credible. coming tonight. 3 weeks w. . this is a shot coming off a dial warning see that one rise could affect large parts of asia in the next 30 years as a new study warns millions are facing the risk of displacement so i'll be. a scientist. plus. back at the table the u.s. and taliban are good but where we've talked and this time. and we need to feel some nuance fighting to change things green prejudice.

welcome to do. it's good to have you with us if you live in coastal areas of china bunch of ish india vietnam all time and you may have to move within the next 30 years the reason sea level rise. a new study predicts that by 2050 increases in sea levels due to melting ice sheets could affect more people than previously estimated cities such as shanghai. could be at risk of annual flooding and by 2100 some areas me go permanently underwater i just like to emphasize here that this is just a new estimate based on a new land elevation model let's just take jakarta of the map of jakarta behind me as an example to my right is an earlier prediction showing the areas that could be

prone to and will flooding by 2015 here is the new estimate mumbai here is the earlier estimate and right here is what has been predicted same before an officer not with bangkok behind me each of the maps shows the same thing more areas at risk of annual flooding then earlier estimated so what does it mean for people we asked some in bangkok. don't have don't ban alcohol is a crucial role for the functioning of the whole country the moment the city is flooded all this would be severely disturbed they have been a huge loss for us to have to lay family kark and it would also cause massive problems in the provinces because all the people needing there would cause other problems it would cause huge problems for me if i had to move because of the flooding because i knew next of climate change i'm worried about the future of my children and grandchildren and how they will be able to deal with this problem and

how they will build their lives it will drive you know is a benjamin strauss c.e.o. and chief scientist at climate central that did the study starts welcome this study paints a very scary picture to say the least of rising sea levels and disappearing cities of your doomed. no i don't think. the study is alarming i want to be clear there's no revision to how quickly the seas are rising or how far but we did discover that land elevations and coastal areas are much lower than we thought they were but then of course this means that when it comes to large populations and those are just bank. amongst others they stand a very real chance of either being flooded annually all going below the tide level yes we did find that hundreds of millions of people live on land that we're

projecting to either but one of the elevation of high tide or the end you of global by mid century we also discovered about 100000000 people are living on land that is already below the high tide level which means to us that they must be protected by coastal defenses so the silver lining to this study is that it shows that coastal defenses major event populations at scale and fact already if you're doing so but a number of these cities that i've been quoted in this study. and decision making and the speed with which governments potentially react to oncoming disasters is very different to the rest of the world what would your advice be to a number of the asian countries that have been featured in this study. well i think there's an appreciation growing in asia that every day every morning you get when

a hurricane is coming saves lives and saves property and really the same idea is true for sea level rise but it's every decade with every decade of we can get in advance to take action we are going to save neighborhoods and cities and so i think it's important to look very seriously at these projections of increasing risk frankly any city which floods easily when it rains today in a coastal area is probably already sitting at or near the high tide line and the reason it floods so easily is because the water really can't get anywhere very quickly very easily because it's so so i think places that are in trouble will be able to see that quite easily and i recommend that they look to collect even more accurate elevation data but look also to understand what options they have to respond which range from increasing current defenses to building new defenses to

finding ways to accommodate some of the flooding where you can relocating neighborhoods that can't easily be defended but i do think that time is of the sense to minimize the economic harm and the harm to lives and livelihoods if we're going to do this in an orderly way. try to talk to ben your instructor of from a climate central country very much for speaking to us do you. remember this picture behind me it's from one of the 9 rounds of talks held between the u.s. and taliban in doha in qatar the aim was to agree to a deal that would see u.s. troops leave afghanistan a so-called deal in principle was agreed by both sides that would have seen troop numbers reduced but then u.s. president donald trump canceled the talks the reason the death of one u.s. soldier in a taliban attack but now it appears the talks are back on the u.s. president saying talks with the taliban are underway during a surprise visit to u.s.

troops on thanksgiving in of them saying the taliban wants to make a deal and we're meeting with them and we're saying it has to be a cease fire they wanted to cease fire but now they do want to do a ceasefire i believe it probably work out that way and we'll see what happens but we made tremendous and joining me now for more is not seem so bad from d.w. isha that's him thanks for joining us now these talks between the u.s. and the taliban are getting underway after 3 months hiatus with the content of the talks this time around the slightly different to the lost time. oh well the last front of us taliban talks collapsed to turn the attack that killed one american soldier which was surplus to the bug romell base where trump were no match with the afghan president this time according to the american president any cease fire needs to be implemented as a condition which is also the position of the afghan government that it has no push

through afghanistan has had a very high blood toll too in the last 4 years with with about $30000.00 killed security forces while the number of american killed soldiers could be reduced the taliban might be included in the future african government which is also another controversial point but otherwise it may be won't be possible to stop the military confrontation in the country without such concessions on the other side the afghan president has also declared victory of isis in afghanistan which he repeated visiting the baghran air base where he met mr trump this could pave the way for the reducing of american troops the reason for the violence was that the taliban tried to discuss from a position of strength which then also resulted in the suspension of talks another presidential election that was held in late september we are still awaiting the

results of that election. and the us and the taliban are beginning their talks what is the future of afghanistan or the future of these talks when we are not sure about which government will take helm at kabul. this is just a continuation of what happened earlier it is a status of current uncertainty where the afghan government had been excluded from the talking process the presidential election center the relative failure of democracy in afghanistan have let to a governmental crisis in that country 5 years earlier the unity government was formed because of the same trouble between the same candidates which other president out of honey and to see all of our prime minister abdullah abdullah right so it would have been better to anticipate such developments no again even before the results could be proclaimed donors announce that it only has profited from his

office in order to manipulate the election results rights attorney and surface to client such accusations the african president is an expert and has close ties to the western world and the americans and their wants to finish his vision of transforming afghanistan. right now they're going to leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to us thank you. there are women in the fighting was the world of these women behind me on nuns from a 1000 year old just order spread across nepal and india and they're using their training to send out a message. to everybody was. the family. think using an ancient discipline to come back centuries only to prejudice. one.

gender equality because there are not many nuns who have. not many girls i guess. is like an example without. these gnomes are part of a progressive school of tibetan buddhism that encourages its followers to find the patriarchy. p.i.m. is to lead by example in a region where girls are often seen as a burden. in all the. girl is less than a boy but i think. it's a thing in the community that's have left behind for many many years and. coming out. the women say the martial art goes hand in hand with the practice of

buddhism. and is in bold in them to spread their empowerment they've now given self-defense workshops to almost 400 girls across the region. that. there wouldn't be a point and harmony because one thing. for the nuns it's a graceful move for equality thanks i will take time and patience. and they're going to do what roberts i did up without going forward slash to do this show online and for other stories from the region that's our show for today make sure to check us out of facebook as well. we leave it all with images from where pro-democracy protesters organized a rally to tank u.s. president donald trump for signing into law. that support their pro-democracy movement wizard extract about.

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