firecrackers and impulse, a hefty 5 on violators. daily's air quality this. we did dip to one, if it's worse levels the season. and the med department predicts that air pollution levels will remain high over the next few days. a south african writer has won the booker prize to the best english novel is the promise by damien john diamond, dell goods, who wrote his 1st look at the age of 17, has been nominated 3 times for the award, is now finally taken home, the prestigious prize for his novel, the promise and cutting depiction of a white family in post apartheid at santa ah, are you watching out here? and these are the top stories this, our uganda president has called a meeting of the east african block on november 16th to discuss the conflict in ethiopia. the long conflict between the central government and northern to gripe

rebels is escalated sharply from the government to declare a state of emergency. the u. s. embassy in ethiopia is allowing non emergency staff members to leave the country warning that ethnic violence could happen without warning. when it comes to ethiopia, let me make the point that we are gravely concert by the escalating violence, by the expansion of the fighting that we seen in northern ethiopia and in regions throughout the country. ah, we are concerned with a growing risk to the unity and the integrity of the ethiopian states. talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear. do you lie, scheduled to resume at the end of november, indirect negotiations between all singer trees in vienna stalled last june. after abraham racy one at the iranian presidential election, iran is mocking the 42nd anniversary of the u. s embassy takeover into iran. iranian students don't see us embassy sparking a hostage crisis that lasted more than

a year. israeli medias reporting that the ceo of the n s o. a group has step down after the us added the technology firm to its tried blacklist, israeli companies behind the country. this hill, pegasus spyware. reporters, have been used by foreign governments to tag generalists and rights activists. among others, at least one person has died in iraq after a max outbreak of food poisoning will then 500 people became sick. and my son province, if not create it will cause the outbreak band and investigation has rolled out. tap water or sanitation problems. a fast food restaurant has been closed as a precaution and samples being analyzed. and the u. k. government says dozens of nations have agreed to end the use of coal of cop $26.00 climate. someone in glasgow seem that trees include poland, vietnam, and chilly, but some 2 of major uses are reported to be missing from the deal. those are the headlines i'm emily angry and the news continues here on al jazeera,

after people and power, and then they'll be more news over the our award crisis in america west is intensifying the historic division obliterated ecosystem to create agriculture at the expense of our tribe that's the way it's been since time. again, the strong take it away from the we phone lines, investigate, have climate change, his pursing and oregon town to breaking point. we will fight because it's in our life. we are literally to the point that people are going to see other when the war itself on al jazeera, me, governments have known about the causes and consequences of global warming over 3 decades. that most have so far failed to respond effectively to the threat to our planet. as world leaders meet the climate talks in the u. k. journalist amanda barrow has been asking why politicians and everyone have struggles to take decisive

action. i ah, for anyone still in doubt or into nile, but the world's climate is changing. the summer of 2021 should have been awake up cold. one natural disaster followed another. even normally temperate britain sort share of extreme whether the truth is manmade global warming is now irrefutable. and that's why wildly does the gathering once more to discuss how to respond with things so critical. it's apps that the cop 26 summit is taking place here in the u

. k. it's where the industrial revolution began in the 19th century. when fossil fuel mass production started releasing rising amounts of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases into the atmosphere. where that might lead didn't become clear for a long time, but for at least 30 years. now we've known that unless we would use carbon emission than climate change would have to die consequences. we are now seeing for all of us, no matter where we live. i've come to the village of hems be in norfolk and i've been told that this man who's living right on the front line of climate change and the name of the house gives a clue as to i love. hello laura amanda. this richard. oh, it might look pretty here, but as with many parts of the world, there's a growing fret from extreme weather and rising sea levels. since the early 19 ninety's, almost 2 thirds of his speech on the case east coast have been washed away. much of

it during a huge storm in 2018 and i took everything away from underneath the house, should we start back to in fact, i stood in the kitchen. i heard the resentment cracking my feet, looked down and i could see the she. so that's what happened. it's literally hanging over there to the quick friends helped lance move his home 10 meters inland and he's built his own fi defenses. but these are only temporary measures and it's hard to be optimistic or was a climate change skeptic. like everybody are saying, well, i think living here really opened your eyes. i misread the scary because you don't know what tomorrow's going. ham speed's been a popular holiday spot for over a century. but i think beach diminishes. so to, to it's prospect. people here have had to start preparing for the work at the local politician tells me we have emergency plans in place,

which we never dreamed of doing before. and we have evacuation centers also have you had to evacuate, we have here. but when we effectuate the people we an original for that was for the night, never in our wildest dreams did. we end up drinking. we would have to demolish 11 or 12 times. the local authorities are discussing building a system of defenses against the encroaching theme. but progress is frustratingly slow and they may not be finished anytime soon or even be enough. those drop fair fortifications mode war to which the village is there and it is headspace, patton cells from the sea. and the irony of using those to deal with the emergency now, i mean, we should be on a wartime footing and they should have been for decades with his own how that people to finally gotten. it was happening. it's hands be, is just one example of what's going on all over the world. as climate change becomes more noticeable. what thought though,

is why this country of all countries might be caught unawares. after all, a former british prime minister was one of the 1st politicians to start raising the alarm. it is mankind, and his activities, which are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways. over the next 30 years, many other leaders promised action at rio we had made a start since $995.00. they've been annual un gatherings known as co summit. everybody tried very hard. ah. most famously at one in harrison 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels at most. and ideally 1.5. they also promised to balance the amount of carbon they produced with that suite. what is known as net 0,

but promise is that some, it's so easy to make pill and emissions of carried on. i think the leaders have made more pledges more promising. there is no planet, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, target they made the world become warmer, within tiny foreseeable consequences. we face the possibility of systemic environmental collapse. one or more of the of systems. sudden the flips from one stable state into a different one. for instance, you know, we can see an ice shelf flipping and basically collapsing into the scene. when one flipside can trigger a flipping of a load of others, you can get a cascade of impacts and that's happened during mass extinction events in the past . and, and that's fundamentally what we face author ins journalists,

george mumbo has been campaigning for the environment for 36 years. why does he think we're in this position now? politicians just push everything into the future where it'll be someone else's problem. and if we don't fix things now, well, we're not going to be in office when things goes accosted later on. and so, as every incentive not to deal with the biggest crisis that humanity has ever faced with. of course, if every political generation just passed the buck, the biggest, the challenge becomes, in truth fossil fuels and now so intertwined with every aspect of modern life. that reducing our reliance on them means making fundamental and possibly unpopular changes to the way we live. politicians and the u. k. have been reluctant to for through those changes as anywhere else. jill rutter is the former british civil servants. she was involved in the publication of several sustainable development

strategies in the 19 nineties and to thousands. climate change is a really mastic problem for government. it requires a whole scale, excellent transformation, a very short window. so it's a real challenge to make meaningful action across all france, symbol tenuously. and you tend to get the sum line of least resistance. and it's what you can get other people to accept according to the science, even if dramatic action is taken to day climate change will continue to wasn't for at least a couple more decades. that's not appealing for leaders who depend on public support to stay in power. if you think politician, you are taking quite difficult henchey quite unpopular decisions now. for a benefit, the nor any will be seen during your electoral terms. it might not be seen during your political lifetime. would be quite a difficult bridge. yeah, it's

a cookie. oh, we think politician, he's going to say, yes, that's my job. yet some politicians seen electoral advantage in the crisis in 2010. david cummins, conservative party one power in britain of the promising to deal with a problem ignored by previous governments. payment cameron decided that he was going to embrace the need to actual climate change and use back of passed his strategy of detoxifying and changing people's views about the conservative party. but says rappa and becoming prime minister, come and then booked the likely economic costs. when he saw the effect of some of the climate change levied on electricity bills. you know, said, well, we shouldn't have all this. yeah. his chin was green, crack putting up energy prices. so policy, sions have conviction concerts. as a result,

a government that promised to be the greenest ever turned out to be at best lukewarm on dealing with climate change commands. administration did face out coal fired power station and build on work a previous governments by supporting renewable energy. but late to gave the go ahead to the controversial fracking programs. as other governments around the world have found, the reality of facing down opposition from powerful vested interest is challenging . now, i would like you to please welcome a hey what's up and some years ago in new zealand is a good case in point. in 1999, helen clog became prime minister sustainability, i believe has become the bonding issue of the early 21st century. a government likes that to be one of the 1st anyway to cut cause of the mission museum was one of the very early countries when i was prime minister will say we're going to aim

to bait net carver neutral. that was very ambitious time. the full weight of the climate crisis hadn't really dawned on people if people worry. busy about other things and in 2003 cops government thought to tax the methane emitted by livestock at the diary industry is a significant part of the new zealand economy. this was no small proposal, but some 60 percent. the countries the missions came from animals. i'm reducing that figure was the priority and it is very, very difficult. the agricultural community listed a petition against it was signed plenty, half the country farmers around $400.00, blocked the streets of new zealand, capital, wellington, in protest. the tax was abandoned, we eventually went for an emissions trading scheme proposal and we made agriculture

the last to come in. and then there was a change of government like they never came in. technical climate crisis is a long 10 different i think. what is important for leaders is to recognise that the goal is far more about that just about winning an election. what is the point of winning elections if you don't use the political capital to do the things that need to be done? how many policies are now in office? the we're not going to follow that advice. 2021 un. publish the head of the court 20 some. it shows that with nation current target, the planet is unquote to profit $2.00 degrees celsius above pre industrial level. that would seem to justify dependent and effective measures from our government. so why have the field lie in the way we all respond to anything other than immediate threat than perhaps political reactions. the climate crisis are

a matter of my colleague, the much of our culture is still not paying any attention to attending. it's not happening and we see that in some ways all the rounders please think about game shows that might focus on long whole flights as a prize that is just denying the reality of carbon intensive practices. and so it almost really chris degree. we're not rational beings, so we don't always respond to the threat international way. but we do is we experience anxiety, but then we try and unconsciously push it out of the way. as climate crisis gets closer and closer and maybe we'll do something about it. on the other hand, it's possible that we may engage in more and more district defense mechanisms. all these instincts, animations, that we've been talking about, how do they play out in the political arena? what we can forget too easily perhaps, is that politicians of whatever stripe, whatever party you are also human beings. so they're all caught up in the same

kinds of processes of everyday denial and defense as me and use the rest of us for george, mom via the decisions that needs to be made a quite straightforward, but he doesn't think politicians will ever willingly take them eating less mate flying less, changing the way we travel, insulating our homes consuming less. all those require mobilizing the public and often confronting some revolved tendencies and, and politicians don't want to do that. they absolutely don't want to go that they don't want to do anything which people might feel resistant towards. and yeah, you know, you tell people we want you to drive your car less and people, some people are going to react against it is often left up to local politicians and activists to do the right thing. but even on a much smaller scale on issues that would seem relatively easy to resolve, there's trying to push through apparently climate from the policies faced many of the same hospitals for making transport stable as well. the key steps need to be

taken on the router. net 0. so here in london is a push to encourage cycling. but of course, putting plans into concrete action on the ground can be it happens on, on i've heard and the usual quiet neighborhood of chic tend to be cycling. i don't think you can ever keep everybody happy, but i have not seen this kind of descent in 21 years. i've never seen this in my life anywhere over anything. honestly. margie free is involved with one. she's like a local group fiercely opposed to the introduction of 2 way cycle lanes. our group believes that this is not a safe cycle lane. i've seen so many near misses. i can't even tell you, they have eliminated the bustling, which now means the buses have to stop all along every car behind it stops idling. traffic fumes are created by didn't consider myself her. a radicals like listen away, i've been radicalized by seeing your position. i'm hearing

a story that it's the death of the village. it's the death of commerce as well. and people need to change. you have to leave space for these new new ideas counsellor honda con, has already been working on this one small scheme, the 2 years. we have consulted, we have spoken to many residents in many different ways. there is so many angles to look at from businesses to elderly. right. so it's complicated. i mean, the most challenging thing for me is the hostility that we received for divided community. and that's what these low traffic neighborhoods doing. it's opec. the question, if a modest proposal expands i, contains in one small part of one city can lead to thought faith argument. where is now a guy a guy across from well, can the u. k. governments, or indeed, any government, some of the will to try and transform the planet. the british government has now

made a commitment. it's reaching at 0 by 2050. it's got some impressive goals in place. green is good. green is right. green works. but how exactly it will get that is likely as much needs to be done at the moment is not even on coast to hit to target the 2035. and this despite scoring evidence from opinion home, the majority of british people want to see the country, which is the mission, spastic. i'm 2nd example, the other john gone, but now lord deepen was the case environment secretary between 1993 and 7. today he has the climate change committee, which advises the government on emissions targets when you have to make the promises, cuz if you don't have the target, shania don't have the parameters, you won't do it. but it's always more difficult to move from policy to action and

it's always more difficult to deliver. that's true of any things. i remember when i was secretary of state, i'm a slightly off tab. so rather when i was sort of bit peculiar, really, i mean it's renewables. i mean renewables were saying what you really want is good . so masculine things will be central systems which stem send the stuff out of these thought to ferry windmills. and although it's good and we've had to change that new change, that because government makes a tough decision and enables new industries to flourish a batch, what we have to do much more effectively. it's not all that. over the past 2 decades, government support has enabled britain also went into 3 to come to life. in 2020, it's counted around a quarter of the countries electricity generation. it's a key reason why emission you have gone down by over 40 percent compared to 1990.

but the government is also planning to allow new oil field. and the coal mine, few 170000 jobs was supported by the british oil and gas industry in 2019 making the full transition to clean energy if a challenge and even how might they put his health in the, on my way to tease bite in the northeast of england, i was run to life during the industrial revolution and became a buffering factory. 9 fritz, and feel chemical production. and now politicians the banking on it having a major role in the transition when that 0 want to make or to produce government investing over 500000000 pounds in the region. it's already one of the u. k. offshore wind power hub. the man here and how can have the grand divisions,

the area which include and what controversial technology he started failing to decline the 1980 falling, the closure of it till well, how chin is planning to build a global met 0 hub hair on the 4500 acres, fight known as the teeth work. the old infrastructure has been demolished and the ground level ready for investing is already in check from general electric to plan to build a wind turbine blade factory here. $20000.00 joke to be crated. how to help me out of a facility built, which will process carbon emissions from industries on site and in the surrounding area. we're actually stood on the side of one of the amazing projects we managed to secure which will be the world's 1st modern industrial scale called capturing storage. so to capture over $10000000.00 tons of carbon every single year. this

multi $1000000000.00 project is a joint venture between oil companies, b, p, aquino, and total names that don't exactly spring to mind as champions of environmentally friendly low carbon initiative. and some scientists remain deeply skeptical about how sustainable carbon catch can be at scale. but houghton isn't concerned, you'll have the old oil and gas companies who have extracted huge amounts of fossil fuels and carbon, in effect, from underneath and all c, putting it back into those carbons where i have no problem with working with oil and gas companies because they know that the writings on the wall for, for fossil fuels and they're trying to seek a new future to continue with their business. the climate change activists seems like this often, terry, the taint of green washing of money and in effect, a compromise with interest that helped create the problem in the 1st place. the most important thing we should do is to stop producing greenhouse gases in the 1st place,

but that's what governments don't want to do because of the power vested interests . you know, you have these big legacy industries like the fossil fuel industry, which have enormous political power because they have a lot of money. governments don't want to come from it were tinkering around the edges of the system. where's a systemic threat? she's what we face requires systemic change. the fundamental problem here is the sheer volume of economic activity. that's what's hammering the planet, and that's what we need to reduce. and that means we actually need to stop growing yet like is we're not that up as height. the growth, which gave rise to the still work since he started back in their heyday, is still the main driving force behind the competitive global economy to day. inevitably, political leaders everywhere worry that passing policies to combat climate change could put them as an economic disadvantage. if other countries don't follow suit,

one of the cases, but we did use to try to make when i was environment department was, well, there was a 1st mover advantage the if economies were gonna have to move in that direction anyway. rather than be stranded with a bunch of, you know, redundant industries based on fossil fuels, you won't be in the wind guard of the new industrial revolution. if you like. we never quite managed to convince some of our economic department colleagues. she would say, well, actually might be better just be this. and secondly, not all the people go that fast on. we can be very quick copying the fear of losing power, sierra sacrificing national advantage. it's easy to understand why some government has been slow to respond to climate change. but it's also clear why many people and now losing patient,

the carbonite. none of them are actually helping politicians be helping people in business to help people in the say in a different direct extension. rebellion is an act movement that taught them 2019 the aim of using non vaughn and direct action to effect change it 1st rebellion and u. k. in april that year let the purchase government declaring a climate emergency but 2 and a half years on. and that back on the street to make change, i don't have a choice. some of these activate that that, that the pads go to jail in order to draw attention to their code. but their voice is all being heard. and even gathering some political support class louis is

a labor m p. i, one of the things about politicians. let me that we sit in here and we passed legislation. there's lots of different power base putting us, big companies, big money, banking institutions, vested interest, have a disproportionate poll and influence on our politics. we see in this country, we see in the us we see across the world. there's no expression. power can see nothing without demand. people need to demand more of their politicians, demarco systems. and unless they do that, i don't think we'll need the speed that we need to. even for lords, deepen, change is long overdue. this is a revolutionary world. it's a revolution we forced upon us by the fact that we've allowed climate change get out of control. and taking back control means very whole hearted change in the way which we structure things. oh, when the world 1st began to wake up to the dangers of global warming either 3 decades ago, political leaders still have the luxury of time to consider the implications and

take the necessary action. ah, now climate change is here. it's real and it's the fact that we rented, being found time for one of us, including our politician, is boss running out ah, [000:00:00;00] with,

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