this is. from berlin tonight climate change a matter of life or death. the trouble with climate change. general antonio says the world is not moving fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate change also coming up the far right foothold in spain for the first time since the franco dictatorship the box party it would set to kick out the socialist in this southern province of the lucy.

office good to have you with us we start tonight with a dire warning about climate change and what we are still putting off for tomorrow the u.n. secretary general antonio when terrorists opened the annual u.n. climate summit in the polish city of kut soviet said today with a warning a warning that the world is way off course in fighting global warming now the aim of this year's summit is to establish guidelines rules on how to implement the two thousand and fifteen climate accord that accord goes into effect in two thousand and twenty one of its main goals is keeping the global temperature rise to below two degrees celsius by the end of this century. over the weekend seventy nine chinese cities triggered air pollution alerts as severe winter smog covered large

parts of the country. fighting pollution is just one of the many items on the agenda at the climate change conference in cutover itself but for many countries the price of confronting global warming is steep just the fact that poland is hosting this gathering has been slammed by environmental groups because of its dependence on coal the polish president dismissed the critics. was of course anya. using one's own natural resources and poland's case coal as us of a but it's a safe and basing energy security on them that does not conflict with climate protection. and with progress on climate change. the un begs to differ it says greenhouse gas levels are again at a record high worldwide if that trend continues temperatures could rise by three to five degrees celsius this century. extreme weather ranging from hurricanes to

droughts flooding and wildfires would become the norm not an exception. even as we have this devastating climate think back to skull seemed to cross the wolves we are still not doing enough and we're not moving fast enough to prevent even perhaps it all and get us through a fake climate disruption the u.s. has said it is planning to withdraw from the paris climate a court but many american states and cities are deeply committed to the pact they even brought their big guns to poland like former california governor arnold schwarzenegger to try and show they'll be back. to the terminator. where we don't have the terminator here in the studio but joining me here at the big table tonight is alexander not was he is a scientist with climate analytics that's an independent research institute which

is based right here in berlin it's good to have you on the show you know we have we've been here many times talking about these climate change film it's what makes this one in poland special i think there's two particular things that make this one the most important one actually after the paris agreement was you know to. on the one hand there's now the chance or actually the four delegates to agree on a really specific road map how to actually implement the paris agreement and how to get there some of the away from words towards really measurable measurable items and actions actions and in the thick and the second thing is that it's really important now. a global stock take has been taken place for a very long time now that this is finalized and put into more ambitious climate action for twenty twenty targets where does your optimism come from because if i

look at the optimism we had in twenty fifteen with paris and then what the c o two numbers are today we've actually gone by. back so where do you see us you know getting the energy and the will to make those changes in the next twelve years despite all the challenges i think politically and also i mean i'm looking at sea level rise projections so i'm in front of those die in numbers every day i think we should not forget that there are also very positive developments and encouraging things that have actually changed dramatically over the last years for example. the prize that has decreased so rapidly for photovoltaic renewable energy technology so probably that's right and there's there's a lot of bottom up action that has taken place around the world that is probably not as. dominant in the news cycle but it's also taking place so i wouldn't write it off do you think you speak of the news so i would do you think that the

importance of this do you think that it gets the attention that it deserves i think it actually does get a lot of attention which is really good and and we should utilize that attention as well to make make this difference and to also communicate the opportunities that are lying with this transition that is needed over the next decade so many times we're only talking about all the the troubles some facts of climate change but we may also use this more to also communicate the opportunities well we will definitely have those opportunities especially for the next twelve years alexander dolls with the climate analytics independent research institute based here in berlin mr knowles we appreciate your insights and i thank you you thank. we were some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united nations has evacuated fifty wounded who the rebels from yemen for medical treatment

the evacuation is a critical step ahead of planned peace talks in sweden iran which backs the who these is says it will support the talks the theat of wounded rebels had previously been a stumbling block in negotiations a russian soyuz spacecraft carrying three crew members has successfully docked at the international space station the journey from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan was completed in just six hours the trio were on a six month mission to the i.s.o.'s it's the first manned voyage to the space station since a rocket failure back in october. the plane carrying the remains of george h. w. bush has landed that joint base. near washington d.c. i should say after a flight from houston texas the former u.s. president was accompanied by his family including his son george bush jr as well as

his faithful service dog sell the bush sr who died last friday will lie in state in the capitol building in washington until wednesday before state funeral at the national cathedral bush's remains will then be returned to texas for burial. so back in washington now let's go to washington our correspondent mara liasson waiter's on the story for us good evening to you miles so the former u.s. president has made his final trip to washington d.c. what can we expect now as the u.s. begins morning. yeah well because he is a former president and the head of it was really a political dynasty in the u.s. bush is really getting the whole nine yards in terms of a state funeral as you outlined he is on his way and will be soon be arriving at

the u.s. capitol where he will be lying in state for about a day and we are expecting a large crowds including the current president trump and his wife paying tribute to this evening as well as a star studded funeral in the washington d.c. on wednesday morning that will include eulogies and speeches from past and present political leaders and then he'll be transferred back to houston texas to his final resting place in addition to another funeral that i'm sure will have much more personal recollections from friends and family. were to vote. how will he be remembered. well it's interesting to note that when bush left office in the early ninety's he was not that well regarded he was thought of as being somewhat out of touch with the average american in addition to the ongoing aids crisis which occurred while he was vice president to former

president ronald reagan and the tail end of which was during his term but that impression is softened somewhat over time as his international complement of really took center stage things like his negotiation of the nafta treaty the north american free trade agreement and his his personal diplomatic style that really helped to bring up a peaceful end to the soviet union and reintegration of eastern europe on to the world stage this was something where he really shone and something that he will definitely be remembered for. the gulf state of qatar has announced that it is leaving opec the influential cartel of oil producing nations its been a member for six decades the country says it wants to focus on developing its exports of liquefied natural gas but many analysts see a political motive behind the far as break ups go this one was abrupt

and seemingly out of the blue here's how could tars energy minister delivered the news that his country's fifty seven year membership of the world's most important group of oil producing nations was coming to an end the state of qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from the organization of petroleum exporting countries effective january twenty ninth. this decision was communicated to operate this morning opec is made up of fifteen countries it was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty with the goal of helping members benefit from a steady rise in oil prices so just how big a role does it play globally at present opec nations hold almost eighty two percent of the world's reserves qatar by itself controls one point seven percent of the stockpile it might not sound significant but for a country of just two point seven million it punches above its waist the decision

to withdraw from opec will enable the country to increase production outside of the cartels constraints but it's also being read as a slight to the group's leading members saudi arabia which last year instigation a boycott of qatar accusing us of supporting terrorists. qatar's energy minister denies there's a political motive that has nothing to do with the blockade ok the timing is if you look at the. status of the opec if any country wants to do all it. what it has to do is basically put into writing its request all its decision to withdraw and it basically was it was in the next calendar the. guitar's decision to leave opec may not cause major damage to the group but it certainly calls into question its reputation for pushing shared economic interests above politics

in spain a far right party has won seeds in a way for the first time since the end of the franco dictatorship the regional vote . has left the anti migrant euro skeptic vox party poised to overturn the decades long socialist rule now the ba'ath party leader says that he hopes to put together a coalition with the center white citizens party. europe's nationalist wave has arrived in spain. the vox party secured twelve seats in andalusia a region with a high rate of both unemployment and migration the party's president is confident they can now take their regional games to the national level. and illusions once again have made history they have shaken off thirty six years of socialist regimes paving the way for the rest of spain by saying that it's possible. to do the same in the rest of the country where it will much but he doesn't pull that up here on

the election has severely weakened the governing socialists although they secured the most seats they fell short of a majority despite this they are vowing to stop the rise of the far right. taken and alternative for andalusians does not mean that our government will become a reflection of this right wing party off which is xenophobia and justifies violence against women and among citizens. ever since the end of francisco franco's dictatorship in one thousand nine hundred seventy five to socialists have dominated politics in the region but sunday's election has shaken the status quo the ballot was the first major test for prime minister pedro sanchez who leads a minority government and with a host of elections coming up in twenty nineteen spain socialists face a crucial year. here's a reminder the top story we're following for you the u.n. secretary general and the new terrorist is more that the world is not moving fast

enough. he was opening the door he opened to the annual conference on climate change in the city of. europe today with the news for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will be back at the top of the hour with more world that. takes it personally. with. stories that make the game so special. for all true fans. because more than football online. i guess sometimes i. think so.