rebranding these protests not as riots and so on but there are a couple of other demands which possibly could be mad to be carried resigning or not resigning at this stage probably wouldn't make any difference but the demand for an independent judicial inquiry if that was granted and there have been calls from various sections of society even some of the pro-government supporters people like the legal community hong kong. greta that that would be some of the sting out of. some people here who are watching the government some supporters of the government if they just conceded to a couple of the demands you might see maybe half of the demonstrators who've been taking to these massive demonstrations deciding not to turn out into stay at home peter rock thanks very much. china's issued its highest red alert warning as the typhoon makes its way towards the eastern coastline typhon the key is expected to make landfall and is yang province on saturday it's already battered taiwan killing

one person and leaving 60000 households without power was also hit some people were injured flights and ferry services were disrupt. still to come for you here on al-jazeera he's ready to talk after 20 years in jail a potential breakthrough in the wall between turkey and the kurds. and from one crisis to another how the drugs trade in colombia is ensnaring venezuelans seeking an escape. so money usually wet and windy weather piling into the north west of here we don't normally see systems like this this time of year this is more than all some feature it's a perry fly pressure rolling in from the atlantic the trees of course fall in late

we are lots to say some destruction as a result of that and also a fair bit of wet weather is the system makes its way in this really wet windy weather there as we go through friday driving its way further north where it's truth be known the windiest weather will actually come friday into saturday so you have a system makes its way further eastward struck by the coming back into england and wales but some pretty stormy weather then pushing across a good part of olland and also into scotland come across into central parts if you did not see it bad here we get up to 32 celsius in vienna and that's quite a bit of heat around for southern areas heat warnings in falls across the south that it's a celsius there for ankara as well into the mid thirty's to athens and for row 33 there form a great plenty of glorious sunshine across southern europe and the sighting is true of course as we hop across the mediterranean into the north of africa a little bit a fair weather cloud across parts of morocco but we'll see temperatures getting up to 25 celsius in repat atop temperature in china's 35.

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welcome back you are watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha let's just have a quick look at your top stories india's prime minister today defending his decision to take away the autonomy of the indian administered region of kashmir pakistan is gearing up for protests later on friday. activists at the airport in hong kong have kicked off 3 days of rallies they're hoping to win support from people flying into the tigris. fears of a new battlefront in yemen's conflict growing as fighting intensifies in the south between government forces and separatists backed by the united arab emirates mortars have been fired and tanks are on the streets of aden as fighting spreads towards the airport at least a dozen people have been killed since the fighting broke out on weapons day isn't. a rift continues to grow between the local forces of the saudi u.a.e. coalition after dozens of their soldiers were killed in a hooty attack last week southern separatists blamed the internationally recognized government of president of drug monsour hadi of failing to protect them and called

for hardee's government to be overthrown the fragile negotiations taking place to bring an end to yemen's war the united nations is calling on the parties to stand down where we're very concerned about the ongoing violence there we're see in. this something that the special envoy himself has stated. it is important for everyone to recommit themselves to a political process how does government has support from saudi arabia the southern secessionist led by a true selves a baby are backed by the united arab emirates while the iraqis announced their withdrawal from yemen last month they've armed trained and left behind 90000 troops made up of fighters from southern communities and the coastal plains that opens up the prospect of a new front line between the u.a.e. backed force against the saudi backed government. it's going to be very dangerous they are on the same side in terms of fighting the host the or annoy

a northern opponent out however in reality they have not been getting along for months and the southern separate us forces especially represented in the southern transitional council have called repeatedly to secession and feel like the time is ideal to self-determination and to pursue it now so it seems that although they're fighting against a common enemy the time has come where differences amongst them are more important than just fighting that enemy. the area where the fighting is taking place is the highest point in the city and near the presidential palace and even though the building is largely empty it's still considered the seat of government without a resolution to their longstanding demands so the. and separatists may decide to try and take their seat at the negotiating table if one isn't given to them enter schapelle al-jazeera. and al jazeera as mohamed a top who's there for us this hour mohammed as to this new front opening up in aden

just get us right up to date what's the latest information you have. is that the confrontation is continue despite that the. after the began. people there lived shortly lived for a little bit so a cease fire but they have to know yesterday the continued the confrontations that up to now the confrontations continue and also is collates especially in the in the areas between the creator and the way the m i learned to wait out the where the biggest consideration of population there most of the rights activists are concerned about the lives of civilians there many appeals have been also issued by civilians who are suffering from chronic diseases because the situation is getting dangerous for them to stay trapped between both fighting sides also the

confrontations are continue in the in the in the area between and. there where the presidential palace is a situated at least 11 people have been killed according to some sources but we cannot confirm the death toll to now because the fear is confrontation still going on the difficulty to check how many people have been killed during these confrontations. and thanks very much. italy's deputy prime minister material salvini is calling for a snap elections saying the governing coalition has collapsed however the prime ministers are picante says he won't sell the need to justify that call salvini is far right party is well ahead in the opinion polls mainly because of his stance against illegal immigration its coalition partner the 5 star movement has been at odds with it over many areas of policy the jailed kurdish leader abdullah says he's

ready to talk to the turkish authorities to work on a solution to end the conflict with kurdish fighters been in jail for 20 years and a statement through his lawyer or 2 lines that the kurds don't need a separate state founded the kurdistan workers' party the p k k which launched a separatist campaign against the turkish state in 1984 it's blacklisted as a terrorist group by turkey needs barca has more from istanbul. up to launch a land the founding father of the p.k. k. has released a statement through his lawyers in which he said that he was very confident that he could resolve the conflict between the turkish state and kurdish fighters within a week he said he also said the turkish government needed to do what's necessary or to learn is the founding father of the p.k. k. that began as separatists insurgency against the turkish state in 1904 he was jailed in 1909 and is currently being held in

a maximum security prison on an island in the sea of marmara he's been denied a lawyer since 2011 but this year is seen as lawyers on several different occasions he also still exerts a tremendous amount of influence over the p.k. k. and its offshoot the y.p. gee what does all of this mean well there is a new context for these comments in the form of hopes of creating a safe zone in northern syria negotiations between turkey and the united states have been intense in recent days plans to create this safe so a tentative largely because of a fundamental difference of opinion over the why p.g. viewed very much in turkey as a terrorist organization a threat to national security seen by the united states as allies in the fight against isis or could this in some way soften the stance between turkey and the white b.g. all of that is unclear the barker reporting that the urgent action is required to tackle african swine fever as the virus spreads rapidly through europe 10 e.u.

nations have reported cases of the virus with particularly bad breaks and bulgaria and neighboring remaining african swine fever is a highly contagious disease that affects pigs and wild boar but not affects people . hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of an off duty israeli soldier who was found in the occupied west bank the teen year old was unarmed when he was found with stab wounds near the settlement block early on thursday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has denounced the killing as a terror attack and to find those responsible puerto rico may get its 4th governor in a week after politicians criticize the latest appointee wonder vasquez parties discussed replacing a day after she was sworn in she's seen as a party as a part of the previous administration the next front runner is jennifer gonzales puerto rico's representative to the u.s. congress the governor the 1st governor ricardo reseller quit in july to protest

against allegations of corruption and offensive text messages the u.n. says new u.s. sanctions on venezuela could make life worse for millions struggling to get food and health care the u.s. administration has frozen government assets and banned americans from doing business there venezuelan government leaders are refusing talks with the opposition in protest at the sanctions which also triggered demonstrations in the capital caracas. as wayland's escaping the crisis and chaos at home getting caught up in drug related violence on the border with colombia human rights watch says armed groups are committing abuses against civilians and reports now from the capital city. 4000000 venezuelans have fled the economic collapse blackout and out of control inflation in their country most crossing into neighboring colombia and while the colombian government is receiving them with open arms some are being killed or recruited by criminal groups in the country's border regions it's one of the main findings of

a report presented by the international watchdog group human rights watch a document focuses on the increase in violence in the border region since the signing of the peace deal with 5016 delays in the implementation of a peace deal left a void that's being filled by smaller armed groups who are unleashing a new wave of drug related violence the type of abuses are frankly. atrocities. we have been able to document cases of disappearances executions. sexual violence. forced recruitment of minors land mines are renewal of war that has forced some 40000 people to flee their homes in the region well business women and children are forced to work harvesting coca leaves. i'm 14 years old and they scrape coca leaves

there are children as young as 8 who scrape coca the government response to the violence has been mainly military increasing the number of troops in the region and local residents say that this has actually worsen this situation accusing part of the armed forces of being complicit with illegal armed groups. farmer says that head. has been unable to return to cut that because of the presence of armed groups he's working in a restaurant and he says the lawlessness means nobody knows how many undocumented venezuelans have been killed. most often they get killed simply because they don't know who they are they might think they are informers potential spies the groups confronting each other kill who they don't know. the report says most of these crimes go unpunished in accuses the government of not meeting its obligations to protect civilians in the area it's calling for venezuelans to be given legal status

to help them move to safer parts of the country and it's in their m.p.'s. hundreds of undocumented workers have been released in the u.s. a day after they were arrested in a raid by migration officials 680 immigrants were detained in the operation targeting food processing plants in the state of mississippi nearly half of them have been freed on humanitarian grounds to care for their children is christensen to me. it was the largest workplace raid by u.s. officials in more than a decade immigration and customs enforcement or ice officers swept through a number of food processing plants in mississippi arresting anyone without proper papers leading to scenes like this. to be read. some $300.00 of the $680.00 arrested have now been released from custody united states of america is the greatest nation in the history of the world and it's no wonder

that people from around the world want to come here to our country. but while we do welcome folks from other countries they have to follow our laws. federal officials said steps were taken to make sure that children of those arrested were safe but this provoked outrage among some and we are here today to thank you but standing with up in this quest for justice no one will want it just they were available but for those who own children one over to the aleutian the eldest help will be called out start going to continue at the same time the buses of men and women workers were being taken to a military base for processing president trump was traveling to texas to pay his respects to victims of a mass shooter who are believed to be targeted for being hispanic despite his attempts to show sympathy for the victims the president has been accused of fostering racism and white supremacy with his words and policies the mayor of jackson mississippi has called on churches to provide safe haven for the immigrants

still facing deportation we see these raids not being any efforts to protect our back they achieve the opposite you know that they are targeted you know that they can't access the same institutions the same methods of protection that we all look to protect us in certain circumstances a move that will put him at odds with the republican party and pit immigrant advocates against federal officials intent on aggressively enforcing the law kristen salumi al jazeera. 180000 people have been evacuated from areas of western and southern india because of flooding more than 30 people have died india's national disaster response forces deployed 28 teams to help rescue efforts in maharashtra and come atika states concert rains a host who witnessed several of those to overflow the areas killed more than $800.00 people in the room days so far this year the united nations humanitarian

agency says it's detected nearly 6000000 cases in the past 7 months that's close to half of the reduced population despite this the government has not declared a national emergency as it did in 2017. nearly $2000000.00 muslims are estimated to have started their annual pilgrimage to mecca in saudi arabia the 5 day event is a chance for muslims to seek redemption and to forgive and to be forgiven for muslims is considered the peak of spirituality lots more news whenever you want it's always there for you on the website the address you need as a al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories india's prime minister has defended his decision to take away the autonomy of the indian administered region of kashmir as pakistan is gearing up for protests later on friday a lockdowns in place in indian administered kashmir to prevent any violent protests

against the move narendra modi's says bringing the area under new delhi is control will bring quotes peace and prosperity. well in pakistan administered kashmir there's been an angry response to india's decision to remove the territories autonomy people have been protesting in the suffer about against taking more control. than the city has arrived in beijing for talks china is a close ally of islam about it also controls parts of kashmir. is that. you care to avoid are already fanning out in order to draw. the religious party to me. will be tending. to march on the indian high commission. and. we may. however. be headed by

a. government. where. protesters at the airports in hong kong have now started 3 days of rallies the hoping to gain support from people flying into the territory this is the 2nd time protesters of occupy the airport in less than a month they want an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality and the complete withdrawal of the controversial extradition. separatist sufficing government forces in southern yemen for a day at least a dozen people have been killed since the conflict broke out separatists are supported by the u.a.e. and accuse the saudi backed government forces of conspiring against them. italy's deputy prime minister. is calling for snap elections saying the governing coalition has now collapsed solving these far right party is well ahead in the opinion polls mainly because of his stance against illegal immigration its coalition partner the 5 star movement has been at odds over many issues of policy within the coalition

those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream tweet me at peter i will see you in 30 minutes away. 0. what guarantees would you give to the people would be attending the workshop would listen i'm supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing me we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter is iraq. welcome to the stream which you decide not to have children to save the planet that is the tough choice many people are considering as the global climate worsens my family ok how are your family planning decisions influenced by the impact of climate change are they tell us through twitter and you tube.

financial health and religious considerations often lie at the heart of one's decision on raising a family but amid increasing severe weather events many people are deciding not to have children may need to climate change supporters of groups such as birth strike conceivable future are limiting the number of children they have in the absence of immediate and effective global action to tackle the climate emergency un warns we only have until 2030 to keep global warming below a point where entire ecosystems will be lost but that task is complicated by rising carbon emissions from a global population that will hit nearly 10000000000 by 2050 for a deeper look at this ash saunders joins us from new york she is a writer and activist was chosen not to have children juge the impact of climate change also in new york is amy blackstone she is a sociology professor and author of childfree by choice

a study of the wider child free movement and completing our line up from new york shall arise if he she is chief of research and data at un women which advocates for . gender equality and women's empowerment and i have but it's good to have a hey in the stream let us start with our community because of course this is a debate and it's a heated one people have very staunch ideas about where they fall on it so i want to play a video comment from one such person this is carl la she is a student and an activist a climate activist in texas and here's what she told the story according to the new republic we only have 12 years before we can reverse the effects of climate change before we experience severity of the damages that it can truly cause on us earth everything. because of this i truly discourage having kids right now because you don't know the outcome our earth is our home and that's all we have

we have one planet and we are not moving to mars we have to stop procrastinating because seriously this is life or death. life or death is that how you see it you know those those words are really scary but yes that is how i see it you know as you said the u.n. has told us we have 10 years to basically turn our entire economic and political systems around and what's at stake is really human survival we don't right now we are headed towards a $3.00 degree warming world and the consequences about our honestly unimaginable we have to stay under 1.5 degrees to survive and for me that me that means that we all need to take a hard look at all of our choices and all of our ways that we're involved politically economically and socially so that we can actually be part of protecting the planet rather than destroying it when people ask you when you having children

you don't have much time left what else will they say to you where they inquiring about your whole family and why your family isn't because. well so i was raised very religiously and my whole life i was told that like it was my destiny to have a child that i would absolutely be having children and that was my role to be a mother and so i've gotten that question a lot throughout my life and what i try to tell people is that i think that the best thing that i can do for the planet right now is to not have children to try to not contribute to increasing runaway global carbon emissions and to spend the time that i have here doing activism to try to create the kind of change that we need on a national and global level level to make sure that the humans who do exist right now can lead safe and happy lives and have a little future and you are not alone i want to share this commentary from twitter this is melissa who says when i was 10 in the 80s i decided it was too risky to

have children i helped to raise my nieces and nephews but i've stood by my decision despite loads of pressure from them and strangers she goes on to say even in the ninety's we knew we were headed for a crisis i didn't see people taking it terribly seriously i couldn't in good conscious commit a human to that future to thousands and beyond i just covered how adding humans in the us really puts environmental pressure on other nations amy what would you say to marissa can you relate. well i can and her comments resemble those of many of the people that i've been interviewed over the course of my 11 years of research on this topic i also think that more and more people are making the choice not to have children for environmental reasons when you look at research from the seventy's and eighty's the environment certainly was an important reason even then but it did it really showed up in the in the top 5 reasons but more and

more people today are talking about opting out of it because of their concerns related to over. it i have to bring in sharra here from un women shower let me show you a couple of the organizations that we've been researching over the last couple of days and i'm sure you come across them but for our audience as well population matter this conceivable future. strike and also so many more organizations out there who are connecting fertility having children with what is happening in our environment what is happening with that climate you study the data you look who wins and family life around the globe what do you make of this connection that he's being made. well i think it was really good to hear the other panelists and i do want to add a kind of global perspective on this i think we have to be quite careful in the way

in which we are connecting issues around population dynamics choices women's choices reproductive justice reproductive choice and then climate change i want to say a little bit about each of these based on the research on the mark that we have done to you and women in particular in the report that we just launched about a month ago a progress of the wants women and families in a changing world and 1st of all what we do know is that what relation dynamics population growth we are in a different world now and where you are 20 years ago took over to the teammates have almost been cut in half and we have a total global print to write. about $2.00 live births per woman which is nearly half of what it was in the 1970 s. and the population is actually weighed which population growth is going we're facing her to teammates that are below replacement rate in many parts of the world

in western europe north america in many parts of asia in many parts of latin america and the caribbean so that's kind of the picture that we have we have declining for it to be everywhere now i think it's important to look at her to you but also look at reproductive choice and that was really an important moment in women's movements when in cairo in international conference in population development the issue of reproductive rights was put ahead of population dynamics and i think we really have to respect the choices that women make that women and men break and the enabling conditions for those choices now in some parts of the arc where fertility rates are still very high even though they're declining in some parts of africa and particular reproductive choice is not there for all women there's very little access to family planning services and there are constraints. social constraints cultural constraints on women being able to have the number of children that they would like to have but i would also like to point out in many

parts of the world where we have below replacement for to eat right and i would name some countries in austria germany portugal women are not having the number of children they would like to her they're having fewer children because of another direction of gender inequality which is care services are not there and men are not doing their share of carriage or in the home they're not sharing the housework the childcare work so women are also not really able to exercise the kind of choices they would like to have in terms of number of children shall i if i might if if i may i can see that amy is listening to you so any you've made a sacrifice you've decided you're not going to have children shara there is telling you that there is there are many places around the well where the fertility rate is fair enough so is the sacrifice that you'll making is that warranted bearing in mind that fertility rates have gone down. i would say that for myself i don't

consider my choice to be a sacrifice it is a choice that i made and i'm lucky to live in a time in a place where i was able to make that choice for myself but i also totally agree that there are there is the issue in some nations in the us included where people may be having fewer children than they would choose to because they're not getting the support they need as parents that it is both in their side of the coin and reproductive. and i want to add in just another wrench into this because as i mentioned there are kind of fierce opinions on both sides so here is one of those sides a couple of people mentioned this point and i'll share just a few of them as we overproduce by like 60 percent globally saying don't have babies to save the planet is just as silly as getting on a high horse about straws so else rights and we also mostly have more than enough

resources than we need per person overpopulation is a baloney argument it's about the massive an even distribution waste unsustainable production methinks methods etc etc so several people saying it's not really about overpopulation it's about the resources that are not being shared fairly ash what would you say to people like this. i think it's really important to consider both reproductive justice and also making sure that we use resources fairly in the world for the world's population but the reason that i have decided to not have more kids because of climate change is because we are in a crisis and even if we followed the elements of the paris climate accords twit t. we would still be over $1.00 degrees more mean which is what you know the u.n. and other scientific groups have said is. what we have to say under for human survival essentially and so we have to do with a look at every tool in the toolbox and we have to figure other ways that we can cut emissions responsibly and ethically and i think as

a woman you know an affluent white woman in the united states one of the ways i think i can do that is by having this conversation about how many humans we bring into the world in the amount of amount of resources people like myself consume but i also think that getting under 1.5 degrees we're not doing it fast enough everything that we can do we could do and that would still not be enough and would rely on technology that we don't have yet and also would rely on world governments agreeing which is not going very well so we need that to happen but we also need to figure out more nimble ways to have change on a cultural and visual level that we can use to then push for more dramatic structural and political change so i think one thing is that you know i someone like me saying i'm not going to have a baby that starts a conversation about how bad the crisis must be for people to be considering not doing some things that is a pretty much a fundamental part of being a wife or a lot of people i so i think.