people were injured is when a strong earthquake in afghanistan, the 2nd tremor in less than a month. officials say one person was injured and 16 houses damaged by the quake. and the easton tactical province late last month, a massive earthquake in the same region that killed more than 1100 people. the foreign ministers of south korea and japan of held talks in tokyo in an effort to improve diplomatic ties. south korean officials hope the high level meeting between park gin and japan's. your sheep, myself, i ashy, will restore diplomatic talks stalled for over 4 years. dozens of german fishermen and women have put down their net since taken up long wooden poles. is part of a jousting competition that takes place every 5 years on lake storm bird. it dates back 5 centuries. men and women battle it out by knocking opponents off their boats . whatever's left standing takes home a trophy and the title of fisher king. ah,

this is houses here and these are the top stories now. wildfires fueled by record breaking temperatures or scorching parts of southern europe. thousands of people have been evacuated in france and spain is coping with 30 separate fires. same as ravi is in cassius, the marietta in spain, both spain and portugal of issues that make the situation more complex than just dealing with the fires. the high temperatures are not only making it more difficult to put out the fires that have been caused by lightening 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 authorities in the u. k. are warning that temperatures in parts of england could break records in the coming days. people are being urged to take precautions with the met office. st. tuesday could hit 40 degrees celsius as fires, burn, and temperatures. climate, german, foreign minister and a nina bear book describes climate change as the world's biggest security problem. berlin is hosting representatives from some 40 countries for petersburg, climate dialogue for testers have been on the streets in short anchors capital. after the interim president, imposed on nationwide state of emergency ran out link. remo singer says it's needed to up whole order ahead of parliament election of a new leader. the party of pakistan's, former prime minister, iran con, has won the most seats and elections in the countries most up to this region. when john results mean prime minister, she wasik sheriff's muslim was lost,

its narrow majority provincial assembly a damning report in to the police responds to a school shooting, and texas says, officers put their own safety above the lives of children and staff. this is newly released to police, a body camera footage recorded during the attack, rob elementary school in the valley. nearly $400.00 officers are at the scene of the attack in may is on the headlines. news continues on al jazeera, after inside start. ah heat waves sweeping across the northern hemisphere with them come more severe and long lasting wildfire. is this all down to climate change? and is it too late to do anything about this is inside store?

ah. hello, welcome to the program. i'm burnett's, europe, north america, and china. a baking in record breaking heat waves in delhi in india is already hit $49.00 degrees this year. 12 above the average. the heat has brought wildfires, particularly to western europe, forcing thousands of people from their homes. in the u. k, people are bracing for temperatures to hit 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time. the nation's weather office issued its 1st ever red alert for extreme heat. the scorching weather is fueling more than 30 blazes in spain and portugal. thousands of people have been forced from our homes and

a seeking refuge in makeshift shelters. drought conditions have made areas between the 2 countries. susceptible to wild fight. france is on its high state of alert for extreme temperatures. to large fires in the south, keeping emergency services busy. thousands have been evacuated and kilometers of land lost to the flames. natasha butler reports from power will run. surprisingly not many people are braving the heat at the foot of the eiffel tower. record breaking temperatures expected in many paul, the france including in the north in brittany, an area that is no usually for it's very cool climate. now, the french government have put several regions on red alerts. they have advise people to be extremely vigilant. they've rolled out the heat wave emergency plan advising people to stay at home, stay in the shade and keep very hydrated. indeed, it's not that he'd waive our own comin in front

b. usually they are several years appalled climate change. experts say that because of the changing temperatures, what we are seeing is heat wave for the more intense and more frequent this heat wave. in fact, is the 2nd one in just a few weeks for dry hold. whether it's 30 exacerbated the situation for 5 fighters been battling blazes in the south west of france that she roamed a region. thousands of people have been evacuated from camp sites and homes in the area. it is part of frogs and staples here indeed with holiday makers. particularly of course, at this time of year in the summer break. will meteorologist say, though, that there is some respite on the horizon for 5 fighters and emergency services there with temperatures predicted to drop by at least 10 degrees celsius. in the coming days. natasha butler for inside story. and that he way of punishing europe is coming from north africa. in morocco, firefighters have been sent to remote mountain forests in the north. 5 have more

force, more than a 1000 people to be evacuated. almost 5000 hector has a forest, have been burnt abdomen in rami as more from near the 5 in morocco's low rush province. this forest here is called missouri and it is located in the province of flowers in the north west of morocco. it is part of a national form that stretches from the atlantic ocean, which is 5 kilometers away to the west, up to the reef. mountains located to that direction, about a 100, a 150 kilometers. as you can see, the fire fighters are still working in this forest in order to avoid that the, the fire that destroyed it be re ignited again because of the windy weather because of the hot weather. this part of morocco have rear just to

some heat wave temperatures as high as 40 degrees in the last days, which is not normal in this region, which has basically immediate uranian, whether the one like in southern france or southern spain or in portugal. but the spite of that, there is a heat wave that has destroyed up to now, more than $6000.00 acres of forests and northwestern morocco. i'm more named money for inside story. ah, let's bringing our guests all in the united kingdom today from woking. steven cornelius, deputy practice lead for climate change and energy at world wildlife fund. international in reading is nigel on a climate scientist and professor in the department of meteorology at the

university of reading and in swansea, stefan do, professor of wild land fire science, a warm welcome to you all. stephen, these particular heat waves we're seeing now, are they a product of global warming or freak weather events? thanks about it. so i think i'm going to point to you've made is, you know, these things happen naturally. but you know, what is happening is the climate change is making them, making them worse. so, you know, the sign is clear from the can you see the last year has been 3 reports come out, which and when one of the new bits assigned to the attribute attribution between the sort of human fingerprint and extreme weather event such as we're saying. so, you know, as the temperature rises, you're more likely to see a way you're more likely to see other extreme weather events and events that are associated such as while buys nigel. do you see that this? these are not freak weather events. there may be made worse by climate change of

the different exaggerated by climate change in by human emissions of greenhouse gases. it's very clear that these emissions are increased temperatures. rising temperature alone would mean we have an increase chance of heat waves. but of course, as the earth warms up then where the systems are disrupted and so on, so it changes the frequency of the sorts of extreme environmental conditions that we're seeing at the moment. so i think climate change is definitely behind the increased frequency of heat waves that we're seeing, particularly this year. stephanie or specialization is wild fires. we're seeing them now in europe and in north africa, particularly, how much worse are they getting? how much more severe are they than they might once have been with a clearly more severe under those very, very dry and will conditions. because if you have a long period of dry weather won't be fat combined with a lot of heat that will evaporate and walk more water from the vegetation and that mason will flammable. so for given fire the fires,

then light to be more extreme and much more difficult for the fi services to deal with. ok and stay steven. these more bigger heat waves across western europe. are they then more likely down down to climate change and say more localized ones that you sometimes get over perhaps just parts of the u. k or, or parts of france? well, i mean, i think a point is that it's not just in the north of this is happening you've, you've had your last year, huge waves and into your pakistan's early this year. not detainer and much of latin america. so i think it's happening over the world. and so, you know, as i said, as temperature rises on average, you're more likely to get the extreme weather events. and it may be, you know, such as in canada, last year we had that huge heat wave over over western canada. it's, you can have these localized relatively low, like a nigel. i know that the,

i think a calculation used called extreme event attribution for a calculating for helping to understand these extreme, either incidence. can you help me understand what that is? yet what, in the sense this process called extreme event attribution, it looks at the chance of experiencing the sort of event we got now on the current conditions with the chance of it happening under the conditions that would have pertain if we had an increase greenhouse gases and running a counter factor world. and these sorts of studies have demonstrated that the heat waves that we've experienced recently in many parts of the world are much, much more likely now than they would've been without increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. some of them are $1020.00 times more likely. some of them just physically wouldn't have happened without the increasing concentrations that we've seen. so the example of the heat don't in western us and canada last year with an argument that that sort of thing just wouldn't have happened without the general

increase in temperatures that we've seen because of the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases and the wildfire that they bring stuff and what is the long term damage the doing? well, there's research things together and of course the, the human impact directly or rather impact on humans and derek death but also. ready something that's often not considered as the smoke emissions. so about 300000 people around the world die prematurely just from bonfires smoke. there's just the smoke generated by defies themselves. then we have our new huge fight over the loss . if the fires are spiffy, large or specially severe, like we've seen in 201920 in australia where the fires in that year were over 10 times larger. what you would usually get. so the fires are common in many places. also in the mediterranean, in australia, in canada, that is the actual size of those events. and it's those severity with which they burn that bring the extreme impact. stephen, you mentioned india just before delhi, they've had 25 days so far over 42 degrees this year. and india now wants help from

rich countries funding to build early war. early warning systems are to prepare for extreme weather events. is that where we're at now? the mitigation stage rather than the the prevention stage. so i think there's a couple of things. so clearly climate change is happening at the around $1.00 degrees warming that we've had so far and, and more and in some countries. and so it is, we will say more of these events and we will see them probably worse because temperature, again to continue to rise. and the only way that we can stop them rising is by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. so cutting cold oil and gas emission emissions from coal, oil, and gas. the 2nd point i think is, is how do we build, revealing how do we use the word mitigate, but how do we make the impact of the lesser? and so we do need to do both and developed countries have promised through through

the you in a triple fina paras agreement and coping glasgow to mobilize $100000000.00 a year. and some of that will be for cutting emissions. some of that needs to be for adaptation and building rigidity for countries. nigel march was the hottest year in india since records began 122 years ago. is this the new normal not just in india, but in the rest of the world. i think unfortunately it is we can expect temperatures to be continually going up until we reduce emissions. might want to talk about that in a moment. i think it almost inevitable that we will see each year, new records being broken across the globe. and one of the unsettling aspects of it is it is not just in more places everywhere, records broken everywhere, i think is really quite saddening about the state that we're in a moment. and are you seeing stefan in parts of the world where you wouldn't

ordinarily have had major wildfire? things happening that wouldn't normally happen in outside of western europe. i'm thinking particularly while absolutely, and even within the western europe we seeing increases a find some area, but just to give you some context in the range of in relation to climate change the fine weather season. so basically the weather conditions under which relatively extreme clients can occur, which is linked to community wind, not lego precipitation, as well as those those high temperatures. that's basically increased by over 50 percent on average, across the globe. if you look at north america, the most american calling for forest, we have a 50 percent increase in the area burned by wildfires. so we definitely seeing a huge impact around the world. we also seeing fires moving into areas where they, as you said earlier, shouldn't or normally wouldn't burn. so example, nor the peak lines on the permafrost, and very, very rarely been green,

for example, see low cost. and this is undoubtedly going to increase in the future. there's no question about this. and nigel, i want to just talk to you also about the, the jet stream, because there's the way the, the mander of the jet stream changing and in this warming air is not having a particular effect on heating over where there's major industrialization, majorly industrialized countries. yes, that's one of the reasons why actually projecting the consequences of climate change can be really quite trivial. first approximation, as we increase our greenhouse gases, temperature rises, that's relatively straightforward. so you would expect on 1st principles, the temperature goes up the chance of heat ways and zone goes up. but because the weather systems such as the position of the jet stream are also changed. it makes it a bit more challenging to work at what direction we're going to see more or less storms for example. but i think that the social conditions that generate a waves where we would expect those to increase as well as the major logical

conditions would increase. what are the seeing the effect of the increased temperature. but when we're looking at storms and floods, and so i guess more complicated because the position of the jet stream then lisa, northern hemisphere becomes much more significant. okay, stephen, it is getting harder to persuade people to put climate change at the top of the agenda. i say this because now people are tired of the pandemic. people are worried about the economy. is climate change still a priority? are you finding people saying, well, it's happening. we've got to put up with it. we bought the things to worry about. is it a challenge to still keep climate change as a major issue? i think we need to push to keep it at the top of the agenda and it has been in a lot of countries for while service environmental concerns have been high. ah, if you look at look at surveys, but as you say there are, there are other things that are on people's minds. but i think it's about demonstrating how action on climate change is an investment rather than the cost

showing that we need to do this. it has benefits and events like we're seeing now in europe and other places around the world. you know, they are a wakeup call for politician and leaders to the time to act is now i say you say they're a wake up call. but in the us, it's joe min manchin, the u. s. democratic sell it. senate has effectively reject reject the compromise climate boat, the bill and one recent pole in the u. s. that one percent of vote cited climate change is the most important issue. and from the 30s, it was just 3 percent, whereas 2 years ago people were taking to the streets. why is that been that change? i think there's, you know, there are other things that have come up in the last couple of years. so kevin, being one invasion ukraine being another and so there are, there are issues that people are concerned about. but i think this is a, a long term issue that needs short term action that needs immediate action. and so

i think it's up to layers of countries, it's up to treasuries, ministries of economy and finance. to recognize that this is a problem that they need to invest in and invest in the solutions. for nigel, if all the promises made cop 26 with capt. ward keepers below a global 2 percent temperature rise. now is it too late? it depends on the promises. but at the moment the pledges that are on the table from cult would take us to a temperature increase of about 2 and a half to 3 degrees, depending on how they're implemented. an optimistic interpretation gives us a chance of getting below 2 degrees, but a pessimistic interpretation will take us 3 or so. so at the moment, i think it's definitely not the case that the commitments that countries of made are sufficient to keep us with an increase in temperature blow to degrees. and whether even those commitments are follow through with changing economic circumstances someone it remains to be seen. but to be honest,

even with an increase in temperature just under 2 degrees, we will still continue to get the sorts midstream events that we have now. so keeping the rise in temperature to to degrees is by no means safe. there already committed to really substantial increases in risks from fires from the waves from storms and so on. so we really, really need to reduce emissions so that we go with catastrophic increases in heat waves, fires and so on. but we do need to adapt and need to invest in resilience in order to cope with the inevitable changes in extremes that we're going to see. stephan, i see you nodding away there. what was your view on, on the commitment to keep us below a 2 percent rising global temperatures. absolutely essential. if we end up at 3 percent, we basically have a really increased or unrecognizable really 5. ready whether pretty much everywhere in the world. so we really muscle derive is based but we've already, we've already seen this increase, very dramatic increases. many areas will more thing that's probably worth any risk

other than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. we also have the ability to manage arbitration better, because if you look at the mediterranean area, for example, we now have many more as far as that which definitely much more open. these are much more flammable. we also seeing wildfires in argentina and sheila, in portugal that are found or fueled rather by euclid species that are 80 and species that are used for paul production. great for income but very, very pleasurable. so in combination there is still quite a lot we can do and must do to reduce the risk. and stephen, from the worldwide funds point of view in terms of the, the, the climate risk from global warming, keeping that temperature to below, keeping the rise to below 2 to below, under 2 degrees. how significant do you think it is that we try and keep that promise? well, i think the promise is even stronger than that. we want to see the limited one and a half degrees rather than 2 degrees. and, and the reason we say that, you know,

countries in paris putting, you know, well below 2 and pursuing efforts to one and a half degrees. and the reason they've chosen that is partly because of signs and partly because of politics. and so, you know, we know from the arc, if you see that there are huge differences in, in risk between one and a half and 2 degrees. so on whether this be on people, whether this be on, on nature. and so we need to from a risk management point of view and an investment point of view. if nothing else is to limit as hard as possible. and we're saying that that's one and a half degree in which because government to find up to in the power supreme nigel da, scientists even agree on, on what a heat wave is. i mean, 40 degrees in the u. k is extreme, but here in doha, unfortunately, and it's a normal day war, what is, what is a heat wave? well, one of the things we agree on is the heat wave is based on contexts. so you kind of have a consistent global definition of heat way because we are used in different parts

of world to different types of extremes. my students, i have here on one of my master's courses, a lot of them from the global south. they spent the 1st time complaining how cold it was in reading. we were perfectly fine, but now we same students are wondering why we're complaining about, so was it. so there is no one definition of the way because it depends very much on where you are. well, there are, there are some absolute physiological limits and $40.00 to $42.00 is probably getting towards some of those where it's just visiting, impossible to do work. but other than that, the big physiological limits then what, how to heat light interpreted depends very much a local certain plans, just how your kind of ties and how your infrastructure and your buildings work. which is based on what you'd expected, whether to be in the past. ok, stefan. i wanted to also ask you the question i posed before about trying to keep climate change on the agenda. keep it on the top of the list. do you find the

people you're dealing with your students? all understand the climate change is one of the most important issues facing the planets at the moment. tony the, the students we had the ones that i would say that the extra me aware of this is also party. of course the courses we gave, the choice they make to come come to study as well as the university. but generally speaking, if you talk to anybody of what wildfires they very often now talk about climate change and of course modifies have always been normal, may work, but it's changing very rapidly. and people are becoming more, more aware of this, even in the cities where people are not exposed to the, perhaps by smoke, but not necessary to find themselves. thanks to you, the media, they are acutely aware of that problem. stephen weren't soaring fuel prices supposed to spark a rush towards alternative fuels, and instead we have joe biden, only the other day come to the middle east trying to get them to pump more oil. isn't that frustrating? how they picked anything up from what you've been saying?

yeah, clearly you know, the idea that there we go, i, i'm in the u. k. and you know, we have a still have a high fossil fuels energy mix. and had we invested more ends renewable, had we invested more in energy efficiency relating building like we wouldn't be so so attuned to shifting prices of oil and gas and locked into that. so now it is about the right infrastructure and moving away from from fossil infrastructure. nigel global warming, as we've mentioned before, is making extreme heat more common all over the world. but at these specific events, i know we've talked on touch that before, but a bit more explanation of the specific weather events more likely or more intense because of the key human induced warming. absolutely, absolutely critical that that is not generated directly by human activity. then they're made much more likely or more intense, more frequent soon activity. i think that the scientific community is pretty clear

on that. and the report from the intergovernmental panel on climate change produced last year. the summary, based on work of hundreds of scientists reviewing very, very high credibility evidence has concluded that a human activity is creating increased conditions for these sorts of extreme vents . i think there's very little scientific doubt about what's going on. and stephanie would concur with that. what was your view on that one on. ready since there's no question about this, and we have clear evidence, as i said, nearly everywhere in the world, we seeing this strong increase in fire. whether that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to burn more because you need an ignition any few. but if you bring this together, if you combine this extreme weather and with an ignition that could be lightning, that could be awesome. that could be an accident. cookie barbecue that's left behind. and then with, with the fuel, the dr. education, you have

a fire event and they are becoming more more difficult to tattle. so it's not just that we seeing more area burn because in some areas of the world we see less fire because there's nothing left to burn. we have more agricultural and we also very good at putting out fires early on. but once those fires grow to a certain size, they're then extremely difficult or nearly impossible to put out. this is essentially then due to the associated weather conditions. ok. and steven, are we, once these heat waves of blown away once it gets slightly back to normal across northern europe and north america? will we forget that we forget about this, or will we move on to worrying about more day to day things? i think it's important to keep talking about these issues. it's, you know, it's, they think they keep coming up and we keep hearing the link to climate change and we need to do more for it's now it's about implementation. so we know what we need to do, and it's about putting it, increasing our amount of renewals. it's about increasing our resilience by

investing in might be planting trees that might be roads suitable for hating my be internet and go and things like that. we need to do more gentlemen. ok, thank you very much. we are unfortunately out of time. but thanks to i guess steven cornelius to nigel otto and to steph and do, and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com for more debate, go to our facebook page, facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. we are a j insights from me. goodness smith and the whole team here in doha fight, the me! aah!

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