be the hero the world needs right now. ready. al-jazeera. a low i'm adrian feeling good welcome to other news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes we will reduce emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 the european union sets itself an ambitious target to help prevent the planet from overheating. a un backed court sentences and on the run hezbollah to life in prison for the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri.

ethiopia's government says that it's returning eritrean refugees to the camps they've fled into gray the u.n. calls that unacceptable. and scientists from russia and the u.k. are joining forces to trial a combination of the oxford astra zeneca and spark the corona virus vaccine. i'm. a fan and now it's time for the best men's footballer of the year award. can patent strike at the end he won you can stop me now messi and cristiano renowned from winning yet again. after more than 10 hours of the go see a sions european union leaders have reached a deal to try to slow climate change and to 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 it comes the day before

a climate summit marking 5 years of the landmark paris agreement i can 2015 world leaders reached a legally binding treaty to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius but friday's e.u. agreement is fraught with challenges a global federation of trade unions estimates that the transition to a net 0 emission. ns will put 11000000 jobs at risk most of them in eastern europe but at the same time climate group say the e.u. target as far short of tackling the global climate emergency for moral know this let's talk to well just as paul brennan is live for us in brussels paul tell us more about this this ambitious deal. well 55 percent is a massive increase on the 40 percent that was originally the targets set by the european union and the way these things get sort of goes through various committees and lower levels so we knew that 55 percent was the ambition but it took the

leaders to actually sign off on it and that's what happened today in the early hours of this morning here at the european summits the european council summit with the all the leaders gathered together now as you say there is a little bit of control to see about how they're going to achieve 55 percent instead of 40 originally the 40 percent target didn't think klute for for example forestry management it was about you know reducing the carbon emissions and greenhouse gases issued by industry and things like that the 55 percent target will allow carbon sinks as they're called forests to be included in the. environmental campaigners are concerned that that effectively allows or allows the possibility of cooking the books you know you plant more forest but you also burn more wood in power stations and wood stoves and things so there is a little bit of unhappiness about that nevertheless the summit president presidents of the european council shall michel was very happy with the outcome when he spoke

this morning. good show but do horse and. 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. so you can see how the european union believes that this gesture by them can be seen as a benchmark in fact an inspiration for others to follow it was a difficult. task so actually get it agreed it was around 6 am in the morning after talking all night that they finally got it the pence of paper from the leaders but they got it done so why did it take so long was there any one country in particular

the was there was not happy with things. yeah well you mentioned in the introduction how eastern european countries certainly behind the curve as far as west more western neighbors and poland in particular raise some grave concerns for its economy are in the polish poland generates around 3 quarters of its elektra's c. from burning coal there are 100000 people involved in the industry and it's a solidly unionized work force and quite politically powerful so the polish prime minister has said look you've got to give me something to take back otherwise i'm gonna lose my job when i get back to warsaw what we don't know is what concessions were granted by shell michele and the other leaders to poland but what poland was asking for was a solid chunk of transitional funding to allow this transition from coal to more renewable energy to take place without too much of an impact on the economy and also perhaps for the amounts of the greenhouse gas emissions to be linked to g.d.p.

so that those poor countries essentially the eastern european countries would not necessarily have to reduce their greenhouse gases by quite as much a some of the more advanced already cleena countries such as france germany those sort of countries it's not know whether those concessions in the ground said because michelle wouldn't say but that's what they were asking for i pull many thanks indeed paul brennan reporting live from brussels some of the world's most cherished protected sites are under threat from climate change at the international union for conservation of nature has identified 83 in esco world heritage sites that are at risk or of the tyria rated due to global warming 2 that are critical a strain is great barrier reef has already seen extensive damage as ocean warming extreme weather of added to the coral decline. warming waters are also disrupting marine life in mexico's gulf of california threatening the delicate migratory

system that maintains that particular ecosystem to talk to we're back told who is the director of it as goes world heritage center she joins us now live via skype from paris good to have you with us so climate change is now the number one threat to the world's heritage sites is that right absolutely so what's being done. you know this guy has been at the forefront after addressing climate change actually since 2005 at the time there are numbers of n.g.o.s day it came to the world heritage committee writs rehab in south african descent we cannot continue like this you need to deal with it so what we did be prepared a policy a document on climate change but we also worked on the studies the day is international mountain face though i would like to mention especially the mountain areas because we are really strengthened by time of change if you think about the

mounting places better mount everest that we have to build here it's at sight of a 2nd not to have a national park or whether it's on the other side of the earth who has care on national parks besides severely threatened by climate change but also all of the people. really affected by it because it changes the water flows especially in the himalayas and they have also cultural volterra that sites they are much stockton like climate change read in its archaeological sites midnite sites in this post. or our cities in the mediterranean if you think of venice. climate change is already a reality and it's here it is with us despite the attempts that we were hearing about earlier to work to slow the rate at which the climate is changing. is there a danger that some of these world heritage sites could actually disappear that they it's inevitable that they they will no longer be with us. they may lewis some of

the attributes for reached a half being listed as those sites which the whole of humanity has to protect if you think of keep flora region where the plan systems is moving outside of the world heritage area so this was already taking into account that the site was nominated but we have also 50 marine sites you have mentioned especially straps through a barrier reef area reefs we have to call reefs to call bleaching so we hope to grow as all governments and this convention this international agreement the world or did i mention is ratified and 194 countries and we'll hold the act together in one boat and we need to address climate change for our business and i just personally think the sites need to better managed. this is also an outcome of

the outlook members 3 of i.u.c.n. that we have a number of sites we've not managed the internationals and so those sides are even more threatened because of el minute side and also deal this climate change impacts you say that. you hope to work with with governments that they've signed up to this or restart nearly 200 of them have i mean saying they want to help and and signing up to is one thing doing is another how supportive are they being. i think 'd the states bob is of the real heritage convention of very supportive because they're gratified that they protect those sites what you'd said generations that's the essence of the role here it's a wrench and they have asked unesco and its world heritage center to prepare and they did policy on climate change needs to be bill now president of the next bold new it's a midi session which will take place in june july next year though we really hope

that this next well here is that the media can adopt a policy and then some who want the site managers and a focal point in all those will help but not address mind that change and to manage this like a really good story to make so many thanks indeed next. to the director of international sport her richardson. this is the news hour from now to 0 still to come on the program we'll take a look at how the most popular state in the u.s. is putting its plans for a carbon neutral future into action and. argentina moves one step closer to legalizing abortion after the lower house of congress approves a landmark bill. and its force with general will find out why time magazine named le bron james as its athletes of the.

turkey is criticizing european union plans to expand the sanctions targeting its drilling operations in the eastern mediterranean the e.u. has agreed to widen its its sanctions list of turkish individuals and companies involved in gas drilling activities which a contested by greece turkey is describing the move as biased and unlawful while e.u. 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 are the sign of a new approach to regime get didn't look you fired 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 e.u. administrations should not listen to the n.t. ticky lobbies rather go back to common sense and practical policies. one hour from our serious. stumble. as nationalism is a very strong sentiment among the turks especially within the last couple of years as so 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 in 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 eastern mediterranean 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. so there is 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 the u.k. have until the end of the month to strike a trade deal they say that they'll know the next few days of a deal is possible. we will decide on sunday whether we have the conditions for of an agreement are 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're 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 and that's the it's going to ratchet claws they got into keep the u.k. locked in to whatever label to do in terms of the legislation that was it 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. lebanon's hezbollah says the charges brought against the prime minister and others over the beirut port explosion are politically motivated and there been 3 former ministers upand charged with negligence over the august blast that left more than 200 dead statement by the iran backed hezbollah as part of a wider political pushback against the course an ongoing investigation found the ministers were aware of the stockpile of a body of nitrate that was responsible for the last. one of the men found guilty over the murder of

a former prime minister has been sentenced to 5 life terms salim irish was tried and sentenced in absentia he was found to 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 of zeros in a harder reports now from beirut. some would argue that this. sentence thing even guilty verdict which was handed down in august because the man who would be tried 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 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 control is 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 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. ethiopia's government says that it's returning eritrean refugees to camps a little them to greater region they fled to the capital addis ababa during fighting into great between local forces and federal government soldiers the u.n. says the return to grow so soon is absolutely unacceptable but if you will be safe

there are 96000 or a trend refugees were just that anything most of them. which border eritrea. at least 4 aid workers have been killed in the t. grey region the international rescue committee and the danish refugee council announced the deaths let's talk to a chris mills of who is the spokesman of the un refugee agency he joins us now live via skype from ethiopia's capital addis ababa as far as the refugees are concerned chris what are the un's concerns here. well to the region is probably not yet very safe that the main problem is refugees were brought back to a region where they just fled a couple of weeks before and they're probably still a trauma with these refugees our main problem is that bit we are not able to provide to at least refugees because we do not have no access to our for refugees

refugee camps we haven't even reach but surely the best place for them is the place they call home. indeed but there's a serious threat and the train refugees fled or i'm quite sure for good reason from from their home and they are they have international protection as the refugees and we had if you mentioned the figure already 96 where in 4 refugee camps in the tikrit region. and we have no access to these camps yet what you say you have no access to those camps but are you hearing reports of what conditions are like there and how many people chose not to flee that actually stay put. well we have we heard rumors we hear. some things from sources but we can't control them yet as you probably know 50000 refugees fled if your kids who die if you up there are also every train

refugees and there were several 100 refugees from the rich area. but again that night he speaks 96000 we have to provide for the this is our mandate and we can't do that right now or as ethiopia wants them back in t. grey the un says that it's too soon to send them back there who asked to look after them in the meantime. while it's not just not definitely have to be paid too soon but if we send them back to the refugee camps then we have to take care of them absolutely right we think this is our job. but we do not have access to this region unfortunately all right chris good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us chris moyles of from the un refugee agency. an investigation into possible war crimes in nigeria is being sought by the prosecutor of the international criminal court the prosecutor's office concluded that both

boko haram and nigerian security forces committed acts that amount to crimes against humanity fighting between the 2 sides has been going on since spoke or launched with a free operations in northeastern nigeria in 2009 judges now need to approve the i.c.c. prosecutor request for a full investigation. a bill to legalize abortion in argentina has cleared a major hurdle passing a vote in the house of congress but it's expected to face more resistance in the senate from stories about our reports was 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 by 131 votes to 117 it now goes to the senate any idea only has 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 as a right that we deserve to save women's lives was activists gather outside congress abortion is a divisive issue in argentina although a large sector of society wants to see the legal ised others do not want to see the bill turned into law if pope francis is from argentina and can influence how politicians world. the plaster in front of congress were 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 all over the up women are worth of work like a subtle work abortion come back like from my mother grandmother for the mother of 5. her 6 mother borton i was like well not burden free not my mother manohar the world. he says that argentina's abortion legislation could set a precedent in the region leave our larry slow all the other countries in the region back to the bank to have the p.c. on their 10 back in the fifty's he says happened here and to be a leader in the next thing i would say i am told that the whole class and nothing clinton every time and here's where we finally anything i think some of you have

a thing up in the news. 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 but he said will win the hightest. hong kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon jimmy lie has been charged under the controversial security law that was imposed on the territory by beijing the allegations include that he colluded with foreign forces was already in prison after being denied bail over a separate vehicle pollen report stuff from hong kong. now jimmy law is facing a number of cases mostly related to his pro-democracy activities and his own involvement in protests but this charge of collusion with foreign forces against the national security is the most significant he faces the biggest penalty if found

guilty possibly life in prison jimmy lies well known here he's a billionaire is a media mogul he's a founder of hong kong's biggest pro-democracy news outlets he's also known for his very close ties with the trumpet ministration in fact last year he held meetings at the height of the hong kong protests last summer with the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe and with the vice president mike pence it is perhaps his close relationship with the u.s. that has put him in the crosshairs of the national security law and incidentally this latest charge comes just days after the u.s. it leveled the latest round of sanctions against chinese officials for what they say is eroding hong kong's autonomy but the crackdown on hong kong seems to have intensified as we come towards the end of the year in fact just today around $100.00 people are facing cases and charges in court for protests and pro-democracy

related activities one of those $100.00 activists in court was a high profile protest leader tony chong has been found guilty of insulting china's national flag of unlawful assembly the 19 year old was convicted for his part and demonstrations outside hong kong's legislator in may of last year will be sentenced later this month the charges carry a combined penalty of up to 8 years in prison. we got a weather update next year and after syria then we'll take a look at a palestinian israeli man's legal battle for equal education rights for his children. i was forced to fight but i just can't come soon enough for these 2 boxes jenny will be here with that story a little later and there's always new news. for

. the weather this on the cold side across the middle east but dry lot of seattle weather coming through there will be a few showers across northern parts of the region to he could see some showers some longer spells of frame for type sliding a little further east which maybe still want to see showers that they'd see were northern parts of iran just up around the caucuses here in casa fun is right temperatures around 24 celsius quite a keen should malo 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 with some showers sent to central parts of africa as we should do the showers threats in the way of its awards the gulf of guinea some watching weather for tom across that western side of the democratic republic of congo somewhat where the 2 coming into zambia some really heavy rain you notice 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 russia shows that the center northern parts of mozambique with also some showers for good measure in zimbabwe. to inculpate a culture of knowledge openness. some pluralism worldwide to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity to shake a model warthe for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and on a translators and acknowledge their role in strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation between our of islamic and wild cultures. what is that we've been doing with the money that it's for we bring you the stories

and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in argentina as congress is debating bills it is a raise billions of dollars to the super rich support families hit odd by the ballot counting the cost on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. well again this is the news are from al-jazeera adrian finnegan with you here in doha the headlines 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 $990.00

levels is a step up from the previous goal of 40 percent. head of the us refugee agency says that he's received an overwhelming number of reports about eritrean refugees and tiebreak being killed abducted the ethiopian government insists that it is safe to forcibly send a trained refugees backed. the hizbollah fugitive convicted of the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri has been given 5 life terms i ash was sentenced in absentia by a special tribunal and one of. the paucity of front in western sahara is threatening to intensify the conflict with iraq hope that solves the us recognized morocco's claim over the disputed territory in exchange morocco became the 4th arab nation to agree to normalize ties with israel al-jazeera 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.

and siding with. old media united states is recognized. for a long time and. international law concerns. in order to get. the palestinians have 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. a palestinian israeli father

says that he's fighting for equal educational rights for his children in a case involving israel's controversial nation state law bakri was seeking compensation for having to drive his children out of town because there's no arabic language school harry force of reports now from northern israel it's an early morning routine that carson bakri and is 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 argument 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 camile 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. 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 at the 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 had to be what happened in the court is another level of racism and it's now no longer a matter of practice. 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 are a force that al-jazeera cameo northern israel. it's only has seen a decline in the number of covert 19 deaths and hospital admissions it reported 761 coronavirus related deaths on friday that's a drop of more than 100 compared to the day before and fewer new patients were admitted to hospital just 208 people had 2nd wave it was accelerating fast in november missions were rising by around 1000 per day indonesia has reported 175 coronavirus related deaths on friday the highest since the pandemic began the government has received over a 1000000 doses of china's sign of a vaccine that aims to get in occupations as soon as regulators approve the job. a curfew was imposed across the occupied west bank to try to contain the outbreak

honesty and authorities ordered a full lockdown in cities such as novelists bethlehem and hebron after a surgeon infections over the weekend all non-essential businesses will be closed the health ministry has reported more than 104000 cases since the outbreak began or at least $900.00 deaths. britain's astra zeneca will start to test a combination of its experimental vaccine with russia's sputnik v shows trials for the combined inoculations a set start by the end of the year that reports. across the united states they're getting ready to vaccinate people against covered 90 it's a matter of urgency with the daily death toll reaching 3000 this week and hospital struggling the food and drug administration is set to approve emergency use of a phase a biotech vaccine within days and vulnerable people could actually get the job by early next week as we vaccinate more and more people we will ultimately maybe by

mid year next year when the 20 wanted sheep herd immunity. perhaps 75 percent of people x. and it's shut down and and a pandemic well late in 2021 in another big move u.k. and russian scientists to teaming up to study whether combining 2 vaccines office better protection trials in russia will involve adults getting both the sputnik v. vaccine reported to be 90 percent effective and the astra zeneca vaccine developed with the university of oxford with average efficacy reported at around 70 percent 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 and a 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 but there are new setbacks to france's central feet and britain's glaxo smith kline say their vaccine won't be ready now until the end of next year after interim results showed

a low immune response in older people the vaccine was set to provide almost a 3rd of callbacks doses that's the global vaccine purchasing facility which many of the poorest countries are relying on and australia's counsel production of a domestic vaccine off the trials showed it could lead to false positive tests for a choice fixing the problem could take another year this is one of 4 vaccines the government there has ordered it's still planning to start vaccinations next march insisting its success in stopping coronavirus spreading means it doesn't need to rush we're aware of what is happening in other states and another now. around the world we have a front row seat frankly is as dye goes through that and work through any potential issues that arise in europe the u.k. has a head start on choose davis 91 year old became the 1st person anywhere to get the pfizer biotech vaccination as part of a mass rollout it was manufactured in belgium which plans to start vaccinations in early january other nations are set to follow once there's

a green light from the european union. whether that will happen within the same hour week 27 member states of the needle is injected everywhere at the same time i'm not sure but we want to do this in a very coordinated fashion and show that everyone has the same kind of access meanwhile health experts and campaigners are urging wealthy nations to make sure the world's poorest citizens have access to vaccines if and when they're ready barbara al-jazeera both south korea and japan are seeing a rise in the number of new infections people there are experiencing fundamental changes to their everyday lives but while some of struggle to adapt others have come up with new ways to cope and stay afloat rob a bride reports from seoul. serving up ramen noodles in this tokyo district for 15 years this is yes shiro her last day in business his regulars lined up for one final ball like many other small businesses his hasn't been able to survive the

pandemic to prove. that the corona virus 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 i think for humans mass 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 bride al jazeera so. a free education program in got us public high schools is proving so popular but some private fee paying

schools are being forced to close all of their grades are improving many students have to wait months to get a place critics say that that's causing major social problems. i would address reports from. 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 dads most students who are in school now linda had the opportunity to be school and that is what can beat those face for the ideal best to cope with this is then. the school year has changed from one of terms to a university semester system but when this course of struggle to accommodate all the students who applied for places that means while some students attend classes for months others are forced to stay home and wait their turn. so that it will has

and has 2 children in junior school. the. implementation. problem every parent worried about a film. where back when we pay for i think their mug of government. is about $500.00 a mug. for about $500.00. but if you're told they've been a rule on for years. and then even if god comes back you don't have to spend another 400 or 500. 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 where once the exclusive preserve of middle and upper class get their hands but there's been a bus exodus to public schools for free education. the private. school.

closed down because most. 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 caused when students have to spend months of tool waiting to place in class comment increase. or gotten. for the u.s. state of california the effects of global warming or to rail so it's working hard to reverse the trends the state's governor has ambitious goals for a 0 carbon future as well brunell's reports. few places in the united states have suffered as dramatically and painfully from global warming as

california long term drought high temperatures low humid he and bone dry forests have caused year after year of catastrophic wildfires the fires. here and people are the dots in 2018 raging fires incinerated the town of paradise killing 85 people earlier this year fires consumed more than 1600000 hectares of california land killing 33 and choking cities with smoke california's governor blamed the disasters squarely on climate change the science is absolute the data is self evident the experience that we have in the state of california just underscoring the reality of the ravages of climate change it's not only fires in august death valley reached

54.4 degrees celsius one of the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet sea level rise threatens the state's famed beaches but even as global warming threatens to turn the california dream into a nightmare no place in the u.s. is doing more to combat the crisis california was the 1st large state to create a cap and trade marketplace for emissions its auto emissions standards are the strictest in the country and petroleum powered vehicles will be completely phased out by 2035 wind solar and other renewable energy resources are being ramped up by. law california is set to produce 100 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2045 there are very few places in the world that have done as much to build renewable energy to put in place energy conservation efforts and probably

most importantly now to lead us weekly words a world without internal combustion engines but big questions remain including public acceptance question is are they going to come out enough scots fast and have are they going to be willing to accept the changes that are going to be necessary in order to stabilize the climate system a state imperiled by a warming climate summoning the will to fight back robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. just ahead here on the news out of formula one driver who helped to put out is own engine file that's coming up in the sports with jemma next.

hour again time for sports his job. thanks a.j. let's start with football a robot that is the only man he can start leaning messy in christiania an hours away from winning the best men's player of the year award the bond munich in poland strike adjoins those 2 on a 3 man shortlist but the result to be announced next week he's already won the european award scored 55 goals to help one win 4 trophies last season including the champions 8 when they beat messi $82.00 in the quarter finals then he once since 2008 his 5th as a would not be won by messi or renowned in england newcastle boss steve perry says he feels like a doctor rather than a coach as the club deal with 19 outbreak their premier league game against aston

villa was called off last week but they are able to play against west brom on saturday or be it with a few players still missing. it's been a significant number of people and i've got 2 members of staff who are poorly at the minute and sick with it so we hope we hope that they're ok we really really hope. to see the clubs do everything that come for the welfare of the players and the stuff i feel i could talk to this week rather than a football manager it's been really really difficult fans that israeli club base are divided over the partial takeover by abu dhabi's well family more than $100.00 gathered at the training ground to supports the neko and shake hamad bin khalifa ally on its promise to invest $19000000.00 over the next decade but the club has never signed an arab player and a few dozen hardcore fans and 9 for that anti arab fees protested and $4.00 people were arrested after scuffles the club's owner who brokered the deal is also

reported threats against his family. because i know what i wanted to be known that baitullah jerusalem is not a racist team it is a great team in israel i want the stigma to be taken out of its name because we can achieve good things and racism is like a glass ceiling preventing us from doing so with the. so for me i won in some dramatic pictures of from practice for the season ending abu dhabi grand prix the 2nd session it was delayed for a few minutes and give me reichen and alfa romeo suffered a big engine fire warning seems given that running graze on the suffered funs in a serious fire reacted in just 2 weeks ago in bahrain thankfully on this occasion reichen he's known as the ice man was able to escape with no injuries in fact the finish dr actually how the marshals put out the flames watch n.p.r. news hamilton resigns the track often missing the last race with coded 19 he's been cleared to race off to completing 10 days of corn to it was his team a battery bought as he was quickest on friday how it's

a night just happy to be back. it felt like i spent a lot of time away from the car very or so it was yesterday about to be familiarized myself in the car the car was in court just. the way it was when i. had left didn't sit in the sense of the balance was in the same as if he had. previously but i'm working my way back to learn come to the. basketball star le bron james has been named time magazine's athlete of the year for his work against voter suppression. style house his team to the n.b.a. title earlier this year but it's his work against social injustice that's been rewarded is more than a vital guys ation hout drive a wreck all tired out in this year's u.s. presidential election. i don't want to lose sight of le bron james's awesomeness on the court. he is the greatest basketball player of his generation arguably of any

generation and he won a 4th title this year that's no small thing but his true influence was what he did off the court and le bron has had 8 remarkable influence across activism frankly it's a rounded world he has used his unparalleled platform as not just the most talented basketball player in the world but one of the most popular figures in the entire world to create space for other athletes to bring their full selves to their sports and no longer feel there was a trade off between success on the court principle off specifically this year with his more than a vote organization he engaged directly in the democratic process registering tons of people to vote tens of thousands of volunteers to work at the polls and he used his leverage to persuade the n.b.a.'s 1000000000 their owners to convert many of

the stadiums and arenas into polling places enabling more people to vote safely will social distancing i think it is not an overstatement to say that he had a direct impact on the presidential election. if you brought in compete so they tell you carolyn pigs next to her face no punishment for raising social justice issues the us an m.p. committee has announced they won't punish athletes who peacefully and respectfully protest against rule 50 of the olympic charter which prohibits any kind of demonstration inside the competition venue. in a statement on thursday the council said the silencing of athletes during the games is in stark contrast to the importance of recognizing participants in the games as humans 1st and athletes 2nd ago and patrick reid remains on track to become the 1st american to win the european tools race to dubai the former losses champion was top of the rankings heading into the season ending well top championship and he's now

taking control with an 8 under par 2nd round of $64.00 he's 2 shots clear of the failed and closing in on the $2000000.00 1st prize. but just a day away from world heavyweight boxing champion anthony joshua defending his titles against challenges. the things i've got a little bit heated already security guys have to separate the pads they faced off at the weigh in joshua has won 23 of 24 fights with 22 a knockout on his bow garry an opponent has only lost one of his previous $29.00 fights a 1000 fans will be allowed into london's wembley arena for the ballots but if that is all useful for now i'll be back with more a little bit later. jemma many thanks dave don't forget this pretty news video sports analysis comments at the web site take a look at 0 dot com that's it from the news hour i'll be back in just a couple of moments to update you on the day's top stories we'll see it there but

for. we've never had a president who has literally for 4 or 5 years repeatedly attacked our democracy. you know blew through looking at the different planes i have a narrative i had a question you're hitting that really where people can't get treated and it does feel so even further join me richelle carey and up front it's my guess i'm around the world take a hot seat and we debate the week's top stories in pressing issues here on out is

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possible. here at al-jazeera we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. the u.n. refugee agency says that it's received reports of eritrea refugees and ethiopians to great region being killed abducted and forcibly returned. hello i'm adrian figure this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we will reduce emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 the european union sets itself out of business targets to help prevent the planet from overheating. a un backed call.