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time since the stars of the cove at 19 pandemic. ah, the world's biggest pollution have agreed to take greater action to limit global warming ahead of a crucial climate summit. t 20 leaders met rome on sunday where they committed to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees celsius. but they didn't agree on how to do it. bar mental us had hoped for a bigger breakthrough ahead of the cop 26 leaders summit in scotland. that is due to kick off in the coming hours. but with a few notable absences, chinese president, she should ping is skipping the summit in person anyway. he is expected to submit a written statement. instead, u s. president spied and criticized china and russia for not bringing any new proposals to the table to glue deal with climate change. our environment editor

nick clark is in glasgow where the cop summit is going to kick off. he has more on what to expect. they were hoping that they would use the g twenties as springboard or of momentum into coats where they say something. everybody is very disappointed with it is give it some perspective. so you had the parts agreement back in 2015, where the world agreed to keep the temperatures from rising beyond 2 degrees celsius, ideally one and a half to re celsius. 6 is all we now know that to to re celsius is too much. we're already at 1 point one milli, 1.2. and already we've seen catastrophic, extreme weather, especially this year. so for the g 20 to grasp to acknowledge that 1.5 is the target is a good thing, but it doesn't have enough half. what were the words urging meaningful and effective action? but agreeing few specific measures. a spoke to one observe a hair. and she said that if the g $22.00 is meant to be a dress rehearsal, the cop $26.00, and they fluffed their lines. so as world leaders shift their attention from the g 20 and others around the world,

join them here in glasgow over the next couple of days, you can be sure that the developing nations will be exerting as much pressure as possible for the leaders, especially of the big emitters to up their commitments while the poor at asians, the, well, the looking to cut 26. looking to this conference for world leaders for nations around the world as a step up their action and help them out to help developing countries. as he mentioned, china's president has been facing criticism for failing to attend the summit as go straight to katrina. you who's in beijing, katrina. so why is teaching paying not going to the summit? well she didn't pay has not left china since the beginning of the current virus outbreak last year. it's likely that they didn't thought it was too risky for him to leave or the optics would be bad. consider in china's still has closed international borders. he also addressed the g 20 bought by video link twice. and during his 2nd speech on sunday, he did address climate change quite extensively. so that could be the reason why

he's already submitting a vision statement to cop $26.00. but during that 2nd speech, she did mention a few things. he said that there was a need for the world to really commit to concrete actions. he said that developing countries needed to lead by example. and also that developed countries did need to financially assist poor countries. in achieving their targets. and he also said that technology will be crucial in building the world renewable energy capacity. now china, of course, has promised to peak it's called an emissions by 2030 and become called the neutral by 2060, there is enormous focus on what china does because it is the world's biggest pollution, the biggest emitter of carbon emissions. now, last week, china renewed its pleasures or send some new pledges into the u. n, but it wasn't anything complete in you. one thing it did promise to do was to raise total, wind and solar capacity to $1200.00 gigawatts by 2030. now

into interestingly, china right now is in the middle of this vast power crisis, and that's having to effect so some people say that's good and bad. the bad is up because there is a shortage of coal. and china uses coal as a primary energy source. there have been a number of blackouts across the country affecting cities and factories and had a devastating impact on productivity. and as a result, paging says it will actually boost the building of coal fired power plant in the near term. that is of the next few years. so that's not good. but the good thing is, as a result of these power shortages, china, a plan to call me has said that it will caps on the cost of coal. and that will eventually make coal less competitive. and renewable energy, more appealing in the long term. so i've spoken to some analysts here and they say, look, china is actually going in the right direction. but the problem is that china is not moving fast enough. china has said that we will peak the use of coal by 2025,

and they say that simply too late. and what china has promised so far is not enough to deliver a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees celsius maximum. before the end of the century and the fact that she didn't bring himself is not attending cup $26.00 in person has also very much dampened any herbs that china will be making any further commitments to train you in beijing for us. thank you. that update there would lie, barrier has struggled to deal with environmental challenges. the 2020 environmental performance index ranked at the wasp performing country when it comes to sustainability. nicholas hawk reports from the outskirts of the capitol monrovia. it is deep in liberia's, gideon forest region that samuel dory comes to mourn his friends inside these coffins is maria. the farmer grieves of the pasture. renee, the village shopkeeper, the cause of their death, samuel says,

is the nearby rubber plantation of the tire manufacturing company. firestone, a long time ago, it started with a coffee, says doorway accuses the company of toys and the water they used for drinking, informing it or dis i hastily hiscock and robert, bring an air and water pollution. i'm feeling hurt. these are my citizens still was i am very angry. i keep saying it over and over. the government doesn't care about it yesterday since writing, you see the destruction our be law. this is not supernatural law destruction, but from debt to water was the government knows of firestone is exploiting only a 5th of the 10000 square kilometer land concession, but it is expanding as the 99 year government lease was renewed in 2005. the company is clearing large parts of liberia, skinny and forest reaching home to wear species of animals like the pig, me, hipaa. in western chimps,

their habitat is under threat environmental as say the rivers are contaminated with heavy metals, killing aquatic life, l. this is supposed to be the lungs of west africa, but right here in the firestone concession, the air is thick with chemicals. it stings the eyes. now in the statement firestone says it's doing all the count to mitigate the effect of climate change. and it is sticking to the current librarian laws to protect the environment. liberal rents at the bottom of the environmental performance index with researcher, saying that the country is behind its regional peers, particularly in protecting the biodiversity, ensuring habitat conservation, and preventing climate change. what followed, or who are all of the industrial, rob, bottom, partly who have the, the grid up potential to destroy our if it is not us. and then when you make a report and think that we are doing less, what are you doing you another more as well? i bear is poor and indebted government has given almost half of the country's land

in concessions stewed, multinational companies in order to repay its debt to international creditors. these companies are exploiting the countries rich natural resources and displacing tens of thousands of people in the process. most are making the country's capital their home. faced with this influx authorities are unable to manage the expanding slums. in clear, the mounting waste. with a capital barely one meter books you level the rising ocean is now destroying their homes. for liberians, there is no escape from the effect of climate change. now, doorway sees in this coffins a reminder for future generations of what caused his friends, death, and the pollution that can no longer be ignored or destroying the lives of so many . nicholas hawk al jazeera and by monrovia to put in nepal. now where the country continues to struggle after several days of flooding and

devastating land sides. well then 220 people have been killed and homes and crops have been destroyed. expert say land signs are becoming more comment in the himalayan region, as rains become increasingly intense and glassy as melt. santos ravi joins us now from bonaparte. say it, one of the air is being affected zane. so how our recovery efforts going there? well kim, i want to start by giving you sort of a broad sense of what it looks like here on the ground. we're east of cut my do about 2 hours and send to paul chuck district. and i just want to give you a sense of what it looks like. you're right now. we're just going to zoom in here and i want to show you the flat river valley basin here. now all the areas that you see, the gravel bed, the gray rubble and sand, that whole space, right there was covered in water up until a few days ago. now what we're seeing here, all of that, that was,

that is now grey sandy rubble used to be rice, patty, field. all that's left now is that small green space of farmland that we see in frame. now everything else was washed away by the flood waters. now, what this represents is a loss of economic income for the people who live in areas like this all across the country. it represents a loss of food security, those for agricultural crops that will grow not just to be sold, but to be consumed by these local communities. we have more than 100 people dead on the policy side of the border from these floods. another 100 plus deaths on the indian side of the border. this is affected the country in almost every region that we can think of. and it's not just a $150.00 dead end or missing. there's bridges that have been destroyed, at least 5000 building structures, homes, roads, land slides are now threatening people's lives and livelihoods. and in the grand

scheme of things, when we're talking about international disasters, be events here, the death toll, the injuries, the destruction of homes. you know, cynically speaking, it may not be big enough fingers or a big enough event to hold international headlines for too long. but the fact is that the government is pointing to one thing is this extreme weather event. all of these things that happened happen over the course of 3 days. everything the transpired happened in 3 days. it was an extreme weather event of, of an unimaginable intensity for the people here, the government we spoke to said it was unexpected. it was unprecedented. and if this is the new normal for the monsoon season in the paul, then the government says that year on years they are not ready to cope with it. i really reminder, as we talk about extreme weather events in the life of the 26 climate summit. hey, thank you very much for that update. there is a bas robbie, un secretary general, antonio gutierrez, has called on through dom general to reverse the military. on sunday,

the said nice teachers committee called for a strike and all states. tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating a recent days to reject the army take over. at least 11 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured during confrontations with security forces. yelman's intimation may assist through the rebels, have killed dozens of civilians in the city of morrow. 29 people were injured or died and strike comes off the saudi state. media reported that the saudi led coalition had killed at least 218 who these in the past 3 days. 30 again, a push to take control of the oil rich province in september. mario is the last stronghold of the internationally recognized government. japan's prime minister for me o casita has declared victory after his will and coalition what a majority and sundays national elections. casita said his liberal democratic party has won a very tough election to a party held onto the single party majority. the vote was seen as

a key test for she took office less than a month ago. asian stocks showed gains in early morning trading following the election results. you think it was a very tough election, but the people's will that they want to create this country's future under the stable l. d. p. commis, tow government, and the key to ministration was shown while accept this with gratitude. i also find it as a sobering moment, while the bride has moved out from self. from the l. d p. 's point of view, the probably the more important number is that on their own, they have 261 seats, which is what's called an absolute majority, a stable majority in the lower house. it means that with that number of seats, they can keep control of the chairs of all of the important house committees that pass the legislation. so it's much easier for them to govern to pass laws. a very good result, of course, because shita he had come to power under a something of

a cloud. he is not a very charismatic leader to say the least. he is not the 1st choice of rank and file l d p. members. he was seen as having being foisted upon them by the party elders. this obviously helps him now cement his position as a long term prime minister i. but this is also being said, not so much of the victory for the l. d p. as also at the, the, the failure once more of japan's opposition. this campaign has been completely dominated by the pandemic. and the impact on the economy not to shita has promised a big stimulus package to try to get the economy moving again, as certainly an expectation of that business is responded positively. the nick a index jumped by 2 percent when it opened on monday, but he has an awful lot of work to do at to try to counter the, at the disapproval of, of the, the government and also of his predecessor prime minister suga for their handling goers. many people see the mishandling of the pandemic of pushing ahead with

a controversial tokyo olympics despite the very limited economic gain. and in fact, seeing in the aftermath of that a spike in cobit numbers around at tokyo. still ahead on al jazeera on fish, i got to tell you that the position is, is unchanged. the fishing disputes between the u. k and france remained stagnant, despise a meeting between the countries lead. it's a colorful offering for the debt. we made a farm and mexico working hard to keep traditional life. ah hello there. well autumn is certainly being felt in europe. we've got wet and windy conditions across many areas and that unsettled weather is set to continue for the

next few days. the wind and the rain pulling in from the west, pushing across to the east. now ahead of this eastern europe, missing a lot of fine and dry weather, stretching old way from poland down to the balcony. that is going to change. by the time we get into choose day, and that's thanks, the low pressure that's pulling in, bring some heavy rain storms and snow to pots of france to switzerland. so snow for the outs and some heavy rain from northern parts of italy. we have got some red warnings out fully gloria and tuscany. we could see some flooding from those torrential downpours. but as we go into tuesday, it's going to push across into austria into croatia. this area is going to see a lot of wet weather and with that we are going to see some of those temperatures come down. for example, in belgrade it's lorraine as well for greece and the rain continues for fronds. it winds up slightly on tuesday for britain an island, but for those briscoe winds will remain scandinavia see some of the rain fall heavily as we go further into the week. but it remains rather dry for western

russia, and it's rather mild in moscow at 7 degrees celsius. ah, the end of the country with an abundance of results for the road and walk indonesia whose firms for me, we moved full to growth and france. we balance for reno, economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs invest . let's be part when the this is growth and progress in indonesia. now, with ah, ah,

watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories this all world leaders are arriving at glasgow of the annual climate change conference, which is said to kick off the coming else. agreed to take a great action to limit global warming ahead of a crucial climate. so much to poll continues to struggle after several days of flooding and devastating last time. more than 220 people have been killed, homes and crops have been destroyed. the government had promised to provide aid to the victims families. demands prime minister has declared victory of the ruling coalition. want to majority and national elections for me. ok, shita says the l v. p one, a very tough election after his policy held on to this single party doughty holes of opened in south africa, local elections. the vote is said to be the toughest contest yet the ruling african

national congress party samples of jesse and see will win less than half of the vote for the 1st time and may lose control of some of the country's largest municipalities. it's been facing growing discontent over run down infrastructure and social inequality for me to mila is. it's a waiter for me to. so these are just local elections, but it sounds like they are still fairly significant. well, they are quite significant for the and see because i suppose at this point it would be a litmus test of the kind of support that's the governing party in south africa. since the dawn of demarco democracy has a back in 2006 the a and c had more than a 50 percent majority in local elections by 2016 that had dropped and that had to form coalition governments to ensure that they still ran major metro's in cities across the country, and now the concerned for the aid sees they wouldn't even be able to garner that

type of support because of the difficult position. the a and c finds itself in terms of its leadership. this would also be a test around the faith people have in prison and still rome are poor. so, and are the issues around leadership, but also very much things like service delivery where the a and c has failed many people, that's what they say. and also one of the key issues today is around voter turnout . the fewer people that come out to vote, the more likely it is that the a n c could lose support. they have a sort of legacy in south africa. being the party of, of nelson mandela, they have a certain amount of loyalty, but there are also people who are saying, i'm loyal to the agency but they're failed to me. and so i can't vote for anybody else. and so a low voter turnout would affect them quite tremendously and would work in favor of smaller opposition parties for me to you mentioned a few things there. run a search again in

a bit more detail if you wouldn't mind some of the biggest issues now for voters. oh, well, we are in some way. so as you mentioned, and we've been up to a couple of polling stations in the area, we just like the one behind us people are tricking in. it's early in the day, and us might speak to the issue around vote to apathy. of course, linked to these issues. south africa is still in the middle of the coven, 19 pandemic. and while restrictions have eased, there's been a lot of controversy around how the government has handled the pandemic. corruption is a significant issue. one that is even affected the delivery of health services. the coven 19 is again, an issue that's been plagued by corruption with billions of dollars worth of aids worth of assistance was, was lost and not directed way. it should have been. corruption also spans a number of sectors in the south africa's economy. the issue around the delivery of

services like running water like dealing with roads and electricity specifically is one that south africans of very angry about they've been rolling blackouts or some of the explanations given by the government around why that's happening. 2 seemed to not to make sense to south africans and this is an ongoing issue. there are people, especially in rural areas where education, access to schools are an issue are where they're on todd roads with isn't running water where there isn't access to adequate sanitation. and these are really the issues that matter for south africans. and they're saying the government is not doing what it's supposed to, but they're also skeptical around how other parties will deliver what they promised to do. so it isn't an easy choice for many voters who might instead of voting, decide to stay away completely to make a statement. we know that in some areas they've been threats of boy carts because people are just unhappy around the results of the elections and just the failure by

government. i have made him delivered for us in the way to thank you to australia now where families are reuniting. after 18 months of order closes, citizens had effectively been banned from entering or leaving the country. fully vaccinated just radians are now being allowed to return home without having to quarantine australia, introduce some of the world's toughest border restrictions off. you almost old travel with hope that the many citizens stranded overseas. so far only the australian capital territory, you southwell, victoria, and restrictions their talk has more from britain. we've seen emotional things at the airport this morning with families have been able to reunite now. the borders were closed in march last year, and that's more than 18 months. and so many astrology. and they say around who he felt in the strain and having stranded overseas and that was of the international voters being closed and kept put on flight. the number of passengers retained to

that made it difficult to get a seat number one. and then you had the compounding issue of the expensive hotel contain costs, so it would be an affordable time the people to get home. on monday the national board had been reopened to cap to be lifted on the spot i t t, which is the capital territory of camber, is we've got nissan wells and victoria. and that way we've got the 80 percent fully vaccination back. right. so in the past, just who have been double quite a double back, they have no point team that can literally land and i can redeem life as normal. now, i should say night one thing, the initial plots, the limited to australian permanent residence and immediate families of the visa holders and the temporary residence. they've been left out of this national policy . so these national probably have also been lifted out from outbound passengers stallions. now don't have to apply for an exemption to lee, we have to get requests permission until now. so the 2nd stage of the board is

reacting that should happen towards the end of the year. and the focus then will be on the internet. so students and the critical workers, the u. k is foreign secretary has given france 48 hours to back down, or a fishing dispute for london looks and taking legal action. frances threatened trade disruptions from tuesday if it's boats, and not granted more access to british waters. alexia bryan reports, side by side at rome's famous, trevi fountain, french president, emanuel macro and british prime minister, boris johnson, appeared to be in good humor. but behind the smiles, the escalating tensions between their 2 countries showed no sign of letting up a meeting away from the cameras. failing to bring them closer to agreement, met no le bow, it are not gone. now the ball is in their court. if the british don't make a move, obviously that measures that a plan from the 2nd of november onwards will have to be put in place with because it will be a no going funded. the ball is in the britons coldly than it. france has accused

the u. k of flouting a post breaks a tray deal by failing to give french fishermen enough licenses to operate in british waters and outlined a series of sanctions if they weren't granted. if the dispute is not resolved by tuesday, france, we'll go ahead with a series of what it's called, targeted measures at ports like this along the coast. british fishing vessels will undergo stricter security checks and they may not be able to dock to unload their catch. they'll also be long time consuming health and safety checks for trucks going to or from the u. k. caught up in the debate this british trula. it was seized off the port of laughing thursday. it's captain accused of fishing and french waters without a license. but you don't know when you're kind of the company that owns the boat says it's being used as a porn, and the dispute, the british prime minister, has said the seizure wasn't what he'd expect from a close friend and ally,

that it's up to france to step back from its threats on fish. i gotta tell you that the pollute, the position is, is unchanged. and i will, i'll just, i'll just, i'll just say this. i for the, for the record. i must, i was puzzled to read a letter from the french prime minister explicitly asking for britain to be punished for leaving the you and i are just how to take say to really, i don't believe that is compatible either with the the, the spirit or the letter of the withdrawal agreement relations between the u. k and france, clearly navigating troubled waters with both sides determined to hold their course and ex hebron al jazeera paris. as mexico's day of the dead approaches, the aztec marigold is beginning to appear in every household. the flower is linked to pre hispanic times, but is still very much present in mexico. now flower farmers are working hard to

keep alive. one of the country's most beloved traditions. you're getting a basket, so you have a good thought of that kid and my name is cutting a basket and i've been a flowered farmer for 30 years. i learned to love them from my grandfather who sold flowers all of his life. and simplicity, flower has been used in pre hispanic time. it was placed at an around the altars tonight or the loved ones back home. it's a tradition, we have kept that of our departed loved ones coming to visit on the day after that made up on the bottom of the circle. it's culturally relevant. but also this is how we sustain ourselves in our town. and we, most of us growth in bus, which you for the, for the, this will be sucked already or it's so feeling to see the grow from there yesterday we get to see how the plant grows. yet it's a beautiful process. we get to witness. that's how we realized the value of our work. then with your customers,

so happy knowing that the flowers will end on their home, alter as an offering for the loved ones that were meant upon them was like, is the feel not. we have her bread, red bread, fruit, apples, 10 during bananas and whatever our loved ones, like the most little think this almost up on that a little bit. but when you are setting the on the 31st, because that night is when the children come to visit their families from the 31st to the 1st of november, then the grown up. this is the alter, the 2nd of november, the middle, the boys, the kci doubled low for in the after that we the company. and we, the living end up being all of the offerings of the celebration. ah, this is algebra and these are the top stories. world leaders arriving or does go for the annual climate change conference, which you said to kick.