earlier today expected and garner drum pads and. requesting for. peace talks and trying to bring the oblong taliban to the negotiating table imraan khan of said that pakistan would do whatever it spots abroad in order to achieve peace in afghanistan and to find an end to that seventeen year old conflict as voters buggiest on that if you look at that situation recently the taliban they agreed to go to mosque all four dogs and also have been holding talks with the americans. still has some leverage over the afghan taliban but you're absolutely right right now they're winning the war in afghanistan they have most of their candidate under their control and their stated that morning that we're drawing of foreign forces from of one at stanford it's going to be interesting to see whether they will listen to. august on of course saying that they will do whatever. they

have said all along that the negotiations and of one has done have to be of one own and of on leg still to come here on al-jazeera astronauts preparing to head up to the international space station will have a live update from russia. protests in the french capital continue against a few times wrong as those drivers furious president emanuel back will be like this interest. hello the cold weather is pushing its way across the northern parts of asia now you can see the area of cloud on the satellite picture this is the leading edge of that cool air and as it works its way southwards it really is dragging down the temperatures sofa vladivostok then on maximum want to say we're just before but we're still in the mild a poor if and now it will be thirty degrees as that system pushes its way across to

say wednesday will be a quite a dramatic change for a supporters maximum this time just five and it will be a lot brighter as well so that rain generally moving away from japan as we head through wednesday and the temperatures struggling as a result towards the west it's already pretty cold for us in beijing the temperature will just be two degrees i mean further towards the south you see this huge area of what whether the stretching its way across the central belt of china shanghai is looking fairly wet but that does clear as we head into wednesday so bright a cooler day force this time with a maximum just of fourteen further south the hong kong we should be getting to around twenty five degrees which is seventy seven hundred fahrenheit a bit further towards the south we've got a few showers in most of those in the east impost of the philippines further west it looks like most of us should get away with a dry a day ok as you head down towards borneo sunshine a shower is the order of the day here to some showers do look at be pretty heavy.

the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns do you want to. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspective dominates american media coverage for part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it when i go what you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. welcome back updating our top stories for you so far today cats are withdrawing

from opec next month to boost its position as the world's number one exporter of liquefied natural gas cattle petroleum plans to increase output from seventy seven million tons a year to one hundred ten million. hundreds of private messages sent between jamal khashoggi and a saudi dissident showed the journalist was planning an online movement that would have helped the kingdom to account she called mohammed bin some of the beast who would devour or in his path donald trump has written to the pakistani prime minister imran khan perching him to help arrange talks taliban leaders in afghanistan the afghan president outlined a roadmap for peace last week on the deal could take five years to implement. the world bank says it's doubling funding to two hundred billion dollars to help poorer countries cope with climate change from comes as leaders gather in poland for un led talks known as the conference of the parties aimed at tackling global

warming leaders and delegates from nearly two hundred nations including the un secretary general and two new terrors have two weeks to agree on the details of the twenty fifteen paris climate a court we are in trouble we are in deep trouble with climate change climate change is running faster than we. and we much catch up sooner rather than later before it is too late. for many people regions even countries this is already a matter of life or death and this meeting is the most important gathering on climate change since the various agreement was signed it's if these are the two of us states the urgency of our situation in a club as more as the crucial climate talks proceed in poland's most scientists now agree that we've entered a new segment of geological time the anthropocene where human impact is the most

significant force in nature in the way greenhouse gases sproule consumerism and technology are altering the planet just as big glass is all strikes have done but when did this manmade change begin well is done a lot now reports the answer may lie beneath a small body of water just outside toronto protected by strict conservation laws crawford lake is relatively pristine it's deep low in oxygen waters produce sediments that can be accurately dated year by year like the rings of a tree these scientists are gathering and freezing centuries old layers of mud and material to try to find out when the anthropocene began this is an annual natural archive of all of the impact on the lake so it preserves chemical biological physical things on an annual basis on

a reliable annual basis this is the mouth part of a fly back at the lab professor mccarthy examines mud layers looking for fossilized plants and animals other researchers find radioactivity from nuclear bomb tests six decades ago plastic particles and other changes that can only have been introduced by humans the work that's going on here at crawford lake is more than just science it's also about focusing the minds of governments policymakers and the public on how to curb some of the things we're doing to this planet. earth scientists who specialize in dating geological time are watching closely and finding compelling proof that we are in the early years of the anthropocene what's important here all the critical feedback mechanisms that kick in the earth really operating as a system and saying that's it i can't cope with this anymore and then it then starts to respond. at this toronto art gallery the evidence of human impact on

display is in startling imagery of mining farming industry and urbanization it's art aimed at forcing us to think about how much impact we've already had through pollution climate change and population growth i think the artist ultimately want us to think about how we've built what we've belts and how we can build something different how we can build perhaps perhaps solve the problem our change mitigate some of the impacts we've had it'll be at least two years before a final decision on the start of the anthropocene and this small body of water near canada's largest city will a played a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done about human impact on the planet daniel lak al jazeera crawford lake near toronto. turn your attention to europe now antigovernment protests continued in france on monday as ambulance workers blocked traffic to manned better working conditions protesters set fire in set fires in front of the national assembly building in

paris it comes in the wake of france's worst urban riots in years with four hundred people arrested in paris on saturday the testers are angry over a rise in price of diesel fuel because of a manual my phone's new tanks let's take you live now to paris and my colleague david chase and david you know they're surrounded by noisy ambulances but this is no emergency there today so what's going on. it's a very loud protests as you can review and it's meant for the end these in the national assembly just beyond the the concord bridge because they're passing legislation this afternoon which is effectively going to rob the private ambulance drivers who are gathered here blocking the bridge of what they say is a living in town now this is not part of the yellow this protest this is it

entirely different protest against the legislation that's going to be passed which an essentially need that so our hospitals and clinics can decide rather than all the patients which ambulances to call and that means that the big bang and ambulance companies you've got economies of scale will get most of the work and these people here will be deprived of their living that's what their protest you about. a seven approaches on the periphery motorways around paris at the beginning of november but of course they have to be very much in boulder by the yellow those protests but they make it very clear they are not part of that protest the finance minister was talking a little earlier today saying the government would aim to cut taxes as well as public spending is that actually a concession. yes i heard the

comments from bruno lemaire some people are saying it's concession but listening to what he said which he said that they've got to speed up the tax cuts as well as the public spending that is already the policy president and manual macro he's got to balance the tax cuts with cuts in public spending so this is not really a concession to the yellow vests in any way this doesn't mention the fuel price rises that are just it doesn't really address the concerns of the yellow vests so i think you cannot see this is any form of concession but it's clear that president macron has ordered his ministers to try and diffuse this protest because it really is gaining traction across france and very much closing in around his own presidency there saying that he doesn't care about the ordinary working people here and that is essentially the president of the rich we've heard that before but as i

say it's gaining traction across the country and we'll see another yellow vests protest in paris on that saturday they're likely to change the the area of the protests but it's raised by social media so it's very unclear whether that will happen or where all happen but meanwhile of course the prime minister is trying to arrange meetings with so-called leaders of the you know the best protest and also party leaders here at the national assembly to see if they can calm things down david thanks very much. the protests have also been taking place on the french island you know from you know miller has more now from san andreas. protests have gone into their third week here in a song hungry in reunion yellow vests here say they want to make life difficult on the island it's the only way they can show resistance they're letting calls through

very slowly just making it difficult for people here to get around on the main road networks but of course there has been some anger with. a lot of other stuff in the yellow this say they're determined to show the government of that they're serious about their demands they say they're speaking a different language and all their discussions until now have come to naught they say they will continue with these protests and defied the government as long as they possibly can because they say until now the french government has not heard their pleas but just along for most is sick it's been fifteen days of protests we thought it would bring us results that that would be enough but it's not the government is not speaking the same language as the people they think we're idiots so we're not going to move we will stay here. astronauts from the u.s. russia and canada are going to launch the international space station for the first time after having to abort a mission less than two months ago or

a challenge joins us live now from moscow rory given what happened two months ago how much is riding on this. yeah october eleventh was the last time that a manned soyuz mission took off and that ended in disaster thankfully a disaster. didn't injure or kill anyone but yeah it was a two man crew that went up. in october it was two minutes into that flights when a problem occurs basically meant that the booster separation fails the capsule carrying the two men had to float back to worthing land in kazakstan the problem was determined to be a sensor on board which had malfunctioned in some way now in north of november ross cosmos the russian space agency's chief demitra goes unsaid that's the problem with this sensor was likely to be accidental but law enforcement agencies were looking

into who might have been responsible this then is the first man soyuz mission since then it's got a different crew as you said a russian called the anchor and an american called an mclean and a canadian davidson jack you might forgive them for feeling a little bit nervous about this but speaking at the press conference recently other come in yonkers said that risk is part of our profession and mclean said she feels ready for it and the canadian said he thought that so use was incredibly safe how does this fit with the general states of russia's space program. well i mean ross cosmos has big dreams it is. in the process of trying to work out whether it can feasibly gets a fully functional space station on the moon up and running between twenty

thirty six and twenty forty. but it's it's a it's a space agency which does have problems at the moment in november there was an in reports released by russian governmental body which was basically looking at massive kind of inefficiencies and also corruption inside cosmos basically saying that there have been numerous. crimes committed there basically over over the years of the last administration should be pointed out at the moment so use is the only platform that delivers people up to the space station so it's is essential for nasa and the russians to basically get people up to space and to stay out there however there is problems within the organization of course which i just talked about but also there are problems outside of ruffles because most as well

which spell i think you know storm clouds on the horizon for for this russian space program basically space x. this corporate or commercial american operator when that gets up and running which it will do likely very soon it is going to undercut cost most basically have real usable space rock is going up and coming back down again and i think that means that ross cosmos has significant problems going forward what also that might mean is that if the americans are using their own platforms to go up to space and back that is likely to mean less cooperation in the long run between russia and the united states and let's face it space cooperation is one of the few areas of corporation that they have left rory thanks very much. ukraine is building up its military capability as reservists are being called up to training centers large scale exercises are expected in the coming days and it follows russia's seizure of

three ukrainian ships and twenty four crew members in the black sea just over a week ago now ukraine wants nato to deploy ships to the region with russia blockading ports the nato secretary general the and stoltenberg says russia must allow freedom of navigation for those ukrainian vessels there is no justification for this use of force we call for call and restraint russia must release the ukrainian sailors and shapes it must also allow freedom over navigation and unhindered access to ukraine imports in the sea of also off ukrainian vessels military as well as civilian have the right to navigate through the kirks strait and the sea also. this is al jazeera these are your headlining stories cattle is withdrawing from

opec next month as opposed to its position as the world's number one exporter liquefied natural gas the state owned cats are petroleum company plans to increase output from seventy seven million tonnes a year to one hundred ten million in our pursuit to strengthen the other's position as a reliable and trustworthy energy supplier across the globe. we have had taken steps to review the role in contribution of the international in our international energy scene we also saw that wish to enhance that all and those contributions in a manner that help achieve our strategy and joked is for the long. hundreds of private messages sent between jamal khashoggi and a saudi dissident show the journalist was planning an online movement that would hold the kingdom to account she called mohammed bin samana a beast who would devour all his off ukraine army reservists are being asked to

report for duty it follows russia's seizure of three ukrainian ships in the black sea more than a week ago ukraine wants nato to deploy its navy to the region there is no justification for this use of force we call for call and restraint russia must release the ukrainian sailors and shapes it must also allow freedom over navigation and only hindered access to ukraine in ports in the sea of us off ukrainian vessels military as well as civilian have the right to navigate through the kirks strait and the sea also ok let's take you live now to the baikonur cosmodrome there we go what you're watching just now is the first manned space mission the international space station since that unprecedented accident last october it did raise concerns about moscow soviet design space craft oleic can and then code of the russian space agency and mcclain

of nasa and davidson jack of the canadian space agency brushing aside any possible worries about safety concerns gets thirsty. up next. can emanuel macron survive the biggest challenge to his presidency barricades and in paris for successive saturday fuel tax protests and calls for the president to resign how can he sold the crisis this is inside story.

hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura carlisle the door with graffiti cloaked in clouds of tear gas it's all becoming a familiar story and paris the famous sights of the french capital turned into a battleground for a third successive weekend yellow vest protest as again venting their fury at the rising price of keeping their calls on the road and increasing calls for president to resign facing the biggest challenge to his eighteen month presidency flew home from the g twenty summit in argentina for an emergency government meeting is not just next month's propose fuel tax rise which is infuriating many falling living standards arts whom. this report from paris. the yellow vest rebellion once more brought the streets of central paris to a standstill balticon a tear gas and stun grenades were used by the riot police to try and disperse the

protests as in a series of running confrontations. this time it was the ark to triumph that was the focus for some of the fiercest clashes the iconic symbol of france occupied and defying the country's most. we had the arab spring and now we are getting their european wing terrio as the day drew on the violence in the surrounding avenues so police vehicles and cars being taught soon even buildings set alight it was meant to have been a peaceful protest a small minority carried out the attacks the rest were demanding the resignation of president macro a yellow test of. will continue not on into the night but into next week once again . to kick out most real threats politically to president might cause the

ministration from a platform in argentina though he had a defiant message for them open goes. no cause justifies that security forces are attacked shops pillaged public or private buildings set on fire conditions or journalists threatened or that the prion is sullied. the protests were even violent in last week's demonstrations there were more arrests and more injuries there seems little chance of reconciliation any time soon david j. to al-jazeera paris. let's bring in our guests now today in paris. c.e.o. of terrorists a consultancy firm focus on global risks and city to intelligence and also a former french their prime at and assemble rami borgia an economist at the french institute of international strategic affairs also an investment strategist and via

skype in coventry david lee is a lecturer in french studies at the university of work by war welcome to all of you and first to you because you were with us last week talking about these protests they were much more violent this weekend why do you think that was. you know because it is the result of the fact the government has not addressed properly. going on and the nature of the demonstrators claims that there is no way the movement has been radicalized due to the lack of. strong just coming from the governments as if he'll that they have to to go further in violence in order to be heard it's what we can say to explain but i don't have a hero in the way we like to say anything there just to clarify as our

correspondent david tate's has been keen to point out that there are two distinct groups of people on the streets of paris you've got the yellow vest movement which are peaceful protesters and then you have a far right far left extremists and advocates mixed up and they are the main cause of the violence aren't they. yeah but i mean you are always in any demonstrations you have always radical groups lake of left wing all right wing so i mean i was just saying that i mean even the peaceful people they have been radicalized due to what i said previously of course you have always groups violent which has nothing to do directly to the claims but after it's also due to let's say the where how the security has been set up for a min to do prefer the demonstration that has been i mean announced one week

ago so i mean it's very difficult to iran's to set up a good security system when you you don't know exactly where are the most threat or a weak good so there really is a reason why is it is it couldn't anticipate on. how what place to secure and how many people will be there and her insulin if i don't sit around here in a point just to get some idea from you remy how do you feel the government has handled this crisis so far. well they didn't expect the demonstration to last and too to become so widespread throughout the country so they're really surprised they didn't want to. abandon the tax hikes and now they say it's too late to do so so they don't have

a clear strategy at this point to deal with this protest just a few months ago after my course of action there was this kind of consensus about a structural reforms and he's european agenda but all of that is told in the moment and there's a clear lack of a strategy best an economist strategy that could also benefit those social groups and the working class in particular. and a more political way to address this huge dissatisfaction with and within society it's clearly a turning point for for this presidency and this this this elements of surprise that prevents them from from tackling the situation effectively and david do you agree with that do you agree that the government where it's fooling down but failing is in its delivery of its message as to how these economic reforms will

benefit the people of france. yes i mean i think. he's really proving himself to be able to hear someone lethal at the moment you know he doesn't seem to really understand the genuine concerns of ordinary working people and i think it's something which is to be in that case very ever since he was elected with. sort of divergence between the very real popular sentiments in france the move which seems to be very much a sense of discontent around these increased taxes on the easel and it's a killer and of course the political landscape in france and i promise a huge majority in a national assembly any major reforms he wishes to try and implement in frank political economic terms can be implemented without any major opposition politically but in terms of what he's actually trying to achieve as it's apparent that cross the whole country and the ordinary. sense of aloofness and uncertainty

and i think this relationship to communicate in earnest a meaningful way with ordinary votes is. would you agree with that and i mean would you say that the problem with present is more down to his style than his substance that perhaps he does come across as too arrogant but the reforms that he's trying to implement are necessary for france well i think first of all as there is not a lack of strategy i sing that the his position is that he has been elected for his program and his program is to. implement reform his program is based on how to reform the country the so now is. he's in a tricky situation in the meaning that. he doesn't want to be like the previous government meaning governing who which usually pull

back for any kind of reform the difference is that now the way how the people demonstrate that they don't disagree is no more through a political representative like may or lower leader and so and so i mean that he's in that confrontation with the people which is very new so i mean there is a lack of communication because you have no more mediation who is the political representative rocor original and so on so i mean is a tree in district a position admitting that he has been elected for being different than the r.'s are but finally. he is that he has to now it has to show that he has understood properly the people that pulling back from his i mean changing is

a program when that will be a good situation good jest or just to. cooler than the situation otherwise we are going to be to have people more and more radicalizing ok let's let in for many . people on at this point in time is actually going to be willing to change his program because he hasn't given any indication that that's the case well he's really sticking to this kind of checklist of structural reforms and that's one of the problems actually they suppress a consistent trying to to to check all the boxes in a checklist and there's a lack of a more profound economic strategy especially in the ston of industrial revolution of great technological chanche and and those structural reforms some of them do make sense but they're a little to generate too systematic and so all the reforms everybody's been

speaking off for the past twenty years and now times have changed as been a global financial crisis and the concern about equality inequality is a non-married of issues so people fail to see really what's well have what kind of empire these reforms will have in terms of long term growth and how they will improve their living standards and they are really exist tensional concerns about harnessing and jobs you can see now that the demands of the demonstrators broadening very fast on the minimal wage all kind of issues it's not.