lebanese ambassador, is the kingdoms response for being accused of aggression in the yemen rule. and praying for recognition millions of indigenous indians off the government to acknowledge their religion and include them in the upcoming census. ah, the u. s. and french presidents have held their 1st face to face meeting since that countries most serious diplomatic dispute in years. it came ahead of the g. 20 summit in rome. joe biden acknowledged the handling of a security packed with australia and the u. k. was clumsy, that agreement forced the cancellation, australia's multi $1000000000.00 deal to buy french submarines on and says he was under the mistaken belief that paris had been informed. we have, you know, older no more loyal with ally and friends. it's been with us from the beginning reason, in part, when we came before we did was quantity, it was done with a lot of grace. i was under the impression, certain things to happened that had but i mean, to clear french read through, you know, what's important is precisely to be sure that such a situation will not be possible for all future congo coordination, stronger corporation. but for me, what's important is that we built during the past with some very concrete actions in order to strengthen the partnership for hell. this clarification between what european defense means and how this is completely compatible with nato. what's your been sovereignty means and how it is important for global security and white house correspondent kennedy, how cats has more from run the meeting between the french president emanuel mac craw and u. s. president joe biden was important because these are longstanding allies and the rift that was created as a result of the united states. working with united kingdom and australia and forming a security partnership known as office leaving france in the dark was a flap in the face, according to the french president. and well, there was a telephone call to try and men the relationship. this was the 1st face to face meeting were joe biden acknowledged the mistakes of the united states, saying that this was clumsy and also without brace to leave france, a really ignorant of what was taking place. we should also point out, though that the apology appeared to be accepted by the french president who talked about the importance of the relationship moving forward. what mattered were the actions in the coming days, weeks, months and years now? and joe biden also had other meetings here in rome. he met with the italian president as well as the italian prime minister. but there was another headline, and that was the announcement that health ministers and finance ministers of the g 20 r working creating a task force in order to achieve an ambitious goal that is to see that the world's population is vaccinated up to 70 percent by mid 2022 or early in the day, president biden visited pope frances that the vatican to discuss the climate crisis and the corona virus pandemic. james based has this report from room president biden with the pope, a deeply personal and spiritual moment for the u. s. is 2nd ever catholic president, but also a chance to discuss the most pressing issues at the top of the list, the climate emergency. the biden administration had hoped by now to have passed its massive spending legislation, giving the president the ability to match his words on climate with action. but there's been no breakthrough. as the u. s. president toward rome with his motorcade of 85 vehicles. the un secretary general said all roads to success at the climate conference in glasgow in just a few days passed through rome. what is the minimum g 20 countries must deliver at this summit? for there to be a chance of success at cop $26.00 in glasgow. we asked you above what the scientists tell us that are the levels of emission that should be needed in 20, said he, and in 2050. and it is clear that it leads nowhere. if developed countries will tried to blame emerging economies and emerging economies will try to blame developed countries. these is the moment for every body to the maximum. g. 20 leaders had been arriving in the italian capital, including some like the australian prime minister, scott morrison, and the brazilian president jebel sanara, who faced the most criticism from climate campaigners. a senior un source has told me that the pre summit negotiations conducted by the leaders envoys known as shoppers had been extremely difficult. there's been some positive movement on the global distribution of coven 19 vaccinations, but on the key issue, the climate emergency has been absolutely no progress. another issue complicating things is the fact that some leaders, notably rushes, president, putin and china as president. she will not be traveling to rome or glasgow and will be attending this g 20 remotely. james bayes al jazeera rome, the years will soon begin vaccinating children between the age of 5 and 11. the drug regulation agency has authorized the pfizer by intact cove at 19 job for young children. that means as many as $21000000.00 children could be eligible ahead of the feed and drug administration says this will bring the country closer to returning to a sense of normalcy. eoc cities brace for a shortage of public sector workers after vaccine mandate deadline passed on friday . police and firefighter unions have warned large sections of the workforce will go on unpaid leave for refusing to get the job. fell as well as a support. ah, new york needs its fire fighters and its cops, but pretty soon there may be fewer on duty than before. were trying to avoid what is going to be an inevitable disaster by design on monday morning. told to get at least one shot and prove it by friday night, giving a choice of a cobra vaccine or no job unless medically exempt, many refusing city work is from 1st responders to sanitation. i don't feel that i should be coerced into taking it before i'm ready. i'm already back. i get the get back to you with the man. no budging. you're harming your fellow sanitation workers in your harming your neighbors and your harming the people. new york city and it's time to stop. and now a city preparing for a shortage in washington, st. hundreds of fire fighters still unvaccinated, only some claiming their exempt. there are some firefighters for whom we don't have any vaccine or small number of about 30. and we don't have, they do not have the vaccine in exemption request ending with the d. c. government or the department of health. those are individuals who would be the 1st that we would take adverse action or when it comes to officials here in washington. the message is clear. cobit shots provide the best defense and the best way of getting this country back on track. but many outside this place do not want to be forced. this country split, not just by politics, but by vaccine mandates to protest. as in minnesota, i go to the health care providers vaccine mandate space center work is in mississippi, protesting a federal mandate to an airline pilot trying. i'm failing to block a mandate affecting them. and all of this as the vaccine looks set to be approved for young kids. so when i look at the risk and benefit from my 9 year old son, it's not really a close call. the benefits he will get from the vaccines far outweigh any risk as the f d. i overwhelmingly, recommending on friday that 5 to 11 year holds. got the pfizer job. it still has to be signed off by the cdc, but could come as soon as next week. with shots on offer in a matter of days, even if some parents are cautious for my kids, i don't think i'll be getting the vaccine for them until it's been rigor tested. you know, i really, really good testing protocol just it's too dangerous. one study claiming only 27 percent of parents plan on giving this reduced toast vaccine to vacate straight to white. the white house may have its co it beating plan, but it's got a long way to go in convincing the rest of the country. phil laval, al jazeera washington, the lebanese ambassadors to saudi arabian bahrain have been given 48 hours to leave those countries. saudi arabia is recalled, it's ambassador and announced it stopping all lebanese imports, crossing its borders, the lebanese prime minister, nat geo, because he is urging his information minister to make the right decision to fix arab relations. george could die his criticism of the sounds, leg kurdish ins worn. yemen has led to an escalating diplomatic crisis. santa hata has more the story from beirut. a few days ago, a video circulated on line in which the information minister was criticizing the saudi a lead military campaign in yemen, in fact, calling saudi arabia the external aggressors. now, this of course angered saudi arabia and the information minister said that his statements were made before he was appointed in the new government. they were made back in august, and this was his personal opinion. but that was just not enough for saudi arabia. even the lebanese government tried to distance itself, the prime minister or the president. they tried to distance themselves from the statements made by the information minister saying that it did not reflect lebanese government policy, but clearly with saudi arabia's decision to recall it, some back sort of for consultations and demanding that the lebanese investor in saudi arabia leave the country within 48 hours, it is just, this is just not enough. now this is going to, this is definitely a blow to the new government. so ever since prime minister matthew took office, he has been talking about, you know, trying to restore relations with the gulf corporation council states. because as of late, really, the relationship between lebanon and gulf arab states has been at an all time low. in fact, especially saudi arabia believes that iran through it's local ally, has the law now controls the country. and this is why saudi arabia really has been staying on the sidelines. so the traditional partners of lebanon, the gulf, our countries, the political and economic partners, they have been on the side line as of yet. so this new incident definitely is going to further further strain. the relationship sedans armed forces chief general abdel, fata albert han has relieved several diplomats of their roles among them. the ambassadors of turkey, the u. e and some africa. it comes as tensions escalade after monday's military coup us as calling on. but how not to interfere with saturdays plan. protests administrators happen on the streets of cartoon opposing the military activist. say at least 11 people have been killed. meanwhile, there's been increasing pressure on su dobbs. military to release detained. civilian leaders on friday per on spoke about the future of the asked a prime minister abdullah hancock. i will tell you we will elect a prime minister from among independent figures and negotiations are already underway. as we speak, we have not given up on ham dock. we set delegates to negotiate with him to resume his duties. we believe what happened has released him dark from pressures he once had. we told him that we have cleared the field for you, and no one would lay obstacles on your way from this day forward. and also you have the liberty to form the government as you may wish. we will not interfere in any decision by any official. we bring along still has on al jazeera, accused of mishandling, a sexual abuse scandal during the fight against a bowler the you suspends funding to the w h. o congo operations and how the increased use of hydro power in georgia is threatening a species of fish that have lived alongside the dinosaurs. ah now, nor'easter traditionally brings a lot of snow that's later in the season. at the moment you've had what it could go to dories to bring a huge amount of rain damaging winds to a big system. now in this eastern side of the u. s. the action being off the coast . so if you look at it more closely for saturday, the rain is now moving slow. the north was a better looking picture. the warnings will be dropped. not the end of it, though you can follow them up to massachusetts and probably eventually towards liver scotia. this is during sunday with better weather to come, but rather a cold breeze, i suspect on its way through for the next couple of days. on the other side, the us where it's been. so went recently, there is more rain coming in slowly from the pacific, but for the time being is just a scattering of showers, but a snow up in the mountains. there's the cold breeze coming down out of the canadian interior. hasn't yet affected toronto, but there is no in it. so i think it'll be a cold blast for the south. an active weather is a super specific lie to the bahamas for cuba, and down towards honduras. but that line is marching slowly. eastward was generally dry to the west drawing yucatan dry through most of mexico. as you can see. but sunday takes the potential for shower towards haiti, eastern side of cuba, jamaica, and abbey further south into nicaragua. ah, facing longer hours and shorter deadlines, south korean delivery drivers are literally being worked to death. one 0 one, east explorer, the dock side of consumer convenience in south korea on al jazeera, lead us from the world's biggest economies arriving here in rome to discuss the deteriorating economic situation in afghanistan. but all lives will. so be all the g twenty's responsible claim with emergency because they find a way to prioritize the products health over g d. p. special coverage on al jazeera . ah ah, you're watching out as a reminder, our top story is this our, the u. s. infringe presidents have hail their 1st in person meeting since that countries most serious diplomatic dispute. in years, joe biden acknowledged the handling of a security packed with australia and the u. k. was clumsy. the us food and drug administration is authorized the father by and take coven 19 vaccine for children, as young as 5 trials for the age group began in july, lebanese ambassadors, the saudi arabian bahrain. i've been given 48 hours to leave those countries. it's in response to accusations of saudi aggression in the yemen. pakistan's prime minister's held a secure c meeting to discuss recent violent protests in the country. supporters of a band political party are marching towards the capital, islamabad, and demanding the release of their leader who was detained earlier this year. several police officers were killed and at least $25.00 others wounded during a rally on wednesday. thousands of protesters happen marching in marley's capital by mako, against the presence of french military frances already begun to withdraw soldiers from its northernmost molly in bases. its troops in this a hail region will be reduced around $3000.00. i 2023. molly's prime ministers, the keys, france of abandoning the country. oh, we went out to day in large numbers to show national and international opinion that it is the molly and people who decide their fate. that's why we are here to day. oh, it doesn't matter. if france leaves are always stay, is the pointers that france is not the best suited to tell a country on the ground, not to coal and all its friends. the united kingdom is threatening greater checks on all you vessels fishing in its waters. if france goes ahead with a series of propose sanctions, the escalating disputes is linked to a post briggs at fishing agreement, paris, the threatening sanctions of the u. k. doesn't grant more licenses to french fishermen. while the british government says that would put the ear in breach of a trade agreement, lexia brian as the latest from paris, the british captain has been summoned to appear in court in august next year. he's accused of fishing in french waters without a license. he had on board about 2 toms of scallops when his boat was checked and seized, taken to the french port of the half earlier this week. now those checks were part of this escalating route between the u. k and france over the rights to fission, british waters and particularly waters around the island of jersey. a u. k. crown dependency that lies just 22 kilometers of the french coast. francis wasn't given the licenses it deserves, and that is expected under the post bricks at trade deal. and that has got it incredibly frustrated. so on tuesday is it said it will unveil what it's calling targeted measures. if it doesn't get the license, it licenses it wants, it said that it will stop british vessels from docking and french ports that it will stay pop chicks, time consuming health and a health and safety checks on trucks going in and out of the u. k. and that could have an impact on shots like the one behind me, because france is the gateway to europe for all of those british fishing vessels and the fish that they try to sell it to the continent. there are lots of measures underway to try and prevent that happening, including possibly looking called a brush, half meeting in rome. the sunday on the sidelines at the g. 20 meeting between president emmanuel mccall and the u. k. prime minister at boris johnson. now both sides are being accused of ramping up the tension to play to a domestic audience. president mccall will be standing for re election and april next year. and the votes from those c side towns where fishing is a lifeline could be crucial to his re election. several species of sturgeon are in danger of becoming extinct in georgia. the fish are facing threats from man made dams open force your walk reports from the re oni river. if you could travel back through the mists of time, say around 200000000 years, you would find fish remarkably like the ones swimming the present day. waters of the re yoni river, 5 critically endangered species of sturgeon, still spawn in the rony. that is, they travel up stream from the black sea to lay their eggs. but upstream, numerous stems have contributed to that drastic decline. this one is the voted c. hey hydropower cascade completed in 1987. it stopped fish from reaching spawning grounds that had existed for millennia hydropower. so very me probably for sure with this purchase point ground. so it chris. oh and now it's only 9 kilometers. in the past, it was more of a 50 temperature to understand the threat to moon and needs more data. we said mckelly is ready to help. he remembers the days when the sturgeon, with large and plentiful, catching them, now is illegal. but if method locals know who to call her, mom is not, as we keep is alive, put it to the basket and wait for to moon or all the others. they'll come take a sample and let them go. you fish are released back into the river. that's delivering results. one species thought to be extinct has been re discovered the so called ship sturgeon. but dna analysis also has revealed a worrying trend hybrid individuals, which can no longer reproduce. man's intervention is everywhere. here the river has been diverted to reduce seasonal flooding. the sluice gates used to be used for quite a different purpose. if close you could trap migrating sturgeon, and they could be caught far more easily. well, thanks to observe is on the ground. those kinds of big fishing events are far less common. 12 monitors now patrol a 92 kilometer stretch of the reopening. last year kennedy's team covered the $22.00 incidents of poaching, including this brig of hooks designed to snag sturgeon on the river bed. the cisco, that's in a look at one of the we are in contact with each other over the phone. we pass on information. what is happening in our area? or if a boat goes by, i will tell the others where it went, in which direction. and we will react to that if something illegal is happening, we can stop it with virgin ok now better protected and better understood. but georgia is government once more hydropower, on this river, not less. their survival still hangs in the balance. rubbing 1st year walker al jazeera on the rio river in western georgia. mia miles military jones sentenced a close aid, a former leader on sounds to cheat to 20 years in prison. the former m. p. when hayne was charged with treason in a special cause, he was arrested in the aftermath of a cou in february that has plunged me on more into chaos. he's a 1st high ranking member, the former governing party to be sentenced by the gentle after trial. to g faces charges that could see her jailed for decades. the european commission has reportedly suspended funding to the world health organizations operations in the d all see the democratic republic of congo. as often independent inquiry found that more than ac aid workers, some who worked for the w h o, sexually exploited abuse women during the response to the ebola outbreak. leaks e mails to the reuters news agency show the ears withholding more than $24000000.00 from the u. n. organisation roberts flim of felts is investigative journalist who recently broke the story of w. h o abuses. he says the organization must be held to account. i think one of the most important things to emphasize at this point is the overall scale of the scandal. so between our 2 investigations for the new humanitarian and thomson reuters and this commission that was set up by w h o. we're now looking at more than 150 women who have gone on the record to say that they were abused, exploited in many cases, raped by responders working for the ball, the response. overwhelmingly. w h o employees. overwhelmingly foreigners working for w h o. and one of the more striking aspects of this was the fact that the abusers organized sort of rackets of abuse and indeed used the resources of the response to engage in their views. so as an example, in a number of instances, drivers were sent and marked w h o vehicles w h o drivers to pick up women to ferries, them to hotels, which doubled as offices for w h. where those women were sexually exploited or abused in at least one case a w h o driver was sent in a marked rachel vehicle to kidnap a minor was brought to one of these hotels and was raped by a w h o employee. the reality is that it is the case that you funds as well as world bank funds, u. s. government funds, u k funds. all the funds that went toward this response did indeed enable been sorts of response these sorts of abuse rather on a massive scale. so it can be said that it is potentially a very small, helpful 1st measure to hold w h ho to account for things that occurred in this country. and it's important that you put on the table the requirement that restitution be paid to victims of the sorts of abuse persons. queen elizabeth has been advised by doctors to rest for at least another 2 weeks. it follows an overnight hospital stay last week. she will avoid official visits and undertake only like duties during this time the buckingham palace, as the queen, is determined to lead the u. k. in commemorating its war dead on remembered stay in just over 2 weeks. the 95 year old is the wealth oldest and longest reigning monarch indies, indigenous tribes campaigning to have their religion recognized. in the upcoming census, there are a 104000000 indigenous people in india. many who worship nature and don't identify with any of the 6 religions listed in the census. but a hindu nationalist organization is opposing the changes. as eliza per annum reports from jackson state. the people of larger data village in india's eastern state of jack can sing songs, praising nature, they belong to the around tribe, and some of the more than 50000000 indigenous people of central and eastern india known as other bosses. anthropologists, they are the bosses of the country's 1st inhabitants and they believe pre date of all religions in india. first to worship motherhood. second, his father's and the son, his guard, or rituals are about worshipping these gods for safety and prosperity. we are only worshippers of nature, and our god does not have any shape or size. like many other vices, members of the tribe of followers of a distinct religion called santa one millions of indigenous people have been converted to christianity, or hinduism by mission. reason. the past 150 years, millions of others don't identify with the 6 religions on the indian senses. hinduism, islam christianity, sick of them. both of them and jane as m. ottawa sees began bay campaign for recognition of their religion after the indian government led by the by the p, a jumped the party or b, j. p, decided to drop the other religions and persuasions option from the next census. with more than 7000000 out of office, johnson has one of the biggest populations of indigenous people. politicians here passed a resolution last year saying the state recognizes this thing, tribal village, and called southern us. they're all in the central government to do the same. but the b g, p government's ideological wing, the hindu nationalist organization. the recess has been holding outreach programs, trying to convince other bosses there hindus, lot of pig on top of the bgp, an artist as believe that since i was he's on each of worshippers. even in hinduism, we believe that you can be on a piece t, v to worship river, the sun mountains, and even trees. so brothers, you do the to, so we believe they are hindus. but if they say they're not, hindu the b j b has no problem. with that other asi said, the government wants to force them to choose the hindu option for political reasons . and by days quote that the, the b j p is conspiring to include tribal people amongst hindus so that it can use them as a voting bank. the demand for the inclusion of a separate religion, genuine and the indian government should do it. followers of tribal village and say they have withstood pressure to convert to christianity or hinduism and will continue to do so. they say they refuse to take part in the next census. if the government refuses to acknowledge them, elizabeth peron and al jazeera 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