u. k. andrew symonds al jazeera london un secretary general, antonio harris says the time is now to take decisive action against the climate crisis facing our planet. 8 months ago we left cop 26 with 1.5 degrees on life support. since then it's pulse as we can further. greenhouse gas concentration, sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records. off of humanity is in the danger zone from floods that obs, extreme stores and wildfires. no nation is immune. yet we continued to feel though of fossil fuel addiction. what troubles me most is that in facing these mobile crisis, we are failing to work together as a multilateral community. and australia has released a grim report on the state of the environment there. it found that climate change habitat loss, pollution and mining has destroyed the countries ecological wellbeing. it also says the number of vulnerable ant endangered species has increased by 8 percent. australia's environment minister will respond to the report in a speech on tuesday.

u. k. andrew simmons, al jazeera london shlang, his parliament will sought electing a new president in the coming hours midst likely of what's going to be held on wednesday. i think president ronald was from a singer, is one of the candidates, and he's imposed a state of emergency. he says it's needed to avoid any unrest ahead of the vote, but critics say it's a ploy to crush dissent. linelle fernandez reports from colombo. i 1st it was present, gotta be roger boxer. now, protestors want his replacement gone outside the country, central railway station. they demonstrated calling for acting president, ronnie's vicar missing her to resign. here was her brother. i do. but if you want to say i got the right about says rudo history, we want to or you want to hear god, the large boxes are bribery and also corruption. weaker missing have is voted out of parliament at the last general elections. he returned as an mp with a single seat allocated to his party. on wednesday, parliament will choose the succes

u. k. andrew simmons out, jazeera london, the un secretary general antonio hair, says tall officials from 40 nations at a climate conference in berlin. that the time is now to take decisive action on climate change. 8 months ago we left coughed 26 with 1.5 degrees on life support. since then it's pulse as we can further. greenhouse gas concentration, sea level rise and ocean hit. a broken new records off of humanity is in the danger zone from floods that obs, extreme stores and wildfires. no nation is immune. yet we continued to feel though of fossil fuel addiction. what troubles me most is that in facing these global crazes, we are failing to work together as a multilateral community. although it is elk, he is president of the institute for governance and sustainable development. he joins us now from myrtle beach in south carolina. thank you very much for your time . your focus, if i'm not wrong, is on fast mitigate mitigation strategies to protect the climate. talk through what they are, what ar

u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera london, shall anchors parliament's, going to start electing a new president in the coming hours and slightly. a final vote is going to be held on wednesday, acting president renelle, which on the sand, is one of the candidates in his, imposed a nationwide state of emergency. he says it's needed to avoid any unrest ahead of the vote. a critic say it's a ploy to crush to send what for more on this, michelle fernandez is joining us live from the capital colombo min out, talk us through what's going to be happening today. so basically what will happen in the parliament? i am just at the top of one of the access roads and you can see those heavy barricades. what you don't see is the number of busses lined up down the road that are full of back up of army of military and inside parliament. what we're going to see happening over the course of the morning is that the nominations for the post of president are going to be formerly handed over to the secretary general of parli

u. k. andrew simmons, al jazeera london, rory challenz, a has more from the use case capitol. this is a country that's not used to this sort of thing. they, the government serv put out an extreme red heat. health warning essentially is something akin to a national emergency. there are various measures that are being put in place around the country to try to make sure that people don't get ill, don't get sick, that the infrastructure copes as well as possible. so the trout transport network that the tri network there are go slow speed limitations on parts of it that there is a section of the line between london and the northern cities of leeds and york are which we shall completely to borrow because they're scared that the that that the rails will buckle by so be worked safely, be able to carry trains who got an operating theatres scaling back on operations because they can't keep those operating theatres cool enough. and schools are, some of them are either closing early today or, or not opening at all. so there are various measures put in place to try and get the country thro

u. k. andrew simmons, alger 0, london, stella had an al jazeera, ah landominium protests is demanding lower fuel prices that say they won't stop locating a key highway plus entry lanka. farmers were forced to go on gaming overnight. it was one of the most criticized policies. a former president good to buy and i can't box that. now, many of the farmers are suffering. i'm steadfast and reporting from a right field near the town of kennedy. ah hello. we've got more right on the cards for the robin peninsula. we've got a massive cloud just around our mom pushing towards the straight of moose showers. they're easing into southern parts of amman, eastern areas of amman as well, longest spells fine and always the possibility of some localized flooding. as a result of that, we so much whether to into yemen, but furthermore, it is generally dr. 50 there. baghdad, plenty of heat around a rather more countable 40 damascus. $3132.00 there for bay route and for theresa. and then the similar pitcher as we go o

u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera lumber. at least one person has been killed in northern morocco, where emergency crews are battling wildfires. wilner 1000 people have been told to leave their homes. large areas of land burnt in lash was on tessa, and teach one authorities of deployed water bombers to try to battle the fires most have been brought under control. but firefighters are struggling to dows 3 hot spots near la hush. heat wave in south asia earlier this year, sent temperature soaring to more than 50 degrees celsius in parts of pakistan and pakistani federal minister for climate change. sherry raman, i told al jazeera that global action to limit the impact of extreme heat has been too slow. she's attending the petersburg climate dialogue in berlin and says her country is at ground 0 of climate change. talking about the problems we are identifying them. but when moving at a glacial phase, our glaciers are melting and pakistan much faster than we are talking towards movement. and really there's very little time left.

u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera london, australia's natural environment is in a state of rapid decline. that's according to a new report prepared by independent experts. it found not a single indicator of australia's ecological well being had improved since 2016. and the number of vulnerable and endangered species has increased by 8 percent report office called for a nation wide framework to help coordinate on environmental issues, australia's environment, mr. will respond to report in a speech on tuesday, and sarah clark joins us live from brisbin by skype and sarah. the report did have a some stark findings battle straight as environment. but what are some, the key concerns? australian environment, mr. has described this as a shocking document. it is, it's a master report. we're talking to 1000 pages. and it covers a huge range of ecosystems and environments from the, from the desert, to the polls and everything in between. and every single category, except for the urban environment night that i

u. k. andrew simmons, which is era london wildfires in northern morocco, sparked by high temperatures. an intense drought have been contains what at least one person has been killed. more than a 1000 families were evacuated, the 5 route to the number of provinces including the rush. i'll just here as adel moon him, of them. ronnie is there with the latest this forest here is called missouri and it is located in the province of flowers in the north west of morocco. it is part of a national form that stretches from the atlantic ocean, which is 5 kilometers away to the west, up to the reef. mountains located to that direction, about a 100, a 150 kilometers. as you can see, the fire fighters are still working in this forest in order to avoid that the, the fire that destroyed it be re ignited again because of the windy weather because of the hot weather. this part of morocco have really just to some heat wave temperatures as high as 40 degrees in the last days, which is not normal in this region. which has basically immediate uranian, whether the one like in southern france or southern spai

u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera london. so i'm a nurse is a professor of global change science at university college and, and he joined us live now by skype. thanks very much for being with us. and can you centers what the factors are behind this particular, you're wide heat wave? well, he plays on slee happened naturally, but this one has been turbocharged by the carbon emissions from burning oil, gas, and coal. and those emissions mean now we can see temperature is much higher than we could have seen previously without this human impact of climate change. what about things like that the jet stream does that it? what's that, what's the effect that is having at the moment? you know, what we're seeing is, is, is more warm air coming from the sahara moving upwards and over europe. and then the jet stream seems to be getting more blocked the phase. so we have longer ways and more stable conditions, and that allows the heat to really, really build up to these records and very, very dangerous temperatures. and it's a very danger

u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera london, while la alaneese mary villi is a chief heat officer of athens, greece says she joins us from there. thanks for being a on the programmer. what did you make of the difficulties that her the u. k has been having and other places. well, we've known for her for a while now that as a europe has been really suffering from key plays in general. there 2018. 19202020. now to 20. these were really hot. the years for northern, for northern and usually hot years for northern europe. and then 2021 was more in southern europe. and now in 2022 we're seeing again the northern areas being very affected and the southern areas being very affected. so, and it's, it's, it's been, am, if i can say a hotspot into a international globally. and we, we know that climate change effect different parts of the globe in different ways. and it seems that europe, the mediterranean, but also northern europe, has been at continuously been experiencing extraordinary temperatures at the last f

andrew charlton is in reading u k. and he's the managing director of aviation advocacy. he says he throw has written to airlines and told them not to operate certain flights. what's gonna happen is fine emitting the number of passengers. the airport thinks that it's baggage systems and its ability to cope will, will be much better if it cuts against. it's absolutely in the face of that surgeon market demand. so it's going to be very unpopular, but he try monitors every flight. i know exactly which craft is coming in. and so he try and of course they also charge per passenger alive. and so what they've done is written to airlines and, and told them i told them that i must not oper right various flights generally going to wait on that, have more than one fly, the die to particular destinations. and i see place on the operate 12 flights, and try to limit it that way. at one level from the airline side. it's a gift because of course what they have to do, what they are allowed to the account is if they, if the number 6 they're offering is limited, they can improve the price.

thank you, said andrews, full time olympic champion, my father won't face any action from the u. k. government, after revealing he was a victim of child trafficking. the british runner says he was smuggled and the u. k is a 9 year old and was forced to work as a domestic servants. he says he was given his name by those who took him from djibouti and admits his real name is his saying of him. the revelation is part of a b, b. c documentary, despite what i've said in the past, my parents never lived in the u. k. when i was for my dad was killed in a civil war. as a family, we were torn apart. i was separated from my mother and i was born into the u. k. illegally under the name of another child called mohammed farrah, or u k. charity dealing with victims among slavery has praised my fara for coming forward with his story. we have people who are being traffic and not only now, but historically have been tropic and live with the abuse on the trauma that creates throughout that time for the rest of their lives. and i think it's extremely courageous of my father to come out at this point

k. now the u. case, conservative party is being accused of jeopardizing free speech by introducing fees for the media to attend its annual conference. critics. a media ticketing is a tax on democracy. andrew simmons, as more birmingham is bustling as it hosts the commonwealth games on foot. tickets is at an all time high. not so exciting though, is disturbing, caused by tickets for an altogether different event. here at the international convention center. it's the conservative party conference due in october. and all journalists have to have tickets costing up to $1500.00 each. people here don't think that's right. says i the conservatives to me. i think it's wrong, democratically and morally. you know what? it won't that one of these 2 politicians richie sooner cool is trust will have won a party leadership election and become prime minister in september that makes the conference even more newsworthy, but in accessible say, some journalists, it is unprecedented charging media to access their party conferences, it is effectively stop being a loss of people from going and therefore it is a rate lock in the u. k. democracy. so what's the fuss about? the conservative party is charging a $15