Taken to tackle climate change. Lebanese army has exchanged prisoners. 16 cap tav soldiers have been released in exchange for prisoners held by the lebanese government. The former wife of i. S. I. L. Leader was among those freed. The Lebanese Army also received the body of one of its soldiers killed by alnusra front last year. They were part of 40 sol verse who were seed in august last year. The armed groups, the alnusra front and i. S. I. L. Were responsible for the kidnappings. The nusra front freed soldiers in august. Joining me now from beirut is middle east analyst. Good to have you with us. The picture that we saw a few minutes earlier there, fighters openly standing exchanging prisoners with the sovereign state. No strikes taking place. Doesnt that speak to how important this deal must be perceived to be . That is going to be a harsh one, specifically that the alnusra front is being surrounded in those areas without having any access to the lebanese territory in order to exchang
For killing a palestinian. Hello there, a very warm welcome to the program. The u. S. President has used his speech at the start of the u. N. Climate conference to call for a meaningful deal on Climate Change, saying the next generation is watching. World leaders have gathered at the conference known as cop 21. They will take part in two weeks of intense negotiations, theyre aim, of forging a deal for Global Warming and hopefully avoid disastrous Climate Change. In total, 25,000 official delegates are hoping to secure a illegalllegally binding accord. Coming into 2020, when currently commitments from the kyoto protocol pla play out. Nick clark is there. Plenty more optimism is an. Reporter there certainly is, a mood of expectation in the back of peoples minds, what happened in copenhagen in 2009, there was a lot of speculation, that collapsed in abject failure and nobody wants to have that happen here. Thats why we have seen the World Leaders arrive at the beginning, because at the cop
Lebanese army exchanged prisoners with alnusra fighting in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the Lebanese Army received the body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. Translator it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. We are here in alnusra controlled territory. We are witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers, the release of these soldiers were mediated by qatar and efforts by alnusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. This is the convoy of the Lebanese Security forces bringing nusra prisoners to be exchanged coming from i. S. I. L. For the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. Translator god has blessed us and we would like to thank alnusra. Translator we thank everybody who helped broker the deal and thank alnusra front for helping a lot and also thank the lebanese government. Translator im a pr
Peace in the republic of africa. World leaders are gathering in paris for the oft n climate conference. It is the start of two weeks of intense negotiations aimed at forging a deal to limit globe app warming to 2 degrees c. 1477 heads of state and government are attending the opening day of the talks. In total 250 thousand official delegates are hoping to get a binding accord for every country to cut emissions. This needs to come into effect in 2020 when current commitments to the kyoto protocol cease. Why are heads of state attending the first day rather than the end of this conference . Reporter thats all about boosting momentum because the spectre of copenlagen hangs over everyone here. There was so much hope and expectation for that to secure a deal but that ended in failure. Nobody wants that to head here. Normally they come at the end, but theyre coming at the beginning to give it a boost. President obama will be talking and also president xi jinping because they could be potenti
First former israeli leader to go to jail. And the west african country of guinea is officially ebola free, but the search for a vaccine still continues. Well have a special report. And in suppor sport, benitez said hes the victim of unfair criticism, and hell fight for his future at real. Hello, the u. S. And iraq say they have killed a number of leaders of the Islamic State in iraq and the levant in airstrikes in syria. Hyder al abadi has paid a visit to the recaptured city of ramadi. They raised the flag in the center of the city, and mr. Abadi pledgings to take mosul left. There were ten isil leaders killed in the last month. Roslind jordan reports. This isage alleged leader, the mastermind of the recent paris attacks. With plans of his own to attack other western targets. The u. S. Military said that they killed him in an airstrike somewhere inside syria on december 24th, and he was one of ten isil leaders targeted this month. Our ability to dismantle, and the ground commanding co