state of the art secure bandwidth that lets people share those digital stories. as hale sab is helping bring the world closely together as sales space to deliver your vision. ah, hello, i'm marianne demising in london. the main stories now wiki lee founded julian sanchez lost his latest bid to stop exhibition from person to stand trial in the u. s. u. s . one a to appeal at the high court from london, but judges of the turning and earlier ruling that assigned would be a suicide risk if he lost sanctuary in person. if i his up to 175 years in jail, if convicted today, it's been almost a year since i stood outside court with our victory of the blocking of the extradition for the past year. the past year, 2 years and

a half julia has remained in bel march prison, and in fact, he has been detained since the 7th of december, 2010 in one form or another 11 years for how long can this go on? protest is in me and marvelled a silent strike against military ruin. the ousting of the democratically elected government businesses were closed and streets and markets deserted across the country. on friday, me and my was plunged into crisis in february when the military of a throughly to unsung so she and her government qu triggered mass protests and violence between the military and ethnic minority groups. a truck carrying more than a 160 refugees and migrants has crashed in southern mexico, killing at least 55 people. already spilled from the overcrowded vehicle after it flipped over in the state of chiapas. authorities and most of the people on board were from guatemala and a been hoping to travel north to get into the u. s. south african scientists as ng,

there's no sign that the army con corona virus variant is causing more severe illness. in early studies. hospital data show that covered 90 to missions arising sharply, but patients is spending less time in care and the death rate remains low. south africa reported more than 22000. you covert cases on thursday, a rec, or during the current 4th wave of infections. when, as of this is noble peace prize, calling for better protection for journalists in the face of authoritarian governments, jonah's maria russell from the philippines and dmitri motor 12 of russia are the co recipients of this year's award. a been recognized for their bravery and independence. the face of continuous threat and intimidation portal is next. rob you back with the news hour in 25 minutes time. see then ah

mm. welcome to portal. i'm sandra. gotten back with more great content from the digital side of al jazeera. that's our website, social media and podcast. this week, it's all about the environment. we've got a film from the canadian architect about a community that's being threatened by rising sea levels. and we look at the push to make eco side and international crime. what's egos, i keep watching and will tell you. but 1st, what do guatemala, somalia and california all have in common? well, there are places that have been hit with extreme weather caused by climate change, and people are being forced to leave their homes because of it. in this instagram video, 80 plus has pulled together some of those stories. take a look. mm mm hm. with

mimicking you all can walk out with them. if it doesn't go cold. i think we're then you get caught a look at the time applied to got to move the other one back in that you know quite

a lot a lot them as to how you come down one line. ringback does the of it's going to linear them. i mean, this is as i see, another system you have a nice ah ah ah, i right away said to ryan who are leaving california, we can't stay here anymore. ah

ah ah ah with . so those stories help to show the impact climate change is already having on people's lives. but what's the actual link between warming temperatures and extreme weather? well, this episode of the online series planet green breaks it down and you're probably

familiar with the series host, nick clark al jazeera environment correspondent, ah, more powerful, more intense, more destructive, extreme weather is the, you know? yes, we've always had hurricanes and droughts and ball flies in floods, but never on this scale. and that's because the world is getting hotter than ever. greenhouse gas emissions are created, this blanket of su to around the trapping heat. and that's why areas that are prone to wildfire like california parts of southern europe will, australia say, are experiencing record hot dry conditions, enabling these deadly funds to envelop swathes of land. that's an unprecedented rate. and at huge costs and whitley is dry, air is get dry because of global warming. wet areas will let me get water. this

because it's warm, air increases, evaporation. does it increase the amount of water vapor up there of the atmosphere for storms to suck up? a recent study has directly linked that to the devastating flooding in germany and belgium, which kill 200 people. this summer. storm systems also drawing more energy from warming oceans which creating more powerful harkins and cyclic. and this is projected to get worse as a climate continues to war. and just for good measure. remember that is lucas swarms that struck east africa and southwest asia. studies are linking them to. yes, climate change, warmer weather conditions, means bonanza time for the local swarms. now i realize all this couldn't be more depressing, but there is a way out. the evidence in the data is already clear. we have to stop adding to that blanket of greenhouse gases. well, we can all do all in the environment. the fundamental responsibility lies in the

hands of governments and big corporations, the frost vacant emissions, the safer we will be. now in the end, the answers to many of our biggest environmental challenges come down to changing human behavior, which is easier said than done, but could have changed to international law help. well, there's a growing movement of people who think so they want the international criminal court to include eco side as a crime. for the explainer series. start here, my team and i asked what he go side is and what difference it could make. ah, let's talk about eco side. the planet is dying. rising temperatures, melting, ice caps, deforestation, drought, and mass extinction. we need to stop tracing this crisis like a crisis. we are on the verge, could be obese,

could have changed to international law. be part of the answer. there's now a push for a new crime, ego side to be included in the international criminal court, making ecos, i'd a serious crime alongside will crimes and genocide could really underpin and strengthen the whole edifice of environmental. so what does ecosign actually mean? how would it work? and can it really make any difference or this is the idea. world leaders, corporate ceos could stand charlan an international court for destroying the natural world. the same court where people are prosecuted for genocide. and the idea has been around for a while since the 1970s. during the vietnam war, the u. s. military destroyed vast areas of jungle and crops by spring agent, orange, a toxic chemical american official. that doesn't hurt humans or animals or have any

lasting effect from fun, but to take an american botanist use the word ego site to describe what was going on and said we need a new international agreement to banish and at different points as to the seventy's eighty's and even ninety's, there were calls for or a new convention to go alongside the genocide convention. and now people are talking about it again. i believe we are nowhere near the climate targets to limit global warming said out on the paris agreement. the way we're going entire coastal cities will be flooded by 2050 because of rising sea levels. in roughly the last 50 years, wildlife populations of decline by around 2 thirds. and our oceans are filling up with plastic unless we acknowledge that's way deeply intertwined with the ecosystems that support us. we are heading towards the cliff edge as environmental destruction grows. so as the port for this idea of eco side,

i think it's just started to capture people's imagination because there's this urgency, errands, the climate crisis, the environmental crises that were a say. so this feels like something tangible. and now we actually have a legal definition for ego side. this year, a panel of top criminal and environmental lawyers put their heads together for several months. and this is what they came up with. unlawful or want an ox committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long term damage to the environment being caused by those acts. it was a point to include 12 in dot definition, which really means to reckless disregard for damaged as clearly excessive in relation to the social or economic benefits. so one might look like some environmental as, for example, think that the tar sands and alberta canada described of the world most destructive

oil operation is a form of ego side. others think officials at the fukushima power plant in japan and continue dumping radioactive water into the ocean. might also be committed niko side. so if, if a company don't toxic weiss off co seuss, let's say a country in africa and it caused severe and either war wise for long term damage. that will be a relatively straightforward case for the prosecution. the key to the case would really be to show those involved knew the substantial likelihood on thought home occur. so where does it go from here? well, the idea is that it will be adopted by the international criminal court. right now the i, c, c has jurisdiction over 4 kinds of atrocities. they all relate to human suffering. ecosign, if accepted, would be added as a 5th, a crime against nature. but it will require 2 thirds of the courts member states to accept a change to the rome statute. the treaty that underpins the i c. c that at least

$82.00 states. we sound like an awful lot. but if you put together many of those vulnerable states, each state having a bait, if not perhaps, as unreachable as you might think, european countries like belgium and france are getting behind it, fulfill also does kill so bellman donna de la donna shannon. so how would it work? well, the long wouldn't be applied retroactively, so no one would go down for say chernobyl. and there are also the limitations of the court itself. some major countries aren't even members of the icy, including the world's top 3 polluters, china, that us and india. but that doesn't necessarily mean that individuals from non member countries would be off the hook. so let's say i did a u. s. company is committing iq aside in venezuela. i'm just inventing this and that they have an operational office in belgium and belgium ratifies this. if bessie has said which in belgium they can be arrested and tried bet. so there is

a kind of breadth of possibility and it's not individual accountability that supporters of ecosign say might be a really powerful deterrent one of the most effective tools there any society has to change behavior is criminal law. i'm, when the criminal law is internationally, has a real chance of changing the behavior if even the worst environment recruits the trouble is there is a lot of doubt about whether the icpc has the teeth to really enforce eco side. and it's nearly 20 year history. the court has heard 30 cases and judges of handed down 10 convictions, and there are still a lot of questions, would extracting oil count as eco side? how do you prove there was prior knowledge of severe harm to nature? and our countries that want to keep growing their economies going to see eco side as an obstacle. international crew is not a panacea. full details on the planet. aniko side can't change everything by itself . it's not a silver bullet. it's also not going to change the fact that our current system is

premised on environmental destruction. so if we don't have this broader systemic change, we will continue to destroy the find it will. this also occasionally put some on on trial. no one's really saying ego side is the whole answer, but it supporters believe it can be one part of the global fight against environmental destruction. and its power isn't necessarily about putting people in prison. it's about turning up the pressure for our last item. this week we're taking you to the arctic circle in the far north of canada and a place called took to yup. took for the indigenous community living there. the arctic wilderness has always been a part of their lives. but global warming means that wilderness is now changing. and so is there way of life? watch this. ah, iceberg dark mode. no leon, all gone. lou,

the waves would crash on the, on the shores. and it was really scary. the temperature, so warm, it's getting scary. time changes is the me ah ah, the polar bear siding their own here is becoming a rare thing. due to, let's say, i noticed at least 3030 to 40 feet of some of the co

slowness disappearing warmer weather. permafrost, melting climate change. it's taking longer to fries. so are uncertain being delayed in the original migration route for some of the animals are taking longer to either freeze so they could cross or they have to migrate a different route. as you can see were loaded to go across to a place called water creek. we're gonna try jiggle for only and we're going to be traveling on a boat border, 6 inches ice. i guess when i was younger about this time we'd be at least a foot of ice. and right now, our vineyard, then back then,

and the tide is up. it's becoming risky. the temperatures are warmer. lee got next to nothing for snow. it's getting scarier when i go there. um. even when i'm on my way there. i know i'm on my way to peace. quiet, peaceful. no phone, no doorbell, no tv, no. just be out on a land. enjoy the fresh air. a mo, 12 years old when i start going out on land with my grandmother. i do a loaner hunting for my family for us to eat dinner,

survive for as we can really only depend on the store cause it's too much the way the prices are going up nowadays for gas and food. i get them involved like we seen my 6 year old scaling, fishy, comes check. now to me and let me see is me scaling and he's interested in the want to try and i let him try. now he's hooked in and then now i just got to wait till his little hold and i'll bring him out on lanta on carry, we'll hunt oil. we never overkill. we just take what we need for the season. i was always taught to help my people if i or if i over catch i. i help out the community by giving out to the elders and a single mother. mm.

mm. with packing me her, my brother, the son who is livermore, there who's in the middle there, you are still cold from 60 below or sometime it's a deep below. and it works colon, iceberg starter mountain slowly and all gone. people getting to be more and more all the time. finish them up, people to more pollution diverse one is pollution from or if we have to really do something about it because it depicts online because we're worried about the tides are coming in my proper

use. our living area and what am i going to do? like i can just move my house to or i feel safe. i don't have to be really starting all over again. like on the shoreline don't at the point was followed housing. how was this one time now? you go down and wait. its empty now, due to shore ocean higher waters stronger when you see the big white house there. used to be 5 of them here. and then police barracks. they were up on top, the hidden layer shop here. they're all gone.

original your home was on the right on the shore of the arctic ocean. and last year they need up moving us here and it was really scary. the waves would crash on the, on the shores and a road little by little every year. what literally would have gotten swept into the ocean, real shame that we had to had to move because we were actually on the spot where, where my grandfather's parents actually lived with the entire community might have to move within 50 years. hm. yeah, the kids will end up seeing this happening again in a very not so distant future in

climate change me as a hunter traveler, i've noticed a lot of the blade that connect to the ocean are drying out. be nice to note up there that i've seen a lot of erosion going on where i go hunt my reindeer. there's a big hole over old, and i'm hoping 50 is from now or 20 at least this creek is in dried out like these other creek. so you'd leafy shudder out here as i love fishing and couple of the lakes and creaks. i one tour dried pretty well and nothing. nothing left in them so oh, look at jack. wow. boy, those fisher coming out there to day scared for

flooding. main, warmness flooding, stay for the kids, not only dot o r m to go out and do what i'm doing today. scary. what do you think? does that at a see if people don't believe dishes who don't believe or don't care about kind of change it, they don't know how it was 4050 years ago, and now that's why they probably can leap it, they don't live it they're. they're surrounded by tall, tall buildings, and how can you see erosion through all that light come down to my part of the country and i can literally show you that climate change is, is happening. everyone can make a little bit of

a difference. would say tax to one percent we talk a lot of problems make life easier for those whose lives are harder where you have to monitor number the thing because the more the more fear for tomorrow pollution is coming out. but you could go to didn't how revere wonder new tools? it's all for real. no, it's no joke. we're. we're almost under the ocean. well, that's it from portal this week. remember there's lots more great video and audio on our website and social media channels. i'll be back next week until then. see you online news,

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