multiple times, my generation can, i mean design and we say this is generation change on al jazeera bombing is changing drastically in romania with this years. sunflower hub is devastated by drought. it's milder weather and lower rainfall. what are changing the seasons? farmers around here say there are only 2 seasons these days instead of fall the summer and the winter autumn this year in temperature terms only lasted a couple of weeks. the around is planning differently for the year ahead. there will be no, some flowers, no call, no weeks on this bomb being replaced by crops, more resistant to drought use defeat livestock, not p. he and his son are slowly adapting, but climate change may well pace them. ah,

a special counselors appointed to investigate classified documents found at president joe biden's home in his former washington office. ah, hello i marianna massey in london, you're watching out jesse or else coming up on the program. you are assigned to say last year was the 5th war, missed on record with the last 9 years, the hottest since pre industrial times. ukraine says its troops are holding out and sold are despite the altered ashley's wagner group, claiming to have taken the east in town. thousands of somalis reilly against al chabarise in a rare protest against the group after years of violence. ah, hello and welcome to the program. we've been falling at developments out of washington for the last couple of hours. yes, attorney general merit garland announcing the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president job biden's handling of sensitive

government documents. now biden has confirmed this a 2nd set of classified documents for or found this time in the garbage of his private home. in delaware, the 1st batch of files was uncovered at one of biden's form offices 2 months ago. but it was only made public on monday, our white house course when it can be how can, as this report the discovery of a 2nd batch of classified documents, this time inside the garage of president jo biden's, private residence has made it difficult for bided to quell this latest political controversy, people know, i take classify documented classroom material seriously. whitehouse lawyers revealed the documents for found recently relate to biden's time as vice president under president barack obama. the white house lawyers and says they immediately

turn the documents over to the national archives. still, the department of justice is appointing us attorney robert her as special counsel to investigate whether biden broke the law. i will ensure that mister her receives all the resources he needs the conductor's work. the white house insist it's cooperating and is denying any impropriety. it's in the statement of her from his lawyer, richard, somber, and at the end, he said, we are confident that they are a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced still, it's in administration under increased scrutiny earlier this week while bided was at a summit in mexico, the white house admitted lawyers found a similar secret papers and a washington d. c. think tank called the pen biden center. the president says he doesn't know what's in those documents, but the discovery has prompted charges of hypocrisy. in january

2022 classified documents were found at the florida residents of former president donald trump. a justice department special council is also looking into that case. biden has called trump totally irresponsible from his handling, but classified materials, another foe, paul, by the biden administration. but treating lot differently based upon your political beliefs, treat one president trump one way, but treats president biden a whole different way. president biden's republican critics are also questioning why it took so long for the biden administration to reveal the existence of the documents. the 1st batch was discovered on november 2nd just days before the congressional mid term election. they only became known to the public this week. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house as can warn us now mike, hannah, he joined us from washington. d. c. special council robert has been appointed. what

is the investigation guy from him? well, it's now in the hands of the justice department, and in fact of that special console. now many questions have been asked of the white house about its timing, about the apparent lack of transparency. the press secretary was battered with questions during the daily briefing, but her position remain consistent. and that is that these questions need to be given to the justice department, because now a special council has been appointed. a special review is underway. it's up to the justice department to deal with any such inquiries. she was stolen, one issue in which she said that one of the white house council said that the documents had been inadvertently misplaced, but she continued to insist as that it was not her position to answer questions about these documents. they need to be put to the justice department. this is what she had to say. he did not know that the records were there when they were found.

he does not know what's in them and what he did and what his team did is the minute that they realized that the documents were there, they reach out to the archive, they reach out to department of justice. and again, he was surprised that these records have been found. he does not know what's in them and his team once they don't identified that these documents were, were there, they immediately reached out to the archives of the department of justice and did the rightfully so, did the right thing by turning that over and the white house has really made a point of saying that the by the ministration will cooperate with this investigation and that the president takes classified documents very seriously. there must also be concerned about how this could affect public perception of biden's conduct and competence. indeed, yes, of the attorney general when he was announcing the appointment of the special council took a look at the timeline and 1st reports of these documents emerged on november. the

4th. now it was at that stage that to bite and lawyers informed the national archive. and that these documents had been found at biden's workspace. off the lift to the office of vice president, the archives department then informed the justice department. the justice department been put the if by b f. b, i on to it, which started a series of investigations, a series of questions, then another trove of documents was found. and then this morning, another overnight, a nother single document found. so they are questions indeed about the biden administration's transparency in this, although it would argue that it had done exactly the right thing handing the whole matter over to the justice department and to national archives. now the judge attorney general has made very clear that 1st of all, there was a review of everything that had happened that was then handed back to him. he then decided and announced in the course of the day that that special council robert her

was going to be appointed or has been pointed to look into this matter further. the white house position quite simple, and they cannot discuss this matter any further. now that a review is in process, or they not addressing the details of the case, and they are in particular not being drawn on accusations of a lack of transparency given at so long for these facts to be made available to the public. thank you very much for the letters from washington. mike. hannah ah, you assigned to st. last year was the wells joint fish for missed on record in the last 9 years with a will miss since pre industrial times, general trend remained inexorably upwards with the top 28 hottest years on record, all coming from 1980 onwards. explain say the latest data puts the piracy agreements goal to limit global warming to one and a half degrees celsius in serious jeopardy. rob reynolds has this report,

ah, 2002 was the 5th hottest year on global records stretching back more than a century. government report says, when you look at 9 of the past 10 years, there the warm us years in the modern records since 1880. now that's pretty alarm. ah, climate scientists say the warming is caused by industrial age, heat trapping, gas emissions, which have been rising steeply since the 1960s. they say rapid reductions and emissions are needed across the globe to slow or reverse the greenhouse effect. extreme weather events in 2020 to include devastating floods in pakistan caused by heavy rainfall and severe drought in europe. that dried up rivers and spark wildfires. in the u. s, there was catastrophic flooding in the appalachian region and hurricane ian. one of

the strongest storms on record lashed the state of florida. it's warning. all of us . force fires are intensifying, hurricanes are getting stronger. droughts are wrecking havoc. sea levels are rising . the economic cost in the us of extreme weather events was more than $165000000000.00, at least $474.00 people died in those extreme events in the u. s. last year. if 2022 was a bad year for whether 2023 isn't shaping up to be much better already here in california, a series of severe storms has battered the coastline and the interior of the state, causing a number of deaths and up to a $1000000000.00 in damages, rob reynolds, al jazeera santa cruz california. so i spoke to k, calvin a nasa chief scientist,

and she says it, many of the impacts of global warming can't now be reversed and that countries need to prepare for permanent changes. so what we see, what the impacts are, there's a lot of impacts that are driven by increases in temperature and with future warming. those impacts continue. some of these impacts are reversible and some are not. so things like melting of i sheets and increases in sea level if we can't reverse on centuries to millennia. so once those were the warming occurs and those impacts occur, we were going to experience those for a long time. in terms of water, we have different ways of monitoring water and looking at how it will change over time. and one of the goals we have at nasa is to provide that information to the public. so they know what's happening, where they live and they can better prepare for it. there are conflicting reports over who has control of the east and ukrainian town of sold our where fighting remains. intense. ukraine says its forces are still holding on and what seen as a key strategic battle. russian mercer group wagner, is leading the offensive and says it has seized the town,

but the crime in his warning against occurring oracles of premature victory. according to the governor of danielle, more than a 100 russian troops had been killed in the battle in the last day. ukraine's defense minister, the deputy defense minister says that russia is sending in more soldiers also blue to day. i would like to specifically mention the paratroopers and fighters from the 77th and 46 separate airborne brigades are holding their positions and inflicting significant losses on the enemy. in salida, world or sold are only has a population of around 10000 people, but it's the location that makes it a key. strategic target is just 12 kilometers from the regional capital backward, which russia has been trying to take for several months. sold are also has deep salt mines that go more than 200 kilometers deep at which could be used her safely . house troops and equipment for an advance. alger there is at charles stratford reports now from just outside backward. were about 5 kilometers outside of buff

move solid hours around 10 kilometers in that direction. i'm not sure whether you're going to be able to pick this audio up, but there's a lot of heavy sharing going on around this area. we in the last few minutes as well heard heavy machine gun fire. this is checkpoint, very close to us as well. we will prevent you from going any further towards that check point seems as if there are only allowing the military through i was a want to and a half, 3 months ago. and it's fair to say that the situation has dramatically changed since day. and i mean, we used to go down this road and into back moved, then it is a lot louder, a lot more heavy shilling than then. we've actually been speaking to soldiers this morning who beat inside buck mood and asking them about the situation in both moot and solid. they said to us that russian forces were in the center of solely dog. they said that they were in control of that salt mine. they described russian tanks

in the center of solid r as well. they said that they were concerns appropriate study there. there are concerns among the ukrainian forces about possible escape routes for the ukrainian forces inside solid. all he said, what they were trying to do was protect a western root out of the town. we've been speaking to some of the soldiers behind his head. this in this vehicle, these people have been getting ready to evacuate soldiers out of the moods. they say that there is still a lot of civilians inside, but we also how many civilians they were inside solid. all he estimated around 500 civilians still inside sorted as the fighting goes on, thousands of people have taken part in a rare protest in the somali capital against the arm group. i'll sure bob government organized rally was one of the largest public gatherings in market issue for the last decade. i'll chabad, which is affiliated to al qaeda,

has been fighting somali as government for more than 15 years. residence has unshared mahmud declared war on the group when he came to power last year. moving because saw my the year, we will never accept extremis. and we will also never accept the killing of our innocent people, or we will protect them from our shoe. bob, anyone who kills innocent people or face trial or justice. so news from ethiopia, the army are saying a regional force which back the government has pulled out of a city integrity as part of the p. still, the am horace special forces whose support the government of withdrawn from the key strategic city of shar, france and germany's foreign ministers have visited ethiopia a day after tig why rebels announced they were starting to surrender. heavy weapons to gray separatists have been fighting the army for more than 2 years and what has become a humanitarian catastrophe in the northern parts of ethiopia,

with al jazeera life from london, there is more still to bring you after quite great. india starts demolishing buildings in a remote town that's crumbling beneath the feet of its residence. in germany, please continue to remove climate protested, hold up in an abandoned village for the last 2 years. ah, ah, you know, sidney is looking for a wreck or don't you? of not hitting such degrees for a large number of days will ever 300. well we still got 28. we're not far off, but summer is showing itself as being rather wet when particularly in tropical queens and where it should be. and i think that rate is welcome, though it will produce some flooding that's true all back towards western australia as well. up to 37 in adelaide. maybe one of the warmest places you see in perth,

we're not quite at that level. and the pictures much the same on saturday, sidney, 28 again, not 30. it's a dry picture and no fall to new zealand. the what was really gone through now and it could be warmer admittedly, but i think that you complain too much reasonable weather sunshine. a few showers which is fairly typical where it's not typical weather, necessarily in southeast asia. but the focus on the philippines shows you whether real heavy rain is here in the central philippines. there are of course warnings i've potential for flooding and therefore, landslides and is unusual, right in mainland southeast asia, it stretches up into southern china. this is more reminiscent to the pits you'd expect to see in spring, not in the middle of winter. it's warm, possibly record woman, north korea. there is cold weather around, but the real code is a long way north. even north of mongolia is not coming south. ah, ah, why did one of toilet was decorated?

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the other at an office he used to have in washington. you are assigned to say last year was the well, the joint, 5th war missed on record in the last 9 years with a woman since pre industrial times x. but say the latest day to put the paras agreements goal to limit global warming to one and a half degrees celsius in serious jeopardy. and ukraine is saying is troops are holding out despite heavy fighting around the salt mine town of sola dar and easton ukraine. the russian ultra nationalist wagner group times to have captured the region. but moscow is not officially proclaiming victory. now, india has started demolishing unsafe buildings in the himalayan town of judgment. residents have been evacuated off to quacks appeared in hundreds of buildings that being blind on non stop construction in the area and a changing environment avenue met our reports from the town in northern india,

cracked and damage this home enjo she month has become unlivable. as he surveys the damage regime to rely, tells us he 1st potted cracks in 2021 but. but he says, authorities ignored him. these became wider and destroyed. his home. is america, molly? we are living in fear that we don't know what the future holds for us, isn't it? we haven't eaten properly for days. the children are missing school up. now, our daily routines have been disrupted me. that will be, are struggling and don't know how to handle the situation. similar damage can be seen across this more himalayan town. in northern india roads have fishers, many homes are falling apart. nearly half the town has been effected. josi might, is a gateway to hindu and seek religious sites. is also an important military base near the chinese border. authorities are blaming bad granted systems and all the population for thinking this land. young authorities have moved hundreds of people to temporary shelters. families are sharing one room and have brought

a 6 advisory over. the robert family says this meant all their savings to build their home. they're anxious about their future if timely today, but he won't do it when i'm the are shivering in the school. it's tough for the children. we have to warm milk for them. it's becoming difficult to look after them . deborah, authorities are giving us food, so at least that is taken care of. but what about our future? what will we do? are you using? if experts say they have been wanting authorities about the pace of development in the area for decades, they are blaming corruption and lack of leadership for the disaster. this is a total failure of government. no government has tackled this issue properly. they didn't listen to scientific advice. it's not just just the mafia. there are several of the towns and similar locations, but could face similar disasters. authorities are mocking high risk areas and homes . they're also offering $1800.00 as compensation. several people are leaving town

before the situation gets worse. many said they will need more money from the government so they can relocate and start rebuilding their lives. bother me with the al jazeera, ga mud, northern india. the former should, i can present my aaa series, signer and other key officials of his government have been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to victims of the 2019 east of bombings announcing its decision on a series of petitions. the supreme court said serious anna had breached his duty to protect men. al fernandez, explains more about this now from colombo. it's a bittersweet dish, gloria. 3 years after her father george under a 2nd and was killed with 268 others in churches and hotels across relentless capital. on easter sunday. there's some accountability as a citizen of this country, i'm happy because at some point we got our justice. it's kind of a winning regard for us, but as an order of johns, i'm not happy because i may get

a get 1000000000000000 or trillions, but those that money can had being made at our back. on thursday, the supreme court ruled pharmacy lankin, president, metropolis, arizona, and for seniors, security officials violated the rights of the bomb victims by failing to protect them. they were ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to the victims families. then secretary of the ministry of defense, the police chief and heads of the 2 men intelligence agencies were the others who were fined at the center of the petitions. violin court was the fact that the government had received intelligence regarding a possible attack. nearly 3 weeks before the bombings and did nothing to prevent them. the court said, we conclude that the former president susannah has been lacks, in affording the protection and guarantees enjoined under the constitution and other laws. and he has breached his duty to protect adding that this dismal failure

on the part of the former president sidney santa, resulted in disastrous consequences for this country ahead of the attacks. the government was divided after president citizen has failed attempt to sac his prime minister. the now president runner vicar missing, and replace him with the defeated president man, the roger boxer. many here, believe this division may have affected crucial aspects, like national security observers said the 2 camps were so busy fighting each other . they failed to act on valuable intelligence. the supreme court acknowledge this back saying there was specificity, exactitude and clarity as to the likely attacker's modes of attack and their targets. the victims, families, welcome the decision, but say there's more work to be done to find those who carried out those attacks and bring them to justice. a few days after the bombings, i say, claimed responsibility. but many doubt that claim the government has filed more

than $23000.00 charges against a group of at least 40 suspects. accusations of possible involvement by intelligence operatives claims of cover ups and allegations, by the archbishop of colombo, that the bombings were part of a plot to bring the raj, a box of brothers back to power, have not been investigated. i don't want justice. i please, i can sleep faithfully my dad aide because of these people for the reason i want that. and i v v as victims guy for justice like gloria, many victim said they would continue their campaign until they find the truth. mina fernandez, are 0 colombo now to lebanon. the high judicial council there is fail to appoint an alternate judge. in the case over the 2020 bay report explosion, the move was a win for victims. families had been demanding justice for nearly 3 years. more than 200 people were killed on

a large amount of ammonium nitrate store to the port exploded. but as anal honda now reports, the battle is an over because the investigation is blocked. i. they won this round, but families of the more than $200.00 victims of the explosion at bay with port are far from achieving the justice they demand. it's been nearly 3 years since one of the largest non nuclear blasts in recent history. and lebanon's leadership has been standing in the way of accountability. we are trying to replace the judge. we go to church. that is politically automated. people got a gun for recalls. so it's a big, big deal. we will know that they managed to do so because of the board was just, you know, this is gone so far, the authorities haven't been able to appoint

a 2nd judge. every judge in dead must know though to precautions of them are contributing to the divergence and to the covering of the justice. but officials have blocked the investigation for more than a year now. they have filed lawsuit against the lead investigator thought it better preventing him from proceeding with his investigation. it has been established that officials as high up as the president were aware of the presence of highly exposed material at a port warehouse and did nothing about it. an investigation by human rights organizations concluded that multiple authorities work at a minimum criminally negligence. many here say the answer lies in an international investigation which authorities have repeatedly rejected the international community of the frontier. that's believe in human rights shoot out. i mean, how long would they raise the theater that the,

that the height here is door, middle and it will be dormant forever. if nothing comes from outside, it's been a long battle for families who are up against a political and security establishment in a country with a culture of impunity. xannon with their elsie's 0, beirut, brazil's new president, who is a national dealer to silver, says he plans to have his government's policies ready in the next 100 days to get the country back on track. comes 4 days after the porch of his predecessor terrible scenario, storm the seat of government in the capital, brazilian, you know, told reporters that what happened was a huge warning. and that what he called a fanatic ball scenario support his are still very dangerous. is justice minister says they will investigate the whole network of people buying the attacks and try to cooperate with all the countries if any suspects have fled abroad. now to germany, please continue to evict climb activist from the village of lutes are of people

have been count them for the past 2 years, protesting of the decision to demolish the village to mate wife, the expansion of a coal mine. please say 200 activists left voluntarily on wednesday, there is still around 300 people still at the site. protest as have been throwing stones and fireworks act. the police that watson has more from let's or up here, police is really rapidly demolishing the camp. that the so climate ac, the base are built in the last 2 years. they basically have built all these wooden structures, wooden hub, and still you can see climate activists up there. they're still waiting for police to reach them. they have put themselves in very high and complicated positions to make it harder for police to get through them. but very rapidly. also, these cranes have been brought in by a police. they have been buried down all over this whole side to sell a lot of free houses left that some have been demolished already had this house is now also been demolished by police

a few 100. maybe it's very unclear to say how many are still here, but they're holding up as well in the houses that have remained from this little village. it was a village that around a 100 people many and most of the rest and all the residents. i have to say have left a while ago because the energy company, w e, had basically compensated them. there were long legal battles, but they lost all these legal battles. but a 1000 climate activists had moved in here for the last 2 years to have the base here they had the community here. so we've been speaking to them all day and they're in a very sad condition right now because their whole community is be basically been torn down. and this is not, of course, the main problem. the main problem is that the mind that they were protesting against which is right behind us is going to be expanded very soon now. ah.