the the, this is the w news live from the land awarded for her bravery. julian, natalia whitten's, d w 's, freedom of speech award. she's become the face of russia's opposition following the death of her husband, alexei, nevada. only earlier this year. also coming up from the program, the environmental costs of the heat waves, but it's taking a heavy toll on parts of asia. we'll speak to a climate lawyer the menu good to have you with us. we begin with a look at freedom of speech on this may the 3rd,

the day the united nations has declared weld press freedom day for its own freedom of speech award. the w has chosen a reluctant champion from russia, julia and of all, naya she is alexi and of all these widow. he died earlier this year in an optic prison, and his death was seen by critics as august rises by the russian government. the volumes shows the award with the russian antique corruptions foundation, a group, her late husband, found it, and of all naya continues to fight against pretends russia the earlier this year, she costs to ballots in process presidential election at the embassy in berlin. an election where any real position had long been dealt with 5 not to me, polluted and following the death of alexi and invalid me in an optic pain. no problem. the opposition has been old, but decimated in russia. and the arab parents is usually involved in the it's not

her role. she's taken on by choice, but by necessity. just 12 days after her husband's day, she addressed the, you know, make us instruct but which includes my husband. i like seeing nobody on here. so there's, i think she was tortured for 3 years. she was starved in the tar needs tone, so collado from the outside of the board and denied visits, phone calls, and then even the letters. and then the 2 team, usually in the bottom, the train does an economist. and with that, a bang before marrying alexa in about in the, in 2000 and ivonya was long a quiet supposed to of her husband's anti corruption. if it's, she was as close as political advisor and by his side as he went to court on prison,

numerous times when charges kremlin, critics say what from top at that price, our group, when of on the was points and in 2020 was her husband was fighting for his life in a hospital inside bay area. she issued a public let's do a lot to me, puts in and let it pressure campaign to allow her husband to be floating to gemini, for treatment. when alexa and i've only returned to russia in 2021, the police arrested him and detained eulley and a volunteer separating the couple of goods. she long shunned this booked lines, but after her husband's harsh imprisonment and death, she vowed to continue the fight against the kremlin. vladimir putin has a new vocal critic, not afraid to make use of her freedom of speech. i asked raymond, gunter incurred from dw is russian service. what the award means, the union of all my answer, her deceased husband. well, i think it means

a lot. of course it's an acknowledgment of what she and her team are doing. and of course, it's also, and it cannot acknowledgment for her husband who died in prison either that as we've heard in the report, that she believes that he was killed by the rational charges directly or indirectly . and she was on his side and they are continuing to walk for russia from abroad. now, she said she will take her. ready or he's joel uh, it is still for her to decide how she will do it. but at the moment as we speak um, there are millions and millions of views all for a new documentary and posted to them a few days ago. and youtube by her team and the on ticket option committee. it's a documentary about the rise of logic reporting to power russian present. and it is very, very popular, a lot of people with the dresser and abroad of talking about it. okay. does it

really come through, though? i mean, does this penetrate russian society to the extent that it's changing mines as well? there is a limited possibilities of penetrating the russian society because the russian societies under strong control of propaganda. ready of the russian authorities, it is dangerous to oppose the coming policies in russia and since dressing basically new grain, there's the russia, the deep crumb and has its, has increased in its cream on power and water. so it's really dangerous. you can be in prison for over 10 years, or you have to leave the country, or you have to be silent. but the documents we have mentioned is the way of communicating with russian society. so youtube, through all the channels. and this is what a wholesale also what, what thoughts of at least doing and continuing to do from and stay with us. just a moment we'll come back to, we're going to take a look at the fact that around the world press freedom has been fully nobody's.

according to the organization. reports is without borders. the new world press freedom index has just been published by reporters with our borders based on data compiled by the organization. the majority of the countries with the most difficult conditions for journalists are in the middle east and asia. europe remains the region where journalists enjoy the highest level of freedom overall. it's the only parts of the world where the situation for journalist has ranked as good in some countries. because even in europe, the picture is mixed in the east and southeast of the continent conditions have deteriorated. many countries of dropped in the rankings. that was includes batteries, which is now overtaken, russia and turkey at the bottom of the index to become the worst ranked for press. freedom in europe. berman clearly the states of press freedom in bella. russ

has become a lot, was can you tell us why as well um, there was a, there was a um, changing moment i would say milestone in 2020 uh the potential elections that they were accompanied by protested position protest. and the dollars lead to onyx on the location that claimed his victorian asked of that. he did a real quick down on opposition and media. of course though, all the islands of freedom were, were closed, journalists were imprisoned ahead, still flee, and what came from europe? so it and comparing it with russia and it to a certain extent, it is even worse in belarus because there are more journalists now in prison with longer sentences and more than 10 years, some of them. uh and um, just a few days ago and. busy that was labeled as

a statements formation. i was in bellows which, which makes it even more difficult for people there to have a to, to watch our programs, to any, to communicate with us in a way. so if you just send us a photo, you can, you can go to prison for up to 7 years in dallas now. now, so and doing interviews is also very dangerous. so this makes it much more difficult for us to reach for the instant bellows, but we are still. busy working on this, we have all possibilities and people are watching us in dallas and still being banned. just like in russia, people are using the vpn and all the other options to still get access to not just door to available to west and then the independent community in general. so which is, which is a very difficult situation and bella was, but there is help room and thank you so much for that. that's the don't use roman going to rank high. as our record heat wave is sweeping

across parts of southern and eastern asia. many countries have record of the harshest april on record. millions of people all still baffling the punishing heat and the stores soar and temperatures have forced school closures in some regions. and also receives all taking other precautionary measures to avoid heat stroke and the hydration free mobile showers helped meet the he's in manila, they've been supplied by local government officials to residents facing power and water shortages and make the soaring temperatures. the humans are not the only ones struggling to keep cool vets in india say more pets. unusual are coming in after succumbing to heat related illnesses. present lou, we have seen that it will be out of been dogs. 2 dogs is coming with the heat. collections of the song, the rid of the eyes, 3 model phone model,

sense of the in southern vietnam, hundreds of thousands of fish of died in a reservoir. local say the heat wave, some bad water management are to blame, benefit to parts of asia, sales of air conditioners have rocketed, which has some prices soaring for those who cannot afford electric cooling devices . like many ro hang the refugees living and come some buying a dash. there's no escape from the extreme temperatures. from my, from my number that we don't have a fan in our sand team for the old one. and we don't have the money to buy the one that runs with solar apple. my good because we're having difficult days and it does heat. there's being reports of heat stroke and do you hydration within the cups? and he rushes among the children in india. some dollars also describe harsh conditions. the address, the house is a made of asbestos, the refusing metal which absorber lots of heat. we con,

stay in our houses even for an hour, and we can't eat comfortably. communities like these will have to find ways to adopt in the years ahead assigned to say climate change has increasing the frequency and duration of extreme he's events. we can get more in the story from environmental, a employment activist roof i alarm, who joins us now from the hole in pakistan. welcome to the w. it's very clear that he heat waves make life really tough on people. but can you help us understand how they are affect single eco systems as a thank you on your having me on your show. this last april was the hottest in recorded history and we are approaching the coolest some of the rest of our lives. heat waves are going to impact the truck productivity around the world. this will lead to ford shortages and increasing food prices. huge waves, i want to damage ecosystems. i live in south asia, which is home of the him to gosh, gotta go to them. and him all in mountain ranges,

the 3rd on the largest 3rd largest collection of fresh water in the world, which supplies up to 16 trunk boundary rivers which go dry up as a result. leading to watch and availability shortages for agriculture, full energy, and also for domestic consumption. so compared to the mass is really, really up to, i mean, that's a big deal and isn't that you'll saying that thousands, millions of people could be without wasa within the coming years? is that rise? yes that we faced extreme walter shortages going forward isn't more, it has reported that if we reach 2 degrees of global warming, which scientists say that we really by the middle of this century, up to 65 percent of those places can mit bound that we have heat waves in urban areas. i live in buckets done when 2014 a one week heat. we've cleaned over a 1000 lives unless we start doing things to make sure urban areas especially have heat. we've management plans and you know, predictions for the citizens. i'm afraid, millions of people,

it could be at risk of increasing temperatures. so roughly what is it that governments need to be doing now to tackle this climate crisis? it was the 1st and foremost, governments around the world have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the, the, the gases that trap the sun's heat in the atmosphere and cause global warming. but i don't know whether we can do this because presently there's enough greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to lock in a 1.5 degree temperature increased by the end of this decade. that said, we must take measures now to protect people and animals and ecosystems from devastation. for example, for crops we need to have heat resistant seeds developed by scientists and in urban areas. as i mentioned, heat wave management plans, you know, places for people to go away, the shade and shelter, and beyond that also electricity to provide for climate schooling. we need to change the way our cities like science so that there's less cement to being used in mot, trees, and shade. and can i ask you a rough, i mean, industrialized countries are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases?

are they doing enough to help them move on or bold developing countries? well, the united nations framework convention on time of change was signed and 1992 with the objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions. and unfortunately, we all know to produce small greenhouse gases since then we haven't all of history before. we know that industrialized nations, you know, industrialize economy is a go losing off on both for the majority of historical greenhouse gas emissions. and these countries have failed to live up. they're brought to the promises to the international community to reduce the greenhouse gases and beyond that to provide for countries with the climate finance necessary so that they can prepare and adapt to the oncoming climate challenges that they face. best, all righty. plenty of money for welfare for sun, for ukraine for is right, but not for climate change. and folks, i mentioned resilience projects, rafael, i'm environmental lawyer, employment act as thank you so much for your time today. i'm with that

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