they're not a party to that craig's comedically apartment. when i finally get to that place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used for even the society fending for themselves. to give me satisfaction. after a long night of wrangling leaders agree to a much more ambitious a mission's cut 55 percent by the end of the decade. i know there are more a kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a u.s. government panel endorses the use of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine in another big

step towards a mass inoculation campaign. anticipation builds months pro-abortion rights supporters in argentina with a vote imminent on legalizing terminations. and another deal brokered by outgoing u.s. president donald trump morocco becomes the 4th arab nation to normalize relations with israel. european union leaders meeting at a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade the reduction compared to $990.00 levels is seen as a big step up from the previous goal cattle as chief research scientists strain has come well scientific and industrial research organization or c s i all road he explains why that agreement is necessary for the e.u.

. first of all yes we have these big drop which in a way can help us to you know try to as we recover recover differently but it's important to understand that you emissions have been already coming in for almost 2 decades very slowly but very consistently and really as a result of various structural energy system change in which you know coal has been dropped constantly renewable energies have been growing really fast and so these days in a way they're kind of banking on these investment that they've been doing over the last 20 years and also see perhaps an opportunity even economically to really become a green power in the wall of new technology and services the challenge is that this is not just jazz about how far as you can to be decarbonising the energy system but this is a challenge in which the entire european economy needs to be part of it

is about what the current is in the energy system it is about in a making the use of energy much more efficiently that we have actually done in the past. a massive vaccination program is a step closer in the us off to a pile of advisors told regulations that pfizer is vaccine as safe and effective at pave the way for the shot to be authorized in a country that's lost almost 290000 lives a covert 19 call haying reports were part of the group and. it was at times a little hard to understand but that may have been the point to let the thousands of people watching the f.d.a. meeting know that they did their homework this was an independent panel of scientists and doctors going on line and in essence putting the pfizer vaccine on trial hour and hour of testimony against the frightening backdrop of. coppa death

in the us and at the made at about $55.00 about death like every month over the next few months in the end after more than 8 hours of testimony the panel voted to we do have a. urging the food and drug administration to authorize the use of the 1st vaccine that is shown to be highly effective at immunizing people against the virus once final approval is given almost $3000000.00 doses of the vaccine will be shipped out for immediate delivery within days health care providers and residents and long term care facilities will be given the 1st doses it won't be enough to stop the case counts rising along with a record number of americans who are now dying every day while health care workers are begging people to take the virus seriously we're exhausted we are exhausted and there will be no care for your family members if just continue goggles and 95

we can not have a drink of water for hours we are so it didn't hi dana. you know and we're doing everything for ip sions because we know that they cannot see their family. but in much of the country many elected leaders are also not taking steps to stop the spread restaurants bars even bowling alleys remain open to the public and with hospitals filling up health experts are warning they may have to start rationing care basically deciding who can get treatment and who can't fight or says once it gets the approval it expects to be able to produce around $50000000.00 doses by the end of this year the one hopeful sign for a country in a terrifying fight one that right now it appears to be losing. al-jazeera marilyn's. thank you back now to our top story the e.u. agreement to cut a missions by at least 55 percent by the end of this decade and paul brennan joins

us live from brussels so paul his commitment i mean it quote a climate scientists by surprise how difficult was it to reach consensus on this tale. the biggest obstacle was persuading poland i'm hearing from inside the building over my shoulder poland has been one of those countries well 1st of all because it depend so heavily on coal so any movements away from the. towards cuts in carbon emissions impacts poland particularly so it was holding out for a couple of specific issues 1st of all that carbon emissions reductions would be linked to g.d.p. and therefore the poorer countries in the european block would have to cut less than some of the richer countries. and 2nd of all the public will be guaranteed access to some of the e.u. transition funding now the reason why it went late since of the night in fact it was 3 am when i went to bed and they still haven't got an agreement so i was

holding out hoping to hear agreements overnight and the reason why it went so late is because the other countries felt. that if they agreed to poland's demands that would tie the hands of the european policymakers who have to actually come up with a written policy to deliver this. they managed to come up with a compromise and so it will now actually go forward and be presented at the un climate virtual summit which takes place on saturday but yeah it's a big vision it would have been 40 percent reduction by the end of this decade by 2030 it's now gone right up to $55.00 so it's it puts the european union as a world leader as far as i'm bush and bush is climate change policies go and they're hoping to be net 0 by the year 2050 so you can see there's a lot of political capital being invested in climate. at this summit.

to be some time delegates meeting today the 2nd day of the 2 day summit but plenty more still to discuss what's on the agenda. what if they can keep their eyes open banking union is kind of on the agenda today but mostly it's only really a half day. despite that around lunchtime i will have the closing statement somewhere around 1 o'clock pm local. sorry a busy couple of days here in europe of course of the late night every 3 of us live on the land boris johnson bouncing straight into this 2 day summit and unexpectedly late night last night so i think they'll be glad to go back to the host countries. ok paul brennan many thanks indeed for joining us that from brussels. i was seeing some pictures from argentina from aries of protesters who have also

been up all night hours on the streets hoping for a result in their harlem and snore makers are discussing whether or not to legalize abortion in the country let's cross over to to raise a bushies about in amongst the protesters interests are it's 6 am in the morning people steadfastly staying out on the streets but what's happening inside parliament. lacerated least 2 hours of the vote its own people yes i've been waiting for now you have been the world eating lunch of this is a baby that is currently happening i don't know how much we're told but as old as the men are this is in the lower crime where the government started out just lucky that they were to have enough of votes in order for the legalization of operation to pass the law where you know you got a view of the t.v. difference sure but when you talk to people here when you talk to the women said are here to tell you about why legal are you holding this fundraiser this in.

$500590.00 not every year thousands of was then socks off it allows the host of the baltic asian football shuffle when they go to hospital if. they're afraid of law into prison or the illegality of trouble tonight is in the forces agreement. naturism dr creflo government funded that this is a matter of working coasting lives alone is really trying to figure out if you didn't know that you have read actually this is our. lawmakers that you have only told the word repeat is not the sectors of the times are to say that our collection is like a what's not and that's why i didn't have a ship i have a fancy for it is imported from new york this woman. that it's not their fault. is that it's. ok to raise

a many thanks for the updates will cross back to as and when we get a vote many thanks. now prominent hong kong pro-democracy activists and media tycoon jimmy lie is being charged under the controversial security law that was imposed on the city by beijing the allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces lies already in jail after being denied bail over a separate matter pollen has more from hong kong. it's a very serious charges facing and if found guilty he could get up to a life time in prison the as a number of cases already against him and several other charges including fraud for which he is currently in jail as he was denied bail but this is the most serious charge against him and the only one under the national security law several people a couple of dozen people have been already arrested under this national security law but only a handful have had charges against him in this particular case he was arrested in

august in a massive police swooped on his media headquarters now he's the founder of possibly the biggest and only pro-democracy media out a local media outlet left in hong kong here and police had just raided the newsroom and offices there and taken him out and a very very aggressive fashion jimmy lives also known for his close ties with the u.s. in fact last year he met up with the u.s. secretary of state microamp a and the vice president mike pence to talk about the situation in hong kong at the height of protests and since then he has called on the u.s. to safeguard help safeguard hong kong so autonomy and those kinds of comments and those relationships are what's gotten him made in the target of this national security law and incidentally this latest charge comes just days after the u.s. levied even more sanctions on officials in china for eroding hong kong hong kong's

autonomy. still ahead on al-jazeera a sentence eminent for one of the men found guilty of killing lebanon's former prime minister. and we'll look at the palestinian israeli man's legal battle for equal education rights for his children. we've got plenty of showers across southeast asia the stock looking pretty active at the moment more heavy showers just slide in the way into the south of vietnam west the weather though coming back into southern parts of thailand into the malays peninsula and then the usual rough this shower was wrought across malaysia and down into indonesia joining up with the west the weather that we have also affecting the funnel west of australia a 2nd tropical storm and now making its way through the troubled stubbins that's

just rolling its way just to the southwest of broome some more very heavy rain coming through here with some flooding but i'd like to draw your attention to the other side of the country high pressure down towards the southeast and around high the winds are traveling in an anti clockwise direction so quite a rush of on social showers just rolling into the northeast of new south wales southeastern parts of queensland seeing some very heavy rain and this little disturbance will turn into an area of low pressure to go on through the next couple of days the turning increase the wet here we are likely to see river flooding along with flash flooding as a result of the very heavy rain and the day combined with high tides that is going to cause some major problems down to the southeast it is a fine and dry and hot and had a light. he uses before to draw attention to the critical controversial issues facing china.

want to waste china. now to 0. go. to 0. every. hello again you're with al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour european union leaders meeting at a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by

the end of the decade the reduction compared to 1900 bills is seen as a big step up from the current goal. an advisory board to the u.s. food and drug administration has recommended the pfizer coronavirus vaccine should be authorized for use it's another step towards rolling out an immunization campaign in the worst affected country in the world. and hong kong pro-democracy activists a media tycoon jimmy lie has been charged under a controversial security law allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces guys already in jail after being denied bail on a separate charge. one of the men found guilty over the murder of lebanon's former prime minister is being sentenced however isn't in course nor was he when he was convicted earlier this year. he was found to have played a leading role in the bombing that killed rafik hariri and $21.00 people back in

2005 senses and absentia by a special friday you know a lebanon which is in the netherlands ok well the judge in the netherlands is reading out that sentencing that allison and. it declared quote its support for a free and fair electoral process in the upcoming presidential elections conducting according to lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence and quite. by early 2000 by early february 2005 a broad political coalition that included members of mr hariri parliamentary bloc the future movement was calling for the withdrawal of syrian forces from lebanon on . the syrian authorities were growing increasingly concerned by these developments and on 1st affair b.

2005 the syrian deputy foreign minister mr wiley did it while i'm this is mr hariri at his home current and palace in beirut. in the meeting mr hariri had told him that quite. we want approached you're in regime a little but at the same time be ruled by syria unquote. so if you can judge reading out the sentencing in the tribunals in the netherlands let's get more from saying she's in beirut where that attack took place so it seems the sensing is going to take some time to be read out what are we expecting. what prosecutors are asking for a life sentence from the so-called. case the man the international tribunals found guilty of executing the assassination of the former prime minister

rafiq and heavy behind me the sight of that to massive explosion how do these motorcade was blown up he was killed along with 21 other people now the international tribunal the in august issue the verdict in the trial after after many years the trial began on 2014 the defendants were tried in absentia and the man who was found guilty by the court remains at large which means for some people the verdict the sentencing could be symbolic or not the ideal but others say this is important because in a country like lebanon where there has been a culture of impunity no accountability for a series of assassinations this primark and new beginning but the tribunals does not have the enforcement mechanism so it has to rely on the authorities in lebannon to cooperate but so far hezbollah has made it clear time and time again the verdict

is not concerned it's not concerned with the verdict and it will not hand over the man who was found guilty of killing the former prime minister this is us nation lebanon to the core didn't it you're at the place there in beirut where it took place just remind us what happened. well it was a massive explosion an intricate operation a very sophisticated operation according to security officials as well as the tribunals and the prime minister was leaving a session of parliament not very far from here just a few kilometers according to the judges this was a suicide attack they still don't know who the suicide bomber was he was in a. pickup truck which was parked on the side of the road really really a massive explosion which was heard kilometers away but it was also a political earthquake because like you heard the judge mention there they believe this was politically motivated the former prime minister was trying to end syria's

domination in the country and he was under a lot of pressure from these syrian authorities who are really governing this country along with their ally hezbollah and you know they needed according to the judges they needed him out of the way and ever since that assassination there has been no stability in this country and the balance of power since that the sas the nation till today rests with hezbollah and its allies who are allied with the syrian government it's really polarized society as well there really divisions in this country because at the end of the day he was known as mr lebanon a former prime minister but he was also the head of the sunni community and now the man found guilty is a member of a shia party so it really plays out over this suddenly she had divisions not only in lebanon but across the region so the verdict the sentencing has not healed those divisions. many thanks for joining us there from beirut as we wait for the final

sentence in that case. now the u.s. has sanctioned a number of alleged human rights abuses a clue including the leader of russia's chechnya region carol it is a close ally of president vladimir putin 5 other individuals with close ties to putin have also been sanctioned 3 people in haiti and 5 connected to yemen's you see rebels the sanctions are part of the u.s. human rights accountability act also known as the magnitsky act. morocco has become the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel us brokered the deal promising to in exchange to recognize workers' claim of a disputed western sahara region. well here is the area which up until now the us agreed was disputed western sahara in dark grey has been forced to have a few years by morocco and this a hallway ethnic group. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it helps put

the wider region on a good path this is the foundation on which we can now build this peace will resume liaison offices quickly between israel and morocco and work as rapidly as possible to establish full diplomatic relations we also institute direct flights between morocco in israel and israel morocco giving this bridge of peace and even more solid foundation this will be a very warm peace peace as never the light of peace on this hanukkah day as never shown brighter than today in the middle east. a palestinian israeli father says he's fighting for equal educational rights for his children in a case involving israel's controversial nation state law got him back he was seeking compensation for having to drive his children out of town because there's no arabic language school or a faucet reports from come alle in northern israel. it's an early morning routine

that carson bakri and his children have had to get used to a 20 minute drive from their home in the town of cameo down the valley to an arabic language school custom has been fighting for years for a suitable school close to his home now he's seeking compensation for the daily commute and. i don't want my children to be treated as guests in the city achmet should be equal to your see their son should be equal to any other girl in camile she has the right to study and come male i will not let them discriminate against her because she's an arab last month the magistrate ruled against the bakri family saying karmiel didn't have to follow legal obligations to provide either arabic schooling or transport costs. i support having arab students studying camilo however i do understand the mass concern about the city losing its jewish character solutions can be found for everything i guess and once they allow this to happen it will be a flood listen each one wants to worry about their own interests a community fine arabs and jews can learn together but to open

a school for arabs boy. the most controversial aspect of the ruling was its use of israel's nation state law passed amid much protest in 2018 it defined national self-determination as a solely jewish right arabic is a special status language not an official one and jewish settlement is a national value the magistrate ruled that 3rd provision was key in this case located is coming amid the beauty of israel's up a galilee the town was founded in 1964 on land that had belonged to surrounding palestinian israeli towns as an explicitly jewish settlement. this decision on the rights of this one family in this one more than town has already been discussed in an israeli parliamentary committee on the rights of the child during which a senior lawyer for the israeli justice ministry argued that the nation state law should not be used to limit individual rights and not to diminish the rights of children but a lawyer who's been campaigning for

a year to get cameo to cover the transportation costs for hundreds of palestinian israeli school children says there's little comfort to be found in such words that the what happened in the court is another level of racism and it's now no longer a matter of practices of institutions but the protection of these practices by judges under the nation state law. custom bakri whose only job is teaching hebrew to palestinian students says he has no problem with his children learning alongside jewish classmates he campaigned to set up just such a kindergarten but he doesn't want them to learn what he sees as a militaristic israeli curriculum nor have their rights denied by what he calls a racist law perry force it out 0 cameo northern israel. has been a wreck or 7 percent dip in syria 2 emissions this year that's according to preliminary figures from the global carbon project a group of scientists which says the drop which they see as temporary is largely

because of coronavirus lockdowns shut down industries and transport emissions fell 12 percent in the u.s. and 11 percent in europe but only marginally in china but not from 2020 global greenhouse emissions have grown every year since the paris climate accord was signed by almost 200 countries in 2015 the un says emissions must fall by 7.6 percent a year by 2032 weeks the most ambitious temperature cap of 1.5 degrees celsius the signature is also said that work towards limiting emissions to levels that the earth can naturally absorb. and bangladesh has launched what's thought to be the world's largest so-called climate refugee project. reports from cox's bazaar. muzzammil hawk was 17 years old when his father died at sea during a devastating cycle on that he southern bangladesh in 1901 an estimated 140000

people were killed and 10000000 lost their homes he managed to survive the storm along with his mother and 4 siblings but those memories still haunt him. the place where i was born went totally in the sea there is nothing there now but the ocean of family took refuge in a government lending cox's bazaar after 3 decades a government provided us with a permanent home here praise along migrants living on government land face the constant threat of every action as they don't have any rights to stand most of the people living here in the supplement in our climate change migrant many fled their island homes that are go there to the impact of global warming as part of his new strategy the government has started providing permanent homes to many of the families here life is seldom easy for these migrants many workers day laborers or rickshaw pullers woman mostly work as domestic helpers are in clothing factories

etc john likes a new home but says it's not easy living here she now runs a small shop to get by very short of the. isle home got washed away in 1991 after 30 years finally our prime minister has provided us with homes here but this place is too isolated with little opportunity to make a living plus there are no schools no mosques or graveyards. according to the world resources institute bangladesh is one of the country's worst affected by global warming despite having one of the lowest carbon footprints bangladesh government loses one percent off its g.d.p. every year due to the impact of climate change.

environment experts say the 2015 peri segment is still the best hope to contain the facts of global warming but for bangladesh the impact of climate change is already a harsh reality and dealing with climate induced internal migration has become one of its biggest challenges 100 chart. cox's bazar. without is there are these top stories. meeting at a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by

the end of the decade the reduction compared to 1915 is a big step up from the current goal. an advisory board to the u.s. food and drug.