for one of the many success stories from a bastion of biodiversity. st starts november 18th, d, w. ah, ah, this is dw is coming to you live from berlin. joe biden is center stage at the un climate summit in egypt. the u. s. president will lay out his plans to tackle global warming. will have live coverage of biden's address. also coming up ukrainian forces close in on the center of hassan. moscow withdraws its troops,

but says the city will remain part of russia. plus china lifts some covenants restrictions despite the surgeon cases shorter quarantine for travelers. as beijing tries to minimize the economic paula from its 0 cobit policy and the new series, the crown, the new new episodes, the showed which the british royal family under the spotlight. but isn't wise to make historical fact with dramatic fiction. ahh. it'll. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. us present joe biden is set to take center stage f u and climate conference in egypt biden. will lay out his plans for tackling global warming. we'll have live coverage of his address this our well

as world leaders meet egypt record on human rights as under scrutiny, the case of the pro democracy campaigner upto fatah is a particular concern. he was jailed for allegedly spreading fake news. protesters are campaigning for his release, but authorities are making it difficult for activists to hold demonstrations. this is what egypt once the world to see a country playing perfect host, to global leaders at the u. n. climate summit. but on the ground activists say that they are not welcome here i do. it's completely different. the last climate conference was in glasgow every day. the were street protests on near the conference center. this year you have to apply for permission to protest 36 hours in advance you. it's only open from 10 till 5,

and it's under heavy surveillance. some say they are also being closely monitored. many active is already information was taken. so we were like, how are we good to start? something with these people are already trolling us was now do you know, oh, we arrested. the spotlight has also been shown on human rights abuses, particularly egypt, where there are many political prisoners. among them is the egyptian, british pro democracy activists, ala abdel fattah scene here in 2013. he's been on hunger strike since april. oh that one day we can repay sister has been at the summit fighting for his freedom or support. this is a long despite an attempt by some, including an egyptian law maker to stop her in with,

without situations of egypt had hoped, climate would be the main focus at cock $27.00 o 3 instead its own human rights record is overshadowing this summit. oh, earlier i spoke with adam kugal in jordan's capital m, and he's deputy director for the middle east in north africa. human rights watch. i asked him whether he trusts the assessment by the egyptian government that uh doctor is in good health. look, i don't think that we can trust anything, but the egyptian government says about allah booth at a dock right now. the statement you are referencing by the public prosecution yesterday mentioned that there was a family visit on november 7th. and we know for a fact that that visit never happened. alas, mother went to the prison as she attempted to see him, but she was not able to come. so, you know, we, we,

we know from the outset that the statement is riddled with falsehoods. so i think it's very difficult for his family and for human rights campaigners to just take, the governments were to face value on this and we're still very concerned about his situation. u. s. president joe biden is scheduled to meet her, the egyptian, his egyptian counterpart of dell potter. i'll cc at the climate summit to day up. is he expected to re raised the human rights issue with l. c. c. and if so, do you think that's going to have any impact? well, look, we certainly hope so. i think that the, by the ministration, it should be noted that they are the 1st us administration to actually withhold aid to egypt, military aid to egypt. in response to egypt, human rights of uses, right? other previous administrations issued a national security waiver to give the money anyway. so it should be recognized the

biden. you know, they have done something, but they should do more of this is the 2nd meeting between biden's cc this year. there will actually be a 3rd meeting at the african leaders summit coming up in what we're hoping to see is real tangible results. we think that the president should obviously, the, the b, u. s. president should obviously raise a laws case and other important detainee cases with presidency c. i'm but you know, it's also important that they have a plan to show that there's going to be progress on this. and in addition, i think one of the major points that they should stress is no retaliation against activists and others who participated in cop or who raised human rights concerns during comp. because i think that the egyptian government is probably pretty upset about how this week has gone. and we are definitely concerned that they could retaliate by targeting activists afterwards. now there are many dissidence behind bars in egypt give us a sense of the bigger picture with respect,

with respect to human rights in egypt, both in terms of how the respected or abused. yes. so the egypt has been essentially a human rights crisis for the past 6 or 7 years. ever since, you know, the military took control and 2013 in, you know, undertook the, the rub on massacre. in august of that year, the human rights situation in egypt has deteriorated. considerably. thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people have been arrested for exercising their basic rights to free expression or free assembly or free association. ah, torture is ramping it in egypt. prisons and detention centers, all of these abuses have taken place with absolutely 00 accountability. there's been total impunity for the perpetrators in egypt. unfortunately, you know, has gone from a country that had a growing,

a somewhat vibrant civil society going back to 2011 to one that is, you know, very repressed today. and it's a country where egyptians cannot speak out. they cannot conduct any sort of sensitive adequacy with their government because it's likely to land them in jail at him. thank you very much for talking with us. that was adam kugal there of human rights watch mount ukraine, which says it's in the final stages of reclaiming territory, left by retreating. russian troops and the southern city of cal song. moscow says it has finished withdrawing its forces from the western bank of the negro river. there. the defense ministry claims it ordered the retreat to save the lives of soldiers. it was no longer able to supply kremlin maintains though the house on will maintain, will remain part of russia. little slope of moving closer to the city of her son, look like that. you cranium flat is flying again in dozens of small towns around

the regional capital. over instantly her rifka about 50 kilometers north of her son . people gather to thank soldiers as they enter the city. but not everyone here shares their sense of euphoria. who's and it's still very, very scary when you drive through the region, you see how many villages have been bombed over so much destruction of our school is destroyed and not a single window with lag. all the buildings are shattered. we will not spared wood for the 1st time since moscow launched its invasion and february guns have fallen silent in this village close to the front line. this man who has been living on humanitarian aid for months has only just heard of the liberation of neighboring nor rifka renewal only with hello referrals signal. there's no food all or nothing there. i was aimlessly people who are there right now, told me they have no food or nothing. what we'll do is we have to bring them food.

garages, little waller, boom, seen those who have survived the shelling are wondering how they will make it through the winter. with oh, we've had no water supply since the end of february. they are bringing us drinking water to a school. we can bring water from a nearby well with our tractor, but it's not really drinkable here, the 2 sides keep volleying rocket at each other. so no hurting. yesterday i was removing leaves and right behind this building. it was terrible. the battle went on with machine guns for weeks. ukrainian forces have been advancing on her son. its loss would leave russia with few territorial gains since the beginning of the war. sca latest from our correspondent nick connelly who's in

ukrainian capital here. nick, bring us up to date on what's happening in her son. what can you tell us? well, ukrainian social media is awash with images of ukraine flags all around had a song on the government building. some of these obviously been put out by locals who've been keeping them through all those months of occupation. we understand that ukrainian army units are now in lots of parts of some city proper. whereas previously they were only kind of on the outskirts and in the kind of wider part of the region. this is all kind of extraordinary. we were even yesterday talking about this taking a week then this morning. it seemed like it was matter of several days now we've just seen those russian positions collapse as russians claiming to fully pulled out, but seemingly still thousands of russian troops left behind on that west bank of the nipper river. the russians main forces basically blowing up the bridges behind them and leaving those people behind to be taken prisoner. there was a seeing reports of lost source and soldiers just spinning their uniforms and

changing in civilian clothes in the hope they can somehow get through to the russian position somewhere else and kind of go unnoticed. so definitely this is a very dynamic and very unexpectedly fast and the situation, but a lot of enthusiasm here in key of that. this is now happening after 70 months of waiting is by the fact they're still the expectation. they're gonna be lots of mines, lots of booby traps not to potential danger ahead. as you say, lots of a potential potential danger there. what are the ukranian troops pacing as they advance into areas previously occupied by russian forces? net was it was the expectation that russia would leave some special forces behind perhaps, or as mentioned, dressed in civilian clothes to engage the ukrainian forces in some kind of hand to hand urban combat. so far we haven't heard about anything that kind of see the normal caveats are in place. there are no independent, jealous on the ground. it is all based on social media talking to people who are still there and what the ukraine army tells us, but does seem like russian morale is very low, that those people who are still there have basically been abandoned to their own

devices and are in no mood to fight, but the big danger is just those russian troops on the opposite bank of the river. the whole of care of sun city is very much in range of heavy artillery from the russian side. and we are speaking to people in recent days, who say it, if russia wants to, they can turn that song into another marable. so yes, ukrainian control is coming back to, to, to can san, to the city in full. but there is still that very potent threat from russian artillery just across the water. so russian ortelia across the water, one threat, the russian troops may withdrawn from the region a d, but there is also russian airstrikes to contend with. just this morning. we saw 5 people killed in the city of nikolai, and that's not very far from house on. what does it tell us about ukraine's continued one, our ability nic. whoops. russia still has a huge stack of missiles, will be fewer than the beginning of this war. and they're definitely having trouble replenishing those stocks producing more. but they can definitely hit cities like

michel, i haven't even cities much further away from the front lines. and we've seen time and time again that when russia loses on the battlefield, when it's conventional forces are unable to kind of push ukraine back than they choose to attack civilian infrastructure, power plants more to plants, hundreds comes away from the front lines in the hope that that will push ukrainians to go and demand. a government comes to some kind of agreement with the russians. for now we're not seeing that happen. we're seeing kind of the opposite and you know, the successful ships on will kind of support that are ordinary ukrainians. got demanding, the government doesn't cut any kind of deal with the russians. basically restore full control over ukrainian territory including crimea, and the bits of don't bass that russia is controlled since 2014. but there's definitely a sense that this is the only kind of tactic that russia kind of is kind of has on its radar. they don't really know what else to do. the threats of nuclear war are just not working. we've seen kind of western governments pretty much unimpressed by those threats that rhetoric coming from moscow. so for now that's kind of the only

tactic them must go, seemingly has left and you know, order people in place like key of and, and even leave for the front lines. are expecting this to be a very uncomfortable winter before things get better. nick, thank you very much for now. there are correspond, nick conley there in the ukraine and capital keith, if you're just joining us, we're waiting for president joe biden of the west to lay out his plan for tackling global warming in shawn. i'll shake that's at the cop $27.00. some of this taking place there. let's get more now from our d. w. climate reporter iran john edge it any of any expectations there for the president by the speech. so it's like the, the president by them. we'll try and emphasize the usaa role as a leader in stopping climate change. something that has been quite keen to stress since the us previously left the paris agreement on climate change, a great stop global warming at 1.5 degrees celsius. and so since vitamin was

elected to rejoin the parents agreement and kind of, it's still trying to boost the, the feeling among the black community that the u. s. is taking climate seriously concrete lay one thing, but the us state government is already announced. australia is that the u. s. along with you and japan and a couple of other countries with big kind of fossil fuel history. you still continue to extract fossil fuel from the ground and sell them. they are working to cut the emissions from the fossil fuel that they're still using. and particularly big one hair is me phase, which is the gas that's about 80 times more powerful than common dioxide over 20 a period. but it doesn't last long down. and basically if a very easy, quick fix essentially that would cost the, the oil company the very, very little if they would just stop some wasteful practices. that would mean that governments could rapidly limit the level at which plants heating up and making all the heat with was the storm,

stronger and so on. us itself is the 2nd biggest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet right now after china. i believe. so it's important of course that the u. s. show leadership, not just telling other countries what they should be doing, but actually demonstrating it. walking the talk as it were when it comes to to the emissions is the u. s. really doing enough? independent analysts have been pretty clear that the u. s. is not doing enough to cut its emissions fast enough to have been huge progress. that's definitely true, but it still continues to invest in fossil fuel infrastructure to drill down to extract things like caught up oil. where when you burn it at relief of these gases that can back like blanket round the uh, heating the planet. i am the climate action tracker, which is a research project from 2 environmental research organizations rated it's current policies as insufficient in times of limiting global warming to the level that they've signed up to kind of keep this planet with it. and that being said earlier

this year, the u. s. pos one, the most ambitious pieces of climate legislation in the country of history or which contains many provisions for kind of building more clean energy sources. i'm doing things that have a global impacts and not just as a reduce the countries i'm carbon pollution. it also brings prices down for everyone else for some of these technologies that we already have and they exist. but they're expensive and without kind of really high carbon prices, other countries on to came to implement them. and so investment from the u. s. can have a huge global role in bring down emissions. we're here in germany, ah, germany itself is a significant economy also with pretty high emissions among the top 10. i believe, of germany works, of course, within the european union, the 27 member states of the european union in terms of formulating climate policy. what about europe? is europe, which what role is europe playing in all of us?

the europe, though, for not doing enough, i mean the for the statement may be found like opinions, but they're really analyses by scientists who are saying this is how much we're allowed to pollute the planet before we can cross the temperature threshold. and then how much everyone should be allowed to if we divide it up with an equally or not with the how of each kind of cut the cake country economies like the you and the u. s. a not cutting emissions fast enough that you mentioned germany. i mean, just if we think about not just the amount of polluting today, but we'll look back throughout history. the u. s. has done more than any other country on the planet to heat. the heat up. germany if rank fix. and i mean, i mean, we're not a huge country, where are we? it's not like india, china, the u. s. 82000000 versus whatever. 350000000 in u. s. and over 1000000000 and china. yeah, exactly. and so, i mean, from a kind of comparative scale, you can see that, that all sorts of, i mean also to maybe argument about how much individual country should do. but

nobody's really rising up to the task among the big pollutants. and there's plenty of countries that don't, i'm it very much, but i'm not the ones with the power to stop anything but whatever the met. and if anyone am. and one thing that i mean is always quite interesting when thinking about this is that china is a huge country with huge economy. and at this conference now have from the biggest power to defied how much the plant he's. and if you split it into an individual provinces, then you find that some of them do a bit more than country like germany, some of them at less. and so countries like germany acting within the e u, china, the us, they have a huge role to play today and of the course of these coming week venue. so it's really important that the, that the global north as it were, that rich countries show leadership on this issue, reduced their emissions and help the rest of the world adapt. that's a major issue at this climate conference is taking place in egypt right now is to

provide assistance and support for those countries in the global south who are bearing the brunt of climate change in terms of extreme weather patterns that we're seeing with with storms and flooding and, and heat waves and what not, huge personal human cost of this. there's also a security dimension. i mean it's the implications of all of this. are bast, do we see the kind of cooperation happening between the north and south, between the rich and the poor countries of this world in addressing climate change? we definitely from corporation. so last year at the cop $26.00 clements, i'm in glasgow. we saw some schemes ter help a country like south africa debt finance from rich countries to swat from coal plants kind of more plentiful to vent to claim a source of energy. they felt some things were very much welcomed. it's recently transpired, i think her investigation my claim i am, you've recently found that actually most of this is just loans as a place to actual grounds and things like this are common theme. so in back could a climate conference and i think 2009,

it's countries promised poor ones. $100000000000.00 us dollars, year by 20 twenty's, right? to kind of clean up their energy systems and adapter all the kind of horrible rising sea levels and how to heat wave. they broke that promise they by 2020 had only got about $83000000000.00 us dollars of money mobilized. and even again, a lot of it with loans, i'm with interest as well that countries have to pay back. oh, and even the minute debt trap. exactly. and even now we're still not a point where that money has kind of the merge and it's full amount. a big issue this conference or where we have seen some progress on it, poor countries calling on rich ones to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. so when you have an extreme weather event, let's take her a wildfires. an example that was made light clear because we've been fossil fuels, heat the planner and raise the average temperature. so it's more likely that you'll have like kind of dry wood and plot map lying around for

a while. if i could have spread from one place to another, if you thought i pulled the kind of damages to that, the horns lost the lives lost, the kind of disruption to the economy, crux of failures, and so on that bill, i mean, who's paying for it? that's kind of one of the key questions being argued about, and i, a lot of poor countries, a big group of about $77.00 countries plus china as well. i'm arguing that they should be compensated for these losses and damages by the rich ones. the ones that i want to pay a lot to talk about will be picking up on that soon. again. i hope we as we wait for joe biden to deliver his speech to the un climate conference such as iran, john, i thank you for now. yeah, we are looking at a shot of the stage, the main stage. there is a chub, i'll shake where we are waiting for you as president joe biden, to address the delegates there for more than 200 countries. have assembled to

discuss a way forward in addressing the climate of urgency. joe biden is there he has arrived shamela shank and he's expected to begin his speech soon, and we're just waiting for it to begin. meanwhile, while we're waiting for that speech to take place, we're going to keep you up to date on what's happening around the world. let's check on some of the stories that are making headlines this hour. a south korean police official who was being investigated over the halloween crowd crush has been found dead at his home. 156 people were killed in the stampede. police admitted they were insufficiently so they had insufficient safety measures in place. the official was accused of destroying intelligence reports warning of the danger. germinal appeared makers have approved plans to keep 3 nuclear power plants working until next april. the power stations were due to shut down this year. the extension is response to cuts in fuel supplies from russia booth, and we're seeing joe biden,

the president united states approaching the stage at the un climate conference right now, and we're going to carry his beat live. let's listen in friends, partners. speaker pelosi, members of congress. who travel here to represent the united states and federal later? it's an honor. it's an honor to once again participate in this critical summit. and i'd like to thank our host president cc for bringing us together at this pivotal moment. thank you mister president. let me start by acknowledging that this day is a day of commemoration and home in the united states. it's veteran's day, america's veterans and their families, survivors and caregivers. are there a spine and soul of the united states? and on the special day on every day,

i honor all those who sacrificed to our nation like my son. i wanna thank you. i want to thank one proud american veteran, a lifelong public servant, a dear friend, and literally, when most decorated men to fight special envoy for climate john kerry. and john john, your commitment, your. c passion, you give them out again to reduce the been absolutely critical, absolutely critical delivering incredible progress on climate issues over the past 2 years. i thank you pal. thank you for being my friend. here in age of the great pyramids, the asian artifacts stand as testament to millennia of human ingenuity. we see our mission to avert climate catastrophe, and sees a new clean energy economy. not only as an imperative for our present and future,

but to the eyes of history. according to the world, the world media, logical organization, the past 8 years, had been the warmest on record. the united states in the united states are saying historic, drought and wildfires in the west. devastating hurricanes in storms in the east. here in africa here in africa hall to many nations considered most vulnerable to climate change. prudent security. hunger follows for years of intense drought and the horn of africa. meanwhile, the niger river in west africa, swollen swollen because a more intense rainfall is wreaking havoc on fishing and farming communities. nigeria flood is recently killed 600 people. 1.3000000 more are displaced, sees the livestock migration roots have been used for hundreds of years here,

are being altered, increasing the risk of conflict between herders, local farming communities. the climate crisis is about human security, economic security, environmental security, national security, and the very life of the planet. so today i'd like to share with you how the united states is maybe the climate crisis, with urgency and determination to ensure a cleaner, safer, and healthier plan for all of us. for my 1st days and all my administration has led to the bold agenda to address the climate crisis and increase energy security home and around the world. we immediately rejoin the parish agreement. we convened major climbing summit to

reestablish i apologize. you ever pulled out of the agreement? we established major economic and major economies forum to spur countries around the world to raise raise their climate admissions. last year cop 26 in glasgow. the united states helped deliver a critical commitment that will get 2 thirds of the world g d p on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. over the past 2 years in united states is delivered unprecedented to progress at home, through a generational investment and upgrading our measures infrastructure. we're making up our power grid, better able to transmit clean energy, expanding public traveling transit and rail. build a nationwide network electric vehicle charging stations over 50000 and the summer

united states congress passed and i shined in law. my proposal for the biggest, most important climate bill, the history of our country. inflation reduction that includes less than i asked for by the significant amount, $368000000000.00 to support or clean electric get clean electric, our electricity. everything from on sure were offshore when to, to distributed solar 0 emissions vehicles and sustainable aviation fuels more efficient, electrified buildings, cleaner industrial processes and manufacturing climate, smart agriculture and forestry and more. look, our department of energy estimates that the new law will reduce emissions in the united states by about 1000000000.