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this is developing news live from berlin as a major climate summit is due to begin in the dreams of the u.n. secretary general sounds the alarm on rising global temperatures will meet an indonesian fisherman waging his own personal battle with the resulting increase in sea levels also coming out germany's ruling coalition on a collision course to social democrats election new leaders who want to change their agreement with aunt and uncle america's conservatives the c.d.u. says nor will knuckles governments of vive. and lewis hamilton puts the finishing
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touches on another dominant formula one season that left his rivals in the speech. i'm jarred raid welcome the head of the un has taken the world's major economies to task for not pulling their way to reduce carbon emissions antonio good terrorist says the global push to stop climate change has been court actually an adequate and he describes a point of no return as fast approaching it was speaking as a 2 week international climate summit gets underway in madrid on monday is more of what he had to say we have you know the pull and we are still thinking soon it will be too deep to escape. i welcome the voices of the young activists
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been meeting they understand that we are job providers in their future that is why i will continue to push every day to keep climate at the top of the international agenda or good tara since day one follows the declaration of a climate imagine see by your lawmakers showing a heightened awareness of the impact of climate change for some people though in other parts of the world the issue is already a life changing one. abdulhadi a fisherman in java indonesia the climate crisis is stark reality flooding in his home village of town back is so bad that he's engaged in a constant battle against water it's a graphic reminder of the risks posed by jobbers sinking coastline. it's always flooding my house is located at the lowest level lower than the road.
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there every few years hardy has to elevate his house the flooding is aggravated by the ground level sinking caused by extraction of underground water and coupled with extreme weather and rising tides associated with climate change. and there's land subsidence of around $10.00 to $20.00 centimeters every year due to extraction of underground water and on the other hand the sea devil has increased. due to problems have caused flooding and high tides. other than that climate change also caused other impacts like extreme weather. and that. indonesia is particularly vulnerable to climate change the polluted capital jakarta is drowning because of rising sea levels because of this alarming situation the country's authorities have taken a controversial decision to move the capital which will cost 33 $1000000000.00 hardy though can't afford to follow his government's example.
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it's impossible for us to move we can't pay for it so even though there are title floods stay. for him the only way to confront the climate emergency is with a stoic fatalism. where the future of german chancellor i'm glad government has been casting doubt on. after her coalition part of the social democrats elected 2 new leaders who are critical of the partnership no but boy and saskia s. can have indicated they want to see some major changes and that could raise the prospect of an early election or a minority government if the coalition partners fail to reach a consensus. the social democrats have cast doubt on the future of the grand coalition but their partners in that coalition the christian democrats are attempting to shrug off any such suggestion for on a great car or it's business as usual. for the c.d.u.
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one thing is clear we're going to stand by this coalition on the basis of what we've already negotiated. and we want to get back down to work quickly. but the new s.p.d. leaders norbit. are critical of the political partnership they have new demands on the minimum wage pensions and the climate that they want to be met. in the us. this is not possible if this is blocked then the party conference will have to think about how to overcome these differences for policy is the most important thing and that is what will decide whether this coalition has a future there is in the s.p.d. want to prevent that party debate from happening. this was all about a person no change in the s.p.d. and it doesn't necessarily mean that the party is going to rethink its policies.
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the trade unions are urging the s.p.d. not to abandon the grand coalition. tree is in great need of modernization and we need an ambitious program of investment that is something this government must tackle in the 2nd half of its tenure. next week the social democrats will decide which of their demands will be tied to the survival. of the grand coalition. well for more now i'm joined by g.w. reporter. will the election of these 2 s.p.d. late is something that no one really expected what's the reaction been to it well there's certainly been a mix of reactions to this these 2 relatively unknown left leaning candidates who beat the establishment candidate a lot of people didn't see that coming so many people see this as a clear message from the members of the party that they want to return to the roots of the social democrats a swing back to the left but other people see this as
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a grave concern the former social democrat charles de gaulle should have won he has criticised the result saying that it would make the party's problems and work as outside the policy we heard earlier the. conservative leader come on by us he said it would be jobs for them it's business as usual the left casi for once they have come out and praised the new leadership. germany needs more left leaning politics and they move away from this centrist coalition the gun tradition and the others on the other end of the spectrum we have the business friendly free democrats they say this is threat to the country and that it could bring down the government how likely is the government because these leaders are critics of this of this coalition well. that is a big question of course many senior positions in both coalition parties have said they believe that the social democrats will choose to stay in the coalition. we
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heard in the report the 2 new leaders they want to see concessions if that happens from the christian democrats one for example is to raise the minimum wage the conservatives have said that's unlikely that that will happen they have a coalition agreement that they want to stick to it so the alternative for these 2 need to new leaders is to stick to the coalition agreements and rather work for the next election to. the parties for a fall and swing it to the left then say for argument's sake the s.p.d. does pull out one of the alternatives to knuckles then well she could choose to run a coalition a minority government rather it wouldn't be ideal for the conservatives but one good thing for them is that the budget for twenty's when he has already been passed which means they could run the country relatively problem free until the next elections which are in early 2021 now the alternative of course is fresh elections but a lot of people see that as irresponsible there are many projects that are already
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making their way through the legislative process that are then jeopardized basically we have to wait and see the social democrats have said they will tell us where the future what the future holds on thursday before their party conference starts on friday because we just have to wait and see all of us like a thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world and lawyers for u.s. president donald trump say the white house will not participate in the house judiciary committee's public in pietschmann hearing on wednesday but they've not ruled out participation in future hearings it is facing allegations that he illegally used sought help from ukraine to obtain democratic challenger joe biden are. caught in a televised address multis prime minister joseph must god has announced that he'll resign in january once he's like the pot his charges and
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a new leader calls for him to step down of growing after a prominent businessman with alleged ties to government ministers was charged as an accomplice in the murder of journalist daphne. at least 24 people have been killed in northern tunisia after the boss they were traveling in plummeted off a cliff it's one of the country's worst road accidents it's understood the boss veered off a winding road when the driver failed to maneuver a shop. and capital santiago of people have clashed with police close to president sebastian pinera as residents demonstrators had turned out to call for his resignation police fired washing kind of at the crowds and fist fights broke out between demonstrators and local residents. to formula one and world champion lewis hamilton has rounded off the season with victory at the obvious. how much and started from pole
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position was unchallenged as he cruised to he's 11th when 21 rises this. could be huge challenge lewis hamilton phrased in this race was getting away cleanly with that mission accomplished drama to place behind him his hamilton not for the 1st time they see. galloped off into the distance ferrari show mclaren had preschools to celebrate he passed max for staff and for 2nd place. but then another questionable pit stop from ferrari mclaren was called in early putting him right interest apennines firing line. valiantly trying to defend his position but he was effectively a sitting duck for the red bull driver and his fresher tires. at the front hamilton was going through the motions he's won more than half the races this season breaking records and doing donuts for fun but he still took time to praise his
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young rivals for a stop and the clare. you know really proud to be in a period of time where there is such such great youngsters young people coming through these guys have been doing a phenomenal job and i really feel privileged to be in a period of time where they're here and i'm looking forward to hopefully more close battles with us in the future or who are expects more scenes like this next season hamilton now to a 7 race win shy of michael schumacher whose all time records. were some sad news from the music world renowned latvian conductor america's young sons has died instead he does but at the age of $76.00 he conducted some of the world's leading classical ensembles including the pittsburgh symphony orchestra and the royal concert bow in amsterdam his career also took him to germany way he led the bavarian radio symphony orchestra. a life
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devoted to music with passion and humility marris chance on strike to emotional shape sound right down to the tiniest detail here performing beethoven in tokyo young sons was born in 1943 in riga when latvia was occupied by the nazis his father was a violinist and conductor his mother an opera singer they encouraged their sons musical talent to see tommy saw or made the rope they got made to move in this direction without putting me under pressure so reasons even like a ray of sun that says go this way he says dissolve you so you get to the zoo. the sun studied violin piano and conducting in leningrad and vienna his big breakthrough came when he won the 1971 carry on competition in berlin he later worked in oslo pittsburgh and amsterdam in 2003 he became chief conductor of the
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bavarian radio symphony orchestra in munich. that is and 190 someone who really knows how to inspire people and infuses every note within a passion that's a rare quality of food and this is and is it in a quality it. with young sons passing the music world has lost a great conductor. but don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the guard just download our app from google play all from the app store now to give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if your part of a news story you can also use the day w out to send us photos and videos of what's happening. you're watching the news from berlin coming up it's the business leaders show you with all of the action from sunday's matches there's more world news of the top of
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