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A week of climate talks opens in Fiji tomorrow. It’s the last big meeting before next month's cop 31 summit. The pacific wants world leaders to see the global warming damage for themselves, like one of the villages in Fiji’s north where residents have been living in tents for over 5 years.

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00:02Maridha Malumudha is 66, and for more than five years, this tent has been her home.
00:09When it rains heavily, it feels like we're living in a balloon because we can see the parts of the
00:15tent bulging where it's filling up.
00:18Her village Nambavatu was declared unsafe in 2021 after two cyclones cracked the ground beneath it.
00:25Thirty-seven tents were meant to be temporary, but villagers are still waiting for housing.
00:31This is how people living in the tent, like everything has to be done inside.
00:35Maridha's son, Sami Veliko, moved home from the city to look after her.
00:40We are getting the effect of climate change. We are the vulnerable people, the Pacific people.
00:48Across the island, Vonidongaloa moved inland in 2014, the first village in Fiji relocated because of rising seas.
00:57And their former headman says many are still waiting for houses.
01:02Still we are hearing cries of people. They need help.
01:06Climate finance is a priority at this week's pre-Cop talks in Fiji and Tuvalu.
01:12And villages like these are why Fiji invited world leaders to see the damage firsthand.
01:18Take back what they see, looking at the effects of climate change from Fiji's point of view.
01:27Mbavatu is the first move the state has run under Fiji's relocation rules, paid for from a government trust fund.
01:36Long awaited houses are promised by the end of the year.
01:41I can see the new village every day from here, and I wish they would hurry up so we can
01:46move there.
01:47Let's start with the presence on the internet.
01:47It's a bit.
01:48Let's start with the остан.
01:48Let's start with the water cleaned.
01:48Let's expand it.
01:48Let's start with another set of trees.
01:49Let's take it.

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