is something our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. ah, you with this sleep on d, w ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin, the stark warning from the un secretary general on climate change. the block is sticking. we are in the fights of all lives and we are losing world leaders gather in egypt for the cult, 27 climate summit compensation for countries already suffering. climate damage is

a key item on the agenda. also coming up d, w b to russian woman who worked in moscow's defense ministry for years before deciding to plead her homeland and seek asylum in the you. and on the eve of the u . s. mid term elections, many young people are gearing up to vote for the 1st time and in record numbers. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. we're leaders are gathering for climate talks in egypt at the u. n's called 27 summit. they're pacing formidable challenges at this year's conference with countries seeking to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees celsius. leaders must now find common ground, take action amid geopolitical turmoil and a spiraling energy crisis. is welcoming remarks. the un secretary general

struck a somber note. these un klamath conference is the reminder that the answer is in our ends. and the clock is ticking. we are in the fight of our lives and we are losing greenhouse gas emissions. keep growing, global temperatures keep rising. and our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate scales. you reversible. we are on the highway to climate tell we though it foot still on the accelerators. with me, the studio to talk more about this is ron john from d w's, environment desk. at the un secretary general there, we just heard him say that we are on a highway to climate hell. what is the most immediate problem that we're facing right now with respect to climate change? so the problem is,

is that we've done 2 things that make the planet more hostile to human life. we've done fuels that release gases that trap heat and he, the planet and we've kill plants that kind of suck the gases out of the atmosphere . the result of that is that with heat of the planet, by about 1.2 degrees celsius, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it makes extreme temperatures much more likely and makes extreme weather work. that means that we've made heat wave hot, her tropical site plans are growing stronger. coastal floods were pushed sea level so high that coastal floods are more likely to wash white people. what way homes force way livelihoods as well. all of that stuff that we're paying for across the globe in terms of higher insurance prices in terms of increased health care costs. and these will all get worth the more we burn fossil fuel. ok, so if you laid out the problem there pretty well, we got the world leaders meeting in egypt as they do regularly to talk about climate change. they've been trying to keep the global warming to 1.5 degrees.

that's not looking likely any more. what are the most urgent decisions that these leaders need to make at this meeting? for the lead of have committed to trying to stop global warming out this 1.5 degrees celsius target. the current policies put us on trying to double that. and the number one priority is to put in policy is to cut emission. that means binding the fuels building. tina sources of energy, reducing energy demand production rich countries. 3rd, easier to reach the target on the secondary level. and what's becoming increasingly important is to help countries adapt to the damages that already become stronger and are becoming stronger. so that means that the tropical fi clearing that used to maybe be hitting a certain level of intensity, ave get warmer, they get hotter as they get windy and rainy. countries need to be able to adapt to be things and avoid the most severe damages. adaptation is expensive, it is going to cost these countries a lot at this in order to adapt climate change. rising sea levels,

what not at this climate conference. it's happening right now in each of the world . leaders are talking about rich countries, compensating poor countries for that damage. it's already been done. you think that's going to happen very little find the rich country will stump up money to help to pay for the damages. the loss of that poor countries are experiencing. it's worth remembering that over a decade ago, rich countries promised poor ones, $100000000000.00 a year in climate finance. so it's mixture of loans, private finance grants and so on. and that was meant to happen every year starting in 2020. they broke that promise. they did not put that money up. it's not about 80000000000. and the problem is, is that the most of this is learns meeting the countries having to pay back high udette's. and so when it comes to paying for the loss of damages, that's a conversation. but i think most of the 4 countries on all optimistic about you're saying that some of the pledges have not been kept in the past. ah, what good are these climate conferences if their pledges are regulated not kept the

pledges from world leaders from the one hand, you can clearly say that, well, these are under great pressure to make commitments, which they can then be held accountable to at home. we do see some of that, we see some companies, business of political leaders feeling pressure to commit to things. and once they've commitments written in that, the next pressure for them to follow through them. now obviously requires jonathan of the members of society holding the company. the company becomes countable and have received time and time again. these companies and governments are breaking promises. lot still to be done. we'll be talking more. i know in the, in the next hours as the conference gets under way urgent. ron john from our climate desk. well, one of the effects of climate change is more extreme weather patterns on the african continent. for example, some parts are suffering severe droughts while other parts are experiencing rain in frequent rainfalls, heavy and frequent rainfalls,

as it is currently the case in nigeria. a small town in the democratic republic of congo is also dealing with overflows from lake tongue. and nico, one of the world's largest lakes, the fishing communities, there are suffering from warmer water temperatures, which are killing fish. and now the rising water levels and mudslides are further devastating community. the lake is eating away at homes, bit by bit and meter by meter, the water is or isn't so high. the thousands of people in the town of calamity have been displaced, was known as ab would have one. yorba linda, come back here was a very nice house if way fuzzy, i left will. on the other side, all the people have fled when we don't know where to get help so that we can rebuild. what it, what they like, a thief. well, what the, what when am i look at all this closely? but i love what the rest of us have it back in. busy, about a living to one nightmare. tanganyika has destroyed us a little. what did i'm when i young lady that i needed at the finance finance?

i. tanganyika is the world's 2nd deepest, fresh water lake. local residence depend on its fish to make a living. but rising water temperatures have killed massive amounts of fish. on top of that, the lake has become a danger to the people. it once fed, floods and storms are common in tropical countries, like the democratic republic of congo, the climate change is now making them more frequent and more severe. now, when it rains, the earth slides that's washed, huge chunks of silt into the lake and cause water levels to search. the rise, according to this official, has been very rapid. well, you'll receive, among other them of the of lake tank janica has risen to a level of more or less 5 to 6 meters in height and advanced to 100 the 250 meters in land towards the continent all in 3 years,

a distance and count met. oh, silly the plaza for calamity residence each day has become unpredictable. the hope is that the global community will take note of it. now to ukraine, which has welcomed the arrival of new western air defense systems. the latest weapons have been supplied by norway, spain, and the united states, ukraine's defense minister, alexi, resonant, called announced on monday that the 1st delivery of advanced, nah, sams, the, and asked spied systems would significantly threat strength the ukranian army. he said the weapons would help protect ukrainian energy infrastructure, which has been repeatedly targeted by russian missiles in recent weeks was bring in d. w as nick connelly here he joined us from the craning capital cube. nick, tell us about these western air defense systems that are just arrived in ukraine. how important are they?

this is currently the kind of area of support that ukraine government says is the most crucial is about protecting steve. like here where i am now sometimes hundreds of clumps away from the front lines that have been hit time time again over the past month by those russian rocket and drone attacks. and lots of the systems been promised months ago and, and our only, you know, as winter draws and finally being delivered in the 1st kind of consignments. we don't have much information about exactly how many have so far, rich ukraine, the u. s. had promised 8 systems 8 better than us ams, and then spain had promised these italian built espied a system which a bit older, bit less technologically advanced, but had they wanted it, it's more, at least it's believed to be that there are more of these around in europe and they could be easily if it proved to be success delivered later is all about preventing this damage to ukraine's infrastructure that really has left hundreds of 1000 means . people at risk are very, very cold winter with his repeated attacks on the energy system on the heating plants. we heard just a few hours ago from the head of the

a company that deals with key of heating that if russia's, it holds back from further tax on ukraine's power stations, that within 2 weeks they could kind of restore electricity supply. right now we have 3 for our power cuts every day in care of. so basically the 2 weeks needed. but i think very few people here believe that russia is going to somehow suddenly stop these attacks given how badly they're doing on the battlefield. now russia has been lobbing dozens and dozens of missiles and drones at ukraine over the past few weeks. will these new deliveries of weapons do much to protect ukraine's vital infrastructure neg what some of these are. it has be said, very expensive weapons. so the question is, is it really worth, you know, firing a missile that can cost to attend that hundreds of thousands of dollars or euro's at a target like you, like in iranian droned costs 10 to 20000 dollars. there's that can be economic calculations. you made, i think the really important thing to bear in mind here is that better. no western

country has fought a war on this scale in decades. and you've got to think here, the ukraine's fighting on frontline is more of a 1000 clumps is long cities far away from the front lines being attacked. so basically a lot of territory needs to be protected covered by the system. so some of them probably will be held back for more serious attacks by ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and that's why ukraine engineers right now, a scrambling to come up with their own solutions to deal with drones are coming up . some new people will have seen pictures, video on social media of ukrainian police, ukrainian military firing drones with machine guns, and sometimes using slightly more high tech systems. but broadly, it's about finding a solution that is adequate, and that costs a similar amount of money to what the russians are spending on sending these drones here. we've heard from followed him zalinski the president who said that he thinks that russia is building up a big supply of those iranian drones, just about a 100 kilometers away from here in bella is ready to kind of send a huge swarm of drones to attack here. of an issue there is of see, you can,

you know, fairly easily knock down these drones. but if there's so many at the same time, it might be impossible to get them all so sense here that yes, this is very welcome, but it doesn't solve the problem and you kind of feel very, very vulnerable at a time where temperature dropping and lots of people really asking themselves if it is safe to stay here and give nick, thank you so much. as always our correspond nick here. nick connelly, they're in kia well as we look at hell ukrainians are managing in this war. there are also hundreds of thousands of russian citizens who have left their country in recent bonds in conjunction with the german sho contrast um from the army b. network dw spoke to a dr. maria dement river. she was loyal to the kremlin, having spent years working for the russian defense and interior ministries and secret service. 2 weeks ago, she decided to flee and apply procedural in france. we meet maria on the coat de door in the south of france just

a few years ago. this region was among the favorite places for rich russians to go on holiday and by has us. but the war changed everything. maria, dimitri eva, is a doctor. she traveled to paris, fire algeria with only one goal in mind to apply for asylum. she spent years working in clinics of russian ministries, most recently the f as b, the domestic secret service. there was her share. so yours is also good. the. the you, are you spelling of your live or your beast years on your education, on your profession, that your government does not even think about the paypal roles they are thinking about is themselves. do you know the futon went and his entourage adjust criminals band it of the person who and all the a years and power who did nothing good with the people that shem on was the rules are not reason did they need to annex territories of other states by the means of

illegal referendums and tierra threats, grows gera. maria says a growing sense of bewilderment and unhappiness among her friends and the russian secret services about the so called special military operation in ukraine. they're wondering about the numbers of deaths among civilians or on harbor fears about the rising influence of some figures from putins in her circle. she says that even before the war, her patients in the clinic of the ministry of defense were complaining of bern eyes . but nobody dared speak as against the commanders. not anyway. but you know, everyone is scared because every st protest and moscow is being stopped very quick and very brutal. d, w in cooperation with or b. b, cantata has been researching refugees from russia. we visited the founder of the human rights network, gallagher dot ness flooded miro sash kin. in the north of france,

his mission is to collect eye witness reports on violence, torture, and corruption and russian prisons. he's been protected by the french police, but we're not allowed to film him with bodyguards. he says in recent weeks, he has been overwhelmed with messages from russia. no cousin, every single day we are receiving 23 letters from the army, from the police, from prison, gods from private military companies. the amount is huge. in previous times, it was a message once in 6 months. and our sources were very cautious about the anonymity or they didn't use their names. they registered email addresses on pro tom mail. now they are just playing got a says cane is helping maria to she didn't want to support the war on global, i was able to get out to turkey. it's a visa, free country for russia. i was able to leave quietly. no one would know where i was,

i would get lost and live my life. but with my escape, i wanted to tell the world things a really bad. maria says her entire family has left russia in france. she's been giving interviews to the big tv stations. she says she wants the world to know that not everyone in rushes supports putins politics and his bloody war on ukraine. sketchup on a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today. china has lashed out at the u. k. over a british minister's visit to taiwan, beijing denounced the trip by british trade policy minister greg hands and urged the u. k. to stop all official changes with exchanges with taiwan. china claims the island nation has its own territory and has threatened to take it by force if necessary. facebook's parent company meta is planning to lay off thousands of employees since according to u. s. media sources, the plans follow recent job caused by other major tech firms in the face of rising

inflation and lowering advertising revenues. meta currently employs more than 80000 people worldwide technology that will help bring the metaphors with just one day left before the u. s. midterms. a push a final campaigned push is underway. seats in both chambers of congress are up for grabs, as well as governorships and city may oral offices. president obama has been campaigning in new york where the states democratic governor cathy huckabee is facing a tight race against a republican rival. for president donald trump was calling on crowds and florida to support republican candidates in tuesdays or june. well, more than 8000000 young americans between the ages of 18 and 19 are getting ready to vote in the elections for the 1st time. many will be looking to elect lawmakers to bring about change. experts say they're less motivated by party and more pi

pulse. jamie is a dedicated climate activist. she was sending campaign post cards to people around the country before she was old enough to vote. now in the mid term elections, she finally has a voice. she's one of 8000000 in the 1st time voters. and she's clear about what's at the top of her agenda. they say we have what i think 8 years like now, to reduce our time emissions by 1.5 degrees in order for this planet to be livable . so that policies that are enacted now will determine the fate of this planet. for centuries. she's not a dedicated democrat, but she, like many other young people, feels that when it comes to climate change, she has no other choice. at the end of the day. if it's down for democrat or republican democrats are far more likely to either be persuaded or actually make

the right decision for the climate. aiden is also a student in a 1st time booter. he has 2 major issues in mind. this election cycle, which makes choosing between parties difficult. i think democrats kind of have more of a initiative and rise to um, you know, that tackle the, the climate change issues than conservatives. but i think economics wise, i think conservatives have a better, a better mindset. going into that side of the climate change issue. it's susie huh . i'm one of a by part of keys involved with left middle home with bright washer. so the 1st question is, how important do you think your vote is in elections and that the student found it? news outlet, showcasing diverse political perspectives from jen z. i'm from his work there means he talks with many people, his age was painful. a lot of people like me who kind of don't see a fit in either party, so they're kind of just stuck in the middle kind of, you know, going back and forth between left views and right views. sandra ochoa knows just

how much young voters can be more focused on policy than party. she spent several months talking with 1st time voters for the non partisan youth organizing group 18 by vote. young people aren't too tied down to parties themselves, so i think of other parties were able to rise up to power and represented us better . i think young people would be very willing to vote for them because i don't think they're tied down to a party name. they're tied on to to be issues. first time voters in the u. s. have seen the 2 party system produce chaos and a stalemate. while real life issues they care about become increasingly urgent. so young people will have to make frustrating compromises with their boots in the selection. until the system or the parties adapt to how these new voters think about politics. for a deeper look into youth voting trends in the u. s. enjoy now by john hoffman, a geopolitical risk consultant and columnist. going to see again, john,

as we saw no report there. yeah. more than 8000000 young americans are eligible to vote for the 1st time in these midterms. they could be a deciding factor if they turn out put, do you think they will? that's the big if question in the the simple answer is know that according so far to the looking at male and balanced very imperfect way to look, but the numbers are off in 2020 the youth vote was absolutely instrumental and biden winning half of the youth actually voted this, this has always been the dream of the democrats because despite a report to out of 3 young voters, no democratic, they never show up and they did in 2020. and so the big question was, would they this time again? and so for the answer seems to be no, i think precisely because of your report issue oriented. and the number one issue overwhelmingly, in the selection, 51 percent in the last cnn, paul is the economy and inflation. and they are, republicans, are simply schooling. the democrats,

or what about abortion rights or climate change? mean, these are issues that young people are also concerned about. are they not? they are, but again, they don't track the 51 percent. abortion is 15, and i think there's going to be a huge post mortem for the democratic party because overwhelmingly average american support democrats over abortion rights. but if that's not the number one issue that motivates you to vote by 19 points, you support the republicans over the economy, who cares? and by putting all their eggs in the basket of roe v wade, i think the democrats have missed the reality. they're living in a bubble. most people care about the worst cost of living crisis in the united states and 40 years full, stopping whether they're old, middle aged, or elderly. okay, so it's the economy. now, the political divide, john, in the us, it's been extremely deep. our young voters to day less polarized, are more polarized enrolled or counterparts. i think they're less polarized because

they don't have this traditional kind of tribal is view of who to vote for. and then for all this talk about woke people identifying only by how you look or what group you're in. i do think when you look at pulling that young people care about the issues. so if you tailor a campaign around the issues, i think that you would get somewhere with them. i was very interested in your report that the young guy said, well, you know, on climate i'm with the democrats, but on economics and with the republicans. i mean, that puts in with the vast majority of the country, but if you can begin to make arguments, seeing people on the issues and not what they look like, i think we'd all do rather better. do you think that the candidates in the selection for congress and also in the, in the state elections are taking the youth considerations seriously? i think they are because again last time in 2020 it was. it was a narrow election $50.00 to $48.00 for bite and, and the youth voted half. it's usually about a 3rd and half of the you. 18 to 29 year olds coming out to vote shocked. everybody

including the democrats. and so trying to keep that going is important and trying to cut into that advantage is what the republicans do. so i think that indeed people do care what they have to say because they show they actually would go out to vote if they vote less. of course people will care less. that's our democracy works. john, thank you so much. is all john husband there by sure. now some sports and in the bonus league when you're in berlin, have been knocked off the top spot after a punishing defeat on sunday by previously struggling labor cruise. and the roles were very much reversed in this encounter. with 5 unanswered goals. flying in ah, lay the crews and fans expected far more from their attain this season. and there, hoping things will finally click on the new coach, shabby alonzo. yet during a di, 1st half, it didn't look like they were ready to kickstart. any kind of revival on yon's

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