a u.n. court sentences a fugitive hezbollah members of 5 life terms of the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri. are there i'm having my head in and this is al jazeera life until now also coming up. i am the relation among pro-abortion rights supporters in argentina after congress is more house approves of the legalized terminations. after a long night of wrangling e.u.

leaders agree to a much more ambitious emissions cuts 55 percent spy the end of the decade and in ghana more students are improving in public schools but with a long wait list some kids have too much time on their hands. but for some of the men found guilty over the murder of lebanon's former prime minister has been sentenced to 5 life terms saleman i ash was tried and sentenced in absentia was found to played a leading ball in the bombing that killed rafik hariri and 21 other people in 2005 the sentence was handed down by the special tribunals for lebanon court based in the netherlands saying the hotter has more from beirut. some would argue that this is a symbolic sentencing even the guilty verdict which was handed down in august because

the man who the tribunals found guilty of executing this assassination was tried in absentia and he remains at large and many feel that he will never face justice because hezbollah this is the group that he's affiliated to has repeated time and time again that they're not going to hand them over to the international court they consider the courts a political tool that is being used against them and in the words of the hezbollah secretary general we're not concerned with the verdict so at the end of the day has a lot controls political and military power in this country if any security agency would even try to attempt to arrest the selim i asked if they knew where he where he was it could trigger some sort of strife even the son of the prime minister who was the slain prime minister prime minister doesn't that saddam had he welcomed the verdict back in august and he called on hezbollah to cooperate but like i said the balance of power today is in favor of hezbollah and its allies in fact since the

killing of heidi the balance of power has been in favor of hezbollah and its allies . a bill to legalize abortion in argentina has cleared a major hurdle of votes in the lower house of congress but it's expected to face more resistance in the senate to reasonable reports from want to sign. a much awaited vote this is the beginning of the end of a battle this women have been fighting for a very long time the legalization of abortion in this mostly catholic country. congress passed the bill on thursday by 131 votes to 117 it now goes to the senate and i know many is it up when we loaded up it in 2018 we were disappointed because we lost in the senate. we hope this time it will be different it's a right that we deserve to save women's lives. the activists gather outside

congress abortion is a divisive issue in argentina although a large sector of society wants to cede legalized others do not want to see the bill turned into law. pope francis is from argentina and can influence how politicians vote. the plaster in front of congress was separated by a fence and security forces were there to prevent violence between those in favor of abortion and those against a 1000000 of us. in the midst of a pandemic we're invited to discuss a bill in just 10 days inn express bill tell me of this is not genocide when they don't want to show what an abortion is this is it and they don't want to show it they're hiding the truth we're not foolish people in 2018 the bill was approved in congress but failed to pass the senate. women rights groups say thousands of private abortions are already happening in argentina and women are suffering because of it. was up women are out for work like

a friend the abortion comes up for propaganda come out of the mother of. her 6 own battle over abortion that was her will not run our country not that i'm a lucky man oh god world. he says that argentina's abortion legislation could set a precedent in the region. our primary flow all the other candidates in their lives and back to the bank to have that happy feet on their 10 back in the fifty's is happening here to be a millionaire b.m.s. the way they are both candidates have nothing to marry and here's where we finally have maybe communication and i think some of you have a very high up in the meantime. the government says they would like to see the vote in the senate before the year's end. this women say they'll be here again to see

the bill turned into law and women gain the rights they have long demanded. with us hightest. european union leaders meeting as a summers in brussels have agreed to a much more ambitious carbon reduction targets they've pledged to slash emissions by at least 55 percent compared to $990.00 levels by the end of the step kate well the increase from the previous 40 percent target some kinds of resistance from some e.u. states like co reliance pool and or pepper kind of the chief research scientists said is truly as commonwealth scientific and industrial research organization 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 e.u. 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 pfizer going 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 the making the use of energy much more efficiently that we have actually done in the past on the backs up front that's been a frank admission from the european commission chief ursula on the law in

negotiation team 7 till sunday to decide by the press to press ahead with talks for an e.u. u.k. trade agreement from the lions have met for the 1st time that it's more likely that no deal will be done. we will decide on sunday whether we have the conditions for a an agreement or not in the meantime the commission has proposed for targeted contingency measures today they provide a short term fix to ensure basic connectivity in near and road transport for 6 months and we are also proposing to the u.k. to ensure reciprocal access to each of us waters for next year one way or the other in less than 3 weeks it will be new beginnings for old friends. get more now from paul brennan he joins me now live from brussels polo start with breaks it

is not looking good is it. no and it was kind of the elephant in the room at the european council summit of the $27.00 leaders but it wasn't actually on the agenda they were talking mainly about the budgets and about climate change the big budget for the next 7 years but that said you heard from live on the lead and she briefed the leaders who had gathered here in brussels about the dinner the cheat had on wednesday night with boris johnson and her assessment remains very bleak the negotiations are ongoing on a building which is over my left shoulder we've seen the negotiating team arrive in a blacked out people carrier really they have until sunday to try to find some kind of compromise on the way and also said in that news conference that you gave that it's only fair that competitors in the single markets operate under the same conditions and she offered a kind of glimmer of hope when she said but this is not to say we'd require the

u.k. to follow us every time we raise our level of ambition we simply adapt the conditions for market access now that goes to the level playing field concerns on the dispute to the reserve a level playing field whether that's enough to. calm down but whether that's enough to persuade boris johnson to make a compromise is another thing he has been talking in the north of england. proportion at the moment is as you know there are 2 key things where we we just can't seem. to make progress and that's the it's going to ratchet close they've gotten to keep the u.k. locked in to whatever label to do in terms of religious station as well and then the whole issue of fish you know we've got to be able to take back control of all of our waters so there's a way to go. well paul one thing that european leaders have managed to agree on though is a tougher approach to turkey. yes

that laying the groundwork as opposed to actually formally announcing sanctions yes but what they have said is that they are going to prepare the way for sanctions to be levied against turkish individuals associated most likely associated with the gas exploration that's going on this contentious issue of gas exploration around cyprus so what will happen is that. diplomats will go away and draw up a list of potential targets on the list of possible sanctions against these individuals i think what's likely to happen though is that the more serious sanctions. i think involve won't be introduced until march of next year and that's because the e.u. wants to have a very concerted and coordinated approach with nato because turkey is a nato member and of course with the incoming american administration joe biden the

president elect takes office at the tail end of january the 20th so the e.u. doesn't want to preemptively launch sanctions but it's clear from the language that they used here in brussels at the end of the summit that they are increasingly irritated with turkey's stance. ok paul brennan bring us all the fact latest live from brussels paul thank you. well take as president russia time i've heard someone that had this to say in response to those sanctions a short time ago they sure didn't look the folly of these sanctions will harm all the parties it is not benefiting either side despite all this we believe common sense about shared interests would cause the right steps to be taken any difference can be resolved through dialogue despite the sanctions turkey's doors will remain open to all investors both the us and the e.u. administrations should not listen to the n.t. ticky lobbies rather go back to common sense and practical policies. cells come on

al-jazeera the canary islands regime fights to send migrants back home or surge in arrivals and morocco's king tries to reassure the palestinian leadership after his nation agrees to normalize relations with israel. we've got some pretty cold weather coming in across northern parts of china over the next couple days little band of cloud here just around the yellow sea just pushing over towards the korean peninsula to the north of that cold air really sinking in as we go through the next couple of days a further 6 celsius the basing of the soul on saturday like the most that that modest 12 that we have in harbin well that kind of sets you say for the minus 20 the lumber ta as we go on into sunday beijing struggling to get up to freezing so

wintry flour is there across the korean peninsula so that wintry weather also sliding across the sea of japan into northern parts of conscious and also into her car by further south it's generally dry to central and southern parts of china but we have got some rain and the some snow there into the west of the country right as snow to maybe across northern parts of pockets. don over the next couple of days that wintry mix that westerly disturbance stirring things up in new delhi hopefully that will help to clear the fog and smoke that we've seen here for the past few days if not weeks wet weather there still in place across the northwest of in this an unusually wet weather continuing here's a go on through the next couple of days could see of an area of low pressure which is swirling away in the arabian sea and that could also cause some flooding was mumbai. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main

characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally easer basically archaic walls they are often legitimize them grega wise pedophiles on air or online jumping to the quick section and meeting to be part of the discussion the stream on out is there a. this is out as they are quick to rise over the top stories for you this hour has been a fugitive convicted in the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik

hariri and given 5 life terms something my ash was sentenced in absentia is a year in courts in the netherlands a bill to legalize abortion in argentina has cleared a major hurdle passing a vote in the lower house of congress supporters of the change waited all night in the streets and celebrated when they heard the news the bill my goes to the upper higher spirit faces a tougher vote to get approval in the senate. and european union leaders meeting at a summit in brussels have agreed to cut carbon emissions but least 55 percent by the end of the decade there is action compared to the 1990 levels are seen as a big step up from the current gold. there's been a record 7 percent dip in c o 2 emissions this year according to. preliminary figures from the global carbon projects the group of scientists says the drop which they see as temporary is largely because of coronavirus locked owns that shut down industries and transport

missions fell 12 percent in the u.s. and 11 percent in europe but only marginally in china. well apart from 2020 global greenhouse gas emissions of grown every year since the paris climate accords which was signed by almost $200.00 countries back in 2015 the un says emissions must fall 7.6 percent perry year by 2030 the most ambitious temperature cap of $1.00 degrees celsius the signature is also said they would work towards limiting emissions to levels that the earth can naturally absorb well al-jazeera has spoken to the woman who was president of the u.n. summit in paris 5 years ago said of the royal says when donald trump withdrew from the us a climate treaty helped draw attention to the global climate emergency in an interview with our correspondent natasha butler she reflects is on the moments the climate

treaty was agreed in 2050. this is like if it's called it was extraordinary to see all these countries including some that were in conflict with each other rich countries poor ones all coming together to recognize one very simple idea that it is human activity in fossil fuels that create a climate change and she gather we could act against it it was an amazing diplomatic a key from and with the times when you thought that perhaps such a global agreement just simply was not going to happen where yes you know if they buy if you don't get to the top yes of course it wasn't evident that it would happen at all i was at the 1st earth summit in rio in 1902 i saw those 20 years of work necessary for the paris to court to become reality which allowed paris to happen was the financial world realized it cost them more to do nothing than to act 5 years on what has been achieved is

a pulse. i think there's been progress in many areas in the construction industry we're building batch are also companies and people are doing more to save energy there's been a revolution in transportation with electric vehicles and a revolution in renewable energies. if your peers government says it's returning eritrean refugees to camps in the north and to grow region they fled to the capital addis ababa joining fighting in to grow between local forces and federal government soldiers the un says their return is absolutely unacceptable but ethiopia says they will be safe there are 96000 eritrean refugees registered in ethiopia most live in de grey which borders eritrea and at least 4 aid workers have been killed in ethiopia's to grow the region the international rescue committee and the danish refugee council announced the deaths.

this trail as prime minister says his government wants russia to prove all of the pfizer vaccine after trials of a homegrown vaccine that's to be abandoned scott morrison says he wants to ensure a strains of full confidence and whatever vaccine comes through trials of the local one produced false positive results and some of the participants and in another setback airily trials show a vaccine developed by pharmaceutical companies send roofie and j.f.k. produced an insufficient immune response in participants they plan to launch another trial in the new year meanwhile astra zeneca will start testing a combination of its experimental vaccine with russia's sprint very short russia sovereign wealth funds which is bankroll and spit mcvie made the announcements the moves likely to be viewed in russia as a long awaited vote of confidence in the vaccine but could prove controversial

elsewhere as moscow has been accused of rushing it. the canary islands has resumed flights to send migrants back to north africa when the lifting of coronavirus travel restrictions the region is struggling to cope with a surge in migrants arrivals with 22000 people arrive in the sierra leone and its mouth reports from gran canaria. the figures don't add up to $20000.00 migrants arrivals on the canary islands this year and nowhere for them to go these a minus there's room for just $24.00 at the center alue is a fisherman from senegal. that operated you can't catch fish the sea was empty by the big boats there's nothing we can do there's no work so no money in senegal so we decided to have another life to come here and work and help our family. the local government is paying hotels to put up thousands of migrants while it builds more holding camps the pandemic has stopped tourism in gran canaria hotel occupancy

rates are at just 7 percent instead of the usual 95 percent at this time of year the islanders hope their very low covert infection rate will throw them a lifeline but some worry too many migrants will put tourists off in the beginning we said we can help because through us a desperate need of decent accommodation it's still a situation which can be tolerated also by tourists in your future if war and migrants and tourist and that's a little bit overdone $22000.00 migrants have arrived here so far this year this week the government resumed deportations to north and west africa it's only a few dozen people so far but the government hopes it will be a tear and for the charities that work with migrants but won't solve anything long term those people are fleeing from very hard life context such as conflicts

or extreme poverty or lack of opportunity so that's the reason that pushes them to risk their life in the ocean in this case so we don't think that. will be a solution to that phenomenon and will not stop those people to find better opportunities and a different life. there's obvious relief in having made it to dry land at least 568 others died this year in making this journey they hope to make a better life on the european mainland but this island is as far as most of these new arrivals will get most days now there can be hundreds of arrivals on the authorities on the canary islands struggling to cope the spanish government wants the e.u. to agree a system whereby migrants are distributed equally amongst member states but there's little enthusiasm for that. within the e.u. . but it's with al-jazeera on the canarios. the moroccan king is told the

palestinian president's that he stands by a 2 state solution see the israeli palestinian conflict on thursday morocco came became the 4th arab nations to agree to normalize ties with israel the u.s. brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region stephanie decker reports. the announcement came in a presidential tweet calling it a historic breakthrough and a massive breakthrough for peace in the middle east morocco and israel agreed to full diplomatic relations it's another victory for the israeli prime minister america follows the u.a.e. bahrain in sudan in recognizing israel and establishing full diplomatic relations 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 in return to trump administration has gone against decades of u.s. policy and agreed to recognize the disputed western sahara region as moroccan. western sahara has been disputed for decades between morocco and the pro independence police are your front 1st country in the world. countries. and siding with. only the united states is recognized. for a long time and. international law concerns.

the palestinians of condemned the agreement saying it's yet another country to break a promise of not recognizing israel until the establishment of a palestinian state but more and more arab countries are stablish in ties with israel whereas the reality of a palestinian state seems to fade further and further away it's hailed as yet another victory for israel another unilateral move by this outgoing administration who have little more than a month left in office stephanie decker al-jazeera. prominence hong kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon jamie laing has been charged under the controversial security law that was imposed on the city by beijing the allegations include that he's colluded with foreign forces why is already in jail after being denied bail over a separate matter. improvements in ghana's public high school system has led to a declining enrollment am closure of many private schools but it's left many

students spending months on waiting lists and critics say this is causing a rise in social problems as young people turn to drugs and prostitution amid address reports from just outside gunners capital across. after 3 months or 2 these students are back in class among them many who transferred from private schools after the government declared education free in public high schools had not been dad's most students were in school now linda i've had the opportunity to be school and that is what can be made to stressful the idea the best to cope with this is then. the school year has changed from one of terms to a university semester system but when the schools have struggled to accommodate all the students who apply for places that means while some students attend classes for months others are forced to stay home and wait their turn. that all has and has 2

children in junior school. the free thing i feel any implementation if a problem every parent is worried about those who don't want it where back when we pay for. i think their mug of government. is about $500.00 a mug. about $500.00. but if today you are being a ruin for your future and then even if the child comes back you don't have to spend on a 400 or 500 cities to pay for as chuck. said it was concerned that with a lot of free time on the hands many students cultivating bad habits including drug abuse smoking and prostitution. private schools were once the exclusive preserve of middle and upper class commands but there's been a bus exodus to public schools for free education and most of the private. high

schools in ghana have to close down because most parents are interested in this free free thing the government argues that improvements in the performance of high school graduates is evidence that the free high school system works but critics say it is running private schools out of business and creating other social problems. for many parents who struggle to find the money to pay high school fees the free education program is a huge relief however they urge the government to address the social problems cost what students have to spend months of waiting to secure a place in class comedy grease al-jazeera or paul got it. and only time magazine names its person all the year will in 2020 it's persons own the year joe biden and come $100.00 s. the u.s. president elect and his running mate beat out the competition including the man they're replacing donald trump finalists also included us infectious diseases

experts runs the fight shake and america's health care workers as well as the radical justice movements. and basketball player le bron james was named time magazine's athletes of the year you was recognized for his work off the courts against voter suppression in the united states has more than a vote organization is credited with driving record turnouts in the u.s. presidential election. but i'm having a hissy and doha with the headlines on al-jazeera there has been a fugitive convicted in the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri has been given 5 lifetime.