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to the united states and that's what could have resolved this case in two thousand and ten and can certainly resolve this case in two thousand and eighteen and there's a demonstration to war between six and eight in london there are other demonstrations to mark the six years what is the mental health state of you joining us and it's an incredibly difficult situation we've had docked is assess him and say that there is an extreme race to his physical or mental health that calling on the british medical association to put pressure on the british government to ensure that he can have the health care that he needs obviously as being inside the embassy he's not been able to leave to go to hospital or to seek any formative medical treatment and the british government refuses to allow him to leave for that purpose and they say if he does so it's a very serious situation it's causing him permanent damage and it's time that this is ended and it's within the power of the british government to do so it always has been and i could end tomorrow if i wanted to jennifer robinson thank you thank you after the break as new figures show that i'm talking to a guy has lost three trillion tons of ice in twenty five years two award winning
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scientists tell us why the us sixty good mark the beginning of the end of the human race dollars or more coming up about to have going underground. i can imagine. i don't know i wasn't there but i can imagine a russia defending its national interests in a way that doesn't help the hawks in the united states but couldn't has this image of such a hard guy. and i would only blame him for not caring about american public opinion even more because it seems like no matter what he does there's an unfair response number less what i'm saying is it's gotten very personal. you have a phone. no i don't have the what was the last time that you went on the internet
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no i'm not using any of these village is it safe. are you sure there is no actual music ters there that are all going to be sure to bill the baby doesn't cover his nose but. i want. to see more don't want to know what the source. is a death as part of those activities. that was worked out of us. previously and yes they are being false form of worry and mostly member of the society. when you let. them.
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have been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us as over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per circuit first started and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom but . the trumpet juggernaut continues on all fronts is he remaking the western world or merely isolating the us also is north korea coming out of the cold and much much more on this edition of
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crossed. welcome back in the past seventy two hours the fast food chain mcdonald's has announced that its one thousand three hundred u.k. branches will no longer use plastic straws phasing out one point eight million straws a day but is the move a drop in the ocean given that the world's fourth largest employer stands accused by environmentalists of a range of earth altering activities from deforestation to massive environmental pollution the activities of multinationals contribute toward some scientists refer to as the anthropocene the era of human domination an area that may spell the end of the only planet in the universe known to support life professor simon lewis and reservoir maslin and the co-authors of the human planet how we created the anthropocene and they join me now thanks were coming in let's begin mark with what is the. so many years ago scientists started to realize that we were
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changing the earth but we haven't realized until the last decade how much we're actually changing it so if we look at the amount of earth or soil that we move remove more than the rest of the natural processes if you think about the amount of concrete we make we can actually have covered the whole of the world two millimeters thick in concrete so all these massive changes and actually what we've realized is that we were entering a new geological period a period that wasn't dominated by plate tectonics or by super volcanoes but actually by us and so we are now controlling the destiny of the earth and clingfilm the book is full of the excluded from the classics yes we hate plastic. simon this book dates it to sixteen ten i should say there are lots of ice core data or proofs of this these as well but sixteen tell them what happened in the year so we need to say in terms of the anthropocene that earth is moving to a new state and then we need
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a marker to say when it began and this marker we think is when different speeds. these from different continent started to jump continent as europeans arrived in the americas the first time after fourteen ninety two and one of the things of those movement of species is that diseases were transported and that caused the deaths of around fifty million native americans and those native americans were farmers so those farmers fields that were there across south america grew back and most of the trees carbon so they took carbon out of the atmosphere and we can see that impact in ice cores from antarctica and in sediments and natural data archives of around the world so this provides a moment to say this is the beginning of the end to proceed so when species are mixed and we see a new evolutionary destiny of planet earth and it's the last globally cool moment before the warmth of the anthropocene before climate change really kicks in in the
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early adopters of this. perceived connections with years and so there are particular in russia yes so so people have had an idea that there's been a human epoch that there's a time when humans dominate the earth and that started off with the brute force in the eighteenth century and he had this idea that it was a human pork mainly due to the kind of changes that humans are making to life so cutting down forests moving plants and animals around for farming and then actually people were using the term the anthropocene in russia after the after the. october revolution in one nine hundred seventeen and we think that's because ideas of change and ideas that were going to change the world politically and economically go hand in hand with thinking that we can change the world environmentally so there was a lot more comfort in discussing those ideas in the early twentieth century in russia and in the east then there was in the west that we've been
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a bit slow catching up with these ideas but then. as i mean people have commented the fact that the climate change conference has been going on in the vatican in the burbs you do as you mentioned before organized religion did not like this anthropocene very much in india in the early days of geologists saying getting evidence and saying hang on the earth is much older and the time that people have been here will be the first president related serious things it's only six thousand years old yes by adding up all the date in the bible and it's obviously completely absurd you know we know that there's four point five billion years old and humans arrived very late on the scene if you took. earth's history as an entire day modern humans that looked like you and i we appear at four seconds to midnight so we're incredibly recent but we've had enormous impact on the planet
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so much so that we are now a force of nature like the old forces of nature changing over billions and millions of years we're now changing it today so what we do now matters. surely we've only recently got this kind of full range of data because there were a lot of skeptics a lot of skepticism when people would just go it's warmer or since records began britain has got warmer records beginning in the eighteenth century how important is the that kind of new data to support this and to proceed in argument well i think the most important thing is that the anthropocene goes beyond just climate change it actually looks at all of our impacts and in many ways us discussing climate change for the last twenty five to thirty years has mosque the fact that humans are doing huge amounts of damage to the planet as well as changing the climate given example since the industrial revolution we've cut down three trillion trees that's half the trees on the planet just that alone is
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a huge effect if we look at say land mammals wolf we actually weigh them all. sixty seven percent. livestock thirty percent of our humans and only three percent is all those wild animals that of course the b.b.c. in the other t.v. camera crews go follow around so we completely changed the makeup of mammals on land but we've sort of forgotten about this and it's only now that we're looking at it in toto that we can see our huge impact on the earth which is the same as changing into a new geological period and this is industrial capitalism i mean you say capitalism is the primary force so in the book we describe that there are five major periods of human society first one hunter gatherers second one then is the agricultural revolution third is the mercantile capitalists who then rediscovered south america and caused genocide their industrial revolution occurs and then the last one is
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actually cap is consumer capitalism which occurs after the second world war and it's that consumer capitalism that's really accelerated all these environmental issues and actually now running out of control and this legacy of inquiry of one to the pejorative way of colonialism and discovery the age of discovery very important and you alluded to it earlier when it came to the extinction of native american or put extinction of native american life in the spirit so what happened in the sixteenth century is that europeans bred a crop across the oceans and created the first global circuit trade and the first kind of you could see it as a global empire. and from there we then moved through the discovery of enormous fossil fuel reserves and the ability to use those which again then spread worldwide as we see in china today and then finally
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a new reorganization of the world after the second world war to be able to increase that productivity and increase the consumption and that's the problem we have today is that we're producing three hundred million tonnes of plastic each year and there was seeing plastic in all the oceans and we're seeing in micro fibers in in the drinking water and enough food and you know these things come back to rebalance so we argue in the book is that actually this constant increase in the amount of productivity and the amount of consumption globally can't continue without serious repercussions and in the end some kind of societal collapse there are various saviors towards the end of the book possible xavier's actually image and so donald trump could be a savior as we can prove texan is through is now involved in the trade war fifty billions of tariffs on the chinese goods protectionism is that one of the answer
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that's not as strong as the other ones you i don't think. what we need is we're a globally interconnected culture set of cultures and that global interconnection means that we can help each other around it makes sense to farm the foods that grow best in the places they do so we don't cut down rain forest just because. there isn't a good place to grow food that we can grow it elsewhere and move it to the places where we need it so actually actually in terms of energy and information which we think are the ultimate drivers of contemporary society actually we need technology from the global north to go to places like. india to allow them to leapfrog the fossil fuel age and go straight to renewables go to straight to green clean technology to produce the energy that those people need and to change those
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consumption habits so that people get what they need but without the environmental impact we just mentioned a shift in different stages including the immediate return home together a system so people are going to be surprised maybe not germany corbin's labor party but how you can return to that through a very modern you talked about all the time in think tanks around the world a universal basic income were the key thing is trying to break the consumption cycle and the key thing is that everybody is trying to actually work as many hours as they can to generate as much money as possible to increase their life and increase the wealth of their children and that's great but it becomes this sort of self-fulfilling prophecy which is i work so hard so i deserve a new phone or a new deserve a new car or actually my neighbors have something and even nicer car i've got to have that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy but it doesn't make it any happier i'm not any happier
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even though i'm more wealthier than my parents were and so the interesting thing is that if you start to think about what is the basic needs for most people which is shelter food and a little bit extra so they can sustain themselves and that's what university culture what of course you have to have culture and again but that also allows you if you stop worrying about money and have a safety net you can do some really interesting things with. culture because you can look after your elderly relatives without worrying about whether you're going to feed yourself or your kids you can actually become an entrepreneur and go i'm going to risk everything for the next five years seeing if i can make the next billion dollar company but guess what i don't have to worry about feeding myself because i have that safety net so it's a really interesting idea that allows people to be creative more artistic consume less but at the same time actually add a lot into culture and society so should we give up of g.d.p. growth as a measure of the success of
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a society the important thing about the universe all basic income which feeds into the growth argument is is that it gives people control. so it allows them to take some opportunities that usually lie out of reach and it also give them opportunities they know for example to be environmentally damaging work and if people won't have the impetus to go work for whatever work they can get then people have more control about what's produce and therefore what's consuming and that would change growth and that would change the dynamics of always going for more and more g.d.p. even though much of this g.d.p. growth might be repairing massive environmental damage and is so is not a net benefit to humanity as a whole broad as i would nurse present mess of thank you both that's it for the show we're back on wednesday world refugee day job and keep it up with us about social media we'll see on wednesday wolf tony's birthday i'm one hundred eighteen
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years to the day violet that you can learn your the hets one movement for u.s. marines in beijing's books are about. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying there's just no way that hasn't been that we hear even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way.
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but whole existence to do something to. put themselves on a low. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want to. have to want to be cross with what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of. course. as he should when you go to one of the for something beyond what because. those we might want to meet are well me and nothing. but the policy.
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that. what i was was a. double the human being. in school i'm. only interested in the reasons that instead of the watchman's of blood from a system that.
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went in with him and is that and there have been removed can you hear michel i. yes most of the. fun q. action on day five of the world with belgium right now facing panama while sweden have already seen all three of them. and later england clash in a big match down in front of the fans i've been getting in the spirit to have a. very very good. altie speak for all of those among the fans involved don he's been putting their skills to the test. it's
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a little bit old for it's all about people. like you to really good out to build to the game. to be zero. zero. zero zero five six seven. zero zero. and six pm and you're watching all things nasa live from our moscow studio with mina david welcome to all the special coverage of the world cup here in russia with three cities hosting games today the match between panama and belgium has just kicked off the first going to take place in queens the president of panama also came to russia to support his country's team in the first opera parents after the world cup we wanted to get his exclusive comment ahead of the game. to support my team here in sochi today first time that bennett was going to leave the words. so you see all the better me than a lot of five thousand people like when we came in i'll be watching the game and then headed back to bed about to beautiful city be difficult to russia we really
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enjoy the sea but if i felt it but i mean it's already what you doing for the first time i look throughout. this. later on england will face tunisia but will england and belgium live up to their ranking as favorites in the opening games and to follow discussed it with manchester united boss and r.t. co-host chose a menu. has the players has a tactical system that if you play against an inferior team creates them problems because you project the two full backs almost as a winger and you bring people to the inside and in between the lines meaning they used to call it the pockets. so i thinking that has more than enough to win it but to new jersey i know that poor friend isn't an old friend is our friend this but they do in portugal they lost in spain. we. mean that it is seven eighty eight saw i think the kind of african team with and european touch
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lots of is playing in europe they have the culture of an all to play particularly mentally they are strong. i'm not so sure that is going to be in these imaginary ok now before all this storm and started to make some predictions for us to. get i think around the predictions of five point zero a little i think a little bit. of a funny feeling and trying to bring some well some salt and pepper to it by thing you don't arrive at the salt and pepper let's have a look at. some of the great take and we know that joe is i there was a prince and you were quiet and russia would get active it could we see it there it is russia and europe was there in that position was there almost myself an instant russian it's a draw against egypt and job done and. to want to. make a great prevent let's concentrate big joe as i said spain and portugal. and the title says on it's only one game so if iran portugal but nothing to just meet you
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just need to be careful when you play against iran you cannot lose against iran because if you are on the six points. it's probably five and one of the big ones is also i think it's just not to lose against not to lose against iran and send. all the support you in spain. two in the next six points finish wolf. in my position was spain to finish for some portugal finish second yes which i think will happen because i think spain normally can score more goals and i was. saying let's have a look at that one. jos i said france a strike the title says france denmark yeah but you saw how they lost yes also in the last not deserving to lose in my opinion they lost but showing clearly that they were competing for points and if they compete against france i still think we
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can do obviously a better result against against so my for the action you steal look easy you have a great take argentina nigeria. and yeah in here i think i'm going to toulouse with nigeria not just because they lost the match but specially because the way they lost. i didn't like at all when i looked to paper i like many of the players i like. the names i saw nigerians typically strong african country but i was disappointed. when i see a player like john obi mikel to play. as. it is impossible to me to be good with your playing as a pen because i think my junior lost a good six to get the time and he gives no dynamic to the to the team playing in
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that position so i believe that the issue with these three points is in a good position to qualify ok that's fair enough for group b. then there we had brazil and switzerland. let's move on to creeping here it is. serbia brazil city didn't get i didn't serve didn't look good so i told the media my prediction is that. i was not thinking that sort of deal was going home i was wishing serbia was going home which is a different thing here because i want i want my man to go on on a holiday but i knew that they have so many good players they are strong. they really want to do it i know many of them i know the spirit that for many minutes i was in my teach about the feeling of the syrian players to go to the world cup and they look really strong you could see that when switzerland got a point against brazil obviously they can get three against costa rica probably they can get one against serbia and then if they go two five. my prediction can
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steal can still go with brazil and and switzerland but i have to confess i want my play to go on all of it but let's move on and f. . g.'s a said germany and mexico germany part of that group. i don't like to go germany i think is going to qualify with six points. and and mexico has a big chance now to qualify even with five so you from mexico doesn't lose against three of them which is very possible and doesn't lose against south korea which is very possible all lose one but when the other ones which is also normal i think mexico will qualify with five or six points and i don't believe that you are going to have a football scandal with germany going home so i think my prediction will be correct
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sort of and then the final two groups g. and h. of course they haven't paid by gangs yet but in g. you said england and belgium sticking with that i think is absolutely true page senegal and poland. well i went for senegal because i like african countries so i would really like an african country to to go to rule three through with shy. i was thinking between nigeria and senegal one to do it i don't think majeed is going to do with let's see some the girl they have some some good players they have players playing in good leagues so awfully they can. hopefully they can do it finally james say even with this what five days it is your last day today just tell us what if we knew your impressions of moscow and also the world cup know the. fear in the city amazing and you know where we are just in the most iconic place in in the city where of everybody is coming i can imagine so to two nationalities
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probably even more on the streets is fantastic the city is beautiful the weather is amazing i will stude you i have to believe that these are the best studio in in their dream in their television present amazing experience for me but now i need a little bit of work need a little bit of holiday but i will be back. with our t four semifinals and finals. fans from england until you have already started gearing up on the banks of the volga river ahead of the team's group g. . god i. was. like an. english going to win we're going to win so now we're going to have a mole as well go. to go.
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it's only tony it's all about football i take up a new phone market to hear we're going to have a little bit of the game the idea here is going into this is true. ten. twelve thirty forty fifty sixty maybe i'll give you. a rough day once you know it was him and that made our best thanks very much you've got to be sixteen i believe five six seven i was. what happens in england game similar to england she does you have to believe it but i'm going to be very tough game but we will win. both. goals yeah i am ready. to let it know all of the fun stuff being is well behaved in the senate is these behind me unfortunately i did with the so abhorrent behavior by you keep this in england fun straight on salita being thrown up as as well.

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