Israel-Hamas Negotiations, European Migration Deal, Extreme Rain
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Talk for some kind of resolution in gaza underway on multiple france. As the death told near twenty thousand .

and deadly shooting at a church, there has palestinian Christians worried their small community .

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leaders in the E.

U. Say they've reached a breakthrough on talks over our new migration plan. The pending deal is meant to distribute migration more evenly across europe, but some can say that could lock out asylum seekers.

And when IT rains IT hours, especially as the planet's climate warms up, severe storms become more common, scientists say the rain patterns of yesterday are long on.

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APP today. Intense embarkment and israeli ground Operations in the gaza strip continue as homes launches rockets into israel, but there are talks underway for some sort of POS.

Negotiations appear to be taking place between israel and moss. This as the death toll in gaza will soon reach twenty thousand people, according to the health ministry there. And that's not to mention the tens of thousands more people that are wounded in the minutes of this dire humAnitarian crisis.

Joining us to discuss all this from television is ampas. Jason. Good morning, Jason. So what can you tell us about these talks?

What diplomats from israel and gutters backed by the U. S. Have been meeting in europe to work out some sort of a deal, according to U.

S. officials. Also, hua says that one of its senior leaders is 没有 很 腻， 我 caro。 On wednesday, and egypt has been playing a role in ceasefire talks too.

Homos is still believed to be holding more than one hundred israeli hostages, and israel wants them back. And you'll recall during the first ceasefire, homos released hostages in exchange for palestinian prisoners held by israel during each day of the pause. Now at the same time, the U.

N. Security council is trying to pass a resolution calling for a humAnitary arian pause in fighting a vote on that continues to be delayed over language acceptable to the U. S. In order to avoid the U. S. veto.

I mean, in the backstop of all this, there is a war and loss of life that has there been any let up? And gaz, as these talks happen.

fighting has been intense, heavy shelling from israel by air and land. And see, we mentioned the twenty thousand milestones, death toll. The U.

N. Says the most intense shelling is in the beta ha. And gaza city in the north, in kunis in the east and rafa in the south.

Israeli military says dozens of aircraft attacked about two hundred thirty targets in gaza yesterday, and the humAnitary arian crisis there is worsening due to a lack of food and water and power. Now the israeli military says it's uncovered something of a command center in one of those underground tunnels we hear so much about. Those are tunnels homos users to move people and equipment and supplies around gaza.

Israeli leaders say one of the main objectives of this work is to destroy those tunnels as part of its overall goal to destroy her mos after the october seven attacks that killed some twelve hundred people. And while all of this is going on, rockets continue to be launched from gaza and southern lebanon into israel. Erie sirens go off pretty regularly here.

Now I understand you've been reporting on a specific incident of shooting at a church in gaza. What can you tell us about that?

Well, the len patriotically of jerusalem says two women sheltering at holy family parish and northern gaza were shot and killed by a snipper. The church says IT was an israeli snipper, but he didn't go into detail about how I knew this. Bishop William shamali says there's also been shelling of the church .

compound that, like the atomy is slats, ed, all the area around the parish people cannot go outside of the compound because they can be killed.

The pope has even talked about the shooting in the shelling and referred to them as terrorism. Israeli military says IT was performing an Operation nearby when the incident took place, but they say their investigation doesn't show they were responsible for the killing of the women. Now there are only two churches in all of gaza.

Holy family parish where the shooting took place, has about five hundred people taking refuge there. They're only about a thousand palestinian Christians who live in gaza. And there's real concern this war could mean the end of the Christian community there.

That's npr. Jason dinos in television. Thank you for reporting.

Jason.

Frances interior minister defended a controversial new immigration bill in the french national assembly yesterday.

Proved the bill that many apps and those on the left are calling one of the most aggressive immigration laws in decades.

French law comes as the european and union also agreed yesterday on sweeping changes to the blocks immigration policy.

BAllen, or bear ley, is here to discuss all this and what that means. Good morning, Allen.

or good morning, lao.

So let's start with this new immigration legislation. inference. What makes IT so controversial? Well.

president MC center party needs support in the parliament, and the first version of the bill was rejected. And so they redrafted IT because they they wanted the mainstream right to support IT, and they met at a lot tougher. Critics now say the bill looks like the anti immigration platform of the far right.

And the law is causing a huge drift in micro ones own party, one minister resigned in opposition. There's been in upon not only from the far left, but from people accusing micro of mainstreaming the far rights ideas. And far right later, marine le pen herself called the bill of Victory.

Listen to this. The logic.

SHE says, is a great ideological Victory for her party. Our goals have been achieved in this bill. You know, many people voted for micro twice to block marine leapin from becoming president, and so they're incredulous that they say he is now parading her policies.

Micro, of course, rejects, says he spoke on television last night for two hours defending the bill. He says it's shield france needs, but it's a political win for open. Some are calling at her breakout moment.

So what are some of the more divisive provisions in the french law? Well.

IT makes IT harder for legal immigrants to bring family members over a cracks down on students. And while micro on wanted to allow immigration for labor deprived sectors, IT doesn't do that. And IT introduces waiting periods for immigrants who are working to be eligible for some social services, like housing aid.

And they say that could lead to families living on the street. I spoke with elan sup OS David from migrant jo tadese. A here SHE is france, and E. U. Has adopted those and regulations that are in violation of human rights and that are also putting into question the rights to asylum.

What is europe facing now when IT comes to migration .

later for years, we've seen a huge uptake and migration coming from the middle ast and all across africa. The wave began in two thousand fifteen with the syrian civil war, but it's continuing and increasing. And eu countries have been dealing with IT in an ad hoc, uncoordinated way.

Thousands of people have drowned in the mediterranean. A and this is fueling popularity of far right anti immigrant politicians. And that's why there's such pressure on the E. U. As a whole to do something.

So we spoken about the french law. What about for the e. What's in their new measure on immigration?

Well, that allows for faster checking of migrants had external eu borders to facilitate repeaters ation of those who don't qualify for asylum. The biggest element is that creates binding solidarity for the eu. Every country has to help front line states now, like italy, increase by either taking migrants or paying front line countries to deal with them all over your hunts. And european commissioner for .

home affairs spoke about IT. Finally, after so many years, we have managed to agree on a common comprehensive migration. And asylum policy is not only only a win for eu, and europe is a win for migrants.

but of course, migrants and their advocates .

strongly disagree. Pr elenor bird, thank you.

Your welcome 来了。

Heavy rain in the northeast this week flooded towns in vermont, some of which were still recovering from floods over the summer.

The coasts of australia also soft flooding after some cities got more than thirty inches of rain. These kind of events are becoming more common as the climate is hotter.

For more on what coming storms could look like, Lawrence summers here from npr climate desk morning learn n. So what is happening with rainfall? How much more dangerous or storms already becoming .

the short service is that in most of the U. S when IT rains, IT rains more, and extreme storms are getting more extreme. They're dropping more rain over the last fifty years. That's been particularly true in the northeast and the midwest, where those really bad storms are dropping forty to fifty percent more rain.

And do we know that climate change is already causing that?

Yeah, there are a lot of cities that show intensifying rainfall is mostly due to the planet getting hotter, which is happening as humans burn more fossil fuel. And that's because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture, more water vapor, so the storms just have more water to work with. Basically.

how much worse does rainfall get if the planet continues warming? Yeah.

I spoke to Megan kirk mire Young about this. He is a research scientist. S an environment and climate change canada, which is government agency. He says, if we stay on the current path of climate change, rainfall gets even more extreme in many parts of north america.

Some of those changes are considerable. Advance state used to be very rare in the future, under a few degrees of global warming will be fairly common events. You know, the southern us.

in particular, storms could drop twenty to thirty percent more rain in the future, according to one study.

What does this mean for communities in the U. S. In the flooding they could see.

yeah, you know, it's a big danger because when IT rains, all hot water needs to drain away, and that handled by storm drains and other infrastructure. And when communities build that, they design IT for a certain kind of storm. And if it's the storms of last century and all that concrete around you, it's gonna get overwhelmed. And that's when streets flood, basement apartment's flood, people actually lose their lives, kirk mary Young says. That's why communities need to plan .

for climate change. Our climate is not stationary. IT is changing in going to continue to change. And we need to understand that. We need to consider that instead of planning for the climate needs to have so how .

much help our cities getting in preparing for a future with more intensity?

Yeah, it's actually a huge problem. It's something we've covered for years on the climate desk. A handful of cities are planning for climate change.

You know they're using the storms of the future to build infrastructure today, so it's ready for that. But many cities are not. I ve spoken to several that are designing for storms from sixty years ago, and that means they're at risk.

The issue is that cities rely on information from the federal government to know what kind of storms to plan for. Those records are decades old. For many states.

They don't take climate change into account. That is changing. The national ou shana and atmosphere administration is updating rainfall records currently. But you know IT will will be ready until twenty twenty six at the earliest. So in the meantime, communities are largely .

on their own. Thanks for this learn. Thank you all in summer is on nps climate desk.

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