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change conference, kicks off with a dire warning that our climate is on a road to ruin. just one day away from the u.s. imposed deadline for israel to increase aid to gaza, humanitarian groups warn not nearly enough has been done. u.s. president elect donald picking his cabinet as he prepares to take over the white house in january. a warm welcome to world news america. some 200 world leaders are gathering in azerbaijan with the goal of losing global reliance on fossil fuels food the annual u.n. climate summit is happening in a country that isich in oil reserves. just before it got underway, the bbc learned a senior official appeared to have leveraged his role to arrange a meeting about potential fossil fuel deals in azerbaijan. the focus is how to keep global

temperatures from rising more than one point five degrees celsius above preindustrial levels. that was a target set by the 2015 paris agreement. casting a shadow is the election victory for donald trump, a known climate skeptic who has threatened to withdraw from that agreement. u.s. climate envoy john podesta says the push to combat global warming continue despite what he called a disappointing election outcome for climate activists. >> this is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet. facstts are still facts. the fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle, and one country. this fight is bigger still because we are all living through a year defined by the climate crisis in every country of the world. sumi: a report released on the first day of cop29 warned this year is likely to be the hottest ever reported.

the world meteorology organization has issued a red alert over climate change, saying the world is already becoming dangerously overheated. a key topic has been climate finance with wealthier countries under pressure to deliver a proposed $1 trillion package to support climate action in developing countries. our bbc climate editor sent this report. >> baku was the birthplace of the modern oil industry. the first oil wells were dug here more than 150 years ago. as baku prepares to host the world's biggest climate conference, there are challenges ahead. donald trump, the u.s. president-elect, is skeptical of climate action. >> my plan will terminate the green new deal, which i call the green new scam. greatest scam in history probably. >> he has said he will pull the u.s. out of the key part of the u.n. talks. the u.s. has set in negotiating

team, but when trump takes office in january, he can overturn any promises they make. meanwhile, the bbc has revealed footage that appears to show the chief executive of the azerbaijan cop29 team discussing potential oil and gas deals. >> there are joint ventures that could be established. >> cop29 has not responded to our request for comment. >> i can give you some statistics. >> activists saved don't on think the summit will be derailed. >> if we are going to hold global warming before 1.5, it will take the world to come together. the biggest geopolitical challenge is climate change. if we don't tackle it, we don't have a planet. >> but, top of the agenda is the trickiest subject of all. money cop because the focus is on finance. negotiators want to agree a new goal for how much money richer

countries should be paying to poorer countries to move away from fossil fuels and adopt their countries to climate change. at the moment, it is $100 billion a year. the hope is it will be hundreds of billions of dollars a year. developing countries would like it to be more than $1 trillion. the ferar is with the u.s. likely leaving the field, it will be much harder to raise that money and that in turn could mean countries dial down their carbon cutting ambitions. bbc news, baku. sumi: for more on the summit, we can speak to vanessa carrie, the special envoy for climate change and health. ank you for joining us. i want to start with what we heard from the u.s. climate envoy. he said the climate fight is bigger tn one election, one political cycle and one country, but that one country is the second biggestmitter of greenhouse gases right now. we keep hearing action is needed immediately, not four years from now.

do you agree with that assessment? vanessa: the reality is climate change is the most existential threat that we face in our lifetime. and it is an accelerant of all crises. it is the responsibility of every country to think about how we can step up to meet the challenge that we face today. there are six countries that are responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse gases that are spewing into our atmosphere right now and changing our earth in what is becoming an y irreversible shift. the united states is going to have to find a way to be at the table, but there's a number of fferent ways that i think that can happen. i think if we really look at the reality that we are facing a world where renewable energy is going to be a critical part of the solution, both for health and well-being which is something near and dear to my heart, but also being smart about how we will protect not only the future of our planet

and our people, but our economic bottom line. if you look at extreme heat, we lose 835 billion in 2033, lost productivity from extreme heat. sumi: what we've heard from the trump administration in particular in the lead up to this election is the fact that costs have been so high in the u.s. and one way to reduce costs is to drill, baby, drill, which means drilling for more oil and gas which leads to more fossil fuels in the environment. i mean, how do you swear that up with what you said about the economic bottom line? vanessa: unfortunately, climate change makes us sicker, for example. it really does reduce our productivity. half the u.s. workforce is at risk right now of health impacts of climate change alone. only 17% of ceos are worrying about that in our country. when we think about what that means, it means if it is too hot to work and you cannot work, you

not only lose your income as an individual, but you will lose the ability, the company loses money and productivity. so, it is not in our economic best interest to continue in the trajectory we are on. it is shortsighted and we will lose the global competitiveness if that is the reality. i think we are not doing a good enough job of actually costing out with the true impact of this is. it costs less to implement paris in terms of savings we will see down the line from health impacts and other benefits. but, we can be shortsighted and try to think about how we continue the current trajectory, or we can realize there is a win-win solution that will have an economic benefit and outcome, not only in terms of individual household security, but in terms of the overall productivity of the nation or a company. sumi: or internationally. just one more question. the current summit is a platform. how did you get poorer and

developing countries to go along with more climate policies when they see the bigger emitters shifting away from it? suvanessa: my work is primarily international. i have the privilege of leading an organization to build strong health systems and training workforce. the countries we work with and countries around the world, as i speak to them -- many of them are from lower and middle income places -- they recognize it is in the best interest to put climate forward policies. the health declaration called for an end of fossil fuel subsidies which we now spend $7 trillion a year on, which we could be spending on investing in stronger health systems, better health, or renewable energy. these countries know that their future is not having an evolving climate that is making them sicker, that is leading to drought and n now nutrition which is undermining the health and well-being of their population. they see the writing on the wall and they are being very

proactive about trying to create the right policies. the problem is the 100 porous countries in the world are responsible for about 3% of the greenhouse aggas emissions. i think we can start to drive the kind of change we need. there are multiple countries that will step up to the plate, both for the health and well-being of the planet, of their own populations, but also again, for the economic competitiveness and security benefits that come from protecting ourselves from climate change. investing in mitigation adaptation and resilience. sumi: really good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. now in gaza, israel is pushing forward with its military operations. a strike on a cafe in southern gaza killed at least seven people on monday, according to palestinian medical officials. it follows reports that at least 30 people were killed in gaza since sunday night. the refugee camp in central gaza has come under heavy

bombardment. the idf launched a tank incursion into the western side of the camp. israel says it is trying to prevent hamas from regrouping. in the north, gaza's hospitals have been under siege for weeks. some medical evacuations are underway in an effort involving the red cross. the group says 20 patients were evacuated sunday night in a mission blessing several hours. tuesday march the deadline set by the biden administration for israel to improve the humanitarian situation in gaza or risk an arms embargo. the israeli military says it was taking steps to expand the humanitarian zone in southern gaza. our correspondent sent as this report. >> much of gaza now looks unlivable. a month ago, america once again demanded israel take steps to reduce the number of civilian casualties. the united nations says more than 1000 people have been killed in the last 30 days. the majority, it says, were civilians.

he needed to see with his own eyes. in the bag is the five-year-old 's aunt. his uncle, sister were also killed when israel attacked his school housing displaced families in central gaza. israel's military says it was targeting hamas. >> god is all we need. >> there is food in gaza. if you can get your hands on it. this, the daily scramble for bread, if you can afford it. >> if it were not for the soup kitchen, we would have starved to death. every day, it is the same struggle.

i go back and forth to the soup kitchen. >> on gaza's northern border, this is -- you can see the war is not over. but, israel has reopened a number of crossings. to allow aid in, as the u.s. requested. it is not eugh. america demanded that by now, israel should be getting a minimum of at least 350 trucks of aid into gaza every day. but over the past month, the united nations says the average has been only just over 40 trucks a day. international journalists free access to gaza. but, i spoke to the main u.n. agency. we have this deadline set by the united states. have their demands been met? >> no. there is not enough aid here, not enough supplies.

people are starving in areas. people are very hungry. they are fighting over bags of flour. there's just not enough supplies. >> for more than a year, israel has crossed most of america's redlines. much of this was done using u.s. weapons. but in the dying days of the biden presidency and with more than 43,000 palestinian lives lost, it is unlikely the white house will put its foot down and cut off arms supplies. bbc news, jerusalem. sumi: an icu specialist from philadelphia who is curreny in gaza as a medical coordinator for u.k. med. here's what you told me. you are in khan younis at the u.k. med field hospital. what is the situation like right now? >> thank you for having me. the situation right now is

absolutely critical, as it has been for over 400 days now, but even more so at this current moment. this is my third time in gaza and i can tell you from my prior experiences in january and march, the situation is much worse due multiple challenges of getting supplies and aid into gaza. we are seeing a massive increase in severe malnutrition. it is ev worse than what i have visualized and observed previously. things continue to get worse without, what feels like, without any hope for improvement. sumi: you say you have seen fewer medical supplies now than you did in your previous visit. what is missing at the moment? what is lacking from the hospitals and medical centers? dr. ahmed: gosh, i could give you a list of so many things but i will start with something so simple. gauze. it is one of the cornerstones of treatments, of injuries here. we have patients that are coming

in with acute traumatic injuries that require a significant amount of gauze, and we don't have enough. when patients are having wound dressing changes because of severely infected wounds, which are not able to get treated in a proper way because of a lack of supplies. again, we have a limitation of the basic things like gauze. another thing that people are dying of infections that they should not be dying of because we don't have the right supply of antibiotics. we are limited with the nutritional supplies that are coming in. food is limited. that also adds to the issue of poor wound healing. so many different medications, surgical supplies. the list goes on and on. the thing to me that is so incredibly mind-boggling and frustrating is the lack of gauze. something so simple that should be here in mounds and mounds, and we are limited in the number of dressing changes we can do because of the lack of gauze.

to the point where the hospital also ran out of it entirely. we all work together across international ngos, across u.n. agencies. the issue is it is not just us. everybody is experiencing this significant limitation of supplies which is prohibiting the care of patients. sumi: what do you do if you need to dress a wound and don't have enough gauze? how are you working around this? dr. ahmed: we do the best we can. we have emergency plies when this happens but we have to limit the number of times we are doing dressings. that means we ha to be extremely careful with how many pieces of gauze we are using. it is literally rationing pieces of gauze. we keep track of everything a medical supply that is being used and update our clinicians, surgeons, doctors and nurses so that they know this is how much we have left, this is how much you have to work with, and this is what we can do in the meantime. and outside of that, we are all asking and begging our

colleagues who have additional supplies and helping each other where we can. sumi: the situation you are painting is so dire. we know that israel says hamas is shielding itself behind civilians and hospitals and could end the suffering today if it surrendered. hamas denies that is the case. you and agencies saying it is israel that is responsible for the injuries due to and from an obama. from your perspective, what can you see? dr. ahmed: i am a health care worker first and foremost. i am here with an organization that is primarily focused on the health care catastrophe that is ongoing. what i can tell you is that from a health care worker's perspective, we are here doing our part. we are asking world leaders to do there's and the diplomacy it would take to end the violence and minimize the suffering. that is really the best i can say. we are seeing the effects of ongoing suffering, catastrophe of the health care system

collapsing. and what we are asking, without because i am really here is a health care worker, is that we are looking to world leaders to do their part because we are here doing ours alongside our palestinian health care workers, colleagues. sumi: thank you for joining us today. we really appreciate your time. dr. ahmed: thank you for having me. sumi: one more piece of news from the region. saudi arabia is hosting an emergency summit to address israel's military offensive in the region. the saudi crown prince urged israel to avoid launching further attacks on iranian soil and describe israel's actions in gaza as a genocide. leaders are also discussing the consequences of donald trump's return to the white house. and president-elect trump announced plans to nominate several major cabinet positions for his upcoming second term. he just announced plans to nominate lee zeldon, the former new york congressman, to leave the environment to production agency. elise stefanik is set to be

nominated as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., a role crucial to global cooperation and security. she initially positioned herself as a moderate and criticized mr. trump of than later probably defended him. the president elect plans to elect tom holman as the border czar. he says he hopes to deliver a mr. trump promise to enact the largest deportation operation in history. he served in trump's previous of ministry should, as did stephen miller, who cbs news is serving as the deputchief of staff or policy. let's go to our correspondent jessica parker in west palm beach near the amir locke estate. it is good to see you. let's start with the nominations. elise stefanik for the ambassador to the united nations. what do you think that will mean? jessica: yeah, good evening to you from west palm beach, where it is the hub of the trump transition team at his mar-a-lago home.

in terms of elise stefanik, she's in new york congresswoman. once upon a time, a trump skeptic but has become a staunch backer of the president-elect. she's also a staunch ally of israel. she really made her name when she was grilling university presidents over their handling of campus gaza protests. she's been critical of the u.n. during the conflict in the middle east as well. she's an outspoken figure, but crucially, she has been loyal to donald trump in recent years and i think loyalty is a trait you are seeing rewarded in some of these appointments. sumi: including among tom ho lman, the border czar. what will that tell us about the implementation of donald trump's campaign promise to launch this mass deportation plan? jessica: yeah, interesting one as well. i will wrap that up as well with

the announcement of stephen miller that you announced. key figures who around in the first trump administration. you saw this really controversial policies on immigration, whether it was family separation and the border. whether it was the travel ban that affected predominantly muslim countries. these guys there were around then are being brought back into oversee, be involved with the mass deportation of illegal immigrants that donald trump has been talking about during the campaign trail. i think donald trump i appointing these people who have been seen as hardliners are trying to send a message that he means business. sumi: that is really interesting . what else can you tell us from on the ground in florida about how this second trump administration is shaping up? jessica: it is so interesting to watch it in action. this has been become what is dubbed the winter white house. donald trump is not inaugurated until january 20. but as we look ahead to that

inauguration, as we look ahead to the second trump administration, you can feel the power is already here. that is being reflected by the drip-drip of these crucial appointments being made and huge levels of interest in them as well. also, this time around, it is donald trump's second go at this. there certainly a sense it is a less chaotic transition because they have done this before back in 2016. sumi: jess parker reporting from florida. great to speak to you. now, monday marks veterans day in the united states, a day to honor the country's fallen ldiers. president joe biden department wreath-laying ceremony at arlington national ceremony to pay trippi to the veterans who have served in the u.s. military. the event marked his first appearance with vice president harris center election defeat in the first time ms. harris has made a public appearance since giving a speech conceding the presidential election to donald

trump. mr. biden offered his thanks and acknowdge the fact that monday's wreathlaying was one of his final public duties as president. >> this is the last time i will stand here in arlington as commander-in-chief. it has been the greatest honor of my life. to lead you, to serve you, to care for you, to defend you, just as you defended us generation after generation after generation. you are the greatest fighting force, and this is not hyperbole, the finest fighting force in the history of the world. sumi: that was president biden speaking to service members a little earlier today. cities and towns across europe and the u.k. fell silent today to mark the 106th armistice day, commemorating the truce between the allies and germany at the end of world war i. british prime minister keir starmer attended commemorations in paris with his french counterpart emmanuel macron.

they observed two minutes of silence side-by-side before visiting the tomb of the unknown soldier. the two leaders held talks before commemorations as a show of european unity. that is our program today. you can always find more on all of the day's news on our website, bbc news.com/news. do check us out on your favorite social media site. you can see our lead article on the climate fight. you can find all of this also on our bbc app. just download that to get the latest news and analysis from our correspondents around the world. for all of us, thank you for watching world news america and st with bbc. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james.

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