Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
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Because they basically violated. United states laws but beyond all of that they have been violating systematically United Nations resolutions and even had that level the United Nations has failed to condemn them publicly and to put a stop to this kind of international i dont know how else to describe it but that international violations are all laws and resolutions of the United Nations and eat a very sad situation there in libya thank you very much i have said ill go out as that at the John Hopkins University good to speak. Thank you. In other news north korea is accusing the u. S. Of being hell bent on hostility towards it and of being obsessed with sanctions are responding to allegations that it breached a cap on Petroleum Imports north koreas mission to the u. N. Issued this statement the United States is practically more and more hell bent on hostile acts against the d. P. R. K. That acronym refers to the countrys official name and then goes on to say its quite ridiculous for the
At least 26. 00 people have died after lobster fishing boat overturned in the caribbean off the Atlantic Coast of honduras dozens more were rescued near the town of port olympia its the 2nd boating accident there in recent days. Greenpeace is calling on the un to create a new global ocean treaty to protect International Marine environments from deep sea mining and the reports by the group warns the practice could cause irreversible damage to the sensitive ecosystems it also says it would worsen Climate Change by releasing vast quantities of Carbon Dioxide the hearts cost of operations have so far prevented deep mining projects from International Waters but new technology could change that only about 5 percent of the sea floor has been mapped and the growing number of countries are now eyeing it as a possible source of wealth. We dont know very much about the deep ocean this is why quantifying the damage is a very tricky task and its why scientists have one that you know irreversible da
This statement from north korea notes that the u. S. Sent a letter to member countries along with the u. K. France and germany that was delivered on june 29th urging for this retaliation against breaking the same sions and that on that same day trump had tweeted his impromptu invitation to meet kim jong un at the d. M. Z. So certainly the fact that this statement from north koreas u. N. Mission comes out today is an indication that its saying things are not hunky dory between the 2 nations after this photo op and that tensions are still high. Joining us from seoul is hes a professor at Cookman University who specializes in north korea good to have you on the program thank you very much for joining us what do you make of the timing of these statements from north korea. Well basically is what they say if youre not going to be very happy because you visit us its a good news by the need something material because right now for the North Koreans their major problem is essential introduced b