in the 18 years we've been in afghanistan we don't convey consistency to anyone when we rethink our policy every 2 years so i have a problem with that the trumpet ministration but there was trouble palmer 5 changes of policy in the obama administration. afghan president gani campaigned 5 years ago on the idea of peace talks with the taliban but he was sidelined as the group met negotiators in qatar a deal was close but in the week of the anniversary of the $911.00 attacks in the us called an end to the talks. first i'm concerned that they thought that they had to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better to go share that vision this administration has threatened to withhold 100000000 dollars in funding to afghanistan alleging government corruption and mismanagement in the run up to important presidential elections that has been seen by some as an implicit criticism of the come president gani but not an

endorsement of his main challenger abdullah abdullah one afghan expert says to the us the process may be more important than the result for the travel ministration they are simply looking for a candidate that wins the election and is free if and fair a possible way as possible they want to have a president that is seeing with credibility and legitimacy by the afghan people it's very unlikely that's going to happen with donald trump insisting he has no intentions of restarting the peace talks in afghanistan and a new initiative will have to come from whoever wins the presidential election there and that means for the time being the war continues and so does the cost in money and lives alan fischer al jazeera washington. and haiti anti-government demonstrations bring more chaos to the streets. and zimbabwe's founding leader is laid to rest robert mugabe is buried in a letter. after

a dispute between his family and the government. i once again welcome to another look at the international full cost weather is looking largely quiets again across eastern and southern parts of china central areas seeing a little bit of what's the weather over towards the west of the range but for most as you can see send across the main that it is looking at last he settles some showers pushing their way towards taiwan as we go through sunday more so on in sea monday where we have that developing tropical storm making its way up further north was it gradually will become a typhoon say tutting increase to wet and windy just around the taiwan but for much of china it is looking settled dry and sunny dry and studied say which are good

parts of the philippines we can just see the outer bands all that tropical system that just making its way towards that eastern side of the philippines and up towards the northeast scattering of showers across much of malaysia indonesia generally looking dry showers to pep up a little across the central areas as we go on through monday a chance of some showers to vince's macia just towards southern parts of my life peninsula maybe the option to just creeping up into thailand for in the i'm afraid lots of heavy rain remaining into the fall cost anywhere the northwest. good weather sponsored by countdown and. matthew has an old inheritance to account.

head to head on a 0. hello again you're watching out is there and here's a reminder of our main stories this hour evans who the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered after a month long camp military campaign there were these have been targeting the southern region of drug a spokesman says they've also captured several saudi army officers. and series of attacks as well as technical delays didn't stop people from turning out for afghanistan's 4th presidential election since the fall of the taliban but there

were nearly 70 attacks across the country killing 5 and injuring hundreds of others now the former egyptian government contractor whose online videos helped spark recent protests against president. says rallies need to be stepped up and house every day people have been out on the streets for 2 fridays in a row this month the demonstrators accuse sisi of corruption and destroying the economy most of them saw a lot today god willing i heard there is a football game up there is a game we should go to the streets for one hour we would protest outside our homes when if we see that there is a large number of protesters we should keep going with them if we see police stop and go back or we should exhaust and so police forces like we're just think every day. a few notes been held for a palestinian man killed by israeli forces during protests along the gaza israel

border fence on friday the 20 year old sahar off mine was killed and $52.00 others were injured during the demonstrations but houses have been staging weekly rallies for the past 18 months calling for an end to the security blockade imposed by israel 210 palestinians have died since the protests began last year. syria's deputy prime minister has used his address at the un general assembly to demand the immediate the drawl of all foreign forces while it says his country is open to international dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity our diplomatic editor james base has more from the u.n. . syria's deputy prime minister walid muallem again representing his country at the un general assembly hit out to nato members for their military presence in syria. who were to the united states in turkey maintain an illegal military presence

inside northern syria they have been so arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria as if they were planning to establish the zone on american or turkish soil the u.n. believes this is an important moment for syria after 8 and a half years of war at the end of october 150 delegates comprised of 3 groups nominated by the assad government the opposition and representing civil society will meet here un headquarters in geneva under these terms of reference the committee will come up with a new constitution for syria the authority for the new committee is a u.n. security council resolution from 2015 it also calls for free and fair elections something that hasn't happened in the country since half of. the current president bush shows father seize power in $1000.00. 70. can you guarantee to us now will be

as that resolution says free and fair elections can i guarantee you that this will take place no birth as the right to stated this is part of my mandate it's very clear the stamp that stated and this also in for national consensus for 3rd place some diplomats on the un security council are extremely cynical about the assad regime's decision to support the constitutional committee at this stage they believe that their main focus is still the military operation in libya and they're trying to keep the constitutional committee busy until they can declare a military victory jamesburg 0 at the united nations. a top saudi arabian minister has refused to answer questions about the whereabouts of a man believed to be involved in the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. baer is the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs he was interviewed by the us public broadcaster p.b.s. but didn't reveal the whereabouts of saddam. look this is asking

all these questions he said he was a close aide to the crown prince where is he now you should ask the public prosecutor perm the prosecutor won't talk to us. in this column again. police in hong kong have fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse antigovernment protesters near the chinese army headquarters demonstrators to rocks breaking windows and blocking roads this current sides of the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement that's a series of protests against increasing chinese control of the territory it's called hi there takes a look at how the 2 movements compare. born and raised in hong kong how in chen looks at the recreate of a main symbol of the territories 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 an umbrella movement to me i think it's only it just the youngsters i met her and they they are just writing for was the most they'd be believed and i'm already out more than 60 is 0000 only woman and i just asked for the peace and there are. no more life of hong kong 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 in tomar 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 and the defenses of the previous wolf that they will face and it's. the previous will have the winds and all i say so while leading the whole campaign it was 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 out people of all ages and. 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 were claimed by police scott either al jazeera hong kong. zimbabwe's founding

a bear was buried on saturday in his home village of could terma could tama now there's a dispute between his family and the government over his final resting place herman taught us more. robert's mugabe's burial was subdued very different from the large crowds easter tracked journeys political rallies that's because his family wanted to give him a private send off with close friends and some people from his village in when vita to come and say goodbye to zimbabwe's founding father a reproach also learned a lot of. his leadership. and we were with. out a goddess of the earth in a rebuttal witness. and i'm here to call him as i thought it was important that i come here to see him in a prison here in lage to a specialist. 4 weeks there was a dispute between the government and family over where he should be buried in

zimbabwe people are usually buried within a week mugabe died at a hospital in singapore more than 3 weeks ago. robert mugabe's family say he was angry the army removed him from power 2 years ago is widely believed to be one of the reasons why there was a dispute over the burial place government officials later related saying they respect the family's wishes. president innocent and god who had 1st pushed for mugabe to be buried here at the national here is a cemetery in the capital harare a station was a limb was being built for him but in the end regardless family had the final say and who you want. to do for a fall for around undermining the man of reason. and only way of demonstrating that he. removed from office. jaring his early years as president mugabe was praised for

improving access to health and education for the poor but nearly 4 decades later millions as a bar with a struggling with soaring inflation and high unemployment he got his final wish to be buried in his home village but he leaves behind a ruined economy and a divided political environment. al-jazeera zimbabwe. and these 4 people have been killed after days of violent protests in haiti demonstrators are accusing president of anomalies of corruption and they blame him for a food and fuel shortage they say they'll continue protesting until he resigns. or has this report from the capital port au prince. chaos has taken over the streets of port au prince. what started this demonstrations over the ongoing fuel shortage has grown into a nationwide protests calling on haitian president. to resign. the president

promised the haitian people to lift them from poverty to pull them out of the dirt 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. already. 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 could here 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 should always continue 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. to prince. people in the malaysian capital have had their eyes on the sky with around a 100 base jumpers competing against each other they've been diving from a 300 meter high deck on kuala lumpur's tower. florence that we have. one. thing a 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 lochte 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 their parachute at the last minute the parachutes a smaller 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 a quick moment things like that and we ensure that we asked them where they're landing and think. you know we really bought them so everybody's aware question. it's an extreme high risk sport only dad hands and thrill seekers need apply florence lee al-jazeera. they're watching our desire and these are main stories yemens who the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a month long military campaign the who these have been targeting the southern saudi read. john it's been says they've also captured several saudi army officers. got some we have taken a number of military positions in we have captured over 4 military brigades those

prisoners of war just a few in number in comparison to the thousands who have been arrested and surrendered themselves we tell our leaders sayah who see that we are going to chart our slogan and raise our flag until we reach riyadh abu dhabi and to the white house. and speaking of the u.n. general assembly just a short while ago the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government blamed iran for the conflict in this country. has been accused of arming the who the rebels had their army tanks saudi arabia for its role in helping fight the rebels but criticized its coalition partner the u.a.e. for supporting separatist fighters in southern yemen. and a series of attacks as well as technical delays didn't stop people from turning out for afghanistan's 4th presidential election since the fall of the taliban there were nearly 70 attacks across the country killing 5 and enjoying hundreds of others

the turnout is likely to be low results will be announced on november the 7th syria's deputy prime minister has used his address at the un general assembly to demand the interim immediate withdrawal of foreign forces in this country while mentioned turkey and the u.s. specifically and said syria is open to dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity and protesters around the world have been rallying in support of anti-government demonstrations in egypt protests were held in new york on friday in front of the united nations building. police in hong kong have fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters near the chinese army headquarters demonstrators threw rocks breaking windows and blocking roads this coincides with the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement a series of protests against increasing chinese control of the territory in 2014

well those are the headlines news will continue here after planet s.o.s. that's next. hello i'm a man's a borrow welcome to planet s.o.s. . a new warning from the un that our oceans and vast frozen spaces could turn against us as a planet over its. nature and. and we set ourselves if we think we can see in nature. the head of the u.n.

implores governments to act millions of people around the world take to the streets for some of the largest climate protests in history and we'll meet people tackling the environmental damage on the doorsteps. of our oceans an ice sheet a 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 a pretty grim reading which forecasts of place will melt rising sea levels intense storms loss of marine life unless we curb global warming slee the 100 page study is the work of more than 100 scientists from 36 countries but insists that while some impacts are inevitable there is still time to act to avoid the

worst. and across a few critical. 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 this fish 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 early 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 off 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 hindu 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 a 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 reef 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 just. 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 this core evolves we see never 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 be 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 food and water security will already be felt now sea level rise that is a problem on the horizon and one question i wasted it is have you seen a massive collapse of a class you know 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 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 the proposed plant is supposed to be built here if you can see behind this is where there is a sea here it's only now that it's to notate 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 our people so 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 say this is going to be killed there so that our main concern and the other one is about the dam being the ash the ash from the coal power plants when the dam pits into the land we have animals here we have people who are farmers it means when you are going to destroy the land the animals with no longer be there and the farmers can no longer do their farming activity so moving are from kenya to the global perspective every week on planet earth so s. we'll bring you 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 $408.00 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 arctic sea ice has decreased for 12 months straight well despite these big and worrying figures a climate summit earlier 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 so on it gets harris urged them to offer concrete commitments and action plans not just speeches nature is angry and we feel ourselves if we think we can see in nature because nature always strikes back and the wrong nature is striking back. someone asked me the other day does it all of these 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 a climate negotiating summit because we don't negotiate with nature this is a climate action summit climate activists gretta turn berg issued another emotional plea she accused world leaders a pretrial in 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 lucky ones. 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 tales of eternal economic growth so really

a powerful call for world leaders to step up but only 77 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 of the trump who wants to prove the u.s. out of the paris climate 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 i may have cuts 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 or there 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 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 approach to blame 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 for 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 guitar 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 that the bleeding source 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 add up 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 thank you for 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 for us to look at the point of studying in school if the world didn't we got these 2 men to not doing justice to our planet earth. then a budget deal is over the. so you do. it. 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 personally 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 potations 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 should 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 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 those 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 take 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 undo 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 didn'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 over 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 came in. 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 do you and those around you doing to minimize your impact on the planets you

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a blogger adored around the globe and she's doing it all own way. life begins at $100.00 eyewitness documentary on al-jazeera. hello i'm devika pollin and with the top stories in al-jazeera the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government has blamed iran for the conflict in this country terror on has been accused of arming the who the rebels speaking of the u.n. general assembly mohamed dromi thanks saudi arabia for its role in helping fight the rebels but criticize its coalition partner the u.a.e.

for supporting separatist fighters in southern yemen. our army has had to face myriad direct military attacks in violation of international law these attacks were mounted by immorality air assets these attacks have undermined the stability of our homeland and in this way the immorality aggression has undermined the noble goals of the coalition. well earlier yemen's who thier abol said that thousands of saudi backed fighters had surrendered joining a month long military campaign the who these have been targeting the southern side of the region are not drawn a spokesman says they've also captured several saudi army officers i got from we have taken a number of military positions and we have captured over 4 military brigades those prisoners of war are just a few in number in comparison to the thousands who have been arrested and surrendered themselves we tell our leaders sayyid up till my like al who see that

we are going to chart our slogan and raise our flag until we reach riyadh abu dhabi and to the white house mohammad has the latest on that from sana. the host is spokespersons the they will reveal tomorrow afternoon on the the all the details about this operation that they will show to the to the media also the followers of those who have been arrested in their thousands also that we will show some of the operations that are being being carried out by the whole of these inside saudi authorities and specially in iran they have been carrying all these operations for over nearly 5 months they have been trying to put sage on these brigades of that have been. truly captured by the whole of these. just within the 72 hours the we have for the tightened their sage on the.

brigades and to these around the the fighters this is according to the military spokesperson despite of the saudi and intensive airstrikes on these positions of the whole of these also some of the. war of prisoners have been also killed in the saudi along with the fighters in these operations. a series of attacks as well as technical delays didn't stop people from turning out for afghanistan's 4th presidential election since the fall of the taliban there were nearly 70 attacks across the country killing 5 an injury hundreds of others results will be announced on november the 7th syria's deputy prime minister has used his address at the un general assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of foreign forces in his country while it out while a mention turkey and the u.s. specifically and said syria is open to dialogue but not at the expense of its

national integrity. now it's up saudi arabian minister has refused to answer questions about the whereabouts of a man believed to be involved in the murder of the journalist. there is the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs he was interviewed by the us public broadcaster p.b.s. but didn't reveal the whereabouts of south africa. look. all these questions he was a close aide to the crown prince where is he now or you should ask the public prosecutor perm the prosecutor won't talk to us to. call him again police in hong kong have fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters near the chinese army headquarters demonstrators threw rocks breaking windows and blocking roads this coincides with the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement it's a series of protests against increasing chinese control of the territory. well

those are the headlines head to head next. it may very well be one of the most controversial companies in our country's history that quality usa is being called the largest private economy in the world you're in washington convicting 4 former blackwater security guards in the 2000 my guest tonight is the controversial founder and former c.e.o. of blackwater erik prince you do it move a lot of personal q. . to bill you don't you disagree that branded a war profiteer and a super mercenary by his critics princes were made over a $1000000000.00 out of the so-called war on terror but also highlighted the clear danger of using private contractors on the battlefield and yet now back on the scene trying to privatized the war in afghanistan but offering to replace u.s.

and nato troops there with his own private security force but we're handing the war to prevent really help end it i'm in the house and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with erik prince a former navy seal and the founder of but quarter i'll challenge him on war crimes in iraq his plans for a private army in afghanistan and his loyal support for president donald trump. tonight i'll also be joined by sean mcfate a former private military contractor former officer in the u.s. army and author of the book the new rules of war they had an award winning guardian journalist from iraq who's covered conflicts across the middle east and colonel tim collins a former commander in the british army and founder of new century a private military consulting company.

ladies and gentlemen please welcome erik prince. prince is currently the deputy chairman that executive director from 2 years services group a hong kong based security and the just. erik prince thank you for joining me on head to head. your back in the news with a new plan to privatize basically the u.s. led war in afghanistan but you were the founder and c.e.o. of blackwater perhaps the world's most notorious private security firm which during the iraq war became a byword for violence corruption lawlessness and yet you've never apologize for any of. i think that's an unfair characterization of the company did exactly what the u.s. government asked us to do which was to protect diplomats reconstruction officials visiting. un or or other congressional delegations we did more than 100000 missions no one under our care was ever killed or injured and people try to characterize the company as is overly aggressive less than one half of one percent of all those

missions resulted in a discharge of a firearm in an era when you had lots of violence in the capital i mean baghdad really was the center of gravity of the insurgency and so we had you know 41 of our men were lost in action doing that mission so you mentioned that the u.s. government asked you to do a job and you did it you mention that you lost a man on your watch but you didn't mention is that you also killed a lot of people. you say what percentage is great let's talk about individual cases in 2005 blackwater guards fired 70 rounds into an iraqi civilians call forcing the state department to investigate in 2006 according to leaked pentagon documents blackwater guards fired indiscriminately iraqi civilians killing among others and ambulances drive it in 2007 blackwater guards shot and killed 14 iraqi civilians in what's been called the square massacre or baghdad's bloody sunday that is the rec ord that a lot of people around the world remember when they hear the name blackwater sure

and when you do 100000 missions it's easy to take some things out of context but remember you had many thousands of insurgents actively trying to kill americans and not just american servicemen but the most newsworthy americans their diplomats and with the state department actually the people i'm mentioning weren't insurgents you killed your men killed a mother and son on their way to an appointment and sentence as i killed a 9 year old boy sadly head sadly the insurgents don't wear uniforms they would drive ambulances filled with explosives they would drive so you remember those they were sure to get insurgents. a car bomb doesn't give you much time to decide there was no call moment missile square in 2007 actually right. before mr square event there was there we all are still square there was no callable scuse me less than 5 minutes before that event happened there was a large car bomb that went off where there was a protective team of ours protecting us the idea official and sadly that that car bomb went off the team decided to move through their. and a support team went to block the traffic circle so that. the fleeing team could

move through smoothly and not be ambushed when the when the intelligence provided by the state department the u.s. government says be on the lookout for a white kiya in all the other cars in the traffic circle stop except for a white here sadly sometimes the guys have a split 2nd to make that the source black what to say the white kids thought of as you well know because you've discussed this far more than i have all of the eyewitnesses say that there was no white kid heading towards you the u.s. colonel who turned up on the day said that there was no enemy activity involved he said it was a criminal event and an excessive shooting a us court of law in december prosecuted one of your men for 1st degree murder for killing his mother and. 3 other hold on let me finish 3 other men were prosecuted for manslaughter 4 of your men murder and manslaughter in the iraqi courts u.s. courts that's right they prosecuted them 4 times and they finally got a conviction the 1st time it was thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct guilty they found them guilty you know the 1st time it was thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct the 2nd time it was overturned the 3rd time it was

a mistrial the federal government finally got them in a d.c. circuit in a d.c. jury on the 4th time that you see jury not a legitimate jury i would say a jury of your peers does not really compare to the rest of america no that's ok ok so some juries are legitimate some not like so-called judges that language before but they were prosecuted for murder amounts would you have any regrets for the people who died a 9 year old boy shot in the head was an insurgent of course we did of course we we hired as the company we hired the prosecutor that prosecuted saddam to go find each of these families to pay salacious to make amends as best as possible to reach out to them did i personally know i haven't no i haven't found all of them but we certainly apologize to the ones that had contact with and it's not just these killings and the these killings that documented it goes beyond just god as you know but what got billions of dollars in u.s. government contracts and billions more than a $1000000000.00 in new. government contracts to an area are over 12 years and yet a scathing u.s.

state department investigation found that blackwater quote was over billing the state department and manipulating personal records its guards were partying drinking and even crashed an armored car and saw themselves as quote above the law pretty damning the u.s. state department saying this but the company they've given contracts to over billing and manipulating we never paid any fines for anything like that that's a fact you paid fines for a lot of things the only thing we paid a fine for it was a elation and i gave an example of the otoh if you say the only thing you paid a fine for you paid $7500000.00 fine and 2012 to settle 17 criminal charges you paid a full $1000000.00 settlement are a department in 2010 for illegal arms sales. 2012 it already sold the business i sold it in 2010 but the cases go back beyond 2010 the criminal charges raided all sorts of things that went back years including south sudan you broke u.s. sanctions to try and sell weapons to south sudan knowing going to there's no weapons in south sudan there was a proposal on the naval you never put a proposal on table to salvage his government.