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what's up sunshine happy Friday Yay the weekend is upon us

 

Spring has sprung, March Madness tipped off My goodness Let's fuel our minds one more time before we kick this weekend off right.

 

I'm CoyWire Welcome to CNN 10 your 10 minutes of news

 

And we begin today in Peru where a landmark court case is testing the global limits of climate justice.

 

The lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against a German energy company may soon answer the question of whether a corporation can be legally held accountable for past emissions contributing to climate change.

 

At the center of the case are Peru's high altitude tropical glaciers which are rapidly melting.

 

Farmer Saul Luchiano Uluya lives in a town in the heart of the Peruvian Andes.

 

His home lies below a glacier-fed high altitude lake that's holding 35 times its normal water capacity because of the melting glaciers.

 

glacier-fed: receives water from a melting glacier

 

That's putting 50,000 people in the town below at risk of avalanches landslides and violent flash floods.

 

Melting glaciers are also causing the seasons to change,making farming more difficult and exposing rocks full of heavy metals that have turned local streams toxic.

 

With the backing of a local nonprofit,Uluyais using German property law to target the German energy company RWE.

 

The company is one of Europe's largest emitters of greenhouse gases from coal powered energy plants which the suit says accounts for0.5% of global carbon emissions.

 

The company has never operated in Peru and denies legal responsibility arguing that climate change has many contributing factors and that climate issues should be resolved by government policies instead of lawsuits.

 

Whatever the verdict the case will set precedents for future climate change related civil cases around the world.

 

verdict[ˋvɝdɪkt] n.【律】（陪审团的）裁决，裁定

 

Our Nick Valencia shows us what's at stake in Peru as the case is heard in a German court.

 

The World Bank says Peru is home to almost 70% of the world's tropical glaciers.Glaciers that are in freezing high altitude mountain ranges despite also being in the tropics.

 

But climate change is causing those glaciers to melt.

 

In the high Andes of northern Peru glacier meltwater has caused Lake Palcacocha's volume to swell more than 30 times in recent decades according to various studies.

 

meltwater [ˋmɛlt͵wɔtɚ] n. 冰雪融化后之水

 

Down the hill from the lake is the town of Huaraz.

Farmers like SaulLuciano Lliuyaworry about flooding in the town which has more than 65,000 people.

 

Lliuya is also the center of a landmark global case that will determine if companies can be legally held accountable for past emissions contributing to climate change.

 

I am here to attend the court Hamm court because of the climate crisis in Huaraz.

 

The mountains,the glaciers are melting and that has caused risks,risks to life and I am here to ask for climate justice.

 

Lliuya is suing the German energy firm RWE which his lawyers say is responsible for.5% of global emissions.

 

His lawyers are therefore demanding that RWE pay.5% of the cost of flood mitigation for the city.

 

RWE which has never operated in Peru says that a single emitter cannot be held responsible for global warming.

 

In a statement RWE said quote "If such a claim were to exist under German law it would also be possible to hold every motorist liable."

The decade-long case is based on a section of the German civil law code about property interference.

 

It was dismissed by a lower court but is now being appealed to a higher court in Hamm,Germany.

 

The hearing started Monday and will let first determine whether the melting glaciers are raising the Lakes's water levels and whether this will pose a flood risk to Lliuya 's home in the next 30 years.

 

We didn't start out with a lot of hope but now it's caused a lot of attention and yes it is a precedent.

 

We have high hopes for this next hearing.

 

Pop quiz hot shot

 

What NASA program plans to land the first woman and next man on the moon in the year 2027 ?

Artemis

Apollo

Quesst or

Juno

 

Answer is the Artemis program.

 

It will send astronauts back to explore more of the lunar surface while evaluating hazards astronauts will face in true deep space ahead of planned crewedmissions to Mars.

 

Welcome back Welcome back NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and SuniWilliams are finally back home on Earth.

 

The two astronauts spent more than nine months in space after what was supposed to be a week-long mission went awry.

 

go awry 出毛病

awry [əˋraɪ]   adj. 离开预期方向（的）；出错（的）

 

They splashed down off the coast of Florida this week ending their extended stay on the International Space Station.

 

With them were two other Crew 9 mission members NASA's Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov of Russia's Roscosmos Space Agency.

 

Our Lee Waldman is here to tell us about their first moments back on Earth and shows us a special group that appeared to welcome them home

 

Lots of cheers here at the Johnson Space Center when we saw that successful splashdown of the Space X Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts from the International Space Station back to Earth just off the coast of Florida.

 

The long awaited return of astronauts SuniWilliams and Butch Wilmore after more than 9 months in space 286 days.

 

Their mission was originally supposed to last only 8 days but that was extended after issues with the Boeing Starliner, whichdeemed it unsafe to carry those astronauts back to space here.

 

Now we saw after that splashdown a pod of dolphins swimming near the capsule as the SpaceX crew who  met that capsule off  the coast of Florida in that body of water there.

 

They got those astronauts successfully loaded onto a ship and now they're undergoing medical evaluations.

But as we saw those astronauts for the first time it was all smiles and waves.

 

Once it's deemed that they are medically safe to fly from that ship to the Ellington Field they'll be reunited with their families before coming here to the Johnson Space Center to undergo further evaluations and further debriefs.

 

debrief [dɪˋbrif] n. 詳細詢問，盤問（執行任務的情況）

 

It's all part of a normal routine for astronauts that have spent time in space and are now returning back here to Earth.

 

It is a long journey for Suniand Butch much longer than anticipated but finally coming to a successful end here in Houston I'm Lee Baldwin.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 The unicorn-like sports star known as Shohei Ohtani It was Ohtani time in Japan.

 

The Los Angeles Dodgers star got a hero's welcome during a rare chance to play in his home country this week Thousands of fans were there at the Tokyo Dome for the MLB season opener.

 

Otani burst onto the scene and quickly became one of the most unique players we've ever seen.

 

He can hit and pitch with the best of them like a modern-day Babe Ruth.

 

All the hometown fans may have given some good mojo because Otani's Dodgers swept the Cubs in the twogame series.

 

mojo [ˈmodʒo] n. 魔力；魔咒；好运；护身符

 

Our Haneko Montgomery was there amongst the fans

 

It's like a Beatles first came to Japan like back in ' 65 or something it's like the same fever.

 

Baseball has been big in Japan for over a century.

 

But thanks to Shohei Ohtani's stardom and his huge huge fan base he's truly elevated the profile of the sport here in the country.

 

stardom [ˋstɑrdəm] n. 明星地位

profile [ˋprofaɪl] n. 外观；形象

 

People are coming out in droves to enjoy tonight enjoy Shohei Ohtani back on Japanese soil because of course this is a very rare opportunity for fans who don't get to see him play in Major League Baseball.

 

drove [drov] n. 一群

 

Who are you rooting for today oh Ohtani

 

root [rut] v.【口】（为参赛者）打气；喝采[（+for）]

 

Yeah whoever Sho is playing for,so the Dodgers I'm a Yankees fan though

 

Ohtani is very handsome isn't he but he got married that was unfortunate

 

Oh my I'd be delighted if Ohtani ever sees me

 

I'm excited for us but I'm excited for the Japanese people

 

National treasure Yeah I like that.

 

All right for more Ohtani Live March Madness updates and more you can head to cnn.com/sports

 

arigatou gozaimasu, everyone

 

before we go shout out to Harris Hillman School in Nashville Tennessee and one dragon we're showing some extra love to Miss Edgar nominated by the Nashville Predators as a future goal's most valuable teacher finalist.

 

The program celebrates exceptional teachers nominated by NHL teams who use the game of hockey to teach and inspire.

 

Well done and good luck Miss Edgar

 

Cue that Friday music nadir

 

Get your minds right everyone Remember that our thoughts have a major influence on the type of day we'll have.

 

Those days determine how our weeks will go Those weeks become the months that become the years that make up our lives.

 

So think good thoughts Make it a great day You are more powerful than you know I'm Coy I'll see you next week right here on

 

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