crisis in the face of irreversible changes to the that's why the i'll be with you throughout as well our environment correspondent nick will have reports from the front lines of the crisis and showcase new solutions to help combat threats al-jazeera princeling new weekly planet s.o.s. what set up the facts and the science behind the issues affecting our planet's. says al jazeera these are the top stories yemen's who the rebels say thousands of enemy forces have surrendered after a cross border military campaign said the target of the southern saudi region of now and captured several saudi army officers and weapons syria's foreign minister

used his address to the un general assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces walid muallem says the u.s. and turkish presence in syria violates international law. over accounting is under way in afghanistan's 4th presidential election where voters have had to pray violence just to cast their ballots at least 5 explosions were reported at polling centers across the country and on top of that many stations didn't even open at all 20 berkeley has a report from kabul. a city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of a school use. polling hospital confirms civilians had been killed and

a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul one in helmand and one in one the hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of them despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's falls presidential election the government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right at the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday it

was a trickle and voting had to be extended it's. we'll have to see. has extended for couple of hours we hope that people. come out and make that choice but as well as in security people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises in failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements being made we cannot deny that but there are some traits in our taliban decrease increase their attacks you know. there are other factors that affect it there are so many other factors that affect it more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month. election results will be

announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy and in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera. can 2014 the umbrella movement brought central hong kong to a near standstill for 79 days it was fronted by the students who went on to form a political party now the current protests as with the umbrella movement are a push back on increasing control from china scott hyla takes a look at how the movements compare. born and raised in hong kong helen chan looks at the recreate of a main symbol of the territory's umbrella movement a so-called lenin wall this is the site of the 1st that went up in 2014. 5 years on protesters are again building them to post messages and themes that have brought millions out to the streets while helen agrees with the focus of what's happening

now she did not back then she believes freedoms are being stripped away and the situation now is more urgent in the amber and a movement to me i think it's only me it just the yanks this matter and they that it's pricing full it's almost that the needs and i'm already out for more than 60 years old. old woman and i just asked for the the peace and there are. no more life or phone call over to mark the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement a rally was held next to hong kong's seat of government hundreds of thousands gathered into mar park. as with most of the larger protest events there was anger directed at police they've been accused of using excessive force against demonstrators. a surveillance helicopter hovering over the rally a target of the protestors lasers pro-democracy leaders say that the success and

passion with this protest compared to the umbrella movement 5 years ago is rooted in how it's organized. isaac chang was only 14 when he was out on the streets during the umbrella movement now he's one of the leaders of a pro-democracy political party born out of the umbrella movement of the defenses of the previous before that they will fight for a sense of peace the previous will have once and all i say should while leaving the ok. he also says there are many people driving the protests now in their 17th weekend as the range of issues is much larger than 5 years ago bringing up. of all ages. as with many of the recent large protests riot police are called in to clear out the remaining protesters the steps of the original lennon wall now reclaimed by police it's got harder al-jazeera hong kong zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has been buried in his home village of there had been

a dispute over just where he should be laid to rest the government had gone to the 95 year old buried at the national cemetery but then backtracked after complaints from the mugabe family here is how to me tonsil. relevant goddess family had a private burial but before that it was a church service a child so people to come and say goodbye we heard from several family members his sister in norton say that he was adamant he did not want to be buried in the national heroes like a cemetery in the capital because he was angry at the way the army removed him from power in $27000.00 he said the way he was treated by the army and the current government was demeaning some traditional leaders don't agree with the fact that he was buried in the rural villages in by they says the founding fathers and why we should be made at the hero's epicenter there are reports that some of those leaders those chiefs were told not to attend the burial what does involving stink of this war usually in this country when someone dies it takes about a week before someone is buried in

a garden has kept mainly at his residence at his house in the capital harare of the proof for more than that of people who had time to wonder what is going on and to speculate one period was maybe grace mugabe is why i didn't write some buried at the here is a case synergy because i know his 1st wife sally in a theory is as grace and very will never be considered a hero because she never 40 in white minority rule so daring lobby here in the means when she one day dies she will be buried next to her son it will also say perhaps a family trying to hold out for as long as possible so they can measure certain guarantees were in place the speculation or some other one guarantees that they can keep the wealthy amassed over the years and if they are dragged to court one day for whatever reason it only protected by the state they have some people them concerned that if his body was not buried with they could keep a close eye on the gravesite some of his body parts may be harvested from which rituals by his enemies all this playing out in somalia what people know now is that

he has finally been buried perhaps in a couple of days a couple of weeks when the family starts talking war as well as you get a sense of the backstory of what happened in the controversy and the delay. robert . the u.s. special envoy to ukraine is quit after being named in a whistleblower complaint could volcker was one of several officials accused of attempting to contain the damage from a call between donald trump and ukraine's leader the whistleblower accuse the u.s. president of pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden vocus also been asked to give evidence to politicians about that call here is in washington with more. or president trump tweeted do nothing democrat savages but this investigation seems to me widening out there are now reports that the president or his staff may have put other conversations into the same secure server as the one between him and the ukraine president selenski these are conversations

between president trump and the saudi royal family and putin of russia so while the democrats really want to focus on the ukraine and that's been made clear by nancy pelosi the leader of the house that the investigation is getting wider all the time there's also questions about the attorney general's role in this and rudolph giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days when he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public that it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous. austria is

holding an early general election on sunday and there's likely the center right former leader kurtz could return to power in may he became the 1st chancellor in austria's modern history to be removed by a no confidence vote from vienna when it came as more. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence in him sebastien court says he has confidence in the voters you know how we did. recently the amount of support for us across austria has been amazing so many people told us they wanted to continue working for austria but just as many people say you're going to win it it's already decided my friends this election is not yet over. analysts say cortes is attitude has been to try to pit the people against parliament always hovering around a bit because on the on one hand he says. we have got

a new movement out of the old party on the other hand he's telling everybody that he is the most experienced most senior most long standing member of the government the party that used to work with him and then combined with others to oust him is struggling in the polls the far right freedom party was forced from office when video emerged of some of its leaders appearing to advise russians how they could gain influence over austrian politics and the media now it's new party leader says he and his colleagues must learn from their mistakes and fight hard for every vote . yet it is worth it to continue this fight and do everything to get a government again with us in it which is so active so much liked and which does a lot for our country. the center left social democrats face a different fight having voted with the freedom party to remove sebastian cortes they must reckon with voters angry at being forced into an early election this is

not islanders that every vote for sebastian cuts makes a rerun of the ip the coalition more likely after september the 29th and therefore there is only one way to prevent that by voting for us dear friends the social democrats in austria surveys suggest the resurgent green party may do well on sunday and perhaps become a factor in coalition forming but as the clock ticks down to when voting starts it's clear who's out in front in the old parliament mr courts and his party occupied all of these benches in this part of the chamber if the opinion polls are right after sunday's general election they might find themselves spinning further over into these benches but will he and his party gain enough seats to put them back into government will find that. on sunday evening dominic cain al-jazeera in the austrian parliament at least 4 people have been killed after days of violent protests in haiti demonstrators are accusing president jovan on y. z.

of corruption and blame him for a food and fuel shortage this report from. chaos has taken over the streets of port au prince. what started as demonstrations over an ongoing fuel shortage has grown into a nationwide protests calling on haitian president. to resign no diplomat the president promised the haitian people to lift them from poverty to pull them out of the dirt and when he became president he made everything work. on friday thousands took to the streets authorities in the haitian capital tried to control the crowd but with little effect mobs of angry demonstrators broke into buildings and looted businesses god. several people have died. one police station was vandalized by looters and nearly set on fire people could be seen running off with police here things like riot shields body armor and anything

else they can perry thank you but those years if the president really loves haiti he should resign he should wait for there to be more looting in the streets for him to resign. with nightfall the streets of the haitian capital have quieted down and the city is now under a sort of self-imposed lockdown haitian president continues to call for a national dialogue but opposition leaders haven't said as demonstrators to continue to protest and continue to pressure the president to resign meaning the unrest in the country is likely to continue when read up in port au prince. now about 100 base jumpers from around the world are competing in the leisure i don't know what it is well skipping it some assaulting it's diving from a 300 meter high dick in this case. in florence the mall. to. leaping off a building free falling for a few quick seconds. and then it's time to deploy the parachute no room for

mistakes or 2nd guesses this is base jumping plunging from a fixed object it's considered more dangerous and more technically difficult than skydiving. sky divers typically exit a plane at around 4000 meters but at the calle tower annual base jump divers only have $300.00 metres before they reach the ground that intense feeling that i get the closure that i get from it for me i always risk right away we understand the risks you know it's there it's present every time that we jump and it's kind of a good reminder i mean if you don't want everyone back away you want to feel that intensity in a kind of a mind like a really fun but it's also you know it has some dangers holder shane looked a 1000 skydives before he did his 1st base jump this is his 7th time at this 4 day event that's attracted almost 100 people from 25 countries this isn't for the faint

hearted even just standing here on the ledge i can feel my legs turning to jelly slightly now once they jump jumpers will freefall for about 3 seconds before opening the parachute at the last minute the parachutes a small and designed to open fast and there's no reserve chute there wouldn't be time to use one a lot of effort is put into safety teams continuously check wind speed and direction jumpers wear helmets and other protective gear the technical crew checks jumpers equipment and things like that and we ensure that we are where they're landing and things like. you know we really. everybody's aware the question the rest it's an extreme high risk sport only dad hands and thrill seekers need apply florent slowly al-jazeera quality. from jumping to climbing a climber known as the french spiderman and scaled a high rise building in frankfurt it took 20 minutes to climb the 153 metre

skype are building in the heart of germany's financial capital early on saturday rob is known for his dead wrote solo climbs up buildings 57 year old son back down to earth though because he was met by german police and detained. now think he northern hemisphere has been treated to a spectacular celestial light show these are images of the northern lights captured in finland became visible on friday night quickly reaching storm level and then dancing across the sky the lights the result of electrically charged solar particles colliding in the atmosphere scene between september and march when the weather is lovely cold and dry. we're going to take you to the headlines now on al-jazeera yemen's hooty rebels say thousands of enemy forces including saudi troops have surrendered after

a cross border military campaign they say they targeted the southern saudi region of knowledge run and captured several army officers and weapons the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to hold these in yemen for the 4 years now. well. thousands of the enemy forces have been captured prisoners others will hear from among the prisoners is a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers from the saudi citizenship more than 72 hours from the launch of the operation our forces laid a total sea to the enemy forces. 38 along with one regiment this is how the forces were royd and imprisoned captured syria's foreign minister walid ms used his speech at the un's general assembly to tell world leaders his country is open to international

dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity he said any peace agreement reached without syrian involvement would be condemned vote counting is under way in afghanistan's 4th presidential election one in 5 stations didn't even open because of security concerns and throughout the day several explosions did occur because the country the taliban invalid to stop people from voting. thousands of protesters in hong kong are marking the 5th anniversary of the so-called umbrella movement this was 2014 when demonstrators occupied the city for nearly 3 months demanding the right for the tara to choose its own leader on saturday police were firing water cannon once again at the crowds and suburbans former president robert mugabe has been buried in his home village of there had been a dispute over where he should be laid to rest the government had wanted the 95 year old buried at the national cemetery but backtracked after complaints from his family we've got a news hour coming up for you in about 25 minutes time next though it is our weekly

environmental show planet s.o.s. . hello i'm a man's a bar oh welcome to planet s.o.s. . a new warning from the un that our oceans and vast frozen spaces could turn against us as our planet overheats. nature is ended and he said ourselves if we sink we can see in nature. the head of the un

implores governments to act millions of people around the world take to the streets to some of the largest climate protests in history and will meet people tackling the environmental damage on the doorsteps. of our oceans an ice sheets the warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth that's the warning from the latest report by the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change the i.p.c.c. and it really makes for pretty grim reading with forecasts of play still melt rising sea levels intense storms loss of marine life unless we curb global warming and slee the 100 page study is the work of more than 100 scientists from 36 countries but insists that while some impacts are inevitable that is still time to act to avoid the worst. oshii and across few critical

moments on through. all this report is showing that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase global warming will drastically alter the ocean and the cross-beam however if we reduce emissions roughly consequences for people and their livelihoods will still be challenging but they will be potentially more manageable for those most vulnerable while there are some pretty striking findings here are oceans of take up 90 percent of the world's excess heat they've been warming for half a century and expanding as they do so and they've also been absorbing up to 30 percent of c o 2 emissions which is make them more acidic around 15 percent of marine animals are likely to disappear by the end of the century and there's a really high risk that water coral reefs will vanish altogether if emissions are

not curbed 70 percent of the earth's permafrost will melt really simple eons of tons of c o 2 and methane into the atmosphere ice sheets and glasses in mountain regions and at the poles will for further to hitting people 1st with too much water and then leaving them with too little as the fresh water pours into the scenes severe floods that used to happen once every century could hit every year by 2050 and sea levels will rise low lying coastal regions and cities will be swamps like the city of shanghai home to $24000000.00 people here it is now under the 3 degree world should temperatures rise further some island nations will simply cease to exist and many of us would join the growing number of climate refugees rising global temperatures are already causing glasses and ice sheets to melt in pakistan and many of those downstream live in fear of catastrophe priyanka gupta reports. this

dark wall of ice creeps closer to the village of huston about every day the sheesh book racier is 15 kilometers long and as wide as 14 football pitches it's moving as much as 4 metres a day quicker than any other gracie in the world and churning solid ground into river of mud. local villages are scared. we are under constant threat in these places and a very much worried not only about ourselves but also about our farmlands and prosperity which is the main source of our living. there within 5000 known places in the mountain ranges of pakistan. many are melting more than 3000 gratian lakes have appeared 33 of them are at risk of overflowing and causing major floods 7000000 people live in their part. and only warning system is being installed in remote areas but there are many challenges it's complicated to get the equipment

and it's complicated to know how to set it up so in designing the project and putting in monitoring facilities work with the community it's not an easy thing to do these go of projects should go ahead quickly because they represent a risk to people it's not close season pakistan under threat researchers warn that 36 percent of places all along the him the kush and himalayan mountain range will melt by 2100 if governments don't do enough to stop global warming. for the people of us now bad that's happening right now priyanka gupta our dizzier let's go now from the mountains to the sea to one of the front lines of the battle to save on marine life nick clark is with a team of scientists on a greenpeace expedition off south america. yes we're in a unique expedition charting unexplored waters exploring the newly discovered area of reef about 130 kilometers off the shores of french guiana at the mouth of the

amazon is about 500 kilometers in that direction and if you look up you can see the greenpeace campaign vessel esperanza. conducting all manner of research from the seabed to the surface and building the case for introducing marine protected areas to 30 percent of the world's oceans by 2030 this is all part of the measures scientists say need to be taken to help protect the living world from the worst effects of climate change well earlier i spoke to search plane who is from the french center for scientific research and 1st asked him about his area of expertise the coral reefs yes coral reefs will change a lot yes for proof will be transformed there are a species that clearly not are not going to pass these over sort of our scenario and there are species that will disappear and all will be become marginal are all very restricted and we want to be sort of the habitat structuring species that we

see now and so in the end we'll have probably cory's that will be completely transformed much less diverse as they proceed in terms of coral coral being the. the tax side that's sort of structure of the entire ecosystem so in the end it's the entire system that will be transformed and discord evolve we've seen them now we've seen them for the last century will probably be dramatically changed in the next 50 years in the context of the i.p.c.c. you get to worry about life being i've been able in several centuries and 1000000 to adapt to different and then suddenly changing that habitat we transform and so the end of these these are the end of those 4 and we don't know exactly but clearly they'll be strongly affected coral reefs the entire base of one marine ecosystem and one that's facing enormous change in pressure from climate change and then for sizing the importance of research the like which we're seeing here on the esperanza

in the bid to mitigate the effects of climate change. for more on the i.p.c.c. report i'm joined from copenhagen by professor jason box he's an ice climatologist at the geologic survey of denmark and greenland has such been quoted extensively in the study professor book signing so much for joining us look at the report it reads like a catalog of disasters they still melt sea level rise extreme weather refugees it's a pretty apocalyptic sounding scenario if it is bad as all that i think what stands out is the coherence of the story and that is because the climate changes are no longer subtle. just a decade or 2 ago the story was more uncertain because the climate system was still coming out of the noise but now we're at a point where we see across the climate system and including ecosystems really dramatic changes and unfortunately we expect them to intensify

you've been studying greenland the optics for many years now what are the major changes that you're noticing that what is the impact of them we used to look at these individual elements now we see the system changing we see arctic changes radiating out of the arctic that is weather patterns in the mid latitudes are affected by the arctic which is warming twice as fast as the globe that is slowing down the jet stream causing slower moving weather patterns and that is precisely what produces droughts or floods even periods of extended cold weather this is the 4th of 4 u.n. reports in the past year we've had by devastated else there and he says and the 1.5 degrees centigrade warming report when you look at all of these or pull together 3 or scientists eyes what do you see i think my biggest concern is about food

security and water security. threats from drought on food and water security will already be felt now sea level rise that is a problem on the horizon and one question i will instead it is have you seen a massive collapse of a glass you have you seen ice falling into the into the sea and how does that feel i have been travelling to greenland the last 25 years i've been able to witness the landscape changes the retreat of glaciers out of few words that really surprised me this year for example we were walking down a glacier and we walked past a giant hole that had formed in a glacier that used used to be very convenient for us to walk down and i understood from local people that that occurred in the last few weeks so this fjord that we were working in the ice has retreated 5 kilometers since i've been working there and then now there's this giant hole that formed which makes it obvious that this

is happening very fast the the ice is is so sensitive that it's surprised me even after visiting there for 25 years professor but it's we're going to have to end it that thank you so much for appearing on planet earth. so clearly the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming is really urgent and yet record carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are a worrying reality just 2 countries china and the united states are responsible for over 40 percent of the world's c o 2 emissions but the u.s. is planning to pull out of the paris agreement and emissions in china rose around 4 percent in the 1st half of this year alone china is the world's biggest consumer of energy importing coal from australia and asia and oil from the middle east and is building coal plants abroad and africa people on kenya's world heritage lamma island have managed to stop china's contractors from building one for now we met an

environmental campaigner who is following to continue the fight 2015 there was a proposed park plants to be built by the government and we asked the community we are really a poison because it has a lot of environmental degradation it's going to cost a lot of pollution the sea pollution the air and the water pollution. this is the the site that a proposed power plant is supposed to be built here. if you can see behind me this is where there is a sea here it's only now that is too low tide but this area connects to the the deep sea and there are people living here you can see their houses are there there are animals here there are people who have their farms and they come and cultivate their crops here. our main concern is about the sea because they're saying they

will be dumping their waste from the land to the sea. the sea is the backbone of people's will if you will be putting poison into the sea that means you will be polluting the sea and that means the feed and everything is said this is going to be killed there so that's our main concern and the other one is about the dam being the ash there from the power plant when the dam puts into the land we have animals here we have people who are farmers it means when you are going to destroy their land then animals with no longer be there and the farmers can no longer do their farming activity so we have enough from kenya to the global perspective every week on planet as the west will be the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and other big numbers to help us understand what's going on at the

moment c o 2 levels are 408 parts per 1000000 that's 30 percent more than before the industrial era the average global temperature has gone up no point 9 degrees centigrade since the start of the 20th century and the level of ought to see ice has decreased for 12 months straight. well despite these big and worrying figure is a climate summit early this week failed to deliver game changing pledges to slash carbon emissions world leaders gathered at the united nations and the head of the un and tony gets harris urged them to offer concrete commitments and action plans not just speeches nature is angry and we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature because nature always strikes back and around the world nature is striking back with fury someone asked me the other day that isn't all of this make you despair my answer was

a clear and resound no i am hopeful and i am hopeful because of you. this is not the climate talks summit we have here the enough talk this is not the climate negotiating summits because we don't negotiate with nature this is a climate action summit climate activists gretta turned bird issued another emotional plea she accused world leaders of retrieve her generation by failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions you have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the documents. 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 fairy tales of eternal economic growth so

a really powerful call for world leaders to step up but only $77.00 countries said they are committed to being carbon neutral by 2050 some of the world's biggest emitters such as australia and brazil didn't make any pledges a tall and president donald trump who wants to prove the u.s. out of the paris climb to agreement attended only briefly. now gulf states make up 3 of the top 4 at mit is when carbon emissions are assessed on a per capita basis so the total emissions divided up by the number of people in the country but the a.m.a. of qatar is promising change another 100 today you will hear the phenomenon of climate change is undoubtedly one of the serious challenges of our time causing many problems including economic environmental and social problems all cease must fulfill their responsibilities and honor their commitments under international agreements and the state of qatar has assumed its responsibilities as an active aurthur in the international community to confront climate change bill had

a mari is the director of the climate change department qatar's environment ministry and he joins me from new york mr o'mara thank you very much for being here what exactly is qatar doing to on its commitments. cutter's commitment is in line with the vision of carter 2030 and the believe and understanding of for the government that climate change is a very important issue and it's a cross border phenomena that needs to have all its faults and solidarity to achieve. meaningful outcome and brought. in bloom and climate action and that is agreement where the challenge is if qatar is to stick to its 2030 vision of economic development plus environmental protection and also to reach the carbon neutrality required by the paris agreement then that's impossible if it continues to depend on fossil fuels which are the base of its economy and yet

the switch to renewable energy here seems to be rather slow this is something that is actually it's not only in the in qatar you know it is the dilemma that we're all facing in terms of energy. technology is limited in terms of for renewable is for instance this is a harsh environment but we have to face the problem of does and heating of the panels so we are doing our best really to have our own customized kind of renewable sources the science shows that if current trends continue then by 2100 then this region will be uninhabitable it's got our prepared to leave its dependence on fossil fuels in order to ensure that future generations here do not become climate refugees. well look we recognize and they were by the noise that oil and gas or the fossil fuel is a depleting resource and that is why we're there visit find in terms of you know

other sectors including sport and occasion and many others but still we are trying to really also adapt to the harsh environment that we have there are said is that we have already that shows this unbacked is really there and it is increasing and we need to be ready for it seem events but as we said before this is something that needs to need so that he and working together otherwise then backed or having their response and to the right level is not going to be really. you know having that item affect my summary thank you very much i get to have you on the show thank you very much and you are having me thank you. as world leaders remain divided on climate young people have shown they are truly united on the issue from new zealand to italy to come and millions of

children skipped school again on friday to hold global climate strikes organizers say hoff a 1000000 students and adults joined gretta turn back at a rally in montreal and they have some words of wisdom for those in charge if you don't do this no be no future forced to work in church the point of studying in school in the world today we've got these new mintern are doing justice to our planet of science he busy it up with a last minute budget deal is out of the plastic so you do. any movie is all movie we want action from you where are you when you were going to keep fighting for the stain ability that we deserve and i believe. it would be credited with starting with the banning of single use per sticks and even the banning of fossil fuels would be greatly to take product of wasting. gases and we

should actually take frayn's take a bite from predators for tasted political newsroom agreement to. show. you could have in your mind as a goal if you life improved in life this is really like your hour like no more time left to act on climate change because people around the world are already being affected my generation really shouldn't have to be out here missing school we should be in school. as it almost put the head of the port in cmos was kidding that is we should i be forced to leave because here's a look at energy and this is the only planet we have to live in now there's a wealth of information out there from the media collaboration covering climate now like this one on the guardian newspapers websites explaining the climate crisis in 10 charts the states are on the rise of com dioxide a timeline of deforestation in the amazon as well as potential solutions. and there

are plenty of great explainers like this one from hot mess it's a publicly funded you tube channel out of the us devoted entirely to the climate crisis a lot of people around the world are already trying to do things differently even when others around them on mariella come o. is a maori woman from new zealand's who this year embarked on what became a very public journey towards 0 waste. it's a feeling it will thing i think for most indigenous peoples to to hear about their footprint in the way that we engage with. the environment and how we respect that we did create this pretty close to 0 waste values growing up but i didn't even think of it that way until the beginning of this year when i decided to try the things here at west for one month and i thought of this with others so i called it the month of change. really focused on it being one of the one month i'll try this

thing out and man i really struggled for. i mean i i think i probably failed immediately because as it turns out you can't really decide to go 0 waste you have to undo so much of what you've learned i've discovered one of the cool things how much we believe that we need stuff that we actually don't need so i had to do a whole lot of beliefs and a whole lot of practices and one of those things was discovering that i didn't need cleaning products i don't buy cleaning products and only more just don't need them and i was trying to baking breeden making biscuits and because i didn't i'm a total sugar freak and i don't want to be buying chocolate like i normally would find either a source of where we can find a place to call pick a tree produce or grow it it's tricky focus for me id is really is trying to keep the rubbish been empty this is some of the paraphernalia that i've collected for the 0 waste this year i don't have all of this with me all of the

time i have usually 2 or 3 of these things depending on what i think i'm going to need to in the day and if i struck something that i would like to buy but don't have the ability to. to buy without having something like this the standby we're not winning every day but we're trying every day and that's what i say to people who are interested in this journey is try every day do what you can and. more every single day and at the end of the month there was no question of whether i will keep going and a lot of it was to do with the joy that i found in practicing this lifestyle you reconnect with you reconnect back to what provides for us how how hard it tries to sustain us. and how lucky we are that we have a planet that is despite our great efforts is still trying to keep us alive so fascinating insight into ways we can reduce waste and we love to hear from you what are you and those around you doing to minimize your impact on the planets you

can get in touch with us on social media the hash tag is a.j. planet s o s and that's week on the program we'll look at the global effort to protect the natural world a 1000000 species that's more than 12 percent of all known life on the brink of extinction well what's been done to redefine our relationship with the us and its resources that's it for planet s.o.s. this week for me a man's apparel and the whole team good bye for now. october

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india 10000000 children what in born days are the victims of everything in one riyadh and the large numbers of very very big numbers on al-jazeera. i'm. glad you. got some of it i like. this is al-jazeera. from everyone on santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera a series of explosions target voters in afghanistan after the taliban warned people not to take part in elections the rebels in yemen thousands of enemy forces have

surrendered during a cross border military campaign police in hong kong fire was a candidate demonstrators marking the 5th anniversary of the umbrella protest and donald trump a special envoy to ukraine has been named in a whistleblower complaint has resigned. and i'm far and small at the world athletics championships where we're counting down to one of the big finals and down the rams 100 meters to take center stage on saturday night with christian call met them at. the polls to close the voting has begun in afghanistan's 4th presidential election security forces on high alert because of threats from the taliban they have been at least 5 attacks reported the polling stations across the country and according to the afghan acting interior minister 2 policemen were killed another 40 people were

injured as well several other issues have been reported the independent electoral commission lost contact with hundreds of polling stations and many people had to wait for hours to vote because of problems with these biometric devices their. vote . as though they were choosing from 14 candidates senators likely to come down to just 2 men incoming president and the chief executive of the 20 berkeley as a report now from kabul. a city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of a school used for polling hospital confirm civilians had been killed and

a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul one in helmand and one in one the hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of them despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's falls presidential election the government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right at the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday it was a trickle and voting had to be extended it's

a very slow we'll have to see. has extended for couple of hours we hope that people . come out and make that choice but as well as in security people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises in. failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements being made we cannot deny that but there are some traits in our taliban decrease increase their attacks you know so there are other factors that affect it there are so many other factors that affect it more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month election results will be

announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy and in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera kabul spoke to into the earlier a lecture at mara university in a political analyst in kabul who says the afghan security forces were in overall control of the situation. today was a different day but the that the way taliban were warning the afghan people that they have not get out of their homes them as they have to be attacked by a symmetric security threats i think for 2 reason that does not have happened number one i think the crits must go to the afghan security forces big because they have been able to satisfy control who are deep station that's why a lot of security incident has not have happened already taliban has not been so

much crucial in their taxes they have been so much hard in the did it tricks to warn the afghan people so yeah of course there has been a number of attacks but that has not been a say we just as we were expecting so hopefully that was something that we experience today well i'm sure the 2014 violent history may be repeated very much optimistic that something will happen. within countries. in recent election has been also an experience that we can consider why and we are expecting that itself from these election these 2 candidates has been the quite strong candidate they have been in contention the number for the other 12 candidate has not been only to win the election there has been only. for making a political deal so doctor up the law of the line dr ghani. people who are fighting

it against each other. on to other news now and syria's foreign minister is used his address at the un general assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces while they told world leaders his country is open to international dialogue but never at the expense of its national integrity he said any agreement without syrian involvement would be condemned. as. the united states and turkey maintain an illegal military presence in northern syria they've been so arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria if they were planning to establish this an american it would turkish soil this is a violation of international law and the un charter any agreement about any part of syria without the consent of the syrian government is condemned and rejected in full and in substance any foreign forces operating in our territories without an

authorization occupying forces and must withdraw immediately if they refuse we have the right to take any and all counter measures authorized under international law. well as the foreign minister was speaking the u.n. released details on the makeup of a new constitutional committee for syria a result of 18 months of work by the un the syrian government and the main opposition bloc the syrian negotiation commission is a little bit of detail the committee will draft constitutional reform for syria it must be syrian led syrian owned and inclusive and we made up of 150 people wrongly calling from the syrian government the opposition and civil society compromise and consensus will be the priorities and if a decision goes down to a vote it will need 3 quarters of the members to be in favor to be successful more on this without diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. in new york as we outline all of that james it sounds like a pretty good process progress i should say. well diplomacy on

syria has been stalled for a very long time and this certainly is a development whether it becomes an important development i think will depend on how the meetings go when these 150 people these 150 delegates gather in geneva i'm told the target date is the 30th of october and they will try and come up with a new constitution for syria why is this important well this committee is meeting under the authority of a security council meeting and resolution from 4 years ago $20.00 to $54.00 now interestingly that as well as talking about a new constitution talks about free and fair elections in syria with every syrian including those that have fled the country being allowed to vote so potentially are we getting to a stage where there could be free and fair elections i put that to the u.n. special envoy for syria get pettus. what i can guarantee is that the vertical of

the constitution will be based on the aspirations of the syrian people you know this is syrians sitting together for the 1st time update on the whole of us working on their own constitution and as you rightly pointed out the security hole system is and says that pursuant to the new constitution there should be free and fair elections where all syrians should participate including the aspirant on the un supervision so this is my mandate i have all that had a of course discussed this both with the government and with the opposition s.n.c. i have of course i'm a lector an expert all ready booking on this for me preparing all the cells and of course preparing hopefully then the syrian parties can i guarantee that this will take place no but as the right to stated on this is part of my mandate it's very clear to stamp that stated and it's also international consensus that states should

take place. why can't he guarantee it well as well as the syrian government agreeing to this constitutional committee in the list of names the syrian government and their russian allies are still doing something else which you are well aware of kemal that's the military bombardment continues in a live hitting homes hitting hospitals and medical facilities and the people that move 3000000 have nowhere to go to now i can tell you there are skeptics on the u.n. security council who told me privately that they think they know what the syrians are up to which is to engage in this constitutional committee he'd be going on as long as possible so they can continue their military operation and then claim a military victory and then pull out of the constitutional committee ok thank you for that james bays diplomatic editor in new york and now joshua landis the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he's on skype from norman oklahoma what's your assessment of this constitutional

committee then as james has pointed out. it's been i mean 150 members that's a lot of people and it's divided equally but trying to find consensus. very difficult you know the united states puts great store by this process and we've seen a special envoy to syria james jeffrey has said that the debt he expects to war is not over and he expects that to settle be turned out by these elections and after this committee process is terminated and you know it's hard to believe that that can actually happen but obviously there are many people who believe it will it and keep on saying reiterating that it will happen the assad regime though has won a war in the last.