ah, ah ah ah ah, a global wake up call. well, leaders reacts with alarm to un report on the scale of the climate emergency. signs of those changes are already visible from greece to siberia to the us fire as a destroying forest and devastating the lives of millions. in basra be on the north tip of abbey island, increase wildfires that have been raging for a week are still burning. ah,

hello and welcome. i and peter toby, you're watching l to 0. life from are also coming up. people enough kennasoft displaced from their homes as the taliban claims the 6th provincial capital. and more than a marriage of convenience, we look at what's behind growing military ties between china and russia. ah, well, leaders and environmentalists to react with alarm to a un scientific report on the scale of the climate emergency. it says there is no longer any doubt that human activity is warming the planets and warns that some of that impact is reversible. the un secretary general is calling the study a code read for humanity. our environment, edison clark has more on that report from man. i've got in turkey where wildfires have caused widespread destruction. it is

a bleak picture. this year alone has seen storms, floods, and wildfires. now, according to sciences, it is unequivocal. the humans are largely to blame for warming the ocean's land an atmosphere. drop any of coal, oil, and gas, you've been telling us over 3 decades of the dangers of allowing the kind of warm the well listen, a didn't hear the wellness, but it didn't last act strongly enough. and as a result, climate change is a problem that is here. now, nobody is safe and it's getting worse. foster about has been repeatedly demonstrated by the reporting that we've been doing here in turkey. and in greece on the devastating wafaa that have swept across southern europe. now these, well, us do happen every year, but it is the scale of them and the intensity of them that is taking everybody by surprise this year. and that looks set to continue. the 1st year and report issued

in 1990, had predicted human cause. climate change would become evident at the time. it couldn't prove with evidence that it was happening. that's now changed or nearly every measurement or climate is more extreme. and it's set to get was causing climate change and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. second, it shows that climate change is affecting every region on our planet. and lastly, it's place that strong, rapid sustain reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. would be required to limit global warming right now, it's some of the world's poorest countries that feeling the effects that they contribute less to greenhouse gases. there is hope that if the biggest emits is, are able to commit to deliver shop reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. we may

see some positive changes, but it would have to happen within the next 20 years. the cave in 1900 demik briefly reduced air pollution, but it did not hold climate change damage it seems already done. some issues like greenland glass is melting and sea levels rising or irreversible. and unless, as a dramatic change in human behavior, the world should expect an unsettled an uncertain future. nick lock al jazeera southern turkey. well, that report is focusing the minds of world leaders on what can be achieved at the crucial you and climate summit schedules for november. the us secretary of state antony blinkin, said governments in the private sector mustang, together with urgency to protect the planet, the u. k. prime minister boris johnson, who's governs hosting the summit said the report makes for sobering reading. india described the study as a clarion call for developed nations,

is urging them to take immediate steps towards de compromising their economies. the european union did strike a more hopeful note. it's deputy climate chief said the report shows, it's not too late to turn the tide. the green prime minister has apologized for failing to properly tackled devastating fires burning across the country. some of the worst are on the island of evian, where hundreds of homes have been lost and thousands of people evacuated. weak officials for blame climate change for the record breaking heat wave, fueling the fires. but critics say the government's should have been better prepared. zane bus rob is on the island of area where the firefighters are struggling to contain the flames. now as you can see, the fire behind me like so many we've seen in the last week. these things move very quickly. they go from this relatively small size to a much larger size, very, very fast. the ground around me is covered in dry vegetation, which is perfect fuel for these fires to grow and spread very,

very rapidly. we've been on this location of the north tip of area island for just about 5 or 10 minutes. and we've seen this go from a very, very small group of flames to a much larger fire. and if we look to the right of me, there are more fires burning in that direction. well, along this hiking trail, as it goes deeper into the forest, these fires are burning fast. they are burning hot, and they don't seem to be stopping any time soon. a fire rescue cruise that we've encountered driving up and down this part of the island for the last day of love for the last several hours. they're trying to do the best they can, they're putting out all the fires they come across. but we've been here for a little while now, and there are no fire rescue crews anywhere in sight, which is a worrying concern since relatively speaking, smaller fires like this can become very large, blaze this very quickly. under current conditions here in the hill country that the

island emergency crews in northern california, one day growing wildfire could take weeks to contain the circle. dixie fire has been active now for more than 3 weeks. it covers an area larger than new york city . several people are missing and thousands of fled their homes. john henry is in the historic gold rush town of greenville, which has been destroyed by the fire. this was downtown greenville. it burned to the ground on wednesday, and days later remains wreathed in smoke. that gives it an eerie post apocalyptic feel. the heat was so intense, it melted, this lamb post. and the rest of downtown was pretty much leveled. this is the worst wildfire in the united states right now and the 2nd largest in california history. but it's one of more than a 100 fires. in 15 states being battled 526000 firefighters, and they've got their job cut out for them. you can see here, this was a century old hotel,

and now only the facade remains what's happened. is it global warming, his exacerbated the dry and hot conditions that make it easier for a spark to set off a fire? so 2020 was the worst fire season yet in 2021 is expected to be. we're still. wildfires are also sweeping across bolivia as eastern lowlands, putting a large area known for its rich wildlife at risk. the fires have devastated 2 tons and the santa cruz region where they've already burned through more than a 1000 square kilometers of woodland. a lack of rain in parts of brazil is raising for years of another devastating fire season there in the states of matter, grow so ablaze the scores, 10 square kilometers, the world's largest wetlands, and just 2 days. oh i the us enjoy to afghanistan. i'll make a little odd is heading to cat are to press taliban negotiators to stop their

military offensive. the group says is captured at 6th provincial capital since friday. i back is in the northern province of some gum. the taliban also claimed to be closing in on mazar e sharif, the largest city and the north. hundreds of thousands of afghans of fled their homes since the current began its defensive in may. as the us started withdrawing the last of his forces. many of those in the north of had itself to the capital cobble a 10 hour drive away from the worst of the fighting. the taliban has taken more territory in recent weeks than it did at any time since it fell from power 20 years ago. in may, it controlled about 20 percent of afghanistan, but as us and other foreign troops withdraw, the group has been ramping up its attacks and has made sweeping gains in the last week. it's taken the provincial capitals of condos, telecon, sorry, paul shabba. john is a ranch and now i back fighting to control herat kandahar and hillman continues. it

is a critical test for the afghan government as the taliban advances and surrounds the capital. cobble correspondent, rob mcbride, has more from cobble. this is the latest victory being claimed by the taliban. the city of i back now, this is the city, that's the capital of simon gun, a fairly small province in the north of afghanistan. pictures which have been uploaded by the taliban, which is con, independently verify. but they do show fight is being greeted in the streets by towns, people, a streets which we are told him, it's video inside i back now this if it's true that this is the 6 provincial as city to be taken in just a few days and it is in this broad sway, the northern afghanistan where we have seen a lot of other fighting and other gains be made by the taliban. like like i back some of those gains are small cities, but it does include, for example, conduce, which is a very big city strategically very important. it is a very significant victory for the taliban that previously they have taken can do

about 5 or 6 years ago. on 2 separate occasions its fighters occupied can do more as a symbolic gesture of zone, a very temporary and then day where the force doubtful withdrew and we'll retake them by the government forces. now the government forces this time have pledged to retake maybe of these areas. it is confirmed that special forces are engaged with taliban inside, couldn't dues, but we are seeing fighting, continuing in the other areas across africa, understand human rights groups urging pakistan's government to drop blasphemy charges against the nature of boy accused of urinating in a religious school. come hider has more from islam about dan, gender running high and southern pon job, and re me our current district over to a district on the border of the province over an incident in which a young hendo boy was killed of urinating inside a religious school. on the copper, the boy just a theodore,

generated by the police and kept in custody for the week of august on the prime minister, ordered the tiny military deployed troops through that area in order to protect the minority date. when the mall are tact hindered. in retaliation for the action by that later child, now it is important to know that although the black for me case carry their dead pendant head and bucket on noise diffusions have been carried out. however, people have been carried involved while in the boy's family of god. now read in hiding. he was released on bail. the bugger, tiny supreme court has taken action asking as to how such a young boy can be charged. for me. it has sent shock waves across the legal fraternity. the boy's family had now gone into hiding and still have many other members of the hindu minority community and data roger con welfare for, for their lives. they weren't action. the people in progress of god are very

sensitive when it comes to the blasphemy issue. but the prime minister has ordered an inquiry. he wanted to police officers who were responsible for the security in the area to be probe. and of course, they had gathered quite a bit of momentum on the social media about the rights of the minority and budget don, for it will be important to see what happens next. but in the tensions are running high buckets on government and once again job manda, that's part lied for handling of the for me, issued the kids are controversial. laws which are guard, had been questioned on several occasions. but it is going to important to see whether the country will be able to deal with this particular case and to satisfy the minority community that they're safe in pocket on. still to come here on out to 0, a court in china uphold the canadian death sentence. canada says the timing is not

a coincidence. we'll have the details and the striking a chord with those as petitions in germany begin campaigning as of next month. selections. ah hello, thanks for tuning in here is your weather story for the middle east. we do have a wind blowing down from iraq through to the goal, so will be dry at times, but also gusty. so q $850.00 degrees and just want you to be on the look out for this. we could see those winds were up to about 45 kilometers per hour, and temperature is here. well above where they should be. southern areas of pakistan, we've lost those gusty winds, so karachi $32.00 degrees and we do have our mon sooner. moister toward the north, anywhere from the hor, to islam about could catch a shower or

a storm in some in turkey. we've got rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region, which is still tried to recover from devastating flooding. places like our hobby, you know, for africa, hart to me we have seen flooding here because of both the blue and the white nile rivers. rising rapidly, so we see these scenes and it's all because if we getting these big storms through ethiopia into sedan and south to dad, as we go further toward the south, the scattering of some showers will be the name of the game throughs and bob way, ferrari hiv 24 degrees, but it abundance of sunshine. cape town. 17. and as we check in on durban, also a high 17 degrees. that's it for me. see you soon. ah! on county, in the cold, from june is yet to south africa. the pandemic has reopened preexisting economic political challenges. but the gap between rich and poor nations continues to widen

. with a lack of privacy in china is cranked down on capitalism. counting the cost on al jazeera, i care about healthy us engages with the rest of the world. we're really interested in taking you into a play. you might not visit otherwise and feel that you were there. ah, the me. okay, thank you. watching al jazeera, your top stories, this our world leaders and environmentalists react with alarm to a us find civic report on the scale of the climate emergency. it says there is no longer any doubt that human activity is warming, the planets warns,

but some of that impact is irreversible. christmas, prime minister has apologized for failing to properly tackle. devastating fires burning across the country. officials have blamed climate change for the record breaking heat wave fuel in the destruction, but particularly the government should have been better prepared on the us invoice . again, a son is heading to cats are to press taliban because he has to stop the military offensive. taliban says it's captured it's 6th provincial capital since friday. the military struggles to stop groups advance. a chinese court has rejected an appeal by a canadian man sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges. his robert schellenberg . he was given a 15 year jail term in 2018, but he was then sentenced to death 2 months later, after a top chinese tech executive mang, one job was arrested in canada. in relation to charges in the us. canada as ambassador to china says it's no coincidence. the verdict has been handed down.

bombings, extradition trial is ongoing life now to paging and correspondent there katrina, you. katrina, it does seem very, very coincidental that these 2 legal cases separated by thousands of miles have come together at the same time that tried they during has denied any links, but of course it's hard to ignore the impact that these case with my wonder seems to have had on robert schellenberg not only his case, but the case of 2 other canadians, one also who is receiving his verdict this week. michael staffel. now robert schellenberg can appeal his case one more time to the highest court. the people's court visit extremely unlikely that a sentence will be changed. 99 percent of all criminal cases here and trying to receive a guilty verdict, and beijing is notoriously hard on its approach to any drug crimes. now robert

schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and in 2018. he was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison. but we've had this long one, jo, arrest of happen in december 2018. and after that he was re tried and then received his death sentence. now there is a political element to all of this, and that is the bilateral relationship between canada and china is at an all time load. it was dealt another blow earlier this year when the canadian government described the treatment of the weekend minority by the chinese government as genocide. and on top of that, we've had this mon one job case where the chinese government has been furious. that this is continuing. she's currently facing court in canada and they will be strongly for her release. now, schellenberg wasn't the only person, seemingly impacted by her arrest weeks after she was arrested. michael stubble and michael carver. 2 other canadians were arrested in china and charged with espionage . now that cases had been shrouded in secrecy. they were trailed earlier this year

. canadian diplomats were not allowed access to that trial. and they were reportedly given very little access to lawyers. ahead of that. now michael, bubble is due to receive his verdict this week maybe as early as tomorrow. and if he is found guilty, he could face a very lengthy prison sentence. ok, katrina, thanks very much. katrina you. they're joining us live from paging. china and russia had begun a series of joint military exercises that taking place in northeast china. and they come after recent tensions between the 2 countries and the united states. and just weeks before the u. s. is due to complete its military pull out from afghanistan, which of course borders china. adrian bryan picks up the story from hong kong. nearly half a century ago. these 2 neighbors fought a brief, portable, but the latest china, russia, military drills showed that hostility is now in the past. in this mock battle,

the enemy is unnamed. it's a military partnership that's strengthening, thanks in part to both countries, worsening relations with the united states. if you say it's a marriage of convenience that underestimates the depth of their shared interests. and of course the biggest one is opposing america. and i'm the mining america and the west. and that's extremely importantly in explaining the strength of the current chinese russia relationship. $10000.00 soldiers are taking part in the exercise, which will last for 5 days. the 30th such wargames since 2003 russia's president vladimir putin and china's leader sheeting paying recently boasted that that countries relationship was now unbreakable. and moscow in beijing appear to be an agreement on afghanistan. both were highly critical of the decision to withdraw all us troops. my september, with concerns that have canister on which board is china, could again become

a haven for armed groups like al qaeda. when china's foreign minister, when he met taliban officials last month, he urged the delegation to distance themselves from what he called terrorist groups . analysts say it's signalled concerns. the china and other countries will be left to deal with the fall out of the rapid us withdrawal. why did biden push this so suddenly and so severely and within chinese circle is also russian and some other places. they believe that this was, you know, basically saying, okay, we broke it, but it's not in our back yard. it's in yours, russia, china. so she goes down all the rest of the sounds. more of all games also involving russia. but this time with a force from who's beckett's done. a joint special forces drill close to the afghan board up preparing for whatever scenario that may unfold from the taliban rising

gains in the battlefield. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong in the u. s. government scientist who was as did after criticizing the trumpet ministrations. corona, virus responses reached a settlement with the department of health there. ologist rick bright, resisted the president's push to use an anti malarial drug, hydrox clark when as a cure for cubic 19, he says that's why he was demoted from a key job. a 2nd complaint is still being investigated by the office of special council, which protects federal whistleblowers. canada is now allowing americans vaccinated against cubic 19 to enter the country is lifted rules imposed in march of last year which banned non essential travel across the land border. but restrictions on canadians entering the u. s. do remain, she have returns the reports. now from detroit. there were long delays at some land

border crossings into canada as fully vaccinated us citizens were finally allowed across for the 1st time since march of last year. but given the spread of the delta veterans and pounds of the us, some a raising questions about the relaxation of the rules. i'm a little nervous about it because the numbers are going up. they are so much 100000 a day. so why are we exposing herself kind of a shot? it's borders to nom citizens in march of 2020 for the deeply integrated communities along the 8500 kilometer frontier. the result was devastating. families have been separated. fiance, husband, wife business is it's taken a huge emotional toll, so i'm very excited that the boarders opening and we're going to have some relief. not only must us citizens be fully vaccinated, but they also need proof of a negative cobra test. taken within 72 hours of crossing the border. but although cobra for canadians have been allowed to fly to the us since the pandemic began,

the u. s. is keeping its land border with canada close to not a central travel until at least the 21st of august, fighting the risk of cobra. it clearly has a contradiction here because fully vaccinated. canadians can't fly into the us. they just can't use the land border. so for example, that's when the ontario, that's detroit michigan instead of using the one on the health cologne, with a tunnel between the 2 cities, canadians having to drive 4 hours to toronto and then fly to detroit business lead and say the reason for the discrepancy is what's happening on the southern border, the by did ministration affairs that opening the northern land border will increase pressure to open its border with mexico. and that's something it does not want to do. i think there's a lot of pressure to treat border borders. the thing, i don't know that that's 100 percent of the reasons that certainly plays into it. in the meantime, us citizens at least, can finally enter canada from land and sea calendar is expected to looseness,

entry restrictions for other countries. on september the 7th she ebert hansie al, jazeera, detroit michigan britain's prince. andrew is being sued in the us for alleged sexual abuse of a woman who says she was trafficked by the late for nancy. a jeffrey epstein, virginia jeffrey says the prince assaulted her when she was 17. the lawsuit filed in a court in new york says we have these happened between 19992002. 1 of those occasions was in london at the home of chalet. maxwell has also facing charges relating to the abuse of underage girls prince. andrew denies the accusations. the final pads have been made from a fund created for jeffrey epstein as victims. $120000000.00 in compensation was awarded to nearly a $140.00 claimants tuesday, march 2 years since he killed himself in a jail in new york quite a bit from trial on sex trafficking charges in germany. political jostling has now begun in earnest ahead of next month's general election. 2 of the leading parties

of launched their campaigns. the boat will decide who succeeds anglo marco as chancellor. the greens and the right wing a f t party are both promising change. with the pandemic, the environment top the agenda, dominant k, now reports from berlin. the election season has come around again. soon, it will be time to replace and go to medical and her government. and alina bell book believes she should be germany's 1st green chancellor at the launch of her party's campaign. on monday, she explained why voters should choose her posture by these or via gauges. this selection is really about something, it's about l. future. the future doesn't just happen, the future gets made. and that's what we're running for. on september the 26 cats making done, but these are testing times for that book. just a few months ago, she and her party were riding high in the polls. now both numbers are down and she

is being scrutinized as never before. she's been accused of committing plagiarism in parts of this book that she wrote earlier this year. she has admitted making mistakes. when compiling this work, kristian democrat, counterpart i'm in russia, has also had to admit and apologize for doing something similar in this book that he wrote more than 10 years ago. his poll ratings to have suffered as a consequence, as have those of his policy. a glance at the latest poll shows how the c, d, u. c. s you are in the lead on 26 percent, some way below their performance with angle imaculi's leader 4 years ago vying with each other for a 2nd place of the social democrats and the greens on 18 percent. the center, right, free democrats have 12 percent with the far right, a f d one point behind for them to monday was campaign launched day in

2017 and anti islam. anti migration message one, the more than 90 seats in parliament, this toner and that campaigning against the current covey rules before them, through the infill, an absolute 5 in the sky. this is an individual and child. we demand that the vaccination be absolutely voluntary. it's an individual choice. no vaccination pressures should be exerted on citizens, especially not our children. the epidemic situation must be lifted immediately and we never want another lockdown. finding the fight against cove it and combating climate change or 2 of the dominant issues in this election. although more than half the population has now been double vaccinated against the corona virus, there are still many millions who have not. while in the aftermath of the recent floods in western germany, many people say they support tougher climate change policies in a close election. however, the parties can appeal to these 2 different groups of people may hold the key to

success or failure in september dominant cane al jazeera berlin, london, zeus marking world lion day with a special meal for its newest, big cat adia, a 4 year old a she added lioness after breakfast, served in edible, pappy mushy globes. she arrived in april as part of a printing program for this endangered species. world lion day is an independently organized campaign to raise awareness of the lion conservation. ah. top stories at $530.00 g m t. well, peters and environmentalists react with alarm to a un scientific report on the scale of the climate emergency. it says there is no longer any doubt that human activity is warming the planets and warms that some of that impact is irreversible. first, it has.