from international politics to the global pandemic, and everything in between. upfront with me, mark lamar hill on out 0. ah, cooperation is the only way to get this job done was an unexpected climate deal between the us and china draws a cautious welcome from activists. i'm katrina here in bolton whitmore on how a pressing global crisis is brought together to rival and brand new to ah, hello again. i'm peta w. watching al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up were on the border between poland and bella roofs, where refugees and migrants of stock in freezing weather are the countries blame

each other. ethiopians government denies making arbitrary arrests after detaining more than 70 drivers from the will to program. and although you and employees and running on empty people in burundi are struggling to find medicine, cache and fuel. after years of sanctions and the impact of cuba, 90 new environmentalists are cautiously welcoming a surprise announcement from the u. s. and china that they will work together on climate action. the countries issued their joint declaration separately at cop $26.00. while it's light on detail, it's a big shift from the start of the summit. the 2 nations did appear to be at odds under simmons reports. now 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 are far will 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 enhancing 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. aunt, 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 it will all have. i'll limited at this 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 gaps on a final agreement. the world is heard leaders from every country consonant 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 26 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 so far? 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 list velo qualities 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 fair to the final action plan is more likely to be watered down, rather than toughened up. andrew simmons out to 0, glasgow well, reaction from the world wildlife fund echoed as many environmental organizations. this announcement could be a much needed political signal that the 2 largest emitters responsible for more than 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions adjoining forces to prevent a climate catastrophe. if they are serious about avoiding catastrophic impacts. they must also support the enhancements of national policies, plans and actions that we'll see 1.5 degrees celsius kept within reach,

katrina hughes in beijing explaining now what the us china agreement will cover. well, this joint declaration really broadly looks at how these 2 countries tend to work together to help keep this temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius before the end of the century. so it offers a kind of framework under which 2 countries can work together on a variety of issues. it talks about methane emissions, transition to clean energy, reforestation, climate finance. it also talks about how these 2 countries intend to meet sometime in the 1st half of next year to talk about more specific targets and also how they intend to create a working group to look at this issue going forward. now what we do not see though, in this joint declaration or any sort of hard new concrete targets, really just elaborate on the targets that these 2 countries have already mentioned to the international community. that's been criticized. but it does not mean that this statement is not significant. i think it does 2 things. one is that these 2

countries by releasing this hope that it will give a bit of adult to the top $26.00 discussions towards this end of the conference. really helped to encourage other countries to really put some hod targets down and to continue and wrap up the negotiations in a really positive way. i think secondly, what paging is hoping specifically is i will really send a message to the international community. the china is serious about climate change . the european union will place more sanctions on the bell, a russian government early next week b e u commission president, asheville upon the lion made the announcement as a migrant and refugee crisis on poland. border with belarus escalates with no end in sight. thousands of people are stuck in freezing and dangerous conditions. we will widen our sanctions again, bellows so very rapidly at the beginning of next week. there will be a widening of the sanction 2nd spells as far as i am informed,

the united states have prepared sanctions that will be in effect at the beginning of december. and these are european sanctions will not only be against her personalities, but also against entities. so it is important that the refresh ankle regime understands that their behavior comes with a price i want to serious aside big is live for us near cause met sir on the poland, bella bruce border aside. what's the situation like where you are at the moment? we're just outside the exclusions on you could possibly see the police line behind us now that exclusions owners bought in back in september when the country declared the state of emergency along that 4 day campuses around a 184 towns and villages, journalists and agencies are not allowed in now all morning route concerning military vehicles travel up and down this road we've seen soldiers patrolling with

their guns out here in the countryside. now the polish authorities have deployed around 15000 soldiers to help the police and border forces. but just a few clusters behind me are around 2000 people stuck at that border. come typed at that forest, the temperatures here are near 0 overnight they dropped below 0. and there's a real concern for the safety of those people. many of them from the middle east. what to the polish authority saying well, their position is unchanged. the prime minister says that the, they don't want these people crossing over into poland, that into the european union has actually gone further and said that this crisis has been masterminded by russia. in moscow. the polish authorities believed that to the or by the roost in authorities have manufactured this crisis, that they've invited people to come from the middle east, middle eastern countries. and then they bust them to the border. but ultimately, between the political, the politics of this, the political back and forth,

the are these vulnerable people. we know that they are children there. we're not allowed into this exclusions on. so we can't tell you exactly what the polish authorities are doing to stop those people crossing over. we do know that they did fire tear gas at some of those people attempting to cross. we know that some of those people have been beaten by the, by the reaching authorities. we've been told that by activists and we've seen footage on social media showing us that. but ultimately they are vulnerable people here in freezing temperatures with very little shelter, food or water in sub 0 temperatures. i said thanks very much as the big they're joining us live from the poland. belarus, border area pakistan is hosting senior diplomats from the us, china, russia, and afghanistan to discuss the situation since the taliban take over. the worsening humanitarian situation and the refugee crisis are the focus of the talks. it's the 1st official visit by a member of the taliban cabinet to pakistan. since the previous afghan government

fell in august, come hider has worn out from islam about see a new and dead, m prime, foreign minister of, of honest on a, leading a delegation of 20 senior ministers and members of the government to discuss our an array of topics read by guest on including land link aviation linked august on of course had been providing humanitarian assistance at red. and this is also an opportunity for the inter him of on foreign minister to be able to meet with the special envoys from the us. china and russia to discuss a way forward because the united states and the other countries are interested in a lot thing. beautiful said to them and they warned a dollar bond to live up to their promises on the issue of inclusivity women's rights and an area of issues. so indeed, an important step because this is the 3rd meeting. the last one was in moscow,

the united states did not attend that. previously, there was a meeting in doha, withdraw enough. god attended by jolly mccauley. dod dynamic ali dod with the special envoy for one is danny of gods had been replaced by tom west. and they, of course, we'll be talking duty over on foreign minister on a range of issues still to come here on al jazeera after years of investigations and lawsuit. there's a settlement in the case to the us city where the water was poisoned by lead and building a forest in the sky. we looked at my lands efforts to become a green city. ah . hello there, let start in southeast asia and is more wet weather on the way. so much of indo china, you can see the fix cloud in the satellite imagery,

st. intense rains across central areas of vietnam that's causing flash flooding and, and slides. we could see more of that as the rain gets intense, particularly in southern areas. pushing into cambodia, an edging across into southern areas of thailand. you can see the wet and windy weather working its way across the gulf of china and on the way to the bay of bengal. it's going to get pretty wet here in the days to come. now for the south of this, we are seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms, across much of indonesia and malaysia. some of the heavier falls across bonia, but it's nothing to worry about now. that's not the case with australia as we head down under. we've got severe weather. that's plagued central eastern and southern areas. we've had the heaviest rainfall in 20 years in alice springs and that caused the river, todd to overflow. now it dries up here, but those storms are going to pick up across queens and new south wales and into victoria. we could see some snow on the alps by the time we get to saturday, but it is gonna remain rather unsettled through the weekend. and as we head over to

new zealand, it has been looking rather settled. but the wet and windy weather is kicking into the south ah, in the country with an abundance of resources, right. all right, one moment we move to grow from we balance rena economy, economy and the digital economy. with the new job creation law, indonesia progressively ensure the policy reform to create quality jobs. invest park with now lou

ah, almost 915 gmc, these are your top stories so far today. china and the us have promised to work together to combat climate change despite their differences on other issues, both of them pledging to speed up the emissions cut to meet the goals of the 2015 paris agreement. the european union will place more sanctions on the bell russian government early next week. the new commission president ursula on the line made the announcement as a migrant and refugee crisis on holland's border with bella. luce escalates and pakistan is hosting senior diplomats from the united states, china, russia, and afghanistan to discuss the situation since the taliban takeover is the 1st official visit by a member of the taliban cabinet to pakistan. since the previous government fell in august. boeing has accepted responsibility for the 2019 ethiopian airlines crash as it reached

a settlement with families of the victims. it does not involve compensation, but it does allow them to pursue individual claims in the american court. 157 people were killed when the boeing 737 max crash shortly after takeoff from addis ababa. it was the 2nd crash involving that type of aircraft in just a few months. boeing admitted its software was to blame. in an interview with al jazeera, a member of the ethiopian government has denied allegations of mass arrests and ethnic profiling. there have been reports of the police, rounding up high profile to grinds from a bank, c o to priests. at least 70 dr. was working for the world food program have also been taken into custody. the un says they were arrested during government raids, targeting to g. ryans a day earlier 16 you and workers were detained in the capital. i don't think and believe it is this through the ethnic profiling, but people might be out of that. i don't think that i children, i don't have that information. and if that happens,

the government doesn't allow me to click on the, on the date of emergency this issue that people should be treated with. and most of the advocates within 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 pay and then also do do investigation. if any individual does not have adequate evidence, which i assume you must be released, but are planting some people would 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 that are being done. and then you know, a number of actors. so you must have been much careful individual and that that thing should not be done. and help us out the lee and then police must do their job,

but we would also look into that the process. if there is any validity, then that must be addressed. well, the head of ethiopian human rights commission says he is deeply concerned about the mass arrest of ethnic to grimes. since a state of emergency has been declared in ethiopia, the they, they are very 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 they are largely ethnic. the grands have been a targeted to for how search and arrests and are we have been following up the case so far? ah, hundreds of people. i do understand that a set of images, he gives power to our police to a suspect, to our race, to people on the ground. so for reasonable suspicion,

but we are concerned about her at least scoffed the state of emergency. and it's a direct thieves to being her. her plight are in a wrong way, which is why we have already expressed a concern, and we continued to monitor her that i saw several people in burundi. fuel supplies are running out, economists, so that's because of sanctions imposed by the european union and the u. s. in 2015 . when president pierre and coroner caesar ran for controversial 3rd term. catherine saw, you know, from butram bureau this has become a familiar site on the streets of which you bora, watery spent much of their time cuing for fuel. happy man, i'm mighty says it's taken ha, 4 hours to get hot tank feels a, it's a big problem. because we're often late for work, a completely disrupts our days. some economists say the country is running low on

foreign currency that's needed for imports like fuel and medicines, meaningful young they, they are frustrated. this has been going on for weeks now, but it's not the 1st time experiencing a shortage of your war. neither is the, the 1st and the government is facing a shortage of foreign currency. sam palace, it all goes back to 2015. when there was a political crisis from our president pierre in cruz's position, to run for controversial 30 tom, 6 years ago sparked political unrest. one in 1000 people were killed and many displaced. donors, like the european union in the us, withdrew government funding, and sanctions imposed on the country are yet to be lifted. the pandemic and a closure foreign exchange bureaus by the central bank in 2020, made the situation was the cost over there, covered the 19th test to cross the border. you have to because the for 30

usd that to mean that to for air. as more trader is too much the movement of for tried as a between a d r a c and a balloon the remains slo, despite to the border, has been a reopened util. presents a big amount of, of money in terms of foreign currency. when those a small trade as are crossing daily, hurry to bornea don't as your imports goods from asia, europe, and neighboring countries. he says he's struggling to stay afloat. i did them in the past, there's no money in circulation. we need to import things from asian of a neighboring countries to buy those goods. you have to have foreign currency. if we don't, that means there's a big problem. he tells us he hopes sanctions will soon believe. and buddhist cross is fully reopened because without that,

they can start growing again. cathy sawyer al jazeera, which were now the former french president, francois alone, has been testifying in the courtroom where 14 men are on trial. over the 2015 paris attacks, he said, the government had known for years that france could be a target, but added, they didn't know where when or how they would strike us. he was an issue of the 1st suicide bombing at the national stadium. gunman later opened fire in several other parts of the capital, including the bicycle, a constant hole. 130 people were killed. it was the country's worst atrocity since world war 2 attach. butler is in paris. alone said that 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 fiction have been many question since the attack as to whether or not more could

have been done to prevent the alarms was off this repeatedly in the court. he said that it was very clear to the french intelligence that there were many from high school, again, from people that were trying to pull against crowded areas. things like shopping centers, perfect all on that. look, it is impossible to put security in police in every crowded area outside every shop . but every concert hall was full stadium. but he said that everything had been done to try and watch, right. they also said that some of the attackers were on the radar. the intelligence services, some were even on the surveillance, but nobody imagined that they would carry out the sort of violence that they did. us judge has approved a $626000000.00 settlement for those harmed by the lead water crisis in flint, michigan. the suit was brought by tens of thousands of residents. most of the money will come from the state of michigan, which was accused of overlooking

a fuse leading to the crisis. to save money, flint changed where its water came from. in 2014, people immediately complained about the smell and the taste, and later emerged that the water was contaminated with lead and it hadn't been properly treated. but state officials insisted it was safe. rejecting findings by dr. groups michigan civil rights commission later said systemic racism lay at the core of these cities. water problems. flinty is mostly black. as residents are mostly democrats, the governor at the time of white republican law, suits relating to the water contamination attract on for years. weapons, days agreement is designed to settle most of them, but nearly one 3rd of the total that's around $200000000.00. could be claimed as lawyers fees. melissa mays is a local resident. she says, the settlement isn't nearly enough. even if you take, the lawyer sees out of it. there is 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 been effect that has 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 and loan 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 crime for help when the state and city ignored us. and then we also have the private, the private engineering firm, the only and land and work we found out through these hearings. and he, you know,

going back and forth report for the past several years. they had their hands on a lot more with the decision making and the downplaying than was, was 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. now, despite having some of europe most polluted, milan has its slight set on becoming a leader in the sustainable city movement. the land is not working towards the goal of planting $3000000.00 trees by the end of the decade, and incorporating nature and sustainability into every urban project at an rainy has more rising into the sky mulanda vertical forest apartment complex has become a symbol of the global sustainable city movement, draped in vegetation, the towering gardens are equivalent to

a forest covering 3 hector's home to 800 trees. and 15000 plants. the building absorbs and net total of 11 tons of carbon dioxide a year. the architect behind the project says much more to be done to truly make milan and other cities sustainable. one of the main issue now is to make the construction process more soft. because this is a building with a structure which is price traditional and we are now walk in to the project, often your high rise buildings with all of the structuring boot, mtv. and that's what will be an amazing way to reduce the term, our footprint, or so the production as you're doing during the construction side process. this green refuge provides views of greater milan, larger problem, smog. greenhouse gases are trapped in a massive plane at the base of the alps. the pandemic has accelerated milan to push

for sustainability coming out of the lock down. city planners worried people would choose cars overcrowded public transport. so they expanded the network of bike lanes. there's a sprint to, to create more green spaces. of course faces like this one do more than just sustain the environment. they sustain communities and urban planner, se necessary have more space is like this one for people living and city feel. they have some assets and resilience expert peer to believe shadow champions these projects. but he says it's clear what problem milan must tackle. think. 30 sco katie guys, every 100 you know, everything now we have we dropped to 46. so it mean it, we are, we are reducing minimal cars and increasing the space for $3.00 and $4.00 green infrastructure. but these don't enough green more because climate change is impacting the city that keep leaves and flash loading

a vision to redefine milan for those who call it home. and those looking for sustainable models to follow. adam rainy al jazeera milan, an american teenager has emotionally told a u. s. court, he never meant for any one to die and didn't do and the thing wrong quotes the night. he shot 3 people he killed, 2 of them testifying at his trial. kyle rittenhouse said he fired in self defense. rittenhouse is accused of murder for his actions during unrest that erupted in kenosha, wisconsin. after several black lives matter protests. he was 17, at the time he was carrying a semi automatic weapons saying he wanted to defend property from damage. i did tend to kill them. i attended it, i italian to stop the people who were attacking me by killing them. 2 of them passed away, but i stopped the threat from attacking me by using deadly force. i used deadly force that you knew was going to kill. i didn't know if i was going to kill them,

but i, i used the, i use deadly force that the threat that was attacking me. the sydney opera house has been illuminated with images of poppies to mark remembrance day. the memorial marks the armistice signed on november, the 11th 1918 ending fighting in the 1st world war poppies are significant because those flowers grew on the western front battlefields after the war. the conflict costs around 60000 australian lives. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, china and the u. s. a promised to work together to combat climate change despite their differences on other issues, both pledged to speed up emissions cuts to meet the goals of the 2015 paris agreement. katrina you is in beijing this is.