Climate Extremes, Ukraine Grain Update, Texas Abortion Bans Challenged
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we respond in first from the news? Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of grain. Now with russia's suspending the grain deal, which allowed for safe passage across the black sea, a global food security crisis looms. But is there a chance the deal could be revived?

Plantin are back in court chAllenging the abortion bands in texas. First, there was emotional testimony from witnesses turned away from medical care. Today, we hear from physicians how a judge might decide the outcome for women with complicated pregnancies. Say with us, we will give you a new gene to start your day.

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Heat waves with temperatures over one hundred twenty degrees for days on end, whole neighborhoods flooded after heavy rain. Extreme weather has already taken a big toll this summer around the world.

So as the climate keeps changing, how much worse could weather related disasters get?

Lawrence summer from in paris climate desk is here to answer that.

Good morning, Lawrence.

Good morning. So communities have been dealing with some life threats, disasters. Is this what we should expect summers to be like from now on?

I I wish I could say no um but what we're seeing this summer is exactly what the science says we should expect you know the plant has already gotten about two juries, fair and height hotter, largely due to burning fossil fuels. And that just amping up heat waves. They're more intense and more frequent.

Extreme rain is the same. A hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture, so the rainstorms can be more intense, like what's happened in vermont. In fact, you know, in the northeast, the most extreme storms are dropping fifty five percent more rain now than they did in the first half of the one .

hundred hundreds. Could this get even more extreme? Couldn't get worse.

Yeah you know that will really depend on us, you know so the Greenhouse gases were admitting now, you know from the cars we drive, the power we use, those will keep warming the planet. So some of IT is already baked in, but then it's a question of how fast we can cut emissions.

And kim cop, who's a climate scientist at Brown university, says, every little bit counts, each incremental additional warming brings this host of climate related extremes and impacts that are so devastating. So there is no doubt at all that we have to get to work more, earn estate than ever. If emissions don't fall and we stay on this track, extreme heat waves could be almost three times as common as they are now.

So are we learning things now that can help us deal with even more heat than? And you know, what about air condition.

right? You know, we definitely need IT, but it's not the only answer, right? So we run, see, to cool a house when it's hot inside. But we could be doing a Better job just keeping the heat out in the first place.

And one way is simply by painting the outside of a house lighter colors, which, you know, reflect sunlight, so IT doesn't really heat up as much. Or maybe pick a lighter roof color when the roof is are placed, or use special cool roof materials, those come in different colors. ruin. Levenson is a climate scientist at Lawrence Sparkly national laboratory who studies this.

This is the time to start transforming our buildings. In fact, to continue transforming our buildings, we have to think long term now, and we can make a hot choice, or we can make a cool choice.

Levenson says, you know, the light color walls and a cool roof can actually reduce the homes need to run the a by ten to forty percent.

And what about this extreme rain and flooding? Yeah.

you know, that's also a question of just how we build. You know many cities are still designing infrastructure, you know like roads and storm drains for the storms of last century because the rainfall data they're using is decades old and IT doesn't take climate change into account. So you know the federal government is in the process of updating that. It's going to take several years. So it's it's just really critical that every community think about how the infrastructure of that's being built right now is gna fair as the climate continues to change.

That's learn summer from imperious climate desk. Thank you. learn. thanks.

Russia is taking an an increasingly hard line on ukraine exporting grain through the black sea. yeah.

On monday, IT pulled out of a deal that ensured the safe passage of ships exporting the grain. And yesterday, russia's defense ministry said IT will consider any ships in the sea heading toward ukraine as hostel. The grade, meanwhile, has vowed to keep this vital supply out open and is asking its western allies and the united nations for help in doing so.

Empanel cki is is just back from the port city of odessa and is with us now on the line from key. Joanna, welcome. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Could you just start by talking about the ships that Carry the Green? What is russia threatened exactly?

yeah. The regions have not said explicitly that they will attack the ships, but the implication is clear. The russian defense ministry said, quote, that these ships will be considered as having entered the conflict on the side of the key regime, so on the side of ukraine. So it's going to be very hard to convince commercial shipping companies to use the black sea shipping right now. And since russia's decision to leave the grain deal was announced on monday, russian forces have also been hitting the port cities of odessa. And with a live with drones and missiles, I wish, just in the oda support earlier this weekend, with no Green deal, of course, IT was empty and early quiet during the day, but at night there were lots of explosions that we could hear and see them from our hotel. Russian strikes, damaged grain silos and grain and oil terminal and loading equipment at that point.

So what does this mean for the global food supply?

Well, it's going it's likely going to hurt food security. So for context, ukraine and russia have have historically been major food exporters. And in the first months of russia le's full scale in beijing last year, the supply of grain and cooking oil really drop because of two things, russia's blockage of ukrainian orts and western sanctions against russia.

Prices went up, parts of africa and in the middle east war affected. That's why the united nations and turkey stepped in last summer to negotiate this deal with russia. USA I D.

Administrator Samantha power, who was in the porter o desert earlier this week, said that more than thirty two million metric tons of grain and oil seed were transported, while russia was still participating in this deal. The human consequences of a decision to deny food to the world's most vulnerable are devastating. Two thirds of the weed that was exported went to developing countries. This week, he announced two hundred and fifty million dollars in USA to help ukraine agriculture and agri.

Can anything be done to salvage the deal?

yeah. Russia says IT will resume participating in the deal if its conditions are met. Moscow, once Better terms for exports of their grain and fertilizer, then they were getting before.

And if they get these things, they say they are in. Meanwhile, presidents elastic says the russians can be trusted. And he's trying to convince governments around the world that grain trade with ukraine is still possible.

Of course, there are alternative roughs outside the sea transporting the grain by river, or trained that the volumes are much smaller. Dsa, I spoke with sota kacha sh. really. He's a prominent grain dealer in ukrainy, and he explained why he was preparing for worst case scenarios when he came to the future of his company and this deal.

so that there was a proof equal ship and stay at the room.

So he's saying that russia will want any plans to restart shipping here. And he says that they will keep attacking ships and ports. And he says the only way for ukraine's black sea expert deal to begin again is for ukraine to win this war. That's imperious .

juana kickers is joana. Thank you so much.

You welcome me show.

It's the second day of a court hearing chAllenging abortion bands in texas.

Thirteen women who had pregNancy complications and were denied abortions sue texas attorney general can paxton and state medical board. Some of these women took the stand and shared their heartful breaking experiences.

Empire, silly is Steven is in Austin covering their proceedings and she's with no, no. welcome. Thanks for joining us.

mister. So let's .

start start with the hearing that began yesterday. We just tell us about IT.

Yeah I mean, IT was extremely intense. There was emotional testimony. The room was very quiet, and at times everybody who was crying, including a turney for the state, one of the people who testified with Samantha casey ano, I was actually the first person to publish her story.

In April, SHE found out around Christmas of last year that he was pregnant with the fears who had intensified, which means part of its brain and skull did not form. IT is always fatal, but he couldn't afford to get an abortion out of state, and SHE couldn't get one in taxes because of the bans. Her daughter was born early and lived for only four hours. Here is her returning moldovan questioning her on the witness stand yesterday.

What did you think about doing those four hours? I just keep doing myself of my baby, and i'm so sorry. I felt so bad, you had no mercy. There was no mercy there. At one point.

casiana was so overcome with emotion, SHE actually became physically ill on the stand and the court quickly for a break.

like this sound in tencel. what? What are the plant of asking for a turney turn .

the center for reproductive rate or asking the judge in this court in travel ty judge jusici main gram for a temporary injunction on the abortion in cases of pregnant complications. There is a very narrow exception for emergency abortions in taxes, but they argue that the language is unclear and IT leaves out many of the patients in the suit who were harmed by having to wait or travel for out of state for care.

And how is the state of texas responding?

The state is asking the judge to dismiss the case. They're arguing that the patients don't have standing because they're not currently being harmed and future harm and future pregnancies is only hypothetical and they're saying that the state can be blamed for the denial of care but rather their doctor should be blamed um here's texas assistant attorney general amy pleure questioning one of the plaintives any time.

Did attorney general paxton tell you that you couldn't receive an emotion? I never go to a tiny general compassion directly.

Now SHE actually asked that question of every patient on the stand yesterday and entering her in that clip with AManda's eros ky, her water broke too early at seventeen weeks, but he was denied an induction or abortion. And while waiting for treatment, SHE actually went into septic shock and was in the I, C, U. For three days after the hearing. Yesterday's eros y said he was shocked by how kalis the state's cross examination of her was.

I survived subs, and I don't think today was much less traumatic than that.

The whole experience sounds got ranching. And I understand that there's more testimony today.

Yes, the witnesses today are all physicians. One is actually suing as a patient who herself had to travel out of state for abortion. The others are expert witnesses, and one of the physicians is being called by the state and will explain why he does not think the metal hill exception is too neurotic. clear. It's expected to be another full day and the ruling could come at any point after IT concludes.

That's epr celina, Simon stuff and Selina. Thank you so much for showing this reporting with this.

Yes.

thank you for having me.

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