changing the world we live in argentina's congress is debating a bill seeking to raise millions of dollars from the super rich poor families hit by condemning counting the cost on al-jazeera. we will reduce emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 the european union sets itself an ambitious targets to help prevent the planet from overheating. i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a u.n. backed court sentences and on the run has been a member to life in prison for the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri.

argentina moves one step closer to legalizing abortion to the lower house of congress approves a landmark bill. scientists from russia and the u.k. are joining forces to trial a combination of the oxford astra zeneca and spotting the corona virus vaccine. after more than 10 hours of ago ca sions european union leaders have reached a deal to try to slow climate change and tackle the most pressing issue of our times the block has agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade. but do more subtle a reduction of 55 percent by 2030 means that our 2050 commitment is credible it means that we in europe would have a leadership role to play very soon we will be celebrating the 5th anniversary of this commitment made in paris the paris agreement and we have been firmly committed

as the european union from the beginning this is a very positive battle in the field of climate and diplomacy to bring in other parts of the world to get them to jump on the bandwagon and to come up with common standards and share our ambitions. the agreement comes the day before a climate summit marking 5 years of a landmark paris agreement in 2015 world leaders reached a legally binding treaty to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius but friday's a u agreement is fraught with challenges a global federation of trades unions estimates that the transition to net 0 emissions will put 11000000 jobs a risk mostly in eastern europe but at the same time climate groups say that the e.u. target falls far short of tackling the global climate emergency al-jazeera as paul brennan reports from brussels. the e.u. would prioritize sorting out the 70 ad budgets and so they punted the negotiations over the climate deal into the evening and as

a result it went way into the night in fact it was around 6 am when they finally decided to agree a deal largely because i know a machal the german chancellor of germany holding the presidency of the european council for this 6 month period said it would be a disaster if they couldn't come to an agreement on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the paris agreement now what basically happened is that poland fell into line polish the polish economy is heavily reliant on coal some 3 quarters of the electricity generated in poland is from burning coal and the industry employs around 100000 strongly unionized workers so i'm hearing that the polish prime minister said look you've got to give me a deal to protect our economy otherwise i'm going to lose my job when i go back to warsaw. although shell michel the president of the european council didn't say what kind what the exact concessions were i can tell you will poland was looking for and

that is for economic concessions economic protections and also for the level of emissions cuts to be associated with the g.d.p. of each country so although the european union is going to go for 55 percent as a bloc it's clear that some countries will probably not meet 55 percent and others will have to exceed 55 percent if that's a reach that 55 percent average as a say michel very relieved and happy that a deal was done it's hugely symbolic it's hugely important for the planet as well don't forget but it was a long night to go ahead of climate policy of oxfam international he says the pledge is a start but the block must go. it's a big step forward let's be clear and it's really important that. all countries put the focus on strengthening their near term emission cuts and a lot of talk this year about long term net 0 or carbon neutral commitments by the

middle of the century we need to have a focus on strengthening near term emission reductions in the next in the next 10 years so it's so that accent of course it's good news that the e.u. has agreed to a new stronger talk it but yes there are some big loopholes in there going to accounts removal of emissions from forests in europe as well that's a big loophole and it's still not enough i mean 55 percent yes it's a big step forward compared to what they had committed previously but we've got to understand we're in an absolute emergency now we need more like 65 percent even 70 percent emission reductions from the e.u. so it's a step in the right direction but they're going to need to keep on strengthening that ambition in the years ahead reducing emissions at home is only half the story for rich countries in terms of fighting climate change they also need to put money on the table to help poor countries that have the least to cool the climate crisis and yet are facing the worst impacts of more extreme weather already today any

money on the table to help those countries both to adapt to climate change and the carbon life their own economy so these sort of moved on the 1st part of that. stronger targets on the table for reducing their own emissions now we need to see them put some more money on the table this world to help poorer countries do the same. turkey is criticizing european union plans to expand the sanctions targeting it's running operations in the eastern mediterranean the e.u. has agreed to wipe nick sanctions list of turkish individuals and companies involved in gas drilling activities which are contested by greece turkey is describing the move as biased and unlawful while in new countries say that they hope it will send a strong message. on the 50 europe showed its ability to be firm with turkey by adopting sanctions to make it put a stop to its unilateral actions in the eastern mediterranean last october we gave turkey a chance we reached out a hand laid down conditions we have unanimously observed that turkey has continued

with its provocations this firmness and the new sanctions of a sign of a new approach to a very huge it didn't look these sanctions will harm all the parties it is not benefiting on 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 of 07 costello reports now from istanbul. as nationalism is a very strong sentiment among the turks especially within the last couple of years as to ricky went through a failed coup attempt back in 2016 and the government has been successful in a using the retore that foreign powers are trying to break the country or break the

government and when the economy suffers it's the foreign powers that's why people in turkey buy this and i have to also say that in the last 2 decades and he is a anti us sentiment is highly on the rise and tricky it's almost up to the ball 80 percent according to the polls according to academic studies so these will have no more impact than gathering people around the president are gone and supporting him more but of course the economy will be a fact that that's why many people have been buying u.s. dollars the turkish lira national foreign c. has been negatively affected especially because of the diplomatic tension between washington and ankara in the last 2 years but definitely political wise in turkey people believe that turkey has rights in this and military union and people

believe that france and greece have maximalist approach this is what also the government has been claiming since the beginning of the crisis this will have no more impact than gathering people around. leaders from the e.u. and the u.k. say the no deal briggs it is increasingly likely long lines of trucks are forming between france and the u.k. as companies stockpile goods the e.u. and u.k. have until the end of the month to strike a trade deal they say that they'll know if a deal is possible by sunday. we will decide on sunday whether we have the conditions for a an agreement on 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 roach 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 proportionately at the moment is as you know there are 2 key things where we we just can't seem to. to make progress not to it's going to ratchet claws they've got in to keep the u.k. locked in to whatever label to do in terms of villages station jobs doesn't work and then there's the whole issue of fish where you know we've got to be able to take back control of our of our waters so there's a way to go. one of the men found guilty over the murder of lebanon's former prime minister has been sentenced to 5 life terms salim irish was tried and sentenced in absentia he was found to have played a leading role in the bombing that killed rafik hariri and 21 other people in 2005 his sentence was handed down by the special tribunal for lebanon based in the

netherlands zana holder reports now from beirut. some would argue that this is symbolic of the sentencing even the guilty verdict which was handed down in august because the man who would be tried you know 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 him over to the international court they consider the courts a political tool that is being used against them and in the words of the secretary general we're not concerned with the verdict so at the end of the day he has a law controls political and military power in this country if any security agency would even try to attempt to arrest him 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. 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 the balance of power has been in favor of hezbollah and its allies. the u.s. military has released video of an asteroid can somalia that it says killed 8 ball make it was one of 2 strikes on thursday did julie been sent them somalia it comes a month off for a cia officer for somali soldiers were killed during a mite raid on a bomb maker's house u.s. president donald trump says that he's withdrawing all forces from somalia by january. ethiopia's government says that it's returning eritrean refugees to camps a little the gray region they fled to the capital at a savable during fighting in te gray between local forces and federal government

soldiers the u.n. says their return to t. great is so soon is absolutely unacceptable but ethiopia says that they will be safe there are 96000 eritrean refugees registered any theo p.-a most of them live in te gray which borders are a trail. a weather update baxter on to 0 then the canary island resumes flights to send migrants back home after a surge in a rival. some businesses struggle to survive the pandemic others innovating to keep their doors open. for. the weather this on the cool side across the middle east but dry lot of settled weather coming through will be a few showers across northern parts of the region to he could see some showers some

longer spells of frame for a time sliding a little further east with maybe still wanted to show they too were northern parts of iran just up around the caucuses here in casa fun is right temperatures of around 24 celsius quite a key. it's going to feel fresh tempests 2324 degrees then as we go on through the next couple of days the fine weather the sunshine that stretches down across much of the arabian peninsula and joins up with the fine weather that we have on the other side of the gulf of aden settle there for somalia without some showers sent to central parts of africa as we should do the showers stretching the way of a towards the gulf of guinea some watching weather for tom across that western side of the democratic republic of congo somewhat of weather too is coming into zambia some really heavy rain you know it's just showing up across that eastern side of south africa that could cause some localized flooding is still there as we go through sunday but should to turn a little tries to make a way to start of the new working week north of that

a russia shows that the center know the pos of mozambique with also some showers for good measure in zimbabwe. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground there in the canaries why. is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse 40200 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day global headlines how will a place like it live get a back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again this is al jazeera and its allies are the main news the european union leaders have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade the reduction compared to 9 $190.00 levels is a step up from the previous goal of 40 percent. turkey is criticizing european union plans to expand sanctions targeting its trading operations in the eastern mediterranean e.u. countries said they hope the measures will send a strong message. to hezbollah a fugitive convicted of the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri has been given 5 life terms. were sentenced in absentia by a special tribunal in the netherlands. a bill to legalize abortion in argentina has cleared a major hurdle passing a vote in the lower house of congress but it's expected to face war resistance in

the senate from what assad has to rise above reports. a much awaited vote this is the beginning of the end of a battle this women have been fighting for a very long time believe 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 i mean is it up when will your head up anywhere in 2018 we were disappointed because we lost in the senate but we hope this time it will be different this is a right that we deserve to see women's lives. activists gather outside congress abortion is a divisive issue in argentina although a large sector of society wants to see legalized others do not want to see the bill turned into law. pope francis is from argentina and can influence how politicians fold. the plaza 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 are 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. every day oh oh i've ever met over the birth of work like home from work abortion comes up right from my mother come out of the mother of 500000000000 government over abortion i was like well not burden free not that i'm laughing i know about the world. he says that argentina is

abortion legislation could set a precedent in the region leave our economy slow all the other countries in the region back to the bank to have that happy feeling on their 10 back in the fifty's if anything had to be a leaner feeling mixed in with a full band the whole class and nothing cliff and every time i hear she was we finally made the communication i think some of you have it may be up to me. 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. when the hightest. legislators in the democratic republic of congo voted to remove the speaker of parliament which is seen as a show of strength by supporters of the president felix shuster katie has been

involved in a power struggle against allies of his predecessor joseph kabila challah palace reports. the woman at the heart of the political crisis in democratic republic of congo janine mobile and. she was the speaker of parliament in an ally of former president joseph kabila after hours of debate politicians even those who support could be lower voters to impeach or believe they're going to basically it was time everything. a cyclical her time has passed she did nothing i mean don't think you'll miss her. but this was about more than one woman. it was a vote for president felix just a kitty and how much support he would have in building a new coalition and after 2 years taking a clear majority in parliament that they're not change began today we had a hybrid government before but now the congolese people the members of parliament

have demonstrated that they were fed up they were fed up with the computer family and his supporters who pretended to have a majority president ches acadian came to office last year but without a majority 300 of the 500 seats in parliament were loyal to his predecessor joseph kabila the 2 leaders came to a power sharing agreement but yes a kitty said it hamstrung him and as if it's to annex reform all combat corruption the shaky coalition fractured in july when she's sick 80 appointed 3 new justices to the nation's top course on sunday just a kitty announced the end of the ruling coalition and threatens to dissolve parliament. the 2nd cruising comes off to 2 years of tireless efforts to self-sacrifice to preserve the essentials within the coalition. this was the result could be as allies say it was a breach of the constitution. supporters of both to security and can be looked

clashed outside parliament inside police had to intervene after fighting erupted between the politicians. the roof is all we appeal to the national and international community to see that a new dictatorship is taking hold in our country more ferocious the not of mobutu and that we must act otherwise congo will go adrift. without there is concern about how much security will try to build a parliamentary majority and with it will be a peaceful process a kabila has said he will accept the speakers from erbil for now bellus al jazeera . the canary islands has resumed flights to send migrants back to north africa following the lifting of coronavirus travel restrictions the region is struggling to cope with a surge in migrants arrivals with 22000 of them coming this year bernard smith 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. is a fisherman from senegal. that operated you can't catch fish the sea was emptied 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 as 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 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 that 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 finding better opportunities and a different life. there's obvious relief at 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 here 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. . al-jazeera the canarios. astra zeneca will start to test a combination of its experimental vaccine with russia sputnik the shots russia's sovereign wealth fund which is bankrolling sputnik feat made the announcement the moves likely to be viewed in russia as a long awaited vote of confidence in its vaccine but could prove controversial elsewhere as moscow has been accused of rushing it peter grow batches of global health and infectious diseases experts at the university of oxford he says that while there have been concerns over the quality of russian testing a joint efforts with astra zeneca is good news. press parents is so critical and

that's why we've been pleased to see publication of data from the pfizer vaccine from the auster astra zeneca oxford astra zeneca vaccine recently and it is a concern with the vaccine coming out of russia we've seen some phase one in 2 trial results published in medical journals but no yet data from the ongoing phase 3 trial there always is a concern to approve a vaccine before you have that validation of safety and efficacy now it's being announced today as this possible trial of the century combining the 2 vaccines would be done in a clinical trial setting and it has you know some promise the idea sort of to it's almost like cross training in athletics where 2 different sports can make you a better athlete so rather than giving them the 1st dose of the booster dose of the same vaccine maybe giving different types of vaccine for the 1st and 2nd doses might give you a stronger or more durable immune response so that's something that i think will

we'll see through various trials in the months to come and i think it's always promising to see collaboration we're talking about a partnership between the galileo institute and astra zeneca and the researchers in oxford which i think can be viewed potentially as separate from some of the both the political dialogue and some of the other elements you know the reality is that we need scientific cooperation you know my view is we need the best vaccines we need them to be available the best approaches and it doesn't matter where they come from as long as it's done in a way that is rigorous and ethical and transparent so that we can have full confidence that the vaccines are going to be successful. indonesia's reported 175 corona virus linked deaths on friday the highest daily figure since the pandemic began the government has received over a 1000000 doses of china's sign of a vaccine that aims to begin an all kill ations as soon as regulators approve the job. both south korea and japan are seeing

a rise in the number of new infections people there are experiencing fundamental changes to their everyday life but while some of struggle to adapt others have come up with new ways to cope and stay afloat mcbride reports now from seoul. serving up ramen noodles in this tokyo district for 15 years this is yes shiro her last day in business has regulars lined up for one final ball like many other small businesses here's hasn't been able to survive the pandemic. that the coronavirus has drastically changed the movement of people for example in business districts the number of workers during the daytime has dropped a lot so restaurants can stay open other tokyo businesses are adapting to survive this newly opened sauna caters for individual customers in their own steam rooms and business is brisk for your one hour session you need to book 2 weeks in advance

any. we felt they would be a strong demand for solo services and i think businesses aimed at individuals will catch on even after the pandemic is also changing the way that libraries in japan operate with the installation of ultraviolet light machines to sterilize books being taken out and returned an important safeguard especially as many of those who rely on libraries are elderly then there's the question of what to do with the huge numbers of face masks we use and discard every day last month south korea alone produced more than 600000000 of them well one student here has a novel solution furniture design student kim handle takes used masks and turns them into stools melting down and molding the mostly plastic fabric it takes about $1500.00 masks for each 3 legged creation for humans masks protect us

from the virus for 40 earth they are big source of environmental pollution they're proving popular with fellow students as a reminder of a year that many would probably want to forget including those who's been. this is won't make it into next year robert bright al-jazeera soul. that is kids have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera european union leaders have agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade that adoption compared to 1970 s. is a step up from the previous goal of 40 percent good to chill with. a reduction of 55 percent by 2030 means that our 2050 commitment is credible it means that we in europe would have a leadership role to play very soon we.