my four hour two part documentary starts december eighth on t w. this is d w news live from berlin a surprise announcement now seven from qatar the gulf stay is saying it is withdrawing from the opec oil cartel effective january first of next year it's been a member of the organization for nearly six decades so what's behind the move also coming up. a crucial conference on climate change gets underway in poland delegates from around the world are warning act now to reduce c o two emissions or risk to

task for free. and two months after a failed launch another russian made soyuz rocket is preparing to blast off for the international space station yes not to say they're confident despite the risks. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show qatar is leaving opec the organization of petroleum exporting countries now this move comes ahead of opec's annual meeting in vienna that's set for thursday where the move is certain to be a focus of the scotians qatar's energy minister says the country will exit the cartel on january first reform reflecting plans to focus more on liquid gas production rather than oil but this falls a diplomatic dispute with opec fourteen other members especially with saudi arabia

. the last eighteen months have been placing our economic sanctions on carter. monica jones from business joins me for more now monica good morning this is a first for opec isn't it well it's not the first time the former opec member is leaving we've seen that before with ecuador with. but they rejoined shortly afterwards indonesia also suspended its membership is the very first time that a middle eastern country is exiting opec and as you mentioned earlier already i mean qatar has been a member for some six decades a joint in one nine hundred sixty one it was the first country to join or pick after it was founded. cultural historical this is this is quite quite a move and of course relations with saudi arabia which is seen to be the actual head off opaque leading the cow tail haven't been so good in recent years and some analysts say that's could toss move is to a large extent symbolic

a symbolic move but it's a political one as much as it is an economic one is economically it's definitely very interesting i mean when you when you ask about the impact on the oil market it probably won't be so big at first because qatar is actually just the eleventh biggest oil producer in the cartel accounting for about two percent if it's that much when it comes to oil output so on that side it's not such a big story but qatar is the world's biggest supplier producer of liquid natural gas so l. and g. and it wants to focus on that and expanding that even more together with iran and there again you have the the political impact saudi arabia and iran are the best of friends certainly not the united states and america has very big interests when it comes to l. and g. and the price of l. and g. has already dropped by some three percent today ok now markets are of course following this very closely and so is the ws paul christian brooks he's in frankfurt for us paul how is the news from qatar. affecting the price of oil today

. over and while this news is politically controversial it is not a big market mover we are seeing an uptick of oil about five percent today but the reason is that russia and saudi arabia for preliminary agreement head of the thursday opec meeting to cut down on oil production now this is going to be much more significant for the liquefied natural gas market l. and g. has dropped three percent today and qatar has access to the largest world's largest resource here the world's largest natural gas fields that it does share with iran hence also the close relationship with iran that it wasn't willing to cut under the saudi arabian pressure called christian brits worse than frankfurt monica jones here in the studio with me thanks to both of you this morning. now for some

of the other stories making the news today more antigovernment protests taking place in france today ambulance workers are the latest gathering close to the national symbol in central paris to complain about changes to working conditions senior politicians are holding crisis talks in the wake of the often violent anti-government protests that have rocked the closer. the far right parties won seats in in an election in spain for the first time since the end of the military dictatorship going to seventy five the n.c. immigrant vox party is set to enter and the lucy is regional assembly could end up as the king maker of the country's most populous regions the governing socialist secured the most seats but fell short of a majority. of. the litter of a philippine news website critical of president roderigo to territory has been freed on bail on charges of tax fraud maria ressa c.e.o. of rappler which has frequently challenged to territory over his work. on drugs

like this is the charges were politically motivated it washes off but these charges . the u.n. chief has been saying the world is way off course in the fight against climate change antonio the terrorist is speaking from the polish city of kut to beachy where the most important talks on global warming and years are underway. the cup twenty four summit officially opened today terrorist told delegates that mankind must drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avert runaway global warming and for the next two weeks the delegates will be discussing how to implement to the twenty fifteen paris. and president all secretary general open the conference with this urgent warning we are in deep trouble we've climate change climate change is running faster than we. and we much catch up sooner rather than

later that the forty is too late for many people regions even countries this is already a matter of life or death and this meeting is the most important gathering on climate change since the paris agreement was signed if these are the two overstates the urgency of our situation so a very urgent situation due to your correspondent irene by news reasons at the kind of beach conference for us good morning irene is this the make or break session for action on climate change that so many are calling it. well indeed this meeting is crucial for climate action at a global level three years ago climate leaders agreed on keeping global warming under two degrees celsius have offspring levels but now they have to establish how they actually going to manage to do to achieve that goal. their result of this

conference should be the so-called rule book which is a set of guidelines to show countries how to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions how to report on their climate efforts but there is also a very important topic which is climate finance because in those countries pledged to i look at one hundred billion u.s. dollars per year to help poorer countries cope with climate chance devastating effects but how this money will be mobilized remains an unknown question. being here the conference taking place in poland country large or larger your reliance on fossil fuels is still the gold phase out are very hot topic like you know i read in the run up to this conference we saw a number of studies indicating that we're heading towards a critical point when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions where are we right now. well the situation isn't looking very well. united nations environment. program. i report showing that there is

a huge gap between where we should have been and where we are actually in regards of c o two emissions so if we don't change anything by two thousand feet by the end of this century we might end up with three point two degree says just about. we actually have to reduce. emissions by twenty thirty if we want to reach the agreement and i think people are already experiencing that climate change effects on their own through wildfire you're seeing california flooding or even drought in germany ok you know i mean the united states is of course not a signatory to the paris court any longer is it even possible for the world to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals you mentioned laid down in paris without the united states. well first of all i think it's important to remember that. already withdrawn from the far east agreement he cannot do it legally until twenty

twenty by then things my have changed greatly second thing i think instead of doing or worsening the scenario other countries will increase their ambitions with withdrawing from the paris agreement so i think we are still on track and we are still able to reach their goals if other countries reach their ambition i mean by mr aris for us thanks very much. while ron says it will back peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in yemen the talks could start in sweden on wednesday this development comes after the saudi led coalition agreed to fly out fifty wounded who the rebels allied to around the medical evacuation by the capital sana as part of efforts to build confidence ahead of the planned peace talks the fate of the rebels was a stumbling block at the start of a previous round of talks in september. or international groups are trying to bring about an end to the conflict which pushed the country to the brink of famine as we

report one school in the capital sauna is trying to provide food to keep its students alive. five hundred bread rolls for the i'm honey girl's school in santa two for each student the recess and first meal of the day are highly anticipated. apart from here at school many children have next to nothing to eat. and have a nice to have my father doesn't have a job anymore i'm very thankful to the school for the food and that's the situation i was in we had i know me as parents who are impoverished by the war the school's director says many children are suffering because of the saudis so many students lost their parents through balls and rockets into houses factories and shops. after that really empty hospitals can't cope there's a lack of medical supplies children are especially hard hit according to the ngo save the children tens of thousands have died from nutrition and infection eight

million yemenis are just barely surviving now with the help of outside aid. and the sustained war causes more deaths every single day. back at their own heinie girls' school in santa lentil soup is on the menu for lunch. it's funded by the german charitable organization future for kids. i can and then as a man hand it's poverty is spreading and the mother says and only and we used to give a daily mail to thirty to forty girls now it's three hundred to four hundred and that's me out of the army and. a bit of hope within the misery i these children are learning and have a warm meal every day but only as future and that of many other children in yemen is unknown because there's not yet any sign of an end to the war.

mexico and three central american states have agreed to. created develop unplowed aimed at reducing the number of migrants leaving the region the move comes as mexico closed down a major migrant shelter close the u.s. border some six thousand central americans were housed in that center in the city of tijuana d.w. correspondent stephan simmons was there and sent us this report. and it's to getting soaked the day before another night of heavy rain finally sealed the fate of the benito kooris shelter in downtown to one of. the six thousand plus migrants housed in the former sports complex did not stand a chance against the downpour. only the children still manage a gentle smile the adults are mourning their tents floating in ankle deep muddy water their clothes and other belongings trenched ruined for many

a total loss. and amid appalling cemetery conditions city and mexican federal officials finally decided to shut down the shelter. buses arrive and open their doors their promise to bring these people to a better safer place while interiors are not hard to find within hours nearly a thousand migrants are willing to make yet another journey i. taking with them the little they deemed worth saving they arrive fia. a form of bus parking facility and concert venue about twenty kilometers from downtown and far away from the border for some two one of migrants this new shelter seems to bring some improvements. here the ground concrete noise mud that's better but the most important thing is to have

a roof over our heads that protects us from the cold others see the benefits of the new shelter but wary of its location. real reason the police have brought us here is that they don't want to close to the border now we need to spend a hundred pesos to get to the border for asylum paperwork but we don't have the money and it's going to take us all day to get there. this stuff you know it's even more difficult for us to get into the united states a dream is to be that. meanwhile back at the shelter and. the line for the buses is even longer now more migrants seem to be willing to leave for the new shelter sooner rather than later a look inside the old place may reveal the reason not to give me your not. when i was a little girl. i knew only the beauty of funder us time passed by and i grew older

i understood i should. loftus that. said to me stripes the nerve of many on this day as they continue to harbor their dreams of a future in a better place my little seeing. it obvious stuff on seymour was reporting there for us from tijuana on the u.s. next border a russian soyuz rocket is set to blast off from kazakhstan and a little more than an hour from now on board two men and a woman bound for the international space station this will be the first launch since another source failed minutes after long liftoff back in october the crew of that rocket did manage to make a safe emergency landing and with everyone hoping for a successful launch today the stakes are very are. you with your. blessings ahead of the still used launch in kazakstan. the spacecraft is

a crucial lifeline to the international space station more out here is high despite the last failed attempt. the three astronauts from russia the usa and canada confident they can handle whatever comes their way. psychologically and technically prepared for blastoff and any situation which god forbid may occur on board. the nasa astronaut said the factors which contributed to the botched mission have now been rectified. this is the time. to go. in october their colleagues were forced to make an emergency landing when a sensor on the soyuz rocket failed and inquiry later found that it was damaged during assembly the incident was a blow to russia's once revered space program. the astronauts will depart from the

same site which launched the first man into space nearly sixty years ago today's mission is a chance for russia to restore its stellar image in space exploration. so what can we expect from this launch i'm joined now by far from science and good morning. this is the first manned space mission to the since that failed launch in october can you fill us in on what's at stake. ok what's at stake is basically z. image of the cosmos program and it's holes work holsey so you space ship it's a very reliable space ship since early eighty's it has flown well over one hundred times was only two incidents like that one in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and one this year however we've seen that this year there were

a couple of issues about workmanship there was a hole in one of those so use capsules that was already talked to the audience as to which was patched a bit flimsily and left to a loss of cabin pressure on the boat c.i.s. as they managed to solve the problem but basically the question is. the whole image of the so used system is a little bit under scrutiny right now and there are unmanned a launches to supply the i s s but how important are these manned launches for the international space station. they're tremendously important we have to understand that since the end of the u.s. shuttle program so you system has been the only one that has been able to bring astronauts and cosmonauts of them to the ideas. now next year that will be two other space ships one built by space x. the dragon two and the other one by boeing the starliner c s t one hundred

will be also able to take humans into space and to the i s s are both for that purpose but we have to understand that this is these are basically the only options right now and considering that these are new space ships and so uses a proven proven vehicle that of course the soyuz will remain very important even for the future ok if obvious and briefly if you could the u.s. russia china of all announced their redoubling their space efforts will pressure to deliver results increase the risk of accidents like we saw in october. actually i think that the the question of manned space travel is not under the question the u.s. is building the orion spacecraft right now which is due to be launched in two thousand and twenty which is the first time. a man is going back to the moon so in two

thousand twenty it's going to orbit moon was unmanned but then shortly after will be manned flight that space ship is designed to go even beyond the moon maybe at some point to mars fabienne smith from boston thanks very much. we have some sports now and sunday's bonus league actions are two teams to the top of the table face office leipzig played host to god bok wifely recorded it to know when to leap frog byron into third in the standings despite the defeat claude bok remained second. back from injuries just in time for this tough match the midfield trio of comparable dema and sabita and much else obvious up played a part in leipzig surely starts in the second minute one two with t.-mo vanna and the germany international unmarked in front of the club but goal by one nil for the hosts both teams were on the attack buck creating a chance after

a good half hour but no problem for leipsic keeper paid to be laci or abraham out going out today. at the other end of an opposed just slick threats in the gladbach box but tobias' strobel prevented him from hitting that charge it. in first half injury time leipzig won the ball and we're off to the races use of pulse and weave through the gladbach defense and the nimble vanno was there to finish the job i've been every game he scored this season he's gone on to add his second. leipzig up more defensive after the race charge a lot but kept pushing but lacked imagination talking with a chance with just over an hour gone. towards the end a sportsmanlike a lesson player wasn't bowing down to the laci who kept his seventh clean sheet of the season he was tying his shoe for him. like seek remain unbeaten at home while

club buck failed to score a goal for the first time since april. ok monica is back now with a look at that trade truce between the united states and china yet and markets in asia seem to like that brian their opposition to the united states and china agreed to a ninety day truce in their months long trade to dispute the announcement came after the country's leaders met at the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina this weekend but what's have they actually agreed to let's take a look. for months there was little or no less up in the trade dispute between the world's top two economies no wonder then that this handshake which took place on the sidelines of the g twenty summit made front page news in both countries the deal the leaders struck a ninety day pause on u.s. plans to raise tariffs from ten to twenty five percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods in exchange china's pledge to buy more u.s.

imports and according to u.s. president trump to reduce or scrap tariffs on u.s. made cars news of the breakthrough spread fast in the chinese capital beijing. trumps vision might be america first but china's is world first we're going disagree over this but i believe there is more than one way to promote global economic development. deescalation comes as a relief to u.s. farmers affected by chinese tariffs on key crops like soybeans equally promise to hold off on further tire of eases the pressure on china's already slowing economy still analysts say this is a pause a not a resolution to a complication. of a more i'm joined by. executive director of the international trade center joint development agency of the united nations. in geneva good to have you with us so we

see a ninety day trade war. what does that result. well for now we let's agree to discuss and it's important because before that it was unilateral measures a he do you he had me and they had not really result of the fundamental problems lie behind this unilateral trade measures so now they go back to the table and they want to negotiate part of the negotiations are about accessing each other's market but there is another part that has to do with the rules of international trade that they will apply to each other which i would like to link to the outcome of the g twenty declaration which has g twenty members including the u.s. and china agreeing to go back to the w g o to negotiate the rules of international trade so all alone or a demonstration that no one wins trade wars that war might there is is sitting down

agreeing finding a way to resolve trade differences through dialogue and negotiation so is this a truce on i level or is one of the two giving in i don't think they give in they are to interrelate it in order to give in and if they give in both are giving in and if they win both win this is why international trade is when when they are so interrelated that they figured out that you need laterally trying to resolve these them individually and collectively more damage more harm than it does to sit down and try to find a solution now my sense is that maybe ninety days is a big two and vicious to solve the underlying problems but maybe in ninety days they can find quick wings that will create an environment of confidence of trust that is what is needed to maybe reform the rules of international trade in the world trade organization gonzalez their executive director of the international

trade center talking to us from geneva thank you so much for your time. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the gulf state of announced that it is withdrawing from the oil cantelupe opec on january the first next year the country's energy minister said today we're leaving in order to be able to focus on gas production it's the first time a middle eastern nation has left the organization since it was founded in one nine hundred sixty. and representatives from around the world a meeting in the polish city on council each said to discuss ways to curb in climate change the u.n. secretary general antonio wood heteros says the world was not doing enough to moving fast enough to create to prevent a catastrophe. it was a w. news and live from the end coming up at the top of the hour.

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