Catastrophic bushfires in australia reignited the debate over Climate Change with the government accused of not doing enough why was 20191 of the worst years on record globally for wife eyes and is there the political will to find a solution this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program back to people bushfire is a common during the summer in australia but firefighters are calling this years conditions catastrophic at least 8 people have been killed since september including 2 firefighters who died on thursday when their truck was hit by a falling tree with a more than 100 fires burning the government in the most populous state of New South Wales has declared a state of emergency a heat wave and strong winds are making things worse australia recorded its 2 hottest days ever this week with the average temperature on wednesday hitting 41 points 9 degrees celsius a senior meteorologist rob mccallum explains whats made the situation so bad. So why is the fire season so much worse
A common during the summer in australia but firefighters are calling this years conditions catastrophic at least 8 people have been killed since september including 2 firefighters who died on thursday when their truck was hit by a falling tree with the more than 100 fires burning the government in the most populous state of New South Wales has declared a state of emergency a hate wave and strong winds are making things worse australia recorded its 2 hottest days ever this week with the average temperature on wednesday hitting 41 points 9 degrees celsius senior meteorologist rob mccallum explains whats made the situation so bad. So why is the fire season so much worse this year were cause the main cause is the drought has been long lasting the causes of the drought actually are nor was Indian Ocean Dipole neither unfortunately though normal has been made worse shes been made worse because the whole world is warming and these higher temperatures tend to make a drought worse obviously mor
Catastrophic bushfires in australia reignited the debate over Climate Change with the government accused of not doing enough why was 29001 of the worst years on record globally for wind spies and is there the political will to find a solution this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program back to people bushfire is a common during the summer in australia but firefighters are calling this years conditions catastrophic at least 8 people have been killed since september including 2 firefighters who died on thursday when their truck was hit by a falling tree with the more than 100 fires burning the government in the most populous state of New South Wales has declared a state of emergency a heat wave and strong winds are making things worse australia recorded its 2 hottest days ever this week with the average temperature on wednesday hitting 41 points 9 degrees celsius a senior meteorologist rob mccallum explains whats made the situation so bad. So why is the fire season so much wor
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European foreign fighters, than number of American Foreign fighters. The size of problem is completely different. European setting france, estimated 1200 individuals. Germany, the u. K. , in the six, 700s. Even smaller countries like belgium with staggering 400 individuals. Eastern European Countries, kosovo, very tiny country, 3, 400 individuals. These are completely different numbers from the u. S. Where the latest numbers given by the government, the fbi, talking about 200 individuals traveled or attempted to travel to syria. So, were talking about a much, much smaller number. A lot of people have actually been intercepted. People that went and fought there, that 200 number should be further reduced. I think numbers are deceiving from another perspective, here in the u. S. , there are legal tools, more general a certain attitude from Law Enforcement which is significantly moring a agressive than in most European Countries. A lot of very effective tactics that the fbi use, sting oper