niranjan from dayton new environment. now let's take a look at some of us stories making headlines around the world and a nation maybe has launched a search operation for a missing submarine when 53 crewmembers on board contact was lost on wednesday as the sub was conducting a drill off the island of bali astray and singapore have also deployed ships to support the search. that's the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez has pledged to give up to 10 found 10 percent rather of his country's coronavirus vaccines to latin american and caribbean countries this year spain has an occupied half of its own population he was speaking at the a barrow american summit where other leaders accuse rich countries of hoarding vaccine. you're watching data news still to come in the midweek when this league matches dortmund pick up a big win to keep their season alive. coming up in just a moment but 1st rights groups say police have detained more than 1400 protesters in dozens of cities across russia across russia demonstrators march for the

and for more on this on the joint by niranjan from the w.'s environment desk. joe biden is hosting 40 world leaders at a virtual summits tackle climate change today after abandoning international climate efforts what does the u.s. need to do now the u.s. has one of the world's biggest historical polluters and to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other economy in the world and it's expected that joe biden will announce today a new target of cutting and cutting emissions by 50 percent by the end of the decade compared to the levels in 2005 now that more ambitious than the target would put in place under obama president the former president obama but i mean a lot of countries are also quite reluctant to just accept promises from the u.s. at face value the previous president trump the u.s. withdrew from the powers agreement and the chinese foreign ministry just last week described the return actually of as a true schoolchild returning to class by them will have a lot cut out to actually convince countries that these pledges really do mean somethi

step up with analysis let's bring back into me some of the many correspondent in washington and it niranjan from data environment department simeonoff to joe biden spoke we heard from german chancellor angela merkel can you just give us a wrap up of her main message today ereka so the german chancellor was essentially saying thank you to the u.s. president for organizing this summit agreeing that she finds this to be important the platform to be able to speak about this incredibly important global issue and she called it a herculean task and she said it is going to be a complete change of the way that we do business she pointed out some of the ways that germany and europe have already committed to tackling the climate crisis she pointed out that germany has already reduced emissions by 40 percent compared to its 1990 levels and she pointed to a very clearly to the commitment that the european union has made to cut emissions by the end of this decade by 55 percent saying that it is clear with the.