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thanks for joining us from quebec. thank you. the problem is though, sit in a military coup and lived in self imposed exile for 15 years, and that's highlands full believe it takes instead of what it does return, don't need to be j. o that was late to full on this day where his policy will tend to pub by joining banks with it's full, the minute 3 rivals tiny change report. so from bangkok tex interested in what emerges onto the tale soil for the 1st time. in 15 years. the 1st order of business today of flu offering and to neil ingratitude before an image of the king. then waves and smiles flanked by his children. he drank in the name of quick handshake with friends and supporters. to minutes of freedom. this whole thing was the way, thanks upset about his them back inside the terminal to me, the police. but as supporters are still out here and, and find boys that come out in the thousands to welcome and i have all this time. besides, i guess i am very happy, i have only wanted to see him coming home like yours. maybe the country

very similar in quebec later on in the summer and now we are seeing it in western canada.t are out there that have really shown success in decreasing the amount of human caused fires, but really this year it is largely related to the dry conditions that are trying out this course. spain's acting prime minister, pedro sanchez, has said that the apology from the president of the spanish soccer federation over a kiss to one of the players is "insufficient". mr sanchez has asked for more than just an apology. you may rememberg that spain's women's world cup success has been marred by the forced kiss on the lips that the president of the federation gave to player jenni hermoso during the medal ceremony following the final. he first downplayed the incident, but he later apologised for kissing the player. well, the spain's victorious football team have been enjoying a welcome reception — hosted by the prime minister. the team lined up to be greeted by pedro sanchez in madrid. those winners medals were all on display, as well as the world cup trophy itself. a great moment for them

quÉbec city to the north, political correctness and post christianity.member almost it makes it rewarding and delightful. working with friends and have had the pleasure of participating in the george washington program delivering lectures in washington, churchill and i am pleased to have an article on james scholl the issue of modern age. there was a man who knew the meaning of reason and revelation to the depths of his soul. i know all seven could in the world. there may be 12 or 14 but he's among the greatest of them. before he died at the age of 91 and published a book in religious of humanity and i wrote him and said jim, i need your address to send you my book. he said nevermind, i've already reviewed it so there was a 91-year-old who was alert to the verynd end and let's not forget the great decent energetic students i came across over the years but a few that challenged the nerds and they were just like, open and hungry for the kind of wisdom less and less available on college campuses today so contemporaryy climate where education at every level

member of the cree first nation and the first woman to be elected grant chief of the cree nation in quebec much for joining us. canada, as you know better than anyone, has been struggling to subdue these ferocious fires that are burning out of control. how have these catastrophic fires impacted you personally, your community, and your land? >> hi, good evening. these fires in the cree nation's traditional territories have been very significant. i myself personally, i'm coming to you from camp this evening. we wanted to come blueberry picking. it is harvest season. unfortunately, we spent this afternoon fighting hot spots that are still burning in the territory. also managing information. two of our northern coastal communities have been closed off once again. the main highway along the coast is closed due to reigniting fires in the territory. >> now, i understand that you and your community were forced to leave. describe that experience and the impact of evacuations. >> the fire season in northern quebec is something that happens every year. in the past 15 years, we have had to evacuate tw

in a new study, preachers or's -- researchers measured wildfires that reached in quÉbec between januaryd july. >> the intensity we have seen is twice as likely to occur in the current climate as it would've been without global warming, without human induced global warming. reporter: the study did not include this week's fires. but the authors say there's a general trend. >> we can expect to keep seeing these conditions that promote wildfires to keep on increasing, becoming more frequent, and more severe. reporter: government authorities, warning people to stay indoors in some areas as hazardous smoke blankets the country. traveling as far as the u.s. for many evacuees, it is news of when they can return home that they are desperate for. >> for more on this, we have louise, dw's climate reported. the fires are twice as likely to occur. talk us through what that means. >> what they are talking about is fire whether, the dry, hot, windy conditions that lead to the worsening of these kinds of fires. we are not talking about the way that they started but the way that they have spread. his co

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quebec city to, the north that paragon of political and post christianity. and i also remember a whole set of friends who made those experiences so rewarding and delightful. the wisdom and playfulness of the late, great peter lawler, who was something of an isi institution. and of course, working with such friends, editors at isi as mark henry, jeremy beer, jeff nelson, harvey young and, dan mccarthy. in recent years, i've had the pleasure of participating the george washington statesmanship program, delivering lectures on washing ten and lincoln, churchill and the goal and burke. i'm also pleased to have an article on the late jesuit theorist james v shaw and the brand new issue of modern age. there was a man who knew meaning of both reason and revelation to the very depths of his soul. i've always joked family and friends that i all seven good jesuits in the world. there may be 12 or 14, but i know them all. and father shaw was among the greatest of them. i'll tell you a quick story about him. months before he died at the age of 91. i had just published a

i heard an interview a few weeks ago with fire writers -- firefighters working in quÉbec who said theghters they are dealing with need a season-ending event -- that's what they called it. i believe that means a deluge of rain or otherwise massive change in the weather situation. but with the extreme dryness we are seeing here, the lack of rain, just really not sure what is going to change thsituation that we are in right now. lewis: ok, well, we really appreciate your time and expertise giving a clear picture of what is happening. thank you very much for being on the program. >> my pleasure. lewis: we are going to head to west africa now. more than 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat was found drifting in cape verde . it was that they were trying to reach the spanish canary islands. the boat was found 300 kilometers from cape verde. almost all those on board came from senegal. these pictures show some of those rescued, 38 people including children brought a --brought to shore. officials in senegal say they are making arrangements to bring survivors home. but we can speak no

scientists say wildfires that ravaged quebec in canada were made 50% more intense by climate change.ix children, have been rescued from a cable car that was left dangling over a ravine in pakistan. the group were on their way to school in the north west

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scientists say wildfires that ravaged quebec in canada were made 50% more intense by climate change. surgeons carry out the first womb transplant in the uk. hello. eight people, including six children, have been rescued from a cable car that was left dangling over a ravine in pakistan. the group were on their way to school in the north west of the country when a cable snapped, trapping them hundreds of metres in the air as rescuers battled high winds to bring them to safety. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports. shouting. through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for — strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of "god is great." 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. at first, army helicopters couldn't rescue them, buffeted by winds, scared the downwash from the blades could make the situation worse. on the ground, frustration. this

i heard an interview a few weeks ago with some firefighters working in quebec who said that the firesneed a season—ending event. that is what they called it. i believe that means a deluge of rain or some otherwise massive change in the weather situation. but with the extreme dryness we are seeing here, the lack of rain, i am just not sure what is going to change the situation that we are in right now. qm. going to change the situation that we are in right now.— going to change the situation that we are in right now. 0k, we really appreciate — we are in right now. 0k, we really appreciate your — we are in right now. 0k, we really appreciate your time _ we are in right now. 0k, we really appreciate your time and - we are in right now. 0k, we really appreciate your time and your- appreciate your time and your expertise in giving us a clearer picture about what is happening. thank you very much for coming on the programme. in west africa, more than 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat was found drifting off cape verde. it's thought they were trying to reach the spanish canary is

there's also lithium in canada and quÉbec is a lot of lithium so it's just a question of getting it out the ground and refining it. that's something we know how to do but it will take time. host: bread in springfield, illinois, independent. caller: hi, jack. following up on the mining thing, we are supposed to be saving the environment but we are stripmining all these materials from the ground. it's going to hurt the future of our children. i feel that we use our military and send them off to other countries to remove the resources and leave destruction behind. i am 45 and all i've ever seen in my lifetime is conflict after conflict. host: let's take the first part of your statement. this mining process in efforts to go electric and for climate change, what is the mining process doing to the environment? guest: first of all, a lithium mind is pretty small. i've been to them and if you compare it to a gold they are not huge. it's true that to make an electric car it creates more greenhouse gases than a gas driven car. you quickly make up that difference because once the electric cars on

hopefully, people come here in quebec to their hometowns, back to communities washington and say i was of the book festival, learn something about reading and i want to do more to help my child learn how to read and read better and more myself. i want to thank all the sponsors, authors, and i want to think laura bush. for those of you heard the story of moment ago. [applause] as you know we're getting ready to celebrate 250 years of this country. we are not celebrating 250 anniversary of the book festival? we did not have one in the united states for a long time. when laura bush library and came to washington before the inauguration she met with her predecessor and out of reception she said jim billington, we have a texas book festival do you have one here? and he said, no but we well. and we did. on the mall, right afterwards. they set up the national book festival on the mall. many remember the mall. it was a little dusty from time to time and it rained time to time but it was the first effort of the united states government to do something along the lines of having a book festival.

i heard an interview a few weeks ago with some firefighters working in quebec who said that the fires i believe that means a deluge of rain or sun otherwise massive change in the weather situation. otherwise massive change in the weathersituation. but otherwise massive change in the weather situation. but with the extreme dryness that we are seeing here, the lack of rain, i am just not sure what is going to change the situation that we are in right now. lets bring back our panel. lee and, let's start with you. we have been covering these wildfires in canada and the wildfires in hawaii. the destruction isjust huge. hawaii. the destruction is 'ust hue. , t, , , huge. yes, that is absolutely right. we have been _ huge. yes, that is absolutely right. we have been dealing _ huge. yes, that is absolutely right. we have been dealing with - huge. yes, that is absolutely right. | we have been dealing with wildfires and the effects of wildfires in canada and the united states all summer as well. i do not want to compare what is happening there but i am on the east coast and the canada wildfires

southern cities and i don't deny southern has it deep sense of place but so do vermonters and so do quebecers and lots of people have a sense of place but one of the things is great about southern-ism is a thinkdn of grittiness. southerners have been incredibly influenced by african-americans, by indigenous peoples and incredibly migratory people. for sample in the antebellum era some of the most mobile americans according to the census were seniors who were migrating out in numbers larger than migrating out if england. so those the southerners were thator they be coerced or moving by choice for calculating the mississippi river valley. they are moving all the time and they are moving into the mississippi delta subsidiary mobile population inin this regn and you tend to think of it as being very sedentary. you think about the southerners who stayed behind and forget about all the southerners migratingou out to texas than migrating out to bakersfield californian migrating to chicago and detroit or pittsburgh. so it's a mobile people adjusting to generational upheaval after generational upheava

the following monday this would be making quÉbec and 87 the speechwriter met in the oval office withthe president, at the president singled out the passenger tearing down the wall at something he particularly wanted to say. well, that wall needs to contene down and that's what you want to say. then the speech went out to staffing. so for three weeks until the president delivered it, the state department national security council opposed it and tried tont stop it, in part by submitting one alternative draft after another each of which omitted the call to tear down the wall. here's a slide that shows one, where it's asked out the call to tear down the wall. here's another slide a memorandum to colin powell who was number two on the national security council at that time and as you will see the memorandum called the speech mediocre and a missed opportunity. in italy the president had been attending an economic summit before going tong west berlin. in italy as he got on air force one to fly to west berlin the state department cables over yet another alternative draft and in west berlin i

the quebec on tree trimming but enhanced powerline safety settings, or epss.a tree branch hits a powerline, centers sensors would cut power to the wire, preventing a potential wildfire. especially on hot, windy days. >> it is not a holiday. there is no wind. all of a sudden there is quiet. my computer is shut off. michael: the summer has been mild. residents say sensors shut the power down for no reason. >> the new lines are so sensitive of anything bumps it, including a bird flying into it, it turns the power off. >> that was a joke the first few times. that a mosquito hit the wire? michael: pg&e is suggesting the sensors but did not say if they found real damage the powerlines to warn the outages -- warrant the outages. safety sensors control power flow to 1.8 million households across northern california. last weekend they cut power to 8000 dangle residents for six hours -- danville residents for six hours. >> gets a major inconvenience on customers and it also can be a safety issue for people that rely on their electricity for medical devices. michael: kat

surprised when yannick highghlighted thisis one -- thee pierre and celine dion serenaded him on a popular quebecn say that they've sung a -- >> duet -- >> duet with celine -- [ laughter ] >> bocelli and barbra streisand and, yeah, that's -- >> and pierre -- >> -- pavarotti -- >> and pierre. [ laughter ] and pavarotti. >> wow. >> maybe it's a hard turn for celine to the met for most conductors, not so for yannick nezet-seguin. yes, he takes music seriously, but resists being too precious about it. >> you have to trust the acoustics. >> he's too busy smudging boundaries that have long kept some audiences away from classical music and opera. ♪ >> i would love that when i finish my time on earth that no one ever says again, "oh, classical music is not for me. it's for the educated. it's for the rich. it's for the white." whatever it is, you know, i want everyone to feel, "oh, yeah, i could like it, some of it. i don't like mozart but i like blanchard." fine, but at least you feel that you could go there because there would be something for you. >> what would puccini and verdi and wagner make of all

that that is the pretty acute threat and i think that like the threat of oh, my god i need to go to quebec city because we're not a real national divorce taking arms against each other i think that's a low level threat. >> thank you. thank you mr. whipple. >> so i've said a lot of good things about -- the biden white house during the midterms and about ron but i don't anybody to think i'm the glass half full guy because i think that -- i think david was absolutely right that -- the normal beat crazy in 2020 and in 2022 but crazy is always a part of the gop has been forever, probably will be for the rest of our lifetime. joe biden, i think, the thing that shocked joe biden more than anything else in his presidency was the lasting persistent power of maga and trumpism he thought it would be in the rear-view mirror by now he won by 7 million votes he thought he had a mandate and had old school notion that these guys are going to be left in the dust. he now realizes that is not the case. i think the biden white house has their -- they've set their sights on trump as the nominee. i think they b

i first came across quebec on facebook of all places. they were posting about her, i started reading her comments. i was so impressed. i kind of one wow, this woman is everything that i care about. i recommended her, i read and recommended her book or wells roses for my book club. i think one of the people in my book club is here. we so enjoyed, it we so enjoy her work. we are so thrilled that she is going to be speaking tonight. answer our questions about hope for the climate, it's not too late which i'm really glad to hear. i hope we're all really glad to hear the good news about the climate. so, elizabeth would you like to introduce -- >> something rebecca tom up and join me. and then maybe, maybe something with element before we take it off. >> velma is a dear friend and an inspiration. i grew up in texas, but now he is indigenous to fiji. velma has been in the climate activist for a long time. she is with the solutions budget now. then we dreamed up not to light as a project, a couple of years ago we launched it as a website in soci

let's quebec to the phone lines. tosh on the independent line from nor folk, virginia.hat is the top foreign policy issue? caller: good morning. for me personally, because i consider myself an african, this is going on in the african diaspora. china is not like the u.s. and haiti is off the coast of the u.s.. instead of the u.s. intervening, they are sending -- when the people are asking for people power. they don't want the elite to be charged anymore. in the situation in niger echoed our desire what is going on. they are trying to be cute on what is going on in the country. leave them alone and mind your business. there's a revolution party. please speak to people that are actually doing the work and look at the nation to get your news. host: here's a quick bit about haiti because that has come up a couple times. this is a recent article in al jazeera, headline hades crisis deepens us thousands displaced by violence. the article, a surge in violence in parts of haiti's capital over the past week has pushed more than 3000 people to flee their homes, including many who

. >> in quebec , background >> in quebec, background wildfires are now 140. >> were they arson or notthink maybe you were quite vocal about the wildfires there. but, you know, it turns out people those who know out people let those who do know that actually arson is does happen. >> but what happens when the when the climate is 40 degrees? it's a whole place goes up? >> yeah, but if someone wasn't walking around with a lighter and a of gasoline .uk, then and a can of gasoline .uk, then it wouldn't necessarily happen. but look, look, i enjoy of but look, look, i do enjoy a of we're to we're we're going to have to we're going to go out. thank going to have to go out. thank you very, very much. thank you very okay. right. very much. okay. all right. coming next, i've massively coming up next, i've massively overrun, but i will be talking very to very quickly anyway to a birmingham apparently birmingham gun maker. apparently the to clamp the banks are trying to clamp down british culture. down on rural british culture. patrick channel well, they want to debunk everything, apparently. but n

requests, additional mobilization sitter coming through now including with supports -- eastern canada, quebec, again, talking about all of the smoke impact that eastern u.s. is experiencing. canada has provided support to us during really difficult times. for example, during the pandemic, that was not easy. 2019 was a big year of sharing resources. that was a hard year for all of us. it's a great relationship integrate history there. i think everybody -- i have every reason to expect that will continue. specifically, alaska, i was just in alaska couple of weeks ago and spent time in fair backs -- fairbanks, fms. in preparations, they're very much ongoing. afms is ready to go ahead. we've seen a fairly dramatic shift in the outlook in alaska, to your point. a month ago, all of that read was not there. we did talk with prediction services while we're up there. the point they made is with sort of precipitation over the winter, early spring in alaska. at that time, just a couple of weeks ago it was really uncertain how that was going to go. now, fast forward just a couple of weeks and it is prett

let's quebec to the phone lines. tosh on the independent line from nor folk, virginia.hat is the top foreign policy issue? caller: good morning. for me personally, because i consider myself an african, this is going on in the african diaspora. china is not like the u.s. and haiti is off the coast of the u.s.. instead of the u.s. intervening, they are sending -- when the people are asking for people power. they don't want the elite to be charged anymore. in the situation in niger echoed our desire what is going on. they are trying to be cute on what is going on in the country. leave them alone and mind your business. there's a revolution party. please speak to people that are actually doing the work and look at the nation to get your news. host: here's a quick bit about haiti because that has come up a couple times. iss a recent article in al jazeera, headline hades crisis deepens us thousands displaced by violence. the article, a surge in violence in parts of haiti's capital over the past week has pushed more than 3000 people to flee their homes, including many who have

there's also lithium in canada and quÉbec is a lot of lithium so it's just a question of getting it oute ground and refining it. that's something we know how to do but it will take time. host: bread in springfield, illinois, independent. caller: hi, jack. following up on the mining thing, we are supposed to be saving the environment but we are stripmining all these materials from the ground. it's going to hurt the future of our children. i feel that we use our military and send them off to other countries to remove the resources and leave destruction behind. i am 45 and all i've ever seen in my lifetime is conflict after conflict. host: let's take the first part of your statement. this mining process in efforts to go electric and for climate change, what is the mining process doing to the environment? guest: first of all, a lithium mind is pretty small. i've been to them and if you compare it to a gold they are not huge. it's true that to make an electric car it creates more greenhouse gases than a gas driven car. you quickly make up that difference because once the electric cars on the