of the roberta, flax, luminous voice was the sound track of the 1970s, the born in black mountain, north carolina, flexing hymns and spirituals. as a girl. she studied voice and music at howard university in washington and worked for a time. as a teacher, she began her professional career with almost immediate success. for 1st of them included the single, the 1st time ever i saw your face, which became the biggest kid of 1972. with 6 weeks at the top, the charts flak won a grammy for best album of the year. for next blockbuster came in 1973 winning a shower of awards and selling millions of records. it was flak at her best

romantic, poetic, and poignant with his words killing me. so killing me softly remains a classic, smooth and sophisticated inflected with pop r and b and flex training. in classical music, for 3rd and final number one hit was more up tempo and sexy. the killing me softly had a revival in the 1990s with a cover version by the jeez. in 1999 flag performed the song for nelson mandela at his home. during a tour of south africa flac advocated for musical education for underprivileged

children. she was a supporter of gay rights and work with the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. she performed into her eighty's, roberta flex music, brought enjoyment and romance to millions. she was said, always walk in the light and if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find rob reynolds, l g 0. well that is it from name louisa, pennsylvania. you can find more on our website each. the news continues here and i'll just say we're off the old hale. the plan is the outside the bookshop established by his family more than a century ago. but the ones that are the reflects on the moment has changed. it's come to syria since the toppling up a shot and selling drugs was promise of a threat, then selling books,

books from people to grow and think about their circumstances. savvy of the mind recounts the difficulties he also used to face. we provided books, that's what band or political in nature, he shows me how the cover of a book on the band list was replaced with the cover of one that had been approved. for the streets of this neighborhood used to be lined with many more books, doors for the economic told the war, combined with sanctions to force many to close their doors. the russians, if you have the muscle, 2nd will best article. what's the rate of use? the youngest is and as investors onto the quote and under that, does anyone, can you go ahead and send us the natural disasters nature showing you know, uh, of quakes plate shift, humans call control guy to create just so, you know, mean you called stuff is sitting on the uh, this is nature and the name is somebody can associated with god. angriness. yeah, i mean let's plan on,

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there are many ways to describe the last destruction we've seen in recent years. a soc lines, bush wise and droughts have swept through different countries around the world. you would be justified cooling their impact. frightening hurricane patricia in 2015 was the most powerful tropical cycling on record in terms of wind speed at 345 kilometers. now you could call the optim off. i'm president of the 2020 bush wise in australia resulted in more than 24000000 hector's band and billions of animals killed or displaced. you might call them most as devastating, especially when you consider that more than 50000 people were killed. and more than 14000000 affected by the us quake across the took in syria in 2023. but whatever you call these disasters, they shouldn't be cold, exclusively natural. it's a natural disaster, natural disaster when you go to 3 lucky naturally that says go to

a natural disasters. how will i know that all these natural disaster? yes, tysons floods, earthquakes. they all hazardous incidents occurring in nature. but a variety of human factors means their intensity and impact. is it purely natural? extreme weather events like floods, site loans, how we can strike fluids, the heat weight, calling them natural, calling them god given is until now, quite legitimate. but we have now entered into a new era. dr. celine mohawk was director of the international center for climate change and development in bangladesh. feels i said to senior, advise us of the least developed countries good at the united nations. our interview was filmed a few months before he passed away in october 2023. what has happened since the industrial revolution is that we have been spewing greenhouse gases into the

atmosphere and that has resulted in the temperature of the atmosphere going up by well over one degrees centigrade already. and we have seen the consequences of that the flux we used to have uh, getting more severe. it's the was flooding. the city is seen for at least a decade. the cycle and we used to have are getting more severe. and gabrielle is the most significant. we've been to new zealand has seen this century at the heat, which we used to have a getting most severe july use needed to become the was what is to month. so while the events themselves are not caused by human induced climate change, they are exacerbate, they are made more intense they made, was often if you look carefully at those narratives, you can see that they've deployed salt times by politicians. a lot of it depends on your procedure goes to people, but one of them. yes. tasha don't look any subsidies. let's get this hosting it to you hun bye on natural disasters. and i rick this sort of habit and it's designed to yeah, they're, everything's going to be on val control. and we know increasingly because at the

climate science the varies and for dr. shavone mcdonnell is a lawyer and legal entre apologise with those a 20 years experience working with indigenous people in australia and oceana, on climate change issues. there are various climate reasons why we're facing these dramatic changes to weather events across the globe. and it uses this kind of a several mother nature. when mother nature strikes, mother nature, weeks of woke. mother nature will do what she does. we all have responsibility. and by labeling it mother nature or natural, we are obscuring the political choices, allergy or politics that sits underneath the basics of events. with a cool, a disaster, natural law not may seem like a semantic argument. after all, who cares what you call it? if it makes a difference to the impact on people,

animals and property. the thing is, yes, this is a semantic argument, but it's not just about labels or woods. it's about accountability. human choices and actions have meant that many natural hazards nally to record breaking levels of destruction. they have a huge impact on who lives and who dies well, who is injured or left homeless after an event. as quakes kill people, but it's badly located and poorly made, which is really like the numbers of deaths. a crude measure of the different human choices make would be to compare the difference in the death rates, the similar natural phenomena in different countries. in january 2010 and magnitude 7, it's quite cute haiti killing more than 300000 people. one month later, a stronger magnitude $8.00 us quake and synonymy structurally the killed fossil fuel. people with 525 decks officially reported. there were multiple reasons for

the enormous differences between the quakes, but in haiti, sub standard engineering, pool quality materials, and almost no disaster relief services all played a significant role in the extent of the devastation. i ask celine how clients under abilities are not just different between bitch and pool countries, but between the rich and poor living with a multi countries. no matter whether it's important to you, a rich country, you will find that the order of citizens stated to be located in the mall had the grown area of the places that did not get services as much as they reach a place to, to 10. so the reinforces their father ability, it reinforces their property, and sometimes these are institutionalized, in the united states, for example, flex, we'll put in areas where whites would not live. and this was in force both legally . and if i just common practice of the housing industry and so when you see the decimal of hurricane katrina in new orleans,

many of the approximately 1200 people who lost their lives well for black living in the 9th board, the impacts are going to happen whether we like them or not, how big they are going to be, or how bad they're going to be as a function of how well prepared we work or we're not helping people in has it prone areas get prepared is high on the list. so many climate justice groups meet to 10 lives in the philippines. she's an international spokes person, so the youth climate advocacy group fridays for future. she's also the organizer for its most effective peoples and areas subcommittee apps and the lava or most effective people who areas. it's kind of like the global south arm fridays for future, the impact of community. this includes the by far the black indigenous people of color to use in the global art, such as the communities in australia that in fact the most by the time we realized excitement prizes intersects with all the other social economic crisis, sexism,

passions quality, especially, racism, egoism, all these things, they get out of 55 to 5. so mitzi, how does x stream with a contribute to ginger inequality? because majority of the world for our women, women are most vulnerable to the time. in the philippines, a very positive example, our 2015 high and devastated our country. and for years after that, young women and young girls were forced prostitution because of the economic devastation of our community. and that's not just happening in the philippines. it's happening off the world and aren't able to bounce back after the extreme weather, but we know that reached a country is a much more able to car free climate impacts for a country. but even even to, to those countries, different households i've been out in terms of cooking with water increasingly cascading dissolved. it's black sama in australia, massy fines. ben,

it's cleavage bain. it something else? are you the kind of household that can court or i do you a pool household that he's really struggling and he's pushed down by the 1st disaster and can no longer re gain your 40. this has been new carpeting. and there is a fairly well established template for how we talk about the damage that's left behind. in the wake of extreme weather events is a selection which move costs on the thoughts as possible can come vault. the city felt we still see on your list, that is because the visual in the stuff daily to where his inability to be prepared for the worst. because the worst continues to happen on surprisingly, june is a big part of the response. the ship power of the elements, the scale of the destruction, all of that features in political narratives. it's at the top of the news headlines and it shapes how we think about western in climate related events. across the

stray se records as normal life has been completely disruptive stock loan harold is batch marines and want to surface temperatures have reached 60 celsius and plates. is there a cause upside down? it is really quite apocalyptic. what's tougher to capture in these discussions of the complex fact is that to a natural hasn't introduced last placing some more risk than up. it's deeply cool. really, to know what the impact of all of these apocalyptic images around fire and flooding . i don't want to detract from the impact, the experience that people face from disaster. these proceed real. i think what we need to focus on is when the media to pick, stacy reaches this way. what happens to people who experience of their own agency and how do people understand the broad or political choices that states i'm liking

to form not facts on climate change, particularly those of us who are in common and meeting countries. i've seen the philippines. some people get the census eyes to the patients that we fixed there. yes, because sometimes it's easier than habits as well of how every year our communities just as soon. so please be advised lead the way that we try that change. this is again by telling them just let the time of crisis isn't just something that happened. if something does happen to us and is being done to us, there were some hard choices and dramatic changes needed. if we want to get serious about slowing the rates at which our planet systems a buckling, it seems though that the big institutions, the nations responsible for making these crucial calls are aligned to heavily on

strategies of climate adoption, mitigation and resilience. the people of puerto rico, keep getting back up with resilience, with an ambitious plan to take strong action, to fight and build resilience, helping them to adapt and to build resilience. but what really worries me is that if it's very much directed, particularly where i work in the pacific local pacific village that they somehow supplies to cultivate more resilience. and even getting the strength that we're supposed to bounce back, but we're supposed to be resilience to climate change impacts. and that is the resilience. and the i that tyson, that we need, you know, our community right across the country to deal with longer. how to drive seasons that increase the risk of bush 5 and what all of these files to say is there a choices being made by company to put fossil fuels into the environment that there

are political choices being made not to address what he's a cop and emission problem, australia is prime minister, has visited towns damaged by the fuzz. besides, he's committed to protecting mining jobs. you will also not reduce the number of call fi pass stations in the wall to die by forcing the shutdown of the striving coal mines. it is dry and jobs that go with them. and in the pacific, no amount of resilience is going to help people with the incredible impact of 3 sidelines and a category 5 labeling fine. so this narrative of resilience is placing their responsibility on local people. whereas really, visa b, e, g, or political choices that are influenced in van lines. the in 2016 a campaign began in australia,

a climate emergency campaign. with all indicators for the health of the planet trending downwards, there was a need to jump humanity into action. the 1st announcement of a climate emergency was in december 2016 here in the city of darwin in the northern suburbs of melbourne. since then move in 3100 local governments. in 39 countries have declared a state of climate emergency. the question is, how effective are these declarations at galvanizing action? what i saw with the emergency term it helped with mind is not the government. people realize that this is something that is happening if there's a lot of means you have to do something. the next step is to make sure people understand why it's happening at the making the fossil fuel and to speak to the crime in the merch. when the pen demik happened, there was meaningful, urgent action. i mean, it was a real emergency response. do you think having seen that will lead is even think of

climate as an emergency? i don't think that world leaders really thought of the type of texas as an emergent because we saw how fast the response was when it was the probing. and the questions here is, why is the corporate send them the difference in the time of crisis? it's because because we put them in, can reach the us as in the government, them, it can reach the foster, it's something upset and them and that's why responses so widespread in math. but if it wasn't somebody that stuff like that, there are diseases that are still killing people today would be ignored because it's not a threat to the rich old white man in power for decades pull and fundable, people who have borne the brunt of the climate crisis however, as unpredictability and danger has inch closer and closer to wealthy communities and countries, it's become clear that nowhere is safe in a world run on fossil fuels. it is taking good media

a while to catch up with this reality. in the last 3 years, we've seen events taking place in developed countries like floods in germany and hurricanes in the us, etc. they get far more global media coverage then developing countries to the countries of my desk. but in most i'm be in a matter of 3 weeks, got hit by it's theresa obsessive side gloves. dealed, hundreds of people made tens of thousands of homeless. so who is affected masters to the so called global media ex very northern media. the reporting their floor reflects their inherent bias. the don't expect people to die in the floods. in germany. you expect it may be in poor countries, but you don't expect to see if you can imagine this sort of thing happening. you know, you just know here, there was a time when i was talking to a journalist and i said that the philippines has the highest number of extreme weather events in the best of years. and they said, oh, so it's normal for you now. and if i was supposed to be seen as normal,

but instead something that shouldn't be happening to anyone. i've been on panels with climate activists from the global north and then me from the south. and all the questions about the solutions are only asked to them. and i only get to talk about the impact the experience of the trauma, the sad part. and so while i know it's so important to communicate the impacts of the same prices and the impact of, excuse me, whether events, every opportunity i have, i always love to talk about the solution. this is one of the best direct forecasting. certainly the best type loan for gusting and evacuation in the whole world. we can learn any back to it more than 3000000 people. we have school kids who are trained and mobilized to make sure that nobody's left behind. they will house the house to bring the windows and the old people to the shelter. and now that doesn't mean that the cycling doesn't cause a lot of damage. it does, but people don't die anymore. over the past 3 decades, the global climate crisis response has moved through different phases. the 1st there was a mitigation approached commitments were made to drastically reduce emissions of

greenhouse gases and to protect the design from now on industrialized countries that apply to the protocol and have a clear obligation to reduce emissions. some serious steps were taken, but the action wasn't concerted enough or consistent enough. the 2nd phase was about adaptation. there was an acceptance a resignation to the reality of climate breakdown. governments realize they need to pass hon areas and populations for the impacts. the adaptation funds would benefit from additional financing this year. this is critical for developing countries which urgently need assistance to cope with. increasing climate change impacts. malware in the face with a main focus is on lawson damage. trying to put a figure on the destruction faced by country suffering, erosion, fires, floods and degradation as a result of the climate crisis. so things like in the pacific islands, at

a point in time, sea level rise will have impacts that cannot be adapted. and that because, well, some damage impacts that will result potentially in climate migration and displacement, force displacement because of climate change is not a well recognized phenomena in bangladesh. but i say it's happening in the blue link goes to so one of the country people are simply not able to continue to live there because of selling it to intrusion loss of their land. i mean, no one has the guns, document, loss of cultural production to, to climate change can. let's talk about lots of languages, lots of identity. all of these things happen when you lose the attachment to twice . there are huge and dramatic potential transformations tracking twice through. absolutely, north bolts on there are right. pacific islanders produce very little comp and emissions whatsoever. lawson damage and the question of climate financing has

become a bigger and more urgent subject up to date. you can see it with each passing cop gathering, especially cop $26.00 at glasgow and cope $27.00 in egypt. in fact, in egypt, these stablish ment of a loss of damage fund was seen as a sewage wind up the bottle is far from o is shavone, has been that enough negotiating tables to know pacific island countries, caribbean countries have for 20 years plus asked for climate finance to address lawson damage impacts. these became huge issue given cop 26. i trusted a specific position that got supported by the whole, the guard and south g 77 and was hugely resisted by the united states. this being that climate science is just science. every thing is political, that's why the 1000000000 us dollars will play. that's fine. us in the form of loans and not in the form of brand. why should we have to go into that to your

country is when you pause. the reason why we'd have to borrow money when the floods happened in germany, the, the chances of germany and the visited the flood victims. and she immediately gave them in the order of $500000000.00 euros for less than damage that they had suffered. similarly, in the united states of america, when party can either get more than 50 american citizens, president vitamin visited deadman rick knowledge. this was probably the climate change and provided about $50000000.00 us dollars as nothing damage compensation for that. now these are perfectly good, respectable things that lead to should do. but when glen marco came to glasgow and joe biden came to glasgow in with the developing countries asked for money, they didn't give us a single sense. the notion of natural dissolves comes with a set of visuals. not only all these disasters, not solely natural visual, and should be highly different. they should be seen from cold off the cold weather

orland gas lobby escaped to alta k commitments on emissions reduction the footage that should play after ins. devastating earthquake should be a big real estate developers signing off on shoring materials and building standards and is all a nation's russell with coastal erosion regionals. lets see images of ramp at mining percent and minerals alone course. none of these would work for the kind of restless coverage. we think of climate events, but they certainly wouldn't be much more relevant all through. this is austin a coals by human choices that enables an even reward. human induced climate change . this has happened for decades now, generation after generation, and the bed and flows, the natural devastation and the needful corrective action has full and on every young people. when i talk to young people nowadays in any country including my own,

i tell them that as of now, your responsibility is to be a global citizen 1st and a citizen of your own country. second, this is a global solidarity movement of young people. we haven't seen that from the politicians. if they came to block school, they decided, well, you know, not much of an emergency here, as far as we can see. and then, you know, great offend bartlett's out from the st, shouting and the kid for on the food shopping. this is ridiculous, and they came in on their jets. they made a speech, and they flew out of their jets. and for them, it was business as usual, so dangerous. it's difficult to change takes time, hopefully with new generation. so people being better educated, we would see the sprague of this. and that's the way forward invite you to definitely many of the justices young people from across the world can collaborate together. why can't are real need his library? we have some just against the risk at the same time,

facing out the roots of excitement sizes which are colonialism. interior is an end of profit already in the system that we have. and so the only way to really solve the type of crisis is to change the system. but why we're doing that. we have to make sure that we mitigate the risk and the possibility of seeing as much as you can. right now. the a viagra cultural revolution promised abundance, but it's damaging the planet to this system is destroying the habitat that leeway explodes. how sacrificing by diversity for maximum deals is leading to food and security, and 1st name on the very existence of leaving the any se, on able to adapt to climate change. the need to rethink mode. we so full have the plan is on. out is era revealing eco

friendly solutions to come back to our planet. on l. g 0 as temperature as rise due to climate change, morocco is experiencing at the system trumped sufficiently. that the actual gain of ancient traditions pass down through generations may offer a valuable solution. this will newer homes deal, though. okay, it'll show to him that he found his era exclusive persistence and ingenuity of helping the country to overcome a major challenge of its time. africa's new directions that goes of water on al jazeera, heavy pricing. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. it's the consequence of war. the human suffering that we have a full time. we brave bullets and bonds and some of the world's most trouble regions. the army fled in the face of idols, advance. it is one of the most serious thoughts of violence in recent years. in some instances, we are the targets because we give voice to those demanding freedom,

the rule of law. and we always include the views from all sides. the a message from you, a french president, is a manual ma chrome who owns the potential deal with russia must don't mean the surrender of ukraine. as donald trump pushes for us to switch and to the complex spoken to president and white people who are dealing with him constantly and these people in particular, and then want to do so with this, what i do, i can deals with life is deals and so like those deals, the hello i'm new ways of helping this is audra 0 life from the how also coming up.