to say who carried out the attacks countries that have joined the maritime patrol missions so far britain bahrain saudi arabia more recently australia and the united arab emirates following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned about the u.s. plan gaining more support. for all him are those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran a line just like the past laws which have been revealed if the truthful and really sick security in the region they must not see him with pins 5 digits bombs and dangerous to the region. this week of vents in cities across the country will mark the beginning of iran's 8 year war with iraq in 1900 gulf arab states supported venner rocky president saddam hussein something rouhani reminded iranians of in his speech but he also said that all can be forgiven if there is unity among islamic countries but the united states is only interested in dividing the region and

pillaging resources and that the security of the region lasting security is only up to the people indigenous to the area seen best ravi al-jazeera. we can now return to our top story and that's the un's latest warning on climate change and the effects of global warming joining us now live from the u.n. headquarters in new york is the prime minister wrong way. prime minister great to have you on the program thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us but i want to ask you about starting with the climate protests we saw on friday when millions of young people mostly young people took to the streets calling on people like you world leaders policymakers and industry leaders to safeguard their future how did that make you feel and has that motivated you any more ahead of this climate summit. well it does i think it's.

both appreciative and important that young people moving the climate agenda that they are restless because they own the future and it's important that we listen to what they have to say of course i can understand that young people feel that everything goes to so i think we are seeing new innovations new technologies things moving forward but i think it's too slow we have to accelerate the progress we have to increase the activities and of course there are countries who are doing too little and there are all of us can do more to make sure that we are not increasing the warmth of the this world more than 1.5 degrees sure speaking of doing more there's no question that norway has a great reputation when it comes to its own environmental policies but at the same time norwegian gas accounts for about a quarter of gas consumption in the u.s. you're one of the biggest exporters of oil and gas for full fuels make up

a huge part of your economy would it be it be easier when it said a more correct mess is just to stop drilling for oil. yes but on the other hand you know we do know is produce in a way that the c o 2 emissions are quite low compared to most other productions we have very high levels of of taxation on the c o 2 emission during the po and the process and then of course if you look at the intermediate period in the future the knowledge amount you know of producing is natural gas and we are supplying europe with natural gas that makes a transition from a coal based economy or towards and low emission economy is year because it's only half the c o 2 emissions coming from natural gas compared to coal. all the economies will

need to stabilize to beside the real renewable energy sources so i think closing you know over the night is a very wrong on so to this but it's of course putting a price on carbon making sure that the that the fossil fuels that are use of those with the least c o 2 emissions for example natural gas sure while you are all production. environmental guidelines are remarkable most of carbon emission comes from consumption not necessarily production so are you going to push for narrowing the amount of oil you produce oil and fossil fuels you produce in light of the fact that it is consumption and usage of that product that is contributing to the pollution of the environment. well norwegian oil production has been no word naturally because we have not found that much oil last year so we peaked too early 2000 on our production what we now have is

a more and more gas oriented system and of course the cost so high i think we have to push for more new technologies more more when your balls invest small our largest oil company. is know in investing much more in. ocean based when farms that means that we are using the knowledge we have in that industry over to new areas but i think it's it's not so to know which importations will push politically for decreasing the development of the oil and gas but we do see a future where we will need to find there are. ghosts coming from other areas than oil and gas in the future because the price will be higher explorations will be lowered and we have fewer areas that are found i'm looking ahead to the climate summit and the target of lowering or making most countries carbon neutral by 2050

which is in about 30 years it's a really realistic for countries to completely restructure their energy consumption by the in that time are you really expecting you and your compatriots really expecting that this is a target that can be reached. well being called more neutral means that you can still use some have some emissions of carbon if you can use the natural forest trees the oceans and other things to absorb more the c o 2 so we need a lot of innovations to be able to be there in 2050 but we have to do this to make sure that the imprint of the climate change is not that big for the future i think it's it's a good economics these days for world leaders to see that in the long run if we don't control the climate change we will have more economic down

times for store economic growth we will have more catastrophe will have more refugees we will need to invest more and resilience in our societies and we will have to prepare more for the large changes that the weather system that changes will happen to a lot of countries including my own where we see that but i come from a no where we find that the weather and the rain is tough for it's more it creates more avalanches so when you do need to do something about this sure yes and on that point you know nori is close to the arctic circle that last years have been melting sea levels have been rising what is now redoing to mitigate that are to counter the effects of climate change particularly in that region. well what we really have working on is of course to make a municipality is more resilient is to look at where where are the areas for. the more harsh weather and the weather that can make changes what we see is of

course heavy rains and and also last year was the longest crossed period that we have had for a long long time so we had severe damage on agricultural parts of the country which is very new to know where it was at a much more stable climate up until now. but what we see is that we will have to build differently we have to build in different areas a lot of more ways mountainous a 97 percent of our country's mountain areas so there will be a lot of sleep science and we will have to get to build differently and build in different sites in the future to make sure that that people's homes. taken by different avalanches be so we do have to work on all of these but and then we were working on the no vision economy being less dependent on carbon and of course we have a probably one of the world's most ambitious transport systems to become more carbon

free in the future thank you very much prime minister on our solberg thank you it's been great to get you on the program thank you very much. thank you. well we have plenty more still ahead on this news hour including crucial talks investor israel's president begins consultations to decide who should lead the new government. forced to flee fighting between eisel and security forces has left thousands in the jar with no place to call home. it was a controversial victory at the singapore grand prix we'll have more details in our sports. now tens of thousands of indian americans packed into a texas stadium for an unusual joint rally between indian prime minister narendra

modi and the u.s. presidents on all trump the events in houston dubbed how the modi was a rare mash show of support for a foreign leader on u.s. soil white house correspondent can really help it was there. oh wherever you are into remote it goes controversy usually follows outside the houston stadium in advance of the indian prime minister's speech modi supporters physically grabbed al-jazeera camera and yanked press credentials as we tried to film those protesting his visit modi was once banned for years for entering the united states for violations of religious freedom but on sunday he stood in front of thousands of indian americans alongside u.s. president donald trump hardy by france the massive rally is designed to beam a positive image of modi after international criticism of his move stripping kashmir of its autonomy there's also been a surge of attacks under modi's government against religious minorities in india

analysts say modi's nationals ground of politics is very similar should trops i do logically surprisingly similar. be invested in a kind of nationalism a kind of muscular nationalism going to strong nationalism and become of speaking the same idiom but on stage the pair touted the economic benefits of their friendship he has already married. the american economy. drawn. our 2 nations her son. their relationship to newry you are richer our culture. you are polled or. you uplift our communities and you are truly proud to be american trying to modi hope to sign a trade deal during modi's visit to boost india's sluggish economy it would also give trump an economic win after a prolonged u.s.

trade war with china but i'm inside the rally many people protested the joint appearance of the 2 leaders this woman says she's furious trunk granted modi the global legitimacy he seeks and number one he has divided his country number 2 here . and that is that a man of the cabinet that has been running on him to show me the prime minister. also subject rose who he didn't want on trial for another low euro. for every help here on. israel's main arab political parties have endorsed the ex-military chief benny gantz for prime minister in a bit. and yahoo the move breaks a 17 year old long president of not backing any candidate to me the country are a force that has the latest from a. well the head of the joint list the mainly palestinian israeli grouping of

parties says that they have made history here at the israeli president's residence here in west jerusalem this sunday just days after his reelection by recommending a candidate for the prime minister of israel they say they're recommending benny gantz to be that prime minister it's the 1st time since 1992 that such a grouping has made such a recommendation and i'm annoyed i said it was after years of being diligent to my eyes by the administration of benjamin netanyahu that they had to take part they had to act to end that era but look at us along with the we usually do not endorse israeli prime minister is so without doubt there is an historical side to what we are doing now we want to put an end to the era of benjamin netanyahu therefore will endorse spinny gantz to form the next government a minute it also made it clear that this wasn't just about removing benjamin netanyahu is also a reflection of a shift in opinion among palestinian israelis polls show

a real appetite for greater engagement in israeli politics more results from their politicians on things such as crime social policy economics and he said in terms of trying to repeal the nation state law which made palestinian israelis into 2nd class citizens in this country as for the reaction from the other parties well could its delegation here said that no israeli government should rely on and honest arab parties to try to confer legitimacy on it and the blue and white delegation it's had said that it would sit in coalition unity government but only with zionist parties so explicitly ruling out the joint list the other big question though remains how and whether there will be that unity government between blue and white on one side and likud on the other ballooning presence of benjamin netanyahu appears to remain the stumbling block to that happening much now depends on the actions of president rivlin himself. there will be

a 2nd round of meetings like this on monday after which at some stage over the course of the next week or so he will have to decide to whom he will give the 1st opportunity to form a coalition government if that fails then it may well go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election. the world's oldest travel company is on the verge of collapse with the leaders threatening to pull out of a $1000000000.00 rescue deal. from britain's thomas cook had been holding talks with creditors in london and a last ditch effort to keep the company alive without an agreement hundreds of thousands of people could be left stranded on holiday and 20000 jobs could be lost catherine stansell has this report. it's britain's oldest travel company operating in more than a dozen countries with $19000000.00 customers a year but thomas cook struggled to be profitable. despite

a $1000000000.00 injection of cash earlier this year the company said on friday it needed an additional $250000000.00 to stave off collapse for barclays well they contain a very bad news for the 600000 people around the world on thomas cook holidays when word spread about the dire financial situation this hotel in tunis briefly refused to let holiday makers leave demanding money afraid that they wouldn't get paid if the company went bankrupt. i paid more than $2000.00 for the holiday they want more the i paid i told them i'm not responsible for thomas cook place con the blackmail if you pay it you know you don't want the british government is promising to help anyone stuck abroad i can reassure people that in the worst case scenario the contingency planning is there to avoid people being stranded more than a 1000000 people around the world have holidays booked with thomas cook if the

company goes bust there is little danger they will lose their money thanks to various consumer protection schemes thomas cook is seen as the inventor of the modern day package holiday a cabinet maker from yorkshire he was a strong supporter of the temperance movement and believed travel would help britain's refrain from drinking alcohol he started out by arranging day trips by train in the 840 s. the excursions proved so popular. within 20 years he was selling to us to continental europe the middle east and the united states but the modern day company has been under intense financial pressure rescued from near bankruptcy 8 years ago and how people book their holidays has added to the company's plight high street shops have been facing stiff competition from the internet and while package holidays like those from thomas cook often provide good value for many consumers are now shopping around online booking their accommodation and flights separately to create a prospective ravel experience despite being a mainstay in the british travel industry analysts say the company's struggles to

compete thomas cook is i'm over this brand it has incredible heritage but i'm afraid in the 21st century in the a roche's competition of the travel industry that counts for nothing or what matters these do you have a profitable business and sadly in the case of thomas we know the answer is no. a 178 year old business steeped in history but apparently failing to keep up with modern times capice stansell al-jazeera london. and still had an audience there could donald trump's claim 7 joe biden be the start of an impeachment process. adams portmanteaus the man bring linda if they get the rugby world cup campaign their way.

hello the winter weather warning has been lifted from montana without indication of how cold the air was at least a tide but the cold and warm junction a frontal system you like is still there and that's a line of potentially heavy rains but asunder mixed in trust and slowly east was such that by the time dawn breaks on monday the stay be a lot of showers back through tuck texas and across the border into mexico and then fading off into the distance but his principle point is to reduce the temp is ahead of it as it goes through currently ahead of it it's $33.00 in washington if you docket for day 2 are down to about $26.00 all choose to start a huge change just enough to produce rain on its way through at the same time we've got more rain showing up in northern mexico in the sonora desert and in places like arizona evidence of the southwest monsoon in the u.s. very active weather still throughout the caribbean the green is rain usually in the

4 showers sometimes thunderstorms covering most of the lesser and greater antilles covering cuber in jamaica is an exaggeration but you see where the wet weather is is also down there in panama costa rica about to nicaragua and to some degree in mexico although it's mostly coastal showers from mexico and your nurse on tuesday you see a little bit more land but not a lot. through these doors will walk the influences the experts my special guests. from these pews will sit and inform the audience and my distinguished panelists ready and waiting for a combative debate. for nearly 200 years people have insisted on making their voices heard here in the chamber of the oxford union and this time i'll be waiting for them a new series of head to head coming soon on al-jazeera. and

just 20. something something. almost as if it's all 6 foot tall to. many such a sunset was it a visit some of it comes to displace the soul the smog something the climate change is called the life of the. planet that's all. again you're watching august there and here's a reminder from main stories this hour the u.n. is warning the world leaders attending its climate change summit in new york that

the effects of global warming are speeding up the world meteorological organization says the average global temperature for 2015 to $29000.00 is on track to be the hottest of any 5 year period on record and sea levels have risen by 5 millimeters a year. iran's president has told western powers to leave security in the gulf to regional nations tensions are high after a series of attacks including a missile and drone strike on saudi oil facilities blamed on iran u.s. secretary of state might pump a assess his government's policy is to avoid war. and the u.s. president says next month will bring dramatic progress to the defense relationship between india and america trump announced a large military drill with india it's an unusual joint rally with the indian prime minister narendra modi the events in houston dubbed how the mo d. was a rare show of support for a foreign leader on u.s. soil. now the u.s.

congress may be forced to pursue impeachment if it's confirmed that president trump pressured ukraine to investigate the democratic presidential hopeful joe biden that's according to u.s. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff u.s. media reports claim that donald trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate biden over allegations that he uses prince position as vice president to help this on the phone call was reportedly the subject of a complaint by an unnamed whistleblower trump insists he's done nothing wrong. as far as my conversation was perfect it was a perfect conversation it was it couldn't have been any better but we'll make a determination about how to release it releasing it saying what we said was an absolutely perfect conversation and problem is when you speak in a foreign leaders you don't want foreign leaders to. feel that they shouldn't be speaking openly and good you have to be talking to people and the same thing for an

american president you want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that not every single word is going to be going out and going out all over the world and our correspondent mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. mike so it doesn't seem like this issue of the ukraine phone call can just be swept under the rug. certainly not to it's gaining momentum we heard from the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff making very clear that he is going to insist that the contents of that complaint are given to congress for the oversight as legally that it is obliged to do we've also heard from the head of the house nancy pelosi as expressing her concerns sending a letter to both democrats and republicans saying that the complaint must be subject to congressional oversight president trump as you heard continues to downplay the whole situation and attempt to deflect any allegations by bringing up

joe biden's attempt to get rid of the ukrainian prosecutor back in 2016 well biden himself has pointed out that that was at the request of the obama administration along with the european union we've also had adam schiff tweeting in the course of the day that if president trump is not concerned about the contents of that conversation then why is he withholding it from public it is the white house counsel it would appear who is preventing this complaint from getting to congress for the oversight committee to take a look at and like it seems the acting director of national intelligence is set to appear before the oversight committee on thursday so what is the likelihood that he actually well. well let's just take a look at the process here the inspector general of the intelligence services was the one who received the complaint as according with the protocol he then examine that complaint and found it was credible and often urgent nature he then sends that

to the acting director of national intelligence who legally is bound to process on to congress congregational oversight within 7 days this has not happened because the acting director consulted justice department who consulted white house counsel who advised him not to release the complaint to the congregational committee so this is a situation here where you have active intervention by the white house counsel to interrupt what is a very clear legal process in terms of making evidence provided by whistle blowers available to select congressional committees so congress has now subpoenaed that the acting director of national intelligence there will come before them on thursday and one of the questions he's going to be honest is why has he obstructed this report from come from congressional oversight thank you very much mike hanna for us in washington well u.s. senator elizabeth warren is gaining ground in the race for the 2020 democratic

presidential nomination she has overtaken the former vice president joe biden and a poll in the key states of iowa a survey puts warren on top of the table with 22 percent of the vote just in front of biden and bernie sanders but joe biden remains leader in the national polls. first in the primary race. land mines are constant threat in asia so are attacks by so and other armed groups battling government forces for control of that remote desert area now in the tiller bury region thousands of people have been forced to flee the fighting turning the village of in addis into a ghost town warning you may find these images and lauren burden manley's report disturbing. to thank used to dream of finishing school now she just wants to walk again she lost the use of her legs after she stepped on

a mine planted by isis fighters she can't leave her bed and her brother tries to keep her comfortable. but her situation hurts are so much you wish to see her standing on our feet again markie i had a big other sister and 3 cousins including an artist tribal leader who also killed by isis mine. 2 years ago and i salute tak until her bury killed for us and 5 soldiers. in may the u.s. military released this video of recovery operation after 28 soldiers were killed in a single i salute tack. that there are no people in the flood because of the fighting they started killing people in 2018 and again this year leaders of nutters have been killed many of the people have lost their lives.

fighting between i saw a national and international forces since july has led to a big increase in people fleeing violence to nearby arrow tell a very city and niamey. hasa and his wife and 5 children were among them. we suffer in many ways we fled our homes and we came here we don't have a place to live some of us did not even have a mattress and couldn't find any help. traders here say they could no longer continue their business because of the violence. we left our goods and trade lost our money and suddenly found ourselves here with nothing but disasters all over districts of tele burial especially near the border with mali. the un wounds to the crisis in the whole region including this year mali and burkina faso is reaching unprecedented levels. a more than 5000000 people need humanitarian

assistance the united nations is urging these displaced people to roll their children and local schools and with violence and land mines in their village they don't know when they'll be able to go back neurosurgeon manly out to 0. world health organization has taken the unusual step of complaining to tanzania about the failure to share information on the ball of virus the tanzanian government denies it was confirmed in 2 patients who recently suffered an unknown illness the w.h.o. says tanzania hasn't handed over any clinical data until now and the near shares a border with the democratic republic of congo where more than 2000 people have died of a bowl in just the past year. as afghanistan prepares for sunday's presidential elections many voters living in taliban controlled areas are planning to stay away from the ballot they fear apprise us from the armed group of the vote following the

breakdown of talks with the us the taliban has stepped up its campaign to disrupt the election bride has this report from kabul. this is the front line between government forces and the taliban in the northern province of kunduz the local police commander in kind of a district points to taliban controlled territory a couple of fields away. the one that's the front line with the enemy this is the main road in this area is under government control right now as he talks some of his men fire into taliban territory a common occurrence here. signs of the ongoing conflict are everywhere as parts of kunduz often change hands between the afghan army and the taliban the strength of the taliban here means it's dangerous to defy their order not to vote and for farmers such as i mean mohammed who has seen elections come and go without any change in his life there's disillusionment. no i'm not voting we're

taking a risk voting for these guys and afterwards we only have empty promises some of my relatives voted in the past and the taliban came and took them because they had income their fingers and they beat them very badly. the use of indelible ink when casting a ballot makes it easy to identify voters in the past the taliban have cut off voters' fingers without saying whether he thought such a punishment was just or not for the taliban commanders such as. say it will continue while afghanistan is at war with itself. that we need to create a system to bring peace to afghanistan a system where you have stability where there is no peace and stability these kinds of acts will take place the taliban argue that in the election can't be held while there's so much violence and instability but their critics argue that by their violent attacks against the election process they're the ones helping create this

atmosphere. but after the gradual withdrawal of u.s. and nato forces over the past 5 years the taliban are stronger than ever right now sadly the situation is very different because they control more territory. there also their capabilities project file and it's higher than any time before. the government in kabul is hoping that with the majority of afghans living in cities under its control sufficient security will allow a meaningful vote but voting is likely to be any vote and for voters in much of the countryside such as this part of can do saturday's election could largely pass them by bright al jazeera kabul police in pakistan suspect brake failure was the cause of a bus crash which killed at least $26.00 passengers children and soldiers are among the dead in the northwestern district of a bus was on a winding my.