step outside the main street shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. lot of the stories that we cover all highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to do. here the point of no return a major u.n. environment report calls for ambitious global action to face the triple threat of climate change biodiversity loss and pollution. barkha this is our jazeera live from london also coming up the united nations warn yemen's hooty rebels that their quest for territorial gains threatens any hope of peace. zimbabwean health workers are the 1st in line to receive vaccines from china

but there is real concern over the spread of the contagious south african variant. of. patience pays off the nasa rover perseverance lands on the red planet 7 months after 1st setting off from. the nations of the world are failing to meet their own climate change targets putting humanity's future at risk a new report from the united nations outlines a triple threat that is hitting the poorest people the hardest 1st the world is set to warm by at least 3 degree celsius by the end of the century sheeting past the 2 degree target for the paris accords and twice the one and a half degree ceiling that would prevent the worst impacts 2nd no biodiversity

targets are being met leaving more than a 1000000 of the world's estimated 8000000 plant and animal species at a serious the increased risk of extinction and 39000000 people die prematurely every year because of diseases caused by pollution with what's left to be done to clean up and water that's a toll that disproportionately hits developing nations burner smith has more about 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 way it carries 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 floyd 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 exactly i firstly have faith say through security or to security schuman 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 many. in south africa the economies reliance on mining has created severe environmental and health issues many people in poor communities who live near the abandoned mine say decades of exploitation is now making taking a toll on their health for me to miller explains from sweater. south of johannesburg decades of gold mining has created the largest gold and uranium mining basin in the world today more than 5900 mines across south africa are abandoned many of them flooded with acid mine water and what's left behind in these mine residue deposits is a toxic disaster containing radioactive uranium people living close to the dumps

say the dust from the mines is affecting their health when the wind is at its strongest up to 42 tons of tailings dust per day enters the environment leaving people here most of them poor exposed to the health hazard the federation for sustainable environment says close to 2000000 people in jana's burg live near on top of mine residue deposits mining has altered the natural landscape and it's produced a lot of waste that has polluted the environment the negative impact is often long lasting and across the road holmes and people are waged in between the mind some mining companies say will clean up the dumps some of them are being reprocessed to recover the residual gold and the footprint is used for industrial development but other companies have simply liquidated and so the mines are abandoned with little done to rehabilitate the area environmentalist say the legacy

of gold and uranium mining in the river to surround gold fields is a toxic and radioactive waste land leaving communities at risk the executive director environment program says money and investment will be key. now the good news is that already 126 countries have signed up for into what we call the net 0 cloud that they will go be net 0 carbon emissions by 2050 we need to see more countries doing that and we see the need to see 1000 and sing for the poor countries to enable them to make these shifts at the same time but biodiversity we need to invest in smart agriculture that doesn't destroy biodiversity and we need to invest in nature not not have and buy products that we need to buy products that deforestation free and on pollution of course we need to use those chemicals of

course and the other products but he was and use them wisely and all of this means essentially let's not take out of the environment materials put them into the economy and when we're done with them we throw them back refuse and waste. the u.n. is warning that yemen is speeding toward the worst fire in the world has seen in decades it comes as fears grow that a hooty assault on a government stronghold could make it far worse our diplomatic editor james base has more from the united nations. the news from yemen is about as grim as it gets these scritches from the aid agency save the children of 7 month old amir the u.n. says he's one among a staggering 400000 children under 5 years of age who are seriously malnourished and at risk of dying from starvation famines are very unusual. there has only been

one in the last 20 years of a significant scale and a quarter 1000000 somalis lost their lives in 2011. what could happen in yemen over the next weeks and months is something the world hasn't seen for 40 years something literally i thought was unimaginable but it will happen unless different action is taken. the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths told the security council the situation on the ground in yemen is now the most tense he's seen since he took up the job 3 years ago. i am certain i think the word is probably more than that to report that over the past month the conflict in yemen has taken a sharp escalatory turn. with the answer of the most recent offensives at moderate government i have done this many times since early last

year when this offensive operations started and i repeat my call now it tired america must stop there's been a a new diplomatic focus on yemen from the biden administration to mr griffiths himself as being to tehran and riyadh in recent weeks the u.n. is hoping the dark humanitarian situation will be helped by a pledging conference on the 1st of march they want countries to give money for yemen james bays al jazeera at the united nations. zimbabwe has joined just a houghton full of african nations in launching a covert 19 vaccination drive 200000 doses of the sino farm job were donated by china but as haram a tussle reports from harare the presence of the south african strain is causing

concerns. public health care workers in zimbabwe have repeatedly held strikes in protest against a lack of personal protective equipment masks and gloves now being vaccinated against coverage one team will protect them it has given me the one who didn't actually go in the front line into the manage 419 patients was a not. vaccinated and protected zimbabwe has rolled out its called the 1900 vaccination program nationwide using an initial 200000 doses donated by china earlier this week i mean this. process. i think if it goes also i know from but. which was confirmed by. my friend here today with some industry some in this.

group doing might be uprooting is their exhibit their governments or of the events in the same reform but. the country aims to vaccinate at least $10000000.00 people by the end of this year that's about 60 percent of the population the government says it's looking at bringing in more vaccines from china russia as well as through the kovacs facility and the global vaccine alliance not everyone is keen on getting vaccinated some want to know what's in the jabs and whether there will be any side effects including those who fear they could cause infertility. health officials say the variant 1st detected in south africa is now the dominant strain in zimbabwe human rights lawyers are concerned the government could be collecting data from those getting vaccinated for medical research purposes without them knowing you could not. have. you know individuals you know being

subjected to experiments center for experiments without the our informed consent so we were worried that the 1st group of people to be vaccinated may go through. you know an experiment without being informed that they're undergoing that . experiment as new and more contagious variants of covert 1000 separate across africa affordable vaccines are needed urgently especially in countries with fragile public healthcare systems that are struggling to cope how to al-jazeera. the world health organization is calling on wealthier countries to help strike a balance by participating in its global kovacs scheme to help distribute vaccines evenly among middle and low income countries officials say this would reduce the risk of new variants emerging. 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 the dutch prime minister is trying to rush through emergency legislation to maintain the country's controversial nighttime curfew the aim is for the bill to pass parliament by friday when the restriction could be lifted if government lawyers lose an appeal a judge ordered the curfew to be lifted on choose day ruling emergency powers have been wrongly used to inforce said some of the country's worst riots in decades was seen after the 9 pm to 4 30 am restriction was brought in last month just over an hour ago the most advanced rover nasser's ever sent to mars touched

down safely on the red planet. at back and actually there. as you can see emotions were very high in mission control where the team celebrated the end of the 7 month journey perseverance travelled 300000000 miles in its bid to search for traces of life on mars the rover is carrying a range of instruments it will use to analyze rocks the mission which costs nearly $3000000000.00 mox the 9th craft to successfully land on mars well earlier i spoke to the director of science strategy of planet lab tanya harrison she says the mission will soon make history. so this mission is the 1st dedicated astrobiology mission it is specifically designed to look for signs of agent life and collect samples that it was sent back to earth like you were just mentioning before and that's not something we've ever done from mars we've never been able to send something back so with perseverance we can actually collect the samples but

also characterize the context from which we got the samples so that tells us a lot more information about what the sample is telling us in terms of what that rock might have formed in temperature pressure of the water chemical conditions of the water and if it would have been conducive for life but when the samples come back to earth then we can actually look in them for signs of d.n.a. which will be the definitive answer as to whether or not there ever was life in those samples still to come on al-jazeera algeria is set to head to the elections as its president dissolves parliament. and take a protest is bring young go into a hold again this myanmar's military rulers continue their rest campaign.

well the settle down australian had to be properly summery for most places but with a disappointing on shore breeze for example in sydney and this area of new south wales and running up through queens and we'll have long job rays of plenty of cloud rain even thunderstorms the real wet ones are pin drop queensland where you might expect and still a bit of rain it western australia but not as much as the walls person 28 now look at these temperatures 30 signal 833 in melbourne if you're a tennis player you might say it's a bit on the high side well it will change it's a look at forecast for melbourne for the weekend which is fine as we came we go the winds change after thunderstorms to 21 reason a southerly breeze and wanted to show was probably slightly better playing weather and also rather run innocent of the entire summer for melbourne to be honest there's a change going on in most of the stations well go all the snow showers by friday if you want to rain showers and rising all the temperatures shankar's at 60 and then it goes up to $21.00 cells at 13 tokyo's it's 17 already seoul represents again

much higher than average values 5 is where you should be this time of the year not such major changes in india but there are a few shows showing up every now and again a little early in the year. but . hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. school.

a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un is warning that millions of people as well as animal and plant species are a grave risk from climate change the report identifies 3 main threats oring climates decreasing biodiversity and diseases caused by pollution. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is calling for a halt to who t.f. attacks on the city of mar of dozens of people have been killed in the intensified efforts to seize the government stronghold. of the. masses perseverance craft has touched down on mars it's the most advanced rover ever sent. a jury as president has dissolved parliament and called early

elections in a televised address abdul majeed to boom said he will also carry out a reshuffle and pardon dozens of members of the protest movement that toppled his predecessor his government a struggle to stem renew protests flailing attempts of political and economic reform well william lawrence is a professor of international relations at american university he joins us now from washington d.c. by skype firstly can i start by asking you will these efforts go some way to appease the protesters. no the protesters want systemic change they want regime change they want the political class removed and they want new rules that are democratic about human rights and none of that being addressed by this instead we're having a parliament dismissed that's not viewed as a problem we're having at reshuffle the cabinet that's not the cause of the problem

the only thing that they'll be happy about is to release of some 50 or 60 of the 70 iraqi leaders in jail that certainly is a crowd demands but other than that this will do much and how much all of this impact president obama's political future. well the way he'll stay in power is not by pleasing the iraq. step want him removed it will be by reassuring elements of the regime that don't like him that he can manage the state well and working with certain political parties and political and says to protect his flank right now he's in a very very precarious position one is he's 3 of the last 4 months outside of the country would cope with 19 and then foot surgery stemming from. complications and this and other mistakes he's made have have made him viewed as a one. x.

industry told it was an error a casting error that he's just the wrong man at the wrong time at the wrong job and so the criticism is melting they have a couple of internal scandals involving corruption involving the sacking of an interior minister sorry head of intelligence service and then there's kind of a grumbling about why there is more traction on the political reforms proposed instead we had a president they say i love the her rock you know the blessid her rock and going to pay for their political campaigns that young people who want to run for office but they don't want to run for office and this is them and he was elected with the lowest turnout in algeria history can you give us a sense of the role that iraq has played in political protests in recent years in the country particularly when it came to sweeping reform a strong man abdul aziz put a flicker from power in 2090 clearly a force to be reckoned the. absolutely and they were the successor movement to the

whole series of national protest leaks we've had since $988.00 which brought down in algeria a government that an almost led to democracy and jury mean 65 political parties and of course that led to the coup in the war very much like what happened in egypt to in 2 dozen 13 so sudan algerians have had taste of democracy they've had a. serious national ways of protest they average about 10000 protests either now these are these micro protests about socioeconomic conditions and the other aspect of this which needs to be discussed is. the i.m.f.'s to me that i would jury needs oil at $135.00 a barrel just to pay for current economic subsidies it's currently at $60.00 and even if they cut all the subsidies and all of the well the population gets they can't keep up with this train wreck of the oil economy and if they diversify the

economy quickly that will take too long to help the population so i'll jury's going to have to borrow money and they're having a hard time even borrowing time right now with this tom. lawrence professor of international relations at american university thank you very much for joining us. a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where government have kidnapped students and stuff authorities say 42 people have been abducted but school officials have told al jazeera several 100 missing it's been confirmed one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run school in garra. house more from a bhutto on fears that in that shouldn't could lead to more attacks. the question is whether or not the government is holding negotiations with the bandits who have kidnapped these students that are concerns actually about the possible negotiations any negotiations with these bandits and many nigerians feel that these negotiations

are helping to embolden these band is to carry out more attacks remember boko haram there were reports that the government paid run some for the release of people goes and some other victims of. victims who have been kidnapped by boko haram duchy was another story and even can get out that happened 2 months ago in december last year there were reports that of his shows may have paid run some money to these bundy's that have that they have used again to arm themselves and to prepare for more attacks on such vulnerable institutions like schools where young students are being kept in boarding schools so that our concerns and many nigerians actually have been watching helplessly as the incidents or happenings in northwest nigeria why the bunny treat is widespread and kidnappings have been on for a long time they watched helplessly as these incidents continue to move or spread to other parts of nigeria so a lot of people are worried and concerned that if the government doesn't take

drastic action and quickly so this things could get out of hand very very quickly. more nato troops are said to head to iraq with the possibility of an american pullout from afghanistan still looming the alliance's secretary general said defense ministers have may no decision in a 2 day summit on how the mission there will end nato already has nearly $10000.00 soldiers in support roles in afghanistan u.s. president joe biden has until may to choose whether to stick to a deal donald trump made with the taliban to pull out ministers did agree to multiply the training mission in iraq from 500 to around 4000 person now. there's been a surge in killings in a syrian camp housing families of ice will fight says in the past month or than 20 people have been killed at the our whole camp syrian kurdish forces say it's eyesores way of intimidating people and attacking perceived enemies more than 62000

people live in the camp the majority are women and children the reprint creation of foreigners in syria has been dramatically delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic the prime minister of georgia has resigned over the arrest of one of his main opponents. caria said the detention of rival party leader nneka media could plunge the country into political unrest the opposition has boycotted parliament over what it believes were fraudulent elections last october robin forrester walker reports from the capital tbilisi. the mika melia who chairs georgia's largest opposition party is surrounded by friends supporters and the media he's under siege inside the offices of his united national movement. earlier on thursday police arrived with

a warrant for mr melia's arrest but his supporters did not let them inside. mr mariya is under criminal investigation for his role in violence and the government protests in $29.00 t. . he and the rest of the georgian opposition have since then refused to recognize the results of elections last october which they claim were fraudulent. he says he's now being punished for boycotting parliament i don't think that the position of where i. was privy rule where there were 0. i've learned to respect. the regime. announced on thursday he was standing down as prime minister because he believed arresting the opposition leader would deepen the country's political crisis cimi my absolutely unshakable position

is that it's unacceptable to lawfully enforce measures against a particular person if it in dangerous health life or risks further political tensions in our country supporters of the opposition united national movement had gathered outside the party headquarters to show their support for nick a man they even triple parked in the car park to stop any attempt by the security services to get close to the building but in the end it was the prime minister's resignation that gave mr melia a reprieve. was the governing party was quick to nominate a defense minister iraq. as the next prime minister he has promised to restore order but nick america and the opposition believe only snap elections will solve this country's political deadlock robin for a steelworker al-jazeera tbilisi. canada and the united kingdom are the latest

nations to announce sanctions against myanmar as ruling generals as international pressure builds 2 and a half weeks after their military coup but the nation's military government is showing no signs of backing down in the face of mass demonstrations thousands have protested for the 13th straight day with security forces firing water cannon in the capital night bitter and the united nations estimates 3 quarters of myanmar's civil servants are now on strike thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of barcelona for a 3rd mind calling for police to release the rapper public hostle demonstrators set fire to barricades and threw stones at police firefighters were forced to intervene when a nearby apartment building caught fire it was arrested on monday and is serving a 9 month prison sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his songs his supporters say that attention is an attack on free speech. hundreds of

thousands of homes and the u.s. state of texas are facing a 4th day without heating in the middle of a freezing winter storm it's not too much of the state's electrical supply leaving more than 300000 homes without power down from a peak of 2700000 on wednesday more than 20 people are confirmed dead as a result of the cold with authorities expecting that figure to rise. the top stories the one i'm just here at the u.n. is warning that millions of people as well as animal and plant species are a grave risk from climate change the report identifies 3 main threats warming climates to creasing biodiversity and diseases caused by pollution the u.n. secretary general used the report to appeal to world leaders to make a commitment to fight climate change.