and india. this is new news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the teenager is putting climate change on the agenda school children in uganda skip cause to demonstrate for the environment we'll be talking to one of the students as the full brunt of the fridays for future protests in kampala. also take you to nairobi way world leaders gathered to talk about climate change will also give they achieve more than just posing for the cameras and giving speeches. and what's it like to be mistaken for a whale. to get a firsthand account from the south african diver had an out of this world encounter with the beast of the ocean.

a pristine wonder welcome to news africa i'm glad. the climate change movement started by the swedish teenager great touch who has seen schoolchildren from all over the world walk out of cross on fridays in protest aimed at bringing attention to climate change in uganda a group of students held a demonstration in solidarity with the movement in the capital kampala now because of strict laws in uganda on public protests they were restricted as to how far they could go from the school but the students weren't made the best of the situation. and. i spoke to a and i will get with a student championing the hash tag fridays for future in uganda i asked her why she decided to become an activist for the environment where they say that to become an . we're meant to use was because when they and so what ghetto us chain to him play

and how country i was a traitor in played saying to bend and they said it was really a bad cause. the outcomes first chain. of outcomes uganda is expressing very now in climate change so i was going to say i did take part in the. yeah ok so great it was an inspiration for you but talk to us about the challenges in uganda what are the climate challenges in your country. and the challenges uganda is expressing now is the first isha there's a lot of deforestation there's a lot of there's a week a show. from grange there. this is really affecting ground there this is really a fake team may feel a student at some of them unknown to him going to school. so there are lots of

there a lot of changes uganda's experience ok so what is you'll you'll miss people in uganda who don't think that climate change is an urgent matter what is your message to them. my message to them is that when they say that cutting down trees it's not affecting our lives. when they cut down trees are going to leave us so bad that is going to say and for to me will they give the for that they want. i'm giving them them i say that they're made because they want to make a down just because they want to want but they're affecting someone else's lay someone instance future behaving that's so bad. that does a trick a show on things they've read so they should know things knowing whether it's. ok thank you lee and i will get with the student championing the hashtag

friday's will feature in uganda thank you ok now staying on the subject of climate change here's a not so fun fact for you germany a country with significantly less sun than virtually any country in africa generates more solar power than the whole continent combined so it's really no surprise that leaders gathered at the one planet summit in kenya said africa needs more money and better science to protect it from climate change now at the summit billions of dollars were committed to the cause is kenya's president kenyatta climate change continues to be a major threat to sustainable development worldwide its impact place is disproportionately everybody poor and vulnerable we must therefore integrate climate action and sustainable development in our

collective efforts to achieve the objectives and other part of the greenland of the twenty thirty agenda for sustainable development. i'll be talking to the un's assistant secretary general about that one planet summit in nairobi in a moment but first to a group of kenyan environmentalist going to great lengths to raise awareness about the harmful effects of plastic they built an entire boat out of plastic waste to highlight the importance of recycling. the good ship flipflop you set sail on a mission it's the first sailing vessel built completely out of plastic waste incorporating around thirty thousand flip flops and other garbage the team took two years and ten tons of plastic to build this ten meter vessel on lamu island off the kenyan coast we had this dream of being recycled plastic to us there was so much crying about the plastic. we feel

responsibility eight million tons of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans every year and some of it makes landfall here in kenya this group of environmental activists want to change that they collected garbage and raised money to build the guard they even have the support of the united nations program to combat climate change it seems so simple to me it's so obvious the motivation is just to share something positive we wanted to have a colorful beautiful message and that's what the flip flop is it's really. positive message about plastic being valuable. and aside from floating a message to save the environment so far flip floppy has managed swimmingly on her five hundred kilometer voyage from mood to zanzibar. the u.n. is one of the co-chairs off the one planets and joining me now from nairobi is such as the he is the un's assistant secretary general he's also the head of the new

york office at u.a.b. vironment welcome to africa mr party we've been talking to young. taking part in the fight. for future movement you attended one of those protests in nairobi today but i wanted you to talk to whether or not you're satisfied with the outcome of this summit you've got youngsters out on the streets you've got politicians in a room can you deliver concrete solutions for these young people well i think the young people are. on the streets for the right reasons and they should do more of it if you ask me. primarily because it is their future we are talking about. and it is their generation that needs to take responsibility for what has happened to learn from our generation that has not been very responsible in its behavior here we have created the planet i mean we're talking about a continent that's only responsible for four percent of global greenhouse emissions

we sometimes hear some leaders on the continent talk about the fact that this is not a problem that we've created and so those that have created the problems should be the ones to commit the resources to fix it what is your message to the does he speak like that. well i think you know the i wouldn't argue with them because these are a sovereign countries with responsibilities and they have their views which is perhaps rooted in the facts as they see it but what i would say is that the time to change our practices our behavior and the time to become sustainable is now and i would urge those leaders to not be led by the destructive policies of other countries and other governments that have seen large scale devastation of natural resources and that has literally brought the planet to the level of bankruptcy or

not are a source bankruptcy that it faces now so there's nothing to learn there there is there are lessons to draw and i urge all those leaders to step back and see the facts for what they are and chart out a very different pathway reynolds right message about it very quickly if you could money has been committed here money has been pledged and it's not unusual a lot of these summits this is what tends to happen but how can we can we be sure of the fact that this money is actually going to go to the places that it's it's said it's going to be going to. i think it's about creating a bard partnerships it's about realising the potential of new ideas and there is no dearth of money we have for too long focused on public finances that is governments contributing or a set of governments contributing for a set of countries that are in need of it but as i think the true promise lies in mobilizing private finance for public good and in that you know just to give an

example of the pension funds of the world. together manage about eighteen trillion dollars if even five percent of those resources were channelized into sustainable development and climate sensitive agriculture climate margaret culture i think the world will change right i don't think there is any doubt of resources it is just the lack of imagination such as your party the un's assistant secretary general thank you and now we bring you the story of the man who was almost a swallowed by a whale which is seen in the picture behind me is a diver by the name of raina shem caught in the jaws of a bride's whale this happened along the southern coast of south africa while he was filming sharks feeding his show on how he survived and what he thinks we can learn from his experience. what happened was it suddenly got dark and i felt some pressure by him and being pushed forward and only then i realized

a whale had grabbed me but you can't panic. room for painting you always have to become and i think i did the right thing otherwise we would be able to. as we lift on that very day from port elizabeth harbor we drove about thirty nautical miles south into the indian ocean and we found a bait ball of birds feeding on fish so i started adjusting my camera and start taking pictures of sharks going through the ball of fish and then out of a sudden without any further notice from my left side something gretly and push me through the water and i realised instantly that it must be a whale it got pinched like and dark and only then i started my thinking process in terms of it was more a reaction process because i knew you can't swallow me so most likely you will die of. old by breath and fortunately this gentle giant realised very quickly that i

was nice prey and he pushed me out again with the water in his throat once i realised it was a whale and that i could still think i had no fear whatsoever but there was also no time for there was only time for reaction what it actually shows us the whale instantly really realized his mistake and imagine how it would have been a big piece of plastic it would have swallowed me and at the end of the day he would have died now we are able as humans to prevent plastic in the sea and this is what we must do we must help these creatures to survive and this is the message which goes out of the. and believe that they have from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and our facebook page we need you now with more pictures from the first fridays for future crises in uganda and kenya next time i think. such

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