and the past to reparation is not an easy one. namibia, the price of genocide, people and power analogies, era. the listening post cuts through the noise. we're talking about competing now, seeing wanting me to perpetuate those, competing out the listening post your guide to the media honor, j 0. ah i'm sammy zaden lindau with a look at the headlines here in al jazeera. now, at least 80 people have been killed in the u. s. after a series of tornadoes ripped through 6th, mid western and southern states. it happened overnight on friday. president joe biden says it's likely to be one of the largest tornado outbreaks in u. s. history. the state of kentucky is the worst hit highly jo, castro reports from their and we are trapped. please give us some help.

at the candle factory in may. you please bring us this woman is among the few to get out alive after a tornado flattened the candle factory where she and more than 100 others were working. it's unclear how many people remain trapped somewhere beneath this rubble . but as the search and rescue effort stretches in today to the governor of kentucky says, finding more survivors is unlikely. this is the hardest tornado event we've ever been through. and it's not just because the property damage, but we lost a lot of good people. and we gotta do our best as it gets dark and through the next day is to make sure we don't lose anymore. may feel kentucky has lost more than just the factory and it's workers. it's also lost a church, a fire station, a police station, and of course, so many people's homes. and it wasn't just kentucky,

an amazon warehouse in illinois, a nursing home in arkansas, destruction in missouri and tennessee states that expect tornadoes but not usually in december. this path length, i believe, when it's all said and done, we're waiting for the numbers to come in. we'll be a near 400 kilometer path length and very likely that this tornado will be rated violence, which means e f, or e, f 5. i'm expecting. winds peak wind speeds to be well over 200 miles per hour with this particular tornado. president joe biden spoke to the nation, calling for unity, promising the full support of the federal government. imagine if, if you're home to the pat wedding of home, do you worry, i mean everything is gone from that from from that that baptism will photograph to the wedding picture to the picture of your oldest daughter in a ballet. i mean,

it is profound. it's just profound. a federal emergency has been declared in kentucky with other states likely to follow. and the national guard has been called in to help clear roads and search door to door looking for survivors. knowing the death toll is likely to rise. heidi joe castro, out to 0 may field kentucky. the british foreign secretary is calling for western unity against all for a terry and ism, and threats from russia and china. the u. k is hosting g 7 foreign ministers in liverpool, along with delegates from southeast asian countries. russia was singled out by the u. s. in britain for a massing troops on ukraine's border. the us is sending its leading diplomat for europe to russia and ukraine. karen don fried, will need senior officials in kiev and moscow over the 2 days part from the russian troops build up. the state department says don fried will also push for progress on ending the conflicts in east and ukraine. washington has warned russia,

they'll be consequences if it invades rounds. fraser and deborah haman se says his government is serious about the nicest round of talks in vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. he said if well, powers are willing to remove sanctions on to ron and agreement can be reached. serbian protestors were back out blocking roads for a 3rd weekend running, denouncing plans for lithium mining. but saturdays crowds with smaller than past weeks after the government bows to some demand. it scrapped laws with activists that were purely designed to help mining giant re tinto dont operations in serbia's, west the south pacific island of new caledonia is holding a referendum on independence from france. it's the 3rd vote on the issue off to vote, as narrowly rejected the idea in 20182020 correspondence.

ah ah i ours isn't up and the number of people living in towns now exceeds those living outside. when this milestone was reached in 2009 few people notice across the globe, cities are growing upwards and outwards at unprecedented speed. fundamentally

changing the way we live and work. this could be a golden age of architecture, or time of unrestrained commercial speculation. how our wells will look for generations to come is being decided daily and te, few of us are engaging with the debates in this supercharged world of instant communication, instant message, and instagram. we're too busy looking down. it's time for us to look up. ah, i spent over 12 years living in hotel rooms and is quite literally a suitcase you and your tooth brush says also time full

reflection. all of the jobs i've done all visiting huge mega cities. ah. when you're in a city like that, you're surrounded by architecture from the minute you open your hotel when done, check out the view. when you come into the room to the moment you wake up in the morning and walk out on the street, see the customer my day job involved working with journalists who have had to come to grips with lots of new technology. so i kind of act as a human interface between this highly technical equipment and walk somebody trying to achieve creatively. i kind of come to a phase where i said to myself, you know what richard is time that you re invest some of your own creativity. and

got something out of being in all these amazing places. i was always interested in composition and perspective. and as far as i came out of studying on to college. and then came across some time. that's what the head, you know, what? let's try doing time lapse is a beautiful combination. still, photography and filmmaking. time left shows the world in a state of alter reality blue because see how the world around you behaves and the why you cannot see the naked eye time lapse is like magic.

i i ah, of all the places i've worked in recent years, nowhere has changed more rapidly than guitars capital a century ago, 12000 people. this to population is now over a 1000000 fueled by the oil and gas reserves. ah, if you look carefully these bills, you will see the few are occupied with spike armies of foreign workers, labor, day and night to build more critics dismissed these newly minted gulf capital, as instance cities. ah, the inference being that they are mere facades,

a reflection of national wealth and pride in portrait on the west vanity projects for wealthy patrons and the overpaid foreign office in a country where nationals makeup just 15 percent of the population. these prejudices often reinforced for expense like me, by the fact that you seldom if ever meet to locals. ah it took a friend of mine from london to introduce me to fatma a young katara architect who offered to show me the less visible side of tow house current development boom. wanting have noticed harrison most of the buildings. still, it also building all these buildings, you know, without anybody to move in to them immediately. grant vision, building a brand image for the city, but it's also another patient for this population growth that we already see taking

place. do you think people misunderstand what's going on in the gulf right now? definitely, it's very apparent that all they see is this sort of, um, this is sort of the crust of, of the, in cross of the society. the misunderstanding is not entirely surprising. when i look at the cities, i find it hard to see beyond the tower. oh, things might not compete the do buys mega structures. they do try the i nevertheless, as we all meant to, ah, it to me skyscrapers made this sense in the gulf economy justification is based solely on the price of land. and there is no shortage. is that here? amazing, i think maybe we'll historically people have lived in one or 2 story houses and

judging by how m to the towers are showing little information to change is like i guess as mac in the heart of the old town gave a sense of on how look like before, the discovery of oil and gas i now it to is marked for redevelopment. we select somebody to talk to tech. to then worked with selected architect. they came up to basically come up with proposal for the area for all these neighborhoods have long since been abandoned by the original owners in favor of the less congested suburbs becoming home to do haws migrant workers. how many years a year i was being sent up for 2 years. i know 4040 years time, fast part of a group trying to document pass before there's none of it left in a city less than 100 years old. isn't always obvious what should be preserved.

oh my goodness, wow. why is this year for me to this is one of the houses that i like to refer to as an endangered house. i think we're starting to lose big portions of the older parts of the city because of the plan development because of the planned urban regeneration project. and this is an example of a chance to rescue some of these building. do you remember this kind of architecture? his buildings as a small child wants to re, um my great grandmother's house was very similar to this one. it was a courtyard house with rooms around the courtyard cuz i am from the way that you design now architect here in guitar tend to be very, very nice. in this tell jack about these different architectural elements that you find more about. the ornamentation, but i think there's much more to learn from

a house like this. for example, the proportions of the li won or the sort of colonnade around the courtyard in order to get enough shape. things like that that we should extract as lessons that we can you despite the improvement in doha circumstances, since the discovery of oil and gas, some things remain unchanged. the hot weather can make this an inhospitable environment. in climate change is only like you to make it more, sir. doha is modern buildings cannot afford to ignore this project life. my share of this upcoming right now does so many architectural lessons that we can learn here, which we can call prior contemporary, which are not really look traditional. however they do respond to the context very, very well. i really respect the fact that a architect did not find the need to have another fully glazed elevation. therefore,

the building requires energy and at the same time, the elevation together with the poetry that is engraved on it gives the character to the area. to do you think is a common story that the region is trying to tell to the rest of the world with the resources that it got it hands on right now they're trying to develop a solid basis to what being both today's not just for me or for my younger brother's assistance, but it's for future generations to come. ah, the sheriff's, $900.00 homes offices and shops aim to recreate the closeness communities of the 1930 s at a cost of $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00. it's a substantial gamble on lowering people back from the suburbs or something the towers have failed to do with

the popularity of doha recently rebuilt soup shows that there is a strong sense of nostalgia for the old town. i spend so much time here looking through my lens of buildings that it's easy to forget that this is all about people. a town perhaps because it's a nation built on immigration, understands clearly the competition for human resources. a competition, not only with its fellow wealthy gulf states or the wider world. ah, that all precedents with to attract people, the competing city states, aubrey masons, italy use their wealth to glorify thy cities with painting and culture.

to be successful, you sometimes have to 1st appear to be some art that depicts the human form remains controversial in this part of the world. the beautiful buildings suffer. no such stroke. i guess, seen from this perspective, katara ambition is not to create an instant city. but an eternal, warmer moon, london is on the face of it just such a metropolis. it became the 1st truly international city of the modern age more than 2 centuries ago. oh,

but today it too is being radically redrawn are the global economy neighborhoods that were once the home of the british elite or today 2nd homes or the international super rich. creating a central coal, which increasingly feels to me like a ghost town. at the same time, london is seeing record growth. it's population jumping more than 800000. in 2013 the highest increase since world war 2. the residential property market also rose 20 percent in the 1st 6 months of 20. 14, driven to a large degree by foreign money across the city. new buildings are rising fundamentally re shaping the skyline. these changes have not been without controversy, but from a time lapse photographers perspective,

it is exhilarating it has been 6 long weeks in this hotel in 2012 for the summer olympics. and i say long weeks because to wake up every morning to a bowling. i been aching to photograph as for all that time, but knowing that working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, i simply wouldn't have the energy old inclination to can she after work and i made a mission in the back of my mind that wanda, i'd be back from

hang. i was told to that was being this huge, huge building for me actually fits in the, in quite me the shod became europe's tallest building. as a photographer to capture something new. something that's the wells biggest, the walls tallest, the walls best is always part of the stories. well, the category own skyscraper has drawn a mixed reaction from the press. one commentator described it in graphic terms as having slashed the face of london forever. not because the defense pressure sensibilities to have a foreign own building dominating the skyline. that because of a perception that it changes the character of london. a straw poll

kmiec is down on london bridge suggests a sharp division in people's attitudes. what do you think about the shawn chart? i don't know is a bit bit of an eyesore, to be honest with you. only one of the best building you know how to play with her? according to the local council, only 11 residence wrote in 2 objects to the sean ah look over london from the 72nd floor viewing platform. it's hard to believe it was so few. the only meaningful intervention was by english heritage, the body task with preserving the country's historic science ah,

ah, jane, to the effect this new landmark would have been an old one and poles cathedral. a $16000000.00 inquiry decided in the shop favor and it went ahead enthusiastically, supported by london's man. ah, for me, what makes this all the more significant is that it fits the vanguard of 236 tall buildings, said to transform london over the next decade. and there has been almost no public debate about this radical reshaping of the city. new london architecture, an organization who sponsors read like a who's who of the building industry has put together an exhibition,

detailing exactly how london will know if all the proposed building go ahead. what opposition has been to these types of buildings will have been comments, for instance, from some people that we don't want. something i do by on the 10 course is very different. we have a lot of historic buildings and we need to insert new tool buildings into that historic environment should impose to obtain london's planning in the future. i think using some polls as guides and it is a pretty good way of stopping buildings in particular historic areas. but i think we've also got to look at places where not just where we can't build to a building place is where we can because london is growing huge the at the moment with 8300000 people. and by 2050, we're going to be more like 13000000 say we've got a lot more housing, a lot more places to work more retail also things like that we need to do to meet that grave. and part of that is to build toll abilities crate dead ovens and

aah. ready last time, london, skyline was very radically redrawn during the cities bombing invalid bowl to saint paul's famously survived as a symbol of national resistance or. ready ready its icon twice, either belt on the ashes of the great fi of $1666.00, which bound to fed of a city to the ground. its architect, sir christopher wren, who knew a thing or 2 about building and longevity. right. architecture has its political use, established the nation, joyce, people and commerce, and makes the people the native country architecture aims at eternity. ah,

great cities need great buildings like to define themselves. i suppose was there for these fronting skyscraper old, but name a table 100 meters and perched on top of that k tell. it was the tallest building in the capital until 1962 the sixty's london was essentially a low rise city. 6 stories was in practice, the limits for both victorian plumbing and the amount of stairs tenants were preferred to climb before the invention of the elevator. so london spread out. no, i tell you the $1000.00 square foot plummeted. urban sprawl is no longer according to the developers. the only way is the

piano. the shot architect has described his building as a vertical 50, but with ken apartments costing up to $80000000.00 each. it's on like you to solve london's housing shortage. and this is m i 6, which you know from movies to referral is part of a golden generation of british architecture. we've had a profound impact on the cities of the modern world. the will population is rising and rising into phenomena rate. and most those will be overnights. so place making through cities, i'm being proud of your city and making recognizable architecture. i think it's happening all over the world. and i lost that does lead to mistakes and, and to inappropriate tall buildings. there's a lot to be said for the tall building. the tall buildings of new york creates the

busy pavement, the busy sidewalks. it's not just tall buildings, so it's density. and that's why you get such great shops, great sidewalks, great restaurants. do you believe the scientists are defined by the buildings around as well? it's churchill is great curved walls and then we build our buildings. now we make our building, then i'll buildings make house. cities can be organic by nature. should they be organic? i believe inevitably change in ha, in city form and in architectural direction is essentially organic of off the sad cities, all the greatest work of art and their anonymous in a way that i am made collectively, which is extraordinarily i can see the argument for saying are building shapers, but i am unsure that we shape our buildings. it seems to me that money is now doing

london needs to expand, but skyscrapers. i'm not the only alternative. they raise issues like no other buildings. they shape our cities both visibly, and structurally, i think london as have little idea of how much these buildings will affect them. that's perhaps the reason i'm finding more questions and answers. ah, if you want to know about skyscrapers, there's one obvious destination by happy coincidence, a time lapse. paradise. ready um huh. on counting the cost, all rich countries ready to put the belt for a glowing will at horn and demick preparedness. hypersonic miss author driving a new arms. right. so what's the big deal behind them and solar powered vehicles we

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