wanda and camera desert library, the young cyclist and happy africa direct on al jazeera with i'm darn jordan della. with the headlines a on al jazeera, at least 80 people have been killed in the u. s. after a series of tornadoes ripped through 6, mid western and southern states, it happened overnight on friday. the extreme weather left a trail of destruction stretching more than 320 kilometers. president biden says it's like as a b, one of the largest tornado outbreaks and u. s. history and is promising federal assistance to be affected states. i want folks in all the states, you know, we're going to get through this. we're going to get through this together in the federal government is not going to walk away. this is one of those times when we

aren't democrats or republicans. sounds like i probably, but it's real. we're all americans. we stand together as united states of america. and so i said all the victims, you're in our prayers and all those 1st responders, emergency personnel and everyone helping their fellow americans. this is the right thing to do with the right time. and we're going to get through this. the british foreign secretary has called for western units, he against all authoritarianism and threats from russia and china. the u. case hosting g 7 foreign ministers in liverpool, along with delegates from southeast asian countries. russia was singled out by the us and britain from massing troops on ukraine's buddha and the u. s. is sending its leading diplomat for europe to russia and ukraine. current done for you to meet senior officials and kevin moscow the 2 days apart from the russian troop build up the state to pop and says don fried will also push for progress on ending the conflict in east of ukraine. iran's president abram raise, he says, his government is serious about the latest round of talks in vienna to revive the

2015 nuclear deal. he said, if world powers are willing to remove sanctions on terror, on an agreement can be reached. palestinians voted in municipal elections and more than a 150 local councils across the upper west bank on saturday. but a key faction boycotted. the pole hamis which governs the gaza strip. was angered after parliamentary and presidential elections were cancelled earlier this year. and protectors were back out demonstrating in vienna against the austrian governments plans to make cobit 900 vaccines, compulsory legislation set to come into force in february, those who refused to get a job will face a fine of more than $4000.00 every 3 months. austria has a 68 percent vaccination rate, one of the lowest in europe. well, those were the headlines. the news continues here now to 0 after portal station. thanks for watching bye for now. ah

. mm. welcome to a 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, they're all 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 look out with them. if it doesn't go cold, i think we're having then you get caught a look at the time. i got to move the other one back in that you know quite a lot

a lot them as you come down one line. ringback does the of it's going to linear them like malicious, as i see another system you ah ah ah ah, i right away said to ryan who are leaving california, we can't stay here anymore. 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 net, clark, al jazeera, as environment correspondent, ah. more powerful, more intense, more destructive, extreme weather is the new norm. yes, we've always had hurricanes and droughts and qualifies and 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 it huge costs and whitley is dry. air is get dry because of global warming. wet areas will let me get wetter. that's because as warm air increases,

evaporation does it increase the amount of water vapor out there, 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 are also drawing more energy from warming oceans, which is creating more powerful harkins and sa, remember that locus swarms that struck east africa and southwest asia studies 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 and 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 faucet 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 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 with rising temperature is 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 a beast. could it change 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 excited,

serious crime a long sidewalk. 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 weren't leaders, corporate ceos, goods down charl in 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 19 seventy's 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 new convention to go alongside the genocide convention. and now people are talking about it again. i lakila now we're nowhere near the climate targets to limit global warming set out in 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 have declined by around 2 thirds. and our oceans are filling up with plastic unless we acknowledge that way deeply into twined with the ecosystems that support us. we are heading towards the cliff edge as environmental destruction grows. so as support for this idea of ego site, i think it's just starting to capture people's imagination because there's this

urgency, errands, the climate crisis, 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 and acts 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 i. so if, if a company don't toxic weiss off the coast tooth, let's say a country in africa and it caused severe and i to walk widespread a long term damage. that will be a relatively straightforward case for the prosecution. the key to that case would really be to so those involved new, 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, it's not perhaps as unreachable as you might think. european countries like belgium and france are getting behind it. he fulfilled so does kill so bellman donna de la donna shannon. so how would it work? well, the law 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 at belgium, ratifies this if they see assets which in belgium they can be arrested and tried. beth. so there is a kind of breadth of possibility. and it's not individual accountability, that supporters of ego side, se might be

a really powerful deterrent. one of the most effective tools there any society has to change behavior is criminal law. and when the criminal law is international, has a real chance of changing the behavior. if even the worst environment recruits, the trouble is there is a lot of doubt about of the icbc 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. what 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 law is not a panacea. full details on the planet. aniko saw it 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? what's this? ah, iceberg guard or mo, no leon, all gone. oh, the waves would crash on the, on the shores. and it was really scary. the temperature, so warm,

it's getting scary. climate changes is ah ah, polar bear sighting their own here is becoming a rare thing to do to less i essays. i noticed at least 3030 to 40 feet of some on the coast. linus disappearing warmer weather. permafrost melting.

i'm change. it's taking longer to freeze. so are uncertain being delayed in their 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, we're rolled it 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 device. and right now our finger then back then, and the tide is up. it's becoming risky.

the temperatures are warmer, the next to nothing personal. it's getting scarier. when i go there, i'm even when i'm on my way there. i know i'm on my way to peace. quiet, peaceful. no full, no doorbell, no, t v no. just be out on a land. enjoy the fresh air. ah . about 12 years old when i start going out on land with my grandmother, i do a loaner hunting for my family purse to eat dinner. so by pulling i 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 fish. he comes checking that to me and then when he sees me scaling and he's interested in the want to try and i let him try it now. he's holton and then now i just got to wait till his little hold and i'll bring him out on lanta. hon kerry will hunt wail. 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 may help out the community by giving out to the elders and a single mother. mm

. mm. mm. my mom's diverse year over packaging me. her, my brother, the sad news livermore, there huge in the middle there in your still cold, from 6 to below. some damaged 80. below and working towards colon doctor's iceberg starter mound slowly and all gone now people getting to be more and more all the time. finish war, the more people to more pollution, i think the word warning pollution from oil. we have to really do something about the car to direct on look. does what a war and about oh yes. the tides are coming in. my proper use aren't rolling area and what am i gonna 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 our shore line down to point was full of housing houses one time, now you go down and wait. it's empty now, due to shore erosion, higher waters stronger when you see the be quite house. there used to be 5 of them here. and then the police barracks, they were up on top, the hidden layer. they had a shaw here. they're all gone

originally, our home was on the right on the shore of the arctic ocean. and last year they ended up moving us here. and it was really scary. the waves would crash on, 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, the entire community might have to move within 50 years. yeah, the kids will end up seeing this happening again in the very not so distant future. mm. climate change me as a hunter traveler, i've noticed

a lot of the lake that connect to the ocean are drying out. be nice to know it up, but now that i've seen a lot of erosion going on where i go hunt my reindeer, there's a big hole of year old. and i'm hoping 50 is from now or 20, at least this creek isn't dried out like these other creek, so usually fish shudder out here. as i love fishing and couple of the lakes and creeps, i one tour dried pretty well to nothing. nothing left in them so oh, look at jack. wow. boy, those fish are coming out of there today. scary for flooding. main one is flooding. stay for

the kids. not only that are not to go out and do what i'm doing today. scary. what do you think that that is 2 people that politicians 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 believe it. they don't live it, they're, they're surrounded by tall, tall buildings. and how can you see erosion through all learn, like come down to my part of the country and i can literally show you that the climate change is, is happening. everyone can make a little bit of a difference. i would say tax to one percent. we talk a lot of problems that make life easier for those whose lives are harder where you

have to monitor number thing because the more the more people are more pollution is coming out. but you could, could you didn't. how do you wanna do tools? it's all freelance. no joke. we're. we're under the ocean. ah, yes. 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. ah. ah

ah. hello there. let's look to north america and after $232.00 days without snow, the 1st flakes fell in denver. this was the scene there. you can see that snow falling, not just in colorado, but also in utah. now it has calm down across those central and southeastern areas, the main where the story we have to head to that west coast. we've got another winter storm that's rolled into western parts of canada and the north west of the u . s. dropping heavy snow rain and bringing some of those stronger winds to places like british columbia as well as oregon and into washington. now, by the time we get into monday, it's going to trickle down further south to northern areas of california. we are

expecting to possibly see some flash flooding about a months worth of rain could fall from sunday in some monday. so a very wet week for san francisco. it gets wet, a full os angeles on tuesday and wednesday before it does start to dry up. but across large areas of the u. s, we are seeing a lot of fine and why whether continue, especially for the eastern coast. we had some tornadoes wold across the southeast, but that system has pushed out to sea. we are seeing temperatures recover in new york and washington d. c. and we are going to the a lot of a warm spread up to those central areas that sure update. ah, from the al jazeera london, bro casenita to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation of the artist by nature. they are person who on last part, t left i way way and denise to paul society is not interested in the

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scientists urging caution from around the world. political observers argue his government has led, dismantling of democratic institutions. blue . this is likely we're the largest turn it off rakes in our history. president biden says the number of lives lost on the full extent of damage is not yet no, not a tornadoes tool through parts of kentucky. other us, thanks ah, hello, i'm john jordan. this is al jazeera la you from dell are also coming up the u. k. host g, 7 foreign ministers, warning russia ricks military build up on the border with ukraine. voting on the way in the south pacific islands of new caledonia.