al jazeera's nick clark reports from paris. >> all night and day they worked and all night and all day again and still no resolution. we're told they're very close though. >> after the consultations that i'm going to have at 9:00 saturday morning, i'll present a theax will be a bitext that wilp forward for whole of humanity. >> 196 countries with differing interest to agree for a way forward is a monumental challenge. >> i think it's a great big space, light at the end of the tunnel, we can do it. there are positions that are quite hard to get to. it's very political at the moment. i think we've moved past the substance. there's a lot we can live with. we've got to push the bar a bit and not make it the lowest common denominator. there's a huge task, 194 interests, in like minded groups, the regional grouping, there are still issues that are tough to sort. so i think we're on a good path. it's a struggle to get over the hill and deal with what we really need and not just what we want. >> and it is same old problems blocking progress. the issue of finance, who pays who, what. ambition,

nick clark al jazeera paris. >> there have been news agencies reporting that the text of the deal willbe finalized and slld slcirculated soon. in 1997, the kyoto protocol was made, the u.s. didn't support it, and developing nations were exempt. they claim they didn't contribute to globaling warming even though china and india were among the biggest emitters. so for 2009 a road map set out the need for a new agreement but it didn't happen. in copenhagen, world leaders emitted a vague agreement to prevent global warming but binding treaty had to be in place within four years and had to include developing relations. three years later in lima, leaders agreed nations would produce voluntary limits for climate change. just how effective will this new deal be? >> much more positivity about reamg areaching annal agreement. i think people realized we really have to do something so it certainly looks more optimistic. we'll have to see the final draft and exactly how ambitious it really is. finally realizing that impacts to health especially, will occur below 2°, in fact they're already occurring

nick clark, al jazeera, france. >> thousands of people have been protesting in the south korean capitalabout their president's conservative government. >> termed to be heard for the second time in less than a month, thousands of south koreans march through seoul to show their anger at the government. and it's not just about history books that have been written by states or unpopular labor reforms. >> the government has ignored public opinion, and it is reflected in policies. each and every one of us have frustrations in our minds. i came out to express that. >> there is a growing mistrust of president park, a conservative second generation politician who was elected three years ago by a small majority on the promise of being more progressive. park's father was president for 20 years after a military coup in 1961, and he's credited with driving the country's economic growth. when his daughter promised vitalization many say they believed her. some are worried that president park has other traits in common with her father. he put these governmen anti-government posters up in his shop windo

nick clark, al jazeera, switzerland. >> a foreigner fighting with the armed group al-shabab has handedhimself in. he surrendered to an african union military base in southern somalia. the government said that he was running for his life. al-shabab said that he wanted to fight with isil rather than al-qaeda. we have more now on the story. >> well, fighting along side al-shabab fighters. he handed himself over at a major base that belonged to al-shabab forces until they lost it last year. she have confirmed that he's now in the hands of the government. they were pursuing him. they wanted to kill him. but what is happening is there is some sort of tug-of-war between isil and al qaeda. and there are officials for al-shabab who recently from the scenario from which they were paying allegiance, that has brought the leadership of al-shabab, and there has been a purge of some of those who left, who have been killed including a sudanese national. this is a mystery. he killed an u.s. diplomat in car too mankhartoum, and then he ended up in somalia. >> sierra leone is looking to bounce back as qu

nick clark, al jazeera, paris. >> at least a dozen gunmen have been killed after they launch coordinated attacks on three army bases in burundi. another 21 suspects were arrested after they attempted to stock up on weapons and ammunition. at least five soldiers were injured. >>> now zimbabwe's party is holding it's 15th annual national conference. it's a long time leader robert mugabe wants to find an away around division. >> let's be one and work together. the people's call. there rewe main what? the people's party. >> now one of the inventors of genetic editing procedures is calling for tighter restrictions on human dna restoration. >> at johns hopkins university, these mice are providing embryos for cells whose genes are being manipulated to fix what nature has broken. it's a simple and precise method of altering the dna of any organism. what it is called editing software for the genome. >> we can go to a specific chromosome to a specific spot to one of the millions of nuclei molecules that make up that dna and can change it. >> they say cutting it, removing it or replacing with a hea

nick clark, al jazeera, on south tarot. >> japan's whaling ships are returning to the southern ocean after a 2014 international court of justice ruling. forced them to halt the hunt. four vessels have left for the whaling season that runs from the end of the year until march, the fleet is set to kill 300 whales. environmentist activists harry faucet has the latest from japan. >> two from japan left the town, earlier on tuesday, they will meet up with two other vessels including the mother ship, and a fishing agency patrol boat. the whaling will resume from the end of december and carry on through until march the mayor told the crew there was nothing happier than this guy, after last season during which time they took no whales whatsoever. that was the march 2014 ruling by the international court of justice, ruling that japan's scientific whaling had no scientific basis whatsoever, there was no need to kill the whales in order to monitor their population, their eating habits and their reproduction, however, japan has always said that it wants to do commercial whaling that's why this r

nick clark, al jazeera, paris. >>> india is regarded as one of the world's biggest polluters, let's droughtscapital new delhi now and talk to al jazeera's nidhi dutt. what is the response in india to the climate deal? >> reporter: well, a mixed response. on one hand the government is hailing it as a victory. particularly for india's persistence when it comes to the needs of developing countries. on the other hand, there has been some criticism a leading environmentalist from india has suggested that the deal is a compromise. and she said that a number of key issues that developing countries, including india, were raising, haven't been agreed upon. they are not in the agreement and as a result india will have to continue fighting. also pointing out that in terms of emissions cuts and finance developing countries, don't actually have to begin this process of cutting emissions or adding to this global fund until 2020. which perhaps is a little too much time given that time is of the essence as we have been hearing from paris. also suggestions that key things i want i can't was looking for, sust

nick clark, al jazeera, france. >> time for sports news. >> thank you. we start with the latest from the english parole. the leaderpremier league, manchester city scoring twice in the first half city with its first defeat in the league. >>> enjoying home at sunderland. >> yes, to be promoted was fantastic season for them, and they believe in what they do. they believe in themselves. and i can't forget that because they deserve that respect. >> 4-0 before halftime. later on second place atletico at granada and gary neville will be in the stands. he'll officially take over as coach on sunday. >> we know that it's very ditch to go to. we know with the new coach it will be very hard. it's always an extra incentive to try to impress the new coach. we know it will be very tough. we'll try as much as we can to keep this winning streak. >> football's governing body fifa has promised restructura restructuring. >> they thought they were untouchable, but now u.s. investigators are plotting leading football officials from their luxury hotel beds or dragging them fro

nick clark, al jazeera.rance. >> we have pictures of a terrible fire on board of an oil rig in the caspian sea. this is just off the coast of azerbaijan. the search is on for a number of people missing we join our correspondent in the neighbor. there are people missing and people already known to have died, robin. >> yes, that's correct, david. we have finally had confirmation from the state oil company that runs this rick. they have finally come out this evening with figures they say 32 have been rescued. 30 people killed and people are missing. that's a reflection of what we were hearing earlier today from an independent source who claimed 30 people missing presumed killed after this fire happened yesterday in very stormy weather. it's understood that the gas line was broken in those high winds under high pressure, caught fire, and very difficult for rescue services to reach the rig, to reach the platform. as to how those people may have died, either in the fire, but also reports we've been hearing of a li

nick clark, al jazeera, paris. >> the u.n.s holding a special section on burundi following a coordinated attack on three army barracks in bujumbura which killed 15 people. malcolm webb reports. >> gunfire and explosions shut down burundi's capital bujumbura on friday morning. residents woke up to roadblocks, checkpoints and military patrols. violence intensified over the past few days. militia's, sometimes with as many as 100 men ambushed the police and military, sometimes exchanging gunfire for several hours. the attacks have mostly taken place in areas where there's strong opposition to the president's third term in power. in this bujumbura suburb, witnesses say the police killed their neighbors. they say they were marched to the street and executed at point-blank range. >> the police took my mobile phone. they broke down the door and found this man in there. they carried him to the road and shot him. >> police have been conducting house to house searches hooking for illegal weapons. thursday, they displayed a catch of guns

nick clark, al jazeera. >>> japanese ships have left port to resume whaling in the antarctic ocean.national outrage forced japan to stop hunting whales. they say they are for commercial hunts and not for research as climbed by the japanese government. >> reporter: two vessels left the southwestern town earlier on tuesday. they will meet up with two other vessels including the mother ship and a fishery agency patrol boat as they head towards the antarctic ocean. the whales will resume from the end of december and carry on through the end of march. the mayor said there was nothing happier than this day, because it remarked the resumption of japan's whaling season. the international court of justice ruled that japan's scientific whaling had no scientific basis whatsoever. there was no reason to kill the whales. however, japan has always said it wants to resume fully fledged commercial whaling, that's why this scientific research as it calls it, is necessary. and it will take a third of the whales now. the australian go says it does not agree with the concept of killing whales for resea

. ♪ ♪ >>> hello i am nick clark and this is al jazeera live to doha. also ahead on the program.prise move the three-year sentence of a well known human rights lawyer is suspended. >>> burkina far so issued an arrest warner for blaise compaore in the death of a rival. >>> spaling stu

. ♪ hello i'm nick clark and this is al jazeera live from doha and also coming up, on the program theek parliament votes to recognize palestine as a state in the presence of abbas. afghan government forces advance in the bid to push taliban out of the southern district of sangin. [chanting] under pressure, india's parliament debating a bill seeking harsher punishment for juveniles accused of serious crimes. ♪ so then the iraqi military advanced to the center of the city of ramadi in a major offensive to flush out i.s.i.l. fighters and military fighters say there have been casualties in fighting in the south of the city. the army reports they surrounded the city from all sides and seized anbar providence earlier this year and northern ramadi 14 security forces and tribal fighters killed in an i.s.i.l. suicide attack and we have a member of parliament from anbar providence and says ramadi could well be captured by the weekend. >> midnight the offensive to retake ramadi by the iraqi forces and very huge progress toward the center of ramadi and the iraqi forces, they are doing very good p

. ♪ ♪ >>> hello i am nick clark and this is al jazeera live to doha. also ahead on the program.urprise move the three-year sentence of a well known human rights lawyer is suspended. >>> burkina far so issued an arrest warner for blaise compaore in the death of a rival. >>> spaling stupalpalestinians y for those whose homes were did he extraordinary by the israeli military. >>> so then it is the fourth day of fighting between afghan forces and the taliban in southern helmand province. the army is advancing to a district that fell on the taliban on monday of the police spokesman says that dozens of british soldiers are also assisting the afghan security forces there. jamie macintyre has this report. >> reporter: in afghan's southern helmand province fighting intense as the taliban claims success in capturing the police headquarters, governor's office and other government buildings. the governor says he has left afghan soldiers and local citizens begging for food. and like the latest suicide attack that killed a half dozen u.s. troops outside the air bay, it's just more evidence th

. >> we'll be following that here on al jazeera. nick clark. thank you. >>> let's go to daniel who is live for us in buenos aires. daniel, talk us through what the position is of argentina, and really latin america towards this deal, and why it's so important for that region? >> well, you just heard the previous speaker talk about the political will. they often have very good political will and the policies are put in place. but the difficulty for argentina and other countries in the region are making sure that those laws to protect the environment are adhered to. we've seen massive deforest station tdeforestizationation. and in brazil it's difficult to monitor what people do deep in the amazon jungle. really it is a case of saying the right things but often not following through. in argentina we've seen defore deforestation, 105 million hecto hectares from a million years ago to down to what it is today. and we have seen glacial melting at an alarming rate. they will sign up like everyone else to the cop 21 agreement in paris, but then it's a

al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm nick clark in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutesraqi forces take the city of ramadi from i.s.i.l. the greek parliament votes to recognize palestine as a state in the president of mokmood. afghan government forces advance in their bid to push the taliban out of the southern district of sangin. [chanting] and the pressure and his parliament takes up a bill for punishment for juveniles accused of serious crimes. ♪ iraqi military advance to the center of the city of ramp da to flush out i.s.i.l. fighters and they say there have been some casualties in fighting in the south of the city and army reportedly surrounded the city from all sides and they seized the capitol of anbar providence and north ramadi 14 security fores and tribal fighters have been killed in an i.s.i.l. attack and joining me on the phone from baghdad is a member of parliament from anbar providence and tell us what you know about this latest offensive. >> thank you very much and you know as you know at midnight that offensive to go to ramadi starts by iraqi forces and t

al jazeera's nick clark has the story. >> reporter: all night and all day they worked, and all night and all day again, there was still no resolution, we were told they were very close. >> at 9:00 saturday mortgage i will be in a position to present a text to all of the parties which i'm sure will be approved and will be a big step forward for whole of humanity. >> laurent fabius had hoped to finalize a deal friday night, differing interests, to agree a way forward is a monday unanimitial challenge. >> it's an enormous struggle, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and we can do it. but there are positions that are very hard to get to it. we have moved past the substance, we have got a good text, we have to push the bar to make it the lowest common denominator. the huge traffic of 194 interests, if you put them into like minded groups, the regional groupings, there are situations, a struggle to try get over the held and deal with what we really need and not just what we want. >> and it is the same old problems blocking progress. the issue of finance, who pays who what. ambition,

nick clark there. >>> coming up on al jazeera, a new vaccine against dengue fever gets approval. >>> and in sports, abian team wins one of the biggest prizes for the first time. >> i felt like i was just nothin'. >> for this young girl, times were hard. >> doris' years in a racist, impoverished setting had a major impact. >> but with looks, charm... >> i just wanted to take care of my mom. >> and no remorse... >> she giggles every time she steps into the revolving door of justice. >> she became legendary. >> the finer the store, the bigger the challenge. >>> welcome back. let's recap our headlines on al jazeera. a powerful syrian rebel group has withdrawn from talks in saudi arabia with opposition factions. it says it pulled out because proper weight wasn't given to revolutionary groups. >>> at least 27 iraqi soldiers have been killed in fighting against isil in ramadi. the united states has offered to send personnel and equipment to help iraqi forces retake the city. >>> argentina's new president has been sworn in, in the capitol, buenos aires. the outgoing president didn't at tend because of a disa

al jazeera's environment editor nick clark has been at the such and it's filed this report. >> reporterment the world agreed to tackle climate change. [speaking foreign language] clap clam. >> reporter: and so the paris agreement was born. and emotions spilled over. to bring northern 190 countries together was an extraordinary a chief. so much so that he banged the gavel again. >> translator: so i have been asked to bang the gaffal again, it's a little gaffal but i think it can do great things. earlier there was a moment of high drama. apparently it was just typing errors due to lack of sleep. >> is a result of the finalization of documents? haste by colleagues who had not slept for days a number of errors regrettably were not detect ed in the document l-9 has it was being finalize ed in the early hours of this morning. the secretary regrets the errors and i apologize for the oversight. >> reporter: outside the main hall acknowledge think of the deal done but also. comprises made. >> in the end we all compromised. developed countie counties comp. developing countries compromised. that's

al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, i'm nick clark in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutesraqi forces take the city of ramadi from i.s.i.l. the greek parliament votes to recognize palestine as a state in the president of mokmood. afghan government forces advance in their bid to push the taliban out of the southern district of