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systematic attempt to erase peron, his m a political and social movement from argentina, but presented as a new emiliano. the 3rd not money cases around the world for the corpse was tortured. she was taken so people could not take flowers to her tomb, but shows the importance of this woman who died so young. if it was finally brought back to origin tina 20 years after her death. and he's buried in a cemetery when, aside as it is here, where hundreds of people have queued for hours to visit her grave didn't look up at a natalie center. we need to learn from her and always carry her flag of what it meant to be a woman during her era. a flag of fight encourage. we need to continue her legacy to move forward and fight against the powerful, evaporate uninspired love, but also hatred among those who opposed parallelism and its attempts to empower the working class. those divisions continue to divide argentina to day. but almost
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everyone here agrees that every that changed history and helped give a voice to those who had been ignored for too long. biddy several al decedent when a site is ah, was out there. and these, the top stories, philippines, national disaster agency says one person has died offer in magnitude 7 point one earthquake hit the country. the epicenter appears to be the town of dolores, and the province of abrupt tremors were felt in the capital city. manila, which is more than 300 kilometers and south. well below has more. from manila, it is a strong earthquake covering a large swath of the country. the epicenter is in the northern philippines, but we are 400 over 400 kilometers away from that. and we still felt the tremor, it was pretty strong, and it was also really long. i felt it for maybe about a minute and,
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and that the movement was in circles really the depth at 25 kilometers. this is a shallow earthquake, e arctic tonic earthquake. there stills nami threat european union nations of agreed to rush and gas supplies after russia announced and all the cut to deliveries the u commission from a proposed a mandatory 15 percent cut. but some member states of pushback they've now agree to voluntarily reduce usage from august until march. russia says it's cutting supplies because of a faulty turbine. but a you leaders accused moscow playing politics. $45.00 b sam correspond stay 15 percent cut in our usual gas consumption between the beginning of august and the end of march. that's why we have pointed to this percentage as the target on member states should stay forward. the international monetary fund is slashed, its global growth outlook for this year to just 3 percent. it's pointing to the
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conflict in ukraine and a slow down in china. the i m f is also expecting higher food and energy prices, which will push up inflation. and soon as years electoral commission is confirmed, preliminary results suggesting a new constitution will be approved. 95 percent of those who voted in monday's referendum back the proposed reform. the reforms proposed by president car side for the turnout was very low, and the 20 percent of registered voters turned up. the constitutional changes will give side extra power. those are the headlines. news continues here on our deserve talk to al jazeera. we ask, can you be more specific, how many troops are you asking for? and what kind of military equipment we listen, asked the people of cuba in the street. if there is a difference between donald trump angel, but for them, it's right. we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the store restock matter on al jazeera, i
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i us, i mean, okay, down the street. we have been talking about global warming for decades. but now that we're finally seeing parts of the world really heating up with punitive heat weiss, could this be the change that will make politicians around the world finally take action that is a show for today. if you're on you cheap tape potted discussion, you're welcome to be part of our conversation. we start with fernando, who lived in a village in spain until recently, when rod fires burn down his house, he's what he told the news earlier. jennifer emptiness freeze. i didn't even say i'm going to possibly but to when i single the of the month is the roots losolsi monte, which is hundreds and thousands of theories. tennessee was going to be list i
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grew up with the us. she doesn't like to know what to think about this human face and consequences of global warming right there in spain. hello, kendra, profess machine yuri, thank you so much for being part of the day show. we're talking about is this the moment when our politicians will appreciate climate change and take action. kendra, please say hello, introduce yourself to audience around the world. sure, my name is kendra peer lewis, and i'm a senior climate reporter. but they get much modified podcast habits, even planet fastened machine. welcome to the strain, please introduce yourself to our global viewers. hello, i'm not here. i'm
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a professor of planning at a university based and go to pakistan. and i research on cities and climate change . good to have you and your a nice to have you back on the screen. losing my audience, who you are and what you do. hello. i know you're here real. i'm director of research on the ground. some institute for climate change in environment and imperial college in london. thank you so much panel for being part of the day show looking here my laptop, heat ways and fire, scorch europe, africa, and asia. this was mid july looking at this image. i remember a train going through spain and there were flames wide flies, either side of this, ordinary passenger train runways in the u. k. melting tom at melting people so hot. i am just wondering kendra out of all of your time of being a climate reporter. why is the world not better prepared
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for these high temperatures? yes, and that's a really good question. and this isn't even the 1st time you're spending extremely hot your. there are the bigger p h a 2003 year was quite hot and 2010. and the reality is, is that almost as soon as these events happen, we seem to forget and there isn't an end, but the politicians empower the people empower, don't really feel compelled to act on climate change, to both in the sense of mitigating cutting the use of fossil fuel so that we don't continue having these kind of extreme events or even worse and adapting. so doing the things that we know we need to do to better serve ourselves moving forward because there's a certain amount of warning locked in. i think we're just incredibly short sighted laurie as a, as a climate scientists say, you know, exhaust place if by now why you still a climate scientist, why do you just retire? because no one is listening. well, i'm glad and science is because i hope that some, some time we will find a solution and that solution is of course to bring down our emissions and to live
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in a society that is so well adapted to climate change. i at the same time, i'm also not surprised that people are still continue to suffer on the climate change it under these even modest levels of climate change or it is, it is well established that we are already ill prepared for our current climate and which climate change progressing, and heat extremes arriving, that we have never seen before in recorded history. and it is absolutely no surprise that there are so many forest fires that there are so many that there is so much suffering. and there's so many health impacts machine. what does being unprepared actually mean? what have we seen recently and i'm the lead out to add climate getting warm warmer when you're saying you're saying that we're not ready for this. so for me, my work is largely centered on not the urban context,
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especially across south asia and cities, especially in both sun and a cities are present a specific kind of a conundrum. as far as warming is concerned, because it's not just about heat waves, witcher which have a more regional context, but also about urban he talent effects. so said you'd like, could i tell you where i'm based at the moment are actually they've gotten considerably warmer, much warmer, the last 606070 years or so. and being prepared essentially means that there are you rolling out the kinds of heat wave alert plans and health, you know, health infrastructure planning and the urban planning and energy efficiency plans. and that actually target vulnerable communities, the poorest of the poor. and i'm basically not seeing any of those kinds of things happening and just for, for people who are not meteorologist and urban head island, the fate is a city that creates so much energy that it's as warmer than the area around it. so
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london tends to be warmer than the surrounding area. new york tends to be within the surrounding an area just because of how many people are using energy in that city. that's a herb and heat island effect. let. let's go to youtube. i want to bring inch event here. javan says, this is a turning point for the public. who can vote, they hold their lead is accountable to the same level of the whole autocrat, oligarchy, despots and bad leaders. that seems to be a very positive spain. let me think kendra, does the public have power right now? i think so. i can speak best and any contacts them based in new york. i think oftentimes too much of the conversations in the united states, i think on a federal level, there is a really big logjam. but to the professors point when you're thinking about it, between weather event, when you're thinking about heat, there's a lot that i've been on municipal or on even the state level and some and some of that is happening. and
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a lot of it is not one of the things that's really frustrating, i think in the united states is we build these boxes. essentially we expect to be able to pump a lot of energy into them to have them be an appropriate temperature. so we have a lot of heating and when it's cold outside, we have a lot of air conditioning when it's warm outside. and that is a paradoxical effect, which is it exacerbates climate change. we're not designing homes and communities for the climate that that they're in never mind, the climate that they will be facing the future. so yeah, on the one hand, i think there is some, i think we need to hold our leaders accountable. but i think when we're thinking about who our leaders are, that's at every stage, it's just not on a federal or on a global level. it's also who are you? i think the planning board who are, are you running for planning for it, or even go into your planning for meetings that you have to think at every layer of sort of how your government functions in order to really be able to adapt to what we're facing and really to be able to hold people accountable. you said the reason why you remain a climate scientist is because you hope that you will, your science will persuade people to take action. what do you need to global
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leaders to be doing at this stage? well, it's quite clear at the global, at the international level, it's important that stringent targets are set up, reduce emissions already in the next decade starting from today and reach ned 0 global c u 2 emissions, carbon dioxide that is by mid century. and that's absolutely essential. in order for us to stop warming from increasing continuously further on the global leaders discuss these targets under under to un. it's called to you and if triple c every year there is a big summit on the challenge of these processes is that countries just come to the table with their best. ready proposal with their pledges. and until now if you add up all these pledges, they really don't add up to, to anything that is even close to what is needed simply to, to,
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to stop climate change. or even not to limit it to, to 1.5 or very d or. ready well below 2 degrees, what we are trying to do, do you think the latest is making stuff up to make them sound good? but knowing that there's no commitment and then they walk away. i think i had your managers also mentioned that there are certain categories of populations who are simply off the radar in, you know, in the broader talk on climate change and especially the impact of heat the heat range. you know? so he teaches a complex thing, and so there's a particular category of populations across the world, and that migrants and refugees, asylum seekers, people on the move across the borders within territories. so the, the international spacing monitoring center took out a report in 2021. and it estimates that something like $30000000.00 people were displaced largely and these displacements can be attributed to climate events. so,
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you know, so there are the specific category of the population that are simply not on the radar. when we're talking about taking care of people when it comes to the building of health infrastructure or urban planning at the municipal level, at the local level. aside from the fact that that's a challenge. quite quite a huge challenge in countries like bucks where at the local level, municipal entities are quite weak and government systems are very top down. so there isn't much of a conversation to begin with. but across the globe, this very important issue. if you're aware of how, how am i contribute is going to be taken care of. yeah, and, and this is a huge challenge even right now in europe for instance. so, so there are certain specific categories of populations that have completely fallen off the radar. that the not even brought into the broader conversations on, you know, how do we go around protecting people when it comes to heat and heat wave? you know, generally speaking, how do we protect people? go ahead. kendra,
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i just can see there's another layer to which is like as climate change, progress is, there are some people who are in places that they're just going to have to move because of the realities of the pressures that climate change is putting on them. but when you look at sort of the, the quote unquote migrant crisis at the united states has been facing for several years coming from central america. a lot of those people are coming from regions where they wouldn't have to move if there was even a small investment by the countries i created this problem and helping them stay on their land rate. so there's is also attention to of, you know, investments in agony and in climate weren't and investments in water storage that would enable people. and for example, the dry corridor of central america to stay put because i also feel like part of the conversation, like a class when we talk about migration is that many of these people are being pushed rightly don't want to leave. and so there are things because it's a, it's a form of trauma. so there's things that we can do as a global society to help people say that should also be part of the congress. and what can we do? yeah, so i mean,
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one of the things that comes up has been coming up every year at your conference is the fact that some of the countries that are disproportionately harmed by climate change are the ones that have contributed. we should a problem and that the countries are global north countries. countries like the united states countries like western and like those in western europe, should be contributing to essentially lawson damage. but nobody wants to acknowledge that loss damage is happening. nobody wants to acknowledge. have you know, really concrete squan when the global south developing countries bring this up? this is not our pollution, this is not global warming. you are responsible. where is the money? nobody says anything. right? yeah, yeah, i think here if i may, i think i think that's a really good point and it comes, it comes back to, to your earlier question about can politicians to show up to you and make some statements and i am here. yes. and exactly. i actually am i to you in itself. ultimately it's kind of peer pressure between different countries and,
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and blaming and shaming and, and diplomatic efforts that. ready will kind of and ties countries to, to, to, to follow up on their commitments. but one important dimension to, to hold policy makers or decision makers and governments accountable nowadays is climate change, litigation, climate change litigation on the one hand because of impacts that are occurring and are caused by past emissions either from countries or from companies, but also climate change litigation that is more human rights based and where, where people take their governments to court because their climate targets are not ambitious enough. you know? yeah, that's really interesting. let me bring in as we've been talking about united nations, antonio gattis. it was for un secretary general, he has been adamant about countries working together to to act because the climate is warming at, he said this, the image july, any,
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it was something that really caught my attention has happened. let's have a look. excellencies 8 months ago, we left off 26 with 1.5 degrees on life support. since then it's pulse as we can further it. in house guest concentration of sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records off of humanity is in the danger zone. from floods that obs exclaim, store flips and wildfires, no nation is immune. yet we continue to fee though a fossil fuel addiction. this has to be the decades of decisive climate direction. that means trust multilateralism and collaboration. we have a choice collective action on collective suicide. it is in our hands you know, that for me is a mike top moment fin,
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the u. n. sector general right there. but who's listening and who's acting if you could share with our audience. our view is on al jazeera, who is actually changing the way the country is operating and adapting, fell hot weather, adapting for extreme weather. who's doing that? right? well, there are a few countries that have climate targets that seem to be. ready going in the right direction. unfortunately in many cases these are targets that are not necessary follow doctorates with correct policies. a good example of this is just to country are broken and that's you. and this is near term targets and heather ambitious. a net 0 target for the mid mid century, but every year their own kind of climate watchdog with do the committee on climate change. every year the committee on climate change shows that the is that the government is actually putting in place is arnold enough to meet dose targets that
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are being that are being announced. and that, and that's really worrying. of course, missing. are you seeing climb action happening in different countries, different parts of all different regions where you can say i take, they got it well, within sort of where i live in south asia, it's a very uneven terrain. so in india, for instance, the, you're not the national level, there seems to be greater action on those in producing policies and programs that are related not only to, to managing heat, but also for cooling bucks. time has been a lot slower on the side in the could actually context. there has been action, for instance, since the 2015 heat wave, which was quite unprecedented, which triggered the death of f o, close to 2000 persons. and these were largely vulnerable populations since then
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we've had a heat action plan, a heat wave emergency plan in place. but it's outreach is quite limited. we're actually undergoing at the crash. you have in lab which way around undergoing 15000 household and 5000 commercial subway. and we're discovering that by and large in the city 25000000 based on this particular representational survey, maybe only 50 percent of the respondents said that they have access to the to the, the heat wavelength. so even in those instances with certain actions are running on the ground, there's a lot of inconsistency and a lot of debate about how these actions are actually reaching out people. and then there is also the very big question for, you know, what we mean by adaptation in the context of extreme weather events such as a warming planet and he waved, can the human body really adapt to extreme heat? we necessarily going in the right direction when we talk about when we use the word reputation in this context, or is the word risk mitigation and risk management more appropriate?
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what's the difference? i think, what's, what's the difference? so, well, 1st of all, i mean, you know, physiologists have a lot more to say about, you know, the extent to which the human body can adapt to these crazy temperatures. and so, and there's a good deal of debate out there right now within the academy more broadly speaking on what kinds of temperatures are appropriate during this present context. especially when you combine ambient temperature with heat humidity it with the humanity and disease which i particularly dangerous. so in a city like what i chose, which happens to be very humid for most of the time throughout the year. when you combine that with very high ambient temperatures, you're looking at a pretty lethal context in terms of the impact of, of extreme heat or chronic heat or, or acute heat. so in these context, sir, you know, there's a big question mark, what do we really mean by an application for risk mitigation? are the small things that we can do, which was introduced cooling centers, such as box air conditioned rooms are, you know, and, and passive forms of shade. heat management is the big challenge because heat
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management is about a, you know, implementing and putting in place really, really solid health infrastructures. and also putting in place the kinds of urban planning interventions that makes it is resilient. and these are the kinds of things actually that are not happening on ground at all and, and then in fact, we're just boring, more asphalt. the meant, you know, concrete into our built environment which will see more diseases ranch a to present, ain't you? which i such a depressing conversation because everything that you were advising your is advising kendra's, telling us about it's not happening. i can't, i'm going to say i want to share with you a, a, a, a youngster because i think often right now when we're talking about climate activism, young people, young climate activists, are actually leading the way. this is lucy priyanka who spoke to us a little bit earlier about what she is expecting from global leaders. have a listen to her and then i'd like you to react immediately at the end of the video
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. hey, she is. well our leaders, me to trust each other diverse to so the global common crisis, the biggest problem is that they don't trust each other. we want the nurse to breathe. clean watch, did drink and clean plan to live. asking cleaner to breathe. seen what the trig and keen had to live a scala may surprise you in just see how news of children are dying due to the air pollution prices and how millions of people are suffering to do the heat with crisis in asia and in euro. sacrificing the lives of the means of chosen for the failures of our leaders is unacceptable at any cost i. i think that she is more optimistic about our
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leaders than i am. i am i think that they're aware of what's happening. i don't think. i think that there are too many people in positions of power who think that they will be unaffected by what's coming. they can hide themselves in their bunkers, in new zealand or rubber, and they won't be affected by the climate crisis. and that just functionally not true. and because that they've been able to sort of protect themselves from so many of the harms that have occurred so far, that the, that it seems a distant problem to them, they don't recognize it as a problem that's close to them. i also think some of it at least united states is generational. it's not lost on many people that were essentially ruled by a german talker. see. many of her leaders are in their seventies in their eighties, and they're not going to live to see the worst effects of it. you know, and you often hear about their rhetoric rates and talk about what their grandchildren will face. there's no recognition about what we're ready. the thing i'm in new york city and last summer plenty of people died in their be sent from
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severe rain lately. like this isn't a future problem and that's, that's what i think. so many people still struggle with it. it's not a future problem, it's here. there's an incident like a heat wave or maybe a flood, and they recognize that that extreme weather event. but they call it a natural disaster when there's nothing natural about it and then they forget about it. the 2nd it's over and you answer the question that we started with. i'm just going to go to my laptop before going to your re and then funny you going to see you have a minute each will extreme with us, but well would lead us to act on climate change. kendra's, no jewelry, you'll thoughts i hope so. well, because in response to also what, what we'll do is have sent, i think it's really important to you to understand that there's also limits to adaptation limits that are increasing the clearly clearly identified either soft limits because our society can't change fast enough little so heart limits hardly
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need to be on the beach. humans don't function even more or be on to which our group production in our food production is severely impaired. and i think that is something to keep in mind. and this is a high risk that we need to be able to mitigate nothing. yes, me, i'm hopeful, and i'm hopeful because sitting where i am in karachi, i see a host of different activists and non governmental organizations on ground that are acting up, you know, in terms of, you know, of the collector force and where my hope gets a little unstable is when i look to our leaders, i think this is, this is one of our colleagues over here also saying, but you know, we don't have a choice. and so, so we have to act fast and we have to act urgently. just going to end with some comments from i each of us. thank you so much. i love that you're weighing in here and he ross, i'm native american, the land that i own and the land. my family owns,
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had oil and gas. andre, we are doing our pipe by not letting big oil july land going to go back to you tube one more time and, and bring in mix thought here. nick thinks that litigation is fine, but generally the bodies prosecuting have no teeth to enforce. and then gary hoover, thank you, gary on youtube as well. i'd like to see the emphasis on local by regional self sufficiency combined with preparing for an influx of climate refugees. you're so good out there on youtube. i wish that you were our global leaders. ha. then we might get some action. thank you so much. i you to view as to your eat dinner scene and kendra, i see you next time. take everybody. ah mo janice and the police violently dispersing crisis. these are some of good tens
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