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be our guest. managed by for. this is email the newsletter from the oceans under threat the temperature regulators for the plotters but scientists say the current changes are too much for them to handle a new report says they're getting warmer every year and it's affecting life not just in water but everywhere else as well also on the program to germany leaves a new effort to halt the fighting in libya and i'm back from invites key players to
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another peace conference after libyan military command the honey for hot topic refuses to sign a cease fire agreement during talks in moscow russia and turkey. for the peace process for a potentially devastating volcanic eruption but nobody knows it will come now weeks even tens of thousands of people in limbo uncertain of what to do not their flat that. i'm still going to welcome to the program. a major new report shows that the world's oceans continued to heat up last year making them the hot is they have ever been and it's still going on an international team of experts as examined data compiled by chinese institute work out changes in open ocean temperatures over decades they say this warming is already having a major impact on marine life and the severity of storms cyclons and hurricanes.
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as our planet warms up due to the greenhouse effect the vast majority of trapped heat is absorbed by the oceans over 90 percent of it the oceans therefore provide a key buffer that helps keep temperatures on our planet stable but their capacity to absorb heat isn't endless and eco systems are suffering organisms like corals that can't flee the higher temperatures simply die back to back bleaching and catastrophic mortality has meant we've lost 50 percent of all corals on the great barrier reef in 2 years and this is meant we've needed entirely new ways to think about how can we fast track both resilience and recovery and warmer oceans are having another major impact on our planet's colder regions even a slight rise in water temperature causes the glaciers to melt more rapidly from below billions of tons of ice have already disappeared from the ice caps in
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a nutshell warmer ocean temperatures mean rising sea levels the minister marine biodiversity and more powerful storms. i didn't run john from t w environment can talk us through this new research welcome to the studio dead seems a day doesn't go by without us hearing more bad news about the planet is anything in these findings that we didn't already know oceans are getting warmer and we're all essentially going to die we're all doomed so no dude which of him i think they have to say we would like to say better things on the report sherry the $21000.00 with the warmest year on record and i mean this is becoming a regular occurrence $2928.00 in which the one that went to 17 and i mean the whole decade. for the same and one thing that is incredibly striking from the report of the scientists calculated the amount of energy thermal energy that's kind of been added to the oceans and said that it's essentially the equivalent of having dropped 3600000000 atom bombs into the water into the water
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that's i don't understand what that means. i mean obviously let's just make sure we understand that obviously 3600000000 bombs have not been dropped into the water and the destruction is not of that level but what it does show is the quantity of them and energy by which we have raised the oceans and i mean another study though if the told me that. essentially just the jump from 2018 to 2019 in terms of ocean heat was roughly 44 times larger. than the entire direct energy used by humans across the world and that's essentially because of this greenhouse gas effect so we're burning these fossil fuels they're releasing dust into the atmosphere and the that then trapping solar energy essentially so it's not just the lump of coal that you that's one of the oceans rise it's a gaffe to release from that trap other energy and so he's the thing right this is
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happening in the oceans this is what we're talking about so if i don't live if i don't live and a small pacific island why do i care so one thing all the scientists i've spoken to all the ocean scientists i've ever spoken to have said that this whole thing is really into connected so even if you live in a landlocked country and a far away from things i mean you depend on the global food supply presumably. if i don't know rising sea levels or for more water affect crop production in a rice growing in the mekong basin then of course you are then affected by these things on a more sort of maybe direct of these coastal communities in particular and for countries which have a large amount of coastline. this woman water beneath rising sea levels and that means that people on the. in the city are exposed to more intense storms. often more frequent flooding in some areas and so directly people are affected by
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this and these are all phenomena that we are seeing so where's the good news the good news is that we know what to do about it essentially we need to both mitigate again and this is what scientists are telling us we need to mitigate against global warming so we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere reducing the warming effect on the planet and that will lower the start of the problem itself but we've already locked in a certain amount of warming because of the emission of already pumped out and pick from the oceans because there really slow to react to changes in the atmosphere and all that means that we also need to adopt against what's already happened and why is that to come because without sharpton steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions we are for large amounts of woman. i didn't see that as a story about good news but if you're in the realms of d.w. environment thank you. well the european union is doing its bit it plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change the european investment plan
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will direct a trillion euros over the next decade into climate protection and will be funded from the e.u. budget and the private sector the aim is to make the block carbon neutral within the next 30 years. this is what the united states moon landing looked like when it comes to climate protection the european commission is not shying away from drawing comparisons to that earth shattering event. we do not have all the answers yet today is the start of a journey. but this is europe's man on the moon moment a green deal for the european union is worth some of funded lions 1st major policy proposals since she took office at the end of 2019 her vision commits the e.u. to achieving carbon neutrality by 2015 until then emissions of greenhouse gases would have to be reduced stored or compensated. the e.u. commission says it wants to mobilize
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a trillion euros from various sources over the next decade to make buildings more energy efficient and industry more environmentally friendly as regions all over europe transition away from coal. funded lyon urges the e.u. to move quickly and take the lead in growing a green economy. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world are police in germany conducted raids in berlin and 3 other locations in the early hours of tuesday in search of suspects posing what's being described as a serious crime against the state investigators believe several locations were being considered for an attack including a synagogue and a shopping center. protestors in lebanon have launched what they're calling a week of anger to demand the resignation of the country's leaders demonstrates is that fatah tires in beirut and blocked roads the country is facing its worst economic crisis for decades with the currency losing more than 60 percent of its
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value activists blamed government mismanagement and corruption. authorities in iran say they have arrested several people in connection with last week's down the ukrainian airlines flight over time 176 people were killed when the rain defense forces shot the jet down by least 8 rounds presidents have a special court would be set up to investigate. avalanches in pakistan controlled kashmir have killed at least 57 people rescue teams have been trying to recover bury victims officials say lots of people are missing after heavy rains triggered landslides in the valley. germany's chancellor angela merkel has invited libya's warring parties to berlin on sunday to discuss efforts to broker peace earlier today libya's rebel leader and he for half the left talks in moscow mediated by russia turkey without signing a cease fire deal this by this fire has al seraj who leads libya's you have
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recognized government in tripoli did sign after us forces have been trying to take tripoli for the past 9 months we get more on this from database chief political correspondent belinda crane welcomed milind to do more talks make sense when me for half the has just walked out. well i think everyone would agree including berlin that it would be better to go into this international conference on sunday with a firm ceasefire in place moscow is saying both warring parties did agree at least verbally to a ceasefire but the fact is that the primary objective on of this conference on sunday is not let's say to make peace then and there that would be impossible and it's to get people talking and particularly to get the international parties talking because this is essentially
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a proxy conflicts that going on and that is going on both sides have international support have to are in fact from a number of different sources ranging from france to the united arab emirates and russia the the u.n. to back to government to government on the other hand has support from turkey and the objective of the talks on sunday here in berlin is to get all those international parties starting to talk to each other and that's a u.n. objective and germany in fact is hosting this as part of this u.n. process but that was to be about my expressions you know what is germany's interest in this conflict. well a couple of different things germany's official function is in fact to be the host for a consultation process that is designed to flank the un efforts to get reconciliation and peace talks going in libya but beyond that germany's own foreign policy interest here is a twofold one germany has been saying now for some years that it wants to take
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a more active international role it says it wants to do so militarily as well but that's always very very difficult here for this country with its 20th century history including world war 2 but what is clear is that germany does see itself in the role of an international mediator we've seen it playing that will for example in the minsk process designed to try to get peace in east ukraine and it's clear that many other countries do trust germany as a kind of an honest broker in such talks so i think that's what's behind the designation by the un of germany as the host for this consultation process melinda crane our chief political correspondent thank you. it could happen at any time and what he does is likely to be extremely dangerous authorities in the philippines fear a volcano close to the capital manila is about to erupt the government raised the threat levels out of the top volcano began spewing ash and lava on sunday so far on
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30000 people have fled but nearly half a 1000000 of chosen to stay in the danger zone. tagaytay city is a ghost town. ash from the volcano is everywhere. even without a major eruption residents have already been hit hard. the ash from the whole karina traveled with the wind and unfortunately it blew in our direction it didn't just affect us physically but also our livelihood our business have to close down it'll take a while to clean up and i feel bad for the workers especially those who rely on a business to support themselves. some are already attempting a cleanup but the filipino authorities a clear things could still get much worse than at the condition of the volcano
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remains at alert level 4 that means a hazardous explosive eruption could take place in a timeframe of hours to days. so. this is what the authorities are afraid of as well as the potential danger from lava an explosive eruption could cause part of the cocaine or to collapse into the lake triggering a tsunami. with no certainty over when disaster could strike residents and their livelihoods are left in limbo. could line of sports on spanish football powerhouse abbas alone have sucked the coach at leicester valve after 2 and a half seasons the club appeared to lose confidence in him despite being top of the spanish league and despite they leading them to an even cup double 2 years ago under the league title last season well morale bettis kirchick could carry a set you will be his replacement. his reminder of our top story scientists
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