your story, the us chain always to understand this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not against you, want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information, visit, eat. other news at asia coming up today. how climate change is driving the severe heat wave on the indian subcontinent? temperatures have reached nearly 50 degrees celsius in india, and people are struggling to go up. what does to say about the state of global warming, and who should step up to make a change? an expert on says plus severe heat wave condition to neighboring pakistan to where the government is hoping the use of more electric vehicles will reduce emissions

ah by british energy, welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. more than a dozen people have died in india in the past 2 months, due to a severe heat wave. experts blame high temperature is driven by climate change. over the weekend, a temperature of 49.2 degrees celsius was recorded in the capital deli. now anyone who's been to india knows it gets hot, but 49.2 degrees is something else entirely. and india has been experiencing this since march, which has already been the hottest on record, through most of march and april. the indian subcontinent looked like this severely hot temperatures everywhere. heat waves aren't unusual in india, but so early in the year with such severity certainly is. and its impact is visible

at our deli fire, stoked by rising temperatures, broke out in 2 of the largest landfill sites. did have a corresponded money, that jewelry reports on what that meant for people working and living around them. 25 year old balancing has been working as a rat the curve for 5 years, collecting people and got bought from grieved for his livelihood. every day he spends 5 to 6 hours in this land for summer, as he says are especially difficult for him. a strong smelling gas rises from the waist. then we just be like wrapping up our work quickly and leaving it. we just keep sipping on water to keep going. this is god people landfill at 56 meters. it is the tallest and the largest of the 3 dump yards in daily. every day these landfills receive a large amount of fresh waste, even as the authorities struggle to process the millions of times of old accumulate increased. and when the temperature source during summer,

these landfills catch fire almost every year. the decomposition of waste access landfills produces meeting a highly combustible gas, which often leads to fire in hot weather conditions. dis they are, they have already been 3 fire break out in different sections of the godaddy there in these landfills. these lankin, sudden presently the dollar structure in the city, a massive amount of waste and therefore with high temperature self combustion is ariana t. and therefore high heat, high temperature has gone computed with these fire. and of course, you can link it to blame of change because i don't think there is any doubt that the heat waves that we are experiencing in south asia, especially in india and pakistan, is primarily driven by global warming. so what explains to serve our unusual heat wave but as i said, there is no other explanation than the fact that we now have entered

a new era of extreme heat driven by global warming. you know, that's all the characteristic is important to understand. first of all, the heat waves are now starting early in the month of march and whereas, you know, we had he from, we had to be in man june. so it just starting it is not much more per longed. these are not some days their busy lives are now lasting months and cook. they are now hunting areas which will not susceptible to he keeps. so he money for example, we are now thing larger number of days. the money is now some 75 percent of india is energy needs are met through fossil fuels, including bonding call. i wonder therefore if india is contributing to its own heat waves, but of course in guys contributing to, excuse me,

but so if you were then germany, germany is still using massive amount of awesome fuel contributing to climate change. so in the us most developed countries and across the water. so why india is off? what's contributing 6 percent of the global emission go to china is contributing close to 25 to 30 percent us about 16 percent. 14 percent. so if you look at europe, us and china, you're talking about 2 thirds of the problem. so yes, i've got india, we'll have to take responsibility for what, what is happening. as i said, we are going to be moving 6, but then we must take leadership to ensure that our mission but sort of law will have the big responsibility and everyone is. so yes, i agree to do that. india will have the big responsibility, but the global collective action we are not going any bit. unfortunately, we are talking a lot. none of us are doing anything. there is no doubt that there is responsibility

to fight climate change of the government level. but i wonder if that is something that can be done at the people level as well. should people be doing something as well? do you think at an individual level to 5 climate change? i think we are putting too much on them government. i think private sector the huge going to play the number of companies and you can make power of those companies today. you know, the top 100 companies of the world and maybe close to 30 to 40 percent of global emissions in india. and the biggest companies are also the biggest polluters. so yes, government is going to have to put framework and picture provide incentives and disincentives so that emissions are reduced. but companies also will have to take responsibility . it is no more about companies only following government policies. and so it is about individual responsibility. we also must take our own, in whatever way we can, so that our government footprint is low as well. right. we love to leave the for

the time being, but thank you so much for joining us. and it's very important subject, johnson bush and ceo of i for a thank you very much for joining us today. thank you for everything boxed on it was the hottest april in 61. yes. and since then, the heat wave has remained relentless in the country last weekend. a city and southern part of thunder quoted the highest temperature in south asia. so far this year, 51 degrees celsius in jacoby, above life. and the city is not dominated by attempts to cope with the heat. many people, especially the very young and the enemy, are suffering from heat stroke. yet even under these brutal conditions, people need to keep working to survive, like these brick makers who have to bake their product in the ovens. and as we had earlier, experts place much of the blame for the regions, extreme heat and climate change. one way of cutting the greenhouse gas emissions

that cause climate change is to switch to electric cars without petrol burning engines. in pakistan, there are still a rarity on the roads, but some people say that could soon change clean, quiet cost efficient pakistan's car market could be at a fork in the road. the government wants 30 percent of all vehicles here to run on electricity by 2030 and it's pushing this goal with hefty tax cuts, setting incentives for people like shaqia lackey. my youngest daughter, 6 years old, and she's also very happy about it. that babe's is using the garvin footprints in his capacity, so i would encourage everybody to go for this. the e cars are expensive, only a few 1000 people in pakistan actually own one. the lack of infrastructure also discourages people from making the shift from conventional cars. but even if

there's infrastructure, some say the government's focus on private vehicles isn't enough to cut air pollution in cities, likelihood in karachi to of the most polluted in the world. they say islam, but you put more focus on public transport where the policy needs to be stronger on izzy electrification of a public transport such as buses, in particular, because bus, unlike her passenger car, you're going to be using the car for maybe 30 minutes to 2 hours in the day, a bus will be on the road for 1216 hours of the day. so the amount of emissions at one bus contributes and also the number of relative to the number of people it moves. the bus is a better way of reducing equity. the government has now put out a scheme to encourage local companies to invest in e mobility. that also includes electric buses and coaches. the are at the moment

in boarding them. and like the civil, the market. and in the meantime, we have 70 shape a electric complex here. with all these electrical weakens, garden buses, job will be made ultimately, which i ease collaboration. pakistan is moving towards change. but with many challenges ahead, the country will need more time to become cleaner and greener and that's it for today were leave you now with the images from india and pakistan where people are trying to go for the scorching heat to into your back there tomorrow. or by 330

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ah, ah. sri lanka has enough petrol for a single day, new prime minister warning that his country is on the economic break. our sri lankan is ready to sacrifice even more as the island nation. desperately tries to get its books in order. also on the show, the euro areas, the slight growth in the 1st quarter of worries of recession are mounting and a small village in columbia reveals the true cost of germany's rising coal inwards flow hawk into the show. i'm seeing beardsley in berlin. it's good to have you with us. we begin to sri lanka where the country's new prime minister, renelle victrum,

a singer says the country desperately need $75000000.00 within the next few days. just to afford a central imports, including medicine and fuel. he won the sri lanka, had enough petrol stocks for just a single day. but she loggins have already been facing our times. sri lanka is economic woes, a hitting every one hard most noticeably in food and fuel, petrol shortages mean, rick shaw driver's face long queues to fill up. fest struggling to make ends meet god in mirror. i don't have much fuel in my ritual. i've already been to 3 petrol stations, but there was no fuel in any of them, even though they have some here at this station. the key was too long. the resignation of prime minister raj, a pack so last week was not enough to quell the protests. his brother remain.