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 bridge off and berlin. this is the day the, this is something that we're seeing more is not just radicals being broken over

numbers, suggesting that we're going into rooms. i rection when it comes to the heat. it's getting weak and i'm getting angry and helpless, but there's a oh, big 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 to we know that our environment is burning. it's melting, it's flooding, it's deplete thing, it's drying. it's dying. also coming up of worries are growing over. what could happen it? europe's largest nuclear power plant. it's in ukraine and russian troops are in charge. the specialist. 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 to now with a code red warning in place, people in the netherlands were ordered to stay home. storm poly 1st bound to 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. leading us open the hotel um there was a car 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 store matthew cleared haste in germany to polly unleashed hurricane force winds. with meteorologist warning people to stay home with danger to life and land. a single sudden severe summer storm that's up and his 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 doctor rachel cletus that 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, chile waters of the english channel as well. this is really a non unprecedented storm and some are and as you pointed out, the destruction and the winds isn't terrific. the various factors are still being worked out, but there is no question. the climate change is loading the dice for these kinds of extreme weather events. poly was associated with a very low pressure of a stacked up against the high pressure due. 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, they see fluids. and this unprecedented sunless storm is part of the crime. no big spring weather studies in part being caused by climate change. yet let's pick up on these temperatures. we have seen 2 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, 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 hottest 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 manual 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 for us to be who are forced to work out doors and to the people their young people whose bodies cannot assemble ties as easily to the heats

are 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 we traveling emissions. and we know, even if we were to stop all the greenhouse gas emissions it 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 and very humid areas, what do 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 these have 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 explain dudley 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 of these kinds of databases. when i just bought before, we were not time i want to talk about 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. while he is referring to is a permanent increase over 1.5 degrees. we have not yet reached us limit, although we will see temporary increases above that limits. within the next 5 years,

we know that the menial will make the heat worse, and 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 says, we're just over 1 point, one degrees celsius, increase global average long term. and they're already seen in devastating. in fact, there is no safe temperature here. you've already reached that they're already in the world for 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 pulling off pull additions feet to the fire. that is something we can do now. what's been signing in the ways

a lot of political will and the instructions from the fossil fuel industry, dr. rachel cleanest. 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 claimed 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. you 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 heat. 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 during this brutally hot summer meal and g tundra se there 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. and the 3rd person to get 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 and brindle con deep within the province of oder co dash, one of india's hottest regions, 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 of a public service, so the data to, i'm able to save lives, best of them. 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. the 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 warrant that ma scale has been in bolton by the timid, international response to last month's destruction of the cope go down for which ukraine blaine's russia and outside the book. unfortunately, they was no timely and a large scale response to the terror attack on the comp go hydro electric health plan and the with and this may inspire the criminal and to commit new able annual. everyone in the world hasn't responsibility to stop it,

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

and there are lots of things like a girl and those are spent nuclear feel it's just sitting there in contain is out on the site. so any kind of even a small cell that goes the wrong way could leads to huge radioactive leaks. and this scenario with hundreds and thousands of 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 daria, that's a cove she is a research fellow at the royal united services institute. she's a specialist on the separate cn 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. it would depend on what the accident actually is with 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. i the finishing the planned all the reactors were operational, the reactors is offering. 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 as it zip reach. 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 coal shut down. one of them is hot, shut down, which basically just means being kept at a slightly higher temperature. however,

those reactors still contain fuel. that's very, very hot. there's also spent fuel on the facility, so that fuel still needs to be cooled 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 separates the facilities so um, going back to the fixed shima. uh, incident after the, the incident that uh because you were in 2011. there was a review of their assessment at the risks to this operation of nuclear power plant and updating of the safety systems to make sure that the where responsive to, to an emergency. i'm. 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 strange items, the kafka reservoir, and yet there are still water supplies and some redundancy in place each 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, what 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 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, by a 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 and has been for some time now. and i think that's critical, that there is their eyes on the ground from an international 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, 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 parts of facilities. how likely the are to get granted, and where those are questions at the moment. uh, but some of the parts of the facility that they've asked ok stars are precisely the parts of the facility where you creating an 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 or the bill of roost. it 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 versions into this months in need of some of that will take place. in lithuania, that the waiting until, or nato members locked in poland. they are increasingly worried about the danger posed to their borders from their neighbor. the former soviet bloc countries fear russia's 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 heightened alert the presence of russian wagner group fighters and bella roost. this a satellite image per part of the shows a base under construction not far from the capital. minsk developments in bella ruth and the concerns of neighboring nato countries. poland, like via and look the way in you will be on the agenda at the alliance is upcoming summit in building us in a net they've sent a recently fellow, bruce received

a tactical nuclear weapons, or at least said they would for that purpose. and now we're just taking precaution and just military or whatever. 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 hope you have the best 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 to the complete subordination of belarus. he says, one year, the transfer of nuclear weapons developers, a young girl by the wagner group. i thought he did understand, they all show the threats from russia to go with a real cause we get is that as that goes on, you have chose so as well as gulf coast and the bellow roots as long time leader

alexander lucas shinkel as that his country will benefit from the presence of wagner fighters. location goes beller, russo seen as vladimir put into the closest ally. the 2 leaders met last month to discuss the deployment of russian nuclear weapons developers. earlier this week, lucas shingle march the country's independent state. but many in the west, increasingly c beller, was 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 at york on a chief political advisor to build lucy, an opposition leader in exile slipped line 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. the russians controlling location location is

going to. busy in power, vertical up until the military consulting the whole oper, oper sensitivities, and send in martin or a troops the galleries. it will take place for them, and the tide are not present for them. it just keep them them on the face for more, for the rest of the thank you again for pointed, it's comfortable because it's like you put your enemies on the stuff, but you're still have control and you're still kind of searching for new questions that were for the choice, it was as easy, it was just off by switching to propose that solution focused on face trying the forces of afraid seems self by some, maybe this, these major. but the reality is that again, was used by franklin in order to solve this internal domestic russian price. he is using the whole situation to present himself in the course of life when the doors and i find him who concerns as a mental appears and whose souls there was problem. and i know short around king

williams because the nice of the other percent push up for 2 cushion for football and so forth. he seems, has a peacemaker. but i think the longer wrong, the presence of thousands and thousands of my 101-0000 russian development. it will 3 many problems for billable shows. aside from below, we're sending you the story with one form or a force from presenting himself because a gordon will not be listening to the question. he will not be of painful vision to 1000 so what christian can seriously russia. all these guys, unfortunately devotional matters. they some of the center of the call i'm at some point they will try wilkerson anyway that today is almost done. remember, whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see that everything, the

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