Hope. I have seen. From thees nonot come governments or corporations. It comes from the people. Amy 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses World Leaders here in madrid just hours before being named times person of the year. Well hear her full u. N. Addrdress. Just hours after gretas speech, hundreds of climate activists are ushered out of the Conference Center by police. This is exactly what has been happening across the world. We have been shut out and we have not been heard. We, the people, havave been kept out by the very polluters who drive this crisis are kept in. Amy well hear voices from the speak with vanessa nakate, the first fridays for future climate striker in uganda. Then we look at ground zero of the Climate Crisis, the Marshall Islands. We e have been totold that ie wawant to stay in our islaland,e and to adapt t and e elevate with migration as the only plan b. We are having to deal with these issues that we in the first place amy we will also speak
Dr Melanie Bergmann led the research. First stage involves a bit of low technology. A dessert spoon and a flask. I think were not treating our planet very thoughtfully. Basically, we produce all these packaging materials, we cover everything in polymer based varnish, we use a lot of rubber which we also find in our aerial samples, snow samples, and dont even think about it what is happening to this in the environment. But few people live here. Where on earth do the pollutants come from 7 we know that most of what we are analysing up there and measuring are long range transported pollution coming from the continent, coming from asia, coming from all over the world. And some of these chemicals have properties that are a threat to the ecosystem for living animals. Scientists have found that air and sea currents drive pollutants north. Last year we broke the news that Arctic Sea Ice had more microplastics than anywhere in the ocean because floating particles get bonded into the ice as it f
interviews and reaction. war has returned to gaza. a ceasefire expired this morning. israel s military says it has hit more than 200 targets today. each side is blaming the other were pitching that terms the trees. the israeli military is accusing hamas, which the uk, us and lay the governance considered a terrorist group, is not releasing the full number of women and children hostages and filing into israel. israel has resumed its military strikes on gaza after a temporary ceasefire came to an end this morning. the israeli military accused hamas which governs gaza and is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government of breaching the terms of a truce which saw the release of 110 hostages held by hamas and 240 palestinian prisoners held by israel in recent days. the hamas run health ministry said around 30 people had been killed since hostilities began again this morning. there has also been rocket fire from gaza aimed at southern israel. 0ur middle east corresp
hilda heine is the former president of the low lying and vulnerable marshall islands. in a letter to the cop president seen by the reuters news agency she said reporters of the uae s reported ambitions were deeply disappointing and undermined the integrity of the cop presidency. in dubai, world leaders are dealing with warnings that we are nowhere near where we need to be to curb global warming. in the opening speech, the un secretary general said the earth s vital signs are failing . and king charles urged global leaders to rise to this unmissable opportunity with a sense of emergency. but when it comes to cutting down on fossilfuels, cdp formerly known as the carbon disclosure project argues that there isn t one major oil or gas company that has plans in place to phase them out. sherry madera is the ceo of cdp. i asked her if carbon capture will play a big role in the the future. i think carbon capture is one of the areas that we need to think of together col
I am amy goodman from democracy now this is our last question. Amy just a simple yes or no from each of you whether you support President Trump pulling the u. S. Out of the Paris Climate Accord . Stay tuned for their answers. Then kumi naidoo, former head of greenpeace, on his new initiative africans rising. And today is gender day here at the u. N. Climate summit. We speak with the first female president of the Marshall Islands hilda heine. Women of the Pacific Island nation. Thank you. In the pacific, it is often women and mothers who are at the hearts of our communitys and ensure resilience. If women do not plan for the longterm, families and communities amy today Marshall Islands president hilda heine, along with her poet daughter, climate activist kathy jetnilkijiner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from bonn, germany. The death toll from sundays earthquake on the iraniraq bor