the, the, her name was polly on wednesday and she became the strongest summer storm ever recorded in the another winter wind gusts of 90 miles an hour. felt like a hurricane and seen from above by nasa satellites. she even looked like a hurricane, probably was extreme and she may fit into a bigger picture. monday was the hottest day ever recorded on earth until tuesday when tempt hit a new record. hi. scientist expect even more record highs this year. our climate it is changing. our definition of normal, it's changing to i bridge off in berlin. this is the day the, this is something that we're seeing more is not just rec,

who's being pro good to all the numbers suggesting that we're going into rooms. i wrench him when it comes to the heats it's, it's getting big and i'm getting angry and help this. but this i don't think broken up ever increasing. my can you choose, is itself quite conservative and climate change trends do suggest the awesome is all going to become full time. we know that our environment is burning. it's melting. it's flooding. it's deeply thing. it's drying, it's dying. also coming up and worries are growing over what could happen it. europe's largest nuclear power plant. it's in ukraine and russian troops are in charge especially. yeah. i suppose this could pose a threat to my family. it was, i have no idea how bad it can be, but it is a danger. i remember shooting over to them was that it was a total number of pulling up the what do you,

our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world . welcome. we begin the day with earth hotter than ever, according to the us national centers for environmental prediction, the average global temperature on monday hit the highest level ever recorded 17 degrees celsius. that's 62 degrees fahrenheit. and is if that weren't enough on tuesday, that record was shattered. again, these are not records that anyone covet scientist say they are part of the climate change equation. a warming planet plus more extreme and unusual weather in the netherlands, people are cleaning up and assessing the damage right now. on wednesday, the strongest summer storm ever recorded, slammed into the country. and that is where our 1st report takes us tonight. with a code red warning and place people in the netherlands were ordered to stay home.

storm poly 1st pounded the north sea coast with hurricane force winds that were off the scale. gusts up to 146 kilometers per hour, brought severe damage at the storm tract inland, toppling trees and leaving a trail of devastation. and at least one death. beating us open the hotel when there's a card buried under that tree to show. but a woman who had a tree land on the roof of her car and we'll see that she died close by. and then also. so that's my car. yes. yes, this is a damaged. yes. yes. damage to the was badly, i think go, yeah, no, it could be both. i saw those trees falling down, all of it felt as if we were in the eye of the storm right here. the storm excuse sometimes appeared haste in germany to polly unleashed hurricane force winds with media urologist warning people to stay home with danger to life and limb. a single sudden severe summer storm that's up ended life from the netherlands right across northern germany. with the hotter days of summer,

still to come everywhere on this and now we want to bring in the doctor, rachel cletus. she is the policy director at the climate and energy program at the union of concerned scientists. you joins us from cambridge, massachusetts. it's good to have you on the program. let's talk about what we saw today in the netherlands in here in germany. the storm to just slammed into the netherlands. how did a storm as strong as a hurricane form over water normally chilly waters of the english channel as well? this is really a non unprecedented storm and some are and as you pointed out, the destruction in the winds has been terrific. the various factors are still being worked out, but there's no question the climate change is loading the dice for these kinds of extreme weather events. polly was associated with a very low pressure of a stacked up against the high pressure down. and what we're seeing is these kind of sticky weather patterns are getting more common with climate change. we're also,

as you said, see record temperatures around the world, not just online, but also over the season. the oceans. we're seeing when he leaves a land base. he's please, and this unprecedented summer storm is part of a crime, no big spring weather studies in parts being caused by climate change. yet let's pick about these temperatures. we have seen to global temperature records toppled in as many days just this week. i mean, it seems like these, these events are coming faster than ever. do these figures, do they confirm that? absolutely you me. and what i would caution is it's not just about the single the records. these are close records being broken all over the world. it's the worry, some trend here that is truly concerning because we are now in a world of significantly and dangerously alter because of human cause. he trapping

emissions which continue to rise around the world. so the records that are being broken there and along them for us to take action now to cut our emissions. and i'm worried to also about the trajectory here moving forward. i mean, it is still early july, if we expect some more record high temperatures. can we also expect uh, july, maybe august to be the hardest july in august on record. unfortunately, we're going to continue to see these temperature records being broken, both because of climate change, as well as because of the amino weather pattern that has started to set in. and we're seeing around the world from china to europe, the united states, these deadly heat waves. and they are affecting the most vulnerable people, the most, the people who are the pores to be who are forced to work outdoors and to the people their young people whose bodies cannot assemble ties as easily to the heats

or on the front flies of the impacts of these terrible heat waves, but we can take action if we cut our emission sharply and that's really important to recognize these heat waves are directly tied to our he traveling emissions. and we know, even if we were to stop all the greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we're still, we still have to deal with the effects that are already in motion. and if we're looking at more part, the pieces of the planet with larger populations, living in very humid areas, what did these people have to prepare themselves for? what can be done for the people who are going to be living in high humidity areas? but what's really important is that we recognize this ahead of time because a science is clear that the chief ways of getting worse. we have to take action ahead of time, not just an emergency measures, but well ahead of time. so people have access to cooling, to air conditioning to safe places where they can go,

and that they're not exposed to these kind of extreme deadly heat fluids. we have to make sure that that's available for everyone, not just the ridge for those who cannot afford client energy bills due to, to work outdoors. the time to take action is now both on cutting our emissions to limit the worst of the heat, which as well as to their, the public health impacts. so these kinds of deadly, these win, give me i just want before we were not time, i want to talk about the this temperature, the average global temperature tuesdays global high was almost 1.8 degrees celsius higher than the long term average. viewers may be asking, does this mean that we have already reached the 1.5 degrees celsius? the limit which the i p c. c says could bring disastrous and irreversible climate change. well what the i p c t is referring to is a permanent increase over 1.5 degrees. we have not yet reached that limit, although we will see temporary increases above that limits. within the next 5 years

. we know that the el nino will make the heat worse in the next 5 years. we will temporarily reached at 1.5, but we haven't permanency we should and we still have an opportunity to take action . and this decisive decade, that said, we're just over 1 point, one degree celsius, increase global average long term. and they're already seen in devastating him, but there is no space. the temperature here, you've already reached that they're already in the world or dangerous conditions. global temperature levels are high. let me ask you last question. how high is your confidence level that we're going to get this situation under control as well? here's what we have to do. we have to stop emitting fossil fuel based heat dropping emissions. and that means breaking the power fossil fuel industries that have still in the way of climate progress. it means holding up for additions feet to the fire . that is something they can do now. what's been signing in the ways

a lot of political will and the instructions on the fossil fuel industry. dr. rachel, it's me just joining us tonight from the union of concerned scientists. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you very much for having plenty change induced heat waves in northern india and have claim close to a 100 lives so far this year. the recent deaths in the states of har. utah are pradesh, suggest this could be the new normal there and it reveals a health care system not prepared to take the heat. sirens wailing, the ambulance of races toward another patient in distress. suspected heat stroke brought on by the dangerous midday heat. all it is done, the work is difficult for sure. we have to visit rural as well as urban areas. sometimes the roads are not well constructed in

rural areas. more over, it can be difficult to pick the patient up from their home in difficult terrain. you have to tolerate the he's the ambulance has air conditioning, but it's no match for the temperature right side. but we need to keep it together and keep working despite the heat or during this brutally hot summer meal and jew tundra se, there's sometimes responding to twice the usual number of calls. they barely have time to cool down. another call has come in and they've got to get back on the road . i'm not a bad person to get, but this is our job. and then we see the patient's condition. we rushed to the hospital to provide quickest relief. we don't feel either hunger, we just work this time, they've rushed through the heat,

43 degrees celsius to pick up a pregnant woman. there are few places to escape the heat here in brindle con. deep within the province of co dash, one of india is hottest regents making this government funded free service, a lifeline for area residents press up to come to the i feel satisfied because my job is all about public service. so the data to, i'm able to save lives by something and they keep added despite the 12 hour days and located around a $170.00 us dollars a month on the front lines of india's heat crisis of russia and ukraine playing a blame game, accusing each other planning to attack,

europe's largest nuclear facility. these every g a nuclear power plant. the kremlin says that it's taking measures to counter the threat of sabotage at the plant and southeastern ukraine. warning that such an attack could have catastrophic consequences. but in his overnight address, ukraine's president zalinski accused russian occupying forces of planting explosives at the plant. neither side has provided evidence to back up their claims . president zalinski warring that law scale has been in boston by the timid, international response to last month's destruction of the gulf coast go down for which ukraine blaine's russia and outside the book. unfortunately, they was no timely end to lodge kyle and response to the terror attack on the comp go hydro electric helps. right. and then the with and this may inspire the criminal to commit new april. the annual. everyone in the world hasn't responsibility to

stop it because ready, i should leave. no one behind on us are responding to connelly. he was recently very close to this operates the nuclear power plant. he has more now on the threat to disliked. well firstly that somebody stop big if you look across what remains of the big or as was that at the power station that was wise basically announce ends with as there are real problems about what supply for the cooling facilities is also called some issues with power supply the one main electricity connection to the grid is constantly under attack on the showing attack and ends up failing and then they have to go and use diesel reserve generates until that connection can be re established. so lots of basic, a kind of issues, lots of kind of reasons that could actually cause a catastrophic event without much intent, simply because this is a new foundation, your biggest incapacitation at the top of a region at more now is comprehensive taking momentum,

and there are lots of things that could go on those i spent nuclear fuel was assisting that in containers out on the site. so any kind of even a small cell that goes the wrong way could lead to huge radioactive leaks. and the scenario with hundreds and thousands of minutes, people in the direct facility who could be at risk. and it was dw, the quarterly reporting there. i'm going to bring in now doria. that's a cove she is a research fellow at the royal united services institute. she's a specialist on the separate cl nuclear power plant. it's good to have you on the program. we have seen a stream of warnings from both ukraine and russia about this power plant. is it possible that we could see a true noble like or a fukushima white disaster at the facility to thanks for having me. um, so i will sir by saying that um, 1st on quite a hard to figure out what we actually have in the facility in case of an incident that depends on a number of different variables, a lot of unknowns. um,

it would depend on what the accident actually is, what the incident looks like. i should say that from all the analysis that i've seen from my own understanding, i tr noble 1986 level disaster is very highly unlikely for a number of different reasons. the frequency on perhaps might be a closer comparison to as a worst case scenario. but even that, i think we have to caviar court in heavily at the time of the incident to suit the shima planned all the reactors were operational the reactors as offer you should have been shut down for months now. so the risk there's quite a bit, i would say uh lower than what we've seen a few issue. yeah, let me pick up the react. is it separates? you have been shut down. this is so weird. does the risk come from? sure. so the rafters have been shut down as 5 of them are in cool shut down. one of them is hot shut down, which basically just means being kept it at a slightly higher temperature. however,

those reactors still contain fuel. that's very, very hot. there's also spent fuel on disability so that fuel still needs to be cool down with water and it does cause the risk of, of an incident if there was penetration of the containment structure, for instance. or if there was some kind of incident with the reactor with the overheating of that fuel. so jesse are shut down, but there is no, there's, there's silver square. we know that nuclear power plants are built with a series of backup safety systems. what do we know about the state of those systems at the separate facility? and so i'm going back to the sick. she met a incident after the, the incident that she ran 2011. there was a review of those and it has been to the risks to this operation, nuclear power plant and updating of the safety systems to make sure that the were responsive to, to an emergency. so there are emergency diesel generators on site

a number of times that are able to keep the plants online in case of a cut off of external power. uh for, for several days. we saw that the water has drained out of the kafka reservoir, and yet there are still water supplies and some redundancy in place to keep the fuel close in our system is in place to manage certain emergency situations. but precisely, as you see and we, there are questions around what is the state of, of those systems. and we have some information on how much fuel is available and how much time there is for the generators to work on what the state of the water is . but the question for me is, if the russian occupier is decided to engineer an incident at the facility where they allow those systems to do the work that they need to do to prevent to prevent an accident, you bring up a very important point here. we've got russian forces that are occupying the facility. this plant is inside a war zone. what the result, this means,

what would it mean for the emergency response if some radiation leakage did take place to? that's an excellent question. again, depending on what the incident is, how much radiation lease interested there and be, i think that would depend on yeah, the, the ability to respond. but i mean, just beyond that, this is what he's on the front line. and so it's, it's very difficult respectively to get things in and out of the facility as well, and particularly as it is still occupied by, via i pressure. so, um, i think that does complicate efforts for, for response. i think it's moving to your yeah, the i a e a and it says that it has seen the evidence of explosives planted at the site, but it also says it needs to further assess the situation that just wondering, let me ask you and what does that tell you about the level of access at the i a, a has to the site. so the use of the facility it

has been for some time now. and i think that's critical that there is, there are, as on the ground from an international, a credible international organization that has the expertise to assess what's happening at the facility. and there have been some, as far as you know, limitations to what they can access. because they've asked for, for access to certain parts of the facility. so i don't know what the context is for the request of for, for access to those types of facilities. how likely the or to get granted. and where those are questions at the moment. uh, but some of the parts of the facility that they've asked to access are precisely the parts of the facility where ukrainian intelligence saying that there might be explosives in place. so it's critical that they have access to those sites to ensure that there are no explosives there. yeah, and we certainly have no explosion takes place. definitely. and that was a cobra from the royal united services institute. we appreciate your time and your

insights tonight. thank you. thanks, i'm the bill of ruth says it has take it in russia's wagner boss. you have guinea for goshen and offered a new home to his wagner mercenaries. now all of this is adding new urgency to this months in need of some of that will take place in lithuania, that the waiting until or nato members, lumpy and poland, they are increasingly worried about the danger posed to their borders from their neighbor. the former soviet bloc countries fear which is growing influence in bel. ruth could eventually be used against them. published forces stepping up their patrols along the country's border with bellows guards and say they registered a growing number of illegal border crossing attempts. one reason for the height and to alert the presence of russian wagner group fighters and bella roost this

a satellite image per part of the shows of bass under construction not far from the capital mintz developments in bella ruth and the concerns of neighboring nato countries. poland flat via and look, the wayne here will be on the agenda at the alliance's upcoming summit in building us in a net. they've sent a recently fellow, bruce received a tactical nuclear weapon, or at least said they would for that purpose. and now we're just taking precaution and just military. it is clear that this is a country which we can no longer call, suffering and stupid and which is doing things that go against our security. when you go yet, you're going to be excited. i should look into this, most of them. those comments were echoed by poland, defense minister during a visit from his german calendar part. poland is pushing for greater measures to prevent any spillover from the war in neighboring ukraine. also g issue. it will stop all the things that have been happening in russia recently as the complete subordination of belarus. he says, one of the transfer of nuclear weapons developers,

a young girl by the wagner group. i thought he is good on you should they all show the threats from russia to go with a real cause we get is that it says that goes on, you have chose so as well as gulf coast and the burglar seller, which has long time leader alexander lucas shingle says that his country will benefit from the presence of wagner fighters. location goes beller, russo seen as vladimir pretends closest ally. the 2 leaders met last month to discuss the deployment of russian nuclear weapons developers. earlier this week, lucas shingle marked the country's independence day. but many in the west, increasingly c bella roost as little more than a vassal of its larger neighbour, russia. well, for corrosion, relocating developer, bruce, together with wagner mercenaries. this has all been interpreted as punishment for the brief rebellion, but from not be a chart on a chief political advisor to build lucy, an opposition leader in exile. so atlanta,

at the end of the sky, you told the w news that have benefits and both boots and, and the location go at least for now. russia is controlling location. location is going to. busy land power vertex, all up until the military consulting, the old oper, oper, security, and send in martin or a troops. the galleries will take place for them and they decide they're not present for them. it just keep them them on the face for more, for the rest of the okay, for me again for points that it's comfortable because it's like you pump your enemies on the phone, but you're still have control and you're still kind of searching for new questions . don't worry about the choice, it was as easy. it was just off by to propose this solution focused on face, trying to force himself as a maybe this piece major. but the reality is that again, was used by franklin in order to solve this internal domestic russian class. he is

using the whole situation to present himself in the course of life when the lord and i find him who concerns as a mental appears and a few souls there was problem and then they're short around getting the winds because the nice and yellow percent which afford to cushion for for bone support. he seems as a peace maker, but think the looms around the presence of thousands of thousands of might have $110000.00 russian button, and it will freeze many problems for billable shows. the sizes for bloom send me the various with one form or i'm a 1st formal presenting himself because a gordon who will not be listening to christian. he will not be of painful vision. 2000 so christian can seriously russia. all these guys unfortunately devotional matters. they some of percent, there's a call i'm at some point they will try to look by a anyway that today is almost done. remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see that everything

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