what is it, and can we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in without the international aid? what do you think is going to happen? the afghan economy? counting the coast on al jazeera ah, china and the us, the planets to largest emitters, amounts of joint planning to tackle climate change. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive from de also coming up. but you as president pins his hopes on an infrastructure bill to count a rising inflation. a hopeless situation on the beller roost, potent boda, thousands of migrants still remains stranded in desperate freezing conditions. and after years of investigations on lawsuits as a settlement, and the case by michigan city was water was poisoned by lead

ah china, in the us of issued a joint declaration that the cop 26 summit and glasgow promising to work to get a more closely to bring about reelection on climate change at separate news conferences. therein boy said they would cooperate to accelerate emissions reductions and meet the temperature goals of the paris deal. and re, simmons has more from glasgow. it came out of the blue since the chinese special envoy to cop $26.00 announced his country was going to work with the united states on climate action. ah shannon are well affable. you go to me all the choices here. i'd like to announce any holden's message. china and united states have jointly released at china us joined glasgow declaration and in counseling climate action in 2020

a line. shortly after that came john kerry confirming what amounts to some sort of partnership the united states and china have no shortage of differences. but on climate and climate cooperation is the only way to get this job done. this is not a discretionary thing, frankly. this is science, it's math and physics that dictate the road that we have to travel. china and the u . s. aren't only the 2 biggest economies on earth. they're also responsible for the biggest emissions of carbon dioxide and methane gases. and that's why such a joint effort may have added value details about exactly what effect to below have . i'll limited at that stage. but regardless of that, it's given a lift to proceedings here at a difficult time. earlier boris johnson had headed back to glasgow on an electric

train, not the private jet. he used to fly to london last week. his mission to try bridging the caps on a final agreement. the world is hud leaders from every country continent stand here and acknowledge the need for action and the world will find absolutely incomprehensible. if we fail to deliver that, and the backlash from people will be immense, and it will be long lasting. and frankly, we will deserve their criticism, and their opprobrium fossil fuel states may not like it, but the draft working text has devised a ratcheting up effect on cutting emissions. countries would review progress with foreign ministers meeting next year and with heads of state gathering in 2023. no one needs reminding of what's at stake. although this new time lapse study of 6 weeks shows how quickly iglesia in iceland can melt cop 26th negotiations are

getting more intense not helped. by latest research showing temperatures could rise by 2.4 degrees celsius. not near enough to the 1.5 celsius cap to be anything other than dangerous. and that's even if all the promises for emission cuts and other measures come to fruition. countries like the gambia in west africa, which is one of few states managing to comply with demands from the paris agreement in 2015. we are leading ganga is need, will be negotiation on adaptation. what software we're talking about long term financing. we're talking about loss and damage. we're talking about other sticking issues that are not forthcoming from deep negotiations. so this is a concern for our developing countries, a least developed countries with atlanta. this is highly unlikely to be the last version of a draft agreement with rules of consensus in which every one of nearly 200 cop members have to agree. it's feared

a final action plan is more likely to be watered down rather than toughened up. andrew simmons, al jazeera glasgow and katrina you joined us live now from beijing, katrina. so just talk us through what was mentioned in the agreement hi darn world. in this agreement, both countries, us and china agreed to work together to try to keep the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius. essentially, they've created a kind of framework to work on a variety of issues under this fighting climate change and bella. so they, it mentions me faint and missions working together on transition to clean energy d called and eyes ation, technology transfer and forests. so it does create this type of framework, although what we are not seeing or any sort of measurable targets, per se. but that doesn't mean that this declaration is not significant. it does 2 things. i think the 1st is really, as we heard earlier, helped to give

a jolt to these cult 26 negotiations. this is a big deal. these are the 2 biggest to mrs. of greenhouse gases in the world, working together committing to work together. so it's hard, but this really helped to encourage other countries and boost other negotiations. now thirdly, when it comes to china, i think this is really important for beijing because it's helping to demonstrate that it, it is serious about tackling climate change and that's off to i guess, weeks of skepticism and disappointment. firstly, president, she didn't thing is not attending cop 26. he did not even give a video speech. he just submitted a written statement. and also before the 26, china did not submit any new targets or deliverables. so it basically just elaborated on it's already given goals of achieving common peking by 2030 and comp and utility by 2060. and that for many experts was quite disappointing. they said that china missed out on this opportunity to show a real ambition. also,

i think experts are spoken to here say look, china is taking this seriously. it is moving in the right direction. the problem is it's moving way too slowly. and china has also show that it's really kind of marching to the beat of its own drama, in terms of recognizing climate change is important, but also not wanting to be swayed too much by externalities when it comes to their own target. so this declaration is specifically about action in the 2020s. so that also shows at least that china is acknowledging that there needs to be more urgent movement on this issue. young katrina does this perhaps smoke a turning point in china? us relations that's really an interesting point. we had the u. s. climate envoy, john kerry say himself that there are no shortage of differences between these 2 countries. and from where i'm at and i'm sure from where people are washington all standing. that's a bit of an understatement. i think this bilateral relationship has few years. that

is since the previous trump administration been characterized by tensions and hostilities over a growing list of disagreements, that's how china's the taiwan, hong kong sion, john, etc. so that does seem like this is really been the 1st major, bright flood in the relationship and certainly we had chinese climate envoy sheer gen 4. so quite friendly will use quite friendly language when he gave his own announcement he said, and i quote, the final us cooperation is the only correct choice and can accomplish many important things that will benefit both countries and the world. sounds very positive indeed. and also we've had some other small signs that this relationship is warming. earlier this week we had the u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan. say actually that there is no cold war going on. you also said that the u . s. will not try to change the chinese political system, which has been

a big deal for china. that's been something that they've been claiming the u. s. has been trying to do. and of course we had also earlier this year, a 2nd phone call take place between president she jim ping and or by then. and of course we have a virtual summit between the true lead is expected to take place as early as next week. all right, katrina, you live for the from beijing katrina. thank yes president jo biden's on a national tour showcasing his infrastructure plan and touting it as a cure for inflation. consumer price index rose 6.2 percent in the past year. that's the biggest spike in 30 years. identically, programs have fuel demand for goods stretching supply chains and causing a massive shipping backlog. today i'm here to talk about one of the most pressing economic concerns of american people. and it's real. and that is getting prices down, number one, number 2, making sure our stores are fully stocked. and number 3,

getting a lot of people back to work while tracking and tackling these 2 above challenges. i mention today's economic report showing unemployment continue to fall. but consumer prices remain to i. rob reynolds has moved from a u. s. port in long beach near los angeles. the supply chain crisis, which we've been seeing here in southern california, with more than a 100 ships at last count out at sea, waiting to bring their containers into port and unload the goods that american consumers have already ordered. and that american consumers are expecting to, to pick up and buy at big box stores or through amazon or other e commerce, they're all waiting out there. and this is creating a condition of scarcity when you have scarcity of goods and high demand. it's a recipe for a higher prices and therefore inflation. now we have been talking to people here

in this port complex, in the, in long beach and los angeles, the biggest in the country about what's going on, what are the causes? we've also been talking. busy to, to the, the heads of companies that are waiting now to get their goods off the boats and on their way to consumers. fellow ruth is accusing the european union of provoking refugee and migrant standoff on its board of poland as an excuse to impose new sanctions thus left about 2000 people stuck in freezing and dangerous conditions. the eastern edge of europe at the bay is that? oh, not asking for much. in fact, these children just want water journalists are banned from this area, but the person filming these scenes on the border between bellows and poland says there are babies as young as 2 months old. here some families have not eaten for

several days. at night, temperatures drop well below 0. at least 2000 people. many of them from the middle east are stuck in makeshift camps along the razor. wire. social media footage from recent days shows refugee and migrant escorted by mast belushi insecurity towards the border. sometimes shots are fired and people have often been beaten as in these pictures shown by polish forces. mommy, all those mamma is though that you says belly root has been encouraging migrants in refugees to and to poland in lithuania, in retaliation for sanctions imposed over human rights. violations you ambassadors have now agreed. this justifies a new round of sanctions and better ruth. and the block once action to stop more desperate people arriving on its borders. important, which brings very well to the original turn threes into the transit turn, threes. what are the currency trenches of the policy? it's also important which is close to the airlines. what are the concrete effects

of the decisions in the system? and in fact, in the launch of an hybrid attach against you. but michelle, by she let, the united nations human rights chief has issued a statement effectively condemning all sides in the stand of saying, hundreds of men and women and children must not be forced to spend another night in freezing weather without adequate shelter. food, water and medical care, under international law, no one should ever be prevented from seeking asylum or other forms of international human rights protection. for its part, russia, a traditional backer, a better route is accusing brussels of being hypocritical. she talk to you, she can greatly improve on the situation, is indeed very tense and there's a tendency to escalate tensions that causes concern. it's apparent that a humanitarian catastrophe is looming against the background of europeans reluctance to demonstrate commitment to their european values in a phone called german chancellor and the market has appealed directly to russian

president vladimir putin to exert his influence on the regime in minsk as governments take the blame game, the command terran situation guest dire by the day on the border. there in the darkness beyond the police road block are up to 2000 people, including women and children, with little shelter, food, or water spending the night in freezing temperatures. aside bake al jazeera, poland, 1470 drivers working for the world food program had been detained by the ethiopian authorities, un, and humanitarian sources say they were arrested during government raids, targeting ethnic to grinds a day earlier. 16 you and workers were detained in the capitol. the rebels and tig rye have in the past week came to have captured towns on the main road to addis ababa will the head of the ethiopian human rights commission says he's deeply concerned about the mass arrests of ethnic to grimes. since a state of emergency has been declared denito pierre, they'd have ran

a modest commission, has been monitoring and following up saturday st. off not just 16, but actually hundreds of people. and there appears to be, ah, it's an acre i element to see satirists, which what he says are, in a sense that are largely it's nick. the grandson, been a targeted to for a house, a search, and artists, and our we have been following up the case so far, hundreds of people and i do understand that a set of images, he gives a power to our police to a suspect, to address, to people on the ground, so for a reasonable suspicion, but we are concerned about her at least, scoffed the state of emergency. and it's a direct thieves to being gar applied, or in the wrong way, which is why we have already expressed a concern. and we continued to morning tell her that i soft say what other people

will read. one hussain is ethiopia, state minister for foreign affairs. speaking to al jazeera, he denied allegations of arbitrary detentions. i don't think i believe it is this through the ethnic profiling, but people might be audited. i don't think that i chill rent. i don't have that information. and if that happens, the government doesn't allow it. it might clear on the, on the date of emergency this issue that people should be treated well. and there must be adequate reason that to happen in any person. so somebody about it, this might happen, but they want to be better. my systematic one, if it happens that it also be a criminal act than anybody that does would actually be held accountable, but they want to be systematic. and there is no systematic harvest just because of your profile. and if the police might have found out some suspect, then they will be bound to and then also do do investigation. if any individual does not have adequate evidence, which i assume you must be released but are pending. some people will not get that

my truck systematic, but because we're in complex situation, you know, how many people are being attacked and how many adults started being done. and then, you know, a number of actor. so you must have been much careful individual and that that should not be done in the hospice at the lee and then police must do their job. but we would also look into that the process, if there is any evidence that there must be addressed stuff, i shall break every now to 0. when we come back back in court, when the former george and president mc out successfully faces further charges linked to his time in office. on the former french president process alone takes the stand of the trial of 20 suspects, linked to the 2015 paris attacks more nasty. ah hello, we've got rain and snow in the forecast. the parts of the middle east,

cheeky, northern part of the middle east spilling out surf. fara, east side of turkey around the caucasus. just pushing towards southern end of the caspian sea in northern part. so of iran can expect to see some snow, certainly over the high ground. and if anything that'll become a little more widespread as we go on into friday dipping a little further south as well. some heavy rainy to western areas of iran was he tempted curated around 29 degrees celsius high c rideau, her 3031 over the next couple of days at wet by the not too far away, but i think it should stay dry. the doha, as we go on through friday and on into sass, day or leather, will be a little more cloud around that dry weather, stretched out across southern parts of the arabian peninsula into the horn of africa. showers lurking once again just around the the opium highlands. wet weather will be further west. of course, we'll see more heavy downpours across northern parts of the democratic republic of congo, 3, congo, gabon, cameroon showers. there to into good part of angola and no showers run their way

further southwards, zambia, seeing some showers as we go through thursday. what shall for some very heavy rain . it is in bob we over the next couple of days along with eastern cape. ah, it's the was both populous democracy, diverse dynamic, and undergoing moment to seen context india dixon in depth. look at the people and politics of india. exploring how the coven 19 pandemic struck the nation. it's continuing impact and the lessons learned for the future. join me fade as those are for context india and alex is eda lou.

ah, welcome back a program out of the top stories here on al jazeera, china and the u. s. a promise to work together more closely to combat climate change. in spite of their differences, both pledge to speed up emissions reductions to meet the goals of the paris climate agreement. yes, president joe biden says his infrastructure plan is the fix to the countries soaring. inflation data is revealed. prices have risen by 6.2 percent in the past year. that's the biggest spike in 30 years. and bella roo says the e e was provoking a refugee, a migrant standoff as an excuse to impose new sanctions. about 2000 people are stuck in freezing conditions on the border with poland. now us judge has approved a $626000000.00 settlement for those hom by the lead water crisis in flint.

michigan. the suit was brought forward by tens of thousands of residents. most of the money will be coming from the state of michigan, which was accused of overlooking issues leading to the water crisis. well, to save money, flint changed its water supply in 2014 people immediately complained about the smell and taste. it later emerge the water was contaminated, would lead, and had not been properly treated with state officials and system. the water was safe. rejecting findings by doctors groups. michigan civil rights commission later said systemic racism lay at the core of the cities water problems. flint is mostly black and its residents are mostly democrats. the govern at the time was a white republican law suits over the contaminated war to have dragged on for years . wednesdays agreement is designed to settle most of them, but almost a 3rd of the total that's around $200000000.00. could be claimed as attorneys fees . what melissa mays, the flint resident, and founder of the water you fighting for campaign? she says the settlement isn't nearly enough. even if you take,

the lawyer sees out of it. there's a 100000 people in the city of flint. but if you divide that 600000000 from the date down by that, it's not very much. and then you look at what the cost of benefits that have been 7 and a half years about dealing with, you know, contaminated water, medical, the in our home alone, our kitchen and one of our bathrooms are good because the water 8 through some of the plumbing in the ceiling and wall and behind our appliances, and it had to be gutted down to the studs so that you know, tens of thousands of dollars that we have to pay back in loans we had to take out to be able to have a usable house if we were a middle class or wealthy white community, this wouldn't have happened. and if it did, it would have been fixed quickly. we've seen other cities like an arbor, which is the upper, you know, upper class white college town. they replaced all of their lead pipe before one pipe was removed in flint, and they didn't even have a water crate. we are still doing the federal government in the e p a because they ignored our cries for help when the state and city ignored us.

and then we also have the private earned the private engineering firm, the only and land and work we found out through these hearings. and these, you know, going back and forth record for the past several years. they had their hands on a lot more with the decision making and the downplaying than was what's expected. and, you know, i mean that's where we're hoping that this part of the partial settlement is aimed 80 percent at kids under the age of 8 being. we're hoping that adults will become paid properly with the next part and hopefully the other defendants smart enough to settle the american teenager who shot 3 people, killing 2 during racial justice protests last year has broken down while testifying at his own murder trial. col rittenhouse says he shot the 3 men in self defense. prosecutors argue rittenhouse carrigan assault style weapon to the protest, accusing him of instigating confrontations. his lawyers are demanding a mis trial of what they say are out of balance questions. chili's president says

he's convinced an impeachment case brought against him by the opposition will be dropped. sebastian pierre was accused of corruption following the legally pandora papers which exposed the hidden wealth of leaders and business people. the documents linked in the area to the sale of a multi $1000000.00 project through a family business to a close friend. but he says he has the support of the senate, which will determine his fate. if that more combat field, we are convinced that this accusation is unfounded, neither in fact nor a law. after reading it calmly, we have concluded that the accusation is based on false facts or cunningly related to simply speculation or supposition, and does not meet the standard required for a constitutional accusation in our rule of law o'clock. yet dozens of protest as have been arrested in georgia. the trial of former president mc out sock asheville, continues. he's been on hunger strike since his arrest last month was no authority, so he won't be allowed to attend his trial. a decision that angered his supporters

robin forced to walk a report from a capital tbilisi police arrest dozens of suckers, really supporters protesting against the former president's treatment while in jail . o tensions have been escalating since the return of the former president to georgia. his arrest and subsequent 7 week hug a stroke. now the government is trying to cast doubt on how serious that hunger strike is publishing this c c t. v footage. his supporters say doctors prescribed him essential supplements. i opposition leaders expressed outrage at the government's tactics saying the videos release is a breach of his privacy. they are all so furious that he was transferred to the medical unit of a maximum security prison on monday. not the private clinic, many had been calling for is the case demonstrating how deep the russian museum has

gone to cross all the red lines of basic rule of law decency. and how deeply trying to plunge our country through hateful revenge, violent russia put in russia, style politics. the former presidents on trial, the use of excessive force during anti government protests under his leadership in 2007, but successfully did not appear in court. prosecutors in the defense instead arguing over why the penitentiary service refused to deliver him, allegedly, due to a security threat. because i was really support or angry that he's being denied a chance to finally defends himself in person in court. and that into a growing sense, the frustration among the opposition that he's being denied his rights. so how a government teresa is absolutely office. it's you human in what

kind of country do they arrest? president's president should come and go. the government says circus. vittie will be given no special treatment toiletries. i got that it's lovely ro, mrs. every one knows that this whole show that he staged serves the sole purpose of somehow moving him to a private clinic. we have commented on this and i can do it again. now, because of the nish sir cash really arrived in georgia for the sole purpose of carrying out a revolution, the us think department has called for because suckers really, to be treated with dignity and respect. oh, with the outrage over his detention comes a growing gris of confrontation, robin 1st year walker al jazeera, tib, uneasy. relatives of an afghan family killed in a u. s. drone strike say they're still waiting for justice. the attack in campbell in august, kill an aid worker and his family, including 7 children. the pentagon later said it would pay compensation, but

a watchdog rule. but while the attack was a mistake, it did not break any rules. the actual targets were i saw members, boom, muffled quarters while they were more color with the dead body of my nephew was behind this car. the body of my brother was behind the other car. his son was in the driver's seat as well as his other kids who were also inside that car when he attack happened. there was a worst incident in my life that a u. s. promised us that they would take the family out of afghanistan, so they must fulfill their commitments after that it has been almost 3 months. and we had not heard from the u. s. without the former french president for us all on has been reliving the night of the 2015 paris attacks while testifying at the trial of the 20 suspects. he was at the national stadium when the 1st attack had detonated his best. gunman later opened fire and several other parts of the capitol, including the batter, land, concert hall, a $130.00 people were killed. was the country's worst atrocity since world war 2.

and tasha butler has more from paris. well 1st, all alone said he wanted to testify to clarify his role is the president at the time of those attacks on the night. but also some of his decisions off the he said that he have what he said might help shed some light on those events. for survivors and families of the fictions ever been many question since the attack as to whether or not more could have been done to prevent the alarm. that was all this repeatedly in the court. he said that it was very clear to the french coach and said that there were many right from high school again, from people that were right. example against crowded areas. things like shopping centers, perfect. all on said look, it is impossible to put security in police in every crowded area outside every shop . i thought every concert hall was full stadium, but he said that everything had been done to try and was right. they also said that some of the attackers were on the radar,

the intelligence services. some were even on the survey and but nobody imagined that they would carry out the sort of violence that they did. now a new team of astronauts is on its way to the international space station to one ignition i list for crew members are on board, the space x rocket 3 from nasa and one from the european space agency journey is expected to take 22 hours spent 6 months working on board the orbit about oh, the time for a quick check on the top stories here, china and the u. s. a promise to work together more closely to combat climate change in spite of the differences. both pledge to speed up emissions reductions to meet the goals of the parents agreement. katrina, you has more this is really important for bay j.