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iranian president, abraham bracy says protests against the government must be confronted decisively. the demonstrations were triggered by the death of a 22 year old woman in police custody massa. and many died last week after being arrested for allegedly violating policy on head scarves. on friday counter protests were held in support of the government. iranian authorities say at least 35 people have died so far, and more than 700 have been arrested. the president has said him in his death must be investigated in ukraine. the 2nd day of a referendum is underway on the annexation of 4 regions held by moscow. i'm soldiers are reported to have been going door to door to get people to vote on where the fall occupied regions in ukraine should join russia. mohammed val has more on the kremlin view of those referendums from moscow. what they are saying here is that this is the natural course of think that the,

the communities in 5 eastern ukraine and southern ukraine have always been part of russia. that's the deep desire and the dream. and now the opportunity has come for them to vote. to join russia. they talk about the initiative coming from not from russia itself, but from those communities saying got lost, choose the local communities in those 4 regions. sent a request to, to their high or volunteer to do this to organize the certified them. and that has been granted. and military reserve is being caught up across russia. moscow as announced 300000 people will be mobilized to find in ukraine. it's from the cues of the border. as many men tried to flee the country. that announcement came off to keep the forces recaptured care territory in a counter offensive. the lebanese army says it's arrested the man behind what it calls a smuggling operation to italy. 86 people died when they boat sank off the coast of

syria. most of them were flaying lebanon to escape and economic crisis. and final campaign rallies have been held in each lea ahead of the general election on sunday . former prime minister, giuseppe conte, told a crowd in rome. the vote is a historic one opinion poll show. he's trailing a far ride coalition by georgia maloney. all right, those are the headlines i am emily anglin. the niece continues here on al jazeera after at rice. ah with climate change intensifying, the civility of the planet is at stake. by 2015 greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 80 percent. if we are to have a chance of tackling this crisis,

environmental leadership if needed more urgently than ever. in november, 2015 hopes were raised when world leaders committed to reducing emissions with the pirate climate agreement. but in june 2017 president trump pulled the united states out of the a cold. the united states will withdraw. the reaction against his decision was widespread and immediate. china stepped into the role of global environment leda. and with the european union, we affirmed its commitment to taps and climate change. it is now the biggest super power in the world wide alliance. the people fighting to protect the planet. i'm russellville, in washington dc, to find out how much people ppo can make a difference in pricing climate change. and time stephanie long and since in southern china, which has meaning the world in the low carbon transport initiative even before we became president,

it was clear that trump's environmental policies were gonna fly in the face of much of the progress made over the previous decade. only a few months into office and this approach threatens not only global security. also that of the united states itself, where the effects of climate change are already keenly felt. president trump was started, the process rolling back to clean water, which conserves the nation's waterways, threatening the distance of the environmental protection agency, the national organization, set up to protect the environment and communities. and these provide government support for fossil fuels. my administration is putting an end to the war on call for trump's environmental legacy might have a surprising twist. i'm in the usa to see how communities are coming together to bypass the white house, forming a global network of grassroots resistance. a come to the people's climate march here in washington, dc. it's one of 300 marches across the country, calling for

a change in environmental policy. a i'm here with, we're dealing with climate change right now. is that a situation where, you know, it'll be coming to us in the future? it is wrapping right now my community. and so i, i came all the way here to dc to say that enough is enough. ah, but 81 percent the united states energy still coming from oil, coal, and natural gas, many a here to oppose the trump administration. so the fossil fuel industry a come across with gillion from new york state and outspoken activities for renewable energy. oil and gas industry is truck is, has a serious onslaught the lock us into the infrastructure. and that's going to keep

us addicted to fossil fuels for the next 50 years. the people that are here walking today, they have the exact opposite message. we are new forms of energy, alternative energy, renewable energy. with the environment where a bank you would have been saved by now you just done is looking at this wonderful slogans. ah, over the front is michael is from an organization called south bronx unite. they're facing some significant challenges with appellation in the community. how are you? i'm good, how are you? yeah, because i've come here to represent my coalition as how we can work together nationally. all to combat climate change in global. busy amendment, what is the power of this kind of protest? there was he had no real true changes ever happened without this type of engagement from the civil rights movement to, to the right for women, so foe to so gay rights to you,

name it all chains. we see, to have happened to our community, our society that's been momentous as come through this type of engagement. 5 hours later, the official count comes in. it's a passive, everyone's expectations of a 200000 people showed up, doubled the expect to turn it fast. the march winds down the still one person who went to meet with the staff a lead, quit his job as a senior advisor of the environmental protection agency's environmental justice team. 2 months after president trump came into poa, i want to know why he's here today. as an individual, sometimes it can be overwhelming and you feel disconnected. we're connecting folks . so it is a global movement. there is a global connection that is happening and we want to utilize that power to make change, not only for today, but for future generations as well. give us a sense of how, how you and the rest of the people here. i've worked with christy at long the

administration, so this is not just the moment, this is a movement. and that means that once folks are done marching, we're breaking down silos. people are coming together in authentic ways and creating collaboration. folks are going to go back to their respective communities . they're going to take the information that they got here, but they are also going to get engaged. and that means that they're gonna get engaged local level and the state lou talking to the marches here, there's a real sense that people ppo can create change for how can a local groundswell stand up to federal policies with killing him who i met on the march invited me back to his farm in the catskill mountains, north new york state, to show me how to do just that former teacher westlake from a small holding farm using a 100 percent renewable energy. so this is our electric charge. it goes to the ground to the ground and then this is a portable yeah, well,

a generate it's yeah it's, i mean one person can move it from one place, the other as we move, move the fans around. but west is in your average pharma. he led the charge on one of the most powerful environmental says in campaigns in new york state history or in 2009. he built a local to edition that site stepped federal policy by claiming that fracking, the states waterways using local state legal obligation to guarantee clean voltages . citizens west in his colleagues managed and fracking across the entire state. today he has his site set on a new bill to transition new york state into a 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. it's a huge left to to this, but we need to mandate it and then and come up with how to do it. and labor's involved too, because we are, as right now, there's more jobs in the renewable sector than there is in the fossil fuel sector.

and new york state has the, the political inertia to do that. now, partly coming out of the fracking fight, we have a highly educated population in the state because of that fracking fight. so that's why we're going to albany. if successful was his bill would nudge new york state towards a green, a few, creating thousands of jobs in the process to push forward with heading to the state capitol building in albany every tuesday and pointed to a whole presentation on gun violence. whatever legislation they're pushing and people come from all over the state to follow. and then, you know, some of these folks are probably going off and having meetings with their elected officials from their community. this is genuine kind of bottom of politics is happening right here. this is it how it works in this country. there's a lot of interesting ironies that happened on tuesdays in albany. i might be here

pushing for something to stop a pipeline. and i get on an elevator with someone from the oil and gas association of america who's got a paid lobbyist there. i'm trying to do the exact opposite, put pipelines all over the place. i follow with this, he meets with this local legislature to put food, the plan for 100 percent renewable energy in new york state. going to learn to fill in the meeting. 2 hours later with emerges with wingman, eddie, but it's a climate emergency. the governor needs to show some urgency and so we need, we don't know yet if he's going to step up and take the kind of bowl leadership that we need in the age of trump. but we have about 4 and a half weeks to make it happen. then i like our chances. what are you and what's going to you ask, what's going to happen next? i mean we've got another meeting with the folks in the center. the other thing that's going to happens is going to go back down to brooklyn. i'm going to go to the catskills and we're going to get everybody in those places on board with us and

push for it. then they can ignore it. and the folks, the organizations that function out of albany, they're going to be doing the same thing here in albany with all those elected. oh, they told us 10 years ago. there's no way that you could stop racking. it's going to happen, you know, and after a 7 year fight governor, now there's a ban of raton, we stopped it. so doesn't really matter. what president trump says about the e p a or where we're going to make that transition despite that would be ah, we don't know if they're going to succeed. but what we do know is after being in d, c, m. c, in all these community groups working together is the climate change is not one problem with one silver bullet solution. it's made up of many little problems to interact and intersect in every aspect of our lives. what that means is that we all have an opportunity to get involved, is actually the getting involved and being together as the people ppo,

as the solution. a month after filming continued efforts by west, another campaigners who validated when the governor of new york state andrew cuomo, signed an executive order, pushing old agencies to develop plans for 80 percent humanity with long and nor acting on a different community in nature. let's do it now. throughout united states, coalitions is solidifying united by the commitment to meet the power sickening targets, the group climates, mass as over 300 members of 1200 governance mass colleges, universities and businesses have joined the public campaign, pulled. we are still in a union of 12 states class. puerto rico has been founded by the governor of

washington, new york, and california. the united states climate alliance as a coalition of states that have reacted to president tramps decision to whatever our united states found on the climate treaty. and the states stepped up, taking it upon themselves to do the things that would be necessary if and i was states, we're still at the table. this is a coalition that can get as big as there are jurisdictions that are willing to work with us. i think there's real hope that as states see other states joining and getting some benefit out of it, that they'll decide that they want to be part of it to california is also watkins nationally. and june 2017 governor jerry brown signed a deal to work on climate change with china. china looks to us now as a representative of the united states. they want to see not just california of other states,

coming to china. they want to send people here to learn from some of our techniques that we've used over the years to bring down the levels of small, which are not that long ago, were as bad as what you now see today in beijing. seeing countries or states or cities that are cutting their emissions and doing well economically, is what everybody needs to be doing. and we all can learn from each other because there is no one place that has a monopoly of all the good ideas. china is the world's biggest c o 2 emitter and urban air pollution here has reached crisis levels. and i guess any like change in our now harnessing the power on both the government and the private sector to roll out new low carbon transport initiatives that are blazing a trail not just for other cities in china, but for the rest of the world. change in

a booming metropolis and china's southeastern manufacturing balance. until the eighty's just a farming community shinji was chosen as a testing ground for communist china's experiment with capitalism. now it's china's answer to silicon valley with over 11000000, inhabit 150 skyscrapers and 3000000 cars. but china's boom has come at a price. the world health organization has estimated that air pollution kills $1000000.00 people in the country each year. it's a crisis that desperately needs a solution, and part of that solution is hopefully about to pick me up for me. so i've just hopped into one of changing electric taxes and they say that by 2020, all of the taxes are changing are going to be fully electric,

which is amazing. so i'm up to find out how that point to be done. i'm visiting b, y d or build your dreams which produced the 5500 electric tax the currently on change and st. richard lee is going to show me around a while ago. you. good morning. how are you going to be? are they welcome? so for people who don't know too much about the id, what can you tell us about it while you are the stars in 1995 as the battery manufacturer. but now you are the saturated, the war a large is new energy vehicle manufacturer. so this is the view of the 6, and this is the 1st and most as says will be why the pure that should a vehicle. why does it fully charge the 0 gives you 400 kilometers drive range? are we maybe deliver those 2 types of fleet? again, china to the world. b y d reflects the global shift in the industry towards china, which last year sold around $400000.00 new energy vehicles. more than twice as many

as the u. s. that's been made possible by the billions of us dollars worth of subsidies. the chinese government has used to build the industry for our buy either to a vehicle. okay. you're entitled us or subsidies. for example, you sion, janet, you go up by a top like this. so here you can entitle rally forties out that are in the toes of cities. that's about 15 percent off the price of this car, their best selling plug in hybrid which uses a chargeable battery and gasoline engine. so because this is a plug in a hybrid car, so if interest to drive most. so now we operating this e v mode. so that is a pure electrify written drive. no, no, no, you have mtv over there. yeah, we also have mtv there because if you switch the tv inside the house, the engine started. yeah, yeah. okay, right. you feel it so that would give you other power for

them, but it's not just cars. b, y d is making electric buses, trucks and service vehicles, reports, airports, and even mine and electric monorail runs through their campus. the goal is to fully electrify every transportation sector engine gen that's already becoming a reality. it's an electrical projector about what's going on. so it's pretty amazing to think that by september, all of the both of the engine are going to be fully electric like this. um mm mm. all this means that within a few years the cities entire public transportation system will be fossil fuel free . but what about the roughly 3000000 private drivers? yeah. anyhow. anyhow, i mean, i'm taking a ride with lou don't pump. he recently became

a father and also bought his 2nd electric car. just a was also told us whole woman doll. why sure. why, why, why? so comes, it's the younger kind of a we're getting it was your why anyway, john williams. lou saw so much potential in the electric car market that he opened his own dealership and repair shop in july 2016. the id engine has restricted new license plates for fuel cars while dishing them out liberally for new electric vehicles or any bees for short. lou has seen monthly sales almost double in the last 6 month plaintiff mega cove and i'm away from las ush inside again on china. oh, susan, well, has the worst since this is sim? hi. how's a wall for my renewals for the hot out the balance? honda civic santa maria hi shows on how young the ha connection was m r. then also

not be avo. yeah, i knew it was i was in ohio and valuable valence just losing my mind about why my usa. it seems that consumer perceptions have already shifted size by a customer. let's see what she thinks. oh, did i get on to the high school lunch with a lot of yahoo? yeah. you you? what is your vision in the beer is on terms of their future beula for the how he goes out the future move to the one boots. are you that or would you the yo yo, we are in a home or even draw to lay them. of course all the seller trinity has to come from somewhere in gen, running an electric car generally produces less than a 3rd of the c o. 2 of a gasoline car, but it's still not carbon 0. luckily, there's an even cleaner way to get around. one that runs on nothing but good old fashioned like work me to china, douglas that he cycle in little more than

a year. legions of these smart bikes have flooded the countries city, operated by 2 dozen competing companies, each with a distinct color and design. by the end of 2017, china will have 20000000 of them. i'm meeting up with cycle enthusiasts. juncture jan and john, she went to learn how to use mo, bike one of the leading companies mccain's or the lead on those kind of come by many ah, the other i just certain kinds of sunny monthly job on a house on is on those in was all, no more just oh, no matter what daniel, to be now. the application uses gps to find a bike near you. oh boy, i say long oh, you pay with mobile payment,

which is now widely used across china and up you go. so i'm testing out this mo, like in this part right now before i elise myself. in the world, 9 to history is the changing, and it will pretty good right now. how many men shall go away on what, why general one that i was your 11 set of saw join until now home in the tissue. melbourne sometimes furnish all kinds acronyms are so kaiser choose, i'm back with you on the 9th or so, i found a hot, i found my bama guy, some since i know your little, some answers, all your mental guys, he's on the lines of my boys. were horsing god so so anyway, so just over a year since their lunch mo, bike has $200000.00 bikes and shinji alone. now they could be coming to

a city near you. mo bike is already up and running in singapore, and a chinese competitor is launching in the us this year. but being able to lead them anywhere does create problems. i'm meeting with some mo bike boys, as they're known to find out how they stop the city from being overtaken by discarded bikes. oh cravings, i tell you why i play. uh huh. when, when, how and found jan ching used g. p. s to search for faulty bikes, reported by users. and the us, oh oh my god, it was our focus is on our hunt has brought us to one of shinji and dent neighborhoods known as urban villages scenario. okay. them off those off? oh, wow. okay. oh oh wow.

really stuck together. they're literally like you have one huddle that's just stuck in this boat. oh wait, it's got free. okay. oh okay, so somebody has locked these bike together. well, that complicate thing. i said the young woman, jo, y'all, funds actually buys a bundle those cycles that make it out alive, get fixed up and redistributed to official parking spot. local transport authorities had set these up to accommodate a new bank and to try to regulate the system. so now this private initiative has been incorporated into the public transport system. ah, no, it's a on title i yeah. into into yeah, they are stuff you guys getting them all boa, payson, with off numbers your untitled, find your way. he was alba,

or 3 or them without us or not. so my whole household, you faith, i've been dealing hold many of minutes you. they'd be boundary. i'm found one, hold on to that order out of chaos. the cycle system is still far from perfect. but it shows how willing the government is to let private businesses solve environmental problems. and overall, the approach is working, harmful small particulate matter inch engines. air has almost have in the last 4 years. if the trend continues, ginger will succeed in meeting e u air quality standards by 2020. it would be the 1st major chinese city to do that. encouraging cities like shanghai in beijing that are also investing and low carbon transport. china is still the world's biggest leader, but there's no doubt it's moving forward. i back. and that's at least one reason to be optimistic. ah,

environmental crisis facing our planet is greater now than ever the full. but as we've seen in the series the mattress, it's in the face that the biggest challenge is that some of the most effective solutions can match. some depend on cutting at science was others can be simple. oh, spearheaded by people who determined to make a difference. it's when local initiatives get white of his cullen financial support, that they can really make a difference globally. despite the current u. s. administration, people and governments around the world, a coming together in the battle to combat climate change is can only be encouraging when we're so much urgent, what day am

the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package to day now the spring sunshine is i think strong enough to can to the cold of what should be on top to care. and she could see you can't really see where the front is. it's just through here, but it snow may be that you're going to see falling if you're in santiago, but in the sunshine, even in south coming down river, avia. 16 degrees is any 6 point we're right it's, that's hardly a big surprise. and the sunshine extends up into the san is brazil, re as back up to 25 degrees. the wetness on this is a weakness. here's actually this n. so probably, peru, ecuador, and even parts of southern columbia look particularly wet and you just see

a circulation here in the caribbean. that is have a look. the name storm e. it now eat at the moment. not doing much is over open water, but it's got a forecast and his forecast track is significant. over the next 2 or 3 days, this is where we expect to goes already a hurricane watch in the cayman house. then it goes out through western cuban somewhere into florida as one to watch go to be a cask re 2 or 3 while tommy gets to florida. fiona has just made land fall and is declining rapidly in strength. this is over nova scotia. in the us temperature rising in the plains states to get in the focus. i think for rain of next 2 or 3 days is going to be ontario in the great lakes. ha airway, visual airline of the journey. ah, this is al jazeera.