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america has throughout iraq to have brought al jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their role arab societies as objects of creativity debate dissent secrets of the power a conference on al-jazeera. before too long we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nations a scientific blueprint lays out the urgent task of tackling climate change biodiversity loss and pollution before it's too late. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up.
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warnings that a massive famine and an offensive by to see rebels threaten new opportunities to end yemen's war. facing renewed antigovernment protests sound cheery as president calls for the dissolution of parliament and early elections. but it. also says perseverance rover sends back its 1st images of mars moments after landing to look for signs of ancient life. the nations of the world are failing to meet their own climate change targets putting humanity's future at risk the u.n. secretary general has appealed to will leaders to make a renewed commitment to fight climate change and called for urgent global action. we need to make these coalition truly global and turns formative you for the opted
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by every county seat the financial institution and company around the world a global coalition for carbonneau that 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 that come and they also need equal urgency and then bishan to address how we produce all foods and manage our water land and the oceans well mr terrorists there was speaking after the release of the un environmental report outlining a triple threat 1st the world is set to war by at least 3 degrees celsius by the end of the century shooting past the 2 degree target from the paris accords and twice the one and a half degree sealing the world that would prevent the worst consequences 2nd no biodiversity targets are being met leaving more than a 1000000 of the world's plant and animal species at the seriously increased risk
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of extinction and number 39000000 people die prematurely every year from diseases caused by pollution a toll that disproportionately hits the developing nations and smith has more 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 way it carries the use of fossil fuels that encourage the use of bad
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agricultural practices so there were many people around the world trying to impede 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 shade is actually i 1st we are facing through security forces security shroom and health policy 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.
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says it's the world's poorest in developing countries but suffer the worst consequences of climate change burnitz met al-jazeera. uniface also told the security council that yemen is hurtling towards the worst famine in the world seen in decades this they say and a renewed offensive by who see rebels threatened to wipe outs a new opportunity to end the conflict there are diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the u.n. . the news from yemen is about as grim as it gets these pictures 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 well there has only been one in the last 20 years of a significant scale when a quarter 1000000 somalis lost their lives in 2011 what could
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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 now 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 that 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 out of the most recent offensives at moderate government i have done this many times since early last year when the offensive operations started and i repeat my call now our
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entire america must stop. there's been a a new diplomatic focus on yemen from the biden administration and mr griffiths himself has been to terror 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. the u.s. government says it's ready to join talks with iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. state department will accept an invitation from the e.u. to attend a meeting of the signatories to the original agreement the former u.s. president ronald trump withdrew in 2018 iran's been reducing its complaints ever since prompting repeated warnings from britain france and germany their best. efforts the best and safest path is to ensure that iran does not get nuclear
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weapons we want to discuss this with our u.s. partners and to find out under what conditions they would be prepared to rejoin the deal but in regards to tehran one has to say that the way iran is acting out regarding its commitments which it is discarding bit by bit and has now even threatened to reduce any transparency tehran is playing with fire and will complicate this process even more and it is complicated enough as it is algeria's president has moved to appease protesters by pardoning jailed antigovernment activists and calling early elections in a televised address. called the dissolution of parliament and also announced a government reshuffle almost 2 years after the popular uprising there is political and economic crises are being compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. is a middle east and north africa analyst he joins us from montgomery in the u.s. state of alabama welcome back to 0 why is this happening just now do you think.
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thank you for having me. i think to born is trying to get a hair are looming little sore szell crisis of the political scene right now and i'm sure is a turbulent political scene if you will he is trying to preempt another apprise and known as a rock like him 2 years ago that led to the with. the departure of the previous president with a clique up so well if you take some elements some variable in think about how the board was elected president he was elected really bad. the effort to amend the constitution to a referendum was also very bad because the turnout in those 2 election the referendum and the presidential election were explain a lot you add to the fact they're there to have one has been absent for almost 2 months. in germany because he had
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a he was infected with the virus. and you have a president who is suffering from a lack of clues to see and a lack of trust so what he's trying to do is preempt another uprising 3 and another. disk the streets below or ok and at the same time he's trying to extend the olive branch caught in some of the language popularized by iraq ok uprising. co-opting popular language will only take him and the country so far systemically change clearly is very very elusive 2 years ago was the starting point then for the military to actually provide as few concessions as they could get away with. yes. there was going is absolutely true doubt the military ender gate salad back then of did not want to
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extend everything to the right they then went as far as bush in the previous president out and making some spectacular arrests of where known corrupt politicians after they wanted to push their own agenda which is a presidential election and then they hope that's somehow things will go back to normal the problem is that the street was not happy with the author of why the military didn't accept that and they kept groundling at the same time the street does not want to push it so why are that it might lead to serious and rest because of the civil war in the ninety's so you have a population on one side of the people who are desire in pushing for change but afraid of an intended classic wish consequences such as
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a civil war does that mean launching a hair just just let me interrupt you for a 2nd there rushdie does that mean that when people like samir ben larby are detained that pira the movement the street that you're talking about is prepared to accept that and live with that we've had the national dialogue council as well haven't we which seems to have achieved very little and got no place. indeed it did and didn't achieve anything but also of the street you have to understand that here act there is not have a leader so that plays it gas it when we you arrest one person or another debt person does not really truly represent iraq it's here wrapped in steel and highly structured and movement that is one of the weaknesses are here on the other hand the government plays on their weak. and exploited that very smartly there you know as to just so you have and right now they're trying to
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negotiate this phase which is extremely complicated got even more complicated with the pandemic because the economic crisis is very very bad so they're trying to it show that they are able to open the political scene through a reshuffling not because of their call in early elections a parliamentary election and pardoning they are talking about 60 of political prisoners hoping that we'll buy them time ok what if what the political class is very good at doing is to blight time to leave another debt find another so down the ropes understood yeah that's ok rusty we have to leave her there we have run out of time thank you so much rusty and i mean they're talking to us from alabama good to talk to thank you nurses latest mars rovers touchdown successfully on the red planet. at.
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mission control erupted into cheering as the news came through in the cold perseverance sent its 1st images that traveled around 470000000 kilometers through space on a mission costing nearly $3000000000.00 it's there to collect 30 rock and soil samples from monza crater looking for signs of life a future mission maybe around 2026 will aim to land another robot within centimeters of those samples and then fire them up into the most orbits then a 3rd mission which isn't planned to depart for at least a decade will hopefully grab them and bring them back to for analysis tell you how recent is the director of science strategy at planet lab she says this is the start of a new era of exploration nasa just landed their next flagship rover on the surface
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of mars it's carrying a ton of new technology including even in the entry descent and landing system that we use to land on mars in the 1st place so we today was just the opening day of a whole new era of mars exploration so this mission is the 1st dedicated astrobiology mission it is specifically designed to look for signs of ancient life and collect samples that it was sent back to earth 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 in the news ahead for you is it too late to turn
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around the effects the climate change and use drought and water shortages are having and why a contagious courage 1000 strain is causing concern for zimbabwe as it rolls out its vaccination program. it is not unusual to find small boats found boats in louisiana it is unusual to see them doing this being used almost now and yes that is one of the sudden stays where you know how cold it's been in the u.s. texas being really badly hit these are night time temperatures from last night so they have come up to some degree but they are still mostly subzero now by friday morning this rain will be just edging offshore but it's still got the potential for want to tornadoes in the sunda storms the weather behind it will be sunny and slightly less code in fact if you look at the temperatures by day they're still
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subzero in the plain states in the midwest but we're above freezing in most of texas it'll take a while for that to feel anything other than cold obviously but that is the case houston's forecast into the weekend back into the teens and overnight down to 8 degrees the saw will be taking place in fact the cold profit is going to be felt i think where the breeze is finding it some trees as the northeastern corner eastern canada new york for example one degree or thereabouts with probably a bit of snow returning by monday otherwise you're in the sunshine south of all this if you chosen to get out of the caribbean to enjoy the warmth what is still with you just want to light showers for the ons. but. the challenge for the. ground is really that. in syria the only way to do. a cost of
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a minister a key list. a european judge tasked with imposing a no no doubt and a trial testing the nose of a newly formed nation. with mace. highway on. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dhabi your top stories so far this half hour the u.n. secretary general has appealed to world leaders to end what he called a suicidal war on nature and turning to terrorist speaking after the release of a u.n. environmental report outlining how to tackle a triple environmental threat. the u.n.
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special envoy to yemen is calling for a halt to the rebel attacks on the city of dozens of people have been killed in the intensified efforts to seize the government stronghold. germany has accused iran of playing with fire over its repeated breaches of the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. says is ready to join talks with iran and world powers to discuss a return to the original agreement. droughts water shortages and disappearing wildlife habitats are all impacts being felt in south asian countries such as pakistan experts say time is running shorts to meaningfully turn around the effects come on haida explains. already feeling the effects of climate change glacier bush in the mountainous territory because of writing temperatures and as you can see most of pakistan's water rendered by our running
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dry because of an exceptionally dry winter at this time of the year most of the reservoir were before the brim and the effects are now being felt on the flora and fauna as well pakistan is and if you logically rich country and as it falls among the top 10 vulnerable countries due to changing weather patterns and also because of depleting natural habitat many of the animals and by life is losing their habitat and right now pakistan is facing a lot of challenges such as sudden onset disaster supplied straus these are in fact the higher proper docks and weather patterns are changing so it is leading to food insecurity because we have a huge population august on and also in the grip of water shortages and a country could run out of wardrobe by granted $25.00 ever does not take remedial efforts to contain this situation cash crops are going to be returned because pakistan owns billions of dollars from cotton sugar cane and read this was
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a self-sufficient country when it came to food production but now climate change may have an impact on the country food security farmers who depend on rainwater for agriculture are what it about their future. now the modern year barnea we are facing acute shortages of water this year and we are worried about the production of our wheat which is the only means of livelihood of our family through overcome acute water shortages the government had now embarked on a plan to bring more down to go walk up altered a country had embarked on an ambitious plan to grant up to $10000000000.00 tree by dad did indeed a dollar claimed by the government given the fact that the country aid in the grip of a wardak right pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries because of
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climate change and global warming. 80 percent of all the water in the rivers comes from a glitches which are in the years and in the darkroom and in the hindu kush range and we found that listeners were melting at a much faster pace so we decided to launch a 1000000000 trees by get on really have good think out of the box solution in order to cultivate problem by the environment and climate change really play its own road. cats are says it a lift quarantine restrictions for citizens and residents have been vaccinated against curb it 19 gulf states ministry of public health says exemptions will apply when vaccinated people return from abroad will still be subjected to testing on a rival and the exemption won't apply to those to be vaccinated in other countries
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governments worldwide are exploring how they'll use and force so-called vaccine passports now in hungary people who've been inoculated or recovered from covert 19 may soon be given exemptions from night time curfews and other restrictions bahrain is building a vaccination certificate into its existing coronavirus phone app it will display information including which journal of a person has received denmark's planning to put out an early version of vaccination passports by the end of next month while sweden wants to launch one by the middle of this year zimbabwe's join some other african countries in launching vaccination programs $200000.00 similar farm doses have been donated by china but questions durham in about how effective it is against a variant 1st identified in south africa or metacity is in harare. 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
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against coverage one team will protect them it has given me the one he didn't actually go in the front line in to manage 419 patients was a not. vaccinated and protected zimbabwe has rolled out it's called the 1000 fascination program nationwide using an initial 200000 doses donated by china earlier this week my ministry were that good also processing. i said if the girls also i knew from but. with was confirmed by. my friend here today with some industry something to help officials including my repeating is there exhibit their governments
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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 jugs 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 are informed
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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 a new and more contagious variants of covert 900 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. states the chicago police department has been found to have been quote woefully unprepared for violence that broke out after the deaths of george floyd it died in police custody last year triggering nationwide protests against racism and police brutality an independent report into the chicago police response also found some officers took steps to cover up their actions lived to john hendren in chicago for us this john how can the police department of mis read the signs so badly.
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well that's what this support report says it says this is pretty much a textbook example of what a police department should not do to respond to massive protests in the streets the report says that the police department and the city leadership essentially failed its own police officers and its citizens and nearly every level starting with being utterly unprepared despite the fact that they were violent riots in the streets of minneapolis and other cities the police department had not prepared to train for a massive arrest for years before this happened and didn't do a quick training course and head of china when it happened they didn't seem to be ready for it police were waiting to climb into buses in one part of town while rioters in another part were firebombing and looting and then when it happened those police officers say they had little guidance and therefore they felt that
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they were left to their own to respond to the protesters and they used a lot of tactics that have been heavily criticised in that report a big toll on people rather heavily notably including the head of the civilian police oversight board who was beaten by police during a protest they also would box people in and then use pepper spray that's a heavily criticized tactic because it tends to create confrontation and as you say there was little oversight afterwards and one of the reasons was there was a little record of which police supervisors made what decisions what police officers did in specific instances including covering their badges with black tape that meant if they were accused of beating a crowd there was little rep or caution for that and afterwards that left little opportunity to punish these officers and the supervisors who made these decisions ok john we must leave at the end reporting live from chicago. key players involved
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in a trading frenzy earlier this month of told skeptical u.s. politicians their actions were all above board much of the volatility centered on shares in the game stop video game store which sought as much as 1600 percent before falling sharply founders of free stock trading up robinhood an online forum reddit around those 2 testified during a virtual congressional hearing the robin hood c.e.o. was grilled on allegations his app appeared to be helping small time investors but it was actually on the side of large hedge funds on january 28th you represented to the media that there was no quitting the route isn't it true that being concerned about. capital to me as it requires. that you just answer yes or no. care when it waters i appreciate the opportunity to
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address that yes. we always felt comfortable with our with quiddity and this will really answer yes or no we always get more matter when it's i don't have time at this meeting yes or no at ice to combat my statement the additional capital we raised wasn't capital requirements or deposit. it simply replay matter. where we are less update your top stories for you so far today the u.n. secretary general has appealed to world leaders to end what we call the suicidal war on nature and turn eco terrorists spoke after the release of a un environment report outlining how to tackle the triple environmental threat we need to make these correlation truly global and turns formative if
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