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i and for me, okay to day on the stream deadly monsoon flooding a north east india and bangladesh has left more than 9000000 people in desperate need a shelter. food and water. people in south asia are having to cope with flooding, extreme heat, wine size, and drought all at the same time. so we are asking is climate change making the region unbearable? we start with lots of ivis in bangladesh. oh them we do, lee. would it be there? i received some dry, puffed rice to eat in the last few days. at my house, it was swept away to where we don't even know what blood they died. oh my god, we stayed in our flooded home for one week. now we are staying at a shelter,

but there is no food. today the water has receded a little, so i hope to go home sooner like i learned from i have never seen this type of flood in my life. the 2004 flood was big, but not like this one. my house is still under waste. deep water, you know. hm. yeah. tom loses joining us to talk about the ongoing floods and the impact of extreme weather in south asia. have me re to shower band, so get to have all 3 of you with us. have me please say hello to our international audience. who may not recognize you from your reporting in flop? will i go ahead? hi patty, please introduce yourself. hello. tell you what, who do i do? have them is that i'm talking with bill on the correspondent bob, we're in new denny and the last one month our team has been to the state of farming and does ne, which has been 2 major rounds of flooding. i hear more about that in just

a moment. hello, re to please introduce yourself to the stream, viewers around the world. hello everyone. i'm good. how do i sound? i'm a senior research, her climate change group. i've international student one moment in development. get to have you and sharon, welcome to the screen. thank you for bringing your expertise to us. please say hello to our audience around the world. hi everybody. we are. it's child on the world. come on. i'm an enrollment and the climate just employer beefed in. bang, get to see you. okay, so we have 3 experts who can tell you about a very unpredictable monsoon season that we're seeing right now. if you would like to talk to them, you have questions, you've got comments. jump on to you tube and that comment section is life. i am just looking patton a. let's start off with some of your reporting. some of the pictures that you sent us on my laptop. can you talk us through the pictures just very briefly. let's start with this one where you, you're on the river here on my laptop. there we go. what are we seeing here before

i move on to the next shot? so this is a rescue mission that we went on. that's a military board and the washer that you see it looks like a deep river, but it's actually fees that have been submerged and their water was about 15 feet deep in many areas. i'm not if my mac is correct, that's close to 5 meters. if i'm not wrong, extraordinary deep, and that those fields are livelihoods, all the feet. i thought that you were on the boat going down a huge river, so we've got more pictures that they were more so i want you to have keep, keep saying on my laptop here we go. look at this one hand, where are we here? that is a road that run through a community i know cavity in a song and you got that is your water, fresh water while walking, it was very difficult for me to walk as the current was strong and you could see

everything that you see and grow the water resolve, fish, we saw all kinds of insect no snakes and the water was in people's homes, again needy and people were living like that. to me that again, in a former career, i would tell people full cost the weather, and we always told people never to walk through flop water because it's dangerous. is there an option in the regions that you went to? not at all because, you know, was rescue mission, but any thought to find a picture that goes well going on. the fact is that this is a rule and a lot of people that are farmers to the very attached to their land and they're not comfortable leaving. so many people would be to prefer to do this in flooded waters. i mean, i remember much mix like that and they were ok with that. i mean i don't want to glorify that, but the fact that they prefer leaving that in those conditions just hoping the

water level was received as the a good. okay. oh, well, come back because you're breaking up a little bit, but i, i understand we're, well, you're taking us. and rita, i want to bring you in here because monsoon season, you see a lot of rain. you do see a lot of flooding anyway. but this is unusual because why? okay, so the thing is we are experiencing new form and type of plumbers impacts that we have not seen before. so confusion communities are chasing, increasing frequency and intensity of the same event like flux or drought, a feel of a rise that they may experience in before and then they would if they were capable of handling them. but right now what they're facing is unprecedented. they've never face that before. so just give you a few examples, like the best thing on the course today they are in the base. they used to receive one type loan in 2 years. now the receive 2 cycles in one year that me was

mentioning that atomic survey had one major flood and me and now there's another major line. so what happens is that the communities hardly able to recover from one event and they are faced with another event, which means that in the process of recovery, you can never think of going back to the same level same as the case of sea level, right? you know, we often in india, people don't, you know, they don't realize that comic and back are not the pipeline and flux that you can see there. there are a lot of flu unsafe event and i'm trying to be the technical term. but fluency, events like sea level rise and it is happening, you know, normal agenda public. the don't understand. i've been already south kinda florida hardly 2 months back. and that group of 10 believe it will only be under water. and, and religious study area was they used to be in that area to on high salon, doesn't from the see, not the last,

the other one on price does it from the sea. and in due course, they are going to warn the water. similarly invalidation, we did a research last the i really saw that every family had undergone displacement at least 311 times a family in your panel in what period of time, no routine, how many times they move in in a year in a c. and how, how long, so, you know, in a, in a period of fight last 5 to 6 years now to have held at least 3. and there was one woman with which really moved me. she had 7 sons, all the 7 sons dead. and you can imagine the scale of impact of having, and i can keep going on, you know, these impacts on not then these events happen, but typically call and of them as climate change, loss and damage. and i just quickly expand what lawson damage means loss is something that you lose forever, like cielo drive on. all those villages that are under water, that last forever then,

never going to be claimed back then that damages the just still salvageable. but yes, there is a trail of damage. you know, people are suffering losses. and then when i say that these loss and damage are not just into the normally thump, thump is not just the loss of infrastructure, loss of homes, lot of crops, livelihood. that non economic losses and damage because their children who are suffering mental trauma m anxiety because of these events. they are a woman and children who are forced to live in temporary leap camps and our research, 2 years back showed that. but in our sam flooded so there are so many, all that women and children that are targeted by traffic. so trafficking increase in dr. mark richie. i'm just going to put more on you for a moment because you will to then you'll talking about the ripple effects of having to leave. you'll have multiple times because of extreme weather. and then what happens then, but i want to bring in shara band before we get that, if that's okay with you, a shout. roxy co is

a climate scientists and we were looking at the situation with an erotic monsoon and thinking, what is going on here? roxy? some day up in a nutshell, and i'd love to build on what he told us earlier. here's walk, say, go move on to peer change. want some factors that instead of having the race toward the season, moderately better, joe or the season? no, we are having a long drive billiards, intermittent with short space or hearing for hosting clips monsoon and a drought. let me just go via cynita, who's an environmentalist here on my laptop flood at the time of drought. this is the story of climate crises. why we need to get very serious about managing scarcity and excess water is almost unthinkable even from st. 10 years ago. shabba, please pick up. yeah, i mean, that's

a very important issue that it's lived up. i just want to mention here like in longer visual happen in me, me not all or most, some time will football this start at the middle of june and july or september. but this time we started re our li doing our summer time, and it's not only started already. and we also since our 1st flood at the, in the me and with a very short period of time, the committee to say is sick and he does the flood of june. so see what the previous analyst was talking about. the sudden onset disaster, like the disaster that you are not prepared at all. there is no oddity warning, nothing, and all of a sudden that is all starting fear and your whole life is that the boasting the effect it so do a lot in one month and not that it's not meeting the season. one is at the summer and varies at the very beginning of soon. it's kind of the boss stating situation

for the company. the extra me to call another thing, i just want to add here like why these things are we are trying to f as a frequency and cd because last time, especially in more than a certain parts of india, diesel for florida in $956.00 also that they saw 1495 each month after 50 years. also that now they are suffering. it didn't this i didn't use after 3 to 7 years. see the saw landscaping video and also the live la walker is sitting the higher than the expectation. and for sure for india and bonnie, this is nothing new not, but they have a lot intensification. and i mean the frequency that we never experience with our infrastructure, our community skip ability, nothing is actually aligned with these to deal with these kind of side. that's one

thing. another is regarding the risk of loss and damage. the see part of lawson damages. that gives a very clear indication. i would like to refer the i physicist for success. and i'm going to slow you down a little bit. hillson damage means that the rich country in the world, the course the climate change, have to pay out. it is not a popular idea with the rich countries in the world. as a lot of pushback about that sharper, would you just briefly make your point because we have audience on youtube who want to talk to you as well. go at. yeah. just to add about the lawson damage. it's clearly like you are no longer in before vision of adult fiction. you don't have that come out with your adopted and these are so far more than damage that you are going to not going to say in the rest of your life. so that's why we, when we talk about lawson damage with the community, who has no contribution in this problem,

but they are suffering the are the things i'm most i, that's the foreign retreat that they look country or the highest in their country who contributed most. and have to take the liability and responsible for let me ask you this very direct, a very candidly then happening. you come in here which countries who are responsible for climate change are actually saying to bangladesh and india. let me help you with how you cope with these extreme flooding. can you name a few countries, siobhan, or from lawson damage context? it's very unfortunate. no, not. alright, company, go ahead. i've got some huge questions for you. go ahead. go ahead. as i think what we can plan on the course of our reporting is that what's happening is also micro well, for developing countries around the world are, could be facing it's possible between developmental depression and climate change.

which because look, have the next book. tell us that caused by human intervention that have sort of caused this problem, all of which are exacerbated by climate change, which is something that a country like in den bundle. they have contributed very little to having a can. i also question some youtube, i've got one for poverty and i've got one for you. read to me already. and what she me right now did the flood effect, densely populated area such as back hall or just the rule areas of bangladesh and northern india. what, you know, i mean both in fact a lot of areas that get affected worried. i said we're not in quip, to be to, to sort of come back or address this problem because they hadn't seen this kind of flooding. so we went to cities the when to turn out that we went off long as but at the end of the day, the fact is that when we spoke to officials,

they said that while they have often they are doing evacuations and relief distribution. they simply didn't have the least sources to, to sort of have as many people as, as they want to do. not everybody could make it to release camps and not everybody got more than one square mean a day, despite the government, giving it a lot of relief, which let me put you in here. i've got a question for you. this one comes from asha 909. why can't the politicians focus a little more on making life better for people in india, i'm going to add and bangladesh rather than having useless debates that aroused violence. if they use their heads and develop a good drainage system, these things would never happen really to is that possible kind of good drainage system? so extreme monsoons honestly, i just say yes and no to that answer to that question. so firstly, yes, politicians on the policymakers can do far more than they're doing right now. you

know that climate change often damages are, couldn't. these events are becoming more and more frequent and intense and all the time and have been mentioning that. but what we really need is we've seen from type loan and, and other sections that occurred in both in india and bangladesh. because there was a very early warning system accused life received. then us in case of flooding or drought system. in fact, india does not have one system and then explain to us because we do not have already warning system for jo, it is increasing its impact. the budget act so far isn't like silent killer. but having said that one, you need to be more prepared. the policy makers need to how early warning system big from anticipate you may just because clearly the level of time with the fact that are happening all the contra rented. it's clearly beyond the limits of coping capacities of commune. i want you to say,

i want you to say that again because when we talk about climate crises, the climate emergency, the deadline for pushing back of when it will be too late. i think that climate scientists are being generous because they don't want to sky people into inaction. i want to debilitate the world. but really, when we're talking about india and bangladesh right now, richey, please reinforce what you saying chop and also said it a little bit earlier, but i want you to like what, what is the hear it loud and clear? go ahead. repeat it, please. you know, what has happened is because there's so much of debate and discussion and clamored justice about compensation that the lost focus from lawson damage these events already are getting on the ground. it's not that it's not because it's for the 1st time that lawson damage was even mentioned in negotiations properly. that was in last year's call, richie, but no on it's paying up. they 20. what is it is a 10 year behind they 5th thing is we do members of the go to paris accord the

agreement. everybody was like, wow, we saved a well not another but a little bit. and all of those promises made empower. i said people were excited, this is for our grandkids. they've held not a single penny. and it's, and you see for me the problem is, you know, i'm not even going into the direction of climate compensation and com or justice. i think when you only are you talking about yeah, no, what am purely i talking about is communities and countries. right. not right now, i guess, suffering from these impacts. we need practical solutions for them. all tactical solutions, grenay. one place i'm going to bring shabanni. ne, more practical solution, reaching out to the solutions could be there could be some areas which are increasingly becoming inhabitable on inhibitor. that's what we all that beginning to see. the move people to safety take anticipatory measures, move people to safety because in normal they're them are going to be habitable

anymore. then deal them all the way to your to i wish i was saying move people to safety. so they move out of where they're living right now. forever evacuate because yes, that's the way i'm at migration. all right, okay, i'm not that god. i want to share. i want to share the conversation. richard, you're so much knowledge you're dropping on us right now. i need to share it with shavanne as well. i'm going to go though, via doctor melancholy. because where we are now needs more planning than we're seeing on the ground. this is what she told us earlier, and then sharp, and please pick up. what do we do? festival dot manager. what be need, is it a long dramatic vision plan for the region? and most of the efforts have been directed towards providing immediately for the bigger what we need is some kind of long don't planning so that we are not only that up to bed. but also we are able to predict claims and livelihoods. for instance, are ministries or fir animal husbandry agriculture held. the always need to be

working together consistently to make sure that there is no outbreak of disease after the floods, the light still can be moved even before the flood strike. so more than immediately leave me need to now focus on long, sharp on please pick up. i just want to add to volunteer. i mean, 1st of all, again, i think i said before you already said like, you're soon going to reach the 1.5 to go by the secret. if you're not going to reduce our greenhouse gas engine, the 2nd floor, and it's regarding the long term strategy. i just want to ask that question to the audience and also to the families. i've been on the the issue. i'm a small who are far more and i lost my land and everything. and though i am kind of forced to move to india. so when i'm moving to india,

i become an illegal migrant. i'm no longer on the the she, i'm a slimy victim and i'm an illegal migrant. i lost my identity. what solution you are going to be? my occupation is last. and my, i mean, there are so many on economic lawson damage and how you're going to address these laws. we've read the long term strategy and all the other force shot. i can tell you people watching right now and say, what can we do? what needs to be done? you articulated so beautifully what the issue is. it's the there is lack of planning, lack of preparation. and now the weather conditions are oh extreme. that it's really difficult to cope with those weather conditions. what needs to be done? first of all, we really need to add chris and ethanol is the loss or damage that is happening at the ground level. and then based on that, we need to come up with

a solution that can go with the form you need to need a force. we can think of all the stuff in the infrastructure are bitter fitness systems and other facilities, but we need to think about the needle, the community, the community who is forced to migrate it from one place to another, or maybe from one country to another. but 1st thing we need to keep in mind what is the need because the law we are suffering that might not be able to be adopted might not be able to be adjusted. in that case, we talk about the compensation. ok. these are the stations richie, just do, excuse me, because job, i mentioned the community, you go to the community, what do they need? i am going to and on the community, we started with those voices of survivors from bangladesh is recent flood. i'm going to go back a few days to pass any reporting. and what comes after slot after flood comes

disease. if you're not ready, his poverty reporting in the field, but either large bunk, she and her daughter had been staying in this relief camp for 4 days. they were forced to flee when water gushed through a window and flooded their home. she says she caught an infection from the dirty water bill. will it? i say at them and we are facing many difficulties. i have barely slept since we moved to this relief. come on, we are very tense, even others are also losing their sleep. hundreds of thousands of other people have also been displeased by heavy flooding in a psalm state in india. northeast that on district is one of the worst affected. more than 4 and a half 1000 people here are living in relief camps. heavy rain fall in the hills is bringing more flooding in areas like these flood waters are blocking major roads and preventing trucks or bringing supplies. people here say they're struggling to get food and medicines have me in the last one minute of i show. so i'm going to

ask you to be very brief. how are people doing this is gonna be every day life now monsoon season, drought floods, landslides, etc, etc. how are they doing? are they ready for this? no, they're not what we thought. and what? who reported was stories of helplessness, of gender station. we spoke to people, you know, i talking to people, you know, women broke down. they didn't know what to do with that church, and there are no drinking water, no supplied. that is that, but i do want to end on a hopeful note and we're talking about preparation and authority. said it that they are tracking and that is a project that there are pathway into it. but again, i, siobhan, thank you for being part of the strain today. we really appreciate it. i will see you next time. take everybody. ah.

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