tunnels, several websites and a plethora of digital platforms all have cemented themselves as leaders in their field. all of them seeking the human story and striving to speak truth to power. a quarter of a century has passed and what was once described by form, adrian dictates. office numa bottom as a tiny much box is now a global media empire whose flame continues to burn as a beacon of free press in a region that has never needed. it's more dramatic, jazeera, doha. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the headlines. a 21 story building has collapsed in nigeria, city of legals. it's believed 50 people are traps inside. officials have been trying to demolish retrofits unsafe structures. there was an ac buildings had been

demolished this year. president joe biden has told the cop $26.00 summits for us is committed to action on climate change. not just words by must prove to world leaders that washington is once again, a reliable partner. us temporarily left the 2015 paris agreements under former president trump were planning for both short term sprint to 3rd 2030. that will keep 1.5 degrees celsius in reach. and for a marathon that will take us, take us to the finish line and transform the largest economy the world into a thriving, innovative, equitable, and just clean energy engine of net 0 for a net 0 world. that's why today i'm releasing the u. s. long term strategy, which presents a vision of achieving the united states, the goal of net 0 emissions economy wide by no later than 2050. 0, the addiction to force him fools is pushing humanity to the body. we

face us thought choice. either we stop it or it stops us, and it's time to say enough enough of boot, the lising biodiversity. enough of killing ourselves with carbon. enough to thing nature like a toilet. enough of burning and drilling and minding, go away deeper. we are digging our own graves and 5000000 people have now died from cove at 19 that the world health organization estimates the actual figure could be almost 3 times higher. and that's your up to date stick. keep it here on al jazeera canton. the cost is coming up next me. ah

ah, ah hello, i'm adrian said again. this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the world of business and economics this week, fighting for survival. government bailouts have helped many airlines avoid bankruptcy, but not all states have deep pockets. and who would be thinking about starting an airline in the midst of a pandemic, we speak to the chief executive of an old region, start up. the bible administrations moved to counter bay james, economic and diplomatic reach in latin america, but is it too late to recover washington's diminished influence in the region?

a test drive becomes the 1st one trillion dollars also make. could this be the future of the trucking industry that may look like any other truck on our roads, but this is also powered by electricity ah, for the global economy to recover fully from the pandemic, there is an industry that needs to make a comeback, tourism it represents a chance of the global economy, and the pandemic has wiped out a 120000000 tourism jobs spots. that recovery depends on more travel corridors and countries opening that borders. and with a lack of vaccines for the world's poorest, that's unlikely to happen before late. 2022. we're going to focus on the crucial role that airlines play in that recovery. as always, we'll stop with the numbers after the worst year on record. the industry is addicting. losses of 52000000000 dollars this year. most likely to persist next

year. but should shrink to $12000000000.00. tourists traveling by air expected to spend 354000000000 dollars this year. not sounds huge, but that's more than 40 percent. less than before. the pandemic airlines continue to received life support from governments, totaling some $243000000000.00. since the start of the pandemic carriers in this region, the middle east, which rely on international traffic, i've been fortunate to have the support of state have capital airways received $3000000000.00, but still comp 15 percent, or more than 13000 employees from its workforce. regional rival, i'm one of the most profitable airlines. emerett made a loss of 5500000000 dollars last year and received more than $3000000000.00 from due by us government. in the us and europe, governments opted for a mixture of loans and fellow schemes to keep our line flying, but not all governments have deep pockets and some airlines are struggling for

survival. for example, asia x has liabilities of $8100000000.00, half of which is due to cancelling airplane orders from air bus. the lazy and low cost long whole airline is working on a deal to pay just north point 5 percent of the debt that it owes neighboring tie airways back in june, want a court order to restructure debts of $12900000000.00. however, the airline was in difficulty well before the corona virus pandemic, grounded many flights across the globe. and then as indonesia is national carrier gruder, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, the entities in government is devising a takeover plan if the company is unable to renegotiate leases of restructure its debt. houses here as jessica washington reports from jakarta, ah, at indonesia largest airport, passenger traffic is on the rise. as domestic tourism enjoys a resurgence. after months of relative quiet travel restrictions at major airports

around the country are easing. as the number of coven 19 cases falls, it's a welcome change for the countries aviation industry. but it may not be enough to save one major player drowning and dead the countries oldest airline career. indonesia is edging close to bankruptcy. it's not a pretty picture in terms off the debts amounting to hundreds of trillions over here, which is coming up to billions. is the largest that group has had so far in his history. ah, the pandemic had a severe impact on the flag carrier. hasn't numbers have fallen by 90 percent and flight frequency has reduced from $400.00 to less than $100.00 flights a day? the airlines total debt is now $4900000000.00 and the company faces several law

suits over unpaid debts. it's very difficult to imagine and any issue with the indonesia, with that group, but it has to come up in it has to be a point where somebody says, not enough clean up or you got the airline c o fan city put around, told al jazeera steps have been taken to turn the company around, including renegotiating airplane, leasing costs, and restructuring loans. he says the reopening of international borders offers more hope. like many airlines around the worlds guru to indonesia has struggled through the pandemic because of travel related restrictions. but grew does financial woes. it started long before the pandemic, and now the flag carrier faces an uncertain future aviation expert sega router, indonesia has struggled to compete with low cost carriers grappling with weak earnings while paying for a large and expensive flight of aircraft that are mostly leased. analysts also say

the airlines management persisted with unpopular routes, which became known as ghost flights due to a lack of passengers. goldar actually are facing financial distress. just back before pandemic saw 5 years earlier, we see some of the operational costs of got guys increased dramatically. and them softly into measurement flight, for example, java london is not the approved profitable. the airline is still mostly owned by the government, and the ministry of state owned enterprises has proposed rebranding. a state own charter service pillay to an, as a passenger carrier to replace the router or putting in more state cash. the ministry declined an interview with al jazeera, the option of the bankruptcy liquidation of godaddy. is freddy, like the feasible option right now, and also what the step budget. if the government bill out to godaddy it needs some

more than $4.00 billions. and on the other hand, the in on i shall go from still focusing on the major infrastructure project that's near more fund under pressure to resolve the crisis and cruder. the government faces a difficult choice, either try and save the failing airline or let it collapse. well, against that backdrop, imagine trying to start a new airline. i'm delighted to say, ah, we're breaking against academy in the coast, just to add, bring you back to glasgow in the cup 26 for the polish prime minister mateusz. more of yet ski is addressing the summit. let's listen on a local scale. that is from my point on his intensified activities to reduce smog in cities and towns in the coming cures, we plan to eliminate 3000000 coal furnaces. switching to 0 emission and public

transformation and support electron mobility in the passenger car segment. i believe that all of those efforts are going to be supported by rapid technological development ahead of us. may our meeting in glasgow be another opportunity to build bridges and the new my stone for our ambitious and recipes for the effective implementation in the spirit of a socially for transition. thank you. i would say we've been listening there to the pollution minister mateusz or more of viet ski, or quite a brief address to the cult 26 climate summits. i know the polish prime minister there was talking about her rapid technological development. you could help them

with their answer and transition to a cleaner, a cleaner environment. of course. poland air is something of a polluter on the world stage. right now we're looking at the indian prime minister and a render monty, a new big book out. we're going to wait and see if you've got translation and then of course another important world leader at this summit, it will be good to to hear what's lorenzo. lordy has to say. so but let's see if we can listen in to the in the renter moody who's speaking of the cop 26 right now. you month. well, i don't want to do this. mantra is all the more important in the 21st century jani and more relevant studies. some that she had to run because means we must all walk together for somebody that bum means

everyone must get together and talk to each other. and some bo manase jonathan means that there should also be a meeting of the minds, but friends, when i attended my 1st time at summit in paris, it was not with the intention of adding my own promise to the severed promises being made by the world. i came to paris with a concern for all of mankind. i came to paris as a representative of a culture that has given the message of said re problem to sakina, which means every one should be happy. and therefore, the event in paris was not just a summit for me, it was a sentiment of commitment. and it was not india someone that was making

those promises to the world. it was promises that 1250000000 indians were making to themselves. and i am pleased that a developing country like india that is working on lifting millions of people out of poverty that is working day and night to ensure ease of living for millions of people. and india that represents 17 percent of the was relation, but is responsible for only 5 percent of global emissions. it is that india that has spread no efforts in fulfilling its duty. today the entire world acknowledges that india is the only big economy in the world that has delivered boards in the letter and spirit are honest, paris commitments. what is all we are making all possible efforts in

a resolute manner? we are working hard and we will show results friends to day, i have come to be with all of you. and i have also brought with me in the us track record. what i have to say to you is not just your words. it is a cheer car at the victory for a bright future, for the generations to come to day in terms of installed. renew. ok, let's. so that's the prime minister neurons. romaji. they're addressing the cop 26 some meds, lots of site meetings going on as well. let's say take you across, snyder to a runs a lie, and she is the president of the european commission that ursula wonder lion,

but hear what she has to say. of course, you're a very big player in this is so important information coming from the commission president must speed up our race to net 0. we're running out of time and therefore 4 points in one minute. first of all, we have to get strong commitments to reduce emissions by 2030. net 0 by 20. 50 is good, but it's not enough. we need to real action during this decade now for europe, this minus 55 percent at least implemented and delivered. second, we need to agree to a robust framework of rules, for example, to make global carbon markets a reality for the price on carbon nature cannot pay that price anymore. number 3, we must mobilize climate finance for supporting vulnerable countries to adapt and lead from to clean rose. european union will fully contribute to achieve our global

goals on adaptation with close to $27000000000.00 in 2020 team. europe is already the largest provider of climate finance. almost half of our finance is fired up taishan. and we pledge an additional $5000000000.00 up to 2027 from the your budget. and we will double all funding for die by your diversity, specially in vulnerable countries and forth. and finally, innovation and technology is available. now. we have to scale up and deployed fellow leaders. we must make this comp 26 a success we to our children. thank you. thank your excellency. it is my pleasure to welcome you. we'll there we are and we've been hearing from the irs lavonne de la in the commission president short but suites. and she was pointing out that net 0 by 2050, which has been

a lot of countries including the united states or has to be said that that's one of the targets they've got. she says it's good but not enough. she also talks about mobilizing climate finance and a critically talks about global carpet markets. no needs to be a reality. will mohammed that though, is life in glasgow for us with all the latest, ma'am, at that was to a key speakers back to back there, the prime minister of indian, or andrew moody, who had been talking about how india has been sticking to the paris agreement in letter and spirits, but while we're at 17 percent of the population, they've only 5 percent of emissions. and then we're hearing from ursula on july and from the commission in europe, which traditionally has been one of the carbon emissions producers night talking about the very real needs to turn this around and saying are a lot of the,

a lot of the targets that are being set are good, but not good enough or worse, been standing out to you listening to these important remarks at the summit itself . what is under under more the let's start with him. he said that in india has a cap to its promises and commitments of to the parties agreement 6 years ago, or 6 years, according to the u. s. like the general what the warmest in the world and very few leaders gathered here can make those claims that under moody has made that they have honored in letter and spirit their commitments that they had gone into or taken during that putty says climate conference. and of course, the climate change is affected india very much, you know, there's so many communities that are flicked and farming communities have been

forced to change their cropping patterns. and i mean, if that seriousness he's talking about is anything to go by then. it is something that a many leaders here can attest to or claim, then they promise from the e. u chief about it. more funding for poor countries will be a welcome relief to most a lead us from the developed world who that the developing world. i must say, who have been shouting and, and, and, and calling loudly for the rich countries of the world to honor that promise they took 12 years, a go to provide a 100000000000 dollars in funding to poor countries in terms of combating a climate change. and of course that golf course has once again been shifted to 2023. there was supposed to deliver this under the 1000000000 in 2020. that did not

happen. and now they're saying they will deliver in 2023. and that a bit about climate finance was also a huge chunk of prime minister borders johnson speech as well as antonio good tennis, the 2nd general of the united nations and what african leaders and asian leaders and people coming from the list developed countries are saying is that you have already benefited from the causing loss. massive emissions that have brought us to where we are. we were trying to copy you and do what you have done so that we can develop. but now we have to reinvent the wheel and then it is your responsibility to help us combat this problem, which we are at its front lines. ok, mohammed o in glasgow. thank you very much. in deeds michael oppenheimer is the director of

the center for policy research on energy and environment at princeton university. he says the nations that 26 are faced with a very difficult situation. far too late, leaders of the world have realized what a urgent problem this is. and yet how complicated it is to solve it. not impossible by any means, but it requires, as we say, there are a lot of moving parts and they have to get them to move together. that's true in each country and it's true to a certain extent, internationally. but at this point, the limiting factor, the thing it's making things slower than they need to be, is what's going on in each of the big meeting countries of which they were, you know, basically a handful at this point. and those countries need to get their domestic programs together. and that means the u. s. actually passing it's programs through congress, china, really dealing with the fact that it has an electricity supply shortage,

but that's a short term thing. and now not letting it drive it over the edge to returning to coal, it needs the keeping off what it's been doing and yet apply get more ambition and moving forward even even faster. and it needs countries like india, which have india very large emissions. it's growing very fast, economically, it has to learn how to do that growth while avoiding a large scale, additional dependence on fossil fuels. that means things happening in each country and it happening simultaneously so that when they look at each other, they could have trust that if they do a little more and be a little more ambitious, the u. s. et cetera will be ambitious as well. well, those are the dar warnings, but have also been messages of hope. environmentalist stated at temper issue to rally in coal reminding leaders of what can be achieved if they work together working apart. we are forced powerful enough to destabilize our planet. surely

working together. we are powerful enough to save it. in my lifetime, i've witnessed a tenable de time your you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. that desperate hope leaders in judgment. delicate actions is why the world is looking to you. and while you are here and you will, in recent years, increasing numbers of young people have been demanding action on climate change from their leaders. they say they're the ones who inherits the outcome of what the world does. know, al jazeera spoke to some young climate activists. here's what they had to say.

hi, i'm an it guy said off, i'm 11 years old and i live in ga gao, india. and there was a huge flight where village is in villagers. there were washed away, saw so many of the vehicles and houses were destroyed. so people are dying because of climate change. i think people my age and they are being heard by the government and by adults do. so i think young people like me, they're using social media. do you know g is awareness and contribute so hi. hello. my name is marissa polt. i saw them calling. i'm a high school student at home. my grandparents told me this, it used to be land with a large community. it was a prosperous community with lots of merchant boots for many countries called her home. but as time passed and the land has eroded, bad people of hatch,

i move further inland. when my family used to live right here next to the temple, but we have had to move from my my is another. i'm for a senior, a soles and i live in argentina, valera, i think young people are not being listened enough by adults. and i also think that a young people need help from adults when it comes to changing some bad habits. i would say the word slithers about climate change until them that we should, warren every one and remind them constantly of the big problem. this is my name is maya, i am 10 years old and i live in london the times now to make big changes and improvements to what we do normally to actually control climate change. we're running out of time when to do it now. otherwise, you probably never will. we have no planet b, and this is our home. so we want to take care of it because we're kind of stuck here forever. so if it's light trash and what are we going to do then?

i miss bad smell. can wallace that i am 12 years old. i live in a blue jack the capital of named you yeah. in my state of origin which is kind of yeah, the serious case of climate change, leg droughts and flood which is affective food production. the adults at the one question, problems by billed. in fact, trees polluted the air and it is a very helpful thing. my message to the world leaders hold in this meeting is that any decision they make day would affect my to morrow. i old, they will make a decision. dow was saved, the world's future of the next generation is continent them. well, there we are. those are the voices over. you see have everything pens, oval spent on this summit? lots more of course on or websites. the address of course, i'll just see a red dot call where we will have my box dates of what's happening at the top 26

and glasgow. but you could do that or you could stay with me and be back maybe after this very short break. stay with us here now to sierra ah, when the news breaks, when people need to be heard with clunking was founded on blood with exclusive interviews. and in depth reports, if the families that are teaching each other, how to search, not really the authority. al jazeera, has teens on the ground, liquid rock being shot up into the air as well as chemicals. being released to bring you more award winning documentaries and live nice world is experiencing unprecedented extreme weather. record temperature is being set and glassy is an i fee for deteriorating off whenever the quote running down world leaders or me think laws go in the u. k. in a bit of fresh out a deal to flash image reports to late all over you and climate summit on al jazeera,

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with all be the hero, the world news, lose washer. for. ah, we can do this. we just have to make a choice to do it. so let's get to work. turning challenger into opportunity. you as president joe biden works to reshape the fight against global warming. all other leaders are much more stark. it's one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now. ah,