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than one and a half degrees celcius also coming up u.s. president donald trump tells north korea its aggressive behavior is a threat to the civilized world but he's still open to talks with north korea's leader kim jong un and a huge a leak of documents shows how big corporations and the super rich invest in tax havens we'll find out who's been implicated in the so-called paradise papers. i'm brink off it's good to have you with us so we begin to with the weather and the climate and what to do to make them both if not better at least not worse the un's latest climate summit has begun in the german city of. representatives from one

hundred and ninety seven countries will spend the next ten days discussing ways to tackle climate change of the conference opened with as you see right there a traditional fijian welcome ceremony there the talks are being held here in germany fiji is sharing this conference as one of the countries suffering climate changes worst effects its prime minister warned that failure is not an option particularly for fiji. delegates are working at this conference to find ways to cap the expected global temperature increases at one point five degrees celsius or less we must not fade out people that means using the next two weeks in the head to do everything we can to make the bet is that women work and to advance emission and support for climate action before twenty twenty. two made out commitments in

full not bicker way from them and to commit ourselves to the most ambitious target of the bet is that given to kept the global average temperature at one point five degrees celsius over that of the pre-industrial age. all right we want to pull in louise born she is our environmental issues editor she joins us tonight from the german city of bonn always good evening to you so people watching us tonight are going to think ok you had the paris climate agreement two years ago so why do you need this conference in bonn now. well i mean the paris agreement indeed was very important and it really brought together the and national community for the first time but now it's really if i would hammering out the nuts and bolts of how exactly they're going to implement climate action plans that they're all putting in place at the moment i mean if you think that the the paris agreement was

like a smart phone and the rulebook that they are now working on to make sure that they implement all of these issues is going to be the operating system a smartphone come without an operating system and so that's what they say conference is really about is making sure that they can make the parse agreement what ok that's a great analogy and problem you know with a couple of updates to keep it running smoothly is well it seems if we look at the latest data that we are on track to see a three degree temperature rise that's based on the latest models for the entire planet is that adding urgency to these talks that's right i mean if they stick with the climate action plans that the countries have already put in place that will be a three degree rise and that's what's been projected and it is really adding i didn't see to the talks because they realize that they have to have more ambition they really have to make sure that they can keep elite below that two degree limit

one point five degrees if they possibly can with fiji as the the president for the conference obviously they are feeling some of the impacts more than anyone else and so with them taking charge it's really about trying to make sure that they can they can keep those targets in place you know i mean even if the world manages to limit more warming to one point five degrees or two degrees celsius i mean how much risk will there remain for these pacific islands like fiji. well like i said fiji is already experiencing some of the problems when it comes to climate change there's increased flooding the island nations are going to feel this to some extent even with the the one point five to two degree rice it's really about limiting the the damage that's already being caused it's not just about the island nations i

mean we've also seen extreme weather events in all over the wild and also increased forest fires and and all linked in some way to climate change and so it's really it's really something that they need to work on. louise osborne joining us tonight from the german city of bonn helping us to put this latest u.n. climate change summit into perspective what we like you very much thank you. well tonight police say the man suspected of killing twenty six people inside a texas church had been in a domestic dispute before committing the massacre devan patrick kelly died of a self-inflicted gun would after fleeing the scene are kelly's in-laws reportedly attended the church in southern maine southerland springs texas the shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of texas. the pasta the farsi church are always sought to bring people together there by walk around take

somebody give him whatever you may feel like the lord let him know it's good to see him in god's house that day god that this video from last month captures a service like any other it was faith family and friends until this sunday when a gunman came intent on killing among the many victims. we had a long night with our. babies we have left the pastas fourteen year old daughter our church was not comprised of members or parishioners we were a very close family we ate together we laugh together we cried together and we worship together now most of our church family is gone. our building is probably beyond repair. and the few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday. the suspect is devon patrick kelly

a twenty six year old with a history of violence he was discharged from the u.s. air force for beating his family he was chased out of town by residents before turning the gun on himself. amid the hatred of this tragedy are tales of head zero s m i saw the fire fight between. the shooter and the church and a neighbor a resident here in town. after the firefighting the shooter ticked off in the neighbor came over and jumped on my track and said he just shot at the churchill said we had to get him when i said let's go and that's what we did it's a fictional say the gunman may have been targeting his in-laws. but we can tell you that there was a domestic situation going on within this family. the suspects mother in law attended this church we know that he had made threaten threatening shit reset threatening text from him. almost

a tenth of the population of this town was killed on sunday in tiny southerland springs they were holding each other that little bit closer. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world is zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has fired his vice president emerson god what he had been a main contender in the leadership race to replace mugabe to move opens the way for mugabe's wife grace to succeed him as president the government said that madonna god had been dismissed for not being loyal for being disrespectful and unreliable. liberia's the supreme court has postponed a presidential runoff election scheduled for tuesday to allow the elections commission to investigate allegations of fraud in the first round soccer star george weah and vice president joseph boll ca and placed first and second in the

vote but neither garnered enough votes to win outright. vietnam has been hit my heavy flooding after a powerful typhoon killed at least forty four people and left more than a dozen missing more than one hundred thousand homes in the country's south central region have been destroyed or damaged. ten trillion dollars is still up to weigh in offshore accounts governments around the world are scrambling to investigate the european union now says the paradise papers have placed a renewed emphasis on fighting tax avoidance they could press forward with plans to make a blacklist of tax havens among the millions of documents evidence that some of the world's richest individuals and businesses are doing what they can you guessed it to hide their cash from the tax man. the queen of england is there the rock star bono to american firms apple facebook and nike are also part of it. the massive

paradise paper's leak is a snapshot of global tax dodging in sixteen million documents most of them out of bermuda big names and big companies are caught once more in a controversy over their finances that's boosting those who want to end tax dodging in the u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn suggested the queen should apologize after the leaks showed her state made offshore investments we simply have to challenge the culture that the something clever about avoiding taxation taxation is what gives us ambulances gives us far tenders gives us safety in our lives and we all have a responsibility to pay for it others have greeted the revelations with a shrug russian officials have pointed to the legality of the transactions in the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross said there was nothing improper about his investments in a firm connected to the russian state us president donald trump could even use the leaks to support his plan to slash corporate taxes the reality is more complex however governments like the u.k. and germany say they've been trying to close down loopholes with mixed results the

e.u. has meanwhile suggested a collective response but even this could face challenges sometimes we are blocked blocked by the fact that the member states consider to be should be you go from this or that. and now we're in a different period that's what i call the transparency. it's high time that everybody goes into seeing the reaction to eliminate fraud and to combat that's evasion when it comes to clamping down on tax dodging for now the shame game might be the most effective option. and in belgium the alstad carillon leader carlist voyage to ma and four other former ministers have been released from custody but they have to stay in belgium and they must attend their court sessions within two weeks. and the other four had turned themselves into police earlier on sunday to face possible extradition to speight prosecutors there have filed charges against them for their role in last month's independence referendum which the spanish

government says was illegal. u.s. president donald trump has warned north korea that what he calls the era of strategic patience is over speaking in japan on the first leg of his twelve day tour of asia trip also pushed his host japan to buy more american military equipment to protect itself against north korean attacks were despite his comments trump said that he would be open to talks with the north korean leader kim jong un . going for the gut president trumps hawkish stance on north korea got personal when he met with japanese families of those abducted by the nuclear arms regime he's not the first president to do so but with tensions the highest in years the meeting added emotional firepower to trump's tough talk emphasizing the u.s. is close and longstanding relationship with japan he called north korea's ballistic missile launches over japan outrageous the era of strategic patience is

over. some people said that my rhetoric is very strong but look what's happened with very weak rhetoric over the last. twenty five years look where we are right now. prime minister shinzo abbay said his government stands one hundred percent together on the issue agreeing with trump that all options are on the table and not a more another one of them though he night like no one wants a conflict neither myself nor president trump know about you north korea continues challenging the international order under peaching provocations if the international community needs to apply pressure to north korea to change their policy i mean. i think the prospect of armed conflict took on an economic dimension during the visit trump called for free and equal access for american exports to japan's market his answer to north korean missiles is japan buying more defense

hardware from the united states he will shoot him out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states he will easily shoot them out of the sky from japan trump heads to south korea which has also long been korea's crosshairs and you're up to date with g.w. news for all of us here in berlin i'm born we will see you again at the top of the hour. your children like chocolate.