something smugglers, the tie, i'll me try and make regular patrols down this river. heading towards the golden triangle. this is mia mar. this is tyler. they say often during the dry season. so little water that boats can get down. but the smugglers just walked straight across . 12 hours after this patrol nearly $9000000.00 mess pills was seized just down river. a brief interruption in the flow of illegal drugs into the country. tony chang al jazeera on the time. yeah, my border. ah ha, again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis between russia and ukraine are continuing. the british, the secretary of defense, ben wallace is in moscow, and his meeting, his russian counterpart, sega show eagle. russia has just said it will respond soon to proposals from the us and natal. washington has warned that russia has deployed more troops to

a border with ukraine raising for years. it could invade us present. joe biden says things could court go crazy quickly. his urging american citizens to leave ukraine immediately, and the ukraine crisis has been discussed in australia at a meeting of foreign ministers from the u. s. lead quantity security block, the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, had this warning. simply put, we continue to see very troubling signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. and as we said before, we're in a window when an invasion could begin at any time. and to be clear that includes during the olympics, finland has announced the purchase of dozens of fighter jets from the u. s. in a deal worth $9000000000.00. it's government says it's buying the $64.00 warplane 1st, one of a long term defense plan and not in response to the ongoing stand off between

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please share them with us. be part of today shall oh, widespread scientific consensus tells us the world's climate is changing. these changes are creating new health risks in communities across the united states. extreme whether unhealthy or quality and disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more severe, affecting more people in more places. so that video was produced by the centers for disease control and prevention in the united states. it was aimed at community so that they knew what climate change may well do regarding health and how they can prepare for that changing health in communities. so we have exactly that on today's show with the assistance of maria, marina and elijah. so good to have you owe with us. we're welcome to the stream, please introduce yourself to our global audience. hi, i am maria naida,

the director of the department of environment, climate change, and sales at walker organization in geneva. say, happy with you. oh, we are very happy. we're delighted to have you here on the stream. marina, please introduce yourself to our view as around the world. hi everyone. i'm marina romanella. i'm the executive director for the lines that count on, on health and climate change, which is her research collaboration. looking at the interconnections between her and the team is learning to be here. get to have you in our life. welcome to the steam, please introduce yourself to our audience. tell them who you are, what you do. thank you so much for having me. my name is elaine laney, i'm a 4th year medical student at emory university in atlanta. and i've been working with an incredible team trying to brain climate change and environmental health curriculum to our medical school. i am going to start with just making that very direct connection between climate change and health conditions. emeline,

give us one example straight away. i would, he's got, oh, okay. i get it now. go ahead and climate change heat and heat illness. all right, marina i, i will extend what has been said unsafe both about the whole extreme heat and our exposure to extreme weather. also london, my, our capacity to do labor outdoors to do exercise, to carry out our normal life. that was one of the mines our health maria. i think i will go for the much you half her behind you with the lungs. i think they did, the bad quality of the air we are breathing today is very much connected to the causes of climate change in the causes of her pollution. so bringing the much of the lungs to the issue of climate change. i think it changed completely. the narrative we are been, we have been using them to now, and i think is very important. i am going to scroll through some of the other

conditions that can, will apply to climate change and our global health injury. and we'll tell it from extreme weather events. we've seen that the flooding in northern europe, heat related illnesses, of gas, already mentioned that respiratory illnesses. this is what maria was talking about . remember this year in fires that we saw in australia not so long ago. also on the west coast of the us water born diseases and other water related health impacts that we will connect to extreme flooding, more flooding war, regular flooding. so no says, we all know about this right now. we're, we're in a covet pandemic right now. so you know about that connection between bats and humans and covert 19 vector borne diseases. this is a huge list of i scared you yet audience malnutrition, of food borne diseases, not communicable diseases, mental and psycho social health. this is a huge area, maria, when we are looking at climate change, is anyone looking at this,

apart from the very specialized little bubbles? are we thinking about this as countries as regions realizing that a health and a health systems need to be prepared? yes, this is a very good point because seem doubly chill. this is what we have been trying to do for a long time, making sure that everybody understand the connection with our health. and the connection is very clear. if we keep burning fossil fuels as we are doing now, not only we are elevating they, i mean creating global warming, but we are as well grading air pollution and that air pollution is killing us, is killing 7000000 people every single year. 7000000 people that is losing their life because of his posts where pollution they have asthma, they have grown crispy authority. the see is they have lung cancer. they have obviously a stroke in a nice can me,

hardy sees is and this is happening in most of the big see these and according to our studies, 90 percent of the people around the world east breathing air. now that the stalls seek is nice, not contributing to our hands of the country. you know, these, you saw the sleep, the mosquito that you have when you were on your graphic. that little mosquito we just meet the see says like malaria or thing it, well, this lovely mosquito is now reproducing the himself very well or herself because he's a female. the one trust me to malaria in places where we even see it before in kenya, for instance in some high level places. and now we see it because of the global warming or bang gain, some places he may see. i can give you plenty of his samples, so the see says that we didn't see it before. and because of the global warming, we see, and then people displacing bundle of is they need to move because they, they all see and he's coming. so i think we can give plenty of samples that for

people to understand this is very close to them. and he's not an issue for the next generations, you know, and just to saving the planet and the polar beers, these is about saving our health right now. saving our se right now, our economy, our society, and making sure that we put the basest or a meaning on quality of life. i am mariah and i would say there's also something very interesting in the light that you presented, that he to the extent of the interference of climate change with our health and the mining or the week you want to secure it gives maria said the air that we breathe, regional infectious bcc. but what's really interesting is that all of those impacts of climate change are being held in every case of the one that will, you know, no, no geography that we maintenance cost. and the interesting thing is that the half of the separated b c for him to,

to the climate risk don't have isolated but have one over the other as you've seen in the us, an encounter horrific something that it last summer when you had these extreme with records of temperature that we'd never seen before, followed by the extreme one fires and photos, then by a huge lun walking part facility because of the role of the why fi? so all of those impact of clarity, i think one on the other. and i know yes at the w need to have done on the norman. and so we're trying to be awareness. i think helping health systems prepared to be able to cope with the increased health risk and that increased bed and really to our health of climate change. yoga i mean line how's your work to help us understand this better? go ahead. yeah, thank you for that. and i think the 2 of them, i mean we've all highlighted how health or climate change impacts every aspect of health. and so we've realized myself and my peers that are health professionals and

future health professionals. we are walking into a reality where our clinical practice is undoubtably going to be affected and is already affected by what's going on. and so how do we prepare a kind of ready health care workforce and education is a super important part of that. and so at emory, we've been trying to find a way that we can integrate that into our curriculum. and that's been a really big privilege to be part of and how we've been able to make that a reality. what does that look like? getting that knowledge about climate change and health into the curriculum, what would i see now that i wouldn't seen 10 years ago? very much so. so again, i think it goes back to the point and knowing that climate change impacts every organ system in the body, the heart, the lungs, the brain, as we've already talked about, it has implications on our patients ability to access care,

as well as our system. our health care system ability to deliver care and we know that that's not thought equally among those who are most vulnerable in our community. so just as you said, for me, how do we bring that into our curriculum? something that's so broad and pervasive the way that we've approached that is that this can't be distilled down into an elective or a lecture. but rather, our approach has been re contextualizing what it is we already need to learn what we have to know as a medical students, as it relates to climate change in house. to give you an example, our curriculum with an emphasis on the pre clinical phase, which is learning how the body works and what happens when things go wrong is examining it through a comment. and so for our, our course on the cardiology, when we learn about the heart, we have to zoom in and look at how heart disease develops from our vessels that impact our heart, that can lead to heart attacks or heart failure. and we basically look at what we

already need to know through the lens of climate and the way that he might increase that risk or the way the air pollution may increase that risk. air pollution also affects our lungs just as maria said, as so for us, when we learn about asthma, what does that look like? and of course involve the learning about the physiology about the lungs, but also has implications in the way as students we learn to take a thorough medical history. examining the risk factors that our patients are exposed to be it by virtue of the work that they do, they live close to an error. what? sorry, please. yes, right. no, no, i just a wonder that i, you see such a pleasure to hear you because we need so strongly the voice of the medical students they, they their health professionals and too big for people to understand that this is a very serious public health issue. as well, and, you know, i used to be honest to been a medical is to them myself

a little bit long time ago. but they prepare us as a medical schools, they prepared us to treat patients you know, to, to cure the seas, is to offer the best of that technology and the knowledge to once you have developed that he sees, i will treat you. and today if we need their health professionals, of voices in these agenda of climate change, these because climate change in their pollution, not touching the dealer so far would have access to say food, clean air, save walker and shelter. and we are, i'm getting all of that we, we don't produce food because we have a flooding. if we have a co secret that we've come into our lives and from, i would like to go into the bloodstream and, and all of these, nobody can say that this is not an issue for health professionals. i b, c s our business very, very much. so use is it has to be incorporated and we need the voice of the health

professionals. in asthma, you can not just to keep treating us, not you need to understand why these person is having asthma and he's because they leave from very, very polluted. see this the most of the case. all right, gas. so i have so many video comments. i want to run it by good. i'm going to do that for the next section of our conversation. this is tanya and tie and make some really interesting points about air pollution and what we need to do with the information, how we collect that information. marina. i want you to listen to tyler an immediate respond of the back of his video. he's we know that air pollution exposure is responsible for an incredible amount of avoidable death around the world. in fact, a harvard study recently put that number at 8000000 avoidable desk globally with the right information at the right time. we can help not only individuals reduce their own exposure, but also researchers and policy makers to be able to advance our understanding of

the problem, but also to make changes to policy frameworks, reducing exposure thresholds for example. now, one of the biggest challenges that we face in this work into create this type of information is getting the data that we need. data sources around the world are often limited to the places with the cleanest air. so how do we fill those gaps? that such an interesting comments are as it is to that we have big data gaps in, in knowing the extent of the down to very pollution because not maybe his monitor very well air pollution. but i will go back for house. and these are nicely with the biggest composition. we're just having about the run of the medical professionals. we know what the sources of air pollution are and by knowing the size of the mission and how they're being used, how we've been posted fuels, and other activities that are related to climate change and where pollution. we

know roughly what our exposure might be. uh, we know what to do about that, and that is where their health professionals become. so crucially important not only in treating the patients and addressing the cost, but also ensuring that when we respond to climate change, we do it in a way that takes into account the potential health benefits and maximizes those health benefits our response. so imbedding the medical professionals in things like everybody. thank how are we gonna reinvent our cities to be sustainable green cities in the face of the climate crisis and ensuring that the medical professionals i made will ensure that we meet my air pollution and there for deliver better health for everyone. but they have to really be embedded across all of the domains of plan action and the restructuring of our society. in maria, i was thinking early as i was chatting to my team, could there be any benefit, any opportunities from ad climate changing? and the impact is having on a half when i initially did that scroll,

it was all terrible things that happened to us around the world. so this is andy andy's from the book is a professor of environmental change and public health of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. i feel like his accentuating the positive if there is one, have a listen to him and then respond both of those agencies, climate change as the biggest threat to human health. and that's because it has implications for human health through such a wide range of pathways. there's also no sight to that picture, and that is that there are great opportunities to improve health as we move towards a more sustainable economy. as we start bending fossil fuels, for example, we create less air pollution, which currently kills millions of people. as we move tools consuming more sustainable dias or fruit vegetables, less red meat that can also be highly beneficial to our health, to put all that together as a potential to prevent millions of premature tests and also reduce the risks of

interest climate change. well this is the 2nd, the point in this is why at glasgow or the cov 26. we took us totally chilled together with millions and millions that health professionals, what we call it, the health argument for multiplying reduction because in fact, we know that until now people has been terrified by what we were saying about climate change and hauled. these will be affecting your life and cold, dirty will, will be. but we need to presented the all the way around. if you talk of the cautious of climate change, if you review and you go for a transition to renew over sources of energy, clean sources of energy instead of keeping burning fossil fuels which are generating, these are pollution. you can reduce all of these this caused by air pollution. you can, you can reduce the fact that the many cities around the world did the pictures you

were showing before of a very, very polluted and full of traffic. a, c p, around the wall. it can be mexico, see the could be new daily. it could be enough in south africa, could be no to london because he doesn't look like but the could be any place around the world. because today we are all breathing quite does he care. and that what we can obtain from for our health, if we reduce that their pollution would be amazing, would we be more active lifestyle? we will have more active lifestyle in there for reviews. all of those chronic and non communicate with the ccs. we will be able to read that act socially and reduce all the mental health problems. we will be able to connect on a different way and our see this will be places where we can brief. instead of having all of these these, this is associated with the exposure to our pollution. the benefits will be

enormous. and i agree that we need to pass our messages in bossy b, because if we go positive with our messages, we will motivate people to engage and to do more to stop or, you know, using their private card instead of taking a sustainable transport. probably sustainable transport or using a bicycle or warranty or recycling or so many things that we can do in particularly putting pressure on our police visions for them to do these 3 transitions very quickly. they transition to sustainable sources of energy. clean sources of energy . they transition to sustainable seat this and more liberal and sustainable and bid transition to as sustainable food system. so on you change. i feel like i mean, i'm a rally, maria. thank you. and you know, you've got me fired out now on you chief, this is stella dora as illiterate. we need concrete, actionable measures of land management with acknowledgment for funding,

for house support, not just studies. i think that i don't thing as a dig it you emulate. but i think m line, i think that's really a water we actually doing about this. you have the information, you have the data. i also think that samantha, although he spoke to somebody earlier, was talking about what the medical profession could be doing to help more have to listen to samantha emeline. and then we act on the back here we get medicine is always changing is always evolving. and it takes years to change medical education and climate change is a new variable that we now have to consider in our management of patients. health care is also significant contributor to the problem of climate change. we made about 8.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. so not only do we have to incorporate climate change into our medical education, we also need to adjust our practices so that we're not contributing to the problems

. thank you so much for sharing that and samantha, for that video. there are a couple of really important parts, one about the value of medical education. and there is also comment about the time to change medical education and ultimately recognizing the role that the health care profession or health care sector has, in fact contributing to the problem. that is, the fact that we are another large source of greenhouse gas emissions. what i think has been really exciting and certainly meaningful for us at emory and within our approach of the curricular process and framework at emory. is that our process, the way by which we are integrating climate and environmental health content into our curriculum is done collaboratively. now, what do i mean by that? i mean that the faculty and the students are working together. they are creating together that which the faculty teacher teaches as well as that which the student

learn. and that partnership is so invaluable for a variety of reasons. one, it's building the relationships between faculty and students, and faculty and faculty. it shows that we are all in this together and that we are all learning together. and that it's not necessarily about being a comment and health expert while that's so important. and we hope that that is a byproduct of our curriculum. it is hopefully going to show that understanding climate impacts on health as part of the every day now. and i, i think i'm going to interrupt me because i have about right. and it's a sure i was gonna say it's a huge, but double entendre and not me, not mentor. i want to bring in calling because colleagues, wonderful. okay. and you know, cali, cali had an experience that she felt was very relevant to this conversation because you were telling us how you need to work as a medical profession, students to really acknowledge climate change and impact on health. and then this

is a little story that cali told us if it's not going to medical school in the fall, 2018 dudley and attractive camp. i was raging through the nearby town of paradise, california and at the same time is an awful lot of fire. we were ironically in our pulmonary block or long block in medical school. yet despite the fact that we were walking to school every day and 95 mass through an airy desk breathing and some of the worst quality air in the world, there was no mention of the health facts of air pollution or voluntary smoke monster curriculum. and it felt like a real missed opportunity. what was going on inside the classroom felt entirely disconnected from around is about that world. i'm just going to leave that there is just a contrast from what i'm and i was talking about. and then what cali, experience marina, in the last one minute of i show what is the most important message we need to leave our audience there. now, very aware that connection between climate change and global health. last line, those to you look, auction both augmented actually to be

a good action against protecting kind of change can be a normal numbers be beneficial or help. it can lead not only to avoiding the worst, helping parts of canada, but also could deliver cleaner air. we talked about air pollution, it would mean transitioning to healthier green diet, mean octave. i knew it means cities that are the sign around people that are socially instruction ment. i will be basic, i would being so there's a win win situation that you rarely get in real life. and we have this unique opportunity and we really need to act now because we are, you know, i both have moments as we exit the coffee and danica. we're trying all to go back to moment to reactivate our economy when a very, very unique moment. and this is the moment to reinvent the way we behave and transition to worth find that he a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. hey maria,

marina emeline, thank you so much for helping us understand that connection between climate changing and global health and the impacts that we're all feeling around the world . but he appreciate your input on today's show. thank you for the comments and questions for the video, comments and questions as well. i will see you next time. take half with me as well. best athletes prepare for the winter. olympics staging is bracing itself with the arrival of an estimated 11000 people. kind of 0 tolerance, corbett strategy. what? and despite diplomatic play, quotes, which one is which again, trying will bring you the latest from dating 2022 winter olympics on al jazeera, the chuckle, region of paragon. one of south america. we follow to men who seem to

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