an internationally renowned entertainment article culture council has everything you'd want in the destination. in fact, it's the obvious choice for the people will come 2022. so why go anywhere else? oh, i'm carry johnston endeavor with a headlines here on out there. unprecedented monsoon rainfall has submerged large parts of pakistan, killing more than 900 people. the government has declared a national emergency and is calling for international help. at least half a 1000000 homes have been damaged roads washed away and nearly 150 bridges destroyed. what's in the province is one of the worst affected areas. same bas robbie is there were millions of people across the country are waiting for help,

most of them in the south of the country and baluchistan. and since province, everywhere we've gone here, as is often the case with climate disasters in pakistan, the devastation is vast and the immediate needs are very basic people. we've spoken to say that what they need right away is some form of shelter. anything to put over their heads, they need food and they need medicine. we've met children who have already begun to experience skin disease, the symptoms of dehydration. and most importantly right now, the immediate challenge is to do something about the hunger people here are hungry and there is not enough food to go around. in neighboring afghanistan's floods are affecting several regions, both east and punch. here is the latest province to be swamped by heavy rainfall. flood waters have inundated around $3000.00 homes and destroyed fields of crops. the taliban says 182 people have died. friday's air strike in northern ethiopia, killed at least 4 people, including 2 children. unicef says

a kindergarten was hitting the kelly, the regional capital of the t. great government forces, and rebels accuse each other breaking of fragile cease far in a conflict that killed thousands of people. at least 3 people have been killed in fighting between rival armed groups. the libyan capital, the violence broke out early on saturday. in a heavily populated part of tripoli of the past week, tripoli has seen a build up of rival forces with jostling for power. is the latest threat to 2 years of relative peace of the ceasefire between allies of arrival governors. ukraine says it's exported a 1000000 tons of agricultural products so far under deal bro could buy the u. n. and turkey last month, or grain and foodstuffs, had been trapped in ukraine since the russian invasion in february. those are the headlines. the news continues. herron al jazeera, that's after earth, rice ah,

ah, the composition of the air we breathe is changing the source of the toxic emissions all around us. every year, 7000000 people die from air pollution, making the world's biggest environmental killer. and then that the dire effects of global warming driven logic by an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. in 2015, 195 countries signed the 1st comprehensive legally binding pledge to reduce emissions . some countries are currently not putting through the promises but elsewhere,

the commitment to finding ways to clean the air we breathe remains high. i'm guillory to robbie and fashion forward, milan with a cement not only looks shake, but it also cleans the air. and i'm also bid in iceland to feel one geothermal power plants taking their green credentials to new levels. ah, it is released by the world health organization so that 80 percent of city dwellers are breathing badly polluted air. and this will only get worse as society becomes more urbanized. italy is one of the most polluted countries in europe in 2012. it had the most pollution related death on the continent with over 90000 people in the country dying prematurely owing to bad air quality. mm. like most european cities, malone is highly polluted. i've come here to meet a team of engineers who created

a prod that could revolutionize unhealthy urban environments. milan a glamorous city famous for design and fashion, has long been working on ways to combat it's air pollution, with architects looking towards buildings for solutions. amazingly, this incredible work of architecture is cleaning the pollution in the surrounding air as i speak. and recall, berella is the innovation director for the company that designed this building the pallets. so, italia, this is amazing. yes. what a beautiful building these it combines that do some creation of the land one being you know, but he's also in the environment and also very good invested. and we are very proud to be able to contribute to retention. i swear i wash man. yeah. so you, you can see this is a really good start. yeah, we have an inside of the concrete,

the idea that allows the sunlight to reduce pollution. the building is made up of cement that includes an active ingredient or catalyst called titanium dioxide. when uv rays hit the cement, they react with this catalyst to break down pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in the air. the toxic chemicals are turned into harmless products such as nitrate, which are later washed off the building by rain and absorbed in the ground. so this really is a living building that's constantly interacting with this environment. yes, exactly. when you have pollutants, they are transform into harmless products. what kind of pollution are we talking about annoying exam? nitrogen oxides and so for oxide to carbon dioxide, what they come from combustion usually to that's cars are in the singer industry. these are the major pollutant that can be destroyed by this. what kind of impact are we talking about me? how much pollution is being sucks from the air as we speak?

yes, these usa, 9 pounds and the square meter of these concrete, active concrete disconnecting, they're alpha equivalent to exhaust gas from one of these at car, or almost 300 for all my gasoline cars. so i think is a significant impact, and this is the impact of just one building, one person who would greatly benefit from a city made of the cement is resident laura tournament, laura chow, chow. or, you know, she suffers from severe asthma due to the heavily polluted air here, which is now affecting her mobility for laura, you are a true milanese woman. you've lived here your entire life. c, e o is so cool, said really badly. when did you 1st start to notice that the pollution in the city was really affecting your health? my queen. be showing me fun for me, child polluted, probably amid the speed of seal or made the os mom. the bottom teeth. one,

the verbal, a buffet, a jewel on modern glue matter, please be it'll be in there with the trouble with a bill. are you starting to hear of more and more cases like yourself? seen a little move, so don't see on with it's not just the elderly who are affected. studies have shown a direct correlation between air pollution and asthma and children and across northern italy. air pollution shortens the life of citizens by an average of 14 months or in the pool, the bullet mould golf wanted on auto. globally many more people now die early from pollution related diseases than from malaria and h i. v combined massimo boresight is head of the innovation lab at ital jamante, the company who makes the air cleaning cement. oh,

guillory. nice to me. well today. thank you so much. do i get to her lab coat? yeah, this is working with me. thank. hello. hello. hi. there we go, both law school. we are now repairing the my field to fill this piano on the floor, the mafia inside spun. okay. let's see. it happened. he thought you meant to are constantly experimenting with new ideas and consistency. oh, nice a slow. but experimentation doesn't always go to plan with. where's the mob? i can help. that's what's happening when i come at i oh no offense or anything, but i think this is a good time to be putting the last good on. oh ok, look. nice love, there we go. look, look, look, look, he's going to this move you're using. what is it made of plastic?

yeah. is it plastic because whole material has to be smoothed and the cement is able to heat. the smoothness would plastics and to replicate. why does that need to be so smooth? for 2 reasons. first form for the set, the crease ones. second one because mute as the phrase can reduce the piece of pollutants that to remain attached to the ser fees. and they can easily be washed out by the rain. so if it was porous, they would find little nooks and crannies to hide in with a smooth surface when it rains, it just easily washes off except you're right. ok. producing cement accounts for 5 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emission. this put a catalytic cement may produce the same emissions while being made, but it reduces pollutants within a 3 meter radius by more than 20 percent. it's small games like this that can really make a difference and believe that this martina can contribute to solve the problem. so

the promotion for sure is not only this material, but yes, it can contribute. well, we'll see what i want to find out what proof that team has that this cement actually does clean the atmosphere. this is a plastic oversee. this part of the town is as being quoted that we did the photographic smith. this is a represent the sam until when the, the live with dog on the sound. we like to read the 4th a theory. and we also elect the only 10th by use me inside the spot. so let's check it out. yeah, you can check this number or the number of the pollutants if muster this is monitoring the gas. yes. the level without to properly degree extra me is $150098.00. now, because the, the actual stuff did that below duncan decrease as it's the u. v. rate that cause the reaction even on a cloudy day, this cement is still reducing pollution. look how much has gone down to percent 40

percent. it's gone down in 10 minutes. we are going to get the 50 percent over induction the pollution, but can see that if that the few cooler 15 percent over town with his photo custody dixie man. but you kind of had used that 50 percent over the pollutants of death eater, cham, antique may have come up with an innovative product, but it is expensive. one paving company devised a cheaper, more practical application for it. maxima, sidney has collaborated with ital to mentee, and devoted an entire factory to this special cement westborough bobby mantel. lead dance off with while you wait for the job. bobby man conflict with okay,

just a thin layer of the photo catalytic material. it's added to the surface of each tire . now you with your downward re wideman, you show me okay, your sounds great. massimo has invited me to visit a health center where his brakes are paving the new car park for san antonio. vis did don't allow the owner that bobby meant to photograph the vehicle. mcdaniel majority down the road yet. but i could go on and talk to feed you open south. awkward to put also known. so for the name of, but it is either model constructing foot catalytic pavey, he's close to traffic, the crime source of city pollution ensures its effectiveness here they are. are all of these for the key politic, critical group of human thought she for to her political gave, you know, did is i thought crestmarc clinic of western probably mantle in a pause. ottawa,

sac cushion, shabbier law, shall bernard's or not to were out of the lock. what can we help, sir? okay. was he there they secondly possible it had impossible. poor vienna introductory or ended up on me. that's when a photo catalytic are they like walk oci? hello, this is all. this is exactly like tetris. i'm so glad i invested all empowers as a child playing that video game. got it. these are, you know, the, the sidewalks and the rows that we walk and drive on all through our lives in this could have a massive impact on human health. she said, pretty well more table far guanasha armando because he's more still think rural geo the cordova. even walmart, roberta did his apo crystal, the mental anchor and that i'm deanthony your pupil. he thought to, to keep on fuzzy aka florida, that i'm the answer that along with milan isn't the only city using this technology from the new air force headquarters at shall the go airport to paving,

in chicago. the application of this cement is on the rise with innovations like this applied widely enough. our urban environments could become a lot healthier. ah, countries around the world, the aiming 1st week in the future? ah, these humans investing heavily renewable energy taking high energy thermal costa ricans tanius environments, with dreams into reality. running on renewable energy alone for 2 months and 2016. no waste the 1st country to commit to 0 deforestation. antis plans to bond the sale of all fossil fuel costs within the next decade. well, baton is the only country to has succeeded in becoming fairly common negative our entire country image, just $2400000.00 tons of carbon dioxide a year. whereas our poorest is sequester 3 times a month. so we are

a huge carbon sync, and therefore i chose to use the would carbon negative we don't have a choice, but to come together as well world as one people to addressed d, escalating threats of climate change. it is urgent that we use the technology, the wisdom, the resources are combined resources to tackle this global problem once and for only in error. i. some might not be the largest island in the world, but in a fight to talk carbon emissions this unlikely. environmental champion is punching well above its weight. it's unique volcanic geology doesn't just creek breathtaking

scenery, but is enabled 100 percent of its electricity to be generated by renewable sources . much of which is do some eisen is the only country in the world to the t. i'm here at the edge of the arctic circle where scientists are combining geothermal activity with a new technology to try and help ice and become carbon neutral for good for this is cute and const eh, if they're very famous restaurant in these parts, they apparently they cook on geothermal energy and i've been told the kid is randa back. wow, it's a maybe everything's gonna taste like egg. i dunno is. this is hello. all right, i only hi. how are you? welcome. good, really good, thank you. thank all is here. yeah. you're not boiling water,

this is steam that's coming. yes. yeah. come from the really this area i've got whole into here to go straight down into the ground. yeah. we are lucky. the form of the building with the power and the water in the things to never taste. and now we take one more step into the actual use of the green power. we learn to make food with it. i mean everything. the cook tastes like eggs, up the smell of eggs, stems from the sofa underground, released with the steam, while in the nature of the good iceland ones. oil dependence started to use renewables after being hit by the oil crisis of the 1970s full hasn't been back. so we just have to open this year. assembled manya, will open this like this. and now we are giving the 170 social steam coming in here and this pipe and in between here. and now it's boiling already. oh wow. 10 to 15

seconds to boil. i mean, that's fantastic. oh c, as a business that is free energy. we love it. yeah, i mean, do you think about environmental impact to your business afterwards or not in the beginning? yes. so the personal plug in the beginning, but after you think about it, maybe you do it a good thing. maybe you're helping out the, to save the world, little bit, the planet, you know, maybe there's a lesson in that as well, but it doesn't really matter what, what a, she knew this amount of at the end of the day it is an environmental where exactly, that's the environment where all of the things helping not be friends with it. you have to think so big. geothermal activity under ground is also being used on a larger scale. this volcanic island of salt lake rockies powering geothermal energy plants all over the country with

a capacity to supply all of the countries domestic electricity, peddler, cd, geothermal power plant is iceland largest facility. ok, so we're looking for burke who are sick this and you said you chemist with icelandic energy expecting us to go be him. i've is all the way i better estimate that and go go go goes all the energy being created. right, so in any other kind of weather it was nuclear. cool guy need some few. well, yeah, that was the theme get exit from the ground from the growth by adding geothermal to their already advance hydro capacity. iceland became world

leaders in renewable energy. basic question. how does it work in very short with real a whole into the ground and the 3 down to maybe 2 to 3, kil, on my desk and there the theme is over pressure, right? and it comes by its own pressure through the production. let me collect the theme of the surface and there you produce powers. just that just like that, there will be enough heat in the question. for millions of years to come, we are only using high in the fraction of the heat that is being generated in the earth. everything that this is so big the plans have been discussed for helping to supply the u. k. with geothermal energy from iceland it might be fully renewable. these downside in the process of accessing the steam nuts and the attorney and gas, it is like carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide are also brought to the surface

8th. absolutely. while the today, i mean i've never seen any kind of specialize this before. and of course when you compare it to more conventional kind of coal gas stations, the emissions absolutely minimal. but there are emissions. so we're going to go me and other scientists here. and he's going to talk to us about the new aspect of the project called car fix. in big unison is that your chemistry car fix? brutal. hey, thanks. say this is my good. any pollutants emitted from the plant a captured and sealed underground informal rule. and we can tell us about conflicts, what is conflicts, how facts involved corruption from the poet back into the we wanted to do our past and trying to solve this problem of the increased

concentration of shield to an office. we don't want to get stuck. yeah. well, it is great, it really feels like another planet here. this is fantastic gas emissions had transported from the main energy plan, see a pipes to these geometric ports where they are re injected into the grandma. i think that were the reason i love it. yeah. so what are we doing, and it's wonderful that labor's, this is what we call our re injection. well, basically what comes from the power plant once we have produced efficiency, hot water and gas, and we need to dispose of that somehow. if we would not be capturing it least flatbush. okay. okay. and contributing to climate change was re injecting the

waste products of water and gas into the ground enables the carbon dioxide and hydrogen, so fight to permeate the volcanic or assaulted rock and transform into stone. we have an example of that here, a beautiful example of that, a lot to flows through the rock, fixing the c o 2 in these 2 ox, you have these cavities, and these porsche are filled up with a couple minutes. you're turning air pollution into rock. ready ready ready the car fix project replicates the natural process of weathering. ready instead of taking hundreds of thousands of years to turn into stone. ready car fix a cheetah in just 6 months. show me how successful the project as we 1st have to brave the weather again to take a sampling of gas, it which we condense to liquid. it is a vital part of all jack. demonstrate that the c a feel is being moved

in life in the gum. i think you guys close. it are great getting very good. you can feel the heat of that can then be applied. now that we think this back to the law and we have to have unless the cellphone is flesh. mm. back in the lab, the samples ready for analysis is to be injected gas. it's of successfully turned into stone. then the sample should only contain the naturally occurring background carbon dioxide and h to s or hydrogen. so, here we must have this here do andy and the it to us. this is a more sample of the steam that we collected and we turn it on. so what are you hoping to see here? because obviously it is a background level of c o. 2 already. yeah. what we're hoping to see is that the c

o 2 levels in the team does not rise above the back on grams. okay? here is the concentration of c o 2 in the sample. and here is the concentration of hydrogen sulfide into something which is about the same levels us back on those, okay. the gases have time to, to storms rocks. for me, this is what a cool approach to, to lowering the gulf emissions. this isn't necessarily locked to geothermal energy is it low, but you have to be pure stream of sheer to which you can capture your dissolved in water. that you can take that water and be injected into the ground. as long as you have favorable compensation in your area, approximately 5 percent of the consummate assault. and then you have the ocean grid sheets, which is all puts off my feeling is that more people should the company

shipping them or industry should feel that the potential people over the dedicated to reducing abolition the innovations the di. how it, by wind alone, the 7 me to to touch design power and china in the local smoke field and compressing the past couple pollution to be recycled, jewelry and american company. the found a way to convert carbon dioxide into plastic current, which is to build cobb negative furniture and entrepreneurs and india is devised to put on the couch is 95 percent of pollutants emitted from vehicle nicholas pipes. the suit is then converted into inc. ah, these technologies might be reducing, polices in the atmosphere behind with financial and political commitments to

produce and clean energy ass. amaskita had a william, john ah, richard, he has begun the faithful world cup is on its way to castle boot your travel package to day. so we thought that this might happen some pretty big storm, send the northeast of the us. hey everyone, by the way. so this was about an hour's drive west of boston almost looks like a hurricane here. is that when gets up to a 100 kilometers per hour now much calmer weather pattern on saturday, but still some showers to be found in this so, and so we call this weather pattern unsettled. now for the state of mississippi,

we had a brain induced flooding, and now i think we may see some flooding as a result of the pearl river could reach flood level this week and doused in rain top to bottom for florida on saturday in time to the west, those temperatures have fallen in los angeles to 27 degrees captures also down across canada is alberta province, edmonton, calgary. not even getting into the 20 degree club just a few days ago. you are in the 30 central america looks like this. our usual showers in storms meandering in this area. you know, for the atlantic basin maker the whole month of august without a tropical storm. that's only happened a couple times in the last 60 years or so top end of south america, it's our usual bursts of rain across at the amazon basin now says wall and then we've got a vigorous system slamming into the river plate region. so watch what it does to montevideo, you go from 18 down to just 10 degrees on sundays you later hatta, airway. official airline of the journey.

ah al jazeera when ever you. oh, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm carry johnston. this is a news our life window are coming up in the next 60 minutes. chaos and destruction recorded. monsoon range cause extensive damage across large parts of pakistan. nearly a 1000 people are dead. 7 people.