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my mariam to mozy and london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming out on the program. the number of people known to have died of covered 19 worldwide passes. 5000000 construction workers tracked after a high rise apartment building collapses in an i. jerry and city of lagos, also oh, protests in washington as the, our supreme court. his arguments on the near total abortion band in texas. ah, the world is strapped to an environmental doomsday device, the british prime minister says, but it's not too late to turn it off. opening the cop 26 climate summit in glasgow, or as johnson welcome more than 20000 delegates telling them they need to act. now, they include more than a $120.00 world leaders, such as u. s. president joe biden,

who said nations like his which had done the damage needed to get to work. he also apologized for president donald trump, pulling out of the powers climate accord. but not everyone's made the trip. rushes president isn't there in, nor is china's teaching pain whose country as the world's biggest polluter. the big names are only the center of attention for a couple of days though. the rest of the 12 day conference will be working through statistics and deciding on action. and this is the key, whether they can agree on the measures needed to keep global warming to one and a half degrees celsius higher than pre industrial levels. beyond that, experts fear catastrophe, and the latest research just $2.00 degrees is where we are currently heading out there is james bay's reports now from glasgow. oh, intense diplomacy ahead of this event has been going on for years. this has been billed as the conference that can save the planet. it's host the u. k. prime

minister making the point of the city where it's being held. glasgow was the place where the steam engine was invented 250 years ago, triggering and industrial revolution that started the climate crisis. yes, my friends. we brought you to the very place where the doomsday machine began to tick. humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change. it's one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock, and we need to act now the skinny and the warnings of what is at stake here, continued this from the un secretary general. lillian, our addiction to fossil fuels, is pushing humanity to the bidding. we face a stark choice either we stop it or it stops us. we are begging our own grapes. u. s. president joe biden came to glasgow with, unlike his predecessor, donald trump, a strong commitment of pipe the climate emergency. but without the tools to do so,

his green policies depend on a massive spending package that has already been paid back and has yet to pass congress. there is no more time to hang back or shit in the fans or argue amongst ourselves. this is a challenge of our collective lifetime, the existential threat, threat to human existence, as we know. the president told delegates the eyes of history were on them, but president biden's own eyes were the subject of speculation on social media. did he doze off at one point as he listened to the speeches here in glasgow, there'll be 12 days of long, intense negotiations for this vital conference to be a success. all the stars need to align, but some powerful leaders like president, she of china and russia as president putin are not here. and there's not been the hope for momentum ahead of caught 26 over the weekend in rome. the leaders of the

most prosperous nations on the planet met. they said all the right words about the climate, but they didn't take the action that was needed. according to environmentalists. living on the front lay mia motley, is the prime minister of barbados, a small island nation that was battered by a hurricane in july, called red cord, red to the g 7 countries. cord red cord read for the g 20 earth. the ha, that's what it said. earth to cop for those who are ways to see for those who have is to listen and for laws who have a heart to fear. 1.5 is what we need to survive. the urgency of the situation is obvious, but it's still not clear. there's the commitment by all nations to try to fix things. james bayes al jazeera glasgow at live now to environment

editor nick clark. how's the 1st take on nick m r m. the lead is a russia and china may not be here by the hundreds was the other world leaders on. they will be giving a variety of impassioned speeches to try and keep that one and a half degrees. 1.5 degrees celsius, a goal within reach we have from boys johnson, of course, his favorite mantra of coal cars, cash and trees phase out coal ramp up the transition to electric vehicles, a provide climate finance and, and deforestation. and i think we're gonna hear a big announcement on deforestation in the coming hours perhaps tonight or tomorrow, as will watch out for that at the dangers for developing countries for from the whole climate crisis highlighted very well there by mere motley, as we heard and james's report of the prime minister barbados saying that 2 degrees celsius is a death sentence bouts, no new announcements, no further embroidery from china on the latest announcements, at which has been they are the world's biggest emitter, and that's been

a big disappoint to observe is here. and then the indian prime minister and remoter, he took to the stage. remember the target here? one of the targets here is to be for all countries to be net 0 by 2050. he came to the stage and said that he wasn't gonna do that. he was going to 2 decades later by 2070 and listen to this ha. india will fulfill 50 percent of its energy requirements from renewable energy sources by 2030. between now and 2030 india will reduce its total projected carbon emissions by $1000000000.00 tons by 2030. and you will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by 45 percent. and by 2070 in, you will achieve the target of net 0 emissions in india causes the welds 4th largest emitter in getting them on board is, is crucial if the world is going to reach this at 1.5 degrees celsius target. but made his view is that this is a, a realistic target even that 2 decades after everybody else is that will enable

india to transition smoothly, inefficiently, to renewable energy. he did say the india will get half it's renewable energy at office energy from renewable sources. at by 2030 and will reduce cost intensity of the economy by 45 percent. but quite what all of this does to the effort to reach one half degrees and to a cub neutrality by 2050 remains to be see. what will i be focusing on in the coming days? why is going to be sererow batteries? renegotiating holes? it's all about really closing the gaps, the emissions gap and the finance gaps. really pretty much the, the major objectives here are we had that you and emissions gap report, which shows, i think you're alluded to earlier, that we're heading to 2.7 degrees celsius. and we know, as we said, we don't, we don't want to go beyond one and a half degrees, but we're already at $1.00 at perhaps $1.00 ends. the effects of that extreme weather we seen this year be not slightly catastrophic. and just to put into

perspective how just, how much of a challenge this is compared to 2015 pledges to cut greenhouse gases have increased 7.5 percent. so that's an increase in pirates 7.5 percent. but to keep 1.5 c alive, we need 55 percent cut. that is 7 times the level of ambition. thank you very much. i raman and it's nick clark, following the cop 26 climate conference now clause go. thank you, nick. well, the world's worst emission source is china as you were hearing, notably absent from this year's summit with president teaching peng, releasing a written statement instead. katrina, you brings us more in this now from beijing. she's been has not left china since the beginning of the krona virus outbreak did not attend the g 20 and he's not at cop $26.00, which is frustrated. many because as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, many are simply saying that is not good enough. course china accounts for more than

a quarter of the world's carbon emissions. but on sunday, at the g 20 via video link, he did talk about climate change quite extensively stressed the importance of concrete actions and the importance of developed countries really needing to assist poor nations in achieving their own targets. now what was also disappointing is that china last week submitted its climate targets to the u. n. and we didn't really see anything new. john has said that it will peak carbon emissions by 2030 and then try to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. and what trying to did in its submission last week was really just elaborate on the steps they want to take to achieve those goals. well, young people more than ever a demanding action on climate change. they say they are the ones who inherit the problems the world face fails to address. now i'll do. there has been speaking to people from around 12 hi, i'm an it guy says off,

i'm 11 years old and i live in ga gao, india. there was a huge large we're villagers and 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, raise awareness and contribute for her? hello. my name is marissa polt. i saw them cream. i'm a high school student at home. my grandparents told me this area used to be land with the lodge community. it was a prosperous community with lots of merchant boots from many countries, hong kong, but as time passed and the land has eroded,

bad people have had to 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 souls and i live in argentina, bilateral. 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 and tell them that we should warn everyone 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 you want to take care of it because we're kind of stuck

here forever. so if it's light trash, then what are we going to do then? my name is sped malcolm wallace. i am 12 years dude. i live in a blue jack. the capitol of new yeah. in my state of origin which is kind of yeah, the serious case of climate change, leg droughts and flood which is affect your food production. the adults at the one class in problems by building fact trees polluted the air and it is a very helpful my message to the world leaders hold in this meeting is that any decision they make day would affect my to morrow i owe bill make a decision dow was saved, the water feature of the next generation is consonant them. you have al jazeera ally from london much more to lead on the program. if you appears 5 minutes to calls on all citizens to mobilize off to, to grind forces pushed south, claiming to have taken to key towns and home lost the australians back on familiar

territory without a permit for the 1st time in a year and a half. ah, has a big storm brewing just north of scotland is this unwrapping line of care that has its influence as far south as the mediterranean. but the real tight is in the ice. bussey's white lies beans, the windy weather's across the british isles. however, by some irony, glasgow fixed the cop 6 will be sheltered from this blustery whether the light breeze the tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and generally fine weather. that won't be the case for all in this normally breathe . increasingly you're fine. sherry, weather down both sides of the british isles and the knowledge to the rain or moving towards western side of norway. you still got the suddenly breeze has not back cold. who's kind of maybe was cold. it was faxed to the rather letting skies

in the rain falling out of them. and his influence further south that cold air above means will be a lot of rain coming in to the north of spain. the western side of france with a quarter wind. it looks like after wet monday, tuesday, we'll be looking fine, which i'm sure is something of a relief. but on wednesday the rain comes back and this time the folks is western side of italy, yet more snow. be the 2nd dose in 3 days. huge amount in the out the southern slopes, probably off the alps. the rain in africa which has been reluctant to go south, is finally where it should be ah, with business class, which way your privacy and your experience

can sit back, relax in your own private space and let her take care of everything. caraway's the airline. you can rely on lou ah, ah wonder the main story is now more than a 120 wild leaders of gathered in glasgow scotland to hear about the urgent need to act on climate change. you inspector general antonio terrace, told the cop 26 conference that by failing to respond to the crisis, countries at digging their own graves. despite the urgency of the message, no well leaders of made the journey to scotland among the absentees,

a shooting ping from china, which is the wealth biggest polluter, and the russian president vladimir putin. now more than 5000000 people around the world have died from the corona virus, according to the johns hopkins university tracker. but many experts say that the actual number is much higher. in a statement, the inspector general attorney to terry said, is devastating milestone reminds us that we are failing much of the world. while wealthy countries are rolling out, 3rd doses of the co, the vaccine, only about 5 percent of people in africa are fully vaccinated. this is a global shame. priyanka gupta now reports. oh people gasping for air. families torn apart, and governments forced to close borders, an order. millions of people to be confined to the homes. the coven, 19 pandemic,

have now killed more people than any other viral epidemic in the 21st century. but almost 2 years since the 1st case emerged in china's won province and a new current virus spread rapidly across the globe. effective vaccines, developed at a record pace seemed to be having some impact at the moment that the average number of daily depths worldwide is lower than what we were seeing last year. and a lot of that could be attributed to a combination of vaccination. people understanding how cobit in fix people and what they have to do to control it. but in russia, which produced was 1st, domestically developed over 900 job. many people are reluctant to take it, and that's leading to a record number of deaths. and after the initial optimism of

a fast vaccine rule, out in the u. k. are the past, the western europe and china infections arising. it'll be very interesting to see what happens in, in the northern hemisphere as by and large, many countries have no restrictions at all. now, and back to things, obviously the whole population is not vaccinated and, and as they go into winter, people are closing the windows and doors and, and there's a higher risk of transmission. and in both households and businesses and social social settings. so i think where we're about to learn a lot and that is how much we can rely on the vaccine on to why richard nations are racing to give booster shots. poor countries, particularly in africa, are struggling to get supplies of ac scenes, leaving millions of people, fundable, conflict and poverty have already devastated health care systems in syria, yemen,

haiti, democratic republic of congo, which have yet to vaccinate. even 5 percent of the populations. the lack of vaccination in the poll world has a huge impact in 2 ways. first up, many, many people are dying today that don't need to die. getting very, very sick and losing relatives. we still have a situation where nurses and doctors in some of these countries are not even protected against this. can a disease the pandemic seemed far from over. but some countries like australia town that uncontrolled, you are preparing for a new way of life. reopening the economies with more vaccines and fewer restrictions, bianca, as 0 under the australians back on home soil for the 1st time since it shot its international borders. 18 months ago. government impose some of the toughest current of ours restrictions in the world. when the pandemic began that left tens of thousands of australians stranded overseas. but travel within the country is

also still a challenge. sarah clark reports. c jubilation and the motion is the 1st passengers touchdown in sydney and reenact with their families. a ban on international travel was lifted on monday, after more than 18 months, and now fully vaccinated australians arriving without having to quarantine. it's a pretty emotional day, said i am, we lost my father in law last week, so it's happy feelings and said feelings of the same cumbersome. glad see our family finally hear that crazy sadness supply. i'm here focus on me, at least i'm here. you know, sounds so great. tens of thousands of australians had been stranded overseas since the government closed its borders in march last year. caps on passenger numbers

coming into australia. a ports also caused problems for those wanting to return home during the pandemic. i mentioned here from my desk. so i've been trying to come home for an hour and a half for now slots unlimited to strutting citizens permanent residence and immediate families who are now free to travel without a permit. but that doesn't apply to tourists visa holders. and a temporary residence, even when stallions do get home, travel across the country is still a challenge. quarantine restrictions still applying states like queens and where i am and the borders are still closed in western australia to those states and territories. they consider high risk, like victoria, a new south wales, even the icy tape, which is classified as a low risk jurisdiction. susie, katie is an astrology and living in hong kong. she is due to fly into sydney in 2 weeks time, but she says her travel plans are complicated by different rules in each state. it's absolutely a logistical challenge. my family, i spread across new south wales,

south australia and queensland. so in say seriously, you know, getting across the international border. oh, you know, that was sort of her number one and now having to navigate the different restrictions and the different approaches to domestic orders. you know, remains challenging. that's a hurdle. these were united families, a willing to overlook for now, 0 o'clock, i'll do 0. queensland, australia. now jamini government, so say who see missile strikes have hit a religious school and mos killing at least 8 people. 22 others were injured in the attacks in algebra, district south of the city of morrow. it was these began their push to take control of the oil, which province 2 months ago. myra is the last stronghold of the internationally recognized government. if europe is government has accused to grow and fight is of

killing 100 youths. this is a kind, vague deny. government tweet says that the killings happened in comm, boucher, a strategic town. the rebel group said it captured on sunday. if you're up, his army has been fighting me to grab people's liberation front. for a year, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced by the conflict. meanwhile, ethiopia is prime minister albia ahmed is calling on citizens to fight the rival to grind. forces made the plea after they took over the key cities along a highway that leads to the capital, including the town of dessie. now a 21 story building in nigeria has collapsed. dozens of people are thought to be trapped in the rubble. one person has been killed supposed to have been under construction, and it's not yet clear what caused the collapse, have been recent efforts to demolish or reinforce unsafe buildings in the city with more than 80 demolish this year. a

review i did with now the right to an abortion in the u. s. is in the balance as supreme court justices here, arguments over near total ban on the procedure in texas. it prevents any terminations. once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be before a woman knows she is pregnant, it's been an effects in september, hundreds of thousands of people across the country of protested against it. a democrat let justice department is bringing the challenge against the republican controlled senate. a bicycle in his life, pres outside the supreme court. tell us more about the arguments that were had to day over that texas abortion ban. well, the justices have made

a pretty clear that they're not necessarily going to rule on whether or not the taxes law is constitutional. they're going to look at who if anyone can sue. so they heard arguments from 2 different cases to day one is providers and taxes. the other was from the federal government. the way texas has gone of a gone, a round roe v wade, which allows abortion is. it takes the government officials out of it. it says basically, anyone not even people and i don't even have to be in texas, can do anyone has been even remotely involved in getting a woman in abortion, just driving her to a clinic for example. you could face a court and up to $10000.00 fine. so the question before the justices was, couldn't the court's get involved to stop that? and it was, i think, for the pro abortion rights side, the lawyer seemed much more encouraged because the justices did seem to indicate even the most conservative justices that there were concerns of how this law would be implemented. several of the justices had concerns about the broad implications if a state is allowed to notify a federal rights through

a scheme like taxes expiate. and so we, we hope to have relief from this court. finally, after this laws been in effect for 2 months now in depriving patients across the state from being able to exercise a fundamental right that's been recognized by the sport we. it is long past time for this statue to be blocked for the enforcement to be blocked and to restore services across state. one of the things the conservative justices seemed most concerned about is that other states could replicate it on other issues. for example, they said, what if a liberal state wants to basically people to sue any one that has a god. does that violate the 2nd amendment of that and get the when it came to the anti abortion right side. the attorney general from taxes said that the justices should really not focus on that, but only on what's happening is particular state on this one issue. so the focus

for me is this case. and this, this case law, what happens and other states are, what their legislators are elected to do are different than what are our elect officials are like to do. and so each state has a responsibility to do what they think is right. and their legislators have a responsibility to represent their constituents abuse. and so i'm pleased to, to represent this state on this particular issue. and we're going to go hor doing this. now this is an important abortion case, but really the big important case when it comes to abortion, the united states is going to happen when at the court in december, they're going to hear a challenge to the mississippi law, which basically banned all abortions after 15 weeks. that is a much shorter time frame than is allowed right now. so duelling cases everyone is going to be paying really close attention to how the decisions are worded a, but we don't expect that they're going to come out immediately. it could. but usually the supreme court waits until the spring about 5 to 6 months before it hands down it's decision. so there are just the fact though that the court has

taken up abortion cases is very worrisome to pearl life, i'm sorry, pro abortion rights activists. so few protests here at the supreme court, but expect meant many more when the decisions are finally announced. oh, thank you very much. patty calhane, reporting to us from washington, now south africa's president cyril ram. a poster was booed as he arrived at the polling station in johannesburg to vote in local elections, municipal elections as seen as a major test for the governing african national congress policy, which has been empowered since the end of white minority rule in 1994 anger is growing in the country or the inequality, aging infrastructure, and unemployment. i'm a poster acknowledge that many voters are not happy, but appeal for their support. ah, with

long al jazeera is celebrating its 25th anniversary, was launched as an arabic language satellite use chandler 1996 from doha is now a global network. with several outlets in many languages. algae, there has been a fis, advocates of media freedom and several of it's janice, have been arrested and jailed because of their work. ah, look at the main stories now. more than a 120 world leaders are in glasgow. scotland hearing how urgent the need is to act on climate change. delegates heard you. k prime minister boris johnson say the world was strapped to a doomsday device. you as a journal, antonio terrorist told the cop 26 conference that by failing to respond to the crisis. countries with digging their own graves, ordered.