WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:23.559 Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio. Welcome to 2 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.359 Policy and Rights Show, Gosh, Welcome to Policy that Human 3 00:00:29.440 --> 00:01:02.039 joys Now. 4 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:07.040 Robinson Provincial Park is a very special place. You're passing 5 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.480 towering mountains, ponderous waterfalls, and icy cold lakes that are 6 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:16.159 fed by these majestic glaciers. The trail draws thousands of 7 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.239 people from across Canada and around the globe. 8 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.040 Late June twenty twenty one, we started getting reports from 9 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.519 hikers that their significant flooding happening on the Burg Lake Trail. 10 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.680 Myself and another rangel went and investigated and noticed that 11 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.239 river levels were rising fairly rapidly. 12 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.879 The following morning, there was such significant impacts to the. 13 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.799 Trail that we had to fly everybody over. 14 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:51.760 As we started doing the flights, we could see the 15 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.319 impacts from the air. A few kilometers of trail was 16 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.879 sucked into the Robson River. We could see fresh movement 17 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.200 of debris coming down the mountain. It funneled itself down 18 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.319 the trail and sent. 19 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.159 Tidal waves of water that basically destroyed ninety percent of 20 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:17.319 the infrastructure on the trail. Bridges were dammed and rock covered, 21 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.159 Entire structures that had been there for thirty years. We 22 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:33.479 were so fortunate that nobody was injured overnight. Once we 23 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.879 knew we had safely evacuated everybody off the trail, we 24 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.199 immediately went into thinking about how. 25 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.360 We were going to reopen the trail. 26 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.960 We wanted to make sure that the new trail was 27 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.639 going to last a long time. The Bird Lake Trail 28 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.199 is twenty five kilometers long. Probably three quarters of it 29 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.639 was impacted by the flood, and so there was extensive 30 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:59.759 consultation to really make sure that we were covering all over. 31 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:08.280 The project team for this included engineers, a geomorphologist, a geotech, 32 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.280 construction managers, and trail specialists. 33 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.680 By nature, BC parks are wild places. 34 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.400 To be able to understand the critical components of a 35 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.400 project and be able to address them in a meaningful way, 36 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:21.639 it takes a lot of time. 37 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.759 Away from the get go. Everybody knew this was going 38 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.280 to be delivered in phases. Phase one included a bunch 39 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:33.120 of planning. The planning work was happening at the same 40 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:36.960 time that we were doing some significant trail upgrades between 41 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:43.080 the trail head and Kenney Lake. Once that was done, 42 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:47.000 we went on to phase two. Phase two was completion 43 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:48.479 of Kiney Lake Campground. 44 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.159 That phase continued on with trail construction up to the 45 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.800 Kinney Flats intersection, and that was. 46 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:57.840 The end of Phase two. 47 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:04.879 We've always known that the Robson River is a very 48 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.719 powerful system, but we're learning that it's also very unpredictable. 49 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.800 So in the case that there is a heavy rainfall event, 50 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.800 the river may be encouraged to jump out of its 51 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:18.240 original channel and realign itself into a different area within 52 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.040 that same wide floodplaine. So the river is a very 53 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:22.839 dynamic system here at Mount Robson. 54 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:29.279 Wherever possible, we've tried to either eliminate river crossings or 55 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.720 reduce the amount of time that the trail spends within 56 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.240 a floodplain. Practically, that means realigning the trail to a 57 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.800 location that essentially doesn't need to cross a river wherever possible, 58 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.199 where it's necessary to install a bridge, we have tried 59 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.600 our best to find locations where the river is moving 60 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.959 less quickly, and so abutments that we have installed have 61 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:51.879 a better chance of survival in the case that there 62 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:53.879 is a heavy rainfall and then a resulting flood. 63 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.319 From Phase two run on to the final phase, a 64 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:05.199 significant amount of trail rebuilt that included trail work up 65 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.319 to the Phillips Drainage, a short bit of trail constructed 66 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:14.319 below Emperor Hill, and a significant reconstruction of the hard 67 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:15.160 Bays fan. 68 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.040 There's still a chance that the river could divert out 69 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.079 of its existing path, but with the information that we've 70 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.360 gained and our ability to understand the system better, we'll 71 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:33.839 be able to react more quickly in the future here. 72 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.560 Or elsewhere in class comments as well. 73 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.800 For us as park rangers, we're looking forward to having 74 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:44.480 it open again. It's been hard to not have the 75 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:52.040 trail open, mostly because we get asked every day when 76 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.759 is it going to open. So as much as people 77 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.319 are really wanting the trail to open up, US as 78 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.959 park rangers are equally as excited to have people back. 79 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.519 Welcome back to policy and Rights Here Depictions Media Radio. 80 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.959 I'm your host, Michael Kloggs, And in this next segment, well, 81 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:23.639 we're gonna jump right in here. Negotiations for ceasefire and 82 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:31.800 maybe a permanent treaty solution between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine 83 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.800 President of Zelenski said he hopes the US will stand 84 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:40.959 strong in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions 85 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.839 as a condition for the ceasefire in the Black Sea. 86 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:53.720 Moscow said maritime truce announced on Tuesday to allow safe 87 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:58.040 passage for commercial vessels would only begin once the Western 88 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:06.720 restrictions on Russian Russian's food and fertilizer trade has been lifted. 89 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.120 Zelenski is speaking to a panel of review in Paris 90 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:19.439 with journalists from across Europe. Asked by the BBC if 91 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:25.480 the US would resist pressure, and it would and I 92 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:33.360 hope to God bless that they will, but we'll see. 93 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:41.399 The White House told Russian Grainy delegations that they agreed 94 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.560 to to cease fire in the Black Sea after three 95 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:49.480 days of separate talks with American officials in Saudi Arabia. 96 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:54.600 It looks like they are moving forward towards some sort 97 00:07:54.639 --> 00:08:07.920 of peace agreement and between Russia and Ukraine. And we're 98 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:12.639 gonna have a report from the h United Nations Human 99 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:20.160 Rights and they're gonna be talking about the continued settlements 100 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:25.519 in the West Bank and other parts of Palestine and 101 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.839 how they could be and sh should be seen as 102 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:36.000 illegal to the to the sovereignty of in the continued 103 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:45.000 talks towards a sovereignty uh with Palestine, and they continued 104 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.360 peace towards or continued working towards peace between Palestine and 105 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:57.919 and Israel as it as it is working right now that. 106 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:01.960 Israel is. 107 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.919 Acting in a matter and restricting Palestinians from building permits 108 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.799 of blocking them from In one case, it was mentioned 109 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.759 about olive farmers were not allowed to travel to where 110 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:22.279 the trees were in order to harvest their crop, which 111 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.639 hurt the Palestinian economy because olives are one of their 112 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:35.240 big exports olive trees. Of course, in the Middle East, 113 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.120 we remember the offering of the of the olive branch 114 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:48.600 as a symbol of peace and back into between the 115 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:56.360 United States and Canada. Well, mister Trump has announced a 116 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:04.519 twenty five percent tariff on all things related to the 117 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:12.879 auto industry. Let's see. United States President Donald Trump has 118 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.440 announced a new import taxes on twenty of twenty five 119 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:23.879 percent on cars and car parks coming into the US, 120 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:29.840 in a move that threatens to widen the global trade war. 121 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.960 Trump said that the latest terrors would come into effect 122 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:42.120 the second of April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles 123 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:47.519 starting the next day. He claimed that the measure would 124 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:53.279 lead to tremendous growth for the car industry, promising it 125 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:59.279 would spur jobs and investments in the United States, but 126 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.720 unless said that the move is more likely to lead 127 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:08.720 to a temporary shutdown of significant car production in the 128 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:13.639 United States and increase prices and strain of relations with allies. 129 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.480 And we're gonna hear from Mark Karney because Mark Karney 130 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:23.720 is in and the Liberal government is developing a fund 131 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:29.720 to help protect the Canadian auto workers. And he makes 132 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.679 this announcement from Windsor, Ontario. And there is a significance 133 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:42.039 to Windsor, Ontario, because Windsor sits one bridge across from Detroit, 134 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:49.840 and they're twin cities from two different countries. As we 135 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:55.159 as we know, the US auto industry is basically based 136 00:11:55.320 --> 00:12:02.440 in Detroit, while the Canadian auto industry is based in 137 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.240 Win's they're Ontario. And he's gonna make a statement about 138 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.879 a single auto part could cross the bridge between the 139 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:20.799 two cities up to six times. And when we start 140 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:27.559 compounding the effect of this tariff on a on a 141 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:32.159 single auto part as it as it develops into the 142 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:39.840 entire car, that's a significant raisin price for us who 143 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.960 need to buy cars. I know that that my wife 144 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.799 and I we drive quite a bit and the need 145 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.120 for a car and an auto parts. It isn't just 146 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:57.360 the the car itself, the entire car, it's also auto parts. 147 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:02.720 Cars need maintenance and that you need after market parts, 148 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.960 and those aftermarket parts are also going to be affected 149 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:11.240 by this particular tariff. It could lead to the shutdown 150 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.559 of the auto industry, according to Mark Karney, and he 151 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:21.279 is preparing the Canadian government for the strain as he 152 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:26.279 is also in an election with a fund that would 153 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:32.799 aid auto workers to collect layoff pay via the government's 154 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:42.039 employment insurance plan and allow them to get their applications 155 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:50.320 to receive moneies before severance packages and other moneies run out, 156 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:56.279 as a traditional need to happen with employment insurance in Canada. 157 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:01.879 So we're going to hear about that also. And the 158 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.039 thing of the thing to remember the a when a 159 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:12.960 country imposes a tariff, the tariff nearly directly affects the 160 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:18.519 consumers in that particular country. It doesn't necessarily cause growth 161 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:25.440 and investment within the United States. It could actually isolate 162 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.879 the United States and cause people to be turned off 163 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.039 from working with the United States as a trade partner. 164 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:43.200 We're bringing it back to again, Mark Carney, as he 165 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:49.200 talks about trying to develop other trade partners and trade 166 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:55.399 solutions for the auto industry that would ensure that cars 167 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:00.000 and car parts can be sold as they are developed 168 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:11.399 and manufactured and Canada, So we're gonna hear from other 169 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:17.879 things around the world as the NATO Secretary of General 170 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:22.000 as he gives a speech from Poland and talking about 171 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:29.120 how Poland is leading NATO with its support by way 172 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:34.919 of the GDP percentage, they by far exceed any other 173 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:41.480 country that would include Canada. And he also talks about 174 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.279 how Canada and other countries in Europe need to step 175 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:53.000 up to offering more support to NATO and increasing their 176 00:15:53.120 --> 00:16:03.000 GDP spending percentage to NATO and defense within their own countries. 177 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:11.600 Right now, Canada is far below the requirement of at 178 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:18.279 least two percent that NATO would like to see. The 179 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:23.720 new Prime Minister Mark Karney is promising to increase that 180 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:31.440 with efforts put forth by Bill Blair, the Defense Minister. 181 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.720 So let's move forward and listen to the clips as 182 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:38.799 we have them. 183 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:39.200 Uh. 184 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:45.879 We have quite a few, including a UH warning to 185 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:53.000 European countries to and and their citizens to be prepared 186 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.960 for some sort of disaster or war, to happen with 187 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:02.279 a lot of gunshots happening in Ukraine and a lot 188 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:08.920 of unrested is happening in the Middle East. That hey, 189 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:15.759 maybe they should be on the lookout for war happening 190 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:20.880 or terrorist actions that could cause a disaster within their 191 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:21.720 own cities. 192 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:37.799 Four hundred fifty million citizens, it's four hundred fifty million reasons. 193 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:39.920 To be better prepared. 194 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.480 Today's threats facing Europe are more complex than ever and 195 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:50.480 they are all interconnected. For three years in Ukraine we 196 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:57.039 have seen a battlefield of bumps and bullets, drones, fighterplanes, 197 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:04.480 tranches and submarines. Yes, our European security is directly threatened 198 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:04.880 by this. 199 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:09.839 It is also threatened by other battlefields, the. 200 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:15.160 Battle fields in our pockets or phones or computers, or 201 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.960 power plants or banks, or supply chains or raw materials, 202 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:23.359 and in the media, the social media we consumed every day. 203 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:29.079 These are all battlefields and they are being recognized to 204 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:34.359 threaten our European way of life and our democracies. And 205 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:39.160 the EU has two ways of responding. We can stick 206 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.160 our heads in the sand and act like it isn't happening, 207 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.680 or we can look these threats scarcely in the eye 208 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.640 and say this is the reality we are facing and 209 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:56.720 we will prepare. You know, Since the start of my 210 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:01.799 mandate as Commissioner for Preparedness, I have visited countries here 211 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:07.440 in Europe and halfway across the world Ukraine, Poland, Italy, 212 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:13.599 France and even Bangladesh. And earlier this week I visited 213 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:16.880 the port of Antwerp, a critical. 214 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.559 Area in the center of Europe for. 215 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:24.839 Mobility but also military mobility and goods. Of course, I've 216 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:31.240 seen firsthand how different countries and locations prepare for emergencies 217 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:38.799 depending on geopolitics or their geogeographical Also, position being prepared 218 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.880 is certainly different from one country to another. 219 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:46.319 There is no one size fits all. 220 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:52.640 I've exchanged ideas, best practices with local authorities and experts 221 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.000 on the ground, and these exchanges have contributed to making 222 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:01.720 this strategy concrete, targeted and operational. 223 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:03.359 In the EU. 224 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:09.039 We must think different because the threats are different. We 225 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:14.160 must think bigger because the threats are bigger. Also, and 226 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:21.680 this strategy does precisely that. Setting out three zero it 227 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:27.279 means thirty concrete actions. We are getting everyone on board 228 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:35.240 in every sector, from governments, localities, institutions, businesses, to communities, citizens, 229 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:40.759 and volunteers. We already have strong crisis response to but 230 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:46.640 we can no longer rely on ad hoc reactions. We 231 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:51.680 must be on the front foods, more proactive, more coordinated, 232 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.039 more systematic, detecting threats earlier and. 233 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:57.599 Acting faster as well. 234 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:02.440 That's why we are set up a new EU Crisis 235 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:09.519 Coordination Hub to coordinate better when a crisis hits, and 236 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:15.599 this help will build on the expertise of Emergency Response 237 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:21.160 Coordinations Center the ERCC to better support member states in 238 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.680 managing today's crisis. 239 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:26.880 And we are also biffing up our Union Civil. 240 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:33.240 Protection mechanism, the UCPM Protective Shield in times of emergency, 241 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:39.680 it coordinates eight mobilizes emergency teams and delivers life saving 242 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:46.480 assistance when floods but also wildfires and other disaster strike. 243 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.680 We have done it in Spain, in Ireland, in Mozambique, 244 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:55.519 in Mayat and just recently last week in North Macedonia 245 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:00.240 with more than fifty burn victims of a night lab 246 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:06.240 fire being taken care of in EU hospitals. So when 247 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:10.240 we get the call, we go, and I will invite 248 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:15.599 you to have a look on this slide behind me. 249 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:20.000 As you can see from the slide requests for assistance 250 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:24.960 have grown up over ten times since the UCPM. 251 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:28.119 Started in two and two. It's there you see when 252 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.039 it was created. 253 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:34.359 Of course, we had twenty twenty the COVID pandemy and 254 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:37.799 then also twenty twenty two the war in Ukraine, which 255 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:44.920 represented our largest UCPM operation. And we are active not 256 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.559 only in Europe but also across the world and for 257 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.960 many different types of crisis. And this clearly shows that 258 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:59.039 our UCPM is more important than ever and that's why 259 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.720 we are making it's even stronger with a help creating 260 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:05.359 inside this system. 261 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.480 In this new. 262 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:12.119 Strategy, we are also reinforcing rescue or European safety nets. 263 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:17.880 This strategy reserve helped the EU respond to every type 264 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:25.160 of emergency with firefighting planes, stockpiles of vital medical, energy 265 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:31.359 and transport equipment, and specialized assets against chemical, biological, radiological 266 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:36.960 and nuclear threads. We will propose an EU white stockpiling 267 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:41.559 strategy to ensure access to critical resources across the EU. 268 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.160 And you can discover maybe behind me, the next slides 269 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:50.920 will be what rescue or strategic reserves around the European 270 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:55.440 Union you see and its secret places, but you see 271 00:23:55.559 --> 00:24:00.920 where we have our stock piling strategy, but we will 272 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:06.640 we want to upgrade them to reinforce or capacities, providing 273 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:10.160 teams and experts in case of emergency. So the EU 274 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.480 will also work with member states to make sure people 275 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:20.519 have essential supplies for at least seventy two hours in 276 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:24.279 a crisis. We are also getting more young people involved. 277 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:28.880 Programs like you mentioned Rosanna, like Erasmus Plus and the 278 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:34.599 European Solidarity Cops will help build a new generation, aware, 279 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:40.319 trained and ready to act in case of emergency. Young 280 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:45.279 people also have to the know hoo to spot misinformation 281 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:50.119 and all this will make our society stronger and build 282 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:54.680 trust in our democracy. To conclude, I think that this 283 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:59.920 is once in a generation moment for the security of Europe. 284 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:05.240 Strengthening our preparedness will be certainly an essential part of 285 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:09.039 this and when we prepare together, we are safer together. 286 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:12.440 And now it's time to implement it. 287 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.960 I will conclude with a couple of words in French 288 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:25.119 spos a pre the COVID disnev new zvoo two uh 289 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:34.400 pre certain du mont byela plan de guer malo rosmos 290 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:41.519 decrease the dorges, the catastrophe natural so multiple advos avec method. 291 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:44.440 Responsibility alex. 292 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:54.319 So, the strategic new develop and part the citoy uh 293 00:25:54.839 --> 00:26:02.400 londe vivo nivo the different the governorment univusi doligno ropulo 294 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:07.599 in a croche in aproch dipren to mond consideration a 295 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:12.000 king less person derria so sisa lou rope proge dupe, 296 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:17.440 the solidarity pre paris u dogi alex serginity situ see 297 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:22.720 a consolidi notre proge junior bassistae, prosperity. 298 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:35.119 Mercy, missie levis President, mister Vice President. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, 299 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:39.240 I will present to you today two reports under Agenda 300 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:43.000 Items seven. I will begin with the High Commissions Report 301 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:47.359 on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including is 302 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.599 Jerusalem and in the Occupied Syrian Golan, submitted pursuanto Human 303 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:56.200 Rights Council Resolution fifty five slash thirty two. The report 304 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.920 covers the period between one November twenty twenty three and 305 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:05.519 thirty one October twenty twenty four. Last July, the International 306 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.319 Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion stating that Israel's 307 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:13.720 policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian territory, including the 308 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:17.720 maintenance and expansion of settlements, amount to the annexation of 309 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:22.559 large parts of that territory. This undermines the territorial integrity 310 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.960 essential to the Palestinian people's right to self determination and 311 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.839 violates the prohibition against acquiring territory by force. The ongoing 312 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:37.000 transfer of powers over the occupied Palestinian territory from the 313 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.640 Israeli military to the Israeli government is facilitating the continued 314 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.759 illegal advancement of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and 315 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.160 the steady integration of the occupied West Bank into the 316 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:54.440 State of Israel. The transfer of governing powers also facilitates 317 00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:58.400 Israel's provision of services for settlers in settlements and outposts, 318 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:08.640 other institutionalized long standing patterns of systematic discrimination, segregation, oppression, domination, violence, 319 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:12.799 and other inhumane acts against the Palestinian people. It will 320 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.440 also further institutionalize control of the occupied Palestinian territory. The 321 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.720 August twenty twenty four findings of the ad Hoc Conciliation 322 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:25.359 Commission for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 323 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.799 stated that the acts of segregation and i quote may 324 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.640 amount to a situation of apartheid if no action is 325 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:36.480 taken by Israel to effectively address the issues raised end 326 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:41.519 of quote, Mister Vice President. Israel took measures to transfer 327 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.359 its civilian population to East Jerusalem and to forcibly transfer 328 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:50.160 Palestinians within and from the occupied territory. There are now 329 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:54.000 around seven hundred and thirty seven thousand Israeli settlers in 330 00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:56.960 the West Bank and almost a third of them in 331 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:02.359 East Jerusalem alone. The reporting period, steps were taken towards 332 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:06.359 construction of twenty thousand housing units in new or existing 333 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:10.480 Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, while two hundred and fourteen 334 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:15.640 Palestinian properties and structures were demolished. Over ten thousan three 335 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.119 hundred units within existing Israeli settlements in other parts of 336 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:23.240 the s Bank were approved, and forty nine new Israeli 337 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:28.880 outposts were established. Israel continued the legal appropriation of occupied 338 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:33.519 land for Israeli settlements through declarations of state land and 339 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.200 the establishment of military zones, nature reserves, and cultural and 340 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:43.880 archeological sites. An overarching institutional and legal regime of discrimination 341 00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:48.839 and oppression, including of forcible addictions and house demolitions, continues 342 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.960 to secure the forcible transfer of the Palestinian population across 343 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:57.240 the West Bank. During the reporting period, over one thousand, 344 00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:00.799 seven hundred Palestinian owned structures were demolished in the West Bank, 345 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:05.960 resulting in the forcible displacement over four thousand, five hundred Palestinians, 346 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.400 tripling the monthly average from the previous reporting period. The 347 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:14.119 majority were demolished for reasons of lacking building permits, which 348 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:19.039 are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain, Mister Vice President. 349 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.319 The report documents how targeting of Palestinian's economic, social and 350 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.440 cultural rights forms part of the correcive environment that induces 351 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:32.519 their departure and may amount to forcible transfer. Livelihoods centered 352 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:37.079 around olive production were particularly targeted by Israeli state and 353 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.200 settler violence, during which half of Palestinian farmers were reportedly 354 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.680 unable to harvest their trees due to violence and movement restrictions, 355 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:52.119 effectively destroying local Palestinian economies. Mister Vice President, the line 356 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:57.279 between settler and state violence has blurred. During the reporting period, 357 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:01.559 one thousand, four hundred settler related incidents resulted in casualties 358 00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:05.920 or property damage against Palestinians. By the end of October 359 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:09.680 twenty twenty four, settler violence incident had reached one hundred 360 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:12.960 and eighteen per month on average, up from one hundred 361 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:17.119 and eight in twenty twenty three. Settler violence killed eleven 362 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:23.200 Palestinians and injured five hundred. Israel systematically fails to prevent 363 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.400 or punish these attacks, leaving Palestinians bereft of any hope 364 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:31.880 of obtaining justice and accountability. In a study of one 365 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:35.599 hundred and seventy four incidents of settler violence, sixty five 366 00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:38.559 complaints were lodged and only one has led to the 367 00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:43.480 filing of an indictment. During the reporting period, approximately six 368 00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:47.279 hundred and eighty Palestinians were forcibly displaced by settler violence 369 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.319 access restrictions, mainly in Beduin and other herding communities in 370 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:56.119 Area C. In many cases, this may amount to forcible transfer, 371 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.319 which is a crime under international law that may give 372 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:04.440 rise to India vidual criminal responsibility. The report before you 373 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.359 also documents Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Syrian Golan, 374 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.519 which continued to proceed with the support of the Israeli 375 00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:17.200 government in violation of its international legal obligations. Israeli authorities 376 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.200 also continue to restrict the ability of the Syrian population 377 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:24.759 to build or expand on their land, in particular in Marjdalschamps, 378 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.799 close to the demarcation line with the Syrian Arab Republic. 379 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.039 The report recalls Resolution four nine seven of nineteen eighty one, 380 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.960 in which the Security Council decided that the Israeli decision 381 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.799 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied 382 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:45.799 Syrian Golan is null and void and without international legal effect. 383 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:51.559 Mister Vice President, Israeli settlement growth continues at an ever 384 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.240 increasing rate, and, as found by the International Court of Justice, 385 00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:01.079 constitutes ongoing internationally wrongful acts by Israel. This represents a 386 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:04.079 profound failure of the International Community of States and its 387 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.759 rules based order, including in relation to the prohibitions and 388 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:11.440 annexation and discrimination, as well as to the fulfillment of 389 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:16.440 Palestinian's right to self determination. Thaigh, Commissioner for Human Rights, 390 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.200 recommends again that Israel sees immediately all new settlement activity, 391 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:25.319 evacuate all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory, and make 392 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.799 reparations for the damage caused by decades of illegal settlement. 393 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:36.400 Hey, no warm up, no warm up? 394 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:42.519 Good morning everyone, tun Moland, Hello everyone, thank you all 395 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.920 for being here. It's a pleasure to be in Windsor. 396 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.279 It's pleasure to be back. It's great to be in 397 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.880 the home of the of the spitfires. I want to 398 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.720 be home with the spitfires area. Yeah, go spits and actually. 399 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.640 Go spits there in the playoffs, right, they're going to. 400 00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:00.839 Have a good run, continuing in the tradition of Al 401 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.920