my fear of micro tossing from serbia and the hungry to what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i convey the headlines in the most human way possible. here and we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. the u.n. refugee agency says that it's received reports of eritrea and refugees in ethiopia is to agree region being killed abducted and forcibly returned. hello i'm adrian for again 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 an ambitious targets to help prevent the planet from overheating . a un backed court sentences and on the run hezbollah but to life in prison for the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri. that argentina moves one step closer to legalizing abortion after the lower house of congress approves a landmark bill. the head of the un's refugee agency says that he has received an overwhelming number of reports about eritrea and refugees integrate being killed abducted but the ethiopian government insists that it is safe to send refugees back to the region that has been forcing them to return thousands of them fled to the capital addis ababa during fighting in tikrit between local forces and federal government

soldiers at least 4 aid workers have been killed in the tigre a region international rescue committee of the danish refugee council announced the deaths i spoke to chris moyles a who is the spokes person for the un refugee agency in the ethiopian capital at this he says that there are numerous challenges for thousands of displaced people. the main problem is that the refugees were brought back to a region where they just left a couple of weeks before. there's probably still a trauma with these refugees our main problem is that we are not able to provide 2 of these refugees because we do not have no access to our love for refugees refugee camps we have a degree reach the train refugees fled for i'm quite sure for a good reason from from their home and they are they have international protection as the refugees and we have as you mentioned the figure already 96 are not them

where and for refugee camps in the tikrit region if we send them back to the refugee camps then we have to take care of them absolutely right we see this our job is our mandate but we do not have access to this region unfortunately after more than 10 hours of negotiations european union leaders have reached a deal to try to slow climate change and tackle the most pressing issue of our times they have pledged to slash emissions by at least 55 percent compared to 990 levels by the end of this decade the increase from the previous 40 percent targets encountered resistance from some e.u. states like coal reliant poland good 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 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 saddle in the field of climate and diplomacy to bring in other parts of the world to get the jump on the bandwagon and to come up with common standards and share our ambitions. from paul in 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 the machall 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 a poll that 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 i 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 tim goal is head of climate policy at 5 international he says the pledge is a start but the bloc must do more to combat climate change. 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 it's been 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 the focus on strengthening near term emission reductions in the next in the next 10 years so it so that extent of course it's good news that the e.u. has agreed a new stronger talk it but yes there are some big loopholes in there going to counts removal of emissions from forests in europe as well that's a big leap hole and it's still not enough i mean 55 percent yet is a big step forward compared to what they had emitted previously but we got to understand we're in an absolute emergency now we needed 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 that home is only half the story for rich countries in terms of quiting 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 but to adapt to climate change and the carbon ice 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 its drilling operations in the eastern mediterranean the e.u. has agreed to widen its sanctions list to turkish individuals and companies involved in gas drilling activities which are contested by greece turkey is

describing the move as biased and lawful while the yukon trees say their 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 very huge it 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 the e.u. administrations should not listen to the anti ticky lobbies rather go back to

common sense and practical policies more from our 07 costello and istanbul. 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 so far is 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 that a new 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 so they'll know in the next few days if

a deal is possible. 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 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 but 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 because they've got in to keep the u.k. locked in to whatever label to do in terms of the legislation which does work and then there's the whole issue of fish 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 of the murder of lebanon's former prime minister has been sentenced to 5 life terms salim was tried and sentenced in absentia he was fond of played a leading role in the bombing that killed a fee career day and $21.00 other people in 2005 his sentence was handed down by the special tribunal for lebanon based in the netherlands from beirut is out as a result of hoarder. some would argue that. 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 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 courts 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 controls political and military power in this country if any security agency would even try to attempt to arrest him or yes 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 things the killing of the balance of power has been in favor of hezbollah and its allies. hizbollah says the charges brought against the canseco lebanese prime minister over the beirut port explosion a politically motivated. 3 former ministers have been charged with negligence over

the oldest loss that left will them $200.00 dead the statement by the iran backed hezbollah is part of a wider political pushback against the course of ongoing investigation found that ministers were aware of the stockpile of the body of nitrate responsible for the blast. weather update next here on al-jazeera then scientists from russia and the u.k. of joining forces to try out a combination of the oxford astra zeneca and sputnik the coronavirus flexing of bangladesh finds ways to deal with the rising number of climate change refugees. there it's looking pretty unsettled prosecute parts of here at the moment really anywhere away from that eastern side of the counter and there is civil oppression

bring you some very wet sand windy weather and at times when she weather as well not a little area of low pressure center there in the mediterranean more wind and rain a little rolling during the course of the next few days and that will warm things up but ahead of that it has been a very wintry this is the same in the west in austria where we say over a meter of snow in just the past few days and that's what's hot list like ok rebuff 1500 meters here but still an awful lot of snow how you feel little quiet for austria has become a through saturday west some with weather and wintry weather pushes a little further east which ensue we're remaining in a wintry mix that just pushing over towards ukraine to wards belarus and up towards the baltic states and then more snow coming back in across the alps as we go on through saturday they start to shift a little further race was as we go on into sunday more wet weather very heavy rain unitas there down towards the southeast into greece and turkey pushing up towards a bowl garia that we're looking at that whets and windy weather starting to stream

its way in from the atlantic over the next couple of days but at least the temperatures are on the rise. from the ounces here in london to will cost $10.00 times team special get income. but face and i don't feel because of colonialism unprompted it's fun interrupted there's a sense of what month but i'm still having some legitimacy in terms of spreading the knowledge and technology pretty ago powell meets tools that parents need to make a recommendation for something as more new mentally horrific and flavoring studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

well again this is out of the main news this the head of the u.n. refugee agency says that he's received an overwhelming number of reports about eritrea and refugees in t. gray being killed abducted the ethiopian government insists that it is safe to forcibly send their trained refugees back to tea where a. 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. of the hezbollah fugitive convicted in the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri has been given 5 life to others so he was sentenced in absentia by a special tribunal in the netherlands.

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 when its 2nd wave was accelerating fast and the admissions were rising by around 1000 a 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 side of that vaccine that aims to begin an occupation sassoon as regulators approve the job. a curfew has been imposed across the occupied west bank to try to contain the outbreak there was a study of authorities ordered a full locked out in cities such as not speth the head of hebron after a surge in the number of infections over the weekend all non-essential businesses will be closed the health ministry has reported more than 104000 cases since the

outbreak began at least 900 deaths britain's astra zeneca will start to test a combination of its experimental vaccine with russia's sputnik v. shot trials for the combined inoculation a set to stop by the end of the year as al-jazeera is that the 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 only next week as we know accident 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 evolve 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 cental feet and britain's got so 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 complex 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. sions 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 tuesday this 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 of fish dinner in the months months whether that will happen within the same hour with $27.00 member states that 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 ready barbara al-jazeera. 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 a satirist or as a bow reports i am 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 i mean i know you get up when we all get 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. activists gather outside congress and motion 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 i pope francis is from argentina and can influence how politicians world. the plaza in front of congress was separated by a fence as security forces were there to prevent violence between those in favor of abortion and those against a 1000000 they would have rather than me. 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 . that way oh go that woman are over her work like a sham were aboard her comeback right propaganda come out of her was that her father was. her 6 over and over abortion was not burger free not that i'm laughing i know about the world. he says that argentina's abortion legislation could set a precedent in the region with our beloved fellow all the other candidates in the region back to the bank to have the happy feet on their 10 back in a 5050 happening again i have to tell you in my field in mexico i would say i am told that the hole has nothing fluffy very carefully and we finally have it you know they can get efficient enough you have a very high up in the mean time. 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 tightest. u.s. president and president elect joe biden is about to introduce his latest pick of cabinet members let's go live now to wilmington delaware i did your castro can tell us more susan rice we hear is poised to be announced as domestic policy council directed today but that doesn't exactly come without controversy does it. that's right or nor with some surprises adrian because as you know susan rice has a long career in foreign policy she served as president obama's ambassador to the u.n. before becoming his national security advisor and it was it's reported that she had been in consideration by bided to perhaps be secretary of state but ultimately she

was passed over due to concerns of a difficult confirmation process republicans have attacked susan rice along with hillary clinton over their perceived role in the benghazi attacks now with this appointment as the director of the national domestic policy council rice does not need senate confirmation and in this new role she would take on a slate of domestic policy issues everything from education to health care to civil rights the biden transition issuing a statement earlier saying that rice knows the government inside and out that's despite her not having exact relevant experience to this new role and as a black woman she also helps further president elect biden's commitment to surrounding himself with a racially diverse group of advisors but where the biden team thus far may lack some diversity adrian is that it doesn't appear to have that much new blood on it will see so many names that come from the obama administration and to other prime

examples to be announced later today is tom vilsack who has been nominated to reprice his role in the obama administration as the secretary of agriculture and dennis mcconnell who was obama's chief of staff now nominees become secretary of veteran affairs for the really think sort of your customer there will be. bangladesh has launched what's thought to be the world's largest climate refugee project the goal is to house a growing number of people who are forced to leave homes due to climate change and a failing economy. chowdhry reports from cox's bazar. muzzammil hawk was 17 years old when his father died at sea during a devastating cycle on that heat southern bangladesh in 1901 an estimated 140000 people were killed and 10000000 lost their homes he managed to survive the storm

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

a small shop to get by their very top of the. aisle home got washed away in 1991 after 30 years finally our prime minister has provided us with homes here but this place is too isolated with little opportunity to make a living plus there are no schools no mosques or graveyards. according to the world resources institute bangladesh is one of the country's worst affected by global warming despite having one of the lowest carbon footprints bangladesh government loses one percent off its g.d.p. every year due to the impact of climate change.

environment experts say the 2015 peri segment is still the best hope to contain the facts of global warming but for bangladesh the impact of climate change is already a harsh reality and dealing with climate internal migration has become one of its biggest challenges. cox's bizarre. it is good to have you with us however i dream for the good here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the head of the un's refugee agency says that he's received an overwhelming number of reports about eritrea and refugees in te gray being killed an abducted the ethiopian government insists that it is safe to send the

refugees back to tikrit european union leaders have agreed to cut carbon emissions by place to 55 percent by the end of the decade.