help any way to verify, identify who is telling the story their motivation. these are multi national corporations that are interested in profit, anticipate the consequences. the media was complicit in perpetuating this myth. i'm here to tell you that i think that many people died because of the lifting pace, deconstruct the media on out to sarah ah, the u. s. working to release 16 of its staff, detained by the ethiopian government, accused of participation in terror. ah, hello, i'm kim all santa maria here in durham. how this is the world news from al jazeera . poland is pointing the finger at russia over a desperate surge of thousands of migrants camped out on the bell roost. poland

border also use judge overturned some major ruling against drug make at johnson and johnson. the 2nd blow in the fight to hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for the opioid crisis. an amount of tasks that lies ahead warnings that there is still urgent work to be done at the woods to escape the effects of global warming. ah, in ethiopia, the united nation says 16 of its local staffers have been detained in the capital ada sap about they are calling for the groups immediate release, 6, w, and workers who were previously detained to have now been freed. it all comes at a time of escalating conflict between ethiopia, central government, and rebel forces in the countries north. as far as i know, no explanation given to us by why these, the staff members are,

are detained. so the, there are 16 remaining in detention and 6 have been released so that that's the breakdown. they come from various agencies, they're all national staff. it is imperative that they, that they be released. my cannon has more on this from the united nations in new york. well, the spokesman for the secretary general briefing journalist there he had just spoken at that particular time to you and security personnel in addis ababa trying to get out exactly what had happened. now what the u. n. does know at this point is that initially it would appear 22 people were arrested along with it. he said there dependence. now how many people that is that is not clear either. now, subsequently, 6 of the you and workers were released either you and says that is engaging with

ethiopian government, 1st of all, to get the rest released and also to find out exactly why these arrests took place . now, there had been some reporting that these arrests took place in a wider round up of people supporting at the at t grey, a group of fighting against the ethiopian government. however, no confirmation of that. and that question was put directly to the un, which also could not confirm. so it is struggling. it says as well, with communications issues very difficult to communicate with you in personnel on the ground in addis ababa. so details still sketchy hours after that initial announcement, but un insists it's going to continue to press the ethiopian government for the release of its workers. meanwhile, the diplomatic push gathers pace to prevent ethiopian conflict escalating into a full blown civil war. the african union envoy on a certain number sandra is travel to the em. hara and afar regions. rebels from

ethiopia is to guide region of advanced closer towards the capital. have been seen the town of kimmy say, which is the only about 300 kilometers from madison over the african unions. also mediating between the government and rebel forces to withdraw troops. and the i use also discussing humanitarian access into to cry where there is a severe shortage of food and fuel. the un says 9400000 people are living in famine like conditions. the federal government has been repeatedly accused of blocking aid into that area. would bring all of this together now with mohammed a door in addis ababa all these piece efforts, the fust priority they want to achieve is to get aid to those who need it most more than 400000 people in the to guy region who are living in famine like situations, according to the you and no aid has entered the ticket average and since mid last month. and many people are trying very much to get this aide as

quickly as possible. oh, 2nd of us on july, the african unions, envoy to the horn of africa said that he will have a plan by the end of the week for negotiations. and the 1st thing he wants to see is a humanitarian corridor opened to woods, a to grey and also full and millis. she is under defense forces thick and as far away as possible from the main roads leading to to gray. so it is still a walk in progress to grow and rebel fight has have committed rape and other abuses during their recent advances in the ethiopian and conflict that's come from a year. and you amnesty international report. the right script says it's documented 16 women who work great old gang, read at gunpoint by to grind fighters. local authorities say that number that was much higher. amnesty says the acts described would amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. to other news and poland prime minister is accused russia of

orchestrating the wave of migrants trying to enter poland through belarus. the you and refugee agency says it's alarmed at the situation on the border and that thousands of vulnerable people must not be used for political purposes. or challenge as well. yes, in the middle of every humanitarian crisis, there are always human faces. and these are the children, women and men stuck in a deadly stand off on the poland. better roost border thousands and now in makeshift camps along the razor. wire humanitarian group say they're lacking food and medicine. social media footage from recent days shows several 100 refugees and migrants escorted by masked bell russian security. heading towards poland. the large numbers of escalated a crisis. it's been boiling for many weeks. this family says it's kurdish, the grandmother isn't well, they're lucky enough to have found their way into poland after 2 weeks in the

forest. but what's next for them isn't clear, according to the refugee charity watching them be escorted away by puerto gods. we can never be certain what happens to the people that lead the that we offer help in the for us because the polish authorities are breaking the law and the geneva convention. they offend. send them back to be really awesome, even though they apply for international protection here. for months, thousands of been entering the new via belarus at 1st through lithuania and latvia . now mainly through poland. the ear accuses bell russian leader, alexander luther shanker. of orchestrating ways of migrants and refugees in retaliation and sanctions imposed on his government for violent crackdowns on the opposition to what he accuses. poland of military intimidation brought the civil order, brought to me grant, we're part of them. women is so fighting migrants with tanks today. well,

excuse me, my, we both have the military background. we understand that being in a war with these poor people on the polish bella, russian border and moving in tank columns with, it's obvious that it has some sort of drill a hole, intimidation, africa, could it? of course we face it without anxiety. what kind of stuff, according to was for you. on monday, poland said it had withstood attempts by migrants to force their way across the border. prime minister mateusz more of etzky, has been visiting troops, versions of them. summations with amazon, who would think to 3 months ago that we will be dealing with actions that are characterized by the use of human shields. as lucas shank has regime uses civilians, weapons in a hybrid war. what we can see today are new methods, and you are a passing against the nova metal that germany is urging e u. member states to do more so far, there's been little coordinated action from you, though that might be change

a president called on member states to approve extended sanctions against the bela russian authorities. and she also announced the exploration of measures against that country. airlines that are active in human trafficking. several people along the border have already died from exposure. there could be many more to come, rory, talents out 0. ah, analysts are saying the pledge is that countries of made at the top $26.00 conference to tackle climate change this decade would still lead to a $2.00 degrees celsius temperature rise the century. and as far more than the one and a half degree limit, which they've committed to around a $140.00 countries covering 90 percent of global emissions of announced targets to make counts. but the climate action tracker group says many of the pledges like

practical, detail and short term plans. we are making progress at cop 26. but we still have a mountain to climb over the next few days. and what has been collectively committed to go some way, but certainly not all the way to keeping 1.5 within reach. the gap in ambition has narrowed. now the world needs confidence that we will shift immediately into implementation. that the pledge is made here will be delivered and that the policies and investment will swiftly follow. earlier andrew simmons spoke to iceland, environment minister, who thinks the cop 26 climate talks could be making some headway, more intense negotiations, taking place in this building. and they're getting longer, more involved and more tense. that has to be said, that's what we're hearing from all sources. that's so much to play for here as

a lot of things to do and not a lot of time to do them in with me right now. is one of the representatives of a small, the smallest states iceland, the environment minister goodman, the good branson. thank you very much for joining al jazeera. welcome. thank you. and tell me this. how is it going? how does it look? i would say i'm more positive towards a battery so i was a week ago and i based on the fact there have been some improvements when it comes to the n p c. and when it comes to contributions of country and trying to reduce that greenhouse gas emissions. and also that we, we here and we might be likely to close the financing cost to the developing countries, the $100000000.00 promise that was made here. the president of the united states of america bomber referred only on monday to the disappointing action of

russia and china and not being here and saying that that was crucial. they would, they would, they would, it was dangerous. it was dangerous, dangerously lacking that response. what do you say to that, and what do you say to that, coupled with the that the pressure that the lobby groups, the fossil fuel nations are putting on the whole affair? now, 1st of all, obama also president obama also said that has been made progress in 2015. and i agree with him because a lot of businesses, a lot of countries have stepped up their game. there are countries that still need to do better. there are countries that are responsible for lots of missions, and you mentioned china and russia, we could say australia and all this as well. and i'm really hoping that they will, like we all need to do a step after the game when, when it comes to climate issues. just to underline all of this, india's taj mahal has been shrouded in small with our pollution hitting dangerous levels across new delhi. and other parts of the north,

the severe deterioration in air qualities being blamed on farm as violating a ban on crop burning. and people ignoring a ban on fireworks to celebrate devali on. so they found 80 percent of families in the region of reported ailments, things like headaches and breathing problems because of the appellation. we'll grab a break when we come back without more government support. one of the world's longest to run of ours locked down the number of jobs in the philippines. but said to kate, rising and will take you to chile where hydrogen power may be the key to replacing fossil fuels. ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle at ways. hello there. let's have a look at the weather in south asia, and it's an increasingly wet picture across southern parts of india and sure lanka,

we were ready seen flooding and we could see more seems like this from tamela do. we was instructing in southern parts of sri lanka, as the weather is set to continue over the next few days. we've got ne, a monsoon that's enhancing the rains, but we've also got this area of low pressure working its way west across the bay of bengal could turn into a storm system. but what we know is that it is going to bring to wrenches rain to those southern areas and go to red warning out full time on the do. and that extends up into under pradesh. by the time we get into thursday, we could see flooding and possible land slides with the heavy rain we could see up to 300 millimeters as i said. but further north of this, it is looking finer and dryer. lots of sunshine coming through for new delhi and a lot of that warmth extending into pakistan. it's looking calm and collected as well for bangladesh, but common collected. it is not for china as we move to east asia. we've got snow storms playing the north east, very icey conditions, and we have got warnings for those storms to continue over the next few days. but

it does start to warm up for beijing. the temperature sitting at 14 degrees celsius that show whether oh, with sponsored by casara ways, ah, tens of thousands of children were born into old lives under the icicle regime in iraq and syria. now many are in camps you the orphans, all with that we go to mothers, rejected by their own communities. chicky, do think that people are going to welcomed him after that. of course, mom and you documentary his, that chilling and traumatic stories for the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera ah aah!

on al jazeera, these other top stories this hour, the u. n. is calling for the release of 16 of its local staffers, detained in ethiopia, capital addis ababa that comes at a time of escalating conflict between ethiopia, central government, and rebel forces in the countries north. an african union on voice travel to ethiopia. i'm horror and afar regions and a diplomatic push to end. the conflict rebels from ethiopia, ticket region, have advanced closer to the capitols. the you and warns the conflict could spiral into a wide civil war and poland. a prime minister, mateus would have asked. he has accused russia of being behind the wave of migrants trying to enter the country through belarus. this is moscow's actions fresh, and he used to be now at the top court in the u. s. state of oklahoma has overturned a $465000000.00 opioid ruling against drug make

a johnson and johnson. the pharmaceutical giant was accused of fueling the appeared epidemic which has killed more than half a 1000000 americans through deceptive marketing. more on the story with andy gallagher and miami. there are 2700 other pending legal cases, but what makes this one so significant today is it was seen as the template. it was the 1st time big pharmaceutical companies were in court and were held responsible for the opioid epidemic. so if that is the template, i think all the other states that are taking legal action against johnson and johnson and other big pharmaceutical companies will take know basically what the oklahoma high court said was that the a public nuisance law they were trying to use in this case was far too broad, they say that doesn't take away from the tragedy of the opioid crisis that really plagues this nation. so i wouldn't say that johnson and johnson, nor many other big pharmaceutical companies, are off the hook. and in and in fact,

big pharmaceutical companies are offering about $4000000000.00 to settle, always cases at once. but remember, i was there, the day this judgment came down in oklahoma and i met a doctor who run clinics of people who are hooked on these kinds of painkillers. and he said this kind of cash, even the 500 or so 1000000, was not enough to even keep those clinics running for a year. so they've certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma. but as i said, there are almost 3000 other cases pending in other states and they are now bound to take a different legal direction. dr. eric cycle thing is with us now. and if a jamie ologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists on scott from washington, thank you for your time. as always, doctor, i think we can sort of separate this into the case. and then the actual opioid epidemic as far as the case goes, it's important, obviously, but there's a lot more cases. and is there a significance or can i even say a lack of significance that it's happening in oklahoma?

why i think this case is just the 1st test trial of the basically the deceptive marketing that johnson johnson had practice that contributed to opium. there's many other cases pending were not oklahoma, the boss of california high west virginia. there's many, many states, all with similar public nuisance cases, and the publications laws in different states are also very different. so just because oklahoma fail does not mean that the end of the room, can you explain the day? it's about whether or not johnson johnson has, you know, the stomach and the pocket book just by all of them, or if they want to settle faster. and right now we know there's so many other companies, such as produce farm. i many other distributors how settled and johnson johnson is, is true right now. just try and test the waters if it should settle or not. and i think we will not get the answer that for a couple more months. ok, just quickly,

before we talk about the, the epidemic itself, you use that phrase, the public nuisance laws. can you explain that just a little bit because it's a, it's a curious phrase and i think yeah, it's a very broad law. is it basically, in this sense, it's related to johnson johnson. they don't grow directly produced, but they are part of distributors. and they basically had lots of deceptive advertising. that's part of how the opiate epidemic got out of hand deceptive advertising. in the marketing strategies around it. and in that sense, if you mislead people are in, during marketing, it's considered a public nuisance. but again, it's very subjective from state to state. this is why the united states has very complex leo structure, depending on where you are and, but this is also really, really important because if, if there are several wins against johnson johnson in the states,

then the dominoes will fall and many other people will file and john not so we force this, so at the end, that's what we need them to pay reparations to all the states as well. that, you know, these are hard by opiates, so we know why this matters. i'm because the i've heard epidemic is so serious. i wonder if you can give us and give our international audience an indication of how much it matters, how big, how out of control this problem is become yeah, the rise in opioid deaths, overdose desks has been enormous and death. of course has. we learn from co, similarly, it's just a tip of the iceberg. there's so much more suffering than just death. but hope you are over to his desk has been a huge drag on the economy and is completely empty and hollowed out to many rural parts of america in other parts of the world in all because of deceptive

marketing practices by various fall manufacturers as well as the marketers, distributors and i cannot stress enough the economic damage, and just in the last few years, a lot of 201920. also there's a 30 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths as well. and i've been very much overlooked in overshadowed by it. this is not a crisis has ended in any way. it's still a brewing in the background. and it's still really not just killing people, but also damaging the economy and damaging the workforce. it's such an important story. i'm glad we can talk to you about it, dr. eric, fighting with us from washington 6 more former associates, a former us president donald trump, have been ordered to appear before the congressional committee investigating the storming of the capital building. they include national security advisor,

michael flynn, former senior advisor, jason miller, and attorney john eastman. at least $700.00 people have been charged in relation to the riots in washington. on january the 6th, a pregnant gemini journalist and her child had been killed in an explosion in the southern port city of aidan, russia de la darzy, worked for a united arab emirates based network. her husband, who is also a journalist, was injured. although he say an explosive device was planted in their car. i minister mine abdul malik, so you just called it a terrorist attack. though no group is claimed responsibility. the philippines response to the pandemic as taken a great a toll on its economy than expected. some analysts say could be the last asian country to bounce back jamila alan durcan has our report from manila, black bank. hello, money mot. boonie is taking a call from a prospective employer at a shipping company, greg red, toyota. but when you, sir,

i've been interviewing one money under the offer that been another company came to america still they can grow the company, which is i applied for this is ben just been very rude and 9 months. matt says he sends his resume to at least 20 companies each week, but he hasn't found any work. the story of mcbernie is a story that is repeated a 1000 times over. people here tell us, there are more and more job applicants here. desperate to find a job overseas, they tell us their situation has been worse and by the corona, virus. pandemic hormone permission of keith blanca floor and darwin, evangelist. the work for agencies that recruit seafarers and they keep a waiting list. they say with so few jobs around, it's getting longer. the philippines impose one of the world's longest locked downs when the pandemic broke out. but it led to one of the country,

his worst economic recession. in decades, unemployment is now at 8.9 percent. it's highest so far this year. thousands of small and medium businesses have also shut down and communities dependent on to read them are facing the greatest difficulties. and miss miranda diligently, bullshit gas, no, there will be an issue, obvious fixtures. and with that, we hope that means an upstart on our economy. again, we understand the people are not going to agree, will have to be locked down again. so with this reopening, we hope it will be a better christmas for everyone. but some analysts say it's not that simple without putting more money in purchase, barring or harmonies without more support for makes $1.00 meant the price. yes, i think it'll be a long snow nick already, at least until the end of next year. there will be early,

perhaps even don't blanket blanket the many filipinos see, they've always faced hardship. but the pandemic, coupled with the lack of government assistance, is making it worse. jamila leaned again al jazeera manila, had been violent protests in bolivia against a new law, meant to tackle so called illicit prophets and terrorist financing. several unions and political groups have gone on strike, accusing the government of using the law to target. critics believe his socialist government says the opposition, those plotting her finally chili one of the countries leading the world when it comes to sustainable energy. in fact, the energy minister says, says it is pioneering the use of hydrogen, and many believe it could be a solution to replace fossil fuels at a competitive price. our latin america is on the sea. newman reports from colleen. it's colorless, odorless and tasteless and its everywhere. hydrogen is one of the world's most

abundant elements. a plentiful source of energy, lighter and more powerful than lithium and oil, can be used to fuel large vehicles, airplanes, and ships, or to power heavy industry like mining. but the challenge is to replace conventional fossil fuels with hydrogen without using contaminating energy sources to make it. this is no ordinary forklift. it's the was 1st to be run on green hydrogen produced right here at the last thought. the less copper plant near chili's capital. if the move but a seal with this is very similar to a petrol station and the time it takes to fill the vehicle is very similar as well . green hydrogen is produced by separating hydrogen molecules from h 20, in other words, water to a process of electrolysis. it only emits water vapor, no c o 2. and this is the 2nd part of the equation,

the ability to generate enough sustainable energy as they're doing here to make the production of green hydrogen really worth while. and that to a country like chilly because of its geographic conditions has an enormous advantage. at least 50 percent of the cost of producing green hydrogen is renewable energy. but for chile, that's not a problem. we have the highest solar radius in the planet, in the, at the comma closet in the north. i'm the best winds on the world of the world in the south, in by that missing part owner. so capacity factors in for solar p v in the north are 3rd to 7 percent. that compares we 25 percent in saudi written or the and spain. and in the south, maryland has capacity factors for wind are over 60 even 70 percent versus 55 percent in the north sea. for example, for all the energy miniature calls green hydrogen,

the missing link to carbon neutrality liquid. but if this is so special, why aren't other countries already doing it? so it's a technical issue any longer is some financial, economic issue of a former environment minister marcella mina is adamant that it's up to chillies government to produce the incentive. as it did a decade ago, to dramatically reduce the cost of solar energy. you're either put a price on carbon, or you subsidize the investment. but without neither of these working you will simply not have the large scale projects that we anticipate. in chili's patagonia porch seamans and intel green power have joint forces to build the world's 1st fully integrated facility to produce carbon neutral fuels with wind power to make hydrogen. but it's not expected to produce more than 55000000 liters by 2024. to make an export green hydrogen as cheaply as conventional fuel by the year 2050, which is the government goal will require not just small plants like this one,

but gigawatt size facilities. in chile, that will mean negotiating, a multi national accord between the public and private sectors, costing about $50000000000.00. but it could be a small price to pay, to transition to what may be one of the was best options for dramatically reducing greenhouse gases and global warming. without limiting the consumption of energy. you see in human al jazeera colina kitty aah. on al jazeera, these are the top stories. the u. n. is calling for the release of 16 of its local staff is detained in ethiopia, capital addis ababa. it comes at a time of escalating conflict between ethiopia, central government, and rebel forces in the countries north. as far as i know,

no explanation given to us by why these the staff members are, are detained. a.