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the effects of climate change are playing out real time across europe with a heat wave engulfing the continent. fretting to break temperature records in a number of countries. france is facing what's being described as a heat apocalypse. emergency workers are battling wildfire in the comfy southwest, some of which have been burning for almost a week. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate o'conny to ross when his thought he was still using a strategy of preventative evacuations. so far we've had no loss of life facing a difficult day because of the temperature, but also the changes in wind direction. and take a look at these pictures. passengers and a train in spain filed themselves traveling past the burning wildfires. and northwestern does a more province, the train was headed from madrid to for all. after a few minutes, the train continued on his journey. scary stuff. in spain, fire fighters are tackling more than 30 blazes across the country. spain been

experiencing a week long heat wave with highs of nearly 46 degrees. the heat has been blamed for hundreds of deaths. you should out a bit of ladder or nearby them, feel it's clear that climate change kills it, kills people, kills our ecosystem, biodiversity. and it also destroys the most precious goods of our society, which is affected by these wildfires, homes, or businesses. livestock to africa was aim basra joins us lie from catherine in western spain ad saying i can see clearly a child landscape behind you. how's the area where you are being affected by all of this? while we are here west of the capital, madrid not too far from the portugal border in a town called customer of at a. now i'm just going to step out a friend to give you a sense of how bad these wildfires are, as you said, more than 30. by some estimates, nearly 40 wildfires have been raging all across the country and this is what it

looks like. this fire has been going on for more than 2 days. there's been a fire safety warning in effect in this area. and as you can see, as far as the valley extends into the horizon, all that is left is charge burnt, landscape and, and charred brush. and very little green spaces left. every direction you look in in this valley around this town is this kind of charged landscape. we drove through road surrounded by black and hillsides and with smoke still rising from some burning embers. the worry now is, is that the wind will pick up and once again, start to have the fires go off again. and that's what you see helicopters and fire safety trucks all across this landscape, trying to put out the rest of the burning embers. there is a water dumping helicopter areas that are still on the

of the of that hill. these helicopters of around the clock since the fires began. and the concern is, even though there is been a drop in temperature, that is allowed fire safety workers and fire workers to put out some of the flip that heat wave will return forecasts predict on wednesday, which is likely to start new fires and make the job of putting those fires out more difficult. all right, so you're breaking up a little bit, we will be will persist. so a possibility of heat abating. but what do we know about the casualties out of all of this? that's exactly right. we have heard of casualties already related directly to the fires. one woman in this region of extra madura was killed in a village where her home was engulfed by flames, likely from smoke inhalation,

before the flames ever made it worse. that's been the major problem for populated areas, and in the province of mora and the town of morrow, the worst hit by these fires this year so far by some accounts, the worst fires in recorded history. in this country, we had the death of one shepherd as well as a firefighter who was working on rescue efforts there. now what we're hearing is that once again, those flames have been put out. and the death toll is in terms of those death related directly to the fire, relatively low. these are not urban spaces. these are rural areas that are not that largely populated. but there is another statistic that is deeply worrying. the high temperatures are not only making it more difficult to put out the fires that have been caused by lightning strikes according to experts. it is also making it more dangerous for people living in these areas. at least 250 heat related deaths have

been recorded in spain so far this year, by some accounts across the iberian peninsula, including spain and portugal. that number is also estimated to be as high as 1000 deaths related directly to the high heat and record temperatures in europe. the summer, as i'm sorry, and catherine and western spain. many thanks and the u. k. authorities are warning temperatures and parts of england could break records in the coming hours. people being urged to take precautions as the mercury approaches 40 degrees. when we challenge this lie for us, sir in london, so rory have fur temperatures exceeded expectations there. whether on their way her it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon local time now and so hot as temperature is be recorded so far and the country is sir over 35 degrees by or mid day it are already gone through 3031 degrees. if it gets to 38.7, then it would have broken you k national records,

the records set in 2019 in the city of cambridge. the expectation is that either today or tomorrow it will hits 40 or perhaps even 41 degrees or an astronomically high temperature for this country. what is usually considered to be a damp and, and to the islands. clearly at the moment is nothing like that. you can see that the parched landscape behind me, hyde park, usually nice and green and grassy. it is baize, pretty much as far as the i can see, sunny on the grass. so the, there is a heat warning, a national emergency, essentially a red extreme heat warning across much of england. what does this mean? well, there are certain safety restrictions being put in place, certainly on the transport now work for speed limitations on tuesday. a see a significant main line between london and the northern cities of leads and york won't be running at all for fear that essentially the that the,

the tracks won't be able to handle it, that they might buckle in the temperatures if got some hospitals canceling operations because they can't keep the theaters cool enough schools, some are closing early today or not even opening at all. so at some measures being put in place to try and protect people from tempers, temperatures that may well be unprecedented in this country. are we? what advice is the government giving to people about how to cope through this? well, don't do anything as lunatic as what i'm doing now. don't stand out in the hot sun . ah, who hit no shade. you should seek shade. you should wear loose clothing. you should stay hydrated, you should put your sunscreen on. if you can find one of those lovely air conditioning units, then stick close to are treated as your friends, but there are parts of the, i mean, many people in the u. k. don't have air conditioning units, it's not like many hot countries where they're dea there since you come standard on, on houses. these are parts of the world,

the u. k is in easter stuff like this. so therefore, it doesn't usually make these things the air condition unit standard on, on buildings. they've got their systems like the railway network, which hasn't been built for these sorts of temperatures in a warming world or a climate change reality. then the u. k. has his work cut out to try and either retrofits complex infrastructure systems to try and cope with the new reality is going to have to try and for future proof new systems as well. that's gotta be expensive. maria put her back on, get back in the chaise. many thanks for each of their life was in london, hyde park. that's the story of the u. k. across the channel in paris, temperatures are now well into the 30s in touch of butler is there. rather on surprisingly not many people are braving the heat at the foot of the eiffel tower record breaking temperatures expected in many parts of france, including in the north,

in brittany and area that is no usually for it's very cool climate. now the french government have put several regions on red alert, so they have advise people to be extremely vigilant. they rolled out their heat, wave emergency plan, advising people to stay at home, stay in the shade and keep a very hydrated indeed. it's not that heat. waves are uncommon in france, but usually they are several years apart. climate change experts say that because of the changing temperatures, what we are seeing is heat wave for the more intense and more frequent defeat wave . in fact, is the 2nd one in just a few weeks. well, all this is making the situation in the southwest of france particularly difficult there. thousands of fire fighters are trying to tackle blazes that have destroyed a lot of forest. thousands of people have been evacuated from camp sites from holiday homes. it is an area very popular with taurus, but some fruits fight is on the horizon. se meteorologist because temperatures there are expected to drop in the next few days by more than 10 degrees celsius.

wildfires nor the morocco spoke by scorching temperatures and intense drought has now been contained. at least one person that has been killed or the 1000 families were evacuated, fires a ruptured in a number of provinces including laroche. i'll just serious abdullah moon and allah ronnie is there with the latest usually in this part of morocco, in this time of the year, the average temperature is like today 27 degrees earth center grades. but the last week since a week, it said the temperature was above 40 degrees, which i started a lot of fires in this region where we have this forest or this is thought of actually a big, sort of national for the stretches all the way from, from the shores of the atlantic oceans, which, which is about to move 5 kilometers to a, to the west, to all the way to the east,

to the reef mountains. i, we are talking about an area of estimated size of about 161616000 more than 16000 square kilometers a searching all over 5 provinces. and the, the 2 we have a forest here of oak, trees, cellar, trees and all the, the, the fires that started the same way. the ones that we've seen, we've seen in southern europe in countries like portugal or spain. and so, right now, the 5 big fires have been on and the control and the fire men are struggling, you know, like to, to keep it within a sort of perimeter. and due to finish a, the, a, the, the put in, it's a weight. ukraine's president suspended 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures because of

hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with russia. it comes as moscow has ramped up, it's offensive in the south and east with at least 6 people killed. entranced alan fish a rapport some cave. so again, it's the biggest chic help him president zalinski his leadership team since the start of the war. irene of indic tova was the prosecutor general. ivan bala, cove headed the internal security agency. both have been suspended. president zalinski says 651 cases of treason, people walking with the russians are being investigated in their offices. and both could face being fired by parliament came muscle logins, such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links recorded between ukrainian security force officials and russians. special services, braces, very serious questions about their respective leader. each of these questions receive a proper response. today i've taken the decision to dismiss the general prosecutor

and the head of ukrainian security serv. well, ladies, there's no suggestion that either figure was actively what key against ukraine instead. this is more a question of accountability. a failure of leadership and their respective departments. back and of was a childhood friend of the president. he was involved in the entertainment industry and his appointment to run internal security was a surprise when the russians moved into carson early in the war. that was seen as a huge intelligence failure by his department. over the weekend, dozens attended the funeral of a 4 year old killed in the fighting. lisa dmitri eva died when rockets hit that he'd see a last week. a body was found in the rubble. she is the latest child victim of a war, which according to new figures from the united nations, has claimed more than 5020 civilian lives. 300 of them children. and seen more than 6520 people wounded. this as towns and cities across the se, walk up to the sound of war, moving into its 21st week, and fisher,

i'll just either keith or return to one of our top stories as fires burn across europe representative for some from some 40 countries, a meeting in germany, the petersburg climate dialogue is taking place ahead of a u and climate conference being held in egypt in november. speaking at the talks, germany is foreign minister, cool climate change, the world's biggest security problem. we're late speak to pakistan's federal minister for climate change. sherry round, she joined her sly from berlin, where she is attending the 13th petersburg climate dialogue are welcome to the show as we heard there. busy the german 4 minister has been clear about the risks, saying that climate change is one of the biggest systemic problems of our day. that seems to be stating the obvious though. when do we start doing something about this? how do we start living with this crisis? well yes, exactly what my question was to day appreciate that they're bringing loss and damage and climate finance and various things that have been on the agenda off the

developing countries who are negotiating every year. the same issues again and again, we're talking about the problems. we are identifying them but been moving at a glacial face. our glaciers, i'm editing, and bach us on much faster than we are talking towards movement. and really there's very little time left. we have said to them that all actions, all ambitions have to be matched with actions, and those actions have to be operationalized by club $27.00. if everything is not on the table and on the agenda, then we are going to assume that her humanity is willing to stand by and watch the planet become livable and the the fires ridge farther the waters dry up. the wilson's acidify the heat up and burn countries like us would the largest i let you

know the largest glaciers outside the polar region. we've had 17 days should look lake out bust events, which means instant flooding. right now, we're in the middle of torrential floods. so we're at the ground 0, we lose 9 percent, 9 point one percent upon g, d, b to climate losses. and we're really, we are less than one percent off the global emissions. we count for much less. so we're looking now not just due to an equal transition, but we're looking at bridging the 4 lines between the global south and north. while the reasons are found to continue with the missions here, ah, we are pressed to share the burden. we are happy to do so we're happy to of feature mitigation on our agenda, but it's 50 degrees at home. it is not for. it became 15 was the hardest place in the on the planet for 3 years. so yeah, my heart leads for everybody else for climate refugees,

for every one suffering. but it is going to be a crisis of leadership. right? if action is not taken and all the pledges the promises the ambitions and not translated into mechanisms that are realizable ryan, you seem to be talking very frankly about climate inequality. do you think that to developing economies like pakistan should really bear the brunt of western economies? that became rich, largely because of exploiting fossil fuels. that's exactly right. we have said this time and again that while our reducing emissions is in everybody's interests, the richer countries that have been the biggest polluters that have gotten rich on the back of the fossil fuel. now need to make restitution and understand that we have to come to common ground. if we are on the front lines and the ground 0 of climate stress, we haven't created it. so naturally there is

a trust deficit that was spoken off of there is, there was a lot of gander to the, at the, at the conference and it needed a lot of things needed to be said. but what gives me hope is that many leaders were, are, we're looking at our concerns, particularly the germans. and the egyptians, of course, ah, but hope is not a plan. like i said, it needs to be operationalized. this is an existential crisis. that should be every country's national securities. up more strategic problem. i'm glad to hear you mentioned the word hope fab put ahead of caught 27 in egypt. where, where can we really sort of find spot sliver of hope? was the consensus about what firstly the problems all and secondly, how we tackle them. so i think we're edging towards a consensus on what the problems i as i said, identifying them, defining loss and damage. saying that mitigation is fine, but,

but developing countries and even now rich countries, clearly as you're put it shows you need adaptation, strategies, financing and common plans. and we haven't made them adaptation is the 1st response and it has not been made. we have been focusing on long term effects and how to make energy transition. we need to continue to do that and, and protect the biosphere by growing trees and all of that. but we also have to focus on how societies can adapt to the trauma, the stresses and the, you know, on rushing train of climate catastrophes. so adaptation has to be at the gord agenda club $27.00. we have said so, and i think that was understood, but moving beyond that, shifting to a more immediate agenda and to bore priorities. they will not be realizable if there is no transfer of resources and there is no transparency,

if there is no accounting for who has emitted watt and where we can take our joint goals forward. goals can only be joined as long as the burden is shed in proportion to the actions expected. and deacon sherry ramana, pakistan's minister for climate change really great to have you on the show. thank you. staying with pockets on the policy of pakistan's, former prime minister in ranken has won the most seats in elections in the countries most populous region. his supporters have been celebrating in punjab results. mean prime minister shall sharif muslim league has lost its narrow majority, and the provincial assembly come on. hider has more from the whole life it lolia coming back to know my linda provincial capital of the one job and lord sticky defraud few weeks ago and didn't wonder digger digger d m. ron con 40. what god drank particular had many awards in the bi election id

gotten that it now it already got 15 of the great the only for the going to budget done with family now was and one to an independent body. it will be important now to see what happened next. it got this certainly had implications, but budget on political future. a bronze on of god day at the country needs an early election and that a load going to died over the phone. the next government government relies the mandate of the people the opposition party are also going to have dad meeting that goal committee meeting to discuss the way forward. budget don, it again indicative of political uncertainty. and it will be important to see whether the government in islam abroad is going to a gate or not bothered men. and they agree on our date for new elections. the next few weeks will be critical. but one thing is for sure that people of the fun job

that bordered in favor of the buckets on that it can get them on fund sparky. and many politicians and political pundits are now day that this is a huge gum bag. up all my prime minister slunk as interim president, ronald big from a singer, has imposed a state of emergency in an effort to ward off protests. the action of a new leader, some protest her 2nd conveying on the streets of the capital colombo parliaments, in the process of choosing a new president. after go to par, roger packs, who resigned and fled the country. last week, the government has issued a number of emergency declarations since april, when protests started over the worst economic crisis in decades. and our fernando says the latest from columbus. given the sort of crucial days that we're heading into, it's quite obvious that acting present ronald vicar, missing her, is kind of arming him, serve with as many tools as possible to deal with the obvious expected backlash of

from protesters. i mean, for months on end, we had that campaign a go to go home campaign, obviously, to see the exit of the man who occupied the building behind me. the presidential secretary read that was present, gotta be roger boxer. ultimately, when he didn't go a heeding all those protests for months and months, hundreds of thousands of people, i essentially converged on the presidential palace and of the, overran the palace, forcing him to beat a hasty exit, flee the country on a military flight. so i ran over grimacing obviously wants the military and the police to have as many tools as possible to stop this kind of protest. and essentially also have them stifle dissent. i detain people stop gatherings and things like that. ahead of that crucial election of the president by parliamentarians on wednesday, the 20th

a dumbing report and the police response to a school shooting in texas as officers put their own safety over the lives of children and staff. this is newly released police body cam footage recorded during the attack, rob elementary school interval day. maybe $400.00 officers were out the scene of the attack in may, but waited more than an hour before confronting the gunman. 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. slam sciences say they've discovered a contender for the oldest living organism on earth. mr. tree and potter go near the cypress is nicknamed great grandfather, as estimated to be more than 5000 years old. as part of a project using trees to predict changes in climate as our latin american editor who see a newman reports from los lagos. hi, it's winter in southern chile, home to the a legacy or patent union cyprus, one of the world to oldest proven tree species. that's where we meet up with environmental scientists. jonathan bonnie g beach from the university of paris in

the unless in national park, a unique, temperate rain forest or them. he actually grew up here. when his grandfather was a par granger, he was the one who discovered a new challenger to the world's oldest recorded non colonial tree. a 4853 year old bristle. com pine in california. but each of each is taking us to meet great grandfather, the nickname of the a letter, say he estimates is almost 5500 years old. but 1st, he demonstrates the traditional method for determining the age of trees by using a special drill or increment core to remove a 5 millimeter sample, the length of the trees radius here. if you got a cor, well, you can see it rings as like a bar code. these, then your drawing for me to, to, to numbers. then with these numbers we build models of how the tree growth. unlike

satellite data that goes back no more than 40 years, trees reveal earth's environment as far back as pre historic times. but each of each argues that the past can be used to predict future climate change more accurately. the core of a tree is something like a book, it tells the story, not just of the tree, but of the whole area and the last decades, hundreds of years or thousands of years to read it. you can look at the rings. these, for example, show that it was a plentiful year, they're very separated, so it means there was a lot of rain. the ones that are much closer indicates that those years were of drought. and over here, you see the scar of the tree. this means that there was a fire, but didn't dro chronologist until yoletta, who recorded a 3620 year old legacy 30 years ago, says indiscriminate tourism is endangering the survival of these trees, whose roots are already dangerously exposed from erosion. this is the younger

alerted tree and it was some one there. we don't know who a couple of weeks ago came. i'm you can see here like within my shady or something like that, took out the bark. we don't know why because this is pure vandalism. as a result, the park is now temporarily closed to the public, but the forestry service made an exception to allow us to see great grandfather for ourselves. perched deep in an isolated ravine, it's an imposing majestic sight to behold, from its form meter wide trunk to its enormous exposed roots. the longest instrument available isn't long enough to reach the trees center to determine its age with the traditional method. so, but each of each has devised a mathematical model to fill in the gaps. but some dental chronologist aren't yet convinced. i think that it's a bit higher without having actual drink counts of the tree is that we cannot

really say a bit. it's definitely the older stage. we can of course, said that it, it is amongst the oldest she is in the world. but each of each will be publishing a paper later this here defending his theory. the great grandfather is indeed 5484 years old. but i'm not worried because this is science for the planet. is science that make us to act on time to protect what is left of our planet that was once completely wild with you? if you insist, the challenge is to use ancient trees to improve climate models, to determine how forests might adapt to our changing conditions. the same forests on which the future of humanity also depends. lucy, in human al jazeera, last level for region chinney. ah.