nick clark has been traveling through the amazon and filed this report. >> for thousands of years life has revolved around the vast regions network of waterways and rivers. it is the rich heritage of the people who have a complete affinity for the environment they live in. but now days it doesn't tell the full story. take to the air, and you will see the river and the dense canopy of forrest. then you will see the wholesale plundering of an ecosystem. >> forrest lands are being exploited in every direction, legal logging companies are manipulating agreements with tribal owners and illegal logging company operating with impunity, and the effects are plain to see. >> here huge sways of forrest have made way for the endless expanse. but then logging has opened up the rain forest, which enabled you to reach communities like this, home to the tribe, once a remote amazon village, today connected by a road to the outside world. a road built six years ago, by a logging company. who granted access to their land. >> all is not as well as it seems illegal loggers have been using the road to plund

nick clark, al jazeera, for kalpa, peru. >> a cuban doctor who contracted e bobola has returned home.ix baez spent 16 days in a hospital where he received experimental treatment. he is free of the virus. he was one of 256 cuban doctors and nurses who traveled to west africa to help contain the outbreak people living in the capitol of the maldives will have to go without running water for at least another week. the city was only deal salination plants is being repaired after it was damaged by fire t nicole johnson reports from male. >> water has become the most precious commodity of all in male. it's the one thing everyone is talking about, how to get it, where to buy it, and the big question: when will it be available again? the army and police are handing out free bottles. three liters a day for everyone. >> we don't get enough water. we have to drive everywhere to collect it, and it's very difficult to carry. i live on the fourth floor. it's heavy to take up. we are living in very difficult times. >> every everyoafternoon long l form. some distribution points are open all day. the c

nick clark, al jazeera, juarez, peru. >> reporting for the next few weeks. sport with raul. >> david thank you very much. the three man short list has been announced for the awards prize for the world's best individual footballer. one is the current holder, christiano renaldo. having won the prize when he was a manchester united player in 2008. all new territory for the third man on the short list, manuel noyer, german and by munich gold keeper, first to make it since 2002, attempt to be the first goalie to win the prize until 1968. so illegalities have a closer look at that three man short list first of course we have the holder christina renaldo, scoring 55 goals incredible, and the highlight is winning that title for that year. lionel messey, what's more he was named the player of the world cup in brazil, that's the golden ball award as he helped argentina, get the title. the munich and germany goal keeper, in 2014 so far, your honor like his two rivals, he can boast a world cup victory. >>> not only prize to be handed out. real madrid, boss carl carlo an

our environ meant editor nick clark reports from lima. >> at long last, after endlets through-the-hoursngling, a resolution. despite the celebration, many say this document is watered down and very weak. >> this is an incredibly weak decision. so we came in here thinking that we were going to get a pretty ambitious text. we had some commitments. we had pledges, the green climate fund, the u.s. and china announcements and so on. and instead, what we got was a half-baked deal. >> there was nearly no agreement at all. the third draft was ejected out of hand by developing countries. >> we feel this text needs a little surgery. and we would like us to put on our gowns, our scalpels and cable insert a few vital organs that need to be incorporated in this agreement. >> reporter: outside, the dismantling began but it seemed the conference would go on and on. damage and, finance for poorer nations have been taken out of the text. the u.s. wanted truck driver to stay that way. >> we have no time for lengthy, new negotiations, and i think we all know that. >> the endless back and forth took it's t

nick clark went to the amazon forest to find out more. >> reporter: illegal logging is so commonplacen the rain forest, romela sanfran doesn't care about us filming what he does. stealing trees from forbidden areas with impunity. >> it is illegal. we shouldn't really be doing this. the police make us do all of this paperwork and we have to pay them off. they are constantly pressing up obstacles. >> reporter: this is where his trees go, three hours' boat ride away to saw mills of pucallpka. much winds up in the u.s. and china. 3s trees 100 years old and more destined to become someone's hand word floor or garden table. >> it is a world of forged documents and fake inveteranies. it is on a massive scale. indeed, the world bank estimates 80% of perus total timber exports are harvested illegally, eight out of 10 of these trees, i will illicit. >> one after the other, pucallpka's river banks, taken legally from concessions supposedly but cut from prote protected forests. >> these markings are officials codes for permits that the forest striauthorities give out to transport and sell wood. >

nick clark, al jazerra, lima, peru. >>> still to come on ooh other al jazerra.commemorates the 77th anniversary of the mass cross. plus. >> reporter: first you see the guns then the faces of the people and then you realize, these are obituaries. >>> we take a look at how artists are using gun to his sends a political message in the united states. >> my name is elenor and for the last 25 years i was bernie madoff's secretary. >> an unimaginable story of betrayal. >> they lived this incredible life. it just never occurred to me that they were living on the dime of the clients. >> greed... >> bernie was stealing every nickel but he wasn't trading anything. >> ... and entitlement. >> you took my grandchildren's future away from them. ♪ ♪ >>> good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazerra. isil fighters have captured more territory in iraq's anbar province. the group has now taken a village 12-kilometers west of anbar's capital romadi. >>> rescue efforts underway this indonesia after torrential rain caused a landslide at least 12 people confirmed d

nick clark has been traveling through peru.started in lima and went onto a tropical glassier in juarez and crossed the andes in amazonia, a hub for the logging industry. he will go by boat through the rain forest. nick collar clark is in pucallpa. tell us more what about what you have seen? >> mirian, it is a long way from the high andies to the basin and swe sweltering here the latest we are doing right now is looking at the whole issue of defore deforestation, a big issue with global warming and climate change conference is concerned. in fact, this morning, we took a flight just outside pacalpa here, fly around the territories around the town and it's pretty distressing what you see. you will fly over huge areas of deposition canopy and there will be this line of demarcation where there is just lands that's stripped bare or palm oil plantations that go on for miles. it's very much a hub of the 'til ber treade. almost all of it is illegal. it defies belief what's going on here. illegal logging is so commonplace, sangan doesn't

climate control meeting in peru, our environment editor nick clark reports from lima. >> at long last after endless through the hours ran wranglinga resolution. dispiedespite the celebration, y vai this is an incredibly -- say this is incredibly weak. >> we had commitments we had pledges for green climate fund. instead what we got was a half baked deal. >> reporter: there was nearly no agreement at all. the third agreement was rejected out of hand by developing countries. >> we feel this text needs a little surgery and we would like us to put on our gowns, our scalpels and carefully insert a few vital organs that need to be incorporated into this agreement. >> reporter: outside the dismantling began. but it seemed like the conference would go on and on. the u.s. wanted it to stay that way. >> we have no time for lengthy new negotiations, and i think we all know that. >> while the endless back and forth took its toll the developing countries worked on the words. china and the u.s. in disagreement over the state of the text here in li lima, fourth version of the text on the day. >> we d

later he will go by boat through the amazon rain forest and right now nick clark joins us now in pakulpa. an incredible journey nick, tell us about what you've seen in the past five days. >> well, miriam, right now you have joined us on the bank of the river. long way downstream, something about four days boat ride, something like that. this is a major trading hub. there's a tarmac road which goes across the andes mountains and goes directly into lima. but what we're focusing on, what we're most interested in, is the fact this is a timber hub, a hub of the timber trade. that is something the group will be focusing on. the trade here is in very small part legal but for the most part it is very, very illegal. >>> illegal logging is so commonplace in the rain forest, he doesn't care about us filming him doing what he does. stealing trees from forbidden areas with impunity. >> translator: it is illegal. we shouldn't really be doing this. the police make us do all this paperwork and you have to pay them off. they constantly put up obstacles. >> reporter: and this is where romalo's trees go. t

al jazeera's nick clark has more. >> at long last after through the hours ran wrangling, a resolution. watered down and very weak. >> this is an incredibly weak resolution. we came in here thinking we would get a pretty ambitious announcement. you had the u.s. and china announcements but instead we got a half baked deal. >> the document was rejected out of hand by some. >> we feel this text needs a little bit of surgery, we need to put on our gowns and scalpels and carefully insert a few vital organs that need to be incorporated in this agreement. >> outside, this scene began but it would seem this conference would go on and on. the u.s. wanted it to stay that way. >> we have no time for lengthy new negotiations and i think we all know that. >> while the endless back and forth took its toll, developing countries worked on the words. china and the u.s. who are in disagreement over the state of the text here in lima, the fourth version of the text on the day. >> we do know that we must address climate change. we know increasingly that we can address climate change and with this moving o

nick clark, al jazeera, peru. >>> u.s.state john kerry arrived at the climate change conference in lima today, and while u.s. officials do not expect him to take an active role in negotiations, he did make a speech calling climate change one of the major security issues of our time. >> this is not just another policy issue. measured against the array of global threats we face today, and there are many, terrorism, epidemics. climate change ranks up there equal with all of them. >> and our next guest says reaching a climate change agreement could help transform our entire global economy. he serves as special advisor to united nations ban ki-moon. he is just back from attending the talks in lima and joins us from new york. a climate deal 22 years in the making, are you confident that a deal may be close at hand. >> not at lima. lima is a very important stepping-stone to the target of an agreement in paris next year. so what is being negotiated in lima is a draft text. there is lots of work to do between that draft text and a

nick clark joins us from peru east capitol, lima, the summit has been extended.hat is the likelihood of all members reaching a consensus? >> reporter: well, they all want consensus of their own, but whether or not they'll get it remains to be seen. it's all about this draft text that is causing all of the problem. they have been working at it all week. it has been hacked down to 7 pages long, and now some are saying it is too small. it all resolves around this aim-old argument about the fact that developed nations want developing nations to shoulder more of the blame, and they disagree. and this is something that john kerry alluded to that we have to remember that half of the emissions are coming from developing nations and it's important that they act too. and countries like china and south africa disagree. but there have been rallying cries. >> reporter: every year-round this time in one country or another, a seemingly endless u.n. negotiating process griengds on and on. here in lima, the rallying cries have begun. >> i want them to look back at us and ask the

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. >> nick clark live in lima, nick.hank you. >>> now villages in bangladesh have been cleaning up an enormous oil spill. thousands of liters spilled into the fragile wetlands, which are home to rare dolphins and many other unique species. environmentalists have warned of an ecological catastrophe. we have this report. >> reporter: picking up oil from the water on the southern coast of bangladesh, people who live off the land cannot escape this environmental disaster. people use their hands to scoop out oil. this spill has taken its toll on sea life too. >> it is affecting our fole poultry business, we can't fish any mor more. >> reporter: a tanker hit another vessel on tuesday. the areas are protected and is home to rare dolphins. environmentalists are warning of an ecological catastrophes. officials are trying to determine how bad the damage is. >> we have some samples of water. this sample of fresh soil. >> reporter: chemicals to disperse the oil are being sent to the region, but first volunteers are doing what they c

nick clark, al jazeera, peru >>> coming up, an american man speaks out against the u.s. on north korean television. what his mother is saying about his appearance next. in spain, battle with google, newspapers in spain suffer from a new law demanding google pay for content. >>> the state department is urging turkey to respect media freedom in the wake of the arrest of 24 people, many journalists. turkish police conducted raise in a dozen city. those arrested relating to a u.s. cleric, critical of the turkish president. in addition, several police officers were detained. it has been 351 days since three al jazeera journalists were detained in egypt. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were sentence said in june to seven years into a prison. baher mohamed was given a 10 years sentence. they've been accused of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects the charges and demands their release. >> several foreign embassies closed in cairo due to security concerns. the u.s. embassy is open, the workers have been warned not to stray far from their h

nick clark, al jazeera, lima peru. >> the police say a shooting in a school near portland, oregon, may gang-related. the police say students were shot and then they ran into the school for help. all victims were taken to an area hospital, no arrests were made. >>> a program will take recent graduates through training for teach for america. there is growing criticism for the program for failing it's teachers and the students. america tonight investigates. >> i realize that i wanted to teach where i was needed, not necessarily where i want to teach. >> teach for america recruit recent college graduates like aaron nolan earn noland who graduated and went into teach for america. there is a growing backlash claiming that tfa is not what it's cracked up to be. >> when did your enthusiasm for tfa begin to fade away. >> i was in denial because i kept thinking it was me not getting a couple of things, but then i would be all set. >> how important was tfa? >> it's an important stepping stone to where i am now but it was the worst sixmo of my life. i was miserable. >> why? >> i was in a position

the trend but villagers who chop down trees say they have no choice if they are to survive and nick clarksouth sudan. >> reporter: 21-year-old has the responsibility for his family when his father was killed in the war leading to independence. now his nephews have lost their father in the most resent spade of fighting and charcoal has a means for existence. >> get the food. >> reporter: along south sudan's highway goods come from neighboring countrys like uganda and kenya and gas from fossil fuels and there is gas but little kerosene. the oil pumped from the ground pumped here in south sudan the source of fuel for people is charcoal or firewood from virgin forest for 9 million people, that is millions of cooking fires everyday and that uncountable numbers of trees. those plumes of smoke are coming from charcoal manufacturing sites and the trees harvested and 1 1/2% of south sudan's farrest is being lost every year. the problem is the current rate of deforeststation means no trees will be left in three or four decades. >> this open here used to be a state forest and because of activities t

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> a deeper look at what the conference in peru has been able toccomplish. >> that's coming up tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. grease peace apoljudy for a protest at the world famous lines in peru. activists created a message in huge letters at the world high tape change in the coastal desert. they are considered sacred. they depict imaginary figures etched into the ground as many as 2000 years ago. peru's government is asking prosecute orders to file charges against activists. scientists have been able to map plastic pollution of all sizes floating in the world's occasions from 24 expeditions collected over a six-year period from 2007 to 2013. they estimated there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic trash weighing over 250,000 tons worldwide. this map shows the bulk of the debris made up of things roughly eight inches in size or larger while some of the trash is concentrated along coastlines, much of pushed by wind did, tides and currents is accumulated in the ocean. new research suggests they act as sledders, vortcies making them

nick clark, al jazeera, juarez, peru. >> there is more on the perils of climate change on our website. we've got all the day's news and all the latest on sport. that's at our www.aljazeera.com we. . >> for years the struggle to limit the spread of h.i.v. was to change people's before. does the use of a preventative drug treatment challenge the tech aids of hard work. it's inside story. >> i'm

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. the death toll from a boat that capsized in the democratic republic of congo has risen to 129. >> that's according to authorities. the incident happened on lake. angonika in the southeast of the country on thursday. more than 200 people survived but the search and rescue operation continues. officials say strong winds and an overloaded vessel are the cause -- caused the accident sudan's president has welcomed investigation into alleged war crimes in darfur. the probe is halted, they say so urgent cases can be looked at. bajer accuses the court of trying to hugh mil ate his country. >> the icc has surrendered saying they have failed. it's not because sudan's president has rejected it. it's because the sudanese people rejected them. they have stood in unity saying it's impossible for a sudanese official to be held in court. >> three-quarters of a million children have been among those driven from their homes during the war. some were recruited as child soldiers. others have lost

nick clark reports from lima. >> reporter: every year-round this time in one country or another, a seeminglyss u.n. negotiating process grinds on and on. here in lima they are trying to stop that. the rallying calls have begun. >> i want them to look back at us and ask the question how did you find the moral courage to shake off the lethargy, to break free of the chains of the past, to lift your sights and draw the design of a future that we can accomplish. >> reporter: u.s. secretary of state john kerry made a flying visit. >> this is not just another policy issue measured against the array of global threats that we face today, and there are many, terrorism, extremism, epidemics, poverty, nuclear proliferation, all challenges that know no borders, climate change ranks up there equal with all of them. >> i have never seen such a sense of resolve that you find among people over here. yes, that of course has to translate into something concrete, and that's where people are protecting their own turfs. >> reporter: progress is still extraordinarily slow, one bone of contention is how to manage c

nick clark, al jazeera, lima peru. >> she's known as baby veronica, and she was at the center of a high-profile battle. her adoptive parents are white; her father is native american and has been fighting for her alongside his tribe. the case was tried in the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act, or icwa, which mandates that every effort be made to keep native children with their relatives or tribe. congress passed icwa in 1978 in response to an alarmingly high numbf

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> sierra leone imposed a two week lockdown after health workers uncovered a surge of ebola infections. the epidemic was thought to be largely under control in the district, but 87 bodies have been buried in just 11 days. authorities say statistics under represent the situation in cono. ebola has killed more than 6,500 people in west africa. >> a spokeswoman for the world health organization says people attending funerals are contributing to the spread of the disease. >> we are cleaning up for more burial teams active by the end of the week and more in the coming week so we have a full team of people that can safely take care of those who died. we need to get sick people into isolation where they can be cared for. the earlier you get treatment, the more chance you have of surviving. we are telling people what can they do? they can drink oral rehydration solution, salt and water and minerals. they need to do this to stay strong. the reason so many have died is because they didn't get to help until five days into the disease process. if you haven't b

nick clark, sowfnedz. >> the supreme court has been asked to decide. it's "inside story." hello, i'm ray suarez. there is a law against using the internet to launch physical threats against another person. the constitution does guarantee free speech rights but not in an unlimited way. year after year we have debates about just where the lines and limits are. can you make a first person shooter video game that allows the player to target barack and michelle obama? can you show military service people in action, as a sergeant generation ago tell people you were an officer and won decoration for valor or combat that you never earned? once more we asked the supreme court to step in and decide the legality of behavior that didn't exist when the framers did their work in the 1780s. james madison didn't have an ex wife or a facebook page. >>> the internet makes it easy to give anyone a piece of your mind and share it with the world in an instant. but if your words are aggressive or even threatening where's the line between free speech and crime? monday the supreme court heard the

environment editor nick clark reports high up in the mountains. >> reporter: for centuries across the peruvian andes. here, a bus hipping center, an hour's flight from the center. the markets are fall of produce. the mountain's water source is disappearing. >> the refers run fast, for the glaciers that free them and walk away. >> it's a popular place for tour: ben jam jib is a glaciologist. and remembers the pass over in the heyday when people skied here. >> it was one only glacier until the houses. >> all the way down. >> yes, all the way down. >> we walk where once ice, hundreds of meter deep lay. now the glassier re-seeded all the way back to the face of the mountain. >> we are losing time. all the glaciers that are going in the water, glaciers that are going, is going to the sea. >> it's a stunning site, full of danger. new lagoons of melted ice are forming, increasing threats of ice and flooding. >> this glassier is melting at an incredible rate. it could be gone in 30 to 40 years. all the nation's tropical glaciers are disappearing at increasing rites, creating a problem for tho

. >> i'm nick clark off the coast of peru, on the abundant waters of the pacific ocean, where there's a looming threat to marine life. >>> the united nations and human rights groups are calling for u.s. officials to be prosecuted for their role in interrogation techniques of al qaeda suspects. it follows a report on secret practices at hidden sites around the world. the report suggests no useful intelligence was gained from torturing prisoners. patty culhane in washington has more. >> reporter: hundreds of pages of detailed evidence of what happened to 119 men detained by the central intelligence agencies in secret prison, like this in lithuania. >> the c.i.a. programme was more brutal than people were led to believe >>> detainees were detained from sleep for up to 180 hours. they were forced to have ena mas - not for medical reasons. and waterboarding, which the c.i.a. describes as near drownings. there were reports of violent beatings, contradicting what top bosses say. the senate report says the c.i.a. lied to white house, congress and the public and about the effectiveness. >> i c

nick clark, al jazeera, lima peru. >> she's known as baby veronica, and she was at the center of a high-profile custody battle. her adoptive parents are white; her father is native american and has been fighting for her alongside his tribe. the case was tried in the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act, or icwa, which mandates that every effort be made to keep native children with their relatives or tribe. congress passed icwa in 1978 in response to an alarmingly high number of native children being removed from their homes and placed with non-native families - the tie to their cultures and communities severed in the process. 35 years later, the fundamental protections of the law are still being fought for. >> the requirements of that act apply from the minute indian parents and indian kids walk into the courtroom and it's just not happening. here in south dakota, native children are only 13 percent of the children in the state but more than 50 percent of those in foster care. and the majority are placed with non-native families, in group homes o

effect and here we are a little more than an hour's flight from a climate change conference in lima, nick clarkra, peru. >>> and reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news all the time on our website al jazeera.com and latest on our top stories there of course. >>> four officers pounce odd eric garn neve garner for resist a grand jury found no reason to indict. michael brown was shot after an encounter with a missouri police officer that began with an argument. are police train today lower the temperature or raise it. it's "inside story." ♪ ♪

with this text we are to receive we are all winner, more now from our environment the he had to*r nick clarkhuh be been following the conference in leam 56789 after two weeks of seamlessly endless debate. lima 2014 is finally over. the deal is, it's water down and thinner than before, by lesser countries fought hard for finance to be reinstated in to the text and loss and damage the compensation for climate clang immaterial plaintiffimpact, givm before the conference, lea limas been a disappointment but saved from failure by last-minute hustling. next year will be very tough if paris 2015 is to be successful. >>> to turkey, where police have searched. eight peel detained and 24 others want today questioning. let's go do bernard smith live for us with us stan bull, why are these people being targeted bernard? >> reporter: elizabeth all of them people work for publications, media organizations that are sympathetic the muslim cleric who lives in self imposed exile in the united states, he used to be very close to the president, they'd spectacular falling out some years ago. these a detentions c

. ♪ ♪ >>> hello welcome to al jazerra i am nick clark in doha.o coming up on the program this is the last date day for nato's afghan mission but the fighting far from over. we'll take a look at the road ahead for afghanistan. >>> bad weather hampering search efforts for the arizona a plane that crash odd sunday with 162 people on board. >>> plus no shortage of aid but volunteers struggle to get surprise to communities cut off by floods in malaysia. ♪ ♪ >>> so then a resolution calling for israel to end its occupation of palestinian territory by 2017 has been rejected at the united nations security council. it needed 9 votes to pass but only got eight. here is how the vote played out the country that his voted in favor of the resolution were china, franz russia, luxembourg chad, chile argentina and jordan. the two states that voted no, the united states and all stall australia. united nations were among nine stations that abstained from the vote. a report from new york now. >> reporter: just aid votes, not enough for the palestinian to his claim m

. >>> more now from our environment editor nick clark who has been following developments in lima atference. >> reporter: so after two weeks of seemingly endless debate and argument and negotiation, lima 2014 is finally over. the deal is as one delicate put it. watered down and thinned but it is better than it was before. which is a small victory for the less developed country who his fought hard forrish you ares like finance to be reinstateed in to the text and for loss and damage, the concept of compensation to climate change impacts. given the optimism that there was before this conference, lima has been a disappointment. but it's been saved from failure by some last-minute hustling. next year is going to be very tough if paris 20 fine is going to be success. >>> japan's prime minister is hoping for a landslide victory in a snap election he hopes will give him the mandate to continue financial reforms. abe called the vote last month after japan slipped in to rejection and his popularity stalled. but a record low majority turn out is expected because abe is almost certain to win an

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >>> there's much more ahead here on al jazeera. haiti's prime minister resigns as anti-government protests spread across the country. >>> and a mouse and a mystery. the story of a long-last paints that reappeared in the movies. >> my name is elenor and for the last 25 years i was bernie madoff's secretary. >> an unimaginable story of betrayal. >> they lived this incredible life. it just never occurred to me that they were living on the dime of the clients. >> greed... >> bernie was stealing every nickel but he wasn't trading anything. >> ... and entitlement. >> you took my grandchildren's future away from them. >>> with the come back. exit polls in japan indicate a landslide victory for prime minister shinzo abe's ruling party. the prime minister called the snap election last month after japan fell back into recession. >>> kurdish forces in the syrian town of kobani say they have made advances against fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant. the city is on the border with turkey. >>> after a long night of wrangling, dele

conference in lima, nick clark, al jazeera, peru. >>> and reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news all the time on our website al jazeera.com and latest on our top stories there of course. >>> four officers pounce odd eric garn neve garner for resist a grand jury found no reason to indict. michael brown was shot after an encounter with a missouri police officer that began with an argument. are police train today lower the temperature or raise it. it's "inside story." ♪ ♪ >>> hello i am ray suarez. in years as a street reporter i spent a lot of time with police. at crime scenes, perp walks, some officers seem to have a knack for avoiding escalation, while some other officers had a tendency to make their authority paramount. more than the maintenance of order or the pursuit of suspects. the unwillingness of a grand jury in new york to indict a police officer after a homicide provides a revealing reference point. a minor infraction was suspected, a man who did not want to be arrested, but was not responding with violent resistence. in a matter of seconds, eric garner was

. >> thank you nick clark, speaking to us from lima. >>> back roads and poor services mean that many can't get to health centers. we traveled to maronga where one operation is offering help in the form of a motorcycle. >> this woman feels feverish and is infected by jiggers. bugs that lay eggs in the skin and spread. jiggers are common in many ruler areas in sub-sahara africa, and it's caused by poor hygiene. >> it's all over my legs and hands. my legs are painful. this is how my life has been. >> her legs are swollen and walking is difficult. she needs to go to the hospital. jiggers is easily treatable but if left too long it can cause gain greed and can even be fatal. the motorcycle ambulance is table reach homes that are hard to reach. on a normal day this job would be easy, but on this day it's anything but normal. when it rains the roads become drenched. you can see this ambulance has possibl to be pushed most of the way. but those who live hearsay it's better alternative than carrying the patient or using a wheel barely. >> the motorcycle seems to be the quickest option. ambula

i'm nick clark. live from the headquarters in doha. coming up.in the next 60 minutes. palestinians consider, as the u.n. rejects that bid for independence. after 13 years of war and thousands of tests a new chapter begins for afghanistan. plus under arrest, a korean air executive who forced a plane to turn around over nuts, is behind bars. so then, we begin with breaking news out of yemen. at least 20 houthis have died at a suicide bomb attack. elsewhere in the country at least 34 people were killed in fighting between houthi rebels and al qaeda. the fighting brek out broke out when houthi fighters tried take the village from, authorities. first of all what do you know about the bombing in ibb city? >> that building was where the houthis had organized the gathering to celebrate the the prophet mohamed. the death is over 20. the assumption is that that toll will rise because there are too many people inside that hall, nick. >> and then we also had this incident in rata district. away can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yes well, that happened on tuesday night. heav

. >> nick clark there on the climate summit in peru. >> the u.n. special envoy to syria is in damascus for talks with syria's foreign minister. the united nations is trying to broke arrest freeze in the fighting in the city of aleppo, but it is being viewed with skepticism among rebel groups. >> the united nations is trying to end the fighting in aleppo. it has been an urban battleground for two years. they hope it will end the suffering of people and lay the groundwork for political process. so far the rebels aren't convinced. the head of the syrian revolutionary command council which unites the oppositions armed forces in aleppo. he was the u.n. envoy to discuss th the proposals. >> they're demanding a cease in fighting, but what happens next? it means that the regime that has committed crimes against people will stay. and it can't just end in aleppo but all over the country. we're suspicious. >> over weeks they have been closing in on supply rights in the city. and they want guarantees. there are many front lines in syria, why do the united nati

. >> as nick clark reports, the backdrop for the summit is a city witnessing the impact of global warming at an alarming rate. >> for centuries, people relieved on melt water from the mountains. >> here in a bustling center, the markets are full of produce. there's a problem. the water source is disappearing. the river runs fast for thou, but the glaciers are melting away. >> this place was one of the most popular places for tourists >> reporter: benjamin is a glaciologist and remembers this area in its heyday, when people skied here. >> it was one only glacier. all the way. >> stretching all the way down. we walk where ice laid. it receded all the way back to the mountain. all the glacier that is going, it is going the see. >> it's a stunning site. new lagoons are forming in creasing mudslides. >> they say the glassier is melting at such a rate that it could be gone together in 30-40 years. across peru. they are disappearing at ever increasing rates, creating an enormous problem for those that rely on this as a water source. request down the mountain crops are ripening. the farmer runs a

nick clark reports from the summit in peru. >> reporter: at long last, after endless through the hours rang bling, a resolution. despite the celebration, many say the document is watered down and weak. >> this is an incredibly weak decision, we came in thinking we'd get an ambitious text. we had commitment to the green fund, and instead we had a half baked deal. >> reporter: there was nearly no agreement. the third draft of the text was rejected out of hand. >> we feel the text needs a little surgery, and would like us to put on our gowns and scaples and insert a few outside it seems it began, and will go on and on. lost and damaged. the u.s. wanted it to stay that way. >> we have no time for lengthy negotiation, and i think we all know that. >> reporter: while the endless back and forth took its toll, the developing countries worked on the word. china and the u.s., in disagreement over the text here in lima. in the event, it was a small victory to the developing nation, and a forth version of the text on the day. >> we know that we must address climate change. we know that we can addr

i'm nick clark. live from the headquarters in doha. coming up.in the next 60 minutes. palestinians consider, as the u.n. rejects that bid for independence. after 13 years of war and thousands of tests a new chapter begins for afghanistan.

. >> i'm nick clark off the coast of peru, in the abaund unt water where -- abundant waters where there's a looming threat to marine life >>> the united nations and human rights groups are causing for u.s. officials to be procuted for their role in interrogation -- prosecuted for interrogation techniques, following tore future practices at hidden sites around the world, and no useful intelligence was gained from torturing prisoniers. >> reporter: hundreds of pages of evidence of what happened to 119 men detained in secret prisons, like this one in lithuania. >> the cia programme was more brutal than people were led to believe. >> detainees were deprived sleep for 180 hours. five forced to have enemas, not for medical reasons. there are reports five people were water boarded which the cia describes as a series of near drownings, and there's reports of physical violent beatings, contradicting assurances from top bosses. >> the senate report says the i cia purposely lied to congress, the public and the programme's effectiveness. >> i can say questioning the detainees has given us information

nick clark reports a backdrop for the summit witnesses the impact of global warming at an alarming rate. >> for centuries across the peruvian andes people relied on the melt water. here, an hour's flight from the capital, the markets are full of produce. there's a problem. the water source is disagree. disappearing. rivers one fast, but the glaciers are melting away. this is one of the most popular places for tourism. gen jammin is a glaisiologist and remembers the glacier in its heyday when people skied here. >> it was one only glacier until the houses. >> reporter: stretched all the way down. >> yes. >> reporter: we walked where ice, hundreds of meter deep. the glassier re-seeded back to the face of the mountain. >> we are losing time because all the claysiers that is going is going. >> reporter: it's a stunning site full of danger. new lagoons of ice is forming, increasing mudslides and flooding disasters. they say it's melting at an incredible rate that it could be gone within 30 to 40 years. across peru glaciers are disappearing. that's creating an enormous problem for those that r

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nick clarke, our environmental editor went to meet some of them. >> reporter: offers. a goddess revered by the indigenous people by the andes gathered in lima to march at the protest. joining tribes across peru, bolivia and ecuador gathering to make a point. here in peru the government passed laws luring environmental standards. tribal people want more of a say on what's on their land. >> the people here do not trust the country's leaders. there's talk of double speak. the governments will be proindigenous on one hand and sanctioning the tribal lands on the other. >> reporter: from logging to oil extraction to mining. indigenous people say their lands are threatened in every direction. >> translation: life cannot be bought. here, we the indigenous people want to say yes to life, no to oil, no to cold, no to pollution. >> reporter: as the u.n. climate talks reached a last critical two days, there's a resident voice to be heard, the voice of people of these ancient lands. >>> still to come - we'll tell you what drove brazil's president to tears. >> i'm charlie angela in

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> greene peace apologized for a protest at the world famous arean peru activists for the climate change summit created a message at the world heritage site in peru's coastal desert. the lines are considered sacred. they depict imaginary figures etched into the ground as many as 2000 years ago. peru's government is asking prosecutors to file charges against the activists. a deeper look at what the conference in peru has been able to accomplish. >> on our regular saturday segment at 8:00 p.m. eastern 5, 5 pacific. some parts of kenya getting to a hospital is an uphill task. bad roads and poor glance services makes make it difficult for those living in isolated areas to get to a health center. cath resoy traveled where some are offering a hands on a motor bike. >> joyce's family has asked their village social worker to get her an ambulance. shelves feverish and is infected by chiggers, sand flies in the skin, lay eggs and spread. chiggers are common in male rural areas in africa and are caused by poor hygiene. >> it's all over my legs and hands. my le

nick clark reports from the peruvian amazon. >> illegal logging is so commonplace, the romalo doesn't care about us filming him doing what he does. stealing trees from forbidden areas with impunity. >> it is illegal. we shouldn't be doing this. the police make us do all this paper works. they are constantly putting up obstacles. and this is where roma lo's trees go. three hours boat ride away to is sawmills. much of the timber ends up in the u.s. in china, trees 100 years old, destined to become someone's hard wood floor or garden table. >> the logging trade is a world of forged documents and fake inventories. it's on a massive scale. the world bank estimates that 80% of peru's total timber exports are harvested illegally. that is eight out of 10 of these trees illicit. one after the other the sawmills stretch three kilometres along the riverbank. trees taken from concessions, but cut from the forest. >> translation: these are markings that authorities give out to transport wood. >> reporter: they are fictitious. >> translation: yes, mostly they are fictitious. >> reporter: the indepe

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nick clark shows us one area along peru's specific coast where fisheries are threatened by rising sea temperatures. >> off the coast of peru lies one of the most fertile fisheries in the world, hard to believe when you see the desert like terrain. huge flocks of sea birds give a hint as to what lies beneath. then the islands come into view, the site is spectacular. this sea lion colony test money to the current along the coast, bringing newt recent rich waters into play, sustaining a wealth of marine life. but there's a problem. >> one of the big issues is that the ecosystem here is the anchovies, but global warming reduces quantities and can affect all the way up the food chain. >> the bottom line is more c.o.2 in the atmosphere means more in our seas and that upsets the natural balance, the balance that keeps colonies like this alive. >> it is an extraordinary sight and all this just a couple of hours boat ride from lima, a city with 10 million people. >> 10 million people need to get fed. lima's main fish market provides a remarkable window on the productivity of peru's waters. she

nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> reporter: jane is an environmental lawyer and a ceo of clientoining us from london and very good to have you with us on al jazeera. we saw the chair of the governmental panel on climate change in that story saying he has never seen such a positive mood at one of these conferences, what hopes do you have for this meeting? >> well, i have a great deal of hope for the meeting and one of the reasons that everyone is feeling confident including myself for the first time in a long time, at least ten years, is that the two biggest climate e mitters, china and united states reached a break-through agreement as you may know a month ago and it was those two countries did not participate in the famous kioto agreement and that was the first attempt at a binding legal obligation to reduce climate gasses and as a result it could never work, kioto could never work but this moment is a great moment in the two biggest admiters agreed to cut. >> reporter: could that be the catalyst for a new accord and if so how? >> well, it could. and the reason is that they vol