dr. defined uniformed children on stretchers leaving teachers across the capitol, afraid to come to work, but often showing up anyway, i hope they'll be a change because the way we're teaching kids right now in the summer is not favorable. my hope is that the situation we have right now will change, so we can function where you will despite the dangers each day, thousands of children arrive in class after braving the capital streets. but for many, the price of education in haiti, his simply become to hi john henderson, al jazeera porter prince. ah, hello, you're watching out his ear and these are the headlines. his alum climate, campaigners around the world are rallying in what they calling a global day of action at the cop 26 summit in glasgow. activists have expressed a disappointment. the promises being made and not ambitious enough. nadine,

by ease with protest is inter fell the square london. a lot of the concentration here has been on how the whole movement to reach met 0 targets and fight climate change must be linked. so the theme is climate justice. we've been hearing a lot about how black communities, both here in the u. k, particularly in london and around the world of being hard is hit by man. make climate change in places like london that translates to some of the most disadvantaged communities living in areas of high air pollution. sierra lee owns deputy health minister says at least 909 people have been killed and many others severely burned after a fuel tank explosion in the capital free town. us president joe biden says he's one trillion dollar infrastructure bill passed on friday. we'll create millions of jobs. it was repeatedly delayed because of differences among democratic party members. pro democracy activists,

same sudan as stepping out pressure on the military to restore a civilian lead government. the sudanese professionals association has called for a general strike on sunday and monday general abdel foster albert huns also under increasing international pressure. the u. s. embassy in ethiopia. capital is now ordering all its non essential staff to leave the country earlier in the week. it had advised its work to leave on a voluntary basis, ethiopians e, long conflict with rebels from the northern to dry region has worse. and in recent days, the un security council has called for an end to the fighting hungry prime minister victor open is on a one day visit to both me. i see a good vina for a meeting with later miller read joe dig. days growing international concern after jake announced plans to establish a separate army within the country in violation of a pace to which ended the both the more in $995.00. those are the headlines and

news continues here on al jazeera, after people in power. ah, ah ah, ah, governments have known about the causes and consequences of global warming over 3 decades. that most of 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 struggled to take decisive action. i

ah, for any one still in doubt or in tonight, 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 man made 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 apt 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 amanda. this richard. oh, it might look pretty here, but as with many parts of the world is a growing fret from extreme weather and rising sea levels. since the early 90 ninety's almost 2 thirds of his speech on the u. case, east coast have been washed away. much of it during a huge storm in 2018 and that took everything away from underneath the house. should we start back through or should in the kitchen i had to resign and cracked

my feet, looked down and i could see the sea. so i swelled up and it's literally that hanging over there to the quick friends helped lance move his home 10 meters inland and he's built his own c defenses. but these are only temporary measures and it's hard to be optimistic or was a climate change skeptic. like everybody else saying, well, i think living here really opened your eyes. i mean, really scary. because you don't know what tomorrow's going ham speeds been a popular holiday spot for over a century. but as it beach diminishes, so to to its 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 people we have here, but when we evacuate 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 see, but progressive frustratingly slow. and they may not be finished anytime soon. or even be enough. those drop fair fortifications mode war to which the villages could bear, and it is heads with hatton 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 have 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 people fill and emissions of carried on. well, 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, and i shelf flipping and basically collapsing into the scene. i'm, 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 or friends 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 massive problem for government. it requires

a whole scale economic transformation, a very short window. so it's a real challenge to make meaningful action across all front civil tenuously. and you tend to get the some 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 worse and 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. they might not be seen during your political lifetime committee. 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 have seen electoral advantage in the crisis.

and 2010 david cameron's conservative party won power in britain. after 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 that 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 at the likely economic costs. when he saw the effect of some of the climate change, levy on electricity bills, you know, said we're, we shouldn't have all this. yeah. his chin was green, crack, putting up energy prices, synchronization, had 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. patterns administration did face out coal fired power stations 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 in 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. her government looks that be one of the 1st anyway to cut copy of the mission museum was one of the very early. busy 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 dairy industry is a significant part of the new zealand economy. this was no small proposal, but some 60 percent of the countries the missions came from animals. i'm reducing that figure with the priority and it is very, very difficult. the agricultural community listed a petition against it was signed by nearly half the country's farm is around $400.00, blocked the street, the new zealand, capital, wellington, in protest, the tax was abandons. we eventually went full emissions trading scheme proposal. and we might agriculture the last to come in and then there was a change of government like they never came in. technical climate process is a long term endeavor. i think what is important for leaders is to recognise that

the goal is far more about than 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 reluctant to follow that advice? 2021 un report published ahead of the 26 some. it shows that with nation current target, the planet is unquote, to catch a profit to point 7 degrees celsius above prints off to a level that would seem to justify dependent on effective measures from our government. so why have the still the lie in the way we all respond to anything other than immediate threat and perhaps political reactions, the climate crisis are a matter of psychology. ah, much of our culture is still not paying any attention to obtaining it's not happening. and we see that in some ways all around us,

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 being 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 instinct nations 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 or other parts here 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, mambo, 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, tended susan and politicians don't wanna do that. they absolutely don't want to go that they don't want to do anything which people might feel resistant towards. yeah, you know, you tell people we want you to drive your car less and people, some people are going to react to get some it's 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. those, trying to push through apparently climate from the policies faced many of the same political making transport stable is from the keys that to 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 easiest happens on on. i've

heard in 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 check. a local group fiercely opposed to the introduction of 2 way cycle lanes. are group believes that this is not a safe cycle lane. i've seen so many near misses. i can't even tell you, save 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 story that it's the death of the village. it's the death of commerce into the world. and people need to change. you have to leave space for these new new ideas. counsellor hannah 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 are 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 neighborhood the doing is opec the question? if a modest proposal take sam fi contains in one small part of one city can lead to thought faith argument. where's our guy across from well, can the u. k. government, or indeed, any government, some of the will to try and transform the planning. the british government has now made a commitment. it's reached 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 lack of clear, much needs to be done at the moment is not even on coast to hit target. the 2035. and this despite scoring evidence from opinion pony, the majority of british people want to see the country reduced emissions foster. i'm 2nd example. other john gone, but now lord deepen was the u. k. 's environment, that cheap between 1993 in stephanie 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 anything. i remember when i was secretary of state while most slightly aftab thought robert,

no sort of bit peculiar, really. i mean, it's renewables. i mean, renewables were saying what you really want is good song, masculine things like being central systems which stem send the stuff out. all these thought of fairy windmills and all the way through it. 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 bad. over the past 2 decades, government support has enabled britain offshore. wind industry to come to life in 2020, it's counted for around a quarter of the countries electricity generation. it's a key reason why you have gone down by 40 percent compared to 1990. but the government is also planning to allow new oil field and 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 the on my way to teeth bite in the north of england, i was running to life jane industrial revolution and became a buffering factoring house 9 for i and, and feel no chemical production. and now politicians the banking on it having a major role and the transition when that 0 want to make or the government investing over 500000000 pounds in the region. it's already one of the you case, offshore wind power hub. the man here and houghton has a grant vision, the area which include a more controversial technology. he sighed, fell into decline the 1918 calling the closure of it till well,

how soon is planning to build a global net 0 hub here? on the 4500 acres, fight known as the teeth work, the old infrastructure has been demolished and the ground level ready for invested is already in check from general electric to plan to build a wind turbine blade factory here. $20000.00 joke to be crated. hutchins help me out of the 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 country 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 to tell 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 catchy can be at scale. but how can isn't concerns? you'll have the old oil and gas companies will extracted huge amounts of fossil fuels, and carbon, in effect, from underneath and off c o, putting it back into those carbons, will i have no problem with working with oil and gas companies, because they know that the ratings on the wall for, for fossil fuels when 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 monte and ineffective 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 a 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, whereas 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 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, politically does 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 used to try to make when i was in borrowing department was wow,

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. she can bid some of our economic to part with colleagues. she would say, well, actually might be better just to be this and 2nd we not all the people go that fast on. we can be very quick copying the fear of 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 all clear why many people and now losing patience, the carbonite. none of them are actually helping

politicians be helping people, helping people in the say, in a different direction. extension rebellion is an act movement in 2019 the aim of using non violence, direct action to effect change. its 1st rebellion and u. k. in april that year let the purchased government declaring a climate emergency but 2 and a half years on. and that back on the street to make a 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. cliff lewis 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 conceived, nothing without demand. people need to demand more of their politicians, demarco their systems and unless they do that, i don't think we'll move 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 to get out of control. and taking back control names are very whole hearted change and the way which we structure things. oh, when the world 1st began to wake up to the dangers of global warming over 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're ready being

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ah, tens of thousands of people around the world protest calling for urgent action on climate change. ah, hello, i'm emily anguish. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up a fuel tank. it explodes in sierra leone, killing, at least 99 people,

and severely injuring dozens more. i don't think is the exaggeration she do. so we took a monumental step forward as a nation. he was.