activists have blocked several key intersections and bridges in central london to call for action on climate change it was the first of two weeks of protests planned by a group calling itself extinction rebellion similar demonstrations have been held in a number of other cities across europe. in japan they fish even nuclear plant operator has begun to remove fuel rods from a cooling hole it s a milestone in the slow process to decommission the plant which suffered a meltdown after tsunami in twenty eleven moving the rods is crucial to avoid a further disaster if another earthquake hits. a new member states of approved controversial copyright reforms posed by u.s. tech giants like you tube and google reforms agreed last month by the european parliament have now passed the final step before they are enacted they re intended to ensure that artists and news publishers are paid a silicon valley argues that they will stifle online creative freedom. to home
a milestone in the slow process to decommission the plant which suffered a meltdown after a tsunami in two thousand and eleven removing the rods is a crucial effort to avoid a further disaster if an earthquake hits. well now we are heading to the middle east crisis and the dire conditions facing palestinian refugees following a policy change from the trump white house back in twenty eighteen the u.s. cut all funding to the united nations relief agency that provides services for palestinian refugees living in the sprawling camps in jordan around two million palestinians live in those camps enjoy rush and cop and as you were hearing reports the budget cuts have had severe effects on their lives. twenty seven year old endlessly roams the refugee camp or he was born and raised it was once his job to clean the streets here but now the garbage is left on collected he was one of
alive she and two syrian drivers were abducted in the northwestern city of it lived while delivering aid supplies in twenty thirteen. in japan before nuclear plants operating has begun to remove fuel rods recording paul it s a milestone in the slow process to decommission the plant which suffered a meltdown after a tsunami in twenty eleven removing the rods is crucial to avoid a further disaster if another earthquake hits. demonstrators briefly blocked to keep bridge here in berlin to demand action on global climate change it was one of the series of coordinated events to rehab begin two weeks of climate related protests around the world in london activists deface the offices of oil giant royal dutch shell and blocked roads to sections. of the middle east and the dire conditions facing palestinian refugees following a policy change in the trump white house last year the united states cut off
and now is obviously a huge curve of learning both in terms of building codes and regulations, mexico and japan, for example, being two of the few countries that have seismic alerts that go off 10, 12 seconds before an earthquake hits which has proven to be a very important tool. and also the institutional standard operating procedures that were put in place after 85 when the mexican government at the time basically just collapsed with the buildings and was unable to respond quickly. and that s when mexican civil society occupied that vacuum. and, in fact, a lot of ngos that we see in mexico today were born as a result of that social mobilization back in 1985. and what lessons do you think we should take from this? we have a lot of vulnerability, particularly on the west coast, and we don t have those seismic alerts that you mentioned to
that s in the public interest. these are public works. schools, electricity. sewer systems. water systems. these are for the public good. and so if we re not going to talk about these things right now, when are we going to talk about them, because they re causing hardship and costing money. bill, mexico city is built on a lake bed, sand, especially, that sand liquefies when an earthquake hits. i m from los angeles. i saw what happened to santa monica after the north ridge quake. it looked a lot like some portions of mexico city. some buildings were mandatorily reinforced after that. you mentioned that but there are also buildings in the interior. country. do you think that here in the united states, we re prepared for the next big one? the answer is a clear maybe. this is to say, for example, in states that are producing oil