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Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. Thank you so much. From the UN Climate Summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, this is Democracy Now.

The people of Gaza are in the midst of an epic humanitarian catastrophe before the eyes of the world.

We must not look away.

The UN Secretary General has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in decades

to press the Security council to support a ceasefire in Gaza warning public

order is completely breaking down as Gaza's humanitarian system collapses

from the Israeli assault. We'll speak to the

award-winning Palestinian poet Masab Abutoha who was recently jailed and beaten

by Israeli forces.

He's joining us in his first interview since leaving Gaza.

Then this is a cabal of oil producers, not a climate summit.

That's what climate scientist Kevin Anderson says

about COP28 here in Dubai.

I refer to the cop as a cabal of oil producers and I've used that

expression because year after year at these international negotiations the

most powerful voice is not that from the US, from the EU, from China or any other country.

It is actually from the oil-producing companies.

We'll speak with the Nigerian climate activist Nemo Basi here at the UN Climate Summit as well.

It is a breaking point for the African continent. It's a moment when real climate

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