and security ties with these countries in order to extend its national security umbrella, something which washington opposes the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, held a working lunch for the leaders at the started the summit on wednesday. this was part of his welcoming statement. ah, we brought together countries around the vision that you and others set out in the 2050 strategy for the blue pacific continent. today's discussion also builds on the pacific leaders summit that our gracious host and fiji, convened at february, grateful for that vice president harris's engagement with the pacific islands form in july, debbie secretary of state sherman's meetings with many of you during the pacific islands conference of leaders what i hope that you take away from these engagements is that the united states shares your vision. but while washington is concerned about beijing's influence across the southern pacific, the island leaders are much more concerned about climate change. rising sea levels

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ian has weakened from a category 4 to 3 storm since it made landfall in florida late wednesday. but there are warnings that can still do catastrophic damage. u. s. vice president carmella harris has arrived in south korea. she's meeting with president yoon suki all and later will tour the demilitarized zone. rob mcbride has more from pad you in south korea. the last major a leadership visit to the dmc, of course, was back in 2019 when that was president. donald trump famously between the blue huts marching up to the line, shaking hands with kim jong, run, stepping across into north korea. and those were during those heavy days when there was that all the talk was of a possible, a breathtaking breakthrough. north korea was going to give up its nuclear arsenal. and all the rest i think is an indication of just how far the relations have slipped backwards. that to, to day when a harris visits the dmc, she is likely to follow a much more standard protocol standard visit

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i am i have a dean. welcome to the stream. today we look into 2 places, still reeling from catastrophic disasters. link to climate change recovery efforts in pockets done are continuing after the worst flooding and decades displaced more than 33000000 people and submerged one 3rd of the countries. and in puerto rico, hundreds of thousands of people remain without power. 10 days after hurricane fiona made landfall, we start in pockets dondo where challenges continue to mount and civilians are paying the heaviest price. here's, i've done the fall from unit stuff with more. the resilience of the people, the generosity of the people are fixed on to respond to their own citizens. and the role of the government to really is, caleb is impressive. the gravity of the situations before the floods was order is such that the worst indicators of malnutrition, access to health, access to education was already in the worst of the country,

the diseases that now we're facing, our diarrhea, malaria, clara, and skin diseases that are actually quite invasive, about 2 and half 1000000 people have no access to drinking water. 400000 children are not facing severe, shooting an attrition. we anticipate about $6000000.00 children out of school as a result of the foot. whole of this now requires attention. nearly 1600 people have died so far and concerns about water born diseases as you just heard food security in the countries ongoing financial crisis is rising with us to discuss this. ne hm. uncanny founder of mama baby fund, which provides rapid emergency response to women and their families. she joins us from karachi, buxton, and bus up then the climate justice project director at the institute for policy studies in washington d. c. and of course, remember you could always join us on youtube with your thoughts and questions. now

i want to start with the recovery efforts in the scale of this crisis, this disaster. what can you tell us is most needed at this given moment. now, um it is not a thing right now it's, i wouldn't even say that we are actively yet i think we just still waiting for the volunteer to receive before people get out to the sky. even thinking about going home right now. as mentioned has issues are v at the maybe not even at the peak they getting to that big. so there's a lot of need for health interventions is a lot of need for medication. there's a lot of need for food interventions as well. people have lost a lot of, as is mentioned, people have lost a lot of their crops and whatever, limited resources they have a that gone down significantly more. so there's a need for shelters as the need for food. there's a need for health interventions,

and there's just a need for kind of a vision on how we're going to move forward with recovery when they actually be able to do it. of course, and, you know, you outlines so many needs and i know that they're competing needs, and i'm wondering, you know, when we, we know that roads bridges have, you know, completely been washed away as well as railway lines that entire villages were submerged so much, farmland, destroyed, you think about the agriculture, the sector, you know, economically it's what 23 percent of the g d. p of pocket's done with that in mind . i mean, where do we focus? are there, is there going to be a lasting recovery? that's actually feasible, is the government able to handle this in your mind? right now, i would say that we don't even know how it's going to be done. and i think it's, i mean, we've lost more than 2000000 acres of crop. the entire cotton crop,

not they don't take more than 75 percent of our garden club has been completely destroyed. the next thing that will happen is beat, which will be around into 3 months. and by to sam beaten comes around. i don't think that the land will be ready for it, so i'm not really sure what we can even expect in terms of recovery. but i know that for recovery to happen, there will be a need for a lot of inputs, not just from the government, but extern, if it says as well, you know, we've heard that the government's doing its best. we saw the government praised thereby the un. i'm wondering though when you look at the sort of macro big picture, you know, it's been months since the, the record flooding began at least 81 of the countries. 160 districts have been categorized as calamity hit. when we think of rebuilding, what's on the forefront of your mind, is it, is it feasible and is it,

is it possible to really hone in efforts in one sector or the whole situation just to, to unmanageable i would not call any situation . however, gras ticket is unmanageable if number one there is the collective social and political way to do it. and number 2, there are the resources to do and in the case of pakistan and in the case of actually many countries across the globe. so that i think question the resources question is intimately di, to our present global political and economic order. and when i say at present, i mean honestly for the last several years because in many fundamental ways the

political economy of colonialism and the legacies of colonial change. right. i mean, why is it that pockets done is a global our country to begin? why do we even have a category called the south? it's because of the history of imperial, right? because of the have to resources by the british empire and lots of other empires, french cetera. right. and you know, i appreciate you bringing up that point because it's very relevant to the conversation we're going to be having about puerto rico and just a little bit. very similar in that sense. but, you know, when speaking of the government, the government says it could take 10 years to repair and rebuild the infrastructure . they also outlined that the losses are already over $10000000000.00 with of course, an economy that's already been struggling for so many reasons. the pandemic inflation, i actually want to have a listen to what the leader himself had to say about all of this. take

a listen prime minister series, early estimates suggest that more than 13000 kilometers of metal roads have been damaged. over 3 and 70 bridges have been swept away. a 1000000 homes have been destroyed and another 1000000 damaged. more than a 1000000 farm animals have been killed. 4000000 acres of crops haven't washed away, tripping the people of their bread, basket, and damage of in on immeasurable skate. yeah. what do you make of those comments? both numbers. i mean, we know that both pakistan and the united nations have blamed climate change for the extreme weather and resulting devastation. so in your mind who's responsible and how can pocket fund rebuilt?

so i would say that yes, absolutely. climate change. this is not something a normal, these and art that these super flat, they're not something that we would ever have even expected to see. and i sense, so it's definitely climate change that made this happen. but i would say that it's not just focused on, i mean we are all no contribution to the carpet emissions is less than one percent, but they are one of the 10 most effective san peace in the world. and i think we should really start having more conversations about the global noise, about how the global noise can be in can work with us to for climate, recreation and kind of, you know, we should see who's paying the price in bed. it comes from and what can be done for us and, you know, these questions, of course, on the minds of so many people. and i want to actually take a quick moment to share with you what someone had say on this, this issue of pakistan's role versus richer nations and their role in tackling

these issues in the road to recovery. so take a listen to what rachel cletus had to say. a recent scientific study shows the climate change increase, the likelihood of this man may disaster. in some of the worst effective provinces, the 5 gave maximum rainfall intensity was increased by as much as 75 percent because of climate change. in a warming climate, the warmer air can hold more water and that water comes down in the form of these extreme rainfall events. in pakistan an additional risk factor is melting glaciers also caused by warming temperatures. the sad fact is, pakistan is responsible for less than one percent of the emissions that are fueling climate change and yet is bearing the cruel brunt of its effects. it's time for richer nations to pay up for the climate loss and damage that low income climate, vulnerable countries like pakistan are experiencing bizarre. what are your thoughts

on what rachel? just outline darren, what we heard from the ha she is absolutely right. and what's more, the degree of responsibility of the global nod goes even beyond what we heard in the cliff from rachel. it's not just that the global, not countries, and made a lot more in board, aggregate and for capital, but also their cumulative emissions since the start of the industrial revolution are way more than from countries in the global. so. and the reason cumulative emissions matter is because carbon dioxide, when it goes out into the atmosphere, is a very stable gas. it can last for hundreds of years. so literally, right now, molecules of c o 2 are sitting out there in our atmosphere, cooking our plan at that and make maybe a 100 years ago, right?

mainly from the global north which was the industrialized part of the world at that point of time. and what's worse, if you look at the history of the industrial revolution, how did it even happen? how did northern countries even have the capital for the industrial revolution? it's again, because of colonialism because of the appropriation our capital on their colonies. well, i appreciate you again, bringing up colonialism and, and, and that sort of exploited of history. it's not often enough. i think that we have those conversations when there's not an emergency, but to day, certainly an important conversation. i want to thank you. ne ha, for being with us now, speaking of colonialism, imperialism on to prayer, to rico on to puerto rico where it's been 10 days since hurricane fiona made landfall,

wiping out power and water across the entire island. this disaster came on the anniversary of hurricane maria, which killed 3000 people, and it took 11 long months for the us to restore power to the island. to puerto ricans are scrambling to figure out how or whether to rebuild as the compounding nature of these climate disasters really makes recovery that much more difficult. here is alex guzman, outlining what puerto ricans need most right now. but don't because the victim of an abusive relationship with the red seeds from the u. s. and pose privatization of the state and electric company which is resulted in blackouts and right hikes over the past year and has completely broken little lectric system in this crisis down to the jones act, which puerto ricans feel the effects of every day, but is particularly dangerous in times of emergency, puerto ricans need more autonomy to respond to the needs of violence,

especially in times of crisis. joining us from boca on puerto rico, damari borg goes as a member of the solidarity brigade of the west working to provide local relief. we also have joining us in the conversation, but i've said who's been with us since the top of the show. i want to start by coming directly to you tomorrow. it's, you know, i was there for hurricane maria. i endured something that i couldn't have imagined and to see the same thing happening again to see all the sort of systemic issues that are preventing the recovery. what, what do you want to share with us? what's the most pressing thing on your mind right now? well 1st i want to say thank you to sarah for the space and for, for the noun thing, abusive relationship that service man pointed out in earlier. and

i guess today there is a lot of frustration here. there's a lot of hopelessness here. there's a lot of rage here and i think a lot of people are still stun. precisely because we suffered both to the anniversary. the 5th anniversary of hurricane maria may have to correct to please if, if that's okay. there was and business, no fault of yours because there's, that's part of our problem is that there's such a lack of statistical and accurate information. various universities came together to estimate our total pounds. and it, it said to be over 4645, and i have to hold through to that number because it's very symbolic. it's

an open one for whatever you can hear. i appreciate you making my correction. i remember covering this on the ground, i remember a lot of confusion over numbers, not just of the dad, but, but many, many different parts of the story seem to have been suppressed back then, which is why we're talking about it today. i want to ask you, in terms of the status of sort of recovery efforts right now beyond the hopelessness. about 33 percent of homes and businesses, i understand correctly. i was still without power. and what we've seen, that kind of is, is troubling to me, is a lot of conversations about profiteering, the privatization of sort of the energy grid. i mean, the story for as much as it's about lots of life, it's really about the power crisis. right. why is the power crisis, seemingly insurmountable and, and what can be done? well, i think that in order for people to understand the complexity of the situation that

we are struggling with here and you have to understand the larger picture. and i so appreciate this talk about the global north and there's sponsibility of the globe because part of the reason, a large part of the reason why we were vulnerable before hurricane media. and definitely the reason why we're so vulnerable to a category one. very, very fiona was precisely related to the very measures that we have been imposed on by the united states government. just a year before the passing of hurricane maria. and one would think that that might not have to do with the vulnerability the same vulnerability that we have, but it has everything to do with it. when the fiscal board came,

it was imposed by the congress of the united states as a way to solve it. us out of our debt we were limited their pluses and they were questioned that we had surplus in materials of our electrical company. why do you need extra materials? well, because we're an island and in signs of crisis, it's hard, it's death. it's very difficult to get materials here. and as your your visitor was mentioning the jones that made it almost impossible for shipment regularly. another one of their measures that made us particularly vulnerable was the closing of 900 schools. and you would think, well that's understandable because your, your birth rates have gone down and there's so little people on the island at this

point. but the reality is that schools in the vehicle turn in to shelters when we are in hurricane season, which of course is part of our life, right in the caribbean. it's, it's a normal occurrence. so not having 900 schools to put people in right. in order to keep them safe, also makes them monitor. and finally, the closing of and the privatization of our health system also has made us extremely vulnerable. right? so many compounds. but i see you and then i'll let you jump in in just a moment. i want to bring in to the conversation of voice from our youtube chat. here we have real science as saying, i think big corporations have to pay up and cut their emissions. people are too greedy for their money and don't care that they're bringing everybody down with them. and just so, you know, and you tube, a lot of general reactions to sort of seeing the images of the destruction.

traumatic not just for those maybe on the ground, but those to understand why this continues to happen. so i do want to ask you with that in mind, we heard you know, the mention of the brain drain that worse. and you know, after hurricane maria and irma, i think the island saw a 12 percent drop in its population between just 201-2020. where do you put the blame but not just the blame with the jones act, with all these privatization and profit tearing realities on the ground, time and time again, every time and disaster strikes, what will it take to actually protect prior to rico and the people living there the us citizens. is this the question for me? no, sorry i'm, i'm asking, yeah. forgive me. i'm asking you about them. yes. so 1st of all, this, for as i think precisely that i want to go back to something you brought up about the reactions in you know,

the reactions on the you tube channels. the fact that people were very deep lead disturbed by the images from both pockets. and we're not my response to that is yes, those are very hard images to look at still with them, because that's the kind of human empathy we collective the human beings need to cultivate in a time of global climate. get ask if, if we don't have that empathy or with human beings, going through horrific things in different parts of the world. right? and we don't begin to value our common humanity. then we can never respond to the climate crisis with the kind of just response that we need. and in terms of what we're recall needs right now, i will defer to damari to provide the

details. the one kind of overarching of division i would make, which connects to equal in a straight line to back is done. is this in position of austerity from the outside rates by the control board in puerto rico or by the international monetary fund. in pakistan, who's get to g d. p ratio is of the order of 69 percent. and this external debt and the way in which international institutions prioritize being bad, get the inputs all human beings is something we need to get. right. and you know, in the spirit of time, i do want to ask you and defer to our other graphs, who's on the ground who's, who's led this experience time and time again, i want to ask you, you know, for our audience who doesn't really understand the jones act it's

a ship carrying fuel to prayer, to rico camp doc, essentially due to some 920 us law. that mandate that the ship be built, be owned and be staffed or run by us citizens. that ship has 300000 barrels of diesel still holding off the southern coast of prior to rico. we see that each time we see sort of the compounding, if you will, the compounding situation. what do you have? faith that that will change. do you have faith that the dynamic, the relationship between the u. s. in puerto rico, will evolve to a point where prior to recons, you know, can, can kind of, you know, withstand the storms? well, i have to say and i'm sorry to point that out again, but our problem isn't with the hurricane. it's not about the storm. the storm is, is a natural occur. and the, even though the climate crisis is a real. 6 a real issue and is making it extremely difficult to

prepare and now for them, our problem is not a natural disaster. it's a man made disaster at the political disaster. it's colonial. does that and forgive me for interrupting you, but i do want to ask you because in the spirit of time, just again before you wrap up, i mean a lot of the people, if i'm not mistaken, who remain since hurricane maria had been pushed out of their homes, as we've heard by land developers, there's a huge crypto currency investor seen there. they've bought out apartment buildings rent is storing. you add to that, that the pandemic has what i think 40 percent of the population under the poverty line. where do you want to start birth? be 60 per 60 percent. what's your sort of last call out to the world? what? what do you want the world to know? i think that when you hit rock bottom there's only up and that's where we are. i think that our patients is running out and i see it in old people. i see it in

young people and i think that we're running out of time to do this in an orderly way. i have, i have hope because there's nothing else that we can really count on. yeah, we will transition towards independence. yeah. and that we will gain reparations around the global and north. well, just so you know, this is not a competition that and here at the stream, thank you to both of you for being with us. and for those of you watching as hurricane season continues, will be following the impacts of climate change around the world. thanks for joining us. ah . new yes, new lessons and new rules. this is the time when you get to choose. your english

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