On the front lines with a family fighting for Ukraine
Updated 1215 GMT (2015 HKT) May 30, 2022
In a shallow trench in a narrow strip of trees that offers the only cover in this Ukrainian landscape in the Mykolaiv district, a man stands with his two adult sons.
Greenhouse gas removal ‘not a silver bullet to achieve net zero’
UK scientists say carbon capture is ‘hard and expensive’ and focus must be on reducing emissions
Helena Horton Environment reporter
Many of the UK’s top scientists working on carbon capture technologies do not believe they will be developed and scaled up in time to reach net zero and limit global heating to 1.5C.
Experts speaking at a Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub event in London warned that these techniques, including direct air capture, biofuels, biochar, afforestation and advanced weathering, are not a silver bullet and should make up just a fraction of the efforts to decarbonise.
The researchers were polled by event organisers on whether they believed the carbon removal targets would be met. Of 114 scientists in the audience, 57% said they were “not confident” the UK would meet the 2030 goals in the net zero strategy of 5m tonnes of engineered greenhouse gas removal, and 30,000 hectares a year of tree planting; 25% said they were quite confident, and 11% said there was no chance.
Could naval convoys lift the blockade on Ukraine grain?
Lithuania proposed a naval coalition of the willing to lift Russia's blockade on Ukraine grain. Is this practical?
Three months into Russia's war in Ukraine, the Kremlin's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports continues, heightening fears of a global food crisis.
Ukraine is the fifth largest exporter of wheat in the world and earlier this month, the UN's World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley warned that millions of people around the world would die with Ukrainian ports being blocked.
French journalist killed in Ukraine while covering ‘reality of the war’, Macron says
A French journalist has been killed while working in Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday on Twitter. "Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff was in Ukraine to show the reality of war. On board a humanitarian bus with civilians forced to flee to escape Russian bombings, he was mortally wounded," Macron wrote. Leclerc-Imhoff was working for the BFM television news channel.
Former inmates talk about their lives after prison on radio show
By SERI ISHIKAWA/ Staff Writer
May 30, 2022 at 13:58 JST
A radio program featuring former prisoners and inmates' family members discusses how former inmates rejoin society and how they plan to make up for their crimes.
“I want to convey various aspects of life in prison that aren't known in society, along with the difficulties I faced after my release from prison,” said a former inmate.
The show is aired on a community broadcasting station in western Tokyo’s Fuchu.
Far-right Israeli attacks highlight ‘Jerusalem Day’ reality
Ultra-nationalist Israelis violently confronted Palestinians both during and after the ‘flag march’ on Sunday.
“Jerusalem Day” and its accompanying ‘flag march’ came and went in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, but, despite Israeli authorities breathing a sigh of relief that it did not trigger wider confrontations between Israel and the Palestinians, particularly Hamas in Gaza, the reality was a day of violence in which ultra-nationalist Jewish Israelis attacked countless Palestinians, many times under the eyes of Israeli police.
At least 81 Palestinians were wounded on Sunday by Israeli forces and far-right Jews in Jerusalem during and after the flag march, which marked the day Israel illegally occupied and annexed the city’s eastern half in 1967. Most Jewish Israelis view it as the day Jerusalem was “unified”.
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