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we talk about resolutions we never really know heidi will unfold and that's why we must organize them as evolutionary as possible but i'm pleased to say i was talking to talk about a climate change in foreign policies will also be the walks it will tend to be much of a climate protection is a human task as i think it is we must pay this price because otherwise we pay completely different prices the political will be volatile sions really need to act and not only claim to be doing something to try to school point that it's not enough to give me the. police are coming up us democrats face off in another presidential debate we'll talk about the candidates agenda to defeat donald trump and if any can take down the leading hopeful joe biden you just said 3 minutes ago that they would have to moderate you said they would have to run the bar are you forgetting what you said right it's really hard

for. a warm welcome to all of us around the world and on p.b.s. in the united states it's great to have you with us we start the day with germany's last ditch attempt to stave off embarrassment on a global stage and little over a week at the u.n. climate action summit brings together a signature used to the paris climate accord and it is that. in new york the german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to unveil a raft of new measures designed to get germany back on track including billions of euros in investment to clean up the country's transport system that is if a coalition can't agree until now political infighting has paralyzed her climate cabinet germany's environment minister says that the government should fall if coalition parties cannot come up with the goods speaking in parliament earlier this week made an appeal for action. that's a user then a mensch right i see it as a challenge for mankind it's

a question of whether we as industrialized nations are prepared to do something about her fit to print in terms of resources and consumption that industrialized nations are at the forefront of overcoming this footprint as well as stopping or reducing the rise in temperatures stick with it about 2 and stick stop to be. naturals a power base to be the climate chancellor follows a string of elections in germany and europe which show a big boost for green issues to friday's feature rallies have been a key part of the change and today protesters kept up the pressure on merkel by forming a human chain around the chancellor to did mond more action. and across the atlantic the teenager who started the global movement play to turn back let the fridays for future rally in washington taking a protest to the steps of donald trump's white house unlike chancellor merkel the u.s. president openly doubts the science of climate change and is pushing

a fossil fuels agenda b.w. washington correspondent on a sun it was at the demonstration outside the white house and sent us this. she might not have attracted records of protesters but gratitude work does get attention on her trip to the united states trying to raise awareness for climate change in a country where she says that some believe it but others don't well get a tumor it wants to change exactly that and her biggest appearances still lie ahead of her with more protests an invitation to testify before congress and her participation at the climate action summit at the united nations. on of the salat there and joining me here in the studio this evening is miranda scheuer a professor of environment and climate policy good evening to you thank you very much for joining us today now we saw data to back in washington d.c. today she's the son of a young woman some people cry. the tape with force saying i'm going to market in fact to you know walk the talk on climate policy to what extent germany dropped the

ball on the environment well it's absolutely right that germany in the past set really high standards and really was pushing forward on climate change but we saw that some of these targets weren't being met so in some areas renewable energy chairman is really succeed in and now has about 38 percent of its electricity from renewables but on the other hand when you look at the transport sector or if you look at the building sector there's still a lot to be done in the 2020 targets that were set in the past aren't being met and you said earlier why not what went wrong for germany well i think part of the problem is that the focus was too much on a single area which was the electricity sector and building wind turbines and solar photovoltaic but not enough was being done to expand public transport and particularly to deal with the problem of coal in the system lots of carbon dioxide emissions and transport we still have

a lot of cars on the road let's pick up on that point because america is called on the private sector now to invest heavily in transport she's admitted that it can they in task in her own words i mean is that the sense that there was the concern of losing this country's economic motive do you think and is transport the right area to be reforming now it has to be reformed because it's a 3rd of the emissions it needs to be reformed it's a big part of the german economy maybe 800000 jobs in the the transport sector directly and even more indirectly so it's a hard sector to change the conventional engine is actually a job motor and so now moving over to battery cars electric cars or hydrogen fuel cars will have required a lot of shifts in the entire chain of production so it's a hard shift but it has to be made and if we don't make it we can expect others to . make it either so it's a shift that has to be made in transport and of course in cold as well that is

another key area and one of merkel's commission set up said that they would reduce dependence on coal by i mean 2038 i'm not an expert but that strikes me as a little bit too late it's a phase to phase out so some of the coal fired power plants will be shut down before then but you're absolutely right 2038 when you see how quickly global temperatures are rising 2030 it is really very late so let's let's push it up let's make it a lot earlier and that would also help make the 2030 climate targets that are being set a little bit more manageable i mean targets the one thing what about enforcement i mean how do you police this because you only have to take a look at germany's recent economic history folks fog and for example the emissions scandal there how do you go about making sure that people stick to their commitments well something that hasn't been really done enough in the past is to really hold each ministry in each large industrial sector accountable for the achievements and to take measures when they're not meeting their goals step by step

to make sure that steps are taken that they do meet them in the future and of course as we know that the actions of industrial powerhouses like germany has international consequences and ramifications especially for poor countries the world expanding deserts are not a pressing environmental issue a united nations conference in india has been looking at how to deal with the problem which is threatening food supplies in many parts of the world i want to talk about that miranda off to this report from india when priest seeing looks at the fields in his village tears come to his eyes here and how young are they used to grow millet and make a good living from it today the land is bone dry in fact 30 percent of india's land is no longer usable why because of climate change and the leeching of fields by intensive agriculture. yes i mean meddling chargin 1000 years ago our soil was fertile but then there was less and less rain and we had to irrigate. now the

ground water has too many minerals in the soil is salty that's why farmers can't grow anything here anymore what do you get me a. priest saying visit his cousin arrest his family and arrest was a farmer and had taken out a loan for seeds but the harvest never came the bank would no longer accept his dry farmland as collateral then last year in arrest committed suicide now his family doesn't know how to make ends meet. yiyan that is many farmers have had to give up part out thousands of hectares of land have become infertile many families have met the state not just now russia's all the farmers in the country are suffering but nobody cares. every year 10000000 hectares of arable land are lost worldwide this is a global problem this year's un conference against desert occasion was attended by more countries than ever before india's prime minister narendra modi promised that

by 2030 his country would make 26000000 hectares of land fertile again other countries want to follow suit and experts say it's high time that some countries can read. and it is actually all food that we had to pay to at the same time land is the best security of the promise have for many communities that don't have access other than land so any land to the addition would mean poverty would mean reducing income for poor communities would mean the basics of the regular migration of. reforestation irrigation intelligent land use the global community wants to reverse the earth's desert a fixation by 2030 but this will cost billions. investing on land that is floating degraded land preventing further. division from ecosystems research because topping the bleeding and secondly healing the wounds and now preach sing wants to started

to certification project in his village he wants farmers to sow an old plant species to sit at least be able to get the salt out of the soil and make the fields fertile again but it will take some year ice. kind of prophecy expert miranda shreyas is still with me here in this you hear i mean as we just saw in that report the situation is clearly acute in india at times heartbreaking we saw one farmer even take his life in life but what about the situation in europe. oh we have also in europe in recent years seen more and more of big fires we have seen a loss of land we've seen droughts here in germany and germany is a country that in the past was always thought of as a rather wet country so the climate is rapidly changing and. we're also pursuing agricultural practices here that are very intensive in terms of how they use the land so here too the combination of climate change and agricultural practices could

lead to more of what we're seeing in india in the future if we're not careful i think maybe we also have to year start to think more carefully about how we use our water maybe we also need to think a little bit more if there aren't ways to irrigate when we do in more efficient ways and maybe we also have to rethink our entire food structures what we eat how we eat because it's all interconnected it is interconnected and people you know often dismiss the fact that ecology and economy also interconnected let's talk about the money then for a minute because all the economic benefits to more responsible land use oh there are so many benefits because exactly what we saw with this this india case if the land is lost than you have lost your productive base you need that that productive land in order to be able to have farms to be able to grow crowd. in order to develop thing so so it's really critical that we think of ways to make sure that we

protect a landed it's also very important for bio diversity if you have healthy lands the new also or a boy likely to have healthy bio diversity so it's a combination of losses that if we don't care for the land than in the end we are really pain a very heavy price absolutely professor at miranda scheuer as from the the variance cool of public policy thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us tonight thank you the goes without saying that we must and will the flea troll the most dangerous president in their history of this country fart we martz more we martz do more well that might just be the one thing that the democratic presidential candidates in of the us can agree on the party has held its 3rd round of primaries debates in houston as part of the long process to decide who will take on president donald trump in the 2020 elections it

was the 1st time that the leading candidates were all on one stage together and it soon became apparent there was stark ideological differences among the contenders these pictures aka to see if a.b.c. news tapes of a fast time in these democratic primaries front run a moderate joe biden faced his tune main challenges progressive's and as a both warren and bernie sanders korea in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita or on health care is the canadians or any other major country on earth this is america europe and america so want to pay twice as much as other countries and their car to health care to all people we all owe a huge debt to president obama who fundamentally transformed health care in america and committed this country to tell you everything. and now the question is how best can we improve on it and i believe the best way we can do that

is we make sure that everybody gets covered by health care to support the debate took place in texas a buddhist state to mass shootings have taken place this summer alone and i wonder then that alongside health care immigration and gun control dominated that's about some lower polling candidates to come to for your co yes we're going to take your 15 great reporting thank you had thank you. but i will leave change on this issue because i have seen what the corniche creates in communities like mine i think we have to compete for talent and i am the opposite of donald trump in many ways he says build a wall i'm going to say to immigrants come to america because if you come here your son or daughter can run for president committee the top 10 democratic candidates took part thursday night twice that number remain in the field the race is still young but if the democrats are to win against president trump in 2020 they will

need to find a clear on such a question of what exactly that party stands for. differences. and to take a look at how the field is shaping up the standout issues i want to bring in tyson baka now fellow at the truman national security project in good to see you tyson to be here now the stage is. getting a little bit less caught it shrinking it's getting a bit more serious does that change the debate i mean i think that there were some clarity there was some clarification particularly around you know the progressives versus the moderates on health care and you know this is really the issue that is symbolic is frayed symbolism for so many democrats because of as we saw in the midterm elections of 2018 what really was the motivating factor for people to come out to vote number one issue was health age or economic issues so drawing those kind of ideological contrast here is really where we're seeing real real play out here vision as well as in the democratic party indeed i mean it was a marathon of

a debate 3 hours talking about health but also other issues like guns race education as well and i sort of wonder what that says about where the country needs to go because you know you presume that the candidates are trying to on the voters' concerns right well i mean clearly and but let's be honest what they're trying to do is answer democrats concerned and a lot of these issues that you just mentioned health care education justice social justice generational justice are all somewhat proxies for economic issues so people what they're doing is saying what are our anxieties what kind of social anxieties are we bringing to our relationship with our state and with each other and those are a lot of economic issues but nobody really sticks with straight on and talk about the economy itself and that is really done from strikes so to miss talking about the economy and how it's not working for everyone is probably applies here not it's a blind spot and there are actually candidates clearly elizabeth warren and bernie

sanders who have tended to make this the kind of ideological fault line between the democrats and republicans in previous elections so we'll probably see that come up in future debates i want to touch a little bit more on the ideological fault line then again all of health care them because it and they i mean spoke to face this clashes right i mean let's take a listen to an exchange between bunny sound as joe biden on the issue and then i want to get your take on its worth. in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the canadians or any other major country on earth this america but america so want to pay twice since march i thought the countries so that we're told there from joe biden was interesting this is america i wonder if you think that will go to theas and do you think that health care could actually become essential vote to issue in the way for example that has in european elections i think it will undoubtedly be a central issue i mean anybody who remembers the primary the inspirational primary

that the world watched in 20072008 where you had barack obama versus hillary clinton the central issue in that primary was also health care again it was the 1st issue that president obama took on as his real issue that he built his presidency around so this is really an issue that the democrats are really taking on but you know this is this comes down to a really complex matter because the united states plays not just a role internally but globally as a leader in a lot of health care research funding that research creating markets for drugs and other systems good good medical systems and hospitals so this is it's really it's really quite complex it is complex i want to turn to another issue which actually i think you know we can also call a public health issue and that is gun control because iraq i mean it seems that he's been revived in the polls at least by his statements in the wake of the el paso shooting he advocated we saw on the stage for a site assault rifle by back to the government do you think that will play out well

for him in the long term well what we're seeing obviously is what his strengths were in texas in the in the midterm election which is that he is in the cream extremely in pathic communicator and candidate he really connected with the the citizens of a pass of his hometown obviously but you know what he said essentially you know about this forced buy back is going to be it's more than a dog whistle. it's a siren call to those who want to protect gun rights and this could also hurt democrats in the long term this could be quite cover productive and all these issues to bring down trump essentially i mean is that what is needed. we're still early in the phases i mean clearly the pitch that these candidates are making are really to the democratic base and they're trying to give them the red meat that the republicans got in their primary campaign in 2016 the question is will they follow the conventional path and take more to the center as the general election comes to play or will they continue to really really focus on energizing their base

maybe there are no swing voters any more maybe this is just about get turning out your base that's what trump's made his play on will the democrats by this i mean what's your sense tyson in terms of the nominee do you think it will be biden and his reported takedown of trump that could then school the nomination or do you think that ultimately people will go for more issues based more in for example if we're to take a lesson from yesterday's debate and if there is it was a winner a lot of people are saying it was biden what he did was basically consolidate his persona which is to say you know he hugged the obama legacy very tightly and he basically let off of our leaned on his watch that that he had built up as a 30 year legislature and politician in the democratic party for the coalition that he's built so far he knows he's already lost certain constituencies the progressives some of the educated white urban elites but he said if i can keep my constituency together that's enough to win the nomination and anything you saw last night that potentially would change the trajectory of this race i mean it was some interesting comments from my space younger candidates out there was it ana i mean

obviously there was some some hot aggressive action by some 2nd tier candidates particularly in castro her who critiqued who made what was considered to be a cheap shot by many regarding oh by my dad's age and what he said you know essentially if he could remember what he had just previously but that was it seemed to kind of turn against him so i think biden kind of held his own in that right tyson voc i thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us here on the day thank you. now the dispute over the final resting place of zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe appears to have been resolved a spokesman for the family says that they have agreed to allow him to be buried at the monument to national heroes in harare family and government had been adults over this with the family previously saying it wanted to bury him in his home village mr mugabe is currently lying in state at the roof are

a football stadium in this about bain capital. and correspondent premonition hearing is that and sent us this update controversy surrounding the final resting place of the former leader. has finally been resolved now be buried at the national shrine in harare on sunday is better our arrangements with a center of discussion in the past a few days where the family insisted that they wanted a private ceremony in his rural home while the government wanted him to be buried at the national heroes eka where most of the founding leaders of independent zimbabwe are buried hundreds of mourners continue to throng there to follow stadium inherited to pay their last respects at this place it is iconic in the sense that this is the place where robert mugabe was sworn in is the 1st black prime minister

of independent zimbabwe in $1080.00 he lives a complex legacy where some view him as a pan african east india liberator we liberated zimbabwe from the shit cause of colonialism while others take him as a dictator who presided over the decay of zimbabwean economy and also bed the human rights record but out mutely he remains one of the founding fathers of independent zimbabwe. privileges' fun hearing reporting there from harare. the announcement all over this year's official nobel prize is off still among the way but in the meantime some lucky one is already clutching their ignoble awards which were hunted out this week at harvard university no less well the annual contest celebrates ridiculous science honoring achievements that 1st make people laugh and then make them think now the prize for medicine went to evidence showing

that pizza can protect against illness and death but only if the pizza is made and eaten in italy apparently an italian scientists came up with that one i'm buying it the prize for psychology went to a german research a huge deep bank his own theory holding a pen in your mouth makes you happy he has now proved that it does not and accepting the prize for economics a dutch team who looked at which nations bank notes are better transmitting diseases if you're wondering it's romania's currency when asked about how to counter the problem they simply advise people to use their credit costs for all other winning projects included magnetised cockroaches and cube shaped walnut excrement from all of us thank you science well the day is always done but the conversation was continues online find us on twitter either at the w. school follow me at helen that c. home for you remember to use the hash tag of the day and of course thanks for

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