subscribe to eugene. al-jazeera english. out of time to leave the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius and build resilience to the impacts the. planet at our very existence is in real danger the united nations climate for portal urges the world to act before it's too late. transferred again this is out of here alive from doha also coming up nato to expand its mission in iraq with no final decision on withdrawing troops from afghanistan. the us government on bale's a new immigration policy with an 8 year plan to citizenship for undocumented

immigrants. but a double health 10 africa a coronavirus variant could reduce the impact of vaccines at a new outbreak threatened several countries. the un secretary general has appealed to world leaders to make a renewed commitment to fight climate change speaking a short while ago until you've called for urgent global action we need to make these correlation truly global interns formative you for the opted by every country seat the financial institution and company and on the world's a global coalition for governance no idea by 2050 can still prevent the worst the impacts of climate change but we cannot delay we are running out of time to meet temperature rise to $1.00 the cells use and build resilience to the impacts the. and they also need equal urgency elimination to less all we produce all foods and

manage all water land in the oceans the world is failing to meet its commitments to limit environmental damage that's putting the planet of our very existence in jeopardy that's the stark warning given in that un climate report that the secretary general was launching the report says that climate change biodiversity loss and pollution add up to 3 self-inflicted planetary crises that threaten future generations more than a 1000000 out of an estimated 8000000 plant and animal species a facing serious increased risk of extinction the u.n. report again highlights the poor nations bearing the brunt of the crisis extraction of natural resources has left more than 1000000000 people in poverty around 9000000 a dying prematurely every year due to pollution let's go live out of the un diplomatic efforts of james pays is forest 2021 is a make or break year in terms of climate change the secretary general said james we

are close to the point of no return. yes and he's demanding all nations on earth and all member states of the u.n. take action on this issue clearly there is one piece of good news on the political front and that is the u.s. because the u.s. under president trump i asked the secretary general what contribution they made and whether they contributed. to a lack of progress. on the climate crisis and he agreed with that assessment but he said there's a grassroots level different businesses and local authorities in the u.s. that continued the efforts to combat climate change and that had meant that the fact that the u.s. has now signed up to the paris climate agreement they'll be in a good position to meet their commitments pretty quickly and actually in 24 hours time we're going to see an event taking place

a virtual event with the secretary general and with the former secretary of state john kerry who is now president biden's climate changes are they will be marking formally the fact that having said they were going to rejoin paris the time has elapsed and they are now part of that treaty again but still a great deal of effort pushing forward and i think the next thing that the u.n. will be pushing is the big climate conference the cop conference that happens at the end of the year in glasgow being coorg by the u.k. and italy well it just happens that the u.k. is also the chair of the g 7 group of countries and the g 7 true countries have their big meeting in june but they're having a small meeting on code mainly in 24 hours time so i'm sure the u.k. will also be pushing the evidence in this climate report that g.'s 7 meeting we're going to hear in 24 hours time diplomatic editor james pay is there live at the un

in new york or only ambitious coordination action by governments businesses. and people around the world can reverse the worst consequences of environmental damage that is the un's conclusion from its report al-jazeera spoke of smith has more now on what's at stake. for a decade the lakes of kenya's rift valley have been rising swallowing up land and villages destroying communities deforestation is to blame soil once held in place by trees is washed down from the mountains by the rain silting up the lakes below stopping them from draining. in a report called making peace with nature the u.n. environment program says we need on bishop's global coordination to make the use of land and oceans sustainable there are vested interests that stop in action there we have subsidies for agriculture and for energy for fossil fuels

a perverse they encourage the use of fossil fuels that encourage the use of bad agricultural practices so there were many people around the world trying to repeat governments thought and said civil actions together the report says that none of the global goals for the protection of life on earth have been met deforestation and overfishing continues a 1000000 species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction and there is much to be done to reduce and water pollution but if we can get the business community so work with governments around the world i'm optimistic we can start to move in the right direction and i think most governments do realize that climate shades it is actually i 1st we are facing through security or sister curity shroom and health poverty alleviation without action the world is on track to warm 3 degrees above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100 so missing the paris agreement

target of well below 2 degrees and like the people of the rift valley the u.n. says it's the world's poorest in developing countries but suffer the worst consequences of climate change burnitz met al-jazeera. let's hear now from a serious man while our apollo hussein mexico's capital pollution levels that are so bad that the small can be seen trapped above the city. it's hard to think of the mexican capital and not imagine the city's massive urban sprawl the metropolitan area it's home to 24000000 people and it's constantly growing. the impact of all this traffic construction and industry has wreaked havoc on the region's natural environment. and all of it amounts to one of the most significant carbon footprint in all of latin america one of the most visible signs of this is the city's poor air quality there are times of a year where air pollution is so bad people are ergs not to go outside due to

heighten the health risks it's estimated that air pollution is responsible for the deaths of some $33000.00 mexicans every year and it's a problem that doesn't seem to be improving. according to a recent report by the united nations environment program progress on reducing air pollution is mixed with air quality improving in high income countries but continuing to degrade in low income countries environmental experts add that the impact from air pollution from megacities like the mexican capital extend far beyond urban areas and have effects on local regional and global scales let's hear now from the us though when it came from the u.s. we're going to go to another story the u.n. special envoy for yemen has called on who think rebels to stop their offensive a little them city of mareeba addressing a virtual meeting of the un security council griffin said that the group's quest for territorial game threatens prospects for peace the un's humanitarian chief mark local warned that yemen is speeding towards the west family and that the world has

seen in decades mechanisms can be agreed upon what is needed is simply fundamentally the political will. we need a decision and agreement on leaders as yours would offer you any debris from the religion of cycles of violence it would produce filleted movements of people and birds it could create a conducive environment for the party then to move to the real issue at hand inclusive told to end the war on the basis of those aspirations the political process the us would need to resume promptly baiters secretary general has to spend the possibility of an early withdrawal from afghanistan defense ministers were gathering for their 1st summit since u.s. president joe biden took office in stoltenberg says that forces will only leave when security kish conditions allow a trumpet ministration brokered

a deal with the taliban for a final withdrawal on may 1st nato has many 10000 soldiers in afghanistan they include 2 and a half 1000 americans who are training at assisting local forces nato's goal is to ensure that afghanistan never again because it's a safe haven for terrorists that would attack our 'd whole nantz so our eyes will continue to search together the conditions on the ground as we do the protection of troops remains paramount and we will take all necessary measures to keep them safe let's go live now to london i was there was worried chalons can tell us more about this story far from withdrawing troops from afghanistan nato intends to expand its mission there. what it has to expand its mission in iraq by boosting troop numbers from 502-4000 but when it comes to what's going

on in afghanistan what they're saying what you and stolzenberg are saying is that there is no real easy decision about the timetable for withdrawing troops from afghanistan the essentially there are no easy options because if you pull the troops out too fos then you risk the gains that nato feels that it has made that has been very hard won over more than 2 decades of presence there and the but if you keep them there longer than this may the 1st deadline and you're risking the lives of those troops because you know they could be attacks and they could be loss of life so what he says the nature hasn't yet made a decision about whether or not they're going to keep troops there beyond the may the 1st deadline that was agrees by donald trump with the taliban back in february

of last year nato always felt that was a risky decision to make to pull him out so quickly and we have heard over the last few weeks succession of comments from people like the head of the u.s. military in afghanistan from the german defense minister from the end stoltenberg himself saying that taliban violence is on the up in afghanistan and the process towards peace is seems to be stalled and that this is not the right time to be pulling troops out so i would expect them by the decision of course as i said but i would expect that may the 1st is going to come and go and there will still be nicer troops that were original and sly for us in london many thanks indeed rory. the weather next then on i was 0. am tikun protesters in myanmar face off with the police despite fears of

a violent crackdown. and their fates in a rescue operation is underway in nigeria to free hundreds of kidnapped students. it's time for the perfect jenin. sponsored plan qatar airways it has snowed quite a bit this winter but it snowed yesterday in jerusalem clearly quite easily it's node in the golan heights across the border in syria and quite a long way north up into lebanon as well we're not seeing the end of it either but this is reporting the worst in about 15 years quite destructive travel travel wise on surprising lake and the big system is on the wire and so you can see it looks like this and this is a cold front that goes down through the gulf which means ahead of it is quite windy behind it wind direction changes to a northerly and all it will be thunderstorms the focus has been iraq now it's going

to be iran snow of course the mountains here and the following showers are still coming in to anywhere from northern egypt up to lebanon once more jerusalem at max 6 degrees so that still potential for snow showers again up in the golan heights and here's a change that goes through kata so probably says in a early friday sun is still more to the change of wind direction quite possibly with a dusty it or even sand in it and that carries on as a show model where tensions slowly rise in jerusalem now quickly look at the mozambique this is now a named storm circulating out in the water so the western edge is throwing rain heavy rain towards mozambique but i think it will be no worse than that in the immediate future. qatar airways join africa's largest trade and investment and rwanda enter african trade track gives me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and buyers and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than $55.00 countries participate in trade

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called on the rebels to stop their offensive orbital the city of boston griffiths at the group's quest for territorial gain for its prospects for peace. nato has dismissed any suggestion of an early withdrawal of troops from afghanistan secretary-general against all books of the law the fence ministers have decided on the date soldiers will only leave when security conditions allow. the white house has unveiled sweeping new measures to a whole the nation's immigration system it wants to offer permanent protected status to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children and to millions more who have worked in frontline roles during the pandemic legislation would also provide an 8 year path to citizenship for $11000000.00 people who are already in the u.s. the white house has already overturned the trumpet ministrations remain in mexico policy which required asylum seekers to stay in mexico while their applications were protests processed the department of homeland security is now admitting 25000

applicants who are waiting at that border let's go live to our white house correspondent kelly helka who joins us from washington to tell us more about the main proposals that are being laid out by democrats in this bill. yeah well what it does a sensually is that it puts undocumented migrants into 2 different categories in terms of the pathway to citizenship the 1st or more accelerated path is for those who have temporary protected status who may be here working in the united states as farm workers or the so-called dreamers those people that were brought to the united states illegally as children have no memory of their country of origin and now in most cases are adults so these individuals would be given a green card of what's known as permanent residency that would allow for them to quickly become a u.s. citizen should they choose to do so last and to work it allows them to pay taxes

and it also allows them to go to school in some cases but for the other individuals and we're talking about millions of people who are sort of living in the shadows in the united states they'll be brought into sort of mainstream united states culture in terms of the work environment school environment and in this sort of 2nd group of individuals what this means is they can request they won't be immediately deported they'll be on this 8 year pathway to citizenship and also they'll have to undergo a number of background checks security checks in order to make sure they are who they say they are now why so many people are supporting this is for a number of reasons because this legislation addresses the sort of the origins of why so many people are particularly even central america coming to the united states whether it be fleeing violence whether be fleeing economic conditions and there will also be processing centers in central america so the people don't have to make the deadly journey north to the united states just to process these claims

the other thing that's really nice about this legislation is the terminology no longer will these individuals be called aliens they'll now be called 9 u.s. citizens so a lot of activists really embracing this legislation now here's the hitch. very quickly 'd it has to get through congress and this is been something that's been a challenge for 20 years but the reason there is hope is that the democrats control not just the white house but also both houses of congress they still need to get some republicans on board so there's going to be some negotiation they need 10 republicans right now they can't do that but if they address border security they may be able to win them over our white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks. to the coronavirus pandemic and growing alarm over the spread of the contagious south african virus strain across the continent but says several countries begin

their 1st vaccine rollouts zimbabwe is the latest to use the signal from job that china has distributed to several african nations the south african strain is now thought to be dominant on wednesday senegal received its 1st 200000 doses of the job us there were concerns about the chinese vaccines efficacy after a study found that it produced a weak immune response against south africa mutation deaths across the after african continent and now reached $100000.00 with the contagious variant and limited access to vaccines many are concerned that figure could go much higher al-jazeera is in harare zimbabwe its capital and says that there are public concerns around the vaccine rollout. this will go on for about 10 days the country health workers are being vaccinated most of the people work in public

hospitals way they've complained for many years about the lack of people in glass to some of these nurses and doctors getting this vaccination to take them again covert 19 and then you will see the police soldiers and immigration staff come to get vaccinated the elderly and people with underlying conditions and then the race of the population will follow the government to that additional $600000.00 vaccines from china those are expected to come into the country early in march they also talking to russia and india about buying more vaccines they also trying to get more back to the country from the kovacs realty that's being coordinated by the world health organization and the global that alliance to vaccinate 10000000 people about 50 percent of the population by the end of the year on tuesday the government that the variant now with. africa is now in from people i'm now concerned are asking

questions how effective is the fact going to be against that theory and some of them i think if you look at the chinese like the plan a farm and other back on the market will produce you quickly they want to know what exactly is in these vaccines and would it be anything. from the world health organization. that the longer the virus is allowed to spread the greater the risk of. our big message is that we should get on with vaccination as quickly as possible and at the same time do everything possible to reduce transmission because the more these viruses transmit the more likely they are to have additional mutations occur and more likely to have issues that could emerge that relate to reduced impact of the vaccines earlier we spoke to have a marie superfast roadworks university and a member of the world health organization's strategic advisory group of experts on

the covert 19 bank scene she says the vaccine effectiveness will be closely monitored during their road. many of the countries where we've seen this very steep rise in the 2nd wave. that so far from the data that we've been able to gather are being now affected by the variant that rejected in africa many neighboring countries. had a very accelerated 2nd wave the good news is that in most of these countries now the numbers are coming down but while this was happening in groups in north on a strain on health systems because many of these countries have got very mannerable health systems and hospital systems there's been an enormous amount of work in preparation for the vaccine grown. by like the world health organization and garvey behind the scenes what we've done is develop tools for the countries to be

able to evaluate their readiness and it's not just have i got some i just saw the vaccines that it's can my program do is have i got financing which is a community perspective so it's a very comprehensive evaluation and the good news is that we're starting to see the vaccines being rolled out to cause that kind of access to the esters anika vaccine if isaac vaccine there are discussions around a number of the other vaccines as well and i think all around the world including the u.k. that these variants one of the characteristics of the u.k. originally variant of the south african originated very there were transmissible so they spread what usually so i think that worldwide we are going to see over the next few months that the variants probably in many places will not the same very many that replaces the original will have strain that we saw. but having said that you know there's a lot of work behind the scenes looking at affected ness in the face of the

variance and a lot of thinking a lot of lab work clinical work as well and a lot of. well the cool 'd moment ranger work is going to be pretty plain so that we will moments of you think back as we really creating in the context of countries which if you can numbers ok says by the period. the world health organization is appeals to african nations to be on alert for another ebola outbreak of $11000.00 vaccines and utah arriving in guinea this week and they're said to be rolled out as early as monday the health ministry has declared the 1st outbreak since 2016 at least 6 people have died new guinea's border with liberia countries in the region including sierra leone and by jury or a stepping up border screenings the last outbreak killed more than 11300 people in guinea sierra leone and liberia between 2013 and 16

a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students it's been confirmed that one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run school and could got a series of address reports now from a bhutto. at the hospital in doc to some nurses street would be students and teachers and at the going to a science college concerned parents gather for news. elsley in town security has stepped up just as the state government ordered the closure of schools in those areas prone to attacks schools saying creasing be targeted as they offer an opportunity to take many students hostage in nigeria this totally absent absence of look at government administration which has become very difficult for the locals to have any want to run to another plane yet as that they also. bought

surrounding most parts of that area if you look at what is happening internationally and like in places like charred and kind our own especially in cameroon this country's have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long this is the 2nd major kidnapping in us many months. in december last year gunmen stormed a school and abducted hundreds of students in president behind his home state of cats and it. was 6 years before that in 2014 in a case that made headlines around the world more than 270 goes last snatched from a school in your book at least 100 are still unaccounted for the armed group claimed responsibility and for years after that enable a new state the group took more than 100 students from a school in death to. kidnapping for ransom is no big business in nigeria from the north down to the country south hundreds of nigerians are kidnapped every week for

ransom and despite military offensives against what officials the accord bandits the problem continues to grow on monday 18 passengers were seized while traveling in a bus. not far from where the latest kidnapping took place 8 have since managed to secure their freedom although there are no official statistics it's estimated $20000000.00 was paid in ransom money in 2022 kidnappers and this in a country africa's largest economy while properties on the increase decrease al-jazeera. and protests. back down despite fears of a violent crackdown by the military thousands of people have joined demonstrations for a 13th straight day calling for the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi scott hyatt reports. rickshaws and trucks join the 2nd day of a civil disobedience campaign with protesters blocking roads by pretending their vehicles have broken down this to stoke further disruption ahead of another day of

rallies protests in yangon parked in the middle of streets again and then drove off a road off very slowly. once we stop the operations a revolution will be successful this civil disobedience will have been the way we can defeat the military to that's the way forward we are creating the traffic because we want to stop the government workers. tax money from getting to the office i want everyone to join us. in southern myanmar protesters gathered out front of complexes run by foreign companies involved with international gas pipelines in the gan area. they appealed to the companies to stop doing business with the new military government. and in mandalay they gathered in front of a court house where hearings for 2 officials connected to unsung suchi is n o d party took place. as a joke to continues its campaign of harass people in the capital ne put or called

for the release of suchi and students who were detained here earlier in the week. we relatives have waited in front of jail every day for information about children but we get nothing we aren't even allowed to get close to the gate and the authorities keep denying that the detained children. the judge has also issued arrest warrants for several celebrities who've encouraged the strikes hundreds of people have been detained since the coup not only those politically connected to on song suchi it's got hodler al jazeera. it is good to be with us hello adrian fit here in doha the headlines now in syria a new u.n. report is warning that millions of people of animals and plants species are in grave or.