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elections for the first time. both as voters and candidates. plus. >> reporter: i'm in sydney on how the cruise industry is growing so fast for this city is running out of harbour spots to berth the ships. h the ships. the final draft has been revealed. it's now waiting for approval from 9195 nations represented at the u.n. climate talks. the overall deal will be legally binding. it mobilises a minimum of 100 billion dollars a year from 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change. in a detail that received the standing ovation, it was said it

would limit warming to well below 2 degrees. >> translation: this text which is necessarily a balance text, contains elements that we felt before would be impossible to achieve. the proposed agreement is durable, dynamic, balanced and legally binding. it is faithful and acknowledges the notion of justice. it has the key objective, one is vital to have a mean temperature below 2 degree and endeavour to lower that to 1.5 ban ki-moon has urged the world to agree to this deal. >> the draft document is on the table for us now. let us have the courage to grasp them. i look forward to meeting later today on with agreement on the

document over to nick who is in paris. as you and i are speaking, is what is happening is the officials are going-- officials are going over this deal that was presented? >> reporter: this being france, everybody is having lunch. you can see the queue behind me. the host of this conference is that everybody should go and have lunch now. the draft text will be releesd for everybody to examine and look at, at 1.30. then everybody make-up reconvene in the main plenary, the main meeting hall just over there at 3.45. at that point we will hear how successful this text has been and how many objections there will be other otherwise and what progress could be made and whether or not an agreement can go down. the gavel can go down on an agreement at that point.

we will try and unravel what the sticking point is. it is clearly a problem. we heard a rally of calls from the french president to the president of this process of ban ki-moon. what do you think the issue is? > reporter: what is the long-term goal say at the moment?

degrees, i'm not sure which one of those long-term goals that the chinese have got a problem with. obviously, if they change that text for the chinese, then the smallers areas may have problems with it. you thought you had a deal. it might come out looking different to the deal you thought you had, but it's the best we can get here. please don't wreck the conference because we won't have another try at this again. >> reporter: that's the thing. there won't be another cycle. could they say we have to go back to the drawing board and find another text. could that happen?

high. the leaders who came in the beginning of the week, 150 leaders came. he used strong language. >> reporter: on that basis, it's possible it could end in failure?

crossing to adrian brown who is in beijing. china, perhaps, may not be particularly happy with this version of the draft. what has china's strategy been at these talks? >> reporter: before the climate change talks began in paris, china said it wanted to go to this summit prepared to take decisions that were positive, pragmatic and balanced and automatic along it has been-- all along it has been stressing this again and again. it is a developing nation even though it's the world's second largest economy. there's a good reason for that. if they were classified as an industrial nation like the u.s., it would have to make a whooping contribution to that international fund that has been set up to help countries that are being directly affected by climate change. it is clinging to the

development nation status and that has been a cause of friction in paris. if there is success in paris, china would want to bask in the lime light. china has been reminding the world of the huge sacrifices it will have to make in order to reduce pollution levels in this country and that will mean shutting potentially thousands of big - heavy polluting steel and coal plants. i've just been in situ on province in south-west china to report from a former steel town where the mill was closed down nine months ago resulting in 16,000 job losses. that potentially is going to be the template for the rest of the country. the reason why that plant had to close was it had been labelled as a heavy polluter. china is warning of the china cost it has to pay. what they don't need now is

another excuse or reason for its economy to slow even fourth. for chine-- further. for china there is a lot at stake the visuals of china have been terrible, the smog, the red alert. are they feeling international pressure? >> reporter: tell me about the pollution. right now the air quality index is 356 where i'm standing at the moment. anything over 100 is considered to be dangerous. so people here understand that something has to be done, but there is mounting frustration particularly on line about whether the government does really have a long-term strategy for dealing with this country's pollution problems. as you say, a few days ago they brought into force a red pollution alert. that led to the number of cars

on the roads being halfd, schools being closed down and factories being told to slow down or reduce output, but what cleared the pollution away a few days ago was strong northerly wind. it wasn't anything about what the government had done. they are open and conceding that pollution is a hazardous problem in china, state need i can't say has been-- media has been given free rein and there is no censorship of the readings. on the surface there is a new spirit of openness, but we're not quite sure where it is going to lead we're going to continue this breaking news story of the day. the progress on the climate change deal coming out of paris. we're going to manila where our

correspondent is. tell us about the reaction there and the consequences there. people have been living with the consequences of climate change for quite some time now, particularly more so in the last few months. >> reporter: definitely. four of the strongest storms of the last few years that have hit globally have hit the philippines. in fact, the typhoon happened here just two years ago, the strongest on record. it affected more than ten million people. they're still trying to recover from that and rehabilitate the areas where they live. they have been warned that they actually have to look for safer ground now because the storms that are coming in will be coming in more frequently and will only get stronger. as much as officials have said this should be considered the new normal, this is definitely not something that communities here can easily learn to live with. so they're needing to look for a safer ground which isn't really high up in the mountains because

there have been land slides in those areas. they're going further inland but that has been rather difficult because many of these communities are fishing communities and they rely on the sea. all in all definitely the philippines on the front lines of climate change, suffering many severe effects because of these weather sdaushances-- disturbances and they're looking for a commitment from the more developed nation to help them financially, not just adapt but mitigate the effects of global warming it really is a matter of life and death. thank you so much for that. india is one of the world's largest carbon emitters, so to the india capital there. how committed has india been to the process. what's the reaction there as these negotiations continue in paris? >> reporter: absolutely. the commentary in india over the last two weeks, it has been of

heat. india is in terms of its strategy a lot like china. it's said that it wants the developed nations to bear more responsibility when it comes to cutting carbon emissions. it says its growth story is still beginning and it should not be held to the same levels of emissions and funding that, perhaps, a developed country should shoulder at this point in time. we should say in terms of the strategy it is underpinned for a critical time for india. this is a new gravity that has promise-- government has promised big targets in terms of development. what the indiian government will be trying to do is to balance its international climate change promises with what it needs to do for 1.2 billion people. we should also say that the indian government has not been shy of this fact that india is one country that, perhaps, knows

and is seeing the impact of climate change already the most. it has a vast coastline and a vast himalayan range and everything in between is being experienceed appeared witnessed by millions of people. i should also add that a recent study suggests that india is spending 100 billion dollars a year on adaption and that could go up to 360 billion in 15 years we are going to be looking forward to the plenary session on that. to wrap things up on what has been presented out of paris in the last few minutes is a final draft of a climate change agreement, but it has not been agreed upon, so the process has not completed. we will stay on that. a cease fire in yemen will start on december 14. that has been announced by the

head of the delegation of houthi rebels. he will be heading to sitser land next week. the country has enungulfed in conflict ever since the saudi led coalition intervened to take on houthi rebels earlier this year. a day after 15 people were killed in coordinated attacks in burundi's capital bujumbura were getting reports of at least 40 people being found dead on the streets of the capital. more details now from malcolm webb. he has spoken to eyewitnesses in burundi. what have you been able to learn? >> reporter: that's right. residents say yesterday afternoon following the military bases people in police uniforms belonging to a police unit called api came into some of the residential areas in the capi l

capital. they said the police were pulling them out of houses, some had hands behind their back and they were shot. most of them were young men and most left on the side of the road. it is believed it is a response to the attacks yesterday which were on the military response which was an attempt to steal weapons from the military. the you're saying the police are denying that anybody was killed? >> reporter: the only people killed were people that were attacking the military barracks

yesterday. that contradicts with what local residents are saying and the pictures are on social media shows civilians who have been dot in residential areas thank you for that. lots more coming up. many people were killed in the siege of the diplomatic areas of the afghanistan's capital. more of that coming up

waiting for approval from the 190 nations presented' u.n. climate talks. represents in paris says it allows for more funding to help developed nations cope with climate change and limit the global rise in temperature to less than 2 degrees. right now as the delegates are in a break, what's happening outside as you can see are protesters, largely hoping that this deal gets signed that remains to be seen. and we will continue to follow that for you. at least 40 people have reportedly been found dead in burundi's capital bujumbura. eyewitnesses say they appear to have been shot at close range.

they appear after coordinated attacks in military installations killed 15 people. polls have opened in saudi arabia for ground breaking elections. women are taking part for the first time both as candidates and as voters. around 900 women and 6000 men are running for election to local councils. these councils are the only country's only elected public bodies. the voting age has been lowered from 21 to 18. >> it is my first time in my country to vote. i'm coming here to support one of my friends. we believe in her, we believe in her ideas. i want to take a point that i'm supporting everyone not everyone agrees with allowing women to run. >> we know that women make up half of society, but her role is

not in such places, but in home in administering her house and bringing up a new generation. if we allow her to get out of her house and do business who is going to take care of my sons in afghanistan seven people have been killed at a guest house that was attacked by taliban fighters. four afghan policemen and two others died. >> reporter: the attack started with a car bomb explosion that could be heard around the city. it went off just by the spanish embassy. >> translation: at first i thought it was a gas balloon explosion. i don't know where the explosion was, but i saw two wounded. >> reporter: taliban fighters exchanged fire with afghan police and security forces. the target was a guest house for foreigners. the fighters claimed to have them trapped inside the building.

>> translation: a car was blown up. we turned the lights off and our special forces started searching the vicinity and nearby houses. >> reporter: the area is heavily guarded. home to senior government officials, ngos, medical clinics. the blast was closest to the spanish embassy. >> translation: we can all be turbidities of terrorist-- targets of terrorist attacks. we can all be. >> reporter: this was the taliban's third high profile attack in four days an iraqi commander and six soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack. i.s.i.l. fighters have captured large areas of iraq's largest province, including ramadi. no-one has claimed responsibility for in attack. with christmas and the new year

holidays around the corner, many are looking forward to sailing. ships sailing in sydney is common and tight. >> reporter: every day during summer a monster nudges its way through the center here in sydney. the smaller cruise fits under the harbour bridge and berth to the west. the giants across from the opera house. space in sydney in running out. its cruise terminals can handle three ships at a time, but there's enough demand for more berths. >> there are discussions around the needs of the cruise industry in terms of infrastructure in sydney. >> reporter: cruising is a growing popularity. more and more people want to get on board. to describe a ship like this has a floating hotel is to underplay

its size. the vessels that are coming in and out of sydney harbour are huge and they're getting bigger all the time. cruising among australians has never been more popular. 3.6% of all australians take a cruise each year. a higher percentage than in any other country. >> you get on here and whatever you want to do is here on the ship. >> it's instant relaxing. strahtaway you're relaxed. >> reporter: on board these mega ships are swimming pools, bars, lots of restaurants and crew from all over the world. >> all nationalities here. friend here on board. >> reporter: four years ago the cruise industry suffered the worst disaster it had in decades with the costa.

50% demand for cruises now is higher japanese bullet trains are on the way to india. the prime minister is hosting the japanese. a preliminary agreement on nuclear power plants has also been signed. >> approximately 10 billion u.s. dollars and technical assistance on very easy terms for this

project. this enterprise will launch a revolution in indian railways and speed up the country's journey into the future direct postal services are being resumed more than 50 years after being stopped at the height of the cold war. the resumption comes as relations between the two neighbors gradually. it's 45 years since the beetles split up, but in argentina memories of the fab four are remembered. fans are celebrating the band with the week long music festival there. >> reporter: this man has the

world's largest collection of beetle items, including tickets, dolls. he became hooked as a boy when he heard the single in my life. he began collecting when john lennon was killed 35 years ago. >> translation: it was a revolution in music, fashion and art. they had the call for freedom that you see in young people. >> reporter: his items are in the museum here. >> translation: it is the music. kids knew how to sing beetle songs. they've got something inexplicable. >> reporter: it's a long and winding road, more than 11,000 kilometres. for 45 years after the band split up they're as popular here now than ever before.

the beetle is striking a cord in argentina people's hearts like no other band. this was ta celebration of thei music with many bands coming together. this band from chile. >> translation: for me the beetles mark the point at which modern music began, from the point of view of the composition, the instruments, vocals and more than anything the overall quality. >> reporter: the fans stretch across the generations. >> translation: because of our age we grew up in the period of the beetles. it was our time. >> translation: i've liked them since kids and because of this i study music. >> reporter: culture, language and distance are no obstacle it

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