alaska. here is what i mean. my interest is really this whole area and there is still a question, a question that seemed to be resolved for a while, but it is back on the table now. and that is, which power or powers are going to be dominant in the pacific? we are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. that is what interested me. when i think of alaska and the -- in the late 1800s and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, guam, the philippines, the panama canal, san francisco. and of course the british empire also in british columbia and the british have other territories. and of course japan is a rising power. i am interested in how that plays out. these different empires and the relationship between them and i am working on a book right now that focuses on the american empire and the british empire in the far pacific northwest. i will be in the yukon soon researching them. my interest is in -- my interest is in how broad things play out in particular places. so i read

. >> alaska - baked. fiery season and warning about what may lie ahead. >> smells like a fire place a month later. it jumped a highway and two creeks, that's how intense it was. alaska will see more of this >>> jacob ward on the warm up in a state better known for its perm frost joie chen. it's the last frontier and the forefront of the national debate over climate change. president barack obama is in alaska pushing the discussion to focus attention on a climate heating up twice as fast as in the lower 48. and what that may mean to the long-term health of our world. "america tonight" sent jacob ward north for a closer look. he found a forest fire season burning hotter and longer than ever >>> this summer, hundreds of wildfires raged across alaska. there. >> we are seeing the guys get into what happened. where are they going, what will they face? >> what they are doing is kind of working on edge where we have some heat. >> for stephanie whalean, she is one of 3,000 firefighters and support crews flown in.

one alaska native told me many of our villages are ready to slide off into the waters of alaska.in some cases, there will be absolutely no hope. we would need to move many villages. alaska's fire season is now more than a month longer than it was in the 1950's. at one point, more than 300 wildfires were burning at once. southeast of here, pacific northwest, even the rain forest is on fire. more than 5 million acres in alaska have been scorched by fire this year. an area about the size of massachusetts. if you add the fires across canada and siberia, we are talking 300 million acres. an area about the size of new york. this is a threat to many communities but also an immediate threat to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect us. three firefighters lost their lives fighting a fire in washington state. another has been a critical condition. we are thankful to each and every firefighter for their heroism including the canadian firefighters. the point is climate change is no longer some far off problem. it is happening here and now. climate change is already disr

presence on his trip to alaska.e public from former secretary of state hillary clinton's private server and some deemed to contain classified information. [chanting] and hundreds of migrants in hungry try to board trains for germany but armed guards are now stopping them. ♪ this is al jazeera america, good morning live from new york city, i'm randall pinkston and president obama will walk on a glaser on his trip to alaska to talk about climate change and push for stronger presence in the region and includes ice breakers and will ask congress to speed up construction of new ice breakers in an effort to compete against russia and china in strategic arctic waters and right now the u.s. only has two worker ice breakers compared to moscow's 40 but first on the president's agenda the warming arctic waters and urgent need for action and libby casey has more from anchorage. >> delivering a warning at the alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet and called the science stark and climate change is not a problem in

he is on an historic three-day visit to alaska. >> reporter: u.s. president barack obama is dragging the national spotlight to a place it rarely goes, the far northern state of about -- alaska. >> alaska has warmed twice as fast a the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record, as it was for the rest of the world. >> reporter: he will tour melting glaciers and towns with vanishing coastlines, talk to people who are right now dealing

i want to lay the land for you across alaska. frozen landscape that has been there tens of thousands of years. and beneath it you have grass and trees and plants. and when fires occur you are releasing the carbon into the atmosphere. the fires this year have been so large you are burring into the duff area where you have needles and leaves and pine. this also releases additional carbon into the atmosphere. when you get to the number of fires that we are seeing and the nature of the fire you are returning down to the mineral soil and when it is a dark surface after it has been burned it is losing its insulation. you are heating up the landscape especially for alaska's long summer days. so now you're melting some of the permafrost which releases methane gas to the atmosphere and it is 30 times more potent an carbon dioxide is. this has global implications when you release large quantities across this part of the world. we know large parts of the northern interior of alaska have continuous areas of permafrost. i want to lay out the

the alaska map. the historic nature of that represent the was that it is in the arctic, above the arctic circle. no american president has ever gone to the arctic before for any reason. president obama went to see that part of country that he governs. to meet the people but also to see how climate change is evident and how that should help us explain the overall skoem of climb change as a problem we are already living with. not just something that affects us in the future. for the 3,000 or so people who live there, regardless of exactly why the president of the united states came to visit their town, the fact remains that their little town of 3,000 people way, way out in the middle of nowhere got a full blown visit from the sitting president of the united states of america and they were psyched about it. watch this. this is about the town getting ready. check out the news they break here. i think they're breaking news here from the mayor. >> it's crazy. it's a once in a lifetime thing that he is comi

allowing shell to conduct exploratory drilling off the coast of alaska. and the arctic is especially sense tump not only sensitive not only regionally but in other countries. let's go to the president's speech. >> alaska has some of the swiftest erosion rates in the world. i recall one white house spokesman said, many of our villages are ready to slide off the shores of alaska and in some cases there will be absolutely no hope. we will need to move many villages. alaska's fire season is now more than a month longer than it was in 1950. at one point this summer, one time 300 wildfires were burk atg this month. an area about the size of massachusetts. if i add the fires across canada and siberia we're talking 300 million acres. an area about the size of new york. this is a threat to many communities but it's also an immediate and ongoing threat to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect ours. less than two weeks ago, three highly trained firefighters lost their lives fighting a fire in washington state. another is in critical condition.

president obama today visits rural alaska towns affected by climate change. villages are built on rapidly melting perma frost and around 100,000 homes are threatened, tuesday the president saw the exit glacier new stewart and that receded a mile and a half in the past 200 years. >> what it indicates because of the changing patterns of winters with less snow, longer, hotter summers, is how rapidly the glacier is receding and it sends a message about the urgency that we are going to need to have when it comes to dealing with this. >> reporter: alaska is the only u.s. state in the arctic circle, temperatures in the arctic are rising twice as fast as anywhere else on earth. president obama chose alaska as a place to address climate change because of its impact on the people there that is so acute, in the coastal village of catalina residents are keeping a close eye on the encroaching sea as libby casey says parts of the island could disappear within the next decade. >> make sure they do not suffer. >> reporter: larry adams relies on sea and land for his food and

i'm not the first president to come to alaska.warren harding spent more than two weeks here -- which i would love to do. but i can't leave congress alone that long. [laughter] something might happen. when fdr visited -- franklin delano roosevelt -- his opponents started a rumor that he left his dog, fala, on the aleutian islands -- and spent $20 million taxpayer dollars to send a destroyer to pick him up. now, i'm astonished that anybody would make something up about a president. [laughter] but fdr did not take it lying down. he said, "i don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks -- but fala does resent attacks. he's not been the same dog since." [laughter] president carter did some fishing when he visited. and i wouldn't mind coming back to alaska to do some fly-fishing someday. you cannot see alaska in three days. it's too big. it's too vast. it's too diverse. [applause] so i'm going to have to come back. i may not be president anymore, but hopefully i'd still get a pretty good reception. [applause] and just in c

part of his unprecedented trip to alaska.is highlighting the dangers of climate change and pushing for a stronger u.s. presence in the region. the president is asking congress to speed up construction of ice breakers in an effort to compete with russia and china in the arctic waters. first on the president's agenda, the warming arctic waters and the urgent need for action. libby casey has more from anchorage. >> reporter: president obama delivering a warning at the beginning of his alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet. he called this science stark and he said that climate change isn't a problem in the far-off future. it is a problem here, and it's a problem happening now. he said it is already impacting infrastructure, communities, health, and the future. >> if those trend lines continue the way they are, there's not going to be a nation on this earth that is not impacted negatively. people will suffer. economies will suffer. entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems. >> reporter: the

one alaska native told me many of our villages are ready to slide off into the waters of alaska. in some cases, there will be absolutely no hope. we would need to move many villages. fire season is now more than a month longer than it was in the 1950's. at one point, more than 300 wildfires were burning at once. southeast of here, pacific northwest, even the rain forest is on fire. ine than 5 million acres alaska have been scorched by fire this year. an area about the size of massachusetts. fires acrosse canada and siberia, we are talking 300 million acres. an area about the size of new york. this is a threat to many communities but also an men ande threat to the women who put their lines on the lives -- and lives on the line to protect us. three firefighters lost their lives fighting a fire in washington state. another has been a critical condition. we are thankful that each and every far wider -- firefight for their heroism including the canadian firefighters. is climatepoint change is no longer some far off problem. it is happening here and now. is alreadynge disrupting our ag

the second-worst in alaska's history. in a village about an hour's flight from fair banks, and hundreds of firefighters are coming from all across the country. we're about to meet their commander and a couple who have been on the line. jim grant is based out of wisconsin. but he spent his summer trying to keep a half million acre fire from destroying this and other villages along the river. >> in my 30-plus year career this is the largest incident i have been involved with. >> reporter: it represents only 10% of the forests burned so far in alaska this year. >> we have at least 13 like this, plus numerous smaller fires. >> reporter: tom has been fighting fires in alaska for 40 years. in the past decade he has noticed a sharp change in the weather patterns. >> this was the driest and warmest may on record, so we keep setting high marks with those climate anomalies out there. >> reporter: they are melting the permafrost, priming them to burn. >> you can soonerly see a pattern developing here. >> reporter: this has global im

alaska for people at home it's a state. it's actually the largest state in the united states but it's 48th in population. only 800,000 people in alaska. and the reason is, it's because it's freezing cold. the second state, the largest state is texas. they have 28 million. why is that because it's warm. president obama wept there because it's cold and he is worried about global warming. if he he only understood that a few incremental increases in temperature more people would live in alaska. but he doesn't like science so instead he watched fish spawn because that's what he does. >> what was he doing up there really mcguirk. >> commend the president he gave up his usual, traditional end of summer vacation. >> no. he was at the vineyard. >> hang out with the rich and famous. >> he had three weeks at martha's vineyard and then he went up to alaska. >> this wasn't vacation it was work. >> is he the kardashian and chief? >> look how hard he is working there. >> he did the dance. >> he went out with bear grills. >> who is that i

experts say it is happening in alaska, but will not stay here.imate change continues, they expect to see communities, louisiana and new england grappling with the same questions. >> thank you. alaska is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the united states. wildfires have been quick to spread. they are burning hotter and longer than ever. jacob ward has that story. this summer, hundreds of wildfires raged across alaska. >> what they are doing is working on edge where there's heat. >> reporter: this is one of over 3,000 firefighters and support crews flown in from the lower 48 states this summer. they are battling a few of the fires burning 5.1 million acres so far this near. the second worse fire season in alaska's history. >> we are in a village, an hour's flight from fair banks, and hundreds of firefighters came in from across the country. we are about to meet the instant commander. jim grant is based based out of wisconsin, spending the summer trying to stop the fire destroying village. >> this is the largest i have been involved in. >> r

one of the reasons the president has traveled to alaska is that there are communities in alaska that are dealing firsthand on a daily basis with the impacts of climate change. we know that the impacts is having a disproportionate impact here in the arctic, and this is one of the things we're here to highlight. but, look, when it comes to the president's record on taking steps to fight climate change, he takes a back seat to no one. the president is leading the world to make significant commitments as a part of the u.n. process that's supposed to come to a head in december where we can make historic progress by working with the world by leading the international community in the direction of fighting carbon pollution and fighting climate change. let me say one other thing about this, chris, in terms of making this transition that's so critical to the success of you're economy and the future of our planet, the president has dedicated significant investments in renewable energy and that's why you've seen solar energy increase 20 fold since the president took office. wind energy has trip

never saw alaska. the first to travel to alaska was warren harding. he went in 1923.ave video of his 1923 trip for obvious reasons. we do know, though, when he was there, the u.s. navy ship on which he was traveling, shot mortar rounds into glaciers while they were up there so the president could see the glaciers blow up for fun. why not? they'll always be there, right? shoot that glacier. well, president obama is in alaska today. this is the first day of his three-day trip to the state. he has not yet asked the navy to blow up glaciers for his amusement. president obama spoke in anchorage on the topic of climate change. in the speech tonight he said definitively he recognizes america's role in having created this problem. >> the fact is that climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. that, ladies and gentlemen, must change. we're not acting fast enough. i've come here today as the leader of the world's largest economy and its second largest emitter to say that the united states recognizes our role in creating this problem, and we embrace our responsib

i've been to alaska and people already call it denali in alaska. although i'm a fell ohioan, proud buckeye. although i wasn't tonight -- went to i.o.u., the outcast. nevertheless, mckinley never went to alaska. he was never in the state and every alaskan knows it. it was always called denali before non-natives arrive and i have no problem with it being called that now. john: what kind of public service did mckinley sfliveed he was practically everything. in the house of representatives, a united states senator. pat: you're missing something. at 17 years old he volunteered and fought with the union against jackson in the valley. he was at antuetam creek. he was a good man, a protectionist. t.r. said he had the backbone of a chocolate eclair. he took up -- us to war against spain. one day in 1902 after a long night he said i prayed to god all night and god has told me to take the philippines. that's how we got them. john: there's one thing you haven't mentioned, he was assassinated. eleanor: the mountain was name for the him when he was name for the

more than 5 million acres in alaska have been scorched by fires this year. that is an area the size of massachusetts. if you add the fires across canada and siberia, we are talking 300 million acres. that is an area the same size as new york. this is a threat to many communities, but it is also an immediate and ongoing threat to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect us. less then two weeks ago, three highly trained firefighters lost their lives in washington state. another is in critical condition. we are thankful to each and every firefighter for their heroism, including the canadian firefighters who helped us fight the fires in the state. the point is, climate change is no longer something that is far off. it is happening here and now. climate change is disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems. our water and food supplies. our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety. now, today. and climate change is a trend that affects all trends. economic trends, security trends, everything will be impacted. it becomes more dramati

libby casey, al jazeera, alaska. >>> she has been called a living legend.a lee brown made a promise toad indicate 23 inner city kids from oakland, california, since then she changed their lives and the lives of dozens of others. >> reporter: love, confidence and money are three critical ingredients to get children to graduate from high school, get into college, and afford to pay for college. one oakland woman is providing that and more to dozens of children. she says if you get into college, i'll pay for it. >> my program began in 1987, and it was for one reason, to make sure that every child that wanted, wanted to go to college, you would be able to go. >> she gave me a -- a new life. like from being homeless, sleeping on somebody's floor, you know, selling drugs to make ends meet. she snatched me up out of that, sent me to chicago, a city i didn't know anyone. paid for my tuition, room and board, my food, i didn't have to worry about anything but being a student. >> in life we're going to pay for these kids. now we can either pay for them to get an educat

president obama calls for changes in alaska. plus, the music gambia's government doesn't want people to hear. but first, australia's government is being urged to remove children from its detention center. welfare groups want allegations of abuse and rape to be investigated by a royal commission. the center was built by australia in 2012 to house asylum seekers. but allegations of abuse have been wide spread. a new senate report says that 30 allegations of child abuse have been made against staff at the center. there have been 15 allegations of sexual assault or rape. and four allegations relate to the exchange of sexual favors for prohibited goods. >> the committee recommended that the private company which operates the facility should be disqualified from doing so. we can speak to paul reynolds who is ceo of save the children. he join us on skype from melbourne. thank you for joining us. save the children has been closely involved with a lot of these allegations of atrocities being carried out. this report is being welcomed by

i hope you will follow along at ouse.cov/alaska. this is not just a preview of what will happen if we don't take action, the alarm bells are ringing. as long as i am president we believe world to meet this threat before it is too late. host: your reaction, your response? guest: the president has been saying things that are's simply not true. -- are simply not true. the glaciers are retreating but they have been the last ice age. this is nothing new. sometimes they speed up, sometimes they slow down. we are not heading to a catastrophe. a chartance, here is from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. it is something called the palmer hydraulic. -- on that there is no the upper part that is where it is wet. on the lower part that is the drought. the worst drop by far, the dust bowl the 1930's. the governmental panel on climate change says the same thing. no trends droughts, no transit hurricanes, no trend in tornadoes. host: one other issue involving the president. he allowed drilling off the coast of alaska. guest: we a

and we visit a village in alaska, facing a threat of being wiped out by climate change. >> hundreds of refugees arrive in hungary, blocked from travelling on to austria and germany. those without a valid e.u. visa were refused entry into the main railway station. the foreign minister said anyone found to be an economic migrant will be deported. andrew simmonds reports. >> germany may have been a place to reach on monday. no more. >> fined a place for us. >> reporter: just a contrast. police are stopping people from getting access to the station. look at the atmosphere. these people just waiting. there's no word of what might happen. many of them who have bought tickets barred from entry into the station. demonstrations, vocal but not aggressive carried on into the day. buoyed by exhausted families that bought their tickets, with no refund. they settled in the shat. it's the biggest refugee crisis since the world war ii, playing out in front of people. >> it's a shame. normal hungarian people don't want it. we would like to have them. i cake to see maybe i can have. >> a german politici

president has visited the iciways of alaska whilst in office.e most high profile campaign on climate change. his government has been criticized for allowing limited drilling for oil and gas off of the alaskan coast. world leaders are expected to host talks on climate change in paris in december. >>> in parts of alaska coastal erosion is destroying homes and d d disrupting the livelihoods of the people who live there. libby casey visited the small hunting region. >> reporter: this eskimo relies on the sea and land for his food and way of life, hunting most of what he eats. but that's getting harder. >> it's real unpredictable because of the ice change. it's not as thick, and it's not safe anymore. >> reporter: alaska may be the last frontier, but it's the front line of climate change. not only is it harder for hunters, but the village is in increasing danger. >> there's no safe place to go right in western alaska, those villages are not connected by a road system, so evacuations are not possible when storms come in. >> reporter: 400 people live h

thanks for letting me be on. >> let's talk about alaska. one of the reasons we wanted to talk you to. president obama visited your home state of alaska for a rather significant presidential visit. he talked about a lot of things but started with officially changing the name of the tallest peak in north america, changing it back from mt. mckinley to denali. the move was praised by alaska's governor. criticized by donald trump. who promise to change the name back. you referred to the mountain as denali an your secret service code name aus pointed out. where do you come on the change? >> i have one niece named mckinley, another named denali. i think that's indicative of the split of alaskans, whether it should be referred to as mckinley or denali. the name of the park was changed to denali some years ago. i thought that's good enough. i thought we could keep mckinley as the highest peak on the north american continent, we could keep that name mckinley. i think the criticism is the fact obama would spend the time, the effort, the political capi

but he is not meeting with a single person tied to alaska's lifeblood, the oil industry. >> 90% of alaska'senues come to us from our oil production. oil production on the north slope. we've been providing jobs and economic opportunities for alaska, and around the country for 40, 45 years. >> reporter: with the price of oil dropping, alaska's economy is suffering. it's in the red $3.5 billion this year. and conoco phillips a major employer just announced it's cutting 1800 jobs company wide. the obama administration's all of the above energy strategy in alaska is pleasing none of the above. environmentalists are outraged the president recently permitted shell oil to go back to drill in the arctic this summer. they sued in protest in seattle. earl king lived in point hope the closest town to the drill rigs. >> they'll try to kill our language. our language never died. didn't ever destroy our language. now they want it destroy our way of life. >> reporter: but the oil industry says mr. obama remains too restrictive, blocking huge potential reserves and running up shell's tab to $7 billion and y

. >> alaska is the only state in the arctic circle. temperatures in the arctic are rising twice as fast as anywhere else on earth. alaska is the last place on earth to--is it the first place to address climate change because it's effects are so acute. parts of kivalina island may disappear in the next two decades. >> relying on sea and land for his food and way of life. hunting for most of what he eats. but that's getting harder. >> i used to be able to recognize the currents, but now today it's really unpredictable because of the ice change. >> that ace change has--the ice change has made it difficult for men in the village. it's a tradition they've empty kept alive for thousands of years. >> the past five years alone i see a decline in our sale take for the whole year. we ended up with one. normally we end up with 14 for the family. >> alaska may be the last front tear, but the arctic chose is the front line of climate chan change. >> it's just melting like butter on a really warm day. >> the university of alaska anchorage measures t

the state of alaska has officially called it deally since the 1970s.iticians and former president mckinley's native ohio are speaking out against the name change. >> the park is called denali now, which is what alaska wanted, but we wanted to maintain that one peak as the mckinley peak. he was one of our great presidents. he was assassinated in his second term. he was a guy from ohio. and we think it's too bad the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> the interior secretary changed the name, siting a 1947 law that gives the department power to do that. >>> today is international overdose awareness day. jake ward reports from san francisco. jake? >> reporter: john, to understand the relevance of overdose prevention day it's good to understand the fundamental mechanics of an overdose. when you overdose on heroin, or prescription open outs, basically the drug binds to your drain and overwhelms it, your brain literally just forgets to breathe. now science has solved this problem, but the question is can politics and the cultura

that's getting mixed reviews from the communities in alaska. a way of life for thousands of years. >> we survive off our land and we have values that we use as foundation for who we are. and a lot of it is a respect for like nature respect for elders. >> the people of cosaview alaska. continuing their heritage even as their village modernizes. 69-year-old pete schaefer shaves alder bark. >> major shift in our traditional activities. >> schaefer's native village oppose offshore drilling but now the focus is shifted to making it safe. many here sees it impossibity. >> why do you think it's hard to clean up an oil spill up here. >> the difficulty of what we're talking about to try to ambiguity any oil spill in ice conditions, that's just not happened before. >> locals remember the exxon valdez spill in 1989. prince william sound is more than 600 miles away but take that disaster and put it in the arctic's icy waters. >> if an oil spill were to take place before freeze up, if the ocean freezes up it's pretty much game over until next summer. >> a p

. >> president obama is wrapping up his alaska tour. this evening he became the first sitting president to travel past the arctic circle. negative effects of climate change. >> i'm here to tell you we got to do more. we're not moving fast enough and for the sake of our kids we've got to keep going. when it cops to climate change there is such a thing as being too late. the effects can be irreversible if we don't act and that moment is almost here. >> the plan provides nearly $20 million in funding to help promote alaskan communities. that includes grants oenhance water systems and relocating families that are threatened by environment changes including land erosion and melting sea ice. libby casey joins us from anchorage. libby you have been with the president this whole trip. >> antonio the funds are welcome news to communities in alaska but of course mitigation and adapting to to climate change doesn't stop it from happening. and before the president came to alaska he made a controversial decision he allowed offshowery diligencoff sho

experts warn that this is not a problem confined to alaska. they say we should expect to see more climate migrants around the world, including in the u.s. if climate change continues, in places like louisiana, florida, and eastern sea board cities like new york. >> libby casey, thanks. >> the white house is a center away from keeping the iran nuclear deal alive. two democrats, pennsylvania senator and chris coombes agreed to back the president >>> something not often seen in europe recently. [ cheering and applause ] >>> a bus load of refugees greeted with a warm welcome in belgium. but it was a different scene in hungary's largest train station. also - new numbers show america's largest trading partner is now in a recession. why canada's economy is in dire straits. >> in the wake of the baltimore riots. everyday citizens are fighting to take their neighborhoods back. >> it's a movement to make a difference. >> educating. >> i feel safer in here. >> the library means something to the people here. >> healing. >> we really have to talk about how

he made the comments at the start of a three-day visit to alaska.hane has details. >> reporter: u.s. president barack obama is dragging the national spotlight to a place it rarely goes, the fair northern state of alaska. >> over the last 60 years alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record. just as it was for the rest of the world. and the impacts here are very real. >> reporter: he will tour melting graciers and go to towns losing their beaches and deal with climate change and reach the third of americans who tell pollsters they simply don't believe climate change is real but this trip has environmental activists calling the president a hypocrite because he recently approved drilling for oil in the very place he is touring and the administration says they couldn't stop it because president george bush approved it in office but environmentalists say that is not true. >> he never shied away from executive action before and he has been on the defensive the last couple weeks trying to

they stop further expiration offshore in alaska.$50ne is a barrel, they are finding it thiscult projects like making it profitable. anafone were in talks over asset swap out. that is likely to happen anytime soon. looking to drop 3% to 4%. that is a stock to watch in the open. guy: busy week coming up. where can the rapid all appeared as john says, that china story is still front and center for european investors. what we thinku european markets are going to do at the open of trade. three -- by .3%. paris down by .8%. by .8%.down .05%.x down by we've got some big corporate news to think about. an indian rate decision tomorrow. you got bloomberg coming out of the u.k. on wednesday. you got payrolls coming up on friday. prescott is later on to announce something big related to mars. later onconference is to announce something big related to mars. european equity markets are expected to open softer. i will hand you over to mr. ferro. if you want to follow me on twitter, you'll find me. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ . jonathan: good morni

libby casey, al jazerra, alaska. >>> much more ahead on al jazerra.o's haves and have nots we report on the wealth gap between the poor and the people supposed to represent them. >> i. >> reporter: i am rory challands in the far eastern russia. not many people live here, but that doesn't mean that those that do want to share it with the chinese, keep watching and find out why. >> the show's called "third rail". we'll be talking about topics that you wouldn't ordinarily touch. people are gonna be challenged, we're not gonna take sides... an approach that treats every single player in a particular story equally. it's something fresh and something new. ♪ ♪ >>> hello again, a quick look at our top stories. hungarian police are preventing refugees from catching trains from budapest so they can travel further never to central europe. they want to go to germany which has committed to accepting hundreds of thousands of a sue legal seekers this year. >>> a u.n. report is warning gaza could be uninhabitable in five years. blaming an is el ray black aid and wars

he made the comments at the start of a 3-day visit to alaska. he joined a conference of nations in the arctic demanding action before a u.n. summit this year. patty culhane has more. >> reporter: u.s. president obama dragging the national spotlight to a place it rarely goes, the far northern state of alaska. >> over the past 26 years alaska warmed twice as past as most of the united states. last year was the warmest year on record, as it was for the rest of the westerly direction. impacts are real. >> he'll tour glaciers and towns, talk to people that are now dealing with the impacts of climate change, a chance to reach a third of americans who tell pollsters, they don't believe climate change is real. this trip has environmental activists calling the president a hypocrite. he approved drilling for oil in the place he is touring. the administration says they couldn't stop it because president george bush approved it in office. environmentalists say it's not true. >> president obama never shied away from executive action, he's been on the defensi

last year was alaska's warmest year on record.as it was for the rest of the world. >> reporter: even as president obama is delivering a warning about climate change, he is catching criticism from environmentalists. they are concerned about his recent decision to allow exploratory oil drilling off of alaska's arctic coast. but president obama defending the decision, saying that it was a process started back during the bush administration, and that he believes it can be done safely, and that that won't stop an increased push to try to develop clean and renewable energies. >> libby casey in anchorage. >>> earlier i spoke to the founder of the office of tribal relations and expert on food scarcity. she says the effects of climate change in remote alaskian villages have been obvious for a long time. >> reporter: the of courses of climate change is very real. it has been noticeable to our elders in our communities that live in very remote alaskian villages, i would say since the '80s, and maybe before. those people the natives who live

. >> alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record. just as it was for the rest of the world. and the impacts here are very real. >> he will tour mountain glaciers, talk to people who are right now dealing with the impact of climate change, a chance to try and reach the third of the americans who tell pollsters they don't believe climate change is real. but this trip has environmental activists calling the president a hypocrite. because he recently approved drilling for oil in the very place he is. >> president obama has never shied away from executive action before. he's been on the defensive in the last couple of weeks trying to claim that these were bush era leases to drill in the arctic. but really, it's been his decision. if he cares at all about protecting that progressive legacy, he can cancel the lease. it's not too late. >> he's made climate change a part of his legacy. he made it a priority in his budget. but at the same time he is pushing for more drilling. when he took office t

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president obama is on his way back from alaska this morning.ended the trip by announcing a new initiative to tackle the effects of climate change. >> i'm here to tell you we got to do more and we got to move faster and we are not moving fast enough and for the sake of our kids we got to keep going, when it comes to climate change there is such a thing as being too late. the effects can be irreversible if we don't act. and that moment is almost here. >> the plan provides nearly $20 million in funding to help remote alaska communities and includes grants to enhance water systems and relocate families who are threatened by environmental changes. the last stop on the president's arctic journey was a northwest alaska village where leaders are divided over the issue of off shore oil drilling and libby casey explains. >> a why of life for thousands of years. >> we survive off our land and we have values that we use as foundation as a foundation for who we are. >> reporter: the people of alaska. and continuing their heritage even as their village moder

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president obama in alaska. the president spent three days in alaska, gutfeld. up there? >> a number of things. for people at home, alaska is a state. it's actually the largest state in the united states, but it's 48 in population. there's only 800,000 people in alaska. the reason is, it's because it's freezing cold. the second state, the largest state, is texas. 28 million. why is that? because it's warm. president obama went there because it's cold. he's worried about global warming. if you only understood that a few incremental increases in temperature, more people would live in alaska. but he doesn't like science. so instead he watched fish spawn, because that's what he does. >> what do you think he was doing up there really? >> you have to commend the president, he gave up his traditional end of the summer vacation -- >> no, no, he had three weeks in martha's vineyard. >> then we went up to alaska. this isn't a vacation. >> it was work. >> is he the kardashian in chief? look how hard he's working here. he went out with bear grills, who is out. >> who is tha