blamed for many of the injuries for the people of vanuatu rising sea temperatures intensify clones and erratic weather patterns are becoming part of daily life they are being forced to spend more not just to protect themselves but also to keep businesses afloat civic our nation is now exploring the possibility of legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away and thomas reports . warming seeds have killed the fish which used to be plentiful around about a while too so people are building bombs in line instead it is very frustrating because the build one fish farm is around fifteen thousand u.s. dollars and who do operate the program over there break the farm for one year with course that are on the same amount the other costs of climate change here more

frequent and intense like claims mean cleanup and repair bills with a geisha an improper ration for disasters and rising sea levels also have big costs and i want to use own contribution to global climate change is small even so it's doing all the time to reduce it further there are a solar farms and coconut plantations the trees absorb carbon dioxide as they grow the coconuts themselves a halt as did the squeeze for the oil it's a biofuel replacement the diesel they get power generators to make electricity one coconut we'll give you one liter of oil and with what we've got yeah it's a fun hour a for t.v. program definitely for one coconut but a few coconut powered televisions will make little difference to the global climate vanuatu's government believes the world's big polluters should compensate it for the damage that climate change does here and that if they won't voluntarily through

treaties and agreements and they'll try to force them to through the threats of legal action the government is considering how best to sue big policing countries and fossil fuel companies so at this stage we're investigating the options doing our background work we're working with a number of lawyers in different parts of the world who are also looking at our evidence base that we're going to need to prove in court that. it would be hard suing a company needs to happen in the company's national court giving them the home advantage taking legal action against the country means going to the international court of justice it only considers cases where the country being sued agrees to the case being heard but there is another avenue here that can take and that is to ask for an advisory opinion and that isn't legally binding but it does set the

direction and it gives the world a sense of exactly how. the legal issues. as hope the possibility that countries all companies might have to pay compensation one day will increase their potential financial liabilities now scaring off investors unless they take action to minimize those risks so those legal action is the threats. would rather settle out of court thomas al-jazeera. when we come back in sport there's yet another victory for one of skiing's biggest stars. and monday put it on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the

days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war. the wounds largest oil company fails to become public watch happen. ah the kingdom of the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and you count less than the world's largest stock exchange that definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab. the company and the state on al-jazeera.

has bought his peter. thank you very much the day after winning the asian cup causes heroic footballers have been given a royal welcome on their return to doha moments after their plane touched down they were greeted by cutters them in a shake tommy been a model funny beach upin three one in the final on friday to secure their first major football title they scored nineteen goals and conceded only one all the more impressive considering that the tournament was held in the united arab emirates one of four countries that's imposed a blockade on twenty seventeen once the party at the airport died down our correspondent andy richardson reflected on the remarkable achievement. now when the cats or national team left so hard the start of last month they really were rank outsiders to win the asian cup a tournament in which they've got no track record of success they returned having

beaten all previous champions on my way to that final win against japan and the young striker i'm always early who scored nine goals in the tournament a player the footballing world is talking about now it has to be said at a global level asian football does struggle to punch its weight in the twenty fourteen world cup no asian teams made it beyond the group stage and last year in russia only japan made it through to the last sixteen but there are many reasons to feel optimistic about what is happening with this cat sauteed for the last fifteen years a huge amount of work has gone into developing young players at the national academy here the aspire academy and now we're seeing those home grown players finally performing at senior level the historical joy that cats are a national team resembled the united nations of football can now largely be put so bad the next big test of these players is going to the copper america in brazil in june where the group's alongside argentina colombia and paraguayan of

a huge test of their footballing credentials but their success is real and it's a huge boost as well as the organizers of the twenty twenty two world cup desperate to move the focus away from sports politics and back on what's actually happening on the football pitch. we saw the players getting on the bus there in the celebrations went through the night they lift where andy was in heading down to doha as water from the call me were thousands of fans turned out to greet them our reported also jabari brave the crowds and did well to get it right next to the bus . that nineteen champions of the asian cup i finally arrived in john hart the fans here i've been waiting to catch a glimpse of these players for hours but i spoke to say merrick see you later on. how was he not only of the results that they managed to achieve winning the championship but also how boys they were under very difficult circumstances that

referring to of course the blockade that is taking place between unite and qatar and three other countries. here did not attend many of the games that were speaking place in abu dhabi despite all that they say that this team has made them extremely . hard look at the world cup in two thousand and twenty two. we're just a day away from the super bowl in atlanta where the dominant team from the last decade the new england patriots will play the los angeles rams and federal law enforcement officials have become involved the f.b.i. say the use of private and commercial drones flying near the venue for sunday's big game is a security concern there is a temporary flight restriction in place but this has not deterred drone uses if these drones go out of control or the pilot loses control of one they can go into a crowd and cause serious injury and the other of course is when we look up into the air we see a drone flying in the air we have no idea if it's friendly or if it's someone that

has a nefarious plans and is weaponized close to the ground level is where the pats and rams will play for the sport's biggest prize the vincent lombardi trophy one of the interesting subplot sees forty one year old tom brady face jared goff who's only twenty four brady is already the oldest quarterback to start a super bowl with these opposite number among the youngest now the patriots have won five super bowls the century already wears the rams haven't won the championship since two thousand that was when they were still playing out of st louis now they offend say they ready to take over from new england you know i'm looking for. tom brady to be upset and looking for disappointment in his face. a good reaction shot where you know he's defeated he's he's he's been a top long enough he's a legend let's let. simplex new guys make it up to the top. i mean they've had their run they've had one ten plus years almost think it's time for new kids on the block young head coach john ford about sort of

a modern day bella check in tom brady so why not move it into a new building so now it's time to do those rams fans are not alone other supporters outside of new england have also had enough of the pats dominance i'm so sick of the patriots but mainly because they beat us two years ago the super bowl and i was my roommate so if you're not going to lose atlanta well an offense to get some kind of you know some kind of closure here to win the super bowl in it so that we can have a chance of a future just be nice to see them loose. we have got out except that i mean like. i think everything else doesn't make any. i think. from one of the sports youngest fans to some who are slightly more experienced and well traveled don't chrisman tommy henschel and gregory eaton the only man to have attended every super bowl going all the way back to nineteen sixty seven back then

when they go in for twelve dollars they tickets for sunday's game are somewhat price at two thousand dollars apiece sometimes i feel reading the run of the people who say you know you can just go to one interview or god i've already been that all of them it's kind of unfair but here i am. i don't know we just love the game and we got addicted to it england's rugby team made an explosive start to the six nations comprehensively beating the reigning champions ireland in dublin england since the henry slade school two decisive tries late in the game as a t. jones a side took a thirty two twenty it's their first win in dublin for six years and breaks ireland's fourteen game winning run at home great news saying the rugby side but another terrible day before they cricketers they were skittled for just one hundred thirty two in the second innings in only forty two overs against the west indies the windies then quickly knocked off the fourteen runs needed for victory to also

ensure a series win. tennis australia is backing their davis cup captain lleyton hewitt and he's row with player bernard tomic hewitt seen here banned tomic from the team after claiming he physically threatened him and his family tomic denies the allegations but tennis australia chief craig tiley says they've now withdrawn all support for tomic accusing him of permanently trying to damage the culture of the sport in australia we're used to seeing sergio garcia in a good mood out on the golf course but he's been kicked out of the saudi international tournament for losing his temper and damaging greens the former masters champion was disqualified during the third round because of what the european tour called serious misconduct garcia accepted the decision and said in frustration he damaged a couple of greens and assured his fellow players it would never happen again the golden girl of slalom skiing goes from strength to strength became the shiffrin has racked up thirteen victory of the season which is a personal best the american was so far ahead after her first run in slovenia that

she could afford to take things a bit slower a second time around and comfortably finish top of the podium next up it's the world championships in sweden and it would be a brave person to bet against her taking gold and that's all the sport we have for you from no one coming up again later that's it for this new sound for me have them speak at bank street companies like hell rommany he's here with more news in a couple of.

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still romney what you want is there a line from the halls on the program the central african republic skiver mint and several armed groups reach a peace deal after years of fighting. to washington pulls on a cold war era nuclear weapons treaty russia followed suit. plus the day after winning the asian cup. footballers are given a royal welcome home. welcome to the program tens of thousands of people have been rolling in venezuela for and against the government of president nicolas maduro is showing no signs of backing down from a standoff with opposition leader. just point two more defections from the military latin america to lucien newman reports on phone caracas i looked and sounded

like a carnival my goodness whalen's for as far as the eye could see answer an opposition leader call to increase pressure to force president nicolas maduro out while get out anyone else any other alternative is better than this government they've been in power for twenty years and done nothing but starve us. after years of frustrated attempts they feel changes in the air. this time is different because we have to help before the country's carnage challenge this is the last march we have to go to i was. just hours earlier an air force general defected. the first top ranking officer to do so since wide all offered them an amnesty. that the military's of oil is crucial to his political survival.

this is. on the other side of president gathered his supporters. never give in to pressure from servants of the us empire as he calls the opposition while he rejects demands for a new presidential election he's offering an alternative. i agree that the legislature should be religious by the country and that we hold free elections with guarantees and may the people decide on the national assembly. would opponents want is for my . self proclaimed interim president announced his next move the imminent arrival to the border of humanitarian aid in israel is most needy i say that earlier i asked

him if he thought army would. allow the aid to cross into venezuela from neighboring colombia and brazil. i hope that the patriot ticks over in soldiers who respect the constitution will withdraw the support of majority and give it to the people of venezuela who need food. as the power struggle continues all eyes will soon be on the border see how this latest challenge to the embattled government plays out to see in human al-jazeera. the. protests in several countries some of the one million venezuelans now living in neighboring colombia are leaving the company on the president to step down. in spain's couple madrid where thousands gathered in the main square to support one another hoping the e.u. will officially recognize the opposition leader as interim president after mentor ignored all to me to me to call for new elections or fill gunson is

a senior analyst for the andes region at the international crisis group he says the duros army is reluctant to defect because many don't trust the opposition leader. if the military stick with murder or if my daughter sticks it out and the regime doesn't crumble the next step is to put humanitarian aid on the borders one way though announced that today they're going to put humanity buried aid on the border inside to long brazil and in the caribbean island which i suspect is probably what really got. and then challenge the government basically to let it if they don't let it in we'll play go in with military force that's not a question that we can't answer at the moment well it's true that given the history of u.s. interventions in latin america over the last hundred years or so there's a lot of ill feeling in the region about the u.s. throwing its weight around and really this time around the the mitigating factor if

you like is that so many of the regions governments are on the side of the u.s. and even the air you the european union has come out there are quite so strongly not not not actually recognizing one point where there are such there's also a bit of a problem with the the faction of the opposition that seem charge at the moment although this is a this is a united front that they're presenting the people really calling the shots the harder line and i think that makes it difficult for the military and for civilian chevy's has to hand them selves into to change sides or to accept this amnesty because they're not entirely sure that they trust the people who are in power. the government of the central african republic has struck a peace deal with fourteen armed groups it was agreed in sudan's capital khartoum after a week of talks backed by the united nations the african union muslim and christian fighters have been in conflict since twenty thirteen now thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. an alliance of muslim rebels known

as the celica overthrew president francois busies government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia was sworn in as interim president he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti alaca continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that are already there since the cease fires have been signed and violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes in mali cheers is an assistant professor at george washington university she says achieving peace in central america african republic will provide stability for the surrounding region. they're at a point now where the peace agreement a lot of it was also hoping for they hadn't seen that yet though the u.n. security council or the government wanted to have the embargo the arms embargo lifted it was unanimously agreed to to extend that embargo for at least one year from today to see how this peace agreement works out but i mean it's not it's not

a very broad little time but there's there's high hopes because the first time that there's been direct talks with all of these these different players fourteen militia groups of course as well as the government the u.n. with their their mission there as well as the african union are looking to come to some sort of agreement and because at the end of the day the central african republic is very very very should teach it in the region its neighbors of course uganda tabor's the democratic republic of congo which is also seeing you know some issues after their election results that came at the beginning of last month and so it's really a power player in the region and hopefully we're at a point we can see some stability belgium has agreed to take an informal ivory coast president long after as acquittal by the international criminal court has been seven years in custody at the hague was the first former head of state to go on trial of the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the

disputed twenty ten election of his conditional release bank will not be allowed to leave belgium one day after the united states was pulling out of a landmark nineteen eighty seven new korea treaty with russia while sco who is doing the same abandoning the agreement is raising fears of a new arms race challenge ripples from moscow. vladimir putin held a meeting with his foreign and defense ministers on saturday shown on national t.v. and he explained what russia would do now that the united states has pulled out of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by stupid solution. we will do it this way our response will be symmetrical our american partners stated they will stop their participation in the treaty so we will also stop they stated that they will do research and development of arms so we will also do the same he also said russia would not get into a costly arms race with the west that doesn't mean that russia won't pile into new

weapons development just that initially at least it will try to do so with an existing defense budget years of military modernization have siphoned money away from social spending and with the real incomes of russians for willing for five straight years now more defense spending is unlikely to help me putin's falling popularity defense minister sergei showing who recommends a land based version of the caliber cruise missiles russian ships have launched against targets in syria also a land based medium range hypersonic missile the new frontier in missile technology and there's the land based cruise missile russia already has according to the us this has a range that broke the terms of the i.n.f. treaty and was the reason washington gave for pulling out of the agreement there will be more briefings with and we're going to travel to military sites and factories where they produce these weapons to scare the europeans and the

world public opinion that they should come to terms with russia should make deals with russia not ignore russia because russia has terrible things putin says the door is open for new disarmament talks but he's made clear that russia will not cause the u.s. on this if there are to be any new arms treaties which we moscow and washington putin says it's washington that must break the ice will reach islands down to zero in moscow. u.s. envoy stephen begin is expected to arrive in south korea ahead of a meeting with mils korean officials begin is in the region to discuss the next steps in dismantling north korea's nuclear weapons program as didn't trump is planning a second summit with the north korean leader kim jong un and the exact date has yet to be revealed scott snyder is the director of the program own u.s. korea policy at the council on foreign relations he says something more tangible

must come out of the next summit we are really a crunch time in terms of preparing for a possible second summit between president trump and chairman kim jong un and one of the things that really was a failing of the singapore summit was the failure to generate a process that would allow both sides to work on these issues of denuclearization and peace and so special representative beacon really needs to speak with his counterparts and outline a roadmap a set of objectives and a process by which both sides can move forward as a product of potential summit between trump and there's a need for the u.s. and north korea to agree on where to begin in this process and i think that the north koreans have actually entered where they might begin in terms of suggesting back in pyongyang in september. a.