>> argentina's outgoing president stays away from the inauguration of her successor, getting underway right now. welcome to al jazeera from doha. iraq suffers more losses in ramadi as the u.s. says it's ready to help retaking the is it i from isil. in alaska in the northwest corner of the united states, on the front lines of climate

change. i'll look at the people who live here and their efforts to avoid being climate change refugees. senior jen tina's president-elect is to take office in a couple of hours, winning on a promise to revive the economy. an inauguration ceremony is about to get underway. out going president curb never won't be attending. we are live in the argentine capital. one big absentee on the guest list for the inauguration party. why is the outgoing president not showing up? >> i'm here right in front of congress, the people gathering here for what they say is a historical day. there will be a swearing in

ceremony, he'll address congress and head to the presidential palace, where a unique handover ceremony is going to take place. the outgoing president kirchner won't be there. there's been a dispute in the last week about where the handover ceremony should take place. the president wanted it to take place here in congress while the president-elect wanted it to follow tradition in the presidential palace. kirchner decided not to show up today. she asked members from congress in her party not to attend the swearing in ceremony. this is an example of what's been happening in argentina. a demonstration by kirchner supporters was canceled at the last minute. it could have ended up in violence. >> economic concerns brought

mackni to this point. what is expected from him once he gets into office. >> it depends who you ask. the people here saying that they want an end to the polarization that has existed in the country. above anything else, they want the economic situation to improve, inflation is one of their biggest worries. that is going to be maurice macri's biggest challenge. >> the leader of the workers union says he's ready to confront the government if macri's policies hurt people like him. >> we are worried. even though argentina voted for a change, macri is a representative of the right. if macri doesn't keep campaign

promises, then we will be on the streets. >> macri is taking office in a divided country, where many voted for change after 12 years of the center left government of christina kirchner. there is still many others who support the former government's message of economic sovereignty and social justice. >> one is a free market model, the model of macri. the other was the support of social appealses and i understand allegation with the rest of latin america. we wait to see what the next president will do. >> macri has said that one of the first measures he will take to fix the economic situation is to liberalize the exchange rate that has been controlled for years in argentina. that could cause inflation to

spike and that's precisely what worries people here, that if that happens, a new government won't improve the situation. >> the situation i guess more complicated than theout going government would like to admit. >> all the coffers are empty in the argentine economy. if you look at the central bank, there are no dollars, no reserves. if you look at the treasury and the deficit is bigger and biller, so basically, the new government will try to open the drawers and nothing will be there, so the key question is how do you reconstruct a base of resources, so you can make a new start for the argentine economy. >> the challenge will be to do it without hurting argentina's most vulnerable. >> macri is expected to start

taking economic measures and announce immediately among them the liberalizing the exchange rate. mental funds are referred to as vultures by the argentina government. that is going to generate lots of reaction here in argentina. >> thanks so much. >> 27 iraqi soldiers have been killed fighting isil in rimadi. the army captured the city in may. the united states is offering to send personnel and equipment to help iraqi forces retake the city. >> there has been success in the last 24 hours. the anbar operations command center which the military base, so this scene is a very key success in taking the suburbs of rimadi with the push into

ramadi. we've seen isil fight back. they'll been shelling groups and we've seen 27 people killed. this fight is nowhere over, but and it is very important city in the fight. you can route isil from the city and take it over. it will be a big defeat, meaning isil are losing more territory. al abadi has asked for help and said that he would like the u.s. to step up their efforts in the fight against isil, particularly when it comes to heavy machinery, training and intelligence gathering. the idea of u.s. troops on the ground here is one that's going to be counterproductive, because isil want u.s. troops on the ground here in iraq. for them, it means that they get a chance to fight them on the ground, meaning their recruitment will grow, as well. we saw this in 2006, 2007 and 2008. his comments have been speaking to people throughout the day

here. miss comments seem to be more explaining that the americans are playing in iraq to americans rather than any formal offer made to prime minister al abadi. >> gulf leaders renewed their position that ballgame has no place in syria's future. the saudi foreign minister told the gulf corporation council immediating he hopes the syrian opposition will consolidate its position. the talks are held at the same time as those between syrian government and opposition groups. >> hoping to strengthen their position when it comes to any negotiations and talks for a political solution based on geneva one may lead to an establishment of a temporary authority paving the way for a new constitution and for a new future in syria with no place at all for bashar al assad. bashar al assad has two options,

to leave the scene of talks and negotiations or by force. if the sir you know people reject bashar al assad and reject his regime in syria. the war in yemen was discussed at the g.c.c. leaders meeting. now the saudi-led coalition said it is taking control of islands off the coast of yemen. according to saudi tate media, houthi fighters have been driven from the islands on the red sea. they are close to a major shipping route between europe, the gulf and asia. an analyst from the doha institute center for research and policy studies says the remaining issue is deciding when the syrian president shoulding. >> these are the two biggest challenges facing the g.c.c. countries, the situation in yemen is no less complicate than syria where you have this on

going conflict actually, but here, we have the g.c.c. countries onboard, literally onboard, saudi arabia and qatar in this conflict. not everybody has come to the conclusion that there might not be a solution to this crisis. we may need to try to solve this problem, because in the whole region, actually, it's proved to be something that is almost impossible to solve problems using military means. i mean, the war in syria has been going on for the past five years and yemen now we are almost a year into this conflict. >> germany has registered its 1 million's asylum seeker of the year, making it the top destination for people fleeing conflict and oppression. many are escaping the syrian war. 2,000 asylum seekers registered in november alone.

the u.n. wants the two rival administrations to form a single unity government. one is based in tobruk, the other in tripoli. the special envoy is meeting both sides in tunisia ahead of a major conference in rome on sunday. four organizations that helped to shorten tunisia's transition to democracy have been awarded the nobel peace prize. the quartet made up of human rights groups and lawyers are honored in norway. the alliance was formed when tunisia was at a crossroads between democracy and violence. the committee praised the group for steering tunisia away from the prospects of civil war. >> this year's prize is truly a bryce for peace awarded against a backdrop of unrest and war. in the summer of 2013, tunisia was on the brink of civil war.

the quartet's resolute intervention helped to halt the spiraling violence and put developments on a peaceful track. >> the ahead of afghanistan's intelligence agency resigned over disagreement with president ashraf ghani. his resignation followed a siege at the kandahar airport. we have more from kabul. >> president begani said he reluctantly accepted the resignation of the head of the intelligence service, publicly disagreed with the president over his policy on pakistan and the taliban, president ashraf ghani just returned. while he was talking about appeals with the taliban, the taliban were launches attacks here in afghanistan that spilled afghan blood. he also said that the pakistan

shelters enemies of afghanistan, president ghani said he did not want to change his head of intelligence service but accepted his resignation. of course the taliban attack, the highest pro feel attack that went on while penalty ghani was in pakistan was on the biggest military complex. it killed 70 people, including afghan security forces, civilians, women, and children. it was an attack that went on for more than 24 hours as taliban fighters battled with afghan security forces. a lot of weapons, question being asked today, the government has launched investigation about how the taliban got into that highly fortified complex and of course the resignation of the chief of the intelligence service show the difficulties about how to deal with the taliban while the president says he would like to make peace with those who would like a lay down arms, the tall

bonn clearly continuing they're fighting here. >> stay with you also here on al jazeera. still to come, a world first, a new vaccine against dengue fever gets approved in mexico. i'm in south africa, find out how these girls were forced into marriage and what the government is trying to do to end child marriages.

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argentina's president-elect macri is about to get underway. outgoing president won't attend because of a agreement over the venue for the ceremony. 27 iraqi soldiers have been killed fighting isil in rimadi. gulf leaders renewed their position that bashar al assad has no place in syria's future. the saudi foreign minister told the gulf corporation council meeting in riyadh he hopes the syrian opposition wilson sol date its position. >> in paris, environmentalists are debating a shorter draft of the u.n. backed international climate agreement. friday is the last day for the deal that will set carbon emission limits. some major sticking points remain. our environment editor nick

clark is live from paris for us. nick, not a lot of time left, is there, before that friday deadline. are they going to pull it off? >> remains to be seen what happens over the next 24 ours or so. we had the draft text which has been whittled down, progress in the right direction, was. now we're hearing that there's going to be another in carnation of the draft text in the comes hours. we shall see if that materializes and how it is received by the parties. a view behind me what is going on in the negotiating rooms. what's your take on where we're at with this text? >> a new text was released yesterday evening. it was in some ways received,

progress has been made. it was a sense that it was still a little bit unbalanced, so the parties discussed for a few hours the issues that are still remaining and have ever since been formal and informal discussions. we expect a new text to come this evening at 6:00. then it will be received and we'll have to see what's in it. issues that remains to be looked at as of yesterday, there are no issues of differentiation, financing, overambitious goal of 1.5 or are we staying at two, issues to be resolved. we are hopeful that the 6:00 text will get us closer to the deadline tomorrow. >> it is not that far from what could be the finished version. >> it could be, but, you know, often these discussions go on very long and they might be a little bit delayed. the good news is they have already started translating, checking the parts of the agreement that are already agreed on, so they are preparing everything they can to make the

deadline but we won't know until 6:00 this evening whether we'll get there tomorrow night or not. >> of course that's only the beginning of the road. there's hard work to do especially from your point of view at the undp. >> we are on the ground in many countries and are working to translating this into real action. paris is just the beginning. the great thing about the paris agreement is for the first time, everybody agrees to do this together, but a lot of work has to be done, shifting from fossil fools, investing into technology energies, working with adaptation of development coming, affecting today as we speak. most importantly, also mobilizing private sector. we do know private sector cannot do this alone. we require investment. investment exists, we need to allow these investors to go in with a level of acceptance acceptable to them.

>> we'll see how it all pans out. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> one of the worst affected places hit by climate change is of course alaska where average temperatures are already at four degrees celsius above the norm, and sea ice and ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. we have this report. >> people have been living on this small remote side for centuries. now the rising waters and storm surges of the bering sea are washing away the lands and their homes. >> my grandparents home, the ocean took before the sea wall got built. we watch the e. watched the land erode, foul into the ocean. not much we can do. >> u.s. military engineers built stone barriers to halted erosion somewhat, but they're a temporary measure. in 2002, villagers voted to move their community inland.

since then, little's been done and people now want to stay, despite the dangers. >> we are traditionally the peoples of the coast. we move to the mainland, we're going to lose our identity. we are not going to be that community anymore. >> in a high school signs class focused on climate change, students learn about greenhouse gases and global efforts to curb them. they measure coastal erosion and conduct research by surveying community elders about what has changed during their lives. >> every single person we talk to talked about something different, whether it was how the ice was here later forming later, or berries on the land or how the water got this changed. >> there are a view places where the impact of climate change is more obvious than here. people have seen houses wash

away. moving elsewhere is unthinkable. >> it has become a worldwide symbol for the changing north. temperatures are warming twice at fast as elsewhere. perma front of the is melting, glaciers retreating. hotter drier summers bring wildfires and even more impacts on indigenous people. alaska considers itself the last frontier in the u.s. where people work hard to earn a living from a rugged, challenging landscape. climate change is taken more seriously here than elsewhere in the country, because its effects are ever present and happening right now. >> there has been a building awareness, particularly in the arctic that the arctic is at the leading edge of change. i also worry at the same time that the environment is changing so fast that we may not be able to catch up. >> meeting those challenges will be daunting, expensive and

uncertain, but alaska will have to try. it's young and growing population will demand no less. daniel lack, al jazeera. >> daniel lack on the problems faced in alaska, so here in paris, got next focus will be around 6:00 where we expect the latest version of the draft text. we'll see how it all works out. >> thanks so much, nick. rights groups in south africa are trying to end the tradition where young girls are abducted for marriage. the children are often forced to marry older men, in a custom. we have the story from the eastern cape province. >> these girls know about the custom. they never thought it would happen to them. they were 14 years old when they were taken from home and married. their parents told them to try

and make their marriages work. >> they said one of them, here's the wife, you are going to marry with them and then they forced me to marry. >> when they eventually ran away from their husbands, the police took them to this safe house, a home for vulnerable girls. traditional leaders say in the old days, the custom happened between two consenting adults when talks over the bride price failed, the couple would facing the abduction of the woman, forcing her parents to come and resume negotiations. >> there are those people who maliciously and mischievously exploit the good intentions of this cultural right, especially by abducting young girls, force them into a marriage, especially with very old partners.

>> the scars and shame remain. this woman was forced to marry in 1970 fore when she was a school girl. she never finished her education. she now believes forcing a girl to marry is wrong. >> he held me down and raped me. i was a virgin. it was painful. i have never been able to leave him. >> the custom is often practices in secret. many don't get caught but there have been a few convictions. >> one man has been sentenced in 15 years. another one, both families, the in-laws were descendents. we are now amending the law again to further define a sexual offense. >> in this village in the eastern cape, disputes and cultural matters are mediated by a traditional chief. poverty and sometimes a refusal to change old ways make it difficult to stop child

marriages. activists still hope to convince women in conservative societies not to do to their daughters what their mothers did to them. al jazeera, south africa. >> the troubled car maker volkswagen vowed to focus on winning back the trust of its customers. the firm has been struggling to contain a scandal involving the emissions measurements. it's pledged to start testing owl vehicle emissions with a third party verifying the results. >> our most important task and important challenge now is to win back that trust. that is why we must continue to act with credibility and determination so that we can deal rigorously with mistakes of the past and make sure something like this never happens again. >> the world first vaccine against dengue fever has been approved by regulators in

mexico. the virus carried by mosquitoes can kill in some cases. as many as 4 million people are infected every year. a professor of microbiology says the vaccine must be widely used in order for it to significantly reduce the number of cases. >> this is going to be a uniquely for many vaccines, this is a vaccine really mailed for dengue fever in countries, a vaccine given over three doses, three vaccinations, given to children older than nine years of age and evidence from clinical research trials is this can prevent hospitalization in around 80% of those who get vaccinated, so this is good news. the profile of this vaccine tells us that it would need to

be very, very widely used to cause a very major reduction in the prevalence of dengue fever. we think it will rules dengue fever, reduce the numbers of particularly children and young adults who end up in hospital but it won't eradicate dengue fever. we will still need mosquito control to prevent dengue fever transmission. >> cleared of killing a man in a car crash, mumbai's high court threw out his earlier conviction and sentence. in 2002, he was accused of driving while drunk into a group of homeless people. the court said there wasn't enough evidence to prove khan was the driver of the car. that brings us almost to the

end of the show. you can of course keep up to date with all the news i've been telling you about if you head over to our website. you can see the front page there with our lead story, the situation in iraq, owl that for you at aljazeera.com. that's aljazeera.com. calls for sweeping police reform in chicago. will the call for a new police superintendent calm tensions in the city. a supreme court justice suggestion affirmative action puts african-american students in schools that may be too challenging. lawmakers on capitol hill voted to end the era of no child left behind.