my innovation journey starts inland, south of morocco s major cities and mighty atlas mountains, just north of the sahara desert, near the quiet outpost of ouarzazate. this part of saharan morocco is known as the door of the desert. the landscape out here, it s almost like it s from another world. feels like we could be on mars. these plains receive three times the sun as parts of northern europe. ..and are home to a world leading project of staggering scale. this is noor, a solar power station, putting morocco at the forefront of pioneering renewable technology. i m used to feeling small, but this makes me feel even smaller. hello, abed, salam. hello, my friend, salam. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, too. this is incredible! and lots of sun. lots of sun, yeah. which is what we want for something like this. yeah. this is not an ordinary solarfield. panels with over 7,000 mirrors follow the sun. and i can hear lots of sounds at the moment. it s quite eerie. is that the pan
known lies for assault on texas. or really, pry nation. police say an 18 year old gunman overlaying tuesday morning and said that, and in texas. at least 19 children died. the victims was a very morales. she s been a teacher for 17 years. and according to the new york times, she was brutally murdered was trying to protect doses. president biden ordered flags on the white house and over public buildings lortabs of. and several hours ago, he spoke to the nation about every mask. i hoped that whatever can president, i will not have to do this again. another massacre, and uvalde, texas. an elementary school. beautiful, innocent, second, third, fourth graders. and how many scores of children who witnessed what happened. as a nation of, task one and doesn t they are gonna stand up to the gun lobby? not yet, obviously. our coverage becomes the sorrow and the senior correspondent lexus never guaranteed, was the latest? we spoke to our-able. yeah, the senior continues in almost
From new york, heres the bbc s north America Business correspondent, michelle fleury. Stubborn inflation pushes back the timing of the first rate cut. The Us Federal Reserve voted to keep its Benchmark Lending Rate at a 23 year high on wednesday. Officials have said they want more certainty that inflation is under control before they Lower Borrowing costs. They do not have that yet. Here is chair, jerome powell, during his press conference. The economy has made considerable progress towards our dual mandate objectives. Inflation has eased substantially over the past year, while the Labour Market has remained strong. And that is very good news. But inflation is still too high, further progress in bringing it down is not assured and the path forward is uncertain. We are fully committed to returning inflation to our 2 goal. While the prices of many goods have fallen, from cars to furniture, an increase in housing and Petrol Prices have contributed to a recent rise in consumer inflation. W
Friends of the Earth International and Daniel Kammen, science envoy for the u. S. State department. Then we look at morocco and why thousands of protesters recently took to the streets after a fish seller was crushed to death in the compactor of a garbage truck while he was trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. And i think what we see now is the tragic, tragic assassination has provided a venue, sort of a breath to bring that together, and maybe have uprisings act ii of of 2011. That was act i and this could be act ii. Amy and we will speak to leading nigerian environmentalist nnimmo bassey, author of the new book, oil politics echoes of ecological wars. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from marrakesh, morocco. The World Meteorological organization has announced here at the 22nd annual u. N. Climate summit known as cop 22, that 2016 is very likely to be the hottest year on
Amy as the high level talks at the u. N. Climate summit begin here in marrakesh, what impact will the election of donald trump have on the worlds effort to combat the Climate Crisis . We will speak to asad rehman of friends of the Earth International and Daniel Kammen, science envoy for the u. S. State department. Then we look at morocco and why thousands of protesters recently took to the streets after a fish seller was crushed to death in the compactor of a garbage truck while he was trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. And i think what we see now is the tragic, tragic assassination has provided a venue, sort of a breath to bring that together, and maybe have uprisings act ii of of 2011. That was act i and this could be act ii. Amy and we will speak to leading nigerian environmentalist nnimmo bassey, author of the new book, oil politics echoes of ecological wars. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goo