we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take a now just era bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. how to 0. 'd if we fail to act climate change could push more than a 100000000 people in developing countries below to poverty line by 2030 world leaders meet virtually to come up with a plan to deal with the effects of global warming especially on poor countries. hello i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. pharmaceutical company but the other claims that its covert 19 vaccine is affective

against the u.k. and south african variants of the virus the potato is only preliminary. over $250000000.00 jobs lost the world's top labor organization reveals the huge economic cost of the coronavirus pandemic uganda's high court rules the house arrest of opposition leader bobby why in is $1.00 more full of orders security forces to leave the premises. world leaders are addressing a summit on how to adapt to the effects of climate change it's hosted by the netherlands and brings together more than $120.00 nations along with $98.00 global bodies while previous summits so focused on the causes of climate change this is the 1st one coping with the effects new research presented at the summit suggests that half a 1000000 people have been killed by extreme weather events this century the u.s.

is promising global leadership president joe biden's clive climate envoy john kerry made his 1st appearance of the global summit last week by an agreed to return to the 2015 paris climate accord. kimberly how could a school for assault from washington with a message from john kerry in his 1st major speech as the special climate envoy john kerry made it very clear that he believes that the united states and the world is behind target when it comes to combating global climate change but he also said that the united states is serious about turning it around saying that the biden ministration has laid out very ambitious goals in order to do that including transitioning to 100 percent renewables by the year 2035 he also said and with some humility he pointed out that given the last 4 years of the truck administration's policies that the united states has been largely absent from this

fight but under a biden administration he promised that everything will change. and president biden knows that we have to mobilize an unprecedented way to meet a challenge that is fast external rating and he knows we have limited time to get it under control but that reason united states immediately rejoined the terrorist agreement and we intend to do everything we possibly can to ensure that comp 26 results in ambitious climate action in which all major emitter countries raise ambitions significantly and in which we help protect those who are the most vulnerable so the message from john kerry to global leaders is that even though he is acknowledging that important time has been lost he says that the united states will now do everything it can to make up for it but we should point out that there is controversy in the united states over some of the biden administration policies

particularly as it pushes to some of these renewable energy sources the concern being that as the united states is trying to recover economically from the global pandemic that many of these decisions could cost ordinary americans their jobs. one of the countries whose coast is suffering from erosion is sun ago i was in a close hawk joins us now from pop again in senegal nick tell us more about the impacts of climate change that. well look adrian just a moment we just spoke about an hour ago and the tide was in and now you can see the ocean tides coming in and hitting what is left of these homes now this is in the result of an earthquake or a bombing this is the result of the rising ocean destroying these homes and it happened over the course of a few days during a storm where one after the other the homes were toppled down like dominoes by the

sheer force of the ocean that you see right here that's coming in now. 24000000 people out here were displaced because of the rising ocean and and because of this water that's coming in and and so the government of senegal in this particular airport again built an embarrassment to protect the house of the president but as a result it allowed more water to come in this placing even more people is not just happening here it's happening also further along the coast in the town of sound to me which is you know let's go world heritage site the former capital or french speaking in africa president michael the french president and the world bank president went there 2 years ago promising millions of dollars to help people adapt to the changing climate but people that we met in sally we say it's too late the damage is done. take a look at this report. an unexpected tide swept away xina booth calls 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 you now live on the outskirts of the city with thousands of others displaced and you. life the city council told them to adapt to 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 he 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 poor countries to adapt to a changing climate people here say the damage is done it's too late woman calling

up an indignity 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 brave the oceans tight in search of a safe place to live. if the world leaders failed to agree on the way to adapt and mitigate climate change well this is what the future looks like for millions of people living on the coast and this is what is at stake in this conference in the hague and people who are already being affected by climate change so many people are not waiting for their world leaders to take admission this illusion or building bank means they're already on the move trying to find a safe place to live many of them here in senegal well are braving the ocean tide going across the atlantic to the borders of the european union in spain in search

for a safe place to live it and speaking to them they say that they want to continue their trade they want to become fishermen there or they want to farm there because they say that in their home country they cannot farm anymore because of drought they cannot fish in him anymore because of the rising temperatures the is city of the water means that there's less fish in the water this is all the result of climate change and while polluting rich country for country to adapt to a changing climate well it's becoming increasingly difficult people here as you can see the circumstances here to adapt to these 2 environment that's becoming increasingly hostile to human habitation adrian al-jazeera is nicholas reporting live from open gave me many things. the u.s. pharmaceutical company says that its code 19 vaccine appears to work against the

new variants found in the u.k. and south africa the findings haven't yet been peer reviewed but it's positive news for health officials and the tainted strains of more infectious and spreading fast in a number of countries are serious and the gallagher can tell us more about this sandy from miami. you know what we're talking about adrian as you said all these 2 variants of most concern the 1st discovered in the u.k. the 2nd in south africa they are said to be more contagious and potentially more deadly now what we're doing as research is showing is that there are 2 injections that they give out the 2 vaccinations are effective against the british variant mutation but against the south african one they are potentially 6 times less protective for people that receive the vaccine now what this means is that we'll just out of precaution try and develop another vaccine to tackle that south african

variant they say that may well be a booster that comes a year after the 1st 2 injections are given to people that u.k. variant we were just talking about it's been discovered in 20 states here in the united states as i said it is more contagious it is potentially more deadly but i think this is good news for madonna one of the companies that 1st came up with a vaccine that was approved by the food and drug administration here and i think it also shows the shape shifting nature of the virus there are all sorts of mutations coming that's what viruses do but these big pharmaceutical companies are trying to get ahead of the curve that's from the chief medical officer of modernity that's exactly what he said before they deal with problems of course here in the united states people are still very patiently waiting for their vaccines whether they're from the donor or pfizer because they are seen as being in pretty short supply in this country and of course around the world so it should put people's minds at ease i think there has been

a great deal of misinformation about these new variants but it seems that the dinner at least are trying to get ahead of potential problems that may come down the line which could mean that once people have got their 1st 2 vaccinations those 1st to boost in the arm they could then have a follow up about a year later that should be effective but i have to say they do say the vaccines as they stand do provide protection against both these variants just not quite as effective against south african one and you got to go reporting live from miami and many thanks indeed. is a professor of epidemiology at the columbia university she joins us now via skype from new york good to have you with us again what do you make of this. well i think the news site highlight the need for us to be very vigilant and to continue to do our very best to prevent transmission of this virus to end this remains most importantly is for people to continue to observe measures like physical distancing

. a statement staying away from people by at least 2 meters as well as the importance of face covering unmasking. i think we have to as we are trying to scale up by a vaccine coverage at the same time we have to do everything we can do to stop transmission of this virus as a reporter was saying just a few moments ago this vaccine is thought to be not quite as effective against the south african variants of the fire and the virus and that it may require a new job or top up about a year later to what extent do you think that if this is going to become the norm that we're all a bit like the flu jab that we get every year we'll have to have a coronavirus job every year to deal with the various the various mutations. i think that if you know we start that it this might be a possibility it's a bit too early to know whether it's going to be needed or not and whether it will need to be every year or maybe every few years i think the most important thing to

keep in mind is that these viruses will mutate and they do mutate as they go spread from one person to the other and therefore in order to prevent new retaliations beyond the ones that we're well aware of the u.k. and south africa variants and we need to as much as possible stop transmission if for able to decrease transmission or minimize transmission through all measures that are talked about as well as through scaling up a vaccine then we actually will decrease the the opportunity for these viruses to mutate and i think so we should be really working very hard at trying to prevent the viruses from going from one human to another human because that's how they learn how to new to it and that's how they also learn how they to i would smart our vaccines this of course is one company the daughter say this covert diety vaccine appears to work against you variants the technology the vaccine uses very similar

to the one that the pfizer bio enteric vaccine uses about more traditional kinds of virus will lay be as effective do you think against variance. well we don't know that yet for sure because of course all of these vaccines act and the same way they yeah when injected they stimulate the development of antibodies against one of the spikes on the silver star of the virus itself and it really depends on the mediations the changes that occur are in the spike on the surface of the bat virus that can then may have an impact in terms of whether the dex is specifically exene would work against that specific virus mutations so i think we don't know for sure i know that pfizer did release some early dado that showed that it looks again comforting there the vaccine appears to at least work against the 2

viral or the 2 so they are against that we are talking about at least on a little data in a limited number of experiments so i think we need we're going to learn an awful lot about how these vaccines work against these variants but in the meantime we just have to do our very best to stop transmission because that's how we're going to stop the appearance of even more variants down the line always good to talk to you professor but he thanks dave for being with us again well for us in new york we're going to weather update baxter i was a 0 then russia's president denies over the palace featured in this video by his arch critic alexy about. vietnam's biggest political events the communist party needs to shape policy for the next 5 years will tell you.

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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 fog the temperature is 10 to slowly drop the cold wave is back from wednesday. join africa's largest trade and investment fair and rwanda enter african trade give me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and bias and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals worth $40000000000.00 as business and government come together to explore business and networking opportunities at the international exhibition boat to you by african export import bank and their premium partners the i.d.f. 2021 transforming africa.

hello again this is al-jazeera of the main news this hour leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit to address the effects of climate change previous conferences are focused on causes more than 120 nations are promising coordinated action. and the u.s. pharmaceutical company says the early lab test showed its curve it 19 vaccine appears to work against new variants found in the u.k. and south africa all studies are needed though to confirm the results of the findings have yet to be peer reviewed more infectious strains are spreading fast in a number of countries. russia's president vladimir putin has denied allegations of

owning a lavish palace on the black sea opposition leader lexan about a published a 2 hour long video making the claims last week is investigation team alleges that the palace was built for putin through an elaborate corruption scheme the video has already got more than 86000000 views on you tube putin says that the the he will his family owned the building. for months it was the information about this palace has been discussed for more than 10 years but now that the opposition has gotten this opportunity they've compiled everything and decided to brainwash our people with this information. well the european union has been discussing how it will respond to the arrest of more than 3000 people across russia before the monday meeting in brussels to use top diplomats joseph borel said that the events were worrying but of great concern russian police detained thousands of protesters over the weekend during rallies supporting the jailed opposition leader alexina vali the

e.u. says it will hold off from imposing new sanctions on russia into the jewels if the kremlin releases about me. in yemen thousands of people are protesting against the trumpet ministrations decision to designate a hooty rebel who the rebels rather as a terrorist foreign organization protesters have been rallying in the capital sanaa another hooty controlled provinces the current administration is reviewing the designation aid groups say that it will disrupt their operations and haul the ongoing peace process. in germany the country's health minister says that e.u. regulators may approve the covert 19 vaccine developed by astra zeneca of the university of oxford this friday concerns are growing about of mutated variants of the virus 1st identified in the u.k. and now spreading rapidly in germany hospital in berlin was put on the quarantine on saturday after an outbreak of the boiled factious variant was found. al-jazeera

still but it came in berlin says the number of daily new cases has continued to fall in germany but officials say the danger of infection remains high. the main concern emerging now from ministerial circles but in berlin birds elsewhere in germany too is about the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom the minister had a good holland who works in the chancellor a alongside anglo-american on a day to day basis where he told german news outlets in sunday evening that he has no doubt he's certain that the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom will very soon overtake the original coronavirus in become dominant in this country that explains the haste with which the ministerial circles here i've tried to intensify locked and sort of said that people need to wear masks that can withstand the virus better that can protect people against the virus better why they've extended lockdowns why are they keeping school shop wherever possible all

because their belief is that the new variant will soon dominate in this country and because it's so much more infectious that's why they're taking their precautions. mexico's president andres manuel lopez obrador has tested positive for curve at 19 the 67 year old tweeted that he's being treated for mild symptoms and will continue to work from the presidential palace but was overall has been criticized for his handling of a pandemic that's killed nearly 150000 mexicans the country has the world's 4th highest death toll. these ilands 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 that she cause a more infectious south african variant of the virus from another traveler inside the quarantine facility. with job losses during the pandemic have been 4 times

higher than those from the 2009 lobel financial crisis that's according to the international labor organization which says that more than 8 percent of global working else that's equal to 255000000 jobs were lost last year women have been more affected than men and younger workers have also been hit hard but it's not all bad news the report says that as covert 19 vaccinations take effect most countries will see a recovery in the 2nd half of this year showing you only is the director of the employment policy department of the international labor organization he says that many industries won't see a turnaround until the 2nd half of the. we actually have a sindhi core range of jobs and was found and destroyed the last year pe teacher a 'd daughter sectors flank of the accommodation and we tear and some contractor manufacturing so some service sectors i met factors were hit very hard to compare

to the bits we have to try to actually include those workers from the rural sector examples the informal economy as you are there also have really affected by the coffee at 9 pm but in the case of 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 you really have to be affected by the crisis is because of or a strict act or not the measures. we actually expect that the 1st half of the eighty's year is faster in the vast countries of europe and the u.s. continues to be very difficult to so we expect quite a significant 11 to working our losses pretty sistering the 2nd half of the 1st half we're so we call on the horizon in our view will be the 2nd half of the year. business and political leaders from all over the globe are taking part in this

year's world economic forum in davos top of the agenda is the pandemic and the economic fallout triggered by the crisis oxfam released a report to coincide with the meeting revealing growing inequality across the world it found the billionaires and increase their wealth in the last year by nearly 4 trillion dollars uganda's high court says the continued detention of opposition leader bobby wine is a moral for the court has directed the police of the military to leave wines residence but hours after the decision wind tweeted that the military is still surrounding his home and blocking access is for another house arrest since january 15th the day after uganda's presidential election catherine soy is monitoring developments from neighboring kenya. 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 for the winds whom he did

not say when he hired are also said that they're 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 body one's own protection and also because they have information that whine was planning to organize a violent protest after they declare ration of the presidential results but he does say that they 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 people 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 wine are going

to be forced to go back to court to file for contempt vietnam's ruling communist party is meeting to select new leaders that will determine the country's policies for the next 5 years the southeast asian nation is one of the few remaining single party states florence lou reports. 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 payback where is the firming abode of the people

public opinion polls editorials in the newspapers even opposition they have none of that and so extreme 'd 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 an acceptable rate of economic growth and maintain social stability it's wesley made the comment make foreign policy but the past 5 years are the main challenge trying to keep ballance between china and the us 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 truly al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us however a dream sitting out here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit to address the effects of climate change previous conferences of focused on causes this is the 1st on coping with the effects the u.s. is promising global leadership and commitment and president biden knows that we

have to mobilize an unprecedented way to meet a challenge that is fast exhilarating and he knows we have limited time to get it under control.