It is my great honor to introduce someone who is a hero of mine, a friend of mine. When i first had the opportunity to meet her and most of the seven, eight years ago i told her the story of how my sister when she was in sixth grade played her in a biography in school where they had to pick somebody that they wanted to emulate and research in play for a day. My sister chose jane goodall. She is truly an inspirational voice for the teacher of our planet, and accomplished scientist, accomplished writer, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute which supports research as well as many other programs and research and education. Ive had the chance to visit their Education Programs in schools in massachusetts and in colorado called roots and shoots to bring kids closer to issues around the environment. Icier see that we have kids here today. She continues to travel and speak to save our planets. Over 300 days a year she speaks. In fact, the last time iran into her was changing planes in Heathrow
The lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a virtue to deny the encroaching dangerous while the amazon went up in flames in a land grab by ranchers brazils right wing president jaya bull scenario was blaming environmentalists for manufacturing a crisis brazils handling of the situation strained its relationship with the e. U. Aljazeera so theres a bo has a report now from top in brazil. Every day the his who somebody see there goes into the National Park to look for seeds hes trying to preserve the rain forest and the dozens of species that live in it. The threat of deforestation has become a major problem and then goes lik
Missions to space. Welcome to the program we start with breaking news coming out of somalia where a huge bomb blast has killed and injured dozens of people an ambulance official says as many as 61 have been killed but many more casualties are feared the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was there a security checkpoint during morning rush hour some reports say as many as 19 may have died including some turkish engineers. Joins me now from nairobi our correspondent in neighboring kenya obviously details are sketchy but the official figures seem to be anything from between 30 to 90 in terms of both injured and dead. Exactly the figures seem to between 30 and 90 depends on who you speak to but people do expect that number to rise because it was a huge explosion some of the people whod been killed include Somali Police officers and civilians this happened jiri in the morning it was a rush hour it was at a security checkpoint a lot of people were moving around going to market so we can
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year its been to the world put aside short Term Economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments end. At a trade war between the United States and china has put the brakes on Global Growth and is reshaping globalization. The biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be Climate Change and the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a virtue to deny
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year its been called the world put aside short Term Economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments and staring. At a trade war between the United States and china has put the brakes on Global Growth and is reshaping globalization. The biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be Climate Change and the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a vi