and in the public sphere there is that i love the authority since that the preservation of lift or is reservation of stones preservation of architectural buildings. while in our view, that reservation with lift out is the preservation of the ancient village to that. but a senior village of lift as it testimony for his story of the place in 2012 campaign is one a court case that put a freeze on the plans. they're hoping that had pursued and lifters, history can be repeated. hurry force it al jazeera lifter, west jerusalem. ah, canada, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the number of reported kinds of 19 cases in south africa has doubled health official say the new army kron variant is fueling the surge and the daily numbers. iran has submitted to draft proposals to european powers, negotiating the revival of the 2015 nuclear dale. this is now the 7th round of

talks in vienna aimed at returning iran and the u. s. to the agreement. you are secretary of state antony lincoln has met with his russian counterparts. i love to discuss moscow's trip build up along the border. lincoln says he is deeply concerned about what he called russia's aggressive policy towards ukraine. we have a strong ah, aren't quite commitment to the sovereignty and turtle integrity of ukraine. the best way to avert a crisis or is through diplomacy. and that's what i look forward to discussing with with sergei, including by both parties, full implementation of the miscreants. ah, with russia pulling back its forces, the united states is willing to facilitate that. but and again, in the spirit of being clear and candid, which is the best thing to do. if russia decides to pursue confrontation, there will be serious consequences. the international olympic committee has held

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and further experience the unimaginable of the people who live it is a probably the most extreme situation. i've been involved in how quickly things contract award winning documentary is that also a perception witness on a just the euro. i i as i me ok to day on the stream. south sedans, flood emergent, say, hundreds of thousands of people, a car, a being impacted by the worst flood in 60 years, if i mentally sustained that this is caused by climate change, his out his ears, harriman tasa just reporting back in november from john blay, 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 to dawn 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 al mcquaid who arrived here in july. her children an extended family, now sleep in this makeshift house, not sure if and when they will be able to go back home gilman cutler. my house is still under water. no, there are a lot of his neck sad ripped, i one on the place is the steel river. it's no longer home. so how can i go back and joining us to be part of this conversation. we have joseph, we have more. we have near thorn. good to have all 3 with with us. more festival. introduce yourself. tell everybody who you are, what you do. hello everyone. 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. you hello everybody. my name is not on hot. my. i'm a bull. the research in analysts in the area of climate change and global entity in, at the said institute, alice, always good 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 jibber sassy 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 youtube, 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 the to 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 that, how serious things. all right now? yes, i'm looking at the map and the worse we have are on as edition the mud around and $6.00 to $7.00 counties that are currently under water. but the, the 3 most here are areas that are, that are currently, are impacted by, by flood is junk listed, unity stayed up and i have a flight in this area are much more intense than the other area in south sudan. so in this area, as you seen, due to flood on community have been displaced from their current villages. as you seen, they've lost their houses and they've lost their farm land. and they have been forced to move to a higher grounds where they are currently living. there temporarily,

but when you look at it dumb being in that area, they're actually coming ah, they're interacting with, with the hosp community. and here, looking at them at the house community, there have been a little bit of tension and conflict between ah, the displaced people and also the house community. also in where they have to space, have you seen, ah, they are, they're completed, lost their livelihood. they left off without carrying anything with them there they have no food, their blood at this to our health services and here without anybody that is there to help them out it's, it's about life and death for, for business. basically more you sent us some pictures. i'm going to get his decent show and how with us. so i'm going to show you the pictures, you know the pictures, but also explain to what is what they are seeing. because when you talk about people displace, 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 the 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 auto. it's sir, from ben to you. unity state. i had a chance to go in october. that's october. so those are 2 mothers are having malnourished children. and they were trying to, to seek help because they, 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's an attrition department within to your hospital. yeah, i run 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 them they were walking and then it had broken completely well before i pass, or before i proceeded, the water vague. and those are just like on most our own laker, 7 men they were trying to do it manually, are using only the eggs and then the. busy you can see now the wood and the tree is there 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 days to lock the flooding waters to submerge even been to your site. yeah. one more picture here. and again, i'm trying to imagine how deep is this water and how was this impacting everyday life? tell us what we're seeing here. this one from my last visit with those. so that'll

english team i and all one jack it. so just by. busy eva site where people day just selling the fish. it's a fish market. you will find on the fish. i need swear, all the fishermen household them. they're also sold. yes. they decided just to find a way for survivor and just to sell fish and then to drive along. did it besides over there. yeah. let me just bring it up now that we've got all of our audio sorted out tells you thank you for your patience on the secondary 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 for a strange land, making sure that, that se, and succeeds as a country as far as the environment policy is concerned. how waiting all year for floods of this scale. this is not the 1st one. this is the 3rd one in just

a few. yes, joseph. yeah, actually yeah. what's happening right now? i've been staging latin. oh, it's entry at the moment that frequency. what is what it was of climate change as really yes, i'm not so as a government building a building. right. 2. 0 a, it's not an issue or some other issue, other aggression. it's not on meeting at what is happening at the

moment. at least out of management and now it's really, it really varies agreement that people need to be oh, mentally. but didn't read though. okay. does. yeah. i'm going to put us there for a moment because it's very difficult to hear you and understand 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 a meg marathon. i want to bring in a new voice into this conversation. and often when there's a disaster crisis, people are 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. yes. if i needed to send in sausalito

newsletter because getting a. ready thousands or people on the displays a shelter, the luggage lug basic necessities for life, including the situation, israel or worse or not. these people are not being attended to by the government. want to do is possible. they need to address easily settlement with these people because some of them already stuck and it don't. ready know where they should go to . the issue of course, is government come along with it all bus upwards on how to deal with these issues and fill out the climate change that obviously i'm going to put this to a joseph as well as soon as we can get a clear life, ma'am. the mere thought is that asking too much of a very young country just celebrating its pens, 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 their 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 they actually put in 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 our channel that in to 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 host community. right. so that arrangement is done between the 2 communities to allow this community to be able to, to just to settle. so it is the responsibility of the government area. i spoke to michael julius 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, yeah,

be used to live, 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 $10.00 to $1000000.00 as an emergency. i know that you have a cook relations, but now out of the 10 states, we have 7 states that are under water. and as i said earlier, 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 therefore us as a country at the impact of climate change. this last or not for as a loan,

but also places like canada, new york and flags. but they have the capacity because they're economically well of us. and it is because they've been out of gas, is that this developed country as emitted into the atmosphere. that's why we are currently experiencing the impacts of climate. so as government, yes, we are doing our past but that day, but not me. well, we wouldn't be able to help us. so we need emotional support. you know, that will get funds for us to adapt to be moved to hire an order. so who might recall it? yes i did. of 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 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 i taking lead right in terms of risk queuing, humanitarian crisis, because now and up on most of these is actually being done by humanitarian atkins as a new, an agency, not 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, you know, then you yes on. that's and you need to know that our situation as a country, we get the most from depending on percent of i mean depends on oil and the price of oil climate that's left us with nothing. so at the

moment it is a crisis that we have not made. it is a gradual voting from the influx of climate gender. we have known that out of the report well has one done. 3 by 1.2 degrees. and it is one of these guys, if you i know you are sharing a sack site code hard facts here it is well known the global south, the developing world has not created the most common emissions. it's for develop, well that has done so, but that is not where sassy data 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 did and would like to hear from you at this particular time near some pick up. go ahead. anyway, 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, it's brendan baker, climate change that has been closed. but that doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to need our house and expect outsiders to come and say that, ok, because we cost it. now we're coming into common solve your problem. of course, if we need to unify right, got it. we need a unified or now we have all, i'm out and we have, i am a nissan and joseph only just because the quality audio between you 2 does not allow a robust discussion without it being quite difficult to hear it. so 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 task to, 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 having on van at the teepee when they talking about food? nutrition, how are they getting food? how are they farming? he is having a tasa one more time. my nutrition rates are increasing as flooding effects, food supplies, whole animal that we depend on a pallet, is that under the water natal, i'm using vegetable, we get to disease. that different humanity. ah, we break into programming to take you like to stop. com. that is the u. s. sector said anthony blink kelly's sharon summer martin roster has been meetings, ridge, russia, and ukraine. swan ministers writes lesson in promoting democracy, reinforcing transatlantic security, combating the climate crisis. these and so many other areas,

we are very pleased to have sweden as a close partner. and i were also very admiring of the leadership that doesn't sweden as shown with the o. s. c in the chair this, this past year. i'm looking for it actually having an opportunity to meet the new prime minister a little later today and offering her congratulations this past year. i'm looking for it actually having an opportunity to meet the new prime minister a little later today and offering her congratulations on behalf of the united states for what is truly a historic victory. i know the good work that our countries will do together. i will continue under her leadership as well as my own partnership with, with a foreign minister. b o. c is an invaluable institution in no small part because it has a comprehensive view of security. it's not just reflected in military might, but also good governance, democracy, human rights. and i think that approach,

of course, with the reality of the world that we live in countries that respect human rights and govern with the consent of their people tend to be more stable, more prosperous, more peaceful. and they make better neighbors. countries to violate human rights and flout democratic values, often so instability in other countries and rulers who have used their power give license to other leaders to do the same. ah, we're not truly secure unless we come together to respect both the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all people. and that captures the insight that is at the heart of the overseas work for nearly 50 years. it's particularly relevant now when all of us are called to step oper, commitment to democracy and human rights at home. and around the world. next week, present biden's going to host of the summit for democracy to bring governments and civil society from around the world together. to make concrete pledges to renew and

reform democracies. it's no secret that there's democratic backsliding happening around the world, including here in europe. but the, the genius and resilience of democracy is that it is self correcting. ah, more than any other form of government democracies have the capacity to face mistakes, learn from them and do better. and that's the spirit of that the some of the president will be convening next week. it's also the spirit of the o. s. c. i'm grateful who had the chance to affirm the overseas vital role in safeguarding democracy in europe and beyond and urge all number countries to be constructed. participants in the o. s. e. rather than obstructing it from contributing to peace and security in europe. here in stock home, i also had the chance to meet with the foreign minister of labor from ukraine and foreign minister lever off from russia. as i said yesterday in riga, as well as in my meetings today, the united states and our allies and partners are deeply concerned by evidence that

russia has made plans for significant aggressive moves against ukraine. including efforts to destabilize ukraine from within and large scale military operations. we've seen this playbook before, in 2014, when russia last invaded ukraine. despite uncertainty about intentions and timing, we must and we will prepare for all contingencies while working to see to it that russia reverse is course. as i conveyed again to find mr. cle labor today. ah, the united states remains unwavering. in our support for ukraine's territorial integrity is sovereignty, its independence. we discussed ukraine's commitment to implementing the misc agreements, which we believe represent the best avenue for a diplomatic resolution to this crisis potential crisis. we also affirm that despite a massive russian disinformation campaign, ukraine is in no way posing

a threat to russia or seeking a confrontation that would justify a russian military intervention. the only threat is that of renewed russian aggression towards ukraine. in my meeting with far, mr. lever off, i made very clear our deep concerns and our resolved to hold russia responsible for its actions, including our commitment to work with european allies to impose severe costs and consequences on russia. if it takes further aggressive action against ukraine. and as a torn mr. flavor, i also made clear the united states is preferred to work with both parties to support a diplomatic resolution through implementation of the misc agreements in any way that we can, that diplomatic way forward can avert a crisis that would serve no one's interests. foreign minister lab often i had candid exchanges on our different perspectives. we agreed to report those back to our presidents who may have the opportunity to speak directly in the near future. it's now on russia to deescalate the current tensions by reversing the recent troop

build up. returning forces to normal piece time positions, and refraining from further intimidation and attempts to destabilize ukraine. we're watching the situation very closely. we're in close contact and coordination with our allies. ah, let me close with a reminder that when the members of the o s e signed its founding document, the helsinki final act, and that was 46 years ago, they pledged up old principles that made it possible for the countries of europe to live side by side in peace, stability prosperity, there inseparably linked with respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and human rights. and the united states will continue to stand for those values here and everywhere. and with that, i'm happy to take some questions. thank you. we have time for a few questions today. we'll start with francesca, one to maggie of the people. thank you mister

secretary, i'm of, after your meeting with the foreign minister laboratory, do you see any sign that russia is willing to de escalate and remove its troops from the border wire? it's, was there any agreements on the way forward other than direct contact between the 2 presidents and should we gotten, was it or was it only each side talking past each other as you seem to, to re report and you, ah, the purpose of, of seeing foreign minister lab roth was to be able to, to communicate clearly and directly to him, our concerns, the consequences of russia pursues aggression and confrontation, as well as our views on the, the better way forward. which is de escalation and re commitment to diplomacy through the, the ms process. and we had a, i think, a very direct, very candid,

non political exchange of views. it was serious. it was on, it was sober. i believe that the foreign minister will take the conversation back to, to president putin. i'm going to do the same, of course with president biden. and as i said, i, i think it's likely the presidents will speak directly in the near future. will maldonado, wall street journal? well, thank you. i just wanted to clarify something about the possible sanctions or other economic measures. you mentioned yesterday, a new degree of, of economic measures that the u. s. as with held before, is that the, when you, when you spoke to foreign minister love today mentioned severe costs and consequences. are you referring to those economic potential moves or are there other responses that the u. s. in his partners can take such as military or something else on the table. and then what would be the trigger for that is the

trigger only a new violation of ukraine's territory or would or could the trigger be a refusal to back down, or could it be some other action russia could take in regards to ukraine. thank you . thanks will so as i, as we've been in, in recent days in recent weeks and in the, in the meeting with the foreign minister, i was very clear that there would be serious consequences for brushing aggression toward ukraine. including, as i said, high impact economic measures that we've refrained from taking in the past. and we've been, we'll continue to be very clear about about those consequences. i think come moscow knows very well the universe of, of what's possible. and we had.