>> the global fight against climate change, more world leaders than ever are in paris to discuss it but will they follow through with their promises? hello there i'm julie mcdonald. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. >> if there weren't such a resolution there wouldn't be a crisis today. >> turkey's prime minister says his country was right to shoot down a russian jet. >> held on suspicion of first degree murder.

>> israeli's court delivers are verdicts against two men accused of killings a palestinian teenager next year. india convinces its citizens to tap into their precious investments but not everyone is convinced. hello there the u.s. president has used his speech at the start of the u.n. climate conference to call for a meaningful deal on climate change, saying the rest of the world is watching. cop 21 will take part in intense negotiations of two weeks, hopefully, prevent potentially disastrous climate change. it will then need to come into effect from the year 2020, because that's when the current commitments from the key yoa t o

protocol run out. nick clark reports. >> the conference ended in abject failure, that's why they brought all the world leaders in at the start of the conference to really inject some momentum in search of that elusive climate deal. let's take a look back at what's happened so far. getting 147 world leaders to is it down to record the moment for posterity is almost as hard as getting consensus on how to battle climate change. but this time the sense is the result could be i different. >> desize of turning point. we need the world to know we are headed to a climate resilient future and there is no going back. >> reporter: all the leaders took the floor. before long u.s. president barack obama barack obama was at the podium. >> i've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second largest emitter, to say that the

united states of america not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it. >> china was the villain of the peace at the failed copenhagen in 2009. since then they've come to the party but stress concessions still need to be made. >> translator: it is imperative to respect differences among countries, especially developing countries in domestic policies, capacity-building and economic structure. climate change shall not be reduce poverty and improve people's living standards. >> reporter: this time questions are being asked about india's role, officials there, tries to bring millions out of poverty. >> the prosperous still have a strong carbon foot print. and the world's billions at the

bottom of the development ladder are seeking space to grow. to is choices are not easy. >> reporter: so the plims are preliminaries are drawing to a close. activists say there has never been a better time for agreement but still much to be done. >> we want our political leaders to recognize that they have dragged their feet for far too long and as a result too many lives have been lost, much of fertile land has inten destroyed, too mucbeen destroyey floods. >> huge diversity of people with all sorts ever different talents and knowledge and specialties. and we found a gem in th gem ine

of sir david aten borrow. attenboro. attenborough. >> to gather energy from nonpolluting sources, that is to say the sun. at a blow, you simply stop carbon being polluting by leaving the coal and the oil in the ground. another prize to nations of all kinds, developed, undeveloped, everyone. >> zero carbon is an issue of course and possibly getting into the text by 2050. do you feel it's realistic? >> i think global apollo project is totally realistic. the suggest is that if you have the coordinated scientific

brains of the world to work out a road map to see what the problems are, to divide up the problems, and work them, to do that within ten years, if you could put a plan on the moon within ten years the world's scientists ought to be able to solve these problems. you know only 1/5,000 support of the energy that comes from the sun every day if you actually would harness that you would provide the whole of humanity with all the power it needs. i don't believe that's beyond human possibility. >> that's absolutely extraordinary, isn't it? now you in your lifetime for a lifetime have traveled world, you've seen all its beauty and diversity and wonder. how serious, i know you're not a specific expert but house serious do you feel the planet is? >> very serious indeed. we are moving to that 2° thing. 2° rise in the temperatures of the oceans will kill a whole proportion of the fish that we

know now. they won't be able to survive. the coral reefs will disappear. the high portion of the human population depends upon fish and will do so more and more and more, for their sustenance. and so the dangers just facing the oceans are really appalling. >> now you interviewed the u.s. president barack obama, a little while ago. what impression did you get from him about his commitment to change? he's going to be speaking here in just an hour as you know. >> i believe that he is totally in his heart is totally with the proposition. and i'm not an expert on american politics, as i'm sure as tangled as any other nation's politics and how you achieve these things is a matter especially for politicians. but i'm sure that president obama wishes to solve this climate problem. >> finally, very briefly, for countries like india, it's very

difficult for them to say -- >> not at all. it applies to india just as anybody else. it means that india has power that's very, very cheap, much cheaper than it is now. >> so then this is just the beginning, the hard work is really yet to start, and it will commence on day 2. we've heard all these rallying calls from the world leaders, will they translate into action. that's what all the negotiations teams have to work on very hard in the coming days. >> turkey is refusing to apologize for shooting down a russian jet on its border. turkish prime minister ahmed davutoglu has stated it refuses

to apologize. >> clearly does not rest, the responsibility with turkey by any means. we have no intention whatsoever to escalate this situation, we are ready to talk at every level, in order to prevent further similar cases on turkey-syrian border. i'm underlying, this is turkish syrian border, not the border of any other country. >> all lies fully support turkey's right to defend its territorial integrity and its air space. i welcome turkey's efforts to establish contacts with moscow, and to its contacts with russia to deescalate the situation. >> nadim baba has more now from brussels. >> these comments by the nato's

ambassador is the first time the americans have gone on record and explicitly stated that the u.s. has data backing up turkey's version of events on november the 24th, saying the russian plane had in fact entered turkish air space. until now, they haven't been so forthright although they offered turkey their total support. press conference ten the nato secretary general and ahmed davutoglu, the turkish prime minister. all territorial integrity and its air space at the same time as welcoming turkey's efforts to reestablish contact, direct contact with mostly cloudy and deescalate the situation. i think certainly to be fair to ankara, there are some efforts to deescalate the situation but at the same time it's not clear

what those contacts are. they seem to be pretty much severed right now. >> russian president vladimir putin has criticized turkey for shooting down that plane on the turkish border. >> why they did that you have to ask them, it is a huge mistake. >> the remains of the pilot skilled in that incident were flown home to russia. the remains were carried service held in turkey, attended by the russian ambassador and other military officials. man accused of friday's deadly shooting at an abortion cling in the united states has appeared in court for the first time via video link. 57-year-old robert lewis dear was told he is being held on

suspicion of first degree murder. three people were shot dead at the time cling in colorado springs. for more rob reynolds is in los angeles for us. hi there rob. he appeared via video link. talk us through what happened. >> this was a very sort of preliminary legal hearing. the judge informed robert lewis dear and his defense attorney who has been appointed by the state, a public defender of the charges he will be facing including first degree murder and attempted murder. he asked dear if he understood everything that had been said in the courtroom and dear said simply i have no questions. that was pretty much the gist of it. the next meeting will be on the 9th of december, the flex court hearing, that is, and it's expected that since this has been described as an enormous crime scene with dozens and dozens and dozens of witnesses to be interviewed that it will take quite a long time for

investigation to proceed, and that will have an effect on any eventually trial fo -- eventual trial for the defendant, robert lewis dear. the campaign ongoing the republican and democratic front runners have all condemned the shootings at the colorado clinic but there has been atmosphere of very harsh rhetoric against planned parenthood, which planned parenthood executives around the country say has contributed to this kind of poisonous atmosphere which may have prompted deer to do what he allegedly did and this includes a surreptitiously filled tape by an antiabortion group that purr purportedly showed planned

parenthood officials selling body parts from planned abortions. it is considered a very divisive issue here with most conservatives and many of the leading religious denominations equating abortion with murder. it will remain part of the political discourse. >> rob reynolds joining us from l.a., thank you. you're watching al jazeera. still to come, brazil atchison's government launches action against the company responsible for last month's dam disaster. and six baltimore police are being tried for the death of a young black man. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. sure, tv has evolved over the years.

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>> a reminder now of our top stories here on al jazeera. world leaders have gathered in paris for the k known as cop 21. there will be intense negotiations as they enter a deal to limit global warming. turkey's prime minister is refusing to apologize for the shooting down of a russian jet on the syrian border but has reiterated his intention to open up communications with the russians. the accused shooter of an abortion cling has appeared vie video link. suing governments responsible for the collapse of

a dam which killed at least 13 people is one of the biggest environmental disasters in brazilian history. al jazeera's daniel schweimler reports. >> environmental leaders say it could caus take ten years to clp the contamination, that sludge has now reached the sea leaving in its wake hundreds of homeless people, enormous environmental damage and more than 20 dead or missing. this man is simply seeing what he can salvage from the devastation. the united nations report released last week said mine waste containing toxic chemicals and heavy metals covered 850 square kilometers. also criticized the brazilian government and the mining

officials for what it called their defensive reaction to the mining disaster. surprised by the civil action since they had shown themselves to be open to dialogue. they said the contents of the dam posed no harm to humans. ing to compensate those faked by the disaster. the two states hardest hit have joined the government's legal action. >> translator: our evaluation committee has determined that marriamariana is one thing and t happened along the river is another after the accident. >> reporter: damage is still being assessed and they may increase the amount they are claiming and launch an investigation. how to rebuild their lives.

daniel schweimler, al jazeera. >> a car bomb has killed 30 iraqi soldiers, in a city near fallujah, nearby ramadi the army has been urging residents to leave immediately ahead of an offensive to retake the city from i.s.i.l. fighters. two israeli teenagers have been found guilty of killing a 16-year-old palestinian and will be sentenced in january. mohammed abu kadir was kidnapped and burnt alive last year but as stefanie dekker reports from outside the court in occupied east jerusalem a third suspect is yet to be convicted. >> reporter: an insanity plea at the last hour. this is the man accused of masterminding the murder of a palestinian teenager, 30-year-old joseph ben david arrived in court monday. the judge now needs to assess ben david's state of mind at the

time. >> we're surprised at this last minute insanity plea. the suspect's lawyers have delayed his final verdict. we don't believe he's insane. >> reporter: planned.nd >> this is surveillance footage. the three israelis took 16-year-old abu in his neighborhood in east jerusalem. they beat him and burnt him alive in a forest. after their arrest they said they did it in retaliation of the murder of three israeli teenagers the month before. violent confrontation on a daily basis, it was a spiral of violence that many believe sparked israeli's war in gaza last summer. security was tight. it's taken a year and a half for this partial verdict to be reached but questions remain,

will the main ringleader be found guilty and how will the two minors be sentenced? palestinians say they have little trust in the israeli justice system. they believe israelis who commit crimes against palestinians are hardly ever held in account. the sentencing for minors will follow in january but whatever decision is reached it could have a direct impact on an really tense situation on the ground. stefanie dekker, al jazeera in occupied east jerusalem. >> the trial is underway of the first of the six policemen accused of causing the death of a young black manin baltimore. freddy gray died of injuries he sustained while in the back of a police van. freddie's death also shown a light on the poverty and fear a daily fact of life for many in

communities like baltimore. tom ackerman has the report. >> in baltimore's poorest most drug riddled neighborhood they are rebuilding one of its only pharmacies. it's a hopeful sign in a city where thousands of homes have been left derelict but small comfort in the heart of baltimore's worsening cycle of daily violence. more than 300 homicides making this year the deadliest per capita in the city's history. victims like kendall fenwick father of three who tried stop the drug dealing around his home. >> we certainly need to be outraged when someone like him is killed, in this manner. >> i don't think that the freag incident caused to it get worse. i think the symptoms are still the same. poverty, people fighting for territory. it's supply and demand. people just need jobs.

>> these appeals for against violence,. >> we are showing what is a viable alternative to some of these beard up properties. turning them into a community assess. >> his group's streets marches have focused on crime prevention and providing local youth with leadership skills rather than proafltinprotesting abuse he by. >> bad individuals who put on a badge. we can't ostracize or isolate ourselves from the entire function of police officers because we need people to fight the bad guys. because we have too many bad guys in our communities. >> reporter: some defenders of the police have questioned whether they responded to the protests by relaxing their enforcement of the law and thereby aggravating the conditions for violence.

but america's top law enforcement official discounts any such police backlash. >> there's no data to support it and what i have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication commitment and resolve of our men and women in law enforcement to repair policing. >> relations with the police may be a recurring struggle. tom a.r.m.man, al jazeera, baltimore. >> china's currency is to be included in the international monetarinternationalmonetary fuf currencies. only the american dollar, japanese yen, british pound and european euro are part of that basket. >> a journey that has begun months if not years ago. a journey which is a transition

towards more market-driven principle of the macroeconomic framework of china, it's a milestone in a journey that will continue indeed and will include certainly more reforms that will add to the existing reforms that have been decided by the chinese authorities in the last few months. >> at least 17 inmates have been killed during a riot at an overcrowded guatemalan prison. inmates fought with guns and knives, within 70 kilometers of the capital city. inmates who don't belong to the gans, 2,000 riot police went in to restore order. the facility was built for 600 people but currently has 3100

inmates. results are expected soon in burkina faso, an uprising toppled blaise compaore from power. people hadn't bens informed about a security drill and panicked fearing exercise was a real tack. as many as 40 people were injured. indiana is trying to convert massive amounts of gold held privately into people's is homes into new funding for its economy. as fez jamil reports, the indian public don't seem to be buying it. >> gold is big business in india. used in daily life and on special occasions, as security and a sign of prosperity. now the government wants some of that wealth to be put into the financial system. it has created several new mechanisms such as depositing gold in exchange for interest.

but people here will need some praying. persuading. >> it sounds good but most people don't know about it. we will only put our gold in if we believe our family will benefit from this thing. >> gold holds special significance in indian culture. >> here they want to be able to touch and feel gold in their hands and be able to see it. it's not just gold it is the goddess of wealth. people take special care of their gold, there is a tradition of mothers passing on to their daughters. >> some of the new gold programs haven't caught on. getting indians to part with their gold hasn't been easy. the gold programs having a lukewarm reception. the government trying to push

the country's private gold wealth into the economy because of the potential benefits. holding an estimated 20,000 metric tons of gold worth about $800 billion. analysts believe even a fraction of that put into the financial system would make india a top economy, those in the gold sector say the government program suspect working. >> translator: the regular bank deposit's rate is between 7 and 8% but the government's gold deposit rate was just 2.5%. which is too low. if it was higher maybe the scheme would be successful. the labor charges are being borne by the customer. it seems the government has not made these calculations before launching the scheme. this is why it is not working. >> also any gold being didn'ted would first be required to be

melted down and processed at the owner's expense. means most people are not able to weigh the program's benefits to themselves or to the country. fez jamil, al jazeera, amnebad, india. >> you can find out much from our website, aljazeera.com. billions of dollars in commercial traffic, this canal is considered a wonder of the engineering world. >> okay, vamos. >> nicaraguans pacific coast line, still untouched by development. but perhaps not for long. it could soon feature another grand canal, one designed to accommodate the largest ships on the planet. but even before ground is broken, this canal is filled with controversy.