the last typhoon that struck at the beginning of the last month which caused a lot of damage and resulted in several deaths as well he's taking no chances with the transport systems as well most train services were canceled along with hundreds of flights to and from tokyo's airports. in the news ahead. we've come to a very substantial phase one deal a possible break in the trade war between the united states and china. and spain remembers its national heritage thousands of separatists don't want the country to forget the tensions between them. i know this one cloud streaming towards the count's been seeing an l.c. as it'll pick up some moisture and it does mean we could well see some showers into

northern areas of iran certainly in the next 24 hours my duties in scottish as far south as terran time it is not too bad $24.00 degrees celsius $21.00 in baquba cooler in the wake of that cloud and that system and also look at these temperatures here 39 in baghdad 34 in kuwait city and staying at about those levels really is a go through monday but it will be a little bit warmer in bay ridge the high there over 32 degrees celsius a nice angra 25 once we're back out in their shells are going through there as well and the temperatures sticking in the sort of mid thirty's really across much of the arabian peninsula certainly on sunday and as we head off into monday you'll notice that moisture see that tending to push a little bit closer to these coastal areas we could just see one or 2 showers but for the most part it is fine and dry my just and east in madagascar as well as we continue through the next couple of days as another front just sliding by south africa bringing the rain into durban certainly on sunday and then in fact we could see who's got the thunderstorms into johannesburg on sunday and monday and you

notice the rain quite widespread through on goal and in fact wanted to scottish you know monday certainly for the some of the cross into but it's want to. rewind to 10 days with a new series. and states passed down to same documentaries. it's fun to. rewind continues with the gift of sight so sickly intervention is one of the few rare you will see patients like this seize least 10 years younger than she was yesterday just within 24 hours on al-jazeera.

with al-jazeera and these are the top stories this hour turkish forces and their allies are taking control of the center of. a key syrian border town after 4 days of heavy fighting kurdish forces there are disputing the claim. protesters in ecuador of objects at an offer of direct talks on the president to end days of violent demonstrations thousands are again on the streets of angry atlanta merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies which led to price heights. and at least 2 people have been killed in japan it's time. for outside tokyo more than a 1000000 people have been told they should evacuate their homes the storm is forecast to be one of the worst on record for japan. a final campaign rallies are being held in mozambique in the run up to tuesday's general election it will be the

6th vote since the end of the civil war in 1902 the ruling party is challenged by its rival renamo tension remains between them despite signing a final peace deal back in august but there are 4 people vying for the top job the main 2 there are president felipe a new see who is running for a 2nd term he came to power in 2014 with a reduced majority for the phillimore party he's up against the former fighter or so from a mother who is the front man for renamo a party which is plagued by infighting as well whoever wins will lead mozambique's recovery after 2 site clones and food shortages this year and have to deal with a growing rebellion in the gas rich northern province of. malcolm webb has more now from the. president felipe a.b.c. told his supporters that in a 2nd we'll bring jobs to do so flying to russia but it's dropped and that's blighted some of the members of his party during his 1st to being on the headlines

scandal being steady on bail opposition the leading opposition party but all the help that final rally in the northern city of number presidential candidate to float about is also promised to find corruption they're called city if they were mislead by devastating cycling just 7 months ago the man that city was a presidential candidate peace among them held his final rally that opposition to complain of serious irregularities in the votes is registered they say they think inflated the ruling party stronghold level so complained of violence on the campaign trail electoral commission denies any problems with the registered opposition since most of these problems like the supporters to go to the polls on tuesday but i didn't didn't he watch as the votes are counted and wait for the results to be announced. at least 15 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in became a fast so

a group of men opened fire inside the grand mosque in sun mussy in the country's north making a fuss and has been struggling with armed conflict for the past 4 years at west african heads of state actually met last month to discuss an end to the violence. 2 presidential candidates have gone head to head in a rare t.v. debate before sunday's runoff voters will choose between bill curry who was recently released from prison and the retired law professor. i need to convince voters there will to solve crippling poverty and unemployment as hashanah. face-off in a debate a rare event in the arab world and a moment of pride for the tennesseans who 80 years ago inspired the pro-democracy movement also known as the arab spring. the debate was a crucial moment for the 2 candidates the election divided to secular and liberals

back while conservatives leftists and nationalists endorser yet. this is always leading in the parliamentary and presidential elections to jail despite there are still moved on to the 2nd round my opponents thought i'd be defeated. in the free they will never return to the cage and won't accept being given crumbs they are free already committed to building a new country. supporters of the bill carter we are job and their leader and media mogul was released from jail and he's back on the campaign trail but the man and his party have only a limited time to convince people that he is the right person to leave the country i always party heart of which he founded 3 months ago came in 2nd in the parliamentary election becoming the 2nd largest political party after the conservative and. from the beginning of the campaign rival cases i yet kept

a low profile but his supporters took to the streets promoting the burn they say will and corruption and unite the people but people are frustrated with their leaders 8 years after the revolution they see little change in their country and their expectations are high and have our president should make young people more of a priority its far as i'm concerned i have no faith in the political elite we want a president who stands for all to new zealand we are to fight a country that has different political party social classes we don't want a president defending a particular class or group after the 2011 revolution the president lost many powers to both the prime minister and parliament but the president retains control of the fans and foreign affairs for many to his ears the president is more than just a symbol the recent parliamentary elections have resulted in a divided parliament and the live party may not be able to form a governing coalition this is where the next president is expected to step in and

the political impasse has al-jazeera to us. spain is celebrating its national day but the festivities come amid internal tensions over the sentencing of catalan separatist leaders who have been charged with sedition and misuse of public funds for their part in the 2017 independence referendum rival unionist pro independence rallies have gathered in catalonia regional capital of barcelona and sun your guy i go is there for us. liberations for spain's national day have been taking place on the streets of foss alone in the capital of the capital on region the region that attempted to secede 2 years ago now while this was organized by a pro nationalist civil society it has the backing of 3 conservative and right wing parties in the space and taking place here because people here are still absolutely

determined cats run we just should remain firmly cobs all the spanish states who want to belong you know i want to keep being cut along with plenty of people who are not just cut out of our guts i would think yes so it is being cut line is our way of being spanish or the wonderful thing about spain is that it's made up of many different parts but with a common sense. that. people here there is an incredibly strong feeling about the caps of the region should remain a family. of the spanish they discuss alone you know force where there is a strong growth independence movement they feel they should have the right to determine their own future it's part of a legal referendum polls that attempts to see 2 years ago was an illegal referendum and certain politicians and activists paid the price by being arrested they now

face a judgment $1.00 day whether it would be a charge of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds that has further exacerbated the tensions in the region certainly doesn't look like it's going to be resolved any time soon. in chile relatives of people who disappeared during the military dictatorship 40 years ago are demanding prisoners convicted of human rights crimes stay in jail some of the families of thousands of chileans killed and tortured have been marching in the capital santiago infuriated by a judicial report recommending the early release for 15 people they were jailed for crimes connected to disappearances during the dictatorship of general augusto pinochet china's president xi jinping is arrived in the parlor after return to day state visit to india she held talks with prime minister narendra modi on a range of issues including trade but the issue of kashmir and china's support of pakistan was apparently off the agenda i would like to state quite categorically

that this issue was not resolved and not discussed and therefore there is no question of. my making any further comment on the matter in any case the government position as expressed publicly is very clear this is a matter that the double affairs of the country. more on this now from. reporting from. the indian prime minister took the chinese president on our guided tour of this istanbul city of my own which is where in fact 1700 years ago india and china had commenced trade even signed a security pact however this time around if you talk about substandard outcomes or concrete solutions to some of their festering disputes not much has been achieved however the indian official say that the 2 leaders have managed to establish a personal rapport we should go a long way in the future to help them resolve many of these disputes including the border dispute and trade deficit the indian foreign secretary although did say that

the 2 countries have decided to set up a mechanism at the ministerial level so china can address india's concern india has a whopping 3 deficit with china of over $51000000000.00 and the indian officials this time around said that they have chinese assurance that something will come out of these talks however the chinese president did not commit to anything as far as the whole was then is concerned there is also the issue of kashmir recently we've seen exchange of harsh words between the indian and the chinese government just before the chinese president came here he had hosted pakistan's prime minister in iran can and once again reiterated china's support to pakistan of course all of that comes in the background of india's decision in august 5 to strip indian administration read off its autonomy to china continues to back pakistan on that issue and it's interesting that while india also has the same dispute with china which controls a part of kashmir that india claims the indian prime minister apparently did not

even raise that with the chinese president xi jinping. the china china the u.s. service struck a partial trade deal could end the 15 month long trade war between the world's 2 largest economies after holding talks with china's vice premier donald trump suspended a tariff hike or 2 $150000000000.00 worth of chinese imports it may take more than a month for a full deal to be. well we've come to a deal an intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers the purchase of from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural products another big issue that we've come to conclusion on is currency foreign exchange we've also made very good progress on technology transfer and we'll put some of the technology transfer in phase one phase 2 will start negotiations

almost immediately after we've concluded phase one and papered it. jeffrey wright who is a united states policy analyst at the group he thinks one of the reasons behind trump's decision is to get some relief for u.s. farmers and just to boost the country's economy. i think the pieces of this deal that are fairly concrete are the chinese agricultural purchases which trump says they will step up above their current levels and the cancellation of the looming tariff increase which was due to go into place next week beyond that there's a lot left undone around intellectual property a sectoral opening for financial services firms in china that has been rumored and pulled back a number of times and a lot of other issues where the real substance is still needs to be ironed out the chinese have already for the last 2 weeks or so their purchases of particularly of soybeans have been at much higher levels than they were for the bulk of the summer

and so that's a big relief to farmers and if this deal holds i think those purchases will will continue or probably go up as well the pieces that are left undone are primarily in intellectual property the enforcement regime for this deal as well as a number of sort of unrelated issues on national security in particular on huawei the chinese telecom for it seems pretty clear to me that part of the reason for his motivation to get this deal was to get some relief for farmers and to put a boost into the macro economy in the u.s. as he heads into reelection and comes off of what was a very damaging week for him politically here in washington. the kenyan distance runner. has made history by becoming the 1st to run a 42 kilometer marathon in under 2 hours cheered on by thousands of fans in vienna he beat the record by 20 seconds and said afterwards his name was to prove there are no limits to human achievement laurence smith reports. the man the moment

he's done it to him won it all olympic champion marathon world record holder but becoming the 1st person to run the distance in under 2 hours has eluded until now. the official marathon distance of 42.2 kilometers has a 100 year history. he was aiming to do what many had thought impossible. the flat course was designed to assist a fast time vienna in autumn specifically chosen for optimal conditions and he was aided by a team of 41 pacemakers laser technology help guide the runners to maintain the record breaking pace i'm as the clock reached 1150 and the crowds were strong as one of the great barriers of distance running was taken apart i thought that is tonight into before i took another sister to the 63 yes i tightened i do not care

now it's the 6th after i have had just the man to run under 2 hours in order to inspire him at many people this is the best performance i've ever seen and i think i could be the ones i've ever seen in in a lifetime i the term legend is often over used in school but it showed he can now lay claim to a status amongst the greatest of all time. i think his modesty really is something that maybe doesn't catapult him to ultra superstardom in the sporting world but he is illegal messi running essentially he's a roger federer of atlantics he's the greatest distance from intel if i've ever seen or this was classed as a solo race and the level of assistance received all mean is this won't count as an official record but this wasn't about records this was about the realisation of a lifetime ambition lawrence made al-jazeera.

the headlines for you on al-jazeera turkish forces and their allies cyber taken control of the center of russula in a key syrian border town after 4 days of heavy fighting kurdish forces are disputing that claim however. protests against the turkish military offensive are taking place in several cities around the world these were some of the thousands of people who came out in paris kurdish leaders have accused the united states of betrayal protesters in ecuador have rejected an offer of direct talks from the presidents to end days of violent demonstrations thousands are again out on the streets of quito and grow at lenin moreno's decision to scrap fuel subsidies which led to price hikes and more from the rubble in quito. questions remain in the ecuadorian capital where we are we're just a few blocks away plant the national building the national assembly rather and if you could see over my shoulder you.

know like you. know. at least 2 people have been killed in japan as typhoon how could this make landfall outside tokyo the storm's forecast to be one of the worst on record meteorologists are warning of an precent of rainfall which could lead to floods and mudslides and several prefectures. final campaign rallies are being held in mozambique in the run up to choose does general election the 6th vote since the end of the civil war in 1902 and least 15 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in bikini far so it's a group of men opened fire inside the grand mosque in the sun must see in the country's north because been struggling with armed conflict for the past 4 years.

and you are up to date with the headlines here on out is there next our weekly environmental show planet s.o.s. with a man to borrow. i don't know on bringing you a planets as a rest i shal from iceland where leaders of the northern race regions of the planets joining delegations from around the world to discuss the future of the outfit it is

a pristine landscape with friend john ecosystems of vos region that helps regulate our planet's weather and climate but as the ice and glasses melt once inaccessible land and walters in the arctic opening up. a calamity for some and opportunity for others the arctic cyclists embley is meaty and iceland's capital of reykjavik trying to navigate the very different views on the way forward for this critical part of the world. and as a sense comment outside cause all planets will stay with us for the scientists working to see if a challenge is natural process to capture carbon at 18 the genes of pounds so they can draw in most c o 2 and store it deep underground. welcome to planet s.o.s. in iceland right now by a glacial lagoon and that new york national park which is a new desk a world heritage site lates it will be in the capital reykjavik where the assembly

is taking place it's the biggest summits taken is important not just because of what's going on geopolitically in the region but also because of climate change issues which are striking the very halls. of life hit in the middle temperatures they soared in the arctic this summer and that's not a novelty it's becoming a disconcerting trend greenland's ice sheet lost a staggering 12 and a half 1000000000 tons of ice in one day more than any other day since records began in 1950 and is when does get warmer and drier the loss will only get worse to see ice dropped to the 2nd lowest amount on record this year and this is something you don't see very often lightning near the north pole you need a combination of woman and cool to make lightning and there isn't usually enough of the form until this year and forest fires have burned in greater numbers and with more intensity as temperatures rise fish stocks are moving as a fresh water ice melt pulls into seas that it getting warmer and the shrinking sea

ice is threatening creatures that depend on it. and then there's the region's glasses like many glasses all around the world the shrinking rapidly and in many cases disappearing altogether and that's the story we're seeing right here in iceland. this is an island of elemental power shake to reshape by natural forces where the landscape is constantly forged by supercharged geology. glass is sweeping over active volcanoes ash from previous eruptions carpets the ice through the millennia the glass years have advanced and retreated but never has a retreat to be distressed because not. classic ironic only takes me towards the solheim your couldn't last year and the speed of retreat is very apparent so the sign and they were in the glass here was back in 2010 and this is an arch in the

very front of the glass here this is where we would walk onto it stretched across this entire valley and now 9 years later there it is there's the front right back and it's continuing to melt at the exact same speed. this is one of the fastest disappearing glasses in iceland but its rate of loss is pretty much replicated wherever you go we enter the york at national park you know a world heritage site covering 14 percent of iceland tourists come here in the hundreds every day to see the sights but the sights slowly disappearing what was the class here 20 years ago is now a raging torrent muddy eisma. it is a very dramatic and very visible in the strafing of the impacts of climate change and it's happening not only to the world glasses but also for the polar icecaps and the thing is that even if we do think nif it can only curb emissions more than a 3rd of the world's glasses will disappear by the end of the century. 3 years

old or cigarettes and it's a geologist he's been charting place the last few decades and he's well aware of the global implications the glaciers will melt the multiple to runs down to those shim and the ocean surface rises i told my friends in america just no past week the. refugees would not only be calling from mexico and central america it would become front proto and battle on the coast and the gulf coast of america of the united states. at home businesses that rely on the tourist dollar preparing for an uncertain future or living in sin runs a guest house on the farm where he's lived pretty much all his life he has seen what's difference. the last couple yes and just for maybe 30 years ago than 3 close of tanks from this side but now we only see 2 all those and one of the most

tourist attraction in iceland so of course it can have an effect on on you know all the main pillars of the economic parting iceland. this story is being repeated around the world just as the melting ice the sea level rise the water supply for hundreds of millions of people is disappearing before our very eyes. it is a bleak picture but there is no other way of telling it scientists say the focus must now be on trying to save what we can but this crucial part of the planetary system. now we're in the capital reykjavik where the arctic circle assembly is taking place there are more than 2000 delegates here all trying to find a way forward for the arctic in these changing times we spoke to some of them about what they felt were the most pressing issues ahead well most of what we're hearing up here is about climate change and it's a huge problem you can't look at the news any day and not see another story about it it's real it's happening and we need to find ways to combat it felt. to me

sitting in there ok this all these people are interested in my homeland and that and how i began to wonder how i stepped in the whole process that is occurring here and so i've made a point to focus on the language and the problems that people. finally come to in terms of culture and education and language indigenous people small solution to a lot of the problems in the world is facing climate change to stand up to development biodiversity loss and i think that the arctic could contribute a lot to solving these problems if we're going to put out of the after of course a lot of things of course but the one thing which is the most important is sustainability now there are 8 technicians they are norway sweden finland denmark russia canada the united states and iceland and they all are part of this

separate organization called the arctic council which was set up to try and help resolve conflicts about the way forward for the region but laws may they couldn't even agree on a closing statement after meeting that was held in the hall now reports on the conflicting agendas of asserting a confrontational tone in the arctic. meetings of the out to council have really generation front page headlines and then in may the united states did something that had never happened in the council's 23 year history threw at him a series of us 60 of states might pump a 0 the u.s. refused to approve a joint statement because it included the words climate change the refusal grabbed plenty of attention but something of arguably gracious significance for the future of the arctic largely slipped by without much comment and that was composed speech the day before the arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance. it

houses 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil 30 percent of its undiscovered gas and an abundance of uranium rare earth minerals gold diamonds and millions of square miles of untapped resources the message was clear that the melting ice of the arctic was exposing a treasure trove of riches to be exploited and the united states claimed to take the lead to gain control of the pump aon even mention climate change once in his speech but a woman planet is what's made the scramble for resources possible in the northern reaches of our planet a warming at almost twice the global average a region once considered too cold too dangerous plagued by too many storms and i slept for much of the year well it is now opening up steady reductions in sea ice or opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade this could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between asia and the west the speech was

unapologetic and provocative questioning the intentions of major powers russia and china both of which have been increasing the prison dick but then signaling the u.s. plane to bolster its presence particularly its military just in case others don't play by the rules pump air space signaled a new era of competition even potential conflict that could wreak havoc in the outback region but drill deeper and it has ramifications for a soul exploiting the outtakes abundant oil and gas reserves more like you pitch the world's dependence on fossil fuels the more things we burn the more carbon pollution we emit and the higher global temperatures will go benteke straight my will make it easier to get to the arctic's resources but scientists say the consequences for people living for the self the hate waves the floods the rising seas the extreme weather now vets they say will be catastrophic. as

a result the arctic is creating all kinds of challenges and earlier we spoke to the chair of the alex exactly assembly and former president of iceland i live right in the greens. the arctic by its own effort. would be ok. and if the people of the arctic would have the same living conditions for centuries they would be hopping the problem asian to all over the world to. america africa. the america the the energy system which was created to warm up $200.00 yesterday. is constitute in a fundamental threat to the future of the author so we are seeing for the fust time in human history. the interlocking off the fate of the off tick on one

hand and the rest of the world on the other. and the tissue really the core of the climate challenge dot the rest of the world it's called destroy the often. but the magical the ice in the arctic could also destroy the rest of the world because climate change is open up the boards ways it's opened up the region for exploitation of its vast resources and that that is not forecast. to only be a temporary blessing if you want to call it that because if only up for the greenland ice sheet. it would lead to to meet and she leveled all over the world dr would mean that every coast of 50 whether it is should florida where the united states or whether it is china korea japan or whether it is to buy up a topic. would be history and the problem is that the shy on

which has been fundamentally wrong. and you just been wrong in the sense that the melting of the irish is happening much faster than anybody predicted and that is a scary thought what is your sense of the future of the arctic what kind of arctic are we going to leave behind there is a big question mark where the world will be one micron daughter 74 or sitting next to me earlier today will be my age whether there will be any point in holding out to conferences all the time in hobart because the whole thing will be lost by the time she reaches my age. he has as we just heard there what's happening in the arctic is it will continue to have an effect on the rest of the world let's have more on that now from

a man to borrow in the studio a man. thanks nick well absolutely islands nations coastal cities shoreline communities hundreds of millions of people are at risk from the rising tide if we do nothing it's already a stark reality for people in indonesia where at least 42000000 homes are under threats the country's made the controversial decisions made its capital jakarta to the indonesian part of borneo with its rich rain forests and unique wildlife now that's a world 1st but given the rising trend in emissions and global temperatures it's unlikely to be the last well to give you a sense of the scale of the ice melts here are some of the big numbers let's start in greenland which had a record melt in august. on the other side of the globe in antarctica the world's biggest ice sheet released 3 trillion metric tons of water over 25 years that's enough to fill more than a 1000000000 elim pick sides swimming pools and the weights class here thought to

pose the greatest risk for rapid sea level rise well in january nasa research has discovered an underwater cavity around 300 meters high caused by the warming waters beneath it. as all oceans heat for the planet the water also expands and sea levels have risen more than 20 centimeters since the industrial revolution some leading i scientists say that in a west case scenario a rise of 3 even 5 degrees celsius sea levels could rise by as much as 2 meters by the end of the century and that's well over my head and that would swamp some island nations and coastal cities but. for me this is my home and migration the last resort for me it's very very difficult for a small island state like someone because not only that it cost a lot of money there's not much land because obviously we're a small island states so where we going to relocate them for 30 years we will be

seen that this is the fight of our lifetime because it threatens already existence is a nation. the indigenous sami have lived in the arctic region for thousands of years spread across the way in finland russia and sweden and there were intimately connected with the north but what we planted is putting that under threat those poor east with his report from in sweden. were turning the dead to their final resting place. caskets containing the skulls of their ancestors finally pink given back to the sami people by the swedish state after being taken from graves in the 1950s to be picked over for research more. of this gesture may heal some wounds new ones are being opened up as the government is

accused of failing to properly deal with the climate crisis that threatens the sami way of life. much of the of the wealth the sweden has has built on is built on salmon ground. the 1st thing is to to to face the history of colonization what that what sweden a state has made done to do to my people just a few kilometers inside the arctic circle the town of york mark is a sense of some a culture in sweden scientists say the arctic is warming up twice as fast as the average global right the putting the farming on the front lines of quiet change it's being felt particularly in ancient forests like this where like growing on the ground provides food for rain there and animal now facing mass starvation thousands have died despite the herd his efforts to feed them by hand while melting ice sheets have cut off their migrate 3 routes across the arctic sami reindeer herd is

say the situation is made worse by the disappearance of the old forests sweden has taken action to meet other climate pledges including the creation of wind farms and hydroelectric plants today sweden is placing almost all of their parks up on sammy territory just explode exploiting it again destroying thank you am making our lands into being a huge industrial parks sweden's environment minister refused to comment on our report struggles between the sami people on the swedish government go back for centuries the climate crisis has pitted them against each other again. it's a dispute that must find common ground swiftly if the psammead way of life and the arctic as we know it to survive. paul reese al-jazeera lapland sweden.

the fight to keep traditions alive whenever i spoke to dolly sunbow daughter who's from composer council. for the innuit. they the challenges and the threats are multiple and with climate change their compound day in day by day by day with the loss of sea ice the increase vessel traffic they. from the perspective of 3rd party interests looking at the commodities that can be extracted from the arctic region i mean is this one thing after another so that so the threats are compound ing every day you have a rich culture going back thousands of years how important is the those who want to come in and access the richness of the arctic how important is it that they listen to your voice i think that our adaptation to this unique and distinct environment is highly significant and our knowledge that innuit knowledge

indigenous knowledge about the region is a major asset for anybody interested in having a measure of influence in the arctic i think that it is it is crucial for nation states and others to not only respect our rights but also if they are intent upon being active in the arctic to outreach to us directly because of our insides our world perspective and our understanding of our environment and how what to mr gall you about the future my hope is that. we can kind of curb that the adverse impacts of climate change but also to to to to mitigate the impacts and adapt to the impacts and that we will always be in the arc. this is it's our homeland it's our territory and we know this region

better than others and we we we won't be leaving the area any time soon. now that we've come to the volcanic hills just outside of reykjavik and we're going to take a look at the plethora of climate data the result there is very hard to make sense of it all take a look at a planet s.o.s. it's day to track and straw and help us understand what's happening there is the rise in average global temperature is and sea levels and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere most scientists agree the safe level for our plants is around $350.00 parts per 1000000 given with no well past $400.00 we've got a fair bit to do. there's a natural carbon sink drawing in c o 2 and story directly in the soil with c o 2 levels so high they just can't take it all in but now scientists in california trying to change that they're using gene everything technology to try to give the plants around us a toe by bruised reynolds. or planet

earth and for dr joe ensure it's a race against time jury is a multiple award winning plant biologist at the salt institute in california she's also been battling parkinson's disease for more than a decade her old idea is to genetically modify existing crop plants to reduce the planet warming chemical carbon dioxide we knew that plants really were good at sucking up c o 2 from the air they've had 450000000 years or more. evolution and that makes the plant really efficient plants can get that c o 2 out of the atmosphere and they can concentrate in the music and think back to your school science lessons photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert sunlight water and c o 2 into stems leaves and sea plants expel oxygen as

a byproduct but while forests are shrinking globally farmland is expanding the fact that cory says can help cuts to the beauty of our planet actually comes down to never using the food. we've given them the another trait they can see question this coming and put it down the basic idea behind this science is to genetically modified crops plants like for cotton or soybeans to absorb more atmospheric carbon carbon it's then stored in the plants roots and kept under round out of the air the say it's effect team wants to develop food crops that will grow longer deeper roots to sequester the extra c o 2 they absorb in their tissues as they grow the hope is over. a decade or more that enough of that carbon dioxide will be sucked out of the

atmosphere that we will be able to begin to mitigate the rising c o 2 levels because of the burning of fossil fuels jory admits it's a bold initiative which could take years to implement if the g.-man if you lation is successful but for her it's personal there isn't who you see with this project and for me you know i'm 64 years old ok i've had put in stands for 16 years as a long time you well i feel good i have to do this you know consistently so on point to get it done right i have a single goal you have to keep your eye on that go joy in shorey a warrior in a laboratory fighting for planet earth rob reynolds al-jazeera la jolla california . you're on jury that is one of the many people around the world trying to come up with solutions to protect our planet and we'd like to hear your stories of innovation and action just get in touch using the hash tag a.j. planet s.o.s.

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this is the world news from. keeping up the pressure on president protestors in ecuador back on the streets despite his call for talks. sprinting to a start finish. becomes the 1st person to run a marathon and it's. reporting. on a very brutal demonstration the climate. of the nation. so turkish forces and their rebel allies have taken control of the center of a key syrian border town kurdish forces are denying that launched its offensive on kodesh held areas 4 days ago they have been advances on the ground but that meant

a strain in relations with some countries especially the united states and iran which had urged turkey to pull out is now offering to mediate the reports now from the turkey syria border. they are battling their way into kurdish controlled towns along serious side of the border with turkey it hasn't been an easy fight for several days turkish troops and their allies the opposition syrian national army have pushed into the northeastern corner of syria they now say they are in control of one of 2 main towns along the 120 kilometer stretch of territory. they plan to capture in the 1st phase of this operation ross a line has fallen they've also advanced 30 kilometers deep reaching the highway that connects to west and east syria effectively dividing the territory under the control of the. positions of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are coming under heavy fire but an incident close to a u.s.

outpost along the border has added to tensions between turkey and the united states which said its forces were close to being hit by turkish artillery fire turkey's defense minister who see a car denies his troops targeted the position saying they were responding to fire 1000 meters away the new front in syria's war is worsening relations between the nato allies which have long been strained the pentagon was more blunt calling them damaged international pressure is mounting on turkey to stop the advance the united states is threatening to impose economic sanctions the message from here is clear we will not stop the operation president russia or the god made it clear the wife the syrian kurdish armed group that forms the backbone of the us they must 1st withdraw 30 kilometers from the border with turkey the humanitarian impact of the conflict is being felt on both sides turkish civilians are being killed in rocket fire that's being fired into border towns. don't have any protection but we're not

thinking about moving out now since we have a life here we don't want to leave our home in syria they have also been casualties among civilians caught in the conflict aid groups are warning of another humanitarian disaster in syria's 8 year war the area is home to people who've already suffered violence and displacement the united nations says 100000 are on the move and this battle has just started the number of those affected may rise fast. on the turkey syria border. let's hear from matthew bryant the now former u.s. ambassador and white house official now a senior fellow at the atlantic council who explains how the u.s. could actually deescalate this conflict there's a whole menu of sanctions and yes some of them that would target for example the personal finances suppressant are to walk on and defense minister and foreign affairs minister those wouldn't have an impact those i think would just make the turkish leadership angry and probably would bolster public support for their public

support in turkey for the operation if however the united states were to take a actions or sanctions that aimed to damage the turkish economy that could have an impact the turkish economy is fragile we all remember what happened a year ago when the u.s. when president trump issued some tweets and then impose some sanctions against turkey economic ones and the turkish lira collapsed in value but for now president there to one is demonstrating a firm determination to carry on with this with this military incursion. meanwhile protests against the turkish military offensive in taking place around the world as you see here thousands came out in paris kurdish leaders have accused the u.s. of a trail in the kurdish fighters have been america's main allies on the ground in the battle against eisel from paul brennan at that rally the turkish military offensive in northern syria is called particular concern in france and the reason why is because around 150000 turkish people living here that's the 2nd largest got his

community in the diaspora but it's a 2nd only to germany now several 1000 of them turned out just a couple days notice of this protest they told me they are here in the muster a lot of people sleeping on the right one because it's not just because the bodyguards are extremely critical both present at one of the in front of america and they are very concerned these people because many of them have relatives and friends who lost a living in that region that they you know here rush of their kids coming to here inquiries but not on the increase in from europe and i can see all over the world these very roads of what's happening because what's happening will be at the clean sing over there will be a genocide against civilians on the french president's mind on that front it's taken these concerns he had a conversation saturday with the president from for america there which president

michael reiterates is to stop the 2nd offensive. and he said the main fire on the lens reemerging so i still in that region of the older syria for the people here it's the media concern of the humanitarian problems that the circus offensive has created 100000 people who fled their homes on the many relatives and friends as i say people here still very concerned about the future on the sick. now in ecuador protesters of blocks road access to the international airport in the capital quito during a 10 straight to. demonstrations at least 5 people have been killed since the protests began people are angry and you'll stares he mentions introduced by moreno that have led to the highest fuel prices. are now in some of the pictures we're seeing manuel and goodness the fines behind you as well this is not calming down at all. no come all that's exactly right even even after we spoke only

a few hours ago we were we had said that things appear to be intensifying here in the ecuadorian capital that is definitely the case these clashes that we saw take place that started early on friday have again resumed today they've they've they've now spread out the dynamic of these demonstrations as well as the dynamic of the responses heavy handed response from police is changing minute by minute so we've moved away from an area that was more where most of the demonstrations were sort of condensed over the last few days just to get out of the way of any potential harm given that we do know that people have been injured today only a few minutes ago we saw one demonstrator being taken away by paramedics he had been injured sustained an injury to the head there are now pockets of tension all across the city there's water shut off there's power shut off there's no other way to describe the response from authorities that a crackdown against peaceful protesters and what began as an indigenous movement

here i guess austerity measures against an end to decades long fuel subsidies has now grown in do into a call for the resignation of the president we're seeing we're seeing different sectors of society that have joined in these demonstrations so this is no longer just about austerity measures this is no longer just protest against economic policies this is now a call from thousands of people from all across the country for the resignation of the president from office and is there any sort of political process at the moment when well if the protests and. i've already rejected the idea of talks is there anything to move forward with. there was a card from from president letting go to know yesterday on friday calling for a national dialogue saying that he was willing to sit down and indigenous leaders did say that they would be willing. to engage in talks with the office of the president but even with the leadership of the indigenous communities there is

a split not everybody agrees in fact people that we've spoken to here on the site tell us that the situation here is already out of control that this is no longer about protests that they are that they are not willing to dialogue they their motions are high the tensions are high there's a lot of anger there's growing anger and with that going anger there's a growing demand from demonstrators so this is no longer as we mentioned about economic policies this is about a lack of confidence in the government as a whole come up. reporting from quito thank you manuel now at least 2 people have been killed in japan as typhoon haiyan this makes landfall outside tokyo the storm is forecast to be one of the worst on record meteorologists warning of unprecedented rainfall which could lead to floods and mudslides in several prefecture and more than a 1000000 people have also been told to leave their homes reporting from tokyo here's wednesday. before the storm made landfall in japan people living in its path

were urged to take extreme caution and to prepare for the worst because of the damaging winds that it would inevitably bring the heavy rainfall as well that could ultimately lead to widespread flooding in fact forecasters had said that this storm may bring levels of rainfall not seen in japan since a very powerful and devastating typhoon struck tokyo 1958 causing many deaths we've also had millions of people are asked to evacuated and evacuation advisories or evacuation orders many of those people living in areas deemed to be vulnerable to landslides but also in coastal communities where the people are facing multiple threats of course from the strong winds and heavy rain but also the possibility of storm surge and the fact that we are almost in a full moon meaning that the tide may well be

a lot higher than it usually would be and many people living in these coastal areas are still recovering from the last typhoon that struck at the beginning of the last month which caused a lot of damage and resulted in several deaths as well or thirty's taking no chances with the transport systems as well most train services were canceled along with hundreds of flights to and from tokyo's airports. who cover a break on al-jazeera when we come back spain remembering its national day heritage but thousands of separate just don't want the country to forget the tensions between them. mozambique's president makes a case for a 2nd term as campaigning wraps up for an election seen as a test for keeping peace in the country.