in the conference hall weren't so sure that the show of hands showed that they wanted what's called a cold vote act actually counting the number of votes votes and physically the chair of the debates denied that she said that that had been lost another motion which was supporting the leadership stance was passed now that says that label will go into a general election promising the electorate a referendum on whether to leave the european union with a new deal to be negotiated by labor or to remain but it doesn't say how the party will actually act will it turn pain will it back it will it back remain or will it back its own deal so many people say that the party now lacks that clarity which is needed in the marketplace of a general election now that you've got the other opposition party the liberal

democrats who've gone further towards remain and they're promising to simply revote article 50 to scrap bricks it all together so many people now wondering exactly how this is going to affect the parties are showing if and when there is a general election general election perhaps coming siddur than we think we will wait with bated breath for 900 lifers and bryson thank you very much. both more so sick on the here on al jazeera increasing a school building collapses in the kenya's capital 7 children are killed more a few berries in the bubble. and russia is in danger of again being banned spy the world anti doping agency.

still by satellite you see very little over this part of the world and you would expect to apart from occasional showers in turkey run the coaxes but they've gone the so we're scratching at things to talk about it's just quite weather to be a house the breeze isn't strong the temperature is around about middle thirty's or life forty's as cooling down slightly the rock and slightly in the lebanon but how they surprised seasons that change is hardly reliable change 42 up to 47 off the coast a curator i've been observing for the last several days if not weeks the biggest change is with the withdrawing of the monsoon from india a spin off tropical storm don it's way to the monaco is probably hitting maziar the island that late on tuesday was severe gale force winds and a certain amount of i think about 100150 millimeters it's enough when it comes on land and generates more thunderstorms to flash flooding particularly on the high ground the stuff in this part of vermont but beyond that it's a quite pictures throughout the arabian peninsula we haven't got any more active

weather in southern africa to be honest this is a frontal system a sport a lot of cloud up to the eastern cape there's been some rain generated might be a little bit more as well the picture is still a rather cold breeze coming up from the size but you still got 21 in cape town. al-jazeera will meets 2 arab with rivets in the middle east the successful life support over the last 5 years i've achieved a great deal of partnership with the country's leading families but never forgot where they came from. was we try to push forward to different takes and stereotypical image of muslim women arabs aboard the businesswoman of the council on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you now world leaders have been attending a special summit on climate change at the united nations they've heard impassioned pleas from young activists who accuse leaders of stealing their childhoods. u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has announced the formation of a constitutional committee for syria it's seen as a step toward restarting the stalled peace process. at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan and what's believed to have been an airstrike that happens in the most a color region of helmand province people have gathered outside a local hospital where the wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike hit a wedding celebration by mistake

a correspondent robert bright has more from kabul. this seems to have been a major military operation in the mussa color district of helmand province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems ground forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it describes them were killed in this attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from helmand province including the governor's office. number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a wedding party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued

a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and coalition forces and a number including many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its presidential election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt this election process and also in response coalition attacks trying to make sure that there is security here for this election to take place and we are still several days away from polling. yemen city fighters say a society led coalition air strike has killed 5 members of one family he must syria

t.v. says the airstrikes hit a mosque in the province of a moran 2 children from the same family are missing this comes just days after he's pledged to start launching attacks on saudi arabia mohammed has more from the capital sana. all over the past 24 hours saudi sub intensified. x. . it has targeted different regions of yemen and particularly. where they. was the more deadly is that when these are the fighter jets targeted family inside a mosque. over 11 raids are being carried out we are now on our way to the view which is

400 kilometers to the north of the garbage. the world's oldest travel company thomas cook has gone business leaving hundreds of thousands stranded thomas cook flights have been grounded and 20000 jobs are at risk catherine stansell has the latest from london. one of the world's oldest travel companies ground it along with its aircraft in many parts of the world including london's gatwick airport the rich history of thomas cook and able to save it from collapse more than 20000 employees face redundancy the bankruptcy is a disaster for more than $1000000.00 people who have books travel with thomas cook would be holiday makers now have to wait and try to get their money back through various consumer protection schemes and some of the 600000 people around the world on holiday are now stranded. pray for stated to say the least annoyed well is a problem but it's not

a problem we'll go home eventually discover why single. hope despite a $1000000000.00 injection of cash earlier this year the company said it needed an additional $250000000.00 to stay afloat. i would like to say. to all our customers those who don't wholly the us. but those who have booked with us in the coming months. bringing tourists home will be a mammoth task britain civil aviation authority says emergency flights are ready to go this is the largest reproach nation since the 2nd world war and we will be bringing home everybody. back to the u.k. as close as possible to their return but they contain either tens of millions of dollars are also believed to be owed to hotels and countries in egypt turkey and tunisia one hotel there briefly refused to let thomas cook customers leave

demanding money fearing they would not get paid. thomas cook was rescued from near bankruptcy 8 years ago and how people book their holidays has added to the company's plight. high street travel shops have been facing stiff competition from the internet and while package holidays like those from thomas cut off and provide good value many consumers are now shopping around online booking their accommodation and flights separately to create a prospective travel experience. analysts say the company struggled to compete and there are accusations of mismanagement but the company hemorrhaging money recently thomas cook is a marvelous brand it has incredible heritage but i'm afraid in the 21st century in the for russia's competition and the travel industry that counts for nothing or what matters is do you have a profitable. this and sadly in the case of thomas cook we know the answer is no. a

178 year old business steeped in history but apparently failing to keep up with modern times happenstance or al-jazeera london. well john psaropoulos is more from athens for up to 50000 thomas cook travelers stranded. the greek government says it has chartered 15 aircraft which will fly to the islands of cold food and zakynthos on greece's west coast and the island of cos in the aegean in order to start lifting home some of the roughly 50000 travelers left stranded in greece by the collapse of thomas cook and the government estimates that almost half of those people 22000 will have been repatriated in the next 72 hours the government says that the funding to allow thomas cook travelers to enjoy their holidays until the end of their booking and to fly home has been secured and that has been voiced just like that in the passive voice it hasn't been specified whether that money is

thomas cook money or whether it is public government money and it is very likely that it is the latter the greek government is very keen to secure the reputation of greek tourism in this crisis because britons are one of the highest by nationality frequency visitors to greece roughly $3000000.00 visited greece in $27.00 to the last year for which figures are available leaving behind $2300000000.00 in revenue and that national figure is 2nd only to that of the germans who left $2800000000.00 in that year greece's tourism product is also a huge proportion of its economy it's about a 5th of its g.d.p. and by some estimates even higher therefore greece is very keen to secure a smooth transition out of this crisis to make sure there's no blemish on the

hoteliers on the country and that the experience that people originally booked with thomas cook is seen through. 7. children have been killed in kenya after their school bills and collapsed at least 64 other students are in hospital family members have been gathering outside the school hours rescue workers search for several children trapped under the rubble catherine sony has more from nairobi. almost everyone has now left this scene there were many many people who just come to witness and were trying to come to terms with what has happened the minister of education was also here and he said the government has started investigations on what could have caused this collapse we have also not too long ago talked to a parent was still looking for his children 2 children who are missing he's going to 5 hospitals and he came here and the red cross personnel directed him to go to

the mortuary so he was very very distraught about the incident happened right there very hard to tell all cleared all these books to see you're seeing were left behind by children it was a chaotic scene children running other screaming we saw throughout the day some of the survivors collecting the books that are somewhat intact they've taken them to one of the classrooms they'll be sorted later and perhaps will be re-used and on this other side is the debris this was a 2 story structure that was constructed using metal sheets and some mood and there was a concrete slab that separated the 2 stories we're talking with talk to people and i can see as well so a lot of people telling us that this concrete slab was very poorly reinforced now the 64 children who are in hospital doctors are saying are doing well they're still there stabilized for many many parents parents particularly of the

children who died in imaginable pain like this man i talked about still looking for his children. ok european union countries have agreed on a temporary system to deal with the migrant crisis germany france italy and malta have agreed on a redistribution process for those rescued from the central mediterranean sea the proposals still need the approval of the e.u. and will be presented at a meeting in october malta and italy have been burdened with high numbers of migrants from the sea. kept on as the 1st country in africa to be getting international funds to preserve its forests norway is to pay $150000000.00 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and battle deforestation there the announcement was made at the climate action summits in new york discussing how to achieve 0 greenhouse gas emissions. russia will miss out on the world athletics

championships starting in doha later this week after the i.w.a. f extended its ban on their place at the talkie oh 2020 olympics is also indicts that's after possible signs that its moscow anti doping lab tampered with data the world anti-doping agency has given them 3 weeks to explain the inconsistences this comes nearly a year after was lifted russia's original ban over a state sponsored doping program want us presidents really stands by that decision despite these developments israel has blocked the gaza football team from playing a local cup final in the occupied west bank some of that russia has tried for months to get permits but have so far failed israeli human rights group has challenged the move in courts but admits it's unlikely where this game will go ahead. really the fault is that palestinians cannot handle outside of the gaza

strip except for people who need very very narrow roads here in africa during so in theory actually the players meet that criteria there is credit here that allows for palestinian national teams and and teams to travel but the players were locked in any case and i think that's an experience that of course many many people can relate to it because the default is that no one travels except for those rare people who do get a permit to do so and i think this is something that is of course much broader than just sports of course this is a question for these players that access to their right play what they've been working in training to play this game and they should be able to do so but this is definitely about a much bigger question which is about the fact that gaza is being isolated from the last say that its people and civilians are being perfected from traveling from moving goods in

a way that they could build palestinian society that they could access the fruits of the development that they can live live normal lives like other people do. something lighter for you know the famous symbol of the much loved superhero batman illuminated cities around the world this weekend to celebrate the comic book characters 80th birthday the sign of the dark nights was 1st projected in melbourne for the lighting up buildings in asia europe africa and the americas many fans dressed up to mark the anniversary of batman's 1st appearance in the pages of d.c. comics in 1939. this is al jazeera quite right off the top stories for you know world leaders have been attending a special summit on climate change at the united nations have heard impassioned pleas from young activists who accused leaders of stealing their childhoods you

have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the docks once. people are suffering people are dying entire school systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fame or details of each term economic growth. the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists has announced the formation of a constitutional committee for syria it's seen as a step towards restarting the stalled peace process. the u.k.'s main opposition labor party has pledged to hold a 2nd referendum on breaks it if it wins an election however the party still remains divided on whether it should support staying in the european union members voted against on the critically backing remain opposite instead to support labor

leader jeremy corbin's desire to 1st secure and national election and then determine the party's breck's its stance. at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan and what's believed to be in an airstrike that happens in the most a colored region of helmand province people have gathered outside a local hospital where the wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports the airstrike hit a wedding celebration stake. 7 children have been killed in kenya after their school bills and collapsed at least 64 other students are in hospital family members have been gathering outside the school as rescue workers search for several children trapped under the rubble. the world's oldest travel company thomas cook has gone out of business leaving hundreds of thousands stranded there are 600000 people currently on holiday worldwide with the company. those are the headlines here on al-jazeera day stay where versts inside story is up

next and then i'm back with the world needs i found i. is it too late to stop climate change scientists warn time is running out as millions of young people demand of the world leaders and now will that passion turn into political action this is it's our story. hello and welcome to the program on iran con we're running out of time to stop

climate change that's the warning from the united nations where the agency as well and leaders meet in new york from major u.n. climate conference the world meteorological organization says carbon emissions increased 20 percent in the past 4 years which are on track to be the hottest on record and ice sheets are melting faster than before causing sea levels to rise by 5 millimeters a year scientists warn that even if every country meets the carbon emission cuts agreed in the paris climates agreement in 2015 the world would still be 3 degrees warmer which is potentially catastrophic. it's this see that's forced millions of young people to protest from asia to africa they rallied to demand action from political leaders meeting at the un the swedish teenager who inspired the global climate strikes says their voice must be heard.

millions of people across the globe. marched and demand does real climate action especially young people. we show that we we are united and that we young people are unstoppable. before monday's summits the u.n. secretary general told al-jazeera as planets as a west program that world leaders need to turn up with plans not just speeches i've seen granddaughters. i have no idea how the world will be when they have the will of my age when they will be 70 the world will be completely different but when seeing is clear my generation is the obligation to allow them to leave you know a healthy planet and we are not feeling that obligation we the striking the planet in which they live to leave.

let's bring in our guests joining us from kale in the u.k. sharon george senior lecturer in green technology and environmental sustainability at kiel university on skype from london and co-founder of the activist group extinction rebellion and in brussels simon head of public affairs and campaigning at klein a nonprofit environmental organization welcome to you all i'd like to begin with you sharon george in kill it's not so much climate change anymore but it's climate changed even if we try and reverse things now it's almost too late isn't it to try and do that so surely what we should be looking at is an achievable goal and how to deal with this new reality that we find ourselves there. i think so i think with climate change is here we keep talking about climate change prevention we've gone

way past that now climate change is happening and it is affecting things around the world so now we're in this new rain and i have adapted ation but that doesn't mean though that we can just ignore the prevention that every day that we prevent. more and more missions being the method the worse things are getting so it needs to be a 2 pronged attack at this we need to be caught in the missions even more urgently while we now look at mitigating the effects of the impacts of climate change that are here let me bring you clear feral in london you've got people on the streets you've got young people talking about all of this but is there really anything that an organization like yours can do it seems to be that it might be too late it might be time so adept just trusted you to the new reality that we found ourselves in. well. yes i think

that the situation in that you know such that the scientific community don't actually know the new set until when different things will happen in terms of the way that this is going to play out. there is a great complexity to the things that we are trying to model and that people are trying to project. the rigor of that work is very much appreciated by people except for benyon but it's important that we recognize that we're in a very high risk situation this is a risk assessment moment i think and indeed there is a need for mitigation and adaptation and a lot of the adaptation is going to be social and to be honest emotional and psychological that people need to get their heads around the fact that we are guaranteed now i think to pass on a worst life to the next generation every every successive generation we don't have any precedent for that we don't them somehow to do that so yes the challenge is huge. it's not to say that it's useful or i think acceptable to say that you know

the time has passed and we've missed the boat we can't stop anything from happening we can still prevent things from being the absolute worst case scenario and and in my opinion it's absolutely important that we don't sort of writings are by saying it's too late also 6 we're ready has been set up in a way i think to see ahead the potential for the social and political conditions that can lead to things like fascism resource scarcity displacement of billions of people there's going to be war there's going to be famine people are going to suffer and so arguing the case for direct democracy now is hopefully a preventative measure of those things emerging but how do you keep claiming your optimism when you hear somebody like sharon george say actually you know there are drastic measures we need to take how do you keep europe as in how do you how do you sell the oil to ms and to you know people who could potentially be extinction

ribbit rebellion supporters i mean it's quite hard is that. but it's not about being optimistic because i don't have to hold a huge amount of hope and let's be honest you know i've lived my entire life as a organize a campaign a and a sustainability practitioner and educator and i feel. very strangely liberated by the context of our life right now because i think it's fair to say that for me it seems there's nothing else really worth working on some people think that will have social club so then 10 years even in the u.k. so what other work is that it to. bring people together in the community i want to bring some an old coke in from brussels sun we get told so often the we need to as individuals do something stop using plastic bottles single use plastics we need to

cut down on the amount you draw if you will we need to there are measures we can do as individuals but that's not enough is it the question of like to ask you is this is about legislation legislation they just place in isn't this is about big international organizations the un the e.u. actually putting in place legislation putting in place international law that can be that is achievable and that can be enforced. definitely i mean we all have a role to play but if we're really going to to to get out of this mess and tackle climate change we it's government has to play their part and bring in these laws and bring in the policies that we need to see and also the private sector as well but we know unless government brings in those policies the parties had to work on tags and so. that's what we're trying to do it would force the court knows that we have really bring in new ambitious policies a new laws they're going to help get us out of this mess but the bottom line of all of this i mean is that businesses work change unless they see

a profit in it so that has to be you know a halfway kind of measure you know businesses still have to make money but we still have to try and do what we care yeah business is to say that i think we're going to have to take people just as much as profits now but also it's not going to be profit for profitable to burn fossil fuels in the long run it just won't be i'll give an example of some work that we did recently in poland we bought shares in a company called ennia which wanted to build a new coal fired power plant there in poland and we bought some shares and took a shareholder case against that company and forced them to stop building a call for a power plant and as soon as we want to a case their share price went up 4 percent which showed that the market agreed with the fact that bill burning fossil fuels is not going to be profitable so there's a huge huge environmental risk to burning fossil fuels and carrying on as business as usual but also there's a financial risk to these companies that we continue to bury their heads in the

sand and not take action so you know we need government to force into our bodies probably communities have got any sense they'd be doing the right thing already so and i see you nodding your head in agreement there but it must be very difficult as a scientist to actually put forward a plan to big environmental agencies to big world governments agencies like the u.n. for example and get everybody to sign up to it i mean that must be frustrating for the scientific community. it's hugely frustrating we've been saying we've been warning about this for decades and it's almost now we're in this situation of a told you so and the what from a scientific point of view if we see any problem through the lens of technology or this isn't a technology problem we know that we technically we can solve this by cutting emissions are simple the problem here is economic and social socially that's changing now we see movements like the extension rebellion moving toward an

ordinary people who would not normally protest put voting with with through through the means of protest so the problem lies with the economics and there are new business opportunities that will emerge out of these but there are economic impacts of doing nothing and we are are going to see a massive changes in things like you know the ability to grow food flowed in massive environmental impacts through flooding worldwide if we even if we stick to the $1.00 target which is going to be massively difficult now to achieve because we've left it so long that every day we leave it's going to be harder to achieve if we even if we just stick to that the amount of sea level rise that we predict is going to affect millions of people around the world to live near to those coasts and cities. located towards the near to those coast the economic damages going to occur even if we stick to the ambitious target is going

to be it's going to rack up and then somewhere we're going to have to meet that cost financially. i was only a decade ago people thought environmentalists were funny tree huggers you know they were a bit you know not quite serious about the way the world worked extension of extinction rebellion has changed that slightly in the is much more kind of activists but you've still got a problem where large businesses and world leaders are dismissive of what you're asking for how do you change those mines or do you even bother do you even bother with the business community do you even bother with you know governments. well the business community exists you know governments exist what we're proposing as our top demand would be for citizens assemblies to be formed can take these. deliberative and well informed processes forward in order to make different

decisions that currently our governments quite frankly are not capable of you know their lobby their vested interests we haven't seen the make any of the right decisions in fact in the u.k. they consistently drafted and inforced policy which consistently makes everything much much worse they've acted against the common interest almost every turn in terms of the environment secure this government that we have at the moment so i think you know to say that we want to ignore them isn't isn't true but we certainly want to see power given to people that are capable of making very different decisions and as for the business community you know how the we've had a very well opposed to perception recently you might know that we've done a lot about actions around fashion week and around the fashion industry we've been invited to round tables in the house of commons and to other meetings with people in business to talk to them very real have a very real conversation basically about what the situation is and i think that

respectful in on any level with people who hold any power in our society is super important and that's what we're about is nonviolence respects and you know positive engagement with reality which is hope what we're bringing to the table whether or not we can turn around the people quickly enough or ask people to make the right decisions then you know that remains to be same because of course since we launched it made a huge impact but only really on the rhetoric. not only emissions and not on biodiversity loss which is so space is heading for total total catastrophe potentially within our lifetime one of the. people whose mind you definitely need to change is the u.s. president donald trump i want to bring in simon when you have such a powerful man the leader of the free world he calls himself i mean how do you when this man says we're ripping up the climate change agreements we saw on the

restrictive to business they restrictive to growth how do you get your message out to somebody like that to the people who support him who say actually you know maybe you guys on telling the truth and you're making out to be a lot bleaker than it actually is. well i think you have to stick to the evidence and stick to the science and i think extension rebellion and rest of them work in the school strikes and all the people out there protesting across the world. the past year and of the past week the pattern last friday that we saw deserve huge huge credit and i think they've driven i think they've driven this issue roy of the political agenda and yes it's only in the rhetoric of the moment but we've got to keep that pressure because the only way we have going to get anything meaningful actually through this pressure and i think. it is of a lot of credit for them in terms of donald trump you have to. try and take people with you and appeal to the evidence and to the. and to the facts and you know he's he's the president yes he's very powerful but you can still take action and small

legal action against more different things that will stop him doing what he's trying to do and i think. you know china are starting to take action now on climate change other countries too and he's a very isolated on that world stage and yes it's you know it's terrible they pulled us out of paris but there's an election next year and hopefully we'll be able people be able to make the case that climate change action on climate change is one of those issues that deserves to be to be to be so voted on and you know heard some of us want to have a follow up question with you because i'm very interested in this kind of legal action that you guys taking and this idea that you can buy shares in a particular power plant and get them to change their behavior is that is that working on a micro level is this working on a much larger level with other organizations doing the same thing. well if you take our cases on air pollution and we've we've been in the u.k. government now 3 times in court and we've also won a number of high profile cases in german cities and what that has meant is the.

government's had to bring in policies that aren't good enough by any means but they brought in policies that is basically going to lead to the phase diesel vehicles and euro and diesel vehicles are harmful to our health but they continue to be manufactured will billy remember the the volkswagen scandal yet the mark in these are is dropped drastically not party to the scandal it's partly due to the fact that governments are now having to take action air pollution so what we'd like to see is the action that we take would lead to a ripple effect. taken action on coal fired power plants across europe we're trying to get them shut down or at least cleaned up in greece in germany remain here. and we hope the you know victory in one control alito the policy changes in others and and push that world and in our own way to towards to tackling this issue and i think you need i think the issue of the problem of climate change in the disaster

of climate change is far too big for any one movement or any one organization to be able to to to deal with it it's going to take everybody coming together to do their part to try and achieve that change and that's how we'll get that change and sun earth has got a huge role to play but it's only a small welcome compared to everything everybody else as well so what we're saying then is like a 3 pronged strategy that you guys almost represent you have the legal action and the business community you have activism we have science sharon george and kill those that film a few years ago last and where. i think matt damon gets stuck on mars and he says i'm going to have to silence the s. out of this to try and survive is there a scientific solvable is there something the science community could do rather than say it's all doom and gloom and we can't really change anything we need to adapt. i think this is this is a think it's got it's got the there's solution lies and lots of different things the problem isn't just one saying make this problem we've we've got emissions

coming from transport we've got emissions committee for electricity production we've got be a from food production so we can all individually have an impact on waste in less you know we talk about fast fashion we can try and buy more ethically and we can we can do things like lobby our governments to do things our on on the more on a big a scale and increase the level of electricity and energy from renewables the other thing there's not a national planting trees say they want to deforestation that's happened so that just planted you know that the recommendation from the i.p.c.c. report was to plant you know millions of trades that could make a massive deference to see question that carbon this in the atmosphere so there are things that we can do but it's not going to be one thing it's going to be lots and lots of different things but you can't plug trees because somebody like balloons

here or the leader of brazil says actually you're messing with my my economy by doing this and i actually was quite straight with mccrone when mccrone said they were going to give money it was like this is our economy the us with everybody still thinks as an individual country nobody thinks globally on this and that's a big problem for all of you when it comes to trying to sell this message but to get the scientific community because you know the evidence is there but you're still coming up against the economy. yes and that this is a historic think we've been we've been banging on about the evidence the evidence is there for decades now and now we have so with the planting trades you've got the food fuel debate if you've got if you want to go towards bio fields you've got issues around well with the ethics of growing those biofuels in the food fuel debate them so i mean that fundamentally the problem is we've put too much pressure on the resources in the planet we have and we're not managing those resources in

the way that sustainable you know we strongly believe scientifically that we have enough resources that we have enough you know we can we can draw more energy from renewable to to support ourselves if we manage our resources sensibly and that's what's not happening globally and it's going to take a lot that the likes of presidents around the world and leaders to step up to that and really take the scientific evidence and look at the social impact and come up with a coherent plan that's going to be ambitious and difficult but i think people are ready to get behind that. now we are running out of time but i do want to ask one question to all 3 of your begin with you simon in brussels what do you want out of this un climate change conference where other the big things that you'd like to see happen we would like to see national governments making ambitious actions. phasing out fossil fuels from their economies of us action on transport those drugs action

on our housing set as the proper concrete policies and proper ambition not like what we saw in germany of the weekend which is a pretty pathetic plan a plan that had plans to carry on but burning coal or into the future that's not the right thing to do what we want disease ambitious policies that shows they listen to the public they listen to people's concerns and they get this message and they're going to take action clitheroe would you like to see from this un climate change conference. well it's hard to say isn't it because you know the international negotiations have been absolutely terrifyingly ineffectual and it does seem to me that using only. only science as a sort of guide and then allowing sort of politics and economics to come in and say that some milicic for the economy that would be better for our economies keep things same it's all sort of to do with an attachment to what exists now and sort of lack of imagination for what the future could look like but i guess what i would

say is the commitments 1st stop the harm would be my what i would long to say so a stop on day forestation a whole i'm searching for hard to find fossil fuels. all of the things that we're actively making worse which when you know we haven't even stopped making the harm worse it gets worse every single day so that would be the 1st thing to stop the harm and then to commit to begin the repair that it needs a very very different. you know approach intellectual and emotional. george what would you like to see. it say a stop on any subsidy that supports and fossil fuels anad like to say more subsidy for renewables and low carbon technologies and tree planting and habitat protection and i think with government star put money behind the tapes and

taxing those days initiatives that are more harmful then i think they those economies will find themselves. thank you very much to all our guests to sharon george and kale claire far in london and simon all caught in brussels and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website out is there dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook pages facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story from am wrong current and the whole team head by now.

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good to have you with as world leaders have been attending a special summit on climate change at the united nations 66 countries have pledged to kant's carbon emissions to 0 by 2050 it's seen as a vital goal in preventing catastrophic longer term climate change well the teenage climate activists gratitude and burke spoke to heads off the leaders making a passionate statement accusing them of inaction you have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the jocks once. people are suffering people are dying and tire systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and what you can talk about isn't money and fame or tales of the challenge economic growth. well president sound premiers followed talking about what they hope to see within their own borders french president emmanuel mccrone

however challenge the other nations to include climate change and their trade and finance policies while councillors and me are pledged to give $100000000.00 to help smaller island states well al-jazeera is russell in georgia and joins us now live from the united nations and also as we've been hearing dramatic testimony there from those ads the climate summit. we have been hearing for matic testimony and certainly. the swedish teenager has really been getting the lion's share of the attention at this climate action summit and that's because she had made not just an impassioned plea for adults to basically be quiet and to what change their behavior but because she has also been inspiring thousands of other young people from really all love parts of the world to actually stand up and

demand that the world move away from the use of fossil fuels and to rely on reliant renewable sources of energy in order to preserve the environment as it currently stands if not to improve or to lower global average temperatures but certainly we've also been hearing from a number of world leaders who have expanded on their commitments under the 2015 paris climate change accord and which they are promising to do more to actually move their countries their governments their citizens a wave. from reliance on fossil fuels to fight trying to find other ways of conducting business of building homes of trying to alleviate poverty of trying to deal with health care challenges all of the things that make up a working society they are saying that they're going to look for ways of doing so without harming the environment and of course you might notice hala it's perspiring

just a little bit under the lights here well it's also above 90 degrees here in new york city above 30 to 33 degrees celsius and that's because this is even though it's autumn this is the impact of rising average temperatures things don't cool off when you traditionally expect them to do so and so it's perhaps fitting that the temperatures are unseasonable on a day when world leaders as well as young people are trying to figure out what is the way forward what is to prevent days such as this and really to prevent the catastrophic flooding the catastrophic. tropical storms the catastrophic snowstorms that we have been seeing over the globe in recent decades ok rosalynn george on that very much indeed for bringing us the latest live from the u.n. must stay with this this is a professor at the university of arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary

biology and joins us now on skype from to someone in arizona that we've been hearing that there's been a lot of emphasis on gratitude and the child protests hers and just how important would you say their invention and to vention mother has been in tackling climate change. well i'm not saying it's someone outside my area of expertise but i find her really incredibly compelling and it seems like she is she is hoping to change people's minds and convince them of the urgency of this problem. when you're in a college of let's let's stick to that just how important would you say it is that action is taking. its i can't emphasize that enough because where we're already there's all this carbon in the atmosphere already that's going to accelerate the temperature so you know even if we slow down . the new carbon emissions we've really got to take out

a lot of what's already in there or were a lot more worthwhile one and is it too late to make that change i don't think it's too late no i don't think it's too early and people have been are starting to do things that will that could actually reverse things you know planting more trees in ireland for example really ambitious plants there's and vicious plans to use farms to help some carbon united states but i think people have to be really aggressive about those things as well as just cut emissions now in terms of the commitments that have been made at the climate summit so what's a mistake are you for the future. i try to stay optimistic. i mean i think we're going to even you know what there's going to be some damage the planet there is snow and i think that you know thousands and millions of people are going to die but we can make it we can make it less bad we can you know i think anything we can do we can we can you know make things better and not but i don't

think it's going to be bad ok professor john waynes from the university of arizona we'll have to leave it there but thanks very much for for giving us your thoughts on al jazeera and. meanwhile the united nations secretary general antonio gates terrace has announced the formation of a constitutional committee for syria it's seen as a step toward restarting the stalled peace process in that ending the 8 year conflict i am pleased to announce the agreement of the government of the syrian arab republic and the syrian negotiations could mission for a credible balance than the inclusive constitutional committee that will be facilitated by the united nations in geneva i welcome the progress made by my by the government and the opposition and my special envoy facilitative you get a month in accordance with security council resolution $2254.00 of $215.00 and will

convene the constitutional committee in the coming weeks. well the diplomatic editor james paine's joins us now live from the united nations james just how significant would you say this announcement is. it's important but it's not a breakthrough i think it's important perhaps more so because of how long the u.n. has spent on this issue it's got caught up on this issue of the constitutional committee over well over a year now they were arguing over names of who was going to be part of this committee there were 3 different lists one from the government one from the opposition one drawn up by the u.n. of civil society and for months now they've been wrangling over the last names this was the work of the former special envoy stefan de mistura who ended his job at the end of last year the new special envoy gap medicine has been pushing hard trying to get this concluded and he at

a meeting that took place in turkey between the leaders of turkey iran and russia finally got the names agreed even then the secretary of the u.n. wanted to be doubly sure so he sent a special envoy mr patterson to damascus where he met with the syrian deputy prime minister walid muallem they are now sure i think the u.n. this can go ahead and that means that in a couple of weeks time we will get all of these delegates arriving in geneva to talk about a feature constitutional arrangement for syria that is important 'd potentially takes us to the issue of elections and how voting would take place remember syria since the assads took office in 1970 it had no proper free and fair elections they've all been sham elections but this is dealing with the future and future arrangements for syria it does absolutely nothing to stop the bombardment that continues the death and destruction particularly in adlib province which looks like

it's going to be the last battle of the war and there are more than $3000000.00 people. province they have nowhere to run to well james you mentioned that the u.n. has been somewhat caught up with syria for quite some time now united the issue of iran is looming large has there been any movements in that regard it's. the i don't think the issue of syria is going to have much more of a play here showing this week of world leaders here at the u.n. i think that is a an issue that has got one slight area where it's moved forward iran though i think we need to watch very very carefully whether there are developments either in a positive or negative direction clearly things much more charged after the events of 10 days ago that attack on all instant nations in saudi arabia by drones the blame that's being placed on iran by the u.s. and now in recent hours by the u.k.

well iran is denying that very very strongly i met earlier on with the iranian foreign minister mohammed job it's a review at a breakfast for a small group of reporters he said under the current circumstances unless the u.s. changes its june no chance of a meeting that we were talking about a couple of weeks ago between president trump and president rouhani but they are proposing a new peace initiative they're calling it the whole moves initiative they want to invite all the countries that border the gulf to come together to discuss regional security issues like maritime navigation of tankers in the gulf and they want this all under a u.n. umbrella it sounds a reasonable proposal it certainly echoes proposals that have come from the u.n. from russia even from the u.k. a few weeks ago but i think the problem will be the u.s. what is the trump of ministration going to make of this i suspect they will.