in the region there are twenty one candidates competing in the presidential race joseph kabila who's been running the country for seventeen years would not take on another term really for some he's been accused of vote rigging in the past and his final term expired two years ago. but his refusal to step down sparked by inclining doesn't with carrots he's chosen emmanuel dari as his successor but he's on the e.u. sanctions list be human rights crimes in the region which he was responsible for at the interior minister one of the biggest issues for any new president is the a pull out rate which is now the second largest on record. council measures have been taken in order to control decide break and we are currently controlling the side break in different areas for now as people prepared to vote for a new leadership many hope violence doesn't hinder efforts against the fatal

disease laura but unmanly al-jazeera delegates from around two hundred nations meeting in poland the un climate change talks known as call twenty four hoping to negotiate a way of implementing the two thousand and fifteen paris climber's accord and as our environment editor nick clark explains denmark has been named one of the top countries in the fight against global warming. now the global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions and old cars planes trains and ships combined but that's not a fact you'll see advertised on meat products although denmark is considering new laws on food labeling which would oblige food manufacturers and supermarkets to put labels on their products that rate their impact on the environment and the climate and that means everything from a beef burger to a bottle of yes insects juice ferdinand's back explain.

in this supermarket the label on the potatoes or sausages state you're about to buy those soon be able to tell you exactly how much damage it's done to fleming's. in an attempt to reduce its garment emissions and slow down climate change the danish government wants to introduce a new rating label for food products consumers are very. concerned about the climate change and if you if you look at this. with the climate labeling on will we consume or get information ok and they want to make it change one to do something. and then they can say ok because it's more climate friendly when it comes to our carbon footprints not all products are made the same some require a lot of land and water resources well other products had to be transported for hundreds of kilometers by plains or in order to get here adding to pollution.

agriculture is one of the major contributors to the level of carbon emissions that's driving climate change worldwide denmark is building wind farms promoting energy efficiency and getting rid of fossil fuels cars and also wants to reduce pollution caused by the food industry in order to have zero emissions by the year two thousand and fifty but developing a label that calculates that won't be an easy task some say it will be a waste of valuable time it's going to be very complicated as we look at look on this label. our our fears that the consumers will be maybe even more confused because now you have another label on top of all the other labels that exists and really i think we need to act now. we know what has to be done we need to eat less meat of the same thing that it was a little label system will not save the planet. but radically changing our eating habits will says does insect farmer teaching the next generation to cook with

larvae i am worms instead of meat he says is far more effective. so insects are the answer because they pollute a hundred times less than beef does for instance and we want to make further that the children know this because basically they are the habitants of the world of the future to the time i came when i was like. well most seem to agree there isn't much time left to bring global warming closer to the forefront of people's minds solutions on how to feed the world in the future without destroying each fairy and some. might take a bit of courage for announcer al jazeera open hafen. with the news out life from london more still ahead for you going to bring you the story of a young afghan boy next named little messy on the run from the taliban.

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league games so far this season with one draw with the only blemish on their record in to remain third in the table behind. english champions manchester city have also made an unbeaten start to be a premier league campaign they travel to fourth place chelsea on saturday chelsea lost last time out and the boss of the london club study admits he has no idea how to get the better of pep guardiola side. difficult maybe at the moment to burst the new rope. nobody world that is relieved who would be. against were. lost every minute so i don't know you have to ask somebody who. has fifty sixty month who are consistent every three days that is the most difficult thing which in business and then be seven games but sixty mount every three days that is a more difficult in all sports than normal outlets and that's why it is

a big compliment for the players they know that they repeat them a tell them every day so if you are currently two points ahead of liverpool at the top of the premier league standings lupul also haven't lost the season. at bournemouth on saturday leicester will host a talk now who are third with huddersfield travelling to arsenal who are currently in fourth position on their table now a huge police operation is underway in madrid ahead of sunday's limited orders final fans of argentina's two biggest football clubs river plate and juniors have started arriving in the spanish capital for the match it was relocated from when outsiders after the second leg had to be postponed two weeks ago when river supporters attacked buckers team as it made its way to the el monumental stadium it's now been nearly a month since the teams played out a two two draw in the first leg of the final. but what if you know that's an awesome out but if we had to leave almost one week before playing the final we played the first leg one month ago that's

a long time in between matches to be honest this is not what i'm used to and this is not what i have chosen as a coach even this trip to europe but i understand river plate are in the same situation as us and i understand that things just got out of hand no matter what the players or the coaches want. a young afghan boy in nicknamed little missy has been forced to flee he's home of the threats from the taliban mortaza captured hearts around the world two years ago when he was photographed wearing a blue and white plastic bag with a limo missy's name written in pain he was even invited to be meet missy and serve as a mascot for the superstar player but since their dream moment is life like thousands of other afghans has turned into a nightmare that our seven year old ahmadi has fled afghanistan the governing province because of fighting and he certainly is living in a room in the capital kabul among the many possessions left behind all the football and jersey signed by messi the family have also heard that the taliban is searching

for the young boy by name. jennifer that some in which i sing are saying ever since their son has become famous they have become rich and messy has given them a lot of money we didn't care but when the taliban got closer to our place then our lives were in danger. i don't know why the taliban's become an enemy since he's been famous the taliban say if they capture him he'll be cast into pieces. i like messi a lot i want to live close to him and he should take me out of this place and when i see him i will say salaam and how are you that he will reply saying thank you and be safe then i will go with him to the pitch where he would play and i would watch him. a lawyer representing victims of abuse at the hands of former usa gymnastics dr larry nasser has called the organization selfish for filing for bankruptcy usa gymnastics faces one hundred lawsuits from over three hundred fifty f.

lee to blame it for failing to supervise nasa the doctor is serving life sentences for sexually abusing women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. this bankruptcy filing was done for two reasons one is because they wanted to down they want to deny the current survivors the truth about what happened and who knew what when the reason for that is if people really knew what usa gymnastics was up to there be a crowd outside their office with torches and pitchforks demanding arrests. second is they don't want any future survivors to get any money and at the end of the bankruptcy what's going to happen is there is going to be a discharge of their claims so they did this for a very selfish reasons new zealand have won a cricket test series away from home against pakistan for the first time off the forty nine years of trying on friday the new zealanders set the pakistanis two hundred eighty of a victory in the third test in abu dhabi now international cricket has not been

tait in pakistan since two thousand and nine of the sri lanka's team bus was attacked but they have enjoyed a ten year unbeaten run in their adopted her in the united arab emirates that would come to an end as to sell the williams sum of all and are just patel took three we could see each to help the kiwis to a one hundred twenty three one match when the other two one series triumph. england cricketer ben stokes won't miss any more games that he's caught in a fight outside a nightclub last year the all rounder who was cleared of a for a an organist was given a backdated eight match ban on friday but he won't have to serve that as he already missed five months of england games following last september's incident he was also handed a thirty eight thousand dollars fine. twenty eleven masters champion shall schwartzel is the leader of the south african open in johannesburg at the halfway mark even though he has never won the seventy doesn't joy playing at home eight of his eleven european tour wins have come in south africa schwartzel short an impressive sixty

three on friday including this excellent eagle at the seventeenth twelve under par overall and lose by one stroke. and that's what the sport expect to marry him in london lovely thank you very much well that wraps up the news hour but there will be more news coming up very shortly in. just a couple of minutes time very shortly now. stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different

perspectives a caravan is a fact helpful and highly dangerous one of the major issues before voters is the institution president trump cannot stop talking about the news the separate the spin for the facts the misinformation from the journalists some three shots of a.b.c.'s reporting fight to leave the listening post on al-jazeera. because we're not defending the as we should. right not being vineet. and freedom of being stripped away. on the stand here the anniversary of. the whites that stand up. stand up for human rights. xenophobe violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past describing right to

organization and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine appends national party generation hate. the special two part investigation on al jazeera. u.s. prosecutors seek a substantial present for president donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen of a hush money paid to an adult film star.

hello i'm maryanne demasi and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up this hour a top executive of chinese tech found while ways charged with fraud for discussing sanctions on iran. and the chosen successor i'm a great crime caraballo wins the leadership of germany's ruling posse. and french police are accused of heavy handed tactics against protesters as the country prepares for more yellow vest adminstrations this weekend. welcome to the program we begin with possible new developments this hour in u.s. special counsel robert miller's probe into the. thousand and sixteen presidential elections federal prosecutors of ours for a substantial prison term for president donald trump's former personal lawyer

michael cohen over a hush money paid to an adult film star so for more on this let's hear from in washington and she have in further developments news here that special counsel robert miller is seeking no additional jail for cohen beyond the sentence that is being sought by new york prosecutors. right now as you can see under sleeping through this forty page report from the new york prosecutors we should try and break this down a little bit though there are several several lines here about michael cohen the new york prosecutors are dealing with the tax evasion that cohen was a part of in relation to some taxi medallions. and the hush money that was paid in the state of new york to women who had affairs with donald trump and that's a campaign finance violation because that money was actually coming from outside entities in violation of the the top amount of a contribution

a campaign contributor can give to the doldrum campaign it's seen as a campaign contribution because it helped donald trump's campaign by silencing these women so these are things that the new york prosecutors are dealing with and they recommended as you said a substantial jail time that could be up to sixty three months we understand under federal guidelines that's what this is about meanwhile robert muller who has was also investigating in addition what we heard off recently last week in fact that cohen had lied about the when negotiations with russian interests had stopped in relation to a potential property deal to get trump's name on top of a large building in moscow that's what mulder is referring to so he's saying look i'm happy with what the new york prosecutors have decided to release that recommendation to the judge about the sentencing for michael cohen up to sixty three sixty three months and there's no need to sentence him anymore for what we're

investigating which is that is not telling the entire truth about the property deal so that's that's just breaking it down i hope that's clear so it would seem that mccoy did not give the prosecutors what they wanted in order to have a better in order to have make a deal on lessening his sentence so that's point the. and michael curran is due to be sentenced on december the twelve now the judge has to consider these recommendations from the prosecutors in making that final determination on michael kearns sentence so just to be clear on this you have the idea in cooperating with the middle of it and pleading guilty to lying to congress was from michael cohen the idea i suppose was to. strike some sort of deal to lessen present time potentially through that cooperation right look to be almost like sure we were never entirely sure how much cooperation michael cohen was giving so we don't try

and gave his theory that michael was potentially doing anything in his way to try and get a shoulder prison sentence it would appear though from these documents that he wasn't giving any more information about the prosecutors already have especially with the special counsel whatever the special counsel is looking into that relates to michael kirby in this case actually those property deals in russia so they weren't terribly satisfied about what michael cohen gave them was enough of a you know of a quid pro quo to lessen his sentence and that he should get before the stones full extent of the law throwing against him primarily though for the taxi medallions in new york on the campaign finance violations in the hush money payments to women who had affairs with donald trump all right thank you very much average chancy bringing us that story from washington that well.

ok so in other developments a top executive of one of china's most powerful tech companies is facing fraud charges in the united states while ways chief financial officer when joe is accused of skirting sanctions against iran if extradited to the u.s. she could get thirty years in prison on charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions china is demanding her immediate release but china says there are no conditions which would assure her continued appearance where she released on bail. always the planet second largest maker of smartphones it's also partnered with almost eighty percent of the wells telecom companies but it has also been plagued by control bisi the u.s. is accused of working with the chinese government to spy on american citizens as well as violating sanctions imposed against iran who always even spot fears about phone insecurity as it's at the cutting edge of the next generation of mobile networks called five g. the u.s. u.k.

new zealand and australia have either blocked part or all of the company's five g. operations because of security concerns. culhane has more now from washington. we haven't known really anything other than mung when joe was arrested on saturday in canada will choose transfer in planes that happen to be on the same day that the us president the chinese president were trying we're meeting in argentina to try and work out some sort of a resolution to their trade dispute now we know more because she's appeared in a canadian court basically u.s. authorities are going to say that her company while way had a connection to another company called sky com and that sky com was knowingly importing the u.s. manufactured technology into a rant against u.s. sanctions these are very serious charges with the potential for prison time obviously china says that this is a false claim they've demanded her release and so far the u.s. has shown no signs of backing down but this is having an actual impact since the

news of the charges facing her the stock market has plunged in the united states it is expected to close down wiping out pretty much all of the gains for twenty eighteen and some from twenty seven to u.s. president donald trump is nominated head the now it to be the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations she's got it a spokeswoman for the u.s. state department if approved by the senate now it will replace nikki haley who leaves the u.n. at the end of the month rosen join reports from washington. that afternoon it's been rumored for weeks that state department spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations on friday the u.s. president confirmed the speculation. are. five. hours. every. day nauert had no foreign policy experience before she joined the state department in

early two thousand and seventeen she was a t.v. news presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative fox news channel that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back in the history books today is the seventy first anniversary of the speech that now announced the marshall plan tomorrow is the anniversary of the d.-day invasion we obviously have a very long history with the government of germany and we have a strong relationship with the government already some senators and foreign policy experts are calling nauert supremely unqualified for the job it which detail nuance and context or key to negotiating matters of global security and stability but not so says the israeli ambassador to the un danny de known quote miss nauert has stood by the state of israel in her previous positions and i have no doubt that the cooperation between our two countries will continue to strengthen as she becomes

ambassador to the u.n. and quote if confirmed by the senate now word would replace nikki haley the former state governor who was also a foreign policy novice spent her tenure pushing trump's america first policy demanding institutional reforms at the u.n. and defend a human rights haley also had something important to lean on trump's confidence in her she made that clear when she announced her resignation in october. no i'm not running for two hundred twenty and i can promise you when i'll be doing is campaigning for this one heather downwards call for patient hearing will happen early in the new year like nikki haley before her she has the president's strong endorsement but now it's going to need much more than that to persuade senators that she's the right person to represent and to defend the u.s. has interests at the united nations rosalynn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. top democrats in the u.s.

congress of the president trumps pick for teddy general nancy pelosi saying the nomination of william ball is deeply concerning you replace jeff sessions who is fight an event and likely take charge of the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election senator chuck schumer warns bomb must allow the probe to continue unimpeded and make the findings of able to the public. it was al jazeera live from london most i have for you on the program talks to end the war in yemen while the u.n. warns of the civilian death toll continuing to mount on the ground and mediterranean rescue ship ceases operations off to what's described as a campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction. hello again it's good to have you back well in australia we are going to be seeing

a temperature drop here across the southeast much needed because in melbourne temperatures were into the high thirty's just several days ago now with this front pushing through we're going to be dropping down to about normal for this time of year maybe twenty seven degrees but still a lot of clouds along the coast not towards queensland it is going to be potentially flooding rain here not only for townsville but most of the areas along that coastal sections you can see how that rain really stays there this is they all tropical system the really the remnants of the storm but still brings in very heavy rain across much of the area illand we are looking at alice springs at a warm hot thirty nine hundred there well across parts of new zealand things will he quite nice for the north island of new zealand we're going to see some clouds down here towards the south island over the next few days and temperature wise well it's not really looking too bad for auckland twenty one degrees there christ church at twenty and as we go towards the end of the weekend more clouds maybe potentially some more rain down towards christchurch with the temperature they have twenty four degrees and for japan and also the.