2 days past the deadline for a climate deal there are deep divisions at the u.n. conference in madrid that might slow progress. hello once again from doha everyone i'm kemal sons of the ria this is the world news from al-jazeera there is a warning for the taliban as talks are put on hold again after an attack at an army base in afghanistan. also yemen's heard the rebels call for international help after a deserted tanker spills all into the red sea. and after days of violent protests india's home minister says he is open to discussions on the

country's controversial citizenship law. while millions of protested across the world calling for urgent action but the united nations climate change talks in madrid making pretty slow progress mired in deep division the cup 25 meeting is now nearly 2 days past its deadline countries were deadlocked over emissions targets and how much money poorer countries should be getting to cope with climate change the u.s. brazil australia india and china have been blamed for stalling talks one of the sticking points is the concept of a global carbon markets. that would mean those who exceed their pollution levels by their credits for those who don't have also been marches worldwide

throughout the past 2 weeks by those i'm happy with the state of talks on saturday members of the group extinction rebellion dumped horse manure outside the conference to air their frustrations i don't know why they're afraid to stand up to. the world who are destroying the amazon and the donald trump's of the world that are pulling out of paris what is happening here is mind boggling and absolutely unprecedented on the extra day off talks then issues where you divergence from parties across the board this is set for a collapse. and we all return to that story a little later right now one of look at the talks between the taliban and the u.s. which have again been put on hold that is after an attack on a u.s. military base north of kabul on weapon state and the man who's been leading the

talks for the americans has warned the taliban against the violence but is mom of all reports that is hopeful as well the peace talks will resume soon. the u.s. envoy to these talks spoke a bit to earlier today in this forum no cameras were allowed so that speech was not a record of that was not transmitted life by the media but he said basically that here basically any today or issued a warning to the taliban that's one of these warnings that you know regular warning to the taliban's whenever there is a pickup in these talks this time around it seems to be a measure to the attack that was a far cry from the attack in september in which several soldiers were killed this one would be to civilians were killed days ago so he said we are watching taliban and we are watching their behavior and these talks depend on the behavior by the taliban afghanistan has changed there are many parties plea in their conflict in

afghanistan and taliban have to know that they have to behave if they want these talks to succeed so he gave that warning but i said it is measured it's very clear that my this time around seems to be willing to understand that there could be problems of coordination between the leadership here that is negotiating in doha and some of the field commanders who give orders for attacks inside afghanistan and . the overall picture of things here is not there is hope of these talks this time around i'll go to i'm going to go ahead sometime in the near future. in addition to that of a month's of u.s. and afghan aerial bombings which is said to have severely reduced i saw forces in fact military officials say only around half of the group's $4000.00 fighters are thought to still be active across afghanistan but as tony burley reports now from province civilians are the ones facing the brunt of the sustained bombing campaign

. this is the village of good day in a province close to the pakistan border it was the stronghold of i still in afghanistan now it's a ruin destroyed by u.s. bombs it was so here that the armed group. and and launched attacks and carried out brutal punishments but over the last few months the u.s. and afghan air forces have waged a sustained bombing campaign that has significantly reduced eyesores capability washtub. the joint campaign with the us has been big and effective it has been a game changer and will continue wherever they are we will target them i saw is in the process of being eradicated we won't stop until we are. that contrast with the situation 6 months ago when i saw all bolstered by fighters from iraq and syria was being described as a serious threat 2 weeks ago hundreds of its fighters surrendered to the afghan government in action district now it's estimated that only half of the 4000 strong force is still intact the afghan army has been helped by

a string of recent successes against both the taliban and i still do not trying to . do try to stick to varieties. to explore didn't and the city cost more civilian casualty and. now reprove. we have the spall to kick them like we did to take more territory and from them play creed dead in to follow them to the end there's no question that i still have suffered some major setbacks recently but when to side with its lack of ground cover is normally the time when it reduces its activities so spring time will be the test for the government can't fully focus on defeating i saw it's a war with the taliban is over it may be losing but i saw as hardline ideology may be harder to defeat it's supported by other like minded afghan groups such as the

seller fees and what they're not completely eliminated but the progress is remarkable which which makes sense and for a long a few you have. what we. have be pocketing a one a stone and be difficult to say that they have been completely eliminated the u.s. is trying its best it is on course to drop more bombs this year than any year since 2010 some believe it's to bring the war to an end before next year's u.s. presidential election but it's costing civilian casualties according to u.n. agencies so far this year american bombers and unmanned drone strikes have killed a record number of 600 people including children and wounded 300 more these angry villagers staged a protest after a recent u.s. bombing killed 20 pine knot workers who were resting under a tree. it's the rural communities that are suffering the most in the bombing and

fighting. broke with this but our villages destroyed our mosques destroyed other villages as well we lost our people our livestock them as well every family lost loved ones including women and children. the war will eventually come to an end but it's clear there will be no winners tony berkeley al jazeera our province. as far as will go back to our top story the last ditch push for a deal at the u.n. climate talks in madrid that's when the clock is for us now next not uncommon for these sorts of talks to go right down to the wire but this one's in over time effectively and everything that was achieved 4 years ago in paris it seems a long time ago. it certainly does and we're close to a day and i think they're still talking but i think we're close you never want to call these things too early but it's you know the closing plenary is going on that

governing through all the various decisions so we're hopeful that the chile madrid time for action deal is close to fruition which is a rather laughing laughing title given the time it's taken to get to this point now remember that this was all about trying to raise ambition for the big summit next year when all the nations to be inspired to come to the table to bring in holland's climate plans to take us forward and to bring to give wings if you like to the paris agreement and to close the gap between what science says is needed and the reality of where we're at with global warming let's take this only to speak to one publisher or so you know who's with the head of delegation say what you make of what's happened i think we are indeed close to a deal on a disappointing deal indeed i think we're only recalling what people or what countries agreed to in the paris agreement and there is no agreement on the markets which for us it's a good thing because we're against offsets marcus was that was the article 6 the

infamous all school 6 that the infamous article 6 which countries are pronouncing going to hell is just now inside the plenary and the reason we don't like of science is because we need absolute emission reductions right now there's no space to you know lower emissions here to sell them up here and then reach at a level we need the whole level to go down as fast and as much as possible so i say that tricky part the article 6 that is effectively going to be booted down the road by the sounds of it it's been putting the band the road so the question is when until when do they need to reach a decision is it by june next year is a good buy glasgow and what are they going to take from what they decided here into those conversations is it going to be the whole thing that they've been discussing are they only going to say ok we'll start from the last point that we all agreed on and. and fixed on that so it could be bigger it could be lower so given that these talks nearly disappeared into a spiral of national differences are you happy now no absolutely not i mean if you look at the 8000000 people on the streets in september they were asking for more

actions if you look at the undeniable science that is telling calling this a climate emergency and if you also inform she see how the impacts are becoming mars more severe they're becoming more frequent and people are suffering what you need is action now we were expecting countries to come in and say look we're going to do more we're going to listen to the people on the streets we've got the science we want to take care of the people suffering for the impacts and this is what we're ready to do so not only saying that they will recommit or increase their commitments but show what they're doing right now so what's going wrong here and who's to blame i think what's gone wrong on the one hand you have a very weak presidency which was a chileans and they really didn't manage the whole thing in the most the smoothest way possible that's why we are at what is it 12 pm on a sunday getting that's what it is and it might be until 3 or 4 who knows and on the other hand you have big countries that are in the pockets of fossil fuel industry that are not allowing and in any invasion to come through all right really

with that thanks very much indeed juan pablo's season for you greenpeace say they're still talking we hopefully will be able to bring you news of a completely deal a little bit later go to good night and the clock at the top 25 in madrid. the rebels in yemen are appealing for international assistance as an abandoned tank off the country's coast leaks fuel into the red sea but the hoodies and yemen's government claim ownership of the vessel and its cargo more than a 1000000 barrels of oil mohamed a lot of reports from sanaa. another casualty of your man's war the floating of the northern coast is leaking fuel into the red sea there are 1200000 barrels on board and hold these which one of the diesel are loaded are appealing for international help. if the leakage continues the problem will be beyond the capability of the world community to blame the saudi that aggression on our country

as they have refused to allow us to unload the shipment and pay the monthly salaries of public employees as agreed to in the sweden peace accord there are fears the ship could erode and explode and experts are warning that are going to always spill could have a lasting impact on the marine environment that. the gulf of the red sea has to unique kinds of mangrove that do not exist in any place around the world the oil will block the sunlight from reaching sea plants including coral reefs and other fish. the poor of rice was 1st targeted by the saudi. in 2016 when anna turned was made to elude the shipment of oil workers were killed the poor was private again in november 21000 the ship has been deteriorating ever so. both sides claim their control of the tanker and there is a battle over who profits from its oil fuel is in short supply and is disparate

really needed not all the forecasts but also for water pumps hospital generators and even to transport goods all around the country. bob or so on our. china has suspended its tariffs on u.s. exports which were supposed to start on sunday u.s. cars corn and wheat would all of been affected the decision was made after the world's top 2 economies announced phase one of a deal aimed at ending their 2 year trade war the us government's also suspended its plans to impose further tariffs on chinese products. we'll update the headlines in a moment then the injury list grows during protests over corruption in lebanon. by . law i because it's probably the heaviest carbon footprint that

we create as individuals. we'll meet one person is definitely doing his bit for the environment in his own unique way. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast well not looking too bad here across much of north asia as we begin the week you can see here on the satellite image not a lot of clouds over parts of japan we're going to be seeing some cooler temperatures though here in sendai at about 7 degrees there tokyo at 12 but we are watching a system out here across northeastern china making its way across the korean peninsula as we go from monday and into tuesday so a lot of snow to the north a lot of rain starts to develop here across much of japan as we go towards tuesday osaka it is going to be a chilly day and a wet day few with the temperature there about 13 degrees well not too bad here

across china we're going to be seeing more clouds though develop up towards to north so for shanghai your temperatures have come up we're going to expect to see about $21.00 degrees there as we go towards monday but it will be coming down with the rain in the forecast often and we do think with the tempter of 16 on coming though it is going to be a cloudy day and $25.00 degrees for you and then very quickly over here towards india it is going to continue to rain across much of the south you can see all the rain showers pushing up towards chennai as well as bengaluru for colombo the rain is going to continue as well we could be seeing a cloudy and rainy day there at $31.00 but for new delhi it is going to be a little cooler with a temperature of $1000.00 degrees for you. our planet is warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth but the world's leading scientists say there is still time to act planet s.o.f.

sets out the facts and the science behind the issues affecting our planet. and brings you what people across the globe doing to time the crisis around. on al-jazeera. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera a u.n. climate talks in madrid are making slow progress talks at the summit have dragged on for more than 36 hours past the deadline been protests by activists just outside the venues where. china has suspended tariffs on u.s. exports which was supposed to start on sunday u.s.

calls of corn and wheat would have all been affected a decision which comes days after the world's 2 top economies announced phase one of the deal to end a 2 year trade war. the rebels in yemen are appealing for international assistance says an abandoned oil tanker off the coast leaks fuel into the red sea. and yemen's government claim ownership of the vessel and that's more than $1000000.00 barrels of oil. also yemen's internationally recognized government says some people on they wanted list have fled the country with the help of the u.a.e. backed forces the airport and the yemeni island osa cut throat was stormed by the troops who then took off with those wanted by authorities the governor of the islands said the plane had not been cleared by the control tower the u.a.e. itself 1st deployed troops to the island in april and its presence there is fuel protests and divided residence several protesters have been injured in lebanon's

capital after security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds on saturday people remain angry over endemic corruption and sectarianism so hundreds gathered in beirut as part of the latest anti-government demonstration riot police beat and detained some protesters after they tried to break into a barricaded area more from their hotel in beirut he says saturday's violence was one of the most serious confrontations between government and protesters since the unrest began 2 months ago. it was some of the worst violence if not the most violent confrontation since the start of the uprising against the ruling elite 2 months ago we saw running battles last for hours this area downtown beirut became a battleground the anti political establishment protesters try to make their way towards parliament building both sides are accusing each other of instigating the violence the security forces are saying that the protesters tried to break through

the security cordon around the parliament building what we saw the security forces do is use rubber bullets tear gas water cannons to disperse the crowds at the same time the protesters were throwing stones at the security forces according to the lebanese red cross the nearly 50 people were injured they were taken to hospital for treatment so serious such confrontations that if you talk to protesters they'll tell you that they feel in the past few days the security forces the lebanese army they've changed their tactics they're becoming more aggressive in their behavior towards the protest movement so many people here are asking is there a decision by the ruling elite to crush the protest movement altogether to continue to use this excessive force we know that a mass rally has been called later this afternoon of people from across the country are expected to converge here in downtown beirut it will be interesting to see whether or not there will be a large turnout which really will show you whether or not this movement is able to

keep the momentum in the face of these intimidations what the people want is for a government of independence the ruling elite to leave power and this new government to hold early elections to fix the dire state of the economy at people are losing jobs unemployment is on the rise but the response so far from the political elite is they have been bargaining amongst each other on dividing spoils in the upcoming government. police in hong kong have made arrests and use pepper spray against protesters at shopping malls in the city a small number of pro democracy excuse me pro-democracy demonstrators took part in the so-called christmas shopping rallies stores and at least one more closed after police stormed the building the territory's seen months of anti-government protests demonstrations 1st began over an extradition bill which was later scrapped but protests have since widened to call for more democratic rights

now india's home minister says he is willing to discuss suggestions for changes to the new citizenship law after days of protests the u.s. and the u.k. have issued travel advisories for northeastern states where at least 5 protesters were killed the law allows minorities from neighboring countries who are facing persecution to apply for indian citizenship however muslims have been excluded. raman now in assam where a curfew is due to cut back into force shortly. various civic duty society leaders have taken to the stage in a hearty on sunday to discuss and to talk about the issue of the citizenship and amendment act it's brought out the people as you can see in the thousands here to one of the largest grounds in the city for an opportunity for many of the community here who had very little chance to talk to each other because of not only that yeardley but only because of the internet blackout communication has quite

restricted these past few days of the world we're seeing here today on sunday a problem in syngas an artist taking to the stage and also paintings being done by local artists to. make sure that everybody who remembers what we're being has a listen actually of a horrible horrible husbands and wives families children and a whole range of demographics including a group of bikers i spoke to earlier one of them told me why it was so we're told to come out in numbers to express their anger or legal piece of legislation that they totally disagree her we don't want to harm the heart of anybody who's got me here who go on this this big this monster to something i said to her and just in fear to know who's on 1st person or someone who are going to come. close to our hearts to see this is ok as far as going on that has i have ever seen one on one on the light hearted party atmosphere continues here at one of the main grounds single

at the end of course is an opportunity for the community had to meet each other certainly after days of the internet shut the course people are taking to the stage here a very popular performers hence the volume of people you can see have many hundreds to hear them sing and speak and of course those that are taking to the microphone a civic society leaders are saying the pressure will be continued continue to put the pressure on the government when it comes to the citizens abandonment act i'm not happy with it they feel that legalizing illegal immigration into india of other . minority groups will dilute the very make. culture that they want to protect here . obviously this has resonated in different ways across the country and even on sunday we saw demonstrations from ross struck to be far from caroline. and they will pass that to continue in the week ahead but the focus will be west bengal.

some analysis now from. the who is the deputy editor of the wire a news website based in india she told us the citizenship bill is actually read knighting issues surrounding violence that are up to 3 decades ago in our. consular sam you know it's a didn't i lucian of sam mccord of 985 i must say it was a very violent kind of energy efficient you know against. migrants who had crossed from bangladesh you know without documents seoul so this was some sort of a closure for the people there would be the crosses there never will fulfil the soul but then when you try to tinker with that you know you are actually setting up and this is what we saw in the sun and the people feel that you 1971 we're going to come up and been accepted here have been accepted under this court so a lot of money government is trying to do is actually give more and misty

a deal about a deal 20 december 24 d. to their hindu people who will cross flawlessly after 970 due to some that we differ but if you are a muslim then of course you are an illegal so this is what is just. supporters of me and mars the leader have welcomed her home from the genocide hearings at the international criminal court or shipping prize by many at home on sun suchi has come under criticism for her defense of the military at the hague the nobel peace prize winner and denied the torture mass rape and killings of the ring of muslim minority around 3 quarters of a 1000000 of whom fled the military offensive 2 years ago 6 to overcrowded camps in bangladesh a major earthquake has shaken the southern philippines in the same area struck by tremors in october the magnitude $6.00 quake was in devout province at least one

child's reported killed when a wall collapsed and other buildings are reported to have crumbled trapping people in the rubble no tsunami warning issued but electricity supplies are disrupted and damage assessments are underway. police in new zealand have confirmed a 16th person has died from injuries in monday's volcanic eruption specialists who are in protective clothing returned to white island on sunday but so far failed to find the last 2 missing bodies scientists say the possibility of a 2nd eruption has receded but the island is still volatile. finally back to climate change and thousands of people worldwide have joined in a movement to avoid flying it's all to do with raising awareness of air travel's contribution to climate change one inspired by the climate activists activist group the turn book and moss as part of that growing movement to stay out of the skies.

and ben i live in bristol and i choose not to fly i am a wood recycler we collect wood waste from whoever is throwing it away we bring it back to our yard we clean up and we make stuff in the workshop with us i don't fly because it's probably the heaviest carbon footprint that we create as individuals. global warming and our diversity loss are exacerbated by flying i've chosen to minimize my flying over the years i definitely feel passionate about not flying the journey i'm about to take a leave bristol to ny on a train from bristol temple meads to london i'll travel across london stay with my brother in brixton tomorrow morning i will take a bus to london from pancras and i'll get on the 540 train to paris i will change

it paris to paris montparnasse i'll get on the t.g.v. to i will i will change or agile and i will go to oshkosh and i arrive or ocean in the south of france at about 4 in the afternoon i don't have a problem with a long journey as long as it's comfortable and definitely have a problem with the long journey there is on a plane flights are so cheap and that maddens me it's so much cheaper to fly places and take the train i have some remorse about the fact that japan seems like a long way away. but these are also products of a culture where by we think it's some kind of entitlement that we should be able to see all these places. more people are. aligning with me i feel less alone than i did say a year ago i also recognize that there is

a bigger issue within society of no one wants to take a step forward unless everyone takes a step forward together the actions of individuals have impact beyond what we might initially perceive. what do i miss about air travel very little. half past the hour on al-jazeera will take you through the headlines now u.n. climate talks in madrid still making slow progress talks at the summit have dragged on for more than 36 hours past the deadline the u.s. brazil strayer india and china have all been blamed for stalling the talks one of the sticking points is the concept of a global carbon market which would made those who exceed their allowed pollution levels can then buy credits from those who don't have also been protests by activists just outside the venue in the headlines china has suspended tariffs on u.s. exports which were supposed to start on sunday u.s.

cars corn and wheat would all of been affected this decision comes days after the world's top 2 economies announced phase one of a deal to end their 2 year trade war hutu rebels in yemen are appealing for international assistance as an abandoned or oil tanker off the coast to leaks fuel into the red sea but the who tees and yemen's government claim ownership of the vessel and its more than $1000000.00 barrels of oil also with yemen the internationally recognized government says some people on their wanted list of fled the country with the help of u.a.e. backed forces the airport in the yemeni island of sokoto was stormed by the troops who then took off with those wanted by authorities the u.a.e. 1st deployed troops to the island in april their presence there is fueled protests to divided residents. several protesters have been injured in lebanon's capital after security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds on

saturday people are angry democrat corruption and sectarianism hundreds gathered in beirut as part of the latest anti-government demonstration and riot police beat and detained some of them after they tried to break into a barricaded area and india's home minister says he is willing to discuss the justin's for changes to the new citizenship more following days of protests the u.s. and the u.k. have issued travel advisories for northeastern states released 5 protesters were killed a small will allow minorities from neighboring countries to apply for indian citizenship however muslims have been excluded that's me for today thank you for your company planet s.o.s. is up next.

hello are next well bringing you the planets as well as from madrid in spain for the u.n. climate talks with thousands of politicians and then it seems that trying to agree on how to deal with the pressing issues of climate change. principally all to the question how to cut greenhouse gas emissions and how to do it radically and fairly what it says what's been achieved and we'll look ahead to next year which is when the powers agreement that all nations signed up to 4 years ago kicks in. i will ask how much value there really is a huge conference it's a 1000.