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limits. bad. bad. this is d.w. news live from berlin europe announces it's green deal for the future the plan is to spend a trillion euros to stop using coal and become carbon neutral in 30 years that's a quarter of its overall budget we'll get insight on what the money is going to be spent on also in the program germany needs a new effort to end the fighting in libya and let medical invites key players to another peace conference that's after libyan military command and if i have to refuse to sign a cease fire agreement during talks in moscow brokered by russia and turkey and.
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the philippines braces for the potentially devastating volcanic eruption nobody knows if it'll come now offering weeks tens of thousands of people feeling nearby villages blanketed by heavy. i'm told me already well welcome to the program the european union has announced plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change the european investment plan will channel a trillion euros over the next decade into climate protection that aim is to reach carbon neutrality within 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
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a journey. but this is europe's man on the moon moment. a green deal for the european union is worse than a funded lion's 1st major policy proposal since she took office at the end of 2019 her vision commits the e.u. to achieving carbon neutrality by 2015 until then the missions of greenhouse gases would have to be reduced stored or compensated. the e.u. commission says it wants to mobilize 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. fund a lion urges the e.u. to move quickly and take the lead in growing a green economy. which a major new report shows of the world's oceans continued to heat up last year
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making them the warmest they've ever been and it's still happening an international team of experts has examined data compiled by a chinese institute to work out changes an ocean temperatures over decades they say this warming is already having a major impact on marine life and on the severity of storms spike loans and hurricanes. 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 read 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. billions and recovery according to the new
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study since 2010 the oceans have absorbed around $22860000000.00 joules of extra heat to compare that's over $400.00 times the energy used by the entire human race annually and warmer oceans are having another major impact on our planet's colder regions even a slight rise and water temperature causes glaciers to melt more rapidly from below and billions of tons of ice have already disappeared from the ice caps in a nutshell warmer ocean temperatures mean rising sea levels the minister marine biodiversity and more powerful storms germany's angela merkel has invited the 2 rival governments of libya as well as a host of other interested parties to talks in berlin this weekend it's an attempt to rescue a peace deal and strengthen a shaky cease fire this just a day after a renegade commander have to left
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a peace conference in moscow without signing the agreement that had been drafted at those talks. the talks were meant to bring an end to the conflict in libya and be a diplomatic victory for russia and turkey but after general. left the talks in moscow without agreeing to a long term truce they appeared to end in failure speaking to media a day off to hell with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov played down the outcome saying the peace plan put forward by moscow in agra was still a work in progress. representatives of libyan society met in moscow with the participation of the russian and turkish foreign and defense ministers we will continue our work on this track so far there has been no definitive outcome. libya has seen heavy fighting for months the country's internationally recognized administration the government of national accord led by fire. is based in tripoli
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it's facing a power challenge from general have todd's rival administration based in the east of the country and the city of tobruk after forces calling themselves the libyan national army are reportedly being assisted by russia and regional allies egypt saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . meanwhile ankara along with the united nations is backing tripoli's government of national accord earlier this month turkey's parliament president rejected the green light to send troops to tripoli and after the moscow talks failed to offer a solution on tuesday other one provided a clear warning. if you know they're not vigilant in the coming days we will be closely following the choices that the coup plot are half and the country's legitimate government will make in the event that attacks against the country's legitimate government and our libyan brothers continue we will never refrain from
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giving hafter the lesson he deserves i did look at me just. now the focus moves from moscow to berlin german chancellor angela merkel has invited top officials from a host of countries for peace talks on sunday in the hope that this time around something might be different now here's a brief look at some other stories making the news. iranian authorities say they've arrested several people including the maker of this video in connection with the accidental downing of the ukrainian airlines flight over teheran last week 176 people were killed in the crash after a missile struck the jet iran's president said a special court would be set up to probe the incident. protesters in lebanon are back out on the streets for what they call a week of anger to pressure the country's political elite into taking action the country's facing its worst economic crisis in decades the national currency has
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lost over 60 percent of its value in recent weeks the protesters blame government mismanagement and corruption. the house of representatives will vote on wednesday on a resolution to send articles of impeachment against u.s. president donald trump to the senate house speaker nancy pelosi has also signaled she'd also named the lawmakers would also manages a senate trial. still in the u.s. the race is about to become much narrower as democrats decide who will challenge donald trump in this year's presidential election right now there are 13 possible candidates but that will be reduced after a crucial 1st primary vote in iowa in 3 weeks the top 6 candidates will face off in a t.v. debate on tuesday evening now the top 6 ah joe biden who was vice president under barack obama peace but a judge former mayor of south bend indiana he's the 1st openly gay candidate to run for president minnesota senator amy klobuchar for months and bernie sound as
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negative tom style and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren now warren is a former law professor who rose to national prominence by litigating against bankers and corporations before working as an economic adviser to president barack obama has more. she views selfies as a crucial part of her campaign and says she has a plan for everything elizabeth warren one of the top tier 2020 democratic hopefuls oklahoma city in oklahoma elizabeth warren's hometown hours before she said to speak at her former high school people are already lining up i haven't totally decided on him voting for yet but i'm interested. in any particular issues. i'm interested in you know kind of her solution for student debt and i know she's
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talked a little bit about child care things like that or anything very interesting to me especially as a young. mom who has a lot of student. the crowd seems fired up when she takes the stage elizabeth warren talks about growing up in oklahoma i have 3 older brothers about her family and how they struggled financially after her debts heart attack when my mother walked to the sears and got a minimum wage job a middle wage job in america one supported family of 3 it would pay a mortgage cover the utilities and put on the table j a minimum wage job in america will not keep up mama and baby out of poverty that is wrong and satisfied. i was elizabeth
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warren is running for president promising to bring about big structural change with the goal tilting power toward working people and away from big corporations and the rich and that seems to resonate with many in the us not only here in oklahoma city one of most prominent liberals in the us as a young adult warren was not much of a political activist and for many years registered as a republican the university of texas in austin it was here that elizabeth warren began her work on bankruptcy douglas like koch was one of her colleagues at this time helping her relaunch empirical study on the topic is really driven. to protect ordinary americans. whatever she may have thought. but what she thinks now based on the data is there a lot of people in deep financial trouble. because they
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were screws because they fell through the cracks in the system as presidential candidate warren vows to take on big finance big pharma and big tick but her critics say she's too far left corporate america's worst enemy frightening to even many democrats if the best democrats tend to offer is business as usual after donald trump democrats will live. in oklahoma city at least it's difficult to find anyone who isn't inspired by warrants results to fight for me as a woman it translates very personally because i most often we're not supposed to be fighters and she's changing that it's time i'm in terms of being done i really think that she does a big big chance and i would love to see the 1st female president elected as
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president of the united states it's a long run against daunting odds that elizabeth warren hopes to win by getting out and talking to people face to face. it could happen at any time and when it does the lives of millions could be threatened authorities in the philippines a volcano close to the capital manila is about to erupt the government raised threat novels after the time began spewing ash and lava on sunday so about 30000 people have fled but nearly half a 1000000 have chosen to stay in the danger zone. tagaytay city is a ghost town. ash from the volcano is everywhere. even without a major eruption presidents have already been hit hard. the ash from the volcano traveled with the wind and unfortunately it blew in our direction. didn't just affect us physically but also our livelihood business had to
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close down but it will 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 the not the condition of the volcano remains at alert level for 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 now to collapse into the lake triggering a tsunami. with no certainty over when disaster could strike residents and their livelihoods are left in limbo. you're watching news from berlin up
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