>>tonight on "worldfocus" -- president obama getshe israeli andpalestinian leaders to meet. but beyond the photo op why the middle east peace processs being so frustratin a major united nations meeting on climate change t esident warns tre isn't much time lt to act. go to taania to show y why. in france, the latest battle inhe immigrion debate. as hundreds arevicted from makeshift ca known as the jungle. > and in our "signature story," weake a look at a side of life jamaica theyon't wa you to see. e aids epidemic and why it h been so hard to ght.

from the world'seading reporters and analysts, he's at's happening from around t world. this is orldfocus." made possible in part the foowing funders -- majosupport has also been provided by the peter peters foundation, dedicated to promoti fiscal responsibility and addressin keeconomic challenges facing amica's future. > good evening. i'm daljit dhaliwal. if progress can be measured by a meetg and a handake, then there was some today on the middle ets president obama brought together the israeli and palestinian leaders re in new york. did the mting between prim minister benjamin netanyahu of israel andalestinian president mahmoud bas produce a breakthrough? , but that wasn't the

expectation on th day. after so many months of deadlock mainlyn the issue of jewish selements. the meeting is our "lefocus" tonight. and as nenyahu put , the importance of the meetin was actually its xistence. it was a moment deep in symbolism. the begins,erhaps of new and productive phase in the strgle fopeace in the middle east. for hispart, president obama had a strong messageor the aders after meeting with them individuly. getmovinggain on a comphensive peace agreement. >> simply put, it past time to tk about starting negotiatns. it i time to move rward. it i time to show t flexibility and common sense and sense of compromisethat's cessary to achieve our goals. >> after the meeting netyahu said that there was general agreement the peacerocess has to be resud asoon as possible with no preconditio. and to take a cler look at

today's middle east meeting, we're joined by ghassan shabaneh a palestian american who is an assistant professor of inrnational studies at rymount manhatta college. thank you ve much for joining us on the progm. >> thank youor having me. >> what do you ink is the mst at we can expect from today's meeting? >> i would say probably putting the pocess back on track. and it is a good beginning where he's engaging himslf for first time with the two parties. and the two parties ll be meeting face-to-face for the first ti since the netanyahu administration asmed power. >> one the big issues, of course is settlements,putting ze on settlements. do you think that prime minister nenyahu is going t be able to do that? is he in a position to dothat? >> he is in a position, but he also has a lot of diffulties with his own coalition government especially with israel and the religious parti becausthey believe that th are part of the htorical and religious nd of the state of

israel for them to free settlements the is a huge ise. but at the sme time i believe that the netanyah admistration is being pressured about the europeans and americans. netyahu is not in the easiesposition ever, but he can,e can, i believe, bridge the gap betwe the two sides by having the americans tal to the arabs aut maybeormalization this stageut also the palestinians and especially-- has to have some incentives to show to his pple that he got from the netanhu administration something >> if he doesn'treeze settlements, what wi happen? >> i believe the pea process will be derailed. blieve the amerin vision fo a t-state solution will be in danger. the endesult will be a binational state. >>how important -- give us some context -- is the isue of settlents compared toll the her issues that we are to face further down the road, likehe return of palestiniarefugees, for example? >> i bieve the feze of settlements is more or less symbolic.

the are mo contentious issues for t two sides to tackle why is it symbolic, i israel budg on the issue o settlements i believe e pea process one can see that israel will compromise oother issues. but if israel drags its heels on the issue of settlements and the palestians and the aericans deconstruct the issue of lestine only to settlement not to the larger issue of ding the occupation, think e three pares are in trouble,he americans, the palestiniansnd the isaelis, becaus the question o palestine isot a question of settlements only. we have a lot major issues to tackle beside tha >> ghassan shabaneh, ank you very mh for your insights. >> thank you. to the global environment now and a hundred wld leaders were at the unid nations today for a day-lo meeting on e issue. the aim, to generate new montum ahead of talks is december inopenhagen where

nations willry to agree on a new treatyo reduce greenuse gases. secretary-general ban ki-moon said failure to reach broad agreemenwould be morally excusable. president obama said thathe threat is urgent androwing. and chins presidentaid his country will continue to take determined action. >> translato in the years ahead, china wll further inteate ouractions on climate chge into our economic and socialevelopment plan.we will i nserve energy and improve energy efficiency. >> to hear them tal about climat change behind the walls of the united naons is one thing. to actuallsee how its affecting the environment is quite anoth. and th is what we want to show you tonight. with a striking look at whats going on in tasmania,he stralian islan off the soutast corner of the

continen ny berkeley of al jazeera english with tt story. >> reporter: moody a magnificent smania. has a dna trail that stretches bk to antarctica a 200 llion years. he nature is awesome a humbling. ecoours are a specialty of this auralian island where sighseers are given a unique glimpsento how our planet evolved in the pastnd where it's heading the future. >> i've seen small changes i what happening in the environment. and here i feel like there's fair chancthat i'll be part a generation of ople that will be the la to see and experience what some aspec this coinent has to offer. >> reporter: and for goo ason. there's nothing betwn taania anthe cold waters of the south pole. >> theemperature around tasmania has ris by about 3 degrees in t last years. which doesn't sound li a lot bu enough to change the marine system here. with temperatures pdicted to ri furtr, it poseserious

questions about what the future holds. >> reporter: tasmania is renowned for its nature a richness of marine life, me to a variety ofpecies including seals, dohins and whales. but nare and man a faci seris allenges. a sunrise fisheries in the northeast the islan they have processed lbsters for more than 20 years. andhe tree is facing one of those chlenges. tasmanias one of the biggest producers of crayfish and the sought ever abone fish. it's ausiness wor more than $17 million a year. but catches are dreasing amatically. thounds of fishermen have inveed up to half million dollars ch for licens and boats toish lobster. reduced catches mans the price hashot up,oo epensive for locals, only affordable for rich markets like japan. and this is the reason the ng spine sea urchin broht herey the warmer currents. it feeds on the rich ke beds on the bottom of the ocean wich provides nutents for the

marine life and prey for bsters. below thsurface, you can witns the dturbing effect when tens of thousands of urchinswim over the sea bed. they cree an underwatr dese desert, stripped of all the goodness, a barn wasteland. without the kel theobsters and marine life dappear. tasmania is on the front line of climate change a is feg the effects more than most. it is experienci a wide range of weather fronts from droughts to record rainfall. its treasure and livelihood is s nature and people are all too well aware of what tey can lose. at process is staing. the queson is how to stopit. here, like the rest of t world, they ar still grappling th the answer to that question. ny erkeley, al jazeera, tasmania, australia. so let's get me additional perspective on this ise, and fo that we turn to kumi naidoo, chaian of tck tck tck, a global alliance promong a new climate change agreemt. he's s to become executive director of greenpeace

international. ank you for joining u as w look ahead to copenhen, what dyou think are some of the key issues, challenges, obstacles? >> ambition in terms of how gornments agree to reduce issions by 40% by 2020. they've agreed on80% in 2050, but none ofhese leads are ing to be aroundn 2050, so need short-term commitments. also clear commitment on financial pport for developi counies who have not been responsible for the climate catastrophe that we' had, but the ones that are paying the biggest pricand ensuring th there'resources forhem to able to adt to climate change. >> wat about e responsibility of developing countries, countries li china and indi who, yes, of course, want to protect thei economies and forge ahead, but at the same time have a rponsibility because they are ao a pt of the gbal environnt? >> developing countries cannot dodge the own responsibilities.

they he to pass dostic legislation that begs to duce the carb essions. they a actually doing it much more than people are not generally aware of. but they haveto recognize that this anissuewhere we are either hav rich and poor countries tother succeed or if we fail, we all sink together. there's no point in sayg that st because rich countries 're more responsible for e situation. thefore they cannot ta responsibility. they must also take responbility. but the burden of responsibily needs to obviously be with countries that havebeen more responble. >> what ro should the united states be aying? >> the united states has tplay a leadership ole. underhe bush administration because of climate denialism, we actually lost some really important time. president obama inroad terms is on a positive mssage and it sounds encouraging, but the vil is in thedetail. and the u.s. needs to recognize

that if they delay actn any furthe than they've already do, the costsf delaying action will be uch, much more if they're attacked ow. >> what do y think will be the ggest bottleneck? the bggest ttleneck wl be shorterm politil interests because of election cyclesnd politicians making choicesthat, in fac this is not that important. bui think that th role of citizens mvements to put pressure on our governments to t is critally important to ensure thathey act with courage at delivers a fair, ambitious and biing treaty in copeagen. >> kumi naoo, thank you very much. >> thankou. in central america,he situation in honduras is tense after manel elaya, the lefst president sted in a coup three

months ago, sck back into the country yesterday. he took refugein a brazilian embassy to avoid arrest. today police usedear gas and water cannon to chase away thousands of zelaya suorters who violated acurfew. zelaya says he wants to meet with the de facto predent who isn't recognized b any other government. >> translator: my esence here a new opportunity to open the possibilities of dialogue. to turn honduras into what hondans want, thatis a society with pea and dialue and consensus and dissent and debate whe it's needed. >> fromurope tonight, a foow-up to a stor that we first told yo about last week. the immigration debate in france, whe hundreds of illegal immigrants, manyrom afghantan, are trying to find their way to a better life in great britain. well today the northern french portity of calais, the authorities made good on tir threat to shut down a camp where

the migrantswere waiting to ke their journey. we hear in this report froitn. reporter: the police came a dawn. 70officers descended on the illegal migrant ca known as the jungle. some were led force. others were caied away. officials say 28were rounded up. half were miners. aid workers cused the police of being heavy hded. the day ben more peacefully. the jungle was home tos many as ahousand migrants. many had left knowing the poce were on their way. the who stayed stood quietly behind bners asking for prottion and shelter. fran's northern coast has been a bottleneck for illegal grants traveling to britain for yes. the jungles located outside

calais' ma ferry terminal. it's jt eight miles from another camp which was csed in 2002. since then the number ofoiled attempts to enter the uk h morehan doubled,rom 7,500 in 2004 to almost 2000 last year. >> the conditions in the camp aremongst the worst they've ever seen. and that's people w have been to camps in rwanda andhe middle east. >> rorter: today's operation laed just an hour. bulldozers have already been moved in to clear the ene. sobbing ] the illel migrants have ready traveled far. this is just another stagen their urney. > for the next two nights in our "signatu story," we're

ing to take you to the cabbean island of jamaica to tellou about a side of life that gets veryittle attention. it an issue that exists in the shadows of the country whe tourism driveshe economy. at issue is the spread of aids, especily among young gay men. our "rldfocus" correspondent recently went to jamai. our story waproduced in collaboration th the politza ceer on crisis reporting. >> rorter: jamaica, for mo americans, is tropical vacation paradise, land of sun and sandbeaches. wh they don't know is that jamaica also battling the ds epidemic. a battle it may be on e verge of losing beuse of deeply entrenched ai-gay attitudes d laws. the ministry ohealth recently reported to the u.n.hat nearly one inhree young gay men in jamaica is hiv posite.

this i20 times higher than in the rest of e population. >> it's a serious number because we have had really a latent epidemic in this population untoucd, unrespond to,nd we've created a situation that has been letl for the general population. >> reporter: she's the head of the uted nations aids program in jamaica. she's been closely monitorg the vernment's response to the epidemic. >> does jamaica have i epidemic under ctrol? my honest respon would be no. >> it is clear tus that atever work we've been doing among men who have sex witmen has not been working in jamaa. >> reporter: this doct ran jamaica's national aids prram for mo than two decades until retired last year. he now adms that the program has failed the gay communi. a national program needs to face up this.

and the ornizations working with men who he sex with men and gay men in jaica themselvesll have to accept responsibility for theailure to rede the high hiv prevence among men who have sex with men. >> a lot of ople are working on hiv know very well the realities of how infecons are higher in the gay mmunity. hower, the fuel and a lot of pressure, litical nor sure, religiou cultural, to ignore the facts. >> repter: she also believes that jamaica's sody law which criminaliz anal sex is driving the epidemic undergrou. >> men who have sex with men, for ar of being crimalized and being prosecuted and being found guilty der the sodomy law,retend that they're not gay, simply put.

they marry fairly rapidly. th have children fairly rapidly to regularize thselves. and that is really a ticking bomb. >> reporte many of the gay men we m admitted to leading double lives. like this man who agre to go on camera if we concealehis identity. >> they d't know that i'm gay. because i don't act ga i don't look gay so i praice safe sex with my girlfriend aall times. my boyiend, i have unprotected sex with my boyfriend. >> bisexuamen act as a bridge beeen the high rate of hiv in thgay community into the general heterosexualopulation through men. >> repter: a recent government study found at nearly one-third gay men reported having sex with at least t fele partners in the last year.

while it's impossible to kno how many women a being infected bgay men, about 40% of pple infected herere female, which nearly twice e percentage of women infeed in the united ates. >> i think itould be goodif we could repeal theodomy law in jamaica, becse that would send a snal to thekay community at they're part of this society. >> reporter: politil sensitivities make it dfficult for the mistry of health to enly address the needs of th gay community. instea it quietly subcontracts most of the work to independent organization >> homophobe makes our work difficult becausthese gayen are terrified of seeking health services. when they come in us, it's usuallat a point where they're almost dying. >> reporter: ts is head of jamaica's pport for life, the main group dealin with live tabd gay community.

but even here the work must be ne covely. >> we most definitel nnot real our locatn or even the type of wo that we do with the gay communityinamaica to the general public. we can't print brocres or poers and put them anywhere. we have had one of our program administratorsbducted and killed this is a threator all the people that work in these communits that work spifically with the gay community. because we come unde the same dirimination. >> rorter: here in jamaica, the effort to protect e gay community fro aids is being rried out in the shadows. until this epidemic isaced openly and directly, the virus will continue to sprea >> the reality is cannot isolate the gay community from the general populationnd wish em awy. i think wh the da that th we have now,we know tat if

we're reallyo reduce fection rates in geral population in jamaica, we have to address the infections that are occurring in the gay comnity. >>f the rate remainsigh among men who have sex with men in jamaica, we're not going to effectively controlhe hiv epidemic injamaica, and everyby in jamaa needs to wake up to that poin >> rorter: for "worldfocus," reportinfrom kingston, jamaica. and tomorrow wre going to lo at efforts reduce the stigma of aids and homosexuality in maica. for mo on ts issue go to rldfocus.org. and finally toght, you've heard us menon the mlim holy month ofamadan in recent days and the festival of ei dirks

that marks the end of that moh. but what are ese obsvances l about? toght we want to show you how the holidayare observed i pakistan. our report is from a fellow with the international reporting project at johns hkins university >> reporter: it' raman in pastan. a holy month of religious flection and dusk-to-dawn fastno food, noater and absotely no indulgees while thsun is up. city streets, usually teeming with traffic and a cacophony of car rns, are quiet. for an ente month each yr during the daylight hours the country slowsts pace. >> the mi-set also changes and become slightly me religious, even if people aren't religus, they pretend toe religious. >> reporter: during thday, but just before the s goes down, the city wakes up. famili rushing to buy fresh food and drk with which they'll end thr day of fastin

the streets and food stalls are suddenly ive with activity. an exusting month-long patrn oflong, slow days and shofrtd, quickmeals, th ends with a cotry ready to rejoice. tonight is known as the night of the moon. it means the new moon has been sighted. the month of fasting is over. d everyone's aske to celeate. the sightin of the new moon signifies the binning of eid, the holiday marking the end of the month of ramadan. in cities like hore, that means neon-lit an fuood-fueled street fairs long into the night. famies stock up on jewelry and decotions for the eid lebration the next day. and that ve next day the fos ifts again. this time back to the home base. in my family,the id hiday is reason to gather, for babies tobe fawn over and fd to be eaten, lots of food. despite dulging in the

plentiful provisions not everyone is imessed with the day's significance like my 14-year-old cousin. >>it seems exotic o whatever to an utsider, but it's really just anotherday. >> reporter: nor is everyone clear as to exactly what they're celebrating. >> they're supposed t be grateful t god and that's how you sacrifice. >> reporter:hat's my 19-year-old sisr. bufor theirmother, the meaning is clear. >> m focus is on spending time, good quality time with my faly, because it's aholiday. d if you have ildren who are alsorownp and are all doing their own thing, you don't get thatuch time get together with them. so on a hoday like thi then you tend to all get togetheand you ha a gre time. >> reporter:fter a month of duty anddiscipline, something eryone can celebrate. reporting from lahore, pakistan. that rert from pakistan

tonight. and that is "worldfocus" for this tuesday evening but for much morglobal news and perspective on ou website, worldfos.org. i'm daljit dhawal in new york. thank you so much for joing us. we hope to see you bk here at the sa time tomorrow. good nig. "worldfocus" is made possible in part by the foowing funders -- jor support has also been ovided by the peter g. peterson foundatio dedicated to promoti fiscal responsibilitynd addressing key economic challens facing responsibilitynd addressing key economic challens facing americs future. -- captions by tac -- wwvitac.com