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growth. lake chad remains a life source for millions of people but as it continues to shrink water is becoming an ever scarcer and more valuable resource. and so our arable land and the fish in the lake as lake chad get smaller competition for these resources will become increasingly bitter. even now fishermen in the region are competing for dwindling stocks of carp nile perch and to latvia. we've climate change there is a key impact. in that it is definitely distribution and department of fish and is that in mind it's a fishing industry as well so. it touches on the major level strategies of people on doing this. really for miles it does. the region surrounding like chad is emblematic of the close connection between
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climate change and migration. you know cannot past we had a lot of fish good fish we sold them here are over in nigeria but now they have problems with terrorists and here we have no more fish in our lake. some lake chad to indonesia farmers can no longer rely on predictable seasons for planting and harvesting the climate has become a threat there are hurricanes cycling's drought flooding mudslides and wildfires and the melting permafrost could soon exacerbate all of those around the globe. on the american continent people are fleeing drought in northern brazil in the caribbean and the southern united states it's hurricanes. in africa people are
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leaving the arabs the hill region some will likely head north to europe. in spain italy and greece people will also flee the rising heat. in asia coastal regions are vanishing under rising oceans people are fleeing to higher ground in river deltas like bangladesh. the south sea islands will be completely submerged. how many people will have become climate refugees by 2050 we know the moment approximately 20000000 people have been displaced every year numbers more or less true for the last decade so we can say that on the climate change population growth possibly more vulnerable populations this number is going to grow if you look today we know that every year at least 25000000 people flee so fast forward 30 years so that's why i think if you go through to figure. millions
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is not the very highest amount. this year if i had to estimate i'd say maybe a 5th or a quarter of the world's population will be forced to migrate. so that's about 2 to 3000000000 people. 3 internationally. for journalists just because the. decisive showdown over this week as their prime minister urged defeat could last
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family from somalia go live around the world. needed urgent assistance and. the family starts oct any on. the backs. of the but . this is deja vu news live from berlin the end of an era one of africa's most polarizing leaders robert mugabe has died at the age of 95 for some the former president of zimbabwe was a freedom fighter for others a brutal dictator will look at his complex legacy and ask how people in zimbabwe
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are likely to remember him. also coming up hong kong's freedoms must be guaranteed to german chancellor angela merkel's message to chinese leaders on day one of her state visit she says dialogue is the only solution to the ongoing political crisis but. the big. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has died at the age of 95 the news was confirmed by current president amberson magog who mourned him as an icon of liberation mugabe was zimbabwe's 1st post independence leader and he held on to power for nearly 4 decades but during that time he ruled the country with an iron fist crushing dissent to lend waste to the economy he was ousted by his own military 2 years ago
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a move met with widespread celebration. all right we have with us here in our studio christine were anchor of news africa and we also have a correspondent privileged motion video who's on the line with us now from zimbabwe now we're going to give you our full coverage talking to both our guests about mugabe's death in his legacy but 1st let's look back at his story. robert mugabe's political career began in the 1960 s. with the formation of a radical anti colonialist movement dedicated to fighting white minority rule. after zimbabwe became independent $980.00 elections were held and robert mugabe's sana apologies borne by a landslide. gabi became the country's 1st black prime minister striking a turn a free conciliation and forgiveness despite his militant past. but
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hopes for a peaceful political transition when for failed. political tensions and violence between mccarthy supporters and political opponents persisted about government forces were responsible for killing thousands of civilians. during the 1980 s. and early ninety's he was a welcome guest around the world but by the mid 1990 s. the once venerated freedom fighter was attracting international criticism for his increasingly more to critique rural. white farmers were driven from their land by mugabe's supporters. that. dissent was violently quashed opposition leaders when timid aged and beaten. nearby believing the he she him if. they were always the.
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babbit in control. but the people of zimbabwe suffered under his rule when mugabe ordered a purge of zimbabwe's slums entire neighborhoods were raised to the ground and up to a 1000000 people made homeless. economically mugabe in ruins and bob with a country that had once been africa's breadbasket. while his people were starving mugabe a celebrated his 91st birthday with a lavish party costing a reported $1000000.00. he once said that only god could remove him from office but in the end robert mugabe's insatiable will to power proved his undoing. off to firing his followers president emerson to install his wife grace as his 2nd in command the military intervened good
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morning zimbabwe in a defacto coup they placed mugabe under house arrest after 37 years in power he was forced to step down. sparking celebrations in the streets of harare. the roma. some especially africa will honor mugabe's legacy in the fight against white oppression but many around the world will remember him as the continent's most notorious dictator. let's speak to our correspondent privilege mashal vittie who is on the line with us from zimbabwe privilege you are in the town of car riba how is the news of mugabe's death being received there. the news has been
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received with meet different needs to receive reactions. this is we can see it's being divided according to generations the old the generation that. saw. going to lead to the war liberation and coming back to an independent one with all the rest of the nation at least taking him is a hero liberated the country so then with you look at some of the younger generation that i've spoken to they are taking him as a man who presided over. it became a door decades or the economy again but do some of you have knowledge in saying that the credit him for education in this country is enjoying i think if you look at zimbabwe it is regarded as one of the african countries with the highest
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literacy levels so these are divided between generation the older generation taking him is a liberator and the younger generation we have built of what has been happening in the country and this will only can only france is the best and that presided over. it became the corner of the economy and also is a dictator you have privileges that mixed legacy that we're hearing a lot about today zimbabwe's current president. took to twitter following mccarthy's death let's take a look at who wrote it was what with the most sadness that he announced his passing and he called him an icon of liberation who dedicated his life to the of anticipation and empowerment of his people this is something you were just touching on but do you think mugabe will be remembered more as a hero or a dictator. i think in the latter part. of the independent see for the past the generation that is that's what i'm democrat
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is true in the past 15 to 20 years they will remember you made this big. articularly with the human rights record that he left. but for the old this generation sees you leave and the reason it's being even if you look at the african continent but interesting some of the younger generation the people that are spoken to they are saying that and looking at the past year that mugabe is not the in thing he's the government that is in power right now growing to recognize him when he was taken out it is the fact that. are an interesting question for future of zimbabwe as well our correspondent privilege that is speaking to us from thank you so much privilege and as we said we have the news africa and her christine was with us here in our
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studio here from zimbabwe and we should say you were in harare to cover mugabe sow sir in 2017 so a lot to talk about there but 1st let's watch a clip from back then november 21st 2070. kristie look at those images of pure celebration there on the streets in 2017 what did that moment mean to you as the zimbabwean sumi i was i was born in zimbabwe and when i was young and our family moved over the border to south africa a few years after that it became very clear that we were never going to go back to where there was never going to be a life for us there i grew up hearing tales of how difficult life was you know cousins would call and tell us how hard things are my parents made the toss up of
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going to zimbabwe spending money on the trip versus giving the money to relatives who desperately needed it you know i was listening when we had the hiv epidemic break out way people died because of not being able to access medicine family members we lost a lot of it it's so i'm standing there and i had never thought it had never occurred to me in my life even in my reporting life that they would be a day mugabe would resign that mugabe would be alive and not president of zimbabwe so that i shot seconds off to the to hearing the news that mugabe had resigned and i could remember just being in a state of shock not believing what i was saying and people around me celebrating the news that this this man had gone and for me it felt like this is it now for this country that this was the person who was standing in the way of this country being the prosperous nation that i had been told by my parents it used to be that that was the bread pasta that my you know that that there was no one hungry in zimbabwe that there was freedom and no oppression at least in the in the early
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years of mugabe so i thought well is this it now is this is this the zimbabwe that maybe i could live in and that really own my country so that was what was there of course we sit here today and you know that's a different story sumi but that was what that moment was like and certainly that's what those people who were around me felt like those people around you we should say were mostly young people and privileged touched upon this as well this perhaps generational divide on how people see robert mugabe in zimbabwe what can you say about that it's it is just that you know i was on the phone this morning with my uncle used he's in his late sixty's. he said to me christine it's a sad day for zimbabwe we've lost our hero that's who he talks about when i say mugabe the dictator he doesn't know who i'm talking about when i say of mugabe the oppressor he disagrees with that narrative altogether because he sees the freedoms i have today the pride i have as a black man they gave to me so you do have the people who lived in rhodesia to see who was so mugabe come in and liberate them you know my mom was telling me this
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morning she remembers people dying at a stampede in the stadium come back from was a beacon people just wanted a good of this man this is who these people remember that hero the person who liberated them then you have young people some of them who by the way i mean in these 34 years in power only knew the let's off easy is the difficulty they didn't even know the bitter years in the beginning when he came in so it is very much so it's also a bit of the urban rural divide you go to the rule areas and you talk about mugabe it's almost as if they're living in another generation as well as a different country that is mugabe country stronghold those of the people will kill because they believe in what he did and he was very sure to look after them in the rural areas you know people have a patch of land and they grow the tomatoes and they say this is because of mugabe in the urban areas young people struggling for jobs graduates who come out of university and there's no prospects for that and they are very much quickly at a critical off this president so.

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