germany is set to miss its emission targets for 2020 tonight chancellor merkel gathers her cabinet charged with the task of getting germany back on track will they succeed and finally on to the demand of kids around the world calling for climate action now or will it be a full from grace for the former climate pioneer with consequences for us all i'm havin a home for him but this is the day. when we talk about resolutions we never really know heidi will unfold and that's why we must organize them as evolutionary as possible there are currently sort of 3 stockings of talk about the birth climate change but the theme for the policies will also be the water will then take yourselves into climate protection is a human task as i think you taste we must pay this price because otherwise we pay completely different prices politically the politicians really need to act and not

only claim to be doing something to try to school point that it's not enough like you need to. force their coming up us democrats face off in another presidential debate will 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 bargain words you said they would have to draw out of the bar you are you forgetting what you said it 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. on of aileron off to 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. yes i mention that 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 modes with. macros 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 future rallies have been a key part of that sea change and today protesters kept up the pressure on merkel by forming a human chain around the chancellery tooted mond more action. and across the atlantic the teenager who started the global movement play to turn back let the fridays for future run 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 sonnet was at the demonstration outside the white house and sent us this. she might not have attracted records of protesters but greater tuber 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 want 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. all 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 quite a tune in washington d.c. today she's the son of a young woman some people have cried. 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 succeeded 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 she 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 cells 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 lay 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 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 been 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 tonight 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 though 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 and 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 if they do meet them in the future but of course as we know 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 preached 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 imagine charter 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

. 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 dessert 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. it is actually creating a disabled land is the best security and a promise for many communities that don't have access. to any land to addition

would mean poverty would mean reducing income for poor communities would mean the basics of it are going to migration of. reforestation irrigation intelligent land use the global community wants to reverse the earth's desert if occasion by 2030 but this will cost billions. investing on land means restoring degraded land preventing further degradation from ecosystems which we call stopping the bleeding and secondly healing the wounds and now preach sing wants to start a deserted for cation project in his village he wants farmers to sow an old plant species there should at least be able to get the salt out of the soil and make the fields fertile again but it will take a year us. kind of policy expert miranda shreyas is still with me here in the studio i mean as we just saw in that report the situation is clearly a keep in india at times heartbreaking we saw one farmer even take his life in life

but what about the situation in europe. well 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 are 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 and 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 has lost the new have lost your productive base you need that that productive land in order to be able to have farms to be able to grow crops in order to develop things so so it's really critical that we think of ways to make sure that we protect the land and it's also very important for biodiversity if you have healthy lands than you also are more likely to have healthy biodiversity so it's a combination of losses that if we don't care for the land then in the end we are really paying a very heavy price absolutely professor marandi shires from the varian school of public policy thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us tonight thank you. goes without saying that we must and will.

drop the most dangerous president in the history of this country. for we march through more we must 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 hell that 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's soon became apparent that was stark ideological differences among the contenders these pictures aka of see if a.b.c. news tapes of a 1st time in needs democratic primaries front run a moderate joe biden faced his tune main challenges progressive's and as of both warren and bernie sanders korea in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita 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 they guarantee health care for all people we all owe a huge debt to president obama who fundamentally transformed health care in america and committed this country to help you thank you. 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 or support but it did they 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 cornish 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 as the question of what exactly the party stands for. differences present. 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. good to see you tyson to be here now the state just. adding a little bit less cottage shrinking it's getting a bit more serious to 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 and 28 team what really was the motivating factor for people to come out to vote number one issue was health care right people felt that they health care was under threat that obamacare was under threat the threat persists they see rising health care costs this can bankrupt families this is really a major economic issue 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. the voters' concerns right well i mean clearly what the but let's be honest what they're trying

to do is answer democrats concern and 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 see which trade on and talked 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 a price you're 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 then because it certainly i mean spoke to face this clashes right i mean let's take

a listen to an exchange between bernie sanders and joe biden on the issue and then i want to get your take on it or. in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita on health care it's the canadians or any other major country on earth is america you know but americans don't want to pay twice as much i thought that 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 voting issue in a 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 i think you know we can also call a public health issue and that is gun control because a rule 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 a cream extremely impact that communicator and candidate he really connected with the the citizens of el paso his hometown obviously but you know what he said

essentially you know about this 4th 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 tick 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 anymore maybe this is just about get turning out your base that's what trump's made his play on with the democrats because i mean what's your sense tyson in terms of the nominee do you think it will be biden and his support to take down a 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 orleans on his watch 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 or anything you saw last night that potentially would change the trajectory of this race and you know some interesting comments from i suppose younger candidates out there was it anna 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 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 walk 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 focal stadium in this about bain capital. and correspondent privileged mission harry is that and sent us this update the controversy surrounding the final resting place of the former leader. has finally been resolved you'll now be buried at the

national shrine in harare on sunday is better our arrangements with a center of discussion in the past 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 you know where most of the founding leaders of independent zimbabwe are buried hundreds of mourners continue to throng there to fire a stadium in harare 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 as 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 zimbabwe economy and also bear the human

rights record but out mutely he remains one of the founding fathers of independent zimbabwe. privilege was fun here reporting there from harare. the announcement of of this year's official nobel prize is off still a month away but in the meantime some lucky one is already clutching it can about awards which were hunted out this week at harvard university no less will be on your contest celebrates ridiculous sides 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 scientist came up with that one on buying it the price 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 house account of the problem they simply advise people to use their credit cards. well other winning projects included magnetised call croce's and cube shaped one but excrement from all of us thank you science well the day isn't my style but the conversation was continues online to find us on twitter at either the news or follow me at helena c humphrey remember to use the hash tag of the day and of course thanks for choosing to spend part of your day with us.

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