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join me as i put the upfront questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. the deal has finally been locked down at the u.n. climate summit however critics say it falls far short of expectations. hello i'm adrian fit again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a warning for the taliban as talks are put on hold again after an attack at an army base in afghanistan. more protests in lebanon's capital as the government considers who will become the next prime minister. yemen's who 3 rebels called for international help after
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a deserted tanker spills oil into the red sea. the u.n. secretary general says he's disappointed with the results of a major international climate summit after the goes here actions in madrid dragged on 2 days past friday's deadline the cop 25 conference ended with only a partial agreement and delayed the most contentious issues until next year al-jazeera as nick clark reports from madrid. it was a relentless log of endless negotiations whole blocks of nations working adults with a seemingly impossible goal of an agreement acceptable to all and when a cold came it was no way near enough for many observers you know i'm not happy i don't think anybody should be happy when you look at the forces outside these halls where people are in the streets it was 8000000 in september you have impacts
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happening from australia to germany and you have science that is becoming more compelling and more and deniable and they invent things that they have predicted are actually more conservative than what we're seeing now i think it's time for real action we can't just rehash what we agreed to 5 years ago. in the year of mass climate protest it's not surprising that direct action found its way into the exhibition holes in madrid given the kinds of that exists between what science says is required to be done and the snail's pace of progress from national delegations the star of the climate movement home did on the science and why is it so important to stay below 1.5 degrees. because even a one degree people are dying from the climate crisis. because those would be united science calls for to avoid the stabilising the climates so that we have the best possible chance to avoid setting up a bit of us to build chain reactions to grab his words had no effect conference it
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should have ended at 6 pm on friday went on through the 9000 to saturday and on into sunday sleep was a scarce commodity but there was an impala save the article 6 part of the text that deals with carbon markets the poorer nations saying they were being cheated by the united states australia saudi and brazil you have the floor. this was because of a vision we are not seeing the ambition all the references to the science is gotten weaker. reference to enhancing the and the seas have gone it seems we prefer to look backward and looking forward we need to address this issue for those who've been part of the global movement calling for action this is been a big disappointment it is really disappointing to see that we had our for you because i believe it's caved in telling us that he was happy about actions and stuff that's pretty awareness for climate change and then we come here and we get
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the opposite of what they say is so disappointing the arguments here in madrid have been relentless and many are now questioning whether this multilateral approach is fit for purpose so in one year's time the crucial climate summit. where national commitments to cut emissions not so much the science otherwise many believe we face runaway climate change. al-jazeera. our number is the c.e.o. of the council on energy environment and a delhi based not for profit research organization he's labeled the comp 25 summit a complete failure. paris agreement 4 years ago got something for everyone this deal is nothing for no one that basically means that we have widened the gap between where we need to be and where we are which increases the pressure for cop 26 next year in law school. once the developed countries start backing down from their commitments it's there's very little trust left that what they're committing
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in future are going to is going to be met so whatever was promised for up to 2020 those agreements have not been have not been verified yet and yet we want that all the major emitters whether developed countries or developing countries have to enhance ambition now this is the disconnect between the lack of action thus far and the expectation that any announcements in future would actually be met whether it is on technology whether it is on finance whether it's on their own actions the developed the developed countries field at the same time i think developing countries major developing countries also need to consider that the climate is rapidly changing they are living in some of the most vulnerable parts of the world and unless they take an abstraction themselves in terms of deployment of renewable energy in terms of mitigating throughout this are the other ways we are going to remain in this. very uncomfortable position the u.s.
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special envoy to afghanistan zalmay khalilzad has issued a warning to the taliban while attending the doha forum in qatar on thursday talks between the u.s. and the taliban were again put on hold after an attack on a u.s. military base north of kabul but has serious mohammad vaal reports now the u.s. is hopeful that peace talks will resume soon. the u.s. envoy to these talks spoken. earlier today in this forum no cameras were allowed so that speech was not recorded and was not transmitted live by the media but he said basically that he basically emitted or issued a warning to the taliban that's one of these warnings that you know regular warnings to the taliban's whenever there is a pick up in the years 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
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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 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 that there is hope of these talks this time around is going to going to go ahead sometime in the near future. or months of u.s. and afghan aerial bombings asserts have severely reduced isis forces military officials say they're learning around half of the group's $4000.00 fighters are thought to be still active across afghanistan but as tony berkeley reports now from one to our province civilians are bearing the brunt of the sustained bombing
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campaign. this is the village of good day in one 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 groups planned 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 at a significantly reduced eyesores capability. 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 they 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
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force is still intact the afghan army has been helped by a string of recent successes against both the taliban and i still do out trying to . do try to stick to beauty's. 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 of from them play create dead. to follow them to lay and there's no question that i still have suffered some major setbacks recently but winter 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
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be harder to defeat is 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 can. be pocketed on 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 $600.00 people including children and will be $300.00 more these angry villagers staged a protest after a recent u.s. bombing killed 20 pine workers who were resting under
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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 in this will if the family lost loved ones including women and children. the wall will eventually come to an end but it's clear there will be no winners tony berkeley al-jazeera province. turkey's foreign minister says that he's been willing to send troops to support libya's internationally recognized government that potentially puts the turks on a collision course with the u.a.e. egypt and others they support warlord holly for hafter who's announced a final offensive to capture the capital tripoli after 8 months of fighting on the outskirts turkey which is already supplied militarized drones and other weaponry signed a military cooperation agreement last week and i saw them r.t. is the general director of the subject institute
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a think tank focusing on libyan affairs he says that other players like nato will be forced to act if turkey sends troops but certainly complicates the relationship between turkey and later and then libya because if turkey doesn't even into libya which is now kind of on the cards given president against remarks last week that he said if the invited him to come into libya that that he would send turkish troops pending parliamentary approval i suppose that really does put the the fact that if turkey was to be involved in military conflict in libya that nato would have to come on board and so i suppose that really does going to jeopardize the moves there but there is already a complex relationship between the. russians and the turks and the us because turkey has been procuring defense systems from from russia and is always almost on the verge of being sanctioned by the us for doing so but it seems like they're going ahead regardless of the spot any of the of the consequences but it certainly puts the g.n.a.t. now in a position where boy with a aaa backed government the un backed government in
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a position that i never thought it would be in which is that turkey is really doing the job of the un security council who brought the government in tripoli into existence but has refused for the past 8 months to defend. a weather update next here on al-jazeera than anti-government activists in chile may get at least one of the atom bombs after violent protests that left at least 26 people dead. by. law i because it's probably the heaviest carbon footprint that we create as individuals and how one man's on such a saving the world is keeping everyone's feet on the ground. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast what we are going to be seeing a mix of weather coming into play here across much of the levant we have
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a system that has made its way in from the mediterranean now on monday that system pushes in towards the southeast so we're going to see a mix of rain and in the higher elevations it will be snow baghdad in $1000.00 coate city it is going to be rain and thunderstorms potentially and you notice that line of snow right there along the higher elevations of parts of iraq ends well as into iran for tehran though it is going to be a mix of weather a few of the next few days we do expect to see monday a cloudy day for you by the time we get towards tuesday temps has come down to about 10 a lot of rain in the forecast but by the time we get towards wednesday things are improving with the temperature few of about 11 degrees here across the gulf expect much of the same we're going to be seeing widespread rain across the region now off and on rain here in doha but we do think the heaviest rain over the next few days will be over here a little bit more towards the east into iran potentially we could be seeing some localized flooding as well for doha here on tuesday it is going to be a cloudy day with a temperature of $23.00 degrees and then across the southern part of africa things
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are drying out quite nicely the satellite is not showing too much in terms of rain but in terms of temperature we're going to be seeing johannesburg at $27.00 in durban a $22.00. a dramatic yet the donald trump ends with impeachment threatening his presidency no one not even the president is a vote what next for the man hoping to win a 2nd term in power in 2020 impeachment inquiries a scam join us for the latest developments on al-jazeera.
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and again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the bay news this hour the u.n. secretary general antonio the terror says that he's disappointed by the outcome of the climate summit it ended with a partial agreement to improve current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but the commitments will only be presented at next year's meeting. the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan has issued a warning to the taliban while attending the doha forming on thursday talks between the u.s. and the taliban were again put on hold after a u.s. military base north of kabul was attacked and turkey's foreign minister says that he'd be willing to send troops to support libya's internationally recognized government that could put the turks on a collision course with the u.a.e. egypt and others they support of all of the 4 hafta has announced
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a final offensive to capture the capital tripoli. out of the process is underway right now in lebanon's capital that follows a night of violence on saturday at a rally in beirut several people were injured after security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds riot police. beach and detained some protest as they tried to break into a barricaded area police have been protecting people while they have been protesting because they are angry over corruption and sectarianism correspondent dana holder is in central beirut where the test is continuing their call for a complete change of government. for a few 1000 people are now gathered outside arguments where the same place really where the security confrontations happened 24 hours ago this really is a message of defiance on behalf of the people they're chanting revolution 'd the revolution our struggle will continue they're also chanting so hard and they're
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making reference to the speaker of parliament and maybe 30 his parliamentary police they were the ones who engaged in really confrontations with protesters late on sunday running battles downtown beirut this whole area it was a battleground security forces used tear gas rubber bullets a water cannons to push people away these people anti-political establishment protesters they've been in the streets now for 2 months demanding that those in power the political elite leave office their quotes are not being heard but people here are saying you're not going to break our will you are not going to break our determination because what we've seen really in the past few days is the security forces using more force than usual we saw it play out on live television yesterday how security personnel were beating up the one protester 3 or 4 security personnel hitting and on protesters so people are here to show defiance and to so
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determination that they will continue but like i mentioned those in power are showing no signs that they intend to leave office cheney is taking another important step on his pasta creating a new constitution it's holding us. series of non-binding vote before a possible referendum next year it was one of the protesters demands after demonstrations began in october 26 people were killed in those demonstrations the moment binding ballots are being held at the municipal level at last she lends to rank that top 3 priorities for constitutional reform are less in america is illusory uneven as in santiago and says that although the vote is symbolically strong it will take more to motivate real change from the government. nobody believes that this alone will do it it could ease some of the tensions and it could add least help those who can make the of the decision making process in their hands
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in other words the government and the law makers take a path that reflects what people really want this is i say is a grass roots the solution it's a grass roots movement people at the municipal level will say what is it that they want not what the government's thinks or interprets that they want and this is being done online it's very interesting most people are voting with their smartphones. polities like this one which is in a working class neighborhood are coming here because there are people who are going to help them do it online their computers hear from some of the elderly or some of the younger people who may not have a working phone etc but this is really going to have a moral impact and a political impact on what lawmakers do from now until april and in the meantime we expect that there will continue to be demonstrations bolivia's to post president obama dollars faces arrest if he returns home his replacement the interim president and then said that brown has had to answer for his crimes and that an arrest
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warrant would be soon issued he's been granted asylum by argentina to 1st fleeing to mexico last month. india's home minister says that he's willing to discuss suggestions for changes to the new citizenship more following days of protests the u.s. the u.k. of issued travel advisories for northeastern states where at least 5 protesters have been killed the more allows minorities from neighboring countries who are facing persecution to apply for citizenship but muslims are excluded how serious a hill raman is in assam which is the epicenter of unrest against the more. various civic society leaders have taken to the stage in hearty on sunday to discuss and to talk about the issue of the citizenship had been been act it's brought out the people as you can see in the thousands here to one of the largest grounds in the city of 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
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internet blackout communication has quite restricted these past few days of the world we're seeing here today on sunday a problem syngas an artist taking to the stage and also paintings being done by local artists to. make sure that everybody who remembers what being a hospital is actually is 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 or we don't want to harm the heart of many people coming here who go out and harness this big this monster to something else here and just infiltrate our 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 ground single
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hardly and of course is an opportunity for the community had to meet each other certainly after days of the internet shut down in the polls 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 to civic society leaders are saying that the pressure will be continued continue to put the pressure on the government when it comes to the citizens abandonment act not happy with it they feel that legalizing illegal immigration into india of other . minority groups will dilute the very. culture that they want to protect here. obviously this has resonated in different ways across the country and even demonstrations from. delhi they will. continue in the week ahead but the focus will be west bengal. yemen's internationally
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recognized government says that some people on its wanted list of the scaped with the help of u.a.e. backed forces the airport on the yemeni island of sequential was stormed by the support of troops who then took off with those who wanted by the authorities the governor of the islands said the plane had been cleared to land by the control tower the u.a.e. 1st deployed troops to the island in april its presence there has fueled protests and divided residents who the rebels in yemen up are appealing for international assistance is an abandoned tanker off the country's coast leaks fuel into the red sea but the who thiis and yemen's government claim ownership of the vessel and its cargo of more than 1000000 barrels of oil mohammed a top reports from sun are. another casualty of your man's war the floating of the northern coast is leaking fuel into the red sea there are 1200000
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barrels on board and hold these which one of the diesel are loaded are appealing for international help but. 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 on a spill could have a lasting impact on the marine environment. the gulf of the red sea has to unique kinds of mangrove that did 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 over us was 1st targeted by the saudi. in 2016 when anna termed was made to a low the shipment of oil workers were killed the poor was part of
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a again in november 21000 the ship's been deteriorating ever. 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. is on our. the wife of the vice president of zimbabwe as per rested on charges of money laundering and fraud mary. is the wife of vice president constantino and is also charged with violating exchange control regulations she was arrested on saturday and is expected to appear in court on monday is accused of funneling at least $1000000.00 through china and south africa
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a major earthquake has hit the southern philippines the same area struck by tremors in october a magnitude $6.00 quake was centered on the province one child is reported to have died when a wall collapsed buildings are reported to crumple trapping people in the rubble no tsunami warning was issued electricity supplies have been disrupted and damage assessments are underway world leaders and delegates who were flew to madrid for the u.n. climate summit have been criticized for leaving a huge carbon footprint thousands of people worldwide have joined a movement to avoid flying it's all to do with raising awareness of troubles contributions to climate change one inspired by climate activist gretta totenberg ben moss is part of that growing movement to stay out of the sky is. i'm 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
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back to our yard we clean it up in the cellar and we make stuff out of it in the workshop. 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 chosen to minimize my flying over the years i definitely feel passionate about not flying the journey on the battle to take or leave bristol tonight 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 some pancras and i'll get on the $540.00 train to paris or change at paris to paris montparnasse i'll get on the t.g.v. to i will i will change at arsenal and i will go to and i arrive in the south of
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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 that is on a plane. flights are so cheap and maddens me it's so much cheaper to fly places than 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 whereby 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 year ago i also recognize that there is a bigger issue within society and no one wants to take a step forward unless everyone takes a step forward together the actions of individuals have impacts beyond what we
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might initially perceive. what. travel very little. there's plenty more video along with the latest news analysis and links to our programs at the web site take a look at al-jazeera dot com. good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in the headlines and i was here at the u.n. secretary general antonio says that he's disappointed by the outcome of this year's climate change it ended with a partial deal despite marathon negotiations countries at the cop $25.00 meeting agreed to improve their current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but the new commitments only be presented at next year's meeting that clock is in madrid and says the world leaders decided to take whatever they could get for now. given
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the 46 of indecision and national difference in these talks very much with the threat of collapse that many people will take what we have right now remember this is all about building ambition for 2020 when the paris agreement mechanism takes full flight and in theory mabel's nations around the world 'd to work together to fight climate change. the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan has issued a warning to the taliban while attending the doha forum in qatar on thursday talks between the u.s. and the taliban were again put on hold after a u.s. military base north of kabul was attacked. turkey's foreign minister says that he'd be willing to send troops to support libya's internationally recognized government that potentially puts the turks on a collision course with the u.a.e. egypt and others they support the warlord holly for hafta who's announced a final offensive to capture the capital tripoli turkey which is already supplied
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militarized drones and other weaponry signed a military cooperation agreement last week and other protesters on the way right now in lebanon's capital it follows a night of violence and a rally in beirut on saturday several people were injured after security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds people have been protesting because they're angry over corruption and sectarianism chile is taking another important step on its path to creating a new constitution it's holding a series of non-binding votes before possible referendum next year it was one of the protesters demands after demonstrations began in october the non-binding ballots asked to ensure to rank the top 3 priorities for constitutional reform more news here on our 0 after inside story next.
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u.s. politicians say democrats should fear the election results in votes and they're warning any candidate to fonts of the left could face the same defeat as the u.k.'s opposition labor leader jeremy corbett but is this really true what lessons can the u.s. draw from the vote across the atlantic this is insight story. hello there a very warm welcome to the program i'm julia mcdonald well the style of the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson is frequently compared to that of us president dilma trump the johnsons want to resign doing that so we in the u.k.'s latest general
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