sights and attractions have been marking earth hour by switching off their lights from the sydney opera house to the empire state building in new york skyliners have been or will be a little darker as the event moves through the time zones earth hours and that sparking global awareness about environmental issues take a look at. light site in moscow is rate square. as the eiffel tower disappears from the paris. at eight thirty pm local time cities of writing the world stopped eliminating their landmarks and turned the lights for air thyra it's part of a call for international unity for action on climate change and last just sixty minutes taking place each year for more than a decade it all started in sydney which was also one of the first cities to go black the world wide fund for nature created the event to urge people to think about their energy use as a symbol of their commitment to the planet organizers hope the people leaving gage this year don't switch off to claim a change and that no one remains in the dark about it said pax on the world. well world football champions germany hosted sp

landmarks in forty eight countries are also growing greening tooting the empire state building and sydney opera house that i began as a religious holiday in ireland and spread around the world as they are ish emigrated abroad does a pretty amazing that. provide the headlines on our jazeera at least twenty four civilians have been killed by a syrian government strikes in eastern guta on saturday bring the death toll over the past two days to almost one hundred thousands of people have left areas held by rebels in the past few hours the heading to syrian army positions after they were urged to leave in a state t.v. broadcast andersen's has more from killisnoo the turkey syria border. but all this can be verified this isn't a united nations operation the russians of the syrian regime are organizing these two corridors one to the north of us and go to war to the south it's the last a warm the southern warm that's being used right now and files of people with a very sullen states moving away trying to hoping that they're going to get safety in the northern city of affray in fallon's leaving territory held

some of the world's most iconic landmarks including the eiffel tower sydney opera house and the empire state building are all going dark to mark earth hour event organized by the world wildlife fund c cities and towns across the world switching off the lights for an hour to raise awareness of climate change the public are also being asked to make a promise for the planet to reduce their individual for prints from saying no to plastic cutlery to carrying we usable coffee cups a stroller and new zealand where the first countries to turn the lights out andrew thomas has more from sydney. we're right at the tail end of the hour here in sydney any moment now you should see the landmarks of the city behind me including the harbor bridge lights back up but that doesn't mark the end of the overall this is obviously a global day and every hour somewhere else in the world at eight thirty goes dark and there is the bridge now just beginning to light back up but from here this movement will travel across asia you'll see the skyline of hong kong shanghai big cities like that going dark then into eu

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the sydney opera house where i spoke, fantastic. >> jimmy: really? it's free. and i said, what do you mean? [ laughter ] i thought, you know, i'm from new york. you can't pull this on me. >> jimmy: can't pull this on me, yeah. >> he said, it's free. i said, is it a holiday? [ light laughter ] he said, "no, it's free." and i discovered, everything like that is free there. all the cultural institutions are free. education is free. health care is free. why is this? because the australian government apparently decided why not use the taxes from the australian citizens for the benefit of the australian citizens? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: would you ever go back to australia? >> no, never. [ light laughter ] never. i mean, i never could go back there. i could never do that again. i mean, especially now that i know what it's like. i mean, it wasn't just my imagination how horrible it was. the trip was really horrible. no. i mean, if elon musk, like called me up, not that i know him, and said, "i'm sending a a rocket ship to australia, it takes 25 min

the eiffel tower the sydney opera house the empire state building in new york all going dark at various points on saturday in what is known as earth hour the idea is that cities and towns around the world turn off their lights for one hour at eight thirty pm a symbolic show of solidarity for the planet the world wildlife fund is encouraging everyone to get involved it's coming up seven o'clock so about ninety minutes time here in doha now earth hour itself began in australia in two thousand and seven sydney was the first place to turn off the lights this year that's where andrew thomas's. we're right at the tail end of our here in sydney any moment now you should see the landmarks of the city behind me including the harbor bridge lights back up but that doesn't mark the end of a overall this is obviously a global day and every hour somewhere else in the world at eight thirty goes dark and there is the bridge now just beginning to light back up but from here this movement will travel across asia you'll see the skyline of hong kong shanghai big cities like that going dark then into europe

some of the world's most iconic marks including the eiffel tower sydney opera house and the empire state building are all going dark to mark erf hour the event organized by the world wildlife fund c cities and towns across the world switching off the lights for an hour to raise awareness of climate change the public are also being asked to make a promise for the planet to reduce their individual footprints from saying no to plastic cutlery do you think we use a bull coffee cups in india the lights were turned off at mumbai's iconic c.s.t. railway station the india gate war memorial and the presidential palace also fell to darkness for earth hour in australia and new zealand were the first countries to turn the lights out thomas has more from sydney. we're right at the tail end of here in sydney any moment now you should see the landmarks of the city behind me including the harbor bridge lights back up but that wasn't more the end of the overall this is obviously a global day and every hour somewhere else in the world at eight thirty goes dark and there is the bridge now just beginning to

and ali was also the year the queen both britain's and australia's open sydney's new opera house the crowd in this old footage is exclusively white until nine hundred seventy three white australia was official policy that changed soon after and australia sent to become far more multicultural today more immigrants arrive from china and india than from any european country the art scene reflects that so that doesn't seem to rattle this be an erroneous and capture something that is being percolating. and the source of that being away since. since the late seventy's maybe eighty eight b.n. ali is showing out in six ten years across sydney chinese artist ai weiwei ways work in response to the global refugee crisis is the standout piece on cockatoo island a film a shipyard and one time prison in the middle of sydney harbor. unlike some permanent galleries like london's tate modern which have been built within the shelves of former industrial buildings this has been a space is still very much raw the floors are on even there a cracks in the windows and this of machinery it's still covered i

this was the scene in sydney, with the opera house plunged into darkness. ness? the lights were also switched off the sydney harbour bridge. hong kong was another city taking part — the skyline turning almost completely black. that does look very unlike hong kong. my word! where's that? and at 8:30pm local time singapore counted down to their big switch—off. is that coming now? there you go. a few hours after that the lights went out in moscow's red square — saint basil's cathedral first to go. landmarks going dark across the uk tonight include buckingham palace, cardiff castle, and the kelpies in scotland. more pictures to come we hope. weather with matt taylor. fully lit. more will see the sunshine tomorrow. rain and drizzle the of central and central and southern and england wales. clearing skies, mist and fog patches, showers for scotland and northern ireland, leading to some icy conditions especially as temperatures in many parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england and wales dropped close to freezing. cold start. isolated shower in northern

of the first beer dolly was also the year the queen both britain's and australia's open sydney's new opera house the crowd in this old footage is exclusively white until nine hundred seventy three white australia was official policy that changed soon after and australia sent to become far more multicultural today more immigrants arrive from china and india than from any european country the art scene reflects that so that doesn't seem to rattle this be an erroneous in calculating something percolating. and sort of that being away since. since the late seventy's maybe eighty eight b.n. ali is showing out in six ten years across sydney chinese artist ai weiwei ways work in response to the global refugee crisis is the standout piece on cockatoo island a film a shipyard and one time prison in the middle of sydney harbor. unlike some permanent galleries like london's tate modern which have been built within the shelves of former industrial buildings this has been a space is still very much roar the floors are on even for a cracks in the windows and this old machinery it's still covered in dust ty an

in sydney, the city's iconic buildings around the harbour also went dark. you can stilljust about see the opera houseot everyone in that part of australia joined in. and in manila in the philippines, this group of star wars fans took a different approach — wandering around the city's commercial district using only the illumination from their light sabres. in paris, it was the eiffel tower which slowly went dark, from the top to the bottom. other cities will be taking part once night falls, and we'll bring you the best pictures once we have them, here on bbc world news. the democratic republic of congo has announced that it will not attend a donor conference in geneva next month. the meeting aims to raise nearly two billion dollars for what the united nations has described as a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. the prime ministerjose makila said the un's decision to declare a top—level emergency in the drc was stalling development and discouraging investors. with more, here's david campanale. safety of a kind for refugees fleeing inept upsurge of violence in the democratic republic of congo. to get in