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speeding comet starting in beijing, where the leaders of united states and china struck a deal on climate change. they are the two polluters, and agreed to reduce carbon emissions. china did not set targets. let's look at the numbers. these are 2013 numbers when china produced 29% of the world's carbon dioxide and the united states 15% - just the two countries accounting for almost half the carbon emissions. the remainder in the top five - the e.u., with 10%, followed by india on 7%, and russia on 5%. the question is whether the other countries there, in the e.u. group of countries, may be pressured to follow the lead of china and the united states. >> i comment president xi, his

team and the chinese government for the commitment to slow, peek and reverse the course of china's carbon emissions. i can announce the united states set a new goal of reducing ou green house emissions from 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. >> translation: we have announced our targets for climate change, two countries after 2020. we grey that we should have further talks in paris. >> scott heidler has been following the developments in beijing. it looks like a good deal. is anything lost by the fact that china has not set targets, or are we looking at a bigger picture. >> we are looking at a bigger picture. it's an important thing. there's a lot of details from the deal that need to be spelt

out. benchmarks working towards that. what we are looking at is these two nations, when you look at carbon emissions, and greenhouse gases this is half of the world's, of the gases in the atmosphere, half from the two nations. any progress is good, but it is what they underlined both leaders in the meeting, in the press conference, they want other nations to follow their lead. they are the worst commuters in the world. that's something we need to focus on. obviously keeping a close eye on the numbers. keeping a close eye on exactly if and when and how the bex marks are made over the coming -- benchmarks are made over the coming years. >> underlying that you have the u.s. and china plays nice. it wasn't so rosy during the apec conference a day ago, but

now a different picture. >> absolutely, literally it was a different picture on the front page of the newspapers. the main ones showing a cordials relationship. and interaction between the two leaders. when you look at what was said in the press conference. it was more interesting. yes, it was friendly. these are friend, if you will - these are colleagues being friendly. they said they will and do disagree on a lot of things ranging from what is going on in hong kong to how things should be handled in other parts of the world. they said they'd disagree about this, about these things. what we need to do is better coordinate and have better communication, because when you look at military and large presence of the united states in asia, this is part of the pivot that you mention. a tense situation with china and some of its neighbours, so they say to prevent a mishap that could lead to armed conflict, they need to better coordinate.

in a sense being cordial and say "hey, i'm not going to agree with you", but we need to talk, because something bad could happen if there's a misunderstanding. >> thank you, scott heidler with the live report from beijing. >> next stop for the u.s. president is myanmar. the south-east asian nation. a.s.e.a.n. the leaders expected to attend. they planned to finalise details of the economic community as a way to boost cross-boarder trade. attention will also focus on myanmar's questionable human rights record. after decades of military rule, there are concerns that reforms in myanmar may be slipping. let's go there now. to the capital. a lot for myanmar to worry about. i guess the fact that they are happening in myanmar is a bit of a win for the country.

>> yes, that definitely is. this is myanmar stepping into the spotlight. it's seen indeed. as a win for the countries, and the heads of state. saying that they are here to show the support for the promise to reform in myanmar. there's supposed to be free and fair elections, this is planned. how this will be guaranteed, they are working out. but president obama as well as the leaders of the other countries that are here and the u.s. secretary-general. they are saying what they try to do is that if myanmar doesn't open up, there'll be countries to support it. decades where myanmar was isolated from the rest of the world, the a.s.e.a.n. leaders have not come out to condemn what was going on here. that is part of what a.s.e.a.n. was all about. which is basically

noninterference, and they jointly made agreement, in consensus. what is happening is in light of the agreement between the united states and china, is that the maritime disputes that some of the a.s.e.a.n. nations wanted to put on the table for discussion might not be as difficult as they originally expected. particularly with the u.s. telling allies that they should play nice with china. >> when you talk about a.s.e.a.n. the biggest issue - all those. the collective nations that have the disputes over islands in the area. >> definitely. the most difficult position here now is the philippines. it is one of strongest allies of the united states in the region, but it brought forward a formal case against china, to do with

the maritime issues over a group of islands. china said the philippines shouldn't have done this, that they have ignored, and made it clear it is not happy with the philippines taking the action. despite what the u.s. said asking the asian countries to cooperate and decrease any risk of confrontation, they say they will not drop the case that they have put forward in this international tribunal. and continue to stand behind it, and hope to see it through to a resolution. >> thank you. live at the asian summit in myanmar. >> to other news and palestinian security officials accused israeli settlers of setting fire to a mask. the attack destroyed the first floor of the building near ramallah, the latest in a string of incidents, increasing tensions between israelis and

palestinians. >> israeli security shot dead, nts imtiaz tyab has more on that from west jerusalem. >> a new victim of the simmering tensions in the occupied west bank and israel. a palestinian man was killed by a live round from security forces as they broke up a protest near hebron, not all have been violent. these palestinians are students at the hebrew university in occupied east jerusalem. tensions ran high when a group of far right israeli students staged their own counterprotest. >> we are always oppressed. we are not allowed to do anything in the university that gives us the freedom of ex-appreciation. >> the feeling of oppression and unequal treatment appears to be spreading. since sunday there has been widespread protests. they have been angered by the shooting of a palestinian

teenager after he apparently tried to assault them. then on monday, an israeli soldier and woman were killed in a knife attack in tel aviv, and near an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank. it was the latest in a series of attacks. leading to a crackdown in palestinian areas by israeli security forces. >> these steps include reinforce. of forces on the ground, demolitions of assailants home, a terse hand, outlawing those that insight in jerusalem and other stems. >> a law-maker says the anger is the symptom of a deeper problem. >> israeli law defines israel as a jewish state, giving them a lot of privileges through our different 50 laws and scrim

nation is it legalized. >> whatever the case, tensions are spreading, and the israeli government's crackdown is making the situation worse. bi.d what they are doing now is leading the region and the world to a religious war, a devastating one. >> there are many issues causing anger across the occupied eastern jerusalem. parts of israel and in the occupied west bank. they are connected to what many see as the ongoing discrimination and unequal treatment to palestinians by the israeli authorities. also the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, accused hamas of trying to sabotage efforts for palestinian unity, and blames the group that controlled gaza for a series of bombings, he made the accusations during a speech marking the 10th anniversary of yasser arafat, but stopped short of calling for a formal break

with hamas. >> translation: who committed the crime? the leadership of the hamas movement did. it is responsible. i don't want any investigation by them. these actions delay rebuilding. it delays moving 100,000 people back into their homes before winter five police men have been killed by suicide bombers in iraq. a car blew up. nine other police men were injured. the government recently launched an assault against i.s.i.l. in the area. >> in syria three civilians have been killed in shelling in the border town of kobani. several were injured in the attack. kurdish forces have struggled to defend the town. they've been backed by u.s.-led coalition air strikes. >> seven people have been killed in government air strikes targetting illinois conditions in a city that is a self-declared capital of capitol

hill -- i.s.i.l. five from the same family were kill. >> the stronghold of damascus do be lost. government forces have cut off supply roads, effecting hundreds of thousands of civilians, dropped inside. zeina khodr reports. >> reporter: these people are appealing for help. the syrian government closed the last supply road. the syrian regime is starving our children. duma is in the east. and like damascus, and others, it has been under siege for more than a year. >> it's a disaster zone. according to the syrian government, it represents the people, and other international organizations to save us. hundreds of thousands are under siege. >> reporter: they've been under constant fire. the government stepped up its bombing campaign.

many civilians have been killed in the near daily attacks. people no longer have the medical supplies to treat the wounded. residents find what they can to stay warm as winter steps in. shops are closed. they have nothing to sell. >> you notice the children that are malnourished. people don't have bread. we survived the seeping for a long time. sometimes by eating grass, and now the alarm bells ring. >> duma is a vital gate way for forces wanting to advance. >> they tried to enter from the only humanitarian corridor. this is a message from them. they want to starve people. they surrender. for the opposition government tactics are not new. starve the people to put pressure on the rebels. fighters are determine. they say they will not compromise because it will end the rebellion north of the

capital. >> i want to take you to an earlier story. palestinian security officials accusing israeli settlers of setting fire to a mosque in the west bank. this is the attack, destroying the first floor of the building. the latest that we mentioned in an instance of increasing tensions between israelis and palestinians. on the line, an executive committee member of the palestinian organization. thank you for your time. do you know more about this, if anyone was hurt, and who was responsible. >> as usual, this was done in the back of the night. settlers have targeted the village, and they have been targetting different areas throughout the west bank. and the settlers rein of terror. they've been harvesting cross, trees, individuals. and mosques.

as well as mosques and churches. in this case he has been singled out. and by extremist settlers. and burning, and the torching of the mosque is not something knew. they are individuals, but at the same time, the settlers are continuing and escalating acts of violence, and particularly since they are given full immunity, and they are not... >> that's what i was going to ask you about, whether you thing this is part of what we are seeing as a general escalation in the area. do you think prime minister binyamin netanyahu or his security forces have no control over the settlers. >> on the contrary, what do they have control. that's the issue. they are giving them financial inducements, support, protection, the army goes there, and whenever the settlers attack, the army targets the

palestinians, and not the settlers. so in a sense - the settlers have the key parts of the government, the coalition, they are in control of housing. in control of the funding. and they have not really been taken into account or held to account for the violations and the attacks. they act with impunity, they have the full legal, political and military government. and are getting away with murder. continuing this, and escalating the activities, is something that is part of a dangerous area of the settler violence. >> thank you. thank you for your time today. >> six suspected fighters have been killed by a u.s. drone strike in southern yemen, it happened in al qaeda's strong hold. the military launches an offensive.

dozens of rebels have been hurt in two attacks. one by armed tribesman, the other by al qaeda fighters. >> russia signed a deal to build two nuclear reactors in iran. the new reactors will be built at iran's beshara nuclear plant and the contract was sealed after the u.n. and u.s. held talks trying to dissolve disagreements over the nuclear programme. the deadline is november 24th. more ahead as the united nations reveals more poppies are grown in afghanistan than before. we'll tell you why. >> the underpaid and unsung heroes of the ebola outbreak. we join a volunteer burial fame in liberia. and can african football bosses find a new host for the biggest tournament. jo is here with that and the latest in sport reports from india suggests

the number of botchedster illitions is higher than thought. as many as eight women died from a separate incident as a government health camp outside the city. dozens more were hospitalized and the state government is investigating. we'll talk to them now, the secretary of all india progressive women's association, joining us from new delhi. i was talking to the correspondent in the story, and it's difficult to understand the idea of government camps set up to do this, and women paid for it. tell me why it's happening and whether there's a good enough reason for it. >> this is not the first time that such deaths have happened, such camps are set up in several states, and there has been a botched sterilisation, and forced sterilisation leading to

deaths. i would like to say, of course, the state governments are comfortable in pushing sterilizations, including false sterilizations as a form of family planning. of population control. the u.k. aide agency funds programs in the name of an idea of population control. that is what, in a way, gives ab incentive to doctors to get paid for performing more sterilizations, as many as they can, and for meeting the targets. the individual women's decision, whether or not to go for a sterilisation, and individual woman's right to control the act and decide when she would like to do it and be sure that it can be done safely, all of this is under way...

>> sorry to interrupt you. what steps should be taken. on the one hand there could be a population problem. there's a large population. going about to this way doesn't help, especially when the operations go wrong. >> no, i would like to take issue with indian population, or countries like india is a problem. i think that there is - that is not a truthful idea and should be thrown out of the window. the point is for women to have control of their lives, decide when they'd like to reproduce or not. the right to choice of a woman, the right for her to decide and have control over her body, that is what should be promoted. to say that these rights would be there in the u.s.a. or u.k. but these rights will not be expected in countries, india is

a large country. looking at the population, in terms of an isolated way, and making women the tart. it's that policy that needs to end. u.k. agencies and others need to stop pushing the policy. >> i believe you were out of protests. tell us what it was like during the numbers that showed up. >> i think that... did he ask me something? >> yes, i asked about the numbers. >> yes, the numbers that showed up. >> yes. >> no, i'm i think protests happened in several parts of the country. it is a shock thing. what i'm trying to say is it happened earlier, we raised the issues earlier, and yet the response to that from indian governments also have to say a

firm no. they cannot allow the policies to be pushed. and they cannot be proliferated in this way. the government need to speak. >> thank you for your time. appreciate it there has been heavy shelling in donetsk, the heavy shelling in dating, following the arrival of trucks. the ukranian government is accusing russia of sending soldiers and weapons, russia says it is not involved in the conflict. >> former serbian leader accused of crimes against humanitiers, the former deputy prime minister has been in custody in the hague for more than 10 years, but has been free temporarily for cancer treatment. >> more than 200 protesters have been arrested in poland's capital warsaw. tens of thousands attended a

march organised by nationalist groups. it happened on a holiday marking independence in world war i. 23 officers were injured. the united nations says poppy farming in afghanistan reached a record level. it is used to make opium and heroin. and the land used for poppies tripled in size since the occupation. most controlled by the taliban. farming is up 7%, and production of the drugs increased to 17%. bridging $815 million, accounting for 80% of the world's heroin supply. this report is from helmand province. and jennifer glasse. >> reporter: this is helmand province, where poppy production is flourishing. growing poppies has been big business in afghanistan. even though the united states spent several billion to eradicate the drug in the

country. the u.s. government estimates that half a million acres are grown across afghanistan. this district governor says business is dooming in a drug bazaar, 10km from here. farmers are planting the crop three times a year. and dozens of factories processed the drugs, providing employment and making the area dangerous. >> translation: these factories give money to the taliban, and that finances terrorism. there's no jobs, and no education, and people are tempted. how will they feed their families if they don't grow poppies. >> the governor says there's a simple reason farmers choose poppies. >> for poppies, the farmer doesn't need an infrastructure, a bridge, road, he doesn't need market intelligence - nothing. he can carry 10 kilogram of poppy on his shoulder through a

mountain. >> reporter: poppy production affects the biggest country. >> the power station needs the water. so do the farmers in the helmand valley, and that caused tension. this power plant could produce more electricity that is needed in the region, if so much water was not syphoned off for agriculture. plant officials asked the farming authority to regulate the flow. that's fine say the poppy farmers, they don't need the electricity, they only want the water. >> now, unseasonal weather in the state of minnesota caused more than 100 road accidents killing two people. the national weather service warned americans to aspect a 20-30-40 degree drop. the cold front delivered 10 centimetres of snow across a wide area. a good time to bring in the

goals. it's a cold looking map behind you. >> it's not minnesota, many parts of the north america where we see the cold weather on the cold chart. you see the dark blues, and that's where we see the coldest of the weather. to give you an idea of how cold it is, calgary got to minus 23 degrees. it's chilly, as well as being cold, there's a wind bringing in the cold air. it made it feel colder than it was. the strongest kust of wind was 110 k/hr, strong, and making sure things felt worse than they were. now, the reason for the cold weather is to do with our friend the jet stream. it is a thin ribbon there, that flows fast in the upper atmosphere, and most of the time we don't need to know it exists. when it comes a long way further south. that's when it causes problems. it opens the door on the cold

weather over the arctic, and it flows down south quickly. that's why we have the cold air, and it is in a kind of blocking pattern. it could stay like this for a good few days. over the next couple of days, it's looking cold. wednesday, these are the maximum temperatures, minus 12, and minus 15 in september. in the south. around calgary, it's bitterly cold. >> doesn't it just. thank you for that. u.s., british and swiss regulators fined five global banks more than $3 billion for trying to manipulate currency change rates. the ubs is paying $371 million, citibank - there's jp morgan chase, $352 million. royal bank of scotland, $334, and hs b.c. 343 million. we are going to talk to an-petty

for, director of prime economics joining us from london. how do you view the fines? is it appropriate, or is it a slap on the wrist for the banks which make a lot of money? >> well i think it's not exactly a slap on the wrist. it is quite a lot of money, it will affect shareholders. but the fact of the matter is there has been rather too hasty in my view, investigation into this. what the banks have tonne is do a deal with the f.d.a. ensuring that they are fined simultaneously and don't suffer the same levels of reputational damage or falls in the share price, like barclays, when the libor scandal was exposed. what we have here is an investigation which the fca relied on the banks for intelligence on. the fca has been dealing with

the banks lawyers rather than the individuals involved. that's because the department of justice is interviewing the united states - the united states's department of justice is interviewing individuals involved, and they should not interfere with that. the department of justice will be fiercer and tougher on individuals. what annoys me is that these are bad apples in the banks. there's no doubt in in barrel of apples, which is the banking community, there are bad apples. the problem is not with the bad apples, it's the barrel itself. and that means the control systems of the banks themselves are supposed to put in place in which obviously it was not in place for a business that has a $5 trillion a day turn over. and secondly, whether or not the authorities, the public authorities are investing in keeping the barrel clean, as

much as they should do. i have a feeling that the sda is underresources for undertaking the investigations. >> and this is basic layman's speak. is this the thing that should have stopped happening, if we are six years after the financial crisis, and things like this happen, and this is a systematic problem. i know i'm simplistic, shouldn't these things not be happening? >> of course it should not. it's outrageous that the royal bank of scotland. a nationalized banks. owned by the taxpayers, and bailed out, and while the taxpayers are forking out the money. to keep the job, the bankers are cheating and making more money for themselves and their banks. what it shows us is that actually not enough has changed since the crisis. governments claim they have done a lot.

but little has changed. they have as much freedom before to move money across the borders, and it really hasn't touched them. that's the responsibility of government. it's not actually properly regulating. i think the finance conduct authority doesn't have enough resources. that's $3.2 billion that's raised today, going into the f.d.a. so they can hire the lawyers, have the expertise needed to prevent this happening. furthermore, they need wider regulation, and coordination, to make sure we know what the banks are doing. >> are up to. >> what they are up to. >> at the moment we are of the view, to see if the banking system can and does not need to be managed in the way that it is managed. the banking system is a public

utility, we refused to recognise that. business is better than you guys muches. >> thank you for your time. >> still to come on the newshour - we'll have analysis on whether the u.s. and china's deal will make a real disiches to global warming, and sydney harbour, like you have never seen it before, why an underwater scooter is excited. roger federer continues a quest to place novak djokovic with reaction to the season-ending finals coming up.

you're on the newshour on al jazeera, and these are the top stories, china and the u.s. agreed to drastically reduce the carbon emissions. and the deal by the two biggest polluters will inject momentum into the talks. several people have been killed by syrian government air strikes in the rebel stronghold of duma. government horses are making gains towards the city and cut off supply roads, covering hundreds of thousands a number of women who died from botched sterilisation, dozens more have been hospitalized. a government health camp in the district taking you back to the historic climate agreement between the u.s. and china, andrew stooer is joining us, the president and c.e.o. of world resources initiative in beijing, nice to have you with us.

perhaps one of the more positive things to come out of this, other than the numbers and the targets is the fact that it's happened at all, and it happened off their own bat, the u.s. and china, it's not that we have gone to a climate change concert and been left disappointed by what is at the end of this. >> yes, that's right. to have the heads of states of two great countries like this come together and make an announcement, the tendency is to make sure to reach a midnight negotiating room and hope that the offers will come forward. the great way to plan it is they have to come forward early, and for the united states and china to come forward is helpful indeed. >> china did not set targets. is that a reason to be critical of them here? >> china, for the first time ever said it will peak it's

emissions by 2030. it's also said what that would imply for what it will have to do on renewable. it will have to invest 1,000 megawatts in renewable energy. it's equivalent to the coal production of electricity in china today, and equivalent to almost the entire amount of electricity produced in the united states today. this is a big lift. having said that, 2030 is a time when china competes, and do it within its own interests, even if climate change didn't exist. for example, if you invest more in renewable energy and energy efficiency. it generates the economy and reduce pollution. in is in china's own interest. we suspect that china will be at a peak before 2030, which is extremely healthy.

>> it puts the onus on everything else. if the two biggest polluters can manage this out of their bad, the e.u., russia and india need to do something as well. >> well, the e.u. has announced what it will do to reduce by 40%. but it's certainly true the others need to do the same now. the deal is that you are - each country is supposed to come out with an offer by march 2015. you look at the offers, add them up and see if it's enough. it probably won't be enough. and the idea is to use the period between march 2015, and the final negotiations in paris, which will be in september, use it to ratchet it up. and the united states and china need to play an important role in that ratcheting up period. >> pleasure tubing to you. thank you -- talking to you, thank you for your time. >> amnesty international is

demanding the release of al jazeera's staff detained in egypt. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have been held in prison for 319 days, falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. jonah hull has the report from london. >> the journalists know it could have been them. voices slept. wrongly accused. locked up in an egyptian gaol. >> we are saying freedom of expressions are important. they are locked up for doing nothing other than reporting the situation in egypt. it is outrageous. what we wanted to do is show solidarity with them and families at this difficult time. >> al jazeera's journalists peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are serving lengthy gaol terms in egypt for aiding the banned muslim brotherhood. their case is up for appeal in january. >> as peter so eloquently put it from the prison sell.

we no longer report from the front line. nowadays we are the front line. >> for peter greste's brother andrew, it was another milestone in a long and arduous campaign. it takes the spirits, knowing he has a huge amount of backing and belief in the fact that he's done nothing wrong. >> the plight of the journalists in egypt. and the others that are armed and persecuted around the world is close to the heart of the people in this room. that's because they were doing nothing wrong. they were doing what many of these people do every day. they were arrested, nearly a year ago now. they are behind bars. there's no reason for it. they should be released. released now. >> the amnesty international rewards. these days there's a field of journalism that is it without peril. a second person has died of

ebola. in mali. the nurse treated a patient. the patient had kidney failure. it's believed he had ebola. as west africans fight ebola. not enough resources had been hut in. we have their stories. >> a group prayer, before they begin another day. the red cross burial team based in mon rofia has been called to a house in the outskirts of the city. the body of a young man was left. this is a disease. we are also very concerned about them. that if you don't follow the protocol. you could be infect and a victim of the situation.

the world health organisation says around 500 trained burial teams are needed. in the three worst-hit countries, there are 140, and many of those doing the difficult and dangerous job are volunteers. by the end of the day the burial team's truck is full. the bodies are taken to the crema torium and disposed of without ceremony. >> specialist treatment centers are another front line in the fight against the virus. this woman recovered from ebola, and works as a volunteer, and cares for the sick. >> if you had it, you feel like it's a signal.

>> reporter: so far more than 300 health workers caught the ebola virus. >>: >> reporter: in one of monrovia's densely populated area, a man is spotted hiding on the rooftop. fear is running high, and neighbours suspect he has ebola. >>: >> reporter: the man agrees to come with health workers to the hospital. there are signs. the number of new cases of ebola might be going down. but experts say it's too early to say whether progress has been made, or if the worst is still to come hundreds of thousands of

people gathered in new york for the annual veterans day parade. around 600,000 spectators lined the streets. veterans, some from the world war ii came out to watch the marches, including former bloomberg mayor. >> the biggest meeting for those responsible for looking after places of natural importance. an interactive map is shown what is beneath the water of sydney harbour. >> it looks like the opening scene of a james bond film. on the front of these underwater scooters aren't guns mounted on each, it's a sophisticated camera. >> at what ept. there are three cameras, which are synchronized to take images every three seconds as the craft moves along the sea escape. >> the scooters can travel and

take 1,000 panoramic pictures in 45 minutes. the team behind this has compiled over a million images, citying 700km of the world's coral reef. this survey is capturing the underwater world in the middle of the city, mapping sydney harbour. back on land the images are stitched together. a computer programme creating a series of shots. the aim is two fold. first, to provide a record of the under water world. this provides scientists with a baseline to prepare the reefs and fish. second is to create an open access way for anyone to see via the computer to move through pictures of what is below the surface of the sea. >> the ultimate ambition is to create a global record that engages people with the

environment and allow scientists to put the policy in place, help policy na place enturing the long term. >> the surveyors of teams with google. tying records into street technology. >> reporter: using a computer or phone on a journey ended where the land was. now i use these to go under there. >> reporter: in sydney harbour's chowder bay, you can click around. there's a groper and sea bass. near maroubra, a grey nurse shark, and off the town of mani, schools of yellow-tailed fusalias, at the heart of it a team looking at change and risk of the the aim is for this to be a navigatable map. it could be an historical

record. of what was once beneath the waves still more ahead in newshour as we are hours away from what could be an historic moment in space research. >> well shot and - oh. unbelievable. $5,000. >> now a cricket fan plucks a big prize out of thin air. what a catch. jo with the details in a moment.

europe's mission to land a space probe on the comet marks a development of their unmanned robot. it's taken 10 years, and is a complex space mission. >> the rosetta spacecraft travelled for more than 6 billion kilometres in pursuit of the comet 67 p. the comet orbits the sun once every 6.5 years, passing inside the orbit of mars. this time around, if all goes well, it will have a visitor of earth along for the ride. here the comet - it's 4km wide, and is travelling through space over 65,000km an hour. quite a feat to catch something like this. since august. rosetta has been orbiting the comet, taking pictures, while

the scientists try to work out where to land the probe. >> they close a plat area with good sunlight. it has little gravity. this means landing and keeping a probe on the surface requires special technology. there's a risk that it will bounce back. the point is to deploy. to dampen the landing with special landing gear, three legs that won't have shock absorbers, and as they make the touchdown, deploy a harpoon, laking sure it is attached to the border. >> the lander has scientific instruments. the rocks are believed to predate the formation of our solar system, something the probe will help scientists investigate. when comets come past the earth, we are interested in looking at the gases and the chemistry, the

primitive pri moshial chemistry. at this case we'll get close and sample a comment. it's a trip back in time. back $4.5 billion years. >> scientists suggested much of the water on earth comes from comets. they believe they have worked and what they find could give us glues into the origin of the solar system and life on earth. >> snow is here. any movement on the african cup of nations. >> we are hoping to find out mar later. the bosses hope to name a new. the country refuses to hold it for fear of the ebola virus. finding a replacement with two months to go is a tough tack. >> as the leaders of football

met in the headquarters in cairo, there was doubt over whether the january cup of nations would happen. morocco requested a postponement due to fears over ebola. with thousand of supporters due to travel to the nation. but the show must go on, is the message from the confederation of african football, morocco stripped as hosts, and banned from competing at the tournament. >> it's a big plan of football. but it made the whole thing scary. i don't think the general public, that they'll be missing the competition. many were quick to concur on the streets. >> translation: it was putting the health of the people first,

before the football. unfortunately, kaf is only in the business of making money, because they'll lose $20 million. i'm fully with the government's position. >> while morocco will not host or compete in the football tournament. they whim the biggest teams to the f.i.f.a. club world cup. the risk is lower because there were fewer fans from africa. >> they are expecting bigger names, mainly real madrid. and people are looking forward to the competition. the africa cup of nations without a home for now. a decision on a new host is expected. the executives committee meets again. despite no public expressions of interest, a number of countries plied to step in. the dates will be as planned. >> it was hosted in 2002.

angola hosted in 2010. they have the ability to host at short notice. algeria is one of the nations that are readily available. >> the new host has over two months to prepare with the opening games scheduled for january 17th well, on the pitch, qualification for the furniture continues this week. tunisia are a team that can book their place, even though at the moment the players don't know where it will be. tunisia is in action against botswana, they are the top of group c and a point will see them through to the finals. >> translation: the match against botswana will be different. it won't be like the match against senegal.

we hope we will beat them too. we will play to win and create chances. >> on to tennis. the last four could hang on the outcome of a match he's not playing in. murray faces roger federer, but because of the round-robin format. if murray beats roger federer, he may not go through. it depends on the result of the other match, and the winning margin in that tie. >> it's nice to be in the tournament. it will be tough against roger. he has played good matches, i'll have to play well to win that one. >> well roger federer isn't through just yet. he beat the chickory 6-2, 6-3, putting himself in a great position, and barring a win or loss from initialory should make it to the final score

the german's 23 points against sacramento kings moves him ahead of abbing am. 23,954 points sees him to into ninth on the n.b.a. scores list. the team on a 2-game winning run is portland. after an encounter with the charlotte hornets. they can back from 23 points down. with 3.5 seconds left. the hornets sent the game into overtime. the referee to reverse the score. portland winning 102 to 100. a tart of 480 runs, to win the first test in abu darby, winning by 318 runs. pakistan by 170. mainly thanks to an unbeaten

century. >> they are struggling in reply. a cricket fan in new zealand is $4,000 better off after making a stunning catch. the spectator was enjoying a t20 match. and the batsman hit the ball for six. >> he has got it. he's got it. champion. >> despite having no shoes on, mcculloch raised on the boundary catching it one-handed. put up by the team to any spectator that catches on the full. in a rare twist of fate. mcculloch is the brother-in-law of the player that hit the ball. >> what do you mean? despite having it. that's how we do it in new zealand. >> it's great. >> lucky i'm wearing shoes now. >> they should sign him up for the team. >> it was the latest news in a few moments.

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