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ah, iran has a new president, hardliner, his name is abraham. right. you see today he answered questions from reporters for the 1st time when asked about possibly meeting with us president joe biden. the answer was no. when asked about negotiations on the ran nuclear deal, the answer was no. there were no uncomfortable questions about his election last friday with the lowest voter turnout since the 1979 revolution. if he had been asked about coming to power with a stronger mandate from the iranian people, the only honest answer would have been. no. i burned golf in berlin. this is the day. oh, do you want to meet with the president of the united states to resolve the problems

between the 2 countries? teach gulf nuclear deal will never be discussed or negotiated. regional matters and miss all masses and non negotiable. israel will continue to develop the necessary capabilities to protect itself from any trace called the also coming up today marks the start of summer. here in the northern hemisphere, climate scientists say it could go down in history and up in flames as one of the hottest and dryers that the world has seen in a 1000 years. we are in the midst of a long drought. and over the last couple of years, a very deep drought, many people are now referring to this as a millennial drought, a mega drought. and so everything out there is normally dry.

the went to our viewers on p b. s. in the united states, into all of the, the world welcome. we begin the day with the man into a wrong the world will have to deal with. if it wants to save the iran nuclear deal . on friday radians elected a new president, voter turnout was the lowest ever recorded in the islamic republic. it is more precise to say some irradiance elected a new president. abraham my easy emerge the winner. he was the front runner and the campaign that began with 600 candidates on the 7 were approved for the election only for were on the ballot. right. you see was the only one with the endorsement of the supreme can leader ayatollah. how many now this is what he said today about us sanctions and the crippled iranian economy. more yet, give a shout if we will not tie the economic situation with and people's living conditions, today's negotiations. and we will not allow the negotiations to continue jobs for

their to be negotiations. we will not allow them to weaken us and every summer must be followed by a result. we will be result oriented and it has to be a benefit for the iranian people. all that a very about all your men that there was already you don't know if a more now i'm joined by true to parsi, true to is the former president of the nationally radian american council, and is now with the quincy institute for responsible statecraft. true, it's good to have you back on the program president. he enjoys the backing of the supreme leader, but not the iranian people. are we talking about a president here with a legitimacy problem and does that even matter? hey, certainly does have a legit history legitimacy problem mindful of how these elections went about. but that is not necessarily something new to the iranian state, nor is it unfortunately, particularly uncommon in the current world that we're living in where we have seen

wind torture units and low in many different places and directions. but this will definitely be a problem for him. because the islamic republic has long pointed to quite high participation rates in these elections as an indicator of the legitimacy of the system. and clearly this time around, that legitimacy was not restored upon them by the voters. inter, we know the iranian president does not set foreign policy, but we know that the president is influential and how it is carried out. i mean, that could include rebuilding trust with washington. but how does a hard line or even begin to do that? well, i think it hard miner could do that if the so wanted to when excels to comfort level, to do it. when listening carefully to what he was saying today, i did not detect any dramatically different red lines from what the ro, honey government had the wrong government also did not meet either with trunk or

would obama for that matter or by then as we have it now nor did they say that they would be open to negotiations or missiles. so i think the red lines are pretty much the same, but a lot is there's a lot more than just the red lines. there's a lot of diplomacy, a lot of motions that go beyond the red lines and that's where i think we will see some challenges and difficulties. this will be a very hard veneer of the policy of the new iranian president, and it will make it politically more challenging for the west for the united states in particular. at the same time, i think we have to keep one thing in mind. us interest has not changed as a result of this election. the united states and the europeans for that matter, have the core interest in preventing, evolved from having a pathway to a nuclear weapon that has not changed as a result of this selection and the best path. in fact, the only path for being able to shorter still goes through a revival of the g c p. so using the options for the bike administration or the

same today as they were a week ago. they're pretty much the same. they're just with more costly and difficult to know more uncomfortable, but it is not as if because of the selection divided ministration is going to abandon the j. c. p way. the j. c. p. was there not because of any particular liking of the iranian president prior tracy was because it's in the core interest of the united states to make sure that the iranian state does not have a pathway to nuclear weapon di has not changed. we know that the president says that his priority is regional relationship. so i have to ask you how does is real factor into that? i think where he's meeting with that is that instead of focusing on the west, receive government is going to put their priority partly on regional states. and that means the other states in the region that form the axis of resistance that the iranians have put together, as well as the iranian version of

a pivot to asia. i think the racy government is going to look much more eastward than westward. as a result of the urgency or the desire to go much beyond the g. c, p, a with the west is simply not going to be their keys, not to the same extent that it was with ronnie government. and are you seeing in j run? strengthen its ties with b g for example. it is already gone in that direction is going to further go in that direction. and the hardliners in iran believe that they now have women their sale. because when the iranians sign, the agreement, the united states pulled out on the trump and the europeans from the vine in perspective, failed to live up to its obligations. and its companies were pulled out of terror on. so the idea that you can rely on the west or the europeans in order to be able to deliver that type of prosperity for the nation, is simply not existing on, on the side of the hardliners. they're much more interested in looking eastward. i

have to get your take on this before we let you go. we know about races, involvement in a debt commission that secretly executed thousands of political dissidents and yet right, you see says he is a defender of human rights. how do you square that circle? you don't, you simply cannot squared out circle. there's just simply no way to do it. simple answer to the policy from the quincy institute for responsible. statecraft is always for the we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you so much for having the were now to the election in ethiopia, opposition, officials say they have faced harassment during the countries elections. despite prime minister, i'll be off made promises of a fair and peaceful vote. polling places have extended their hours to accommodate the long lines of people waiting to catch their balance. now this election is a delayed election. voting was scheduled to take place last year before the

pandemic arrived. but the corona virus is not the only obstacle standing between ethiopians and they truly nationwide vote. it's election day in a t o pm. but in the region of degree, it's difficult to tell people who are mild in a humanitarian crisis that began last november when violence adopted between the local ruling party and the at the open government. many times he creationists dire with reports of denial of humanity to access in some localities loading of a supplied by soldiers, an estimated 350000 people are threatened by. i mean the prime minister by amen have been calling this book free elections. but the claim is believed by who truly gets to vote. only one 3rd of the country's population has registered to vote. and one 5th of the constitution sees are absent. these regions are deemed too risky to

hold safe elections. those could vote started gathering outside falling stations before dawn. they were met by poor infrastructure. it's really kind of close to that point. i have friends who even gave up on voting because of the large q. i was expecting more women to come off and that's it. didn't go until today, the 5 elections we had, we didn't see much hope were now sitting here waiting to vote in villages neighboring take away. voters have also faith long wait to cost time balance. meanwhile, in the region itself, people are struggling to get basic necessities like food and fuel. maria geared nicholas school is covering the elections in ethiopia for d. w. she sent us this update. it's an extremely important election man is trying

to confirm his political legitimacy after having been designated in 2018 after his previous test are resigned to his party. the 3rd party is considered to be the favorite in the selection, but we have to keep in mind that not the entire country is able to vote today. more than $100.00 constituencies will not be able to vote. this includes the entire t gray region as well as parts of the region, or the somali region of the mounting, international pressure for the situation in the gray region where an armed conflict is still going on between the federal army, backed by every trans folders and the t p s the gray people's ration from which the former ruling parts in the country. there's currently a great humanitarian crisis unfolding into gray. and the un is even speaking of a possible salmon. i do not have any ac units. unfortunately, i sold out of those within the 1st 2 days. i brought them in this week. i didn't

think it would be this hot. i mean, i come here all the time, but today is just like really the surface of the ground is super hot. we just have the air ceiling fans, the fans, we have fans, and that's all we just keep the windows open and we try to have that a cross air, you know, like makes it cool. everything. yeah. i need save a lot of energy. i think that we all should be doing our part to save as much energy concern as much as we can maybe the 1st day of summer in the northern hemisphere. but for some 50000000 people in the u. s. summer has arrived early and hotter than ever before, and just the last week, high temperature records have been shattered all across the western half of the united states was pulling the map to show you what we're talking about. salt lake city in utah just saw its hardest day since record keeping began bacon 87107 degrees fahrenheit. it's 42 degrees celsius. you see it right there. y omi also saw

new records in nevada. las vegas continues to flirt with it's all time high of 47 degrees celsius. you see right, right there. but the us city melting, the most phoenix, arizona, which just set an all time record of 5 consecutive days of a $115.00 degrees fahrenheit right there. that's 46 degrees celsius. now the heat is making severe, drowns across the western us go from bad to worse. the federal government is already planning to declare an official water shortage at lake need in august lake needs waters power. hoover dam on this picture. it tells the story doesn't, and as of last week, lake needs water level is at a record low and there is no relief inside. the western us is in what scientists are describing now as a climate change induced mega drought. some even say that the summer could be the hardest and the driest in a millennium and less water means more fire. 2020 is all

a record number of wildfires in california, oregon and in washington state 2021 is expected to be worse. stephen pine is a meeting environmental scientist who has written extensively on fire and climate change. i want you to take a listen to how he describes what is happening. i think what we're saying with climate change as that is acting on and exaggerating all kinds of climatic conditions. and so we're just making things worse. we're seeing more frequent fires, more severe fires. we're seeing them at scale, not just in terms of area, largest, but intensity plus area. combining. i've got children, i've got grandchildren or kind of world, are they going to inhabit? it's going to be a very different one. if the climate change trajectory isn't flattened, then all those will be over red. i mean, all those temporized and things,

all those small scale things we do will simply be overwhelmed. my next guest has also been sounding the alarm of the increasing number of weather catastrophes compounded by climate change. rachel cletus is with the union of concerned scientists. you joins me tonight from arlington, massachusetts, rachel, it's good to have you on the program. last year you testified before a us house committee and you warned of heat waves, droughts and wildfires becoming more extreme and more common. and that is exactly what is happening now before our very eyes isn't. yes, that's and you live very, very sobering to see climate changes here. and now this is not about some distant future. we're seeing this terrible heat place if you just described on your program unfolding around western us. right now we're seeing conditions of extreme grout,

setting up for a terrible was season that's already begun. it's already underway in the western us and we're just now in june. so this is just the front end of summer. very sobering . rachel, can you point to any real action or tangible measures of the u. s. government, since you testified last year before that committee? yes, i just unpack it a little. we are here and this moment is terrible. brown and why season? not because of any individual year. this is a multi year cram that has been set up. climate change is driving these very extreme high temperatures. we're seeing earlier, snow by mouth. we're seeing the ground very, very dry, you know, multi your fashion. and that's setting up a wildfire season of the kind book describing we have a lot of catch up to do and that's just the bottom line. so there's by no,

no ministration that you had ministration that's come in this year as well as congress really has a lot of ground to make up. we have to be both investing in making sure that all or healthy for ecosystems are healthy, that we're investing, of course, in the emergency firefighting and the relief measures that communities need. but we have to be thinking about the long term trend here. we're not going to be able to avoid all of these conditions. the fact is, current and fast propping emissions have already created really dangerous conditions. so now the question is, how can we try to minimize so i know as someone who's studies declined that you described the election of president biden in november like waking up from a nightmare. he immediately rejoined the paris climate agreement. that is true, but other than that, the world has been focused on his infrastructure bill, racial equity, just recently of the transit clinic alliances and us russia relations. have we

overlooked important climate change measures? the climate is connected to everything. it's connected to our economic wellbeing. it's connected to our future asperity. it's connected to our infrastructure decisions because what we're finding is when we feel that the climate risk into account or infrastructure is starting to fail more and more. we're talking about wildfires, for example, and last year we saw the po grid and california failed repeatedly in the face of these was we were seeing utility companies. they pull out their measures to shut down power during high was moments and that left a lot of people as the rolling blackouts that have other cascading impacts. or we saw the fall good is so the trip was fired. so we have to any infrastructure we're investing in right now as part of this american jobs. buying this outline needs to be both low carbon and climate resilient to their for the future. that's really

going on. we're right now. you talk for example about the power grid and the connections with the new water supply. and we're seeing the we're seeing hydropower being with use access to because at the lower levels and these rather was all of these conditions are impacting our infrastructure and therefore we need to be taking 2 measures to make them more climate present and going forward. originally, me ask you, how do you grade the way we the media are reporting on whether extremes in climate change? well i think more and more we're seeing reporting that's connecting the dots between climate change in these extreme disasters. but probably not enough, and people are still looking at them as one off disasters instead of the terrible trends that we've set up. we have a while for

a season right now that's getting underway. but we also here in the united states have an above average charging season that's forecasted. we're going to see these kinds of risk allied and government agencies like in the us. the federal emergency management agency are going to be dealing with multiple stores at the same time. we're also seeing communities being hit hard repeatedly community several hit by was ours last year are still struggling to get back on their feet. similarly with hurricane affected communities in the gulf, south and also us. so this is where we have a situation where dealing with these other one off disasters while they're in the headlines is just not enough. we take proactive resilience measures. you know, we throw around these record high temperatures all the time, and we assume they mean something to our viewers. scientists in australia there before referring more and more instead to what is known as the excess heat factor, which factors in how much impact in stress

a heat wave has on people for example. and in your opinion, is that a better gauge to use to communicate what climate change is doing to our weather and doing to us? yes, we need some way to convey the truly exceptional conditions that we have when we have these multi day events of extreme heat. because you don't get that cooling effect at night times you get the human body being really stress, especially people who are working out like right now workers working in the field in the western us construction workers. even children who are doing sports outdoors . when you have these multi day heat events, there is no break and it is truly get us dropped for the public health for homeless for the incarcerated population. and that's why we need a way of conveying to the public, the true risks that they face to be really careful, of course, to stay indoors and see cool as far as possible. but also some of these places are

going to get really unhealthy for people to live in when they look out into the future. and that is when we recognize that we have to curtail the emissions of fuel and climate change, there is a limit to what we can adapt to. do you still believe rates are that we can save the world in decline, but as we know it, if we cut carpet emissions to 0, no later than by 2050? is it still possible? look, even as one did resell sales, global average temperature increase, which we are at right now. little over the we are seeing some really profound effect. but yes, we do still have a very consequential choice in terms of limiting how far and help these folks get. we have to do everything up to limit those emissions. otherwise we will get really get this tropic condition. so we can avoid all the hans, but we can limit some of the worst times and we should ask you,

but we still got you here, a carbon tax on everything that we buy services, everything that create c o, 2 emissions. would that be the most equitable way to get rid of c o 2 emissions and to make sure that we're all invested in that the carbon tax is not a silver bullet solution that can definitely be an important powerful tool. but when we're thinking about equity and justice, we really have to be thinking about who's being hurt hardest and foremost from the debt and making sure that they are protected, that they have the investments in their communities. all right, rachel cletus with the union of concerned scientists. rachel's good, have you on the program. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. please come back and talk with us again. thank you. thank you very much for having me o. weight lifter. laurel hubbard will become the 1st transgender

athlete to compete at the upcoming olympic game. she will compete for the new zealand team. the 43 year old needs all of the qualifying criteria, but her selection remains controversial. neural hubbard has battled sigma and injuries to be paid for the olympic games, but having previously competed as a man because selection contrasts the everything please and against the idea of fairness came believe it's only right. she gets a chance in tokyo. but i would like to take this opportunity to remind us all that are all has met all of their quiet criteria. she is a very dedicated and resilient athlete. and on behalf of laura, i would like to say how honors she is to be in the team and appreciative of the support and help she has received today. hubbard's testosterone levels, the below the maximum is set by the international olympic committee. but critics say she has numerous other unfair physical advantages. you can cancel trying to

bring hearing. i mean with the getting about the anatomy, the foster, it's not so big organs. they have foster recovery. they have stronger buying. they don't have children. pelvis, they're less likely to get me an ankle injury. the list goes on and on and on. the cupboard is expected to be a metro contender in tokyo. any success in the debate? the trends tend to athletes competing in the female category. well, only intensify the rights for the days i'm is done, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter either w news you can call me at brent got tv and remember whatever happens between now and then, tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then the

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