Wordl leaders are due to arrive in Copenhagen for the final crucial days of the climate change summit.
Barack Obama, the US president, who is set to arrive in the Danish capital on Friday, has said he is confident a deal can be reached.
But so far negotiators and celebrities alike have sturggled to achieve any firm commitments.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Copenhagen.
The climate change conference in Copenhagen is barely under wya and already a leaked draft agreement is pitting developing nations against their wealthier counterparts.
If the doucments are accurate, the proposal would see more power in the hands of rich nations, the UN’s negotiating role sidelined and teh Kyoto Protocol abandoned.
Developing nations are furious and say they will not sign on to an inequiatble deal that they aruge would limit their economic growth.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher explains.
The European Union is asking Spain why one of its precious wetland reserves has been allowed to dry up so much that the peat which lies beneath the surface is on fire.
Ecologists blame the mismanagement of water resourecs and over-irrigation for the environmental tragedy.
Alan Fisher reports from the Tablas de Daimiel National Park in La Mancha.
The Pakistani army is claiming a major breakthrough in its battle against the Taliban in South Waziristan.
After days of fierce fighting, the military says it has seized control of Kotkai, said to be the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader.
But in the shadow of military accomplishments, the fighting is forcing civilians to flee. More than 200,000 peopel have left their homes and still more are expected to follow.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Islamabad.
Recent attacks in Pakistan, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, have been followed by a major military operation by the army in South Waziristan.
Now into its sixth day, heavy fighting continues around Kotkai, the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban.
Alan Fisher, in an exclusvie report, shows the waevs of peolpe being forced to leave their homes near the border between North and South Waziristan as a result of the fighting.