hasn't yet got there so the skies agenda speaking mostly full of sunshine so is the thunderstorm potential around a man tends to be the only place i think unless you count far west of yemen they were fast and western society otherwise things are still quiet for a couple days more still temperatures lost in the thirty's humidity is quite high by day and night around the coast in qatar bahrain u.a.e. for example otherwise quiet and sunny temps are variations of in the story in southern africa had missed still pretty warm in durban and johannesburg around the 30 mark such before in botswana but cape town still 80. 2 planes came from studio of you and 15 men checked you know hotel mr chairman. it is possible to fully clean the premises and skeletons but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned from mystery wanted to give evidence started speaking about the old india before even the saudi government give up with just a. mugger in a saudi consulate on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera a court hearing is taking place in hong kong of the facemask ban imposed by a leader carrying a group of pro-democracy legislators say the ban undermines the rule of law most of the city's metro stations remained shut after several of vandalized protests. north korea's chief nuclear negotiator kim yong killed says he's called off the new transition talks with the united states in sweden saying washington has proved nothing to the table. in iraq there's been more antigovernment on rest on life fire in the capital baghdad almost 100 people have died in the last 5 days of protests a number of t.v. stations i've also been attacked. now a 2nd intelligence official is considering filing a whistleblower complaint against u.s. president donald trump that's according to the new york times this person reportedly has more direct knowledge regarding trump's dealings with ukraine the president has been accused of using his position to get the country to investigate his political rivals and impeachment inquiry is now under way. you know if you a sect of state might pump a 0 has defended the state department missing a deadline to turn over documents relating to that inquiry he says his office sent a letter to congress as an initial response speaking in greece he also said he didn't believe people are interested in the investigation i think they want to know about the relationship with america greece i'm convinced of that right this is this is this is the this is this is what's this is what's wrong when the world doesn't focus on the things that are right the things that matter the things that impact real people's lives and instead you get caught up in some silly gotcha game you see that's not that's not healthy that doesn't help democracies flourish it doesn't help grow economies what it does is it destroys people's belief is that the people who have this charge right as a reporter as a journalist the people who have this charge aren't really focused on the things that matter to people because look i was on the phone call i was i'm on almost every phone call with the president with every world leader the president has every right to have these set of conversations where pompei i was in greece to sign a defense agreement that will see an american base established in the turkish border and the 2nd of state warned turkey against any illegal drilling in the east mediterranean sea al-jazeera has john psaropoulos reports from atoms for. the revised defense cooperation agreement between the u.s. and greece opens the way for u.s. military spending here greece's defense budget has been cut almost in half during its recent financial crisis not only will joint defense exercises increase u.s. forces are expected to build a new navy and air force base in oleksandr in northeast greece which will supply nato allies bulgaria and romania that route bypasses the bosphorus controlled by turkey suggesting that the us is looking for alternative routes the us turkey relationship is also under pressure in the eastern mediterranean that's where turkey has sent drill ships to explore for oil and gas in waters claimed by european union members cyprus the e.u. and us say the turkish explorations are illegal the united states is eager to partnership with greece on a range of energy issues for the sake of your prosperity and a stable eastern mediterranean region. last march i met with the leaders of cyprus greece and israel jerusalem we free countries with free markets want to achieve energy security together we want to make sure that rules govern international exploration of the mediterranean sea its energy resources and that no country can hold europe hostage greece stands to gain strategically from closer energy cooperation with the u.s. as well it is building gas facilities that will allow to transport u.s. liquefied natural gas to the balkans upsetting a russian monopoly and the bigger u.s. military footprint helps greece feel more secure in its tense relationship with turkey in the aegean greece is the beneficiary of the deteriorating u.s. relationship with turkey whose dependability as an ally the u.s. has begun to question not only do the 2 disagree on how to fight the war in syria the u.s. sees turkey's purchase of russian s 400 surface to air missiles as a breach of alliance in spirit and then there's the increasingly difficult relationship between the european union and turkey when it comes to refugees reese has to worry not about perhaps an imminent war with turkey but that turkey is. using all of strengths and all its. abilities to conduct what one might say is a hybrid war against country. the migrant issue being part of this of course. there are those who believe that the migratory flows are regulated by turkey could be to act as a weapon. against greek society the deepening relationship with the us marks greece increasingly as an eastern border of the western security arrangement in many ways it's a renewal of cold war ties in which lines of allegiance are now being drawn through the aegean with the benefits and risks that come with it jumps on. al-jazeera athens. there are warnings of a dire situation in yemen after weeks of fuel shortages the country's old ministry is blaming the saudi led coalition for imposing restrictions on fuel tankers the ministry says one tanker was allowed in 2 weeks ago but only provided enough fuel for 5 days officials say the shortage is affecting everyday life. the ban on fuel imports has brought life to an your standstill it is paralyzed hospitals factories and other vital institutions that are related to public service this is an unlawful ban of a commodity that does not represent any harm to the saudi led coalition but its restriction impacts everyday life it makes ordinary people's lives even harder jordan's government says it's reached a paid deal with the teacher's union to end the one month strike a protest by thousands of teachers was the longest public sector strike in the country's history that affected more than $1500000.00 students in public schools the deal will raise teaches allowances from 35 to 60 percent from next year the government says the move will strain the country's heavily indebted finances. in ecuador protesters took to the streets for a 3rd day demonstrating against cuts to fuel subsidies protesters blocked roads and put up barricades in the capital quito despite the unrest president marino says he has no plans to reverse his decision to scrap the subsidies he said he won't bow to those he called criminals nearly $370.00 people have been arrested during the protests bushfires are still burning in parts of australia a month after they began the unusually early starts a fire as at the very beginning of spring was because of an extended drought the worst southeast australia has ever seen under thomas reports now from dale in new south wales. for a month large areas of southeastern australia have been burning a month not at the height of summer but in early spring the reason hot dry conditions and years of drought there's been so little rain to moisten the ground and replenish rivers reservoirs and lakes that firefighters are fighting fire largely without water we're using minimal water but it's just a matter of breaking up before breaking up the fuel. for. that all because of a drought here. vye fighters were able to fight the bushfires effectively or quickly enough and nearly haze parents had hundreds of cows in these fields now the earth is blackened some still smolders 2 weeks after the flames huge losses up to 20250 cows and they cobbs. heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking most of the animals bodies haven't been found but some have horribly burnt wild kangaroos also on able to escape the fires have been devastating to some around here but even for those farmers unaffected by the flames things aren't much better. than hasn't been substantial rain on andrew cameron's cattle and sheep farm since february of 2018 cameron says the near 2 year drought is the worst on record. termly see 100 millimeters since january lowest run for on record nor a 90 with a bad 424 millimeters so we're still. long why belie that with only 3 months of the year to guy less than half of your worst previous year yes they scurried. without grass in fields farmers have to buy grain and hay to feed their livestock there were stray is government subsidizes animal feed it still costs farmers like cameron hundreds of thousands of dollars but climate change is making this the new normal and fires in spring something to expect we still have people in the northern hemisphere fighting forest was there over there as way starting to come into our season over here in the southern hemisphere what we saw 1015 years ago was a distinct only ice and between no seasons and it seems that there are actually starting to cross over a little bit but they could yet cross over more andrew thomas al-jazeera near armadale australia. 6 what elephants have drowned in a waterfall in thailand ranges in a national park were noted in the middle of the night by elephant distress calls it's thought they all fell on the slippery rocks trying to save a baby from their herd 2 others were saved the area known as hells falls is closed to visitors all the bodies of the women we understand that the elephants were trying to cross over to the other side of the river probably one of the smaller elephants might have slipped i don't want to try to rescue them but instead it was swept away by a waiter. in between a fast at least 20 people have been killed in an attack on a gold mining site it happened in the northern part of the country in sound province it's the latest in a series of attacks over the past 4 and a half years with many armed groups operating in the region something i did al-qaeda and i still. cameroon's opposition leader has been freed by military court on the orders of the president's lawyers come to i was jailed in january for an izing protests was released along with 136 other prisoners and follows an amnesty granted to 300 prisoners accused of crimes against the state when it was a ports now from the capital ellen de. the opposition leader already has come to breathe the air of freedom as he was driven out of you know in the main prison why he spent the last 9 months hundreds of supporters had gathered to see him walk a free man chanting party songs. on the other side of the city his supporters had earlier gathered at the military tribunals why he's been standing trial they wanted to catch a glimpse of the hero. has to come to and other detainees arrive in a convoy of prison vehicles to sign their release documents. opposition leaders say the choice of court to try them in the 1st place was wrong. it's not good for the justice to at mit's in division of the executive. don't assume and i defended. i am not. proud of what happened a year when. we prepare our arguments against it. in front of the world leadership. the amnesty granted to opposition leaders and supporters came just hours after the end of a national dialogue called by the president from the tribunal they were to turn to the central prison to be joined by family members before heading whole the opposition leader had been in prison since his arrest for leading protest against an election result he denounced as ford lent his party insists the healing process can only begin when such an reforms are carried out. we still have the problem of the electoral system that means that we have to discuss it if the concerns are reform of the trust is there because we have to make sure that that if there is not going to. let elections if there is not no reforms of the electoral system now then we can be sure that what has been happened in the progression will happen again. long term president paul bia has promised to implement the recommendations of the national dialogue that includes some form of decentralization of powers to the regions it so far ordered the release of nearly $500.00 prisoners including those who fought against the state many years welcomed the recent release of hundreds of political prisoners and rebels say it's an important 1st step towards healing divisions in the country the pressure will now be on the rebels to do the same but have so far dismissed the recent government concessions as cosmetics. many leaders of the separatist movement calling for the creation of an independent state of them remain behind bars it's not clear if they to meet again their freedom soon already some cameroonian say the government had conceded too much of a decrease al-jazeera you know in the room. right now the round up from the penultimate day of the world athletics championships has far esmail. so found has made history at the khalifa international stadium on saturday after winning her 2nd individual title here in doha the dutch runner took gold in the 1500 meters final adding to the 10000 meters title she won last saturday is the 1st time anyone has ever won both of them it's. another championship record came in the 5000 meters final in a weary as kenya holding off the challengers to retain the title. the individual sprint champions no lyall's and christian coleman combined to win gold for america in the 4 by 100 meter relay liles leading them home to victory justin gatlin and mike rogers the other members of the u.s. team coming in had a great britain with japan getting bronze. jamaica took gold in the women's 4 by 100 meter sprint relay jackson running the anchor leg of shelley and fraser high securing her 2nd gold at the championships alongside and italia white and joanie l. smith. and the field advance. retained her world title in the triple jump the venezuelan finished way ahead of the competition 2nd round leap of 15.37 metres clenching bolt the rock as again. and there was a new championship record for america's joe kovacs in the shop pro but he won gold by just one centimeter with a throw up 22.91 meters as the 1st time that 4 people and ever thrown over 22 meters and a shot at find. all the final day of competition on sunday has 7 titles to be decided the women's long jump and men's javelin in the field on the track there is the men's 1510000 meter finals as well as the women's 100 meter hurdles they'll have 21000 and with the women's and men's 4 by 400 meters really. part of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera a court hearing is taking place in hong kong over the facemask ban imposed by. a group of pro-democracy legislators say the ban undermines of rule of law most of the cities but just asians and such certain about the laws by protesters so a clock is the latest from hong kong. this particular case was filed in the high court yesterday and that hearing is today it's being led by 24 pro-democracy lawmakers but it's being led by dennis. himself so clearly he thinks is enough evidence on their side to challenge this and. they're also taking a car and the police commissioner and the justice secretary to course now. believe that this particular case. and unconstitutional and it is an opposition to the. constitution which is bicycle or. north korea's chief nuclear negotiator kim myong gil has called off denuclearization talks with the united states and sweden he says washington has brought nothing to the table delegations from both countries were in stockholm to discuss pyongyang ending its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted. in iraq there's been more anti-government unrest and live fire in the capital almost 100 people have died in the last 5 days a number of t.v. stations have also been attacked. polls have opened in the past half hour and cost of a snap election was called when prime minister russia rather madge resigned in july after being summoned by cost of those war crimes prosecutor he wants to question the pm over his role in the fight against serb forces 20 years ago opinion polls suggest no party will have enough support to form a government on its own a 2nd intelligence official is considering filing a whistleblower complaint against u.s. president donald trump that's according to the new york times this person reportedly has more direct knowledge regarding trump's dealings with ukraine and jordan's government says it's reached a paid deal with the teachers' union to end a one month strike the action affected more than $1500000.00 students in public schools deal will raise teachers allowances from 35 to 60 percent from next year but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power stations that are watching i feel. with a record number of nominations the world waits to see 2019 about peace prize the nobel committee will announce the winner out on friday al-jazeera has been awarded exclusive international rights to interview the when asked to give awards ceremony in december the nobel prize announces era. the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change has warned of relative just 12 years to avoid climate touch with governments having failed so far to take effective action to come by global warming many and are looking to science and technology to come up with ways of bringing temperatures under control but what kinds of solutions being devised and how effective could they be reporter eric campbell has been finding out. we start our journey in a city moving on from kabul. few places are as eager as copenhagen to get power from wind and even in this weather from sun. no way this plane came into a ditch cars that parks. klaus bonded as director of the danish cyclists federation and a former mayor of the city. he's leading its push to be the 1st carbon mutual capital by 2020. i do believe that there is a strong political consensus in denmark that we need to act it's pretty cold right now but we have an extremely hot shot it didn't rain for 2 and half months here. but then i think this is why is there something going on. and i think we have to realise that something is going to. copenhagen has been breaking all records in traditional ways to clean air. that according to this meters 1631 box of cross this bridge this morning alone in the past year it's been 3519062 it's extraordinary but the problem is no matter how much we ride them or how much we recycle the matter how fast communities transition to renewables it's probably not going to be faster now because governments aren't meeting the commitments they made at the paris climate change conference to cut emissions the politics are failing which is why there's now such an urgent push to try a new technology to experiment with things that sound like science fiction but cope with the only way to ensure a secure future is a fact. the warning was sounded in october body i.p.c.c. the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change which are working long leading scientists say carbon needed to be almost half to from 2010 levels to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. otherwise runaway temperatures were destroyed by the right ballio reef droughts and hurricanes would become the norm milty are sheets would flood major cities. but our sky mythologised jason fox the former lead all that of the i.p.c.c. says even that won't be enough. it's frightening and i'm sorry to say this but that one and a half to greece global warming we still have like 2 and a half to greece of summer arctic warming and that pushes greenland beyond its threshold of viability so we still lose greenland but at a slower rate. based in copenhagen he measures our street treat for the geological survey of denmark and greenland. when we lose the reflective cover of the arctic sea ice when we lose the greenland ice sheet and the climate system globally unravels and and it's going to create the kind of problems that will make it pretty hard to govern society. the migrations the droughts so what's at risk here is is practically civilization. hold professor bob shares the frustration of all scientists contributing to the i.p.c.c. see the. evidence gathered through years of painstaking field work is often. north by politicians. politicians from governments that dismiss i.p.c.c. reports that's not conservative it's not progressive certainly it is insanity . he fears the world will need massive technological fixes called geo engineering literally read engineering the earth if you just hold back what's coming. for example we can slow down melting of the antarctic ice by piling up sand on the sea floor simply to block a warm currents that are already destabilizing the whole west antarctic ice sheet. other id's include covering oceans with ion filings to encourage carbon e.g. plankton. sending ships around the world to pump seawater mist into the sky to diffuse the sun's writings we have some ideas and we need to try several technologies and evaluate them and figure out which are the least risky etc 2 to get the carbon curve which is like this now to get it negative. and that all needs to happen in the next. 1020 years to start down that path it's extremely ambitious . the idea of geo engineering has excited by scientists and industry. on the other side of copenhagen i've come to meet a prominent political scientist. he did it by using lots and lots of coal he's a favorite commentator in conservative media for argument against major cuts to fossil fuels and i would say look if you say to people there is another solution yes it is going to take the attention somewhat away from the original solution but we should also be honest and say we've tried the 1st solution namely ask people. could you please use the car less could you please use less energy could you please turn off your lights and it's not work for 30 years and actually there's about half a planet who's waiting to get more energy available and why do we talk to them except that fossil fuel emissions are warming the planet he just thinks geo engineering will cool look much faster than switching to review. because it's so cheap it's very likely to happen sooner or later some indian billionaire or some saudi billionaire is going to do it all by themselves just turn it down a little bit to pre-industrial temperatures or wherever we decide to to have it and that would be essentially avoiding a large part not all but a large part of the global warming problem. so what are the most likely fixes and would they really work most of these globally ambitious projects are still on the drawing board but one surprising new technology is up and running in a place generally seen this need to retrieve. it strongly know whom a prestigious innovation. from swiss watches that never lose time just with i mean i was in a country permanently a piece of small company. believes it's found what could be a big part of the solution to problems. christoph cobalt and yon would spark a ph d. students when they decided to form a world changing company. tonight they're celebrating clime works 9th anniversary somewhere still not making money so of course money is not the motivation the money ration as solving a big challenge and there is probably as little as challenging as climate change. this illusion is building giant for. hands that drawer in it and bind carbon molecules of the filters. the carbon free air is released back into the atmosphere the c o 2 is super heated and collect this gas i like to call it low tech not high tech and it's actually very simple the challenging part is making it work and making it cheap. in just 2 years they've opened the plants in switzerland icelandic italy. they believe they could remove 10 percent of the carbon the i.p.c.c. wants cuts. their 1st target is one percent by 2025. it's like 300000000 tons of c o 2 and that we're require a quarter 1000000 machines. but in this developmental stage removing just one tonne of carbon costs at an economical $600.00 us dollars we are confident that and the next 2 to 3 years we will have our cost and the ranch off 2 to $300.00 per tonne and the mid to long term and that's for us 2025 to 2030 and we see cost as $100.00 as feasible. so the big question is what do you do with all this captured c o 2 well fortunately in this case there's a greenhouse just 300 meters away so half of the carbon sucked in the ferns it's piped underground of the greenhouse and turns into vegies. plants absorb carbon so the greenhouse but it's the gas is fertilizer. since it started spraying crop production is increased by 10 percent. the quicker the process can turn a profit the more likely it is to spread round the world. even in frosty switzerland there's a real sense of. urgency about limiting global warming. i came here for the mountains to climb to ski and in the alps you could see very early signs of climate change and of course closures are disappearing like we won't stop that if with and without climate change but the speed of disappearance of trucking. country constantia from the world wildlife fund took us out to see the disappearing place in. the alps a bore me more than twice as fast as the rest of europe over some of it was president to drown. yeah that's really special for us to the farmers don't notice it to yet. the grass growing stay there is a shortage. they actually started to slaughter their cows much earlier. after does so really dry summer i can feel a renewed sense of urgency especially also because of the farmers now i really accept that they are directly affected by it.

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