Democracy Now! 2023-12-06 Wednesday
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 06, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Gaza Aid Worker on “Horror” of Forced Relocations Amid Israel’s War on Southern Strip; COP28: Amy Goodman Attempts to Question UAE Oil CEO Serving as President of U.N. Climate Talks in Dubai; Big Oil’s Takeover of U.N. Climate Summit Decried by Activists Fighting for Fossil Fuel Phaseout; Carbon Colonialism: Oil-Rich UAE Buys Up Large Swaths of Africa for Carbon Credits to Keep Polluting; Why Are Russia & U.S. Promoting Nuclear Power at U.N. Climate Talks? Russian Environmentalist Speaks Out
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now. |
| 0:03.2 | Please support our independent journalism at democracy now.org. |
| 0:07.9 | That's Democracy Now. |
| 0:11.0 | Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. Thank you so much. Oh, might be fine. From the UN Climate Summit in Dubai here in the United Arab Emirates, |
| 0:41.7 | this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:43.0 | There were 30 people inside the house. |
| 0:48.0 | 20 of them were children. |
| 0:50.0 | We went to sleep. |
| 0:51.0 | All of a sudden, what happened to us. We don't know. The fire hit us and like you see all of it collapsed on top of us. |
| 1:01.0 | Israel's attack on Gaza is now being described as one of the worst assaults on any civilian population in recent times |
| 1:11.0 | as Israeli tanks drive deeper into Hanunis and the Palestinian death toll top 16,000. |
| 1:20.0 | We'll go to Gaza for the latest. |
| 1:22.0 | Then here at the UN Climate Summit in Dubai, Democracy |
| 1:26.0 | now attempts to question the UAE oil CEO who's presiding over the climate |
| 1:31.8 | talks. |
| 1:33.0 | Can you answer a question from the press? |
| 1:35.0 | Dr. Al Jover, can you tell us why there are 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists here? |
| 1:42.0 | Dr. Al Jover, can you tell us if there should be a fossil fuel phase out? |
| 1:47.0 | We'll get an update on the UN Climate Summit and look at how the UAE is buying up land across Africa |
| 1:57.0 | as part of an initiative called Blue Carbon. |
| 2:00.0 | And we'll speak to a leading Russian environmentalist as Vladimir Putin visits the UAE and Saudi Arabia today. |
| 2:08.0 | All that and more coming up. Oh, Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
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