tv Markus Lanz Deutsche Welle March 27, 2021 1:00pm-2:01pm CET
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this is t w news alive from berlin a day of death in miramar dozens of pro-democracy protesters are killed in a nationwide crackdown as the country's military rulers celebrate themselves on armed forces day we'll speak to an activist in mandalay. and rescue teams in egypt look for survivors in the wreckage of a train crash and try to find out what led to the collision that killed at least 32 people.
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a warm welcome to our viewers around the world i'm michael oku dozens of protesters are reported dead in miramar as leaders put on a show of strength for armed forces day deaths are being reported across the country with many in the city of mandalay earlier the general warned protesters they risk being shot in the head and back more than 300 people have been killed since pro-democracy rallies broke out in february. from mandalay i am joined by someone will only call activists david for security reasons he's asked us not to fully identify him david appreciate your joining d w we understand you've been out surveying and videotaping in your neighborhood tell us what's happening right now where you are in mandalay. right now. we are constantly hearing a lot of gunshots and sound. and just before this interview i heart i
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am truly out outdoors. and every corner of the streets are being burned down there are barricades that we put out so that we could protect our own neighborhood now being burnt down and not just cracking down past the hour now and then the boat loads and shooting and beating and booting everything that's in your sight. david we've been looking at pictures that you yourself went out in videotape why have you been patrolling the streets in your neighborhood. since the military has changed their strategy to approach us which is they are now trying to dress as civilians and walk into the neighborhoods where there are concealed guns and weapons and then try to attack every young and strong man that they meet at the military so we have no choice but to patrol the
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neighborhood 247 and i take it you want to make sure that you keep a record of it which is why you have a video tape machine with you throughout you try and at our best to keep keep on record since we have don't have any mobile internet we have to find a wife i have a little place to store that. the coup leader min online said the army seeks to join hands with the entire nation to safeguard democracy do you believe him. i mean even the deep yorkie can make a better life and then just yesterday he announced to the missional team even if you call up and protest he wants you to have him back and that you and and he was true to his promise now i heard that night you want that. nationwide including children ranging from one year old to 5 year olds oh i don't i don't at
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the farce of a mock proceeding and here we go because i'm off to see i think they will meet me in the long listen to know what an office inside. that is activist david in miramar thank you david for joining us. thank you. in egypt at least 32 people have been killed and scores more injured in a train wreck cruise ship cleared the wreckage from the line but many questions remain as to what caused their 2 passenger trains to collide president. has ordered an immediate investigation into the action. twisted steel and mangled carriages grim proof of the deadly impact of 2 trains colliding in egypt so our province. locals and rescue teams worked into the night pulling injured passengers from the wreckage and recovering the bodies of those who died ah.
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i thought that the train collided with a car or took took and after leaving the house i found the 2 trains hitting each other i went running wearing my home clothes and we found people lying on the ground women and children and we removed the deceased people and took the injured to the ambulances. on and off. a lot of the problem. that i put some wooden planks of the ambulances would be able to cross the canal it was a mess many people were stuck inside the trains no one carried them out. or 30 say the accident happened after someone pulled the emergency brakes on one of the trains causing the 2 trains to collide at least 2 carriages were overturned. agent has been marred by train accidents in recent years it's poor safety record is
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blamed on a crumbling infrastructure and insufficient maintenance. this is unlikely to be a tragedy to egypt it's. here now of other stories making news around the world another deadly accident in egypt at least 8 people have died and more than 20 have been injured after an apartment building collapse in the capital cairo rescue workers were searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble prosecutors are investigating the cause of the collapse of. the ship blocking the suez canal could be freed by next week according to a dutch salvage firm the company said heavier tug boats in higher tide could help dislodge the every given which has been struck since tuesday some 200 ships are waiting to enter what is one of the world's key shipping routes. hundreds of people have demonstrated outside a key mosque in the bangladesh. it comes out at least 5 people died in violent
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protests against a visit by indian prime minister. critics in predominantly muslim bangladesh accuse modi of stoking sentiment in india. representatives from china and iran have signed a 25 year path china is iran's major trade partner in the deal will include economic strategic and political agreements chinese foreign minister visit to tehran also marks 50 years of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. the e.u. slow vaccine rollout is getting a much needed boost after a series of approvals by europe's medicines agency these include the addition of 3 new production sites in europe the agency also relaxed the storage temperature for the biotech pfizer get jab britain is leading the way in europe's inoculation drive with more than 40 percent of the population vaccinated germany and france trailed
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behind at 10 percent. for more on this story i'm now joined by rob watts from d.w. business who's following the story rob it's good to see you again the number of people already vaccinated is remarkably low in the european union what can the e.u. do to ramp up vaccination. i mean there are 3 things that the european union wants and really needs to do if it is to improve its sluggish rollout the 1st any is to increase the number of vaccines that are being produced within the european union secondly needs to get those 2 people it means to improve the distribution actually get them into people's arms and thirdly it needs to limit the number of those vaccines that are being produced within the e.u. but are being exported to other countries that have already got successful vaccine rollouts now this week we had a meeting of e.u. leaders to discuss this very issue how to improve the vaccine rollout and they
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resolved to do those 3 things i've just mentioned but perhaps the most the most notable assembly the most controversial is this idea of preventing vaccines leaving the e use borders when the e.u. is struggling with its own supply i mean that the european union has exported over 70000000 doses of corona virus vaccines to 33 countries around the world some of those have got more successfully you back to more successful but vaccine programs of their own like the united kingdom and the united states and the now saying it's time to stop sending vaccines to them when we need them ourselves. well you know rob as we mentioned earlier of course the european medicines agency has approved 3 new vaccine production facilities here in europe and i imagine that could very well be a game changer. yeah it really could because between them these 3 facilities will put hundreds of millions of extra doses into the supply chain in europe so we've got
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one facility in the netherlands that's going to be producing the active ingredient in astra zeneca is a vaccine that's going to be able to produce a few 1000000 more doses that we might not have had if they hadn't proved it there's also a facility in switzerland that's producing back scenes on behalf of the turner but perhaps most significantly is that the 3rd place which is in germany it's ma book is going to be producing on behalf of buy on tag and it's expected to produce 250000000 vaccines just in the 1st 6 months of this year and eventually be ramped up to be able to produce up to a 1000000000 back seems a year is going to be the biggest m.r.i. in a vaccine producing site in europe one of the biggest in the world and therefore a major new source of vaccines for the european union and in particular germany give us the latest about the spat the e.u. in great britain are having over the distribution of vaccine doses yes so this is all about the flow of vaccine doses in either direction across the channel so the
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european union has sent more than 9000000 vaccines across to the united kingdom for their very successful it has to be said vaccine program but the other direction and not a single dose has come to the european union last despite the fact that the european union feels that a couple of plants in the u.k. that are producing baxi interest as astra zeneca should be supplying them to the south this is gotten a little bit hot over the past few weeks let's say but there is a feeling of both sides that they don't want to make this. any worse than the already bad relations that we have following breaks it so it's getting a little bit tricky. tricky indeed rob wants to do business appreciate it thanks much thank you talk about a segue here now this one is for all the single people out there lockdown has been
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rough on the love lives of many with bars restaurants and clubs closed and even office romance off the table with so many people working from home where you where can you make all these days well there's always drive through speed dating that's pandemic approved gumby presto is about to go car speed dating while following corona restrictions with makes me think what else can you do nothing's open there's nowhere to go you can't meet friends it could be you happen to meet someone there had faith will the 53 year old really find the man of her dreams today there are clear rules to car speed dating in essence in lower bavaria take the drive way for women stick a number on the car to no down potential partners meet the man in the area in the middle talk to each other for 4 minutes it's good now we're off now i'm excited. oh he's hiding take your mask off. corona rules are an ice
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breaker when you speed date in a pandemic. it's really stupid with a mask isn't that just like that 4 minutes are up. only 18. 0 god my sons older than you. gabi has already spoken to almost half of the 80 men here car speed dating is a win win situation more than $150.00 single people get to finally flirt again and at 5 years per car the organizer makes money during the pandemic after 4 hours gabby's list of potential partners is empty she has no interest in any of the men she's met. as well i definitely won't find a man of my dreams here because they're either younger than my son or as old as my father. no luck today but they'll be another chance all going well car speed dating in essence buff will continue in april now you've seen it all arsenal legendary and
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we who recently coached in major league soccer says he will quit social media until the tech companies take racism and bullying seriously the former france striker and world cup winner revealed the news on his twitter account on 3 said he will not return to social media until companies quoting now regulate their platforms with the same vigor and ferocity they currently do when you infringe copyright racial abuse against footballers is becoming increasingly common on social media. well he's been teasing fans about a comeback for some time now now it's official oscar dil holy announced she'll return to boxing in july according to some media reports she could take on floyd mayweather their last match 14 years ago generated millions in revenue this will be the 48 year old 1st match since retiring in 2008 the olympic gold medalist has won world championships in 6 different weight class it's.
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wrongs. of war we funded by water was good as far as i've seen destroyed one. which was a. record breaking wind. today more than 70 percent of the earth's fresh water is used for food production water has become the most coveted resource on the planet. to save humanity the financial world has come up with a revolutionary idea wall street wants to trade water as a commodity like oil or gold. water falls from the sky therefore should be free whenever i hear that i always say diamonds are current nature and they're not free. it's a financial product like any other financial. way round i want to kind
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of look for the only way. there's nothing new just the beginning of this water financial revolution. what about the guy that can't afford it that guy still needs water. the blue gold rush has begun can anyone stop it. the human right to water means that it's not a charity it's an issue of justice. this is the issue of our time this is the crisis of our time. with speculators pitted against protesters 'd the battle over the commodification of water has already begun. who will come out on top the planet the people or the markets. will be. the rule the
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lou. the city of london is a global financial hub. this is where the relationship between water and finance 1st began 3 decades ago. prime minister margaret thatcher was seeking to revive the stagnant british economy with market based reforms. water was among the targets of her drive to privatized public services and we're going to zoom in on the nose and let out a time as war time is the best way to be eliminated and i would not mean it was a time of highs nation i believe movie village success really indeed.
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what happened was the entire system the entire physical system as well as the concession was sold to the private companies. one of the 1st things some of the companies did it was to stop trusting or would splice to people he had paid their bills. one company for example disconnected 11 fails and customers and this was the company was concerned. they can stay disconnected if they didn't pay their bills they didn't get any will so. they say always come back no need for. life you think you have to make this j. j. j. just come down the guy put me down and for fun. i mean you could have.
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but it just took a. they didn't need neck to care for this year anymore. i say it myself it's the sky. there from the book at perspective but doesn't look it can careless if people the way of color really let's not they joke that job is making myleene leave them that very well. finally 10 years later a law was passed prohibiting companies from cutting off the water supply to customers who hadn't paid their bills. but that wasn't enough to deter the finance years on the contrary in the early 2000 and new generation of traders dip their
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toes into the world of water. private equity funds also known as vulture funds. unregulated and unaccountable they are literally above the law. in london thames water the distribution authority that covers 20 percent of the country was acquired by australian bank mcquarrie. i was aware of mccoury i mean they were quite a famous institution in australia where they've been named as something i think they were called the millionaires factory because so many people who worked mccoury became very rich as a result of the bonuses that they had and. the 1st private equity thing it's a good place is to believe one of the simple reasons for that is if you.
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go to population growth. if there's population growth there's going to be more water from. david hall was the man who revealed this water scandal in 2017 he published a study in which he detailed 30 years of abusive practices. rising bills soaring dividends to shareholders and tax evasion. a caricature of finance capitalism. we ended up losing a belt 2500000000 pills. was being taken else of the system but private capital no reason for that was that the dividends.
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were very very ridiculous so in other words these companies were perfect cash machines they still will they still. everybody believes correctly that we are being swindled but the world was. mcquarrie supplied london with drinking water for 10 years. their parting gift when they sold their last share and 20172000000000 pounds of extra debt. today more than 80 percent
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of britons say they would like to go back to a time when water was a common public and essentially free resource. an iran that appears to be slipping beyond reach. australia the hottest continent on the planet on the frontline of climate change. here drought is a part of everyday life. in this parched landscape australians are becoming acquainted with tomorrow's world. a world where water is a scarce and expensive resource.
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and is a dairy farmer who lives in new south wales one of the driest regions in the country . for many months now his reserves have been empty. the only way he can feed his animals is by buying extra water from the private sector. while the old don't. go. to die. just for mark a 0 cost me close to half a 1000000 dollars 12 months or $500000.00 can you afford that it would put a deal this trying all of us if we if we did it a great deal a strong. thank you thank you thank god we
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now if i'm in the last 3 months it's already spent $1000000.00 on board up. a storm could come straight to my arm off it all at. it's there spent the money but still a game where the better it's going to work on. which all you have basically the chaos a lawyer goes we. have to grow crops so they can't. we can't afford a real lot of grinding out there getting very needle or not growing at all at the mining. side they're producing. 50 percent less than what they should be but he's told me. it's just so volatile my drawing saval i'm going. and trying it out the other end of.
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the. water has become like gold. it is bought and sold with a single click with the help of a mobile app that monitors the market 24 hours a day. its price fluctuates daily depending on supply and demand. it's their target market and not fade in or. even. not let money ready. once the transaction is approved here a geisha and channel thousands open automatically and pour out millions of readers to customers. those who can pay.
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people are just taking water from us and it's a law and exciting effort from a title or. why are we doing it we make sure the rigors of full and that we don't have to go back onto that i can market to buy water again will it happen. we don't. you multiply russian roulette it's. to combat shortages the australian government has moved to ration water each year it allocates a quota to major water consumers farmers industrialists and cities. the calculation is based on consumption existing reserves and weather forecasts.
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in addition to this new law called the water act water trading markets have been created on which anyone can purchase additional rights or sell some of their own. stories in just 10 years the water business has become a new eldorado with a turnover of $2200000000.00 per year you know i am not a top 1st thing. water find is the world's leading water stock exchange. it works with the mega leader a unit of measurement equivalent to 1000000 liters. some are called me the water market pani. i'd like to cite then i'm a pawnee here in the world. prices to die around the
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$500.00. later old. ladies is it expensive is i think it's cheap what $500.00. or 300 year rise 350 euros for 1000000 liters of water. it's pretty cheap when you look at it from that perspective. isn't it a good thing that we are finally putting a value on this resource because in putting a value on it we're going to respect that will. in this new world every drop counts. water is no longer a natural resource but a commodity. when
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i go behind my brain on i am on 3548 if they take 5050 don't get me out of bed till then i think even i find a non 810101020 but really got here if you know what really got an id it re under 204060 party ordered when i want to leave here and i think in the morning everyone i think that the 500 a day out and 5 when i are behind have and i find it would still really believe that i did it with a good feeling. that no one says an. eye doctor for that one although the little one so you still can and will use when you sold it on to you i know they say. they have but you have a 1000000000 years to be in. the water crisis and soaring prices have forced david owen into bankruptcy. he has to sell the family dairy farm
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joining a long list of victims of the water markets oh no they didn't even know that if i'm going to fund them and run right. on. the end of an era we're going to miss this to go off. at least more than 10 kilometers from. the special golf. look at the cash lives for the last 12 months of 4 years ago when the real issue is spending more and more wars and then cheney said to me. you can't keep going on a lot this. that called the citation was
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a very nuanced. trim auditions in the. in the sink. and still be out there. as very emotional and. it's probably not as much emotion as slider on when we showing chaos welcome to you who are mother isn't here a grandmother right gravel so small they tell me you get out of work. you know and i went right down 558 is that you know very initial e farmers welcome the creation of water markets 100. big agricultural players saw it as an effective way to buy water whilst others plan to supplement their income by selling their surplus we didn't know very good begin to go down further if they went right down to your grandma 10 years later when the markets have become
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ruthless or if they want for a job at the rate that you know a lot. of right there's lots of people that done understand who are not on the same watermark just. lisha cave all know it all the tall good the stuff of what's happening and i don't think a lot of us know what's happening and what market. alicia buoying you know all of that water market because lots of dollars in any of the persia is so special looking for her and you think i'll all go to the bed and it's going to. strike me as an extreme the most as searing temperatures put emergency crews on notice and authorities ready to answer any magic process records fell today and more such a temple tomorrow i would add like forecast to hit 45 to graze nudging the hottest guy on record for the city to see if a swarms of wifely happens you might adelaide in southeast australia the driest
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city on the driest continent on the planet. adelaide serves as a think tank it is here at the university that the idea of water trading was conceived. i mean somebody you see my kids 0 water said they said nobody can take it in the water so you're going to have to find a wife. cheryl. mike young is the founding father of the australian water markets a renowned economist he attended harvard university and has advice to the united nations. this is the man writing the new history of water. war scarcity is really think so water scarcity is part of the future of the world
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the global predictions that by 2015 more than half the world will be living with limited water resources an abundance is a thing of the past. thwarted and i used to be. very precious why. why is it drives innovation that makes sure i want to go to the biggest uses it possibly can so we make money and feed ourselves well. and that lead to the interest in water markets and drive a revolution. the revolution started by mike young has turned climate imbalance and to a market force. it's fascinating to see how sophisticated our water markets of account if this rain forecast in a week's time the price of water will go down because farmers know they won't have
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to irrigate if it's going to be really hot for the next 4 months seen the price of water goes up. each. year. mike young has opened up water markets to all farmers municipalities small investors and above all professional traders. or. nowadays everybody can buy water on the stock market for consumption or simply as a vehicle for speculation. when more to become scarce i suspect some scare some then somebody has to stop using it what markets do is they. discover and reveal the most appropriate people to pull out of agriculture as it is
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from making cars as it is for lots of things we live in a competitive world. australia's new lords of water live in melbourne one of the country's business centers they are bankers insurers pension and investment fund managers and they are gradually taking . control of this blue gold. i don't need to i let you know would i lie and when would i consider it yes but i'm not a farmer i'm an investment banker how much did you invest not much maybe $20000000.00 . the price of water has doubled but in the next 10 years it will double again because of intensive agriculture.
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nicknamed the water bandit david williams rules over his empire from the 45th floor of an office tower. as an owner of expansive water reserves he rentiers water to farmers as others would rent land. and his future looks bright. if we go to 9000000000 population and the chinese want more food in the indonesians one more food in the unions one more food and they can afford to pay for it then we 1st need to find more intensive ways of growing food that means more water. and that's going to leave you smack bang in the hay get there all in a price of how you allocate it and how you regulate it.
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but the bigger based on water 'd it's getting back to the al guys of the land molds and the peasant farmers and if we want to survival zion which we're going after by the water what lane holds jane the water is well back to the middle i just. water was the last remaining natural resource to have escaped trading ready ready. but australia has pulled the plug on that exemption. because water offers an opportunity for greater profitability and wealth. for my people. for this land in this water.
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'd water for me and my people it's a part of who we are. 'd it's a part of our story our creation 'd story. today is different. australia has gone ahead and implemented water markets yeah how do you look at that we don't like it very much. we don't like it all. being moved around a campaign maybe to the watching world watching would find every one else interesting i think. and i'm a little off on the timeline of my. shelling
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trading what is your. feeling your dad. making sure that you're. making sure that no the worst. part of it. most of the greek. * * * * * * people. * they're worth the effort of course. * and they're so. money. economy money. the congress. getting through. you know saying how great your 1st impression brief. but they're going to honor newtown and the time. constant. talk about covering the topic you're very
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very. easy. to write. if you thought the hot weather was bad this weekend just wait until tomorrow the 5th day of our heat wave is expected to be incredibly uncomfortable and potentially dangerous and the really very hot today it's moving it in from the midwest where they've been dealing with this well 3 eights but now it's moving here to the east coast secret stick around for several days becoming one way to make water a commodity listed on the stock exchange. on its price what if wall street copied the australian model. ever since the subprime mortgage crisis when bundles of bad debt destroyed lives and countries finance giants have
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been looking for new investment opportunities. in june 2008 the investment bank goldman sachs began wondering is. water the new oil the firm as the bank is known encourages top clients to take a gamble on the future. goldman sachs the conference that was me i used to work at goldman sachs in 2008 that was a conference that i held there's this absolute into it of the peel that says population growth is outstripping the water supply that must mean companies are engaged in the water business are a sure thing that there can't mess they get mesmerized by these mega trend appeals and water. is water the next oil. the question is not going to go away we're just probably not ready for it yet.
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in the developed world for the last 100 years we haven't had to think about our water or worry about our water it's been essentially unlimited wherever we want it whenever we want it it's been really inexpensive no one thinks about their water bill they don't say oh take a sure shower the water's too expensive i think that year is over. climate change is going to have a huge impact on water availability around the world the same amount of water is going to be available in the big picture but we don't live in the big picture we live in a specific place we raise our food in a specific place and so the movement of that water will have a dramatic impact on how cities manage their water and how we are able to grow food to feed. the climate emergency demands radical changes.
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when it comes to water wall street is poised for a takeover. in 827000 report citi group one of the largest u.s. banks announced the end of free and cheap water. there is no alternative to pricing water properly and making people realise that every time they take a sip of water there is an opportunity cost and they feel it in their wallet how else are you going to get people to use less if you give it to them for free. the dam has broken liberalism celebrates free markets its proponents are pushing ahead with plans for a union of finance and water you're going to see asset markets selling water divot
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is even the high frequency traders that funds would become interested so know everybody sees this as the opportunity did will come your question is just when and who will push it 1st and hardest. and what would be their motivation in coming profits well also you know. directly doing good for humanity so it's the best of all possible worlds it could be better but isn't it very immoral to trade water but it would be immoral to trade water because water is life you pay for health care. just because it's life doesn't mean it's cannot be priced.
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a decisive step in the commodification of water happened in december 2020 when wall street began trading water futures. the futures are tied to the nasdaq vélez california water index which is based on prices in the state's major river basins. and algorithm provides a benchmark price for water transactions across california. it's the 1st time that water has been reduced to an algorithm. the man who came up with the equation works in the city of london. before he discovered water the former swiss bank trader was involved in the carbon market the trade in greenhouse gas emission permits. what do
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used to be 3 in the old but the world is changing is too much stress on the system and the most important commodity on earth can't be 3 forever. if you wanted to put it into the scenario. if you don't control it and use it properly what will happen is those at the cash will have it. if what people are saying is you better be on top of your situation we're going to be without water and what i'm doing is getting people. to see what is actually going on on the ground it changes the world the world.
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is it too late to stop a financial takeover of water. water . water. let the market be the decider of how water's allocated price be the only way you distribute water. rich people with poor people who are dead. the global water rush is accelerating. privatization competition profit. the words from the doctrine of classical liberalism. one woman is standing up to the threat of waters commodification canadian human
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rights activist model barlow. she won her 1st victory at the united nations in 2010 when the general assembly voted in favor of a resolution that recognized access to water as a universal right. it must be declared a public resource that belongs equally i was in the united nations up in the balcony the day that. they voted and i thought we were going to lose i had staff with me they were trying don't worry we're going to be back in 2 years or 5 years don't matter how long it takes we're going to be back and we'll do it and when they vote they vote they sit in their chairs they voted electronically so you know right away so boom 122 countries voted in favor and 41 they abstained they didn't have the nerve to oppose even though they actually wanted to oppose. among the nations that abstained that they were australia the united states and britain.
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countries that have all opted to turn water into a financial product. the human family took an evolutionary step forward at that point and since then every country has ratified it in one way or another it's it's now universal so you got it now now. barlow won that battle but she hasn't yet won the war against the commodification of water in december 28th in the activist was invited by the nobel committee to a conference on the future of water in stockholm. the united nations water scarcity. of the earth. to truly guarantee the human right to water we must protect it as a public trust and a commons not a commodity to be put on the open market for sale like oil and. i must challenge
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the current power structure and institutions that support an equal access to the planet's water supply. our goal must be clean. excessive public water. for everywhere for all. is it the end of cheap and free water well the corporations and the group and others want it to be the end of free and cheap water that's their argument they're saying oh yes it's a human right because they can't fight anymore because everybody says you're awful person if you if you deny it so oh yes it's a human right but the end of free and cheap water when they say it's got to be a commodity it's because they know that the scarcer it becomes in a world where you desperately need water there's there's a gold it's called. the winds of
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revolt are strengthening. right. in europe the fight against the commodification of water is above all reflected in public opposition to privatization moves citizens spearheading the resistance have taken to the streets of dublin rome berlin and paris. but how long will your of be able to withstand the pressure from the financial world. in 2012 a petition called right to water amassed nearly 2000000 signatures. the petition demanded that the human right to water and sanitation be written into
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european law. the european tradition is that the if it really changes the way we discuss about the water in europe it helped create a movement and the whole. idea that water should be considers a human right if instead a stick this before all the documents from the european commission were starting to enter the u.s. market make any shamus they were always pushing for a living. now and this is not something that you can usually do in a public way. so the official answer from the european commission was of course we should for the human right to water and that happens you know israel in addition.
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to date the right to water petition has succeeded in halting the ambitions of financiers across europe. but it remains a fragile victory. there are 2 paths and i don't know who's going to win this it's either water is a commodity and it's going to be put on the open market for sale or it's not it's going to be understood to be a human right you can't have it both ways it's time to choose now which path we're going to. i totally get from a. different place and it's changing and it's changing fast. or scarcity climate is a windfall for our business yes it is is that a bad thing well i suppose tom told. ah obvious sign didn't do it
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so i typed on this model paypal just talking to my huge amount of money out of. him or i'm going to have to sell your soul to get the border to be out assault on. the fate of water on our planet hangs in the balance. one more than 4000000000 years ago in arrived on this earth from space. and has sense or vibe to all manner of catastrophes. but it is now being threatened by people who dream of turning rivers into gold. as if nature was nothing but a giant supermarket. ringback
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this is news a live from berlin me to day of death in me or in more dozens of pro-democracy protesters are killed in a nationwide crackdown as a country's military rulers celebrate themselves on armed forces day will speak to an activists in mandalay. and risk youth teams in egypt to look for survivors in the wreckage of a train crash and try to find out what led to the collision that killed at least 32 people.
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