grip these barriers off the sides of the roads and they become very adept at using plastic ties and then to create these barricades moving straight across the road that's what we're left with here but no protesters they are down in this place called highway that's where we will go to next as the long with the rest of the media who are following them to see what they do next and then some of them have said that after that they may go back to hong kong's airport where they have this continuing rolling protest that goes through today saturday into tomorrow sunday trying to tell busy visitors to hong kong about their campaign still to come here on al-jazeera once a world heritage site a city in southern tunisia is now being damaged by pollution . and why ethnic minorities in canada are struggling to get lifesaving stem cell treatment.

hello again it's good to have you back we did see plenty of rain here across parts of vietnam cambodia as well as laos of the last few days and that's going to continue some areas have seen over one $150.00 millimeters of rain just in a 24 hour period and the forecast may appear on sunday shows more rain coming into play on sunday and also into monday not only that but over here towards thailand it is going to be quite rainy as well so for bangkok expect to see some very heavy rain showers pushing through attempts of there of about 31 degrees well as we make more down here towards australia the big story here has been the storm that has been pushing across the southeast and now into the tasman sea and with the storm system we have seen plenty of winds across much of the area you can see those isobars how close they are together that indicates those winds are coming out of the south and in the overnight hours we have even seen some snow here just to the south of sydney particularly the higher elevations so as we go from sunday as well as into monday expect to see more snow falling just in the overnight hours when

those temperatures get very close to freezing up towards britain though it is going to be a nice day few 20 degrees there townsville at $25.00 degrees in darwin at about $31.00 degrees there and to the north in the south island of zealand that same storm system over the next few days is going to cause plenty of rain so awkward windy conditions few with a temperature of 17. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the amount of nonviolent resistance they've lost over the very of the group of. martin luther king and continue to keep the negro to be defense that what you mean by malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from the mind of your top stories this hour a fuel tank has exploded in tanzania at least 60 people have been killed the truck had overturned and crowds have arrived to gather leaky fuel. back in force for many people in indian administered kashmir after thousands marched in rallies after friday prayers ended with the police firing tear gas in some areas. anti-government protesters occupying the arrivals area of hong kong's international airport for a 2nd day these are pictures the latest pictures showing the police squaring off against the protesters in another part of hong kong to demonstrate and demonstrations are planned in the city into the most serious political crisis in

decades. more anti-government demonstrations are expected in moscow for a 4th consecutive weekend protesters are calling for free and fair local elections next month step for us and joins us live from moscow so step have the protests started yet and if they have how big are they. well it's an impressive turnout here considering the stormy circumstances here in the center of moscow this is the 4th sets a day in a row that people are turning to the streets of moscow to protest and what started as a protest against these local elections and the fact that the opposition candidates were banned from running in these elections it has now turned into something much bigger it's all about the red crescent reaction the earth or to the wreck that authorities have before and during the last couple of weeks and basically what they were trying to achieve to silence this protest has had the opposite effect people from all walks of life are now gathering here in moscow all the people young people

all kinds of people who want to show that they're angry about how do you have seriously cracked down on this movement thousands of people have been detained and some are in detention facing serious criminal charges and them up in jail for many years also the leaders of all these protests the opposition candidates when the story was all about all in detention except for one who is now about to speak here on the stage at the same time the crackdown is happening as we speak because one of the other opposition candidates who is not in jail but because she has a child is at the moment i'm already being detained again she is currently also doing a hunger strike so basically these people have one word to say and they say stop these repressive actions we have a right to protest thank you very much. has been a series of explosions at 2 russian military installations the state nuclear

company says 5 of its stuff were killed when a rocket engine exploded well radiation levels temporarily rusin in the northwest of russia the military has blamed lightning for another blast in siberia. an investigation tain meets near a military facility in russia's funnelled. moscow says they're investigating the explosion of a rocket engine at noon your site is used for testing missiles for the russian navy russia's state nuclear company since staff members died in the blast u.s. analysts suggest it was likely a new nuclear powered cruise missile president putin said russia was producing in march last year the united states formally withdrew from the 30 year old intermediate range nuclear forces treaty with russia last friday russia's defense ministry said no dangerous substances were released in the explosion although local authorities closed waters north of the site to shipping for

a month greenpeace cited government data showing a radiation spike 20 times above normal in a city 30 kilometers from the test site some of. the biggest threat is the release of radioactive substances on the inhabitants of a settlement located next to that military base nevertheless for the inhabitants of several beings a city they could also be a danger depending on what kind of substances were released and whether they reached the town. residents took no chances they bought medical iodine known to block the absorption of radiation national. event have shaken up the whole town people started to panic within a matter of an hour although i had been and i had been continually drugs were sold out. yes. 4000 kilometers away in eastern siberia another explosion at a military ammunition dump site the government blamed it on lightning. there was

a bigger explosion i saw a colored mushroom cloud it was very bright i was slammed by a door that sent me flying but. a fire triggered powerful explosions at the facility on monday it was home to more than $40000.00 shells thousands of residents were evacuated. russians in both regions are now demanding transparency from north orgies and the potential risks posed by the blasts shallop ballasts al-jazeera south korea's military says north korea has fired what appears to have been 2 short range ballistic missiles from its eastern coast into the sea last week the north korean leader kim jong un oversaw similar launches he says the tests are a warning to the u.s. and south korea over their joint military drills the us president earlier said he had received what he called a very beautiful letter from mr kim and that he wasn't bothered by the recent launches. pilgrims in mecca

a climbing mount arafat on day 2 of the hard they'll pray and recite the koran before performing the stoning of the devil ritual more than 2000000 people are in saudi arabia for this religious gathering as one of the 5 pillars of islam a bus bus ago is a visiting research on islamic studies at george mason university he says the conch takes place when muslims all over the world have to be troubled because of conflicts flaring from yemen to kashmir. make no mistake a large swath of the global muslim community is deeply deeply troubled with the role that saudi arabia is playing in yemen and in some parts of the region and is just and most muslims are deeply dismayed with with what's happening in places like kashmir and with the syrian refugee crisis and a lot of people do blame salary and saudi arabia for its role in causing these problems however there is a long tradition within muslim community globally to bracket political issues when it comes to the performance of the hodge one has to remember today's day the sacred

day of your meal out of that is the day in which muslims return to their original and final states in this world and in the hereafter you know seeking for forgiveness from god speaking directly to god from the mountain signals a kind of a recollection of adam's pristine moment and and a kind of practice for the day of resurrection so yes people are not heeding a boycott but make no mistake that the that there is a sort of displeasure and a somber mood around this around this pilgrimage because of what's happening in parts of the world. 4 palestinians are being killed close to the gaza israel border this video appears to show flares being fired into the air in the southern area east of d.l. by law israeli soldiers shoot at the men the israeli army says the palestinians were armed and tried to breach the border. humans who feel rebels so they have

launched another 2 drone attacks on an airport in southern saudi arabia a spokesman for the group says the strikes hit a fueling station at the airport and targeted a monitoring tower disrupting flights is the latest in a series of drone attacks by the who these in recent days libya's u.n. recognize government says is open to observing a cease fire during the 4 day eat holiday starting on saturday the u.n. mission in libya earlier requested the break in hostilities including a ban on airstrikes is calling on fighters loyal to the warlords to leave a half top to agree but they have yet to comment his forces have been trying to take the capital city tripoli for several months now meanwhile 80 migrants have been saved by a french run rescue ship off the coast of libya a group doctors without borders posted photographs of the migrants being ferried from a dingey the italian interior minister mathias salvini says he's preparing to ban the ship from entering italian waters under a new government decree the bessel owner could be fined about $1000000.00 another

$45.00 people have been rescued by the libyan coast guard in waters near tripoli. pollution from chemical plants in tunisia is causing devastating damage to land and sea according to various environmental groups the warning comes as the country plans to increase its export of phosphates by 50 percent the chemical is mainly used in fertilizers david chaytor is in the coastal city of governors which has seen some of the worst of the pollution. this is where he says he was once considered as a world heritage site by the united nations it borders a bay that was a rich spawning ground marine life in the mediterranean but ammonia now hangs in the air above the palm trees as this chemical complex vents the toxic gases produced by using soft fury acid to process phosphates nasy her heads the association formed to defend the oasis he describes what's happening here as an act

of industrial terrorism for mamma moreover we're getting diseases of all kinds like lung cancer cancer of the nose and sort briskets we berating people every day because of these diseases. 13000 tons of chemicals and waste are channeled into the bay through this drain every day it's making a desert out of the sea floor the residents here say before the chemical plants began operating the sea was so close the fish used to jump into the fields and their children used to swim amongst its problems i've been standing by this river of toxic sludge for just over half an hour now already my eyes are stinging in my throat feels wrong or it's been flowing into the sea behind me for more than 40 years it's killing everything it touches the locals have a name for it it's called the fatal shore. you don't see any crabs here nor any

bird life above its hauntingly empty only occasional pool with an algal bloom a line of black slime shows the high water mark the tunisian chemical group which runs the complex claim they are taking measures to tackle the pollution abdel heloc has seen his living as a fisherman destroyed by the chemicals washing into the bay and his own health ruined by their city gas plumes he's now suffering from cancer of the colon is boats is rotting in the harbor which is becoming a graveyard for the trawlers any hope of a future as gone the neighboring port transporting phosphate to the world though has never been busier. there the sport has ruined everything it's polluted the ear and the egret culture and is lead to a deserted vacation of the marine life in one of the main parks in the city of gabbers graffiti warns of dangers of air pollution

a device which actually monitors the gases has been broken for years now. it's hanging in a road called environment of a new hard way down it a large rubbish dump and old rusting cars. many here say the whole city seems to have lost hope david chaytor al-jazeera gulbis at least 13 people have been killed by a landslide in china after a super typhoon like hit its eastern coast around 1000000 people have been forced from their homes after made landfall in the province of c.g.i. and there have been widespread power outages and power cuts and more than $200.00 houses of collapsed the storm system is now expected to move up the eastern coast towards china 2nd city shanghai. stem cell therapy has proven to be an effective way to treat a range of diseases donors need to be healthy and have genetic similarities to the patients but in canada the nations are mainly from people of european descent and

that's posing a problem for people with diverse ethnic backgrounds daniel lak reports now from toronto. building diversity in canada's stem cell donor base happens here in testing clinics aimed at the country's ethnic minorities around 2 thirds of registered donors are of european origin their cells probably won't help people from other backgrounds organizers of this clinic for chinese canadians say there's been little outreach to their community some people are still reluctant to be tested or donate a pool of their chinese and go chinese say that since we have been working on it for over 2 years now we have raised up to 7 percent but even 7 is and is not a big number it's even more challenging to find a match for people of mixed backgrounds 13 year old aryan din alley is a vietnamese and afghan origin he has a plastic anemia a blood disease that can only be reliably cured by stem cell transplants 3 years of

searching in canada and around the world have yet to find him a donor it haunts me daily it's it's unbelievable if a patient you know is caucasian the chances of him or her having 6 or 7 or 8. possible matches on a registry to another patient because of their heritage lineage that they don't even want at all marketing executive made got leukemia in 2013 she needed stem cells but her vietnamese origin meant fewer donors but one did come forward miraculously she says and now she runs a campaign called swap the world and that's literally what she wants to do it is if it is literal because everybody should get swab everybody should know about how stem cell donation works and it's not only in the back and chatted up but we're the world stem cells can regenerate tissue and treat an increasing range of medical

conditions but as long as cell donor registries don't reflect the societies around them doctors options are limited some. donors can help people not just with blood cancers like leukemia in the families but also with immune disorders genetic diseases by disorders of of other types and it's quite a broad therapeutic field our younes anemia is in remission now and he's able to study play and behave much like other 13 year old boys but he'll still probably need a stem cell transplant one day he and his family are waiting for a match daniel lak al-jazeera near toronto. ok let's recap the top stories for you so far today the president to tanzania says the nation is in shock after dozens of people were killed in a fuel tanker explosion at least 60 people have lost their lives but it's really the number of that could rise higher the truck had overturned and crowds had

arrived to gather the leaking fuel malcolm webb has more now from nairobi. it's important to understand in some of the small towns and rural areas where these huge trucks pass through then extreme poverty and poverty are widespread and for somebody like a motorcycle taxi driver then managing to get a few leaders of free fuel can help to feed a family or help keep children in school so not uncommon to see in these kind of circumstances people doing what they can to gather some fuel when it's otherwise going to go to waste indian administered kashmir remains on lockdown today on friday thousands rallied in the worst unrest since the region was stripped of its autonomy dozens of people were injured when the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets protesters are occupying the arrivals area of hong kong's international airport for a 2nd day they are planning to stay there for the rest of the weekend to make people flying into the territory aware of their dispute with the government these

are live pictures showing the police squaring off against protesters in other parts of hong kong the demonstrations of plunge the city into its most serious political crisis in decades. 4 palestinians have been killed close to the guards israel border this video appears to show flares being fired in the air as israeli soldiers shoot at the men the israeli army says the palestinians were armed and were trying to cross the border at least 13 people have been killed by a landslide in china after the super typhoon lekima hit its eastern coast around 1000000 people have been forced from their homes after it made landfall in the province of she jang the storm is now expected to move up the east coast towards shanghai pilgrims in mecca climbing mount arafat on the 2nd day of the hard they're pray and recite the koran before performing the stoning of the devil ritual more than 2000000 people are in saudi arabia for this religious gathering. those are

your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off the inside story richelle we'll keep you company in the coming hours up to that i will see you from 7 g. tomorrow. climate change is threatening the world's food supply that's according to a u.n. panel and it says the way land is used has to change so how will governments deal with this warning and can the planet still be saved this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. we've seen report after report warning us of the dangers of climate change and that is happening right now the united nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change has put the minds of more than $100.00 scientists together and what they're saying is alarming not only are rising temperatures threatening the planet but so our eating habits the way food is formed is drastically degrading the earth's land and scientists predict that's making global warming worse and will lead to food shortages as lopez what the u.n. reports one solution may be that we have to change our diets. in many parts of the world land is being overworked and misused and it's increasingly being swallowed up by the effects of global warming heat waves and droughts are turning once for thailand's entered deserts that's the latest warning from scientists i think the takeaway message is that the way we use land matters because it impacts the climate

and that we also should use land as a solution the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change says global warming and poor land use practices are having devastating effects entire communities have lost their crops livestock land and livelihood small scale farmers who depend on grain to grow their crops i left guessing about when the whether the rains are going to come. whether they'll be enough so it's really an urgent message to governments the report calls on governments to promote small scale farming and to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions it also urges consumers to do their part by reducing meat consumption the way we produce food and what we eat contributes to the loss of nature ecosystems and declining biodiversity it's estimated that one 3rd of the food produced for human consumption about

$1300000000.00 tonnes goes to waste every year the un panel says limiting the amount of voice would free land for reforestation and crop growth. a warning to stop pushing land to its breaking point and a call for governments to pay attention. to the young al-jazeera. alright let's bring in our guest simon lewis is professor of global change science at university college london and he joins us from london patrick holden is c.e.o. of sustainable food trust and he joins us by skype from lampeter wales. and young koalas it is senior climate policy advisor at oxfam germany and he joins us from berlin welcome to all of our guests yon let me start with you time is running out there is a finite amount of land and an ever growing population just how dire is the situation we are all facing now. this is what the report of the un i.p.c.c.

is all about is the dial warning saying we must take action to reduce the pressure on climate and on lands both at the same time so climate change is a rate eve worsening poverty in the world it's increasing the problems we have with hunger it's impacting food systems it's decreasing harvests everywhere in his making her to charity instead increasingly unstable so we still have a window left where we can act but that window is closing soon and or depends on how ambitious governments will be when it comes to cutting emissions and so far we see this ambition is not there we have a criminal lack of ambition shown by all governments but they can make up for it because next year they are supposed to submit new reduction targets under the present dream and this will show whether or not the world will be able to control climate change better we seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle that goes something like this climate change makes agriculture more difficult but agriculture itself is also exacerbating climate change would you

agree with that. yes i would and i would up to that we're probably in the last chance saloon in terms of addressing irreversible climate change. but the bad news on the good news is that firstly. the majority of the private surface used to be covered with rain forests and of course it's been replaced by foams but the good news is that not only of farms part of the problem but they could become part of the solution if we changed the practices scale and i know that's possible because i've been practicing most sustainable coach of the last 40 years here on this 300 acre farm in west well simon and how much of an impact has farming had whether you're talking about methane production from dairy farming or clearing lands for agricultural use overall it's about 23 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are from farming and agriculture and one big chunk of

that is deforestation in the tropics producing covered oxide into the atmosphere another is from animal farming from ruminants and methane and then the 3rd big area is nitric oxide emissions which are largely from fertilizer over application of fertilizer and these 3 gas is a contributing to climate change in the atmosphere and as we know that if we want to stabilize the climate system then those emissions from by fossil fuels and from agriculture need to decline to 0 yun you spoke a few moments ago about the paris climate agreement now in 2017 u.s. president donald trump announced that he was pulling the u.s. out of the climate agreement by the year 2 $1020.00 and since then you've seen moves by his administration to repeal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions i mean where does everything stand when it comes to the paris climate accord since the us an ounce that it is pulling out well on other key. trees are staying in the

courts and they are trying to increase the ambition they have when it comes to climate action at home so there is support all around except the united states and that is only the united states administration since the trumpet ministration the rest of the country is stepping up on the climate crisis so lots of you see lots of action and legislation on the federal state level for instance consumers people citizens they all are aware of the growing climate crisis and we will have to get the us back on board of course but that doesn't stop the rest of the hands and it is moving ahead is not at the scale of the speed we need but it is moving ahead and renewable energies are getting drowned everywhere coal power is phased out in many many countries including my country germany france and. the what is moving on and the u.s. would have to step up patrick one of the stark conclusions in the i.p.c.c. report is that soil is being lost between in and $100.00 times faster than it is

being formed in ploughed areas could you explain more to the viewers what exactly that means and how dire that makes the situation. well certainly saw a carbon loss due to industrial and intensive agriculture during my farming like time has been one of the very major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions but there is good news there which is that if we changed our practices and went back to rotational foaming mixed farming which combines a fertility voting period normally with grass and far is legumes with an explosive period which will be producing vegetables whole grains so other foods that we can eat we can actually rebuild the last saw a carbon and possibly take up to $100.00 parts per 1000000 of c o 2 out of the atmosphere but we can only do that and produce enough food for us to eat if we graze the pastas with ruminant on it was that sheep and cattle and picking up on simon's point we do need to get to 0 emissions from agriculture but that means net

0 emissions because we cannot avoid the methane emissions from the grass that ruminants but they can be offset by the soil carbon game of the saws which we need to rebuild the ones that have been degraded that you mentioned so it's a complex issue but we all need to become experts in understanding the kinds of farming systems that we need to replace the ones that are causing all the damage and then we need to align up future does to the productivity of those systems if we can't do that and even if i was once to change they will be able to sell their products of the marketplace and this is a big issue at the moment because a lot of people mistakenly think that going vacant or nearly 100 percent probably best will solve the problem when in fact we need postulate to hold the carbon and to rebuild the culvert as part of an integrated system simon heard patrick the talk about the need to change farming practices obviously changing farming practices and

that is a massive undertaking and you would have to incentivize this for farmers how could that be done in parts of the world where farmers are really suffering don't have the resources to do that. well there's a big set of policy questions that come out of this i.p.c.c. report and for small farmers one of the major issues in developing countries is getting that product to market fast and avoiding food waste so affording food waste to get it to people to be able to eat is really important so there are interventions there that governments can help farmers with to be able to increase their yields and increase what they get from their land and therefore contribution to producing more food to be able to take pressure off converting more land into agricultural land yun the report says that there's a huge opportunity to use land differently to emit less to restore ecosystems we've

wrecked and also to store more carbon but just how difficult would that be to achieve and how long might it take. and it's a big challenge because it is not only restoring ecosystems that we need to do in order for them to become a net sink of emissions when sense and we always need to look at how we can support no communities and indigenous peoples to get the land tribes for the man to live on and then work on so that they become stewards of the land in order which made it much more make them able to adapt to a changing climate and of course the it all depends on the willingness of governments to actually do that and somewhat in some cases especially in developing countries as water depends on the support that they are getting from the rich countries who are obliged to provide that support and the paris agreements are but they are failing to do this on adequate levels but if they would step up that and say ok we would like to support your food systems to adapt to climate change and we

want to do that in a sustainable way and we want to provide money that we have promised on the premise agreement we will get a big step patrick i saw you nodding along to what jaan was saying did you want to jump in yes i agree with what he says completely because the key issue is what kind of farming systems that the aged the rich companies countries is supporting because until now many of the charities despite their best intentions of actually supported the call the farming systems which are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions i'll give you an example of the 8 programs encourage farmers to use more not sure yet report the i.p.c.c. report highlights that the 3rd of the greenhouse gas emissions come from leuchter so site mostly connected with the use of marginal fertilizer which is so is contributing to the oxidize ation of previously covered rich soils so we really need to make sure that future aid from the big 8 charities and indeed from

foundations by bill and melinda gates foundation and usa id target the right.