There is also a flip side to this Winter Wonderland on the snow covered peaks ski resorts leave a large Carbon Footprint during high season the industry operates at full speed ski lifts run for hours as crowds queue to hit the slopes snow machines are needed to combat the effects of Global Warming and there is more of the same to come in austrias lets talk about a project is underway to extend the ski area to neighboring pitstop to create europes largest glacier ski resort but the number of critics against the development is growing. Its tough going up here on pit stop glacier but the air increasingly thin. Right a flute and his friends are trekking up to a Mountain Ridge to protest against plans to turn parts of one of the last pristine glaciers in austria into ski slopes. Right i think a beautiful 2 skiing regions will be linked and the new one. The new area alone will be about half the size of the. Region these are huge dimensions. Bit by bit we are destroying our natural landscape.
The champions of europe and south america get ready to meet in the Club World Cup final in doha. We begin this hour with some breaking news the International Criminal court is preparing to investigate and edged war crimes in the palestinian territories the i. C. C. As chief Prosecutor Says this could include charges against israelis or palestinians. Says shes satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the west Bank Including East Jerusalem and the gaza strip but israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate inside the palestinian territories. Now british m. P. s have backed the Prime Ministers brecks at bell paving the way for the u. K. s move the European Union on january 30 fast the bill passed easily with a majority of 124. 00 and ratify is the Withdrawal Agreement that Boris Johnson struck with the e. U. Back in october well lets go live now to warren challengers outside the houses of Parliament Investments to for us
You about a culture that has been. Our testers and iraqs capital have come under attack killing at least 16 people. A gunman opened fire kwame square a focal point of the leaderless protest movement more than 70 others were wounded Security Forces say they dont know who the armed men were and happened a week after Prime Minister mahdi resigned timeship cleric has called for a new Prime Minister to be chosen without foreign interference and that they now from dorsetshire bari in baghdad or so what else do we know about about what happened. Well according to our sources this violence began late last night around the square thats just north of here square parent lee a number of armed men in trucks tried to remove a number of protesters who were occupying a building in that area and thats when the violence started we heard from the victims who say that they dont know where these gunmen came from or who they belong to there is no really clear indication what group is responsible for this at
My guests this week are abdel bari atwan, writer on arab affairs, portuguese writer eunice goes, henry chu, International Editor of variety, marc roche of french news weekly le point. Welcome to you all. Is it too easy to knock nato . At a fractious summit to mark the alliances 70th birthday, the french president stood by his assessment that it was brain dead, the american president said such comments were disrespectful, the turkish president retorted that it was the french president who was brain dead and the canadian Prime Minister got caught on camera gossiping about the american president , who then said the canadian was two faced. But natos secretary Generaljens Stoltenberg shrugged all this off as surface stuff and insisted the substance of the alliance was strong at 70. On the evidence of last weeks summit, is it . Marc, you start us off, you were there. It was quite messy, but on there. It was quite messy, but on the whole they managed, like they do at these meetings, a declara
Coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned never mind smaller towns and a place called opal which is just outside of toronto so these are highly Populated Areas as well im going to some numbers here for you so dont mind me reading for one moment so the fact is out of 12000. 00 test since 201433 percent exceeded National Safety guidelines of 5 parts per 1000000000 now to put this into perspective when we look at the United States the National System there anything under 15 parts per 1000000000 is accepted here its 5 parts per 1000000000 so its 33 percent at an acceptable level but if we use the American Standard it drops down to 18 percent which is still you know most a quarter of all houses lets say one 5th of all houses in or that were tested in canada are contaminated with lead coming through the taps that means any water that youre showering in any water youre boiling any water you drink it straight from the trap has lead in that and we know that in many