It's a pleasure to be here. I'll see if I can share my screen and find my file that I was Hope you can that's gonna come up soon. He will it will sometimes teams is a little bit tricky as we all know Can you see that? Okay. Yes. Yes, we can we can thank you very Okay, well, thank you very much and the the picture behind my head is actually Funa footy the capital of to value so I want to I want to look at this issue of the connection between climate change human rights and and and peace issues and the The critical issue is that we are facing, you know a climate change crisis NASA has recently, you know said that last year was the warmest year on record and the world meteorological Organization has said that the last eight years have been the warmest on record as well and at sea level rise and Ocean warming has hit new highs. So that there are serious issues around us and this is Clearly a global crisis that we're facing now for for many millions of people Climate change constitutes a serious threat to the ability of present and future generations to enjoy the right to life and Human induced climate change is the largest most pervasive threat to human society The world has ever experienced and and I'm not over stating that I think it's it's a clearly a global concern The intergovernmental panel on climate change in its last report Said that approximately three point six billion people more than half the world's population live in areas Characterized as being highly vulnerable to climate change hazards. So that's you know, a large number of people are You know in a very serious situation and this is the particularly the case for children UNICEF have reported that one billion children are at extremely high risk of climate change impacts and and Children young people are, you know, some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and This is causing significant loss and damage And it's one of the greatest sort of intergenerational injustices that children and young people face today Especially girls in low-income countries. So where the legacy we're creating today is a serious problem for for younger generations And what one of the major issues that I'm particularly interested in I reported to the Human Rights Council In June of last year around this issue is is climate change displacement in 2021 22.3 million people were displaced from their homes due to weather-related events Most of these people were displaced within their own country But certainly there are people who are disgraced displaced across international borders as well and There are all sorts of human rights implications for climate change You know, this includes, you know, the you know denying people their right to life To health to food to development self-determination Water and sanitation and many other basic human rights are being affected by climate change and One of the crucial issues and it's one I've been following is that the issue of a proportion of people displaced by climate change Are forced across international borders and these people are not defined as refugees under the refugee convention Because they haven't suffered some form of political persecution, which is a sort of definition of refugee convention Subsequently, these people fall through the cracks as far as legal protection is concerned and and they also face all sorts of human rights abuses and violations as a consequence of that and And and this is just one example. This is a so-called refugee camp in Kenya just across the border from Somalia and You know Somalia has been suffering a prolonged drought for a number of years and and people are being displaced across the border into Kenya as a consequence of this Prolonged drought and of course it has, you know implications not only for the country where the climate change impacts are occurring But also the receiving country as well. They have to bear the burden of you know, putting up You know accommodation providing services for those people You know the UN High Commission for refugees is working with them on this issue But it is a burden for receiving country and invariably that's developing countries who face that If we if we look at this sort of issue, you know This whole displacement issue is causing unrest and there is a theory that the original You know war in Syria came as a consequence of a nine-year drought and there was a large migration of people from rural areas into the cities and that caused You know domestic turmoil in that country, which was you know Suggested as one of the drivers for for the war in Syria and One of the issues and this is in in Libya a picture taken in Libya is that there are a lot of people Moving away from climate change impacts throughout Africa as far as away as the Gambia And they've been you know studies of people ending up in Libya and what's you know Research to find out what the cause of their displacement was and some people as far away as the Gambia Have moved through to Libya because of climate change impacts and as a consequence of that They're put into very vulnerable situations where they've been subjected to unlawful killings and forced disappearance slavery forced labor arbitrary Detention torture ill treatment trafficking sexual violence and extortion So it's no wonder these people are trying to escape from from that area and since 2014 over 26,000 people have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean Sea most of these deaths or Disappearances over 20,000 occurred in Central Mediterranean and considered amongst the deadliest migration routes in the world and Italy has been the major recipient of that the 31,000 since arrivals in 2023 alone Up from 7,922 and the interesting thing is that my most migrants come from cope diva guinea Bangladesh Tunisia and Pakistan and they have departed from Libya or Tunisia So it's interesting that it's not just people just from Africa who are being displaced and work their way through through Through Libya, but there's people from South Asia as well And you may recall that were very large floods in Pakistan in 2022 and I visited Bangladesh in 2022 To look at the impacts of climate change and displacement in that country and they estimate that around 300,000 people are internally displaced each year as a consequence of climate change events in Bangladesh But it's not just African countries and South and South Asia certainly You know Pacific Island countries are right on the edge of climate change impacts And I've certainly witnessed that from you know my involvement with to value to value's highest point above sea level There's only four meters on average people live less than two meters. So they're you know, they're facing the brunt of Rising sea levels, but the most immediate packs impacts our storm surges and You know in 2016 Cyclone Pam washed right across the island three islands of to value sending waves right across the island Another interesting fact and not well known is that it's also affecting sea life You know the warming of the ocean the ocean You know absorbs a lot of the heat that's coming from from the the sun and a lot of that is warming up And that's changing the migration patterns of Fish and particularly tuna and tuna is a major source of income for Pacific Island countries And the tuna are moving away from the warmer oceans moving eastward and this is affecting You know productivity and of course it you know, there are a lot of distant water nations Operating fishing in that region as well. And so there are regional tensions over, you know, tuna stocks and this is a big issue Just in September last year I visited Honduras to look at the impacts of climate change there and particularly looking at the whole issue of migration of people from Honduras as a consequence of climate change and so the people on the Pacific side of Honduras Have suffered a very long drought and there are you know, I spoke with people There in rural communities who are just leaving the country because it's no longer viable for them but on the on the Caribbean coast they've suffered very large Hurricanes and and got smashed and this is You know, 8,000 people were hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 were killed by Hurricane Mitch and and You know, when I went there, there's still recovery efforts after that hurricane. So these these are the sort of, you know, global problems of Climate change. And so what we're seeing, you know, a large number of migrants coming to the US-Mexico border That, you know, and 2 million in fact were there in 2021. Now, there are a variety of reasons of why people are migrating to the US border, you know Social economic issues in Venezuela are some of them other issues in Guatemala and so forth But a certain percentage of those people are definitely, you know, displaced people as a consequence of climate change And that's causing tensions and unrest in that region as well as a consequence of that migration patterns So there's, you know, there have been studies to sort of link this issue between climate change and armed conflict And out of the 20 countries considered the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change 13 are also affected by armed conflict Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Somalia, Yemen or all in states of violent protected conflict And, you know, the climate change is one of the causes of that fact fact and conflicts harm assets You know and and make it difficult for countries to absorb Shocks and institutions and markets and their livelihoods and so people's food security are affected by these these issues And the UN Security Council looked at this issue in 2011 and said, you know, saw that climate change recognized as a threat multiplier You know And, you know, look particularly at the Sahel region in West Africa around this issue And the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, you know, made this statement at the Security Council We must make no mistake. The facts are clear. Climate change is real and is accelerating in a dangerous manner It not only exacerbates threats to international peace and security.  So they're all sorts of issues Connected to climate change and insecurity And we're seeing this in the Pacific, you know, because of the increased competition for fish stocks the United States is, uh, you know Creating a more, uh, presence within the Pacific region And using Coast Guard cutters and this is obviously, you know, in direct competition with China, you know, to get access to, you know, fisheries resources of the region So this is creating a region of instability Uh, you know, particularly between the US and China as a consequence So the this is the challenge we have with, uh, you know, climate change being a driver of of security issues And and the problem being is that we're not adequately addressing climate change as a serious threat to to humanity Um, you know, and and the the international energy agency said in 2021 the world is if the world is to limit Global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is a target set in the Paris Agreement. There should be no new investments in fossil fuels And unfortunately, you know, that that that suggestion has been ignored. It was recently announced that Exxon Mobile earned over 56 billion dollars in 2022 Exxon 6.3 You know in profit every single hour last year And Chevron recorded 35 billion dollars in profit in 2022 So these big fossil fuel companies are making large amounts of money at the expense of people And Saudi Aramco, uh, you know recorded a huge profit last year of 161 billion dollars And so, you know, there's huge inequities there and you know studies in the United States around The politics are saying that oil companies are buying influence you know You know beyond and influencing various committees, you know in the u.s Congress around energy and so forth and and sort of locating people in strategic positions The other major issue is around fossil fuel subsidies Uh, you know, there's still large amounts of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry the u.s being the biggest And japan and the uk being the largest, uh, you know Subsidizers of fossil fuels And you know doubt have heard about, you know, recent announcements by the uk government to expand its exploration of the norsi And subsidizing a lot of that I was involved, uh, you know, when I was special up to writing the uk government about the harsh treatment being handed out to to, uh Environmental defenders, uh, you know where we had environmental defenders Put in jail for a sentences of up to four years for just hanging a banner off a bridge and so that there's this sort of influence of the oil industry directing government policy And you know the the people at the end of this are the the environmental defenders, which is very sad and I was in I was in the philippines in November the last year Looking at the whole issue of climate change impacts And there is a sort of, you know, major crackdown on environmental defenders there by the military So we you've got this sort of a nexus between, you know, the military action Red tagging environmental defenders calling them, uh, you know, communists, etc You know, and this is going way beyond the mandate of this military And so I in in my report that I made at the end of my visit to the philippines, you know called for the abandonment of this anti insurgency task force called the national task force to eliminate Communism so that you know, these these are the challenges that we have is that military are also playing, uh, you know A role in suppressing public viewpoints In various parts of the world The other issue of of of, you know, concern is that we're now seeing climate change cops You know the conference of parties being hijacked by the fossil fuel industry itself and and This is, you know, clearly a serious concern. I I was at the climate change cop in in dubai In december, you know, and there were serious concerns about, uh, you know, the role of the presidency of the cop, you know, that uh Had, you know strong influence over over the outcomes What one of the things that's not not sort of well known, I guess is not only are there actions You know by fossil fuel industries, but there are also Mitigation technologies, you know to try and reduce emissions that are also having human rights implications and also causing, uh, you know, uh conflicts And and I've met with indigenous peoples From from the amazon who are concerned about the development of hydroelectric dams on the on their country Uh, you know affecting water courses Their access to food And so there are major concerns as a consequence of these so-called, you know, green technologies Um, you know, we we one of the issues is around, uh electricity supply and electric vehicles and you know, there's a major boom in in, uh, You know get sourcing some of these strategic minerals like lithium And so forth and we see these Strong pr messages coming out of companies the uk based company glen core putting a sort of, uh, you know A clean image on their work, but in reality They're they're serious human rights issues You know five tech companies have been sued over use of child labor in conglies cobalt mines And so these are some of the you know additional challenges leading to insecurity in some of these countries and that that challenge went to a u.s. Court But the us dc court dismissed the cobalt mining case against the five major technic companies Obviously, you know, there's a huge legal imbalance in representation in these sorts of cases and the judge found that the people Excuse me taking this case didn't have proper standing to be here to appear before the courts So there there are legal issues of trying to Deal with some of these issues So, you know the challenge being is what what can we do about some of these issues? And there I guess, you know a number of approaches that can deal about this But what i'm particularly interested in is, you know the corporate accountability and i'm Been looking and researching into this issue of you know due diligence and disclosure procedures, you know companies Disclosing where they're investing in fossil fuels uh, what the major financial institutions the the banks the uh uh insurance industry Superannuation funds, you know, should they be disclosing where they're investing their money and there's certainly work going ahead on this sort of economic environmental and social governance reporting procedures European union is doing work on that and and the u.s. Is doing some work on that And the un guiding principles on business and human rights, you know has guidelines for business and I think needs to sort of do some more work in connection with climate change issues So the security council looked at this issue in 2011 and also looked at it again in 2021 And uh, this was brought, you know, a resolution was brought Uh by island, I think, um, you know to get a proper discussion on making this link between climate change and security issues and There was no agreement to to consider that and so The security council failed to adopt a resolution integrating climate related security risks into conflict resolutions prevention strategies Um, there were 12 in favour two against India and russian federation Excuse me and china abstained and because, you know russia is um One of the p5 members the permanent members, you know, if they vote against then they had that right of veto So this is a challenge and I I you know went to new york last year and and met with people In the un about, you know, is the security council the best way to deal with these issues and at the moment You know, there's a strong preoccupation with other conflicts So this is a challenge getting them to think about those issues Um, just in the earlier this month nato started talks with civil society on women peace and security policy Issues and I think this is a very productive way forward You know, not only because it has a strong gender focus to this and I think that sort of You know lens of gender considerations In conflicts need to be brought out and and a different perspective Brought forward into this security debate Uh, you know, obviously there are issues around nato at the moment But nevertheless, I think having that sort of discussion is very useful particularly with a gender focus on them One of the issues that I've been pushing for is is to give legal protection to people displaced across international borders as a consequence of climate change and I have suggested to the human rights council That maybe we need a un general assembly resolution to commence work on an optional protocol under the refugee convention To give legal protection to people displaced across international borders It doesn't necessarily resolve a lot of issues But it gives some level of security to those people and may relieve some of the The human rights violations and some of the tensions around those issues if greater work was done around that You know, I don't have any illusions about this being a very sensitive issue you know Migration as you know In in europe is a very sensitive issue But we can't deny the fact that climate change is driving Displacement and migration and we need to think about giving protection to those people I also, you know, I think we need to develop some sort of grievance mechanism for particularly people who have suffered abuse You know an environmental harm as a consequence of standing up for their rights You know, and I was suggesting to the UN General Assembly that we established an international tribunal to indict perpetrators of human rights abuses Against environmental and human rights defenders and this is this is a global problem. We're seeing this across the world National governments, you know can't do this on their own and we need some sort of international tribunal to deal with that And finally Uh, you know the the UN Secretary General is holding a major summit This year called the summit of the of the future This is a review of the sustainable development goals and looking at forward thinking approaches to dealing with some of the global problems This this year and and there are you know starting to be sort of committee meetings and discussions around what that will do So there there are some possible options this year to try and bring into The debate around these security issues Obviously, there are, you know, a serious Termile within the world at the moment and and maybe people are not so Interested in looking at the connection between climate change and security issues, but it's not something that's going to go away And we need to think, you know you know Have long-term strategies for dealing with these issues particularly for our younger generation and the next generation as well So that's that's a sort of, you know, very quick overview of sort of some of the linkages between climate change and peace and security issues and I'm more than happy to Take questions on that. So thank you very much Thank you very much Ian for this extremely rich thought provoking and I would say also very nuanced and comprehensive presentation Because the way you presented the links the nexus between climate change, out of conflicts, human rights violations dealing with the issue of forced displacement definitely Made us realize that the whole issue is way more multi-layered than we think And uh, it's very true that you mentioned, you know, the 21st security council resolution about climate change as a threat to international peace and security But we have seen, you know, how climate change is a driver I wrote down while you were presenting of different security issues So you you highlighted so many things that we could talk forever, but from from child No, to human rights violations of my offer of people who are possible displays to maritime security and piracy There are so many many issues that I have. I have my note here, but I don't want to hijack the discussion However, something that I would like to say is that I remember one of my legal colleagues said once He made a recommendation to us. He said don't use the word crisis for everything, you know We are in crisis in crisis. Don't trivialize the word crisis He said keep the word crisis for the real issue and the real issue is the climate crisis Put that in the core of our discourse and and how we think about the future and future developments And also not only you presented The main issues and the nuances and so many things that they are taxed upon But also you gave us the second part of your presentation some ideas of How can we deal? What can what can be done from from legal accountability to a more soft law of accountability of business and human rights to trade journals? I found particularly interesting, you know that in 2021 we couldn't have this resolution In the security council Um, uh, but also, you know other issues about the special tribunal Um, or how NATO deals or the link with gender and human rights So I stop here. I would like to give the floor first to our audience and you can put your questions on q&a You can use the chat. We can activate the chat or you can raise your hand, you know, and the list can give you access who would like to take That to Dr. Ian's right You have all the floor. I don't know if anyone would like to take Uh, uh from the q&a. I don't see that we have something here, but uh, maybe on the chat Can you all hear me? Well, that's the first question But I'll take you can raise your hand And take the floor while we're waiting for people to think about this. So it's interesting to sort of understand You know the two countries who voted against that 2021 resolution In russia and india and it's interesting to understand what india said You know, I looked at the speech by the The the representative from india and they said, you know, we take climate change very seriously But we don't think it's the right forum for dealing with climate change issues. It should be done by the climate change cop of course You know, there are reasons why they say that because you know, they're developing countries have much bigger numbers In the cop than they do in the security council and and you know Therefore can have a better say in and the outcomes But the cop is not, you know, it doesn't have the same level of significance as the security council and And I I suspect the cop would be very reluctant to talk about security issues I can imagine Um, also, you know, if until we give the space, you know, to people to interact more I have a question uh Regarding the role of human rights and the role of human rights mechanisms that we are you you have been a special Report of via the special procedures of the human rights council But but in particular what we see is also how um the human rights committee Deal with with climate change in two Cases they had one of them was to value as well, you know And about actually the right to life and how that could be linked to the To the right to apply for asylum Due to to climate change. So I was thinking what are your take? What is your take about the role of human rights law to complement if any Climate to complement issues and challenges human rights violations deriving from climate change yes Well, it was yeah, the two interesting cases the billy case, which was uh Brought by Torres Strait Islanders of Australia Who lived in very low lying situations and and they took that to the human rights Committee and the committee found in their favour and said Australia wasn't doing enough To to protect the people the the committee didn't say much about, you know, Australia's obligations to reduce its emissions But basically said it wasn't doing enough to protect those people from the impacts of climate change And then you had the Te Te Ota case, which was The the the case brought by two Iqiribus couple who were to be deported back to Iqiribus And they claimed to be climate change refugees and said that they would You know suffer as a consequence if they were sent back to Iqiribus the the the domestic Courts in New Zealand said they didn't have a case and so they took it to the Human Rights Committee And the Human Rights Committee said the same thing basically That that there wasn't enough evidence to say that their Their lives would be threatened as a consequence if they were to being deported nevertheless, they did say and uh, that you know Decision makers need to be aware of climate change as a decision in making administrative decisions about Migration issues. So there's some useful precedent there Even though those people were not successful and and being defined as so-called climate change refugees Thank you very much Ian for that because it gives a little bit It gives us this nuance picture regarding, you know Little imagination as I say and how you can use such as a general comment on the right to life and how you can link it on that Again, I encourage people To to to ask questions, but I have one more question For you before I give the floor to others and that is about this new movement We have of intergenerational justice litigation and we see that before domestic courts, but also before the european court of human rights We have a massive I would say a proliferation of legal climate litigation Also with the advisory opinions that we have from to the india america court But also before the icj and I was wondering, you know, how do you see all these? Legal developments come together and how do you see they can contribute? towards further protection Well, yes, this is very interesting and I I looked at that issue as part of my last report to you and general assembly So there's some interesting developments the the portuguese children case and the european commission Of a court of human rights is a very interesting case because it does talk about the rights of present and future generations And I it'll be interesting to see how that plays out You know, there have been some court cases in the united states some of them thrown out But some have made progress. I think the one in Minnesota, I think was quite useful in in that regards, you know Highlighting this fact and the advisory opinion Of the international court of justice will be an interesting one I've just worked on an amicus brief for that case particularly around the issue of intergenerational justice And as you saw as you rightly point out the inter-american court of human rights Has also been looking at looking at an advisory opinion brought by chili and columbia around those issues my sense is, you know, the The the real direction. I think we're heading is that we've previously A lot of cases have been brought against governments and we saw that with the agenda case in the netherlands But we're now starting to see cases brought against board directors and the green priests Did that and I think this is a critical area while that was thrown out by the court They're challenging that, you know, that decision It was against shell and I think this is where the, you know, You know courts will start to have a significant influence if they start Naming individuals of corporations And making them liable for their decisions So I think that's an interesting direction. I think we're heading in Again, thank you very much for this observation. Liz you have the floor So Hello, um, thank you firstly for a very interesting and um, very broad and wide reaching I'm impressed by the kind of number of cases and incidents and stuff that you managed to Pack into a half hour presentation Um, my question is in some ways very simple in some ways probably difficult to answer But I decided it's not every day that you get the opportunity To ask a former UN special repertoire a question um, so looking as Maria said to you know What we can do moving forward. I'd be very interested to know from your kind of Experiences visiting so many places that are affected by climate change and human rights issues, which one peaks the most concern Um, which which do you see as you know, the most kind of critical issue that as an international community really if we don't focus on it Quite immediately and in a very sustained manner than you know, there are quite significant issues that are going to arise uh shortly Yeah, it's a challenging question obviously because there are so many fronts that we have to fight on on this issue Clearly, you know, we we need to take Urgent action to reduce emissions globally and so that that's the crucial area And so how how do we force that agenda and we we're certainly You know, the the climate change cops aren't forcing that agenda You know, we've had debates, you know going back to the Glasgow cop about you know phasing down and or phasing out fossil fuels and you know, we seem to have a succession of Countries that that are fossil fuel exporters hosting cops and that's not going to change in the near future But I think, you know, the the area of litigation is critical to to drive you know Greater action to reduce emissions. I think that that's a critical issue but we can't You know, the whole issue of loss and damage is critical That that we're you know people are already suffering even if we stopped emissions today There'd be still a lot of people suffering. So we have to find Remedies to deal with those people and provide Reparations and compensation for those people Thank you very much and I have two questions on the chat You can take the floor, but I can read the questions from the audience So mariam says As we see how she says how we see how climate change has disproportionately impacted already economically vulnerable countries for example, you know after the recent floods pakistan claim for international support Arguing that they suffer disproportionately for something that was exacerbated by developments and acts in the west So what are your thoughts on that first and what initiatives do you think could these regions take to mitigate some of those climate change Impacts and then we have another question as well. Yes I mean The problem being is that climate change is a global problem and and so You know a lot of the emissions, you know, the majority of emissions are coming from Uh, you know the big emitting countries and that's now China, United States, india Japan and the european union, you know, I guess the five biggest emitters So that they've got a a greater responsibility and unfortunately It's the poorer countries that have to to deal with those issues and and you know Suffering disproportionate impacts I I did go to pakistan last year as well and and Appeared at a security conference in pakistan and they Clearly see this as a security issue because of the huge You know floods that they suffered in 2022 So, you know, there needs much greater support mechanisms for these countries But also, you know, the big emitters have to take much greater action and and take greater responsibility for their for their emissions Thank you. Ask morian and then we have another question related also to transitional justice from He lies he says Given the increased link between climate change and conflict It would be really helpful to hear your thoughts about how climate change related factors Could be incorporated into the transitional justice process going forward to be some more resilient Peace is there a role for education in this context which could incorporate climate change issues Well, you know, obviously The answer is yes, you know, we people have to be aware of the impacts of climate change The the challenge is is that, you know, there's a lot of climate change denialism And and as we're seeing in the lead up to the next us election, you know, one of the major candidates Is is a climate change denier and and so this this represents challenge That, you know, there are challenges with the media as well, you know, the major media outlets Are climate change denial so that there has to be some way of dealing with that as well So certainly, you know, greater education about the seriousness of climate change is needed to counteract You know, the the the, you know, the media outlets that are that are major climate change denialists Thank you again. And we have also one more question from Mary Lynn Mary Lynn asks She says I'm an organization studies early career scholar and I'm interested in the practices surrounding the organizing of healthcare and justice So my question is how can we continue this conversation, especially when COP is co-opted activists who disrupt the flow of commerce Especially when call Sorry, it's co-opted Activists who disrupt the flow of comments are demonized Well, you know, there's there's a variety of approaches that people can take on these issues. I think and And certainly, you know, getting active in in various Organizations is critical You know, I you know, though a lot of work with human rights watch oxfam These are all very active in the in this space And I encourage people, you know to to volunteer to support them For for their work the Environmental Justice Foundation Held an alternative COP and so this was an online COP that they held, you know, for people most affected by climate change As an alternative to these sort of heavily biased COPs But we we have to make inroads into these dialogues and so, you know at the moment the world economic forum is being held You know, and this is big business. This is big You know politics and so we have to find inroads into that that sort of conversation And and you know Greta Thunberg has been you know making statements about the world economic forum and we need to you know, provide support for her Uh, you know for those those sorts of commentaries to to You know have an alternative voice in in this area and space Yes, I think we have 10 more minutes. So if I can More people can join us, but I have a question if that's okay with you and I was particularly intrigued about When you mentioned that you proposed an optional protocol to the refugee protection in order to incorporate and care definition of the climate Refugee and we saw these discussions took place during the the global compacts as well We had two global compacts at the end of the day. Of course, we don't have a separate definition There is some acknowledging on climate chasers driver of displacement, but my understanding is that the world is kind of It's not that strong over there. There is an acknowledgement I think in the on the global compact of migration is much stronger than refugees So and there are some people that say actually that we already have a system We have a system of human rights protection. So we don't need A separate legal protection. I would like a little bit to ask you further more about this proposal. Why do you think? That an optional protocol, you know would be Would have an added value, you know if we had that And I'm also found particularly interesting your suggestion to the general assembly for for for a tribunal So if you would like to talk a little bit more about these two proposals Yes, thank you I when I was working for the Tavado government I was involved in some of the negotiations around the global compact on migration and we had a real battle Getting climate change mentioned in that in the in the early drafts of that So that you know, there was pushback around that issue Of course, you know, the these two compacts on migration and and refugees are soft law There are no legally binding requirements. So that that's a challenge around those issues And you know, I While there are there is human rights law in a very general sense It doesn't necessarily give, you know specific protection to people displaced across international borders and and So, you know, I I think something more formal You know under the the refugee convention would give a trigger for the high commission for refugees To take action and they seem to be the most logical approach to deal with that You know, I did look at other options, you know, and it's a challenge There are other very, you know, soft law, you know approaches. There was the nansen initiative, which is now the german government's taken up Platform for I can't remember the name, but it's a You know, that's another soft law approach to dealing with that issue but You know, I I thought that we needed more legal approaches and there's certainly Been some regional work, you know, that there's the inter-american commission on human rights has worked on Expanding the definition of refugees and and the African union has also done that to to incorporate people who have Suffered from public disorder I'm not sure that climate change fits that definition, but it shows a willingness to change the definition But it became very clear to me that it would not be worthwhile amending the refugee convention because you know, it has a strong history and it might, you know I I think it would be difficult to amend it So I thought, you know optional protocol that doesn't interfere with the current refugee convention might be of the way forward Of course, I don't have any illusions that it's going to happen very quickly You know considering the sensitivity of migration debates these days, but I I think you know to give proper protection to people Uh, we need to make that formal step Thank you, we have two more questions. Um, maybe the I will change the order Maybe we can finish with Claire's question But mariam before asks that you mentioned before that reducing emissions should be a priority Particularly when it comes from the big emitters But when we see barely but we see barely any effort in reducing fossil fuel emissions subsidies announcements of other explorers explorations North sea for example something that you mentioned before with the uk Stand and companies buying influence within the government. So the outlooks See as it looks rather green and I think Claire's Question is kind of linked to that because this how do you prevent becoming overwhelmed by the enormity of these issues? So we have a dire reality or a green prospect on the other hand, you know, and we are all overwhelmed You mentioned, you know that the international agenda has been um, I won't say hijack, but it has been a deal with some very issue Very tough issues the last year. So what is your personal standing? What is your hope? What is your advice for that, you know, well, you know, I You have to think about where the weak links in this whole sort of economic system, I guess and and and the opportunities And certainly the renewable energy industry has, you know, is is growing quite rapidly and and we have to promote the renewable energy industry in whatever pay possible possible and And you know as I was saying, you know, look at this corporate accountability and there's certainly steps around that, you know You know to to to bring, you know out into the public arena You know the accountability of corporations where they're putting their money, etc And that's a critical issue I there's one other issue that I haven't mentioned and this is what's called the energy charter treaty, which is a, you know another another serious concern is that it basically locks in energy contracts and so and so what we're seeing is that fossil fuel companies are suing countries for taking action on climate change and we saw that with Italy You know millions of dollars They were, you know taken before a tribunal under the energy charter treaty Even though they had withdrawn from the energy charter treaty, they were still found liable And so the european union is trying to Encourage countries to step out of the out of the energy charter treaty, but it's still around, you know Mozambique was brought before a tribunal and had to pay millions of dollars In compensation for trying to move away from fossil fuels and this is a huge injustice And and so that's another area that we have to chip away at is to to get rid of this energy charter treaty Or to redirect it towards, you know only providing guarantees for renewable energies Wow, it seems if you if you have five more minutes if it's okay with you it seems now that we have a flood of questions, you know, but I think Luca's question is very relevant actually It's something that you touched upon about Philippines and the crackdown So he says the strong link between climate change and conflicts could lead to a more significant role for the military That's what you mentioned as well. However, this may result in an ambiguous situation where the military is used to help people After disasters, but also before against activities something you mentioned the crackdown on case, you know Environmentally activists named as communists, you know in in in philippines. We in philippines has also a very particular record Bad record direct where it comes to drug trafficking as well And so what actions can be taken to address these aspects? And maybe I will have one more question and then we can we can let you It's Philippines is very sad, you know I met with some indigenous women in a secret location and they they had some very Sad stories to tell about the fact that this military came in Pulled them out of their houses and shot their husbands in their houses at night Because they had protest protested against a dam on their land, you know Defined tribal lands under philippines law They were being persecuted and and the army was being used to do that and I heard others You know two young women 21 years old Had protested against land reclamation projects in manila bay. They were abducted by the military And kept hostage for over 11 days, you know and subjected to various forms of psychological torture and You know, I met with these people and young people and you know, they're very brave And we have to call this out, you know, we we just have to draw attention to these, you know And so organizations like human rights watch and that are doing that and I you know I really admire the work that they're doing and those sorts of areas Thank you. Thank you very much. Ian if I can wrap up this wonderful discussion I'm sure, you know because you touch upon so many issues And for example, when you mentioned about NATO and gender, of course gender and climate change Or you you refer to indigenous populations and we know the particular like if we think about brazil about other places, you know The role of indigenous population when it comes to climate protection Uh, so I think we can do another A series of webinars with you to to just to focus on particular themes But if I will try to wrap up this very brief discussion wonderful by the way And I found very interesting Uh, you come back to corporate accountability, you know, and you and you say that they the it was Can I say shifting point, you know, when we have litigation against corporate corporation, you know Because we have litigation towards states. We talk about the intergenerational Justice litigation, but you say, you know, this is a key issue and and you come back to that I think you mentioned that two or three times So I was wondering, you know, if we bring that in complementarity as we say, you know with the with the secretary general's vision for the Summit of the future. Okay, which is as we say reassessment of the Sustainable development goals plus what type of future do we want? How do you think these pieces could come together? Uh, do you think that maybe, you know, the security council could have a different standing before the security? How do you see the summit of the future as a whole approach basically? And maybe this is where I can I can stop and maybe this is how we can conclude this wonder Yeah, I mean It it it's a it's a challenge, you know A bit considering global politics at the moment, you know, there was a review of the sustainable development goals last year and it didn't Result in a lot of outcomes I hope and I think the the UN secretary general was trying to You know delay the summit of the future was to be last year But I think he was trying to delay that to separate it out from the review of the stg's and and you know have something You know to properly consider I understand there are already some, you know processes for developing draft outcome documents now so You know, I haven't had a chance to sort of look at that yet But hopefully, you know, there'll be something meaningful coming out of that process So So on that note that hopefully something meaningful will come out of that process I would like to thank you very much for this wonderful Discussion and contribution. I'm telling you it was so great that we can talk We should do something more about especially gender indigenous. I find it particularly intriguing and I think, you know, responding to the questions of the audience. We don't leave them with a doom feeling, you know Yes, the situation is dire But also on the other hand, we have seen that there is so much there is a variety of action From different actors, whether it's at the international level domestic regional level non-state actors states international organizations So hopefully as you say something meaningful will come out of that So thank you very much and it was wonderful talking to you And I see some are raising her hand No, no, it was a mistake And we look forward to seeing you in person In london whenever you come to this part of the world, you know, yes, thank you very much And I'm more than happy to have further dialogues around some of these issues that That's been a good discussion And I I enjoy having these sorts of discussions that it challenges me to think about these issues More than happy and hopefully I'll have an opportunity to be a visit you in person Excellent. Thank you all very much. Thank you and good night from london to come Thank you Thank you. Bye. Bye. I'll see you soon for our next webinar. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Please very much I want to thank lisa once more our psd researcher and Accommodator of all these events and lisa ben brown. You have great. Thank you all. Thank you very very much. Bye. Bye. Bye Bye


Hey Psych2Goers, are you seeing someone but both of you haven't made it official yet? Have they said those three magical words yet? Why haven't they admitted how they really feel? You might be pondering whether to bring up the are we in a relationship talk with them but not sure if that's a good idea. Well here are five signs someone loves you, but they haven't told you yet. 1. They want to tell you their important news before anyone else. Do they run to you before anyone else to share some important news they've just received? They tell you first about their promotion or their exciting new opportunities, and you are there to listen. This is a sign they view you as not only their go-to when expressing how they feel each day, but that they likely love you as well. Relationship coach and love coach Angelisa Almanzar told Bustle that, This is someone who sees you as a permanent fixture in their life and has developed a deep bond. Do they go to you with big news first? People often go to the ones they love to share the exciting news. 2. Their actions speak for them. Their promises aren't empty and they're supportive of you. When someone loves you, they won't make promises to you unless they know they can keep them. They'll often do something uncomfortable for you simply because they don't want to see you unhappy and that's because they love you. We do things we don't want to do for the ones we love. We're supportive of the ones we love and our promises are more than just words. 3. They're proud of your achievements and happy to be with you. Like a proud parent, do they stand sobbing at the end of your piano performance? The only one in the crowd to give you a standing ovation? Are they the ones shouting from the back of the room? Bravo! Bravo! Well, people who love each other are not only happy that you're succeeding, but they're proud of your achievements because of how much you mean to them. They're happy to be with you and are filled with joy at the idea that you've accomplished something great. But if they can't stop talking about how genuinely proud they are of you, it is a good sign they have true deep feelings for you. Feelings of love, perhaps. 4. They're talking about a future with you. Do they discuss their future with you? Are you in it? If your partner often plans out their future with you and you're still romantically with them in it, then it's likely they're thinking ahead to when you could be in marriage. If that's something both of you have discussed wanting. A lot of people who are married are in love, so if you find that to them you're in their life 10 years from now, it's likely because they love you and want you to stay with them. 5. They don't care how you look. When you truly love someone, their looks are not a priority. You know all the great things about them and have gotten to know how beautiful their personality is, so how great they physically look isn't the most important thing in your relationship with them. You honestly don't care what they're wearing or how attractive their physical appearance is. They're a part of your life now, family, and you love them for all the things that make them unique, even on their bad hair days. So have you noticed any of these signs in someone? Feel free to share with us in the comments down below. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to click the like button and share it with a true friend. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this. As always, thanks for watching.


In this presentation, we will fill out the form 940, Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment, FUTA Attacks. A few things we want to cover before getting into the numbers for the 941. One is just to keep it separate form from. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. The form 940. The numbers being so closely related can make us think that they are related. And the number 940 being before 941 numerically can make us think that possibly the 940 is the quarterly form and the 941s are the yearly form or the annual form. And that's not the case. The 940 form is the annual summary form. The 941s are going to be the quarterly form. The other common thing that this could lead us to believe would be that the 940 is recapping the information for the 941s. And this isn't the case either. This is wrong. But it would make a logical sense for us to think, well, the 940 forms are going to give us the data on a quarterly basis for payroll tax owed to the government. And then the 940 at the end of the year, so the 941s give us quarterly, the 940 at the end of the year, is going to resummarize that again as of year end. And that's not the case here. What is the case is that the 941s have different federal payroll taxes than the form 940, meaning the 941 covers the big payroll taxes of Social Security, Medicare, and federal income tax. Whereas the 940, the end of the year tax return, or the entire year return, only covers FUTA, Federal Unemployment Tax, which is relatively small. So the way you want to think about this, why would that happen? Why do they do that? The 940, actually the way we're doing FUTA kind of lines up closer to how we might think of our forms for our taxes, our 1040s, meaning we typically have our 1040s, our employers take the money out of our wages. In other words, we make the payments throughout the year. And then we report what has happened at the end of the year one time on our form 1040, and we tell the IRS, hey, here's what we earned, here's our calculation of our taxes, and here's what we already paid. And in a perfect world, they would be the same, and we wouldn't get a refund or own any taxes. Obviously, it's not a perfect world, and that's too complicated to happen on a form 1040, but that's the idea. The same thing is going to be true with the 940, which matches that same kind of scenario. We're going to say we're going to make the payments throughout the year, just like we do with our income taxes. We will report it one time at the end of the year, and hopefully our payments that we have made match our liability calculation, which they likely will on the form 940, unlike our individual income tax reforms with the 1040. Why don't we do that with the 941s? Why does it differ? The 941s are a lot bigger of the number, so the IRS is more concerned with the 941s and want actual more reporting. They want not just a year in form, they want a quarterly form. So they want payments during the year, and they want to verify that those payments are lining up and being done correctly on a quarterly basis rather than an annual basis. So in other words, they're giving us a little bit more leeway on FUTA and a little less reporting requirements because probably the reason, and again, if you're looking for justification or good reasons within the tax code, you might be looking a while, but theoretically, I would think the reason would be that the amount is smaller, and therefore they're willing to allow us to just have to the annual reporting. So now that we have that, we're calculating the FUTA. It's going to be the smaller tax for, and we only need the one form for the end of the year. We've got the same EIN number that we will be reporting, the employer identification number, name, and then the business and the trade. Over here, we don't have the quarters, of course, because we're not talking about quarters. If these apply, we would check them like an amended return or no payments to employees or the final, if it's the final return because the business isn't going to have payroll or going out of business or whatever, then we would have that. We're going to go down to part one. First thing, if you have had, if you had to pay state unemployment tax in one state only, enter the state here. We're going to give the state of Nevada, and one reason is because they typically have less taxes, oftentimes, or it may be more simplicated, but any state would typically be similar. You might be asking, why do we need to know what state it is if the federal tax form? What does it matter? Doesn't the Fed treat all states the same? And the reason is because remember that the federal tax here is tied to the state tax in some way, meaning the way the federal law was written is that it said, you know, we're going to have an exemption. You can pay less taxes if there's a state tax, which basically mandated the states to have some minimum type of SUTA. So for that reason, there's kind of a link here between FUTA and SUTA. And we need to know, did you pay SUTA tax so that we know what rate we need to apply for FUTA? So the state tax for the federal tax. So then B says if you had to pay state unemployment tax in more than one state, so we're not going to deal with that here. And but you can see what the goal here, same kind of goal, did you pay state taxes? If you did, then you probably going to get to have a lower federal tax rate. Two, if you paid state wages in a state that is subject to credit reduction, we're not going to deal with that here. Okay, now we're going to get to the actual calculations. So line three says total payments to all employees. So if we go back to our worksheet, we're looking for total payments to all employees. And here, we're going to pick up our total. So I'm scrolling down to our worksheet. And so remember, I'm going to scroll back up, we've got the pains frozen, which is on if you put your cursor on A4, home tab, Windows group, freeze pains and freeze the pains. Then if we scroll down, we're looking at our data that we have summed up down here, it should already be summed up in the totals. So we have the third quarter totals, we got the fourth quarter, and we've got all the totals. I'm going to make the total column now the green column, that's what we want to work with. So I'm going to ungreen this column, going to select the entire column, going to ungreen it or make it blue, let's make it blue instead of ungreening. And then we're going to right click on it and go to the paint and make it blue. And if that blue is not there, you can go a little color wheel down here, standard. And that that's the blue we're using right there. It has to we have to use a confusing blue because just to confuse people. Okay, so then we're going to go down here and we're going to make this green, the totals are what we're going to be using. So we'll highlight all this data. And then right click on it and make it green, we'll make it that light green. And that's the data that we want. We're going to scroll down just a little bit. And just so we can just see that data and limit the confusion, limit my mistakes. Any help in that regard is good. So now we're going to pick up the wages. Now note, the wages we're going to pick up is total earnings here, total earnings. Not like we picked up on the 941s, which was total earnings less, something like the 401k, or if there's a cafeteria plan, we're just going to be picking up the total earnings. So in other words, if we add up the 941s, it may not add up to the total earnings on the 940 if there are things like a retirement plan and group or not group insurance, but a cafeteria plan. So we're going to go back to our form here. And we're looking for the 940. And we will enter that data up top. So that's going to be the 241 comma 206 tab 00. All right, now here's where it gets a little confusing. We got payments exempt from Fuda, we're not going to have anything there. And then it says total of payments made to each employee in excess of 7000, which is a kind of funny calculation. So they want they want the number that was over the 7000. And then down here it says the subtotal, which is going to be adding these two. And then line seven says total taxable Futa wages. So what we actually have done in our worksheet is calculate line seven total taxable Futa wages. We didn't calculate the amount that's over the $7000 limit. Because why would we do that? You know, we calculated the amount that was taxable for Futa and the tax. So what we're going to do is kind of back into this number that we're going to fill out what we know this number and the actual tax, then we'll back into this number. So that's kind of the tricky thing. The way I usually have seen this to think about this. So on our worksheet, we have Fuda wages of 28,000. It's less than the total wages because of the cap of 7000. Remember that just about everybody's going to hit that cap if they've been working for the entire year. The only time someone's not going to hit the 7000 cap typically is if they haven't worked the entire year. If we, meaning if we hired someone in in December, then they may not hit the cap. Or if we laid someone off throughout the year before they hit the cap, then they wouldn't. But for us, we've had four employees. So we had four employees. They all hit the cap times 7000. And so that's 28,000. So nothing over 28,000 is going to be included because that's what the cap is. So we're going to pick that 28,000 up. And then if we look over here, we already calculated Futa, which is going to be that 28,000 times .006 or 168. So we already know those numbers. So if we go back over here, we can say, well, I know this number is 28,000. Let's put a comma there. Make it look nice. 28,000, zero, zero. And then we'll calculate it again. So it says 28,000 times .006. Notice using that lower rate, the Futa rate after Futa taxes. If you've paid Futa taxes, .006, that's the 168. So the tax is only 168. Notice how much lower it is than Social Security and Medicare and FIT, Federal Income Tax. So we know that now we just need to figure out what this number is. And if this is our total wages, and this is the Futa wages, the difference then will be total of payments made to each employee in excess. So we just need to subtract those out. So we'll pull the calculator here. We're going to say 241, 206 minus 28,000 gives us 213, 206. So we'll put that here. 213, 206, tab, zero, zero. And that's really the essence of the form. So if we scroll down, then we then have part three, if there's any adjustments. And so if all of the taxable Futa wages you paid were excluded from the state unemployment tax, multiply here. So meaning if you weren't subject to state tax and you didn't pay the state tax, in essence, you'd have to pay a higher Futa tax. Remember they're linked. So for all practical purposes, for most of the time, it's this low rate for Futa because Futa taxes are paid. But if in some situation they're not, or whenever you read the law, note it'll be confusing because technically the Futa tax rate is higher. And then there's kind of like an exemption if you pay state taxes, SUTA, which pretty much every state requires. So that in essence means that this is the actual rate for most practical purposes. So that's basically part three. If we go down to part four, then we're going to say total Futa tax after adjustments is the 168 tab. And then the Futa tax deposit. So same thing as with the 941. This is the liability. Then we need the deposit, which should be the same. If we pick up our number, we should have already made the payment. In other words, we're not picking it up here though. This is its liability calculation. How do we know how much we deposit from the GL? So we're going to go back over here. We're going to say here's all the cash payments we made. If we go back to the actual cash payments from our journal entry, we can see that this is our cash payment consisting of Social Security Medicare, Futa, SUTA, FIT. And then here's our second payment that was made in October that includes Futa, Futa, Futa. And then in November, we have the same payment journal entry, but it's a lot smaller, not including Futa or SUTA. Why? Because everybody hit the cap, which will typically be the case. We'll make a lot of SUTA and Futa payments in the first quarter of the first months of operation, first payroll processing of a period of a year, and then it'll go down drastically. So these are the payments that we have made. So if we add these up, this plus this adds up to that same 168. So it's the same number. So we're like, we're saying that we're good. We're good. 168-00. So we're telling the IRS the story. Here's how much we owe. We can see the calculation. You can see the liability. Here's how much we paid. And so we can tell them that same story. And hopefully we owe nothing after that point. Then if we scroll down, they want here in line 16, report the amount of your Futa tax liability for each quarter. Do not enter the amount you deposited. You deposited if you had no liability or quarter leave them blank. So we want to get the liability per quarter. I've already filled it out in the third quarter here. So if we go over, we may question that. You may say, that doesn't make sense. If I look at the deposits, the deposit was made here in October. And that's like the fourth quarter, October, November, December. But remember that that deposit was for September's liability. In other words, if we need to get this from the register, not the deposits, if we go back to the register, we can see our quarterly breakout. The whole 168 happened in the third quarter. None of it in the fourth quarter, because everybody hit the limit by that time. So if we go back to our 940 over here, here, that's not it. That's not it. Here, we're going to say it all happened in the third quarter. It all took place in the third quarter. And then the total will be the third quarter.


Hey, what's going on everyone? It is B Avery here again for another episode of Just My Opinion. This one is for the box office results for Ant-Man and the Wasp and all the other films that have been released in theaters in the past few weeks. A little late to the party but that's okay. Better late than never. But let's go ahead and get into it. So you already know right now that Ant-Man and the Wasp, the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has now in theaters, came out last week. You know some people were saying that they wanted it to go over 100 million dollars. That would have been very very surprising in my opinion if it reached that height. I was a little skeptical not knowing where it would go. I wanted it to at least do 50 million because the first one did 53 or 58 million. But it came in at 75 million dollars, 75 million, 812,205 dollars out of 4,200 locations. Excuse me, not locations but actual like theaters, theater rooms or screens or whatever. Coming in at number two is Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, bringing in 28,632,375 dollars. It is in its third week domestically, 333 million dollars. Incredibles 2 is still chugging away. It's in its fourth week, brought in another 28 million dollars. It dropped 38% from its third weekend. It's in about 4,100 theaters right now. So I really did like Incredibles, right? It's doing well. Domestically it's 503 million dollars. So that's great. We're going to get to see, you know, worldwide. We'll talk about that in just a second. Another new release this past weekend is The First Purge. It is the fourth film in the franchise. I will be shooting my review for that right after this. It will be a spoiler review for The Purge because the movie has been out more than a week now. And so subscribe to my channel and stay tuned for that because that's coming next. But The Purge came in at 17 million dollars. Number five is Sarkario Day of the Soldado, 7 million dollars. Number six is Uncle Drew, another film that I saw. Got a review for that answer, Sarkario 2. They're brought in 6 million dollars. Uncle Drew is in his second weekend at 29 million dollars right now. Now, what is the budget for Uncle Drew? I think it was 13 million dollars when I looked earlier. But Uncle Drew is a pretty funny film to me. I think, I mean, if you had, if it's just something that's completely out your warehouse, you know, actually, I wasn't gonna say it's not for you, but I have heard that there are some people that, you know, are just like, okay, this is not for me. And they just saw it because of for work or whatever. And they ended up liking it. But I like this. So it says the budget is between 17 and 19 million dollars. So I'm just gonna go ahead and round it up to 20. So yeah, it said 32 million dollars right now. So it can do a little bit better. Hopefully, you know, we can maybe see if this gets to around 50 million dollars. It is in is, was this his third weekend or second weekend? That's okay. So that's great. Sicario. They have sold out. Oh, that right now is 53 million dollars with the budget of 35 million, you know, my rule of three. So that needs to make what 100 105 million. I don't even have my calculator pulled up. Let me go ahead and get that on my phone real quick like, just so we can have it ready. Where's the calculator? Why is it, you know, it's kind of just one of those things, you know, when you never need something. It's always available. But you know what I'm trying to say. So yeah, 105 million. So that's that for Sicario coming in at number five coming in at number seven is oceans eight fourth in that franchise with five million dollars. That is doing relatively well to right now. It is at 239 million dollars worldwide with a budget of 70 million dollars. So we're just going to take the 70 and we're going to times about three 210 million. So it is made over three times. It's production budget, which is great for oceans eight. I really didn't enjoy the film. And I'm just saying it's great because I want more movies. I would like to see what happens next with the ladies with the oceans ladies with Sandra Bullock. I do not believe that Daniel Ocean is dead. You know, Matt Damon was supposed to have a cameo, but apparently he made some very insensitive comments. And you know, they ext his cameo from the movie. But besides all that, you know, if a film is making money and if it is profitable, the studio is more likely to make more sequels. And so I just said it to say I enjoyed the movie. It's making money. So hopefully we will see more from that franchise. Coming in at number eight is tag with Jeremy Renner and a number of the fellows. True story of men that have been playing the game of tag for their entire life, which is pretty dope. This is at 28 million dollars for the budget. And it is right now at $61 million worldwide. So it is doing okay. So if we take that 28 million and we time is about three that is 84. Wait a minute. Am I okay? Yeah, $84 million or 84. So 61. Hopefully, you know, we you know, the tag can get well, actually, to be honest, which I don't really care. I didn't love the movie that much. And I don't think they're gonna make a sequel to tag. But you know, I don't want the studio to lose money if they lose money that came back movie. So yeah, I wanted to do well is in this fourth week, bringing in another $3 million. So let's go tag. Let's get on up there. Won't you be my neighbor coming in at number nine from focus features in this fifth week of documentary that has to do with often say Dr. Seuss.  Mr. Rogers. Excuse me. I have not seen this yet. But everybody that I hear online is raving about how great it is. So I think I'm just gonna have to carve out maybe like a Saturday morning matinee, something like that. I don't know and go check this thing out. I'm up here talking about aim touch how much money may be domestically, it's made $13 million. But this is a documentary. So I'm thinking that the budget was relatively cheap. For some reason, I feel like I keep saying relatively a lot and then I don't even see it right there last time. But that's okay. And let me lean forward so y'all can hear me in the microphone. Okay, well, I'm looking for the budget. And they don't have the budget. Where's the budget for this movie? Well, it was cheap, I can imagine. So because I just don't think it was that expensive. But I could be wrong. But anyway, want to be my neighbor is coming in at number nine. And coming in at number 10 is still in there in this eighth week in the top 10 is Deadpool to $110 million production budget right now $727 million dollars worldwide. I believe the first film grossed a lot. Well, not a lot more. I think it was like seven. Let's see Deadpool versus Deadpool. So the first Deadpool did $783 million dollars and this Deadpool isn't eighth week. So we're going to see it's going to be in theaters for at least another month. You know, at that I seriously doubt any otherwise. But let me go back to this top 10 real quick because there's just a few other things, not a few other things. There's a lot of things that I want to talk about. Whitney as a new release came in at $1 million. I did not see it but I plan to side bother you. I have seen the film. I will be given my review for that after I give my review for the purge. And I'm not going to say anything about it other than you need to check it out or check out the review of me talking about it. Check out my opinion. Now it was released limited last week this coming Friday. It will be released wide but in a number of other theaters. So that's out right now. And is there anything else that I want to talk about before I get into all the nitty gritty in the specifics. Okay, so and man in the wops. Let's talk about the wasp right now 70. What was it? $76 million opening weekend. I'm going to say worldwide no opening weekend. Now I am perfectly fine with that. Of course, I was kind of hoping that it would have made maybe $80 million. But it made 76 and that's perfectly fine because you know, you're making more than the previous film. Another great thing about Ant-Man and the Wasp is they did not go up on a production budget at all. The first film that came when it came out in 2015 July 2015 was it was like three months after or no two months after Avengers Age of Ultron. The budget for that was 130 million the budget for Ant-Man and the Wasp is $130 million to so that's great. Same budget big bigger opening weekend. You know what I'm saying? It seems like this is going to be profitable. I mean, I pretty everyone I think was pretty sure was going to be profitable. But you know, just depending on how big if he was going to have like a large multiplier, making three, four, five times the budget. So I think if you do the math for the first Ant-Man, we're gonna yeah, we're just gonna do 519 divided by 130. So 3.4 times the budget, I'm going to say 3.99. So four times the budget. So I hope Ant-Man and the Wasp makes around $800 million. I will be disappointed if it does not reach $700 million worldwide. But we're just gonna have to see it has not opened in all territories worldwide as of yet. There is a lot of European countries to my knowledge that are it's not opening to another month. You know, I believe because of the World Cup. But at the same time, I'm not following those. So I don't know where I just don't know. I don't see in half of not even anyway, I'm not paying attention to the World Cup right now. But that may be a factor. So it is. Well, I don't want to date this video, but it's opening in one. It has an opening one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 countries right now. I am looking at the release schedule on IMDB right now for Ant-Man and the Wasp. For example, Japan, it doesn't open until August 31st. They have a decent size box office run Italy and Portugal, you know, two weeks before that August 14 and 15th, three more countries on August 3rd, a number on July 26th, and about four or five and this weekend in the middle of next week. China, is it gonna plan China? I don't know. I do not see a release schedule on here at all. China is very strict with their releases and only allow a number of foreign films to be imported. I could be completely wrong there. That information could be dated, but that's just with the limited knowledge that I know. If you have any information on Ant-Man and the Wasp being released in China, please put it in the comment section below. And if you don't know why China is such a big deal is because it's the second largest, it has the second largest box office totals worldwide coming right after us over here, the United States of Americas. But Ant-Man and the Wasp, $519 million worldwide. It grossed $180 million domestically total, $339. I usually will do a showdown, but for some reason, box office mojo did not want to do a showdown for Ant-Man and Ant-Man, but that's okay. But a showdown that they did do for the films is Marvel first sequels, which is between Avengers Age of Ultron, Captain America, the winner of Soldier Iron Man 2, Thorough of the World, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Ant-Man and the Wasp. This comparing these films does not interest me at all, especially with Avengers and Guardians and the Galaxies thrown in there. I mean, they're just completely different properties, you know, but yeah, so it just doesn't, I'm not going to get into that just in case, you know, somebody was like, hey, I like when you talk about the showdowns, like, you know, that just, it's just kind of pointless to me in my opinion. But now I want to move over to the Purge real quick because that film is a no, let me just talk about Jurassic World real quick. Now, it is at a billion dollars now. Okay, that's great. That's fantastic. 341 million domestically, 727 million dollars worldwide. So 70% of the budget, I mean, of the sales is overseas and 30% of it is over here. If you look at the showdown between Jurassic, it's called Jurassic Rumble. They come up with such great names. The budget for Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. I liked the beginning of the first half, second half was all right. Budget for this was 170 million dollars. For Jurassic World, it was 150 million dollars 2015. So, you know, these movies make around the same as Marvel do in a way. Excuse me. I'm sorry about that. But they're slightly cheaper, billion dollar films for Marvel in the $200 million range production wise and not the case here. I'm not, you know, if you look at Jurassic World to Fallen Kingdom is not going to reach 1.6 billion, which is what the first Jurassic World made. But how far will it go? I don't know. I think maybe it could. What week is this thing in? Let's me see. This is in is it's going to be in this fourth weekend. I'm trying to just predict how much money I think it'll make in the remainder of its box office run for, you know, the a domestic run. I'm going to say maybe 450 million dollars. That doesn't seem too far out of a realistic possibility more worldwide. It'll probably make 1.2 1.3 billion dollars. We'll see, but it was a decent film. You know, they're going to make another one. If you look at the day to day for the Jurassic World movies, Jurassic World that came out in 2015. Alright, moving over to the purge and like I said, go to my review. The first purge I couldn't stand it, the home invasion. Purse anarchy. I liked it a lot more in 2014 with the what's his name from Crossbones, Frank Grillo from Winter Soldier and Captain America Civil War. I liked that one a lot better. Purse 3 was a real big disappointment.  And the first purge, yeah, you're just going to have to check out my review for that. But it's making money. The budget is going up with each film. The first one was $3 million, $9 million for the second and $10 million and then $13 million. The opening weekend for the first purge is a lot less than all the other films.  I don't know. Came out July 4th weekend. Well, they all come out in July. On July 4th weekend, except for the second one came out mid July. But each purge has made more money worldwide. The first one made $89 million worldwide. The second one made $111 million worldwide. The third one made $118 million worldwide. So we're going to see what it's doing right now. Right now, the first purge is at $48 million. But if we look at the day to day, this one is doing the second best. Actually, it's probably doing last place. Yeah, I mean, at the day to day, it's literally in last place. Even on the day to days, it hasn't won one of those.  Maybe the word of mouth is that there were too many innocent black people getting slaughtered in the film. You should check out my review when I talk about that more. But you know, so you know, there you go, Jason Blum over at Blumhouse. Next on the, where is it? I want to talk about Incredibles for a second here as well, because that's my movie. I love that movie. Incredibles is at $781 million worldwide right now. $500 million domestically and where else has it opened up? It's open in China too. It's only did $48 million there. But Incredibles, I really did enjoy that film. And I was trying to, let me see what the first one made. I don't know. I can't remember. The first one made $633 million worldwide. Now, I believe the budget for Incredibles 2 is twice as much. But let me see. Let's go over and check out our friend other website over at the numbers.com because I really do want to know what the budget is. I think it's $200 million. But we're going to see. Yeah, $200 million. It's already, I mean, it's made profit or whatever. But as of now, the first film is way more profitable.  I mean, yeah, you know what I'm trying to say, than what the original film cost to make. So, you know, but that's that. Now, what else on the on the box office do I want to talk about? Because I try to pay attention to things that are just not in the top 10 anymore. Solo Star Wars story, that said like $373 million worldwide right now, $380 million worldwide right now. It's not going to make much more than that. Avengers Infinity War is still trucking along. It's at $2 billion, $40 million. Yeah, $2 billion, $40 million right now. Trying to catch was that movie Star Wars The Force Awakens. So, Star Wars The Force Awakens is $28.2 million away. I know $28 million away. I don't know if it'll catch it, but we'll see. I believe it is open in all of its territories worldwide. So, maybe there's a rerelease next year right before Avengers 4. You know, it could make a little bit more money there. Rampage with The Rock, something that I am a fan of too. That is at $425 million right now off of a $120 million budget. So, that is in profit realm right there. I mean, the top movies in 2018, Black Panther Number One. This is domestic. Avengers Infinity War Number Two. Incredibles is Number Three. Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom is Number Four. Deadpool is Number Five. Solo Star Wars Story is Number Six at $211 million. Acquired Place is Number Seven, $187 million. Ready Player One, $137 million and Number Eight. Number Nine is Ocean's Eight and Number Ten is Peter Rabbit. And this is domestic. Wrinklin' Times got knocked out at $100 million. Go Ava DuVernay. First Black woman to make a film go over $100 million domestically. Even though the film still was not a success critically or financially. Hey, you still deserve that trophy. My sister. What else do I want to talk about real quick? Fifty Shades Free. No, let's see here. I've got the wrong chart up. Excuse me, everybody. There was something else that I wanted to mention. Okay. Black Panther. You know I'm going to talk about Black Panther. Right now, $1,346 million. Now, Black Panther, man. Come on. Right now, domestically, that thing is at $699 million. $699, $881,409. Come on, man. I want to get the exact figure of how far away this is from hitting that $700 million mark, that milestone. You know, if it wasn't already on Blu-ray right now, 4K, all that good stuff, home video, whatever. I will go see it at least one more time in theaters. You know, catch the dollar movie at least or something or you know, early show matinee. Right now, it is literally at $118,000. We're going to round out $119,000 away from hitting that milestone of $700 million. Why is that important? Well, let's look and see. If we look at the all-time domestic right now, there's only three movies that have ever reached over $700 million. No, two movies that have only reached over $700 million. Star Wars, The Force Awakens. They came out in 2015 and Avatar, which came out in 2009 by James Cameron. It would be so nice just to, you know, have Black Panther in that $700 million club domestically. I'm not going to get nothing for it, but it would just be nice to see it. You know what I'm saying? So, it's right there. So, if you haven't seen Black Panther, it's at the dang dollar movie probably right now. Just go see it. We need 118, 119,000 people to go see it. At the dollar movie. Go because it's a dollar. Not being silly, but, you know, that would be nice. All-time worldwide right now, Avengers is number four. Black Panther is number nine. And I don't think anything, only thing that could possibly catch it right now is Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. Maybe I doubt it will catch Black Panther. You know, it's just excuse me. I don't care too much to even look at the numbers to see if it could catch it. I just didn't care for that film. But Black Panther be number nine until, what's coming out later on in December this year? I don't know. Who knows? Mission Impossible could surprise us all. I doubt it, but I don't know. How much did the Mission Impossible movies make while I'm up here talking? Talking trash. Let's see here. Ghost Protocol. How much did you make worldwide? Okay, 694. I mean, if it's just off the chain, who knows? 682. How much was the third one? By JJ Abrams. Okay, 397. Okay. So Mission Impossible is not near billion dollar range, but you know, you never know if it could get there. But is there anything else that I want to talk about guys? No, I think that's it. So guys, you know, that is just my opinion of the box office results for this past weekend. What did you think, you know, that you are happy with the results? So you're not happy? Did I turn you on? Did I turn you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. You can also look me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It's right there at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy by providing links to all that down in the description box below. But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning into my opinion slash review or reaction or whatever this episode of the box office results for Amen and the Wasp. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brandon Keith-Avery and that's just my opinion. Peace.


What is going on guys? Welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So we're talking about several different topics in this video here again today. We'll talk about Halloween ends screams 6 Nightmare in Elm Street and Chucky season 2 now just to kick it off with Halloween ends Tricketry Studios has offered an official look at their replica mask from Halloween ends So now we have a clear idea of what to expect from the Myers mask in the upcoming movie The biggest highlight of course is the mold aspect of it that you see on the side of the mass This indicates Michael held on to the court the same mask of course from the 2018 and kills movie And I know I did videos after the cinema con Footage have been released where details were coming out of what the mask would look like So the the fact that the mask has mold on it probably ties into the working title of cave dweller as well Because Michael living in the sewers definitely can't open the door to the chances of mold Finding ways to form and grow on that mask And of course since he's not taking care of himself the way he should be but the trailer has shown us the mask But this was a nice nugget from them to get some full Specs on it. We also got a look at the total film magazine cover Which the magazine is releasing in a couple days or sooner to my knowledge so tidbits about the upcoming film I no doubt probably gonna be sprinkled in with possibly new images I would suspect or hope for and I'm gonna do a separate video discussing this mask Michael living in the sewer And the idea of his mask holding power that I've seen floating around just because I think that is very interesting and Something that I hope if done is done in a certain way But yeah, I liked that the trick that tricketry studio gave us that look at the moldy new mask that we're gonna see Michael and presumably Corey where if you're still not sold on the copycat idea again It's mostly just coming from picking apart the trailer and the plot synopsis and making assumptions So we'll see what ends up happening when Halloween ends releases in a couple weeks on Peacock and in theaters on October 14th I will have a spoiler free review on the channel the week of the release Probably we'll do a spoiler field one But I'm probably just gonna stick to spoiler free depending on how I feel about the movie coming out of it But just to jump into screen six Scream six marketing hasn't fully started yet But we have a glimpse of what's to come thanks to craving something scary So shout out to you this image on your screen is from a promo shoot of sorts for screen six with Mason Gooding in the image clearly now I'm guessing this means posters could be on the way with the cast holding the knife like they're wiping off blood Similar to how Ghostface does it in the series or how we seen people in the Ghostface costume do it now Things have been quiet on the news front Which I think will continue to be a thing leading up to release similar to Halloween ends But what Halloween ends I would say they did a lot more secretive stuff We didn't even know other cast members outside of returning people I mean you could always of course dig and dig and dig and find stuff similar how I did with my Jeepers creepers videos If you watch those but howling ends was very very tight lip So I think scream six is gonna follow suit to preserve a lot of the story the narrative and not giving too much Wait, this was a nice nugget for discussion. So again, thank you for bringing this to our attention craving And I'm definitely looking forward to Kirby's poster the most and I'm thinking marketing We'll slightly begin next month for the scream to re-release with a short teaser done in the style of scream 3 I hope so like with screen 5. I believe we got a teaser or something today after that re-release So I'm thinking they're gonna do the same thing with scream 6. They don't have to I'm thinking they will they're gonna give us a Short teaser after that re-release the day after and I think it yes It would benefit to do it in the style of scream 3 where maybe you have ghost face Narrating and it's just like quick cuts of stuff We've seen throughout the series or something that's maybe just quick cuts from scream 6 Even though we know it's still in post-production and just have text over the screen to hype it up and have have this Scary music in the background of it then in December. We'll get a trailer after Christmas Before the next three months start amping us up with non-stop marketing all the way to March 31st When ghost face returns on the big screen and takes over New York City and shows Jason how it's done But jumping into nightmare now street now nightmare now street No, there's been no news on an official movie being confirmed or anything like that This is specifically pertaining to Kevin Bacon who has responded to those ideas that he should be Freddie Krueger Or that he should be Freddie Krueger discussion that people are having I think Robert England did indeed make mentions of this a couple years ago as well He discussed this with screen rent recently After they brought it up in a new interview. I guess he stated never say never I mean I say never say never, but I really do follow that There's very few things that I go. No, no, you just you just never know so with him saying that The thought of bacon being Freddie for me for a new film instead of England isn't that bad of a thought and some People actually prefer to get him on screen with his iteration of the nightmare killer I've seen bacon in a few horror films I can know many of you have recently the two I'm thinking of or They slash them and you should have left. He's also been in tremors Friday the 13th and so many others So he's proven himself in the genre But he if he were to actually be come this iconic character of Freddie Krueger That might be different territory or that is different territory It's probably gonna have a lot of weight on his shoulders about living up to England England was the one who again I believe express bacon should do it not too long ago if I'm remembering correctly So if a new movie ever happens, we'll see if bacon is it is the man that they go with I do think that if he becomes Freddie Krueger for a new iteration That would be fine if you want to do a couple sequels or maybe a few Movies with Kevin Bacon because Kevin Bacon is what he's in his mid 60s So I think he can still go but then I know I'm opening up the door for people to say They think that Robert England can still go and you know if Robert England is down to do it again And you can make it work. I'm not gonna say no to that I just don't think Robert England is up for it, but stranger things have happened So I want to dive into Chucky season 2 How much of Chucky season 2 was actually going to take place in this Catholic school? So we know that's gonna be a thing going off of the trailer that we got recently So Don Mancini seemed to answer this during a new interview with SFX magazine But we also got some new images from the magazine as well So a lot of it takes place at this Catholic reform school where the kids get sent according to Mancini Then he goes on to say why did they get sent there? You'll find out when the season begins So going off of that that's exciting because I was expecting this to be kind of like an Epixotic version of child's play 3 and it seems like that's what we're gonna get I wouldn't be surprised that the three of them were sent there because of Chucky or their inability to of course prove That the doll was alive and there's all these things that are unexplained that they can't explain Mancini also stated that there are 72 dolls on that truck Andy is driving, but then he's held hostage by the Tiffany doll and he asked what does that imply? So what that implies to me is I'm thinking Andy will be forced to get those dolls to where they need to be if he wants Tiffany to leave him the hell alone. That's what I'm thinking about But we'll see what ends up happening when the season debuts in a few weeks on October 5th on the USA Sci-Fi networks if you have an array of course make sure you go ahead and subscribe Turn on post notifications that you never miss a video in the description. I will have links to all my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram. You can message me there Of course, let me know is any movies news or reviews you like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


English vocabulary word of the day, Lounge, from espressoenglish.net. First let's work on the pronunciation. The letter L sounds like in the words like and lady. The OU has an OW sound, like in the words how or loud. And the letters N-G-E are like at the end of arrange or orange. Say the word after me. Lounge. A lounge is a waiting room for passing time. Here are some common examples. Schools often have a teacher's lounge where the teachers can spend time, socialize and prepare their lessons. Some airports have a VIP lounge, a special area for passengers with extra special status. And sometimes you'll see places that have a bar and lounge, meaning an area where you can drink and a comfortable area for relaxing and passing time. Lounge can also be a verb, meaning to move, act or spend time in a lazy way. For example, my kids are lounging on the couch watching TV.  So now you know two definitions for the word lounge. To learn more words, check out my vocabulary builder course, available at espressoenglish.net. Just click the link in the video to take some free sample lessons.