milan, show me what you've got. - let's be clear. milan isn't rome or venice. there are no gondolas here and no never-ending lines of tourists waiting to visit the colosseum. but something is happening here: a newly found desire to stand out, a quest for a modern way of developing a city. once considered the bland financial capital of the country, milan is now proving its capacity to redefine itself. its industrial past left almost indelible scars on the urban fabric, but the 2015 world expo sparked change. skyscrapers, new public and private initiatives, innumerable urban renewal projects have since popped up on almost every block. some, of course, are more successful than others. one thing is for sure: decades of open-mindedness and of open doors to immigration have made milan the most multicultural hub in all of italy. to me, that is a good place to start. hey! giacomo! ciao! ciao! - good to see you. this is actually the border between italy as it was and the modernity. and you keep pointing right here. right here! future, past. future, past. exactly! that,

world leaders promise to listen to climate activists as they take the fight for their future to milan. ♪ ♪ meteorologist: let's start in australia, where slow-moving thunderstorms are affecting the south. you can see the cloud cover in the satellite image there. we've seen heavy rain and some hail, and that's because the driving conditions to be hazardous in parts of adelaide. that wet weather is going to continue across the southeast as we go into the weekends. wet weather for parts of queensland, new south wales, victoria, and tasmania. it does ease as we go into saturday in the system pulls out to see, but is still looking rather wet. for perth, we've got a system moving across south australia. that's going to bring some brisker wins into play. of north, a few spotty showers around darwin. we are seeing a finer and drier weather, a lot of heat coming back into alice springs, the temperature edge up closer to 40 degrees there. talking about settled weather, let's look at new zealand, looking fine and dry across both islands, another one coming through in the south. we're seeing

actavis also spoke last week at the "youth for climate" conference in milan. this is ugandan activist vanessa nakate. vanessa: my name is vanessa nakate. i live in paula, uganda, a country that has one of the fastest changing climates in the world. in the past few years, i have seen more and more how the climate crisis is affecting the african continent, which is ironic, given that africa is the lowest admit or of co2 emissions of all continents except for antarctica. [applause] historically, africa is responsible for only 3% of global emissions, and yet, africans are already suffering some of the most brutal impacts fueled by the climate crisis. devastating floods and withering droughts. many africans are losing their lives while countless more have lost their livelihoods. the droughts and floods have left nothing behind for the people, nothing except for pain, agony, suffering, starvation, and death. a recent world bank report said we could see up to 86 million people in sub-saharan africa alone displaced due to rising sea levels, desert vacation, declining

host: thousands of students have filled the streets of milan to push action on climate change. global leaders are meeting at the city to hammer out plans ahead of the u.s. summit next month and glasgow. protesters think it is mostly hot air. reporter: enough talk, it is time for action, the clear message from thousands of protesters. they are gathering before the united nations ahead of the main conference. >> ministers from all over the world have gathered here to discuss the climate crisis, and they are pretending that they up solutions to the climate crisis and they are taking sufficient action, but we see through their lives and we see through their blah and we are tired of it. reporter: students in the thousands demonstrating this part of the friday's for a future global protest movement that thunberg helped lunch. the crowd was -- launch. the crowd was larger than usual. thousands filled the streets in anger and frustration. they want a solution. >> we want them to know we are here. we want this to change now. >> it is important for us, because alone we cannot do anything

adam rainey, al jazeera, milan. ♪ >> these are the top stories on al jazeera. the united nations told ethiopia's prime minister it doesn't except the country's decision to expel seven of its senior personnel. ethiopia says the officials are told to leave because they meddled in the internal affairs of the country. white house says the u.s. president and members of his democratic party made progress as they try to rescue joe biden's economic agenda. in a rare move, biden met with his party members on capitol hill. divisions among democrats threatened his ambitious plans. we have more from washington. reporter: it comes down to whether members of congress in the president's party can agree on terms on both social spending/environmental bell as well as the infrastructure spending bill. if they can work out their differences on the actual price tag for the first bill, because there are some in the senate to say that bill is too expensive, at $3.5 trillion, as well as worked out the idea that there is going to be a guarantee that that bill is going to be passed if m

in italy, thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of milan today, demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the paris climate agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees celsius. the protest came at the end of a three-day climate conference, ahead of the u.n.'s cop26 climate summit in glasgow. on thursday, several youth climate delegates were briefly detained by police after they held a peaceful protest ahead of a speech by the italian prime minister. this is ugandan climate activist vanessa nakate. >> i, as an activist, will continue speaking and continue demanding for climate justice. there is no climate justice without acknowledging damage is here with us now. amy: in labor news, today marks 13ays since dozens of new york taxi drivers began a round-the-clock protest outside city hall, demanding relief for thousands of drivers who've been devastated by massive debt, accrued largely due to the artificially inflated cost of taxi medallions. data from 2019 shows medallion owner-drivers, who are mostly immigrants, owe nearly

fatally struck by a car on wednesday as he crossed a street to join a picket line outside a warehouse in milan, illinois. 56-year-old richard rich was pronounced dead at the scene. the local police chief said he did not believe the driver intended to hit rich. this comes after the intercept reported john deere managers are working to suppress stories about accidents caused by non-union strikebreakers. the intercept says company executives are concerned about reputational risk on social media and have instructed workers that accident reports are confidential and must not be shared with the public. some 10,000 john deere workers have been on strike since mid-october to demand equitable pay and benefits as their company records record profits. in chicago, tortilla manufacturer el milagro said wednesday it is ending its seven-day work week and will begin giving employees sundays off starting later this month. the announcement came amid worker walkouts and protests denouncing low pay, staff shortages, and workplace abuse. you can see our coverage of the el milagro workers' fight at democracynow.org