That litigation process. Of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today weve had a migrant labor system for many many decades the majority of them are living in deep rule live in south africa and in neighboring countries like mozambique pursued to in swaziland where they really dont have access to medical facilities to screen and examined him so we dont know the status of the vast majority of former mine workers up there and step one is rolling out. A program to get medical facilities to them for checks it just extras lanfranc sheet and generally physical exams and receipts whether or not they are suffering from lung disease and qualified to be compensated. Well still ahead on aljazeera. Nearing a point of no return the destruction of brazils amazon could soon reach a point that has a profound impact on the world. How we got more heavy showers in c. Waste impassive china but its still very much in place across the central i was as well and out towards the sou
More you know badly injured or maimed for life and really the outside world paid very very little attention and certainly not sustained attention and certainly attention thats not making any difference or bringing over that resolution any closer review this collective shrug this lack of International Action to try to stop all of this do you think this is because of russias veto powers on the Security Council or is or does it go beyond that. Well certainly is Security Councils been you know effectively paralyzed on syria its had 8 years to to try and sort out this this problem and its failed and you know there are 5 states with the to the new year in takes one to be to block any kind of resolution so as Curator Council has not succeeded but i think its not just the Security Council is really the powerful states you mentioned russia but the other powerful states also could have influence on the situation. And they simply havent succeeded in making that that count and what were calling fo
It has taken the bureau ten years of careful planning and preparation to make this census successful, but there is still much more work to be done. The census begins in january of 2020 in remote alaska and then in march everywhere else and between now and then the bureau has to finalize its communications campaign, conduct Robust Community outreach, finish hiring trusted local staff and perform final testing for dozens of critical i. T. Systems. As outlined in our constitution, the purpose of the census is to count every person in the country, but given the chaos and the confusion and the administration has generated as a result to include an untested citizenship question, the bureau has significant work to do to restore public trust in the census and to ensure that the Response Rates do not decline as a result. We need to make sure that everyone is able to respond to the census though the new online form or in whatever way they can including people without good internet access. People
Nations as warned of a possible record breaking ice melt in greenland as a heat wave which struck europe this week moves further north for more now we can cross to felicity by european Broadcast Center by so much dana starr yes europe has been sweltering in its 2nd heat wave of the summer and data shows the u. K. May have experienced its hotter day hottest day ever on thursday a provisional temperature of 38. 7 degrees celsius was recorded in cambridge england if confirmed by the National Weather service that would be the u. K. s highest temperature on record germany france belgium and the netherlands have also experienced record breaking temperatures this week. Well that is now appears to be moving towards greenland where the u. N. Has warned it could cause record levels of ice melts greenlands ice sheet covers 80 percent of the islands territory and is the 2nd largest in the world but its been losing ice as an excel orating pace since the turn of the century the ice loss in 2012 was
A tremendous concern that what have up until now being peaceful protests against these demolitions is going to turn into a situation like this. The hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be more moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting greenlands ice sheet covers 80 percent of the islands territory and is the 2nd largest in the world but its been losing ice at an accelerating pace since the turn of the century the ice loss in 2012 was 4 times the rate in 2003 and there are fears that this summers heat could break that record the extent of the melt in june has been 4 times the average between 10812010 in this month alone greenland has already lost 160000000000 tons of ice through surface melting that is roughly 64000000. 00 a lympics size swimming pools so why should we worry well the total volume of the ice sheet is 2900000 cubic kilometers if all of that eventually melts will raise global sea levels by 7 meters devastating