00:00Cotignac, in the heart of Provence, often awarded the title of the most beautiful village in France.
00:06Today, it smoulders, covered in ash from wildfires that ripped through this community,
00:12devastating residents of this spectacular cliffside medieval village.
00:17Around 60 houses have been destroyed so far, with horses and other domestic animals killed in their homes, stables and
00:25fields.
00:26Locals broke down in tears after losing everything.
00:30When I went to work this morning, my colleague told me that he passed away from the fire.
00:30The fire was declared in the fire, and it was my ex-belle-mère who was stuck in flames.
00:37She was returned to her to save her children and put her in security.
00:41And in fact, she was stuck in the flames.
00:44And her sister was able to recover her in the car.
00:48They wanted to leave all of them.
00:49And finally, they were stuck in the car.
00:52And in panic, she was out of the car.
00:54She was buried in the piscine of one of her neighbors.
00:56When I went to work this morning, my colleague told me that his parents completely lost their house because of
01:02the fire last night in Cotignac.
01:04So they had to leave.
01:06With the fire threatening the centuries-old monastery overlooking the village, the priests and nuns took refuge in the residents'
01:13homes.
01:13Cotignac has around 2,500 residents, and the population rises to almost 10,000 in the summer tourism season.
01:22A community now rallying together in the aftermath of the worst fire they've ever seen.
01:28Many of the local men volunteering to help the pompiers where they can.
01:32I, in fact, was welcomed to someone else's house in Cotignac, a friend of a friend.
01:37I showed up with my cat and my best friend and his baby.
01:39And they took us on like family.
01:42So we're lucky to have a small, tight-knit community.
01:44And I'm thankful for that.
01:47That's Cotignac.
01:48Water planes continue to fly overhead as fires outside the villages are still raging on.
01:59The storm that has been battering Chile for over a week has left a trail of devastation in its wake.
02:06Agricultural crops have been destroyed, roads have been swept away by floodwaters,
02:10and the torrential rain has claimed the lives of at least 13 people.
02:15A further 60,000 are reported to be cut off.
02:19The storm has hit the north of the country in the normally arid regions of Coquimbo and Atacama.
02:25According to the government, around 2,800 homes have been destroyed by the rain, river flooding and mudslides.
02:33The Minister of the Interior has announced that the rains are expected to ease.
02:38However, he stresses that the danger remains high due to swollen riverbeds and ravines.
02:43On Monday, the President declared a state of emergency in the affected areas.
02:49This decision authorizes the deployment of the army, the restriction of movement and the faster delivery of humanitarian aid.
02:57...
03:25...
03:41I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma, of which pollution is one of my triggers when
03:46I was 14. As a runner and someone who really believes in the benefits of physical activity,
03:53I don't want to be encouraging people to get out if the air that they're breathing isn't
03:58clean and healthy and comes with its own negative side effects.
04:06It's not just for respiratory diseases, lung-related. The particles we are breathing, they go into
04:14our bloodstream and from there they can reach any organ. And our brain is the one that now
04:21we are developing more and more knowledge about how air pollution is affecting our brain, declining
04:28cognitive capacity and even involved as well on neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's,
04:36Alzheimer's or dementia. So I think it's very important to be aware of that because the
04:41measures we can take will clean the air, but it will clean as well the hospital admissions
04:48and the number of deaths we have every year due to air pollution.
05:02By 2023, we were estimated to be one of the cities with the most deaths attributable to the
05:09air pollution, actions being taken and new zones which limits specific vehicles and which limits heating
05:19of your home with burning were introduced and the results are already present. We have reduced the air
05:28pollution in Bulgaria. Of course, not by the rate that we wish and future work is needed, but significant enough
05:36to say that those measures working.
05:48Unfortunately, it's only three months per year and definitely should be the whole year around because the pollution by traffic
05:59is every month and we see very little seasonality. So it doesn't matter whether it's winter or summer, the pollution
06:08by traffic is every month and we see very little seasonality.
06:08The pollution by cars is very, very strong.
06:25If people knew that this is not just an environmental issue, it's not just an economic issue, it's much more
06:33than that. It's a huge public health challenge that we need to do.
06:38To face other ways, the consequences are not only the almost 8 million deaths we have every year, but it's
06:45the number of diseases that the pollution is causing, the cause that this represents for the health system, and the
06:53fact that we are losing a lot of opportunities to create a healthy development.
07:15To face other ways, the people within the population are caused by its growth and financial resources are very common.
07:17To face other ways, the potential for the power of the pollution is for massive oil, but it's a huge
07:20problem, but it's still a huge problem.
07:21To face other ways, the effect of the pollution has been an uncertainty.
07:40This year, it did rain a lot during the winter, especially in the western parts.
07:45And this led to a sort of good greening towards right after the rains.
07:51But then what is sort of interesting here is that the spring has been anomalously dry as well as hot.
08:01And this sort of led to widespread drying of the vegetation in these parts.
08:08And this is why you see a lot of wildfires in these parts.
08:12And that is where the impacts of the droughts come from on this part of the continent.
08:44So as we know, water is important for agriculture.
08:48And that means that food security is one of the major factors that is going to, or major sectors that
08:57will be impacted by droughts.
08:59So often in the aftermath of a drought, we see that, you know, often essential grain prices go up.
09:30In the military, we see that there are species being a really overwhelming system.
09:37So that's where we see an eventually be moving, the north!...
09:38It's a popular cause of revolt.
09:38so that our energy continues and the這 وس.
09:46It's completely self-dependent. You don't need any electricity there so if there's for example
09:51in such a remote area that there isn't any electrical grids, you don't need it. You've
09:55got solar panels. You can just stand still if you want to get more solar area, push out these extra
10:01solar panels and then you're just getting the extra energy to provide it and then you can still drive
10:07away, especially in areas where for example fossil fuels might be a problem with their availability.
10:22We've got an x-ray over there so that we can scan for example five pages of tuberculosis, one of
10:28the leading diseases in Africa. We've got an ultrasound so that you can make ultrasounds
10:34of pregnant women for example, an AED so if you for example something happens to you,
10:41you need to get reanimated then of course that can also happen and so just a general eHBO kit.
10:47It is a country with a lot of great optical performance that I mentioned in the beginning.
11:05It can really contribute to the issue in that many African countries have is that the distance
11:10between very remote villages and healthcare facilities is really big. There's little public
11:17transportations, fuel is very expensive, electricity networks are unreliable. So a really cool
11:23innovation like the Stella Juva can help us solve such big challenges in healthcare delivery.
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