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The United Nations chief urges world leaders to take decisive action to tackle ever-worsening climate change when they gather at the COP28 summit in Dubai starting this week. "We are trapped in a deadly cycle," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says. "The solutions are well known." SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis spoke out once more about dangers of a global environmental catastrophe, saying that humanity "will go down" if it does not address the issue of climate change as he spoke to press on board his plane on Monday while returning to the Holy See from a trip to Colombia.
With the war in Gaza entering its fifth month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that if Israel pressed into the southern city of Rafah, as it reportedly plans to do, it "would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences." "It is time for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages", he adds at the top of a speech to the General Assembly presenting his 2024 priorities. SOUNDBITE
"The era of global boiling has arrived," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in remarks at the UN headquarters. "The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable." SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewers oil firms for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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