instead they're calling on governments around the world to take action on climate change i think that it's bad to miss one school day and have a few jets you know how many chinese at school people need to realize that the promise is something we need as many people are protesting here for the 1st one to be part of this growing movement chordal governments to do more to tackle climate change. and this truly is a phenomenon across the pacific islands many of which are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels a pledge to fight climate change there were big protests in australia where several 100000 people skip school college or work to take part while in thailand hundreds of young people by death outside the environment ministry demanding action. we. were missing.

in indonesia the police took time while protesters rallied along the main road. don't let up. and in india the message was no less passionate it would be personally going below to head the climate is close to the change in mindset of our government of the people of. this protest in south africa was no less noisy. this groundswell of global thanks tim passion for action and change from young people has surprised some in governments many have been inspired by the teenager gretta thornburg who last year started skipping school on fridays to protest outside the swedish parliament. in just a few days world leaders will meet in new york at the united nations conference on climate change. must hope but we we must also be prepared for. for

that nothing comes out of it and then we need to continue no matter want because giving up cannot be an option that is fishermen's group leaders make a new rule would affect the future of these young people with the. it is the youth and goaded by a desire to change him he would al-jazeera and moaned. well marcelle partition terrorists is the north america spokesperson for the climate movement yes for humanity joins us now over skype from new york so millions of people taking part in this climate strike skipping school skipping work in more than 150 countries mean is there a historical significance to the size and scale of this protest today have we how we crossed the sort of threshold here. yes i believe that this is the 1st time in the history of humanity that we're able to mobilize the lives and to understand

also the state that hand when we look at their movements when that human rights or other issues never was the planet as a whore or the land on which we all live so this is mobilizing whole new level and i do believe that it is historical moment because it is also a huge lead and yeah it's honestly an honor to be able to witness this at this time in new york especially and as you say it's a u.s. led movement and certainly many thousands many millions of children have drawn inspiration from the swedish schoolgirl gretta turn by what do you say. government minister and some other figures have said children should really be in school that they shouldn't be out doing this. what i would say would not necessarily be a made particularly the fact that kids or children or youth service in school

because i think the threat is my it's bigger he needs more of knowledge and the indigenous folks and the folks from the global south who have been fighting for such a long period of time don't necessarily also have this thing about the privilege to be able to strike. at the school or or stop their activities in a daily on a daily basis the same way that we're able to get here and that would be more of the criticism that i would bring to the movement is. who is back to that we build this movement and who are we forgetting in the race and when we put folks on their stupor stardom status and and not necessarily acknowledge that indigenous folks are are dying. and are losing their land etc i mean i guess one test of this movement will come in a couple of day. one world leaders gather at the united nations for this much anticipated climate summit do you think this is likely to do anything to compel

world leaders to start scaling back carbon emissions. as quickly as the scientists say they should i think so. yesterday and the day before we had to get for humanity to be part of the people summit which gathered some moral leaders some organizations and there is definitely a willingness to try to stop polluting there's also a declaration that was written with over close to $400.00 organizations that. does that cooperation or timing at least we believe that it is urgent to listen to science to also listen to children and to see that if we do reach the track but the benchmark in which there is irreversible damage done to the planet we're all at stake and we're all losing so i i think that. 3 as well as governments are willing

to make a very it's a question of how much pressure we're able to use. civilians as citizens of this planet to to make sure that there is actually accountability that is what you side of the framework and. what they're explaining that really appreciated marcel partition terror is north america spokesperson for the use climate was meant yes for humanity as we see millions rallying around the well but of course thousands of people also launching towards parliamentary buildings in the south african city cape town it's a city where just 2 years ago the taps were in danger of running dry for me to mila is with the protesters and sent us this report. thousands of protesters have marched to parliament on a demanding that the south african government do more to deal with climate change cape town is a city that was gripped by drop 2 years ago and on the verge of having its taps run dry people here say they don't want to face

a catastrophe like that and now is the time to act they're also demanding that the government declare a national emergency they want to see the end of coal power stations they also want greater education for south africa's use to understand climate change more and know the place they have been acting against climate change many of the protesters are school children and people here say that there is only one pallet it can't sustain the current system and it's up to the south african government to play its part of the we have to live with myself knowing that i'm letting love into the people in the high institutions to take live my future and not fight for just say that you're going to live to live and religion really affect the root cause the elders like there was the one who caused it so they do one piers which we as the you would have to execute earlier this years southern africa experienced one in its worst side loans ever countries like the muslim became

a lowery and zimbabwe were affected way almost 1300 people were killed constance's in south africa a facing rising sea levels right 2050 people here are saying they want climate justice now and they want to ensure there's a future for many of the young people attending this protest today. patty has the latest now from bogota one of the protests like there and tell us more about the turnout and who is participating. well marion the protesters are just starting to gather here in. in the capital of bogota. as you are doing in at least another couple of guys in. larger towns across colombia they want to participate because they want to voice is heard. there are hundreds of thousands of her doing. cross the world at work

here too it's mostly young people school students college students that are gathering here fortunately the weather has been bringing much misery all day long so i have to see how many people will. show up but there's this is just the start of a long week event to the end to that their government needs to do more . responses to the changing of the climate to end their protests to believe that colombia's particularly fragile when it comes to climate change because this is the 2nd most biodiverse country in the world with many different very fragile eco systems that need to preserve and this is what people are saying here environmentalist are also working together here in cologne with indigenous groups

and there were a number of rituals that took part in different parts of the country again. many romantic across the world more for to fight climate change all right thank you with the latest from alessandra. algis there is money russell he is live. in mexico city appears to be. in the process going when you want. this right burial the work concerns over rains today and people not showing up that was not the case the weather is lovely and there are thousands of people at least here on the streets of mexico's historic district just like. we heard from alessandro it's mostly young people just like we're seeing in cities all over the world it's a massive turnout of young people many of whom decided not to go to school today others decided not to go to university others did not attend their jobs in solidarity with thousands of people all over the world attending this climate

strike here in mexico there's the what are the biggest concerns of course given the notoriety over over the air pollution mexico is famous for having a poor air quality every year thousands of people fall ill to diseases related to the poor health care quality here in the city and despite past attempts at regulating days with no traffic right share alps and policies there has been a lack of a meeting meaningful solution here in mexico and so that's one of the things that people here out on the streets are calling for in fact some of the some of the kids that we've spoken to on the street today say that they did not have the support of their schools they decided to come out here anyway and attend these are protests that are taking place just here in mexico city there's other cities as well like many of them where there were 11 nobel laureates including 992 nobel peace prize winner leo venter been to who held a who held a ceremony a mayan ceremony asking the planet for forgiveness continuing to pollute the planet

one positive note is that mexico is making strides toward banning single use plastics by the year 2021 so at the very least there is a silver lining in terms of legislation here in mexico area thank you mani ratnam with the latest from mexico well scientists are warning that the increasing rate of deforestation in brazil's amazon could one day turn the region into a dry savannah despite a 16 day ban on fires to clear farmland in the amazon wildfire rates are still only slightly down from the highest number in a decade on latin america and it's only seen reports now from chip pile of dust in the state of not to cross so. 60 year old grown. walks through the charred remains of his land for the 1st time since fire destroyed it all it does this is though some of these were my seedling beads or years of work here you would grab the dirt in it smelled it differently it hit life now it's and

. but governor l. applied a sustainable system without artificial fertilisers only native species to make the land more productive. but all his work to grow his 1st pineapples sugarcane fruit trees and corn went up in smoke in just a few minutes he says that filmed this video on september 7th just before he had to run to save himself. he describes what's left as a prelude to total dysart of occasion. the characteristic of the snakes a forest is its ability to survive decades of fires but with every new fire it becomes more degraded and smaller until it withers away and the only thing left is it does it. last month the number of wildfires in the amazon tripled compared to the previous year and as elsewhere here in the most impacted state they continue

spreading until a week ago all this looked like a kind of in chanted forest what scientists call an environmental corridor with more than 100 native species and not just trees but also animals like wild deer armadillos boars poulos and many many more are the fires have destroyed all this in some cases were accidental in others intentional but in all cases they were manmade . the mato grosso state environmental department argues that the number of fires is relative. regions compared to 20 i tane which was a rainy year the amount of deforestation women doubled this year if you compare it to us. the years that's quite everett's nothing extraordinary. but that's not really the veil says she's lived in the area for 20 years and says her family never experienced anything close to an wildfires came right up to their doorstep they

survived by a miracle she says. i'm very frightened still too afraid to even go to work because i don't want to leave the house and my family alone it's generous. she's right to be worried the temperatures have been hovering at nearly $43.00 degrees for weeks the start of the rainy season is at least a month away and even that won't guarantee that this vital tropical forest will be out of danger you see in human i just see that shot by either the brazil. last ahead on the program. the german government announces its official response to the coolest action on climate change. optimism from version's bronx accent country after talks in brussels with a top negotiator ron of the time and sport of wilde's best self is proving to be near an age to catch away.

again i will come back to you in a national weather forecast here across europe it is kind of cool out here towards eastern it's very nice out here towards the west but things are about to change let me show you what is going on right now we have an area of low pressure that's been spinning but a lot of clouds in cooler air all the way down towards the black sea now temperatures are going to be in the teens but that's not for long as we go to the weekend and into sunday and monday tempers will be coming up across that region here across the west though looking quite nice we're looking at paris 28 degrees but notice the clouds out here in the atlantic well that is a nother front and once that comes on board that is really going to bring a lot more clouds and rain across the region we're not going to see the temperatures drop yet but we're going to be seeing a lot of rain coming into place all the sun you saw on saturday that is going to go away we're going to be seeing clouds as well as winds clouds are also going to be

a big problem here across parts of north western africa and in those clouds we could be seeing some embedded showers as well we're talking morocco algeria so in those areas expect to see off and on rain showers we don't expect to see much of accumulation at all but a little bit more towards the east it is going to be nice to play at 30 degrees there and as we go towards sunday cairo we do expect to see some winds coming out of the north attempt a few of $33.00 and down the nile for us one it is going to be a sunny day with a dry day at 41 degrees. on counting the cost billions spent on air defenses but drones take out more than all of saudi arabia's oil production and look at the knock on effect back past the $30000000000.00 plan to move indonesia's sinking capital and the importance of the dollar tina counting the costs on al-jazeera.

leaks stories generate thousands of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you hold to separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from the journalism how careful must future your words but some tough stuff has to be said so some critics have to be listening post on al-jazeera .

welcome back a quick look at headlines boosie rebels in yemen say they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drugs and other weapons and expect that the saudis will also stop targeting yemeni territory. billions of people around the world have taken part in a global climate strike demanding governments do more to curb emissions before the damage to the planet is irreversible and several people have been arrested at anti-government protests in the egyptian capital cairo demonstrations against president sisi took place in tahrir square and all the parts of the city but will be broken up by police similar protests are taking place in cities across egypt. twitter is saying it's removed more than 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts being used to target cattle in a coordinated campaign and the council based in the united arab emirates and egypt too as it says the fake profiles push content critical of cats while promoting

saudi arabia's government has also suspended the account a former saudi royal courts adviser. has been implicated in the murder of washington post jonas jamal khashoggi now to algeria thousands have returned to the streets of the capital algiers for the. first week in a row to demand an icicle change. despite a crackdown by military sheaf. who had ordered security services to block people entering the capital the protesters want to associate so former president abdelaziz bouteflika removed from power before any elections are held rights group amnesty international says it dozens of demonstrators have been arrested over the course of the cost $10.00 days. more than $29000.00 military personnel and police that continue to fight thousands of forest fires burning across indonesia smoke from the pfizer's caused a toxic haze to blanket the country as well as neighboring malaysia and parts of

southern thailand the crisis is being blamed on the global demand for palm oil it's believed farm is a setting fire to the land to make room for new crops. meanwhile in the indonesian capital hundreds of thousands of been taking to the streets as a pos of the global climate strike demanding an end to the clearing of land or you know mohammed has more on this now from jakarta. it's a festive atmosphere here in the capital g. ponselle where around 400 students some as young as 10 years all the university students are demonstrating for what they're calling climate action they want the government to enforce the climate emergency to deal with some of the issues that's currently facing the country much of this is around air pollution they say they want clean air and blue skies now all of this comes off the back of all the major forest fires that have happened in indonesia for the last couple of months on the island of sumatra and on borneo and it's causing

a very bad haze that's affecting the population here and also just crossing borders into malaysia and singapore many of the people here are saying that they want the government to take more action by imposing better law enforcement to deal with preventative measures to contain these fires and there is also investigations taking place around companies and individuals that have been looking that have allegedly been burning out some of this land and so this is what they want they want the government to impose better regulation and try and stop these forest fires from holding back at pollution in the capital. because we're bringing more developments in egypt where several people have been arrested in anti-government protests we understand these demonstrations taking place in the capital karo but also in the cities in the country joining us over skype is sami handy editor in chief of the international interest 1st of all these are the very initial stages but from what we have seen the images in the pictures that are emerging on what we've seen on social media how widespread are these protests how what's the turnout

like. i think what we have to do or appreciate is that in past attempts at doing protest in order to bring down sisi the army has make sure that nobody enters made it to any nobody interest areas where nobody enters the squares of any of these particular cities the fact that 10 years of people have been able to actually enter to henry square is in itself an incredible achievement for the people in order to try to put a sinking city so now we hear no room is that sisi is protected by what's going on we here know that the people are now encouraged there are people on social media saying oh my god people actually managed to actually get into terry square so i will now go and catch up with her and in order to increase those particular numbers it seems that there are rumblings it seems there are things going on earlier on we heard that there were arrests of protesters that initial 10 or 15 people who went there it's clear that the security forces trying to prevent people from knowing that people are actually going to every square in order to prevent people from joining them so it seems that there is this bubble that's growing there is this tension that is growing and it seems that momentum is increasing at a minute by minute given the security measures and the security presence that you

mentioned how much of a risk are these people taking. there is significant risk let's remember how c.c. deals with protesters how he deals with opposition figures let's remember that the democratically elected president was overthrown by sisi and subsequently died while he was in prison let's remember that whole wave of opposition have been put in prison whether it's from the liberals or it's the muslim brotherhood anybody who writes on facebook again sisi has been put in prison in other words sisi has pulled out all the stops in order to make sure that he stays in power so this is a gamble as somebody put it on twitter it's do or die if people go home after these protests if people go home after having caused this momentum in the 1st place you can be sure that sisi will enact a significant crackdown to prevent this from happening again there are cracks emerging no one sees a security system there are cracks emerging now in cities programme of egypt and if this continues long enough factions within the army themselves will begin to ask

whether it's worth going down with sisi or whether this was actually change again and saving their particular image i just ask you can i just ask you because you've been monitoring this story just to get one thing clear now so we have these protests taking place in cairo directly what are you hearing about protests in other cities because have been reports of protests in alexandria and elsewhere but what can you tell us about that. there are there are smaller protests taking place in some of the other cities however everybody is monitoring what's going on incur if the cairo protests increase we can expect the protests in the other cities to increase everybody's on the sense of is something happening is it not happening the more numbers of the go to protest in cairo the more numbers we will see in other cities it's still early days we're still monitoring what's going on however like i said earlier the fact that people are now out of their interests where even if it's just tens even if it's just a couple of 100 this is significant in and of itself because it shows that there are cracks in the system and this is perhaps all the people need to finally vent

their frustration over cities i don't group in egypt exactly sisi is very firmly entrenched in the country despite these protests taking place still we have to be actually somewhat cautious about describing them as possibly being the beginning of a new sort of phase of unrest. but perhaps in previous instances we might have said this i mean i myself said this article should be careful that in the past he should get into who was the chief accounting for c.c.s. government when he came out and said there was mass corruption see very swiftly shut down the squares tanks were seen in the street in order to prevent people from protesting however it's important as i said to appreciate that the fact that we see people protesting the fact that we see people into every square the fact that sisi and security forces what i'm able to prevent even this number of people from reaching me then to have you from reaching to how do you square this in and of itself suggests that there is something happening that there is

a movement happening it's still early days it's true that perhaps we should be cautious but we should also appreciate that in a country where ceases repression has been widespread the fact that we are seeing such large cracks in this particular oppression is the cause for hope it is because we see people today in large numbers now into areas where everybody now is talking about this because this is something that was not happening before hand and this was something that says he was taking great pains to make sure it doesn't happen this is possible the snowball effect we could see maybe the next few hours the numbers getting larger and larger and the army begin to take so let's give another example the media in egypt today with more so in these over the likes they have spent the last 3 days crying out traitors and the like to make sure people go to the street they've been calling for people to write on facebook support your army support sisi the media has been in a hysteria to try to prevent people from going to protest in other words they recognize the power of mohammed and his call of mohammed and his videos they recognize that people might actually take to the streets so the machine has been

operating all week to prevent the very people in we don't have it from going to harry square so the fact that they are there means that the machine is cracking and it remains to be seen whether these cracks will finally lead to a complete break in cities repression. and early is the egyptian contract to your firing to there who. recently spoke out he's been posting videos on social media hasn't he about alleged corruption in infrastructure projects in egypt and now sami handy thank you. well now the german government has released a ambitious new climate plan it comes after pressure from environmental protest the increasing popularity of the green party at the polls europe's biggest economy has a long term plan to cut its emissions by 55 percent in 2030 compared to 1911 that is currently missing its targets a new carbon dioxide emissions charge will be made on polluting vehicles and heating fuels starting at 11 dollars per ton in 2021 it will rise to $39.00 per ton

by 2025 germany is also raising incentives for buying electric cars raising charges on airline tickets and investing more in the rail network i want my tires buck is the head of the european energy policy the think tank of gore and given to and previously worked for the european commission on energy and environment issues joins us now from berlin thank you for your patience for bearing with us when out of germany doesn't have the most positive credentials in leading the fight against climate change is this plan a new beginning then for for the country's climate policy does not this bold a beginning it's we had hoped to see if you sit in your introduction germany is missing its own 2020 you ask us who don't target it we are currently at the risk of missing or 2 if you sort of targets. and process mooned or the measures now adopted by this climate cabinet in the government is not the suring that we

would actually reach what it is that started with this. so just to be clear that the current i mean the current plan isn't as efficient as you would have hoped for and from what you're saying this new package isn't going to have really any implications for the automobile industry. let's take the example you mentioned the introduction of a price on carbon emissions also for the transport sector not the government will face this in with the $10.00 euro cents per ton of c o $1010.00 euros per ton of c o 2 charge by 2021 this translates into about $0.02 at the in consumer fuel price which is really only a tiny fraction of the overall fuel price this is not going to make a difference in really reducing transport emissions writes a criticism from environmental groups and other experts who are not happy at key

parts of this plan why the relatively low carbon price why is the government not doing better in that case. but if they are just too weak at this moment this government has been in charge for some years they've been struggling to come to terms with the topic of reducing greenhouse gas emissions only now with the very much growing pressure from the youth movement to try this for future movement and really a growing broad coalition into society with trade unions with companies with part of industry supporting scientists supporting much more rapid measures to reduce carbon emissions and the government is trying to do something better but as we're seeing it is not at the moment sufficiently strong to actually call those

measures through because that is of course the better business can and that is right so i mean so germany is is trying to do better but the carbon emissions are have really not move much over the past decade that's a problem if we put that to one side what about measures that are trying to encourage companies and households to reduce carbon emissions are they going to have any more success in sort of changing consumer behavior. this is an open question sort true that the government has put on to the table a fairly large part of incentives new incentives for instance to reduce buildings emissions by and renovation of ours but the question is will it citizens buy into this with the whole. incentives for for citizens to make the investments really be sufficient this is an open question we have to see it but it's different

to put an incentive into placed into taking clear regulatory decision and determining some action that must happen. but eyes big thank you very much head of the european energy policy think tank or any given to thank you thanks to you on now to developments ahead of persons breakfast secretaries expressed optimism after a meeting with the chief negotiator stephen barclay says there is common purpose between the in the e.u. to see it with drawn agreement in place by october 31st the talks between barclay michel barnier focused on the contentious irish border issue the gauche ations it used to continue on monday as prime minister parsed johnson means council president donald tusk in new york well we had serious detailed discussions today we reshoot bonnie and steve coleman purpose we both want to see it do you have a clear.