top of the hour. this week states on three coasts of thei iu.s. have been rocked by extreme weather. this is the cost of climate change and ignoring it. at least 23 people have died. more than 1300 miles away from louisiana where the storm first made landfall, the heat index could hit 110 degrees today in new orleans and baton rouge. those are places that are not expected to have widespread power back for weeks. let s not forget about the west coast. severe drought and dry conditions are fuelling wildfires there in places that used to be paradise. firefighters are working around the clock to contain the blaze at lake tahoe. if we do not act now, we will continue to see the wrath of mother nature. the past few days of hurricane ida and the wildfires in the west and the unprecedented flash floods in new york and new jersey is another reminder that these extreme storms and the climate crisis are here. we need to act. we ll talk more about that in just a moment. first let
nations over the past two weeks twenty four insiders say delegates from nearly two hundred nations failed to agree on issues including adopting the latest environmental science and how climate action should be funded scientists say we have little more than a decade or two to cap global warming or moderate but still serious level maryanna harm has more. our planet is heating up and fast what once took hundreds of thousands of years has happened in decay since the industrial revolution with burned fossil fuels or will guess and coal to power our changing world and pump carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the guess is lit the sun s light in but stop some of that heat escaping warming the planet much like the glass walls of a greenhouse it s now one degree hotter since pre-industrial times where on trek to so past one point five degrees celsius and around twelve years and three degrees at least by the year twenty one hundred our oceans are expanding as t
you want and they didn t get answers which they felt was satisfactory say to take the situation forward course has them all the while looming large over everyone s minds is march the twenty ninth twenty nineteen that date that reason may set as the date for brakes it to happen for the u.k. to exit the european union now as you were saying in your introduction that house and the european commission has been preparing plans for what might happen if there is no deal if the u.k. crashes out they will be published on the nineteenth of december next week at its heart the route of the disagreements however you want to portray it is about this irish backstop more important the northern irish backstop what can be put in place to mean the republic of ireland and northern ireland part of the united kingdom in the transitory period following an orderly brags that as it were what makes it more difficult for tourism a is that men. any of the members of parliament from northern ireland supp
known about this but probably president trump and others are sticking to their position that they don t believe that i mean how credible does that look well does of these are two separate issues and what president trump has said is he s going to preserve the bigger picture the k.-s. a united states strategic relationship because he believes right now that s in the best interest of the american people but president trump has never attempted to exonerate mohammed bin solomon in fact what he said is maybe he did maybe he didn t we ll never know which basically taking a position of physicians is he doesn t know that he didn t tell them the truth when you re dealing with somebody and you can t be sure that they didn t get on the phone to you and tell a direct lie you can t go forward with it now the. as and also said look i m not in the business of regime change saudi government is going to have to figure this out whether or not they go forward with it so he s not defending mohamm
a manhunt since then that a swarm the area with police and security officials causing huge delays as well on the border with france and germany on the border there as police stopped all vehicles crossing as a result fear should cut they have crossed into the german border we know he had a long criminal record has served jail sentences for theft and violent crime on the morning of choose day when he the ninety suspected suspected of carrying out this attack his home had been raided by police wanted to question him in connection with attempted murder in the summer but she can t wasn t in the house at that time but french police pinned him down here it seems he fought open fire on them and was killed by police who returned fire. weather next but still ahead on al-jazeera the top course in sri lanka hands down a ruling that s a big setback for the country s president. and a setback to election officials in the democratic republic of congo just days before an election for. the nic