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ah, ah, i anthony ok to day on the stream south see dance flood emergent. say hundreds of thousands of people, a car, a being impacted by the worst flood in 60 years. if i mentally assigned that this is caused by climate change, his out, his ear is harm natasha. just reporting happy november from john glenn, one of the worst impacted states. take a look. this used to be a road until it disappeared under water mid last year. now the only way to get around in this part of south saddam is my boats, and canoes is the worst flood this region is seen in 60 years. in this area, every home is abandoned. families had no choice but to leave people like no,

alma quai who arrived here in july, her children and extended family. now sleep in this makeshift house. not sure if and when they will be able to go back home. we will one cutler, my house is still under water. no, there are a lot of his next on reptiles on, on the place is the steel river. it's no longer home. so how can i go back? joining us to be part of this conversation. we have joseph, we have more. we have near thorn. good to have all 3 with here with us more a festival. introduce yourself. tell everybody who you are, what you do. hello, yvonne, my name is mara, jack. i own freelance journalist messenger over here to have been near san welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to our global audience. yeah. hello everybody. my name is not on hot. my. i'm a bullshit the research and analysts in the area of climate change and global entity in at the said institute alice or ask her to have a government voice in

a conversation. we have joseph bartel. you see him, but you don't have the government voice quite yet. we are working on the audio. joseph is the under secretary for the ministry of environment and forestry, and he is coming to us from cuba, south down. we see him any moment now we will be out of here him as well as far as you're concerned, if you're on you to please be part of this conversation. this is an under reported story. the flag crisis in south, dan, put your comment, your questions right here. we will get, i guess, to do the very best answer of many of your comments and questions as they can. let's start with a map here near thorn. i'm just looking at south sudan flooding the worst affected areas. we're looking at about 8 areas, 8 regions here. where would you take me? what would you show me? just to give us an indication of how bad, how serious things. all right now? yes, i'm looking at the knob and the worst we have around as addition,

the mother around 6 to 7 counties that i can the underwater. but the, the 3 more area that i, that are currently impacted by my flight aids, junglin, state unity state and up and flight in this area are much more intense than the other area in starts. we've done so in this area, as you've seen, due to flood community have been displaced from their current villages. as you've seen, they've lost their houses and they've lost a farm land. and they have been forced to move to a higher grounds where they are, can be living there temporarily. but when you look at it dumb being in that area, they should be coming into acting with, with the community and here looking at them at the community. there have been a little bit of tension and conflict between the displace people and also the whole community also in where they have to be seen. they are, they're completely lost

a livelihood they left without carrying anything with them there they have no food . they've lot access to health services and here without anybody that is there to help them out. it's about life and death. for up more you sent us some pictures. i'm going to get his decent show and tell with us. so i'm gonna show you the pictures, you know the pictures, but also explain to audience what they are seeing. because when you talk about people displays, you kind of have to see them and understand who they are. you can't just talk about them as if they're statistics and you help connect us with this story. and that little report that we showed from her room. you were right there with her room making sure we were getting the right story and getting the facts right. who we seeing here? what is this family doing? where are they? is order it, sir, from ben to unity state. i had

a chance to go in october. that's october. are those are 2 mothers are having malnourished children. and they were trying to, to seek help because there they had displaced from a flooding area and they came all the way to ben to you, which it was already started being flooded. and it, so when the tuition department were within that went to your hospital. yeah, and then this picture, i mean i see the mud, i see the water, but i can't quite work out what is going on here? actually we had a, a tour around in bent you with the governor. and it was a water they just broke. and by the time they were walking and then it had broken completely before i passed or before i proceeded the water dike and those are just like, almost around like 7 men. they were trying to do it manually. and using only the axe and then the. busy you can see now did or there would and the trees,

they're trying to remove it from, from the ground down there. and i ask how many meters deep? and they told me it's like 2 meters deep. and they had to do it like with their bare hands. and there is no one to come for a hell. actually they were, they were with the female mia. they were trying to fix the water dikes to look the flooding waters to submerge even a been to site. yeah, one more picture here. and again, i'm trying to imagine how tall is this water and how was this impacting everyday life? tell us what we're seeing here. this one from my last visit with the pedal with a disease or english team and also its guessed by the. busy river site where people day guess selling the fish its the fish market you will find on the fish needs where all the fishermen household them. there are also fold. yes. they

decided just to find the way for survival and yes, the sale fish and into to drive along the river side over there. yeah. let me just bring up now that we've got all of our audio switches out to say thank you for your patience on the secretary ministry of environment and forestry, juba, south sedan. that is where joseph is coming to us from. this is your, this, this is what you do. this is where your job is focused on the environment, forestry land making sure that the south, the don succeeds as a country, as far as the environment policy is concerned. how rating all you floods of this scale? this is not the 1st one. this is the 3rd one in just a few years. joseph. yeah, actually, what's happening right now? that's been a staging ladder essentially. but at the moment that

frequency, that's what is what the input time is change as really you can see it. and so as a government that is imbedding, i'm slicks and catch it ration is right too. but at the moment we have it's not a bad person. it's sure that an integration, it's not on making at what is happening at the moment that he's out of vanity. and now it's a really good, but it's agreement that people need to be held oh,

mentally. but good. okay. does he? i'm going to pause there for a moment because it's very difficult to hear you and understand how the cell service that you have right now. it's really patchy so apologies for interrupting you. we will keep trying to come back to you, so we hear you loud and clear meg marathon. i want to bring in a new voice into this conversation. and often when there's a disaster crisis, people were looking to the government for support for guidance. let me just bring in here one e, michael, when michael is looking to the government for help and support. and i'm wondering if that is the best approach here is if flooding to prison in sausage only is, would it be prosecuting or does offer a. ready thousands or people or the displace a shelter the luggage lug necessities for life

including medicine. this iteration. israel read. ready a was, are not the super not been attended to by the government want to do is possible need to address easily, settlement with these people because some of them already stuck and it don't know where they should go to. the issue of course, is government coming, a little bus approach on how to deal with these issues of flooding, climate change. so obviously i'm gonna put this to a joseph as well as soon as we can get a clear life man. the mere thought is that asking too much of a very young country just celebrating its 10th anniversary. us not asking too much, and i think the role of the government is basically to look into the well being of their people. regardless how small are how new the country is, because this is the responsibility that has been trusted and entrusted on them. and they need to live on that. i know climate change,

the global issue and saw that and being one of the least developed country and saucer as well. the country is facing a lot of political issues at the moment, but that doesn't take out from the responsibility of the government. considering that the actually putting 40 percent of our national of our budget on to into security sector. all we're asking is that take, even though it 10 we've been 20 percent of that and turn on that into rescue the people who are currently affected because you know, these communities are there and how they are or communities and they can stand alone without the help of the government, so i totally agree with my whining, michael, that government need to do even little things by just going ahead off the displace people go and talk to the crew, the hoss community. right. so that arrangement is done between the 2 communities to allow this communities to be able to,

to just to settle. so it is the responsibility of the government area. i spoke to michael genius and his here on twitter. but i, i wanted to share the phrase that he told us on the stream. joseph, and who said this is a wake up call for south st. dan that they really need to have a climate crisis policy in place. these are some pictures that he's on twitter, that who shad i'm you can see how disruptive these floods are to people's lives. joseph, wake up call for sarah. go ahead. as i said earlier, be used to have labs, but the frequency of the being is what if he's not affecting it because of climate change? b, as a government has come up, be around $10000000.00 as an emergency. i know

that we have a book, elation, but now out of the 10 states, we have 7 states that are under water. and as i said earlier, but i met change is the one causing all of these. and as the impact of climate change, we expect the international community to come up, expand, and there will s as a country at the impact of climate change. this last not for as a loan, but a lot of places like canada, new york at flags. but they have the capacity because they're economically well of us. and it is because of the green gases that

is developed country as emitted into the atmosphere. that's why we are currently experiencing the impacts of climate change. though as government. yes, we are doing our part. but that day, but i mean, well, we have one be able to help us. so we need emotional support in order to get funds, what i have to adapt to be moved to hire an order. so who might recall it just said about people get out there like yes, so i think i totally agree with, you know, but at the same time, i think my concern here is that as much as thought that the government doesn't have capacity in terms of funding to be able to address the issue, climate change, they need to be the one that are taking lead. right, in terms of risk queuing,

humanitarian crisis, because now and up or down, most of these is actually being done by humanitarian action. so the new and agencies that sedan removing 1010000000, isn't it complete and nothing compared to where, what we know now of course we are getting resources from our oil and it just the fact that the problem then you yes on. that's and you need to know that our situation as a country we get the most from we depend on if percent of i mean, depends on oil and depressions of oil climate that's left us with nothing. so at the moment, this is a crisis that we have not made. it is a gradual voting from the influx of climate change. we have known that out of the report, the well has one done by 1.2 degrees. and it is one of these guys,

if you i know you are sharing a fax, like cold, hard facts here it is well known, the global staff, the developing world has not created the most common emissions. it's to develop, well that has done so, but that is not where sampson's dad is. right now. you cannot keep quoting that fat to right, because it's a deal. you have maybe 4 states, you a couple regions, county underwater right now. so what is the adaptation? what is the mitigation? i think that is what the citizens are south to down. i would like to hear from you at this particular time near some pick up. go ahead. yeah, it, let me complete what i wanted to say. i completely understand that, of course, that what we are facing is it's not our duty right. we are basically expand than b climate change that has been closed. but that doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to leave our house and expand outsiders to come and say that, ok, because we cost it. now we are coming in to come and solve your problem. of course,

if we need to unify right, what are what i'm saying? it's okay, well, we need a unified are on, well, we have on now and we have our m n. uh huh. we have a nissan and joseph only just because the quality of the audio between you too, does not allow a robust discussion without it being quite difficult to hear it's, i'm just going to put a pause on that for a moment. i want to go back to the reporting that mara helped her in the tasa to do . and at this point i feel we go we, we make a full circle, round back to the people who are suffering in the flooding. what impact is it? having on them, and particularly when we're talking about food nutrition, how are they getting food? how are they farming his harrow matessa one more time malnutrition rates are

increasing as flooding effects, food supplies, all animal. then we depend on that level of paula powers. is that under the water natal i'm using to variable also we get da da da da da flawed humanitarian aid has also been affected. this used to be our food distribution point where we were distributing for the tool over 27000 people here in oregon duck. with this i bought from the world food program. but now because of the flooding, we are now unable to utilize this location. i my help us out here. i'm getting lots of questions on you chip. you are the journalist in our conversation today. can you help me out with some of these questions? dominic wants to say, how about building a dam in a sewer? could that stop the issues of the flooding a practical solution? the issue,

the issue is so there are no for media itself on how government also can chip in with media. and to is spread awareness about the floods, what is floods. and now what is climate change? people didn't know about that and they don't know even how to help themselves in terms of, by the time there would be like such situation now they are into and the other thing is there is no one managing that eva. busy did it even i, because we don't have bounce, it's not been and it's just there. and that's why every year, like when we have a heavy rains that the water's just goes all the way to the swampy areas. that's why people drowning regularly and all the areas like disappearing on them up itself . you see, and even though the areas that most of the areas that are affected, honestly, they don't have any network coverage. that's like how, how can they then understand or how can they get warnings about there?

there will be heavy rain this month or next week or to morrow like that for instance, at so when i yeah. then add that so they say i'm going to give you another question . i guess this question to you, nathan. and i've got another one for joseph as well, to ben johnson off. thank you morrow to mont johnston, us. we need clear mitigation an adaptation policies and strategies because these lots keep coming every decade in south that south that's only have one decade. so the flood of the other, nathan, i'll sat briefly and then i've got another youtube question for joseph. yes. does written, i think this is where my point is. i think of course, are we need to command the little government is doing under all the humanitarian classes doing, but we need to move away from just emergency risk reduction. we need to move into a mid term to long term adaptation programs. and these, when i agree with, with our, with, with africa, north, they have an upper these not, perhaps incredible projects is,

are long term projects that is talking about building dykes. it's about talking about building dams. that whole flat water. ah, and also charlie, a man made channel that can i should channel some of his water to some of the areas that are experiencing drugs. so we, we need to start thinking about just emergency. yes, we need to help the commute that are being affected. but this is not sustainable, we need to come up with sustainable means that we, we start out, you know, we start managing this and then as well, we need to put in policies. and i, i heard these not or is going to be converted into policies. this is good, but we have a lot of beautiful programming paper at the moment that need to be implemented. and i think is where the role of government and they need to get had this and then mobilize all the resources and all the stakeholders to, to, to build this. and just to give an example currently actually, private sector have started doing something credible. and just week ago, there was

a project i'm constructed by a r c, where they build a 180 kilometer di that is running all the way from board to malika. and these diag basically has started helping some of the community because is blocking some of the water, and these are some of the project we need to start seeing. so that this plot issue is so going forward. joseph, this question for you briefly from russia con, you might have a good case for south, dan did not create climate change, but you're suffering from it. a shot us. what is the international community doing to serve south see dad as they are the main actors for global warming, tangible benefits funding help from the global nov. what are you getting? we're getting elect. who is in glasgow? it. hello. this is we will promise $100000000000.00

yearly that in from they need painting and up to now dead developed countries. i have not, i realized that amount. they said they would be able to aid the, the by quinton, anything. yes, government. we have all this, but it is to add up input, why mitchie? and from on next year's budget, we are going to incorporate all of those strategies. and i was about an hour. and if you require that $100000000.00, we know that at that end to get in touch with a government, we'd be able to raise when to build it. and then in a 2000000000, we'll be robin dimension that'll they've

been climate plan. in addition to joseph, so if you're getting peanuts, then sal sedan is on its own right. so you have another plan, correct? some again, if you're getting p not sal sedan is going to be on its own, you have to work out your own resilience. how you going to mitigate this climate crisis and also adapt for the future at the moment? you know so much so much. i mean with us, sweet. we are right at the end of the chef. i appreciate your, your patience with the audio audience. thank you. laura. thank you, nathan. thank you, joseph. and we show you where you can find them here on my laptop. this is joseph on line. this is myra, and this is lost on. do you follow that? you'll get the latest from south sudan and the fighting crisis as well. thanks for watching everybody. i see you next time with

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