has almost halved in the last four years if the trend continues she engine will succeed in meeting e.u. air quality standards by twenty twenty it would be the first major chinese city to do that encouraging cities like shanghai and beijing that are all eager but there's no doubt it's moving forward fast and that's at least one reason to be optimistic. the environmental crisis facing all planets is greater now than ever before but as we've seen in the series of asteroids it's in the face of the biggest challenges that some of the most effective solutions kind of much some depends on cutting edge science whilst others can be simple. oh as spearheaded by people who are determined to make a difference it's when local initiatives get wider political and financial support that they can really make a difference globally despite the current us administration people and governments around the world a coming together in the box to combat climate change this can only be encouraging wondrous so much work to do. the antarctic ice sheet is melting process that is affecting the entire globe. in a special

e.u. countries. but he was considering a new plan to bridge the divide between member states over migration it would have been a country's fish air of asylum seekers based on population and wealth could be off to offer assistance if the situation becomes critical but once migrants arrive in a country like germany what all the chances of settling it we met an energetic young man from guinea he's trying his luck a as an entrepreneur and the language barrier is the least of his problems. from guinea is struggling with german tax law he's taking a special course for refugees because he wants to start his own company he arrived in germany four years ago with nothing. when the economic situation is no good and there is no democracy in the country then you have to go where there's humanity and justice. and vets what i've done. guinea is one of africa's poorest countries in recent years it seem continual political unrest in state run organizations like the post office where our mommy worked employees have gone without pay although the situation has improved due to investment from china but twenty six year old a mommy doesn't want to wait

welcome back without his air let's take you through the stories making headlines a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast is agreed a plan for the emergency evacuation from libya of refugees and migrants trapped and facing abuse in detention camps the british prime minister driesum a is repeated a condemnation of the us president donald trump for sharing anti muslim videos despite and criticizing her. and a turkish iranian gold trade and has pleaded guilty to helping iran evade u.s. sanctions as told a new york court the takis president roger type other one approved the transaction but he was prime minister. now the u.n. humanitarian advisor for syria has called on well powers to help arrange the evacuation of five hundred people including one hundred sixty seven children from a besieged damascus suburb egeland said humanitarian supplies are not being allowed to reach eastern ghouta nine children have died in the last few weeks while waiting for the government to allow them to be evacuated to hospitals just a forty five minute drive away rebel held east and has been un

air force in charge of militarizing space. and cia whistleblower john kiriakou is removed from an e.u. parliament panel at the last minute simply for co-hosting a radio show on russian media. they feel like they can't even risk even. association with the russians or with anything russian.

air force in charge of militarizing space. cia john kiriakou was removed from an e.u. parliament panel at the last minute simply for co-hosting a radio show on a russian media outlet sputnik. they feel like they can't even risk even. association with the russians russian.

e.u. china and japan more than six hundred thousand reading go have a skate to bangladesh from the air mass it's a military crackdown started there in august has been widely condemned by world leaders for the violence of rakhine state but china has continued to express support for what it calls the libyan man government's efforts to protect stability . staying in the region philippine president to go to turkey has made a policy change in his controversial fight against drug gangs he's ordered local police units to stand down on the drug enforcement agency to take over. going to has more from manila. president with very good that are to so-called war on drugs has been the center of police operations since he took office more than a year ago but the police have faced mounting criticism and accusations of rampant corruption and human rights abuses now there is a major shift in the campaign to has ordered all the police drug enforcement units to be disbanded and the philippine jug enforcement agency to take the lead in illegal drugs operations in the capital manila police officers are heading o

e.u. is calling on the government to do. however we've got something of a mixed bag across north america the moment lots of cold air. canada heavy rain there pushing towards the appalachian mountain south of that was still hanging on to a little bit of late season wore then across the deep south so thirty celsius in dallas twenty eight degrees in miami getting up to around twenty five for allowed to bits and pieces of cloud and right now that eastern side of the u.s. also just around six degrees celsius the temperature struggling a little bit here but nothing like the struggle that we have across the canadian prairie's northern areas of the u.s. or the northern plains out around the mountain states some bits and pieces of snow all pushing a little further east which as we go through the next day also another one coming in behind across the pacific northwest seattle temperature struggling to get to four degrees celsius meanwhile some wetter weather coming into the eastern side of the u.s. times also word around eleven degrees celsius with that cloud and that right clouding over and warming up in the process but down