can batting the impossible to sell their goods and isolated areas. we follow that daring journeys as they overcome the extremes. risking it all afghanistan on al jazeera. the most vulnerable countries are those that are least responsible for the rights of climate change world leaders meeting virtually to come up with a plan to deal with the effects of global warming especially on poor countries. deal with al-jazeera live from doha are also coming up as the world approaches 100000000 coronavirus cases a new variant is raising alarm in germany. a new report reveals how the pandemic

has led to unprecedented levels of unemployment worldwide. uganda's high court rules the house arrest of the opposition leader bobby wine is unlawful and ask security personnel to leave the premises. leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit today to try to close the gap between how rich and poor countries tackle climate change the meeting is hosted by the netherlands and it's the 1st of its kind in a clock explains. this summit is all about supercharging the effort to protect people and nature from the effects of a rapidly heating climate as well as the urgent need to reduce emissions we also need to defend ourselves it's already unavoidable impacts of climate change on fold we're seeing those impacts every day this was mozambique less than 2 years ago when

cycling killed more than a 1000 people now literally today the country is again in pick itself up after cycling elouise swept through from australia to california wildfires are growing in intensity destroying whole communities to this floods droughts sea level rise all threats we need to adapt to adaptation is crucial because more than 1000000000 people around the world are highly variable to climate change and it is really a matter of interest and intergenerational equity. the most vulnerable countries are those that are least responsible for the bites of climate change so this is really about climate justice now many of the adaptation measures to make people safer are relatively cheap to implement from early warning systems again storms to regrowing coastal mangroves to provide a natural barrier against storm surges but hard cash promised by richer nations to

build this resilience well that's not been forthcoming it's estimated funding needs to increase 10 fold to $300000000000.00 a year as part of an overall reset of the way we live. it is not a choice of either the economy or you know a terrible life it's not because everybody's going to eat meat or whatever choices are thrown around there's going to be the greatest economic transformation in global history and just like the industrial revolution this will be the defining of a better quality of life for our citizens over a long period of time climate related disasters have cost $650000000000.00 globally in the last 3 years but it has been calculated that every dollar spent on that taishan prevents $12.00 of damage one of the same time building resilience against extreme events that are already upon us which impact the pool most of all

in a moment we'll speak to nicholas popping in senegal where rising sea water levels a threat thanks a community stepha's let's go to step who's following the summit at the hague for us so step what's the latest from the discussions well the sad part is that there's not really any discussions here what we've been listening to are statements some of them prerecorded by you know world leaders we have listened to marco mark cohen chance and modi and i has been speaking as well they're all very committed to this climate climate adaptation and they're also talking about millions of dollars that they want to spend in their own country to protect the country from my rising sea levels and noble warming but we know at the same time the same made us are struggling very badly with their covert $1000.00 pandemic and that's the big issue here during this conference that so much money will be black and also will be spent to make

a kind of me says strong again after the pandemic that this money needs to respond in a climate proof way and that's also what the prime minister mark put the sad climate is at the heart of this cold front that responds. if we fail to act climate change could push more than 100000000 people in developing countries below the poverty line partridges searching for those for them which for here to climate adaptation is a matter of pure survival and large bunch of my country lies below sea level and as you know the number is a small dentistry populated and resourceful country so we are very ambitious but you're reaching at the same time the limits of climate nature but also the environment can't cope with. business as usual it's no longer an option for my country and for many others in this situation. well the figures are very

interesting the prime minister mentioned if you invest 1.8 trillion into climate adaptation then you will save 7 point one trillion so if you spend money preventing disasters of course you don't need to spend it when you need to rebuild. in the netherlands step what particular challenges that they're facing that well as the prime minister said wait here 30 percent below sea level of course the netherlands has been adapting in the last centuries already it was a big disaster 50 years ago so there are dikes but the dikes are also struggling because the sea level is rising this is also at the same time a series draw to the summer was extremely hot so not once is struggling themselves trying to cope with this but also because of its experience and knowledge wants to share a during this summit with the rest of the world as you can see in our report. to

our survival for the dutch if it weren't for the 22000 kilometers of dikes a large part of this land would not even exist but increasingly the country's defense against the elements has to be strengthened against rising sea levels and storms got the oven low house has lived on the water for decades and after documented in the effects of climate change in his own country and around the world he says too much time is lost. it is quite possible that if nothing happens. of the century which is 18 years which is one generation so that would be catastrophic it would mean that. would. be more and have to be. the dangers not only come from the sea but also from the river us that are swallowing more rain water than before storms like these are

increasingly common over the dutch lowlands the strong winds and high waves are threatening the country's dikes that were built hundreds of years ago only up until here and now have to be meet higher a race against time as the climate is changing more rapidly than predicted. in 195-3000 died in the south of the netherlands during floods after the disaster large dams sluices and storm surge barriers were constructed the moslem carrying 4 times have you done the eiffel tower in paris was built to protect the city of rotterdam adaptation is culture in the netherlands we live with water already for thousands and thousands of years as the world's only special envoy for water affairs hang over in his stars to take the dutch water expertise to the rest of the world the world has to acknowledge that you don't work with these challenges by looking back and every cover off the disasters no adaptation is about looking ahead

to the future and prepare yourself instead of working against the water the dutch are increasingly using its power to strengthen the coastline this so-called sand and gin is a natural way of creating a peninsula by using sand and currents a math that is now also being used along the coast of the u.k. . but despite these innovations god the is less optimistic than that a lens can be saved in the long run. it's predicted. to 100 years that most of them not. even so the nat'l and a 3rd of which is below sea level is already beating the odds and it centuries of knowledge of water management is seen as a key to its survival. prime minister of that has called this a day of action but action can only be taken if the world world together and that's

is going to be the main challenge here during this time and because what we've seen during the 19th and that make is that countries have mean looking inward and been trying to help their own economy so the big question is are they can they put their strength to get or and make this work as a productive step thanks very much step in the in the hague let's say from one coastal area to another one to go where our correspondent joins us live from popping in is a coastal area suffering from erosion just to be clear nick the erosion that they've seen there that's a direct result of rising sea levels that's a direct result of global warming. exactly what you see right behind me is perhaps a window of what the world will look like unless world leaders mitigate and adapt to climate change but me i'm your home there were just standing there there was living rooms kitchens people used to come here on holiday there's even

a summer house of the president back in the distance well all of that is now destroyed by what or by this peter but right behind me the ocean the ocean rapidly rising and we're able to see this right now because we're at low tide but during the rainy season all of this is swept by the ocean and that's how all of this was destroyed one by one how is it is being toppled by the rising sea now it's not just happening here just a few kilometers from the capital but all along the coastline specifically in the town of san louis a unesco world heritage site a historic site it was the capital of french africa it's barely one meter above sea level and if not more is done to protect it well it will disappear and already people are on the move take a look at our report. an unexpected tide swept away xena goofballs home with it a lifetime of memories remember she says to her son at emma how in

a matter of hours our living room where you used to watch t.v. kitchen and your bedroom were wiped away by the ocean's currents they now live on the outskirts of the city with thousands of others displaced a new life the city council told them to adapt to that sound but being forced to live a difficult life here this was supposed to be temporary and we're living here now for 2 years there's no food no help and no sign from authorities anything will change we won't be able to return home. to save what is left of what used to be the capital of the colonial era french west africa france and the world bank have raised $40000000.00 for what they call climate adaptation the funds have so far been used to buy more tense educate displaced children and construct new embankments but when the tide recedes the ocean's destruction appears entire neighborhoods of a historic unesco world heritage site are swallowed into the atlantic in 2006 the

city cut a 3 metre breach in an embankment thinking it would empty out the water instead it allowed more of it in with the breach growing to 8 kilometers long making matters worse you sand formation has made it dangerous for fishermen to navigate. from the moment but it's a catastrophe more than 500 fishermen have drowned because of the breach people are desperate now that's why so many young people are leaving sunway to try to get to europe. more than 20000 people made it to spain's canary islands last year many from sunday week as a result the spanish coast guards can now be seen patrolling some of the shores. first spain protecting europe from a wave of illegal migration starts here but there is no protection against the rising oceans for this and they believe living here and while rich polluting countries asked for countries to adapt to a changing climate people here say the damage is done it's too late to get them in

the community in the camp an elder takes in a blue son adam aside you have nothing to lose he explains showing him a picture of a young man who is now in madrid. with so much loss adapting to a changing climate means letting her son go and braved the oceans tight in search of a safe place to live. 24000000 people were displaced because of the changing climate just last year and according to u.n. prediction those numbers will double unless the world leaders take action and try to both medicate and help poor countries that are not polluting adapt to the changing climate but for people here like in pumping in it's already too late they've already suffered from the rising ocean and so they're left with one thing to be on the move to search for a safer place to live and we've met over the course of the last 6 months many

migrants many people who are living here and putting it but also in sally we who are getting ready to travel to europe they say that the conditions for them to live in in here in these countries are no longer suitable for them they can't grow food their homes are destroyed and because of the rising ocean and the warming temperatures there is less fish in the ocean so there they say they're forced to move to find a safer place to live and that's what's at stake in this gathering in the hague is to try to find a solution for these men the ins of people that are continually being displaced by the changing climate peter thanks very much nicholas reporting live from popping in and some ago. still to come on this program vietnam's biggest political event the communist party needs to shape policy for the next 5 years plus. dozens arrested in the netherlands during protests against time curfew which.

temporarily tempers are risen in much of the station fact they've risen enough to bring rain up through japan south korea there is snow to the north there is very cold air a long way north in mongolia and i think i'll show itself it will run back in temperatures drop in beijing for example much of china is increasingly chad it is light right it is light rain for the most part makes it i think a bit miserable for many where the sun gives you a bit of pleasure during the winter the picture in beijing is fairly obvious that increasing wind brings in the real show with subzero for thursday and friday with quite a wind chill i think on thursday is self it's dry a long way sized to get to indonesia weather of course it is still rainy season

there's still plenty of big showers but they're all that many north of borneo there are quite a few to the south particularly java and across to west papua the few showers in this northeastern flow are in sri lanka well into showing in bits of eastern in india but for the most part dry the story in india of course is still the fog is persistent it's widespread across the whole knowlton plain beyond delhi in both directions and bangladesh and with that fog temperature is 10 to slowly drop the cold wave is back from wednesday. from the. top to owners there are we heard tell us already a case where civilians have been compensated severely is all we listen to the only music you hear is your own the most beautiful music in the world is silence we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that the no 0. in india

really 3000000 people have been excluded from the least of citizen. one i won a speech the family's life to live a long. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera your top stories so far today leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit to address climate change the meeting is hosted by the netherlands and is the 1st of its kind that aims to close a major funding gap to protect the most vulnerable in poor nations. on place under threat from rising sea levels is the west coast of senegal to say force left the city there that's a good ask a world heritage site france in the world bank robberies $40000000.00 to help

people living there adapt to climate change. uganda's highest court has ruled the continued detention of the opposition leader bobby wine is unlawful the court has directed the police and military to leave mr winds residents he has been under house arrest since january the 15th a day after the country's presidential election well since that court decision bobbie wine has tweeted that the military is still surrounding his home and blocking access to it catherine sawyer has been monitoring developments from neighboring kenya here's her update. i'd have spoken to the police spokesman fred and mongo who said that they will abide by the court ruling and will withdraw the soldiers and the police that have besieged by the winds whom he did not say when he higher also said that they are going to keep the surveillance going he did not give details on what this surveillance is but then when i was in uganda

covering the election i spoke to him several times and he did mention about this surveillance that has been going on he insisted and continues to insist that bobby wine is not and house arrest he says what the security forces have done is provide a cover a surveillance because of a bobbie one's own protection and also because they have information that whine was planning to organize a violent protest after they declare a ration of the presidential results but he did say that the that they will withdraw the forces that are there now i also talked to one of winds lawyers of benjamin katana who says that he is not holding his breath his breath he's going to believe this withdrawal when he sees it he however says that if the police defies that court order then the lawyers of well whine are going to be forced to go back to court to file for contempt. the european union is discussing it will respond to

the arrests of more than 3000 people across russia before the monday meeting in brussels the top diplomat just a borel said the events were worrying and of great concern russian police detained thousands of protesters over the weekend during rallies supporting the jailed opposition leader alexian. thousands of yemenis are protesting against a decision by the former trumpet ministration to designate hoofy rebels a foreign terrorist organization protesters have been rallying in the capital sana'a and other controlled provinces the biden ministration is reviewing former u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei owes last minute announcement aid groups say the designation will put millions of starving yemenis at risk and harm the peace process. more than 200 people have been detained across the netherlands while protesting against coronavirus lock down rules police deployed to 10 cities on sunday they used water cannon to clear some of the crowds. for the 1st time since world war 2

the capital of the netherlands is under curfew from 9 in the evening until 4 30 in the morning people in amsterdam have been told to stay home and on sunday this was the reaction of many crowds of hundreds of people voicing defiance even as needing some measure enlightened i don't agree with the actual politics in the netherlands the restrictions of freedom and it's all the whole point the media don't always show these protests nicely but i hope we can show that this is just a voice a voice saying no we have so fright that we're going in the wrong direction this is understandable but it's really the wrong way. bars restaurants cinemas and cafes in the country had already been ordered to close in october but the extra restrictions have created an unexpected backlash. if it needs aimed at the apple floor i don't agree with a curfew because i don't believe that you will have a big effect overall i believe that people who come up with alternatives anyway

normally people would meet at 9 pm but neither will meet at 3 pm they will keep on seeing each other. parliament tighten the restrictions last week to prevent a new surge in cases from a coronavirus variant 1st identified in the u.k. police were deployed in amsterdam and at least 9 other cities nearly 200 people were arrested in the dutch capital on sunday a water cannon were used on demonstrators another 90 were detained 9 of it with a central train station in the city was attacked and vehicles burned the prime minister has condemned the violence that's to an operation of this is unacceptable every normal person can only be disgusted by this one really wonders what has got into these people this has nothing to do with protesting it's criminal violence which will treat as such the government has also banned flights from south africa south america and the u.k. and is preventing ferries carrying british passengers from docking. officials have issued a message telling people not to travel to the netherlands and the national lockdown

is due to remain in place for at least the next 2 weeks and or should help out as here in germany the health minister says e.u. regulators may approve the covert 19 vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday concerns are growing about a mutated variant of the virus 1st identified in the u.k. and now spreading rapidly across germany an entire hospital in berlin was put under quarantine on saturday after an outbreak of the more infectious variant was found there. the mexican president andrus manuel lopez obrador has tested positive for corona virus the 67 year old tweeted he's being treated for mild symptoms and will continue to work from the presidential palace lopez obrador has been condemned for his handling of the pandemic this killed nearly 150000 mexicans the country has the world's 4th highest death toll new zealand's 1st community coronavirus case in months was likely spread during quarantine a woman tested positive just days after completing 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine

after arriving in the country it's believed she caught a more infectious south african variant of the virus from another traveler inside the corone team facility. now the case has now been given confirmed status that was a probable cases to date is now a confirmed case we know that the person's husband and he had researched negative now it's i outlined this morning it's a very encouraging development that we can also confirm that the strain of in fiction is the south african variant and the source of in fiction is highly likely to be a fellow rich a knee jerking the person stay at the problem and hotel job losses during the pandemic has been 4 times higher than those from the 2009 global financial crisis that's according to the international labor organization it says more than 8 percent of global working hours that's equal to 255000000 jobs were lost last year women have been more affected than men younger workers have also been hit hard but

it's not all bad news the report does say that a school with 1000 vaccinations take effect most countries will see a recovery in the 2nd half of this year. only is the director of the employment policy department at the international labor organization he says many industries won't see a turnaround until we're halfway through 2021. we actually have a cindy core range of jobs in which founding destroyed the last year pe teacher a 'd daughter sectors flank of the accommodation and we tailor and some contractor manufacturing so some service sector as a man factors were hit very hard compared to the efforts we have to try to actually include those workers from the rural sector examples the informal economy as you are there are so have really affected by the call with name here but in the case rural economy because of the nature of their work they are relatively speaking they

are less actually exposed to the calling of 90 related impacts on the labor market compared to the urban sectors but again informal economy what is really heavily affected by the crisis is because of or stricter lockdown measures. we actually expect that the 1st half of the year is faster in the advanced countries in europe and the u.s. continues to be very difficult to so we expect a significant or lever to working our losses priss think the 2nd half of the 1st half a year so we cooperate on the horizon in our view will be the 2nd half of the year columbia's former rebel group the fog has renamed its political party the revolutionary armed forces of colombia will now be called the common people's party the former rebel group has struggled to disassociate itself from its role in the nearly 60 years of violence that killed more than $260000.00 people it became a political party in 26 as part of a peace agreement with the then government. vietnam's ruling communist party is

meeting to select new leaders that will determine the country's policies for next 5 years the southeast asian nation is one of the few remaining communist single party states florence louis has more. the vietnamese communist party congress is arguably the country's biggest political event held over 9 days and mostly behind closed doors delegates will elect 200 candidates into a central committee that committee will then vote in politburo members who intend nominate for top jobs including party chief the main candidates for the new positions are said to be widely known but in december the government imposed an official ban on such discussions to discourage potentially critical debate they're extraordinarily sensitive because this is a one party state where is the be back where is the firming abode of the people public opinion polls editorials in the pundit newspapers even opposition they have

none of that and so extreme party feels extremely sensitive rights groups say the government has intensified a crackdown on critics prior to the congress vietnam consistently ranks in the bottom 10 in the world press freedom index compiled by reporters without borders political watchers say they don't expect much to change the main focus for the country for the next 5 years will still be trying to keep understandable rate of we could make growth and maintains a source of ability it's wesley made the comment make foreign policy but the past 5 years are the main challenge he trying to keep alan's between china and the u.s. army is a very increasingly hostile environment in the south china sea vietnam and china are locked in a territorial dispute in the south china sea and have had several standoffs that the u.s. meanwhile has been seeking to counter the china's rising influence in the region party delegates will need to choose new leaders who can navigate those tensions

along with the country's response to the coronavirus vietnam has been successful in containing it so far with strict quarantine and extensive testing and tracing but like the rest of the world its economy has suffered. growth has slowed to its lowest level in more than 30 years but is on track to recover and the party's new leaders will need to make sure that happens florence louis al-jazeera. this is al jazeera let's update your top stories so far today leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit address climate change the meeting is hosted by the netherlands and is the 1st of its kind it aims to close a major funding gap to protect the most vulnerable in poorer nations if we fail to act climate change could push more than a 100000000 people in this.