organizations that really represent a u. s. government. let me pull some of that up with them. i think it can already be seen that the country's very well prepared for their look to process and for the casting of the citizens votes. tens of thousands of people had gathered to pay tribute to one of brazil's most popular singers, but alia mendoza was killed in a plane crash on friday. she died alongside her manager and an aide fans keyed for hours to bid farewell to the singer at her wake in the north. his city of go. anna 26 year old music performed. country music cor saturday. her it was yeah, this. oh, this is out there. are these you top stories? iraq's prime minister has condemned an assassination attempt on him as a cowardly attack. and on drone targeted mister for academies residence in baghdad in the early hours a sunday gunfire. an explosion were heard in bagdad green zone. a

month to all of those who were worried, my residence was targeted in a cowardly attack. thanks to god and his grace, all of those working with me and i are doing well. i would like to inform you that our heroic and courageous armed forces a working non stop for the stability and security of the country. these cowardly rockets and these cowardly drones do not help in building nations, nor can they be part of any future. the number of people killed after a fuel tanka exploded in serially own is now at least 99 blast happen when the tank . a collided with another vehicle and a busy junction in the capitol free town. pro democracy activists in see don have rejected an internationally mediated plan to restore a power sharing arrangement with the military. instead of court for 2 days of civil

disobedience. general abdel fatter albert han is under increasing global pressure to restore the civilian lead. government crowds in ethiopia as capital a holding a rally and support the government. as rebel fight is threatened to advance from addis ababa prime minister abbey ahmed has told ethiopians to be ready to make sacrifices. but governments year long conflict with rebels from the northern to gray region has escalated. recently. regional fighters have taken control of cities along a key highway leading up to the capitol. morocco's kings says control of western sahara is not negotiable as tensions fly with algeria about the disputed territory . king mohammed, the success moroccan sovereignty in the region would never be up for discussion. police in the u. s. state of texas are investigating what caused a stampede at a music festival in houston is 8 people killed on friday night. there's your headlights coming up next. people and power save us in the vietnam

war. the u. s. army used to heidi toxic, had the side with catastrophic consequences. agent orange was the most destructive instance of chemical warfare. a decade later, the same happened in the us state of oregon. these helicopters flying over the ridge brang something and they didn't even see the kids foot. 2 women are still fighting for justice against some of the most powerful forces in the world. the people versus agent orange on al jazeera ah, governments of known about the causes and consequences of global warming for over 3 decades. but most of so fall failed to respond effectively to the threat to our planet. as world leaders meet for climate talks in the u. k. journalist amanda barrel has been asking why politicians there and every one of struggles to take

decisive action. ah ah, for any one still in doubt or in tonight. but the world's climate is changing. the summer of 2021 should have been a wake up cold. one natural disaster followed another. even normally temperate britain for its 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 out 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 fuels 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 is region. 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 i took everything away from underneath the house, should we start back to in fact, i stood in the kitchen. i had to resign my truck. my feet looked down and i could see the sea. so that's what i from, 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 misread the scary because you don't know what tomorrow's gonna room. m. c has 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 worst. 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 world, a strange 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 c. but progressive frustratingly slow, and they may not be finished any time soon or even be enough. those rob fair fortifications mode war to which the villages could bear and it had to protect themselves 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 to reach what is known as net 0. but

promise is that some, it's so easy to make and people fill and emissions of how it on rising 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 a basically collapsing into the scene. and 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 threats,

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. of course, if every political generation just pos, 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 a 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 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 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, can she quite unpopular decision now? for a benefit the nor any will be seen during your electrical 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 have seen electoral advantage in the crisis. and 2010, david cummins, 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 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 at the likely economic costs. when he saw the effect of some of the climate change levied on electricity bills. you know, said we're, we shouldn't have all this. yeah. his chain was green, crack putting up energy prices and 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. patterns 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 and 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 call to 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 crushes 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 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 might agriculture the last to come in, and then there was

a change of government like they never came in testing the climate process is a long term and different. i think. what is important for leaders is to recognize 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? we're not going to follow that advice. 2021 un. publish the head of the 26. i'm. it shows that with nation current target, the planet is unquote to catch a profit. $2.00 degrees celsius above prints off to a level that would seem to justify determined and effective measures from our government. so why have the still lie in the way we all respond to anything other than immediate threat? and perhaps political reaction to climate crisis or a matter of psychology, ah,

much of our culture is still not paying any attention to attending. 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, whatever 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 mamba, 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 system 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. 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 hospitals. so making transport stable is from the keys that for me to be taken on

the router. net 0. so here in london has 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, likeness, and away. i've been radicalized by senior position. i'm hearing story that it's the

death of the village is the death of commerce as well. 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 residents. 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 are doing. it don't make the question if a modest proposal to expand my claims 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 law 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 the emissions off that. i'm 2nd example, the other john dom up now lords deepen was the u. k. 's environment, that cheap between 1993 and 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 laughed at fault, robert, you know, 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 we should have gone down by over 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 as a challenge. and even how might they put the on my way to 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 fund or the government is investing over 500000000 pounds in the region. it's already one of the u. k. offshore wind power hub. the man here and houghton had the grand vision, the area which include

a more controversial technology. he sighed, fell into decline, the 1918 pulling 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 investing 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 bills, 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, perry, 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 to the fundamental problem. it 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 it or 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 berlin 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 be the 2nd. we let other people go that fast on. we can be very quick copying for fear of failure, fear of losing power, fear is sacrificing national advantage. it's easy to understand why some governments have been slowed to respond to climate change. but it's also clear why many people and now losing patience

carbonite, but none of them have a theory and we're actually helping politician. be helping with helping people in the same that move in a different direction with extinction. rebellion or actor is an activist movement that started in 2019 the aim of using non violent direct action to effect change. its 1st rebellion and u. k. in april that year led to the british government declaring a climate emergency but 2 and a half years on. and that back on the straits humanity doesn't make change. i don't have a choice. some of these activists are so desperate that i prepared to go to jail in order to draw attention to their code. but their voice is all being heard. and even

garnering some political support. clive louis is a labor m p. i, one of the things about politicians like me that we said here in here and we passed legislation. there's lots of different power base is putting us big companies, big money banking institutions, vested interests, have a disproportionate poll and influence on our politic. you see in this country we see in the us we see across the world as no expression power can see nothing without him. all people need to demand more of their politicians demand more of their systems. and unless they do that, i don't think we'll move at 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 of very whole hearted change in the way which we structure i, 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. now climate change is here. it's real and it's the fact that we're ready being found time for one of us, including our politician, is boss running out ah, if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america what's working. and what's not, a lot of people were only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. if america can't handle multiple challenges on multiple frauds, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera, we town the untold stories. ah,

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in a cowardly attack. thanks to god and his grace.