>> in the himalayas, we may be far from the effects of climate change. but the effects are all around us. there is 45% more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just now when human civilization first developed. climate change is just one of the ways that our presence on earth is profoundly altering the planet. in this new series, we will be exploring how to counter some of the greatest threats to survival, including pollution, loss of habitat, drought, and overconsumption. from the mountains of the himalayas to the australian outback and the hot springs of iceland, we will be looking at the impact of these global issues on the local level. we are bringing you small-town stories of adaptation and action. ♪ >> water covers two thirds of the surface of the earth. less than 3% is freshwater. most of that is frozen and glaciers at the polarized caps. the supply is under threat from pollution, mismanament, and climate change. in just over a decade, it is estimated that the world will only have 16% of the world it -- water it needs. unless we work harder to conserv

and shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a worsening water crisis in the region. a special report on what's unfolding there. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 6am in singapore, and the same time in taiwan — where nancy pelosi, the third—highest ranking american official, has arrived in taiwan on a visit that's infuriated beijing. tensions are high — china has been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. here's what we know. ms pelosi — the speaker of the us house representatives — arrived in taiwan at around ”pm local time on tuesday evening. she is the highest—ranking us official to visit the island since 1997. taiwan's presidential office says she will visit taiwan's parliament, and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. it comes as beijing aggressively warned against the visit, with china's defence ministry saying beijing will launch "targeted military operations" in response to pelosi's visit. taiwan is a self—ruled island, but claimed by china, which sees i

some scientists have predicted that by the end of the century, much the himalayas could be practically ice free. here in the dark, which experiences only 50 millimeters of annual rainfall glasses have been the light source for centuries. but you climate change over 14 percent of the local glacier area has been lost in the last 50 years. i'm here to visit and engineers come up with a beautiful and extraordinary way of preserving the glacial water using monuments made of ice in the town lea, a meat see when do me a local environmental scientists. i understand that you of an expert about climate change in the effects on mountain community. so can you give us a sense of some of the challenges that they're facing here in lay them in crisis is that you have a car on glacier. it is that where we can see andrea, that's kind of leisure, and that's where it depots, end of though water is coming for the near residence and dead glaciers receding at the very 1st week. and every family lay has a guest house, and there, there drain downward, or like anything if there is no leisure water to reach out

shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a water crisis.have a special report on getting tap water to villages. and the smart, caption glasses, allowing deaf people to see real—time conversations right in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america's third—highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan on a visit that's infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan's parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self—ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it's been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes, reports from taiwan. the speculation has been swirling for days, but it wasn't until this moment with her plane on final approach that we were sure nancy pelosi would defy beijing and become the most senior us politician to visit taiwan in a quarter of a century. fo

13,700 feet above sea level in the dramatic cliffs of the himalayas. it's popular among tourists.ise this is a desert over a mountain. in this cold desert, as you go up because of the high altitude, oxygen levels come down so it's harder to breathe and there's almost no vegetation around. all you can see are these dry, lifeless mountains. i reach a small, remote village and find it buzzing. a water tanker has arrived. there are no taps at home here, so everybody wants to fill up. i volunteer to help, and she readily agrees. but it's hard to keep pace. ifall behind. translation: | keep | water for drinking here, and for washing utensils, here. but the water from the tanker is often not enough. then she has to make trips to the glacial stream. it's a long trek. i ask her husband why we bypassed a lower streams. he explains to me that they were more dirty and at the top is the cleanest source. in winter, all of this is even harder. translation: temperatures fall so low that water freezes - when left outside so we feel only as much as we need. if we need 20 litres, we fill 20 litres.

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isn't just about a handful of ice to put in one ment. village. hundreds of protecting the entire himalayas in helping irrigate fields in forests or $5000.00 trees were planted in 2015 and irrigated each spring with the water harvested from the ice to bush. he's already won global recognition for this project. what's the future for these guys? where this is going in the next, if i see it going into different directions, lower and lower towards the people in the villages higher and higher towards the highest parts of the valley where you can grow many of them chains of them. so our hope is we could legally hear what we have lost do by dying and adapt to changing climate. so we've just lost the sun over the hill. it's getting cold very quickly. but we've got a plan because stands in intimacy. and they were brought some prayer legs to tie up on to the top of these 2, i stupid, and we'll get a sense to more morning how effective they are creating is amazing. struck him. the water in the pipe is released over night when temperatures which minus 20 minus 30 degrees. i slowly building up these str

indians living in remote villages in the himalayas are facing a water crisis.eezing temperatures. the government is now using special methods to bring tap water to these villages. for her latest report on india's water problems, the bbc�*s divya arya travelled to ladakh, to gauge the success of such methods. 13,700 feet above sea level. it is a desert over a mountain. this woman has lived here all her life, and never had tap water. translation: | keep | water for drinking here, and for washing utensils here. she and her husband take me on their daily trek to fetch water. we climb over many lower streams to reach the cleanest source. translation: temperature is full so low that water - freezes when left outside, so we feel only as much as we need. if we need 20 litres, we fell 20 litres. she has to make daily trips inviting winter. —— in biting winter. even that doesn't suffice. traditionally, these glacial springs had enough water to service the drinking water needs of this entire region, but over the decades, as the himalayan ice has receded, these springs hav

and what our aid has a presence in the himalayas we can in pakistan. can you tell us a little bit about what to do? so we basically were on a number of days in relation to reducing the, mitigating the impact of climate change. so for example, you know, we have a lot more up and running. so what we're doing now is basically waiting the number to reach us to reach out to the groundwater because of the intensity of the rainfall changing. and the other thing we are also doing is that with climate change, the hotter areas that are becoming hotter and also the and dryer solar roadside wouldn't. and wouldn't this, what we tend to do is to help these communities mitigate the effects of drought as well as you know, help them to develop infrastructure and also build their knowledge and understanding of climate change. so their to, to whatever infrastructure is a cli climate proceeding content is part effective so badly by planning to folks. we also try to support the, in terms of with water treatment so that, you know, it also help with deducing the carbon emiss

when the snow pack on the himalayas disappears, when the glaciers melt and the big rivers are no longer being fuel and the aquifers are no longer being replenished, i wonder about conflict. i wonder about climate refugees, right? i wonder about livelihoods. i wonder about political stability. these are all on the table. nasa data has provided early warnings about water availability and hot spots around the world. what about the situation in germany? and so we're seeing a fair amount of water loss, and one of the regions that's really impacted quite significantly is the lunar burke region. the trend for the luna burg region is clear. the water supply has deteriorated significantly over the last 20 years and now coca cola germany's largest beverage producer wants to drill a 3rd well and double its capacity. the citizens initiative is protesting and politician yann's buttah is weighing the company's application. he doesn't yet know the results of the nasa mission, which you have to step in if this situation gets so not too long distances off. yes, of course. that's the way it is. if we rea

and both countries on nuclear palace, india and china separated across the himalayas by a demarcation line that has never been formerly negotiated a de facto border, long disputed by both sides. the 2 countries went to a one month long war over the border in 1962 in the as the trying to consolidate its waters. and i think that is generating a lot of friction, most visibly manifested in the gal, one really crisis ofa grid to grande. so there is certainly the one manifestation is that borders is becoming wallet i. and that is a change from the earlier position when you know, when they're samson, was that in the end jane allred nonverbal wadell wonder they have a settled mechanism that they will, they will shoot and they will see you show me the pain, but you know, they will continue to negotiate. that is changing now of you've seen in the golan graces that forces v use a violence was used and they were debts on both sides. i think that wallet to lity, that the loan of actual controllers, it is called a, is becoming more volatile, more dangerous. and so it's, it's one manifestation that

a ride along the himalayas, so this is due to severe rainfall. the affected areas are mostly high up in the remote, high altitude terrain, which is just complicated. any and old rescue operations at the portugal val, which has declared a state of alert over an enormous set of wildfires, fueled by unusually hot and dry summer conditions, as well as high high winds as we understand more than $90000.00 the heck tests have already been burned in the country so far this year or that is wrapping up the program for now. here with did i will go with almost 3 months now. alexander had a cough skis, unit made up of volunteers from dun ask. has been fighting on the murray. you put front of her, you prefer not scorpion? from previous disappearance? i said you are you gonna use it for sure. if the with us i'm going to, my mother was all up on your part. i work. i still have a sticky. you're going to give them new cook brightest photo, social, but artificial turf. yet there i've been with off to the coup d'etat and ukraine. how to kosky returned to his native

and what our aid has a presence in the himalayas we can in pakistan. can you tell us a little bit about what to do? so he basically worked on a number of days in relation to reducing the mitigating the impact of climate change. so for example, you know, we have a lot more urban readings. what we're doing now is basically for waiting. we don't want to reach us recharging the downward, her because of the, the intensity of the rainfall changing. another thing we are also doing is that with climate change, the hotter areas that are becoming hotter and, and also the and dryer solar roadside, wooden slats. and what it is, what we tend to do is to help these communities mitigate the effects of growth as well as you know, help them to develop infrastructure and also bid knowledge understanding of climate change. so there, you know, whatever infrastructure is 80 climate receiving a 10 is part effected so badly by planning to folks. we also try to support the in terms of wastewater treatment so that, you know, it also help with using the carbon emissions. do tha

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now it is 40 people have been killed by flash flooding in northern india ride along the himalayas. this is due to severe rainfall . the affected areas are mostly high up in the remote, high altitude terrain, which has just complicated any and all rescue operation. as a portugal val, which has declared a state of alert over an enormous set of wildfires, fueled by on usually hot and dry some of the conditions as well as high high wind as we understand more than 90000 heck piss. i've already been burned in the country so far this year. well, that is wrapping up the program for now here on our team to national. thank you so much for joining us. artie is across the spectrum on social media platforms across we're on telegram odyssey and gab for the meantime. thanks for joining us. awe unit 731, did everything from exploding bombs laced with anthrax next to prisoners who were tied to steaks in a field. we have evidence that they gave disease infected chocolates to children. i plead guilty to having exercised to direct guidance of preparations for conducting biological warfare, chiefly aga

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indians living in remote villages in the himalayas are facing a water crisis.al streams are shrinking and it is hard to fetch water in freezing temperatures. the government is using special forces to bring tapwater to these villages. diddy traveled there. >> 13,700 feet above sea level. it is a desert over a mountain. she has lived here all her life. never had tapwater. >> i keep water for drinking here. for washing utensils, here. >> she and her husband take me on their daily trek to fetch water. we climb over many lower streams to reach the cleanest source. >> temperatures also low, water freezes outside. we fill only as much as we need. if we need 20 liters, we fill 20 leaders. >> she has to make daily trips in biting weather. even that does not suffice. traditionally, these glaciers streams had enough water to serve the drinking water needs of the entire region. over the decades as himalayan ice has receded, these springs have also shnk. this region has had to move its dependence to underground water. deep digging is underway. to deliver on the government's

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gone on and pockets on maybe a few showers and toward the north, up against the foothills of the himalayas. still high temperatures across the areas of the van will pay the colors on dark, the red hard, the temperature of mine at $38.00 degrees. let's take a look at the 32 forecasts right now. this is going to be an extended period of heat going rate through into next week. your september average is 31. the record for september is 40 and we got you in for 38. so getting pretty close there. central africa get instruct with some pretty solid bands of rain around bungie with a high 30 degrees in our usual storms, around lake victoria to the south for south africa, its entire coastline from the northern cape province. stretching over to quasi luna towel, we've got blessed 3 winds in the forecast here. think gus anywhere about 60 to 65 kilometers per hour. and same goes for that coast and moves in beacon that may spread some showers for north central areas on wednesdays. here later, airway official airline of the journey, debating the issues of the day produce as always in criminalized around t

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on friday, heaviest falls will be north and west of islam about up against the foothills of the himalayas. got some energy crossing over the g. m. pushing into is stumble, so, thundering, downpours here and off to central africa. we go right now, it's our usual scattering. a plentiful showers in storms, especially soft sudan, spilling into uganda on friday. calmer weather for south africa, but a big drop in those temperatures for durban. just a high of 20 degrees on friday. that's a drop of 10 degrees that show whether at the bye for now. ah. what is the ocean witnessed plainness. witness difference this witness? change? witness, happiness. witness? not witness. sunlight. witness de la. witness. last witness. charity witness. confusion. witness clarity, witness, family and witness. friends. witness the beginning. witness. the end. witness. life. witness on algebra. lou ah, you're watching al serra reminder on top stories this hour the russian occupied zap region. nuclear plant is back online. equations, nuclear agency says it was briefly disconnected from the power grid out, a fire damage

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shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a water crisis — we have a special report onng tap water to villages. hey, josh, it's gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real—time conversations right before their eyes. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn't stopped nancy pelosi — america's third—highest ranking politician — from paying a high—level visit to taiwan. in the past hour she's been at the taiwanese parliament but before arriving there the chinese foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador, nicholas burns, to beijing to protest against the visit. during her meeting with taiwanese politicians she insisted that she had come to taiwan in what she called �*peace for the region'. we come in friendship to taiwan. we come in peace for the region and our chair of the veterans affairs committee, representing our veterans, understanding the value of peace and the avoidance of conflict. i am sure he will speak to us about that but i want to salute him for his protection of our veterans, not j

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friday. heaviest falls of rain will be north and west of his la about up against the foothills of the himalayas for india alerts warnings all dropped for the monsoon rains here, but were seen them pep up for karnataka, careless spilling into tom on they do and skim same goes for the mall div in that western side of sri lanka on friday. all tropical storm dumped up at a month's worth of rain in the span of a few hours in southern china's bron done province. that energy is moving west through northern vietnam, laos, red into thailand, and then we've got bursts of rain for a southern indo china. and meantime it's all about the heat in chung chain china, so they're trying to get some relief. go into underground subways here. snap been going on for a day or 2. we're now on day $75.00 of this heat wave and no relief for western areas of the yangtze river valley chunking at $41.00, but some showers in storms. although the temperature and shanghai a 29 degrees cat saw air weight issue, airline of the journey. this november, the world companies coming to cattle and the clock is ticking as the main event