this is bbc world news today. our top stories: police out in force in paris and other french cities as yellow vest protesters took to the streets for the fifth saturday in a row. in the latest white house departure, trump's interior secretary steps down after facing numerous ethics investigations. and in a move set to anger russia, ukraine's president has proclaimed the creation of an independent orthodox church. and manchester city return to the top of the english premier league — we'll have that story and all the other sports news. hello and welcome to world news today. there have been clashes in paris between police and the yellow vest protestors

during a fifth weekend of anti—government demonstrations. in total, 66,000 protesters were on the streets across france. that number is significantly lower than before. earlier this week, president macron announced a series of concessions, to try to defuse the crisis. lucy williamson reports from paris. the tactics were the same as always but the tension here has waned. the number of protesters in paris today less than half of that of last weekend. there were far fewer people gathering here in paris today but there are still a few confrontations between protesters and police, like here on the champs—elysees. the security forces will be hoping this is the last final stand of the hard—core. this was a test of whether president macron‘s concessions this week have worked. 10 billion euros to help those on the lowest incomes. not enough for some. translation: the president is offering us peanuts.

we are not monkeys he can throw nuts at. we are human beings. the violence of previous demonstrations in paris along with the government's concessions and the impact of a terrorist attack in strasbourg this week have all helped to dissuade protesters. but protest sites around the country are settling in for christmas and it is notjust the troublemakers left behind. at this tollgate 45 minutes outside marseille, the demands are no longerjust economic, they are also about democracy and access to power. translation: we want a second french revolution. we are going to show all of europe that the people do have power. president macron said long—term solutions to this crisis lie at the local level and that he wants to meet mayors, region by region, to hear their concerns. translation: president macron has ignored us from the moment he came to power. and now all of a sudden he wants us

to come to his rescue. can i be honest with you? the idea of a national consultation is absolute rubbish. everything will carry onjust like before. the clashes here seem to be losing momentum, but the frustration that sparked them has not been resolved. there is a part of france that feels precarious and invisible. for the past few weeks it was visible to all. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. the bbc‘s olga ivshina was reporting in paris when she was caught up in the middle of a scuffle between the police and the protestors. protest in paris go violent again! you can see stun grenades, gas, tear gas! police tried to disperse the protesters but they come again and

again. there is a stand—off. but this time it seems like it might go really violent. and now it seems 7 the rows it's been reported governments meeting in poland have reached an accord for implementing the 2015 paris climate agreement. details are still coming in. earlier, delegates at the un climate conference were inching closer towards a potential deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. the talks in poland were due to end on friday but delegates have disagreed on issues such as carbon credits and carbon markets. the pictures you are seeing are of

the president who we have seen talking for about the last half an hour or talking for about the last half an hourorso, talking for about the last half an hour or so, we've seen rounds of applause, clearly positive outcomes according to those pictures, we shall hopefully speak to matt mcgrath shortly, our environment correspondent, for more details. it is the informal name for the 24th conference of the united nations framework convection of climate change. lots of jargon framework convection of climate change. lots ofjargon and hopefully matt will be able to break it down for us a bit more. there's to be another change in president trump's administration. he's announced — via twitter — that his interior minister, ryan zinki, will be leaving his post. mr zinke has been embroiled in a number of ethics investigations. he's also faced criticisms by environmental campaigners for promoting oil drilling and coal mining. dan johnson has more from washington. he's a game hunter who swaggered

into washington on horseback to take control of government land and forest. shame on you! but there were protests as he sold off millions of acres for drilling and mining, rolling back environmental protection and supporting the president energy policy putting fossil fuel first. time and again president energy policy putting fossilfuel first. time and again he visited areas devastated by wildfires but never accepted climate change could have been to blame. temperatures are rising and seasons are getting longer but we have to look at managing the force. and his integrity came into question, the woman holding the bible, his wife, was using government cars, he was criticised for that and for using a $12,000 flight to get to a hockey game. there were concerns he was too close to lobbyist. ryan zinke always

denied wrongdoing but the president's support was ebbing away i know he becomes the latest in a long line of leading figures to leave the trump top team. there are still no permanent replacement for the chief of staffjohn kelly who will also go at the end of the month. an interim appointment has been made so the search can commence in the new year. there have been over 25 departures since january 2017, more than double the rate of barack obama's 2017, more than double the rate of ba rack obama's verse 2017, more than double the rate of barack obama's verse two years. donald trump said many people wanted the chief of staffjob but his first choice turned it down and sorted few others. now there is another role to fill and there are signs it's getting increasingly difficult to recruit the right people to a white house which is in comings and goings in unprecedented numbers. the hollywood movie mogul harvey weinstein is facing fresh allegations of sexual assault. the latest accuser, an actress who has not been named, claims the film producer attacked and assaulted her during a meeting at his offices in 2013. the lawsuit alleges that when the woman rejected his advances,

mr weinstein bragged about sleeping with jennifer lawrence and being responsible for her winning an oscar. ms lawrence issued a statement refuting the claims, mr weinstein denies all allegations of non—consensual sex. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. australia's prime minister has announced that his government now recognises west jerusalem as the capital of israel. scott morrison said australia also recognised the palestinian aspirations for a state capital in eastjersualem. he said the australian embassy will not move from tel aviv until there's a final peace accord. the status ofjerusalem is one of the most contested issues between israel and the palestinians. 11 people have died and more than 90 have been hospitalised after they ate a religious food offering at a temple in india. devotees fell ill when they ate tomato rice at a hindu temple in the southern state of karnataka. local media is reporting it's likely the result of pesticide contamination.

officials in brazil say a spiritual healer wanted on charges of sexual abuse against hundreds of women is on the run from authorities. police have launched a major search for the man, joao teixeira de faria, known as "john of god", after a judge ordered his arrest on friday. more than 300 women have alleged they were abused and raped by him at his clinic in brazil. mr faria has denied the accusations. ukraine's president has hailed the creation of an independent orthodox church as the final step in independence from russia. after decades of negotiations, an historic council of orthodox bishops in kiev has created a new ukrainian church. the russian orthodox church dismissed the bishops council as illegitimate and says the move means ‘absolutely nothing.‘ jonah fisher reports. this is a religious story but with

ukraine and russia politics is never far away. the ukraine president, this was a chance to notch up a much—needed win over the country is much—needed win over the country is much larger and more powerful neighbour. to break away from the control of the russian orthodox church and 27 years after independence give ukraine its own internationally recognised church. for that to happen the two branches of ukrainian orthodoxy had to unite and with the faithful waiting outside in the cold they did just that. electing a new leaderfor a new, unified church. this is him accompanied by a jubilant president. translation: what is this new church7 translation: what is this new church? it is a church without vladimir putin. it is a church

without a prayer for the vladimir putin. it is a church without a prayerfor the russian authorities and russian troops. because russian authorities and troops are killing ukrainians but this church is with god and with ukraine. one of the most thorny issues lying ahead will be defeats of the many policies and monastery is that the russian orthodox church still controls in ukraine. there are plenty of people who think they should be handed over to the new ukrainian church. russia has already made its displeasure clear and has cut its ties with the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the global orthodox church in constantinople. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: a new tomb dating back around four and a half thousand years — is discovered in egypt. after eight months on the run that

saddam hussein has been tracked down and captured by american forces. saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, ourwomen, our children. the signatures to only a few minutes but they brought a formal end to three and half years of conflict, conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. before an audience of world leaders the presidents of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. the romanian border was sealed and silent today, romania has cut itself off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the present massacre from leaking out. from six at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair to guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president to be

impeached. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines: scuffles on the streets of parish and other french cleat mac scuffles on the streets of paris and other french cities as yellow vest protesters take to the streets for the fifth saturday in a row. and another high—profile white house departure — as trump's embattled interior minister ryan zinke steps down. let's start with the football, manchester city back on top of the premier league until tomorrow evening at least, they beat everton 3-1 with evening at least, they beat everton 3—1 with jesus evening at least, they beat everton 3—1withjesus scoring their first two goals. everton got one back but raheem sterling sealed the victory for city a week after suffering

alleged racist abuse at chelsea. the question is not important to be top of the legal or not, it's to be consistent, after dropping points at sta mford consistent, after dropping points at stamford bridge we won again, after the champions league we havejust two days, it's always complicated and the people respond in a marvellous way. tottenham stayed in touch of the top two after sneaking a late win against burnley, christian eriksson scored the only goal in injury time at wembley, the substitute finally finding the breakthrough after it looked like burnley were going to hold on. that character, always pushing until the end, that shows great belief and faith in the way that we play and try, that i think is what pleases me most. you can win you can lose, football is like this but you need to a cce pt football is like this but you need to accept that, i think trying like we are trying and playing in the way

that we are playing, i think it a lwa ys that we are playing, i think it always is possible to achieve all that you want. wolves beat bournemouth to climb above them into seventh. fulham stay bottom after losing at home to west ham. captain virat kohli with the help of ajinkya rahane came to the rescue of india against australia in the second test in perth, india were 8-2 the second test in perth, india were 8—2 in reply to the australians 326 all out, virat kohli helping take them to 172—3 by the close of day two, still 154 behind but with seven wickets remaining in the first innings. we felt good, obviously. we finished the day on a strong position so hopefully it will

continue tomorrow. right now, i can see it's equal, tomorrow hopefully we will win the first session. we could have nick a couple more and it could have nick a couple more and it could have nick a couple more and it could have been totally different day and maybe we would be talking differently about the wicket right now but i think there are still enoughin now but i think there are still enough in it. i think we bowled well in patches and did not quite bowled well in other patches, we could probably be about more disciplined but there are credit to them, they put pressure on our bowlers. canelo alvarez attempts to win a world title at a third different weight when he challenges britain's rocky fielding for his wba super middleweight belt in new york on saturday night. the mexican is back in action for the first time since defeating the previously unbeaten gennady golovkin in september to become the wba and wbc middleweight titleholder. alvarez who has been beaten once in 53 bytes is the favourite and faces some pressure at

madison square garden, he signed a $365 million five year fight deal which he says promoters make him the highest—paid athlete in all of sport. translation: glory and history and legacy are very important to me. i don't care about what the critics think about how easy this fight is. i know what i have in front of me and i'm prepared for it and i am prepared to make history. that's it now, the way in is done, the talk has done, ready to fight, that's it. obviously this is the biggest fight of your life, correct? are you the type of fighter that watches a lot of tape to prepare for a fight? i've watched bits, yeah, but i leave it to the team to watch and we work together and we've got a plan so we've got to use it. that's all the sport for now. let's return to that breaking

story that a climate change deal has been agreed in poland. our environment correspondent matt mcgrath is at the conference in katowice for us. all smiles, at the closing session. what exactly has been agreed? it's beena what exactly has been agreed? it's been a long day here, and a long night as well as negotiators went down to the wire really on trying to get the operational rule book for the paris agreement agreed to your amongst all the countries. some big last—minute hitches, some big arguments about carbon markets, brazil in particular picking a big fight about that but eventually compromise language was found. and much to the relief of many of the people in here the text was agreed and accepted by all parties. a key element of the rule book is the idea of transparency, that all countries will be operating with one set of rules in the future, the way the report and measure their carbon should be on the same set of documents from every country, that

isa documents from every country, that is a key element in building trust amongst countries so everyone knows what everyone else is doing and they can see it as well. the other element of course is that every country should increase their ambition is to cut carbon by 2020, that might not be as hard or tough as many people would want to hear andindeed as many people would want to hear and indeed some people are critical of it seeing the deal is a bit too soft but i think the practical people here, the negotiators feel we came here to get a deal, we had two mac tough weeks, we've got a deal and it's an important step forward. how does one go about policing these rules 7 how does one go about policing these rules? good question, the idea of policing it is something people have thought about here, there will be a compliance committee which will look at countries that are not stepping up at countries that are not stepping up to the mark in terms of submitting the documents they need to submit. that is a key element of it. but a lot of the paris agreement and the effort on tackling climate change is essentially peer pressure. no country wants to be embarrassed

by other countries around the world, people do not want to come here and say they are not holding the end up so say they are not holding the end up so all the countries have decided to hold their end so all the countries have decided to hold theirend up, so all the countries have decided to hold their end up, consensus on it in the end and people believe it's a big step forward. archaeologists in egypt have made an exciting tomb discovery — the final resting place of a high priest, untouched for 11,400 years. it's located in the sakara pyramid just south of cairo. experts are calling it ‘one of a kind'. nick marsh has more. ina yearof landmark in a year of landmark discoveries egyptian archaeologists had one last trick up their sleeve and it was this private tomb buried beneath the sand, untouched and unlimited for almost four and a half millennia. we found like this. the upper level we found like this. the upper level we found 211 statues and the lower level we found 31 statues. excavators see

the tomb belonged to a high priest who served during the fifth dynasty rain and what makes it unique are the excellently preserved statues of fearless a nd the excellently preserved statues of fearless and these near flawless coloured higher graphics on the walls. the sa kara coloured higher graphics on the walls. the sakara acropolis in which it was found is also home to the famous step pyramid and it was there in november archaeologists found these mummified bodies dating back 6000 years. these perfectly preserved cats and scarab beetles as well. it's part of a series of discoveries that the egyptian minister for antiquities discoveries that the egyptian ministerfor antiquities hopes discoveries that the egyptian minister for antiquities hopes will entice visitors once more to his country entice visitors once more to his cou ntry after entice visitors once more to his country after the slump in tourism that followed the 2011 political uprising. translation: today we are announcing the last discovery of 2018, it's a new discovery, a private tomb that is exceptionally well preserved, coloured and with sculptures inside. we can see the

remains. we are told more will come in the new year as excavators hope one of these shafts in the tomb might contain the ancient priest's sarcophagus. but what has been fined or scribbled tributes around the tomb toa or scribbled tributes around the tomb to a different kind of money, the priests mother. church bells that were seized from the philippines by us troops more than a century ago have sounded again in the town where they first hung. the united states agreed to return the bells following a lengthy campaign by politicians in the philippine and by the catholic church. the bbc‘s howard johnson has more. every time philippines president ran one of the bales today the crowd responded emphatically. it's the first time the village has heard the bail in117 years, first time the village has heard the bail in 117 years, what happened in 1901 was occupying american forces

had suppressed the local villagers, the use of the bell to rise up and get people to attack american forces. 118 people died. in retaliation the americans said they would create a howling wilderness of the village and what they did next was massacring thousands of filipinos living there. this has been a controversial topic over the yea rs, lots of been a controversial topic over the years, lots of diplomatic efforts to get the bell's back have failed but last year the president told a packed congress building that the bell's where the philippines and that america should return them because they do not belong to them. what we have seen today is america return the bells, they came back on tuesday, they landed in manila and what this is all about is perhaps geopolitics, it's about america trying to curry favour with its former colony. what we are seeing in this country at the moment is the

president and the philippines causing up to china, the regional superpower and that is worrying america because what we can see is growing influence in the south china sea, a stretch of waterway that commands trillions of dollars worth of trade and lots of people believe there is billions of dollars worth of oil and gas underneath. just before we go i want to show you these pictures of a geminid meteor shower which has been spotted by stargazing enthusiasts from around the world. this footage was captured in northeast china on friday. geminid meteors are pieces of rocky debris from an extinct comet that race around the solar system, in an orbit. when the debris hits earth's atmosphere they burn up and these streaks of light form. these geminid meteors originate from a rocky asteroid known as 3200 phaethon, and appear every year in december. and finally a reminder of our breaking news —

that after much delay there's been a climate change agreement in the conference in poland. talks have been going on for several days, they started early and ended late but now nearly 200 nations have agreed the rules on implementing the 2015 paris agreement after much deliberation at those talks in poland. the rule book was finally, unanimously approved this evening. the final session was in fact delayed by more than 30 hours but in these pictures we can clearly see there has been a positive response. that's it from me for now, get me on twitter. storm deirdre has thrown everything

at us today, strong winds, heavy rain, some snow and some ice and freezing rain, the freezing rain is quite unusual and it's dangerous, this is what it looks like when it hits the trees on the roads, also treacherous conditions. we've still got amber warnings for the ice and freezing rain and snow as well. looking at the snow, most of it falling to the north of the central belt, we still have warnings across southern of scotland, snow in the north—east of england briefly as the icy conditions and warnings extend their way down across central and southern scotland into northern england through the night. we have that to contend with we have also got windy conditions for a short while, gusts not far off 70. the main band of winter weather sweeping its way away pushing rain and snow into the hills of the northern half

of the uk, quite wintry in scotland, most of the snow by this stage of the high ground. temperatures turning to rise overnight, importing milder air, things coming down. touch wintry and could be icy in scotla nd touch wintry and could be icy in scotland in the morning, showers here become fewer as they will in northern ireland, and more sunshine. england and wales cease sunshine in the morning, more cloud in the afternoon and four western areas there will be showers across with spells of rain. tomorrow will not be as windy, the weather not anywhere near as bad and the temperatures will be higher as well. the really cold air getting pushed towards scandinavia and the wind coming in from the south which is always a milder direction but it signals much more changeable weather for the coming few days as weather fronts come in from the atlantic. for most of monday we are between systems, could be misty and murky, otherwise we've got sunshine to greet the day

on monday, the cloud increasing, showers breaking out ahead of this main rain band pushing into the north west later, the winds picking up north west later, the winds picking up as well but it's a milder wind, could get double figures in glasgow and belfast. the rain will stick around on tuesday, could bring local flooding, wendy two an sunshine and a few showers on wednesday. goodbye. this is bbc world news, the headlines: representatives of around 200 nations at un climate change summit in poland have reached agreement over how to implement the paris accord. talks had continued for an extra day to resolve lingering issues. there've been scuffles in paris between groups of yellow vest anti—government protesters and police. it's the fifth consecutive weekend of nationwide protests in france over issues including the cost of living. another high—profile white house departure. president trump says his interior secretary ryan zinke — who's the subject of several investigations — will leave his post at the end of the year.

and a new tomb believed to date back around 11500 years has been discovered in the saqqara pyramid complex in egypt. at ten o'clock, clive myrie will be here with a full