minister shinzo abbe said that he would do his best and that nobody would like to see the tensions in this region escalate even further that any kind of military action would be not in the best interest of anyone and that japan was adamant that it wants to help try. the tension in the region. or government offices a shot in hong kong as protesters decide their next move the day after thousands forced the postponement of a vote for a new extradition law protesters say they will hold another mass rally on sunday riot police are standing by in the central district on wednesday police used tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse protesters surrounding hong kong's legislative council the change in law would allow people to be extradited to mainland china which protesters fear could lead to the targeting of beijing's critics on khan's leaders said the protests won't change the government's mind i

can only say that i'm very upset. or be given this label that i'm betraying. i will not do anything that is not in the interest of hong kong i will not shy away from my responsibility in introducing a piece of legislation. we are very convinced of the justification said causing this. public outcry and all of these 30 this it in this instance i-t. but sometimes as a political leader you cannot shy away from difficult decisions or score higher has more from hong kong. a much calmer scene here thursday around the legislative council building here in central hong kong are still pockets of protesters small pockets of protesters around police presence still very heavy what we've seen the police action with the protesters on thursday a couple of searches we know that at one stage protesters were gathering some of the material they used on wednesday during those massive and violent protests zip

ties and sailing solution to squirt their eyes once they've been tear gas they were collecting that what hadn't been used and trying to take it away police intervened question some of the protesters there we also saw some protesters being searched their bodies being searched their bags being searched and also we see some people around the protesters aides and would appear to be part of the protest movement being photographed along the streets leading into the legislative council area that's what's been happening on thursday the big question what happens next we know that the meeting that sparked all this controversy on wednesday was postponed it didn't happen on thursday it won't happen on thursday it has also been postponed but we don't know when that's going to happen next what could prompt more protesters coming out around the legislative council building would be the announcement that that debate is going to continue we haven't heard when that's going to happen there's also some anticipation over the weekend when people are off work and school that they might come out again like we saw last weekend with almost a 1000000 people marching on the streets of hong kong none of those as of yet but

what we know right now kind of a tense calm there are some protesters out on thursday but more in the dozens not the 10s of thousands like we saw on wednesday i mean a briefing in the past few hours a spokesman for china's foreign ministry criticized the protests. it was an organized draw at. hong kong's development will be opposed by the majority of hong kong people any civilised society would not allow the same tippity which is violating the rules and sympathising social stability we will not allow that to happen. still ahead on al-jazeera another setback for palestinian fishermen as israel closes the waters. that are there's been some surprisingly heavy rain into these are the last few

weeks in the last 24 hours what took plaza just drifting away from sort of as he threw some body but that's the line to watch that takes you up to northern philippines to luzon the prison heavy rain rain here recently and it's in the forecast of this is friday's forecast now it tells often forget to k. at all singapore where shows though not impossible that like i suppose the surprise news still if you're in jakarta or again across to sort of ways that you are in a line of potentially big developing storms. now to study the weather has calmed down a little bit i suppose this is still an active frontal system once way slowly eastwards and the other one to come curling nassar tasmania as you can see but purses the places got hit by the ice with the stormy weather still big quite a finance 70 degrees in perth the cloud is edging in again with 7012 in hobart and middle teens to the north of that which is i suppose where you want expect towns was back up to 26 where it should be but it's going to hang on to the

disappointingly cold weather even though the rain isn't that prevalent but that rains on its way across the tasman sea towards jews even some of it from the north has brought in warm air so surprisingly in the teens. let me take it. like no please some. wild west rain. storm guess prostates down most skilled. nation comes to. stadiums that are. discover our news destination defeat the women's world cup 29 t. .

and again you're watching i just need a reminder of our top stories this hour 2 world tankers have been damaged and their crews have abandoned ship in the gulf of oman after what's being reported as an attack on norwegian operator of one ship says there was a fire on board or prices jumped by more than 4 percent on the news. iran's supreme leader ayatollah has told japan's a visiting prime minister that iran will not negotiate with the u.s. . is in tehran urging leaders to play what he calls a constructive role in regional security. a mortar shell attack by syrian government forces in the rebel held province of has injured 3 turkish soldiers that's according to the turkish defense ministry turkish commanders say one of their observation posts was deliberately targeted. albania's prime minister any

rama is defying caused by protesters to step down president had to cancel local elections because of an opposition boycott opposition groups have been holding weekly protests against prime minister rama since february they accuse him and other socialist party politicians of committing with organized crime. has the latest from the albanian capital tehran. prime minister has delivered a resolution to the parliament which he wants the parliament to vote positively upon which calls the president to return to constitutional order he says the president may not all cancel an election and the president's action was unprecedented but this resolution accuses president matter of using his office to play party politics the constitution and the election law don't allow the president to and will cancel an election and the resolution says this of course is

a difference of interpretation the president was saying that he has the right to determine the date for the price the prime minister is saying that the president should simply not interfere should not attempt to cancel an election that has already been called this is partially sciatica the prime minister is using the tools at his disposal to deliver a response to what has been a very sharp blow to the authority of his office from the president of the republic who of course has wittingly or unwittingly aided the democratic party opposition who also do not want this election to proceed the opposition has instead been calling for a general election to be held and wants prime minister rama to step down the head of that election so that a caretaker government can manage the country and ensure a free and fair general election. the u.k.'s conservative members will soon vote

for a new party leader the 1st polling is on thursday and contenders have been setting out their agenda that includes how to keep their party from falling apart and delivering. incoming his the man who the bookmakers think is going to be the next prime minister crazy fun loving boris johnson former mayor of london and foreign secretary. and ladies' man short on attention to detail but long on ability to work a crowd. johnson's entire argument is that nigel farage is new bricks at party he's so undermining the conservative that it isn't delivered as soon as possible that the tory party faces destruction. but does johnson do his rivals jeremy hunt the current foreign secretary or michael gove the eloquence environment secretary actually know how to do brett sits any better than to reason mated. for 3 years about what the. right all of

a sudden now so they don't stand up to scrutiny i think it's not necessarily intended to stand up to scrutiny i think it's maybe intended to influence the candidates in the leadership debate moving general. direction and competing with each other to be more. the conservative party membership wants breck's it badly and they are threatening to undermine their own m.p.'s if the u.k. isn't out of the european union by the end of october the current deadline but just as compelling is whether or not the new leader would be able to deliver that tracks it's without the government collapsing and triggering a national election one recent poll suggested more than half of voters think boris johnson will make a bad prime minister several candidates of one openly that not delivering bricks it could lead to the conservatives losing to labor in an election i think the onus is on the candidates to show how they will achieve brix it because it's all very well

saying we'll go for no deal may not get through parliament. so you really go she ate it the moment get through the so the moment the candidates and not being adequately precise to convince even their own colleagues let alone the membership of the public at large several rounds of voting by conservative m.p.'s will whittle the kind of down to it all so much choice of to the winner to be decided upon by the party membership there overwhelming favorites is boris johnson but will they support him if they think he can beat jeremy corbin's labor party in an election which could follow. certainly the main preoccupation for the leading candidate seems to be whether it's easier to be generally call been in an election before or after delivering and on top of that delaying it could risk the wrath of conservative voters deserving to nigel farage it all seems a long way away bricks it was supposed to be about. al-jazeera.

the israeli navy is banning palestinian fishermen from going from going to see indefinitely israel's defense ministry says the ban is in response to the launching of incendiary balloons and kites across the border june is peak fishing season in gaza which supports around 50000 people israel and egypt blockaded gaza since 2007 herefore said has more from west to reach them. well this latest exchange a rocket being fired from gaza and it is israeli air strikes on gaza in response it follows what we've seen since the last escalation at the beginning of may the heaviest round of violence that we've seen since 2014 that ended with an apparent cease fire deal not acknowledged by israel which is typical in these circumstances but which would have included a reduction in the border protest activity and also in the incendiary devices

being flown across the border into israeli territory there have been instances of that throughout the last a few weeks and each time that has happened israel has restricted the fishing zone of gaza's waters from 15 nautical miles to 10 and then expanded it then restricted it accordingly what happened on wednesday was a number of insanity devices setting a number of fires in israeli territory the israeli military decided to totally close down access to the fishing waters along gaza's coastline and then we saw the response the rocket and the israeli air strike in response to that i think behind all of this is what we're hearing from hamas is a concern that there aren't the indications that israel is moving quickly enough in its view to make good on the commitments it made during the quelling of that last round of violence on various fronts on them in terms of facilitating qatari money

certainly that the latest tranche of cattery money some $30000000.00 is not yet late but what we're hearing is that there aren't according to hamas the kinds of preparations that they would expect for this month's tranche of money to come through and also perhaps a warning to the egyptian mediators that they want to see more activism on their part to facilitate the kinds of israeli undertakings that hamas understood were going to be made. i'm alis prime minister has declared 3 days of national mourning for the victims of sunday's attack on a village thousands of people from doggone ethnic group were killed in violence between a medic heard isn't doggone pharmacy has killed hundreds in recent months more attacks were reported in the region nicholas hawk reports from the capital. barely visible mali and soldiers helicopters from the un peacekeeping force hovering over days after sunday's deadly attack in security forces are finally on

the ground protecting what appears to be an empty ghost town into thought i we are angry and disappointed the alternative need to deploy more soldiers to secure this area. shortly after this interview mullion soldiers meant to protect the village chief beat him up for criticizing the government ethnic tensions continue to be high between the doggone hunters and the for the herders both the communities are in mourning and see the for revenge on wednesday fall on the villagers were attacked a short while later villages were stormed and response president abraham who got our key to removed the governor of the president's call for national unity have largely been ignored well both communities may be in disagreement accusing the other 4 of these attacks and killings they are in agreement over the lack of response of the 1000000 forces in the un peacekeeping force that are meant to

protect them. as part of the un mission known as there are 14000 peacekeepers 4000 french soldiers and almost 20000000000 forces known as farmers. several battalions were just a few kilometers away when sunday's attack on the doggone village took place. they never came to a head nobody took those mollies to go on chief he says despite numerous calls for help no one came to protect the villagers being attacked. they have no protection. by the minute. and there is nothing done by the family. it's very deplorable but that's an issue creation and so it is left to these villagers to make arrangements for their own security whether full on your dog on their arming themselves and taking justice in their own hands as the un in the

1000000 forces watch from a safe distance. nicholas hawk al-jazeera. a u.s. diplomat said joint efforts to solve sudan's political crisis special envoy donald booth met protest leaders in khartoum along with a senior u.s. diplomat to africa. the opposition says the military council must be held accountable for last week's violent crackdown on demonstrators. last friday the ethiopian prime minister arrived in khartoum and presented a mediation project we told him that we reject any direct negotiations with the military council we don't think that direct negotiations with the military council is useful the only thing we can talk about is an agreement to hand over power to a civilian authority this is what the sudanese people want. ok as it stands new president has been sworn in but protests against his election continue. is the 2nd president in the country's post soviet history during

a ceremony police arrested dozens of protesters near independence palace in the capital town. former u.s. president bill clinton has visited kosovo to mark 20 years since the nato operation ended serbian control of its majority albanian province he was a key figure behind the nato bombing campaign to stop serb military action against ethnic albanians kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 the birth rate has never recognised. it's going to round up now of our top stories 2 or oil tankers have been damaged and their crews have abandoned ship in the gulf of oman after what is being reported as an attack the norwegian operator of one ship says there was a fire on board or prices jumped more than 4 percent on the news government offices

are shot in hong kong as protesters decide their next move the day after thousands forced the perspiring of a vote for a new extradition law protesters say they will hold another mass rally on sunday riot police are standing by in the central district on wednesday police used tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse protesters surrounding the legislative council protesters fear the change of the law could lead to the targeting of critics of mainland china at a briefing in beijing a spokesman for china's foreign ministry criticized the protests. it was an organized riot moves to undermine hong kong's development will be opposed by the majority of hong kong people in the civilised society would not allow the sector to which is violating laws and severed ties will social stability we will not allow that to happen. brainiest prime minister any rama is defying caused by protesters to step down president had to cancel local elections because of an

opposition boycott the opposition groups have been holding weekly protests against ramos since february. the israeli navy is banning palestinian fisherman in guard served from going to see indefinitely israel's defense ministry says the ban is in response to the launching of incendiary balloons and kites across the border june is peak fishing season in gaza which supports around 50000 people israel and egypt blockaded gaza since 2007. a mortar shell attack by syrian government forces in the rebel held italy provinces into 3 turkish soldiers that's according to the turkish defense ministry turkish commanders say one of their observation posts was deliberately targeted u.s. diplomats serve joint efforts to help solve the sudan's political crisis special envoy donald booth met protest leaders in khartoum along with the top u.s. diplomat to africa nag those are the headlines people in power is next.

for americans are struggling to pay their rent the problem isn't just limited to places that he's. a former governor of the indian central bank has costs out of the country for good stuff but. we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic woes we live in. counting the cost on ounces era. the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change was born for just 12 years to avoid one test with governments having failed so far to take effective action to combat global warming many and now looking to science and technology to come up with ways of bringing temperatures under control but what kinds of solutions and being devised and how effective could they be reporter eric campbell has been finding out.

we start our journey in a city moving on from carbon. few places are as eager as copenhagen to get power from wind and even in this weather from sun. know where this plane came into ditch cars that parks. klaus bonded as director of the danish cyclists federation and a former mayor of the city. he's leading it's push to be the 1st carbon neutral

capital by $22.00 which. i do believe that there is a strong political consensus in denmark that we need to act it's pretty cold right now but we have an extremely hot shot it didn't rain for 2 and half months here. but nothing says why is there something going on. and i think we have to realise that something is going to. copenhagen has been breaking all records in traditional ways to clean air. that according to this peter 1631 box of cross this bridge this morning alone in the past year it's been 3519062 it's extraordinary but the problem is no matter how much we ride them or how much we recycle the matter how fast communities transition to renewables it's probably not going to be faster now because governments aren't meeting the commitments they made at the paris climate change

conference to cut emissions the politics are failing which is why there's now such an urgent push to try a new technology to experiment with things that sound like science fiction but cope with the only way to ensure a secure future is a fact. the warning was sounded in october by the i.p.c.c. the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change which are working on leading scientists say carbon needed to be almost hot from 2010 levels to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. otherwise runaway temperatures would destroy the right valley a reef droughts and hurricanes would become the norm melting ice sheets would flood major cities. but our sky mythologised jason

fox a former lead all that of the i.p.c.c. says even that won't be enough. it's frightening and i'm sorry to say this but that one and a half to greece global warming we still have like 2 and a half to greese of summer arctic warming and that pushes greenland beyond its threshold of viability so we still lose greenland but at a slower rate. based in copenhagen he measures our street treat for the geological survey of denmark and greenland. when we lose the reflective cover of the arctic sea ice when we lose the greenland ice sheet and the climate system globally unravels and and it's going to create the kind of problems that will make it pretty hard to govern society. the migrations the droughts so what's at risk here is is

practically civilization. coral professor bob shares the frustration of all scientists contributing to the i.p.c.c. see its. evidence gathered through years of painstaking field work is often. north by politicians. politicians and governments that dismiss i.p.c.c. reports that's not conservative it's not progressive certainly it is insanity . if is the world will need massive technological fixes called geo engineering literally read engineering be good if you just hold back what's coming. for example we can slow down melting of the antarctic ice sheet by piling up sand on the sea floor simply to block a warm currents that are already destabilizing the whole west antarctic ice sheet.

other id's include covering oceans with ion filings to encourage carbon e.g. plants. sending ships around the world to pump seawater mist into the sky to diffuse the sun's writings we have some ideas and we need to try several technologies and evaluate them and figure out which are the least risky etc 2 to get the carbon curve which is like this now to get it negative. and that all needs to happen in the next. 1020 years to start down that path it's extremely ambitious . the idea of geo engineering has excise it but scientists and industry. on the other side of copenhagen i've come to meet a prominent political scientist dr be a he did it by using lots and lots of coal he's

a favorite commentator in conservative media for argument against major cuts to fossil fuels and i would say look if you say to people there is another solution yes it is going to take the attention somewhat away from the original solution but we should also be honest and say we've tried the 1st solution namely ask people. could you please use the car less could you please use less energy could you please turn off your lights and it's not work for 30 years and actually there's about half a planet who's waiting to get more energy available and why do we talk to says he except that fossil fuel emissions are warming the planet he just thinks geo engineering will cool look much faster than switching to review. because it's so cheap it's very likely to happen sooner or later some indian billionaire or some saudi billionaire is going to do it all by themselves just turn it down a little bit to pre-industrial temperatures or wherever we decide to to have it and

that would be essentially avoiding a large part not all but a large part of the global warming problem. so what are the most likely fixes and would they really work most of these globally ambitious projects are still on the drawing board but one surprising new technology is up and running in a place generally seen this need to retrieve. it strongly you know whom a precision innovation. from swiss watches that never lose time just was i when i was in the country permanently a piece of small company. believes it's found what could be a big part of the solution to part. christoph cabal to spark a ph d. students when they decided to form a world changing company. tonight they're celebrating clime works 9th anniversary

so we're still not making money so of course money is not the motivation the money ration as solving a big challenge and there is probably as little as challenging as climate change. this illusion is building giant for. hands that draw in air and bind carbon molecules of the filters. the carbon free air is released back into the atmosphere the c o 2 is super heated and collect this gas i like to call it low tech not high tech and it's actually very simple the challenging part is making it work and making it cheap. in just 2 years they've opened the plants in switzerland icelandic italy. they believe they could remove 10 percent of the carbon the i.p.c.c. wants cuts. their 1st target is one percent by 2025.

it's like 300000000 tons of c o 2 and that we're require a quarter 1000000 machines. but in this developmental stage removing just one tonne of carbon costs at an economical $600.00 us dollars we are confident that in the next 2 to 3 years we will have our cost and the ranch off 2 to $300.00 per tonne and in the mid to long term and that's for us 2025 to 2030 and we see cost as $100.00 as feasible. so the big question is what do you do with all this captured c o 2 well fortunately in this case there's a greenhouse just 300 meters away so half of the carbon sucked in the ferns it's piped underground of the greenhouse and turns into vegies.

plants absorb carbon so the greenhouse but it's the gas this fertilizer. since it started spraying crop production has increased by 10 percent. the quicker the process can turn a profit the more likely it is to spread round the world. even in frosty switzerland there's a real sense of. urgency about limiting global warming. i came here for the mountains to climb to ski and in the alps you could see very early signs of climate change and of course closures are disappearing like we want to stop that if with and without climate change but the speed of disappearance is shocking. patrick hofstetter from the world wildlife fund took us out to see the disappearing

place in. the alps a bore me more than twice as fast as the rest of europe over some of it was unprecedented drought. yeah that's really special for us to farmers don't know the situation yet. the grass stopped growing staid there is a shortage in feed so they actually started to slaughter their cows much earlier but. after this really dry summer i can feel a renewed sense of urgency especially also because the farmers now it's really accept that they are directly affected by it. 3 hours from superrich we come to what used to be the start of the giant major rochdale i see. the result of the crack. 150 years

place they came up to here all the way to. all the way to the station that area. good. since then it's retreated by 3 kilometers the other with factories and 600 metres of that in just the past decade. everything this ancient place here is expected to disappear entirely with another lifetime. so are all the places in switzerland recently protections by end of the century most of them below disappear completely on the few will remain in the very top of mountains. the changing climate is already pushing the qana mean. many ski fields are now bare until after christmas. this is the situation we face in the last 10 years and i have laid translator they

have to do a lot of establishing to prepare on the downhill slope. even at higher altitude ski resorts are like giant insulation sheets over places to preserve snow. from may to october more or less they cover it like that and they remove it in october and start to ski again. covering glaciers with blankets trying to stop the building while it's actually just slowing down the process so it's not a solution it's. to fight the symptoms of climate change. he has been doing to engineering now for many many decades in actually burning so much fossil fuel and altering the climate by humankind that we have to look now in a similar scaling to solutions to that problem. as

high as we are here some believe the real added out to climate change is 20 kilometers up the next stop we're waiting scientists who don't want to put blankets on glaciers they want a blanket the atmosphere. in the hallowed halls of harvard university research. because i'm looking at just how practical and dangerous geo engineering they say here we have one of the big pieces of test equipment that we use to work in preparation for putting instruments into the stratosphere engineering professor frank is preparing for the 1st test mission later this year open it up ok and so we can put instruments into the vacuum tank and then we can simulate the stratospheric pressure so you have a 20 kilometers. belt use a high altitude balloon to scatter the sun reflecting inner selves across the upper

atmosphere. right now they're fine tuning equipment to measure the effect feels a bit like the spice race in a way it does on a much smaller scale. they fly up into the stratosphere high above us the white board theory is that tons of tiny sulfur particles delivered by specially modified planes would lower the earth's temperature would result in cooling the planet. it's what happened naturally in $991.00 after the philippines mount pinatubo volcano erupted. and this gas then reacts in the stratosphere with oxidants and turns into a soft you're right acid for the few years after mount pinatubo the temperature was noticeably lower and it cooled down the planet that was one effect that he got from what degree was it you know it's probably the range of about half

a degree celsius. trouble is a quick fix like that could have side effects and what was also apparent off the mount pinatubo and other volcanic eruption is that these particles in the end reduce the amount of ozone in the stratosphere so you know we. we've been trying to do a lot to actually fix the boat only and here you now have the idea of introducing something that could destroy it again. and it's not just those risks the bank this project controversial it's the fear held by many of the scientists themselves but just the suggestion of a magic bullet gives governments an excuse to keep popping up on missions. so good you've been running the numbers on this i mean is it economically feasible part of the problem is just how much cheaper this geoengineering would be than switching to a new city if anything it is too cheap economist durnovo there is the project's

executive director it's so cheap that we're talking about single digit billions of dollars to potentially influence entire planet's climate and now if i was running a fossil fuel corporation everything great this can solve the problem and we can keep digging up coal and frankly that's the problem right so i guess you might consider that the vested interest not in fact be very interested in something like this as you know yet another excuse not to cut c 2 emissions. very often compare stratospheric judging to painkillers this does not fix the problem right it does nothing about c o 2 1st of all. we're just reducing symptoms and then human nature can kick in and say well you know it's hard to deal with changing the energy infrastructure which is very true it's a huge problem so in the end any decision will always have to be based on imperfect knowledge do you ever feel like this is playing god. it is there's

a huge amount of hubris in this idea of saying wow oh we've caused a problem let's fix the problem and i know how to do this we're going to do this and we know exactly what's going to happen to the whole planet yes it has a lot of that is actually quite unsettling and quite frankly makes me quite anxious . these can provide us possibilities whatever geo engineering can achieve the i.p.c.c. says the most common intense fuel should still be phased out by 2050 pounds and at our next stop we'll see how the industry is fighting back to the jews it's a missions to 40 percent. who said is a city built on top of last mining fossil fuels is as much a part of texan culture as raising cattle whole foods good.

but these days big energy is trying to sidestep demands to cut production. it's response is a much touted technology to cut the carbon footprint. for today we're heading out to texas is the biggest power plant it's a high in the earth what the industry likes to coal clean coal. this is paid for no. it's a coal fired generation with a $1000000000.00 absorption into our unit a day that lasts after the coal is burned be emissions of pumps through it and so all the collects much of the c o 2 before it hits the atmosphere. it's early days to get excited. the tower captures carbon from just one of the complexes 10 generating units. what's more it doesn't actually reduce emissions over roll.

the captured carbon is pumped in liquid form enjoy the oil field. they put c o 2 in the oil fields and you get more oil right as company spokesman david knox explains it breaks up stuff and deposits so they can extract more oil the c o 2 has that tendency it bonds with oil and when it launched it makes it slipperier and when it's slippery or it comes off of the rock that last bit of oil in there but if you capturing c o 2 but to get more oil out on to actually increasing the amount of c o 2 overall it was if we were increasing the amount of oil that's being used but we don't actually have any impact on the amount of oil that's been used the oil is the same amount being used we're just increasing the domestic production and we don't have to import as much oil from corn country. the industry is looking at other options like superheating home that still produces

nations without. well still since. this unit said the small one in canada are the only ones that coal fired plants using carbon capture the personally. there is such a thing as clean coal but it is only that these to use. the economics are very challenging when will there be another one bill i'm not good at predicting the future but we now know that we can build one on time on budget. the uncertainty hasn't stopped politicians insisting the industry is saying. we have and the war on beautiful will lean coal. even. some time consulted to begin it is skeptical clean coal has been a mirage for very many years it would be wonderful if you could actually have all

the benefits of the cheapest fossil fuel and cut the carbon emissions but it turns out it's fairly expensive to do on the on the coal fired power plant that is actually takes out some of the energy that you would otherwise produce so it has real cost and of course you also have to store it securely and there's been a lots of conversations about that we've not really seen it running and we certainly haven't seen it running cheaply so again it's one of the things that we should investigate but we're not ready to do it any time soon. back in copenhagen ordinary citizens continue to do their bit for the. doctor alone boil down to his competitor it's whatever except the real cost of abandoning fossil fuels. most people are not content to only be able to charge their phones or have have their t.v.'s running or indeed their operating theatres and in hospitals running when the sun is shining and when the sun is not shining

the cost from solar panels is infinite and likewise with with wind turbines when the wind is. why. it's not true this idea that when the sun's not shining the wind's not blowing we're not getting that energy because when the sun is shining in the wind is blowing you can charge batteries and so the frontier is battery technology. no matter how fast the world switches to renewable energy the age of untested high risk of geo engineering could soon be a bonus. we don't get there by go you're trolling for better or for worse geo engineering is part of the mix going forward because we cannot get to where we need to be by conservation alone. it could be the last throw of the dice to save the planet. after decades of governments ignoring dial warnings simply going green may not be a galley fire and

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a violent protest against a controversial extradition bill. a 2nd person in uganda dies of a bug in the raising concerns about cross border the spread of the virus from the democratic republic of congo. on pole race for the sport 52 years of blues come to an end as some lowest guy from the west even the link to stanley cup champions all in one sees. 2 oil tankers have been damaged in that cruise of abandon ship in the gulf of amman but exactly what happened in this volatile stretch of water a few hours ago still not clear the operator of one of the ships at sea front says there was a fire on board and the taiwan state oil company says the ship was believed to have been hit by a torpedo well both ships were damaged near the strait of hormuz which is one of

the world's busiest shipping routes all crew had been rescued at the u.s. navy 5th fleet says ship also assisted well the front with $23.00 crew on board had picked up all in abu dhabi and she was bound for taiwan on the other tanker is the cook a courageous and according to his manager the ship was carrying methanol and it sustained . homage to the holiday it was heading from saudi arabia to singapore of course this incident comes a month after a full tank is retyped in the gulf not far from the u.a.e. port of fujairah well as fatah is a military analyst retired army general joins us now from beirut welcome to the program sir. what do you make of what's happened of these reports of it coming through now. as it has been reported that the 2 explosions occurred on board the. banker and soon there was a fire out of both of them and. nobody's said exactly what causes this

is lotion was it i mean and kind of sabotage or be doth so far not confirmed there are unconfirmed reports that there been going to be the launch on one of them but in order to launch door b. do you need some marine or boat or even helicopter or an aircraft and all cases the deep water is a well. observed by the sonar of the of the american navy both of the 5th fleet of the group. of a group called think the aircraft. and other vessels in the region so it's impossible for the united states to not observe or to see a submarine in the deeps that launched. one of the of the tankers specially

that they are and the message from threat of her most or man see and then do their best in is. so and if it was a boat it should have been seen from from all the data ok and grow mystified and this is pursue this point little bit in your with your expertise as a retired army general in the military analyst now what is your sense is it likely to have been a torpedo attack and i take it from what you're saying that probably wasn't given the fact that it would have been the vessel that would have fired it would have been spotted. if it's one thought that we can go to another version that might be somewhat dashed by. a quantity of wanted to of explosives that put thought had done and can think out of place so that they caused

a fire in the tank or which would have happened it's not necessary to be a total beadle. the door may miss. some base or other and you know that. these tankers are more of the they have sensors that they could see detect some there's a sort of missives of probably those that are coming to that action so i think that this is a somewhat tarnished by that than i thought to be the launch given what you know of the capability of the iranian navy that they would be capable of such a night and also we must put this into context with the fact that it seems that iranian rescue vessels were involved in the rescue to yes it was a surprise that they are now clear that they invest good 44. of the sailors from

the bankers and we never heard about the 5th fleet that something but then they said they're the 5th fleet said that they received the distress call signals from the bank of and they didn't send someone to extinguish the fire or to save the sailors are something like this or at least through didn't hear about it. all right we'll leave it there for the time being and his father we do appreciate your time and getting a perspective on this ongoing incident that is taking place in the gulf of oman and let's take this on further we can speak to john noble who's the director of the constellation marine services and was a captain in the united kingdom merchant navy and joins us now via skype from southampton in the united kingdom and mr noble what's your assessment of what your hearing so far one good afternoon to you it's really quite worrying because it does appear that these ships suffered. attacks from one source or

a mother. and of course roshan ships and not armed able to defend themselves so it's extremely worrying that ships are sailing in waters fred they're subject to attack tell us what you know of these waters that bester teacher comportment sent how dangerous a being in the past of course they want that incident back in may when the ships were subatomic near the port for jerry well i know that water is not generally quite well i've spent quite a lot of time over the years in the low to do guard. and it is extremely bizarre really because this is a major trade route primarily for the oil trade from the gulf states into the quota or old but also for container trade dumb the the other shipping the local trade between dig deep to borrow

a v. and india and pakistan how would this these incidents be viewed by skippers of merchant navy vessels around the world he applied these waters and as you say do so without any kind of defense. oh that would be extremely worried they would be looking to get military assistance to escort them through you may recall a few years ago the results of piracy attacks not far away the gulf of aden. and the navy's went into that's a real provided some sort of defense and i wouldn't to separate that musters of ships going into the the waters that ritual can but we do be expecting to get some sort of naval protection all right thanks very much indeed john noble

speaking to us there from southampton former captain in the much and they thanks very much indeed when iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has told japan's visiting prime minister that iran will not negotiate with the united states is in tehran urging leaders to play what he calls a constructive role in regional security on his 2 day visit one of the risk of accidental conflict in the gulf and he's called for iran to abide by the 2015 you can a deal which the u.s. withdrew from last year let's bring in our correspondents jabari joins us now live from the capital of tehran and also tell us more about what's been said. while the japanese prime minister met with a rainy and supreme leader ayatollah khomeini this morning in the supreme leader's compound we've just received the details about what was said between the 2 the japanese prime minister stated exactly why he was here he said that he was here to

deliver a message from u.s. president donald trump to the supreme leader and the supreme leader has had this response he said that we don't doubt about your good intentions but what you've quoted from the u.s. president i don't consider trump deserving of an exchange of any messages and i do not have a response for him so very stern words from the supreme leader he refuses to engage with the american president saying he doesn't even deserve a response from him the supreme leader also said that the americans have gone back on their war over and over again and that there is no reason for the iranians to go back to any kind of negotiation with them since they are the ones that continuously break promises and that iran has repeatedly said that we don't that they don't want a nuclear weapon the supreme leader is that he himself issued a fatwa banning the use and the making of nuclear weapons and that iran has never won at that and even though the they don't want it if they chose to have nuclear

warheads the americans could not do anything to stop them that the americans have no right to dictate which country can and cannot have a nuclear weapon this is something the supreme leader was very adamant about that the bullying tactics being used by the americans will not be tolerated by the islamic republic. all right thanks very much. reporting there from terror on just going but we get back to these attacks in the gulf of oman iran's foreign minister is saying on twitter that these suspicious attacks suspicious does not begin to describe what's likely transpired this morning in reference to these reported tanker attacks suspicious does not begin to describe what has happened still very unclear what has happened we will bring you more as we get it here in the studio here at al-jazeera plenty more still ahead on the news hour including a legend of asian sport ends his 19 year quest to win an olympic gold medal forming

a battle with cancer hope will be hit with more. government offices have been shot in hong kong as protests as in officials decide their next move the day after thousands forced the postponement of a vote on a new extradition law groups of protesters are maintaining small vigils in the central district and large groups of riot police standing by on main roads but now a major rally is planned on thursday and wednesday police used tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse protesters surrounding hong kong's alleges to counsel a change in the law would allow people to be extradited to mainland china which protesters fear could lead to the targeting of beijing's critics hong kong's leaders said the protests won't change the government's mind i can only say that i didn't very set. given.