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coming up in the next 60 minutes. g 20 leaders agreed to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. but there's no pledge on net 0 missions. and now the stage is set for a global summit that's being seen as the last best hope for nations to act on their climate goals. more strikes and demonstrations and sued on a day after 4 people was shot dead during protests against the military coup. and japan's new prime minister has projected to hold on to power after sunday's election. but opposition gains couldn't weaken from here cuz she does influence alan sport. the atlanta braves have one hand on the world series trophy and a former afghanistan, cricket captain receives the perfect sand off at the t 20 world. come ah well, it is now a $1500.00 g m t and we are starting this news hour in rome, where wild leaders are wrapping up their g 20 summit. they called the meaningful
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and effective action to cap global warming. she 20 countries agreed to take urgency . states limits global warming to $1.00 degrees celsius, but the final communicate didn't include a deadline for net 0 emissions. on the sidelines of the summit, us present, joe biden, and his turkish counterpart rush of ty, berto on disgust. anchor is request to acquire f. 16 fighter jets. the u. s. oppose as the attempt because anchor a purchased russian missile defense systems. meanwhile, u. s. secretary of state antony blinking told china's foreign minister one ye to stop it's aggressive actions towards ty, $11.00 accused the u. s. of supporting pro independence forces into one. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly hacket joins us now from rome. she is across all of this forest at kimberly, i'll get to the g 20 communicate just a moment. but one of the most anticipated meetings there was on the sidelines between biden and other one things have been pretty intensively did their bilateral actually managed to smooth anything over well,
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according to the white house read out, this was a meeting that was productive. it was also candid, but there were a constructive progress on a number of issues that have been sort of festering between the united states and turkey for some time. the 1st issue that really has been a problem for the to has been over the issue of defense and security in the united states. not too happy that turkey recent years purchased a missile defense surface to air missile defense system from russia. the reason they're upset about that is that russia is sort of what the nato group has been sort of working to counter. and so given the fact that turkey is a nato ally, this is a bit of a problem, not just for the u. s, but for some of its members and so they discussed that and degree that they would work cooperatively moving forward to try to resolve some of their differences. but those differences continue. the latest one seems to be of some tension over the
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fact that there is a jailed philanthropist and business man who's been in there jails in turkey for a number of years 2017 to be exact. and the problem is, is that he's never been charged. so well, we know from the senior diplomat that spoke to reporters, that wasn't a case that was raised specifically. but instead the u. s. president underscored the united states firm commitment to human rights rule of law and the expectation that that be upheld in turkey. and kimberly, this g 20 has been wrapping up as the cop climate talks, kickoff and glasgow. i know the communique includes this desire to limit warming to $1.00 degrees celsius. but is that realistic or even possible? given the lack of a timeline on domestic actions that we've seen well, you've identified one of the biggest concerns is that this communicate coming out
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of the g. 20 is not really setting the table for the you and climate summit and glasgow the way that many had hoped. what the fear is, is that there haven't been the firm commitments on a firm date with respect to when there would be a reaching out of the net 0 emissions. and so that is of grave concern to many because what we know is that the sticking points that the diplomats were working on it late until the evening. and even the early morning hours concerned the use of fossil fuels. putting an end to the use of coal and also again that firm date on the net 0 emission. so what we're told is that this is essentially now communique that says that this will be achieved some time before by mid century, but doesn't give that hard date that many we're looking for even to be sooner. so that is the big concern because what they've instead agreed upon is, is this carbon neutrality by around the mid century and the you and climate side to
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say that that really falls short of what is needed in order to avoid an escalation of these extreme climate weather events that we've been seeing all around the globe for some time. now. our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett, with all the latest force from rome today. thanks so much. kimberly. well, as we've been saying, the focus of our leaders, when our shift from room to the scottish city of glasgow for the cup 26 climate change summit hosted by the british prime minister barak johnson. he's described it as the world's moment of truth. leaders from every region in the world are expected to discuss their plans to cut missions, hopefully by 2030. our environment. edison at clark joins us now from glasgow. nick, what do you make of that g. 20 communicate design actually set the tone for these glasgow talks with the appropriate level of urgency. do you think it's helpful, but really the 2 need to go hand in hand. you can't have one without the other and that's exactly what they can be trying to do. here at the climate conference in
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glasgow right now, it's just about preliminaries preparations. they're getting ready for the world leaders arriving tomorrow to deliver their national statements. over the next couple of days, we have heard from one or 2 people, including the cop president l at charmer, who is being down playing expectations, which is interesting in the context of what we've just heard about that communicate the g 20 same that the this conference may not achieve of at 1.5 degrees figure that the world needs. i remember right now with global commitments as they are, we're heading for 2.7 degrees celsius. if that stays the same, it will be catastrophic. we've had this continuing raft of reports about the dire state of the planets climates in the extreme weather events that are happening as result when one today from the world meteorological organization, which says that the past 7 years is set to be the warmest on record 7 years in a row at the sea level rise as a new high and with continued ocean warming, the certification it rained as i well no, because i was
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a reigned rather than snowed in greenland for the 1st time. the summer and many areas of the mediterranean experienced record heat waves and wild fires. so the poor nations of the world are looking at this conference to try and help defend against the worst effects of acts of extreme weather. latino from hiring matessa has been to malawi, wilson city, mary, members, the time we left sheila mallory 2nd biggest lake, nearly disappeared. temperature's got extremely hot and there was a little rain. he and his friends. i fished here since they were boys, just like they fathers and grandfathers did they say the drying up of the lake has become more frequent than usual? oceana liebel. there is a difference. they used to be a lot more fish. there were only a few of us, so there was no over fishing. now the population is boomed. there's also climate change. last year the lake dried up. the world banks is nearly half of africa's population loose below the poverty line. and many depend on rivers and lakes for
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their livelihoods. when full leg, sheila is approximately 60 kilometers long and 40 kilometers wide, but he keeps shrinking. if the fish in the lake continued to disappear is not only the economy that will be devastated, but entire communities. fishing is how many people here survive is what they been doing for generations. one and a half 1000000 people live in the areas around the live children basin people at my disability. she buy stock from fishermen to feed customers at her restaurant. and melissa, when the men don't bring back much fish, my business suffers. that means less customers and not much money for my children. live scientists, they africa, is the continent most affected by climate change and also the least responsible for it. you're looking at people not being able to do or these to do before, and the income levels continue to go down and that already also exacerbates is do with her poverty. so it's a big problem at the moment. so we hope that we can be able to,
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to find out some solutions to this families out here are away their way of life is changing and that they may have to find alternatives to fishing, such as farming an option. many say they are seriously considering harder. matessa al jazeera lake, chilla maloney hiring matessa there. well, let's take this all we can speak now to the president of la la. i am pleased to say lazarus jacqueline is also chair of the least developed countries group here. a crucial faction here at the climate talk. so mr. president, welcome back. so you are a president of one of africa's poorest nations. you will be listening to the leaders of the big admitted to morrow, delivering their national statements. and on tuesday, what do you want to hear from? well, 1st of all, we are labor the least developed nations, but not necessarily the poorest in terms of resources. i think we are some of the
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richest nations, but the resources have not been used resourceful. now, our hope for this conference is to say, how do we develop and sustain that development where that necessarily having to go through the same processes that develop nations had to go through to bring the earth to where. now we're talking about an existing problem, right? which we all just post industrial revolution, create emissions, which is create the crisis so that that's where the question really is. so what you want from the world leaders here? what do you want from the big mentors that they actually need to say? we are moving beyond just talking to real action in terms of issues to do with finances. 12 years ago in copenhagen they said they would raise $100000000000.00. now that amount of money is not necessarily the same as it was then. we didn't even
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coming anyway, so anyway, so which means that even that needs to be revised. however, if there is no finance, there is no way develop nations can tell developing nations don't use the systems we use, use new system. now if you're talking about new technology, because we still need to have electricity, we still need to have industrialization. we still need to have a foot sufficiency, so that people move away from subsistence farming to farming that is commercialized and mechanized. now how do you do that? with the power now the new technology is they are extremely expensive. if we don't have financing with levels that are choking such nations as i represent, it's impossible. so we can commit to reduce in cobrin emissions. no,
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in that we haven't even contributed significant amounts to the se. but if we don't have the financing in the adaptation methodology as we are following and committing ourselves to may not necessarily come to pass. so. so finance, climate finance is crucial for you at what, what did you make of that communique which has come out of the g 20 summit, which is embracing the concepts of one and a half degrees celsius as a target, but makes no mention of net 0 by 2050 and so then you begin to wonder, are we really taken this thing seriously i, we actually listening to this science or maybe we have gone to where we are in self delusion. because this to me is something that needs to be addressed head on. so that we've moved away from federalism and hopelessness to where we can say this is doable. and together we can do it. what does failure?
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here it caught 26 looked like for the people of malawi. failure will man more deaths, more destruction, more disasters. because when, for example, 2 years ago we had cycling, di, hitting mozambique, malory's and bob with, if been trying to get up from that devastation, is a challenge. and these things do not wait until you are up before another one strikes. and so you need to be sure that going home, we're going home with a message of hope to say as sick world, we are in agreement that this things can be done, can be mitigated. and the new adaptation methods can be financed with that have been to plead for exam if we're talking about a clean up fee, because that's what this $100000000000.00, it's meant to be. it's
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a clean up fee it's, it's not even the ceiling, it's a floor. okay, just very brief because we're just running out of time. how hopeful are you that you will be able to go home with that message? i have the realistic, i have hope because hopelessness is not a choice that's i'm actually have to make that to message that you will pass on, no doubt in your natural statements more mister president, man, appreciate that very much indeed. and so that we have it, the president of moral, always speaking to us, just highlighting the urgency at hand here at this climate conference and gloves mcclark there with all the names as far as from that climate conference will be talking to a lot over the coming days thanks so much neck while there is still plenty more had here this news hour, including the post breaks at fishing dispute between the u. k. and frank heats up as leaders now argue over what was said during their meeting at the g. 20 running on empty, a fuel shortage. and china forces the world's 2nd largest economy to ration diesel
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and, and support the atlanta braves edge closer to the world series type. ah, now moving on and in ethiopia, the regional government of m hora has called on all its people who are able to fight to take up arms rebels from the te gray people's liberation front claim to be in control. now of the strategic town of dessie. not that's been contested by addis ababa. a statement from the regional government said the t p. ls had raped women, destroyed infrastructure, and looted property facing has now moved into the em horror and a far regions after rebels we took control of t gray in recent months. oh, let's go now to rome and a live event there where the italian president, maria drag, is issuing his closing remarks at the end of that g 20 summit. that sussman done an
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extraordinary work over the past few weeks. we must thank all of us. we must thank them. the past few years had inflicted severe damages to our ability to work together. the health workers and the doctors who stood with us in our family photo or a powerful reminder or what all of our so gone and are still going through for some of us. but this sum, it gives me the confidence that we can restore the ties that bind us in the interest of the entire global community as present by and said, we want to remember this summit as the one where we succeeded. and indeed, if we look back at the last year, because this, these 2 days have only been the final step all the year long of work hard work.
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we've reformed international taxes. them. we've all their com protection is medical goods secured more vaccines for the world's poorest. we were to the i m f as just been recalled a moment ago, ensuring the $650000000000.00 to special drawing rides. and out of the pledges we were able in here have to thank especially the president of the european commission to launch a significant effort to cope with the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. and then we continue the fight. the commitment in the fight to climate change for the benefit of current and future generations. so what's the success of this summit? well, gee, 20 countries committed to keeping the 1.55 target within reach with a series of immediate actions and medium term commitments. we've decided to put
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coal behind us, starting with the, the international probably commitment to eliminate finance for the new unabated called that all this finance will stop by 2021. moreover, old g 20 countries will commit to net 0 emissions by mid century. and we've moved much closer to the goal of reaching the $100000000000.00 in climate finance to support vulnerable countries. we're now quite close and as president micron said, we can use the s the our locations to feel any remaining gap. i'm glad to announce that italy will nearly triple its finest commitment to $1400000000.00 a year for the next 5 years to this effort. we are proud of these results, but we must remember that's only the start. we have lots of cries as the help and climate, the global poverty, the malnutrition, gender,
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and generational need qualities, demand stronger action that we've taken so far. so i asked myself, what we mean when we say we've succeeded. but in want we succeeded. well, we certainly pledged considerable resources. we also kept too many of these commitments. we increased their strength, their scope, but mostly we made sure that our dream says the secretary general, united nations are not only alive, but also that they are progressing. now, as mark said, we must focus on implementation implementation because rest assured, we will be judged by what we do not what we say as by the way, many of the activists which are by you are a thank. i thank a because they sort of bushy last they keep us all on the, on the, on the, on the, on the job. but all of them of say that they asked to, i don't this blah, blah blah,
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which means talk without substance. i think this sammy actually failed with some substance or speeches are in our finally we are, we are all aware that our credit barely the bolt as individual countries and as a group depends on our actions. so finally i would like to thank a bar is, is gone, so i'll thank united kingdom for for all and i wish shima the best. gov 26 that started today. and i think this some, it's sheila given you, i think has given you a good platform to work on. finally, it's now my great pleasure to hand over the g 20 presidency to present. we don't, i wish indonesia the best in the coming year. and i trusted under your leadership, we will manage to quote, recover better, recovery, stronger as the model of your presidency says. thank you old.
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well, you are listening that italian prime minister maria drug is closing remarks at the end of that g. 20 summit and ryan, of which he was hurst. he's been listing successes from the summit and tuning initiatives on global tax cove at vaccines and also highlighting the ambition of g 20 countries on climate change on limiting emissions and ramping up finance. or let's bring an al jazeera senior, political analyst, marin bashar, he joins us now from paris via skype at my one. obviously, climate dominated the summit, which was deliberately timed ahead of glasgow. no surprises really in the communicative saying this is ambitious language, but given the lack of concrete commitments on cuts only really looking at empty promises here. well, sir, it's too diplomatic to say the least. clearly as the secretary general of the united nations with their sir and i'm citing this has basically did not
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fulfilled his wishes, but neither did it bury them. and meaning, i think many will be disappointed by the results of the g 20 on climate change because of the lack of serious movement on the question of like call and song so forth. but at the same time, there would be those who would say, look, it. busy is a glass how full in the sense that at piece the are moving on something they are trying to do something and they are committing to certain sign posts or sort. i think many of the climate change activists would be totally disappointed because as that are good for a long time, you might be able to cheat the poor when it comes to the question of inequality. but you cannot cheat nature. when it comes to a question of climate change, you cannot make convoluted commitments. you cannot make vague plans and commitments at the same time, not really follow through. because this is not the start that this should have
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already been towards the end of really trying to rabble with the issue of climate change that the united nations have really considered a major, major challenge for humanity as all of course, and this has, oh, can i set the time for what happens in glasgow. plenty of discussion to the enron, that up broadening inequality, which will obviously be hearing more of that cup as well. but in run, it was also focused on crowded vaccines. and do you think the commitments made here will actually result in concrete change for developing countries? you know, i just looked at the, the g 20 a meeting in saudi arabia last year. and i looked at the commitments, ah, right about closing the equality about empowerment of women and so on, so forth. and clearly a lot of this is just inc, on paper that in the end of the day, these need to be nice and flowery and well designed statements. and they need to come and agree about them. but as druggie said, when it comes to action, this is
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a whole different world game than simply writing these words. ready in general terms, so yes, on the question of inequality on a bus should have coven, which now seems to be interrelated questions because a prosecutor, prospecting countries have already been vaccinated than many of the poor countries are going to be in the dark. so we will be, we've been hearing more and more of those sorts of commitment. the promises. yes, the united states and others did step in and didn't donate millions of shots us or so forth. but is it enough? and no, it's not, it's not enough. have the pharmacy companies controlled much of the decision making in western capitals when it comes to the production of the vaccinations? yes they did. did profit come ahead of you that are the value of human a life? yes it does. so there are a lot of challenges, some of them are within the western countries, some of them because of the mccarthy between, between the prosper does not know so password. but at the end of the day we are seeing movement. but i must say, it's
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a slow movement. now when you say we're talking about ink and paper here, we did see some success there. as guy, he was talking about then movement on this global corporate tax agreement. how significant an achievement is that for the d 20 that is significant, but not necessarily for the 4 countries. it says difficult for the rich countries like the united states. and it's got a paradoxical that that person and widen, like any american president can yield such influence and leadership overseas and foreign policy. when that exactly domestically, he can impose, he can lead, he can influence, he can drag or. busy different countries including the allies, to actually sign on on this important yes. important minimum 15 percent, facts, global facts which supposed to be sustainable failure on so so forth. but it does help the companies like the united states and others have that have lost many corporations for a because the tried to escape towards tax safe havens if you will,
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where they will be far less or taxes. i think the likes of upper amazon and others will probably be looking at their seriously. this is an important step of but yet it is still a modest step to works or tried to achieve, trying to deal with what should have been in my one looking at the people who actually showed up to this to t 20. there was some notable no says that this and that so i do want to ask you present britain and she, they sent ministers of envoys as did saudi arabia. did any of that change the tone of discussions that absolutely let because in the end of the day, much of the decision, much of the decision making of it has already been made when that that when the leaders meet that meet for all sorts of bilaterals and 3 lateral meetings and so so forth. and thus wipers them why than one to 10 for some black back slapping as it were, you know, trying to nudge and lead and have that what so called a personal diplomacy. the ups is over, the russian,
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and the chinese or participants in particular means that there is less seriousness on the questions them, on the main question that we are talking about, like climate change, but global security at inequality and so forth. and certain of the question of energy, the fact that person she is not there means that when it comes to the g to china and the united states, are we going to see much more wrangling going on between the 2 superpowers? as china tries to use the issue of taiwan, which was going was involved or just the last 24 hours by the chinese foreign minister. in order to add nudges the united states to mix up the compromises on the question of taiwan in order for china to make certain concessions on, on certain crushes or try to put on the united states. so yes, i think the absence of the russian and the chinese person was not a good thing. and i think it adds to the muddle, if you will, in terms of the, you know, the commitment to the various rules that been set in to jude went out. is there
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a senior political analyst, maron, bizarre, that breaking that down for us from paris? thanks so much for joining us again. my one and i'm leaving on and the sudanese teachers committee has core for a strike in all states have seed on that comes a day off to hundreds of thousands of people rallied to denounce the military takeover. soldiers use tig ass unblocked major roads and gunfire was reported. at least 4 people were count and correspondent him morgan has more. frank, more france, them on the phone from cotton. this is normally the time of the day where you see a lot of cars on the street of the shop open. and we can count on. you can count the number of cars that pass by and if not, many, normally people are either on their way back home or on their way to see other assess. and you can see some kind of what could be. but since the military take over on monday and especially following yesterday's mass protest, there's hardly any kind of business activity here at the central business district
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. now there was this committee that the grassroots committee was a dental level, have called on the people in their neighborhoods and their residential areas to stay in their home and abide by the civil disobedience committee. the teachers union has responded and said that they will be joining that call for civil could be . and also the pharmacists union was also called night to put in for professors to continue setting a barricade in the residential neighborhood and continue their process. and still, there was a research, the democrats process that was ongoing before monday school. so still their calls were supposed to be in many, many shop the business around the central business district here and assume remain close. and it's not clear if people are staying away from work, whether it's because they are following the civil disobedience call, that they want to see know whether it because it be barricaded or set up a residential level. residential neighborhood level is preventing them from coming
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