public outcry as a wide spread to wraps and brought down former prime minister boy caper itself. but finding a replacement, his priest, problematic. will it be 3rd time lucky in the bulgarian election? special cap rates on county farrah. ah . south africa's laws to party to europe. president's f, w to clerk has died at the age of 85. ah, hello, welcome. on peter w, watching al jazeera live from dough are also coming up. cooperation is the only way to get this job done. an unexpected climate deal between the us and china draws a cautious welcome from activists. plus i'm a sag beg, here, close to the polish,

by the roof, bought over, around 2000 people of leave to be captain guy trying to cross into poland. and ultimately, the european union and after years of investigations and lawsuits or settlements is reached in the case of us city where the water was poisoned by lead. ah, we begin this half hour with some breaking news. the former south african president f. w to clerk has died. he was the country's last party era president. he shared the 1993 nobel peace prize with nelson mandela. they were con, reconciliation in south africa. he was 85. john hall looks back at his life. this was the moment when south africa's last white leader signaled the end of a pa, tate. i wish to put it plainly that the government has taken a firm decision to release them on de la unconditionally. i am serious in this

speech to parliament, frederic villain, declared, call f w. as he was known stuff the world. he freed nelson mandela and promised equal rights that would lead to south africa the 1st fully democratic election. if we did not take the initiatives we do, i have no doubt in my mind that we would have reached a point that the majority of all the people in south africa would have taken hands with the total international community. and would have united behind one common goal, and that is to over so regime we avoid that. there's some on dela with the nelson mandela, a free man within days and t upon take lead to nelson mandela walked free after 27 years in prison. we pray for guidance, i think a deeply conservative afrikaner f. w was never known as a reformer,

but he'd come to realize in his own words, the to cling to power for the white population group means facing a revolution. we must find a way in this country as black. those white do live together in the revolution almost pain. any way the black townships erupt, it in violent hard line. african is threatened to bloody revenge. lengthy negotiations resulted in a non racial constitution and mostly peaceful elections. in 1994 millions of black people voted for the 1st time endorsing the a and c and nelson mandela as president. as the man who co wrote the end of a point 8 declared shared the nobel peace prize with mandela. he later cheered the

global leadership fun promoting good governance worldwide to many within the ranks of his offer. aqona people f w was a traitor to the end. history will remember a leader who knew that white supremacy had run its course ah, in the u. k. prime minister bowers johnson has welcomed us and china deal today. both countries have declared that they will work together on climate action. the countries issued a joint statement separately on wednesday. their invoice said they would cooperate to accelerate emissions cuts and meet the temperature goals of the 2015 paris agreement in the climate is a common challenge faced by humanity and will impact the will being a future generations is becoming increasingly urgent and severe. turning

a future challenge into a crisis happening now on the subject of climate change. there is more agreement between china and us than divergence making it an area with huge potential for cooperation. the united states and china has 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. jonas live is our correspondent under simmons is there in glasgow at cop 26. so andrew, is this surprise announcement, i guess kind of focusing minds there. it certainly seems to be there was a lot of surprise at the announcement of this a joint declaration as it's described by the chinese. in fact,

antonio terrace, the un secretary general, described it as an important step in the right direction of france. timmons a, who's executive vice president of the european commission, leading the u. delegation here said it was encouraging and was impressive in that it was addressing both methane and c o 2 methane is something that china has not made any commitment on. and of course, all of the commitments of both china and the u. s. don't fit with the overall target of that. so 1.5 degree celsius cap agreed in the paris agreement that landmark her cop, the cop 26 hopes to emulate, but is really quite in the deep water right now in terms of prospects for a, a really seismic agreement. there's no doubt about that whatsoever, but coming back to this or the joint declaration, i'm that there is

a concern that there needs to be some speed attached to the delivery of results from such a joint agreement. and there is no that there is no time zone anywhere in this papers. i'm talking about france timmons. he briefed at 0 out 0 on, on, on what he'd heard. i'm on a range of issues. and he had was sworn to secrecy about this whole deal along with other diplomats and the one up to it. and no one expected it. john kerry said that the dialogue had been going on for something like 10 months of the been at least 30 meeting. so it's, it's quite apparent that something may well follow this joint declaration. there could be some teeth to it, maybe just maybe that could be within the province of what happens here with the end of the summit declaration or which is,

are going to be hard to get to it has to be said because there are negotiations are ongoing getting tougher and tougher. the goal has to be being in the area of that $1.00 celsius cap. but right now there is no sign of that embarrass johnson. the u . k. prime minister as summoned up all of the negotiators to start to be bold in what they promised and appealed, almost bending on his knees diplomatically to stake leaders to brief their negotiators to come and break, break a new deal. andrew, thank you very much and resume is there at cop 26 in glasgow. katrina, you and be ging, his lanes with the us china agreement will actually cover well, this joint declaration really broadly looks at how these 2 countries and 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 that 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 story 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. thought 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 26 discussions. one. this end of the conference really helped to encourage other countries to really put some hard targets down and to continue and wrap up the negotiations in a really positive way. i think secondly,

what aging 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 most sanctions on the bell, russian government, early next week. the commission president as hell of on the line, maybe announcement as a migrant and refugee crisis on poland border with bella, luce escalates with no end in sight. thousands of people are stuck in freezing and dangerous conditions. as i bake has more from the cause nits, the area on the border between poland and bella, luce, we believe the temperatures dropped below 0 last night and we've been seeing military vehicles going up and down these roads all morning. in fact, there are some passing us as i speak now, just to the right of me, a visa, military vehicles passing by. we understand the cobra has deployed around $15000.00 soldiers to this area. we've seen soldiers patrolling,

read their guns. we've seen police checkpoints in the exclusion zone. they've been stuffing cause searching their boots and exclusions on a sector because the government here declared the state of emergency in the border region, which encompasses around 184 villages and towns. and we are not locked into the exclusion is old agencies are not allowed in they saying that hinders their efforts to help those very vulnerable people, dis, about 2000 people, stuck in that no man's land between poland and bella was unable to go back further into by the room unable to cross and to poland in that forest without much shelter, little food, water in those freezing temperatures. and because we are not alive into the exclusion. so we don't know exactly what the polish authorities are doing in trying to keep them out of poland and out of the you are we have seen footage of polish authorities fighting tear gas at some of those people. are you also seen footage of

very recent authorities at beating those very vulnerable people? we have the polish authorities here who don't want anyone coming into their country . they're paying to some of their right wing of voters here is national independence day here. but europe believes that better roost at the regime in better rouge. read led by the executive cash hankle has invited his people into their country and then bust them to the board in retaliation to the european union, putting sanctions on a against by the roost. both lucas shanker believes that poland and the through any over a part of efforts to do that to my him in europe. so he is using this as a tool to get back at europe still to come here on this program will speak to our correspondent live in south africa, about the legacy of the last part, 8 era president, f. w to clerk whose dies at the age of $85.00 also had building a forest in the sky. we look at the lands efforts to become

a green city. ah, ah, look forward to burritos, guys. the with the sponsored by capital airways. hello there. we've seen some wintery weather effect pots of east asia, in particular, northern areas of china run up in the north east. but south korea has had the taste of winter. we had the 1st snow falling, so for the year and i came a month earlier than it did last year. it's unlikely to continue though, because things are warming up for the korean peninsula. we've seen the temperature pick up in so, and it is drying up here as it has done for beijing. the temperature here picking up some of the story for shanghai remains pretty dry, lots of sunshine. if we look at the 3 day here, we're going to see the tent temperature rise up above the average. and there's gonna be plenty of dry days ahead. now it's looking like that for japan as well. we

got the wet and windy weather up in the north, but it is swelling off to the east. is going to dry up nicely by the time you get into saturday, the temperature in tokyo at 900 degrees celsius. and it is why a rough move in areas of south asia, for slaves of pakistan as well as northern india and bangladesh. but it's a very wet picture, down in the south. those warnings remain for town. now, do we've seen flooding here? the city of janai has seen its heaviest rain in 5 years, and that is likely to continue by the time you get into saturday is going to pick up for carola and there's more intense rain for sure. lanka. oh, the weather. sponsored by casara, always indonesia, the country with an abundance of results for the trade already won indonesia, his friends for me, we moved full to grow and fraud. we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs,

investment. let be part when denise is growth and progress, invest in the new fia now. ah ah, looking back here watching al jazeera alive from the how your top story so far today. the former south african president f. w to clerk has died at the age of 85. he was the countries lost a partied era. president 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. russia has denied playing any role in the migrant crisis along the

poland bellows border. the e u is placing more sanctions on bellows next week. now 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 police rounding up high profile to graham's. from a bank c e o to priests, at least 70 dr. was working for the well food program have also been taken into custody. the un says they were arrested during government raids, targeting to grind a day earlier, at least 9, 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 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 and any person. so somebody bought it, this might happen. but they went to be fair to 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 find out some suspect, then they will be bound to pay and then also do do investigation. if any individual does not have adequate evidence to judge again, if you must be released but are planting, 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 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 in the hot box at the lee and then police must do their job. but we would also look into that the process, if there is any of the velocity, then there must be addressed. landlords in ethiopia, capital have in order to register the identities of the tenants within one week.

journalist samuel gusto has more for us from at the top of well, the state of emergency, the command passed on a def additional order telling all 10 or landlords to register the tenants pass on their id and to the government. and this continues us emergence, the state of emergency continues for a 2nd week. it has so far, the 1000s of people that the phillip inside is assisting us. you heard from this the, from the minister of state, red one who said, who said this has nothing to do with ethnic city. it has everything to do with the state of emergency, which is meant to bring order to your which is now in an a conflict with a t p left. but the head of the if you open human rights commission daniel, but color. busy is contradicting what the government is saying he's he has told al

jazeera, he sees some kind of ethnic element in the detent of so many people that he has been watching from a distance. so far, 9 un officials are still in the detention centers of the government. an addition are 72 drivers of w. p contracted drivers. and this again will have to continue. and the minister stated that all those that have been detained, either being someone must have pointed them to the government or the state is looking at them. someone who is either supporting or providing resources to the t p or left pakistan is hosting senior diplomats from the united states, china, russia, and afghan austin to discuss the situation since the taliban takeover. the worsting humanitarian crisis and the refugee crisis. the focus of the talks is the 1st

official visit by a member of the taliban cabinet to pakistan. since the previous afghan government fell in august, north macedonia parliament is holding no confidence vote against the government of zora. and if it follows the social democratic prime minister, postponing his announced resignation indefinitely, i have suffered a heavy defeat in local elections. the main right when opposition leader secure the support of 61 parliaments, 120 legislators to bring on the motion of all 61 vote in favor of it, the government will be removed if neither party succeeds in forming a government. an early election will likely be held in the spring. ok, let's get more on that story. that's broken just in the past hour or so. the death from cancer of the former south african president f. w to clerk from the miller joins live now from job for me to one of the key political figures, not just in south africa,

but for black people as well around the world. well, that is also debatable. i think for many south africans around the role that f w declares flayed in terms of that transition to democracy in south africa coming from an apart part. so of course, celebrated along with people like nelson mandela in terms of that transition and, and that he was the president in 1990 to 1989 to say that political parties would be allowed to operate the embedding of political parties. and then the freeing of nelson mandela, he announced that in 1990, he was then part of a government of national unity of the 994, serving as the president of nelson mandela. but they are also many self africans who believe that he was nothing more than an apartheid criminal. he's, he's seen, government goes back to 978 when he was

a cabinet member of the apartheid government. and many say he also has to on support the atrocities that took place under a part date. and that transitional government from 1994 onwards was really was symbolic. but in fact, that this was the president, i form a president that should have been held accountable for what happened during a party. nonetheless, he also won the nobel peace prize. so it is no to that role that he played in the transition to democracy in south africa. but as far as that transition is concerned for me to, you know, early ninety's, global rolling news was yet to come. and one remembers nelson mandela's long walk to freedom. that was global blanket wall to wall coverage because it was such an important such a significant moment for south africa for africa. i

think we've lost the line that to johannesburg will give it one more go for me to i'm just wondering if you can hear us or not. i think we might have problems with the line. yes, we have got problems with the light will try and re establish communications day with me to be the team in job. i can go back to if we can remove on a us judge has approved a 626000000 dollar settlement for those harmed by the lead water crisis in flint, michigan. the suit was brought by tens of thousands of local residents. most of the money will come from the state of michigan, which was accused of overlooking issues leading to the crisis. to save money, flint changed whereas water came from and 2014. people immediately complained about the smell and the taste. it later emerged, the water was contaminated with lead and hadn't been treated properly, but state officials insisted it 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, mostly democrats. the governor at the time, was a white republican, lawsuits related to the water contamination of dragged on for years. wet and stays, agreement is designed to settle most of them, but only one 3rd of the total around $200000000.00 could be claimed as lawyers fees . melissa mays is a resident there. she says, the settlements isn't nearly enough. even if you take the lawyer sees out of it, there's a $100000.00 people in the city of flint. so 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 to court 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 18. we're hoping that adults will become a bit of properly with the next part and hopefully the other defendants smart

enough to settle. ok, let's go back to for me to mila correspondent. talking to us just little early out of johannesburg, with memories and recollections around the world of the former south african president, f. w to clerk who died in his eighty's because of cancer. for me to we were looking at pictures as you were talking to us earlier in the south, are looking at pictures of mr. to clerk and nelson mandela together. clearly, they had political respect for each other. but as with lots of people on different sides of a massive divide, did they end up being friends or not? well, they didn't seem to have a mutual respectful relationship, especially considering that they were part of very important talks that led to the end of a portrait apart, they'd rather and that transition to democracy, that kind of respectful relationship was needed to ensure they would be that peaceful transition as they in later years. and i imagine this also has to do with

a younger generation of people who perhaps didn't love through a party. and what didn't perhaps live through the late to years of a party to an understanding the dynamics at the time. there are people, young people today who look back. and as i said earlier, are unhappy about the role that the national party that to declare was part of and the continuing, i suppose white prisons in south african government in terms of where the focus of should be. in terms of looking after south africans. we do know that the clack, when he said nelson mandela would be released when he said political parties would be on band. there was an understanding that white supremacy in south africa would be an sustainable. but there are also critics who say that the national party at the time didn't have an option so that africa was suffering from international sanctions. they were financial difficulties, also faced of protest within the country, a lot of violence. and that this is a situation that it was struggling to keep control over. so they almost was no

choice. but this was the a partake leader who finally said apartheid will come to an end. and that is also what he is recognized for. he continued to have a good relationship with the african national congress in fact, becoming a member later on. and that's after that transition into democracy. and so he was revered by many respected by many, but they are members of the public who don't see him in the same way. but there are many south africans who would who was lord him for the role that he played in terms of that peaceful transition to democracy. but essentially for me to, i guess what we're saying is here you had f, w to clerk saying, i'm a beast. i'm a thing of the past, but i'm an experienced politician. you had nelson mandela after his long walk to freedom. so it essentially saying i'm the future he went on to become president with no political, formal political experience,

to what degree did f w to clerk guide him. and i guess coax him in the right direction to be, not just nelson mandela that comes with that everything that comes with that name, but to be the president of south africa. whole, nelson mandela on his own of course, had that very important political role in terms of the fight for freedom in south africa. and for that reason alone, he had that prominence and he had that respect. and if he also remembered, for example, to the assassination of chris harney, who was a very important political figure at the time, nelson mandela was the person who came out and television to calm south africans. there are many analysts you'll speak to will say that if it had not been for nelson mandela, quoting for calm south africa potentially could have seen the civil war. him. so nelson mandela alone was a very important political figure and had that kind of influence, s w, f, w,

declare came into their transitional government. and that was what was important for the south african transition at the time. not to alienate various parts of the south african population. he was the deputy president along with tub way. becky, members of the former national party also form part of that cabinet. so they had to be that physical transition. even administratively, they was a relationship that allowed for symbolically south africans to adapt to the new south africa. and so it was important that that relationship between the 2 of them and that cooperation was seen by all south africans across color lines. and simply just to adapt and to avoid any potential chaos from it or thank you so much. during the military talking to was life from johannesburg. ah.