feeling that i'm in the middle of a how and whatever i was looking just was burdening so in that sense of the tragedy is still far from over and weather conditions are not that much bradley, we do not know what tomorrow will bring, but however, as of now distribution in turkey, we can say that it's getting cooled down and hopefully soon disaster is going to be over. but the question that many questions remain is going to be all future
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and a russell thing so that the likelihood had been effective very badly from agriculture to tourism right across this region, russel said other over in budrum because when we talked back st. weather events is not just wildfires, it can be cycling, it can be harkins, it can be drought, it can be flooding. there was some very bad flooding in germany about 3 weeks ago. more than 200 people were killed and vast and is their step tell us what's happening while nic and this part of the world in germany in western europe, climate change has always been quite an abstract kind of concept. something that would affect people far away from here, something they would watch on television, disaster happening in other countries, but this is the reality. now here in germany, we can see here i'm at the river are,
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which is a very small and calm, peaceful river for a long time. but then 3 weeks ago, it turned into a swirling sea of water and actually ran into the town, which is lying here behind me and taking everything here on its way 3 have been up rooted part of the road has been completely wiped out, completely gone chunks of asphalt has been taken up and just thrown everywhere and a clean up is now on the way, but it's still, you can see it's going to change this life, this place forever. it's something that they never expected to happen here. they were completely taken by surprise, they got their warnings, they've got their warnings on their phones, but they said it's not necessary to leave or houses. because of course, we won't be in any danger and i'm friends of people have died here in this place alone. and you can see the sheer devastation, the power of nature. here behind me, it's just something that's really humbling people here. people come to this place
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and they only watch in silence because it's humbling to see the strength and the power of nature. and striking so badly here with this whole region where the data station has been enormous, as you can see in the report. not game as a complete applies to many on highway 265 in germany. people were returning home from work, but need a town of f start in north rhino failure. it was suddenly confronted with a wall of water, 12 meters high. remarkably, every one survived. they'd been 3 days of torrential rain in some places up to $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 were tragic consequences in syncing
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12 residents in a home foot, it is able died when they weren't evacuated in time. what remains of these horrifying moments are the thick layers of mud sweeping through, 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 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. here, one of them is all on the 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,
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that's the most important the river most birth, it's banks and flooded positively, ash province, including hundreds of municipalities. there was also damage of the dutch side of the border in 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 flats will remain with people forever. some expert say building better protection measures won't be enough in the future. and more steps need to be taken to prevent temperatures rising. only then can people feel safe again. all right, we'll leave it there. everybody. thanks for that step vassar there. in germany, russel sada in turkey, john hendrick, north california, and zane and bez robbie in greece, reporting on those difficult and challenging times for so many communities, i should just say that the report did say that there is still time to pull this
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back from the brink but for that we need, well leadership. so now all eyes are on gloves. go the beginning of november. when that postponed you and climate summit from last year will now take place many saying that this is michael break moment for the right decisions to be made about climate change. ah, another provincial capital has fallen in afghanistan till the taller bon, that's i buck the capital of some mangan in the north regions marked here in red sho provincial capital's confirmed to have fallen to the tunnel bond. they also includes that and in nimrod province and condos, the regions in grey, only the taliban is claiming to have taken those provincial capitals of the can.
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interior ministry says government forces of push back against the taliban in some areas. then they come out the come, the ha, my go ahead are fortunately the security situation in kandahar alaska and tara provinces has improved african security for their patrolling the cities. the enemy has suffered heavy losses and the plan to capture the city has been neutralized on those enemy attacks and condos shipper. again, 7 gun and sorry, 2 provinces are ongoing. a correspondent, robin bride has more from cobble. 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 semen gun a fairly small providence in the north of afghanistan. pictures which have been uploaded by the taliban, which would con, independently verify. but they do show fight is being greeted in the streets by towns, people, a streets which we are told him, it's video inside i back now this if it's true that this is the 6 provincial a city to be taken in just a few days and it is in this broad sway,
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the northern afghanistan where we have seen a lot of other fighting and other gains be 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 a very significant victory for the taliban that previously they have taken can do about 5 or 6 years ago. on 2 separate occasions it's peices occupied can do more as a symbolic gesture of zone, a very temporary and then day where are the 4000 withdrew and we'll retake him by the government forces. now the government forces this time have pledged to retake many of these areas. it is confirmed that special forces are engaged with taliban inside, couldn't dues, but we are seeing fighting, continuing in other areas across i've done this down on top of the conflict. afghanistan is facing food shortages from a severe drought, low snow for has cut down access to water for farming. the government says around
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80 percent of the country is on the drought conditions. afghanistan needs about $6000000.00 metric tons a we each year. but the united nation says less than half of that is expected this year to add to the problem. more than 3000000 livestock are at risk of dying and more than 12000000 afghans. that's a 3rd of the population now face what is considered emergency levels of food shortages on us. a form of handy is the canister, head of delegation of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies. he joins us now from quite alone for to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us. not give us a sense of just how bad this is gotten and thank you for having me. i think you've been to the ready to situation is dire of the president of the country announced when he declared drought in late june. if that's more than 80 percent of the country is facing drought and putting us into testing severe drought
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conditions. what it means is that many families which are going with all the basic food in the table, and there are others who are also switching to really get the basic names. and this comes in addition to the backdrop of the conflict. but also there has been covered, 90 neutral, affected social economic aspects of family. so if the question is not very good for menu families in this areas, and how has the, the ongoing talk a little bit more about how the, the ongoing conflict has affected the ability of aid goods like yours to get access to people and, and distributed a to them well, i mean, the access that has not been there, the limiting factors that of course, we cannot put into danger. and especially when these 2 possibilities, then we are forced to stop at least moving teams in those areas. this delay delays
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a little bit distributions offer some relief there and we have to wait until they are still it is is and then we can have our teams bring in terms of access. the teams do have boxes, but we cannot step in tons of faxes. we have to send them one, so still need to have these your organization i understand is asking for $15000000.00 francs, which is more than $16000000.00 us dollars. where, where would those funds go? what, what, what will it provide? just break it down force where $15000000.00. in fact, $11000000.00 also is going to address the very basic needs which is food, putting foods on people's tables and making sure that they can feed families. but also that could be in the form of cash where my kids are still functioning. and part of it will also go into sustaining or supporting them to the plan when, when the rains come on, the country planned so that they can have opportunity to agree plate just but it's
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mainly food. and they have supporting, in terms of making sure that people come to the admissions good to speak with you next, a form of envy. joining us there are from quite a long as i said, i was think on still ahead on i just here we look at the risks facing migrant sent back to mexico, off the illegally crossing in to the u. s. a renewed push from india's farmers to pressure the government over last race. they threaten their livelihood bust. i'm b richardson in book ashima, finding out if the tow carolyn left up to attain of being the recovery games for this region. ah, ah
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hello, thanks for tuning in here is your weather story for the middle east. we do have a wind blowing down from iraq through to the goal, so will be dry at times, but also gusty. so q $850.00 degrees and just want you to be on the look out for this. we could see those winds were up to about 45 kilometers per hour, and temperature is here. well above where they should be. southern areas of pakistan, we've lost those gusty winds. so karachi $32.00 degrees and we do have our mon sooner moisture toward the north, anywhere from the hor, to islam about could catch a shower or a storm in some in turkey. we've got rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region, which is still trying to recover from devastating flooding. places like our hobby, you know, for africa, hart to me we have seen flooding here because of both the blue and the white nile rivers. rising rapidly, so we see these scenes and it's all because if we getting these big storms through .

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